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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1858.
■ the WEEKLY press.
THE WEEKLY PRKSB, Vol. 3, No. 21,’ tor' BATIJR
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EDITORIALS,
Tbs Tiatvr No. I— CUnbbal Davis and Judge
:Douglas-’Hon. J. McKibbik— Napqlion 11l
. 'abd Count De ; Mohtalbjibbbt—Ubnatob Douo
- LAB in TSNNSSSBS—NATIONAL EXPANSION—TIIS
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fiEORSTART OF THE I*T«BlOB, OOUMISSIONZR OF
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BSTWEBN THE CaTBOLIO CHURCH AND THE CAS*
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. poejcg—Christian Worship in Japan.
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The News.
Thosteamor City of Washington was boarded off
Cape Race yesterday. She brings news four days
later than that brought by tbe last arrival. It
was Bald that Lord Napier had been recalled from
Washington, and that Mr. Lyons bad been ap
pointed his successor. One aeoount has it that his
recall is owing to bis favoring the Monroe doc*
trine; another, that he is transferred to a Euro
pean minion/ in tho regular course of pro-
the Government being perfectly well
Satisfied with his course at Washington. (If
the latter be correct, it is rather a doubtful kind
of promotion, we think.) The trial of Montalem
bert commenced at Paris on the 2ith nit., hut, of
ooorco, the press Is not allowed to say a word on
the subjeot, so that it is probable nothing will be
known of it until the- result is announced. No
tidings yet of the steamer Indian Empire. - 'Con
sols closed .on the 24th nit. at 98ja98|. No ohange
of importance In the markets..
The Quaker City has arrived at New Orleans,
with California dates to the 20th ult./havlng made
the trip from San Francisco to that oUy In eigh
teen dayj. The steamship Golden Age .left dan
Francisco on tho 20th ult., with $2 150,000 in gold,
aud three hundred passengers,* by the Isthmus of
Panama. Business was improving at San Fran
cisco. .
At the election in New York oity, on Tuesday last,
for Comptroller, three parties were in the field:
the Tammany Democracy, represented by Purser;
the anti-Tammany Democracy, represented by
Russell; and a union nominee of the opposition
parties, represented' by Haws. The vote stood—
Parser, 18,049; Russell, 11,910; Haws, 31,800.
This vote is'a light, one, as compared with that
usually polled, and the large plurality for Haws
surprised his friends very much. The Democratic
opposltionto the Tammany nomination was under
the leadership of Fernando Wood, late mayor, and
his friends. '
Late advices from Paraguay state that Lopez is
doing nothing, and making no preparation wbat*
cvirlO ’rcaiat the American rquadron. For some
. tl£e ‘b'ook he has made no allosloh to the expedi
tion, United States, in th* Semanario.
Tbe Buenos Ayres papers copied with avidity
every detail of the expedition that had reached
them from the United States; sojiopez will,be
well posted'up. -
It is saiddhat rery rich deposits of gold have
been discovered fifteen miles above Oanybnvllta,
Douglas oonnty, Oregon Territory, and that mnob
excitement exists in that vicinage in consequence
thereof. It Is alleged that three men have taken
out- as high as seventy dollars In a few hours. The
diggings are found os a small oreek emptying into
the’_ Umpqua river. Very many miners are con
gregating - there.
Recent accounts from Frazer river mines are
also of-a-very deoidedly favorable obsracter.
Miners are reported to be making from $4 to an
ounce of gold per day/
Tbe Apache Indians are continuing their in
ourSlons into'Arixona, stealing mules, killing
oxen, and murdering the inhabitants wherever
they are found unprotected. They rarely attack
any white tattlers, even if but two or three of them
are . together, because they know the Americans
will sell their lives dearly, and the Apaches are
fearful of taring any more of their warriors. But
straggling "Mexicans in tbe Territory are robbed
and murderod with impunity.. The new gold
diggings in the GUa are very rich, and some of the
miners are making from $5 to $l6 per day; bat a
great difficulty arises from the distance between
tbe diggings and tbe river where the duet must be
wasbed. Colonel Titus, of Kansas notoriety, is
now In Arizona, dividing his time between raising
stock and working a sliver mine.
Tbe Buffalo Commercial Advertiser publishes
a series of letters whioh detail a remarkable story
of crime. Tbe Commercial says; 1 ‘Fourteen
years ago ■ Harlow Case was a respeotable and es*
teemed citizen of Buffalo. He held tho place of
assistant postmaster under Mr. Dorabeimer, and
was for many years entrusted with the more im
portant duties of tbe offioe. A member of ono of
the Baptist churches, upright in every walk of
life, married, and the father of a family, be
seemed to he as firm in the straightforward paths
of virtue as any other. Removing to Sandusky,
Ohio, he received the appointment of oolleotor of
that port under Mr. Fillmore. The appointment
was qne' universally approved, and tbe numerous
'friend of Case, in this olty, were rejoioed at his
sucoess in life. .While holding that offioshe we#
intimate in the family of a Mr. F., one of his os*
sistants. Mrs. F. was young, beautiful, impas
sioned, and a fatal attachment grew up between
tbe two, whioh remained unsuspected until the
tenth was made known by tbe sudden elopement
of Case with Mrs. F., and the simulftneoui die
eovery that he had absconded with Government
funds’to the amount of $34,000. From that time
forward nearly all trace of tbo guilty pair was
lost. The family of Caic, bereaved and betrayed,
remained hopeless in their grief. Mr. F. engaged
In a long but fruitless ohase of tbe fugitives. And
bow, from off the soa, come tidings—a broken,
hAlf-toid story of lonely wanderings in foreign
lands; a full recital of a never-ceasing remorse,
with pitiful and solitary deaths in far-away islands
and on the stormy waters of the Indian ocean.
Both victims of unhallowed passion are asleep—
the mother |n the groves of Ceylon, the little ohlld
in the coral forests of the sea. The be trayor still
wanders the earth.”
In man; portion! of New York oity liquors are
nil niter ft ted to a fearful extent. The Evening
Vast rays that a few weeks since a man drank
three oenta worth of brandy, which proved fatal in
font hours, But somehow the law has failed to
reach the matter. The inspector of the Thirteenth
preeinet' took-a plan to procure the most conclu
sive testimony in regard to the quality of the
liquor. ,He sent out policemen to report violations
of the law, providing them with vials, and when
they saw anybody drink and pay for liquor they
took a portion of the same, put It in a vial, sealed
it Up, and marked on It the time and place of sale.
The vials were taken by the oaptainj to be handed
to tho court to determine* tho character of the con
tents, whether oainphene or drinkable liqnor. The
oolleotlon now on hand would bo an Interesting
subjeot for ohemioal analysis. -
Th »fourth trial of Oancoml, for murder, com
menced in New York yesterday. Before empa
nslllng tho jury.tlio counsel for the prisoner sub
mitted Icnr pleas against the legality of the pro
ceedings', on the ground that the prisoner was being
put in jeopardy of his life oftener than onoa for tho
sama offence. The' pleas were not admitted, so
that there is a ohance yet of jostioo being done
In this pase, ■
It is proposed In Boston to Imitate the plan of
the Now Yorkers, and open tho Boston Theatre or
Howard 4theDsnm in that .oity for publlo wor
ship on Sunday evetotogi. Different preachers will
lead tbo : s«rvl<je9y‘and'<< Tom Comer/* to whom,
It ia fialdj/Blrtp'p Eastbnrn refused confirmation
becausehe led the orchestra at the Boston Thea
tre, will eoijdnpfc the psalmody. -
' the late Rev. Henry D.
Onderdohk tbbk placo yesterday, at St. Peter’s
Churoh/oornerbrThird and Pibe streets, and .at
. tho Oharoh of St James tho Bess, at the'. Folli of
theBchnyihni;{q 7 . ' ‘■/.
- Hon. Holaco night at Con* :
eert Hollj to a audienoe. A synopsis of hie
XfßHtfiW WiU flolumu* ' - -
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR.
XUHBKB TWO
■Wasuinqton, Dec. 8,1858,
The Administration papers hereaway are
gradually faking sides against tho President
and in favor of Secretary tiobh on the Tariff
question. Some are discreetly silent—the
Union, thus far, belonging to this latter class.
A few months ago, when the Administration
Tefused to allow any Democrat in the free
States the luxury of an honest difference of
opinion on its Kansas catastrophe, the jour
nals now so ready to take issue with tho
President ware constantly [clamoring for
victims, which ho was only too glad to
grant. Thoro was so little to attract any
honest mind to this most calamitous policy,
that thousands and tens of thousands revolted
against it. A fow fire-eaters, and their North
ern servitors, were really disposed to it—and
even these have since grown heartily ashamed
of it. But because it was supposed to be ac
ceptable to the Sonth, it was made an Admin
istration measure, and the whole great ma
chinery of tho Government was put in motion
to force it upon tho country. Another step
of the gravest importance to his own State,
and to tho whole country, has now been
taken by the President. If his Kansas im
broglio was tho offspring of sudden fear or
sadden caprice, his sentiments on the col
lection of the revenue, and in support of tho
doctrine of incidental protection to the groat
interests of his own and other States, are tho
results of long years of reflection and expe
rience. He has never abandoned them even
for a moment. He enunciated and defended
them in tho United States Senate in the face
of tho South, whon that Sonth was cham
pioned by Calhoun, armed with the thousand
sophistries of free trade. He has at last
mounted to tho Presidency, and flndß himself
happily and irresistibly called upon to make
good his own promises to carry out his Tariff
views whenovor he was in position to do so.
I am not disposod to beliove that Mr. Buch
anan regrets his ropeated committals on this
question. Rather Totrns’ Boiieve that ho is'
glad of the chance which his high 'position
now afl'ords to him. Ho sees the great in
terests of his own great State keonly suf
fering. Ji very little will restore them
to prosperity, and, according to his own
theory, in former years, ro-estahlish and per
petuate them. He could not help them bo
lore. When ho was a Senator in Congress
be did his best, hut this was not conclusive;
and when he was in Mr. Polk’s Cabinet his
principal was a free-trade principal, and all
his associates wero of the same school, and
he failed in his patriotic efforts thoro ; al
though at that day—over twelvo years ago—
ho was ready to go out of tho Cabinot because
he could not help the interests of Pennsylvspia
in tho reconstruction of the revenue policy.
Bnt now James Buchanan is President. Mow
he possessos imperial power. Now ho has the
strength of an army of giants. This power—
this gigantio strength—he has only lately
wielded, with the consent of his united Cabi
net, in defence of what, at best, was a measnro
of most doubtful expediency. Many people
called it a blunder; Borne a crime; some « a
fraudbut he persevered in its support to
tho final retribution of tho popular voico in
Kansas, and so proved his great conragc.
We shall see whether tho President is as
ready to nso all these vast agencies for a
righteous purpose. I may be told that his
Tariff theory is a sectional theory. But so
was the Kansas policy, with a thousand added
sins upon its hack. Everybody who voted for
Mr. Buchanan in 1856 know that tho viows
which ho commends now on tbo reve
nue question, had always been his views,
so that nobody should bo disappointed
by his reiteration of thorn. However, he
may havo amazed and mortified his best
friends on the Kansas policy, even his
worst [former! enemies cinnot bo surprised
at his adherence to his Tariff views.
Mr. Bnchanan haa heretofore obtained tho
credit of controlling everything in his Ad.
ministration. Ho has aspired to tho high
character of doing all the important work ol
the concern. Ha desires to have it under
stood that he' docs his own thinking, makes
all the appointments, writes all his messages.
Up to this period, it is. stated that his
Cabinet has been subordinated to' oil bis
wishes, and oven to his whim s. Let ns re
joice that it has been so, oven it ho has
previously gone in the teeth of onr honest
prejudicies and principles—/or now Pennsyl
vania is to have the benefit of the firmness dis
played on other issues. It is tone, a most
singular/aux pas has been permitted in the
public contradiction of his own viows by his
own Secretary of the Treasury. It is true,
the organs of tbe Administration in this
quarter are silent about, or hostile to,
the President’s Tariff doctrines. But we
have the warrant of Locompton—that
“dear divinity” of Executive affection
and Cabinet adoration—for believing that no
such recusancy will bo tolerated. If Mr. Cobb
persists in his free-trade audacity, he should
be reminded that this Administration al
lowed nobody to differ as to Kansas, and
to stay in tho party—that is, to got office from
the Administration. And if tho Union and
Star will not play tho score which Mr.
Buchanan has sot for them, other mu
sicians must bo employed to do the Ad
ministration harmonies. For this is a
most impartial Administration, beaded by a
very Jackson of a President—a President, be
it observed, who is not ready to he quoted as
going for tho South right or wrong, and only
for tho North when tho Sonth consonts. You
mnst know, gentlemen froe-tradors, that to
be right, and to do right, is tho only ambition
of James Buchanan. Ho is not decided in
his conscientiens purposes by degrees of lati
tude. He does not warm to tho Sonth and
grow chill to the North. In defending his
own “ deliberate ” convictions, on every ques
tion, ho is not to be terrified by the frowns of
factions or made “ weak in tho knees by
Southern thunder.” Like Ricbeliou, ho feels
that for.
“ Justice all time a temple,
And all seasons summer.”
In good earnest, however, tho progress of
events, on this Tariff question, is just now
the theme of all circles hero. Deliver us
safely out of our trials! J, W. F.
Paraguay.
■ We have the good fortune to be at peace
“with all the world and tho rest of mankind,”
unless wo except the Republic of Paraguay,
in South America, against Which a very un
usually large American squadron, consisting
in all of twenty-one vessels, carrying 187
guns, 317 officers, and 2,660 men, has been
despatched to uuetain and assist Commissioner
Bow&ih’s efforts to effect a satisfactory ad
justment of our difficulties with that country.
This expedition has been authorized by Con
gress, in compliance with a request of the
President, in his last message, that ho should
be empowered to treat With that nation—
peaoeably if he could, but forcibly if he must—.
the alleged grievances being the failure on the
part of Lopez to ratify the treaty of 1863, and
the alleged outrages on the steamer Water
Witch and an Amorican trading company.
The country against which wo are thus
waging war is one of the most prosperous and
thriving oi the southern republics. Ever
since throwing off the Spanish yeke, in 1810,
it has been so despotically governed that all
symptoms of disorder have been promptly
checked. From 1812 to 1840 its affairs
were ontirely controlled by Hr. Francia, an
extraordinary man, who, while extremely ar
bitrary, was one of the most intelligent and
enlightened of rulers. While he was opposed to
thought among his people, at least upon poli
tical subjects, and sternly checked the first
Byraptoms of rebellion, he was very studious
and able himself. All foreigners, without ex
ception, were rigorously excluded from Pa
raguay during his administration. ITe estab
lished schools in every section of tho country,
and required that evory white mnlo child
should nttond one of them until it acquirod
the first rudiments of an education. For a
short time after the death of Francia tho
Government was under tho joint control of
several individuals j but in 1840 Lopez was
elected President, and since that time lie has
ruled as absolutely as Francia, and the nation
has continued to enjoy a degreo of intornai
prosperity and order unusual in South Ameri
can States. He has monopolized all the pow
ers of tho Government, and nearly all the va
rious branches of commerce which can tar
nish him a profit. He owns several merchant
steamships which ply on the river, and is sup
posed to have amassed considerable wealth by
his extensive business operations.
’ . Tho population of Paraguay is variously es
timated by different authorities at from throe
hundred thousand to one million, but it proba
bly does not reach five hundred thousand. Its
regular army amounts to front eight thousand
to ten thousand men, but it has sometimes been
increased to forty thousand. It has, besides,
seven or eight steam gun-boats, commanded
by experienced French and English officers,
and strong fortifications guard the entrance to
its groat rivers. The population consists of
pare white descendants of Spaniards, Indians,
and negroes, and a compound of mixed races,
bnt an unusually large portion of it belongs to
the former class, which regards with great
aversion tho other races. It is said that in
1840 this feeling gained such strength, that no
colored person was allowed to enter church
with shoes on.
The trade of Paraguay consists in the export
of its tea, tobacco, sugar, cotton, hides, tal
low, wax, honey, cattle, horses, mules, wool,
leather, &c. Since the difficulties with the
United States it has fallen almost altogether
Into the hands of tho English.
What will be the fate of our expedition, and
whether, if it succeeds, sufficient benefit will
be derived to justify the concentration of so
large a portion of our naval forces in that
quarter, whon they wero greatly needed in
others, (Mexico, for instance, where our na
tional interests seem to bo entirely unpro
tected,) remains to be soon. The President
originated the scheme, and the responsibility
attached to it reßts chiefly with him.
Hon. Horace Greeley at Concert Hall
Lnst Evening.
The leoturo delivered at Canoert Hall last
evening, before the Harrison Literary Institute,
by Hon. Horaoe Greeley, of tbe New York Tri
bune, on “ Great Men,” waß a suooess, both for the
young men of tbe Sootety—as the audienoe was a
handsomely paying one—and for tbe distinguished
lecturer, whose sensible production was ropoatodly
greeted with applause.
Tbe leoturor of the evening was introduoed to
the audience by 3. M. Carson, Esq., President of
the Institute, in a short speeoh, detailing the
origin, progress, and present auspioes of their so
ciety ; after whioh Mr. fflreoley oamo forward and
oommenQod bis lecture, by stating his subjeot as
announoed, and adding that the mere stndy of
human oharaoter, in its multiform details
of mediocrity, would be at onoe tedious and
unprofitable. For this reason it was said
that of all the hooks issned from tho press,
biographies most habitually fell a dead letter;
evon that maoh-praiscd-and-seldom-foand Indi
vidual, the good hoy, oould not wade through suoh
dultoatavo volumos, and if he attempted it, we
should generally find that at about the forty
seventh page it fell from his knees, and was next
stared away upon his topmost hook-shelf. Es
pecially were religious auto-biographies unprofit
able ; not booauee they were religious—far other
wise—hut beoause they usually abounded with
so muoh sham that was at utter variance
with the true spirit of religion—which was re
tired and self-condemning, rather than self-land
ing—that they failod in their ostensible purposes.
It was not, said the speaker, in the Chronicles
that we were made acquainted with the eharaoter
of David, bnt rather in tho Psalms, In whioh he
had alternately poured out his soul in unostenta
tions praise and thanksgiving, and oonfessed his
own unworthiness.
Tho truly great man was really a new feree ad
ded to the planet. Sir Humphrey Davy, James
Watt, the inventor of the mariners’ compass, end
men of that olass had, with tho electric flash of
genius, lent a force to the subsequent raoe which
would go on widening to tho end of time.
But by what were wo to distinguish tho truly
great ? The Columbus of history was not sup
posed to be the foremost man of that age when
being jostled and insulted by this king and the
other. So of John Milton, surrounded with a ser
vile nation, who was not known to fame until cov
ered with tho 11 clods of tho valley.”
In taking np the sovoral olements of true great
ness in men, the speaker instanced, first, an
earnest, profound faith. That faith might be full
of error; but ho who ascribed the universe to
ohance, and denied the Omnipotent hand of a
Creator, was buriod in orror without ono ray of
truth. Ignore tho belief in God and the hope of
a hereafter, and be did not see how tbe path of
virtue was necessarily the path of peaae.
The second bans of human greatness was a
eheorful willingness to avail ourselves of every
thing that offored to aid us in developing truth
and right
This looking and wishing for what we had not,
in order to achieve success, was like looking
through the wrong ond of a teloscope. A san
guine hope to leave the world a little hotter then
we fihd it laid at the foundation of all human effi
ciency. No man was destined to make his mark
unless he was in some degree a “ radical.” It was
a great help to tho human soul to take a dooided
stand against some existing human wiekedness.
Yet, whoever set himself up to oppose a public
wrong, he knew, mast Cxpeot to ran the gauntlet
of bnman oonsnre, oritlolsm, and even condemna
tion. Be the reformer as mild as he may, he
would nevertheless find arrayed In front of him
tbe whole hostef Evil If, however, he was of the
nobler mould, he would rise to an attltndo in
whioh he oould defy all suoh opposition, and, like
Frederiok of Prussia, combat effectively his ene
mies, iu front, flank, and rear.
The virtue of tenacity was particularly dwelt
upon, and variously illustrated by glanoing at
noted personages of tho past, instanoing Bruce,
Cmsar, Cromwell, and others.
There was nothing more apparent than tho gen
eral failure of olevor medioority. Ho who was
horn to aohievo and conquer, was rarely discour
aged by rising obstacles and opposing difficulties.
If an army was to oppose Hannibal, it mußt he led
by a bronze Soipio. Viewed in the grade of the
mere animal, man was the moßt helpless creature
in the entire range of oreation; but when moved,
under the divine inspiration of human hopes, his
achievements had no limit.
We could not get away from the popular instinct,
tb&t trao greatness is always coupled with gravi
ty. We oould not brook tho idea of a jesting,
laughing Washington, or a witty Webster; yet
ho did not doubt that Washington bad laughed
and onjoyed a joke, and he know that Webster
indulgudjin the humorous; yet these were not their
leading characteristics.
Tbe truly groat soul must be actuated by some
lofty purpose. Greatness was only developed and
demonstrated by being in advanoe of Its time.
When Galileo first taught the revolution of tho
earth around the sun, tbe wiseacres of his day
feared that tbe Bible would be overthrown by bis
doctrine, and that universal infidelity would fol
low ; yet, instead of this, tho whole oivilized
world now acoeptcd the theory for which Galileo
was persecuted, and withal, Christianity had
more devotees at its shrine to-day than at any
former period.
We might safely inolude simplicity of manner
as a characteristic of human greatnoss. Henry
Clay, in his privato life, was one of the most
•quiet and civil of gentlemen. John C. Calhoun
was one of the most slmplo and straightforward
men thespeakerhadevermetwith. Bomothought
that Webster had possessed an austere reserva
tion ; yet this was but a mood. Tho mimes of
John Quincy Adams, Silas Wright, and others,
wero instanced to corroborate his argument in
favor of simplicity of manner, In this connection.
On the other band, sham greatness was always
indicated by a vulgar, boisterous protence.
Tbo vernacular of our streets, whioh the lecturer
said was poetry not yet fossilised, was largely quo
ted from and pungently applied to illustrate this
counterfeit greatness.
Truo greatness was depicted as giving Its pos
sessor the power of surmounting defeat, and the
world’s diEdain. Ho doubted not that John Mil
ton, in bis blindess and poverty, despisod and hoot
ed at, had felt himself infinitely happier than, and
suporlor In all respeots to, the laughing, licentious,
flattered Charles 11, by whoso court be was scoffed
and dorldcd.
It was a sad condition for a man to be so great
in hie own estimation as to feol it incumbent upon
him to appear fo-4he world to know everything /
as the probable result was, that under suoh cir
cumstances ho would never find timo to learn any
thing. Mon might be what they would—assos if
they preferred, da which particular he feared
many would bo left without any ohoioe of being
anything e!so)--but it was a sad waste of life to af
fect to bo, forever, what they are not.
There was one aspect of greatness which waß
discouraging. In looking over tho post, we were
presented with types of groatness whioh we could
nevor hopo to equal, much less excol. Whether
we looked on tho ancient field of historians, poets,
arohlUcta, sculptors, or painters, wo should be
overawed with the greatness that to us seems be
yond tho reach of the present Yet this was not
the philosopher’s view to take of these legacies of
tho past. Rather should we neoept them for eur
aids in proseouting the new achievements that are
reserved for the future.
As in the past, so in the future, groatness would
be submitted to the fires of persecution. Wo mis
took if we supposed that in out extreme intelli
gence and civilization, the oourse of man to high
and noble purposes was nofc still, aa of old, over
burning ploughshares; or that the cross did not
yet always precede the orown.
Tho lecture was noarly one hour and a half in
its delivery, and was listened to by the large au
dience in attendance with oft-repeated demon
strations of satisfaction.
Auction »Notick— Pints.We would ask the
particular attention of purchasers to the Bale of
furs, this morning, by B. Soott, Jr,, auctioneer,
■l3l Chestnut street, comprising furs in sots, for
ladies and children's wear; gents’ fine far collars,
caps, gloves, gauntlets. *
Tins Bale or Elegant and Valuable Lon
don Books will be continued this evening at
Thomas & Sons’ auction rooms. Seo advertise*
meats and eataloguee.
THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1858.
BY MIDNIGHT MAIL.
Letter from Washington.
[Oorrespondenoe of The Presß.]
Washington, December 8, JB5B.
The Fedoral metropolis is never the most de
lightful place of residence, and it Is lees so now
than ever before. Rain, rain, rain urioeasingly,
Not a flash of sunshine, not a strip of blue large
enough for a juvenile bonnet—nothing of the
kind has boon given since my arrival hero on
Saturday last; but, on the contrary, there have
been gloom and drizzle and rain, and mud and
pitfalls In the streets, everywhere extemporized
by tbe intelligent men who have oentrol of put
ting down the water pipes. Indeed, tho condi
tion of the wandering ghosts on the wrong side
of the river Styx is a paradise to that of tho un
fortunate, doomed for the time to be here “oaged,
oribbed, cabined and confined.” But the clouds
wlllllft before tang, for in truth I don’t- see how
this bad spoil can farther hold out, and then the
exoltement of political and fashionable olrcles will
serve to banish ennui. Of a oertainty we must
live in hope.
The recommendations of Mr. Buohanan for a
proteotorate of Sonora and Chihuahua—two States
of the Mexioan Confederacy—are well-timed, and
will, I think, moot with the hoarty assent of Con
gress. So also with his recommendations in re
sped to tho great Xsthmean routes. Tbe trade and
oommoroe of the Territories of New Moxlco and
Arizona cross naturally through Sonora and Chi
huahua to the head of tbe Gulf of California. Then,
too, the establishment of United States authority
there would keep baok the Apaobos, thus stimu
lating the settlement of our own territories, and
would at the same time give soope to the enterprise
and Industry of our oitizens, and of Mexioan
oltizens in Sonora and Chihuahua, where en
terprise and industry were so rife and so profit*
able nearly one hundred and fifty yeftrs ago, but
whioh have ever since been drivon to tbe coast
porta by tho ruthless Indians of the Gila. Re
turning after a foray to their mountain fastnesses,
those Apaohe Indians remind one of what is re
lated by Soott and others of the Scottish borderers’
raids into the lowlands of tbe Sassenaobs. They
oome driving before them oaptives, and thousands
of heads of horseß, and oxon, and sheep. Effective
military posts and stations in,Now Mexico and
Arizona will prevent these incursions of the
Apaohes. We are bound to prevent thorn nndor
stipulations of tho treaty of GuadalupeJttfdalgo.
The lathmeon crossings are necessary to the in
tegrity of onr Confederacy, and the law ofcnations
will justify any reasonable aotlon on our part to
boo that petty tyrants or tiny Powers shall not
interfere with transportation and oemmunioation
between the various sections of our country.
Tho first column or two of the Kan
sas affairs, is a glaring specimen of inconsistency,
and is feeble evon in its attempt at special plead
ing.’ Mr. Buohanan says that it is a good rule
that no Stato should be admitted with IeBS than
a population to entitle it to ono Representative in
the lower Houbo, under the existing ratio. He
wants It adopted as “a uniform rule.” In his
first message ho insisted that It should be a uni
form rule to let the Territories deoido In perfeot
freedom their own local institutions, and was the
first to depart from it. It Is the same now. Ore
gon, he asks, shall be admitted with only 20,000
population, and that Kansas, with over 50,000,
shall be kept out until she has 120,000. Ho do
olarcs how unfair to the old States to glve.a popu
lation of some 30,000 two Senators and a mombor
when thoy aro required to have 93,420 for a single
member. The rule undoubtedly is a good one;
but it should be general. He says Oregon acted
under the past policy of the Government. Then,
so has Kansas, for she bogan to got ready for
State govornmont before Oregon. Without both,
neither can be admitted. I amoertain of that;
and, moreover, I oan say that the English bill will
be repealed. English is himself pledged to vote
against It.
Genoral Ward, of Goorgia, and Mr. Preston, of
Kentucky, our minister to Madrid, and the for
mer Mr. Reed’s successor as Commissioner to Chi
na, wait their confirmation. They will wait for a
while, at loast, as I understand that Jehu Jones’s
appointment will bo foroed first to consideration.
The fight against him will be bittor.
Tho President’s message, and tho reports from
the Exeoutivo Departments, are terrible in
proving tho falsity of the statements of tho Ad
ministration press and the Administration ora
tors, mado just before tho late elections, and
siaco the adjournment of the last session. Tho
Union, with a parade like that of a Mandarin’s
manifesto, deolared, with a loud voice and a bold
face, that the Cabinet was a unit—that it dwolt
together in poace and harmony, like Barnum’s
happy family. The “ Occasional ” correspondent,
I recollect, with his uniform aoouraoy, stated
that there were dissensions in the Cabinet;
but it was denied—and it was denied that there
was any difference on any point. How Is it
now ? Tho Secretary of the Treasury and tho
President argue In the message and the report of
the country’s financos, like two aide* in
society. One is for specific dutios, and 'the other
is against it. They are at variance—separated on
the subjectof tbo tariff tho breadth qf
Mr. Buohanan faitoringly re-echoes thv arguments
of his tang years in Congress. He faintly pleads
for the interests of tbe oountry. Industry gets
the beggar’s dole from him whon it Is entitled to
tbo warmest friendship. But his Secretary laughs
his words to scorn. Ho talks of the President’s
statements, positions, suggestions, as Idle vagarios,
rldioulous and absurd.
So on anothor point. The Administration press
stated that the Treasury would estimate only
$50,000,000 for governmental expenses for the fis
cal year of 1859. How is it? Ho asks for $73,-
000 000 and odd. But mark—l am as sure of it ae
that I write, that with additional recommenda
tions during the session, the Administration will
run up tho expenses of the Government to over
$90,000,000. Howevor, if $100,000,000 is to be
raised to pay for Cuba, other hundreds of millions
for the purpose of equipping an army to surround
Mexico and tAko oaro of her rebellious sub
jects—if our Government is to sally out on
tbe Quixotic expedition of looking after every
body and everything, then God only knowß where
we will step. It will not bo long before we shall
have tbe national blessing of a stupendous national
debt; and then subtle mathematicians, after,wor
rying calculations, can tell us how many oarts it
will take to carry it, and how many times it will
go and return from the moon if piooed out.
Tbo bronze balustrade of the private steiroaro
of tbe Capitol, (manufactured by your townsmen,
Messrs. Archer, Warner, Miskey, & Oo..) which
was erected a fow days since, elicits tbo admiration
of every visiter, as it most oertoiniy reflects credit
upon tho enterprising manufacturers. As a work
of art, itisporhaps not surpassed by any portion
of tho magnificent struoturo of which it forms a
part, and tbe description given of it in the co
lumns of The Press, at the time it wa9t>n exhi
bition in your oity, was by no means exaggerated.
Tnt'KAXK.
The oharaoter of Adrienne Lacouvter , in tho
striking drama of <( Adrienne, tbo Actress,” Is
Mies Davonport’s moat folloitous realiza
tions. She played it last night, at Walnut-street
Theatre, to a good houso, and received the most
efficient support from Miss Riohings, whoso steady
improvement In aoting we have pleaenro in
noting, and also from Mr. Riohings and Mr. Perry.
Tbo pleoe played very smoothly, and gavo satis-,
faction to tho nudienoe. We should gladly gratify’
ourselves, at least, by attempting to analyse Miss
Davenport’s aoting in “Adrienno,” but it would
OQCupymore space than the pressure of political
mattor allows us in theso oxoiting times. But it is
evident that oarefut study and many natural gifts
havo combined to mako this lady a fioo nctross—
above all, slio does not play with any uhnrnoter
sho assumes, but throws oarnestuess as well as
intellect into it, and the mult.ls that success
whioh eocures reputation and profit.
This evening Miss Davenport will play Julia in
“The Hunohbaok,” with Mrs. Conway as Helen,
Mr Conway ns Master Walter, Mr. Reach as Sir
Thomas Clifford, and Mr. Perry as Modus.
A poouliar novelty.to be produced during Miss
D.’s engagement is an adaptation of Euripides’
well known tragedy of "Medea.” We barely
recollect Madame Pasta, ia the lyrical drama,
in the r6U of Modoa, and it was one of tho most
superb representations over witnessed. This was
merely in opera, which is so fooblo in utterance
to tho intellect and feeling. We havo seen vari
ous notices, from timo to timo, of Miss Davenport’s
power in this part, in the adaptation for the
Amerioan stngo, and feol no small anxiety to see
her sustain what is said to be her most finished
performance. “Medea” wilt bo produced to
morrow ovenlng for Mias Davonport’s benefit,
when a large audionoe, no doubt, will assemble to
judge for themselves whether report has exagge
rated tbo merits of the fair and popular bene •
ffciare.
In a few weeks Miss Susan May, tf this city, will
visit the West to give concerts. It would gratify
numerous friends and admirers of her if she were
to sing in public in this oity ore her departure.
She has an excellent voice, (full soprano,) a good
style, great taste, fine expression, and considera
ble enthusiasm in her art, without whioh nobody
ever oan hopo to succeed. Sho is a pupil of Pa
relli, and does infinite credit to her instructor.
Lastly, Miss Susan May, whom we oau olaim ns a
Philadelphian, by adoption at least, has a fine
presence, graceful movements, and no ordinary
share of personal beauty Wo commend hor to
the favorable nudionce or tho lovers of sweet song,
hore and at every plaoo which sho may visit.
Court of Quarter Sessions.—Tho Octo
ber term of tho Court of Quarter Sfilsiona, which closed
several days ago. was conducted at an expense, for fees
alone, oi $3,542 30 d ! vlded as follows • District Attor
ney's fees sl,olo} clerk’s tees, $1,303 fit; sheriiTa
feea, |U39 82 During the trim the Grand Jury actsd
upon 790 hills Bent before them by tho Patriot Attor
ney, 410 of which were Ignored. Of the 874 true bills
returned to court, 118 we*e declare* not guilty upon
trial Oo each of the cases thrown rut hr the Grand
Jnrv.tbe District Attorney receive* $1 50, dork or
court* P 0 cants, and tbeeher’ff If a true hill
iiVouM V* returned, and a petit .jury falls to disc ver
the truilt of the defendant, the District Attorney re
ceiyes f 3, the clerk f h the sheriff 11. 37 ft.
Miss Davenport*
Musical*
Letter irora New York.
TOE VATICAN CODEX: A COPS' RECEIVED IN NEW I
YORK—TUB BAPTIST PAPERS IN PURSUIT OP THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY: li BROADWAY BEDEVILED ” I
—A MOUNT VEIINON BOOK, BY MISS FENIMOUE
COOPER—RESULTS OB THE ELECTION t TUB BIBLE
IN TUB PUBLIC SCHOOLS—PHILADELPHIA ALDER
MEN—-PICCOLOMINI’s BENEFIT ; TOROIILIGUT PRO*
CESSION ‘SHAKSPEREAN REVIVAL AT WALLACE’S.
[Correspondence of The Press.]
Nsw YobKi Dec. 8,1868.
The British Quarterly Review.*, for Ootober, con*
talus a notice of the long-expsoted and recently-pub
lished Vatican Codex, which has for the last twenty
years tried the patience of the Biblical scholars of
Europe and America. This work—the Queen of MSB.
—to inspect which Bentley, Tiacbendorf, Tregelles,
and many otters have made journeys to Rome—ls no
longer a sealed volume. It has jnst been published
under the auspices of the Papal Government, and one
copy haa already been received In thie oity, by the
Baptist American Bible Union, just at the t'mowhen
Its pos'esslon is of great value to of
that denomination, who are engaged Iq a revision of
the Scriptures. It is comprised in five immense folio
volumes, well prlatel and firmly bound, and cost, at
Borne, about forty-fire dollars. The V itioan Codex,
thus at length given to the world, Is generally re*
garded as the moat ancient copy of the Greek Scrip
tures in existence.
Speaking of Baptists, the Boston Wole/imcm, one of
the leading journals of that denomination, is in rapid
pursultofthe Atlantic Monthly, warning its readers
that in the pages of that, delightful magazine Is a com*
paotly-built fence, in one oorndf of which lieth, perdu,
a person of color. It charges that, in the December
number, a paragraph may be found calculated to bring
oontempt upon the mission and the teachings of the
gospel, and thinks that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
whose new serial la commenced in that number. Is in
danger of getting into bad company. Tbe Wafthmrm
is quick at discovering mares’ nests. A few years slnoe
it found one of hnge dimensions in Putnam's Monthly,
in a sketch called “Broadway Bedeviled.” One or'two
other religious journals joined in the chase; but they
were summarily disposed of byHowadji Curtiss, In an
artlole in Putnam under the*head of “Observations on
the New York Observer's” criticism of the sketch.
It was cleverly done, and had the desired effect. The
religioußworld moved on without further disturbance,
and the country itself was, on the whole, conceded to
be safe.
Mount Vernon being now the word on the topmost
wave of popular sympathy and talk, the Apptetois
have taken advantage of it by putting to press, In time
for tbe holidays, “Mount Vernon; a letter to the
Children of America,” by Busan Yenlmore Coopery
daughter of the novelist. It will be embellished with
two interesting Illustrations, on steel, contributed from
Irving’s Life of Washington—one, tbo heaqtlfol vig
netto view of Mount Vernon; the other, the medallion
likeness of Washington, at the age of twenty-fire, now
first engraved, from the veritable miniature promoted by
General Washington to his niece, Mrs. Harriet Parke
The entire proilli of the work are to be devoted, as a
contribution, to the Indies’ Fund.
The election of Bobert T. Haws, as Comptroller, has
not occasioned surprise, though It was not expected
that hie vote would exceed that of the Tammany and
anti-Tammany vote combined. Itwaatho misfortune
of Tammany to place in nom*natiou men who were a
little deficient In personal popularity, and who had the
additional misfortune to have been -for many years
either in office or assiduous seekers. Mr. Purser is an
adroit politician, a thorough party-man, and amply
qualified for tbe position ; but, somehow, a notion had
got abroad that he was too anxious for the place, that
he was an infidel, that he would not be tbo Argos-eyed
guardian of the oity money-bags that should fill tbe
place; in addition to which, he was obliged to carry
the weight of the growing dislike against Tammany
Hall. Fernando Wood’s power was also apparent is
the contest, for no mere talker of opposition could
have^so organized a ptrty, or faction, or whatever else
you may please to call it, that could roll np an aggre
gate of nearly twelve thouiaod votes.
The movements of the Philadelphia aldormen are not
made publio. Of course nothing could be done for them
by our city authorities yostfrday, every politician ff
every party being busy at the eleotion; besides, it
“rained cats and doge.” [A malefactor at my side
eaya : whenever it rains cats and tfegs. it is impossible
to hail cabs and ounibuses.J
One important feature in the eleotion yesterday was
the contest for School Commissioners; two factions—
Bible and anti-Bible—being in the field The result is
that of the forty-four elected twenty-nine are In favor
of hsvlrg the Bible read In the publio sohools, and
nineteen against it.
The Pleoolomlol benefit JAit evening was a marked
aucoeas; house filled with beauty and fashion; at the
end of the first aot of Duels, a thousand-doltur brace
let, studded with diamonds, presented to her before the
curtain, by hit. BLingalaud, In behalf of the stock
holders; at the conclusion escorted te her hotel by a
torchlight procession, composed of delegations from
several of the companies of the fire department—re
ceiving her little ladyship at the stage door, forming
double lines through which she passed to her carriage,
and then forming hollow-square with the carriage in
side. Arrived at the hotel, she appeared at her window
and gave the gentlemen of the red shirts a graceful
curtsey, while they gave her se-ve-re-al cheers.
To-morrow night Mr.-Wallaok revives the “ Merchant
of Venice,” with all the showy scenic and musical ac
cessories introduced by Charles Kean In his Sbak
sps&rean revivals in England Considerable time and
money have been expended in the undertaking.
The stock market is dolt, and in some cases lower.
United States 6fl, of *7l and ’O6, sold at 104#; Mis
souri 0s rose # ; California 7s # ; Delaware end Hud
son fell #; Pacific Wail Ship #; New York Central
i #,and Michigan Southern Preferred Beading rose
#, an 1 Panama #; Rock Island fell #.
. A New Discovery in Light.—The London
correspondent of the Now York Commercial Ad
vcr/t.ier writes that a Dew disoovery in light is
aboui to bo introduced, which, if it realises the
averments of the patentees, will revolutionize all
oar existing methods of iliumisation. It was
first publicly exhibited daring the visit of the
Queen to Cherbourg, while her Majesty was pass*
lag at nlzht from her own ship to that of the Em*
peror. The raw material may be a choap gas,
made from the most common materials, and the
inorease of brilliancy is obtained by passing it
throngh a new medium, which is said to have all
the advantages of Hmo without its dcstructibill*
ty. Tbo calculations put forth aro, that a
light equal to that of 500 stroot lamps, and last*
ing twelve hours, can bo obtained at a cost equal
to 87} cents, or 3s. '6d- sterling; while “for do
mestiegpurposos*’ ono jet equalling in effeot 18
pounds of candles, and coating, only 4d. (3 oents)
for 12 hours, will give a light fully double that of
any ordinary gas burner. It is asserted, also, that
the requisite apparatus is oheap, porfeotly porta
ble, and capable of being managed even by a
child ; that the light is free from smell, very
white, extremely pure, and characterized by the
property of burning stoadily, continuously, and
without diminution. The patentee is tbo Hon. IV.
E. FilEtnaurioe, and tbo statements made are so
far endorsed by respectable and competent persons
as to lend to thehopetbat tbo discovery may prove
what it is represented to be.
Tub English Crystal-Palace Company
invite a prize poem to be ready for the Euros ce
lebration—2sth January next —to bo not less than
one hundred, nor moro than two hundred lines
long, and contributed on or before tho 15th Janu
ary. The poems are to be addressed to the secre
tary of the company, at Sydenham, and tho suc
cessful one will be awarded 3250.
THE LATEST NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH,
Stephen A. Dougins.
IUIT.t'UI. DESPATCH TO THB PRKSfI.J
Washington, Dec. B—ll P. M,
The Bcnate caucus hare, it is now believed, resolved
to throw Judge Douglas off the Committee on Territo
ries, of which he is chairman. “Whom the gois wish
todeitroy,” Ac. Pioneer.
(BFKOIAL DHSPATOH TO THB TBKBS J
Highly-important News from Arizonn—
Arrlvnl of Lieut. Mowry.
Washington*, Deo. 8,185 S
Lieut. Mowry, delegato elect from the unorganized
Territory of Arizona, has arrived la this o'.ty, and from
him I learn tbo following intorestiag facts relative te
h>B region of coantry :
The proposed Territory Inoludes about ono hundred
thousand square miles, lying between California and
Texas, its northern boundary being In close p’cximlty
to the thirty-fourth parallel of latitude. At the time
of its acquisition, it was possessed of but little popula
tion, but has sinco steadily increased, notwithstanding
the great Impediment arising from the want of military
orcnil protection. The central portion of the Terri
tory Is situated on tho Rio Graude, including th« fa
mous Meailla Valley. On this river, some live or bik
,towns bavo sprung up, tkolr population in the aggre
gate amounting to about ten thousand. The Mexicans,
although numerically superior, are strictly American
In feeling, and are under their control. These towns
hire teen erected since the acquisition of the Terri
tory, and therefore all exclusive Mexican peculiarity of
feeling has beoome extinct. Ibo population west of
the Rio Grande is concentrated in the Santa Cru/ and
Souooyfca valleys ns also on the Gila river. Tho town
of Tucboq has a population of nearly one thousand ;
that of Tubac over two hundred.
Tho American population largely predominates id tlie
western part of the Territory. The legal vote is about
three thousand. Very rich mines of silver havo be-n
opened in Ihe centre of the Territory, as also on the
R{Q Grande, opposite Mosilli, some of which arc al
ready yielding very good returns. Tho principal
mining companies are tho Sonora, Sopori, fanta Rih,
Pacific, Patagonia, and Colorado, the latter working a
copper mine on the Colorado. The copper obtained
fcora this mine is said to be the beat in the world, yos
sepalng peculiar properties of maleability, Ac. Very
rich gold placers have been opened within the last two
month", on the Gila river, twenty nnlos from its mouth,
at Fort Yuma. The gold of theso mines is equal to tho
best placers of California. When Lieutenant Mowry
left some one hundred and fifty men uerc engaged in
workiog tho mines, and others were arriving very
rapidly from California. This gold has been pro
nounced, by competent judges, to bo of a very ouperior
quality, and is valued at oighteen dollars per ounce.
Those mines, I have also been informed, are accessible
from California by both water and stage. A large
amount of arable land is still unocoupled on the
Rio Grande, Gila, and its branohes, aud the Im
mediate establishment of military posts, as a pro
tection against the Indians, will afford comforta
ble-homes for many thousand emigrants. The
cultivation Is by Irrigation, and two cropa are
raiaed annually, consisting or all variety of grains,
fruits, JU. During tho coming year farmers will find
ready pcrcliasers for their produce in the mining and
ovorland mail companies, as also In tho military forces.
Tho climate is pteas&nt, and emigrating practicable, by
the southern inula, at all seasons of tho year. The call
mvde by the people oi the Rio Grande upon Mr.
Otero, delegate from Mexico, has been responded to by
him and he, lu conjunction with Lieutenant Mowry,
will endaavor to rerun* for them the much-longed-for
orginteOlnn The route nf the omUnd mail company
is in gooil condition, and tbu hip o'«, under proper
mansgomeut, bo made in eighleeu days, and, at all
events, in twenty-five days. Lieutenant Mowry is In
fins health, and brings with him cho'ce speoimens of
gold, sliver, and cotton feed This atatemant maybe
relied upm as the plain facto in the oasa. 0
RUction of Mayor of Mobile.
Mo»ii k, 000. 8 -—Mayor Withers lus been re-elected
mayor by IB majority.
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
The Steamer City of Washington Intercepted off
Capo Race.
LIVERPOOL AND ' ON DON DATES TO NO
VENDER TWENI Y-tOURTH.
Rumored Recall of JLord J\'apier—and ap
pointment of JtJr. JLyon* a» ht» »urct»»or.
HURRICANE AT BWATAB A—-T WJRTY VESSELS
WRBOKBD.
Arrival out of the Steamers Persia, Anglo
Saxon, Vigo, Pacific, and Edinburg.
COTTON DULL AND UNCHANGED JM-
PROVEMENT IN WHEAT.
Consols 08 1-4&08 3-8.
Bt. Johns, n I?., Dec. 8 —The screw steamer City of
Washington, which sailed from Liverpool on Wednes
day, the 24th ult, was intercepted off Cape'B&co yes
terday afternoon.
The City of Washington experienced heavy westerly
gales on her passage, ta«11og ten days.
Her advices for the Associated Press (which are four
days later than furnished by the steamship Europa,)
were obtained, and have ju*t beon received.
The Live pool markets were generally dull, except-
Imr In the case of Y. heat, which had improved In
price,
The London money nurket report of Tuesday, the
23d. L dlcatcs an advance of ,* B ' in Consols over the nuo
tations of the preceding Friday.
MOVEMENTB OF STEAMSHIPS.
The royal mail steamship Persia, which sailed from
New York on the 10th of November, arrived at Liver
pool on the 21st.
Tho steamers Anglo Saxon, from Quebec oh the 6th,
and Vigo, from New York on the 4th, arrivod at Liver
pool on the 21st
The steamer Pacific, from New York on the Bth ult ,
and Edinburg, iroin the same port, on Ootober 80, ar
rived out on the 23J instant, the former at Galway and
the latter at Glasgow
TUB GENERAL NEWS.
It was reported In the diplomatic circles of London
and by the press that Lord Napier, the British Minis
ter at Waßhiogion, is about to be recalled
Ills Miccessor was a’sj said to be Mr. Lyons, from
Florence.
There were atill no tidings of the steam o r Indian
Empire, which left New York fir Qalway. on Ootober
20th An insurance was being effected on her at twen
ty five guineas per rent.
The steamer A*iel was enable to reach Bremen owing
to tbe Ice and she returned to Southampton.
The London Pou (snti-mintsteriall announces the
recall of J ord Nap'er, and the promotion of Lyons. It
says the assigned cause of the ac’ion on the part of the
Government is Napier’s tendency to favor the Uonroe
doctrine.
The Globe (also anti-ministerial) corflrras the re
port, but says that Lord Napier has been transferred to
some European mission, in tbe regular course of pro
mo’ion—the Government being perfectly satisfied with
hls course.
The ship Aglncourt, for whose safety fears were en
tertained m consequence of her being long overdue,
has arrived from Melbourne, with seventy thousand
ounces of gold dust.
The Independence Beige says that the English Cabi
net has notified the Government of Holland of its re
fusal to assume tbe protectorate of Sarawak.
The trial of Montalembert commenced at Paris on
the 24th. As the press have been specially forbidden
to take notes, the fl'St intimation of the proceedings
can only b* had at the close of the trial.
The Paris p-ess had been forbidden to discußS reli-
gious subjects.
Sardioia follows the example of France in storing her
graonries with corn.
It was expected that diplomatic relations between
Prussia and Switzerland would be resumed.
American agents are said to be endeavoring to per
suade tbe Government of Denmark to sell St. Thomas
and St. Johns islands to tho United States.
INDIA.
The Calcutta mail of Ootober 24th had arrived at
London Tbero was no news of further ioterest than
previously received by telegram.
CHINA.
Hong Kong dates to the 12th of Ootober had been
telegraphed.
Tlie tea market was brisk at Feu-Chow.
HURRICANE AT BWATABA, AND WREOK OF
TWENTY VESSELS
A hurricane in the vicinity of Swatara had wrecked
twenty vesiels. There are no American ships named
among the list of tbe wrecked.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived from Baltimore Nov. 23 Fossa Helena, al
Falmouth.
Commercial Intelligence.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov 23—The
Cotton market closed dull. There is no evident change
in the quotations reported in the circulars of Friday
evening.
Tho sales during the past three days amount to 19,000
bales, including 1,000 bales to speculators and 2,000 fur
export.
State op Trade.—The advices from Manchester have
a favorable tendency. The market closed quiet but
steady
LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFF* MARKET, Nov. 23
Messrs. Rtebnrdsofi, Spence. Sc Co. report a dull market
for Breadstuff*, with tbe exception of Wheat which
was firm. Tho choice qualities bad advanced, and on
all grades there was an improvement in price.
LIVERPOOL PROVIBION MARKET.—The circu-
lars report the Liverpool P/ovision market as generally
.dull Tho demand for Lard was dull, but holders are
flrme*; sales at 53i6dffi54s. Tallow steady.
Btoi heavy, with little Inquiry, and prices weak
Pork dull, but ateady. Bacon heavy.
LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET, Nov. 23.—Pot
Ashes quiet at 50s 6d; Pearls quiet at 41s. Rosin
steady at 4s 3d. Spirits Turpentine steady at 40s. Bice
(Canadian) firm. Sugar buoyant, Coffee quiet.
LONDON MARKETS, Nov. 23 —Wheat firm. Sugar
buoyant'. Coffee firm; Oeylo;> baa advanced Tea is
quiet. Rice (Oaro'ina) firm Tallow firm at 31s 31.
LONDON MONEY MARKET, Nov. 23-P. M.—Con
aols are quoted at 98jif <so3*£,
Messrs Richardson, Spence, A Co. report generally
four as very dull, and quotations nominal. Choice
Flour steady at 195020 s for Western; 'ios®2lafor Phi
ladelphia and Baltimore, and 225«e24s for Ohio. Wheat
closed with an udvancing tendency; line qualities bad
improved Id; sales of red Western at 4s fidoDs 3d ;
Westero white, CsaCs 3d; Poithern, 6s od®7e 2d.
o<rn is very dull; mixed, 28a'; yellow, 295: white
31sa32s.
TWO WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA,
[IDT THE TEHUANTEPEC ROUTE. |
THE QUAKER CITY AT HEW ORLEANS,
ONLY EIGHTEEN LAYS ON THE ROUTE.
93,250,000 in Gold on the Rond.
Wreck of the Ship Lucas—Fifteen Lives Losl
BUSINESS IMPROVING
Nsw Orleans, Dec B.—The steamship Quaker Oity,
of tho Tehuantepec route, baa arrived, with California
dates to the 20;h ultimo, and oighty passengers, who
bare made the trip from San .Francisco to this city in
eighteen days. The steamer on the Pacific spoke the
steamship Hermann, from New York to ran Francisco,
on the 21st ultimo. The mall lienee, consequently,
reached San Francisco in eighteen days from this city,
notwithstanding & detention of 6ixty hours at Aca
pulco
The steamship Golden Age left Ban Francisco on the
ilOtb ult , with $2,450 OCO in gold, and three hundred
passongere, by the lstbrauß ol Panama.
, Ttae road ovor the Isthmus la in a good condition.
Ten thousand letters have gone over the overland
mail route.
Pen Johnson, the duellist, has been acquitted.
The U S steam-frigate Merrimae sailed for Honolu
lu on the 23d ult.
A cargo of ice had arrived at Honolulu from Boston,
In perfect order.
Thirty-seven Arctic whaling ships had arrived at
Honolulu, having cargoes amounting to 20 500 barrels.
Bight ships had arrived from the Atlantio at Ban
franc sco.
The ship Lucas, from Victoria to San Francisco has
been totally wrecked at Farolous Island. Fifteen lives
were loft.
Business was improving at San Francisco.
From New Mexico.
WAR WITH THE NAVAJO INDIANS—DEMAND FOR
VOLUNTEERS.
St Lours, Deo. 8 —The Now Mexican mail, with San
ta Fe • J ates to the 15th ult., reached Independence on
the .Vh inßt.
The news is unimportant
A letter from Mr. Yost, dated from Albuquerque,
g vlog a summary of the war with the Navajo Indians,
dusts with tho following language :
'•The cry is for men! Vo’unteers must be called
rut. 1 hear no dissenting roloe to this demand from
any quarter.” _
From Washington.
Washington, Dec. B.—Neither branch of Congress ia
in session to-day, both having adjourned over till to
morrow
Mr. W. P. Kirkland, a planter of Nicaragua, who has
Ju t arrived in Wa«hington, ia the gentleman on
authority the Mobile Jiegisttr lately asserted that the
Nicaraguan Government would not permit the passen
gers by White and Stebbins steamer to passthrough the
country, and that it is determinedly resolved not to al
low that company to have the transit. Mr. Kirkland,
however in conversation with his friends here, says
the statement requires a qualification, to the following
effect: When the steamer reached Nicaragua, Agent
Ohiids called on the Government, when he was in
formed that he, as an individual merely, might
carry the passengers through but this could not be
done iu virtue of the White and Btebbins con
tract, which the Government of Nicaragua considered
iDoperfttivo, on the alleged ground of the non-fulfit
rnent of the conditions ; and further, that General
Jeres was in the United States endeavoring to contract
with other parties for the exclusive right of the transit,
and that, in the event of b:0 failure, arrangements
would be made to throw open the route to competition,
the Government to demand a pssaenger tax. Mr.
Kirkland says, and his (statement is corroborated by
another roaident of Nicaragua, that the country is in
a wretchod, unsettled condition, the people being in
oantinual nlarm that Walker and his followers wire
hovering in the neighborhood. The American And
British versels-of-war were stationed At nil the accessi
ble p.iintsto prevent the landing of the filibusters. No
symptoms of outbreak were apparent among the na
tives. nor was it known that there was any party ready
to make common cause with the invaders There
were but few persons from the Unitel States in that
country ; those settling there in good faith are not mo
lested, but all others ac'uated by a contrary motive
are soon made to understand that their rcom is better
than taeir company.
The Humored Murder of Governor Ca
vendish und Mr. Ashley by the Sioux
—No Truth in tho Report.
MovraßAL, 0. K , Dec B.—Sir. George Simpson, Go
vernor of the Hudson Bay Oompauv, says there is eq
truth in the rumo-ed murder of Governor Cavendish
and Mr Ashley by tho Sioux Indians. AM the papers
of this city contradict the statement published to that
tffect.
Sinking of n Western Steamer—Loss
*lOO,OOO.
Mbuwub, Tenn . December B.—The steamer E.
noward, from Now Orleans for Nashville, was sunk on
Saturday near Gaines’ landing. She bad on botrd *
cars?o of sugar and coffee, and the total lobs is estimated
atsloo.ooo. No lives wore lost
Non-Avrival of Steamers,
Nkw Yohk, Doc. B—l 2 P. M —' The steamship Per
sia, -with Liverpool dates to tl\« 27th ult , has uot loon
signalled at Sandy Hook up to this hour.
The steamer City of Washington, having only passed
Cape Dace on Tuesday, is not considered due heje be
fore this evening or to-morrow.
The Nicaraguan Emigrant*.
Mobile, Dec. 8 —The schoonnrSn«in. Harry Marcy
master, ea»ltd ou Sunday, (with a hnndrot an-1 forty
passengers, end well eupplKl with provisions ) with
out a clearance, on ft coasting voyage. She was ov»r
hauled before reaching Mehilo Point, by an armed
boat, r immanded by Cajrt Morrisou and Lieut. White,
of tho cutter Mcliellaud, and stopped. The rassengors
on the aclioonov wfero greatly enraged at this in’er
roieiicn. end threatened the cut’er men. not allowing
them to come on V/ir.*. 7 tie Governin' nt ollicors ftro
awaiting Instructions limn h« Trea nry Department.
(treat iiui’goaMrji rlm* * si&ts among the filibusters
aud their Inends in the i »1y and Mr Wilson, or Ohio,
wlio is siisrestfd by them of leing u Government spy,
has left town, iu rcumn'ierce ol a disposition being
manifested to tar and leather hiiu
Monn.K, Dec S— P.M -Tlio aelir Hu«an. with the
Nicaraguan eni'grai.ts. \**»nt o ‘-ea last r.icbt. The
revenue cutter M'brHand fired Into lh* sihoouer, but
caused no damage 1 1 those on beard, l.lt ut. White, ol
the cutter, is on board as a guest
The NewYtnk Central ifnilroad.
Albany, Doc B —The whole h srd t,f directors of
the Now York Contra! Uailn-ud hive boon r«-e’ected,
with tho exception ol Mr Jehu D Wolf, whose place
vtwJwn sppjdled Pf Mr. Charles H. Bussell.
THE CITY.
AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING.
WhSATLBT A CLARKES AaOH-STREET Th«a«*.—
“Our American Cousin ”~ u S»rap3on & Co.”
Mss. D. P Bowses’ Walroi-Bt*bb» Thbatib.—
“ The Hunchback “My Aunt ”
National Cirods “Lent’s Circus Company.”—
“ Equ°Btrlan, Gymnastic, apd Acrobatic feats.”
Assemblv Boildihob.—Signor Blits
* Sanford's Opera House.—Ethiopian Entertain
ments.
Return of tub Good "Will Fire Com
part —The deputation of this company returned home
from Baltimore last evening, well pleased with the
treatment they received from the firemen and citizens
of Baltimore They were quite during their
visit, and were shown all that was worth seeing. The
presentation of the presents designed. took place on
Tuesday afternoon, in the ball of the Liberty Engine
House. When the Good Will reached the bsll and
were seated, they were welcom'd by Mr. F. X Kelley,
the president of the Liberty, who introduced Mr Wm.
J Paacoe, tho president of the Go:d Will. Inappro
priate remarks he presented the testimonial of good
will aod friendship. He won responded to by the Hon,
Joshua Vaoeant, on the the Liberty, who ac
cepted the gifts in a rather lengthy addrees
After the presentation the company, accompanied by
a band of music, marched to Mann’s Hotel, where a
sumptuous repast awaitsd them. A letter was recoivf d
from the Mayor of the city, containing the following
toast:
“Tbe Visiting Flrem’n of Philadelphia—A cordial
we’eome And a happy sojourn among their brethren of
the Monumental city.”
Mr. Kelley th«o gave the teast of tho day, being
“l he Good Will F.re Company—May the citizens of
Philadelphia be as proud of them as we are of their
friendship ” To this toast Mr. Moreland responded in
appropriate terms
Various other to*sts and speeches followed, with the
greatest hilarity, up to a late hour
There were a number of invited guests present, em
bracing many prominent citizens.
Laikjeny and Supposed Arson —A few
weeks since, a fire occurred at the residence of Mr. Jaa.
D Wood, at Oluey, la the Twenty-third ward, A e’eset,
with its contents, was entirely burned out Air. aod
Mrs Wood were from home at tbe time, and had loft
the piemUea in charge of a colored boy named Charles
Baird, aged sixteen years, who was employed an a ser
vant. and a little son of Mr Wood, about two and
a half years old. When Mrs Wood re’umod. she disco
vered ihe fire, and with great difficulty succeeded in
rxtlnguUhing it. The oolored boy said that tbe little
boy had fired tho place while playing about the stove
with paper
A fow days afterward, Charles, who had been acting
very sullenly in the meantime, mysteriously and rad- j
deoiy disappeared and took with him Mr Wood’s ovsr—•!
coat, and several articles be had obtained from a store
by the aid of the family pasib3ok.
Tbe of Baird appeared verysuspi
cions, and a search wis Instituted for him. He was
traosd to Wilmington, and arrested there on Tuesday
last at the instance of flre-detectlve Blaokburn, who
brought him to this rify It is thought that the
charges o( larceny aod obfhinlng moony under false
DTetences can be clearly established, and Mr. Black
burn is now engaged in making a thorough examina
tion of the case of arson.
Charles h«s been sent to the House of Refuge to
await the result
Our Navy Yard. —The work of construct
log the aloops-of-war rt t>e navy yard goes brave'y on,
and it was cotUdently exp'oted that the first of the
number which is being built in the small ship-hooso
would be ready for launching during the present week,
but owing to an insufficient supply of deck plank it
will not be in readiness for aweek or t*n days. There
has not yet been a name given to tbis vessel, and har
ing been commenced first is designated as No 1. Her
dimensions are: Lergth from tsffrail-rail to head of
stem 203 feet, beam 33 feet, depth of hold 16 feet. Ves
sels ot this class are called sloops-of-war, bee.use they
have but one guu-d-ck, while a frigate hah two. They
have three masts, and are rigged as ships Bloop No 1
will,carre t»o eleven-inch pivot guns, and two guns
carrying 32-lb. shot. Tbe pivot guns weigh 10 000 lbs.
each; with the trucks, 25,000 lbs. each Good judges
of naval architecture pronounce sloop No. 1 to be of su
perior model, both as respects appea-anee and calling
qualit'es. The frigate Lancaster, which was taken
upon the dry-do3wa short time since, to be coppered,
will be takHQ off at the close of this week aud hauled
iuto the wharf, wher< her machinery will be put on
board. It will require two or tbreo months to fit her
out for sea. The work upou sloop No. 2, which is
longer and has more beam than the other, is progress
ing. A portion of her frame la up, BDd with the pres
ent force in the yard she can be* got ready for launching
by tho middle of February.
Employment on the Havana Railroad.
—An agent recently visited thlß olty to obtain mecha
nics and laborers to assist in the construction of the
Uavana (Ouba) Railroad, and the rffsrs hell oat of high
wages were sufficient to Induce about fifty enterprMog
young men in tho southern part of the city to engage in
thiß employment. They were to have embarked from
Baltimore, and accordingly went to that city. The for
mal agreement upon which future transactions were to
be conducted was there presented to ttem, but found
to be unsatisfac'ory in some particulars. Tbe nominal
wages were one dollar and fifty cents per day, bot from
this sum was to be deducted the cost of the passage out,
twenty-five cents per day for boarding, and twenty-five
cents per day was to he reserved by the company until
the conclusion of the term (six months) for which
they were engaged; and the hours for labor were from
sunrise to suos»t which, in that country, ia a very
long period. These conditions were repudiated bv moat
of those who left our city, and they have returned;
but a small number of tho party weie embarked for
Havana. There are so many persons now out or em>
ployment that any chance for obtaining it is eagerly
embraced by mauy,but before making engagements
all should i look before they leap.” and fully un
derstand the couditioua upon which they are to labor.
Funeral of Bishop Ondekdonk.—The re
mains of tbe ltev Henry U. Onderdonk were consigned
to their final resting-place yesterday. At a little after
10 o’clock the body was carried to St. Peter's Church,
.in South Third street, accompanied by a small escort of
mourners It arrived at the church a* H. About two
hundred persons were assembled in the church. The
body was met at the door by Bishop Bowman, of tbis
diocese, Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, and Bev Dr.
Odenheitner, pastor of St. Peter’s Church. 'The ser
vices were opened with a chant, sung by the choir,
after which the congregation joined in reading the an
them in the Episcopal burial service The lesson from
Ist Corinthians was read bv Bishop Williams Tho
201st hymn, commencing “Who are these In bright
array was then Aung and at 12 o’clock the funeral
procession departed for tbe Church of Ft. James the
L*sB, whero. we learn, Bishop Bowman pronounced the
funeral oration.
The Weather.—Tho weather has been so
dismal, dark, dull, disagreeable dirty, and dreary for
the last few days that it was not worlh' itemizing.
Er*ry one complained of the Wretched condition of tbe
street*, and the unhealthy and damp atmosphere. Our
beautiful cHy seemed as if it were shrouded with gloom,
and scarcely a smiling lace could be seen among the
sterner sex that thronged the streets. Tbe ladies were
obliged to give up tbeir daily promenade, for the time,
so that there was nothing to light up the dismal seme,
but, thanks to a kind Providence, abrat & o’clock last
evening a change come o’er the scene, and all tbe clouds
that hovered n’*r cur city suddenly disappeared, and
the sky presented a truly magnificent and heart-cheer
ing appearance. It ts to be hoped, since a charge
has taken pi-re for the better, that we will be blessed
for & season with sunshine. to compensate us for the
many dark days which we have la'ely endured.
The Grand Masonic Lodge.—At n meet
ing of this body, held on Monday evening, tbe follow
ing gentlemen were elected ss trustees for the ensuing
Masonic year, commencing on St. John's day next, tbe
27th of December:
Trustees of the Girard Bequest—Samuel H. Perkins,
Anthony Bouruonvllle, M D., James Hutchinson, Da
vid Bo?d, Dav.d Jayne, M.D
Trustees of the New Masonic Loan—William Bad
ear, Philip R. Howard, W®. English, James Shields,
Fred Lcttaig, tin conjunction with tho R. Vf. Grand
officers )
Trustees of the Grand Lodge Ohan'y Fund—John
WUsod, Sr., Wm. S. Black Joseph S. Riley, Sr., James
Gwyn, Angus N. Macpherson.
Payments by tiie City Tbeasuker.— Tho
followiag amounts were paid out by the City Trea«urfr
from the 4th of December, inclusive: Interest on city
loans And mandamus cases $6lO 01; outstanding war
rants. $l4 80; police warrants, $23,258 65; bigbwajs,
$1589 86; city commissioners, $1,262 81; citr pro
perty, $704 13; City Controller, $54 81; O'ty Treasu
rer, $l5 ; Receiver of Taxes. $1,204 28 ; markets, $B7O
47; wh a rvea and landioss, $3 75; clerks of Council',
$l6O 91; surveys, $6O 46: Fire Department, $676;
water do , $6,C03 32; school do., $744 58; health,
$789 B rt : poor, $1 349 14; ice boat, $lB6 15— making a
total of $41,143 69 The receipts during the same pe
riod amounted to $51,583 87.
Sudden Death in an Aldeiuian'h Office.—
About one o’clock yesterday afternoon Mr John C
B'ciuner, c listable of the Nineteenth ward, fell dead in
the office of Aidormau W-Ikersoo, coruer of Richmond
anl Cumberland streets The deceased had * eon sub
ject to heart disease, but pr-Tfous to his death was ap
parently enjoyiog good health. He leaves a wife and
child Corooor Fenner held an inquest yesterday,
and rendered a verdlutnf "death from natural causes.”
Tkansfeb of Licenses.— Over one hundred
innkeepers have beco before the City Commissioners to
have licensee of taverns purchased by them duly trans
ferred. The Uw regulating the granting of tavern
licenses requires all persons that may have sold their
establishments to have the license* transferred to the
purchasers previous to return day, which is duriDg the
present mouth.
Fatal Accident. — A young man named
Thomas Kennedy, while engaged in painting the out-
R'de of a se'ond-story wiudow of a large house Iu the
northern part of Ilroad street, was precipitated to the
pavement by the slipping of the ‘-jack” on which he
eat lie wan taken to 8t Jo«t«pVs Hospital, where he
d.ed from the effects cf his injuries.
Found Drowned. —Tho body of a colored
man was dtscnv«»ied tioatio* in the Delaware, yesterday
mornirg, at William-street wharf, llichinoud. De
ceased »as about sixty yetrs of age and was reengmsod
as a dealer in old clothes. Coroner Fen Der held tut in
quest, and rendered a verdict in accoidgnce with tho
loots.
Attempted Suicide.—A young wouiau,
named Elizabeth Wells, attempted to commit soicide
yesterday at ter noon, by table g a dose of arsenic, at h» r
residence, corner of Bedford and Crown streets Modi
c«l ssfllftauco was immedia'ely called in, and she was
rescued from her critical situation.
Resigned.— Wo learn that the Rev. R. A,
Cardeu, rector of the Church of St Matthias, has re
signed the rectorsh s !) of that church.
THE COURTS.
YESTERDAY'S proceedings
fßeported for The Press.]
Nisi Pkius— Judge Read.—Roberts rs. the
North Pennsylvania Ral’road. Au action of damages
fm injuries sustained by the plaintiff by being thrown
from bis wagon at Washington line. Deforo roputeil
The deforce was, that the plaintiff did not extreme
rca'ouabl* care in driving scions tho roid ; that if he
had dobo so, he could have seen tie traiu c- intng, aad
the CDg'ueer used alithe precimit ns t at were prs*i
ble to prevent the accident The cairn was given t > the
jury at tbtee o’clock ycßlerd*y altornoon by Judge
Head, who gave a very clear charge on the law touch
ing tbifl class of actions. lie desired the ju»y to bring
in a sealed verdict this morning, if thev enouid asr-o
Messrs Rodney and Parsons forpliintiff; J. R Burk,
Em.. for th® itefen lant
U. S. District Court— JudgeCadwalader.—
Charles lU-riswns charged with making and pifeing
counterfeit go\l coin Tlie principal testimony agsinst
the defeLdat.t was one George N. Vnlentiue, who sUted
that ho borrowed $ 5 from the defendant, Harris, end
in that amount th*re were $lO in gold which was coun
t «ife\t That he himself was attested some tin.© after,
bv Officer Wynkonp and charged wi'h making and piss
ing this spurious coin. That he then informed the
oflicers from whom he had received it, and the defen
dant, Harris, was arrested, nod counterfeit coin found
in his t- uok Verdict, guilty Sentence deferred U.
8 District Attorney for the prosecution; Walter Budd,
Esq., for tho defendant
Michael Dirk, a German carter, was charged with
passing counterfeitinouev, in payment for a horse he
had purchtfcd. Ihe defendant having denied passing
tho money—a gold dollar and a ten-cent piece—and re
fusing to redeem it, wa* arrested, and su’jectod to a
t-ial. 110 however, established a good character for
him«elf. aud was acquitted.
District Court— Judges Stroud, bniu's
word. and UftTO —New trial motion list.
Quarter Sessions—Judge Aluson.— Den
n»s Bray vras couvictnl of the Urcooy of a watch,
Thomas Williams of an assault and battery on Ufa wife.
William and John Harris of tim larceny ot a pair of
boots John M»yer and Fredrick Drown of larceny.
Charles Browar was acquitted ol the larceny of a
watch Michael Cornier or an assault and battery on
Margate* Nojlty Thoms" Johnson was convicted of
;lie larceny ot apsirof psnts
William Hailadav ".is convictel of entering the
strreof Maesra. NA Oo.,with intent to commit
telony Hnlladsy secreted liima-lf in tho store, and
was found by ft policeman
John I/nfferty was irted for the larceny of nine
buckets Verdict not guilty. It was evident the buckets
bud been stolen, but there web no positive proof of
owuerehip.
✓lt happened, however, that the defendant had been
convicted of larceny some time since, aid that
Allison had let him go, from a doubt that In enter
tained of his guilt, promising, H b-ought heiore him
again, ho would sentence him upon tlie old MU. This,
ho inrormod him, he designed to do before tho adjourn
meat.
financial and commercial.
The Alouey Market.
Philadelphia, Dec 8,1858,
The East Mahanoy Railroad Oompany Ins been regu
larly organized by tho election of a board of directors
and a pr- a dent, os will be seen by the advertisement in
SHw lk-n'iT-? - rai ! toad dirsr « es f,om tbe Httta
Bchu: Hull Ra.'road five mile, and a hair .bore Tama
the Broad Mountain four hundred and five foot b.low
■to sarnmit. and eotero the Mahanoy „, le stth , .
of the South Mahanoy creek. Brom thl, point U "
tends weetwardly through tho heartof the Great Maha’
noy or Middle coal field, to Bear run, about tJmile'.
tree or Mabanry olty. It *lll donhUe.. he centinurd
at no dr.taut day, through tho largo body of finable
1, “ a » *«ldlredbythe tonight and sagacity of the
lata Stephen Girard, while the country waa , B t . .n.
derueae, and now tho property cf the olty of PhUa
delphla. The rood has been located through there
lande, but ire nnderatand that thie part of it will not
h-» put under contract at present, as It is the
determination of tbe parties having charge of
tbe enterprise to prosecute it to completion with
out fncuniog any permanent debt. Nine-tenths of
the road is located upon straight lines; it b&s neither
bridge, switch-b* k, nor inclined plane, and can, there
fore, be worked and keptin repair at very amall coat.
There la no grade against the trade from the mouth cf
the tunnel to tbla olty. Tho coat of the road, to the
point at present filed Tor He western terminus, ia call
mated at *310,000, end it can ba completed within three
yeare from the date of He commencement Itaetoek ia
taken "by tha landholders along rhe route, and Ihe
stockholders of the Little Schuylkill Bailroad Compa.
ny, who cannot fall to be 'greatly benefited by the large
amount or tonnige which the projected Improrement
will secure'to their road.
This road skirts the mountain at the foot of the s’u
pendous planes of the great Danville cod Pottavilie
Railroad, enough of which yet remain to testify to the
boldness of their projector, as well as ot the energy ard
enterprise of the Phllkdelpbiena of the past genera
tion.
Tbe work will be under the charge of John Anderson.
Esq., who adds to unsurpassed skill as a civil engineer,
an intimate local knowledge derived from a life-time
devoted U, profeesl'mal duty i Q the Pennsylvania cosj
fields We know the mw and the couotry thoroughly
and we know that Mr. Anderson aud the projected r<a!
sre both in the right place. It will be commenced at
once, and he will carry it to completion without in
terruption or delay. Tbe Broad Mountain has always
been the great barrier in the w»v of all attempts to
reach the M-ddlecos!field This modest and unpre
tending railroad, under the charge of the right man,
will, by meat’s of a comparatively short tunnel, enter,
with favorable grades and upon tbe level of the vel
ley, this immense deposit of snthraci'e coal, which
surpasses in quality as much as it exceeds in quantity
any other yet discovered.
Bat that Ihe completion of this rait'osd will coivert
to useful aod profitable ends a valley in which we have
fished and hunted In days goqe by, we should feel dis*
posed to regrot its construction through what ba*
beeo hitherto the very paradise of sportsmen and
anglers
The 2?!</frtrn states that the vote of the stockholders
of the Chester Valley Bailroad Company approved the
le?se to the Beadipg Bailroad Company. This la
an error. The vote was in faror of the appointment of
an investigating committed, aud is considered as hostile
to the lease
New and dangerous counterfeit $5 bil's ou the Laigh'
ton Bank, of Lynn, Mass., were put la circulation on -
Tuesday in New York. Several of the bills were passed
off on storekeepers in Fulton street before the forgery
was discovered Ou the right end of tho bill is a bust
of Webster; the vignette is an agricultural sseae.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXOQANGB BALB9,
December 8, 1858.
tIPORTSD BT UAKLRT,BR,OWB, & CO., BARS-HOTR, BXOOS,
AND BXOHASQS BROXSRB, BORTHWKBT 00RN81 THIftD
AND QHSBTNOT STREETS.
FIRST BOABD.
IGOO Pennass..l eertf 95v 100 Reading K .. cash 25V
1000CAA6s’70..2dya 87 k 50 do 25V
1509 N Pennaßfis... 62# 1 Phnaßk....bswnll7#
509 do 62# 17 do ~..bswnl!?#
2000 do 305... 87 0 Lehigh Nav 60*
1000 Catawissa B7s 9 do 60*
Coup ou..2dys 61 2 Corn Ex 0k 23
700 6chl Nav 6s’B2 .73 2 Union Bfc, Tenn.. 09*
2000 d 0... b 5 ?2#| 1 Cam Sc Am B
BETWEEN BOARDS.
lOOOUnion Canal 65.. 3 > 1 8000 Ches Va! R 7s. b 3 40
SECOND BOARD.
3300 City 60 C&P 99 I 4 Penna R 42£
1000 330100 Canal Os.. 85 -j 5 Reading K 25*6
1000 NPeooaß 103 b 6 87 |SO Monuf & Meoßk.. 27
600 do 65... 82# 10 do 27
3.000 Ostawissa Chattel I 4 do 27
10a..B& 69# lOGirard Bk 11#
75... 49 Jl3 County Fire...2djs 36
loco do
\2O Cam &
| 4 do ............117
ICES—STEADY.
2000 do coup on.bb bi#l
SPeoDft K 42# |
CLOSING PBK
Bid. Ask«d
99 99*
Bia.Askid.
Sch Nat Stock.. .■ 8* Q
do Pref..'.,..16* X 7
Wmap’t&£lmß.lG& KH
do 7slktmtg«72 73
do 2d 61 >{ 62#
Long Island 11* 11*
Girard Bank '.ll* 12
Leh Coal & NaV... &•;>* 50*
do Scrip 29 29*
N Penna B 8* 8
do 6s -.62% t 3
New Crock # *
Ca>awiBsa 8.... 6* 6*
Lehigh Zinc..... 1 1*
do B 99 99#
do New. .11i2#103
PennA6s 96# 95#
Beading B 26# 25#
do fide TO. .83# 85
do Mtg65’44.94 96
do do '86.74# 76
Penn»8.........42# 42#
do Istrn 63...103 105
do 2dm 6e..<.91# 92
Morris Can C0n..47# 49#
do Pier 108 108#
SctmylN&y6!i’B2 72# 73
Bab Navlmp 6s. .73# 74
PUILADBLPHIA MARKETS, Dec. S—Etbsihu
The transactions in Breadstuff's ’hare been quite limit*
ed to-day, on account of the wet weather, atd the
market ia without alteration. 9 here is so shipping
demand for Flour, the trade are buying from $5 12#©
5.25 for superfine, f6.60©6 for extras, and $5,6007 for
fancy brands. The market closes doll. Corn meal is
held at $3.25, and Rye Flour, at $4 bhl, without*
much doing. "Wheat comes in ilowiy, and millers are
not baying to any extent at-pres nt quoted rates.
Pales comprise about 2,500 bus, at 125®130c for r«d«
and 1850145 c for white ; the latter prices were paid
for choice Kentucky, in store. Bye is scarce and
wanted at 75c for Delaware, and 80c bus for Penun.
nia. liarley'ond Malt are dull at previous quoted rates
Corn Is dull and prices irregular, but there is cot
much efferiog to-day, and in the absence of bales we
quote new yellow at Coa67c, as to condition ; old yel
low is very scarce. -Oats are in steady demand
at 45045#e for Delaware, 46©47c for Pennsylva-
Bark h not inquired for; Ist quality (Quercitron (a
offered at $3-1 ton. Cotton is without alteration
but spinners have been baying more freely at 13©12# c
lb. for low middling And middling fair "Uplands,
cash. Groceries are held firmly with a light stock to
operate In ; refiners are buying sugars in a small way
at 0# ©7c lb, four mos. Provisions—Packers are
selling Mess Pork at 818® 18.25 W bbl, and La d at 11c
for bbls, 12c for kegs. Heeds—Uloverseed is in steady
demand; 400 bus good quality sold at {5 50 bn?.
Nothing doing in Timothy or Flaxseed; the latter is
quoted at $1 60®1 65 bus. Whiskey Is selling as
wanted at 25a>203 for Pennsylvania and Ohio bbls , 24#0
for hbds,and2'#®24c for drudge.
tOHANGE—December 8
BOARD.
NEW YORK STOCK El
SECOND
9000 U 8 Ol ’74 10 4 54 I
2000 U 8 ss’os 104*
SOOJ MispoarlSt 6s
1000 Cal 7" N bd 01*
6000 Hud R con 65
(400 Ktie Railroad elO 17
60 do 630 17*^
100 Harlem R 12jf
45 Mich S Guar 61. i»
100 Reading R b3O 61X
200 do 51 .V
500 do snw
600 do 61 ?£
25 Panama R 119#
100 do sG3 UOV
200 Ual fc Chic R blO 78V
103 do f 3 73X
100 Olev k Tolß b9O SIX
109 do eS 31,V
100 Chic &RI 62X
150 do 633 02
17 Am Hz Bk 105 V
15 Del A Hud Co 97
200 do b3O @o*4
3W K J ilino b3O 7^
50 Pac Mail 8 Co 8914
50 do s? 0 5014
150 do f6O 89
150 do b3O 89X
850 N Y Orn R SAI4
200 do 619 83
250 do 163 8o»4
150 Mil A, Mies K 13
jQ for Pets, and $5.75 for
Ashes are quiet at $6 &
Pearls.
i Flour.—State aod Western Flour is dull at un*
| changed prices, with moderate receipts, and miles of
' 5 600 bblrt at $3 60®4 10 for rejected, $4.20®! 10 for
| Rupoffinc Ftate. $4 75®5 for extra do. $4 2634 60 for
1 supeifiae Western, $4 60m6 for extra Western, $5 25®
560 for shipping brands ot extra round hoop Ohio Ca-
I naiisu Flour is nominal, at fsaO 20 for extra brands,
j Sou'hera Flour is hoary, with sales o! 300 bbls at ss®
6 40 tor common to mix d brand*, and $5 60ff17 60 for
fance, fair and favorite brands.
Grain —The Whiat market is rather more active at
unchanged prices, with sales of 6,000 bus at St.l7 for
Western mixed, 51.22 tor Southern White, $ll5 for
Hod Souihtrn. and $l2O for White Canada. Corn la
fl-mer. with sites of 20 000 bus at 76377 c for Western
mixed, aod 76c for new Yellow. Bye Is very flrm at
7dn. delivered from North Rvrer. Cats aie firmer at 44
«t49c for Southern, Pennsylvania and Jersey, and 49®
66c for Sttte, Western, aud Canada
Provisions —Pork is firmer, with sales of 400 bbls,
atsl6foroMSJers slS.7sfornowMef>s.aodsl4 tb®l4 to
for Prime. Brer is quiet at the decline, with sales cf
209 lb a Cut Meats and Bacon are quiet. hu k steady.
Lvd is dull, with sales of 2ao bbls at
Butter and Cheese aro steady at unchanged rate*.
\\ msKSV is steady, with sales of 200 bbls at 250
NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET. Doc 8 —At mar
ket dur'ng the w<ek. 2 624 beeves 216 cows 474 veals,
0,116 sheep and lambs, a*d 13.000 swine ; showing a
decrease oa last week of 467 beeves, 20 cows, 113 veals,
aud 11,001 swine, and au increase cf 744 sheep. At
Jiorcon -N, J., 350 brad of beeves were fold. The'
number on salo at Allerton's was, for the day, 2,387
By the Erie road, 612 head o' csttle were received by
the Hudson River 1240. Ilarlem 336, and boats 360.
The market for Reef Cattle advanced upwards of half a
cent lb. the supply being srnaUer and tbe qo»hty
hotter. The ri-tn storm however, interfered with the
operations, and the sales all day progressed very slowly.
\te quote the best grades at lb Other
qualities at 6®90 The average price was about 8c
The Sheep market has been fairly active, and prices
,ire h shade higher. Carcass mutton lias c ’Utinued to
arrive freely from Albany ; the receipts aro over S,OCO
head weekly. Prices rango from 3to 6 cents, dreeted,
for ordinary, aid 7to 8 cents for extra W« quote lito
weight at s2®&6o for ordinary, and $6eS tor extra.
Some very tim Oiuadlao Sheep are expect-d here in a
Wdsja The stock now in market is mainly of me
dium quality.
Lamb' are'crce, the season beiug about over. \ eals
arequte*. at s®6*o Cows are dull ats2sff6s, as to
condition. Swire are less plenty, aud heavy. Hogs
are wanted at 6tftf6*c. gross, and 7Jfe, dressed.
Pnnll Hogs are plenty and dull at ?5®5 37* for 109
ibs, avorjge weight. Thy supply fails short of last
wetk several thousand
Markets by Telegraph.
M.\,’ Oriraxb. P« 7.—Cotton— pales of 9 500 bah*
tn-d <v at 11 if all 'o'c for middltrg. 8a!obof three date,
23 soo bil*?; receipts do, 42,000. Freights and Kx
caanj-es are unchanged.
Cntnr.EvToN, Deo. i .—Cotton firm; Bales of 3 300
bi'es tO'dfj*
TUi.timore, Dee S —Flout is onll Vnt unchanged.
Wheat is very .firm ; silos of choice white at, $1.33®
150. Corn steady. Provisions strady. Lard—sales of
Wostoru tcs at 11 #c lb. Wbisseyis very firm ; sales
at2sJf®26c.
Moutt.R. Dec. 8 —Colton—salea of 6,000 bales jester*
day at I*f"r tnidilmgs. The sales of three
data amount to 13,500 bales, and tho receipts at 15,G00.
Bto-Hng Exchange 7X®?X percent premium
Ot.sciSKATi Doc B.—Flour is active at 5-1 f>0»T4.73
for extra. Whiskey is steady, a* 22 \jC. Hi gs are dull,
aad prices have declined 15ff25c; the ssles to-day
Were 4,000 hogs, at *oa7, the latter pr ee pe n?ra‘d fer
250 lb weights; receipts to-day were 0.000 Tfc«
weather continues to be fair tor slaughtering. Tho re
ceipts of the week amount to (15,000, and of the reason
to 231.C00. against 137.000 during the some time last
year Provls’rru aro dull; Mess Pork re.U at $l7 60,
u.r thin month’s delirery; Bn’k S.**ts have declined
V> 5 P.aoon Sides b«11 at So ; LaTd 11
Say iSNATt, Dee. 5 —Cot*on—■ sales to-dayl 400 bales.
The market closed unsettled; good middlings are
Oiuf *\s! ime B—Cotton—sales to-day 15,000
at unhanged ra*cs; middlings Cotton
freights to 1 Irerpool 9-H'd.
Ilow folks differ! Wo chow tobacco* tho
Hindoo takos to lime. Tho children of this coun
try ‘’el’ght in oandy, those of Africa in rock salt
A'Frenchman “goes his length’’ on fried frogs,
while an Esquimaux Indian tbiuks talluT? the
QlimdJS odustuiM.