I'J FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1860. Ftnar , PAGH.—Prospoets of Italy; Letter from Waihlngtoia Second Annual Mealago 'of Mayor Henry, .10. FotraTa Paos.—What shalt be Mono with the Frea.Blaoka ; Marine Intelligence, dm. Reform of the Penal Code. The Report of the Commissioners to'reirise the Penal Code has been presented to the IJegislature, and will soon come up for discus sion there, preparatory to its adoption as part of the law of the land. In the mean time, it has been submitted to almost all the judges, and it Is brought home alike to lawyers and laymen, by the vast importance of the. subject, by the necessity of a thorough and entire comprehension even of its minutest details, and' by the novelty and striking character of the, proposed changes. The general scheme of the Commissioners has taken the form of two acts, one relating to the ,penal laws, the other to 'criminal procedure and pleading The , former is divided' into tee titles, sub ' divided into one hundred and eighty-seven sections, 'and its main beads are offences against the State, public justice, public peaCe; .public morals and decency, pub -110:,policy, economy, and health, against the" persons of individuals, personal pro perty, real propeity, and' forgery. The secOnd'act is made up of Bi:riffles, and eighty . two 'sections, and goes over the whole ground of process and pleading with such energy end freedom that the changes are vastly more striking and important than the - more numer ous alterations suggested In the first act; for while these are rather intended to strengthen and supply the common law, by lopping oil excrescences,reconelling incongruities,and in troducing the improvements that appertain to an advanced state of arts and manufactures, the main scheme of this second act is entirely to ,chango the system under which we now carry out our penal laws, and it is therefore a . subject hardly fitted for a general and popular discussion. tut a summary of the labors of the Com missioners will serve to give some evidence of the important nature of the work entrusted to them, of the ability with which they have executed their task, and of the great obliga tion incurred by all of us at their hands. One hundred and forty-one laws, registered in our statute-books between 1700 and 1869, thus co vering the whole period of our existence as a law-making community, are supplied and con solidated in the new act, and their repeal will, of course, systematize and complete the task of the Commissioners. Of the whole number of two hundred and sixty-nine sections in eladed in the two acts, seventy-eight are, by the Introduction, pointed out as ei ther entirely or partly new. Now, small as' is the information this gives us as to the merit of the whole work, it is still a merit, when we remember that the famous French code was for over twenty'years in' hand, while the British criminal code has been for twenty-five years under way, and is still merely a fragmentary mass, counting many blue-books, end but a few statutes, here, at the end of a little over eighteen months, the three Commissioners named under the act of April 19th, 1858, report, in a pamphlet of one laindred and twenty-nine pages, the „result of their labors. Whatever changes may be made, in the course of the legislative discussion pre ceding the enactment of the new laws, what ever action may subsequently be had, either In modifying or. enlarging these labors, either at the suggestion of the Commissioners them- selves, or such as the experience of judges, Liquors, or laymen may advocate, the bench and the bar, the people and the executive, may well be proud of such a commission and such results. One of the most striking changes is the entire abolition of all minimum punishments, and the reason given for it is very simple:Md. con elusive: "The duty of a criminal judge is not simply to punish an offender within the limits prescribed by law, but it is equally his duty to graduate the punishment according to the criminal capacity, general intelligence, past conduct and character of the culprit, and the aggravating or extenuating circumstances of each particular case. AU positive and arbi trary -minimum punishments necessarily inter fere with the free and full exorcise of this judicial duty,, and should find no place in a 'truly philosophical code of crimes and punish meets. Besides, minimum punishments de but restrain judicial mercy, whilst with in the maximum limit fixed by law jadiVal severity is left without control. All the members of this commission have been, more or less, extensively engaged in the ad ministration of criminal justice. The princi ple advocated is not, therefore, with them an abstract and untried theory, but the conviction of long experience and observation in actual criminal administration." Another chnago is the abolition of all distinction between grand and petit larceny, so that we shall never, henceforth, be troubled with " estimating the magnitude of the crime - by the value of the property obtained by it f" Two sections, the eighty-eighth and eighty-ninth, provide effec tually for the punishment of the horrid crime of abortion. and it is to be regretted that the shield of protection thus thrown over erring women bad not been further extended, so as absolutely to prevent fortune-telling, that miserable cloak of more sinful trades. In the 96th section there are some obfec.. tlonable clauses, That can easily be stricken out by the Legislature, in the exercise of a power which was not entrusted to the Commis sioners; for we are sure that they never could willingly aid in retaining on our statute-books any law which conflicts with the Constitution, or renders our good old State liable to the sharge of disloyalty. The refined distinctions between larceny, as defined by the common law, in the case of servants and carriers, and that common sense which fixes the crime as actual larceny, in spite of technical and artifi cial casuistry, are all swept away, to the credit of our criminal Justice, and to the final security of owners of property, and merchants and deal ers of all kinds. It seems strange that only in 1886 the Legislature should be called on to pro- vide a law against w forgeries, by means of pbo tographic plates of any kind.," and yet such a clause is for the first time introduced and pro posed to be enacted by the 168th section. rem of the inconsistent and anomalons pieces of hasty legislation, thrust into our statute•books, have been quietly corrected, so that judges Will no longer be compelled to punish attempted, more severely than MlCCess- Oil efforts to accomplish some one of the long list of crimes. In short, the whole of thq act consolidating, revising, and amending the penal laws, Is worthy the most careful and attentive study of our thinking readers, awl we hope that as they read, they will offer either through our columns, or directly to their Representatives at Harrisburg, the fullest and freest diacussion of every one of its pro visions, old and new. As the act relating to process and pleading is much more technical, and more suggestive in its frequent changes, we propose to call attention to it at some later day: Mayißr,'s Message. The :second' annual meseage of Mayor TbreaT 4411 be felted upon ,our first page this is a well-written and interesting td merits an attentive perusal, as inch important information in re mnielpal affairs. reflex Mill Calamity. last Mr. John B. McDonough libe rally gave to free benefit, at his °Matteis," in Race 14M proceeds to be applied to the funde which is b ng raised for the relief of the sof , ferers by the reatt.kwfrd calamity at Pemberton Mill, Lawrence, Mass. The evening's performances fr i amdmi some of his mosrpopular pieces. Oho company also contributed their - silken that ma. sloe in a gratuitous manner. The su m the whole receipts, prithout any deduotion - what , ever...anaounted to one hundred dollars. The Mayor of Lawrence having intimated, in a letter id* bus been radiated, that no more assistanee w a s iieeded, Mr. McDonough remembered that charity begins at home, and has banded over the sloo,to the treasurer of the Bons of Malta, to be spilled by them to *heritable purposes designated by hiniself—that is, to be equally divided among the following benevolent institutions in this city : The Penn Widows' Association, the Magdalen, the Northern llome for Friendless Children, and the &misty for the Belief of. Disabled Firemen. EWAoY ELISGAIiT , RESIDENCEA, /o.—Elegarit - residence , largo iota, Irredeemable ground rent, jocks, to., Therday next, at 12 o'clock, noon, '44.the Exchange, '-' 'Balm or PAINTINGS, &0., this morning, at the arrotion rooms. See Thomas k Emu' advertise - *onto of both sales. The Girard College Playground It is with regret that we feel compelled to cell public attention in the way of censure to any of the public charities of Philadelphia, and especially to one so generally well Man aged, and so highly moth], as the Girard CoL loge. A decent regard for the welfare of the little ones under the care of that institution, whose misfortunes have made them the chil dren of the public, and especially the wards of the public's newspapers, requires that we should speak out about a matter that we only wonder that the Board of Directors can have overlooked or neglected. There is a rule at the College which requires every pupil, not so sick as to be confined to the nursery or hos pital room, to take a certain amount of out door exorcise, daily, in the playground. This regulation, under proper circumstances ono of the wisest that could be devised, is at present most cruel and barbarous, owing to the condi tion of' the playground. The sheds, appa rently erected for protection from rain and storm, are entirely too small, and inadequate for any such purpose. The water from the water-shod, on which the College is built, flows down upon the low land of the play ground, which, under the effects of the late thaw, has been deep enough in water and mud to reach above the ankles of the little fellows whom the regulations turn out into it to play. The natural consequences of this state of things are to be found upon the list of fevered patients under medical treatment, during the winter—half of the year. Warned bowels and lungs follow the exposure of weak and delicate children to such influences as these, as certainly as night follows day, and the tran sition from the playground to the cemetery often becomes fearfully sudden. Some years ago we heard a good deal of the beneficial results upon children of the "hard ening process," whose advocates Anted to the robust children of the poor, ex posed, hare-footed and in rags, to the frozen ground and the winter's blast, and claimed that the exposure caused the health and strength. The investigation of those who looked beneath the surface soon showed that the hardening process was a killing process, under which all the delicate and, weaker chil dren of the poor were carried to early graves, leaving upon the streets the more fortunate subjects, whose constitutional strength ena bled them to resist all ordinary causes of dis ease and death. The gentlemen in charge of the Girard Col lege have foo much sense to be the apostles of such a false system as that which expects the constitution to ho strengthened by the means which ordinarily destroy It, and yet the practice at that institution seems directly in accordance therewith. We trust that efficient Measures will at once be taken to put a stop to this crying evil. Let the playground be so provided with drainage that it can never again, by any possibility, become such a swamp as it has been for the past week; and above all, let there be a large covered place where the pupils of the College may take their out-of-door exercise, protected from the elements. The directors should go, from time to time, to the nursery room, and inquire into the practical effects upon the health of the pupils of the laws they make, and frequently go by day to the College to see that the miles which the children are required to live by are such, and inch only, as they would like to make for the government and welfare of their own children. The City has put them in the place of parents to its orphan children—let them discharge their duties in a faithful and truly paternal manner. , Public Amusements. ARCR•BTREET TOSATRE.---WO have but to say of the performances here that the new comedy, called " Everybody's Friend," will be played only twice more—to.night and to•morrew. It has boon as successful as the most anxious managerial desire could anticipate. WALIWT•STREET THEATTIE.---rt is doubtful whether, since the time when the Woods created quite an core of enthusiasm, with their admirable execution, there has been so good an English opt- ratio company in this country as the troupe now performing at Walnut-street Theatre. We remem ber the popularity of the Seguin troupe, and also of Louisa Pyne, (with a poor company), but the positive merit of the Cooper opera troupe retinas theirs--at the very loot. This company will re. main hero only two nights more. This evening, Miez 'Annie Milner, the prima donna, takes her benefit—sustaining the parts of Adina in the Elixir of Love," and Marto in s‘ The Daughter of the Regiment." This lady, Whc; is young and b$ beet, first appeared in this city, riot long ago." a concert-singer; and bet pa re stile a nd fine execution We're greatly admired. She is not yetas good a dramatic singer as a little practise Will make her. But she singe with great taste, and judgment. What le more, the other per formers are also very pod; 'This lady, ought to !lave a most overflowing house. Lora MONTEOI LECTlnitie ott FABHlM—Pre yiond arrangenlente, which-draw Madame Lola hiontee aneoetsively to Baltimore and Washington, prevent her from giving more than two lectures In this olty. The first, open," John Bull at Home," '4le delivered to a crowded hones, at Musical Fund Rail, en . Wednesday evening. The second, on Fanhiolii;" aloe will give the evening, at the same plus. The subject eosins to recommend It, More particularly, to the attention of the fair sex, ghou g h thopiqreante and acute fosterer does not limit herself to the consideration of female fashion only. The lecture, which is quite new, is lively and sarcastic, historical and anecdotal, philoso phical and personal. Believing that Lola Mentes is by far the best female elocutionist on the lec ture-stand, in this country, we know that the en tertainment this evening will be worth attending and attending to. Tee /AMMON BUMREBB.—ThIe evening, Mrs. D. P. Bowers will give an illustrated lecture On "Song and Passion," with musical interludes, {itt Concert Hall, for the benefit of the sufferers by the recent calamity at Lawrence, to which meet worthy object the entire proceeds will be devoted. The proprietor of the hall expressed his willing. noes to afford its gratuitous use, and Mrs. Bowers at once expressed her earnest desire to avail her self of the opportunity of exercising her ta. lents in the cause of a charity so great and needed—that to enlarge on Its claim' to public attention would be a superfluous waste of time. The Illustrated lecture to be given by Mrs. Bowers is entirely now, and is, we understand, deeply Interesting and peculiar in its illustrative character; and from Mrs. Bowers' well-known ability as an elocutionist, a rich mental treat is anticipated. This entertainment will be given under the patronage of the civic authorities and numbers of the most eminent of our citizens, who have 'taken a great interest in the moan of the undertaking. By a, telegraphic despatch from the Mayor of Lawrence, it will be seen that he ex presses a with that the proceeds should be devoted to the Widows' and Orphan's Fund. Who will refuse to subscribe their mite towards Mh an object, whilst, at the same time, partioipating in an intellectual feast? Letter from Washington. Correspondence of The Presej IVAsnixaroap January 29,1800 For near an hour and a half after tho House met, the time was taken up in roll-calls to kill time. After that exercise of the Clerk's lungs, Mr. Winslow proposed a ballot, whereupon Mr. Rick man said he would have opposed the ballot which was taken last evening had be been present, and he came te-day to prevent, If he could, any ballot being taken; but as he had learned that an under standing had been entered into by all the members to ballot for two weeks, as an honorable gentleman had said en organisation could bo effected in that period, be would not object, but he would with hold his vote until it could be of service. He con demned the doings in which the House wee engaged. To him it was a farce, and he would not vote, During the call of the roll, Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, a tall, placid, not remarkable, but evident ly good-tempered•looking gentlemen, addressed the House briefly but pertinently. • The result of Me observations was that dissolution was upon us. Ho did not well see how it could bo averted. He represented a Conetltution-loving constltneney, a peaceable oonetituenoy, but they would be mote willing to stop forever the wheels of Government just where they are now stuck than go on and sub mit to the election of the present candidate of the Republicans to the Speaker's chair. This was a set-off against the declaration of 'Thaddeus Stevens yesterday, and induced some applause from the Administration and ultra benches. Tho ballot re sulted in 109 for Sherman, 58 for Booock, and the rest pattering. The whole number east was 225, making Sherman short live. Hickman and Mor ris did not voto,.whlch would leave Sherman, as of old, still looking three. There was a sharp passage between Judge Don• glee and Jefferson Davis today. Davis found fault with the construction given by Senator Douglas to the letter of the President to Governor Wiae, Douglas denied having made any oritieltan what ever on that letter, and only intended to till up an omission made by Mr. Buchanan with regard to the Owen of the Oonstitution. • BM RICIIMIDS. A NEW PAPER.—We have roceiVed the lint number of The Herald of Progress, edited by A. J. Davis, of New York, devoted to the adv.). army of the harmonial philosophy, including spi ritualism. The paper is well got up, and will, no doubt, furnish interesting matter to those who are attraoted to this movement. It is a weekly paper, and will be delivered to rubsoribera in this city regularly by Mr. Robinson, No. 307 North Hie loath street. Lotter trout Ilarribbur Norreapandoaao of The You.] IfMtntsaunu, Jan. 26, 1860. The Board of Revenue Commiesloners meet In the Supreme Court room, at the Capitol, on next Thursday, the 2d of drobruary, to ascertain the fair value of the property in the city of Philadel phia, and the several counties of the Common wealth, made taxable by law, equalizing the same as far as possible, so as to make all taxes boar as equally as preoticabio upon all property in proportion to its actual value ; and having de termined this they are to make a fair record of the valuation in duplicate, and file ono copy, duly at tested by the signatures of the revenue commis sioners, in the office of the State ,Treasurerjand another in the office of the Auditor General, to remain, as the valuation of tho said property, till the next meeting of the board. Up to this time all the commissioners have boon appointed except in the Twenty-first district, and aro as follows Jur! ieial Districts. Judicial Distrats. 1. Alexander Cillnininrs. I Peniel Kano, 2. Jogesh Konimutolier, 15, 11..1,11090% 3. Philip Johnson, .. n. Po neon, 4. Wm. A. Wilhame, . 17, George W. Genre, 5. George Dame, 18. Reynolds Laughlin, 0. David Morton, 19. B. P. Koller, 7. A. B. Eby. 20 James K. Day's, 8. A. J. Dieteioh, 4. A. G. Brodhead, 9..7. A. Christy, 23. Mester Clymer. 10. J. W. Watt, 14. Theodore it, Greiner. 11. 11.11, Wright, 21. D. K. Jackman, 12 A. S. FAL, la. Thomas Osterholit. 13 13MMU01.15.T1101116.111. Mr. Pierce, of Chester, road in place "a supple ment to an act entitled an not relating to the lien of mechanics and others upon buildings, approved Juno 18, 1636." Under the present law, so far at boast as it applies to Chester county, a mechanic's lien will only stand good against an entirely new building, but will not hold upon any improvements, additions, machinery, dm, added to an old build ing. This bill is intended to remedy that oversight. Last year it passed the blouse, but was not reaohod in the Senate. Mr. Fierce, who, by the way, is never absent from his post, but always looking after the interests of his constituents hare, will see that the same thing does not occur this winter. Mr. Fleming a bill to incorporate the Clarion County Bank, with Samuel Duff, George W. Ar nold, Wm. L. Corbett, Jacob Blank, John Beatty, B. J. Reid, as corporators. Capital stook 8100,000, with the privilege of increasing it to s2oo,ooo—in shares of $5O each—and to be organized under the general banking law. Who would have supposed that the Democracy of such an unswerving anti bank Democratic county as Clarion would want " a rag mill?" But such is life. Mr. Graham, of Washington, "an act to inorease the revenues of the Commonwealth," which is the same bill as that of Mr. Miller, of the Senate, to tax brokers, except that the tax is only two per cent. instead of four on tho profits. There seems to be a strong feeling in both Douses in favor of some such bill In the Senate, Mr. Parker introduced " An cot to incorporate the Republic Piro Insurance Com pany." The corporators are William A. Nowell, Martin Coryell, R. 11. Coryea, A. Seward, Joseph Dungan, A. H. Cheosbroagh, H. H. Horstman, Charles 0. Imlay, and S. Henry Norris. Capital $lO,OOO, with the privilege of increasing it to $50,000, to be located in tho city of Philadelphia, and to bo placed under the provisions of the gene ral law of April 2, 1850. • The same gentleman, "An act to Incorporate the Farmers' and People's Market Company." The corporatore are Joseph Cooper, G. T. Gordon, J. H. Randall, Charles Jewell, Henry Mather, Sa muel H. Rothermel. W. W. Wilbur, 0. S. Peall; John N. Hutchinson, Thomas H. Rice, James Free. born, F. Frank Cooper, Samuel B. For, and James S. Chambers. Tho capital Moak is to consist of $lOO,OOO, in thopo shares of $5O each, and they era I also authorized to Woe bonds to the amount of $200,000, bearing six per eau, interest. Mr. Laudon, of Bradford, read. in pin? " an act to incorporate the Susquehanna Valley Railroad Company," which Is to run from the town of Pitts ton to the New York State lino. The capital stock is to ho $200,000, and bonds bearing y per cent. in terest to the amount of $1,500,000 may be Issued The corporatore arc If. W. Tracy, David Wilmot, Jacob Reel, and others, of Bradford county ; Bur ton Edwards, Bradley Wakeman, and A. C. Reeny, of Wyoming county; J. Harvey, Wm. Reynolds, and 0. Ilorranoo, of Lnzerne. PCNN. better from New 1 ork TIIE WOOD bELLOTED TO CHARLESTON-THE DEL CLAN PAVEMENT-suopy OF MONEY AND COAL TO TILE POOR-KOYDMENTS iv Tut HPORTIND WORLD-COST OF MAINTAINING Ntb:s— DEATH OP JAMES C. BARNEY. [Correspondence of The Press.] NEW YORK, Jan. 20, IB6d. The delegates elected by Congressional districts from thin State, to the Ilatior.al pomooratio Con vention at Charleston, in opposition w trope ap pointed by the State Convention, are forntatly oiled ppon to meet at Syracuse en the 7th of February, for the purpose of organization and of selecting four delegates at largo and four alter nates. These far, the persons oboon under the "Mozart " call do not seem to hafe made muoh headway in souring sympathy or support from any considerable portion of the party. The gentlemen selected for delegates, however estimable and respootahle they may be in private life, are not sullicienthr, known iu State or national politics to glie them special weight at Charleston, and it wilt need the very beat timber Mr. Wood Gan obtain for his delegates . et large to bring it up to the 4,7f1:21p sarong% personal and political, of State delegattens goporally. A glance at the personnel of the delegates appointed by the regular State Convention presents you the ham/ of many of the most distinguished neon of the State. A. report has been somewhat extensively copied, that forty-in of the delegates from Now York are pledged to go for imice Douglas. grati fying ac it would be to know Hitt this is true, I apprehend that no pledges have been given for any one, and I have nigh authority for saying that none will to given. You may tsko for granted that a majority of the delegation will con. our in whatever notion Dean Richmond and his Inner oirolo of friends and counsellors may deter mine upon. What that notion will bo on only be decided after the delegation reaches Charleston. Our Common Council have titVreed ono improve pont that meets universal approval. llStioeforth, every street to be paved in this oily will be paved with Belgian pavement, and where cobble pave ment is, to be taken up, The Belgian will be put down instead. The following table may not be withou i t Wino ! to the authoritiao of Philadelphia, as showing the comparative number of persons—men, women, and oblldron—who were provided with money and 00,9 by the goventora of the Alzaabouee abort itio year 1849, of thin pity : Year. With 91nney. With Cost 1950. ..... . .......11,999 2345,8 1831 —.. 13 330 89.655 30 101 1853 .. 10.341 61,281 93 343 i , a ... ........ - .16 589 69 647 84.031 18.185 57,625 35.58.... pi 153 99,670 1859 ii,55.7 75,558 During the year 1857, the number of Irish sup plied with money and coal was 20,03 b (Imam 2.500; Americans, 2,773. During the year 1858, Irish, 28,797; Gorman, 7,021; Americans, 4,758. Daring tact year, Irish, 22,322; Germans, 5,081; Americans , 3 ,7 45 . Of the above none were ever counted twice the same year. The number of children averaged two to each foreign family, and three to native families. Every family applying for aid is visited by ono of the regular vleitore, and if found worthy objects of charity, they receive $1 per week, and eometimes a little coal. The sporting gentry are In high feather. In May next, after the usual spring races at the Haddon Course, billiards are to be done on a scale truly "gordioua" and Amerioan. A billiard tot:ann. mord is to oomo off, the elder participants in which are to bo John Roberts of Liverpool, the English billiard champion, Claudius Berger of Faris, the French champion, Phelan, the American champion, Beereiter, Tiernan, Kavanagh, and all the other great players of this eouatr,y. Berger and Ro berts are invited here by two responsible gentle men of this city, who propose to give a grand tournament, which shall last five or six days, with the view of grouping the eight or nine of the best players in the world. The game to he the Ameri can four-ball carom game, each player to play against all, and the prises (which will amount to $5,000) fobs distributed according to order of merit, and so arranged that each player will be sure to win something, except the last, On this basis, Ro berts, of England, and Berger, of Paris, have been offered, in addition to th.ejr chances at the game, for a leading sum of money, a free passage here and borne, and expenses paid at a first-claps hotel during a month's residence in this city. To this proposition answers have been received from Ber ger and Roberts, both of whom regard the wetter favorably and promise a final answer after a few days' reflection. The prospot is that both of those great players will accept, and if tboy do, an ex• °Bement will be seen in this city in the month of May next that has never before been equalled in the billiard way. It costs a little something to keep our city parks in creditable order. The amount expended for that purpose last year was $27,388, of which amount more than one half was devoted M Tompkins EVICT% on the oast side of the city. James C. Barnet, for many years treasurer of Burton's 7heatro, died yesterday. lie was a man of strict probity, and highly esteemed by members of the theatrical profession. ARCTIC TRAVZIA or AN AMERICAN.—g' An Are• do Boat Journey in the Autumn of 1854." The new volume of Arctic , life and experiences, by Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, the surgeon of the Kano ex. peditiou, is announced In our advertising colihms to be ready February 15th. 'Mohave beep assured by those who have read the proof shoots that It is the most exalting and intensely Interesting work which has been published for a long time. Its ~p. pearance will bo welcomed by numerous readers, who never tire of reading all that in wonderful and strange oonnooted with Arctic, navigation. Brown, Taggard, & Chase are the publishers of tho work. AT DAN RICE'N ORNAT Snow, tho Xagio Ring, Rorr Cline, and the arona performanpos continue to draw great audionoos. Tho spectacle, It should not be forgotten, Is to be played to•morrow after noon with all its magnificent effects. The Hartung Murder Cue e. ALZAN y. Jan. 21—Rhinernan, the paramour of Mary Hartung, has been acquitted as principal m the murder of her hoehanti. but will be WO as an aoceseory before and tate/ the feet, THE PRESS.---PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1860. THE LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. XXVITII CONGRESS.--EIRST SESSION. U. S. CAPITOL, WasutnotoK, Jan, 26,1861. SENATE. Mr. Rten, of Minnesota, introduced a Gill for the relief of tho mail contractors. Mr. BENJAMIN, of Louisiana, introduced a bill authorizing a Missionary Booloty to the Episcopal Church to enter a certain tract of land in IVisoon sin. Roferred. Mr. Botany, of Indiana, introduced n resolution to increase the Committee on Clan:lotto seven mem bers. Adopted. The Vico President was authorized to appoint the two additional members. Mr. liturran, of Virginia, requested that Mr. Douglas' resolution on invasions, ,tobe called up and made the Sllat order for Tuesday next, at half past one o'clock, as he wished to speak on it. Mr. DAVIS, of Mississippi, objected, on the ground that a committee had been appointed to investigate the circumstances attending the liar per's Terry raid, and to euggest the leglilation whin may be found necessary on the subject. Ile referred to the remark made by Senator Douglas in bin late speech, that President Du nanan's letter in reply to Governor Wise was re garded by the South as an official announcement that the Constitution and laws of the United States conferred no power on the President to pro. toot one State from invasion by another, For him self, he would say that he haa formed no such im pression. Ile thought It put the President in a false Atli. and desired that the Secretary should read the correspondence. The request was complied with. Mr. DAVIS remarked that it was evident from the letter of thoPrerident that be did not deny the Pewer of the Federal Government tepees necessary aws to protect the States from invasion. Monty said that no power had been conferred on him to do 'what the Governor of Virginia naked. The power belonged to Congress, and not to the Reece. tiro. The President had no power to call out the militia, and the policy of the founders of the Go• vernment was to restrict the executive power. Never would he be willing to grant the President power to call out the militia, or invade a State. The President's letter did not deny the power of Congress to nose all laws necessary to carry out the provisions of the Constitution. Ile never would oonsont, from motives of temporary expediency to invent the Executive with a great centralizing power. Mr. DOUGLAS, of Illinois, said the Senator from Mississippi certainly could not have read his speech. Ifs made no criticism on the President's letter, and made no issue with him. His impres• Rion, on reeding the President's letter, was, that ho thought' the Constitution conferred no power on the Federal Government to interfere, though he might have meant that the Constitution and the laws gave him (the President) no power. Still he designed to make no issue with the Prost. dent. His only object was to snare the enactment of efficient lows to the extent of the constitutional power of Congress. lie hod carefully avoided putting any construction on his letter. Tfe had no desire to assail the President or snake any issue with him. The Senator from Mississippi had Intl , mated that he wanted such legislation as would prevent the invasion of States, and then went on to show that the President did not differ with him. Mr. DAVIS asked the Senator if he wished the President to be clothed, with authority to enter the States end to suppress oonspireey? Mr. DOUGLAS replied in the negative. Me only wished the Grand Juries of the United States courts to indict, and the courts to punish con• spiratore when convieted. Ile never wished to put any one at the head of an army to seek out and punish offenders. Ho only wanted to give the courts jurisdiction over these eases But If n military force from one State, in act, should in cede another, then he would authorize the em• ploynsent of the Government military form It re. pel the invasion. Mr. DOOLITTLE, of Wisconsin, asked the Senator if he wished to include the conspiracies which might be formed to attack or overturn the Govern ment of the United Steles? Mr. DOUGIAB replied—Certainly. Mc would punish such conspiracies to the extent of the con etitutional power of the Government. He ex• plaided that he had addressed his resolution of in. struotion to the Judiciery Committee, because he understood that the chairman of the Harper's Ferry Investigating C6mmittee bad doubted the power of Congress to pass the law which be had proposed. Mr. DAVIS said the committee had not commit ted itself to any ()pinion gn the subject. The chair men had merely expressed his doubt, under the existing laws against treason, that the crimes re• forted in ocinia be Mr. DOUGLAS denied the interpretation out on his seawall. The law against treason did not meet the eases which he proposed to pettish , Mr. DAVIS was glad ho had got a eleer explana tion from the Saucier from Illinois. lie repented that the Invasion of one State, by the chime of another, could be punished under the existing It was not necessary to attack every one of thitiStatoNe constitute treason. An tatted( on one State wag an'it tee]; op tip iJnlon Itself, and wee en. On. Mr. Dougras oonion..jed that an attack tbee"ot des e treason ig nto tir e e g G e t i n th s t ° V i i c bl gi e n r i a e l . lie would not, however, J.bate that point now. lie was glad to 1100 that snob patriots se the Sena tor from Missjselppi and himself were so near en agreement. • Mr. Iletirint's motion to ,naho riff. 'bangles' res• elution the special order for Tuesday, Vat then agreed to. Mr. CLAY, of Alabama. moved that when the (teneto adjourn, it be till Monday. Agreed to, ; Mr, WLLSON, of ilfassechusette, said for eavea rhake those halls hays rnug witlywagry mousers. e Union has been threatened In the event of the Umpb of the Republican party. Be had pat here end listened coolly to these arguments and predletioce and threat,. He was 41.414 to see that when ho recalled these threats yesterday they pro. shoed a proper feeling on the other lido, Ile ex- Noted before this session closes a retreat front the avowals made. The Republican party Mood eta the platform of Washington and Jefferson. The Demourelic party bed adoptal a now reading ea the Constitution, and the Union was threatened With desolation unless they concurred. Ile had been attacked by gentlemen because he attended nn Abolition festive{ at Boston and made a speech. Ile was ready now to taunt; lc that speech. Ho told Garrison and others that he dlongreed with them in regard to their views of the Constitution, State rights, and the Union. Never In hts life had be breathed hostility to the Union, He did e 4 tetra Garrison for his devotion to what he be. Hared to he itla duty. Ile had paid the same tribute of respect to the Segetor from Mississippi, with whom he differed its mush as with parriton,' for fidelity to principles he believed to be chrYeet. He had been also arraigned for attacking the Sieve : l.4o party of England, which held power for many yairg. j e lid pay tribute to the Reform party of England, which had liberated eight hun dred thousand slaves in the %Vett Indies. and who were carrying out reforms at home amid a bait. storm of abuse just such as the Republicans were sulajeotpil to here. What was meant by slave power vice tee political iniluenes of slavery In the Government, which hod grown from a small be ginning to its present 'prbpeattoal. The present Congress was made up mainly on the other Ode of the disciples of Calhoun. Idr. }Pigeon then proceeded to enumerate the aggresstdookf Vic slaye•power. Ile spoke of the denial of the right of petjlion, the exemination of the mails by the postmasters es the Southern Stator, the annexation of Texas In order to extend eleye• Ty e situ yieltation of the neutrality laws to nciptlre Cuba, the repool of the 'Missouri Compromise, the outrageous 'taw passed by the pro-elavery /Awhile. tore of Kansas, the oetrages In hLisnsits, the pas• sage a , the English bill, Ace. The 'same never, he said. wee tow Manceuvring to keep ft apsas out of the Union under a Cppetitntlon of her own chiles. leg, and now we were asked to pass a video code for the Territories. He next referred to the doe• trines of the Ostend Manifesto, and oontended that the efforts to obtain Cube greatly injured the trade of a large portion of the States of the Union. We nest referred to the laws of South Carolina, which Wprisoned the colored citizens of Massa. chusetts coming to any part of that State Mr. Ilaualoen, of South ,Cerolina, Fold these were police regulations necessary for t,lacdr pommel protection. Mr. WILSON said that when South fleralina peesed lawa to protect herself she should not In fringe upon the rights of others She had no right to impriron the citizens of ilfessaohusolls who had committal DO nor thonehtless ind.gere non. when the dreaded tartlet-kr:eight of the birch euildenly ant unexpeetedly stood before tan. and in went, calm, yet terrible, quietly said, I'll thank ye, callants, for my hot." (Laughter.] Sarre may remember the erre arch:, when the family and friend., ned neighbor lads and lasses. gathered romd the clean hearth stone and sat before the bleexing Ingle that blinked San lioringy. They first heard that same song tune by that bonny lame, " Wi g Isnot n eon and bred t brow. Dimpled cheek and rosy mou." who &St awakened in their bottom, that sweetest and dearest of life's emotions, first end parelOriete lore, tat/Dl...lend who, though fate did not allow yen to peeress her for a life-companion, you would still like. even non-. to hear of her haymows and welfare. Some rosy remember the times 'tween the glnemints and the rime. when the bee came IMMO. they .keepit tryst and wooed thew bonnie lasses, and how. in the fervor of your rouse affection. for fear the damp could true would injure the sweet 111nocent thinA, ye gart her etas' we her twe feet on your tea 'Mon. [Laughter.. Don't Nosh that it is now told upon yea. and brought to noun recollection. Boil erent that when you earns in the ;lose of yr ur bfe you may have wahine more unworthy your manta - NI to remember. ( Applause.) Ali ! Your poet felt the , delight with ell the fervor of his noble soul. sod bee descri led it in immortal verse. which but a Bump could Produce, when he says "0, hacey love," lie. Ah t there are a thousand happy Me mories t • serene up, growing out of seer es mad plays, rookmes and helLeweens, fain, kirks, trysts, and mar ket do's, "When the nights dram on with ;opts sail clatter, And ayethe will wee growing better." Let us remember them with Mathieu, and ehensh them with delight. To our American and other friends who have honored us WWI their countenance end presemw I would extend a ehri.rtillirraelltir. We bid you Credh f,rPnh -"a hundred thousand welcomes." Yea olio nave come here to honor this men . . memory. Volk ac , rir hi le. roil do well. Scotland woe selected as the plus of Wcersit for the jewel. but the treasare Nemo.. to the eird. lthoet alielattee.l And in this sense he wail pier Borne. too. It le wee no cramped, sordid spirt, confined by a lmundary of hills or eel. lire gruPs septratione em !Terme) the whole hrotherhong of men. His hest wishes et ere for them, at d bin heartfelt prayer, in one of his noblest eßaainns. was that .• Melt to men the wwlil around Mitht brethren be. -IR ardente.] Tyranny wee hr bare-liberty his delmht. Bear with tie, and think net the less of us 'hat we delight to re member our *camel; of eerie life. Ourlove for the maitre of our birth n not incompatible with our love and dote to the country 01 our adoption. I Cheer., I It is an old rkl, l tlin Mg that a grout son will make a good rina oano-anu those who core-sea tr,a, genuine, F arm., Vetl.ll for their fotherlend will he true, !teatime, pstriotto defendsr, of tles land ofheir adoptiOn. feniter.). dereleml lets giver: yea a Wltherepeon in and a 11l ewer in the acid-names whien You hems inscribed ere, your relief fame. and incorporated in your imyerishablelustorietyl records. Pies, accept then, es true wimples of liner country and kin. tAp pleUrn 1 Long may this glorious Confederacy of free, sover eign. sod independent States remain le the proud Po• nition they ha. e hitherto occupied ; tone mop they con ti n;in harpy, peaceful, and prosperous; lone may they Mile 11l the epee asylum ef the ..pprielipd of dawn trodden, tyrant-ruled naiicienlittea; lone may they re main in time enjoyment of cool and religious liberty-an open Biter , end a preached word (aerlan.ei ; long any her flag float unsullied. ant remain the ehelttermst 3.. IS froni under which all who choose may. to safety, preemie to the world this proud boyet. " ban. am an American ciitten " "polenee t Slay no cloud ever Tin thosen•lune of run country • prosperity. Afar en or)i.: -lenient. retard their (venni GingreAs, ha, stinted. unfortunately sorb Moods hyt,..hp.rio,,ioe. her. I Galt nothing in caning that the sone of Scot 1•0 would be found rn mn , vnmonr her eoneervanee defenders of Constitution. jusiice. law• and order. (Cheer' ) t do lout echo the sentiments of my countremen when I soy till, if I live ro see the liberty and equality of this sky nous • mired •nicy destroy ed. I shell have lived iookine. jt pr,t mettle; utether thimd-erreetien pones Ay Oa sword of the foreign Invader. or tee darter of the do mestic baiter. heotemen love liberty : bet it must be the liberty of to ens-(applause'- the 1-ber r y of justice-the irberry of emirs ity -the h rty gist briers nn Wrong to any - the liberty that is predicated upon the golden ruleof lure mita all men vent ye would that men should do unto y on-I applause 1-the liberty that me &tined by enrertimintial toms, aril guided and ptoteetegt by some ly and fearlessly athilliliatered laws, t Applause.] Fronde. We leave etlYekee of a hountsont rennet thank. to the treat Giver of ell good for lite many blese inee-ned we nro now about to pees the wine eup- Let us bake earn that we 'mit not, upon the wine when it it red. f irst the rue does not contain a torrent as the berom tear etiq reth like an gilder. let re lie the clip that w t. cheer but not In ebriete. The, OUT iudmeilt VIP WIWI our appetites, •ntl thereLy i mete + us a Ital• feast of reason and te now of snel. Let each rine etentr.bure hut quota to IP. ren•ral har mony and also PO condeet Duritilanrs that the eve. mot's faint meth will hell the ton,st 'trolley of the morning's redeetine. [ Ali loot and het hter t let it to a repro 'h it we MI look lark to, and remember with unalloyed delight, and wish for tie repent cul led whilst revolving time this der retiree, let Peet:men glory in the name of &tree. SPEvell OF WALTER B. DICK, ESQ. . _ _ Welter 13 Liok, 1 ' , 41 , in roTnnoiin.; to the sec timont in hnnnr of Inlopendoneo hall, eal3: The ',whims of the hies. lions• ern enmmeneej about the veer Msundo, the reign of Henri. 11, en d .+ finished snout 1752. The east room. now Indent/1 donee Hell. was o-oopied he the General Assemble o r the Proemett end the west room by the Snerema Court. The present Independence Spurn lest made complete purehrotins from prirete i:dulls the Welent. strew front about 17e: or 17 0 4 The bell oriennelle tonn.o! f„r the &tete Hansel 'derides was out in London talus Rel. and we. emolt ed u its trial. after halaz banded ; the hell n.se In the Bell of independence war root in this nit) be k (tow, and wee re teed end fixed to Ins steeple, alareh 1721. and has these prophe.ie words cent nn It, "Proclaim libertir thrnath ail th o lend. to ail the inhabiteut• thereof" Ile first ennti nent•l Con •rees commenced hohlitir their reseions csrpenrore. 11,11.17711 In 1773 or TdCoarront rernnved to the Stet° liens.. now Independence Hall, end on Jnne7 171,1 Utnltstd }lerllt Lee. of Vircime.r:tored to etinsrems, then sitting. at the State House... that lb. United Colonies are, end or lista onsht to be, free ARE Ineeoendent SVI , PII cud that ell polities, n o nsest,,, n between them and the fete of Crest Britain to a n d nu/ ht. In to toteHe dirsoked Th is Inc it es ,l e . bated until the Ist of J nit. a hen the reitoteljon ,I,ptll•ti In these verde Ths..., therefore, mostly th e Ilecierntioo of indorardence. While the Soh•ort AU nnde, 00110,110 ration. a committee. mower(' of Thom, Jederson, John Adams Fl.niemin Prenklin. /toter ehermen, end ftnheet R. horn 'don. Lad Bern epp•unt eil to set forth th• reasons for the stop. Thu nommit- tee reported the &eft of eprnp•r document on the 7 4 'h nf Juno; bits it hot no• boon eonsidored no Ire lit et July • vb.,. Independence In. °Petered It up iimenistei) sirerwerd, end after detett• and nei.nd le•nt, was adopted as we now tee it. on the Ith of duly. And here 'et ca 114160 to itollt, some remantin stones it nut the adoption of this document. end the PM.. which ensued, which has . no fonnti9flon in net, but which not orilmiess urn it idol' tvlievol. We moms° that there "re fo , i , v n a tr . l l e o 4 ha h s p or n j i.: o l , l7; 77 d; . n , rifl onc w e h r o n, :o; th l e Noteninly taboo'. that there Wit en 'escrow exeiternent in Philadelphia Declontion of Ind..pendenne We have see n Caesar _ Ines representine. croovaof peon!. waiting in front of the State House for the sole on the buhlset,ne baser r.. Winton' now *Oen I enrath the windows of the court house when a noininat nr onivanrion is in session. There is a seta nibs-tins story told of n gray-headed min the pen perannfication of patriotic iniptttien , e and of in rotor. blue-eyed (sty, waitins at the door of the cloud or in which the Con t rare was sitting, sn that st h en the Declaration was adopted (he Pue eyed hos eouhl annininca the smelt fact to the ens-haired man, who snit= anon to announce It to the bell.rineer io 'ye " ens io ran vas lust nut atriotie as the l o w end Twin. The Old man mutters " 'hey will never do it:" " The, ss 01 never do it!" nod wrings his hands and in in next vertUritariOn. At length they do ' do it !" and this hu man telotra ph is act in motion. The b'ee eyed boy' in forms Eliegra y- hatred man, and the gray-bored m a p shouts out, " Rios! rine:" when the great bell wags its iron tow'. and •' nroclom• thee 'shout the land," to th• licaofelt joy of the excited old man, the eager bon, rind of the whole town. This story Irma an invention of George latipard. and first made to appear ance in the " Legends of the Revolotion," a book in sop e t, of flat are ailfulnd throtl9h mono gallons nl fiction. It ie without the leant foowlad ten in feat Notions of thesort occurred There was no need of any eaciterneut on oho th of July, fir the re,,lnto.o of , rtdopenderoe ruts adopted en ths be. 'the formal assignment of reasons, which the Declaration is. w es a comp , ' rata ell unimportant -natter. con g rEss Est with closed doors; (hr ' Ina mbers were pledged to se, roo i nothing a as made (new,b as to lts thong, mathout perhdtwoo. It could not flans neen known, es" ept to a sery few persons. that the draft of the Declaration wan Under roillidernrion Christopher Marshall. that roost ear•ful of diarists whose •• Re in• Intannce "le a perfeot mirror of the minutest inci dents does not 9._,F.111 by have known about De playa lion on the oh. lie make.' no innuron of it until, 'h ., .” rah. a 111 he notes what wan relished td be done about fiat lot It reed puhicty nn the Bth, Th• newspaper• inn notions about it on the nth of July, nor. Indeed until rater the B.h when theyannaunce what was dons on flint day. The Connell of Safety resolved on the 11'11, that the nerlaratnal should P. pm:1 1 ,11111Pd on tile nt the Plato Ilona, by the stientf of the "curly of Phila delphia This task wee oxe,nled aceoritin . the Dec laration born¢ road to rite people b( John Nixon, en be half of the sherill, 11001 00 Cheri it it) in the lard. Three Clieflrs were ZII en When the ',adi o s was ants's ed. Nino n. , 0,1att , (10, previously aproinred his the Corn -1111(100 of )119nenVon then took down the Finis arms in the Supremo Court-room of the State noose. sad (hey were berned on the commons. Is the afternoon, the live bettellorui of asavistors assembled on theta's. mons. and the Declaration was rend at the heed of cash regiment It was election day, also. st the state and members of the Aesembly w to voted for staid the confusion route by the troging of the elate House boll rind other bells and be the Iteht of bonfires et night. It teals° el mistake to wipeetie that the Detteratioo re ceived on the 4th of JOY Si the intonate& which were affixed to it finally. The instroment alas ale tied by th, offip)r, of Contras. on the osy it Was adopted. end the masa of the tnerneers sixned it at their congenicogs. Menem. George ClYmer,Jamee Etnith.George Tefk-e. and George Ross. who signed thn Declarers n, ware n Matthew Crelegates to Congress until July 24,1776 sad Matthew Thornton. simmer signer, was not elected el, - the 12th of September following. nor did ha te2s big sent in Cornrese until the 4th of Norember. Benoirm a Rush. a delegate from our Own City, end a eigne en r Boolaration, was not elected until after the 4th of Job. 1776. ♦ piece of the step upon which the Secretary of COn- Krell, stood when he read the Doelaratom of Indepen dence to the people-301e 4.1776." Bore...ea it to inlas that the Declaration of le dependence was read publicly on the 4th of July by anybody, •nil as Charles Thomson serer read Unload to the people. sod et the person who did reed it 011 the 4th glad not read it from the inept. we enlinot to the Committee on City Property that it is time to remove from Independence Hall that stony fir- The old behaves taken down in 1777, pregiosrs to the entry of the British. It was s role of gear that the bells in ft captured city belonged to the commander o f IN, artillery as booty. It Waf that foot which led. on the approach of the enemy, in September 17:7 to the re moval of the Aisle Howe They nd t care lls of Christ Church and or Bt. Petees. wereed od's. to place of safety," aril returned after the evacuation of the city by Colonel Flower., the Commie:wiry General. fn April. 1731, the Ainenthly psalm] another recideti en that the State House steeple should he taken down. Thomas Navel. carpenter. was chosen to perform thee wore. His estimates of the necessary matenals will ba toned in the ninth volume of the Penns, traria Antoine.' be work was dens dining t be summer of ITrt. The wooden steeple wen taken dean ro the brick work on the tower. The latter was covered with a hie-roof, from which ascended a Own and tapering spire with a weathercock. North of the spore, on the roof the belt wag suspended in an open b 2 lir, • supported by f. or posts. The unehinery of the elotic arts in the ceatro or the noel', 1 editing. the faces oisraa•ed t ward Fifth and birth streets. Then resembled in (mho,- those tell eight day cinch, which we often zee in - lotted mansions. The face, were decorated ie the eight-dal clock style. with a pediment end side milers. The clock-case. or an imitation of it. wes of dressed stone, and extended to the ground. Os each side of the clock-one. (sob,: toward Filth cod Sixth 'treat.. wets two windows that opened. resm ectigeit. into the Ag eerobly MOM, or Hall of independence. sod the Au- Prattle Court room A door-way, with high wooden steps. also led from the card into the court-room. upon the west end of the structure. In 1717 3 it,. Brook made of the Brine House. alternately. la hoenotal and a orison. After the battle of Germantown. October 4, 1777, the wounded were hrtetilit into the glts. The Americans were taken tin the dame House. There. in tho great placed the Assembly-room nod won the steps. were the bleeding and I , hastl+ bodtes of the suffarers in that memorable action. Thee were none but British surgeons to attend them. nod their gervioee were- of course. first riven to the Friiiti•h sed Hym ladan& The women who were then in Phioiplors were moray of Tory igh (imitate—the wive+ end dour h •ers of Tories—hut they vete not deficipro to thoas tender sympathies which are the giOrr of the ferrate character Th. din of the brittle of Germant,rn the inhabitlets rained in great anxiety. We could hser the firing. knew of the angeserrisot but were unin formed ot the event. Cowards egening roans WalrMa fall of the anis ad is the any. whose r,erans and tUlre Ile s Were enough to move the most inhuman heart to pity . . The American prisoners were earr:ed to the nista- House lobbies, end had. of ovum. to omit until the British tureen' the dressed their own own. Bat in A Vale short time s treet: were filled with the women of the city. carrying up every kind f refreshments which they might be inmeo3-d war,. with lint and linen. and li e hts in Aternibance, for their nec,,Tormxis tton. In the latter rant of the lent 77,41 a thrill of toy ran throughthe country en He reception of the nets theOt tattle of Yorktown and the surrender o(C.rn wallis, SPEPtfill OF COI. JOHN W. FORNEY. Col. JCR!: IV POP.NKT responded to the tos3t of the Pahlie Preis of America, as foliose : 3111. rat:ul' Alin son he : In the Rsaselas of be. Johnsen he mates one of his erismo tera describe to an ambitious prince tr e qtklifi,ittons nee AAAAAA to !misfit:lle a erect pot; nod abbnush the coral auditor tont in doper from the picture- ex chit:rine that there can he no itch twine. most of them anteifiet tient misht hare been found in the trnmortnt mind which it to-day 'womb, ntied anti honored amour the reridmr. and think ire tubes or moo. ffin loon of Na tant. in all tee infinite rarieties—" tb ,e plenta of the carders. the animate of the treed. the minerals of the esrthi the meteors of the kssoviedre of men. Ina delicate sensib lito Ain exan•tite humor, hia Intre, noon heart. hn narriot;im is, Lieralitr. aid the feet that he entreated a soheol of Wm own, entitle him. to a vett at how. of the gaiety cooserreii upon the was, of the guest Fa rrehman. For Robert Burns was, olden& +moor the intervretem of ostare, and the teem tutors of mention:l. In soma respects lb* geoid? es rennisite In the entrees ful manatertient of a Mtg., inernsl in these progressive de's. are nearly as importect•sAnss net.ess,e yi eons etitute w poet. trigs those et the peed o f the can press ore Muni ir • nimeted by tik ine incts that rase Burrs Each a hold upon his courtiamen. and neon the whale A pelorilestann nee: utiles* thee ore insrred by truth, ny logo of the l'-.on. and by that disicteres.ral- Wee unfit teachers to the name or Boy's, they ore unfit to lath e of on intelligent sad sale dwn.neent people. Poor Huns. wrote And rhymed when joortahstn was in Its infaney. Imagine such an intellect briar In these times when wealthy gashbithers advertise. ••el pay the highest yore for superior literary talents. I read •es terdos. in Rarper's lest !reale. the evrocrdinasy fact that Mr. Tennyson nod only lately h.41[1 pouf fifty tint lan a line for one of his poems Thint of it: Th s poor Ecotchwast, whose intiomparahlo burnoose. wit, he sung end heard tintil time shall he no more. bred • life of pr:Vatlon and proury. sad wa. rem tnilors hr his ungrateful country after be had beets Fathered 1 0 his father.. His first preduetions were reluctantly Printed lif parsimonious eublabers, and while 411 Europe rang with fits name. end high end low revealed hi. Imes, he woe the el mays strum of plrerty and persecution. and left the scene of life with a broken heart I will not draw * parallel between Townson arid Burns. lecoase the con trast is rather ' , Miry., hen ergs isstlssetin7 VS 1: the Seine time, or the difficulties under wirch . genins la bored more than a century are. mid of the innsluarts advantages of the period in which r residence has cest The newspaper press of the Un led States. rent:e men. is so entreat' re es theme. that I can uric make an allusion to is In no other country do we bed no mans puhlications and an many readers. Thri • eleaprers promntet an a'mn.t uni , ernel eireelation. .ife.wsie les • ears ate hal:eyed he could hardtr sdn-rl to rintecran for a weekly ease*, now takes kin dedr, es-I. mine tunes. not sattsete.l with one. contrives to senors for his family the 'rutin: of two or three A ssisted by the locomotive and the tzlegraph. the newspaper is co rri ad to the remotest resift's. end rbe citizen vrko resider a thousand mites from the Federal Capital consumes hie breakfast while criticiains the opinions of los iinmedi me representative. uttered ca toe door of the henna the clay- rerate. Tn *hoer the ditiereinea t....twee. es, newspaper of our day end that hmh flourished in the time of Burns. 1 need nob refer the Scotelyneri present to the sarenist•e tines he wine is rept , to a who sent hun a newspaper, in U% and offered to eu tame it to him. free of eXperee. He said " Kird err I've read your parer Ihrousb. And faith. to me. 'vans really sew I How zseaftl • e. sir. whet mend I wanted • This many • day Eve Rraintd and aimated. • • • e • "A' this and mar t never heard et And but for sou I might &spa r So craters'. bark spur news t seed you. And pray s4,* SSW till nee may attend you" ICI. le Infteeing to the epeeeh of Tour exe•lent Pr...- dont thllloYelitea. t heard Min Mate an cutout maser -hat tit+ American Union fr.i•ht he preferred. Let Enti sir. senders:es there is so dancer of the Cam, 0n.4 snow me to add that th•re o.yei hay been an. darer of tt It is God's ban ills to his children. are are a the entyr ton his foot-boy-a anon 'which the ex yenme nt or seltiovernm.nt eau tried.here are. indeed. erect problems to ha ito:% , ,t greet pri•e:Dle to ee •f -tahl:Shei. treat ttatl.s to be ritleamtail. end **push ell the., thine, we resist Septet to ram •a e‘,..t,yate and in tie). to elimination snit in re en minst.on. A ermn tr7 wah filch a cheer/OW of climate. each a nicety of Productions. crowded imth en many peop:e of diTerine +eat/melts. meat. aeaaalonalts. be the rheatm of hitter dimensions ; but. white aft these eye in the nature of thinr.. tt a itotamithla that this Caine ran be di/need end destroyed recall se a for fan, Veit in either seerion desire to stare it et. The ocean of pet, opirro, T be trropmet-toesel, and the Waves of faction may rem mount• , n-high. but under eft this en rite ofer.t the neat heart or the • Merman pe.ople , bled with derott to the American ('pion. leen on throt.t. as forayer. There a•e tome rranelsos, however. gentler...a. spoil which fanatics En car not Ins its haees Tt.ero are sore thmze which earns h , inn Ifurver. hon wit rem•m het the noble words of that offanieter In one of the E+r bah dramas who. wh•o threatened wlt't death hr En flonot declared that 1/13 tenant rsaiht (levies haul Of life. hot as for The rob attire of net4e deeds. Th. fair report that's rte orr frond mea's torsnes— y, a cantor lay coot hand on them . • ... . No more th,“ roa ran LAY roar hand etsah the =M. NO? with Ito labs: mien. Itrirish Nor can the tem. tiatotust or its 6'1.31105:a hor tos t Wee upon the srh.oh our crest •eon'e eotertsm CA. the ,nhkelagaey At taloe Ststea. iteroton r e th • ruins is the rehtme of wends., polities. Men may .I,e'rr eyhec all oilier questons: but upon that whet: feint-a t. the PerfeitUltf of our insututmse oa this heis•sphere they ve %unit. Partin-. aril pohilei.s. who Costa this truth. will not hire lone to wait before they MM,IT hretired. great.. zees titan !base who to day raise their sads *safest the tur 1 c peace have thresteeed it be fore sad thee here son•down into tee shrvaoroths,oo. et.as .te bar than plummet eYer awn en. The IS:Cr 1 of the Hartfont Ceereev-a dunce thY ive iryr vr. , h t nitcha; the eelhfirart,n tenreraret dqr er, tba. .ad nlhoirtrtrion of General la•kson ! and the tarevpsod revolt of !hat are re WSJ ealceepittoss.crl the tare of history. that the affection of the Amerman po o p,. fo r the American Union e,n sever he alienated. and is at wans irresistible when fall, aroasad. I erg tilde hied to y gentle awn., far the Led recap hors •altl MISS, siren TII9. I am DM • Srowhin-in, sir the elm of Scolcbtmut. em hcohchly r.ne 0 1 mast tbotoncb th erept . ..mfr.:me rif the Perissalrar,‘ Germs cs in Ito, rremt. Thu a State of tot rth- t,ll. ISt) la testors. lige yours. same how over re• 'es Ever treed of the Keystone Stst•. I never go tin Wartoestort wdly mit feeling Wh it . f too as I ses that wrest scarce und ies from t .6 it House t.t the cm • e-. 1 after Pennsylvania. This writhes ibute the •• AM het of hi.his Countm:' to the Keyston• Can. Let as ha bat true to ourselves, let is Imitate tae Soath in reaper!. at inset. aid ell will bs Gentlernenon GimileiLLSMOll. D.O Rat you to made with eelst at O.M A to the Robert Gum. of Panney'verun. I ore you yy 4 . rilf , Cllll of Solicit T. Conrad. an!. tv the fan:etre of Fitz Or itsllech, ageattaL 01 the poet of Srofossd. let hie Ins of ham, 46 Su.h tns:es as tva are parrtir. othr4.e.k. lih eas to ra arrd fly tacit ea:. Zar.t The Del phum rs'..s. tha Pl , ess.cts. The 3.11k..c.)2 Pith, ra...1." SPEECH OF DANIEL DOU3BERTV, Daniel Dougherty, El, replied to 1: - .e tea=t eompiiment►ry to the Bar of t. After expreeting his regret that there TM to: tretett a tit representative to reit:out to the sentiment, ard in Nome lattnoronz remarks relative to lawyers` quarrels, he sea : The Kat . of Philadelphia has far e een t,, r , been ds. tars shed—in the laniall:e n , the ton sksraence, and probity." and t mar the day may --Set crone then the rem. of Phiadelehia laWrer at I n to synonstmess Lwith 'an hottest man:" sod that he .710 bier. it rid ever Inner; to the d.schar.e of its profesairinal duties. • rued stored wish knot oy,e. a heart keenly stinsaire ty the r.nnit dch•st.t.p p •se,,_ tint, interntr. nisi a demeanor cotttolle.l a ose 'Wes of con - teas which grace and hesonfe Cutout sta ture. Aptilmseil Bill the Bar n'Plyiltdelphtilr , o.ll'l d..acro, the corn. e'irnectyou hare tendered, If 1.3 ol•rnhe - 3 Co;. at times. hi d adieu to Ms tealttes of f, ty„,, remove of unstiatit,ll; if thee d d not inch:ens boots. dash aside the doll and dreard P • iw • • ," bast in the 1/eanties of the ve i l roscal,l verse: if their rld not ya,.. eist i onalY cress feeding on the dry Meal of the law, is ewer (Jebel< ut draushts of poetry toe nectar of which was distilled from the brain and welled hP from the heart of glorious Robin Barns. (Appian., 7 It 'Would not be erop•r fir me to dilate at this hair neon the el:are:l..of Robert Burns. and yet I Cannot do len than sir that We was the rrsote that wore tote soil; his the memory that he petered hi •.`.i wit aPerosch maehrod. sad lawns hearts that lost in t 7 If/ - pethy 'nth the sudsriota of ten us. Ile wee one who pros ed that " Kant is htitithe tuinea's st arr .? , A man's tie read Si• that.' l noes poor In pocket 1-at a nrainhaire in m.r 1. I+3 potsenthe dust mat is iht: iron] thee for h s wet the wealth that front hens,. doacae,!. Morn the sit and titan mask' nr. Many a British peer or el•flastel of her Bar. nhy. per chance, looted down on Born,. is row in h s tea ra forrottrn. sr en Ti, los des cezdanis while the (erre of the Ayrshire plOnshmatt is es fresh end ptii, ard taantiral to day Is Sere...see the roses he be: s hs •• hirhlitsit Miry • tFnthnsi silo ape Ilse I is s name has resounded through the arehPsrf a per tars. and. for cents tea Set to come. it till le a hc,•,oaa'd word. elite in the cot of the Madinat and the risla...v of the prams, hat us, then here to-nirbt. fill hirh the wine cop and pledoe the tOaSr that WO: Leech , -e,l act/ re-siohoed each suCceeltor year. when we. too. she hare cone—" immortal to the memory of Retort Boma!" The csesker reamed his seat stnitt the most rat to out stptause. ANNUAL RETAIT OF THE llntnn co , HEALTH The nrint,l report of the Board of B e s , h u.ae r :ea to Connote eater:lay aftrrtoon. oz t the I 4Uroir farts. chow-,e, tar opera:klub of the deportment for the p.m ear. The number M rerselt sod foreign t•,o•eodrra zananrd at the 1 era - teltru and in. the port of PI I:adelphtn, la-ere Se r. rev.: By lazaretto Br Port Phyttetnn. Ptobletark Ahtra tioaks Brits . &boom., Total vessels ... Foreign passenters I cea I 're: Of there vessels. 10 were detained f ‘r rar.fication a• d vent tlatleab Atti Vlin discharged the,r cari•- , s: the I age retio. by °Yds( of the Board prior to con.tre rip to the city. llts number of patients treated at toe Lazarei to flospitsl wa■ but Ora. one Of .bOtri rem, erect. and the other died shortly after his admisaton ; the disease was yellow fever. The number of patients treated at the City W.pital was Jima Of these. the e were treated for entail pox. four: rarioloid two; and rnesslcs one . fire were d nel•.arced as cured, and two died, This Blvd speal.sof the in perfect manner in which the duties impose I noon vaccine phi s,•ians aphunte l by Councils are performed. owing to the imse - tection or the ordinance world°, for gratutio in va^_mat.. n. end lire that these nprointmeats hould be route by the BOA , II of Id ealilt There hare been removed. by eider of the Board. during she past i ear. I a tr AM' cos. the total expense of which has been gic: 2 sill J.. not 0...1 which sum has been repaid. and bent for the balares have either been or will be filed. In coeclu.ion, the attention o' COMIC, ;s again called b. the Board to the filthy condition of too public docks. elewers- and inlets. Frequent Complaints 1.4V13 hen 1111.11 to mita Pepm , nosnt of the improper use made of penults issued by trio t'ithway lospartmenttoconnect . ..flatus from priwy weals, eub;ect to oretfow ot water." uneor the [rota s ens of an ordinance, approved Id ay .3d, ISSi. be means of which large quantities of are carried into the sewers. In Soma cases the privies attached to whole rows of houses are thoroughly emptied into the sewers,oresting 1/1113.1GC2.3 of the worst obsracter, auk