t-VV'. 1 "iifi, ■ ’.-••■* . trbft'f'iV* I*JJr f ! f ‘ ’ ,! Vi j ;,Af«I§*;P%lM9-'; ;,i - iSSt 'jjjfj JHir I J?iil r »; .''';u i.vi ' l «*l»h'j'!'‘'‘ l '' ai *"' ' "-'*''.ff :* -v -:>i PoUti-, •'^\^ Blogi BrecWn-j 4\ * 6fatifl"Co^&^ J fc&iTiritiop^ 1 4ifaftbl|djiit s ;'■ Gariefl Half; His H* & qm&pm • «WBWWl!!te ; J the , •^H»aio^«w*ipJ<i'f ' ■ WjfereUotia va*ind I , j i tteirli’rt<i:alie.tfi«»'djr»»k;»4> i « n . o q r »ftt*W; ' ,d|'irtit*» -’So ciiat iaMsiguedfprtheaot. jjj ! ' iKisiiiijtftdltM khiadof Kiw YarkdriritfSani*; '' •-■ ‘.iii'nvtiito of a v MBewat of ike K*n»« j ■•; l : i»fc be«o' : .ti tofiTfi'oxfent ooSflnhea-,' It Sr; ■ i*. givd -, ‘ J . <■ probi»My'h^inteDa«:fc'plii:;liiks«tfi’iiad' certainly looks;«' if. there.' la. more truthih the plke’(iPMkgoldrrtori*»'<,U»nm»»yi>«» ()llB “““-i .'- ' one to t iUit minere, fit the • . /Ckej«nlu!y>*% *aWliii*lril4t fwKiss JkWMbM W ■ oD« thousand doHarsperday! Rich quart* was to itifconadererywherei’tkisa pesrle*dsdrere;daitj! A PahnsylvahihUj named Chajles liCfilie, * nar tive of.CUripn county r 'is»aid to inare; gathered l over* thousand ounces of gold dustatPlke’s Pam] - ' -'corfetliot dtinoVknoV lnin,whenji*;w&s pbefe, ’ f J At in! Opposition mee ting ■ held nt;Riohtn°pdon .; >M*cd4rhrepißg> , 'r*tio!ntioiii< were passed favorable ■-• Siillii ocfcliiaUon ATJohnMiDorßotts for thePrei ‘' ~»«« tha river* at Baiftfc.'rjSMah oftkogannents vtta&Stitti'ifak.Snp'ini uftheneighboniood; Itt(M '. ;WersSle MpntaaoirMaTraikjttrißr oleHcnitWi k»re:l«i«tt.her»- ;'; t'i"? I .'f'p's ■• ■.- fA-foottfmoe'tdidcpiioeia ftsidkya ago' aVRScheB-; ''ten^wSTo^'lteS^WdftwrefflWlMiWtt-j " ,ri ,'jikey ranfflve hondrai' | / wMßof' (f»»'jfiiwij^lo| T ,ffi« | r'HtarVirho made the five 'fliUitfi in thirty-sored mitt-; '■'- ~V‘ < -.- . ,:/v;u .•*, * ,■ !|an>jthit'jHopi^it<»haihiS; ta ieriotifily Ul .fit lna .re-ddeDoe in Logdnspdrt, ' . ' *tfV ; Si’ P 11 or MgKtr FraHohj aio; .. -Widhtßgt«nSjar,bfla»t«T«iißy/8ay»:‘ < ‘ j 'niepr*-;' <eie« amonntofMiJorFrenoh’idefalcationhiußOt ' ■ : Bfepartmeht, U '.' ■ . ' Vattair,.it tik!d , 'thiitt.apoiighjfcii.Bipiiooedjto: oorertto-doBolt; and hetiM informed Captain Bonmaii by tetter, of . Vasto to«toiit of to 'defottoicri' (from'tio,ood' to ■ ■ ,f lj?^f »$ ,«&!»«»& HP&Slfai ofllrjfWe-rmlle hosts. 3 ; f yjid'fsiidh ifj itoHon;3«in !^s:B»Ti«.-i : MtoDaviS wasaYentt-; sylvanian.by blrib,'aHdirassuccCsaiyc!yamember .„- ; oir&yiiiiA^nraot’of •- : 3Xh(!',StW'X <i lß Eecpresiff last "' t'-* ‘, S. ff «tjto ,®sK:'jiKni J InjU^ha,';whpa* : ,li!!',<Uy,i a-top •mark,and: that day hits not longgone-by. ;,H«. was , ‘foVtatoY«*rt* jtofesCntaUveinPpngrto mm. aOoeptaMy to tbe ;Detn<s>rutia party in the Douse ' dr-Reprtot-ntaUwlj. tot^y.WehimSpoaker “The next position that Mr. Davis .held jefl* !Xiainiuioaer)M~OUai,sui irSce -tt&v'aeluirgeii : yritt saUsfacUonto, his ooßntrymen.lTe followed; Catot;.Cushing,'! if; we, remember 1 ,• aright,-' In that 7, .pSeS-apdnotwilhaat distinction.,“While it to to, - .toerodlcof thaYedcralAdniinlslralion that our . eoaunitooMrs ormlnistere toChina have Treenail: ■ .aWhefroark,'.'''* l may addthatMr. Dayis dld blm rjdf, dghie .tiae.aisiauch credit aa anyiOf-UiemVi'- .“So.aaooptoWy didbedinoliargedieidnUMof • gtokhr,ttonot<>nlyimen: of all partita in ;,to, Tiousc voted customary .TOtoof.thsnks,. a 't^n"t!' add: ' toe.' o/i tobtoiamily: newspapers-. we haveever-, reed,'(to* the following detai is of tHo unfortunate trafeedy;{whloh tonllcd' J 'lq ■ the .death of ThCmsp j _ i An itoori , tote;tra(toy'o*eurted: at a;pia,nio, near Compajerille,W«tCaintowhshlp,ChMter; ' M«n(y f dn,Thnr»dayvthe Hth.insUut, resulting In ’ to dtoli.tirihom<s"&, t Ti«nderaoß,Jr. Wehave; 'alraady.'auna®d , toUid..'aff‘air l ‘i)nt below.'we give jraie'acidltlaaat fadto; ,'JfeayW alirthe ypdng.poo-! plCidtol^tintognClgh^ ■ ventotoMto pie-nTe £ biaklng* Jar m ptord.i ;-£j Jarge plateirm had been erected for dancing, and ovarytmag ! piSile4 r'dff? hamonldnaly ’ "unUT about ; fiTO’c^dlOoW. in'the-.idlerhodn. .“At that, thefsa‘ HeWdeiton; 'JinvfwliT pf,' IbeTnan avers, ■ end a gehUefnan hamediAinmon.'/ Jamet Heh-; _' -dfiorii a i tfolhat, ctmetothe assistanOeof Tho- ; -.•Ktoi'ands* eolUsionensned with :Jattes MeKil . adJiutod) as:-to parties TrsdCeepeMtodav HBortly'after ward* bowertr,»o»e V .-woto'.J*m»4'b*fwto l torajtod , 'a 7scu#l«: ensued. >' ifliajwsra aeparatodiby toiy fttenda; - Ttortngtbe . - ,pto:ofcThe!to*di:vsylve«tertonirair,-ehd;wis panned by a large and excited erowd.' ; yoU«y* df; . w«»,horled after *to- v PaWng inio a^orn . ;fleld/.M.elnd»dit»;^r»tt«niHto;if ,e l , P e< l 'J ! y-f*t-' .• - mmmßmsuaaii, siglnseKa!^ didnot: »ao<rtad,“»t3 ' atoTußlly batome alanaear Dw. pn'ftl^S“SSrtdngi^Heodfttinnedto»tok,wldi;- ■ ojitrallyjng,Bi!tathefollowln*Tn(«da^aTehißgf,; ’ .whewJtoAfiidik tfitf-'n- « }?&*&.?&.' -» . Wae nto%eg«t»«t; Bylye»t*r Mo?dlaa by JamWi ; Jlanderaon ( ,ai>da;Warrant,wa»l»oedby/SeorgeB.i Baby, a jottlse ofto Mae*, for ■MeFMan'a arreet. 1 ■ Hewa* ta*entotoOßiieidy;?the:.«ame:dayjbl-Con - to :had ,a : liearin* Twfore, yfutoKambOfßag.rat Pennlngtonytlle, by Whom ddi<^^»»^iHid^lUoe^r^;dire^^u^lE^: . eiOTedfrdto.to Wonnd danifedjby tKe, rtorsf^in! ' abora facts. ,r,: .' v ■■<■’•» t■ >’ :i <ja;lbo»tdayiuft*rn(ioaja»ti-oaoWeek'aftef'tie ; tht>- dedeieed wero buried; . The traneaetlon U Terf unf&rtunate, aa the P«di«! ' ajpi,\, JMUtote reepoatob'y »efelibor r ■, . non. wOtW® mtctt iniKa paini fn «{«< tn hbvat •--r.Arana&grv&ia l ", . : r V--\ ‘ ;; of;to- Working-maw,' and.partlonlariy; to.v nnloa. y - ' antongto'labbrißgleiiLjse*.: mUMi tova, . .^dp.tfiij^aßil’fa^Bi'^- ability ai»Sliif«a > 'W st#Wi» ; - ~ rial ooliimn« ; oa dO not heßitato to prodlet for, ae eaitßtotijrwlebitoenterprlae abandantsncosis. •The Future of Italy. An article from thef%mej of August Bth, which we repnblisb tondayi, coritain*.?moro plain troth and been exhibited upon jffie “the Thunderer, J ’,' i of the English utter lance. It. ceases the eternal cuckoomote of 'reproach to the EmperorNafoixojjbecause I he. failed to make Italy free « from the Alps to ,the. Adriatioj w aud< suggests that,' perhaps, though| uj»hlb accompJißh all that bo pro miSedjlio achieved all'that he could. * 3 ;THo''pofiiiSb' i whlch'hc^maaß,backcd' byhia bayonets, eanrionjrahd^aU'Other aids ot- battle, was gtocdiiy accepted by prostrate Italy f which , Bs“* «•»“ tho abnostuniversa! tyranny to which! it ;was subject, kept on, -year after year, sadly hoping agairistUbpc; < Totlt«m, aa lirhas been graphH cally'sald. KArorEoit Was, -a- sort iof military Messiah;'who'-wasto frbo;them ! -frohv their m^tjierimnqpiiered, even; as .Gaisin. before jbS* prpinised achieWmokt.'pnly. half achieved,, and we; are itoid:3a»atjlt%/^ which hailed him. as Deliverer; how denonnees him, with s cutscb not: loud bttt deep,”'* Traitor'to'the holy cause ! of liberty .."'This debd;nbt f be vyoridered at; ijaiy ha<l ieti&rtainbd'great expectations,, and .every, successive action of NAroLKoti , 1 upon Ifaiiah soil , encouraged these hopes- , The .^,r^^at'%' la !f tonca checked ; this wild : eih Ithusiasipv.’Afnciyas. aone*by„ttiat but becausesoHiwss iipt .accomplished Italy is on, .mgedir-wt-. d Izr'-x*"-'' •'! 1 The huestion' is not exactly,' why-Napoieok did ”tess''tha'h' biit whether ,liy couldhavedbhembre? , ,i " Tho Peace people declare that'lie should ’tb.bettetthe’conditioPiof the Italians • that he should have made a solemn .exposition of •‘ltaliah'misroie. and ft argued against it witli the oibor great PowerBbf;Eurbpe. But jt was as well fchoWri as darluieSa la at midnight l jiE ; tlie s l fprldj protocols linked to-j gather by-myriads of yards of red tape, would hoi‘:lAye:re.medfedto 'it‘was nbt‘;fe beargued down. -There was ud alternative but.to[/igM.it down, as NiForaoif didp when he headed. his bravo army , and, -battled for human liberties and' rights against misrule-arid tyranny. - " \ | ' He parised at Yilla Franca. Odnid he have gone;ffir|ber'' i with jwndencet; The especial 'causes & Bis'stopping short in a nipstbrilliant they arc not all -unkiiown- ..Russia, it is said; was inoiined to go with him, as fer as herj. ff-masterly; inactivity” would-help him, bhS it is alsbisaid' that this extended only to ai cer-i tairi the hrimiliation, bufnot the ruin,- bf Tatdily enough'," Germany was. sbhdingSOO.ObO'Boldlers tp tbeKhjno, flierice to; .thjeatonFrance, while KArbi.EoH.waB in Italy.; England, professing neutrality„-vyas .likely to: be dragged into tke;.Maelstrom'-of war by her rClationStfWith Prussia, i Thesb/causes were; siiffioient 'to make jfApoiKOir deliberate arid; ‘parisb.*He was-'akkipus to ayoidcreating an: European war, which' continuance of tho Ita-. tiah cbiitest'mjgbj;.have done,.; .... ~. j ' v.ln.Northern, Italy, by the annexation,.of- Lombardy, to' Piedmont, he has created a iibe- ! ral, independent State., .Whatsaysthe Times t\ _«lf 'the.- indopendenoet of; the provinces of. Central Italy iS secured,-- rihd-Lombardy arid- Piedmont are consolidated into - a compact arid' sblid‘;Kirigdbm,. thb'JEmperor NAsoinox will; haye been no. trican benefactor of the Italians.; Allow 1 ten yeitstpipassoversucb'an arrange-, ;pMuch',4il|An|trian iwwdW rindltaly is - as: much answerablefor her own fortunes as Eng-; land or France.” , '.i'J ; . r of the World-:'.l eyaoiMiesdi in; Eohlibih Ste j&bjicatton pf tljo jfitfitrattd News': bf’i/se World. Tim remarkable success during; many years of the Illustrated t-ondon iYriurwaa phe groat.'.baiisei'Bo donbt, why tbisdirectoowpo-; tl Son should arise. • Several former rivalries —such' .is.ttiVi’idpfi'ai Times and tbe HlustraUd Weel-: Wf»H<>d,'ehiaflybfo*a« o .d lo y. al, ' vi,h ' : 'lyeopledjthh feeding.features of. their rival,,with- ; out sirpasimg,or even equalling that publication. the 'xihuirated'Nws'pf 'ihfjtfi/ii, onlhe othptf appeared- with one greet novelty. jjay,: 4° on—portrait^ Uf. Uriehlf. illustrated Journal, oontalnfug ail ther haws fif the week,’with ! » great 'deal of original matter; Wrtttenby literary men offirst-rate'ability an'desrperitince/ : •• .1 . ; ; O'SShj^fif f tfMi portrait*, Boeengraved , oh; efeob haVe : appeared;, a . reliable ptesieiir acoom phhylnghiwh, 'Tier*,' indeed, is a pprtritt-gaUeiy, nfinShHevariety and interest', for the engravings' and memoirs, detached from the paper to which they aro - supplemented, rosy he', bound' into volumes, equal lyadsptcdfor the drawing-room and ?£$ tba.'portrait* already given; are the leading celebrities not only of England, but of Europe, about whbin the newspapers tell ns po much. Nearly all of them are, yet livings Some of: /tjie, elder. bnegri (sneh as. byndhurat. Brougham, Campbell, Palmerston) cannot, be, ex-j pi»t«atp»Wma&i,.lonJ(i' But when .they .depart,' /jrrs . nIU bo found the host and latest portraitures of them, iLS they lived and breathed. ... ‘ - The general oharabtpr of the numerous wood ,en-, gnvittgi ln- the innsfratsd Nsipsof the World ia very highihdeed, and the illußtrationa cl the late wait iuTulywete particularly approved of, \ The' •,Uleiuiry , ,<ldhto’pte i jif ''tliii 'Journal' are. confessedly; excellent. ;'irbere;iS , a‘»oln)nnof < ‘Tpwn'aodTable-: • week,' 'W hfcU 5 'i«f personal, and,i K wis'Silye^repedfedlyi 1- allotted, 'to' T/tePress, la, the dlstlitgnisbing' features 6f the' Illustrated . News of the WorU, w|»lflb,baa been constantly sapplied to'os,- from the first, through the pplite-: -ness and.kindness of otir friends, GatfajVldr A’ Co.,i •Booth Third strobf.*' A.'.Brtwn; A Coi; 14 Ppuover 'Street, BeiT|hhj are'lts publishers and agents. In.tho. tfnited.-States, - who will■ receive. .advertisements and subsoriptionst for thepaper-o-who can supply; •back huinbert oand to whom all; Shatters of builnbas nohinebtea with it in’ fhin eonn-; try should bo addressed- ■ ■ . XihfZ'iSlcVonojagh’a. Gaieties... -•Mr. J- K. McDonongh, durieg the snmtser ’M cose, baa 'road6 oatonsWe changes and imptoye met|ta.inhls pretty Utdo theatre, in Baco street,' which he Invlted hisfriciido—professional, lltorary, and*ocial~to ezainihe'jlast night. Theyhod thqop- of dobg'Uitoj'Uiroiiglj yarions glasses, (of ehjimpsgne),i»ndi wenidstsay,-the rtsult.wasyeryi favorable. The sltorations, which have cost nearly three ’thctiscnd dollars, have wholly reiootlelled, not onlp the the anditoriom.. The stags } Hit been brought forward dye feet, nnd laterally eitended three feet. . A new orchostral arrftnge-: meht has been made. Two private boxes,' almost. <«A*'with; the stag«j have beon ereotod. Tbey are; beautifany.iittodnpjWlth orirasoh velvet ’ ouehions, ’ hand Some catpeUng, damssk curtalns, . and easy chairs. The_poiycrrc, or pit, has been newly ar ranged, each tier of tots'on a rise of flyel incites, Was to insure the spectator a sorics of a. l >ceoding : Viewsbf to'ptlrfbrmAiio?-, ■., -f ]' .. .. ! .“The toatost impn>v%’?»fcfl“' bpon. np-stato; jSffptdbd very Urniled 'to'omrnpdations/hiye been,swept their place, a large gallery Baa been .‘erected,; ’whibji OTCfhings' one half.the 'pit,'and', takes, p simibirooiaf SweepwWch abcommodstcathe largest 1 number 'of spectators, wUhln the' allotted space. Tbe ; resnltof’aU theaechangca isthat a macU largef sndiencc thsn beforo'esn bo accommodated. In bet, u many as 1,200 persons can bo comfortably 'toommodsted.'.yThe prices '.rchisltl as before. •-r'Mt. 4 McDbn«tgii"reoiieds this popular plaoo'of amusemont . thla evening, with'an orcellont com- 1 ‘panyVand; no donbt,' trill have an immense, ei he already has a beautiful and convenient ’ honsb. ■He has a -cothpany of acknowledged- talent and. ability, and his scoond season, now oommoncing, bids faif to sorpasa. that which prCcoded lt, !n po pularityandproQt.' Ho has “ love,-honor,-and obodlcnoe,'. troops .of , friends,!’ and,' in a few years, will probably cmcrgc from tho Gaieties into 'to rcdfttto of life. witb all, (ho honor which'the -wbrihlppera of; <! .the almlghiy dollar ’ 1 delight to •renderito a million'airo:.' /' ~d-, i -.- ; , , • “ i - QP The Philadelphians, whose spoolal objeot is never to be behind the New Yorkers iti anything,. havo got oP a panlo-about their resetvolr, and ■boast that to ■ gchnylklll is aa b&d as the Oroton, any day. ,In support oftllis assertion, they tri umphantly adduce sundry dead carcasses that have been thrown into their river, while the .New York fteple; withall thetrfurning np of hive not been ible to produce a dead fish.— Promtltnce (R. I.) Journal. ■ 1-:i, .: . .elf haJiP}»tladelpliia paper is ambitious of the bad ; eminence” of originating.this .slander upon tho Schuylkill water J . i ■ , o : CDniosiTias or Liinnitunn.—The Troy Daily Whig, to fond of, satire, and does it successfully, vide ; . ■ - -'- ; . ; ■'. ■ 1 , ■ , - w A*'A .notioeftbl© faobifl tbat Forney, of Pennsyl man who 'made Buchanan President— few appirently abandoned Bouglae, iyad bo? pub* lUhedan artloleadvocating the claims Of .Ooinmo* >Ybftt thfß nifty "ihbftn reinains ! * -:%f • 1} ~A“"' r m ,m ‘ prietora of the'New York And ,C*pe May ateamorfj annootoeed that the Sunday fried to Cape May have, been discontinued. 'Xhe week-day trips will be continued as heretofore, THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1859. better from “,Occasfonal (Correspondence of The Btalls.J | /, WAs'aisoios, Adg/23, 1859. -:ihts lotteMsbut'aoontihuatioa oftbeySwr one X wrote you on Sunday, ff desire Upubtlshod beforo tha second one, respecting the Inter-oeeanlo mall 'Contract?, sent you also*oh Sunday. X enclose yon another writtou to-day, not relating to general post offioo matters, which you will alsb please publish beforo this. • In my letter, to which this is a rnero post scrip turn, I showed that the appropriations for the | General Post Oißoe for the fiscal year ending Juno 30,1859, by the general appropriation act Of' the 14th Of Juno,lBsB, -for the' inland postal service (haws U„ S„ • 185 M, p. ; 355.), amounted to ■ , • . $14,035,620 00 lahawpdslso that tho nppropria- .' '''' ■ Upnggby' tho civil.appropriation ' , ,-actfor .sameyoar, Jan, 2, .1858,- ..(iawa U.S., .1858-0, pp. 209,. „ - , „„ ■ 300, 304, Sbs,) amounted t0. .1... • 388,080 00 X showed also tbat the appropria- ' • • -tKo-ooefui mail abeam* ef, Appropriation dot, .for samo, r year, of June 14,1858, (Laws U. • -8., Jan. 14, 1858-9, p. 384,) • / WA tOe»«aeu»as.aaee«s*ee 1,512,50 T 70 Amount of appropriationsfor Gone- - oral <Post Office, for fiscal yoar , . j ending Juno 80,1859. *. ■■■■••• *. r $15,934,717 70 I did not, in'my first letter, deem it nooeßsaryito ■ mention,,that.by the fifst appropriation not refer red to—the aot of June 14,' 185$—the $11,035,520.00 was appropriated out of the revenues of the Gene ral Post Office in the Treasury; in conformity with the aet of Jti!y 2,1830; and also, that thorp was, in addition to this Sam of $14,035,620.00, an ex press provision appropriating $3,500,000 out' of 11 any money m the Treaenry ” not otherwise ap. propriated, “to supply deficiencies , in the reve nue of the Post Office Department for tho year ending 30th of June, 1859,” it any Bhould occur. , Deduct this sum from the amount abovo stated, as appropriated to' be paid oat of the revenues of ‘the QeheralPost Office , and it leaves-the amount of $12,431,>17.70 to be paid out of said revenues. ■ Neither did I mention in that letter, that besides this last appropriation,of $3,000,000,00 by the, act of. Jane 14, .1858, (b, U.'8.1868-9, p. 300), those rnpde by tbe aot of Juno 2, ,1858, (the oivll appro priation sot,)' amounting jto ' $380,090.00, jras plsp out of ‘‘any money*in the Triastiry not otherwise 'appropriated; and not out of tho revenues of the General'Post Office ; nor that tho seven first items ih'tlie ocean mail steamers appropriation aot of June •14, 1858, which itoms amounted to 55,132,507.70, were ltiteWl»e' , ‘oHt of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,’’and not out of tho reve nues,of the General Post Office in , the Treasury under the aot of 1836. ‘ Tims, it will be seen that $1,516,197.76 was appropriated fiir the fisoat year ending Juno 30,4859, out of “any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and with out any connection with, or in anydegreedopendent upon,'.the revenues of the,General 1 Post Office for Unit year;, .This sum,- added to said $3,500,000.00 appropriated for the, ; same fiscal year, out of any money pot otherwise, appropriated, to sappy any deficiencies in, the revenues of tho Oenorat Post Office for.that, year, to pay tho other appro priations based upon and to be paid ‘of said reve nues; makes'ss,olo,lo7.7o, and adding tho $14,035, 620.00 as abovo mentioned to tho aggregate of tho throe last items in said ocean mail steamers, appro priation act of Juno. 14,1858,.5380,000, makea $14,- 415,620-60 as the amount appropriated to be paid out of the ret'cntics of the Post Office in the Treasury. ; ' The omission to mention those facts presented the ease moro favorably for .the General Pdst.Office than' if the particulars’ now mentioned had all •been specially and particularly stated. • : Tho appropriations for the General Post Offioo for the fiscal year ending June. 80, 1860, by tho civil appropriation aot ofMaroh 3,1856, (1011. 6,, 1858-9, pp- 413-418,) and by the additional act, of same date, (finl, p." 428,), were not out of, or dependent upon,the ” revenues of the 'GjtnereUPost Office bnt out of “ any moneyi in the Treasury ," and they amounted to $502,140.00; and so also were tho appropriations by tho aotof same date, (Hid, pp -409, 410)—the' Indian. appropriation bill—for the first, quarter of the fisoal yoar ending June 30, 1850, (from Jst July to, 30th September, I 860,) for .mail steamers ijetpropp Panama, California, and Oregon, and across the panada Railroad, and from Orleans to Tebnaatopeo and yentoss, anwopt tag t0,5341,229.16—a1l of said appropriations to gs tbor making '5843,360.16 —and -all to, be paid “ ont of any money in the Treasury," and In no* wise dependent upon the revenues of the General Post Office.'; ■ " ■ > 1 : Since, my lotter of Sunday I have seen Postmas ter Goneral brh.iyn’s report ofDocem(>er 4, giving nia estimate of .the expenditures for the fis cal year ending Juno 30,186?. In big statement of the'oxpenditnres, he sets down the sums aboyespc*. oiflod In the sot of 14th June, 1888. • i. .$l4,635,520 Also,' for'tpspSpOrfeUon Of Charleston ' , and Havana mail (same spin as sp.- ii propriated) i, For transportation of mails .across til? Isthmus of Panama (some sum as appropriated) . 100,000 For New, Fork and Havre mail the postages allowed by sth section of act of Juno 14,1853, $91,000, boing - $39,000 lem than the snmannronti». ‘For payments ol £&Jepee»’ruc tcPor : cigncountries(estimated). For payments, to letter-carriers finder RCtef Match 8,1851 (estimated).... Estimated amenal pf p^pendltufes... ~$11,770,520 I confess Ido not upierstaad full;. the Item n for -balances ‘dlu -to .'foreign, conntrfss t $025,* 000,” stated by him, except that it relates to the forelgt) postages received by, the General .Post Office, under arrangements by conventions with iliose codritrtes.. I pot flnd that any provi sion wah made for this item, in any inode, by any oftheappropriatlonaotsof June,'lBSB, dr by any other appropriation acts. Tior do I hud'that in any of said any provision co vering , the last ite.m in the |ai<J stptetnent, “for payment to letter-carriers, $175,005.’’ Re side this, f find .that npno of the apprpP.riatiops, amounting to s}, fl r< ‘‘S n v ! ml s ) r ~ vice, by fte act of Junp it, iS/§, ajoye mentioned, except the $241,000, the aggregate of tfic 2d, ifd, and 4th items of snoH estimate, were incliided in saidstatement of the Postmaster General. Iponfess the accounts of tho.Generai Post Office tj.ye always, under every Administration, been somewhat gf/lgift&tioiil to me., It really seems to me.that they could nqt }/e so utterly unintelligible, unless they had been made complicated and con fused'purposely. ~[l kavo never yet oomo across a person who could nnders'bnd these aooonhts without a General Post-Office clerk to explain and expound them( orxJ SPjnetimoß, ’ oven with such aid, the effort to folly comprehend thorn was a failure. I have no hope that they will bo any @,9,5 intelligi .blo.in future, bopoful as. the President woiild bayo the pnblio to,believe, tho present head of that do parbuentle, i Tim statement of the <[ vtratis " of the'General Post Office for the fiscal year J8,?8-9, ending Jutio 30, 1859, as estimated by Postaastor y.opera) Brown in his'report of Deoember 4; 1858, aftorjW months of that fiscal year had already elapsed, was as follows: Balance to credit-of department }a Treasury .July 1, 1358.. - $§03,313 Gross "revenue of General Post Office , . frpmaUsonjtteaJn fiscal year 1858-&. 7,786,080 Of- thV made by the • acts of March 3, 1847, and March 3, . 18$J> and June lfioB| .thero is up- to the .cffpnuw 9/JB5O the sum of * £,700,000 Aggregate 0fm0an5............ 11,094,393 ’' The act of 1847,' bo referred to, is doubtless the lawofthat dato, malting what is coiled a J ‘con-! r tinned” and “ penaahettti’appropriation 9f $200,- 000 per annum for compensation to the General Post Offloefor’mail 2 servicoVenderod to .the deport* to ‘ both Houses of Congress, t. e.- carrying franked matter, &o.; and the act of 1851, also the fawof that date increasing such ap- parand whioh act exempts the first appropriation - from-the operation .of,the sinking fund I presume tbo. act of Jane 141858, Specified, is the ooean mall steamors appropriation act of that date above cited. Tbo different sums remaining unexpended under each lack oltod, I havo as yet been unable to ascertain certainly, from the report. • ' By this statement it-appears that Postmaster .General Brown, on the 4th of December, 1858, an ticipated" that thera would-.be a deficiency in tho .fiscal year of 1853-9, ending Juno 30th, 1859, of.the the department, to tho amount of $3,682^127.00. It will be recollected that $3,500,- 000.00 was'appropriated by tho general appropria* tlonaot for the Post Office Department of 14 th June," 1858 j out,of any money in th* Treasury, to supply -such deficiency, if it should' occur; and it would appear, according to this estimate, that suoh defi olenoy not only occurred, but it. oxcoeded the' ap propriation therefor $182,127.00; and when~5608,313.00 bolanocoh the Treasury books lafc JaJy, 1858, as above stated, had been applied to absorbed in the expenses of the department, besides the appropriations-made in 1858 , for tbo fiscal year-ending June 80,1859, as is satforth; and in addition also to at least $700,000.00 (and how. jnuoh more is not known) of. the continuing and permanent appropriation for each year,’ by!tho acts pf;1847 and 1851, had been absorbed and applied in -like manner. The aggregate of these two last saihs is $1,308,313. But ifcHas been suggested to 'me ihat tire deficiency of $3,682,127, above stole#, !wos after the use and absorption, of the $3,500,000 so appropriated by the act of,June 14, 1858, to meet any deficiency In the revenues of the General Post\Office for the fiscal yeAr-ending Juno . 30, 1859, If this be so,- tho real deficit , .would bo' $7,786,080, besides the $608,313 and the ,$700,000 or more above mbntionod, making about $8,400,440, Tdo not credit this fully.' If this letter is extended jtoo much, you can defer.the reasons given for my opinion subjoined, and publish these in tho form of another lettor. Occasional. Rodlev Dvxatiqos, Esq.,’ the .very able editor of the. Reading Daily Times, has purchased tho esiablishihent of the Deri's County Democrat, and intends shortly to issue a new paper nndcr the title of Daily, Democrat, which will support tho principles and polioyoftboState«Rightsi)omocraoy' of Pennsylvania. Mr. DungUson is the son of our distinguished townsman, Professor Dunglfson. letter from :, | A new author rdft ADAm »hd» : rev.' dr.‘author, AUTHOR OP “THE TO»<JUB,OP PIKE''— VOCNO rAU KISH* TAKER' TP y A‘I»UHATJ[O j TRAXSACTIOK^TM^JUDICIARY* NOMINATIONS}: I CANDIDATES—'BtOKDIR, AND WITAT HE HAS MASH —HllS. c BAffeMAH’IS DLAV—ERIE RAILROAD MATTERS*’ ' ’.""/-'i [Correspondence of ThePressJ • Nett York, Aug. 23,1859. The lasfc rumor in reference to the authorship of. Adam Bedo attributes it, on the authority of the London Critic , to Miss Mary Ann Brans, the trans lator of v StrauBs’, Life of Jesu^; but I may mention to you a tiaW name, thafc-has boon mentioned confi- dentially among a few. literary persons who are. usually thoroughly posted In such’ matters, and whoso sources of information aro quite as retiablo j as thoaorof any momber of the editorial fraternity in-London. jThafc Adam- Bodo'- was written, by ] j a Methodist/may bo taken for •'grantod; that it | is the production of one of the masculine gender, is equally-probable. We need, not bo Bur- I prisod,:* therefore, jif it should turn out that It emanatOJ from the pon of tho Rev. William Arthur, D. p.j.one of the -moat eloquent Motbo* dist preachers s of England, and author of that Tory popular religious tale,“Tho, Tongue of Fire.” Tho , stylo of ‘ ,the two works, it is true, is quite dissimilar, but there 1b enough in the J “Tongue of Fire’’ to warrant' the presumption ( that Adam Bedo may hare been the intellectual j handiwork of the same person. M’. If was supposed by many, at tho time young Parrish was whipped at the Metropolitan Hotel for I taking unwarrantable liberties with a very esti mable young lady of Memphis, that ho was not in 1 his right mind. That supposition has at length I bees verified.- Mr. Parrish’s friends werelast week 1 oompelled to takehim from the city, and place him for treatment in the Insane Retreat at Hartford, j CoUnooticut.’' N ' ' ' ’ ‘I Riches, as the old proverb runs, cover & multi tude of sins.. An instance in wbich a wealthy per- I son of this city proposed to wrapjtjho mantle of wrong over a Bhqbby transaction has just come to light in a quarter where.it was not expected. When the Russian war steamer “The Grand Ad miral’’sailed tor Oronstodt,. amid'the firing of PaUh&ns'&nd the gurgling of Holdsick, it.was ['agreed by.her buildbr,’William' H. Webb, that the I officers add men who took her ouf should receive I three months’ pay for the S'oybgff, 'whether it took the full time or uot, and to-be brought back free of' expense. Many of these, jnqn aro.married, and hod mode arrangements for one half of their pay to be handed over to' their families, tin ar riving at Croußtftdt the men were paid just’two thirds of the sum agreed upon, Mr. Webb refusing io comply witfc the tenas,‘afid 1 abandoned them to I tfaeif fato. Akvcat number of them aro in an entirely j destitotoconditidn,: while their,families here are in want, and dependent upon .charity for, subsistence. Those who have been luoky enough to reaoh home ) are loud in their, denunciations of Webb’s conduct. I It is a very strange story, and one that is likely to occasion the ship-builder considerable aiinoyanee I on hisroturn. -Ab thd day for cauousos and conventions ap. proaches, the wire-pullers are more and more ac tive “ setting things so as to accomplish each his own particnlar end. .The . judiciary nominations r are at the moment attracting most attention, aa I some changes on the bench are inevitable.. At the ; general.election in November, we shall elect In this j oity, a judgo of the Supreme Court,'in the place of j James J. Roosevelt * two judges of the. Superior 1 1 Court—one in the place of John Slo&son, and the j other in the place of James' Monerief • one judge i of the Common Pleasj in the place of Charles £ I i Daly, and 'one judge of the Marine Court, in tho place of: Albert ; p. Thompson, At the charter I I olooti.on, on the Cth of December, we shall elect a 1 I counsel to, tho corporation, in the place of Riohard I Bustoed, whose term expire* with the present] year. Judge Roosevelt, a man of large wealth, I who is' 'more, ' ambitious 'of position than J |tbe emoluments of o£soq, is desirous of ro eleotion, but his personal .unpopularity will very likely throw: him Cut of nomination. His princi pal WtiJiamH-liOQnard. itamil? j ton W. Robinson oocnpips q strong Renjooratip po? sition aa a suitor for Judge Slos»oV»place, and Mr, I Monoriefwill] probably W ronbmlnatodi without I objbotion, for a full ‘term on the bench whero ho, I has served the short term of a single year.' Judge I Daly will bo: renominhted to tho Common Pleas j I bench, wo presume, without any serious opposition.- ( personal and professional standing, are'fp ex- [ I altoa that no party will care to place & man |in nomination against him. But.; the ,greatest I j plum in tho whole political pudding is the offloeTrf | (corporation counsel, wmch James TVBfttdycpuld I j have for the asking; but ho is so averse to'honors; 1 from. the. ballot-box that. ho w}H prrt»h)y deolipo lit. General RBjah Ward is anxious to undertake I ] its duties,'andßWyrder BarnardT? loomihgupfor-,' 1 j midably as a'bandidate, ■ Barnard.has-another)l j year to servo on the bench, and tf the Recorder-' J 1 ship would 'bo subject to tad Governor’s appoint*} (meat, should bd resign, which’ would throw the!) j place Into tho hands of a Republican, U is at pro-1 j sent .doubtful tp* Recorder j wIU do. He is ah active ar,d very popular J with the profession, as woll as with u the vqjmJ l > I { Rlpndin te4 o * n ij'* jMwlpeser-miwk t better,) I thap taippjng rope with i)ie Rayels. y His last per-1 I formahee af when he carried his agent I Colcord over oh nu pesriy, 1 fifteen hundred dollars; end Jtoghfr to ; know »»iai|ABAa..Bgto -yt-gag fsoason. '• >■ [, Mrs. Bateman’s nsw tragedy was preaented tast ( evening at IVaUeck’s to an overflowing house, anO) with gratifying success: It will bo repeated every | evening this treok. ,i I j I'he direotos f/[ tho Erio Railroad plot fnlday for' I the purpose of'rooofrlrig Uis'roport'pf their com mittee, appointed to arratijjo a sohoma of capitali zation. It is understood that the pfogr&nime to he I J reported involres.a general aocount of aluut $27, ;h00,646. ItJnelndesnllthemortgngmbonjsntpar, ] j thentiseeuredhondsathi) |>br oent. id' stock, ahd ! ] the etock at 20 per cent. In new stock, A sobscrip-'} I tion of ahopt $t,2Q0,000 li also called pr, {ar the I t purpose of, lifting the' road fronr'tts 1 I monte, and the bondholders will probably he naked j I to taka stock for tho coupons maturing within’ I j tircivo to tvriatfrtQjif months. ’ I The Future of Italy* - Times of August B.] /, \ A cold thrill of disappointment ran thrtngb the, Italian Peßinßula when the outlines of thi conver sation wbiph'pajsed Jjetjjreeri the twoEmjerors at Villa Franca #e,came known. . The fame southern exaggeration of mind and'feeling whlohhad led, the Italians to soo in tifo Ffencti of miliary Vh<?'W At ‘J.chgth, ma after so many years of weeiy suffering! to free Gem from their worse than Egyptian bondage, tyr«r tbetb, when he proved untrue totheirexpeotationi into pro.- mature despair. \ The open looksof love md.vene ration whlon had greeted hlsonward progeas were converted into ’glanoes of hatred -and oieeralkm on his homeward path! jOnoe they dme out. tq blpw him, now they cursed him as to passed ; by, " 'Ra£ a few weep back no name lad been pronounced, From'Mtianfc douU to tH Straits; of Messina, with snob passionate xcryd sf .de votion as -, that "of . tho Emperor . fSpoleon now the name of “traitor” was eon/lcd wiljj ; that of Bonis Napoleon from the Po to m Roane*: litan frontier. It must be oonfessad, evM by that' Ingenious gentleman'who writes from thefulieries,' anu'has oyer at hand'an epigram tolexcuse a wrong, that tUo''eipeotalic»s of tho JUians hod, been raised to a point of Atones* py thi Emperor Napoleon before ’ he began his campigb, ‘Tho “Anguish of Italy M was the motto on Is banner, #Dd. tno pretext of the war, a JIe wuld t h&yo found Europe in arms against him hadke sltnpTy! professed that he w aB going'to Italy [or selfish/ or evenifor ProHcU purpose- Thp-odcltios ex-, erctsed by a combination of tne. 'Adjri&n #pd' Papal systems throughout the Itattanp&uinsnln biad been so extreme and of suoh long cOtlnoanoe, that g man oould not' look .his fellow-pin in tho: faefi and .profess to stand forth as theirdefender. Wo might. Judgq tljo attempt to redressthls miso* ruble fitfttc of things xieM&sJ qf but \vh could not do battle against any mimwhUxmgbt jn suoh a cause. Tho Prohoh Emperor was foj| aware 1 of this. us, howevor, presume that b was re ally in earnest when ho took the cause" c Italy In bwdrwlpt us suppose* further, that ultnately at Villa ProQoa ho made th® best terms ho apposed to be possible for tae ean eoarow be sur prised if bo has. dlsappomfed' , lh9 oxectations whioh ho himsolf fiad raised. He coufoiot hope! that the wild Italian blood would not m raised, to fury when tho terms upon whiohtho had' treated were known. It was not prohble that 20,000,000 pp.oplo,, who t had been tight, by his own lips to loojf fo , bim for t perfect doUveranoo iVohi spiritual and should quietly acqmosce.in a result Wmohmaant, ■ at tbo best* that they, must work ,out thir lude pgpdonoe iorthomsolvOs,' and, ’af'the W«t, that they wero to bo handed back to their formr task masters in wore PltohlP than bofcc. \Vo desire to put the uesh and pqttha worst, instruo-; tioh upon tho conduct of tho Prenc# 'Empbr. If this bo done,' tho Itajfsns will .in tnoejjU. bo! brought to. seo that if Loute Napolopu i sob & being of supernatural power and bonefiinoo, at least be b as shown hiuisolf their bonefamr and friend. ■ *..,»}■ . All, bowovor. depondfj npon tho course wloh tho negotiations ltaly m»y ultnately take: Wo oannot bring oursetverto thinku&t tho Emperor of the French will prove hlmsellso.on-} truo. to his plighted, faith as,to throw th tbroc 1 duchies and the legations down at the feet f tbeiri forinor masters, to undergo what extromitioof suf- ( feriugaud efgoUy Iriaiopbant viudictiveoja may! dlotate. Tho qf prance and lustriu, could not come to any these provinces, for they ware not%6 seat e war; ■ cor, save Botarap tbo action of thepentingeu from tho duohie* conoornod, were they evofrnixod up with'tho war. Tuscany by horse If has afrood a rfeht-to change her form of government asfanoo. What istboyaJpeof tbp |JmperorNapolDOJ3 own 1 title to tho throno of I'ranoe. if tfep TuscanSooplo aro nbfc froe to ohooie tboir owp rulers 7 ttat Is truo of France or Tuscany Is true, in prinAje of Parma and Modena, tbo only difference in tlcaies boing that the military power of the last lamed' State* Is comparatively insignificant; Thepapal States were spaoigonUv acknowledged to hi nou nral—Prance and Atwri* have no moro riht to dictate to tho inhabitants who shajl ruleovojtbem than they have to parcel out tho- Britlsh iianiß or tho pnlted States of North Ameriua. od b appoint their own viceroys ovisr tho Heptajhifo of thfelf owfi creation. Xeavink right out f tb> question, tod considering only What France w 3 dc, ft is Emperorspuli first lead the" fPhablUptft of Qentr&l Italy Vdt struction, and tbon turn his book upon them 1/ Tuscany, Pama,’ Modena, and the legations rle )i armSiitwa? because ho entered Italy at tbo leal of & French army, protesting thathupurposoy© to purge ihe peninsula of the Afistrl&ns from l ha Alps to Reggio. It is already no sUght thingto draw book so far as to declare that, at all ovenh, Venetla and tho district of 1 thb foiir fawou fortreasca aro -to bo rcsfgpod ,to; the old in truder; but this may bo ineritah]o--it may bf one of tho har# nooossltios of war. This onnibi however, apply to the provinces of Central Ital{; and wo are bound to admit that ifthe indopca. denoe pf th.eso is secured, ftndjiomb'ardy and Biel, montaro consolidated inlo"a ebmpaet and soii{ kingdom, the Empofror-Napoleon wul.have bconjji mean beucfactor tq {b© Italians. Allow ton yots to pass over suoh aii ftrrrbgemedfc without n!y fresh visitation from tho Vrepcb or Austrian »- mies, and Italy is as much answerable for Ueroth fortunes as England or Prance. latest FOREIGN news; Br «TnK BftSMEK,” " : The Peace qV Villa Fbanoa.—Tho Maraois of Noriaahby willtola evening (Aug. 8) aek a question in' tin: mm at Loffdj.orhet' Gorero nwnt «Mo"thoprojeotof pwe transmitted by them "t<FtK«*Atftfrlan Government previous to tbo pre liminaries of - Villa, Franoa, and will inquire whether there would be any objection to duction of any’ official communication from tho Secretary of State to her Majosty’s ambassador at Paris on the subjeot. Defences of the Fortii.—A reply has been re ceived from tho War Office by tho Edinburgh Cham ber of Commerce, in answer to their memorial, i that measures should be taken for tho arootloh of a. battery on the island of Inohketth, for the protoc tion of tho Firth of Forth, stating that - Govern, i mont haro, resolved on .tqjting.tho step suggested, I “ in the oonfidonoe that tho city of Edinburgh will I produce a corps competent to man and work the guns ” A regummt ol'Volunteer Firth rof Forth Attillory is at present in course of organization, to oonsißt of companies stationed on both sides of the Firth of Forth, with headquarters at Leith. Reserve (Military) Force.—A blit of Mr. Sidney Herbert empowers the Queen from timo to time to oause. to, do enrolled amj-kept up in the United Kingdom a reserve force bf ZO.OOO 'men, ! consisting of soldiers who hive previously servo! hero or iu India. The term of sorvica wilt be pro! soribod by-regulations, and the foroo will be called out for training and oxorcise for twelve days in i each year. In base of invasion tho foroo may be I colled out tor permanent service and garrison duty. , Tho reserve foroo, when on duty, wiiTbo subjeot to tho mutiny aoL* " .... Rapid Communication-With the Sodth of Idk- ! land.—On Saturday tho Times, and some of the other London daily pap’ors, woro rooolvod in Cork within twenty-four hours of their publication. The mode of transit was by the ordinary train of the I Great Wostern Railway, which loaves Paddington" for Bristol at 6 A. M., reaching the latter place at ll o'clock. Thence tho papers woro transferred to , tho fast-sailing paokot of thO Bristol Gonorai Steam I Navigation Company, tho Flora, Captain Poole, I which started at noonc reaching Cork Light at 6 A. M., and 6.15, A, M. on Saturday morning, tho Times and tho other papora were delivered at the Cork Cinb. Tho passngofrom port to port, notwithstand ing a strong adverse wind and heavy sea, was thus mode in seventeen hours) and'per'oxprers" train from Paddington to Bristol, tho journey from the metropolis to Cork may now be. accomplished within twebty hours.' Two 'steamers belonging to the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company the Flora and,.Bnbinar-now my between Bristol and Cork three times per week, afid the increasing I appreciation of tho celerity of this route to .nSr south of Ireland renders, ft prohiblo that a daily paokot communication between. tba two ports will be established. ) I- SPAnnows for.Nf.w ZeAlanp.—lt appoarsfrom j the papers that in New Zealand tho country, at particular seasons, Is invaded by armies of cater plllais,'which clear, off the. grain, orops as com pletely as if mowed down by a scythe. With the I view of counteracting this plague a novel importa- I tien has been made. It Is Urns noticed by the Southern'Cross i “ Mr. BrOdie has shipped three hundred sparrows on board the Swerddsh, care fully selected from tho best hedgerows in England. The food alone, he informs us, put on - board for thorn cost 18/. This sparrow question has been a long, standing joko in Auckland; but the neces sity to farmers- 6f-small birds to keep down" the f;rubs is admitted on all sides. There is no security u New Zealand against'the invasion of myriads of caterpillars which, devastate tho crops.. Mr.‘ Brodfe has Already 'acclimatised the' phe'asant,' which ft abundant in the north. Tho descent from thephehsaut to.sparrows is somewhat of an anti olimax ; but should tho latter multiply tho greatest boitqfitwiH hnvo boon conferred on the country.”, —Australian Mail. Explosion op Gunpowder at Ballincolio.— About half pest ten o’clock on Saturday morning g.ugust 6) an explosion of gunpowder oeourred at o Ballinoolig powder mills, Ireland, which was attended with the destruction of hnman life to a deplorable extent. The scene of the disaster was the storehouse, at the wostorn extremity on the' 1 banks of the river, known as No. 1, Dusting-house,i I bnt by others described as a reSning-honse. At that hour five men were engaged at, the house in removing the powder stored in kegs, into a boat on the canal, by whioh communication is effected be tween tho several ■ departments of the mills along tho hanks of the river. Tho unfortunate men thus engaged were blown to pioocs. Three of the bodies when discovered are desoribod bs blaok masses of i flesh and bone, only distinguished by fragments of dreqa whioh hung by thorn. Of tho bodies of the other two’ nqt a limb romained; bnt their relations might bo seen wandering ovor the adjacent fiolda, picking up black fragments of fleßh and bono, whioh no doubt formod part of their living bodies two Jiours beforq. The eauso of the disasfor must for ovor remain a mystery, as pot onp qf thoigirho knew it. if indeed, any of them that knoijr jt, pow SBrvlve to account for it. As to the dnstingTltoqio or rofining<bqneo at whioh tho oatastrophe oeoarrod,- not as mnob as a 1 stone of it remains, even from the foundation; for tho very ground on which it stood has" been blown up and rootod away os if a mine had exploded be-' neath it. The honso was situated at the extremity of a fenoe plantod with fir and othor trees; these trees wero torn up from tho vory roots and now lie seattored about the fields. On tho other sido of the river, by tho roadside, are four or five small slated houses i the roofs of these were shattered and knock ed Away by the mass'of stona"from tbo exploded re fining-house. One workman is missing; bat tho five are probably th 6 only snfforers. ‘Further In- , farmntlon will, it course, be" elicited' on ‘the in- ■ quest. ‘ 1 Advices from Berlin of tbo 4th lust, say: Tho nows of tpo dissolutlon'of tho Frepoh army of ob servatiqh has produced* very fayoraM® efoet hero. -Prdssia wliratofieecodatormahu tho eoneeutratlon of troops on tho Rhine. According to n communication made io Baron do Budberg', RuSsfaq' ambassador aijieriin, the Em peror Alexander will" visit our court in September. He will fetch the Empress piowager, "amigo with h« to tq attend tfee grand manoeuvres vyhioh arc to takq place t£at city, frusta i$ about to sontf yosiJols of yfar to 1 *b® frigate Th*t)* tlio ooryotto ArCOIIft JlAVff boon w m tpo month, and re main absent fqr throo years. 4 'councillor of tho Prussian Legation will accompany tho expedition, to carry on negotiations with th© Japanese Govern ment. The Construction of a railway of tho longih of TCP yersts between Moscow and Saratow has been authorized, Tba pqnltal of thocompany will bo 45,000,000 roubles, in 450,000 sbaros of 100 rou ble oaob, with aGovernm!e'ntfeuarantco for* eighty years of 4\ per ceut. _ The concessionaries of tho now Russian bank to bo CfltdbHshed in St'. Petersburg, With'a capital of £8,000,000— Rarqjilj&ber, M. lions ©man, and’Ba ron Mulkon*-aro persons fargbly oonnootod with the financial operations of tho Continent, especially those whioh aroso during the speculativo’famo of tho Paris Credit Mobilier. * They Will,*therefore, bs likely with tho asshftanpo of tho Coprt party considerably tq promoto the ardor for Bourse trans aotionß, whioh narlatoly beocriuoVstrong foaturo at the Russian capital. Tho movomont is favora ble to tho probability of peace being proserved in Europo during tbo next few' months,' since it would hardly Have been undertaken unless with the belief *th&t there wolild bAtimfe to realize good profits. ’Bitoii ‘lTabOfr,‘toqpagor of the Bank of. Darmstadt, h‘db much inttuenoe, and was’ formerly established at §ti|tgardt: Jfo is Oonnootod with many Qcrtnan enterprises, including tho Qrhdit hfobllior in Viepßa, is progWed to be tho Ba ton Haber who, during the Spanish war,' was muoh engaged in affording asstetanoo to Don Carlos. M. HaDscmnn is a director of tho disoount bank in Berlin—ah establishment whioh usually takes a part in public loans. “Constantinople, July 30.—Tho Saltan ar riyed at on tho 26th inst. An Albanian pfin6o hd4*d|friyed hero on a political mia3ion. ,> Tho note in '^^sffi/a'nnonnc ing tho dissolutfop of tho army oir Observatfon. has not produoed all tho effect intended by it. Tho (< novertheleB3 ,, which begins the next paragraph ohecked the rising joy caused by the first; and tho retaining at tho comp of Chalons tho divisions of infantry and cavalry whioh are plaeed under tho bommanjJ pf General §cbrnmcK an 4 those compo sing tho oqrop Of Jfolfeut, whish under General Malsslat, acted rather as a dmpeh 'lt is rfnopted that another note will soon sppoar in the Mow'- teitr, positively doolaring that tho great Powers will bo invited to meet and settle amicably all ox feting and that Franco will henceforth apply bbt&elf tq the cultivation of tho arts 'of peace. This nqlipy hitherto fol lowed In Italy has raised up so mafry complloations that H is not easy to get ovor them without tho as sistanoo of England. . Tho Syndics of the Agents do Change hod an. audience-within the last day or two of tno Empe ror, his Majesty wishing to ask tholr ndneo as to tho boat maftiwr and restoring confidence. ? ’ ' : ; , ' Tho Kmporor intends going to tho camp at Cbd lons and Helfaut. His carriages woro sent there several days ago by tho Strasbourg railroad. He wilt return to Paris to bo present at the triumphal ontTy of the ayipy of Italy. Tno troops .prthp tirnijr' of jp&ly continue to ar tfvo and onoalnp at Vlnoenpes and 3t. Maur, and, ono soob about tho streots of Paris small parlies of' tho sunburnt Victors of Bolferipo, whparo seeming ly tho objects of much interest and curiosity., Tbo!. Turcoa have come up, and floveral groups of them wore seen gaping, wonderstruok, on tho boulo- : yards, some'of them vatbor tho worse for liquor, and ecomibgly’ pCAlbssed' wRJj a potion that tho carriages driving about were for’their übo and &Q- 1 commodation, and rather surprised that thoy woro . upt. iu roply to thoirsignals to that offoot, immodi- | assisted up tho stops and seated on silken biqns. The solemn' or triumphal, entranoo of: ato portion! of thp army withdrawn from Italy; ous take plaoo, aooording ‘f6 ‘ present arrange ments, on tno 14th inst., shortly before From St. Maurdboy will toaroh down to the Faubourg St. Antoino, and along tbo boulevorda. from tho Hostile to tho Rue do Id Paix. The Emperor; will await them at tho Hotel *de l’Etat Major, 6b;'the Plaqp Vendome, from (ho balcony -of ; which building f}Q firjU tho march past. From tho Barridro du Trono to the tho streets and boulevards will bo lined by the Army of Paris and tho National Guard. Thoro are to bo triumphal arches,' trophies, decorations of all kinds, tho theatres and public buildings are to bo dressed out, ai)4 the Placo Vcndomo will bo converted into an amphitheatre, tjio circular rows of benches boiag already jn progress of creotiftp, for the aooommoda tion 01 tho fixate, Legislative Corns, Council of State, &o. The, papora predict that the. festival will ho unprecedented for britlianoy in the annals of military triumphal colobratlons. Tho.theatros are gotting up.pleoes relating to tho exploits of the returning army,'and various/ef&j will, it is said, bo organised m Wfi|gof»o and entertain thp troops; among othors^ a mognifioont fpta tie nmt, on tho 10th, at tbo Pru Catalan, tq whioh all tho officers and deputations Of noncommissioned officer? and soldiers nro to be invited, and which is to surpass all previous spectacles given at that popular and beautiful garden. , TpfljNj Aug. s.—Tho Ministry has resolved upon > recalling the pjedpronteso Governor at; Parma. ! The Sanlinian Qovornmont hqfl reoallod tho Sar* ; dinian commissioners arid authorities from Parma’ and Piacenza. ’ Ghevalior Jocteau, Minister Plenipotentiary of Sardinia at Berne, has been appointed Second Representative of Sardinia at tjie Conference of Zurich. “Milan, August T-—To-day, atQ.flOP. M.>tho King of Sardinia entered the town, accompanied by bis Ministers, by tho membors of Parliament, and tho municipal bodies of Turin and Genoa. His Majesty passed through the (torso on horseback aimd the enthusiastic acclamations of tho people. A Te Deun> was performed, at wh(oh his Majesty; was present} and h® afterward* reooiyod th© au thorities of tho oily. This evening a grand gonorai: lUuqunatmn took place. Tbo aspect of Milan du ring this national/rVc is Very imposing.” ' '' Too King of Sardinia has addressed lhe Jollowlng autograph note to tbo Podestii of Milan: “ D car Cpunt Boleloso : Tho testimony of pious’ remembrance offered by the people of Milan on tho sBth of July to the memory of my noble fathor has deeply ft (Footed my heart. The Milanese) asso ciating tbomselvos spontaneously with the domestic sorrow of thoir King, prove that tho bonds which unite me' to them are bonds of love. I rejoice at ' it./ la honoring the memory of Charles Afl?prt for thefirst time, they have at tho Bamo timo shown thaj years «id events have not diminishedAheir reverence and- gratitude towards the originator of ’thefe Independence, and I thank them in.thqn*me also of Italy. Although I did not want aw'fui’- thor proof to he convinced of the affection and loy alty of my Milanose, it has, nevertheless, been so pleasing to me that I feel it necessary to certify to them how fully I have understood their feelings. Your honorable municipality, in conveying. my - sentiments to tKoir fellow-citfcens, will fulfil one of tile dearest wishes of my hohrt. " u Turin, July 31. Viotor Emmanuel.” THE LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. \ From the Pike’s Peak Mines. Leavenworth, K. T.,Aug. 23.—The Denver City Express, which loft on the 15th, arrived here to-day*. with six passengers,and -116.000 in gold dust. * r ’ A portion of tho recently-framed Constitution had been published. There is no allusion to the slavery question in the Bill of Bights, but the right ofsaffragejs restricted to the whites. The local )aperB are silent Arith respect to - the .provisions of he Constitution. . , _ The following fcrb the " gold stories,"'furnished by this arrival: Tho richest discoVdries Blhbe the lost arrival had been made near tho Cheyenne pass, althongh'the opening of new leads vras of almost daily occur* reneb. r r J - ’ ‘ 5 * j . >■',. • ,’t v • - r Thcro wpb a great rush of miners'.towards the Cheyenne* pass/where, ityrtis reported, from $lOO to $l,OOO was being maddper day to a single hand. (?) • ' ■ > ' iKich quart*, it is also?said, was found in .abdn* dance everywhere. , i The emigration was light but steady. : . Business was brisk. At Denver City merchandise and provisions were selling cheap. - , Later irom Pike’s -Peak./ •» > St. Lotus, August 22.—A special despatch, de ceived by the Democrat , says that the advices from. Denver the!2th inst. reached Lbavenworth to-day. They state that rich* discoveries of gold have been made In the'Medicine Bow Mountains. 150 miles north of Cherry Creek. The excitement in recard to the new diggings at the headwaters of- the South Platte continues una-! bated. Barge numbers are daily leaving both the North'and the South for the new diggings. i Seven,persons arrived, at Atchison to-day. with' over one hundred buncos of gold. /•',>r : ; Baltimore Affairs. ~ TUB CITT K&LROAD—AMERICAN PRIMIrT ELSC- Tioy, sfc. . . , Baltimore, Aug. 23.—1 n the City Council this' afternoon, the special committee on the City Rail road reported an ordinance for tho rtpeaTof tho for mer ordinance, and instructing the purchase of the road as far as completed, and the least* of the same for seven years; also reducing the fare to four cents. *» ■ • •'. •' , It is generally thought, however, that Councils' will tcfupe.lorlntortereyriih the present, company, oaths public are getting impatient for the comple tion of the enterprise/and are averse to further, hindrance. " - Ward primary elections ore being held tornjgb t fqr delegatee to tho American .CongtesSidnal lton vention, in the districts embracing the city*ahd county of Baltimore. There has been ,no disturb-] once of importance thus far. 1 la the coroner’s inquist on the body of the man; wbo ( was murdered; last -night. ■ the foxy have re turned a verdiot that the dehtn of Hugh Sullivan • was oaused by the b&ndsof. Thomas Hoffman and Robert Miller, the latter as an accessory. Both of the parties have been arrested and committed to await tho action of the grand jury. From lVashington, Washington, Aug. 23.— I The President has re cognised Henry Sohondorff os oonsul of the Prince of Reius, of tho elder, branch/and-of the Prince ofßeussof the junior branoh, to reside at New York. •- ' - - * •* , • Ho has also recognised O. E. Stewart as consul of Belgium, to reside, at Charleston, S, C. Tho President has appointed Wm. T. Wright, Jr., of Maryland, ns oonsul at Santo. Professor Dimitry, the new minister .to Central America, will leavo about the Ist of September for Costarica. ' r >'< • r , - t . * General Cass will'entertain, at'dinner to-day, Minister Mato Wd Senor L?rdo, of Mexico. Other kind attentions have been extended to these, dis tinguisbed Moxioans by gentlemen connected with. the Executive Department of our Cover nment. Dauphin County, , Harrisburg, Aug. 23.—The Democratic County Convention methero yesterday, and nominated, the following ticket: • For Legislature—Nimrod Buckingham and Ed ward Picket. / * , •-/: /'! County Commissioner—William H. Kepner. County Treasurer—George W. Finney. District Attorney—William H, Eoklcs. Diroctor of the Poor—John Reel. County Surveyor—Daniel Lelfler. 1 Auditor, (3 years) —Wiliam Richard. “ (2 years)—Solomon Buck. Coronor—George Lewis Mytinger. Resolutions were adopted endorsing the National Administration. State Politics, ' OnAMSERSBunq. August 23.—At the Republican Convention he|d hpj-e tox<|ay, A- K. hloClure was unanimously nominated for Senator from the 18th district, ana Major J. R. Brewster, of Franklin oounty, and Colonel James C. Austin] of Fnlton county, for the Assembly. . - D. O. Gehr '>as selected as Senatorial delegate ' to the State Convention^'' ' : '/ Lock Haven, August 23.—8. Rush Petriken has'been nominated by the Republican* gislate!*, isj»4l«asiiff*D**rcsnqMlate on the sale The yQte stood 4$ to 8. Hl* opponent is Wm. Peamn. - - , Death of Hon. John W. Davis, of la WAftniNOTqN/. Aug. ■ private despatch from Carlisle announcer tire death! of Ho a.* John W. Davis, of Indiana, and formerly Speaker of the United States Houso' of Representatives, Mr. Davis was » native of Cumberland county, Pa., studied medicine, and emigrated to Indiana. Ho served in the State-Legislature, and was several times elected to Congress. He' was for a time mi* nister to China, and afterwards Governor of Ore* gon Territory." ■ 1 - * Kansas Dmurpajice9. Leavenworth/ Aug/ 22,—-T&ere is some con firmation of the recently reported outbreak in the southern part of the' Territory. 'One of thegangof Jay-hawkers has' been earned into Missouri. Captain hfontgoffiefy js reported to fee again in the field, and'ti Irorpected that ho will attempt to re* coptoro the prisoner. Considerable uneasiness exists/and a renewal of thVolddisturbanoos is,-an ticipated. r ‘» - 1 1 * ■ A PennpytvtitUgiiPiii Lock, St. Louis, August 23.— The Omaha 'Republican says tfjat hfr. pharles Leslie, > formerly of M ar ion county, Pennsvlyanja, arrived there on tho 14th inst. with 1,088; ounces of gold dost from Clear Creek. Mr. Leslie professes to have discovered the richest dlgglpgs yet found.? He returns' to \ tho States for the purposo of procuring quarts mills, with which to work them., The New York American State Council Geneva, (N._ Y.,) AugJ 23.—The American State Counoil met at noon to-day. At the after noon session, tho.Committeo on .Credentials, pom* po&4d of Messrs, *f, ,r R. and' Charles B. Freeman, reported the names of otfe hundred and forty.deleg&Us as having presented regular cre dentials. = * • - - .Sporting News., ANOTHER TROT BETWEEN FLORA TEMPLE AND PRIN- CESS —FLORA VICTORIOUS. BofiTQN, Aug. 23-—A trot between “ Flora Tem ple" and “ Pnnqess.’rftrn purso of $l,OOO, mile neats, best three lu five, oarae off this afternoon. <( Flora" won three straight heats, making time as follows : First heat, 2 min*. 33 sec.; second heat, 2 min. 2G seo.; third heat, 2 min. 34 sec. ' Opposition Reetiii^ : iu Virginia* ’ .Richmond, Va., Aug. 23.—A large mooting of the Opposition was hold Hero Vast night.' Resolu tions wore passed expressing a preference for John M. Bolts for President, and recommending the holding of a State Convention during the fall. Street Murder in Baltimore. ■' Baltimore. August 23.—Hugh Sullivan was shot In tho head and Instantly killed last night, when on hia«way homo, about 12o’olook. Soveral ar rests have been made, and tho coroner’s inquest is no w, engaged in invotjtigatlpg the circumstances loading to the mtirder.’ ’ * ’ The Yacht Alice, of Fhilailplpljia. Norfolk, Aug. 23.—The'schooher Alloo, with a pleasure party from,Philadelphia, arrived bore this afternoon, via tho Delaware ana Chesapeake Ca nal. The party will leave tomorrow for Old Point Comfort, Washington, and. Baltimore. , - - .Fire at Cairo €Uy, 111* St. Louis, August 23,—A special despatch to the Democrat rays that 'fhirtoon buildings wore de stroyed at Cairo oity this morning by nre. The loss is ostimptpd jit $JO } OQp. The Yacht IXasiyel! qt Baltimore. Baltimore, August-23.—The yacht Jlaawoll, of from Riohmond, arrived hero this morning,' in 23 hours from Old Point Comfort. ... Fire at Syracuse* Syracuse, N.'Y., August 23.—Tho First Baptist Church; and tho saloratus factory of D. Kellogg, with several qthpf bullrings, w®ro burnt this morn ing.' ■ -/>• jv: l - The United States Steamer Fulton* Norfolk, Va.', Aug. 23.— Tho United States stoamor Fulton will tryhorannaraentbeforo leav ing for tho Gulf to eruise off Cuba and the adja cent islands on a special service. . The wind isfrosa, southeast. Boiler Explosion,—Throe men killed* . Norfolk, August 23. — The bolter of a dredging niaohiuo, ou tho PAlbormale and Chesapeake Ca nal, oxploded near this city this morning; three men were killod.* ‘ ; - - Non-arrival of the Canada* Sackvillb,- N. 8., August 2<MV were no signs Of the fltoainef Canada at Halifax at 8 o’clook this evening. It. was raining, and the weather waß very thiok. Markets] by Tel6grqph t Baltimore, August 23.—Flour heavy : sales of 700 bbls of choicoHoward street at 56.121. Wheat active; sales of bus at 5f.15a1.35 for whito, and $1.8a1.12 for red,” .Corn—Yellow has ad vanced 2c, and sells at 80s8,?o; white 76a780. Pro visions dull. WHiskoy firm; Ohio 28jc. .HfiW OnLEANfi, August qf Cotton to day 350 bales; how orop is quoted' at 12f. Cotton freights to Liverpool J. . , >.;t: ~ New Orleans, August 23,— Cotton— S5Q bales all new) were' sold to-day,- Tho old ’stocks is rtf ected. The priflos arc unchanged. Tho sales of hroo days amount to 1,000 balel, and the receipts to 1,5Q0 baleß, against I.3oo—the receipts of the samo period of last-year. Tho total stock of the now crop on hand amounts to 2,600 bales. There were only 1,400 bales of now Cotton on hand last year. Mixed Cojn sells at 80o: - = * . , Cincinnati, 'Aug. 23.—FJopr is firm at $4 00a 4.75. Wheat firm; 'Whiskey id mod dejn *nd at 24c. Provisions Btcmdy and unoEaffeed.' Bacon—. Shoulders sell at To, and Sides at 9}o. Bulk Moats —Shoulders 6s. EVENING. /Wn*ATl*r fc Ciabik’s Aecu-Birket Tueatkei Awh; MT*ft,. above,6ia th-rfSreon Bn«M»j or One Hundrad’Years Ago.. “ MyNeighbora Wirt. 1 'rSAirroAD'e OrKBA \Hooin~Elaventa street, Above v 6onoert every afternoon and evening. - 'Sir' ■BETING OP THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CON VENTION.—The Democratic County Convention for the purpose of- nominating candidates for District Attorney and Prothonotary of the Court of Com mon Pleas, voted:- for .at tho ensuing election/ assembled testerday morning at tin o’clock in Spring-GardenH»U. - iEhe Convention organised, permanently by the election of TeaaC-i/eeon, Jr/, president. ■* ' A numbevof contested J seatt*rere dcoided; after 'jrhiqiugiftConY«Ptfo> adjourned;fotaectintbe'af ternoon at najf past two, . _ • ; , iAEfßilfbOrfrßßSliON. The Convention reassembled in the afeornoon, and-Oh Jnotion weiifc ! into: nomination for'the Pro , thonotaryship of the Conrt of Common Pleas. \ I; ..Theifolle'wihg ts the.resultof the ballotiifgs; ; * Ist 2d 3d 4th sth 6th 7ih R.T. Carter...«.;..36 3d -51’$1 s£■ 75 93 J. C. Costello 35 -38 42 45 48 -55 .V T./McGrath ...38 38 43 54.62 '66 106 E.BTBWBTie.29*3O *.. ♦»' W. W. Burnell 14 ,-12"; f'.. B. H. Nave5........8 '5 », *, A. T. Kite.. 28 21. 21, 20 ♦ . T. Haviland....• w.. 14 f., ( 8 .. '... .. , McGrath; w&b declared the nominee .amidst tKe most intense excitement. On motion of C. F. i Maguire, the .nomination wia made unanimous, Mr. HafUand’s name was withdrawn before pro ceeding to the fourth ballet. After taking a shortfeces*; Ihe* Conyeutlori pro* coeded to ballot for tho candidate for District At torney, with the following result: " ' ', H.K.'Kfceass.. B. Hv Brewster, .v... J. T. 0wen........... W.J;.Bpdd 17 • ,The nomination of Mr. Kneass was made unani mous, and,the, Convention adjourned 1 amid great applause. ; , f ' The Sehatohxai. Cohveetions.—There will he electionr in the Second and Fourth. Senatorial dlatnots;, The Second Senatorial Convention met at Washington Hall, yesterday morning, corner of. Eighth aca Spring Garden ptreets. The Conven tion,.was organized temporarily, by calling Mr. Charles KOonersberger to .the rfuur> and by the appointment of Messrs. C. Burt Town, and Thdmas M. Byan as Secretaries.* *t -; The,re was one or two contested seats disposed of., A permanent organisation was then effected as fol lows : • ~ r * Kochersperger.' Vice President*—John names, Captain -Black*' stone. ~ Secretarie»7-C. Burt.Tojrn and T. M. Ryan. Messrs. Gedrge J. Thomas and John H.JDohnert were put in general nomination for State Senator* 1 The result of the ballot was as follovrs: Rohnert. 21 j Thotaai:.; ;V. •.15 The nomination of Mr. Rohnert was made unani-' mous, snathe Convention adjourned. The Senatorial Convention of tho 4th district met yesterday morning atihe. Germantown Hall, and, : after organizing, the followinggeneral nominations were made: John Roberts, Townsend Yearsley Oliver Evans. The result of the ballot was as fol- .311 Yearsley. Mr. Robert* w4a defclared to be the nominee for Senator in the Fourth district. The RBPititsgHTASiVEJCojlvehtiows.—The! seventeen Representative Conventions met in their ■, respective • districts --yesterday ? morning, at ten 1 o’ofocfc. The following are tho names of the nomi- ‘ nees: First District, Joseph Colwell; Second, no nomination; Third,’ Patrick Moßonough; Fifth, J. Jackson; Sixth, C. Donovan; Seventh, Charles* Yeager Charles Van Kirk r Ninth, Henry: Dunlap; Tenth, J. C. Keller; Eleventh*Johnll Riehl; Twelfth’ EdtfariD BulkUy $, 3?htirte3tE, Wm. D. Morrison; Fourteenth, James Donnelly Fifteenth, Phil. M. Hagner; Sixteenth, Thos. w. ' Dufiield; Seventeenth/Wmi M k Leeah. f x In the FourUrdistrict A singdlaf state'of things exists. The- candidates ; are Robert Randall and l Thomas Timmihs. There were cast & hundred and! twenty-seven .ballots, during,.which ,ther* .were i steadily maintained thirteen votes for each person. 1 At mianight'an adjournment was effected until ten o’clock this raCrning. <- •-*- v " . .•> .As a general thing,- the business in. tho various wards was conducted in good ort^r. Sixth Legislative iDisteict.— The Demo cratic* delegates-'in -this ‘district'met'yesterday at 10 o’clook, at Bradley’* hotel, Market street, below Juniper: * ’ The contest fbr nomination was most vigorously oondaoted/.rAfter considera ble delay, and much exciting discussion, there, was a split in ,the Convention-i one .party nomination Charles h. Wolf, and the. other 0, M* Donovan Both claim to Have had ainajority of tfchdeiegates; We were present daring the proceedings,- Ag/T*kai j ero long give a fall ariiftruthful aocbunt^faUVEat was done. The merits of this quarrel arc worthy' Of public notice and J consider® two, ; ;an<t we ’shau present them in apothei*issadfaliy.\' ; 5 'PAijJFirE ApctDENT.—Tyfd men, Mined John Shilling and Huefc Walfas* met with a horrible accidont yesterday afternoon, ‘while engaged in digging a well on the pram&c* of tiamuelSrMHl©T, the proprietor of a paper «til -in - upper Darby. They had reached a depth ot thirty feet and struck a bed of solid rookj Whicjh.they were -SCAMriag.'to blast, when the charge suddenly exploded, 1 iqjariog them.la the most shooking -manner.- Shilling, who U aboht twenty-fopr years-of age, had'hS face badly burned, and ope eye so severely injured that he will, probably loeeltj. Waters, whpis forh»-five years of age, was still more unfortunate. His anas were baqly lacft*ts>'fi»e out, and.one ,pf Ms eyes destroyed. This is the second time he has received ininrieafriwn > powder, haring lost bis other eye on a former eeUsi ' The twu imnr'were 5 admitted to the Pennsylvania Hbspital’lastcveulhg. Tail OAijisTsa ,ai> Mosix—Oar raadem will ropejjilw that a {6w week* time we stated the disoerery of, a tin canliter In the Cohoektinlt creek, Which wsg found' to eoiitaln $10,000; purl porting to bo Issues of eerUin’ hanks in North Ca rolina. Various surmises Wert afloat: relative to the moans by which if had been placed there, some supposing that tho murderer of an officer : ofouo of tho Carolina banks had placed it. there for the purpose or oluding the coders., It was deemed advisable; by those having chaifge'of 'io notoß, not to state on what banks .theyiwera is reed. A few days since it was ascertained, that the Whole lot was connterfeit. This does not solve the mystery, but rather serves to increase it. Hahdsome The workmen' em ployed in the locomotivo works o( M', .'Rf. Baldwin & Co , on Monday evening, presented a beautiful gold watch and ehain' to Mr. Otis Slater, a foreman in mat establishment-: "hfr, S. has been employed in the above eapaoity |hr a year past, and secured the confidence and esteem of allhisfellowsr,wbo took this method of manifesting their appreciation of his uniform kindness to them. The presentation was made by Goojgs> 0. onbekaifoj the don Ors, and responded to by the recipient, to whom the gift was entirely unexpected, in a brief and ap propnato manner., r - r r Painful SuicjdEt-yA Hotter Attempts to Destrov her Two Cbildrkn.—Yesterday morn ing Mrs. Rosa! Toy,, aged twenty-four years,' ro • aiding in Pink street, above Master, Seventeenth ward, administered a dose of laudanum to her two children, and then took a quantity of the deadly liquid herself. She was discovered, by hot neigh bors about eleven o’clock, and every means applied to restoro her to hut-without avail. She- died about eight o’olock.last evening. The coroner was notified ta attend. The children are 1 in a precariouscopdiUun-, , - x . - Militart Yesterday afterqoqn Captain 8.-, W» Power had a hearing before Aldor raan Conrow, ou the,charge of* committing a- vio lent assault and - battery on Brigadier General John D, Miles.' It Yearns that Power met Miles outside Spring Garden Hall during the sitting of the Demoqratio Contention, andean altercation ensued, power, .as alleged, injared Milesin a shocking manner# £fte oause of Hie quarrel was the existence ora feud of the late military eleotibri.t'Thd magistrate held Power for a farther hearing. - . . .... Assault,—X : ganfc of:ruffians at{ tacked Officer tytea at a, late hour on Monday night and boat him - lu tho most shocking monitor. Sergeant McCauley fortunately onmo to Sis rescue, or tho desperate gang would probably have killed their victim. The ringleaders were arrested and taken beforo Alderman Kenny, who committed them to auawar.. , r . Hospital Cases.-—John Gogon, ngod six years, fractured bis log by falling from an out buUdbg lh the reay of 712 Hubbol street. A man named Q’Neii, wbq was Jnjured. a few. days since by falling from <-a ladder at -Pbiianthropio Cemetery., was in sq preoarious a condition at a late hour last evening that'no hopes were enter tained of hia recovery,.,, The Courts.-— But little business of inter est was transacted in any of the courts yesterday. The Quarter Sessions was--comparatively deserted by the'lawyers,'the Convention at Spring Garden Hall, whore aDistrioi Attorney-was tube nominated, prpbably having, for tho time being, superior claims upon thoir attendance and attention. The follow ing oonrts were in session, u nited States District Court—Judge Cad walader.—The cqurt aat for the. purpose of taking documents. A. Narrpw Escape, —A Hlchmpfid passenger oar narrowly escaped being converted into frag ments, last evening, by a train on tho North Penn sylvania Railroad, that was coming down Front street at a round trot. The escape was literally hair-bfoadtb, and made tho passengers feel as though their lives and limbs had boen saved by little short of a miracle. A lady in the Richmond oar swooned, and fell like a stone. United States Commissioner’s Opfice— Commissioner Heajlitt.—Thoinaa Sheehan had a hearing on tho charge of smuggling oigars from tho schooner “ Fanny, ,r froiu ll»vana, ana with land ing goods without a permit. Continued until to day. Quarter Sessions — Judge Ludlow. —John Scott was convictediof an assault and battery. Mark Pe&rsell pleaded guilty to an assault and battery. Sevoral other cases of no public importance were disposed of, ana tho court “adjourned- at en early hour. To-day the trial of James Bannister,'whose caso has rooeivod considerable publicity, will bo taken up. Lewis C. Cassidy, Esq., is counsol for the de fendant.. ;.i v ; - *•, The Court of Common Pleas will resume its ses sions on the third M°hday in. September. The Distriot Court will meet on thh first Monday in September. The Supreme Court in hano willnqthe ready for tho transaction of business beforo tho early part of December. ... . intended 16 publish to-day an article on the sub jMtof“Court^ccommodation3),,butitwillbe reserv ed for a future time, wh.cn will appear in succession a number ofsuggoalionsretativo to tno present jury sys tem, which, wo trust, will meet with general appro bation, and bo attended bV beneficial results. It is our earnest desire to render the daily reporta of legal proceedings entire and accurate in every re spect, and .w'o say to the members of - the bar who will aid us ‘ m hattheir assistance Marine Nar- New York, August 2'6 —iu» a Tele* iraph Company haydobtainod permission from tlio SeoretttiT of w»r to open a marine telegraph sta tion at Fort Lafayette, jin the Narrows,land will proceed immediately to lay a cable from that point toFoJt Jlamilton, where it will oonnect with-the Brooklyn line, wbiob'stretches to New York, This lino will give the C6mpany unequalled facilities for reporting marine news, night and day, as it will also connect with' the Use already constructed Prom gaudy Hook. FINAHcMi. 'Asp JoiIIifEHCIAI.. , XheJCppeytfarket. fit”: Auguat 23, 1859. A handsome .badness ..way o ae at the Stock Board to-day in five?, t»2, and the cbarac .bct?fenedl earnestness oftho upward movement of tho pi fevdayi-'that Is qnlta 'Vefreshlng aftcr and stagnation that prevailed jo long.. .Readje Raiiroad’sbaAs .nroflrm, at. 221, toglHaad fioj, and Pennsyl i Vania Baflroaa Stock at 41* gcond and Third* street Passenger Bailway'stookftdraneed to 41 The transaotioM generalljr . a decided im provement in the tone of the marpt. The Money market is nnobahgc, The demand is by no means as active as usuaiit this season of the yesrfand the rates fovornf the borrower during? the last\week. the quotations. Are about the same, but the aiawifivtion hea been widened, and there is much snore m e indisposing of fair business paper r 4rhich eaaow he readily sold on about the same terms thatwre lately de manded upon tip-top paper/:’* 1 • TfabHon, Cave-Johnson haa resignf the presi dency of the £&nk of Tennessee/ * .* A gentleman, who called upon the Bancb Bonk of the State of Missouri for the reception of eleven thousand dollars ef their noti, received throe hundred dollars in silver on the »tee. when he was mobbed by a crowd of people, ad forced, by fear of the loss.ofjils money and tbtthreats of the mob, to pack up and leave in a hurry Tho St.. Louis Democrat says; •’ -.a.--- . . V,Wo. regret to state-tbst , the war betreen the banks and the audacious holders of theiibills still contee*. The weapons used by the ‘anwronists ire, very different. The btll-hofcers pre sent their legal claims—small rectangular feces of paper—anil m response they are mobbed, jfeyask formonoy^andgetrocksm-retoin—bat no, those metaphorical'rocks which returned miner* carry in their pockets./In other words, : tfey are Uerally stoned.'" The country hanks oi (his State re& on a solid basis Of boulders. : These are found tojKj an excellent substitute forboinand' bullion, mare Informed that on Saturday last the j&rongegt insu rances were given in ChOieotbe that'this novel ipe ciea,offnnda-woald be dealt oat liberally to any person-who should present bills for: redemption to fbe' State Bank, located in-that important city. A gentleman from this city,"laboring under lamema )e ignorance of the financial customs of Chflicoth*. presented hills ttf-the amount of £ll,OOO to th* >ank. When .he had received $3OO in; silver ho found the banting-room filled with the high-spirited Chilicothlans, who first- threatened to stone him, and next (suddenly ascending to the highest sub limities of the Lynoh code) offered, him the ogreea •ble'aUernativeof leaving town in five or of submitting tp fl.dislocation of tho neik by the well-known process of hanging. Preferring sum mary exile from the pleasant haunto-of ChSieothe to summary execution irom the limbs of one of the trees which adorn the streets of that famous city, be proaeeded to Sf. Louis with all possible • dispatch. The bank won agloricus victory, and tho multi tude rejoiced... Who will dare henceforth to make sacrilegious war on the banks, or ask these Institu tions to redeem their promises to pay ? . The golden trust of the Heaperides was never more forjutaabty guarded than the golden coins which are ; coffered in tho State Bank- oC-'Chillcothe. > Unfortunately, the coins belong to the "simple-minded'eitixbns of St. Louis, who for a cchMderablB, time have been floundering in the absurd error th&tcoostry banks, by their own promise to pay, broadly engraved on their bills, and by the laws or the'State, are obliged to .redeem those S bills. t Experience, we presume, willdispel the illusion. -It-will* also -teach- them that the presentation of a bill to a country bank places them .instantly in a state of war with that bank, and with the institutions of. the State gene rally—a predicament very trying to law-abiding citizens. We can see so remedy for’this stafoof things, until the people treat the bills of these bank&sa pictorial pictures; instead of the portraits with which they are now adorned, the grim visage of Judge Lynch should look out from each oftho lower corners, connected diagonally by the motto Touch me at tht P.eb(l.” . According to the New York 2V<6w»s, “ the bank statement of the week, is received as quite favora ble, although, as we Intimated early In the week, the banks have ceased for the present contracting The reduction of.the past month or two, combined with steadiness of the specie line at about $20,500,- 000, induces some of our, bank managers to thlnk that the line # low enough, unless the specie ship ments show,, hereafter an increase- The nominal increase in' the specie fiheis more than neutralized by the shipment of last Saturday, bat we shall pro bably have by Saturday orSunday next an acces sion oTsometwomaiions arid'* half iromOalifbf nia and New Orleans, which *iltxia tore the equili -1 brium. The net deposits, for the first time in some l weeks, show an increased r • *- .. t ; ! The following is a bombarative'statement of the condition of the New York city banks for the weeks I ending August 18 and August 20: , • Aug.l3.. Aar.2D. luc.,-tIBSLIO6 fe/ Sf,® is tending, if any thing; to ease, although the banks take nothing under. ? per went,- and It requires the very strongest,names to command that rate outside on paper falling due this side of January. Demand loans are easier to the stock brokers at ft per cent., Jtit® - /exchanges are again favorable' for' the Boston mail. Nearly nil the standard drawers are down to lid on London, and 6f. 15| on Paris. We hear of flO days on. London drawn by the **““? *?? merchant bills BtigsialOg], Ho direct mall steamer sails Until Saturday neat, by whMhtimeanadditirowiU bo raoalved of about tfco millions to tho suppiy of sold and *Uo,<»aof silrer.» ... 6 .Amount of ooalshipped by tho Wyoming Ca nal Company for tbo two weeks onding August ~P y *■';**■ * - 2MOO tons. Snina iretksin 18W......— ........ 17,770 <■ Ist. 2d. > ...77 11T..‘ i ...21. ,' 14 - ....35 37 . Increase corresponding weeka-1859... _> 8,5&> « ; TotaJ slnco opening of navigation.*. .. 239,445 “ ; PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES, ‘ ' AftcastSS, • * ■" ~ - ssssis tbixo ah d •Taxers." -' ■ - ‘ pirst board. • '■* 6900 Penna ss. *5 & - 5000 do V-,.,85 92 IWQ do 92 1000 d 0..... j 5 « 1000 do ........ isyn 93 1000 do ,!T£B 6000 d0..,,.ri,.idj« 93 - 4000 do .; .Ady■ 92 2000 City 6«, R.W ; 20COCitr6s so “» do, -Hey-IPI ; M 0 -do ......,...b5.102 Mg da ..,..,..0»b6,102 009 N Pinna R 6g.cash 64 TOW Morris Cnl Gs.cash 88 JQ Girard Bk lots 45. K 32d & Bd-«4-R.'**» 41 15- d 0... ,~i;,'., M « Race & Vine-sts R 35 . - .-BBTVCEE* WOemantown Paig > R 75.,..:.. SS | SECOND 800 Penn 1000PennaR Istm?6s 2000 do *?‘BS CLOSING F®l Bid. Atkld.l VS&a’U .....mil .. Phll.i £d 99 100- i ;; r 09 ioo “ . New.,...1(8 Ml Penn. 5* .93 Reading . 13!i - u bdeTO 79 “80 •' wort 6s ’«.BJ 90 - “ .do «*• Pennaß .;...40*£ 41}* » u V„ pref.MHK 105 Bohuy]Nar6g’&..6B .69 Imp 6s. 74 a Markets. Adgo’st 23—Evening. The l'iour market eon tinuemluH. anil there is no demand for export, and, the sales are limited to the wants of the trade atfrom $5 to $5.51 for superfine; 55.25a6 for extras, and $6.25»0.75f0r fancy brands, according to quality.. Rye Flour and Com Meal are firm but qniot, the former is hold at $3.75, and tho lattor at;s3.62£ per bbl. for. Pennsylvania. Wheat is coming in more freely, and the market is dull at yesterday's figures; sales include about 3,500 bash, at H8a3200 for- rod, and 127a1300 for white, tho latter for - prime Southern. Rye is scarce and wanted; 500 bus. Delaware sold at 70c • Pennsylvania is-worth 780 to 80c. Cora is in de mand, with but little offering; fIOO bus. yellow sold at 81c, afloat. Oats continue steady, with sales of 1,000 hostels new Southern at 35a35i cents, and 1,200 bus old at 37c. Berk—Quercitron is wanted at $23 fbr Ist Ifb. 1; but holders generally ask more. Cotton—Tho markot is inactive but steady, with solos of about 250 bales at 12V to 13}e, cash, the lattor for middling fair Uplands. Groce ries—The market for Sugar nnd Molasses is duli, with sales of tho former at SJa6Jo for Cuba, and 21c for the latter of ordinary quality, on time. Coffee is firmer, with- smalt 1 ssles. .Provisions aro inac tive, but holders are firm in their domenda. Whia key—Tho demand Is better and the market bare. We quote drudge at 25 ie; hhds 23ja25e; Pennsyl vania bblfi 26n270; Ohio do 27a28e; as to lots. Ef«w York Stock 1 BKCOTf! 6000Virginia 6a.'....... 53** ST 4000 Missouri 6s o 8&t 1000 Erie R3d m *83.... 65 8 Del & Hud Co 52 1 8 Pacific Mail Co 78 , £0 do ........830 78 j SO do ....,,,,.MO7aK 20(k do 78*4 6a do s6O 78*i 80 do s3O 78>4 400 NY Central 73J* 60 do TiH 200 do *3 73§ 100 M do bSO 73K 100 Hudsonßivor R... S 3 ,do jsmvL 100 Harlenfß,;..".n>-' THEMARKETS. MiSiis'fi'r 1 " 1 u vonr 4uiot - tat ?**»«» ll ,?™s nd « hnsk for TWom Can.il nio?tS?„7J a nd a retlueod njsort . r round old stwi .newwha.it brands blit the high grailesnre dull at former MO 8.700 iiblaut sia>i»4.a>for superfine Stole K r I VoY es,or ?i for extra do do:SMoas3o joood hoop extra Ohio; 55.2500 JO for now do do; extra GmoSJ. 01 ” St ' lj0 “ i8 eltn “' “ nd SS 'SJGJU for Southern Fiqur leauito unseiuxl, the damaud ixfirm. ami the arrivals are light of the low grades, and these aro wanted—saleß of WOO bbls at $6*8.40 for superfine itammoro, See., and $6, 60a 7 lor the better kinds of old ana sow. „ Rye Flour is in fair demand at $&5094.25. Corn Meal win limited supply—sales of 230 bbla at §3.90 for Jersey. GhAix.—The demand for Wheat is moderate. Re stricted bf the advanced prices asked, and the poor as sortment hero. rhesalosaro very light, at sijo for new Kentucky; sl.<q for .white do; old western trhito on private terms, ami white Kentucky at SLISstLaO. is firm, the demand is lair; sales of 14W bus. at o.°* IS '.'"; 0 , r, U" f? ir Old nru firm at 33»iic Tor State, and 3t0430 lor Western Canadian. Bariev ia quiet and is nominal at 60afi3o for old. “ yl3 11 ft«m. , - ss iv a £L e r' nd k Pr ?, 6 r r ’ l he sales are limited; some lliOuO bus. at 6UO for old Wsilsni mixed, in •tere* a-v, grnaw, xflouti.SSp for Vfeitum Md iirrej jc'ltow Southoruia n.onunxl,t the close. J onSi'h.uirN^'oriri'S'aTj; 1 »•“* “ les r,™,*!?? 1 ; Spirits Turpentine has been in im- F7vihi,il 0 m a, i!! ,iln i? P»oes are slightly firmer; sales of 3a?° e J?£ antnbl ? a ™ l order, at 44® I cash*. Crude is inquired for at S£f7' a ,!hut there are no sellers at this price, - Common S?gJrthey deplmed; sales of 2300 bbla, afloat, at Other kinilsare loss in re quest ; sales of 500 bbls No. 2 at $1.75 i? 310 Ihs, ami 450 wh s " f' ar is dull, and some- PnoyisWs.-Tho Pork market is bettor, the demand ! n „£ art speoulativo; of3,7sobbls at for prim? 683 ’ ll,m Jnes ®» anii $10.25«1fc50 for Beef is without much change the demand is light at the olose and hpldersare disposed to selL * at *Wo««>r Prime] «7*>Bforcountry raoss, 9891039 for repacked mess,and $10.76®12.50 for Ricb.—The market is loss active, but is firm at the im prpvoment,- sales of 200 tea at Som.nSo B»» , hffib n^ r n . r^c“ ni,are *"* vnt SaftC “ gbt ' “ d ,h# ,Mlkot » 90 Lehif b Yal JL . & M Bear M&ut.R. ..jtf as 0 do -...t0 5 do -: 65 Pennaß.*. v-- • iotr <1 I 2 Norristown R.;... i • do .........eaak 60 Reading XL ss,'■% lao do ....... ..town S fiO do 23 IC§Lon? la kind R.V.bi ,£OBV: of Keahieky...-U9H 108 N Ponna R. •Ay 30 Mmehill R... ....... «$y 60 Spruce 2c Pise-el R 10 Union Bk, Tenn.bs.loUi K BOARDS. j»®o N Pecna R fe.faah 64 ' { aiLehighValß go BOARD. l!922S onnAßaJm « 6a - sra (5000 Cataw Ist mg 7s. b 5 35>| f N P \V* n * R • B*# r 7A!anayarikGfti!!! 4*4 'RICEB-STEADY. So hay], Nav stock?*) Wrast?? Elm a' 1 ?* *4 ** 7* Ist ratot.MX 63 7s2dmort-J9>i 23 Long Islandß;.-...iO£r n Lehigh Coa!&Nav.47>* 43 N Penna R.. .V... a*% &S ‘ tt . Mb -BS3i Oatainssa R...'.... _ Ist m bds.SS 3 Vi P &Bouth-R. © S 2 ' W&3d5t»R.;... ; .41 ' RacetVine Sts R. 35 PJbiladelp] 2xchange-«Aug. 23* BOABD. 200 Harlem R pref. .s©3J J £ 3UO do bW35> 200 Reading R s© 44 800 Mioh S guar. 25 200 Mioh Central R.... 45 100 do s6O 4i fiOO Gal $c Chi B. rat 250 do ,h5O 6ol* 100Clov t Tol 22$ 60 dp 221 J 100 Chicago & Rook 1.. 65V 200 do h<2 30Q do ... © Sg do bSO 65'.' «*> . do. .350 Ot. l 3
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