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PAOil--Antograplio; 'Penni 1,, for
"Anita!and, Politi
osi -Letter from Ueoigo W.. Rawitidi; Annie Tre
voi's Thonghni, teon--Our portfolio
tteprotOry, ,Cobb's Financial Account
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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."
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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.