The press., August 24, 1860, Image 2

'susizzit itzsoitTs.
egimkto=l;pis,-
• wino ; t0 :;.A . 16
111.0111•111110.04-114mit Oarbis. bikasUollithi Pi.
4.. •
- - 4111111Ssetws...1baskObitidc..ra.." ,
' , -,WilatgeLKOVE4 Alinollll4 ll 4 • i. "1';
11100SilialA144 Oleo
Assisatai.llBl4,l. • ' -
,1111141.444/111.- 4147.0.4._),,T
m im
ing&ltousii ilto=nfrit 4.11/41,
-93r4arAil WOO; ' X; " -
AIM
koasrevi arsurss, Ilaisbds le. z. ei"
Minium WilinflinnabOhNow Claborlasti oe
It#.3. Admits ells J - •
t - -„, '41 , 4V - a i , ii • . 7. 3:4 , , , 3 ',.' ;- ,'
..:,"•8 i .ftf44 , ) 7
tw-., - :.,. , 1 ,
7... - .7.`1:1 , 4 ,'.,t,.,.
'I r RWA Y ;; 4 !'itGUP,T 2.4R,Ale°'
lksat.—A , Batch ef amid ; Digheists ,
PsNtlsi; Aire 01.17- twain . frPrinielyDslCVl d ' ?
PA. l . l* -1 1 " i,:tfit•i, from
,04 1 '„frbas• - . o f,- W* lo lin Quail;
.•
W~piidetifiidtbat Jahn; 6, iLittull, :Rho
no l atasseit*Ma DWI and liveretaimry for
gram ba Nth district 'WWI State, hni Da.
''''')Ojl , Ofe ll, * :1414"libidioi7 00* tioni
tai fwitsos ooaseT, and V
r'rairre
,lliS honor is
aMaident of Germantown. The Democratic dela.
takceiestkilsttbOthkowt the eity win take place On
Ilopdayareatniy.:, Thi Colinuti, and lush&
pat itingitatious win Mka plase:M6 next day.-,• •
Olt* will, a
clitar ried ankoidaY,Staxi::: , -•- ; , •
• OsOlifediestiiy,tbiitepabiheit New York Boat.
Cenventien4ruselided- its ,dtdnits. ` An' aleotoral
*skit *is** formed to, talk of Marion/ of ~ the
1,441: AeatieniPt to derminee, the otaruption of
the hietlegiditiire ires made by some member, of
=
tendon, bit molted anaaaaatafally..
nteelitimuy however)** passed, de.
0011.06*10;41111". anti "OtaiiitthaC
agfreakta k ie - . at': Altfani tiMitlkniit hive beet jai)
last whit'sr without the
almost musahnons- *imminence of Die - Demeeratie;
metifbers. ' The following ara the State' itomina;
Ilona :
fictiiiaor . D:aforgari..
LiMitenint Corm& ' - Robert D.- Campbell.
Canal ComMiesioner ' Banumi IL Barnes. ,
ettsairrisoii Inspec t or James K. Bates;
, ,
Tks itsawrfrigata Itaatureune, wideli"liM re ;
centiy detailed is obi a olp
neon Bgaadroa n
nIRY, Tar.a. .7 _afflatus+, :Atm' - a.L:deitkiatio tn. the
Isekkai best ordered to • premed to the•Dulf of
Mak* forsiviiith'iratere proceed t‘dity.
Tall bangs itia; probebty been irldisaii4 ; by _lhe
neani roils frol Dierdco.
The Rime of-tbeellitited alavir 4 611 Prn 1194 Pm"
alnaad.**lktaiaday,haloictralted States Oota
miarioner Mona% and calomel on both Ades summed •
oohnide*ble length: The catiuniarionir re-,
eeire . :4 tare. : 441,107,i.
.'lliey,liale!fs:at the .itiantio
Doolt ..lt,ramttred Isis midi to hive
Da - Cs isitain of the slave bilk Kate;
released en bail; Mr:. Cluirliis Clesehthd,:of Wit:
liantsbni . t . 'boinff the The eiMnii'
astaiti, , .7ocidOokned :to !. I **::' The" owner, of,
tite*t,', , kati; Withanotheipersii4am64 t;"
be
oome surety for the release of abat - vesedif Their
examination wasadist-dafirredi.. ; •
The gi!ay : liM _ifU ll aza Mather, that' hiloairp'
tam of illtillistar•X his . agatifturaed.
' heit , ‘ eaphtred•tha!
town., 'Of 411114 'awl ave. ihmalhirdi.
woindlai 'elibteetit. - He remsdie still in paw e!dany
hay* allied lainealf talk*, foritaited Oisbadie
bithe t e ticlile) ; * Ve w - 4 7
; .14lokte*** iba :Grand
coliiialuallei, and an of leni : eidanined spietlee,l
eibitat:intiatin ;to ' teginerata tb.
Beath and Ameileintew "MAW Itai
neilidd 4oi Ws *Atrial; and `should
sa ta*ltattan:f 'Pettit*: . esatt., The,
tilpeatande ire stivele • .
t a.. telegiapit . feom 'Orme* item York,- we*
learn that 'omi:sheers Nieves, on Wednesday,'
whilain•Laltstintirio' Sandi hi , end:Won With - in -
tifiltedistd:VeiSsi;,:i4d - Wile,iiii4ihrlibly,dwiged.
1311,4111 '111110 . 1 . 11104, „eke injured, thfragh
none *IT
We had a very extensive atom petaiday
hillintitte!Siettoss of; the itaintry, , , , leebeps it we l l
a septa editritti of &seised Whit& .&stained Wiest
alskish ItsietithratiktoKtii'Weii - terki end; Oame
giv,i&n*Seenstwi the esameesWessanswin metier,
esolanneqiewill beeitswethat the pith et the Wiwi
ineheicst aireater' pertietiVit• this softy, extending'
as faiiio — rthies"EraitonandNeiv trinietel„ The
various railroad!
_between 'New York end Pills.
delkisetiireSiiieidSd 64' tie:sidle yeeterstey
Wets „0 4 "41ns:;4:,- not entensi:soaibWaid. ,,, •
1 1 / 1 10:;Jahn T.•:WizetistaconarthnonelY-Seitim' '
natetsfer: Oeiresei - ha the ` Plietk diets* at liar
Jeisy :;ti!rtvoitticiit held it Presider ysterday.
Tbei.: will 6e lewd_ in anitheveolititan.
r.Tifelrisit of the Prinie Or
The vlift"et. the` Prince of Wales-. to, the.
einProvinces sad to the United
Statue ;hue eyollthial Object an well'
• tbS:l,n4:*firatifleation of the laudable - desire
of tiftt thianeertheiasusg.heirto the Eziglisb
throne, that - he should ediatitinO
by:traierandbY'extendi:d intercourse !Blithe
worla:;iltiiae ban been u.
-flattering a dation
strationTof loyalty made :at each' point he has
yet toischikenbiarotite se hale been_
restionably.'expented; and theoliicha addresses
he has received have nil breathed a spirit of
thewartneet ateihnientie his '4407, and tO
'"
• .
But 'mutinied' thi fair exterior lurks a se.
ma danger. " There is feirreiressiblecori-
Sia , n' of initioniditiA and - raligion eier aging
in caada,between,the,Settlers of: French and:
hit& entrataloni;:wioilnefelethiP,ROMill
ShoWe'faltli'_or(theiute:hand, the
anii4-40iraitilii*Eitegland, of the Pro'
teattuittaithi tin the other. This antagertism,
it Istria", does not often exhibit itself' in " very
alartutbg iSriig;'yi(lS is Inezialca
• ;No !people adhere. more pertinaciously
to their anciait customs ' and' language than
the FrenclioutOniny of them bate the. Eng•
lisit'aiCerdiallyas they love their own "race
Sind mothetcountry:: J . •
The prevailing mania in England is appie=,
hi,elo.-*of.a:Vranclilavaafori; and if it be in
'tlatiticirtiethat Lotak Ivirotammedititei an
attailitiiii4Mtreat Britain, it tenet linprehable
that The; may • endeavor crlPOONlier herr,
Britiihiterth4meriesinposseasions, and then
reantaitdinsytetheir formerntitras; trance.:
In'tlirde T ien4 giot,innistail to - suppose
iselnenki have the sympathies, if not the ac
tive co-operation, of a portion of the French
Caueditinit) hut lf:the'vhill ' the krince of
Irakti:seriesio. - aireatthen the loyalty of all
those he vfske an F important' new ' safeguard
wL7 be ` established; net only against the
bitim Bmperer, „brit againet ,turbulent,rand,-,
revoitahmery Wmaifestations 'of every kind.:
It thit. , filee't supposed that the - pp:JO:I'OY
xsii4. n*4044144 provinces - in •Iforth
America under one last Government, with
theTirinee of Males at its head, is under con
mild*tion, 'and the present tour, will probably
ininialiliaportant indications •in reference to ,
• rapri ety and policy of this :scheme. It
is certainly a somewhat injudicious , expert,
maiti4tditteiVell etileniateetn.ituipire
con4 , ttt;,(O.M4e,tite-qoung , Prince -Abe re-:
cipiaM servisny 'honors -in Canada, and
thus thriiiiii4b;?eatt With all; file intadcating •
&tights, ef htit'OtitidlinyrOr, if theta L no
dispositionlidevest hitit with govessmattai'
Paittot -1 ; 4 411.e,,1P *di * drama Of 'nature be
*sands tie vondAtene,:et.lMinacestors. „
4tionVlbirilitse of.,*e: aiming month of.
tlesitiMber;. oroin the early part , of ,October,
the Prince will probablj pea throtigh:ttaa City
on*,ViaY,' to ;
IrO xlialii:-Firt:tadarly:fewl of seussidens in
staid'Philadelphia, we have not yet bec ome
undttlYeibitideti.the tittbjeet, - andive are not
owlitiqfiet:arefi,i'siilii Pad& sieveatne has
hei s t . 6l4ade, in . -toga& to his' reception.. 'We
havitiviseni alb:waver) lie , many althea
whir feeling of g6ed4ffi teEngland,
and of rlf 4u ft d T e !PPO to 'QuSIS * o3 ios!At
that)iill*ASi':imial.-04.0:*inv ie
, bcreeelved Wattmeter which; it Men'.
bully? atevitatiouSivillif at last spprOpriL
otoffaidigraithiS to him`'
'
*eta litnitiundezienilii the Be4ty
4004 - *glair Yortr,; that.,..ktralatessi..htolo
ooze eforth be aesoelitet edl4
6)41 maned 14ent ofthat PfOrl
10104 6 *, .Itiiitkauscliai - ****
Ames* sad
tholere c terobdone permind knotriedge,
thethereiteiprcidieiVeireaterlesottti read
able meneFs , iatae an sab-'
*i an*
editor„ AR New York. litivenorm , bldtistry,
andatailit brodneriable 'eoultteellott. , j
ornilarsitiou...Pilimintilordwaff,Akt4
iiinstew it" 10
smjimileilidifoillikaikistaltluipOrilliie ale
01 14,0 k 1191011144 An an, r9lo•woi.
614,1**4110104*thimot Oa* pulw bnl4 .
1101411 x„,33
mit uktakkylo.);,,,f
The-Battle for the Haien in the South.
A little less than three years ago, Mr. 80,
, CHANAW startled the country by the extraordi
nary declaration that he had changed his whole
'course on the Kansas question, and had deter
:mined to slatighter the p#Nciple of seihovern
'meat, and to force npon - 7 the people of that,
Territory an abhorrent
_Otiiiittiation. 'Tbere
,was so little justice in Abiti einingeif front,
and so much thit tete pilintblyand notoriously
'unrighteous, and solitdefensible , and /unpro
voked, that we could not conceive for a mo
ment that any portion of the American people
would sanction it. Belying with implicit con
fidence- union the President's word of' honor,
givettlq , eoitntry, prier' td and after his
election liud therefore plAceit, in, good faith,
,
to policy of his - Administietion
Piker the principle which, in. fact, created it,
We conceived _that to ; oppose, the new pro
giiuMec he had Marked out ilk himself would
not only, bring him back to a consideration
ofhla own, position, and to a conscientious re
view, of , his -owitplighted Ibitli, but that the
°MAU, ;that men of all parties, ,would rise
with one acclaim, and cry. shame upon the
deed. That f hoeVer, which seethed to us
moat certain to, tense the President to desist
In `thlitlinad 'and , ineaietreless folly was the
protnier,lint, Indignant prOtext of , the loyal
and 4:?biridriet' 'Men „of the; Southern States.
We supposed
' that if anywhere there was
au:initinetive contempt for meanness and
treason, ikivni in' that quarter of the Union,
and, the, reefers of . ' Tee', Pans will 're-
MeMber hOW'frequelitlyZwe, appealed_ to tfie.
Smithern Democrats to come forward and as
sist to, rescue their friends in the free States
from the 'abyss into which' the President
threetenedto precipitate them.' He offered
to them nothing bat dissension and dishonor,
and if they had been true to' the expectation
of the Nationsl Den:Mersey, they would have
boldly rejected the guilty bribe, and this have
saved' the .natien from the calamities which
followed..._
But these anticipations were doomed to dis
appointment. - Aided by misguided and ambi.
Omit met* in the Senate, and intimidated by
Manion leaders in the South, the President
was, enabled to secure for his treason the en
dorsement •of the. organization in the slave
States, and with this terrible weapon to march
into the North and Northwest, and make it a
Wolin the Democratic party there. But the
seed:thuesown did not fall on barren soil or
in rocky pined!". Patronage and power having
managed hi,nway the organisation of the Demo
enstittparty to their worst purposes, have at last
awakened another and abetter feeling; and now,
at this' day;thousinds Of the truest and bold
est Democrats of the South are fighting on our
side. ' Had they but made the stone battle in
1E57 which-they
,are now nicking under the
lead of Donotss, Lecompton and the English
bill would both have perished' in the dens in
which . they were conceived; Kansas would
long ago have been admitted into the Union;
the Democratic party would have been united
from Maine to Texas, and the candidate of the
party.would have achieved an easy victory in
November: But let us be content with what
welitin.,' Let nri 'ponOndidate' ourselves Upon
the misetd prorptot, and watt for the good
time that:ll sure to come. . ,
Our . intelligence from the Southern States
enables us' to- declare, emphatically, that the
reign 'of the fire-eaters Is over, and that th e
'young men of therSonth, who have so long
,beerikept hi the 'background* the Huivrzes
and Mesons, of Virginia ; the Osas, and
Mciltruite, and BEZTII, of South Carolina ;
the CLAYS and FITZPATRICKB, of Alabama the
D.iviszs and Banicsnazze, of Mississippi ; the
Sarnzats, of Louisiana; the Mammonism, of
Tennessee ; 'the Gmins, of Missouri, and the
7oixesois, of Arkaiteas—an oligarchy more
remoiselesitand monopolizing than this coun
try has ever seen in its' darkest days—hive
girded on the armor; and are resolved to fight
:the• goOd Algid, at all and at every hazard.
They have ,driven the old leaders clearly
•under, the Disunion ,nag; and; now that they
Are clustered within • the shadow of that bale
ful banner, the trite men of the South
thoie who have witched the proscription and
treachery 'of,the Administration—those who
have seen' the• best Democrats in the free
States slaughtered, as it wete,-in cold blood—
grasp 'at the opportunity, and ball their de r
liverancei alike from the'? own, enemies and
Item the enemies of the Union. Virginia, so
ling bound in the Chains of a worse Ulan feudal
.vassalage, will hereafter be-the New instead of
the Old Dominion of 'the 'South,. The scales
are falling from her eyes. Under the cloak of.
Inofeisione of'superier attachnient to the in
stitutions of 'Virginia, a few men, without en,
Urged viewa, -steeped to the lips in the aris
tocracy, of ,sidPconceit, hate degraded that
State before the nation, and have retarded
her in ,the. - ..march - of :"progress, making the
'public men of the State either their victims
or theirilistruments., The ; contest in Vir,
ginia is tint a ype' of the contest in Alabama,
in Georgia, In Tennessee, and in Louisiana.
It is to these men that the conservative senti
ment• looks for relief and support. Should
they be able, as in truth we believe they will,
'to rally a large vote to Dermas in Notember,
thei will henceforth betutsters of the field,
and, will as certainly conquer ae that their as
,soCiates rin'the North will conquer, because,
,while &Bowie/011e organization of the party,
they.at the same time follow the principles of
the ancient Democracy. •
027 `A remark made by HassatEr, V. Jonx-,
sex (the - Democratic candidate for the Vice
Presidency) in 1866, being now occasionally
alluded, to, the following explanation he made
in a Jettei to the'larth ilmerican, soon after
the'speech was delivered, is, interesting at the
present time: •::
Curse Or tiovnairen'renitiew, or czommt.
atartuons, Md., September 29.
To the Editor of the North American and U. S.
Gazette : ; ; . ' •
Slat Your Jame of .the 23d init. contains an
elaborate article, - over the signature of " Coon,"
which to - fully - endorsed by you in advance, in your
limo of the 22d inst. You have thus adopted and
:assumed the responsibility of that oommunlostion,
which consists almost entirely of _oritlelsms npoq
- portions ..ef my remarks before the Democrati c
-Claes meetirig, In Independence Square, on the
17th of the present' month. Not content with the
comments of r Cecil," you renew the subject in a
labored editorial of the 26th lust, width is quite
as objeetioruible to tons aid temper as (CIL mils
representative of my remarks and positions. I
trust your sense of justice will wooed me a hearing
through the columns of the eteseriean and Gazette.
You fix upon an isolated sentence, and, ignoring
its connection and the - eubjeet-matter under con.
•Ideration, seek to mite, the prejudices of the
shoring men of the North by asserting that it con
• sloe doctrine that ftwould be better for them to be
mowed thin to beAtired by eepital—in other words, -
better that thir irldtelaborbg daises should be
()Wve& . The pentane* you quote is, as
via.': rr The question really is, whether St se better
'for capital to own **labor or to here id." If yen
really desired to - furnish your readers with a cor
net version of my remarks why did you not q uote
elithat said on hat poin t s? " The reports of OE•
tentpoteneous speeches are imperfect at best, and
very often present distorted pictures of the speak
er's thoughts. •
This ought to sucest. to fair-minded men the
preprlety of allowing them the benefit of all they
day on a given point M every instincts in which
their sentiments an made the subject of criticism.
I beg to supply your °Wisdom Ytu say, in your
editorial, atter citing the above quoted sentence,
" This, it will be observed, is a general propose
tier. The labor he speaks of is not confined to'
the African ries'and - their deacimdents, or limited
'to the 'Southern States. It is 4he labor of the
cohere mars—labor wherever' and by whomsoever
perfOrmed." Now, by reference to what I did
say, I respectfully assert that it will fully ap pear
Alit it was not a' "general propontion ;" that
the labor spoken of as eOndnld to the African
saes; and se " Malta* to the Southern States ;"
and that it has no, reference to the " labor of the
obis satin,"
I quote from my remarks as reported very im
perfaeityiind Snavely i the "New York Daily
Times." .. That that wl linot bechirged with par
tiality to a Denteeralle speaker, / said, according
to that report, " The great contest that was now
!wbcoe g
- w on g tac — e 4 b 4 eltlw e Ay
c wha en 9
ththe ey n W h d. d, -
and labor on the other • and the onlyqtiestion wee,
-Whether ft , wsie;bretter ' for the Southern States to
own their labor or, to, Wither labor."' /fence it
was not s general" propteitiotO as. you user!,
but a proposition applioeble to the ',Southern
'States. Again - et:it' banal,_, ' , gibe - South has do.
tannins/ that '64101 own labor ? Why ?
'lt was better upon this growth, if for. no other,
that - their Agricultural prodnots (they being an
agricultural people) were of such a character
that they tionld'not hire litter to cultivate them.
They -00ild dot Mrs labor to cultivate the rice
swamps; to ditch their low grounds, to drain their
morasses. And why ? Because the climate was
deadly to the white mate—he could not live in it.
'White laborers ionld not begot to go there, and
therefore the vest territory of the cotton, sugar,
demi - aid tobacco grciwing regkai must be i barren
muta t unless capital Owes it. ,labor, ,• It; was not
beraore drep a/ranted to degradatia white man.','
NoW; does not this language show that the speaker
,referred exclusively to the " Wei' of the African
'race?," „lie it net predicated :upon 'the idea that,
without Africtualsbor, the territory of the cotton,
sepAr,,rice, and tobacco growing region must be a
barren - *este ? To mike that labor effective it
must be owned by capital.
Whisk ki the deetrine Lintindid to eibress;and
stiolibitith obvious import 6f the. language I lemv
ployed. I will not permit myself to doubt that,
upon reflection, you will be convinoed of the in
'JO 01 , 70,ar P 1414101144. enterhain„no feeling
of = timid for , th e '
ir(i)s labeling pluses /114,
at? WHit4 6 thbittob, Wit in 'South. '
late
lie irartorwatiw with Uteri respeCt.fitthe
adavlthelen 'than lithe iOn4livaholding BMW
e° Sabi* asillaviat them, I W6ahl;
MittkfaikSW i hl dot, :thrift.;
mtdl=B, warth.' xon shilti, there-
=MEMO
fore, have well oaredyourself the vast expenditure
of magnanimity whloh prompted yon to say, 4 , W e
invoke no bludgeon upon the headof the misguided
man who so mush mistook his place."
WASHINGTON COHRUIiOItHENON.
Letter froM 460ecasionah*,
Ecerreeeendenoe of The PreILI
iVASHINGTON, August 23, 1860.
•
The long midsummer dead calm, under whioh
trade, fashion, and politics have languished, is about
passing away, and all classes are looking forward
to the new sanitation whioh is soon to disturb this
listleas and lifeless capital. His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales will pay his respects to the Pre.
sidenti some time during September. This event,
looked for so eagerly by our fashionable, people,
will no doubt rally a large crowd, and give us a
eitiporary 'excitement. The families now absent
t the different spridga will return to participate
n thorreception, and as , theßritish legation here
6 very popular,,extensive and expensive arrange-
Manta will be made to make the occasion worthy of
the country which is to be honored in the person of
the heir apparent.
L' Nowhere in this broad Union to the diplomatic
r foreign example more worshipped then here. If
ere is an aristeormey in the United States, it May
be found in the old families who live in and about
,Wisaitington. , Mr y Buchanan is himself 1 a 'fah , re.
Oseentative of this aristocracy. He ,stepped from
the American mission , in :England almost directly
into the 'Presidential• chair, and had previously
Made' the acquaintance of many of the?leading
statesmen of Europe, during hie resident,e at the
Court of fit: Petersburg, under the Administration
Of General Jackson. '
; ; The P,t112041' MS been affectionately confided to
his oar, by the Queentnother, and will, of course,
he warmly welcomed by our Chief Magistrate.
Miss Lane is herself well acqnainted.with her Ma
jest", and tiith the ladies of the court circle, and,
doubtless, with young Lord Renfrew. ,
i Where the' reception is to take place, and ax
ially when, nobody is 'able to say. Who is to be
admitted and who excluded hive not yet been de
termined upon, but the ladies are in s' flutter of
excitement 'about' it, and when the programme is
made public there will be any number of disap
pointments, and, on the part of the lucky ones,
any number of luxurious purchases, in order to
give eclat to the event. Jenkins will, no doubt, be
On the' ground ,in all his glory. He will describe
the dreams, thipedigree, the apPtiaranoes, and all
the ceremonies,' with his accustomed spirit. There
pan, of course, be no procession, as in the ease of
the Japanese, and, as the young notability moves
With, all the etiquette of the British court sur
rounding him, persons desiring to be presented
will be compelled to pass through the routine ob
served in Canada ; but this will not prevent alike
the patrician and the parvenu from besieging the
gentleman having charge of the Prince for intro
ductions to hit royal person. It is the first time, I
believe, in the history of this country that any one
So near a crowned head has been presented to the
first officer of this republic.
Mr. Buchanan well understands the art of pre
serving the dignity of his office in tendering the
hospitalities of the White House to such a visitor.
During his realdOnce at the Court of St. James as
American Minister, Ins legation received many
graceful attentions from her Majesty, and although
it hes been stated (owing, perhaps; to the fact that
he had the management of some difficult questions,)
that he was unpopular at court, it is very true
that Miss Lane was a great favorite, and that her
Majesty bestowed upon her many special at
tentions. All accounts concur in stating that the
young gentlemen who in due course will be mon
arch of the British, dominions, is modest, well-be
haved, acute in observation, and exceedingly gene
rous in his dispOsition. His first little speech in
Canada was signifloant in the foot that he referred
to that portion of her Melody's dominions as a
c; free ' 1 country, an observation all the more GI.
presaiireinalmnah mit had doubtless been prepared
for Mm, and was read from the manueeript.- Those
who teem to direct his movements are giving him
ti fair, insight into Canada, which, in his ease,
may be Milled the vestibule of the great temple
into 'which he is to be introduced, and he ought to
be gratified that be has been so well organized for
the contrast is store for him. ' Be malt soon sea
what a free country is ! He will open his young
eyes as he passes over the great bridge which has
married Canada to the United States, and as he is
escorted over the vast and almost interminable
chain of railroads which begins at that point and
radiates to every corner of the Ittipublio, he will
.receive impressions never to be eradicated from
his mind.
There is more in this visit of the Prince, of
'Weise to the'United States, considered in reference
to the future, than appears at the first glance. He
comes at that period of life just before entering
manhood, when the mind receives ideas, and snore
generously and readily than at any other time.
Treated kindly by everybody, be will ' look .with
the eyes of youth and health upon everything he
sees. He will behold a country conquered from
his ancestors by, those who were born in other
lands, and he trill see the progress of principles
which are constantly assailed by the men who sur
round him now, and who are hereafter to manage
his adminietration of the British Government. With
his opportunities of education and experience he
ought to be able to judge for himself, and it may
be that more than one useful lesson will be taught
to him, and more than one independent, noble
thought planted In hie mind during his journey.
One :hundred years ago the European monarch
who would have sent his son into a free country
would bare been regarded as a madman ; but now,
as marking the advance of liberal principles and a
refined civilisation, the woman queen of England
confides her atomiser to the freest people upon
earth, and permits him hi visit those who are in
the habit of uttering their thoughts without fear,
and who conceive it to be their noblest privilege to
attack and to criticise; their rulers. But no one
loses by generous confidence in those he respects,
and if the future king of England carries -back
better ideas of the American people, he will cer
tainly leave' behind him a warm and generous dis
position towards himself and those he will be in
the habit of calling his " subjects."
You people in Pennsylvania ought to bullet upon
the Prince making a tour from Pittsburg to Harris
burg, and so to Baltimore. If he is carried from
Cincinnati to =Baltimore be will have no oppor
tunity to see the. Alleghenies and oor 'unequalled
Pentuilvaula Central, unquestionably the most
stupendove and perfect railroad work in the world.
The Baltimoreans are on gut woe, andtintend to
swore the cortege for their Baltimore and Ohio
road if they can. John Edgar Thomson, of the
Pennsylvania Central, isa grestfriend of the Presi
dent, the latter being largely interested in the
Pennsylvania Central, and be ought at once (if he
has not already donee)) address Mr. Buohanan at
Bedford, that he may suggest to the gentlemen
having charge of the Prime to take the Penney).
verde Central as the proper route to Washington.
It is proposed on the pert of Southern men to
invite the Prince to make a tour through haome of
the slave States, in order that he may have an op
portunity to see thepeoullar Institution, and co that
he may assure Lord Brougham, and other anti
slavery advocates in louden, that slavery in the
United States is not nearly so bed a thing as they
represent it to be. If he Could prolong the visit
up to the period when the negroes gather the cot.
ten, some time in October, be would probably see
the colored population of the South in its most in
teresting impact.
The announcement that Mr. Forrest intends
making his first appearance in his great character
of Hamlet at the Holliday-Street Theatre, Balti
more, on Monday evening neat, lies induced many
to prepare to be present on that interesting oc
easion. He has ohosen a character in which be IS
nearly as neeemfal uin Richellettifiebeth, or
King Lear. Hie represeitation is eminently origi
nal, as it gives him an opportunity to display his
gentile in a quiet character. Many who are dis
posed to doubt his power, unleas he personates one
that is' masculine and 'boisterous, will now be en
abled to convince themselves to the contrary.
There is no scene in all of hle great conceptions
more magnificent than hie very first in this won
derful play. Holliday-street Theatre is hardly large
enough for the volume of his voice, but suffloiently
so as the beginning of the trial that le before him.
It is nearly four years eines hi has acted, and
ho oannot be expected to be as fully prepared, so
far as his voice is conoefned, as after two or three
weeks' hard experienne. Me will," I believe, be
supported -by the beautiful Mrs. Gladstane, and
others equally eminent in the profession. It le
my Intention to ele present at this performance of
Hamlet, and, if I can get time to Bend you an
elaborate criticism; I will assuredly do so.
OCCASIONAL.
Public Amueemeuts.
Such of the places of public amusement as are
open in this city are havrng a lively time. At
Arch-street ,Theatre, where, as usual, there ie a
capital ; oompany,'Beueloalilt'e new drama, "Va
nity Fair," gives great satisfaction every night,
and half the "young men about town" are taking
the needless trouble, is this hot weather, dialling
in love with pretty Rose Skerrett.
Mr. Love, the poly phonist, a gentleman of great
natural power and much cultivated skill, is giving
great eatiefaotion to the crowds who see and hear
him, every evening, at Concert Hall. We hope
that the juveniles (who carefully read The Press,
every morning, before papa and mamma hive
come dawn to breakfast i ) will remind their parents
that Mr. Love gives an afternoon performance on
Saturday. By the way, there will also be a Ma.
tinioe at the Arch-street Theatre, on the same after
noon.
loudly, the Continental (late National) Theatre
was opened, on Wednesday evening, by a capital
set of performers, called Oarnoross do Sharpley's
Minstrels. „They are in 'the Ethiopian line, and
'rank Brower, who possesses an infinite quantity
of natural humor, is the " bright particular
star" of this tioupe. Novelty is the order of the ,
evening at the Continental, and If the future per
formances are as attraetive as those of Wednesday
and last nights, Cameros and bbarpley will have
nopittee:to regret having set their Peg in
, .
THE PRESS.--14-MAIALPHIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1860.
BENOYINATIoN OF NON. JOON T NIXON
The Firs) Congressional distriot of New Jersey
met In Convention, at Camden, yesterday. Dr.'
F. Leming, of, Oars 'Nays waa *howl preetgeWsi
and John D. ihrialltrOod, of 'Gloiseestek ootintY
I M.
oretaq.
On motion of Alexander Wants, it was **red
that Hon. John T. Nixon be declared the nnatil;•
moue oholee of tide Convention; whteh prevailed
amidst enthusiastic! applause.
A committee on its olutiona was appointed, and
reported the following, which were adopted with
deafening cheers:
Resolved, That the course of our Represented,*
in Congress, the Hon. John T. Nixon, meets:talt
hearty approval and endorsement.
Resolved, That bur nominees for the Puglia*
and 'Vice' Prealdemby, Lincoln ' and Hatolinj are
worthy the entire and earnest support of the Orppo
'Mon of New Jersey.
Resolved, 'I hat we greet with satisfaction the
unanimous renomination of Mr. Nixon by the Con
vention, with full confidence that his future will
be as acceptable as his past.
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to the exer
cise of all fair and honorable means to secure the
election of our candidates.
A committee having been,appointed to wait on
Mr. Nixon, returned and presented the nominee
to the Convention. As he entered the room, the
Convention rose en snow and greeted him with
cheer'. Afterthe applause had somewhat subsided,
Mr. Nixon 'said , that he accepted the, nomination
eo unanimously tendered him, with- mingled feel
ings of gratifloation, and regret. Re felt gratified
that his past course merited the approval of his
constituents, and regretted that the nomination had
not fallen on one better qualified and more deserv
ing of the position. In the old Greaten States,
it was a maxim that no man belonged wholly to
himself. 'Be to-day recognised the truth of that
maxim audit' wide applicability, and in that spirit
he accepted the nomination, to aid to the utmost of
his ability in the furtheranoe of their principles,
Ile appeared before them, in obedience to their
eall, not to tire them with a speeoh, as they would,
no doubt, hear enough of him in their, own re
/peal,e townships before the eanviai closed ; but
he desired to say hero, and before this Convention
so that there 'should be no misconception as to his
course, that, so far as God gave him strength, his
best energies should be devoted to the election of
Lincoln and Hamlin. !Applause.), A gentleman
bad asked him bow it was that he, as an American,
should support the Mileage nominees, and ho had
replied, because there was no American oandidatti
before the people. A party of very respectable,
honest, and intelligent men bad assembled at Bal
timore and nominated John Bell—not as an
Ame
risen, but as a conservative man, with the Union
rot their platform, and as the basis of a new party.
, No man ever stood on a bettor Union platform than
does Abraham Lincoln on the one made for him at
Chicago.
4 lie had been one winter at Washington, and a
pretty sharp time they had of it, too, and eepeolally
in the contest for Speaker. Though from the first
day of the strife, he was fully satisfied that both
the North and the South would have to turn to the
middle ground of New Jersey, and rely on that
old conservative and Union-loving State to relieve
than of their dig/113111Sn. It afforded him much
pleasure to say here, that no man had done more
to place Gov. Pennington in the Speaker's obair
than lion. John Sherman, of Ohio. For weeks be
fore its aooomplishinent he had desired tht.t result,
and with Gov. Pennington there, and John Sher
man as leader of the Route of Representatiies,
that body bad , acoomplished more of legislation
for the people than any previous session for years._
If good legislation had failed, it was chargeable
to a Democratic President and a Democrat° Se
nate. The former the people were about to re
move, and the disposal of the latter was a mere
gnesilon of time, as they were fast dropping out,
one after another, and it would not be long before
the people would pleats a majority there to strength
en Mr. Lincoln's Adminlitration.
It was one of the gratifying signa of the times
that the people could no longer be humbugged, and
led by the nose by mere politioal tricksters. The
day had gone past when they of New Jersey 'mold
he misled Into any and every kind of combinations,
snob as were now being formed, at a sawlike of all
principle; and while his predictions, made in 1858,
had been fully verified, be would say here boldly
to•day, that Mr. Lincoln's vote in the State would
exceed that of all his competitors.
Mr. Nixon 'poke for some time on State
and the Convention adjourned.
The Bedford-street Mission.
Mn. EDITOR i In reading your notioes of 'the
condition of Bedford street and its neighborhood,
both in the editorial and reporters? column, I have,
felt gratified that at least the attention of The Press
and the authorities is becoming awakened to the
importanoe of doing something for the destitute
and outcast who . " stay" thereabouts. Butt have
also wondered that in all these notioem and articles,
nothing has been said of the great work dene, and
being done, for those "wretched ones," by the
" Young Men's Central Home Mission." The ex•
tensive and arduous labors of their missionary,
Rev. B. T. Sewell; the operations, of their day
and Sabbath schools; their distribution of the
bounty of many of our citizens, in the form of
clothing, fuel, and medielne ; their employing a
yhysteian ,to attend the „sick,
,and allordtng re •
lief in many other ways, all oall for the notice of f
not only The Press and authorities, but of all our
citizens.
I believe but very few of our Citizens are aware
that from two to three hundred children aro being
•eduoitted,and whenever it is poulble sent to good
homes in the country, under the earpiece of this
noble misty; and this last I believe tribe tie only
reliable And permanent means of reformation for
thesi " outcasts of society."
Visit the schools yourself, sir—invite the citizens
to go—this society should be supported and enoonr•
aged by The Press and all who would "do unto
others as they would be done by."
Pam/amanita, August 23, 1860.
LARGE BALM OP Witmer's, &o.—The attention
of purohasere is requested to the large and valua
ble assortment of rioh English velvet, Ensueis
three-ply, superfine and fine ingrain, Venetian,
hemp, and Hot carpets, velvet rugs, druggets, 00
cos mattinge, &0., em►raoing about NO places of
choice and desirable goods, to be peremptorily sold
by catalogue, on six month's credit; oommonclog
this morning at 10i ii'elook precisely, by Myers,
Olaghorn, & Co., auctioneers, Nos. 4131 and 413
Arab street.
MSIRTISIG OR MBROHAIITS TO PROVIDE MA-
TtIlLaL AID FOR THE SALISBURY (MD.) 'SUP ,
VERAIRS.—A meeting of merchants was called yes
terday gnomon, to take MeaSures for, the relief
of the sufferers by the recent flre at Salisbury,
Md. Mr. Lorin Blodget took the chair shortly
after four o'clock. Mr. Palmer was elected Secre
tary.
Mr. M Smith stated the object of the meeting
to provide substantial aid to the people of Salts
bury, Md., deprived of their property by fire.
lie offered a resolution to that effeet. Mr. Wm.
M. Parham also offered a resolution.
Mr. Wm. L. Marshall believed Salisbury the
molt important town on the Eastern Shore of Mary.
land, the outlet of most of the trade of Somerset
and Worcester counties. It has been of late close
ly connected with Philadelphia by rail, and the in
terests of the two places being related, be moved
the adoption of the following resolutions:
Resolved, net we deeply sympathise with the
sufferers, and feel it our duty to render all the aid
in our power to relieve their immediate wants, and
that the chairman be empowered to appoint a com
mittee of fifteen or more persons whose duty It
shall be to eollect subscriptionsand report to the
secretary. .
Mr. Edwin 'Dilator offered another resolution :
Resolved, That we will, individually, use every
edort to aid the committee in raising funds for the
aforesaid object. -
The following was offered by Mr. Parham
Resolved, That the repent cowling of a line of
travel and transportation direct with Salisbury, and
with the whole eastern shore of Maryland, brings
us under new and closer basinges relations with
the towns and lasalities of that notion, and com
mends their losses, as well sus their property, to
the soave sympathy of our merchants.
The resolutions were adopted colleotively, and
the following parties appointed to solicit oontribu
done :
From wharf to Front street—O. W. Davis, Lewis
D. Baugh, B. A. Hendry.
Third to Fifth street—Col. W. Lee, Samuel Cam
bay Samuel E. Hood.
Fifth to Eighth street—John H. Williams, James
Palmer, Joseph S. Bennett.
West of Eighth—R. D. W. Truitt, B. B. Janney,
Jr., Warner M. Resin.
Caporal Distrlot—Jas, Palmer, -W. M. Parham,
A. B. Bennett, W. L. Marshall. '
James Marshall, Chairman. Treasurer, Thos.
Robbins, of Philadelphia Bank.
A STORY OF LEAD Pink—Alexander
Williams, like all men of 'genius, halls from New
York. He has a partiality for lead pipe, and was
at an early hour yesterday morning observed to
make stealthy tracks through some half dozen
dusky avenues in the vicinity of Seventh and Bed
ford streets, laden with large pieces of water pipe.
An °Floor took him into custody and the lad
revealed iho -whereabouts or fifty pounds of si
milar pipes, probably wrenched from the
dwellings of families who have -left the city for
the season.. He was taken before Alderman Bottler.
The boy has a very villainous physiognomy, and
his only regret "seemed to be that he did not get
away. Be was taken to a photographer at
Fifth and Chestnut streets, and his picture will be
placed 51 me in the Rogues' Gallery. In default
of MO bail Mr. Williams was committed to prison
to Make his appearance *Saturday. Pleoes of
the pipe await identifloatioß at the Central Police
Station.
NAVAT, APPAnts.----ekders have been re
ceived from Washington at the Philadelphia navy
yard, to transfer the ore* of the, P‘wnee to New
York, for the purpose of filling up the complement
of men now wanting on' board the 'United States
frigate Susquehanna, which vessel has been ordered
to sea forthwith, destination supposed to be the
Gulf of Mexico, It is said that the guard of ma
rines assigned to the Susquehanna is composed of a
splendid set of men, and are commended by Os t.
Shames, a most popular ofitoer. The orow of the
Pawnee are also a floe body, and Will boar compa
rison with thoae of any other vessel ever shipped
at our yard. The Susquehanna was built in 1850,
registers 2450 tons, and is in excellent condition.
The Pawnee will not be ready for sea for several
weeks, while the Powhatan, whose orew Were phi
on,Tuesday, and discharged from service, will
be immediately placed in condition for active der.
vice. Thee are now upwards of t*o hundred men
employed in the yard, and others. Is ill be daily
received, so that mach sotivity may be anticipa
ted.
New Jersey Polities.
LATEST NEWS
By Telegraph to The Pres&
Arrival of the Steiner Ariel.
$BOO.OOO tar -ootm.
New Tun, Aug. 23 —The steamship Ariel hu
usived from Aspinwall with California dates to
the Ist inet. If er advisee hare been antlelpated
by,the pony and overland mail. She bring. no
naWs of importanoe from the Isthmus. Her specie
Est amounts to $BOO,OOO.
NSW GRANADA.
Tim revolution in New Granada Is still going on.
Both the Liberals and Conservatives are making
further preparations for extended operations.
There had been a number of small engagements,
and uvula places had bean taken by the former.
PERU. -
', 4 %,d005s from Peru state that an assusination of
President Castilla had been attempted on the day
of the celebration of independence. A pistol bul
let was lodged in Isle arm, cueing a painful
wound:
The Peruvian Government has refused to settle
the demands made by diplomacy, although the
Prenoh claims had been allowed. The U. t 3. mi
nister is said to have sent for the Puitio squadron
to rendezvous at Callao to enforce the claims of the
United States.
- -
- The etoreehip Release wee at Aspinwall.
Among the paesengers by the Ariel is T. F.
Meagher, who has obtained from Costa Rica a
grant of the right of way for 'a rallrOad soros@ the
Isthmus of Chiriqui, extending for a period of
sixty years.
Tho following are the prinolpal consignees of the
speedo by the steamer Ariel, the total amount being
;793,883
al 00 all, Sherman, & $lBl.OOO
Wells. Fargo, & 1.32,000
Amoroso baehanso 98 ml
Richard Patrick._............ 40,000
T Ja!e & .... 40,090
Botha & Sanders ...... DO,OOO
sedoele & —......... . St 000
E. Keay 29,090
J. Straau— .. ....... sd,ow
saligenan....—.... .... 27 900
M. Freeman. . ..... 12.000
BaeldM & IE4OO
From Washington,
Wesel:taros, August 23 —The receipts into the
Treasury last week were $1,640,000. Subject to
draft, 14,121,000, being an increase of $212,000
over the amount on hand at the close of the pre.
vions week. Drafts paid, $1,423,000.
Mr. Holt, the Postmaster General, has returned
from Kentucky.
The proper militant officer hrOarson Valley had
oilseed evidenoe to show Mormon resistance to
emigrants from Utah. Effloiont protection has
been extended to persons leaving the Territory, as
well as to mall contractors in building their stations.
Assurance is given of the early restoration of the
mail service.
The recent insult to our consul and flag at Rio
Hubs, by the Liberal or Revolutionary party of
New Granada, has received the consideration of
our Government, and hence it is probably correctly
reported that the Navy Department is about to de
spatch vessels to the Atlantic coast of that Repub.
lie for the prevention of similar outrages by the
insurgents.
The War Department to-day received an un
usually large number of despatches, from varlets
quarters. Capt. bmith gives the details of his vic
torious battle with the Indians, twenty•five miles
northeast of Lake Varney, Oregon. De is inclined
to the belief that all tho Indians of that region of
country are hostile. Col. Wright promptly ordered
the artillery and dragoons to march at once to the
scene of hostilities. With these Major Steen was
to scour the whole country, and cause the savages
to sue for paws.
Despatches from .Fort Kearney, Nebraska. in
giving the_partionlars of the fight with the R.
ways and Comanehes, near Republican river, state
that twenty or thirty of the six hundred Indians
engaged in the fight were killed. Oa the part of
the troops only one private was,- missing, two
wounded, and Ave Indian guides killed.
Intelligence was also received from New Mexico,
relative to the hostile character of the Indians. .
Advises from Camp Cady, California, mention
an interesting council held with the Pah and Ute
Indians. Threats were made and good advise
given. If these Indians can be believed, they
will preserve friendship with the whites.
Damage to the Camden and Amboy
Railroad.
Taarrow, August 23.—The banit of the canal
has been carried away by the freshet in three
places between Princeton and Trenton, and the
railroad track has been demolished in two places
Five hundred men have been at work all day, but
no trains had passed the break up to six o'clock
this evening. A temporary road has been built
near Clarksville to carry the trains.
Mr, Douglas was on one of the trains on his way
South, but, in oonsequenee of the detention, he
went back to Princeton, and took a' private car
riage to Rightstown :
TIIIINTOM, August 23—Evening.—The damage on
the Camden , and Amboy Railroad has been re
paired, and the trains are passing as usual.
Light beats will be passed on the canal on Satur
day, and loaded boats on Monday or Tuesday.
From Honduras.
PRE CAPTURE OF TRUXILLO-TWNLVE SPANIARDA
KILLED AND EIGHTEEN WOUNDED
NEW Onmtatta, Augnat 23 —The aohooner Dew
drop, from linatan, has Wilfred at the Var.
The following adeloes respecting the late fill
buster inovemente in Honduras havo been re
calved. ' •
Daring the capture of Truant° by Gen. Walker,
(as reported by a previous arrival,) twelve !Spa
niards were killed and eighteen wounded, ,while
but three Amerfeatly were slightly injured.,
Gen. Walker still remains In ponession, and has
declared for Cabanas. lien proclamation to that
°not bas been issued.
Base Ball Match.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.3.—Between fifteen and liven
ty tbousand persons were present to-day at the
base ball match of the Excelsior ye. the Atlantic).
The innings played resulted as follows: Exoelslor
8; Atlantic 6. During the last Inning of the Ex
celsior, the crowd of roughs' outside ale the
deadens of the umpire, which were softy fair,
and hooted'and blued at the top o their lungs.
Hr. Leggett, the Captain of the Excelsior, Boeing,
as he thought, a determination to break up the
match unless the Atlantic were the victors, with
drew his mon, 'offering the ball to the diameter',
which they declined, and the match was declared
to be drawn. All the bets are off. The match
will be played privately at Nome future day.
Republican Meeting at Huntingdon.
Hourvianorr, Ps , August 23 There wits a
large and enthusiestio outpouring of the people of
this borough last night, in honor of the manna.
tion of Col. Wharton to the }Rate Senate by the
Bedford Conference.
A procession, with bands of musle, tratuyaren
oleo, torchlights, and lanterns, met the nominee on
his arrival, and he was carried in triumph to the
pnblio Egnare, where a meeting wee organised, and
speeohes were made by Col. Wharton, Mej. Camp.
bell, and J. D. Campbell, Erg.
The Prince of Wales.
DRPARTURR FROM quango.
Moaners, August -23 —The Prince and his
suite left Quebec to-day amid the most enthusing.
tie demonstrations, royal salutes, cheers, eto.
the committee from the city of New York ar•
rived here to-day, and were met by the Mayor of
Montreal, the American Consul General and our
leading (Athena. The Mayor weloomed them with
an appropriate speech, which was responded to by
ex. Governor FM. The committee was escorted to
their quarters at St. Lawrence Hall.
Lady Franklin arrived here at the same time.
Baltimore Affairs.
BALTIMORE, August 4:3 —The friends of Mr. Dou
glas are greatly disappointed by the announcement
that be has taken the sea route from New York to
Norfolk, having confidently expected his arrival
here to• day on hieway South.
The Committee of Reception went to Havre•de•
Grua, this morning, to meet him.
The Republicans have called a public) meeting, to
be held in this oity to-night. A. special police force
bee been detailed to preserve order, in anticipation
of a disturbance.,
Political Gathering at Norristown.
Noantsrow N, Aug. 23 —The friends of Lincoln,
Hamlin, and Curtin, in Montgomery county, as.
rambled In man meeting We afternoon, to select
candidates for the 001112,t1 dices. Speeches were
made by the lion. John Covode, and J. H. Camp
bell, of Pottsville, The proceedings wound up
this evening with a torchlight parade by the Wide
Awakes of this place, and a number-of political
clubs from Philadelphia. At least 2000 persons
were in tho parade, wish torches and transparen
cies, causing quite an excitement.
Delaware County Nominations.
MIDIA, Aug. 23 —,The following nominations
were made today by the People's Convention of
thisocsinty :
For Congress —John H. Broomnali.
For Benator-4azob fi Serail
For Assombly-Obalkley Harvey.
Douglas Meeting at Rachntoud.
Riciworm, Va., August 23-10 o'clock P. .31.
Gov. Foote is ad dressing au immense throng in
advocacy of Mr. Douglas. There has been much
confusion thus far, the friends of Mr. Breokinridge
desiring that 0. J. Wise shall be hoard in reply.
Goy, Foote is proceeding in his remarks with diffi
culty, and the political excitement is increasing.
Break in the Delaware Division Canal
_ .
Basron, August 23.—There wee no damage done
by the rain to the canals in this neighborhood. But
little rain fell here during the night.
Three breaks aro reported in the Delawrao Div!.
elon Canal below New Mope, whieli it will take two
weeks to repair.
Collision on Lak6 Ontario.
Oawaao, N. Y., August 23.—Tho steamer Nl
agora came in collision, yesterday, with an un
known vessel, and was considerably damaged.
Several of her passengers were also Injured, Mr.
Jame Adger. of South Oarelina, having both legs
broken.
The Steantr City of Baltimore.:
Bostear,lAugust 23 —A despatoh from Bt. Johns
states that the steamer City of Baltimore has
passed Cape Raoe, with Liverpool dates to the
15th Inst. The lines east of Dangbr having ceased
working, her tidying cannot be obtained to-night.
Bell-Everett Meeting at :Harrisburg.
HARRISDURP, August 23.—The Bell and Everett
pass meeting held here last bight was well at
tended. Col. J. Roberts presided, and speeches
were made by Mon. Henry M. Fuller and others,
Republican Nomination.
MILWAIIKiE, August 23 —bather lianchett has
been nominated by the Republioato of the Scoond
Congressional district, as a candidate for Congress.
Convicted of Forgery.'
MILIVAUKUI, August A9.—Thu jury to the OM
of Lynch. charged with forgery, bas returned a
verdict of guilty.
Reported Defalcation Dented.
Davarroar, lowa, August 23 —The report that
the postmaster of lowa City MO a defaulter
provos to bo untrue.
For Havana.
NSW OaLlsiats, Auguet 28.—The Oithawba will
be the next steamer for Havana. She will sail on
Saturday.
Markets by Telegraph.
New OaLaerre. August at —Cotton firm ; salve 6 ! MI
bales inoluding 300 hales of the 7)/ W Ortt/t at
/eV
for midoling. sugar buoyant at BXellThfo. Molasaea dull
at 960280. Flour dull at dla tiVema.43X. Cq'n ;
;deed 55116113; white7oo, Frovielona quiet; vetoes firm.
Whleky—reotified No. BIN on New York et per to A(
oferalum. Othererneleir usolleoged.
THE CITY.
AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING
I iPHILATLICY & CLARICR'II ARCH-ST/I.7AT TIIELTRI,
Arob street , above eixtb,—" Vaulty Fa ir"—" Bob Net
tles."
CONTINEITAS T , Walnut it., above Eighth.—
Cameros, and /hernial's Minstrels.
I:loirosay HALL, Chestnut street. above Teelaftih7
Mato and Ventriloquism, by Prof. Love.
TERRIFIC RAIN-STORM IN THE
TWENTY-FIRST WARD.
MANAYUNK THE HEAVIEST SUFFERER
THE TOWN FLOODED:
Damage to Mills, Factories, and Other
Properties.
NO LIVES LOST..
Narrow Escape of the Innate® of a
Yesterday was a day to be remembered by the
inhabitants of the Twentprirst ward, particularly
those of the borough of Manayank. This town, it
will be recollected, is a place of great manufac
turing importance, the greater portion of the popu
lation being employed at the numerous cotton and
woollen mills, which aro built on the banks of the
Bohnylkill.
- The town extends about one mile in length,
along Main street, which is on level ground, ad
joining the canal, whieh at this point is navigated
on the eastern side of the. Soltuylkill, in front of
Manaynnk. Most of the other streets run at right
angles with Male street, towards a high hill, fully
150 feet high, which forms the back ground of the
town. These cross streets are very steep, so much
so that it is almost like attempting to travel up on
the outside of one of the great pyramids of Egypt.
The houses on the top of the hill generally suffered
little damage, but those on the lull-lido caught the
full benefit of the storm.
The rain commenced tp come down in torrents
about, three o'olook yesterday morning, and con
tinued with extraordinary violence till nearly live
o'olook. It was a terrific rain. The people were
awakened from their beds, to discover their cellars
and lower stories flooded, with a strong probability
that some of the . housea would come down over
their heads, the foundations being weakened by
the rush of waters.
As morning dawned, the gorges or ravines down
the hillsides presented the appearance of a moun
tain torrent, dashing and roaring down towards
the &hayloft!, carrying largo masses of earth,
stones, and almost every kind, of rubbish with it.
Levering street, at its head, is formed on one
side of almost perpendicular masses of rook, called
the "Dripping rook," riling ,to the height of
nearly 100 feet. On the opposite aide are dwell
tag houses. The bed of the street is usually at an
angle of forty-five degrees. The accumulation of
water on the high ground above came peering
down this ravine, and suOh Wall its force that it
washed a hole on the aide of ' the street neat to the
rook fully thirty feet wide, and nearly as deep,
forming a chum somewhateresembling the excava•
tions made at stone quarries.
TER TRACK OP THAI TOURIST
Levering street has a culvert near its lower end,
designed to carry eff the surplus water directly
into the &hey*lll. This culvert was built under
th., canal, forming an aqueduct. The mass of wa
ter dewing into the culvert was more than it could
tarry off, and a large portion of the rubbish being
carried down into the opening, the culvert buret
near the canal. The - necessitated the closing of
the canal and the drawing off of the water, which
wan done early in the morning. -
The flood rushed down Levering street till it
reached Wood. when it took a southwesterly di
rection, spreading through the yards, cellars. end
lower dozier of the dwelling house, on Grape
&treat.
THI INHABITANTS PHIPAN.ING TO 1111OTX.
Many of the oitisens residing on Grape street
hurriedly, packed up their furniture, and, with
their families, went out into the street, tiering that
the houses would fall, owing to the foundations
being weakened. -
HASSID or AMITE WASHIID ntro THI OANAL
While thee, menu were witnessed on Grape and
Levering streets, Washington street, which faces
opposite the canal, in the northern part of the
toen, was flooded to as great an extent u the
streets above mentioned. A large map of earth
was washed into the canal, nearly filling it at that
point, leaving a huge gully on Washington street.
The water ran into the cellars of nearly all the
homes adjacent; seareely one escaping. •
RIPKA'S DrILL FLOODED. ,
Mr. Joseph Ripka has live mills or facto - ries in
close proximity to each other, about the centre of
the town. The one located on Main street, between
it and the canal, had Eve feet of water in the wea
ving room on the basement floor. Being built on
uneven ground, the side next Main street bad
small cellar windows, while the opposite side had
windows of the ustdelse, opening on the coma
The water flowed into the mill by the cellar win
dows on the Main-street side, Unit reached a depth
of four feet on the floor.
This might have been prevented to some extent,
but the watchman, when he saw the water pouring
in the window, In his excitement, forgot to open
the doors Ewing the canal, when the water would
have run out into the canal as fast at it came in on
the other side. There were tasty pewer•looms on
this floor, all of which were more or loss injured;
the chafe' in each being wet and damaged.
Yesterday, Mr: Ripka's'workmett were gamed
in clearing out the weaving-roes; and drying , the
material saved from the overflow. All Mr B.'s
mills have been stopped, in consequence of a want
of water as they all derive their supply from the
canal. Mr. Ripka estimates his loss at about $5OO.
STOPPAGM QV OMR MILLS
An the mills supplied with water from the <lapel
were compelled to atop operations for a few days,
till the repairs to the culvert are completed.
The following mills, worked by steam power,
were all in operation yesterday : Campbell a eot
ton factory, Stevenson & Whitaker's cotton fee
tort' Preston's woollsn factory, and-James Wal
lace's woollen mill.
PARTLIL DESTRUCTION OP cisaa'sitru—imen-
ING SCZNI—DARROW ZSUATE OF A ILAINII VA.
MILT or MULES.
Jos. Olegg'e woollen mill Is situated on the west
side of the Bohnylklll, directly opposite Manayunk.
The buildings are located in a ravine, through
which flows a rapid stream of water. This stream
wag used partially to work the factory, but, be
sides water power, a steam engine is attached to
the mill to assist in driving it. The factory build
ings and a two-and-a-haltstory atone dwelling
house were all enclosed by a heavy stone fence,
reaching from one side of the ravine to the other.
The reservoir and the mill-pond are both !situated
some distance above. Under the dam near the
mill, was a large culvert, used for carrying off waste
water into the Sehuylkill. Above this culvert was
a fine roadway, leading to the dwelling.house, and
to the dyeing-room and other buildings. The
dwelling•bouse was built one rocky foundation,
with the rear side resting against a hill, along
which a road passed, and the front-door of the
house faced en this road. In front it was but two
stories, but on the interior of the enclosure it was
three stories high. The persona who occupied
this building were seven females, among them
Mrs Olegg, sthe mother of the proprietor, between
70 and 80 years old.
Besides these women, there was a , boy In the
house. Shortly before fear o'clock, after it bad
been raining rpm, time very violently, Mr. Clegg,
who resides in a house about one hundred yards up
on the bill, feeling apprehensive of the safety of
the inmates of the house near the factory, got up,
went down to the house, and awakened the women.
He says that at this time the water was pouring
down the hillside in torrents, seemingly covering
the surface of the ground to the depth of six or
more inches. He got the women all out on the
back porch of the house, waiting for the storm to
subside, when he intended to take them to his
house on the hill.
They had been on thp porch but a few minutes,
when a terrific rushing noise was beard, and a
large mass of water burst round the outside corner
of the. house mod down the ravine, completely
sweeping away all the earth on that side down to
the stone foundation, leaving a gully some 15 feet
deep. This portion of earth swept away comprised
the road which led to Mr. Clegg 's house, but this
land elide effectually cut off their escape in that di.
reotlon. The cause of this breakage was owing to
the reservoir, higher up in the ravine, bursting its
'embankment, when the water came rushing down
into the mill pond.
The dam, not being able to stand this pressure,
gave way on both aides of the ravine. One por
tion of the water found vent round the dwelling
house while another portion buret the data near
the mill building, immediately facing where Mr.
Clegg and the women were standing in dreadful
suspense, emoting every moment to be swat.'
lowed up in the torrent. The break near the
mill house forced the water Into the dyeing bonze,
and demolished it in en Instant, the timbers,
roof, Hoofing., and building stone, all crumbling
in ono confused mass.
. ,
The course of the water downward was directly
over the roadway leading into the mill. This was
wide enough for two or three wagons to paw
Abreast, and was supported on the east by a atone
wall forty feet high. The water boiled and foamed
over the wall like a mighty giant, when a portion
of it gave way. Once broken, the wall did not stand
a minute. the whole roadway, remnants of the
dye•house, and the stone wall, were all swept down
towards the Schuylkill with almost superhuman
force, leaving a chasm frightful to behold where
the road had been. The culvert beneath was cow•
plotely crushed in, and the whole scene presents'
one mass of ruins.
The greater portion of the milldam remained
firm, and in a short time the water began to tub
side, when Mr. Clegg and the females waded
across the bottom of the chasm, and got on the
side of the bill, from whence they made a air
mittens routedowu by the Reading railroad up to
Mr. Olegg'e dwelling house, Yesterday, a tempo.
rary coffer dam was erected till the repairs to the
mill-pond are made. Mr C. cannot estimate his
loss at present, but thinks it will roach $5,000 to
$lO,OOO. The engine room it filled with mud as
high as the gearing of the engine. Eight bales of
cotton were swept off from the factory, but one or
two of them were subsequently recovered.
DAWAG3 ON TU WISBAIIIOICON
Crease's chemical works, on ,a small stream run
ning into the Wissahickon, were considerably
damaged.
Robert Haley's woollen factory, on the same
stream, was badly damaged.
Matthias Gorge's cotton-wadding factory, on
the same stream, sEistained a great deal of da
mage, bales of the wadding floating out of the
mill, and down into the Schuylkill.
On the Wissablokon, Raft's woollen factory bad
the dye-house washed away.
A turnpike bridge over the 'Wissahickon, tear
these factories, was carried away by the freshet.
At Spring Mills and the Falls of Schuylkill very
little rain tell, and no damage was sustained.
THE DILUON IN TIM TWENTY-NE . 9OND WARD.
The storm raged with unexampled fury in the
Twenty.itecond ward, especially at Chestnut 11111
and the surrounding country. The roads were
considerably weehed. The prinoipal damage dose
wan on the turnpike below Chestnut litlt The
sewers, being small, wore unable 'to accommodate
the heavy body of water which rushed Into them.
The pike was the only channel It could find, and at
Several places the flood was full six feet aborts the
road.
In many eases the embankments along the road
were washed away.
The cellar of kit. It. Worrell, Who keeps a ta
vern above Wissahickon avenue, was flooded,
damaging a large quantity of liquors, C.
A small log house, situated In the hollow at the
corner of Mermaid lane and the tampike, was
overflowed with water, which reached to the
eeil
log. The furniture was all destroyed. It was
0000 Slod by o
f mmea4liutler.
The *ler o the llemnal Hotel, welded by
Mr. Alexander Moeurdy, was filled with water to
tha„depth of about Sae feet. At this point the
water covered the road to the depth of four feet.
~A dwelling, situated near the Mermaid Station,
be the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown
Railroad wee, in a mounts, overflowed. A man
and his wife escaped from an upper-story window.
BLOM Oa ?Hi CIIISTNIIT HILL RAILROAD.
A rumor prevailed through the city yesterday,
that the track of the Chestnut Rill Railroad, above
Mount Airy station, had been washed away, and
that a landslide had occurred, which covered the
road. - This news reached the oompany, and Mr.
Coloott, the President, and Mr: Smith, General
Superintendent, together with a Urge •number of
workmen, proceeded to the spot.
There they found a huge boulder of rook lying
across the track, which, after eenshierable difft
catty, was removed. About a quarter of a mile
farther up the read the side of tne embankment on
which the road is laid was washed aws.y.thi, =-
tont of about thirty feat In length and four in
width. The bill was about sixty feet deep. This
wee caused by the ineapaeity of the culvert to carry
off the tremendous rush of water. The track wee
moved over about two feet, and the 11.40 train
from Chestnut Hill passed safely over.
The stream, in its course, carried away a stone
building on' the west side of the road, wbbili bad
been built by Dr. Williams for the purposes of
forcing watorup to his resitimee. - -
The residents in the vicinity of Chestnut ELI
say they never experieneed such a storm as pre
vailed during the night. -This may be inferred
from a statement made by the overseer of the
water works at that place. He said that the wa
ter rose to the height of eta feet in the basin,
whereas he had never known it to rtes more than
two feet on any former occasion. Re also said
that it was a fortunate thing for the residents in
that locality, that the reservoir had been emptied
but a few days ago.
TM; lITO/11 OR 0,11115E&X CIIRSK
Oreisham creek is a small stream whisk inter
sects the turnpike between Germantown and °halt
nut Hill, below Mermaid lane. It wet here that
the most damage sustained in the TeriLty-second
ward was done.
The carpet manufactory of J. F. France is situ-
ated in a hollow on this stream, a abort distance
below the turnpike.
The water flooded the basement; the first story
had about four feet In it. In the basement there
was a large quantity of carpet, which is reined.
A large amount of machinery oecepied the upper
story, and it sustained considerable damage.
The foundation wall on the north, and a part of
the east and west sides of the building were washed
away. Mr. F. estimate, his loss at about $2,000.
Rill's cotton mill, situated some distance below,
was considerably damaged by the flood. The dye
house attached to it was overflowed.
The bridge recently erected by the city over the
creek, immediately below Bill's mill, was parried
away.
The gristmill of Mr. jean nimble, on the same
dream, wall damaged, as also the cotton mill of
Mr. Carr.
APPEARANCE OP ?El BCIIPYLEILL.
The river in the afternoon, waa muddy and yel
low, from the large quantities of dirt which had
been washed down toe little creeks and streams
tributary to it. The water over the dam, at Fair-
mount, was not more than throe feet high.
Tllll COHOCKSIAS
The water was very high in the Cohookeink
creek yesterday, overflowing its hanks and floating
off movables that were within reach of the flood.
DIiatOORATIO MINING IN THN TWlls*Bni
WARD—F:IBION Danotracen—Puna DOI:MLitt Re-
SOLUTION!) Passzn.—Last evening, at eight o'clock
the room at the northwest oorncr of Thirteenth
street and Girard avenue was crowded with citi
zens. Mr. James A. Gowle was called to the
chair. He stated the objeota of the meeting, the
advocacy of the cause of the regular Democratic
nominees. The following were the other officers :
Tice Presidents—Robert De Cott, Benjamin F.
Royer. !MAW Lukens,-Wm. Shane, Win. Steel
man Cherie' Justice, Amos Dubree, L. D. Yale;
Geo!Eiher, and James If avliand. •
Secretaries—Win. Bennett,Win. Harms, and M.
Graham Fifer. _
Committee.on &Ablutions—Louis D. Vele, Chas.
W. Brook, and Wm. Wilton.
Mr. John o'B me said that he supposed there
was no use of debating the question of the regu
larity of the nomination of Douglas and Johnson.
[Applauee J They were the standard-bearers of
the old Democracy, chosen to contend with see-
Socialism from-every gamier. Had these men
departed from the &noises faith of the Demooratio
party ? Did they not hold to the old-time faith ?
They stood upon the platform of Oros in 1848 and
of Buohanan In 1856. Although the lytver had
trampled upon his plight, yet the sentiments of the'
DemooraCy bad not therefore changed. Should
the fight not be fought with the s anment colors
flying? •,
There was an old eating that one renegade was
worse than ten Turks. The two-faced inert with
Southern sentiments in the South, and - No rthern
speeches in the tree North, were to be hurled from
plum. He 114 not know the sentiments of the De
moorats of the Twentieth ward,'but If they dared
to rhumb froth the duties at once devolving upon
them, they were not true Democrats. He should
°ppm any colitteion with the Breekimidge Sank ;
their principles were based upon the same heresy
as those of the Republioans.
Democratic sentiments bad never changed.
The sovereign people aro always sovereign, neither
allowing of foreign or of domestic intervention,
firm in the rcoolotion to combat en, outside dicta
ting power.
Upon the principle that the people of '76 were
sovereign in themselves the Revolution was fought.
[Applause J
The men most active in the crusade against the
Demoomoy were, four years ago, urging the identi
cal principles of Monks. Poor years ago, Mr.
Dickinson, of New York, was the Champion of
popular sovereignty. He is now testing down the
very structure he. erected. Mr. Brecklaridge,
likewise, endorsed popular sovereignty at 'Leming
-ton in 1856. [Applause.] .This man new found
himself arrayed ageltrat the glorioue prlnelplorof
the Kentuckians who were dead. -He had accepted
the nomination of a party ewers bri - -teample the
principles belied once advocated. - Hewes false to
the past. Of stuff like -bum patriots Gond net be
read.; his life had been fable; and he wits unwor
thy the Chief Magistracy of the nation: He kneW
the contest was likely to be fierce and bitter.. Td
umphant or defeated, the penalties for which lie
fought would survive. (Appian.]
Mr. James P. Nicholson then made some very
thoughtful remarks. An old writer bad compared
monarchy to a line-of-battle ship, which, when
the vessel strut*, it at one. meat down. Dataccra
ay was like a raft, very safe, but the occupants al
ways had their feet wet. Suppose some of those
upon the raft were striving to loosen the which
bound it. Inch was now the cue in the American
Democracy. Traitors were at work striving tolear
asunder the old feelings and isommoti aspirations—
to divide the planks of the hallowed platform, and
sink irrevocably the time-honored craft.
Mr. Nicholson then reviewed severally the par.
ties opposed to Mr. Douglas.
In the Republican rank* were, doubtless, some
Union.loving citizens, heaths principles of the vast
majority of the Republican manes wen subversive
of all law, end antegonistio to the Conatltution.
• Coadjutors of the Republicuitis menthe Democra
tic Secessionists. Their prineiples were tks same
in deduction as those of the Republicans. Both
denied the right of the people of the Territories to
govern themselves. He would stand upon the true
Republican dectrine, popular sovereignty. [Long
continued applause.]
The Seceselontste of- the South ere radical die.
unionists, whose sole aim is the overthrow of the
Confederaoy—to plunge .the Cotton States into ins ,
hellion. They leek to divide the Democratic
masses, and thus secure the election of a Republi
can, which they will claim truflioient to warrant
disunion. The only moons of defeating these trai
tors was to rally about Douglas, Johnson, and Fos
ter. [Applause.)
Other addressee were made by Chas W. Brooke,
Theo. B. Oehlschlager, and Fred. A. Vanoleve.
The following resolutions were adopted amid
loud applause:
Whereas, It is just and proper that the Demo
cracy of Pennsylvania 'horrid at all times,. but es
peelally at the present, speak out and define their
position : therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Democracy of the Twentieth
ward of the city of Philadelphia, that we will act
in accordance with the tima•honored maxim, We
go where Democratic principles point the way—
when they cease to lead we cease to follow."
2 That we accept as Democratic principles the
platform adopted by our National Convention, held
at Cincinnati in 1856, awl reaffirmed at Charles
ton and Baltimore in 1880.
3. That one of the cardinal prinelples of the
said platform is, 4 ' That Congress shall not force
slavery upon, or exclude it from, the Territories,
but that the people of each Territory shall have
the right to introduce or exclude it , as to them
shall seem proper."
4. That we are utterly oppored to the two sec
tional parties of the present day—the Lincoln party
of the North, and the Breckinridge party of the
South—and we will not, in any manner, affiliate
with, or lend any aid to, either of them.
5. That we reject with scorn the proposition of
the ^ Welsh " eommtttee to huckster off our votes
for any sectional Disunion candidate.
6. That we will vote for no man for Presidential
elector who is not pledged to vote ,for the regular
Democratic nominees, Stephen A Douglas and
Herschel V. Jo Mem, and no rah's.
7. That we will cordially support Henry D.
Foster,. our regularly-nominated candidate for
Governor, and we pledge ourselves to use all
honorable means in our power to secure his elec
tion.
NINETEENTH WABD.—A large and enthu
slastio meeting was held last °Town at the house
of Wm. B. Kelly, Frankford road, above Norris,
under the auspices of the Douglas club of the
Nineteenth ward. Mr. John W. Herbert called
the meeting to order by the appointment of the
following officers :
President—Adam Warthman.
Vice Presidents—Henry_ Black , Henry Heiser,
Israel H. Morton, Wm. Morrison, Win. Walker,
George Williamson, John Dougherty, It. T. Bleak
man, George J. Link, Benjamin Little, George
Brinkworth.
Beeretaries—Stewart Fields, James L. Barren,
Joe. P. Mahlon Henry Merkle, Henry Mather,
Wm. B. Be lly.
The meeting wan ably addressed by John Camp
bell, John MeCarthy, J.L. Ringwalt, and John
O'Byrne. .
ARRIVAL OF JUDGE DOUGLAB.—Judge
Douglas left Newark yesterday morning by the
train of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. The
latter had been so injured by freshets from the late
rain that the oars were unable to proceed, and the
' , Rustlers were obliged to disembark and take
conveyance to the line of the Trenton Railway.
Mr. Douglas reached the Girard Rouse at eight
o'clock last evening, and being hacessively fa
tigue°, immediately retired to his room.
A number of his friends called upon him dorms
the evening and congratulated him on his healthy
appearance, notwithstanding the severe ordeal of
travel and publicity through which he had parsed.
The Judge expressed the hope that his friends
would net harass Mtn farther by any serenade er
other public ovations. Intelligence of his presence
in the city was not generally known throughout
political chutes ; and up to midnight there was no
public demonstration. Mr. Douglas will leave for
Baltimore today.
IDENTIFTED.-7 he body . of the man who
was drowned by falling from the steamboat John
A. 'Wainer, on Sunday last, bas been roceyered
and identified its that of Charles Dougherty. De
ceased resided in Wood street, between t:ileveriteenth
and Eighteenth. llls body was found "tear Dela
ware Otty.
NISW ETATION HollBll.—The station house
at Sixteenth and Fitnesteistreets le fist appromili—
ing completion.
A Man OA3c—A man named David
rightes, mod twasly-three semakaul - emmersted.
has, for oosallthiu Paste lusa as • boatman
on the Sohniiktll Canal. - BM Lithe; cad issetteu
reside is this city, in Wood street, sear Itighteutit,
and are in comfortable cirmiastaneek On Tom&
day Meffaillg. while gains three& a Mee, Dui&
fell overboard and wia drowned.
His eotarades made diligent mud' for his body,
and recovered It yesterday monde( at Lampert,
near Reading. An inquest was held, sad owe of
the comrades of deceased came on to *keit; with
his remains for the purpose of giving' thus to hls
relatives for letarment. Most siegmar to relate,
they positively refused
notes surge of lime,
stating that David had ed- them ter some
time, and that they had not been on very friendly
tame. The carps* was left at the Reading lamed
depot until a late hour lad evening, who orders
were lamed.for tht removal to the times gesisi -to
await the eertilaate of the Cozener of Barks meaty,
who held the Inquest. _ -
DROWNED —At six o'clock litat evening
the body Of an unknown woman, "boat thirty-Iml
years of age, wee found in the Denman, above
Race-street wharf, supposed to be Annie Moon,
who has been missing since Monday night, and re
sided in the vicinity of Twelfth and Spruce streets.
A. boy named John - Nolltapworth, aged sine
years, was drowned yesterday morning while fish
mg for drift-wood in Cobb's creek, in the Tweedy
fourth ward. His body was recovered,
.and a ver
dict of accidental drowning tendered.
John Lightfoot, a young man, was asoidardali;
drowned yesterday afternoon in Becker's dam, is
the Twenty-second ward. "
Tha body of an unknown man was found in the
Delaware, near the navy yard, about font o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The coroner will hold an in.
gaga this morning. -
ALLEOnn FORGERY. —Peter liertenntine
btu been held in $1.500 ball, by Alderman Weiner.
to answer the charge of forging thiamine of Mrs:
James Vance to a drift of $75, front San Fre:Wino. ,
The letter was received by Mews Wells, Fano, &
Co., of the California espies_, and handed over to
Nattematine, Who Was amplOyed at the city
dL
patch poet. Notbiag was then hoard of the matter
until the draft was presented to Messrs- Wel*
Fargo d Co , by iiertenstine, who was requested
to take It away mid - have it endorsed. Be west
away and soon returned with the name of, lbs.
Vance forged upon its back. tie then reclined a
cheek for the money.
A XUTLNG of the Second Ward Demo
oratiutameiation was held at their hall, corner of
Tenth and Christian streets, on Wednesday evening
last. A large number of the honest Democrats who
adhere to regular nomination', and long establish
ed Demooratio principles, was in attendant... The
meeting wauaddressed at length by William B.
Sipes, who adverted to the necessity of supporting
Douglas, Johnson, and Foster, and the great prin
ciple of popular sovereignty as applied to the sub
ject of slavery in the Territories. A resolution
thanking Kr. Sipes for his addreas was issanimonsly
adopted.
BURGLARY.—At, an early hoar yesterday
]horning, an unsuccessful attempt was made to en
ter the store and dwelling of Mr. Jacob Rorer, at
Branchtown, in the Twenty-Imnd ward A large
number of boles were bored in the door and shat
ters, but before the scoundrels had aneceeded in
effecting an entrance they were heard by • young
rain who lived opposite. The young men same oat
of the house with a gun and pistol, and fired at the.
burglars, but they succeeded in making their es:
cape.
CAMP MMETING.—k woods' meeting will
be held in the woods of'Thos. T. Tasks r , at Media,
on the line of the Media Railroad. nine miles
from Markel.etrwtbtidge, eommeaseiag oa Mon
day next. Sermons &rale be deliveredthree times
per day. A number of tents are already erected.
The camp meeting near Ulaymonnt, Delaware
county, will close on Saturday.
ARRIVAL OP A NRW STEAM FMB ENGINE.
Last evening thaneer steam fire engine, built by
Poole lc Hunt, of Baltimore, for the Viashington
Engine Company, arrived home, and was timed.
A. little accident at Bare-de-Grase, while tram
!erring the engine from the railroad track to the
steam ferry boat, injuring the smoke stack some
what, will require a day or two to repair: The
engine will he put in Service immediately.
SOlClDl.—Edward Stiles , aged *say
three years, committed feticide yesterday morning,
at his residence, No. 1204 North Eleventh street.
He had been. suffering from neuralgia for some
days, and became melancholy. At the time above
mentioned he got out of bed, and cut his throat
from ear to ear with a razor over a tido of water
wbieh was In the room.
A.
,
rAlliCElL—Tattr7oong
man will be buried at Woodlind cemetery abietor.
row. The procession will proceed from isiefetier's
residenee, in bring Garden street neat- Tenth.
The Thirty-eighth Graduating Class of the Central
High School will take part in the token! sietiee.
FINANCIAL AND CONIDERCLIL.
Tke Mosey Market.
PIIILILIIIIJIM. August gt•
The stook market was very dull to day, thank an
advance vu rulivadvition &baylkill Navigation pro
farrsid, Nod* Pouserlsitaia sin par Dent. beats. Nor
ristown Railroad shares. and Harrisburg Railroad
shares: - Bank Noah and passenger railway shares ens
firmly held. . . - ,
In the money market there .is co cheap to in
fleetly good paper one be readdy mild upon the street at
taont bank rates. and money on call can be freely had
when the collateral is undoubted at sac to e pm eget.
The movement in mining Mocha, that recommeneed
a few days mime. has been checked again. -
The Lake gueertor Miser of august 11th sals : In
consequence of the superintendent of the Bohemian
not arriving so soon, bye few days, as vile expected,
the works, except at the new menials near the *Mee
line, here been esspeaded. Nets they have nereeeded
in sinking some twenty feet from the Nee of the crtror
banging rook, though not kalfths tiegek m .obit loosed.
arta have taken oat 1,600 pounds of man and. barre i
copper, besides a Urge amount of good stamp rook"
Mr. Dickinson arrived by the last Plertkent Light and
we learn that it to intention to operate both it the Pis
eataq as and old Bohemian minex.vith as large i miming
fume as presatioalie. -
This following ate the current quotations for spools,
don:Lanus anoltange, ko., as &inhaled by Cronies • Co..
bankers, N0.406°11.131 Third street :
Old Amer.)f da115.....140( Old American sold— .lBi
.....krinalSovermena......=
Mexican ir011ari....1.0107- iNeeMeonic-irs.
Spanish '• ....JAM Ten Maisie I'MF
S. Amer. '. .....LOll - (Prumea) &SI
Five franca........... II 4 . irmldem..-.. : .....1.111
German orrrni.....-.1.611 tpanishaoubip . nan.. :xma
French . —l.lO Fstnot
xxcwAsix. .
ff. Y. E.xah'git. par IPithrlairg— lit* XOM
Match. .... .... Xto 1
Baltimore.....3,cdim. Ciseineati ..... .• Louisville- 1
tuohmond..... Xto X " Bt. Louis..—. 2 .. M
Charleston.— Ito IX . rhiemto..—... 1X "
Bavannah..... - Ito IX ' C1eve1eed....,,,1 to. iii ..
Kotnle.,—... /X " Nashville...... 21(
M
New Orleans . . I " emphis—. 11‘ .
Manua Drexel & Co., bankers, No. Se Nontk - nu ,
street, quote lend iransote as follows;
to sores
sores .....
The Rochester Democrat, of Tuesday, rep"rts a
serious break in the Erie Canal, Just above Brighton
/Second Loot. In consequence of carelessness of the
keeper at the first look, too much water was allowed to
ran into the next level % and, as a oonsequence, the
canal embankment. and Mum the rallor,d valve user*
carried sway late on Monday evening liven damage
was dote to property in the neighborhood. Tbdorail
road trains were detained until Tuesday forenoon. bat
it was feared that two days' time would be required to
repair the canal.
The annual report of the ?disbars Gas Compeer has
just been published. mid Its results are thus summed
up In the Jouron 1 :
Since Mat yimg,fill feet of manes ha-it been laid,
making the total length. or pima now laid 15114180 Met. or
I about a 4-10 miles. The coal carbon.sed daring the
) ear anionhted to SA 953 bushels and the total amount
of Rae distributed during the year meshed mime to
I cubic feet, an increase of neatly &OM 000. r. et over lam
y ear. Sirce the tut weal report there has been two
hundred and one services laid, and tiarty-one pr.bila
I lamps let, which inereaeed the t umber of services to
private consumers to 2 KM and the public tamps MM.
" In Jantutry. ISM. a dividend of a per twat. was , tie-
Mired. amounting to 815 030. In February. nes,anotner
dividend of a per cent. ass deelared. amounsing to
-42.980; and in July.lB6o -natter chridamy of 1112 per
' share, atuoilinting to *15 9557). Thus the amount of
d.vidends had within leas than seven months arsenate
to egg lu9 2D Verily it is a good- and pem eat tame to
bee bolder of stock in the Pittsburg Gm Company. 1 ha
capital stock of the comoiny now am •ants •o 6379. M.
J he municipal corporation of the city now holds co
stock in the One Company. During the Met session, the
Legislature authortead the surrender of the moot held
Iv the city, upon terms mutually arv.txt.eous, and
which were shortly &frame:de ratified by the City
Councils, and accepted by the stockholders.,
The provisions secure an annual supply of gas for
the public lamps and city offices abundant for ordinate'
consumption, free of charge. Vita a Ter low rate tor
eariiiordinarY demands. and i archer provide thm the
crice to be uharged to individual coommem shit i never
exceed the Dissent rate. The number of trustees was
reduced to nave ; the at ckhotiers were empowered to
increase* the capital stock of the company. so as to
met the Increased tam...dant* fur gas moons or oilier
unceasary purposes ; the debt owing by the city to the
company for patina lamp was cenoelled, and other
amendments were introduced with a view to the pro
tection of the rights both of the citizens and the com
pany.
Philadelphia Stock Exchange Sales,
/oasis ta.
fl
ltszolvis IT B. EIL BLA - smicsie.3loi what etrfflot.
FIRST BOARD
300 City B. 64.
SW do gdys.lol34
Ira Pah Mar is TOL,
M 2i) re ( P P o e s n :s* ( — a . _
104.
4 Harrisburg IL
4 do 67
10 Harrisburg R.... .. J 7
, 8 Norristows R.
8 Unton Bk of Tenn—.
$ Girard BaskZama%
BS rws
21:00 N Penn 1( 106.e5h.1.83
28 Echoyi Nev prl.bB 24
IWO do if I
BOARDS
10 Or•en Ca5tea.......144'
IS o 724'
Ale d oharuca' Bank....f6X
BOARD.
SECOND
100 City U.—. --IRS
1, 00 .1011,
100 ao —30 c%
100 ao . .1011 i
WO Read 60.9036
NW Elmira tam[ lull at 14
/140 do as. d0...14
66 So . hoyl Nay N*7.661614
BBUL I R had eaah 13$
7 Noroamwtt 11..,. BLit
1.17 N Fiona . 10X
2 Rarnshanr R .
...67"
6 Farm it Idea dk...68
1 4 do
gingd
d Union Bask.... 37
40 Del DIV 1.....4a4
60 do
a Schuyl hap prefd. 64 3ti 1
14
CLDRIN6 PRI G
Bid- Asked
etuldelphloae.-101. 1 / 2 11116‘j
Pada is 101 1 / 2 ',
Phda 6a...new 1005 10464
Penn 111..1nt o 6 1171 i
leading R. Is
ff
CO teacesDO'M.B4 a lead mtMinto 75 1 / 2 75
34
36
Penns R..-- 41 41 1 / 2
Ponta it Al mtas el 9134
*or CI eon dv on aa 68
Mor Cl pldvoll..ll/1 114
8e614 64'86 Inotr 75. 1 / 2 11%
B B o o hnml 4 av St n k _ O O3 O O
1 - 0 I
Sohuvl Pasrprf—. 24 24 1 / 2 1
Elmira R....... 633 6 I
OW-STEADY
_
..tratd.
Elmira IL ...urerte
..
74 ...71 76
Lo I aid .11.—.1316 L3'
Le I &.
16 . uth'
Leh C C I le &ripe].
North Nana n
N Perms k
N Penes R 105..10t3i 213
sfttawiesa tom 1).30 32
Fmkf & South N.
.See & Thu sly .4s/X 00
Race & Ihno-5t..294
West rhiht R... 66 66
Spruce &It
Green & Coates.,234 32)
Cheat it Walnut._. Sl
Girard Colloge_. .
Philadelphia Markets. •
AVOCII7 23—Evening.
Holders of Flour ate =tiler firmer in their views to
day, and sales of 2005t3 000 bbis are reported at 1113 37%
for straight superfire. and ed trdiatin for extras, In
eindlng shoat IMO bbls choice CI t • Mills do at 83 33;R
bbl. The retailers and bakers are buying at the above
rates for superfine and extras, and 88 feed 73 for tenor
brands. as to onabt , Aye Flour is firm at •363. K if•
btd.teorn Meal is held at 83,37% for Fauna. bat we near
of no sales.
. .
not very plenty to day, but the demand for
it in limited. and brines firmt about 3.1)(X1 bus rand 130
01350 for red. the latter for prime Southern. and los
)too for white Ryon wanted, at an &dram:Land new
Yonne is worth 760 Corn is more inquired for; a few
lota l lots of )etiows sold at leen°, and 6 0,5 hal mmed
Weeiem, on private terms. Oats ate unchanged; about
5 000 bus sold at SieS3.;Go 1 ,, r fair to prime Ekultbern, in
cluding a cargo of heavy Bless Oats at 360.
R•RlC.—Pint No. I Quercitron Is selling In lots at
SLAW SO tv ton.
‘...otTuN.—/ )10 113)1004 1. firm. but the demand
limited, and tidy about ige bales have been disposed of at
lull mese.
liaoc, slam remain tractive, and there Is so change in
Price or demand to note.
Ya orisiose the ma let for Bacon end Salted Meats
is mole active, but t he fomness of bolder, !faits o ._
thane • and there is not moon doles in t s way of 11%. e.
assns.-1 here Is a steady ownead• for Timothy: at
13 0002 ag. and (.lever at $5.2501 504 P btu, and very
hite of in. latter °ferias.
Walser it scarce ; bile selling at 3tXenlio for Pews&
ssleanta and thnoinrudasst WitilMe. sad hada sines,
if
on.
Bating. Ul B1 m.
.. 6
.. 1381
.. 83 93
. 100 110
ldsrketdalL