U&W'Of.Vi «mu " B'BXOEPiHD) 1 ; ''' ':■‘By/jsnti^rFoiiNEv, Jj ; - ' ' JipiiSi biiiii’riis'.Wiß'Kjpiviibjito.tljaSmie^.-'. Mailed to SubßcrU)BVa ont of tha Olty at feix Donpaaß raß' ! 'AtHOM{ sou* fob .BiQaT' Mouths;, Th&sb t B!i MOHiHs, invariably in ad*. ▼ants to? the tfmtffcrdefedK *'& 1 “ ' *-■ Mallei to SnbjickberVottt Gitya\TaßßK Don* L ARSFbb* AhKdm/in advanced r r ■ , t *“ '’wiE'&tY s fßßWs;y';;\-;lX‘-;t’- v- Teß/WiitLT Pbbss irrtl 'be ae&t : bj mail (perannfcm;lttadratfoe.) at...Y.i.. ...5.,*3 00 Three tfopitt; «* T - ’--**» v.i.-s;fciYiV;; fOO Five Copies^?;■* v : --Wii*;■*•*.J f B W *#»tDoMe*; v 4 '*«v ■>•■■' "> ... i ..;.i..f i*« ‘X3/K) Twenty Copies;' r < ’' < '(to oho ‘addreisJ/.V !20 00 Tweuty Copies, pr over, **.. (to adfaestol eaeh _ Fubtwiber:) Vch.^.vl-'*>■>•'’2o. Pof a or over, we willi'stnd an extt© to thegetter-'up Club:y , -* t ,* v-< ~-- THTWiBKi.V PaßiB.f-/: 5 ;- * •;, . , CALIFORNIA PRESS. YV-:- V .'J, Issued ; SemtfHbnthly;;in i-tlme’ fob* the' California Steamers? ;. l - : ‘ ‘ . "V, If ' :; KjEIS-K^mQLE^HB^QUABTERS.^. b We received bar fwadn Oonfeqtionery,* and we mannfceturlng a superior ibUqle.of low <3 uto Dfoj*, ’Bon Boos, Cream: Date«,’Ao,.:' Call and supply yburselyesyrlth'the. beat Confectionery, In this otfc^at' v ‘Vl'*'V; ,**’ 1 jfepFftlfiS & EVANS’, ' 'nol'6-8m •■;N&‘nB 'ItABtUSTjB# bet. Tth and Bth; ; "/ 'QTdrjfetiftaio. . BAILS’ A BROTHER’S, ; •; CAUFET -WAREHOtfSI!, • No. m CHESTNUT STREET. ; Wm BHAIi OPEN TO-DAY ANOFDKB INTOIOI ■ -V OF - ~ ■ - - . /i '• " BKGLISH, ... s T A PKS TET BR..USSELS, “ 0H0&E Y’S”bELBBB ATED MA SJBi • : A* ■-• r\n. . ---.-. ■ ~ .• v.„v, ; ONE DpJu'Jia A YARD. .. C.rpet buyers wlil Cnd our JtocV fnll' ind of frost' »W«; snd PiiqSBVBK.J' ~, ~r; ‘, Bog-tf jßeiinji Mot^twa. B|Aimi3’« BOTOOIR' SEWING. MA, •K-A.: OHINE is offeredfto the - public as dhe tnost re* Hable iow-prlcrd Sewing Machine, in uso.' ItwUl sew' from slz to‘-fiii^'ititchbflto]'aninch",'pH.all hind's of, goods, from Marsest bagging to.the c|mbrics, It. is, without Bxoeption; the’simplest in-its mechanical by |e^rspr!^gP, f ; . The ppiupiLirf .of this marine, and the.QOiUTr pF iTB vow, are war* ranted to be mis nr passed by sray other/TtsspsedTangee from three hundred ttf 'fifteen huhdred'sthehes per ml nute.^Thatiab^JHredis v bahejCditeptiy'&ram the, spools,, ViVhoof nur h In ihdt,it-is a ; .machine that Is wanted by every family lathe land,and thelowprioeof - V,'’- Vk, V* ‘-v’ 1 - THiaTY DOItABS, at.whichtbey wesoldj brings them within,thereaohof almost every bae. v sf;/- *!'- 8. ■•' : 1 r d«l dpMfWMi«w;?m’ faa MiiiElQliTll'ißtfb.t.; dt mLSOW’ B • ■ . , ■' S E/WIN G MAOHI N E S, BEDDOEp: PBIOES. :v"v. :; SEW bFvIE; s^l All the former patterns f 26 less on‘each Machine. .’? ‘" r A NEW.TjSNgION.' -! NO WINDIW& OP UPP3BB T HMA». u 5 A HNUMBK WHICH TORNB ANY, WIDTH OP ■ f HBMORPBLL. * : 1 fiW oHBSTNUT Philadelphia, - - -No*.? "Wert STATE Street, Trenton; N.j; No, 7 but GAY Street, West Cheater, Pa. -■- UEdbmet lliatc.- npHK LARGESTDESKBKPOT IN ■ THB UNION." : / (Successors toji T! Ksmmltt J _ .V.MAjrojAdiDMas or}.,. A; li. ADASJS' IMPROVKD BKSr RACK. Nd. WBMth THIBO StrMtj’ j i ■ Phludelplifc, OmOB, »od aOHOOL JURNITUaa. , ' BXIKNBION TAEtKSj BOOKOABM, \ "*’. ' ; WARDBXinivg, Ao,; '., ; . w-a'm' ;' :’7®cbW‘:v. Housekeepers, look to tour INTHHBdT.TrGmt Beduetiou In.tho price of COAL. end best.' The snhsoriber.haring made eontraetsTfor' bl4 N Bapply‘ol Goal, Is'enabledto offer very, superior JFamilrCoal at the : following re duced prices *- v < OO p«?,too’:.: oum »tßirtVoTto64fisr2a;*s: B!«or,Mfiianiri; Ml WIHOW; BtrttW.' Cf ■ ; si,^ILL|AMS,: i NiX2{)6 WAr.NH T ,Btr#e.t,.ar a )prB pl re4 yto pup ply. ship. mis and consumers with superior Broad Top Coal fro IS Lancaster Mines. t oo)U M/WOBnSSTEB jk'jxft GENTLEMEN'S fr fUBHIBHIKO-gTORM ; >. * -•.0.= v'./ ,f% sujpi ■ • " ’ tATMm? BHOtJLDJttSSAM BHIBT '■ MANOTAO httheoia Ptaod. sro.Toe ohebthut btbmt, oppo dtothe Washington - •-'• • • : ' ’ - wUl gire, m heretofore. Wiper tonal aoperriaioo to the Catting and Vantuaotorlsg Order* for hUi celebrated style otflhlrti flllftljaf.the- notice,, Wholesale ,, '/ ; jyafrly IjtCERING; POX, & 00/j wholesale and A ■' rttaU'deaTera in; LIHIQH - and gOHIrtrLKILI 00AL. • Lehigh yaId—THTBD striet' And, QSmSst- TOWN BOAD. ‘ Behuyikm' 'and BBOAD straete, Philadelphia. Ksep oonstantly on hand 0001 from tha moat, approted minis, imdsr oorsr,'and pxa farad OIX-PENNY SAYING FUND, corner of WAXNDTaaAJIyrH gtrajUi OpendteryDAY roinß to S o'clock,? and on TUESDAY'and l OBID AY BVmilNOS'ttntll / o’clock. Large 'or Bmalt suma re oelred and returned on (leiiisnL with Interest. •nwA -• . . JOHN tBOHSON; President.' ' J . neHifax HOKCkLRT. Bec.'& Tfeisurer. , d2B-lm' GO. CRANE’®.PHOTOGRAPH BOOMS,: • ‘T' ’ • (Formerl/VAN LOAN’S,) - i\ • - 682 AEpH Street: f AlVth’e TArJoui'stjle* And steel of PletarM/ D»goBrr«otypeß (^Anit>fotypMj ; Photogrejpbe. *nd Irtrgtypes nre tAk*nj> And At moii rite prices. '■' - Jgj SAlAMAinteB SAFES. ; .’IHH M»ortm«ntof ‘‘....7 ‘ *-3-•■ iEVAHS * WATSOH’S t H 111 ABIBPH 11‘M iSniiOTßm ~ r. HABAMAMPER AAfKa, i . ■--r ~ -• ' J .-..i > VAULT DOOBB, a" lor Bum Btena.-• BAIfALOOKfIr- r» T .ir*-. >. • iaON:l>OOßay SaUTTBBS, Ac., Ob as good terms atony other,establfehment In the ' -• _>-u<OaU«dfltate»,tby i -•- ' ; -BVANB * WATSON, < '-Noda Booth FOURTHBtraet, •. - - . , Philadelphia.' FXIAIB OIVB XJB A OAXt. v aslMf IGKQ >' J) i ’a' E'l e s ; Vi QKQ IOV«/»Jor tfi» l>wV&na'Pocket ibAOt/t/e 'great variety of Btjlei and rises, pf the' jaitly celebrated PfIXbADBLPHIA VDIHOttB, infinitely superior In everyrespect ‘to the Keit Torlc; Wltlom; For wle. Wholesale andXteUU, by tbe' Pabtlehers,' * ’ ‘ ' u ' - MOBS/BROTttKR & 00,,/ " ■ Counting HbaKe "■ j . Jto.'ie Street. , DLAJTK BOOKS AND, STATIONERY. ,-jL> gDAYIDM; HOGAN,J3I*nk Book Miumfaatnrer, , SUtioaer akd Printer, No.loo WALNUT Street, is pro-, ■And At «U.-thnMrtd ftumiah,'-. either .from the ehelvee or «*** to order; Books of;e*eiy description, suitable for B*nke,Pablte Office*, Merchants, and other*, of the beet quality of.Fngilah or American Paper, and bound la various atyleiL in the most rabataatiai manner. - Order** for. JOB PRINTING, of ere*/‘description. JlngrerioK ead .Lithographing executed with neatness and despatch. o*, is u-:-i i - ■ -- ▲ general assortment of lagllsb, French and Amert nan Stationery. --7. ; , •,, Ooaeenring Mr. Hogan’* contribution to the .Franklin initttote/tbe Committee, This displarof blank boots for kinking And mercantile two 1* the belt in the r ßxhlhiUoh,The'afrteetioriof the material i«jro6dt the 'wortoftnahtp ud then falavana an* fewaaeineat^hpgro>giate.»On2o.tr 'I7‘ALUABIiB BEAL ESTATE :AT "FUB rTLIO BAf.IS.-in»e- f «ilwefiWrs^-will p»lH*t publ.c sale, on the .premises,. on FIFTH-DAY,' 27th of Ist mmihi (ThuriiaA January 27th:) 1850, -the.FABM on which tbeywitde, Q.mUeiiffom Wept Ohei* •ter,4 toilet from Street Road Bt*iioh r ,on the new. West Chester Railroad/amU# miles from the, Philadelphia and Baltimore CeatralvKaHroadjwhlchfo. under, eon > .strqetiooi AbonilSj mUes to,- ObadC’s Ford Post Office, wheraihereifladalljr ma’l, and. absnt X mile.to-Lime -.Qn«'Tjv There is a commanding xi«w;af -the through of Wort Chests rand surrounding country, from tayeral -points l -OS;'the premises.-The -Farm, oontalns. about ' laaW AOBha. About 60 acres Is Brandywine Meadow* - llaorMOf 'good v Woodland, and.Ohe .balance tillaWe 'Cpfintf/Tn wblgh state of' cult the farm is -weli;w*iwed/ ?Uh^springs'and^nßiOg. atriaifaff. ’ Bdno^ed^bj' l th» r ßrandywißr;;«*ek*;lands of Norris • f TemW*roarld Woelpperi Farm Of v Che*wr,County r owned - by Thom&s- W. Jones'/ and ,« rt 'OARW stONH DWRILIBOIIOUSR, wljb four rodrat and’an ehtr/ori ' thVßnrtflbbr:dtidfl»e on thtfsecond flooV. with bath room adjoining. Thesis' also stt4ched !, to (he .dwelling goodfetonS'Kiteheni /.There, la a- stpoe Yeriantllouie. nearly-new* on the property, Tfith water i attheJlo6r,.;-The v ßAaN.lB largo, being part,stone and ; jtatt HtmiU. There is on the premises a Carr age Houpoi *icetllbtis&>'(,Wigon-House,-, and other. oat*bullrings. of rnonlog. spring.water at. both ' jsca4e.aod.J>anirbrooght there by iosfLpire,. without - There. Is also on the property a young . aod ihrlTing APPLR Oft'OHAßp, eiTprpi-One .Grape. - Vineet oiid btherJcuU trees.;,’ The grpdndß .arouod-tbe ' house'aitf/lAid ttratrafid'ptthUd' witbevergreeni and IB convenient' td-sohoOls, 'ThiUl?an4pifis%icf^tiyHoW6rBhip.'''‘Fersth9'Wiftblng -j- t , o i p' eare eaU on the under. " signedV' Ski* Hdf iit l s 'o y oldck' on eald day, - 4 CHANDLBB/ - - ' Ketoil orh • OTHEB S ~ i£s 'Are selling their wholestock of Fanoy Goods— t ;{; *• --l )- . •, * i Bhawts and Cloaks, i'i .■ BUkfl,> r ’ /,•-•• '‘'■’Bilk andlOdahmere-Robes. * - , French end Englirh Chintzes, >. • • ; ( '*mbro S isSm°sndl’weX}ooii« l - ; , v , Atmiee.Terjmtlet tedaoad. 'They htTS fUo BUP rll(4lh»!r OmtiV.aimftia with n' lwea.ntook of new U-t pODS'BBbTJOEDPRIOE; TOSTOOIt - i * Wonld bwrleave powoVer they are preparing ftnd wlu • OLOftBOUT VERY! CHEAPJ 4 1 _ THE JJgAftOMOf; AND WINTER Cloaks and RagUnfl,' . ;'V, . r «. ShaWla and; Silks; ', * . - ! „ oM Cashmeres, ' , ‘ r ' * Delaines'and Parmattas. •*1 -t# BatidTreverefl'and VilanciM, . ,-v , r Chintzes and.Gioghaws,- 1 ' ‘ r ’ OioiQS Rnd.Cagiimeres, i *' ' ‘'Blanketsand : Shawls, • Linens and Muslins, .Table and Piano Covers, t. Table Linens and Towels, Ladies 1 and -• 1 . Y ‘' JJdsiery and Gloves. &0., &o. , . With a large had well assorted general stock or • - ‘ ’ FANCY AND’ STAPLE DRY GOODS, f AH Bought CHEAP for. CASH, and now to be Sold ' • ‘ AT REDUCED PRICES'! I To,dose out preparatory to?. • • i ' • 'STOCK-TAKCNGi * .* 1 TBORNLE Y' * ‘ CJUIBM’S. \ ~ NortheMt Oonj'er,EIGHTH Sc. SPRUNG GARDEN •« We' sell for; cash anp have BUT ONE / V ~ PRICE." '* ' , EttjqcojtKs closing •mr* ! ; . mkal BBDtioiioN in/prioes. ■PARIS MANTIL'LA EMPORIUM. I- ■k v $l2 Oloahs Reduced, tp’s9 00. . * ':*l4-ciu.kfl Reduced te-*lO CO, *l6 Oloaks Reduced to *l* 00. rls OlMkn Reduced to *lO 00. , 20 Gloek. ,R»d|Wed to *lO 00. ‘ *ll <J'oak« Retread to *lB 00. *3l Cloak. Boducnd to *2* OS. 1 " flO’Oloaka BedttOdditofSO'OO.- $6O Cloaks Bedhead to:s4s 00; SSO Cloak* Reduced rto $6O 05. ■: $lOO Cloaks Reduced to $75 00. . , The subscribers have still In Btore a fall assortment ! Of all the leading Styles, lmfe hating closed.their work rooms forthe*efSOn,no ptEW OLOAKB will henceforth be received. _ _ ‘ 1 f J\ W.-P R.OOTOE .k, (J O • i j - 708 CHESTNUT 7 STREET. .. \ I\t7INTBR STOCK KEDJJOED. 1 T * '*& , Ladles l- Beaver Cloths. ! ' ' 'Fine Black UtotM."' ” ' . , Roys l Wear—Oasaimeres. ~ , Bfctinettsvand.Yestlngtf. " AUitWnOLIBALB RATES. - .;L, DRE3B GOODS. [' s Heavy 18V to 45 cents. 25 sent Delaines at 17 ednts. > i. • .Aferrimsck, qen|s., .. .. er }£40g^i(3* o i or j^£|,, e Blqes and Blaokfi, QLGABIROOM. Rtogant Reaver ODnUana Raglans, Very JjaniJcome GarmtnUi At tttitfh'Jees’thau usual • prices for. same Qualityslo: sl2,*and , slsCloaksare UNSURPABSED. \V- VT 't * ? ‘' BROGBE OHAWLS. i '*‘ ‘A veryiarge atoctcalso of Wdollen Shawls; reduction. WnreommeridomithelBth DKOEMBER. - • N. R*—No deviation from price. . . •: <7 COOPER * ' ‘J; d!8 ' . - ;g. E~..epmer dbß^B^jir,Bt<. ryiiMiS & SHEETINGS FOR EJtPORT. M-ryB&OWX. BLEACHED,*: BLIIE DanM. MATS fc XIGHT BHEBTIIJGB, v, - Sal table for .SxMrt. formal* by ./, , { t SaOTHINGHiM t.WELIiS, ' ami FKONT ST.t t 86 LETITIA ST. -Jy- |y* ffiomnuMton-^titwee; »l. ; 4. OOMMXBaION'MIBK.<!IIANTB ' , i JIMERXCAJJ JI ANU'KAOT U/RE3, j ; - No. 6I.COMMOH BTBEBT, . . - NE ff OR LEA ST S . -iBpec}al attention gi ven to GoUeoMng and Remitting jgxchange,; , c' »d33»3iq*., A UeTIONi-COMMISSIONi AND BENE UU3INES3 —P.'WJStLtNGTOS having permOTentlyaocated hlra’eelf at Pensacola, Fla., informs the public 4n. general that he. hu .opened .oC PAL AFOXjitreet,..neatly opposite the - Market,llouM; a general Auction t Oommlwumj. and ; 'Agency JBuiine*i } and.would respectfull/BoHcit ccnpigomenfs of all.kind? of gopde and merdtandiip for Auction, or da Commis sion. , • - ,; ft r - dSroiwAfjlgiAWSho ■ f im#Ss FO'fi; s ßtßH r ?S‘^?:B,AL^.; r ;-r' "'V,; M-J\ Amerioaajiinea Gojnpanjj’fl Mfierio? ■tyleßj'CTn Linen Coatings, & and jjf jnxifiv < anndqa: ■ and Bleached ;tyne* , wtety TOW? ftßw»u LW** DriUg;4A.-ehoiee, asawupenCof.lho abore.Qoqda no*. .WVSCOTIV(Iate of tha.flrm.of Wn»: > • OB«s*M&' Boon,) GBNTLEMKN’B IOBNIBH CNG , BTQIUI Md BUlttl, MANDEAOTOBT, 8H CHESTNUT Street, (nuu-ljr oppciite, theGlrard House,) niUdilpUt. f. W. 8. would revpeetfollj call the attention of hid former mtrond and friends to his new Store, and id pro* pared .'to\fllh orders ( for BHZBTB at abort notice. A perfect At guaraiiUed. OOUMTBT YBAD9 supplied with y;tnragißTB %nd gollabs . ; . jrifof irttrljes, Jtejnclrji, &c.. J; k.VoaLuwjblii & g 0.,: • , . ,1 :823 CHB6TNCT.Street, •, Hare reoelre<J,pflr ateamers, new atyiai Jewelry. Chatelain*, Veat.Ohalna. • - fplendldPazxa.HairPlna. • . . rnit Stands, Sugar Biutketc. -* Jet Goode ana Flower. ywe«, Coral, Lara and Hosalo Seta. • \ Sole’Agacla lo Philadelphia lor the sale of Oharlea frodebam’e IXJNPONTIMK-KEEPERS nor 8 T S. JABDEN & BRO. tf* aUwuyicnroaMa Axd iKpoama of : 1 : * BILVBB-PLATED WARE, Mo. 804 Chestnut' Street,' above . Third, (up italn.) 4 Phliadelflil*. : . : -, Constantly on hand 1 and tor sale to the Trade, TEA BBTS, COMMUNION SEBVIOfI SETS, URNS PITOHBRBj' GOBLETS, CUPS, WAITERS, BAS* >' RETS,OABTOBS,KNIVKfI.SPOONS,FORKS, LAPLBSj Ao.. sc. ’ > Gildingandplatiogonaliklnasofmetal. seS-ly Sib printing. fJIHE NEW JOB KUNTING OFFICE "THE 3? RE S 8,” I. prepued to execute nMtl/, cheaply and orpedttioualy, BTIRr.>BBOIUyTIOW or PJ.4IN AND ORNAMENTAL PRINTING, PAMPHLETS, PAPER DOOKB, BLANKS OF EVERY DESORIPTION, CARDS, POSTERS, Printing for AOCTIONBBIIS, LAWYERS, • : &SKOHANrS, MANUFAOTURBRB, MBCHAtfICS, BA^fkfl, ' ‘ RAILROAD AND INSURANCE COMPANIES' ~n~7** Ail orders left at.the Piibllcstlon Office of The Preitf No. 417 CHESTNUT Street, will be promptly attended to. \ dl-tf «J|HE WAREHOUSING COMPANY j .6 r'-V'BL IL A DE I. P ii IA DIRECTORS, PATRICK BRADY, ! ; PLINY FISK, . ALEXANDER HENRY, GKO. L. HARRISON, : A. 7. PLBABONTON, , , WILLIAM NEILSON, WM. H STEWART, .. 8. R. QRAWFORD. ;; 1 = PATRICK-BRADY, cpruident. S. R. OBAWFORD, Vine Pruldint. W r LtIAH DDNN, Tr.asiirßr. WILLIAM NIILSON/'swretary. : I ' CLIFFORD B. PHILLIPS, W.rthmigi) Ke.per. THE WAREHOHSINO COMPANY OF PIULAD’A ABB PBBPABBD TO KKOKIVK GOODS ON STORAGE, Whether In Band or Dnt/Free, at Carrent Itnteß, nod will leaae receipts or warrants thereror. , Appliution may ha made at their OFFICE, IN THE TOBACCO WAREHOUSE, FRONT AND DOCK STREET. IJANDSORUBS AND CLAMPS, r.f " : • HAHDBORUBB. No. 1,- Sax «■ P«r doe.; Ne. 6. »118 per doj. ' %. 76a. « 0/ 1 96" ‘ : B7c. « i. 160 «• ' t 4‘,looo. ‘,« ' ' 8. IT6 « . > CLAMPS. y ;. *' 8 Row, ,$1.26 per oien, 4 y /TRow,' 81'7fl’per do*en. ' :y t }•!■* ). r.< 8 Rowy per.dosen. . . > U --i t'•v ■, vHBNRY O. EOKBTIIN, f •Alt llNorth HIRD Stmt Pklltdelfhli nPHE L ADIES’ PHILADELPHIA SHOP- J. PING “GUIDE AND HOUSEKEEPRB’ COM PANION... ■ - ne J' a ' ' • ■ • PRIOR 25 OENTB Forsale.atthe BOOK STAND in POST OFFICE. jgi.lm , 1 - - ' TAMES. 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An Extensive Stook of OIL PAINTINGS, WATER-COLOR DRAWINGS AND ENGRAVINGS, All at very Low Prices, 604- ARCH ST., ABOVE SIXTH, PHILA. d745m T OST OR STOLEN—On the 7th inst., a L/ PORTRMONNAIN, containing $l6 in money, a Oerllfldate (No. 810} of 13 shares of Stock of the Oon flolldation' sank; 2 shares of the Association of Batch ersaodDrevers, (No 840,) and other valuable papers, 'of no uSd to any one but the owner. The finder osn re tain the money by sending the book and papers to the offioejof The Tress. d3o*th m-lw# PHILADELPHIA. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 12. 1859. C jje §ress;. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1869 London Newspapers— “ The Times.” [riHST autioue.] The Times was once accustomed to describe itself as “the leading journal of Europe.” This has been so often repeated that the Eng- - lish pooplo roly upon it as an organ which, always eohoes (for it never leads) public opinion, and, at all events, gives early and authentic intelligence. Whoever examines The Timos with a critical eye will perceive, at a glance, that it is not on account of the quantity of its intelligence that it is every whore read. For, in fact, what are its con tents 7 Twelve or sixteen pagos of closejy printed matter—tho single paper being the size of the eight-page folio Now York Tri bune, and the additional four or eight pages arising from its single or double supplement. In this immense quantity of prjpt, about five, to six pagos may contain the average amount of articles not actually paid for as adver tisements. . From two and a half to four columns of leading articles i two or three of police reports! a couple o/ columns of reports on the vibrations of tho money marketj half a . column of deaths, mar-; riages, and births; fonr"orflvo (particu 'JafJy in tltpe of war) of 'corrospondenco; a letter'or two on a.popular grievance! two to fouf columns of suits • tried in the several pourts of lavy; 0( M paragraphs lforn pohn try papers, put inj now and then, to fill up the corners; an occasional dramatic or operatic eriticismj a review, rather rarely, of some new work! a few items of royal life, in addi tion to tho cut-and-dry “ Court Circular” sent out ironvßuckingham Palaco, Osborne, Wind sor, or Balmorafi a glance at the markets; these constitute tho reading portion of The Times, with the exception of odds and ends; ; which sometimes drop in. All’the rest of tho paper is devoted to advertisements, winch are .sent .in on two accounts i first, because The Times really.fj “(lie' jeading journal j ,! and, secondly, because the E lfglish pooplo have gat into the habit of looking into that newspa per as one which, daring to speak tho truth in ' high places, contains as much as they have time to road and understand in one day. Its influ ence is great, not »nly from its vast circula- ■ tlon, hut from tho accuracy ofits intelligence. It may reason absurdly, but its facts aro gene rally correct. What is culled its,-‘‘City; Article,” too, has ever been distinguished by extremo Impartiality—first, nndorMr. Alssger, later under Mr. Sampson, and how under Mh. Morier Evans—whereas tho other in London have repeatedly beon suspected (some of thorn accused) of lending themselves to stock-jobbing purposes. While fheMori-i Ing Chronicle, for example, was tho property! of Sir John Eastbope—himself a stock-broker —its columns wore freely used, it was skid,, to operate; precisely.bp.lie wished to bnll or bcap, finthomonoymarkot. ..... - Another cuuso of the popularity of Tho Times i iles fn tlio circumstance that it trusts very lit tle to principle, and.almost invariably follows public opinion. In 1820, when the accession of Goorgo iy brought Caroline of Brunswick over t® England to assume her station and claim hot rights ns Queen, it was reported that the proprietors of Tlio Tin.es mot to consider pn ivhjch side they should place that journal; and that, by tho smallest majority of votes, it was decided to take part with “ injured inno cence” and Queen Caroline, against her hue bnnd;'George IY. The populaco were 4iJso on tho woman’s side, and The Times becaiiie their o,wn organ.' So with ail the great reforms which’ have taken place in the loot thirty yean. They have successively Deon concode’d Incon this wm beginning, tp .inolce‘.itself ,’heardj ThoTimAs, would appear as itamouth-piece, ancj eventually claim the merit of having championed the sue.; ccssful causo. But so long os tho demand for any one of these reforms, was made “ with bated • breath,” Tho Tithes would either not notice, or jyonld sneer at it. For some time before tho anti-Cora Law League had put forth its concentrated strougth, Tho Times affected to ridicule Its aims, Its acts, and its leaders. 1 When at last it had raised a fund of £lOO,OOO to carry oh tho contest, witli a pledge that! thrice the amount should be forthcoming if required, tho League was recognised by The' Times as “ a great fact,” and • thondoforth qo journal gavo greater aid toward tho carrying out of free trade; It now ' opposes John Bright and Parliamentary Reform, but will support both, if it sees that popular opinion backs thorn. The discipline of The Times office is very great, and has given a unity to the whole pn per, which greatly individualizes it. In 1880, it heartily took up the question of Parliamen tary Reform, and powerfully defended the Grey Administration. In Jaly, 1884, Lord Groy quitted office, and The Times (save that it then commenced a series of fierce attacks upon Lord Brougham) conlimlcd the hearty supporter of the liberal principles upon which Lord Melbourne's Cabinet was governing tho country. Suddenly, William IV dismissed tho Melbourne Cabinet. The fact was briefly announced in The Times of tho following morning, in tho emphatic words, « Thb Mi nistry are dismissed. The Queen has done it all." This annouucement appeared on Satur day. Every one looked for The Times of Mouday, expecting a defence of Lord Mel-, bourne and his colleagues, a bitter attack on the King, and a scathing reproof of Adelaide for interfering in politics. On the contrary, they found The Times as thoroughly. Conservative as if it had been the thick-and thin advocate of Toryism for years, and ap parently oblivious of the fact that it had it self been tho great champion of tho “ liberal" principles which it now strongly condemned as revolutionary. Evury paragraph in tho paper was carofully written or selected with the purpose of being consistent in the Con servatism which The Times had now suddenly assumed. The foreign correspondence of Tho Times has long becu remarkable for Us ability, full ness of information, and careful accuracy of details. Latterly, indeed, some of its imme diate rivals havo taken largo strides towards equality in this department. The actual circulation of Tho Times, great as it is, does not represent the number of per sons by whom that journal is read. Its cost (ten cents for each copy) keeps it beyond the reach of the multitude, who are unable to pay thirty-two dollars per annum for it. Yet, as all Loudoners must read The Times, the plan adopted by tho newsmen is as follows: Thoj? commence receiving their supply, for London circulation, about seven A. M., and from that time until five P. M., hire out tho paper to bo read at two cents per Irour, by regular sots of customers. Thcso copies aro sent inlo thq country that ovoning by tho mails, beiug supi plied to subscribers at a deduction on thp usual London price. Thus a single copy of The Times will be road in six or eight families every day, and thcnco pass into a uew circula tion in tho country. It dosorves to bo noted as a curious faGt, that by an uurepealed English statute, (20 Georgo 111, c. &0 T ) tho lending out a news paper, for hire, is declared to bo a misde meanor at law, punishnblo by a summary con viction by a magistrate, with a poualty of five pounds sterling. This enactment was passed to protect newspaper proprietors ! Even those who do not take sufficient interest in politics to desire to sco what Tho Times may say upon the topics of tho <lny, will turn to it to examine its advertisements—its most fruitful source of profit, and a curious collec tion of wants, claims, schemos, aqnouncemonts, and information. A peculiar featuro of The Times is, tba£ it never condescends to reply to attacks upon Itself. It scarcely over affects even a con sciousness of tho existence of its rivals. Jin other words, it knows bettor than to advertiso them by notice. The Tirnotf was eslabllshed on January l ; 1786,. oq tho eve of great events, of which the .French Revolution of 1789 was tho earliosti.’ John Walter, a printor, was tho founder, and called his new journal The Daily pnivord&l Register. Exactly three years after its establishment, ho changed the name, giving It to tile world, on Januury 1, 1788, as The jTlmea,.;.and justifying the change on tho ground (Gat It, bettor expressed the univer sality ofits proprietor’s dosign. It was issued from “ the Logographic Press Printing House, iucar Apothecaries’ Hall, Blackfriars,” Logo ■graphy/patented by Walter, was a system of jusirig sthreotypod'words and parts of words,' •in wHht rorlntors' call composition, instead of isetSqg, them up, as at present, with separate Imotal letters. However promising in thoory, •the-plaplras not succeeded in practice,though (repeated experiments havo been mado with it, down to'.tho present time, WaUqr, who was “ Printer to tho Board of was in the way of getting odds and ends.oj’Government information, which ho adroitiyjdribblod out, so as to make it appear that hlspaper was a semi-oflicial organ. But ,th(B did', not keep him out of Newgate, in which he was imprisoned in 1789, for a libel on tho Dnke of York. In February, 1790, ho Was again gonyietbd—his griovous oifenco being ho had actually charged two profli gates., yho Prince of Wales and the Duke of York) j 1 with having so demeaned thomselves as to incur the just disapprobation of his Ma jesty,’biheir father. The libel happened to bo trail on tho old principle, the <( greater greater the libel,” on the second ,the time.serving Judge sentenced Mr. APajter not only to imprisonment, hut “ to stand...&. one hour in the pillory, at Oharing Cross.’’ .• Thin latter part of tho' pnnishment was “graciously” oinitlod, however, by Mr. Pitt’s desire. I Ja IHDB, John Walter the Second became’ prih’oJMiApioprlojdr pi Tho Times, and its general;,.manager, Ho was an independent man, ajuf'stoptly.refusing to bo the thick-and thin. of the Government, tblamed wbat WtupcaUcd “ tho Catameran expedition,’? and rejKibatod 1 Lord Melvillo, who was im pkellhd'tbj’ -ti’.o Mouse of Commons, for mis itSD ofrfety- public money'as Treasurer of tho Nnvyl*‘?i l h'p';opnsequence was that Walter I. was drived of tlio profitable printing for tho and oyery impediment was thrown in tljp/.'way of .early reception of foreign nows,.during the war, by Walter It, Yet he - free uentiyoh tai ned intelligence in advance of thd Gojfirnmont, and, !h August, 1809, nn- capitulAtion of Flushing—first ffiltj* qfi-tho Walcbptan expedition—forty - elgbt, L ;|• jilirn before the news had arrived any other- channol. Jndieions expenditure, and liberal payment for intelligence gradually raised .The. Times in pnblitf opinion during the ’first ten or elevbli; jmars of fhe'seeond Walter’s adminis- the groat drawback was that it had' tSSp to bo printed on.apross .worked by at which no more than two “to kens” Qipdor 600 copies) sotjlil he prodnoed ift apt.and to eftaot ovon this,duplicates had to be set up. . The result was, thlSttopposing Tho Times to publish im portant ,’hews at 10 A. M;, it could print no morp than '2.000 hiipfessions beforo 2 P. M., whori 'jtiei HVM evening papors would'appear, confqining (usually without acknowledging wheapbj&py had stoJep.At) 'what Tho Times had pnrphasSa for itsolf'iit a large cost. Un der sucbfivonmstiSicesjit is almost surprising that TluSTimes should hayo exponded money ■’rSß H'gyonlrt seom—to supply the evening papers rah'ncwa. Mr; TOpr; eminently a praotical man, early machinery had vast capabilities fou work. Ho open) large sums, at varioiisitffiejyn experiments., hereon, and, at lastr(ohpsi,2qth. ; of' f Novembdr,aBl4,)The -articiß, in- Avhioh the 4 .was now jjrin'te'd by steam, at the nngsual rate’ of 4,OQb copies ah hoar."' The iifceitfopatfer-' qian njechirnice who had invented tho machine j were Mpssra. Kccnig and Bauer. Later im-- provoments allowed 10,000 copies per hour to. b'a throwjir off, at Tho Times office—their ma-i chlno’a'hfmost power being for 13,000 copies.i At present thoy use Hoe’s “ Lightning ma ehinoSj” capable or printing 20,000 copios an; hotir; Those new facilities of rapid printing,! which allowed the supply, within a reasonable) timsJ, of all tho demand by tho public, led to a great-increase in Tho Timos’s circulation.’ However, a 1 fortune had heon exponded beforo' this waßnccomplishoc}. From first to last, Mr. Walter spent not less than £40,000 in tho attompt to print his papor by stoam. This ac complished, .other loading journals in London availed, themselves of tho fruit of his labors, capital, enterprise, and industry. But the prestige of success was with Tho Times, whoso real power as “ tho leading journal” may he said to havo only commenced on November, 1814, when it first was printed by steam. Wo may pause hero, as at a convenient rest ing place, and shall conclude this articlo of ,< Tho Times ” to-morrow. Sons of Mal*a in ‘Washington.—Messrs. Wra. E. Bartlett, Jr., 0 O. Adroon,lVm. Ohesnut, Colonel. Win. Stewart, Colenel John R. Johnston, and Colonel Samuel T. Houston, left Baltimore' last Monday afternoon for Washington, whero they woro called to institute a lodgo of tho Order of the Sons of Malta. Several of tho most influential Senators and members of the House took part in the 'ceremonies. In tho different Eastern and Western cities whore this ordor has existed for some years, past, a vast deal of good has resulted- The suffer ings of the poor havo been alloviated. and in many instances, where tradesmen and others bare lost their proporty and implements of trade through tho disasters of fire and otherwise, they havo un expectedly found themselves in as prosporous con ditious as ever, without knowing who to thank for tfao generosity. In that oi'y a poor carter had hie horse drowned in tho basin. A day or two after, uponooming out of his house in the morning, he was surprisod and delighted to find a beautiful gray horse harnossed up, and waiting for him. Singular Accident.— On Wednesday last Mr 3. Warren Fishor, Jr.-,’was shopping in Daniels ,fc Co.’s storo, in Summer street. Boston, and was inspecting aoroo goods in tho baok part of tho building, which is lighted nlono by heavy glass plates. While she was thus occupied an avalanche of scow and ice foil from tho roof of tho storo, and striking upon tho glass, broke a number of the panes into innumerable pieces, ono of which, pointed and koen as a raaor, penetrated tho lady’s right sido, between her hip and lower rib, cutting through clothing and flesh, and inflicting a fright ful wound, to such depth that a portion of hor in testines protruded. The lady was immediately conveyed to tho residence of her father, u promi nent physician, and at last accounts sho was in a most critical condition. A BALTIMOItKAN FAVORED BY FORTUNE. —A lump of gold weighing forty-five ouncos, and worth $775, was taken out on Sunday, 15th December,' from Mecbatu A Cu.’s olaim, in Illinois Canon,' just abovo'l’okor’s Flat,'Sierra oonntv, California. Itwasfgund according ton Maysvitie paper, by Mr. James Harris, of Baltimore, who had not been ovor Oi.weok in tho country. It had soveral pick gl&rks on it L as if it had been struck by other parties, Who wore not fortunate enough to find n. The mince in and aboqt Pokor’s Flat are paying well generally. It is stated that soveral miners havo left for the States from PolccrV Flat, daring tho past few months, with littlo fortunes. Deatu of an Esteemed Citizen.—Tho Lancaster (Pa.) Express says : “ Wo regret to an nounoe the death of Henry R. Reed, Esq , late oashier of tho Farmers’ Dink of Lancaster, whiob took place nt his residence in Prinoo stroot, this (Monday) morning. Mr. Keod aufferod from a sovero attack of paralysis, some time previous to hfo resignatiomas onshier, and has not boen iu tbo enjoyinepTof good health ut'nuy timo ainco. Ho was one of our most worthy and highly esteemed oitizoDS, enjoying the confidence, both as a busi ness man and eitizen, of nil who had tho pleasure of his acquaintance, and few men had a more ex tensive acquaintance than Mr. Reed.” Tub liYONr, New York, Republican says that a fow days ago a stout young man attacked and broke tho wiudows of a clothing storo in that villogo so that he might be afrosted and sent to prison. He bad no borne, an<lscould obtain no work Ho wa4 scut to tho penitentiary for four mouths. Mount Vernon in tiip: Sandwich Islands. —The ladiea of Honolulu, II iwuiian Inlands, have caught the Washington fever, and aro racing a fund to assist in tho purohaso of Mount Vernon They havo already raised over $2OO. £ A robust mother, of three children, twenty* eight years old, and apparently in oxeellont houltli, at Minnetonka, Minnesota, profosscs to hive livod for two years with no other nourish* rnont than threo eups of coffee per day. Commodore Parry's widow has roceived a magnificent silver candelabra, manufaoturod in China, as a testimonial from tho American resi dents of China, in 1650, to her lamented husband. The jailor of TVytho county, Ya., has a hen whioli lavs two eggs a day regularly, and one day in December laid threo—one of which con tained threo yolks! “ Some” hen, that! Six religious papers, published in Boston, havo agreed to charge half a oout a word for pub lishing all appeals tor <( goneral benevolent ob ject*.” 1 ADDKESfe, Delivered by Prof. Nicholas H. Magoire, at the High School, .on his Installation as President, Jan. 3, 1859. Controllers of Public Schools , ‘ Gentlemen of ' the 'Faculty, and Students o'f the Central High School: . Man, as created by the fiat of Omnipotence, was perfect in his organisation, with all his ,faculties and attributes' blended in h&rmonious'ariion. As the crooning glory of infinite powor, wisdom; and loro, that culture which his disobediehoe has'en tailod upon . his posterity was not demanded of him. “In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy broad” is expressive not only of that struggle, with the eloments consequent upon his mere phy sical'wants, but shadows forth that oonfilof in whioh tho wholo man mustengago, that’he may approaoh the perfection whioh adorned the Divine' idea in tho creation of the original. ~ “ The end of loarning,” says Milton, “ is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regarding io know Sod ( aright; apd out of that knowledge to lovri him, imitate him, 1 and bo like him, as we may thonear est, by possessing our souls of true .virtue, whioh, being unitod to the heavenly grace of faith, makeß up the highest perfection ” The violation of tho moral Jaw of obedience to the mandate of the Deity tho hereditary curse, tho original sin of our raoe, and accountability to that law the only re* dcraption from tho penalty of disobedience. Tra* dition and llovelation unite in the 'vindication of tlio truth that mind, without moral and affeatjonal vestraint, tho wayward and rebellious wilt, tho erratic and unbalanced genius, grasping at the fruit forbidden to tho intellect, have been man’s poouUar offences. The knowledge of good is so intimately associated with the autagonUtioal Knowledge of evil; and in “so many ounping re* S“!b:Shces hardly io r be discerned,” that* all the | foroo of reosqn is required critically to disoriml-. uatei Wasteful* oxtravaganoe, under the pallia*, ting influence of selMovo, assumes the garb of liboral generosity; parsimony, of frugality; bru* , tal hardihood or reckless daring claim Ijlndred with tho noble attribute of manly courage; even Iqvo of country, that ‘car Has caritatum, may be dwarfpd to’ a prejudioe. The means to oounteract the evils entailed should be oommensurate with tho power to be resisted. The pride of intellect, the impulses of the heart, must be guided and dis ciplined by the strong agonoy of the moral sense. Education, therefore, is no narrow system, culti vating only the mental faculties, either partially or, comprehensively. A stimulated ‘lmagination may produce tho fauatio or"delusive dreamer— reasop, cold and calculating, booomes harsh and ‘ unforgiving when unattended by her warm and impulsive sister; and, however beautiful and soothing io our nature aro the sensibilities • and affections of the heart, tfcelt exclu* sivo development must lead to pernicious ' indulgence. Education,' then, is tho oduoing <?f all tho latent capabilities of tho wholo man; the awakening of all tho dormant energies of liU whole being, and that, in the order evident in man’s oroatiQn, fa tbtf perfecting of his moral and spiritual consciousness. Any Bystem that as sumes a more limited or earthly course is func tional in its ngoncy and degrading in itschurnoter. Tho more repletion, with tho thoughts, sentiments, ’ and discovorios of the' learnod'rthc truths and foots of physical soionoe; all that is beautiful in art, eeduoing in poetry, and fascinating in elo quence, do not embrace tho completeness of the idoa. It is the furnishing and norfeoting of oil tho natural faculties—pbysioal, Intellectual, and moral. The gladiator obeys tho law of nature in tho development of his physical energios, bat por* verts tho blessings of health and atrongth toon un holy uso; tho intellectual giant, often to agreater degree, degrades and debases the nobler attributes; and while we may pity and despise the one, we must abhor and detost the other. Tho fanatfo, with hlsdiseased imagination; the sensualist, with bis unbridled.appetite apd passions, or the bigot, with hia contrasted and finite vision, is the same man developed under different oiroumatanoeß and surroundings, under different systems of evolving tho natural faculties. ' He is the unfortunate result of an aberration from, the normal condition—the stern rebuke of arid Nature upon the violation of the natural lavf written on o.very page of the world’s history. "When He, to whom more than mortal wisdom was given, üßed bis dlyine blessing in chnuntlng the praises of bis benefactor, the temple of the living God rose in sublime beauty, and the templo of bis earthly glory was so adorned that his fame reaohed the distant land of Sheba; when the chosen of Jehovah; listening to the voiocs of their prophets, lived jn nooordaoce with the expressed law.of their God, the power of tho Egyptian restrained not their going forth, tho hosts of the Assyrian prevailed not - against them. The ominous and solemn cry of “Woe unto Jerusalem!” was heard in smiling terror by her pooplo, whon tho social bond was rent asun der by tho moral degradation of the individual. If mere Intellectual culture could havo preserved a nation from moral and sooial depravity, Athonß, the queon of oities, the habitation of the philoso pher, tho artist, the poet, and tho orator, whore the God like Socrates, the divine Plato, the ox* qnlsilo and rofinod Aristotlo taught, would mjt at test in her ruined temples and mouldering mo numents, the truth that individual and na tional .depravity,.are the.preludestef national ruin. 'TbVintellectqul.-ppwor of .Grqeqe/ .under moral i»dvanoemstit,.n6r eeuld' all. tho.. wit ,septio9 ; rJiQjrflYqc graceful in structure, wie’too* mdofinito, too voluptuous, to hold itsiphilosophy* In fetters. All that Is ennobling in disinterested patriotism, alt that is glittering in military glory,, and all that is-attractive in individual integrity l or. public honor is recorded in the urinals of aq cient Home; yet, in the very hour when she as-: sumed her proudest title, the Invisible Hand had I already written the sentonoeof destruction on her! walls. Luxury, venality, and debauchery had' boon transferred within her gates; wealth' and refinement had wovefi their Oapuan chains; around her, and a power mightier than the* Carthagenlan hod pronounced her doom. Tho gross fables and pueriio mythology of her re-' liglon could not withstand the assaults of her' intoliect. Sensual infidelity severed tho tie that linked man to n superior, burst the bonds of su-j perstition, dethroned in its pride tho fair,humaai-i ties, and exalted its own hideous visage for the! respect of mankind; corrupting all the indiioo- ‘ ments to virtue, stifling all the aspirations and yearnings of-tho heart, it let loose the fierce paa* ; sions and cruel appetites to thoir wildest excesses.' la a lend blessed with an intellectual and impul sivo pooplo, whioh had roaohod tho highest point of civilization und national glory,' her capital, tho centro of European refinement, boasting an array of talent unequalled in any age oroountry—rivalling. G roeca in her graceful enlightenment, and Home in tho splendor of her military achievement—we find ’ tho uieasuro of mind is but the measure of hor sin. Forward and porverso intellect oversteppod the bound that separates human from Divine power, and arrogantly exalted man’s orring reason above reason’s God. The French literati, denying tho cause, as3umod omnipotence to be tho effect; the ‘ social fnbrio, woakenod by their writings, totter ing, foil; and in the last aot of this horrid drama, we find tho oroature enthroned upon the altar of the Creator, and there, whero the hymn of “Glory to God on high, and on earth peaoe and good will toman”, had amended, were hoard tho profane oath of the libertine and the ghastly laugh of the atheist. Intellect Is not tho measure of man’s on* paoity. The simple poasaot, around whose hearth the domestic virtues cluster, who with a sincere heart and devout feoling worships his Creator; (he man of benevolence, who in his love to his neighbor assimilates to his Divino master, are more proporly types of the educated man than those gigantic Intel leots whose influence has shaken the thrones oi tho earth, and dared, with Titanio ambition; the heavens themselves The heart must be impressed that the intellect may be rofinod atd purified; the sooial virtues are the first that develop tho embryo man; to feel autocodes the oapaoity to think; the heart must feel a genial glow before tho mental power can accomplish its Full destiny. However modified by oiroumstanoes, dependent upon conventional usige, or directed by forms of government, those subtle and unlimited faculties will form tho true and consistent man. But regarding man ns merely an intellectual ma ohino, doomed to perform nn allotted task, discon nected from his relations to his fellow-man, in refo ronco to his own advancement, and thatof the com munity in which ho lives only as subordinate to bis own plans—tho structure of hfs mind must bo built up in accordance with tho principles of action that are to bo his future guides, and with that form of government under whioh ho lives, so ns to produce positive results The perceptive fooulty. must bo quickened—a thinking being rnußt be tho event, self-reliant andindopendent. The eonsos nro not to bo tho more vehicles of sensuous plea sure, bub tho mind must be taught to examine, analyzo and deduao from tho objects presented those lemons that will promote tho aim of its am bition. Familiarity with olnssioal names, orthedall superficial rocitation, is not familiarity with classi cal literature, neither la a plethora of mattorforeod upon tho brain, intellectual dovolopment. History, is oither a mere record of tho vioos and folH<n of our r«oo, of dates and erne, or it is “ philoso phy teaching by exntuplo.” Iu the exact sciences tho mind refuses to act, to bo instinotivo with lifo, If not under the influence of comprehension, and it will experience ft pernioious effoot from the crushing weight imposed upon it. Under any other system the superficial willoxclude tho solid, and mon bo judgod by tho range of oountry they have hurriedly traversed, rather than by„ the accurooy of thoir observation; the speoions will be regarded us the ronl, the ghost of greatness worshipped as tho substanoe. The peouliar form of Our Government, the vast extont of our terri tory, the impulsive and progressive character of tho pooplo, young and vigorous; forced from tho nature of our laws to enter at an early age upon the practical, we havo litlio leisure to waste on dry dotail or philosophical speculation. Our oner gios aro required to tho extornal world; worldly advantago and thrift doraand tho educing of tho thinking fnoalty. Every age has its prominent idea every nation its leading ambition. Tho ago of chivalry, wo nro told, is past and gone,; and uiilitaryglory now counts tho oost. Tho idea of this ago is eduoatiou; it is the feature of tho present and tho spirit of our people rcoognisea its beauty. Mind is imporious and exacting—it bears no mark of high or low, rioh or poor; it ncods no bound of time or plaoc, of rank or oir oumstnnoo; it asks but freedom , it demands but light. Weakness docs not ODfecbbnt; poverty can not repress it: diflicultioo do but stimulate its vigor, and tbo poor taUow-ohandler’s son, who sits up all night to rend tho book which a follow ap prentice lends him, shall st’tnd and treat .with kluga, and add now provinces to the domain of science; shall bind tho lightning with a houipou . oord, and bring it karinloss from tho skies: j there is no “no plus ultra” to its goings forth; and | ho who has overcome ono world, oannot, in tho poiulanco of sucoess, mourn for others to subia gate This onward, upward tendency of mind i 3 characteristic of every people, direotod into various channels by concurrent oiroumstanoes Owing to tho oivil and religious froodom of our political institutions, mind is permitted to range through tho uhlverso, embracing all within ns eoope, to give existence to the ideal, and to olothc lita most fantftitio form in the garb of expression- Tho auocoss attending tbo pursuit of the practical and physioal solonoes has led some to believe that we bare been allured from oetire accounta- TWO CENTS. bility to a Divine power, and the beautiful system, i of restraining morality given by* the Creator.' True, attempts havo been mad© to undermine the social structure; individual honesty and public in tegrity have been questioned; speculative doo wrnes of new and portentous forms have been broaohed; wild arid visionary substitutes for the saored dogmas of, Christianity,have beeapromnl gated; abstract virtue and morality have been used as equivalent to the Christian’*positive l idea m/£f a?Vi3 and °-j Qo<i » and here, where are, the most B triking evidences of. Divine power co-ppera- Wa attribute! 9 AS de- ; nied, and he who sooffa at the “ Holy of Holies;” and mooks.aj his name, ; may, be. heard in-our highways. But, underlying this, there is a fcrow- D -?i? spiritual beauty among üb,xnlnaled with the fill appreoiationof the aotiral; the poetl .Jf*’ f n s “oteptonoA applying their energSo to thp development of the ipintual tendenoy of oar nalare anlte with tho • active' and inquisitive ooldand harsh reason glows under the lmnulsi.A foroe of imagination,, * , The. deep-rooted religious oonviotiorii of tho great mass, the present pervading enthusiasm upon the subject Ju every denomination, the genc w-!^va^on the, transcendental and Spiri* tuai, the rage for abstract Inquiry, attest the truth ,of this position. The aenaual philosophy is to a great extent repudiated) and tr dooided move* is recognised. Yet,, while this revolution is evident, there also exists an opmto and powerful force upon ’ the publio mum., j fle age is eminently utilitarian. This oha- is inherent in every department of know * evor y order of sooiety’, and every condition ot life; and to such an as tty load the su perficial scoffer to deem that intellect and soul are mere mercantile articles, estimated not by their intrinsic worth, but by what they will pro dace. Hero we may discover the great want ofthe ogo; this union of, the,spiritual and utilitarian in the character of our people, may serve os a guide to the true system of Education. While'we honor and appreciate the latter, element; it is -only as ‘ r l ® *ke full oontemplation-of the former. In the one the more, learned man has been'far surpassed by thoso upon whoße brcws no‘cdllege honors bloom, /whose sohool- has been the great world, obsarvation their preoeptor, and difficulties their text-book. A Franklin may cross the,street and derive on immortal thought, whilst many a learned pundit fl*ay traverse sea and land with out beneftt to himself or his fellow man. Occa sionally there appear men with abilities pre-emi nent above their fellows, whose virtues shed over the world a glorious. lustre, or whose vioious intel lects oastover It a lurid‘glare, lilce those celestial strangers whose ooming and departure are lost in vft . B POOulations. Men wonder and admire, but are {Joy. flualifiod to judge ? .A groat and origl .nal thinker lays down broad principles, or assumes a comprehensive view of tho great questions that ■ interest and agitato tfie minds of men, and he Is -regarded, either as-an ecoentrio loonooiast, pr wor shipped ns a demigod, shunned with horror or' em braced with idolatry. * Men who- bestride; the world, of thought, phenomena In tho vulgar osti-, mation, lights of the earth, “ cities'set upon a hill that oannot be bid,” effete precedent views with distrusting • look, nnd the timid conserva tive shrinks with fear, from the daring of their ; experimental progressive. Is tho popular mind, through all that ha* beau expended upon it, dis ciplined to estimate these exooptional men, to" measure the truth of their tho amount of their sophistry ? As in tho physical system, disease, at first soaroely peroeptiblo, will, if per mitted to spread either through ignorance or ne glect, with secret strength and virulonoe, and in tha moment of triumph assume the very bloom of health ;• so, an erroneous dogma beyond thd reathof the popular mind w»Hi with Ite al luring novelty, win Us tortuous way torough every fibre of the social system, sapping and destroying its energy. Industry, and life. . > Have we prepared the.aptidoto for this poison 7 Or are we to bo, forever, dopes of evory oharlatan who attempts to instal 'his miserable,'loathsome deitios upon tho altars of the social virtues ? The one man appears in rcvolutioES, convulsions, storms, and to guide and direct : necessity, the oonourrence of efroumatanaes, the destiny of the individual t are the indefinite causes assigned for. bis grqatness; but it is that.neceaaity, thatwoppor tunity, that prove the Inadequaoy of the system of education, or itadeparture from the true principles upon whioh it should be founded. Controllers of the Public Schools of the City of . Philadelphia: • ' i ‘ . .; i To you is, delegated part of jthe duty of ing this great want in directing the machinery of the'sysiem. Its various parts must net In har mony. . xou aro to furnish the bed in whioh the germ Is planted; to you it must look for support; and whether it blooms and blossoms in. healthy beauty, and produces that matured fruit whioh the time, oare, and treasure lavished upon it would load us to expect; or whether, like the “ Dead sea fruits/that tempt the eye,” bnt are only dust and ashes within, deponds in some measure Upon yout Gentlemen of the Faculty,and fellov>' f £e,acktrs: To you a fearful responsibility is entrusted.’ IF education -is you become the im mediate agents of the Deity in the completion of his idea; your power and influence are.subordi nate only to his. - From you are demanded duties only, to bo measured by-the vast Interests involved, embracing ,%ooqun.tabi)Uy , XaS- JQax, fpUa.w-mep, ybuy : oo^toyr>*ia'your y Gq4^' s A%oMt f o , rklhd- ‘t The Syrian flower. „ , Will bud,' and bloom, And wither, Iu an hour.”' 1 according _as they are systematically developed, or pressed to maturity by an undue stimulating process. The aristooratioal, theoeratical, or caste elemont in o’her systems of government, renders the sphere of tho teacher ono of circumscribed limit; but here, where all.the.avenues arc open to the ambition of the aotivo brain and courageous heart, “ No pent-up Dtioa contracts our powers.” Hore “ Uoswayed by sged follies, reverend errors, Grown holy by traditionary dalness - Of school authority,” comprehensive oduoation is demanded—winning the heart, enlisting its sympathies in tho improve ment of the’intellect, ana elevating the moral tone. But eduoate you must, whether judiciously or not; whether for good or for evil; whethorU be au ldloooremony or a grave reality, in appear ance, if not in truth. Young Gentlemen , Students of the Central High School .* Your controllers may lavishly provide tho means, surround you with all the appliances; your teachers devote the experience of their age. ex- Sond the energios of their intolleot, and ex oust the feelings of their hearts upon you in vain, if you do not genorously respond to their effortß. The American scholar has duties of a peouliar re sponsibility. “ A little philosophy inohneth man’e mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth mon’s minds about to religion, was the opinion of one of England’s most astuto scholars. Young &Dd aotivo intellects are tempted to soar beyond their propor sphere, to bo aoducod by the allurements of speculative opinions; there is a fasoination in the lofty and aspiring (bought of rioaling high Olym pus ; but the struggle will end in darkness and desolation of soul' Strong men .have dared the venture, have started in all the pride of matured intelleot, in the vain search for truth, blindly at tacking all that was sacred in man’s consciousness, overthrowing every obstacle presented to their perverted minds, even assaulting the very throno of Jehovah, when opftosiug their presumptuous am bition ; yet the simplest prayer, murmured at a mother's knee, was a refutation of their loftiest conceptions, and the honest simplicity of the Christian Newton a stinging rebuke to their arro gant pretensions. They were foroed to recognise— “ The ingrained instinct of old reverence, The holy habit of obedlency.** Man must worship either the one true God or loathsome deities like those of Egyptian mytho logy. The farther ho wanders from the pure and simple teaohinga of his God, the more inevitably is he lost in the mazes of speculation. The prosont genoration should be in edvanoo of the preceding, and form a more secure and salient point for the future. .... You will require all your faculties in the strug gle that is before you—your imagination, reason, judgment, tho sounding shaft of Apollo, as well as the ponderous club of Hercules, tho keen scimitar of Saladin, and, the poworful weapon of Bichard. All may not bo groat, in tho world's conception of tho term: hut “it i* in everyone’s power so to order his literary occupations us to make them subservient to his moral improvement, to the strengthening of his own solemn oonviotions.” Mere selfish considerations have a wasting influence upon the eout; the political life, the pursuit of wealth for mere sensual pleasure, am bition in any form, oven tho pursuit of knowlodgo for its stimulating cffcots. But education, in its comprehensive sense, strengthens, supports, and elevates. Knowledge is, in this country, essen tially power. Upon you tnuoh of publio opinion will rest, and public opinion is here omnipotent. Unite the practical with the spiritual; let them, Uko tho fabled sons of Leda, impart mutual life and immortality; lot no partial theory exhaust yeur ■ powers, eithor in study-or aotivo life; em brace all which inouloates a full and impartial de velopment of every fooulty of tho mind every feeling of the heart, every aspiration of the sonl. All were given for wise and good purposes, and it is either from the negleot of one to the cultivation of another, or by their abuse, that they may be come preiudioial to society, or fatal to their pos sessor. Application to the exaot sciences will sharpen tho reason, the gentler duties of life soothe, soften and refino tho intellect, and purify tho heart. The harmonious blending of reasrn and impulse will lead to the aotiro practice of vlrtuo, to a rnlo of conduct founded upon the posi tive law of Tight, not upon the negative law of avoidanoe, drawn from the penalty of moral de- wor ] ( j| Jr wisdom—expediency— will ns often deter from the risks nnd saonfioes of virtue as from the consequences of vtoo. Cul tivate tho wholo man; possess tho “ mens Sana in corporo sanorealize in yonr lives thogreatwant of our country, the union of the praotioal and spi ritual, philosophy and religion. So will yon best disohargo the obliguions whioh you bnvo assumed to sooioty; so you will develop, to thoir full extent, the oapaoities of your naturo, and begin to realise, ovon hero, that toward whioh hereafter is but tho complomont of a lifo well spent- Conjvoal Bliss —Thewifo of a Mr. Brooks, at Homer, N. Y., tho other day threw a knifo vio lently o.t her husband, which put out-ono of his eyes. The amount of her conjugal grief may be measured by the fact that she said afterwards she would have given five dollars rather than- hate it happen. Jin. George Mellub, tho mauagor of the Louisville theatre, Suggests that tho managers of all tho theatros throughout tho country sh ill set apart tho 22d day of February, proximo, for the benefit of the Mount Vernon Association Tan Bid BELL, the gift of Cardinal Wolsey, and the pride and boast of sherborno, terminated its oaroor on December 12. As the ringers wore ringing for servioe it oraoked, 80 that it w no lon ger fit for use. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Correspondents for « Tab Pskss” will pleape bear In mind the following rolesr Et ®i 7 wramnnloation must.be accompanied by the’ mthe wrJt ® r * o *d« to Insure comotneu in ® typography, but brie aide ef'the'eheet should be written upon. * \. r ', ? W. shall be greau, obliged to genttemealn PemurP T “* " nd ots « State, for contribaUooe gtriog tte Cttnent news of the day In their particular' localities the resource, of the eurrounding country, the Increase population, or any Information that wiltbe interest]. ;tog to the general reader. - , Report of the Commissioners of the i Sinking Fond. ♦ act to establish a sinking Pond ““ h» th °,b pn j lio debt ” ®PPto«4 Aprils isT wh have the honor to submit to tha *7® following report of the 'operttfonf & aj’sink* ?“*•?*“* November enbh 0 lJ on ‘ ing ? noiea haT “ whioh, in onr tfn P a *: r, int» ttny .iMrease or modification of or by tho said acti or any increaso b, mado by «» L '&"- Kespeotfully, yonr obedient servants, , ■ ] ;; "Wu. M. Hikster, ; , Jacob Fry, Jr., ‘ - H. B. Magbaw, i. Commissions!™ of the Sinking Tnnd. - *»■» Kbyobt, No. 1.-Btatomsnt show ing the receipts of the. sinking fund.for tho year ; oommenomg Arst day of December, 1857, sinii . ending tho thirtieth day of Norinnber, 1858: iavlvonu 1) f f, om f“ Ie of t >nblil! works, vie:. Penn c®n P a, 'y- i nte r : of the 11° b S Conjinonweaith for the putohaso O lino Of publio improvements, $375,000 ; TJfwS? ?, a „ i ' road Oompany bohd No. l^duo Yoa^-^any-inirs^n^re^tublihm: • s36^ooo—ss*lo,ooo. C ° mmOnWea^ ABgaB ‘ 1858 ’ R^t S: J “’’- 0 , or '? >ra ‘h n charters,.ssB,242 65 ; taxon tax on corporation ■stooks, $408,408 87 ; tavarn lioehees, $l9O 400.87 eating houses, &o , licenses, $11,836 02: distillora’ and. brewers lioenses, $10,717.87; retailers' 11. 'sa n .‘vf’ i? l 9 K 3 - 67 - 83: f edlnK ’ lioenses, $2,028. *2 77 > q t m 6 . r3 «, l,o £. n “ s i * 7 . 5 i 2 «; millers’ lieeises, ifr.i/.'o 00, theatre, oirous, Ao , lioenses,s2 973.50 • ! billiards, bowling; Ac.. lioenses, $1,502.48 -. patenf oioine lioenses, $849.39; anotion commissions, *28,350; tax on writs, wills; deeds,-Ac., $78590. ■ 81; foreign insuranoe.agenoies,'s9,o32.37; enrol ment of laws, $8,840 rp'ahiphlet laws, $259.'73Y 0 ? n O!> l0 - anfl : JjHMM-ll: fines and'forfeiture?, j|?- 5 2523;.pub1i0 lands; sl2,9l6sl;imUitia tax, 1*10,480.51; tax on tonnage, vis: Pennsylvania -RaUroad Company, $222,363 02; Northern Ceri 's3s 62 0om P an y* 92,172 60. Total, $224, «o? e Qio B M*’^^s3,666^ .17; Collateral inheritance tax,. ;$92,318 89; adorned interest, $1,115 21; refunded iCjwh, $7,637 51; ‘tax on oert&in officers. $12,018.33;. .-office fees, $3,324.41; premiums on stocks pur chased, $10,801.18; premiums on loan8,!$l;400;- sale or coupon bonds, on account of coupon-loan [authorized by aot of April 19, 1853. $2B-000: amount transferred from surplus funds in the areasuiy to sinking fund, as provided in second 2.rtA-. ,0 3? ao 0 t aot establishing a sinking fund.- $291,948 53. ' Beceipts. $2,724,862,34 # - - * ; _ln, additiori to the above receipts,'bn the 19th of September, 1858, William G- Moorhoad.Eiq.,' |pres;dent of the Sunbury and Erie Eailroad Com iP“y» Paid into*the Treasury $231,000 in bonds of i tho Wyoming Canal Company,in 'payment of seveaty-flve per cent.- of the surplus arisingfrotn, .the gale of the public improyemoDts by said com- 1 jpany, m accordance with the proviso in the third seotion of an act entitled “An act for the sale of itbe State oanals,” approved April 21, -1858. bonds properly belong to the sinking fund, the interest hereafter received upon thorn will be included in the sinking fund accounts , The item in receipts, “sales.of coupori honds/* 1 u $? T j^bonds sold to Girard for which said bank delivered to the Commonwealth an equal umountof 5 per cent. State, stocks. (See state ment No.—.) : - . - ' i No. 2.-~Statement, showing -payments by. Com-- misaionersof the Sinking-Fund, for tue year | oommenoing the.fifot day of December, 1857, { *pd ending tho 30th day of November,-1858 Interest on the Public Debt —, L: Fennl-. more, agent ,for the Commonwealth for - the .pay ment oFinterest on the .funded whioh fell due on the first of January, 1858, $15,334*.-jta«: itereston loan of April 2«1852, coupons due r. Jan- L I® s B, $20,750-. Interest on loan of May 4. t i x ™ ° I f DB due. February 5133,850. | J» I*. Fennimore, agent for the Commonwealth, for I the p&ymentof interest on the funded debt which : full due January 1, 1858; $822,07847} Farmers and Mechanics’Dank, Philadelphia,' interests on ooi debt, which fullidne July 1, 1858, $15,334; interest on-loan .of April 2,1852, coupons “ a ® July 1,1858, $20,750; interest on loan ol May 4, 1852, coupons due August \, 1858, $134,500," Farmers’ and Mechanics 1 Dank,' Philadelphia, for the payment of interest on the funded dobt whioh fell due August 1, 1853, $821,909 29, .Total, $1,984, 002 76. , Loans Redeemed —Doan aot March 24 * $61,585.59; Deo 18,’ ’2B, $l2 496 37; April 22; 29, $18,053 99; March 13, ?30. $37,397 34; March. 21,31;.514,162 8S; March 30;?31,55G&59; Maroh 30, ’32, $40.912.74; April 5, ’32, $6,33G 93; -Feb-, ruary, 16,’33, $19,324.87; March 2T’33, $640 08; - April 5 r *34, 517,397.i9; April 13, ’35, $11,112 57;' January 26, *B9, $6,746 28; February 9; ’39:528,- 034 28; March 27, *39, $1,060.22; June .7, *39, $41712; Jone >27,.!39, $6,039 80; July 19, .’39 r $9,042 28; January 23. ’4O, $7,19458; April 3; ’4O, $18,667.29June 11, MO, $17,957.17; May 5. Ml; $3)135.89,7 April' $44,034 01:-Tdtol logis .'4' y-*? rilje, s4l^Hamaburg Uanh'and of. Beading, $3l ;• Bank' otDelaware County, sl££ Lapoaster 8ank,.54,079; York Bank, $97;. Car lisle Bank, 18; Northumberland Bank, $l2; Mer chants’and Manufacturers’Banki $134; Bank' of Gettysburg, Sl6; Monongahola ‘Bank at Browns ville, $10; Farmers’ arid Drbvers’ Bank, $6; Laa oaster County Bank, $39; Bank of Penn Town ship,; $2B; Farmers’Bank of Lapoaster, $135; Lebanon Bank, $7; Northampton Bank, $3; Manufacturers’ apd .Meohanios* Bank, PhUadel phla, $l7; Wyoming Bank, $11; West Branch Bank, $3; Bank of Susquehanna County, $5; Bank of Chester; County, $1; Bank of German ; town, $l4; Farmers’ Bank of Bucks County, $17.; Berks County Bank?slfi; Exchange Bank of Pitts burg, $57; ‘ Bank of j Lewistown/ $2B. Totat amount of relief notes cancelled, $41,071. 1 1 Interest Certificates Redeemed. —Certificate No. 1212,322 89;. Certificate No. 320 and 327, $lB 81; Certificate No. 109, $37 50; • Certificate No. 144‘537 50. Total, $ll6 70. Clerk Hire. —Geo J. Bolton, six months salary ai Clerk to Commissioners of the Sinkieg Fund, $5OO. Total payments, $2,406,498.31. Recapitulation —Total amount of receipts by Sinking Fund, including transfer from'surplus funds in the Treasury, $2,724,462 S 4. - Payments —On aooount of interest on thq pub lic debt, $1,981,503.76; loan 3 redeemed, $380,306 - 85; relief notes cancelled, $41,071; interest cer tificates redeemed, $ll6 70 ; dark hire, $5OO. Total, $2,406.49S 31. Balance in the Sinking Fund, Nov. 30. 1858, *318,364 02. No. 3 —Statement showing the indebtedness of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the first doyof Dooember, 1858, the interest thereon, and the amount said indebtedness has been reduced during the last fiscal year. Funded Debt , viz. Amount. Interest. $445,180 00 $28,710 80 35,420 005 67 1,921,045 28 . 388,200 00 17,469 00 . 100,000 00 4,000 00 Ain’t of funded debt $39,351,255 67 N Unfunded Debt —Relief notes in 'circulation, $105,350; interest certificates outstanding, $23,- 357.12; interest certificate* unclaimed, $4,448 28; domestic creditors, $802.50; amount of unfunded debt, $138,958, Interest, $1,969,220 08 The in debtedness to the Commonwealth, December 1, 1858, $39,488,243 67 ; indebtedness to the Com monwealth, December 1,1857, $39,881,738 22; ac tual reduction during fiscal year, $392,494.55. 6 per oent. loans. 5 ,c “ . 4i “ . - Lumber Trade op- Chicago.—The Chicago Press and Tribune says that the lnmbsr trade, during the past year, has been very much de pressed The heavy shipments of 1857, being fol lowed by a general stagnation of business, owing to the monetary crisis, left us, on the Ist of Janu ary last, with an immense stook on hand, and very Httlo demand, either from the Interior or by the oity. In the month of February, however, dealois saw the necessity of reducing the pricos’of lumber, and from that tirno up to the close of the year, common lumber sold freely, at soaB per 1,000 feet. The manufaolnrors, boworcr, did not recover from the depression, and not woro than one-third of iha amount sawed in 1557 was turned out daring 1858. Nor, indeed, could they have done so with any.&d vantage or profit U> themselves, even had they out the logs; for, at the prices w^ch-ruled here, un less the mills .wero very economically inn, rnsne facturers could scarcely clear espenses.\ The re ceipts during 1858 were 136,613,692 feet less than they wore in J. 557. Distressing Suicide.— W a learn that a dis-i trussing oase of suicide occurred near Mount Plea* saht, Washington county. Pan on Tuesday of last week A man named William Lafferty, wJ»q had been for several dayß laboring under a melancholy induced by impending pecuniary difficulties, took a riflo and left nis place of abode with the ostensi ble purpose of hunting. When he reached the orchard, a short distance from the house, he,placed, the muzzle of the piece to his bead, drew the trig- ' ger, and reoeived the whole oharge, producing im mediate death. He .was a single man, abont So years of age, and rospeoted by ail who knew him. A strike for wages has taken plaoe on the Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, the- em ployees of which have received no pay for six months Two trains were 'stopped recently, and the passengers were obliged to return to their starting pomt. -The strike oauses considerable ex oitement along the road. A negrOj named Jack, died in the poor house, at Brookfield, Conneotiout, a few day* ago. He was stolon from, the ooast of Afrioa, and was for many years a slave in Danbury. He is be lieved to have boon, at the time of hi 3 death, 135 yeatß of age. The plan of serf-omancipation for Poland oonsista in commuting their forced labor for a lease at a reserved rent, revokable by either warty. The land sc? let can never bo re-pur oha B o*l by the proprietor, nor by any one in trust for him. A communication from St. Petersburg states that, after a protrnoted straggle, that seotion of the general commission on the abolition of serf dom whioh advocated the most out-and-out mea sures has obtained the victory over the other, and tiat therefore.the report Uf the commission will be such as the Emperor desires. The lonian Islands.—A demonstration hffl been held at Santa Maura in tavor of annexation with Greece. The municipal council of Zanto have addressed a memorial for a union with Greece, and have requested Mr. Gladstone to communicate their withes to Queen Victoria. There has just been discovered near Mount Athos, in Greeoe, a new manuscript, wh ? ch dates as far baok as the third century. It is on' the subjeot of gymnastics, and is written by Philostya* tus, the philosopher and the author the XJfc Appoloniw of Tbpnftj _• * \- - i
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