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''-'401.111,11Y-i,DECIP4I/1611 -214 1857.
iviffiall'A'Adz?--"Tranciyvas , seen 'through
Vrimelftjourrialslit, last , steamer ; Fearless
Champions' of the Majority Rule; The m ur d er ,
of 4 kika_cberand,lfrs.lleami.Lettor , from.
40hIna ;11. poseh of Hon. S. S.S. Cox,,, of -Ohio,
la Congo4li',.*Ce.P3bo Mur
der pear', New Raven, Conn.; Democratic
Miss Meeting at •Detroly, ;, Istore Lynch
Laryiii"Yospa; Miscellaneous Items; General,
2 , reiriii4thlladeliNalgarkets:: FOcnTn PAGE.
taiiiivi4l . oolC4B OF . "THE
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(5 , 4'T . PUG' TILE BOOKS !
,7.loiftheist,Ofitugust, 1857,"the first nu tuber
~Thc"published de.
making's Democratic. newspaper per.
fectlifidependerikirithentteranee ? f its °pip
-1.6611;,,246e iidaitiei it to the family circle, the
metliehice woritShop;and the countinghouse;
i3id4f ! r elying entirely epOn the people; has
been inked up to this day. The result hat
beer4triUmph in journalism, which has been
no.Marked.that;constitutionally averse as.we
qe,,t6.:siii3aking Of ourselves,"it would be in.
-,,justice t 6 our res,ders. not: to say how much
fhelv support of TUE Puss has done to make,
4 . 4Perinanenkand proSperous.,
v.. The unexpected pressure in money matters
kir3;:ftt course, adectid thisentcrprise as, It his
itlbcted others"; but Tim i'aces has ddvanced
,eveh over this obstaide, and at- this day` pone
ira:tes info every seetion,of the Union. ,
•In leas ihin five plinths It , reaehed_a
daidyeirenlaticn not surpassed-by any journal
Philidelphia; btit The ledger. It may be
.found in :every ,oftice of ,Philadelplitai and is
eagerly,pnrohased by merchants; mechanics,
PolitielOr aridmen of ;- letters.,'It is as
welcomeat, the ifireside as at the reading-
Tregtilarly_ and daily served by
earrfers in Germantown, Norristown, Chester,
• We4,:Chister; ;Allentown, tititial; Beading,-
Laneaster,
Nerrishurg„ Chembersburg, Carlisle, Altoona,
1 1 . 1itoiiiitt;, G*000)114 ; , 'Cainden,
Trenton; and' trine'eten, New Jersey, anti Wil-,
inington,'- Delaware. .Agencies are being,
Often - id In; all 'the towns:hindering upon the,
.New liilicsipq in the,eity of Baltimore.
atr ertorrhous
thirritt-Washingtoi. ' •`•• - r • -
2,O3!"EIi_TiSEII,4fANI) OTHERS SHOULD
BE3{DidDED: AND - ACT•U'PON THIS IN-
three, limos, a week has
440:4'-faigi:andc
FigitrOliWiisivntnis" l -li'rapidlY ap
.
preaching a eireilation of TILIRTV. nousAND.
Not ;only ht this Stele, but, all over the "West
end'AgNorthsveit,it has obtained a foothold
front which -It calf never be dislodged., -
edition
rerein :far , California aclusivelY-'4though'
Only : ice numbers have heart issued, has, al.
readY , reeched ',a,' Circulation-'of over twd
'.' As a proof of the,eatrahrdinary anooess of:
Trin'Parso''Oraill:s‘takethb tolloalitg extracts
from a few: of thelettera received at our office
darjpg thir,past moult
',7pairiniusturnatr, Pa."-,!‘ I have.. run, lip' your'
1'18(4; over forty daily f'-which makes nearly one
bandied in that pike:: •
litisosarzu; Tar. , Plossif niifeoon 'qua'
the oirottlition of The Ledger in yin* initiv6 city.
firolnindrnd doily,": : '
POninncia, 1 , 4:-. 7 0 Why, don't you send
eppis? of Tin Pages to Pittsburgh?, Pittook splis
of his batch et once." - • •
4 . !,TOON ' Aj Pa.—" Every day Tna Eness grows
we're popular here."
RiAnnto, Pa.—" Add to my number Ti.E more,
Making the handsome list of one hundred In Read
ing."
Forysytpx,E,Po.—" The coarse of THE PREEIB On
all the greit, qiiestiona . has made It ttn'itnmenie
favorite here : '.You began with ono or two, and
will aeon reach morn' than- a - hundred daily sub
, • .
rta,niPa..'-:"liiiske my number fifty daily -
and A - lei - yciu,knovr Tam making preparations to
have i 6 Served at PittetrArn; Berwick, Bloomsburg, •
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, 4 •Elatti r tsnuna.—" Your eireitlation steadily-on
'the: iitetaise;insOre' `copies of -Pan: Pains °ken•
leted-,14 . , this _place than all • other Philadelphia
islielieornitined, except
,"1 - arosrOti,•l , 7. Please increase, our Hater
Tan Paiiinfrein this date ton copies.". - :
t.Travellers in the different railway trains are
fitinighed :with THE - PnEss by, - the, news
venders; chat in, every inatititce' the : supply is
exhausted before the demand 'has - ceased;
S4fils the united testimony Ofiall the agents
on :the trains to .the, :West, to lialtimere, to
Reading , and Pottsville, and. to 'New York.
• -Ctir, edition' is'increased every ' day, and as
ipgithirtY:Seld r out before night.
The, same statement is made, by the different
agents Who sell papers at the different stands
iu titis•city. Tux 'Pat* continands 'not only
a 'ready but a rapid sale. i • . •
That we are proud of,- and , graternl for, tbir
speeees, we need not say.' But we are mainly
so, beanie we have endeavored to redeem the
promise made in our first proposal to the peo
ple.' , We have labored to make a thorough
4elvOlpPer'i to exclude all coarse and repulsive
language; to maintain and to .teach a manly
and dignifiedlene ; to spare . no exertions to
obtaMnewe at the earliest moment; to give
literature the attention it deserves; and to
attend carefully to all the just requirements
of oommerce , and trade, in their various de
partnients.
More than this, starting out with no purpose
of pandering to mere party prejudices—though
asserting and maintaining, as We, Shall to tho
end, the prificHipla ihe Democratic party—
we have dared to be Candid and fearless M the
utterance of all oursentiments. Pits‘ss "
lOoke people for.its supp`oit, :Eager, for
their aid, and glad end gratefulto acknowledge
itillis-Mnbitions to obtain it,liecatise upon
that bailie alone cadit preserve - period hide.
piMilehce and wo arriestly invite their as.
sistance. What we would not ask:from power
we solicit from them. •• •
• In the new crisis which has' dawned upon
partjee,`Tme
,PIIEEIS has_ taken no now stand.
The ofdttio`ns it proclaims to-day were theft
held by its editor before he eet this paper in
motion. We know they arsa right.: We know
they aro „favored. by the masses.. We know
they are the, opinions of the Democracy. And
we shall stand by them at'every lutiard, •
"And take ne'eare Mill) frets, who chafes, and
»bard conspirers are."
Give us, your smites, and your support,
friends! •
"gottAtve tried us so.far, That us and alts
thin-us to•the end, -
INQUIRING INTO MOTIVES
The practice of supplying corrupt motives
for the - action of 'such statesmen 'as Judge
DiMor.is and ' Governer
",Wit nit 'is "as 'de:
gradin4= tet those 'who resort to it as the
palish:mete :threata of the men who, from
hiving been'. 11r. BnellAnAli‘ 'villiflors
,in
1856 now claim to be his special organs.
We - are
• glad to see that in Pennsylva
nia,- even t•among the ' very, very few pa
pers that openly endorse the Calhoun Con
vention, there is no appeal to this 'poor bust
appropriately' confined to the con
venliit•ptigeti of, those newspapers newspapers that have
only: lately left.* applying the same, logic to
IlucpArtsstllinaclf;„ whose private Charac
ter they;aesallOd, tn the case of. the -New
York.Herild,--or Whose devotion to the rights
of the States they doubted, as in' the case of the
editor of the Richmond South. To say that
Judge DonoLAs end Governer WAiKER wanted
to help themselies by refusing to deierf a great
truth, and by, refusing to break a solemn pledge,
is itt'sad'eontreat with the fact that the extrem;
isle of the South-wish to stud. out both forever
froni BOnthera support ,
But when they declare that these gentlemen
are the associates of the "Black Republicans,"
because the, hitter also openly-oppose the La"-
compton - fraud, they - pay a - dangerous and
doubtfld•compfiment to the Democratic masses
in= all'the free,,Stateii, - who likeivise -,oPpotie,
with inconsiderable exceptions, the same de.'
lecbible emitrivance. There will be a slight
difienliy;; % it scows in confining - the
epithet to- Judge apd • Governor
when they ark,laustatried by so
clear; , 'Pild:lond; end independent a majority,
OVtlie : - AetgoeVitey, 'of free, States.
/kik' aOtty4,", and saip
plying=,eorrpgt
qnYilleb`reaiions for an hon
esk:filiferento 7:of opinion,. IS , a.:Safe l'and a
Cheap generally, e)Ece,t)t where•nearly
a. whole 'port, is sought to be excommunicated
by a - faction: - That would be carrying out the
LecomPtew '!‘ flge of the minority , / with a
ivageincti
,THE DEMQVRATI6 .JOURNALS 0 PE NN-
SYLVAIVIA.,
-
It is a forcible copunenkagaihst the minority
managers in Kansas,- thlit every DChlocratic
journal In Pennsylyanit( Oki. has , spoken
on the subject—evenlhokerthat are trying to
convince their readers that the slavery issue is
the only ono that ought to go to the people
of .Kansas—openly and strongly denounces
,darmocir and his confederates. Those jour
nals; - -howeVer; that agree' with Dountas,
WaritztVand Tffol'anss; speak out like men.
`AU-of them ,express -full•confidence ,in Mr.
BUCHANAN ; Itithityo done yeoman service in
-his cause ; and yet they stand by the right as
aleillant,:soldiir stands by his gun, preferring
tivery'Sacrlfice to that of principle. Among
these papers aro the following long and well
established organs of the Democracy -
The Monroe Democrat, own of the Demo
cracy of Monroe county.
The , Waynesburg Messenger, organ of the
D'emoeracy of Green county.
The Awns and Democrat, the two organs of
the TlemOcracy of Westmoreland county'—the
star of Alie West.
The Bloomfield Democrat, organ of the
Democrats of little Perry.
. .
Tho Republican and. Democrat, the old es.
tablished organ of the Democracy of Chester
county.
• The Pottsville Standard; (Dem.,) of Schuyl
kill county.
The Ifuntingdan Globe, organ or the Demo
crats a Huntingdon county.
The Fulton Democrat, organ of the Demo
crats of Fulton.
The Somerset Democrat, organ of the Demo
crats of Somerset 'county.
The Warren Ledger, organ of the Demo
crats of Warren county.
" The armrirong (Pa.), Democrat, organ or
:the Armstrong Democracy.
" The Democratic paper of Indiana county.
The 'Washington (Pa.) Review, (Demo--
cratic.) -
The'Butler Herald, organ of the Democrats
of Butler county.
Both the, Democratic daily papers at Pitts
burgh started out agaitist the Convention and
In favor of The Int of the Majority, but have
since Concurred, doubtless with the sincerest
views, in the other policy.
In all, fifteen.
As an evidence of the feeling of the West
ern Democrats, take the following proceedings
'of the Democrats of Armstrong county :
Dnuocnkric Maritsa.—On Wednesday even:
9th lest., a Democratic meeting was called at
!the. court house, which oreutzed by calling Jamee
Rayboru; Esq., to the chair, and appointing John
McPherson and Joseph Steel Vico Presidents. and
A. L. Robinson and Franklin Reynolds Secretaries.
J. A.. Fulton, Esq., being called upon, stated
'the object of the meeting to be to elect a repro
, se - illative delegate .to the 4th of March Demo.
~eratic .Convention. He also took occasion to ad.
vett to the triumphant position of the Democratic
party, and, in conclusion, offered the following
resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, 1. That all republican government
springs from the people, and derives Ws validity
and tending power from the consent of a majority
.of the citizens composing the State to be governed ;
and all government not so emanating, and with.
'out sechconsent,,is a usurpation and a tyranny,
without regard to its origin, name, or form.
2. That this is a leading and cardinal principle
of the great Democratio party, to which it is our
'pride to belong—the polar star, by which the
; ship of State bas been recently guided safely
through tempests of strife, faction, and fanaticism,
;never before encountered.
3. That a principle so just and equal in theory,
, a nd so beneficent and salutary in practice, should
not be abandoned in any case ; and much less in
the institution of the fundamental law of a State.
4. -That the attempt of the Constitutional Con
vention of Kansas to force a Constitution upon her
'citizensovitbout submitting it to them for accept
mes or rejection, is a gross and palpable violation
of this principle, as dishonorable to its authors as
it is unjust to her people.
5.- That the submission of the singlo question of
'slavers to a direct vote of the people is but a hy
pocritical sacrifice on the alter of this great and
vital principle, fraudulent in its inception, and de.
.lusive in its nature
- 6 That the 'mode of submission is objectionable;
being liable to uncertainty, abuse, and fraud; the
method of appointing election officers anti.republi
'can, and unusual; and the oath required of voters
unnecessary and unfair; the whore promotive of
distrust, uneasiness, and. strife.
7. That the failure of the Convention to submit
'their work to the scrutiny and judgnent of the
people is it teat admission that it is mimes-
Itle to them-if it is what they need and desire,
They iinuld have approved it; if not, it should not
.he imposed upon them.
8, That we recognise the right of the people of
all thei'Territories; including Ninnies and No.
breaks, through the legally old Jhirly
ex:pre:zed, will of a'otajority of the actual rem,
'dente, and whenever the number of their inhabi
tents justifies it, to form a Constitution with of
without domestic slavery, find be admitted into the
'Union on terms of perfect equality with the other
Atatis.
9. That, applying this Principle of the • Demo'.
oratieparty, as enunciated by the Cincinnati Con
vention, it-, is the duty of Congress to reject the
application of Kansas for admission into the Union,
Antil they shall be satisfied that "-a majority of
actual residents,- toting" by their "legally and
.fairly expressed will," shall "form a Constitu
,tion,o and applyar admission.
11; That whenever this is done, she should be
received promptly, cheerfully, gladly, " with or
without domestic, slavery " as her own people may
have determined for themselves.
' 'll , That, viewing the prineiples herein contain
ed as fundamental, honest, just, and good, we eon
never abolition them ourselves, or countenance
their violation by others, of whatever name •or
party.
• 12. That these resolutions, embracing the unan
imous sentiment of the Democratic party of Arm
strong county. be published in all the Democratic
papers of this Congressional district, the Daily
Zrniou. of Pittsburgh, and Ms PRESS of Philadel
phia.—Armnrong, Pa., Dentaerat.
SPEECH OF MR. CON, OF 01110.
The extract from the speech of the young
and eloquent Representative in Congress from
the Columbus (Ohio) district, which is printed
in THE PRESS of to-day, presents a new point
to the advocates of 44 the will of the majority"
in'Kansas. His argument on that part of the
Lecompton Constitution which makes that
instrument . 4 irrevocable" is powerful and un
answerable. Mr. Cox. begins his career at the
right moment of time, and upon the right
question.
In the table of States which have referred
their Constitutions to the people, that of Penn
sylvania, 1888, is classed among those that
Were not submitted to the. ballot-box. This is
a mistake. The amended Constitution of 1838
'was referred to the ballot-box, and was adopted
after a warm and animated struggle. The
argument of Mr. Cox is made stronger by this
correction.
PAPER CURRENCY.
. • It is to be noticed, with surprise, that while,
In this country, many of the evils of the late
panic and commercial crisis aro attributed to
an over-great extension of paper currency, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer in England has
intimated to the Parliament there, that it may
be as well, when they examine and dispose of
the Bank Charter, to consider tho propriety of
legalizing the reissue of £1 notes. To this
day, notes of that low denomination are legally
current in Ireland and Scotland, but they were
prohibited, as regards England, by the late
Sir ROBERT' PEWS enactment of mo t If
PEI could arise from his untimely graveapd
see how, notwithstanding the influx of told
from California and Australia, the worst fea
ture of the paper• currency was likely to be
made prominent once more, he certainly would
be at once astonished, angry, and disgusted.
llis,whole financial systerri was based on the
prohibition of the small notes.
SLAVERY Ix KANSAS.
Tho Charleston Mercury, which represents a
large number of Representatives and Senators
In the present Congress, says, in its comments
on the Kansas part of the President's mes
sage:
" We differ, too, with the President no to what is
submitted to the note of the people. fro not
think lhat'the gitesaott of slavery or no stavery
is subnine a , to the vote of the people. Whether
the slams the Consittation is voted oat or
voted in, slavery exists, and has a guarantee in
the Constitution that at shall not be interfered
with ; tokilet, if the slavery parLy in ICansas ran
Zee, or get the majority of the Legislature, they
army optic widt: the door for the Immigration of
slaves."
It will be aeon that the Mercury and its
friends, will have wall or none." They will
tolerate nothing but the recognition of slavery.
They laugh at the idea of not winning the
prize'when it is SO near their grasp. They
boldly asiert their purpose, and will have in
Olartoulf and his confederates most faithful
adherents.
Via SALE OF bfnSßis• APPLETON'S V&II10.1)143
and elegant books commences this evening, at
Thomas & Sons' auction rooms,
REAL EgTATE, STOMA, MORTGAGE, kc.—A
largo sale to-morrow evening, including first-class
psalmsv. Bee Catalogues and advertisements.
REAL ' ESTATE - SAL.—SQO Freeman's adver
tisement of property to be Bold on next Wednesday
evening,. by order of Orphan's Court.
Bias Lucy Ann Barker has been on trial in
Norwich, Conti., on the charge of burning the
barn of her brother-in-law, Dr. Leffingwell, a
short time since. Tho mother and sister of the
moused appeared, and swore positively against
her, while the father was equally as confident of
her innocence. The jury could not agree.
- There were but few arrests in any of the
wards yeeterday, and the city wets uuusaally
quiet,
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1857.
BY MIDNIGPT MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON
Hosttiitles Impending between Spain and pies
leo—Treasury Note 11111,1:14russton on tit
Kansas fittestton—Yroposed Modification o
the Tariff—New Mexico, ikc•l
[Correspondence of The Pres4.l
WASHINGTON, DOO. 20, 1857
The controversy between Mexico end Spain
seems to have oome to a head, the late wows from
Europe informing us that the latter Power has
positively refused to complywith the demands of
the former in the preliminary reception of Sailor
Lafragua. Both nations era characterized by a
stubborn adherence to the dictates of pride, and as
Mexico has published thatany adjustment must be
preceded by the formal recognition of her Minister,
this determination of Spain must result in hasten
ing the hostilities which have been so long Sus
pending.
A seuret lies back of all the enthusiasm mani
fested for immediate war by the people of Cuba.
Neither of the anticipated belligerents has an
overflowing treasury, but, on the contrary, they
are exercised constantly to make both ends meet,
and the liberals of Cuba cherish tho hope that in
the coming contest the power of Spain, whether
successful or not, will he so crippled as to afford
them a fair chance to achieve their independence,
or, what is to them as acceptable, compel Spain
to acquiesce in what aro known to he the wishes of
a groat majority of the American people, for the
acquisition of the " Queen of the Antilles," If for
no other purpose than as a matter of policy to
place the fortresses there, which now give means
to injure our people, as the advance guard of pro
tection for our coast.
I learn that Comonfort is not averse to the war.
Ho believes that it will heal the present dissen
sions of the Mexican people, by exciting their pa
triotism and uniting those in a common purpose.
Sonora with her ports on the Gulf of California is
looked upon with covetous eye by our citizens in
Now Mexico and Arizona. If these ports were in
their territory, they would, it is confidently stated,
,stimulate emigration and thus develop the re
sources of this region, alleged to be rich in deposits
of copper, silver, and gold. A port en the gulf is,
as Lieut. Mowry remarks in hie memoir of Arizo
na, of great and immediate necessity to our Pacific
possessions.
The original line of the treaty by which we ac
quired the Melilla Valley would have given us
tho mouth of the Colorado river, and .probably a
port near the head of the gulf at Advise bay, but
the Senate reduced the limits and the amount of
indemnity. The inhabitants of Sonora complain
that the Supreme Government falls to extend to
them ample, or indeed any, protection against the
attacks of the fierce Apac".: a, end the Supreme
Government, to secure the main sinew of war, may
sell out to the United States on reasonable terms.
It is stated that to-morrow an effort will be made
in the House to press the Treasury nolo bill to its
passage. The Secretary of the Treasury wants
the funds immediately in order to moot promptly
the interest on the public debt.
In the Senate, governor Bigler has the floor on
the Kansas question. The discussion of this ques
tion will show that while Southern men agree with
the Administration in favor of the Leoempton
Constitution, they will, at the saute time, make
fierce war on Mr. Buohanan because of the ground
he has taken in the matter co: the McGhee and Ox.
fordlelection frauds.
It is stated that the Senators and members from
Missouri, with many Southern politicians here,
have written to their friends in that State to pre
vent any invasion of the territory, or interference
with the election to be held in Kansas tomorrow.
Those who favor the Lecompton Constitution use
every exertion to have the slavery clause stricken
from that instrument, for it is acknowledged
amongst themselves that unless this is done, they
will not have even a shadow of pretence for sus
taining the views which they now entertain.
It may be that in the morning (which is resolu
tion day in the House of Representatives) 4 resolu
tion will be introduced calling upon the Presi
dent for the correspondence between the executive
offices or the Government, and the officers of Kan
sas, since the adjournment of the preceding Con
gress. This information, when communicated, will
enable members to vote understandingly on the
vexed questions hereafter to bo presented for their
determination.
It is probable that there will be an effort, during
the session, to modify the tariff, by restoring the
duties on iron, woollen and cotton goods, to what
they were under the tariff of 1840. Mr. Critten
den, of Kentucky, has offered the following reso
lutions, whioh lie over for future consideration :
Resolved by the Senate, That in consideration
of the financial condition of the country, and its
industrial interest, as well as of the wants and
erabariassments of the treasury of tho United
States, the rates of duty levied under the tariff
act of the 3d of March, 1857, ought to bo materially
increased.
Resoled larther, That experience having de•
monstrated that the present mode of asoortalning
the dutiable value of imported goods is productive
of monstrous frauds, injurious alike to the Govern.
ment and the honest importer, a system of home
valuation ought to be immediately substituted
therefor.
The Administration, however, has published its
decided opposition to any modification of the tariff
at this time.
Gen. Denver is commissioned as Governor o
Kansas. The commissionershipef Indian altars i.
kept vacant for him, to which it is expected ho wit
return when the Calhoun presidency is inaugu
rated over Kansas.
The President has sent into the Senate a batch
of consular appointments. It is said that he de
signs making his remaining foreign appointments
in January or February at the furthest.
Tho Secretary of the Interior has received a let
ter from W. W. 11. Davis, Acting-Governor of the
Territory of New Mexico, calling attention to the
necessity of a geological survey of that country.
The Legislature of New Mexico has hereto.
fore memorialized Congress upon this subject;
but as yet that body has taken no action
in the matter, although geological surreys have
been ordered for Oregon and Washington Ter
ritories, which do not possess one-tenth part of
the mineral wealth which exists in Now Mexico.
After giving a very interesting sketch of the early
searches of the Spaniards in New Mexico for the
precious metaP, Mr. Davis mentions many good
reasons why such a survey should be made. Ile
says:
"That the conntry is rich in auriferous metals
there eau be no doubt. There is good reason to
believe that is Ivor ores occur in all the ranges of
mountains bordering on the Rio Urande, from the
boundary' line on the south to the extreme north of
the Territory. In this same range is the Stephen.
eon silver mine, the ore of which has been pro
nounced among the richest known in the world.
" Reid ores are found In several localities. Tho
richest deposits yet developed are in the Placer
mountains, about thirty miles southwest of Santa
Fe. Those mines have been worked for years, and
several hundred thousand dollars' north of gold
have been taken from them."
Coppor is also found in New Mexico in great
abundance, especially in the valleys near the
pueblo of Jernez. Numerous thick deposits or
beds of coal have been discovered, both bitumi
nous and anthracite. The extent of these depo
sits of gold, silver, copper, and coal can only be
determined by a thorough scientific survey of the
whole country.
Many varieties of precious stones are frequently
met with. The garnets found in the Navajo
country, near Fort Defiance, aro unsurpassed in
color and clearness. Crysolites are also found
there. Within twenty miles of Santa Fe tbo In
dians obtain their priceless °bantamlto, a stone
resembling the tntquoiso. Beds of marble, lime
stone, granite, and elate aro known , to exist in
several parts of the Territory.
The necessity of a thorough examination of the
mineral resources of the country is rendered more
apparent from the fact that the peculiar physi
cal formation of Now Mexico Allows that the
greeter part of its future wealth must bo drawn
tram its minerals. An appropriation of $25,000
would ho sufficient for the purpose. X. Y
PUBLIC ENTEIrI'AIN3IENTS.
Tho 11.onzani Troupe, now perfortnlng nt the Aca
demy of ItSusie, will produce their grand fairy
ballot of "Tho Golden Iloilo," for the first time in
Philadelphia, this evening. Tho press of Now
York and Boston were unanimous in prniso of the
merits of this, their finest ballot, which le proba
bly destined to meet with like favor at the hands
of their friends here. The porformanco will COM
mono° with the farce of "John Jones," and the
admission being only 50 and 25 cents, ought to se
cure n full attendance.
Mr. Oliver Leland's new (and good) ploy of
"Beatrice," which has been judiciously condensed
within acting time," seems likely to have a long
run at the Arch Street Theatre, and fully deserves
it.
Walnut Streot Theatre, on Saturday eve
ning, re-opened under Mrs. Dowers's lcsrcoship.
The house Ives ae trowded that those who reached
it at and after seven o'clock could scarcely obtain
standing-places Looking through a email pane in
one of the doors of the dress-boxes, we saw (but
could 'not hear) the lessoo speak a prose address
"tuber patrons.", Neither could we hear ono word
of the very familiar play which followed.
At the National, the badly-written and well
got-up semi-drama of " Dr. Kane," drags its slow
length along.
Dr. Mackay's eocond lecture, at Concert Hall,
went off remarkably well. We shall give an ab
stract of it to-morrow.
The D'Angri and Fieuatcmps concert, at Musi
cal Fund Hall, on Saturday evening, was scarcely
as well attended as, (ruin the attractions offered,
it ought to have been Though D'Angri never
could, can, or will equal Alboni, she is an admira
ble contralto.
Two concerts, by these truly good performers,
will be given this day, at Sansom-street Halt One
in the afternoon, (at half-pest two,) and the other
at eight o'clock at night. A concluding concert
comes off at the Musical Fund Hall, at eight
o'clock on to-morrow evening. There will be
a different programme on each and every of those
°condone. The artiste will be Madame D'Angri,
Mien° Carloll, Mies Milner, Signor Gamier,
Signor Rocco, Mr. Perring, Mr. Kletner, and Mr.
Vieuatemps. These concerts certainly give the
beet quality and greatest quantity of performances
ever offered here, at any concert. Fifty ciente for
all this talqt I It would be five dollen in Loudon.
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THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS,
FIRST SESSION
U. S. CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, Dee. Di, 1.857
SENATE.
Mr. CRITTENDEN submitted a series of resolu
tions, declaring that, in consideration of the linen-
Mal condition of the country and the embarrass
ments of the treasury, the rates of duty es.
tablished by the tariff of March last ought to be
materially increased, and also favoring the substi
tution of the system of home valuation on'import
ea goods. The resolutions lie over
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
Treasury note bill.
Mr. Itthsorr, of Massachusetts, said the closing
hours of the thirty-fourth Congress were davotad to
efforts to deplete the Treasury, and they wore now,
at the commencement of the thirty-fifth, trying to
till is tronsury now empty. Ho called attention to
some facts connected with the expenditures of the
Governmont. Me thought Congress should revise
the tariff, so as to restore the duties on iron, cot
ton, and woollen goody; to where they were by the
tariff of 1846. That would increase the revenues
of the country sotnothing like two millions of dol
lars, and thus afford a partial relief. He would
vote for the issues of ten million of dollars of trea
sury notes, under the circumstances, but would
not for twenty millions
Mr. Ilutiren insisted that ten millions was not
enough, and that it would be necessary to pass
another bill next year, providing for the issue of
the additional amount. It woe bettor to laeue a
sufficient amount now at once.
Mr. Wii.so replied that he should not be Bur.
prised if over twenty millions will ho asked for be
fore the close of the session, owing to the over-esti
mate of receipts, and the large amounts of money
recommended for expenditure in the War and
Navy Departments.
Mr. BENJAMIN, of Louisiana, said that Congress
authorized the debts to bo Incurred, and therefore
ought to provide moans for their payment instead
of charging the Administratiovvith extravagance.
Mr. bawann, of New York, attributed the re
cent revulsion to overimportation, and the diver
sion of capital from its ordinary channels. He
did not believe that the banks were to blame.
Mr. DAVIN, of Mississippi, advocated the bill
under consideration as a simple proposition to bor
row money to meet the wants of the °averment ;
and the Vxwentive was responsible for the proper
application of the money. Instead of a revenue
tariff, he preferred a "free tariff," as farce pram.
ticable."
Mr. DIXON, of Rhode Island, spoke in favor of
the protection of American industry as the best
means of restoring confidence, reviving trade, and
replenitthing the Treasury.
Mr COLLAIIHR, of Vermont, °Tippled the bill,
and took occasion to remark that with all the
boasting of a tbe bub•Trensury system, and of bard,
money currency, when the pressnro came, the
whole bottom was knocked out, and application
then made for the issue of irredeemable paper.
Why not, he inquired, honestly borrow hard money,
and pay the interest for it. with which to pay the
debts of the Government
Mr. Hunter defended the Sub•Treaiury system.
It was established that the Government should not
be embarrassed by bank suspensions In the
management of its finances. Treasury notes are
the cheapest mode in which money can be borrowed,
and would not, as charged, be forced on the people
to the exclusion of gold and silver in the payment - 1
of debts.
At 4 o'clock P. M. an unsuccessful motion to
adjourn was made ; the majority seeming deter
mined to pass the bill before the adjournment. ,
Mr. Taunsum,, of Illinois, proceeded to show
the extravagance of this, as well as of the pre
ceding Administration, saying It now wente to
spend seventy millions of dollars within six
months. No necessity for raising twenty millions
has been shown.
Mr. Peen, of Ohio, opposed the bill, regarding it
as a strange proposition to come from the Demo.
cratic side, to issuo twenty millions of dollars
worth of shinplasters. Ile woo, however, willing
to vote for it, if the amount could be reduced so as
to provide only for the raising of so much money
as was immediately wanted. Ile wished to pre
vent the circulation of these notes as bank notes.
The bill was amended by limited the operation
of the act till the first ofJanuery, 1851; and by
prohibiting the netts lobe of a lees denomination
than one hundred dollars.
- . • •.
The bill was then passed by a vote of 31 yeas
against 113 nays, as follows :
YEAH—Messrs. Allen, It I. ; Bayard, of Del.;
Benjamin, La.; Biggs, N. C.; Bigler, • Pa. ;
Brown, Miss.; Clay, Ala. ; Crittomien, Ky.;
Douglas, 111. ; Evans, S. C. ; Fitch, Ind. ; Fitz
patrick. Ala. ; Foot, Vt.; Green, Mo.; Hale, N.
H. ; Hunter. Va. ; Iverson, Ga. ; Johnson, Ark.;
Janes, Iowa; Kennedy, Md. ; Mallory, Fla.;
Mason, Va. ; Pearce, Md. ; Polk, Mo ; Rood, N.
C. ; Sebastian, Ark.; Seward, N. V. ; Stuart,
Mich. ; Thompson, N. J. ; Wilson, Mass, ; Wright,
N. J.
NAYS—Messrs. Bell, Tenn. • Broderick, Cal. ;
Chandler, Mich. ; Clark, N. li. • Coflamer. Vt. ;
Davis, Miss.; Dixon, It. I.; Doolittle, Wis., Dur
kee, Wis. ; Fossondon, Me. ; llnmlin, hio. ' Mar
ian, Iowa; Johnson, Tenn.; king, N. Y.; ' Pugh,
Ohio; Simons, It. I. , Trumbull, 111. ; and Wade,
Ohio.
At half past 6 o'clock the senate adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Ifouso resumed the consideration of Mr.
Bennott's (N. Y.) resolution, providing for the ap
pointment of a special committee to take Into
consideration all ',spots on the subject ot the Paci
fic Railroad.
Mr. BARKSllii.g, of Mississippi, made an mane.
easeful motion to table the resolution, the ballot
resulting in Dl yeas and 00 nays.
Several incidental questions were detortnined
by yea and nay votes. •
111 r. nonEscc, of Pennsylvania, said that t
')boas had ortaena. in atmittovi•4l... AA.
no good could come of bolding a session on Satyr.
day, and ho made a motion to adjourn, which was
also ineffectual.
The subject wee paned over, and the House went
into Committee of the Whole on tho troaxury nolo
bill.
•
Mr. J. GLANCEY Joscs, of Pennsylvania, ex.
plained the provisions of the bill, which, he said,
were similar to those heretofore passed, both under
the Democratic and the Whig administrations. Ire
would endeavor to obtain a vote upon the bill to
day
Mr. RlTefilt:, of Pennsylvania, called attention
to the fact that there are two sorts of Democrats ;
one theoreteroi, who will have nothing but gold
and silver us a currency; the other /in/client, who
will have anything they can got, and now ask for
treasury notes.
Mr. BANKS, of Massachusetts, remarked that
statesmen, at nil times, had asserted that a resort
to treasury notes was of doubtful expediency and
dangerous in principle, and should never be
adopted if any other measure of relief could be
obtained. It is not true that the Government
cannot obtain relief except through treasury
notes. There never was a period when a loan
could be effected, either for large or small sums, or
for a short or long time, bettor than the present,
as the country was richer than it ever has been
before. Ile wished to have the bill amended, so
as to authorize the issue of treasury notes, only
in ease it shall be found impracticable to effect a
loan on Government stook bearing six per confute
a year—the aggregate sum borrowed not to exceed
twenty millions of dollars. Circumstances are
different now from those when the note bill of 1814
was passed. Then the Government was engaged
in a war with Mexico.
Mr. Conn, of Alabama, interrupting, remarked
that there was now a prospect of war with the
Mormons.
Mr. B. replied that there was a representa•
tire from Utah present, with the same standing
that the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Cobb)has,
and therefore it could not be said that we aro at
war with Utah. But (hero too, a speck of war le
another direction, (laughter), from which tho Ad.
ministration could not be relieved by the issue of
treasury notes.
Mr. Mit.LsoN, of Virginia, urged that Congress
ought to prefer to supply the public necessities bj
the loan of treasury note; rather than loans for is
long period. There may be no necessity for TO.
sorting to a loan ; but, at this time, when we are
threatened with a deficiency of revenue, it is lite
portent that the public credit should be main.
trained.
Mr. Bismor, of Connecticut, supported the bill',
on the, ground that the notes would go into circu.
lotion and ho used as a medium of exchange. It
would meet the necessities of the Bovernment and
benefit the business of tiro country, which is no!
in as prosperous a condition as Mr. Banks had de.
,cribeil. It may be true that there is more mono]
than ever in tho country, but is it available? Mr,
Bishop would be glad 11 tho gentleman from Mae.
sachusctis (Mr. Banks) would point .nit where It
may he found.
Mr. Davie, of Maryland, opposed the bill:
There was no period fined when notes should be
preeented for redemption, and they would, there
fore, continuo in circulation as Irredeemable cur
roncy. Based on tho facts, that the tlacrnment,
who endeavoring to strike down the banks of the
country by a bankrupt law being recommended
in the President's message, it may be that the
issue oil twenty millions of dollars in treasury
notes is designed to fill avoid the dominant party
mean to make, and to Rubetituto the paper of the
Treasury for the paper of the banks.
Tho committee thon rose, and the House ad
jenrned.
British Courtevy to the Arctic Expedition.
WASIII.NOVV, Itec. 19.—Lord Napier has, by'
instruction of the Earl of Clarendon, placed in
the hands of Secretary Cass a number of modals,.
which her Majesty's Government desire to present
to the officers and men engaged in the several ex
peditions which have been fitted out in the United
States for the recovery of Sir John Franklin and
his companions.
tier Majesty's Government directs Lord Napier
to express the high ronse which they entertain of
the zeal and devotedness of the parties who volun
teered In these enterprises, end their earnest hope
that the citizens of the United States who shared
the same dangers may be permitted to share the
Rune honorary recognitions as the officers end
mon of her Majesty's service employed in the
cause of the Arctic Diseovery.
The Case of Donnelly
'WASHINGTON, Dec. is much interest
manifested in this city concerning Donnelly, lately
convicted in New Jersey for the murder at the
Sea View House, for which lie is now under sen
tence of death. Ho was favorably known in this
community, and several petitions numerously
signed, including the names of some of ear more
preeminent citizens, and of ladies, have boon trans
mitted to tho Executive of New Jersey, to be pre
sented to the Court of Pardons, asking for the
commutation of his sentence.
Accidental Death of Gen Newland.
lirmilitimfosr, Deo. 20.—This morning the body
of Gen. Newland woe found floating in the Chesa
peake and Ohio canal near this city. The deceased
wee formerly n prominent politician of North Ca
rolina an/ lately the superintending engineer of
the harbor improvements at Sheboygan, Wisoon.
sin. Ms death was evidently accidental.
Death Sentence of Jaipe4 Shepherd
New YORK, Dec. 10 —.lama Shepherd, who, on
Monday last, was convicted of arson in the first
degree, was this morning sentenced to death in the
Court of General Sessions, by Recorder Smith.
Non-Arrival of the Steamer Adriatic.
NEW YORK, Deo. 20—livening.—The steamship
Adriatic hoc not yet been signalled. She woo ad
vertised to sail from Liverpool on Wednesday, the
Oth instant, and if she loft on the day appointed
Is now in her twelfth day out, though expected to
make the run home in about ten days.
The Canada at Boston.
BOSTON, Deo. 19.—TheB. M. steamship Canada,
Capt Shannon, from Liverpool on the sth inst ,
via Halifax, arrived at this port at 7 o'clooh this
ovettipg.
• - souTitEntw 'farms.
Book ,Suspenalens Legolized..lnundation In
Alaboma..Nicaroou% Meeting In Alabama.
Auovavi, Deo. U.—The Legislatures of Georgia,
South Carolina, and Alabama havo legalized the
bank suspensions.
The Mobile Rogiertcr reports an inundation,
the Warrior river being fifty flvo foot above low
water mark. Between four and Ike thousand bales
or cotton have been lost, with ono thousand bushels
of corn, and great numbeis of cattle.
A Nicaragua meeting was hold at Mobile on the
Lith inst. Governor IV inston presided, nod Judge
Meek, C. Langdon, Judge Hopkins, and others,
delivered addresses.
Reaolotions wore adopted favorable to the expo
ditlon of General Walker.
Late Pont Havana.
NEW YORE, Dec. 25.—The eloamship Black
VatTior has arrived with H avana d a t e s t o tho
sth inst.
There was no political now of importnnoo.
Business was generally dull, money scaroo, and
commanding enormous rates. Sugars, however,
wore active at advancing prices, owing to reported
injury to the cane in Louisiana. Winding had
commenced, and the crop promises to; be untieual
ly large. - A few boxes of the new crop had reached
the market. The stock of olden hand was 90,000
boxes, against 60,000 at the same time last year.
Exchange dull—on London 14 per cont. premium;
on New York 3 per cent. for first-class bills
It was reported in Havana that two additional
cargoes of negroes had been landed on the island
from American vessels.
Later from Yucatan—The Revolution Sup
pressed—The Bombardment of Stool Contra
dicted.
Nra Yortu, Dec. Yo.—Accounts from Yucatan
to the sth inst. have boon received via Havana.
The revolution has been suppressed, and the in
surgents on the island of Cannon have surrendered
to the government.
_The reported bombardment end capture of Sisal
is said to be false.
Important front Florida—More Battles Fought.
AUGUSTA, Ga., Deo. 19.—Important intelligence
has reached hero from nolida. Tho Indian war
has assumed a serious aspect. The troops have
been able, by forced marches, to come up with
Billy Bowlegs Seminoles, and several smart en
gagements have taken place. In one of these eon
fliets Captain Parkill was killed and several eel
-titan were badly wounded. Attempts aro being
made to bring on a deolsive action.
The South Carolina Legislature has indefinitely
,postponed all the resolutions and reports in refe
rence to Kansas.
The ➢lhtnelotn Election
PRAIRIE nu Cntrx, Itrie , Deo. 10 —The St.
gall; ) dates to the 15th inztant have been
received The election canvass had not been com
pleted It wee thought the Democratic candidate
for Governor, 11. II Sibley would be declared
elected. There Wad no election of United States
Sent.tor.
The Alnbanin teglshithre
MostmemEnx, Ala., Deo 19.—The Legislature
of this State has legalized the suspension of specie
payments by the banks, until the 15th of Novem
ber next.
Earthquake at Charlegion
CRARLESTON, fi. C , Dee. 19.—A smell shook o'
an enrthiraire was felt in this vicinity at nine
o'clock this morning
The Governorship of Malta
HatArax, December 19 —Sir Gnspard htarchant
has been promoted to the Governorship of Malta
He is succeeded here by tho Earl of Mulgrave.
The annotancementof tho fact woo received by the
Canada.
MEM!
PITTSBURGH. December 19.—Flour is dull nt
yesterday's rates; sales of 530 bbls of extra, on
the wharf, at private farina Rye and Corn un
changed; Oats declining Nothing doing in Pro
visions Whi+key insetive at 180 for raw.
CINCINNATI, December 19 —Flour id dull at 53 75,
a n d very little demand at that prioo. Whiskey
dull at lac ; the demand is equal to the supply
Hogs (lull at $51185.10, with more sellers than buy
ers. Nothing done in Provisions to-day, there bo
ing no demand.
THE CITY.
AMUSEMENTS TIIIS EVENING
MUSICAL FUND HALL, LOCUST AT , AMU EIGHTH
Concert.
AMERICAN AVIDLIIT or Mono, BooAn AND LoCuOT
STROETS —"Oaklan Qorne"—"John June 9
MOS D. r Dowl:As' WALNUT STRIRDT TRIKATON,N
001INKR OP Nun AND WALNUT.—'•{Total''—'Jlorning
WHICATLILVEI ARCH BeritiaT TIIICATRE, ARCM STAIR;
Amy(' SIXTH.—" Beatrice; or, the Talmo and 'FM"—
t‘ tiarah'a Young Man."
NATmNAL TIIZATIta, WALNUT ter Rel4T. attreil 1:1011711.
"The Iron mask"—" Dr. Kane"—" Equestrian Per
formance=."
SANFORD'S OPERA ROUSH, 111.1gYENTSI STRAIRT, ADM
CHNSTNOT.—}lthiopian Life Illustrated, concluding with
a laughable aftorpiece.
Death of Albert B. .4sltion.—We have al
ready noticed the decease of Albert 13. Ashton,
FAT, member of the Select Council for the Third
ward, after a short illness, at his residence in this
city, on Wednesday last, in the 38th year of his
age. Mr. Ashton wet a native of the district of
Southwark. In his youth ho became a member of
the Southwark Institute, which had a very ittitmt ,
tont influence in forming the character of many
worthy and esteemed citizens. Subsequently he
became attached to the Washington Literary A.
etiolation, and was one of the original member..
Ills Wainer+ life cotnmenced in a mercentile es
tablishment, but subsequently he was engaged in
, 41,...artuey. 'Cord svi ciork in tl. acprin
mut. When Commodore Stewart some years
since WAS ordered to active denim Mr. Ashton
became his private secretary. Subsequently ho
acted as captain's clerk to Commodores Newton,
Neville, Dupont, and others, and served on board
the Independence, Potomac, and Dale, and other
`national vessels upon the Home Squtulron, and in
the Pacific fleet. In the latter petition he served
in the Mexican war, was at the taking of Monte
rey, California. and at the battle of Dooms.
Returning to the United States after some years'
experience at sea, Mr. Ashton left the naval sou.
vice. and returned te• civil pursuits. lie was a
member of the Board of Commissioners of Maya
mensing, and after consolidation was elected to the
Select Connell, where ho had served one full term
and a portion of the second at the time of his death.
His mind was native, and his disposition •+ocial and
cheerful. Ills integrity of character and honesty
or purpose were universally acknowledged. lie
was a faithful municipal legislator, and a genial,
firm friend. lila sudden death has produced feel
ings of regret and serrate among his wide circle of
acquaintances.
Mr Ashton was buried on Saturday afternoon,
from hid late residence, Ninth street, below Fitz
water. The funeral was attended by the Select
and Common Councils of the city, by Lodge No.
3. A. Y. M., Shiloh Lodge, I O. of t). F the
Washington Literary Association, Trit.tees of the
Odd Fellows' Hall, Moyawensing, end a large
number of personal friends.
Ftrcs.—On Saturday morning, about half
past one o'clock, a small frame stable in the rear
of the liquor store and dwelling of Mr. Samuel 6.
Wallace, No. 2029 Market street, and occupied by
Mr. W., was set on fire and destroyed. The horsc,
were eared The flames communicated to the
dwelling of Mr. Wallace, and also to the shop and
dwelling of Thomas Weldon, adjoining, the upper
part of which woe also destroyed. The amp and
dwelling of Samuel Hope, No. 2033, was flooded
with water. The entire km will probably not ex•
ceed $l,OOO. The fire was probably kindled by a
gang of fire-runners, called ‘• Badgers," who had
jollification in the neighborhood the night pre•
sinus.
The origin of the recent fire at the freight depot
of Davis & t toei, Market street, above Eighth, has
obeen traced to spontaneous combustion, occasioned
by several bags of powdered charcoal stored In the
car-house. The atmosphere was very wet at the
limo of the fire, and the coal, nu doubt, absorbed
considerable moisture.
11 is Coming.—Though t intro are r,l t hor dull
and business stagnant, yet people everywhere have
a happy appreciation of the fact that Christmas is
coming. Those is no MO of giving to melancholy
things more importanoe than they deserve, so the
world and his family non getting ready to be ex
hilarated when the festive zeason is fully hero
Shop windows are putting on their gayest looks—
are filling up with rare devices, which lure by
reason of many colors and rich materials. Ladies
throng the sidewalks on their way to make pro•
liminety purchases natured that genii feeling and
sympathetic acts mast net die out if purses have
n striking leaning towards rneanny There is no
thing tarn the depression canoed by business
troubles like a heliday, after all. It enlivens the
torpid, imparts animation to dulness, gives elasti•
city to cramped sluggishness, and sends n cheerful
rigor through many departments of trade, which
In the end resets upon all. "Chri.tinuut 14 com
ing" the boys shout. and their glee is contagions.
The gloomy hoar in the sound the coming on of
brighter• things, and It halo of checrfidne',3
spreading farther and wither.
An Unfothinale ridim.—A few mornings
since, at the hearing, of the Fifth ward police Cll^o3,
wo noticed a fem,do, not yet apparently over
I wordy yoars of ago, arraigned for drunkenness.
lilio was a miserable wreck of rum's doings. i tie
gave the name of Anna Durand, and declared that
on sixteen different motions hod she boon an in
mate of Moymnonsing priqm. The day previous to
tho late firemon's parade, she nro Reinst with tho
mania•a•potii, nod for nine days had to ho tied
halide and feet. Upon this occasion sho alleges her
mind woo gene, and in her ravings inflicted a alight
wound upon the medical physician of the prison.
"But," said this miserable creature, with nn evi
dent pride, "when I am sober I am the host vwinan
over sent to prison."
Committed for .4r3on—.lre affecting Case.—
Yesterday morning, before Alderman Mm, at the
Central Police Station, a man named Hugh Quinn
had a hearing on the charge of arson. It appears
that the accused, who has been suffering from con
siderable mental antiety, caused by the loss of
several children during the post two years, was
quite intoxicated on Saturday evening, and while
in a drunken fit met flee to his house, at No. Inla
Federal street. Some of the neighbors Boeing the
•moko Issuing from the place rushed in, and found
the prisoner sitting quite unconcernedly almost in
the midst of the flames. He was rewind from his
perilous situation, dmd taken to the leek-up.
The Fifth Lecture. of Dr. Stevens in an
nounced in our columns to-day. Instead of the
Holy Land, he is about to trend on classic ground.
Instead of Moses and Aaron, we presume ho will
present to hi 4 audience Demosthenes and Socrates.
Instead of the water from Jacob's well, and the
mount of Olives, he will take them to the fount of
Helicon and the hill of Parans,us.
Philadelphia Dry Goods Market.—ln this
department of trade there is but little doing, and
the proppects for an early spring business are de
cidedly uncertain. Some of the Clothiers are in
the market, and but few of them are purchasing.
They prefer waiting to see what the future has in
store for them, rather than go it blind. Stocks
aro prqtty well kept up, and prices generally' well
maintained.
We under/sand that the Rev. John Patton,
who has boon laboring for some time past with the
Logan Square Church of this city, in connexion
with his duties no Secretary of the Philadelphia
Edeca Lion Society, has boon unanimously elected
Pastor of therresbyterlan Church in Elkton. Ma
ryland.'
' Disorderltes.—A party of fifteen disorderly
persons want into a lager beer establishment at
Fifth and Morris streets, yesterday, and partook
quite freely of lager beer and other beverages,
without paying for OM, They were armled and
tteld tor s boating.
olnernpted illurder.—Tho eastern part of the
Fifth ward was thrown into a high state of excite
ment about half-past 2 o'clock on Saturday after
noon, by a bold attempt at murder. George Cram
ley, an employee in the custom house, was psseing
al o ng Front street, between Pine and Lombard, in
company with John Agen, when he was accosted
by James Linus, the proprietor of a tavern in Front
street, below Little Dock. Linus, it is alleged,
seized Crontley by the collar , and after using some
grossly-insulting lengunge toward, hint, said " he
had a good mind to shoot him."
While Mr Cromley was hold In the mariner de
scribed, a man who was with Linus struck Crom
ley a violent blow. The latter struggled until he
became released from the grasp of Liens, who
then drew a revolver and Prod at Cromley. The
ball missed Mr. C , but he declared it passed so
close to him that he heard it whizzing through the
air Lines again pulled the trigger, but the wea.
pen missed tiro, and Agen, seizing bold of Linus,
prevented him from putting hie murderous inten
tions into effect.
Liana wee subsequently arrested on a warrant,
and in the evening ho had a hearing before Alder
man Brum The facts above stated were given in
evidence at the hearing. Tlio accused was held
in $5,000 bail to answer, which ho obtained. A
warrant has been issued for the arrest of the per
son who was in company with the defendant
It seems that Lions and his wife have shparated
after some unhappy differences Crowley was a
friend of the family, and the husband, it is said,
charges him with having interested himself for the
wife and against him ; hence the difficulty. The
affair caused a very great excitement.
The Kensington Soup Society hereby acknow
ledges the following: Received by Dr. R. W. Tho•
was, agent. $7B ; received by Sons of Malta, 1.2.5 ;
collected by Master Stephen Coleman, $1.53 Total,
$1.51.
Drowned—A lad named Dougherty was ac
cidentally drowned in the canal at Manayunk,
yesterday. Coroner Fenner won notified to hold
an inquest.
Railroad Opening.—Tho McCauley Moun
tain Railroad, eonneoting the Columbia Coal and
Iron Company's Works with the Rending Raiload,
will he opened to-day.
Sony of New Englund.—A Mooting or the
Sons of Now England is to be held this evening,
at the American Hotel, for the purpose of forming
an association of n social character.
City Mortality
Unsttit Orrick.
emit December 19, 1817
The number of Interments in the city of Finiar ..
phin, for the week ending at U o'clock 10-day, is ~ Lp)
Lest report
173
— .7
Decrease
Consumption of Lungs. 45 Adults .
Convuktons ~. 0 Children
Catarrh 7
Debility. .. ...• 0
Inflammation of Lunge. 8 Males...
Mar/Pm:me 12 Females
Other dowases ... 3i Dori
(.11r1,
Total 143
72
Ureter 1 year 39
Between 1 and 6 years. 21
linger 5 yeqrs
Of the above there were.
berm the Almahoute
People of Color 17
8
MAW : JOHN N. 11ENDER8ON,
Health Officer
THE MONEY MARKET.
PIIMADELIIIIA, Dec 19, 1557
No portion of the President's message has been
received with gro•ster favor by the people, than
the wise recommendation that a uniform bankrupt
law, applicable to all banking institutions through
out the country, shall be enacted by Congress
The unequalled clearness and force with which he
demonstrates the impossibillity of stability in
trade and exchanges. while fourteen hundred Ir
responsible banking institutions have it in their
power to expand end contract the circulating me
dium of the country at the sole dictation of their
own judgments and interests, carry conviction at
once to the mind of every reader, and predispose
him to coincide in the remedy proposed by one
who thus treats of the entices of our distress with
a master hand.
He sweeps away, in a single sentence, the argu
ments of tho4o who favor the establishment of a
Natio na l Dank, by shelving that such on institu
tion would have the same interests, and would be
controlled by the same motives which govern the
already existing banks, and that neither aid nor
comfort is to be hoped for front such a sourae.
The State Governments have adopted, in many
cases, the Ino+t stringent regulations which expe
rience and wisdom suggested as necessary to govern
these institutions, and in every case it has been
found in the time of need that these regulations
were of little avail. The violation of these laws
on the part of the banks takes place at a time of
general distress, when the people are equally in
volved in trouble because of bank contraction,
made in the effort to avert bank insolvency. The
offenders escape from the penalty of violating the
obligations upon which their creation war condi
tioned, because Legislatures are told that the exac
tion of this penalty will work harm to the people,
and relief laws are enacted by wholesale, without
inquiring as to how many of the recipients de
serve leniency, hew many are solvent, or whether
they are in distress because of their own misdeeds
or those of their fellows. It almost invariably
happens, too, that the relief thus extended benefits
the (loth quents, the banks, and not their credi
tors, and the faith of the people in State laws, for
the regulation of banking, hes been not merely
shaken---it is entirely dissipated
Under these eiroutristances, the country bails, as
opportune in the extreme, the recommendation
of the Administration that Congress shall pass a
compulsory bankrupt law, prospective in its opera
tion, which shall first allow time for all snob cor
porations new in default to place themselves in
proper position, and then rigidly enfrree the pe
nalty et dissolution upon any future errors or ax•
ceases. With the knowledge of such an act in ex•
biotic°, and the certainty that it could not be
evaded by special sessions of Legislatures and the
actual application of lobby influences, the bank.
would find it no longer a temptation to yield to a
spirit of wild speculation on the part of their cue
tomer-, or to undue expansion themselves. In
their care for their own preservation, the commu
nity would find the best assurance of protection
and the right+ of alt interested in their transac
tions the fullest security
Let us have it, to ..urn up, in the able language
of the message, „ the s , ievri,ekt, organic law
o f each bank's existence that a no:pension of
specie payments shall produce its civil death The
instinct of self-preservation would then compel it
to perform its ditties in such a manner es to escape
the penalty and preperve 114 lire "
The value of the direct, foreign goods imported
at this port during the week was .5321,061
making a total since January Ist of 318 103,408,
The value of the exports for the week wa.+s;ai,7i3
The dry goode imported at New York for the
wee k i s 5",72.906, against 5N12. 4 31 the week end
log December 20, last year.
The enrning•;or the Erie Railroad for the mon th
of Not ember, 1g27, were h,092
Earnings November, Kyti i 2 0 ,4 ,1 09
i)C,re 1 0
The New York Ti.sit, say s In addition to the
January dividends already pros ided in this city en
the public debts of the diflorent dales, no under
stand the Merchants' Bank is reedy to pay on the
debt of Tcnnesme, and also on that of Alabama,
and the Bank cr America on the debt at Ken
tucky The halt-yearly interest On the debt of New
York will be paid by the :Manhattan Company
Altogether, the interest upon no clasi of funded
indebtedness has been more punctually resided
for in Ott season of embarrn , sment than en the
bonds of the fililOrellt Flates. The aggregate prin•
eipal, by the latest return, is '190,715,000, ripen
nhirh the January interest, chiefly provide.d foe
in Ws city, is not less than t'Z' , ,72t,510. The
States where credit los been least appreciated
horn were the first, this year, to place their Jana
ury tottrest in bent:, and to legislate against the
possible contingency of future interest pay
ment-.
Tlv• rhipment , of , ral over Ihn Muirlng.ion and
Itrowll'op ltrilronct for thn uncle I , rotin-
Inv 17th Were 1,917 ton+
Proviioly (ilk year 71,7` 1 1 "
Total 711,07 .4
The comsueree of the State of New York for the
fisent year, IWkO--`57, n+ follows
Export a of totne.lk produce
Epotti of foreign produce r.,1;01,e97
Total export
Imports....
E‘ne , ...3 of impnytq id01,n9n,172
'rho commerce of New York state for IB:01-•:.7
coin nith the commerce of the United z.date: ,
no fIMOVVP •
Exports front the United Straci 8•t62 11 ,10,02
Exports from Now York Sotto 131,80.1,2pe
New York State exports 37 per rent. of the total
exports of the country, and New York city ex
'anti 31 per cent of the total.
Imports into the United States $.3410,590,141
Imperil into Now York State 236,193,470
TLis +hows that Now York State itnporti 66 per
cent., and New York city 62 per cent. of the total
impert ,, of the country.
In the comparison of the navigation of New
York with that of the United States, no find a
smaller ratio, showing that the transportation of
Now York ii of a more co4tly character.
Tonnage cleared Now York city 1,736,411
New York State '1 .'3 Oil
United States 7070,821
We find from this that while the exports of New
York city were 91 per cont. of the total exports of
the State, the tonnage cleared was only :it) per
cent of the tonnage cleared from the State.
By a tabular statement of the exports, imports
and tonnage cleared for n period of thirty-seven
years, the following facts are shown
The exports of the State have increased 803 per
cent since 1820. The imports have increased 1100
per cent. in the same time, making evident that
note ithstanding our great producing power and
the want.; of Europe, our desire for costly foreign
manufactures has increased more rapidly. The
increase of foreign tonnage has been in a much
greater ratio than the domestic tonnage, although
the absolute increase has not been as great. The
ratio of increase of exports for twenty years past is
much greater than the ratio el increase of imports
for the same period.
Foreign commerce of the State of New York from
October let, 18211, to July lst, 1807,*
Year. Export:a Imparts. A meriean Fore ign.
Tannage. Cleared,
1821. /13.160,018 123,026,240 360,17410,720
1831.... 25 635,141 57,077,417 234,3.11 72,114
1841.... 33,18 83:1 76,713,42 a 600,307 305 211
1851.... 80,007,010 141,540,588 1.518,313 870 819
1857.... 134,603,28 238,493,470 2,188,070 1,400,201
.lyinceil Tear begins July 1.
PRILSDELPIIIkiTOC
December
Rerorted by R. manz u
BO} W,,!
• PIRBT
WOO Penna 58 .5.84%
2000 do ....5w0..84,1(
1000 du 844;
100 - do 84s
100 do 84S
600 do 84, A '
LOO 84s
100 City 68.08 r P. tivr.9l's
800 do . C.VP.858(
7000 Bead R 8s '86.-86)(
1000 Cam& Am 6s 'B9-61h
4000 Bugg Can 6.1 ea 5h.50.1i
50 Reading B. 27%
100 du .. 85w0.274i
BETWER.
0000 Perna 5 0..5wn.84.,4
BfiCOND
400 City 6s C&P.655(
6
3000 RF.a.l It 1, 4
15 N Penn% 11 • • -5;
laPenna. R. ......... 38 io
AFTER
1 000 Lehigh Val R 6+ 2J3
ormolu PlllO
Std. A6Bed.
FhileWsint 0ff.85;4' 87
" .• 1ti1.833i 87
fieW.9l7‘ 93
Per nvIT 8474
Reading 11 "7 s 27
do Bonds '7070 74'
du 6irt 6,4 , 14.91 87
do do '8t).00 66S
Penni, RN 38,1 4 30
Moms Cant Con 43 46
Bchu N 0.182 ...60 61
stock.... 10 11 I
BY THE PILOT LINE.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
(Correhpondan^_e of The Press J
New Your, December 19, 1857-5 20, P. M.
Tho week cloves without any change in the money
market. The passage of the bill authorizing the
time of treasury notes is anxiously expected, and
when it purees I ern convinced Mr. Cobb could get
the entire amount token here at 41, or even at 31
per cent. There is so much money lying idle, the
holders of which would be afraid to land a dollar
on any commercial signature, that Government
securities would bo greedily scrambled for at, al
most any rate however low.
The extreme caution exercised by the banks and
note-brokers amounts practically to a stoppage of
discounts, yet I am led to believe, though I own
I ani incredulous, that to-morrow's bank-state-
ment will show en extension in the discount line,
exclusis e of the currency-cortificates, of which
over four millions are still held. Tho withdrawal
of their notes by the State banks . end the annul
ment of the certificates, do not go on as rapidly
es was anticipated ; but it is supposed that after
New Year's this process will be greatly accele
rated
It must be remembered, In eoneidering the pros
pects of our money market, that a cry considera
ble portion of the apparent ease now enjoyed by
our commerciallmosee arises from the extension of
notes which fell due during the crisis. which the
makers could not pay, and which the bottlers were
compelled to extend in their own defence.
In n month or six weeks many of these exten•
sions will expire. and I do not see how the debtors
will he in a better position to pay then then they
were in the first place Their failure to pay, from
whatever rause, amounted to bankruptcy, and as
the times have not certainly improved for the
class to which they unfortunately belong, the ex
tension was only a postponement of the evil day,
which they on mistily accepted nt the time, in the
Mionwber-like hope that " something would turn
np " Another crisis or a further extension seems
to he the only alternative, and whichever of the
two is adopted as the leaser of two evils cannot be
said to tend to easier or better times, since there
is no prospect of a favorable or speedy realization
of the produce of the last harvest, on which our
prosperity depends, and which constitutes the
basis on which our obligations must rest.
It is only necessary to compare the present price
of our chief staples with that before the panic,
and that of this time last year, to see how disas
trous the depreciation must be.
The European news, although somewhat rem
.uring so far as England is concerned, is not gene
rally of n stitficiently positive character to cause
much improvement on this side. The state of
things in Germany and in northern Europe is very
bad, and the private accounts from France are far
more gloomy than the comparatively rosy state
ments contained In the muzzled French newspa-
pers and Count do Itiorny's speech to the Corps
Let-t•lattf.
On the whole, I believe from ell I can see end
bear, that we have several dark days before us,
and that so long as the way is so much encum
bered, as nt present, with unabandoned wrecks and
unseaworthy craft, we deceive ourselves if we look
fur any really healthy improvement.
Foreign exchange was quite inactive to-day at
nominally full prices, there being no European
steamer from this port. It is supposed that n large
amount in gold will be sent out by Wednesday's
steamer. The exports of specie from this port for
the week ending to-day were as follows:
pee. 14, steamer Cahaerba, Havens, dos.
hlonnq
I. ntranner Philadelphia
Add to lh^ rtlnva the amount gent to Europe
in Horton ',framer on 16th
]turfy d Co. quote exchange as follows :
MI AM% ent N. V. Silts Banks
All New EinglAnd bank+, In good credit
mind.• Plasid
Exit Jorgey bank•
Trott Jer.ey 1)010,, ..... .....
Philadelphia hanks
Pennitylinniacountry Aaokv
Baltimore city batiks
Virginia old bank..
Virginia frno bankit
North Carolina....
South Carolina
New Orloam ..
Ohio, Indium Kentucky, and 311....c;u;i.
lediana free benke,...
❑6nnis and Wisconsin
Canada
Philadelphia check,.
Baltimore cheek<
Boon check;
The following are the buying and setting rates
of land warrant. , • laud warrante—l6o acres 77
862; 120 acres, 67a72, 80 ecre4, 73380; 40 acres,
8505
The Great 'Western Insurance Company has de
clared a semi-annual dividend of 3; per cent.,
payable January 2 The Mechanics' Bank has
also declared a semi annual dividend of 4 per cent,
payable January 2
The exchange% at the clearing house to-day were
$12,002,023 :11, and the balances were bi 71,132 itl.
The Sub Treasury received to-day Stil.ol7 tin, paid
i. ,. 921153 and has a balance of .1,`112,775 77.
The customs receipts were f 46,004
The stock market to-day was dull and heavy,
and the tendency was downward for:all the spe.:m
lett, a :10clis The really sound stocks and bonds
held their price, without any action demand for
them. The bulls, who hare fought brat ely for
some time, although occasionally forced to yell to
take breath, seem now to be entirely •• used up, —
and want to realise If outside buyers were not
as very scarce, they could sustain themselves well,
the present state of the money market being all in
their falor, , but the freah •' flight of fists It not
to he caught, although very ingenious devices are
ro orted to to put salt on their tails
.ht the second board the market was as heavy a,
lead, without any great alteration in prices
Reading declined T, Erie 1, New York Central i:
Michigan Southern old) and do preferred I; lie
lena and Chicago and Illinois Central bonds
The earnings of the Michigan Central Railroad for
November show a falling off of SI le.ooo. as e lmn.
pared with le,t year, and thr.e of the Terre Haute.
Altnn, amt St Louis 11 , 1111 , 111,1 t?'in 44.1 47 The
new lean of the Michigan Southern ro td has been
mb,cribed to the amount of VMO,OOO, and is the
same as closed, sine the reservation for foreign
stockholders, if not taken by them. ii bespoke by
parties here
NEW YORK BLOCK ExcnnsGE BALLS Dee 1 g
PECOND BOARD
10" I,', hi
MOO n's PO I 115 .1. rne 11/1 If
1000 Ilton'a'n Only n'a 91 100 2so Crn 11R
4000 111 ern 11111.4 At{ 7) do
10.0 NT cnnout I r o ~ 0 7 5
llCRFrclionfrn .3', I ...: ‘,
erne Rll th , , II 30 1 , 0 11,1 11)ter 1111 IP%
7,0 0, Di. ~r C onn , ron 04.1) R 101 1111
Ilk or Amrrirn 1 0 " , 311 S dN I, Rll 4
111 F S 7. cf NY ^1 169
10 Min% El% L 5 31i:5,AN I, r , nCc ;71
'2O In 01 7,3 do
‘4 .
41 Ann End, Innuk Alkt L 0 i;AI (Inc TLR 72 , i
1!) Pn, ill; M ;•!.. Co ' 7.50 11111 07.) 75
40 N 17,111,11,1 cnlC , q 100 110 71
C , llO, CI en b3O in , _OOIA Cr it 10%
100 RtC 040 1S , 40 Ilsrlem 111:t y , :.1 15
b quiet, wit's srr nll =Ac-.
a. $ll. both for pros and pearl?.
C”rt•nr. —The market continues quiet; sale.- of
b1,7.s ili nt `.11110;.
COI 7o•:.—The mn ear t ry. lentir4y
nc , tinal at 10,: fir Middling, I plxnd = and In`e for
New
ri, t w 1 , -Tim market remains ver) rin'et nod :to
;,Om bbl. at :a1:1 sir Pr com
I^-n to el, ice superfine . .91 SoaSt 7C f,,r e:-
Ira State; -7. 1.:10n$1.15 for common to gaol super
fine Western ; and $I ;043 :..11 for romman to
medium extra grades of Western. Canadian Flour
lower; mile. NM bbli nt $1 :1.5151 15 f r Fup er p i „,,,
and $1 70tt511,2:, for extras southern Flour lower;
fkllitl 700 bbl. at $1 C'Ott!'.. , 10 for Fuperfine, and
sr. 20a ~ 75 for extras.
$111,R0J,298
(Inaix.—The Wheat maetet henry, and
nominal The rile; are only Ilno brphelt info
tier lied Fouthern unit poor whito do .
both on grit ate terno liye dull at 70:172e Corn
to lull and 1101,11ivilly unchanged— W c.terti mired,
, new southern and .fer-ey, Oats
plenty and cry dull. at 13.i1k for ` 4 tate and Pia
die for Wentern.
Ilinr.s.---We have to note a dull market to-day.
The only transaction re he:sr of is fdlil Texas at
1 Ic, ii mo., rejecting bad hides and water damaged
Tho sale of Western, referred to yesterday, was
1,500 Western Flint at 13±,s, r; mo ,
Mot.es —Time is but little doing to-day. the
only sale transpiring 19 81/barrels Cuba Muscovado
at 23c, t nto.t
Na' it. Stott} , —The demand for Spirits Tur
pentine i s only to a limited extent, and prices are
about to lower Sales 000 bbls at 40c, cash. Crude
Turpentine is unchanged. Common Rosin is dull
at $1.32a51.35 per 310 lbs, delivered.
PnoviSIONS —The Pork market is without any
material change, and the demand continues
limited. Sales of lio bbls at $lB 50n515 SI for
Mess; $l3 50a514 for Prime; $lB for Clear ; $13.2$
for Thin Mesa, and $l5 for Primo Mess. Beef con
tinues dull, and prices have a strong downward
tendency Sales of 140 bble at $5 75a56 50 for
Country Prime; $9a50.75 fordo Mess; sloasl2
for repacked Mesa, and $l3 503.514 for extra
ditto. Beef llama plenty, and dull at 314 a
815 75 Prime Mess Beef ie nominal at sloas2l•
In Pickled Moats there is only a limited business
doing at 7.1710 for Shoulders, and os9/e for !lame
Bacon dull, and prices tend downward Pressod
Hogs have again declined, with only a limited
business doing at tiati le Lard has advanced, with
a fair demand. Sales of 240 bbls at 01a010. In
Butter there is only a limited business doing at
10al0c for Ohio, and Lia2oc for State. Cheese dull
at tiaBc.
Rter.—The market is quiet, kith tales of 75 tos
nt 3a,q,3., cash, for common to prime
Sl'GAlt.—The market is quiet, but Ilrm. SION
of 13 Ude Porto Rico at 71a 7 :0, and 250 hhde
Cube, at 6a7ie
SPICE S.—We learn further tales or 10 en.ces Nat•
runs at 50e, six months
WutsKir better Sale+. 6(10 Ws at 210.
Funiumrs steady for English pal, but gene
Telly linear,.
BX.OIIANGS SAM,
19; 1915 T.
r., Stork Bro4er, IYa
let sofa.
OARD.
[Reported her The recut
RlCHllOND—steanusbipPeansylesnta-124 boxes to
bacco, 8 eases do, Buckner, Skew:non lc:Co.; 115 boxes
tobacco, A. Armstrong; 61 boxes tobacco, Malts &
Boehm; 2. bis tobacco, Dam & URI; 8 bags chest
nuts, H. A. Caldwell; 35 bars pass, G. • Bablall & Co
2 bills meal, Dr. C. Cart , t. 36 bble mai, 42 bags do,
; 116 bags fruit, B /ones; 40 bags fruit,
3l'Aleer ; S bxslndo, J. lc J. P. fitskter • IX bale*
sins, Server & Ilsrket; 51 bags nuts, D. B. k D. J.
Evans; 136 bags nut., J. Dobbins: 39 empty maks, Poet
ney & Massey; 3 empty casks; Y. Gail; 121 empty
casks,,,6oo packages +int:attire, order.
25 fleAding 11 2T Si
100
dodo 45wnt4 lot 27:S
1 27
50 do
50 do 45 273 i
100 do !IWO.. Int.27,'i
10) do .....17.4rn 27 ki
10 Lehighes 34 .
40 do 1.4.31
100 Bch Nne pre! crads.l7 , ,,
50 d 0....
7 Derr Mend B. 614
1 .....
Commonw'h ftk...18
BOARDS.
At the Merchants , Exahange, PAiladaphiel.
ship Tueearora, Dunlevy Li regool, Dee 25
Barque Gen Warren, Clifford kiaTllla. 110013
Barque A J Etarvey, Willar Bartadost, soon
Schr Jae 11 Stroup, Corson Cardenas, soon
&hr 9 B Wheeler, Corson Ilavana, soon
60 N retina R aK
BOARD.
I Penfla R 39
1 Cam k Ara R
1 Elmira R 11)
l NO do 65.11 x
BOARD
PHILADELPHIA BOARD 01 SHADS.
HOWARD A. SOODNI,
W 16566 Si- ILLSI3, Coluistyrzs or rim gOiii
Nowooms D. Tecomrsos,
, n -INACTIVE
SAILING OF THE OCEAN STEADikkii,
FROM THE UNITED STATES.
Bid. Asked.
Re N6k 'B2 pref 17', 17,i
Pimpl& Elm 1111 /IX
doletroort7'e67X 69
do 2dn2 49 bOX
Long Wand .... 9x 9N
Vickeborg GX
Girard 8enk.....9 gY
Lehigh Zincl. 1
Union Canal 3" 4
Now Creek
Ratemisas R R.. 6 6N
STIIIIII2I 710111 /OA L trli
8a1tic....... ....... York. -Li verp001........... ....... ..•• Roe 19
Europa Boston... Liverpool Dee .4
Canada 'few York.. Liverpool Oft 80
/tattoo New York...Havre - Dee 21
Borusaia New York..HarobOrg Jan I
Adriatic New York.. Liverpool ....Jan 2
Persia New York - .. Liverpool Jan II
Arago Neer York..Havre Jan 2
P.R051 SHHHPS.
eau poi opt
Borurain. Hamburg.. New York ...... ....Dee 1
Einaburg 0 lasgow..New York Dec 2
Adriatic.... ....Lir erpool..New York Dee 9
Persia . ...Liverpool—New York Dee 12
A rago Havre ..New York Dee 15
Niagara Liverpool—Boston Dee 19
Atlantic ..... ....Liverpool—New York Dee 23
Africa • ... Li rerpool—New York NS 26
114111311201116 liaroburg..sfew York Jan 1
Fulton flame—New York lan 11
117 The California Mail Bloomers sail from New York
on the sth and 20th of each month.
PORT OF PRILADELPFUL, Dec. 21, 1E47.
'ma RIEEB T 25-41:1N arra
HIGH WATER
Steamship Pennsylvania, Teal, from Richmond. ♦ia
timfol'a. 30 board, with who and passenger, to Thee
Webater, Jr
S teamsb p Delaware. Copes, 19 boars from New Tort,
via Cate slay, with mdse and pituengers to Junes All.
derdice Reports basing passed oa the Baoy on the
Midlle, barque A A Drebert, from Buenos dyne, wit
Rio Janeiro, lying at anchor, off Reedy Wand pawl
about ten schooners upward bona&
Ehip Tonawanda, 'aline, from Liverpool. 16th nit,
with noise and 90 pra.engers to Cope Brothers.
ficheJuniata, Carrington, 12 days from Portland.
with fish. he to A Hardy it Co.
Schr 3:ary Fletcher, Crosby, 10 days Iran E.utport,
with mdse to 1: A Fouler & Co.
Behr &whew Meoship, Grace, 1 day from Darer, Del;
with eoru to Jae Barrett & Bon.
Behr Henry Wolfe. Atkins, 2 days from Hilton, Del,
with corn to Bewley, Wilson .t Co.
Scbr Ceres, Osy, I day from Newport, Del, with dorm
and grain to Robeson Lea
Sri,r Albstor , s, Jordan, 2 dojo from Baltimors, wits
wheat to Robeson Lea.
Ship Berlin. May, Reraoaah, Pettit, Martin & Co.
Barque Oak, Ryder; Boston, Teen. & Co
Ilrtg wigs I.llthavay, Small, Cienfuegos, 8 & W
Welsh
Brig Bums, Bsker, Bartadoss. T Watkron It Sorts
Schr West Bennis, Cromsll, Chstiestoe„ I,yler, Stone
Cc.
Sshr U E Weston, Malloy, Charleston, Pettit, Martin
& Co
Scbr I F Durfee, Darla, Fall River, Noble, Hammett
& CaWatt!.
Pr TEL AAAAAA .j
(Correspondence of the Philadelphia Etehattlit
CAPE ISLAND, Dec 19.9 16 P M
The slops Philadelphia, for Liverpool; )arpret. for
New Orleans, barque Thee Dallett. for twain; beige
Ella Reed, for Greenock; D K Eaton, for Chu:Arms,
and P Lacoste, for Trinidad, Cobs, seat to tea yester
day afternoon.
Vann+. &6 . TAOB . B HIIOIII2I
Dec 20, 430 P —Tbe only Teasel that bu pawed lat
to-day was a berm brig. deeply WWI. No TeateD la
eight outward bound. Mod NW—stalker Ene.
T. 14
Arrived, steamship Black Warrior, from Banns,
with dates to the_ lath. Sugars were ►dive and wt.
saucing. Bremen barque Guayna. from Clitdao Bolivar.
tat:moms, Dec.2o
Arrived, Bremen barque Gessner, from Bremen, with
80 passengers.
A circular from St Thomas, dated the St k lest. fare
mehee the following shipping intelligence: The Ida do
le Torre, from New York, was in port dieeharging; the
brig Henry Downing, from St Lucia, milled on the Sd
inet. for New York.
80111021. DOC 20.
Arrived, barque $ Eyerecto:fron) Port/and, Tbe
barque Ellen, which sailed on Saturday, is putting back
to port.
eIEMORANDA.
Steamship H B Beach, Ramsay, from New York, are
need at Baltimore 191 k inst.
Steamship Arsgo, Lines, from New York, at Hare
25th alt
Steamship City of New York, }lower, cleared at Boa
ton 19th inst. fir Philadelphia.
Ship Tempest, Whiting, for New Oriestos, satled from
Liverpool let net.
Ship Mary Corselet, Williams, from Chit:tams, at
Greenock 2sth nit
- Ship Wile Awake. et Singapore Oct 21, lead been old
913,f00
Ship Witchcraft. Booth, at Msailla Sept Sib, from
Moran, oral baited 29th for Amoy.
Ship Boston, Potter, from Boston, arrived at Handle
Sept. 15
Ship Chilo, Hollis, front' New Tort, arrived at Hoag
Kong Oct 14
Ship Rereads. Brothers, Peale, from Bangkok, at Hong
Kong Oct 5.
Ship Kathay,Stoddart, from Sydney, arrived at Bata
via Sept 29
Ship Romance of the Sea, Caldwell, from New York,
at Batavia Sept. Z.
Ship Southern Cross. Howes, from San Francisco, ar
rived at Batavia Sept 28
Ship Jacob Bell, Behm, for Boston, sailed from Bata
ria Sept 24.
Ship Siam, White, from Bo.ton, arrived at Penang
Oct 4.
Ship Coronet, Con ens, from Chlorites, at Falmouth
28th nit Capt Convene wita drowned on the 313th by
the upsetting of a boat.
Slop' P Morse, before reported meek in the western
channel, Calcutta, has been sold for 2500 n.
Ship John Q Alum, Lewis, from Buenos Ayres. at
Calcutta Oct Li.
Ship Brutus, Snow, from New York, arrived at Cal.
cutlet Oct 12
Ship Geo Green, Fairbanks, from Hob le, at Harr*
Nov Old
Slop Washington Booth, Precut, from Islay. was be
low Baltimore 11th inst. ashore on Little Cove Point
wan expected to be got off without damage, after din
hcargior about 200 tom of cargo
Ship II us•ar, !lowland, at Shanghai Sept 28. for New
York, hot &lel tons engaged at 110 par ton
Ship Diamond S ate. Forsyth. for Phlladelphis,saled
from Leghorn Nay 273
aShip Jane 4; Bidets, York. for Philsdelphu, remained
Al Leghorn Nov losdia r t
Chip Florence, lamm•resg, IFas waiting fretikt at
Shanghai Sept 26
:hip Chimborazo. Morse, from Chin-chit Islands. was
Hampton Roads 17th out.
Ship Ariel, Cutler, which put back to Shanghai des
masted, remained Oct 17, condemned, her cup was
transferred to the Nabob
Ship Covert. triceot, from Elan Frenetic+, via Retell.
Istend and Lower California. arrived at New York pith
.net with 15(X) tons guano
Ship tionsoon, Baker, for Valparaiso, cleared at New
York 19. GI inst. and tailed
Ship Ilipporoffe. Hones, hence for lice; Reap, was
seen 11th io.t. pat 37 50, long 74 le
Ship trcole, Pitman. salted from Palermo 2.11 wit for
New York
Ship Ocean Render, Knowles. cleared at h orft/k 19th
tnst (or Jamaica
-stop Courser Cole. from doe Francisco, armed at
Hong Non Sept 23.
Ship Cincinnatns, risme, fir Bombay, cleared at Sc,.
too 19th in•t
Ship Fearless Naar' for !long Kcrg salted frem
Graseseed let lost
:ship Jana U Cooper Colima sailed frcso Antwerp
jseh utt for Havana
B.selue Jennette, iprchable) Parcler from Forgoes.
season shire t.tiseen Shangkse and Wont-sag Fort 21
Marto. Maury, Fle cher, cleared it Linden 2%.1 alt
for Shughe•
Dapple quoted...p a S.-I.th, for Now York. salloi from
Ircoourir ott
Barry ae Nreme.n Jebel
chi-, Fro Sept 7
Bantle l l Brehert. Hewitt recce:et tear sr. sat el
r.-: SJ
lisro le Far:hien Itadpaa , frcot R. - 1:c.c....4 for Itto do
Jamtro, =as spo ten 12th nit, tat 0555. ling 24 1 5
Barter Perlin. Wortley, for Bnerci Ayres. cleared at
Non ,rk loth hut
liaro,no Havana, Custra, fat Esthrrst, Africa, cleaned
at New York 19th lost.
Barone Clara from R:ehmoud for Kin de :a.
nett°. N 1 ts Token Noy laS 15 44 St,l.rag 78, 45 day, Orat.
Bsrlce W It Newman, Garet.foe Blade Jan-i,, with
door. sailed from Richmond 1 , -th lest.
Barque I Im, reek-, hence at Balton 18th tort
Bar due Gem, Hamtatml, (I.lTel it Boston 19th inst.
for Fir Is
Netah Pre, loot fur Menzuris,
et-trod rt BoC,mow 77th inst
din ; Always A an, ft Bee, hoary at (ilontester, Mmr,
VIII in , .
Den ; Boodelph. ',nee at Boston yesterday
Bore Jude, P.ls-ey, Breda:try, hence at 3lsrldellez..!
15th lust
trio Me,- Ann Jones, Orion, far Salem, evlzd from
Sept 17
Dr r Bernoller, from Ito de Janeiro, arrived
at Lattimore. Fith lost
Plummer. ft -m Rio de Janeiro Nor 7,
arrived et Now Verb 17th toil
Brig Fslrr, Welsh, from Ferenc:be:co Nor 9, via
De
bwarc Bret: 'ester. at Now 1 out 19th trot
Prlr Bin torrh. Lufkin. heist, (or Breton, rat into.
Stour irtin 17th •n st fora hart-or
p re , ; e n Ilaereros. Iluslcep, from Pnerics Aye-ss
ti t 9. proved at New Yoek 19th islet
ache Loir hearp, R easel-, for Philsd•lphia, mallet
toot" la . ! litter 17th inst
S -hr Jot .1 Smith, Crowell. Non New Bedford far Ph.t
tat,' ro- I, at Newport Ist's lost
hr Allen Middleten, Jr, Slyple, from Turks latent,.
at New Haven loth Inet
Fchre Stare NA er, taw., and L andeoreid, Hewitt,
for Philadelph i a, snorted from Providence 14th last,
but anchorid I+l.. n company with all that sailedlne.
Schr barn Reed Smith, cleared at Boston 19th last
for l'hiledelphia.
Stlirx Amanda. Coombs. hence for Newboryport; Per
severe:me., do for Pk-month, sod Fred Reed, lo for
Bath, were at Holmes "Hole 10 A M 13th inst
Schr Ilydranges, Butler, beano, was at Olouteiter
14th lost
Scbr Ocean B i r d , o,t,he, hence, arrived at Baltimore
18th inst.
Seta Se a Flower, Thompson. for Philadelphia, clewed
at Baltimore. Isth tmt.
Fehr W Salisbury. reeey, for Milford, Del. clesrol at
New York 19th tail
Fehr Geo It Townsend, Barter, from Rio de Janeiro,
arrived at New York 19th inst.
Schr Bootee. Powers, from Rio Grande Nov 3. smiled
at New York 19th inat. Left *barque Frei Deming,
arrived, brig Adeline, for hew York next day, ache
Samuel, do
Isar Julia Anna, Harding, hence at Boston 19th lost
Schr S A Ilarnmond, Fame, cleared at Breton 14th
iert for Fhiladelphla
Schr Hannah 91 illette. Crate-ter, 1 rocs at Dorsheater
14th Met
Sclir Irene, for Philad•lphis, sailed from Wareham
11th lost
Schr Monterey, Steelman, heave at Braintree loth
instant
Schr John Compton, Sharp, for Cape Hay, sailed from
Fall River Inch not
ticht Selena Helen, Kelly, heats at Port Ncrfalk 15th
inst
Schrs Sophia Ano, Smith, and Eli Townsend, Wil
liams, for Caps May; B Intik, Doughty, (or Egg Har
bor, and 51 R Carlisle. Winsmore, for Norfolk, sailed
from Providence 17th last.
Fehr N W Pratt, Wheldeu cleaned at New York Itch
in t, for Philadelphia
Schr Rebecca 41 Wheldner,Jeunan, hence at Wash
ington, DC, 17th last
Steamer J 4.1 Collate, Chapia, from Virginia for New
Haven, at New York. 19th last
Vesscis in Port.—There were in lwart yester
day two stearriibir, eleven ebipe, eighteen banines,
nine briri, and euteen let watts.
importations
LETTER BAGS
Marine Intelltgente
Ennui
Scb r Frank Herbert, Mayo, from Batton.
tiebr Fred Warren, i.:eombs, from 'Serpott
CLEARZD
Behr Hamlet, Hell, Providence, J Karmety k Co.
Mar a W Brent, Emerson. Baltimore. 7 Webster,Jr
Fehr I+ Warren, Coombs, Rotten. J R Whits
gebr F Norbert, Mayo, Bottom. Dehareo & Co
Str J b Shriner, Millet, Baltimore, A Ore Jr
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