T;"if<rS hii'mmj),s,JLi lt(su*dat« mxobptbd) S^ak. '■'• *■■"' “! .T = „ : , pdynbleto the Oar Hew.» .-Relied to soJwsril>W<w*t of the City at Six DO'llaiis ' rta' Aksmt r ;*oa.- KiQHT Mohths : ' uoxißSj invariably In ad . ’ \anee fo^tlii’tfmebrdered c . " _ ** ; ■ l press. , fo oat of-.the City at Tbhm Doc- tlwmadvance, ,/ > ;s ~ - .' . ;r ‘ ; \VKEKXY v PRESS, : .'•.TS* W**KLir,pEjrBfl will; be gent -toShbecrlbera t bjr. : j, .mail (pec.annum,in advance.) at. t........'.12 00 * TUwVuoplee,'' - *«- . - 0 00 ‘FiVel Copies; «, «< ' 800 Coplea.iT’i** ' «" ;..':;.VI2 00, : Twenty-Copies,” . • -« (to one'aldrosfl)..T^2o ; 00 ' -TwbntrjDpplfiSj'o? over, „*(. (to address of eaah' For aOlab of Twenty-one or orer, we will eenil'Mi e*tr» copy to the gstter-up of the Club, ' aot as Agents for tte* »sW^l«! Kra .. • ‘ ' ; ,EAI,I]eORSIA PRESS. - .XssaaA'-Spiui.Moattalr in • time' for the California B?.ame™..'f' V" •-■ ■■ ■’• > ' . ©jjnipanUa. ; r dTATBMENT, OP THE CONDITION OP _; SS'/mie .oi&ar&. pirb and m\rine iNsrr ,,;RA.NQtI COMPANY; IlHaiUTlut, 1869. ' •■- . CAPICAt,, *200,010 ■ . Oapiiftl Stock and SeotirltiM. inoludiag Surplus. |234,T89 73 .m' . „ ASSETS. ; Real Estate owned by .the Company • Ufar, incumbrance .$l,BOO 00 .teens on Bonds and rH0rtgage5...««.07,256 OO \ -'* * . T... •—r-—e 0,055 oo ' tpansonßoofyinaCollateral,....••♦4M 2 * 00 ' i, ,j , 48,426 00 Cash In the PhUadp'phia 8ank;......7,781 88 : . Pennsylvania, Insurance ■ • ' '. Company for Insuring Xltsb and - '• • -Granting Annuitie5...............' 8,202 00* Caab in 0arhftQd5................... 417 87. Cash due from agents and others.... 6186 01 , c ' ' .-——17,686 70 Cash claims on which judgment has. - been 0bt»ined.....V....5,471 07 - Cash;'- Bills‘Receivable, (for which ■ stock-ia pledged).',/. ..,...'..45,700 00 - , ; 51,1719? OXHTR SBOURITIEB AND INVf BTMKNT3 nBLDBI THIS COUP ANT. : . r ..... ;-k ~i.,::PA» «*«“> ,sa a.i.'s Rw ; ?-.. ■ °° , "imd, Trwaiiortjtl.nOo: ~3,W OO ‘ ' ■ 150 Px*-' ’ :■£ 1 A ? ‘ v ; ■- .ftuel: ii....7,M0..2.550 00-' 60 cr&mmMM .....W2’600 3 500 00 40 Oommaniil 8uk.......9,000 3,000 00 , - ■ 10,608,00 liflkswinni- Ml i BUoipttsufg.-Rfcllroiwi; ... ' • • -- ..i. • -.17>600 Qfl[. ■ ; OBfoArNoftlj Pennajlr*r>.' . 3,000 a, 280 00 _ ; ■ . -si;' >'• 1.280 00 .. ,7»^^kT*fii*B,R : oo. i . 3.6fi0 OO , 4 ‘ * - '. v .< //„ .. —8,139 00. : 00 • ~ , I -■£—■- 3,400 00 180 ftfaUM Hartford Oj ooo <» r> s 6* <• Nar/gitfcft „ ' Co.»» MU 60 £ lattVMWtobUftpnMwm-; -' l •- '' •' , l .,f*c(oflOff,ooiD|an7,ssoo - - V^-- •aefc... 0,000 4,600 00 lOaharM.Fartdfriß and He- , . r ! '■ ■ ' - “ 1 .'.. .• '«Mlon, (UW.Grett'*,)2,ooo 4.000 00 ;, Prtf«iSa TEbdek- ••'••. V .. - *Ac4ae»rof MMjo.I-vT." ,r 600 350 oo , ; , , .J, y , , . ; ityk *i*** ‘* 7jooo % BoodB-HO|Mnreli'Odftlknil. '■ • \ : Iron Coajpanx£.*.i,.., 1,600 ' 760; 03 : :. , ' H ' * •' ■ --- -■•- 760 06 1 16 ahftm *¥ttfcnAiBtte*: ' ’ li. atfd'B R f: B: G 0.... .760 760 00 , 3* shares-Little Schujliill- v '‘ * JUlJresd V*.l ;7W -802 50 . *'* i;642 60 0 Boctfa -' Doaaldtoa,;. Im- . . pfovernent'& R. B» C0,*,4,600 4,060 00 4feoirfaPittßtoaoo»lOo\, 2,000 1,186 00 ** 6,236 00 1147 share* Loctut' jklouatam ■ and otbet \3o»l and Iron - C0mp»hi«5..V.V ?( ..67,550 38,075 00 ‘ ' .38,076 00. ■2. Bond* 'Pesoßvirani* ‘*nd , . \X;Z: C0mpany..,....,. 2.000,2.000 00 ■ •: . ' ' — '■ —2,ooo oo OTjhumßuikor WuMog , too:..;, l'soo i.siooo .'B Us 4 Wfp; CimMM .1,600. iI.OOO 00,. .'.-I 2 timnt Arch-itf T6e»£r«., 1,009 ‘ 1 4 000 i)0 - 'I “~, V, f>^- : r T -" i r- I I,WO 00 789 78 ' . 3KOOMB;AHp JB£J?*NDITOB*S *QR 1858. 41 ’ Eweiyetl for Pjeo iumj ~..|50,9W,6a *\ ; ‘fliifor&i". r....7;.......,>6.627, gi: l \ ixpkwditubsb; *- i *al<iioMMfojtbe » .....819,150,U “ for ffo-ioiwfaoce... . 2,23148. : < ‘ ' CoianHsiioai ......... 3,608^6 , <*. *••••»•• ••••*■ 8,817'00: ' 1^14*44 AppfoprJtflaaa.toyire.ltopartuießt and > pifcrtotb* State. 2,8 M 05 RetntßeiPfeialuQii.V..'.. I.foB OS IKvUtfed «ai I&terest. .... .’■. 7,10^09 M-ÜBtUTIEB,. ..-No loiW»iroa<ja«t6&i •' > , 5 XfoUifewt reports!.*-. ’• . ,W« jiay# bjrioiredso mone/- -, . —,v - W* b»e ntf Bank of oth&r part/,., •- * t fcewby certify tbatthe - forf gauig7Ht«teß)*at of - B. , Seggejir/,.;. .f.Jtlfrmwfat'; STATEMENT :OF THB ** OF ,THX UNION MUTUAL IWBDBASOX COMPANY .’O9 PHILADELPHIA, in conformity .with p- provision of.iWCharter; PREMIUMS from JimuKylyiBsB,foJAna- .. \ i 8242^3^6- PREMIUMS,earned on Marine.aod Inland' J f . -Bisksduring ibeyetr ending u above... $lB6 580 26 BSOEfYNDfromlntoreiton investments.. 7,168.56 C.GSSBS, Betam ’ r • Xzpsnse*, abd OomtnfMions .during tho r r > ] dime period; and bad debt*,;,. sl9i > C2o 8I ’> AESZJB or- THH COMPANY) itßWit} 1,1869. j „ 6.ooo.Petntylvinia 6, j*r eent. '55,656* < 10,000 _PhUadelphta Oitjr 6 per.eont-Loans/ “ <> l 10,800 *■ 7,C01 CltyefPittobajgd*-',“ .“ ? « r«W 7,000 Aid “ &.800‘ $1,620 Oamtott Railroad'd per • Mt. Boirtl. “ 41,718. £4,610 Chesapeake' and s Dolaware Canal 6 percent. 80nd5......,.;: “ 14,610' , 6,000 ttcrlh Pennsylvania,Railroad 6'per' l Cent, 80nd5,.».! ,8,760' 100 Shares North Penha. Railroad,.,.,* “ ‘ 6,000 117 Philadelphia Bank/. “ 14YfO. $7/ “ peiaware Hutuil Insurance J . - Company,2,l76 40 “ Delaware Railroad Company “ . 1,009 - ' Saadryeteek ot Steamboat and fete grsph'Oompaniei.and Certificated ‘ ef Profltlntiattul.issaraaooOoin- - ' pany.,,, 13,077 .SsflmatfdiTftlue of the ab0ve.......,,5100,640 Oashonhand;.,.,, ' 8035 BIJIs Heceiv^ble,66,9BB Due" the Company for.unsettled Premiums,' - Salvages,'add other accounts77,67B ' ' RIOHABD'O. BMITH, President. ■Jos. , CCu.tkes*-Becr'eta»y. je!4-Y2t Vir ’ ' ICRtIST COM?ANY.' , • OHIOB in oompanb-b bpilpinq, 403 wawot -- BIBEJST. - * r - ' ' . OAPITAB AND BWBEIitJS, *376 «8 08. Insures sgaiastXoM or Damage by FIRS, MARINB, OABGO, and INLAND INSUbInOR, . ,£ DIRSOTOB8: ; „ Charlfl* O/Lathrop., - < IfUliam Darling, " - Alexander.JFhllldriir*' ' . JTpha O. Haotor, ..; Jnmea a. Smith, . - ' jCßaM&aalehum, ' John R. Vodges, . -i, R - . McOnrdy/ - * Thomas Potter, - .• 1 v OhSWvS Harlan, .. Denial L; QoUier, JftMihsnJ.Slooum, ; O.O.lltHßOP,President, ' -WM. DARLING, VicePiesideot. „ - ^ j dB%dfeWtf HaUtoai* Noticea. 1 fgS —fOmwiegiHEi PHILADELPHIA add DARBY' RA’ILB.OAU 00.— . WiNTxtt ..OomQenetojrHo&daj, January J7tb,TB&9. • , UiAV».DiRDr. . WMT PJtarAIU; - At . f OOA.M.’ • ,At " v WO A. M. . <4 g.o© . '4l * • g ocr ' “ <i.. ;p,oo •« . . r ’ "" io.oo '*-■« ; ■ . <« .jU»00 r .» • 13 00- <5 - - 4 « . 300P,«M...,.r .“ . S.QOP,M< . 4 “ i 800 “ “ . 4.00 “. „. .. “ '4.00 ‘ fi.oo “ * 41 <8 00 “ rr. - - - « $OO “ «< 6 « - -r... • ’7-.00 ■< «*,. i w, 11,00 u •', P wm'd wii ii&a?e lb ltd aoi Market streets, vie. West PfaiftdfrTpbt* PfMeoger B»tlway*'3o minutes be fore tbetimeforieating West Philadelphia; ' 1 the President,,.,- •-•. h • •.•• - SoperioteiMleat. ■'. . o«tDinfl illar^hw«. A WILSON* ; . 8 tiki If G XAOH X M 8, . ' 'iSBCOUD PBIOKB. T HEVSTTLI.ISO. AU the former jettenii SJ6 len on eMh Htchlne. > Au’eW.'linbion. . JJO. WINDINapPBPPEBIHBBIAD. , A BJSMHJSfI WHICH -.TUBNS AK7 WIDIH Of. 'oy/iois : *- ■ 1 WS fitTeetj PhlitAelptil.. ' '■ JltoV-i; yimi ilAIf Jtireei, Trenton, N, J. -,rifo. TSutCUtT; Street,;ffortt3teetei : ,'P*. ffi»,'. 1 /,• ■•ir * .1 \.f*£_V BOUDOm SEWING MA . OHtNK t. o'ff.irM to' the public. the most re. U.hte lc>jf-ifrle«d f!«wl.iig; JUehloe .ta aw; ; It wtu eew fromalkfo' &ty.'rateh<M'fo an inck]oa«ll > kfoiU of goods, from coarsest bagging to the fiqejt catabricl/ “It is, without ekWptldqi tHa sixdptuV'ln by i child" 6f ?f*s* b*,ii>a : id bii'tiHaarjMWd Vy enj,other. Its speed ranges', fratathree b 1 liftmen hundred stitbhesper nuts; This taken directly from the spopts,' witHoov pf w»«itxo, In,fwt,'jVl r sV meehtne that fiWanfod byCVery famu/Inlfce Uni, and theWhr&i£e*r: a ■/-['' ;**' 'T. ; . ," ;.‘V . at trhlaJi'tlity btlpgt tblm'iritnU tbe eMdhof ftlmoat every on«. % , 8. U. BAKBB, Agent, dsfedflm V^Hr’-Om;—:gQ BonthBIPHTII Btmt. O U!pTSß’f“TfiO ? taWG«Bliin fatter jmt roV fi- OVBARUrtf A 00., - VOL. 2—NO. 149. JIflD Publications. AND SALADIN. THE GOIH AND THE SARACEN. Arabian Days’ ENTERTAINMENTS. ' BY H. PSLHAM CURTIS, COPIO'BSLY lIiHUSTRATED, ' This book, Although written In Germany, Is 'hiraq terized by that rich and exuberant fancy peculiar to the Oriental mind, and ii deserving a place beside that world-renowned book— ARABIAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENT. Although the stories are intended for the young, they possess a charm and originality which cannot fail to interest and delight mature minds. The sale of the hook in has been immense—more than 75,900 COPIES .of U having been sold the first year of its publication, and the favor with which it has been received Indicates that the sale in this country will equal, if it does not exceed, even that number. We give below a very few selections from numerous epooralutns ot the press in all party of tho country/. It wtll be seen by these that this -hoik is hot ftsotna tingjateremt which the sfotw flbisvsSi'bbt they all in culcate a moral, pertlhent aUd profitable to -both young and'cld,'' . OPINIONS Ok .SHE PRESS. ' The" stories are 'happily ooocelvtC, abounding .with surprising ihotdents, whlch;keep the attention pleas antly from end. in'nearly all of them we are't aken into that fairy world of magic power, to de*r to'ohHfihood, andinto whioU imaginative man .hood and womanhood are’ ever willing to enter. Thoir moral tone/is’ excellent.—[O.'S. HlUiordi Boston Cou rier .' r K; “ ‘ This an excellent book for.the young—-full of amu'e meat and instruction/ It contMca many-a wholesome moral, adapted to all ages—to the mau as well as to the ehild[Providence Journal. . This is a very entersololng book, adapted not only to ‘cMldrihj properly so'ballad, but to those of a larger growthv It In a colTecUoa.pt many of them truly "Oriental in sceoery and eoStpfiipJ; and thSy will hold in a spellbf enchanto;ent the' thousandß or young readers who Will turn these ptges bt day snfi by night. So tor as’w.e have aeeny thbrels nothing in toe volume objeo taocable on/theccore ofltaste or morality.—[Boston Recorder.''' ,‘ - j x < . It is adapted to all classes of readers, from the girl or boy of A few summers to thefman o! gtay bait a. It will mahe.tnariy child* ood_metrler, and la just the thing to lighted the heart ot manhood of its cares and anxieties, -and efced-ajftsiakliiltfamUy circle * genial and cheering Influence .-^(fall^Bit«rkb)nitor/ are a b*sppVi^^tan : of the style of the world* rSddwnvd Urientaf'tal^, quite aa marvelous/ ihUreeting, and amusing.— Advertiser. - .To thceowhovould revel to the delights ef the Jmt glnatlon-Vand who would notfwtbi* work will spe elally commend Itself: ■ The Style nf the atrrles is high* toned, andthey are narrated with rare ability.—[Buffalo ■ Tost.' “ ' / . >* ;:,Xn One VbU , 1 %mo* jprfcr 81*35. , .Copies sent by mail upon receipt of the retail price. PHILIPS/. SAMPSON, & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, BOSTON, TOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS, Jelfrw t j- rriHE L SHOP- A PING GUIDE AND HOUSBHEBPRfi’ COM PANION.’ ' ~ ' , PRICE Sff CENTS For sale atthe BOOK STAND in POST OFFICE. jfcU-lm - ! 1 : Books worth haying, for sale AT THE PRICES ANNEXED, BY . *^ v '; - il. 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Ship ping Beceiptsiand every descriptions of Job Printing executed in superior style. - WAf. M. OHRIBTY, • - . Stationer and Printer, SdgQ-zhw&flm 66 8. THIItD, opposite Girard Bank ff}RNAHENTAL and COLORED GLASS. -'VJ- -We hate jtutreoelveda comprehensive and va ried etoek of this truly beautiful and arehitectnral ap psndagd to' Churches, Vestibules. Conservatories, and other buildings, where it is deemed necessary to embel lish, or to give a chaste and elegant appear&noo. Any color may be had, either plain or ornamental, elabo ■atety or la relief. . zIBQLBR 'A SMITHj 1 1 , Mtt-dt( - au ‘w4Ht«r;BMi»duiieneart(< FROM THE GERMAN, BY HOPPIN. GERMANY Carpetinaa. (ffontertionerjj. Jr ess. FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1859. Letter from New York. LWBBARY MATTERS—THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR FEBRUARY : TITLES OF THE ARTICLES AND NAMES OF THE CONTRIBUTORS—CHARLES DICK* BNS—NEW BOONS IN PRESS. (Correspondence of The Piesa.j Nkw York, Jan. 19, 1859. I- have just received the advanced sheets of the At lantic Monthly for February, which contains thirteen articles, comprising the usual variety of matter. The opening one, “ Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?” la by somebody unknown to your correspondent', and is a sort of general collocation and conglomeration of the efforts made by the “fair sect” to “emancipate themselves from the thraldom.” &0., do. The turning point is the question of female education, and the info* riorlty or superiority, intellectually speaking, of fe males. The writer is for the feminines, and says that men will “ at last fling around her conquering footsteps more lavish praise s than ever greeted the operate idol more perfumed flowers than ever wooed, with Intoxica ting fragrance, the fairest butterfly of the ball room.» Slightly “strong-minded.” The next article is a poem, “The Morning Street,” by a new man in the West, who makes “ his first appearance on the metropolitsn sta;e.” AHhough the snbject Is somewhat hackneyed, being nfleotions on the solitwlo which reigns before the “ noisy Bahai ” awakes, and gets up to breakfast, it is handled with a practised pen. “ In the Cellar ” is a story of the trials and tribula tions of a gentleman in seArob of a stolen diamond; the scene is laid in France, and the development of the plot and the denouement are decidedly << Frenchy ” It is not. however, a translation from the French, as moat specimens of the department_of “light litera ture” to which It belongs generally are. The plot hinges upon the rascality of a valet, a butler, and a German.baron, and ends with the discomfiture of the three rogues, the incarceration of the first two, and the marrisge of the third, which last received the greatest punishment of the trio! “ Hamlet at the Boston'” a poem, Is by Mrs.' Howe, who has written a play, end is a competent Judge of things ap pertaining to dramas and The poem is A rhapsody on thecharacter of Hamlet, And an Apostro phe to the person sustaining the pirt, probably Mr. Barry Sullivan, who hasten delighting the Boston so bersides With his delineation of the grlef-aubdaed Dane. “El Llanero'’isby a young Australian, a pro mising young fellow, evidently well acquainted with South American lire. “El Llanero” the inhabitant : of the Llanos or prairies, the hero of theßketch, la Gen eral Pars, with whom New York and Philadelphia re cently -had each- a terrible time, in endeavoring to Start on hts return voyage to Vooesoefa, to assume his former rank and honors, m Governor of that State. Jose Antonio Pass commenced life as a herdsman on the plains, and gradually rose from that humble poet tion to be the famous Llanero chieftain, and the favor ite champion ot Venetuela. • The article la well Written, and derives additional Interest from the recent visit of the subject of the sketch. “ Bulls and Bears,” by tha author of “ The Kiolook Estate,” is continued in this number, aod also ♦* Tho Now Life of Dante. Rose Terry furnishes the next story, which rejoices in the somewhat ambiguous title of “Did I?” and describes the experience of a man who was lilted by ayoung lady, and in consequence of that unfeeling act, went and pitched himself into the river, and became a < r dem’d cold, moist uopleassnt body.” , . “The Minister’s Wooing,” by Mrs. Btowe, Is con tinned, and increases In interest. Nothing seed be said about this, as the name of Mrs. Stowe Is sufficient to draw attention. “ The Palmand the Pine,” a short poem by Whittier, Is a song of the marrisge of a Norseman and an Arab maid, and a description of the conflicting natures of the two, combined in their off* spring. “Tho Proferaor at the 1 Breakfast Table” needs no encomium from onr pen. The “ Autocrat ” is becoming a “ household wotd ” in this country, and forms the chief feature of the Atlantic. The conclu ding article is a scholarly criticism on Richard Grint White’s “ Shdkapeare,” by Lowell; and so you have the articles of tho number, and who scribed them. A gentleman has lately left here for London for the purpose of making an arrangement, or engagement with Mr, Oharles Dickens to deliver, In this country * the series of readings he has read with so much eclat in England. The offer to be mode to indue© Mr. D. to eeme will be of so tempting a rimaotor that little doubt Is entertained butthM he wUf Accept. You need not be surprised, therefore, to see bis name in huge posters, in New York by tha first of Maroh next. The Harpers have ih press % goodly number of boeka, mokt '©t be eagerly welcomed by people who tead. Among them, Oharles Beade’a new dotol “Love me Little, Love me Long “ Ellis's Madagascar,” giv ing an account of three visits to Madagascar, during the years 3853, 1854, and 1658, jnolndlng a Journey to the Capital, with- Notices of the Netnral Hiefcuy of the Country and or the present oiviliiatfonnf.the'peopjo: Illustrated. ! “fankw<it, or the San jficmWin the Baas or IndlAj China, And Japan,” by tTan Mahwell Wood, U. B. N., late surgeon of the fleet to tho U. 8; East India squadron. This work is sure to be olever. 'Dr. Wood, as 1 happen to know, i« one of . ibe handiest men with the pen ih the American navy. “ episodes of French History during the Oohsuiate abd kirst Empire,” by Miss PArdoej “Hhmbotdtbi Cosmos,” vol. 6; “An Abpehl -to the People in behalf of-their Rights as the authorised Interpreters of the Bible,” by Catherine B. Beecher; “Gerald Fitzgerald.” by Charles Lever; “ The Old Plantation, and What I gathered there in an Antnmnal Month,” by James HungerfOrd, or Maryland, (said to be Yefy geo*)'; Hibs Btiickland’i “Gucena ot B&otiind,”. vol. 7; “Abbott’s His tory bf the French Revolution or 1789, u Tiewed in the light of Republican Institutions “Henry St. John, Gentleman, of ‘Flower or Hun dreds,’ in the county or Prince George, Virginia, a Tale of 1774-76,” by John Eaten Cooke, (who has contributed some of the best marine stories that have been published in ftaYper’s Magazine.) “ The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York abdLanrtAter,”byd.G.Edgar, author of “The Boy hdtfd of Great'ken ” »• The American Home Garden,” hiring principles and rales for the culture of vegetables, Traits, flowers, and shrubbery,. to which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their ave rtge product and chemical constituents, by Alexander Watson, with several hundred Illustratloos. • “Life of North American loseote,” with numerous illustration*, drawn frpm specimens In the cabinet of tbe author by Prof. Jaeger, assisted*by h. C. Preatoh, M.D “Gieseler’a Church History,” v 01.4. “More About Jesus,” with Illustrations and a map, by the author of “Peepof Day.” “Tales from the Operas,” edited by George Frederick Pardon. “The Union of the ©ceans,” the Atrato Ship Canal, by Frederick M. Helly. *• A History of the Literature ot Ancient Greeoe,” by K. 0. Mailer, late Professor ia tke Uai verslty of Gottingen. • Judge Joees’b Lhotubb os JtosbAv ijvEKiso. —Tho lest law leoiute before the students of Critten- Philadelphia Commercial College was delivered by Ron. Judge Jones, on the subject “ What Consti tutes a good Consideration in a Contract.” The .lec turer commenced by saying, that, having previously considered the various forms ef contracts, his object ' now was to look at the consideration necessary .to the validity of a contract. In the Brat place, every valid contract must be founded on a consideration. In general, a contract implied some mutuality of benefit. If a man promised to nAke a gift of anything, it would be without a consideration. The person making a promise to give .must execute his promise by actual delivery, before he is bound in law. But, it was said, contracts often failed for want of comHcration, where there is no intention to make a gratuitous pro mise, ft consideration being something that benefits the person who makes the promise, to some extent at lesst, or it was something that caused loss or disadvantage to the person to' whom it was made. Money, or things convertible into money, were a valuable consideration j so was labor or service performed; so aiso was the re lirqttlsbmoat of a right, or a forbearance to exercise a right, or the assuming of a liability or risk. With few exceptions, anything beneficial to the party making a promise, or anything which produced loss to the party to whom the promise was nude, was sufficient for a con sideration to a contract. The lecturer next took up the principal exceptions to the proposition here stated. The consideration mast not be Immoral., The Supreme Court of this Btate had declared that Christianity is a part of the common law, because the people hare by voluntary adoption pre ferred It, and questions of morals were judged of by its light Again,a consideration founded on fraud or op pression was illegal; so, also, if the consideration be contrary to publio law. Again, If the consideration he oontrary to publ'c policy and the welfare of the Com monwealth, the courts wonld not enforce it. If several i things entered into the consideration of a contract, which were separable la their nature, some of which were legal and some illegal, tho legal parts ef the con tract, it was said, might be enforced, but the ilfegal parts of itsetasido. The consideration nm»t not only be legal in the sense explained, but it must be possible. The impossibility which renders & consideration null aud void must be soraethlcg which cannot be overcome. There were some promises which become impossible, by sickness, or some act of Providence, and in this cass the superve ning impossibility might be an excuse for the con-per formance. For example, a man promises to work for another a year, at so much per month, but before the year is past he is disabled. This inability woutd bo a defence. Such a promise 1s understood to mean “ I will work for you, life and heslth permitting ” Although tho contract was in such aoasofor an entire setvico, yet, if he was sq prevented by sickness, there would be not only a good defence to an action forthe breach, but there would be a reason for him to recover a com pensation for the service actually performed. But we mast not confound a failure of consideration with In adequacy of consideration. The law required some con sideration, but It did not inquire minutely Into the pro-' portion of value; and if the consideration had soms value, even a very little, the law would sustain the contract, although it might appear' unreasonable. Bnt where the disproportion was very great, or where there was an appearance of fraud, tho contract would not he enforced. ,• It was further added ihkt.the consideration of & pro mise might be past or future If a man promised to pay a sum or money to another. In consideration that the other would do a cortain thing afterwards, the con tract was said to be executory > hut if the thing stipu lated for had already b)an done, it was formed ore. tuttd, . The different pdinfo of the leoture were fully and dearly so, that a subject, which, though ordinarily father prosy than entertaining, wm rendered at ose#*.sttr*cttre and instruotiye. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 2L 1859. Speech of Mr. Hickman, of PenueylvO' " niu, on the Tariff Question,. IN THE DOnSE OE nEPBESENTATIVES OP TUB UNI- TED STATES, JANDABV 18, 1869. ' Mn. Chairman : When Congress mot, in Decem ber, 1857, the oommoroial revulsion of.that year was upon the oountry in its fullost power. The President, ia his annual message, -described it thus: -• We and oar manufactories suspended; our public works retarded; our private enterprises, cf different kinds, abandoned, aad thousands of useful laborers thrown out of employment aod reduced to want,” Ho spoke, also, of a great roduction of tho na tional revonue, occasioned by a very great reduc tion of foreign imports. Ho expected tho oountry and the Government sorfn to reoover from their finanolal embarrassment; but, not so soon that a balance in the Treasury, of nearly eighteen mil lion dollars, on tbo previous Ist of July, would outlast the pressure, for he suggested that a loon might bo required by tho Treasury before the olose of tbo session. The Seoretary of tho Treasury had also bben made aware of the revulsion, but he spoke more hopefully than the President. Tho prossdre upon the people ho treated as temporary, also, and that “ tho mode of providing for it should be of & som polai'y obaraoter.” Authority to issuo treasury notes for an amount not to exceed §20,000,000, was ashed, only to meet a possible, but still tem porary defioit in the Treasury. In. his ownlan guag/e: “ The fact that such temporary exigency may arise, from oirQumstaucea beyond the foresight or control of ibis department, makes some Adequate provision- to meet it indispensable to the public security,” ' This possible recourse to treasury notes was a provision of oaution, not of fear; far in the same paper he bos oipheredj out a balanoe In (he Trea sury, at the end of the year then running, of near half a million, without roooitrse to loans or notes; and the fiscal year foliowiog the year in whloh we new, are, bo then expootod to_oarry through without other help than the ordinary sources of income, with nearly two millions to spare. - . The President, in the message referred to, dis cussed the causes of the revulsion, but he proposed no remedy and no relief for the prossure upon the oommunity; he Only roeommended relief for the Treasury, and with something more of foreoast than the Seoretary advised, that it should take the permanent form of a loan. , •' The Seoretary also disoussed the oause?,' .but standing more stiffiy upon the polity of interna tional trado, which was charged with responsi bility for the great oatastrophe,' he refuse, for reasons without number, to countenance' any measure bf relief to the pooplo. The Government boing obo of very limited powers for benefleent uses, according to his construction of the Ooqsti* tution, and the prossnre being of very limited du ration, the proper agonoy of the Government in such a case, he seemed to think, was to lecture tho banks, corporations, and the pooplo generally, upon “ undue expansions of credit, Improvident speculations, habits of extravagance, and. fluctu ations of prices,” with ab earnest exhortation to more “ prudont courses and steady habits,’* for tho: time to oomo.' And the chairman of the 'Commit tee of Ways and Means, a sort of second £or£ of the Treasury—what ho thought of the pressure* and the exigency, whether be regarded theft temporary, or as “a peculiar frenzy,” does not ; appear, otherwise thfin that As he also declined to bring before the Honse any measure of relief fdr ’ the one, or supply for tho othtir. , X Well, the session of Congress wont through) and' the financial year rolled round. The treasury, notes were issued. Within a fraction of twenty, millions of them were. outstanding at its elo9e£. and all their avails, and all the ordinary sources' of Tevenue for the year, and all of the $17,750,0001 iii the Treasury at its beginning exoept $6,250,-; 000, were exhausted. The exigency had then' lasted about nine months, and it had outlasted all the revenue from ordinary sources, amounting <to. $40,500,000, and $01,000,000 besides; paying off,} in the mean time, a littlo less than four million dollars of the pnbUodobt. So that the GoYorn-~ ment went behind, in acoount of recoibts and ex penses for the year, no less than Seorotary, it seems, missed, in his calculation of the year’s expenditures, nearly seven miiUou dol-’ lars, and of its income from ordinary sources 1 alone, $11,000,000; an error in. calculation-and prophecy working against the Treasury a balance,- at the olose, oT $17,750,000. So much'for the exigency of the yeaT; and so muob for tho foresight or the Secretary. Twenty* xevon millions of balance against tho ordinary revenue of tho year, and nearly eighteen millions of mistake In the perspective account of ilsrb* ceipU and expenditures from ordinary sources and for ordinary objeots. . i How stood tbo other side of thp levulsion—the 4 ' pressure upon tho people of. tho country—alihe end of the yoar 1857-58 ? The Secretary has nished some of tho data for another purpose!; but 4 they fleota as well, and bettor, to answer thii qulry. The price of jn£ iron at New York, he; says, went dowfa from January, 1857, Gil January, ; 1858, nineteen.per centum, the decline from April till Dooember 1857, being twenty-six per The doolise |n bar Iron from January, 1857, to January 1858, he puts at thirteen percontamj Bat agricultural products, it appears by his tables,; suffered even more, from July 1, 1857, to July L' 1858 Tho great staple of tho northern, middle,; and western StateB--whfcat flout—foil twenty-fohv per Oentnitt; tJieirtAay twenty; and\theSr<#fpl. sixteen. The And tobflcoo of the Booth and Soutowost, thirty-four, twenty, thirteen, an dt Wei re, respectively, and hemp, thirty-six.- AU this ho ascribes to therqvulsionA and rightfoliy. Tho,force of those figures, and tho range of tho facts which they indicate, peed not be dwelt upon. The average of such a decline of prioes in the articles enumerated, in a single year, is greatly more than the ordinary profits upon their production. The loss must have out deeply into the moans of their producers and left them heavily in debt, besides paralyzing the pro ductive power of the time immediately following. The effects upon the ihanaf&oturlbg industry of Eastern Pennsylvania may be stated safely, in general terms, to have been the suspension, daring tne simmer of 1858, ofone*half of tho iron works, in number and productive oapaoity; a general breakdown of the ootton manufacturers of Phila delphia at tbo time of tbo crisis, with a depression In every branch of industry corresponding to Its speolal dependency upon thp feal,pauses or tho re vulsion, and In 411 of thorn vcly great. . But X Deed not argue the extont or the weight of ! tho pressure of tho year against morely imajrinary dissentients—and I am sure there aro no real ones who will deny the distress and suffering of the time under consideration. Even the Seoretary, I think, does not really intend to undervalue the revulsion by the columns of figures and arguments whtoh ho arrays to prove its magnitude, and t« acoount for It In onr own oofinfry by snowing that it spread over England, and saying, Withodt show ing, that it overspread all Enrope os well. All that he Can mean by his array of data, Homt, abd logic, is to show that it was inevitable, because,lt was universal, and, therefore, could .not be the fault of the tariff of 1857, or that of 1846 either. The truth is that the revulsion of 1857 did not overspread the continent of Europo, or affeot it further than the continent was commercially in volved with Great Britain and the United States. France and Germany lost somo of their bills re ceivable, and a large share of thb custom which they had from us in 1856, and the preceding years. Uur imports for the flsoal year of 1858 fell off no less than $76,000,000, affording the business of Europe that muoh less of a market, and not only at reduoed prioes, but with a change in the merchandise from the most costly of their fabrics; to the cheaper and lees costly ones. The official returns in the commerce of France show that, since 1845, the balanco of trade has boon more than $500,000,000 in her favor, and that the demand for French goods had como from the United States apd Australia through the gold dis coveries. The British Board of Trade reports* moreover, show that during tho first half of the year 'lB5B, tho doolared value of imports from France was more than seven million pounds ster ling ; whilp the declared value of ekports to France from the United Kingdom was not mo?o than two million pounds; and that tho empire drew In six months from Grant Britain $2-5,000,- 000, in gold, reoeived from Australia and the United States. In tho Inst six yours Franco has oxpended near ly thirty millions sterling a year In the con struction of railroads; she had, also, tho burden of the Oiimean war to sustain; sho had ono failure of the silk orop, and two partial failures of hor harvest; yet sho went lightly through the disas trous year of 1857-’6B, suffering onty what she must suffer by tho revulsion of England and the United States. Of Germany, generally, I cannot now speak from equally certain data; but lam clear that our trade with her for her jewelry, cutlery, and oloth, and the disturbed commercial relations of England, will sufficiently account for all her troubles, In the time of which I speak. Look closely into this history, and I think you will find that tho shook of the commoroial explo • sion of 1857-68 spont its chief force whero it bad its oauees—* in Great Britain and in her oommeroiftl dependencies, which she had well nigb exhausted. A curious problem this for political economists, that the two gold-produoing nations should break for want of tho metal, while those who must re colvolt from them were only disturbed in their prosperity to the extent of their commercial in volvements with them! The one the only free; trade nation of tho Christian world, and tho ether the nearest approach to it. Bat I must leave the year whose fortunos and misfortunes are beyond dispute; and, for tho pre i sent, I must also loavo the dispute about their causes to eonsider tho present year and its pros pects. 'Wo are told both by the President, and Se cretary that a better day is coming; tho President now, as a year ago, something less sanguino than his minister of finanoo, thinks that the effects of the revulsion ore slowly, hut surely passing away.” Tho Secretary Is confident that his long deferred hope is rlponing ; that there are signs ‘‘ of oar tain and spoedy return of prosperous times ” He tells us that we bavo now “ a largo margin for nn inorease of importations whon the business and necessities of tho oonntry shall demand it.” Ilia estimates for tho remaining quarters of tho cur rent year, And for the year 1800, ” are based,” he says, “upon the opinion that a reaction In tho trade andbusinoss of the country has commenced.” But this may be a fancy; an over fond~hope of tbe Secretary, springing from that “regret” which ho expresses, “ that a public necessity requires a revision of the tariff of 1857,” a neoossity of the Treasury* to which he is manifestly reluctant to conform IU polioy; preferring now, as ho did a year ago, l treasury notes to Import duties. Ho telfo us that “ there seems to bo a concur rence in the publio mind upon the subjoot ” This is »an illusion. The-suspended banks have resumed speoio paymonts, and some of the sus pended factories have partially .resumod opera tions. The survivors of tho merobant class are at their counters; and the farmers are oarrying their produce of the year to market. But what, and how much are thoy all doing ? The banks of New Orleans, In the last weok of November, had a circulation of $7,000,000 on a speoio basis of $14,000 000. Those of tho oily of New York, $7,500,000 of circulation upon $27,000,000 of specie. The banks of Philadelphia thnn $3,000,000 upon a speoio basis of $6,5Q0,000 ; and Boston $7,000,000 of circulation to $9,500,000 of specie. For six years before crisis, the circulation of the banks of New York was, to their specie, .as nineteen to seven ; those of M&ssaohusetls as six to one; and thoße of Pennsylvania more than threotoone. This, sir, indeed a’ resumption of speoie payments, but it Is not a resumption of business. It is circulation subsiding upon Ita solvency. ' By the Secretary’s own showing, the rovlval of the farmers’ business is at the oxpenso of about ono-fourth of the price of his commodities, which carries with it an equally large doorcase In -the demand of the market. The merchants must be doing less business, and less profitably, on adi* mlnishod importation, amounting to $78,000,000, and a goaor&l stagnation in home industry and in the movements of money. As to the manufactu rers, who are again at work, the explanation is not in tho least an assurance of the Secretary’s hopes. They suspended in 1857, importation felt off, a lArge share of the exports wont to pay off foreign debts due, and ovordno, and the sheer necessities ef tho home demand have given them snob a re vival or remission of their lethargy, as a fever Jationt has in tho morning after a very bad night. t seems nothing promising to the coantry, and, loOst of all, to the Treasary. , But the Seoretary gives ub figures for his expec tations; but such figures as indicate tho despera tion of his necessities. He has ohosen the Customs At New York for the months of Ootober and Novem ber, 1857 the first and second months after the suspension of the Philadelphia banks, and during which all the banks in the Union suspended—for the basis of a comparison favorable to tbo oorres ponding months of tho year 1858: the two lowest months of tho lowest quarter of tne year that put the Treasury $27,000,000 out of pooket. On snoh a point of f&ot rests the expectation that the outtoms for the second, third, and fourth quarters of the current year will yield the Treasury $37,* 000.000. ' Now, sir, tho Secretary, on the Bth of Decem ber, 1857, expected $33,000,000 from the customs for, the corresponding three quarters of last year. They yielded but $23,250,000. Give him two or throe millions of* margin to cover the deficiencies of tho two months of 1857, which he uses now to hoist his hopes for tho rest of this year, and be will get from imports, $30,000,000; the-’public lands and miscellaneous sources, according to his own estimate, $1,500,000; .which, added to the known results of the first quarter, ending Septem ber 30,1858, will give a little less than forty-two and a half millions for the revenue of this year (1859) from ordinary souroes The Secretary’s es timate looks for near fifty-three and a half mil lions. HU over-oaloulation of the revenue expect ed for tho year 1858, amounted to $11,117,285 ex* hotly. Thero is nothing in tho faots of our pre sent condition to. warrant the hope that he has not overgone tho‘ receipts of tho present year to the same extent. In Deoember, 1857, he told us that $20,000,000 of treasury notes would certainly put him through the year; but, in the June following, be askeaa loan of $20,000,000 more. In December, 1858, be asks for authority to reissue the $20,000,000 of treasury notes; and, as before, he is opposed to the policy of making a loan, or, as he says, “ adding this amount to the permanent debt by,funding tbe notes.” ' But bow this year, any more than in the last, will he work through without moro debt 1 Contemplating tbo uso of that half of the $20,000,000 loan, authorised Jadt June, whjoh has not yet been negotiated, the use 6T tbe $20,000,000 of treasury notes, which he mast rodeem before, he oan. issue them again, he expects a balance in tbe Treasury, on July 1, iB6O, of $7,063,298- From this estimated balance, however, it seemß that & defioit in tho Fost Office Department, whioff will be required in the pre sent fisoal year, though In the statement it is ;oddcd to that of 1860, amounting to 53,823,728, must be deduoted, leaving the estimated balanoe In tbe Treasury, on.Jnly 1, 1859, at $3,234,570. But if tbe revenue from ordinary souroes shall fall $11,000,000 below the Calculations of the department, it will bo bankrupt to the amount of $8,000,000 at y tho end of tho year, with the loan of June, 1859, all exhausted,, and the $30,000,000 of treasury notes all reissued and outstanding. The Seoretary will repeathimsolf upon us; he will be down upon us with an unexpected exi jency, temporary but trying, for more money before the session is over: The. addition of ono peroontnm to tho schedules C, D, F, G, and H, of be present tariff, recommended merely to reoover the convenience of decimal divisions and to add <51,800,000 to the revenae, will not como in tirno, and would not mend the matter muoh if it should. Bat I mast loave the Treasury tb its guardian angels, who will, doubtless, find tho ways nml means of providing for ita wants, and givo tbe rest of my hour to prossmg'ooneorns of the people; leave what the minister of finance calls tbo “ pub lic necessity,” for the necessities of the public. The condition of the industrial interests of tbe country cannot bo better described in general terms than it was done by the President in his annual message of Deoember, 1&57, and repeated in that of 1858. His words are.; - “In themidatof unsurpassed- plenty In ell the sro duetloeft of agriculture, and in all the elements of natloualwealth, we find oar manufactures suspended, our public works retarded, our private enterprises of different kinds abandoned, and thousands of useful laborers thrown oat of employment and reduced to' yant.” Ii A year has gone round sinoo this portrait ofjhe Country was painted; and while the lines and colors have settled and softened, thoy remain as &ud as dismal ad at tbe first, and we are saw i itrtst be putupon tue canvas to make the pioture & faith ia) and completo likeness for to-day. The national. T/asetiry has gone, virtually, $40,000,000 in debt; tWcoahtry has discovered that it owes $500,000,- 000 abroad; that daring one year of this revul eion $42,000,000 of her products have been sunk in the payment of the Interest on that foreign debt, and snoh balosoos as stood due against her in her international trade; that in the seven years pre ceding the crash, she had been exporting an average of $38,000,000 of her speoie per annnra to pay tbit balanoe of estohangos of oommoditios and interest upon permanent debts; that white a .surplus of exports over imports, in the year 1847, to only $12,000,000 at aX valorem valuations, brought her $22,000,000 of gpocle as a balanoe of tho oxohango, a surplus of exports over imports, in 1855, under the like valuations, reaobing to $42,000,000, cost her the loss of $33,- 000.000 of her gold; and that the protection of the tariff in operation stands at an average of twenty and a half percent; within dhalf per dont. bf that of tbe year 2842, with all the distredsea of that year repeated, and even Übs hopo of remedy. In that year of level twenty per cent import duties, they, yielded $18,000,'000 of revenae, against $33,000,000 of expenditure; and the loan and treasury notes amounted to $15,000,000 nearly. The rehearsal of the experiences of that year is a copy In large of the pattern. Wo have $42,- 000,000 from customs; which ought to be reduced to $37,000,000, at least, for the additions received from the watohbusod goods and importations bold back to profit by the reduced duties of 1857, against an expenditure of $81,000,000, and a treasury note issue of $20,000 000 on the fop of a surplus in the treasury, exp&nacd within the yflar, of above $11,000,000. Then, as now, an a& valorem tariff of twenty peroent., born of similar notions, and brought about by a similar clamor, was found to bo not only destraotlve to tho industrial iutorests of the oountry, but so ruinous to the revende that, as tho Secretary says of tho presont exigency, “ the Im position of additional duties was tho only remedy.’' It might have been said, then, that the compro mise act of 1833 could not havo had any agency in producing the result. And the Secretary, if ho bad boon in office then, might have demonstrated his assertion by the nation’s prosperity in 1935 36 under that aot; and he might have found the whole mlsohlef in the banking system, Its inflated prioes, currency, and crodlts. I leave him to worry this idea through whole pages of his roport, content with his substantial admission that “ tbe imposition of additional duties is tho only re medy” for the derangement of our finances. That granted, tho addition must, of coarse, bo made adequate. Beyond the requirements of tho Go vernment, thero is no Constitutional authority, and no prudential Warranty to go, in the levying of taxes or duties upon the pcopTo, or upon any ef tho subjects of revenue The causes, whatever they were, which havo embarrassed tho Treasury are the same which have overwhelmed the country. But it must not bo forgotton that, in the order of dependency, the rovuleinn falls first upon tbo people, and noxt, as a consequence of their inability to purobase and consume foreign imports, the revenue runs down to the point of bankruptcy. Tho President per ceives tbe order of Buooession in those disorders, and states it ole&rly. He says: “Tbe same canvee which have produced peouniftry distress throughout the country, have so reduced the amount of imports from foreign countries that the re venue has proved Inadequate to meet tbe necessary ex pensesof the Government.” This sentence has somothiDg In it; something of common sense, something of statesmanship in it \ and just hero, therefore, and for this reason, he and his Secretary part company in their recom mendations to Congress. Each of those high of ficers, with a degree of comity not usually observ ed between belligerents, seems willing, in his State paper, to allow tbe Administration to remain as a house divided against itself It is fortunate that neither of tho peers makes his opinions on this sub ject a tost of political orthodoxy, or the other might find himself among the proscribed . The Secretary loys down oortain “ theoretio principles on which a tariff not should be framed,” to provide the “only remedy;” which, so far from recognising tho dependency of the revenue upon tho industrial prosperity of tbe country, brings him to rogrot tbn necessity of looking to it, and to complain, too, that we have never yet had saoh a tariff as his principles require Sir we have had, Biccft 1789, Bixteon general tariffs ; and as tho compromise not dMdea itself into six more, we havo had, in effect* about twenty-two in seventy years None of these, it seems, not even the last modification of tho com promiao, whioh lasted but two mouths, answers tho “ tboorotio principles” of the Seorotary. Their mistake was, that they all hud something of promotion in thorn. They all felt and addressed themselves to the necessity of keeping the people able to pay money into the Treasury; and herein, it seems, thoy were at fault. Tho author of the “ theoretio principles” is aware that “ the early legislation of tho oountry contemplated other ob jeots,” otbor than he aims at. ” such as fostering our then infant manufactures,” and that “ Con gress has never since abandoned tho idea of pro tection.” But he would have, if the public ne cessities would only allow it* “ a tariff strictly for revenue.” Unfortunately for the principles of the Secreta ry, but fortunately for the interests of tho oountry, thore never oan bo, in a nation of mixed agricul tural and manufacturing capabilities ana pur suits struggling for a better development, as wo aro, such a thing as a tariff strictly for revenue, whioh is not still more striotly for protection. A shoriff’B execution can be levied upon the pro perty of the defendant without regard to his in come, for his bankruptcy is not’ Inconsistent with its object; bub the financos of a nation depond upon the prosperity of its subjects, and a financier must not hopo to roap whore he has not sown. Protection lies at tho bottom of revenue. Cus toms depend upon imports; importation upon home inaustry, nome productiveness, home pros perity, tho ability to buy. The foundation must no well laid, or tho structure will tumble. The Proßident and tho rest of the world, that knows anything, know this, .both theoretically and by tho most oonolusive experionoo. The “ theoretic principles” of the Secretary alone are ignoraat of its truth. This difference of doctrine accounts for all the 'differences that there is betweon tho polity sug* fested by the President and that of his minister. he • President would increase the present rate of duties, for several purposes, all of them excellent and nooossary. He would do It te meet our annual expenditures; to avoid an increase of our national debt; to preserve our national oredit; to afford.' Incidental protection to oar manufacturing inter ests, and to give a fresh impulse to our reviving business. Of these aims, the last mentioned is the one which, if scoured, will bring the reßt to the happiest issue. It is the source and the primary donaition* to all the others; for, as it is well said In the message i “ Capit&l lt&s again accumulated In our large Oitiea. The rate of interest there is very low: and so soon as it is discovered that this capital ean be profitably em ployed in commercial and manufacturing enterprises, ana In the aoostrtl-stion of railroads and other works of public ani private Improvements, prosperity will again' smi>e throughout the lend.” There spoke tho statesman of a better day. And were there nothing oUe left of him, these boldly frank, and houestly maintained principles might jdstify the confidence wo gave to him in so large a measure in ISSO. And if these ate to.be the last words of oominendation £ shall ever find oause to utter, I will not withhold them. Let the Ohiof Magistrate only stand by the pledges he keeps as persistently, through good report and evil re port, as he has warred against those whioh he has broken, and the nation will keep the oredit ao-. count of his Administration as fairly and as dis tinotly as it has posted up its charges against him. But a principle of business, a law of public affairs, must be fitted with a policy to give it ope rative efficiency. Here, again, tbe President Is safe for practice, as be is sound in sentiment. Ib assessing and collecting the duties, he recommends the substitution of speoific for the present ad va lorem duties, wherever they oan be properly ap- Elied. Ho gives his reosonfl They are: first, eoause speoifio duties are “ the best, if not tbe onlv means of securing the revenue against false ana fraudulent invoices/ } adding, that “ such has been'the practice adopted for this purpose by other commercial nations.” . Second, “speoifio duties would afford the Amorioan manufacturer the inci dental advantages to which he is fairly' entitled under a revenue tariff*’ This reason for their preference he follOtfs with an effective and well put blow at ad valorem#: “ The present system is a sliding-scale to the manu facturers disadvantage. Under it, when prices are high and business prosperous, the duties rise In amount when he least r-quires their aid. On the con trary, when prices All, and he la utruggllog against adversity, the duties are diminished ia the same pro portion, greatly to his injury.” Heartity-endorslng these views, allow mo to add' oertaln other reasdni for adopting specific duties wherever they can be applied; reasons which con cern the revenue, as well as the industrial in terests of the people First, for the revenue. They simplify its ool leotion. Duties assessed upon the pound, the yard, the number, are alike simple ana oertain to the officers of tflff customs. It becomes a question of the simplest arithmetic, in place of one of the most oompfex and difficult assessment. They are dlettor for retentte. A oommlttee of the House of Commons, appointed in 1852, to inquire into the constitution and management of the board of ous toms, roported that “conclusive evidence has been furnished, both by merchants and officers of cus toms, to your oommlUee, that ad valorem duties, however good iti theory, operate badly in practice. The gross amount of tnem, in 1850, was 0n1y £188,833, while during tho same period the num berfof seizures was four hundred and twenty-one ” And in this connection the committee speak of “ the great difficulty of assessing duties varying on different classes of tbe “same article, because the natural dcairo of tbe importer is to introduce artioles of the very highest quality under the lowest rate of duty. ” The eitont to whioh Great Britain hascarrlod the system of specific duties, os against that of ad t)aldrems l is thoir testimony to their superiority for the purposes of revenue, strictly regarded. Tho gross amount of the customs of the United Kingdom for tbe year 1851. was £22,194,142. The share of the ad valorems was £188,833 only; while more than twenty-two million pounds wero collect ed under speoifio duties. The tariff of Great Bri tain is not what the Soorotary would ea!l proteo tiro; it hoB not that radical use in its constitu tion, yet It lovies £ll7 of specific duties to one of ad valorem. Great Britain has need of revenues, and takes the best way of securing them; a like necessity seems to be fast coming upon our own Government; and I commend her example to our free traders, who look to the Treasury only to find their duty to the country and their duties from imports. Again, the ohief uncertainty in the es timates ofjrevenno arises from tho flnotuation of the prices of imports. Our customs have varied in a vlngle year, from tblrty-ninß to forty-nine mil lions, from sixty-four to fifty-three millions, and from forty-seven to fifty-eight millions, under the same tariff, when there .was no' revulsion at work ; beoause iron has fallen within the year, from £8 10s. to £4 15s; at the higher prioe yielding $12.83 duty por ton, and at tho lower but $7 25. The quantity imported is a muoh less unstable subject for.c&loulatlon than tho prioe; and a fiscal ; officer ought to look to the dlfferencp between speoifio duties, whioh can be affeoted .onty by quantity of Imports, and ad valorems , whioh are 1 sabjeetto Jnoaloaiable-variatl<ni~byhrkiKthA2a_ cbftttttetfr • ' - * ' Enormous dotidlta, ftnd equally ©notmoua sur pluses; In the Treasury, aro the reproach, aa well as the mischief, 6f our system. Specific duties are a specific remedy for these evils. The Sooro tarybasnot yootared directly, or, to send home one of hid own phrases, “in a bold and manly way,” to attaok this fecomrriendatfon of the Pre sident, for which ho may hayejhad two'roaaoos— one a point of decorum; the other an apprehen sion of defeat. I will not Bay which decided him, but I may say that he has the advantage of both tho-deoenoy and the dodge. Under cover of an ossauH.upon home valuations, whioh specifio duties would disj/emto with, he la bors to disprove the alleged frauds, false invoioes and undervaluations, onArged by his superior against at! valorem*. He says that the proof of under-valuations is made to rest upon such fools as the excess of the valuation of our exports over that of our imports In the last threo years. How,' as far as Jf am informed, riobddy ever looked tbore for the proof, except the man who wished to re fute the allegation. The proof rests upon such evi dence as would establish it in a court of justice; upon suoh faots/for instance, as that quoted from' the report of tho committee of the House of Com mons, that there wero four hundred and twenty one seizures for under-valuation in a quantity of imports which paid but £183,833 customs for the year 1852—one soizure to every £4*o of revenue; and it rests pretty safely, besides, upon that “ na tural aesifO of importers to introduoe artioles of the highest quality tvo<34f the lowest rat© of which nas mado custom-house oaths a by- word ever since ad valor eras have been in vogue. The Secretary had a bettor reason at the ond of his pen for .the difference between our exports and imports during the last thrdo years when ho stated, along with othor things, of no moment, that ** the payment by our oUiions of tbeir debts in Ear ope, which for two yoars past has been largely done, affected the comparative 'amounts of exports and imports." He tolls us that the imports of ten years, undor tbo tariff of 13-16, greatly exceeded the exports, as if that disproved under-valuation; hot adverting to the fact that, during those ten years, we wore piling up those debts, of whioh tbo surplus exports of the last two or three years were paying tho interost; and that, as wo borrowed goods and merchandise instead of money, the ex cess in valuation is accounted for without in the least degree helping him in Ms argument. On the contrary, if he will Bet off those excess imports against that debt, he will find that the oharga of nnder-valuation Is abundantly sustained. He quotes the four years of tho tariff of 1842 a tariff largely mixed with specifio duties—to show that an excess of exports may odour where there is less ohasoe for under-valuations. My answer is, that an of exports may occur undor any tariff, when tho oouutry is either pay ing its foreign debts, or doing a thriving business, with tbo balance of trade in its favor. He does not meet either of these possible, and, under the circumstanoee, very probable causes; for the one may have operated at the beginning of the term, ana tho other at the olose. The Secretary bos not vindicated tho ad valo rem* successfully against the charge of fraud ; nor has he done that other thing at whioh he indlreot ly aimed; be has not iloorod the President on tho charge, ner struck spooifio duties through the 'home valuations, sot up as their proxy for the nonoe. And ho has not argued either well or successfully for the interests of tho Treasury, or for a tariff strictly and most availably for reve nue, either. It is oil right, sir, I supjfoso, that the revenue shall not esoapo the frauds and losses of a system which infliots them in still greater measure upon tho country. Let us look for a moment at some of the mis chief to tho industry and welfare of the people under ad valorem*, which the President has not adverted to. _. . Besides the injuty to the manufacturers, whioh their sliding-scale operation produces, giving him protection when ho does not want it, and with holding it when he docs not want it, the system tends to his prejudice, by favoring the introduc tion of inferior qualities of which specific duties would prevent. For when the same rate •por pound, per yard, or per dozen, falls upon a class of articles, the best of the kind bear it best, and most lightly, to the importers; because it is & less proportion of their market value. Lot mo give a fairly illustrative instance: Rail road engineers nut the wear and tear of foreign iron at ten por Wht. per annum, and among their oxpeneeB'they calculate and Bet apart this amount fur renewals; but an authenticated statement in my possession shows that tho rails manufactured in Eastern Pennsylvania, and used in the construc tion of the Pennsylvania Central road, have worn only one per cont. por annum, in a period of six years. The manufacturer is injured, almost thrown out of a market glutted with merchandise of inforier Suolify, thus favored by low oosfc and ratably low utles; and the purchaser, tomptod h 7 low prices, suffers more than he knows, and long before ho has the means of knowing it. Thia law of trade, resulting in a poiioy of de pravity and ruin, rules throughout tho subjects of ad valorem duties, and it must do bo from the na ture of things. I plead ferßpeoifio duties as I would ploau for honest dealing and good merchandise, ia behalf of tbo oonsumor. Ana for tho manufacturers of the country, I moko bold boro to §ay that, if you w»ll but proteot onr markotfrom the trash thrown upon it; if you will compel tho foreigner to send his best materials and boat work to our shores, any tariff, however low, whioh will meet the neces sities of the Treasury, will content thorn. If England will send her beat iron and bor beat cut lery to us, Pennsylvania will drive them from tho continent. . Of our toxtile fabrics I am not prepared to-day to speak from equally well authenticated data; but I dare to speak for them as confidently, and I would not speak loss earnestly. - In all things that may make a nation industri ally independent of foreign labor, our own ooun | try is riohly endowed, and is roady, with willing i hands and stout hearts, to achieve it, as our fv TWO CENTS. tliers achieved our political independence, if we will but afford her a reasonable opportunity to do so. ' “ One of these days you may hare yotif oouuneroe swept from the seas. Then you will hare yotlr. blankets and broadcloths, at war prices, as in 1812. The silks, and laces, and toys we can spare. The cottons and iron wo will soon produce under i such an embargo as a maritime war would give them; but the woollens, both in material and in fabrics, were long ago extinguished by a wretched mistake of the tariff of 1846 with respect to them; and it is full time now to begin to build them up. Of the “ theoretlo principles *’ which the Secre* tary submits as the true basis for constructing a new revenue tariff, and for revising an old ene, I have not the time now to speak as they deserve to be spoken of; it is enough to say of them that their rage for the destruction of our manufactures is not greater than their mischievous malignity toward our agriculture. They propose to tax, in preference to others, such articles os are not -pro duced in this country and among articles produced here, those in whioh the home product- hears the least proportion to the quantity imported are held to be a the fittest for taxation. 1 ’ Under these rules, tea, cofleo, and guano, must be taken out of the free list, and saddled with a heavy burden of duty; sugar, now protected by a twenty-four per cent, duty, and rice, whioh stands at fifteen, must be out down to something like port oharges; and beef, potatoes, -wheat, wheat flour, butter, pork, lard, unmanufactured hemp, and unmanufactured tobacco, now standing in our tariff at the higbtest rates, must he sur rendered to their fate, without, defence, beoause they are the largest interest of our- farmers, and most nearly adequate, under the. existing protec tion, to supply our domestic market.. j The coarse wool of America, hot grown in our climate, would also be taxed, like the guano, at the highest rates; while the finer wool, which wo do raise, would be proportionally sacrificed. The same prinoiple puts the dye stuffs used in manufacturing up to the highest mark of taxation. And so the farmor would find no homo market for his wool at the factory, but must meet the com* peting foreign article at- tbo-fireside. It seems to me, air, that neither .North nor South will endure this doctrine. But as it,ls not offered for praotioe now, I leave it. The Secretary and I are both compelled, by our respective exigencies, to drop it for the present. , I have hut one word to say to the Secretary’s defence of the tariff of 1857, from the charge „of an agency in prednoing the rovnlsion of that year. It had not time to operate, he thinks, between Jane and Ootobor; but if confidence has so much to do in reviving bariuess now, as be' supposes, (and I agree with him that it has,) the destruction of confidence might very well have had a large agency in deranging and suspending it in tbe three months which that aot stood threatening the de struction whioh sooner or later must have followed Its praotioal operation. His proposal to tinker it with a single tier oent. addition to Some of its schedules, and toe trans fer of some of its articles to the higher list, does not require to be tested. Such a tariff, so amend ed, has been tested and condemned every time that a better one has failed. The Secretary has shown distinguished, consideration and respeot for the iron interest, whioh I may be understood by some to represent here, and,.therefore, deserves soifie worthy acknowledgments from me. This, however, is a misapprehension of my position. I speak not principally, much less exclusively, for the oapitaj-' isf and manufacturer. Ido not believe that these interests suffer, alone, or most, by revulsions; the agriculturist loses early and largely by the sink ing fortunes of tbe largest class of his consumers, and I would, therefore, shield him from insolven cy and ruin. The foreign trade In his bieadsluffa and pro visions is to him, at this day, the merest delusion and the source of his greatest sacrifices. It js capable of dose proof, that the men who would manufaoturo the Iron, alone, which we import, with their families and dependencies, would at home dollar’s worth that the farmer now sands abroad; and If our policy would but open the market here, which the production uf all we use of cotton ’and woollen fabrics would afford, the tillers of the field would get from theip a tenfold larger market than ali the outside world will ever open to them. Foreign trade, generally, to our farmers, certainly regarded as a measure qf prosperity, is a mere prejudice which we deriv'd from thatflittie dot of an Island over the wateA whose geographical insignificance can be relieved only by making horself “ the workshop of the world, and her people a nation of shopkeepers y Oar industrial vassalage to Great Britain must continue till we change our opinions and our prac tices from English to American. ; But there is a more formidable, if not a more tenable ground of opposition to such a tariff os wfe ask for, than I have been considering Tbe non* manufacturing States oomplain that the burden of import dates falls unequally upon them. Allow* ing tho terms “ burden ” and “ tax ft to be applied to duties without comment, I have this to say to the South: in the firstploOei the' planting States are obliged, and I trust they are willing, also, t<j bear their due share of the burdens of tbe Gov* ernment. When the pablio debt, due at the olose of the late war with Great Britain, was to be pro* vided for, they were sa forward and as zealous as Pennsylvania in levying the revenue upon those commodities whose home production would bq thereby- fostered; *- ’Thert~ wfle'sontethfng l>f 4 pledge^jairijUmnliftdJn. this act, that tbftv wqaid tftftfaftorw&rds destroy t&STlntorests which ?theyj thefi encouraged. But at what’expense to them* selves did they then foster, and sinoa sustain, the , policy of protection? Taking the relative proj portion of the populations in the North .and SoutbJ and their different characters as consumers of foreign' imports, the South has not borne one third of the imposts which have, up to this day, paid nnr debts and current expenses Tn the year : 1832 or 1333, Mr. Clay, in the Senate, told Mrj Calhoun that the South had not borne more than! one half of its fair proportion of these, burdens, in the shape of import duties. j But suppose the st&ple-States to have paid their proportion of them; have they not had ample compensation in cash saved to them try tho opera-j tion of that provision of the Constitution which! forbids the imposition of export duties? lathe! Convention whioh framed the Constitution, the! members from South Carolina and Virginia re-j slated export duties, expressly on the ground that they were the exporters of the Confederacy, and] their industrv, though tho proper subject of that] taxation, would bo unequally burdened. Mr. Ma- j son, of Virginia, hoped tho Northern States did) I not mean to deny to the Southern this exemption; j he said it would thereafter be as desirable to the; North as to tbe South. * > Butthis prediction has not been fulfilled. Thei exports for ten years previous to July 1,1856, were,! of cotton and tobacco, $973 500,000; add to this! one-third of tho agricultural and one-tMrd of the, forest exports, and you have for the South $1,247,- ( 500,000 of exports. The North, posting to her ac* ( count all the exports of manufactures, two thirds; of the agricultural, two-thirds of the forest, and i all of the sea exports, amounts to only $579,000, l 000—51,000,000 Jess than the haif. 0n all this! difference of experts, nearly seven hundred mil lions dollars’ ■ worth of domestio products, the South, by the operation of the prohibitory clause in the Constitution, has bad exemption from export duties. Is there not in this ample compensation for all the differened'she paid during tbo same ton , years upon the foreign products she consumed under import dnties? This, it seems to me, is an equitable and adequate set-off, in eonscienoe and in jastide, that should rale the afibirs ot tfae Union. Here, then, wo find a compensation of trade to warrant the claim we urge npon onr sister States; and we might rest it here, bnt there ia even higher ground than the justice it finds for insisting upon the pledges of 2616, and the fair balance of the account of burdens and benefits under the system essential to the life and growth of the North That ground Is the harmony of interestsneoessarily subsisting between all the departments of industry , in a community of States. It iB apparent that a woll-bat&noed relation of inter-dependency holds between the manufacturing and agricultural wel fare of the nation. It is apparent, also, that these are closely and effectively adjusted to the require ments of the national (loanees. Here the true in terest** of the planter, the navigator, and the mer chant are os deoply involved as those of the farmer and the artisan. And there is, over and above all, something to be oxpeoted from the spirit of patri otism— something that will not be refused to tho claims of brotherhood. Letter from Washington* (Correspondence of The Press.] Washington, Jan. 15,1859. DkatiPress : The U. S. Agricultural Convention adjourned to-day. A largo number of delegates wore present, representing nearly all*the States, soveral of the Territories, and Lake Superior. The proceedings wore of unusual interest. President Tilghman, in bis opening address, congratulated the sooiety on the flourishing condition of Us affairs, and the late successful exhibition held In Rich mond, Va. He Bays: “ The number and oharaoter of the delegates from other States and from Ca nada, and the variety and remoteness of the points from which articles were brought, Including a col lection of very fine vegetable* from Lake Supe rior, afford gratifying evidence cf an increasing interest in the exhibitions.” The location of the next annual exhibition occa sioned muoh debate. It was generally ooneeded that it should be held in one the Northwestern States. It will lie between Chicago and Peoria, whichever oily makes the most favorable offer. Chicago would suit the Lake Superior farmers, who could send their agricultural specimens via tho lake steamers, and thus eDjoy a great advan- I tago over other parts of the oountry. There is no prospect of a Northern Paeifie Rail road this Beseion. The Central route will hardly pass. Undo Sam should keep a sharp eye upon the British, for they have ovor two hundred engi neers surveying their Pacific Railroad, near Van couver. Steamboats will be placed upon the Red and Saskatchewan livers the coming summer, and will greatly assist in opening up their fertile val loys to settlement. If Congress would aid the pooplo of Lake Superior with a land grant, a rail road would soon bo commenced from the head of the lake. The new buildings for Congress are the admira tion of all observers. May they be as lasting as the pyramids of Egypt. The accommodations for visiters are all that the “ sovereign people” oould desire. The condition of tho streets of Washington is horriblo to a Philadelphian. Instead of taking a lo?aon from us, they trust to Providence to keep thorn in order; consequently, it is either or dust all the time. I wish some of their munici pal officers would visit PhlHWelpMa, ana take a ride in our passenger railroad oars; no doubt then they would dispense with their miserable omni buses. Ojbbryjsr. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS, Correspondents for Thb Pjwbs” will pUIM heat is wind the following roles: Every communication most be accompanied by the name of the /writer. 1-j o- Jar to insure correctness la the typography, bat one gut* of the sheet should be written upon* We shell be greatly obliged to gentlemen in Pennsyl vania and other SUtes for contributions giving tho onzrent news of the day in their particular localities; the resources of the surrounding country, the increase of population, or any information that wiU be interest* ing to the general reader.' ,/ BY TELEGKAPH. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. [Be ported by Carr A Johnson, Telemphlo News Bo port ers for the Press throughout the United SUtes.J Haxbisbubq, Jan. 20. _ • SENATE. * ln *t this morning at 11 o’clock. report was made on the bill to repeal the toiZ'?o ”g.. , Ba^?tt entor * Th. HU rtlatlTe to probrolMM fa Philadelphia na rop*rted with an amendment • il. MU to provide to tt, reglrtratfoa of marria*e«. Mrtlu, And d.itlu, Jn the city of Philadelphia, w.s re ported upon favorably. r * The supplement to an act providing for the appoint ment of an examiner by the Judges of tho Court of Common Pleas tor the elty of Philadelphia wU renor ted negatively. The aot to consolidate the stock of the Girard Bank, with an ‘ amendment, was -takexrup, considered, and passed. The act consolidates four shares, the par va lue of which is $l2 50, into one share, thus making the par value $5O. The following bills were read in place: ~ Sir. WeiQBT, of Philadelphia, one relative, to tho Cottage Bufldiiog Company of Philadelphia. Mr. Passes, of Philadelphia,one to incorporate the South City Passenger Railway. Mr. Bahdau., of Philadelphia, one to incorporate the Indian- American Commercial Company. The Senate then took upthe bill to abolish the office of Canal Commissioner, jaed, elter some discussion, It was passed by a unanimous vote. ' Adjourned. The House met at the usual hour, and a considerable amount of time was expended in receiving petition* Mr. ffasr, of Philadelphia,presented one from citi zens of Oxford township asking tor a division of said township. Into two election districts. MeMra.iTTooD Ml Busnro. Philadelphia. pre sented petitions from citizens of Pennsylvania, residing along the-line of the* Philadelphia,'Wilmington, and Railroad, against the puusge of the act pro hibiting locomotives to run over certain streets in the city of Philadelphia. 1 Mr. Taoun presented one; Mr. WAiaoßUfonr: Mr. Oavaos two, and Ur. Hucbbsliv one petition asking au °tion h&ra. so faros they relate to Philadelphia city. Mr. Thohh, one from Samuel Hsmrd, editor of the Colonial Record, asking to be continued in office. Judiciary Committee made favorable reports •» The bill relative to pawnbrokers in the dty of Phi ladelphia The bill extending the act for the better security of laborers, mechanics, and others. Hr. Thobh, of Philadelphia, read-in place a bill sap ileme»*tary to an act to modify the existing auction awa of the Commonwealth Also,‘a resolution continuing the editor of the Colo nial Record in office Mr. Suits, of Philadelphia read an act to incorporate the South City Passenger Railway. Also, an amendment to the act relative to the tax on meadow-laud. Adjourned. LATER FROM HAVANA. Arrival of the Black Warrior* Hew Hoik, Jan 20.—The steamship Black Warrior has arrived with Havara dates to the 35th Inst. The excitement growing oat of the Preside nt’s mes sage has nearly died eat. The weather at Havana was delightful. The sugar market continued flat. Sales had been made of 12,C00 boxes old and 5,C00 of the new cron. Freights were dull. r The Blaok Warrior bring* $lOO,OOO in 'Mexican dollars. ' A private letter states that some excitement had been occasioned in Havana by'the publication of n statement that Br'gadier General Beoeaa, ~ of -the , United States, had by letter offered the Oapttia General fifteen millions to declare the island-indepen dent, and himself (General Concha Vfirst President. The schooner Luth*r Ohllde, of Deonia. Gapt. Nick erson, was struck by a heavy sea on tbe 20th ultimo, off Bermuda, and Capt. N.'.was washed overboard; • The mate, Mr. Chase, and a seaman named Clark, belonging to Portland, west to his s*s f stanee in a lyat, bat were unable to save the captain. Meanwhile the ichooner drifted awav so that the boat was unable to overtake her. Mr. Chase and the sailor remained in the boat fire days without food or water. They were finally rescued by the bark Hdbrook. from Portland, Tor Ha vaoa * There were only three boy*, whoknew bat little of navigation, left on .hoard the schooner, hut aa she wai in the track of numerous .vessels, there are but lit tle fears of her safety. The Luther OhU*s was from Philadelphia, bound to St. Kitts with a cargo of lum ber. Seizure of an Alleged Slaver* Savaxb 13, Jan. lb.— The bark Angelitawas detained to day, by orders of the collector of the pert, on sus picion of fitting out for tbe slave trade. She arrived on the 30th of Ootober last from Matanxas, and has been lying in port ever since. - Relief of Vessels in Distress* New Tore, Jan. 20 —The revenue cutter Washing ton sailed yesterday, on a cruise for the relief of ves* eels in distress. THE COURTS. YBSTEBDAY'B PBOOSSOIVgfI. [Reported for The Press j ScraEME Court— Chief Justice Lowrle, and .Justices Woodward. Strong, mod Bead.—Samuel Biddle, garnishte of .Mark B. Hammm and T. B. Price, trading, Ae /plalntiffs'ia ~«ror f vw-Edward J Biting Md-penjamin fitting, tradlng.&o.. defendants inarrer. -W«i»«-;+»-*taP7^qarB-og“egilftBDir*Tlgaa-oT : Tl)nlawBeW bounty. : The sotton in the court below wu so attach ment execution and scire faoiat to garnishee to attach, inihehandsofthegaroleheeadebtclaimedto be duo from him to the Ann of Hanuum A Price. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $321 to, This esse was submitted to the court on paper book's, J. M. Broomall for tbe plaintiff in error, and J. K, Morris for the defendant in error. Eton Anderson, plaintiff in error, vs. Maria L. Feff and John Fagley This ease was an notion on a pro missory note given for $5OO. Part of thia was after wards paid, viz: $2OO. Argued by Wayne McVeigh for the plaintiff in error, and by William Sailing ton for the defendant in error. Miller vs. Russell. Error to the Court of Common pitas of SehoylhU! county. Per curiam. Opinion that * f the plaintiff below attempted to rescind the eon tract of exchange by recaption, aod the defendant pre vented it from Being effectual by means of replevin. B » cannot, therefore, set up toe recaption to defend the action for the warranty contained in the contract of ex change. The contract is'still in force, because he pre vented its zescislon. If there is any virtue in the re plevin suit to prevent the' institution of this, it ought to have been pleaded In abatement. The contract not being annulled as to the warranty, maybe sued on, if no former action pended be pleaded to exclude it.” Judgment affirmed, and-record remitted, Newgard vs. Dehar*n. Error'to the Court of Com mon Pleas of Schuylkill eounty. Per eunam. Opi nion that« a party who, against a builder’s ©lsim, sets off his damages occasioned by delays contracted against, redly yajs for toe work done. A waiver of the condition as to time saves the other party from his liability for damages eau'ed by hi* delays. Judgment sffiimed and record remitted.” Christian Johnson, plaintiff In error, vs. The Honou gahela Navigation Company, defendant In error. Opi nion by Justice Thompson. Judgment affirmed. Baker, ot al., vs. Lewis. Opinion by Justice Church. This opinion w*a prepared by Church while he was a justice of this court, and wav yesterday morning adopt ed by the court. Judgment affirmed. Jtutloe Wood ward distent*. Benjamin Coosseu, plaintiff in error, va. George Leslie’s administrator, defendant in error. Opinion by Justice Woodward Error to the Conrt of Common Pleas of Allegheny county. Judgment reversed, and judg ment to be entered for the plaintiff on the record. Jus tice Strong dissents. Elisha Garrett, plaintiff in error, vs. William Ores sen and Kennedy Orossen. Error to the Conrt of Com mon Pleas of Charier county. Argued by W. V. Pen oypaker and P. 7 .‘Smith for the plaintiff ftt error, and William Darlington and William. P. Waddell for ton defendant. Henry SBbnger, plaintiff is error, vs. Lewis, et. al. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware coun ty. Argued by J. J. Lewis for the plaintiff in error, and by J. M. Bromall for the defendant in error. Nisi Paros—Justice prowattan vs. Busual H. MoPadden and Joseph Clark. Before reported. An action of trespass. Yesterday the jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff on the first and third counts, vis: The plaintiff has the right of way of a thj ee-feet alley and has toe right of hydrant, and assesses the damages at $5O; and in favor of thedeiendant on toe second count, viz: That to* plaintiff has no right to th* water ovuree running through lot of house No. 8, except hr way of three feet alley In rear of his own pre arises to the seven-feet alley leading into aod from Mary street By order of court arulewmi entered for a new trial, and the role was made absolute. •Robert J. Douglas vs. J.Eaattmrn Mitchell, executor, Ac., of Thomas 8 Mitchell. An action on two pro missory notes for $3,500 snd $2,500, dated in December, 1852, and January, 1854. This cue was once p»rt> tried before; at that time a juryman died, and the trial pf the case was of coarse not concluded, and it was again rot on trial yesterday morning. The evidence for the defence, during the last trial, was that the notes . were forgeries On trial William L Hirst, W®. H. Rtwle, and Oollis, for toe plaintiff; and K. Russell Thayer, MoMurtrle, and David Pan! Brows for tho defendant. United States Commissioner's Omoi — C. E.HaexUtt Commissioner.—wter Berks was brought up before the Commissioner, yesterday afternoon, charged with making and phasing counterfeit money, s John 8. Jenkins, deputy United States marshal, was sworn, and testified that from information received •he went to the house of the defendant early on Wednes day morning, -before toe defendant was no, and ar rested him, and found in toe house a quantity of coun terfeit apparatus, such ss metals, moulds, adds, and some twentv pieces of counterfeit money. After the bearing, Mr. Bull, counsel for the defendant, aiked that his client might be discharged. The Commis sioner declined so to do, and held the defendant to bail for his appearance at the next term of toe mdt. DistmotCotjrt—JudgeSharswooQ.—Frede rick V. Beisel vs. Samuel B. Gringrfch, trading as ST. Griuciich. An action't© recover damages for three months’ services, rendered to toe defendant ae book keeper. Verdict for the plaintiff for SISTS6. Gibbons for the plaintiff; Bennett for the defendant- Otto Massve. Gbriatophei^Haberle. An action on a promissory note. No defence. Verdict for the plain tiff for $816.88 7 • Carroll Brewster for toe plaintiff; Juvenal for the defendant, Joshua Stokes vs Morgan Hirichnan. An action on a promissory note, and to recover toe amount alleged to bo duo for rent, and which ia in arrears. No defeuce. Verdict for the plaintiff for $331.45. Cochran for toe plaintiff; Arundelforthedefendant. Jacob Prank vs. Jacob Sheets. An action on a check which was given for the payment of $1 000. Verdict for the plaintiff for $4,228.75. Bennett for the plaintiff; petit for the defendant. Edwin A. Merrick vs. William Oallaban A feigned issue to try the ownership of a lot of hate and cape. Verdict for the plaintiff. Mundy for the plaintiff; Adams for toe defendant. r District Gotjrt— Judge Hare. Darnel Stewart, Geo. H. Stewart, Thomas Wallace, Jr., John Caldwell, and David W. Denyon, tiading, fee , va. Richard Lizzsrd. An action on a promissory note. Verdict for toe plaintiff for $128.80. The city of Philadelphia, to use of James Deenan, va. Etobert A. Marsh owner or reputed owner and con tractor An action on a scire facias aur mechanics’ lien olaim which was filed to recover for paving done in front nf the defendant’s premises. Verdict for the plaintiff for 7862.25. King fior v the plaintiff; Arundel for the same. This was in action for the same cause. Yerdict for the plaintiff for $522.17. Sing for tbe plaintiff, and Arundel for the defendant. Jerse Beig'el vs. John C. Drake. An action on a pro* missory note. Verdict for the plaintiff for $674 66. Michener for the plaintiff, and H. B. Wallace for the defendant. Jesse Balguelvs. Daniel P. Rubicam. An aotlon on a PTomissotynote. Verdict for the plaintiff for $1,048 J 5. Michener for the plaintiff, and H. E. Wallace for the plaintiff. .... , James Kran vs. William D. Thomas. An action on a promts ory note. Quarter Sessions— Judge Allison. —Tho court was engaged In hearing the tinardlaniof the Poop cases.
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