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Rawitidi; Annie Tre voi's Thonghni, teon--Our portfolio tteprotOry, ,Cobb's Financial Account - "' Posted. _ Mrc (ions, in his late Treasury report, lays dein the principle which should - govern the ::trmaegenieitt" of the' national finances, thus The' -idea of 4 iticreasing ;the; PUblie '.debt to I -Meet_ the orditytii e;xpenees of-the Govein- Ment _should tot he eittertidned, for a• ino. meht,`,"', :,Let; tut • see hew' his :own , practice ;has conformed to this doctrine. , We take his 'own figures, but wiJi ;glTa; then? -a clearer -*internam, than Can be ibUnd in:the reports - Which he usually makes of the'business of his -Dipartitteet; " - - " ' ftn the let of 'Yeti, 180 r, four months a ft er hie apppiinneat, there " Weea bebop, in the Treasury of , • - ' $17,710,114 By the sot of 211 neoereber, 1857, he • , - wee-.,authorised to Liege treasury notes. 30,000,000 These be tells Os will be all onteteonliug on the let July, 1800. . • • Bythe sot of lath June,,lB6B, be wee • authorised to borrow.. 20,000, 000 This loan he jells no boUil sego- pited by let July, laso. ' By ,bie own eallmite, there will be a Mama in the Treasury on the' Ist • • • 1a1i,1860,ntaa,020,125. AM it appears that the public debt, . which on letJaly,lBs7, was $29,030,.. - 888, has Sint* been reduced to $250 2640,917—a reduction of $3,904,409. •,1 Re is to be credited for payment of debt *toting ,when took °Mee and esti • mated balling* in Treasury on let • . N 35 1900. 7,924,034 • - by bit own showing, be. will have . in mused the public debt, la the spice - of three jeers, irom July 1867, to July -1860, by the • puni of forty,-nine and tbree 2 quarter millions of iiiiiiiellAiltltitittiestorning tattiest and' moues added, which 'will carry it up to "about Ility.two 'of dolime.; He Says In so many wottlei that the ' perms . • debt, whiclives twenty millions one • hundred and' thousand dollars in July,lB6B, wUI be forty-five millions one bun 4red and fifty-five thousand before the expi ration Of the Current fiscal year, 'and that the temporary public debt, consisting of treasury notes outstanding on' the Ist July, 1869, /; stennaed to $16,018,80. Add 'to" this sum the issue.of the balance of the twenty millions authorized ,by the act' of 28d December, 1867, and estimated among, the receipts - for- the , remainder of the Current year, and .the data. are plainly before us. Of . thee° treasury notes, so outstanding and to be ' issued, he says: c . ‘ In the estimated Means of the Treamtiy for the present and nextflscal Years it will be seen that no provision is made for the periaanent redemption of any portion al the twenty millions of treasury notes: The en. thOrity for reissuing thee.) notes Will expire on 'the 80th June next,. and It .will therefore be tieeentry for Coiagress to attend the law for that purpose to another . period.' s ', - 'Every dollar of the fifty-stWen,millions seven = hundred and ten thousand, with which we charge the debtor side' of Ifr: 0011it'S account, his been, and will be during the current year,. applied "to meet the ordinary expenses of the, Government," exceptivhat has been paid in reduction of the public debt existing when he ,took office, and the estimated balance in the liessory on the lst of July 1860. lii our .cidculation it will be, observed that we have credited Mr. COBB with no more than the re duction effected upon the principal of the pub lie debt. We have not the means of readily computing the interest which must have been paid also, tint we are still right iittreating run-. nick . interest: upon ti, riatibrial debt as aevil-. st(rYi- . .sir of ~the' Government.",. Onr eheige,thelrefore, against the Treasury is that it has been running -behind seventeen millions Cole's a :year -. Or - . three years of Mr. Ooni's : ..' One more year of. this - sort. of 'finaneie pest Kr. Cons ' s account for it ineressin 'a public debt to meet the ordinary- expo of the Government" to a inimtotal of sixtyM - millions, Permanent and temporary, which temporary debt Is not to be c( permanently re ,deeinal." lif his day, according, to his own statement of the matter. . 'ft is•lvorth, while bere to state *what it has • ,cost us -some trouble to discover—that when ever Mr. Coen uses the words "public debt" yin stating the liabilities-which he ha's' created, Abe means only the permanent or funded debt; but Whin he takes credit for disbursements on account ef own treasury notes, he always calla these 'convenient temporaries ttpublie • 'debt." Take all his annual, reports together, • ' - and we , reit that: he has, during .his term • ' of °Mee, paid shove thirty-seven millions ' of tt public; debt." But the illusion vs ' niahes , when we: and *it, in fact, he has reduced the permanent public :debt of the ,Govemment, existing, when be :took .otlice, only by the amount of three millions nine hundred end:four thousand dollars, the other, thirty-three •millions and a half being nothing but the reception of his own treasury 'notes into the Treasury, in the ordinary course of bushonis.. In this way, a man-may pay as much deht as lie can circulate. If he issues his -eV:it — notes for a thousand' dollars a hun. dreg times a year, and receives them ninety tine times, in the course of business; he may credit himself with toying ninety-nine thou. and dollars of debt, while, the fact is that he has never paid a farthing of that one thousand - which be his been borrowing all the while. ' The plain statement of Mr. Cost's account current, therefore, is just this: be has paid of . old debts little less than four millions i he will hive on hand, if his estimates are right, a trifle. over four millions in the Treasury on -the Ist of July, 1860, making a credit of eight ,pd, per 'rostra, he will have ex ?ended seventeen millions seven hundred and ,- tan thousand:which he found in the Treasury - • fhtihe Ist July, 1867; and twenty millions of permanent loan, and another twenty millions of treasury totes; making, altogether, fifty - . seven millions seven hundred and ten thousand dollars, which, without the accruing interest, se increases 'the public debt, for ordinary ex penses of •GOvernment,'!.the full sum of forY ifine and three.quartor millions, or about fifty. tiro millions with the interest. This, we again is the ,stste of his - account, as shown 1:dr• his own figures and estimates, u it will stud on the Ist July, 1860, , rir 9onsequenes of the onow.atona whist, peersEed yutorday, the New York mails, due in ,'*salty at halt ~ past ten o'olook last *wooing, had Ant arrived up to'theloar of going to press. 'AUCTION Nomom—We invite the particular at testiest of purchasers to the sale this morning, by " Scott, jr., of the entire stook of embroideries goods, hose, triminlngs, nientlea, points, do., -of Messrs. renter 00., at their gore, 810 Chest. ; Nat etseet ; alai, In oontLanation, trill be • veld the 'elegant Astute' of store aid iipper•reoms, consist ; lag if solid ioahogarijr. ootutteta, shelving, gas. fixtures, if., &o. Also, to•morrowmorning, at the *nation etore t '4Bl Chestnut street, large sale - of Isslilonahle furs and fanoy oboe. • tar.•dir. ilfollliny,,the Complier cf, the Phi!add '. Oda City Directory sines 11337, hogs his patrons paid the public to Suspend their decisions until after the issue of his forthaosoing edition for 1860--eatis sod, as he is, that it will be found worthy of ex - tendedPationtige.. Great oar. bas been exentised cin`oompiling the editiorifor lie, and Mr. Moßiroy - rogues.' ne to say that he confidently awaits the hone of an Impartial artaisrlion with any othei Pork of the kind Published in this oily of else where: : ..: iiiteitii & litodp' Tniatuti Rat. 8.u.z..- !Rieke, Itiant, 414" at 12 "o'olook, noon, Yneaday, ,- Ed January. Real estate at 7 o'olook in the even. ' ; !n!: - Sea adyeitlatanenta,"anotlon head. ,Pantph. let catalogued to-morrow . . Thonute it ' Sou sell authority of the Aen Baron Journal, it - stated - that .Col. Samuel Colt, of Hartford, has ariadit'.irringeneende to establish" St traunafaotOry for dire4trunitt Itiobtriend,:ya. -, The capital required is one million of dairk'of_whioh Major W. 11: B. Hartley; tar, Ccmueotiout, has agreed to furnish one 00111116117Uariii1tiB;ACITIKTED PROW Naar informatioithavieg been reoeived UM About 'one kandrid and'. fitty Southern stu. dents designed 'leaving the Newlrolit Medical Col.' legal to unite with the Richmond itedhial College, Cyr glonooilinl4 a called meeting yes t e m rday, aai i ; i l:l; isiot4i of tonic , two, • (theism:4 n e sityo et nedseal milk) deed sintrot $0;000 to be placedlindefithe control of - ':' , " . "l4otitsmittee'suf thei Clotandit 'to me o a ll aaaaaaatr 6 4,0110011thikt inottired by the said etudente -• NOW iforki- and entering the • Medical ' kote: , e *thriving- been isoertsdned that • there are difEant fn In - lodging and boarding,thii trumliee.Cratudents,' it has • been llietdd Union"' (now , the st United, temporarlituseat rapOils.7 , 4 RScheitind Requiter. - Ml==l Odium of Disunion Movements. No political occurrence in thhinountry ever provoked ao muChbitter denunciation from the Democratic party, for a protracted period, as the, assemblage of 'tho Dartford Convention. Tho assaults upon all who were directly or in. directly connected with it did not cease with the death of the princiOlactora, but for if arty forty years after the ponTention was held the Democratic thiympapeis of the land scarcely ever failed, in any exciting campaign, to charge their political opponents with being in some way responsible for the disunion sentiments the members of that Convention were charged with 'entertaining. At tho present time a 'Southern movement is steadily progressing', which, in its nature, and the plan of action -proposed, forms an almost complete historic parallel to the Hartford Convention, "except that the , former is much more openly trea sonable in its character, and yot scarcely a word of denunciation against it has been pub- Gelled in any Administration journal. • The character of the present secession movement is thus described by the Charleston Mercury in its review of the proceedings of the South Carolina Legislature at Its late session : Mich time was spent in discussing this topic ; but it cannot be said that it was time spent unwise ly. In the Rouse, the range of discussion was very wide. An called for measures Of resistance, and the tone of the . speakers was highly gratifying. Vet nobody could agree , with his ueigbilme as to what the particular measure should be. Great confusion prevailed, and numerous sets of resole tionsmere• offered. The Home at length settled on Mr. Memminger's, which' were Introduced at the close of the dieetunton. These resolutions, while they indicated no positive policy of resistance, Invited the other slavebolding States to imme diate consultation concerning their common condition, end provided for the appointment of a Commissioner to Virginia, and appropri ated $lOO,OOO for the exigencies of the occasion. The debate in the Senate covered less ground, and was more to the point—the union of the South, and separation from Northern connections, whether in National Conventions or otherwise, being the points chiefly argued. Some of the Se nators strove to keep the State ou the platform of the Nashville Convention of 1850, erected by Mr. Chaves, and in the line of Mr. Calhoun's politics, while others wished to take her into the inatiomtl' b 7,710,114 $49,785,680 fold, The struggle ended in the passage of Mr. Wagner's resolutions, which detached the State from- all alien alliances, and committed her, and that speedily, to the One remedy of thermion by Southern" co4perahon. The subsequent adop tion, on oonference by the two Houses. of Mr. 'Wagner'e preamtge, and Mr. Memminger's re solutiona, blunted somewhat the edge of the Senate's polio,. But Mr. Wagner's preamb'e is the key of the resolutions; and the signifl canoe of the two, taken together, is briefly that the Legtelature announces seeeseton as her only rowdy for Southern toronge—ln view of and to farther whiolk„ she invites immed late oommltation with her sister Southern States. This, then, is the platform on which South Carolina now stands be fore the country, and to which she asks her public men to rally for the common defence of her rights, letting Northern affiliations alone. No direct vote on the Convention question was ever taken, but we are satisfied from the course of the debates, extensive observation by ourselves, and the history of events which we have just given, that the Con rentienpolley met with countenance from only a small portion of the Legislature." The Hartford Convention was an assem blage of delegates from the yew England States, which met at Hartford, Dec. 15, 1814. The grievances complained of were much more practical and injurious than any which the Southern States have suffered from the Union. . It was charged that the war with Great Britain was unnecessary and, a mere party measure, which had ieflicted immense loss upon the people of New England by the destruction of their commerce and their fish eries—that the defence of the New England coast was neglected by the Federal authori- I ties—that total ruin stared the people of the I Eastern States in the face, etc. Movements In the Massachusetts Legisla ture very similar to those recently made in the Legislature of South Carolina, led to the ap pointment of delegates from that State, as well as from Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The Convention sat with closed doors for twenty days. The manifesto which It finally Issued did not even recommend disunion, but sug gested action of the respective State Legis latures, and . sprats to the Federal Go vernment,)ui the proper action demanded by the occasion- - So much• excitement was caused by these proceedings, and by the rn• more that treasonable or disunion designs were 'entertained, that. the Government sta. tiened a regiment of troops at Hartford to re press any sudden outiblealreNiaitieou .„ :„: ligeurred, and no pralieol4Yenlt i ll Was really made. .r ',rider* 4-;4p doubts distinctly ricolicWrig-eenifOled Democratic denunciations, ~,,who.itere:dir ectly or remotely corme*dlifileysli i :with the Hartford Qonvontion. J = s ,` Those who are now busily en' e gegedin making disunion records against themselves might study, with profit, the political fate of those who were identified with the movement of 1814. Tbotnas Francis Meagher at Nationa Mall Last Evening. ' A lecture wee delivered at National Hall last evening, before the Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute, by Thomas Frannie Meagher, Esq., on " The Poets and Poetry of Ireland." The object of the lecture was a 'charitable one, the primed!, being intended for the benefit of the Catholic Orphan Asylums of this city.' It was this fact, doubtless, which so far neutralised the effect of the extremely ineleinent weather as to give Mr. Meagher a respectably large midtown,. The speaker made his appearance On the plat form, at a few minutes before 8 o'olook, aecompa clod by the members of the'' Philopatrian," and was greeted with enthusiastic applause. Ile was Introduced to the audience by Mr. I. F. Finnegan, vice president of the Institute, and immediately commenced his lecture, which occupied nearly an hour and a half in its delivery. Although a long list of Irish Writers of verse were introduoed in the lecture, the major portion of it was devoted to Gold smith, Moore, and Davis, Ile opened by saying that two books seemed to have moulded the genius of Napoleon; these were Plutonic and Osslan. The latter was, in faat,lo this day as popular in France as in Ireland. A, considerable portion of the Introduction to his lecture proper was devoted to the gradual progress which the 3nglish language had made in the British islands. Sir Philip Bydney had praised the poetteal genius of Ireland, as had others and he did not know whether the melodies of Er in did not outweigh all the more classic poetry of England from the death of Shakspeare to the birth of Byron. Glancing at the Irish poetry of the eighteenth century, in the Buglish language, of course we found mush that partook strongly of English genius while there was also much that embodied the I diomatic sentiments of Ireland. Dean s w ift was made the subject of humorous eriticism in this oonnestion. he English, by comprehending but half of Swift'', ohareeter, had but seen in him a drinking fellow at home in jig, and equally so in douriehing the shilialah. Speaking of Oliver Goldsmith, the lecturer said that he had a particular funny for smelling out revelations, and he actually foresaw and fore told the Preneh revolution thirty years before it oeourred. Towards the elm of the eighteenth century the public spirit of Ireland had sunk to its lowest ebb. But then there was a moving among the dry bones. With the wafting of the tidings of Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill across the Atlantis, the spirit of the Irish revived, as their oppressors were meeting rebuke upon rebuke from the new• born Ameriean Republic'. Every allusion to the future independence of his native isle brought down the house with a thunder of applause that plainly told the national com plexion of his audience, and that their hearts beat in unison with his in yearning for a brighter epooh in the destiny of Erin. . But he was now to speak of the first of modern Irish poets—the bright morning star of Irish lyric poets—Thomas Moore. The great glory of Thomas Moore wee, that he wee willing to take the pure Irish sentiment for the basis of his melodies. Englishmen bad stared and been startled at his lofty strains, as coming from so inauspielous squat ter. The literature of the world bad experienced many acquisitions and epode, as, for example, in the rising sun of Lord Byron, the wierd rain etrelay of Beett, and the emanations of Carlyle and Macaulay; but none of these bad occasioned so profound a sensation ea the advent, above the literary horizon, of Thomas Moore. Nor was this to be put down. Hessians and Orange men were of no avail in the suppression of this. The °Miele= had been made that Moore had too much confined himself to the salient points of hie countrymen, instead of going more profoundly into the depths of the human heart. This, said the ie.:Allier very justly, was equivalent to saying that Moore wee not Word;worth, or somebody else. He was better than this; he was himself. It had also biten urged against him that he bad spent too much of his life among the titled English &slate oraCy. Bensons for the injuntioe of this charge Were also given, and it was added that never, no matter with whom be had mingled, had Moore for got to cherish arid love his native land.- It had, also been urged that be loved the English lords. He did, said the leaturer, adding facetiously, and the Bnglish ladies too- T he meant roodically, of sourer). Moore was characterised as in all respects a Erne Truk bard, If oomudon: bad offered, Moore 'wired hare Shown hbienif oneof Ireland's bravest defender', and as such he would live forever in the hearts of hie countrymen. his criticism of Moore's poetry, the 0 . 01 :1 11 kOmii of Daniel O'Connell was taken up. , To this patriot intottgad the distinction of having long labored fei ca c ao_ e naangtpatioui and of having gained It at last—and this, it should be remem bered, he had achieved by the threat of force. Of alt the young writers for the papers the fore most bard was Thomas Davis. lie had written from a standpoint extremely favorable to his gene. eons mind. Ihe poetry of Davis was of a stronger but lees relined texture than that of Moore. There Wall a wonderful charm In both hie prose and poetry. lie had oontended for the general educe, tton of the people, and suosessfully sought to reach the popular heart through the channels of anima ted minstrelsy. The merits of Duffy, Frazer, and others were also glanced at. roremoat among the names of popular living songeters of Ireland was that of Samuel Lover, the author of "The Bold Soldier Boy," "Tho Widow Dlaohroo," and other well-known popular songs. Contrasting the poetry of England and Ireland, the lecturer eaid the former wee like the gaudy, forced flowers of the hot house, whilst the latter found its counterpart In the roses, daisies, and vie• lets that grow naturally and spontaneously upon the common earth—grateful to all, because of its genial naturalness and appreciative appeals to the hearts of the people, The lecture, as it progressed, elicited alternate peals of laughter and applause, wide& sulblently attested Its sums,. Mr. Meagher is a polished speaker, and few that we have ever libard equal him in the thorough =eatery he evincee over hie eubjeot, whatever it may be. Me style of oratory le as natural as hie diotlon le vigorous, while his geetioulation le at onoe graceful and expressive. Letter from •' Occasional." Gorrespondenee of The Pim.] • WASHINGTON, Deo. 29. One of the characteristics of Mr. Buchanan through - life has been his appeals to Divine Provi dence—whether speaking from the stump, in the Senate, or writing to his friends. Accordingly, when he was called to the Presidency, it was not surprising that, in proportion as he rose In station, he should be confirmed in his habit of calling upon God to aid his purposes and to strengthen his hands. His last message begins with the usual prayer. But who shall say that these appeals to the protec tion and mercy of a superintending God will be an swered? Who shall say that the Divine approba tion has been, or will be, extended to the manifold transgressions of James Buchanan since be came into the Presidency? Politicians may be swoused and,Lorgiven the perpetration of more blunderi, infrthe Chief Magistrate of a free and a Christian people who commences his Ad miniatration of Our great Government by a delibo. rate violation of his solemn pledges, and who blindly and madly persevere, in this course, pro scribing all who will not approve and sanction it, and finally repeats his determination never to abandon the wrong; such a man has no claims upon the charity of his fellow-beings, and none upon the clemency of an all-wise and overruling Deity. If, indeed, there were any evidences that the President was ao tuated by sincere, or even patriotic motives, his ad dresses to Providence might not be inappropriate; but when the reverse is the fact—when it is indis putable that he has receded from an himet pur pose simply to gratify a dishonest ambition—and when, in the sunset of life, he insists upon main taining himself in a aeries of complicated treache ries and turpitudes, his sanctimonious exhortations become so many hypocrisies, and his example, in stead of operating healthfully upon the public mind, Is pregnant of unredeemed and incalculable mischief. That Mr. Baohanan intends to be a candidate for re-eleotion is proved, not clone by his non-ful filment of the promises he has made to hundreds of persons within the last year, that ho Intended, in a more formal way, to repeat his declarations contained In his letter to Wilson MoCandlese last . summer, vie.: " that In no event would he ever again bo a candidate," but it is also proved by his new surrender to the extreme Southern senti ment in his last menage. Ho has done what only the fire-eaters of the South have yet demanded— ho has put himself square upon a slave code for the protection of slavery in the Territories ',gained the popular will—in the hope and belief, of course, that the Charleston Convention will be so com pletely in the bands of these fire-eaters that they will be able to put him in nomina tion with comparative ease. Aided by his patronage, and backed 'by all the local pre judices which they know so well bow to use, these men will make this demand upon Charleston a strut via non. You will remember that It was Mr. Buchanan who offered to the Southern people what they did not desire—namely, making the support of the Lecompton Constitution a test of party fidelity. When they taw he was determined uponthis prosoription, they rallied to and assisted him in his pertistent warfare upon Indepeedent Demoted; aU oyer the Union. He now presents to them another boon in the shape of a slave node he Territories--a boon, by the way, which I near 'hirllr e t s tmod edb e u i t ai hnwhiaelint offeredof the Seonudth pressed to e d h e urepon the highest feaotioust7 le the Republie f they will be compelled to accept or to be celled to & strict account by the existing, and apparently irresistible, sentiment at home. Another result is to be ; effected by this pulley, and that is to ex- Glide Judge Douglas and his friends entirely from the Charleston Convention. The teat of admission to that body will, unquestionably, be made upon the basis of a slave code for the Territories, and the Administration set of delegates, representing a meagre minority in the State of Illinois, will, of course, obtain their seats, standing ready as they do to respect the extreme iplstform demanded by the fire-eaters and now formally endorsed by the President. , The similarity between the views of Vine Pre eident Breckinridge and these expressed In the last annual message has 000seloned much com ment here, and leads to the impression that, prier to the departure of the former to his home in Ken tuoky, he must have consulted the President, if he did not, indeed, read over his message In advance, Now, there le no man upon whom the eoneervative feeling of the country, North and South. was so ready, in a certain sontingeney, to rally upon as John C. Breckinridge, nor ill there a Democrat whose whole course keretofors bat been more moderate and national. Mr. Breckinridge was among the very first to assert the right of the people of the Territories over all their domestic institutions, slavery inclusive. Ile not only argued in favor of this right, but went so far as to deolare that it was fundamental and organic in the Demo oratio creed, and that there could be no Demo cratic prinoiple which did not reaped and re iterate this clearing. I am not without hopes that the Vice President, in the ammo of the discuesion which will certainly arise upon the President's message, (thus showing that the slavery question is one that can never be settled,) grill put himself in such an attitude before the pe4le as will give satisfaction tolhe thouoands of men who have looked upon him as the most available candidate for the Charleston nomination. It Is impossible that the people of his cwn State of Ken tucky will "obtain the extraordinary alternative presented in his last speech, and advocated in stronger terms by the President in his annual mes sage. The speech of Isaac N. Morils, of Illinois, on Wednesday last, created a sensation. Mr. Morris was the Bret to denounce, in Congress, the doctrines of the President's message, and when it le moot looted that he went into the caucus to support Mr. Booook, the Administration candidate for Speaker, his testimony against the menage is entitled to ua •asnai weight. It is impossible for any Independ ent man like Morris to continue, hereafter, to rap port any candidate for Speaker who is known to belles* in the new test about to be made upon the Democratic party in the North, vis : that slavery!!! to be protected In the Territories in defiance of the popular will. hereafter every aspirant for the Speaker's shalt will be interrogated on this sub ject*, and as it is apparent that the South ern politiolans will bo forced to accept the alternative so generously extended to them by Mr. Buchanan, it will be next to Impos sible for any man representing a Northern son stituenoy to support, in the person of aSouthern candidate for Speaker, this odious and anti-Demo oratio doctrine. The hopeless condition of the Ad ministration party may be gathered from the fact that Morris' speech was favorably received by al. most the entire body of Representatives from the free States, and when Mr. Cox, the member from the Columbus (Ohio) district, came forward to de. elm his determination never to vote for en Ame rican, he inflicted another blow upon the dynasty which circumstances have induced him to sustain up to this time. The hope that Mr. Buchanan's message would fa- Mtge an Administration organisation of the Rouse has almost entirely disappeared. In my opinion, it has greatly increased Sherman's chamois by placing in the hands of the Republicans a pow erful weapon, and by strengthening and confirm ing the "rebels" in their original position. We shall now have the entire record of the President and his Cabinet on the slavery question revealed to the country, and when this is done, the defeat of any man who places himself on their side Is beyond all question. It Is expected that Judge Douglas will, on Tues day or Wednesday next, take part in the debate inaugurated by Senator Pugh, of Ohio, when we shall, no doubt, have a great speech. Of course the Vise President cannot take part in the diens. stun; but it Is beyond doubt that the sentiments expressed in his late speech, at Frankfort, Will be thoroughly examined and ventilated. Party lines will be closely drawn, and Senator Bigler will be compelled to define his position for or against the President and the South. That worthy individual, in his late demonstration, made himself as inoom prehenelble as ever; but he will now he forced to speak out plainly. Fortunately for Mr. Bigler, he was an original advocate of the Wilmot Proviso, having voted for Instructions to our Senators to sup port that so-called heresy, in the Pennsylvania Le gislature; so that if be should put himself upon the new test that Congress must legislate for slavery, he will at least be consistent with this part of his record, saving only that he has heretofore believed that the mission of Congress was to prohibit, and not to protect, the peculiar institution. It seems to be generally *encoded that Charles James Faulkner, defeated for Oongreee In the Harper's Ferry &Wet, by Alexander Bobsler, THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1859. goes to France to fill the vacancy created by the death of John Y. Mason. Mr. Faulkner has looked for years, with a hungry eye, to Just such a position, and at last he finds his ambition gratified. He is a man of large fortune, and considerable ability, and will make a very agreeable and popular min ister. The Administration candidate for Speaker, Mr. Smock, is the iHtn-in.law of Mr. Faulkner, and this seleetion will give great aotisfootion to hie wing of the party in Virginia. Although Governor Walker ha. formally aban doned his friends, and gone over to the support of the Adtniniotratlon, it gives me great pleasure to state that the non. Frederick P. Stanton, now in this city, maintains his position with unwavering courage. I have met no man whose conviction, are more strongly or more sincerely with the " 'Re bels." Ife argues hie case with all his wonderful ability, and while concurring in the main with Judge Douglas on the Territorial question, be has no confidence whatever in the fairness of the Charleston Convention, believing that it is the purpose of those who expect to control that body to lay down such a platform as will prevent any man who is in favor of the old-fashioned principles of the Democratic party from sustaining their nominees. OCCASIONAL. lOorreanondenee of The Press.] WASHINGTON, Dec. 29, lam. After I closed my letter yesterday the twenty. third ballot was had for Speaker. The attempt eontinuea, but In vain, to unite the Administra tion party, the Southern Americans, and the old line Whigs. With this view, Brabson, of Ken tucky, nominated Mr. liorsoe Maynard, of Ten nessee, in the hope that the latter gentleman would be acceptable to those Democrats like Messrs. Cox, of Ohio, and Hindman, of Arkansas, who could not or would not vote for a Know-Nothing, Mr. Maynard having given assurance that he never was a member of the obnoxious order. Neither the Ohio Democrat nor the Arkansas Democrat, however, accepted the invitations held out; the former gave his vote to his colleague, Mr. Pendle- ton, and 4 ' the gentleman from Arkansas? ) held on to Booook. Sherman held his own, and May nard received sixty-five. Several explanations of votet wore made which Are noticeable. For instance, Barris, of Virginia, went for Maynard because the Legislature of his State requested the delegation to go together ; Sickle' did likewise because the old-line Badge had dealt a fatal blow to the sectional party of New York ; Scott could not forget that fifteen thousand old-lino Whigs in California had taken shelter un der the Democratic banner; he would vote for Maynard ; John Cdobrane would not vote for the gentleman from Tennessee because be was the American candidate ; and Burnett, of Kentucky, would vote for him because he was a conservative; snd Logan, of Illinois, not desiring to see the House of Representatives made the slaughter-how* of the Northwestern Democracy, would keep on voting for Booook ; Avery voted for Maynard to show an example of patriotism to the South; and Clark, of Missouri, would do the reverse because he did not like to take the reepOneibility of the connection with Maynard's ideas. •'So you see the variety and contrariety of views and mallow which gentlemen hold as to Mr. Mai nerd's position. To-day Mr. Isaac N. Morris, of Illinois, continued his philippic against tho Ad ministration, and exhibited the course pursued by it to ruin the Democracy. An allusion to the ac tions of the California Legislature as the only one of the free States that passed resolutions instruct ing the Representatives in Congress to support the Leoompton contrivance, brought up the two members from the Golden State. Mr. Charles L. Scott said be differed in tote from - Judge Douglas, and if the latter wee nominated for the Presiden cy he would have to bo voted for by the Blank Re publkans. At the conclusion of Mr. Morris' remarks, Mr. Grow obtained the floor to a personal explanation. The gentleman desired to speak to the charges mado against his notion on the Post Otero appro priation bill, made a few days ago by Mr. L. O'B. Branch, of North Carolina, and reiterated by Go vernor Smith, They charged the complete failure of that bill to Mr. Grow. Ile was solely responsible for it ; and his motive was stated to be the forcing of the President to call an extra cession, when the Repub. limns would be able to control the House. Mr. Grow indignantly repelled the motives attributed to bins, and set out to allow that the whole reopen eibility rested on the Democracy, bemuse that party bad a majority of forty in the last House, and that the measure could not have Wen pealed without the concurrence of the majority He Fe. verely condemned the course of the gentleman from North Carolina for raising such charges against peer in that his House. Mr. Branch demanded to know if Mr. Grow re garded anything be said as ungentlemanly. Grow referred Branch to his (Branch's) own words. The North Oarolinian would not accept that as a 11011, and the Pennsylvanian would not give any otter. The former emphatically requested a direct reply, , and would take Grow's ,sGence as an affirmation that he (Branch) had acted or spoken ungentle manly. Grow as emphatically persisted In refer ring to Branch's words, and said the honorable gentleman might make what he liked out of it. Mr. Branch sat down like one who does not draw the drapery of his couch about him and Hs down to pleasant dreams, bid exactly like a gentleman who was unsatisfactorily satisfied. He vial calm. Mr. Grow proceeded with his remarks, and did not abate any of his deliberate impetuosity. The passage sent an electric thrill through the House. The friends of both gentlemen were quickly In quiet confab with them and, of course, many speculations were made' as to the advice given by Anson Burlingame on the one side, and Roger A, Pryor on the other. The latter gentleman, who had the floor after Mr. Morris, of Illfnols, next proceeded to address the Rouse. Ills speech, so far, is a perfect torrent of obloquy against the Republicans. He said in strong contrast to the shuffling, truckling character and policy of the Republicans was the speech of Mr. Hickman. Mr. Pryor abhorred the ideas given utterance to by the gentleman from Penn sylvania, but he extolled his style. Mr. Hickman bad the courage and honesty to speak the sentiments of his heart—so far he singled him out from the Opposition—but regarded the speech itself u the most vindictive that had ever been delivered in the House of Representatives. It made most infamous charges against-the South— with Panto faith—with having nefariously broken all their compacts. Mr. Pryor is now addressing himself to a refuta tion of the points of Illokmagis speech, and Im mense interest is felt In a probable intellectual tilt between those gentlemen, both of whom are noted for their keen and brilliant powers. Douglas is in the House, looking well. ELBE RICIIRDB. Warming and Ventilating Railway In the Scientifir American of the 24th Instant we dud an interesting and welt•wrltten artlole en. titled "Important Hints on Ventilation." The ventilation of railroad ears oonstitutea the imolai theme of the artlele. and a new plan la proposed for sooomplishing this, which, whether practical or not, is not devoid of ingenuity. As the eubJeot Is one in which everybody is more or lees interested, we are glad to dud it disouseed in so popular and respectable a journal. Very nearly allied to thin Inkiest of ventilation Is the method of heating cars, in view of which Mr. Richards, the writer in question, devotes the concluding portion of, his ar. tide to this subject. From his remarks upon this head we quote as follows: ' 4 The usual way of warming oar. is very de fective; the best from them is only appreciably felt by those in their Immediate vicinity, and even here they prinolpally heat only the upper per dons of the oar; and thus, while they dtaw the external cold air through the floor, they keep the feet *old and the head hot—the very mom of what it should be, both for health and comfort." That this Is precisely the state of thing, in moot oars on a great many roads needs no (moment to those who are aoonstomed to travelling over them. We feel it to be but just, however, to state that several general superintendents of roads, in va- Hone parts of the Union, have had the discrimina tion and liberality to overcome this difficulty by the Introduotion' of the Improved Railway-Car Heater and Ventilator, invented and manufaotured by Mr. James Spear, of this city. The writer of this had amnion, recently, to travel over roads supplied with those admirable ventilating heaters, among which wo may name our own Pennsylvania Central, and the Lake Shore and New York Cen tral roads, and we are forced to admit that, by their use, the great desideratum of an equalized temperature and thorough ventilation. is ef fectively achieved. Mr. Richard, may not be aware of this invention, but we can not doubt that any one of his intelligence and apparent interest in the subject, travelling in the sleeping oars of the last-named road, might give, through the oolumns of the Scientific Ameri can, an article which would speedily lead to its general adoption. As early as July, 1857, Mr. Spear, after having devoted months of thought and scientific investigation to the subject, consum mated his first patent, which wee soon after, expe rimentally, planed upon several roads, and highly approved. This, we believe, was the first inven tion of the kind, either in this country or in Rurope. In the early part of the present year, however, another patent was obtained by the in ventor, for additional improvements, making it more thoroughly adapted for ear use, in points of safety, convenience, and ventilating eflioleney. It is to the two of the latter that we have above referred, our only object, being to secure their general introduction, as wo are welt assured that the comfort of the travelling public would be sub served thereby. The peoullaritlec of this improved beater and ventilator are these; Tho double function of heat ing and ventilating is very Ingeniously °fleeted. From the heater two pipes amend to the top of the car, ono enclosed within the other; making only the outer one visible, and requiring but one open ing in the top of the oar for egress. These pipes are eo constructed that the nooks and gases from the fire and the interior of the oar pass up the in ner pipe out of a funnel or month attached to the top, facing the rear of the train, whilst a similar funnel, supplied with a wire gauze soreen, faces the front an 4 fem. a volume of fresh-screened air down the large pips, which, in its passage down, in contact with the pipe and the surface of the stove, becomes heated, and through apertures is passed out near the floor, causing a constant cir culation of heated, pure air, and keeping the tem perature of the car uniform throughout. The large outer pipe is supplied with a damper, by which the Ingress of air may be regulated according to Or. cumstanoes. With proper attention to this the complete comfort of passengers is attained, even in the severest weather, the annoyance of either too muoh boat near the Move, the consequent necessity of opening windows to the discomfort of those more remote, and the cold state of the 'extreme ends of the oars, being entirely obviated. We com• mend this admirable invention to railroad compa nies throughout the Union. The President and China. Per The Preu.l "On the arrival of Mr. Ward at Pekin, he re . nested au audience of the Emperor, to present hie 'otter of credence. This he did not obtain, in con• sequenoe of his very proper refusal to submit to the humiliating ceremonies required by the etiquette of this strange people in approaching their so• voreign. "The oonduot of our minister, on ibis 003S81011, has received my entire approbation." The foregoing extracts from the message effectu ally (Depose of any doubt that may have been en tertained that Mr. Ward, in his official conduct at Pekin, was carrying out the Instructions from the Department of State. Whether the refusal was " very proper," or whether what the President somewhat amusingly 'Lyles " the eeremonies of etiquette" were " hu millatingi) may admit of doubt, as I propose to show. Ent what admits of none is, that In conee quenee of the antiquated and impolitic notions per vading the Department of State, we have lost a most propitious opportunity of obtaining invalua ble commercial privileges, and which, as presenting tumid fortuitous combination of favorable circum stances, may never occur again. The unsound argument, that because the care loony of the ko-tou may seem "humiliating" to the President's idea of "etiquette" that, there fore, he has a right to Instruot an envoy to exact from the Chinese Emperor, that the manners of his court should be changed, or dispensed with, and made to conform to our standard of testimony of respeSt, bas milted In oompletsiy upsetting Mr. Reed's and Mr. Ward's missions, and radioing both to the most impotent conclusions. The draftsman of Mr. Ward's instructions had, probably, in his mind, the inetruotions to Lord Amkirsr, the British envoy to China in 1814, not to perform the ko-Wu at Pekin. It is singular that he should have forgotten that that very refusal caused the entire failure of the mission. 'The routine tenacity with which Great Britain has ever since adhered to the same illiberal ex ertion is a practical comment upon the long line of moond•rate men, who, with the exception of Can ting and Peel, have directed her foreign policy, and made her, with the Celestial Empire, the most "ill-favored" of the great nations of the world. Russia, on the contrary, has always called to her counsels her ablest men, irrespective of the Ohms In which they may he discovered—with her the Maxim bas been "la carriers merle auz talena Renee she is believed to be the only foreign Bower that hem a resident minister at Peking. We do not hear of the Russian envoy being engaged in pri vate alternations about the angle at which he will bend his body, or how often he will strike the foot of the throne with his head, at a presentation at Peking, nor of his having his dignity mollified or humiliated" at the equally frivolous and ridicu lous flourishes of " the gold•stick in waiting" at Bt. James,! More substantial subjects engage the entire approbation" of Me Imperial master, ae the fol lowing extract from the London Times will chow " The following letter from Bt. Petersburg, dated the 18th instant, has been received in Pert a. It contains some interesting details relative to the extension of the Russian dominions In Ada : I have received an interesting letter dated from the harbor of Weg-Ches-Weg, in the Yellow Bas, dated the 13th of July. It announces that Count Monravleff Amoorskl arrived there that day, on board the steamer America, coming from Japan and Corea, to visit the coast of China. The port le in tho neighborhood of the Gulf of feehelee. Colonel Boudgoakl, Chief of the Commission for fixing the boundaries between the Russian posies. alone in Mantohouria and the Celestial Empire, is going to Pekin to obtain the approbation and den. nit's* confirmation of the new limits of Russia in Asia. According to the new line, the entire coast of Mantchourla, on the Yellow Bea, and all that part of the country not hitherto olaimed by any Power, becomes a Russian possession. The terri tory acquired by the last treaty with China Is time considerably inoreased. All the southern part of the coast near Corea—that is to Nay, all under the same latitude as the Caucasian provinces—ls supplied with a considerable number of excellent harbors. In fact, In no other country in the world Is there to be found so many good har• bora so near to each other; In fine, It is difficult to decide which is the best. The famous ports of 80. butopol and the Golden Horn, in the Bosphorus, are Inferior as compared with these bays and ports. The land on the borders of the coast in covered with virgin forests, in which are to be found oak trees of nine feet in diameter. The writer of the totter adds that the sight of this gigantic vegetation filled him with amaaem ant. It - is expected that this newly-acquired territory will become of immense linportiince, the forests being situate so near such magnificent harbors. The labyrinth of bays, har bors, and islands Is called the Gulf of Peter the Great_, and the beat port Is named Vladiwosjok, (dombiator of the Raab, because It is the cradle of the Russian fleet in the Paciflo ocean, and the oommeneement of RUSS/ISCI domination in the East. Ma letter was received at Bt. Petersburg through Pekin, and thence by a Chinese courier through Mongolia and Xiaohta. This gives an idea of the celerity with which communication are transmitted between St. Petersburg, Pekin, and the Gulf of Pecheloo." ' France has had no opportunity of revealing her emancipation from absurd adherence to routine, as she has not had any minister at Peking. What it would have been, had she the golden change that we have irretrievably lost, no one can doubt who knows the prevalence of the " Likes Napoleonnes" at the Tuileries. Bhe mots from her statesmen and envoys to obtain the most substantial advert. taps for France as their first duty, and laughs de. Handy at the momentous Imbroglios about "cere monies of etiquette." A foolbh king lost his crown and kingdom for a mass. The extraot from the mes sage Is a not inappropriate commentary. The sub joined quotation exhibits one fratance of her far sighted atatannanahip, and of the plane that en gage the intellects of France, and " the entire approbation" of her rulers. The Salut Futile of Lyons contains the following article on the subject : "It is serienaly proposed to establish a direct steam service between France, India, and China. The first moult of such a service would be to re move the carriage of silk from the exclusive die. oration of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. But it is intanded.to go farther; the French com pany charged with this contract would, If we aro well informed, be a banking-house specially crea ted with a view to the extension and facility of our financial and commercial relations with these oountries, where English houses reign egoinsively and without competition. A committee has been appointed by the Government to examine the !im palas made on this subject, and we belies/ that delegate, from the / , yen , miumboturers 41411 be heard before the aommtttaa." The Monititir de la Eloise copies this article, and adds : " It is an error generally received In France that walleye nose but religious interests In China and in Cochin China. France has likewise com mercial and political interests there of the first or der. The value of our transactions with China cannot be estimated at less than front 100,000,000 f. to 120,000,000 f This trade is now carried on al. most exolwdvely through the means of Foglieb steamboats. Al to the part we shall have to per. form in those distant seas, the Emperor's Govern meat, which knows how to become the heir of all noble traditions, will easily ilnd In our archives the proofs of the elevated plans which the policy of the great Xing wished to realise in the extreme East. - Ender Louis XIV. France was, in feet, seeking in the Chinese seas means to compensate her for the losses her colonial empire bad suffered In India. It wu assuredly a grand idea, and It weig4 - be worthy of the Government of the Empe.. ror to take up this project and oonduet it to a for. Innate conoluslon." The subject suggests many resections; but I will quote the impregnable reasoning of the first intellects of the' a rtge, on Lord Amherst's embassy. After reading it, I fear that an unfavorable sordid will be pronounced upon the prominence given in a State paper„and the official " entire approbation" of the first officer of this Republie to the trumpery question of "ceremony of etiquette." Voles from at. Helene, vol. 1, p. 469: " I told the Emperor that Lord Amherst was ex. posted here in a few days. lie said he thought the English ministers had acted wrong in not having ordered him to oomply with the customs of the piece he was sent to, or otherwise not to have sent him at all. I observed that the English would consider it as debasing to the nation if Lord Am•! herd had consented to prostrate himself in the I manner required ; that if such a point was eon• oeded, the Chinese would probably not be con. tented, and would require similar ceremonies to be performed as those insisted upon by the Japanese, and complied with so disgreeefully by the Dutch. That, besides, Lord Amherst was willing to pay the same obeisance to the Emperor as be would do to his own King." Napoleon replied: "It Is quite a different thing. One is a mere oeremony, performed by all the greet men of the nation to their diet, and the other is a national degradation required of strangers, and of strangers only. Ws my opinion that whatever is the cus tom of a nation, and is prevailed by the first cha racters of that nation towards their chief, cannot degrade strangers who perform the same. Diffe rent nations have different customs. In England you kiss the king', hand at court. Such a thing In France would be considered ridiculous, and the person who did it would be held up to public score, but still the Francis ambassador who performed it in England would not be considered to have degraded - himself. In England, some hundred years back, the king was served kneeling. The same ceremony now takes place in Spain. In Italy you kiss the Pope's toe, yet it is not eons'• dered as a degradation. A man who goes into a country must comply with the ceremonies in use there, and it would have been no degradation whatever for Lord Amherst to have submitted to such ceremonies before the Emperor of China as are performed by the first mandarins of that Empire. You say that he was willing to render such respect as was paid to his own king. You have no right to send a men to China to tell them they intuit per form certain ceremonies, because such are prac tised in England, "If I," continued he, " had sent an ambassa dor to China, I would have ordered him to make himself acquainted with the ceremonies performed before the Emperor by the first mandarins, and, if required, to do the same himself, and no more. Now, perhaps, you will lone the friendship of the nation and great commercial advantages through this piece of nonsense." Page 476. Be spoke again about Lord Amherst, and ob• served : t , It Would be an insult to ask. a Chinese ambas sador, If there were one in London. to perform similar ceremonies there as were required of the English ambassador at Pekin, because it was not the custom of the country he was la. For ex ample : if the King of France were to require the English ambassador to kiss his hand, it would be an insult to him, because it is not the custom In France, although his ambassador did it in London • In like manner, to ask a mandarin to perform • similar ceremony before King tleorge's picture btitise and an Insult to China, because it is not lb custom of the place. An ambassador is for the affairs, not for the ceremonies, of the country he belongs to. lie becomes the same as one of the first nobles of the country be to In, and should eoulorm to the same ceremonies. If anything more were required of him, then, indeed, ho ought to refuse his consent." Vol. 11, page 175 : " It le an error, but still one which is very gene rally believed, that an ambassador representa the Sovereign. An ambassador, however, dote not represent hie Sovereign, as in fact none of the stipulations of affairs be signs are valid until after a ratification; and as to his rank in etiquette, there never has been an example of Sovereigns having treated them as equals—never having returned their visits—never having given way for them, nor treated them as they would have treated a foreign Sovereign. The false idea that ambassadors repre sented the Sovereign is a tradition of the feudal customs; acoording to which, at the renlering of homage, when a great vassal was prevented from tendering it in person, be caused himself to be represented by an am bassador. In this ease, the ambassador really received the honors due to his master. The character of an ambassador Is of the same nature as that of a minister plenipotentiary or an envoy, with this difference, that an arabiussat dor to In the first degree, a minister the second, and an envoy the third ; and in negotiations. them three have the same rights ; whatever they stipulate or sign must be submitted for the ratifica- tion of their prince; but in etiquette there is a great difference. The English and Russian am bassadors had a right to the same distinction, and ought to have followed the same etiquette as was practised by the princes and chief mandarins. Now, these last performed the ka ton ' and therefore the ambassador ought to have done the same, and the Emperor of China had a right to require it. A manteharged with a diplomatic, mission ought to have performed the ko ton, and could not refuse it without being wanting in respect to the Emperor, In the same manner as this last could not refuse to receive him without showing disrespect to his character of ambassador." Hero follow several expedients suggested by Lord Maoartney and Lord Amherst, to take the plaoe of the kO-ton, which, being also tried by Mr. Ward, If the public amounts of the visit to Pekin are true, show how servilely the Amherst embassy was followed by our State Department. Napoleon, after demolishing two of them as un• reasonable, proceeded, p. 177 : - A third xriggeetion was made, which was, not to perform the ko-tou, bat to follow snotty the etiquette of England, which Is to plus one knee upon the ground Close to the throne, in presenting the oredentials. It certainly is an extraordinary piece of preemnption for you to attempt to regulate the etiquette of the palace of Pekin by that of St. Jaynes. The simple principle which has been laid down, that in negotiation, as in etiquette, the am bassador does not represent the sovereign, and bas only the right to experience the same treatment as the highest grandee of the plane, clears up the whole of the question, and remoras every oulty. Only one reasonable objection presents Itself to my mind, to wit, that the ko-toa Is a religious act; that such religious act has something idols. trope in It, and consequently is contrary to the principles of Christianity. The mandarins per fectly comprehended Bid. force of this objection, and repelled the idea by declaring, in an official manner, that the kotou was not a religious act, but simply a law of etiquette, which ought to have removed every scruple. In paying respect to the customs of a country you make thou of your own more seared, and every homage which is rendered to a great foreign sovereign, in the forms which are in use in his own country, Is becoming and honorable. Ileeldos, had not your minister an example of it in what has always taken place with the Porte, who has constantly obliged all ambassadors to submit to the etiquette in use there? The ambassador is net admitted to the feet of the sublime Sultan unless he is clothed in • caftan, and is obliged to perform such ceremonies as the civilisa tion of the Porte, and In greater or less degree of power, have prescribed and changed. Is there any great difference between prostrating oneself, In order to perform the koton, and kissing the dust at the feet of the Sultan ? Every sensible man in year sountry. therefore, can consider the refusal to perform the ko-tou no otherwise than as unjusti fiable and unfortunate in its consequences." ATTACHE." THE LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. XXXVITII CONGRESS, -FIRST SESSION 11. S. CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, Deo. 29 The Senate Is not in session today. ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. Monate, of Illinois, resumed his remarks from yesterday. He said : The great doctrine of popular sovereignty is in peril ! The Democratic party Is divided—the ultra Representatives from the ilaveholding States have abandoned it It was not disputed that the Cincinnati platform reeog nised it, but this seemed to make no difference. The President and ultra Democrats have torn up the planks, and interpolated new ones, and drive the political oar fearfully to the precipice. This state of things was inaugurated at the last session, with the infamous Lecompton swindle. The Presi dent pursued those who opposed it, especially from Illinois, with personal malignity, while be was bid ding for the nomination of the Charleston Con vention. Judge Douglas is the only man North who has succeeded in.* general eleotion since the armada was commenced, and he fought a hand-to hand fight with the cohorts of Lincoln and the hungry President's pack, cheered on by Attorney general Black. Good Democrats have been re moved In alllnois and •Abolltionusts put In their places. These Democrats who have refused to bow to the (Rotation of the President have been pursued with a hellish malignity. Re said that Cock, the postmaster at Chicago, was the President's mane. I ger to get up delegates to be sent to Charleston. The address he Issued was prepared at Washington city, for Cook can eaarcely read, and cannot spell a sentence in the English language correctly, but understands better the mixing and drinking of mint juleps. Mr. Morris gave notice that the Do moaraoy of the West would not submit to new tests! at Charleston. Mr. Mict.sox, of Virginia, referred to the re marks of Mr. Morris, saying the latter seemed to imply that Southern men were in favor of reopen ing the Attrition slave trade and repealing the nen trCity lamp. die suggested that such might not have been Mr. Morris's meaning. Mr. Norris wee, at lout, not warranted in saying that such was the purpose of the Southern Democrats. lie had seen, with mooh regret, his own position misrepresented, end the remark' of others attributed to himself. lie never remarked that be was not prepared to say that et some time he would not be willing to reopen the Ali-loan slave trade. Mr. Mounts replied that he did not attribute euoh motives to the Democrats of the South, but referred to the ultra men of that seetion, as well as the extreme man of the Abolitionists. Mr. SCOTT, of California, replied to some re marks of Mr. Morris on California affairs, saying his attack upon the sixty-one thousand Democrats of California coma with an illgrams from a friend of Douglas. Lied it come from the Republicans, he would not have been surprised. He stated that Broderick was never strong enough in California to Create any fear, or cattle any desire to bunt him down. The report that had gone abroalt, that there was a conspiracy on the part of the leaders of the Democratic party to strike down Broderick, be branded as an infamous falsehood. Mr. Molting said the Government patronage in California was great, and it was exercised in favor of the President's Leoompton policy. Mr. BOOT? remarked that be differed in tote with Douglas' views, yet, if he was nominated at Charleston, he would support him against a Black Republbsatt. Mr. Gaow, of Pennsylvania, replied to the former remarks of Mr. Branch, defending his no tion of the last session in oonnection with the de• feat of the Post Moe appropriation bill. Ile con. tended that, according to the Constitution and larliamentary usages, the Senate had no right to nfringe on the prerogative of the noose by at taching a provision to raise the revenue and ha posing a direct charge on the people to an appro priation bill, as was attempted at that time, by In. tweezing the postage to five and ten milts, and doubling the postage on newspapers. Mould that Mr. Branch bad violated all parliamentary and gentlemanly courtesy in a deliberative assembly, for no member can impeach the motives of another. Mr. BRANCH, of North Carolina, rising : I want to know whether the gentleman mean. to impute to me ungentlemanly conduct? Mr. Giaow. I would ask the gentleman to refer to his own language. Mr. Itnaxou. I again ask, whether you impute to me conduct unbecoming a gentleman? Mr. GROW. Thegentleman said, the other day, that I wished to defeat the bill in order to induce the President to call an extra session. I say this Imputation is not gentlemanly. Mr. BRANCH. Do you design imputing to me conduct unbecoming a gentleman? Failinif to ro. spend, I shall take his silence as au affirmative an swer, Mr. OROW. What I said was in plain English. There It stands! The gentleman impugned my no. lion on the Post Office appropriation bill, and everywhere this was considered an infringement of parliamentary law Mr. Bnaaca. I shall take the gentleman's fail ure to respond to my inquiry as an affirmative an swer. Mr. Onow. You can take what you please. The gentleman said my oldest wan to kill the bill, and thus compel the President to call an extra session. I take book nothing I have said. He proceeded to give a history of the defeat of the Post Office ap propriation bills, disclaiming for the Republicans the responsibility of their defeat. Mr. VALLANDIORAM, of Ohio, said he was one of the twenty-nine Democrats who voted for Mr. Grow's resolution et the last session, and desired a word of explanation. He was of the Horatian school of philosophy, and adopted the ail admi rani, In politica especially; but he did admire the 000 l assurance of a gentleman who, responsible himself for what he calls g great calamity, seeks to place that responsibility where It did not belong. He (Mr. Valiandigham) voted for Mr. Grow's reso lution because he doubted the constitutional power of the Senate to raise the rates of postage, and because he was opposed to any increase of those rates. lie took his share of the responsibility, but should scorn himself if he could seek to place that responsibility upon others. For everything of die ester and distress and embarrassment, the seven thousand mail contractors suffered, the gentleman front Pennsylvania was responsible, so far as the defeat of the Poet Office appropriation bill in the House was conoorned ; and, remembering that foot, Mr. Vallendigham thought that propriety would have required the member front Pennsylvania to be silent, or, If not silent, at least to have spoken in a less offensive tone and language. He (Mr. Grow), with great rudeness and indecorum, had told the Democratic side of the House that the New York Herald had furnished them with brains for their disoussion. Row easy, Mr. Vallendigham said, it would be to retort that the New York Tribune had furnished the Republican side with both brains and decency, and in;very small infinitesimal quan• titles at that, and moreover that It was doubtful whether the gentleman from Peanaylvanla bad re ceived a full share in the distribution. (Daughter.] Rut I forbear. Mr, FRITH, of Virginia, replied to Mr. Grow's remarks, delivered a few days ago, in which the Demooraoy were charged with the responsibility of the non-organisation of the House. That charge was not true so far as related to an organisation by the choice of a national and conservative man, for to that end the Democracy have been laboring for three weeks. Let it go to the eountry that the De mooraey have hitherto resisted the election of see tional candidates for Speaker, and intend to per sist in that course. That gentleman had also charged the South with the introduction of the slavery agitation. That charge was not true, except in the sense that he who beholds the Incendiary applying the torch and eries " tire !" Is responsible for raising the alarm. The nomination of Mr. Sherman was a declaration of war and the signal for hostility, and his election they are bound to resist by every expedient and to the last extremity. Having enraged the South almost to the point of armed resistance, the Re publicans now come forward and deprecate agita tion! They apply the match and affect to be amazed at the explosion. They " steal the livery of heaven to eerye the devil in," and to aecom oak their purposes they put forth a' platfona of conservative principles; even as Satan assumed the disguise of a reptile to seduce the first parents. And their representative man, John Brown, con ' coaled his felonious designs under the guise of I maenad., research. But the South understands their policy, and don't mean to be thrown off their guard. Sloe will be prepared, henceforth and for ' ever. Notwithstanding. the studied silence of the other side, the cloven foot would occasionally stow itself. He alluded to Mr. Hiekman's speech. Ills doctrines Mr. Pryor abominated; his candor he must applaud as strongly contrasting with the timidity, time-serving equivocation, dissimulation, and prevarication that characterise the Re publicans. He shows what they waled say, were the padlock removed from their lips. Re defended the South from the charges of Mr. Hickman of being perfidious, and breaker, of tom promises. Re proceeded to allude to the "Irre pressible conflict" doctrines of Mr. Seward. Mr. Manus. Ido not maintain the doctrine of Mr. Seward that one section of the Union is to ex tingnleh the other. I mean to assert just exactly what I have declared here, that the North are fixed and resolute in their purpose not to allow a I dissolution of the Union. do not care what an tagonism there may be between Emotions, " the Union must and shall be preserved !" (Ap. please.] Mr. Parts. The people of the South do not in tend to abandon the Union. We intend to vindi cate our right! in the- Union—peaceably; if pos sible, by force, if necersary.Applause - 1 In the course of his temar he said that Mr. Seward, in 184E4, promulgated t a doctrine of an 1 41, " irrepressible conflict. Mr. McKsiour, of Pennsylvania, Mr. Pryor yielding the floor, referred Mr. Pryor to the mani festo Issued to the country in 1849, drawn up by Mr. Calhoun, and signed by the member/ of the Virginia Leg islature, of both houses, including Mr. Bocock. in which this very doctrine of 4, Ins. possible conflict" was promulgated. Me. Me- Knight said that his object was to show that Mr. Seward has received more honor than was due him. Mr. PRYOR resumed the floor. and both he and Mr. MeKnight were speaking loudly at the same time, causing much confusion. Mr. PRYOR said that the gentleman should not, under a hypocritical and false pretense, inject a speech in the body of this House. Hs had yielded the floor for a few moments only,-and he regarded the gentleman's oondoot as another violation of obligation, by Northern Representativeri. pip plansel Haring concluded his remarks ' Mr. Marnastn, of Tennessee; rose and said that he regarded the support given to himyesterday as lan evidence th at gentlemen were willing to forget rename for a time, and Mutate for IT:l l "ps i g i irtio purposes, e rather than as a personal compliment. He dared not, therefore. appopriete their action to Mama or even make it the object of his thanks. Apprehending that the further use of his name would fail to ooneentrate a sualeient number to organise the House one broad, national, and conservative basis, he unconditionally with drew his name. Mr. Exowan, of Indiana, nominated Charier S. Scott, of California, as a candidate for Speaker who ought to be satisfactory to every national man. After atoll of the House a ballot was taken, with the following result : TWIRTY•YOURYR HALLO?. Whole number of votes 210 Necessary to a choice 10d Mr. Sherman 102 Mr. Scott 83 Mr. Gilmer 14 Scattering 11 The Rome then adjourned. Washington AtTairi. WASHINIOTON. Dee. 29.—The vo t ed of the em Goma eition members who to-day voted with the majoritr of the Democrat for Mr. Roott. for Dpeaker,ii re as fol lows : Mears. %tiller, Boultria. Mardeman, Moore of Kentucky, Vence. and Maynard. Mr. Branch will. if he has not already, privately de mand of Mr. Grow, to the metal manner c an explanation of the language applied to him to-day in the Donee of inepresentatires. it is probable, however, that by the tervention of friends the reuse of arena, on each aids will be removed without resorting to extreme moo !Urea. Chief Justice Tansy and Associate /nation Daniel are still detained from the Supreme Coed by saltness. The Court of Claims has been adjourned till next week, owing to the sickness of Judges Bleekford and Dearborn. Negro Insurrection in Bolivar, Mo. TUN NNOSOIS ATTACK WAITS SISN-.711ET THEZATISI TO BURN THE TOWN-11(Si ATLi I/SITU INTO TON WOODS - SWISRAL MEN KILLS , / -..-A TIOILANCS CONNITTNN APPOINTS!). Br.l,otits.Deo.72.—The Misseeri Democrat has the following from the Warsaw Dszparei About n o'obelt ou hinoday night the citizens or Bolivar were emoted by Mooting and amines of stones on the subtle samara. A large crowd soon con gregatedr and found theta sans of mimes had attacked a few white men. • . " Wben a sufficient number of whites were collected, they attacked the nearoes, - drivint them into the woods. The negromi threatened to born the town before morning. " A viillant w•tch was kept, and all attempts failed. One negro was dangerously. wounded bra pistol ohm. " several were captured And confined in jail. The oitisens bald a meeting, and Appointed& vigilance cotn- Mate., who wart Warta active measures to diecover those enraged in the not. A mounted compute aim rancour the woods in search of gentiles. Therms eom re lj , lia b sla i ree bt rsie s. t:dl . l 11 441tr i Cm* le SO erely p y Thit 4 dreategt B e r i: .241_ ; X__ o _lrerlnd every ac man was armed and pre= nigtrAmp *d r ggeeple "n° waver, the excitement had Union -211eiiing;st- Itochenter. Rocamirmi. Dee. W. —A luxe lJnionmeeting - held m_this city lut evening. which was addressed by .lemes Brooks and ex-Governor Bunt. The resolutions " adopted were of rather soused cluuncter, but the tom of pal one is the following t Resolved, That we cannot too strongly rebuke the sentiment that the election of • President by a coned-. rational majority, having views of public poliey with which the trilnonty do not coincide. would furnish a just cause for the dusolution of the Union. We, on tee ...Aram hold such sentiments to be disonanasing and traitorous. odious to allpstrintie and Union-loving men, and disgraceful to the mmlin.itiou of the age; and as here)) , give to our fellow-citisens. East, West. North and ihnith, our most solemn plertgc, Mat who ever May he elected President of these United States !q a coastitutional way, @hal! receive from us. in the lawful daubers, of his dutom, the same willing obedience and ens getic support which we have iven to Gelb and all of his predeoeseors; end we her e by declare our In n and unelterable purpose to sustain aml proteet him in the lawful discharge of these duties from all enenues , within or wi thout, home or abroad. There was an e rt to lay this resolution on the table. but it passed by • barge Majority, and then the meeting adjourned. Prom the glains. ?RR NAVAJO 'INDIANS AGMS ROSTRA - MAIL PARTY ATTACRID—COLD WEATRRI. ITIMITESPINCZ, MO.. Dec. W.—The:Yew Mexican mall. with dates to the till inst., arrived hare today. The Navajo Indians were again tiostile.l , airier killed ono man and wounded others, who went to trade inth them. The outgoina meal which left here four weeks ago, I was atterked by the ndian , beyond the Arrears' near. An escort was with the mail. and the Indians wee. re paired. None of the mail party were hurt. The mail Just wired lame with Moore end geese's train to the erasing of the Arkansas river. end thanes by the air-line. No 'adman were seen on the route. The mail party experienced very. oold weather, arid tee mules were kept Iront freezing with ddßeatty. Later from Brownsville. REPORTED DEFEAT A,ED RETREAT Olt CORTINA.. Nitro Oitraans. Deo. 79.—The atraiasiltp'Arisons. from BMWS. a below. lithe Adore CM =in spools. Advice. From Ervernaville to the 20th are furnished. Cortinate hand of outlaws bad boon diluted, sad Wars retreating. No particulars have beim roomed. The Fugitive Slave Law in Illinois. TIM OTTOMA RIESCITI CAIII-INDICIXINTS TOCND =El= _Ctitrao 1, Illinois Dee. f!.—The Grand :err of the Dicriet Court last even= fount an in dictment. under the tualtive.elave law, against eight citizens f Ottawa. Minnie. for the of alleged glares at that City In Oetober tint. Non. Arrival of European Steamers. PDETLat:D, DSO IM—Midmabt.—There are DO Ague of the steamer North Briton, now about doe, with later admess from Europe. Ilamtvit.t.x. N. H.. Dec. 39.—The steamer Canada bad not arrived at Halifax this SYSEUEIf. Another Fire at New York. IMPORTED LOSS OF LIIE. - New Wait. Den. b.—lt is reported that three lives were lost et a scull Jr. to Weer etreet,neer Greve. wich. tau @venial. The **tuner boa sot bolo eoe• armed. The President's Message at New Or- New Oa tataqs, Dec. 29.—A fall atetract of the Free dent's menage A reeoiYell... From hingtou by tele utfswy.as published he et a as a quarter past three on Havro Cotton Market. _ . . . New You c. Dso,7o.—(Fly steamship artgo.l—H rit Deo. 13.—The cotton market is well au Donned. Tee /lila' for the last two days amount to 1,700 balsa. Stock Dort. 58,000 bales. The Steamship Granada. r(EIV YOR R. Dec. 29.—1 t is auppowed that the cargo of the steamer Granada. eonembeg ohledy of oottoe. nII be ends a total lova. Everything below the deck is submerged. DAN Bloc's GREAT Saow.—An afternoon per formance has been given every day this week by Mr. Aloe, all of Rhioh have been welt attended. Yesterday several new %MUM were introduced, among which wag the first appearance of Miss Sal lie Stickney, Situ Estelleßaralay, and Mad. Whit taker, In a most beautiful act upon three hones, entitled the " Three Graces." The rhinoceros will be exhibited this and to-morrow afternoon s , le older that strangers visiting the olty may have an opportunity of seeing this,. remarkable soologi cal °urinal ty. ( The New York Erpress of last evening says : " The notes of the Traders' Dank, of Bangor, Maine, are thrown oat by the broken in Wall greet to-day." "Tait WORLD'S Tat's nations l"—This was the subject of an attractive and Interesting feature which was delivered last evening by George W. Pearce, Seq., editor of that staunch paper, the efmenran Reputlican and Cheater County De mocrat, In the lecture•room of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The weather was unpropitious, but the large audience were warm and unanimous in their cordial plaudits of the eloquence to which they lis tened. The lecture—a poem—wu what it pur ported to be, an account of the noblest heroes of humanity, who bring the balm of health and life to those victims of the world's battle, where the wounds aro broken hearts, and the weapons in. trigue and deceit. Be who raises a fallen brother is greater than he who conquers a city. This vein of redaction was pursued in a masterly style, amid frequent and prolonged applause We regret that want of space denies us the pleasure of noticing the able effort of Mr. Pearce at length. Suffice it to ray, far the present, that in every respect it was worthy the theme and the gifted lecturer. Hama" INSURRD.-4Yesterday afternoon a man named John Barlow, aged forty years, was severely injured, by being caught between his wagon and some part of the ferry boat Horsham, while crossing the Delaware. He was taken to the Pennsylvania Hospital. Danwssn.—Whllet Abraham Penn was driving across the temporary bridge at Bridesburg, yesterday afternoon, his wagon came in contact with the ante of It, when his horse took fright, jumped Into the river, and was drowned. GREAT CONFLAGRATION IN NEW TORL Fifteen Buildings Bunted or Daaaged. PROBABLE LOSS •500,000, crams rieLro I co.'s AID scs.szs: norms' PAMIR 1110V11i COXIIIIIIIID-111ACE I GRAMM'S TRANE ZSTAXUSINZIT TT ariss—FIREICIA JVIED-ISSIIIIANCE. 10., 15. ['math. N.Y. Evening Post of resterdar•i At 4 40 this mornings Ere broke out in the rear of the second story of Pesach t Granue'a Wire frame manufactory, No. 53 Beekman attest. Ile building extended through to Ann street, No. 51. The Ere made rapid progress. and the iron shat ters in Ann street were red hot Ware it Will dis covered. The materials in the buildings, mirror and pie tore frames, do , were highly combustible. and the flames in an ineredfble abort ewe of time envoi oped the entire building, and tOCOltatleatai tee adjoining on the east side. Sono the front brick well of the carpenter-chop of Was. Me Fee, adjoining 79 Ann strut, fell. and unshed and buried Engine No. 5. - Assistant foreman John Malone was in the building, and was slightly in jured. The entire company narrowly efeaped burial in the ruins. The ire next extended to the paper lianas of Bulkley Brothers, 55 Beekman, and made a clean sweep. The lose is estimated at $lOO.OO. to $123 - 000. probably covered folly by insurance, but in what eompanLas we are unable to learn. The games extended to the pew bourse of Cyrus W. Field, No. 57 Beekman. which was moos burned down, and is a MUM of ruins. The lees la esti. mated at $BO,OOO to $lOO,OOO. The stock was in sured in sixteen companies, for $50,080. The com panies of this city Involved in Mr. Field's tom are as follows: Manhattan e. o:oPetar Cooper, Howard atom Boam. conContinental........an; .._ vunitahla ..—.. ►tlar Total of city nom- Nstional...- . . 6 Sati puma 1351(0 There are kx policies or $5,000 etch . in Hart ford companies (130,600). and three polities in other New 'England companies, alto 15.000 etch, 41 5 ,- 000.1 malting a total insurance of 130,000. No. 59 Beekman, which the Ors next attacked, war occupied on the first door by II nydock, drug gist, and on the supper loon by Endicott, litho. grapher. It was bursted to the gro und. No. 69 Beekman. earner of Gold, Is occupied by Mean. Nunn, Dod te a Briggs , iton-nipe menu. lecturers. The building is not =sub . Wired, tut the stock war damaged to the amount, perhaps, or 119.000 o. 51 Ann street, ontbo treat lido of Busk b Gramm's establishment, occupied by BArch' a Co.. perfumer, and -Dna, tailor, was aim burned to tie ground. Mr. Dool is lanced in the Hamil ton and St. Nicholas Companies, Epee tacky which about come 1011. The Second•ward Nike Station-boar, No. 46, warmly escaped burning. It wu lilted with smoke and deluged with water, but was tared. This bounded tie extent of the tire on the watt side, as No. 61 Beektumr, *moor. of Hold, did Cu the oast. The dashes extended to ties, south side td . Abu street, There s number et' tesesneut lasses and liquor shops of tittle Taiae were destroyed. Al thonish the lON there is Inconsiderable, mub miterY will be occasioned by familia hens' sg toads home boa Thence the fire spread to the north side of Ful ton street, where the eataldlalonent of Edward Buck, dealer in muskal lostrwmenta. was much damaged. The content, were removed to the op posite aide of the street until the ire was artin gnithed. W. T. A T. V. Gondar, hydrometersod thermo meter manufeetuthre, ecoupied the third floor. Low $2,000. Insured $5OO in the Williamsburg Company. A. lireingartner, lithogralther, and J. Kenn en graver, were alto horned out In this building. The weather was extremely eold, and the fire men were unable to work &serially. Many o them, indeed were compelled to abandon the ground, and but for the steam engine's it is impos rib,e to say what would have been the result. _ A fireman attached to engine 16 was stuck on the bead by afallthg brick, end severely, but not damwo=urt. on Gold street, furs Beekman is Fulton. were more or lees injured' The neighborhood In whkh the Ire occurred, es oielally Ann street, from William to Gold, was I Alla: with • dense smoke. The enlistment and eontadon was so great that it nu alascot impose:- ble to obtain any particulars of the ire, espetsially the loss and insuranee. Indeed, the fire to not folly extinguished at the time of this writing, (half put one o'skek I It is thought that aboht ifteen buildings hsr• been burned down or damaged. and the lows will probably amount to $500.000, perhaps more. LATIJIT. Mr. Maloney. assistant-foteenan a engine No. 5. had his leg broken and was taken to the Hospital. There are also said to be data amen musing—fit's from engine No. 5 and three from No. 3t. THE CITY. To me Baxavoutrre—Soug ora Pima int.rnu Ca annns.—The extremely void weather suggests an item in relation to the sulfrimps of the poor. and a word or two on the attnetatkinf 6 idled for the porpoise of alleviating their miseries. In this lerdlM eity of Philadelphia, with its six hundred thousand citizens. it would be bard for to to dorm even an estimate of the ammust at suf fering embodied in the seam= ee The tbernion:- ter is at zero." We hive associations °Cantinas, and for all *Ma of want. Then la the Altus honie. euntatning a population larger than * majo rity eons small inenrparated towns and boroughs. But there is a pirojudice against this establishment so universal among our people that many unfortu nate elitism would prefer starved= to life within its walls. Again. then are sensations and estab liabments,, organised and temetain' ed with the Tillk of relieving the pmailbmniseeT, which look their sustenance to the kind mikes alba - cher Me. Some of these are eneltzed Smiled • elawas of the tmlbrtmile.- trimhey all-Todi to H.' teneral welfare .and relief et by those prevented *aorta= tram eindaining themselves.. ssat abwmt of good is anoomplisbed by themrihnite lions, and although melt of it is performed in an humble and unostentatious manner, no less effietive and conitiondabte. ' - • On the northwest eorner of Hamilton end Twen tieth streets is situated a beautiful and Malmo dicrus building, known as the Foster Home. It is surrounded by very extensive grenisikk-and pos sesses, in a great degree. all the necessities for an institution of its eharseter. It is under the management of a board of directors; consisting of eighteen of our most respectable ladies, who are ideated by the contributor/ to the Home, and who devote themselves voluntarily to the - emir of so pc:intending its operations. This. institution as. comes the Me of children who may lave lost either of their parents, but who have friends eom potent to the payment of a nominal sum for their easteasnee In the Home. - The managers take such children, and assume the reqmiti Wit" ofolothing, educating, and nourishing them, mbjeet to the wishes or disposal of their parente and friends. refortrmata parents may have their children eared for here during the days of their 'doorsill, but on the dawning of prosperity they are expected to re assume the exercise of parental control. Then are now about eighty-six children in this Borne, forty-three of whom are boys and the remainder girls. Should the parent or protector, as is often the ease, entirely desert the child or children sus tained In the Home, the managers bind them out to a suitable trade or profession. or otherwise per manfe. ently dispose of them for their tntuse trelfsre in li At this Home, yesterday niatal, there was a celebration of its anniversary, which was com memorated by a series of very interesting exerehea. Addremme were delivered by Rev. John Chambers, Rev. Mr. Durborrow, Rev. Mr. Pratt, and others, in width they set forth the claims of the Home, and Its powers of usefulness, in an eloquent and forcible manner The annual report was read, giving an account of the operations of the institu tion for the past year, and representing theta plorabla condition of the finances of the instantion as they are at present. Recitations and ringing were performed by the seitoiara, ht which a very satishietory exhibit of their mental improvement was made. We regret that this charity should be so indifferently snstained by our eitisenn It is now in a condition of almost total poverty. The exertions of the noble and generous hike who superintend its management are deserving of the igreatsst degree of encouragement. and we bespeak for them the kind consideration of oar people. We may continue our notices of these charitable Institutions, and others of a similar obaraster. from time to time, isms gather information in relation to their existence, their real entulitien, and the di ' minds they may hare on the public. We close - this article with a general recommendation to our readers to remember, during these weary wintry days, the necessities of their unfortunate brethren and neighbors who are prevented from enjoying the comforts of the world by the misfortunes Of hfs, and to artist, even in an bumble way, to alle viate the sorrows of the suffering poor. Tab GRE.A.T FIER Lt New YORE..—PUILi.- DILPSII.I TINDERS HIS A.SSISTINCE —Yesterday morning Mayor Henry, upon bearing of the exten t, site fire raging in New York city, telegraphed the following message to New York : "HOD. DANIEL P. TIRMANN, Mayor, New York "I have just learned that a conflagration is raging in your city. Can our fire department be of any service ? If so, telegraph immediately. " ALREANDER HENRY." After the message bad been sent, the Mayor hal an interview, with Mr. B. P. Penton, the chief engineer of the Fire Department, and it wag ar ranged that four steam fire engines should ha got in immediate readiness for departure, in ease Mayor Tiamann should send word that their services would be needed. Mr. Wm. H. Dahmer, the agent of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, was consulted, and be promptly offered to send on the engines and men, either by a special train or by one of the regular The Hope and Philadelphia Bose Companies also telegraphed to New York. offering the use of their steamers. At one o'eleek in the afternoon M.yor Henry reoelied the following telegraphic deapatoh : "Itlany thanks for your friendly offer. The fire la extinguished. "D.&stCL F. Tuscan, Mayor." Several of the steam engine companies had everything in readiness for departure, in the evilest of their services being needed. Flat Lae? Ea n,o—Teats HOrists BURNED.—A fire broke out, about seven o'clock last evening, in the livery stable of Daniel Linn Brother, located at York avenue, below Button• wood street. The fire originated in the left of the building, and was first discovered by one of the hostlere as he was taking a home to the stable. A number of men were sitting in the office, and Fete sal workmen were at the lower part of the build ing at the time. The flames spread with great ra pidity, owing to the combustible nature of the mate rials in the upper part of the building. The stable adjoins the carriage manufactory of Mr. Robert Dunlap, and a large crowd was attracted, suppoiirg the fire to be in that establishment. The 'Phila delphia Hose and other fire companies were promptly on the ground, and confined the dames to the stable. Some twenty horses and a large number of carriages were saved. Three horses, however, after being cut loose, rushed back into the flames and perished. The leas to Mears. 1 inn is about $l,OOO. They are insured in the Franklin and Spring Garden Company to the amount of $5.000. ' The building was owned by Mrs. Michael. Devlin. Whose loss is fully covered by inseirmice. The origin of the fire is unknown, although it was probabit caused by a spark from the office stove. Mr: - Dunlap's factory was in imminent danger, bit - lei:owing to the prom* 'atition'of the firemen it miimped any material injury. flit stock on hand &monist. to upwards of 11 0 0, 000. His trade with the South has beep Conside rable 'heretofore, and we learn that on account of orders:L.l,m that seotion having been onuntermaaded sham the Har hur's Ferry tragedy, he. recently diaeharged oat ndred sad twenty workmen.