1 ;V/j ; r iMpifyf, »' ,». 3fr. *•<.* t L-ggf.vi~> ■tr'.'ii'-. iff-, ftsftrf •>.v'i ' ■'; m . -'*& «,*•w; : , •? 0 ‘ n * a - of th . ; -;.W»«w>Empw<)r.; «»P«ral Nyy. -., -._ ; v '-\;"t-' : 'J’?£.. ■ The News. -’"'- 1 ■•-■,' ' Indlen’Empire, aboutthe safety L . gfyfhioh oonalderablo alarm is felt, bocauß6.no ■_' * tidings h«d besttheard from her. it Llverpoolup ' : to 'Se iOth 'ol€,' when ehowaa twenty-one days i ont .sailed from New Jotfc oath# 23d of October . V wlth elghtyroiio ;j*MeiigeM, ? ftravtoeiv of whoni ; T..£n re ; Jto sfit»i®r»t. WSffiV' and a «rew;of.elghty-eht t : «»Bn,‘besidea the - captain and nlne offioere. ' She 'l{tKid a&pn’J»»rd'jd»ut tio,hundred tons of oargo, • oonslsting of cotton, tobacco, and atavos., She wae ’? i remarkably etinnoh' and, maealTely-buill eteam* v- ehip of .1,857 ,tona register, and; she ranked A lt -at Lloyd’s. She was built of oak, and strengthened r 5 - trhehl tessel, .haring dwo cylinders, eaeh of them seventy-two Inebea ia: diameter.' .S he was rigged as ft tbree-muted brigantine, bat; did notoarry many; spark. Resides aU, this, her oommander was i mai»,or^at v je*porienoe; and her bffioers were ' ■ if ell Acquainted with their duty; • ■' - Advio'es dated i‘ Los Angeles, . California, Ooto? ; :ier3d,’.- havebeenreoeivedby Mr. A. H.'Oamp ' belli general sunerintehdent of.the Pacifio wagon roads,' fitomitW' superintendent and obief engl neer of tbb El Paao and lfort Yuma wagon-road, ihelr, party, reached San Diego on the 14th"of October] after‘baying completed their work to Port Yuma,,; They'expeotcd to reach San Fran oisoo In‘time ,to',;emb’a'rk In the steamer whidh /.Salledbh tho4thinstant.. , ■ v A Mass Convention of the DemoeraHo oitisens 1 Of Kansas ,was h'ehD at Leavenworth oh the 25 th r uit. ' A strdhg feeling infayOr of Senator Doug- Mss for the Presidency was manifested throughout . its session. ,l Additional newa oonSralng the reported rioh- ' ness of the Kantas gold mines has been redelved TatSti Loulsi flt is also sald that platlha hai'been 1, dlseovsied by .the Indians, but. they refuse to dis - olose'the’ldeality in whidh it was found. -i S:: The ap’wlaleleotlon for Congress in Berks ooun ' ty ’took plaoe yesterday. The returns indicate the . election of General William H.Keim, the volun teer oandldate,: over Wanner, who is a devoted dissipleof JehuG.'Jonea. ■ > - . , ; Mrj Forsyth, United States Minister to Metloo, . arrived at yesterday.; r • The agent of the'Alice Painter has agreed to re-; . fnnd to the filibuster.*’ emigrants ” their passage .■.snonay.'..-rfi-i..,.'.;,y,-;d..' ThsGrandJory "of the United. States Olroult Oourt of South Oarollna have found no blllfl of In dlotmehtiagalnit the drew ef the. slayer Hoho., . The oatfide pressure, of,ultra Southern /sentiment has proved too strong for the' laws of the country. . The Dred-Soott decision.and tha'fugitlve'slave ' law ire things to.be worshipped with undying iea],hutthe deorees against plraoy, brutality, and ; wholesale fmurdoraretd.be ignored,' aooordlng to .the South .Carolina ideas of jurisprudence. The Sonth Carelina Leglslatare.hu not yet sne ' oeeded ih eledtlng iUnlted States Senator. ' TheLondonErasays: “ Mr. Morphy has de cided to para the winterin Europe. His deeision oannot fall of giving, a still groator stimulus to European chess, iHerr Anderssen also has made final arrangementa for-being in Paris on the 12th December, so that' this mnbh-expeofed matoh will i. rsally dome off. After its'termination Mr. Morphy will, probably, be in England, where plans are falready afloat for giving him the reoeption be ' : inoritB.” ' ■ •' A St. Petersburg journal annonnoes that the ' tauor, Malmanoff, while on tho atage, had mur ' dared, tho prima ddnna, Areronloh.. No details are given. , It is merely, said that tho persons In the house . were so enraged that the seats in the pit were torn up and damage done. Quite a largo squadron was In, the port of San dnan del. Norte, Nioaragua, on. the sth Inst., to . wit,,,the United.States,sloops-of-war, Savannah .. and Jamestown, the British steam frigatos Basilisk and Leopard, the Amerloan brig Lorina, the Ame rlcau schooner Emma, ; and tho British steamer Deo. .The Nicaragua people have Jaeen thrown Into great agUation by toe rumors of another de . Mont;npoh' thein;by the filibuster Walker. It is ; said,that with a force of only 400- or 505: men. ho ■' would' bo able to dveroomo • all tho.reslstanoe ho ■ wouldineetfrbmthefcreea of that oountry.- . f,; Tho Now York Eitmhi’.'l’ott says'that. John Brobstfanold man,* living in dnmberland county, ~hfarylapd,,has juat beon -disoovored to ho. tho /rightfU owuer.of .a large traoi of,mineral Usd in the heart of tbe rioheat mineral region ef-Penn • iylvanla,'wdrth*B,ooo,ooo. He has sold outall his r^hfliand.tiUe''for^'2,'Boo,ooo.;.; ' , ' ! ; ' r Oh Sunday night,-the 21sf Inst. 1 , the-house of .Mrs. glgourney, tlie poetess, in’Nartford, Conn.i was brokon into and robbed, during the absonco of tho famlly. Tho robbers carried away artloles to .toe amoant of Beveral hundred dollars, and left the oon tontaf of trunks, driwors, and boxes. strewed around intnextrloable oonfosionfsomeof them be- Idewed- with melted tallow, and ;othera brokon or i pMllj bnrned J;>- ~ /AUVgi in«»tliig*r&s held'in Now Totk,onMon* 'dey mght, in favor of tho Bible; 1c ,the pnblio sehooii./The extent and nature of the evil against .which the agitation if directed was. thaa expressed by James J?. : Gtirard, .the prealdent of the meet-' ... !‘ t , ,v’-. ’t t * -. v. ’* « Ifc is 7 snpposed’by"ineny thatrlhe' Bible is taught itt tho public schools—that it' lireo/ted.- .There never was a greater mistako. The Blblels .neverreadhy the ohildren.'/They never see/it; ;thej aerer haniile it, and that teaoher would lose wpulddare to make a single, com /ihent upon anything wbiohbe might read. I have, known!: any child,-or any oV'any ohltd. to ohjftot to thu. Thefe Has •been .porfeot ' unanimity in regard to this*!.. Bat in a certialnpor-, tionofoorcity. in; the Fourth* Sixth, and Four*. - teenth wards, the 1 ' reading ~of t 'the Scriptures has' been omitted., BatllttleTs yet done; bat twelve schools out 'of, two hundred and nine are with 1 out the Bible. Bat you apprehend* and justly/ that there issa entering wedge, and that ft may be driven home; hehceyou havc oome here to in riot bddone.’ 1, - ‘ ' l} ‘ ' ,th(i ooinsfce of.tho United State* Hint lit this city for the month of. November Is a* .Allows: 'Gold coinage,'<3odii3s; silver, $550,000; sente, $25,000. ' -7• ■ ' /The trlel of Thomas Allibono and,Thomas A.! NewhaU, on tiie cbargeof conrplring to ohoat and defraud the Bank of Peuusjlvania t oommenoed yes terday In the Const of Qdarter Bosaions. The oonn-i tel of the. dtfsndanta;inide motions 'for' Separate, taiill.ofthe Beonwd,hut after argument they were pverrnled. Ajury was empanelled, .and Mr. ' Longhead opened the ease of the Commonwealth. ' ' In the “Ohr Amerloan Cohsln”’salt of Laura ; K*ene v> Wheatley. A'Clarhe,’ the'defendants were ordered to pey 81,500 iato oourt, to abide the. fhrther oonslderation of the case. 1 The assessment of> the property of this oity for 1858 IS«xed npon the- following valuation: Real estate, |ljs,B;Mo,ppo j'iperionai 2i697,6«9 { ,toteli $i5p,687,009. ; Numberof taiablee, 103,850. . The number of arrests in this oily for the month of November wa52,238.'. '■ - ■, Ooczstonallywe aee. la an AdmlnUtratlon paper, sentences like these: «The antl-Le if they' return to theparty jbat shchmonas Fohney neTeroan he pardoned.” < jAs.wmay. be sup-. IWYIagS been:lntimately connected 'wlth him for ithtL last forty-one years, and hoping to 'live ahd die with him, we take the liberty of answering Each impertinences thns: Therprlnciples of the Demderjitio party are everything to ns. They are first and vital.,;. Wo ,wili- cling, to themras the Shipwrecked marinor clings to his plank . when inlght iB ‘ closing .around' him;: Bat-when the organization of that , party is tuorped' by a set of ofßcial hirelings, and • turned into .'anjendorseinent of repulsive doc trineSjWe reject, the organization,' and trample' upon it: ; As' tp whether these officials pardon .hi for this; or not, opneems ns “.nothing. TVe feel that we should not pardon onrselves if we dld-'hpt this,,’ onr .position. Gentlemen of.the: Administration, yon will; need THE Peess a long while before it will n'eed'yoii.'-.Vr.,.,:.,.,.'-.;;, 1 1, '! Oy Hop, David- C.' Bbodebiok, ef Cali fornia,’ reached Philadelphia last evening, and is sUjdng' i at;the Merchants 1 Hotel; i-'V'! l tal sua Opera. 1 The present Roaaou last night: Masdames OolsraJCistia'nTgli,;' BtrikOMh,, and Da WUhorst re^Viyed; th»“ final ,0/, honao, ABodio,’ Brlgnoli, VBatiU, Jand. Labooctta “ as aiitedi’ - on this occasion; We missed .the) gifted Parodf. btit hope to inset her and -most' of : tti^fieTs.'it'a sttifs andf.no’distant; period. ' She 'peiformaDOeioat'n'ight inolnded separate oots from’ •»ei*A:l;favorite<opora»—a mtlangt whloh ls ei . tfSbielyVigteSaWev onie in a while, as a novetly. enthtitiat* of the audiencayas yery great, ;and this'inaVodf-.the season, fnliy deserve s to by Aseor^,ys’.ye'iy ; #„V"-V.V • ~ s--h . IfsAjis iiipu~yf,a_ oltftte Mm-; tlooof o»pit»llst« i 6 th« iale thisjovening, ofthb ' '< street, above' - / B'oeitfsdVertisid Id snither.pphinin, by Mr. James, ;tf&j*ltpertjr hria one; , of ththest loostibna luthbbtty, aiidyuro to bb in J Any: ''. - 4f«ir6tts ot JnTMtuig his une mplojedoapital in V"?' v-f! "% "’-V -., \‘Ti>-;.vV=!>' V(~} :'-'it-'SBiß^*w™4et>W- ! M<l4pta ; lh(WaUn ( pftte. -ft' 1 uhmWt t^tilisihie 1 K -’’ •■- T.' Who are the Guilty Hen? Mr. Booiuirxnr, Injhlo recent, letter to the Pittsburg oommtttea, deplored;ha' one ef the greatest evils of tlief.to»ioS,tbe*ii|.o,9frntonej to influence oleotions, and/predictea that If this terrible praotiee waa not speedily arrested the Republic would be destroyed, and a mili tary despotism''.established ujjon its ruins. Several correspondents have inquired of us to whom he particularly referred in these re marks. Can it be Ms own office-holders ? Previous to our late. elections there were u hssesSments'”' upon all the employees of the Federal Government, and it was well understood, that those who refused to con tribute the queta with which they were charged would be guillotined. A large amount of money was thus raised, avowedly for electioneering purposes. Is Mr. Booha nan ignorant of this fact? Did he see in Ms own ohorishod organ, the Union, a few months since, a savage attack upon the clerks in the departments at Washington, because they were not as prompt and as liberal in their con tributions to a fund for the politi cal expenses as Mr. Wendell desired ? Does he mean Mr. Cobb, who retains in his depart ment.a host of collectors, naval officers, sur veyors, inspectors, etc., who annually make the collection of fnnda for electioneer ing purposes one of their most Important duties? -Does he mean Mr. Flobenoe, who, beyond, all question, made the. navy yard and ..the opportunities of obtaining tho mo ney ot the nation which he was en abled to fhrnish his followers there, tho great leyer of Ms power and Influence, and whose well-earned' laurels as «the widow’s friend” have been won by the money he Is supposed to have given them a chance of earning by their labor? Dioes he mean his devoted friends, Owen Jonbs and Jehu G. Jones? Does he mean Mr. Bmleb, or has our illuminated Se nator never been cognizant of tho use ofmoney for electioneering purposes ? Does he mean Postmaster-General Brown, because the Post- Office printing is parcelled out so as to sup port political presses at the cost of tho nation ? Does ho mean, tho Danites* of Illinois? There has been no body of men in this country who havo raised more monoy to in fluence elections daring the last year than Mr Buchanan's office-holders' -and, ‘particular friends, and no man knows this fact better than himself. His eyes were piercing enough to discover ainy anti-Leoompton Democrats who were found lurking in office, though they were thousands of miles from Ms throne, and though their highest offence was a refusal to betray the pledges of 1866 j yet he either can not or will not see that he retains as his prime favorites hundreds of men guilty of an offence which, to is in the higheit degree dangerous io tne -Repuhlic, and it is perfectly well understood that if they do not commit this offence th’ey.wlll'lose their offices I When onr pious President writes another sermon would it not ' he. well for him. to select homo other tpxt?-'. ~ , f _ ■ . Purchase of fifonnt Vernon. The question often Is asked: What will Pennsylvania do towards the purchase of Mount Vernon ? It is particularly suggested on looking- over the columns of the Afounf Vernon Record, where we see that two-thirds of the States in the Union are eager to be come, de facto, tho united owners of Wash ington's grave, and aye actively sending in their .'contributions. We gee by the report thus fat made, con cerning the purchase, that two hundred acres, containing the home, tomb, etc., are sold to the Association, and that $lB,OOO were paid at.the signing of tho contract. The first in stalment ot $67,000, duo in January, is ready for payment. Here, then, fs $76,000 of the purchase ftind already raised. Tho remaining sum of $126,000 is still to come, and the pub lic spirit pf tho nation should supply it by the 22d of February next, the birthday of Wash ington. - In contributing to this result, surely onr own proud'State will not flag behind? So long as one brick rests upon another at Inde pendence ."Mall; so long as the ,names of Germantown and Valley Forge exist ; so long as Philadelphia claims'to have been the seat of the- first Congress, and the residence of President’ Washwoton, wo will never enter tain the thought that she will not. step forth nobly to aid the purchase of his home and grave, whose brightest laurels were won'npon her,soil. , Pennsylvania soldiers’aided him with their hearts? best .blood; with him they bravely en dured hunger and cold; at his voice they tra , versed her frozen ground with naked feet; and, through ,his wisdom and valor, they be queathed freedom to their country. TTlll not Pennsylvania citizens now give of their abnndance, to c.onsearate as a shrine, .where liberty thronghont the .world may wor ship,.that hallowed mount, whereon lie the mortal remains of him who, for virtue, stands peerless among mankind 1 ’ The Women of this State ought to help at once, in this great work, and fathers, husbands, and brothers shonld help them in this well merited evide ace of their, appreciation of the blessings of peace and prosperity, which, un der a Divine Providence, Geoboe Washiko . toe so largely helped to obtain. The move ment may properly begin with those who are In authority among ns, and the inhabitants of Philadelphia, we are persuaded, will not be slow to' respond. We make, the suggestion for 4 the honor of onr city and onr State, for we know that the motive power of Patriotism has only to be applied to produce' the re quired result. One united effort, made by common consent, throughout Pennsylvania, and particnlarly in Philadelphia, would make the Homo and Grave of WAsnwaTOH the pro perty of the Nation, before the ensuing anni versary of the birth of the Father of his Country. ' Dramatic Copyright. The olalm made by Hiss Laura Keehe of exclusive copyright in the comedy called “Onr American Coußin,” appears wholly without legal or moral foundation. On Fri day, we stated the case gs far aB we could learn, It from the data before ns. We now have additional particulars, from that undoubt ed source “ the best authority,” and they are as follows: In the year 1861 or 1862, «Yankee” Silsbee was fulfilling an engagement at the Adelphl Theatre, London, which was then under the management of Mr. Websteb. That gen tleman negotiated with Mr. Tom Tatlob fora comedy, the price to be £6O, and the principal part In which shonld be especially adapted to Mr. Silsbek’s peculiar style of personation. The result of that negotiation was “Our American Consin,” for which Mr. Silsbee supplied Mr. Tatlob the Yankeeisms. The play was at once put in rehearsal, new scenery and dresses were, prepared for it, and every arrangement made for its speedy production. At this stage of affairs Madame Celeste, very unexpectedly, arrived from America, and as Mr. Webbies. desired hex to appear at his theatre immediately upon her arrival, an ar rangement was made with Mr. Silsbee, that terminated hisengagement at the Adolphi. B e was thereupon engaged by the manager of the Surrey Theatre, and it was at that ostablish ment that he took his farewell benefit, and made his last appearance in England. Upon that oocasion, Madame Celeste and Mr. Websteb played for Mr. Silsbee, and, as a farther mark of esteem, Mr.' Websteb present ed him with the manuscript of “ Our Amori can Cousin.” Hr. Silbbeb brought it to this country, hut not liking the part of Asa, never produced’ the' play. Shortly after the death of Hr. Silsbee his widow made a copy of the comedy, and sunt it to a friend in California, who, hot thinking himself capable of doing justice to, the part of Asa Treuehard, returned it to Mrs. Silsbee by Express. On Its way hither, orrather whilst at the New York ofiloe, It was lost or stolen. Mrs. Silsbee was neve* able to recover the missing manuscript, but sold the copy which remained in her possession to Mr. Wheatley. < .. . Itis possible that Miss Keehe really did He play from Mr. Tom Taylor. It has beeh'sriggested that she is merely playing : &f>m'the’copy which'vanished from the ex press office, but she positively declares that she purchased it, and even names the price. But the question, one offset as well as of law, Is, could Tom Taylor dispose of rights In this country which he never possessed? If hU had-published the play in England, any' ohe could ' rdprint it here. Jlr; Silsbee clearly had the, play five years before Miss Khsbb got her copy, and his priority of claim has passed, 'as cleSrly, to Mr. Whsatlev, through Silsbee’* widow SrLSßnn's owner iship of the play arises, not, as has been sup posed; lrom his suggesting—<.«• making— the leading: character, bpf from Mr. B. Web srEa’a making him .a present pf the, drama live or six years ago.' BY MIDNIGHT MAIL . Letter ftoto “Occasional.” [CorrMpondonce ot The Frees.}. . , , ' Washinoton, Nov. 30, 1858. The Administration of the Federal Government are joßt now engaged' in a vigorous effort to show that the Snpreme Court of the United States must be respeotod, first, last, and} always. It Ib, in their eyes, the ineffable presence of parity and jastioe; and so indeed it ougtt to be. I am for obeying the Supreme Court, Dred Scott and all. It is suggestive, however, that while this oourse Is taken by the Union and other organs of .power, so little attention is paid to the ntteranoes off this high oourt of justice and of law, whenever they «come in ednfliot with the policy of the extremists of the South. At this writing the Southern filibusters and fire-eaters are arraigning that splendid jurist, Justice Camp bell, of the United Spates Snpreme Bench, as an enemy of the South, because ho bos dared to de* aide adversely to the pirate Walker. His deci lons are attacked with the greatest An other case, not less praotioal, is presented in the oourse of Attorney General Black against the Su preme Court of Pennsylvania, beoauße of its deci sion in favor of the constitutionality of tho sale of your canals. His pon and tongue are constantly busy defaming that high tribunal. The President expeota to restoro the Adminis tration to some vitality by a bolligerent foreign polioy; bat it is too late. There is no expedient left in the programme for the fature that oan re deem the past or resoue tho present. There are many applicants for office, and few places for them. Tho slate Is full of Pennsylva nia oundidates, but the obance is small. Sinoe that highly*accomplished jurist, Mr. Bcmak, has been selected for Trieste, and that distinguished citizen, Banken, has been appointed Register of the Land Office, the President expresses his deter mination to look elsewhere for future appoint ments than to bis own State. It is settled that Old Ironsides, the gallant Com modore Charles Stewart, is shortly to resign his position at your navy yard, and the President in tends addressing him a publio letter of congratu lation and thanks on his long end invaluable ser vices to his country. It is also settled that Com modoro Frederick Engle, a Pennsylvanian born, only less distinguished than Old Ironsides, and generally beloved for his sterling qualities as a oitizon and a seaman, is to sucoeed Mr. Stewart. Commodore Engle was bom in Chester, Delaware county, where his relations still reside, though be is a oitizen of New Jersey. He will make a most popular commandant of the navy yard. The manner in whloh the Beoret-servioe fand of tho Department of State’ Is 4isbsrse4 ha? al ways formed a subject of ourlous inquiry. In P free Government such a fund is oaloulated to ex cite a jealous interest. Any clandestine ex penditure in a country that Is free is dangerous* Sueh an institution may be, and doubtless Ib. ne oessary. "We must fight firo with fire, and often the nse of money is pardoned in order to serve great interests. But in this RepubUo it is a haz ardous alternative. Fancy, for instance, the em ployment sueh a man as Grand, on a secret mission, roaming over tho fftoe of gurope, paid out of this fand, and all the time tho depository of tjie most saorod information! It is said that onoe a publio man buys u rogne he sells himself; and so when a reckless man is employed by oar Govern ment, is not the Government itself sold ? Jam promised, from one who ought to know, an inside view of this scoreot-eervice fund, whioh may startle the uninitiated when I spread It before your readers. Occasional. THE LATEST NEWS BY TELEQ-RAPH. ICT SEE FIRST PAG?2. Yesterday’s Special Election In Berks. [SPECIAL DBSPATOa.J Bbadinq, November 80.—The rebutter rebuked! Kelm'e majority in Beading, 884. Will be 600 In the county. Is there sot another mission vacant for the last martyr? [SPECIAL DISPATCH.} Bhadiko, November 80 —Keitn’s majority In Read ing, 884—a gain in nine townships over Sohwarta of 801 for Keim. Berks Connty Congressional Election. BrADiso, Nov SO —The election for a member of Oorgrees, to eapply the vacancy caused by the resigna tion of J. Glancy Jones, was held in th* district to*day. The following returns have been received: QSS7 Wanner, Helm, Msj. in Oct. Pern. Tern. Pern. Opp. Peru. Opp. Loss. Gain Onmru township.. 01 80 24 Muhleob’g town’p. 1 40 46 Bpringtownship... 40 30 4 AJsaco township.. 41 40 1 Hamb’g borough.. 37 26 - 12 WomeHdorf. 24 6 19 Lower Heidelb’g,. 40 124 84 CITT OP RbADISO. t Northwestward... 210 176 84 Southeastward.... 155 161 6 Northeast ward... 108 164 47 Sprues ward 149 111 88 Southwest ward... 263 230 82 1042 200 900 242 72 82 *72 Majority eo far.96o Opposition gain, 170 Later from KansaB««Territoii&l Mass Convention. Bt. Louis, Not. 80 —Leavenworth date* to the 20 th instant per the United States Express to Booneville, fornlshei advicesfrom Kansas. A Territorial Mass Convention of the conservative element assembled at Leavenworth on the 25th; for the purpose of organising an opposition to the Republicans. The attendance was numerous, though only six coun ties were represented A thorough re-union and reorga nisation of the Democracy was ad vocated end hotly debi ted, a strong minority characterising *uoh notion as pre mature. A series of resolutions petitioning Gongrea* for liberal land grants for pnblta Improvements, de nouncing the Republican party, and In favor of the ex clusion of free negroes from tbe future Btato of Kapsss, declaring the slave question a dead issue, advooatirg the opening of tbo Indian reserves to settlers, aod a modification of the pre-emption laws, was fioally adopted, with a preamble determining upon an imme d ate organisation of the Democracy. The session was prolonged to a late hour, and was rather tarbulsnt. Both wings of the party were w 11 represented, and the dlscnssion maintained with vigor. Able speeches were made on both sides. The Convention did not limit itself with regard to candidates for the next Fre sidenoy, though strong Douglas tendencies prevailed. The Convention has adjourned sine die. Later from Utah and the Gold Hines. Bt. Louis, Nov. 80.— The Utah mail has arrived, hut brings nothing from Salt Lake. The severe weather bad seriously retarded the trains. Those of Russell A Waddell would get through. Three men have arrived from the Kansas gold mines, having .In their poFsesslou $5OO worth of gold dust, obtained whtlo prospecting last summer. They give a moat satisfactory statement of the rlsbness and extent of the gold deposits. It is reported that there have been discoveries of platina by the Kaw Indians, who refuse to divulge Its location. Tbe deposits are be lieved to exist on the Smoky Dill fork of the Kansas river, being in the direct route from Leavenworth to Pike’s Peak mines. A number of persons squatted on the 25th lost, on the military reserve adjoining Leavenworth. Lumber and other obstructions were placed on the ground, but were promptly removed by the quartermaster, Captain Tan From Washington. Washington, Nov 80.—Mr. Porsy fa, United States minister to Mexico, arrived here to-day. Paulding Tatnall also arrived to-day with the new Japan treaty and despatches from Consul Harris to the State Department. There will be an important recommendation by the President to Congress concerning the opening up of Utah to settlement, by brlngiog the publio lauds into market, and extending the pte-empuon laws to that Territory. The Slaver Echo in the United States Clrcait Court of South Carolina«*»No Bills of Indictment found. Columbia, 8.0., Nov. 80 —The grand jury of the U. 8. Circuit Court oame in this morniog, but found no bills of indictment in tbe three cases against the orew of the slaver Echo. The counsel of the prisoners will probably move for thair discharge from custody on Monday next, when the question as to tbe constitu tionality of the aot of Congress will come up for argu ment. The if. 8 attorney for this district will endea vor to hold the prisoners. South Carolina Senatorship. Columbia, Nov 80.—There is still no result in tbe struggle for the election of United States Senator for the long term, in tbe SUte Legislature. On the last ballot to-day the vote for ex-Governor Adams fell to 42. The namo of R. Barnwell Rhett was withdrawn. Mr. Keitt continues on the course, and his vote has run up to 21. The Nicaragua Filibusters Augusta, Nov. 80 —The Mobile Register of Sunday last contains a card from Julius Hesse A Co,, stating that m tbe Government bad refused a clearance to the emigrant vessel, the holders of passage tickets would be refunded their money. » ' ■ ■■■—- Nbw Yobk, Nov 80.—The broom factory of Messrs. Bent A Benson, at WnUarnsville, was destroyed by fire this morning- Loss $lO,OOO, Frederick Albrecht’s brewery, is this city, was burnt this morning. Loss $lO,OOO. Markets by Telegraph. Bavahkar, Nov. 29.—Cotton.—Sales to-day 1,000 bales, at an advance of The marketolosel un settled and excited. Baltimobe, Nov. 30 —Fleur is steady At the former quotations. Wheat sells at $1 35®1 60 for white, end sllBol 23forr*d. Corn Is dull at 63a020 for white, aod 65ai670 for yellow. Provisions are steady hut un changed. Whiskey is active at 25a28£0 for city, and 26c for Western. Cuioaco, Nov 80 —Flour active. Wheat firm at 60c. Corn dull Oats quiet. Receipts—6oo bbla flour, 2 500 wheat, and 1.000 bashels oorn. gJCiNCiNNATi, Nor. BU.—Hogs are active, and the mar etbuoyant andexcitfd. Bales 20,000 atso 7607, in eluding 10,100 for January delivery. Mess Pork— -8,000 bbls sold at $l7 for future and present delivery. Lard, ll®U*c; 150,000 lb Bulk Meats sold at B#o. Whl*key 23u. Fiour firm. New Oblbahs, Nov. 80— Sales of Cotton to-day, 11,600 bales, atd for the past three days, 26,600 bales. Receipts for three days, 27,000 biles. Beceipta ahead 118.000 bales. Exchange on London, 107 X ClOB son New York, 60 days, I*®2} sight bills, #®l cent, discount. Fiour, $5. Peremptory Bale op Walrut-strebt Resi dences.—Thomas & Sons* feolo next Tuesday will inolude two handsome residences on Walnut street, to be sold peremptorily. Also, several other de sirable residences. Valuable Business Stands, Farms, &o.—Also, valuable business stands, farms, mill property, Ac. See advertisements. Their sales 14th and 21et Instant also oomprlso a large amount of property. Jones’ Hotel will bo sold on the 21st. Auction Notice.—B. Scott, Jr.,auctioneer, 431 Chestnut street, sells this morning, commencing at 10 o’olook,’ ombroiderles, ribbon sets, trimming ribbons, veils, Winter bonnets, hosiery, gloves, .undershirts, drawers, Also, fifty oases boots and shoes, goiters, Ao Catalogues now ready. ' S 3?" -A. report of Mrs; Cleveland's leotare before the Fomale Medloal College of this oity is unavoi dably oronded ont to-day, THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1858. THE ALLIBONE AND NEWHALL CASE. Opening Speech of j*Xr. Eoughead. The Jury having all beda sworn or affirmed to well and truly try the case, and a true deliverance make be- i tween the Oommrawealth and Thomas Allibone and • Thomas A.NewhaU, District Attorney Longhead opened . the ease as follows: - I May It please yonr Honor—Gentlemen of the Jury: The bill of indiof meat whioh y i u are about to try is one ! yrhich charges Thomas Allibone, late of the countv of > Philadelphia, the president ef the Bank of Pennsylva nia. and Thomas A. Newh&ll, lately & director in that bank, with the offence ofconsplraoy. - In two counts of this bill of Indictment, tWdefendants are charged. one as president and the other m director of the Back of Pennsylvania, with a conspiracy to defraud that inst'- tutioo; and a number of what we calUn technical lan guaeo overt sots are laid In these two counts Ah it will be in yonr cnetody. it may not be improper that I ahf uld aay that this hill of indictment contained ori ginally five counts—that is, a charge laid la five diffe rent manners. In the fonrth couot, the defendants .were charged with what Is technically known as embez zlement.'under the act of 1850, whioh prescribed that any president, director, or other officer of any bank In corporated under that act, who fraudulently embeszled the funds of the institution, or of any one entrusted to Its charge, should be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and punished by a certain degree of punishment; ana the third coant charg'd a conspiracy to commit that off*nce; but those two counts, upon the defendants coming Into court and saying they were not sofHoient In law to maintain a prosecution upon against them, the Oourt overruled. Tho demurrer was sustained, and, therefore, the defendants are now upon their trial on three counts of this indiotraent In each of these counts the charge is that of conspiracy, or combining together for the purpose of defrauding the Bank of Pennsylvania It is a case, gentlemen, of no ordinary Importance in its bearings, and in the subjects whioh will come under yonr investigation. It is a case of no ordinary import ance to the defendants, and it is one of the highest pos sible importance to the Commonwealth. The Bank of Pennsylvania was an institution chartered in 1793, by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, granting It what ere known as banking privileges, and chartering it with a capital of three mlllicrsof dollars In 1810 the re obarter of this b«nk took place, with some change as to the mode of the eleotion nr directors, loans and bonuses to the Commonwealth, and-the management of the b*nk. In 1880 itw»«reebartered for twenty five years, so as to end, I thick, in Maroh, 3858, with a red need capital of $2 600,000. It had had a history of on»x«m pled p*o»p«rlty. It had t-een the favorite bank of tho Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It had been the reoipient of the publio funds of the Common' wealth, an* the agency and offloa in whioh the trans fers of publ { o stocks had bsonmwle. In.lBBo it stood In that high and floorifh ng condition; but [n'.a few years afterwards thO'e disastrous and ruinously oppres sive times of 1837 and 1888 came upon the country, prostrating individual enterprUo as well as corporate capital, and the Bank of Pennaylvanla felt the shook In common with the whole financial and commercial com munity Acoordlng’y. In 1844 the capital of the bank was rodeoed from $2 600.000 to $1662 000; and the shares of stock, which bad before been fixed by the Le gislature at $lOO etch, were correspondingly reduefd to a par value of $?6O. After that reduction of capital, the bank rotrioved its former high name, and fn 1849 felt sufficiently recaporated to ask for an loofease of capitol. and by an act of Assembly, passed in 1849, Its capital wia raised to $1 876,000. which continued to be its .capital a'ooV until the time of its disastrous close in September,’lBs7. About the year 1863—1 do not tie myself down to f articular dates; you will have them more particularly rpm the witnoioos—the old gentleman, whd bad so long aoted id ptwjldenf and careful financial guardian of this back, Mr Trotter, res’gned his position, and then one of the defend tots, new upon trial before you, was elected to fill that highly responsible and honor able post. At that time the b«nk was in a flourishing condition ; its capital of $1,875 000 was' then bringing In a fair and legitimate profit to its stockholders, and a large and abundantly ample (i surplus fund” attested the previous owoer of prosperity which bad attended the business of the bank under ike care of that venera ble old gentleman. I think that In 1858, at, the timo the defendant, Thomas Allibone, assumed the presi dent of the institution, the other defendant, Thomas A. Newhall, was ft dlxeotorof the bank, end that he was active, and perhaps mainly Instrumental, in pro moting the election of Thomas Allibone to tho position of president of bank. Certain it Is that these twd persons were 'very intimate in aU their rela tions—financial, social, and otherwise. When ever, espeotally darlog the last* year of its ex istence, when the troubles and the trials, when the peculations and the intsmanaglements (wilful and corrupt, or grossly negligee, as they' might have been) began to thicken upon the hold of this de voted institution—whenever dnriDg that laat year of Hm utruogllng and painful existence, Ur. Allibone was called away, he left In bH place as Its temporary head and acting president, Mr. Tbomae A. Newhall, the otberdefeudaut here I will show you. gentlemen, that there were peculiar privileges allowed to the president of this bank; that there were peculiar accounts to whioh no £***• ** v ® that of the oonfllenttal clerk who wrote them and tke or aoting president, whodl & them, er P .r reachel ’H »««•»? «“>“ acoouata was, and how the stewardship WM discharged, I eha[l presently show you. i shall open It to you, and prove it by testimony that cannot be doubted. There was more than this tnttmaev between fendants A member of the family of the prealdent of the bank became the partner (n business of Mr. New hall, the director in that institution, and many of the loans which you will have before you, running through the books of the bank, were loans to the cashier of that business institution known as the Pennsylvania Bogar Beflnery, In which Mr. Newhall and young Mr. Alli bone were partners How this intimacy thickened, how the threads’ of the web which had been woven round tho capital and the assets of the bank drew these two men together ao the great crisis approached, Z will hereafter show you. Now, gentlemen of tho ju*y, I have told you what I intend to provn on tho part of the Commonwealth as to the habits, tbo relations, and the positions ef IhefO defendants. Let me next, for a single Instant, briefly examine the offence which is here charged. It is, as I Mid in tho outset, a conspiracy. Itis that these two persons, in the confidential relations In which they were placed, agreed together, unlawfully and fraudu lently, that the funds of the bank should be abstracted, fraudulently token, and used for their own benefit. G sotlemen do not be cirried away by the idea that two sagacious men like these or any who are brought here charged with offences liko this, ever can be shown in the aotnal not of conspiring together. • Do not imagine that the Commonwealth will show (because we shall not show) that those two defendants were closeted together and that they laid their deliberate plan. We do hot know their secret pgreoment. We do not know when it originated. We do not knoy on the part of the Commonwealth when It first sprang intoegutenoe. We know It only by Ito fruits. We know it, and trace it only by its acts, whioh, logically and legitimately fal lowed up, show such a conspiracy and combination; but the precise day, the exact hour when the tempta tion was yielded to, and the combination was made, we esnnot definitely establish. Let me read to you from the book before mo. I take it from ibis book beosupe it Js colfe’ed here and wilt savo the trouble of sendlngfor a volume vht*h esnnot always be readily obtained, what a learned indge said in reference to this offence, and the method of its proof. u in prosecutions for criminal eonipiraotes,” savs judge Eiog. << the’proof of tho'rombination charged must almost always be extracted from the olrcsmston oes connected wl<h the transaction which forms the snbjeot of accusation. In the history of criminal ad ministration, the case is rarely found in wbfeh direct and positive evidence of criminal combination exists. To bold that nothing short of each proof is sufficient to establish a conspiracy would be to give Immunity to one of the most dangerous crimes which infest society. Hence, In order to discover coospirators. we are foreed to follow them through alHbe devious wfndirgs in whioh tho natural anxiety of avoiding detection teaches men SO circcmstanpcil to envelope th a mselves. and to trace their movements from the slight but often unerring marks of progress which*th* most adroltoanning can not so effectively obliterate as io render them Inapprtf oiable to the eyes’ of tbe sagacious investigator. It is from the circumstances attending a cri minal or a series or criminal acts that we are able to become satisfied that they bar© been <he results not merely of individual*, bat tbe products of oonoerted and associated notion, which, If considered separately, might seem to proceed exclusively from tbe mere agents to them, but which may be so linked together by cir cumstances, io themselves slight, as to leave the mind rally satisfied that these apparently Isolated acta are truly parts of a common whole, and that they spring from a common object, hiving In view a common end. Theadeqnsoy of ue evldep'e. in prosecutions fora criminal conspiracy, to prove the existence of such a conspiracy, like other questions of the weight of'evi dence, is a question <or the jary. n —Wharton's Crimi nal Law, section 2851. I am, therefore, gentlemen, detailing to yon the eir pamjtancaf under which this indictment Is preferred against these defendants, and the method in which tbe proof of the Commonwealth will be laid before you I oame now to a part of the testimony that I shall offer you showing transactions in this bank in 186 T, which must startle and alarm all who hear it, wbqdonot know oftbe transactions themselves. This bank bad a Board of Directors who met together on oertaln fixed and sttted days to transact what they snppos«dto be the business of the management anddlreotfoo of tbe af fairs of the bank. They were generally gentlemen well known in onr business community, of high character, and of busings principles. They wontd meet together, and the ordinary business of tbo bank would oome before them for trans action. I bellevo that at most of these meetings of tbe board of directors—and I allude now more particularly to the Itst year of the existence of tbe bank—th«ir busiceas was confined to the ordi nary discounting of the paperthat was offered for dis count. When these gentlemen, placing too most im plicit reliance upon their officers, especially upon their president, who was the financial head apd manager or the Institution, had performed that labor, when they had passed upon the japer that was ofleredaodseteoted perhapasome $30,000 or $lO,OOO of It to be discounted, and when they had read over the statement which was handed to them of tho balance duo depositors, the amount of and the arsets or tbe bank, they supposed that the business of the bank was well nigh concluded, ard thatthe preridentof the institution was carry mg out what they had left for himtodo. Dreadfal ly.wofully, were these directors mistaken on their confi dence. When the directors 7 dqors bad closed, and the gentlemen of the board had dispersed, tbpn began the important business ofthe institution: then tbe ac counts, of which 1 have given you an intimation, under the immediate control of the president, or tbe acting pre sident, and of which both these defendants had dlreot knowledge, were opened to scatter ruin to tbe stock holders and disaster to the institution. Then it was that the president wonld loan or take enormous sums from iho bank It was at such a time, upon tbe sixth day of July, 1867 that the president, without tho know ledge or authority or assent of the dirn:torg, gave to the defendant, Thomas A. Newhall. tbe “ aorom roodation,” aa it Is called, of tbe bank for £17,00), about $32,709, In the shape of a bill of exchange drawn by the haokupon a financial house in Liverpool. The transac tions or Mr. Newhail with some European houses wore very large, and It was necessary for him In the courro of his business, as I Infor from the ovidence I shall offer you, to make remittances to those European houses, and, of course, it was necessary that he should have the means of remittance, and ho obtained from Mr. Allibone. on tbe oth of July, 1867, one sterling draft fur $82,783 82-100: on the 14th of August, another draft for £ll,OOO, or $59,065 63-100, all without the knowledge or assent of tho beard of d[reotors. On fiepteaber 1-t, he likewise got from the president a draft for £lO 800 ss. 4d , which amounts, in our cur rency, to $90,709 27-100, also without the knowledge of tho directors of the bank ; on the second of Septem ber, the day after, tbo further buui cf £0 000, or $29,- 00863 100. Thusfrom Jaly 6thtoBeptembor2d, with out the knowledge of tho'ltoard of Directors, without asking them whether each a crodit should ba given to Mr Newhall, Mr. Allibone let bimharo $262,26478-100. Now, mark, gentlemen, ns we go on, the bearings of tho testimony which wo shall submit to you. Undoubt edly, part of this large sum of $202,000 was or could be naid ror by Mr. Newtali, and his various houses or firms who kept several accounts in the bank ; acij to pay for thia Mr Newhall gave what are commonly called and kuown as memorandum ebooks; that iB to say, ebeckß which ate not handed to the teller of tbe bank who Date checks to pay them, notdrawingthe cash, bat representing the cash, as it istermtd.nnd put in the receiving teller's drawer «e eaeh. Therefore, while there ohooka are lying In the receiving leller’a drawer, the man Is using ihe money of the bank until those cheeks ate actually charged to his account. During the whole of thU time, and up to the period of which I shall oreseutlr apeak, {to wtt, from the 17th to tho 22d of September, 1857,) theee large advance! wore partlypa d for bv Mr Newhall giving two memorandum checks for about *135,000. Paper dlreoting the payment or so muoh money, elgned “Thomas A. Newhall,» In two oheeks, amounting to *130,(00, wao dally counted, hr tho direction of the president of tho bank, as so much hard money belonging to the institution. Well gentlemen, wj all know that in tho fall of 1867, towards tho end of September, iheterrible whirl wind lhatewept over the commercial world, came on. and its force waß severetyfelt by the Bank of Pennayl vanla These two defendants knew—none knew it better, for they understood tbe affairs of the Bank bet ter than any other director or officer; in fact, they alone understood them—that a day of settlement must come. Tbe bills of exchange or which I have spoken, drawn by the prealdent or tbe bank upon the Liverpool house, had to be met there: they were drawn upon tho house of George PeaHd'« Oo : and, as they accomu lated and large sums became due in consequence of these’ drafts on that house, the Bank of Penn-* svlvania must do something to plaoe funds there; Mr. Thomas A. Newh’ll must do some th-ng at toe same time to relieve his aocounts. and to take up the memorandum ebticki for $lBO,OOO which remained In th*‘ receiving toiler's drawer as cash. Accordingly on the 371 i of September, Mr. Newhall, la the name of his firm, signing “T, A. Newhall & Oo.," drew a bill or exchange upon the house of Rostron Sc 00., in Manchester, for £50,000 I think I shall satie ty you that Mr. Newhall. when be drew that bill of. ex uhang*, had not on* dollar coming to him from tho [Oontinusd from first page.\ house of Bostron & Co.; that it was a mere experi ment, hoping that for grace and favor.they would accept , and give him a little time to turn around* in. Bome- i thing musk be done with thlsbUl. or else (he drawing of It would bo of no sorvioe f and Mr. AUibcne, without, tbe slightest knowledge of the dlreotors, without their knowing either the necessity for such a step, or I the . precarious position In which tbe bank was . placed, without their having the slightest inti mation even that it was convenient for the ' bank to do such a thfog. buys this piece of paper from Mr. Newhall for £60.0017 5 and immediately they send it off, with Mr. Newh&U’s son In the same steamer, to tbe parties upon whom It was drawn, for tbe purpose of ao o.ptanoe. You will thus see that £6O 000, or about $240,000, were added to Mr. Newb&ll’s or’dit upon the books of the bank by this transaction ; bat he had then deposited in the teller’s drawer his checks for 186.000 < f which I have spoken, so that he takes that $136,000, and then in the course of four.or five days, when Mr. AUlhone is absent from the bank, anl Newhall is aoting fireeldont, he goes to the note clerk, who had charge of t, and tells him that It is Mr. Allibone’a wish and di rection that he shall receive credit for that £50,000 draft, and on the 22d of September they extend to him upon tbe beoks of tbe bank a credit for $240 000 Then Mr. Newhall can take up hie $lB6 OCO of memorandum checks, and have a handsome balance of $104,000 upon that bill of exchange, for which amount he is apparent ly aoredltor of the bank. This was on tbe 22dof September I Mr Allibone then came to tbe bank. The ominous 25th day of Septem ber arrived. This bank that had before maintained such a high character, that had such ample command of funds, it was found oonld no longer sustain itself, aDd on the 25th of September, 1857, when the unfortunate depositors and note-holders wont to its doors to transact tbelr usual business they found them closed. The final catastrophe had been reached. The time had cme when these drippings—drippingsdid I say ?—when these deluges of the assets of the bank that bad been showered by the president and the directors upon themselves and their friends, had brought it to Its flaal ruin. All was excitement In the city of Philadelphia; everyspedesof business was neglected. Every poor rosn who h«d a ass note upon any bink was runnlog to save it. In a few days after this, Mr AlU bone ceased to come to the Bank of Pennsylvania. Ido sot wish to do intentional injustice. He was, doubtless, much occupied iu meeting thoofllcersof other banks, but at any rate he was very little at the Bank of Pennsylva nia, and about the sth or 6th of October he retired to his home, alleging sickness as the came Mr. Newhall had up to this period been taking a very activo part in the affairs of the bank: but let me here remark in pacing that I shall show you he seldom went to the board when they met for ordinary ds count business. That was not tbe business he had to do- His business was usually transacted after the board bad gone. Mr. Newhalt, with this credit upon the books of the bank) by means of the bought bill of which I last spoke, was apparently a large creditor of the bank, a large depositor. It was announced on the 25th dty of September that the bank would transact no more business at present. Carta were put out by di rection and request, a resolution having been offered by tbe defondant (Allibone) at the board of directors, which was passed, cautioning everybody not to be scared or alarmed at the position which th*y were com pelled temporarily,to occupy, and assuring them that the bank had ample assets to redeem all its liabilities, whether' of deposit, circulation, or otherwise. It was then the duty of the president and directors ef this bank earnestly to strive to retrieve the position which it had lost. It became tbeir duty, In the dis charge of the trust confldod to them, to look faithfully after the interests or the stockholders, the depositors, and the note-holders of the bank—tbo note holders alone haying olalms reoohing to $600,000. Lot us see wnat wad the as the Commonwealth will ahow you, that was taken of these interekts, and how this trust was discharged. On the 28th of Beptember. be fore Mr. Allibone hftd retired to his house in West Philadelphia, away from the turmoil and excite ment of the scene, Mr. Newhall went into the hank. There was among the employees of the insti tution a cleric called i£e note-clerk. 'When bills and notes 'wtere* dhcounted, they were regularly handed to this note-clerk,‘who put them upon his book —I am stating the process substantially, liable, how ever, to be corrected by the witnesses hereafter—and as the notes, which were then confided to the cashier, or to thp note-gler£ under his direotipn, approached ma turity, tbqy ware again Into the actual cor poral cpstody pf the note-plerk tv examine and to keep arranged for payment On the 28th of Beptember, Mr. Newhall, then aotiog as temporary president, instead of guarding interpats of tip depositors, p.rthe note holders. and of tbo stockholders of th» hank, walked up to the clerk who had possession of these notes, and demanded from him a certain amount of them. Be se lected from the notes then the property of the bank, the suspended bank, $45,499 62-100 of the bills dis counted aod approaching maturity. He took a note of William 8. Boyd & 00. for $1,496 27-100 due the next day, Sept. 2fHh: a note of Woods. Obrtflty. & 00. fa well known Western firm) for $3 874 75-1(0 due the next : day/ Bept 29th‘: a'note of Farnham, Sfrkbam. A 00. for $1,103 68-100, due Sept. 3Qth 5 a note of Williamson, Taylor, & 00. (a well-kDpwn dry gopds hoqse in the olty of Philadelphia) for $1,546 17*100, due OptQber Ist; another note of William 8. Boyd & Oo forslo,oCo. due Oot. lst-and the case of the Commonwealth will have something more to do with this $lO,OOO note before It finishes with these defendants. He took a note of Orrtok, Brent, & Thompson, due Oot. lit, for $1,166 46-100; a note of A Blade A 00., due Oot. Bd, for $1,000: a note of B. O. Knight A 00., due Oot 3d, for $3,010 * 89-100; a note of P..& B. Slevin, due Oot. 3d, for $515 06-100; a note of Thompson, Olerk, A Young, due Oct Bd, for a note of Thompson Black, due Oot. 4th, for $742 80-100: a note of Gorge Ogden, Jr., due Oot. 6th, for $621 87-100; a note or Weaver A Graham, duo Oct. 6th, for $496 84-100; a note of Wesendoack A 00., duo 06t 6th. for $2,600:’ a note otQoo.F, Thomas, pre sident of the Commercial Insurance Company, due Oot, 9th, for 73,000; a note of G. Lippineott AOo , due Opt. 10th, for $2,000; a note of Gillespie, Zeller ACo , dqe Oct. 12th, for $46510-100; and a note of tbo Philadel phia and Readirg Railway Company for $lO,OOO, due on the 10th or October I ask you here, gentlemen, to mark this note of $lO 000 of the Philadelphia and Road log Railroad Company, due Oct. 10th, and the note of WiliiamS Boyd A 00., for SIO,fOO, due Oct. Ist. Here was an aggregate of $45,499 82 100, for which Mr. New hall deposited bis memorandum check: that is, the obeck was drawn against the balance he had accumula ted by that' blli'of exchange. in fhls way that the Interests of the depositors, note-holders, andstodk? holders were looked after by Mr. Newhall! But this wab done with the knowledge of Mr. AUlbone; It was done, according to Mr. Newhall’s statement, bv Mr. Alll bone’s dlreotlon, and when he was told of it he approved the act. Let me go a step farther, and disclose another trans action. On the oth of Ootober there were in the Bank of Pennsylvania two notes doe. drawn by a highly respectable firm in Markot atrept, Morris L, Hallowell A Go., for $20,000 each. - They were due to the Bank of Pennsylvania; they had been discounted there, and wero payable there. Morris L. Hallowell A 00. had been large depositors in the bank, and when it olosed its doortf, on the 25th of September, they had a considera ble balance due them la the bank. Th*y thought, as every one would think, that it was just, and right, and proper, that what tbe bank owed them on their deposit apeoutft should be tafeen from the amount of tbo notes which they owed the bank, am| it was'uuderstQod be tween them and all the officers pf the Sank, Mr. Alll bone included, that the bank was to receive the check of M. L. Hallowell A 00. for tbe amount of their de posit. afime $l4 000, in part payment of these two notes, and that the balance of the $40,000 should be paid in what were then known as current funds. On the morn ing or the day that these nates fell due Mr Newhall, then acting, I think, as the temporary preatdent of the bank, at any rate In tbe absence of Mr. AUlbone, who was at his house, in West Philadelphia, went to tho clerk having possesrion of the notes, and teld him he must Rtve them to him. The olerk demurred at first, but he #as tqld tfrat it was by direction of the president j that he wig to take them to flallo well’a counting-house, there to negotiate the settle ment. The olerk then Improperly, unadvisedly, but, as he supposed, entirely rightfully, became his supe riors had direoied it. gave op these two notes to Mr. Newhall. Mr. Newhall then went up to the counting house of Morris L. Hallowell A 00. Theie he re ceiv'd from that firm tbeir check for $14,000 on the Bank of Pennsylvania, and he reoeived there also their checks npon three solvent, paying banks fa this city, the Philadelphia Bank, the Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank, and I think the Bank of North America, for the balance of the $40,000. Mr. NewbaU went to these banks and drew twenty-six thousand dollars In current funds, then at par. Iq two or three hours from the time when he obtained theie notes from the note olerk, he returned to the Bank of Pennsylvania, and proceeded to settle with the olerk for the funds he had received from M. L. Hallowell A Company In payment of tbeir two notes of $20,600 eioh. Mark you, gentleman, this la a director of a ru ined institution, who ie taking oare of the interest of the stockholders, of the noteholders, and of the depos itors! He handed to the olerk. as payment of them • two notes of M L. Hallowell A Company, first their obeck for $14,000, whioh was perfectly fair and legiti mate thou $6,000 of tho circulating notes of (he bank; alsq, an ucdqe note of the Philadelphia and Reading RailroadUonipany for SIO,OOQ, dqe the next 4*T» the very note which ho had taken from the bank on the 28th of Beptember; also, a cheok of the Bank of Penn sylvania for $lO 000. drawn that day by G. Phllier, oashier, payable in blank, and therefore unendorsed Up on this the Commonwealth will offer you a slight butain gular history. I called your attention, when stating the number or notes that Mr Newhall had abstracted from the bank on the 28th of September, to the foot th *t he ob tained a note of Wm. 8 Boyd A 00. for $lO,OOO, due qq tbe Ist of Oetober. In the disasters that swept over tbe commercial world at that time. Wm. 8. Boyd A 00. were unable at that particul&r 'btlsis to take up that, note which had beea discounted by the Bank of Penn sylvania. They saw Mr. Allibone, and be agreed that In view of the crisis, they should have some extension of time. This, so far, was perfectly fair and legitimate. It was proper In thkt terrible crisis, if accommodation cou’d be afforded and extension given, that it should be done to undoubted houses in undoubted distress. Mr. Nowhall was acting as president of the bank when these notes became (due. They went to Mr. New hall and told him or the understanding. Mr. Newball, I think we shall show you, never said to them u I have that note.’’ but said to them ‘-very will,” They came jo an arrangement by whioh Mr.’Newball gave them up that pote bf $lO,OOO and received four notes ante-dated, one as if made July 24th, 1867, for $2 668 72-100, one July 31at, 1857, for $2 601 28-100, one August 25th, 1857. for $2 613 27-100, and ono August 30th, 1867, for $2,686 78-100, each at ■our months. You will perceive that if these four notes were discounted on the 27th of September, the interest from that time to their maturity deducted from tbeir face would leave exactly $lO 000. Mr. Newhall, tbe board not being In session, goes to the discount clerk, who was acting for tho oashier at the time, and says “Enter these notes as discounted on the 27th of September, ana give me a obeck for them,” and Mr. G. Phllier, Jr., the cashier’s son, gave him a check for these notes. This SIQ 000 check, njarkyou, was tbe product of the four notes given for the 210,000 note of William 8. Boyd A 00. Therefore, Mr. Newhall obtained In that way for tho sli>,ooo note of William 8. Boyd A Co., which be bad taken from the bank, this obeck, which he handed in to tho clerk as the mopey he had received from M. L. Hallowell A 00. I have told yon that $6,000 of the $lO,OOO were' haod*d to the olerk in Pennsylvania Bank notes— handed in by Mr. Newhall as received from M- L. Hal lowell A 00., in payment of their two notes. In other words, instead of glvlog $26,000 in current funds to the bank, which he hid received from M.L. Hallowell A Co., Mr. Newhall handed in that amount nominally In paper of the Bank of Pennsylvania, which w&s <hon at a disoouut of 10or 16 per cent., and In credits. He pocketed a nice sum by that neat little operation! If only 10 per cent., he made $2,600. That was the way this director took care of tbe Interests of the stock holders, note-holders, and depositors of the bank, whom he ought to have protected ! This matter wab entrusted to his hands—and this wa? done by the al : lowaace and by tho direction of the president ot tfae bank, for whom he was acting. But I pass from that transaction. Gentlemen of the jury, I will show you by evidence that after tbe bank had suspended, nn the 6tli day of Ootobor, when all around was disaster and ruin, when poor people were praying for the payment of the $5 note or $lO note they held in their hands, which had repre sented, a few weeks before, all tho money thoy were worth, Mr. Allibone, the preaideotof tbe bank, and Mr. Newball, aoting as a director, and inconcert with him, came into the bank, and went to the receiving teller (who had been receiving, in payment of claims due to the back, and due to note-holders who had deposited notes for pp leption, tbe current funds then passing at ;ar in the city, and who had pecelred somo thousands r>f dollars in that sort of money)—going eltho** toother, or tbo one saying tbe other was waiting— aid uireoted the receiving toller to band them two sums, one of $7,300, and tho other of $O,OOO, in ourrent funds. The receiving teller remonstrated, saying that this would not do; that they would not have enough to pay (be holders of the notes whohad deposited them there, and that they must not take those current funds. The ooly reply was that they must have it, and, d esplto his rsmonstrauoe, they took from the drawer of the teller $13,310, for which they deposited Mr. Newhall’s check on the bank, drawn, I think, against the balance crea ted upon the sterling bill That is a circumstance which I shall bring to your attention by oompetent and irrefragable testimony. Gentlemen, when this disaster overcame the bank, It was not apparent to the directors, It wis not appa rent to tho community, If they believed the statements and plaoirds of the officers of the bank, bat it was ap parent to persons who bad been sagacious enough to watch the progress of events, that this bank was utterly ruined. During the anxious meetings of the board of directors, there was la the room in whioh they met, the president’s room, an iron fire-proof, and ip that fire proof the prfsident gave them to understand were the valuable assets of the bank. There, in that enug retreat, and safely locked, were the assets which would answer *ll the demands upon the bank when this furore had spent itself, for a moment, so as to give an opportunity to make them availa ble. la other words, the representations, di rectly and Indirectly, were that there wae in that fire-proof at least a million of dollars in good securities, In good notes and bonds. Mr. Alhbono, as 1 have said, be came sick early in Ootober; be went to his house In West Philadelphia; he did not attend the meetings of theb&nkAft*r Gthjo!Ootober. Thatfire-proof had a key, but the key was nowhere to be found. The key had been always in the exclusive custody of the president of the bank. Itwassentfor by the board of di rectors—not once, bnt again and again, and thero wee el. ways eotne excuse for Its non-production. Tho key was lost; It wee mislaid; it cruld not be found; bo could not lay his hands on it; It would be sentfjh direotly; it wohld be sent In the next morning. These 'were Ihe various excuses, Proortutinaticn ia tho delivery of that bey wu, In the vJew cf the anxious d rectors, keeping them from a delightful view of those immensoosseia locked up in that fire proof. At length the health of Mr. AlUbouo became eo much weakened and shattered that he wa* obliged to start for Europe, to g> away 'rom these sceuos of trouble and these constant explanations which were harassing his brain—and Ido not wonder at It. When called upon to account for these things be was obliged to raskbis brain forth* answers which he ought to give, and I do notwouder that this distracted him, and he was obliged, for the a*ke of bia health, to travel in Europe! While the whistle of tho locomotive which was to carry him to his port of departure was sounding inOamden, the key of that fire-proof was slowly and re luctantly wending its way into the{key-hole of the fire proof In the president’s rooirt of the'Bank of Penn sylvania, the deligh'ed directors standing around ready to gra»p what was to redeem them from' the pressure which wa9 upon them. The bank was loaded down with a debt to the other city banks of over a mil lion of dollars from over-issues, from checks upon it which they held—checkß for which there was money In the Bank of Pennsylvania or ought to have beon If it had been left there by the officers Knowing that the heavy load was upon them, the anxions directors stood around greedily awaiting the opening of the box—this iron box, which I am afraid was destined to prove a Pandora’s box to Them as to the stockholders They opened, and in place of amillionof d-iilarain good securi ties, there came foith some boodß of the Horapfleld Railroad Company that had not a cent’s worth of market value, that no* broker would buy at any price, upou which loans'had been made, with out the kcowledge or consent of the directors, to tho extant of $239,600. There were 5280,6C0 of notoi of the Hempfield Railroad Compaoy, if possible, more worthless than the bonds, with $467 000 of the bonds nominal y, but having, perhaps, 467 cents actual value, as collateral security for the notes. They found, also In the tame sacred repository, exhibits, showing that a late director of tho bank, Mr. Daniel Deal, aod his firm, had been getting from the president and his coadjutors (not the directors, for they knew nothing of this—it was some of the business of the bank done when the doors of the committee-room had bean oto*ed.) loans to the amount of $l4O 818 21-100. They found farther a bundle of notee of the president’s brother and bis pnrtner, amounting in all to $23 90316-100 The whole indebtedness of the President brother and his firm to the bank was $116,026 67-100, of which notes to the amount of over $23,000 wore fou< d in this fiie-rroof. They fonnd also what wero capitally and patently called ‘’ghosts’’—wbat bed been good b'lls of the banks, wbat had represented the bills receivable ; that is, the bills dlscountedand received by the Bank of Pennsylvania I will not hazard a statement a* to the amount of them. What is meant by “ahrsts” Is this: Instead of the bill itsMf, In each Q*se was a little slip of •paper, “Niteof • fors— s ” a memorandum to show that tho note hat been there. These memo randa they found in the fire-proof—memoranda which were, like fath, “the substance of things toped fer, and the evidence of things not seen,” and never to be seen by the stockholders of this unfortunate institution. Thero were also Borne private papers found there be longing to different parties Here was an end of the hopes of the directors and the eager anticipations of the stockholders, depositors and note-holders of the bank. Thoy turned in dismav, un til finally, finding nothing of tbe affairs of the bank, dis traoted by tbe liabilities pressing upon it, they appeal ed to the Govornor of the Commonwealth to inquire un der an act of Assembly into its affairs. He appointed a commission to come here and Investigate the affairs of the bank, to find (hopeless search !) where the 'ssets had been carried. This commission of iotelligentcen tlemen. as intelligent a eommiasiqa m could have been selected In the Ptato ftf Pennsylvania, after weeks npd wee as of labor, were finally driven to say that they could make little or nothing of the terrible entanglements and Intricacies into which the affairs of Ibis bank had been burled lVhOo they wero progressing la their labors, tho unfor tunate stockholders pf tfce bank met! and' ap fiointed a committee tp Investigate the affairs of tbe natHntlonl They likewise selected intelligent, saga cious, well-known citizens—men who had given time and attention to matters of this sort, and they were a*ked to fiod where tbe assets of this bank bad gone. Thg Inquiry “ wherel” has beep answered only by tbe echo—where ?” A' part of year functions, gentle men, Will be to aoawer that question, if you can, & lit tle more rubatantively than it has yet been answered. In the midst of the labors of the comnTstion appointed by the Governor, tbe directors beearae convinced that so utterly and hopolessty insolvent wai this hank, which had once stood so proud, that they recommended to the stockholders, and they agreed to the unfortunate suggestion—{ dq npt unfortunate pol oy, but unfortunate as being forced upon them—to make a voluntary assignment of the assets of the bank. Thoy dirt so at once, and I will ehow before you, wbat three sworn appraisers, who p'cked up those things which wero brought as assets, tell us. for the first t'roo hi the legal investigation or tbe affairs of tbis bank represents its great capital of $1 876 000, and tbe one or two millions of dollars of debt* against the bank. Those appraisers, sworn to do their duty and to ap praise truthfully and well, as we shall show you, re turned into the Court of Common Pleas for this coun ty, that all thev could find of the assets amounted, in its length and breadth, to $162/00. Now, gentlemen of the Jury, pardon mo for taking you back for a single instant to tbe management of this bank in its days of prosperity, as they were called. There wero in the bank, as you will find by examining its books, a number of peculiar accounts. I wyi tell you how they were made up. The presi dent or the acting president drew hfs checks, which word paid at the paying teller's desk, or passed to the credit of the party to whom they were given as so much cash, without limit, saying at the end of the Checks, “Charge transient discount account.” This was done by both those defendants. That is to say, there was an account which purported to be a tran sient discount account, kept for tbe purpose of allowing transient discounts to be made between the meetings of the board to good men, customers of the bank, when they were in a hurry and must have moans at onco. This fund was at the command of tho president or the aotlng president without any limitation whatever, and wo shall show you ljow it was used. Qnthe Ist of October, 1867, on 1 1hU'account there was ft deficit upon the books of the bank, of money that the president had drawn the amount of $425 - 048 GT-IGo—gone, whitberno one knows; how, no one can tell Yet. gentlemen, while we ore seeking jostlce, let ua do jostlce. This transient discount account hsß been reduced by parties who were accommodated, and who I take to be tbo legitimate parties that really did get transient discounts to tho triflinpf!) sum of $301.- 000. That ia all upon that accountwhich stands against the president of tfoe bank i Bear in mind, gentlemen, that no one had aooess to that, or dare draw a check on that account, bat the president or tbe actlogpresident. and I will show yru that It is a privilege which neither of the defendants declined Mr. Newhall, while aotlng as pres dent of the back, drew out for his own accom modation $132 COO of this fund. Then, gentlemen of the jury, we pass to another ac count, equally mysterious aod equally disastrous. Thera was In the bank an account which was known ag the Temporary Loin account.’ It was opened for the purpose of allowing between boards, when discounts oould not be bad, parties who were in good standing, who were customers of the bank, and were laboring under a little temporary pressure forwent of means to ‘make up amounts to pay notes, or for othor business purposes, to borrow from the president, on such secu rity as they could give, snob sums as would enable them to get through, er as he would lend them for a few days. Ac matters were managed, there was so special fund set aside in tbe bonk either for the transient discount account, or the tem porary loan account, or another account wh'ch I shall come to presently—there was no specific sum of money set apart for them. The president could draw ad libitum upon the funds of the bank: he could take the whole oapltal. 1n1857, when the frightful accumulation of these accounts was sta ting them in the face, both Mr. Allibone and Mr. New halT freely used the temporary loan acoount. and each of them drew upon it while aotlog as president ef the bank, so that on the Ist of October there was an enor mous deficit in that account of $176,498 66-100, which has since been reduced by payments of parties who ac tually received accommodation to $320,000, which is entirely unaccounted for. There was In tbis bank another equally disastrous ao ooont called the ate llog account. In 1864 the Board of Directors directed sqob an account to be opened, #qd it was opened with the celebratod houso in Liverpool to whioh I have before alluded—George Peabody A Oo It was thus begun legitimately; but In April, 1856, an account was opened by the president with smother firm, and a bill for £40.000, or about $lOO,OOO was obtained. That was passed to the oredit of ((Thomas Allibone, president,” because there was an aocount existing in the bank, “ Thomas Allibore, presi dent,” and he could draw unlimitedly upon the funds of the bank &s president of the institution. In other words, the president could draw upon his aocount as president, upon the sterling account of which I am now speaking, upon the transient discount "account, upon the temporary li an account He had four mouths with whioh to gulp up the assets of this bank. Tbe sterling account was at first in books whleh were liable to the inspection of the directors;bnt very shortly after, when large Amounts began to be charged to ster ling account, and charged in favor of “Thomas Alli bone, president,” he took it upon himself to direct that this acoount should be put in what is called the Indi vidual Ledger. Those who do not understand what that is may think there la very little in the change of a 'book,* but the Individual Ledger is the book in the bimk, as I understand, in which the ptivate accounts of all the depositors were kept The account of every span vhq deposited money there was placed in the “ In dividual Ledger,” ana tbe amount of ohecks drawn by him was placed opposite the amount ofhisdepesits. In that book no slogle director, no board of directors, by a special, by-law, and tbe rules of the institution, had a right to look' Ko one dare go to the Individual Ledger but tho president himself How it came there you will hear an explanation of hereafter, I hope, for I havo never been able to conceive of one; but it was placed in the “ Individual Ledger,” so that the amount of money whioh tbe president drew, saying upon the ohecks. “ Charge ste-ling acoount,” was pat in this Individual Ltdger, aod when the deposits were summed qp everv day your $2OO/00 or $3OO QQp of deposits were cut down by having against them a per contra of so much of the sterling account,and, instead of exhibiting to the directors the real amount of deposits, it exhibit ed so maob less deposits as tho sterling acoount in creased. There was another motive. I said that no one dare ex amine that account except the president, or aotlng pre sident of the hank. It was found impossible to make head or tail of this account, to get any accurate idea of how it stood. Items were ordered to the sterling ao count one day. and then transferred to the aco'mnt of “Thomas Allibone, president,-’ another, so that tbe two accounts became so mixed that it was Impossible to tell bow they stood. They were all embraced finally In the president’s account, and of that now permit mo to say a word. In tho account thusore&ted, it appears that there now exists a deficit, a lops to the steckho'ders, of $490,000, not one dollar of which is accounted for. Bear in mind that both these defendants Lad entire access to these books, that both could examine them. A singular (though it was sold to be an unintentional), and a fatal mistake to them, is,that it was c eoassory some explanation should be made of the affairs of tbe bank,sod in the sterling account was found a debit against George Peabody, tbe Liverpool banker, of $191,111, asif he owed the bank that sum, whereas no such indebtedness ex ists, and when the maite- was probed, it was acknowl edged that this was n entire mistake. It was said that tbis was an unintentional error. How any one could mnke such a mistake, will be a question for you to de termine when I produce the evidence before you. Gentlemen of the jury, there is one other matter to which I desire to call yonr attention: We have seen how the fire-proof was opened Rod how nothing came out. Among the bills of the bank we are able to trace tbe*e: a note of E O Knight A 00., due Qct Oth, 1667, for $3,010 89 100; a note of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, due Oot. lath, for $36,000; one of Robeson, Brooks, A Co., due Oct. Ifith, fors3,ooo; ono of Thompson, Clark, A Young, duo Oot. 20th. for $2,601 60-100; cue of Joseph Howell A Co., due Nov. 6th, for $5,000; one of tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company, due Nov. 16th, for $25 000; another of the Same company, due Nov 20th, for s's 000; and another note, the namo of the drawer of whioh is illegible to mo, for $360, doe Nov. 17th. TbeßO specific notes wore gone, taken, abstracted —no one knew whither they went; bat I will show you that these defendants are the parties who alone could have taken these notes. I cannot apportion the amounts between them, bat I will show you that ene of these defendants, when pressed, when the tirao came when an investigation would look a little furthor than white-washed tales and fine speeches, deposited to tho credit of tbis ao count $36,000, reducing the amount from $98,871 to $03,000; and you may readily see how the defalcation for the balance is to be accounted for. Gentlemen of the jury, I shall not detain you longer. I Trill show you what I have promised to do; I will show you tho connection of tho defendants; I wi'l show yon their management; and then I shall ask ytru to stamp with your seal of reprobation, by a verdict of conviction, such transactions as are thus brought to your eyes and to the desecration almost of justice. I said when I opened thiß case that It was an important one—important in its various interests. It Is impor tant to these defendants, because this trial opens np to them the opportunity of fairly explaining to. this jury what I put to them as the evidences of crime. It will give them the opportunity to ac ount if they can; and none will rejoice more than I, and none in this comran nity, perhaps, will rejoioe more thin those who have fan cied that they have been grossly wronged and defrauded, if these defendants shall satisfactorily account for all these thloge, square theip actions before a jury, and come out unscathed. It Is important to the Common wealth. It Is Important thatthe juatlco of the Com.’ monwealth he impartially administered It is impor tant that so great a disaster and so foul a wrong be brought to the bar of justice to answer for its fruits. In that view it iR highly important to the Commonwealth, and its importance can hardly be overrated; but lu orery other aspect of the oase, it is no other than every case which comes into a crimkat oourt, and it is to re oelve at your hands nootierconsMeraMon I mean m less and no greater than every case which comes in tj this oourt. While I ilk you, gentlemen, to put aside from yonr minds, in travelling through thiß oase, every prejudice which the diaouaaion of the affairs of this hank may have oreatod, and to give the defendants a fair trialj I warn you equally not to be led away by the social posi tion or the high character which they have heretofore mntntAicedf.DOt.to shrlnkfrom the investigation on ac oount of the magnificence of the fraud which was per- bnt calmly, deliberately, honestly to examine laehvidence na it shall be brought before you, and so to render your verdlot thatyou will be justified by your Consciences and your God. ; con °tasl<m of Mr. Longhead’s opening, the f® aT r ®djonrned until ten o’clock this morning, hav day &trao sit from ten to four o’clock each District Coobt No. I—Judge Stroud.— '‘dratniitrator of Owen MeM«mu, M “S aret MiMeima, adminlatratrii of TWawaaa scire facial stir mortgage. Verdict for plaintiff $1,047.60. Daniel Dongherty for plaintiff; H. &. oia 7 for defendant. THE CITY. AMUSEMENTS THIB EVENING. Mrb. D. P. Bowkbs’ Walnut-streit Thiatbi.— “Aline”—“The Irish Attorney.” WOTATtSY A OliAr.Kß’g AXOH-BTXJfIT TffXAV«l.— “Our American Cousin Charles II.” National Oirods —“Lent’s Circus Company.”— Polish March and Cavalcade—Equestrian and Gymnastic feats. Assbmbly Buildings.—Signor Blits. Sanford’s Opsba Hoobh.—Ethiopian Entertain ments Ejiakspeabb Oonobbt Saloon, Sixth and Chestnut. —Miscellaneous Entertainment. Heal Estate, Stocks, &c.— Thomas & Sons’ sale of Real Estate, Stocks, Ac., took place at the Philadelphia Exchange last evening. The follow ing ere the sales: , Lots Nos 633 to 843 inclusive. Woodland Cemetery, f“uO; 2 shares Arch-street Theatre stock,with tickets, $330; i share Point Breeze Park Association, $131: 6 shares Union Bteamship Company, par $lOO, $11: 2 and Savannah Bteam Nav. Co., par $6OO, s2o; 14 shares West Chester Railroad Company, 8 per cent preferred stock, par $6O, $11: 61 shares Northumberland Coal Company, par $5O. $1; Pew No. 7 H 1 ? d ! e nv m ®, T e , n , th Presbyterian Church, $142 60; 1 »uVi 8 ., P i h, J? <le l? hla Athenaeum, $9 60; 8 shares West L b J ,a ? e: l S* }a Passenger Railroad, par $6O, $4O paid, £ a s S so ’ ? 10 paid, $36 25; 6do do, . s:>o, full paid, $46. Lot and dwellings north side or gproce fltreet, ea.t of Twooty-Hecond. £1.700; three story trick dwelling, 623 Ohrlitlan utreot 51,076; Urge and Taluabte lot of grouod with three fronts, 109 feet ir'.rnm- fr °;‘ “ street, 126 feet fronton „*“!!2 01 V 1™ Bt > “d 126 feet front on Pennsylrnnla nrecue, S 7.000; Tnlnable four-story brown stone and mestlo office.betiding, No 627 Valent street, S 8.000; la r 5S'"V > ?’ b ;l. ck »S“, te “” 4 dwelling, Eighteenth street Sonth, s676; three■ story brick dwelling 816 Wharton street, $400; neat modern residence, 8. B corner Wood aod Eighteenth a'reets, $1,100; three story brick dwelling, Bratt street, east of Falrmonot street, $160; roar three story brick dwellings, ad jolnlng the above, each $160; three three-etory brick dwellings, Pratt street, adjoining the above, each s76o' three story brick dwelling. Davis street, west of Thir teanth, Twentieth ward. $476. Private sales since last report: Dwelling No. 115 South Tenth street, $5,000; Lot, Chestnut street, west of Eighth, 26 feet front, $31,000. Assault ard Battery.—Jacob Ridgway, who is the proprietor of a house in that delectable neighborhood, Bradford’s alley, near Bt. Mary’s street, whero the colored population of our city “most do con gregate,” and from which there *» oft nroqeeds a sound of revelry bv night,” in conjanqtion with Hiss Mary Henry, of the same eboqyhne as the aforesaid Jacob, wsb arrested on Mond'y night on the charge of Maty Jones, wh° asserts that the above pair did most shame fully beat and bruise her, in cocsequence of whieh treatment they were this morning arraigned before Al- German Patehell, and as none of their many friends seemed disposed to go their security for three hundred dollars, they were both committed to answer. Aoqidents.—Andrew Wolfe, aged 25. was admitted to the Pennsylvania Hospital yesterday morn ing, having had hfs right arm fractured by falling down the cellar steps of a house in Mervine street, near Co lumbia avenne. * An elderly man named Peter Burns had his left shoul der blade fractured by falling into the hold of a canal boatqt South street wharf, on the BohuylklU. He was taken to the hospital yesterday afternoon. CharlosGenthlor, aged 43, was admitted, at a late hour last evening, having reoeived a very bad.cut on his aim. while at jrork, oo Thursday last, at Agnew’s firo engine manufactory, in Yine street, between Ninth and Tenth. Su3picioc9.—Quito a number of dwellings *f or ® f° an d open on Monday night by the policemen of the different wards After instituting a thorough search through the premises nothing was fonnd to indicate robbery. Ia one instance, the oosupants of the house had been absent from tbe oity about two weeks; but whether tbe doors had been left open through the care lessness of tbe occupants, or opened intentionally by these who had no legal right to do so, remains a mys tery. Too much care canoot be exercised in dosing dwellings properly at night, as there are those con stantly prowling about who are eager to seize on any thing that may come in their way. A Good Old Age. —Harriet Lane 9 a colored woman, died on Saturday nlvht last, at b?r residence in Middle alley, above Sixth street. She was a native of Africa, and brought to ‘this city when a child. She had attained the Bge of one hundred and twelve years, and was conversant with many of the Revolutionary evonts connected with Yalley Forge, one of tho dark est periods in the time that tried men’s souls. In her earlier days she waa a slave in one of the Southern States, but had been a free woman for a long time. For the past ton years she was assisted by the Guar dians of the Poor. Re-opened. — "Wo learn that Mr. John Campbell has re-opened bis hottl and restaurant, on Chestnut street, below Sixth, whioh has lately under gone some valuable repairs and improvements. Mr. Campbell, who ia the pioneer of respeotable publicans in oar midst, will, doubtless, be surrounded by hU old friends, and enjoy the results of a thriving business in his peculiar and excellent line. Foundling,-— On Monday evening a fine male infant of the tender age of three weeks was dis covered ou tbe door-step of a house in Adam Btreet— No. 1210, (between Pine and Bpruea streets.) The landlady of the house, in tbe kindness of her heart, tenderly took charge of the little innocent until ar rangements can be made for its future support by the city authorities. Assault and Battery.—Yesterday morn ing Barbara Dnland was arrested on the charge of com mitting an assault and battery on Margaret TUlburn, who wsb poshed from a step, and whose cas? we men tioned yesterday. Bbo is noif iii a critical condi tion, orbing to the injuries she received at the time of her fall. The accused was held in $l,OOO bail for a further hearing. Arrested.— George Leonard, who was mating night hideous, and haring a good time gene rally, ru arrested by Lieutenant Hampton, at a lata hour on Monday night, and was comfortably housed until yesterday morning, when he had a hearing before Aid. Remington, and in default of bail was committed to answer. An Owner Wanted,—Yesterday mojniDg three vagrants were arrested at Second and Poplar atreots, haring in their possession a considerable quantity of wearing apparel, whfoh had, in allproba bility, been stolen from a clothes line. The clothmg was taken to th« Thirteenth ward station house, where it awaits an owner. Fire.—At a late hour last night adire oc curred at Mr. John Corbitt’s drug store, in Oollowhill street, near Twenty.third, opposite the SpriDg Garden gts works. The extreme lateness of the hour pre vented us from gaining the particulars, or ascertaining the amount of damage to the property. New Counterfeit Note.—A five dollar bill on the Nation Bank of Boston, Mass., has made its appearance. Vignette, factory on upper left end, like, nos?of Washington on the right. -Shop-keepers will take notice* Lecture.— Last evening Mr. Wm. Dnnn del'rered a leoture before the members of the delphia Library Company, on the *• True and Beauti ful.” The attendance was large and the applause liberally bestowed. Fire.— About T o’clock last evening, a fire was discovered in Hutchfngoa street, below Master. Nothing was destroyed, however,, but a bed and our* talus. New York Markets Yesterday* Ashes.—The demand for pots ia fair, at $6.63*, and Pearls at $6 87*. Govrsa —The market is quiet, but very firm, under more favorable advices from New Orleans and Europe ; sales of 1 600 bags Bt. Domingo last evening, at 9* a 9*, and 600 do fair Rio at 10*o; the stock, according to the Messrs Scott’s circular of data, comprises 16,830 bags Rlb, 1,913 do Bahia. 3,460 do Maracaibo', 800 do Laguajra. (Triage,) 1,660 de St. Demingo. and 61,633 do Java—in all 76,186 bags By telegraph from New Orleans, we learn of sales of 3,000 bags Bio ex Water at ll*c, and tfce residue of the cargo was held atll*o Plods, Ac.—The demand for Western Canal Flour is moderate, and the market is heavy The demand Is mainlyfor xhe trade. Unsound Flour is more saleable, and is held with firmness. Choice brands are firmly held. The sales are 6,000 bblsat $4 20&4 40 for superfine State; $4 70©4 95 for extra do; 54.700t96 for low grades of Western extra; $5.35®5 50 for shipping brands of round hoop Ohio; S 6 6007 for trade brands do; $6 60©7.76 for extra Genesee; and $6 69&8.60 for St. Louis brands. Canadian Flour is in limited demand, and is steady sales of 200 bhls at $5®0.20. Southern] Flour is heavy;lthe demand Is moderate, and arrivals limited—sales of 1,200 bbls a*. ssa6-46 for superfioe Baltimore, Ao , and $6 56e7 26 for fancy and extra brands Bye Flour is quiet at $3.25®4 20. Corn Meal is in fair demand, and is firmer - sales or 400 bblsat $3 5033 65 for Jersey, and $1.87* for iir&odjwine. Fatms—By auction. Minturn A Partridge sold 105 eases Bordeaux prunes (per bark Yiotorine) at 18®83e, 4 months. Gbain —The wheat market is dull and heavy, the demand only for small lots for milling. The sales are 8 o’JObusat SLS2oI2) for red Southern, $1.200l 40 for white do; $l2B for good white Michigan, sl4s® 160 for white Kentucky, $ll6 for mixed Wisconsin, and for mixed Southern. Bye lsqnletat 76 ®7Bc Barley is firmly held ; sales of 6)0 bos at 78a 93s for fair State and choice Canadian. Oats are pressed for sale, and the market is heavy; sales of State at 47 060 c, Western and Canadian &t bl®62a. Corn ia rather heavy, the demand more aotiveat the insido figures at the dose, and is in part speculative; tho sales are 88,003 bun at 74c for\unsonnd, 74* ®76*c for Western mixed, ibe latter rate for choice, 76c for new crop Jersey yellow, and 88c for old Southern yellow in store. Provisions.—The Pork market is better, and is ac tivo ; the demand brisk for future delivery, at advanced rates. Thefsales ara‘3,6oo bbls at $:7.40ffi17 60 for old mess. $l7 80® 18 for new do, $l3 60® 15 for new prime, $14.16 Tor uninspected prime, $lB 25 for new mess, iron hooped $l6 60 for prime mess, $l9 for clear, and new clear $20.60. Included *n the sales are 600 bbls mess lor March and April, sellers’ option $lB, and 500 bbls fo; March, April, and May, at same price. Beef is in moderate demand, and ia plenty and heavy; Bales of 6&o bbls at $0 25c710r country prime; $8®9,25 for do mess ; s9® 11 for repacked mess, $11.12® 12 for extra do ; prime mess is in fair demand; sales of 100 tos Illinois ou private ter<rs. CutmeatBare quiet at 9®9*c for hams; sales of 1,000 city cut at 9*c Bacon is dull and nominal. Dressed hogs, heavy weight, are inactive at 7a7*e. Lard is better and in demand ; sales of 600 bbls and tea at 10*allc—included are 350 bbls for December delivery at ll®ll*c. . Jluttor aud cheese are firmer and in demand. Sugars.— The demand ovnUnues quite limited, but prices are without important change; sales 100 hhds Cuba at 6*®7*o. Havana has been in fair request at 7«8*o. Tbas —At private a moderate Inquiry prevails, par ticularly for black, at full prices. An auotion sale, said ti be the last of tho season, is announced for Fri day next. Whiskey.—The market is quiet: sales of 300 bbls at 240. NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE—November 30. SECOND B3ino. 160 Galena & Chics 71ft 200 do »30 71ft 145 N York Cent p&c 83ft 100 do opg 83ft 228 do p&c 83ft 100 do *3O 83ft 100 do b6O 63ft 100 do opg 83ft 160 do ' bOO 88ft 6 Erie Railroad 17 v 200 Hud River R s6O 38 20) do 83 100 Harlem R Pref 29 ’6O do b 3 29ft 600 Reading B R s3O 60ft 600 do sQO 60ft 100 do 6ift 12000 Missouri G’a 00 10000 LaC AMLOBd 23ft 20 Continental Bk 101 10 Hanover Bank 90 100 Brunswick Cy Ld Sft 20 do 3ft 200 Canton Company 21ft f,O Paoitic Mail 8 Co 01ft 35 do 93ft 200 do *3O 93ft 6 Bel & Hudson Co 99 26 Clave & Tol R 3lft 200 Ohio &R Id R ICO Gift 100 do b 3 61ft 100 do sBO 61 200 do oft 160 Panama R 630 120 ft . St. Peter’s College, at Troy, New York,, has received a donation of a very valuable pieoe of land, one hundred feet by one hundred and thirty, opposite a portion of its grounds, from Thomas B. Oarroll. Pendleton, the late keeper of the famous gambling house in Washington, is to be succeeded by Joe Hall, who is quite well known to the “ fast men” in New York and Philadelphia. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAI. The Blonoy MafbeU 1 TBItiMLPHIA, Nor. $0,1868. Stooka were more active to-day, 'tkoogh without much ohange in prices. The market closed with a show of mere strength and steadiness'than has been seen for several days. The money market is unchanged. The specie reserve of the New-York bonks. contrary to the general expectation, shows no lo«s of specie, and the large arrival on Monday will make the line stiU greater la the next statement. The New York Herald makes a great grumbling over the large line of loans,ignoring the well-known fact that a heavy per-centage of the money loaned is invested in' funds convertible at any time into specie. It also keeps up a series of attacks upon the New York Central Railroad, which, as yeti do not seem to have injured the stock uf that concern ma terially. J ' ' • s r - Business is very brisk at New Orleans, and the ac counts from the cotton ports generally are encoura ging. / Statement of deposits and coinage at the Mint of the United States, Philadelphia, daring the menth of No vember, 1868: - QOI.D Sin.LION DEPOSITED From California.,.., Other sources..,.... Total Gold deposits. SILVBB BULLION DBFO3IXSD, Including silver purchases... i5211,T20 00 Bpanlsh and Mexican fractions of a dollar received for exchange for new cents, Total Silver ......... .....$227,720 00 Copper cents (0.8.) received for exchange • for new cents.' ' Total deposits COINAGE EXEOUIED. GOLD. No. of Pieces. Value. 12,179 . $243,680 ...... 2,f21 25,210 14,133 85,815 Denomination. , Double Eagles Eagles Quarter Eagles...... Total 28,888. $304,185 Half Dollars Quarter Dollars... Dimes Half Dimes... Threo-Cent Pieces, 500.000 $250,000 800.000 200,000 330.000 88,000 1,000,000* 60,00.) 400,000 12,0G0 Total 3,090,000 $550,000 Gent 5...,,,,, 2,500,000 $25,000 RECAPITULATION. Gold Coinage.., Silver •» ~ Copper « ~ ,<...28 833 $304,135 ~..3,080,000 660 000 ....2,600,000 26,000 Total 6,604,838 $379,136 PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE BALES, November 80, 1868. ftsrotrro bt HuniT, brows, &. ao., baxx-sots, btogz, AND XXOKANQI BROKBBB, 80KTHWBST OORBXS THIRD AS» OHBBTHOT STURTS. FIHST BOARD. 600 City6a, 8.,euh.102* 200 do .102 600 do New.eaeh.loB 6000 Oatawiesa B 75.. 48V 1000 Elmira 2d mt 7s. 81 1503 Soh Net 6», ’82.. 71V 1700 do 71VI 2000 N Penna B 6s ... 63 1000 do 105... 87 8000 do 87 1000 do 87 2000 Cam & Am 6s ’B3 85 V 36 Lehigh Nav 50V 14 do 60V 6 Penna B 42V 6 Penna B 42% 6 do 42V 16 do 42% 2 Commercial Bk.. 60% 8 do 60% 82 do ......cash 80% | ' 4 Cam A Am...b5.117 4 do : bSU7 1 Norristownß... 67% 0 - do ; 67% 100 Brie 8........b5 18% 50 Oatawfssa R..... 6% 100 Reading B 26% <6O do .... .bfiwri 25% ■ 8 do 26% I BOARDS. |lOOO Oatawissaß7s.. 4*% I 40 Richmond Gas ch 10 ! 3 Germantown Gas 60 BOARD. 21 Beadingß 26% 600 do '.cash 26% 82 Penna B, (Iota). 42% 6 Academy Mtuie.: 54 ICON Penna R...... 8% 12 Par A Use Bk, Its 69% 20 Morris Cnl prer. ,108 lOOQhesValß 5 20 do ' 6 100 Bshnjl Nar ptef. 10% 100 Oatawissi R..... 6% 2 Harrisburg R.... 68% 10 do 69 10 Oommereial Bk . 60% BETWEEN 8000Penna85........ 95*1 500 City 64 cash .102 VI 2000Cam&Am6s >B9. 85V i u seqqn: 200 City 6s, New Gas cash.lo2 300 do cash .103 1000MorrlsOanalOs.. 88 1000 N Pa B 6s..e6wn 62V 1000 do 10s 87 4000 Reading B 6* »70 83 1000 Elm B Ist m 7s b 6 72V 1000 do b 5 72V 1000 do b 5 scrip on 73 600 d02dmt...., 61 2000 do Chat 10’a. 66 1000 Catawissa 75.... 43V 1000 Oam&Am 6s >7O. 86V 1000 do >B3. 85V GLOBING PBK Bid.AxJud. PhilaCs 102V102V do B 102*102* do New. .106 106 Penna 6e 96 95V Beading R 26V 25V do Eds >7O. .82V 83 do MtgBs>44.93 86 do do >86.78* 74 Penna 8... 42V 43 do latm 65...102*104 do 2dm 65....91 82 Morris Can C0n..48 60 LOSS—STEADY, ' Bid. Asked. BchNav Stock... 8* 9* do Pref.,....16* 16* Wmsp’t A EImR.JO 10* do 7slstxntg.72 78 do 2d 61 62 Long Island 11* 12 Girard Bank 11* 12 Leh Goal A Nay..’.6o* 60* do 5crip........29* 80 N Penna R.......8* 9 do 6s 62* 63 New Orotk * * Oatawissa 8..»6* - 6w Lehigh. Zino. .V» ."-l >, -3* Co Pref .107*130 * ScbuylN&r 6a »82 71V 71V Soh Narlmp 6a..73 74 ' PHILADELPHIA MARKETS, Nor- 80—EtrniSO There is very little doing in Bre&istuffa to day/and the market for Flour is without animation; shippers are - not buying: sales are to the trade at from s6<s6 25 for rape fine. $5 60,06 76 for extra, and $606.75 for fanoy brands; shipping brazils are held at $6.12*05 35 Corn Meal and Bye Flour are dull at $3.87* for the foimer, and $4 bbl for the latter, not much in- 1 qui ed for; holders are rather firmer to-day; about 3.900 bushels have been sold at 125a128c for for • red. ,1360142 c for white, the latter for good Southehr. Bjß is wanted at 76c for Delaware and 80s for Pennsylvania, Corn—About 2,600 bushels new yellow sold at 70a730 for damp, and 76a78c W bushel for dry, lota: sales of old yellow are reported-at SGc.' apd- 014 and new mixed at 80a83 cents.'' Gaia oref’tfu chacgad; about 2,800 Southern sold at 45d. Bark—Quercitron Is quiet, and held at $3O pertep. Got ton is belter to day, and 2000800 bales hare been sold at 17*032*0 per ft, the latter fop' good middling ffclr uplands. Groceries—Vothisg doiogto slterqnotations, and the stock light. Pror-'fllons are held firmly, without much doing. Seeds arednll, and about 403 bus Olorer seed sold to-day at ,$5.60©5.75 per bus, chiefly at the former rates for good Feed. Flaxseed is worth $1.60 par bus. • Whiskey is scarce, and on the advance: salts 300 bbla at 24*e for Easton, and 2S*c for Ohio,. axe scirce at 24c, and drndge at 23c, hOlderegener&llx asking more. CITY ITEMS. Interesting Anniversary.—Tho twentieth anniversary of the Philadelphia Bible Society was made an occasion of unusual interest at Concert Hall last evening. The great public regard' for this excellent institution was well attested in the character and ex tent of the audience assembled to participate. As early as seven o’clock a considerable proportion of the Mata ware occupied, and at half-past seven the halt waa nearly filled, the platform being occupied mainly by clergymen, invited friends of the cause from adistance, aud the officers of the society The exercises of the evening were commenced with the reading of the fifty-fifth psalm, commencing “Ho * every one that thirateth, come ye to the waters,’* by the Bichard Newton, D.D., rrctor of St. Paul’s Church, whloh was followed with a prayer.by the Bev. William D. Breed, of the Presbyterian Chureh. The annual report was thon read by Thomas Maekel- ter, corresponding secretary. In the opening of the report, re'erenoewaamadeta the great events of the past year, bearing! moro tinned diately npon the spread of the Gospel From the report we learned that during thepaat year 2,991 Bibles have been distributed by ibe society, inde pendent of 1,985 New Testaments, making ia a 114,966 volumes. These, in connection with the nnmber of sacred volumes distributed by this society heretofore, amount to 94,624 Bibles, and 15,649 New Testaments. The receipts for the past year have been $5,149. Thanks were returned to different societies for contri butions. The colportage service* within the past year have not been as extensive as usual. It was stated that the faotof this society being an auxiliary to the. Pen nsylvania Bible Society operated against it— it was re garded as circumscribed, in its operations. The func tions of this institution were purely benevolent. Thera was no seeking for profit in any of its operations, The Bibles were published at the lowest prices, and sold at what they coat, and to those who were not able to paj for them they were given gratuitously. At the oloae of the report, the audienoe was address el by the Ber. Dr. Morris, of Baltimore, following Whloh the congregation united in singing the beauti'ul hymn, oommenolng— “ Eternal Spirit! ’twas thy breath The oraolea of truth inspired ’ ’ Address a were also made by Rev. Dr. Bowman, Pre ' s.dont <f the Indiana Asbury University, Bev. Mr Hafnwav. ««* William iburg, New York, and others. The adjournment was not reasbel until nearly 10 o’clock. Hon Anson Burlingame, OQe of the molt at tractive lecturers of New England, as well as one of the most prominent men before the country, is to deliver a leoture before the Literary Congrers on Thursday even ing, at Mosloal Fund Hall. Subject, « Now and Then ” Every lecture.goer should be present. Have you seen then ?—That superb engraving “ The Village Blacksmith” and the beautiful Art Jour nal, which are furnished to subscribers of the Cosmo politan Art Association, can now t e seen at S. H. Hunt’s, northwest corner or Fifth and Chestnut, for a short time only. n29>6t Housekeepers, and those preparing to com mence housekeeping, will find it to their advantage to call and examine the extensive stock of Housekeeping articles at tho new store, &. W. corner of Second and Dock streets. E.g FaxsONACo. Rich Confectionery.—Those of our readers who are in the way of buying confectionery (and who is not?) should bear In mind that the point where every conceivable variety of elegant luxuries for the palate in that Hoe may bo obtained in greatest richners and purity, is at Messrs E.G. Whitman A Go’s, Second street, below Chestnut,. Give them a trial. We are pleased to heaT that the Rey. A. A. Willits is to lecture at Concert Hall to-morrow even* ing. It Is to bo hoped that our Philadelphia lecturer will be encouraged by seeing a full house, and sb this. Is said to be one of the best lectures the Bev gentleman has produced, and the object a good one, we promise him a large attendance. His subject is “Mental Dys pepsia ’* The Tides.—The regular flowing and obbing of the sea, known as tides, twice m every twenty-four hours, is caused by the attraction of the sun and xnoou. the power of the moon being to that orthe sun as five to one. In a precisely similar ratio, as, regards fit, fashion, fabric, and price, is the attraction offered to purchasers of fashionable clothing, tho palatial store of Granville Stokes, No. GO7 Chestnut street, over thit of a’l competitors in tin tailoring art. The reidern of The Press ere particularly invited to make a note ofit. “What we Look foe bees'are Measures, not Min”—As the candidate said when he entered tho tailor shop. We look for both men and measures whoa we enter the fashionable portals of the “ Old Franklin Hall Clothing Emporium” of E. H. Eldridge, No. 321 Chestnut street. The Torch-Light Procession. —The streets through which the firemen’s procession pasted on Qatar - day night were literally ablaze with the torohes, &o , carried by the firemen. Every description cf light giving material was used, and the glare and glitter w ere unparalleled. Some of the torch-bearers oaught the greasy and tarry droppings from their flambeaux upon their clothes, and manv coats were ruined. Under these circumstances it is gratifying to reflect that tb ere Is a Brown Stone Clothing Hall kept by Bockhill & Wilson, at Noa. 608 and 605 Obeatnut street, above. Sixth, where any quantity of new and elegant garments can he proemed upon the ihortest possible notice. _ Don’t fail to see Herring’s Great Paint ing, “ The Tillage Blacksmith.” free exhibition; will positively o’ose to-day! AtB.H. Hunt’s, northwest ooroer of Fifth and Chestnut streets. 2t -Valve. $366,047 60 , 16,822 60 ~.$382*70 00 16,000 00 ~.$614,366 00
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