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subscriber), 'yob • -' • . 120
ror • club of Twenty-one or over, w” e will sand an
nitin,popyAn - the , gattakup of the Olob:
IsU'Postakasters arb tegneetad.to "
as - y gentsfor
:snia-Wasnact...raad
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414ZRICAN 40 - 4.0? 01 - r, , or -
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:On ?PIMA' (Monday) V lENINCI., December
Wlll hitierforthea the amitelun Commßette, entitled
' Joliks - _ ja r ' am Bello • ur -
Goy ...... •
.john ;TIMOR ' ' M. Le Moyne
• To ennolude with - Mkt, grand Paire,Ballet;*entttled
THE G OLDEN HOBBIe..
...... ..... • Ikno,r Clolseppina Prated
Birt' , .. .. ,M , lto Louise Lamoureux
Boom open at; Performanoes wilt tom•
menet Zl half-mutt 7-' -
• ' • : Armxesiort : • , •
B04,101,:i ritno et, and Piniiet 0ir616 60 nen tit.
Pandly Olean and Amphlth,eatte - ' 25
Plivntelroxec ( for elgbt,,pereons) ' $8
. I"ne Sax Offi 14
es openfront ,k: M. to 4 P . M. for
the securing orsenti and boxelholtbot'extra charge.' ,
.11PABBABB' • woe., McKEON.
itIUSICAL MATINEE. • ,• • •
- "4R NI)"DAY PERVORMANOE,
In i Eß A T if it the
DeFeTker224 ' . 4ltaCta " lifti. TEILL.
• TICKSTB FIFTt OBNTS.
On which oecellon • ,
MLLE. MARIN OARNAVER, '
the eminent pianist of the Conservaterio Paris; pupil or
Charles D. Berrot, (Melanin), will make her debut.
_GRAND' CORONET.
and, VIRIIX:
. whowill joihtly appear , with .
WAIN ntLINI`T.S. °AWOL'.
MISS ANNIE
...ERN)±ST - RZRRINO, ROCCO, RLITZE R .
oindisstot... • • • ..• • .. . • •- I • • Big.' ',BELLA.
Theiprogrisidno on this occasion will be easefully se.
haw& cud will
,contain goons of the marterpleces by
Mdzert,ldayerbeer, 'Rossini. Beethoven, Donizettl; se
lecting from Oratorios by Handel and Haydn.
Boors open at tialf. - past'one. Matinee commences at
haltpast two. , d 1931
MRS, D. PI. BOWERS' - =
WALNUT IrlitEET' THEATRE.
(lola ~1.411986„ D1R5. D. E. BOWER&
Actin* and Stage Manager .. RICHINGB.
pn 21112 (Mo n day) JP/ENING . , Deo. 21st, 1857. -
VIOLET
J N Covens* Violet. Sirs Dl' Bowers.
tdOltiflNO CALL,
Sir Edward. Ardent v hfr Etchings; Mrs ‘Ohltllngstone,
Miss Etchings.
Prices of Admission..*..... . .. : .. 25 Cents.
Secured Seats in Dress Circle - 37g
Parquet 25 . ti
Boa Ofilr.e"open from 10 o'otock A 11. to 3 P. 11.
Doors ensued at a quarter to 7 o'clock; curtain still
rise at aquarter 047 o'clock. , , , (113.3 t
WHEATLEY's ARCH ST: THEATRE.
v,v .-80 LE L'ESEE IV. 3VIIELTLEY
TRlS"(Blonday) EVENING. Deo. 21st, 1867,
• BEATRICE. : „ •
Ramorp de, Tesolaisra, Mr Davenport; Lord Walter
Court mai; !dr. Wheatley; Lord Landstnere, Mr Dot.
man; Beatrice di Neva, hire. Davenport.
SARAN% YOUNG MAN.
. ,
Mr biogiridge, Mr Mar; Sarah, Miss Anna Cruise.
SCALE or SALICES.—Boxeg, 25 cents; Secured Seats,
58 cents • Orchestra - Bums, 60 tents; Seats in Private
Boxes, .7b cents Gallery,,LB cents; Gallery for Colored
Persons, 2,5 cen ts; Privvate IMF ; in,olallery for Colored
Persona. 08-ceritti, '
Boa Office nperi from 10 A. M. until 3 P.. 11. Doors
will open at
.. 64 o'clock ; , performance to commence at
7, precisely,,
ATIONAL THEATRE AND CIRCUS,
N
•WALNUT STREET, NEAR RIMEL
LERSRE WROLEY DARMORE.
ARBIBUNT BIANAGER. .... ... .
EQIIRRIRIAN,IIANAGER TOOL RING.
TRIO (Monday) 4 EVENING; Deo. Met, 107,
•
- IRON HAM -
Outon
- Da. ELNZL
Dr Kane; Mr Win Nie F s k tilll f Dlclitnore; Shanghu,
Mr Drink; fatty, 3tr Cunnittkbani. "
During the evep!nf.,tbii *bile c,ll - 1 - pi,laT appear am
** DEDOIIIK ARABS.
. . .
l'asess or Aininsinint , -25 Cents , parts or the
Home: P elute Banta 50 elide. •
'Doors open at .03i o'clock. Performance to com•
menee at 1M • '
RIANE I OIID's 'OPERA ROUSE—
"', 'ELEVENTH Streit, above °beet:Wit.- -
ETHIOPIAN DEEFORHANOES THIS 'EVENING.
Ethiopian; Life: Illustrated by Banford's Town ot,
Stare—New Dances by the Sanford - Obildreu.
Doers open at I regal—to 'commence tarter before
eight.
To conclude with •
A EALIGHABLE •AITERPLEOE.
Admittance 25 tense, •
ftloneg
SCULL, GAMBLOS, CO,
BANKERS,
•. • '
No: 38 South Third Street. - B.W.cornerEltf u..
Bank of Pennsylvania Notes
The highest premium paid for ' , '
, • ,AMERWAN - GOLD , ISTMAS A Nit
- JIXOTIA - N0111.•
Uneurrentifund s bought and sold.
Stocks bought and stdd on conintiaslon only.
.n6l0-21n*
A MPIOCAN. GOLD
AND'
,1193 , 19 . YORE EXCHANG E
winnui
AT RIMIEST OURBANT RATES,
, ORONItiE & CO
SPECIE RO X.k .11Si
n024-dif , 40, SOUTH THIRD fir
re W. TINGLEY & CO., BANKERS,
Boutlt THIAD Street; Philackfplklit. •
COLLNOTIONBnromp apneas an all nectosible points
in
.t4e,United emi 3 Oanguis ,
Stout-Cll'ond'; &o.,'Bought and Bold on Connkision.
Uncurrept Bank Noble, check'', &c.; bought at the
loWent rem "
Devoelts received and interest allowed, as per agree..
ment.'• ' not-3m
tOcktthee, Jetoettß, &:t.
, •
WILSON de SON
Vase_
now on hand the largest stock of
- RILVER WARE -
IN TO! MI, 7
. Exclusively of their own , manufacture and ,
WARRANTED.
iersdius nesiroos "tit purchaslog are respectfully In
vited to call andexamine for themselves, at the
OLD ESTABLIORD STAND,
d019 , 2w . 13. W.,Cor. FLFTH and cIIBRAY Streeta
° MEADOWS & CO.
Va_ Race the. honot - to inform their customers, and
the puhlie generally, that they are now offering their
exieusire assortment of ' ,
• t STERLING' -
S ,
(Whic_b, for Etyle,fiterling quality and good taste can
net be aurpaasid,)
AT-FR.IOU ttbitrilliALLY LOW,
FOR OASHI:
UPWARDS OF 20,000 OUNCES
STERLING SILVER ARTICLES
SUI7ABL6 /OR
HOLIDAY OIFTB,
Tea and Coffee Services, Moberg, - °ups, Gobleta,
Cae
_; • tore, Knives, Forks, Spoons,
And all articles of ornament and utility usually made
ideeen. 0. DI. B,'Co?bettig theiosilveApi*CCal Silver
satithe, 04 liereonalti superintending tha insnufactunt
of -Avesx article kirea thOmt' fez' CAN WAR
RANT EVERT AR:11.014 AS REPRESENTED .
aei9-9i AN 011E8TNUT Street.
BAILEY & CU. r ORESTNITT STREET,
'llawintazturoro of -
BRITIBII. BTERLINII ULM. WAII3,
Ureter the inspeetion,' on the involver eaolustrely,
Olttaeasaad Strangers aro bolted to aloft cor mans
factory.
WATORES. -
Constar* on hind n 50151%41d stook ot linperlas
Watches, et all the celebrated makers.
DIAMONDS.
ifeeklsees, Bracelob, ffrpoehes, Ear•ltinge,
linger
91age, sad ell other articles in the Diamond line. ,
Drawings of-NEW , DEBIGNIS will be made free of
. charge for hoe wishing work made to order.
- 11i011. COULD JEWELRY.
A -ie datifekt aaaortment rof nii the caw styles of Sine
. ,
asidosato, Mona and fawn Cameo ; ,
Pearl, Coral, 'Carbuncle, Efargaleite, , • ,
-'&11 - ., EGO.
fern . EMPAIdfITOPS, :BA S KETS . , IVAITBIdej &a.
Also; Bionio and 'Marble CtOCBII, of newest atplaa,
and of. al/parlor qualtaf.. , aul-dfw/awly
11,.:E.:1:1ALDWEIAL'et, CO., '
•
a/ - 482 CHESTNUT street, ~ '
~Itiee weeelted, per 'steamers. new style's ,
, ' Jewelry, Chatelaine, Vest Chslan.
- .., fiplernUd Pane, Hair Pins. it
= Prult Standn, /agar -Bashete.' ,
Jet Goods and Plower Tanen.
- • •Coral,Mtws and Massie Sets.
Bons argente In. Philadelphia for the'eala of „Charles
Frodslim'S LONDON TIUS-KNEIPERO.. del°
PEQUIGNOT,
mk.i. • :30114URAPTURER9 OP WATOEt OASBEI -
AID tIIPORTIBEI Or W141011)8, •
tiOilittbillit NUE?, BELOW 01001111:11
,•, • ?8in ! ...p.:1:0,A1ia1114. • .
Cosign" PstmOlitat.. • kiliugn piqugetoy
till (IVO, WAR • t . ";
„ wit:GUM NV lasoll 0, L PN,,; •
:.hfAIyUFAGTUREAS Ui:Birialr
(ESTABLISHED 1812,)
001111111 C smut AND , Onsispr. arallETO. .
rA large'sesortmertat. of SILVER. W.ARE; of every de
scription, constantly on band, or madtt t 4 order to match
a pattern desired. ' , 3i;•, •; , • •
Imposters of Sheffield and 'Birmingham imported
vowel - • ; • ; .'st39-ddcerly
V; JARDER &BRO.
air • • NAJIMPII3IIIIIEAB MOD INlPOWelrie 01
- •
WAltßi
Re. fel Oltioitnut Street, above pip .stilts,)
rrPhlisdelphls}
Constantly on hand and for sale to the Trade,
71/1808,. , 00mmopuoms31111r1.011 Mrs,. um,
..-11T4Cupsis , -01)BIARTBeatIES,; WAITSB4, , DAS._
iP3SITIVO,ISTOItS, ANIVISt, SSW% SARKB,„
LADLII3,'
• -
Osth*otall.kbidit of nistal, r orily
inCYPIVICL4-'loCSbiles Onlty9ettos,jo store
NOt a CPTHO: l l, ,, ii i niff
IMO - 4 , 34ftifiritWlttr•St•
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VOL. -1:-.4‘19. 121.
LOOKING GLASSES,
OIL PAINTINGS,.
oiIItI9TI4AB YRESEWTS
- 'LAMM! 8., EARL - 8
Offers for sale the Largest Assortment or the shove,
at the LOWEST PIIIO.BB to be found in the city..
DARLEY.II beautiful ILLUSTRATIONS of
• ' "DIAIIGABLIT,"
VRRISTMAS PRESENTS.—
WrittaiDeski, Portfolios, Portemonnates, Purses,
Bags", Oard Cases, Pocket Knives, Backgammon Boards;
Ohasignen, Eno Letter Paper and Stationery of every
description, it greatly '
REbUOED
4. B. JOHNSON,
dell.tde3l4 No. 3 North ..BIOUTH. Street.
BIBLES.-ahe Depository of the Poonsyl-
X. monis, Bible Society, corner of WALNUT and
BEVENTII Streeter, (opposite Wrishlngton Square,)
Philadelphia, it arrive supplied with a large assortment
of BIBLES and, TABTA6IBNTS, comprising every
variety of aloe, quality, And price.
The Bible in Your veld., tit cowienlent size, bound in
roan; calf, and morocco.
Now Testaments in one, two, and four vela, very large.
plain type, for, persona whose eyesight has been weak-,
acted by age or disease.
Peeling separately bound of verbena sites:,
Zelpele and London_ editions the ilebiew Betio-
- Mimi for OATe in trier thirty langusges. del7•iw*
AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
A beautiful seleettiou of
O.O.LID:A.Y GOODS,
enitable,for Presents, to be found in
GREAT VARIETY,
at the corner of '
FOURTH AND CHEM= STREETS,
such as
PORTEMONNAIES,
POCKET BOOKS,
, PORTFOLIOS,
DRESSING OASES.
WRITING CARES,
' • BANKERS', CASES,
• BANK BOOK HOLDERS,
BILL BOOKS,
MONEY BELTS,
CIGAR CASES,
RAZOR STROPS,
WORK CASES,
CARD OASES,
NEEDLE CASES,
- POCKET CUTLERY,
, ROGERS' RAZORS,
. CHESS BOARDS,
' • BACKGAMMON BOARDS,
PAPIER, MADE , WORK BOXES,
- DESKS, /to ,
GOLD PENS, and
GOLD AND SILVER PENCIL OASES.
4817-2 w F. lf. SMITH,
N. IV. corner FOURTH and CHESTNUT Ste.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—
,
IN ACCOXDANUX WITH %TX
MANNER, OF THE TIMES,
WC WILL,
DURING THE PRESENT HOLIDAY SEASON t
SELL AT RETAIL
Our Hairaucent Stock of ,
FANCY ARTICLES,
WHOLESALE PRICES.
WE HAVE JUST BLOEITS,D A venial?
. or
NEW AND BEAUTIFUL ARTICLES,
Mr It Johnston
ExPRESsLE
SELECTED AND ADAPTED
FOR
HOLIDAY PRESENTS
NEW EMBROIDERIES FOR CHRIST-
I£ N. DIAZ, FSESENTS.--Just opened, new and tholes
styles of
' Swiss, French, andFcotch, Collars, from .250 to 50.
, Cambric Collars, very cheep, from 250 to $t
An Fame Collars,new styles, from 60e to st.
Mclean!' Collars, beautiful goods, froM 750 to to 60.
= !twitted rind bralteseCollars, very cheap, 76e to F 7.60.
, Valentin, French,' Swiss,' Cambric, Linen, and Hord
ton Sete, from 50c to $l6.
' Embroidered and hemstitch Ramilterehlefa, very
cheap. Sleevee, Infante' Waiots, French and Chantilly
Veils, Flounoings, Embroidered Scarfs, dco,
Itibbons,l id Moves, and Gauntlets
- CLOAKB AND SHAWLS
Closing out at an enormous sacrifice . ; also, Delainea,
Aterinoes, Cobonrga, &c., &a.
Quilts and Gonnterpanes closing very cheap, at
F. & T. If. BELCHER'S,
S.W. corner EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN attests.
Bank of Pennsylvania Notes taken at par. dela JR
.itISTMAS AND HOLIDAY GOODS.
W: D. GUNN, No, 26 South ROIIitTI/ Street,'
/31111 1 .1WPAta b lVtiP - ANOY 000D6
imitable for the Holiday amen. Being entirely of his
' OWN IMPORTATION.
The msortment embraces all the_
NEWEST STYLES,
AND Jl7 VERY BEDEORD ritieze.
Among it will be round
Paperititiole Work Boxes, Desks, Portfolio', &e.
Ladies' Cable and Traveling Bags.
Porte hionnalea, Parses and Pocket Books, in great
variety. '
Pearl Card Cases, beautiful styles.
Boheinlan alma Toilet Bottles, richly decorated.
Odor BoXell and Glove Boxes'.
Fancy Bronze Inkstands, Thermometers, d‘o.
Backgammon end Chess Boards, Cheestnen.
FintrEnglish Scissor", in sate.'
Fancy Cigar Btands and Cigar Cason.
Scotch Wood 'Snuff Boxes and Fancy Articles.
Itedalltons ?Ladle ivory.
Memorandum and Ball Tablets, in pearl and Ivory,
Together with numerous other articles in the line.
deg-Int-if
GIFT BOOKS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
-- •
THE ADINBIOAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION
PUBLISHES
ONE THOUSAND
CHOICE
- ILLUSTRATED HOOKS,
• YOB
CHILDREN AND YOUTH;
Being The
LARGEST COLLECTION IN TIIE COUNTRY
Also, a Variety of
BIBLE'S AND DEVOTIONAL DOORS
0:1 1 1 / 1 4D,
FOE THE HOLIDAY SALES.
ELEGANTLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES MAX
be bed without charge, by applying at
THE AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION,
No. 1122 Mansur Sr., Paths.
del6-tde2s.
WARBURTON's INIMITABLE
COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD
Embrace all the peinte necessary to
•
GENTEEL EFFECT,
and all the details and nicer elegancles which Impart
FINISH, COMFORT, AND DURABILITY.
Gentlemen are Molted to call and examine.
0c25.6m . 430 CILESTNTIT Street
F . OR REGISTER OF WILLS
.
WM. ,IlAtiooollB,
TWELIMI WARD,
d2-3m*
. Subject to Democratic Mica.
FOR. SHERIFF—
ALUM 4N GEORGE mom,
FOURTIT WARD
Subject to Democratic Rules.
F OR SHERIF Tr-
JAMBS G. GIBBON,
TWRNTY-RISCOND WARD.
Subject to Democratic Rules. tioftant
FURS! FURS!! FURS!!! FURS!!!!
JOHN FAREIRA & 00 .
Importers, Manufacturers, and Dealers In
FANCY FURS,
FOR LADIES AND CHILDREN.
Raving manufeettieed an Immense Stock of FUSS,
With the expectation of doing . our usual business, the
present prosepre of the times, and comparative stagna
tion of trade, have loft as with an unusual amount of
Stock upon our shelves.
it le to moot this difficulty that we have now
DETERMINED
To close out our
ENTIRE STOCK
At Prices actually less than
TIME COST TO MANTIPACEURE !
We have also on band a le4 and complete assort
meat of
QiNTS! MRS,
CLOVES,
All of which will be sold at very
LOW 1 , 111088.
No. 818 MARKET 8t , bet. Eighth nod Ninth,
"ti019..8w South side
ORIGINAL EDITION OF CHARLES
KNIGHT'S PICTORIAL SUARSPEARE—IneIud-
Ieg the Doubtful plapt and Biography, and Illustrated
with very numerous Engravings on Wood in the high
eat style of art; forming Suds., imperial 8 co.
The subscribere hate. been, enabled to secure three
'copies Pr Ohl magnificent editlonof Bbakepeare, which
has long been exceedingly . scarce. Immediate applica
tion will be necessary to prevent disappointment in W
et/kink copies. i • 0. J. PRIOR &CO ,
, Importers of Mulish Books,
(102-y- No. 83 890th SIXTH St., above CIIEBTNUT.
,OFFICE OF THE LOCUST MOUNTAIN
COAL AND IRON CO.—Pnibioebrata, Dec 18,
;1867.—Yhe annual Meeting of, the Stochholders of title
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1857.
FRANCE, AS SEEN THROUGH FRENCH
JOURNALS BY LAST STEAMER.
The French papers of the last month are
before us. Their appearance recalls to our
memory our own newspapers of a dozen years
ago—the unbleached paper, so full of imper
fections, almost pepper and salt, with a mosaic
of rubbish for ground-plan, contrasts very
strikingly with the snowy whiteness of our
own journals. We have seen something like it
in this city, not many years ago, but the manu
facturer apologised to the indignant editor,
who had already apologised to his offended
patrons, by explaining that the heavy rains
had muddied his mill-stream. The freshet
took the blame, and as soon as the weather
got better the nuisance was abated.
Yrequent complaints are made against the
injuriously' small print of our dailies. This is
a fault that cannot be urged against Le Con
'sfitationitel or La Prose. The leading arti
cles are in very large type, and the grade
flops in size throughout the paper make a
very effective distinction in the different sec
tions of the sheet; but, unfortunately, the
hue of the paper nullifies, to a great extent,
this 'excellent' arrangement, by making the
whole dim and pale.
Both the papers that we have already men
tioned have a heavy dividing lino running
across the first page, separating tho bulletin
of the day, which stands above it, from the
feitillefon which is below. The latter is, as
the case may be, a tale, critique, or other
article, taking rank in style rather with our
magazine writing than that of our journals;
and they are rendered still more effective by
the real signature of their respective authors.
,When the length of the article requires it, the
same arrangement is carried over to the
second page, and, if need be, oven to the
third. Horizontal lines traversing the whole
breadth of the page are much in use in the
advertising derailment, and they have the
effect of distinguishing and exposing them
better than our method, but at a great ex
pense of space.
Another thing that strikes lie instantly is the
fact that all the leaders are signed, and in
many cases the correspondence, and even the
synopsis of current events and politics; thus
making the authors personally responsible for
their statements. This may have tho effect of
restricting the number of writers; it certainly
deprives the sheet of the popular look of our
anonymous columns, and it may deter ninny
from rushing into print, but it throes a charm
ing air of credibility over the paper which is
truly refreshing. An author in such circum
stances must carefully look beyond the pro
babilities to the possibilities ; lie must watch
how his feelings affect his facts. Our sys
tem is a capital exponent of our popular Go
vernment; it takes away the restraints upon
free speech, as the ballot insures free suffrage;
but it has its difficulties, for the desire of
startling surmises and astonishing 'statements
sometimes gives our papers some trouble in
their next issue to make a studied re-state
ment, a dignified buck-out, or a dashing dis
claimer.
The leaders on this account generally as
sume an essay-like style, and attain a smooth
ness of diction unusual to us ; and other parts
of the sheet are frequently devoted to articles
that would find their way with us to the
'Monthlies, or what we call distinctively lite
rary papers—criticisms on books and art, his
torical sketches, scientific research, and de
4criptions of places of interest, especially the
v)chaitY thetir_own_ndored _Paris.
Among the news of tho day every move
ment of the Emperor seems to be noted. He
must be a god-send to the penny-a-liners.
Our President and chief officers are bulletined
ad nauseam; but the royal family cannot make
a trip on the railroad without showers of com
pliments to their especial adornments, la
borious preparations, and momentous man
nerisms; the officials are greeted by royalty,
and graciously thanked for the ease and
rapidity of the journey, while military guards
flock around in crowds, tilling the air with
national music. French nature is a queer sort
of human nature—perhaps their Majesties like
it; but we are so much better satisfied with our
own manners, that we rather like VICTORIA for
avoiding as much as possible the Mat of a
royal progress.
' The leads of all true Frenchmen have been
delighted by a grand spectacle at Valence, on
the 15th of November. The occasion was the
grand distribution of the medal of St. Helena.
The Bishop of Valence addressed the con
course, and 1n a burst of eloquence rendered
homage to the Emperor for his solicitous care
for the veterans of the army:
Brave veterans of our grand armies," said
the prelate, "the Emperor has only good and
generous thoughts. Each day this is more evi
dent in everything that ho proposes or executes
for the well-being of his country. This is but
the justice that men of all classes and opinions
are compelled to reader to him. One of the
happiest and best of his inspirations is his
constant solicitude for the army, and he loves
With equal affection the brave soldiers of the
wars of the past and of the conflicts of the
present. The highest officer of this depart
ment, deputed by his Majesty, has this day be
stowed upon you the medals that now gleam
with honor upon your breasts. " • • •
Religion, too, cannot withdraw herself from
such a scene ; she delights in all that sheds
glory upon the name of our , nation, and after
blessing your valor upon the field of battle,
she hastens to bless the laurels that your valor
has won for you." These eloquent words were
answered with shouts; the veterans wept for
joy; the multitude cried aloud, " Vice VEnt
perettr ! Vice l'lmperatrice ! Vice le Prince
imprrtal P' while the whole city and country
celebrated the day as a grand festival.
La Prose contains a series of articles by A.
PHYRAT, contrasting with ability the position
of England and France, and frankly according
all the approbation deserved. A mere glimpse
of his happy style is all we can hope to give
in our condensation and free translation :
«England offers at this moment one of
those grand spectacles which aro the glory of
a free people. IV hatever opinion we may en
tertain of the affairs in India, or of the man
ner in which these affairs ara judged in London,
it is Impossible not to admire the public spirit
which gleams thrOughout Great Britain,making
every heart beat with the same pulsation. This
public spirit—a happy blending of national
pride and patriotism with an invincible devotion
to the interests and glory of their country—
spreads with equal force throughout all parties.
It bursts forth in public assemblies, in the jour
nals, in the complaints that rise against the
Government, and even in that project of re
form so inopportunely launched as a menace
against the ministry, sonic days before the
opening of the session. The liberty of the
press, < that torch without which all is dark
ness ;' the liberty of assembly and public dis
cussion, which are so essentially part of the
life of the people of England, has long given
them that perspicuity, and that rectitude of
intellect, which has always in the most critical
situations rectified, by the force of its own in
terests and rights, the movements of Its Go
vernment.
t‘ With us public spirit is not wanting, b
it has not the same character of consistency
and solidity. Created by the writers of the
eighteenth century, it burst throughout Franco
in 1789, and maintained itself through - many
years with a vivacity and ardor which insured
the triumph of the Revolution. Arrested in
Its march by the too frequent changes in the
administrations, it has been perverted in the
midst of intrigues ; it has become irregular,
intermittent; it has been subjected to all man.
nor of eclipses and aberrations. A people
often deceived, fall easily into indifference—
they fool a distaste, a disgust for public affairs,
and concentrate their attention on 'their per.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1857.
sonal interests. But this concentration iti'fot z
tunatoly a condition too unnatural to endure
Tho proof of this consoling truth atikel
at this moment overy observing man. Mb
movement, which for some years bas seemed
to draw our whole country into the follies-Of
speculation, is certainly not stopped, but, It
retarded. It is said that wealth has lost p4t
of her attractions for the hearts of her fawn-
Hes. Business falls and politics ride. Ti
reaction is only commencing, butit Is striking. ,
“Political, economic, philosophic tiutlyt
will spread through the masses, and a'poptila'
sentiment will arise, expanding and strength
ening as it mounts. It is to excite and tlitio
this sentiment that the journals should applx
themselies in their' Motion of briar]; Old
guide of the wants,• the interests, and the
ideas of the people. And for this purpose'ru
have called attention to England, wliqe
opinion, mingled and identified with the
general sentiment of material interests aibd
political rights, forms that public spirit, which'
exists in the masses, in tho parties, in the Crtil
vernment, as an essential element of the
tional life."
no Gazette de France takes exceptionlit
PEYRAT for insinuating that public opinion`
did not exist before the Revolution; but hO,
defends himself by saying that it received i
first impulse from the authors of the olOf!
teenth century, and growing and expandink)
through the Revolution and succeeding years,"
is but now worthy to bear the name. It ht.,
achieved a position, at length, which will ren
der a return to the ancient monarchy an /Ql'
possibility. Its results have not been 114
most brilliant, but they are the most sure. If
was the want of a mutual understanding that
kept the land so long enslaved; the populace'
of Lyons knew not, the sentiment of that , o
Paris. The same feeling was beating in their,
hearts, but no community of thought made"
them aware of it. When the moment of re
velation (lid come, France rose,' from Lille to
Bayonne, from Brest to Strasburg, and the,
Revolution was achieved. ' `,,
L'Univers, in a notice of these articles, de- ,
mends of the author the grounds on which he
asserts that the Franco of 1857 is greater than
the France previous to 1789. A. PEYRAT 11.4=
swers by an admirable sketch of its advance
in science and art, summing up his argument
with these words, "It is not lightly, then, that
.we say that the Revolution has given to Franco_
more happiness, more dignity, and moro moral
grandeur. It has sustained her honor as gloriv
ously as her rights and her independence."
L'Univers also says that the greatness of Eng
land dates from the French Revolution. This
is disputed by M. P.synnr, who wields his pen
right valiantly in defence of Cromwell, "who
created the maritime and commercial system
of his country, and who, by the navigation act,
gave to the commercial and maritime industry
of England the impulse, the direction, and the
monopoly which has made the prosperity of
Great Britain."
La Prose of 21st November makes men:
tion of a recent address of Sir ROBERT PHEL'S,
in which ho took occasion to criticise a speech
of Lord PALMERSTON'S, and to make a savage
attack upon Lord CANNING. It goes on to say:
" Following his custom, he essayed to make
his auditors laugh by putting pleasantries in
the place of reason. Sir ROBERT PEEL has
long sought to take position as a man of wit,
who considers questions on their humorous
side; but to fill such a part it Is necessary to
possess the talent, the eloquence, or the power
of an O'CONNELL, a Many, a PALBERSTON, or
a DISRAELI. This talent and this power arc
entirely wanting in Sir ROBERT PEEN and he'
furnishes another proof Or the difficulty of
maintaining a great name."
The same paper contains an announcement
which we were glad to see—the Municipal
Council of Montpelier has established a course'
pf kipteres on.Politieal epeor
ample, says La Prose, should be followed by
other cities. The State has boon indifferent
to the demand that this science should form
part of 'the programme in all official training,
and it is, therefore, the duty of cities to or
ganize such classes for themselves.
In our own country an Old Mortality "
sort of taste is now reviving the yellow pages
of the Elizabethan authors, and displacing the
yellow-covered literature from the fresh springs
of a well watered region. The French, too,
regmdful of old names," have lately placed
upon a house in Versailles a marble tablet
with this inscription :
Jean do ha Breyer°,
frlond of the Princes of Conde,
wrote his book of " chat arrow."
We know not the pleoe of his birth
but he lived long
where ho gave his thoughts to mon
and rendered his soul to God,
May 11th, 1695.
It seems to us that the United States gene
rally, and Pennsylvania particularly, have been
leaving the dust to settle something too deep
upon the memories of their early laborers in
classic and connmtnal literature, A people
who fail to treasure their national traditions do
not deserve a history.
Fearless Champions of the Majority Rule.
[From tho Waynemburg Democrat, organ of the Demo
(Tata of Greene county, Fa ]
With undiminished regard for the patriotism and
wisdom of President Buchanan, however, we can
not help thinking with Governor Walker, Judge
Douglas, and othersof the ablest and wisest states
men of the nation, that the people of each State
possess an inherent right, and should have the op
portunity, of passing upon all the provisions of the
fundamental law by which they nro to be governed.
This we believed to be the true intent and mean
ing of the Kansas Nebraska bill, and it wart upon
this view of that measure, in our opinion, that the
Democracy of the North achieved the glorious vie
tory of 1856. We feel bound, therefore, to stand
by the construction given to the Kansas-Nebratika
bill in the last Presidential campaign, and to in
sist that the whole Constitution of every proposed
now Stabs should be sanctified by the popular ap
proval of those who aro to live tinder and be Af•
footed by it, before it should receive the sanction
of Congress. It is quite evident, too, from tho
tono o the President's message on this point, that
he is of the seine opinion as regards all future
States, and that such was his understanding in re
gard to Kansas, at the time when his instructions
wore given to Governor Walker. It is a signifi
cant foot, also, that the President dean not oven
recommend the admission of Kansas as A State
under the Lecomplon Constitution, bitt loaves that
question to be decided as the wisdom of Congress
may deem best,
'from the Bloomsburg Democrat, organ of Democrats
of gallant "Little lorry.")
The Kansas question has long boon agitating the
publio mind. The friends of law and order, ponce
end tranquillity, in every port of the country, are
anxious to have it speedily settled by the admis
sion of this Territory into the Union ns a State.
hut thin consummation, so devoutly wished, must
be brought about fairly, honorably, and in strict
accordance with the principle that the voice of
the majority of the people of Kansas must rule, if
that expression of opinion does not conflict with
any of the provisions of thO Constitution of the
United States. It will not do to attempt to force
that people to accept a Constitution they do not
want, or the provisions of which they do not
know. Whore the bona file voters of a Territory
demand the submission of a Constitution—not a
part, but the whole of it--for .their approval or
rejection, in justice, the right to record their
judgment cannot and should not be denied them.
If they see fit to waive that right, and agree to
abide by the decision of tho Convention to whom
was intrustod the framing and adoption of the in
strument which is to be the basis of their laws, it
is their own affair, and calls for no interference on
the part of others.
Prom the conflicting reports current, we are un
able to say whether the peoplo ol Kansas are sans•
fled with the submission of the single clause de
termining the question of slavery, or otheriviso.
If they are not, then the Constitution nn framed
should, in our humbleopinion, be submitted bodily
for their adoption or rejection.
The murder of Mrs. Garber and Mrs. beam,
in Lancaster county, Pa., has given rise to intense
excitement there. The Express of Thursday even•
ing says : The funeral of Mrs. Garber and Mrs,
Lenin took piece this morning at ten o'clock. The
remains were interred in a graveyard near ]tinsel,
on the Litiz turnpike, about four miles from the
house. The train of carriages and horsetnen was
probably the largest ever soon in the county : over
four hundred carriages alone wore in the prooes•
slon, and notwithstanding the solemnity of the
occasion the excitement of the people, through fear
that the guilty might escape the punishment ro
justly due them Is said to have boon terrible in
the extreme, and it is expected that not less than
a thousand people from the surrounding country
will bo in town on Saturday to attend at the hear
lug of the prisoners. The feeling of indignation
isintense, and threats aro foely made that the
prisoners will not be allowed to return to the pris
on alive. We trust, however, that no unlawful
aot will ho attempted, and that the second sober
thought " will prevailagainst any violence.. The
two nogroes under arrest have been fully identi
fied on two mon who were seen to enter the house
of the unfortunate victim!.
CORRESPONDENCE.
LETTER FROM CHINA.;
fOorreTondence of The Presz
Snaxnnaf, October 80, 1857
The mail loaves to•morron, and I take the
liberty to send you a line in reference to affairs in
this part of the world.
Since the sudden declaration of the blockade of
the Canton river by the English Admiral, a blow,
specially aimed at American interests, all warlike
demonstrations against the Chinese are at a stand'
still; all the troops intended fur operations here
basing boon ordered to India, where, at the lest
accounts, the rebellion was not only unchecked but
spreading. This defection of the &Toys has pro
duced a most profound sensation.
It is regarded as the most serious blow ever aimed
at British power in India, and unless speedily ar
rested may terminate in the utter oubversion of
the Anglo-Indian Empire.
Lord Elgin, who had but recently arrived in
China, left very hurriedly in the steam frigate
Shannon for Calcutta, and, notwithstanding his
own statements to the contrary, the impression is
very general with the British officials that he will
not reborn ; that he will relieve Lord Canning as
Governer-General of India, in which case, it is
said the post of Ambassador to China will devolve
an Lord Elgin's brother, the lion. Mr. Bruce.
Mr. Bruce was in China name years ego, and, at
the time of joining the mission, was ConsubGene
yel toEgypt. •Ife is not regarded as a loan of ex
, iraerdinary elevornesa.
' I have given the popular rumor—my own
opinion is ' 'that Lord Elgin, finding the condition of
affairs in China somery different from what ha was
led. to wee tylous been glad of en excuse to with.
driyareven temporarily from the annoyances of an
i.'iWseeilitiori with officials whose imbecility or die
. ascot ybe tould'iot abut hts eyes to. The oaten
',Ode object of his visit to Calcutta is to prochre
Troop', and, whether he MA:COILS or not, I have no
I . .ioUbt ho Will-return in time fur the arrival of our
ossininissioner.
The events which are now transpiring in the
'East are worthy the profound attention of the peo•
pleb(' the West, and especially the Government
of the United States. With an adroitness
( worthy her polioy, England, by fostering ir
,ritations in the West, has managed to with.
~, b servation from the boldness of her designs, and
the magnitude of her conquests in the East, until
;from the cape of Good Hope to the coast of China
Ater virtual dominion over almost every inch of
territory worth possessing is almost perfect; and
she now seeks to establish the same control over
:the trade and commerce of this old empire that she
"has long exercised in Hindustan and Burmah.
se , Hae not the time arrived when this aggressive
..aplrit should be rebuked, and the rights of power
'Caned? and if the weak and feeble can present
no barrier to its exercise, is it not incumbent on
Anse nations and peoples who recognise the obliga
tions of truth and juetice, and who have a common
,
' _lnterest, to interpose at least their moral Influence
!,)n opposition to violence and wrong?
The present war upon the Chinese I regard no
Ore most iniquitous on record—selfish, mean, and
shove and worse than .11, hypooritioal—ostensi-
My to enlarge the field of commercial enter
;prise, to advance the cause of civilization
and Christianity, really and practically to
fender to the worst passions of humanity, and by
orce, and fraud, and crime, and blood, to force
:destruction upon a feeble people. They that sow
t the wind shall reap the whirlwind. There is no
'doubt but what this war upon the Chinese has pro.
elpitated the uprising in India ; and the English,
',Ter their cruelties and butcheries hero, are reaping
St retribution ns fearful as unexpected elsewhere.
•
The arrival of Mr. Rood is looked for with groat
Interest, and from the position of affairs I am San
guine that ho Will be able to do good. Notwith•
.atanding our unfortunate attack upon the Chinese,
9M:destruction of their lives'and property, and the
lowerfut efforts made by interested parties to im•
pros them with the idea that in this war wo stand
Sshoulder to +Moulder with the English, the Chi
nese have never fully believed it.
• , They have a high opinion not only of our nom
'Mon sense, but our sense of national honor and
justice. and regard the hostile nets of the Aineri•
•eari officials as their own per so. The very prompt
relnoval of Dr. Parker has given strong confirms
then to tins belief, and bee tended to prepare the
way for the new minister to make an impression,
exercise an influence, and necomplish a work
which I ant sure will reflect honor upon himself
Mid the country.
'Coming, as Mr. Reed does, to replace a man
'whose strong Anglican sympathies and consequent
'arrogant bearing lied rendered him peculiarly ob
annxleue. personally and officially, to the Chinese,
they will ho disposed to receive him with courtesy
and kindnese; and the English, I tint sure, in the
present condition of their affairs, willpay respect
140 opinions if they do nut avail of his services
tolettle pending dillieul ties.
~To toy mind, It is clear as a eunbeam that sound
tic Oily, not less Ginn the dictates of justice and
Isom requires that the United States should (Ito
'emelt:nonce the attempts of t ho English to conquer
of anatuninber China. The idea of ouch %purpose
11, 4 , X" seem ,startling, but it is nevertheless true.
Tll,o3ritialt minister may rise in Parliament and
arrrinlyrltisavow
..all such designs—they have done
t i
s s : ils. s y r - 4 l,...sts hsmaesta yew.- —and whiz
Is oelaratiou warm upon their lips, they have
never, for a moment, relaxed in their efforts of
aggrandizement, until by force and fraud they
have acquired dominion over one.sixth of the
popnlation of the globe, with even a larger pro
portion of its wealth and influence.
'llse great pretext by which the English meek to 1
oxen the sympathies of the Western nations in
favorer their aggrintlizing policy in the East, is
the cry of Russian influenee and Russian onoroneh
mente This is partially the truth, Russia by her
innate mobility is eteadily flanking the Anglo-In
dian empire, end England apprehends that she
may be called upon to disgorge a portion of her
ill.gotton plunder, but the whole truth embraces
the apprehensions of the rapid growth of Ameri
can Whom, the peaceful but steady extension
of American power.
To England, with all her pomp and pride and
arrogance, the United States is "Mordecai sitting
in the Hieg's gate."
Though but a stripling in years, awl without
those material elements, an overpowering naval i
and military force, by which the strength of
nations is too often estimated, the British states
men are not deceived; they have a right appre
ciation of our present resources and future destiny.
They know that, with our vast and highly-favored
territory, extending front ocean to ocean ; coursed
by our great rivers from the frozen North to the
sunny Smith; teeming with the products of every
clime,—vre are a world within ourselves : and, be
sides controlling that great staple, which, as an eta
want of emuniereinl and political power, is oo potent,
and alarming to England; in the bravo hearts and
atrong armor our hardy, thrifty, intelligent popula
tion,devolored and educated under our republican
institutions '
they see us already entitled to stand
in the front rank of nations ; and in a few years,
if faithful to our high mission, true to our inherit
ance and ourselves, it is our inevitable destiny
to oocupy a position and possess a
. power, material
and moral, which will justify us in asserting the
oapremaoy of right and the obligations of human-
ity, whether in the Orient or Occident.
Very great efforts are made to produce the im
pression in the United States that in this war upon
China no pilitleal question is involved. It is either
apolitical war or It is a war of plunder. It cannot
be to advance the Interests of civilizations and
Christianity, for the representatives of these inte
rests are ns free to roam throughout the flowery
hind as in tho highways and byways of our own
free country. It cannot be for the freedom of cony
raeree, for where is commerce more free and entrain
recited ? With the exception of opium, all articles of
foreign growth and manufacture are admitted, and
at a duty of live per cent.: and 1113 to the products
of this empire, the fullest domande are always mot.
With no part of the world has foreign trade in
creased so rapidly. It le but a few years since the
United States took twenty millions poende of tea,
and England forty millions—the former now
tykes forty, and the latter about seventy mil
lions. But n very few years ago, there was
exported 'from China to Europe and America
nov silk to tho value of a million end a half tit
dollars. The year just closed, in consequence of
tho failure of the crop in Europe, has witnessed
en capon tation of forty zillions and more, abiding
a mill. The extension of the commute! area is
senrcely a decent subterfuge. It is, in plain
English, an unmitigated falsehood. Upon the
products of China tho English Government levy a
duty of from OM to two hundred per cent., and
upon tea alone collect a revenue of twenty mil
lions of dollars, and yet have the shamelessness to
ask that even the present low rates of duties upon
!heir exports shall be reduced.
Upon the very opium which is forces! upon the
Vhineso, the British authorities realize a profit of
nearly If not quite two hundred per cont. before it
loaves India. Tho production of this drug is a
flovernment menepoly, and the poor ryots, the
Indian laborers, by whose labor it is produced,
ran only tinder the most frightful penalties dis
pose of It to the Government. The Government
gives to the ryot about ono hundred and roventy
live dollars per finest, and, being the solo possessor,
101 l it for their own price, which averages about
four hundred and fifty dollars peril chest, realizing
Is net gain, on the total annual production, of
Inbout twenty millions of dollars.
A largo portion of this sum is wrung from the
toil and sweat of the Indian, whose returns
&largely suffice to keep soul and body together.
The balance Is borne by the Chinese, among whom
It is introduced under the active patronage of the
British authorities, in opposition to the most
positive and stringent laws. These laws, I am
sorry to any, ere now but feebly enforced.
For many years the Mandarins, the hepa
rin! officers, struggled bard to perform their
duty and roll hank the destroyer of their
people; but the smuggler, covered by the British
Slag, and protected by British force, sets all law
at defiance The most notorious seizures have been
made the occasion of heavy damages and some
time requiring an oblation of blood. The Chinese,
unable to withstand such force, and their efforts to
perform their duty being visited with terrible
ven g eance, can now only maim at nominal opposi
tionto the open violation of their laws, +lnd thus
we see this vile body anti soul-destroying poison,
g a thered by the British Government from its un
requited slaves in India, is by the might of British
powder and hall foreedupon the hard-working un
war•like people of Chinn.
Ills Excellency Admiral Count Pontintrine, of the
'Butane navy, and Russian Minister to Chinn, ar
rived here about a week ago from Nagasaki in
Japan. He brings the important intelligence that
the Japanese are about to change their policy
with regard to foreign trade and intercourse and
think of sendingsome of their high dignitaries to
visit those natives with whom they have formed
treaties. The Governor of Nagasaki was desirous
that the Admiral shards! remain a fans days, as he
was in hourly expectation of receiving frumJeddo
the offieffildeolaration upon the subject; but the Ad
miral was anxious to reach this port in time for the
overland mail by which ho sends ono of hi s offi
cers as a bearer of despatches to St. Petersburg.
The Admiral sails for Nagasaki today. Ile will
return in about a wook, and wo will then proba
bly _ know the result.
From Admiral Pontintrine I learn that the
general impression which exists of the Rue- '
shins having an embassy at Pekin is not
so. Tho Greek church under the patron
age of Russia have there a college the same
as Jesuits, the representatives of the Western
church, have or had, but Russia has no diplomatic
agents residing there. Admiral P. is empowered
to negotiate peaceably In reference to this subject.
Some weeks ago ha called off Pekin, and sent his
communications on shore; he has not yet been able
to return for an answer.
. .
I will write you again soon. Meanwhile, nun
truly yours. J. 0. B.
SPEECH OF HOPI S Si COX, OF 01110,
In Congress, Dee. 17.
EXTRACT.]
Fifth. I hold, lastly, that that Constitution is
not republican in form ; becauae, in the fourteenth
section of the schedule, it prohibits—ay, that is
the effect—an amendment, alteration, or change
until after 1861. It is utterly idle to say it meant
to provide for alteration, amendment, and change
meanwhile, nd ltditttm When a Constitution
provide:a 11 mode anti time to amend, all other ways
and times are excluded. After implying nochange
till 1861, then it proceeds to hamper the " perfect
ly free" action of thp people of 1861, by requiring
two-thirds of the Legislature to concur, before they
will allow a majority of the people to call for an
amendment. And, as if to clinch the whole of this
absurdity with another more glaring, it provided
that even then " no alteration shall be made to
affect the rights of property in the ownership of
slaves:"
Now, I do not seek to intervene in domestic
affairs, when I declare that, whatever may be the
Precedents in this respect, I will never vote for a
State to come in under,such impossible, absurd,
and tyrannical conditions. Congress guaranties a
republican form ; and this Constitution fetters every'
limb of that form.
" But," It is said," these conditions are void.
The State may turn around to-morrow and ills
'curd them all." So it 'inay. Now York did; so
did Louisiana But it was revolution. We have
no right to force people into revolution against the
established order. It may net be that revolution
which, like a tempest, overturns the public au
thority by "wild sword law", or popular frenzy,
It is not that inimitable thunder which aroused
America' in 1775, France in 17E37, or England in
1.1130. It is rather like a machine, which, having
a principle of compensation, corrects irregulari
ties without breaking the machine or retarding
its motion. Still, it is revolution; whether it be
a perilous ono or not, tt is the only way to get rid
of the 'restrietione plimeil on the popular will by
this Constitution. To those who say the State
may, after admission, alter the Constitution at
once, before 1864, I ask this question : IVere the
delegates in earnest when they forbade amend
ment till Mt ? If so, they will attempt to carry
out their ideas; and, in doing so, they must resist
innovation. If they resist, there can bo no assu
rance of a peaceful, harmless revolution. Those
who attempt to, amend provoke resistance; and
they who vote for this Constitution must resist that
resistance. 'Tho consequences must be revolution
and civil war. If the delegates worn not in ear
nest in prohibiting amendment till 1881. what a
monkery in us to approve of such wind work, cope
°tally when bloody work must or May follow. The
tracks of blood over follow the wrong-doer, and fol
low hint to the bitter, bitter end.
This Constitution is triad°, in most respects, ir
revocable until after 1801. Tho machinery for
amendment begins to run then. Still it is an irre
vocable IMY and it is not only absurd, impossible,
tyrannical, but anti-Demouratio. Democracy, as
taught in Ohio, believes in the repeatability of
everything by the popular voice. 51y State has
no power to-day to tax certain banks, because the
Supreme Court of the United States, under the
plea of "vented rights," has taken away our so
vereignty in that respect. •' Governments," said
Berko, " without the means of change, are with
out the means of their own conservation." Who,
that remembers the scorching logio of Jeremy Ben
tham and Sydney Smith, on the ' , fallacy of an
irrevocable law," can fail to feel the utter still-
Imes of those who propose to bird down the free
men of Kansas for ten years in most respects, and
in one respect forever. I refer to Bentham, vol.
2. page 402 ; and to Sydney Smith, VOL 2, page
lot.
"A law," says Mr Bentham, (no matter to
what effect,) "is proposed to a legislative assein
bly, who are called upon to reject it, on the single
ground that, by those who, in some former period,
exercised the same power, e regulation was made
having for its object to preclude forever, or to the
end of the unexpired period, all succeeding legisla•
tore from enacting a law to any such effect its that
now proposed."
Now, it appears quite evident that, at every pe
riod of time, every Legislature most be endowed
with all those powers which the exigence of the
time.; may require; 01111 tiny attempt to infringe on
-this power ja mndmissible /11111 absuid. The Bove
reign power, at any one' period. can only form a
blind guess at the measures which may be neces
sary fur any future period. but by this principle of
irrevocable laws, the Government is transferred
from those who aro necessarily the best judges of
what they want, to others who can know little or
nothing about the matter.
If it be right that the conduct of the nineteenth
century should be determined, not by Its own
judgment, Why that of the eighteenth, it will be
equally right that the conduct of the twentieth
'bilirtirry - ehookt be deterininedt,met by its 0,111 - ads.
ment, but by that of the nineteenth. And if the
8111110 principle wore still pursued, what, at length,
would be the consequence ? That in process of
time the practice of legislation would bo at an end.
The conduct and fate of all men would be deter
mined by thin-a who never know nor cared any
thing about the matter ; and the aggregate body
of the living would remain forever in subjeetion
to an Inexorable tyranny, exercised as, it were by
the aggregate body of the dead !
"The despotism," no Mr Bentham wall ob
serves "of Nero or Caligula would be more toler
able than an irierorable law. The despot, through
fear or favor, or in a lucid interval, might relent;
but how are the Parliament who made the Scotch
union, for example, to bo awakened from that
dust in which they repose—the jobber and the
patriot, the Speaker and the doorkeeper, the silent
totem and the men of rich allusions—Cannings
and cultivators, Borings and beggars—making
irrevocable laws for men who toss their remains
about with spades, and use the relies et these le
gislatois to give breadth to broccoli, and to aid the
vernal eruption of asparagus?"
Long after Calhoun and his confederates shall
have mouldered and have been forgotten, the men
of Kansas will look track with pity and contempt on
this futile andfoolish attempt to hind them by the
decrees of 18,17. The men of not the own
of IBsS—will laugh to scorn this attempt. The
border States of this country are not the places for
such despotic experiments.
"If the law be good," says Bentham, "it will
support itself; if bad, it should not be eapported
by the trreroealle theor y, which is never resorted
to but /Is the veil of abuses. All living men must
possess the supreme power over their own happi
ness at every particular period. To suppose that
there is anything which a whole nation cannot do,
which they deem to be essential to their happi
ness, and that they cannot do it, because another
generation, long ago dead and gone, said it must
be done, is mere nonsense. While you are captain
of the vessel, do what you please, but you cannot
leave use commands ; though, in foot, this is the
only meaning which can be applied to what are
called irrevocable laws. It appeared to the Le
gislature for the time being to be of immense im
portance to make such and such a law Great
good was gained, or great evil avoided, by enact
ing it. Pause before you alter an institution
wide!' has been deemed to be of so much import
ance. This is prudence and common ranee; the
rest is the exaggeration of fools, or the artifice of
knaves, who eat up fools.
Mr.tertotis Murder near New Haven, coml.
The New York papers of Friday evening con
tain the following interesting despatch from New
Haven, Conn.:
It will be remembered that last winter, a boy,
named Charles E. Sage, about nineteen years of
age, was missing from his home in Cornwall,
near .Middletown, in this State; and that an Irish
man named Patrick Nugent was arrested on a
charge of murdering the Ind, and putting his
body under the ice in the Connecticut river.
' In a few months afterward a body wpe found in
the river without a bead. This body was believed
to bo that of the missing boy, front several marks
upon It, as well as front a portion of the clothing
Soon afterwards, the lining of an overcoat was
found answering the description of that worn by
the missing person.
Sonic months elapsed, when a sailor named Ben
son came to Cornwall. and directly charged Nu.
gent, the Irishman, with the murder. He said
he saw the deed done, and assisted Nugent in put
ting the corpse under a haymow. lie described
accurately the lad's appearance—his dress, the
color of his hair, eta., and declared that ho had
not had any peace of mind since the murder, and
that he had come to Cornwall expressly to divulge
all ho knew about it. He confronted Nugent aid
charged the deed upon him. Tho accused denied
it, but trembled from head to foot.
A grand jury found a true bill against Nugent,
whose time of trial was fixed for the present month.
Thus mnftent have rooted until within a few
weeks, when the cousin of the missing boy, living
in Ithica, N. Y., received an anonymous letter
front the interior of Pennsylvania, which ho show
ed to his father, RMr Williams. The letter was
answered, when another letter woe received from
Pennsylvania, tsigned William Russell, which Mr.
Williams himself answered. He at the same time
addressed the postmaster, requesting him to watch
for the person who called for the letter, and de•
scribe him. The postmaster did 80, when Mr.
Williams immediately left Mika for Pennsylva
nia, Mond Russell, whom he discovered to be his
nephew, Cherubs B. Sage, the (dotard Missing
boy
A special court is held at Haddam to-clay, when
Nugent will bo liberated. The ease is involved in
the deepest mystery. No ono can assign any rea
son for the perjury of the sailer who swore that he
cam the murder cosamitted, and there is no infor
mation to Rad to the identity of the body that
was found mid buried as t h at of the boy Rage
The annals of crime do not afford a more extra
ordinal), case than this.
New HAVES, Mee IS --John A Benson, the
sailor who testified that he saw the murder of
Charles B Sage, of Cornwall, bast been arrested
on a charge of perjury, with intent to take life,
and has acknowledged his guilt. The °rime will
send him to the State Prison for life. There aro
mother developments.
A letter front a soldier of the Gth Carbineers
says: " For a description of the riches of Delhi
my pen is inadequate. Cashmere shawls, inlaid
with gold, bodices covered with gold, bars of gold,
beds of silk wail down, such as no nobleman's
house in England could produce—you would see
Sikhs carrying out of Delhi the first day, as if they
wero almost nothing ; a shawl which in England
would fetch £lOO, they wore selling at four rupees,
and you may depend our fellows wore not behind
them. It is supposed the Rides will go to England
with upwards of 11,000 each, though Gen. Wilson
has issued an eider that the prizes shall be all put
together and divided. Most of our men are worth
upwards of 100 rupees."
TWO CENI S.
DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING AT TILE
CITY HALL, DETROIT.
rFroul the Detroit Free Prig j
PASS/wit OP RESOLUTIONS .11,x-lariniuxo THE
GREAT DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE OF POPULAR
SOvER EIGNEY—RESPONPINO TO THE SPEECH
SENATOR DOITOLAS—EXPREBSINO CONFIDENCE
IN PRESIDENT RuciTANAN—AND RECOMMENDING
A STATE CONVENTION.
Pursuant to call a meeting of the Democracy
convened at the City Hall last evening, for the
purpose of re-affirming the groat doctrine of popu
lar sovereignty, and taking steps towards a State
Convention of the Democracy, to be held at an
early day, foi the purpose of a thorough organiza
tion of the party. The City Hall was filled at an
early hbur, and the meeting was organized by the
appointment of Alderman Dyson chairman, and
P. S. Allison secretary.
Mr. Charles W. Chapel moved that the chair
appoint a committee of five to draft resolutions
expressive of ho semet'of the meeting, and report
accordingly.
The chair appointed the Collecting gentlemen
Nei committee : Messrs. Charles W. Chapel, Y.
Logan Chipman, George V. N. Lothrop, S. Dow
Elwood, and Th,!mas McEntee.
The o'm:emit toe retired, cud after a short absence
returned end reported, by their chairman, Mr.
Chapel, the following resolutions, which were read
by the clerk :
Resolved, That the Democracy of the city of
Detroit will in no wise depart from, but will reso
lutely and Immovably adhere to, the doctrine of
popular sovereignty enunciated by the Kansas-
Nebraska act.
Re301t.04, That the true intent and moaning of
that bill was, to leave the potpie of Kansas and
Nebraska perfectly free to form and regulate their
domestic institutions in' their own War subject
only to the Constitution of the United Stater.:
Resolved, That the domestic institutions of a
political community about to enter the Union as a
State embrace not only the -question of slavery,
but the executive, legislative, and judicial de
partments of the Government, the finance, taxa
tion, and education of the people, and all other
things relating to their local government.
Resolved, That the speech of Stepben'A. Doug
las. delivered in the Senate of. the United
Stites on the oth day of December instant, is a
clear, conclusive, and unassailable exposition of
the doctrine of popular sovereignty as enunciated
by the Kansas-Nebraska act; and that the De
mocracy of the city of Detroit tender to*Stephen
A. Douglas, their thanks for the promptness with
which he has pronounced this exposition.
Rego/ved, That we have unabated confidence in
the integrity of James Buchanan; that we ap
prove and admire every act of his Administration
thus far save his interpretation, in his late mes
sage. of the popular sovereignty clause of the Kan
sas-Nebraska act; and that we have no other ex
pectation than that the future course of his Ad
ministration will be such as all good Democrats can
applaud and none condemn.
Retailed, That In the opinion of this meeting it
is desirable that a State convention of the Demo
cracy of this State be held at an early day,, to
take measures for the more thorough organization
of the Democratic party; and that, to that end,
the President of this meeting is requested to ap
point a committee of ton persons, who shall hare
authority to call such couvention at a suitable
time and place
Speeches followed by Messrs. G. V. N. Lotbrop,
Cornelius O'Flynn, Charles W. Chapel, Elijah
Hawley, 11. A. Morrow, A. Smith Bagg, and
others. The meeting held until a late hour, which
rendered it impossible for us to report the speeches
in time for this morning's issue.
The previous question being finally demanded.
and the demand being sustained by a division of
the house, the chair put the motion on the adop.
lion of the resolutions. The resolutions were
adopted by a decisive vote. The meeting then
adjourned.
More Lynch Law in lowa—Hanging of a Horse
It appears that the "Regulators" have again
been at work in Cedar county, lowa. among sus
pected horse thieves The Davenport Gazette of
the 12th instant says:
Last week a young thief was arrested in Cedar
county, and the Regulators became cons incest that
he was connected with a band of horse thieves, and
could give, if he would, some valuable informa
tion. Ho was threatened with immediate e:e•
cation if he did not make a confession, Ile refused
to confess anything about his companlow, etc., and
was swung up. Ile was let down gasping, but re•
fusing to make any confession was again drawn
up. On his feet again, the same demand was
made of hint the third time, and, as he had every
reason to believe, the last time. Again he sues
pulled up into tho air, and hung dangling to a
slender cord, null again ho was let down. Finally,
recovering his breath. he told them coolly they
" must bo d—d fools" to try to get him to tell
anything by that kind of process. Ile was then
tied up and thoroughly switched. After this
operation had continued some time the young fel
low concluded to confess. Ile told bia persecu
tors, among other things, that Hiram Roberts was
to meet another thief, named Quilbaug at a cer
tain house, each with a stolen horse, to be taken
from different parts of the country, and from par
ticular stables.
The committee at once took steps for the capture
of Rebuts by Qom:mating several .mop in the eta- .
ble ; but auspeettng a:mottling; he did not go in.
Be was followed to the house of Big John Ran.
lin," a friend of these rogues, where he wan after
wards captured. He refused to make any confes
sion, but acknowledged the justice of the regula
tors' action. He was then taken into a barn and
tightly bound. Two men with blacked faces 011110
into the room. and they were left alone with the
thief, every other man of the committee withdraw
ing. In a few minutes the doors of the barn were
opened, and the thief and counterfeiter was dis
covered banging by the neck from the rafters.
The execution occurred on the road between Wal
nut and Red Oak groves, on Friday night, Dec.
4th. The body was allowed to hang two days.
Thus has Roberts at last paid the penalty of his
prim ca.
At York, Pa., on Wednesday evening, the
dress of a girl named Henrietta Mate, aged fifteen
or sixteen years, took fire from the explosion of a
fluid lamp, in the house of Annie Budd. She
managed to get out of the house, on the pavement,
when the air increased the flames, which illumi
nated the street, causing an alarm of fire. The
Pen nx ylranian says: "Mr. George Ropp and
other gentlemen ran to rescue the suffering girl,
who was being consumed rapidly. They tore the
remaining clothing from her body, when a horrible,
heart-sickening sight was presented. From her
knees to her head her flesh was completely black,
and full of blisters. Much of her head has been
burned bare of hair, while her face and eyes are
so blistered or swollen that she cannot see, and her
tongue protrudes from her mouth. In leaving the
house she passed through four doors, brushing past
a cradle in which slept a child, whose eyebrows,
etc., were singed. In feeling for the front door,
the girl's fingers came in contact with the wall,
and the finger-marks were plainly discernible.
On the pavement she sprung at a lady, the flame ,
reaching far above her head,exclaiming, "My God,
help inc ," It is no exaggeration to say that some
of the flesh on thepoor victim's body was roasted
black. About half-past eleven o'clock Thursday
evening, thirty hours after the accident, she
died
Capt. Townsend, of the schooner Cortez,
which arrived at Now York on Friday. from Oa
boon, Africa, makes the following report with re
ference to the seizure of that vessel on suspicion of
being engaged in the slave trade: Oct. 3, at 2
P. 31 was boarded (from three boats) by about 73
armed men froth a frigate, said to be the United
States skip Cumberland. After getting en board
they broke out all the cargo, and broke open the
captain's writing-desk, and finding the papers,
sent them to the frigate : the officer left in charge
of the Cortez then commenced breaking open all
the stores in the store room, and apparently doing
all the harm he was able to do. The papers were
returned in about 13 or 20 minutes, they having
been shown to the commanding officer of the fri
gate. During the search no discretion was used,
for the stove, the water casks, provision barrel,
A:O., wore thrown about, and they left the vessel in
a most outrageous manner. Tho ship displayed
the British 11 ig during all the proceeding, nor
was any other flag seen until the boats were
alongside, and some of the mon on board with
drawn sabres.
nc-sha-ro, (which, rendered into
English, is man-chief,) cloven inferior chiefs, and
four bravos of the Pawnees, reached St. Louis on
Thursday, says the Democrat, on their way to
Washington, to see to the ratification of the treaty
lately submitted for the consideration of parties
most concerned. Mr. Wm. H. Dennison, their
agent, and Mr. Samuel Allis, interpreter, are
with them, having accomp.inied them from the
place where they wore located—forty miles west of
Omaha, Nebraska Territory. They made the
journey with wagons and four-horse teams to St.
Joseph, and from thence to the Hannibal and St
Jo.mph railroad, which took them to Hannibal,
where they embarked on the steamer. The reads
proved so bad in many places that they were
obliged to alight frequently and assist the animals
in dragAing the wagon through the mire The
chiefs and braves are accoutered ns befitteth the
Indian warrior, each having his tomahawk con
stantly in hand. They evidently seem to think,
also, that tho business they aro on calls for an
extra consumption of ochre and other coloring mat
ter. They aro a good-looking set of fellows.
A New Hampshire jouinal gives the parti
culars of the death of a young lady, named Helen
AI Kittredge, of vigorous physiont powers, at Nel
son, N. II , under somewhat singular circum
stances On Tuesday, the Gth inst., she exhibited
Nome symptoms of the typhoid fever, then preva
lent in the family. Some one proposed as a retncdy
what is familiarly termed a'• rum sweat." This
her anxiotut and affectionate mother attempted to
administer. After being for a moment surrounded
by the ascending hot air, ohs gore signs at suffer
ing ; bite called to her brother who stood near, for
aid, upon whose area her head fell, inn manner
indicating that her life scm departing She coca
placed upon the bed, and an exclamation of ag ony,
front the almost frantic mother followed Her
idolized child—her beautiful Ilelen—was dead'
Alcohol hod been used, and too much of it, the
nervous system of the sufferer seethe to h ave b ee ,
completely overpowered, and her whole holy was
dreadfully burned.
The Easton (Pd.) Eapress, of Friday last,
says that a fire broke out about threeo'olock in the
morning, in tho coach manufactory of Mr J. Al.
bright, on Fourth street, which ended only with
the entire desttuotion of the whole establishment,
together with all the material and all the work,
with the exception of some carriages on the first
floor of the front buildi❑g These, worth, we aro
told by Mr. Albright, about a thousand dollars,
were taken out uninjured, whilst all the unfinished
work on the second floor, the tool+ or the hoods,
Ito do., perished in the flames. The loss. of Mr.
Albright is somewhere in the neighborhood of six
thousand dollars, about two thousand of whioh are
covered by insurance.
NOTICE TO CORMILSPONDENTIL
491784 °P 4 entiror-Y;8 B.if "_Ri144110114
nand the following rofee :
Every communication mot be actompaniod bye.
name of the ernts4. Ia oriet•to insuit ) eafnetipmet .
the typography, but ine tide of a theft shoold
'written upon.
' We shell be greatly obliged to gentlemen In Panneyl.
Yenta and other States for contribations giving the cor
rent news of the day in their patellar lootattlee, the
resources of We surrounding country, the inoreaanot
population, and any information that eat be inferential
to the general reader.
GENERAL _NEWS".
A Crawford county paper, of a recent date;
makes mention of a lady who had reached the,
o agar
ldest
person
one hundred years, and - claims her se the emen
person DOW living in western Pennsylvania. We
are not willing to admit this, for &friend informs
us, says r ate Raft man Journal, that we hare
now residing in Burnside -township, Clearfield.'
county, the oldest man and woinan perhaps in the
Statel-Mr: Ludwick Snyder and his wife. Mr.
Snyder, in August - ast, attained _ the peat age of
one ha:wired. and eleven years, and Mrs. Snyder
one /unwired and seven. Both now enjoy rod
health, and are quite as active as persons of stay
to seventy years of age. Mr. Snyder is a gun-,
smith, and has within ten years made & gun, and.
has walked from home to Clearfield town and bark
to Curwensville, a distance of thirty miles , in one
day, since his one hundredth year. We beNere
this cannot be beaten, and chum for our vomit,
the oldest inhabitants in the State of Pennsylvania.
till we learn to the-contrary:
We learn from the St. Louis Republican
that a skiff which left Kansas bay on the
containing Father Dnrand of the Catholic
D..r. F. Smith of Leavenworth City, Mr:
Patterson of Nebraska, formerly of Indiana, Mr.
Sears of Lincoln county, - Indiana, and geniis';
man, a resident of Manhattan,' Kansas, name cm
known, from Belfast, Maine on hie - way Bast to bring his family to the Terktoryewhen about
twenty miles from Kansas City, between Wayne
City and Liberty, struck a man and was capsized,
throwing the entire party into the river. Mr.
Smith and Mr. Saari succeeded la retaining thee.
.hold Upon the boat until she drifted Ma sand.
bar. The balance of the party namsd,-'with all
their•baggage, 'were lost. The. Wiles had fruit
been reerivered, theugh search had been made,
The Bev. 'Mr. -Durand was a prominent man at,
,the mission, and highly' respected.
The Indiana (Pa.) , Messenger' learns that %
quarrel took place one day lest week, ellincloax.ol.'
suit-house, in Armstrong county, between one.
Robert Watson #nd Thomas Caldwell,' in which`
the former was considerably injured, and died isr.
few days afterwards. The coroner of the county
repaired to the grave of W,atson, with a party or
men, for the purpose of ascertaining whether death
had been caused by the .in received in the'
quarrel ; but it is said that the neighbors of Wet=
son refused to have the body disturbed, from ,thew
fact that the deceased bad stated that he himself
was partly chargeable with originating the quar—
rel, and had requested that Caldwell should not be
prosecuted or punished after his death. ' The coro
ner, it IS said, was compelled to give up hie war—
rant and leave the grmand vlithent exami=
body. Even the brothers of the deceased
to have the body disturbed. • "
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We have received 'our files from the eitr
ot Mexico to the &I instant, containing additions(
details of the news already published. The vea l
sets of war at Vera Cruz.wete to he armed again.
&Fier Payne, Minister of Finhnee, had resigned,
but bad again aceepted.olate.o Ku Smith; United.
States consul at Mazatlan, had
. resigned. The
Indians in Durango and many other northern'
States were commuting great 'ravages. °Durango,
New Leon,. and Coahuila were about to unite their
forces against the Indians An official report or
the circumstances attending the Zerman expedi
tion is published, the investigation suspended, and
the parties accused freed from all imputation of
entertaining filibusters intentions. The waste
land survey and concessions consequent thereon.
wore ordered and approved by Government.
Iranistani the how' of : Barnum, rit Bridge
port, Connecticut, as already stated by telegraph,
was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday ought.
This was probably one of the most unique sista--
blishments in the country. It was here that the
great showman cultivated his fancies, notthe least_
of which, by any means, was the domestication of
a herd of elephants. Daring the palmy drive of
Iranistan its proprietor took good care to make titer
public, through the medium ,of the newspape
aware of its characteristics end surroundings, and
it is unnecessary to again force the subject apace
their attention. It. had been vacant since Idr.
Berritues pecuniary difficulties, but he bad medal
arrangements to occupy the premises. The build
ing originally, it Is said, cost $lOO,OOO, and the for.:
niture $20,000. There was an insurance of 541,01/0
upon the building. .
The Newark
..Idrerliser announces thq
decease of a venerable Jorseymandsjor
tYm-
Chetwood—who died at Elisabeth cityon Thurs
day, at the age of eighty-eight years. BeH was the'
oldest member of the New Jersey bar, except one,
lion. John Moore White, who still sarliTlll blur.
He a son of Judge Chetwood, of the New Jer-,
sey Supreme Court, and was born at Mu,'
beth, in 1769 Ile graduated at Princeton - in
1792, and was admitted to the bar in 1714. Ile
'was also aid-de-camp to Maj. Gen. henry Lee, of.
Virginia, while commandant of the troops who
'were assigned to suppress the famous whiskey In
surrection in Ina, and served throughout that ex
pedition.
The Charleston (S. C.) Mercury of Thursday
appears in mourning for the death of John Milton
,Clapp, who has for upwards of twenty year been.
'connected with the management of that paw,
and who died the precedinm evening, in the forty
eighth year of his age. lir. C. was for a long
time vole editor of the Mercury, and at another
'period edited the Southern Quarterly Realtor.
He was in the brat rank of the newspaper writer*
of this country.
The Pittsburgh Chronicle, of Friday even
irg, says: " The President of the Pittsburgh and
Connellsville Railroad yesterday informed the
Mayor, by letter, that the company would be en
able to pay the semi-anneal interest due on the
lit of January, proximo, upon the $500.060 of the
bonds of the city of Pittsburgh. issued is the com
pany in payment of the subscription of the city to
its capital stock.'
The woman killed on the Niagara Falls
Road last Tuesday proves to have been a Mrs.
Armstrong, who lived on the banks of the river
near Tonawanda. Undoubtedly she committed
suicide, as she has experienced great trouble re
cently. Her husband was tried at Icekport last
spring, for putting obstructions upon the Canan
daigua and Niagara Palls railroad track. She
was about 40 years of age.
It appears from the Superior Chronicle, that
there is but a scanty supply of provisions to carry
Superior city through the winter The St. Croix
and Lake Superior Railroad Company have left
their provisions at Black River Palls, to be dis
posed of for the benefit of the laborers, which will
waist materially towards getting through the win
ter
The celebrated race mare Lucy Phillips
died at the Ten Breech course, Savannah, on 'Thee
day last She was the property of Col. James
Talley, of Richmond, Va., and won a high reputa
tion as a racer, having been the winner of eight
four•mile rases, besides others of less distance.
Iler disease was pneumonia, and the attack was
very violent.
A Ere occurred in Fayettville, N. C., on the
Zith inst., destroying the warehouses belonging to
Walter Draughton, Esq., and to Mrs. Whitehead,
(the latter occupied by Cook & Johnson,) and the
stables occupied by T. D. Haigh, Esq. Lim about
4'2,000.
The barque Cornelia, Captain Hopkins, from
the coast of Africa, with dye stuffs, &c., bound to
New York, went ashore at Shark rirer, N. J.,
yesterday morning at five o'clock. She is leaking
badly.
Madison Butler, a slave, for killing Wm.
Mason, free colored, has been convicted of man
slaughter at Port Tobacco, Md., and 'aentenesd to
the penitentiary for nine years and eight months-
Mr. Henry Rubins, a merchant tailor in Buf
falo, committed suicide on the 17th inst. by hang
ing himself.
The Buffalo Times has merged in the Buffa
lo Repel , ' ir, the name 01 the latter being expand
ed into Buffalo Republic and Times.
Mr. James Winter, well known in Lancaster,
Pa., died in Jacksonville. Florida, on the sth inst.
Tames Clark, a Baltimore pilot, was drowned
a few days since.
PHILADELPHIA 111IRKETS
SATURDAY, December 10.—There is very little
alteration in the Breadstuffs market to-day, and.
the Canada's advices appeared to have little or no
effect upon prices; about 500 bbls Flour only have
been sold at 35 for superfine, and $5.87a23 the
pair for half barrels, the latter for better brands.
Extras are offered at $5.25a55 50 per bbl, accord
ing to brand and quality, but the demand for ex
port and home consumption is quite light Fancy
brands are selling in small lots at from $1 to $4 73
per bbl, with an ample stock for the moon, and
holders free to sell at these rates. Corn Meal is
held at $.3 for country ground, bat there is very
little selling; a sale of Brandywine was made at
$3.371 per bbl. Rye Flour is offered at $441.121
per bbl, without sales to any extent. Wheats are
plenty, and bnyors nro bolding off for lower prices;
about 1,200 bushels red sold at 112esillc ; 1 : 503
bushels White, at 1182124 c, and 1,000 bushels
Choice Western do at 130 c, mostly in store. Corn
is dull, and prices favor the buyers; sales_include
7103,000 bushels Now Southern Yellow at 52354 e,
the latter for dry lots, which are rather scarce.
Outs are loss inquired for, with sales of 2,000 bus
prime Southern at 35e, and 1.2.00 bus geed do at
31e, afloat. Rye is selling at the distilleries at
75a Barley and Barley malt are dull; the sales of
the former wens at SP,e, and the latter at 100 c per
bus, abort time Bark rernsirainvtice. but a mail
sale of Quereitmn bark it rcrorted at $2ll for
first quality. Cotton is aithont alte r ati on i n pr i ce
or demand, and a few tots are taken daily at from
12 to Me, mostly for each. groceries are much in
favor, and Sugars are generally held above the
views of buyers, with a small business, as yet,
kiting at the nave nee Coffees ere also better, with
moderate sales. Provisions drag heavily, and the
transactions are unimportant, as buyers generally
are waiting for lower prices before operating to any
extent. Seeds are quiet, and a small business only
to note in Cloverseed at $5.2505.37/ per bush.
Whiskey is in steady demandlat 21a21i0 for drudge,
220 for hhds, and 221a231a for bbls.
TOBACCO ATIBALTIMORB, Dec. 18.—The-re
ceipts of Maryland have been light end the sales
of stop small, shippers turning their attention
mostly to Gummi Leaf. We quote as before. Ma
ryland ground leaf, as in quality. $7.80a15.50: in
ferior short seconds stiatti.so; brown leaf SBas9
And extra $10414. For Ground Leaf quotations
range from $547 for ordinary to good ; while sin
gle Ws sell at : 3n54 . 50 for inferior, and OW for
choice quality. Some few bhds of new crop Ohio
aro coming in, but wo hear of no sales. There
have been some small sales of Kentucky Tobacco
this week to the trade,but they have not been suffi
cient to base quotations on, and we therefore omit
them. The inspections of the week are 702 Ude
Maryland, and 74 hhde Ohio—total 778 hbde.