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OASES ,' „ —' T '-:' ' •liAleßEßfe OASES, •"-- ' ' ' ' ''-' ~ • • ' $4l-18 BOOK HOLDERS,. - ' MONE Y ipillaS, • - (AGAR OASES, . ,- . -ItiZAB fiT40113,. - WWI - - dan ~, t . .:. ." (LARD OA S, - - ', - ' 'REED OASES, ' ' '. IN ET CUTLERY, , - ILOGELL . st 'MANE% ."'", no4i.cpr 8573 - OrlebS • • • ' ~ 11A0EGAMBION BOARDS, PAVIES suoiti WORN BOXBS, _&43 , 1/OLD`VDNII, and •• GOLD AND SILVER VENOM OASES. -N. W. comer FOURTH and ST IT Ott. LoonNg- IlLoszs, ZNOSATINGB, IL PAIN litGl; • kik 'otintsvite.4 py.FsElrsj, • .4ASIEB,L.SnitLE: - i Offerefbentle the Largest Intortrotint of the above; at the LOWEBI iittoE7 to bo found In the city: ,D.LtiLiYllkbeintiful fiLT./07RATIONS hMARGAR;T," 44Tigatoni. QALLERIES, • 816 ORESTNUT Btretit MELVIN'S GIFT BOOK STOGE, 888 OWESTNIIT STICEET,- IIII.,()W,101111711 ZOLIDATV • OUT DOORS • AND • OPTS 74...t4010-attroir-v,' . , !.•..uga,Owitiilaankifigwll4. • vtIUMINTEI '" - • • MMUM KADTRO. WINTER CLOAKS:: GSDIIOTION TAPPEIOII4, ' TOALOSS TUB SISABOL • J, W. PROCTOR is CO ' Sastaisoni to Oeo. Gulpio kk 00. ; 442-GIOS • 708 OMESTMIT stied A BEAUTIFUL • inEassr • ALVII, DAIIGNIEB; $ STEA, os ONE OP GROVBII - • 'FAMILY 11114 WI NG MA oni NE.O, WOR , 111141,AT - 'N0:730 CHESTNUT Street tUatchei, 44pieltit, • - WM. WILSON & SON Hare nos oo hand the Isrgost stook of BJLVRR IV, A - - -IX THE CITY, Nacinslyely . of their own manufacture and WARRANTED. Peraone desirous of purchasing are respectfully in 'Med to call sod examine for themselves, it the OLD ESTABLIBIIO • ' del9-2yr O. W. Cor. 17111 TIE and ; CHERRY Woes BAILEY fic OM, OEMST:IiI7,T . STREET; • dininfeetnrera of . IlltrflElif STIRLING BILVIIR WARN. Coke their Inspection, on the prandses exaltudvoly Oltlsons and Strangers ere Invited lo visit our menu footory. WATORTS. : Constantly on hand Areiletteki stook of Bali:toe Wstshei, of ail the celebrated makers, D . I ANON Necklaces, Brsoeleta, Brooches, Ear-Rings, - Binge, inntill other. articles in the Diamond lint Prindnye, Of- BUBB BilBß6fql 4 - will be mode fie, of - -, :eitv? lei that wisittio irort made to order: , , OOLD.J.EWELRY,; A beetildfal tieeoatuient of.lll;:ther neer styles of 'line itoinda, Stone ma hen 05p4,0, Reerl,,Ootel;• Oerbunole,,lferodalte, , llLp~i.l4lrei - OiBTORMIi BASKETS, WAITIllti,, to. Boone sailluble.ol,oolo3, of newest styles, and of neyerlor quality: ,• onl-dtwdcwly JE." ; -OA,IADW.EL - 1, & 00.,, .••., 4.4 CISESTISOT Street, , • • • lisvireeelved,. eteamere. new Ayles , • , Jewelry, OisStelatne, Yeet,lputine. , • • Ifetnt,'lfalr Plan: • , • *nit StatiSk Ing'syntkete, - Jett/on& Ylewer-Yeees. ' " ' Coral, Lawititelhlooste Sett. , • SolCAsante:in-Philndetelsta for the male of Oharlas IngehettOwLOARQN : TIME-431SPititS,„ 4010 OLVF/It WALL-- • ' WALX_AlritiLeilit do 90N. iitANVP.IO2TRER.S.D.F - Nll,vElt WARE, ' (RoTABLisuRD 'e/veiffilxins IRTIk - AtiD CaStillt SittlINTS. A largo iumortasent "of SILVER, WAREIof every 48% acrlpthick, aoaatatitly,Cut hand, °chinae to order to match any pattern - Prffired.• • , , • Imporieve of Sheffield And lllrrelogham havorted *are, , „ seWdbody JI S. JAltplgs BSO. • •'- . tiarroptoroartair Asa Irroirsiut Or '-81LYNN-PLATED WA MI, • ' No. had Chnitnab Street, - above Third, op ANN, ' , • Pandang* - • ChtalatanN i ll hand and for /taloa° the Trio Txt. S%TB • stutdox tagaViox es, xhufs mon - 10 Dimil,•.otrPo, - warrYgs, Log, OarourairvEs, epoONs; - Tompo, ifteDtAit, ;to. - • OW* and Oath* 0411 bdadaor • pt. - to Etilak'TYPE FCitrt/j)lq— : ••Is: w • tkir.3flll.li Sod OILISNUTI ti")PALOVZ I I Je ifonigful - tor 'the littera Inez iroois heretotati lotentea to Visa' Instebnelooent; WA Meows t6tonititek6atinuandei would* ainuninee to Pilatesi 7- ,sad latinsbers then their new ink.golllßl4 "OS 141 a 0,-704 dlitaid frost theirinersased Donates, airs "yr Pil in g Zish i srrery thing neoeseary in • aoseplets Printing Marmot:it, at the shortest no ttca. Their long Cireantikisroo ip the, , brisineoe, and the feet of their personal saneantendenes hf the . taralthifitatt4deforWeial lad - Wes - them In asserting *hit ologasoluppish • more.Sturiatie - aid -heads !lo bbed swede tliati their cotemorpitto ..Thoge;;Aliantgra, -oh& Alien Met/rigs, eouWdo to mix Wilma ifni4ons to, rutbatillt Prpli Diktat lit kostisttne• Ow* ts . nestiien prictut; • • A-AganiIVARNER, ' - RALBALIIIIIB , BRACKETBI P.IINDANTIC YitTINGS; awl all kr.ndiat sail mad Lamp Wark, *a.; No.B7b,OIISBTPII7: ATBRIIT,PPULADELPIII,t, ~ ABCIIIOd,-,WARI4III6i CO.-, u/f9. VIIRROOW.AY,IO.I4, YORK.. nilidi4tetttettiftlOsiliipetvaad idoi - o. stook oidd 14 Patriiit arAltfr d. 12 2.ut , 7 s;ooo,l3,oltibilMtm ,• • , " Itsci p illi b ' 4$20413114041140t1340:01),! ix* zpsicosingsu &caw ' i,u.ri.'WMATislarear 10.01812L-4091)ARRBLS SOAPLVICEIitS 'AIR I IIO#IIIq-WaVitte*WidiidditlihiXlNlFitey Nor 016141 br - IMMIX it 1 1 / 4 . 1/11,1(011 *Mt. - 'VOL. J.:- T NO. 129. tITTLETON CONE 4 VERSUS FLORA Mc W.LTAISEICw • yy yairEARR Or ,Tolllq, EAU,., (Centfribed,) „„ , Efeicribing hie maneloO,, TAM should I tell the carneafroal Turkey, the 'carpets' Brhesell, high; iii rletiorine of ,tilsh, lid pattern sod dye, Dare abloom to the cheek,a.tad 11:1414 to the eye,. Ala! well might the feat that those carpets shall press Be proud Of the Boner of sick a cereal' Asproud as the Dee .when in mummer it goes ' - To take for its carpete the leaves of the rose, , And toteithe Carpets, hi pattern so rare, Some pencil artistic had- wroughton the ceiling , ' "' -And oupidsand chemist:were Smiling from there,' The tastethe artist revealing., There ire Mirrors` and lantern, and cotta in traits ; Pianos sod ottomans,-Munges and chattel - Staines in marlde, where artists hail wrought The poet's honceptlon, the embodies thought. ' Cattalon 'Of 'donniskiand ceasing of lace; Tassels suanended In-beauty end-grace ; 1 • Cornices golden,,and, gay,chandellerS, . To brighten and lighten that charming abode ; All thatteluvenioneeand-fashionandears, Thea-lchest tulabili,,the latest in mode.. • He'd a uicelretting gig, mud a very light chaise, , .A-carringell'Onkelution, piiir'of fine tapir; ' With a trotter admired,A spirited steed, • • Perhaps from the ate,rk of the " Tartar Ukraine ;" very distinguished and popular breed, ' , -litaseppa'once rode ' •without bridle or Tte bertelWl am not enough,of &Jingoist,' • . To &elan, in, Tarter, the points that dindiaggish Ato:lrvin( this breed,-Of *bleb Byron hki, said , • It moved like the winds, likes comet it sped. ,, ' New the horse of my story was not !mite so fast, Ife had never boon matched 'vilest a comet or Ideal ; ,And in case that he had, I am now of the mind; should bet two to One on the comet or wind ; -Though our posy, when.mowded, would came to the ;Inside of twozfortyf flytishinutes; or more : Dinporor ofilinoda, ttio Ozir; , ' ' Naonfitaig u,ntrspify -Without his cigar; - -And Littistok Coke was most wretched indeed . IWlthout Spanish wrappers enclosing the weed. ,Porenioking, he thought; to'his life aurae zest, And baying the Money, he purchesed the best. 'He also cr,m, fond of his wine god champagne, • :Though hollering sobriety right in the main; dint, when anted by A friend If the pledge he would sign, land givemp his fateful, hig brandy; and. wine, - - Ife bide' him begone, with a frown; „, Ile *Mild not surrender Ida rights any how ; Robed tosolthettainotia,and had heard of Neal Dow, Hot he ;sal not prepared to /meet dews. - Hut Littleton Coke, with' hts,monstan no rag, •Ifsd eeniethingWithiti him his premiere to mar; ' A eomething.tliat Could notbe,washod out with Wine, ?for Could it be smoked out, with pips, or vigor. This something within, all the gold be possemed, ! Could hotline fronihis bosom, or briber to depart, And, this eeptethiog, : wao, netaingi noes. this, more et tenan 'tees ileas chamber, a Void In his heart. He often ' hadthutight,if a married man's liie ' With hie feelings and vlewp had accorded,, }le might to his bosom Baia taken a wife, ' And a void in his heart a void.ed. With thisthought in his mind to his couch one night, While tears from his eyes were stealing, ' • He went In the hope that some spirit of light, A balm of relief revealing, - - . 'Slight come to his pillow, suggeisting there, • Some maiden hie love arid his wealth to stare. ' Then - Vonishedthe world, mad its troubles before him,' The balm of.forgetroineee gently stole o'er And leaving his burdens and sorrows bellied, The angel of sleep, on Its soft; dowdy Pinions, Had ushered him into those blissful dominion., - 'The bright world of fancy, the realm of the mind. . [To lie contintied.j And !tithe old yeai - is not to. be continued, t advise mj readirs to make 1858 a ‘LlTajmy Nerd Year ,'> by se. eming Smite of the lihrgains in Clothing, Offered at Ilaitierr's BALL, No. 518 httnairr Street, south aide, between-lirftti and Sixth. INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE STATE .1 02 PINNBYLV4NIA., . P lilt ADIMPAri, Deo. 24, 1857. The Annual Meeting of tho Stockholders will be held at,tho Oompany'S 06co, No. 4 EXOUANCIE, on TUES. DAY, January fith,lBsB, at 12 o'clock noon; and an Election for Thirteen Directors wlll be held at smile place -on MONDAY, January 11, 1858 between the hours of 10 o'clock, A DI, and 1 o'clock P. M. de2s-tiall WILLIAM 11ARPER,Secre'ary. diFFICE , OF THE NORTH PENNSYL ,AS NANIA,RAILROAD 0051PANY. The :Annual Meatimi l of the Stockholder! of "THE 'NORTH rEmosYLTA TA 11.4.11.11,0 AA COMPANY,' will Witold at the office of the Company, No. 123 'WALNUT, !bovelotirth street, Philadelphia, on MON. , DAY; January 11,1858," at 11 o'clock A M„ at which time and place au .Election will be held fore President' 'and Ten Direators, to servo for the ensuing Tear. de2s.dtjall EDWARD ARMSTRONG, Secretary. NOTlCE.—Office of Ow Wentnioroland Coal Company, Philadelphia, December 19th WM, - The annual meeting of the Stockholders of thin Com pany will be held at their ales; No. 230 South TRIED ,Street, on WEDNESDAY, the oth of .Tannery, 1858, at 12 o , olock, at which time an Election will be held for Eleven Directons, and a Secretary and Treasurer, to serve forthe morning year P. R. JACKSON, de2l-tija Secretary. - .• VOTICE.— Office of the Beaver . Meadow .1.1 Railroad Company. • rIIILATINLITTA, December 14, 1867. • The annual meeting of the Btoekhorders of the Heaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company will be held at itzeir PAget.ai_o..ol2 ,WALlllll.Btreet, on MONDAY, itatiti • •• er..,4.•,-4 ten Director! for ,thitilianini Ye . • • .delf-dtjant L, 4:3HAIMPALAIN, See. and Trees. HOLIDAYS! pHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON AND • BALTIMORE RAILROAD 0011PANY.sonti. Ann 10,1861. • - The Annual Meiling: of the Btoitcholders of hp Com pany will UM OW is WiLMMiOTON, at tifilialoo or the Clammy on 1111:1N141, the 11th of Janaary next, .at pm P. 11.• for the libation of Directors to serve for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of ouch other business As may legally earns before the meeting. - MelDfirt.l/1 .ALERRD lIPBXER, Secretary. (IFFIGE OF TILE WESTMORELAND Au , COAL 00b1PANY;• No. 230 South Third street, corner of'Willing's alley, - PrtgIaDALPHIA, Dee. Settl e 1807. Ate meeting of the Directors, field this day, a Divi dend ,of EIGHT nit CENT, -wee declared on the Capital Stook, payable to the Stockholder& at the Office of the Company on end after January 4th, 1858. The Transfer Books will be closed until January 81h next. de2s;fmwtja4 ITItI&LE )RISND DITILADELPHIA - AND it F, AD IN G a. RAILROAD oo —Office ,217 South Fourth Street.' rottioittents - , Dec' 24,1657. TO Meld detentiOn i the' holders'of °Opens of this Oompauy doe,onthe tat proximo ere requested to leave them it this Oirme on or before the Slat lost, when re ceipts will be givenotud checks will bo - ready for de livery on the 20 proximo in exchaoge for mph receipts. 'de24•tJet B. BRADFORD, Treasurer. OFFICE OF THE LOCUST MOUNTAIN ,D9AI. , AND IRON CO.—PnimtnaLrms, Dec. IE, .—The annual metstiug of the Stockholders of this Company will he held at their office, No. 86 S. FOUR:III Street, on MONDAY; the 113th. January. at 11 o'clock A. Al, at which time there will be an election of Di rectors to serve for the ensuing year. de29-dtJalll ' ' WM. - U. LUDWIG, Secretary. - , R BI":VAL. Thi4bastutsi of the PENNBYL*AbIIA DANK will be removed on tho lot proximo, to the second story of Grigg's Bnilding, WALNUT eyed, east of Third. The Imam of property lodged at the Malik for "Bete koepiog will please remove ft before that day, or it wilt bo atoiedelsewhere at theirexponae and rick. .' d9.tjal .J. L. F.IINDJOBE, .Axaletant•Cashler. COLLIERIES.—To let, at a low rate per . ton, valuable COAL , NIISES, well situated to all the Southern as well , as Eastern markets, having out lets by railroad and canal, with coat -breakere 3 Mil) and all conventennas for a 'large and profitable bellicose. Commuleatione addressed to W., at the Grocery Store of WllLldalif, MADDOCK, No. 115. South 1111 AD Street, Shiladltiphie, with name and references, will re eolve.eatli attention: ' de2S-msrf-at FOR SALE.—Tho four-story GRANITE latlLDltici; on the north side of "CHESTNUT Street; west of Pandit, Intended for the Pennsylvania Bank, awl sow nearly finished.. If net EOM prior to Jaguar) , let the Banking goon), and other parts of the balding, will be rented , separately or together. Apply to ' TIIO& IAS CRAVEN, det-otuthtJl No, 4 Aft Nott Street. nantABLtOPFICES at arIVALNUT Bt., opposite the gate Ileum; one or the lies business locations in Philadelphia, with heat, light, and dl modern conveniences.' • Apply on the premises, Boom No. 8, to G.W . J; BALL, Agent note IVELLB, FARGO, & CO., NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA EXPRESS 00 - and Fxanuo■ WALVIS; A JOINS STOOK COMPANY. CAPITAL $BOO,OOO OFFICE, 400 CHESTNUT STREET, ' Express float to OALIVORaII,. OltntiOH, Mid 81:0- Vries IBLANDO or. the 6611 and 20th, and to HAVANA On 7tb,l2tb, and 27th of each month,. !yore NEW YORK. ICIONANGE for sale in sums to: suit, and comma 01On lune on California, Oregon, Sandwich Islands ind IfiTana. 'W. P. & Co. receive freight consigned to them at Per Clipper Ship, and eolleet invoice% OA detireq of the same, - NOTICE TO OALIFORN. DONDHOLPERB F, &, Oo are now prepitred to receive the OLD BONDS or the eltaf9lot QALIFOItNIA, transpOrt the smite to Sacramento Mtn and pi.Ocure new ones, in tie =dance with the act of 28th April, 1951, and return same ipthia city. „ • D N. HARNEY, Jo,, Agent MBE 'ADAMS. EXPRESS CO., OFFICE, flgO OLIESTNEIT STREET, forwarde ?ARGILS, PAAKAGES, ALEROELANDIZE, RANK NOTES and SPECIE, either by Ite , own LINES, or in rounectiop pith other EXPRESS OOMPANIES, to all the prlno:nni towlia and MIES of the United States. SANDEOED I aul-tf General SoperiotendoOt• . _ r, EMI 8 8; irE'L L 8, ATTORNEY , AT LAW, N 0.2 AIRY STREET, NORRISTOWN, P. will *Stand with punetunllty, and to the best of Ws ability, to all business entrusted to his care. nal .flta InIEL DOUGHERTY, ATTORNE Y . LAW gontheant Corner of And LO. SIBT Straits, IttlindelPAia• &Inlay 311:YER.STRO IT SE, 'ATTORNEY AT 'LAW, alINTItil street, Pottsville, PE. sert-ly "earl L ILOPE.-411PERIOIC NA. RTN, znanufaatured and for Kale 'l6 - :sll4.ltg!' Nei 14'1.. aEORMA `on, , SECOND and THIRD tor ruyansqui be badlitllf/ North Water fillet ' LW/ Wit *Atm h MACIAT,ISTUR. Vll ll , 3 o l 4uesoz,sor.r)BY OBAB- N ingi Ili IS% OM POW Si. &OHM . , . . „ . . . . ~. . . •, - . 14?4: '' * r' l : ' ' . . -. ''' '. . -7.. . - .' :..' • • • • .._ '''' ... • % ‘'. \i I i 1" ." ," - ~. .N . 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We now stand ,ou the narrow isthmus which separates the shadowy Past from the far-e3ttending Future. Even while we write, the Present iS vanishing. The hours, the closing moments of 1857 are nearly run 'put, and the New Year is ready, iu all the vigor of youth and hope, to run the race which, from the commencement of time, his predecestiors There it something Sorrowful, and even sub duing, in parting with .an old friend—aware that the separation is for ever. Well did Bums speak of "The Past, the Fature—two eternities," seeing that 'Afernovy and Hope are the hand maids who Wait upon ine.thiough the destined tgr*,or.9ll,r.liuwau. xh3feoce'... , Rtao on 1114 and steal from us, and it would indeed be sad to remember the cares' and , pains which each month has , heaped ipakr us, were ftmot that Hope remained, h . olding out bright, prinise for the days to come. grow elder, Wo have Moro and More to remember, and the sorrows and the cares of life strike' Us more sensibly than the joys and the happiness; for ' "Joy's remlleotioa is no longer joy, But Sorrow's memory is a eerrow still." The thoughtful mind will turn back, and meditate spot' :the Omit& Which have 'pd.. curred in the , closing -year, even' within his own circle„ even in his own,. life. On some the dark shadow of mortality has cast its gloom. , On others, love and friendship have becotne chilled and changed, and gay hopes' of happy life have faded away, like the dissolving views exhibited by a . magic ‘ lantern. Many have fallen from wadly prosperity into compare- . Rye, or even actual necessity. With some, the sofirings of ambition have boon checked. With others, parodisal glimpses of 'domestic hapiti ness have glidid into cold reality—haeo.daxzled but to disappoint. Amid these changes, have come others of a softer and gladder aspect— the fulfilment of expectations which the heart' had Scarcely ditred to confess even - to Itself; the realization, even to fulness, of ambitious aims; the enjoyment of home felicity; the increase of ,worldly fortune. Pretty evenly balanced, we do believe, are what wo call good and evil in this world= ignorantly call them, for in the seeming 18, there may be, and there must-be, some _high purpose of the Omnipotent. What each man May look upon as a Misfortune, is likely enough to haie been sent as a lesSon'; and' surely not sent in vain, 'if it lead him •to the more serious consideration of the fleeting na ture of, earthly joy or sorrow; of the import ance • and the - necessity of turning , the mind heavenward; of seeking consolation, where alone it can bo . found, in what Religion teaches, in the promises which Faith accepts and Experience sanctifies. It is peculiarly fitting that, at the close of a year, men should review, in their own minds, the events which have personally affected themselves within its limit, and of soberly considering how much of the sufferings each has experienced may have arisen from his own misdeings or short-comings. In how many instances will it bo found that a duty neglect ed has led to serious Inconvenience or sorrow,. and that, in fact, there is no such thing as a causeless event,. any whore. The „errors „of onolifsion miff ,tfoiforaissien shape , our - ways,- and—could - we. but see and -acknowledge it— most of our sorrows, vexations; and trials have originated with ourselves. This is a thought which a sell. Communing man will seriously apply, and if he bo warned in 1858, by what occurred hi 18b7, he may profit by the lesson, ' It much the same with nations as with indi. vlduals. Look, for example; to India, and see what fearful events have occurred there within the year which, even now, is slowly passing away. Who will say that England, partly' by misgovernment and partly by ne glect, has not deserved the feared retribution which has fallen upon her in Hlndostan. Who shall declare that there is not a palpable lesson, in the sad events which have there occurred. Not that writing upon the wall which made %Lumen:ft tremble, and sit o like one as. tenied,". spoke more directly to his mind than does the Indian revolt speak, trumpet. tongued, to the heart of haughty England. The Empliff of which Cmvx laid the Nina. on in'1767,A05 been newly broken up in 1867, and nothing, under God, except the gallantry of llAvtmoox, WIZAION, and such commanders of more handfuls of British troops, besot by myriads of relentless and savage Sepoys and Mithomedans, could have prey ented that ruin. England, looking on Flindostan only as a treasury, neglected the moral and, religious culture of the ffirldoos, and having sown the winnas fearfully reaped the whirlwind. In this very 1858, into which we are now passing, a new system will proba bly be commenced in India, to retrieve the past in that great land. - There is a charming rural custom, in many parts of - England, of ringing the old year out and ringing the new year in. The chimes, on the last day of 1857, will sound a welcome note through the silence of the midnight. We have no such custom here. There is no requiem for the departing, no merry welcome for the coming year. Yet not unnoticed, not unhonored, is the advent of the new year. In France, they call its opening Ic jour de l'an— emphatically Me day of the year—and set it entirely apart for visit-making and gift-bestow= lug. In England, it is celebrated-with almost as much solemnity and sociality (tor the two elements can combine) as even Christmas day In New York, and also in some other groat cities in this country, business is wholly sus pended on New Year's Day, and, from early morn to the close of day, gentlemen are in one continued ,whirl of excitement and of visit paying. Hospitality is freely dispensed at every house, and all goes " merry as a mar riage bell," though there may be some severe headaches in the morning. The clock peals out the' last stroke of twelve, and, while 1857' departs, wo stand in the presence of 1858. May the New Year find us all happier and better than the old ono bee left us. To till friends, in true sincerity we wish « A nappy New Year!" FROM THE JUNIATA VALLEY. LEWISTOWN, Dec. '24, 1857. Ma. EDITOR: The Democracy of old Mif flin still cherish a fervent devotion to the great doctrine of popular sovereignty, as em braced in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and en dorsed by the Cincinnati Convention. Yon will not, therefore, bo surprised to loin that, almost to a man, we are opposed to the ad mission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution. With the peculiar qualities of that instrument, we claim to have nothing to do. If it suit the people of Kansas, it will stilt us. But it is a matter that concerns us, to know whether it embodies the sentiments of a majority of the bona fide settlers of the Territory, or is abhorrent to their views of interest, right, and justice. Upon this ques tion there can be no real conflict of opin ion. The Convention was not a represen tation of the voters of the entire Territory, as a large proportion, without any fault of their own, were prevented from sending delegates to the Convention, and to add insult to injury, the framers of tile Constitution, tu violation of their solemn assurances, and to the disappointment of the just expectations of ' the citizens of the Territory and the whole country, refused to submit it to the popular tribunal, because they were ashamed of their wOrk, and knew it would receive a most hearty condemnation. We think the Democracy ought to be a unit upon this question. Rely upon it, the hoheld hearted and clear-headed masses will sustain The ,Presi fn its fearless vindication of truth and • exposition of. error. if The • will of the majority" is a principle to which they have pledged an eternal fidelity, and no considera tions of expediency will induce them to vio late their solemn obligations. Yours, truly, KINIACOQUILLAS. PHILADELPHIA, - FEIPAIK JAMJ'AIer I, 1858. ' :- "' Alitimidet of glooMy et;su osiliere,:mora( and ..11nanolal, by whiob. We are sawroundtul, It la refroehing.to have an occasional' glimple'Orpnrer and brighter spots; giving rise to a cheerful hope thatic:Ohildeneemay yet be 'reposed in human na ture" even when in ollioial station. We have it our midst a public, institution which bee beet' managed for more then twenty years by the seine' bands and beads, with ;an Unobtrusive aisidaity and skill baring but few paralleie in the annals of municipal enterprises. ' . The facts given below hare been brought to no- Goa by the well-directed efforts of a committee of investigation appointed by Common Cenziolis near ly three months ago. . In the course of a scrutiny recently- made by a' committee of Councils; appointed on the let day of, October last, to examine into the affairs of the City Gait Works, certain statistical :facts Mayo been eli cited, the study of which will enable .any comPe-' tent accountant, or person of "Justness capacity, to arrive at a correct judgment as to the relative ecco noisy and skill displayed is the Construction end, management of this largo public work, in compari son with one built by private capital, which hak been selected by the originators of this inquiry,' under":e well-founded behef that it affords a fare ruble example of careful frugality and thrift. Thestatistios are 'derived from 'official teciorde laid before Councils end their Committee on es,- at varibus tittles within the past two years, by the Boards of Trustees of the two establishments, Wbos,e' Periodical' etatenients, repeated annually for, tWanty 'years, must be' esteemed .worthy of, confidence. ' 'The relativaporitione 014 tiro 'Works, as respe cts their fatillities for (dimmest of oonstruetlon, me he deemed as nearly identical as is poesible etrgreat difference of magnitude. The first Motion bf the City Gas Werke Ina put 'into operation In the 'year 1838, under the super ;vision of Mr. B. 'V. Merrick, the engineer who planned and constructed them.. Thafirst Notion of thallorthern Liberties Gas ,Works was built in Abe- year laso, under the su pervision of. the same gentleman, with the advan tage of ,having the use, free of oust, of many of the patterns-made for the City Works, and of starting with improvements in the apparatus that 441 then been added to the other after they were built. Both worie•have bean kept-tweentintious opera tion, and have boon enlarged from time to time, as the demands for gas increased. lu the month of afaroh, MO, the - Trnstoos of Northern Liberties Gas Works laid before a joint committee, authorised- by Counoils to negotiate for the purchase of their works, a detailed invert• tory of their property, , real and personal, in proof that watt worth the price named by them in 'treating for,its sale to 'the city. , In January, of the setae year,, they bad presented their usual 'annual report of receipts and expenditures ' ehow 'fog the cost of the several items contained In the 'inventory. The Trustee!, of the City OAS Werke have likewise - made annual reports to Councils, •twonty , two in, number, • exhibiting, with very minute details; the amount of their various pro perty and its mist, From these reports have been derived the statistics of ,both works. , • , The:statements eonirilled from those offocial re., cordigive, in minute detail, the value of the pro. party of each establishment, measured by its pffee• tiva eapaeity. find toes of .iron, with the cost of each Item. • From these are prepared collated "inventories showing their ratios of value anti cost. As the inventories show simply the quantity of property, as measured,„ only by its capacity for making, storing,and distributing gas, without any regard to tho permit:Rolm of construation, styles of finish, or convenience of arrangement for ear inglithor' an, comparison of `the two establish ntents,ln the terms of theso Inventories, must be. to, the disadvantage of that one in which. the greatest regard has ,been had to those Important principles of skilful engineering ; and acme extra east would be justifiable at least for the first and named' items. . • In the following tabular etateinent of the eel latad Inventories, no account ia made of any supe riority of either of tho works in these rogpeottr, the values set down being merely those represented by their productive CftpLUiltiOn no so much machinery.• Collated statement of the amount of Ike roast - ty of the two ettobtislinients in term of its use ful ovaeity for making, storing, and dit (ranting gas N L. 01.3 city Oa% \Yorke. Works. WINO. Capacity feetory.2,7oo,ooo c f 300,000 c. f ? " to " 5t0rne..3,450,000 " 930.000 " 5 Street mains.... 13,107 ton,. 741 tons, 17.5 to 1 Staters Value in lights.. 1 ,2 4 4 41 6 0 1t,11 .6 1 t 12 0 tol 13er Tice pipes.... 24,446 2,427 10 oto 1 Entire ratio or One ' 12,5 to 1 50 oto Colleting in like wanner, the reported cart of these items gives the following ratios City Gal ,tVorkt. N. L 444.117010 , 4 14 i4r - - - 'l6l,lore 'el2oo,Slo - 79 to I Street mains.. 800,018 27 '63.1%3 15 15,W to 1 Meters 208.350 10 27,341 22 91 to 1 Servico pipes— 203.204 39 33.307 00 13,W to 1 £2,661,002 Alt 1,275,108 00 36 to 4 Ora ratio of 91 to 1. From this it appears that the City Works, with more than twelve times as much useful Inachioory and apparatus, have cost only nine and three quar ter timesaa much tut the works In the Northern Mottles.. In other.words, if the latter are worth cost, the former, measured by those= scale, are worth $600,000. more. than .cost, independently of any an.PcrloritY in durability or econoraioal con venience. Adding this sum to their reported Coat shows their voluo to be $3,210,774 95. Of the amouut oat down as the entire coat of the works, the report shows that the sum of $378,460 62 Malian paid for directly out of the profits, without the Issue of any loan, and that of the loans issued, amounting to $1,780 060, the further BM Of $601,600. had beau redeemed out of the profits at a wet of $705,441 .63, leaving as the whole amount of outstanding bonds, over and above those In the sinking fund, only $1,088,700. Adding to this cam the amount of city loan assumed by the gas works under ordinance of March 20 th , . 4 for the relief of taxation," makes a gross sum of $1,538,700, whioh represents the entire debt of the Use Works at the date of the report. And as the works are shown to bo worth, :.coording to the Northoru Liberties' economical sale of oonetrue. tiou, $3,215,774 35, there remains a clear gain to the city, from tho operations or the floe Works, of more than ono million six hundred thousand dol• In what manner the earnings of the Northern Liberties works wilt comptire with those shown above, their report to Councils does not afford the means of ascertaining, as there is no account given of the stock of ovate, do., on hand, nor of the debts due to them or by them. But the details of the profit and loss account, given in the report of the City works, furnish data for determining what would bo their earnings, if the prices charged for gas wore•the same as those of the Northern Libor• ties works, and will thus enable any ono who may be familiar with the affairs of the latter to make an accurate Comparison of the relative economy in the daily working of the two establishments, which appears to be one of the questions-raised in the disouselon of the subject in Count:tile. Thei paths heretofore charged, in the Northern Liberties, were $2.70 per di to private oustomers, $1.75 to public tamps,-and en intermediate price to other gas companies: Those of the sit; were $2.25 to private °annulling, lege than $1.25 to public lamps, and $1.6131' to gas companies. The die. counts for cash being alike in both works, need not to be taken into account. Tho profit and loss account in the city gas report shows that after appropriating from the earnings of the year 1866 To pay interest on loans, tho sum 0f..:.5104,455 00 To the sinking fund, under ordinances. MOO OD Nor city loans, assumed under ordi nance of March 20,1855 • 55,000 00 There remained of earnings applicable to extensions 42,201 93 Adding to these the amount that would have Roomed, if the prices of the Northern Liberties had beeu receiv ed, say— Forty%fivo coats on 304,061, 000 foot Lens 5 per cont. tilvconut - 5400,370 And 50 cents on 80,935,200 Coot charged to public lamps • 40,467 60 1.70,830.43 Would !nuke the earning's of that year, $405,383 38 Which is over 18 per cent. on the whole indebt edness that had ever been incurred fur the works, real estate and public leis a, and over 25 percent. on the entire amount of ,debt outstanding at the date of the more.' PHILADELPHIA MARKETS Tantrenar, December 31.--The market for Breadstuffs Is dull to-day, but holders are rather firmer in their ideas about prices since the receipt of the Arago's advicm, which are moreffaverable fur all descriptions. In Flour transaetiona are to the extant of 12a1,500 bbls, at sbass.2s fur common and 'good 'extra; and' $5.75 for choice extra family flour, which is no Inquiry for standard shipping flour. Wheat continues dull and neglect ed, at $5 per bbl. The home trade is limited at from $5 up to $6.25 par bbl, the latter for fanny lots, Rye Flour and Corn Meal are dull, at bi for the former and $3 per bbl for the latter. Wheats arc not so plenty, and the sales have boon limited to about 2,500 bushels, at Ilnallbc for reds, the latter for choice Tennessee, and 122430 c for white, including 1,000 bushels Kentucky at the highest. figures In store. Corn Is but little in de mand and rather scarce; the only sales are 1,500 bushels new yellow at 52a55c, as to condition, in store. Oats are in fair demand, and GaBoo l buShole Pennsylvania have boon sold at 341050. Rye is selling at 70c at the distilleriei, and the market is steady at that prior). 'Bark is not Much inquired for, and Ruin-citron is, quiet at $2O for first quality. Cotton remotes dull arid unsettled. Groceries: the only transactions is the auction sale of Coffee, which came off to day, including 1,500 huge Rio which cold at 8411 fa on time, averaging $9.77 the 100 lbs. Provisions continue dull and neglected. Cloversoad 1. wanted, with small receipts and salsa to note at $5451 per int. Ton tons re-eleaned seed sold, from second hands, at Sic per lb. Whiskey Is rather firmer, and sell ing at 22a2810 for Ws, 2116220 for Wm., and Me for drudges-, Captain P. S. Guthrie died at Newport, Ky., on Tuesday last, Captain 0. served throughout the Mexican war with the Duquesne Wards, of Pittsburgh, and wee brevetted Ins,* fur hit bravery and service during that campaign. ....Ibilitatitittlialf:STATlSTlts• F0R'18.57. ' ' s A • Reeird of the 014 year,. Ai'e intent the roaden Of ,Ties ,Pre3 , w-asY with wine very useful and' hitereiting statistics rotative the different department* Of the eltY governMent, .vilith we have been ettittigedln compiling for snits time past. • The 'figures„irbioh sie give, may will be termed the history of Philadelphia during Aft paid year. Tn s'ort' fair statistßrs can be °omen ,tokted' the substance 'cif, ten thousand feats, and a "IWO cOleMe may show, forth the lights and IhOdes of mltiod-eolored , life. Among these 1144te5, , those whloh give the gauge and diesen slOS if human misorY are not the least important. P e auPerlsit is - rapidly increa sing In our midst. The . . ,alinshouse, the county prison, and the squalid hitlitst hove • their regular Inmates, marked and seated for such abodes, and their numbers toll no tridins tale of waut: Fifteen thousand prisoners uarnitled to the eounti prison In one year, moat o . em Teti offences arising from destitution , show ItWitpOeerty eon Verge Into crime, and fur nish an *Vet orhuinals. , e reeelved from Henry W. Aroy, Esq , Score tbily tif:the,Board of Direeters of Girard College, thaf felletting fitett telatlvo to that noblest of our Filliidelphia institetintie 'During the year, 77 or• 'tl:t ee i , ',.h4,,Altedn,ziogyle . :, , lntglesinirTiVoanJ bstbril-for efdleidon of rules, leaving in the ;0 . ' Et lige . tftlizptiOnt this, 810. The affairs of tit ,liiNte;lietflei tiodnatted , that $ 5 ,00 4 1 of 'the , iiiiprbpsiation made; by pounolls for the year 1857. as inkiit4tiiikitelWiliitkitYpetideti , ' Thin is an..,..aiAlif thithiOnie'llePeitMentli irould &wen to imitate, In a regent number of the Press we ' , gave a full anVeorreoi teitount of-the essential okitnges which .. ho li ve linen made in the Interior , topstrantion of 11,0 1 00114 e. . The ladles and gen. Venice convicted with this 'institution have a roost important trait committed to their care, and ,shies itendo Of the past year fully attests that thin , - re not been unmindful of their respoust .bility. • - Vatilig the paet)reer there were sixteen murders odureltted in thiscity. There were eleven trials, and three convietions. The following are yet to blklited, hot the tithe, as we lecin by inquiry, Lan lief been Iked : " ,Qoprge Freoth—ctrenee committed on the 17th otafiguS4. JetriGalleghtil—oftenee oeuuntlted on the 12th of September. ~Edereril liempecy,--offence committed Oat 10th. , Wm. Itidgeley—oreneecomealtted In October. John Kitputtocy—offence committed Oct: 20th. Jom" . 4o4l l eq-_-ftlleged offence committed Oct. „. oruas W. l'imith--otrettoeuertnnltted on the 9th ,ir_ rieefgO,Aoktoril—offenee committed. Doe. 25th. The following le the whole number of ar rests rondo by the foroo during the year 1857, as 00 111psfed with there made during the year 1858: OEM — WAile on ilia rubjeet of crime and criminate, it Mas he appropriate to give an aceount of the man berof potions who were edmmitted to the county ptison durlpg'lBs'f : • , rotate...a a*rs• ro, cO,UNTr rttlgON, White. CaPteli. Total. DiWoi ` Male. Percale. Vale. Female icipv...liap 3,10 T ' 1',032 650 1858..... 9,574 ,3,159 838 932 34,194 18¢7. 10,653'- 3 187 1,033 OP 15,825 17, 191 ',lB 3h' the' year 1855, there were 13,940 oommit= 1 4 11 1101 ; THE IIEAL,TD DEPARTMENT. 'llll.l o llphle,, during the past' year; has ;been visibi[crw tb contagions disease, and the records of nto ity will compare very favorably with thooo of pregions years. In the early part of thri ammo feirp Wertrixprosed that the yellow favor, timettparftit ecuurge,,would make lio . way north. ilia,- and lay hs 14 its devastating path. For. tpnately these refire irons without foundation. The most fatal tualedy was consumption, but vtaiinis do not exceed the usual number, In proportion to the increase of population. The 401171,t fever, In July and August, committed havoc among children, but not to such an extent as to entitle it, ty be cl assed as an epidemic. The efficient - Smells° system undoubtedly has doneo much. to prevent deaths from small-pox and variolold. Tpe purity of our water has been conducive ti the general health, and the ads plata soweOge must be regarded as. aq apail buy to,The,promollon of lodgevity. The Coltowing figure exhibits the total number of deaths in the past Year—also top mortality among frieidei; Infants and colored persons. It has been epretully compiled from the reports of the Board of Health: • Aty,R,,piTr RQRTALITT. 9 1: 1: 11Att - METF.OROLAMICAL . . The renewing statistics of the treetber during 1857, have been carefully compiled by 1:1, dom, FIN They 11111 be found to be full, compro• henelyo, and necurate. . The Temperature ofthe Mon the. Month,. hteximutn. Mialmum. Mean, 1856.'1857: 1850.'1857. 1850. 1857. January:... '4O• 34 4 11*' 21.15 1,8.33 February... 46 69 2 - 2 . 16 10 27 25 March 48 53 5 3 32 85 35.08 April AO 08 24 14 '53.52 ,42 39 .t 'B7 8,1 40 34 69.00 57.81 June 95 97 28 45 74.44 67.32 July 98 80 64 47 79 88 73 37 August 90 90 53 48 72 85 72.18 September.. PO 81 44 37 07.30 73.91 October 78 74 3'; 29 55,58 53 82 November.. 75 74 31 12 45.43 42.39 December... 61 57 9 12 32.72 33.11 19 intim,' IMO* fell on December 20, 1057. *Below tom. The following table exhibits the number of 1116.63 of rain during 1857, as complied with the number of /nate , ' In MU 1850. 11457. 1 ~ 1850. 1057. kobem Inehpa I Toche4 ruche. January, 4.54 3.30 July, 1.51 3.14 February, 1.23 00 Aunuqt, 0.00 10.00 Mara, 2.23 30 September, 4.01 1.00 April, 3,52 0.00 October, 1.30 2.40 May, 2.59 5.30 November, 2.07 1.20 Juno, 1,93 11.40 December, 2.91 3.50 Total.. Inahibi(lug the amount of rain which has fallen moth year eine° 1840: Year, No. Inches i t , Year. No. Indica. 1840 47.40 1849 42.09 18.41 55.50 1850 54.51 1812 44.5:1 1851 32 50 1043 40.91 I 1852 45 74 11144 40.17 1851 40.60 1815 40.00 t 1854 40.18 1840 44.38 1835 44.00 1817 45 09 I 1850 41 92 1848 35.00 1857 42.20 TRANSPOILTATINII OP COAL. There were 442.235.03 tons of coal transported over the Lehigh Valley Railroad for lBh7. TI following table exhibits the number of awl oiloeud. t over the re a n aT Fe who h nsy ra ni roalm s a ; vea v the r arnof extra baggage: Emigrants Pounds extra baggage - - The emigrant traits on the Pennsylvania Rail road are not only used,by foreign emigrants, but have conveyed during the past year quite a large number of American moolinnws from Philadelphia, Now York, and Roston, who were ou route for the West, and who preferred our Central Road on ac count of ()hemming of fare and superiority of accom modation. During the year 1857, as above sot forth, 22,253 ensigrents wore sent over the Pennsylvania Rail road. A largo portion of them came on from New York, preferring thin route to either the Now York and Erie or New York Central Railroads. Of the entire number, 15,221 were fur the Northwestern States and Territories. The extra baggage paid for amounted to 887,901 lbs. MEM During 1856, 21,621 passengers wore despatched from ibis city byetnigrant trains. Of this number 11,7151 came from Now York; 6,361 were ticketed for Pittsburgh and intermediate stations. The ex tra baggage paid for was 704,428 lb& In 1865, 20,217 emigrant pamengers were sent from Philadelphia. Of this number 11,049 arrived in this oily from foreign ports, and 9,168 mime on from New York, 11,003 wore tiokete,l to Pith burgh, and 10,772 were destined for the extreme West. 824,570 pounds of extra baggage were paid for. In 1854, 29,948 emigrants passed West ; 8,257 were for points beyond Pittsburgh ; 709,774 pounds of extra baggage were paid for. nmutothis tilvortama FItOX PIIMADELIMIA_ The year 1857 has been unusually free from railroad cochleae on the linos diverging from Phi- . , litdelpbia. A collision occurred on a New Jersey railroad on September tith, but beyond that there is nothing of Importance to record. These persons who hare met their death have done so principally by their own acts—such as walking on the tracke, standing on platforms, de. It is evident that the employees of the different companies exercise a great amount of care. Safety is not sacrificed to speed, although the running time of the different trains will compare favorably with that on roads diverging from other cities. On the 25th of AMC, the Pennsylvania Control Railroad Company purchased the main line cf the public works, which included, of course, the bid Columbia Railroad between this city and Ifarrieburg. In the summer, the same company entered into a compact with the New York and Erie, the Now York Central and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads, by which it was mutually egreed that no efforts should bo made to divert the trade between the East and the West from its legitimate channels to support rival lines; that is to say, that no " runners should be employed to draw custom; that no reduced rates of faro ebould bo adopted, and that no posters or hand- bills should be issued to invite a preference. The freo.pase system was also abolished. 'On July 7th, the North Pennsylvania Railroad resopened to Bethlehem, on the Lehigh, a die -00 from Philadelphia of 54f miles. Trains avesluee been running regularly, with safety and pateb. The management finds favor in the eyes of the stockholders and the public by its (aorta to accommodate both the local and the through travel. This year, also, the West Jersey Railroad wee opened to Woodbury, N. J , r On Julz 22d a new route was opened to Wil -1 ihtmeperfreln the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, to .11arrisbur i g, the Northern Central Railroad to Sunbury, and the 'Sunbury and Erie Railroad to Williamsport. But little less of interest has occurred among our railroad ' lines as regards construction, or the opening of new routes. The Philadelphia, Nor mantown and Norristown Company have expended large sums in laying double tracks between their In= 15,825 15,429 E TABLE, bP • COAIPA,II MX. • , 1110 e. , Colored. Male. 'Female. Male. Female . 33.02 44.20 STATISTICS 07 lIIIIOIIANT TRITE! 22,253 687,904 several termini, and in thoroughly refitting the road. The following table exhibits the different lines centering in Philadelphia and Camden: Roads. Length Philadelphia and Reading 93 do Baltimore 98 do Columbia, (old line) 80 do Media, Nest Chester).— 13 do Norristown 17 do Germantown 7 North Pennsylvania Alt Neat Chester 33 Camden and Amboy 63 Philadelphia and Trenton 30 West Jersey 9 Camden and Atlantis 60 Total TOE COMMERcE OF PHILADELPIIIt The arrivals of foreign and coastwise vessels at tho port of Philadelphia, during the year have boon ris follows: Foreign CoMtwiso. Total, Ships 14 CI 120 Barque• 194 84 222 Brig, 173 311 484 &bootie!" 118 5,405 5,523 Sloops 2,318 2,318 Steamers 1,098 1,098 Barges 12,514 12,514 Soots 9,421 9,421 Total 4° 31,201 DXPAIITMENT OP PUBLIC lIIORU f IYPi The following Is the statement of the tactile° of the Department of Highways for 1857 Own Wales (Carta, Wagons, Drays, and Barrens Hack Carriages.. Vault Permits.,. Bedding Peiraits Sewer POTILIiIB... Sewer Rents Paving and Repaving. Railroad Turnouts. Miscellaneous 1 028 50 1,691 2, 620 00 1,907 49 2,778 31 2,826 68 THE GREAT BILLIARD MATCH BETWEEN PHELAN AND BENJAMIN, FOR TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS!! Phelan gives Three Points in earh. Game of Sixteen, and Wins the Match ! Reported for The Presal Yesterday we briefly noticed the result of this in teresting trial of skill between the two players of greatest repute in the country. Ralph Benjamin and Michael Phelan of New York. The match originated In causes which it is unnecessary to mention here; it may be sufficient to say, however, that since Phelan's winning his brilliant match for $lO,OOO in San Francisco , beating a Frenchman, the best player of his day—giving him odds, too, his reputation has become world-wide as a great billiard player, and him caused feelings of jealousy and rivalry to spring up, especially in New York. Unlike most great generals end conquerors, he has never yet been beaten in any serious trial of skill. It is all °nato him what game his adversary pro polies—the full gatne , the four ball carom game, the English three ball game, or the French carom game, (which. among amateurs, is considered the most difficult of all, and especially played as it was in this match, on a table with pockets.) All are alike to him, and In all, when ho puts forth his strength, he le unrivalled. We will endeavor to sketch his physique as he appeared playing this match on Wednesday night. Let our readers picture to themselves a florid, handsome men, about 38 years of age, with a high, and particularly white fore head, upon which the organs of perception arid calm:Wm are prominently developed—a counte nance full of intelligence and modesty, (yes, although our friend 'Phelan is an Irishman, ho is the only really modest one we ever ow, and there fore.—we repeat the word—modesty.) Place this head on apair of the broadest shoulders you eon fled, and order specially a pair of the very stout• est legs your imagination can conceive, (for you will- fled nothing like the reality ready waded and you will have some faint idk of the personnel of our friend Phelan, the King of Billiards • Re is unlike all preconceived ideas of a hilliard• player. Most men of his clew have a hard, leathery expression, produced generally by late hours, seeing people drink brandy and water, gas, chalk. and other stimulants, but Phelan looks as as if he had been suddenly transplanted from some healthy farm on Long Island, or had been lauded by the last packet from the tight little "Green „Weed" itself. His antagonist, Benjamin, is a manufacturer of billiard tables in New York, and is a square-act, hirsute, little gentleman, about the saute age as Phelan, and about fleetest eight Inches in height Ile played very neatly and with con siderable resolution up to the seventh game, but his pluck evidently deserted him after that, and. although he won the ninth game, this success did not seem to inspirit him. To every one in the room It was evidently a hepelesa case fur him after the (math game, ' as Phelan's powers developed, and his astounding precision in the most complicated caroms began to be displayed. We will now proceed to give some details of the games. The parties, after arranging the prelimi naries, width were very stringent, no shoving of the balls being allowed, (every shot having to be a fair shot, made with the point of the , cue,) no portion of the body to be outside the line of the table; when playing from the string, a ball touched to be a played bail, ke , and having appointed two referees and an umpire, who announced to the spectators, that no expressions of applause or dis approbation would be permitted, took oft their coats to the work. The referee chosen by "Phelan was Chris. Bird, of the city, end Benjamin selected the "Albany Pony " In the first game, nothing very noteworthy occurred, the parties playing very cautiously, as if feeling each other's strength This game was won by Phelan, by 5 points. In the opening of the second game, there was considerable dodging and playing for safety At last Phelan makes 2, Benjamin 1. and missed scoring, giving Michael a chance to go in and make a run of 4 : then playing for safety, and Phelan rune 3. More dodging. and Phelan tuns Safety's the km° Phelan I. and mimed Benjamin 2, and missed ; Phelan runs 2. making the game. This was a very well-played game, al the runs Will indicate, without anything brilliant, only one of Phelan's strong points being displayed in getting the balls together so as to make a num ber in a run. Won by 12 points (Two games for Phelan.) The Thud Game.—Opened by the first 13e0 re for Benjamin J, and mused. Phelan 1, end missed, dodging under the cushions. Benjamin 1, and missed. Phelan I, and missed, Benjamin 3, and missed. Phelan missed, Benjamin ran eery good play. B. missed. P. 1, and missed. Great playing for safety the next half dozen shots Phe lan missed, when D. went in for 2 Safe playing again, when P. goes in for chances and gets caught by B. for 1, and missed. leaving2lfietinet something about his elze, when he rattles off 6. to the aston- (aliment of the uninitiated, but In playing for one of his double-back.action patent-indescribable ca roms, which he encore only about once in a thousand times, be caught it from B , who ran 1, making the game., First game for Benjamin---won by 9 points The Fourth Game.—This commenced by Benja min, who was evidently elated by big recent enc omia, scoring 2, and missed. P. goes at him but missed Considerable doing of nothing for the next 6 shots, when P. gets 1 and dodges, B. dodges, P. gets I more, and tries the artful again. Profound study of the balls from all parts of the table, from the• head, the foot, the sides, the corners, and in short from every part of the table but from under it. At last Michael thinks ho sees an opening, but shaves the ball, which gives B. a chance to run 3, and tries safety. An intense amount of nothing done for the next few ininutes,until Phelan, apparently tired of all this sort of thing, makes one of his impossible ones, which elicited a cheer from an indiscreet gentleman in the back ground, who was requested by Benja min to leave incontinently complied room, which polite request he complied with. It may be added that this shot, - which terminated one gentleman's pleasure for the evening so abruptly, was the most brilliant shot of the evening, and was a combination of all the difficulties known to players. It gave P. a run of 3, after which there was great playing for safety, when P. again runs 3; after which the next 15 shots were fruitless, when 11 got I, and missed ; P. missed, and B. got l, and missed ; P.l, and missed ; B. plays safe, and P. do. for the next 14 shots, wh en Phelan gate 1, and missed ; B. tries to play safe, but doesn't, for P gets 1, and dodges; B loaves an open, which P. missed, and B. gots 2, and missed ; P. 1 • tho aitpd again in requisition on both sides for the next 4 shots, when I'. gets 1 ; slow again for the next 4 shots, when P goes for 3 and the game—won by 4 points. This was the most severely contested game of the match, and both the players displayed great tact and general ship in their maincuvres. Benjamin made some very pretty shots in this game, and bid fair at ono time to win it, but was overpowered by the pluck of his opponent It occupied over thirty minutes in playing. It would occupy too much of nor space to giro the remaining games in detail. Wo will, therefore, elate thin account by giving a sutnmary. The sth game was won by Phelan by 6 points, making In It two runs of 4 each. The 6th game was also won by Phelan by 2 points, and was re markable for a brilliant run of 6, nearly all being difficult shots The 7th game was wen by Phelan by 6 points. The Bth game was remarkable for 2 runs by Phelan, ono of 5, and the other of points, and was the shortest game in playing in the match. It was won by Phelan by 10 points The blh game was won by Benjamin by 8 points The 10th game was won by Phelan, who in this game appeared toput on a little additional strain, for ho made two splendid runs, ono of 6, and another of 5 .winning the game in it canter, by 11 points 11th and concluding game was also ws.n by Phelan by 7 points, and was signalized by a mis s-c oo by Benjamin, (who was evidently quite disheartenedO and a superb run of IS by Phelan, which but for the rules, would has a provoked tho loudest ap plause. After the conclusion of the watch, Michael was surrounded by his friends, and put through a course of hand-shaking which would have that tend the nerves of any but a Hercules or a candi date for sheriff A handsome lunch was prepared at the end of the room, by Phelan's friends, for all who chose to partake of it, and we left the friends of the victor and the vanquished hob-nobbing mi nt/1y together. The time occupied In playing the eleven games was four hours and thirty-two min utes. We may say in conclusion, as the result of our observation of this match, that (Benjamin, who playa very prettily, however,) never had a chance with Phelan, whose gpplomb and indomitable pluck would have borne down a much stronger antago nist. There are several amateurs in this city who would have been much harder to beat than Benja min proved himself to be, and he must be content to rank himself for the future as about a third-rate player. 13. A man named Smith, who was recently con victed by tho Circuit Court of Lexington, Miss , of whipping a negro woman to death, was sen tenced therefor to thirty years' imprisonment at hard labor In the penitentiary. COMM UNICA TIO.ArS . [For Tto Prim) WILLIAMSPORT AND FLIIIIR A RAILROAD At a meeting of the Managers of the Williams port and Elmira Railroad Company, held 12th mo. 3181, 1857, the following statement of the finanoial position of the company was laid before the Board by the President, with an accompanying plan for the entire extinguishment of Its remaining float ing debt. On motion of S. V. Merrick, seconded by Israel Morris, it was unanimously Errol red, That the interests of all parties, both bondholders and stockholders, require the funding of the floating debt of this company, the existence of which not only depreciates and imperils its securities, bat absorbs most unprofitably the time and energies of Its officers, which would otherwise be devoted to its active business. That the plan proposed fur this purp" and which has received the approbation of the leading bond and stockholders, offers an equitable Method of promptly and finally accomplishing that object —without bearing oneroxsly on any party—and is earnestly recommended to the stockholders, bond. holders, and creditors of the sorapany for their ac cepters and ea-operation : To the Bondholder, and Itiocictiblders of the Wil liamsport and Elmira Railroad Company! The managers take this opportunity of laying before the bondholders and stockholders of the company a record of its business since our lest annual report, together with a statement of its present financial position— 4.. $4,830 00 ... 2,970 25 The receipts of the road from April Ist to December 10,1837, have been $186,638 29 Operating expenses, including salaries, office expanses and repairs 88,110 32 Net income fur eight months $21,798 75 Althonfh our business bee maenad greatly, to gether with that of most of the railroads of the country, in consequence of paralysis of trade and travel, by the nnparalelled financial crisis of the past four months, yet it will be observed that our net Income would have sufficed for the payment of the interest on our present funded debt, had it been possible to retain it for that purpose. to ad dition, however, to the funded debt of the Com pany, It has always been embarrassed with a Hosting indebtedness, incurred in the construction of the road, which although small, compared with its whole property, and easily carried in ordinary times, bus proved very onerous duriag the recent commercial panic, and in fact, has endangered the investment of the stockholders, and depreciated greatly that of the bondholders of the Company. It is evident that the whole system of Boating debts, so universal hitherto among corporations, is at an end. They must be funded by those late rested in these enterprises, in orderto enable their securities to take rank among safe and remunera tive investments. We believe that no officers can undertake here after with any credit to themselves or profit to the interests in their charge, to carry by Boating obli gations any considerable amount of indebtedness. Inclepondentif of the ruinous resulti to any Com• pany of, paying the current rates of interest, which no ordinary profits can justify or withstand, the effects are, even more injurious in the entire absorption of the limo and energies of those who cenduct it, which should be devoted delusively to the duties of organising and extending the business of the road. PROPOSED PLAN FOR FUNDING THE DEBT. 1858. Postponed debt of the Company-1181,50 15 Paid on noeount thereof in 1857 38,455 47 Unpaid balance $1,104 68 Secured by the 5142,600 second mortgage bonds, and 1,540 shares of stock, which we propose to the holders to take and extinguish the debt, surrender ing to the company the coupons on the bonds whioh ootna due in 1558, in exchange for scrip as here after described. ' Bilis payable without collateral $89,230 77 These we propose to pay by giving therefor an °TIM amount in the chattel mortgae ten per cent bonds of the company WI they ca n e released, 11.9 hereafter proposed. Bills payable with collateral unsecured ten per cent bonds $160,819 58 These we propose to pay two-thirds in the chat tel mortgage bonds as above, and the other third in assh from the receipts of the road during the ear. Bills payable secured by chattel mort gage bonds of the company 5113,239 23 These we propose to pay in three, six, nine, and twelve months, out of the net earnings of the road, thus disengaging the collected-bonds for the pro cess of funding above mentioned. Tim holders of the first, second, and chattel mortgage loans to surrender one year's coupons on their bonds, viz • January and July, 1858, of the first mortgage ; April and October, 1555, of the second mortgage; May and November. 1858, of the chattel .ten per cents., , receiving in - return therefor en equal amount of six par cent. scrip of the company, which will release the net income of the year's business to be applied as above to the final extinguishment of the floating debt. The following resolution. offered by A. S. Divan and seconell by William D. Lewis, was unanimous ly adopted Whe)eas, it has been necessary to make use of the entire receipts of the road during the past four months for the purple° of protecting the property of this Company from the holders of its floating debt during the recent commercial crisis And, whereas, It is believed to be the true in terest of both bondholders and stockholders that no financial expedient be resorted to for the pay ment of the approaching interest on the first mort gage bond., duo January let , 19:' , 3 Therefore, It', folcr,f, That the first mortgage bondholders he requested to except an ulna' amount of scrip for the coupons due Ist January and let,fuly, as contemplated in the plan proposed fur extricating the Company from its present exi goncies, and placing all Its securities on a safe and permanent foundation. Extracted from the minutes, Wu. C LONCICTRETII, Secretary. CITY POLICE-DECEMBER 31 [Reported for The Prem.) AN IMPERTJNENT LADY-FANCIER.—Miss Betty Thompson,—a young student of the mantaumak ing business, toss annoyed every day by the atten tions of a young man named Simon Jones, who without any introduction insisted on seeing Miss T. " safe home," from the place where she works in Arch street, to her residence in Pryor's court. Miss Thompson - did not like the youngster's man ners, and probably she would not have liked his face, if she could liliV6 seen it—but happily it was concealed behind a thick heavy curtain, con sisting of whiskers imperial, moustache, and goatee. He had forced himself on her company six or eight evenings in succession—walking by her side and disgusting her with his shallow die course—though she bad always repulsed him with expressive silence But on Wednesday evening, she changed her tactics and entered into lively conversation with her compulsory beau. When they arrived at the door of the young la dy'e dwelling, she invited the man of moustaches to enter, and when he complied, she showed him to a room, the door of which she doted after him, and locked hint in. Miss Betty then informed him, through a key-hole, that she would send her " big brother" to chastise him for his impertinence. Miss Ifetty's brother is, in fact, a dwarf in parson; but, like many another small man, he has a tre mendous voice, which in sound is something be tween the roar of a lion and the scream of a pan ther. This brother, to answer to lletty's invoca tion, soon came to the door of the chamber, where Simon, the lady-fancier was locked up. "Give me the key," shouted brother Jake, in his most terrific tone ; " let me get at the rascal I'll tuacadatinte him ; I'll pound him like hominy in a mortar'" The sound of that voice ull4 enough for the m enicerated Simon. Ile threw up a back window and pitched out head foremost, without imagining where ho would fetch up " Luckily his frontal bone struck first, anti as that was rather thick, the damage wits :incomdderable. Perceiving a large barrel, which he supposed to he empty, he thought to use it as a placed concealment, and jumped in without hesitation The barrel, however, chanced to be nearly top-full of soft soap, and, finding him self in 501110 danger of being smothered, Simon thought it more expedient to abide by the flogging ha deierved and expected, and ha therefore yelled out for assistance. Ho was extricated frost the barrel and handed over to the police as one who had entered the premises with felonious intentions. His appearance at the bar of justice was attended by a strong alkaline odor; all his clothes were ex ceedingly well soaped, and his hairy face was so well lathered that the most inexpert barber could have dial - ea bin with little trouble. As nobody appeared to complain against him, he was di! charged. The ilea,' statesmen, (hiring the }ear just espieed, are Marcy, Hamilton. Ittrno , and other. William L Marcy died at Ball4ton, in New York, on the 4th of July Mr Marcy was years old Two Southern ex-Ministers to England have died ; Andrew Stevenson in Virginia, in January, and Louis McLane, at Baltimore, in October. Ex- Secretary Dobbin died at Fayetteville, North Car olina. on the 4th of August; Wm. E Venable, United States Minister at tinatemala, in August ; James O 'limey, in New Jersey, in the latter part of November ; James Hamilton, in (delves. tan Bay, kilted in the disaster to the steamphip Opelousas, in November. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, died in May. Several members of Con- Vega have died Among others, Senator Rusk, of Texas. This was a case of suicide. Busk is the solo instance of suicide among the catalogue we have given. Freston S. Brooks, M C. from South Carolina, whose name It &MI remarkablo from his attack on Charles Sumner. died at Wash ington on the 27th of January. Mr. John Thornton, who died In St. Lonia, a few days ago, after bequeathing property to his relatives, and 5155,000 to various churches and in stitutions, bequeathed the balance of his property, about f 300,000 to Bishop Kenrick, the Catholic Bishop of that city, in the belief that he would apply it for the benefit of the indigent. and to ad vance the pause of religion. TWO CENTS. COMPANY. $93.405 Pi riortcE -to coaaisarosPENTS. Carl-wpm:mots tor 4 . , Tut Pins '• lOU New btu fig mind the following mbas : Every communication mast be seemnpeaiel by the '" of tba writer In order to Insure omeetneelot t7PograPhYi bat one side of a 'beet EMIL'S be written upon . We shall be greatly obliged to gel:dilemma in fernall iania sad eth, r States for sentributtone citing Ma am' rant sacs of the day I. their particular liunalttlisa, the resources of the surrounding' country, the LiCAW of populatiou, and say iuformatton that Ell be Istorostiag to the general raver. GENERAL RETVS. About one year ago, in St. Louis, a German girl, are years of age, mysteriously disappeared from its parents, and all aorta for its recovery ware vain. A few daye ago, the mother of the lost 01111 noticed, white passing through the, strata, a Suety dressed child playing with •number of othen, and. almost immediately recognised her as her own. She took her home and learned that she had heels taken away in a carriage to a family in the coun try, who had kept her and treated her kindly. The morning of her recorery she had heels brought to the city in a carriage, in which she was left while the lady, who accompanied her, weat to visit a store. She left the carriage to play with some children, at the time her mother fortunately passed. The affair has a canoes air of romance, but the St. Louis papers couch for its actual co ntinence. A street tight ocznrred in Cornishcille, Ky., on Tuesday, between Kerrey Walker and Thomp son Bally, in which the latter was shot and instant ly killed, hawing received four wounds from a re raker, in the hands of his adversary. Walker su wounded in the thigh and neck, but will re cover. Five shots were fired by each. AllerSelly had been fatally wounded, he threw his pistol to one of his sons, who seized it, and shot Walker in. the inflicting a severe but not dangerous wound. The diffieulty grew out of certain do mesticsdinitili9ne, the partite being related...by. t !'f r tiNre• • • - - A meeting or the shoe .manuracturors of Lynn, Nam, was held on Monday evening or lad week, to take into consideration the expedieney and necessity of shortening the credits heretofore 'givelt on the gale of goods of their own meanies tare. After oonsiderable diem/aka awn the sub ject, it resulted in the choke of a committee of eight, to procure signatures to a pledge that no further contracts be made by the subscribers for the tarns of one year, on a longer trait than six months. A man by the name of Tyson was drowned recently in Chauahoochee ricer, near Abbey - D.ls, B. C. Some persons had inttneed Max to believe that they were going to ride him on a rail ; he broke, to run in the direction of the river, the orowcifollowing after him, some perhaps firing or guns. lie ran into the river. whets the water was about waist deep, when two gun Or pistols were fired, Tyson, at that time, sinking into th - e water. The presumption is that he AM shot. The first convictions under the liquor law which have have been found in Boston, and ac quiesced in by the parties without exceptions to its constitutionality, were passed in the Municipal court last Saturday. Both were eentenced under the "nuisance" provision of the law—one to the House of Correction for five months, the other to a tine of sln, or imprisonment for eight months., The Clyde (N. Y.) Times of the 24th says a horrible murder was erpetrated in that village the night previous, by Nicholas Ward. His wife was found deed and conned with wounds, and 6r enzastaneel show Ward, who to under street, to be the murderer/A. child at the point of 'death was found In the house, but the cause of its eaSidition is not stated. The steamship Isabel, arrived at Charleston from Havana, reports that Walker's rowel, the steamer Fashion, had been seized by the American Consul, her papers having been &mad irregular. A report was prevalent at Key West when the Isa bel was there that a bark had passed that point with six hundred men on board, who were proceed ing to Gon. Walker's A company of experienced abip4miklers, from Maine, hate purchased a Alp-yard in How ard, Wiroonsin, and are now ingagad in getting out the timber for an ocean . Gen. Houton is said to contemplate his re— tirement from public life with esti/eating, mud will, probably, henceforth permit the life of • planter in Texas. - Maj. A. F. Morrison, one of the leaders of the Democracy In Indiana, died at his red. Bocce in Indianapolis, on Monday last, in the 54th year of his age. Ex-Governor Matteson, of Illinois, says the Chicago Democrat, intends to be a candidate for the United States Senatorship in opposition to Mr. Douglas. The Russian government has ordered that the American language be taught in the schools of Irkutsk, the capital of Siberia. A man named Warner Sage, a bar-keeper,.was inunlvrevi in Loaisville in as airily with one Alex Bowlin, mate of thristeanter Ileum Bridges- A monument to the prisoners who settled in the Scioto Valley is to be erected in Cincinnati the ensuing rummer R. S. Biennerhasset, Esq., a distinguished nititan and la wyer of St. Louie, died on Chrirtmee day z Ass H. Chase, a Well-kn 09112 11111/024.1 e. 013.• doctor, died in Lancaster, Pa., on Tuesday. The venerable Wm. C. Preston, of S. C. spent Christmas in Chb:atoll. and is in goof ' u health. News from the Platen sled the Cpper Missouri [From the St Louie Rept>Um of the 'alas cat ) Among the number of travellers u the Mimarf anti on the Plains, we bar* met wit h Henry Bel knap, Elq , who has spent the greater pert of the year in explorations of the rivers and mountains of that far-off country. Mr. Belknap left $t Louis in the .spring of the year, with Col Vaughan, Indian agent for the Upper Missouri, on board the steamer Twilight. Leaving Col. Vaughan's poet among the Black Feet Indians, he crossed the mountains to the bead of the Columbia, and, thence down directly through the mountains until he reached L'talt Ter ritory. Mr. Belknap was at Green river when the United States trains of provisions, A . e., were burned by Mormons. A very small force of alormons was concerned in the operation ; twenty Mormons only destroyed Russell Co's train Tice men were awakened trom sleep, and found two Mormons, with rites cocked. standing at the head of each wagon The whole affair of getting possession of the wagons was conducted by the Mc rmons in the most ei‘ il, rat to Nay friendly. manner. The men ie charge of the wagons were allowed to take any articles they desired from the wagons in the train, and then the train sat eel uu fire The statement that they plundered the train not correct. Mr. Belknap represents that the position of the small body of men on Ham's Fork was critical in the extreme. The Mormons were ranging the country at will, driving off the cattle, cutting off supplies, and annoying the military in every possi blowsy. Henry's Fork, where Col. Johnsen pro poses wintering his command, is a tolerably well eheltered valley, and provided with wood and grass; but it is very much expoeed to attacks from. the Mormon enemy. The latter are usually well mounted and well equipped, and they are said tcs be in possession of seventeen pieces of artillery. This is a very reasonable number. as many of the Mormons are mechanics. and bare been engage,' in the casting of eannon. Fifty of Magraw's party, engaged in making a road in that direction to the Pacific, had voltut leered in the army, and their services were ac cepted, and they had marched from Wind river to join Colonel Johnson. Leaving the South Pass early in November, Mr, Belknap struck directly across the plains, exping the head of L`Eatt ytri CON! and White mere, and arrived at Fort Randall, on the hipper Mis souri, on the 2d December. The Ogallalaklndians were at the Sand Will Peak; two hundred and fifty lodges of Brutes were in the Sad inne be tween the head of L'Eau qui Cour and White river, and other scattering bands were met on the way. These Indians were all starving, and they reported no buffalo in that section of the country. There has been some hard fighting on the Plains the past fall and summer, between the different tribes of Indians, and eighty lodges of the Crows had been nearly exterminated by the Minnecan. jou tribe (Sioux) in ono battle. A white wan by the name of William Leciere, had been killed by the Yanctonnais. Tho other tribes of Indians were quiet. The country was reported to be black with buffalo, from Port Pierre northward It is also said that the prospect of a good winter's trade in that section of the country was highly promis ing. CAMDRIDOE CATTLE MARKET, December .30.—At market 664 Cattle, about 600 Beeves, and. 84 Stores, consisting of working Oxen, Cows, and one, two, and three years old. Prices of Market Beef —Extras, 1747.25; first quality, $6 25056 50; second quality. $5 50, thirs 911 31 4, ; ordinary quality. $4 25. Prices of Stern Cattle.—Working Oxen, trout s;:i, $lOO. to $173 per pair But little inquiry fir CUVI.I and Calves from $3O, $4O. $l5 to $5O. Yearlings none ; Two years old, $54 to $25 ; Three yeare old. $23 to $.12 Sheep and Lambs —2 300 at market prices in tote, $1.50, $1 7 $2 25, $2 50 each; Extra ani saketioo, , , $143 75. Swine —3410 at market Prices. live weight 5a du per lb ; Dreeeel, 63.61 e per lb. Cattle. Sheep& Lambe Ranee Swine. N.llampihire 225 .... .... - • Vermont .245 930 .... • • •• Massachusetts 40 1,215 New York.... 39 100 Gonads 40 Total d4l 2 :SOO "fides, 5.3 per lb; Tallow Cc per lb; Pelts 2475.7 each; Calfskin!. 9a)h• per lb B —Beef Extra and First Quality in:11213 nothing but the beer, large, fat. stall-fed Oxen Second quality includts the best gram-fed Oxen, the best stall-fed cows, and the best three-scar old Steers Ordinary consist! cf Bulls, and the refine of lots Sheep —,Extra include! Comet!, and when th:-t of inferior quality are thrown out. There were :2 ears over the 13o!-tan and Lowell railroad, and over the Firehhurg, I,:ade , l with Cattle, Sheep, $ and Dcrsea Retr,arkr.—Owiag to the small ttaf.k at market to-day, eaten were rather goi:k. with an adrar..ra of about 2.5. e per cart on the bet quality of Beef On Sheep the ricet of tact week were sustained; L. fleeting+. Laq , told one lot. choi.•e quality, average weight lace lb to Ur Britv, for S e f-ert4 roes When - old Bogus's wife tell ill, he sent for i% doctor as sordid and avaricious as himself.. Before the doctor saw the patient, he wished to have an understanding with the miserly husband. " Here's forty dollars," said Bogus, " and you shall hare it whether you cure my wife or kill her." The woman died, and the doctor called for the fee. " Did you kill my wife ?" said Bogu!• " Certainly not!" replied the irniignant don- " Well, you didn'teure bet?" " You know she's dead." " Very well, then, leave the house in donblo, quick time," said Bogus. A bargain's a bargain. It wa3 kilt or clue, but•yon di4 neither,"
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