The press. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1857-1880, December 17, 1857, Image 2
Uhl 6 . 5 0 THIJRBRAY, DECEMBER 17, 1867. THE WEEKLY PRESS. THE {VERILY - DRESS, No: 19, for SATURDAY, Detamber 19,111 Ow out. The present number contains, besides ; • ' - GREAT SPERM OF SENATOR DOUGLAS, and the • ensuing debate between Senators DOUGLAS and DIGLEItot vast amount of valuable reading, among which dill befohnd the following: , EDITORIALS. TUE COURSE OP THE TRESS. REPORTS OF THE HEADS OF THE DEPARTMENTS. OUR PRINOWLES ENDORSED. FISCAL PROPOSITIONS. THE VOICE OP THE PEOPLE. THE FOUR GOVERNORS OF KANSAS. A LESSON kllO.ll WE CRISIS. THE TRUE AMERICAN PRINCIPLE. THE CREDIT SYSTEM, WHERE HAS THE SOUTH STOOD? SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY. HON. JAMES L. THE DEMOCRATIC TARTY. ELOQUENT LETTER. BuRKE ON ECONOMY, LITERARY CRITICISM. TUE POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. POETICAL WORKS OF REGINALD HEBER. ABRIDGMENT OF TUE DEBATES OF CONGRESS. THE THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS, MASON'S LIBRARY OP STANDARD TALES. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. POSTMASTER GENERAL'S REPORT. REPORTS OF TILE LAND OFFICE, COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, AND PENsIoNEUREAIL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR• DORATILEA—Dy the authiir of theilotto ARIAN TALES. TLIET WO ENGLISUMEN—Dy Dastit etts—(Ortginal.) MISCELLANEOUS. EHIRAT MEN AND TLIEIR ROOKS—Dy GRAYBEARD— (QzigittaL). WIT AND lIIMIOYL COLUBIE HON THE YOLING. CHAWADT—;(osiginsi).. EONTIEOTED DANE NOTE LIST NEWS. LATEST INTELLIGENCE EY TELEGRAPH AND MAILS, FROM WASHINGTON, CALIFORNIA, EIHME, ,50... - 01HMESAND OAOSALTIES, PERSONAL AND MIS OELLANEOUS INTELLIGENOE. . :VERT LATE FROM MAIL IMPORTANT PROM KANSAS. INTEREBTING'NF.WA FROM TUE MORMON EX PEDITION." A DAUPHIN, COUNTY ROMANCE. A mysTsatOus WEDDING—HYMEN IN A HOTEL. GENERAL NEWS. CORRESPONDENCE. -CORRESPONDENCE FROM WASHINGTON. THINGS-AT MNINVTAIL,. CALIFORNIA LETTER. Tim CITY MONEY, GRAIN, CORN, CATTLE MARKETS, tro WEEKLY REVIEW OW THE PHILADELPHIA MAR • NETS. IkIARRIAGES AND DEATITS A MEETING OF THE SCOTT LEOION. THE FACTORIES ON THE SOIIUYLRILL. MILITARY FUNERALS. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. SELECTION OF TREES FROM THE NURSERY RELATIVE VALUE OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAY FOR.SUEEP AND YOUNG OATTLE. TEE WEEKLY PRESS to furnished to subscribers at . $2 per year, in advance, for the single copy, and to clido of twenty, when sent to, one address, $2O, In advance. Single copies - for sale at the counter'of TOE PRESS of fice, In wrappers, ready for mailing, Persona sending chitin of twenty or over will please bear in mind that the paper thus ordered cannot be di rected to each subscriber, unless the club price of $1.20 per annum is paid, and paid in advance. Mit 3a In accordance with our , published rates, and tame of our friends •have overlooked it. Our heavy lists compel us to adhere to this rule. FIBRE PAGE.—Monsieur Dupin; THE PRESS 1111 d the Southern Democracy; The President's lear4e;. Communications ; City Police ; Corraspondence ; The Double Murder in Lan caster ; General News; Paris Fashions for December. FOURTH PARE.—A Visit to Nena Sahib. THE MAJORITY PRINCIPLE IN THE SOUTH. It would be an extraordinary and a painful novelty if such a wrong as that which has been perpetrated in Kansas by the Lecompton Con. stitution did not arouse, in some manly bosoms In the Southern States, the same emotions which stir the hearts of the people of the North. Southern men are our brothers and our co-partners. We employ the glorl -0119 diction of Mr. WEBSTER," when, on -81/Qt OOD4RiQP.3-be SPRkeStr the-Statue presenting extreme Northern and extreme Southern opinions, when we declar4 that the North and the South should never be separated by the machinations of sectional leaders: 4 ‘ Shoulder to shoulder they went through the Revolution—hand in hand they stood round the administration of WASHING TON, and felt his own great arm lean upon them for support. Unkind feeling, if it exist, alienation, and distrust, are the growth unna tural to such soils, of false principles since sown." And chief among these false principles is that uttered by the Lecompton Convention. The effort on the part of a few newspapers to dragoon the sentiment which opposes these principles awakens only contempt and scorn; suggestnabuse, recrimination, and retaliation. This sentiment is deeply embedded in the Northern mind. It is neither answered nor at tacked with argument. Those who do not threaten it oppose it with expedients. This sentiment is not aggressive. It does not an tagonize Mr. BUCHANAN'S Administration. 'We could name hundreds in this and every com munity in Pennsylvania, who were among the first to advocate his election to the Presi dency—who, in the hour of minority and of defeat, (when his name was the theme of -the obloquy of those who now worship it as the symbol of power,) gathered around him like a wall of fire—and 'who will be the last to •desert hint—but, who are the declared ad versaries of the most monstrous dogma, that any portion of our peeple, and much less the majority, shall be deprived of their rights 'under • any pretext, or, according to any man date. • Nor are the people who oppose this most audacious tyranny in Kansas to be put down as, in any sense, the adversaries of the South, or as desirous of attacking her peculiar insti tutions. The issue is not one of slavery and of anti-slavery, unless mad and measureless faction and folly shall 'make it so. It goes deeper and rises higher. It is an issue of prineiple-Lnot merely of Constitutions, or of laws, NUT OF EXISTENCE. So far from uniting against it the people of the South, as certain leaders of sections are now trying to do, it should awaken them to its defence as one man. They are interested in its success precisely as we are. The moment the great dogma o ti Equal Rights" is discarded, the moment the rule of the majority is denied, the South be 'comes the victim of the most unrelenting prejudices and passions, and the brave men of the' North, who stand by her, are crualuxl.to the, earth by an avalanche of unchangeable 'and Insatiate fanaticism). But If this sentiment is not aggressive, It Is not timorous or afraid. It cannot be intimida ted. It will not be subdued. It is enduring be canine ft is conscientiotut' It will succeed b e cause it is diiintefpsted. iPe are not surprised, therefore, that such a sentiment Should have its due effect, (limn In .that quarter of the Union which is most relied upon to put itdown. The Southern people are a, &onerous, raeo. They are passionate and hot sometimes; often disposed to domineer, 'and quick to quarrel ; but they possess those ether' qualities which ever accompany such impulses. They are av erse to trick, and to 'Wrong. They are too proud to become a party to a confessed fraud ; and they do justice to an adversary when they see that he is as sincere, `and as proud and as brave as themselves. They have ineffable scorn for the men whO go down on their knees to get their votes, and . where they cannot agree with an opponent, even If they are ready to light him, they are glad to respect him. • If the reader will now turn to another part Of THE Paaea, he will find two significant arti cles, from the Richmond Enquirer and the Louisville Democrat, both strongly confirma tory of these opinions. While we are indif ferent,- tio far as our own case is concerned, to the objectionti of such prints as The &UM' and''the ,Charleston Mercury; and while, Judeed, our own action was not lightly adopted, and will not be lightly grAtißed that there is a spirit atiWcrk . iiiige::sotith'ekeintit tke *seandatohi precedent attzmpted'to be set up by the Le. 'conViou managers. And• wo shall not be stir - ','.7pritied if the- exaraples we quote are folloW f'.: in:pertain quarters in Congress. ' The boasts ,',, - .".4.ltli;secesituilleiuterS 'of 'the Scutt 'that, at laet:they have united their people against the *"ol . t 1 , 414 - 14 t. last the work 'of lectionallorA f lota commenced that the' tTittOrt - of these States:is rapidly reaching its downfall;—these boastOvill not be confirmed. The Kansas case presents no basis for such a conspiracy. It offers no pretext for disunion. The people of the South will never strike hands with the ene mies of the Union, under the banner that the majority shall not rule. Such monas P/OKENB and MANNING, of South Carolina—as STEVEN , sox, land PowELL, and Born, of Kentucky— as 'ass, of Virginia—as WICKLIFFE, of Lou isiana—as Snows, of Mississippi—will never embark in a crusade against the North upon a plea at once so dishonest and so shameless as this.; A. Word upon the Enquirer's comment upon the course of this journal. We deny that we, and those with whom we act, are obstinately adhering to a principle, the practical applica tion of which has already been obtained in the most important point in disputa"- We deny, too, thit we are engaged in , C fomenting a di vision in the party." There can he no divi sion where, as in the Northwest, all the Demo crats are on one side ; there can be no division in Pennsylvania, where the overpowering ma jority of the Democracy are against this Cal houn Constitution. If it were otherwise our course would be the same. We aro here not to break, but to fulfil pledges ; not to veneer a public crime, but to expose it ; not to divide the Democracy, but to save it from a fate worse than death—Um doom of consenting to that which it admits to be Wrong. Igor do we agree with the Enquirer that the principle we contend for has already been applied, or is about to be applied in Kansas. The best judges on this point are the people of Kansas. They repudiate the in sulting boon of the minority. They ask that all their, rights shall be confided to themselves. They deny the sovereign power of the Conven tion, and implore Congress to send back the work of those who assume to be their masters. We tell the Richmond Enquirer that the peo ple of Kansas must control. It is their affair, not that of Congress; and the editors of the Enquirer and Tut PRESS have been till solemnly pledged, before God and man, that they should dispose of it, although the slavery question were " unqualifiedly " entrusted to them—which it is not. Even if the ablest Intel lects did not differ as to the fact whether the Calhoun Constitution does not, in any event, make Kansas a slave State in the face of the powerful demonstration against slavery in that Territory, we are bound by our pledge. We shall not go behind the record to escape the obligation. We made it in the face of day, and in round terns. We will be true to it. If any other, inducement to the fulfilment of its duty were needed, the fact that we are con tending for an inalienable principle—that wo are struggling against what is sought to be made a fatal precedent—would be enough. Let those who tell us that there is nothing practical in this position remember that the Revolution was fought upon a preamble ; and that a free people are certain to become slaves the moment they lose sight of the principles that called them Into being. THE DEOBASE OF ALBERT B. ASHTON, Select Councilman from the Third ward, is noticed elsewhere. The deceased was well and widely known, and his demise will be universally lamented by all who knew the many and manly virtues of his private life, and his uxefuluess as a public-spirited citizen. Our distinguished follow-citizen, Enwn: FORREST, has been absent for some weeks, playing a most brilliant engagement at St. Louis, (M 0.,) and Chaceland, Ohio. He has been welcomed by crowds - every night, and has been commended on all sides. We under stand that he may be expected in Philadelphia before Christmas. frrThe North ✓hnerican appeared, a few days ago, in a beautiful new suit of type, ren dered still more attractive by the fine white paper upon which that journal is now printed. We congratulate Mr. MCMICUAEL on his sub stantial and highly deserved success. BY MIDNIGHT MAIL. FROM WASHINGTON. • Oorreopondenee of The Prem.] WAshiNaTox, Dee. 15, 1857 If the two Rouses go on as they have for the naat tvra cloye. r a-to-1 Moly_tt.oa..i.rv-weeka -utrlonet +ill be consumed in announcing the decease of late members elected to the present Congress. Mr. Clay, only a few years before his death, strongly )bjected to this practice of adjournment of Congress In the announcement of the decease of a late mem .lior during the recess, at the same time, however, cith much earnestness and eloquence, admitting the propriety of the practice in such case where a <leather has been suddenly taken from their midst during the session, and when intimate relations have boon engendered between fellow-members. /lon. Robert J. Walker will, to-day, resign info ;be bands of Mr. Buchanan his commission as Go vernor of Kansas. The Navy Department received by the last steamer from California letters from Commodore Paulding, enclosing stetter from Captain Chotard, if the Saratoga, In reference to the landing at Punt.% Arenas of the filibuster force under Gene :al Walker. The facts, (43 given in these com munications, are substantially those already pub lished in the news, brought by the Star of the West. Commodore Paulding condemns Cap tain Chotard for not , 'having prevented the landing of Walker, and I learn that in he Cabinet meeting yesterday, this officer wa-, superseded in his command. The Jamestown been ordered to Punta Arenas, and the Sus inebanna, which arrived from Genoa, Sardinia, it Key West, on the 23th or. November, proceeded immediately to San Juan. The consul of the United States at Punta Are- ,as writes to the State Department, under date of the 30th of November, six days after Walker's arri val, that the filibusters were living in houses 'ented from the Indians at that place that ffalker had formally proclaimed himself President 3f Nidaragua, and that he was waiting, before ?wilting into the interior, for reinfdrcoments of men and munitions of war, which ho was daily ex pecting. The register of the Fashion was correct in every particular. Circular instructions have been sent to the eol• teeters and district attorneys of Galveston, Now Orleans, and Mobile, to use every exertion to pro vent the departure from either of these ports of nen or munitions of war for Walker. No faith is reposed in the rumor that a vessel had sailed recently from Now York with material aid for this enterprise. Instructions have also been issued from the Navy Department to Comm ' lore Paulding to frustrate Walker's object, which seems now to be to advance up the river Colorado into the interior of Nicaragua. The U. S. consul at Punta Arenas informs the Department of State that the mass.of the people of Nicaragua are opposed to the expedition. This being true, with the other fact that he is hemmed round at Punta Arenas by the naval forces of the United States and England, and that Col. Canty And the Coeto.:ltican force et Castillo Viejo will oppose his advance In that ,slirection, it Is hard to believe that the " grapeyed man of destiny" will, this time, be even part ally successful. The foreign ministers here express their Satisfac tion that the United Stales Government has done all that could be fairly asked of it in the execu tion of its neutrality law of 1818. The Navy Department has whim that Lieut. I'. A. Craven, with the Farina, arrived at Garth°. lena on the 3d of November, afteria passage of eighteen days from handy Hook. Officers and crow all well. Ho had boon delayed there until 6 the 20th November, awaiting the departure of a Longa • ,ve boat) In order to proceed to their deetinat , ,l , f the Atrato and Turan do rivers, hod Ili , . '' a ship-canal across the Isthmus of- I" Hr. Cox, of :I to-day of oppo. : [le rebuked, so juggle by which . t ventlon attempte , ; 0 I oiple that the will -, I I am permitted: : --, agate from Ariztin interesting extract - f ~ .- by the last mortal!! , tory of Arizona. ', ~ :-q. is an old resident, of, man. Ho is also ain . . ~',PJ tation i . TUBAC, GADSDEN'S PURCHASE, / "22d October, 1857. 1, We have, of Mtn, boon Roriously annoyed by the Apaches. Nearly all the animals belonging to citizens residing around Fort %lei:amen have been driven Wl' by thow. They are very impu dent, and commit their depredations in broad day light, talk to the people while they are driving oil the animals, and always escape without being molested. • "The other day they came within eight hundred yards - of the fort, and looked down upon it. "In order to bring them to terms, tbh Govern ment ought to enlist one thousand Phew' and Pa pages to accompany the military. Indians are the only persona who can successfully traverse these meuntaine and hunt up their hiding places. If this ie not done, they will surely break up our settlement here. - Forts' ought to be established in the very heart of tho Apache Country, in the places alt, and used by them for cultivation. If this is done, we will soon bring them to terms. ' , Until new, our mining establishments have not been molested ,by them, and we ore going on in high glee. "This is undoubtedly the richest ailver•mining country in the world, If the United States will make Just and liberal laws for us; give uaprotea- Oen ; remove those trifling apd upproatable tom-houses on the frontier, at least for five or six years; procure us n transit through Sonora to Guaymas .and hasten along the railroad to Call. forma, this ' will indeed boa prosperous country, and wilrastonish the world with its production of sliver and copper..:l. "But, with such terrible obstacles as those men tioned above, and the great length of transit to transport goods over the made which we have to take at present, progress only is possible for snob as find mines of the extraordinary and incredible richness of the Ileintzelman , vein. If the pre. sent promis,os of few of these mines are realized, by working them on a scale commensurate with their extent and riohnoss, I have no doubt but that they will equal in produotion the whole silver ex ports of Mexico. "I think an appropriation ought to be made to sink Artesian wells through the Papagos country, between San Xavier and the lower Nita. This route outs off about one hundred miles from the best route via the Pimos village. It is laid down on my map as a railroad route, now at the office of the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company, at Cincinnati, Ohio. " The country consists of a succession of plains and isolated mountain ridges, none of which need to be crossed. In fact, it is a dead level to Fort Yuma, and, as a consequence, no grading is neces sary. There is scarcity of water, but tho soil in general is ex:soil:mit, and grass abounds all along the line, while the mountains teem with minerals of the richest description. The oxides and the sulphurets of copper aro the most beautiful end riahest in the world. Silfor undoubtedly exists of equal richness. "All the foothills contain gold, but I hardly think it will be extracted by the whites, as the localities aro devoid of water, and they are proba bly not rich enough to pay without sluicing on an extensive scale. " I am, sir, 'very respectfully, your most, obo (lieut. servant, ifERMAN EITHENDEIIII. "To Lieut. S. Illowny, U. S A., "Delegate elect from Arizona, " Washington, D. C." . X. Y. runLic ENTERTAINMENTS. At Arch Strect Theatre, last night, the now five-act play, called " Beatrice ; or, the False and the True," had as brilliant, and, what is more, as deserved a success as we over recollect to have witnessed. This drama is the production of Mr. Oliver Leland, who is nephew, we believe, of Mr. C. Leland,of the Evening Bulletin. The plot, which, at first, promised to be involved, was well con structed, and the denouement is artistically worked out The dialogue is well written, and marked with a good deal of individuality. Sometimes it is impassioned, sometimes it gives the conversa tion of ordinary life, sometimes it is sharply satiti cal. We noticed only one offence against geed taste, which occurred when Lord Lansome, in relating a story, is made to give a nineteen-sylls bled name to a German Baron, which made "the gods" laugh, but might have been profitably loft out. In writing this play Mr. Leland seems to have had Bu "My Novel " in his mind. Count Ile Peschiera, - Beati ice di Negro, and Lo-ri Lows. snore, are all in Bulwor's story, in which the two former are brother and sister, while Lord Lan mere, who is a sort of Dnmby in the book, has a good deal to say in the drama. Here the Count and Beatrice are in a plot together. At the close, in the novel, Beatrice, who had been affianced to Frank Razelden, finally declines marrying him, having given her love to Leonard Avenel; In the play, .the refuses to wed L or d Lansinere, declaring that her heart was given to Lord Welter Courtenay. In fact, then, save three names, and that the Count and Beatrice are Italians, the play owes next to nothing to Bulwer's book. This we say, because Mr. Leland is fully entitled to the credit—and a rare ono it is, in this translation era—of entire originality. We shall not attempt, (writing as we do at midnight,) to give a complete analysis of the plot. Suffice it to say that Beatrice di Negra (Mrs. E. L. Davenport) is an Italian adventuress, whose privious antecedents have been worse than doubtful. Five years before the time of the play, the has caused the death of one of her lovers, and her guilt Is known to Lord IValter Courtenay and Count de Pesehiera, who hoe also been her lover, and is now accessory to her design of inducing the Earl of Lansinere to marry her. The only person she really does love hi Lord 11 7 alter, who, when the action commences, is on the eve of marriage with Clara Bel/ender?, grand niece of Lord Let»smere, a stiff old English states- man, fond of Imagining that, oven at his advanced age, such a lovely and accomplished woman as Beatrice could marry him for himself alone. The announcement of Lord Walter's intonded marriage so much excites Beatrice that sho in• sinuates a chargo against Clara Belleitden of having had a midnight interview with a certain Charles Beverley, who never appears. This aceu- Batton, founded on fact, onuses Lord Walter's father to forbid the marriage. But Lord Walter has strong faith in the innocence of his betrothed, and, partly by the aid of Pevrhiera, who abandons his complicity with Beatrice, and partly by Clara's own account of the circumstance which had been the ground. work of the slander, and partly by a little caves• dropping by a soubrette, the young lady's fair fame is cleared. Beatrice, who had persuaded Lord Lao cmere into an offer of marriage, entice. er-to -the-very - lust; to 'win tbe 'Mart of - Eon/ Walter, but his remembrance of the death of his friend, caused by her means, though not by her band, coupled with his love for Clara, saves him from her seduction. Finally, Lord Walter is wedded to Clara, who never learns that suspicion had cast its shadow across her character, and Beatrice, who to proved to be a very abandoned woman, retiree in an agony of rage, remorse, and grief. The True triumphs and the False is defeated and exposed. This drama was handsomely, even richly, put upon the stage. It will be the hotter of some judi cious pruning; and we may remark that not once, during the whole performance, was any notroas or actor at fault for a word. Mr. Fredericka, who played the part of an old, garrulous gardener, made a great deal of the only scone in which be appears; but wo fear that oven this must be some• what out down. The last point is—how was this play acted ? Tho reply is—admirably. Mrs. Davenport, who has a great deal to do and say, never played with more ease in the pure comedy, nor with more force in the eariteet, impassioned scenes. The audience were with her all through, taking every point she made. Then there was Miss Emma Taylor, whom we have accustomed to look upon as merely a beautiful and well-dressed woman, who astonished and delighted the audience by the grace, spirit, and ease with which she played the part of Clara Bellenden. Ex cept that she looked a little older than "sweet six teen," the nioat Iron-hearted critic could not take the slightest exception to her performance. At the close of the fourth Act, where she explains the mystery of her midnight interview with a gen tleman, she wee called before the curtain, and wee led on by Mr. Wheatley, amid great applause. Both Mrs. Davenport and Miss Taylor wore very charmingly dressed. Mr. Davenport, as Pesehiera, had a capitol part, and.mado much of it. It is an intriguing, sar donic, worldly, eatirical man of fashion, not with out some better impulses, who finally becomes an honest man. Most of the sharp sayings in the play are spoken by him, and he pointed them adroitly enough. Mr. Wheatley, as the lover, never performed more to our taste. Yet the part of Lord Waiter is not quite in his line. However, that myste rious element called Genius, assisted by teat and talent, earnitinquer beyond its own domin ion. Mr. W. reserved himself, in the earlier scones, and came out yew advantageously as the drama proceeded. Lord Lansmere, a sort of cast-iron Englishman, with a =tarn° voice, was done ample justice to by Mr. Dolman. The very peoulinrities, of figure And voice, which prevent his being a leading general actor, assisted him co much in this part, that no other member of the company could have done semnah with it The principal perfoimers wore called out, at the fall of the curtain. after which, with an expression of thanks on the part of the author for its reception, Mr. Wheatley, amid great applause, announeed the repetition of "Meatriee," on this evening. Dr. Charles Mackay's first lecture will ho deliv ered, this evening, at Concert Mall. Miss Juliana May's Concert will be given to- morrow evening, at Musical Fund Hall. There is a good deal of curiosity to see and hear hor, and a very crowded house may be anticipated. She will be assisted by Signor Tiberini, Herr Redo!Olson, and Mr. 11. Sanderson, the Philadelphia pianist. Mies May is engaged to give concerts In Now York, The Bonzant troupe will give two now ballets at the Academy of Music this evening. A grand spectacle, called ‘‘ The Golden Horse," is in pre paration here, by Signor Domenico Romani. Buckley's Serenaders play for the last time this season, on Saturday. They return to their own beautiful theatre at Now York. To-morrow eve ning, a farewell testimonial benefit, which is sure to be a bumper, will be given at Javne's Hall, where be performs, to Mr. It. Bishop Buckley, an accomplished musician, a goodidramatio performer, and an excellent vocalist. in tho House Constitution. sarcasm, the ctutional Con go great prin. tell rulo, Mowry, del the following otter received OM new Terri- On Tuesday evening, Maclaine Angri and Mr. Vieuxternps, With the aegistaziee of several distin• guished vocalists, will give a Concert at Musical Fund Hall. ierg, the writer, ~,ory, and a reliable ikineer of high rep. Improvement in Manufacturing Operations.— The condition of the factories in the Twenty-first ward is represented to be improving. One of the largest (Campbell's) will commence fell operations on the first Monday in the now year, and even now is doing as much es possible under the circum stances. In the Twenty-second ward (Germantown) pros pects look brighter. The stoppage of the various hosiery establishments, in the early part of tho troubled financial season, woe the means of throw ing many more people out of work than was gene rally supposed. Many families in that ward derive quite a respectable revenue from sewing the hosiery by band, after it leaves the factory. These, of course, found their occupation gone. Work is now quite lively. In the Twenty-fourth ward, Kershaw's, Blurt din's, and several other large cotton factories are in active operation. The only one now stopped is Warren's paper mill, at Maylandsville. We have omitted to mention that the Messrs. Campbell, of Manayunk, last week gave $5O to the Ward Relief Society, and that sfr. Mitchell also gm lOU tons of coal, THE PRESS.--PHILADELPHIA; THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1857. THE LATEST NEWS WAAIIINGTON, Dee. 16.—Governor Walker to day sent in his letter of resignation as Governor of Kansas. It is on Ale in the State Department. He goes fully into his reasons for this step, and pre sents an overwhelming array of arguments, data, and facts against the Calhoun Convention. llt will shortly appear in THE Pnum] NEW 'Tonic, Deo. 16-10 o'clock P. M.—The steamship North Star, from Liverpool, hae not yet boon signalled from Sandy Hook. Hat.max , Dec. 1111-10 o'clock P. M.—No tidings yet of the expected steamship Canada. Her dates will be a week later. The weather is clear and calm. SENATE. A resolution was adopted to proceed to the elec tion of printer for the Senate to-morrow. On motion of Mr. Oulu of California, a resolu tion was adopted calling on the President for all correspondence between the Departments and the present Governor of Kansas, together with all the orders and instructions which have boon issued to said officer. A list of Standing Coraruitleos was submitted by Mr. ALLEN. (The names we publisbed yesterday, in the letter of our Washington. eorrespouijent.— En. Pans el Mr. IlAnblet, of Maine, regarded the list of com mittees as unjust, disproportionate, and sectional, He thought it high time, when the slave power has seized on the judiciary, and the Supreme Court un dertook to decide questions not legitimately before it, that great care should be taken as to the man ner in which the committees of the Senate wore constituted, so as to shape the legislation of the country properly. Mr. Doolittle (Wis.) objected to the arrangement of the committees, referring especially to the wants of the great northwestern section of the United States, and the importance of the commune and navigation of that section of the country. Mr. CHANDLER (Mich.) road4M °Etna from the Doily Globe, announcing that a CAUCUS of the members of the Senate, of all parties, bad agreed to a certain liot of eounnitteo. • Ile was informed .. - that Ruinous of tho Demooratiu_Members only was bold at which a list of cotnnilttees wns made out, leaving certain blanks to be filled by the Republi can mambo's; some of whom saw lit to fill these blanks under protest No such general caucus as announced was hold, and no assent was ever given by the Itopublioan members of the Senate to such a formation of committees as therein announced. the list, bonus° it had boon, agreed upon by a regular Democratic caucus, but be concurred with theso Senators who had expressed their opinions that the committees wore not fairly formed. Ile had said so at the proper piece and time, end felt bound to repeat it while placing his name on re cord in favor of the list. Mr. STUART, of 'Michigan, said ho hod declined serving on the Committee of Commerce. As that commitloe bad been alluded to, ho thought it pro per to make this statement, Mr. BAYARD, of Delaware 'vindicated the pro. priety of the formation of ' the committees. Ho said it was proper that the dominant party should always retain the ascendancy on all the important committees in their own hands. Mr. Gwrx (California) alluded to the manner in which the Republicans arranged the committees in the House of Representatives, when they had the power, as being in an eminent degree both sootier:011 and unjust. They could not now with good grace find fault, for they always exercised their power with an iron hand whenever they had the opportunity. Mr. WiLsorr (Massachusetts) denied that at the lest Congress the Republicans bad been unjust to the Democrats in the formation of the Reuse corn• mittees.' Mr. Own; (California) said he did not refer par ticularly to the last Congress, but to the general practice of that party for many years past. Mr. Witsom contended that the Democratic party and the pro slavery party of this country were one and the same thing, and indulged in some bright visions of the time when the Republi cans shall gain the ascendancy. The list was then agreed to—yeas 30, nays D. • Mr. GREEN, of Miiiourl, then proceeded lo speak on Kansas affairs. The speech of the Senator from Illinois, (Mr. Douglas,) ho said, took hint by surprise, not only as to Its matter, but its manner of argument; and it was welt calculated to preju dice the question really pending before the people of Kansas. lie wished to counteract, so far as might be in his power, the impression which had been made by that speech. Tho real issue at pre sent Is, whether Kansas, when her Constitution shall be presented, ought to be admitted into the Union; or ought the consideration of what the Senator from Illinois boa called "a fundamental error" of the President to be regarded ns suffi cient cause for keeping Kansas out of the Union, and keeping up the agitation of this most unfortu nate question? The question is not whether we ap prove or do not approve all the individual parts of the Lecompton Constitution, via : as to its provisions with reference to banking, taxation, etc. These are matters with which vrohave nothing to do, but which are to be left to the people themselves ion). plate. The only question for Congress to consider is, does the Constitution embody a republican form of Government 7 Has anybody over disputed that proposition, and contended to the contrary ? Certainly the Senator from Illinois had not done so. There seems to bo a want of clear understand ing cus to the relation whieb the Federal Govern ment sustains towards a Territory. The inhabi tants of Kansas are people, and "what enabling sat" is required to impart to them the power to propose a change in their form of government? Is an enabling net requisite to give them more political rights or more inalienable rights? That would be a solecism and a contradiction. From those considerations it could be argued that Congress would have no right to refuse to admit Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton Con stitution. The people of Kansas never proposed a' form of State Government without the consent of Congress. The Convention was held in saitordina tion to the Territorial Government. If admitted into the Union, the State Government will take the place of the Territorial Government, and not without. If any attempt were made to subvert the present Government, and set up another in opposi tion to the Federal authority, we could subjugate it. But it Is not proposed tointerfore with the Ter ritorial Government until the consent of Congress has been received. There are eight Slates now in the Union which formed a Constitution without " en abling acts," for the admission of two of which the Senator front Illinois, himself, lied voted, The States of Florida and California had no enabling not previous to their admission. If the Senator from Tilinois could vote for the admission of these States, there can ho no reason why he cannot vote for the admission of Halms. The assent of Con gress may bo given at any time. The organic not deolares that the people of Kansas shall be par te-oily free to form and regulate their domestic institutions be their own way. The way they, the people. chose, was to leave it to the action of a Convention. which body was under no obligation to submit the Constitution, or any part of it, to the popular vote. It chose, however, to submit the slavery question (which was really the great "hone of contention,") as a matter of policy and prudence, and not from any legal compulsion, whatever. Mr. %G. was of the opinion that the submission of the question of slavery, alone was bettor calculated to get the real will and judwgent of the people, than if the whole Constitution was submitted. t has bean also said, Mr. G. continued, that tho people of Kansas were deceived, and that positive pledges and promises to submit the Con stitution had boon made, and violated. That was a matter about which there had been a great deal of controversy: but as there was no positive evidence of this deouption, he did not think proper to dwell upon it. In conclusion, he urged the Importance of deciding the question speedily, so as to put an end to the constant agitation which bad so long embittered the feelings of the different sections of the Union. He thought the Leeotupton Constitu tion met the approbation of a majority of the peo ple of Kansas, and If any of its provisions were obnoxious to them, they would have the power of modifying or changing them at any time. Mr. DounnAs-replied : lie was gratified at the tone and spirit in which the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Green) had discussed the question. But, as that Senator seemed to have misapprehended his position as laid down in the speech delivered by hint the other day, ho would make a brief state /11011ton one or two points, it. order that the Senate and the country might sea what hie position really was. _ _ BY TELEGRAPH. 18FICCIAL PRSPATCH 10k THE 111183 FROM WASIIINGTON. Non-Arrival of Steamers THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION U. S. CAPITOL, IVAsimaToN, Deoembor 14, 1857 Mr. Perm, of Ohio, said ihat ho should vote for Firstly: Ho did regard it as a fatal objection that theta was no 44 enabling act" in advance. Secondly. He did not take the position that it was /I fatal objootion that the COnstxtution was not submitted to the people before U was seat to Von gross for acceptance. Tiro position ho did assume was, that the regnlar mode of proceeding is by an 4 , enabling act ;" but if the Territorial Legislature proceeds to call a Convention, without having the consent of Con gress to do so ' that is irregular; not so irregular, however, that i t necessarily follows that all the pro. eeedings of the body are vitiated. A Convention, or any other body of men may Bond a petition to Congress for a change in the form of their Government, and Congress is at liberty to accept or reject the volition as it pleases. The Le eompton Convention was not an unlawful body, and might send a petition to Congress; but It was not a Convention authorized to establish or institute a Government for itself. Ito conceded that many now States had been admitted into the Union without an "enabling act" being first passed by Congress. But in this ease the schedule provided that the Constitution Should be submit tal to the people of Kansas for their approval or disapproval. No Constitution could be eon sidered as republican in its form which did not embody the tall of the people who are to be governed by it, and was not trained by their action. The next question was, what is the beet mode of ascertaining that will. Ile agreed with the President, that the beet mode WAS to refer it to the people themselves, for their acceptance or rejection, by /1 fair vote. lie could not admit that a Cowtitution, forced upon the people against their will, was a republican Constitution. It is no use to say it is a good Constitution; Congress has no right to cram " good things' down their throats against their will. The question is, whether the people obeli be porinittod to form their own Constitution? The Senator from Missouri hits urged the importance of terminating this contro versy. Now, lie (Douglas) would do anything that was right—anything that was just, in order to ter minate it. He would sacrifioe everything, but his prtnaiplo and the honor of his country, to close ibis unhappy agitation. put how aro we to do it'' It must be done upon the principtp? nt' eternal justice and truth, or it will not stay closed. (lap'. grew must terminate It upon the principles of self government, or the people will not have a ropubll. can system of Government. No system of patch ing-up and trickery will settle this question. In stead of establishing peace, such a courso would excite a new controversy. It would be necessary to increase the army, and use the military power of the Government, if the majority were to be subjected to tho oppression of the minority. Its trusted there would be no outbreak, that no violence would be used; but he feared that such would be the result, if the majority of K the people of a nsa& were to be coerced into submission to the will of the minority. The Sen ator from Missouri had said that the people could change the Constitution immediately after Kansas became a State. lint he (Douglas) argued, on tine other hand, that It could not be changed, by the provisions of the Constitution itself, until the year 1884 ; end could only bo hanged then by a Constitution, to be called by two thirdsof tits man -1,411 of the lieilNlaturib It to a principle of low that when n Constitution provides fur its being charged ate partioular time, and a particu lar manner, it excludes all other times and all other modes. Any Court in Christendom would thus construe it, and the only mode of changing the Constitution would be by a revolution. ThFs scheme, therefore, Is a scheme of war, and leads directly to war. And he said if I should vote to admit Kansas into the Union, tinier the " Le compton Constitution," I should feel obliged In eon sequenee to increase the army, and enforce it at the point of the bayonet. hence he besought Sena tors to pause before they committed themselves to such a fatal error. This was not to bo regarded as an " Administration " measure. Every man °litho floor of tho Senate was at perfect liberty to vote for or against it, without surrendering his party tins. The trdeption of the measure would net only rend asunder the Democratic, party, but would endanger the peace and perpetuity of the Union. The President was a frank man, and ho slid not believe the President would ask his party to do that to which ho was unwilling to commit himAelf on paper. Ile did not believe that the President would ask Senators to run their necks into the hal ter of disunion or civil war before he was ready to take the lead end point out the way. Then let us restore peace to the country by ignoring these ir regular conventions at Lecompton and Topeka, authorize the people to go forward and forte a Con stitution and State government for 'themselves. That, ho believed, would restore quiet in ninety days. Mr. ORMIN responded, denying that the people of Kansas would be compelled to retain the present Constitution till 1861, and argued that the Conven tion could be called at any time to make such changes as the majority of the people 2»igbt desire. The further consideration of the subject was then po,tponed until Monday next. Adjourned. The members of the litres() sect in their new Hall this morning. A communisation was resolved front the clergy men of Washington, tendering their services to open the daily sessions with prayer. Amid much confusion, the mombere proceeded to select their seats by lottery. Mr. Jonas (Pennsylvania), from tho Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill for tho pay ment of invalid and other pensions. Memorials were presented front Messrs. Brooks and Whyte, of Baltimore, contesting the seats of Messrs. Davis and Harris. Referred to the Com mittee on Elections. The Printing Committee reported a resolution for the printing of 25,000 extra copies of the Pre sident's message and accompanying doomeents. Mr. Cox, of Ohio, said ho heartily concurred with the views of the message in almost every sentence except that nett, relative to Kansas. In hitjudgment, contrary to the opinion of the President, thoro will be nu peace if Kansas bo ad mitted under the Lecompton Constitution. Ex pediency is a dangerous doctrine when brought in contaotswitli principle. There can bo no ponoo when the lights of the people aro jeoparded. 110 did not agree with the old theologians that in order to be saved we must be damned. (Laugh• ter). Ills pledge to his constituents was to stand on the doctrine of submission of the entire -Con stitution to the people. This is of the high est concern, and essential to self-government. It has its foundation in the Cincinnati plat form; in the President's Inaugural; in Go vernor Walker's acceptance; in the President's letter to the Connecticut clergymen ; in the In structions ho sent to Governor Walker, and in his annual message. All came here as recorded cri donee to show that pledges had been given to the people of Kansas that they should have the whole Constitution 'submitted to them. Ile would ask the House why the traitorous Catilines of Nuns sae should therefore attempt to subjugate the people's will to their own. Having given these pledges, it would bo a breseh of faith, and a gross dereliction of duty, to disregard them The movement at Lecompton was an at tempt to carry out the slavery prinoiple. and by pretended submission to force the Constitution on an unwilling people, for in any event it could not be rejected. This sort of juggle would not do, The right of self-government was higher and dearer than all the Cabinets and Presidents. There woe no power, according to Jefferson and President Buchanan, for the Territorial Legislature to call into being a Convention to supersede the Terris [oriel Government without the consent of the pece pie, and the Constitution would be putrescence, and should never be dragged into Congress for grave deliberation. It would be a Congressional intervention In their domestic affairs. The people of the Northwest eared not what I would be the result as to the domestic institutions of Kansas. He would vote for her admission as a slave State, if the will of the people be made clearly to appear. lie referred to what he characterised as a fraud in the apportionment of representatives, and mentioned in this connection, as an example, the Oxford precinct. The Constitution was not re publican in form; it prohibited alteration until 1864. If any change is effected before, it must be by a civil war—for blood must ever track the elope of wrong. Ile earnestly protested against the Constitution, because it was against the prinoiple of self-government. It mast be submitted entire to the approval of the whole people. In concha sin, he gave notice of his intention to submit a proposition to take the popular vote on the subjeot. Mr. Hinnies (of Indiana) roes to express his suns prise and regret that the gentleman bad chosen this occasion to precipitate such a debate en the House. There are those who believe that the Ad tniniatration it In trouble and that clouds aro galli• oring around the Democratic party. Ito therefore humbly conceived that the friends of the Adminis tration, and members of the Democratic party, should not be the first to sound the alarm. 'There was no question before them as to whether Kansas shall be admitted as a free or as a slave State. Hence, the time and occasion for the speech were against the gentlemen. It was unexpected, for he believed that we had no Presidential candidates in this body. Allusion was anode to a distinguished Senator's rwsitiou, but It might ho well, perhaps, for that Senator to look well to his laurels and honor. lie understood Mr. Cox to say, with emphasis, that the people of Ghie, in the last Presidential election, decided that the Constitution of Kansas, whatever it might be, should be submitted to the vote of the people. Ito apprehended that no such issue was presented either In Ohio or Indiana. The gentleman from Ghia would recollect that the term of popular sovereignty was not under- stood until after the Presidential election, (laugh ter,) and, until the decision i t the Dred Scott ease, was not IlildArtStOOd in till noetions alike, end not understood in the sense that Mr. Cox seemed to understand it. Perhaps the gen tleman from Ohio does not intend to stand by the President. If he (Mr. Hughes) found himself compelled to separate himself from the Demo cratic party and Administration, Ito should go with them to the last. moment. lie should nut be the first to leave the ship. Where would the gentleman from Ohio go to carry out the doctrine of popular sovereignty ! igtX replied he would go to the platform of the Cincinnati Convention, the President's In augural and annual message, and his instructions to Governor Walker. He would stand on the wreck, and would not be driven ell' by any little monde' indignation. Mr. Manila replied that it was far from his in tention to treat thogentionnin with scorn. lio had looked upon his argument with sorrow and regret But where would he Ise to got the popular sover eignty that the people should vote on the whole Constitution? Would he go with those who at tetnpt to enforce the Topeka Constitution ! Mr. Cox, (interrupting.) I will not go there. Mr. Hennes. The gentleman says in effect that he will form a party for himself. It is unfortu nate that some people are not sufficiently im portant to build up a new party, or sufficiently bumble to follow in the steps of ono already or ganized. (Laughter.) lie wanted gentlemen to show their hands on this question. The resolution to print VW thou adopted, and also a resolution to print 16,000 copies of the linen- Old report of the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. TAYLOR, of N. 4' , made en inductee! effort to introduce ajoint resolution for the payment or the arrearsges of the salary . of members at the commencement of the session, instead of at the end. A resolution was adopted Instructing the select committee to inquire and report what additional messengers and pages are rendered necessary by the removal of the House to the new Hall, end what arrangements are necessary to aceonnuodato the reporter's of the press, anti promote the earn fort of members. Adjourned. WllOllllOOl Affair* WAsnisorov, Dec. Di —Colonel Harris, of the Uuiou, was to-day nominated by the Democratic caucus as the candidate for printetof the Senate. Mr. Douglas was absent. A bill will to-morrow, according to the present understanding, be introduced in• the Senate au thorizing the issue of treasury notes. ~The amount is not fixed, but it trill ho sufficiently large to meet the present exigencies of the treasury. It is sup posed that it will pass before the adjournment. It is confidently asserted that tlovornor Walker resigned the governorship of Kansas to-clay. Thirty Protestant clergymen of Washington have tendered their services to conduct the dully reli gious ozonises at the Capitol. There aro nearly ono hundred applications made by the reporters of the press to the Speaker of the House for accommodations. The Cabinet is holding au extraordinary sedition to-night. U. S. Supreme Court. WASHINOTOVI llcc. 19.—The following cases was considered to-day in the Supremo Court : Nos. 4 and 9—before reported. The arguments for the plaintiffs in the first case was concluded. No. 10. George Law, representing the Mall Steamship Company, vl. Charles Hill et al owners of the Ocean Queen. Appeal dismissed fur want of jurisdiction, there being no final decree in the 0050. No. 13. The rector,lranians, and vestrymen of Christ's Church, Phadulphia. in trust for the Church Hospital, re. the uounty of Philadelphia. The cause was submitted on record and printed argument, No. t. James It. Jones et al. rr. Catharine, 111eNasters, by her »e.rt friend, Alanurd Yharha Argument for plaintiffs conimoncod.. Snow Storm lit ',New England and Canada Bos (ON ' Dec. 16 —Snow is falling in this licit) ty, as well 119 Kanter, Hoene, Portland, Mon Leon and St. Johu, N. B. Sailing of the America BOSTON, Deo. 16.--The steauvihip America Failed today for Liverpool, via Halifax, with more than a million in specie. Real Estate, —The recent pressure in the monetary world, which caused such a depression in breadstuff,' mid all articles of ninnufLoturo, has also materially deteriorated the value of real estate. A large amount of ground on the out skirts of tho city, which was taken up last spring on ground rent on speculation, has reverted to its original owners, end sevoral Building Associations, not being able to meet their obligations, have been When up, entislng a vast atnotint of distress Union!, the mochanios and others wlm Invested their means in then, Rents have declined in nearly every section of the olty, and property owners are look ing to Councils with some degree of anxiety to learn what rate of taxation will he fixed for the mains year. It Is well known that the present rate to about ns heavy as they can bear. Capitalists aro withdrawing their money from real estate, and in vesting it more profitably. The Trustees of the Northern Liberties Gas Company have reduced the price of gas to private consumers to $2.50 per 1,000 feet. This reduction will take effect from the first of January. Tut; iialbtY4 YS.—Tho cheek which has been given to trade is beginning to affect railway traffic. The northern lines suffer chiefly, especially those in the manufacturing districts. The return of the London and Northwestern Company shows a de crease of about 43,000 compared with that of the corresponding week of last year. THE CITY. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING • " • - • AMERICAS AOADERY OF MrISIO, BROAD AXD Locum Btacare.—" L'Alloggio afilitara ,, -- "Doable-bedded Room"—" L' ll!aslant, D'Un Pittore." WHEATLICT's Aston STREET THRATRI, AROR Srßeel, ABUTS SIXTIL— ,, Beatrice; or, the False and True"— Love in Livervl NATIONAL THEATRE, WALNUT STREET, NOAH Dam. Dr. Kane"--s , Equestrian Performances J ATMS'S New HALL, CHESTNUT STARE; HIM OW fisvasrli.—Bucklers Opera Troupe. SANFORD'S CIPMeI NOUS!, ELEVENTH Stuart AHOY! CIIESTNUT.—EthIopIau Life Illustrated, concluding with I laughable altarpiece. ✓Ltolher New and Dangerous Vounterfeit.—A now counterfeit five-dollar bill was extensively circulated throughout the city yesterday. It first made its appearance on Tuesday night, and we have heard that a very large number of them have been foisted upon the unsuspecting. The new counterfeit is believed to have been printed from the old counterfeit plate that bee been in use for a year or more. 'The plate, if the same, has been altered. The paper upon which the new counter feit is printed has a pink tint, in imitation of the genuine notes of the bank, and the notes are well calculated to deceive There are very few genuine notes of this description out. A recent attempt to circulate counterfeit notes, in thin city, on several of the banks of Now Jersey, was fortunately checked by the promptitude of our detective offi cers ; and we trust that they will succeed in arrest. ing those who have been engaged in the manufac ture and circulation of the now and dangerous counterfeit which we have described. Storekeepers and others will do well to keep a sharp look-out for these notes, Fire Lust Night.—The alarm of tire about nine o'clock last evening was received from box No. 5, at Second and Washington streets. It was caused by the burning of a ono-story frame build• ing, sixtyby forty feet, on Delays:ire avenue, below Washing* street, originally built for a boiler establishment by Dustin A Hancock, and at pros. out occupied by Penniek A Co. for storing hay. A portion ~f the building was used as a stable by Mr. Treadway. Three horses in this stable were rescued by the firemen. A very large quantity of hay was destroyed, and the entire loss will amount to about $l,OOO, on which, we have been informed, there is no insurance. An adjoining shed, steed no a boatthouse, and containing a number of skiffs, was also destroyed with itscontonts. An immense amount of valuable property in this vicinity was eared through the noble exertions of the firemen. Fire in the Fourteenth Wuril.—Yesterday morning about four o'clock the stable in the rear of the piothaking establishment of Mr. Charles Thompson, at the corner of Eleventh and Pearl streets, in the Fourteenth ward, was destroyed by fire. A number of companies stationed in that neighborhood, the llood•Will, Fairmount, Colum bia, Diligent, and others, prevented tho spread of tho flames. A horse belonging to Mr. Thompson perished in the fire. The estimated loss is about throe hundred dollars. While the Independence Engine was proceeding to the fire, the apparatus was run into a pile of stones in Twenty-third street, below Spring Garden, and capsized. The engine was so badly damaged that it could not be takon to tho fire. d Suggestion.—We have been requested to suggest to the president and directors of tho Penn. sylvania Railroad Company the idea of issuing excursion tickets for country people to visit the oily during the approaching holiday. There are a largo number en the interior of the State who, if such facilities were offered, would gladly avail themselvea of the opportunity of visiting the city during that festive season. Saab arrangements aro always made for visiting State fairs and other useful gatherings of the people. The city during the holidays is itself a groat fair, and the benefit, even in a pecuniary point of view, would ho mu tual to all. Some years ago excursion tickets were issued on such occasions. Railroad Accidenf .—Yeaterday morning the eleven o'clock train from the city, on the German town railroad, came in contact, at Montgomery street, with n cart drawn by two horses belonging to Mr. Bonj E. Shoemaker. The leading horse broke from the traces and escaped uninjured. but the shaft horse was caught by the locomotive end dragged neveral hundred yards before the train could be stopped. The animal was, of course, killed. The driver was seated upon the cart, and escaped by leaping to the ground. Larceny of Money and tyings.—Last eve ning, before Alderman Eneu, at the Central Police Station, Frederick Lutz was charged with the lar ceny of fifty dollars and three gold rings, valued at $2O, the property of Augustus Lindell, who re sides in Tenth street, below Buttonwood. The ac cused was arrested at Newark. and brought to this city. lle was committed to answer. The arrest was made through the exertions of High Consta ble Trefts. Larceny.—Acting Lieutenant John Smith, of the Sixth Police Distriot,and Officer P. M. Fraser, No. 39 of the Reserve Corps, yesterday arrested two individuals, at Eleventh and Cherry streets, on the charge of the larceny of several valuable arti cles from the house of the Cloud Will Engine Com pany, Broad and Race streets. Tho accused had a hearing yesterday afternoon hethre Alderman Thompson, of the Ninth ward, and were slowwitted to answer. Death of Albert B. il.thlon.—lt will ho sad intelligence to many, today, to hear of the death of Albert It. Ashton, member of Select Council, from the Third ward, which occurred yesterday, at his residence, Tenth and Fit , .water streets after a brief but painful illness The deceased was woll known and respected for the prominent position which be occupied in many of our local enterprises, and his demise will be mourned by many a sincere and true friend. Hospital Cases.—Charles Davis, aged six teen years, was admitted to the Pennsylvania Hos pital yesterday, suffering from burns about the face, caused by the explosion of some gunpowder with which he was playing at lladdington. Chow Fisand, aged eighteen years, lied one of his fingers taken off by having his hand caught In the crank of a derrick at Fifth and Chestnut streets. HO was atitidtted to the same institution. Serious Burning Case.—Yesterday after noon, about one o'clock, a little daughter of Mr. James McDevitt, aged about four years, was very seriously burned about the body and face, by ber clothes taking fire from a forge, In Christian street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets, near which she was standing. The sufferer was removed to the residence of her e.tther in that vicinity, whore she remains In u very ,r Meal condition A Bold !l'hief.—Yenteiday morning, while a lady was purchasing some articles at the corner of Eleventh and Market streets, a rough•lookina individual suddenly seized the purse which the held in her hand, and immediately Made off with it. Me was pursued and arrested by Of f icer Mere dith, who took him before Alderman mpson The accused was held to answer at ergo of highway robbery The Scott Legion.—Tho members of filo Scott Legion left the city yesterday morning for theurpose of attending the funeral of Colonel iVynkoop, at Pott , vine. Wm. 11. Sieitek, Lieut. Commanding of the Artillery Corps, Cadwalador (frays, has muted an order to the company to pa rade to.thiy, to escort the Scott Legion ou their re turn front Pottsville. Coroner's /aquerf. Coroner Fenner held an inquest yesterday morning, at a German board ing-house, No. 125 North Front street, on the body of a farmer named Henry Follmer. The deceased had, during his visit to the house, been taken ill, but he refused medical atuistanee until It was too late to Save him. lle belonged In Maryland. A verdict in accordance with the facts was rendered. City Councils.—Both branches of City Councils will hold (heir stated meetings at three o'cloek this afternoon. There is much important business on the desk of the President of Common Council, which the interests of the people demand should be speedily transacted. The number of commitments to the County Prison during the mouth of November was 1221. The discharges during the same month numbered 1172. .THE CO URTS. YFNTERDAY'S PROCEF:DING9 [Reported for The Pro. ] Nisi Pull's—Judge Thompson.—The case of Winter .3 Latimer or. The Delaware 3lutual Insu rance Cu. is still on trial Dormer Counr.—Equity argument list Comor( PLuss—JuOge Thompson. —On the opening of the court Judge Thompson made the following remarks in reference to the report of the prtneeding against Wm. B. Mann, Esq., which appeared In this paper on Monday : "My attention has been called to a report, con taincil in Tun Pttrs.s of Monday last, of the re marks made by the Court in deciding on the petition recently presented to this Court against Mr. Mann, the district attorney, in which report lam represented as charging wills gross and cul pable negligence' the former district attorney,whe was in ogle() at the time the prosecutions re ferred to were commenced. I take this occasion to say that the report referred to is a misapplication of the remarks made by me. The former district attorney (Mr. Cassidy) was not in office after the middle of July last, and was not chargeable with the delay which was the matter oomplained of, and though ho was referred to as heing 'in office when the prosecution counammod, it was not intended to charge him with any WINO misconduct whatever I think it but justice to Mr Cassidy to °erred this error, and to say further, that, us far ns I have. known, lie discharged the duties et his office with fidelity." Tho equity argument lint was then taken up. Oven ANO I'E/oust:a—Judges Allison and Lad low.—The ease of James Diamond for the murder of Edward Muldoon Is still on trial. Daniel Dougherty, Esq., opened for the defence at a late.!our on Tuesday evening. lie commenced, .. ,;.Imcid opening by begging of the jury to k v".iciltads perfectly unbiased by all they hag The Commonwealth's witnoscc, Madup their minds the last BY1:3:, •'Fen uttered by the prisoner's wile • • hen Fluted the facts upon which th for an acquittal of the prison 'bar, which were, first, the ili , crepareay teessea for the prosecution; next hd would 11% s hem by the testimony of ono of 'the Comma/01)0's own witnesses, that Diamond never left th4;fiettse he was in for a period covering the time 60.1 tis occur rence; that Livery and StanmeyfireAwo„of the witnesses for the prosecution, were bound over with the prisoner, and were admitted 'to bail. Then he would show the jury the position occu pied by these two persons the night of the fatal occurrence, and would show that they WON more likely to ho the!macs who streak this Mots than the prisoner. .That the testimony as to the man ner in which the blow was struck was completely negatived by the medical testimony, which thews 'that the blow was struck upward, and nut down ward, as testified to by the witnesses. for the prose cution. That Livery Emil Statnneyer were the nearest persons to him at the time the deed was done. 4 number of witnesses were examined yesterday for the Uetatigo, Wile testified thea in the darkness of the night it world ho almost impossible to tits cover the person who indicted the stab; that Diamond was not seen about there at tire time of the occurrence The defence closed yesterday afternoon at half past five, and the court adjourned until ten o'clock this morning Joseph I'. Loughead, Esq , will suns up for the Commonwea ith, and is ill be fonowedby Messrs. 'Dougherty and Brewster, and Wl-11. 11. Mann, , will close for the Commonwealth. A kite arrival from Valparaiso brings intelli gence that the halloo Sarah et t nit,bound crept that port to the Islands td °comma, with merchandise and passengers, woe wrecked on one inhabited by savage cannibals, and every peri , on on board was devoured by those monsters. Wo have no details of this dreadful calamity. THE MONEY MARKET. PH1LA.D61.1 . 7111. Dec. 17 1858. The money market remains without change, and the stock market is in a state of stagnation. Im provement is much more talked of than felt, and the only signs of it are the accumulation of specie in New York and the resumption consequent thereon. The country banks everywhere are in troubled waters with their slow loans. The city banks have their suspended paper to nurse. The merchants have to manceuvre their failed paper to bring it to account. The foreign exchanges are all disordered, and the state of finance abroad alto gether uncertain and precarious. Meanwhile, we live in the hope that the specie-paying movement will net prove too hasty, and that a relapse w:11 not make matters worse than ever. A correspondent asks what preference note holders would have over depositors in the event of a voluntary assignment by the Bank of Pennsyl vania, 0? the appointment of a receiver by the proper court, and whether the stockholders are In dividually liable for the notes of the bank. We have submitted both questions to the judgment of a professional friend, who concurs with us in a negative answer to both. If the assets of the bank are transferred to assignees, or to a re. colour, their proceeds must be distributed pro rata among such noteholders and depositors as may prove their claims within the period required by law, and no individual liability attaches to the stockholders under the preseut charter of the bank. The individual liability of stockholders for the notes of a Lank is provided for by the 211 section of the act passed April 18, 18:0, and in the 39th section of the tiatne act it is directed that in ease of assignment the assignees shall pay—First, note holders; second, depositors; third, all other credi tors except stockholders, who shall be last paid. The Bank of Pennsylvania. however, is transact ing business under a renewal of its charter, made in WO, and extending twenty-Gra years, from 1833 to 1855. The bank was incorporated originally in 1793. In 1810 the charter was extended for 20 years from March 4,1813, and as before stated. it was further prolonged for 2.; years. Its capital was at first $3.000,090. It was reduoed in 184 t to $1,582.500, and increased in 1819. to 51,875,000. By an act passed March 29, 185 r, its charter was extended for 20 years from 185 A. This act contained a pro vision bringing the bank under the renewed charter, within the provisions of the act of 1850. Under the preecnt charter, the provisions of that eel are not applicable to the bank. The Boston Post says: "The financial crisis has had many bitter results, but it will save us from more bank charters for one while. And in after years it may not be much regretted if our Legislature take advantage of its obvious lessons, and enact in the coming session the gradual sup pression of small bills—of anybills, in fact, which shall become the currency of the people. Let the Legislature look at the matter thoroughly and fairly, rising superior to country bank influence and all other influence, and decide it upon its own merits. There can scarcely boa question that to the expansion of paper circulation in the last few years, our merchants and manufacturers owe a considerable portion of their troubles. Fatal fa- cility ' makes more rogues and bankrupts than evil intentions and ignorance. If the trading com munity were tied down to a basis approri mating, at least, to specie, they cold,/ not have got into the difficulties that they are now experiencing." The directors of the City Bank of St. Louis which was incorporated with a capital of 52,000,000, have voted to surrender their charter. The Bank of St. Louis, whom charter allows of an extension of the capital of $1,000,000, will, it is understood, go into operation without much further delay. The deposits and coinage at the New Orleans Branch Mint, during the month of Novnialior, were as follows : California Gem Gold from other source Total gold dopoeita 5594.579 14 111.1 . 11 R DIPOSITI, Sliver parted from California gold, $ 1,031 d 5 Silver from other sources 519,003 39 --- Total Weer deposited $520 105 04 Total value of gold and ailyer . daposileal..ll,ll3,ls92 18 001,n ooleeor. Gold, double eagles 13,500 piece. $170,000 00 550,000 pieces... .E.T75,000 00 Total value of gold and silver coinage 6545,030 00 PUILADELPBIA STOCK EXCIIANGS SALTS, December 18, 1857. Reported by R. lifottly, Jr., Stock Itrokor, No. 80} Itralnut street. EIREIT BOARD. 600 Bch Nav 6a 82....62 6O Lung Wand R 944 Cilyea C& P new9l 60 do d 0..... 9+, 3700 do new C& P IX/V, 2 Penna R 384 900 do do 91 2.5 do 38)4 200 do dn.... 91 6 do 38,4 500 N Peuna It 65....53 16 do as,k; loco 62:1; 7 do 0090 IT CI 6a luta c'h.3B 20 Sch Nay pretd...l6,V 21 N Rona R EiN 4 Lehigh Nay 50 9 do d 0,... .SV Itinehill R 59 3do do 81 6do '9 It 100 Long Inland °ward 0., do do 9; 6 Bk of P 21113 10 BETWEEN BOARDS. 2000 El It 7o Ist 1nt...691, 1030 CdAßdi 83 1,5.70 5000 do do ....691; 4000 Cat R7s b 5 01 1300 Penn 5 1.5 45 100 Rend It b 5.... —2l 2000 Ca Canal 0 b5...,38 SECOND 1000 Penns 5n 84; 30030 City 6 C A P.... 84 V 1000 N Penns R 6n b 5 52 14 500 du do 1000 do do ....52 1000 do do .... 52 1000 do do ••• • 62 1000 do cask 10tn.:12 Slinelon R 6111( 10 do 59 1' Nutri•lown 11....57 CLOSING PRI , Bid. Asked U S Os 69 109 Phila 6's int 00.84 81,4 E1t.84 8415 ' at New.9l 92 Pet nayly 5'a....84 6 85 Readl ng It 20; 27 de Honda '7O 74 70 do 51rt 6a'41.51. Pants 11. R 39X 3SX 510rrlaCanl Cong. 47 Seim NCa 82....61,V 6214 atock.... 10 11 BOARD. 9 NorriOnwo Ii 16 577 5 l'enGs R 2.4 N 15 do IS h 100 Seb Nar profJ....lBX GO Re4Rea 285 25 IlArrlsb R 52X 7 2; Am Rank 125 1 do 125 10 Bk North Llb... 50 3 Louisville 1111-101 •ES—STEADY. 1114. Asked. Bc N eis 'B2 prof IdS 17, 2 e lquisp't st him Ell 13 do Ist snort I's 89% CON do 20.10 59 61 Long Island .... y Vicksburg 61. 7,4 (lirard Dank 9 9 Lehigh Zinc 1 1 Union Canal 3 4 New CreekSlN . Cemplass R R.. 6 7 PHILADELPHIA MARKETS 116enunsm. 16—E% ening.—Breadstuffs are dull to-day; o nly about 1511 bbls superfine Flour haze been sold at $5, and 500 bbls extra at $5 23 per bbl. Tho demand is limited at these figures, both fur export and borne use, the sales for the latter purpose being within the range of ssas6 75 per bbl for common to choice brands, and extra and fancy lute, according to bran/ and quality. Ryo Flour dull at $4.25 per bbl. Corn Meal is more inquired for, and is selling at $3. Wheats aro in light supply, but the demand is small, prices ranging at 1103115 a for 'Ted and 118,025 c fur White, the latter for prime parcels; millers are not purchasing to any extent at these rates, and only about 4,500 bus have been sold to-day. Corn is unchanged, and 2,500 bus New Yellow brought 54a56c, 1,000 bus mixed old and new at 63c, and 1,500 bus old at fiOc, the latter in store. Oats are in fair demand ; about 1,200 bus Delaware sold at 35e, and 600 bus Penns at 36c Rye is selling at 75e for Delaware and 7.6 e for Pennsylvania Bark is not inquired for, but Quer citron is firmly bold at $26 for first quality. Cot ton remains dull and unsettled, and the demand is very limited at former quoted rates. Groceries are firmly held, with a fair demand for Sugars, at 6ia7.le. fur tuba on time. Coffee, pending the auction sale of Rio advertised for to-morrow, is quiet. Molasses is without a demand, and Cuba is selling at 2345 c. on time. Provisions soil slowly atsl6asl6l per bbl for Mess Pork; Bacon and Oreen Meats are dull, the latter are quoted at 7c. for Shoulders, Be. for Sides, and Se. for Rams, in salt, without much doing at tbeso rate; Lard is held at 101al0io. for bbls., and 11 ial2e. for kegs. But ter—Nut much selling, and prices are unsettled. Seeds—There is a moderate Inquiry for Clover at $5.25a55.371 per bushel ; 100 hags sold from second hands, at $5.50, to go out of the tuarket. Whiskey dull at 22c. for buds., 41.41 4 .3. fvr dmiges, saki 22111231 e. for blils• BREADSTUFFS AT BALTIMORE, Dee. 15. The Flour market was dull and heavy, and but little teas done Ott 'Change The only sale we heard of this morning was ono of 450 bbls. Ohio super at $5 cash. The market for both Ohio and Howard street closed with free sellers at that figure. but buyers generally were not disposed to operate to any extent, sinless at a decline on the rates naked. City Mills continues quiet, and we learn there has been no demand for it for some days past. It could be had readily at $5 per bbl. on time, end $1.75 per bbl. cash , but the market closed dull and heavy at these quotations. We have no change to note in extra Flour, and we quote as before, viz.: Ohio extra at $5.5045.75, llowitril street do. at $5.75a513.85, and regular shipping brands or City Mills do. at $3 5040 Per bbl. Baltimore ground Family klcier is selling by the dray load at $7.75 and do. extra at VI 75 per bbl. Corn Meal is steady at $3 .10 per bbl. for City and Brandywine Mills. Rye Flour was quiet la thy. It is held at ist 50 or bbl , but buyers are pot disposed to give over $4.3 7l per bbl. for it. The receipts of Grain at the Corn Exchange were large, and the demand for all varieties con tinues quite active. Wheat was in good receipt, and the market for it buoyant. Prices have again advanced from :I to 5 cents per bushel. Prime 1V heats were in better receipt to-day than for some time past, and we hail to nets its active shipping demand for them: , The offerings were unwe l l& 0 1 :MOO bushels, eta the greater part sold at 10.5 a to cleats for good to prime reds ; 110415 cents for (air parcels of white; 1209130 Cents for good to prime shipping parcels of do.; la:, cents fur choice family flour samples, and 1003108 cents for com mon and medium parcels of do. Corn was in firm receipt today, with a good demand for it, and the market was rather firmer. The offerings were 20,000 bushels, most of which sold at 45;152 cent+ for good to prime lots of new crop white; 47a3:1 cents for do. yellow, and 61 gents fc,r Kilns liar eels ofold crop white and yellow. Oats were rather more buoyant to-day. There were 0,000 bushels at market, nearly nil of which sold nt 30933 cents for good to prime Maryland, and fils:St; cents far do. - Pennsylvania. Bye was in light reeelgt, but the market was firmer. 'There wen, sales , tif Auo bushels Rye r,t h.l cents for Maryland, and 78 cents for prime Pennsylvania. Those figures show a firmer;slight linprovement. OSWEGO, Dec. 15.—Fleur is unchanged. Wheat sa l es o f 20.000 bitch at 861 for Milwaukc Club delivered to boats; Chicago Bp r i ng is hall at Ole ; included in the soles are 8,000 bush very 4,40 qt 55e. Canal exports-19,Q00 hush wheat. isnir,ped by railread-5.000 bbls Hour. T'he weather 13 filial. CHICARO, Dee. 15 —Flour firm. Wheat steady Corn—a (Relining tendency. Oets dull. Receipts to•day-2,300 bbri dour ; 5,500 hush wheat; 1,000 bush seam BY THE PILOT LINE. LETTER' FROM N'E'W TORR. - - - [Correspondence of the Press.) NEW Toter, Dee. 16,1857-5 20 P. It There is nothing new to note in the Money mar ket. The same story may be told of to-day that I have oft repeated during the last month; that is, abundance of money, and no moans d getting It. First clan paper in demand and not to be get; second clan plenty, but bard to teen; third class in great abundance, and no one willing to toneh it with a pair of tongs. The " ease" you sae spoken of by some of our eity papers does not exist, I as sure you, except in the imagination of those who are interested in showing that the banks are very liberal. Foreign exchange Is quite dull, there being no steamer on Saturday. Full rates, as preciously quoted, are nominally quoted. The Dodos' steamer to-day [cols out $1,024,400 in gold, of which about $633,000 went from this city. Domestic exchange. with your city in particular, is more difficult, an 3 higher; but if the rumor be true of the resump tion of specie payments by your banks, the diffi culty will disappear at once Tt'e new directors of the Mechanic's' Banking Association were ehesen to-day, and it is from the very favorable nature of Mr. Carrigan's report as to the affairs of the hank. that brietnesi will soon be resumed. It it believed that at least ve-eightha of the capital stack remains untuothee after paying everything; that the teller's defiles- Gen does not exceed 311,000, and that the out going direction is quite blameless. The report to which I alluded the other day of the firm of DulleslD, Sherman, k Co. plug tato liquidation is contradicted. I am very glad to hear it. The house is one of the beet and totted& in the world, and meat liberally conducted, and their loss moon be severely felt by their troops of warm friends. I only mentioned the rumor with out mentioning the name. I gladly give the name with the contradiction. The City Bank has an nounced a dividend of four per cent., payable on demand The interest on the Hound mortgage bonds of the 'Raison River Railroad, duo to-day. is paid at the office of the company. The Central Park stock, it is said. has been all taken by the commi-sioners of the sinking fend, and on foreign account. Tee exchanges at the clearing home to-day were 497,e54 45; balances seld3 934 33 The cash transactions at the Sub-Treasury were as follows Total receipts, 536.75.4 57, $44,000 from Customs; payments, $39.145 63; balance, 51,213,310 70. The business done at the Corn Exchange was Tery small, and the market exceedingly dull, ow ing to the difficulty in dispesing of predate, bills. The expert of produce is thus checked, prices have fallen, and one of the fears of the bad conseqema cei of the resumption of epecia payments unreels nately realized. Evan at the present low prices there is very little export broutteet. The effect must be very bad, if measures are not taken to employ one means in this safe rpeeulation. The stock market ttuetnated again to-day, and was very unsettled. On the whole, there was not any great decline in prices, except in Erie, bat the feeling is feverish, and on the receipt of any hat news would be ready for a tumble At the word board Erie closed et; Reading at 521; New York Central at 75; Chicago and Rock Island at 731; Michigan Central at 501. and Michigan Southern at 2.11. NEW YORK STOCK FIRST 3000 C S 6s, '67, 112 1000 Mich State Ge, 92V, 1000 N Carolina 6e, 864 1 2 000 do 87 5000 Mia.ouri 6e, 79 5000 do s6O 73 5000 do 060 79 3000 Cal State 7s-'7O, &I I 3000 Brooklyn City M , 91 1000 Erie Ws, '75, 42. k , 1000 Erie Conr '7l, 3.5 ; 3000 Harlem Ist nag, 64%; 500 111 Con Bonds, 86 5000 LaCrOS fc51111.0,29h; 2000 Oat & Chi 11d mt, 7eg 10e0 Mi Coal per lit ?It Slrg I'd Con, 831( 30 l'hion Bonk, 107 63 Phenix Bank, 0,5 10 National Bank, 90 10 tank Commerce, 94% 10 Del&llud Ca Co, 104 100 PeonaCoal Co, 64 .1.5 do CS 125 do e 64 20 Paratie Mail Co, 64,4 8 do 64 42 do 63,3 70 New York Cen It, 75 leo do 74X 50 do Me 74% 200 do .30 74t SO do a 7 74x 40 do 33 74X 100 do 660 75 10 Harlem Railroad, 7% 20 Harlem Prefer'd, 18 Tug MARKETS. A.9llES.—The demand for both kind is rather more active, and prices are unsettled--aalas of 150 bbls at $6 for Pons, $6 121 for Pearls, and $6.2.5 for Canadian Pearls. Saleratus is In demand all cents, cash. Corros continues irregular; the decline sines the receipt of the Enropa's advices it fully I. The an nexed quotations are quite nominal. NEW YORK CLASSIFICATIoN. Uplands Florida. Mobile. N. O. a Tax_ Ordinary...... 9: 91 91 9f Middling 101 101 101 10f Middling Fair.ll II 11: 111 Fair Ilf 11l 111 Ilj Faotta ke inquiry is fair for Weal's= canal Flout. but with large offerings pries! are again 5410 e lower, with little inquiry for esport. The sales are 9,100 bbls at $4.3544.70 for ecitazion to good State; $4.5544-70 for extra do; 34.3.5 a 34 50 for superfine Indiana and Michigan; $4.534 $5.50 for extra do ; $4,90155.60 for summon to toed extra do; $5.605e6 90 for good to chola. de; 3.50 a. 57.25 for St. Louis linatds, and $5.50a57.73 for extra Genesee. Canadian flour fie dull and lower; the attires are fair Paler of 000 bbla aa 414.4044.5 S for alas perfine, and 54 75118 25 for extra brands. South ern flour routines; very doll and heavy; the ar rivals are liberal. and this stock is large. Sales of 600 bible, at .3aaa.a.25 for mixed to good brands Bal timore, ae., and 05 for the better grades. Rye dour is plenty, and is dull at 51.2544.25 for ' fine and superfine Corn meal is in moderate de mend at ea 2:saS3 40 for Jersey, $3 bOati 70 for Brandywine, end 817 25 for pureheoss Buck wheat flour to saleable at $242-121 OlttlN.—The demand for wheat is less litho. the arrivals are light; but to effect sales asalusata compelled to yield I ate per bushel, endives at the above abatement there is little inqatry, and is light. The tiles are 27,100 bus at 51.19 foe fair ree Southern; $1.20151 37 for tetragon to prime do ; $a for lowa Spring; 20 far common waitaKete tacky; 31.1, for eon:untie white Canada, and Oat' for Chicago Spring. Rye is plenty and is very quiet at 750. Baxley is in fair demand at 70aS2c. Barlepwalt is in steady request at 9aa9se Oats are plenty and ra ther lower—sales of Southern at 3es3se; Jersey 3.1 atik ; State 44347 c ; and Western abatle. Cdru is in fair supply, and is heavy and Quite nominal for old ; new to euiet sales at 17,000 hue at S6a66c for New Jerzy and Southern yellow and while; 63170 e fax Western mixed; 70372 a for met Jersey end Southern yellow. White Beans are in limited demand at $8 31 to 81.56 per bus. Canadian Peas quiet at et ilia $1.03. NATAL StoliES —Spirits Turawatine Is la mode rate request at steady rates; salts of add tibia at 400, cash. Crude is still dull and heavy. and prices merely naming! at $3. or thereabouts, pea 2801 be . Common Rosin is quiet at $1.25a51 30 per 310 lbs. The meditate and fine grades Nadine.% quite languid and depressed. Tax sells slowly at 31.7541.571 for Washington and Newiken shin and thick, and $2 for NS ilmlagtan rape. Pilate remains quiet at 81.07:arr per biG. PROVISIONS—The dam:ma is fair, but theta is hardly as much firmness as at yesterday's SlRl bet, and at the close our extreme rates nosid nit be obtained fur mass; sales to 300 bats at $15.511s $l6 for mess. $15.4 . 3 for thin mess, $l4 for clear, and 813 75a14 for inspected prime. Beef is very much &pre-sari] and is freely of fered ; the arrivals arc fair, and the sleek is large; soles of 140 bbl at $5.75aW.50 for country Prim*: s9aslo Imitha mem ; sloasla 75 for repaoke4 nett. urn mess, and $13.75a514 Zia fur extra de. Prime mess is active at 319a534. teaks/tea are quiet at $141518.75. Cut meat; are lover; sales of 50 Wads at 7171 a for sheathersand I ssailforthatas- Dressed Hogs are less satire and elate heavy at Vault. Bacon is quiet at ealoc. Lard is freely offered and is henry; the demand is only for the home trade—sales tr bbls es 3 le: at 9!a9lc. Butter is plenty MO IS heavy ids Ific for Ohio, and 13320 e fee Mate omen pointy at 22024 c. Chee-e is plenty at ea& per 16. Rice is in gcta4 ,apply—sales of 100 tea at 11 $3.75 per lee Rd for common baptize. Sroaaa are steady. espeolally relined, which are in good demand. The business in raw this morn ing, as yet, is small—the total sales of yesterday were 520 Wads Cuba at sfaelo, and 190 do of Porto Rico at eltiSle. TOBACCO is ateady sales of 57 bade 'K entucky at Slal4c, and 43 bales liaarana at Slat. Wataxer.—The usarket it poorly sapplieJ, prieea are bitter —sales of 200 bbls at Me. .$170,419 47 . 424.159 87 :HATTERS AND THINGS lri NEW YORK• (From the New York papa's a yrstertlay.l Gain or Cartrxut—Mtp . resse Cart —la the matter of Michael Cameras, convioted of the mur der of cu s ene Anderson, Judge Roosevelt this morning rendered a decision on the motion for a writ of error to take this CEL.s up to the Court of Appeals, the writ in the meantime to operate as a stay of proceedings. After reviewing the facts of the case, he came to the oonclusian that he was hound to grant the writ, which should operate cc a stay of proceedings: the section of the statute under which he acted was imperative on the court. and not discretiona ry. 4 edge Itooserelt remarked that his decision met the approval of the Chief Juatioe and his as satiates. The wrierf error mast be granted with the stay of Judgment. Atunrst,trr ov Suirnosart.—Ccptai n Conklin. of the schooner John Grifith, arrived yesterday, reports having lost, by fever, the whole of his crew, with the exception of the cool, while bound from Aspinwall to Minatitlan; put into Sty West for a new crew. PO3TPON EVE X r.—Ttm departure of tke ettemehip Philadelphia, for Ila'aane mad New (Weans, ialutt- , ported from to-morrow until Friday, the nth kat. NEW 'L'ORN CATTLE MARNET —Wed Ales slav, Det,ul;er 10th—At Market—?,672 Beeree, 209 Cows, 491 Veal!, 9,386 Sheep, and 3,706 Swine, which shows from last week an increase of 423 Beeves, 36 Cows. 7 Veals, and 593 Sheep and Lambs, and a decrease of 3,569 Swine. The quality of the cattle was very fair, And trade stirring In prime stack. Several premium ste era were offered. Prime rernained about the same for Peeve' with an p} ward tendency. The quotation are $:), SIO, end 410.fi0 per bundred for good beeves Cows, $259460; Vats, ssas4; Sheep, $3; and Swine 6, and $646 40 net, 4545 29 gm.,a, Several drovers thought they were reathlag me quarter cent per pond hotter than last week fur first-Quality *Mtg. Largo sales of Middling good cattle were elfeetad at Sic. TOBACCO —lties:ra. IVlnfree S 'Watkins, of Richmond, , report Since our lAA report, we BCB but little change to note In prices of old to haeco ; bUt very little coming to market, and the principal sales ere conanod to that now ressmpling, which is generally common to muddling quality For the last ten days new loose baa heen canting in more freely, and the latter pAtt nf last week lances were rather lower, leut this week they are as high or higher than as any time this till, We quot e , a t 411 Flees, from $8 to $12.7a." NEW BEDFORD OIL MARKET, Dee. 14, (for the week).--Sperm—We notice B °Xne inquiry, and a sllgbt upward tendency ; the sales embrace 100 bbls at 151; 160 ditto, part dark, $ 1 ; 2413 bbls, (4$ per cent. bead matter, and an dark,t at $1.1:15 per gallon ; also 10131 tails at a price tte% transpired Whale— TUG market Is arm:distal, quiet and Without a transagtion. Whalebone quiet aad ar t tgles, XCHANGE—Dic. 16 10 Erie Railroad, 144 150 do 134 ,50 do . lad 16c MO do alo 10,' 1318 do a; 13,1( 1350 reading li, 53 360 do WO 52 400 do .10 4134 110 do 63 52 20 do 5111 305 do W.) 6211 68 Cloy Col & Cin R. 9: 10 do 96 10 Wien Ceti It, SO 40 do 1•04 174 Mirk Sontbarn 11, 21 150 do 2111 0 do 215,: /2"55 do 2.15,, i 27 Sli 3&2: I Pre:, 55 1100 11l Central, 91 1.60 do 613 905 20 Ord & Chi R, 74 500 Clef 2 Tol R, 4251 1103 do b2l 42g 20 do 4251 600 do tial 424 :08ChidRilt :5 50 do 7551 75 do 74.' SO do ba2 :5;,t 1100 do 6001511 150 Mild Illair. 29 1 50 Urn:ad-Mil Id .15 litN; 1 900 do log 50 44 beo i