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'ail p qtr ordered' e u ,-. the, 4arlieet — oirPertinitY::Vbe Y reniainder of the . the'liiiiatitlon brdsiness - , xelaidieti thaDietriotof gave' that: I notini litariiill'isiiiii z in=dai'M' - taiin'tip , ,,• se tbrifer d an "-•' "-;In the State Sooate ; on'Sat t urday .; the'following` buil,*l 4 811 ,1 , PlePsat `oarce~ iii_ Supreme Court and.boirt of 'Commin Plaits 's an_Lertiah,` _ 44teilid;*eighing Of noilid Tha,4lll to re•r 4 1 2 1 iliffites,„„arpectl6a'ef, = lia noes , was k_eported' -124 104Te1Y, ' , .z,D'P . Pn ,- ;14";; - 4"...N , ' • ittilllZAullty4'n,n 'tat iTio,beitifit 0 8 ' 8 4 4 of I)*liir-41"iit;14*045,4itit, reeding of Petia'srate, - nrufleturdei.,,-..1 The bill igrants lot- , ter6o ll ol 4 /Ctkers`Pcicia'of'Siieriteen. years to klgiferf4fria, Eddy . gOo.; -an OproddirrttkiriAf this teuin7ef iiic lcundriol and tw s elyiltlioneild'aohari,:tolia pate 'the Stale? ' Thtrleglslative 3 tietnmittee investliation -in thaeinitiniriCsakisnf "afr; mernber forailto.Third.Keireientative dietriet, met,again on MitirdaY, - lit;this (MN and 'heard evideiroe'ln, , begat of 111r:k'Clian: - ', be multi-insaimihor colemn. The ideirreildilitingareos . „and' Asin= l :hoth fully die it New ; Fork ; wiih ' a week ' s later news "from " L'uroner--had_ not beau heard• front up to our time; of going ~to this niotaing. ; The'Kangaroo lefs.Livirpool on the 10th and the Asia on the 224 • Orin°. ' -s• '"` • <L, hated that Mr. Arnistrong, who was palled froin the Board of Gaardhuts attheir xaciisie by ,hia'follow-membors; not allow himself to.e thiis - d'ealtWftli:s' Mr. Arnrstroni tends, to= take` his Seat as usual at the , next meet • fag, and, if Opiasitiin will:apply for mandamus to the fferiremiOeurt, Mr. Armstrong wilt contest tho right of the, Board to deprive him of hiitieito.,,,Riit,mittepi will terminate romaine to be eaen.i - _ It • Sea foot ,thrit'lli,:v;Spniteetitlitorreoently, received -: a very., liberal ..eifer front persons ,-in thistetentri , te ooMe here and ' " We;have seen private • letter - mei; him; lurirevei"?,";soa . yi the liew York 'Pair, which authorises ar say, , . that, though it is likely he:will seen visit Amarloa,, he **de Pellith'eit engagement or iadneement of the kind mentioned in the above pi'of iny',,,other , ,eort'whateier. to Will visitlaerlea, if he , visit it` t all; ii, in hidepen' , sled 'whatever means he may take , • to raise nionei for the building of his now chapel will betaken ' after he, shall have reached this ofr • Tliel•aeoono 4 . the aeoldent on theMilliam"- portlndßlinincitailroidt,s.potblished on Saturday, is JaMorieel , road iii•noneetned: haPPlne4"ozi the Sunbury " M andO road; below WVlliiniqierg,tiri: train of oars going more, belonging to AeNerthirn'Oentral Railroad Codipattey:- - • In the Cola of' Qinirter Serisiots; on' Saturday, John MeKeownand Peter Magee,,aenvieted of, • re. aelvlig , fritidulont vein, In "the Eighth' preafnet of the Periithirird,', , at' the liai'eleatien, eieh, stinterieed to ply afirm of $2OO, and six months' Ira ; iriediinentV3 Ode hindridind ,nineteen candidates were ad: mitted" to the High Behool on Saturday. Their tome's, 'the number admitted from each" h 1 - se oo , as well-as other. interesting 'partionlani, will be fond under theilty: heed: , - ' - There;were, fear , htindred and - twenty:three deatks',.ln New York during the wo r st week--a de _ + arose° of:elibt einifiarodwitk tins Mortality or , the hamher, of deaths in this city, est week ws 391; being ideereesa of tax him the .riosk prev,l-" onsl 4, - :z. • ' Everyday snit:tato dhtilnishthetiiiiortiuiee: efthe Feideral , "Ade4tdatrattoic,aa a tievi,er, in the Siate.:_,-orie - of the moet ' important.r®eom- metidatianS of ,the; Preside* in bia Isat annual niessageSiesihe,rircrOsition to establish mill tarY)-pastir In • 136tiora' . -- aid _ Ohihifshria: On Friday last: - thelloinie: pommittea- di Military" AfrAra:deitded:lgalest:this - turaiurei and thus * strielCapother- -blow, at ; tile "Adtainhitridiou. , Thirisesibm dOes not seem at all propitious 'to success. • With a peraociatim majority in both it • to unable fii:toicure . ititS'tindOrie.:, moat-of' a "single measure;- and theistiorigest opposition f lt encounters . is, Marditsited byits ownjps.iiisane." Ultra treason merely`irr,Ve an inti:fidiontlitenite'i arid if; men deserved to be idliotined forlheir Offences on that ;errors ind'entigonisMs' are now so numerous - and_ so glaring that , w& know, of nothing' whieb:..arr - expiate .their;onOrmity abort of hanging, 'drawing, and quarterlisrmil lions tbe , Anierican ' Demociaoy.- 'On the PacjiteTallreaci,biltthe..Sonthein,DemOcritie , Senntors;with brie riery few - eicisptioni, took nti*MiCitgainse the .6.dminiatistiof Remo- . °ratio, caucuses are lield•to deteat tiniffie.; coatnenditlenV 'ite - Contriret fer'rtiscProte: , . ticutorithe ...€sllcifio7,,,.'negroes ; Wat, 'stongly PP*StAlaridits ichruntiOf occupying Sonora and.',,llitnifine . :now been :sfiustrated; *eifoWisfle,`.' investigating • committees are' keenly ,the, scent of ;mile of ' Mr. BU CHANAN'S far;Titeß , and from present' Indica ti4S,4ingUlar reVelitions will be made for an, Admiriletrittion headed by oneWbo views wit h Pieinkjiorror the, employment of, money. toAnfuence• electiOnet- ,.- If, in the general testa" 'of, thd . ..Opposition who opiosa,,ln Iwhole or in part theirecommenda-: fions ofihoryresident are bibs inolisded,lhe There brio ;Administration party, nnlaisit thiCediels-holders and, indeed, their'lldelity is -by no Means 'Cartain. , No 'Administration' . Measure ;can "bo atustained • this sealskin, from pyesent indicates:sa t unless it 'ls - supported by ar.larie:Minier of Ili'Opposition - members, vilthimhile they may agree with the i'resident on isolated,questions, are deeply:hostile to-his general ! Theirs, ,never been n pe riod"lrCoAmerican history; except during the official term er.To*Trair*, when ihe'Presi dont,exerelie4 intinim6e defiberA 'now( ottongms, and fewer reliable supporters there; , than /dr., But:nutux does at tbia MOment . ;-, , and. we. are,, not ,sure- that this" cotimierlson-: does -net do • injustice to: . Our New Territories:.. • ; Fess- has new 'under consideration, ap pliatioisilertti three new . Tef if orlali ftexeriplents, 7Teireisow., Is the • tnne-Which ,listr-boon sp . plied:tO the Pike's There is already a oo!li!iderabli3 population within its : the rfOlifi r - i5f1ii540,0'.1i20,38;, *Veil seems 'be welt attested ; . doubtless, attract a very tidogitsio n t**rll3l:_theprOsept law. - If present'anticdpationt, are -realized, it would hot he Si surprising if a pcipulatiel of 'one hundred; thiittiariCwOuldeudgrate into it in. less 4411,.f14;jiars.' It is; ed cootie; deaf fibielhat.. 4 - 131 ; oyerttinent should be established Ear thickly peopled at:;an early ; day. We iike the name' of the ne;i;TerriterY,-toO.:..Tirrsitsis has a pile to , ht s ifoi-',*#Y,- be '4 161 04 I.Y, such designetion''onli second to'that _Art,enthindesthi l nsivocate olthe ergo : i 4 lastiorroithiaTaritiory flea iuti4Sl - I"te 4014'1A:its' organization 4riother•et'at character.: lf f lAili t ilhat - trisi organization of this Terri-, Yibrf ibt?Odrigresti:ff_trill add. to the; glory - of M thit:ninistrathin.":oll :Jamilik;ilS4rtwix ," --. 440441414e10 Obeli of add itions `settle. the • ;) Jof,!oirizotia,'At said, now , c ontsine _s- popnl _ atioa ` #least..ten thousand,'..o4lol*:,ls ~ which it alleged wo - uid BilWalrf.: ( o4aLit :Gfo9 6 - ''-.4 , 16:0#004.4115hei1i;- , These - ire Operations; also centainti;ifeti :11 Very.gety:lif,tfaintablitto:be ..'ffo'rrisisktre*(partiOiiii*She''old - Ter r it or y, of liKai4l4 l 44idittieji/40:th. 0 ackrgon taint on tke ind•lcwa 'en the possessions on the north,- and :loWi t and tielgtAft OA .bosc , loll. _ • • t 4' I ETTEW Mak •T RE EDITOR. • W s , - A Ma eb, 5,1£59:; teceempton, with all, its lifinties; was loonsearated-; the present: General tri_ttierii-the‘-faVerite,_ lilt] . -,npen "Demo- . Oita was, that it was kparty meionwil;-becatitte „bop branchei of Coigrosit, 'through Democra 41%.nykjorittori,,had adopted it. Thousands of '_Ddinenrliteivere thus:-seduced either into the • Eirif-60'A;;X:tha-Oritiet,',lfitittneitidit scholia; or ,silently";; niquiasned. Tiled"by - this stand. • lard .VtthatAeconaei , of : ;the ..:Administration, when' every:i.,One , ;?, of •Its„irfeaintres, , has been repudiated by the Dernocratie 'party. in be*hrianChtisOf4.lengreFft LeConwton was ;presented to .the „people With all the advan: ;fligeal`nfdrgabliation? and patronage,. and ' •was ,;trraticPieWribder''fopt, et, the polls, in and bikt.rof- Kansas.' Arid", now Idr.:'l3nplianan's IlhileigliVelleYl'hldfinancial policy (including "thit 'tariff - - -,hie. big and his Pacific Railietothillitave been rejected by the very trlbnual -.whieh'ltti',ind his - adherents only :latelY:,:arected; Into the ': standard, by which political":orthodoxy- was •'to .be tested'---the, Daniediatif 'Cringress.- Parties in this country are„,..,norc?„ divided, las follows,: Mtn, t Demeciatio the; Republican ,Par and - 2 the' Administration , • faction._ EVerYWhere PAS 'latter !either - . discarded or shunned:. • Rieriwhere_the neeeseity,'Moir-, ing`alorigWithout It heti been, hof.:infireli,,.te l lhe':Deniodraey; but to the CeUntry — ,• the: trt' oat' .oalathitousi diapaisatien evorinflicted upon a patient people. And' if not; full 'pod ,entire. confidence in "the^ elasticity of oiir. institutions , and in the' won. derflil ' patriotiim and forbarance of our - fello'W;eltiaens - , I Should, d iespar of the Re. public.' In less than a two years of the Administration will have expired. In less than inonth'tinclefigiess, • so,triurephantlY elect ed lu 1856; will be.disbanded. There is_notv .little or no hope for the tariff:- There is bare. its - iireepeeCoi passing the'neual approPria. bills. The, extraordinary - alternative is . gravelyAlscussed 'of leaving the Administra fienWitherit :Dabney to pay its honest debts, iirid4.rialchiglitecoitiligency of bankruptcy 'rattierthan confide any langer in faithless public Seiventii. There is nnhope for the thirty.million fer_;whiehlet us be duly grateful. On the. - - Xidestion of cc, protaction,", :which should have beenTereVer settled under the reign of a man whosewhole fife his been_ filled with pledges, lc;ilie interests 01 his native' State, nothing wilt be =done, in my opinion, either by this "Onngress, Cr by that _which will fol., lei it. Mad the President. pursued the 'eara° , of: justice and Common sense on the,;JKansas _question,' instead of having but, fiVe Democrats from Pennsylvania in the next ihrigrest:f,'and, but fife from New York, and but two tiom New Jersey, we should have ; from _these three great States nearly fifty De itinerate; ~ Bni,w7lirt,'ltie if stricken by judicial blindness, laitened'iPon the' back of the Deisioaratic= paity the Odious burden of Le. :eonaptori,"':lie defeated hundreds , •of gallant nieniind assisted to elect not Merely the ene mies of his Administration, but the enemies of _the institutions of the South. A wise, states andliberal policy wouldhave return. ed Darneerets to the new Congress, who would 'have been able to demand such a- discrimina tion irf,filor 'of , our langitishing interests as would have been' satisfactory 'to all parties. The - Ronth, instead of glad resisting,what he asks, would have been to consent to what Anise Democrats would then kayo the power :to:tlionind. • Now; however, the Democratic 'vote"itiOttngress is almost wholly confined to the tender' ~- r trobritiCea'._ of 'a ?mere Southern di-, garchy. - ;, - Its caucuses- are managed by those whti', hate, - 'ne sympathy with the goat' -Mid dle .01 this Union; and It is alike their Intereits and that of the-Republican leaders to keep the tariff' an open lone. • - • The feature; which .now.: arrests general attention here, is the fact that. the Adminis tration has no real friends in Congress, end it is :notoriona that it has none in the country: The South; Indignant at the fraud which it was ceinfielled toenderse -in the Kansas matter— Indignant ' that it was made to accept en Wee could not refuse,' inasmuch `atilt involved the - - proffer of. making a slave "State - tint of territory dedicated by every con aideration,te f`reedem-'-is galled And Wounded by the attempt the President to Purchase the inkrages•of Pennsylvania by a hollow en= .dchuarnint of specific duties. Cheated in the orie_;*natio;. it ratifies .to be •betrayed in the other. Net. *lll Penogylvania , be propitiated by these Presidential proffers. It is now more than evident that. they 'Were made without stncbrity; and that they cannot be carried into effect. fihe Secretary of the Treasury laughs the recommendations of the President to acorn; and;through his 'organs in Congress, declares that his chief is outside the Demme tic, party, coolly organizing the Representa tives of the against him. Tried, then, as I have by its own standard—condemned upon ,every, one of its own measures.by the Deniocratic majorities 'in Congress—the Ad intaistration Stands 'repudiated' by the repre sentatives of the Democracy. And where shall we look for a rescue ? To a tratianalPartY 1 No l• The lesson of 1856 to airsoCh Organizatiocus was that no party can succeed in this country which deliberately Ig bores the people of one-half the Union. The Republican 'party cannot desert its peculiar 'anti-al.:ivory ideas without crumbling to pleCes, nor adhere to them and win. Mr.: Seward, 'Mr. Hale, Governor Chase, Mr. Banks, Mr. Wilmot, and even John McLean, are nothing if not anti-slavery in 'their platforms. And the future will prove that , they can only rally their ad. herenta by-proclaiming their honest opinions In all their' Cleaver:Mons. When the Demo- Crecy refuse to give up their cherished doc trines, and indignantly rebuke those who do 'o, the Republican' leaders may be well as i3ured that they will 'be held to theirs by the Repfiblican masses. It may be well to em ploy the language of Richelieu, in diplo macy: •tc When the lion's skin is too short, to nice it' ut with the fox's." But this will not answer for the great campaign. upon 'which we are shortly to enter. Plain 'speaking and bold action will be demanded. Mr.. Greeley, with the Wise precaution that always distinguishes him, sees this difficulty and proposes to arrange it thus : A Northern Republican President, and a Southern Vice President, without a-platform ; jor a Southern American President and a Northern Vice Prieldent,' with ,a platform declaring eternal war upon slavery. .What is, all this but a tribUte. , to nationality? What is all this but anadmiasiOn that the Republican party, as now Constituted, cannot elect the next President by being true to its own established creed Where, then, are we to look in this hour of trait:Wort - arid trial, when . the wisest men de spiir and the patriotic heart throbs for relief? Who - shalEdeliver us from the evils that sur round us ?" Who shall be our political savior ? Tlie answer; is, 'that it a - Northernsectional party cannot rescue the nation from its tribu lations,' a Southern sectional party calumet. Let us, then, waits little longer. Let us avoid the trickery of .bonventions until we see that they are not to be wielded for mere disuniOn inejdots,'Or to gratify merely individual ambi tions.' The Hour will produce the Man. Let M;citand by our arms, and be prepared for the crisis; - whatever shape it may as sume.'' Order will corns out of this chaos, and- each a regeneration of parties as sho* that even from the ashes of extinct administrations' and the wrecks of treacherous orginizations, will 'spring the principle which is to marshal us to a great triumph in 18(10.1 . J. W. F. - 1-Ty.E.Harmonia Seared Musick Society give their lemma = mincers,, at' Concert Rail, ~on Friday eirenfnit' 'The only vocalist whose name hoe yet been published le Mies Susan litroy. We have to 'notice. that Mite Sloan Mn'' ,gives a concert, at . Maiiten, this evening. She will be assisted by Mr. J. J. Fraser, the excellent tenor, and M'ile Anna Wieder, the, new omitralt4. ILU "SALES: OP VALUABLE HEAL ESTATE, oko.—Boo Thomao and Bons' advertisements of -their forthcoming spring sales, comprising a very ..large amount -of valuable property by order of trristees, executors, assignees, Orphans' Court, As. ,TIIII - VALUABLE HOTEL, at Atlantic City, is to be sOldton thiSlstt instant. Bestartet notes, end other Bret-elan pro perty, on the let Minh. `=Rev. William 'Tilbury, minister of a eongiega got, at -Nation, lowa, has been suspended from the'reinisterial Mee tor grosi misconduct, such es a theft of a dye . ..dollar -bill from one of 'his pa •riobioners; buying lumber and refusing to pay for it selling two,or three dollars' worth of stock ings and mittens, the , intinufaotttire of a poor widow woman; and defrauding her out of the mo ney; .to. Our Legal Courts. , On Tuesday the Grand Jiwy of the Quarter ,BOasionarmidea, prosentnient ou the watt of Legal Oaks in tide city:: At the risk of ap pearing tedious, we shall here repeat what they say; namely : . "That the room in which the court is held is. in every essential, unfit for the transaction of its bu siness The great city of Philadelphia, with its 600.000 inhabitants, and the vast amount of crime incident to such a population requiring adjudica tion, by necessity call together alarge number of persons—as counsel,jurors, witnesses, and friends of the parties immediately interested Ip the tri 'ate—all of whom should be-property accommoda ted. The present court room might have been ample half a century ago, when the population of Philadelphia was a tittle f what it now icand when the cases tried in it during" a whole term did not exceed the number now tried in oue•tenth that pe riod: The court room ia defective in not having rooms for witnesses, where they would be pro tected from hearing the gross and filthy evidence adduced in many cases brought before the court; and thus are compelled to listen to revelations, during trials, ,whose whole tendency is to corrupt. It is also defective in not having suitable rooms forjurors; end especially is it de fective in its ventilating and heating arrange ments. As constituted, it cannot he otherwise regarded, from the manner in 'which its atmos phere is contaminated by the exhalations from the lungs and bodies of the hundreds who are crowded into it, as well articulated to produce disease, if not death, in these who are compelled daily to remain for hours in it, breathing its pestiferous malaria. Its want of imitable rooms for witnesses, .where they would be protected from listening to the obscene and filthy evidenits adduced in some trials, and the development of the plans of fraud and the revelations of the schemes of great rifend erg, make it virtually to those who are in attend ance as witnesses, and who are forced to listen to that which they should be protested from, a genet for the dissemination of immorality. Thus regarding it, the Grand Jury present the court room as a moral and physical nuisance, and call upon the oonrt to take such steps as in its wis dom will produed its abatement, and the emotion of other rooms suited to the moral, legal, and physical wants of. those who are compelled to transact its business." This is strongly, because tiuly put. There is no accommodation for the judges of the respec tive courts, for officials,-for %lonia:set, for wit nesses, for parties, for reporters for the pub lic at large. The court-room is insufficiently heated in cold weather, badly ventilated at all times. Witnesses, lawyers, parties, police men, and spectators are inconveniently crowd ed, mixed and mingled together, in fact, without regard to comfort, health, conveni ence, and fitness. The court is so small that a moderate number of people crowd it, and soinadequately ventilated that, after a few ,hours' session, it reminds one very painfully and faithfully, of the celebrated Black Hole of Calcutta. ,Those who can sit in it; day after day, without suffering in bodily health, and mental strength, must have lungs of India-rub ber, and heads of lignum vitro. The moral and .physical sufferings consequent on such want of accommodation cannot be exaggerated. This we say of the Win: Pries (or civil), as well as of the court in which criminal charges are dealt with. There ought to be full accommodation for all who have occasion to attend the Courts. The Judge should have a retiring-room, with a separate private entrance. The Bar should have a roomy library, with severalspartments set apart for consultation with clients, wit nesses, &c. 'The witnesses should be provided with rooms in which they could wait, during the trial, until called to give evidence; Parties concerned in the trial, with their friends, should also have their convenience adequately provided for. Reporters should have reserved seats, which (c outsiders " should not be allowed to occupy at any time or upon any pretext. Gentlemen who are now study ing the law, and who naturally desire to wit ness its practice, should also have places re served for them. ' If a criminal trial proceed, the accused should have particular and secure accommo dation—sufficiently convenient to consult with counsel, if necessary, and sufficiently distinc tive to lot every person in Court recognise the prisoner at a glance—in a ward, to have him put full before the world, and not crowded np and smuggled ont•of sight among the lawyers who defend him. Jurors should be placed full before the public, ins part of the Court where they can see and hear well, and sufficiently isolated to prevent any communication from without. The witnesses should also have a agnate place, from which they could direct " their answers directly to the jury :and the judge. Lastly, the public should have seats provided for them in-conve nient galleries. As a general rule, the body of the court should not be occupied by the public; and, Indeed it should be borne In mind that they are adequately represented, in alt the legal courts, by the newspaper re oil ers— -W. knaw,..sar_AxamPlo, that from •e report of the *ashington Smith and the AM bone and Newhall trials, given with great full ness and fidelity in TuE•PaEas, that the public at large know bettor what passed in the courts, day after day, than the very parties in each case themselves did. Coming into Philadelphia, and examining the public buildings, a stranger cannot help forming the opinion that we must have very little respect for Justice, so wrote hedly do wo loddiher. For want of apace, want of con venience, want of ventilation, and numerous Other deficiencies, our courts of law aro dis creditable to our fine city. With good grounds, therefore, have the Grand Jury now presented the court-room in which the ses sions are'beigg held, as "a moral and physiL cal nuisance," emphatically calling upon the court to take such steps as "will produce its abatement, and the erection of other rooms, suited to the moral, legal, and physical wants of those who are compelled to transact its business." The only remedy for the evil is that sug gested here. New Courts of Law must be erected, adequate not only for tho present time but for a rapidly-increasing population. The City Is bound to do it, and to do it properly—not by jobbing contracts which may plunder the rate-paying inhabitants, and build up fortunes for rapacious speculators, but by liberal yet prudent expenditure, and by subjecting the architectural plans and the building tenders to the widest competition. We must have Courts of Law, adequate to all present and probable demands, • and the .speedier the matter is put in trlin for final arrangement, the better for the community. The Revision of the Tariff. The letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitted to the /rouse of Representatives on the 3d instant, clearly proves the necessity of an increase in the rate of duties at the pre sent session of Congress, notwithstanding the coldness with which such a change is recom mended. It shows that the total receipts from customs, for the quarter ending on the 31st of December, 1858, were but about nine million two hundred thousand dollars ; and, although the receipts for the two remaining quarters of the present fiscal year are estimated at twenty seven million dollars, it is very doubtful whether the total receipts from customs during the present fiscal year will exceed $50,000,000. It is well known that, under existing laws, it will be extremely difficult to reduce the ex penditures below ssventyfive millions; and the chances are that they will greatly exceed that sum. We have not only, however, thus to provide for current expenditures from twen ty-five to fifty millions more than current re ceipts, but 'also to meet treasury notes already issued, which will be constantly falling due. Those who oppose an increase of the tariff, on the ground that this is a proper time to in sist upon reducing the national expenditures, should remember that every dollar width can be raised, by the highest rate of duties that any ono would seriously propose, at this time, will be needed to pay off the debt already created by this Administration, oven though the scale of expenditures was reduced to the lowest practicable point. The Govern ment, from present indications, will have le gitimate and proper uses for all the money it is likely to' raise for the next four years from any tariff that may be adopted; and the in crease of the duties does not necessarily im ply an increase of extravagant expenditures. Indeed, it is a question whether true economy would not be promoted by increasing the re sources of the Treasury; for, if it is to be allowed to remain in an embarrassed condi tion, Unable to promptly meet its obligations, and constantly obliged to resort to loans, the probabilities are that higher prices will be de manded by the contractors than if they were promptly paid, and the interest account will constantly be increased. If Congress has any confidence, whatever in the Executive, or in the statements of• the Secretary of the Trea sury—any regard for the national credit or the industrial interests of the nation—it will make a change in the revenue lands at the present session. If it fails to do so, it will afford one of the strongest ovidoncei3 of the small amount of wisdom with which the world is governed that have ever been given in this country. THE PRESS.-141ILADELPRIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1859. Tile Sanitary condition of New York: A committee of the New York State Senate has recently had under consideration the sanitary condition of New York city. Its first inquiry was directed to the allegation that, in propottien to its population, the ratio of mortality was greater in Now York than in any other large city in this country or_in Europe; and the committee state that Mil fact has been fully established. They have ascertained that the mortality of London da ring the last ten years has averaged 1 in 40 of the population-' In 1856 it was 1 In 45. In Philadelphia, in the same year, it was 1 in 44.05. In Providence, Rhode Island, it was 1 in 55 07. In Boston, 1 in 40. The con trast presented by New York to the above mentioned cities is frightful, being as follows : In 1854, 1 in 22.05 ; in 1855 1 in 27.33 ; in 1856,1 in 28.67 ; in 1857, 1 -in 27.15. Another contrast is given, almost equally striking, as follows: The mortality of London is 25 in 1,000 ; of Berlin, 25 in 1,000 ; of Turin, 26 I in 1,000; of Paris, 28 in 1,000; of Genoa, 1 in 1,000 ; of Lyons, 33 in 1,000 ; of Ham burg, 86 in 1,000; of New York, 86.38 in 1,000. The mortality of different countries is Unityl States, 16 in 1,000 England, 23 in 1,000; Denmark, '2B in 1,000; France, 23.05 in 1,000 ; Holland, 24 in 1,000 ; Sweden, 24 in 1,000 ; Prussia, 28 in 1 000 ; Austria, 31 in 1,000 ; Russia. 86 in 1,000. The fact being time established that New York is tho moat unhealthy city in the civilized world, and that, as contrasted with Philadelphia, the mortality of the former 'is nearly twice as great as that of the latter, the committee present an array of causes amply sufficient to achount for it. Among them are the "imperfect cleaning of the streets; the rapid increase of teneinent7housee, badly constructed, imperfectly 'ventilated, in sufficiently drained into sewers, and imper vious to the light and-heat of day." The committee also state that "the most glaring nuisances are permitted to remain unabated daring the hottest months of summer, em bracing large deposits of festering excremen tal matter in close proximity with the public markets, and that the public health is con stantly endangered by the condition and.. in adequacy of the water closets in the houses of the poor, the filth of gutters, the stagnation of water in vacant lot's, and the crowded condi tion of the dwellings occupied by the laboring classes." In one building, containing ninety six apartments, one hundred and forty- six fami lies, numbering in all five hundred and seven ty. seven persons, wore found residing. In ano ther building examined, eighty-five apartments were found to contain three hundred and ten persons, and all the rooms wore not rented. In many cases, habitations densely populated were found in cellars five or eta feet under ground, which had to be baled out after every rain storm, and which destroyed health by their dampness, prevented, industry by their darkness, and could not be ventilated. The miserable occupants of these tenements are af flicted with constant rheumatic affections, hip complaints, and diseases of the bowels; and from the narrow streets, alloy-ways and courts, a' poisonous miasma M always ascending. Thus many of the diseases generated are not confined to the localities in which they origi nate, but widely diffuse their fatal effects. The committee state that some cr* the finest man sions aro also constructed without regard to scientific ventilation and the proper Introduc tion of light and heat; and that they, too, swell the volume of the subtle poison which is constantly killing off the inhabitants with un paralleled rapidity. • Various remedies aro proposed for this ter rible condition of affairs ; and the sanitary system of Philadelphia is pointed to as an example, which New York ,might, with great advantage, imitate. The committee proposes to reorganize the whole health branch of city government, to have the filthy streets cleaned, the sewerage and drainage properly attended to, and, es far as possible, to break up the cellar residences, and remodel the defective dwellings. But- it will be seen that' the evils ever breeding destruction are so deeply rooted that scarcely anything short of tearing down the city and rebuilding it can reach them, and that until a change of its political, social, and sanitary organization, involving an expen diture of millions of dollars, and the destruc tion of deeply-rooted habits, are effected, New York will continue to retain her present life.; destroying eminence. The New Yorkjournals are very fond of do reciatms_rtsai.actimia-,-troffirthey bad such a Viartui statement to adduce against this city ac their State Legislature has furnished against their own, they would represent Philadelphia as the moat dangerous spot upon the face of the globe. But, as it is, if cholera, and yellow fever, and the plague, in all their moat Marin forms, were added to our present catalogue of diseases, it is doubtful whether the ratio of mortality would be as great as It is In Now York at this moment, while she is in her usual normal condition, with thousands of plague spots, perpetually sending forth their pestife rous currents of deatMddling vapors. If we must choose between a poisonous metropolis and a healthy provincial town, we prefer the latter; and strangers who value their existence in their journeys eastward from the West, or northward from the South, should consider whether lite does not possess for them sufficient charms to induce them to stop and live in Philadelphia; in preference to jeoparding their existence in New York. If the mortality in Now York increases in the same ratio that it has for the last ten years, a new method for shuffling off the mor tal coil will be presented for human conside ration. Men contemplating suicide will no longer he obliged to rack their brains to de cide whether they should hang or drown them selves, cut their throats, take laudanum, strychnine, or arsenic; or imitate , c maudlin Clarence, in his Malmsey Mitt :" they will only have to visit New York, and spend a brief period amid its splendors, to insure a cer tain death. The oonflioting criticisms upon Mr. Barry Sulli van, one of the most eensible and saholarly actors received from Europe during the last thirty years, appear to have excited public curiosity very con siderably. He has just completed a fortnight's very sueeessfhl engagement at the New (?) Walnut street Theatre, and has been re-engaged for a week, during which ho will play the OhATROt.O2II of Sir Gees Overreach, (this evening) ; Beverley, in "The Gamester;" Don Casar de Baaan, Othello, and Richard. Mr. Sullivan is a performer who thinks, who disregards tradition when it is at va riance with common sense, who reads Shakepearo appreolatingly and inquiringly, who striotly at tends to the minutia, of correct costume, who can give a reason for each nett reading. It is justice to add that ho has been steadily and efficiently supported by Mr. Perry who, at last, is letting his fine talents have fair play, arfa is evidently get ting the better of some few mannerisms which used to mar some of his most ambitious attempts. At the Aroh.street Theatre "Our Amerioan Cousin" is now on the twelfth weak of a most sno• oessful run. The literary merits of this drama are singularly few. But the tinting is extremely good, li terally including the leading talent of the ootnpany. The revival of "Aladdin," on a liberal eoale of getting up, is another sums. This epeotaolo has bean already played for two weeks, and enters upon a third this evening. Such a tO-110.paredied piece as " Our American Cousin"—aotnally only a farce under' the genteel title of comedy—was too tempting a provocation to be passed by. Accordingly, Mr. Charles Gay. for burlesqued it at Burton's Theatre, Now York, bringing it out a female American Cousin, very ably played, we learn, by Mins Julia Daly, whose representation of a she-Yankee is said to be equal to any of Mrs. Barney Williams' amusing persona- Sons. Another, and a much darker, burlesque is announced at McDonough's Gaieties, in this pity, (Rime street, below Third,) from the pen of that experienced and efrioient play-wright, Mr. Silas Steele. It will be produced a few nights, will be called "Our African Con sin," and, as the name implies, will be re presented as a trigger piece. We have here to notice, with marked approbation, the decided superiority of MoDonough'is Gaieties over the old Yolks Theatre, which he has fitted up with great taste, and at no small cost, making every arrange. ment for the convenience and comfort of his au dience. He has collected an excellent company, with Mr. A. Fisher as his stage manager. Ole Bull Myers, the violinist, is there—so is Bain Long, the comic singer and jester—so is Mad'lle Marie, a lively and skilful danserese—so Is Williams, a capital ballad-singer—so is Miss Matilda, a pleas ing vocalist— and so are that amusing cou ple, Messrs. Bharpley and Thomas, who have a great deal of natural readiness and humor. IV° notice Miss B. 'Millman, a very handsome young lady, with a fine voice and most inexcusable earo. lessnose and want of animation in the use of it. Mr. McDonough is at the head of a very well con ducted and resPeetable place of amusement, and his many friends will wish him =tinned e11e0039. Van Amburgli's great menagerie continues very attractive at the National Circus. We wonder what has become of the curious gentleman who used to travel about, from circus to circus, or Public Arnusemente. pooling the death of Van Amburgb, from the anger of doe of his lions or tigers.' At the Na tional (Erode, besides the animals, tile usual dra matic, acrobatic,, and equestrian performers ap pear nightly. At Sanford's, that excellent Ethiopian actor And singer, Mr. E. Ti. dhriety, appears during the .whole •of the week. Mr. Sanford himself, with Cool White, Dixey, and a good company, *lll also perform; Blitz, at Assembly Buildings, carries on the war vary profitably, with his magic feats, ven triloquism, and learned canaries, .Platmlotnini appears twice this week—on Wed nesday, at the Philharmonic Society's concert, in Jayne's Hall, with other members of Ullman's Opera troupe, and, on Thursday, for het own benefit, at the Academy. BY MIDNIGHT MAIL. Letter front Washington Morrespondonco of The PrOSR.I W.tatirsoTos, Veh. a ; 1859 The depreciation of bsunty.lnnd warrants, in consequence of the passage of the homestead bill through the House of Representatives, occasions great solicitude as to the fate of that bill in the Senate. There is, no doubt, a largo majority in Its favor; but, inastuuch ns there, is no previoas question in the Senate, dad as the bill will be bit. tiny opposed, the only way to secure its passage would be for Senators to sit it out, which, at the present advanced stage of the session, is not pro bable. There are so many other measures, in eluding the appropriation bills of the Government, that must be passed, or that will be struggled for by their respective friends, that I do not think the advocates of the homestead bill can put it through. Doubts art entertained whether, in the event of Its passage, the President would sign it. lie is net willing to meet the Wee, and of anise will labor to secure its postponement, which will be equivalent to its defeat, at least for a year. The caucus of a portion of the Demooratio mem bers of the House last evening ended on nothing. I understand that Mr. Sickles made considerable of a sensation by opposing the free-trade move ments of the South. The caucus adjourned until Monday evening, before which time ovory effort is .te bo made to bring in the Pennsylvania, NewJer , Sey, and Now York Democrats who refused to take part in the proceedings. The Pennsylvania Demo orate held a separate canons, every ono being pro. sent but Mr. Hickman, and it was resolved to ad here to specific duties, and to stand by the interests of the State. A distinguished advocate of the Pacific 'Railroad called upon Mr. Buchanan some days ego, at a public reception, and found the ancient Rxeoutive solitary and alone, chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fanny, and apparently indignant that be had been obliged to part with Jahn G. Jones, and that few were left to flatter and fawn. The Presi dent inquired, How doos the Paola° Railroad flourish ? and the answer was somewhat suggestive, ea follows :—"lf you, Mr. President, had done half as much for the Pacific Railroad, which you profess to favor, as you did for the Leeempton Coneiitution, about which you professed to be in different, the railroad would have been half built by this time." In the present dilapidated condition of the Ad ministration party, I have thought it best to re vive the following passage from the uiemorable letter of Governor Bigler. one of its warmest sun porters, who some months ago " illuminated" the nal:tatty upon the declining health of his nursling : H Make my special regards to Governor Walker, and say to him THAT UPI HAS TUE POPULAR HEART WITH TIM THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY EXCEPT ONLY THE EXTREME SOUTH. Should his programme sue- Oeed, he WILL HAVE THE MOST ENVIABLE PROMI NENCE OF ANY MAN IN THE NATION. The Admi nistration is a little WEAN AT THE KNEES, and winces under the Southern thunder, but they must stand nu to the work." PIONEER. Letter from Ilerrisburg. [Correspondence of Tie Press.) T1A11111151611110, February 5 Mr. Fisher presented yesterday, " An net to in corporate the Chestnut and Walnut-streets City Passenger Railway Co." As Commissioners--John P. Levy. John Owens, D O. Enos. John K. Mo - Curdy, Edward Brady, Wm. Howell, Henry Rig borough, Jacob Broom, Joseph Maitland, Chas M. Hall, John Hollis, Wm. li. Harding, John Duress, Themes Struthers, Wm. D Baker, Wm. F. Slums, S. Morris Wain, Stephen Benton, Daniel S. Beide men, Tonne Leech, Jr., John Farrel, F. Daly -Holmes, E. Flood Brady, A. Jackson Reilly. James ce Finn, Phonies M Coleman. Henry G Letsen• ring, John McCarthy, Robert K. NMI and Charles Wilson. Capital Stock, 10,000 shares, $5O each Route to commence at intersection of Forty-second street and Chestnut at , in Twenty-fourth ward ; thence along Chestnut eastwardly, crossing the river Sobuyikill to Second street; thence along Second eouthwerdly to Walnut; thence along Wal nut westwardly to Twenty-second street; thane° along Twenty-second northwardly to Ohesteut street; and thenoo along the same westwardly to place of beginning The said company to purchase the Chestnut and Walnut-street line of omnibuses, and to pay annually into the treasury of the city the sum of FIX per contain on dividends declared; and provided further, that the said oompnny shall set apart and pay to said city the rim of $lOO,OOO as their first mortgage bonds towards the creation of the bridge at Chestnut street. All ante conflicting with this to be hereby re -pealed. By Mr. Ilamersley, "An not to incorporate 'the Philadelphia and Olney Railroad Cotormny." Corporaters—Samuel C. Ford, John P. Ferree, John Lundell, .Tohn Turner. °bort... Robbine, .Tohn Roberts, Joseph F Ford, Thomas Dunks, Charles Camblos, %Itemise E Potter. James Lynd, Henry S mons, roams Norris, Samuel Wright, Joshua Lippincott, George It. Evens, James N. - Dickson, and John Houehton, M. D Read of one or snore tracks, from Lehigh avenue to the village of Olney, in the Twenty-second ward, wills the right to extend to the village of Fox Chase, in Twenty-third ward, either on. over, and unon the line of the Kensington and Oxford Turnpike, or any part thereof ; or by. along, or over any route between said road and Seveeth street, and to aennect their said railroad either with the So tend and Third-street railroad, or the Frank ford and Southwark City Passenger Railroad, and for that purpose to nee any streets, as pro- Tided by the 4th section of the cot incorporating the Second and Third-streets Passenger Railway :Company. Capital steak 2,000 shares, $25 each, 'with power to increase to 4.000 shares. When any part of the road is completed, tolls, not greater then ten cents, eon be charged for conveying pas sengers three miles, or any distance under that, and for any distance over three miles, not more than three cents per mile. The Haase has not been in session today. In the Senate, the supplement to the Germantown Passenger Railway came up in order, and the let section was fought with animation until the hoer of adjournment. As is customary on such ocaa• alone of legislative strife, numerous and ineffectual motions were made, consuming time and exciting temper. Mr. Wright proposed an amendment, providing that the portion of said road extending eoutheast from Washington lane, in Germantown, Twenty second ward, to the junction of Fourth and Fifth • streets with the Germantown road and Perkiotnen turnpike rend, 110 finished within eight months; otherwise the provisions of this supplement; shall be void as to their right to use Fourth anti Eighth streets. Mr. Randall's substitute, however, pre vailed. It provides for an agreement between the Railway Company and the Turnpike Road Company, within 30 days after the passaea of the net. If such agreement can be made. the railway Is to be constructed within ten months. If they fail to come to terms, the parties are to choose referees, sta. Mr. Myer offered an additional pro- Visa, relative to the purchase of omnibus property, which was pending when the Senate adjourned. There is no doubt of the passage of the bill. ALBION. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. FlAlutllinalia, Feb. 5, 1859. 1E123E1 The Semite met at 10 i‘ otatock. The followin reports were made by the Judiciary Committee : Mr. BRZWRII., an ant relative t hawkers and pedlars In Beaks and Lebanon countlea. . . . . Ala). the bill relative to auctioneers in the city or Lancaster, with a negative recovmendation. Mc. Bum., the bill to erect the Twenty-second Jo diolaidiatrict, to be composed or the counties of Carbon and Lehigh. Also, the bill regulating the weighing of anthracite, bitnmiunna, and semi-bitumitinna coal. . . Also, a auppleineot to the act giving jurisdiction. in equity. to the Supreme Court, and to the Court of 0 ern mon Pleas in the city of Philadelphia, In cases of dis puted bonwitrfes. Mr..Ponnetw, the bill to extend the provisions of the out of 18th Oetober,lB67, relative to meehanicsi lien loane, with a negative recommendation. Also, negatively. the bill relative to pattnere. Mr. FIMNRY. with an amendment, the bill relative to Orphaaat Omuta, and other perfume. flee; negative 7, a further supplement to the not re lative .o inepeciloes, approved s prit 11,1855. Mr. Yante,gr, the bill relative to the Norristown Anaderny. • • Tho following bills were read, It place : Mr tituronr, to incorporate the Philadelphia and Olney Railroad Comptny. Mr. OASZ tie, a supplement to the act incorporating the Pittsburg and Steubenville Railroad Co. Mr. lIAZZ AM. a supplement to the sot incorporating the Pittsburg and Stenhenv,llo Railroad Co Mr. RANDALL, to Incorporate the Qalchailver Company. 4. resolution author'ziog the clerk to furnbh each Rooster with a map or Philadelphia was adopted The bill supplementaty to the act incurporsting the Germantown Railway Company came up in order, on second reeding, pending the quest onto postpone the bill indefinitely. The motion woe not agreed to Mr. MT pit moved t+ pottinne the bill for the present, and make it the order of the day for Wednesday next. Not agreed to—rne 10, nays 2). A motion woo then made to pontoon° the bill for the present Not agreed to—yeah 9, nays 20. The question then wee on the first Faction of the bill, when Mr. Winans moved to amend, to add a proviso to the mid of the portion, requiring that the comp ins , shall floteh that portion of the Germantown railway extend ing sentiment from Waeiiington lane, to Genoa:Dialer., to the junction of Fourth and Fifth ',toots, wi'h the Germantown and Perklomen turnpike road, within eight months from the peerage of the act ; otherwise the use of Fourth and Pighth to be forfeited. Mr. RANDALL offered an amendment to the amend ment, providing for a settlement of the right of wily Over the Germantown and Peak:men turnpike. ant re quiting the company to build the road to Germantown within ten menthe. ' A long discussion ensued on the amendments, which wee participated in by Messrs. Wright, Randall, Mime lie, Pinney, Coffey, Gomm, Palmer, flyer, flo field, and others. Mr. Randall's amendment woe finally adopted—yeas 18, trays B—as follows : rlAN—Mosere. Baldwin, Coffey, Craig, Pinney. Fran eta, Gomm, Barrie. Miller, Nunemacher, Parker, Penney, Randall, Rutherford, Scefteld s Bteele, Turney, Welsh, ant Cromwell, Opeskeri-17. Nays—Mesere Blood, Brewer, Fetter, Keller, Muse- Myer.,Palmer, and Wright 'l. The amendment no amended was than agreed to— yeasl7. nays 6—as follows : Yale-51eFArs Baldwin, Coffey, Craig, Finney. Pm:t rig Gramm, Herrin, Miller, Di:sumac:her, Parker, Ran dal), Rutherford Ponlbed, Sterile, Turney, Welsh, and Oreenwell, (Ppeater)-17 RP:Ts—Mahan. Blood, Brewer, Maroons, ?dyer, Pal mer, and Wright: It. Mr Yanrmir stated that be did not vote on these motions, for the reason that he had paired off with Mr. Shaeffer . _ . Mr. MYRa then submitted an amendment requiring the company to pu•chane the stook of the omnibus lines on the route of the road. This was further discussed till the hour of one o'olook, when the Senate adjourned till Monday afternoon, at 3 o'olo4. • THE LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. THIRTY -FIFTH CONGRESS, Second Session. WASHINGION, Feb. 6,1859 SENATE. Mt. TOO3lllB, Of Georgia, moved to reconsider the vote by which the Missouri two•per cent. hued bill watt peened. Alereed tn. Tne direly Mori onthe bill wee deferral. . . The b li mutherieng the Attorney General to retire ment the United States in the proceedings in trinity now pending in the Supreme ContT between-Mesa chumetta and Abode lal•nd wan passed, 13RWARD, of New York PreSented a memorial from the Yeetteature of New York, ittstrn•tlog its Repro nentativos in Oongroas to oppose the increase of postage rotas, Also, a netnorial front the citisees of New Yotk in favor of the homestead law Mr CLAY, of Alabama, from the Committee on rum inate°, reported a substitute for the recommendations of the Secretary of the Treasury roc-riling economy in the publ'o expenditures. The substitute proposes to economize $600,000 and the Moslem, of a thousand per. song now employed in the collection of the revenue. The substitute wee, ordered to be printed, and will be railed up on the esrlfest opportunity. The hoer for hnsinese relating te,the District of Co lumbia boring arrived, Mr Relaur, of Indiana, from the Committee on Pub lic Bolldines, moved that the bill making regulations for the diFtr•botton of water be taken up. Mr BREAM of Missieslppi, moved that the Pennsyl vanla.Avenne ReiPead bill be taken op. ,The latter motion prevailed by vote of 27 yeas to 17 ndve The hill wee discussed till a late hour, but without any result. Without taking it VOA. NM Pellets adjourned. HOUSE OP TtIiteRPNIENTATIVES. Mr. WA.PI3IIIINR, of Illinois, rove notice that on Dior day next be will move to take up the river and km•hot. bill. • • • Mr. iTinscovr, ot' North Carolina, from the Commit. tee on Naval Alfaira. r,:oorted a Joint ramluttou of tbenlce to oapt esmaet b. rood, for the design of the propent flag of the United State,: The noun proceeded to the cona:deration of 'private bUle. - • .. A blot resolution. givte the assent Cativo!! to Lleut Maury and Prof. Bache to rennive medals from the fiabilulatt Governnient. was passed. CAEIR offired the &Cowing resolution. which "" awed to, namely Resol red, That the standing rornmitteeti of the gouts, which-at the last session wore sotborlred to employ. clerks, he aotho , ised to employ eterke at the present Religion at the came rate or compmpathm, from the date of earvias, during the present session. Mr. Putiivs, of Missouri, moved that the raise be gas petaled. in order that the Come might resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole on the state or the Union. on the legislative. executive, and judicial ap propriation bill. Re remarked that it was not probable mach provress would be made with the private calendar. • • • . Mr DAVIS, of Indfauft, moved that the Renee resolve /Waif foto a Committee of the Whole oo the private calendar, and the eneettna Woe decided lathe affirms tive—yeaft 84 Dave 13. Mr.W Z SIMS NV, of Maine, way called to preside. The committee proceeded to the consideration of the bill to Irdoinnify leery Leer and John Mcßee for the Illegal seizure of a certain bark. , It appeern that the 'complainants bought a Trench vessel which had been partially wrecked. and being de simns of fitting her out and trailing with a foreign country. applied to the authoritlea at Washington to know whether the licence and reglatry lawn of the Uni ted States applied to a vessel of thin description. They were informed that it did not. Having accordingly fit ted out for vessel and called her to liable, the Ameri can meal there coollneated It, on the ground that it bed not a remitter such as to required by the laws of the Guile t States. This act was followed by a series of wrongful ante, such as seldom find a parallel in com mercial broom:Aims. The Government disavowed the conduct of the consul, and released the usenet The owners now ask to be indemilified to the extent of several Gummed dollars, being the difference between what the cargo—which wee sqld—wan worth. an' what it wee sold to Thie bill merely authorise. the Se cretary of the Treasury to pay the actual lessee tehich the complainants may satisfactorily show they have sustained. , A debate ensurd, fn which was &Mussed the ques tion as to whether the Government is not bound to fur nish redress, or whether the wrong doer alone to not reavonalble. Thera evidently was not, quorum pre- Bent during them proceedings, and the House soon at. terwards adjourned. The Tariff Question—Democratic Can ens of the House—The Pennsylvania Democratic Cancits. Weattwarott. Feb 8.--The adjoutne3 meeting of the Democratic caucus of the House of Representative!' wag held het night, Hon. John Cochrane acting so Chair man, sod Messrs Cavanaugh end fteffin se Beeretariec The largest number present at any one time was fifty, of whom four were from New York, three from Inel4llP, six from Ohio one from Illiuore , and several others from the free State... ileiraett, of Virginia. from the special committee of five, appointed at the hut meeting, repor•ed a resells- Von that means ought to be provided for the payment of the Treasury notes near maturing, and that the deft ciency in the treasury should be mit by a reduction of the expenses of the Gdvernment. Mr. Garr° tie report was only an outline, intended to show that the revenue of the present finest year would exceed by several millions the estimates submitted in the reports of the Rotatory of the Treasury; and he also made a statement showing a number of iteme in the eptimstes which could be largely reduced ; among them were the Neale for lithographing and engraving, bold ing pelvic lineaments. the public priotiog. cutting off the Congressional Glode, the branch mints, the coast sw - voy, ate. Also, reducing the army estimated several irmens, andthe navy estimates about three ; a reduction of newly two million. by sussendieg the work on the petite buildings, and by the reducing of the franking privilege top ogee of two cocoon: diminish ing the number of mail routes to California and making tho ocean-rnall rercice seif-sustainfog. Alma, cutting off the light honsee from being sustained by the Govern ment and supporting them hereafter by the Imposition of tonnage Rafe( Mr. Garnett made a speech In support of his reso lotion, and was followed on the game Bide by Kam. Vollandigham, of nhlo ' • Crawford and Repliers, of Georgia ; and Amilli, of Virginia. The debate wag also indulged' in by Messrs Cavanaugh, of Minnesota; Milne, of Missouri; !Males end George Taylor, of New YOlk, soil Groesbeck, of Oblo ; but they did not go to the foil extent of Vance who preceded them, although they admitted the necessity of economy. Several propositions, looking to a reduction in the ex penditures of all the trenches of public service, were 'Omitted. Al ter a long dlsonnelon t Mr Groesbeck moved that the canna adjoarn sine die, with the underetatiding that a general conference of the Democratic party should be hal next week. ncr ateph•u. ..pprOved at the auggeolltloas, - and The motion wal it le undoint;ol that the report of tha special enro l:11Mo,, of fire will I). preload for pubihntioa. l'onoxylveol3, New Jersey, Connecticut, end Coil ferola were not represented in the caucus New York Woe rep , esented by Mesas Cochrane, Pickleg, Taylor, and Hatch. Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio were fully represents I. The caucus finally adjourned about midnight. The Democratic members of the Pennsylvania (tele gallon were also to caucus last night, and passed the following tesceutions First. Oppointioo to the inetelfie cf the permanent nettonal dett. Second. Madorsiog the Preeldent's recommendations for Freda(' dutl.s. Third it-pudiatiog the acts and proceedings or the Democratic caucus, and appointing' a committee of three to take steps for united action with other Domocrata who approve of the position they have as sumed. AU the Pennsylvania Democrats were present except two. Further from Salt Lake. Sr. Loots, Feb. 6 —The Repsebtecrsta publishes a let ter from salt Lake,dated the 14th tilt , stating that Judger' Mt, Clair and Cradhaugh will leave the Territo ry in the spring, being satisfied that their presence as Federal officers lu adranieterlng the laws le merely farcical The letter adds that there is no loyalty to the Gov. ernment among the Mormons; that, while to a certain extent they rsapeut the law, they neltherrecogntee nor respect de 'Writ, and that neither murder nor any crime hat or can be punished. The Texas Pacific Railroad. 2,ZW ORLIANS. Feb. s.—Adrices received from Mar shall, Totes, to the 29th ult., state that the Arbitra. lion Committee in relation to the Pacific Railroad hod not completed the examination of the deeds of trust and elating, but the aniontit bed been already reduced below 5290.000. Anoth 4 r account ears the reduction bao been to 5140 000 Preeldent Foulkes is expected toga posses sion during the present week, The Texas Cotton Crop. NEW ORLHANA, Feb. 6 —Advice§ from Gaivedon to tho MIL ult state the total receipts of Cotton at 03,860 b§los, and the stook on hand 31. 100 bales. Response to F. 0. J. Smith's Card. Now Tout, Feb 6 —The card of E. 0. J. Smith. in relation to the consolidation of the various telegraph lines in which ho is intereeted,with the American Tete graph Ootorany, contains not one word of truth. as far so the Associated Frees is concerned There is not one word in his contract of sale to justify his asserting that the arrangements for receiving European news are to be , broken up; on far from it. every member of the American Telegraph Company, and every other man of common sense, knows perfectly well that the present nrrangemeuta relative to the loreign news are the Rarest to the community and the best toe the lines that otn be devised D. 11. Cotta. The Illinois Centel Frauds. Pr. Louis. Pbo s.—Deopttrheo from Springfield Fay that the hex to the State by the recently discovered canal checks will arnomit t 3 8210.000 Mr. Matteeol has written to the Senate committee, calling for a full invflptigation, at d ache that a suit be instituted agalott him in the Oircuit Ooert, Fatal Affray in Kentucky. Loutevit.Le. Feb. 5 —J. AttOrocklin killed 7 D Beard to Sperm county, on Thursday A reward of one thousand dollars was offered for the arrest of the cool:toed, but It waft withdrawn under the supposition that he would surrender himself to a friend to enable the latter to obtain the reward. Fire at Leavenworth, Kansas—Loss of LUAVEttiMMItTiI. Feb. 5—A fire occurred this after noon, consuming the Shotwell House," a greasy 'Anse, end a lumber yard. The loos in estimated at $7,000. The remains of a human body were found in the ruins. and it is supposed an inmate of the Dot well House was burnt to death, Fire in Brooklyn—Four Lives Lost. Nsav York Feb 6 —The dwellinx at the corner of plaeo and Fulton avenue. llrooklvn, wan parti.lly di , troycd by ate thin moroirg hire. Gill. her two children, and a servant girl, were suffocated to deal,. Mr. Gin, the husband and father, in a dryogoodn dealer, and in now in Philadelphia on business, Fire et Boston—Lone $300,000 licsvOa, Fish. 6 —Russell's ISlrcbacical Bakery, rm Commercial street, was destroyed by are this merr in,r. Ttot tatliog walla destroyed two or Diree adjoining buildings, and Daniel Henderson. a fireman, war killed. C ipli Wilson, of th• swain lire-engine, was seriouely it jured. Several other firemen wore injured, and one is wi=sing, who to 'disposed to be under the rains. The lest is estimated at s3n) OCO. a portion of which Is co vered by insurance. The Ore is attributed to 1130Ftl dlariem. The bakery only commenced operations on Thursday last. Twenty-three thousand borrelaof flour wore destroyed, New buildings will be erected. Snow-Storni in New York. Now Tone, Peb. heavy snow-sterna commenced bolo I bout nnon, and up to nine o'clock this evening I.IIX unnhes had fallen The storm still continues Islth out abatement. Noe-Arrival of Steamers. SANDT HOOK, Feb 6-9 o'clock P. M.—The expected steamships, Aida and Kangaroo, have not yet ben gig nailed below The enow is falling brevity, and the weather being heavy, ant the night very dark, there le ne prospect of their arrival to-night The Asia is now ilitaen days out and the Kangaroo is in her nineteenth day. Markets by Telegraph. MOBILE, Fob. 4 —Cotten—Enloe of 1 000 hales to-day, nt 110 Sens for thN wreck, 9 COO bile,; ri teipts. 09 600 bales, against 25,500 bales in the reeelpte ef.tbe cones pond,og week of lost year. Stool. In port, 201,500 bales. Sterling exchange uncharged. Vow ORI.IIiNS, Feb o.—Salem of Cotton to-daYI 3 000 bairn. Yrier,s &cad octal ir, but without ohacTe In guotationo The lat.st telegraphic, reports place the lamented receipts of Cett• u In all &unborn S arin at 1,003.700 bales consumed with the snce Period 01 tact year. The market for Sinn tack to flf tu $lll 60.t20 50; Whisker 19 2e linchor, b ,mg ana eed by the Cincinnati d erpaiehei ; sales nt 29e; gunnies 11e rtigATl, Feb f —5l-ur doll and unchanged. Whiskey advanced le, mid gale, at 270 Woo York on changed, and sates at $18.76. 130 0 00 10 ball at 7 .4 0 for Shoulders, and 9Xo for Sides. Itulk Men's are in good demand ; sales 500,000 the at ego for Shoulders, SXcree for Blinn, and SX 209,40 for llama. Lard Arm at nx MIN°. THE CITY; 0:7 See firs, pitge; MOH SatiOOL ExamrsertoN.—Tho follow ing le 'the Het et candidates admitted to the High §ehoOt, an /Words! morning, with their adrolegion number and average, and the Mode from which they were sent : No. I, James T Bates, 91 6 Locust; 2, Samuel 0 11n -110.1-, 99 4. North West ; 3,430bt. Ellis Thompson, 00 8, Harrleon; 4, Thome; J. Oarson, 902,• North West; 5, Jos It Foglia, 90 0, Walnut; 6, Jun W. White, EQ. 7, Locust; 7, Banal. H Imparts, 89 5, lefferann • 8, base T. Dutton. 89,4. Jefferson ; 9, Ohne P Rayne-, 89 8, Rittenhouse ; 10, Tryon Reakirt. 8.92. Monroe ; 11, Edwin 8. Wartman, 88.6 Hancock; 12, Theo. - P. Matthews, 87.8, Warne.; 13, Wm Grange, 97.9, Jeffs, egg ; 14. I Ina. H. Washington, 87.3, Locnat ; 15, 121 w. J. Dougher'y, 88.5, Locust ;16, Then, F Thor... 86.5, Jefferson; /7, Ohs*. A. Megatrs, 88 2, Mount Vernon; 18, Chas. E. Troutman, 86.2. Newton; 19, James A ospa•b. 862, Hannosk ; 26, Pas, J. Ballork, 86.0. Hancock; 21, Geo Wilfoog, 85.6, Locust; 22, Samuel B. Collins, 85 3 Efancook ; 23, Samuel W. Broadbent 85.3, Walnut; 24, Henry J. McCa-thy, 85 2, Mount Vernon ; 25, Was. Derwin. 85.2, Locust ; 88, Henry 8. Wiener, 85.1, Zane ; 21, John A. Einem 85 0, isthmian; 23, Henry C. Titus, 84.8, Locoed ; 20. Jame,. B. Graham, 84 5, Northwest; 30. Issula J . Young 81 0, Hancock ; 31, George IL Miller. 83 8, Monroe; 32. T. 8 Bonsall 83 8 Hancock ; 33, Clarence B. Young, 8335, Madison • 84 Gen Stevenson. 832. Locust • 35, rum Graham. ' 83 2, Locust ; 36. Theo Justice, 83.1, Ilan. cock ; 3T, Andrew I. Morrison MI. Roshorough ; 88, Robert O. Wallace, 83 1, Madison; 39, Thoreau .1 Car roll, 83.0, Mount Vernon; 40, Wm. J McDowell, 83.0. North West; 41, Wm. P. Scbleot, 829, Monis; 42, lease arer, 82 7. Jeffsraorr„. '43, William E. Griffis. 82.6, Walnut; 44, Jsur. (4, Alexander, 82 4, Mount Vernon- 45, Aug. T Clark, 82.1. Mount Vernon; 48, Jae G. Finley, 820.1368ra0n ; 47, Wm H. bfedlan, 81 9 Morrie ; 48, tranvia F. Btightly, 81,6 Rittenhouse; 49, Robt. H Frame, 81.6, Morris ; 50. Wm. Barone, 81.5. Locust; rd. Scoria L Curbs. 81 3, Northwest; 52, Wm. H. Whitney, 61.2, Mount Vernon; 53, Mathew Cartwright, Jr., fil 1, Jefferson; 54. Win H. Morgan, 810. Madison. 56 Frannie 61. Mal/ride, 80.0 La ; 056 G Frederick a BO Har r ison rb r r ; 8 59 , 9 iso Z on a 6 1: 1 ! gary, 80 5, Morrie; 59, Geo W Mull. 80.4. Penn; 60, Theo. W. Deklyne, 80 3. Madison ,• 61, Edward A. Pkarn, 80 2, Adams; 62. John B Patton. 80 2, Locust; ea. Geo. 0 Paul 80 2, Jefferson • 64, Geo (I Wayne, 80 2, Northwest ; .65, Franklin d. Forbes, 79 9, North. west; 66 Wm F. Sullivan. 79 S.Nottharsat ; fit, Than IL Marston. 79.8 Penn ; 68 Geo B P. Hamilton. 79 7. Northwest 66, Rdgerton Dal Ingham, 79.6, Zane; 70, William C. Norms, .79.6, Jackson; 71. George H. -,7,..""t'es.it 8, Hancock; A l u 2 Stin t-1 . 5' 71171. al Powell.t .7971; fitevens , n, 792. Irving; 75 Michael A. ~,"?"e " 79.2. Zane; 76 Isaac Reed. 19.0, Monroe; 77, Jae 6 kin. 74.8 !dazzle; 78. Henry Ararnel, • 79, Henry 0. Pollock, 7 8 6, Monroe; • 50u t h.,..".1. .8 5, Zane ;81 Phu Morris, 78 4. r • Dell, 78 2, Mount Vernon; n'orthq 82 , Henfr • -n, 78 2, Zlll4l ; 84, 83, Thorns.. 0. Petah:fez, -au ; 85, Ite Maros, tort 8. Golden. 782 , Jolter.. %oriel.. 78 2, outh -78.2, Carroll; 86, Henry F. - North weat east; 87. William P. /Imam. TO Is • • 80. William Eugene R. Christman, 78.1, Northers*, - 800 . 77,9 , H KeVey, 77 9, Zane; 93 Samuel P. . f Ver- Mount Vernon ; 01, Wilt IL Myers, 71 ft Man, T..n. non •, 92 J. Da Mcßride, 17 8. Diarri•ou ; - 11 P., derdale '77 6 Zane ; 94. John B Donnelly. 77.4, /forth west; 95, Alex. Browne, 77.4. Penn. ; 96. Nd B,Stnefd, 77 2, Northwest 97 Lewis Sylvester, 77.2, totitnit; Data. W . Yeakel, 76.7. Harmony ; 99. Gen. Tr. 51000n nell, 76 5, Newton; 100, Robert P. Montgomery, 76 6, Locust ; 101. Francis Altera:la, 76 6. Jefferson ; 102, Geo. C Lanes, 78.4 Mount Vernon; 103, B . 0 Clark, 76 3, Monroe; 101. Horace P. Mitchell. 762. Locust; 105, Cicero Bunt, 78.2, Northeast; 106 Richmond 51. Kirk, 76.1 Memo ; 107. And. English, 76.0, Northwest; 108, • W Wileno, 76 0, Madison; 100, Jodn Ogden, 75.9, Newton ; 110. T. H. P. Pholladv, MO, Northwest ;121, Stephen F. IV Bledary, 76.4, Rittenhouse ; 112 Judah Ascb, 75 2, Zane; 113, Fred 7. a nspaclf, 75,1, Han cock ; 114, James F Maguire, 74.7, Northwest; 116, Chas H. Price, 74 6, Newton ; 116. John F. Bander., 74.2, Mount Vernon ,• 117, Alfred U. Dobnert, '73 7, Monroe • 118, Wm Wayne Vogdes, 73.4, Monroe; 119, Wm. F. ' Church, 78 4; Ringgold Total, 119. The following statement exbiblts the number ad mitted from each school, and the general average of scholar Alp Mall the applicants iron, each e:hool SoaooLs Northwest.. 7 ocget•etreet Mount Veracn Zeffereon llaneack Z ne.etoet Monroe •a orris Madison Newton Walnut-street Penn Harrison Rittenhouse.... John Q &dam• Poutheant Carroll Imng ...... Harmony Jackson RoXhorOngh Northoaat Total , 1 19 Number at applicants, lot; admitted, 119 ; rejected 33. Admission average, 73.4 The average a3e of the applicants admitted was 14 years, 8 months, awl 22 days. Average time of attendance in the lower sahools, 5 years, 5 months, and 6 days. Number admitted from the several wards i—Viret, 2 ; reomd. 7 : Third, 8; Fourth. 2: Fifth, 2; Sixth. 1; Seventh, 10; Eighth, 10 ; Ninth, 6 ; Tenth, 10; Elev enth, 1; Twelfth, 2; Thirteenth, 10 ; Fourteenth, 7; Fifteenth, 10; Sixteenib. ; Seventeenth, 2; Nigh teenth, 7; Nineteenth, 2. ' Twentieth, 4; Twenty-1U rat, 2; Twenty• Second, 5; Twenty-Third, 1 • Twety- Fourth, O. Total. 119 Occupations of the parents of the students admitted : deccuntaets, 2; baker,]; tank tellers, 2; blacksmith 1 ; bricklayer, 1 ; brickmaker, 1 ; brokers, 3 ; builders 2; car inspector, 1; carpenters, 4, carver, 1; clergy men, 2; clerks, 9; coachmakers. 2; cordwainere, 8; dealere, 8; dentists, 2; &over, 1; druggist, 1; en graver, 1 ; engineer, 1 ; farmers, 2 ; ilaberm&p, 1 ; furrier. 1; gesatter, 1; gentlewomen, (widows,) ; innkeepers, 2; importers, jeweller. 1; lawyers, 3; machinists, 2 ; mar lure, 1 ; maAttneker, 1; madman 11 ; miller, 2; naval officer, 1; prcker.l; paper stainer 1; photograper, 1; phyrielan, 1 ; plane- taker, 1; plas terer, 1 ; • printer,l ; publishers, 4; aroma ernes, 4; nekton 1; eilver plater. 1; tailor, 1; tanner, 1; tin smith, I ; undertaker, 1; liatuallers, 2 ; weaver, 1 total, 119. Aaassr or Roam/Jas .—A few nights ago the jewelry store of Mr. 11. Leibert, la Norristown, was entered and robbed of flee or sin hundred dollars' wrrt', of jewelry. An entrance was errecreu by roaming their way into an a ljoining cellar From there they crawled through an aperture in tho wall separating the cellars They then burned a hole in the hatch-door large eunlnh to insert the hand and remove the bolt. Yes. terday a 1111111 named Neal GrilSo was arrested upon the charge of passing counterfeit money, and a coople of pistols bond upon him, which were idenildeO by Mr. Lttibort as part of the slobs property. Oritlo admitted the robbery, and named Mason as an accomplice who was also arrested. and both committed to answer at adrift. Last evening the officer/I had another Inter view with Griffin, when ha informed them where the geode were secreted Upon proceeding to the place named by him—which wen the pig-pen and thickens house a boiled to the house in whist' himself and mother resided—the moat valuable port of the goods were forted Gridla has borne a very bad name for a number of years. A Roams CALOGIVT.—Abotit one o'clock on Saturday morning, while a gentleman was Imaging along Baker street, below Seventh. he way abseiled by three ecioundrela, who were lying in wait. They knocked him down by slinking him on the head with a slung shot and while he was down they cut out the pockets of hie pentaloons and their contents. The villains were seen by a citlzan named John Dnify,whe snapped a platelet them from his window, and then pursued and arrested one of them, ne men Bernard Eamon The fellow bad a hear ing on satnrday before Alderman Ogle, who committed him in default of $2,000 bail, to answer The man's pocket. together with its °entente, was found. Efforts are being made to discover the other two parties in Fames villainy. WEARY Or LIFE.---Abont nine o'clock on Saturday evenlog, a man named John Lynch went into tavern in Front street, between Spruce and Dock At, and after conversing a little time, took from hie intake a Mated revolver, placed it against his breast, sod emerged Re contents through his body. The ball p.s•ed Over the heart, mid tame from the left aids. Lynch fell t. the door, and upon being questioned as to the motive of hie mall ett. enure...pea much regret at what ho had deco. Several of bin friends removed him to the Penn sylvania Hospital It is thought he may recover, though the wound is a very wriotia one. floarrrAt, CASSEL—John Gormly, age 24, white, had his thigh /matured and his 'knee badly in jured, on Saturday, by a fall from a horse. lie RP* taboo to the lip amps' Efrapilal. Margaret 'ampbell was carried to the mime Instilln. tine, severely ambled. This aecideatwas canoed by the upending of a cauldron r f boiling lye. Wm stcOormel, a child of about two yearn of age, had his back and arms burnt by the exploalon of camphine lamp. The little Buffeter was carried to the Episcopal Hospital. Ax Isuumar.—On Saturday an inquest was held by Ooroner Fenner on the body of Mrs. Ellen Day, at No. 114 Ohio street, which rune from Eleventh street, below Fitzwater, who it was fOleged met' a vio lent death. A hill investigation showed that the death was the result of natural causes. The deceased. who was only in her twenty. fifth yea•, woe a woman of very intemperate habit.. The bruises on her evolvers shown to have no connection with her death. Verdict in an. cordance with the facts A THIEF BELOW.—Houry Gaylor, who has a predilection for door-plates, like Mu. Toodlac in the play, although the plates may bear another name than hie own, was detected In the act of removing one from the door or a dwelling on Tenth street, shove Pine, late on F.lday evening. Alderman Coulter, after patiently weighing the foots of the cue, on Saturday morning, in:clef/tot t of bti., rent Henry below, to answer the eummoua of the Criminal Court. Report. I pricy, February 5,1859. ladelohin .from the 29th of of Fibruary, 1859. Health Hunan Interments in City of Ph January to the 5t Fever, Scarlet Typhus.... " Typhoid.... Hernia ...... nem erchsge In flataltion, :Mu S-nneht. ct Lungs ... ct '• Larynx.. Asibint Aspht xi 5.......... Aneuriam. Apoplexy t motet of Ciente.. Casualties......... Croup Coueoation of Brain Cousura'n of Limas Oonvuleione °plume Diarrhea Beppu, 8,8111 ,‘ Cheat ‘• Heart Di6ease of Bruin— Heart— Kidneys Drolinid Dyeentery Debility kilbeion on Brain.. Erysipelas Paver, Puerperal.. OF THE Insanity ...... Inanition ........ Manama areasfea Old Age Paley .e.erofula • . • • 'Tabus Zilesenterica rilinown . THERE VERN— From 40 to 50.... " 60 to 60. " 60 to 70- 4, 70 to 80.... " 80 to 90.... " 90 to 100... Mtor). yenr....... From 1 to 2 2 to 5...... , f' 8 to 10 10 tols " 15 to 0 0 " 20 to 30 " 30 to 40 From the Almeh. the Courtin 1. Males Felonies. By order of the B. All' Total P mole of Color, 9 Boys Girls Health. :lIGUES. Health Officer Exchange, Feb. 5. New York stock 00 Missouri 8o 84% 105 P h N Y Oen P. 02% 'OOO do 80% tOO 1,1 Et & Nls gd stk 46% 80e0 Ind *tote Oge 80% 100 do b 7 45% 1.100 I'l Ceu It bda 87 120 (61 and Oh R t 9% 20001. C 3,21 ig bds 23 60 do 580 601(. 1000 MOR B.elmstsb 90 :in Erie R 610 13% 550 hh Part IL 116 100 do hoolof eio do 116% 200 0, 13% 01 Peon Cool Co 80 50 do 680 14 225 PneiOc Midi SO 0077 100 Has IL Prefd 030 40% 100 do r 45 751$ i6O do 40's' „. 73 do 161701( LO do 530 41 100 Nl , Can R 02% 50 do e3O 41% 200 do 060 8230 60 do 40% ll 0 do 630 82% 100 Reading 1t .060 48% 200 do b6O 82% 350 Olv & Tol R 30% 500 do b3O 82J 1000h1 eo Ilk I %100 50% FIN&NCMASISOARFINLI.!..-- • The„ litiiikeY MatketZ';7l; PEILADSLPIII/.. Yell. 5,1859. .7.11 17pton, Beg , his prepared a full and elubnate analysis of the marine - disasters of the . year 'lB5B.- The whole number of disasters of all kinds reported during the year was 1418, as follows: 1!1 steamers, 329 !hips, 223 barks, 229 brigs, and 506 schooners, The total loses number 390, of which 51. were steamers. 84 ships, and 54 barks; The great balk of ilia dbeastere wire suet lined by AmeriPan somata, 1142 out of the ,whole number 0f,1418, sailing under .the stars and stripes. The disaster,' by oillsion haprened to 16 steamers, 23 ships, Int 9 barks, and by Are to 48 steamers, 25 ships, and 4 barks Thirty-three per cent. ef the leases ware by stranding, five per cent, by foundering, nlnepercent. by collisions and six per cent. by fires. ' The trial estimated. pulses for 1818 were, by steaming, $6 551,900 ; by Ships, $9,373,0251 by' barks, 52 600.500; by Wigs, 51,364,703; and by echoonere, $1,746,215 —in all, 521 489 72'. Of this amount stout one-fifth were f'rel¢n, leaving the 'kaput of American loeset $ ll , - 191,776, divided up se 1171048: For New York, any 9 24..... For Boeten. 6 24..... For Peileie/phia, 44 424 For New Orleans, 44 824..... Other places, The feature of Mr. Up'on , a report wtioh'will moat , attract the entice of those inter( sted,in marine ears' Is the enormous disproportion .f lots suataided bS Amerleaervesaate, compared with those that befell t 136 veisslit of other DatiODS Oot of 1,418, the whole cam ber of mulcts disasters, 1,141 happened to American vessels. One hundred and seven of there were to American steamers. The total rubber of Amor'ean merchant ships afloat is ghee at 1,760, and 243 of th-no met with some more or less serious . dlftster during the year, ray 14 per cent. 167 Mirka were injured out of 1,250, say 12 per cont. 181 brigs out of 1,158, nearly le per cent., and 452 schooners oat of a list of 4 750, not quite 10 per cent. Taking the whole Lumber of sailing vessels of all grades, B,9ne, we and the aims'e of disasters, 1,095, is within a small fraction of 12 per cent. These are important statements, and very sagas*. tine. They explain a good many things. When the tables of dissate .8 in a year not calamitous beyond the average, such as liMe was, a good year forunderwriten, * show that twelve per cant of all American Tema, an. nutty meet with misfortune, it Is not to be wondered at that the rates of insurance in The United States are en much higher than in put trace; nor that underwriters so often prcve insolvent. It becomes apparent we should think, to the meanest capacity, that where there is to great dispropott!on of dienster to American vu. ads in comparison with those of other nativist expmed to the same elements, there must be either defective censtruction, improper outfits er Inefficient seaman ship. And in our opinion, as we have heretofore stated, there are all three of these ceases at work The crews of our vessels are too small and Wrathful . th e y a palled too closely, that is with so %trio: as eye: to economy; that the necessary outfit of sails and rig slog is partly 'anted, and they are not well constructed, The tonnage has a an increased without increasing the of material, and the average strewth and quantit) . . duration of modern „ m e. lives Ic not more than one fourth of the ,period to which vmeil treat that were hunt thirty or forty years ago. believe that' the plan jestingly boosted of, that bunt to.`yo by the rnOtt, - and mold them as they were wanted in tae market, Air wo king out these disastrous results to the o:vrers et the Teasels, and to those who entrust them whit cer goes, and we have little hope that we shall witness O. different state of facto until the present raeeki ships ore all boat cord paid for by underwriters and a return to the old principles of shipancilding Ie forced upon those engaged in the badness, The stock market is animated, and priors tending upward, but without any great force The lower priced securities gained in most uses e small fraction upon thee prices of yea' order. The telegraph reports that the canal trends in Illinois' will amount to $210,000, and that Gov. Mittman ha s acted for a full investigation intollier twitter. A latter wntter, from Springfield, Illinois, say," of this matter: ‘. Vonelderable excitement hag beets dy,,eated bare this afternoon, hy the d Waver, that a large amount of the canal ecriP of Mlle &ate, amounting to 1P105,0 00 princi pal, and $49 COO interest, which has been Landed by the 'rind onnamiaeloner, has proven to be canoe, visit The ddieevery was made in tills way: Gen. Jacob Toys b being who one in now h. re, received one of the scrip from with a letter asking him what it was worth. _ C one of the signers to the genuine,at once diet '''Y e2 ed., the ace reee.red to be counterfeit Re took it ha, to to auditor's oftics and told the auditor to be on his e _ii against such scrip The auditor replied that he bad nothlosto do with it The fund commissioner west% 4 n asked what smonot of said scrip bad been funded t him, to . ..hien be moiled about $154.000. which amotim was funded, and beam of the Rate given therefor, which bonds ware deposited by Gov. Matteson as se— curtly for the State Bank of Illinois , home. Upon ex amination, it wee found that this fils4Xoo of scrip is counterfeit. Number General Admitted. Average. 77 79 9 16 81 9 71 801 11 83 6 83 5 791 8 77.9 80 7 6 80.8 74.6 4 81. 6 7773 82.9 8213 76 0 2 75 4 1 78 2 1 66 0 1 74.9 1 74 7 1 72 7 74 8 1 t 9 7 " Everybody, especially GOT. histteson. has beta taken by surprise by this discofery. The Governor, we understand, will make gond the amount at once. and afterwards try to find oat where he got the eerie, which doubtless was Procured from ales, different Individual* by him. Mr. Mareball. Senator from Coles, intreducel a resolution Into the Senate this afternoon 3 reqwesting the Committee on V inane° to inquire into the matter: hen they report. new light aril doubtless be Ibn:rent upon the matter." PHILADELPEILI STOOK 31X0HANC411 HALBB, VAHHIlary 5, 069. anorniv - NT HABILIS!, puma, & 00., am-mu, MOH. IXOISAIIOII 1/I.OIIHB, HOSTEMZEIT 001811 MID AJ 011/8111111 STRUM. PIMP BOARD. 2000 Penn U.... Ante 93X 9 Meet Bank. Jots 213 X 40( 0 do ... nub 93X 14 Sane & See It. its 22 750 do ..... ... 93X 00 Reeding B...cesh 24X 1000 Penn R 2d lieges 92% 1000 Elm Ist Bag Ta..a T'SN MOO N Penn R Qs-- 61% 1000 Pittsb fle ROO Klieg Co an.. A V 60 5000 o,t A Os 'B9 lots b 5 87 MOO sd Ali ag 6000 Snub& Eri.7abb 75 IMO Poh Na► fla 1.1 b 5 73 2000 Tiogn it 7a 88 1000 Nimbi Canal 154.. 89% 400 Febnyl Nay....b5 10 51 do .....b5 10 BETWEEN 600 City 6e 103,v 1000 Mtn 14 Pdg Te 2de 73 J • - • • - 8000 Clam cbat Hs gds 72% SOO (.1& A. 6a'B6 6000 Catairissa R SIX 10001 Y & Elm 19a.... 79,y, 1000 Penn 6e..... 60.0 do 760 &tad° 1500 City Os R lobs 994 1000 Pena 112 d 346 68 02X 1000 Xlm chat 108 55 IDX 240 do . ..b5 79% 5100 Catawiesa It 7a.. 513 j 3500 1:1niop Canil 68.. 36 1100 do Scrip on 35 1000 Chasm chat Us.. T 231 MOPING P Bid. Asked II SEsl4 102 108 Nola de 993( 99)( do 1t..... 993( 99X do New.. 103 1037( Poona to. .... .... 93X 98X Reading R 243 i 24% do Rda '70..83% 83% do Mtg 0044.93 91 do do '86.72% 73% Penn& R 13. 43% do letru 6a... .. 101% do 2dni 8a....9•2)( 97% Moe 01 On Dv off 47 47% do Pre 105%100 &Amyl Nay ea '92.72% 13 PHILADELPHIA 51ARKSTEI, Feb. 5-11visixo.— The market for Flour corstinaes Srm, bat .very inac tive at previous quotations, and the sales mostly we aned to the wants of the trade at from ssls to 55.81% far superlne, 1638.60 fir extra and extra ?amity Sklar, and $8.7507 50 41 3 ' bbl for Saucy brands, according,to quality; the receipts continue light and there is very little export demand, bat 1 000 bbla extra sold at $84,9' bbl. Rye Flour is wanted at $4, but holders auk more. Corn Meal condones scarce, and Penna. Meal is worth $3.6049' Md. Wheat—There is a moderate Inquiry, and prices are steady, with further sales of 1,200 bash good Fauna. sad Southern red at 1400, and white at 1820. Eye to dull at 860. Corn is better to day, but the de mand was only for dry lots which are scarce and wanted to 611 up a vessel. and 4.000 bush rf that desoription brought 800 in the cars and In store. Oats are In steady remand, with further sales of 8,00057 000 bud:tele at 51 cents for Peueeylvaxia sad 600 for Delaware, in store and In the cars. Barley is firm, with sales of 7 000 bus New York at E6rsii7go 43ark—gnercitron is to steady demand at $3l for let No. 1, at which rate it is scared. Cotton—The market is dull, and 200 bates have changed bandit at about previoris rotes Oro:ldes and Provisions—There is very little movement, owing t 3 the firmness of holders, arid the markets are quiet, but of the former there la but little stock here. Seeds —There is a steady demand for OlOverseed.and some 4,000 bus have beendleposed of, in lots, et 57 to $0.12% from first, and 11 to ST 25 ba from recond bands. A cargo of Malaga Raisics was sold, mostly before arrival, at about $2.40 4r box for blanch, and $2 95 for layers, einaller packrgea in proportion. Whiskey is moving oft' more freely at the late advance. Sales of Penniplvanie and Ohio bble at 28e29e. drudge at 160, and Mule at 270. New York Markets—Saturday. Mane.—The market is quiet for watt of stock; sales of Polo at $5 75 and Pestle at $6, with few here. FLOUR, he —The inguird. for Weetern Car al Flour early in the day was limited prices favoring the buyer; lint of the close there was more firmness, and few sellers at our inside Spurts. The reties are 5 000 this at $5.2' ots 30 for superfine Plate,ss 7500 fry extra do. $0 2000 30 for ehipp ng braids of zouod hoop extra Ohio $0 tioo7 25 for trade brands do, 56.7003 for extra Genesee, and $6.70a8 75 for Pt Lone trends. Canal iau Flour le inactive, but firm, at $6 4007 25. Southern Flour la deal and heavy, the arrivals are libe ral. Sales of 800 bble at $5.7500.10 for superfine Bal- Ornery. S c., $0 2007 75 fir fancy and extra breeds. Bye Flour is In fair demand itt $3 7504.30. Corn ale I it &teeth., Rod is quiet at $3 70 for Jersey, and $1 21 for Brandywine. Buckwheat Flour is saleable at SJO2 60 4P' 100 the. On, no —The Wheat market is firmer to-day. bokie.s are lees disprood to realize. The 73115 s are 540 bus at Si 37 for rod Indians, and red arid white3llssourt on private terms. Corn is iu fair demand—new is more plenty and white Is heavy sales of 20,000 bushels at 7^n Sec for white Jersey end teauthern ; 500 for yellow Jersey; SI 081,ig to- Southern yellow; Western mixed is held at 87c. Oats ate in moderate demand at 58effic for State, and 600650 ior‘Vestern and id nvlian. Barley quiet at 7500$ f . Rye le inactive at 80084 e. PROYISIONS.—The demand for Pork la model-Lie. and the market is been—males of 1,600 bola nt $lB 50 for new mesa, small lots at $lB 80 $lB for old do, $17017 15 for thin mess, /vet $l3 5t 079.62 for prime i included in the sales me 1,100 bbla for the aommar months, onpri vate tonna. Heel la Meetly. the arrivals not large; sales of 270 bbl. , at $6 7507.25 for country prime; $.909 25 for mesa; 53010 75 for repacked mesa, and $ll 50012 for extra do. Beef 1111.1113 are steady; the inquiry fair; eaten of 150 bbla at $l3 50017. Bacon% quiet at bBl[volOyia Cut Meals are in fair demand ; sales of 65e hhda and tee at o,liurfiNc for shoulders and 8% etfiXe. for name. Lard ie more active, mainly for toe future—the prices favor the buyer at the close; sales Or 2,400 ibble at 17,si 012 Xe, and small lore at 12 0.16 e; included In the alias are 1,003 bb.a for April at 12e ; 400 bble for March and April, Fame price. Deemed hrgs are better and in demand at 808}(c. Butter and Cheese are firm and in demand: , . . WITISKEY —The market is qui te firm ; sales of 240 Mils at 28:1; • , COFFER —The demand is rather limited, on aceount of the light offerings and easreme prime ir enfant— shies or 2 600 bass ltio last evening sad this morning at II~DtI e , md.W co Jamaica at 'lA's. Corn:N.—The market is dull and heavy at a decline of fully Se en moat grade.. Iron —The market la very dull—small sales only of barrel herring, from ;tore, at pat 25, at to quality and /ire. $6 446,916 4 297.916 g 861,296 ^,148 972 . 2,432,6,8; $l7 3t,776 2 da . ... 24s 10 do 24% 14 West Phil's Itjots 44x XlOO Uirard Bank .;.1522:ii. lota b 5 e 8 20 Penn E 100 Lehigh Na• 100 Schnyl Nay p d 1;518 . _ —hi 19 ...lota 19 10 Bk of America he 140 Beaver Mradovr. 30 Mineb%U B 60 20 llusg Canal 3 11000 Morris Canal L. 90 . 2000 - do ...... .. 90 4000 Phil& & Btanbll7s 76X 10 Penn R 433 L 100 Reading R...eaah 2434 100 do —curb 243 j BOA&D. 160 Union Bk T0:m.65 93 ,Ti 15 do 55 98% 50,0oromonw bk..lota rl 10 Phila 8ank....... 117 3( 32 &burl Na, pfd.... JP 50 do IP% 16 Penn 13 43% 53 Norristown B..••• • 94% 26 do . ..... .... 64% ' 6 do 51% 6 do . ...... .65 51% is 0.12.—F1R61. 3clays 9J34 03,14 MSMEI Bel Now 6teek...10 10X do Fret 19 19X Wmsp't &Ella B. 9% 10 do 7s Ist mtg 72x 78 do Rd 57 WM Long Intend 11X .. Girerd Bank 12. X 123. Let Coal Naw...5 0 SOX Lehigh 5erip.....27% 28 IN Peens II 9% do 8e 57% 63 New Creek X Lehigh Zino . X r 1 X Catewiese 8... 6,X 6X
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