==tl ✓ ri `4 , 4 i r v if7.3Bibto)iabtrieug.!..7. , 4loABT.,) "Oit . P r O e ' lOgi NO. 4:17 , 0N15T NOT TRENT. va.4 114:1L1r. , 1`11..E "Swiiint CaurriromasYriaity .payablo: to„ to Stibast/tiataout theiflity at Six 1:POLLA18 ASIMI DOLLING 101516111.11f0111311 j Taal* -"Dottelalkia Bit htfoltiik, fixtartablylaaibitiatil Too the tsestreedeteit:- , 1. .- , .1191.100tolialxiotibantont thafilty 'at Titania Dot ; - 7- 14 . 1 iii•trl4fflittif advalios . .• ; - • '• • fit "; • --;' Pavoi will 'tiiint to ilitiaiorlbera by egg ynal( lutituit, ediattee,} oo 'three, fi 00 At copteei; .... ......, -8,00 lfbiollisc • --- •-• . 12 90. 0091011.,_ • 'l. (Won. 70.00 Tweati floplafi, or_avar,ildroal eapk ' - " outaorlber')oiiiiti' - - 1 - 20 , :itook:Olett at '2l4l3fipotr Oti.• fiver,-146 fiend an ,- I°Atnt color•tg.the getter t up at, ilia I . l7Pootioaati.teaira. rogiiiiated oat 4iituta for • - *CS. OBITRTOIS7 II ' W myna-mm.lmi TEN NDAD • XpAnkce:sattopolata zommosaa7:l9,. , GONTDDL - AWNOT,A andiltudeteals - sndldper etegiriates widattimpart - OWAIONW AND DURABILITY. -DentlemonAco Dajted , :e oiUaskommina, - 0025.1314 - 011Eittrat:Difott: • State • vAIRB - 4.10(92ti TiATFbukt - ,§,94Esf. ' 715 4 CHESTNUT-I=SM; PHILAOXLI9II,C , : , 1130c1)0$,: - Iputtti , 'AILEY Sr 00., CHESTNUT: STREET, . • iganntootnspia of; Bitilqill,l3lllllLlNG so.ysi tinder thole inspection ou edit Premises omelette el) " Oldiens sad Bisingeihisre iirlted to Wait 'our. mos faateq. • • iir-A,T13113113: 4. clo,staittlj. oa lila iiliffindia stela of :'• -•- adetosted -staked. CfrDS.'"" riffee• — ` 'oast V Drawing, of ,11,13)91,,D88X0NS will - be made tree of , • 'toi - ,*l3oseilistilim Ira:* slide to cedes.. : .' : TOR' GOLD JEWELRY. A-testitifiti Sistietinent of d *e. i nine edge Tine - ' such as Mossie,Steds and Bkell Clem" ) Paul, Coral; Oariniziile; Nary:JAW Lare;Ae.,lie. - - • D-oesrosai BiBBlllls,- wins*, - ie. , BXOIIIO and 11601 e. OLOOSS, , ,er,newest and of iwißerloy quality., , „.; .auldtwicany • • - . o . ALDrktr; '.& - o'o•:,• 'kr =-•••• 482 Cahn* n? Street, • - Have reaelsOil,' per steamers, new atyler - - --Zewelry, Chatelaine, Teat . ohaina. „ tiplOndid yani, HMS Pine. .RMit elands,- Sugar Baskets.. , .19t Goods and Plower:Vises. , • , ' Coral, Lara and Bitnialo gets. Bolel Agents in Philadelphia for the sale Oharles E'redsliantle LONDON TL XSU NPNRS. ^ del° SILVER WARV:=-• " , WILLIAM WILSON SON, MANUFACTURERS OF-B.II,SrER W4llll, (BaTABLISILED 1111:,) - s. - rs' [Tawny supra 11.113 01111SMY bTbllTe. , a large assortment of BILVIOIt WARE of every do serlptlon, &instantly on hand, or medal.° order t• matoh any pattem desired. Importeri Of Fitiodield' and Idrralngham Impoited wars: ' ' - eOBO-11/rorly ilr. S:,JAIlDrat& Is4lo . . . • . *#.2•IMOTORI,IB u, 111Pilirmil3 OP, ' , aLLteItePLATED WAGS, -= : Ito., 801 Ohs/hint- Prost,- above Third, tap Otarild ~ . PhllPAell' - : COnstautlyi hand and for sale to - ska Trade , TEA' NITS, " 0 MUNION 8111P/10.11 BETS; nraNe, - PITOWSRB, WITS ' 013 - 11), If MOB, BA& s. KEIT OABTORP L KNiVEB, 'ROOT!, PORES, ,:- LADLES, Pco,, &o. , Gilding and plating condi kinds of maid . - , say ' iaom T . VILERIOAN GOLD, =NSW TOES, -' -. • BALTiIdOIIH, • • .0 , • „ . • • And toryrori • Aaught•;;ld ;obi rrif A N 1e •'. jar-diVeb9 - 11 - 7 1: 10 11 1 1.3 •7 1r ifIli - 1:11 1 ., Sheet O AKE:BPJAN G I.IY • AND NSW 'TOSS' EXOW ANDS AT SIGH:EST EIIISSONT. BATES, 08014118 do 00.• 13PB - ors B ROKk RE. • - 11024-de ' 40 SOUTH THIRD 8T OtgOoneri. - BLANK.BOOKS.ANA ,STATIONERY. DAVIV M. MOAB, Blank Beak hfeaufecturer, atationer sad 'Printer; No: 100 1 NALNUT Btreet,'is - Pared et All-times to furnilh, , either from the sherree or make to order, Books of every description, suitable for Bente, Pnbiloihßoes, Merchants, sod others •o 1 the best qUelity nt _English or Amerlan Paper, and bound various etyles, in the Molt anbertantast manner- • 'Orders--for , JOE - METING- of every dormription; 214.. , rweinella - Lftlx:Erelhbl;rfOtt4 7 1 , ,1 94 nestneea .0900 0,4 • 4. 3111 14 44 !" 4114 4 T" . . ' , l ttieneerni e.!; c siez4riisn l ilalielfiliiiink ;Ss the Co mnitctee say —A. Thief dOrpley pf bumf boots for banking sod 2nerbantile Ode is the best In the B - "'xhibition. `The 'selection of the; material is good, the rarkmzinship 'most ex.:Alen; and-their flutsh and sp pearsnoe'nest cud appropriate." no2o-tf pablitatiottl. 1011EYSICIA.NS ;POCKET DAY-BOOK - 104 1866.-4tuthlnthlialisdiaid !Meal* - • •••• • ," 0.2; PALOS k 0., Booth BUCTIBI,Bieseti *hove Mutant. -• :•'•• The Der-B6oVesintoins- intAlsesnite, Tables of nom-- .." , patigvAna ra lemlea, poison:vend their Antidotes, ,Kodloinal klesatireac Atomie Bri W. 6 10 4 1 44 PO6OAOIOS-PrOPovtinithehttollti -0f Viitt; Comparative Theimomstiie Bottles, Bathistlinple end , Medleinel„.Tables DOMMI.9f llia• prinapat pre ,.piAtlons of the Phannieopia, Vialidng List and'iMea, Blanks. for , lionotary-Bngagementa, Bank Anoonni, ; Noma , Addresswilillaimd, 42 600 unliv-leke4 10 e, 7,16 ' , rhoOttot and Oisatettio Engsynnentt r NrintOßl, and itoerioota4pd.jaal-Poriadtrals, - ' • Being prepared-,with : th e e co.operation of sevidA eminent members ' of-1111r Profsaion,, the - thielittle Manual will ICI I,Nrant-hithegio - • - lannappnetiand wtth'e.. - vtaw,tia iternththimprinemant, - rertifi,ive'etiyenopeitione respeating • • einenditiemt, additioni; &'o:• - ".• ,; - • nth prepared:AM', 26 Met 60 patiehts;•azoic •••• bound lA,Parions styles' , A • • ••- - • =Jai- jPie.o l 4 l i o )b. &,Eoo4ollfAiiii• rri"OPI.ATIsTERSHIR-RERF4I . OI O ORE' extatiadvhderthe thaiotillEGßlt, LAMB; & 00. .dathiaday-dittelTed by th e death of B. LAM B. motes/eta ,therlate will be Nettled by the .or brin 1,1421anb Otte Am* associated:lM* them, JOHN viral. OPONDLIE, end D. B. roam, under the lirm at - DINGth, & 00., end 'will eobtfeuelbe rity-Ooodejoblilnrsed bnporkNog buelepee m keretoliiie; atNo.Ablerth THUill street, s' - , .211T10141LNGS1b, 'ThOOII MECUM, JOIMWIEBT „ , • . D. beoNsini , D. DIMS. • " Denemberall - jel-lmte ' TOW/I.IID ID will, tali* 'charge of our busiiiess In this sits' troth this date at N 0.620 CESSTI9I7T-Ntsat. iv.Easnut, . liiiiptasturtp.ok lievring gachinis. J 0,821 IVOTIGE -IS ''HEREBY' GIVEN TEAT thb• bettoOrt" T. EITAIIMBICIDOYowI. 4LENRY G. /SLIMS, UPrenowed, And imktilm.ti foithrolyears Tromlmilmolst . „lBs§,, . ".." • EITAIIDBETIXIS, I •.: - - Aleneralßartrme." • . • - 41ENRY JILDER • , "' Spectall'artnim • • • Vitivitiitomi, Jima/41,1858,, TOM UNDE RSIGN4 D .11.4,VELIN -* -...A,1141114, OE "4°1,4'404:tie.? for 1 : ' gat no en tho P C4 I 'Le - Inset, In the city of Pbileuelpela, - -wherein LEBrAY, 0.: - Mclitaoly Ia thtigeneral partner, jruGa,m04.2,017 !Min Ppeatal partner, And heionn„ theintit et fifteen Ittuglred. deljetn .capital * to the common e(cck Lsaittpirtasisktiii to coaltos Os ' 4444°1 114 8 4/1 - - etenio . 344:Inife* f'„ili . )_0111110118(pW, •-7., ~am~3cE ,c~x6z.= - - - • Intl: 9 , TX)„ Vt. ON f/ANUA..'*"" • btatitiful -* :',SF - A,TITZ BjAYE ,0 ENO I; NEPltta; ON-THE EVE OV HER ZiEOI3TION.” ' )FIBS' ITARIIIid,IIO,9IdER ' , -:,.11D/1131Orty"1 eCTAity,•,FI.I7II,OENT6. Of O.3OTiTITT - ryas MECHANICAL. lAra l& r Ltl 4. A.•after,THUlDAY,ite thlrat4thtEßEAD ' 'thtsaitabltetnent, and' BIOKO TICKETS; will be for 'male attbe following IhrOta: ; • - • `- At the DEPOT,toruor.'BROAD end. VINE Streets. . CALEB OLOTBIERV,II6 North FIVER Street. JACOB V- :11)301( 1 8,1"01TIMI, sorive Oallowbill, HENRY kr. WILKINSON'S, cor.FIVTE and COATES', , • FL 0, PILBERT'S, torpor COATES and EItANKLIN: GRAVENSTIER'S.; aor.'IWELVTICaad WALLACE; 8: PANOCrASTO3,WeattEINTH and OALLOWI,IILL: -. • FOSTER'S. 924 - ABM! street. 0: Youtolt iaos Bowman afraid... - . Norronxr znonoribeiorr.widnu t, • W._ W.AIATERWSioar. - 31LEVENTli and LOOiltTX.' • O. HONNEIt o .OOri SIETE and SPRUCE • - Other AlpoßlertlLO:rotttounced ,tropt dal to:dirz, ae . :arriniamente ara tordpletyd. , ; - • • I - ,Pareens Ariebi9g Eros& 'tlelliered plistiqficiitsrtheti, iterate - St the DOpOstoehere• „rbeaher,l4yroVlded forahat aorprav,, , - , ;tAretiettoraa kiendlident-nriaterr to pogethokibittes are obialardOntektlearerrodllbeASSterir r i; Tiekete of two ipd¢tppo lox the tureetlhWorbo wish their Braid de ;.i.l4,";,lkreeeltr at thrit,dielßase, amt„onitloe , thelre 6f those who prefer to sendfor - KW the liiepotirooll„bi provided r.f; - and eale`at the Bahofir '''Vhe'Creariere attl be b.? Arnettel.to deliver Opted ?••• -.•yrrowdromr3 - entirivLinik, e, " Depotookeriti , l•iivn come , Orowereiititicefeyi. t -0- 4 •'';-11114,17/4/31.6:''''RLATSO4C, ~r ": , - ,1 '„ 1 sik, AOC :Waste t w i v a , gkneis , A.: Viir , eals by - - ~ t,- , ..----,- irrlis. & M, •t=l'ri-ar:p-,..t,-,4t,,i. . - .•:.:Ill —, :Ifft2, oft4APATATL iltroott 1 41.44 Pa4f.,.,, 2 ::,, ,, A, - ...., .AO w. rioilli ir tin e. . ed Ot ,ePA ,i, 1 ,„ e i pat_k0mr..F1. , 144040:9 it. , :, il , i bblelo ,- ... ' ' ',- '''''''O'' -4' l:1,Ltlor th fv by ' .1 . ::.. , t' - ft, 4AWAtoilit, Pomac e it.. 0., , , No. MIL 2.4oAwin Wk.: ,o I 6 1.4 kfr• ss+‘ , rir ' 7 - • I '---°llllllll r i c.L L. 41 rara,--•:1-4011.1, ~t4F% : • ki• 1 • , • 2 7 " WIN -- • `‘ - • of • • , ' . , • ..... VOL. L—No. 149. Minim IT HE . QUAKER. CITY.` _' INSURANCE A . COMPANY . —OtIee 408 WALUT Street. , _ -, ,- - - -' • raitivacrute, Jan. 14,1808. ' BT6T39IIENT of the heetneee ' end condition of the - ftnekerlNty Inenrance Oompany for - the year eivtieg ,Dtotiober 315ti1867 : . • , • , capital ob4fturplue ' 8e77,665 85 Borplusorannery 1, 1867 481,671.78 Recelyeit,,for ,Younio.9l daring' it 52.807 '95 the year 1861 - ' litteieetteoelved - , - " 11.966 10 ! " Wrap 646•Itellese.relled -", 8;861 it ~ = % paid 11058 n - 4XPENBRB Loiees 44 44. 571,818 45 Pividsuds sSidOosciailisdous petd. e 8,830 32 1 - Itelasarands sad tetanal-gala:Ma 20,047 45 R4at,l!alstiss,' Taxes. - Advsit; ' sing. sad 06544011ap5ai5i.;.. - .... , 11,1?5 11 A-SMITO. ' Bonds "sad ,postfogep t ,!:71•54134 , Reb*s, '0641.9n • Bopp', - punk - and otherlitoolie '1100,050 00 .' I4ivotiabLeßillsll4saltatla '' 155,173 32 Osah in Batik and P44111:4445gte. 92,442 52 ,• ,•• ••- 85 This Oompaay ,00r4hanes 81 make Inautinces sgainit, -1 1 .1,1117,5a4 gailoptin Risks. OFRIOPP3. Preeldent,=-PEO.RGE H. PART. - Vics-Preitaiat—R. -P. ROM. - ileorelarfatid Traaaarer--H. -R. COGGIWALL. "Asslelantßearetery--8.-11. PINUP. • DIMMTORS, George H. Hart, B. W. Bailey, N. P. Bow, Andrew B. Chambers, a., , 4. L. Romiroii • ' , .Joseph ) Nardi , Abitrles ! . aotin ciP. Davi tou 4 1111), : -Yoder 8 ' Bal,iuel Jono)i, jos - , ,B9itatary. , . firFICE OF THE NEPTUNE INSU. Nc:Pr RANCE COMPANY, No. 414 WALNUT Street. • - . • , PIIILSMILP1111; /an. 11, 1868. T/ e Brat annual meeting of the Btoellholders or the .Nmitmolnin g enee Company.wes held this. day, when folloWing- persons were ormolu's:finely elected to serve se Direatort for the ensuing year • Richard Shields, , Edward MeOlido, 'George Minister, ' Gustavus'. Town, Theodore N. -Town, —" Thomas Heath, -W;O:litotrebnry, • - D. Sherwood, 0. o.lltiGer, - - George Scott • At a meeting of the Bean! of Dictators, held on the 'mann dee; Gfe following °Sins were elected: ' RICHARD. SNIBLIDS, President. GDOEGB MUNSTER, Vice President. Ocoens fioorr,Bearetary, ,1813-tf OEZICE OP , THE PENNSYLVANIA -nAl4Boen o 0.„ , PHlLADig.rdil A, January 11th, 18513. NOTICE TO' SfOOKUOLDERB.—The Annual Meet ing of the Stockholders-of thin Company will be held on MONDAY, the Ist day of February,lBoB, at 10 o'clock A. M. - , at theIIANSOII-STREST HALL. The Annual Election for Eight Directors will be held on MONDAY, the'lst day of Remelt, Din, at the °Mee of the Company, No. 808 WALNU t Street. jal2-dtiol EDMUND 8111T11, Secretory, - 1 AIM OF PENNSYLVANIA.— Tho Sonnet Mooting of the Stockholders of the Brent dent, Directors, and Company of - the Bank of Rennnyl. Yard& will be bold at the Bankft4 Rouse, 226 WALNUT 'Street; on 'MONDAY, the first day of February next at /2-0?elpok M.; immediately after which a Election will be held for twelve Directors to nerve for the en- J. L. FENIMORE, AufatmiCeashier "AM INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA: MARINE,. FIHN'AND INLAND TRANSPOR TATION INSURANCE. • - OFRIOX N 0.232 WALNUT STREET, • . , South aide, east of Third street. The propertiee of this Company are well invested, and furnish in aiallable fm.d for the ample indemnity of all persona who - desire to be protected by Insurance. MARINE RISER taken on Vessels, Freights, and Cargoes:-• S INLAND TANSPORTATIONIUSRS on Merchandise Per Railroads, Canals, and Steamboats. FIRE RISES on Merchandise, Farnitare 3 and Build lITC'O7 evil= 0 gf794 CAPITAL 'OOO,OOO, ALL PAID IN AND SECURELY INVESTED. TOL'AL raoimiitss $1,007,825.26 MIELFETUAL 011ARTU6. DIItECTOBB. lavntia G. 00,i/N, WILLIAM WNLBH, BAmaiLlY.losse, WILLIAM E. Downs, 70713( A...DROWN, JAMRB N. DICKSON, BitilDIL.P. HYMN, ' B. Monele WALK, DHAELNLTATIAIII, JOHNasonr, lostacnns esogaz ittiumioN, Tow R. Nair' FRAHM R. COTS, RICHARD D. WOOD, RDHAID H. TROTTER ARTHUR O. 00YFIN, President. HENRYD. BIERIVERD, ,p,oeretary. • , Amu' :UNION MUTUAL INSURANCE COM PANY OP PUILADELPUIA. .13TATBM&NT of the affairs of the Company, in con fermity with a 001181011 of lie Charter. Premiums undetermined January 1, 1851.. .281 0 482 91 • Do. inoeired during the yeas,inding January 1,1868 264,291 81 Total amoivatof Proraton" 335,754 53 • Rimed ruinlulna daring the year ending u above on Marine and Inland Risks 275,330 80 Received for lotereat and Salvages 83,629 70 Loeses,ltituna Pretidomm,liapeiMei, Re-In suranosa paid during tame period 1192,758 96 STATEBIENT OP THE ASSETS OP THE 01551PANY. LiNtlllY 1,1868. 6,000 Pennsylvania State 54 cost $5,955. 117 abates Philadelphia Dank....,....14,700 7,003 City of Pittsburgh b's " 0,800 7,000 - 6'5.,, " 0,790 14,610:Chesapeake and Delaware Canal • . Loan Ole " 14,610 61;626 Camden and'Amboy ' ' • " 41,713 10,000 Philadelphia County Loan 64 " 16,800 6,000 - North Penasylvania,R B, Bonds, " 3,760 -• 100 share/ North Pennsylvania B. 8..... : 5,000 40 " • Delaware Railroad Co " , 1,000 Scutari Stooks! Steamboat and Transparta. -Hon Companies; Cerkilicates of Stock and Profits in Mutual Insurance 'Companies.. 14,040 Ifettmotsdpitient 'clue of the above SOB,Sfiti .oish•lht• Windt " ' 8,365 Nettie reolteble • for polleles issued 06,481 Subscription notes for • guarantee capital. „.... • 40,000 _Due for %Melee issued, and unsettled salveies, - • and other debts due the Company 56y161 • - - muubroug. titichard S;Sipatti; Charles Newbold, 8. Destnnet, wary Leith, Jr., • Prunalo Pet 4, W. O. Kent, - A. B. Boni% - 'Albert Worrell, Samuel Grant, Charles Veen, Churl.' ' G. P. Loughosd; Hugh John 8. Tuella, Jobn P White, 'Eduard L. °lurk, .N. A. Smith ; - , George Lewis, 0: W., Charehroari k D. Salomon, aOlin • Steiner; Poem Yreyag', / 'EL 7/. Itobinaon. DIORAED S. SOUTH, Prealdent. JOSEPH COLLIBON,B4Corotary. . • .1:11-2w OFFICE - OF' THE FIRE ASSOCIATION' ON 'PRILLDELPOIA—No. 84 Mirth AIFTII Street) for the Insurenee of BVILDINOS, MOBOOSIC. D. 18 &) 110IISKROLD PURNIRIIIIX, &c., from loss by flre. ,NIIIIT 18,1858. In canton:olV with the provisimmoontained in theBth Section or nn Act of Assembly, epprovect April 5, 1842, the following Statement of the Assets of the Associa. si the name was on the let Instant, is, now pub lished.. .5496,659 Od .... ....... . 1320665 , Honda and Mortgagee.. Ground Stoats Beal Betete..., 1003 28 Olty Warrants 760 00 0411 en bang 15,780 47 Total ' F 487,6130 40 - • • -- • TRUSTERS. GEORGE W. TRYON, President. William 11, Hamilton, Peter Frits, 7enob Behar, , Henry 0. Pratt, ladob H. Lex; , (Merles D. Hughes, 'Wiry F. 'Antlers, Jacob Moyer, ' 'Mak Bonder, - - Peter A. Keyser, - John Philbin.. 1 1,2 04 t — , : WILLIAMBUTIAR, Secretary. - DIISLIO L AMP S.:—THE PUBLIC IS tespeettaltylaformed that °Mess hate boon opened bpaho-DtetrletSnperintendsntsof•Publie Lighting, at which °aliens are requested te give Information reepeot log heoldente which may happen to the Pubi Lampe; or of any failure in lighting or extingui shing them At the, :1711 9 44 41 e m 0r e e1l I Ilorni. not p iSoo o lifs ly wfireel l erVylotelp llaily, No, 808 Wharton et., First Ward; Charles Oarty, Supt. of ,qd district, No. 8 Gaines et. above Sixth' Minor G. Kirk No, 828 North Sixth at., above Brown, Twelfth Ward; M. W., Deehong No, 2281 Goatee crest, Fifteenth Verdi Thos.T. Bowl, Gas OMeo,Twenty.lfoarthWard, West- Philadelphia; M'Padden, Gas Ofilee, tweerty-treeettk Wind, (Germantown;) Wm. N. Market, em OMM, Twenty-Third Ward (Brantford,) and at the Gas °Mee in Seventh atreet; below Market. By order eC thej'nustai the Philadelphia Sea Wades.„ . A. J. KITE, - •Buperintandent of Diaaibalim. A T A ' MEETING OF THE HOLDERS AT of FIRST MORTGAGE' BONDS of the PUMA IDIII,PHIA AND BONBONS BAILDOAD 0011PANF, held on the 18th hot, pursuant to public advertise meat, Mr. G. ,D. ROEINSGARTEN wee called to the Chair, and Mr, F. L. MOBS was appointed Secretary, The Committee of holders of the Second Mortgage Bonds, who have now become the proprietors of the • Read, 'Miring laid before the meeting Its present condi tion and - prospects, it was resolved that, in order to ,aid the proprietors in equipping the Bead, the holders ,oltbegiret Mortgage Bonds shoedd agree to wept for their coupons due August let, UM, and February lot, 1864,., obits/atoms of theVompany, payable on or before 'Nuiumplration of fiveyears, Int the option of the COM 'o3l3,4).beiliritir interest from Ist Febrnary,lBBB, and convertible into Stock, at the option of the holders; Usenet payable thereon seml-annually on let August toiddet February. -.- • - The holdere of First Mortgage Bonds ere requested to ca ll at the Office of Means. N. S. WLIBLEN & 00., and sigh the 'agreement to carry out such an arrange - jal4-mwf tfebl r.FICE, ANTHRACITE INSURANCE , qOAIPANY,, 311VALNitIT Street, January 4, 1866 Notice - Is hereby given, theftn pnrweanoe'or a reeoln tton of Board of Directors, la second inetalment of FIVE-DOLLARS per share on the stock, notes, and subscription to the capital stook Of the Company, le re quired to be pate at the office of the Company on or be. fore MONDAY, the Unit day of February, MC jte-iodttebl W. If SMITE Secretary, ANIA. - 14.IITIIAL INSVRANO COM- P./4.11%.91k100 No 411 DHESTNIIT Street. • NtittnitafitA; January 7,1868. TEIE BOARD OF DIREOTOIUI have this day deatared ADiAdspd of BOAR PER CENT.On the paid up Capital, Asyable on and after the first proximo' je9.o.43odtfel - TllOO. 13. 111,111,M111,13ecretsry. MOTU - 1B -TO "OONSIGNEEEL—The ship BTALWAILT, Oapt, Lucas, from Litorpord, is non 4etids to - difektlitg* street wharf. Con sign* will Owe deliver. their permits to the °Mord A n t board: Aligoo:isnot permitted within firs dayonill 06440 to Publi9 store- ' • • MS. coltlOnAlttniOff &00., jai 101:WALNUT street. RIDGE NOTIOE.-TIIE TINE FOE Aar i•oortriog And titillates for the'-Ohertiint .ISrmrt Midge, bar, by OrditoolorCounribt, born "1- tabled to the 26th disl of Jszuktr, 185 8 - c z . RiquopAilD itNEses, . dm-aliao OblefAtomir)to Lsrvelor. t r t u 5. MONDAY, JAM:FART 25, 1858 TOUCRING A LITERARY JOURNAL. Ire took up the latest number of The Athe na:Wl which bad reached us,‘nd bad just filled up an odd hour in its perusal, when a friend dropped in, and seized the paper. ki Reading this ?" —"As)* mayperceive." " What for 1"—" To see if there was enough in it to make into an article?"—"I'lltoll you what, don't you mind what's its it. 'We know the publication here,—Yre know all the Eng lish journals better than, the English do, for we read them with' snore • interest and care. Tell • us "all ,about The Athemzum, to begin with, and then ' servo' up the other foreign paPeri in the -B£lMO way."—After a pause " Not abed notion, wherever you picked it up. Make yourself scarce, and it shall be done in stanter."' (Exit Friend.) Some one will .ask, what is The 1/themeless. We reply, a literary journal - of criticism, in telligence, and advertisements, published in Loden ; eVery,Saturday morning. It is clever and. ciotehetty, partial and satirical. It never praises any authersave those who write for it. Thus Mr. HerWessess Dixon, beranso he is the editor, Is invariably well spokon•ef, and Dr.'Donast, the most pleasant and loaceurate of literary gossips, also ceases off well, be cause he' is Dames principal aide-de-plume. Hewer F.. Cuolizer, a • middle-aged yOung gentleman, who is perpetually perpetrating unreadable 'novels, unfortunate dramas, and untuneable operas, •is rather patted on the back, by , The ...dthence . um, because he is the mnsieal critic. Mr. Cnonier, it should be known, is the -Democratic element on the journal, ' having 'refused to, 'attend Queen VierosaA'a Loyee, (had, ho been invited, which ho was not,) in,any but his ordinary costume, viz : white hat, red hair,' sky-blue c3sOfi berry-tie, pick striped calico-shirt, 06611 vel vet vest, salmon-color pants, blue stockings, and square-toed Irighlows. The Athenaeum is considered, in England, as "the wet-blanket of literature." It is very heavy, and whenever, on rare occasimse, it does affect to be lively, the reader is agreea bly reminded of an elephant dancing a sera band, or a hippopotamus gracefully indulging in a pas seta. In fact, if there bo ono thing trifle heavier than its seriousness, it is its oc casional attempts at levity. The A/hen:sum was established,exactly thirty years ago, in rivalry to the London Literary Ca:ette, by no less a person than the celebrated JAMES SILx Beamseankm,who—if the truth must be told— although an honest man, was very much of a quack. This gentleman was in Parliament for a short time after the passing of the Reform Bill, and brought forward as many great mea sures, during the first fortnight, as would have required ten Parliaments to have disposed of. However,one good thing BUCHINGHAM did effect .the abolition of the infamous press-gang sys tem, so long the disgrace and reproach of the British navy. BUCKINGHAM subsequently visited the U. States and British North America, and wrote either nine or eleven groat octavo vo lumes,about his tour. He did not state one thing new to any one. He tore pages out of guide books and put them into his own books wholesale, and without acknowledgment. Ho did the same with geographies, histories, and so on. As for newspapers, he used them so freely, that it is Scarcely too much to say that one-third of his nine or eleven octavos was made up of " shreds and patches," clipped from American and Canadian journals. Ho was a fluent speaker, with a 'good manner, and eery little matter. Ho tried lecturing, in this country, chiefly on temperance, but did not meet with much success. ife_idarted hnsithiterc' a sort of cosmopolitan club, which went on very well, until DOMLAs hanoms, who bad been bal loted in as a member, at his own pressing re quest, took umbrage at being asked to pay his annual subscription. Jzanotn was troubled not only with impecuniosity, (which simply means want of means,) but with a strong ob jection to paying a debt of any sort,, until ho had been duly sued for it, and became intense ly angry wjth poor BUCKINGHAM, setting him up, in Punch, to be laughed at, and gibbetting the club itself as " The British and Foreign Destitute." The result was—the, club was written down by Punch, and inenozn never paid his subscription, of, course. But Mr. BUCKINGHAM, goaded by the wrongs and insults. to which he had been subjec ted, took pen in hand,_ and produced a pamphlet in which, limiting himself to sixteen octavo pages, he laid bare .Isersorm's motive's, and accomplished the difficult feat of heaping contumely upon the scorner and satirist, without losing his own dignity as a man. The success of this pamphlet' was deci ded. Punch, universally condemned for hay-, ing lent itself as a tool to work out JERROLD'S private pique, took care never again to mention Mr..BUCHINGIUM in any way. Public opinion pronouneedatrongly against JERROLD, through the press and in society, and the result was that .781tROLD, alarmed selßueemerax's threat of issuing a second and a stronger pamphlet, begged pardon in the humblest manner. To illustrate BUCKINGHAM'S verbosity, we state, from knowledge, that this sixteen-page pam phlet originally consisted of over 400 pages, andlthat BUCKINGHAM was, with the extromest difficulty, persuaded to allow it to be pruned down to the size it appeared in. 214,410 24 185,880 8e ..,• - )108,91$ 00 All this time we have been allowing the Athenaeum to stand out in the.cold. It made no mark in BIJORINGLIAIN hands, and mainly consisted, at first, of copious extracts from his own "forthcoming" and lumbering Travels in Mesopotamia, . Poor Joux STERLING (whose life was so well written by TRONA@ Cairtyza) wrote some fine papers in it;—so did his friend CLAUDIUS MARE ;--E0 did a few other able mon, but the publication wanted a busi nesi-bead, and the copyright was sold at moro than its full value, when, in October, 1830, Mr. Ctwar.as WENTWORTIt 'DILICR, then a clerk in the Navy • Pay Office, for $6OO. MILKS, who bad been a sort of literary amateur, writing for such magazines and reviews as would print his contributions, had a Mr. Joni; MARTIN joined with him, in the new undertaking, who supplied the money and the business management. By lowering the price of each number from sixteen cents to eight, by extensive advertising, by paying a good price for the best literary assistance, by giving ,Carly, as well as extended notices of books, and, above all, by perpetually proclaim ing The Athenaeum to ho "the only literary joprnal not the property or connected with book-publishers," it soon obtained a large circulation;and for the last five-and-twenty years has ranked as one of the most influen tial as well as the most profitable of the Eng. lishliterary journals. For several years the leading London book publishers threw some small opposition in the way of The Athenaeum, by not allowing it to have early copies of their books, for review. But this was got over, and The Literary Ga zette, the champion, if not the property, of the "trade," gradually faded away, until there now remains little more of it than Its name. It continues to be published, See believe, but its circulation is probably counted by hundreds. Under the first ten 'or twelve years of l'he Atheneum in new management—say 1830 to 1842-;-many of the ablest writers in England contributed to it. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, LEIGH Hen, Dr. MARIC ROGYT, THOMAS HOOD, and his facetious brother-in-law, T. HAMILTON REYNOLDS, "HARRY CORNWALL," HORACE and JAMES Sid:r7l--almost every one, indeed, of mark and note. ALLAN OUNNINGHAU, particu larly, contributed a gf History of English ,Literature," in which, naturally enough, ho gave greatest space and precedence to the Swish writers. This made LEIOH HUNT say, in a'note which found its way into print, that ALLAN OUNNINOUAN'S literary history was f‘ the most ostentatious blunder in the history of literature." After that, no doubt, HAROLD Sitlfaretri and "honest Amen" (a 5 SCOTT 4 IA MONDAY. JANUARY 25. 1858. loved to call him) would_ namely continue, their relations of 'friendship? Quite a mis take I Only a week after tho rupture, Luton Him was as likely as' not to walk down to' Pimlico, (Outormartmt lived at the back of the Queen's palace) and, just as if nothing un-' pleasant bad occurred between thorn, ask Curt,. NINOHAM, as USUKI, to lend him a sovereign; adding, with a careless smile," and be sure JO' ask me for it, 601110 day, for I really ant so tett getful abolit these horrid money -matters." II would not be the fiftieth "loan',' obtained in that manner, and who, that know Lstun DUNS; could possibly think that anybody else .was iiF DICKENS'S mind whon:lto binned that p ortrait of HAROLD SKIMEOLE in "Bleak House." , • The sithemitirn, as naturally will happen, suffered in no respect froni having most of, the best writers of the day among its :corr.! tributors. For, when any of this great cora published a book, The Athintetitn, if it wore good, went , in very strongly indeed to exalt; its own men, and if (for even clover wpm do not write first-rate books) it were not ver). good, The alhenfflitn . i. had not the heart to . sayi so. Thus Thi 4theneeum has its own digra of authors, whom it feels Itself bound to 'sup:, port, whatever betide—and is, in truth, vea l little deserving of the character which it stilt affects to claim, of being Impartial. . • For several years, The dither:mum has Uwe afflicted with a sort of monomaniac, American Literature and Art. It almost wholly ignores the latierLdeclaring that Mini LEVI, illustrations of ((Margaret" are thy'. only things worthy of being called artisticat, yet produced in this country. So with Arno*. can Literature. • When you look to see what The Athenceum 'says of an American book, simply be prepared to estimate the degree and qualification of its disapproval. • Mr. Dunn has long since retired from WS ' official situation, on a pension, and does not take any active part in the .Rthenteton—except on the annual election of officers of the Litt rary Fund Institution, whore he groWls, the rate of three columns a week, over 'th expenses" of the office, and invariablya tends the election, spluttering out a vehemetif speech, and proposes an opposition , c ticket"-, Which is not elected. The other occasion is when any one publishes an article or hOok touching upon the authorship of the Letters of Junius. DILKE senior immediately rushes out, repeats all ho ever said before to show that Sir Plume Flamm was not the and, in a few weeks, subsides with boasting; for the hundredth time, that ho has routed "the Franciscans." The Junior Mr. Elnan, a robust, ruddy, middle-aged man, distinguished himself by the regularity of his attendance as member of the Executive Committee of the World's Pair of 1861. Ho refused Knighthood from the Queen, believing, it is said, that he was entitled to ho made Knight Companion of the Bath. Hdiv. ever, Queen VICTORIA sent a pretty bracelet: to Mrs. D. (the thinnest lady in London), and Mr. DILKE has wisely confined himself over since to the business.management of the Mire. twain. It is a fine property, and has great influence, a literary authority, despite : of certain "cranks and Crotchets" which we have indicated in the preceding remarks. :We had nearly omitted to state that the .9theraerpn is good authority upon science, and indeed nearly all intellectual subjects wherein pre vailing spirit of ciiquism does not inter vene. It occasionally has foreign correspon dence of considerable value. COMMUNICATIONS. THE MONETARY ERMA—THE REMERY No. I. To the Editor of the Press : Allow me to address to you, and, through you, to the readers of your valuable journal, a low VAN on the means best fitted to prevent the reourterme of any similar disasters. I fully concur in the opinions expressed by the President of the United States in his message at the opening of the present session of Congress, that a our existing misfortunes have proceeded solely from our extravagant and vicious system of paper currency and bank credits, exciting the people to wild speculations and gambling in stooks," and that " these revulelons must continue to recur at successive intervals as long as the amount of the paper currency and bank loans and discounts of the country shall be left to the direction of four teen hundred irresponsible banking institutions, which, from the very law of their nature, will con sult the interest of their stockholders rather than the public welfare." Yet, I could scarcely have been induced, at present, to put pen to paper in support of these views, but for the extraordinary manner in which their propriety has been im pugned, and the equally extraordinary means which have boon urged in different quarters as an Infallible cure for the evils under which we are now suffering. It is stated that, during our whole existence as a nation, every lowering of the rates of duties on goods imported from abroad has been followed by a disturbed condition of our monetary system, and a season of mercantile and general distress ; and that, on the contrary, every rise in those rates has been followed by a season of comparative pros perity. Our present evils, say the parties to whom I allude, owe their origin to the act of Congress of 1846, reducing the tariff of duties ; and they infer that if we only retrace our steps, and increase the duties sufficiently, we may confidently expect nn uninterrupted national prosperity in all time to come. We have here, it would appear, quite a novel doctrine, and ono, too, made to assume a certain degree of plausibility by an array of sta tistics, very imporfeetty comprehended it is true, but of a nature, when left unexplained, to produce a wrong impression on the minds of some. The parties on whose opinions I am remarking, seem indeed to think that the mere statement of the fads adduced by them, and the correctness of which I am not disposed to deny, cannot fail of itself to demonstrate the advantage of a restric tive commercial policy, and to render every other argument la its support altogether superfluous. And it may bo well, before proceedng to the ex planation of these facts, to inquire info thegrounds of such confidence. Can this possibly arise from a notion that when two events always occur In succesohn, the antece dent event is necessarily the cause of the subse quent ono ? Certainly not, it is charitable to sup pose. If so, the rising of the RU'l would be the cause of its netting, and the setting of the sun would be the cause of its rising. Again, when to wards the close of winter we see the flight of mi• gratory birds from their Bouthorr to their North ern resorts, or hear the croaking of the frogs in their marshy homes, we regard these occurrences as indioativa of approaching "spring ant stammer ; without fooling the slightest gratitude, lowevor, to either frogs or swallows as the onuses a producers of the flowers and fruits which these seasons are to furnish to us. But our advocates of a high tariff nay possibly tell us that this is metaphysics, with %ditch they, as praotical men, have nothing to do. They may, very probably, appeal to common sane ; and ask, in their turn, whether if any measur4 political or otherwise, be invariably followed by hjurious con sequences, It bo not clearly the part df wisdom to proscribe the measure in question, and to do so without perplexing ourselves with thi doctrine or language of pauses and effects. I (111810 r no. The antecedent event may be merely th , occasion of the exciting to action of causes notat all neces sarily connected with It, wide'', mums are truly those that aro productive of the injvious cense quenoes sought to bo avoided. Than when some persons have pointed to the porseouttns and evils in general, inflicted by mon upon heir follow men in the name of Christianity, as so argument against the truth of ltevelation, thweply was ob vious, that the effects produced ere far from being necessarily connected with tb religion of Christ, but sprang from the depraved nature of mankind. So it is also with the suleot more Im mediately before us. Such as (ink with the writer hold, at least, that the avid which have sometimes ensued from a groat antsudden reduc tion of the tariff of duties have nen in a very high degree aggravated by the inprudence and mismanagement of our banks, groling out of the nature of these institutions. Again : the parties whose opinies I am examin ing commit the mistake, so after committed by these who judge from first apperanoes, of con founding temporary with pesuanent results. They seem not to be aware thatiome of the moot important improvements in the (sofa arts, and in the condition of mankind, ha* been productive, on their first introduction into Tactical use, of not a little inconvenience and siloring, especially imla When S introduetion has t en place suddenly and to any great extent. P example, the em ployment, of a loss costly or n*e etlio'ont machine in any branch of industry, URA of messily afoot disadvantageously all person' a portion of whose capital la 'infested in machinery' 'of an older and less perfect oonstruotion. The making, too, of a railroad or other Improved mode of commuldeatlon between two Feints of a country cannot but be in jurious to the heldare of stock In the previously ox toting roads, as well as to the owners of horses and earriagee which are employed in the conveyance along them of geode or p,:istongers. And it is the same, in relation to the repeal of such duties as, by 'operating prohibitorily on the Importation of com modities from 'foreign countries, have served to encourage their doinestio production. In all these oases alike, the producers are gubjeoted to a cer tain amount of inconvenience and lees for the benefit of the consumers, or what is the same thing, for the benefit of the oommunity generally. Why then, sinee no one has ever suggested that Govern ment might to interfere in behalf of the capital ,and, labor applied in the exteting modes, by the 'prohibition or taxation ef , novel modes of pro ducing; should it he required, by means of a higher tariff of duties', to sacrifice the interests of a whole Teeple for the advantage of particular olassetonly ? It is true, however, that while improvements in the arts seldom if ever take k moo so rapidly as to cause any very groat inainvonienee, an extensive and sudden removal of commercial restrictions is 'always productive of much distress—and this not 'merely by affecting injuriously the vested interests of a portion of the people, but also by inducing a drain of specie trim the country to pay for an Aug. mented amount of Imports, and leading, by meant of Such a drain of specie, to all the dieastrons eon sequences which mot necessarily follow from a contraction of the circulating medium. I have, no difficulty, therefore, in admitting that a repeal or diminution of ditties, which is called for ,by the 'perManent Inioresti of the public; shOuld, hi refer erica to the immediate advantage of.the communi ty, be made to take effect only gradually. I all not now about to dimes at large the "tariff question," which, until quite 'lately, seemed to have been put at rest. My object will be simply to show, from an examination of particular in stances, how it is that the great benefits of an el'. tended commercial intercourse between the United States and other conntriat have been, in an unne cessary degree, counterbalanced by the operation of anises under the control, or which ought to have been under the control, of our national or state le, gislatures. TIM Bret instance to which I shell direct the at tention of my readers is the condition of our coun try after the peace of 1815. During the war which was then brought to a &lose, the rains of our im ports, owing to the rigorous blockade of the ports of the middle ead southern States by the enemy, was greatly in ureess of that of the exports. This led to a considerable export ion of specie and an ac oompanying drain of specie from the, banks, which were, inconsequence, reduced to the necessity of suspending payments. The banks, no longer re strained in issuing their notes by the obligation of paying specie fur them on domain', itoded them to a larger 'amount than before, in this manner rais ing prioos and stimulating importation to a greater extent than over. In the year ending September 30th, 1815, the value of our imports amounted ac cordingly to $103,341,274, while that of our exports reached only to the sum of $52,557,753 ; and in the following year the value of the imports amounted to the unprecedented sum of $147,103,000, and that of the exports to $81,920,452. The substitution of a new tariff of duties,although based on the prin ciple of. protecting domestic manufactures, also contributed unexpectedly to the inorease of our im ports and the derangement of the currency, as well as to the ruin of many of the manufacturers. • The merehantslanving enlarged their transactioncasked for and obtained additional bank accommodations. Instead of contracting their circulation, se they should have done with a proper regard to their own permanent interests, not to speak of the public) welfare, tho banks enlarged their issues of paper money to such an extent as to render necessary, before long, a rapid and extraordinary curtailment of them During the period in 'which they had been in excess, the profits of the banks had,.of course, been high. Now banks were created, which, in their struggle with the previously exist ing ones, to obtain their proportionate share of the circulation of the country, had contributed to the undue expansion of the currency, and to the distresses consequent upon the following contrac tion. And this contraction, it is proper to mention also, was accelerated, and the disastrous cones ; names referred to were exceedingly aggravated, y rue partutunuFatranrprer-skirad in stitutions of the country by a new Bank of the United States incorporated in April, 1810, and which went into operation in the month of Taxuary, 1817. Some years passed over without the community generally suspecting the abler source of their mis fortunes to be a vicious banking system. The merchants and manufacturers united in a dames for an augmentation of the duties on snob foreign goods as came into competition with the dearer goods of like nature produced at home, Just as some people now-a-days do, as a panacea fur the existing evils. The results were that a new tariff of duties, and ono more favorable to the manufacturers, was enacted by Congress in 1824, succeeded by another still more favorable to them in 1828; the former of these having in its effects disappointed the ex pectations of its advocates. In the interval be tween the dates just mentioned, no inconsiderable amount of distress, it is remarkable, had continued to prevail among the producers of domestio goods This distress was attributable portly to the busi ness of manufacturing being overdone, too many persons having hastened to invest their means in it, without realizing the extent of the competition which they would have to encounter, and partly also to the manufacturers having failed to obtain the ordinary rate of profits, through a &Money of acquired skill in the labor applied. These " evils of change" from a eystem of lower to one of higher duties, Just like those which arise from a change in the opposite direction, would before long have been brought to a conclusion. But the sufferers of all descriptions very naturally looked to the Government for a more immediate relief, and looked to it as to their only resource. Their clamors, as has boon mentioned, succeeded in pro curing the enactment of the tariff of 1828. The protective duties had, at length, attained to so high a rate as to be a most egregious tax on the people generally, for the sake merely of enabling the domestic producers of certain commodities to make the ordinary rate of profits—a rate of profits which, under a freer and more natural state of things, would have boon returned to their capitate, in whatcorer employments invested. A reaction in the public mind on the subject of the tariff of duties soon took place, and in 1833 had remaind to such an extent no to accomplish a gradual reduction of the duties, to begin in 1834, and to bo completed in 1842; a reduction founded, as I conceive, on correct principles of Political economy, and calculated to guard sufficiently against "the evils of change." All would have been well, had the banks been administered in a proper manner. But this WAS far from being the Me. As formerly, under similar einnuostaneen, an increased stimulus having been given by the legislation of the Union, to the importation of foreign commodities, the banks, instead of 'con tracting their issues as they should have done, en larged them, and to ouch a degree as to render the subsequent necessary contraction productive of an extraordinary amount of distress in the commu nity, and yet not sufficiently to acre themselves from a suspension of specie payments, in 1837. Payments were resumed In 1838, to be again num needed in 1839. The resumption once more of spe cie payments by the banks of Philadelphia, in Ja• nuary, 1841, was followed in February by the fail ure of the Bank of the United States; when the berate again suspended, and after a term again re sumed their payments. The causes of our continually repeated monetary difficulties not being even yet generally under stood, theeommeretal policy of the National Legis lature again wavered, and the duties on foreign imports were raised in 1842, as a means of prevent ing the recurrence of those difficulties. But the tariff of 1842 was, in its turn, superseded by a lower tariff of duties in 1846. During a period of eleven years this tariff remained undisturbed; eleven yearn of eomparativeprosperity to the coun try. The banks, too, in general, no longer having a Bank of the United States to encourage them by its example of extravagance and recklessness, were for some time more prudent In the manage ment of their concerns. At last, however, grown careless by being so long uninterruptedly prospe rous, and anxious to realize a still higher rate of profits than the already high rates wbioh they had been receiving, enlarged their issues, ae they had horeteforedone, to such an extent as to lead to the existing condition of things. From the statement of feels as they have occur red, which has been conelsely made, I think it must be apparent that we have an adequate cause to assign for our present commercial and mone tary dictators, in the mismanagement of our bank ing instituttons. To attribute these disasters to the lowering of the tariff of duties as many as eleven years ago, is to meacareely less absurd than if that measure had been adopted in the last century. And to raise the duties now could only have the effect, after the initiation for a time of those "evils of change" experienced by the manufacture!" after 1824, and oven after 1828, to enable them to realize ulti mately the ordinary prate of capital—that is, to realize the rate of profits in keeping with the rates in other occupations. Put since a given amount of capital and labor would, but for the interference of the Government with the natural course of things, bare been more productively employed, because employed in pro curing for the consumers a larger quantity of the necessaries and luxurleaof life, it follows that the general or ordinary rates of profile wfiald then have been higher than they are under the protective system of policy. And again. it follows that the parties who have been tempted to engage in the business of manufacturing, by the action of the government, could not fail to bo ultimately losers Instead of gainers. To any one, also, who will consider the facts which have been plated in my present letter, no farther argument, It seems to me, needs to be ad duced to show the inexpediency and the absurdity even'of expecting a remedy for our ever-recurring deringements of the currency and its accompany ' ing evil's, from the incorporation of another na tional bank, as has been proposed, though with tome hesitation, in certain quarters. Boeing, then, that it is vain to look for a pre-. ventive against the return, at shorter or longer Intervals, of the evils under which the country is BW:tering, to a higher tariff of duties, or to the chimera of a national bank with a large capital— like that which perished so ignominiously in 1841— there is nothing else left for us but to endeavor to accomplish the desired object of a proper regula tion of the currency, by subjecting the banks to conditions of a stringent character heretofOre on applied; or; if this course - shall be found to be in adequate; to discover, if possible, what more ef fectual and steady monetary system can be sub atituted for the present one, either by the State Le gislatures or by Congress. With your leave, Mr. Editor, I shall treat of these poles in my next letter. Q. Q. CORRESPONDENCE. FROM HARRISBURG. [Correepondeuco of The Prue . 1 T tuarennsylvania Agricultural Society—A Wew Way to Pay the State Debi—Left Town—John 0. Saxe. Itennienußa, January22' The Pennsylvania Agricultural Society ask their usual appropriation of two thousand dollars this year, without any restrietlon, and to be paid prior to, instead of after, the annual fair. Heretofore the appropriation by the State bas been contingent upon an equal sum being raised by the sale of tickets, but admission by tickets bee been found to work badly, leaving the door open to touch timid on the part of the gatekeepers, or permitting half a dozon families to go in on a season ticket, and therefore will be abolished. Those who go in will be registered by what is called the "stile wicket," which was in use last year at the Na tional Cattle - Fair in Philadelphia. The new plan will result in adding to the society's coffers what has previously only enriched faithless offi cials ; and getting the appropriatio n in advance will enable it to perfect all the arrangements for successful exhibition. The Senate has already eanrtioned the measure, and the House undoubted.- ly will concur. Major Rowe, our efficient Surveyor General, has Sent in a communication to the Senate making Suggestions that, If acted upon, will make the' Land Department oontribute materially toward the revenues of the Commonwealth. They are worthy the serious attention of the members of the Legis lature, who, it is reasonable to presume, are here to lighten the burden of tax-payers when the op portunity offers. ile ahem, that there is due the Commonwealth six millions of dollars for on patented lends, on which neither principal nor in terest is received for want of proper legislation. If an act, such as he engage, were passed, he de monstrates that an annual income could be derived of not less than $360,000. instead of the beggarly pittance now paid into the office of the Surveyor General. By refusing to make those who have neglected to have their lands patented pay the in terest on the money due, a double wrong is done: first, to the State, whom necessities are great, and secondly, to such as have honestly paid for their patents. The large atom mentioned is easily available, for the claim of the Commonwealth is almost in the shape of a first mortgage upon every Illateg property unpatented. All that is required is to give the Surveyor General the power, and nothing more will be nooessary to secure to Penn :vivant a her just dues from iparties who have hitherto not paid up because they were not oom polled to. It would reduce the State debt in Siva years more than the Shaking Fund " has done in nearly twice the time. The Legislature having adjourned until Monday afternoon, a good portion of the members have gone to your city to sea the sights. The truth is legislation is in a back ward state—the people wishing it are holding beak until the latter end of the session, when it will have to bo has ied through, to the detriment often of the public good. John G. Saxe, the poet, wit, and humorist, is announced to lecture here on Tuesday evening. Besides his many other good qualities, Saxe is a sound Democrat, and has never swerved from the faith. conviction. of Both the Lancaster Murderers. Alexander Anderson and Henry Richards have both been convicted of the murder of Mrs. Garber and Mrs. Ream, in Lancaster county, Pa. After their conviction, Anderson made a rope out of some carpet chain, intending to hang himself, bat it was taken from him. Whenever either of them are taken out and returned to their cello they are closely examined, so that they cannot get hold of the means of either escape or suielde. Ever since they have been in prison they have been shaved by one of the prisoners, as it has not been deemed advienble to trust them with a razor. Anderson now evidently fully realizes his true position ; but Richards thinks ho will not be hung, as be says he only hold the door while his comrade murdered the women. The Lancaster Times, of Friday morning, de scribes the reoeption of the death sentence by the murderers. Richards received the sentence with tears, but Anderson was perfectly cool. They both were then taken away by the sheriff, but the District Attorney announced that the ques tion, "if they had anything to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon them," had not boon asked. Upon this the two men were brought back again. The question was then re peated to Richards first. He, perhaps not under standing it, or thinking that by reiterating his false confession might escape, began a story, com mencing with the day when he started from Leba non, until ho came to the house of Mrs. Garber. The whole of the story is contained in Col. Harris' address. After ho had finished, Anderson took up the tale, and gave en account of himself and how he became entangled in this fiendish outrage. They both concluded their remarks by saying they were "innocent mon, that they will die in nocent, that they never killed the women," &c., but those did not have much effect upon the spec tators or thejudges. The sentences were then re pented, amid the most profound silence. While the two were speaking, occasional mut , ream of disapprobation from the bystanders would break out; other times there was no attempt at disturbance or disorder. After the sentence had been pronounced several peraons gloried a disposition to applaud in token of their approval. Tuckerman the Mall Robber—How he was Detected In his Embezzlements In Matsu. A letter in the Hartford Titnet gives interesting particulars of the manner in which Tuckerman was first detected in dishonest prnotioos " Tuckerman is a gontlemaulylooking man, 37 'years of age. lio.,wns formerly the treasurer of the Eastern Railway Company, which runs from Boston to Maine, and the directors had groat con fidence in him, as he Wes a mild, inoffensive, 'clever' follow. They did not properly examine his accounts. The result wee a defalcation of be tween ono and two hundred thousand dollars. When this foot was discovered, the officers of the road did not feel inclined to prosecute such a 6 fine, clever fellow.' But an old man, in a rural dis trict, who owned one or two shares of stook, sent a letter to Tuokernian, represented that his inter ests had been injured by the defalcation, and that unless he (T.) would send him some four or five hundred dollars, he would prosecute him. Tuck erman, under the advice of counsel, refused to comply with the request. The old mart was as good as his word. Ile had legal proceedings insti tuted against Tuokermatt, and he was put under bonds to the amount of 516,000. He procured these bonds, and then went to work at the United States mails to mond big fortunes The amount of ready money obtained by him is not known. Ile was arrested about the time that a decision was to have been rendered on some ins portant point in his defalcation case. That case will hang over him till the mail robbery affair is settled, be the time longer or shorter. On the 20th, Tuckemian was arraigned before the United State, Commissioner, at New Haven, on the charge of mail rubbery. John A. Bolles, of Boston. appeased as his counsel, and moved fur a reduction of his bail, already fixed at $20,000. viz.: $5,000 each on four counts. Otis idea seemed to be that the bonds should not exceed ss,ooo—that he might obtain this, and then he could have an op portunity of preparing for his final trial. The commissioner at once refused to reduce the bonds at all, and by the agreement of both parties the examination of the ease was ordered to take place on the 29th instant, and Tuefternien was remanded to Jail, - - IMMORAL PLAY.—MISS Kimberly-, the Mana geress of the Pittsburgh Theatre, has been held to bail in $l,OOO for presenting the play The Con demned," the tendenoies of which, it is alleged, are Immoral. The play is founded on the lives of Charlotte Jones, Henry Fife, and Monroe Stewart, who are to be hung for murder, near Pittsburgh, on February On the morning of the 19th inst., the life less body of a man named John Groves, was dis covered lying upon the track. of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at Grafton. Crawford's equestrian statue of Washington at Richmond, Va., was on Thursday elevated to the top of the monument, in the presence of hula drods of speotatore, TWO CENTS. THE FRAUDS IN KANSAS POWERFULLY • r..xeosED. (From the Ohio atatetanaa4 • . PROTECT TIM. BALLOT-BOY.—The forms of Tree-- dom are worse than worthless without the sub stance• Louis Napoleon was quite as much a despot before the mock election, by virtue of which he bad himself made Emperor, as after it. The Democratic Party bite hitherto been the trusty guardian of the poople'a rights, to pronounce their will, through the ballot-box, uncontrolled by force or fraud. When the ballot-boxes were de stroyed by an infuriated gang at Cincinnati, the De mocracy throughout the country protested against the outrage, and J. J. Paten took his office" as mayor, and held it, though his competitor bad the technical majority of the,votes. • So the doings of the Know Nothings at Louis ville made Kentucky Democratic, because the people abhorred interference to prevent or frustrate the exercise of the suffrage. And iso the Proceed ings at Baltimore hove covered the mob of that city with infamy. This being so; we denounce the frauds of Kickapoo, and declare that the perpe trators and abettors of these crimes against the people ought to receive condign punishment by incarceration in the penitentiary. The Washing ton Union took occasion, a few days ago, to com mend the course of Thomas Ewing, Jr., in Kansas. That gentleman was nominated by the free-State party for Attorney General, and his' naafi is signed to the statement we give below. His poll: tics we dislike, but we know him, to be a truthful and honorable gentleman, and the Washington Uaiou bus endorsed his views. We ask, then, how can that paper call upon us and other gentlemen and Democrats to become the Recompiles's, the abettors, and the defenders of the vile cheats and forgiri who infest the Territory of Kansas? Read the article below : [From the Leavenworth Tireeeihunpary eth.l Pito* Kinsea---Tng lizaciton P2ACAS • Ar KICKAPOO.—The election precinct of Klakapot in cludes the town of that name, with a population of about two hundred and fifty inhabitants, and a narrow etrip of country running back fire or sii miles from the river. It is estimated to contain from two hundred and fifty to three hundred legal voters, nearly all of whom are ultra pro-slavery men, and advocate the Calhoun Constitution. At the election on the pro-slavery clause of the Calhoun Constitution, held on the 21st December last, the jacigte returned a majority In its favor, in that precinct, of 1,017. The opponents of that Constitution in this coun ty determined to go into the eleetion which was held on the 4th inst., for State offieers and mem bers of the Legislature ; and they applied to act ing Governor Denver to cause troops to be station ed there to protect challengers. The Governor accordingly ordered tho troops there, and directed them to be placed under the command of the 11. S. marshal or his deputy. It had been determined by the citizens of Lea venworth, in case the United States troops could not be relied upon to protest challengers at Kicks pop, that a hundred picked men shbuld go froth here t protect them - . The arrangement above stated, however, was deemed satisfactory, and but eight men went up. They applied to the judges of the election to admit one of their number in the room, to take an official list of the voters. This request was refused on the ground that the crowd outside would not tolerate it. The polls were opened at 10 o'clock. Mr. Fields first, then Mr. Loeee, attempted outside to keep list of the voters; but they, with those who came with them, were compelled to abandon their ground by the mere force of physical pressure, the crowd by this time numbering about one hundred men, armed with bludgeons, bowie-knives] pistols, and revolvers, many of whom were 'drunk, and most violent in their threats of shooting the first man outside who challenged a voter or vrrote down his name. At this time the troops •mirehed into towp, and wore drawn up on the river bank ! +rat two hundred yards off, out of sight of the rills. The deputy marshal ordered them to be stationed at the poll*, to keep off the crowd and protect chal lengers. The sheriff , who was present , objected, and claimed the. right himself to control them. Tho officer in command said he was ordered to re port to the "sheriff, marshal, or deputy sheriff." Deputy Marshal Cowell, after some delay, p;e. seated to the officer a written order to elation the troops at the polls. The officer declined obeying it, but sent a message to the fort asking further in structions. This was at, 121 o'clock, and, of course, the answer arrived too late for any purpose. We think nearly every legal vote was polled be fore one o'clock. We saw few before that time that we had reason to think illegal ; and few after that were not certainly so. Of the fraudulent voters, six were identified by their real names, and warrants of ,arrest are out for them. There were sonic forty or fifty men who did the double voting ; and frequently , the lame man, after voting, reappeared within ten minutes under a new name and voted again. Boys not over four teen years of age voted, and ono of them said, the boys at Xickapoo always vote." A crowd of horsemen who had voted left the town in the after noon, and said they were going"over"—mean ing, of course, to Milwouri. We think there were about fifty Missourians who voted there. • . e In this way there were given, legal and fraudu lent, about five huadzed , volul. .The. NOW, as an-, minced, however, at the closing of the polls; was 905. The poll-hooks eould only show that num ber by inserting four or five hundred names not given by voters. There was no rapid voting—there being frequent intervals of fifteen minutes when Namely a vote was polled. A squad would come to the polls, scatter through the crowd, vote, and return to the grog shops. Until the next !quad came up, scarcely a ticket would be presented. At these intervals the business was so completely a drag, that ajudge of election, Wm. Franklin, re peatedly called out, "more votes !" when they would pour from the grog shops and rally again to the polls. The polls were open seven and a half hours, having been closed an hour at noon, and closing finally at half-past six o'clock. Extetly at a quarter past four, one of the judges announced to the commanding officer, Captain Brown, that four hundred and sixty-seven votes wore polled. At five minutes before six, the commanding officer, by request, made inquiry again, and was told by the judge there were eight hundred end sixty four polled. From that until the close, there were but nine voters, and the aggregate was then an nounced at nine hundred and five. From a quar ter past four until the close, there were certainly not more than thirty votes poled, so that the aggre gate announced could only be made up by an enormous official fraud. Oa that day the frauds committed at Kickapoo were gross, open, and. palpable. We trust the offi cers of the election will not sign the poll-books, or return the rote claimed ; and we also trust and believe that, if they do, they will bo arrested and dealt with according to law. The stateuiente made in the foregoing articles arc true. J. W. Mann's, J. M Drcxsox, 11. C. EIELD3, I. G. LOSEE, ADAM FIBIIER, W. IL GARVIN, C. F. CURRIER, Jowl McKim, Taos. EWING, JR. LEAVENWORTH Car, Jan. 8, 1858. The Great Gale In New Orleans A few days since the telegraph apprised us of a revere gale which bad occurred at New Orleans on the 15th, attended with the loss of life and the destruction of much valuable property. The Pica yune of the 16th gives us the following particulars of the storm. At about two o'clock yesterday afternoon a young tornado burst upon the city, accompanied by rain which fell in torrents, doing, for the time it lasted, an immensity of damage. Ships and steamboats were torn from their moorings; signs, elates, and awnings were hurled from their pest lions and sent waltzing through space ' • trees and horses wore blown down, and in no less than three instances which have come to our knowledge the tornado was fatal to human life. One man was blown bodily from the hurricane deck of the steamboat Lacon and drowned. His body has not been recovered. In another case, a man named Murphy was killed on board of the steamboat W. W. Farmer, by the fall of her chimneys during the storm Ito was a native of Ireland and 35 years of age Tho third race was that of a Swedish sailor, named John Anderson, who, during the tornado, was blown from the maintopaail yard of the ship Rattler, when furling the sail, and was killed forthwith. Ile also was 35 years of age In both of these cases inquests were held and appro priate verdicts rendered. The ship Julius tore away the check posts to which she was attached, opposite to the Saraparu market, and drifted down stream. A horse and cart passing along Water street!, were caught up and thrown completely over. The steamboats Farmer, Messenger, and otherehad their chimneys blown down and were otherwise damaged. The Messenger is now lying dismantled on the opposite side of the river. Down town there was quite a mash among the shipping, no less than eight or ten having been blown front their moorings. At the residence of Dr. Rall, No. 133 Renews street, a tall chimney was blown down, damaging the roof by the falling brick, and producing quite a consternation among the inmates. Mrs. Ball was particularly frightened, as she hen good reason to be, having had an almost fatal experience of the groat Natchez tornado. On that occasion she was taken out from the ruins of a home as dead, and it was not till eighteen hours afterwards that signs of life were discovered. It is no wonder that she , dreads tornadoes A life-boat was blown from the hurricane deck of the steamer Virginia. The car shed of the Pontchartrain railroad depot at the lake end was blown across the track, and fences,and sheds were scattered in all directions. . . . . . The gale proceeded from a southwesterly direc tion, and tray of about five minutes' duration. It was, in feat, a hurricane. ailliGE Co TVA STEAMEOATEI.—The steamer W. W. Farmer had both her chimneys blown down, which, falling over the steamer ]Messenger, lying alongside, crushed to death a roan by the name of Murphy, employed on the former boat. Deceased svas a native of Ireland, and had been but a short time engaged. The Messenger likewise had both of her chim neys blown down. They fell over the Oaddoßelle, lying alongside, doing considerable damage to her hurricane deck. The M. afterwards parted her lines and drifted out into the stream, whence, as sistanoe having been rendered her by a j oh-boat, she was taken to Algiers and landed in safety. DAMAGE TO run SIIIPPIWG.—The damage, how ever, was most severe, and the lose of life greatest, as might be supposed, among the chipping. We classify by districts: Forst District—The seoond mate of the ship Rattler, at.poet No. 23, John Anderson, a Swede, wee blown from aloft, fell upon the decks, and was instantly killed. Also, the son of Capt. Forrester, noting third mate of the Rattler, was blown over board-and was drowned. We also learn that three men were capsized in a skiff, opposite No. 27, and drowned. We could not ascertain their names or further particulars. Second District.—The ship Plus Ultra, Joseph NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS Ootrespondente few 'I Saw Yaw _ 9 wiIIPIOIS. Dear ha mind the following ram : • Belay . 00ntritnoteatioo lectei be oneompaniad by the name of the writer, In order to Insure eorreelatosa or the typography, but one able of .a Meet eltoald ba written two. We shall heineetly obliged to imitation is Pommy!. Taal and other States for ounneientions gitin the ar rant news of the day he their parttealar buittLes, the resources of the surrounding eountry, the increase of population, and any information that will be interesting to the general reader. R P o re w ntniss a wdthe bbaowa nf P ro r min-c e o h f Wales sriandg Jsaeob and drifted 'down . the river. Some 'of them received. considerable damage, having come - lie collision with the barques Ertl= arid Alberta, the bow sprits of both of which were carried away. They finally. "me to anchor, however, below the point During the gale . , and before these vessels b a d. parted their moony', a man who was standing on the gangway of one was blown overboard and was drowned. We did not learn his name. 27stril Distriet.The ships Ocean Menorah and Golden Eagle, lying' at post No. 42; ships Nurem berg, Gottenberg and Foisst Eagle, at No. 43; ships Cagan°, Pepperell, Piesyune and Tehernaya. at No, 45; ships Ann Washburn, Boughton end Ellen Stewart, at No. 48; ships N. famine. W. V. Moses and R. D. Sheppiu . d, at No. 47; ships C. C. Duncan and Rochester at No. 48; sad ship Arthur, at No. 49, wore all blown from . their moor ings, carrying away a portion, of their Wharves, and sustained more or less damage. They drifted down the river and Mull.* came to anchor below the Point. The Ann Washburn lost her _bowsprit Ifs -aid-sprong her fOremait:' ‘-‘ • The tow-boat Angto:Anserlean,, remain to with - a ship In tow. bad her _chimney Mama down. ...4; Other ships, in this gale, were blown adrift, but - we are enable to give Fourth ihittriot —Tbe *Mpg Sultan and Charles ,Pennell, at No. 53;. Weever, Moire Alvan, and Kittle -Floyd, at No 64; 'and Jidim at No. 81, were all blown across the river, - aed - ara now at anchor near the yesurite slum., • - The shipzenpuit car ried Ai - way a portion of the Wharf at N0.. 5 4; and about fifty bales Al cotton went overboard from her. The ship Charles Pennell is earaiderably dam aged; the John G. Coster and Form ling mate rially so, by &Malone. ; - - • Many of -these disasters ars doubtless duo, in part,' to the bad conditiott of:the wharves in the third and fourlh districts. : GENERAL NEWS. • • The Setdmeth.(ol4)R4entefisent of the 19tb, lemma Blue pamengess py theillotida boat last exiting, that two yowls men from %Rod:1;ton, - North Carolina, Whom issereaveintla ism learn, 'were robbed of ten thoesand- dollars- at-Fernan dina on Batarday nigh t .last.,,, They went. to Flo rida a for days ago seareh of a situation for business, and upon 'arriving at 'Fernendina, had their blink taken to the hotel; and deposited in the plates-by the porter.. Raving occasion to leave for a few momenta, on Omit robins they found it open and theft money gene. .d diligent search was immediately instituted t hre nbout the town, but no traces of the treasure could be found. The robbery to suppoeed to have- been committed by parties who fell in with the Young Meson their route, became acquainted with the feet of their having a Urge amount of money about them, and followed them with a feloniena latent The money wen mostly in bills of North Carolina banks, for which a reward of $2,000. is offarred, The citizens of St. Rail's county, Md., are endeavoring to get a law through the Legisl ature to allow the obi:ens of that county who own boats engaged in the oyster ; tinde, to catch oysters with drags and scoops in the Chompeake bay or Potomac river, bordering on the county. They allege, says the- Baltimore Sun, that :Ict deep water, where there are now large quantities-, they can be caught in no other way, and are therefore permitted to re main, while in shallow water they are taken be fore half grown. They propose that the owner of each amid pay a yearly fiestas ot.fifteendollars, for the benefit of the' aclibol fund .of the sonny. and that they be allowed the privilege of using • scoops and drags in the watered- the Chesapeake and Potomao, immediately adjacent to nod adjoin ing said county, in water not less thantwelve feet deep at tumid. tote tide, and net within bre hun dred yards of the lar.d, - • , A..gentleman firnisheo the following touch ing little incident to the Reston Tr.:trailer. Re has a dove4ot at his residenee : In the out were a male and female dove and two squabs. The male squab having died, the elderly dove drove from his nest bis female mate, and promoted to his bed and board the young female aquab;pecking at and driving from hisoot the finstaledeve. Finally, upon pee occasion, when the _female appeared at the door of the Cot, the male sallied but, pecked at her, and drove harkway. The peneollted mother flew down to epoch :below, where, with her head under bar wing, ape remained for a short time, and then fell mddenly to the ground. The inmates of the house, who had witnessed the proceeding, im mediately went oat - and ascertained that the dove was dead, but no wound was found troffielent to cause death. Possibly she died of a broken heart from the brutal treatment of hark* and fickle The Chicago Times gives along =count of the arrest of R. S, Ranson. nephew of Mayor "Went worth and Lieutenaat of Polite, on a charge of lar ceny. Hanson had stolen from aliquot ani cigar store baskets of champagne and boxes Of cigars whioh were traced to 'bowel of questionable character. Three indictments have been found against him. He is the deventh other of the pre sent city government of Chicago who has bean ar rested or convicted of some grave crime. The mysterious disappearance of Mr. Rus sell, of Detroit, Michigan, is finally Recounted for. It is stated that the suspicions an regard to his having left );colon on board the steamer America were cermet: 'That steamer recently arrived at Boston on bet Warn trip, and the olstairs state that Mr. Russell _wort, over with flea In a de ranged state oriiind.'apß;;Riiiiiitioras satire at was and-now reseaktie there. - Colonel Thomas H. Bradford-died In Boone county, Missouri, on the 3let ult., In the 69th year of his age. Col. B. was a native of Virginia. em - grated to Kentucky in 1807, and Deter( in iott county. He represented bi's noun:yin bob branebea of the Legislature. In the war of 1.312 he was at tached to the Northwestern army, under General Harrison: Tah-hah-Terica, a chief of the Seminole tribe, one of the delegation in transit to Florida, at the instance of the Government, to induce Billy Bowlegs to emigrate westward, died in New Or leans on the 10th of January. He was overtaken by sickness in the street and died there. chanting his war•song, surrounded by a group of braves. In Missouri the attitude of the Territory of Utah toward the Federal Government has led to the formation of several volunteer military com panies, and numerous requests have been made to the Governor for employment in the Utah service if volunteers are called for. Abraham Perry, a mechanic, formerly of Boston, perished last week at Chicago, in a vacant lot, having been driven to insanity by loss of work and destitution. He leaves a wife and two ohildren, to whom, it is said, hewas a kind husband and father. On the 17th inn., Mr. Bartholomew Mc- Tomlin, a gentleman well known in Riohmond, Ye., was taken with apoplexy, while at his resi dence, on Charoh Rill, and died in a short time thereafter. Rev. John L. Leatherberry, of the Balti more Annual Conference, died a few days since at Galesville, in Anne Arundel county, did., after a short illness. Re was highly eateemod as a Chris tian and a gentleman On Monday, Win. Jeffries, aged 21 years, residing with a Mr. Tyack, near Westwood, &hal kill county, Pa., committed suicide by hanging. Paul Julien, the violinist, has .returned to New York from Venezuela, and will won leave again for Brasil. On the 17th inst., Mr. Frederick F. Buxton, a member of the company attached to SfcVicker's Theatre, died at his !edgings in Chicago. Rev. David Finlay, of Georgia, died last week lie was formerly pastor of the Presbyte rian church in Montgomery, Ala. Duncan Mcßride, a well-known steamboat captain, of Rochester, N. Y., is dead. Spring flowers are in blossom in the gardens of Norfolk, Va CITY POLICE.—DrcEmBEE 23 [Reported for She Press.] Tat Fostrrxe-Tattaa's Misrses.—Mrs Sarah Wallingford made an accusation against Annette Bartemi, an astrologeress by profession, for ob taining money on false pretences. The complain ant alleged that, about eighteen months ago, she wont to the house of the aforesaid Annette for the purpose of having her fortune told, at which time Annette declared that the complainant's husband, Mr. Rufus Wallingford, would soon bang himself, and that within a year after this event Mrs. Wal lingford would lay esido the weeds of widowbofit„!, and be married to a wealthy and handsome young gentleman, with light hair and blue eyes, and a magnificent mustache, who would be sure to pre sent himself precisely at the right time—for so the etareplainly indicated, and it was impossible for them to be mistaken in Such a matter. Mrs. Wal lingford was so well pleased with this glimrss of the faturo that she . paid the seeress a dollar oaths spot, which was just double the amount of the re quired fee. Three months after, elr. 'Wallingford actually died; not by strangulation, however, but by a fit of the cramp colic. Mrs. Wallingford again celled on the prophetess, and intimated that she had missed a figure in her calculation, as the deceased did not take leave of sublunary affairs in the man ner predicted. To this Annette replied, "It was through ao fault of mine or yours, madam, that your husband did not hang himself, ca I foretold. However, that is a mere circumstance; and I beg you to consider that the main point of my predic tion is fulfilled. The man is dead and out of your way, and yen ought to be satisfied." " That is true enough," answered the widow; "but bow about this second husband that you promised me "Oh! you must here patience," replied the wise woman; "Mr Wallingford has been buried only about two weeks, and you must remember that 1 merely promised that you should be married again before your first husband had been dead for a twelvemonth. If this does not come to pass, you may set me down as an impostor." Delighted with this confirmation of her hopes, the widow paid the star-reader another dollar and went home to dream of future felicity. But she was doomed to experience the torment of hope de ferred. The year slipped by, the hour Came, but, alas ! the man came not, although the widow, to take a bond of fate and make assurance doubly sure, bad advertised for him under the caption of ".A. Husband Wanted." Perceiving at last that her case was hopeless, she came to the mayor's office and made her complaint against Mother Barteml, the deceptive sibyl ; but the court m ourned no jurisdiction in the vase, and the defen dant was dismissed, W.
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