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Letter n .from tßettiitote ; jagl4loo. IptepigeiMe ;
Pomo* and PpOseal ; Weekly, 11,Inte* ; :of the
Philadelpbta Markets. Fotlirp P,AOa;-7TheClon."
ventioa of the Penoeypraate State Tinaliene Aise t o- -
elation ; , Totter, from Sopertor f : General - .
News ; Life at. Pike'efeak ; , Marine Intelligence._
• The •NeWa.
- It tiltmiles tbingto be riob, and very yin.,
not td , ,-2.30-the world thinks ' and,,
what twenid wet,' if vs dared to think otherwboot
We hire* is' Rothseklld in New York estate--a vs.
ritabliberoti-ta moneyed, baron, with' utlitons in
his coffers. The baron is now In Lake George,
breathinethe 'fresh air, • and ,renewing hie es
timated 'energiel: The solid Men of New York
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in
tend ,to dine and spaeoh him on his return:' The
affair. Will be select—ilia uppernMst of the upper,
ten Only • being' admitted. - , .,Tames T. Brady, , tins
eMoiell'earididate fer ' -Governor - of •New York,
will hf;'`fri'.,the:',elialf.' Mr. Mrady; wei believe 'is
the gentleman . who regrettelithat it was linposslble
for him- to:preside over the.Milkei,diriner Some
time else.. -
The iikoitertont'sit Long Branch; N, J., coneern-,
ing the Stipnook toysterlOns :murder care; is be.
ginning; to _aubside, undaithe general impression,
that the affair is a stupid hoax, arranged with' all ;
its IgliodOldtails far the • impose of :meeting
sensation No clue wbettevethOuld . be obtoinett
of any' ; persons missing, and -the scion'
failed to and.ally laidy7Ain which to hold an in
quest. titmice the• publicans, ortniiroad Men, may
have itrientad the rumor to attraci.browds. Them
people arlilide . impla things.
Par 'the, pristtmanih Share hire peen, rumors,,,
10929Pirkell Contradicted and • mistimes generally
Gladatoril Was about to retire
train:Ate', Seglisti'dabinet. ,'• The hat news from
Ragland reportlad that the Right Mon. "gentleman's,
reel elation was again considered. imminent: He
is teridenitispilo initlitate of hesitancy, but the
probahilititiKara'thet; he' will withdraw. - In the
eveotof Anittingefliab, it is;Afr , Oladsiortei
tion to retire fort; time franiPailiainerit'antlPiblic
life: . It appears from a Liverpool paper, that Mr
Gladstone was lately spoken °flu the pulpit, by
Rey ; 15t :. MoNeile nrgreat reputation
and eloquence, ,a 0 tbe triennia popular Charmeller
of
p e Rxekeetter," , tethe great astonishment of
an attentire congregatiOn. --
The,
• , ;
arresCof, Col:Oreas, the forger, was the
town gmairroflestOrday:: There wasquite an em.
oltententaround, The . Pius office in the 'morning,'
in intimnenca of-the foot that,' sit this journal;
alasi pereiffheished , the fuel dilates 'of the ri•
Mult appreciated the .
en
terprise fully, in',,piroliminei, rery.bmin extra
edition of our-paper. '2.A few addilionalitensi t iOn:
tivoio•the'srrest, whiob were omitted in the hurry_
of ,Preparing fhb report of yesterday,, rly be Viand•
in another polume. . Among other 'things, our re
porters forgot to mention Quit, &Meng Mime . who
were present duringthe arrest; and: assisted in Its"
copsummation„ were Joseph Mirkel, Detective
Oharics'Bioltb,badDiatilot
„Atiorney'Mann: •
We regret to annonnowtheideith -of William A'.
Edwards, Folk; who died at halfieat three, o'clock
yesterdifniorning Ordiptherli, at the reaidei3ce
of-his father,. qporge W. Edwards, EEq., corner of
Eighteenth "and :Wplntit The 'deceased.
althingh bed twentpfive yeais age at the 'time
of his - death, bad already beco'ine promiuMitas
astire_politician,.an4 tm,wita an orator of no mean
Ito was a warm filand of :fridge Dorglas,
and a politician of the pure Democratic 'school:
Tki Itepahlteaas of- ChM hare nam!natott aliTar
li:thretweefor Congress, in the NOt distnal, and
iMielatgiitond &atrial. ' -
, • • - '
hilivir4feeilopi:with it. heed slam 4. e
.romei,th'.hiit i .jol;the body' as large sees" as a ter
the-Naikon.'
The come to", its bOrdeued
wifb - ilefails: - of parched crape, low shiers,
desert6l*,eitiei; torrid highways, deaths from
snn.stroke,..and • tki. ihermoin6tertimong the
nineties. As a:mere!practicat illustration , of
this-intelligence, a reference to the list ofho;
Atm that there is an nnexatn
pleT rush 44.• Southern pi;oPle to Oda' city,
truproUtinitir on the way,to Cape May, Cre,s
'sop; EptWoi, Bedford, acme other one of the
likKired delightful retreats 'contiguous to our
municipality. What the effect of Una condi
-Lion of the 'weather will be upon the staples of
the Eolith, many. of which`, such as cotton,
'rice, sugar, and-tobacco demand 'all 'the non
iishfcient: that the rains 'of heaven and the.
streams of earth can afford, it is impossiple.to
imagine' and it would be improper to speculate.
:Different tidingsjeach ifs from the West, every,
Journal depicting in glowing periods the bone
'fits of a' kind Providence, and exulting in the
prospect of extriordinary hariests. -
So, teo, - in- our 'own great*.Commoawealth,
"Wo are hourly, greeted, with evidences of agri
cnitural'andeline:rat prosperity. ride along
the Pennsylvania • Railroad through Chester,
tine:aster: and other counties east and west of
the mountains, will, abundantly indicate the
' l . ; exteiit, 'of the' season's ;arena, while •three
horirs' ,jonrney 'along ~the Reading Railroad,
through the tremens° districts of iron and
' will • exemplify the -value of our mineral
'
In addition tothis, let as not neglect's:Pass
-;;Ing to ;the 'fabulous atones - which
.' , reach-us from 'the northWeetern counties of, the
State, telling of great discoveries of oil in
earth4t : forhiiies made. In. an hour—arid of
-the 'excitementii.aedeinkteratiens,conspiinent
'existence or:suph -si state of things,
We treat that 'all these, -romantic dreams of'a
• 'Pennsylvania El Dorado will be, realized, and
that ear people of Yenango, Warren; and Pot-
tar wilt establish„within their midst a new,
permanent, and•protitable branch of State re
venue and industry.
Should the harvests of England' fail—and'
Prom this disaster May God preserve
plc—we have in our power the means of pro-,
venting any occurrence Eke the famine .of
' 1848, and of Aping 'a brotherly part towards
. brethren in ,need.. And this_ consideration,
-'however painful may be the contingency it
coittenapistea,l6 not among the least gratify
ing. reflections that: occur to us in eontem
plaiins the many evidences of State and Ne-,
*nal presperity which we - Bee existing. ,
' , o7r. We regret to be compelled to announce
the sad Intelligence of ^the death of Wmitzu
A:EDirmini, Beg., which foOlf 'place at the
residence of his father, Groitaz:W...Enw"lium,
,yesterday afternoon. hir,Enweans wad one
of • the most promising young memborz.of, our
bai., hle„wae , apubliaspirited citizen, whose
and of heart endeared him. to
all who knew.him. A meeting of ,the mom=
bers of the Bar will be held Mils morning, at
, , eleFen tho Dio4ipt: contfroom..
• F'str. TO spa.— here are -many gratifying
— Cations that thOtrade of the Sea** now openingolli
he, in some • departments at least. unusually good.
TIC old • and respectable house of , Maims
'Krug k Co:, No 126 Chestnut street, the stook of
" *lila we tiandied 'Willi much interest yesterday;
-; furnishes an iiluitration 6! this. The speciality ,of
this house I. /anent.um Solely, an imMense stook
of Which; embracing ail its departments, is now-ar.•
t een:g r ad in their eatemive waterooms; • Their' trade
id with the joidildg Merchants' in,the large *Ries
414:P -.throughout tha.,l3auth And ; West,' and being. the
r. a • sole tenter for some of . the largsaf.Maufactutars,
aawr Wee goctfethey keep, their eater ems also large - -in ,
151 1.:*"7-,Y9Ok And ))oth of ihtett lido they-
Na.r.441t0 1 1if*,4 3 0 1011 ., •,•
thud „tis .espietally; true , of „their- lerniantown
woode 'of which they hive undoubtedly -the most
-1-416 - - , _ ,
. attentive and ooniplete assortment of any one house
4n this Country. Their'entire second story te
to woollens of this elass,'Mabracing, au end
-47-a.i4eas - Variety 'of wool ocsaforte, shaWis, talons,
hoods,-ind other at tleles, in , thoice new styles; for
Tind — oltildteartreitr: : the article Of
ass , • L NV
t.i'llol-44°9:5.11".11.8,-"IfeFoonoln, D 7 %Monet D. . 0-.,
4.4 AA!
0. •4011 q be 1111 1, foie
saltsalt , T hiejust Intuited from Bribrata Mountain
bioroved phyilque. admirably
4'.; ! r *tfeleetee the; saluliiity: of 'that Ileatant resort ,)
4 - .;• •si
Over two no men ainerent vanetintomd Clair
stook in other departmeate is equatljttried." -- ITri
laths present time their sales, we learn, have far
etteaded those of any former season, and they now
. „
japan a large number of buyers in town.
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„ ;Vie Last Card of the POrtsylvautirl:' '
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;;;;then the popular-sovereiguff
meifit Altoona, on the 4th of Usti\ 9
, , I
wore denounced by the orgardeif th , Pederal
Administration, as ontsidhlad iff*Diniocifitio
organization, and as hostile to the regular
nominees of the Democratic party. They were
gibbeted as inco'rrigible traitors. Their pur
pme was declared'to.be.oneof rule or ruin,”
and when ant,l3o,llBth i em af terwards attempt
tO'voteat Prier:My eleciiini,he*as exelm
I
- ded by -thiriityniiidOittintthe TederslAdmi,
•
nititiation,'"ort the it mud that he had forfeited
tioriaiintiersidP in the' Deniimiatio
The
The:mispleartiMkt,cooleir men to Altoo
na—like -that.; ' *hich had ~itt*yth,noY
assembleditho4Mlne*-40.ineeting ,
risburgen ; the thirteenth pi April,' in ihe saute
year, wasfte alwelbelprinciples of the Petne
. Midi° , 'party , from 'mutilation and sacrifice;
and, above all, to proteit against the attempt
then contemplated; and since avowed, to break
up the Union r idt these' Stites.. In order to ,
she , * the-motives which animated the Altoona
tciebels"-r-quoting-. Am ; ofrensive phrase ap-,
plied to them by their adversaries, and gladly
sec:Opted:by • these: bold 'and thorough-going
Dquociati-7wecoPy the following striking and
prophetiti`plitle*tifroni the Short address which
they adOpted ikn'the &Mai of May, 1859:
- " Ii ality pr4er id state 'that the present
campaign is Intended' alone to promote the triumph'
oficertain ,flindamannit
,pritioiplas. We 'do not
'plead for men, bat for. measures, Ours is not a
brotherhood to assist pereeps,,but to advance prin
**lee. ;Iva do, that the organisation
_of-. the • Democratic party . has been: usurped by
.those-.who , have determined upon the experiment
&hi:rolling' the South by an appeal to an ex.
trenic:pro r slaiierY e lement , and through this els.'
moit introduced into titettifrt Nation:l Demo.
erotic Convention to purchase the lafrages 'of the
'Northern delegates in that Convention. , -and all
this in 'UAW/
, cr theory practically 'asserting
Owe the people of the Teriitories, at present, and
hereafter organized, shalt have no controlnohat-'
ever over the institution of slavery—we hold
it to 'be t the duty of every Democrat and
of all conservative men, to protest against
every attempt to drive the Democratic party from
'its established principles. it is manifest that the
Administration of the Federal Government bad
determined to conciliate the disunion Sentiment
the South, and that that sentiment eagerly re
sponds to this encoUragement of the Federal Go.
'vernment, and is daily plaung itself :upon the
pliitforin that, hereafter, all the powers of that
Gdverninent are to be exerted far the protection
of 'slavery in the Territories'; and it is also ma
ngier that, in the event of thus protection being
refused, AN OPEN CRUSADE WILL BE CON
DUO FED ' AGAINST THE INTEGRITY OF
TDB 'UNION." • • - •
Thele were prophetic words. We copy
Meth' from the record of- the Altoona Commit
tee. ThOY net only show the motives that
animated the brave men who assembled at that
point on the 4th day of May, 1859;but they
have been abundantly And startlingly confirmed
by alLthe subsequent action of the fire-eaters
Of the South, and the mercenaries of the Ad
minlitration in the North. Precisely what
was predicted by the radical Democracy at
Altoona has transpired. The organization of
the t Dethociatic party has - been usurped by the
men - Whir-have appealed to' the extreme pro
slayery sentiment in - the South. The theory
that the people of the ' Territories shall have
no.control whatever. over the. institution of
slavery, has been laid down as a fundamental
Democratic principle by these 111013, and the
refusal of the National Democratic Convention
to yield to, this theory, has led, not only to a
war' upon the regular Democratic candidate for
the' Presidency, but, in the langunge of the
Altoona addreei t 4 ‘ so an open crusade against
the integrity of the Union."
well to repur, to this precedent for the
purpose of marking the position of. the men
whose 'conscientious consistency is now as
sailed by all-those who esteenrit their duty to
hound and hunt' them down. From "the
heights of Altoona" came a voice not merely
of, courage; but' of prophecy. The men who
spoke out there were few, but they were bold
and The truth they 'uttered was re
sponded:to by the people in the subsequent
election, and that which they anticipated was
ft - lidded by the faithful followers of a corrupt
Administration and by the Southern Dia
unionists. '
Emery act. of that committee watt .0 a re
affirmation of the. prophecy pronouneed at,
Altoonamterekhaa a year ago. -The majority
of the men who assembled at Cresson on
Thursday were called fOr the purpose of rati
fying a deliberate aasassination of the Demo
crate creed, end or Its heroic chaniplon and
lead Oz. The body itself had been selected
with distinct reference to the work it bad to
perform. Appointed by a Convention re
gulated by all the, forms of the Demo
cratic organization—yet sq constituted as
to make the minority feeble whenever it
attempted to resist an outrage upon right—
proclaiming' itself to be sanctified on account
of its regularity, and standing under the sate
sha'ioi of Precedent, the State Central Com
mittee, of which WitztOt Hi tuY %VELA!, of
York county, is Dechairman, has become a
mere machine for the purpose of making
wrong right, and of putting forward, as the
duly chosen candidate of the. Democratic party
fin' President of the United States the merest
effigy of dlsanfon. That which was created
according to the ritual of the Democratic par
ty—that which was the, offspring of the esta
blished formulas of the Democratic church—
that which, in other words, embodied and ex
poUnded the_ Democratic liturgy in all its re
gularity, and in all the• odor of usage and of
custom, -was, on Thursday last, desecrated
and degraded at the feet not merely of disor
ganization in the Demobratic party, lint of
disunion in the country itself. '
bus is it that Cresson confirms Altoona:
and, thus that the irregulars, on the le;ser
height of the Alleghenies, after having been
'iosalled through more than one long year by
the: Administration and its janizaries, have
been vindicated, not by the unsolicited forgive
ness of those new rebels against the organiza
tion; but by the most overwhelming fulfilment
of the prophetic declaration made more than
a year ago. •
This last action of the State Committee
speaks for itself; and would excite universal
surprise' and indignation, if the manner in
which that body is constituted, and the ma
terials of which a majority of it is composed,
were not fully appreciated by the citizens of
Pennsylvania. No political organization or
combination, largo or small, over more richly
earned the contempt of men of every party
than the controlling spirits of that committee.
Their action is not only dishonest, but foolish.
and their petty plans and projects to overthrow
the organization of the National Democratic
party, and to steal power from the people to
Use ft for unworthy purposes, are as impotent
and ridiculous as they are unjust and infamous.
The only practical change in the original
"2d 61 July" propoiltion which was made at
Cresson, is one which gives the Democrats of
the State an opportunity to express, by their
votes, their preferencdlor DOUGLAS or DRUCK
-INRIDGG. It is true, this may be to" many a
source of satisfaction, as it would clearly de
nionstitto the weakness of the Secession forces
la,bur State. But, on the other band, if the
Fusion electoral ticket should be elected, it is
although by no means probable, that
a contingeuey .wouldMrise under the arrange
ment proposed, if it was carried out in good
faith, which would sink the whole Democratic
party of Pennsylvania deeper than plummet
I ever simnded. •
It was decided at Cresson that the electoral
vote of the State should be cast for any man
running 'as a Democrat whom it could elect.
New, let us suppose 'that out of a total vote in
Pennsylvania in Noveinber,next of 500,000,
261,090 should be polled for the Fusion elec
tbral ticket, and it should ,thus bo success
ful—that of the 261,000 thus polled 201,000
should be given for Do:fines, and but 50,000
for, 'plittesturtinau—thus showing that but
oath-,t,titt!i et ,etir voters favored the election
-41**, latter :, if the_ vote of Pennsylvania
could elect the Disunion nominee, under the
terms of the Cresson resolution he would re:
ceive it. And, in despite of noisy partistiu
professions ,of a regard for "the will of the
majority," and for the right of the people to
govern ,themselves, the Democracy of the
State would So 'arrange their political ma
chinery as to elect as President,,b - y
, the elee
toreq votes, of the State, a man supported by
lees than one-tenth of our
. voters, and opposed
by morethae nine-tenths of our citizens!
An set, of . perfidy like this, if by any possi
bility it could be successffil, might, it is true,
renew the terms of those Federal official::
Who have so basely prostituted the power
they possess, but ft would tbrever seal the
doom of the Democracy of Pnimaylvania,-.and
-consign-them to eternal defeat. hose who
toff obtuse to seethe
throe of-thlir:fatal objection, to the action Of
`the Cresson Committee are beyond 'the roach
:dr:argument of any kind.
Again: The true, and only' , honest,
eourso of the State Committee, after , the
secession at Baltimore, was to adopt the
policy : which had always. been previously
pursued—to faithfully support the regular
nominees of the National Democratic party,
and to _ ignore all attempts to divide and
I distra i nt 'it. , „The „fusion -project of the cop
mitteb, based on the delusive pretext that
it wield promote' Midrib:- and harmbnY, has
Only ;served to --engender -difficulty -and- dis
card; 'and this ' Met - 'was 'clearly 'apparent
to till who - *enabled - at Cresson. Yet
whed Gen. Macaw proposed a, sensible solu
tion to the whole difficulty by calling together
a new Convention, through which the Demo
cracy of the State could act intelligently and
efficiently, and thus cut the Gordian knot of
the :exjsting complications, his proposition
was almost' unanimously rejected: Thus the
committee has announced its unwillingness to
trust the massed of the Democracy of the State
with the adjudtment of their electiiral ticket, and
proclaimed its determination te'chaiii' them to
the Disunion car if it can do so.
• One of the most remarkable features of the
action of the State Committee, however, is the
fact that while it is undertaking to decide bow
the electors shall vote, if they are elected, a
number of the firm friends of DOUGLAS on the
electoral ticket very 'properly consider, and
plainly, say, ,that they have quite us ;rood a
right to decide how they shall cast their votes
as the committee, and that they will not obey
its Mandates, because they owe their first and
highest .allegiance to the : nominees, of the
National Democracy. Yet, Chairman WELSH
announces his desire to preserve the
'eleetoral '' ticket ft unmutilated," no matter
hew refractory those who compose it
may become, and he is opposed to all
efforts to change i', notwithstanding the
diversity of opinion expressed by its respect •
ive members t He goes for the ticket for the
sake of the ticket, regardless of the princi
ples, proclivities, or Presidential preferences
of the electors I He tries to coerce those who
compose it into the support of the Disunion
candidate; but if they refuse, he professes a
willingness to sustain them, even after such a
refusal. A more ridiculous position could not
well be imagined. If the people of Pennsyl
vania want a composite etectoral ticket
made' up of men with three or four different
sets of opinions, they can form a combination
fa suit themselves out of the electoral tickets
of different parties, but they will instinctively
revolt against any attempt of a packed com
mittee to make for them such a mongrel ar
rangement, and to trade and traffic in their
suffrages as if they were tut merchandise to
be bought and sold by political hucksters.
On the very day that this second attempt was
made to perfect a scheme whereby tho vote of
Pennsylvania could be secured to BREORIN
mos, if it could be useful to him, the friends
of the latter in Maryland; at a State Conven
tion, struck off from 'the regular Democratic
electoral ticket of that State two gentlemen
whose only offence was that they faithfully ad
hered to the regular national organization of
the party and to Judge Downes. Quito re
cently, too, the supporters of BOEOKINEIDGE
in New York held a State Convention, which
nominated a full electoral ticket for the ex
press and avowed purpose of preventing Judge
Douotas from carrying that State in Novem
ber. Is . it possible that in Pennsylvania there
can be single sincere friend of the distin
guished Senator from Illinois who, in view of
suthaction of the Disunionists in other States,
will consent to be made their blind dupes in
our noble old Commonwealth 7 We think not.
On the contrary, there is a universal demand
among the friends of DOUGLAS for a "clean
victory or a clean defeat," cud their desires
will, doubtless, be gratified. A meeting of
the faithful members of the State Central
Committee, as well as other gentlemen associ
ated with them, will be held at Harrisburg,
on the 15th of August, as announced in TIIE
Pave, a fbw days ago; and, we presume, they
will gratify the desires and expectations of
V;
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Female Labor-LThe School of Design
One of the most important problems of tho
day is to furnish honorable and lucrative em
ployment to females who are compelled to rely
upon the fruits of their individua nrprtions
for a livelihood, but who are physically un
ltted for the drudgery of ordinary housework,
mid sufficiently intelligent to bosom° useful in
tho higher spheres of labor if fair opportuni
ies are afforded to them. Mudik is constantly
!icing dune, It is true,' in the way of employing
them in factories, in stores, as seamstresses,
dressmakers, &c., as teachers, as authors, and
even as physicians. But it is evident that
their interests, as well as the general welfare
f , f society, would be greatly promoted by far-
tiler extension of their fields of usefulness.
'lb the energetic young men of our country
hundreds of avenues to honor and affluence
are always open as they approach to manhood,
and they rarely fail, with proper application
and industrious habits, to acquire a respecta
ble and comfortable position in life, even if at
the outset of their career they are pinioned
by those "twin jailors of the human soul, low
birth and iron fortune." But the destiny of
their sisters depends mainly upon the charac
ter of their matrimonial alliances, and if they
should be so unfortunate as to obtain reckless
and improvident husbands, or should from
choice_ or necessity remain unmarried, they
"re often doomed to a_ galling dependence, or
to a life of almost hopeless wretchedness.
Among the practical measures for aiding
those who are able and willing to assist them-
selves, such institutions as tho Philadelphia
School of Design for Women are particularly
worthy of encouragement. So Ihr as artistic
knowledge is concerned, there is a constant
it11:1 rapidly growing demand for it in our coun
try which might be readily supplied by women,
properly educated, and thus in agreeable em
ployments for which they are naturally well
adapted, they could earn comparatively large
salaries. To a limited extent, our School of
Design, though yet in its infancy, has answered
this desirable end. After obtaining the pre
liminary instruction it gives in drawing, paint
ing, and geometry, its successful pupils have
Wean taught designing, wood engraving, or
print-cutting, or qualified to 'become teachers
of drawing and painting in the numerous
schools and academies scattered over the land.
Some of its graduates are even now success-
Cully pursuing . each of the avocations we have
named, and obtaining for their services a much
higher rate of compensation than is secured
by women engaged in other pursuits.
One of the chief reasons why so many fo
reign goods, particularly of the more beautiful
and fashionable descriptions, are imported into
our country, is that we have not a sufficient
number of skilful designers to gratify the
ever-varying tastes and fancieS of our coun
try with,new and beautiful combinations. New
life and energy would be infused into many
branches of our manufactures if this want
could be supplied, and women properly trained
can become almost, if not quite, as serviceable,
in this manner, as men. There is a constant
demand, also, for designs for illustrated works,
and for wood •engravers, and some of• those
who have received their first and only artistic
instruction in the school to which we have re
ferred, are profitably employed in this manner,
while others have been engaged at good sala
ries to impart the knowledge they have ac
quired to the pupils Of distant academies.
The School of Design is under the direction
of a number of our most estimable citizens,
Joan.'" 11.4.aaison, Esq., being its president,
and P. P. MORRIS its secretary and treasurer.
It has an endowment of $17,000, about $9,000
of which was given to it by that well-known
philanthropist, ELLIOTT Car:soon, now de
ceased. An effort will shortly be made to in
crease its endowment, so that its sphere of
usefulness may be enlarged. It is to be hop 94
that it will be successful. Boisterous decla
mation about "woman's rights" accomplishes
no•good practical purpose, but well-considered
plans for increasing woman's facilities for
achieving an honorable and independent
position, by her own appropriate labors, de
serve encouragement and a liberal support.
REAL ESTATE A24D STOCKA—Thomas do Sons'
sale on Tuesday neat, 14th Instant, at 12 o'olook
noon, at the 'Exchange, will inolude, in addition to
the 2,249 shares Green Ridge Improvement Com
pany, several properties by order of the Orphans'
Court, executors, heirs, as., Including a valuable
lot (York-road Hotel property) on the Delaware,
and several dwellings. Bee pamphlet catalogues
imued this day.
THE PRESS.-PMADELPHLA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1860.
The Last Plank Gone
,
The Louisville DeinOcrat, a Southern paper
of great influence, shatters the last plank upon
which the Disunionists and all other enemies
of Popular Sovefeignty stand In the following
short and expressive article. The Disunionists
allege, that even granting that the,Democratic
party had been committed to the doctrine that
the people of a Territory, tclike those of a
State," should vote on slavery as well as upon
all other domestic institutions, and that the
Teriitorial Legislatures, might 'legislate upon
that question, yet that the decision of the Su
preme Court in the case of Dred Scott ren
dered achange of front necessary, inasmuch
as that court decided that the Territorial Le
gislature had tee such power, And that the peo
ple of the Territory were not entitled to vote
upon slavery as well as upon other local and
domestic institutions. This is their present
'patent daily cry, but the words of the Louis;
vine Democrat prove its absurdity:
" We reply that it is utterly Wee that Douglas or
any other Democrat agreed to submit to an abstract
opinion of the Supreme Court. •The matter sub
mitted was the nets which a Territorial Legisle
taro might pass. They were to be valid or not, as
the court might deolde, when a case was brought
before it.
" It is provided in the Kansas bill itself; and
there Is not a word about submitting to any ab•
street notions of, a court. The' assertion that any
dbing else was submitted is utterly false ; nor was
it agreed that any one should abandon his opinion
because the court might decide one way or the
other. The decision of the court was to be sub
mitted to as usual, whether it was held to be
right or wrong. No man of sense—no Demom at.
at least—proposed to submtt his opinions and
policy to the notions of wise men on the b'npreme
bench,. '
‘• The Democratic, party never wee guilty of
such a fault, and we hope it never will be. In
the Kangas bill, facilities to appeal from a Terri
torial court to the Suprenie Court were provided ;
and if any one felt himself aggrieved by an act
of the Legislature, there was his redress. If the
court said the act was invalid, then it was not to
be executed; that was all. Not that the Demo
eratio party was to give up Itsfudgment and rea
son to the judgment of the court. The party did
not do so in. the care of the alien and sedition
law, nor on the case of the United State, Bank.
Br both cases, the Democratic party wan right
and the court wrong. The party, -however, sub
mitted to the decisions of the oourt as they will
do when the court decides a Territorial not
unoon
atitutional. They will Flee to it that such an net
shall not be put in operation.
" We now challenge the whole bolting fraternity
to find a pledge beyond this, either in the Territo
rial bills or in the speeohes in support of them. It's
a libel on the party to proclaim that it submitted
its conscience to the Supreme Court, and agreed to
substitute its decisions for the Constitution itself.
At Charleston, the proposition to submit to
what a court might decide, was repudiated by the
bolters, 'although the resolution only meant what
all good °Mous are required to do; it was sur
mised that it might mean too much."
TER BEAT, TIM POOR, AND THE PUBLIC OIIARITIP.B—
FOOTS—CITY RAILWAYS AND THEIR
BUSINESS LAST YEAR—SINGER GETS ITAUGUTY—
THORPE'S NIAGARA—SENATOR DICKINSON'S KITH
AND KIN IN THE NEW YORK CUSTOM noltSE—A
FREAK AND REMARKABLE BOOK OP TRAVELS
leorreependenee of The Press.]
The heat of the weather makes no difference
with the number of poor wretches who at this sea
eon crowd the hospitals and public; ios•.itations of
the oily. Figures of fact aro always more Gagger.
dye and convincing than figures of speech ; and
this is true of that particular class who come un
der the supervision of the Commissioners of Public,
Charities. At their regular weekly meeting, held
yesterday afternoon, it was reported that there are
now in the various public corrective and charitable
institutions of the pity 7,014 persons, of whom 5,429
are In hospitals and asylums During the week
nearly two thousand were discharged, and a little
more than that number of new eases received. The
average keeps nearly the same-,three or four hun
dred poor creatures every day wending their way
to hospitals, do., to take the place of as many
more who have bean discharged.
Governor Foote is in good demand for public
meetings, and is doing yeoman service in the Dou
glas cause. On Wednesday evening last be ad
dressed a vast audience at Flushing, and produced
a strong impression.
Our city railways wore never more prosperous
than at present. ,From the annual report made
to the Secretary of State, I quote the fol
lowing abtraot, wb'oh will doubtless interest
the railroad men of Philadelphia:
1863 1869. 1868. 18.69.
Third avenue 7.910,462 9.974.101 $163106 $606, 0 51
E,ehth avenue—. 6,768 203 763 .1 ,997 338.410 379 600
Sixth, avenue 6612.317 6479.137. Z 8 618 421,956
Heannd entre .. 4,644 6;6 6.1e13.011 217.467 162 166
Harlem-- ..—..3,069,721 3,49.1,113 165 466 281.933
1 , agonies. Net turnings
1978. 7&66. 1868 1859
Third avenue.... $242811 834.868 (916 u 249 $196761
Etuhth avenue.... 1T789 fa.l.---RU ear - -
Sixth avenue r7w2is /0614
Vg::,: 1 04746714 0 4 1 4 01 . 4 .r.4
.111,9110M60,bsisig; over 1813 .den.; that of the
"Efilith is 11 per cent.; Sixth, 16 'percent ;.Second,
15 per cent. ; and Harlem, 14 per eent. The ave
rage is 15i. percent. At this rate of inorease, we
sholi soon require double the quantity of street
railway aeoommodations to do the passenger bust
nese between theft° ends of the island.
Singer, the ?ewidg machine manufacturer, has
been naughty. He was yesterday brought before
a justice for beating his wife, and put wider bonds
fur peaceableness for six months
To-morrow, Col Tnorpe (the "Bee Hunter,")
sends his large picture of Niag la to Europe for
exhibition, and to be engraved. This is the pic
ture a copy of which was ordered by the Japa•
need Embassy.
Senator Dtekineen could well afford to sustain
the Administration-Breckenridge Convention a t
Syracuse. Mr. Buchanan has taken care of him
and hie, like a gentleman. His son-in law, Aus•
barn Birdsall, is naval elfieer at an lucerne of not less
than $20,000 per annum. Mr. Dickineon's brother
is deputy naval officer, worth $3,000 per annum ;
Mr. Birdcall's brother is entry clerk, worth $2,000.
a year ; another of Mr Birdsall's relatives is
weigher, at $3,000 a year; and another relative,
named Murray, holds a place worth nearly as
much more. It is therefore a•' good thing to do"
for them to go Bunk and Break.
AV. H. Ludlow bas boon elected a delegate to the
Demooratio State Convention from Beffelk county.
Messrs. Harper 4t, Brothers here, in preparation
the long-expected work of Mr Paul B. Du Oben •
lu, the celebrated gorilla hunter and At rican
explorer, whose remarkable collection of vrillas,
and other hitherto unknown animals, has surprised
and delighted the scientific soon of Now Yurk and
Boston, and the eurione public for some time
Though the gorilla has been known to scientific
men for some ten years, from skulls and parts of
ono ur two skeletons which have been brought to
America and to England, Mr. Du Chattier is the
first white men who has had courage and enter
prise enough to bunt this ferocious monster In his
native haunts. He went entirely alone—so far as
white companions were coneerned—depending open
the friendship of various negro kings and chiefs
in whose territory he found himself. He passed
four years In a region of Central Equatorial Afri
ca which was never before explored, and succeed
ed in penetrating to the distance of four hundred
and fifty miles from the oast, discovering a num
ber of new tribes, and a vast region of bithert•t
unknown country, watered by navigable riven!,
and affording inexhaustible supplies of ebony and
India rubber, as well as beeswax, ivory, berwood,
and copal gum.
His accounts of the queer manners and customs
of the barbarous tribes, some of whom worshipped
him as a superior spirit, and his stirring stories of
gorilla, leopard, buffalo, and elephant hunts will
make this book the moat interesting and exalting
of the season. Messrs. Harper and Bros , who
know how to do justice to a good book, have got
the beet artistic talent of the country to work on
the illustrations, so that we may expect to see in
Mr. Da Chaillu'a "Explorations and Adventures
in Central Equatorial Africa," a work as credita
ble to the publishers as to the bravo explorer him.
self—firkin, by the way, is only waiting for the issue
of hie book, to return to Africa, for another three
or four years of more extended discovery, in which
he hopes, if not killed on the way, to cross the con
tinent at its broadest point, and thus settle for the
geographers and for commerce, the condition of a
most important portion of the great African con
tinent, which has hitherto defied tho efforts of
larger puttee.
A friend of mine, speaking with Mr. Du Challlu,
a few days ago, about this intended journey, said,
"I suppose you will take a considorablo party of
whsto man this time?" "Not at all," was the
answer; "I will not have a white man with me.
They all die." "But why don't you die?" " Ab,';
said the traveller, " I don't go there to die I
know the elimato. I had fifty-five attacks of fever,
and took twenty pounds of quinine, in four years.
Now I know all about it." To " trust in God and
keep a good supply of quinine" seems to be the
formula for Afrioan travel.
Now that the season for fever and ague is again
approaching, we deem it an ant of humanity to
publish the following reolpo for Its ours, which has
been repeatedly resorted to within the circle of
our acquaintance with invariable success. It is
simply to pound up, for a grown person, say four
ounces of frankincense, and sew it up in a blank
silk bag, which is to be worn by the patient next
the skin on tho pit of tho stomach. We counsel
then fllioted to try this simple remedy.
SOMETHING NEW.—The twenty-five parts hi
the o , :mineue , filont exercises, at Dattutou•h
N ti , this year, Were assigned by lot to the
giativaliug class, thus giving all a chance. This
sneaks well for the academie ohataoter of the
Wass. Usually, the parts have been assigind, at
the (Horatian of the inoulty, to the best scholars.
There were alxty•llve graduates this year.
TUE three leading railroads of New York—
New York °antral, New York arid Erie, and the
Hodson River—oost together eighty.eight millions
Of dollars. When we add the Harlem road, the
grand aggregate amounts to about one hundred
Millions of dollars. The total freights on them
four roads, for the fisoel year ending fire Septem
ber, 11359, were over thirteen and a half millions of
dollars, and the aggregate receipts somewhat over
twenty millions, on all the roads of the State of
New York.
Letter from New York.
Nnw YonK, August 10, 1860
Nc.inse , ngera carried. ReceUie
Cure for the Ague.
Berko County - 44 Fusion'' , not En.
-dorsod.
Correspendenoe of The Pram]
READING, Auguat 8, 1860
The regular county meeting of the Donfooraoy
of Berke was held yesterday in the Court Rouse.
and the large court room was jammed to its utmost
eapaoity. Cm account of the existing divl,
alone of the party, you may suppose this
annual Convention was looked forward to
with more than usual interest, on all shies.
In fad, the feeling pervading those who were
to participate in .it rather approached anxiety
blended with doubt as to its final result. Many
Rope)Roans were there as epeotators, looking for a
general break-up. From the existence of two an
tagonistic Demooratio ollibs—one adveioating a pure
Douglas electoral ticket, the other approving of the
" fusion " scheme of the Central Cnimittee—a
collision was supposed to be imminent. I need not
nay that onr Republican friends left the meeting
sorely disappointed, for a basis of compromise had
been agreed on just in time to prevent a struggle,
You may recollect, in a former letter, I gave
corns account of the notion of the "Demoeratio City
Club" of this place, in voting down a Douglas and
Johnson resolution, and " cordially approving" of
the action of the State Central Committee at Phila
delphia. Shortly after this occurrence a Douglas,
Johnson, and Foster Club was formed, and about a
week since was permanently organized. This nu
cleus of an organization became at once a rallying
point, meetiug with such enoouragemont that in
less tbau a week it became not only strong in num
berg but formidable in oharader. The "Old Club"—
perhaps so called on aticourit of its inveterate fogy-
Lon, though more generally denominated the
" Breokinridge or FUslon" . Club—soon lost, a num
ber of Lit members, and a proposition to get UP a
transparency with - Douglas and Jetliner' ' on ono
side and Breekinridge and Lane on the other—to
be followed up, probably, with the mottoes " Slave
Code" and ".Non-intervetition" on the other oppo
site aides—came near produeing a general stam
pede, which was however fortunately prevented
by the withdrawal of the motion.
These Clubs became the brace of operations of the
contending parties, the "Old Club" being both
backed by end backing the two newspapers of
Democratic ant icedents—vis : the Adler and G.r•
zette. Both these papers have hoisted the Bruit
laridge and Lane flag, and are warmly advocating
the "Fusion Eltotorat lioket," while the Douglas
Club is without au " organ," and stands alone on
the jostles of the cause in which it is engaged.
But I have been digressing For enure days be
fore the county meeting, intimations of oomoromise
were ieniesionally throgn out by trio Breekin
rldgere," nod received with some favor by the
Dueglas men; but the latter suggested that no
compromise need be expected which mi a .ht look
to the endorsement of the State Committee's fit.
etch contrivance. In !Alert, the friends of Douglas
Insisted upon a liberal basis, and declared their
willingness to agree to resolutions endorsing
Foster and the Reeding Convention, but ignoring
the Presidential question entirely for the present.
As mi ht be supposed, under the oireumstances,
there was a decided hanging back on the part of
a number of the "Fusionists" to come up to the
terms
Repeated conferences were held, and the propo
sition several times rejected. It was only on the
morning of the meeting that some definite plan wee
reached, though very reluctantly and through a
great deal of pressure from the rural districts As,
however, no reliable assurance had been given to
the Douglas party of the terms being accepted, it
was deemed prudent to arrange a programme of
action for the meeting in the afternoon, to be con
tingent upon a definite and just basis of compro
ndae being effected, which in the hurry and ex
citement attending the coming together of the
meetiug were now supposed to have been done, a
series of resolutions and a tolerably satisfactory
list of officers having been presented for casual ex
amination to several members of the Douglas Club
and approved. By come fortunate accident, just
before the county, meeting was organized, an in
epection of the " compromise" resolutions was de
manded, bat the demand only assented utter con
siderable parleying, which naturally aroused sus
picion. On inspection, an interlineatfon appeared,
cordially pledging the Democracy of Barks to
the support of the ticket formed by the Reading
Convention, unless changed by regular au
thority."
Those to whom the resolutions had been shown
in the morning, declared that the interpolation had
been made since. Very soon an excitement com
menced brewing from this evidence of bad faith,
and bat for the earnest and repeated assurance on
all sides that the matter Interlined should be
stricken out, the feeling armload would have culmi
nated in an explosim. In tact, a motion to amend
the nomination for p resident, by striking out the
name fret proposed and Inserting- another, had
already been made, but was afterwards with
drawn.
With the understanding that all should be right,
the meeting soon recovered its tenser, and the rest
of the proceedings terminated harmoniously, much
to the chagrin and disappointment of the Lincoln
men present.
Speeches were then delivered by:Hlester Clymer,
E q the delegate to Charleston, General George
M. Kelm, J Lawrence Getz, and A. 0 Green,
Ergs , when the meeting adjourned.
Not desiring to extend this communication to an
unreadable length, 1 will only add that the Doug
las men claim the action of the meeting as a de
cided victory, while the other side appear to be
equally gratified at its harmonious issue. When
we consider that the Adler and Gazette have en
tirely failed to receive an eraturierneut of their
coerce, though firing two broadsides a week
• r-a significance not to be mistak -n. it is very
stain the tuition ofelm so.-
p, .1.,....•,,av0a0 61.14ati, tAMPOSIC . UMW like , De.
Itocraefof dot ebttntr:
In attneluding this letter, allow me to correct a ta•
legrephio anurancemont in 10-day's Press, Chit at
the Douglas meeting held here on Mon
day night a resolution to endorse the sod, n
of the Execut ve Committee was rejected." It watt
not rejected simply becatoe such a resolution wt
never ',eared. Yours, truly, B.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT
ReADING, August 7, 1880
I am sorry to inform you that the Demooraby of
D.' s- have gono back to the tlosh•pote. The
loaves and II boa seem to bo more attractlve then
Douglas and popular sovereignty.
At their county meeting which assembled yester
day, a faros was enacted, whtoh for utter abandon
moot of professed principle bee few parallels, even
in the Rota at poldioel atatemblies.
The candidates for office, who took charge of the
meeting and all fis proceedings, in order to secure
their election to the several places to which they
aspire, its Vim speeches and resolutions recom
mended a union-of the Douglas and Breckinridge
wings of the Dem ,oracy, welch was adopted
To a tyro in political queokory. a union between,
two sections prVessing atiberenaa to men and prin
ciples as aoff,rent Otero each other as light is from
darkness, might seem hupote•lble. But nothing
could be mere facile to the office hunting Demo
crate of this mo,etieg When adherence to princi
ple stands in the way of political success, in these
d,g,neratto days, the eaoraflem of the fi et is made
with lon' little leatta.ion. especially by that oleos
of politicians wit, have abandoned former urgent.
zatiens, and entered others, in order that " thrift,
only follow litwinag " The recent canners to the
Democratic purr), in this meeting as well as in
others held In otter perilous of the country, from
the delegate to (hellesion down to the editor of
the Gazette, were the loudest and readiest In urge
leg the suppresim3 et principle, %quiet thooe who
hove been Democrats etund firm in their
supportof Judge Deugles and his doctrines Frde•
relies turned Democrats, it h been add, are like
the loist hatched humble-bees7which always maka
the most noise, tie truth of which wee forcibly ex
emplified in our neeting yesterday
Bu: In order to tensuminate the union whloh.the
office-holders pritosed, it was necessary to d
what this meetingeonsidered a very small thing—
viz : ignore Presitential candidates and platforms;
denounce the prnriplea of the black Republicans ;
take acre to aver none for themselves; and ob
serve rigid silenasas to preferences for candidates,
Thu Douglas Demo rats look on the fraud to which
they were witnessa with amassment, violative as
was the whole protiodirg of the rule enjoined by
the friends of J urge Douglas everywhere to form
no union with Seceders or Disunlonists, to do no
thing nor accede it nothing that was calculated to
ignore the great promple upon which Judge Dou
glee has hazarded he balance e,f his political life
But the outrugeswhich the Douglas Democrats
were unwittinely lei to endorse do not atop here.
By reaffi , ming " ihi acts and resolutions " of the
Rending Deniccrati, State Convention, the bong.
les men are suede ti approve of the J orergu and
domestic paltry, net all of Mr. Buobenan's
Administration—an achievement which forms the
lubjcet of loud boasthit by the Breokinridge men.
heart sickening asis a review of what occurred,
and disgraceful US ar, the eats which the sharpers
and offi e hunters pained upon our ono° glorious
Demooiaoy, you mayreply upon it that the true
bone and sinew of oar party will never ratify the
rwancenvres of tie few who so unblushingly seed
aced principle ii order to gratify their lust for
°filo°, PETER PLAINCOAT.
Speech of Abraham Lincoln, in Spring
field, Illinois.
The Cincinnati V onnerrial, of Thursday, says :
SKUNOPIELD, 11l , August 8 —The great Mass
Convention, at Ile how of Lincoln, comes oft' hero
today. The city is crowded to overflowing with
people The lowest estimate of the crowd in at
tendance is twenty thcueand. This is made by
Douglas Democrats. lts estimates run from this
op to forty thousand. The great Republican wig.
ram was dedioated Ina night. Specubee wets
made by Senators 'kunbull and Doolittle, and
Judd, GfChicago.
Tho procession, Welneaday morning, numbered
six thousand by Reuel count, and occupied two
boors and a half in 'mesh g Lincoln's residence.
Popular enthusiasm a mbutmded. Good judges
nay it is a second Chicgo Convention with as I•
tions Tho great methg at the Fair grounds
numbered 15.000 peopb. Mr. Lincoln appeared or.
tho ground, and spokeasfollows
"My Fellow Citizens—l. have appeared among
you on this occasion wain° intention of ranking
a tweak It has beer my purtose, shoe I have
been itinood in my prtseit proaltion, to make no
speeches Thia assemblage having been drawn
together at the piece of try residence, it appeared
to be the wish of those oosstitufing the vast
bly to see me. As it iimrtainly my wish to see
all of you, I appear upm be ground here at this
time, only for the purpseof seeing you, and etn•
abliag you to see me. lvtiess with gratitude that
I did not suppose that ny ippearanca among you
would create the tumult *Joh I now witness I
am profoundly grateful fir his manifestation of ynur
feelings Ism gratified tee use it ia a tribute which
can be pad to no urin It is a testimony. which,
four years hence, you ail py to the next man who
is the representative el betroth on tip , questions
which Dow agitate the pthin wind. (Chews.]
" It is an evidence ha you will light for this
moo then, es you nor Mat for it, and even
tamer than you now 41,though I may be deed
and gone. (Cheep I 1 but profoundly and sin
eerily thank you kl.vitg ofd. this much, let 111 CI
now add that put will heir the public. chant:stone
by others of our friends, lb. err here for thu pur
pose of addressingyou, nu let me be silent,"
(Immerse tipplause.)
Mr Lincoln retired fron be grounds amidst the
wildest iuthuslmn, boingpeaed upon and carried i
hither and thither by the lutnertsn crowd, which
filled the grounds to oveilhndng No such demon
stration has ever been wittesed in Illinois
lancoln'a speech thic afiga.on wac iotally unin
tended. lie was xeizQd uphlby the crowd, pulled
°alp a c ,reiege, tt‘A lorce4 t respond by a throng
wild with ehthusatiam.
LATEST NEWS
By Telegraph to The Free&
From Washington.
WASIIINGTOS, Aug. 10 —The report of the in.
tended rostitnatleit of Gen. Gass as Secretary of
State has no afield foundation, but is predicated
on the faot that Ma health has been tailing Air some
months past.
The amount of Government funds on deposit is
$5,081 ; 000, of which $3,272.000 is subject to draft.
The reeeipte last week were $4.810.080, but owing
to •the payment of drafts to the extent of over
$2,500.000, the BUM now on hand is esa by $405.000
than it wee the preceding week Drafts have beau
issued for the payment of $2.215,000, thus leaving
a net balance of $1.,072,000.
Oapt. Simms will leave to-morrow, with a de
tachment of fifty marines, for the U. B steamship
Sinleehanna. The officers of the vessel have been
ordered to report themselves on board on the 15th
inst.
Destructive Fire in Maryland.
TUE TOWN OF SALISBURY BURNED.
BALTITIORE, August 10 —The town of Salisbury,
Somerset county, was almost entirely consumed by
fire on Wednesday, the Bth inst. Over forty dwell
ing -houses, stores, eto., were destroyed The
town is represented as nearly a mass of ruins.
The Episcopal church, one of the oldest in the
State, was destroyed, notwithstanding the great
eff.rts made to save it. The conflagration swept
away the pierce of Messrs. Roder d Towivina. Wm.
Burkhead, 0 F Dashield, Bush's 11.1. with se
veral other stores, and their contents were partially
destroyed
A large amount of personal property, stook,
ge,,ds, (re , owned by the in.fferera by the coral :-
woolen was saved, though the aggregate loss is
very large. Most of the psrties were insured in
the Mutual loeuranee Company, of Delaware
The origin of the Lire is
,Company,
known, though it is
suspected to have been set on fire.
Missouri Electron.
Sr. Louts, August 10.—In this county the vote
for Governor, according to the omelet count, stands
as follows:
II Jackson, (Dem.) a 275
J B. Gardenhire, (Republican) 9,215
O. F. Jackson. (regular Dem.) 9 744
Judge Orr, (Union) 12,457
The Republicans figure up Mr. 'Rollins' (Repub
lican) majority in the Second Congressional die
trriat at 500.
Not half the counties in the State have yet been
heard from
Murder at Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, Aug 10.—Last night two negroes
entered the saloon of Wm Piokersgill, on Seneca
street, and becoming quarrelsome, Mr. Pickeregill
attempted to eject them, when one of the negroe3
drew a large knife and made several lunges. one of
which took effeot on a white man named William
Solomon, who was passing out of the door. Mr.
Solomon ran a little distant, when he fell dead.
Tho negroes fled, but were arrested this morning.
The Zonaves at St. Louis.
Cr. Louis, Aug. 10 —The Chinago Zoaavea ar
rived here this evening on their return home, and
were received by the National Guard.
Non-Arrival of the Adriatic.
110 mt, Aug 10-11 o'clock P. M.—There
are no signs, as yet, of the approach of the steamer
Adriatic. The weather Is foggy, and the wind
light from the south.
Detention of the Steamer Canada.
Tistmax, Aug 10.—The steamer Canada, from
Boston for Liverpool, grounded in going out of this
harbor last night. bho will not go to sea before
to.uight or probably tomorrow morning.
Republican Nominations.
CINCINNATI, Aug 10 —The Repuhlioans have
nominated Oliver M Spencer for Congress in the
First district, and John A. Gurley in the Second
district.
Fire in Canada.
Mutt:rot?, Canada West, Aug. 10.-3. M. Wil
Hams d Co.'e kerosene works were burned las
night. This is the second time they have been de
stroyed this summer.
Kentucky Election.
Loursvius, Aug. 10 —Returns from eiztyfour
counties, mostly complete. give General Leslie
Coombs a majority of 25.206.
The Keystone State.
Ctunr.ssvost, Aug o.—The steamship Keystone
Btato, Capt. Marsbman, from Philadelphia, ar
rived at noon to-day.
Markets by Telegraph.
BAT-TIMOR/4 August 10 —Flour quiet. Wheat steady.
Corn fi , m; yellow 700730 mixed 780. Provolone un
changed. Whisky firmer.
UINCINNATI. A11:1,11; 10 —Floor unchanged Whisks
Ilan advanced 34% sales 173. Mess Pork active at 019.
limon active a 1134 esl3.
en. ems°. AU4Uat 10—Flour dull at 5 to 100 decline.
Wheat firm, hut 2.1 33 lower; sales of 35 (0.) bus. Cer.l
wive ar 1.44040 hobos ; ealea 18,000 bus.
NEW Oaroarrs, august of cotton to day 445
halve, including 20 balea of the new crop Priors ale
easier.without ohenee in audtstious ; the receipt+ 01
new amp to-day wore 285 bales. F our dull at 8537.
THE CI:TY.
- - --gtiLC_Oonel Cross,
--.•.
AN AMUSING ADVENTURE OF TIIE CAPTOR
The Party Threatened with Airest
as Suspicions Characters.
In yesterday's Pr,s, we published a fall account
of the re-arrest of J. Cullman Cross, the forger,
who escaped from Tipstaff Porter. of the Quarter
Session, on Saturday morning last. nil account
given was substantially correct, but yesterday seve
ral other foots mime to light concerning the. (worse
he took after he eEc.iped from the otliJer. It tmm
that the Colonel woo rapidly driven down the
" Neck " for a short distance, and the wagon WA,
then turned about and driven op town at a mode
rate pane. By this means the fugitive quietly
sought a hiding-plates in the upper 'part of !fleetly,
while the Once. thrown upon a wrong scent, were
searching for him down town.
Cross went to a house is the neighborhood of
Columbia avenue and Broad street, where he re
teamed until Sunday night, when he went to a
email dwelling, occupied by a poor woman, in a
small clump of houses which stand Mick from Cm
lumbia avenue, between Twelfth and Thirteenth
dtreets. The woman et the house, it is believed,
vas entirely ignorant of the name or chasaeter oi
tier attest, and oho had no suspicion that the polite
murder who was to be called for the, night woo
Ij lonol Cress. A home told been routed for the
Colonel in an out of-the way location, and to thin
lie was to have helm removed on the night of bib
onoure.
District Attorney Mann, who bad come up from
Long Branch on receipt of intelligence of tm
escape of Cross, took the matter in charge and en
gineered it to a eulcessful termination. Through
information received by him from parties an,,
wore uotive in tracing It up, he learned of the ex
act location of Cross on Thursday, and of his in
tention to ebift his quarters on that night. A,
the Colonel is a slippery customer, it was deemed
best to " lay low" and capture him as he was
about leaving tho house
Accordingly, on Thursday night, the following
named persons left the office of the District Attor
ney in the family carriage of the latter: District At
torney Mann, ox-Detective Joseph Mirkel, Delta •
tive Charles H Stui.h, Mr. Benjamin Thomas. a
citizen, and the following named Ohm of the
Court of Quarter Sessions : Messrs. Porter, Ash
ton, Barber, and Mayhew.
the party divested themselves of their coats.
vests, collars, , (as mentioned in Po Press
yesterday,) with the view of passing themselves n
,s laboring men, to avoid suspicion as to their real
character.
Mr. Mann was particalarly successful in his me.
tiimorphosis, and he looked as though be might
have finished a bard day's work at paving the
streets. Some two squares from where the fugitive
was concealed, the wagon, clothing, ho , were left
in charge of the coachman, while the party saun
tered up to the scene of their intended operations.
In front of the suspected house there to an open
common, and the disguised officers lounged about
hare among the Jamestown weeds, keeping a sharp
eye on the houi.o and all who might approach or
leave it,
AN AMUSING INCIDENT
ithile thus engaged an emoting incident cc
currod. A man who had some exposed property
in the neighborhood, and who suspected that the
shirt-sleeved individuals wen, after 813 good,
ordered them away. They refused to go, and he
sent to the Twentieth•ward police station for aid
A small party of offioers were sent up, and they
ordered the men to leave under pain of being
looked up. Some of them pretended to be drank,
and they made that an excuse to remain about and
avoid a parley. Finally the District Attorney took
off his slouched hat, and facing one of the officers
demanded it be knew him. 'Cho officer almost
doubting the evidence of his own eyes and ears,
stammered out that be bolieved it was Mr Mann.
The latter assured the policeman that ho wax cox.
riot in his surmise, and begged the party to with
draw, as time was precious This request was, of
course, oomplied with, and the nun•ptussed police
men made their way back to the etutlon•house.
The arrest was effieted after this in the manner de
scribed in The Press of yesterday.
FM=
The redoubtable Colonel woe taken down to
prison In Mr. Mann's wagon, tho District At tort ay
retaining his laborer's • rig " and driving the
horses. 6o coutpleta was his disoisc, that the
prisoner did not recognise him unttl they arrive d
at the prison, and Mr. Munn jestit gly demanded
his fare.
TES COLONEL TAKES IT COOLLY.
On the road to Moyamensiug, the prisoner jested
with hie captors regording his mcape and recap
ture. Ho pretended to sympathize deeply with
Mr. Porter, who had fallen into disgrace upon h
account, and who had become an oiject of artapi
&on. He salt he could not help the mater at
the time, but be had determined to make Porter a
rich man before he died !
Cross stated to the ceders that, at the time they
come into the house to make the arrest, they were
all strangers to him, which gave them the advan•
tago, hut be intimated that regular iffliers in their
ardioary dress, would have :cad e o mu trouble in
tufting him.
THE OFFICER WRO TRACED ntu our.
Mr. Joseph Merkel, one of tho Mayor's deteetive
officers, informs us that ha traced out the move•
meats of the forger from the time be escaped, and
that he put the authorities in pe4se,silou of the facts
which enabled them to secure him
COLONEL eItOSS IN P11191N. , -WC Visited
Moyatuensing pr.cou yesteruay ulternoon, with the
hope that poi tutssion tvoubi be a‘corded tri to con
verse with Col Cross Wu had resson to belies.)
that the public anxiety to hear anything relative
to the details of his e,eape would be-grvill..d by a
conference with the cchnitod. The T..mbs in
New York 18 invariably open t 9 delegatt es of the
press, and the great to: Jority of 0111010 , 1 1 1; preter
the ocoalionul society of a reporter to the silence
and loneliness of the cell.
It Bemis however, that the Die:riot Attorney
had given positive orders that no ono should he
allowed to solder with Cross; end we were accord- Tins large mill at Waterford, R. 1., known
ingly refused the privilege. The criminal reached as Femiist., No. 3, was nearly destroyed iy
the prison on Thursday tvenina at halt post eleven fire on Tuesday. A large quantity of stook was
ohilock. Ile extubitssi some sullenness at meeting eared in a damaged conclitkn.
the superintendent, and rergalsed the District
Attorney for the fire* OWL
He is alloWed to havaMO boob, and has but to
muse in nie loneliness upon the long confloement
-which ha is ehortly to undergo. All hope of
eleapo twat have already vanished from his mind,
for precautions will be taken to prevent any recur
rence of the nicety-contrived programme of his
first ellp. lie has doubtless, by this time, become
resigned to his fate, and awaits, with great trepi
dation, the approach of Monday, when he will pub
eel' needy° sentence.
Although it is vain to hope that the acoompllshed
forger wilt profit morally by his imprisonment,
there is a satishotion In the thought that, for a
time at least, society will have lost its most un
scrupulous enemy..
LIFE-SAViNG APPARATUS, ON TUN COAST
OP New JOBSEIT.—PEIVATS - EaTartralaa'Pa. Go
irealuteliT ItfACTIVITY,—DarIa' the , present sea
son, an enterprising etuzen of this city, Geo. N. Te
-1 them, Esq.:who owns. a tract of land on the coast
of New Jersey, called the ‘' Erovenemile Beach,"
about fifteen tulles above Cape May, has, at his
own expense, procured one of Holmes' life-boats,
25 feet long , by 8 feet 9 inches wide, for service in
ease of wrecks occurring in the vicinity of the long,
line of beach comprising his property. This de
scription of life boat received very favorable men
tion in a report made to the Board of Trade of
Philadelphia, on the 23d r ots January, 1880, by a
committee consisting of Messrs. John Welsh, S.
Morris Wain, Francis R. Cope, and George N.
Tatham. It was tested in the breakers at Cape
May, August 21st, 1857, before a large committee
of merchants, etia-captains, pilots, and others,
besides hundreds of visitors at Cape Island, all
of whom expressed much gratification at its per
formanee. The boat was egala experimented upon
on the 27th of August, i 857, by a committee of the
Philadelphia Beard of Marine Underwriters, and
by the Board of Marine Surveyor?, all old ship
masters, who united in the strongest testimony In
its favor By order of the Navy Department. one
of the beats was experimented upon by the officers
of the Philadelphia navy yard, who reported on
the 14th of Ootober, 1857. that the result was highly
itatisfaotory. On the 22d of July, 1858, the pram
dents of the seven prim:dual marine insurance
emapanies of Philadelphia urged upon the Treasury
Department the adoption of tine ltte- boat at the sea
lion houses on the oust On the 3.1 of August, 1858,
the beat wan again publicly tried before a large con
course of visitors at Cape Island. A (retake+e of
her performance, signed by Alexander Henry, Eiq
Mayor of Philadelphia, and forty-seven others.
was prepared, testifying to the efficiency of the
boat. In &unusually heavy surf, she was repeat
edly rowed, by live men. out beyond the breakers,
and there, with out using oars, she was suffered to
be driven back by the eea upon the beach, which
she invariably approached bow foremost, and
without shipping water. It required the strenuous
oxeritons of seven men to upset her in the surf, and
then she instantly righted. Besides these testi
menials, one Irma Captain T. J. Cram, of the Uni
ted States topogreiptuttal engineers, and chief ot the
primary triangulation party ou the United States
coast survey, and from sufmen, boat-builders,
and °there, testifying to the adaptability of the•
boat to the purpose for which it was intended,
were alluded to by the committee of the Board of
Trade in their report. •
Mr Tatham, having, full knowledge of the caps.
•eides of the Holmes life-boat, after having wit-
Ceased experiments with other life-boats which
have been introduced to the public, and having not
the slightest personal interest in any of them, fur
ther than ascertaining which was the best, hut se
lected the Holmes boat, ria, in his judgment, being
the must serviceable. In addition to the life-boat,
Mr Tatham has invented a wagon, specially de
signed for the conveyance of the life-boat to painter
wnere it may be needed. This wagon oonaists of
four ordinary wagon wheels, held together by a
beam, placed lengthwise, reaching from axle to
axte. Above this is placed what Mr. '2 terms
" the ways," which resemble those of a dray, from
which the idea was taken. Between these two
ways are placed thirteen rollers, which look like
the rounds in a ladder, excepting that they re.
volve. The "ways" are suspended on the hind
axle of the wagon, dimity in the centre of gravity,
and when the least weight Is put upon _the
port projecting behind, it instantly til's over,
ready to launch the boat, or to take it on
the ways after It has been in use. When It
is desired to take the beat on the wagon, a rope is
attached to the stern,. and one Mall and a boy,
turning a crank, working a cog-wheel at the front
part of the f' ways," can haul up the boat 0 , .t of the
water, or from the ground As soon u the beat ad
vances on the rollers, beyond its centre of gravity,
the ways and the bow fall down on the body of the
wagon, leaving the boat in a horizontal position
' The advantage of carrying the boat on the wagon
is, that it can be conveyed from poi* to point with
great rapidity A pair of mules will haul the
wagon and boat along the beach at the rate of ten
miles an hour. This life-boat wagon is considered
by Mr. Tatham to be an improvement over the
English life-boat wagons, which are heavy, cum
bersome affairs, requtnng a large tome of men and
horses to manage them.
This boat and wagon have been procured by Me.
Tatham with a view to show, by comparison, how
ineffielont the present U. S. lila boat stations on
,he coast of New Jersey and Long bland are, the
lite-boats being exposed to the weather, and many
them rotted and unfit for service. True is also the of
condition of much of the other life saving appara •
tun supplic d by floe Government. The Govern
ment has no wagons to transport their life Loan-,
and altogether their equipment is Metier to tly.t
lurntshed by Mr 'Tatham at his owe expenee.
abort time ago, chile the Great Eastern lay off
Cape May, Mr. latham's lite-boat was driven
reptilly on the
e wagon ,
_ tram his place on Doren
:ne Beach, down to Cape May, whence the life.
boat was laureleed into the breakers, in presence
f a large - number of epee tators, and with Mr.
Tatham on board, was rowed out to the Leviathan,
end after remaining a short time on board the
Anceitkin,ntut .. tife- bolt. Warmed to ,Cape May,
forinariee was highly gratifyinebi 7 llll
Lowed it. Among those present was Miss Dix, the
well kuown philanthropist, who expressed her ad
miration of tan excedent qualities of the life- beat
The life boat Stadoha on the coast of New Jersey
AM Long Inland are represented to be' in a very
1 dilapidated coalition—the apparatus old and al
ooet worthless It he alleged, also, that the wreck -
ere, or those whose duty it is to see that att the ap
; names are kept in order, do not give the atten
tion to their duties that they ehonla. being eppoint
et' more from political coesideratiems than fron t
espieity and merit There arc fitly-four of these
stations, twenty-eight in New Jersey, and twenty
seven' Long Island, and It is asserted that to fully
one half of thin the apparatus is not seryieeebte
._„
in arse a week should occur in their vicinity
Veit' matter should rteelve the early attention of
•the Government °Mears before winter sets in, and
wrecks occur, when there will not be time to sup.
ply what is needed for the relief of the unfortunate
shlpwreeked mariners and passengers. In this, no
in every oilier relation of I.fe, it will be found that
"en 0111:10.3 of prevention fa better than a pound of
cure "
A BOLD ATTEMPT To ROD.—Yesterday,
a men named Sdinuel Green, while drivin; a
wagon down Fourth street, between Shippers and
Monroe streets, accidentally fell out, injuring him
self severely. The oceurretce drew a inward to
gether, at.d among lathe's. a lady stopped to see
chat war the matter While, she was wilting
.he felt r man's hand in bor pocket, end turning
round suddenly, the seized the depredator, who
WAS trying to steal her portemonnaie. and held hlm
ill be was secured by the te:,atand,ra. The pi
-otter proved to be Joseph Orr. en n.dinidaal wail
known to the (114 , 8i0 precincts of Pito alley, or
Trout nue. Alderman George lifeore was rtand
ing at hi- taco door at the lime, and w the whole
traneaotkn. Orr was taken before Alderman M.,
who gave him a hearing at once, and required hlin
to 6:,1 bail in $lOO. or be committed Strange to
say. Orr plumeed.i in getting a highly rep.pe‘stabla
dealer in Bluth Second street to go his ball, and he
war liberated
FloPg AIRETENG Housg.—This vcry old
house of worship is now undergoing a thorough re
modeling. It WIP built in 1803, constituting the
secant Papist church of North ern Liberties, and
stands nista the original eite, in New Maltose
street, above Poplar The front has been enlarged
and improved, by an extension of eight feet deep
by fifty-eight feet front The galleries have been
narrowed, a new pulpit erected, the ceiling fres
coed, and the entire church resented The new
front presents an imposing contrast to the anti
qu tied appoaranre of the old one From the posh
to the base, it is forty-eight feet high Four aeries
of handsome brick co'nmns uphold a broad cornice,
which Zaps squarely over the eaves of the roof
The alterations will cost $B,OOO. Rev. Mr. Cath
cart is the present pastor. An ancient grave-yard,
coeval with tho old building, Iles in the rear. It
contains many very ancient tombs
it, COUP LE BOLElL.—Yesterday afternoon a
man, named Daniel Crowley, PM overcome by the
excessive boil whit° walking along Fifth street
between Walnut and Chestnut Some officers o:
the Reserve Corps wont to his azalstance and found
him in an almost insensible condition They got it
ovrriage and conveyed him to the Pentisylvank
Hospital, where he died about four o'clook to the
afterneen Deceased was thirtpseven years of
age, and-leaves a family residing in Fitzwater
street, between Seventh and Eighth The corona: ,
held an inquest, and rendered a verdict in accord
ance with the above facts.
DEATH OF A STRANGBIL—OrI Thursday
afternoon, a well -dressod man, who Ilas said to
be an eng,ineer, was pioked up by some of the po
nce of the Second district, while wandering along
the wharves, evidently laboring under deliriutu
tremens He was taken to the Second-district
station bone°, but no accommodations being there
fur a sick man, he wee removed to theAlmsliouse,
where he died the mane evening. There wa ,
nothing about him which•would indicate what ht.,
name was fin had a gold watch and come valu
able pipers in his possebsion.
SHRICNADE.—L ast Evening, near 10 o'clock,
the friends of William B Thomas, Erg., proceeded
in a body to his residence in Spring Garden str , et,
above Thirteenth. and paid him the compliment r f
a serenade. Mr T. responded in a brief addreos.
after which tbo party were invited into the home
by Mr T., and hospitably entertained, when
speeches were made by several gentlemen. Mr.
Thomas is one of theoandidates for be Republican
nomination for Congress in the Fourth district.
S 17001: ING RATIL Yeat c rriny Carom
Fenner held rn inquest upon .he body of Joseph
aged sixty-four years, residing at
Levering. end' Lind streets, Fifteenth ward. wh. ,
died a horrible death. He was emhieled at
Fleming's woollen factory, Twenty-third and
Hamil'on strait., in the dyeing department, and
while at work a..cidentally fell into a vat of amid
log teeter He was taken out alive, but died in h
few minutes atterw,trtla. He leaves A family. A
verdiot of accidental death was rendered.
ISCAPRR FROM CAMDEN JAIL.-011 WEd-
Reed y night, or very early or, Thursday morning,
three prisoners eicled from Caked. n jilt 'nay
were all charged with petty offences ['hey ti , uat
have received aid from without, in the srs.'s. of Mei
or saws, for the Iron bars were sundered as if they
bad been composed of soft wood
BAsE BALL MATru—'SiAti.RTED yR. INC;1.1"
OF HAMILTON BANN BALL CLUB —This melon will
be played this afternoon, at 31 o'clock, on th,.
grounds of the Hamilton Base Ball Club
on elary ( ~r Thirty-eighth) street. north of Market
street. iVe,t Philadelphia. An interesting rune
may be exj oozed.
Acomn\r.—Yesterday afternoon a HUI,
boy, Iwe years old, fell , ff a door-step utem, t w hie%
be we- s'f ting. in Di.tkirue.t, street. below 1 4 -ver t.„
and brake bbt arm, betides seriously ir•juring biu
self otherwise.
THE steamboat John A. Warner will
leave Poplar-street wharf, Kensington, 'as well
Chestnut 8 , 1%0 wharf on the exrurelon to Cape
May, tomorrow morning. See advertisement.
Lincoln Meeting at Chester.
A very largo Lirreola meeting was held at Ches
ter, last night. A etand,hatt been erected on Mar
ket Square, and the rooms of tie Curtli (AA were
brilliantly illuminated. 'Judge Ilinkson presided.
Addresses were made by District Attorney Prise,
of Chester, and Messrs. Philip S. 'White, Win. B.
Mann, and Judge Kelley, of this city. The en
theiasm was Intense. Three hundred Invincible%
of the Cool:Taiga Club, proceeded to Chester by
steamer Pioneer. They were met at the wharf by
a deputation of Wide Awakes, and escorted through
the principal streets.
A portrait of Col. Curtin was presented to the
Curtin Club of Chester, by Mr. Ward, on belief of
the Philadelphiani; and received in a neat neigh.
by Mr Thorne, of Cheater.
The. Pioneer left for Philadelphia at 1 o'clock.
The night was intensely dark, and the boat•ran
aground, near the Lsz stets*. A scene of great
confusion ensued. The boat careened as the crowd
pressed from side to side, and a rush was made for
the life-preservers.
In the midst of the confusion some pickpockets
proceeded to lighten the pockets of the unwery.
They were detected and summarily dealt with.
FINANCIAL AND CORLIIEACLAJJ:
The Money Markets
PHIL USLPIIIA, August 10, 1860.
North Pennsylvania Railroad shares advanced
at the Streit Board to day ; Pennsylvania Railroad
gained I ; Reading was ash ode weaker ; passen
ger railway shares are in fair request, ant thdr
bonds looking up. Second and Third street, and
Fifth and Slat h-street sevens sold at 95; Green and
Costes - shares at 221; Mob street ifli. A Sale of
fifty shares Penn Mining at'ock - wasrmsde at 2.56
The Seoretary of the Trearttry has authorised
the recoinage of $2,000,000 in gold-dollar pieces,
now held in the A.4isnent Treasury office at New
York, into doable•eagle Owes.
The following is the amount of Coal transported
ors the Philadelphia and Heading Railroad duzilig
the week ending Thursday, August 9, 1860:
From Pnrt Carbon..—...
Vott.vllle
Behaylkill Haven.--
Aulnrn
Port Clinton
Total for one week
Previously this year...
MEI
To zaniq time last year
The following is the amount of coal transported
on the Schuylkill Navigation, for the weak ending
Thursday, August 9, 1860 :
From Port Carbon......
Pottsville
Schuylkill .Heven
Port Clinton--
Total for one week....._._.._............ 37 778 r`2
Previously this rear -.........-_ 71‘,94 co
Total— .—..749 212 10
To eame time teat year-- ........ ...—..—.. 706.08 03
The ehtements ct coal over the Huntingdon and
Broad Top Mountain Railroad:
For the week ending August 8....
Prev.ously gbia year...—.
Totli amount ehi p0nd......
Amount stopped to same date last .
The July earnings of the New York Central Rail
road were $549,174, an increase of $44,957 over
July, 1859
The New York City Controller give notice that
gentled proposals will be received at hie office until
Thursday, the 16th day.of August, 1860, at two
o'clock P M., when the same will be publicly
opened, for the whale or any part of the amount of
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the
" Central Park Improvement Fund Stock." The
said stook will consist of two thousand five hun
dred shares of one hundred dollars each, and bear
Interest at the rate of air per cent per annum,
payable quarter-yearly from taxation, the princi
pal redeemable Novetaber 1, 1876, from the
" Sinking Fund for the Redemption of the City
Debt."
The following statement shows the condition of
the banks :of New York city and State, in June,
1850 :
City of ' Interior Total
LI•BtLIitES. New Verk. Parks. State of NY.
Capita • ....•.e 69 758,777 41.736.616 1 1 1 494 la
Circu1ati0n.......... 8731.871 20 Int ~1.0 28 8V 191
1' °fit. 8647,283 2,861 100 It 419 121
9117 BAnka.... 0 4 8.174 349 33 117 413
Due 't'ress.S N Y. 8231/ 1.7:7974 86118363
I ndivianal De p ta....79,716 an 39.749 544 110 462 643
Muscellaneucts ....... 672 292 law 192 0132.364
Total
$l9l Va 683 811 Back CMSI66 46s
65 Bankt 2:0 anks
a ESOURCES. N. Y (3.t.. Int,,, Pate N. Y.
. 4 . 3 • • ..... .. • • -8125,1:8'0M ta-i 7h9 966 a 191 104 (63
Overdraftse - 69 !..16 .17639 418.275
Das fro ai Banks -—. 7 013,7:6 S 279 961 18.453.756
teal estate ..... 6,11.06 2 411 T. 113 6716,195
Specie . 21:670= I 52.7 .5 7 24:82.2.9
'nett Eta mt.. —. .... 19.017 997 "2110 IRO St 647,947
i onks... 4, 19 24 842 21.13 : 7.15 36 MO 677
Exesr se account.— 641018 717.2t8 ;XS 496
Total $l9l 369,513 19010 616.732 116105.106.463
Plll l / 2 delPala Stuck EYcdaege Saileg,
dolsos; 1 3. IW
w-eski-XALA.3I43fi Walnut Street
218 , 9 T WARD.
_ -
200 2d &3d.oirreot 75.. 95 VS :Ai Penna. ••• i•
15u0 klorrts /'anal 6s. 9$ Iro d.. . . .._ 103,
rtoo Frank & 6outh7s.. 93 93 A rob-at R • ... lots 1%
2210 Car de P 1t.140.141 5 Morris Col pfd 25 2 • 115
Coo d . ....... 10 L 1. 61 20 do- 2d).116
2.9 CAP 6a 101 6l Morris Canal.— a$ 265;
1 0 Ct.) 6a....... int 6 111 s rend' It 615,
60 Penn . 29-161 89 '0131.161
1300 Green
eo k. Coates.. 21 32X 74 t 3 1 Irmo Bk of Tenn- talk;
do 5 , ;54
3 do--• •.• .. 227 d 2 do 86.;
31 Hi:4l4
H. F4 Ei n , M'.o ?! B 4: raw
10 Ponca H. R...E3 . ..... 404
itarcaxia s
rioAßo: ,
•
.5600 Perna Ls ___ 9314 , 1140 Lehigh Es .. .101tg
•25 . ..... 701 to . 1
Al I.*higli "(ay .3".4 2 UU Catu.S.Amb63ls
btu Cl ty by '74....2J) e 59
SiiCONU BOARD.
40^ Readia4 a6s 7e. 100 tong R •. cash
(ki do . '6116 7414 liis) Morris C,nal 6s .
401) tatty R 6, Pl 4 Harrisburg . 157 1
.1;
3 util Caned ... 46'6 4 Farm .Nieelus .••••'l.
31 do .... esni Cius & Aanb 6., '64 Us.ts
I Penns H --.... 41
ULUI4i b PRICE.I:-.8 I EA.DY
- -
BM. ..4skr Fwi. 4 Pt.,
PluladelpM664 .101 1111.14 - Wmpet & Elm 11. 1 IN
I Dila 64 R.
• --AS' 101-14'. Wilmer& 78 7o
ula de new 10434 11141 W
Lona lord it__. 133 13%
rearm /la int off 963 s 9c 1184 CI & N.-. 66
'leaden; 24, .ehCl & N :term 42 4234
Kending bds 701 . . , 6..5e 86 -Venus N .h.hi
Lemi as 'Winton 90% IN Penn. 1 , _64 .63.6 77
React mt. 6e '66 72 rem aPI 105 A:113, 1181
vans K 4.% 41 , CatawlBsa laTol b 34
.'enna Rid Mt6B - 1.11% t IFrnhl & Scot:. It 49 70
or Clot ndv 664 66% deo & 'ihrl sr, N. 6% 49
for CI plevott, 11.6 llai t itace & Vine-at 28
B,IIN (le al muff 78% 76X, West nuts 64% &J;
- Yenta', Nay 1m a- 841 u 86 'Spruce & I .
' churl :gay . 934 1016 green & .22% 21
-,Bac T l Niue yr, , 314, 24 I Chrat & 31
- -"ielv York S tuttlo Exehauge—Ang. 10.
sac _al, IIoABD.
"0 VD 1.1 S. reg IVY If 650 :oh S IN. I R R.. 23
W la. C. St. 6' , 97.fj 26 do . 2631.
_14.11.1 ta. Y. dl. 6's 1812103 211 31h. S. & N.l. G.. . 4310.
.lite V/ Fenn 6a SO , 21 do cv
1000 IJudron Coo. Bd.. 89 MI do into 4
PRO Ch. & N. W.lat w. 6.13,,, 'en. R. tep-bl6 add
1006 do .. 63t 0 do 1.14
ion Canon C 0.....,.. 2036' 1 to •71.. 3r. pub; R is
. op.; oil 260 do 32) bajii
321 do. —titre 87X' 26 Harlem Reamed _Si
119 do.. . 177 :to do —....
-0 id 3l ten d. 211 mhda 7U •30:1 do. 2.1" i
10 National Bonk-Aviv% 230 do broirk A.ll
234 d
Pr o' fin 31 S. .83 : 211 co tau aoi
o . b6O 34,3 i 20 Barters( Prof bd 1
141 C. Pref. LEO 15u, .12) (Amato &R. I 843‹
,726 Erie linitroso 31 lto) do
'lt' do 314 1:0 Chi. Bar trQtrin.blo 89)..
421 Rea.lino tun 30 Ci Cai.
201 du tap 4951 Zu do
M 1110 0 eon R... 6 75,: 1 A Clv h
. Tol. — . .. s . ta
4. 10
166 brit) 6.13; Ito d 1 121 43
150 Brid.on River It.. 69 ,150 do— - ..•• .
THE 81 RitliTB.—tieriEs are steady. at $512 for
Pots and $530 tor Pear's with sales or 60 kW*.
ILarket for ttata and Weir-rn I , mar is
lull at d heavy, except tor round-hoop 'Mho, which in
carte and warned. 1' he export demand I. fair for the
atter Quanta. tat Inc home trade o 'attunes 'o pa rohase
WHIZ, I). The receipts of vll kinds acme:iota 1u 621
',his aMe the Woe foot op 11000 Mos. at $9204.5 2.5 for
onerfine 'fate ; $5 254546 `or extra do; .$603.66 33 for
.pperfine Western; $573116411:7 extra do; 618.6048 6 1
or ehipp.n. braids °Centre. round-hoop ...o to.
pionth,,3 3 , Floor ra pteady with a fa.r demand; sale,
nbls at $52056.40 for superfine Baitimore, 4.b 15,7'
78 for extra ito, $6 for Brandywine. 8.30et0 73 far
Goorgetown. 23a7 to fur Petershart..B , 6 10117 60 fnr
ichmond. and 48 1103 .Z tor Boson & I.l.liepo.
Ca
•rid • Flour ie qu.at. with 15,1451 of 61'0 Md. at 86.:a for
,upernne. and 16. o.o'oo for :Xtao. fir ',Flour to reams
:ooderately at $3 0011 42 . for roam to choice super
fine. torn. Meal 19 11.31 at t 3 tu for Jersev , $3.76 Ir 4
Brardy ine. and $l7 VS2I7 Cu co. tunrheene.
Al:P.— I lie losh tree its wil eh yr stonier checked
the export demand for Wheat Intlnet.ceS oar troortiot to
t.. and the article is dull, and prices f t•: or the bit, Cr.
Receipts to day, 38 636 3 .u•hels. whao the at es reported
than tar am oath', 20 tiOlbustien..ernoraco r white, n
to-k, at $1.37 7m1,43, wh,te Ohio at $1.371.4. red So ..n
•re new at $1.304133 and whi,e Indiana at $132 to
1.315 f,„ With on tam. sued 08111 , 11 d, ana the Comparative
•iitoil receipts at 70 231 bushels the Coin mproet has
somewhat improved ; sales MIAs) bu• he's at 26263.40 or
mixed V. cistern. Rye is quint, at 804. bariey coutiLues
nominal. Vats art unelt.nord .td cowed at 24.336
tor Southern and Jersey. ano:00 fox Northern and Wes:.
orn
YnoviAzo 4.—The Pork market II doll and hoar....
Ng' it!, mai of too Mr s 144 $ 843 for 0 , 1 mesa; 810.44 to:
aw mess ; $1325 (or old prima. and 811 for now pr ,
Heel I 4 quiet er,d onehaoked. with ages of ha wale ‘ 1
1454.25 tor country aone; $4 75.15 SO I r count. y `S3L
45¢11.1 SO or rep,: bed mow and sllcl2 for szorn taws.
rime mesa line( ts dull ,nd nontoi deaf Hams Met
lull Cut Melva aro ficaroa and firm. a 3 for Nho..lll , rs
-rid Ile for - arra. For Lard th a m a rket 15 d e b and
heavy a ith a Iles 4100 Mile /2.4 . 013; - o. Butter Is In,
fair :woes, at tvaltio tor Onto and 124200 for btate,
o.r.eea-3 is ate , d, at 8.44 :ENS°.
17111.5)5t fi;m, with atlas of 300 Ws at 21.44 e.
Me Central Park in New York tt Prete
tieal Failure.
We regret to learn, from the following article in
the Nov York Herald of thursday, that the Cen
tral Park of that city, which has been land out
gith so touch expense, will, practically, prove a
odlure The Litt-aid says:
- Notveihstanding the vast amount of labor end
;noney expeeded oa the Central Park, and the
c,eneral progress made there since the work com
menced, the visitor who seeks it for shelter and
nifort ore of these hot data will be disappointed
A faular g little or tiO shade there; and wita.ut a
;recant rhade such weather as this , rota/bet cc
~nt of the question, and a place tf pleasure 6r
,onies a yarn of torment Lt is very much to be
rrgretteo that the Central Pak is to dtfi,ieet in
this essential element. Tula° is no doubt that at
great deal of work has been accomplirhed in lay
ing out the walks and drives, buikikg bridgte,
vatting tran.verse roads, draining, and plan•.ng
sbrubs, but, after all, this work makes eery /tat,
-how for the time and money lavishod or it. cad
one good, tong. shady eveoue or grove ot lull grown
trees wamd be more acceptable to the public just
tow Than the whole of P.
•• One .1 0 first Lingo which shunt i have been
done in oh, pork was to trauiplant a large number
01 toli-grown forest trees • a ten, we believe, were
traniplanted trim the ;bores of toe N.i h river,
tort they no not seem to have fiou.tobod tort• welt
'IVO,' nor hdt.j , t the nytnrat titnenr , d by lb:, Fra nett
I:inperor in Pone when ho wet la} tog on' the
Bois de Boulogne, where hito trees of t•oture
vowth alight he seen daily cittted along kio Ne
t 000. to be pia•ed in their new beds, in whin
•bey emit res:Ed securely, wi'huat a le• for branch
•thd ? would be worth while spending o good
ileal of money to accomplish this. A pork without
hada trees is like a theatre without bOt hely ; it to
rut the ekeleten of a park after all, be its walks
.n,l drives, and lakes and bridges, ever sa perfect
Nest to plenty et breathing space, a pleasant sh Au,
.1 the most egaeutial feature to a publin park; but
:Ye are Wald, at the rate the Central Park ii
• n in this respect, that the preterit generation will
~,,t, shrived away before any of
',jay Mei:wives there, like Tityras of old, sod.
tegritine JaAii
Tons. Cwt.
.....- 12.433 11
2 621 18
6 940 03
47,7F2 lv
-.1J53,024 02
1,7008'618
1123=103
Tons. Cat.
- 8.043 10
-2, 14 02
2 , 400 18
........ 2 061 00
Teals.
.106.925