t g? ?»»* JP, *ta&bwyßW.. . <J ■"■' : . '■:■> .li'.#vli_ ThC'fieWS *S' 1 The President enough ittbaeryient ■- tools among the BemOcretio Senator** to secure a . ■s-;-! ■ ,*.r.dsolel9n ip tf>e ennons in fpvor ptiitmoytog Jodgo Douglas-, from tho position jcfohainaantof, the Comt&ittae on Territories ‘ A., grthtat politioal -intraga was never .perpetrated,; no. won-. - ■•liiler lhatmeh men- BrOwn,; - / :-lv . :■.- It ieeme that there mors of. the escape of; the ■• ■ ‘.:.;.;fllibnet*rs from Mobile air weU fimnded. o. SPfy, ,hre said to have a resdeavons scmewbeit «“ “* .viFloridaKeys. and the steamer FwhiopJ*'“PP? ss lj ii • ito have car tied out, a large tnuOber.ofthein, '(flth , ■. y.v-iiamnmMtfoD. as welldas the soho.o””® 1^ 0, • our Government whioh has been 80 tnfghty in ’ onWhing ent rebellion)! anti teoooptonltes has not been sn«oJ*ntfy>i«U»»t 14 *£"* rt tho schemes of the violators ofourneutrslity laws The late eleetlon of Ben JuAta as Untied Stfor*Mfct{>r in South Carolina is *■ stated by the dharieston itawtto have boon a decided trtnmpKof the conservative sentiment in that Stated The JfeUrt says Mr Ohesnutbe fore Jiltolion clearly and frankly defined his po ... jiijjfl position In response toljopversatlonul. inqut r *ttaa 9 sf¥ ta brief that ha, was a State rights, *ntl OOnvsnUon add anti slave trade man tie -- x endwWdi In the main the iiarnwoll speeoh of i 1 Senator phtniiOnd and ihe personal and politioal | ».?er- these/gentlemeni.plaoe them in the ifdljert and most sslutary accord at oolleagoes i MjTChbsnut is in the prime of life with amj>le I trainlng.and »dvanoe-J s.-K-i id’SsSsntBa if statesman,; He has a otear and sagaelons X.- - . :;mu)d.-even: temperament and- manner, firm and r; ;.- "r i r;rt ' hlgh ! *nd‘ ! opmblnei: oonservatlimwith de> elsiqan To a sufficient readiness in debate he adds !* w olaar logie ani oalm discernment. -..The pnrport of this Senatorial election eannot. be m:etaken. It ;u;; ;; . lt absolutely condemned -.•;..'the-agltationof the slave-trade.question." It; In- tljej polloy people of ■■si Mhonldnotmergein any party : bat. when advl , - i sable, ahoald 00-operste as alllei.not partisans. ", .;j■ - 1,; with iheilemooratio party o/ tfa South-iltgaya assurance, that Benator; Hammond would recotvo -the oonfldfng support of bis State. '' ■ Senajorßouglaa. on bis recent visit to New Or leans,.jraiwsloomsd by a large body oftbeeitliens, .aniioongrptulatory addresses wero delivered to > him by the Mayor of the city, and by Hon. Pierre replywjis as follows : ■ 1;F. present my;gratefulacknowledgments- for this; oordlelapd unexpected reception—a reception .inBitwb-fold?camicftyr-from''.the v oity:anthorltitB ;»nd.'frdminyi>outio»l moibgratp. V-ful;nndoreiistingciroamstanoeB;';iToamoherbbn L ;;prlvat«basineas..: f My,approaoh-wasas private: as >:if itoonld hei,;l had:no timo‘.,to.attend to other ef-• | . prepared to give me ;a maghifieent welcome, in I whfob .the oonstltut«d' anlhoritleB nnile with my .politioal assooiates, and for tbls l ana heastiiy . gratefgl. r have just emerged from a struggle oq ,; i:. ibehalf of the Constitution, against sectionalism and : -. - ' fanatiolsm—and no State In the American Confede racy ought to rejoice more in the triumph Of States Bights and the Federal Constitution ihanglionlsiasa. -Looking Sonth to the Calf of -Mnteb, to ihe Calf of Bt Lawronoo -n":--;.' ■ < - - -vtliere is ansonaiity of intelesti that shoaid- ever tr.-s-vhe.;ipre*tave«'£hnder i'the''ComifiotiKConitltntton: i xx::: ■ ■ ■■■ .. The Untoo ean be preserved and maintained even i in the spirit :fn whleh oar fathers made It; < ■ . . Throngb the Conitltntlon.the tTnlon oan ; be pres i ffei;,..' . served, and.by no.othermode Is it worth .preserve I w«;si. ing- Again. let ms, give you my. elneere.and se -t! x grateful acknowledgments, and proffer my thanks ', : x’.‘-- xx:::-xxx':x. - for dho.sordlal’greatlog yon have- extended to mo. r jAnd J may say, on returning to my home on the ttii spontaneous up -S '- ' ---d rUlng.and at your hands." ■ . t Ti» > Ssnatpr”th»n retired to his apartments end the'mnititnde after a pasting and rooaing obosr separated i.v.,,...... ilnthe reccnairtuVicn of the Committee ofWays . Sod Weans.’rendered, neoesaary by the resignation :. -of Hon. J. G.Jones.Mr. Phelps, of’Missouri, has . beehmsde chalrman. Phillips. of thls !.-K. • dty.Aas taken the.piaoe-mode...vaoant by. Mr. i.; . ; . 'Pbelpß'fl promotion to the chairmanship. Xhelfew so; . . ' jiTcrkiHltmes allsgss.that -Mr. - Phillips'S views on . tho tariff question do not aooord with those of Mr. Buchanan -:/’-xi:.,xx: i;,-. of the Aagtuta Chnmcle says .* ■S.R, /o; ? , C'X !"YdttiWlU be surpri«sd. probably, to; learn that -j c,;- .-; iariangsaeatsciaie, now: being made to 9ommence: washing for diamonds in Georgia, yet it is true . . .Two’ Iboaifttes, Have been fonmLwhere - the " true o matrix and all its accompanying material are /ix'u-.',. ... .foniidiln'abnndanoe:- aod from the neper. aeot' tlop In Mail and other counties, several have been / 0u 24 ottb|Ji S rat‘ : a arilty f % I Tpe fitly Connells held their regular sessions iastsaw; ' vyosterdey.-:Itrlho Select Blanoh a resolution .was wk* •: ■ ■■ adopM anthoriatog-tbe appoiniment of a oom ■ mlttso to Inquire into theexpedianoy.of removing , . the atmshonse to a more remote, point. with.a i-.-.:;:'.- : .view'of. fedndlng the expenses of that establlah m;nt Messrs Parker Poster and Neal were ep : pointed to thirobjeot on tho part, of the B&;; :. i. Select Conpolifli Arphiitreot railway.. . . bill : was «oeived;frsm tho Jlayor. A very re (»«.• jnarhablaoecamnoetookplaoe shortlybefore the ji . adjournment—the supply; oi gas gave out. In tbe CQmmon OoOnolle. tha ordinance making eer tain etrbets stsnds for markst wss linally pawed Xord Jfapftr i.'rijereiaTareport'ft'om'Englaiidthat.Xbrd - ■.t Ambassador to WasWugtonj .... / thoreis an intension. Df;p>omotiiig him to a higher diplo .^':'ftdUfi| > sa:’bnt pro do' not 4oUo T thla is to be done The Em vi States ts a verylacrativO CnO *EWo of tr more salary In the first „ Class-(oi Ambassadors Extraordinary and Hi > / nlstera PlspSpotantlarj) there pie Sir Hnnnv » Bniwen, to Turkey with J 614 000 a year, and Earl Franco, with AlO 000 In tho second^Class (*f Envoys- ExtraoidUtary and Plenlpofontiary) we And Sir Jorni pnAkraoWrlo Eussl*, and Hr Asnnxw '• io Spain, OO9 a year . ' to- Praasia and Lord An cfißPsXoyrus, to Austria, each with £5 000 States comes next s after, salary £i &00 and the remaining Eng t lish missions range from P 4 000 to £2 000 per r anpnm There tfas a rumor in the London f clubs, three months ago that Lord Bloom 1 bijMD Was likely to resign tho Prussian mis- sion s.This is the only probable yacanoy for . Lord HAEica A few weeks since Lord Dus |' ,u v rKOMtuta rcsignod tho Embassy from Eng . ipnd to’thONctlierlanda.and his successor has fe. not-yet-jbeun appointed r.. but as the.salary. is : i only £8 600, Or £9OO less than that of tho Mi tiller to Washington, Lprd Hina would hardly lake it If the Hon Bichaju BiOkxr , to* Sjcmv Lroirs bo removed Horn Florenco j to Hsihington, {twill be a decided gaifi to ; f bin, raising him from £2 000 a year in Tus [/ ■: oiny to £4,600 In ibe United States Webpg vy.w . to lnformation of the fashionable' : OireTesat Washington that Hr Ltoh is eldest son d& Admiral Lord Lvosj that he was bom ... in 1817, Shd ih*t We believe he is a bichelor i It is net very pertain that Lord NapixX will return to England His easy manners made hhapopnlat in society : hls Oratorical exhlbl - ; ’ ytlons displayed good sonso and capacity.' He Cpn be fairly ctargablo with Only one neglect while in thU country—namely, his having nn .'i.-' acCoWtably detayedtolbrwardtohlaGovern. - m'ent, lasf summer, Hr Oa»9 s communication restive to jhe rlght-oMoareb Auestlon C?T To morrow we shall commence the publication Of a series of foreign letters written by "a young gentleman of this city .r vffipjU leaking;a topr through Europe, and '' haS already traversed England Russia, France iQormanvJantfmostoflfaly. and —— — LETTER PROM THE FDITOR. mm laid • Washington. Deo. 9.1868. ■ A bright day at beautiful, arid cold. . I havo seen the new House in.lts new garb- with the meipbera In thoir seats, for tho first time. There ls too much ornament, per-- haps, - but- on the whole, the effeot Is grand and impressive. I missed many familiar faces—many whom I hnew.only a few short years .ago in the 'other .ha 11.,, The vetora Qttttinani with.; his gray inonstache and heavy beard.' ahd' militaiy: a\i, and warrn_ generous heart has been called away. The _ manly form of Thomas H. Bajdy. bf Virginia, ;has vanished from tho/scene. ■ The merry, face and ! 'b!o<luent-: voice, of poor, Presby are cold and silent in his early grave.; The beaming countenance and jocund’laugh; of gonial Jack Ogle ara'quenohed and lost for ever Thomas L Harris,' “ the pure hi heart, the ISir In form." sleeps Ms iast sleep under the freshly-broken sod of the valley. The noblo form ofSlacy, of Wisconsin; is seen'no more; Dawson; of Louisiana; Brooks, of South CaroUnd; Hackett, of Georgia; Fowler,, of Massachusetts: Dunn, of Indiana, /have de parted. . and tho. seats - they once filled shall know them no morio- Tho young Breckin ridge. of Kentucky, now sits in the Vice Pre sidential ohair in the’Senate of the United States; ■ Colonel 'Prbston,' the polished repre sentative; in -1864; from tho Louisville dis trict; is here awaiting his credentials,, as Mi nister at’ the Spanish Court. 011ngman, of /North Carolina. now Blta in the’ Senate. Ashe - of the* same ’State, is at present the head’of a- railroad company at-Wilmington. Henry-May and B. W. MoLane are praatising their profession at the Baltimore bar. Van sent is selling hats at.hls fhshionable store in the same city; "F.-P. Stanton Is a practi tioner at the Supreme Gonrt in this city. Faran is postmaster- at -Cincinnati. Mc- Donald is coHootor at Portland; Hart, Surveyor at Hew York;' Penn, superin-' tondoflt of the pnhlio "buildings at How Orleans: Biddle a.private citizen at Wil mington. Delaware; Hibbard bard at work as a- New-Hampshire lawyer; and of the other absentees we .hear, only now and then, aS the events of tho day-bring .thorn to the surface.of-politics. s :Bome ortho old stagers, however, remain. 'I notice George W. Jones of Tennessee; Georgo 'S.’Honstbn of Ala bama; Bocock of Virginia; Humphrey Mar shall of Kentucky;* Glddin/s of Ohio, Orr of South Carolina, (the Speaker.) , Brit now men ■are constantly .coming, forward, as the pave or private .life demands the withdrawal of the veterans- from the stage of aotion. What a difference two yeare make in such a body! -The Senate still: occupies' the old Senate house- while the new hall is being made ready. Immense sums havo been, arid are being, expended upon the Capitol. I wan dered through it to-day, and saw mnch to de light and surprise me, of which more anon. - ; A- friend has exhumed the following extract from a lettor addressed, by Mr. Bnchanan, in 1862. on the occasion 'of-the anniversary of the-landing of 'William Penn, wbioh was cele brated in Philadelphia in October of that year. Coming from tbo; present President of the United States, it will be read witti curious in terest, and with rib. little, surprise, by those who have watched the steady advances toward consolidation made,under the pre sent..-Administration within less than two’ abort'years. No man living has ever -written and'spoken more against the tendency to con solidation in this country than James Buchan an.' :It has been the apparition which he has constantly heid-np ho, admonish bis friends in their - relations to “parties, rind . individuals. Some-of his ablest speeohes .have been pro* nonneed In denunciation ,of this tendency. And-yet be has lived to see, and the country has lived to soo 'in his Administration, the only organized and successful attempt to con-, centrate power at tbo seat of tbe Federal capital—to.annibilute the rights of the States —to ' destroy the will of the majority—and to bind our.dependent Territories, like so many chained captives, to the chariot-wheels of whaj has become neither more nor. leas than a vast; central despotism, armed with unlimited capl-.; tal: surrounded by the briny and navy,rind for-' tifiedby swarms of offlce-h'oldera In every part of-the land, who,ire again, backed; by other swarmß and Bcekers - uftcryli>po,-»o loan ,riady to do the bldding of. their imperial master- ' . ... Mr. Bnchanan writes, in .1852, to- the com- mlttee: - ..'•I, I*' 1 *' The oHlsens of . Pennsylvania have never pro pprly- appreciated themselves. # ;* ;Under our- complicated but/unrivalled form of Govern ment* Btate pride has become th*traest patribUsm towards the whole Union//,Xt is eminently oonser vatlve of onr Federal-Bopublioon; Government; What w have most to. dread vs ike centraliza tion of <untonsMitiional;poUtical powers in, the Federal .Government and', the -indulgence of a well-regulated State 'pride throughout tbe Con federacy will always preserve us from this abyss; As our territory, extends, r as we rapidly advanoe in power and wealth, as tbe patronsge and expendi tures of, tho Federal : Government ioorease, the natural tendency beopmesgreater .and greater to accumulate power at the centre of the system. - “But. wMlo thirty-dne State sovereignties, proud of their , power'flhd jealous of their rights, shall coDtfnuetoreslat all enoroaohments from the General Government,'tbey will'evor preserve the just balance between Federal and'SUte authority. So long: as . thts • balance shall be held with a steady handneither' the Constitution nor the £7h*ow. will ever be in danger. ■ But let tile pride let tfiem Be reduced td ihcre provincial corpora tions. dependant upon'the,Federal Government and' then the centralization of dll powers at Washingtons in fact if not in forttii will inevi tably follow: > and then the I :animation) life, ana soul of pur institutions will have fed. for ever.'-' - • ,V V V.YotuyUl jierceive In the italicised passages oftho extraot quoted a remarkable similarity be tween tbe opinions held by James Buchanan in'lB2B, when, be was resisting what he re garded as the abuse of the Federal patronage by John Quincy Adams, and his opinions in 1852, twenty-four years alter, whon our torrl tory had Vastly Increased, when the Execu tive patronage was aipioat double that wielded by John Quinoy,Adams,-when the expenditures of the Government had nearly been trebled, land when our revenues had’ risen - from some twpntyto nearly sovanfymilltonsperannum. [At .this moment the State sovereignties are weaker at Washington than they have ever .been', since , the beginning of the Go- Jverninent, anif the, voice of the people - 'more persistently defied.. Excesses, from which' every othor President would have . shrunkwith horror, havo been boldly porpo , ’troted under ; the present dynasty. The whole . [machinery;of, the. Federal Government has > '.been; employed/dike avast engine, to compel ' the’ people,to "accept’ dootirlnes at war with ■ Itfie spirit of the Constitution, the admonl ; : Uons of the statesmen of the past, the pledges : 'ofjthe Executivo ! himself } 'and the principles of evory party that has an existence or a ; name within oiir borders. The President has dictated nominations to Congressional dis tricts,audremoved from office every man Who has raised his voice in support of. the doc itrihea'of. .the .'Constitution, and with the : money- of the people in bis’hands has de- I friended the endorsement, of faithles? public ' servant*. : . Bribes'.; have been • held ont to . the unworthy, and • men whose only • ready acquies ' cenpe in the basest treachery, We beon ■ cAlied into the highest positions. Governors 1 of States huye been Intimidated from the Fed ■ eiwl-capltal—thearaalleatolectlonß have been ; controlled by Federal money—and every office, ' from ihe hlgheat to, the lowest, has been used for the-phWse of proscribing an honest dlf ' fefenceofopihion. Ademoralization/aa wide spread asit has beon iinparallclod, has resulted I from.thisrecklesafand exceptionless tyranny. ; .ThO effec't upon tbo'independenco of the Be ;■ presentatiye has been startling. Tbe weak have' been terrifled into obedionco; tho cor rnpt|have been,Subsidized j'and those who have been Intrepldonongh to stand Up in the protesting against the itavebeen boßet/,front and rear, with’ every ; element 'and proicrlptlon. •• Tho employment of money in ; tWoiections, 80l eloquently doplorod by Mr.. * his-iasf .Pittsbnrg letter, has ■ jwa exceptioiy—lt has become the ; Wef'and,' I ( rogret'tb say; H, ha who has % has been;tho whore,, to. resort ; &yfc;S?K.tte.f.day ;when' the people. Of Kanstts were dcnlod .tho -privilege Janies Bn ' to them, through : ali, tho . intormedlato. stagos of tho contest, ; .do’wnto.thedastsftd'exhibitions In. the. recent. .electjbni'lnvNeyr t ;Ypik/;Pehniylyahia, Ohio, ■NW - Jeney, aaia < IlJliolS. j the patronage of dheipeople has- been prostituted; to the de. Isfeacfiog of the;|rights .of ther.pebple' and the' of ;th| ind^hd^riMbfW.'servants prOaohing the after .hay|pg, for nearlyfifty years, denounced centraliza tion at tho Fed eral-eapltal; as Hie bane of the Kepublio, as consolidation, has' bfien, and now Is' .the bane of.'all civilized Governments, shonld bo the.firat to make centralization the galding 'star of; bis Presidential policy! It became' my duiyysbine weeks ago, to con trast hlspresont actions with his professions, as a;meinberof Oongross. twenty-four years ago, and now I am enabled to prodneo a still later, text from his record, 1 arid to refer to the -melancholy comment he has made and is making upon it. . The country will be gratified to know that the utmost harmony prbvaiis among the gallant band of Democrats in Congress who resisted the encroachments of Presidential patronage and power during the last session. Since the fall elections, these men have a right to congratulate themselves upon tho. popular en dorsement which their votes have received. Important results have followed their former united action. A grave responsibility Is again devolved upon each and a 11... They have the principles of the Democratic party in chargo, and-no attompt to rule them out by caucuses, or to drive, them out by newspaper denuncia tion, or to intimidate them by Executive in terference, should be permitted to havo the slightest effect upon their action. They are, infaot,.tho conservators ,of tho Democratic oreed, and,-; as such, their conduct , will be watched with intense interest by the people. J. TV. F. Another Blow .at Douglas—Proscription m a Hew Shape. Tbo startling intelligence reached ns last nlgjit that a majority of the canons of Demo cratic-Senators had decided to remove Judge Douolas from the'position ho has so long adorned, of Chairman of the Committee on Territories. In vain was this deed of ruthless proscription and Of suicidal folly bravely op posed by, the.ablest members of that body— by'snchinon as . HtTNTBB of Virginia, Toombs of Georgia, Johnson of Tennessee, Brown of Mississippi, Shields of Minnesota, Olinguan of North Carolina, and Stuart of Michi gan—jhe supple tools of tyranny, the pliant Bigler and bis kindrbd.spirits, yielded a ready submission..to tbe demands of Executive ven geance. ; So intimately has JndgeDouOLAs boon iden tified with the position, that if this attompt to remove him from it succeeds it cannot bnt bo regarded as a national calamity.' Familiar with all the wants arid the trials of onr fron tier settlements, no man in tbe country so well understood its true territorial policy, and he has left the improsß of his genius npon it in indelible characters. The cause of his removal IS, of oourse, bis manly, straight-forward polloy on the Kansas question. Not content with striking down every honest Democrat within its reach who dared to uttor his sentiments of abhorrence of the Le compton fraud, and writhing under tbo con temptibly and lndicrpnsly-ignominious atti tude in which it was placed by the Danito as sault upon the regular Democratic organiza tion in Illinois, tho Administration has, to the surprise of every one, found a still lower depth of infamy in which to wallow, and attempts, through the Senators who follow at its heels, to wield , the rod of proscription In another shape over the. danntless Hero of Popular Sovereignty 1 Among tho great mass of tho American people there can be bnt one opinion of on act like this. A sentiment of profound contempt for all who were engaged in it will universally prevail, and each now dastardly blow of this kind struck at Douglas will only sorve to raise him still higher in the affections of his coun trymen. . ■ BY MIDNIGHT MAIL. Letter from Washington. [Correspondence of The Press.] , . ' , Washington, December 9,1858. I do not know any one who has better reason to be satisfied with Mr. Bobbanan’s Administration than Bennett, of the New, York Herald. The Tipus of that olty calls Bennett the “ President’s weakness.” On the contrary, he Is the right arm of. the strength of tho present Administration. Though denonnoed by. the whole South, arid exe crated In the whole North; though the organ arid .advoeate of. the Fremont antagonism.in 1858; and the assailant,, by turns, of every Democratic statesman in the land—BenUett Is, .House and Its venerable oeouparit. . After the 'General Administration .was, organised, Bennett bnUled them Into allowing him-to send out a cor* respondent on the great sub-marine telegraphlo expedition, in the good ship' Niagara; then he . forced another, of his , agents into the diplomats servioo at Mexioo; then he got Flenrot, - the' friend of his „ family, sent es codbol- to Bordeaux; then . Chevalier Wikoif, the most intimate associate of Bennett, was sent abroad on the seoret-servioe fund as a roving dip lomat. Thla hraeh is 1 knows, though there are, doubtless, similar other favors, betwean the par ties, 11 secret, sweet, arid preeiorus.” Bennett has a longing for'” Soolety.” Tabooed in New York, and. utterly ostracised bore, the President has re solved to give him, the most ample recognition. John J. Crittenden is not Invited, to dine at the Presidential mahogany; the whole Bepubliean and Amerloan party are excluded from the same ; hospitable beard; but Bennett, in the midst of his assanlts upon soma of the most eminent* oitizens of this Dlatriot, is sent for, and escorted to the fire-side of the Pre sident, arid honored almost on bended knee. Nor does ..the President tiro of well,doing. As If to glvea new and more public mark of his affection to Bonnott, and to spit in tbe face of the whole Amerloan press, of every party, including his own, he causes to be forwarded to him advanoe oopies of his annual message, to the exolueion of all the other journals of tbe oountry. While the great third estate of Hew York,'the dallyjournalsof that city, are waiting osgerly for the message to be delivered from tbe oolleotor’s offlbe, tbe Herald extra is thrown before the people, and the fact made known that that most refined journal bed had the message in type for a whole'day!' The return for all this official praise and proferonoo ou the part of Bennett is a consistent abuse of every friend of the President in Washington and in Hew York—abuse of Mr. Slokles, of. Mr. Hart, of Mr. Oohb, of Mr. Goreoran, of tbe Union, of Goy. Wise, of everybody, in foot, who may he willing to serve tho Administration. Ido not say these attacks are suggested by the President; but they are not arrested—they do not stop blm in bis costly oonrtesies to the editor in question; they rather attach the one more elosely to the other. The faot Is, the President’s desire is to take bare of ktmself— to monopolise Bonnett as his own speoial ohampion—to have nobody praised in the Herald bat himself. 'Worship me, 0 Bpnnett, Is the ory of tbe President, and you may calumniate all the rest of the world: Pioneer. Washington, Deo. 9,1858. Ths Press is sought after'with more avidity, perhaps, than any other paper whioh comes to this city. Night before test not a oopy could be had fifteen minutes after the. agency received it, and. my oopy was loaned out to half a dosen anxious Jnqoirers. The most amusing topic for conversation is Mr. .Bnohanan’s avowed dual, existence. He is Mr. Baohasas, “a private Individual,” and Mr. Bu chanan the President of the United States. We have two rulers. Ofoourso, it will startle many people to know this now for the first time. Bat Sparta had two kings, and so have we, and that is the end of it. Those who plhoo suoh implicit confidence in the President’* alleged history of Kansas affairs, with all its inconsistencies, one* sided statements, and errorf of fact, must agree ef consequence to this; fer have they not all along sounded Into onr ears that on Democracy and its organisation he Was and is rag infallible as the Rope on the'ohuroh dootiines and the ohuroh es* tablishment? Hereafter,'therefore, it Bbould be particularly inquired into, when Mr. Buchanan speaks, whether be speaks as a private Individual or as an official. 1 wonder whether his lotter to the Du Qnesne oele* bration was-written from a'private individual or from tbe President.- It must have been written from the former, for the President assuredly knew of the untold Federal patronage and Federal In* fluenoe used to carry Leoompton and Leoompton candidates, and applied in every way to sap the foundation of that public virtue, without whioh repnblios oannot exist. . When the President’s message readies Oalffor* nia, and the entire Pacifio aoast, whenoe it is now flying upon the wings of steam and eleotrioity, it will create an excitement rarely witnessed in the history, of this country. It will bo recollected that it reoomraehds a United States' protectorate of Sonora and Chihuahua. ; We kuojr by the last two steamers that the people of that coast have beon*on the to liarh tidings from this quarter, preparatory to rush' upon the Mexican States named, and now that it is openly declared frOm the Chief Magistrate’s chair, thqfwemust have' control of them, wo- may"expect -to hear of scenes of bloodshod all along that border. 1 There ate the murders at Punbar’s, in Arizona, Grabbed maflsacre at Oavoroa, and constant out* rages of like obaraotor on,the part of the Mexican authorities to be avenged, snd l know how pro* found Is thejfeeiing which ijjoberished that they shall be One mult tremble for the rOsult. - : Aa well atop a torrent as the tide of emigration whioh will overflow; the .mining and. agricultural, districts ofßonora and Chihuahua.. The.Govern*. mcatof Mr, Buchanan, says wo must have that territory, and there will ba eager haste te 'pur- THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAV, DECEMBER 10, 1858. Chase out old Spanish anJMexloan grants arid squat and.take'rip uriocouplrf lands. ■ \ ; Last "session' aoH’Lecoinpton Democrats, who voted for all ihe Administration measures except Its Kansas polloy, write read out of the Democra tic party; .while those who voted for that alone, and against ail the others; were given the, frater nal hug. and all the jat 'plaoes they desired. Mir. Buohanan recommends spoolfio duties and an in creased - tariff.. His Lecompton friends will go against It—every man from the South, I think, without exoeption—and on the Contrary, the antl- Leoompton men will snpport lti{ On parity of reasoning, are not the Leoompton men out of the party ? Denglaa, and Broderick, and Stuart, and Hlokman, and Haskin, and Davis, and Chapman, and Olark, and a)l of those noble spirits have been heretofore reed oat, and now a' like fate awaits Hammond, and Orr, and Keitt, and tbe rest of them. Then, who is in the Demo oratlo party except alone Mr. Buohamiri, the Union, and the Star ? Trobaxh. . A Hebrew; on the Hebrews. Tho leotnrer, before tbe People’s Literary In stitate, for last evening, at Concert Hall, was the Rev. M.J. Raphall, an eminent Jewish llahhl. The hall was nearly filled with a highly intelli gent audience, arid the leeture, in its matter, was, in many respects, a produotion of superior merit. It was delivered without notes, and, as a finished composition, would have oompared favorably with any leetnre-board effort in this olty during the present season. Indeed, as.an instanoe of the English in its purity, by one so foreign in his ao oent and pronunciation, we do not now remember of ever having heard it equalled. The eloquent Magyar who visited this country In searoh Of “ material aid,” a few years ago, for insuperable reasons we did not hear. Before oommeneing his leoture, Mr .'‘Raphall de sired to oorreot the erroneens statement, ae pub lished in the newspapers, of his proposed snbjeot. What he designed to speak of was ” The Biblloal Poetry of the Hebrews, and the Characteristics of their Literature,” and not of the Hebrews themselves. That collection of records, known as the Old Tes tament, had been properly aompiled by Simon tho last—High Priest of Jerusalem, a ootempora ry of Alexander the Great. The view he propo sed to take of hts Subject rendered it necessary for, him to speak of both tho prose and the poetry of thp Scored writings. By proee he meant thebrdi nary language of the mind in lta ordinary state; whilst poetry was the language of the more pow erful emotions of tbo heart. ' Both these elements wore in the Bible judlolously introduced. In com menting upon the eharsoter of tbe several books of the Old Testament Seriptnres, It was said that while It was true that the style of eaob was in soma degree stomped with theldiosynorulcs of their re spective authors, it was nevertheless true that their inspiration was amply attested in the im-‘ press they each bore of a unity of Divine purpose.' .In taking a general snrvoy of his proposed theme, the speaker said there were three dls-. tinot, prominont characteristics, whioh peculiarly marked the literature of the Hebrew Scriptures; theso were their originality, their naturalness, and their holiness anS'purity. These several features, as the leoture progressed, were each illustrated with groat force, and shown to be ap plicable to tho Bible as they are not to any other book tbe world has ever produced. The entire analysis of this subjeot by the lectu rer was felicitous, and marked him as at ones a man of learning and ability. If, said he, we shonld proseonte onr studies of Bible literature in tbe light of its progress, we shonld .find it divi ded Into the four following periods: First, from the earliest times to Moses, a period of twenty-five hundred years; second, from Moses to David, a period of [onr hundred years; third, from David to the death of Solomon; and fourth, from tbe division of the Hebrew monarohy, through a period of soma eight hundred years. In the first of these periods, we had presented tc.ris in the Scriptures the Book of Genesis, and that first, and nerer-sinos-eqnalled drama, the Book of Job; whioh latter the speaker believed ohronotogioally to belong to a point, anterior to the five books of- Moses. In the seo end of these periods we had de veloped’ the Hebrew nationality, aa rooorded in Joshua and the Judges. The- third period was identified with tho iyrioal poetry of the Hebrews, and the fourth with their propheoies, of which the most polished speoimeu waa affordod in the wrltingß of Isaiah. As was Moses among legislators, and David among poets, so was Isaiah’s superiority among prophets. Throughout the leoture the aim of its author was, evidently, to demonstrate the unequalled’ oharaoter of the Saorcd writings In point of true literary merit. His illustration of this truth, in comparing the snbllme Homer, and bis Latin Imitator, Virgil, with the simple, yet sub lime and faultless story of Joseph, in’ order to' prove the superiority of the lattef, both in point of literary excellence and moral grandeur, was given in masterly style, onr only regrot being that'spaoC' will not warrdnt Its repetition here. '/Among the* audience we noticed a large number' of' our -weaitmesi anmnosinmuoiuim n«»ow girirens." ~ Letter lrcm New YorkV ' [Oonsspondence of The Press.] TUB OAltOBU! UUnnER-OA8B: TACTICS op MR, ABHVXAD—TAB- UNITABIAItS 1 BBVOLHTIONARY MOVBHENTS ; VBSPBUB—WILL OF THU LiTH B. F. hAw ; COMPTROLLBR J FOUND LING NAMED AFTER' HIM—A, LONG LECTUBB BY GRBELBY—FLAGQ’S FAINTING OF THB LANDING OF T&B CABLE—TBE BENICIA BOY CQALLBNQHS TIIB WOHM) —RECEIPTS OF THE OPERATIC SEA SON—MB. FORREST t Your late townsman, John Vf Ashruead, Egij,., made another effort yesterday to engineer the notorioue Can oe ml out of the dutches of the exeoutioner. At the opening of the court he asked for the dismissal of his client, and objected to any further proceedings is the case, on the ground that, by the Constitutions of the' United States and the State of New York, a prisoner could not twloe be put In jeopardy for the same offence. The court denied the motion, and the empannelUog of the jury was commenced. It will be curious to watch the movements of Oanoeml** counsel In thlsfohrih at tempt at his rescue. The popular notion is that, by some legal legerdemalo, he will yetescape tbe gallows. . The Unitarians are turning Paseyites. Notloagslnoe a- Unitarian charoh was dedicated in Marietta, 0., the walls of which were decorated with Soriptaral scenes. It wss built by an old, conservative Unitarian, and tbe officers of the l( American Unitarian Association ” took part in tbe dedicatory exercises. The Brooklyn Unitarians are going a step beyond this. The Rev. Mr. Longfellow (brother of the poet) has announced that on Suoday evening next »* vespers ” will be performed in his obnrch—the Second Unitarian—the service having been carefully prepared by Mr L., to be continued on alter nate Sabbath evenings. The regular service at this church differs from mestother Congregational churches, as it includes, besides tl*e ordinary services of Such churches, “silent” and audible prayers, anthems,' chants, Ac.; thus combining portions of the Congrega tional, Episcopal, and Quaker modes of worship. It is said to be impressive. So we go. The.conservative Unitarian, the most Protestant of Protestant Churches,* brbresks through its polished chilliness, and prepares to take tts chance with other innovators upon religious' ritualism. William Allen Butler, the author of “ Nothing to Wear,” yesterday stepped Into tbe Surrogate’s office, * and, as one of tbe executors, offered for probatetbe will of his father, tbe late Benjamin ff. Butler. Its provisions are mainly of a private character, hut, after; making specific bequests to bis family and blends, one* tenth of bis residuary estate la directed to be applied to eharitable purposes, in conformity with written direo.” tfoos comomateated by b/m to them daring his life, time, but which are not incorporated in tbe will. Tbe newiy-electid Comptroller, Mr. Haws, is already .realising what it is to b* famous. On Tuesday night/ just after the dosing of tbe polls, a policeman found a male child about two weeks old In the area-way of a rickety old bouse in Oreenwiob street. After naming it Robert T. Hawes, Jr., it was sent to tbe (taverners of tbe Almshouse, who promptly assumed control o£ tbe little republican, and generously tossed him over to one of the nurses. Tbe great u succor” that Hawes reoelved from the Americans during the day-time elect ed bira. Tbe little tucker, found by tbepolioeman du« ring tbe night may, by-and-by, find himsiif as high ih public life asbte namesake. v Tbe Roobester Union says that Horace Greeley, of the New York Tribune , has written a lecture oo great men, and “ starts West this week to spend * month er six weeks'ln its ‘delivery!” Gracious! the idea of being blx weeks in delivering a single lecture ! >1 Flagg, the artist, has Just finished a fine painting of the u Landing of the Telegraph Cable at Trinity Bay,” painted for James Brewster, Esq., of New Haven. The principal figures are from foil-length photographs, by Brady, and tbe point of time obosen is the moment when the officers aid sailors of tbe Niagara stand with uncovered heads, while Captain Hudson acknowledges that In this great enterprise «the glory is all of God.” The picture was exhibited yesterday, for the first time, privately, at the Dusseldorf gallery. There is no foundation for the rumor that the Aator House has been offered to the Postmaster General fova c’ty post office. Stetson’s lease has six years toruo, and the stores on the street door are let for a longer term. It would take a boons of at least $260,000 to buy tbe leases out. Ohristadoro, the bair-dresser, could not be bought out for less than $60,000. Speaking ef hair-dressers, I yesterday passed a little shop, in one cf the by-streets, over the door of which waa painted the following irioopheroua or hair-raising sign: “ Capillary Operator and Tonsorial Regenerator.” Perhaps it may interest that large number of Phlla delphlans who ate almost as much at home In New York as In Philadelphia to know that another desperate attempt will be made, at the next meeting of our Leg!?. Uture< to secure the passage of tho Broadway Railroad bill; an effort will also be made for an aot autharirlpg a railroad from Wall street to the Dry Bock, via East Broadway. Captain Hudson has received from the Queen of Eng land, through the hands of Lord Napier, a gold box and medal, in testimony of his services in laying the Atlantic cable. Of odurse Congress will grant him per mission to accept. The Common Council have just established a Found ling Hospital in Fifty-first street, on the plan of simi lar Institutions In .Europe All illegitimate'eblldren may be deposited there and “no questions asked.” ; Mr. John o.' Heenan, wfio rejoices in the cognomen of *<The Benicia Boy,"” Is Out with a card in the morning papers, challenging not’only Morrissey, bat the whole world .to fight him any sum up to slo,oso. John Is evidently frantlo for a fight, andthlswlH be apt to put him in the way of finding some one,ready for the Job. * The Operatic season, of twenty-fire n’ghta, dosed yesterday.'. The gross recelpts have been $68j016, or>an. average of $2, 766, per night, a sum snprecedonted in the annals' of 'operatic or - theatrical- establishments in Amerioa., , Xt'li eald Mr. Forreßt Is soon to pUy an engagement 1 attio'Brwtfmj imatta. ' ““ >J * T#E LATEST-NEW IS BY TELEGRAPH. 'V [SPBOIAL DEBPATOHTO THI PRBSB.J ' THE DEMpCRATIp CAUCUS AT WASHINGTON, . FBOSCBITTION ITT A HEW FOBM. b * 1 — Expulsion of Judge Douglas from the Senate Committee on Territories* Washington, Deo fi, 1868.—After a rer/ oxoitiog debate in a caucus of the Administration Senators, It *&s decided, by ft vote of seventeen to seven, to re mo76 fisuntor DauaLAs frncn tbe position of cbAirman of the Committee on Territories. The seven Senators who voted against this proposition were Toousa, Beown, CiiiNQHAN, Johnson of Tennessee, Shihlcb, Hdntbs, and Btuaht. TfIIRTY-FIPTfI CONGRESS, gen&tors Critibxdbh of IContuoky, Toombs of Georgia, and Johnson of,Tennessee, appeared In their ■•ate. Various petitions were presented aqd referred. Mr. Bright, of Indiana, offered a resolution autho rising the Oommittee on Public Buildings to inauire and report how soon the new Senate ohamber will be ready for oconpanoy J ’ Mr, IvßßHox.of Georgia, gave notice of his inten tion, at an early day, to introdnoe a bill for the aboli tion of the franking privilege, and the substitution of a commutation in money.' • Charles S. Jonos was elected assistant doorkeeper of the Senate. * The report from the Beoretary of Btate, communi cating auabstract of registered Amerloan .seamen, wax ordered to be printed. Various memorials, of an, unimportant eharsoter, were presented. 1 Also, one from the legislature of Minnesota, asking an appropriation for the improvement of tbe Missieelppi and hi Orolx rivers, and for a grant of land to aid In the construction o( railroads. Adjourned. The Bpeaker announced the standing committees, as follows; , On Elections —Messrs. Boyoe, Washburn* of Mis souri, Btevenloo. Clark of Connecticut. Wright of Ten nessee, Gilmer. Lamar, Wilson, aod Cavanaugh. On Ways and Also>w.—Messrs. Phelps of Missouri, Phillips, Letcher. Davis or Maryland, Kelly, Howard, Dowdell, MoOlay, and MorrlU. - Of Claims.— Messrs. Marshall of Illinois, Jackson, biddings, Davidson, Kuokcl, Moore; Goodwin,' Arnold, 1 and Maynard On Commerce.— Messrs. John Ooohrane« Million, Wiehbnrne of Illinois, Miles, Wade, Btallwortb, Sus tie, Lundy, and Oomins. . ’ On Public Lands Messrs,/Cobb, McQueen, Ben- Hett, Davis of Indiana, Garnett, Baffin, Hill, Montgo mery, and MoKVbbin. ’ On Post Offices and Pest Roads.— Messrs. SogUth, Powell, Wood, Scott, Horton, Davis of lowa, Oraig of Missouri. Davis of Mississippi, and Atkins.' On District of Cotumbia —Messrs. Goode, Bowie. Dodd,’ Barnett, Morris of Pennsylvania, Wright of Georgia. Dean, Bca’es, and Ward . On the Judiciary —Messrs. Houston, Oaskle, Tsp pae. Oraig of North Carolina, Billloghurst. Taylor of Louisiana, Besdy, Chapman, and Olark of New York. On Revolutionary Claims.— Mears. Cox, George Taylor, Clawson, Cragin, Jackson, Lovejoy, Curry, Dawes, and Vance. On Public Expenditures —Messrs. Billots Ed mondson, Oovode, Wortendyke, Parker, Cockerlll, Kel logg ( Gregg, and Walton. On Private Land Claims —Messrs, gandldge, Mo- Klbb.n, Harlan, Hawkins, Washburne of Wisoonaln, Blair, Penton, Gilman, and Avdry. . ' Qn Manufactures.— Messrs. Bishop. Watkins, Bliss, Clemens Durfoe, Ahl, Bicaud, Shaw of North Caroli na,and Poster- On Agricu/iurc —Mtssrs. Whiteley, Hall of Ohio, Krisey, Trippe, Kelm, Huyler, Mott. Foley, and GUItS. On Indian Affairs.—Mont*. Greenwood, Scott, Lelter, Bnran, Woodson, Shorter, Burroughs, Colfax, ’ and Bonseil. OnMihtary Affairs —Messrs. Faulkner, Marshall of Kentucky, Savage. Stanton, Barham, Curtis, Pen dleton, Bufflnton and Moßae On the Militia.— Messrs. Hatch, Watkins, Bobsrts, Boire, Tompkins, Warren, Shew of Illinois, Jenkins, and Tbajer. On'Naval Affairs.—Menu. Sooook, Florence, Davis of " Massachusetts, ■ Winslow, Corning, Sherman, Beward of Ohio, Horse of Maine, Hawkins. . On tbrsign Affairs.— Messrs Hopkins, Burlingame, Olay Bitcme, Barksdale, Slokles, Boyce, Groeebeck, and Brsneb.' On ths Territories.— Messrs Stephens, Bmlth of Vir ?inls, Grow, Branch, Vallandlgbam, Hughes, ZolUoof er. Knapp, aod Clark of Missouri On Revolutionary Pensions.— Messrs. Hickman, Lei dy. Hall of Masisobwetti, Farnsworth, Parker, Shaw or North Carolina. Abbott, Clemens, and Potter. On Invalid Pensions.—lleure. Jewett, Florence. Bobbins, Savage, Chaffee, Burns, Anderson, Palmer and Cos*. On Roads and Canals.— Messrs. Jones of Tennessee, Talbot, Mason, Gooch, Walhrldge, Warren, Morris of Illiools, Thompson, and Leidy. On ,Patents.—Messrs Stewart of Maryland. Nlblaok, Bellly, Bdie, and Braytoo. On Public Buildings and Grounds —Messrs. Keitt, Peyton, Morgan, Hall of Ohio, and Purriance. On Revisal And Unfinished Work —Messrs. Dewart, Miller. Leech, Bryan, and Sbermonn of New York. On Accounts.— Messrs. Searing, Dick, Powell, Kun ttl of Maryland, and Skinner. On Miltage —Messrs. Smith of Illinois, Murray,' Ph*lps of Minnesota, Harris of Maryland, and Wal dron. - On Fngraoing.—Messrs. Adrian, Hatch, and Under wood/ On Expenditures in the State Department.— Messrs. Owen Jones of Pennsylvania, Curry, Biogham, Avery, ana Hoard. On Expenditures in the Treasury Department Messrs, Lawrence, White, Gllgore, Kunkel of Mary land, and Gartrell. On Expenditures in the War Department —Messrs. Reilly* Clark B Cochran. Qookerill, Stewart of Penn sylvania, Wright of Tennessee. OnExpenditures in the Navy Department .— 1 Messrs. Haskin, Miller, Pottle, Powell, and Davis of Mississippi/ ' ' >' ~ On Expenditures,in the Past.Offics Department Messri riTMbot, Steagan, Palmer, Bans; and Foley, v On the Public Buildings.—Name, Whitej£%orge Taylor, Washburne of Wisconsin, MU ; TanneiieeJSingleton, and'Nichou, ' V: ' - ™ 'on Enrolled Bills. —Messrs. Da «dsoii, Pike : £ Bfdenfs of ih*'Smithsonian Institute— Messrs. Bng-' andGartrtll. ..•-.Mr. Motißie, of lUioola, gave notice of his intention to introduce a Mil providing for the election of Go vernors and Judges by the people of the organised Ter ritories. ' Also, a bill to admit sugar and salt free of duty. 1 Also, a bill to amend tbe naturalisation laws.. ■ The report of the Judiciary Committee in the ease of Judge Watroue, of Texas, waa taken np. ■. Mr. Bbadt. of Tennessee, wasted a postponement till next Thursday, in otdor to enable members to look into the ease. Ur. Houston, of Alabama, said that if this case, WhUih Involved the quoatloo of impeaohment, Is to consume the time of the Senate, that body ought at onoe'to be enabled to take initiatory steps on the snb jeet. He was opposed to a postponement. Mr. Cbaiob, of North Carolina, remarked .that the faots and evidence covered two thousand psges, and the members should have an opportunity to'look into it. Mr. John Cochrane, of New York, thought that the cate, claimed a comprehensive aod proper decision, and now was tbe time to piepare for Jt Mr. Rbagan, of Texas, hoped that the House would not postpone the cose from day to day, at the effect might be to defeat action' on .the. subjeot the present session. •! - NswYoax, Deo. 9,1658. After further debate the House refused to postpone, and proceedod to the consideration of the subject. Mr. Ohspeik, of Pennsylvania, referred to the foot that two memorials Usd been sent to the House asking foe the impeachment of Judge Watrous, of Texas, and {irooeededto review the facts and testimony in the oase. evolving charges that he was, secretly engaged in land speculation", showing a degreo of official misconduct which admits of no excuse, and a gross exereite of his judicial powers. Not only did he arrange to sit in oases oovering his own private interests, but to remove others to New Orleans, to be placed beyond the roach of Texas Jurors and litigants. Mr- CHAFEiN believed that the confidence in Judge Watroue* administration or justice has been shaken to the foundation, and he owed it to blmaelf«nd tbe pu rity of the jadlolary to ask no longer to avoid a trial, which be should either demand or else resign. The duty of tbe House was simply to ascertain whether there is “ probable ciuae.” it was not for the House to inquire whether he was ionocent or guilty. That was for the Senate to determine. Mr. TarrAN, of New Hampshire, was opposed to.the impeachment of Judge Watrcua. He asked the House tc examine the evidence, arid not to bo diverted from the proper line of proceedings by outside pressure On this evidence alone he want'd th'm to say whether Judge Watroue was innocent or guilty. The resolutions of tbe Legislature of TeXss, in condemnation of his conduct, grew out of a derision touching the statute of limitations, and affeoting the pockets of the people of that State, which derision was the Su preme Court of the United States He said there was no evidence to ahowthat Judge Watroue contempla ted sitting as a Judge in hfa own cause, and that in the purchase of land be lost none of his rights as a cltisen of Texas Judge Watroue has done nothing to prevent him from coming from this ordeal without even the smell of fire ou his garments. Instead of concealing the evidence, it showed that Judge Watroue promptly dis closed that ho bad an Interest in certain case* in con ’ neetlon with which Improper charges have been brought against him. Mr TfiFFAN entered upon a general defence of Judso Watrous, relying upon the prlqted evidence for this purpose. Withoutdisposiog of the subject, the House adjourned. Bt. Louis, Deo. o.—The overland mall, with dates to November 12, has arrived, with four pas sengers. Ooeof.tbe passengers, Mr. Wm. C. Jewett, furnishes the following Aimmary or news ; * The camels whioh strayed from Fort Tejon were all recovered ' The Alta Express Company has failed, leaving the whole field to Wells. Fargo, & Co President Buchanan’s letter to Mr. Butterfield, on the occasion of the a rivri of tho first overland mall, was published in the California papers, and considered by them as a guarantee pf the favor of the Adminis tration to the Paoifie Railroad project. The Supreme Court of California hive decided that the Governor osn change death sentences to long or abort terms of Imprisonment, If in his judgment the osse warrants flaeh ohmener. The will of the lato Thomas 0. Larkins, of Califor nia, has been published. He leaves upwards of half a million of dollars worth of property George Pen Johnson .was acquitted in tbe Marine Court, but he was subsequently re-arrested at San Franefsso on the same charge! Tbe object of Mr. W. 0. Jewett in making the trip 'over the overland route was for tbe purpose of having a personal observation of tbe country with a view to the p-oposed construction pf a ra lro :d to the P&eiflo by the southern route, by means of a constitutional bill. His views and plans have already been transmitted to Washington. ________ Nrw OblbaHb, Deo 9,—The Ban Franolseo papers of the 20th, reoelved by the steamer Quaker City, fnrnish the followlcg fhtelllgencd in addition to that already telegraphed: The Sixth regiment ot United Btates troops arrived at Benlota on the 16th of November. Tbe Btate of California had Instituted a suit against Mosars. Wells. Fargo, & Co., for the recovery of twenty two thousand dollars of the ninety thousand dollars of sorip which was stolen from tha treasury Mining continued good. Ram was much needed. The cattle were suffering from the want of food. , The appointment of receiver of the New Almaden quicksilver mines has been denied by tbe Fedoral Court, aodthe injunction waa continued. Owing to the demand for houses In Ban Franolseo, and the soarolty of vacancies, the rents wero ad vancing. Washington, Bee. o.—lt is said that the Nicaragua filibusters have their rendezvous somewhere in the Florida Kevs. There is little, if any, doubt, that the steamer Fashion, whieh left Mobile on the first of De cember, profossedly for Texas, carried out a largo num ber or them, together with am uunition. Our Government is not kept fully advised of their plans and movements. TROYi N. Y , Dec. o.—MoMurray & Co's brush fac tory, at Lansingburg, was destroyed by flro to-day, and the two hundred employees or the establishment are thus thrown ont of employment. The flames spread to the adjoining buildings, and Are still raging. Close of Navigattou on tbe Welland Canal* fit. oatsibihss. 0. W., Dee. 9.—Navigation on tho Welland canal has been completely dosed by tbe recent cold weather, and there is no prosnset of its again open ing until spring* Only two tomiii hat* been from ta Second Session* U. B. Capitol, Washington, Dec. 9. SENATE. HOUSE OF BBPBBBBNTATIYE9. From California anti the Plains* [By Overland Mail.] Farther from California* [By tbe Tehnantepeo Route.] a Filibuster Emigrants. Five at Ijnnsingliurg, N. V. Washington Affairs. WauhikgtoN) Dec. 9 —Charles fl. 1 Jones, the Demo cratic caucus nominee for assistant door-keeper of the SCp&te, was eleottd to-day by thirty-one rotes. Twelve Republican Senators voted for Lewis 01epbane,'the olerk of the National Era office. Four rotes were oast' for two other gentlemen. . The Legislature of Minnesota, with a high apprecia tion of the liberality of Congress, presented today, through Senator Rice, a memorial asking for aid to eon struct a wagon road from Lake Huperior to the Booth Pass of the Rocky mountains, and also a large number of appropriation* for internal improvements. The Indian Bureau has received a letter from Dr. Forney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Utah, stat ing that about the Ist of November he returned from Humboldt river to Balt Lake Olty. Be went thither to inquire about the robbery of the mail and other out rages. He found the Indians quiet, but in & destitute and very degraded condition, and ready to make resti tution, and to enter into a treaty to obey the laws of the United States. United Stales Supreme Court. WisatHGToN, Deo. 9,—Present: Chief Justice Taney. Justices Catron, Daniel, Nelson, Grier, Clifford, ana Campbell. No. 4. The Propeller Niagara, etc., Arise! R, Cobb, et'al., cU'mants and appellants vs. Jos, H. OordaS. Argument concluded for appellants. No. 6. The Propeller Niagara, etc , Artsel Cobh, vs. Lester Sexton si of. Submitted on record, and argu mentsof both parties printed. No. fir Covington Drawbridge Company and Richard Al.Nebeker vs. Alex 0. Shepherd ttal. Submitted on repord and argninents for appellants printed. No!'7 James Betsey et al. vs. Robert Forsyth. Submitted on record, and argument for plaintiffs printed. No. 9 Dean Richmond it al. vs the City of Mil waukee et al. Argument commenced for appellant —continued for appellees. The Standing Committees of the Senate* Washington, Dec. 9.~Tbe selection of standing committees by the Senate was not made to-day, as was anticipated. It is now understood that the Democratic Senators in eanous have arranged the committees. The most Important change is the substitution of Mr. Green, of Missouri, for Mr. Douglas, as chairman of the Committee on Territories. * The Slaver Echo. THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION DECIDED —PRISON* EBB REMANDED TOR TRJAi. Columbia, 8. 0 , Deo 9.—The judges of the United States Dlstrlot Court have pronounced the law of 18 20 for the suppression of the slave trade to be constitu tional. The prisoners taken on board (he slaver Echo have been remanded to jail await the action of the Grand J ary at the next term of the court on the charge ofp'.raoy. The Niearnguah Filibusters--Escape of the Schooner Susan* • Mobile, Deo 9 —The friends of the Nicaraguan fill, baiters are greatly elated at the accottntrteceived of the escape of the schooner Susan, having on hoard one hundred and forty “ emigrants *' for Mloarigna, well provided with provisions and monitions of war. The echooner succeeded In escaping on Tuesday afternoon, Jn oonsequencd of the revenue cutter McClelland, cent in pursuit, having got aground in Nary Cove. She is now about four hundred mile* distant on her voyage to Nicaragua. _ The Barque Lyra. . Washington, Deo. 9—The New Orleans papers of Friday last state th*t the United Btates District Court, now in session at Key West, has decreed the condemn*, tion of the barque Lyra and cargo, the vessel having been seised under suspicion of haring been fitted out for the slave trade. Non-arrival of Steamers* BlNOr Hook Deo. 9,11 o'clock P. M —There are no signs of the »tearoe*s Persia or City of Washington, now due.. The weather la olosr. Fire at Cairo, Illinois* Louisville. Dee. 9.—The telegraph office and meet of the Bpringfieldblock at Cairo, Illinois, was destroyed by Qre last night. [Correction;—ln the foreign news published yester day the hurricane and wreck of vessels should have been located at Swatow, in China.] Markets by. Telegraph. Baltimore. Dec. 9 —Flour is firmer; Ohio and Howard-street is quoted at $612, Wheat is steady at 41 35®1 50 for white, and 91.28 for red. Corn has ad vanced, at 60®63c for vellow. and 63&64c for white. Provisions are firmer: Mess Pork sells at $17.28. Lard is firm at 11 #c, Whiskey steady, Charleston, Deo 8 —The Cotton market closed to* dav firm at previous quotations, with sales of 3,600 bales. NsW Orleans, Dee 0 —Cotton market unchanged; sales of 9,600 bales. Molasses 27#e. Flour exhibits a declining tendency. Corn advancing; sales atTljrfo 76M0. Cotton freights are steady; several ships are filling up at 17*32&9*16d. , Mobile, Deo. 9 —Cotton Inactive, but unchanged iu price; sales of 2,600 bales to-dsy. Ravannab, Dec, o.—Cotton firmer, hat unchanged; 090 bales eold to*day. gales for the week 6.000 bales ; Beoeipta ditto, 14,600 bales, stock in port 37,000 bales. THE CITY. AMUSEMENTS THIS IVBNING. Wheatley A; Clarke's Aboh-stbbet Theatre.— “ Our American Cousin ‘f Simpson A Oo.” National Circus.—“ Lent’s Circus Company.”— “ Equestrian, Gymnastic, and Aerobatic feats”—” The Ceopers ” - , Mas. D. P. Bowers’ Waleut.strebt Theatre.— “Media’—“Our Wife.” Assembly Bdildihos.—Signor Blits. Santoro's OriRA Hodib.—Ethiopian Entertain ments. Public Entertainments* At Aroh-street Theatre, the oomedy of “ Oar American Cousin,” which really Is a broad faroe, continues to draw crowded houses. Tho manage ment wilt probably run it, amid such success, for a few weeks longer. The drama called H Medea,” which will be pro-* dnoed this evening at Walnut-street Theatre, Miss' bavenport personatlng the heroine, is.an adapta-; tion from theErenoh,.by Mr. 0. C. Wymanj of B oat on. Miss Davenport .takes her benefit this evening. The regular meeting of Councils was held yesterday, aad tbe following bailees# transacted: BSLXOT BBAIOS. - Select Council received several communications and. petition®,"among which were a communication from! the resident pbysloian of the Almshouse, asking for an appropriation to pay their hoard hills; ? also, one for grading and laying water pipe. In Norris street; also, one for the construction of a tram-way along Pearl street; also, ane for the laying of gas and water pipe In Hamilton street; also, one from the board of port wardens in answer to a resolution requesting said board to inquire whether any wharre# or landings hare been . built at Windmill Island which are calculated to lm pede the navigation They reported that no such ob struction exists, all the wharves and landings being erected within the bounds allowed by the law, namely, to low water mark. Also, one from the city controller, submitting the estimates for the Board of Guardians of the Poor tor the ensutng year. All of the above were referred to the appropriate committees. Mr. Oornosan, from the Watering Committee, re ported a resolution renewing the lease of the landing at Falimount to Mr, 'Caleb Wright for a term of fire years. Mr. Ouyler said he had hastily signed that report, and ainoe signing it he had formed an opinion that to renew the lease for so long a t*rm as five years would probably interfere with the construction of the Pair mount Park. . He asked for information on this point. Ur. Gornmtn replied that Mr. Wright pays $2OO a year for the use of that landing, and as the lease ex pires on the first of next mouth, It is necessary to act promptly in the matter. It cannot possibly interfere with the Balrxnount Park project. Af*er some debate, the report was amended by striking out five years and inserting one year, and finally passed. Blr. Bouton, from the Committee on Prisons, sub mitted a report of the estimated expenses of the prison for the ensuing year. Referred to Committee on Fi nance. Mr. Thompson, from the committee on verifying the cub account of the City Treasmer, mad* the utnal Semi-monthly report as to the balances on hand on De cember 4th. Ordered to be filed. ORIGINAL HBSOMJTIONB. Mr. Parker offered a resolution provfdlog for the ap pointment of a special committee of three, to ioqulre into the expediency of disposing of the present almshouse, and locating another one more remote from the elty, with a view of reducing the expenses of the city’s poor, to report at a future mee'log. Mr. Neat expressed blmselLin favor of the inquiry. The amount invest'd in the city almshouse for its con struction, Unfa, Ac., Is two pillions of dollars, and he could see no objection to the passage ef the resolution. He thought if it could be removoa to a more remote point, It would prevent paupers from getting Intoxica ted. as they would not have the opportunities now pre sented. The resolution was agreed to, and Messrs. Parker, ‘Foster, and Noal were appointed on the part of Beleot Council. Mr. Williams offered a resolution, requesting the Su perintendent of Trusts to report what means he has adopted to furnish a supply of fuel to poor whits women, Ao , as devised In the will of Stephen Gira;d A discussion then onsned, bat the resolution was finally adopted. Mr. Leldy offered a resolution that the heads of the several departments report to the Mayor during the month of January, so that their reports can be Included in the Mayer’s annual message. Agreed to Mr. Foster presented a resolution that the|Committee on Market Houses be prohibited from reoting any stalls or stands in the market hovels in Market street for any period beyond the Ist of April next. Agreed to. Mr. Ouyler offered a resolution that Belief Hose Company, In the Eighth ward, be admitted to the Fire Department, provided they submit to the authority of the Chief Eogineer and waive all claim to any appro priation. He said he was not personally Interested, but as the company was a respectable and efiloient one, a 'number of hia constituents had requested him to make the application. Mr Neal followed, and objected, on the ground that the number of' hand-working engines was already too large, and he should more to refer to the.Oommittee on Trusts and Fire Department. The matter was so re ferred. Mr Beidetmn reported an ordinance authorizing the directors ef the Second and Third Street Passenger Hall way ib change their route in the vicinity of Oxford and Jefferson streets, Laid over. An ordinance authorizing the Commissioners of Mar ket! to pay sundry claims was adopted. MATTHBS FROM TOB OPPOSITE BRANCH, A bill r* turned from Common Counoi’, with an'&mond* meat making an appropriation for repair* to the Normal sobool. was laid on the table. 9 ho bill providing for tbo appointment of a surveyor of property was next called np. The opposite Chamber returned it with an amend ment, allowing extra pay to such officer of a dollar for each lot surveyed. tJ . _ . . 4 a The Chamber finally, after considerable debate, de termined to insist upon it* non-conourrenco, and asked that a committee of conference be appointed. Tb* Chair appointed Messrs. Onyler, Neal, and Wll k*The bill providing for certain grades in Gray’s Perry roAd, Malden lane, and the Schuylkill, was referred to the Committee on Surveys. The resolution for the ropaving of Bead street, and laying a trunk leading from the culvert, was con curred In. ..... .v . The bill leasing the tobacco warehouse was returned, with an amendment providing that it shall be' leased at publio tendne to the highest bidder, but none shall be reosived for less than $5,000 per annum. Mr Bradford rose to make an amendment, when tbo gas lu the burners suddenly gave out. leaving the chamber in darkness, which was only relieved by the feeble glimmer of the new-born morn. A recess waa taken for ten tninutea, 'durlLg which time the lights were arranged. Upon resuming business the tobaooo question was discussed, Mr. Cuvier advocating the original action of the Chamber ana Mr. Cornnsan op poring. Various speeches followed by diffiroot mem bers. The Chamber finally ooncutred lu the amend meats. An Invitation to visit the Rosme Institution was ac cepted. Mr Cornman.who has warmly defended the Moya menslng Hose Company, from the committeo of con ference in relation to their suspension, reported in fa vor of suspending the company for four months only, and nnt disbanding It. [The date of tbelr suspension was more than four months ago] The roport was agreed to The Mayor’s veto of the Arch-street railway bill waa then received a-d read, when Mr. Cuyler moved that the bill bo passed nvur tbo veto. Mr". Mclntyre moved that the bill be made the special order of the day a work hence, and that the message of the Mayor ha pilntcd. Mr Neal a’so desired the postponement, as there were abstract-legal qusstioDß involved which would re quire time for an Intelligent understanding of them. .The motion was agreed to, and the Chamber Ad journed. ' coantoH consort. gever&l petitions and communications were received and appropriately referred. . Among, which wore : A petition from D. MutUolland, asking forth* r*. fending of certain overpaid taxes; Rise, a petition ask* r lag for the removal of .the precinct house at Second end Wellington streets to Front and Christian; also, a p*. titlon for th of tramw*y stones in Pearl street; also* Several ;pei]ik>ns sgalpst roarket-feoaees In Spring .Garden street, West of Broad; also, a petition for water pipes. in*Norris street{also, a petition for lamps on Stage avenue, in the Twenty-first ward; also, a peti tion for water pipes In Hamilton street, in the Twenty founhward. v Mr Walsh submitted a resolution authorizing the payment of $3O to Beck’s Philadelphia Band for services w*£u b , of 3ttl V*' Referred. a communication from the port ««\V c ,&tbat new piers were about to be ereoted thiw iflsland, below low-water mark, hut that rimJJruJ «° °°^,V o 1 over the matter. Deferred to the' Committee on Wharves and Landings « * *S?S?Sl ,#n " a ! ««W«d from Henry T. King, ™rnmai X ,£3 olic *- tor * ?. atln B that several suits had hem nJSSSSSZFt?* ?®. for damages, oansed by the *i eof her officials, and asking for the adoption wita«MM , tn« ee v? ma * e the employees competentto be witnesses in such ewes. Deferred to the Committee on receipt* B oa expenses of tbed'e-i ISJSRL« f ifi! > t??S dli f“ ot of. the £*♦?•« “dent of Trusts, were received and referred io the Committee on finance u ** r liF aoker ’ of tbe Committee on Finance, submitted an ordinance, appropriating *53,414.31 to, pay certain mandamus executions aud judgments against the city, and the interest on oi-rtaln lemporarj loans. Among the former was $38,986 81 to B. & F. Yaodyke on ac count of Kensington water works contract; $974.37 fo Wm. Bice; $4,000 to Samuel AUen. ex-sheriff: $6,000 to Messrs. LeiHs & Batjer, and $8,611 for temporary loans. Agreed to, ' Mr. W, Conrad, of the Committee on Gas, submitted an ordinance providing for the, renewal of the contract with the trustees of the Gas Works for the lighting, extinguishing, cleansing, and repairing the pubuo lamps. ! An amendment was offered, and adopted, making the contract for one year. The question being on the Anal parssge of the biU, it elicited some debate. Mr, Gordon opposed, saying he would not have it said that he was a dumb dog, and barked not on the eitadel walls of the People’s party when the people were in danger. A motion was made to recommit to the Committee on Gas, with Instructions to report the comparative cost °f dolog this work for several years past. *he motion, after some debate, was agreed to. Mr. Hacker, of the Finance Committee, submitted an estimate of the expenses of the Highway Department for 1859 Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gordon submitted a petition-for a market In Spring Garden street. Beferred to the Committee on Markets. Mr ® n Gock, of the Committee on Highways, sub mitted a resolution authorising the opening of Twenty first street, from Columbia avenue to the Township' line road. Agreed to. . - . •Also, an ordinance appropriating $lB,OOO to pay for th e paving of intersections and materials. Agreed to, Mr. Mo/er, of the Committee on Tru*t# and Fire Companies, submitted a lengthy report, with a resolu tion suspending the Philadelphia Engine Company for riotous conduct, for three months., from October 9'h. Mr. Heins raored“to postpone subject. Agreed to Mr. Hutchinson, of the Ocmmiltee on Survey, sub mitted a resolution transferring - oortalo item; of the appropriation to that department. Agreed to. Mr. Megaiy, in place, aubmited an ordinance pro viding for the payment of policemen injured in the ser vice #f the oity. Laid over. v A resolution of Inquiry upon what terms Carpenters* Hail can be purchased was referred to the Committee on City Property. f * Mr M* r chercalled np the ordinance creating Broad street, Bbippen street, Fonrth street, from Poplar to Vine street, and from Bprace to Pine street, stands for market wsgons. Mr. Kersey moved to add South street from Sixth to Broad street, in place of Shlppen from Eighth to Tenth street Agreed to. Mr. steeling moved to amend to make Fourth street a stand for market wagons from Girard avenue to Green streat, and in the same street from OaUowhlU to Aroh street. The subjeot was discussed at much length by Messrs.' Steeling, Luther, PotW, Gorton, Kerr, Walsh, Mas cber, and others i The amendment was agreed to. Mr. Gorton moved to amend the fourth section of the bill, by substituting the Committee of Markets shall measure the spaoe allotted for market sUnde-allowing twelve feet for each wagon—numbering the same, ana shall charge the occupants of each stand $3O per annum Mr Hacker doubted the authority of Council to levy such a tax. Ha thought if the market wagons had been kept away from Second street, the property from Mar ket to Coates street would now be worth half a million of dollars more than it it to-day. The amendment was not agreed to. The yeas and nays were demanded on the final pas gege of the bill, by Messrs Marcher and Gordon, and were as follows: Yus—Messrs. Baird, Brennan, Bobb, Bowker, Bul lock, Case, Cooley, Cooper, Eokfelt. Ellis, Fish, Fisher, Gamble, Gay. Haas, Hacker, Handy. Heine, Hngdon, Holmes, Hunter, Jones, Kelley, Kerr, Krider, Luther, Manuel, Mcßride, MeLesn, Megarey. Geo. B. Miller, Hiram Miller, Mingle, Nfppes, Pugh,’Riley, Simons, Smedley, Steeling, Thompson, Wagner. Walsh, WetheriH. Wiidey, Wright, Trego, (President)—46. Nats— Messrs. Brown, Dickinson, Gordon, Kersey. Masoher, Morris. Potter—7. Mr. Gamble submitted a resolu'ioo that a committee of fire be appointed to examine Into the contract for the improvement of Delaware avenue, and all other eon traots and abases of the Girard estate. Mr Hacker moved to amend that it be a joint special' committee of five from each Ohamber. The amendment was agreed to, and the resolution adopted Mr. Gorton celled up the ordinance, passed by Selest. Council, anthoiisinfftbe transfer of certain Items of the appropriation to the Guardians of the Poor, whioh gave rise to a spirited debate la regard to the corruptions in that body. Adjourned. New Colobed Colony in Africa.—A pro-- jeet is on frot, recommended by 'several respectable persons in this clty,*to establish a new industrial colo ny in Africa. The movement in aid of th f s originated in Canada, at a convention of colored persons, when a party was eeleeted to proceed to Afrioaand select a suitable locality* Mr. Robert Campbell, > for some . years a public teseber ip this city* and r eariog a good. character for integrity and intelligence, is one of this party, and informs us that the journey will be under taken,,as desired, when the necessary funds are raised. A large sum wilt sot be requisite, ao that the party are likely to. star tin a few months.. Liberia is an UDwhole ; some locality, and a situation more in the interior, at * once healthy and wholesome,, will he looked out and ; found, after which information and aid will be given to | emigrants. * , • - j' Youthful’ police of the : wart made a descent ' party, or youthful-rowdies, varying in age from ten.to tselv* years. 1 who,- had*been 3n, ; the.habit/Of gating,upon alot at Sixth'and-Mofris street#, and h*v - fog snndry'flghts Mrlous annoyance' .of the peseeral. portlouof^'that;bomQsunUy-^-Weapona : unfrfquently tuOeeeded ur.arresting..eight'of the and had them bafore Alderman Tittermary-yesterday morning; who heldthem te ball to keep the peace. Charged;; with :Theft.—A man- named ; George Boru waa up berorrAMerman.CUrk yesterday, charged with the larceny of $19.50, the, property of Christian Womelsdorf. From 1 the evidence, It appears' they had visited several I*'ger-b#*restablishments, and imbibed so much Byrish, that Christian became almost oblivious of things sublunary* and that, while in this ooodition, it was alleged Born inserted hiqdfgitals Into the pooketa of Womelsdorf. and abstracted therefrom the “ filthy luere ” After the hearing, Bom was com , milled in default of bail toAnswsr. A Fmiit.— Yesterday morning a colored man named Henry Williams was arraigned before Al derman Femington on tho charge of stabbing a colored individual who bears the euphonious title of “ Black Joe.** It seems that the party were considerably ele vated on Wednesday evening, and that they had a scuf fle, which resulted in Henry drawing a razor with which he Inflicted a very severe wound on “ Black Joe’s” arm. laying it open to the bone. Ha was taken to the hospital, and Williams held over for a further hearing. C&abged with Robbery.— A man, giving the name of Thomas Bmllh. had a hearing yesterday morning before Alderman Miller, A few days ago, he went to a house in Till stmt, with the avowed inten tion of having some conversation with the landlady thereof The lady left the room for a short time, and it it alleged that, daring her absence, he opened a trunk that was in the robin, and pocketed % ten dollar bill. Smith was committed to answer at oourt. Hospital Gases.—Twoyoung men*named James Phillips and James Wirier, who were escorting some young ladies on Wednesday night, wars attacked by a party of rowdies, and a scuffle ensued, when Phil lips received a slight wound on his arm, and Hirter had his nose and face very muoh disfigured. They were taken to the hospital, where Phillips still remains. Mirter had his wqunde'dressed, and left the same evening. . Slight Fiee.—About eight o’clock last evening, an alarm of fire was created by a smoke Issu ing from the millinery store of Mr. Richardson, No. 46 North Eighth street, near Aroh The doors were forsed open, when it was found that the goods on several shelves ware completely destroyed Several engines were on the groued and soon extinguished the flames. Firo-Detective Blackburn will investigate the affair. Pocket Picked,—A few evenings ago, Mr. J. Knabb, from Beading, editor of the Berks and Schuylkill Journal , was relieved of his gold watch while attending an auction at Fitspatrick & Brother’s rooms, in Chestnut street, above Sixth Mr. Knahb made complaint at the detective police otflee, and the timepiece was recovered by Officer Bartholomew jester day morning at a pawnbroker’s establishment.. Bobbed her Employer*—Rachel Jane Gl&scow. a colored woman, wag arrested, on Wednesday, Jo the Eleventh ward, on tho ebargebf tho-larceny of a watch and a quantity of wearing apparel, the property of a person by whom she had formerly been, employed She .was taken before Alderman Butler yesterday, and I committed in default of bail to answer at oourt. Sotno of the articles were recovered Pound Drowned*—A white man, about thirty j ears of age, wan found in the Delaware yester day morning, opposite Poplar-street wharf. He is sup posed to bo a man named Patrick Dolan. Ooroaor Fen ner held an inquest yesterday afternoon* and rendered a verdict In accordance with tho facts. The body was taken to the Green house to await recognition. Arrested.— Three drunken women were Arretted last night, at a house lo JSfferSou’B court. They had Qred, some, straw, op which they had-been lying, and came Very near -burning theVuildlng, when the officers discovered it, and extinguished the flames. Sent to the Almshouse.— Johanna Do laney. the young woman who was turned out of a fcoaso in Spruce street, a few days sine®, and gave birth to a child in tho Fifth* ward station house, was sent to the Almshouse on Wednesday, by Lieutenant Goidey Finoeiis Cut.—A young lad named Robort Brocklehumt had two fingers of his right hand badly cut by a circular raw. at ao establishment near the cor ner of Fourth and Vine streets. Be was taken to the hospital lari evening. Abm Fbaotukbd.—Yesterday morning a colored hov,sboutsixtvon years of age. had his left arm badly fractured at Ohrlsttao-street wharf by a pile of boards falling on him. He was taken to the hospital. A Slight Fire*—A slight Are took place at No. 1235 Mechanics street; last evening, caused by the upsetting of a fluid lamp. A small quantity of clothing was burnt, hut no one injured. Pocket Picked in Church. —A lady, while attending the u«ual weekly lec'ure at 8t Andrew’s Church, Eighth street, above Spruce, on Wednesday evening, had her pocket picked or a porte-monnale con taining $l9 in money and sundry papers. llohoe Run Over.—About half-past eleven o’clock yesterday morning ft horse was run over by a train of coal cars, at Sixteenth and Market streets, and had two of bis legs out off. THE OQTJBTS. yesterday’s proceedings [Reported for The Press.] U. S. District Court—Judge Cadwalader. — J. M. Bricker, a young man. was charged with passing counterfeit gold dollars Tie counterfeit coin was somewhat singular and uuuiual in its charaoter, as it was made so as to represent® goldsleeve-button. Tho head,of the genuine coin was exaotlr imitated In this counterfeit. The testimony against the defendant was that he, in tho month of October last, went into a lager beer saloon, and paid for a glass of beer with one of these worthless coins, receiving his change. The dis covery was shortly after made of tho trick, and ihe de fendant was arrested, and, upon being searched, three dollar* more In this spurious coin were found upon his parson, besides some four dollars in good halves ana quarters the proceeds, probablv, of previous operations. It was in evidence that he had offered these Imitations at several places previously, and that he had beeu once arrested for passing the same coi * ‘if® Commissioner, doubting his guilty knowledge, ala oha-ged him. On trial* Mr. Qororth represents the defendant. „ _ - .. Pryob—-Judgo Read-—ln tUo cus® of Roberts n The North Pennsylvania Railroad Compa ny-Tin action for damages for Injuries sustained by the neolieenco of the defendants’ agents*before reported— the lury returned a verdiot for the defendants Messrs. Rod'oey and Parsons for, plaintiff; Brgck for defend ants No other caso being ready, the court adjourned to this m °QpjLRTEB Sessions—Judge ' Allison.—Tho trial of prison cases waa proceeded with yesterday—none of them being or any Interest.«. :• John Scally was acquitted of an assault and battery on Anne Tolly. Mr, J): Dougherty represented the de fendant. The Money Market. Z£^ft.G 1 -PHILAMLMtIA.Dec. 0,1888, Tb?relfl a fair business doing . firmness in prices, bata debited absence of-speeaJatiye* feeling The money market coutfauea, very e»sy for flrrt-s!ug paper, and tight for single-name paper, or ; snob m may be suspected or being weak iaftt* knees'*’ * Fetsrion, the publisher of the CoUHferfe&'Detecteri announces another newdJonterfett :*_•». Lai&ton Bank, - Lyon, Massachusetts, vignette ia left upper darner of two female*, ' born of plenty, iron .safe and-shleld, containing a figure or.au Indian, Head of Daoisl Web eter In lower right comer;. figure 6in each othe* cor uer; large 5 in the body of note, which purports to be engraved by the N«V. Sngland. Bank Note Company, end 1b a very dangerous-*C£n\r.” j - ' The annual report of the Philadelphia. Germantown and Norristown Railroad Company bean pub* llehed, and exhibits the following .faote in Wereneeto theorerations of the road for the year endieg Septem ber 80: The’ total ordinary - 'TeoeSpte-for .the year, amounted to $280.604.21, which .'!*' about.lO.parceot, lees than the"year before.-. 4 971 trains, carrying 159,- 406 passengers, were run to Manayunk; 3,847 trains to Sprlsg Hm, with 69,490 passengers, and the same num ber of trains to Norristown, carrying 180,196 passen gers ; 9,648 trains ran to German town, carrying 828,250 passengers, of whioh number 115,913 passed over,the Chestnut Hill Railroad, making* total of 1,E61 05S passengers pasting over the toad. No aw'dent or ln juiy sustained by any passenger on this railroad dariogthe year. The engines were run 167,787 jniies on the Germantown and Norristown' Railroad,27 Ml on Tie Chestnut Hill, and 28,945 on the Cheater Yalley Railroad. During the year, a number of new buildings have been erected along the line or the road, new cars built, and lhe double tracks completed. The Cleveland, Paioesville, and Ashtabula Railroad Company has declared a dividend of fire per cent.'; fer six months, ending the Ist of January next, piyable at the office in Cleveland on and after that da j* by cheeks on New York at par. ’ ' At an election for directors of lhe New York Central Railroad yesterday, the entire board of last year fra* unanimously re-chosen, with the.'exception of Charles H. Basse}!, in place of John D. Wolfe.’.- <*;''■ . , A.new and valhable gold mine is said Where been : recently discovered in Montgomery county, N C. t from which the owner, at an expense of $3OO, secured $BO COO worth of gold In three months. The suit of the Lexington a»d Big B*ndy Railroad Company against the teeoutor of James W. Fry, which has been pending -in. the . Greenup Clrcoifc Court for •everal years, has at iast'.&ea deeided'iu favor of the railroad company. This suit was brought by the com > pany to enforce the payment of about,s3,2oo, subscribed ,aa stock by Mr. Fry, in 1862, to the capital sfcek of the ' conpaoy. Subsequent to the subscription, the road, as. originally located, was changed swas to strike the Ohio 1 river bottom where Ashland is situated. This change • caused a great deal of complaint among . the. stock- holders at Oatlettaburg,and many of them hare refused to pay their stock In consequence thereof, -inconse quence of this refusal; suit was instituted against Mr. Fry and others, to enforce the payment of their sol* soription, and the case here referred to is the first one which has been decided It is of considerable impor tance as fixing the liability of subscribers to railroad stock, . The November receipts of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad were a* follows: : ’ . Waabla - - - . v Main Stem.' N W.Ya Branch. - Total. For Faa’g’s $56,937 82 S 3 622-S6 -$25,923 79 $86,383 17 For Frel&t 265,464 60 21,792 99 - 9,548 60 296 776 05 T0ta1....5322,402 32 25,316 55 £85.44k 35 22 The revenue of the past month, a* compared with the same period last year, is as follows ; Main Stem. N. W. Ya. W. Branch. Total. Not. 1858.5372,403 82 $25,315 55 $35,441 85 $383,159 22 Nov. 1867. 832,555 78. 33 922 01 366.488 79 Decrease...slo,l644o. Ificresiesl.6l934 $l6 67043 The following is actatementof the exports'of domes* tie produce froxn.the port mod district of New Orleans to foreign countries, for -the; quarter ending the 30th or September, 1858, belcg the first quarter of the'fiscal year; Exports of domestic produce in Am. Tenets. ;$9 900.218 “ v ' ; In foreign Teasels, 1,926,883 Total . .$ll 826.556 Bsports of domestic produce.for the eorrea-; poodlng quarter ending Bept. 80,1857* were $7,222457 I&orcuM for IFSB orsrlWT. .....$<'604,489 Tbs following are the. quotations; for specie, ex change, land warrant*, Ac. ,a« farsUhed by Croofae A Co.) Specie and Exchange Brok*r#, No. 40 SoutiThixd street: N .Yorker. .Bar to 140 pm. 'Boston.. ...;Par to 1-JO pa. Baltimore. .Far to I>lo dis. Bichoond.. Jftotf Peter*>urg. Xto*“ • Norfolk.... *to* “ Charleston. **_ A'mer X Dollars, old J. 04. «- Jg “ “1 0 2% Mexican Dollar*Ofi South Am. “ ....103 Snanish “ 08 Fire-franc places.... 9T Prussian Thalers...: 70 Qoilders 89 German Crowns 1 08. Spanish Quarters.... 23 _ 160-acre land warrants, 80 « (i « . 120 « « 4# W ot. treaiurr notes. 4% « “ T “ WMhinsrfmex.&to'# <H*. - Pltt»lm?g.;.a.#tQ#' « Oiseiodati.'....#to#- 41 - Louisville #to# “ ' St.Xoni* ...;*..# to # X,, Savanna#.. to# Old American Gold. ..1.06 Sovereigns......:* 84e4,£ft. NapoleonXX'Prania:.3 ?4 ' Tea.Thalers;.,.7 ifi tt ' - “ Prussian.^-CO .«GaHders...., ..v.B 28 Guineas - Fu0at»,.v:;Y;...'...V,:? SO Patriot Donbloon»...>l6 6ft-' Spanish'*/ '; ‘O ....16 80 ...W./....63066 ,i..;.v....88eW . 77080 ..*•«■..# to # preminm. ' .......Parto# “ “ Asotin CoiJCTißrzir.T»l£n2ij & EcfcndlP* Bnk Not* io till’ ?oUoTrlnid#a<a , fptl6n7WW®^i?Ri^¥?^fi |^*.'^^P^^ , ? ' c f-;:’- f' i'.-ll- s.lftoembe*' isrosvsD sr KAsrsT,ittoir*, & bo., xjsh axoHisos ssbnu, sostswnT Oossn-jhtm'' 41s onsmiT snuTs.. 'ras*; 36oOity0aNew ■; 600 do NevO&Plo3 J 600 do BOfcPW# 1000 Union Ctt»l 65;»*.85 ~ 1 2000 Eeh N»t 6s ’82.b5 73 2300" do .......... 73 : 1000 do .73 2000 do 73 1000 N Penns Bloa b 5 87.1 20C0 do ..'...bfiim. 87 1000 L IfllftndßondJ.. 85# ICOO A»egCo6aBt*ob 55 8000 Besdue B 6s >B6. 75 600 do 76 1000 Osra&Am 6s >83.. 85 100 Beading A 25# 10 do .......... 26# 100 do ...h6 25V 100 do 85 56# I 50 do .BSwn&int 2># j "bbtwe: BOARD. > : iv 100 Reading IT..T. .i 8 26# . 60 do . .ss*o£int 25# \ 26 Planters’ Bk, Ten ‘ tftirn 106 2PhU5da8k.......117# ft Penn Township Bk 86 ' 100 Union Bank, Teuc hftwn 99# , .50 do ........... 9## , 10 City 8ank..,....’. 46- i 6 do as - lOOSchnyl Nat Pref . -bswn.i? , 100 do ..;l..bswn 17 60 do .b&wn 17 . [ 100 do ; 17 : J 0 Lehfgh Nav... .b 5 60# i 4 Harrisburgß .... 58# 27 Penna K 42# 1 Norristown B «... 67# ff BOARDS. 200 Reading R 6s >B6 76 4700 Sch Nav 6s *B2 16 73 1000 -do ........b& 73 100 Reading B. .cash 26# 100 do ..........'26# 403 Penoa 6s 96# 1003 AllegCo 65.. A V 63# 630 Catawissa Chat- - - tel 10s 69# 1000 Pexwa R 2d m 6s • c&«h 92 SECOND 600 City 6s New OAF 103 SCO do New CAP 103 300 ' do CAP 99# 8500 do 99# 6000 Schl Nav Imp 6a b 5 74 159 12 Lehfg Val 6s. 93 1000 2dA3iStßTs.bs 93 600 do ........15 93 13BearerMoidow.. 69# GLOBING PHI Sid. Asktd. Phila 64 B9#loo . do R.:.«. 99#100' do New. .108 103# Penna 6e. .95# 96 Beading R 26# 26# do fids’7o. .84 86 do Mtg 6t’44.94# 98# < „do do >86.74# 76 : Penna R.... 42# 42# do latm 6a...103*106 ! do 2dm 65....91# 92# Morris Can C0n..47# 49# co Pref 108 108# BohnylNavSs >B2 72# 73 SchNavlmp 6a.. 73# 74# 17 Bearer Meadow .. 69# 7 do 69# 6 Penna B b 6 42# 20 Piasters’ Bk, Ten b& 106 60 flehl Nav.....*.b5 9 100 Lehigh Nav....fc6 60# 66 8oh» Nav Pref.... 17 100 2dA3d Btreet 8..b6 20 ICO d 0..: 06 20 ICES—FIRM. Bid.A&td. SchNar Stock.;. 8# 9 do Pref....i.17 17#_ Wmsp’t A Slmß.lO# 10# 'do 7s Ist mtg,72 72# do 2d J6l# 62# Long Island 11# 11# Girard Bank 11# 12 Leh Coal A Nav.. .60# 50# doBcrip ...29 80 ' N Penna R 8# 8# do 6s 62*18 New Greek.....# # Oatawlssa 8.... fl# 6# Lehigh Zinc...,. 1 1# PHILADELPHIA MARKETS, Deo. 9—Evening.— There Is some little movement !n Flour to-day, bat, there is no'change lathe market; 200 bbla superfine sold at ssl2#, and 1,000 bbls Western extra famliy.on, terms kept private The trade, ace buying In lots at from $5.12# to 6 37# for superfine. $5 50a6 for extra, and $6 5Q®7 for fancy brands. Includadinthe Bales 2OO bbls fair Indiana extra family at $6 87#, and 100 bbla'‘laoey Kentucky Rye Flour, 100 bbls have j been sold at bbl. Com Meal is dull, and Pennsylvania is offered at $3 25 & bbl, with out sales.. Wheats are not very plenty,' bnt tbe supply 1a eqaal to the demand; 600 bneheis good to prime Pennsylvania ted sold at 31.2601.28; 1,000 bu hole do white atsl.Ss, and 900 bushels handsome Ken tucky $1 45 Bye is in demand, and scarce at 80c for Pennsylvania. Com is in-better demand and firmer, with sales of 4,00006 O'O bushels, mostly, new yellow, at 65®670, including one lot slightly a xed with old at 6So 49* bus and IQOO bus white. at file, afloat. Oats are in steady demand at 45#0 for Delaware, 4Go for Pennsylvania and not many offering Bark— There is no demand far Quercitron, sud Ist quality is offered at f SO, without finding buyers. Colton—The market is firmer to-day, and about I£o bales hive been sold at fall prices, eay 12#c, carii, for middling fair Uplands. Groceries are rather more ac tive; some further pales <-f Sugar and-Coffee are re port'd, including Rio at 11#0,.0n time; some jivw crop New Orleans Molasses at 80c, 4 mqs, to.arrive. Provi sions are firmly held, but there is very little dolrg for tbe want of stock Seeds are steady, snd about 40u bus Plovereeed sold at $5.60&6 76, accordion - to quality. Whiskey is selling in a small way at 25c for Pennsylva nia bbls; 200 for Ohio do; 24#ofor hhds, and 2802ic for drudge. NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE—December 9 SEOOSD BOARD. 200 Brie Railroad bBO 18 22 do 17# 100 Hudson RR 160 31 2v Harlem R -13# 100 Reading R 61# 100 do *l5 61 H K 0 do bow fit# 400 Mich SANT 21# 100 do b 45 21#, 50 do bSO 21# 200 Mich BKG b 7 61# 60 flo - > 61# 60 do sBO 51 60 Gal & Cbie R 73# 100 cieve & Tol R 32 2GO do slO 32# 100 do - 32# 60 Ohio & RIR 169 02 81000 Missouri 6s S9lf 1500 Q Tenn6s’9o 94# SMQOLsC&MU LG 27* 5 Del & Hud Co 96# 10 Pacific Mail Co 91# 100 do 70 do 91# 159 N V Cen R 83# 100 do *lO 83# 600 do b 3 84 ICO do sBO SS# 60 do • *3 84 200 do *lO 64 50 ‘ do bOO 84* 30° do - - !&X ico do . *;j £s# 60 do « 15 « 50 Mil & Miss R H, THE MARKETS. Ashes dull at $5 60 for,Pots, and $6 76 for Pearls. Copier.— By auction were sold 2,2?6 bags Gnvern ment Jira, ex-Gf zoster at 13# e. 4 mes, from sblp. Floor.— State and. Western Flour Is steady'at un changed rates, with light receipts and-salea of 9,000 bids at $3 60tt410 for rejected f $4,20©4.40 for super- Qoe State { $4 76ff5 for extra do; $4.2504.60 for super fine western: $4 gO&fi.lOfor extra do j and $5 25f1?6 60.. for shipplrg brands of rqund hoop Ohio. Southern Flour is dull, with sales of 700 bbltat $5©6.4Q for. . common and mixed brands, and $6 6007 60 for extra do. Canada Flour is nominal at $6«6 26 for ****** , Gluts.—The market .for Wheat la noehanged, with . sales or 6005 bushels at sl-M for, red $1.37# for choice white Canada Corn Ja steady, with • sales ©flß,ooo bushels at 70«»7T^Cfor Weatern mixed. Rye 1b firm atT7®7Bc. Oats are steady At 43a«c for Southern, Pennsylvania, and Jersey, and 49065 a for 8 sold 100 bbls prime New" »ie. or 000 bbls at $lB for old Mesa, and .$"9 for rejfrdo'i acd: 1 |?4 30®U 60 fer Prim*. Beef fa sales nr °oo bbls At yesterday’s rates, Cut Meats and Bacon are" steady. tir'd is -firm, with sales BCO bbls at 11#®.. By auction, were sold 212 hhd*..NqwUrilah* r Suear at o#®7#c,'and 100 do'common AtOeßXo,-* a . a WMiSExT Is steady, with sales of 160 bbls At A6o.
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