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And contains is oomplate summary of what has trans
pired in , oir:Citt, State , and the Atlantic States. minor
the deaarture of the last steamer for Gilliam".
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Pana..3-Oar Foreign Correspondence—
Letter froniFiatoe;' Dongiu in Virginia; Letters
to Charles Otonor=,Nl. 1 ; Personal and Politioxl ;
Sewing MaChines. POITETH PAGE 7 -General News;
The Sewing Machine Collitoverey ; Marino Intern
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Letter from the Editor.
WAsaulaToN, August 28, 1860
I have only time to say a few words to you
as to the effect in Washington of the fearless
speech Of 'Judge Donglatt at Norfolk, on Sa
turday evening., It has taken the Disunionists
by storin., :Much as they had reluctantly Cre
dited ;him for : boldness and tact, they did no/
expect' abroad-side like this. He has raked
them fore and aft, and, more dating than ever,
has fired upon them from their own ground.
The :questions which he answered disposes,
and, I ,think, effectually and forever, of the
common threat that the election of any man
can ever be effectually resisted who fairly and
constitutionally
_administers the Government.
The :Reptiblicans ought to feel before such a.
demonstration aithis the injustice of all their
assaults upon Judge,Donglas. Now, what will
Mr. Breekinridge say? Will he face the mu
sic on the Ist of September ? Will he say no
to thC , ' inestione put to Jtidge Douglas, as
Douglas said no It he does, he loses the
Seceision vote, and if be dee' not, he' will
baptize hie whole party al, a - Dhinnion conspi
racy.., , „
- J. W. F.
The Hews.
A oorreapondent from the interior informs tut
that Hon. Henry D. Foster, the Democratic candi
date toe governor; has roomitly 'admired to the
Demooratio State Dentin). 'tmittee a letter,
which' ia inabatantially, although perhaps not lite
rally, aqollowe:
Clusexestrao, - -Pa
W. if: WELSH Esq.—Deer Sir: I 'understand
that Colonel Cu rtin, in variant speeches, has inti
mated that he has challenged me to dhouesion.
This he has not done, directly or indirectly but,
in order, that there may be no misapprehens ion,
now authoilie you,- am a committee of Mends, to
appoint' suoh.times and pladu as may suit Colonel
Curtin, to discuss the questions involved in the
campaign.. Truly yours,„ If. D. FOSTER.
The NeW York Municipal Police Department.
we learn,' is about , to open correspondence with
the various police establishments in the Union,
asking for . an exchange of detective' officers. It
is thonght,,that a plan like this will work to the
advantage of the cause of national junkie.
We can hicidly oonceive the vast amount of
wealth comprised in New York city. At a late
meeting of the Board of Supervisors of that oily,
the Comptroller Sent in a communication, stating
that the, amount of money required to be raised
by taxatien:for State, county, and city purposes, is
$9,728 1 . 91.17,60.- The assessed valuation of the pro
pertyo,the city wee estimated by the Committe,
on Annual Taxes to be $ 5 7 7 , 2 / 1 0, 65 6.,
Prow firtherdetails, we
, farther _ d e tails, are led to believe nit
grand bail at. Montreal, on Monday night, In hone
of thaXrifee, 9f Wales,- totally eclipsed anythinj
of the : p ad Oar attempted in this country. Tb
Prince, With hie mite," was present; and partici
rated warmly In the pleaSures of the cooeslon
The cost of the,affair was Over, forty thousand doh
lars. A 'torchlight procession took plane in thetivon
ing also en operatic concert, at which appeared
Patti acid otier art ists. Montreal is evidently in
A state iofrexeitement, and-the people there on
doing things on a snide of generosity' that will test
both theft-picket. and loyalty.
It ii definitely arranged that the Plisse of Wales
and suitezwill arrive in Philadelphia, from Balti
more, on Tuesday night, October 9th, and will re
maidintil-Thbreday, October 11th, at noon. , Be
will thus see Philadelphia on the eve of a
manioi
pai election, and at the moat ezottbg period of the
We 'hive latei DOWN fro Chins, by way of
Weeblegton: ' Plag•offieer Stribling, of" the , Soft
India Squadron, officially reports that Lord Elgin
and Baron Gros were endeavoring to seta* the
diffiCulties with the Chinese, without retorting to
force. , ' - •
Anew arraagement bag beim entered into by
the :Piat..ofiloa ;Department relative to threw.
postage. The scale of Progrendon for rating let
tent for tba Bremen and Hamburg mint
has recently been modified PO Ai to charge stogie
rates of postage on scab letter or package not ex
ceete'half an oimee, and an additional rate for
eaok,ioditionat ball . anoanu. Ibis new wale is
the caina as that Adopted in the United States for
donsertie , lettere, and goes into operation fame
TtiitiforitiUticii Domaine(' State Convintton to
siceloa, - Douglas Isithe fluorin, by a largo ma-
Joritiill A straight Douglas elisetoral ticket will be
iflii'reitiarkoble; if we believe the mirrent
.tote, ".,tiow the Wave trade is pro
gressiag. statll that a regular diet of yes
eels ehiarlrom -- different ports of the. United States
at thirs,imethia l aiad' that distributed among them
are ho rse pail At out two or three of them
for sharoleosod that when,-the" coast is clear they
all combine to aid the seleced Touch in, receiving
dorsi and 'slain with " the - vested possible
desiso6.' -- Billieva means seven or eight vessels
maibe all engaged in the rime trade, without
having oa board suffielent slave material to omelet
say Weer them.
It is 4,,likestion 'of philceophy, whether gold im
proidiCtlia :relative. cendltion'ot man. It is said
thatfierk 4851 to- 169, five 'hurdied millions of
dollars in gold has been produced from the various
mime "threighOut the , World. Blocs the dircoyery
of the intomiliold mines, or rather since 1848.
wheit,theffbegai.bs.be seemly worked, one thou
sand alifroas in:Wild- have been added to the pub-
Ho Wealth. 1- ,Notwithstatiding this immense amount
of fliniilfantlllknnadaff wealth, rice dill idereaset,
and*periatttireeinmen•as ever
Ds:..Jaroa;Baßeni of this GUY, Profaner of
Anatomy in -the New York Medina College, and
author of lin 'able Migrated " May upon Hernia"
andiitier-worki of merit, him resigned kit ()bar,
preknrinif the lineation . of hie proferelen In this
eityorhielijrai ,neammilly Interrupted by attend-
anon. to to professor,' during esieral
montka'of ilia -Year, at New - York. - An a public
Dr:: ;Aryan etaride
,very high.
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and fans; argosies, in woollen, worded, silk, linen,
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The D,istinion Candidates.
The Democ ratic party went into the I/Wies
t:On Convention of 1880 with full reprint-4MM
tier; of all the States. It was .still national
lchad a platform of principlei upon which it
bad won the field of 1866. When Mr. Einnwa
win went into power that.party had an ample
Majority in the House ; tint, by what took place
in and with regard to Kansas, by the imbecili
ty of the President in resisting Southern ag
gressions upon the platform on which he was
elected, by the inherent baseness and treachery
of his Adrainistration,towards the men and in
terests of tht; North, the Democratic party of
the North, in two short years, was annihilated.
Mr. Beenarvan found the House, in the second
Congress of his term, against him and his Ad-
Ministration. The Democratic party in Con
gress was reduced to the Southern vote and to
a handful of Northern Representatives. ' Not
more than three tree States could any longer
be called Democratic.
Under these circumstances the Charleston
Convention met. The majority of the Con
vention plainly represented States which,
however large and respectable their Demo
cratic' minorities, were not then in the hands
of ascertained Democratic majorities. Most
of these States had been brought to that con
dition by the lhtal facility with which the
Democratic party had for long years past
yielded to, every demand of the South, how
ever unjust or unreasonable it might be. Tho
point .was now reached when nothing more
could be yielded. The instinct of self-pre
servation, to say nothing of higher considera
tions, rendered it imperative upon the men of
tho North, who felt, or hoped, that their
Statee could be brought back to the party by
standing firmly and steadfastly to its true
principles, as announced in 1856, to make
that stand. They made it—how bravely and
with what 'constancy, history will hereafter
delight to record. Row they were deserted
in the hour of eitremest need by a few base
and venal parasites, marshalled by a man who
has served every master that bad the power
to reward his fawning sycophancy, history will
also record. '
The two.thirds role was adopted long ago,
in order to prevent the controlof nominations
being thrown Into hands which could do no
thing to support and make them good at the
election. It was a wise rule; it was a good
rule when honestly administered. Practically
it had come to this, in recent former Conven
tiring, that when a majority was clearly ascer
tained in favor of a candidate, as for Mr. Be
etle/ten in 1856, others were withdrawn, and
the choice of the majority was made unani
mous. Mr. Dot:mats withdrew in that way in
1856, and so made Mr. BUCHANAN the nomi
nee, while, without that, he never could have
been. In the Charleston Convention Mr.
DOUGLAS had that clear majority of votes, and
that by the votes of many States which could
easily enough be carried, upon the platform
of 1866, with such a standard-bearer as STE
PHEN A. Dmieees. There bas been some
wretched quibbling and cyphering to reduce
Mr. D.'s vote, as, for example, it has been said
that tea of the votes of New York belonged
to another, but the sovereign State of New
York willed that her delegation should vote
as a unit ny its majority casting the whole
vote of the State ; and what Stat , erights De
mocrat will dare to deny her right to vote in
that way, or Mr. D.'s right to receive her
whole vote ? And so with any objection made
to any vote he received.
But it was predetermined that the Charles
ton Convention should be broken up. Every
energy of the Administration, stimulated by
the deadliest bate of the man of the people—
every energy of the Southern extremists,
spasmodically excited into iptensest action by
the near fruition of their daily projects and
nightly dreams of treason—were brought to
bear to effect that end. They did not
care so much_ about defeating Dot:oats as
breaking up the Convention. To disrupt and
tear to pieces the last visible bond of the
Union, (thank God I the invisible one, in
the hearts of the people, is beyond the reach
of scurvy politicians,) to destroy the Demo
eratic party, was the thing to be accomplished,
so that there shciuld stand nothing, that they
could see, in the *ay of disunion. And
nothing does stand in their way but God and
the People—God, who is just, 9.13 d the People,
who are the instruments of His justice and
His vengeance, upon the guilty plotters of
their country's ruin.
What better evidence of that predetermine.
tion could be given than is to be found in the
Alabama fitifedetions to the delegates of that
State—to withdraw unless the Alabama plat
tbrm, which repudiated that of Cincinnati, was
adopted ? And that was the letter or the spirit
ofother Southern instructions—and more, with
out instructions, it was the publicly expressed,
or secretly entertained, purpose of many South
ern delegates to withdraw, unless a Southern
platform, which the people of the South did not
demand, and on which no single Congressional
district in the whole North could be carried,
was adopted. A minority of the Convention,
not exceeding one-third of it, upon its own
count, not nearly equal to one-third of it on
any honest count, claimed to control, not only
the nomination, but the platform. The eardi
nal principle of the majority ruling was to
give way to what was attempted to be set up
in Kansas—the rule of the minority. D
DOUGLAS had had In his breeches-pocket a bond
from fate, that he should have the electoral
votes of every Northern State, and of half-a
dozen Southern ones, it would not have suited
YANCEY and Davis, and they would none the
leis have bad a secession from the Convention.
Po break up the Democratic party, not to con
solidate it by selecting a Democratic President,
was their object.
It is a chrioes and significant fact, that
every Southern man who left the Convention
efts a Nullifier and Disunionist. it is a still
IrTilTheirarnis and significant tact, as stated by
Senator CRITTENDEN, of Kentucky, in a recent
speech, that in the whole South he knows of
no active and leading Disunionist who is op.
posed to Mr, BRSCHOHLIDGE. Most curious 'Of
all, on the very day that these Disunionists left
the National Convention, in Baltimore, the
South Carolina delegation, which did not go
to Baltimore at all, but stayed at Richmond to
keep the neat of treason warm, without any
concert of action with the bolters, agreed upon
Berxxinaroon and LANE as their candidates,
and they have accepted the Richmond nomina
tion. The Union men of the South, of what
ever antecedent politics, knowing the mana
gers of this desperate movement, and pre
cisely to what it tends, everywhere, are up in
arms against it. They know that, in the bands
of those cunning and crafty leaders, &MOMS
RIM and LANE, with their professions, hones t
they may be, of attachment to the Union, are
but mere men'ef straw; cats dipped in a meal_
tub and hung up to catch unwary mice, and
that they are' the candidates of the Disunion
,party of the South.
The Democratic City Convention.
The large majority of the Weeds of Judge
DonorAs in the Democratic City Convention is
tally apparent fa the character of its nominees
for the Row offices. AU of them, we believe,
Loma., Lures, LOIIMILLW, and WUNDER, are
his avowed supporters. Altogether, the ticket
is a very good one, and will doubtless be cor
dially sustained by the Democracy of Phila
delphia.
IMPORTANT RAILROAD ARRANGEMINTS.—
The Harrisburg State Somme! says that the Penn-
Sylvania Railroad Company and the Reading Rail
road Company, have had made, for joint nee, three
hundred railroad oars, and purpose to double this
number, to be used in carrying coal from the Broad
Top Mountain Coal Mines, near the line of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, about one hundred miles
west of Harrisburg, to Philadelphia. This trade
will be carried on over the Pennsylvania Railroad
to Harrisburg, where it will enter on the Reading
Railroad Company's Lebanon Valley Branch,
thence to Reading, and by the Reading Rail
road Railroad to that company's wharves at
Richmond. This trade DOW affords a ton
nage of about three hundred tons, and,
it is said, can be very considerably In
tl:messed. The two carrying companies pro-rate
the charges, the Reading having about fifteen miles
most of the distance. By the reunion of the two
companies in this work, the advantage of a favora
ble goads is secured the entire distance, and in this
respect enables the trade of the Broad Top to com
pete' with rival producers In the best and largest
markets,' From Huntingdon to Herrisburg the
grade of the Pennsylvania Railroad is dereendiog,
and from Harrisburg by the way of the Reading it
is also favorable for heavy trains; whereas from
Harrisburgnastward, by way of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, the grade is undulating, and in other re
spects not as well suited for heavy freight. This
fact, with a desire of those interested in the trade
to have an outlet for their coal on the Delaware,
will account for the trade taking the course men
tioned.
The Minot Ledge lighthouse, at the entrance of
Bolton harbor, will be illuminated for the lint
lime on November 15th, and not on September Ist,
M lase been etromosudy reported.
Philadelphia Book Trade Salo.
The catalogue of the approaching Trade
Sale in this city, which will commence at
Messrs.-Taccess'ltooms, South Fourth street,
on Monday, September 17th, consists of an
octavo volume of 860 pages, and a supple
ment will be issued on the above day, in
cluding new invoices which may hereafter be
received, and noting alterations in the pre
sent catalogue.
This is the fifty-fifth sale, and the system of
selling books by public auction, which has
been extended to New York, and more lately
to Boston, was commenced in this city, nearly
thirty years ago, by Mr. M. THOMAS, who had
himself been publisher and bookseller. It
has abundantly succeeded, and Mr. TUOMAS,
in a ripe old age, survives to witness that
success.
Over ono hundred publishers and stationers
have contributed invoices to this forthcoming
sale. New York and Roston are well repre
sented, though the Harpers, the Appletons,
and Charles Scribner do not contribute.
Running through the catalogue, in which Ap
plegate & Co., of Cincinnati, lead off, wo no
tice that Burns & Sieg have a large invoice of
Episcopal Prayer Books. Brown & Taggard,
Beaten ; Childs & Peterson ; Charles Desilver ;
Thayer & Eldridge, Boston; J. W. Bradley;
C. M. Saxton, Barker, & Co, New York; G.
G. Evans; Dick & Fitzgerald, New York; G.
P. Putnam, New York; W. W. Harding ;
J. E. Tilton, Boston; John E. Potter; J.
Parry; H. oowperthcvalt & Co.; Blanchard &
Lea; Little, Brown, & Co., Boston; Kay &
Brother; Ticknor & Fields, Boston; Rudd &
Carleton, New York; Sheldon & Co., Few
York ; J. E. Beardsley, Auburn ; James Chal
len & Son ; Swan, Brewster, & Tileston, Bos
ton; Willis P. Hazard; Charles Taber & Co.,
New Bedford; James Munroe & Co., Boston;
Follett, Foster, & Co., Columbus, Ohio; D.
Fisher, and P. O'Shea, New York, have con
tributed largely to this sale. James J. Pur
cell, New York, sends in a heavy invoice of
stationery, blank books, and paper. There
are some invoices of unusual extent. For ex
ample, J. B. Lippincott's covers 21 pages,
and so does that of Derby & Jackson. T. B.
Peterson & Brothers occupy 19 pages, and
Leavitt & Allan, New York, have tho same
space. Crosby, Nichols, & Lee, and Gould &
Lincoln, Boston houses, each fill 18 pages; Jas.
B. Smith has 11, and E. H. Butler & Co. has
10 pages, W. A. Townsend & Co., New York,
also having 10. Ticknor & Fields, Boston,
occupy 8 pages. In this summary, where the
locality of a publisher is not mentioned, to
avoid repetition, it is in Philadelphia.
There is every reason to believe that the
results of the present Trade Sale, even though
it does come after those of Boston and New
York, will be equal to any hitherto had in this
city.
Modern "Pursuits of Literature.”
Over sixty years ago, an English author
named Idierruras published a remarkable
book, tt The Pursuits of Literature." In our
day, literally at our own door, Collector BA
KER. of Philadelphia bas followed in the wake
of this distinguished writer. Not by produ
cing a book,—but by persecuting a bookseller.
Joust CAMPBELL, whose book stand, on the
very verge of the laud occupied by the Cuis
tom House, has been a familiar sight to our
citizens for years, happens to hold political
opinions different from those now professed by
the Collector, and therefore he was warned off
the premises, and imperatively told that go he
must. Repeated messages were sent him by
rho Collector, threateningly querulous, com.
plaining that he had not removed, and this
though Mr. BAILER was aware that Mr. Clam
usu was busily fitting up a regular bookstore,
and meant to shake off the dust from his
shoes—the Government dust—at his earliest
convenience.
Joan CAMPBELL, whose knowledge of the
contents and value of books is very great, has
shifted his quarters, as our readers have already
learned from his own announcement in this
paper. He has removed from the wall of the
Custom house avenue to the spacious and
convenient basement of the Philadelphia
Bank, Chestnut street, next to the office of
Tux PRESS. We are very glad to have such
an intelligent and popular next-door neighbor.
He will extend his already large business, and
also deal in engravings and autographs. We
are confident that such an gc institution " as
Joint Cnninsarx, from whom we have bought
many and many a book, will continue to flou
rish,—yes, long after Collector BAKER has
subsided into insignificance.
Ur. BAKER'S reading of cc The Pursuits of
Literature " differs materially from ours. To
study books appreciatively, either to get the
knowledge into the mind or to bo able to
know their value as articles of sale, is Mr.
CAMPBELL'S version of it. Mr. Collector BA
YER, on the contrary, pursues an hOnest and
intelligent bookseller because of politics, and
thus divides the only link which bound the
present Government of the country to such
an ennobling thing as Literature. Mr. BAICEtt.
comes out of this, a very Liliputian.
The Slavery Question.
The slavery question, in its varied shapes,
overrides all others, and dwarfs into insignifi•
canto all minor subjects. It is evident that
this agitation will continue until some definite
conclusion is reached, and a solution of the
whole problem la obtained, which will be
deemed conclusive by the great majority of
the American people.
We commove tbia morning the publication
of a series of vary able letters, written by a
distinguished Southern statesman to CHARLES
O'Cotion. They will richly repay an attentive
perusal. Without endorsing all the positions
they maintain, we are satisfied that a general
dissemination of the ideas they advance, in
the North and in the South, would do much to
diminish the ultraism of sectional feeling, and
to prepare the public mind for a satisfactory
adjustment of this whole question.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
Letter from “Kappa.”
[Coereireoneenee of The Prem.]
WASHINGTON, AllgUld 29
Mr. Landrum, M. 0. from Louisiana, spoke
last night before the Jackson Assooiation, (Breokin
ridge.) In the course of hie remarke, be stated
that the Now York Breokinridge Committee was
merely waiting for overtures from the Douglas• Bell
Committee, in order to unite with them. That
being done, Mr. Landrum felt earn that either Mr.
Breokinridge would be elected in the House, or
Gee. Lane in the Senate—the Breokinridge men
riding thus on the backs of the Douglas• Bell men
into power. Collector Schell is at Bedford Springs
to ask permission 01.-the President for this inte
resting sokeme. The only difficulty for its execu
tion seems to be whether the Douglas-Bell men in
New York will make these overtures now, or wait
till after the 6th of November next.
Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, has written
a very strong letter to cne of his friends in this
pity. He states that he can no longer abstain
from fighting for those principles upon which now
rest the preservation of the Union and the welfare
of the whole country, and, therefore, he will make
his first campaign speech, at Augusta, next Satur
day. His brother, Linton Stephens, who resigned,
last year, his position as one of the judges of the
Supreme Court of Georgia, le also out for Douglas,
and stumping the State.
Governor Leteher, of Virginia, is out directly
for Douglas. His coming out proves that Western
Virginia, or tho part next to the Blue Ridge, is
entirely for Douglas. The Tenth Legion will give
him five thousand majority over all other candi
dates, and will elect a Douglas man to Congress.
That Legion is the stronghold of the Democracy of
Virginia, always giving the largest Democratic
majorities. Nevertheless, the Demooraoy being
thus divided, there ie not a shadow of hope either
for Breokinridge or Douglas to carry the State.
Letoher's majority last year over the , Opposition
was only five thousand votes. That plainly shows
that the Bell men will carry Virginia, and that
the old Democratic Commonwealth will for the
first time embrace something else but Demooraoy.
How many faults end errors Mr. Buchanan may
have committed, how little he may have answered
the expectations of his friends, both personal and
political, yet the country owes him some grati
tude. He has been the instrument by which the
Demooratiotparty has got rid of some disgusting
ulcers, which sooner or later threatened to destroy
It—l mean the cohorts of hungry, selfish, and
ambitious politicians, who bad become accustomed
to consider the party as a sinecure for their own
personal aggrandisement. His Lecompton
and now his partisanship and stump-speaking for
open enemies of the Union, has ensnared a good
many of those rotten politicians into a trap, from
which nothing but the last trumpet will deliver
them. It Is true, Mr. Buohanan dies too, but he
does it like an East India prince : hie friends and
followers have to go with him. His suite will be
a tremendous one. Like Napoleon by his mar
shale, ho will be surrounded by hid Senators.
Dickinson, Bigler, Bright, Fitch, Gwin, Dice,
Green, Jefferson Davis, Slidell, and, alas! Henry-
A. Wise, will be the principal ones. The cortege
will reach from Maine to California. It will be
the greatest funeral that the world ever saw.
`fl ffE .PRESS.-PIDLADELPHIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1860.
1 1 / 4 (I)*41 1 :.1 :A 341 i
Forrest's First Appearance on the Stage
after an Absence of Four Years.
Corraspondonos of Tho Prowl
I made a hasty promise a few bye ago, in one
of any lettere from Washington, that I would run
over to Baltimore and see Mr. Forrest make his
first appearance after an absence from the stage of
nearly four years, in the character of Hamlet ;
and accordingly, last evening I took my seat, as
one of a crowded house in Mr. Ford's beautiful
Holiday-street theatre, in thte city of the mono.
menu. The prices had been raised, for the house
le not large, and the regular rates would scarcely
have repaid the management. The oharacter and
number of the audience fully justified the wisdom
of the experiment.
It is impoesible in such a letter to notice tho act
ors and actresses who supported Mr. Forrest. My
object is simply to describe the tragedian himself.
He was the soul of the whole representation. When
he was absent the play lagged ; when he was pre
sent it moved on with dignity and consistency. lie
was rapturously wale/need, of course, when he
came on in the second scene of the first act. He
never appeared to better advantage. The same
well-knit frame ; the same easy bearing ; the
same striking fees; the same steady and un
faltering stop ; the saute noble, melodious voice,
that have so often reused and thrilled his audiences
during more than thirty years of professional ser
vice. Hamlet is one of those characters to which
the critical world has accustomed iteolf to believe
Forrest is not equal—or rather, that it is of too
philosophic a east for the man who is pre-eminen
in Othello, Maehetit, and Lear. Hamlet has been
a problem to commentators for two centuries Essay
after essay, volume after volume, have been writ
ten upon him. His melancholy—his grief at his
father's death—his presentiments—his horror at
his mother's speedy second marriage with
her brother-in-law his amazement at the
ghost's revelation -- his half insanity after
this—present a theme to the student and the
scholar capable of almost indefinite elaboration,
especially when considered in connection with the
profound yet mystical philosophy that pervades
the whole play. Mr. Forrest has evidently read
and reflected upon all those different theories. He
thinks that the genius has not yet appeared who
can properly illustrate Bb.akepeare—and, though
singularly qualified by experience himself, he ap
preaches the task with many misgivings. Bat it
ROOM to me that he, of all our actors—and pro
bably he only—ls best qualified to delineate
Hamlet. His own troubles—his own eventful
career—have made it a part of his existence to
common constantly with himself. His almost
solitary and heart-broken life has made him a
student and a thinker; and whore can such
a man more gratefully turn for relief than to the
story of Hamlet? It is full of lessons; full of
consolation; full of suggestions to such a spirit.
Years and trials have, therefore, done much to
prepare Forrest for a genial rendering of this aor
rowing character. The roughness of youth bee
given way to the calm and thoughtful bearing of
mature life, and every day's additional examina
tion of Shakepeare has only opened new beauties
to his mind. In all of his last evening's repre
aentation he was quiet aid self-poised ; and when
he broke into passion it was so electrically natural
that the house thundered an instantaneous re
sponse. His first soliloquy was a grand picture,
particularly in the passage where he exclaims:
.. God: oh, God:
Flow weary, stale, flat, and unprofitablo,
Seem to me all toe um 01 tlue world."
There was an agony of grief and a supplication
in hie tone that 'cannot describe.
When be beard of the visitation of the Ghost
from Horatio and Maresllus, he made many new
points, especially when turning to his friend Ho.
ratio, he asked, with eager voice,
I had never seen this effect before, and Mtn
pressed me as far better than the old way of put
ting the question as a general ono.
When Ilamlet and his companions meet to
await the Ghost on the platform, a new and strik
ing illustration was presented, the suggestion of Mr.
Forrest, chastely executed by my old Lancaster
friend, Mr. Charles Getz, who has become one of
the moat ingenious and thorough scene-painters in
America. You will recollect that the night, as
represented by the great dramatist, is micro an
cold. Forrest, as Hamlet, says, ehiveringly :
" The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold."
Mr. Getz bait painted a winter scene, full of
spirit, to carry out the author's intention. The
wholo platform, the fortress, and the landscape,
has a wintry look, and oven the moonlight seemed
to be frozen.
TheiGhoat approached Forrest from the rear
Ho turned upon it, se Horatio exclaimed,
"Look, my lord, it comes !"
with a suddenness that was • appalling; and so
pests the address, " Angels and ministers," do.
not loudly, but in a whispered, fear-smitten voles
This was a grand wane from first to lest, splendid
ly rendered, and full of the old fire.
The advice to the player was an original con
ception of the poet's idea. There was no rant. It
was like the conversation of a quiet, well-educated
gentleman. There was no pretension—no assump
tion—no diotation. Seated part of the time, he
spoke to the poor actor like an old friend; and, as
the latter was retiring, he called him bank, as if a
new thought bad °courted to his mind, ending by
placing his hands upon the shoulders of the player,
and, in the kindest, most gentle manner, telling
him to—
In this part of the representation, I noticed en
alteration In the teat, which may or may not be
an improvement. Tho regular Shaker:tares have
" 0, there be players that I have seen play—and heard
others praise, and that highly—not to speak it profane
ly, that neither having the aooent of Christians, nor the
gait of Christian, Pagan, or man, have so strutted and
bellowed, that 'have thought some of nature's journey
men had made man, end not made them wen," &o.
Forrest strikes out man as italicized, and inserts
them. What do you soy, Doctor Mackenzie?
When Forrest as hamlet lost his temper last
night, he lost it properly and naturally. Thus, in
the line sollicguy, beginning,
there was indescribable pathos at first and passion
afterwards. lie uttered these words as if glad to
bo rid of all intruders, and anxious to commune
with himself—as if tired of playing a part, and
eager to be " alone" with his deep sorrow. Tho
way in which ho worked himself up to the culmi
nating denunciation of the Kong was very Weals%
His eolf•reproaches for not having done the Ghost's
bidding before, and for dealing In mere words.
"like a very drab—a scullion," and his doubt s
about " the spirit" or apparition—being a sums
eton of emotions, from cool comment upon the
players to denunciation of the King; and, finally,
his mental contentions about the Ghost abounded
in genius and novelty.
Bat nowhere was Forrest more himself, or more
like what the scholar thinks Shakspeare intended,
than In his speech to Horatio, in the first scene of
the third not. This was a mastor-piece, and the
whole audience answered to him in repeated
bursts of applause. Let me give you the words,
for, old es they are, they deserve repetition :
" Horatio, thou ar t e'en se Juet a man
As e'er my eonvereation eop'd withal.
Nay. do not think I flatter :
For what adennoement may I hope from thee,
That no revenue hut, but thy good eperi , e,
To feed and clothe thee? Why should Me your Le
flattered ?
Ah let the candid tongue lick absurd pomp ;
And crook the pregnant binKo3 of the knee,
Where thrift may tallow fawning. Dost thou hear
Sines my dear soul was mistress of her choice,
And could of me' distinguish her eleotion,
Bho bath seal'd thee for herself; for thou bast been
/is ono, in Buffering all, that Buffers nothing;
A man, that fortune's buffets and rewards
Has ta'en with equal thanks; and bleated are those,
Whose blood and judgment are so well comingled,
That they ore not a pipe for fortune's fairer
To sound what stop she plea.. ; Give mo that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my hearted' heart,
As I do thee."
Nothing could have been more confiding and
heart warm than the manner in which theta words
were spoken.
The Beene when the player appears before the
King and Queen was interesting, as proving that
Forrest's late illness had not in the slightest 1111-
paired his physical ability. He was as agile
and as easy as a man of thirty.
The interview between Hamlet and hie mother
the Queen, was thrilling and impressive. Here, i f
anywhere, is the point upon which Forrest's op
ponents rest to prove that he is too violent for thi s,
character. Whoever has read this grand scene,
need not be told that II Hamlet has canoe for ex
citement, it is in the double meeting with his
mother and her dead husband's 'spirit. In truth, he
is possessed of a frenzy, and In the midst arm im7
'modelled apnea' to his mother, is surprised into
new horror by the sudden appearance of the apps-
Wien. It is easy to imagine how Forrest depleted
these contending emotions; but it is not easy to
describe the grace and the ease of his movements,
the exquisite skill with which he managed the
whole interview, and particularly his last words,
as, changing his entire manner, he says, throwing
himself on his knees before the Quests :
" Mother, for lore of Grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul,
That not your trespass, but my madness. speaks."
I ought to refer to the new effect produced
by Mr. Forrest, when, as Hamlet, he calls Ophelia
to task, in the third act and first scene. Dr. John
son upbraids Shakopee° for making the Prince
behave so rudely to the daughter of Polonius; but
Forrest eteps in to rescue the great dramatist, by
supplying a very ingenious solution of his idea.
Before the interview with Opkelia, her father and
the King agree to Conceal themselves, so as to
overhear what takes place. Accordingly, after his
great soliloquy, 4 . To be, or not to be, that is the
question," as ho approaches the fair Opheire he
addresses her in the most courtly and touching
language. But while she is replying to him he
turns about and discovers the Ktng and Po/milt/3
at a gallery in the rear, which induces him to
start, end exclaim to her:
And then, farther on, apparently laboring under
the belief that he is watohed and played upon, he
suddenly millet
Where'm your father /
BALTimoRM, August 28, 1860
"bid you not speak to it ?"
"oh !, reform it altogether," &c
"Now I am alone !"
—" Ha! ha I ate sou honest ?"
Ophetia.--"lit home, my lord."
hamlet, shocked, at what he think', is a faits.
hood from hie lovely companion, breaks oat—
" Let the doors be shut on him that he rosy plat the
fool no where but in 's own house. Farewell."
This was very happily managed, and threw anew
light on a put of the play heretofore greatly mit
understood.
Of all the mentions of Bhakspeare, none is se
difficult of representation as Hamlet. Abounding
in the profoundest philosophy, and sparkling with
the brightest gems of thought and style, it is filled
with apparent Contradictions. No ordinary man
can render this philosophy clear to the common
mind, or reconcile these consistencies. Laertea,
so carefully reared and educated, proves that ho is
willing to sink into the abject tool of the 1, mur
derous " king in order to be revenged upon Ham
let by a trick; and Hamlet himself seems to have
forgotten his vow against his uncle until he dis
covers that the foils have been roisoned. Mr.
Permit, however, has studied the whole play, and
goes farther, I think, than any of the delineators
of Hamlet in making muoh of it that has long
been obscure intelligible and clear.
The final scenes of the play were crowded with
beauties, and the fencing match, at the last, was
remarkably graceful and spirited. I wish I could
review them at length.
After his six nights in Baltimore, Mr. Forrest
will go to New York, where he is engaged for
thirty-six nights at Nible's. In conversing
with him I was pleased to find him so Bulb!.
tienB to be equal to his high reputation. He
will appear in Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, Othello,
Richard lii., Shylook, Coriolanus, Brutus,
King John, and probably Tituon. It is his
I wish to confine himself exclusively to Shako.
pears, and Buiwere Richelieu; but he can hardly
resist the public feeling in favor of Jack Cade,
Virginias, tho Gladiator, and Metamora. Exten
sive and expensive preparations have been made
to render his New York engagement a triumphant
one, The Bhakspearean representations will be
splendidly given, with new scenery, appointments,
and mechanism. Coriolanus will be produced in a
style of unequalled and novel splendor. The corn
panyis being carefully selected for the purpose, and
the theatrical campaign will be more brilliant from
'the feet that both managers and actors ore determin
ed to do their best. After this engagement the same
company, with all the scenery, properties, and ap
pointments procured and used in New York, will
be translated to Philadelphia, where, in the Aca
demy of Music, Mr. Forrest will repeat his round
of characters. OCCASIONAL.
LATEST NE WS
By Telegraph to The Press.
Washington Intelligence.
WASUINGTON, Auguat 29.—1 t has already been
stated in the newspapers that the Austrian Arch
duke Ferdinand Maximilian contemplates a visit
to this country. Commander Manry hne just re
ceived a letter from his Imperial highness, of
which the following is a copy :
" TBIESTE, 11 June, '6O.
"Dealt : I read with the greatest pitmen'° your
treatise on ' The Winds at Boa,' and now retu n my
grateful thanks for this interesting publication, as well
an for the most valuable Bailing direotions, of which you
very t ndly made me and the Austrian navy a pre.ent
1 aired myself of this opportunity for Lending You the
metenrologjeal diary, kept within the last months
during my trip to South America on board 11, I. M.'s
st.amer •l dizebetti.' Be pleased to accept as asmali
contribution to the observations you sogsestrd, and in
which alt metering nat,ons are now sedulously engaged.
May it Berra you a proof that our smell navy. appre
omt no also the full weight and extent of your eminent
results, atrivrs to add something to a work which all en
lightened seamen praise as toe highest improvement in
the nautical science.
• 'deeply regret nothaving been able to pay &visit to
the northern part of the transatlantic continent, for I
thus lost the opportunity of making your personal no
ovulation°, end of expressing to y ou in words my high
est...4am. As I soon intend to undertake in voyage to
the United States, I trust that I shell then have, the
pleasure of geeing you Moet al nee rely sour..
F.ERDINAiiII MAXIMILIAN,
• Archduke of Auotria.
" To Cart. Id. F. 111enny. Superintendent of the V. S.
Observatory. Washington."
The Commissioner of Patents has given his
hearty coppurrence In a proposition for the area
tion of. statues to the momory of great American
inventors, the expense to be defrayed by private
Imbserlptlon. Niches will probably be prepared
In the Patent Offme building for the reception of
inch statues,
WASEINCION, August 29.—The scale of progres
sion for ratitg letters forwarded by the Bremen
and Hamburg mails has recently been modified on
as to charge single rates of postage on each letter
or package not exceeding half an ounce, and an
additional rate for each additional half ounce or
fractional part of en ounce This new scale is the
same ea that adopted in the United States for do
mestic letters, and goes into operation immediately.
The Mint Ledge Lighthouse, at the entrance of
Boston harbor, will be illuminated for the first
time on November 15, and not on September 1, as
erroneously reported.
Flag-officer Stribling, of the East lodic Squad
ron, °Moistly reports that Lord Elgin and Baron
Gros were endeavoring to settle the difficulties
with the Chinese without resorting to force.
Mr. Douglas in Virginia.
HIS SPEECH AS PITERSBURO.
PUTERSMIRG, Aug. 20.—Mr. Douglas commenced
his address last night. at 8 o'clock, in front ofJar
rett'e Hotel, to a wawa of from four to five thou
persona. Ha was greeted with tremendous
cheering.
In half an hour after he had commenced a
dorm arose, and the meeting adjourned to Pboanix
Hall, which was crowded to traffocation. Mr.
Boll: 16 2 then concluded his speech, occupying over
two ogre in its delivery.
- A - close' nine cheers were given for the Lit
tle Ghent, end ttuch enthusiasm was displayed.
Mr. Douglas pronounces his reception hero so
surpar4ag any he had - received since ho was in
Illinois, in 1858. Re left for Raleigh, N. 0., this
morning,-where he speaks tomorrow. lie will be
in Richmond on Pride.) , night, and will leave for
Staunton on Saturday morning.
nepubltean Demonstration at In
dianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 29.—The Republican de
monstration to day was a complete success. An
immense crowd thronged the streets to view the
procession, which was very largo in nuMbors, and
occupied an hour In passing a given point. In the
Procession there was a wagon drawn by forty-three
yoke of oxen, and containing several large saw
loge, with men splitting rails and distributing them
along the route.
The procession marched through the principal
streets - to the military park, where speeches were
made.
Tanraxeronra, August .20 —The Military Park
was thronged this afternoon. There was speaking
from four kande. Among those who addressed the
meeting were Hon Tom. Corwin and lion. P P
Stanton, of Ohio; Hen P. P. Blair, of Missouri;
Mr Underwood, of Virginia; Henry S. Lane and
0. P. Merton, tho candidates for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor ; C B. Smith, and others.
Not NH than from 45,000 to 50,000 porront were
present.
Connecticut Politics.
' DOTIOLIFI STATIC COMMITTEE.
JIART7ORD (Conn.), August 29 —The Democratic
State Electoral Convention met this morning.
The etraight•out Douglas clement is predomi
nant.
A motion to place on the ticket two Bell eleotors
PRA voted down by a large majority.
There is every indication oa straight Douglas
ticket beirg formed.
HARTFORD, Aug 29 —The Deinocratio (Douglas)
Convention nominated a clean Douglas electoral
ticket, with Samuel Colt and John J. irenrozo
elmitors at large.
The Charleston and Baltimore platforms wore
endorsed.
A resolution instructing the electors to vote for
souse other candidate than Douglas, if necessary to
defiat the election of Lincoln, was rejected.
Another Candtdate for the Presidency.
EMELT 11111T1I 121 THE MELD- . ABOLITION NA•
TIONAL CONVENTION" AT srnAcusz— FRED
I`OOGLAS AN ELncTon.
Eynseusn, Aug 29.—The "Abolition National
Coavention " met hero today, and nominated the
following ticket :
For President of the United States—Gaul
Smith, of ew York.
For Vice President—Samuel McFarland, o
Pennsylvania.
For Bleotora at Large—Fraderlok Douglas and
Malta Hammond.
Cricket Match
MONTREAL, Aug 20.—The great cricket match
between the Canadian Eleven and the United
States Eleven was commenced this morning.
Canada's Eleven made on their first innings a
soon of 42; while the United States scored 165
rune.
Tke Canadians then opened the second lump,
and on closing this evening bad made 21 rimy, with
three wiettets down.
Massachusetts Republican State Con
vention.
BOSTON, Aug. 29 —The Republican State Con.
volition mat today, and wee orgemired by the
election of George S. Bontivell as president.
Bon. Charles Sumner addressed the Convention
on the political issues of the day.
John A. Andrews was nominated for Governor,
in place of Hen. N. P. Banks, resigned; J. G.
Goodrich for Lieutenant Governor, Oliver Warner
for Secretary of State, and George Morey and R.
A. Chapman eleotors at large.
Breckinridge State Convention in
Michigan.
DETROIT, August 29.—The Breokinridge State
Convention met in this city today, and nominated
a fall electoral ticket.
Resolutions were passed rsquosting the Brack
inridge men of each Congressional district to make
nominations, and discountenancing any compromise
with Douglas.
The Houston Movement in Texas.
A UNION OF CONSERVATIVE MEN ADVISED.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 28.—Tbo friends of lltr
Houston are earnestly pressing the union of all con
servative national men upon one eleotoral ticket
Fatal Accident.
liinzmwo,Va., Aug. 29.—Mre Daniel Steenrode
was killed, and her eon, Hon. Lewis Steenrode, fa
tally injured to-day, by being thrown from a car
riage down an embankment.
Death of Jacob Sunder, of Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 29 —Jacob Btrader, an old
citizen of Cincinnati, died yesterday morning.
Markets by Telegraph.
UALTIStOitit, Aug. 28.—Flour is firm. Wheat native,
and 5,3 higher; Western 81.1801.30 ; Southern red
81.250140 ; white $1.4601.75. Corn 'dull ,* Western
white 55‘267n ; yellow e outhern 67enThe. Provisiona
dull, but unohanged. Coffee more native at unchanged
proms. Whisky dull at 220.
Naw Oamtaers, Aug. 28—Cotton firm; sales of 1 000
bales of new at 10344stetio. Pales of three dap' 4,100
bales. Reoeipts 7,000 bales. asainat 9,000 bales hisc
year. Mess Pork is quiet et $22®2160. Tobacco firm.
but unohanged. peahen ge on London 9% WO per oent.
premium. Freig to on Cotton to Liverpool %d.
(nectar/Art. Aug. 29.—Flour is in good demand ; sales
to-day of 4 000 bbta at 054.61504 75 'Whisk y—'i he sun
ply is very scarce and is quoted at 18.1.0. Provision.;
ore quiet, with no demand—the vices are nominal.
hxohange on New York steady a'. N cont. premium
New Osman', Aug. SO.—Cotton firm ; solos of 3.500
balm! to day, at stiffer prices; the quotation, are with
out change. Flour quiet at $11.4005 50. Corn—sales of
mixed tit 600. Sugar Mould buoyant, at an advance of
3ito ; sales at 9. 1 (09,1G0. Mons Fork is quiet; etook in
port, 11.000 bhle. Freights and Exchanges are 'anal
tared,
THE CITY.
AM IGBEhIRNTEI THIS EVENING.
WALNUT-STREET THEATRE, Walnut and Ninth Inc—
" Cinderella."
WHEATLEY & CLARIS'S ARCH -STREET THEATRE•
Arch street, above sixth.—" Taming the Tables"—
The Condemn Brothers.'
CONTINENTAL THEATER. Walnut St. above Eighth.—
Carnerose and Sharpley's Minstrels.
PENNATLVANIA ACADEMY 01 THE rins It ETA, No
1025 Chestnut street—Exhibition at Faintints and
moulpture, every morning and al ternoon.
THE FIRST SENATORIAL DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTION.
DISGRACEFUL PROOEEDIN'GS
A Portion of the Delegates Threatened
with Personal Violence.
In our report yesterday of the proceedings of
the Senatorial Democratic Convention, which met
on Tuesday, at the corner of Ninth and Margaret
streets, we omitted to state that Mr. Wm. V. Mc-
Grath offered a E erica of resolutions providing that
no person he placed in nomination who Jowl not
pledgo himself to support Douglas and Johnson,
the regular nominees of the Democratic party.
Tho resolutions offered by Mr. McGrath wore as
follows :
Ile olved, That we, the Demcciatio citizens of the
First benatorial district, in Convention assembled. de
glare ourselves in lavog of the regular nominations of
our patty.
Has ohm!, That Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V.
Johnson. having received the regular nomination in
Convention, will receive the hea,ty cordial. and nod,-
vo.ed support of the Demnora y of the First district.
age, rt all secessoini ta, bolter., and interventionists.
Resolved. That tho-e who are not for us a e against
us. and that in the tight of prim:aria it is better to lie
defeated than to have sueotss with the traitors to the
Union and the party.
Roomed, That. holding them viewn, no nelson be
PI aced in nomination for the Henate. of this district,
who does not pledge tams° f to cordial support of ate
phen A. Honshu. and Herschel V. Johnson tor Presi
dent anti Vice President. and Henry D. ! ? Dater. the
nominees of our party.
Tho introduation of these resolutions was strongly
opposed by a number of delegates, when Mr. Me-
Grath, John Campbell, and others withdrew, short
ly after which the Convention adjourned till yes
terday morning.
YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS
The Convention reaseembled yesterday morn
ing at the same pious, James T Harmer, presi
lent. in the obair The roll was call. d b the se
cretary. William Scantling was appeintid in the
place of ono of the secretaries absent
Mr. Dewitt moved that the pledge sof the dif
ferent candidates be read, whloh, after several
amendments and a long debate, was lost by a vote
of 28 nays and 25 yeas
Mr. John Campbell rose and stated that he would
reed a paper protesting against the action of the
Convention, for reasons set forth in the protest.
fio commenced to read it, when the president ruled
him out of order, and said it could not be offered.
The following is the protest offered by Mr.
Campbell :
Tn the President af the Democratic Convention cd' the
First Senatorial District:
FIR : I Protest against the nomination e , any or the
following named candidates for Senator. viz.. Samuel
J. Randall. Michael J Dougherty. and I. N. Marselis,
M. D. I do this upon the grounds that none of them. in
their pledges, offered to support the regular nominees of
our party—m(9l;qm A Miles. for President, and Her
schel V. Johnson, for VIC, President. 1 further protest
'elitist Mr itandall's nomination in consequence of
the corrupt means by whteh his friends seek his nomi
net on. and I will in such an event as his nomination,
deem it to he a duty , that tows to lineal to me party,
and to my country, to labor arduously to defeat hits be
fore the people. JURA I AMPDELL.
Delegate ri fth Div., Seventh ward.
August, 1810.
Mr. McGrath then made a personal explanation
in regard to his course in returning to the Con
vention after retiring from it the evening previous.
He said it was his earnest desire to harmonize the
party that prompted him to return Ho hoped to
son the organization preserved intact, as It was the
only party which stood up for freedom of religious
opinion, and for the rights ot the naturalized oiti
z“ns, when they were assailed by the prescriptive
Know Nothings. Finding that the Convention was
about to place in nomination a man who had been
connected with that proscriptive Order, he be-
Iteved that be had got into the wrong place, that
he had no business there, and he declared that he
would leave.
Mr. McGrath, followed by Mr Campbell, went
to the door to go out, when eaveral delegates cried
..ut " Dont 'et them go ont," and demonetrations
of a threatening nature were made towards them
to prevent their leaving.
Mr. MoOrath got outside the door, when he found
tho whole stairway blockaded by a crowd of
" roughs," who pushed him back, and threatened
to knock him down if ho attempted to go down
qaira. lie was very roughly handled, and in the
melee canto very near losing his watch, which was
pulled from his pocket by some person with the
view of carrying it off. Fortunately, be seized it
in time to save It As It was impossible to get
down stairs, except at the risk of his life, Mr. Mc-
Grath went into the room again, but took no part
in the proceedings. Mr. Campbell did not get out
side the door, being prevented by the delegates in
side from leaving.
Finally, order was restored, and one of the mem
bers rose to read a letter from Richard Vaux,
which was declared out of order by the president,
as ilwas not Democratic. After tome discussion,
theMetter was read. It authorized the name of
hichard Vaux to bo withdrawn from tho Conven
tion, and roads thus :
o the President of the Coneentton osooli4filitlit a tan
thzt4 for the First Senatorial district of Pinnsyl
vimin, it ow in session.
Nit : My name cannot he presente d
i to a Convention
wh , ol; refuses to renown's° the solr
re.zular nominees of the Demooratio ' arry'ortre e rfna d f
St yes.
• T .
he notion of the Convention over which you we
e do repudiates those principles and dm nomination of
Thmglaa and Johnaon.
Mond. Mr. Campbell. in mithdrearing MY name.
telly understood my oymlons and anticipated my
Viihos.
I am. and always have been. a Democrat. and at tbi
male the party wia not basalt, to stand by it, a
any Panama. and take tee responsibility.
Rescedtfully, RICHARD VAUX.
TUVEIDAY EV2IYINO. Aug. 28, 78th.
On motion, the Convention proceeded to ballot
with the following result :
G. K. Armstrong•
:.. J. Randall..._
.... 31M. S. Doutherty...— 9
—. 2011. N. Mantel e..—.... 9
Several of the delegates declined voting on the
fir t ballot. The name of George If. Armstrong wee
withdrawn, as he had received the smallest num
ber of votes.
AS there wan no election, another ballot was
taken with the following result:
S. J Randall...
1. N. Marsala.-- --.
311:11.. J. Dougherty— •-•-• 4
.11
Samuel J. Randall was then deolarod as having
received the nomination
On both ballots fifteen of the delegates refused
to vote, and took no part in the proceedings. The
Convention consisted of 54 delegates, one of whom
woo absent.
A committee or five was appointed to escort Mr.
Randall into the room, and when he made his ap•
poarance ho was greeted with cheers.
Mr. Randall was called upon for a speech, and
made the following remarks :
GENTLEMEN : I did not mean to make a speech,
hut I would fail to express the feelings of my heart
if I did not say to you that I return my sincere
and hearty thanks. [Loud applause J It has
been a severe contest, and I have brought into use
all the energy I possess to endeavor to persuade
the people of this district to make harmony in the
party, and to secure the triumphant election of
Henry D. Foster. [Tremendous cheering J
I have only to say further that I accept of your
nomination, and deeply appreciate the honor you
here conferred I see around me many friends;
of some I was not their choice, but I am happy to
say they have treated me with that honor which
I expect from such men whom I have known so
long. [ Applause ]
Now, gentlemen, I thank you from the bottom
of my heart, and I have only to say, let us go out
peaceiully, and use our best endeavors to beat
Abraham Lincoln ; anything to defeat Black Re•
publicanism [Prolonged cheering ]
The Convention then adjourned sine dre, with
nine cheers for the whole Democratic ticket.
TM: PEOPLE'S PARTY NOMINATIONS.=
The Hot of nominations made by the People's party
tor the State House of Representatives, published
in T/re Press of yesterday, was complete, all except
in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth districts In
the Sixteenth district, Dr. Wylie was nominated,
and in the Seventeenth John Given.
In the Fifth Congressional district, the candi
dates wore William Morris Davis, of the Twenty
second ward ; Nathan Smedley, of the Twenty
third ward ; Dr C M Jackson, of the Twenty•
second ward ; and Judge Darling, of the Twenty
first ward. The friends of Mr Davie claim that
he has carried six delegates In the Twenty second
ward, one iu the Twenty-third ward, and five in
the Twenty-first. This, with the support they
claim for him in Montgomery county, would elect
him, as the candidate is conceded to the Phila•
delohie portion of the district.
Mr. Davis is at presnot absent from the dieted . ,
we believe, but has taany warm friends, who
earnestly advocate his cause, and coc.G lenity pro•
dirt his success, in consequence of his alleged pu
polarity in Montgomery county, and the abili.y he
has displayed in advocating a protective tariff,
and in sustaining the principles of the Republican
party. -
Upon the other hand, the friends of Dr. Jackeon
claim that the following is the result of the dele
gate election :
Jackson. Dams. Smedley. Darling
Twenty-first ward.. 2 0 0 4
Twenty.seoond " .. 4 4 0 0
Twonty-third " .. 4 0 5 0
In tho Find Senatorial district, tho friends of
Jeremiah Nichols claim that ho hail a resjority of
the delegates elected, which will EeOUIT his nomi
nation
It We rumored, yesterday. that there would be
two candidates for Congress in the First district
run by the People's party. The rumor grow out
of the feat that two publications appeared in some
of the morning papers, signed by a number of the
delegates. announcing that two Congressional
Conventions would meet in the district this
evening, one at the Odd Fellows' Ball, corner
of Tenth and South streets, and the other at the
Hall, Sixth and Chriatian streets The rules
of the People's party do not fix the place where
the Congressional Conventions shall meet, but
leave it to bo determined by any five or
more delegates, who may moot together end se
lect a place, public notice of which is required to
be given by advertisements ' signed by toe dele
gates. It appears that on Tuesday evening two
parties of delegates, each having the number re
quired to call the Convention together, met at
different planes, and each meeting selected a place
for holding the Convention, without knowing that
the other meeting had done so. Upon this be
coming known yesterday. the meeting which se
lected Tenth and South streets withdrew their call,
and consequently, the Convention will be held this
evening, or Sixth and Christian streets.
The City and County Convention will meet this
afternoon, at the County Court House, Sixth and
Chestnut streets.
The First District Senatorial Convention .wi
meet this evening at the Sons of Temperance Hal
Second street, below Queen.
INQUESTS.—The body of a newly-born fe
male child, in an advanced state of decomposition,
was thrown into the, yard of No. 615 South Fif
teenth street last night. It had probably been
still born and secreted until disposed of as stated
John Heins, aged 27 years, residing on Pegg
street near Front, died suddenly on Tuesday eve
ning. Verdict, death from natural clauses.
Ellen Torr, aged 22 years, residing at No. It 1
Locust street, was found in the Schuylkill at the
foot of Broad street. She has boon for HOMO time
insane, and left home on Monday. Verdict, sot
olde while laboring under aberration of mind.
LABOR and enthusiastic meeting of the
Douglas Democracy of tho Twenty-third ward wee
held at Frankford last evening, and was ably ad
dressed by Joshua T. Owen. J. L. Ringwalt,
IJen7 W. Ditmer, and D. L. McConnell.
DZIMORATIO OIST CONVDNTION—SZOOND
D A Y—CANDIDAYNN No ismnsb roil EICORDIR OF
DILLON, PROTHONOTARY OF MT DISTRICT COURT,
AND CUM: or QUARTIR BISHIORS,-The CODTOR-
tion assembled at ten o'clock, and was called to
or der by the president, A. D. Boileau.
On the opening of the meeting a discussion co.
enrred on a resolution, offared by Mr Seery, to pay
the janitor the sum of $lO for the use of the room,
Mr. Scary said when ho came this morning the
janitor refused to open the door unli he and Mr.
lillao bad pledged their worths that the sum
would he paid.
Mr. J. J. Hamilton arose and objeated to such a
thing. lie bald this was a public hail, for the We
of the °insane of the city. Ile did not see who
gave the janitor tho authority to exact that sum
from tho Convention. If the city demanded the
money, he for one waa willing to pay it. The
other party are in power, and they use whatever
hall they please, and be didn't know that they
petd for it. The loom was in a filthy condition
when we came in, and be could not see why the
janitor con'd want money to clean a room that we
did not dirty.
Mr Seery said the janitor had bean kind and
obliging to tho members, and, it thiConvention
would not pay tho sum, be would be reeponsiblo
for his share of the amount.
. . .
Mr. Deal moved an amendment to the resold
ion, that an order for the amnont be drawn in
avor of the Commtesioner of City Property. Agreed
0.
The nomination of oandidates for Clerk of Quar
ter Sessions was the next business in erder. The
first ballot resulted as follows:
P. R. Lutta
W m &an...—. --
Ed. Keyser..
D. Thomas
R. D. Sherrard
--.B7lSolomon Dements . 2
.19i , amue , Ogden.----. 20
12IJ. m. Kelly ...... —...15
.21J. K. Inurphy. ..—. 4
341
There were 109 votes east, end 100 being neces
sary to a choice, anotber ballot was ordered
The name of Banner Thomas was withdrawn.
..... .....
SAM°
Keyser...—. 3.3;Bherrard ...... ......
murphy • --- •-•-• 21 ernears
There wore 202 votes east. and Mr. Luna having
rccoived a majority, was declared nominated by
the Chair.
A motion to make 'the nomination unanimous
was agreed to,
Tho Prothonotary of the District Court being
next on the list, was balloted for with the follow
ing result
t.smuel T. Mears
it. H. Selindse...
—711 William Louth!la-...... V 9
There were 205 votes polled, and 103 being ne
cesssry to a choice a second ballot was ordered.
Lourbtin nal —.69
Selfridge......... 13
there were 210 votes coat, and Mr. Loughlin re
ceiving the majority was declared nominated.
On motion, the nomination was made unanimons.
A motion was made to adjourn for ono hour,
which was decided lost by the President. This
decision was received with much disfavor, and
cries of "adjourn" were heard all over the room.
Mr McCandless moved that at one o'clock a
ballot be taken for Recorder of Deeds The
motion wee agreed to The Convention then ad
journed until that time. -
AFTERNOON SEARION
The Convention met again /horny after one
o'clock, Mr Wm 0. Kline in the chair.
Ile Convention decided to proceed to ballot for
a candidate for Recorder of Deeds :
YXECT 21141.1.0 T.
Jahn 11 Cook-- --- 31 Pierce... (aropped)— 12
roc. W. Wend a 3.........52 KockereperKOT • ...... ... 49
T I. Hemphi11........ —l4 1 , 112 4 1,.. (dropped)--. 2
ki. Frank Jacivan.... . /0 •il R. Felrribuld 23
Number of %otos polled, 206; mainsail , to a choice,
lot.
A gentleman of very obese proportions staggered
into the room while the first ballot was in progress,
and, wn'king directly in front of the chair, pro
oeeded to make a speech. Ills articulation was
aotneehet thick, and his movements appeared
generally wild
The gentleman said: "Mister Presiedent, I
warder know whether I'm ter be derprived of
moo vote "
'I here were dozena of cries to "sit down" and
to put him out " The delegate was not to be
quit tad. Be said that beans regularly nominated ;
that ho was a sound Democrat, and that" be Jose
wanted to know " The gentleman proceeding to
take off his coat and vest, a row was anticipated,
when the gentleman, as if with a sudden impulse,
very quietly sat down.
e made two other efforts to "portent," but the
decisive order of the president quieted him. Be
finally went to sleep.
Cook— ..
under.— .....
Beall hill ..... - •
. (dropped.) 9
Kochersperger —....... 61
.16 -
TAtPP BALLOT.
Cook . —.SO f Kothersporger—......
Wunder
2 2 votes were polled ; secetsary to et ohoi6e 197.
The inebriated individual who had been unable
to remain asleep here made another speech. He
did not believe there were two hundred and twelve
votes in the room. He was at once hustled tff.
TOMTIT BALLOT.
C00k_........ 459
W. odor— . 63 fielmbold... dropped) ..AO
103 votes were polled ; necesssry to a choioelos.
Flint /3/11.1.0t.
.(dropped)._—. OliKocbeisperger.-- —67
.......
2u7 votes were polled ; necessary to a choice lei.
the inebriated individual here made another
excitement. The delegates left their Peals en
masse, and proceeded to electioneer. The confu
ei nt was very great, and the president's &- wed rang
incessantly.
Wur, der 324 IKooherspereer....— ..155
2 9 votes polled; Wunoer's wsionti 19.
It became evident before the ballot was conclu
ded that Wunder was the nominee. Word was at
oree passed from the hall to the street, and cheers
rang up from the crowd on the pavement.
The Convention then adjourned .-ins die, with
three ahem for the ticket, and three more for
F. star. No resolutions were submitted. The in
ebriated individual attempted to get up three
'cheers for Hoohersperger on his own hook. He was
put down.
A STORE OF LEAD PIPE—THE SNEAK
Thicr.—We gr.ve an account last week of Augus
tus W3lliams, l charged with the larceny of lead
pips. By oar court report it will be found that he
was convicted yesterday. Williams is a member
of the floating fraternity known as sneak thieves.
Ile is a large, solidly-built boy, with an evil ex
pression of countenance, and a subtle, treacherous
eye. Thieves of his class are generally ao by in
'Snot, with seemingly organic tendencies to ap
propriate. They seldom venture upon the higher
or ler of crimes, being of cowardly disposition.
Sneak thieves do not become burglars. They are
never apt pickpockets. Articles of petty value
at tract their cupidity, since they hove a wholesome
dread of the law
Wo have seen dozens of them before Alderman
Batter When the reporters and spectators gaze
curiously into their faces, they exhibit symptoms
which novices understand es verging upon blus
ter; but the distressed, downcast eyes, guilty
blush, and fluctuating pallor indicate only fear
The professional sneak thief is indolent. Ile
steals sometimes from want; generally from sheer
inclination. Like Augustus Williams, he cannot
escape the law. Sooner or later, the Inevitable
one year in the county prison is his fate. The
groat number of thefts daily reported under the
title of -petty larceny" aro almost Invariably the
transactions of sneak thieves.
Three fourths of the pictures in the Central
Rogue's Gallery represent gentlemen of this ilk.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT—BOY RUN OVER ny
Cans —Walter Duredore, aged four and a half
years, wat run over fl/ a train of freight oars on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Sixteenth and
Market streets, yesterday afternoon, and instantly
killed.
The evidence wont to show that the train had
just started, and the boy, who was playing near
by, ran under the wheels of the last oar. The
front wheel passed over him, crushing him in a
most horrible manner It is said that his lungs
were forced out through his neck, and he wee
otherwise horribly crushed. The witnesses—sere.
rat of whom were in full view of the cataatrophe—
eereatued to the driver. The cars were at once
stopped, but not until the hind wheels were rest,
irg, upon tho mangled body. The oars had to be
varied egoist before the remains could be rescued
The coroner summoned a jury, and a verdict of
accidental death wee rendered The driter and
brakestnan were exonerated from blame.
The scene is 801 d, by those who witnessed it, to
have been of a shocking character. The wheels
were seen to strike the child, and in a twinkling
the mangled and bleeding flesh protruded from
the rail. In the panic that en+ued no hand Ives
stretched forth to grasp the boy until the hindmost
wheel again cut him almost in twain.
Tan TROY FinramN.—Yesterday morn
ing the Troy firemen paid a visit to Independence
Hall, accompanied by a committee of the Colum
be Hose Company. In tho absence of the
Mayor, who was otherwise engaged, Col. James
Page was called upon to welcome the strangers to
the old Hall, which he did in one of his character
istic, tolling speeches Ile was replied to by a
young member of the Niagara Company, in a very
appropriate address, which was well delivered.
The band of the visitors than played Hail Colum
bia and Yankee Doodle, after which the party
spent 80E110 time in examining
. the Revolutionary
relics deposited in the Ball, in which they took
great interest. During the day, the strangers
visited other objects of interest in the city, and in
the evening they were entertained by a supper, at
the Lamb Tavern, given by the Columbia Hose
Company. This morning, the strangers leave for
home. On their way home, they will stop in
Brooklyn for a day, by invitation of a lire com
pany there.
PoLice MAI TEM.—Charles Dickerson, be
longing to Trenton, N. J., was before Alderman
Mika yesterday on the charge of robbing the
ecbooner George A. Tuttle, of property belonging
to captain Reuben Adams. Re was committed to
prison.
Shiner's Taylor wee arrested at Thirteenth and
Spring Gorden streets, on Meshy night, nn the
ebarge of stealing a lot of clothing worth about 5.15.
He was required to enter bail In the sum cf $5OO to
answer at court.
Henry Morrow was committed yesterday by Al
derman Dallas, to answer tne ettargo of commit
ting an assault and battery on Maria Fox, at Third
and Plum, or Monroe street, on Tuesday after
noon.
Charles Harkey was arrested early yesterday
morning, almost in the Rot of robbing a market
wagon, at Eleventh and Catharine streets, ibr
which offence he MS committed by Alderman Dal
las to answer.
LINCOLN MEETING IN Tllit EIGHTEENTH
WARD —The Young Men'a People's Association of
the Eighteenth ward hold a moss meeting last
night at their headquarters, in Shoehorns...ton
street, between Richmond street and Girard ave
nue. Too " Lincoln Defenders" turned out in
force; also, the various central People'a associa
tions. They marched through the prinoipal streets
of Kensington, and the long lines of torches made
a brilliant display. Mr. 0. T. Clark presided at
the meeting, and Mr. John P Ferree, People's
candidate for Congress in the district, made a
speech. Ho was followed by a number of promi
nent Republicans.
MRItCANTILE BISE BALL CLLl3.—This
club intends opening the EOll/1/13, by playing on Sa
turday, September Ist. and it is to be hoped that
all the members will be present. On and after
Sept. 8.11. the club will play regularly, es hereto
fore, on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, on
its ground, corner of Seventeenth and Master
streets.
FOUND DROWNED.—The body of Wm.
Fite, the cigar maker, waa found yesterday morn
ing at 9 o'clock, near Colombia bridge. Ile fall
'rem the smcmboat Frederick Graff, at the time
.ho two boys were drowned
PROPOSED NOMIXAIIIii OF Mi. TAM
lx IsaursamaiT C.PirDiDATR rOlll Orals Sara-
TOR 1 --dlter the nomination of Mr. EINIIILSI J. lam
dell yesterday by tie Democrat's Courgette= of
the First Senatorial distriet, a number of the 44*.
gates, feeling that they had been treated with in
dignity, and insulted by the threats of violence
mode against them both in and outside of the
Convention roam , eoocelved the idea of holding
another Convention in the evening for the purpose
of nominating Richard Vaux for senator. In the
early part of the day, nearly all of the diesailefied
delegates, numbering about fifteen, were in favor
of this movement, and it was agreed that a meet
ing should be held in the evening at the betel at
Fifth and Queen streets Before the time of meeting
arrived, however, some who had been meat active
is the movement at Bret, began to change their
minds considerably, upon reflection on the conse
quences cf mach a proceeding, which would, with
out doubt, have resulted in two Democratic tickets
being brought into the field throughout the city,
thou insuring the defeat of the whole The more
cool and calculating heads of both wings of the
party, who desired to avert such a eta** of stairs,
were brought to bear upon the delegates friendly
to Mr Vitus, and the result was that at the time
fixed for the meeting to be held, there were not
more than two or three delegates present favora
ble to making a nomination, and this number being
too small to inaugurate the movement, the meeting
did not take piece. The announcement that
such a meeting would he held, attracted a eel:ei
der...hie number of politicians of the Democratic
persuasion to the hotel, who were almost unani
mous in denouncing the movement as improper
Seven! or the Itundall delegates to the Senatorial
Convention were also present, and some spiny dis
etISSIODS pro and co, took place during the even
ing, but the whole thing wound np without any
difficulty or disturbance, greater than that which
is usttslly settled in such came, by both °attics ad
journing to the bar to "take a drink." The friends
of Mr . Vaux complained bitterly of the perfidy
and treachery of his pretended friends, but con
cluded to near it philosophically, hoping for " bet
ter luck next time."
EXCURSION' OF TRH ETATS FMICINLES.—
To-morrow, the State Peecibler, Capt. Page, will
make an excursion to Atlantic City, by invitation
of John Bredboad, Erg President of the Camden
and Atlantic Railroad Company. The corps will
leave at 6 o'clock in the morning, and return in
the evening. Daring the day they will drill in
front of the 'United States flo'el. A number of
military gentlemen are expected to accompany the
excursion. The company have been drilling every
night for some time pet, and are now to a good
state of discipline, and will no doubt make a flue
appearance on the occasion.
A CORRECTION.—WO understand that the
body of David Hughes, lately drowned in the
SchaSlki❑ canal, has been properly interred by the
relatives of the deco/med. The story was un
founded that the remaipa were neglected by hie
father and brother.
SSIVOUS ACCIDENT.—A young man had
his hand cut off with a circular saw, about li
o'clock yesterday morning, at S. Lerine's atom
mill, 235 Race street.
Am LINCOLN IN PH(LILDSLPIIIA.—AII
in
font boy Rti.9 found b}r Officer Bonk art in the en
try of a dwelling on bath street, opposite Minor,
yesterday afternoon. lie was taken to the Alim ,
home and christened Abraham Lincoln.
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
QuAlvrrat SESSIONS—Judge Ludlow —Mr
Mann to k his piece yesterday morning es prose
outing counsel for the Commozareftlth
August Williams was convicted of a charge of
stealing forty-five pounds of lead pipe. A row of
unfinished houses was entered and stripped or the
lead, and the accused was caught walking away
with it. lie was sent below for one year.
Ann Ashton was acquitted of a charge of lar
ceny:
William Bates and William Body were tried on
cross bills upon the charge of assault aid battery.
Bates is a policeman and Body a talesman The
difficulty occurred at Spruce-street wharf on the
10th of august last, upon the arrival of one of the
outside steamers Irons Now York Body charged
Bates with committing an assault and battery
upon him, in pushing him beyond certain lines
erected so a barrier to keep cabmen from pressing
into the passengers. Mr. Bates denied using any
tech force, but charged that in the evening of the
same day a constable arrested him on a charge of
assaulting Mr. Body, and, while in the custody of
the constable, Body committed an assault and
battery upon him. Jury out.
At tho opening of the court yesterday morning,
Judge Ludlow read two members of the bar a
lesson in morals, as well as professional ethics He
called attention to the testimony of a woman who
had been on the witness stand the day before. The
witness was under indictment, but matured as a
witness against another party. The two gentleman
referred to were counsel for her. In her testi
mony the denied that anybody had visited her in
priton. The Judge inquired into the matter, and
discovered that her counsel had visited her, and
yesterday morning he informed them that their
conduct was censurable in allowing the witness to
state that which they knew to he untrue.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
The Money Market.
PIMA LEELPIII/. Angust73. 1S
A slight falling oil throughout the list of stocks is per
ceptible to day, with a slight business sec a dot mar
ket. Money continues to stiffen up gradually son the
street rate for firat-cjsau paper. et short time. is seven
15 7 cent. Long paper is not so much in requeet as it
has been The pro,pects of trouble *broad are snake s
to make commercial people uneasy in - the finsiteral mi
tres of Eneand and France. Garibaldi makes head
against the Kingdom of:Varies, and the Emperor of Ane
trio appear, to be preparing for a war with Italy in the
event of the Italian's further auroras. a war which
Prance could hardly avoid being dragged Into. The
rood sense of our peach, reurally makes as anxious
that the blessings of poses shall be 'centred all over
the world. Bin we can see no good reasons why our
money monist should empathise !to any deep extent
with the sinitire movements in London or Paris, with
the experience of the last fire yews fresh in our recol
lection.
The following is an approximate statement of the
earnings of tne Pittsburg, Fort Wayne. and Chicago
Railroad Company for the month of .I.ne, WA, compared
with the Mile period of last year, wiz
1850. 18279. . Den.
Fm Freight—en 945/ /7 $51.983 36 $30 ! 3 6 32
Paaa'ra... 63 5 , 4 44 65 219 05 $2 713 61
Ex areas.. 2 60n 06 5 =.5 60 ........ 5 / 5 60
Nadu..... 7 52) 90 7 535 ........
Rent I, Road.. 7.083 33 5.300 nO /0533 33
Mmeellane723., 73 25 158 96 ........ 86 70
T0ta1...-. 363 597 . 19 . 13 - -1 911 45 :n517173
Jae. Ito July 1 1 019,793 PS Ek) 099 43 IE2 103 65 ........
The lawitegard mg the rights i f the holder of a cheek
has recently been brought in question in the Supreme
Court of Soath Carolina. It has never before been de
aided that the holder of a cheek has any cause of action
against the banker en whom it is drawn, there being no
privity between the parties, and the ordtuarr remecy
which the I•ol ler of a check has is recourse to the
drawer. It wou II appesr, howsver, that the drawing of
a cheek was in itself an equi taNe assignment ofao much
money in the banker's hands to the holder of the
check although even thin position has not always been
sanctioned by too courts. it certainly is a defect in
the working of the law, th it the holder of a check may
not sue the banker himself, when having the funds In
hand, he refuses to pay. In the ease in question—Fo
genies and Stillman against the State Bank—the court
held t rat he for whose benefit a promise is made, may
maintain an action upon it, thouga no consideration
pass from him to the defendant, nor any promise from
the defendant to him.
It to said that parties largely interested in the Balti
more and Ohio Re. hoed Company have purekiss.ed suffi
cient stock of the Northern Central Railroad Company
to exercise a ,ontrolling influence in the management
of the let.er road. The object seams to be to drive the
cars of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company
from the Northern Central road; and the effect of that
will necessarily be to divert much of the trade to Ws
city whion now roes to Baltimore.
The following are the shipments of coal i om To
wanda by the Barclay Railroad and Coal Company, for
the week ending eUe. 15. 16a-- - 75, to
Previous ..... ...--....... 16 943 113
Amount for the 5ea50n.....,.
Barra time last year.- -...
The following is the amount of coareerried over the
Shamokin Valley aed Pottsville Railroad :
Reek. year.
For week ending Aug. 9 , MO.— —4669 05 117.913 Ot
Same time Mat year...... .. 4 630 rt 91 533 0.1
luerease.. ..... ....... .—..--
Decrease 41 07
Philadelphia stock ezchange gales,
August 29. 1800.
RETORTED DI R. E. aLAYESELEIL3I4.%; Wa.!nit Street
NIRST BOARD.
•
ROO Farina Coupon se. HO X3O G eon & C7Atee....
steio Penn 414 Es 2in oti Si 1 Harrisburg It 110.1 f
StYI Chester Val It 7s. 44 'A) liazlt'a Coul.sewn. etr
1000 do 44.1 i, 2 swab Start; .—. 4I
1000 Morns Canal ii - .. 95 13 Minehill Scrip .... 00's
150 Soho) I ISaySie 'B2. 2 Con & Amboy lt.. 141 S
7 Groan & Coates— 227 10 West 8.-- sti
13 do . 22‘4,1
BETWEEN BOARDS
M'Groon & Coates.
SECOND BOARD.
4009 Penns Ga.,.". . 981: 17 Morristown R 5014
woo Parma nGa latw. 101?-1. 8 do. •- • 60$
10.1 do . ..Zdtn . 92 ; 5 Penner ~.. -- • .
10u0 Cam & Am Ca '63. 508 - 50 Hazleton Co&.Ydra 00
&V co 'B3. 87 id 4 Fer&Stechs Bk its 53 •
MOO Wear Cheater Ba. 48 9 Commermal Bank.. 5130
210 do ..• diII) Mechanics' Batik .
60Harrisburg R Ita.rs raini
CLOSING PRICES—CULL.
Bid. Asked. Bid. dzk d.
Philadelphia 6s-101 4 4' 101 , Elm ira R..... 6 6
Phila es 12".-101 1 / 4 L 1013 n Elmira ff.....vref.ng
Plula 65...mew..104). .. 'Elmira is '73.... 70 7t
Penna sa—lut off Ed 9/334 Let, Cl & N..___ss 56' n
Reading R. 7234 z 1 Leh CI & N Pomp 41 41 1 . j.
Reading bds '70.. F 6 86.11 t North Penns 1t—.10 1 : ich
Read& 'BO Int off9oY. Penna R 6a.....73 1 4 it
Read mt 64 'NI— 75 75%; N Penna R 10s. .. ltliM
Penne R... —. 4'Y 41 Cetassisaa lem b. 30 33
Penns R2d mole 91\i' 42 I Frnkt & 'Smith R.. ai
?dor CI con dv 01l 56 6714 kSeiiind & - Third.
Mor CI pi dvoff . 116 Race & Vine-et..29 1 ‘ 30
Fah N 68'82 inoff 76 1 .4 West Phila. R.... 25) 66
do hurl Nay Im 65.65 3 1 353: Spruce & WI
Holm, I Navßtk. 2 1 .; 10i Green 3 .. V Coates ”..1
Bchnyl Nov Dr( —. 21 =MI Chest & Walnut... 31
Philadelphia Markets.
AUGUST 29—Evening
There is some export demand for Flour, but generally
at prioea below tho views of bold-re, who are not anx
ious toted at the ourreat rates ; about 30 33 ig0 hhls su
perfine Bold at 5:50, and 40. !ile extra at t‘air.line 75
bh., halos to the retailers and bikers are mooing to
a fur extent at the above floret for superfine and
gaits. and ase6 75 for extra I.miir art P.n. , . bran , s,
RS in quality. Rye flour is entree at 1.62143Ytib1. Corn
Meal is more inn u•red for, and 5,r600 hbls Pennsylvania
Meal solo at 83 33V bbl.
WHILST IS in good demand, and prime lois, eearee at
former-quoted rates ; 3.ooon4,oo3hushaLs have been
die
posed ea nt 1334137:i° for red. and 145131553 for white
of lair to prime quality. Rye is wanted and about 750
hush sold at &go. Corn in rather better. with sales of
6 CAM bus prime yellow at 73,3 afloat, and 1,500 bus poor
quality at 711io.
OATS are more abundant. and shoat 6OW bus South
ern sold at 31n35ti0, as to weight, mostly at aaa, and
WO bushels old Pennsylvania at 370.
•
fi •
rxx —Qu•roaron is quiet ar rt :a3O Is' ton.
COTTON =Photo is no change in price or demand, and
the gales are limited,
onoceal es —nevi a 1.41.3 or nothing (Minx, and
priors of Sugar and Collet are the tame as last
Quoted.
Paovisrove —Holden. are firm. and there is a rood
dim= for lianon to go Sonia. Lard is held at 13... n
131.ie for bb's and tea. Butter is
haslet —There Is la dle or no 010 veined °Tering. and
it is ii,rth 65 23.3. a bushel.
WRI.KEY Is very seam at 244 . 3 for Pennsylvania bble
and 210 for drudos ; no hhds here. Ohio bola are held
at 230 gallon, With small sales.
New York Stock Exchange—Aug. 29.1
111tCOND SOAILD.
- - - -
lea) Virginia St 6er. 55 Reading R
509) Mlesintri stos .... NO do • -.• 45V,
l , :tieColl 81% w.A5100 do.-.
48
woo 11,,!li •ma 2d . 50 MiebiganCen ER. 7)'.
134 N Y eentrnt sits 100 d0.•.430 71
690 Rua Railrotd 60 51 13 n & i• 45.
500
lio.
do.. -. 20 i. 50 do 45%,
25 1111,18.111 er RR. 515 g 11,;J Ili Gen RR Edrip..
5 do . 61 I 60 - -.•
200 11ariem • Raiirnul .15 12.1 d Gal & Clue AR. 79
RV do—. -CO 135, x,OO do t 79 si
800 do . whirled Cleve & Tol R R.. 44 le"
100 do.. .... 110%1 4 0 bid 44'i
200 flub. m 1'tee...:1320 45 , 100 Chic k Rock .03) at t,
100 do -.05 45Ni bo dtli k
.90u 4541100 do ._.. ,buy 813`
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