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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1860.
FIRST Pance.—Madaute Rboamter c Phut Chap
ter; Reception of lien. John Riolonan at West
Chester; The Burch Randal Cate. Poona
Paun.--Strange, but True Love Okay ; Marine
intelligence. ' "
A Lesson front the Japanese.
One of the most crying political evils of the
day in Anierica is the tendency of all our
Governments—National, State, and Municipal
—to c onstantly increase their expenditures.
While we are free from such a crushing bur
den of enormous debt; contracted to carry on
ancient ware, as oppresses most of the nations
of Europe, and while we are not taxed to
support the eenaeles pomp and pageantry of
royalty, some of our Governments still con
tinue to contract liabilities sch heavy as to
farce the communities under theft control into
bankruptcy or repudiation, or to impose so
high a rate of taxation that even tax-burdened
Englishmen regard it with astonishment. The
United States as a compact nation, the leveral
States, and the various municipalities and thriv-.
ing counties, scattered throughout the Union,
commenced their political existence with no
ancient financial burdens, crushing them down
with an oppressive and horrible weight ; but
each successive year has brought forward a
new batch of projects—many- of Which.. it is
true, wore wise and worthy of encouragement,
but Many others comparatively visionary and
unworthy, until the circle of expenditure has
gone on widening and widening, and the
little mountains of debt Increasing in size,
and now. scarcely one of our Governments,
no matter how contracted the area over whigh
It exercises authority, nor how limited the re
sources of the population It controls, is
free from a debt which is almost as great as
its power to borrow has extended—and, some
of our municipal rates of taxation and propor
tionate expenditures are greater than those of
any other portion of the world. In some
eases; debts have been contracted in thought
less momenta, or by rash or dishonest public
officers, which communities are utterly unable
to pay, and they have been forced into the
disgraceful alternative of repudiation.
The expenditures of the National Govern
ment bare increased with wonderitil rapidity.
For the four years ending in 1796, the aggre
gate of expenditures was but . $12,083,205.
Even so late as 1808, the expenditures for
the four years were but $28,927,244. Bat for
the four years ending in 1856, they were,
$2ll, 099,807, and the expenditures for the
first year under Mr. BUCHANAN'S Admit' bare:
tion reached an aggregate of mere than
$186,000,000, and thus indicated an ex
penditure for the fOur years of his term of
$272,000,000.
The expenditures of deny of the States and
cities, however, have increased much more
rapidly than those of the National Government ;
and the aggregate of Governmental debt, in
cluding.that of the Nation, the States, the
cities, counties, and small municipalities, has
swelled up to such an enormous sum th at, in
extent, it would present no contemptible ap
pearance when contrasted with the debts
accumulated daring a long course of centuries
by the monarchies of Europe.
It is perfectly obvious and inevitable that,
as our country increases in wealth and popu
lation, Its governmental expenses should also
be greatly increased by its growing wants ; for
It would be idle to expect that a fall-grown
man could be maintained upon the slender in
come which suffices to supply the necessities
of a stripling; but at the same time it cannot
bederded that we are entirely too prone to ig
nore the economical habits which, in a great
measure, laid the foundation of American
wealth, and to contract' expenditures which
are unnecessary, wasteful, and extravagant.
A correspondent of the New York Animal
of Commerce, who has recently visited Jeddo,
in Japan, in speaking of the palaces of the
Emperor, and the houses of the prime minis.
tars, says that they are plain edifices, without
anything of the magnificent without, or the or
nate within—being even less expensive and nn.
ostentatious than the White House at Washing
ton, notwithstanding the Emperor rules over
forty millions of people who possess sufficient
wealth and artistic genius to build for him one
of the grandest palaces in the world, if the
governmental 'genius of the country and the
prevailing policy of the people sanctioned
much an expenditure. It appears,however,
that ,a strip of dry fi sh-skin is tached to
every official letter, even from the Emperor
and 'his prime minister down to the lowest
grade, of officers, for the purpose of perpetu
ally reminding the receivers of these docu
ments that- the anceArs of the present 'rich
and flourishing Japanese nation were once but
poor fishermen, and that therefore all their de
scendants should be industrious and economi
cal.
This instructive usage has come down from
remote ages, and appears to have exercised a
powerful influence upon the rulers of the coun
try, by constantly impressing them with the,
Importance of economy. However absurd
such a custom, applied to governmental affairs
in America, might appear, it would certainly
be a desirable thing for the tax-payers of our
nation, if those who authorize the expendi
tures of our various Governments, instead of
rushing headlong into new schemes and =ne
cessary expenditures, should entertain a more
lively recollection of the primitive simplicity
and frugal habits of our republican ancestors,
and, instead of treating lightly budgets in
volving expenditures of millions of dol
lars, should scrutinize the items, in mammoth
appropriation bills, with that degree of close
attention which-they well know the founders of
our nation would have bestowed upon them.
The Horrors of the Coolie Trade.
Among all the inhuman schemes of modern
Invention for the accumulation of wealth, none
Is so cruel and destructive to human happi
ness and life as the coolie trade, or exporta
tion of the unfortunate Chinese to the bland
of Cuba, the Chinch' islands, and various
other places, as laborers for a term of years.
:The cargoes of these unfortunate victims of
avarice are originally obtained in their native
country in a manner closely resembling, and al
most as atrocious as that by which.dilican slaves
are procured for those who still conduct, in an
Illicit manner, the African slave trade. Some
times fair, but false, promises are held out to
unfortunate Chinese who are In an almost
starving condition. In other cases they are
decoyed by false pretences into the harm
coons, or forcibly seized while they are asleep
In their Junks by night, or quietly occupied In
their fields, gardens, .or at their mechanical
avocations. Occasionally pirates, who stop
at no treachery or violence, are engaged to:
obtain the living but fated freight of the'
coolie vessels.
We published, a short time elnoe,, an ac
count of the horrible circumstances attending
the wreck of the Flora Temple—by which
eight hundred and fifty coolies ware destroyed.
A recent importation into Havana shows al
most e q ually fearful results. Of nine hundred
and sixteen coolies put on board the French
steam-propeller, Charles Martel, at Swatow,
only three hunred and forty were delivered
alive in the port of Havana—live hundred and
sixty-nine having perished at sea in a voyage
of one hundred and forty-two days, and seven
after the vessel was anehored , in the bay.
Fortunately, there is a prospect of a de
struction of this traffic, so far as the island of
Cuba is concerned, after the 81st of Decem
ber, 1860, as a royal order to that effect has
been issued. It is to be hoped that, in all
other quarters of the world, it will also be
speedily suppressed. The miseries to which
the coolies have been subjected are almost
unparalleled in the annals of, civilization.
Even when they are delivered alive at their
destined ports, their owners have no interest
In their permanent welfare, and treat them
with greater harshness and cruelty than they
would slaves In whom they had a life-long In
terest.
Dem liton's Gina? Haow.—Dan Bloc annotmoes
an eaten:Loon exhibition today, when. a rest va
riety of wriertrian and gymnastio performances,.
espeolaily adapted; to gratify thejummilet, be
given. At night, is addition to numerous acts In
the ring, the grata- But Indian • epeoteolo of the
Ilienhant of Biel will be played. A new oendidatit
public tarot; who harpist been added to Ride's
froupe y deserves especial notion., Be is oalled
Boupt, eeiebrated' Spanish uon
tortionittA-iii the end .Ids: feats, are risky
wonderful. Imagine a brisk, well.developed in I.
vidual, all nerve end nimbi, but without a bone
fa his body, going through a series of gymnastio
fate requiting extraordinary strength and agility,
Ntd
an idea will be milled of this pedormanoe.
Bridges
When MAOAuLAVO New Zealander surveys
the ruins of Philadelphia, it will net be fl'om
a bridge. Whatever historic permanence may
be hoped for from other public structures can
not by any stretch of enthusiasm be expected
from the present viaducts crossing the Schuyl
kill.' Indeed, the antiquaries of A. D. 2860
will hot be troubled much with, doubts as to
the purposes for which our public works were
intended. Tomake a bad use of a common
quotation, if he seeks a monument, he can look
around considerably without finding one. The
rock foundations of Fairmount may give rise
to discussions whether the excavations at its
summit were used for sacrificial or funeral pur
poses. That singular wall now building near
its base may. excite a superstitious doubt
whether it was the work of human hands ; but
beyond these, the Ales of brick which will
stretch in rectangular tumuli for miles around
him can only say that we wore and are not.
Not a pillar will exist to point out that our
busy race lived for anything beyond the hour,
or found life so earnest as to place a stone to
tell how great their labors had been. Yee, on
reflection, two structures• exist whose founda
tions seem to have been fixed as lastingly as
those of the grave. The ruins of the peniten
tiary and the prison will confess that crime
mese rife in our generation as to compel mon
uments which the virtues of the day failed to
exact. '
But an opportunity now presents itself to
redeein ourselves in the eyes of posterity.
Aitoluto necessity will soon require the °roc-,
tion of additional bridges across the Schuyl
,
Take a stand for an hour, at any time of the
day between sunrise and sunset, on Market
street bridge, and consider the amount of traffic
which pours across it—reflect then how many
interests, both in the city and miles away from
it, too, are bound up in the safety of transit
over that one frail causeway; and then imagine,
for calculation will be at fault, what amount
of destruction might arise from a spark drop
ped from a drunkard's pipe.
Prudent foresight required additional facili
ties years, ago. The daily inconvenience to
which travel is exposed in crossing that bridge
must now compel the erection of another.
What we desire to ask is, that in the proposed
new one some regard should be had to monu
mentalpurposes in the details of its execution.
We believe that our community feels a just
pride in itself; it is but right that this should
be exhibited in our public works.
Pride of family is not always a bad thing;
civic pride is always a good thing. Labors
and sacrifices have beet extorted from hand
and 'brain by public motives, which no pros
pect of ease or fortune could have made en
durable. All that adds grace or elegance to a
city fosters such a spirit. Like that faith
which seeks to give a tangible object in which
the affections can rest, a comanity must en
courage the exercise of public virtue by visi
ble tokens of its greatness and dignity.
Bridges ought always to be more than
passage-ways. The whole world elsewhere
seems to be united in the propriety of making
them monumental in their character. Somo
reason exists for this which may not at first
sight be apparent. The bridges across the Seine
are all of wonderful beauty. Each of the new
ones is commemorative of historic incidents.
The new bridges across the Thames are superb.
The Danube and the Rhine, and the Nova,
none of which have capitals of the 'size or
importance of P,hiladelphia,boatit some of the
finest in the world. The Romans, grandly
practical in ail their works, have loft some of
the . most durable evidences of their civiliza
tion in viaducts and bridges. The common
consent of mankind is the best argument for
placing some value upon grandeur in such
structures.
Now, what have we to show in this re
spect Market-street bridge—the dimen
sions of which were ample enough to
Supply the traffic at fifty years ago—is now
Jammed by the products of the West; which
the railroad alone is pouring into the lap of the
City. Outwardly it is an eyesore; its principal
material is so fragile as not only to be liable to
instantaneous destruction by accident, but
requires a roof to Protect it from hourly decay.
Next comes the wire-bridge which would be
elegant and appropriate if it spanned a country
stream, across which Corydon might pipe to
Phillia, but which sways and creaks immense
ly under, the pressure of heavy wain, or
when a crowd hurries across it.
• And lastly, we peasess that durable struc
ture which the necessities of speculators,
more, powerffil for improvement than the
multi of the public, erected at Girard ave
nue, and . which fell to pieces from its own
rottenness before a wheel had crossed it;
which now, after lc a thorough repair," pre-
Seats many lines not conducive to the sense
bf beauty or safety. It ought to be knocked
to pieees as a public disgrace, and a stone
erected to aormnemorate the skill and fidelity of
the contractors. Let any one, fond of contrasts,
walk a few paces from the river, and he will
see a viaduct leading across the Reading Rail.
road, built by that company, the solidity and
beauty of which will at once explain to him
that' the servants of the city were not allowed
to have alumni in building it. Farther up, the
'railroad bridge at the Falls of the Schuylkill
will force him to ewn (we hope with a sigh)
'that a trading corporation was more alive to
the dignity and propriety which should attend
great public works than the community which
they served.
We know that the usual arguteents against
lavish expenditure will be raised against the
plan which we propose of making all bridges
built in the future ornamental. Bat, after all,
massiveness is the chief element of perma
nence as well as grandeur. It will be well to
teach oar people by outward objects that we
are not a transitory race ; but ono which is
laying the fouedations of homes, as we trust,
for a greater people yet to fill! our places.
Such ideas mould the lives and destinies of
races as well as of men.
No one can say, while a stone yet remains to
be raised among ui In' honor of , Washington,
that we owe no monuments. Could a more
appropriate designation than that of the groat.
est American be given to the proposed new
bridge? Parsimony and [magnificence would
be out of place M a structure which comme
morated, the honor in which we hold thai
name.
The Twenty-Second of February.
To-day la the anniversary of the birth of the
illustrious Chieftain of the Revolution and the
patriotic . statesman of the early days of our
constitutional history. It will be appropriate
ly celebrated in our city by our military compa
nies., A correspondent recently suggested to
us the propriky of a still more general cele
bration of this day than at present prevails
and that, as on the Fourth of Ally the De
claration of Independence is read through
out the length and breadth of the
land, so, on the . 22d of February, the
Farewell Address of the Father of his Coun
try should be brought to the notice of the,
American people, until all the patriotic;
admonitions it contains are deeply engraven.
upon their hearts. The suggestion is a
good one, especially at a time like the present,
when ditranion doctrines are stalking abroad
throughout the land, and! when men whose
highest ambition should be to preserve the
liberties] of the country, and transmit its in
stitutions unimpaired to posterity, aro strain
ing every nerve to overthrow, the noble fa
brie which has enabled our country to take a
front rank among the nations of the earth.
BlLtlin D TADLIOI OV TON COPTINSINT4.I.—A
feature which the lovers of the beautiful game cy
bflltarda will not fail to appreciate in our magnificent
new Hotel, the Continental, is the set of eight of
Messrs. Moore it Campion's celebrated billiard tn.
blei With which it is furnished. We have examined
the tables, seen'theni in aetive use,' and beard many
flattering opinions exercised with regard to them.,
It is only within the last few years that this old and
respectable cabinet•warehouse has incorporated
with its other branches the manufaoture of the tables
above referred to, and it Is bat paying them a de
served compliment, to say that their sticoess in
this line has fully equalled their reputation ea
oabinet-Ware inanufututers generally, in which
department" we need hardly add, they stand at
the head of their profeasion, both' for the elegem!) ,
and superior quality of their work. We have
heard the opinions of a number of amateur players
expressed with regard to the Onntinental tables,
&Ref whiCk were highly favorable, some even re ,
prang them as superior to ani , utpon which they
had ever played.. They aro supplied with M.
0. , s new and improved cushions.
rr Ins satirical 'poem on the new Preto% com
mie lel tisaty,,the'hondonPress describes Richard
Cobden ' ' •
"England's grand expositor,
Cobden the great, who absolutely bagged
The gum docent} thousand pounds, the fruit
Of simple staokiaw and audacious speech,
And sunk it in the relic
WABZ!NGTON CORRESPONDENCE
Letter from 66 Ezek rtteharde.”
Correepondenoe or The Prom]
WABHIPOTOI I , Fob. 2t, 1860
At the opening of the session, lion. Mr. Wm. N.
H. Smith, of North Carolina,'obtained the floor to
make a personal explanation. The honorable gen
tleman desired to oorreot rumors of an unsatisfac
tory character which had been in circulation in
reference to him, and the position in which he had
been voted for while in nomination for the Speak
ership. He had been erroneously represented on
the Friday on which the noted balloting took
place ; and, on reading the reports in the papers,
drew up a statement to read in' the House on the
succeeding Monday, if not relieved from the re
sponsibility of the nomination. The remarks of
the Hon. Messrs. Pendleton and Cox, of Ohio,
especially placed him in an erroneous position ;
though, in reply to Mr. Pendleton, Mr, Smith ad
mitted that Mr, Pendleton gave the result of a
conversation held with him, bat did not give the
details. What Mr. Smith desires to clear Wesel
off is the positive manner in which Cox, Cochrane,
of New York, Morris, of Illinois, and others, de
clared that he was not, and never was, a member
of or had any sympathy with the Know-Nothings
or American party. The point of his explanation
clearly is, that these gentlemen spoke too fast, and
that he was not free from some connection with
the party so severely condemned and reviled by
those able gentlemen. The ferocity with which
Cox and Cochrane denounced the Know-Nothings,
and the scorn with which they repudiated any
combination with them, will be remembered.
Mr. Pendleton offered a few remarks, clearing
himself of any mlarepresentttion, and no doutt
Samuel S. Cox and John Cochrane, and Clement
L. Vallandlgham, will take an opportunity of de
fining the feeling under which they, at the very
last moment, allowed themselves to be brought up
to the slaughter by their friends, the manager,.
Cox and Coohrane have had a consultative:whlsper
on the matter; and now Vallandigham, having
made his appearance, is taking counsel with Cox,
while their colleague, Howard, lends his gray
head to the more oratorical mood of consultation
which Vallandigham Indulges in, and the more
hardheaded acuteness of Cox.
Objections from the Republican side out short
what might have been a very interesting episode ;
but scarcely had the chance of one excitement died
away than another was speedily supplied, in the
shape of a resolution introduced by Hon. Mr. Isaac
N. Morris, of Illinois. It had some reference to
the °erten/Won of a canal in which Arkansas was
interested ; and he desired to put it right through,
as Mr. Rust was anxious to leave town to-day or
to-morrow. All manner of objections were made
by all manner of men. One desired to calm the
flurry by saying the resolution was read for in.
formation. Mr. Morris said it was not read for
any such thing; but it had been read twice, and
he called the previous question. Mr. Sherman
wanted it referred to a Committee of the . Whole.
Morrie liked to know by whet right gentlemen were
addressing tho chair, as he had not yielded the
floor. Re was replied to by half a dozen, keeping
the floor, so that the honorable Illinoisan could
scarcely be heard at the top of his voice. Any
number of propositions were made, amid great eon
tedon. At length lion. Mr. Barksdale flung him
self against the mass and levelled it, by moving
to recommit the resolution to the Committee on
Roads and Canals, which being agreed to by Mr.
Rust, it was agreed to.
The Conimittee on the Seats and Desks presented
a majority and minority report. Both were read,
and Mr. Farnsworth, to put an end to an evident
flare-up, proposed to lay both on the table. The
votes were called, and Farnsworth was not sus
tattled. Tho previous question was then called on
the resolutions adjourning from Friday to the bth
March, and instructing the superintendent of the
Capitol extension to take out the present seats, and
replace the chairs and desks in their original
arrangement. Shertrl Clemens called for a divi
sion of the resold/Ms. Grow, of Pennsylvania,
and Conokling, of New York, objeoted, as no
division could take place after the previous ques
tion had been ordered. The division, however,
was effected. The resolution relating to the ad
journment was tabled, and the removal of the pre
sent seats passed.
Hon. John B. nankin introduced a resolution
from the Committee on Public Expenditure, &ai
ring the srleet committee on printing to hand over
to the committee of which he is chairman, all books
and papers which they may have on the subject.
Mr. Raskin showed how unnecessary the soled
committee on the subject was when a standing
committee having jurisdiction over the same issues
was in being. There might be a conflict between
them, wbloh be desired to anticipate. non. Mr.
Houston and others on his side spoke for Makin's
resolution ; a division was demanded, and resulted
in Its adoption. EX/1K RICHARDO.
From Harrisburg.
f.Conespondottoo 'of The Pren.l
HAORIUUIW, Feb. 21, 1860
On Monday, in the House, Mr. O'Neil reed In
place " An act to establish a HMSO of Correction
in the city of Philadelphia." It is to be under the
Management of twelve managers—four to be ap
pointed by thejudgep of the Pistriot Court, four
by the Court of Quarter Sessions, and four by the
Mayor of Philadelphia. It is to be erected on the
lands owned by the etty, on a part of , erblab Moak
ley Almshouse ie erected. To ereet the necessary
building, the managers are authorized to contract
loan, redeemable in thirty-five years, and there
to to be a ralloient tax messed upon the citizens
of Philadelphia to pay the annual interest, and
one percent. additional, which one per cent. is to
be appropriated to a sinking fund to redeem the
debt.
Mr. Sheppard, "an act to lnoorporate the Aerated
Steam and Manufacturing Company, of Philadel
phia." Corporator's—James M. Cornrad, John IL
Ritchie, Jos. B. Conover, Geo. W. Todd, and Ed
round B. Orbison. Capital, two hundred thousand
dollars, with the privilege of extending it to three
hundred thousand dollars, of fifty dollars each.
The corporation is to be permitted to purchase, so,
quire, hold, manufacture, use, sell or dispose of
steam generators or boilers, atcam engines, and all
other machinery appertaining to the same. This
ease appears to have been provided (or by the
general manufacturing
' Mr. O'Neill." An cot to amend the Charter of
the Trustees of the Fire Association of Philadel
plila." SECTION 1. Be it melded, dke., j' hat from
and after the passage of this act, the Truateee of
the Fire Association of Philadelphia be, and they
are hereby empowered and directed annually to
divide gmompt the several companies who may
be certified, lay the Board of Delegates , as entitled
to a share of the annual dividend thirty per oen
tam of the profits of the office, including premiums
received for annual insurances, together with the
whole of the Interest arising upon the capital
stock after the payment of losses and espouses,
until the permanent capital stook shall have
readied the sum of three hundred thousand
dollars, and when he said capital stook shall
have washed the gum of three hundred thou
sand dollars, then forty per eentum of the sill Pro
fits, including odki premiums, with the interest es
aforesaid, shall be so &sided until the permanent
capital stook shell have readied the sem of four
hundred thousand dollars, and when ma capital
stock shall have reached the sum of four hundred
thousand dollars, then thereafter fifty per manta
of said for forfeits, including said premiums with
the interest as aforeed shall be so divided amongst
said companies. Any or all law, or parts of laws
Inconsistent herewith, be and the same is hereby
repealed."
-
A communication was received from ii. C. Wil
son, Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, on the subject of making certain
appropriations to the State Arsenal, at Philadel
phia. He recommends that $1',450 be appropri
ated to roofing the building; $4OO to putting on
abutters; and $2OO for cleaning and repairs.
This seams to be a necessary appropriation, and
will undoubtedly be tutted upon favorably.
The whole of Tuesday in the House was won
pied in considering the private Calendar. In the
Senate, the bills considered were also of a private
nature.
The Republican State Convention convenes
here' at 12 o'olook to-morrow, and already
the throng of delegates and outsiders is Immense.
A great deal of anxiety is manifested by the
friends 'Of oandidates, but the beet feeling "for
the sake of the canoe" prevails. I have dime.
Tared nothing to make me ohange the opinion I
formerly expressed in relation to the Gubernatorial
question. On the Presidential question there is
some diversity of opinion, but Gen. Cameron will
undoubtedly have a majority, and I think there
will be a majority of delegates in favor of the
Convention selecting the delegates to the National
Convention, Whloh will give him a united &legs.
Hon at Ohloago. Rls friends are very sanguine.
Pam
Paris Gossip oh the Suppression of
4 6 L,Univers."
The correspondent of the Liverp ool Journal, un
der the head of "Paris Gossip,' gave on the 4th
inst.. his latest views upon the controversy between
the Vatican and Louis Napoleon. He maintains
that the Emperor committed a great blunder in
suppressing L'Univers. Within two days of the
issuing of the decree against that journal, M.
Veuillet, the Pope's champion, and its acknowledg
ed director, had 200,000 francs raised for him. It
is stated that the martyr editor had gone to Rome,
where he could prove a demon of discord between
the Pope and the Emperor. It is asserted that
the Emperor out-looked and bowed-out the Oar
dinal-ArehMshop of Paris, when he name to
resign his post as Senator and Grand Al
money The Emperor supposed that his Emi
nence had solicited the interview for the purpose
of communicating some concession on the part of
the Church. The salary which the high dignitary
received for his two odices was 100,000 francs per
annum, so that mercenary motives cannot be im
puted to him. The correspondent will still have
it that there is a volcano slumbering under the
entente eorthale supposed to exist between Prance
and England. The Emperor of Austria, In
_private
circles, continued to make the question of Venetia
a point of family honor, and to °entreat his descent
from the Camara with that of Louis Napoleon. Bets
were being made that war would break out within
two months.
lISP Garlbaldt's wife—Miss Raymond that was
--is a Dl 'Vernon, or Gay Spanker, and knows a
good horse when she sees the animal as well as she
knows a good man. She is patriotic', plump, and
pretty, and pecuniarily well situated. The happy
couple passed the luns de mid at Como, the most
beautiful place in Italy, as Italy is the most beau
tiful country in Abe world. There is a difference
of nearly thirty years between them, and we hope
that it le all the diferenoe they will dor know.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1860.
THE CALIFORNIA STEAWIIRS*—CIRCULAT/ON or NEW
YORK PAPERS—A POOR PROSPECT POE O*REYO•
lIIALS TO RORROW—TAE NEW CHIEF ENGINEER—
.rns " SEVENTH" OPP POlt WARIIINOTON—DR.
PALMER'S "LA FEMEL" : LAMAS SALE—"LAST
SCENE OP ALL" IN MR. BURTON'S LIPE•DRAHA
000D FORTUNE Or HISS ADELAIDE ruirmrs.
[Correneondenoe of The Franc!
NEW YORK, February 21, 1860.
The stotunship Atlantic oiled for California yes
terday afternoon, with nearly six hundred passen
gers and a large freight. The advance In passage
and freight does not take effect until next month,
alter NAM time a sensible diminution may be ex
pected In both. The difference in passage between
eighty dollars, the present charge, and two hun
dred dollars, the prospective one, will operate as a
barrier to those whose purses are not of the meet
plethoric. sort.
The circulation of the newspapers of this city is
thus stated in an article in the Troy pgsly Times :
Rmlr 39,0001Wefrkli Dar g00k... i 3 000
NCeiiiVilLne......2g , « a Wise v kly ' Aills. P o o e s t i . : 1;,C1
Daily Times 30,000 Commercial daverti-
Be tm-Weekly Times. 8 000 ear 1.400
Weekly Timely 18,000 Weekly Mereury....loo 000
Daily Herald. 00,000 Harper's weekly-- 75.000
Weekly Herald, 10.- .FrankLeslie'elsiews-
Coo to ... NOM paper...-........... 00,000
ally Hun—. 50 000 Hums 50urna1........ 16.000
wily Express.. .. 26 OM Daily ..... sOOO
Weekly Ex revs 3 000 Weekly -.... 18 000
New 1 ark Lodger-00,010 Journal of Commerce 2 500
Daily Day Book 600 Courier is kneuirer 2,000
Whether from tho very sloppy condition of the
streets, or from the foot that the Seventh Itegri
ment go to Washington to assist at the mementos
there, or from the impecuniosity of the municipal
treasury, the natal day of Washington will be ob
served with leas ceremonial, tomorrow, than has
been the case in this city for many years The
corporation have failed to make the usual appro
priation of $l,OOO, to pay expenses, and only four
regiments are under orders to turn out. Row they
will contrive to march through any of the streets
remains to be solved. At present they are almost
impassable.
Mr. John Booker, yesterday, took the oath and
entered upon his duttee as Chief Engineer of the
Piro Department. The salary is $O,OOO per an
num.
Our glorious Seventh Regiment go to Washing
ton in the same train that takes this letter, to par-
Hotpote in the ceremonies of inaugurating Mills'
statue. It Is not a little creditable to the public'
spirit, the esprit du corps, and the discipline of the
regiment, that six hundred of its members, at less
than two days' notice, complete their arrangements
for an excursion of this character. It shows what
they could do in an emergency demanding their
services for the protection of life or property, or to
sustain the civil authorities in the enforcement of
law.
Dr. Palmy's " La Femme " has met with a sale
quite unprecedented. Notwithstanding a very
large edition was on the counters of the publishers
on Saturday morning, last evening every oopy was
disposed of, and orders constantly coming in for
additional supplies. Of the many clever gentlemen
who are successful in translating and adapting from
the French, no one see= to reproduce the precise
life end spirit of what they take in hand as Dr.
Palmer. Ins thorough scholarship, keen insight,
quick and relined wit, and power of absorbing the
very "thoughts and Intents " of his author, render
him peculiarly qualified to impart to a translation
all the interest and power of the original.
The "last scene of all" in the history of Bur
ton, tke actor, is precisely such as might be ima
gined in one whose life had been passed in making
"counterfeit presentments" of character of every
shade, from the high-toned man of the world to
the lowest-toned blackguard of the gutter. It has
often occurred to me that, more than any other in
the world, the actor's profession is an unreality;
yet more than any other it studies the nature of
those who adopt the different professions, and
shows up the "nature of the animal" in each and
all. Burton knew as well as most stover men, the
inside of all professional eminence, and knew,
moreover, that, as a Wisner, "there's nothing in
it." His whole stage life was nought but a sham.
The last scene, in the last act of big own drama, was
a melancholy reality. Ills final orders were that no
one should be permitted to look upon hie dead
form, except those whose services were absolutely
needed In putting ha in hie last resting place ;
and he also gave strict orders that no one should
follow his corpse to its plane of sepulture but the
sexton and his assistants. In one respect ho waa
like the present veteran manager of Wallack's
theatre—he was never seen in those public places
that actors are generally acoustomed to frequent.
Alas ! poor Burton ! "a fellow of Infinite Jest ; of
most excellent fancy."
News comes from Havana that Miss Adelaide
Phillips, who obtained two thousand dollars at a
recent benefit, drew ' on
,the same day, a lottery
prise of six thousanddollars.
Mrs. Wanerve " Jago."
[Flom the New Orleaae rionnte, pet,. 11.)
On the occasion of her benefit, last evening, Mrs.
Emma Waller, the brilliant star now at the St.
Charles Theatre, assumed the oharacter of Immo,
in the presence of one of the bed-houses of the
season.
It was a most remarkable perfermaptse,..Were
we to say that it was as perfeot ap ement of
a great ghakspearian oreatlon as we ever w •
nested, we should hardly be Mating the ease to.
strongly. Clertainly, ap a self•consiatent, perfectly
sustained work of art,“ torus, term, arqua ?pmts.
dus"—it was a moat ,finished perioaation. The
artist's ideal was boldly, and, in some respects,
originally conceived, and it was adhered to
throughout, in the exposition, with most striking
fidelity.
Mrs. Waller possesses, In a remarkable degree,
that great requisite of a tragic' actor, facility of fa
cial expression. /lee Nantes, when in repose,
seem scarcely capable pf that wonderful mobility
which enables them, at will, to portray the storm
sot and most agitating passions. There is some
thing marvellous in the rapid and sudden transi
tions with which, ad-Jago, this artist turns from
one of those malignant moods in which the treach
erous villain is plotting the destruotion of his
friend's best hopes, to the merry greeting of the
poor fool Roderic o, as he breaks in upon the so
liloquy. 4n4 a deaf auditor, who could not catch
a word of her utterance, could read the varying
0010i101111 of her heart, the shifting, changing,
quickly-succeeding passions that are moving that
wicked tool, so graphically are they delineated In
her face.
The danger of this mode of playing the part of
logo le, that it may be canted so far as to make it
seem impossible that Othello could be deceived by
so demonstrative an Idgo ; that the disguise would
be too thin, and that the wolf must be seen
through the eareleasly-worn lamb's skin. We
have seen the personation more than once so spoiled.
Bat Mrs. Waller, with infinite toot, only permits
the audience to see the workings of the soul of the
wicked Ivo, as he weaves his infernal web, and
emits over the enmeshing of hie dupes within It.
We think, if It bo not hypercritical to find a flaw
in so perfect a piece of work. that Mrs. Waller, at
the end of the fourth act, kills poor Roderizo a
little too much. It ;make', a telling point to bring
down the curtain upon /zee finishing his treach
erous work in that way ; but as the poor, foolish
Venetian had been a good deal perforated before,
between Cesare and "ago, and as .Fipolerigo has to
revive afterwards sufficiently to betray hisbetray
er, end to lay open his hellish plots upon Othello
and Audemona, perhaps a somewhat more mode.
rate murder would more nearly consist with the
unities. And one thing more, nov that we hate
begun to find fault—Mrs Waller wrongly reasons
of the finest lines in the play :
" —if pepsin doth remain.
lig a h t altui e d s a i !d: ZOT in his life
Nra. Waller says, a daily beauty in his eyes,"
which, we submit, is a very different thing from
what Shakespeare and jagq intend.
The tuition of this artist in the olosing scene of
the tragedy, after the villain she personates has
declared his purpose of speaking no more, is as
marvellously fine as it Is strikingly original. We
have never been so strongly impressed with the
true climates of "this deml-clevil" as while wit.
missing this scene, as played by Mrs. Waller. It
defies analysis ; it must be seen to be believed pos•
eible to a woman's capabilities.
Wno was EWE ?—." H. F." (Hiram Fuller 7 )
the New York correspondent of the New Orleane
Picayune, writes, Jan. 29th :
* 0 This reminds me of what may he
termed a tensation funeral, width boa recently,
taken place in the upper part of the olty. La
Traviata was a marript welnall, without
dren, beautiful beyond conception. When tho;
eye saw her it blessed her for the beauty of her
person, and the perfection of her toilet, Ire the
greet, in the ballroom, at the opera, she ever
reminded one of the neat, artistic sketch of Scott:
"Ne'er did Grecian object tree.
Ajirmph. a naiad, or greet,
With finer form, or lovelier (Coe."
Last week this fair, frail flower was suddenly:
wilted and died. On the announcement of the
fact in the newspapers, there was an extraordinary
demand for white lamellas, white rosebuds, orange
blossoms, and all o th er pale and preolone flowers
At for the bridal bed of death. In a robe of white
satin, in a rich casket lined with the same mate/
rial, the faultlesa form, which no soulptor'e art
could rival, lay in its last repose, wreathed
and garlanded, and bestrewed with flowers,
The funeral was largely attended, by soon
only ; and, strange to say, mostly by men
utterly unknown to the bereaved husband, al ?
though among the multitude of the afflicted who
followed La Travtata to the tomb, each felt Mtn
self entitled to fill the place of chief mourner" at
her funeral. Such Is life, and death, too, In this
great cosmopolitan oity, which Is growing every
day more and more like the " cities of the Old
World," and, perhaps, in some respects, like the
cities destroyed for their sins by the grand cata
clysm of Noah.
ATTEMPTED SUMMED? AN ALLEGED SWINDLER.
Yesterday afternoon, John Proekaner, of Philadel
phia, oonvioted on Saturday last, in the Hudson
County Court, of swindling J. Deegan ,11 Co., out of
about $l,OOO worth of geode, attempted to destroy
his life by swallowing poison. Proekaner wee ar
rested yesterday forenoon In New York on a benob
warrant issued by Judge Ogden, at the instance of
Mr. P.'s bondsman. Upon arriving at Jersey City,
the prisoner was taken by the officers, Ilaybeek
and Sheppard, to Mr. Jelliffe'r. office ; while there
Proskauer drew out a vial of laudanum and sail
lowed the poison before ko could be prevented, and
throwing the vial down told the officers to take
him. They did take him to a drug-store, where be
was forced to swallow a powerful emetto, and hie
stomach was relieved sufficiently toprevent a fatal
effeot.—N. Y. Evening Express of yesterday.'
SUICIDII or A Enos MANUPAOSURnno—WO learn
that Mr. Edmund D. Wiley, an extend,. shoo
manufacturer Of South Reading, Mass., Committed
suicide last evening, by banging himself. Ile has
been for some years engaged in the buss noes, and
had a salesroom at No. 100 Pearl street, In this
0 11 3 , . A short Ume since ho had a large and costly
man ufaotory erected at South Reading, near the
13oston and Maine depot, and Made a general en-k
largement of bls business at considerable outlay,
and it is supposed that be had either • suffered, or
that be had anticipated heavy losses, as be has
been for some days deranged. His realdence was
at Montrose, and he committed the deed in a barn
near hie hum—Boston Traveller, February 18.
Letter Iron; New York.
LV" Joaquin (Tomes, a noted character of Ito
ma, died on the night of the 2d lost, aged P 4
years. Ile is understood to have died worth (six
millions of dollars. It le said he did not make any
will, and that his heirs—nephews and illegitimate
children, who, however, were °dusted and ao•
knowledged by him—.lave wisely agreed to enter
into an arrangement for the division of the large
amount above stated, instead of going to law
abord'it. Twelve or thirteen years since a Dr.
Derange, who some say had been grossly
wronged by a decision of the deceased, who at the
time was the president of the " Tribunal of Com
merce," while others declare the doctor had been
cheated In some slavetrading transaction, entered
the church of San Felipe, In Havana, where Don
Joaquin Gomea was, and poured a bottle of vitriol
upon his (the deceased's) head, acme of which,
tanning into his oyes, instantly deprived him of
eight, while the wound Winded on the head paver
healed. The doctor, after perpetrating this deed,
rushed Into the gallery of tile church, and there
swallowed a dose of prussic acid, which instantly
deprived him of life. The deceased lingered all
of these years deprived of eight, a pitiable object.
THE LATEST NEWS
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STARTLING INTELLIGENCE !
WRECK OF THE ULMER:EP HUN;
(MARIAN OFF CAPE GABLE.
ALL ABOARD PROBABLY LOST 1
flaw Your, Feb. 21.—A despatch from Halifax says
large atearnalup a ashore off Cave gable. Ito commu
nication has yet bun hail with her.
[OXCOND DESPATCH.]
llgentmarod, N. 8., Monday Evening, Feb. 20.—The
light. of a steamer Were area at 4 o'olook thin morning,
about half a mile from the Leland. The ureter has been
so rough that the boats lent out could not reach ker.
A vessel is preparing to go to her assistance. The
American consul has already gone.
We shall Probably hase information of the name of
the steamer, and the nature of the accident, m the
morning.
[Barrington, where the ahoy* despatch la dated, le
near Sable, on the southwestern extremity of Nova
Bc ri tla wrong. Feb. 21.—The agent of the Associated
Press has cent &imolai monger to the seems of the
disaster.
The following dospatch has hod been received
BAHRINGTON. N. S.. Feb. 21.—The Ainerioart consul
returned from the island last night, but he omaid furnish
rtdefinite information nonearning the wreaked Metal
. Ste Is supposed to be the steamer Tlnnearian, whioli
left Liverpool for Poitlaud on the dth 'init.. end it is
feared that all aboard perished during the night.
The vessel prepared for her assistance left here this
morning.
THE LATEST.
}(topaz, Feb. St. — Brain:lg.—The following are all
the particulars as yet known regarding the wreck:
It, has been asoertained that the wrecked steamship
is the
lea total
asoonjectured.
me r ts ,, e. total si;T OCt •
taw and are all supposed to have
been toe.
A small portion of the hull is now visible et low water.
There M nothing like the news summary forth* Asso
ciated Press to be found, unless it is In the mail..
emelt portion of which bee been saved in a damaged
condition.
.iipasenirer ticket hes been found bearing upon it
the name of Ellen Skeeham.
Tne following has been telegraphed to Mears. Cunard
& Co. from Cape Cable :
...rho 'tower's lights were seen on Monday morning,
at dr o'elook. on the Cape ledge.
At daylight her spars and pipe were standing. At
10 (o'clock all was gone by the board. Then the ship set
tled fait.
it A. heavy nes was breaking mast high over the
ship
..Corupioation with her in impogsible.
" All end. have been loot, unless the boat.' left the
ship be me daylight. which is unliely."
the Hungarian belonged to the Montreal Ocean
Stearnship . Company's line, and milted from Liverpool
on the Elth instant for Portland.
Two Days Later from California
NEW OBLEANII, Feb.2l.—yen Francisco data to the
30th (two days later than previously furnished> have
been received by the arrival here of the Southern over
feed mail. via h.l Paso.
Rich surface diggings had been discovered near
Oeorge town.
A memorial containing a hundred thousand signature.
had been presented to the Legislature to prevent the
further immigration of the Chinese.
The overland line nr telegraph had been finished
nearly two hundred miles beyond ban Francisco on the
Butterfield route. .
. . • ..
SANDWICH ISLANDS.
Honolulu datee to the 7th ult. had beau received.
The Ku g had returned
Elemiong were being held throughout the kingdom.
The vote wan small.
The building of a new custom-house had been ooin
mooned at !loonlulu.
BAN FRANCNICU MARCUM—The markets at Sae
Franoisco were very depressed, and too dull for quo
tations.
MOLLOY'I STATION, February Mat..—The Overland
Mail, with Nan Franeisoo dates to the 3Ot h of January,
passed this station this mornine.
The news by this SlTlval is. to the main, antle , pated
by the arrival at New Orleans via FA Paso of the mail,
with the same dates.
. . . .
he silver mines . discovered at Mount Ifeless.
Weise county, have proved to be of but little value.
The road between Placerville and Carson Valley was
unobstructed by snow, and ripe ratioon had been resumed
in corns of the Over mines. Most unbounded confi
dence Autism( to be felt in the extent of the richnosa of
the mines east of the mountain.
A company had been organised to construct a dumb
twenty miles ions from Carson river to the placer sold
mines south and east of the valley.
Accounts from Carson Valley iry tim co ndition
ii of thl
Wit 'IP! that
e it ra n q m s a ti t tri e r a r t i .o b il e ihal. ‘ &s e re " ; were vic i nity
five
sight at 9 • limo.
th,g? Ad carcasses
o
w was soi i s A s i of, and it was hoped that ran
would soon be atiosnible
The excitement coneerning the Mahal silver mines
continued unabated.
The elleisof claims wade In Ras Franoigoo, during
the two west ■ s previous to rite departure of the mail,
amounted t 0101.53 000.
*The Judiciary Committee pf the Legiglatere. on the
*lb made a lengthy report In favor of releasing the
iaire:tlrie on the bonds of t h e p Paci fi c) Vapress Comeany,
the nutter of the Elly,ooo defeloation of Maury
es.
Mr. Lamar had introdnoed a rosolution in the 7,eg Is
lature. asking Congress to J rant pre-emption titles to
noting) settlers from the of March, 1,80, to the 34 of
March, 1141.
SANDWICH ISI.ANDS.
The
The advices from the Sandwich Islands 11T• to the 7th
of nuary.
d Tim queen's birthday was oalebrated as usual on the
Rev. Mr. Williams. one of the p!Fer , missionaries,
ho left Boston m 1819 , and who since remained
ons'ently on the Islands, from Honolulu. for
Kew Bedford, on tho MI of December, by the ship
lack Sea.
SAN FRANCISCO MA RI{RTS.—The San Franoireo
markets are pan' quiet, and the country trade amount,
to but little. The recent buoyant feeling has ceased.
and speculators, air well as regular butt''', are holding
otf. Not enough Daum:Amax have ocemrred fining the
past two day. to sword quotation, gutter ri weaker.
One half of the ship frich's cargo of Rio Coffee was do
‘iinetl4;tairielrilif:l,l4 leNo. The sound was hold at Ido,
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Amved January 22th bark Vernon, from Honolulu;
eteamer Origeba, from Paname.
_Sailed January 28th. ship Dow Torkate, fur Honglong, long, with 88t3,M0In treasure:
From Washington.
WentISOM, Feb. 21. —The Senate, in executive
erasion to day, rati fi ed the treaty of Amity and emir
merce with Paraguay. Ths one previously ratified is
for indemnity.
The Mexican treaty was reported and read, and its
consideration postponed till next blonder.
Senator Itteeen, ehairmaa or the Committee on Fo
reign Relations, gave notice that he should move, from
day to day. to no into executive union thereon. Seve
ral of the Republican Senators are known to be in laver
of the treaty. The views of Senator Seward. a member
of that committee, are a subject oremieulation.
A large number of gramma have arrived In the cit y
to warning the, proceedings attendant on the inaugura
tion of the oeuestriao statue of Washington.
"I lie bill introduced by Senator Seward to-day pro
vides for the of mission Al Newts under the Wndotte
Cnaetitntton. He gave dottoe that he will call a , up on
Wednesday, the gem. when herein express hie views on
the subject. This announeement will satisfy the nu
memus inquiries which have been made a. towhother
he intended to make n speech.
Amour the butanes' of the House Committee on Fo
reign Affairs to day, the resolution, for the iteetltattinn
of Cuba and the Canaries. and for a commercial treaty
with Cuba. together with the French Spoliation bill.
were referred to Mr. Corwin. The resolution relative
to the impure lif the bark Adriatic to Mr. Burlingame,
and' the bill for an international copyright law to Mr.
Morrie, of Penns) IMII 4 .
Mr. Florence pregehtmlatt the Noose to-day the me
morial of the Philadelphia Board of Menge Under
writers. asking Qongreas to pass n law making an BP
propnation for t cpurchase of self-righting life boats,
and o her appropriation. necessary for the muipment
of the life-wing elation, on the emits of Lonc island
end New .lernm. It was appropriately referred to the
committee bn Commerce
Messrs. &mend Joon Cochrane. of New Yerk, pre
sented memorials from citizens of the State of New
York for the freedom such memorials nd to actual set
tler,. The number of largely on the
1110Tellee.
o par t Li& plea erio4eoTd d y g i tirvieAt . Mr. Adam,
m a member 0 ' 714 NAge.iielant tioMnsitteti on abill
abolishing the franking privilege.
People's 8 Convention at Harris.
burg.
HARRISBURG, Feb. 21.-1 he town is crowded with
people to-day. end the attendance on the People's State
Convention. signet it to meet to-morrow. will exceed
that of any Opposition Convention ever held in this
State. No prehminnry arrareements for the oreanisa
lion end proceeding', of the Convention have yet teen
elide. Sufficient is known, however, already. to leave
no doubt that the friend. of General Cameron will be in
an overwhelming me rarity, nod will control the motion
of the Convention. They will declare in be favor for
the Presidenor, and will appoint a full delegation to re
present the State et Mimeo. The vote on the Presi
dency will he over one hundred for Oeneral Cameron,
nut of the one kindred and thirty-three delesntes. The
reminder will lit divided between Seward. Bates, end
Jud-e Read. The vote on the selection rat delegates by
the Ponvention will 1' at tenet two. irde M favor of so
eppointing them. to o t a e
o the district dole
sates vOll4 Eiden to tho delegetee nom Sao Coupes-
Pineal dietriot.
The context for Governor will be a very ',saltine one.
and the result of It cannot even now be conjectured.
Mr. Ctirtin will lend. followed closed. by Mr. Comte.
Mr Taggart will be the third highest. and Messrs.
Kline. Hew... Haines. Calvin. and Todd. will each have
a number of votes. The nomination will depend upon
teenourse of the friends et' the four last-named gentle-
If they withhold their supper& from the two
former, either of these four or a new candidate may
have to be taken.
nicean DR.PATCII.
NAARII2IOIIO, Feb. al-11 P.M.—There has been much
caucusing to-night. and the opposition to Mr. Curtin
Nsumea rather a threatening mutat. Mr. Covode is
!itself.
"I,lli4',i.ved that (Inventor PoHoek will be the tem
porary chairman of the Convention. '1 he town is etowil•
ed with etran era. an 4 every hotel is peeked.
A delegation from Ohio with their flak, and also a de
legation from Pittsburg to the Old tioldiers' Convention,
acived th,s afternoon.
The old veteran. are determined to support no Presi
dential candidate but a known friend or the pension
bill.
B=MIM
.—T
AR1111.817110, Pe brunt.), 21-1116 u'olookhe c.lele
yanc) Alr. H
tas Appear
t to herivided between Governor Pogook
a Petis ftemporary (chairman. Atr.
ley, of Schuylkill, will probably be the permanent
it 'teems to he sonerally understood that the Conven
tion will select delegates to the Chomp° Convention
with inerruetiona to vote for peneral Simon Cameron
for President.
. ,
Never wax there so much interest maolfetatul In
4ny convention easomblett here as in the Preeeht one.
Later from Mexico.
New ORLEM,S. Feb gt.—Adriccs Cram Tampico to
the 13th Inst. have been received.
Generals Lima end Masa were 'enrolling raptdlr from
Ittauthuala and Tula. es wits tin Co ravapil from Victo
ria, to intercept Allrafnon's expedition against Vera
Cruz.
General Morale. with I WO men, and General Alvarez,
with critSf men, were inarobing upon the capitol.
The liberals were beelereillit Guadalarara.
General Desolindo had zone In Puebla to direct the
movements of the Liberals, and wee confident of de
patter( ATI racoon.
The wife of Atiromon accompanied her husband in
the expedition against Vera Cruz. It is supposed that
If he is defeated in the attack on that pity Mirmnim will
iota the country.
Union Meeting in New York.
Now Yore, Yeti. 21.—A grand mass meeting was
held eVeIIME in the Cooper institute, composed of
those in favor of upholding the Union and opposed to
sectional parties and lawe. Addresses were delivered
l ' y J. Morrison Harris of Mari land i Usorge Briggs of
New York; J. W. Oerhard of New ork, and others.
Oen. Scott appeared on the stage and wan
greeted with the most uproarious applause.
iVaiihingtOn County Democratic Nom'
nations.
Pignenno, Feb.:l.—The Washington county Demo
cratic Convention , yesterday elected tho Hon. Wm.
Montu F mery and Mr. Shutterly delorates to the Heading
State nvention, who were unanimously inetitiated in
levor o Senator Douglas for the Presidency. ' The oon
vontidi Also passed resolution in favor of Mr. Hopkins
for governor.
➢lovemcnts of Geo. Wm. Walker.
MONTGOMIIRY, Aln., Feb. 21.—Cen. William Walker
left here yeeterday for Charleston and New York.
XXXVITII MfiRESS.-FIRST SESSION,
CAPITOL,Washi futon, Feb. :1.
SENATE.
Sundry communications were received from the de-
PalreflriTAßD,ro n
f New York. in_rt oded a bill for
the admission of Kansas into the Union, was
made the soecial order for Wednesdits of nest week,
Mr. hl ASON, o Virginia, gave notice that on Monday
he would move to go into executtse session, and con
tinue therein uritil eartain matters were disposed or.
Mr. LIOOLIT I'e.E. of Wieoonsin. presented a memo
tint fine% the Legislate!. or Wisconsin in retard to the
htenointoee Indians. The memorial say, that the In
dians have been sham•fully imposed upon and reduced
to a state ofdei nitution. The emu* of the law la
asked to protect giant.
.. . . 1
Mr. 11 A UN, of California. offered a resolution that the
Committee on Paldle Lange be instructed to inquire
Into the expediency of making a survey of the silver
and other mines on the eastern elope of the Siena Ne
vada mountslns. Adopted.
Re also offered a resolution that the Committee on
Military Anus be instructed to inquire into the expe
diency of granting the proceeds of the new Almaden
quicksilver mines to Oeliformn, to aid the building of a
railroad from the Pacific. laud over.
Mr. HAHN also gave notice of a bill for the aepoint
roan' of an agent to take charge of the new Almaden
quicksilver tames. He made some remarks showing
that Pacific: railroads could be built out of the plaid of
Omit mines without taking a. dollar front the public
treasury.
mr. WADE, of Ohlo. introduced several petitions In
relation to the importation of foreign iron.
Mr. MASON, from the Harmer'. Ferry raid Com
mittee, reported a resolution thattlie sergeant-at.arms
be instructed to brine Thaddeus Hyatt. of New York.
before the bar of the Senate, to answer for contempt in
refusing to come here and testify before the tronuntt
tee. e
Mr. HALE, of New Hampshire, said this would be a
dangerous precedent. there being no written,' for it in
tho Constitution. and powers not expressly delegated to
the Federal Government were reserved to the States.
Such a power could only be exercised by a latitudinarian
construction of the Constitution. He would ask for the
none and nays on the passage of this resolution.
ar r . plum, of fettle, said that he had arrived at the
conolusion that the Rematched no power to so moron any
witness from beyond the District or Columbi...
Mr. COL AMER. of Vermont , thought that the Se
t
nate had t e same power as a court to compel the at
tendance o witnesses.
Mr. Verm o n t . aid that he must differ with the Senator
from llO teemed to think that they had all
the power possessed by the British Parliament. (tureen,.
a Government of limited poicitre. The Senate could
not sit as a court with plenary powers.
The resolution was, however, adopted by • vote of
yeas 43, nays 12.
The nay. were Mains. Bingham, Chesnut, Clark,
purkea. Hale. Hamlin, Pueh, winner , Twang. Wad..
Wilkinson, end Wilson. Mr.,Ssward voted in the af
firmative.
Mr. HA LE, of New Hampshire, Introdneed a resolu
tion asking the President to communicate whether
l'eru complied with her treaty stipulations with this
ocountrt, and what t zeasures had been adopted to en
fr.! ill e Gta d .:l Pennsylvania, intmered a resolu
tion instructing the Committee on Nave Affairs to in
quire into the expetteney of having t it nominations
for captains and lieutenants or the nav sent to the
Senate for confirmation, and indragaing t h e pay of the
same. Adopted
Oa motion of * Mr. 'VERSO:7, of Georgia, It was re
solved that Friday of each week be est apart for the
consideration of private hill s .
On motion of Mr, D AVIS, Mississippi. the Senate took
up the bill to authorise the sale of cubit° arms to the se
veral States and Terrtorit e. and to regulate the appoint
ment of superintendent. orarmorlee.
After a debate, the. further ciatunderation of the till
wee poatpone order hursday next at bill cl P.M.
The spools! of the day, the to nr-bititt the
issue of bank notes In the District of Columbia, was
taken.up.
After &short debate, the bill was laid Mille, and the
Senate wont into execuuve session, and subsequently
adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
On motion of Mr. GROW, of Pennsylvania. the select
oommittee on printing, engraving and binding was au
thorized to e m pl o y a (3 1 0 ,k.
Mr.I3MITH, of North Carolina, corrected eartein
erroneous and unjust impression. existing in thispoblie
mind. growing nut of the recent commit for the speak
ershi p. He had never belonged to the American ores
ni xation, but wine still a Whig, elected on broad national
Around.: yet he had not sal t that he denounced the
merican party. and orpudiebd its principles, some of
which commanded his approbation. but there was no
thing proaeriptive In them. Among the members of
that oritanix%tion there ate many good and linemen,
and to them he owed the honor of his Beet here.
In conclusion. he spoke in favor of the Compromise
resolutions of 28,30. agreed to by both the Whig and De
mocrat:a parties as the mean' of quieting the al YYYYY
agitation.
Mr. PEN nuToN, of Ohio, remarked that heunder
stood Mr. Smith to say that he. i Mr. Pendleton.) during
the contest, correctly stated his i Mr. Smith's) rolitievtt
principles. He wanted Mr. Smith to say dietinetly
whether this was go.
Mr. SMITH replied: While you did not state the de.
tails of your conversation, your statement of the result
was correct. _
•
Mr ALLEN. of Ohio, sighed to make an explanation
in relation to the eu Meet, but wee prevented by calls to
Drier.
. .
Mr:MORRIS. of Illinois. from the Committee on Roads
aud Canals, reported a Joint resolution giving the as
of Congress to the action of the Ststes of i onisiana.
t oxen, and Arkansas. relating to the tentovel of the
Rod River raft, by imposing tonnage dams, and moved
the question on its passage.
Ting resolution occasioned Il li no i s , nfsion
Mr. FARNRWOFtni, of said it woo read
merely_tor information.
hts. Br BT. of Arkansas, remarked that H wan utterly
untrue that there was any attempt to d eceive ,
The resolution wan then rsnommitteit.
r. WA SFISUR Ng, of Illinois. from the select com
mittee on the su bject, reported In facer of removing
the present sesta and restoring the old chairs and desks.
and In order to give time for this purpose. proposing an
adjournment the Senate coneurring, from Friday next
to the Itth of Much.
Mr. MILES, of Ruth Carolina, made a minority re
port.
Mr. WAREIBURYIE, of Minnie, for the purpose of
testing the noose of the House, moved the previous
4 1Pr. t rARNSWORTII, of Illinois, moved to lay the
motion on the tails.
.. . .
The 01013 On to , lay on the table wee negatived by Ig
majority.
The teeo'ution restonng the chairs and desk+ was
then passed by 9 majority. The resolution to adjourn
on Friday. till the fifth of March, to make such change,
wag tabled hr 3t malorite.
Mr. HARKIN, of New York. offered a resolution.
which was adopted, that the select committee on print
ing hand over to the committee on the public expend'.
him ell books and papers, and eueh evidence se they
have taken. and be discharged from the further °onside
ration ~( the subject
MT. HOARD, of New York, offered a resolutton that
neo unfittee of five be appointed to teamsa and inv.. -
heats, whether any improper attempts have been. or
ere about being, made by persons connected with the
executive departments, er actin; under their &date*.
to influence the action of this Hone*. or the members
thereof. on any (woollen or measure Ike Roes* has
mated on, or YAM is under consideration, by directly.
or indirectly, premising favor. ureter the Government.
fits subordtnatee, in tonsidertition of any tote wart
held or tote men, end that the committee here the
power to seed for persons and papers
Mr. WINSLOW, of Norte Carolina, objected to the
(mood/tontine of the resolution.
Mr. HOUSTON, of Alabama. Wee InPlrig that It
should be introduced at come other time, but he object
ed to its eonsideration at the present, be apse a prin.
Weed question was needle,.
Mr. HOARD than withdrew his resolution for the
prese On
0 motioni of Mr. WASH BU RN. of Maine, the *leo
tiol7 of a printer was postponed till Thursday. by four
ma oral.
he Mom then went into Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Vamp.
boi l " ' te r l a sVo l l;tgli elirlr i e sn x...°„Tre fg, tiveqx°l inquire
how
condition of thingstalississtypi was eat for dis
union per U. she would never make the mune until
elle became convmed that her sister States of the
North were deliberately determined to endaneey her
intermit peace and "octal institution', and Impair her
dignity and squelity as a confaderats State Partites
la mnjority of the people of Missiuoppi speak with
the same reserve and caution that he did to-dee. The
obvious and unmistakable motive end design of the
Agitation of the slavery question is to produces aliena
tion and dletresa It le but due to ear that it is the
unanimous sentiment of the south thee the existence
of the Republican party is a standing menet:is to her
peace and moronity. and a Candies insult to liar ahem
ter. Be dwelt at sonic lenelb on the falls., of
pegro equality with the white man, Inc it would be an
boron to the letter to be asked to take the former as a
companion to his family. The emu.. returns 'how she
phys.eal and moral conditioner the negrqeo be superior
to the eouth to his oond.tion In the North; and be
asked, under thus view, of what has humanity to com
plain. Ho "poke of the industry and cease of Justice
necessary in the goverment of a plantation, which fits
eon to he lender. to legialeteres and cominandere of
rei mins. and alluded to Washine ton. Tay Tay l or, and others ,
who had thus been assometed. In ooneltimon,he said
het the South was determined that the institution of
slavery shall be inalutesned es an existing feet to Otis
Confeile rimy.
M r. DAVIS. of Maryland, announced his mimosa to
acknowledge the compliment paid him by theLerista
tore of Maryland. It had base long since the present
domineet party , had had a majority lit both branch., of
that body. but it had conducts d itself in .0 remarkable
a manner that probably a long time would elapse before
this imoident would be repeated. If one might lodge
[corn the farce and ocinduct of that party, the gentlemen
who compose it are perhaps more surprised at their pre
sent power than their opponents over whom they tri
umphed. He immured that party to the cloy who,
awaking in asleep emen chamber, asked himself whe
ther he wes or bad slept: " I !aif --1 hear-1
think—l smelt savors—on my life t awe lord, in
deed—then brine our wife to our person." Lanehter.]
Tqey were of that a ase of men described bobby
y Monte.
quieu, in Paris, ignorant of •verythteg. yet have the ge
nius to teach everything to the world. and employed an
attorney to keep them tom folly.
Ile proceeded to speak or their acts as a series of
blunders. in disregard of the fundamental law Smit
ten with the resolution of Mr. Clark, of 31issoun,
when the police bill was before them they incorporated
a proviso that no Bleck Republican. or endorser or ap
prover of the Helper b ok, should be appointed to office
under the Board of Come i amours. Having thus pro
tected Baltimore from such influences they shortly af
ter passed another nieasure to relation to ea, railroads.
a dangerous machine, by which thousands of people
daily come in contact, and where the subtle political
poison might be ionised into the vein* of Baltimore,
whhout eqy one being the wiser. They thought that
the people should be protected against the poison in the
atmomphere, and tlis i refore it was provided. an.. stands
u part of the lull, t rano Eiit,„ :., - ,. .k Republican, or endorser
or approver of the steer It. !looted MOH'S any of
the tient*
, or pr ivileges o f
this act, or he employed in
any ceptorty. e Would, teerefore• tell the Repub
linens tha t they must be prepared to answer. at
the car core of their political principle'. or use
the lightning train. I Lauehter.l A bill was before the
Leg islatuTet. lionfiere leg the Agricultural College. when
a member mane, moved to apply the same proviso to
that. But the contemination doe. net run so rapidly in
the country as in the city ,and it was quickly voted down.
They then assumed the euardianship of one of Marg
ined e represente:ives on this boor, and paned a rm.
lotion that Henry Winter Davis. one of the reprreents
tia es of Maryland in Congress, by his vote for Mr Pen•
!mtton, the candidate of the Black Republican party,
has nuerepresented the sentiments Ot MI Pieties and
n
thereby fatteed t..e confidence of t a people . Only
Gunk this is d upon tbe_etetute-rionk, to remain
there forever. (Laughter.] Now he would say that be
would speak to their masters and not to them. It tt••
always been a utriking peculiarity of that party, which
aceidentelly predominate, in Merl lane, that it will al
low no opportunity to pa a to indicate Its entiee fealty
to the Routh. and t h is ahema comets in 'Wrote he
strife tied Libeling its neighbors who lire next door, by
saying thee a man who i t not a Doormat is •ii
A holitiomet. The Legislature can to described
ih Its Pollen Milne, and principles. as hi alton
wilddescribes the fortress of hell. It wou l d 1 let l oose
and
tdemciniaoal , passions, to destroy and rum the wan
ry if It soul& f here Wane email, talleid, rlietiess. We
enie. incapable of striking a blow, incapable of login,
hint sitllfei to soh. and of these vu the honorable
trelenTwantii,ll,)rigteuret.thbeetf:r°
&l e a n t n t ehtosrey
dabbler. resolution.
eternal agitation. This day his vote for Mr. Penning.
ton was not only approved but honored by every man
whose opinion he regarded. " evvieure in the HPillo
ries.' e had no apology to elate or excuse to render.
What he did was according to toe own judgment. He
told his conetitnents when he came here that he would
tome as a freeman or not at all. He foresaw then
whahad come to pm But he anew his duty, and it
washer proudest satisfaction that his constituents ap
proved what behalf done. They recollected Mutt Der Pen
ni egtne'll name was connected with a broad teal which
was disregarded. They did know that foot, and they
thought that vengeance sae coming after a long de
lay, -after that act' of Parliamentary wrong. But
t Legi eaters could net be expectedo 'mow
t t
hat Preetdebt Taylor bad appointed Mr. Penning
ton to Who°. They could not be expected to know
that President , illmore appointed bun to another.
They could not be expected to lit tw that Mr. Penning
ton was a Whig in politics, in favor of every law in
which the Southern Bate. are interested. end that in
which Maryland more then any ether is interested—
namely, the futitivealeve law. Thu eentieetes of the
Lee.slature could not be expected to know, but his
orinstitgents know, that Sir. Pennington as in , favor or
Putting 'nand to Rio slavery agoetion nod strife. and
es a symbol to the country of that pence whteh, should
here prevail.' Some of those who voted for the con•
deinnatory resolution went to the Legit', tura on his
shoulders. They had not the sense to know that at hen
they sewed offthe bough that connected them with the
tree they Would fall. Bo fur as he was worth put.
suing, lie knew that he would be well hounded. There
was a minima list:tad crimple. of thie i p the old hall of
Representatives. Al r.'ClaY for ceetteg life a ote for
John gurney Adams for President wee asseilml by de
t'acthlin Whiph pursued him to the wive. He had sat at
the feet of Clay and learned as his apritle. ao man
should vote for any pokey withoutt Lame willing to take
his li clamorhe hand. Au far himself. he woual pot
allowto de Wet him In his honest purposes H•
wee not here merely as the Pepreeentative of The Fourth
Congreegionnt dot ict of Maryland. He WOA not to
oongult the prejudice. of hie coostituents, end while he
was bound to respect their interests, there might be, ea
there had Wien, in the great neoessittee of public life,
goo aeon' when be 'might be called on to disregard their
opinions, Ile prayed, however, that such s necessity
may never occur' hut If it should, he hoped he
would have strength for the trial. The resolution of
the Legislature wee of sinister tin ri, After Boding
to the elminstancee unaer whichr. Penhington was
elected, his entrighat he intfile not a llo w the opportunity
to pees ofplacing the olive branwhere every man
might see it, en emblem of peace to those yore States
so excited and revoluttoperi in their manure s. Among
ot h er 011 w/he reitiarkeit that it was not fair to ley
John Brown s TOO to the account of the North, whom)
Representatives had NO emphatically end indigeyntly
dented any IMO comPliolty. lie repeated that there
was no sot ho lea regretted than hie vote for Mr. Pen
nington—there WWI none he would More cheerfully give
thus day and hour,
The committee than rose, and the Rouge adjourned
till Thursday,
Fire at Olney, Illinois.
OLNIY, 111., Feb. 21.—The dry-goods store of B. H
Gorn, together with se 14nuoillit dieeidng, Wee de
stroyed by_ fire thus morning. The amount of loss on
ehOwn. The proper') Ives ineured Ste*
The Seventh Regiment of New 1 ork.
?Mu , Wilt Feb. 111.—The Seventh regiment. Ng
impel Guard, s ort Mr Weihmgtou et four o'clock this
afternoon. They will return on Thursday afternoon.
and will be received on Frtday mornins by the Twelfth
regiment, under the commend of 001. Betterheld.
PEAMIZVAXIA - LEOZIATITRE.
BENSITE.HaIt lint aq. Feb. 11.
• lorne number of petittogui, repotirtranoes. etc..
wen present open a great siwittlg Of_nnbien
Mr. 84711.040 from taisteret OienatOri•l tfiltrlCt
of Phll !phut, in favor of t octtomerr Conch
Railroa I edeo. a renionetrance from the storkhoklere
of the rhiladelphia. and Olney RLIIrOSCI against the pol
eaxe of the an eolement to the charter of saki COrrittar;
num. O. petition for an optroortotloo to oomplet•the
State Arsenal at Ptuladelprila.
hl r. P yeimeeted thirteen petitions for tan
pub. on the old Townsturt-hrw mad.
Mr. Msimar•ia,ove item Antlikntrllirlkkr and 7111111.11
P. Newbold. for an set requiring the !tats Tr 1.12111/
Bank:
Derma relief Dotes tweed th e T owanda Bulk: ale., a, iii•monal From physleinns of Pliadel.
'tun for e law for the rim istretion of btflha, trar net*/
and deaths in the nits.
Whir. FAKIR,. reed to place II trill to amend taw shatter
of the Trustees of the Fire Assoolatlon of PlitadsiphfiL
Mr. Scitiposs offered a reneutuet th• Menttre
ore.* Board of Revenue COtlllplogionery se e .. col are
per day outing their session. of d
roodse teble.
The bill relative to the title &strained for
Tent, was taken op and siciatponed.
Bib, bill relative toettweediega esortgarea gad ro
oosoisanees ; the bill relative to the develops:manta
miner.] leads. sod the supplement to the mit relsittre to
townehtmLand County mid township oilmen
generalle, passed grit readier.
The following MU Wet* wand* red and leased
• bill to authorise the lease of the fiernageld Rail
toad; to ineorsorare the Line latent Inentnnee Com
pany of Philadelphisand %elm county: a Mit to remit
the sot to Innorporate the Lackawanna and Passim
liana& Railroad; a. sapetsetent to the sot relative to a
Etats road In . ower Merton township. Montromery
ernintf supplement to ths net ineorgromting the
Thomas Iron Company, of lehish county. AttiournsiL
ffOL3E.
The flomnNtree o f War s and Means re pored a bill for
the relief of P. Small; the hull aPerOgNeo"
®lOOOO to My. Btrithll u damagee for illegal mermen
!writ.
the same committee reported an act feinting to the
Poweiton estate. in West Philadelonis. held be or for
Pensennsylvante Raitrold Compeer. t enables the
sylrania Railroad Company to have send Leads
ransferred to then. by the thrust Life Issaralose. An
nuity. end Trost COITI VISO •
1 he House then west into Committee of the Whole
and took lip the private calendar.
# The following bills were severs:ly considered and
Paned first lenitive:
An art to provide for the collontios of poor texas
within the enunty of Fib; to retold an tint metosiinit
the 'Prof wan eeeee attending court in Schu,lhil , noun.
tit ; a enrollment to an Ant *stifled asi sot for the bet
ter securing of compensation of labor in losertur coun
ty. approved the thirtieth of March 1822; an act to
erect a lock vein the town of Summit Bill. in Carbon
county ; an act to extend the proviaintut of asset fee
the relief and salYienzt of the pony La the moths'
of Washinston. Greene. end Fayette, pseud the thir
tieth day of April 1666. to the conatf of Bradfuni t as
Spn to protect operatives and laborers is the county of
hiontromery; a eupplement to en act to provide for the
erection of a pror• hoote for the • m ploy meet and sou sport
of the poor in the county of Greene ; act for the re
lief of memos Mitchell. former treasurer of Lawrence
futilely : an art to extend the provision' of s es 'rain set
to Monroe county t a farther supplement to the art to
provide for the erection of a bowie for the Meow
'pant Rod oupport of the poor of the county of Bed
ford; an Oct stittinrizlng she qualified encore of
onestownship. Westmoreland bounty. tr i te
edditional sunervitior : an set to in
the Columbia insurenoe : an act to pro
vide for the teuntion of non-resident vendor.r
merchandise in the coolly of Dauphin: RA set f or
the relief of Mary Rooney. widow of an old soldier"
en sat to Atithon le the trustees of Christ Church. of
the borough of Middletown. to trio county of 11.wshin.
to conc.. certain Tsai edste: aft act to sitehlteh the
Fnselsellle Male and Pimple Academy. la the county
of Lehigh: en eel authorising the trustees of Warren
Atiallemy to sell certain lends; an eat relative to the
remover of the track. of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company from a portion of Liberty n'reet. in threat,'
of Potshot*: • supplement to tip ant moot - molting
the Wilkesbarre and Kinseton Paiteentsr Beltway
Company ; itn act to incorporate the Done Sarrits
InstouPon of Pottsville; an set to incorporate the
Dime Sayings Institution of Allentown. in Lakin):
enmity ; an art In relation to olections in La
hist' county :an sot authorising a orders's( of
the boundaries of the boo - path of mono. ; as act
to incorporate the Phortutville Ose Company in Cheater
county ,• ft eupplernent to en act to treorp•rate the La•
Biretta Mutual Ina:lrene' Company of Plialadieeht• ap
rons*. April X. 1 256:_a suriPl*rnent Man act to incono
rote the Broad Top Irnpmeement Company. eeproced
the 26th dna of April, 1124; asset to moorpotele the
Northern Cowl Complies : as sot to moors...era the
Beachwood Cemetery . Company; • rupplem•nt to an
not ontttlnd aa not isoorporating the Btrishorn and
Tornerke Road Company; en net •o reduce
the onmher of aldermen in the Twenty-four h
word of the city of P61 1 44401* t, an act
_tn
potato the If utoincdon end &fealties s Prod Toreptko
nool C minims : • supplement to an spy to p re ps yhp
town of Bedfotd, in the county of Biallonl.lnvt a bn
month ; an act to Annex parts a Rubio: not Penns
field township.. in Huntingdon county. to Patton enmi
ty ; Anent to inerwreorate the Philedelphts and Moot.
comer, County Re bond ^omPany r en act to incorpo
rate the Penn Market Company or floc silty of Phila.
dvl phis of. net Authorising the West Branch Bank of
Williartinp , rt to increase its capital to any sum not ex
ceeding *3OO MO.
The Mho in - orporate the Bedford Countyßank was
nesativedthe House reflasing to order th. bial to to
foraPi g n e " lilip 4 ,wi utPla rearing. . wi:irtoblected off the calendar
To vacate a pert of the Germantown road in the cot of
Philadelphia to incorporate the Philedelphia City
Tel 'froth Comrany to in^orporste the Weal* - n Life
Insurance And Tntst Compeer to Philadelphia • • sae
plemen t to the Oct ineorporatins the Penn SS
. moat Life
:nen mono Com van v ; supplement to the eet to tnen
porate •he Ph ledelptiot and Olney Railroad Compeer.
The committee then row). when All the hits which had
passed Bret r • 'ding were read • awed and third bate
and Pissed Beall,. excepting the following, which wife
postponed :
. .
A supplement to the act for the erection of a poor
honee la Bedford tonaty.
A bill to mines parts of Dublin and Springfield taws
shied. liontingdon county. to'Palitan avant,.
An net to ineorPorate the Philadelphia mad Mawr ,
miry Railroad Company.
An act to incorporate the Penn Market Company,
postponed for tan weeks.
The 6,11 suthorianis the West Breech Blink. of Wil
itaineport, to morease its capital sloes Dente under eon•
sideration. Mr. Strong mnrrd to add an sitdo m ymi pro.
Yu°. 'that Astor* any tali none! stock shall be issued
the (+nicer, of The hank shall. for the pornoue of setonst
,• nte-bniderl deposit with the Auditor General.
Pennsylvania stab stock. or Vetted Mats* ytoek.the
market talus of which shall be es ial to the ciren'Atinti
of the bank.
The ameadmest led to a spirited d , wauseion.end was
finally adopted. The bi.t was then postpone d for two
weeks.
The bill to incorporate the Anthracite Improtemeat
Company wall also postponed. Adjourned.
THE CITY.
ANII'BE 4 4£ITS THIS Evwinge
• ACADZNIT Or Witc o Broad and LOCILIC
. arms."
NATIONALTairIII al. WLICIOt lu/on, bemoan EVO
lad B,Aa' Groat Mow Th• a
abant of Balm; or, The Fir. Ktox's Tow."
Wsttnr-Arrezer Tnirp.rue corner WAlb4,llt WIC
Ninth—•• The Istoonetset ' —" The Drensatit.
Wastsvier t Cr.szat's , Ascii •Thrsuary TazavlA.
Arch street. shore Sixth.—•• Octoroon.
&lcDonovan • Gamines, i 1441 street. below Tlurd.—
Entertainments stews'.
BANDIasigItV lEx N ROOM. It, 510.
Boadlng, Chestnut stmt., shove o
done Alumnus or Art.
Timm.: or Wormis. Borthead *min Ten th sae
Cheetamt stmts.—tumor has.
Aemmekor Flu A ar .. MI Ch et
Church's law:. " Tha Heart of the
'WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.
BOW IT WILL BE CELEER&TED.
MILITARY AND CIVIC DISPLAYS
This day. one hundred and twenty-eight years age,
George Washington Ir. born. That greet, and the cir
cumstances connected with the life that then name into
existence, are too (isobar to the citizens of America to
reunite newspaper repetition. The name and the fame
of this wonderful man are American property, end it is
with especial pleurae that we notice the general
among our citizens to commemorate the *mover's
r7 in en appropriate and patriotic manner. A novel
feature in the celebration will be the reading of Wash
ington's Farewell Address in public at the State House.
Mon. Horace BUMS, wilt road the address. Itavine ac
corded an invitation from Moment to perform this deity.
The preeence of this eminent and venerable mae—so
long at the head of the Philadelphia bar, and so renown
ed for his learning and genius throughout this land--will
edit additional interest to the mouton.. Mr. Ringer
long ranee retired trout [benefits duties of public aid
political life. and his re-appearance to-day le an event
of more than ordinary importance. Mr. Bin nay will
read the addreu In the Common Council chamber at
ten o'clock*
The military celebration at Roxborongh will be an
event of great importance. The ocraseion will be the
laying of the eornsr-atom or the monument to the me
mory of certain Revolutionary patriots in levennt toe
Cernetery. Roxborough. This celebration partakes
more ofa national act than any public event that has
recently transpired in this city. The history of the oe
eurrence which will to-day t e celebrated may be briefly
told. A body of Virginian trooper,. of the Continental
army. engaged In active service doting the Revolt'.
tummy IrOT, arrived atpato:ouch white the British
were in Philadelphia. en took shelter for the sieht in
the house and bare of is 'Wray Wood. a well-known
ritinnn, and while there they were surprised at night by
the British. whose forces were led thither br a Tory
wall a(KIU3I.Iad with the locality. The sentinel wee
•hot dawn, and the house and barn were surrounded,
butt the troopers had 13411111.t1Ulokly to their hence,
arid. finding the number of the enemy too powerful.
made them setups Several were, however. slain As
they attempted to escape from the beet As B unn as
the house was thoroughly searched the B ritish set the
barn on fire. end hastily retrooted to the crty. Timid-am
men were yelled away from the burning hart by Mn.
Wood herself. The next morning the remains were Pa
t tiered together, and were buried in Mr. Wood's Pnrate
cemetery.
It is pretty certain that those soldiers 'oelonged to Me-
Joy !Henry Lee'. lemons Partisan Legion. composed
chiefly oiVireiniano As no stone or monument mark
ed the buriel place of these brave and unfortunate men
Major Charles Thompson Jones. a lineal descendant of
Revolutionary heroes. inencsmted thnproceediure
which, to-day. will he consummated Thelma of mili
tary march will e formed at 12 o'clock on Main street.
Mannyank, the right of the (solemn reeting on Main
street, Manamink. end homer/rest. At one c.` cinch the
will move for the site of the umoument. where
the eorner.stone wilt he laid and an oration delivered.
he Scott Leeion_ Capt. Wm. It. Grey is detailed as
the finer petty. The arranr•MPnto and to under the
superintendence of Mew' Charles 1 known Jones
who ling been instrumental in g•ttinc up tee whole Af
fair. Ihe line will be reviewed by Gen. Prttersan and
waft and yann,l the durananished military meat, Gen
Gen.lnhn Davie, and other officer". wrl be pre
sent. The lot owini companies will take part In the
cereinonirs: Fait Trrop mestsammy County Ca
noire, broil I azonn. Philidelphie, Grays coninentel
Guards. Rekbnrouch Artil err. mo rs a n Nieto, Mime
Mon of 'ye. Sprigs Garden Rifles, Warne a rollers, end
Keystone Rates of lsorristrwn. In the cemetery the
exercises in addition to the entitle, display, will eon
list of • pester by the Rev. Thome, Winter, of Rosh°.
rough, and ouldrectes by
Itor rho Gates Jones and Tho
mas R. Marline, Seers. These services will never street
thi o'cloek P. M. Themicitean be reiseherd by th e Moo
ri.town Railway, and the ears of the R'dat avantle cad
Meneiyunir Plusenser Railway Convene. Omnibus,*
will be in weitine at the Junction of the Ridee nand and
filanayunir turnpike.
• •
An evenieg brother. speaking ol the day, says that we
miss the regular old bArth-ntglit hells 'hien were • fea
ture in the winter gaieties in faahionahle circle. in by-
Inne times. Them balls commenced about the elate
of the Racolution. and they were kept up for
many rictirsuris years. They
_mutually died out long
since. When \Washington was President. he generall
attendee them beds, which ware usually
_men at
Rickett's Circus , at the southwest ranter of Mirth and
chestnut streets or at CFEllers• hi - del which stood upon
the spat DOW meowed be Jones' hotel.
It In a somewhat 'mentor coincidence. that in De
comber. 17519 when the express reached the city with
the melancholy news of the death of Washington, the
011t1111 and hotel. where he had ert e n be en en h onore d
guest. were in names Neither of them war rebndt.
At three o'clock In the itforiumkthe cit.sens or Mount
Hirer and its mama, will assemble at the school-hot.*
on Allen's lane and listen to the readier of the Fare
well Address.
. •
Yesterday morning the Marines! Guards left this city
for tee purpose of taking port to a grand boll to be
given this evening at the Academy of Music, New York,
Lv the Independ-nt GUAM* or that city.
The o'd soldiers, who senerout meet In the Hall of
IndePennence on the ;Pi of Februarm will meet to-alar
at the Court House, in florrisherg. Several pronrnent
veterans orals war of 1311 will be present.
The torptilee of the Pericsylvante Blind Asylum w il l
give A ArADA nAttonai °stern...meat this afternoon. in
honor of Washington's hattheitay. The exhibition with
take place in the lecture-room of the Asylum, at the
southwest corner of Race and fwentieth streets. The
dome will open at half most fe e f
The first grand militars fete of the First Regiment of
Rifles. Third Brigade, First Division, r. V., will he
given at the Musical Fund Hall, this evening. This
will be an event of the ceagon, and as It is in the hands
of inen who understand the arrangement of first-class
entertainments. we predict for it a great auenees.
The Independent Gregg ace of the meat efficient of
nor military organizations, will raise a flag-staff, this
morning, at their new armony, Seventh and Swine
Gatden siseete. The ;Anomaly Will be of an interest.
in
_diameter.
We have also received through his Honor Mayor
Henry. from the wwed. Grant fhorburp, the follows
inn letter In vice of the greatrenown of the writer end
the importance 01 the day, we think its publication will
he regarded as peculiarly operhpriate:
MR. PRINTER 'nude I heard the farmer referred to
narrate the following incident: Bald he, when the
British troops held poseession• of New wk. and the
Amerman army lay in the neighh.nrhood of West feint,
one morning at sunrise I went forth to bring home the
cows. On passing a chimp of brushwood. I heard •
moaning sound n person in distreae. On needing the
heard the words of a man in prayer. I stood be.
hind a true ; the plan mune forth ; wits George Wash
ington, the capitols of the Lowi'l boot in ;North Axle
n•
The former belonged to the Society of Friends. rho.
being opprved to war under anyp were luke
warm. and in some ewe opposed to the causeu of the
country ; thieMllll was & Ton.
However, having seen the Gane . lantar the camp,
he went to In s own houie. Martha ; d to to Int w.f. , ,
we must not oppose this war any longer; t h e morning
heard the man George Wast.n seed up• prayer
to Heaven for hie time country, end I know it win* heats ;
Thlsfatmer dwelt between tha line', and sent Weah
ins ton many items oonOttming the movements Of the
enemy, which did good service to the good cause.
From this incident we may infer that Washington
&role with the sun to pray for his country ; ha fought for
hp a: am Miss, And Irit hat if tif snort
of outfight.
Every whim or a railaaart-, mosaw:aa. et keTsat
tonosen outsize Pouf sad shams cC ammo.
•
banq ree drops of Amaroesa. Wood .1 4.4,
ratiuilk o.v• moo:dam ea Sid Yetc . ..4:7 •
'row • 111111T11
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is Rotas. 1•101.
r , lidiy I azior of vaLftd.yir•r. Wed area 'we
wigs Wastiattaa sae Tanailair...
8[301:33 I 1 ¶R terns 1-13313313.
Th s Earns Cu. Wart the Ihrpreas Caul.
PAOCEILDINGS IN THE Ott lIINIL COLIN?
B Coeitt—hattoee liroodanud. Tboototoe•
krona. sad Resi—At tho oweamg of tha botrt hoo.od
Woodward aanotneed that tha Mat J,st.e• had -
mod to kohleow adicaroad teas of the seem. tat -
mating tke focal" of Jane seat_ A fan bowl. 02kt
be then *zonated. It aria aloe aasoeseed that tan fiyu
Monday of Febraary arta Laid fora warn say, isstand
of the third Monday, u Oeretororo.
Gebberd
_Hams. pis err d' re • row. vs. rEs
wealth of Permst seam. defnetset Se error. Ts-_, es.
is • writ of error loth. Cour• of Q garter dere:one for
Oat , tilt aa4 ealt•tv of Phl'Adcpitia., w br,p, th,
retold of • pat moatraa sa.t. ag area G - Mead Hem..
MI his forfelts4 recese.seser, The record tram bees re -
mum." 3 . .41wb es ere smarm& The etrome
ste•Cee L 7 am ease may be bow de 3143.4 3
u-ok E. es°. c i ty
race:
net
114 Gad of Qatztar
SI
ea of thz. city (or rece: net n e
st iceds. k ? .t[
11 10 to be stein.
Os the CA ear of Auras*, L47'. G•bta•d rarres so
titled Into A 'Hall:mg:axe* ra tie sus of tre ticzesksed
0011 ‘n• o ^Ad.tl3eci Cm tie attearazo. rf 1.!
rhea Anse; term of tee taut. to earner tsa at a
Oa letS e;tesbr.t3 7. Pave. esZej. 46,1, 604
11M114 I MI. lilt Wen,
of debt ti I@aad ete'• unetta oat los more!at se..
met on the Seta Ottobe-.1.97. ineccest vas ezt.thd
aceleet item* far tea elicoaase dol . ars. far wins of
aiSdarit of
le order re obtsit tie= to reeastxre te• ...tesour r.
Saar. sad ovine. 11/02 eras %ll* C.O0 -1100.460,:A.
Metres p:a4dett 113 freehold. Lad ateeteed a stay el sae
cotate.
,
Iniontidtatsig &Dor the moscsizattes vas forf.'uni.
Rome. tookeat abittl-wee•,_and ® do
to mate Scratch for Scow. rpm, Taal In "(rim yon t .
ty
fur that eeriest. whither he had fed ay., efts making doe estrnosa. raterned to fittiwitlehis. door
riot pferriu tramecasarol. .Salasea meetly...a ategiffi
of October. Iw'. Harms emp t y mother rffi-ar.
Sited-tad gave kiln twil•mooit. so•hcalp
to latest Rome. arninteies kme tate L caws ha ear
etedad. Thu officer toot with him two asamistim.oes
id whom was ereB actsaisted with snow. They treat
6r.t to New York eat. whore they made ct: 'Or t sea•ch
for the fat ttme. Here they Warned tist La hid atancd
fit Cancd•• and wax sonmwhere IL*
the Slate of New York Ft...M.lSe. asea•-tarred that
he vas in Ftoder. in the Piaui of New Tr /a.. La,
he amp ia,d pp in coamtimmtes of an acoidomitecottod
no rd They at seam mimed for that gam. At
Finder, Seed was told that Saar hid gots so in !jerk,
titer, and he immediately ptee•slided taste. to ltlat 1
two asinatards at Feeder. trite. terser. afterwitme
merit on to Herkimer. i+ere the obtaised the wrote
• f coattails. and ail (mar of tho perm set to rota to
find Sec.. but en ?boat soretwa iitteptenta. sw• rd rho
ecirsttots„ heating that Pamir vat at a veto* toterwimi
Berktm•r nod Famier.repaited there N L*.d. atm. tut
rim:treed *mama ham arum face dais altogettcr tow
to Ms &specimen Om immorgo of orate% ens b-rse
G. twat to* officor seartnu pipmcw
Phi , elphis vithont Net acitivo. Offiam teed. Low
ete(.itstt a Correvleedasea wkly s cfficair at
Hertimor. •
Stow. it &Warw. tank rofer• in (*a s se s 1,4
Tatrert. a police offioor of rittladelphia, osappik. p ir is
get him beck for O. Harms Tugert stored a coma
gondolier° with officers to Calais. med. in elmnotstisee
of arraegemosts orate vrth them. he was •enbied to
arrest Snow on Om Arnemean i.renr the testeccoe
Bildt. at Niacara Palle Taggett hada tad geese with
him. which it moms Inc hod earned for a fast
engin not to too arrest. It beam date .1d Jag of *omen.-
her. telore rho rocimeizaatm woo forfaito.t , ft.
Meath t Pro, to P'LlaAa pais and tared Cu., is eta
patlstelpbtaavant. prtsr - a la iliarbarc it ernes hat 1
On fee nth Nocernlt... Lt it E. I. ela - ar Ira SlIlO4
an aha ong izal iedietmeat 4.a1ta11a413,14 ltc , 11.1
rioted
On December 4th. M 1 / 4 / e.t. hitt wrist : ahrraf -
upon the court order Lad *diode.. that be pity e. Ise of
ass east. mad nederao an impeacermeat or rats cc
solltam consnesest. at labor. is tape ka-• •
red.
to tee tee term or two years. id to. there fad.
at •ihtd. and mbar - sue toasted L a.• haw d
he Pay the roots of prnmenttca and strad esteemed
matt , Maledeittent a fall reenVese
(»Man! H the hula sties this scrrilsder at
Parrs es the 17th 7formalsr- trod. prre-L•ted La pea •
os to toe D'art of Goarter Seat cau_ and ottarant
re's to meow ciao. she tea rteleett .._gyjart
should not k a OPPadd ore 11 4 able, and Ile Grisham of
h a mod reeeireanstro miatted.
Demmaorn sere takes rs carpet of tile 10 4.
Os the ad April. its.. the &owe rieeharged •le re7e.
Thanatos the lent of crane and the otrtorin boa
terms this eocvi nu, semi oat.
Theerror. wigged Imre aa Foam!
1. aecana• ill emsorosseatall was aot eatried
jedresent an the sea October. LW. andir the r.:•••
moat sue the at& of Aaorrelllr.
I, Reese** the inirmeit east of as aZdar
• ace . . inaraas and mool. Oars Mint no sadism.
of a for e turf. sad for want of mot ority in the cot:: L.
eater grad aredgasat on motto.
I. Berme. tae rasa snarl in act rail:ears: or ita , 34
rates the forfeiture ea the a 441•ramon amp
ensw on the peva antatabol and Lisa of retort.
4. &ember tie mart erred is tarts:ma tle TVA t.>
remit the forfeiture
Ti. ease for the Corstronarealth was arum! 'y cam.-
sal :limos. Bareroft. Bearer. abd Co.. {S i
to arta,. wed AteCuntr, wear* respeetzr• anon wet. h.. -
bed end the node rates. ran te burs. lad a:nerr
a. hare an intoned in th• read 'mated La the imrt . ent
of tan ram Cilia. riots tie pot ale assess! issk ue
one UM the Omuta aerror tits se beau la net Wit
ea boo for a reessinse of the forte:min,. it no isms
that Its recessed PIM sac 00e.adendeett her
bail for Peew.
t:: cams was arnaad awl rules , add.
uster's Areal. t Paatter ra.Rardisd.) true{ Lid
rs wed.
In :••
Pa Ire-C. J. Lomita a-00mo; Water. irsuea..,
o et. r. aed /saes IL LA penersli. train Lk. 1,11.
Tie De'nesre Yet:aid fasurnace Compne!.
Bea t•
PLC.Iou anal.
rr
Drrrurn Corer-tot:, Ware.- " gi:lea Lot.rlr.
h 4 ( need null, Doff). Canrtes Pincer aid J. Leh.-
tenure. copartners as Prier - ter k Lateran._ An
aet.oe to reenter dm:mazes enetarted bl W• 7.• lea 1. 3 ... S e.
a lad. in oenteastr . re of soothers's, on tie sue a
driver in the etas'or of defeeduna. It was las. red that
tater-leer Ireton. with a pair of horre•
oeder the ehare.• the Lnellr
..ewesima., wea *it
Cons aid the horses started ot.as4 in that/ tarter
teaie i 0 trowtset vita an orraer sues (a soir.h tae hop
visa seas.d. The VldOet vas re. eresenad sad lea nee
eresserers:y tested abet tpp boty. end Re
_risheed
ester the aloe of a bitter-man foe bras toed. Ti. do•
' frees beeped that the acm , denr Sapreeed !kir...li re
sextrresee on toe., put. Their losses ewe soh Wm*
We Anent kft these. hst, woe helm ettadona M peer
hees cod tower teem and ereeln se a whir. tie hoc-es
esma frith:fried am. dubmt am.,. Nu el, Res. hemp
for mrortri sad 0. Ramat for dittos.. litre-el tot
paLisUf for Va
es's nel (7. A. Before re-,
portbl. Varthet foe d ferr a fit
D'.211c7 adv. P harareed -lee. Ir. Camel
me. Stephan! Pie is Is tare cane. by agreement, a met -
dmt f etelauf for Vs is sea Wen.
51.ehest }Loot* nWna. Boa. an seem . reromer
the Insets* of •tedr wen. sote. Os tr , it
MALMO & Wood re- Dnfr • &fora reporhea- Yard et
ter 61443.
rex rya ea one-Indio Ladkor •--Ta the esteems
of. r. knee , O. W enen. LA, persisted La pkea
Of tie CompasseeN.
Anal. Farrel wee ideated of • a ups of hrttnr.
Willlant T. Imstias arra charred ••• to se 1.1, Lai
without a. hornet 11 au gated that Jeak *Mal
Imoor to a drweltard. eat. in pa want took , hos tra..•
ra n lgitt I rtt l f• e ‘k = ea ragra tha s hat_ Lai 1. d. l- tr trrai . mi
to d so astern Iftr oasts sr a .led_ Ther hums*
te 1.51
drmindenoes. but no yea rrod3ord.. Werd et a,.
Sentenced to pay a Lee of Ski said Of pat of pronear
St :them Wettsfeolseent was eovrtets3 of a exii-ti of
assanit and battery. Sentenced to as smprurocan.est of
ten day, and • 61, of eve dollar.
MA.7 Lstria eras mar retcd nr a charge of sasault and
Inner, upon A lfrecl3l HAMM
The name defendant wee acturred eta thane et
comm. , ' e • au assault and !,alt, ry Iron the me:her- , us -
law. of 11r. Barran, and nog prosecntr.s vie or:crsa to
pet the sena_
Andrew MeCl lb was shared with the 1 / 4 ,..cas of a
AO, ea.c.ed a: • ten ta• greparry of F. t P . Qcreher.
In order to ~tabus! the treoperty Is she doe. a mows,.
Cur saxes pa..l on him wan prod...Al Verdun:at an Us.
Patron Miley,. for open:a - a Ire sleet= •cx eras sen
tenced to an reurnsonment of tweroll-fou, toms Jades
Ludlow said be eras Lauded that Urs defendant was sot
actuated be malicious morsea
1). earteball yea convict ed of ensryine trews-hid
deadly we a pons . and senteau dto an sztyriscassept of
thirty
Richard Sherman was actuated ea ten bash of tide
meat, chant:at him with seflise henna to asheora. and
eelnee liquor on Sunday. He was represented by PAW-
Doothertv. Yet.
Ceerare• .I . c;bterposi c•to . 4 ,‘• • eh.: rye th.
troyof • tol. He was dtfoedad by Lawn C. Catudy,
Jades Lud'ow said that, this balm the . .u.rieerserr of
Wanting:4 , o's birtbstaT. are ta=rt wash! no he'd- A 714 tan
Jurors wont discharied until to-morrow znorn:st.
Pogittrat.—M trot. .1111116. i CO3g INT, TO DE
CANDIDATX TOR Rs•Extec,o<,—Te.g.rd eg syg em o s e et
a m• e tine of ettnena, oomPfSed of deletalse from xis •
different wards of the eity.wen held at the *lard -a
ired° Rooms. The object of the ureter was to se.
cease a reply from Mayor floury. in response to a re
guest Made on thillir potrt. • ft:W:l'l,S mace- ut.:ce bias
teelLow Memel( tole reed, a esod due foe too
oPre of Mayer of the city. Ism listfehxrit, Este
presided. Tho loir was an foPows:
P.ll. February rut, thorn : The
reeme.t ip.d• by you. persone.ls on Sr.:rely out. [het
would entreat to the LSO of ere time foe resoematn:n
to ape Mayoralty. has received the carefed de:AD.:VIM
to which it:yenta ed.
Two week. eau. to answer to • rag's: rogues! In
armee 'MCI name 01 my feNow-cozens. I Calesnan
be letter me hearty desire to withdraw from ease end
declined :train Ism- a eau:date. and I hare Sille4
p•nte d such tn to salon as aces on has ...Tem!
That , rain unchanged; bar. :a awe - of the its
s•daratior.• which you hue urged. I do on: feel at
libeny to withhold my nen:c.f. at the proper time. it
shall appear that it can. in any =tuner, albums the
benelt of nt y fenow-ettnemt •
ry re•pect , cirr.
.
ALIgRA ELE
,roc IIHY
Venn H. C. Carey :Wm tte:sh. NDrEt. •nd
The latter wee record with tokens of srat.f.sutcts.
Several errat:cinen male fern-arts "puss:sae a emecue:
support for Mr. Herr; :a May, anl expresetag great
confidence In hte re-elecuon.
Tee reITLI) rtlTl3 Sett CIIINi--The3ara
Truls of rye eity has adopted t4s for.7.oer 4 Ns
!ISt to the Preedent. rioting Ile oder of icettenen 13 I
Chinese diffienlay t The memonal of tee Dowd of
trade of Philadelphia reastettely re;resetts Tbst,
es eZ , C , Orthae• with reetierts aside by eamserocd:ez
enmmetclii ese.c; \WWI Doetca and New York. they
d-sire, of ontroitibis with the)o is a, 'hit
the President will oder to tee (3oriaraments of Curies
4 riitain and Frnnes the rood ottees of the Uri,ted Ita ten
ic *nesting the Ime•,littes now imtmeett t 1,1.1
5.4 the ampere of Ch , m, rilAt II in sue 7 .1;n
erg.* to commerc.ll Jotatee. atiA•s corn Cr . eu e rn
isopardy from tar an ono, form. a0....L.L to•„
niterposition.
That the traile of the United Etsres with Ch mt. we
have ration to thick. was never more a than
DOW; than 18100W1 not nitre!, by the relit:vs dim •u
-(MO at tht fir.rt of are-la to ItAlto , l3try. bet br tbs ,
!sue Increase of the atrarrient of oar deirriestie rotr'n
roods. and their avoreciaiton in the md,key..
Otter articles of iMmestie production are b•crim , se
marketable it) the East, and Ire dread the warm:lance
nf aver. mopes kallv with the north ief Chtna.wheire
largest demind for our coin stic „roods eta
far. Ouch friendly , iatercosatren is strictly in e—xerii•
ante with well aa.ertai as d ru'es cif tate matienalcvm•ty:
end if aeioninpeared. as n should in ocr optima be. ha is
frank execs WW2 Of WO I•1113110Z which pacification vet
sorishti it soul!. vs hope. be received by the be Tire
rent soarer. in the .rint in which tttraad,. The Pha
Rivard or wade
the Pr-a:dent to this important wheel.
TRIAL OT STEAM FultroiLwOlitil —Tryterciey
morning the steam firewingine Sdatherairk. and the now
steamer 1.4 the HOP. r Asian (mepaw., were ter arl I
oregano. of the Committee of Cducc,te on Trucg and
Fire Department. the Dope steamer etayet leo
a rams bonzaatally. ace st tam tit roux n ci ire', +ad
elehth nozzle. 155 feet. and another thiontb an tr.:".
Iniele 7U feet. The committee were vet much
pleased with the perfornmere. The • none tithe H- en
is of a thud case and is one oft** rmallest to tee o ,fr.
Tee Hope steamer is not lozat°l cat hit an apil.ea
um& hoe heat spade to Cmingthi. which we Immo a -
doubt will tie greeted. The eagine weizhe Nit S.cs)
Erounds.
rre steamer of the Southe-ark was tried et Iteeend
~d WashistAton etre-etc in gm/tents of the came rd -
moo, Ter. is a eel. at amen karist been tire r'.t
re from New York • few days- n. ill riga a
of the trial were taunts watlelfactory, &mare was re .wed
in eine minutes. She Ved ore kormoneo are m two
hued ed and t hi rty-t ou r feet. one vertm•l st-earn ore
hundred and seventy-two feet. nod two h,
streams one hundred and 'event y-t nue feet. After the
trial the steam, was taken I' a fo..irdry. sod 1,10.1.4
3,13)P01.1110/. She es a very email eadme of het c'st s.
To Ton BitnlTOLX_ly.—We look noon it that tile
meanest kfed or rifles! ie that to erMeh the Tomo ',-
pent, to the cenernalty of to tictrm. and veke m'• r
pocket talking charity. The Union tiesorolsint :-
tins edrertive au imgoetor. art elution this ern• of to
Mon their guard. The impostor -.Paled to le a troaom
of Mae na rennet address. and well calculated innL re
spout! to deceive the eharitahte. She repraeente laerseil
ss a vim for of the socle:y. oral by stating same ewe el
specie! diatressoe Abe to maven woe tie etedailous
Thu. is en old trick. anti the public cannot te tro
on their guard amen imposition of trim kind. Future
ocetribuiln; to n str anger (inane public inside% osi Pet
lon t should demand the ;roof of their authority
DEATH OP A PHILADELPOIES ABROAD —We re
gret to be compelled to a flamers the death of another
of nor prominent merchant* , that of Mr. LeWis Os
bourn. which occurred at Cairo, in .Egiet.ogi the 'inn
ult. Mr. Orbourn was for many years sn active mem
ber of the firm of Viateraish, Osbourn, tz. Ca . onr of
the oldeet house, in thin city. Ravine recently with
drawn from Artkre br e eiheeer, he had one to seek rehear.-
tton by travel with hie family on the cont. sent and in
the ECM Alteooth not of • robust frame. Mr irs , odre
, niotect bte equal be Itb unag - a portion of kin toot,
his wiwe retarnine from Salaam... at Cairo, he was
suddenly taken sick. and died in the lath 'enrol ios
age. so hie Sault and (needs this szetidee hereave
ment comes with a hoary stroke.
BRCTAL As trl.l. —On Monday erer.ing a party
of men entered the tavern of Wm. Lafferty, at T e mh
end Carpenter streets, assaulted the vrocrieto r ar .,l
bretally beat a.m. We are told that tiro or the ...to -
an t e were °awe!' of the Fuel Cluitne.T. pot ce. end that
the injuries to . r. Lafferty Isere inflicted by thee., offi
cers Strange to es*, no arrests •• !IV made sass.," atit -
woe made to the oecurrenee to the henseaant'a retorts
yesterday morning.
Saocutzto —At an early hour yesterday morning
a young .omen named diem Paelnyvon rive blrit en a
°tab.' an the street. at Thirty-fourth and Martel etreou,
West Phdadelahui. The homeless canther .ead.eb;ld
were takuo to the station house, and' from Oms qv,
were removed to the hinistunue.
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PiCKTQCCAT ARRElT2D.—Yellterthly 1:01141K,
abrint one o'clock. Joseph Rickards, alias Sands Rick -
ar.ls. was arrested and taken before a.derrial
charged with picking the pilau of John Clark it Pine
alley and Ball alley. The wooded warn held to Lamar