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and al lAA detAlb and laser alegiioles wLloli impart
NINIBIIi`COUYORT, AND 'DURABILITY.:
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Drawiage , of,:N3IVT ,DXSIG4B, wBl •ho made fiat of
sharp tor this, *Kling Ito* mide to whir:: • ,
RICH GOLD JEWELRY. . •
A Wailful asontobnit of all Ike new Et yles, of Woo
Jewelry, moth as Masao, Stout and Ethell.Clamee ?
••, , Pearl, Coral, lifeboat* Marqulotte,
UT*,
IMIPMON alumna, WAITE to.
Broome ahallatble ODOligil, of newest atylem,
sheet imperil= quality, : mad bawl,'
JE. OAIDIVEL-L- &
•-- • 432 CHESTNUT Street,
Ravi - roc*had, per steamers, new r otyles
;wag', Chatelaine, Vest
Splendid Nano, 1.40111n0, •
Frail% Staudt, Snow Haoltoto- -
',let GfoOds and Ittotror Vases. - • • -
Coral, Veva - and Mews Soto.
- Sole' Agouti In PhHadolphia for thr, isle of Medea
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LANK .110011.8 AND , STATIONED.Y.
- M. ROGAN, Blank Book blannfarturer,
Stationer and Printer, No, 100 WALNUT fitieet, is pre-
Wed at ell times - to furnish, de r sa ii
the shelves
or make , to order, xtookt of cirerY
for bake, Palle Otgicos'lderchaatt,and Uthere; of the
beet guailtY of Nngttlb bilinfriaan Payer, and Wind
In reclaim styles, in the mist, Subetantial manner. •
Orders for JOB PRINTING of every descriptionl
lnereving and Lithogniphing executed' With .WPatneal
Ageneral asenrtntent . of English, Wench and ;Amer),
oanlitationery.• • • .
oOnooriting lii.llogatee contribution to the Yranklin
fastitnte,ahe Cloromiltert. ear- P - Titic - dieldafof bliebk
hooks for banking and tuereantilo nee it the_beet-tattut.
' EshibitiOn?' The - Selection of the ruiterlal is good; the
worktranstdp most - inicallentoniti thine Anialrand
pearanoa neat end agprCyrintVf _ po2o-1C
finblicationi
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10B48 . 0.—Inet published and for site by
- • - 0, - 2% PRICE & CO.;
- NO. South SIXTH Street, above Ohesinut.
• - The Depltook contains an Alamein+, .Tables Of aim:
paraldre Medialnal Doses, Pelson and their Antidotes,'
British and French ..11edielnel Idemares, A.tonde
Weight{ and Combining kroportione, Articles cif ..Eleti
Comparative Thermometric Scales, Baths—Simple and
Medlotnari Table, itt* Dudes or all the principal-pre
parations of the Pharmacopia, Visiting List and Index,
Blanks , for' Mbnetary: Engages:heats, - Bank 'Aecount,
Nunes' Addresses, Bale and • docounti asked for+ Vat
cination and Obstetric Engagement+, .11eglish, Brooch,
and American Medical &a. . •
Being; prepared with the co-operation of several
eminent' members ei the Profession, the Publishers
trust that this little Manual will fill a waist hitherto
cinelipPlied; and with a view to its fetal improrement,
will be happy- to. resolve any suggestions- !meeting
emendations, additions, ece:' . - ;
The above are prepared for 20 and 00 patients, and
bound.in varlowistyler--/ - • : - iel ;
-0.1 - solAttonsi&, Copartitireigif,
IAISSOLUTION.=—Tho . gpaited. - Partnership,
.ILltradlitg as ItLLIS DADTDAM, +sideburn formed
ist month J
Mb, DM for the por.od of live years, and In
which OHALDES J . ELLIS and AAMOII. D. — BAR.
TRAM were loners! Partners; and WILLIAM 11.
DLLtif the Bieglat Partneri has been, by tannint eon
sent of - all the odd partners, thls day dissolved,
CHARLES J. ELL'S,
DA.MCHIL D. DARTHAM,
WILLIAM H. ELLI:. .
12th so. 30th, 1807
,ILICED.—ONARLES J. ELLIE:wiII continue the Cloth
Jobbing builnese, It the old stead, No. 225 MARKET
Street where the business the late firm, will-be
settled4oth CHARLES' J. ELLIS and SAMUEL D.
11AIVIEVel will use the 'mine of the firm in. , liquids
jalAbt Mit ,
WEE COPARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE
existing wastes firm of PIEONR, Lehlß F e 00.
is this day dlasolYed by the death of O. B, LAMB.
~The httidgesa of. Abe late firm will he settled by this
wirier*, "who".haso easoolatedowlth them
7011 H t IBBT, W. D. 13PON8LRB., and D. B ERVIN,
leader the firm of -111EGaL, BAIRD, end will
eontinuestha Dry Geode jobbing and importing business
as heretofore, at No. 47 North THIRD street.
• • • - PETER BIZO-NR, ,
JACOB BLE4EL, ,
• - WM' M. BAIRD,
• •.
JOIIN WIEST,
• . • - "W. D. - SPONSLEH,
itemimber 8i ;• • ' jal-lmdc
VDWARD H. LADD will have charge of
our linalnitie In this elty from this date, at No. 820
CIISSVICIT Street. MINT, WEnaTZR, & CO.,
-".. - Manufaoturers of Sewing Ideellinee.
annary 1,1868. _ jai-3m
RA:TRICE , CENCI.-r
JA.11313 8. 3A.BLE
WILL OT/IN,
ON JANUARY 28n.,
Tbo beautiful,.
4, 041'111013/081101, -
*VIM:4ON Tailin tve HER EXBOUTION.,
•HfBB lIAR.RIET,IIOB3IEII.
..4 . 14 . 0!4 , 11 , pir; FWEt ITYaYEVB MTS.
smuts GALLERIES,._ -
- ,MS ORESTERT STREET,
PRITADEdIII.6.
,WBOWICIAL pAXERT.—On and
A. after THIS DAY, the 11th Ind, the BREAD from
• Oda establishment, and BREAD TIOEIVIS, W ill be for
"sare stthe following Depots : ,„; • ,
At the DEPOT, corner BROM) and VINE Striate,: ' -
CALEB CLOTHIER'S 118 North - VIETH Street •
;Anon V: RECIPE 701:111T11; shore Callowhill.
H
' ENKE lerWlfiQN , B, oor,BITTLI and flo ATM.
B.:o,o,ulanapi , o.o°l. ad.oss and rakrimax.
Ilittem
,J, aTI E 93, odr. TWELFTH and WALLACE.
Th
, S. PANDOASIV, corner NOrtrt and 04140WIIILL.
.r. "a • POECEIV/1 924 AllON'iltieet. .
Li IfEENLO IV LOMBARD. Street.
- V.. KNltlwr, s- ELM, beloW Walnut.
W , If .I.IAI7III9eS,'dor.SLEVENTIE and LOCUST,
1. o.llollNERteert. , llP2ll;and SPRUCE ~
OtberlDelmbelltil be announdeCfrOM day to day, as
arringdmentataratiompleted,_ ,
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Persomoeishing litead,delfrared at their dwellings
wkil v llease ralleter Their, names atAirepopotai lelmre
I li doe H itra!ritto r nl i ntrtree e . : istahlish routes ire
4litatiedithelt dottrel *Elbe begun. ' , Tickets of two
' , kiiiir;turcroi: ttninno ofung6 Whorish thefr Bread de.
741fered at age drrelliugai and OCii for the nee of Oboe
,whe prefer to denit Limit tpthesppbta, will be'protided
'and for sale at the Depot!! The Carriers will' bo in•
o t m te4 to depror, Bread for ~ flarriery tioote." -
- , WNII/IVId Lriptea Lista .., !,,:„ ...,, ,
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prioofc ,r illepottleiratir,' ) . frill:Ointifear.L. '
:,, ,IPAWT d "O,MOll$ l MolfAti, ", l4Yr i -MiD,A.:EALB
. - itol l it , : i •,.-, :, o , l o4 o ilitlat; 4 ., inn:l4tl44rit•
.
• • STTSSURIBENS HAVE I'HIN , DAY
Villeed lirttrir limited iniiiiiiiitdp, In aevirdinee .
'-: "Withllln 'add eirlunmerthly In aneNe tees wade and pm.
'''.) fidedl:;uuder:tlii.linti etatssirtfiec DRILY", A:or :ill* ,
-.4riiniaollinfeir-AO-TIPIMAR WIMPS in.theeity or
• vbibviAphhi. The mew tiartnora are 01,211IiNT,
,•-,-144EVA, , 0f New Olotle m kottedy. in „Air. 844 of. Bela.
warootant MARA I),IrA, , Ja., or tha Ally or **Wen>,
',:f-,ll`n the etitNO"New" Jef 'Paha the eyieelat;t4ithet
~ .:ItlitiAo'/OlitUd, hf th,ii *tenant' toliiloneeiterrito thi
, -f•BtateorNede .yerany. ~,. .The aglow in , oainiontiThato •
,-"'"' `W-Viltg Bann Lir alglibtholasinid Adllara,:r „,,,, ! v
~43 tiSialootniiYain will, conneardnaZon'illaLdrat,.day of
JenoarY, Bah, and will terminate on the thlry,,flTO,
date Dootnber,lB69. --..-- ----: - -
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WEAVSII, FINAL k 00.,
NO. X North WATER gnat,
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LiTii,iToN,coxyg $. FLORA MerixvisZY
MI 1111113 OP TOWSB HALL.
.To the bidet {Wry went. end got something to eat—
The dinner was Reared—the meal stag complete—
,Bald the husband. , vWetve been In 'ties famous retreat
week, and I'M thinking that noir I shall beat
A. retreat for myself and my own happy bride,
And
Thar* a ratnad feeling in beart ato brew:York with
nd my
in wiheadfe by toy side.
ar
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Not fatness of-blood, for - Vire deity been bled—
And I nay, in a whisper, of him It .may please
To be eaten by whines and worried by lieu,
It with; watering-plates he shape to be smitten,
And will by tutisquitoes and lendlorde be bitten; '
If his-cheat is contracted, and he can Inflate
III& lunge In a chamber of seven by eight;
If a good-natured fellow he really don't care
If bed-bugs gymnastic climb upon hie hair;
If, when proving hie own Mathematics 'defective,
He awcars not when finding his bill, in perspective,
Twice what be expected—some mathematician
Ifeving_prai3tibed the landlord in double position ; -
If the man is all this, and then realer he thinks
That cupping sal bleeding are good forhie health,
And hopes thstithe mineral water he drinks
May atone for the loss of his - minertil wealth,
Let.him go_to.the fipringe, to the Falls; or the Capes—
llut here let me hinkit, my darling, fp you,'
If reason my conduct hereafter &mild shape,
With famousiesortS Pll ba a notbin! to do.
A crusty old fellow . wae there with bin wife,
Who said ho intended to finish the season,
.And wished he might stay there the reit of his life.
A. score of fair visitors asked for his reason.
He looked up to seelf his wife was in view,
Then answered: The. Falls of ,Niagara, tumbling;
Have done 1401:taught else under heaven could do—'
Have drowneettilth their thunder the voice of a shrew,
And silenced a women eternally grumbling.
It aria only the Monday before wename here,
I had lost on hormo.race grime imndreds of dollars ;
Next,morning, at breakfast, she raid to mo :•, Dear,
Cin you give me an eagle to buy Me Some collars P
I Made no renly, hut looked block as December ; -
Took out of my.pocket a volume, and there ,
I - garotter a hint she will ever remember;
I read herlhe poem called 'Nothlrig.to Wear.'
But here comes my wife she whowanted the collars,
I WIU ask her the question, and the shall declare
The emotions she felt when she asked for ten dollars, ,
And 'I read her tho.poem called
." Nothing to Wear.'
"I felt," she replied, 4.." bad yen stayed from the race
Athome with your Wife, biyour own proper place !
Ilad you notiektbe law and the gospel aside,
By betting your money, and leaving-your bride ! •
Had you equandered no money for wine or champagne,
Which, profiting nothing, was worm than In vain!
Wad you not your own pockets moat sadly abused,
Through friends you had cheated, cigars you had. used !
Bad you not,disappoiated, returned from the race,
With a Chili on your heart, and a cloud on your face !
/led you, feeling a spite, not have vented the same
On the wife, for your losses in no way to biome !
Had yen not to you• manhood been guilty of treason,
With no show of defence in the province of reason,
might, with some profit, have listened, when there
You read meths poem of Nothing to Wear. ,
As it was, you had squandered some hundreds away,
And denied me a trifle •, I felt it was true,
That whateveryou read, or what ' er yea might say,
In practice your precepts had nothing to do.”
The husband than seemd by the unruly member,
And ',purred by the laughterthen shaking the walla,
Rat on bin sznreesion, ` gas black as December,"
And left in a hurry Leiria at the Falls.
(To be cootioned.)
_Norn.—The chap above alluded to afterwarde visited
Philadelphia,•:and, or course, called at Tower Unit.,
bit, ales! Bennett could not suit him. The moment he
entered-tie store, the nap on all the clothed stood UP,
and no • ceresing would smooth it. The vests seemed
to be invested with Contempt, and the pants panting
for revenge, while all the garments en swelled with in
dignation towards, the man who had ill-used his wife,
that' nothing , In the tore ws small enough for him.
The truth is, Bennett mattes his clothing for an amiable
clue of customers, find the style of hie coats will not
allow a man to get his bark up to quarrel with his wife.
For this reason, thee° who live sappy at home are those
who patronise BENNETT/8 TOWER HALL, 618 MAR•
UT Street, ,
Notices.
PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
OOMPANY.-office N. B. comer TRIED and
31008.Streete, Philadelphia.
The following STATEMENT of the affairs of the
Company is pubilshod in conformity with a provision
of the Charter •
RECEIPTS SOR THE YEAR 'ENDING DECEMBER
31, 1857.
Ror Prernintai and Dolielee - $151,761 76
Interest on Investment. and
Dividends
.-.60,412 21.
-----$202,110 07
LOSS3B -AND Ei.I9OI3ES puma THE SAME
' , PERIOD.. ,
. .
Losses 19, ammustipg 40 $45,700 00
Raperuips—talaries, Advertising,'
- 10,10 58
itent, Blatt andOlty,Taxes - 1,916 44
Agency,Oharges, Commissions,&e. 7,208 91
Reinauranci and Interest 6,614 07
$71,877 90
ABLIFT3 OP THI ' COMPANY LIABLE TO PAY
LOBBRS, JANUARY ley, 1959.
$27,925 80 Pennsylvania State Bonde.:..oost, 226,398 73
76,200 00 Philadelphia City "" 65,840 26
22,000 00 Allegheny County " " 10,945 CO
-10,400 00 Washington ' " 1,526 00
10,460 00 Pittaburgh.Oity " " 8,825 00
32,000 0) Penusylvaniallailread Bond;. " 26,700 00
30,07000, North Penney Iyanla 4 , ‘, 22 600 00
Reading Railroad " - 890-00
i 3 00141A1011,-01MBI "- 13,477 50
;6,000 00 G. L. of Pennsylvania " 5,510 00
100 shares Western Bank stock 6,802 60
100 ", Manufacturers , and Meehan' cs
Bank " 2,784 03
110 " Commercial Bank " 6 048 99
05 ,Pennsylvania Bank " 7;112 60
185 " '4lirard Life Insurance C 0.... " 3 525 25
850 - Pen najlvanill Railroad C 0...." 15,589 01
176 - New•Orleann OaO Co • ' 4 18,397 60
0703 61 City Warrants 4,087 62
Mortgages; Ground Rents, all first liens. 128,596 55
Leona on Policies and Collaterals ....... 89,031 47
Bills Receivable, Premium Notes 95 870 27
Real Rotate, Office Building 87,040 73
ficrip,.Dividond of Insurance Companies ..... 83,809 00
Agentat balances of their Accounts due .... 18,951 28
Quarterly Payments on-Policies issued 11,923 10
Cash on hand and in Bank 82,078 03
Interest on Investment to Jan. Ist, 1868. 11,303 34
Office Furniture 1,221. 15
Franklin Fire Insurance Company 300 00
718,200 83
Deduct three Lome due In 1858 3,500 00
715,780 83
Guarantee °apnea .100,000 03
815,780 83
PIIILAMILPTIIA, Pal : 12, 1858
At sa election, held at the Cfc• of the Company on
MONDAY, the dtb Inst., the following gentlemen wore
duly elected Trustees, to serve for three years:
~ John e. Brenner, . BoDl7lllkin Coates,
. William Martin, - Diehard 8. Newbold,
Jae. B. McFarland, William P. Hacker,
Joseph H. Trotter, William 11. Hera,
James 'Easton.
- At a meeting -of the Board of Trustees, held this
evening, DANIEL L. MILLER, Esq., was unanimously
elected President, and SAMUEL E. STOKES, Esq.,
Vice President, for the ensuing year.
The Board of Trilateral have this day declared a scrip
dividend of TWENTY-FIVE PER OENT, upon the
cash premiums paid In-1857. .
They have also declared a cash dividend of SIX PER
GENT. upon the scrip dividends of 1850 to 1857 inclu
siveayable at the office of the (Mmpany after the se
cond day of lebruarynext.
DANIEL L. MILLER, President.
SAMUEL B . STOKES, Vine President.
JoiDi W. Homan, Secretary.
INCREASE OF TUE ACCUMULATED CAPITAL OF
. _ TILE COMPANY.
Jafiaary 1, 1849, Asonmulated Capitol $ 31,862 62
January 1,1850, do do 85,843 62
January 1, 1851, do do 142,682 19
/woozy I, 1862, 'do do 177,913 30
January 1, 1853,
,- do do 248,985 66
34604ry 1, 1854,d0 do 334,307 33
January 1, 2816, — do do 416,681 67
January I, 1856, , do do 513,955 22
Jimmy 1, 186; do • do 611,235 03
January 1, 1858, do do 716,760 88
LOSSES PAID BINGE Tin COMMENCEMENT OF
TRH COMPANY
To January 41840, one policy., $ 6,000 00
To January 1 1860, four policies 16,600 00
To January I,' 1861,• sixteen policies 48,000 00
To January' 1,1852, twenty-three policies... 64,800 00
To January 1, 1853, sixteen ponder 34,800 00
To January 1,1854, eleven policies 20,260 Ou
To January 1, 1855, twontpaeveu policies— 39.817 00
To January 1,1860, fifteen policies 35,300 00
To January 1, 1867, eleven policies 28,800 00
To January 1,1858, nineteen policies 45,700 00
jalo.lo 2023273040
rgiHEr QUAKER CITY INSURANCE
11 4 3051 P Arilf.—Oftice 408 WALNUT Street.
POILADYLPHIA, Jan. 14, 1858.
BTATIIiIENT of the buninese and condition of the
Quaker City Insurance - Company foe the year ending
December 31.8,1867: •
Capital and Surplus $277,665 85
Surplus, January 1, 1867 $31,671 78
Received for Premiums during
the year 1857 162,807 03
Interact received 11,755 10
Salvage and Reinsuranoe 8,381 48
1.0810.8; Y.XPENBY.S. &a.
.Losses paid 371,818 45
Dividends audCommissions paid. 83,839 32
Beiasurapee and return Premiums 09,047 45
Roo; Bit!pile', Taxes. Adverti
sing, snd'Offiee Expenses 11,125 17
Bonds . ' and Mortgages, geoand •
Rents,- ,Coupon 'Bonds, hank
and other, Stocks - $100,060 00
Masotlablelllis Receivable 155,173 33
wish In S . nk and INe from Agts." 2,2,442 52
-'-- - - -- -$2 7 1, 655 85
This Cothrsoj continuos to make Insurances against
'IRE and MAItINE Elate. ,
OFFICERS ,
Preeident—OEOP.O.E II HART.
Vtae-Prealdent—E. P. 11088, .
. . Sacra ary and Treasurar-11..11.-. 00GO5IIALL.
'Assistant Beor4ary-I-S• BUTLER.
nratOroaa.
George 11. Itart, - E.
- 8. 04 e , - Andrew it chamless,
A G. Cartel], J. L. Pomeroy,
Joseph Edwards, --- Charles G.
Jain O. Dale, , • H. - it Coggehall,
Foster B. Perkins - Samna Jones,
H. H. Fuller.
Aalc. R. 00011811 ALL, Socretary.
- CIPPICW , OP • THE NEPTUNE INSU.:
AL/ RANGE COMPANY, NO. 414 WALNUT street.
e•IL . • PAILADIAPIAA; Jan. 11, 1814.
Thedrit annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
Neptuoginsurance Compsnrwas held this day, when
the following persons were unawhoouily elected to
serve vi Dlreetors•fer the ensuing year;
. Richard Shields, Edward McClain,
. ". George Mlteter, Gustavus V. Town,
' Thootiere . N. Town, , 'nouns Heath,
G. Stotesbnyy ? - D.. Sherwood, •
Oi 0. butler, • • George Scott
lr Akmeetlisg °COQ Beard of Directors, held on the
4 ,tlisfollowing °intern were elected:
nu SHIELDS, President. -
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The Annual Electron for Eight Directors will be held
on MONDAY, the Ist day of March, 1868, at the office
of the Dom y, No , 808 WALNUT Street.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1868
VERY LIKE THE SLAVE• TRADE
The London Times argues very earnestly,
and apparently very advisably, in favor of
,cultivating the fertile estates, now unfilled, in
the West India Islands, by means of a sort of
African apprenticeship. Cotton, it avers,
could be grown on these estates, but only by
moans of African labor. Tho difficulty is to
got a free-labor market. "All the embar
rassment," says the Times, c( arises from the
fact that, if ones blacks were known to be
wanted, and to be saleable on the coast for
some sort of, price, they would forthwith be
kidnapped for consignment by their own
chiefs—a proceeding which wottld revive all
the horrors of internal war, and dissipate the
chances of improvement which honest traffic
is beginning to yield. Ity transporting Afri
cans from their own country to the West In
dieti, we could benefit all parties together—the
colonist, the laborer, and the Eulopean con
sumer of tropical produce, but wo are afraid
to show our desire for such supplies, lest man
stealing should bo commenced anew."
The Om suggested by the Times is to em
ploy Africans as the Coolies aro now employed
in the Mauritius. It declares that—
", In the Mauritius the wants of the planter are'
supplied by importations of Coolie's from India, but
the jealousy with which the privileges of these im
migrants are regarded will almost create a smile.
They aro to ho had In India by thousands, the'
country being overstocked with population, the
rate of wages in the Mauritiult being four times as
high as in their own markets, and the sea passage
being short and practicable. The planters of the
colony, however, aro not allowed to go and biro those
workmen on their native soil, for fear a glut of
labor thus introduced should be attended with ex
cessive competition, low wages, and hard fare. Tho
colonial Government decides every year what
amount of labor is fairly required, and regulates
the importations accordingly. As soon as a ship
load of Coolies arrives, an officer, styled the
'Protector,' goes on board, compares the cargo
with the official list to see that the assigned limits
have not been exceeded, Inquires whether any
Coolie has any complaint to make, and then
lodges the whole batch in a depot on shore, whore
they aro maintained for two days. The object
of this suspense is that they may receive full
information an to the value of their labor, and
may not he entrapped into any injudicious
engagement. After they havo been fully im
pressed with their own consequence, they admit
the visits of the planter, who determineshow many
ho would like to hire, and, if his °fibre are accept
able, master and mon proceed together to lid
magistrate, attended by the protector, and a legal
contract is made for a certain period—tbe master
stipulating to provide his laborers with o free pas
sage back to India, and giving securities for the
performance of his promise. If a planter chooses
to'conduot an impprtation of Coolies on his own
account, be can only do so subject to the same for
malities and guarantees.
The proposed arrangement, it will be seen, Is
carefully elaborated. But British experience
of the Coolie system shows a succession of
failures, and to throw in fresh African labor,
by importation, under any pretext, smells very
strongly of reviving that very Slave Trade
which England paid $100,000,000 in 1834 to
suppress. •
What would the Times have said if this sug
gestion had been made here? Difference of
latitude and longitude makes a great change.
What England may do in the West Indies, or
Franco in Guadalupe, may not be thought of
in the southern part of the United States. We
only put the question upon the very broadest
as we dtatunittne puitanthrony_wideb
la entirely regulated by geographical relations.
What is morally wrong in one place cannot
be morally right in another.
For The Press.]
I will write you a letter; it shall not bo hing.
Are there not, in this Kansas question, some points
on which all are agreed? For instance, everybody
admits that this Leconopton Constitution was the
work of a minority ; if a man was to deny this, he
would receive no other answer than laughter.
Every man sees en intended fraud upon the very
face of the instrument; he may try hard not to see
it; be may, like the old seaman, hold the telescope
to his blind eye; be may fix his gaze in another
direction—say on some fat office ; do his best, he
cannot help but see the fraud. Whether the whole
Constitution should have been submitted to the
people, all are not agreed. But all agree that by
the organic law "domestic institutions" wore to
be submitted. That means slavery—Mr. Buchan
an says so ; and, I believe, he understands domes
tic institutions; Senator Douglas and (lovernor
Wise, to the, contrary, notwithstanding. Now if I
were in Congress, (which Heaven avert would
wish to see if that bad been done which all agree
ought to here been done; done, of course, fairly,
or else it cannot be truly snid to have been done at
all. Now it seems to me that the way in which it
was contrived end managed made the pretended
submission of the slavery question to the people of
Kansas a mere trick, a juggle—worthy only of
Signor Blitz, who is a professor of tricks and
juggles. The people were to/d, " you may
vote for. the Constitution with slavery," or the
"Constitution without slavery ;" but in truth
there never was the 'slightest chance afforded to
them to vote for a "Constitution without slavery "
No such thing was before them. The slavery ques
tion was presented strictly upon the "heads I win.
tails you lose" principle. If everybody voted
against what was called " the slavery clause,"
there still remained the clause against which no
body was allowed to vote, viz : " that the rights of
property in slaves, now in this Territory, shall in
no manner be interfered with." This was not sub
mitted ; and to make it perpetual, another clause,
not submitted, provides that by no future " re
vising, altering, or amending of the Constitution"
shall "alteration be made to affect the right of
property in the ownership of slaves." Can you
tie up a sovereign people en this fashion, and yet
persuade them that " they aro perfectly free to de
cide for themselves, ke., Sec!" Why, if there wee
a single black woman a slave in Kansas, she would
be able, with the concurrence of the smallest minor
rity, say a single man, to propagate slavery to all
generations, in spite of the will of the mujority—
puissant black woman! But the apologists
ask "is it not important that the slave own
ers already there shall be protected, ,to?"
Certainly. It is a matter an tmportant, that to
decide it without submitting it to the people is to
withhold what is moat important, and makes the
pretended submissinn a farce. It is said that the
majority did not vote (more fools they, then) for
delegates to the Convention, so they aro bound by
its action—but bound by what? Bound by honest
legislation, not by fraud and usurpation? If every
man in Ka..,eas had voted for the delegates, it
would not have given them power to nullify the
organic act, and by trickery withhold the slavery
question from the people. Tho people aro not
bound to submit to that; but men call upon Con
gress to arrest and to redress this great wrong.
But there is is newfangled doctrine that Congress
can onlf look (poor Congress! they would make it
as impotent as the people of Kansas) to see if a
Constitution is rem/Moen. This is now doctrine,
bran new ; , for those who urge it voted, only at
the last session, against what was celled the " To
leka Constitution," on entirely different grounds.
will rot waste your space in discussing whether
the Lecompton article es " republican." Accept
those few thoughts from A PLAIN MAN.
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Intereetina New, tram the Pinkie.
[From the St. Louis - IV:publican, Jan. 39th.]
A letter from the agent of the United States Ex.
press Company at Jefferson City, dated yesterday,
oommunientes some interesting items of news from
the Plains.
It is stated that Mr. A. Achner, an Indian
radar, had arrived in that city from Fort Laramie.
lie left that fort on the 3d instant. On his way,
on the 23i1 December, ho met between six hundred
and seven hundred Cheyenne and Comanche In
dians, returning from Great Salt Lake City to
their villages, on the Black Walnut Hills, about
eighty miles southeast of Fort Laremle, accompa
nied by about twenty of the Mormon leaders. Ile
understood that it was the intention of these In
dians, of course under the influence of the Mor
mons, to remain in camp until the spring, and
then to employ themselves in harassing and cut
ting off the trains of provisions, kn., intended for
the relief of Colonel Johnston. The Indians had
been persuaded to believe that there were eighty
thousand men among the Mormons, capable of
bearing arms, and well equipped, and they de
scribe them as having numerous fortifleations.
They also speak of a large number of Indian
allies; and declare that the Mormons have no idea
of running away.
Mr. Milner reports that ho saw a white girl,
.about nine years of ago, in the camp of the Clue
yennes. She' as dressed as an Tndian. She re
pt esented to him that her parents wore from Green
county, Illinois, and that oho was stolen from them
by the Indiana when the train of emigrants was
crossing the plains, but that she did not know
whether ter parents were living or dead. Mr.
Achnor wan unable to rescue her by force, or to
purchase her, her captor being absent on a hunt ;
bat be was pito confident of being able to do so
On his next expedition among the Indians.
This gentleman is represented as baying been a
trader for many years among the Indians, and his
statements are entitled to credit.
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Under the new code of revenue laws ot` the
State of Mississippi, the tax on loaned mono) , ie
twenty cents on every hundred donna, or two dol
len; ion the thousand,
THE KANSAS QUESTION.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 23. 1858.
THE VOICE OP ILLINOIS.
[Prim the Mileage Daily Time.]
There was a large meeting of the DemOcraoy.of
this State at Springfield, on Wednesday evening
last. The venerable John Moore presided, moisten'
by Democrats from several of the coUntles of the
State. The resolutions, whiohlwe suppose are front
tho pen of Bon. John A. MoClernand, are just the
thing for the occasion, and wo commend them a 6 #
model for all oilier Democrntio meetings.. Thti
State Register thus reports the meeting .
THE. Ittiveis DEMOORACV.—In pursuanee.
public notice, a large and enthusiastic' meeting of
members of the Democratic party from various
parts of the State, assembled in the hail of the
House of Represontattves on Wednesday evening.
Jan. 13th, 1858.
Col. J. A MaCiernand onlled the meeting to or
dor, and on his motion lion. John Moore, of Sanga
mon county, was appointed President.
On motion of W. B. Pondey, Esq., the following
gentlemen were appointed Vise Presidents, vii.,_
Col. Win. B. Warren, of Morgan county. •
James W. Ilarrott, of Sangamon.
W. A. Lookridgo, of Sangamon.
Samna Chapman and Samos AL. Bomar
Johnson.
Wright C. Ponder, of Union. i
C. J. Cash, of Williamson. ._
Homy M. Smith, of Pulaski.
Dr. A. If Trapp, of St. Clair. ;,..
Chester Carpenter, of Hamilton. , A
James W. Whitney, of Pike.
David J. Waggoner, of Fulton. '
John D. Miley, of Wayne.
David P, Walker, of Masao. ;
William Rickets, of Coles.
William Price, of Clark.
On motion of Mr. Fondoy,
J. S. Roberts, of Piko county, and N. M. Bromi '
well, of Sangamon, wero appointed Somata'
Mr. President in a felt pertinent remarks, ml
plained the object of the meeting, and returned
his thanks for the honor conferred upon him.
On motion of Col. J. A. McClernand,
Re3olvert, That a committee of coven bo ap•
pointed by the chair to prepare aid report resolu•,
lions exprossivo of the sonso of the meeting on the
subject for tho consideration of which it wa
called.
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Whereupon, no °hair appointed non. J. .EL ,
McClornand, Hon. 0. 11 Ficklin, lion. Wm. 0.
Gaudy, lion. C. L. Higbee, Col. Robert Blaokwelly
0. 11. Loophier, and lion. M. O'Koan as said 00194
mitten.
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Dining the absence of the committee Col. Benj•
Bond, being called upon, addresed the meeting,'
briefly, but enthusiaetioally, and to the point.
Co). McClerical* from the committee on resolu
tions, reported and read the following :
Whereas, There appears to be a difference of
opinion as to the true intent and meaning of the
hansas-Nobraska act, and as to the application of
the principles of that act to the existing form of
the Kansas question, therefore:
Resolved, That we reiterate, as the bond of
union between the national Democracy, the plat
form of the party adopted at Cincinnati by their
accredited representatives, and recognise the same
as the authoritative exposition of its principles.
Resolved, That the Cincinnati platform, and the
true intent and meaning thereof, binds the Demo
cracy of the Union toiparanty to the people of
each Territory of the United States the right of
fully ratifying, by the majority vote of such Terri
tory, each and every provision of the Constitution
under which they apply for admission into the
Federal Union.
Reso/vret : That It would bo equally contrary to
reason and justice, that in a seeming Antagonism
of form and substance, the latter should be sacri
ficed to the former, or that tho essential rights
and liberties of the people should be made to yield
to the authority of a mere technical rule—and,
therefore, we no Democrats int,ist, that any act to
be passed by Congress, unconditionally admitting
as a State into the Union under the Le
compton Constitution, upon the ground of an
implied assent on the part of rho people of that
Territory to that Constitution, contrary to the
fact, would bo an nawarranted and unrighteous
assumption of power on the part of Congress, and
an unjust and oppressive exercise of the same, par
ticularly towards the people of Kansas.
Resolved, That when a Territory forme a Condi
tution without an enabling not by Congress, and
asks for admission under the same, snob application
should bo regarded as a petition for the redress of
grievances ; and to receive a St to into the tinfoil
under a Constitution thus formed, in opposition to
the known wishes of the majority of the citizens Of
such Territory, IS a violation of the principles o„
popular sovereignty as depleted. in the KIIIIBAO
Nebraska act.
Resolved, That the Illinois Democracy consider
that the foregoing principles have over constituted
a vital and essential portion of the acknowledged
political creed of the Democratic party of , the
United States; that they combatted for and tri
umphed with them in the last Presidential elec
tion ; that they stand pledged to maintain them
before the country, and that they cannot and will
not disavow them.
Resolved, Thatltbe Van,-
on rest tha by tee an. Stephan
A.tuglas, our distinguished Senator, in the re
cent debates in the Senate of the United States in
support and vindication of the foregoing prinoi
pies and propositions; that they approve his
course, and are proud of the ability with which he
has sustained himself as a faithful exponent of the
principles of the National Democracy.
Colonel J. A. BieCiernand, Colonel Robert
Blackwell, Hon. 0.11. Ficklln, Hon. C. L. Higbee,
J. L. McConnell, severally addressed the meeting
in lucid and eloquent speeches, in support of the
resolutions, which were repeatedly interrupted by
the enthusiastic cheers of the assembled multitude
of Democrats present.
The question on the adoption of the resolutions
being then put by the president, they were
adopted unanimously.
On motion of Mr. °Teen,
Resolved, That the Democratic papers of this
State, the Washington Union and States, are re
quested to publish the proceedings of this meet
ing.
On motion of Charles H Lanphicr, Esq.,
The mooting adjourned with three hearty and
enthusiastic cheers for Stephen A. Douglas.
Tonic Mom:, President.
Wm. B. Warren, A. K Trapp,
Jas. W. Barret, Chester Carpenter,
IV. A. Lockridgo, J W. Whitney,
Samuel Chapman, D. J. Waggot.er,
Jas. M. Benson, John D. Muloy,
Wright O. Ponder, D. P. Walker,
C. J. Cash, Wm. Ricketts,
Henry M. Smith, Wm. Price,
Vice Presidents.
A &Taal leS.
John S. Roberts, 5 , .
S. H. Broadwell.
Governor Wive on Free-Labor Emigration
From the Richmond Engoirer, January 19
The follor,ing letters Imornpanied tiloY. Wises
taessago to the Legislature
MR. THAYER'S EH/ORATION SCREAM
RICHMOND, VA., August 24, 1857.
Dean Sin . Yours of the 15th Inst. was reoeived
this morning, and I reply to it immediately, that
" Mr. Eli Thayer's emigration scheme," in West
ern Virginia, or anywhere else, has never been
submitted in any manner whatever for my ap
proval or disapproval. What the schema is, for
any part of Virginia or elsewhere. I am not defi
nitely informed—and the agents of no such sohonio
have over addressed tno on the subject, directly or
indirectly, and its friends, whoever they may be,
have no authority whatever for the HEO of my
name in its favor. A newspaper report to that
area, in some Cincinnati journal, was lately con
tradicted by the Richmond Enquirer, with my
authority.
I am "cognizant" of no matter appertaining to
the origin, objects, and probable results of this en.
terprise, which bars not been given to the public.
Offiaially, I have nothing to do with the subject
except it bo mado apparent by proper and math•
dent proof, that combinations or associations art
formed, in or out of the State, to canto invasion or
incito insurrection, or to prevent the execution d
our laws, especially those fur the protection cf
property in slaves. Any association or combine
lion, formed under any pretext, coining into our
limits with the avowed or loneliest purpose and
act of impairing the value of property in slaver,
would be against the laws of the Commonwealth,
which I will "take care shall bo faithfully OKI.
ented." No such association or combination bin
my approbation, and it will have to encounter all
the power vested in me by the Constitution to resist
and overcome any soak unlawful latent or purpose,
and to enforce the execution of all the laws. But in
toying this, I disclaim all meaning to interfere
with peaceful and lawful immigration into tie
limits of our Commonwealth. Our State needs
settlers to develop her vast resources; and I
would, from policy and without fear, encourage
immigrants to come to our waste lands and in'
prove them, to increase our population, qar
wealth. our revenue, and our State and Federal
strength. And so conscious am I of the power of
Virginia to protect and defend her institutions,
and the persons and property of her eitiaene, in
her own limits at least, that I would neither (sob
nor betray any fear, if felt, Willa would repel
lawful immigration and settlement. That State
must be weak, indeed, which would, from mere
, apprehension, arrest the progress of her demi
opulent, lent she could not preserve her peace,
protect her persons and property, and onforco
her laws. I have no fear, therefore, that any
emigration scheme intended to affect Virginia,
can endanger oilier her honor, her rights, her
possessions, or her peace in hor own limits.
No matter what may be the newspaper rumors,
however calculated to alarm the timid or to °mita
the excitable, or to add fuel to the fires at agita.
lion, my counsel is calmly to invite settlers to our
lands. to olfcr then every facility and favor of
good neighborhood ; to give thorn all the protec
tion of pence; to encourage them in increasing
plenty, by multiplying the hands and vocations of
labor—and to allow them to abide with us wider
our laws so long as they will obey those laws, and
respect all rights under them. Indeed, I know
of no laws, State or roderal, which do not require
018 rule to be observed towards all immigrants of
good behavior. The right to removes from one
State and to settle in another, complying
with the laws, is it reciprocal right of the citizens
of the respective States, under the Constitution of
the United States. Wily not calmly wait, then,
for the foot, as it may ousel If the act end in.
tentof Immigration shall manifest themselves tribe
unlawful, we have the power to enforce the laws;
and if lawful, we ought to encourage settlement,
and are hound to extend protection to innocent and
lawful immigrants. At all °vents, lot us be manly
in our notion, and not movie from the promptinge
of mere apprehension and fears.
These Ore briefly my views, and I ens grateful to
you for the opportunity of calling them forth.
'Yours, truly, linany A. WISE.
lion. Albert O. Jenkins.
Tito Boston Traveller has tho following:
Over two years ago, David Merrill, of East 'Boston,
was arrested for the murder of his wife, and com
mitted td jail for trial. Over a year ago, etitoo
for his tilel was assigned, but the court agreed to
a postponement, in order to obtain in his behalf
some evidence from California. It is said that he
is insane, though tho murder appeared to bo a
post ilciontom 9119,
THE LEGISLATURE OF NEW JERSEY
KANSAS.
Mr. Sharp, of Cumberland, offered the followhag:
Whereas, The existing controversy now pend
ing in our national Legislature, in regard to the
admission of the Territory of Kansas into the
Union; with the Leoompton Constitution, having
assumed new and unexpected features, involving a
principle of the most vital consequences to the peo
ple of the United States—that of self-government;
therefore,
Resolved, (House of Assembly concurring,) That
we have the most implicit confidence in the wis
dom, patriotism, and statesmanship of the Presi
dent of the United States, that ho will endeavor to
carry out the principles contemplated in the Kan
eas•Nebraska bill, and expressed in the Cincinnati
platform, and also so emphatically laid down in
his inaugural address, and still more recently de
clared in his instructions to Gov. Walker.
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Resolved, That while New Jersey will cordially
welcome Kansas into this fraternity of States
with such doraestio institutions or regulations as
may ho agreed upon by a majority of bor bong
fide citizens, (the institution of slavery not cx•
°opted.) she will never sanotion the forcing of the
so-called Lecompton Constitution, or any other,
upon her, either with or without slavery, against
the will of a majority of her citizens.
Resolved, That the admission of any Territory
as a State into this Union, with a Constitution
known to be in direct opposition to the wishes of a
majority of its inhabitants, or until they have
had a fair opportunity to express their will at the
ballot•box, tea flagrant outrage upon their rights,
and in direct opposition to a fundamental and oft
reiterated doctrine of the Dernocratio party.
Resolved, That our Senators he, and are hereby,
instructed, and our Representativei in Congress
are requested, to do all in their power to carry out
the spirit and intent of the foregoing resolutions,
:.Resolved,, That the Governor bo requested to
cause n copy of these resolutions, properly certi•
tiod, to be sent to each of our Senators and Repro.
sentatives.
, Mr. Sharp ,addressed tho &note in support of
the resolutions as follows:'
Mn. PRESIDE:I* I am induced to offer these
resolutions, In consequence of the present and on
:expected aspect of that nil-absorbing and exciting
Kansas controversy, as it now presents itself in our
national Legislature. Perhaps it may appear to
some, that in adopting this course, it is premature
and unauthro Ind. But, s'r, my reply is that Ido
not wish to assume any snore responsibility than
legitimately devolves upon me. I desire only to
speak and act for myself, and those who sought ins
ought from comparative obscurity, and; reposing
confidence in my political integrity, Bent mo here
not only to look after their local interests, and to
promote, to the beat of my ability, the prosperity
of our;State, but also, whenever the occasion should
aatunnd, to vindicate those principles to which we
6tand thoroughly and unequivocally committed
principles, sir, width we believe, with unaffected
sincerity, to bo vital in their character, and above
plj others calculated to fraternize the American
PeCiele.
Therefore, if there exists a disposition upon the
part of those whom the people have selected to
carry out their will, to quibble about legal techni
calities in the discharge of their pledges, that they
may have an excuse to clog the operation, or en
•tlrely crush out a prominent and cardinal princi
ple of the Democratic party, I desire, In behalf of
that portion of this party by whose suffrages I am
here, to enter an earnest and unconditional pro
test against any measure calculated to enshroud
in mystery or balk the consummation of those
olziocts which the people confidently expected
wsuld be promptly settled by their repreeen tat Ives.
Unambiguity of principle and action has always
been a characteristic of tho Democratic party, and
mast continue to be if it be supported by the rank
'aid file; no matter which party it is, or what its
pfofeesions aro, nor what its name may be, it must
submit its every notion to the • consideration of a
scrutinizing and intelligent people. Consequently,
any party that may attempt to sustain itself by
false promisee or broken pledgee, whether implied
oAtherwiso,-will result in its discomfiture and
perplexity; and as I look back with pride at the
history-the untarnished history of that powerful
organization which has ever enstnined the people's
obese against the varioue combinations that have
from time to time assailed their rights-I ass in
duty bound, as one of its chosen sentinels, to raise
my voice against any attempt to embarrass the
operation of its principles.
From time immemorial have the Democracy o r
South Jersey labored unceasingly and unswer r ,
iegly for the firm establishment and perpetuati on
of their idolized doctrines of petition! equality,
both in their individual and State ealmitY , Un
dismayed have they, year after year, contended
against vast elide-not for the purpose of .selfish
against
nor for the elevation of mon
whom they respect and honor, but for the success
of their plain, unsophisticated principles of equal
rights and unconditional sovereignty of the
people. Applying this principle to evory creed
diet presented itself, every political doctrine
that would not bear this test they discarded
As unworthy the support of an American free
men—And when our opponents came out in 1856,
anarupensf doctrine of intervention,
of dictation, of esotessieeite.' o -•r e•-•-•:.- et- -see
thou that the people revolted et so glaring a de
parlors from primitive prineiplos, and rallied un
der the Democratic banner of political equality
and popular sovereignty, which was so clearly and
satisfactorily sot forth in the Cincinnati platform,
end to which every Democratic candidate, from the
President - down, cheerfully subscribed. and wont
forth among the people, and endorsed the doctrine
there laid down as being fundamental, and espe
cially that part in regard to popular sovereign
ty, not only in its application to Kansas, but
to all other Status or Torrltories It We for this
all-important, this cardinal principle of Democre
ay, that we pledged ourselves to carryout, and app
paled to the people to sustain. It was not whet's
sr slavery should exist in this Territory or in that,
but shall the peoples of every State be allowed the)
exercise of that free agency which fled himself has
designed wo all should enjoy, at the cams time
affixing a just and proper penalty for the improper
use of that glorious boon. This was the principle
RI dispute, and it was upon this issue that the peo
ple of Cumberland contended for victory at this bal
lot-box, which resulted in the election of a Demo
crat ton seat in this Senate for the first time in their
history, and ho now stands bore, true to his consti
tuenta. to vindicate upon the first occasion those
principles for which be stands pledged. And I
sow ask Senators to show their hands, to bo prompt
In 11118 matter, and let the world know, so for as
the Demooraoy of New Jersey is concerned, they
are true to their principles How often, during
the eampaign of 1856, have we said to our consti
tuents, The people of every State or Territory
shall regulate their own domestic concerns in their
own way, free from Congressional intervention or
dictation." Lot us still say so ; still let
this continue to be the watchword which was
then proclaimed throughout the length and
breadth of the land, till it resounded with
cheering effect from the shores of the Atlantic to
these of the Pacific, and vast numbers of those
who had marched so long and so loyally under the
leadership of such master spirits as Clay and Web
ster renounced their allegiance to a party whose
doctrines of national policy had become displaced
by ecolesiastioal and sectional prejudices, and
joined in with all their energy in assisting to elect
the democratic candidates, that their principles
upon this all-alaborhing question of popular sove•
reignty might be established. Lot it not be said
that the people have misplaced their confidence in
this particular, but let us bo true to them and to
ourselves, by promptly showing our opposition to
anything thatconfliets with soimportant a principle
The President, in hie message to Congress, says
in the most emphatic manner that the great doc
trine of popularmovereignty is the vital principle
of our fuss institutions Ile also says that no
other authentic and satisfactory mode exists of as
certaining the will of the majority of this people of
any State or Territory, on 1M important question,
except by leaving it to a direct vote. Now, I cer
tainly think the adoption of a Constitution by
which the people of any State or Territory are to
be
is, governed, an important question; and if
it has the Locompton Constitution been
fairly left to a direct vote of the people of
Kansas'? If it has, and received a ma
jority of tho votes in favor of its adoption,
then they should be admitted into the Union at
once. But WO tire informed but a single clause of
this Constitution has boots submitted by tho Cm•
vention that framed it, and no are now told by
some of those who occupy high official position in
the natuinistration of our (lovernment, that be•
cause previous legislation does not positively de
mand that the whole Constitution should ho sub
'flitted. that therefore the principles of the Knosas
and Nebraska bill, and also them laid down in the
Cincinnati platform, have been complied with.
Now. Mr. President, while I nun willing to
admit that the submission of the slavery clause
only, is in accordance with an extreme
legal construction of the Kansas• Nebraska bill,
yet I am decidedly of the opinion that such a
secures falls far ahort of the spirit and intent of
said bill, ns it certainly does or the oft-reiterated
pledges of theDemoeratio party. I am, therefore,
congellediby every sense of honor and justice, to
insist upon our Representatives in the United
States Senate to vindicate the honesty and sinceri
ty of the Democracy of New Jersey.
I was always, and on all occasions, a firm
advocate of the principles of the celebrated
liansas-Nobraska bill, because I believed it
b be wise and just in all its provisions
because I believe it to be a most excellent
substitute for mind, I always considered nn
arbitrary and unconstitutional measure-the Mis
souri compromise ; and because I believed that it
would remove that exciting and dangerous
quce
thon which has caused Co much sectional agitation,
forever from tho halls of Congress; and furthermore,
I believed that it would have a decided tendency to
put down the most daring, reckless, 11:1 , I dangerous
spirit that over menaced the prosperity and perm,•
tufty of our tlovernment, by luenliFitet the ques
tion of slavery, and thereby stat vim; this dictato
rial party-removing this, their only food, beyond
their reach. I therefoto desire that we may not
falter nor swerve to the right or to the left in any
emergency But I hope the Democracy of Now
Jersey will now speak out through thei r roproson ta
lives, and let the whole country know that they
occupy no oscillatory position in regard to their
cardinal principles • lot us not suffer any at
tempt to nso the influence or power of this illus
trious organization for sinister purposes to go
unrobitked ; lot us, as the chosen standard-bear
ore of the people, maintain, as far as lies in cur
power, the honesty and integrity of that party
which has governed this prosperous and happy
country, so long, so wisely, and so well; lot us
continue to rely with implicit confidence upon the
purity of our principles for their continued sue
sass, standing firmly upon that impregnable doc
trine of popular Povereignty first set forth in tho
Declaration of Independence, viz :
That all just Governments derive their power
from tho consent of the governed, and as New
Jersey was among the first to acknowledge that
much applauded doctrine, and as no other State
paid so high a price in blood and treasure for the
establishment of that ennobling principle, let her
now ho among the most prompt in guarding and
cherishing It.
After the delivery of the speech, the resolutions
were referred to the Committee on Kansas affairs,
of which Mr Sharp is a member, and they will, no
doubt, be called up in a few days and passed by
1,49 11441*i: 1 41 Dowooratto yoto Qf thA body.
The Navy—Confirmations by the Senate of Be•
[From the Washlugton papers of ➢ride).]
The following naval officers, whose positions
wore ohanged by the operation of the aot of Con
gress of February 28, 1855, have been confirmed
by the Senate, and restored to the active list of the
navy :
Joseph Smith, now a captain on the reserved
list, to be a captain in the navy from the 9th of
February, 1837, to take rank as suoh next after
Captain M. C. Perry.
Urieh P. Levy, dropped, to be a oaptain In the
navy from the 29th of !throb, 1844, to take rank
as such next after Captain Hiram Paulding.
Joseph R. Jarvis, now a commander on the re•
served list, to be a captain in the navy from the
24th of May, 1855, to take rank as such next after
Captain Charles H. Ball.
John 8. Chauncey, dropped, to be a oaptain in
the navy from the 14th of September, 1855, to
take rank as such next after Captain Joseph B.
James Glynn, now a commander on the reservel
list, to be a captain in the navy from the 14th of
September, 1855, to take rank as such next after
Captain Robert 13 Cunningham.
Robert Ritchie, now a commander on the reserved
list, to bo a captain in the navy from the 14th of
September, 1855, to take rank as such next after
Captain John Rudd.
John S. Nicholas, now a commander on the re
served list, to bo a captain in the navy, from the
14th of September, 1855, to take rank ae such next
after Captain George F. Pearson.
Cadwalader Ringgold, now a commander on the
reserved list, to be a captain in the navy front the
2,1 of April, 1856, to take rank as each next after
Capt. Kutch Y. Purviance.
Isaac S. Sterott, now a commander on the re
served list, to be captain in the navy from the 2tl
of March, 1857, to take raiik as such next after
Capt. henry W. Morris.
Robert D. Thorburn, now a commander on the
reserved list, to be a commander in the navy from
the 3d of October, 1850, to take rank as such next
after Commander Wm. C. Whittle.
Samuel Lockwood, now a commander on the re
served list, to be a commander in the navy front
the 18th of October, 1850, to take rank as such
next after Commander Robert D. Thorburn.
Wm. S. Ogden, dropped, to be a commander in
the navy froth the 221 of April, 1851, to rank as
such next after Commander Samuel Lockwood.
John Calhoun, now a commander on the reserved
list, to ho a commander in the navy from the 4th
of November, 1852, to take rank as such next after
Commander Robert G. Robb.
Murray Meson, now a commander on the re
served list, to be a commander in the navy from
the 25th of February, 1854, to tako rank as snob
next after Commander Henry K. Hoff.
William E. Hunt, now a lieutenant on the re
served list, to boa commander in the navy from
the 22d of August, 1855, to take rank as snob next
after Commander John W. Livingston.
_Matthew F. Maury, now a lieutenant on the re
served list, to bo a commander in the navy from
the 14th of September, 1855, to take rank such
next after Commander James F. &hawk.
James S. Palmer, now a lieutenant on the re•
served list, to be a commander in the navy from
the 14th of September, 1855, to take rani as such
nest after Commander S. W. Godon.
Robert Handy, NOW a lieutenant on the reserved
list, to be commander in the navy from the 14th of
September, 1855, to take rank as snob next after
Commander (inert Gansevoort.
Henry Walker, now a lieutenant on the reserved
list, to be a commander in the navy from the 14th
of September, 1855, to take rank as ouch next
after Commander 13. M. Dove.
Lewis C. Sartori, now a lieutenant on the re
served list, to be a lieutenant in the navy from the
Bth September, 1841, to take rank as such next
after Lieutenant 0. B. Poindexter.
Fabius Stanley, now a lieutenant on the reserved
list, to bo a lieutenant in the navy from the Bth of
September, 1841, to take rank as such next after
Lieutenant Edmund Lanier.
John N. Mean, now a lieutenant on the reserved
list, to be a lieutenant in the navy from the 25th of
Juno, 1845, to take rank as such next after Lieu
tenant James') Johnson.
A. Davis Harrell, dropped, to be a lieutenant in
the navy from the 17th of May, 1847, to take rank
as Ruch next after Lieutenant 8. D. Tranchard.
Alexander Murray, now a lieutenant on the re
served list, to be a lieutenant in the navy from the
12th of August, 1847, to take rank as such next
after Lieutenant Joseph N. 'Barney.
Thomas IL Steveas, dropped, to boa lieutenant
in the navy from the 10th of May, 1849, to take
rank as such next after Lieutenant \V. C. B. S.
Porter.
•an Rensselear Morgan, now a lieutenant on the
reserved list, to be a lieutenant in the navy, from
the 26th of Ootobor, 1619, to take rank as such next
after Lieutenant William E. Boudinot.
Abner Road, dropped, to be a lieutenant in the
navy from the tith of February, 1854. to take rank
as such next after Lieutenant henry K. Stevens.
George A. Stevens, dropped, to be a lieutenant
iu the navy from the 14th of September, 1855, to
take rank as such next after Lieutenant Leonard
Paulding. •
- frage.teez.teLinuthltn,.d.reptied,ta he a lieuten
ant in the navy front the 14th of bopteitibif.f,
to take rank as such next after Lieutenant Jona
than IL Carter.
The following dropped officers, placed on the re
Reeved list, have been confirmed.
Samuel W. Looompte,
to be a commander In the
ntery from the Bth of September, 1841, on fur
lough pay.
William A. C. Farregut to boa lieutenant in the
navy from the 9th of December, on leave of absence
pay.
Richard W. Meade, to be a lieutenant in the
navy front the 20th of December, 1837, on fur
lough pay.
Thomas Brownoll to be a lieutenant in the
navy from the 27th of December, 1843, on furlough
pay.
Wm. W. Low, now a master in the line of pro.
motion, on the reserved list, to be a lieutenant in
the navy from the 14th of September. 1855, to take
rank as such next utter Lieut. Win. I'. Buckner.
J. Howard March, dropped, to bo a lieutenant
in the navy from the 15th of September, 1855, to
take rank as such next after Lieut. John L. Davis.
James S. Thornton, dropped, to be a lieutenant
in the navy from the 15th September, 1855, to take
rank as such next after Lieut. Alexander A.
Seems.
Edmund C. 0 rafton, now a passed midebipman
on the reserved list, to be a lieutenant in the navy
from the 15th of September, 1855, on the active
list, to take rank as such next after Lieut. Joseph
Fry.
aulins S. Bohrer to be a master in the lino of
promotion in the navy from the let of Marsh, 1854,
on leave of absence pay.
Nathaniel T. West to be a passed midshipman in
the navy from the Ioth of August, 1847, and leave
of-absonre pay.
The following transfers from the furlough to the
Leave-of-absence pay of the reserved list have been
confirmed :
Captains.--Jesse Wilkinson, Thomas M. New-
ell. William K. Latimer, John 11. Graham, and
William Inman.
Commlidera —Charine T. Platt, Henry Bruce,
and Charles H. Jackson.
Ltentenants —Peter Turner, Gabriel G. Wil
liams, Simon B. Bissell, John J. Glasson, Henry
A. Steele, William Chandler, James M. °Mir,
John P Parker, Edward C. Bowers Augustus S.
Blldwin, William 11. Whiting, and Mathias C.
Marin.
Master.-It. Clarendon Jones.
l'asscel Itfidshipnta.—Samuol Pearce
The Antelde of Ex•Presldent Anson Jones
[From the Houston (Texas) Telegraph of the 9th last.]
The community at Houston was very greatly
shocked this morning, by the report which ran
through the streeta that ex-President Anson Jones
had killed himself at the old Capitol Hotel last
night. He was found lying across his bed, this
morning, at half-past eight o'clock, with a dis
charged pistol in his hand, and his brains blown
out. Wo give all the particulars of this lamenta
ble affair we have been able to obtain.
Something more than a week ago, Dr. Jones
came down front his home in Washington county,
with a view of finding a residence in Houston or
(tidy eston, to which to remove his family. lie de
sired, he said, to spend the remainder of his days
in more social life than was possible on his farm,
and also to give his children the opportunities of
a good education. Ile remained here a day, and
went down to Galveston, where lie spent e day or
two,
returning here last Tuesday morning, when:
he look rooms at the old Capitol. He had appa
rently been drinking perhaps more freely titan
his wont, and he was obsorved to be in low spirits.
A friend of his, Mr. W. D. Smith, observing
this, made it in his way to be with him as much as
possible while he might remain in the city.
The evening atter his arrival, in conversation
with Mr. Smith, he made this remark : I have
been having some very minima thoughts today.
My public career, you are aware, began in thin
house, and 1 have been thinking that perhaps it
might close here. (This hotel building was, while
Houston was the seat of Government of the Repub
lic, built and occupied as the Capitol.) Mr Smith
turned the conversation with come light remark.
Subsoquently, during the last two days, he talked
as Mr. S. was with hint a good deal of his past
life, expressing a satisfaction with his public career,
and observing there was nothing in it ho would
desire to change.
Yesterday ho appeared to be almost entirely re•
covered from his depression, and went otrt, calling
during the morning upon several of his friends in
this city. Ile spoke of leaving for home on this
morning's train, and appeared as cheerful lIJ usual.
At eight Mr. Smith spent an hour or so with him
before bed time. During the time ho was there
Dr. Jones again alluded to the fact, that he had
begun his public career in that house, and ho
might yet close it there. The remark wits received
no before, and little thought of it. When he re
tired, a negro, one of the servants of the house,
was, at his request, sent to his room to stay with
him. The negro says that, about 12 or 1 o'clock,
Dr. Janos waked him up and gave some directions
about the room. At about 3 o'clock he awoke him
again, and sent him for a glans of spirits. The ne
gro was unable to gut any. Ile then told him to
leave the room, as he didn't want him any more.
This was the ist that was known of hint last
night.
About tlio hour above mentioned Mr. Smith
went to call upon him, and finding the dour locktil
and galling no response, he had the door broken
open, wh ere Dr. Jones was found as above described.
Nu no had heard the report of the p i
istol n the
eight, though persons were sleeping in the room
near by. ft is supposed that, brooding over some
troubles in a motnent of depression he lost control
of himself and committed the fatal act.
• .
Thus has fallen another great man of Texas by
his own hand. We well remember a conversation
with Dr. Jones soon after the death of the lament
ed Rusk upon that sad event. How little then
did wo imagine that the next of the mon whom the
Repuhlia of Texas had delighted to honor, that
would go, would be Dr. Jones, and that, too, add
ing his name to the list of suicides. Collinsworth,
Birdsall, Grayson, and Rusk, bad gone that way,
and Jonas has now followed them, rea o to his
ashes!
A move is boing made in the Minnesota Lo
gislaturo towards the pump of a homestead fa
gmetin hill,
TWO CENTS.
SABBATH READING.
[Tor The Frew]
THE VERDICT AND ITS LESSON
BY GRAYBEARD
The remit trial of Thomas w u hi ng a m s m i t h ,
for the murder of Richard Carter, which resulted
in the acquittal of the former on Tuesday morning,
the 19th inst., wild one of those evanescent events
which, from the extraordinary character of the
circumstances Involved, and the universal publi
city acquired through the theneand•winged
eengers of the press, never fail to awaken the
deepest interest in all great congregated commu
nities. such was pre-eminently the cage in the in
stance here referred to. From the hour the tra
gedy, out of which the trial grow, was announced
on the evening of the 4th of last November, until
the day the trial was commenced in court, the
public mindlooked forward with unwonted anxiety
to the ultimate termination of the affair. At last,
after a lapse of more than two months, the fuel
chapter of this tragic drama was entered upon,
and of which the concluding sentence—as already
stated—was announced on Tuesday morning of
the present week.
It is not the writer's purpose, here and now, to
comment upon the final decision of this important
case ; suffice it to say, that it has received the un
qualified approval of those whose means for judi
cially determining in the matter were oartainlyt
ample. But there is a light in which that
final soene may bo viewed, that is at once ad
monitory and instructive when its lesson is applied
to eternal things. By accident, rather than design,
wo happened to be mingling with that vast throng
of human beings congregated in the vicinity of
Sixth and Chestnut streets, on the morning the
verdict of the jury was expected. The greatest
anxiety seemed to rest upon every countenance;
and here and there among the expectant multitude,
the deep solicitude of some yearning heart found
utterance in language that bespoke an honest in
tensity of interest in the salvation of a brother
from the gallows. In another instant, the verdict
is announced within the walls of the court=room;
but like an electric flash, the news of the acquittal
bursts the bonds of that crowded edifice, and finds
its way to the asserabledsolas without. Theyhave
the intelligence that the life of the prisoner is
spared; it is a signal for rejoicing, and that instant
the echo of the welcome tidings rends the air in
exultant shouts of joy, and away on the winds of
heaven the news of Smith's acquittal is sped to
the ears of every man, woman, and child in the
community.
It would be wrong to say that this intense anx
tety on the part of the gathered multitude was not
a noble evidence of the embers of God's humanity
that still burn within the human breast; but
with that consciousness there comes a lesson
(I say it wiol reverence to God and, I trust, a due
appreciation of his immutable Word) that im
presses us in language not to be mistaken, that the
interests of :sets have a far higher hold upon the
mind and conscience of men than the interests of
eternity. Had Smith been convicted, thousands
of our citizens would have stood ready to pray for
his pardon at the hands of the pardoning power,
and.it is not extravagant to infer that ten thou
sand men and women in this city alone would wil
lingly have submitted themselves to some personal
inconvenience to obtain the privilege of attaching
their name to a petition to rave his life. 'This is
well—it is as it should be, and we ought to thank
God for it; bat here's the lesson, and I put it
In the form of an interrogatory : How many of
those ten thousand would voluntarily take the
same amount of pains to intercede in the .saying
of an immortal aord from a death, not snob as is
common to us all, sooner or later, but a death that
is to bind its victim in the tomb of desolation
while eternity endures ?
From many this interrogatory will elicit nothing
but a passing sneer; to some others the suggestion
may seem impertinent; but there are not a few of
the wisest and purest men in this oomtnanity who
will re•eobo this question within their own breast,
and confess with the writer that the interests of
time are made of far greater relative importance
than the interests of that never-dying principle
within us which is of more value to its possessor
than the combined treasures of a world.
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Prxx-Stnaar Cuvacm.—More thane arm thou
sand dollars have lately been expe adad...is_ - -
proving the appearance of this venerable struc
ture, erected in 1764. It has been an greatly
adorned, externally andlnternally, that it may al
most be called a new church; and yet the old.
building remains substantially unchanged. A
portico has been added to its front, supported by
eight Corinthian columns, placed in couples, rest
ing on the stylobate, which is built of light New
Brunswick sandstone, over a plinth of blue marble.
Pilasters, with ornamental caps, extend ailing
both sides, surmounted by an entablature, corres
ponding with that of the portico. The external
faces of the walls have been ronghcaat anew, and
colored to correspond with the stone-work. New
entrances, both to the church and basement, have
been made, affording increased facility of egress
and shelter from the weather. The interior has
been repainted, and a handsome oil Cresco in per
spective added at the back of the pulpit, which
gives the idea of great depth. Anew roof of tin has
been placed over the entire building. Considering
the Inauspicious character of the perialldaring
which them improvements wore biting executed.
they may be regarded as highly complimentary to
the prosperity and enterprise of the Christian con
gregation making them.
111Erriso IN BEHALF . OF TITS TRACT CAWS.—
An adjourned meeting in behalf of the Pennsyl
vania branch of the American Tract Society was
held on last Tuesday evening, in the church-corner
of Tenth and Filbert streets Tho chair was oc
cupied by Mr. George 11. Stuart. The facts
elicited respecting the destitution of our city and
State, and the means of spiritual relief that are
now being afforded through the agency of - this
branch of the society, were of a most interesting
character. In thirty counties of our State, it was
said that 400,000 of the population were living
without the benefit of evangelical preaching. The
one hundred and fifty colporteura now in the em
ploy of the society have, within the post year, vi
sited 140,612 families, and circulated gratuitously
and otherwise among them 81,1,000 pages of
evangelical literature.
The meeting was ably addressed by Ray. John
Chambers, Rev. Dr. Newton, Chief Justice Lowry,
of the Supremo Court of this State; Rev. Win
Taylor, 11. 11. Slaillingford, i oq. , and others; and
was upon the whole a very interesting occasion,
and will, doubtless, bo followed with advantageous
results.
Cuuncnise tsr PutteDEENITA.—It appears from
tho now Directory, just out, that there are in this
city two hundred and ninety-five places of Ivor
ship. cis : Protestant Episcopal, fifty-five ; Metho
dist, fifty-five; Presbyterian, forty-seven; Bap
tist, thirty-Tour; Roman Catholic, twenty-eight ;
Lutheran, fifteen ; Friends, thirteen; all others,.
fifty.
Tax JEWS —" There aro at present supposed to
be 10,000 converted Jews in Europe, all classes of
society being comprised in the list. The society
for the conversion of the Jews has one hundred
agents, of whom .fifty-six are Jewish converts,
twenty-flee of whom are ordained clergymen;
sixty clergymen of the Church of England are
converts from Judahiu. Fifty years ago, .it to
believed, there were only thirty converted, Jews in
London—now there aro supposed to be more than
2,500. The society has thirty-two mission stations
for the Jews under its care."
METHODISM IN WILMINGTON, Dar..—Rev. Dr.
Cook, in a letter to the Pittsburgh Advocate,
says of Wilmington, Delaware: “There are now im
oonnection with our churches here 1,660 persons,.
of whom eight are local preachers, 1,360 are white.
and 292 are colored members ; and of these mem
bers, at the oonnuencement of the year, 218 were
on probation.
ritoottess or Mlssloxs.—A healthful mirionary;
spirit is said to prevail in the Sandwich Islandsi,
The amount contributed for religious and believe-
lent objects the last year was 322,580. Many can
didates hold themselves ready to go "to the re-1
gions beyond," to make known, where Christ has
not been named, th, tidinga of the Gospel.
Tar MADIAL—From an interesting work by
Miss Brewster, just published, we learn that Rosa
Medial and her husband, whose imprisonment in
Tuscany made them famous some year since, new
keep a depository for the sale of Bibles and reli
gious books at Nice ; and like many other ref hgees
front all parts of Italy, lose Sardinia as a 1 and of
toleration and constitutional liberty.
"THINGS CARNAL. "— The Illinois Bapti at says
that a worthy minister in Indiana, who had be
come somewhat mixed up in land speculati Ong, re
cently announced to his congregation, at thTe open
ing of divine service, that his text would b e found
in " Paul's epistle to the Corinthians, section four,
rasp - three, west.
A CLERICAL BONAPARTE.—Lucien Bonaparte,
nephew or the late Emperor, after several years
apprenticeship as a deacon, has just been promo
ted to priestly orders in Rome, and it is t Sought
he aspires to the triple tiara.
A CLERGYMAN writes from Illinois: "Pre sellers
feel these hard times sensibly. For more th, to two
months I have not had a cent except what . I re
ceived for marrying, and marriage fees are' not
large in this region."
THE Reformed Dutch Church, of Linlithgow
(Jebtlstewn,) Columbia county, have extended a
call to the Rev. Charles J. Shepherd, of Pompton
Plains, N. J. Ho will probably accept.
Rev. W. S PORE, of Rerrysburg, Pa., bail been
called to the pastorate of the German Lutheya.n
Church in Harrisburg, Pa.
Zaccheus Robinson, a revolutionary vete
ran, aged ninety-three years, died at Bouthboro',
Massachusetts, on the 17th inst. Ills aged part
ner still survives, being °Jetty-five years old.
'Xhe Tears of Chet; ervictip), Rh stare siztrei64l,
NOTICE TO 001UMPOMON1111.
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written aeon;
We shall be greatly obliged to gentlemen hi Penetel
rani& end other Statue for oontributione tiring tau , ear''
rent neve of the day in their particular hicelittee, the
reecurcas of the inrrounding 4:matey, the Warm" of
population, and aay Infortnackothat will k Interesting
to the general reader.
GENERAL NEWS.
A new steam mechanical bakery bai been
erected in Cincinnati, and will be in working Or
der in a few days. It is eonstruoted on pindplea
similar to • the one in this city. The building is
seventy-five feet square, and fear. Maslenhigh,
built of brick, with eighteen-inch waifs, tutalbtly
finished upon the outside, sod makes a very line
appearance. It is owned by a stook asospany.
Every part of the work is dons by machinery, the
receg and discharging of the breat‘optraing
and closing of the doors of the oven, Lo. The
loaves are carried up in one-half of the oven, and
down in the other, and are baked in Pultiag a ablk
tante of twelve Se t, which occupies about Sweaty
minutes time. The oven is of stdlicienteapaeltv to
bake atone time thirteen hundreds's/lA/Wit:mit
of bread ! So that that number la "dumped" upon
the reception oars every twentyminntea Tim ap
parental for kneading the breed 'will accommodate
twenty barrels of flour, in what a borme:wife would
call a single " barch." The espertity. of the whole
establishment la atiffieient to require All Amami
bands of Au , per do y to keep it in operation,
and will require from six to ten men, only, to do
all the hand-labor, almost every Part of the work,
in the different department*, being performed by
machinery- - -
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The Cincinnati Gareth furnishes ne the
following sad recital: " The aunonnennent that
Mrs. Peggs, of Ghent, Ky., had committed iniedde
on Saturday last, by hanging herself tot tree, sr
minded us of a gay weddingparty,oenaistangrof
two newly married couple, and huge number of
friends, who *Was day or two - the ifilidtf
Street House, a few weeks ago:: =-They were - the
gayest of thicy, and the mere iamb of the
ladiescould c ard ringing through the halls, as
though ne sh dears had easdpaseed between
them and perfect happiness.: dansdag, music.
and tangs, sparkling wines, and a feast of good
things, the party passed three days, sand rebrrned ,
again to-the sober realities of everrday-hre.
Amongst the gayest of the party was Mrs. Pegg&
After her return home her husband soon sickened
and died, and a how* of minining indeed, - was
the home of the fair young bride. The dethrone
ment of reason followed, and whfie laboring vadat
an aberration of mind, she left her father): house
on Saturday -,- and put an end to an tufstoneirikat
had no eharms beyond the early buried lore.
From the bridal to the grave is oft, indeed, but a
tingle step.
We learn from the Carbondale (Pa.) k
rone, that a destructive tire occurred is Areh
bald, on Friday afternoon of last week, which
destroyed the house of Francis Achilles, the store
and post office building of Peter Welch, a grocery
store of Hugh Marley, and a building noesplad
by Miss Welch as a milliner shop ; aso
the dwelling and drug store of Dr. Phil:e ll: V:2
of the contents of the buildings were deitroyad:
and the worst of all was the &lathe Mr. Ashilles,
whose dwelling was the first one hunted, and who
fella prey to the lames himaelf.
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The Wheeling City Coanc4 has melt to Rich
mond a memorial, the object, of 'kith is Vs ask the
Virginia Leghdatare to peas mob enactseente as
shall enable the city of Wheeling to mourn to it CM
practical benefits of the western terminus of the
Baltimore and Ohio "Railroad,-and alsolo provide
for the purchase by the State of the 1,,0ee shares of
stook held by the city of Wheeling t 6 the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad - Company—the same to be 'pur
chased at 11600,000 in bonds or cerilleatuo of debt
of the Commonwealth bearing& per amt. interest.
The Supreme Court at Ifew,Chieens has de
cided the case of Francis Pena is. the either of
Baltimore and NeisOrlaalur in favor of the plain
tiff, who claimed. $lOO,OOO from the saute of the
late John bloßonegb, who, he claimed, bequeathed
him that sum, to be paid to four years after his
011oDonegh's) death. The defendants oontended
that the document bled to prore the bedpan was
Snot genuine. The court, beware?, decided that its
authenticity was folly established • by six wit-
UMW.
The Baltimore Bea states that the students
of Mount St. Mary's College, at .ficaraittabrag,
Md., bad come difficulty with the officers and man
agers of the institution a few days since, which
could not be settled to - the satisfied= of 4 . Teen
America," and between sixty and furreety of the
oldest students siped a "declaration" and lan
for their various homes in Maryland, Pennsylva
nia, Texas, Cuba, and other distant point.. The
cause of the diffieulty is not stated.
Mrs. Hays, of Day, Saratoga county, N. Y.,
who lived 19 months without food or drink, hiddex
pired. It is stated that she remained insensible
for 15 months of the period, and up tot few days
of her death, when she seemed to mite, and
spoke occasionally. After her death her body was
opened, and a snake dos feet long and half an inch
thick was taken From her stomach. It was alive
when removed, but died soon after.
Mrs. Crofnt, an actress,' and wife of Pro
fessor Crofut, leader of the orchestra - of Burt's
theatre in St. Joseph, Missouri, died on the let
instant, from an overdose of laudanum,- which she
Is said to have taken with intent of file Is as.
She was in the bloom of youth and health, and
performed only a few nights before with mote than
wonted vivacity.
Col. Lowrie L. Moore, of Blair county, Pa.,
au hitching the eoapling of some freight ears
which were - at Abe bank of Bennington Arnett
when they same suddenly together, crushing the
lower fart of his abdomen and back so severely
that for a short time his IM'a was despaired of. It
is thought he may recover.
The Easton (Penna.) Irgus mentions an In
cident of an old gentleman, recently deceased in
Lehigh county, who pretended to be quite poor.
On examination of the premises, after his deaths
no less than $ll,OOO were found in specie. whir&
he bad, doubtless, been ming and coneealing for
ma ey years.
Two young girls were drowned- at Church
villo, Monroe county, New York, the other day,
by faVing through the iee.of a millpond. Their
names are Elisabeth Marital', aged eight and a
half, and: Amelia Edwards, adopted daughter of
Merritt .Moore, postmaster at Church Title, aged
nine years'.
William noose died suddenly, at Hones
dale, Pa., on the 12th hat. He was a native of
Ireland, aged about forty years, and his last resi
dence was at _Deposit, New - York.
The Easton (Md.) Sear states that Mr. Dark!
Pritchett one day last week caught with a seine, at
orie haul, over one thousand gars, many of the
Ash weighing over ten pounds sash.
The execution cot John Goings, free negro,
for the murder of Mrs. Stewart, task place on
Friday of last week, about a mile from Fringes'
Anne, Md.
Jobe T. Fiord, Esq., Manager of the Holt
day-street Theatre, Baltimore, was elected Pled
dent of the Baltimore City Colman on Monday
last.
A tire broke out In the cabinet warehouse,
No. 225 Bowery, New York, on Friday morning,
destroying property to the =want of 815,00 Q.
AMUSING SCENE- FIRE
(Correspondence of the Prow ]
PirrrsroN, Pa., January 20. 1858.
Quite a novel parade came off here a few days
since on theoccason of the "donation visit" for the
benefit of Rev. Mr. Stocking. Two barrels of door,
• bushel of potatoes, ani half one of onions, were
presented to the pastor by tome of our eitizons,
provided the ladies would haul the same from the
Pennsylvania Coal Company's dies to the resi
dence of the pastor, a distance of about a quarter
of a mile. The challenge was accepted by the la
dies, who assembled on the following morning to
the number-of about one hundred, and, beaded by
the Pittston Brass Band, =embed off in fine order
with the provision'. The turn-out collected toge
ther quite a concourse of citizens, who followed the
procession to the place of their destination, which,
when they reached, the ladies turned on them and
collected, by way of toll, some ten or fifteen dol
lars
On lifonday night a fire broke out in the steam.
mill of Messrs. Mott t Co. of this place, which was
entirely consumed, together with a etore•hoose and
eentents. Loss above $lO,OOO.
CITY POLICE.-J•NrARr, 20
'Reported for the Prosa.l
Gitolloll DRISCOLL M111?..4.1E511 ion •
:Bata BAHAEL.—Mrs. Mary Ann Driscoll com
plained that George, her husband, was in a ltmati e
condition, and she wished to have him sent to
some suitable place for safe keeping. Her state
meat disclosed the subjdned facts : About a year
ago, Mr. Drimeoll found his lager beer bill (ea
made out by a keeper of a neighboring " saloon")
rather onerous. Ia order to refresh himself in
more economical want , determined to buy the
liquor at wholesale prices, and to keep a barrel of
it constantly in his own house. But this saving
expedient was not quite satisfastary to Mrs. Drie
cool, who soon discovered that George, her husband,
was Induced byi the convenient arrangement of
having a barrel of beer always at hand, to drink
oftener and deeper than she considered necessary
for his health and comfort. While he was
I absent, therefore, she demolished the banal
with a wood-axe, threw away all the lager that
remained in it, and used the staves for kindling
wood. Mr. Driscoll returned to his home, discov
ered the irreparable mischief which had been done,
raved and swore a little, then sank into a state of
- profound melancholy, from which no effort of Mrs.
D —not. even the free use of her tongue—could
arouse him. During thisiparolysm he talked in
coherently, and his discourse all turned on beer
barrels. This one idea teak such complete posies
don of his mind, that, at last, be began to fancy
that he himself was the lost barrel. He stationed
himself en the stand which the barrel had occupied
and called on his wife to fill him up, as he was get
ding very dry, and would soon fall to staves if he
were not replenished. Mrs. D compassionately
sent for two quarts of beer and poured them into
Ike living receptacle. She then advised him to go
to work, but George reminded her that beer bar
-144s always work best when they are sitting still.
Me could not be persuaded, however, to leave his
petition for a tuomeut. Mrs. Driscoll suggested to
him that beer barrels require no solid food. lie
m.ide no objection to this theorem, and uttered no
con'tplailLt when his wife, in order to bring him to
his right a onser, refrained from giving him any
thing treat
,'c thirty-six hours. During all this
time, however,
he insisted on Icing kept in a moist
condition by ne w accessions of liquid. He Sea
witted pa'iently t, 'the application of a broomstick,
which Mrs. D. used I.sn pretence of tighten.ing his
hoops; but as no h ind of domestic discipline
seemed likely to xemat
3 poor Driscoll's strange
hallucination, Mrs. D. et . 'led on the public math°.
rities, as aforesaid, to place the Titer fellow nadox
trope: vtArditutshig. t Tr: