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MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1860,
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callous ;• tatter from New York ; Passenger Rail
roads at Harrisburg ; By Telegraph : Congreeslon
al; Further from California; Personal and
Folio
se;, &a. FomttU PAGE.—The Courts; Llet of Lot
tors. . ,
The News:
William Kraft, oonvioted•of setting fire to his •
own workshop, for the manufacture, of .pieture
frames, was on Saturday sentoneed by 'Judge Al
lison to undergo an imprfsonment erten years In
the Restern Penitentiary.
;Peter A. Browne, Esq., a distinguished member
of the Philadelphia bar, died In this city on Satur
day. . .
'The steamship Arabia arrived at New York yes
terday, with three days later news, whiolt will be
found ; in our paper to-day.
The funeral services of the late Bishop Neumann
will take pitioe in this city to-day, and will be of a
ieleraisnd inspresalve nature.
..Two hundred and seventeen deaths occurred In
this:eity last week, an increase of twenty-nine
over the Week previous.
-In 'the national House of. Representatives, on
Saturday, the 28th ballot for Speaker was had,
hitwith no better result than previously.
:The Knoxville (Tennessee) Mfg, of the 29th
nit., gives a long account of the arrest of an Abo
litionist from Rochester, New York, a peddler of
fruit trees; who had previously been driven oat of
Ashville, North Carolina, and who was taken be-
Pre a public, meeting in Knoxville and interroga
ted. The Whig Bays :
' "According to his own version ho is an Abell.'
tionist, - but he said he had not tampered with':any
slaves—did not believe it right to run negroce out
of the South to the North—and ho was opposed to
getting up insurrections. His - business was to sell
fruit trees and ehrubbery for an extensive estab- n
Mama at Rochester.
"The excitement 14103 great and the crowd large.
Boy. James Park and Ar.. Brownlow apoko, re
commending coolness and reason, and opposing
any personal chastisement of the man. General
Ramsey, however, made an inflammatory speech,
and excited the crowd. Colonel 0. P. Temple fol
lowed, and denounced Rainsey!sientiments as only
worthy of acorn and contempt, and was loudly
cheered.
"Opeeehos wore also made by James IL Cooke,
-Fag„ and William L. Scott, Esq., who also took
proper viewe of tho subt a cunselled modera
tion, deprecating the g reat - evilgof mob law pro
vailieg to a dangerous extent In the South. and
- hoped that reason, moderation, and justice would
be acted out on tbia occasion.
"The committee of three recommended that
Cregax, the Abolitionist, have twenty-four hours to
leave.
"This was, as we understood it, se amended as
to allow hirrtthree days to wind up his besiness 4
andthis, we are inelined to thiuk, met with thq
approval of the meeting. But an unfortunate de
bate sprung upbefween Messrs. Park and Charlton,
and the consequenees threatened for a time to be
fearful, :as the friends of these gentlemen drew
weapons. But by the inteference of friends peace
was restored, the ordwd dispersed, and the New
Yorker has left for his congenial North, where he
- ought•to remain."
She Whig speaks very severely of General
Ramsey's speech, denounoing it as more treason
:
"able than any sentiment uttered by Orogen .
Accounts from Arizona state that the • Juarez
Government of Mexico has directed Gov. Posquiera,
the,Governor of Sonora, to revoke his orders ex-
.pelling Capt. Stone and his surveying party front
the country. The Governor is also ordered to In.
eite"oapt. Stone to return and enter upon the our
,
vey i and to, protest his party from molestation. It
is regarded as highly probable that Pesquiera Will
`give no
,beed 'to these orders.
Under'iho hoed of ' 4 A- flood hipert," the She!,
by (Sy.) News publishes arrextraot from a letter
'by a young Xenia° - ,, inedisal student at Phila,
• delphie. , The nr says : ,
"About three uridred Southern students went
South in a";tiody, lest IVednesday night. Our elm
Iseult-serge,, though sensibly diminished. There
are More going yet.: keheok for $l,OOO was sent
from-Vir gi nia to pay their (travelling) expenses to
~the South. They can go to New Orleans, Nash
' vill ,e or -Charleston, free of charge, and hear tho
Ileotaree gratis. Of twenty ICentucklans, not ono
left. Mu are asaservarsess—sound eggs."
Tho Ohio Janet: Garotte, of Wednesday, says
that a party of fdity, free colored"peeple, 'mostly
women and ohlidree, arrived la that (Avon Tues.
Any orating from Arkaniai. They,were welcomed
by a ciremittect appointed from the colored people
~of. the City. They were assured by the chairmen
of the committee, that if they were induitrieut
and
sure
in their conduct, they would be
, care tnain a good livelihood, and many *Janda'.
-Tite.exiles, as before stated, are mostly women
• and children; the husbands and fathers being held
Witorvitude. Thoy report, concerning the emigre
: tion e thathindreds of the fine colored men of Ar.
ltansas have left for Kansas, and hundreds more
• are about to follow, These exiles had iought the,
North in oentequeithe of thiadt *teed by the Ai-.
kanias Legislature, giving the free Degrees of that
State the alternative . of migrating before January
.1 1 1860, or of becoming slaves. As the timeof
probation has now expired, while some few indi
viduals have preferred- servitude, the great body
of the free colored people of Arkansas aro on their
way northward:-' The upward:bound boats are
crowded with them.
Selena letter of October 26, in the Nett/
'fork ',Toured Of Commareti states that, within
the- pies -ICU fortnight, two slave prises had been
brought into that sport. One was the 'American
brig Lillie Mills, which was taken by surprise in
Jambe bay,•September 20, by the Englieh steamer
Anther, the orew taking to, their boats and pulling
ashore as, soon as they discovered the steamer.
She was folly equipped for the dare trade. The
other prise was a beautiful Spanish craft, -the
• Elgin, caught by the same cruiser. Tho writer
Wake It a pity to destroy snob splendid vessels, as
is required by the Englith laws. In regard to the
- New Bedford whaler Memphis, he says :
,4 The whaler Memphis which left New Bedford
under some suspicions about: seven months since,
and of which notice was taken in the papers, has
been recently here, and has sailed ostensibly for
the Falkland Islands. I learn from the
consul that her papers were all right, and there
WAS nothing about her to indicate such intentions,
unless it be that she is unusually large for the
whalers in this ocean, and though so long out has
taken no oil whatever. But she has been boarded
several times on tho coast, and one of 11. hf. officers
told me she had at one time in a fog a large num
ber of launches alongside, which immediately
pulled for the shore on the lifting of the fog and
the discovery of ono of If. M. Memnon."
Gerrit Smith is at hie home in Poterboro',
very much improved in all respects, but not fully
restored to health ; and the doctor has prohibited
him from receiving visiters, and from giving per
sonal attention to his correspondence.
117, The most important feature in the re
port of .31r. &ma, the State Treasurer, M the
exhibit, actual and prospective, of the reduc
tion of the State debt. It appears that the
amount: thus applied during the fiscal year is
within a fraction of 8850,000, leaving a balance
'in the treasury of about the Name amount
on the first of December- last. The mea
sures which initiated this result were first
operative in 1855, and they have beert constantly
progressive. The present year the reduction,
it IS estiniated, - will exceed a million of dol--
-1 - ars t It is honorable to the diligence and ca.
parity of the chief of the department that, tlie
resources of the treasury are.thus steadily ap
plied to diminish its liabilities, in conformity
with the laws, which enable him to do so.
,If a Northern Representative in Congress
trottld declare What Mr ; GARNETT of Virginia,
stated on Sattnday, nuttily; that' he. and his
friends were resolved that the plurality rule
should not be adopted until March;lB6l, wo
abOuld have -It circulated all over the Union,
that the aforesaid Northern man was an enemy
of the Confederacy.' But Mr. autrferr, is we
presume, an excellent friend of the aforesaid
Vain; although we understand that he is by
3/0 means indisposed to go out of it upon any
fair provoiation. The threat of Mr. GARNETi
prives that the majority of the House is rum-
a led, and that no vote can be taken upon any
VFoposition not acceptable to the minority.
_My the way, are not Mr f GARNEar, and gentle
men of, his class, somewhat afraid lost Mr.
41110111A.11, should he be elected Speaker of the
Mouse; may mount the chair and', deliver a
strong Union speech, and appoint strong Union
committees And in such an event, may not
the stock of red hot coals which certain gentle•
men from the South have been subeleting upon
be exhausted 1
PAN itton'it Einnsr Snow.—The anniversary of
the battle of Now Orleans will be celebrated at
this establiehment in a oharscteristio manner. Tho
great heraorLst is always loaded and primed with
patriotism, ready to go off On the slightest provo
cation, and he never lets an occasion like this pass
without memo Mod of s demonstration. The bill
- *mated this evening is full of attractive
features, - -among wbioli may be mentioned the
_: -tight-rope; exercises of • Bert Olioo, and, for the
first time, tbo entromilY funny equestrian extrava 7
gents of Bllly - Button's Journey to Brantford.
A. NEW PaRENOLOGIOAL CL A.98.—8y a oar& la
another (mime . , it will be seen that a class for the
systematic• study of phrenology is 'about being
formed by Mr. S: L. Capon, the skilful practitioner,
Nor_ 912-Vhistnut . street. This will afford a de
: Sirabto opportunity •fot the Investigation of a
: : :Itiefily.interepting • subject, and- should be largely
• • :••
BALM sin. Orlmn fti z &TOR 74, so. , —This morning,
sit o'olookriskthe "sisriroOms.of - Messrs. Hogust
'st - licitton; Nn. 29'13dulhThird itrdet, will bo sold
tiio stooleof oskand walnut, and offia6 And'
"Ittstrer tables and disks; atso . siSiretary and book,
eases, eztouoloa .dining iablis; wardrobes, and,
othettamsitfirt, ThQWae , )31r011 4. Son, notion-,
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AN ANSWER TO A SOUTHERN COR
RESPONDENT.
To THE. EDITOR on run PARRA : In your salute-
tory of the New Year you claimed, independence in
polities, devotion to the Union, impartial contribu-'
tions to your Columns, dm. I em it very recent sub
scriber to The Press, a Southerner, in politics a
reformer, only anothor statue for opposition to the
present Administration' of affairs—oorioption and
fraud being the ruling element, opposition implies
reform. I'm a right good Po r
rney man; though
I'm about to assail Forney. Your entire article
under the head of " Commercial Relations between
the Nortia:and South," of 3d of January, is a
fallacy; and that on the 4th is but a continuation
of it.
You saythat the commercial intercourse between
the North and• South "is based upon the interests
of both motions, and therefore it cannot be disrup
ted; that so long as this mutual interest to found In
this mutual commerce, so long will the Union and
trade and eonanienio last,. in spite of agitators, poll.
tied demagogues." Ale. Now, this, instead of being
a great truth, is indeed a very great error. The
history of the world and. mankind proves exactly
the reverse, that the interests of nations have been
oonstantly not only sacrificed to the passions and
fanaticism of man, but even to the caprices of
woman. • The most stupendous events in the
world's changes have been brought about by causes
so trivial, exoept intheir results, sato appear almost
ludicrous. Why, I think It probable that if you bad
never been born .Tames Buohanan had never been
President. Ido not mean to say that your advent
was a trivial [molder:it, but I do say, that the elec
tion of James Buchanan to the Presidency has
been more fruitful of evil to this land than any
other event that has transpired for fifty years. I
acquit you of the crime, but charge you guilty of
the art.
You contrast the Abolition sentiment" at the
North ageing the use of articles produced by slave
labor with the Southern movement, to abjure
Northern manufactures and importations. There is
really no similitude. The one was a mere MI timent,
which, In its indulgence, required a great saori
fiee of personal interest. The other is a vital prin
ciple, the exercise of which would immensely sub.
serve Southern interests, and the practice of which,
in the minds of many, involves the very existence
of Southern society and public safety, with a largo
mejorit y of those who participate in it. This move
ment is a adriserrativa one. They believe that a
withdrawal of Southern patronage from the North
would so disturb the prosperity of the North as to
bring out the conservative feeling there, and
cause an agitator to be bunted as is now an Aboli
tionist in the South. That when they see that
higher-law preachers, and &unionists for con
science' sake, stop your factory wheels, blow out
your )(arum° bleats, and paralyse the uranufaetu
, ror'a arm, you will treat him in the same way that
we do ono in our own midst, who threatens to di
minish the production of cotton, rice, and sugar,
fires our buildings, and jeopardises our safety—
you'll treat them either to tar aid feathers, or a
gallows, as they may deserve.
We honestly believe in the South that there is a
deep-seated, wide-spread determination in a ma
jority of the people North and East to overthrow
and destroy the institution of slavery; and we also
'believe that this cannot be done without a servile
'war 'and all its inconceivable horrors ; and you
may be assured that the movements now transpiring
in the South have their origin in causes altogether
above and beyond any idea of commercial advantage
'or political supremacy. The South is now driven to
the Wall, and only desires to be let alone ; she can•
not now recede an inch, or oven stand still. Sho has
never claimed more than the Constitution coneeded
as to slave property, and this elaiin has only been
theoretleally recognised ; and now she finds, per
haps too late that her safety enjoins her to demand
all that she is entitled to practically.
I, like yourself, believe in the existence of the
Union. It maybe that it la to be more firmly co•
merited throUgh the turmoils, suffering, and de•
gradationof a dissolution. But that, if so, its
broken fragments will be again reunited into a
mare solid structure; that some great being, a
whole head and shoulders above common humanity,
will spring Into place, and shape our destiny, I
have no doubt. It cannot be that Cod will permit
our final destruction--will permit disunion; for
disunion and dieintegratien Is but another name
for polittea(death.
There is a' great deal in your two urtlolea
affording material for further. comment; but
I will abstain for the present, hoping, in mein.
that fan will So longer believe the South to
be merely maw:earth:lg. It is a great error, and
to propagate such an error is a great crime.
Our correspondent, "Union," writes frankly
and boldly, but not conclusively. Be makes
our articles of the 84 and 4th lusts.,, upon the
commercial relations of the North intl - Sonth,
the subject of his strictures, but he dpes -not
undertake - the refutation of our skein - lent,
.otherivisethan by a broad denial of, us sound
ness, and byithe assertion of an opposite, doc
trine 'without furnishing its necessary proofs.
Nor does he exactly understand our main
proposition. Wo ,said that "the -trade be
tween the North and the South is based upon
the • interests of both sections, and this fact
affords a guarantee of its continuance,...(the
continuance of this trade,) which no popular
animosities, sectional tumults, or denzsgoguical
appeals can afflict so long as the original basis
which established it remains, as an incentive to
its perpetuation." We did not say, or intend to
imply, that the maintenance of the political
union of the two sections depends upon, or is
insured by the persistency of their commercial
relations. Trade maintains itselfindependently
of national confederacies. The United States
trades with all the outside world. Political
connections or separations, sympathies or anti
pathies, have no power to determine its career,
or to prescribe its range. This is the point which
we made; It fa a plain one, and we need got
rehearse its proofs, but we may restate, and
apply it. As the commercial relations of the
present Union with Great Britain do not now,
and never did, rest upon our political union
with that kingdom, so the commercial rela
tions of the North and South are not based
upon the union between them and cannot be
destroyed by its dissolution. Prohibitory
regulations could disturb, and •an actual war
between the States would suspend, their trade,
temporarily, but by force of its own laws it
would again return to its natural channels.
The Confederatiy IS a matter of compact, and
owes its existence to the will of the pat lies,
but the trade between its members obeys laws
which they can neither make nor unmake.
Nor is our respondent any happier or sounder
In his reliance upon the frivolousness of the
causes which have one time or another been
credited with giving rise to wars and revolu
tions. Wo aro aware that a spark may ex
plink, a magazine ; that the caprice of a king,
or of his concubine, may shake a nation to
pieces; for, "behold," saith the text, , c how
great a matter a little fire itindleth"—that is,
when the matter is combustible; but we do
not, therefore, infer that a Incifer match will
set a river 'retire. "The history of the world
teaches" nothing of this kind. It is nothing
new or wonderful for despotic and dissolute
rulers to disregard the interests of a nation,
but a free and intelligent people, who actually
govern themselves, never go crazy all at once.
Our friend cannot find an example, or demon
'strafe the-probability, of such a case. On the
contrary, he thinks that a dissolution Of the
Union would result in a better and more se
cure reconstruction of the Confederacy. Ile
evidently believes with us, that the laws which
have induced it will maintain or restore it. In ef
fect he does not contradict the conclusion, as he
really does not Impugn the reasoning on which
we rest its continuance. We differ only in
tills, that lie gives more weight to the threat
of an impossibility than we do. On this point
we stand thus ; ho knows that the laws of
trade rule their subjects absolutely by their
own proper force, but because people y have
done very foolish things, they can do inipossi
ble ones ; and, that they may do practicable
follies, which they know will be undone again
as soon as they are done. In these things he
speaks like an oracle for the whole tribe of
dissolutionists. He betrays them, and en
dorses us. There is, therefore, nothing be
tween us on these two points—the laws that
govern our commercial relations, and those
which bind us together politically—to dispute
about.
_lle makes a bettor point—a better•iooking
point, at first sight, of the effect of non-inter
course awl threatened dissolution upon the
conservatism or the North ; but he overlooks
the fact that that vein has been worked to its
uttermost productiveness all the while that the
controversy has peon raging. We mobbed our
Abolitionists ferociously twenty-live years ago,
tarred and feathered them, dispersed their
assemblies, and burnt their halls, as he sug
gests fur present practice, and for the very
reasons trjach he proposes to supply, but
without any of the excellent results to be
desired from them. Moreover, this way o f
securing Southern trade and preserving the
Union is not, by any means, so necessary or
urgent now as it was then. The anti-slavery
Sentiment of the North was stronger and more
radical in 1820 thin in 1830, and through every
sacc - essiye" decade to the present hour, it
-has been steadily abating in the rigor of its
doctrines, tamper, and demands. Every free
S;ate in the Union resisted the admission
Of Missouri, by tho uriequivocal and almost
unanimous resolutions of its Legislature, re
presentatives and peoplo, en maw, standing
firmly upon the restriction doctrine of the or
dinance of 1787, and applying it to all new
States and Territories. CLAY'S compromise
conquered a concession, and WI degrees 80
minutes divided the domain and the doctrines of
the resistants for the next following thirty years.
In the Meanihne Texas was annexed, and
Northern Mexico was acquired, and the North
contracted its doctrine to the dimensions of
what was left of its requirements. It accepted
the compromises of 1850, submitted to the re
peal of the proviso in 1851, and finally . , to all
intents and purposes, abolished it by a unani
mous vote of all its representatives in Con
gress, upon the MontgoMery.Crittenden amend
ment to the LecompttM Constitution. The
North has bean busy these fOrty years in abolish-
Mg its Abolitionism, and it has at last almost
entirely succeeded. Virginia accomplished
the same work a little earlier, indeed, but it is
not to be forgotten that in 1832 her Legislature
came very near abolishing slavery; and the
sentiment of her citizens, which opposed the
system, persisted at least until her last-elected
Governor endorsed Dr. RUFFNER'S anti -slavery
book. ' There is nothing now left standing in
the precedents, statutes, or judicial decisions
of the Federal Government against either
the rights or wrongs, the chances or claims, of
the slaveholding people of the Union, and
there is nothing inimical to their constitution
al, economical, or political rights threatened
by the people or the official representatives of
the free States. There is no sentiment, no
organization, no projected movement among
us worth the cost of a single coat of tar and
feathers, expended for the security of the
South.
All that ever was substantial in the corn.
plaints or in the apprehensions of the South
has been thus completely • removed ; but our
friend's notion that very trivial matters may
convulse a nation, producing very distressing
immediate effects, has some support in the
'consequences of JOAN BROWN'S raid at
Harper's Ferry. The South, we are assured,
is alarmed; c , the very existence of society' ,
there is imperilled. What, or who endangers
it 1 Does she fear a servile insurrectiV She
says, no ; and her remedy—dissolutioti And non
, intercourse—is in testimony ths this is not
the danger she fears. Is it an rived invasion
by the people of the North hat she appre
hends? Nobody will say„Ves to this inquiry.
The thing-is simply previterous. It will not
bear talking about. 'tllT North, and more par
ticularly the political party in the North
which the South holds to be an anti-slavery
party, is this day snore frightened by that in
vasion of Virginia, than the South professes
to be. If the South will but exercise
the wisdom, and prudence which the
awakened conservatism of our masses invites
and warrants, the next Congressional and Pre.
sidential elections will quiet this whole ques
tion forever. We will go further. If Mr. Pm-
CHANAN bad kept his pledges in the matter of
Kansas, the Republican party would by thin
time haN:e been utterly extinguished, JOHN
BROWN would not have been heard of, and
Ilimecit'a book would have been as inoffensive
as Jerrensox's notes on Virginia. It is our
heaviest charge against Mr. BUCHANAN, that
in violating all the pledges which he made to
its and we made for him, in the canvass which
elected him, he has done all this evil, and all
that is to follow until it shall be remedied
by a better man, and wiser and better mea.
auras.
The tt guilt" with which out friend charges
us, or the blunder—which in politics is held
to be worse than crime—which we committed
in working so earnestly for the election of that
perfidious luau has been deeply repented for.
Under heavy penance we have obtained our
own forgiveness, and by works meet for re
pentanc,o we are endeavoring to earn the
pardon of all whom we have offended. That
campaign was in itself a success, fall of the
most cheering assurances for u 3 wv—assur
an,cea which all the mischiefs following upon it ,
cannot shake. It was the triumph of that
very conservatism to which we look now ror
the redemption of the flatten and the establish
' ment of Its future peace and prosperity. I s et
the South reeoveV,* another-wit, gird np its
courage, and unite With us upon - practical men
and measures ; and In the next trial she shall
see bow "out of this nettle Danger, we
will pluck the flower Safety." The honest
and reliable conservatism of the North
is sufficiently wakened up thr good ser
vice now,—what mere can be scared up
is nothing but calculations upon our sup
posed , commercial cowardice. The &Foote
of dissolution and non-hatereogrse, pushed
beyond reasonable or excusable measure,
can awaken nothing but defiance from the
manhood of our people. Carried further, they
will enlist nothing but a miserable rabble of
hucksters, who will be the first to subscribe
liberally to supply insurgent slaves with gun
powder, pikes, and provisielta, when the two
sections of our country aro forced by eTtrerne
measures Into hostility, commercial, political,
or warlike. Every such measure will merely
demoralize the Korth, and weaken the party
In it who would'otherwise be abundantly able
to take care of the just rights and Interests of
the South. The balance of power between the
two sections lies in the central bolt of States,
of which Pennsylvania /3 the principal in
power and steadiness of devotion 19 !tie Con
etitutiou, and the general welfare under it. %e
appeal to the pact, If the South cannot point
to the time when we have failed to do our duty,
' will she venture to name the time or circum
stances in which we shall fail?
We speak advisedly in all that we report of
our position and purposes, and we ask our over
excited friends to do us justice ; to threaten
nothing which they do not intend to do ; and
to undertake nothing against us which they
cannot accomplish.
Our personal friend, " Union," Thinks ho
sees a difference between the "lucre senti
ment" which induced some of our Aboli
tionists to abstain from the use of slave pro
ducts and "the principle " that lnits the pa
triotism of the South upon a similar absti
nence from the produeta and trade of the
North. We can see no such difference be
tween a sentiment and a principle, which are
alike opposed to an' interest and a necessity.
The free-labor consumer found his policy itn
' practicable to any Purpose. De found that
he could not starve the shareholder into Lath
mission; and discovered, moreover, that with
the help of every man and woman itt all the
free States of the Union, Ito must fail, for there
was all Europe open to the trade of the South ;
and that very England which ,Itad abolished
slavery in all her islands, and opened Canada
as a refuge for fugitive slaves, to his surprise
was enjoying the most harmonions commercial
relations with the South in all the products of
slave labor. Thu inherent laws of busiueas
ruled as absolutely against his enterprise us a
protest, and as a measure of propagandlatu, as
against its practical success in its ultimate
object. Ho sucked sap sugar devoutly in &l
apilli of Louisiana, for a while, but Havana
and Now Orleans slipped into his tea-cup
through the refineries of ehti-slavery England,
and Senator Mason will not get his second
Virginia pepper-and-salt dress coat until a
Pennsylvania twill will be detected in its tex
ture.
There is another thing to be considered In
relation to the troubles that are upon us, and
their prospective settlement. The pressure, i
hostilities against the North, for the purpose
of arousing its conservatism, must have ex
actly.the same effect upon the South. Make
the threat dangerous enough to disturb us,
and the Unionists of every State . beyond the
line will be aroused. This has more than once
happened already. Senator lustsioND was
frank enough to say that the South itself
should have kicked the Lecompton Constitu.
tion out of Congress. Very soon we shall hear
similar things said of HELPER'S book and Joust
BROWS'S raid. An incendiary duodecimo
and an insane foray of a score of desperadoes,
aro rather too trivial to explode a nation,
to establish manufactures in the tropics,
or put Boston, New York, and Philadelphia
under embargo. Tilt Belli's and Milan decrees
with which N6POLEOS blockaded Continental
Europe did not put out the furnace tires of
Great Britain. They smoked bins out. Prom
all of which, and from all other instancea in
the world's history, we learn that business is
ruled by business principles, and is not subject
to the passions or caprices of men. There is
but ono remedy, as there is but one cause, for
all our present troubles. Our curio is in the
men and measures of the present Executive
Administration of the Union. Our duty as
patriots, and our welfare as a people, require
tha exposure and the expulsion of the great
criminal and his confederates from Mike, the
condemnation and reveraal of his policy,
and thereby the restoration of the con
fidence and harmony which ho pa de
stroyed.
Tut 1 RESg.-1 3 1-litAbgt.PHlA, MON
Supposed Reply of President Buchanan
to Jas. Gordon Bennett.
Wasuisarox, Jan. 8, 1860.
lily Dear .81r: I would have answered your
letter received here on the second instant before
this, but for the reason that I had a severe fall on
the ice the other day, which rather shook my
nerves, and I was compelled to go through the
wearisome process of receiving the people on New
Year's day, according to custom. Tim absence of
yourself and your "delightful family," was the
only thing to mar the happiness of the (ley. I was
compensated, however, by the attentions of Mr.
Orund, Mr. Shaw, and the titled Brown-c, of the
Constitution. Ac the Chevalic4 Wikoff has ar
rived, I have no doubt that I will have the lea—
sure of taking him and you by the ha a
course of a few days. when we will together die
coos the past and speculate upon the future over a
glass of Madeira.
I write this on the Sabbath anniversary - of the
victory of New Orleans. Why did r not followthe
example of General Jackson? Why did I not ad
here to my solemn declarations in favor of
the • Union? Why did I over yield to the fire
eaters—the men who resisted my nomination at
Cincinnati, and who so coldly acquiesced in my
election? Why did 1 ever take into my manse
and confidence such men as William B. Reed, i
Pennsylvania, who have been, through life, ‘ 4ot
merely the enemies, but the traducers of ' Old
Hickory?" Why did I not throw myself tip ci th e
people for vindication against the poll m i ene o
Alas, my dear sir, these aro questions th 1 b eet ,
more than once asked myself. These aro ne kt oee
that will wear to me to-day as I dt meti tier
,:,
my Presbyterian elergyman,Thee cresting
that will whisper to me like - the vot .... n imp.
passed conscience at mY bedside fiat will foi'ow
me like shadows in the day, an .urround me Ike
apparitions in the night. Th are, indeed, eier
present admonitions and. rep aches, and if my Ad
ministration is (alit is) a 1 ire, it is only became
I have refused to obey tit groat example of fiat
noble man, who, strong „wolf, made himself en
conquerable by his trot ; In private life, his emirate
in public life, and hilitneore devotion to the Uniot
at all times. / '
Your letter is sr frank that I feel tempted n
follow your exotrjle, and to be equally frank in
return. l ant ee'rer entered into the bargain wilt
you that I cannot retreat, but candor compels no
today that the moment I yielded to Wikoff, an/
agreed to overlook your falsehoods against me, I
committed the great blunder of my life. I did nit
know how odious you were, I supposed that you.
boasted oirculetion of the Herald all over thi 1
world, and your large wealth (I havtiggoat reaped
' for rich men) would enable you to do me a grog
deal of good. My whole course of life bed been de
talon to my own interests, fear of my enemies, tint
distrust of my friends. These motives led me b
think that Wikoff was right when ho came to on
and stated that you were anxious to support In:-
Administration for a consideration ; but, as I sold
I have made a fearful mistake. I have lost b;
your support. In trying to serve " myself " b; 1
permitting you to enter my household, I have re
ally injured " myself." My fear of you was prover
to be unfounded, because I now know of no jour
!mild who is read morn widely and despised anon
heartily. To crown all, the feet that I had taken
you, as you say, "to my arme," has driven 41
every true friend I have heretofore possessed, ex -1
°opting those in office under roe, or who entertain
certain expectations ; and I hear that all of these
either hold me in bitteroonteutpt, or secretly laugh
at and denounce me.
You know, l)ennett, how my first attempt to
bring you into my confidenop was misted by the
Democrats of Pennsylvania. There was not ono
who did not protest apiinst it. You had elle:dell
the Democracy and 'betrayed " Old iliokory " in
your first newspaper enterprise in Philadelphia,
and you had devoted youreell for so many years to
personal abuse of me, that it was very hard to con
vince the men who have really put me wheral am,
that any reconciliation between you and me was
net something like a reconciliation between the.
puritan and the blackleg. There was not a single
Democrat at my own home in Lancaster who did
not look upset you as sue of the greatest eeount
drels that ever lived, and who did not stare at me
with amusement when I proposed to bring you
over. There was scarcely a Demooratie editor
throughout the Isometry who did tint think that I
had personally insulted him by taking each a
knave as you by the hand. All the ladies of my
acquaintance referred to the first manifestation of
an attempt to tolerate you about the White House
as a monstrous hallucination. Antl,.in. cowildrtece,
those ;tweet and dearest to me protested against
it as an insult to every honorable ;consideration
and ovary delicate sensibility.
Dail you hisd abused me, Bennett, I had also
very bitterly abused you. It is true, as Forney
says, that 1 " would have given a eool five but
dred dollars to any man who had gong to N 4
York and taken off your worthless ears from yolk,
worthless bead," after your brutal attack upon l ,
a lamented lady, new deemed, end your no less
brutal intimation that I had attempted my life in
reanasquenee of the melancholy death of that lady. '
I had talked, publicly and privately, to every
body, about your attacks upon Forney, on account
of hisTorrest letter, and charaeterieed them as the
attacked a fiend. I had defended him against
you at my own, as well as at his table, and every
where else. I had denounced your attempt to dia.
hquor me, in reference to the exposure of the trea
ty of (411,4elnpa nidalgo, durteg Mr. Polk's Ad
ministration, as the wadi of a reckless reprobate.
Rut I had passed my wqrd to Vikolf, and, having
l?roken my pledges to my friends, I resolved T.
would not break, them to my foes; and, therefore,
I Trent to Washington rpm Wheatland, determined
to stand by you. When I arrived there, Imagine
my consternation when I found all the Southern
gentlemen agaicat you—partioularly the Mgt
!liana. Independent spirits like Pryor, John For
, eyth, pad the Charleston Illirettry—not to speak
of the newspapers pnylithed here—greeted the bare
suspicion that I intemls4 - to cultiys to friendly re
lations with such a creature as you ail an inardt to l
the South, and a disgrace to the country.
I now regret that I induced you to republish
Nrney'a rorreet letter, because it is evident that
he will be able to defend himself—particularly if
he ascertains that I told Shaw t. send you word to
print it. I repeat, that I have gong further to -iy
diet.le Terney for that letter, than any other man
in the country. - I did so at Lancaster, I did so at
London, I did so at Weeltiluton; arid if I bad foi
a moment recalled this fnet,l weuld itc,Ntave own.
milted the mistake of requesting your cErroponl.
eel. fa induce you to oopy it.
,
What repkrB my present relations it ilu you
more disagreeable, lit the feet that you continue to
abuse soy Cabinet, while prairie; me. I levy ,
told you that I have little confidence in tiny of tip
men ecOltosing the Cabinet, inasmuch as ell if
them, excepting ale venerable Cites, are candi
dates fur the Presidency, sod I would like to con
Untie four years longer myself'. But yutir Dffilnia•
yersjons look, either as if you owned me, body nal
soul—es the devil owned Dr. Faustus—or asif I hal
made a bargain with y . oti. trt induce you to attack sty'
Cabinet. Matters are reudered ',sem, too, by your
ridievle of the Washington Constioriqn ar,i)
General Polffaan, and my dilapidated Irish Le
blown, Drowit-e. I wmild Advise that in your
future ornaments tivhieb I trust yell w;ii e c titinto)
against my Cabinet and the tiensfl/Wie", ) 1 4
will not be fitilto eo severe us you have bceo.
Since I have written the above, J inks has cone
in with The Press, of yesterday, in which, to ay
lierfor, I find that your letter to tee. of the fir:Alas
been made pOlie. lean well imagine the offset
it will produce upon ay those who resisted toy to-
cognition of you at the beginning of my Admids
tralion. I have no heart to write more at presmt.
4ftpr I have seen Grum' and oonftsrred with a bu.
of my fria,ode, f will write you more fully.
Ought not We later le be signed, dear normal,
affectionately yours, • 4"Agl:9 Iit'CIIANAN'
Lotter front 4, Oeettsionnt."
teurreonenlehee At The Press.]
• Wmiumrex, Inn 8, 1801
This is the forty.llfth anniversary cf the victory
of Nosy Orleans—a (lay uhieh has generally 41,11
faithfully celebrate() In the city of Washingbn;
but since Mr. Iludionaa 'Quitted into the
dential chair, tho exaMple of daoksoti hys Olen
into contempt. Ills motto was "The Felon nest
and shall bo preserved. — Southern mon al be
was, ho throttled the enemies of the Confederacy
in South Carolina, and broke them down in every
Southern State, telling them, in plain twins,
that they should swiog a p p high as Homan if
they laid irreverent hands upon tim rtqco. The
consequence was that he nationalized Deuce - .toy,
crushed out fanaticism in the free States, and idle
the Constitution irresistible, because he aiplied
to provisions to very section alike. Sir. 13u.
denim, while full of abualtept professions if ad.
nitration of Jaokson's Administration, ruin' to
have acted upon the reverse principle. Ile has
put on end put off opinions as readily as In bon
put on and put off his own coat. Me bar been
all things to nil man—for the North one day,
and for the South the next ; and, to crown
the column of his inoonsistanoy, has, at last,
surrendered to the organized and public enemies
of the Confederacy. If General Jackson hal gone
into the Presidency in March of IE4, his noble
soul would hayo revolted against -the attempt to
force upon the people of gams a slave State
against their will. Ho would have kept hit word
to 'Robert J. Walker and Frederick P. Smnton.
ii,, would have adhered to the gallant frienis who
had clung to his standard all their lives with un
yielding constancy and
WittwitY, and would
have regarded his own written word as his bond.
Although no formal notice is taken here of the on.
eiversary of the battle of New Orleans, tte pre•
cepts end the practice of Andrew Jackson have
sunk deeply into the American heart, asd will
never bo forgotten. Mithons of free men this day
will talk over the prominent overate of his life, and
the great lesson he loft to posterity, with gmthude
end with praise.
It Is now almost reduced to a certainty that
election of Speaker of the House of Represents•
lives can be effected until the plurality rile shall
be adopted. Mr. Hickman has repeatedly at
tempted to offer that propositlen, byt every obsta
cle has been thrown in his way by the Administra
tion leaders, although it in notorious that n decided
majority of the House ie ready to vote for it.
ova Rated, o
Nitton to tbo a(
White Rouge I
that both tto
the Tilnoury
be, adopted ;
al 00 rem° n
by the non. J,
decent tootle
lons exizting
litokman thn
both ativooatoo
lar'sexo reign;
to adheto,anct,
s 'Quid have reef dined the latter from making this
gentleman who, however decided he
may be in th.;,,, expression of his opinions, has an
additional Mahn upon the regard of the Secre
tary of ,Int Treasury, inasmuch as ho, Hick
ganrwali one of those who wont to the uttermost
to asst in securing Mr. Cobb's appointment to
the bgh position he now occupies. The President
it ueneed in his opposition to the adoption of
t a, rule by the apprehension that It may result
ht the appointment of a Speaker, who will see that
\ ;rioh committoesaro Mooted as will inaugurate end
enforce such an investigation of the corruptions of
his Administration as will, when laid before the
people, still further aggravate and deepen the re
sentment entertained against him and his polity.
Let ne look at the two last Instances when the
plurality rule was resorted to by the House for the
purpose of electing a Speaker of that body. You
will remember that the Congress whioh oommeneed
Its session on Monday, the third of December, 1849,
tiaa delayed, and the whole Administration of gen
eral Taylor embarrassed, by the failure of the
House of Representative' to organize. Sixty-three
ballots were taken, and three weeks of valuable
time consumed, before a presiding officer could bo
agreed upon. On the twenty-second of December,
the eon. Frederick P. Stanton, of Tennessee—the
aamo who has become so distinguished for his fear
less oppesigon to the treneherie" of slr. Buchanan
on the Kansas question—offered the following pro
position :
"Rrroiced, That the House will proceed immediately
to the election of a Speaker vivo yore, end If, after the
fell shell hare been called three tunes, no member shell
receive a majority of the whole number of votes, the
roll shall again be called, and the member who shall
then receive the Wost number of votes, provided it be
a majority of a quorum, etmil he declared to be chosen
Speaker."
Atter a good deal of skirmishing this propo
sition wee adopted by a vote of one hundred
and thirteen to one hundred and six, and
on the sixty-third ballot Howell Cobb was elected,
having received one hundred and two votes out of
two hundred and twenty-ene thrown—being a ma
jority of a quorum, and a plurality of the whole.
Mr. Winthrop,isof Massachusetts, was the Oppool
lion or Whig candidate for Speaker, and received
ninety-nine votes. The rornainder were scattered
between Mr. Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, and Mr.
Morehead, of Kentucky, Mr. Strong, of Pennsyl
vania, and others. Great satisfaction was every
where expressed at this decision. The business of
the Government immediately commenced, and con
fidence was restored to all parts of the country.
Mr. Cobb made an excellent presiding officer, and
afterwards took a leading pert in supporting the
compromise measures, contributing greatly to the
settlement of that vexed question by the vigor and
fairness which marked his action as Speaker.
The second trial took place in 1853-36. Con
gress assembled' on Monday, the 3d of Decem -
ber,1855, and tried in vain to elect a Speaker un
til Saturday, the 2d of February, IBA, when a
choice was effected. On Thursday, the 81st of
January, Hen. Jelin Hickman, of Pennsylvania,
offered a- revolution substantially the some as that
offered by Mr. Stanton In 1819. No notion was
taken upon it until the fullowiog Friday—tire first
of February—when It came up in the House for
' tileeessaion, and woe voted down by one hundred
and eight to one hundred and ten. The next day
—Saturday, the second of February—a proposition
precisely smaller to that adopted in 1849—which
resulted in the election of Howell Cobb—wise of-
I feted by Hon. Samuel A. Smith, of Tennessee,
present Commissioner of the Land °Mee under
fir. Buchanan, and it was adopted by one hundred
and thirteen to ono hundred and four. On the,
one hundred and thirty-third ballot for Speaker,
under thd operation of this resolution, Nathaniel
P Banks, of Massachusetts, was elected Speaker,
laving received one hundred and three votes;
Aiken, of South Carolina, one hundred
totes; Henry M. Feller, of Pennsylvania, six
totes; Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, four Totes, and
Pastel Walls, of Wteconsin, one vote.
It will be seen that when the plurality rule was
elopted on the occasions referred to, it was offered
ly Southern mon, as, indeed, it was sustained by a
number of Representative' from the South. Now,
however, the same remedy Is to be resisted by all
the powers of the Government, and especially by
the Soutitenk Administrationlets, on the ground, I
premise, that le unconstitutional It Mr. Bit.
chemist felt that be could elect such a man as Mr.
Poortek,'or Mr. Milian, he, and hie Secretary of
Iko Treasury, would regard the adoption of the
phratity tufa to a geed Insecure of peruse, but, In.
tieleeh all 'they fear that In the struggle they
meg P bee the prize, instruotions have been
greet' to resist this role until the bitter end; and,
accordingly, we see the evidences, every day, that
nothing but the sheerest necessity, and the greatest
publt Indignation, will induce the Admit:llB4a
tiOD forces to yield. Nor is it quite certain that
they imay not be able to combine eo as to elect:
thelrmen. They affect to fear Mr. Sherman ; but
as tlifre will be three trials before the Speaker is
cheerio, they will have every reasonable opportu
nity'n mks combinations. In order to give color
to tha factious purposes of these men, they make
91'4 , possible exciting appeal to the prejudieee of
the ftoptfs, and to the ;apposed interests of the
Mont', and loge, of their newspapers do not /mi
ta top say that the election of Sherman will die
roles the Union. Such is the work in which 14r.
Bnctanan's Administration, and those who rep
portit, are now actively engaged.
Publip 4mppments.
AReu•SrRRRT THRATRE:•:-Stitllnglnta, op
Irishman who has long been connected with the
preas in London, for many years more partioulerly
with Nrindav Tames, a great theatrical and sport•
in;
.inurnal, bee written a variety of plays, from
time to time, most of which helm been remarkably
pointer One of the beet of Mese, entitled "Kre
rybily's Friend," a comedy dashed with gleams or
broad humor, hes been a great bit, not only in Len.
dombpt me, at Wallack's Theatre, New York, where
it bias lied a run cos ;um thou two months. Messrs.
Wheatley 1 Clarko bring 'it out this cypnlng, the
whole strength of the company, ac the saying is,
being in the root, and they will thus agreeably
gratify public curiosity. Peter Wilkins" will be
played ns uu urterpiece. It to the intention to
hare on afternoon performenee :t this theatre on
Saturday afternoon.
WALNI T^STRELT THEATRE.-31194 Matilda Ho•
roe may fairly be claimed as a Philadelphian,
commoners a star engagement at this theatre to
night. Elie will appear ln her own adaptation of
" Camille," sustaining the part of the heroine,
with Mr lieneb, Mr. Ehewell, and Mrs. Thayer
reepectliely sustaining tLo characters of Gaston,
Ar'uutrr 1, and Prudence. This is by far the meet
drsmatic version of " Candile." It was with this
play that Miro Heron, three or four years ago,
Alloyed tpo 'post brilliant coerces at Wallas/0o
Timetre, New yorlt, all the critics being spell
bound by her earnestness and eatgalness. We
ho ,a that Philadelphia will have the opportunity of
witnessing the representation of another new play
cs4tcd "Lerida," which Miss Heron has adapted
Nur. the French, and which has been played wtth
grptit IltleCllLta at the Howard Atheneum, Boston.
Tlp sums is vhistly in Venice, during the proud
times of that republiu. Vh2 leading characters
wire sustained, in Boston, by Miss Heron, Mr. J.
IV,. Waltack, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Devon
pr. We dare say that o Lesbia " will be found
tome/it the high enoomitima passed upon it by the
Baton newspapers.
* McDo-ci can's ;s a now local
birlesque hero, with new scenery arid costumes
mine() "The Irrepressible Conflict in the Impend-
I+ Oriole," in w h i c h John Bronn, Cook, Governor
Wise and (we Oceanic, the glicst 01 - 1 General
Washington ore haute to figure. The comic panto-
Mkine of '• Mother Goose" is the windup.
400 me.--A Panora
mio Diorama of Napoleon Proorins tho Alps, with
all the firmer attractionP of Thiodon'o Theittro,
cootie end mechanical, axe to run through the
*Font week.
Mn. Jens D,,rw.—The numerous friends of this
Tereatile actor may like to know that ho was in
Australia, doing very well, when last heard from.
We have waved, via England, the Melbourne
raminer of October Bth, which devote; a eo•
Wen to the consideration of Mr. Drew's merits.
says . •' It has not often fallen to the duty of a
theatrical reviewer to record so prolonged a pope•
larity a; that whio:t heti attended the porform•
anees of Mr. John Drew. We inuct add that, this
gentleman's qualifications considered as a whole,
seldom has popularity boon better earned." Af
ter praising his Ifandy Andy, the critio adds : .
"Mr. Drew, bowel or, Is not a bird of a single
nOto, and during the last fortnight—since he bas
aestuned ehureveis that demand higher and more
varied abilities—he hog vindicated his title to be
accounted a repeeseritatitio of Irish eharagtor of
the very highest of From 'the 'first we gave
hfut oredit icr talents of no Meal/ order; but wo
has e pleasure In confessing that ho has far ez
•eeded our evneetations. In Gerald Pepper, in
deed there Wits a pain: ?r two here Tad there
which, in our opinion, was nut so happily hit oil us
we had seen it accomplished by Mr. Iludson, and
his liVatt,intt is not quite equal to that of Mr
Brooke; but sve doubt whether Pierce gl in
"'Thy inch Attorney, ' was aver better—it, indeed,
it over mar tc , IQl)—played.''
Mr. Dross was cbaiit 4ppcaring in a new piece,
Called "Paddy in Australia," writthn for him by
a literary gontlemai; of Australia.
Public Exhibitions,
Noes VENrs.—The lovers of fine art have a
fdrthor opportunity seeing this wonderful paint
ing a short time longer Its oxhibition will cor
tritely terminate on Wednesday evening, until
which lime It remains on view at the rooms over
Weltering's, Chestnut street.
ACADE VI" OF FINE AP,T.9.—WO were favored, by
the politeness of Nr. 1 1. Q. Itani:s, who hakehrtrip
9, 180.
them, with an int Ration to a private view, on
duchy evening, of Garstaldi's painting of 4 Pao-
'inn" cud O. Lucy's Government Prize Painting
"The Pilgrim Fathers." The inclemency of
soother prevented our seeing these works of art.
karstuldi, we understand, has realized the heroine
f Byron's poem of " Parlsina." Mr. Lucy's pia
ire we have eon sod can speak of doeldodly. IL
ton a high prize, if We recollect rightly, offered by
le British Government, and fixed the artist's name
Igh'among the leading painters of the age. It wee
tainted in VIM and represent, the moment . when
to venerable Pester Robinson prays with the
Algrims, at llelfttliaven, ore they sailed for South
ampton when they departed for America. Patton's
History of the United States sap, "The night be
fore their departure I from Delft-fla veil] was passed
in religious Intercourse: as the morning dawned,
they prepared to go on board the ship. On the
shore they all knelt, and the venerable Robinson
led them in prayer—they heard his voice for the
last time." Title is the action, this is lie moment
seized by the painter, and he tells the story with
his pencil—the great test of composition. These
paintings are on view at the Academy of Fine
Arta, and ire aro confident that they will bo
ex
tensively visited by the public of thie city.
Ifettrirra's " VILLAGE BLACKS/lITII."—This
original oil painting, which will be one of the prizes
of the ensuing drawing of the Cosmopolitan Art
Union, has been on view, gratis, at the store of
Messrs. E. 11. Hunt it Co., northwest corner of
Fifth and Chestnut streets, the office of the Union
in this oily. It will be taken bank to New York
this evening, and will not again be seen here unless
some Philadelphian draws it az 's prize. An en•
graving from this fine painting was given, with the
Art Journal, and other advantages, to every sub
manioc last year. This time the engraving is
Feed's " Shakspearo and Ills Friends. - Messrs.
Hunt S. Co. are agents to the Art Association,
%these drawing will take place at the end of the
month, and can supply the engravings on receiving
the subscription, which is only three dollars To
the public we say, whether you subscribe or not,
go and see " The Village Blacksmith."
THE LATEST NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH.
THREE DM LITER FROM EUROPE.
THE STEAMSHIP ARABIA AT NEW YORK
NEW Iona:, Jan. B.—The steamship Arabia has
arrived, with Liverpool dates to Satur,lay, the
2lth ult.
Tho mails by the Arabia will be deipatohed
south in the morning.
The Arabia passed, in the river Mersey, the
ship Wyoming, from Philadelphia, bound in, end
also tho steamship America. On Sunday evening,
the 25th ult., she passed the steamship Europa,
bound to Liverpool.
Ceneral Comonfort is among tha passengers by
the Arabia.
The steamship Circassian, from Portland, arrived
at Liverpool on the 221 ult.
It is stated that the 19th of January haft been
fixed for the meeting of the European Congress.
The report that the Pope claims the presidency
of the Congress for his plenipotentiary le denied.
The Parts Bourse wee Irregular on the 2:14 ult.
but olosed firm at 70f. 50a
A vague unconfirmed rumor prevailed of an out
break in Hungary.
1 he Spaniards have again repulsed the Moors in
Morocco, entailing heavy lone..
The overland mail, with Calcutta dates to Nov.
23d, and Shanghae to the 19th, Ina been t . ele•
graphed to London. There le no nova impor
tame.
THE PEACE CONGRESS
Count Avigdor, the representative of the Re•
public of San Marino, is nt Paris, and has resent•
ed a memorandum to Count Milewski, addressed
to the future Congress, proteeting against the en•
aroaeligents of Piedmont.
The nomination of the Marquis of Auvergne es
the second Frenoh plenipotentiary to the Congress,
has given great satisfaction to the friends of
Italy.
A Paris dispatch of the 231 nye that the French
Government hed, by telegraph. informed the Pow
era concerned that the opening of the Congresa
would not take place before January 19tb.
The Marquis Antonini, and the Chevalier Cane
fart, have been appointed Bret and second plenipo
tentiaries front Naples.
ENGLAND.
The London Herald, the organ of tho Conserva•
live party, has announced that a complete and
ootnprehonslve reform bill Is to appear in the
Constitutional Peers and Magazine, and that In
tho event of the postponement of the promised
Ministerial reform bill, or Ito proving unaceepta
ble to the Constitutional party, tho bill to be pub
lished will be immediately brought before the
Mouse of Commons.
Lord Palmerston has been making speeches,
highly eulogistic) of the volunteer movement.
The atomiser Great Britain was spoken Decent
bor 14, all well, whirl rong thous the conviction
that the report of her !e. tug foundered at sea is a
base hoax.
The wife of J. 11. Gurney, a member of Parlia
ment, baa oloped with one of bar family domestics.
She is a lady possessed of half a million sterling in
her own right.
The Belgian Government has agreed to forward
mails for Canada and the United States by the
Canadian steamers tts well as by the Cunard line.
It Is supposed that the German Postal League will
adopt a similar arranqement.
Till, LATEST.
Lennon, Saturday, Dec. 21.—A Madrid des
patch dated yesterday says that the Moore
attacked the Spanish troops on the road to Tetuanln
order to obstruct the progress of the works, bat
they were victoriously repulsed. 'The Spanish bad
4 killed and 40 wounded. All the works have
now been completed.
Albert Smith Is reported in a marine state
from an apopletie attack.
Hong Kong tuition to Nov. 15th, received by
the overland mall, report the rate of exchange as
having declined abaut 1} per cent. The prices of
tea were firmer; silks 'hotrod an opposite tendon
ay.
THE 'EUROPEAN CONGRESS.
Prince GortscbakotT has expressed a desire that
the opening of the Congress should take place after
the commencement of the Russian new year, (Jan
uary 13,) as he will be detained on that day at his
court, by the duties of his ofilse.
ENGLAND.
OCCASIOYAL
In reply to the recently presented memorial
from English merchants trading with Mexico, for
protection of their intereets, Lord John Russell
Nays that her Majesty's Government are endeavor
ing to come to come understanding with the other
Powers respecting the advice to be offered, and as
sures the memorialists uo opportunity will be lost
of interfering, by counsel. with is view to Mans about a
termination 01 the present (levant/sting and a ansoinarY
war. Ills Lordship alludes to the diriiculty of ascertain
mg which is the de facto Government, as Great Britain
and France arknowledln the ?resident who tars
pna
s.esvoo of Mexico. and the United States. another Presi
dent at WTI) Crux.
A. deputation from the Prier Fccista had had an in
terview with lord Jong Runnel!. 'Me memorial pre
sented censored the proceedines at the mouth of the
Ileum. the warliXe preparations, the conduct al the
orfiters generally.and concluded by deprecating Imo,
tint titles.
Mr. W. It. Ward, of Auburn, NOW York, has been
Win. experiments It Woolwich dockyard. polo.. the
Coinmodilie-taui,ermt rodent. with his imprvernents on
hie original Ocean NlPtnne Telegraph. " The im
provements were admitted by the Commodore to tie ex
ceedingly ritislactory.
FRANCE.
The pamphlet entitled, "The Pops and the Con
grese." signed by M. de Lagnerrointere, had been
lisheit, and nttrarted great attention, Lath in France
and England, no it v. as beliesed to expieu the ser.u
merits of the Emperor Napoleon. The pamphlet is writ
ton in a spirit of conciliation and cianproin se. and al
though tt does not piopose to take ewer the temporel
powers of the Pope it advocates a curtailigeot of them.
end urges tint the .ROMSSIIa should not lie returned to
the Papal dominion.
The Pant Consritutioanst. in an article alined by
itsD editor. s pproveson general, the contents
of the painn'Act, declaring, howew, ihr intention to
co mber to. of the propositions e the nuthor.
The London Ti met mineludes a leader on the subject
try saying i "On the whole, we have read this pamphlet
with considiseebie satisfaction. It is sent probable tt o .t
the ji:trie•feir o the French has been for serums time
liebitatins isatween Austria and England, Ise twe
liberal' end a revolutionary police tint we reed in
these sentence, a, promise of a nordial understanding
between intatwo oremtriea in the coming denberetions.
We have arrived. though 111 very di:latent courses, at
the satins pr. 'ti' d conclusion.
si,We leave others to cavil on forma and ceremeniell,
enough for its if there in a rem/wad° prohelidity th a t
the two great Europeantoe erg will be found !irritated
side by so le in defence o the rights of the li th os peo
ple, end that Protestant Enalsnil will find hearty end
efficient support In the Emperor of Catholic Frahoe."
The Ilfuttionx foot questions if the Pope will accept
the new position &maned to him by the French Em
peror, andasks, shone! he retuee. how Mr will his re
fusal be supported by the other Catholic States.
The DottyiVeies says the illusion expressed in the
pamphlet on the question of restoring the Rein:igen to
the Pope will be approved by the British Got crnment
mid people. France will not use form to com p e l a
people to nubbin to n tioyerninent which their %ill re
jects, rind ant wilt not permit Austria. t o interfere.
The Moritter Herald eta the Emperor RR, tales
wise and manly course. On the es eol the Congress, he
has lifted the veil which 113.1 hitherto shrouded his poli
cy on the Italian question, and Europe will learn 'Ault
antisfact on that France is true to the principles which
she prcoehsed at the outhet rut the late war.
The French war steamer Unonexltu, while try nit
her entrees otf Brestirao on a reef, and mull) sank in
deep water.
The Emperor lisal conferred th Ore m! carrion of the
Legion of Boner so the timers IY01111:11.
It Is stated t at an apeniao is aboat to I earcaled for
the Prince Imperial, sui that the litisteau of ttlna is to
i.e conferred upon bun The taconites Milos Forest at
Biota and Boulogne are in be Joined to the meanest.
The consent of the Legialative b.sts ma necessary ter
the creation elan dpsrome.
The AI 'meter of Marina has misted a Stearn corvette
to be fitted out P ith the utmost dolpritoti. hIR aura MR
to i s m i g for the port rust acquired by France in the Red
Sea, and that tine IRITt is to he the hesitant/no re el a.
naval station, composed of five corvettes, two tr i gatp e ,
and tee gunboats.
The Par:Bl3onm on the 221 was hear y and lower,
but on the 2rd there was a return of firmness, and
rentea rioted at 7.N.
I TA LY.
A Turin dihpatch of the lid says that the Rat of Sal -
dints had that day tooled the nominations oh count ca
your and M. Besambroia ae representatives of Sardinia
in the Consume.
111. Buoncoiripi.gni arrive!) at Florence nn the 21st ult.
PRUSSIA.
The Prussian Chambers are convoked for the 12th of
January. •
AUSTRIA.
Military preparations continued to be made against
Hi• apprehended troubln in lirmarr A I,llllol' pro
yalled in Paris the (IA) before the MAW r ended that a
revolution had travail) broken out in Hungary, but it
Inched confirmation.
One of the Vierina Journaht had received n gegond
warning front lioverbniene
Ahmed Weft Effendi had becin appointed Anibssal
dor to rant
INDIA. AND (MINA.
The steamer Inmernda. NraM na) knots of the Indian
subrnarmetclograph cablo on board, armed att./Mon on
(heath of December.
The Rombay mad of November 26111 had reachod. De•
tails are unimportant. V.v.:lunge nrOdcutta on the 2,M1
November unaltered.
Commercial Intelligence.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
Frw. MlDingr.
New Ode e 4
M ob,lo
Pland4 . ..... •• • • • • vier,
T he stork of Count in port is 4 00,1 W bales, including
2: 1 5,1ak1 bales Americo',
The !Windiest° , adr vet are unfavorable, and all de
seriptions ol 0 , 0 , 14 hive de th ned, the mai - I.ot closici;
d all.
114 Var, TIOC. 22 — New Orleans tree Ordino, , ( 112 ,
Nat /ill. The sales of the week . hie 1,00.
'Fhe stock in port II 24,14.1 bales The crulitt opened
didi, but closed With nnailvancina tendeucr.
L i vriiro .7., Dec. 21 --Hreadstrul4
flew') quote Flour voeilir at 22'S ado 2tis ; Wheat ;
red 9s.frier9l Ild: white Is edit' il:1; Curs doll. prices
easier hilt quutations linchauxed )411aw 3ls ,r 44.
Polk hosvi ; descriptiohs I.lre
'Hotly declined, but there is wore d Bacon gip ;
newtons middles, raeraiis, Lard dull et Saliones.
Produce — Sugar firm. Coffee stead). Pica dull, but
prices firm. Resin firm at en advance of lild2d; cities
ul common et is 211irten 4,1 for medium nod fine; the
qUotatiocs are comics!. Turpentine dull at 345.
torritiov. Dec. 21.—Messrs. Baring Brothers quote
Breicistutls quiet,but prices steady; Fuser steady and
tree firm, and all qualities aught!! dearer.
ONDON MONEY NARK I,T, Dec 211 ml
securities are slow of sale. but stases ore
The engin in (be Bank of Eni land NI IPGrotlSei
The money market is unchanged tn rates, though there
Is an active demand.
meas.. stohlyerr e ht quotes cotton dull, but the im-
Porter. ere free seller., but buyers are holding back;
nrsoce hare declined Sd.3-/6, particularly for the new
er greara Richardson & Spears
to
the recen torrials
cause the holders of large lota to be willtng reahze
Prices !id Muer.
MOl3lll. Clare quote n limited demand, with an irrer•
ular market and price in favor of huger., at a &elms
othre'.l. Thu imports of the week hive teen 7.5.000
bales. snit 265 000 bales are known to he at sea, Nernst
sg MO bales sit .at at the same time la•t sear
1` Mears. 'Wakefield & Nash quote the decline at
"Irgtnia Legislature—. Message of Go.
venter Letcher.
RICHMOND, Jan. d —Tho message of tiovernor
Letcher was delivered to the Legislature yester
day.,
He begins by alluding to the happy tram.
quillity that prevailed during the earlier periods of
the Republio, which has been interrupted by the
interference of the citizens of the Northern States
with the rigida and institutions of the South. In
Massachusetts, Wiszonsin, Vermont. and perhaps
other States, legislation has been employed to de
feat the execution of tho fugitive-slave law within
their limits. It is cheerfully conceded that a large
portion of the citizens of the North are loyal to
the Constitution and the Union, but it is not to be
disguised that a large number are indifferent to
both. and prefer a dlimointion to the extension of
slave territory, and the increase of slave States.
This lamentable state of things originated in the
oonstruetion by the Northern people of the Consti
tution. He suggests that a Convention of all
the States be summoned, in order that a
full and free conference may be bad, to
ascertain if the question in controversy earl
not be settled on some basis mutually satisfac
tory to both sections. If the differences prove to
be irreconcilable, then let the question of a peace
able separation be discussed. He recommends that
the Legislature adopt resolutions in favor of a call
for euch a convention as is provided for in the fifth
article of the Constitution. and appeal to the Le
gislatures of the several States to unite in the ap
plication proposed to be made to Congress, in pur
suance of the provisions of this article. lithe free
States fail or refuse to unite in the application, it
will furnish conclusive evidence of a determina
tion on their part to keep up the present agitation.
If the Convention meet, and the question cannot
be satisfactorily adjusted, it will furnish evidence
equally conclusive. Ile also suggests the appoint.
merit of a commission, consisting of two of our most
experienced statesmen, to visit the Legislatures of
those States which have passed lawn to obstruct the
execution of the fugitive-slave act, and to insist, in
the name of Virginia, upon their unconditional re
peal. The controversy has now reached a point
which demands a speedy settlement.
If the Union is to be preserved he is prepared to
do all that honor, patrietiftn and duty enjoins
towards its preservation. Nevertheless, it is the
duty of the State to be prepared, end he mom•
mends the revision of the militia laws, that mo
nitions of war be procured, that brigades of minute
men be organized and the Military Institute be en
larged. Ile also recommends the fostering of direct
trade, manufaotures and the mechanic arts, and
the earl 7 completion of the Internal improvements
now projected or in progress.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—The bill recently intro
duced by Senator Lane provides for the settlement
of the Oregon and Washington war debt of IBSS-6,
according to the recommendation of the military
commission, who spent twelve months in the ex
amination of the claims. To guard against specu
lations, the money it to be paid only to the original
claimants, or their legal attorneys or assignees.
The amount Involved is about foe millions. The
bill Is altogether independent of the measure now
In progress at the Treasury Department for waling
the various items to the army standard.
It is known that Senator Toombs, during the
Congressional recess, carefully prepared a general
bankrupt bill, but Its presentation Is prevented by
the unsettled political condition of the country.
Present information from Oregon and Wa.•hing
ton shows that the last appropriation has been suf
ficient to sustain the Indian service, and as a con
sequence there is now in that quarter an entirety
peaceable condition of affairs.
From Sonora.
Sr Loris, January 7.—The California overland
mail which arrived yesterday at Jefferson city,
brings the following intelligence from Sonora:
The Governor of Sonora had received despatches
from the Juarez Government directing him to re•
voice Immediately his order expelling Captain
Stone and hls party.
Ile Is also ordered to write to Captain Stone's
party to return and enter upon the duties of the
survey, and to protect them from injury, and to see
that they are permitted to proceed quietly in the
performance of their duties.
The Arizoniutt adds that it fears that Governor
Pespiiera will disobey these instructions, and that
the settlement of these difficulties is as far distant
AS scar.
The Last Ballot for Speaker.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—On the twenty-eighth
ballot for Speaker, taken in the house to-day, all
the Democratic members Toted for Hon. Andrew J.
Hamilton, of Texas, with the maption of Messrs
Adrian, of New Jersey, and Horace F. Clark, of
New York.
Sixteen of the South Amerioaps threw away their
votes. If all the votes in opposition to the Repub.
licaneandklate had been polled for Mr. Hamilton,
(who was nominated as a conserrative candidate,)
he would have been elected by two majority.
Few England Forger
Bono; Jan. 7.—Oliver Howe, of Lynn, N. 11.,
has abounded, leaving behind him forged paper
amounting to $B,OOO or $lO,OOO, on which be real•
bred the cash. Several businera men in Oroten,
Noes and the Lens:aster and Townsend banks, as
well as a Fitchburg bank, and the Brantfort (Vt.)
Bank, are among the sufferers. It is supposed that
Howe left in the last cleanser for California.
fatal Accident.
NEWANK, Jan. 7.—James Taylor and Edward
Duffy, while returning from a pleasure ride to kli
zaboth, were run over by the night train about
three o'clock this morning, at the crossing of the
railroad and tiouth Broad street, hero. Taylor, a
man about thirty years old, was instantly killed.
Ito was employed on Budd's express, and leaves a
wife and two children. Duffy was injured, but not
seriously. The hone WSJ killed stud the sleigh de
molished.
The Steamers yigc! and Kaniaroo at
New 1 enc.
Naw Vona, Jan. B.—The staamshlpa Vigo and
Kangaroo, from Liverpool, have arrived here.
Their dates hare been anticipated. The Vigo
wan bound to Philadelphia, bat has pa' into this
port under the ruppoaition that the Delaware
river is blocked op with iqe, which, however, is
not the ease
The Kangaroo passed the steamship Persia on
the 2.lth ult., and the steamship Prince Albert on
the sth init.
Shocking Tragedy in .Massachusetts
AriCIDE AND ATTZIIPTED Itt'RDER
Bogrov, Jan. 'T.—Henry Meacham, of Dickin
son, 1111159 , shot his wife, last evening. In the pre
sence of her parents, and then shot himself dead.
Ito motive of the rash act was his jealousy of bie
wife
The Court of Claim..
WAsiivinros. Jan. S.—Ex-Congreasman Jame.
ltugher, of Indiana, will be, if he hal not already
been, tendered by the PreAdam the qppotatment
of the vacant jua,ges.hip :of the Court of Claim•,
and there is every reason to believe that ha will
Baer tho
Nou•Aruuil of Southern Muik
Wa , utNuruN, Jan. S —So &Althorn mail hai
arrite4l to-day, and there are now w(en back
mails due hero.
Market , ' by Telegraph.
BALTINWRE. Jan. 7.—Flour very farm and advanclas ;
Howanl street and Ohio held at .?,l1 60. Wheat firm ;
receipts s ere small • isles 813U.r 144 for wh:ts : red
51 Zvi JO. Corn dull; %lute el., 72c ; yellow 70.• W•
Pros eions buoy ant. with an advancing teue ency Me,,
Pork 5:16.75; kit little doing in Drama; the quotations
are 511. Bacon ON. Whiskey dull at no. Bills on New
unchatured.
• . .
31onit.1 , Jan. e.—Sales of Cotton to-the 6,000 Wes:
middlings are quoted at 10`11510'S; 'Meg 0 1 the week
23,f5X) bales ; receipts 31,530 tulles, against .11,720 for the
corresponding week last tsar; the receipt. here are
now 9 , 1,1 le bales ahead or last tear; the stock an port
is Z3s.:.sa'i bales • the exports for the week amount to
81,4M.930 • for the month 83.03.275. and for the guar
tor 812,048,50). Cotton freight to lota pool 15.323 IZ-33;
nlle ou New York 1 per rant di•count ; Sterling ex
change 5•4a7‘.j.
THE CITY.
AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENLY()
INkIVATLET & CLA.IIOI ARCH-STIOM TREA'4 , 2.
P A e street. Stove Birth.—" Everybody's Fttend
er
WALACT-BTRIRT THIATItIe. corner Walnut fine
Ninth.-- , Camtlle"—" Two BUZZItaII."
NitttnNtL THEATAX. Walnut street, between P.;glith
and Ninth.—Dan Rice's Great show."
flu CHNSTSCT Brume.—Page's Venus.
ACADPITY OP Fcrz Aars. Chestnut street. Part
sma"—"The Martyrdom of John Huss.Sco."
B‘NDEitsoN's 1x1111111w: Runty, Jay'ne's Comenon
wealth But Mini. Chestnut street, almredigth.—Thio.
don's Museum of Art.
MCI/0.101 , 0n S GATXTIP.. Rare street, below Third,—
Entertainments nightly.
TEMPLE or WONIARN, northeast carnet Tenth and
Chestnut streets.—Bignor 131itz.
Toy EIGIITIt or J.i.Nr tWr.—The forty-111th
anniversary of the battle of New Orleans. when the
whole of our southwestern territory was freed from
the claws of the British lion, occurred yesterday,
hut will be celebrated to-day. In the city of New
Orleans, surrounded as it is by all the associations
of that glorious day, the Eighth of January- is the
great holiday cf theyear. Not only the military, bat
citizens of all professions, join in the general scene
of celebration. While Andrew Jackson lived, and
Was in the zenith of his rresblential power and pa
tronage, the Eighth of January was a national
holiday, but since the old hero has gone to sleep
beneath the willows of the Hermitage, the national
interest in the day has died out. North of Mason
& Dixon's line, but little attention is paid to the
anniversary of America's most glorious victory
The soldiers—if the weather is fine, and parading
don't soil their white pantaloons—generally turn
out in honor of the day, but civilians, of all classes,
think it of as little consequence as the anniversary
of the birth of Napoleon.
A sketch of the incidents connected with this
remarkable and erraottlinary battle may prove
interesting to oar readers. The details are fuel
liar to every student, bet it is well at times to recur
to the chronicles of the past, to refresh the recol
lection 3 of our country's glory : In the latter part
of 1814, General Jackson at that time, a major
general in the American army, received news that
a powerful fleet had left the West Indies, with the
design of attaching the city of New Orleans. De
immediately repaired to New Orleans and found
the inhabitants of that city in a state of inteuso
alarm and excitement. Ito was greeted by the
citizens with every demonstration of affection and
gratitude, his presence inspiring them as it did to
renewed feelings of bone and courage. They will
ingly hailed him astheir leafier, and pledgedshera
selves as one men to support the General in his
measures Of defence and safety.
With that vigor and promptitude go eminently
and proverbially QbanicteriVio of Andrew Jack
son. he set about erecting a lino of defences at a
point some six miles below the city, on the Mis
sistipti river. lo the meantime a small 'squadron
et' gun-boats, under the command of Lieutenant
Jones, were stationed in Like Borgne to oppose the
entranee of the British feet. This force was over
powered, fled the British advanced to within nine
miles of the city, end took tip their position.
Jackson was in commarol of the city, where he
p ron ou n ced martial law, forbade alt intercourse
with the enemy, and prepared to repel the audit.
clans invaders, who, with the tempting cry of
" beauty and booty." were anticipating en easy
victory. On the Ad of December a detachment of
the Americans tallied forth and attacked the Bri
tish at a place called Obstimette The Americans
were repulsed, and retired to their entrenchments
On the Bth of Jonuary, 1815, Genorni Yokels-
ham, the commander of the British fortes, amount
ing to very nearly 12.000 experienced and veteran
soldiers, directed a general assault on the Amen
ean fortifications. They were to meet an army of
about 2,000 men, many of whom were inexperi
enced in the ways of warfare, and few had ever
been In a pitched battle. They comprised in their
ranks a number of Kentucky and Teaneesee
men, whose peculiar mode of fighting greatly as-
sisted the Americans. Paekenham's army ad
venced in two columns under the respective com
mands of General Keene and General Gibbs, earer
to mount the breastworks and plate the cross ofiit.
George over the Cresoent City. When they had
approached within aixty rods of the breastworks.
the American artillery opened upon them a most
terrific fire, which they were unable to return, and
which scattered bares in their well-disciplined
ranks. Rank after rank, column after column, of
brave men fell, and over their dead bodies their
comrades marched to defeat and . death.
For one hour and a quarter the battle continued
with fearful fury. The British lost their principal
officers, among whom was General Beckenham,
wbo died on the field of battle, beneath a tree that
is known to this day as "Packenham's tree."
General Gibbs was mortally wounded, while Gene
ral Keene suffered a similar fate. After losing
their principal officers, the splendid army of Great
Britain fled in confusion, leaning on the field more
than 2,000 men, dead and wounded. Strarre to
say, of the Americans but sir men were kilted,
and seven wounded. On the other side of the ricer
the British succeded in carrying the American bat
teries by storm, killing forty-eight, and wounding
one hundred and seventy-eight. Bat the main
body of their army having beet defeated, and dis
heartened with the day's losses, they retreated to
their shipping, and abandoned any farther attempt
at`possessing themselves of the beauty and booty
of New Orleans. A month after the battle, on
February 11, 1815, intelligence of peace was re
ceived in the= country, and the last (end we hope
it may always be the last) war with England was
over.
As is onatonuary with them. the soldiers of the
war of 1917 will meet this 'Morning. at thecou.nty
court house to renew old asaociations, and take
public notice of the anniversary. The Keystone
Club will also " fire the first Democratic gun of
the reason," at their new wigwam. on Twelfth
street, below Chestnut, this evening. Ilminmat
orators will address the nonliitrele.
The military will remember the day in a r.ntni.r r
of company parades. The Washington Blues will
parade in its honor, and the State Eencibles. Capt
Page, will raise in hoot of their armory, Chevout
street, above Fifth, a handsome flaz-staff, from
which, eta height of over 100 feet trOn, the pave
ment, will be displayed the Stars and the
Stripes" of our glorious Union. The staff will
be started from, and rest on, a circular iron fal
cons', and ornamented with national and military
emblems, adding much to the architectural finish"
of the front of thehntldiag, and presenting a nr - -
minent object on the line of Chestnut street. The
flag will be ran up at four P. M.
THE OE,EIarIES or Mann. NErlt
recent sudden death of the lit. Rev. J. N. Neu
mann, the fourth Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia,
wet appropriately noticed in the various Cathoits,
churches yesterday. The bell of St. Jchn - s Church
tolled a mournful monotone during the day and
evening in memory of the dearted prelate. The
obso4rdes will take plate th is morning, in *writ
dance with the 'published arrangement! The ft,
neral pooemision will leave the Episcopal residence
this morning, at an early hour, and win marsh
down Eighteenth street. to Chestnut. down Cheer
nut to Thirteenth, and up Thirteenth to St. dohs a
Church, where the services will be held, in the fol
lowing order:
Military.
CaMolie Lay association,
Sodality of the diderenLehereties.
Conference of EL Vincent De Danl.
Students of €t. Mirka, Borremeo.
Funeral ear, with the body living in state.
The reverend clergy of the Church.
The tultiOaeand archtuehows of the Church.
Laity in !mend-fact men ge.ap.
The ceremonies at the church will be a a 211511
capering character.
DASH or a DIiTISQ - 13HED PRILALELPHISN.
—Peter A. Browne, Es; . for a long time a mem
ber of the Philadelphia ba , ., died In this city on
Saturday evening in the lath year of his age. his.
Browne was finite celebrated during his long life
as a local politician of the Native American achual.
Ile has been an able writer for the preaa of Ili;
city, and a lawyer of no mean capabilities_ Be
leaves a large number of personal and political
friends, who will sincerely regret his loss. Ilia
funeral wilt take place from hit late residence, tio.
1113 Walnut street, to-morrow morning at ten
o'clock.
CORONER'S CASES. John Kane, aged
141131 . 01111 d in & street in the 14th Ward, yesterday
morning, frozen to death. His head war badly eat,
and several wounds were found on other parts of
his body. Near him lay a leX of mutton. leading to
the supposition that he had fallen on the pavement
on his return from market.
Henry Price, a German, from Readin,v, nhite
on a visit to his friends residing at Seventh an.i
Costes streets, died snidenly on Satnriay evening,
from the effects of excessive drinking.
fiesr.re OFFICE, Jan. 7, 18 o.—The number
of interments in the city of Philtdalphis for the west
ending January 7, at 12 o clock, is ...... ..........
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Apoplexy.. ... -
Burne.—..
2
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et
Conrcbaoas
C • 11.404.16
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Reamarh.Rit, - 31
infi4enatlUreg:::: I:nder I Tsar• • • • • -
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On Setunlay evening the annual eft:causer officers
of this society was held at the Mall of therm As.
eociation. Tha following gentleman were elected:
President—Eugene 11. Monday; Vice President—
William E. Walton; Treasurer—John E. Cu/card;
Secretary—William IL Jones; AstristantSerretalf
--James Moloch ; Steward—William Mooney; Lt
brarians—B. Diffenbaugh, William Lefty, lames
S. Keyser, Samuel Doughty . Caner; Benedcent
Fund Committee—James Leighton, Charles Brig
ham, Thomas W Swain. William C. - Kelly, Jebn
If. Taggart.
From the annual reports read. it appears the So
ciety number three hundred and two members.
During the past year. the receipts were 12,15-3.ltt.
and the payments to sick ant disabled members.
$1,91299 Paid from the beneiseal land to wi
dows of deceased members, Stt The society is in
a highly prosperous condition.
/NTESPERLVG wrru TICE ENDS OF Just NE
Ire understand, from a number of citeumeances.
that efforts ars being made to spirit away a natot•
bar of the moot Important witnesses of the murder
of the sailor Anderson, in Pine alley, on Christmas
ere. A female who witnessed It, committed sui
cide some days since; some think because Istr life
had been threatened if she di I not refuse to dis elv.
her knowledge of the transaction Since that oc
currence a youa tusu, named Patri:k Ccoan,
who was a very impartant witness in the case, del
to Baltimore. It was as..tertained that his expenses
had been paid by the friends of the lionised, and
he was followed to the Monumental City by Veer
Prettyman, of the First district, who arrested him
on Friday and brought him home on Saturday.
Connor will be watched closely until after tie trial
of the sucused. There ware a Lumber of witnesses
of this transaction, and a speedy trial weal! occurs
their attendance at court.
111,: %I'M DEP oRTYECT STATISTIC4.--The O-
W amount of the appropriations to the Health De
partment during the past year was $31791 r 3, of
which mtm $2-,700 57, was expended, leasing
balance of $1.091 PT which remairs no hard. The
receipts during the pram have been as follows -
Fees of vessels from foreign ports, 5t,193 ;
coastwise vessels, $115; outside channel visit.,
Sill) ; examination of foreign passengers, SI
repayment of costs for the remora' of nuissnsrs,
$91035; board of patients at h::.spital. Sill ii,
permits for privies, removal of dead. etc., $.N5:3237;
fines and penalties, etc.. $ , -17 2i. in addition t
the above. there is due for costs.paid for removal
of nuisances, which have either bean liened, or
subject to lien, the sum of 31.6-16 S.ri, which will
mate the total revenue $15.417 57, being an in
crease of 4 1 3,;.;57 over the receipta of 1&5.4.
ExTEMIVE TRAVELLER.—On Friday
evening a men applied at the Eleventh-ward sta
tion-house for lodgings, accompanied by a boy
&tont three years of age. lle had inhia pyoses
lion. when at the station house, a light eovered
wagon, in which was a small tool bor, containing
tools for repairing clocks. He stated at the sta
tion-house that he was from that •• land of steady
habits and wooden nutmeg?," Conseettent; that
his wife had deserted him, and that he bad trav,l
- here with his child and wagon. mending ebek 3
by the way to pay expenses. lie bad been through
various parts of the country, and stated that he
had travelled in all about twenty-three hundred
miles.
A NARRCIW Ev LPE.—On Friday afternoon
a horse attached to a eleigh became frightened,
and dashed down Brown street at a frightful E f eed
Dr. J B. Jackson and a young lady, who ecen
pied the sleigh, were thrown out, but fertunewly
not injured. At Eleventh street the animal ran
against a car on the Citizens' Passenger Railway,
crushing in both woodwork and glass. A lady,
who was seated in the ear immediately at the spot
where the shafts struck, observed the Formally,
and changed her position just in time to escaps
probably instant death The horse was very much
Injured about the head and shoulders, and is not
expected to survive.
A SOLDIER DEAD.—On Friday evening Mr.
Charles Wigtnore, a member of Company 11, First
Pennsylvania Regiment, died after an illness of a
few week,. The canoe of the demise of 31r. W.
was chronic diarrhuit, contracted in the service of
hie country while in the Mexican war. At the
time of his death he was an employee in the Mint,
and was a favorite with all who knew him. Ha
WM buried yesterday morning by the Scott Legion,
of whiohebsupany he was a member during the
31 exican war.
riNES d 5 / 1 PENALTIES.—The City TM:triter
tas received the following amounts collected by
'ideal:ten during December, from persons before
them, who were subject to the law inflicting err.
Lain tees and penalties: From Alderman Butler,
$l3; R. Hutchinson, $26.20 ; John Swift,s234 l ,
Thos. Dallas, $24 00 ; C. Bra z i er , :Arco
L. Ramsdell, $5.25; W. P. Ribbeoi, $17.00 J.
King, $6 09 ; A. H. Shoemaker, $24 50 ; J. Plank
ingtod. $6B 53; John Clouds, $4l 23; J B Kecry,
ss2 50—making_a total of $366.72.
lIENRT C. WAYNE YACHT CLLB.—WO leant
that the members of this Club are to be favored
with a complimentary ball at the Musical Foci
Hall, on Tuesday evening next. The arranseminta
are in the hands of a competent committee of gen
tlemen, and, from what we have heard, there can
be little doubt that this tall will be one of the most
magnificent affairs of the season. This Club is de•
sen-edly popular, and we trust that it has a pr..:. , -
pertus future before it. May its glory never
CHILD Rry 01 - mt.—A man mined Raymond
Clark, while driving a light wagon at a high rate
of speed, on Friday afternoon, run over a child at
inch street and I . `a-shryunk !road. without inflinVng
on it any very serious injury. The child's exemp.
Con from death was miraculous. Clark was arrest
ed on the charge of immoderate thriving, and h e ld
for a further hearing by Alderman Femington.
ROWDYIS34.—At a Late hour on Friday morn
ing a fight took place at a drinking saloon, in
Third street, below Herman, during- which a man
named Shatter was struck over the head with a
rag!-beer glass. He wasbadly injured *boat the
head. A rowdy named Solomon Elwell was er
mined on the charge of committing the assault,
and scut to prtlan on Saturday morning. •