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"noV 'tKeir papers spite'.as.
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founded; we-’confess* We- bave-tg-SSy; in
■ larger :■ number . than- any^thor'journalin
thiB. Dtmiber x rias' rapidly-- and
that we we;, wu^y
oo«t^sbd ; ;Cohy«*idnC6;'instead;-;of;supply-'
ost v and latest dew's.' 17e walt, tO T tho ISBt
" malijt andj .'during the present week, have
thel : : Ajiibone,, and Newhall trial,-which
deeply :i lnterest»\ ; thtS^pttbllc;' ’Yesterday, for 1
6xainple,. .w,O;. had .'jSyiint;, columns , of, this
tri&l,rtnken;ln shorthand (iyrerbatim' re- ■
.never beenlequalled, in
fnlneßS t and ' clearness, by; any ■ ■jonrnal in
, the ;]ffhibn > i s ; '.ihe I ; i c.fbse Lof whlch did . not
reach, nsuntll between; (he .hours 1 of one
>nd'tiro'vin^the ! m6rn‘injgrfwhereBS, ; nofconp
of pnr eonjemporarien, with', far inferior 1
circulation, ■ tliatj case to. one-third
of that.-extenti' Had ire glyen' : ,a‘ mero
abatract-;df ':proceedingB' so interesting, as';
our neighbors dld, wo, could hayV been at',
presa'ao early;as 'they- were. -A little: d<K
lay,rpw»ibrialijVvia s our
'’ioi,
voiy,, greft‘'^irfc®atibh; ahd ;forY',ite.ri very ‘
lateatahdftiUest- nows.
Our Waahlugtoh' Correapondcnce.
Although weshali miss. Occasional,” our
ever-welcomo and constant Washington cor
respondent, from, ottr oolumns, for eome time
to oome, wo havo made ample preparations
for of securing the. best letters
and the’earliest' information'from 'Washington
dnringthe; session; ofOongressjwhichbegins
on Monday Tiexi;, ..The editor. oi, The .'Pbess.-
will himself .'weite ftpm tiie Fedetal Capital,
and
portaritdepartmantpf thepaper.v ’;- f J ;■ \
News.,
Late air ipes//rom-Meiloo repreaent thatooun
try in a mdiwrdtstragtad o'ondltibnthan eyer-The
rlval,partl«S l not only, warring against each
other.hut-hsdinternal-'dlffioultieslnthoir re-
ipao^rt 4
tween tTeraCrus andMexloo.-Juarozhas issued
a decree; 2 annulling all .odn tracts ( made by,
Zulosga. ;Jp#ipM)? protntataAVsiege,' has',
fallen into-thehandsof General Eoheagaray, who
immediatelyiisuedan
all thej - prisoners taken- r -The ' remainder of 'the
troops,; who, formerly occupied it undercommand
of GmerSi Trejos, only, one‘ hundred sit'd fifty in
immbor,arriyed atVera Crux on the 21« t uH. iu
a most deplorable cbndiiiou. AVera Crux cor;,
respondent ofihe Jfcw Orleans Prcrtyttno.says:
11 Ths polltical affairs of'this hnfortunate country
oreln'VmN thMettlodcohdltfonjandltlsimpba
sible taformian, idea'll hea, and" by' wbat means,
the revolution irltl be broeght to a conolnsloo. It
is supposed that we niay expectshortly an attack
on onr olly by -General : Eoheagsiray, but .as we
bare nbsr'twpl'rtnohandfonr Spanish vessels-of
war, wh So 'nbt lhinh y that' ahy’outragescan be
oommitted here.”: O;
The Cxllfornla ovorland mall, which erriyed at
6t. Louis, on Thursday!night, brought, sir passen
ssngers, inbludlng MrV MyKlbbln and Lieutenant.
Motrry,’ of Ariiona. Tboy'report that Territory
to be as aurifsrous as tbe most fayored : regions of
Cellforniu. The; aTerage. yield, to a good mlner,
is ten doliain per day, .eTen .when the rudest 'itn
: plementa aro used. The poputatlon of Ariioua is
oomputed at'fifteoh thousand. The reroluUon In
• Sonorai(still progressing.;, ,
On - Thursday . the Legislature of Sooth Carolina
snooeeded in 'elMUng a United States . in’
the person of the Hon. James Chestnut, president
of the jS.tala; Sraat*: .Thls.eieotlbh is. a. Blgnal
triumph tb.the ConseryatiTesdn the Lsgielathfe,
and J#; beUeTed;;tb, 1 hsye'jjeen'difongbt'about
through of /Sa’nator .Hammbnd, whl>
. was in Ooiimibia'at.the time of the eleetloh. 'Teh;
ballets werebad taall, ip' the .last,of whlbh.Oheat-’.
nut reoei»ed.92 Tbtss, shd Adams, (the slate trado
adtooate,p64; f , ; J’.V-
Abrll!laht/e'<s,,dtaighe(l:hy s ihefriehdsofHon.
Daniel £, Sioklss, to testify-theiy gratification at
bis rMenftrium|h;psa : :datdidatb‘fdrCopgteiajh
the Thira Cohgreiatohjatdistriot.Now York, ooonr
red on Thutsdiiy night l itt'HiblW Baopni;''.Tfieyii,
was 1 a largeopnpourse er iadles .ahd gohtiemeh—
many of the.tatler well known by their public'eta-,
iton Pr’prbferfbhrtfihnit^;',;.;;.
Hon. tVilliamPrastohi the hewAinerioan Min
ister to Spain; was In thls oity yesterday; Stapling
at the La Pierre House. '.V. ,V. . . ~,
The lerUtVinHewYork oltyforlBsBamoun ted
to *8,820.9*5 72,;and the truunht. ilready ■ paid is
*8,968,58f;0j, JsayjSig .*1,852389.71 yet to be 00l-
• iMtod; );}&i tf)> .v-w. Si ><>-. u 4-.
. The official s majQrity for -W» H-Kelrn, 1 bp position;
~«andtd&?f&!CoognKi la OH .Berks, is 469. It
Lab mission
; Wanner, U tb b*. ; appoint«d, nor
what new. experixnentHr. Buohanan wishes to try
;
The trial of AHlbone
in the (kmrJ o/ 7 QqMter and /a
lollreportof theproceedlogswill brfmthd Hour
columns •this' witnesses
wore M. Bailey, who iis connected
with the General’s office ;■ G. W. ChllcL
and JoWjtarnnm, directors o£ the Bank. j. T>.
. The (Pa.) Railroad has been finish
ed, and the 1 Icooiiotiyo onUred thathbrpugh for
the first ftmk Yrlday/theYStii alt. J, /-
On ThuredayimritheJ&dioiedNew Yorkofflol
als pleadSd fiot gotHyfand the trial ™ postponed
until Monday.next,.whena pan tlolone thousand
jurors trill
Jdiohael Oan<)eml wUI bo triedf for the fourth
Ho*,' at the OlroultCourt,‘ln Now.Tork, ohMoh-:
day neit..7lt,ia«ald thatMr.BlßntjtheDißtriot
AtteHeyj.d&gnatfrtafcey the-management of It
Into hta o>rn .MoMr«, B)a)tikman.aß4 A«h'
mead will opndnqtthe; defence." - ;(a - '
Profewor John S ; ’Hor<, of tSe ,; i*icfadelpMd'
Central;. High Sohool,: tendered hla &nal farewell
to the pupils of that laetltntlon, ae theirprincipal,
®e had'obonpled'that po«t;jror]ilxteen
yeara,
The Prejlient’J ineiiage andthe reports of the
Beads of the .d.partmepta. at Waahlagton, ere in
type, »ud «oin'e ‘of : theta Bays already been dUr
patched to different portion, of the country to be"
opened ee'ernn ee the reeding of the'menage in
Congress lk bbmtaenpea , ,^? VJ ' ? ’ ’
- The Demperatto■ State Convention of Virginia;
aalled to notalitate a sucoeseor to Governor Wise,'is
now in BeBfio.n ; atßiehmond, Va. A great deal of
intoreat le feU InJtho.rernlt of Its dellberitionsi
and the members are ‘ a good dead exalted. Hon,
John Irffeher.de :the eandldate of thoso who are
unfriendly, toldoVorhqf Wise, andße(irfteßer) ia
warmly opposed' by 'the adherents of the latter
gentlemanf-sf .' ; ; 1 "'if
The following jiff of Amerloana in Pariswaa re.-
gietered at the banking office of Meaner Xianaing
Baldwin, &,06,,;N5; 8' Plscede;li Bourse, from
November 4th to November 18th rPehdaylranla—
O
• J. 0 Montob»r.t;is. M,rfeeaiM, A'. Boat.,', 1 . Maaaa >
ohnsettß—J. E. Theyer, J, EltFoller, Or. P. Bald
win, J. D- BerinettiVOf.B. Blgelow,* W Br BnOhi
nan, W- P.' liewla', 0: Bob, B.;B;'Spaldlng and
, wife.. Conheotttu t—B. Day, wife and danghteir, J.
0. Day. Ohio— p.;c.- Oobb./Blahop, Mollyaloe,.
DelawateJOHyrrS. o,.Barney ahd wlfe. O«llfor
; n!a-;W. TufnbuU;";r-: -
; Jrom
Ihta oompttedfrom
the .the aworn appralaera appointed to
.make .tha ihventbTyi 'lt' epjrfiis that the whole' 1
,ataeimt waa. ; »3,4B3,939;B'9,‘‘divided' aa follows;
; . mannfaotoring |t001tW,|363,555; hJmkatoilpiVKjO,-
:#6S; 4s( j !;' rallro»4 >iool(s i
>•, .and bonds
' *B>»foaah off Band W
d 208,858.98."; ■'£*•£ .i •
Co
S Pennsylvanians from, the Dhltid § tafba'Paten tOf-
Mi-.rV
ewAihr k*
emenitrttkefnrnaeee'of.steamboilers'' Pat
i lnjBdghiStar'Mirr2iUi(MBs#s>s.';*-«.'t!. a."
|;^»W*‘*» , i4G*drPalni#r,of:littleitowD,
lmprovementjnpnmps. , ■ . ’
SWWT*B#II iftJtaf. MbJflpttoß press,
, j The Bpecial election in Berks, which has
irolultod in the defeat of' Washer, the Jonos-
Achninistration candidate, {aid the of
Glaerol W. H. Keix,
>l,|c6mpton nominee, has o.ofjropivcdfi Tory ;
•sqrdial greeting ftom the^or|raii!ofj'powef; ; '
;Tpis was to have been expected.' The per
sistenoy of the of'Bork’s, in giving
another rebuke to our Federal masters, is neith.
?r more ner less than contumacious treason.
•Did they not know that they were expected to
be the mere-creatures' or'power, with - no vo
lition but p/yo|s ibyt and no rights
save thpso which aro. doled out by Mr.
BuonAXAN,' in his ( new and extraordinary
position ai the''foe of the Democratic creed ?,
JTlie.C|enorai'Administration resolved to take
a fearful vongoanco for the defeat of Jkhu
'Not-only JwaOj bo< to, be reward
ed because -his constituents rejected him,
but atvtho .convention which nominated.a
for, the vacancy - id. the short ses
sion, no quarter was shown-to' anybody that
had refused to votefor Glahoy. Belying on
the supposed forbearance oftho Democracy of
old Berks; this convention roiterated the most
offensive sentbbehts^.attacked; the most eini
nept Domocrats, made JoHEstho idol of the
I , rcaidont,.,and rejected a resolution, in favor
pf the adtnissionbl Kansas in-the. Union out
side Of thequostion of population—a proposi
tion hoW accepted by every man'in’ the North.
Sirls'.thlS all.'; Beading is the' residence of
Gov. Paokeb’s hble and accomplished Secre
taiyof the Commonwealth, Hon. IV. M. Heis
teh. .Fewmon sbarea morouudividod public
confidence* - As, a Oem ocrat and a gentleman he
is wholly withoutreproaoh. And yet this Joses
convention refused, the slightest' allusion to
the Administration of which this favorite son
of old Berks !b' so' • distinguished a member;
AU affront so gross was, of course, the result
of 'orders' from W ashlngton;'' 0 utrages like"
thqae, followii)g after Mr. BudnASAH’s haughty
lhiulltp’ftje .people, 'in the of
a'rejectqd and Incapable publio seryant to a
.high',official position, excited a natural indig
nationin the public mind,andtho sequel was
no less natural. Goneial Keiii is complained
of asnot Being a Democrat.' According to
the rule laid down at Washington by the
President, he is a.yory good Democrat, in
deedr, Mr! JBuokAjAH.recopiised Hon. W; B.
Seed, oiir excellent Minister to. China, as a
good Democrat, on. ihe prestige- of a single
vpte for,the Democratic tioket;.and he also
sent . Hon.- Joseph R. OiixsDLEn to Naples
as our representative,-though it is donbtfhl
whetherhe even voted for Hr. BuoiiahAn in
18561 General Keisi voted for WilAam F.
; -PackeS > ’.i > B l lB67j'ahd this ought to make him
- a first-rate Democrat, tried by the Bugiianah
' standard, He, is,, besides, a, very sterling
citizen, a trne-hearied -Pennsylvanian, and a
devoted supporter of tbo principle of Popular
Sovereignty p and we have no doubt he will
fill Guancy’s place with infinite satisfaction to
himself andte his friends.
BY MIDNIGHT MAIL.
Ijettcrsfirom « Occasional*”
[Correspondenceof-IhePres*,], ;
• - - * i-WASHXNaro Hi Deo. 2,1858.
It would-so6m as if-Mr. Buchanan, not satisfied
with v surrendering Demooratio prinoipleaj is : re-'
' solved to tank the! old Demooratio eitadets of Penn*
sylvan!* into the strongholds of the Opposition.
- county has twice decided against the Ad*
ministration's candidates. He has given them
patronage and everything within his control, his
| have .barked Unceasingly at-the heels of
,those''who have Stood by the platform and the
principles of" the party',- yet Qlanby Jones and
have gone down before the popular indigo
nation like menlxtrloken with leprosy. Men have
-fled}from them as from a' contagion. Despite
though of contributions froth Go
vernment : clerks,; and tb** distribution of pamph
lets .frotn the'phbllo printing offiob of Cornelius
.Tfomiell,'' despite vilification of those who ‘ar
rayed themselves Upon' tfie Cincinnati platform
and |in opposition to ihe trehsen of the Adminis
tration attempts to disgrace them, Jehu and .his
associate Wanner are both condemned in a district
;whdre-the Demobratio majority heretofore has
hot lately' been less than 5,000. When before has
Berks Never U and now.she apes, not
fatter In support ef the principles, but only spurns
the ftsofnations of power and the false doctrines of
.Mr. Bdohanan’s*Administration.What-a~ Jouoa
•to hetq taught to the South! ,
' -It to stated that efforts ar.o, now being made to
force;slaveryupon' Arizona.A' movement is on.
loot to' restrict" emigration'there, by all possible
moan*,'tc thp'slayeholding States. Of oourse,
•when the polri£to f . ohce the free States oan
iapply the'larger' numbeyof emigrants; and the
country;'too; is not salted U) the institution. Just
now slaves may be profitably.employed in working
fihe sliver, and quicksilver mines, but when the
news gets 'abroad,, tlurough , Oalifomia and elso-
Wherct’ thatmbneyU to he rnia in that.quarlcr,
Indians and ChlnAse can be Mred to work much
■cbeappiywith ho attendant responsibility jike that
which attaches to the ownership of slaves. *' ~
Ihave not least ? doubt; frbinthe signs about
me; ‘th at'ihe.h anger s-on of - Mr. Buchanan,seeing
that_tbe sceptrels to pass' from 1 their grasp, will
.xhakejherfven-aßd earth bend tb their schemes for
•securing not only all the; patronage of thisAd-
bat, byJ aotlon in advanoe, of what
ever they.oanof the jaext., The Leoompton'ior-
generally avowedly in a state of decay;
/'Jheir decrepitude Is lamentable and truly piteous.
Day after day/they ory out for assistance to stay
'them a little while longer as they totter along
to extinction!, v But it would seem that a large
hope of ultimate reward has'led, many of. the
martyrs _to (he Kansas policy of, the Admlnistra.
tioDtb comblnete, secure the oensus printing
.fpt ISBOj .a - nice job of noariy two millions.
How the division is to be made when the prisa
-U bapturedj- whetherj the distribution of tho
printingV or‘the, ' post',’ office, blanks is. to be
a precedent or not, and. whether it has been fixed
;tba,t.Cornelius Wendell ds .to do all the work, and
to be general treasurer of tbo fund, is not within
'my, information. Probably a new paper is to be
.Started tb inouloafe the delectable idea that whilst
CoßgreM may-intervene in the Territories to force
tho Territorial Legislatures to pass municipal regu
lations for the protection of slavery in their midst,
•yet Congress, as a converse of the
-Intervene for the .prohibition of that institution.
Certainly, it ia right, as Democrats and national
nt«o have always Contended, that the true Intent
and meaning of ijhb Kansas-Nebraskaact/Was not
to legislate riavery into, any of the ’Territories,
.nor io exclude it therefrom, but to leave the poo
-plo thereof perfeotiy free to form and regulate
.tlxe4 inthelr own way. These
;ueii,.to run their' sohemes through, may try to
keep back ; the . appropriation bills, and thus
. frighten the timid with a fear of an extra session
of Congress; but that will not do. There will be
ln; the House, I think, to make the
next a The financial condition
of thoQovermnent, and the demands of the ma
nufacturing,' and other, industries of the opnntry,
are= not• to ‘be. 5 overlooked, and, if I judge right*,
will not,' whatever Mr. Bnohanan. may say
andyecommend to the contrary.-
: <-The colamns for the extension of theOapitol are
to'be.of whito and of American marble.
It is-stated that the advertisement for Amerio&n
marble throws this large contraot, at their own
prices, into the hands of one or two firms, who
have the only quarries in the country; It is right
that ..the Administration should provide for its
friends, whilst at Uxe.samo time it protects Amo*
rfoan products. It was stated a year ago, and at
groat length-‘and with largo words, that the Go
’Vernment: would "always advertise for and use
•American iron in the construction of the buildings
and works authorised: by law; :but the Sootoh*
pipe contract, was a damper upon the hopes
engendered 'by that flourishing announce
mesh Amerio&n marblo, and Amerio&n sugar,
and Amerioan cotton, are-lotted after and
oared for. - Now, why should not Amorioan
iron, the greatest interest of one of the greatest
States In the Commonwealth, and the great inter
est of halfla.dosen, States, also be protected? JLs
it Pennsylvania is Mr. Buchanan’s own
State, arid he is of too sensitive and delicate a na
ture ;to have ! it said that he helped her beoause
'she is is own' State? It is right to proteot
Ambrioatt iron if it be right to proteot Amerioan
sugar and Amerioan marble,And it ought to be
done.’-:;-, ' £ - ’ ■
>yMembers, are flocking in, and a good deal of
spepalatioA of all sorts is Indulged in. Colonel
Orr has taken occasion to repeat, since he has been
here,/his conversational opinions of last year.
The great mistake of the honorable'Speaker was
*tbe appointment of the'special oommltte* on the
■Kansas question. That Was-a capital blunder,
; of whioh, I think, he was as much ashamed
aa hls best friends. Ido not . think he would do
.so at this ewaioDr even if he had the ohonoe.
r .Thequarrelsof the New York ollqueskeep the
President' in constant hot water. Pigbting, as
most of these ollques art/over spoils alone, they
are COnsequehUy more bitter than if they differed
Ah.prinoipleS. , Mr.. Siokles, who has thus far ad
heredtp' the .Administration, is resolved to submit
to no morb .»«weakness in the knees’* as to the
.the olty officials, as he plainly intimated in his
speeoh after hlMlectlon.
It U now announced that Senator Douglas will
pot be In his seki till early In January.
Bigler is ' ekoessivoly grieved, at the
.seopnd defeat of the. Jones party in Berks oounty.
,fi[e yras rejoiced .at. the rejection‘of John, and
moat, anxious that Wanner, though a Jones
.map,AhottidJgo : ; in,,ih order to show that if J’ehu
anybpdy ol.se could be oleoted.. .
'/ already Hivo Senatprs/who.
intend to de&oonoe, on the floor of the Senate, the
Rochester speech of Governor Seward, and I lake
it for granted they ore not all, of that party who
will do so. You may readlji?/imagine
effeot upon tho <party. m well aßfupon its
,opj^nents % from its promi
’nent lowers. Talleyrand, alluding to the execu
tion of jtoi Duke D’Enghien, said, “ it was worse
than a ertajs, It f was a wtMfc&ts,”. Something of
the kind might' be skid of Governor Seward’s
speech. i
The Administration Is expecting heavy assaults
upon It on the soore of lavish expenditure, and,
indeed,.seem to-think thatwill be the great string
on whioh tho Opposition intend to play this ooming
session, and for tho campaign of 1860. To meet
and turn aside this-attaok, it is said the estimates
tojbe submitted to .Congress will be on a reduood
male to those of previous years, fihd that they
haye even been cut,down belowwhat wili aotually
bereqaired.
It is a startling foot that the revenue of tho
Post Office falls nearly or quite eight millions
shprt of covering its This state of things
should not-be allowed to 'continue, and the Post
Office should he made to at least maintain itself
and not be stioh a heavy drain upon the Treasury.
The overland mail route to the Paoifio costs $600,-
oofe per annum alone.
You have noticed the oontinued miserable ap
pointments for our foreign representatives, both
diplomatic and consular. With a few, and a very
few, honorable exooptions, there never was snob a
wrotohed set seleoted for those important and re
sponsible positions, and they seem to be getting
wone and worse as further appointments are
made. - .
The Swiss mercenary, Grand, is now abroad in
Europe, os a confidential seoret agont of tho Go
vernmont—a fellow who has been the libollerof
the Country as the oorrespondent of European
journals, and the libeller ofevery Administra
tion whioh was unwilling or refused to ohoke him
off •by office or rewards. Mr.-Pieroe promised
him an important consulate, (I think to Mar
seilles,) whioh he subsequently, under the force of
publio oplnion, had to reoall, and Grand immedi
ately assailed him in the fiercest mannor. Hr.
Buchanan has not had the moral oourago to resist
him. Occasional.
Wabhisgton, Deo. 3,1858.
Your remarks about the manner in whioh the
seoret,service fund is managed and distributed
have oreated somo stir in high quarters. Grand’s
mission is evidently paid for out of the fund, and
so, doubtless, was Wlkoff,,on. his late pleasure-trip
to Franoe and England. How many more dilapi
dated diplomats are supported out of this fund is
a seoret buried in the Department of State. :
The speech of Horn Henry Jookson, of Ga., late
minister at the Austrian Court, in support of the
policy of the Administration and against Judge
Douglas, ooplodinto the£7Vucmofta*day,l oommend
to your espeoiai attention. The Union endorses it
os a rare, production. Mr. Jaokson has been ab
sent from the oountryjast long enough to have
fallen in love with the worst dogmas of despotism.
liooompton is but another typo of Anßtrianism,
and Mr. Jaokson fell in with it naturally. But
he ought to reoolloot that the attempt to make
this heresy a test upon Demoorata is a somewhat
hazardous and doubtful undertaking.
Postmaster General Brows is struggling, with
auoh energies as a orafty aspirant who has muoh
patronage to bestow possesses, to seoure the nomi
nation at Charleston to the Vioe Presidency.
You will reoolloot that .1 informed you some
time since, that the papers in the pay of
the Post Office Department had received
instructions to copy from the. Washington.
Union the artiole generally known to have been
written by Mr. Brown himself, presenting his
pretensions to suoeeed Mr. Breokinridgo in the
adulatory style peculiar to the Postmastor Gene
ral. In’ that artiole he dropped his.old and em
phatio soubriquet of “ vicarious,” and assumed
tho title of “ our indomitable Postmaster Gene
ral,” a pardonable vanity in a weak old man with
lofty aspirations. The quidnuncs in Washington
were xnuoh amused on observing that the postmas
tor at Erie, Pa., had published so much of the pro
ceedings only of a meeting held at Santa Clara,
California, on tho 16th of Oatobor last, under the
autfpioes of the overland mail qontrAotors, as refers to
his ohlof, the Poßtmastor General. The editor and
proprietor of the Erie Observer (Mr. Sloan, now.
postmaster of that olty) is a shrewd man, fami
liar 'with the weakness of the head of his depart
ment, and too careful of his position to jeopardize
It. by publishing. the' joint resolutions pasßed at
Santa Clara in. favor, of the Postmaater General
and Jqmeß Gordon Bennett, of the New York
Herald . That portion which oomplimented Ben
nett the Erie Oiisrvrr suppressed, presuming that
tho association of Mr. Brown’s name with that of
the ogre of the N. Y. Herald might prejudice the
venerahle oocupant of the Post Offioe Department
in hlfl pretensions to succeed Mr.. Breokinridgo.
The other Administration penny whistles have
omitted the resolution eompiimontary of Bennett,
hhtjmhlished tbo one laudatory of the Postmaster
General. "Was tats omission ~s&tiß6a~uy contempt
for Bennett, or did the command proceed from
Washington? I presume the latter was the oasei
as assimilation would have directed otherwise if
tho'p&rties in Philadelphia had been left to them
selveß. You know the old adage of (< birds of a
feather,” Ao.
Senator Bigler Is determined not to permit oar
venerable and ambitions Postmaster General to out
strip |iim in this modest and honorable mothod of
self-praise. A recent article; in one of his bugles,
‘bears such unmistakable evidence of baring either
been written by Bigterhimself, or diotated by him,
that it baa oreated nothing but a feeling ofoon’
tempt among tbe intelligent sojourners in Wash
ington. Very little short of imbeoility could h&vo
induced Senator Bigler to boast of bis peouniary
means, and then seek to obtain oredit with tbo
.masses for making so little display as he does, al
leging that be prefers to lire in retirement among
tbe hard-fisted Demoorooy of Olearfield oounty to
shining with borrowed lustre amidst the fashionable
society at tbe seat of Government. Parsimony
often regulates a man’s oondaot, and Senator Big
ler has never earned tbe distinguished title of
“open-handed,” eithor in charity or social inter
course.
It Is now thought by seme that the gentleman
whom Mr. Buohanan intended particularly to re
buke by his allusion to the corrupting tendency of
the ose of money to infiuenoe elections is a certain
high functionary of this city, who visited Lancas
ter oounty on strictly private business a short
time before the eleotion; bnt I hear, on the
other hand, that while there he took great oare to
manifest no interest whatever in the contest for
Congress thin pending in that oounty, and con
tributed no money to infinenoe the result.
Some doubt is expressed of Jehu Jonoa’s confir
mation ; but Senator Bigtor is determined to send
him abroad, (bathe (the Senator) may the better
monopolise the President, so far os Pennsylvania
is oonoorned, and thus bask in tho sunshine of
Mri Buphanan’s countenance, relieved of the pro
senoe of any other rival hut the ardent and perti
nacious Robert Tyler. What a strange medley this
trio wil| make!
This will b® the lost letter of “ Oooasional” for
some time. My avocations here will prevent mo
from giving that attention to this correspondence
whioh it deserves. Should I ever have leisure to
write, you may hear from me at intervals. Bat
for the present my jottings must be omitted.
Fire at Norristown.
(Oorrespoodence of The Press.)
Norristown, Pa., Deo. 3,1858.
Mr. Editor : About ten o’olook, last night,
your correspondent was awakened from the arms
of Morpheus by a terrific ory of (( firo!” On
gaining the street, he found it to be a large
frame stable attached to thaJeflersonvillo Hotel,
owned by John Beard, and rented by A. Burst.
It contained a vast amount of hay and straw, to
gether with a valuable lot of farming] utensils,
inolading a mowing and roaping machine, ail of
which were consumed. Our energetic firemen
were promptly upon the ground, and desorve
spooial praise for their exertions in saving the
adjoining property. If there had been an
easterly wind, the destruction of the wholo vil
lage would have boon inevitable. The loss will
probably roaoh $5OO. I havo been unable to
obtain information whether it was Insured or not.
It is supposed to be work of an inoendiary.
Kespootfuliy yours, F. H.
Auction'.Noticb. — There is now arranged for
examination an attractive assortment of German?
town knit goods, to bo sold this morning by B.
Scott, Sr., auctioneer, at salesroom 431 Chestnut
street. The sale comprlsos basques, talmas, shawls
hoods, riggolets, nubias, boas, gauntlote, gloves,
hosiery, undershirts, drawers, &o , <fco., of best
Btyles, and suited to host olty sales.
. Elegant and Plain Kbsidencbs, business
stands, farm, country seat, &a. Largo sale on
Tuesday next, 7th Inst, sixteen properties, some
of them very Valuable, and to bo sold peremp
torily, by order of executors and others. See
Thomas A Sons’ advertisements and pamphlet
catalogue, issued to-day.
Wb invite, attention- to the advertisement of a
valuable wharf property in Baltimore, to be sold
at auction. We are assured that this property
oould be rendered very productive as a coal depot,
or for any business requiring extensive frontage
or deep water.
Valuadle Books Direct froh London.—A
very valuablo collection of London books, to be
sold next woek, now arranged for examination at
the auction rooms with catalogues.
Christmas Presents—A piano or melodeon,
either of whioh J. E. Gould, Seventh, ond Chest
nut streets, can. furnish in perfection. His stock
Is large and oarefully seleoted.~
Labckny.—On Thursday evening, about
nine o’clock, as au officer was walking along Beoond at.,
he came up with a man, who gave his name * fl J°j®pk
Jones, who had in his possession a large roll or drugget,
con taking about thirty-seven yards, which he *s al
leged to have' stolen. The man was takeu before Re
corder £neu snd committed Tbe drugget may be se«n
at the office of the Recorder, corner of Fifth and Chest
nut streets.
Her Name.-— The name ol the woman, who
.Was so severely burned on Thursday afternoon, and ad
mitted to the hospital, was Mrs. Gorman; nearly sev
enty-five years or age.. She died about six o’olock
yesterday oaring, from the effeot of her injuries.
THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1858,
THEOOoam
THE ALLIBONE..AND NEWHALL CASE.
[Reported for TkfeP/eas.J
Quabtbe Sessions—Judge Thompson.—
The coart was opened at 10 o’elock, and the jurymen
having answered to their name?,
8. N. Daily affirmed—l am employed in tho office of
the Auditor General of the Commonwealth; I have
two. reports which reoeived it the office from the
Bank of Penisyitaoia; i brodght them' here from the
"Auditor General’s office In consequence of a subpoena.
Mr. Longhead This witness is custodian of those
papers. 1 do not offer them no#, but winh to have"
them identified, bo that he oan go back to Harrifebunr
It ia r&thtaout of its ordAr. B '
George W. Ohllds Swotn.—l was a director of ih’e
Bank of Pennsylvania, Irom February, 1867. until
the snipension: I was reguUr In my attendanoo at the
board j Mr Alllbone, afl president) WSs pretty regular
in his attendance j be was seldom abaent; Mr. Newball
aoted m prealde&t ita hie absence} the nenal businees
traneaoted at tbe board was the disoountirg of notes: I
know of no authority given by tbe board to Mr. Hew
hall, in July; 1857. or afterwards, to Bell bills of ex
change upon credit {1 know of no authority given to thd
president of tho bank to pnrobaae a bill for *50,001) of
Mr. Netrhall l ; thoSe subjects wete never brongbt to thb
attention of the board..
Mr. Longhead. Btate what authority, if aoy, was
given to the president, by the board, to dra# money
out of the bank, and charge it to transient discount
asuoont,
Mr. Wharton. The rales and regulations of the
bank, which are in evidence, having been put in by the
District Attorney, relate to this subject-matter. There'
is a rale .investing the president with discretionary
power in the matter of discounting.
Mr. Loughead. ’ What rule t
Mr. Brewster. The fourth article of tho by-laws, on'
page forty-two of the printed volume, provides that if In
cases also of mistake, or accident, or Urgent necessity/'
when the board or a committee cannot bo in session to
act, a note may be renewed or discounted, according to
the sonnd discretion and judgment of the prtSidont.’’
Mr. Longhead. There is no difiionUy about that.
That does not interfere with my question, whioh is.
what regulation was made by the board giving the
president authority to draw checks on what was known
as the transient discount account 7
Mr. Wharton. Onb moment. The Commonwealth
put in etldettde certain printed regulations of the bat.k.
I suppbSed. of oonrse, that the District Attorney was
familiar with the rules and regulations which-he put
inevidenoe.
Mr. Loughead. Yea, sir. -
Mr. Wharton. I suggested,however,ktthetime, that
If,there was any particular point in those rales and.
regulations Which hft intended at a future stage of tho'
cause to draw our. attention to, he should be good
enough to dolt then. The District Attorney said he
had no special point to Which to ask attentiob in those
rales and regulations.
Mr.' Longhead. In the charter, bat I intended to
read all the by-laws.
Mr. Wharton. ,0/ oourse, and we considered them ps:
read at that time. Now, it to happens that one of those
rules lays down .the course of the president in regard
to the matter of discounts. It seems to me that after
having given evldenoe upon that subjoot, in the absenoe
of any testimony on tbe part of .the defendants—(our
time has not oome, and I do not know that on this par
tlcnlar point the time will ever arrive for ns tossy any
thing mote than there is- in these rales and regula
tions) —tho Commonwealth cannot ask a particular di
rector whether there was anything upon the subject
matter so as to leave the inference that the defendants
acted irregularly. It is at least Irrelevant; it is the
introduction of matter Inconsistent with evidence al
ready given by the Commonwealth, and can lead to-no
usefnl purpose.
Mr. Longhead. By no means, sir. ThA by-law which is
referred to by my learned friepd provides for a temporary
case, Where there was an urgent necessity or a mistake,
and gaY6 the president in such eases power to discount.
The by-law is not very explicit on that subjeot. 1 de
s’gn to »how by this witness ’ that ho report of these
things, or any of them, if they were done, was ever'
mado to the board; that the board was in fact ignorant
of this large account known as the transient discount
account. They knew of the power given by the by-law
to tbo president to discount occasionally in temporary
exigencies, and'doubtless occasional instances oi snch'
discounts came to their knowledge, whioh they sup*
posedwere all; and I desire to fasten those Individaal
instances as near as possible, in order to show by the
directors that these thioga wore carried on without
their knowledge, were concealed from them, and that
these large Sams of money were taken ont of the bank
as If for.transient discounts, when no. report of them
was ever made, as it should have been, bjlthe president
to the directors; that there was no fuod set apart by
the directors for transient disoonnt purposes; that they
did not know there was such ah account existing in the
btnk, extending over the space of time it did, against
which the president was drawing in the manner in
whioh he was drawing. In other words, (for it amounts
to tbat.l I propose to show that the board were entirely
ignorant of all that was done by tbe president in refe
rence to this account; that, except in one or two in
stances of oooasional discounts, which were reported to
and were known by the directors, and which tho di
rectors of course supposed were all that were in exist
ence, the board had no knowledge of this thing being
carried on.
Mr. Wharton. May it please yonr Honor, the District
Attorney has changed his ground in his answer to my
objection. The question which he put to tbe witness was
• in regard to the anthbrlty given to the president to use
the funds of tbe bank in transient discounts. My ob
jection to that was that there was a printed regulation
giving to the president that authority, which regula
tion had been previously put in evidence by the District
Attorney. Now, in answer to my objection, he pnts
his point npon the ground that the president failed to
report his use of this dlsoretlon in drawing npon the
lands of .the bank for transient discounts, to the board
of directors, so that ther were kept in ignorance of his
transactions; That is very differest from the gronnd
that was first taken. If the District AtWoev desires
to present that difficulty to ns, he most begin by show
ing that there was a direction given to the president
in the regulations of the board to make reports to the
board of what ho did In the matter of transient dis-r,
counts. There is no such matter yet pnt in evidence.
He most lay the gronnd for this point—to-wit, a ne
glect of duty on the part of the president in sot report
ing the condition ofthe bank in the matter bf transient
discounts to thedlreoiors—upon some previous evidence
that there was snob a regulation binding on the presi
dent, which he failed to perform. When that is offered,
we shall be ready to meet it. There is no such attempt
yet made. I argue, and any one would argue, from the
• feirno uf UirtVW7-la«r r *b«* «rnu»ttav (o JommltUd
to the discretion of the president, it is left with him,
and that if the board intended to supervise tbe discre
tion of the president they would say ao by soma regula
tion.. Thrre is no regulation that I have yet seen to
whioh our attention has been directed, requiring the
president to make a report to the board of hts doings
in tho matter of transient discounts, 1 end that he failed
to do that. Tour Honor will observe that if it is in
tended to take the ground that the president kept the
board in ignorance of his doings contrary to their
rales and regulations, it is very easy to show tho rules
and regulations whioh required him to make report.
If there was no rule or regulation on the aubject, the
matter was committed to his absolute discretion. If
the board ever sat at any time to regnlate that discre
tion by requiring a report, let It be shown that the re
quest was made, and that he failed to comply with the
request. I r there was nothing done by the bosrd npon
thesnbject, their Bllenoe was an affirmation of the
tra® meaning of that rale whioh committed the whole
matter to his discretion
But there is another objection, th*t; unless it is in
tended to connect this la somo wsytrith Mr. Newball,
it fails within the principle of your Honor’s ruling
several times on previous points of this cose. I sup.
pose, from the offer, after what has occurred, that the
District Attorney intends to follow it up with some evi
dence connecting Mr. Newhallwitb It in eome war; bnt
at present, without that, there is the objection I have
already stated.
Judge Thompson. Of course, it must be connected in
some way with Mr. Newhall, or else it would not be
evidence; but we must endeavor to get on step by step.
As I understand the offer, it is this: there was a by
law whioh allowed the president, wider certiln.circam
stances,.to discount; and it is proposed to Bhow that,
acting under that authority, be very far exceeded any
proper limits, and went on to disoonnt to an extraordi
nary extent; that by doing so it actually beoame a fraud
upon the.haok. That I understand to be the tendency
or this evidence, that, under a by-law'which authoris’d
him. when a committee could not b® present, or when
the board were notin session, to nre this power, he west
os, and as a common occurrence did it until there arose
a very large deficiency resulting from this condnot on the
part or the president. If that can bo connected hereafter
with Mr. Newhall’s coaduot under the eame circum
stances, and it oan be so inferred that there was a
union, a combination, between them to do this, it would
be evidence, in this case Now, tbe first question Is
on this offer, which is to show that,/ acting appa
rently under that by-law, the president went very far
beyond, to suoh an extent that it may be fairly left to
tho jury to eay whether it was bona Jitte or not. That
I understand to be the present question.
Mr. Lougheid. Precisely.
Mr. Thayer. Allow me to suggest a single point. It
seems to mo. may it please the Court, that this evi
dence cannot be proporly admitted to affect Mr. New
hall !a any way, simply because Mr. Newhall made the
five discounts to which Mr Haverstlck referred in hie
testimony yesterday, unless it is offered to show that
there was something wrong In those five discounts. In
other words; they mast connect Mr. Newball with Mr.
AUlbone’s discounts In orderto give bis transactions in
evidence against us; and now, If the District Attorney
offers to show thatby means or this transient discount
account, or any other account, Mr. Newhall made a
solitary discount which was not paid in full to the bank,
I have nothing to say.
Judgo Thompson.' Unless that is done, of course it
cannot affect Mr. NAwhall.
Mr Thayer. I only wish it to be understood tbat'
this is not evidence against us, and cannot be admitted
npon tbe ground of connection, unless it is offered to
snow that Mr. NewhaU's discounts were not pa'd, be
cause that Is the only point of view in which it could
be admitted,
Occasional.
Judge Thompson. Undoubtedly, that must hereafter
be shown; but now the only question is, shall wo ad
mit testimony tendkg to a fact in order to ascertain
whether there is any evidence In the case *o affect the
parties. We mustgetatthat evidence in someshape or
other; and asl have already said,if itia to be shown here
after that Ur. Newhall participated in this extension of
the transient discount line to such an extent that fraud
on the bank might be inferred from it, it would be evi
dence In the cause; bat if each connection shonldnot
be shown, it would not be evidenco.
Mr. tioaghead. I design to show it
Ur. Wharton. Your Honor will allow me to suggest
respectfully, that it seems to me the suggestion made
by the court is net the point exactly of the queatlen
{utby the D'strJct Attorney to the witnoM. The ques
ton to which I objeoted, was whether any authority
was given by the directors to tho president to use the
power of transient discounting.
Judge Thompson. That Is given by tho by-iaw, and
it may be shown by this witness that tho president did
really act under that by-law; that is, that he did exer
cise the power, because it cannot be taken for grantod
that every power lififhe by-laws was exercised.
Mr. Wharton. That was the first vlow of my objec
tion. That we all seem to agree about. Now the wit
ness aays he knows nothing as a member of the board
about the exorcise of the power by the president.
Mr. Leu (head. He has not yet said that.
Judge Thompson. He said no reports were made to
the hoard on that snbjoct.
Mr. Longhead. I desiro to follow out in good faith
the intimation of the conrt, to do just as your IJonor
has indicated ; to show that the use of this account was
a fraudulent use; that this special power, which was
given fora temporary purpose according to the by-laws
of the board, was used for fraudulent purposes, was used
for the purpose of abstracting tho roods of the bank
improperly; that, instead of being a transient account,
aa this was for the exigency of the occasion, it was used
as a fund to enable the president and his eoadjotoi to
draw large sums of money from the bank and use It for
themselves improperly.
Mr. Wharton. If the District Attorney will approach
that subject by questions, very well.
Ur. Loaghe&d. I cannot prove all these fsete by one
witness. I must prove my cane stop by step, witness by
witness. lam obliged to fit it in, to doveta’l it. Now
I offer to prove that the board knew nothing of these
large transactions, or that if any were known at all they
were Just such os were contemplated by this section of
the by-laws. I do not desire to discuss the question
any further.
Judge Thompson. I think I understand tho position
of the matter.
Examination of Mr. Obilds continued —Reports
were made by Mr. Newhall when he was acting presi
dent, of the transient discounts; I did not know of a
large fund under the name of transient discount; I
knew that the president loaned money after the board
had sat; I never examined the books containing the
trooslent discount acoouut after the bank had failed;
there was no official knowledge in the board of such an
account as the transient discount account; H did not
know that the president had loaned money between
boards by any offidal^report; I was not consulted by
the president as to loons, except they came before the
board; we met twice a week in the bank; notes that
were offered for discount were read off ftt»m the books;
they were discounted or not, aa tho board thought pro-
Ser; the balances of deposits were reported to us, and
3e operations of the bank were reported every week ;
the notes discounted, the state of the bftfik, its indebt
edness, Ac., aM which was lu tho book oa the table,
that we wight look at; there were several books; I
dou’l know the uamea of them all; one was called “ the
Btaleof theßsuk.” [Book showu to witness j That
is tho book called the State of the B ink; I was only in
the bank a lew months; I don’t know the names o' all
thebooki, the president wts la the habit of making
loansbOtween boards ; be ne*er reported these loans;
I xerer inqutted about these loans Trom him 5 I did not
think it neoßßSary ; I did not know officiary that there
was a large ecconat called the temporary loan account,
aaalnat Whioh the president was drawing; I did not
fenott at all that there were largo checks drawn against
tf'O U K CiC DAY.
FbidaV, December 3,1858.
the temppr&ry loen .coouiit; it ra without rir kuo#.'*
ledge entirely.
CtoM-examined by -Mr. feever under*
stood.that iU van to be reported tb the bosrd that Mr. Al- J
iloone Bought bins of exchange; I did not understand
that thA board was to be.previously consulted about
theae/.transactions; it would have been imp sslble to
have called the board together‘when he bought all these
bills of .exchange ; there was do request .made to the
president ,U> report any of these matters ta the
board; I have bad'pceafitOn to DUy and sell etohange,
and I kno# it wottldbe irapofsible to call the board to
gethbir upqu these occasions; I know of no by-law that
rendered it necessary for the president to report thefe
matters; I know it,was tho habltof the president to
make these loans, bat I do not know to what particular
account they were charged; it would be perfectly proper
to charge these loanstotranalontdiscountor tempo-ary
loan, If the .transactions took.place between the meet
ings df the board { it would bo proper far the president
to draw bis check for that purpose | there were several
books Submitted to tbO“dirbctora, braldea thb »< State
ment of tbe bonk;” there Was a general ledger
the rest; I never examined it; can’Uajr what accounts
'it contained; that would be tho proper plOto to put such
accounts asl have'referred to; if suoh accounts wore >
ih the general there was nothing to prevent tny
bfcAminauon of them, if Y desired; I suppose itwaa a
matter of general knowledge with the, board that the
president made these transient diaeount loans; tne
genor&l ledger was always accessible to the beard; I
never heard of any objeotion by the president to the
exercise of tbe powerjl have spoken of; so far astknhw,
there was no concealment as to these acooVmts.
To Mr. Thayer. The amodnt of the loans was re
ported to the board-r-all the loans—the aggregate. It
wotild appear from day to day whether these loans were
Increasing or diminishing in amount. The state of the
•bank waft a matter of special report. All the loans
w"e?e lead off by the president—the aggregate—and sta
ting whether they were more or Iseb than at the previous
meeting. ’ *
‘ Re-examined by the Distrlot Attorney —There Was
no list of the loans read by the president. No names
were read, onJy the aggregate. .The book Balled - the’
State of the Bank ftas one of the books that were read
froth by the president The Statement was the aggre
gate of the loans for thq week, f Hook of “ the fiiateef
the Bank” hahded to witness J Tbo president read the
line at each meetiog sbofringthe amount of bills did
counted, exchange, and loans. The president did not
l&ad all these, he only read the aggregate, t. don’t re
member-whetker there was another book read by him.
Mr. Longhead. Purpose you just read to us the lines
that Mr. Alllbooe read to the board, running through
from your eleotion as director to.the failure of the
bwk.
' Mr. Thayer. May it plea»e_tbe,Oourt, Ido not know
what is in this book, and, *lherefore, do not know
whether be prejudicial to' ffiy client or npt t ■
but Ido know that auy reports made to the board of
directors cannot b« made to affeot tny client, uuteas It be
first proved that be was present when those reports
wbre made, or that in soide shape or manner he adopted
those reports, or hal something to do with them.
Mr Longhead. We are on one branch of the subject
nlw, ahd we shall follow it op afterwards by showing
NewbaU’s connection with the accoUdt
Judge Thompson. Of,oourse, unless Mr. Newhall is.
In Htrtne'Way connected with this. It oannot affeot him.
The only question Is, Rball evidence be offered to rhow
whatwss’tho transaction’ and then the District At •>
torney is obliged by testimony to oonneot Mr. Newball
wtih this transaction; otherwise, of courso,.it goes for
abthtag., .
, Mr. Loughead. That is understood.'
Mr. Thayer. Tour Honor has hitherto laid down a
very salutary rule in regard to tho admission of evi
dence 1n this ease—to .wit, that you would require the
Distrlot Attorney first to conoeot the defendants, and
then to give the evidence whioh regarded them. Tour?
Honor Vrillvety readily perceive how prejudicial it might
be to these defendants to go on'for days with evidence
of matters with which one of them had nothing to do
if the District Attorney Were then to fail to prove what
he intimates he oaa prove—their connection. I hum
bly submit that the regular mode would be first to show
the oooneetion; but I do not think that anything ought
to be taken for granted, or that any collateral issues
ought to be tried in this ease, or that any evidence
oqght to be admitted which may affect the minds of tbe
jurors, until it bo first shown that both of thedefendants
were privy to those transactions. I think that the or
dor of evidence in a criminal oase ia bf the essence of
the ease, and as your Honor has adhered to that rule
hitherto in the questions of evidence whtoh have ari
sen, I hope you will continue to de so.
Mr. Longhead. I think I understand the direction
which was made.
Judge Thompson. I have already said this morning,
that It seems to me, that if Mr. Allibone. acting as pre
sident of the bank, went beyond the rules of the bank,
and committed a fraud, and if he at intervals ap
pointed Mr- Newhall in his place, and if Mr. Nowhall
did tho same thing, it would be eVldence from whioh
the jnry might infer a connection, a combination The
question of combination or conspiracy is not to be deri
ded on by tbe court; it is not a question oflaw; it is a
question of faot; the evidence must tend to prove It, and
the jury are to determine upon tbe weight of that evi
dence when It is before them. Now, anything which
does not tend to prove such a conspiracy, the court of
course Is bound to overrule; bnt where it has a tendon
or to prove a-fraud on the part of Mr. Allibone, and is
accompanied by'a declaration on the partof the District
Attorney, that he intends to connect both parties with
that fraud, by showing that Mr. Newhall did the same
thing, and it is for the jury then to say whether it was
under a combination or understanding, I think that Is
evidence. Now, In order to do that, you must begin
either with Mr. Allibone or Mr. Newhall, to show that
one or the other of them did this thing. It iS admitted
that they did sot do it together at the same moment of
time, but it is contended tbat they fol owed each other
in doing this, and that from thoir so following each
other, and doing the eame thing in the sme manner and
with the same results, a combination may be inferred.
It is a question for the jury to say whether there was
auy combination in doing these transaotlons. Ido not
see any other way la which a conspiracy can ever be
tried, because.lt Is a secret offence. People do not go
together Id carrying ont a contpiraoy, and the gist of
the matter Is the combination before they do a single
act, but you are to infer the combination from the acts
done by each of tberi. If thei are acts which can
be explained, upon the Idea that they might have been
done without any combination at alt, they make out
nothing; they do not show the conspiracy ; but, in or
der that the jnry may ascertain whether there was any
, conspiracy, yea must get the sots before them in some
way or other. I have admitted this evidence np to this
time upon the express understanding that, inasmuch
os each of these gentlemen is to be shown to have done
the same thing, and that Mr. Newhall was placed in the
position to do this thing by Mr. Allibone, the jnry
might infer from that, if the evidence justified it, an
understanding that it should be done in this way.
That seems to me to come within the rule of conspi
racy.
Mr, Loughead to the witness. Mr. Childs, I under
stood yon to say that the directors had before them the
statement whien the president read, and. could read It
for themselves.
Tea, sir,
wr. Loagiioaq.—»fc«n r }t'W«n the account of tbs
amount of bills receivable which the bank had. and
the amount which it had loaned since the last hoard
day?
Witness. Tea, sir. I did not know that the presi
dent was loaning to any such exteot as hundreds of
thousands of dollars; Xam not aware that there was
anyimpossibilltyln the president reporting to the hoard
thetransaotlons in sterling account; I do not know
whether the by-laws required it; I read the book of
by-laws after the bank failed—notbeta*.
To Mr. Brewster. We knew thatjQhe state of the
bank was prepared by the general book-keeper; it was
not in the handwriting of the president: It was not re
quired by the board that the president should report
the exehanpe.
John Farnura affirmed -—I hare been a director of
the Bank of Pennaylraola for ttoreral years; since 1810
or 1841; I think 1 was a director every year, except
orery fourth year, the charter forbidding any one to
serve more than three years la four; 1 was part of the
year 1857 a director; not quite up to the suspension of
the baok; but after the midd'e of September I did not
meet the board; I was pretty constant in ray attend
ance at the Loard; be did not usually make reports to
the board of discounts made belwen boards; I recollect
some instances where he' did; I understood my answer
to apply also to temporary loan: Mr. Allibone was pre
sident for several years; I heard Mr Ohilds’s testimo
ny; [book handed to witness;] l think this was the
same book we had at the board; I did not know of Mr.
Altlbone nurohasing a bIU of exchange from Mr. New
hall for £S0,080; I did not know of Mr. Newball ac
commodating the bank with various sums or money in
July on Peabody & Company, in London; 1 don’t rs*
member that the board was consulted on that subject at
all; I think, in some instances, be reported to the
board the loans he made between the boards; he men
tioned <n one or two instances the aronnnt and the
individual; don’t remember any very Urge amount be
ing loaned; It was understood that the president had a
right to discount; what sort of account you call that T
don’t know; I knew there was such an account kept at
the bank as the transient discount account; X did not
know the state of that account; I understood that
account to be under the control of the president; I
never investigated that aocouut; it was about the mid
die of September I ceased attending the board; I did
not know that in the month or August the presidout
bad drawn a large sum and oharged to transient dis
count; nor in July; I did not know of it in any month:
I occasionally know that there wore sums drawn, hot I
did not know they were large suras; I don’t recollect of
knowing of such account as Thomas Allibone, presi
dent; I did not know of any authority given by the
board for such an aoconnt; there was not any fund set
apart by the board to my knowlodgo to meet the tran
sient discount account; I n«ver knew of any fund set
apart to meet the account of Thomas Alllbone, presi
dent ; I never knew of any special fund to meet what
was called the temporary loan account.
. Cross-examined by Mr Browsier— I never knew of
the beard being consulted as to the purobase or sale
or exohaoge since' my first connection with the bank ;
my connection with the bank extends back loDg previ
ous to Mr. Allibone’* election: bis predecessor was
Mr. Trotter; In his day the bank was not in the habit
of dealing in exchange at all, or vory irifilog; they
used to sell exchaoge for some Southern banks they
kept acoounta for
To Mr. Loughead. I think Mr. Alllbone was absent
twice, as president, from the bank in 1857; t cannot
say when; I think T. A. Newhall actet as president in
his stead ; Mr. Alllbone and Mr Newhall appeared to
be on very friendly terms.
Cross-examination by Mr. Brewster continued —The
baok. under M* Trotter, dealt lu the way I have men
tioned In exchange; I remember that when Mr. Alll
bone became president, itwaadeoided by the board that
the exchaoge shovld bo extended; tho board were
aware that It was a power ooula'ned in its charter, I
believe: they thought it best to open an account with
George Peabody & Oo , of London; this was ’•ith the
concurrence of tho board; I don’t remember that
under Mr. Trotter’s presidoooy it was the habit to
consult the board about the exchange, except when
the Southern backs desired our bank to endorse their
bills, ami Mr. Trotter then asked permission of tbe
board to do so ; there were cases in which our endorse
ment was needed to make tbe bill sell the better; don’t
recollect any beside those; It was not always for the
purpose of remitting that they were endorsed by us;
thea> were sold in tbe open market, and romitsod by
the parties who bought thorn, I supposo; tho tran
sient discount account was never withheld from tbe
board with my knowledge; I suppose it was kept with
S’neral ledger; T never turned to It to examine It; I
elieve the general ledger was accojslble to me or any
member of the board at any time; it was then in tho
bank; ’I don’t remember that Mr. Newhall wai ap
pointed president pro tem. bofore February, 1857 ; J
havo.no recollection on the subject; what I mean is
that I should not like to say he was not, but I hnve
no recollection that he was; I can ray Mr James Mar
tin waspresident pro tem on one '-cession; I recollect
Hr Trotier acting as presldeiitpro’fcm. on one occasion;
Mr.W. K Ilackorwaa so acting after Mr. Allibone’se'ac
tlon; I remember Mr. Daniel Deal so acting after Mr.
Alltbone’s olection: t ihlnk Mr. Sinoicknon so acted ; I
believe they all read to the'board the statement of their
appointment by Mr. Alllbone, which had to be iowritirg;
we had tbo book placed before us, showing the aggre
gate of the discounts made by tbe board and the dis
counts made by tbe president: it did not show the
particular accounts; I never neard any member re
quest'of tbe president to report the transient disco int
or tho sterlingaccouot; don’t remember the presidout
refusing a request for any information; tbe presi
dent was very prompt to give information whou asked for;
I knew of no rule only tbo prin ed one, aetodiscounts;
I knew of no rule requring him to report to tho board as
to transient discount, sorting, or temporary loan ; I
knew of his drawing his cbeok on the transiont discount
account, for I s*w him do it, and I suppose he always
did it; Idou’tjpee anythin* Irregular in that myself;
I was not aware of any concealments of these accoun ts;
tho oheoks drawn by tho pres'Wnt on the transient dis
count account wero presented, I presume, by the partios
in whosefavor they were drawn,to the paying teller; I
don’t know of anv case in which tho president received
the money himself on snob a check.
To Mr. Thayer. I havo individually sold sterling
exchange to Mr. AMibone, as presldontof tha bank ; I
sold him storliog bills in the summer of 1857, and I
think previously; I sold him as president of the bank,
and thought I was dealing with tlje bank; these pur*
chases of exchange from me were net reported to tho
board, to my knowledge; it was not customary and so for
as I know was not expected; I did not understand there
w«s any mystery about these di'counts by the president;
I think the directors generally knew the bank was in
the habit of buying sterling bills; the bank had a printed
book of bills, which they wero in tho habit of filling up
when they sold bills; there was a notice of sterling
bills Tor sale on the door of the bank, generally, not
always; I have no recollection of any particular in
stance Id which tho president reported tin sale of a bill
of exchange; seme of the billH I sold Mr; Alllbone
during the summer of 1857 were drawn on llensoD &
Co., of London; I sold him some other bills also; tho
bUtn I sold him were of considerable amouu't; the credit
opened with G. Peibody Sc Co., of London, was opened
with the full knowleJge and consent ol the boa-d;
the terms upon which the business to be transacted
between the bank and I’etb'dy wo a understood by the
board; J did not fcn w of any of AHiboiie’sf urrhosei,
only when I dealt with him myself; I am not aware
that any ol the other directors were aware of the bills
I bonghtsnd sold 5 tbe house of Baring, ofLrndon. was
a correspondent of the bank In Mr.'Trotter’s presi
dency ; twlc» a year the bank collected for ‘some
foreiguers State Interest 5 they wonid then sometimes
remit tho bills on Barings, or sometimes purchase
some other bill#} they Ola not do much In draw*
log, except at these times; at the time the in
•tflreat was due ; I have got loans myself upon the
» ?!4° rai T loan and tbe transient discount account;
I did not 'krow there was any impropriety in that.
Re-examined by,the District Attorney.—The tran
aient discount I obtained was not very large; It wast
sot of very frequent ocoU'tence—occasionally done} -per*
It *ay they tfere all paid ; I never saw 4
*[< Newhalfdtaa' checks for these temporary loans ;f
l think lfc'WSfl the same check of the president
uanslent discount account; the checks that I saw were
either upon one or other of these accounts—the tran>’
sient discount or the temporary loan (’’’the partiss get
ting the checks would, 1 presume, go.ia to the paying
teller and get the money; I never knew the paying
teller to refuse one of these checks or to make any in
quiries: they never iuquired or knew that there had
a loan, except Ihu it'passed from thepresident;
•£» know the extent to Which these loans were
maOdby the president; t did not fchow that the preai
2?i. presidents was fusing these-loans for
-.r'V l U 8e * * kstl an impression that temporary
V Jo n ?,V la ' lw "hether I am right or notj.raade for
r. ww ‘l** 8 - T ot into that account; tho' book only
S™*. T so , much 1184,18 ° r the bank: temporary dia
-BllJ?P°aed went into the general ledger }
J^ aie , ra , t . ooi that this book (“ the State of the Bank”)
I?®*®? the.filalomont or notes.discounted and the as
sets of the bank.
.J°' h °,f ou . rt - 1 H*- 1 —hen I got i chock rrom
the preeMent u o discount, I took it to tho paying tel
that T'Lof.n 0 ! 1 d otBllit “ ln m ' b,lnk h °-’k i the notes
iXvif . c \l B eeeur.ty wero eltendod on my
b *° k »« a» those of tho htnk ; when I got i
poelted itI'® 1 '® B ° a " 4 JrSW the I alwayo do-:
..ofl r ' Tll " , ' r '. I m »T hare got $20,000 or $25,000
on tno temporary loan or transient discount account I
I . got fW lar *® r ,om »* >”y onetime.' All
vwn« nB I „ got on tbiVor any other account were paid
william Geuae sworn.—l was a director ia the Bank
or Peupsyliania; I was ejected immediately after the
! onof tho bank after thB first suspension; I
Joe* ,I,} about 1841; I was a director in 1853,
1858,1856. and 1857; I had to go out In 1854; I was a
director until 1858; 1 was very regular in my atteod
ance at the meetups of the board, for I lived close by;
the amouut of ordinary discounts madfe by the board
from week to w« fr cannot be recollected by mo; tbo
dlscbnnt books would fchow it; whenever a note was dis
counted the president marked the letter “A” bo Tore
the note, to showtUatit was accepted; all the notes
that wero offered were recorded before thoy came to
tho board; the books show all the cotes whloh the
directors discounted—not those , done without the
knowledge of the directors; the board’s dikeounta
depended 6n tbe income, sometime* $70,000 or $3O -
boo, sometimes as high as $150,00.); I sp’&k of
some years ago, not of 1850 ana ’6f . In 1857, we did
little or nothing in the way of discounts, sometimes
not for want of paper but for want of foods; we were
obliged to regulate our discounts by the income ; it
also depended on whether we were indebted to other
banks ; if wo were so indebted we should be obliged to
hold in. I knew nothing about the sterling aocount; I
only learned of it after the su'penalon of the B*uk ; I
knew that the bank had an oped credit of-£50,000
with Peabody ACo , against wbioh they drew; that
fact was known to the board ; I did not know of Mr. AI-
Ilbooe allowing Mr. Newhall to have large accommoda
tions on that account, until after the suspension; I did
cot know «’f an account in tbe bank opened as a tran
sient discount account; it did not'eome before the direc
tors; I did not know of anaccount opened in the bank as
a temporary loan account; I beard there waa monev
loaned odt by the bank on oall—l .did not know it o*f
my own knowledge—money loaned by the president or
f resident pro tem. ; I found out the extent of those call
oans, after tho suspension of the bank; I heard there
wore spmo call loans made daring the summer of 1857 j
bat dm not know it of my own knowledge; Mr. New-,
hall himself in the person who told me; X went home
with him several times from the hank and he said—
Mr. Brewster. I object to Mr. Newhall’s conversa
tions unless Ur. Allibone was present.
Mr. Lopghoad I think it is proper if I show that
while these gentlemen wero themselves getting large
accommodations from the bank they were refusing to
discount business paper legitimately offered to the
bank.
Witness. X do not think what Mr. Newhall stated
will arriount to anything.
Mr. Brewster. Ido not think It will.
Mr. Longhead. Perhaps we had better have It, and
judge.
Mr. Brewster. I think we had better not have it.
Jndge Thompson, If it appears that these two gen
tlemen were taking Urge sums for their private use, I
would admit thio; but I should like to hear evidence of
that first
Mr. Leughead. I have in one shape offered that
already, but I shall offer it hereafter.
Judge Thompson. I must hear it before ihe question
can be admitted
Mr. Geisne’a elimination continued. —Daring the
year 1857.1 cannot tell without the books wh«t were
the discounts by the board;. I never examined the ge
neral ledger; the individual ledger we were not allow
ed to examine, and it is not delicate for a director to go
behind the counter, take the books, and examine them;
I never did it; I did not know to what extent the pre
sident, or acting president, was using the funds; it
would be an impossibility for a director to know that:
I did not know of the money of tbe bank being used
for other purposes than 'discounts by the board, except
from hearsay ; I did not know that tho president was
making occasional discounts between the board’s meet
ings, except from hearsay.
No cross-examination.
Oharlen Sinnickson, sworn.—l was olected a director
of the Bank of Pennsylvania in February, 1848 : I was
director for a part of 1857 ; I resigned shortly after the
suspension; I was elected in February, 185 G; I waa ir
regular In my attendance at the board’s meetings In
1856 and during midsummer Iq 1857 ; in 1857, Mr New
hall and myself acted as president pro tem. ; I acted
some time iu midsummer, but I am not positive ss to
the exaot time; I was not president pro tem., at any
meeting of the board and therefore ltwlli not appear on
tbe minutes; Mr. Allibone sent for me one afternoon
and asked me to act in his place for two or three days
as he waa going away; I went tbe next morning, but he
came back that afternoon—sooner than he expected; I
did no temporary loan or transient discount lu that
time; none of the sterling hills bought and sold by
Mr. Allibone were generally reported lo the board;
it was not customary; I cannot now give the
transactions that were reported to the board; ho
sometimes mentioned sterling transactions, hat there
was no specific report; there was no report of the pur
chase of a £60,000 bill from Mr .Newball—no report of bis
havingallowed Mr. Newhall to hweacccmmodatlons on
the eterling exchange in Jaly and August, 1867, which
were not settled notil September 22; I did notknow of an
account opened in the books of tbe bank called transi
ent discount account, nor of one called temporary loan
account, nor of one called the account of (l Thomas Al
liboDQ, presidentno suoh accounts were directed by
the board, to my knowledge, to be opened; I have been
in president’s room between-ihe meetings of the board;
I saw him discount paper; whether the discount was
temporary or not I did not know: I did not exarr ino
into it further than the report or the general book
keeper, made durlog the session of the bank: this
book f‘ state of the bank”) ia the report we got; the
twn i In tv Of (> tmiD dlKHniatod, lom*. exchange,”
embraces ail the discounts maae by the directors and
president ;Ihe only statement before ns at tho meetings
of the board was this aggregate, and that item would
increase as 'bills in the meantime matured or dis
counted; a separation was made there of the decrease
or increase from one board daytoanother; theiocrease
and decrease of specie, the difference io aocount with
our leading corresponding hanks, was before us There
Is an item here, %i increase of bills discounted,” one
“ increve or decrease of deposits.” another, ” increase
rr decrease of specie;” on one day, we'had It specifi
cally noted how much more was in the hank or d*s
counted by tbe bank, than on tbe preceding day;. Ijdld
not know of an account classified as transient discount;
I never saw the general ledger; I know of no fund set
apart by the directors on whioh the president could
draw for transient discounts or temporaiy loans; nor do
I know of any speoial report of them to the boardit
know of no sum set apart by tbe board as the accouinof
‘•Thouiss Allibone, president.”
Uross-oxamined by Mr- Brewster.—l was elected a
director five years before Mr Allibone was president;
Mr. Trotter, his predecessor, and Mr. Allibone, occa
sionally mentioned sterling transactions to the board ;
neither made any specific report of those transactions;
there waa no difference in that respect between the
praotice of those two gentlemen; Mr Troiter dealt In
sterling without consultation with the t’o&rd, except
that sometimes we got bills from the Booth on London,
and be brought them before the board : but in refer
ence to’our own bank’s dealings in sterling, Mr. Trot
ter made no communication- to tne board that I was
awaro of; I nevor saw the general ledger before the
board, but they had access to it when thoy desired, in
dividually or in a body; we were sometimes sent by the
board to examine a particular account in the individual
ledger; I never heard anv objection to an examina
tion of the general ledger: I never hoard a re
que«t for information as to sterling and other
matters, And that Information withheld; I saw Mr.
Allibone discount notes between boards: I made
no objection ; it was customary ; I sometimes said,
this, is all right, I suppose; I know it .was
customary both by the president and cashier; some
times the notes would be marked and sent out to the
clerk to be placed on the books of the parties who got
the accommodation; I never saw the president draw
cheoka for discounts: I was not aware of epeciflo tom
porary loans made; 1 knew it waa always ouatomary to
make such loans; it would be correct bookkeeping to
bare aotounts for transient discounts if suoh discounts
weromade; I bad no doubt there was some account to
show transient discounts Rod temporary loans, but I
did not know under what head they wore put in the
ledger; I knew of no concealment of these accounts
from the board or any member of it.
Cross-examined by Mr. Thayer —I did not consider
the president’s conduct, In making teTporary loans, as
out of the course of business: it was in the regular
c urse of business; I think Mr. Newhall and myself
wero elected dlreotorn the same year, but I oannot speak
positively; Ido not know that the bonk lost a cent by
Mr. Nowball’s transactions; lam a member of the pre
sent board; there is an unsettled account with him; the
president never informed me that Mr. Newhall loosed
the bank a bill of £30,000; it was not naual to report
tbe particular purchases and sales of sterling; I never
knew it done.
Re-examined by Mr. Longhead.—l never asked the
president as to the extent of his use of the funds of the
bank for transient discounts or temporary loons, or for
account of “ Thomas AUibons, president,’’ or for his
own individual account; I did not know how the ac
counts were classified; my understanding was that the
money whloh went out on those accouuts was in the
bills discounted.
To Judge Thompson. I never inquired into these
transactions, because 1 supposed they were in the
books: the classification of the accounts was a matter
of book* keeping.
To Mr. Loughead. I never made it subjootof inquiry
how far the president had power to mike transient dis
counts ( I did not examine tho books to eeo how far
they actually went; I did not do ao .because if I had
examined the books 1 should havo had to quit all other
businoss; it was a book of thousands of rages with mil
lions of transactions; we trusted to our book keepers
and supposed the president and cashierwouid supervise
them; I did not take the paios to see precisely how
much the president had loaned or used on the transput
discount or temporary loan account; the directors ex
amined the balance-sheet and the asseta of the bank t >
aee if they corresponded, I being ooe, as a committee
of the whole; I did not examine the books to see what
amounts Mr Allibone had cast In auy special accounts
that were charged to him; at tho meetings of the Board
in 1857, the loans were sometimea small and sometimes
large; I did not know that the president was drawing
large sum? of money on specified accounts.
To Mr. Thayer, Tho temporary loan and tram lent
discounts must havo been by the common consent of
the board, but I did not Kdow they were classified in
that way.
I 'oMr Brewster. I novor examined the books; in
1853,directly after Mr Alliborecamo to the bank as
prosident, an overdraft of Mr. Fay wbs reported ; I do
not remember who were tho committee of internal
arrangements then who had charge of tho matter; it
was reported to the board by tho prc&iieut that there
had been an examination at that time ; I dont think
that was over two or three months after Mr. Alli
bouo cimo to the bank os president.
Wm.P. Newlin a^ntied.—l was a diioc'or of the
Bank of Pennsylvania in ISSG and 1857 ; I dii not know
of tho existence on tho books of tho bank of au account
caUcd the transient discount er temporary loan ac
count, or the account of Thomas AUlbono, president;
I never saw the books in which tboae accounts woro
kept; Ido not know in what form thov were opened;
I did not seo tho general ledger at the meetings of tbe
hoard; the ordinary business of the board was to meet
twice a week and diac-mut good business paper offered
bv tho customers o' the bank; we oximined the affairs
of tho bank to report its condition to the stockholders;
that is, wc counted tho cash and bills r^ceivalbi; the
lasi examination I am familiar with was mate Decem
ber 31, 3850; Ido uot know that 1 was one of tho com
mittee, hut I took part in it; Ido not evon remember
that any committvo was appointed for thAt purpose; I
know that the bank did buy and sell exchange; I un
derstood that, before my oieolion as director, an account
had been oponed with tbo houEO of Teabody St Co., of
London; I did not know ef a bill of exchange being
bought by Mr. Alhbone from Mr. Nowhall, on tho 16th
of September, for £ 60,000; I did not know of the bank
selling him exchango on Pcabsdy Sc Co , for large sums,
in July, August, and September; I did not know how
muca money had been drawn by the president’* checks,
and charged to the temporary loan and transl nt dis
count accounts, or to tho account of “Thomis
Allibone, president;” I never asked him whit use ho
made of the money of tho bank for any of those purpo
ses; he made uo report to the board in my hrarirg of
the amounts of money used i-t that wav ; the discounts
‘made between boards were entered into & book and sent
into the president's room; [book ” Statement of
Bank” handed to tho witmss ;J this is not the book;
you might call it & scratcher, I suppose ; it was in the
possession of theca«hier; that contilued the amount
we discounted; it was a very email book In which the
cashier made the cutties; I do uot know whether the
discounts marie by tho president were kept in a book or
not; in 1857 the discounts varied very much ; we went
as high as from iS'J/OO to $BO 000. and. possibly, occa
sionally higher, on each dinomnt day; 1 have seen tbe
president draw checks charging the amount to tempora
ry loan 5 it was done to give a party obtaining a tempo
rary loan the use of it For a few days 5 the money was
got by the president's check; tbe president’s cheek
drawn to any of these accounts was never dishonored
that I heard of.
Croiis-mmlued by Mr, Drewster.—l did not knot?
or any of th» J>ilUirarohaßqd,Apd sold unless I vu in i
the transaction' as Mller; there ttm, there- j
fore, uOMri;otf*j|&nwißg about the 1
bills in regain to which exatpufed; I seat paules
J? tb? tank to e^obtage ; I Ktfew that was part of
it? busftdesC; th& flre»fd6n*sas to report
those traoßaciious to the_hoird that IJtnew of 5 I hare
president draw,'his check to temporary loan
-Mcodot; I did not see him get the money on any such
check:-I did not know that the general ledger was
open.to the inspection of-any director at all times; I
never to examine it; I read the by-laws of the
bank when I was elected a dlreotor; I did nothavb
occas on ttnaxamlne the ledger, but I think that per
haps the by-laws allowed the general ledger to be ex
amined, bnt not the individual ledger; I knew that
papet was discounted and short loans made by the pre
sident, and it would be proper to open accounts for
that; there was no infojffiation Withheld about them*-
Ito iny knowledge. ' • '
'ToMr. Longhead --«I did not lnqulre into them. •-
. Cross-examined by Mr. Thayer,--! got a temporary
loan from the president, Mr. Allibone ; it was paid •
security was given at the time; I, do not recollect hav
ing applied to Mr Nevrhall for one when he was acting
president; I would have done so if t had. occasion
refit. . .
To Mr. Loughead. Daring 1867, John Parnutn, Wil
liam Qeisse, Charles Sinoickson, Arthur H. Howell,
Lawrence Lewid.Thomks A. Nevrball, franklin Well,
John D. Taylor, George W Childs, Thomas AlUbone,
William P. Hacker, who was unable to attend from in
disposition, and myself, were* to the best of myrecol
lection, directors ; Mr. Hafeker is doad '
Lawrence Lewis affirmed —I was a director of the
Bank of Pennsylvania; I was a director at thet'me of
the suspension; 1 was eleoted ia February, 1857; I was not
a director in 1666; £ had occasion to inquire of the pre
sident what amount of dlaconnts was made by him dur
ing the intervals between the sessions of the board; I
made the inquiry during the sessions of the board; it
was a common thiog for me to ask that question; I can
not give the answer at any specific time: it was the
custom for Mr. Aliiboae to answer my qaeatipns,'which
answer was satisfactory to me at the time, and then it
passed from my mind; the sums varied from day to day
—at one time $lO,OOO, at another $16,000, and so on up
to $40,000: I never knew until after the enspenston of
the bank that Mr. Mlibone drew upon any account for
that; I ascertained it afterward*.
Q Bid you compare Mr; Alllbone’s answers to your
questions of which yon have spoken, with the books of
the bank? "
A. I tried to do so.-
Mr. Wharton For what purpose is that a sked?;. It
will not do to try this case by any examinations Mr.
Lewis may have made, however intelligent and upright
hi may be.
Mr. Longhead To meot the objection In some de
gree, I will ask the witness if he ever examined the
books or the bank for the purpose of verifying those
statements of Mr. AlUbone, without Inquiring at pres
ent what was the result of that -examination ?
Mr. Wharton. That would lead toavery immaterial
result, aud therefore, I should think, was hardly ad
missible Mr Lawiah&s said that, ingeneral»theque?-
tions asked by him of Mr AlUbone received satisfacto
ry replies, and that then, as was natural, they passed
from bis mind. Now, to go into after examinations,
without having the mater'als before the oonrt and jury,
is entirely improp*r. If the verification of any of
those statements of Mr. AlUbone Is to be a subject of
Inquiry, it should be the subjeot of inquiry here, in the
presence of the court and jury. • ‘ >
Judge Thompson. Ido not think the eoansel under
stood the question. If I understood Mr. Lewis, he re
ferred bis answer to the time when the answer was
made ; that he looked at the hook at the time Mr.
Allihbne made the statement.-. ,
Mr. Thayer. I don’t urderstand how that can he
evidence against Mr. Newball, unless he was concerned
in making that statement. There must be some limit
to the introduction of these matters where they are not
shown to affeot both defendants.
I Mr. Longhead.. We are. examining Into accounts
I about which we propose to affect both defendants.
Judge Thompson. Well, go on. “
Mr. Longhead to witness. Mr. Lewis, did yon make
any examination of the booksof the bank?
Witness Not until after the suspension; I-was sa
tisfied with Mr. AlUbone’s answers, and I did not exa
mine into the affairs of the hank every time I asked
the question; I had confidence In what Mr. AlUbone
told ire; I knew of no-accounts upon whith he h&d any
privilege to draw ; I kew that Mr. AlUbone, as presi
dent of the bank, had the privilege of discounting
during the intervals between the sessions of the board,
uodor a by-law; I knew that at tbemeetlogs or the
board.a memorandum was placed on the table which in
dicated the amount of the bank’s income that day, and
tho amount which had been discounted in the loteival;
I found that theee memoranda, which were my only
b&Bls of information, except the answers of the presi
de nt to my questions, were for $5,000, $lO,OOO, $15,000,
$20,000, and up to $40,000; it would he an'unusual oc
currence if they amounted to $40,000, and when they
were so large ss that I would get some information as
to them; I would ask the president who got this money;
lie would give the names of parties; I believed they
were gocd,and that.tbelr paper should he discounted
by the bank to the extent that was done, and therefore
was satisfied with his replies; I was out of the olty in
the early p«rt of September, and was not at board from
BaptembcrlO t 022,1857. '
John D. TSylor sworn —I was a director of the Bank
of Pennsylvania in 1867; I was pretty regular in ray
attendance at the meetings of the board; Mr. Allibene
was president, aud in his absence Mr Newhall noted
generally; I recollect no one else acting up to the sos
pension; 1 was not aware before the suspension of the'
existence Of'a transient discount account, or of a tem
porary loan account; I was not aware of any antb’orlty
on the part of the president to’ draw upon any particu
lar account,' except on his own private account; I knew
that the president could grant'temporary loans and
dtscoun’ notes, and of course he must draw on some
thing for that purpose'; 1 do not know cf sny resolu
tion passed by the board in regard to that matter at
all ; I presume the president directed the various ac
counts to be opened on the books; Iho board, to my
knowledge, did cot make sny order for the open
ing of any particular accounts; when -discounts
are nude, the party takes the note to the note clerk,
who passes to his credit tho face of the note, leea
the discount; it does not require the president’s check
to get'the money on a not© of tbateort; a temporary
loan ia’where the presi lent draws upon the fun ds of the
bank upon such security as he takes; that waamyua
derstapding as a director; the only report of which I
kcow of oans er discounts, made between hoards,' was
by a slip of paper, l«id before the directors, made out
by the discount clerk, stating the income of the
bank since the last discount day. deducting from that
the account discounted in the interim by the pre
sident, and'the balance showed the amount on hand
for the board to discount upon; I cannot remember
any of these reports, in 1857; they varied every day;
the bank suspended September 25!h; the assignment was
executed, I think, February 18th, 1868; lam one of
the assignees: I cannot state what proportion the dis
counts (made by the president, and reported to ns, bore
to the discounts made by the board; thope made by the
president w ere sometimes little or nothing,'sometimes
$20,000; except that statement, I had no idea of how
much was used In that way.
- Orogs-«x*ralne<i by Hr Thayer.—T believe I once
received a temporary loan from the president, not Indi
vidually, but for my firm, in theconrse of our business ;
I think 1 did not receive a check for the amount, but
gave our own check, dated ahead, and K was noted in
the bank book, depositing collaterals; the board never
found any fault; to my knowledge, with the president
far the reports to which I referred; I am, as assignee,
acquainted with Mr- Newhall’s accounts.
Q. From your examination of these account;, as
assignee, have yon any ground of complaint against Hr.
Newball?
Sir. Loughead. I object to that question. I do not
see what Mr. Taylor’s objection, or want of objeotion,
to Mr. Newhall’s accounts, haa to do with thia cross
examination.
Judge Thompson. Ido not precisely understand the
question.
Mr. LougbSad. In iny examination of this witness
I confined myself to the course of dealing before the
board, to the knowledge of the board of certain accounts
of the president and temporary president of the bank.
If Mr. Tbayer confines his question exclu«ivaiy to that,
though, I think it would be irregular, I would no t ob
ject much to it* I think wo ought to have those ac
counts, as we shall have them> offered in evidence here;
but Mr. Tbaver is now going Into a general dlseussiro
of Mr. NewhaU’s.accouuta in the bank, their present
position, and the satisfaction of Mr. Taylor with them.
I object to that, as not being properly part of a cross
examination • •
Judge Thompson. Bepoat your question, Mr. Thayer.
I did not catch the meaning of it.
Mr. Thayer. 1 The witness said that he bad examined
the acconots since he became assignee aud in his office
of assignee. Now, I ask Mr. Taylor whether be has
found in 61 r. NewbaU’s accounts anything which is not
right ? !
Mr Loughead. I object to that question.
Judgo Thompson. I allow the question. Mr. New
hall ie here on trial as well as Mr. Alliboue.
v Mr. Taylor’s oross-examination continued.—l hare
seen nothiog in slr. Newhall’a accounts which I do not
consider perfectly right; I did not Include in my last
anniror his account as noting president, bnt I have
looked into that account; and I have seen his tr»ncac
tlnns duly credited and debited, and everything settled
and paid; there lean unsettled account with Mr, New
hall, hut enough money of his to pay it; I believe the
balance against Mr Newball is about $3.*.00, and there
is $8 000 or $lO,OOO to oovor it; the $9,000 or $lO,OOO Ib
in Pennsylvania Bsnk notes.
Re-examined by Mr. Longhead —lf the back Is com
pelled to pay the £5O 000 draft, it will be charged
against Mr. Newball, and will leave him largely In the
bank’s debt; I found that in March, 1857, he drew
$182,875. GO on his own account and kept It four months
before paying it baok, and he paid baok an amount to
balance what he had taken oat; it was July 14 before
that amount was paid; 1 presume there was a charge
for Intonost; tho books will show it; It was paid three
or four days before the credit exrired; he loaned it to
himself on bis own credit; tho books show a credit for
$132,375.60 to transient discount on the 14th of. July.
[The five checks heretofore identified, drawn by Mr.
Newhall as president pro tun , were exhibited to the
witness and shown to correspond as the debit for the
corresponding credit of July 14 1
To Judge Thompson That snows that money was
drawn on 6lr NewhtU's checks as president pro tern.,
they do not show that he himseir individually got the
money; if the money had gone into other persons’
bands and was paid by them, it went to the credit of
traosient discount.
To Mr. Longhead. It was all charged to the tran
sient discount account, and credited to that account
when paid. There are no names on that transient dis
count vcoount.
To Mr. Thayer. 1 believe the interest on such dis
counts w«a paid to the president, and h&udedover by
him twice a year.
To JuOgo Thompson. I don’t kcow that the presi
dent pro tern, drew the money individually on those 1
•< transient discount ” checks. The book does not
show the name of a person who received a cheek.
To Mr. Meredith. From anything that appears there
is no infei et.ee that Sir. Newhall himself got the money
individually.
T<> Mr. Loughead. Generally the name of the notef
or whatever it was that was paid that day, was entered.
A transient discount was always credited when paid,
and the name «f the party’s note which is discounted
would appear in the book. I have looked over Mr.
Newhall’s private account in the individual ledger, and
his firm’3 account, and find only the unsettled matter I
menti'-ned
To Mr. Thayer. From all I can understand, the ac
-1 captor ou that £60.000 bill is a good house
The court at 5 o’clock (earlier than was intended,)
adjourned until Mouday, in consequence of the illness
of one of the jurowt, Mr. Thomas.
Correction. —Within the past few days, in
detailing an account of a robbory and other riotous pro
ceedings in the southern section of the city, we wero in
orror in stating that thoße implicated were frequenters
of Aldorman McMullin’a tavern. As an act of justice
to the Alderman, we would state that he has long sinco
disposed of Uls late business, and is dovoting ail his at
tention to his official calling. Wo believe that through
the malice of some of the reportorial corps his name is
frequently associated with mstte-s 3a which he has no
participation, much to his personal injury.
REORGANIZATION or THE FIRE -DEPART
MENT.—The committee appointed by City Oounclls, in
September last, to consider the propriety of establish
iug a paid Fire Department in Philadelphia, have pre
pared circ liars asking information of the authorities of
the principal American and European cities concerning
their fire system, their cost their efficiency, the fre
quency of fires, &c., &c.. The Information which will
be obtained in this manner will be of the utmost im
portance and valae, and will form reliable data, id con
nection with onr own fire statistic?, for an intelligent
report and wise legislation upon the subject.
Fires.—A slight fire occurred about/our
o’clock, yesterday afternoon, at the Franklin Printing
Ink Work!, corner of Oherry and Jacoby streets. It
wan caused by the accidental burning of a kettle of
gnm turpentine, but was soon discovered, and extin
guished before doing much damage.
An alarm of fire was caused, about five o’clock yfs'er
day morning, by the explosion of & fin'd lamp, in the
second story of a house in Shippen st.. below Seventh.
The furniture was damaged considerably, but nobody
was injured.
Pickpocket Arrested.—lt has boon here
tofore announced that several people havo had their
pockets picked by the light-fingered gentry of ouroity,
while attending the exhibitions at the Blind Asylum.
Officer Kneass, of tho it dependent police, visited that
institution on Wednesday lost, and found a large repre
sentation of tho fraternity present. He succeeded m
detecting a fellow named Alexander Purple, while in
the act of picking the pocketofMis Lewis He arrested
him, and he had a hearing before Alderman Ogle, who
committed him for a farther heating.
Arson Cask. — Fire-detective Blackburn has
fully l-iYi'itigated the circumstances attending the fire
laffebha’d’s court, and yesterday discharged Patriok
Cahill who was charged by his wife with having fired
bis own dwelling. Mr. B’nckburn Is fully satisfied that
it was merely an act of carelessness on the part of
Patrick, and not intentional - , „ •
Pennsyltania-Railroad Directors.—At
the session of Oonnoils on Tbnrsday.last H. O. Wood,
j, M. Thomas, and B. F ‘Onrtls were elected directors
of the Pemieylv&uia BailrC&d Company, to represent
the stock held by tbe city,
the LATEST NE WS
BY TELEGRAPH.
Berks County Election*
[SPECIAL DPSPAtca.]
Reading, Doe. 3 —The official returns are as follows
Keim... -.*„*.*..6,18<J
.. ...5,687-
Keim’e majorityi.,.,, 469
FURTHER FROM CALIFORUT A.
ARRIVAL- OP . THE OVERLAND MAE.
Return of Lieut. Howry and Mr. Mc-
Kibbin.
THE Glli£ GOLD REGION,
THE REVOLUTION IN SONORA.
St. Louis, Deo 3'—The Osilfornla overlant mail,
which arrived last night, brought six passengers, io
olaaiog Mr McKiVbia and Lieut, Mowry, from Arizona.
Lieut Mowry left Gila city November 4th, at which
time loOmen wots at’the gold digging, iheaverage
* e Jj J*!f 6ajr- being $lO each, though they uebd the
rudest hind of Implements.
Every part of iha country yet proepected la the vl-
G i Y of the mines proved to be auriferous, and the
opinion was current among the old miners, that no
richer surface diggings exist, even in the moat favored
portions of California. The mines are located on the
neutral grounds between the Zuna and Pesos Indians,
and thus no dapger is apprehended from the hostile
tribes.- • -
A political meeting was held at OiU city, Nov 4th,
which passed resolutions endorsing the action of the
Convention held at Meslla and Tucson, and miHnj
Congress for a Territorial orgaoijitioa
The Sonora Silver Hioing Company !■ smeltirg at
the rate of 1,000 ounces per week. Several other mines
are actively worked.
Lieut. Mowry brings several rich specimens from the
stiver mines, also about 1330 is gold from the Oils
river diggings.
Lieut Mowry computes the population of the Terri*
tory at 15,000. and gives glowing descriptions of its
beauty, aad also of the agricultural and grazing re*
sources of the country.
The mail route from Ban Francisco to Texas is re
torted to be in fine order, but the central portion la in
>«d condition, owiog to the loose management and In*
ferior stock employed.
The first mail irom Albuquerque, New Mexico, to
California was ordered from the thirty-fifth parallel
route to take the Aril ma road to Penoa, and thence
into California by the Butterfield route
It was reported at Fart Smith that Lieutenant Beale
wou'd go Into winter quarters. Tbo rumor of hla hav
ing been attack'd by Indians was disbelieved.
Mr McKibbin reports that the Apache Indiana con
tinue their depredations on the frentiers of Ponora and
Arizona. Seven out of a party of eight bad recently
been killed by a body of Mexicans, about forty mile's
from Fort Bnobanan.
The revolution in Sonora Was In full progress. Gov
ernor Pesquira had*Jopt the support of the rich men and
merchants of the province, oq account of his failure
to return a large sum of mon»*y borrowed from them on
the promise of repayment.
Captain Stone was progressing successfully with his
surveys, under the present contracts authorized, by
the Government.,
Mr. Franklin reports the Camahchas as somewhat
troublesome, although they are. not organized In hands
sufficiently large,to occasion much alarm.
Mr Edwards, one of Lieutenant Boale's party, awlr.
ed at Fort Smith, reports the expedition all well and in
camp on the south side of the Canadian. Lieutenant
Reals would proceed to Albuquerque aa soon ai the
escort, which.waa a abort distance behind, overtook
h’m. 1 ,
The .mail frrm Neosho to Albuquerque was at Lieu*
tenant Beale's camp. Colonel Boas was in ih» neigh
borhood v.siting the springs and proceeding with the
examination of ihe surveys towards the Mohave and
Tijoa. ; -
The President’s Message*
Washington, Dec. 3—A special messenger left the
capital to darforSt Louis, with copies of the Presi
dent's Message and accompanying documents, to be for
warded by the overlaod mail to Ban Francisco. Advance
copies wilt also go by the Salt Lake and Tehuantepec
routea snd by the steamship to sail from New York on
Monday, for the Pacific .
XJuited States Treasury Statement.
WasHjkoton, Dec. 3 —The Treasurer's statement for
the week ending on Mond»y shows the receipts to have
bsen $568,000, orders paid $352,000, drafts ismfd to
nearly the same amount, leaving a balance of nearly
six millions; reduction from previous week $266,000.
Virginia Democratic Convention;
Pktsbsburq, Deo. 3 —The State Democratic Conven
tion met at 10 o'clock this morning, when the crowd
in attendance exceeded that of yesterday.
Mr. Barbour, of Culpeper county) nominated Mr.
Letcher as a candidate for Governor.
Timothy Rives, of Prince George county, took the
floor qnd rnado a speech, pouring hot shot at Mr.
Letcher, and creating much sensation in the Con
vention
Mr. Prjor was taking notes during the assault, and
will probably reply this afternoon.
It is thought that no vote will be taken to-day.
During the stormy debate of last evening Mr. J*ek
aon, of Wood county, gave Mr. Seddon, of Stafford
county, the lie, and it is rumored to-day that the
parties have g- ne across the boundary into North Caro
lina to settle the difficulty by a duel.
AFTERNOON SB ttlON.
Mr. Rives concluded his remarks at 4 o’clock, and
waa followed by Mr Pryor, who is making a powerful
speech in'avor of the nomination of Mr. Letcher Ihe
crowd is immense, and the appl«u‘e frequent and tu
multuous. It Is hardly possible for the Convention to
reach a ballot to-night
Death of a Convict—Excitement in An -
buni prison.
Auburn, N. Y., Dec. 3.—A colored convict died yes
terday while In the shower bath.-where he had been
p'acrd for punishment. The affair caused great excite
ment among the prisoners, and & general rebellion waa
feared, but the night pissed off without disturbance.
Fire at Bochester*
Rochester, N. Y., Dec. B—Four stores in State
street owned by Samuel Wilder, heirs of B. Packard,
and M. Cooper, were burnt this morning. Thelosaof
the owners jssl2,ooo. Amcng the other sufferers arw
Messrs Brown & Pitkin, loss $7.0C0, insured $13,000;
Howe Sc, Rodgers, loss $20,000, insured $12,000. There
were also several minor losses. 1
New York Canal Navigation*
Albany, Dee. 3—Sixty bodte are now passing the
sixteen locks of this section of the canal; twenty more
wilt oome forward before might. AU the boatßeastof
TJ'lca are likely to reach'tide-water before the close of
navigation.
Sailing of the Canada from Halifax*
Halifax, Dec. 3.—The steamship Canada arrived
here at 9 o’clock last night, and sai'ed hence at mid
night. Gen. Williams, the hero of Kars, was a pas
senger. *
Markets by Telegraph*
Baltimore, Dec. 3.-—Flour duU and unchanged.
Wheat firm ; 10,000 bushels sold at $1.30a1.6Q for
white; fl.'O Tor red. Corn firm and unchanged. Pro
visions closed with au advancing tondency. Whiskey
steady and unchanged.
The Slaver Eel to Case*
(Correspondence of the Associated Press.}
Columbia, 8 C-, Nor. 29.
The crae of the slsver Echo was given out to the
Grand Jury tn-dav. The ease Is prosecuted on the part
of the United States by the United States District At
torney for the State of South Carolina, James Conner,
Bsq.i orohtrleston, and Messrs Havne and Miles re
tained *8 special counsel by the Government of the
United States The defence .is conducted byL W.
Pratt and R. De' TrCville, of Charleston, and Maxcy
Gregg and Edmund Bellinger, of Columbia. The in
dictment is drawn against the deteodant* as the crew
or company of the brig Putnam, that being the real
Dime of the vestei; the “ Echo,” being a fictitious ti
tle. painted on a bond, by which the real name of the
ship was concealed. The Putnam was built in Balti
more, and was owned first in New York, and subsequent
ly in New Orleans. Her first register was made by
Jonathan S. Dobson, of New York os “ only owner and
master ” The ihip is therein described as a brig, built
at Baltimore in 1845; length 82 feet; breadth 22 feet 8
inchei; depth 10 feet; me*Burentf*nt 187 tons. Her last
register waa made at New Orlears by Kdw. H 3. Townsend,
in the name of tbe brig Putnam, and the description is
p eciB*ly similar to that in the first register. The cap
tain of the sUvor, Edw. 0. Townsend, having been first
landed at Key West, will ba tried there The prison
era on trial here are Antonio Frank. Richard Thomas
Bites Alexander Rodgers, Vit%l De Miranda. Jose Gon
zalez Lima, Archibald Scott, John Pasio. John E Co
pell George P Aken,- William' Henry*, Antonio We
lanowlch, and five other Cubans The indictment
charges that they, ** being or the ship's compan* of a
certain vessel, beloga brfg called tbe Potuara—the
said vessel being then and there owned, in the whole or
in part by a citizen of the said United Staten, to wit,
one E. C. Townsend—did pirat cilly arid feloniously
receive on board of said veß Ai, so owned *s afore
said, certain negroes, to wit, three hundred negroes
whose names are to the said jurors are unknown; they,
tbe said negroes, not being held to service or labor by
the lawa or either of tbe States or Territ riea of the
• United States."
Tbe United States District Attorney to-day submit
ted the indictment to theaotiou of theOraud Jury. His
Honor Justice Wayne, In a cooc’se and able manner,
explained to the jury the prorlsionsof the act of Con
peratf May 15, 18 20, under which the indictment
would be fount, if fouud at all After reading end
clearly explaiirng the several substantive offences de
signated by th« law, and in order to assist the jury in
their investiaation, Judge Wayne recapitulated briefly
the counts iu tbe indictment, which are eight ia num
ber. The first charges that the prisoners did receive
on the brig Putnam throe hundred negroes not held to
service in any of the States or Territories of the
United st\tes; suoh brig being owned by one Ed
ward 0. To’Wnsemi. The second Is a repetition of
the first charao. except(that tbe vessel.is describe!
os being owned by some person or persons » nknown.
The third count charges tbat tbe prisoners did con
fine and bold in confinement, io the brig Putnam,
owned by the sold Townsend, the said three hundred
negroes. The fourth varies tbo charge only so far as
the ownership is concerned. The fifth charges the
prisoners with aidiog and abetting in forcibW taking
the negroes on the ship The sixth changes the count
R 9 to ownership. The seventh charges tbat the prison
ers did receive and forcibly cocfloe tbe negroes, or abet
in forcibly confining them. And the eighth again
viriei tbe count as to the ornership of the brig. His
Honor thought it necessary, without at all intending to
enter into a consideration of the law, to make a single
remark, because of tho very general misunderstanding
in rogard to the law of piracy, and respect to what ef
fences are piracy, and may be made so by tbe statutes.
Ho stated that it wan not a fnot tbat there wvi but a
piug'e crime that could constitute piracy The act of
g*uier*l piracy is robbery on the high beas, committed
byonewhO'has thrown off allegiance to all Govern
ments, and is what the law terms the enemy oF the
human race, and may be vanished by all nations. Then
tbore other acts of robbery committed on the h'gh scan
are piracy, which ape made, so under the law. And
a?aio, when a man belonging to a ship or vessel
ah*ll nrt commit a robbery, but *hVl attempt to
take such vcs«o! from the command of h«*r master,
and deliver her to another, or usurp her control
of her to himself, the law roakos ft piracy, pa
nrabable as piracy is, by death, under the power dele
gated to Congress to guard oor commerce against of
fences committed on the high seas. In like manner,
under th° same pc»w«r, when a parson receives, oi forces,
or takes on board a vessel, a negro, not being a slave,
with the intent on of selling him into slavery, the law
makes him a pirate, and pan! lies him with death.
Tbe judge repeated briefly his explanation cf the pro
vince of a grand jury. They were not to try the pri
soner, bat simply to determine, from the facts given in
evidence, whether enoagh appears to justify them in
putting the cars before a pettit jury.
The bills were then submitted, and the jnry retired.
Meeting op Councils.— Councils met as
usual cn Thursday last.but owing to the crowded state
of onr rolnmns yesterday merning, wo were unable to
publish even a condensed report. The following em
>ricea t! e principal psrt of their pnceedingi;
Bel«pt Oounc 1 appropriated $5OO to George Lowbar,
and tho same amount to the widow of Thomas H Sny
der, tho former of whom was injured, and the latter
killed, by the bursting of a cannon dirieg the cable
cel e brntu.n. Dr. John Neale, Dr. Wm O. Kline. Jr.,
and Dr. J J. Mcllwaio were elected Managers of
Wills’ Hospital. The Common Council rec ived a
communication from the managers of tbe Northern
Home for Friendless Children, Ohking Connells to ap
propriate $2,000 to the institution for the ensuing
year.
A resolution authorizing the cleik to advertise an
ordinance, creating a loan ef $lOO,OOO for the erection
of echool-hnusps, was adopted. J. B. Paul, Edward
Hopper, and R. S. Ksndordlne were elects d managers
of Willis’ Uospita'. and William Welsh, a director of
Girard College. The resolution, authorizing the con
struction of the Cohookaink main culvert, by Daniel
‘Stone, at a cost of $80,357 17; the Oohocknnk branch
culvert and Twenty-fourth street main culvert, by
Messrs D. and C Kennedy, at acost of $23,122 S 3, and
the latter at $53,983; the Twenty-fourth street branch
cu'vert, by Bennett & Prall, at $8,172; the Mocre
street cnlvait. byE. 0 Paulin, at $l2 132 40, and the
T ne.Rtree’ culvert to George Clark. atslolo2 50, waa
adopted j also, the ordinance authorizing tbe construc
tion <.f a double-track railway on Arch street, from
TepUl to Twentieth street.