EMS= t:54 - tatWslV , li,tl &Gat; T bb ' '4 • 413 40:0 00.0. .-‘", • , v *"'l l litirDATt WPT/Stran 214 1860 r -A> • "" '../PIRIPP /1 430 /pq i t441:41440! Kap ;" Pni„4 0 0 R 00.44 ; &At zva..lllo , Of•k .114W1.119- Yoptn. Pimi t - r ltie,,9pies of -° mama , ; Leaid Intelligintio ; *kis ,TO,lll " 1 la 2;16) 110 !!..044.}1.1 . ' •, Ths War Department has removed J Osp t. iffeigt b i le poolden of the, head of the Washington • ,isiiitheftrek;iothistrizetieir. tiatio charge of .the construction of Fort Jefferson, In , c;''tilrboi4it , l- o #l 4o 44 o Pulbuo4, l 4tububM PY. a f, over :r; itr Rather detalli of the relent toilful aid &Anse , Live storm kite tuff if Mexico reach us by-ad ktouthern,mails. In fair,aiti dieihnotiveneas it has foernsaiY"Peitie.i The taring of Biloxi, hilseloslpplatiffio, Louisiana, and Milne•. burg, tordslans, meal In-rains. In Mobile flee eteemhosier were} , de1tr07.41 . . 1114 r ather property diniatOt tO Ok4 Set. l lnt ff itll ) nou 49,PAT 6 r About -oTheatos„-„4. . eity ; of ikabinerged• were Wt. • Ihriiii'dilkotiffealfr:lindsay;M: P. for New ' *Skied, to thii Country, to ranch ihninsind and nomeniat eiltieseed,l4 ids• British row ; the Times eve:4lAV ohleoting... isi}freWtradeliMi; but thoughldinselt or • ri,no, l o,tfil: dii)irdi - ed, that hie / 14111"rd e the ship ping interest, The ohleot _of • his mission Is under hl,::,:-eteicktobe,toAnderee ; the United - Mates tie , erre their - "closeting trade ,to; England, not to the '•' ' = ,r Captain ; ' N. • liigrahliti,": : oCiebrited-, its the; Rasta easa - 11 as been detached • from; '"' • 7 iiiifyiai 3 Obfet of the Bureau of Ordasnee and My ' diogiephy, take effitikan Jiii3sa inst., and " d'to tit " • aid• f the tam 'sloe k dere e oomm • • it - 0 -• • • . •-.- „ • • . • • , • „ thorrinaeder M. " F., Marry, :Superintendent • - the ObteriatorY, ha twee granted cis weeks leave -absentia with permierden to leave the , 'United NW/Nei gl * Cifieler'po,t-oilicet defalcation b nikeforathekllnited States Distriollionst, the plifntiffsb George Law and Oistimens Ooze !Ter :vs. the' llinitikatatee, and seventeen issues hive )41, n'apfeed 400 to be tried, Thee* inset • • releti,ohieffy lo'the ; qiiections of the knowledge of Law and Confer, bondmion of Bowler, of Ids I.e. . leg a defaulter at the time of giving the bond. The Secretary of War, Goventor,Floyd, has left Washington on a visit to Virginia. The pony 'epreas brings tidings from Ban Fran ;taboo to Septenibertilth:, The, newt} id wholly of a the`Mouglimi ;State Conran t.lort was held Swriamento on the. 6th. There •:” Was_rt. - full - representation - from 4111, ports of the State."-ftver one-half of the delegates were those who bad been supporters of Mr. Lathein 'end the • .1} ' } -A. iimi4bkriii • 4 l- 4';',litieolittiene. were adopted ti :2 leirlog the delegation :to ,Beltiraere for IModing. The indications ere (hit the fitaterwill go for Dou •I :The, :Tri•a'w , 4 •litinotrOar: that T : '.l). Woe, the delineatoi2of charseter, and known , ram ffJim'Clow Illef,"-41ed-orilfediaqday‘of die- 1 '•'•? • 4iwie lhe I • "V may - credit , rumor from New Orleans, 'Oetwirei. Weit: Walkii - the tiara' of .-}'lleettay." has tnadithis ' lwit.thiow for empire ad' :Rig destiny, whisk has tineyethint op in.his ant. }prises - of mutinied; hht raids upon 'Sonora, Nicaragua, 'and",Nondatia has it length , .;ualettnated in a violent death; and a gray* upon a. attaaser soil. -Goodnight to William, Walker! bald ' " and': ambitions- man, filled _ with d it - of glory never to be realised, and hundreds if hatter, and braver followers , into a region of disease—end often into the land se f '' , ' , '"deatit l = l thirewill be a ritilveriallieling of tympatby :•,;,+„:flibie'reis;;lP,e4laalivitya adoring eenrage with out anfabitiourtlekirrilefeighnut of , right'or wrong. They,shout alike for klitectesitinokpieliluipin—• L' 7 4nt lileathsl4l andlioli goy. , ThelinealJ: lll4loo Y. the simple ettrtbute of bravery ani'delfy it; Aud• this, is all that' fs 'left to the memory of William ' . tly • _ Is to:be a nerwland of ttn:Tpil esiVren- Stollet4 and' Kentucky,. ,A. ritlioad his been pm- Jeeteil petemen,Lonisraie ilfotophis, aid is , neW,Awiliplited se Car : f t, cherkeirille; !reagent°. Wodiellsy It .was opened. , It is ,tlienght it will be completei through to. Blemplats In 'Pebru-' , tortes ,the treeh`fast atoned - there was paid into lha'l l raaeary, at WietilnlOOn moo of $1,177,000. ,Tt ritty,ho stinittottediti attletitestkni if the rate Ma st 'k Uccle Beat L getting rich, that ibis week hi **tiro; $200,000 item thatt wee - paid 'during . r ,tlie *risk eidid. 4' 2. . • , • ErtraNagant, Habits. correspondent , innests 'that in view of -the extended influence of a widely circulated putille'joantan it stndd carefully endeavor to assist in ttie forinatiaeOr'a'trno moisl sense nUright and' . wrongin the eommtmity threugh cirezdatesi; 'Atte ' the - Circumstances anterients - or - everye'wemarirctir " cles ,afford constant .opportunittes or Matra:- 'too and example. " Take;• for Instance,- the recent ease ,of 'the cc defaleationw(to nselbe : mildest term appli, Wit."*."Ca.anaz,•of, we! City. : What a lesson`does thlinflord I 'Hewes not than reapectaldr, con and, ttisted., All wllo .knew him entertainedlorldm Conn. ''sdeiVee and'iesOct 1 he . waalkokeessed of eicel lent abilitiel for his.'profesilon, and gave greCt profniise of future eminence and success. And yet with le len--and, - . so have Men that 'ate — c4, higher ' 'and ierltirs were better tin ; • aid: why ? The answer Is The true Moral erepee Wei wanting... - man May ibit,l*lir'gdp defect tha; = =r ef er ;. and:even his friends may not discover bite at "some *Vet other, if the rottenness - 4'3'04;6 - it will be "develdped. It is a mere, speck_ at „first and , hardly .disceiMble ; but It', aveimis insidiously, like a cancer, until It rata • 'Aft all the.healthy parts-and the moral" some is gone, neyerzto be restored , and then ruin tend,destnictioneome. - „ • Young men should beware of the tiret • Step Of 'dishouor, ;however easy. and: small it be.: ,>,• . • , poci:depOed sod, Coal& it reyisit this 'earth: i :and - reveal the' secrets of the last, ritonient, Worth]: roiltirm"this warning, chee and , ripresi their, de- - .tree for Ittxury and indulge,nee. - -They should t learn not to Cravafoithingivhich theli means airptunstances itulife do not enable and 4 '4,. o'attis Thus amble is boe'qta" (,'• : justify -heee '"-- ''', ~_ whom the genteel „ his end JUrt,toWSida th ole h from .'' - r- ' Id o th erwise rob ' b y g etting ' "t '' . swilldier "11 Witiout return, and thereby 1 '. 'iketilheirf nlans isbonor• Idol F. y, OP .1 53•3 r o w e e them to al perimPe- . t to proven gradually and should he' cou4"'n and imitate, ,lionestly. In , their posu r lsi bo ons was , unutiefied _ ~ ~ sot .the : foolish 4aTinll. ' • rift rii evEry '. li ' laying him oss V? , , I 1,,r, withl hie goose - , or,gading at I r '''' '44 but killed It bi tlle ho" U. nit' "l ueott%nulated troasnre, and lost a tes the means by ' 'tail powerfully Must"' ...4 They' cannot ~t ..- idol so, -many are min.... ''' --' ria li airt h yer kindly fortune may be smiling 2 ' ' .'' - , I. s __, lre ~,,,..., howe ver ' pr os perous they ,4 ' • upon;,tnem 4 ,r, ".,"•• ~_ a m l a th e 'pos ';' ' ' -''' ' ' even although t h ey • dwk may be— , • thing t h at gamely it nee ded' l' " 6ll*,4""l h r7 aritii. i'incicomforlable.! 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'Rola It.. i Wm. ..a„ 41,1, ~, , ...cattail anaddae. ~ „ ..a„pilark, ' . _F ont , bap aagag , babodie eek,;;lt in bit <,- -v`," i gt"10,1"11,64,40—., It-- iltir.7llle4elithini ;', /46: •;,..;Lyi‘1.....,..efir5711. stiOrle B,UoV7ota-akitidirifi,'", 114,* 'ie i'i*l - ,r9'"' '4144#65:1;1-0111wt in 441- 1"9.111 4.44 ' ' :Iftr ifb "G mr er &reek. of Charnbinr. yelrir a..., -,- - '.--- Mew mama& Dud ta, rakes. ...sum Ar ,layassent 1043* los t to' tar senator Hunter end Squatter Sove roitnty. . In Lie speech on gin, lith Mist, .we find, Senator Hoer* Of:Virgin* "When I first entered' AU raderil Cieeneils, which was at the - eiintnassiiiernent of Ye, Ten Burea's Admindiffratio‘rhe'snoral and potitioai status of the slavery question inis very different from what it now is. Then the Southern men themselves. with but few exceptions, admitted slavery toile a moral evil, and palliated and ea lased it upon the plewof neoepsity," Mr. Myrna then refers, in Wei - terms, to Sna p ped' slavery c",entreiverey, declares that the South - no longer occupy aeg deprecatory.» or excupatoxy,attltude, and, exclalo,2B:t. MN= . •,.. `,,What s revoluttoilseio sersot sitstes ea Lela this! The dbouvelen aodthe eoirteet oir• the slivery T s r k r a " ei r t i i6"t°63rb ll i eherreAnerletrled. in. ma ny respetti; rho riiitts of 'that disou'ssion have r)ot hies adverwto,its.”., • .-, .-, ', Kr. Eferrsit then proceeds to'show that the South badbein 'sustained in its pretensions i by a peWeribt party ; that this party had suffered terrible disasters in the Nertherr; Stateei, where it.:is",rechieed to a mine:lLp'; but has been able k through the• consolidated votes of the slave States, to keep possession of the Govern ment; so that in many , respects the results :hive not been adverse " to slavery. ' One more " result," however, Mr. HUIMIL thiniMshould be achieVed—the practical de nial. of the right of the' Territories to es. tabliidt or abolish slivery: . ci Such a settle. tent it that now prOPosod in the platform' on which BRZOICILIMIDiIIt and LANE are stand-. hig;" says *Olt:eran., Exactly so. -Now let us see how the Virginia lawyer Maintains the legality of that platform. Speak ink of the right of the Territories to govern thethicilven, he says . They ,earatot adqulre this right from any, in herent power of seitgoyerninent whloh is inde pendent of the rediral flovernmoff, because, if ,thiongh any nob Inherent • power, Ahey could do what Congress cannot do, and dent spg and Impair ,the equal rights of the States' 'Within the Terri • ritories, then there Is In those 'inhibltants a' en. premi power within the Territorreuperfor to that of Corigrisei and to the rights of the states under the Constitution." - We recollect tolsave aeen nothing more radically Mord' than this reasoning. Mr. KIIXTIR was educated in the Virginhs strict contraction school of politics. His first lesson taught him that he must go to the Constitution in order to define the w ere of the General Government, to find What that Government may do, what it may not do, and having satisfied himself upon these two pohits, the way was open to ascertain what other 'powers are reserved to the people and thei States. Mr. Hunan exclaims "what 'a revolution have we not witnessed in all this I" great revointion it is. All powers now are derived from the Federal Govern ment, or from some pregnant truism like that of" the. equality of the States." -The people of the Territories "cannot acquire rights from any inherent power of self-government, because, (mark the reason) if through any such inherent -power they could do what Con gress itself can'not,do, then there Is in those Inhabitants a supreme power, superior to that of,Congress and to the rights of the States:un der the Constitntion.!' Mr. - HUNTNIC is a State-rights man. - He knows that this: inhe rent and every other power, except those ex pressly delegated in the Constitution, are re served to the - States and the people; and that; - being reeerved,, they are superior pow ers ; that the government of slavery is fueled.. edln this reservation; that the Territories may do what Congress is not empowered to do, and this is expressly declared in the Dred Scott decision. That decision repudiates, In words, the ; scheme of colonial dependence, and the imperial government of the Union *lir the 'Territorltt, noir advocated by Mr. Renriti: ' 'But, we must refer to the source ollitr. .11rotrxitis constitutional law. It is mot found in the compact, it is not found in what is writ ten at all; ft is " the equality of the States" which• imparts it. The fact that the States are equal, and are the proprietors of the Ter ritories, gives to the citizen' of the former the right to colonize the latter " with their pro- Ipertp of every description," and "to extend their institutions into the Territories." The legal Prohibition of slavery is one of the "in stitutions" of the free States. Is It contended by Mr. Maus that the people of the:free States may also colonize the Territories, and eitend' , that gg inetitutioe" Into then}? The Federal Government is the proprietor of a large amount of territory lying within the /Units of the States ; is it, the right of the people of Virginia to colonize it, and take with them their "institutions," by virtue of the_ fact_ tb•i party af - tlhiStrites 7 Does the fact that the General Goverament r'ecOgnizes property in any given article or thing confer jurisdiction over such property ,upon Congress 1 Why did Mr. Ifortrzu, it a long speech, fail to refer, even once, to . the Constitution for his law f That compact defines the kind of property in n' 'limitary over which the jurisdiction of Congresi is conceded. Dere it is in words: " Coignes obeli boa power to dispose of end mike needful. roles and regulations reepooting Abe territory and ,other property belonging to the Grafted & a tee." ' In order to give Congress jurisdiction te the property" mist belong to the United States. 'Slave property, and every other species of property rest upon the same bases. The peo ple do net derive :their power to govern them selves and their material interests from Con gress. That bOdy has no life, vitality, or au thority which has not been imparted to It by the Federal Constitution.- - Thatlir. Emma irnew'this-is evident from the fact that be ut terly ignored the -very exiitance of such an instrtnent. • That the fieraid 4f New York should repeat the perpetual cuchoo!note of exaggeration about the population of New York is nothing new nor Strange; but that the Tribune should fall Into the same foidish boast does surprise us. 'lt says, tc In 1848, the city bad less than 600,000 inhabitants. Now, it has more than 900,000. In 1850, the population of New York, ac cording to the ,census, was 515,547—i,(k that, according to the Tribune., it increased. only 0,547 in the two years preceeding, and has in creased some 400,000 in the ten years between the last and the present census. It is more than doubtful whether the actual increase has been half that., In fact, whether New York has 700,000 inhabitants; were the sunineni dein accurately' made, we question whether Ne* York would show s, return of 1350,000 ac tual inhabitanti. The nominal number has notoriously been swelled out in divers ways. First of all, the casual visitors in New _York, who thronged 'the hotels and boarding-houses when the con= ans-takers went round, 'were all counted in. Nett; many Or thebusinees folks were connted `twice • oVer..-once at their stores" and, offices, andfagain at their private residences. Lastly, anT bunions° number of NeW Yorkers who have parlous Occupations in , the city, and were Anumentted at them, live out of it. Ilrooklyn, ,Williamsburgh, Westc,heater county, the banks of the Hudson, ,Jersey City, Hoboken, Bergen Point, and 'well-populated Staten Island con, fain' the residences of theie who are twice "counted-=once where they reside; and once again in New York, where they do business. BrOinet 'th'ese from the hit, and New Y.:irk Will show a bona fide _population of 'from -hundred-and fifty thousand to seven htmdied and jsizty thoution,d—perhaps : nqt quite the latter number. , , •It doubtful Whether Philadelphia, ex tended as she' has been by Legislative 'action ilnee,,the last Census, is not more populous than New yorii. We expect .thet the return yisll' place her population- over seven hundred thousand. 9fie test Is the number of children 'Oceiviug instruction In public schools, and in thie 'Philadelphia is greatly ahead of New Yin*. ' - - Population of the_ywo, Cities. The Municipal Buildings. • It will be 'seen by the report in our local c,o_hpantinf, the proceedings of the building commission, yesterday, that the contract for the erection of the proposed new edifices has bEen frfret to Jew BoAnturrai the archtteat„. Wheee desigrui were adopted, and that the ma• terfai selected Is Pimisylviiida marble, to be En . quality to that of which the El.:. change constructed.. The'Comniission have acted with great promptness in the discharge of their 4iltlea, 'aad . ' it now only remains* for Oenneilstu t dielde whether our citizens are to btif layered :with& specimen of their skill In the imbliniefirts cAteurolecutien and poet.. Penement, or whether - the . buildiuks,, which :hare , so long, been 'needed arelo - lie erected: - The attempt, to commit flip ..Domo cratio members ass body, In caucus, against the new buildings, proved a complete failure. The Craps ot (186,9, Among the rttateritA advent* . se which the people of the United States derive from the fuot ' extent or territory 4d'- &Versified soil, climate, and ;Produetious we have embraced under one national Governmentj:is their secu rity froth the - prevalence of universal distress and calarnity throughout the Whole country. It rarely or never happens that a complete prostration of our business interests occurs. Someffraetrall sections thrive ; sometimes ; when the North and West are overshadowed by misfortune, the South waxes rich ;' and somettiffea, when the South in Wit is suffering, the North and West are prosperous. A farmer who, from the nature of his 'soil, or other circumstances, is obliged to place his sole reliance upon any one particular crop, is well-nigh rained when it falls on account of an unpropitious season. And a nation of limited extent, with. bat little diversity in its industry or industrial capacity, however expert it may ,become in the production of a few articles, is always exposed to very, serious dangers, and the lives of its, poorer Classes are in constant jeopardy, from the .not improbable and ever impending perit'of a faii4re in their crops, or the loss of a foreign market for their menu factures, or the commencement of a 'fearthl war, ,which _Would shirt them out from all communication, with other countries. Thus, the failure •, of the potato crop in Ireland caused a famine in that unhappy land, and led, to the loss of• Many lives from sheer want. And the failure ,of the cotton crop in this country would be to, England a national ca lamilty, and create as indescribable amount of suffering among the operatives im mense manufactories. , There can be no solid and enduring basis of national greatness which is not founded upon the harmonious development of, a variety of industrial capacities, and upon the ability to produce large quantities of all the important agricultural staples, as well as to manufacture everything which is ahsolutely necessary for the well being of its inhabitants. A nation should always be able to sustain its population by its own inherent resources, independent of any productions it may receive or any peat ataxy advantages it may derive from its foreign commerce, so that in all national emergencies it may bo entirely self-sustaining. It by no means follows that, it should shun or cripple commerce in times of peace. On the con trary, all intelligent nations profit by their in terconrso with other States, and In all ages, other things being equal, those countries have been the wealthiest which have had the largest amount of foreign commerce. Trade is often mutually beneficial to the parties who engage in it, but It either suffers it will be the one who has the least amount of shrewdness in driving a bargain; and we have little reason to fear that America will be unable triprotect her interests in her intercourse with any other country: If she is, certainly Yankee sagacity has been greatly overestimated. During the war of 1812 most of our ports were blockaded, but our citigens proved that they were able to suppliall demands for the necessaries of life and for most of its comforts, leaving only a' comparatively few luxurious tastes ungratified. At the present time, with Our vastly improved manufacturing facilities, a war that would completely close our ports, while it would cause great embarrassment and distress to our important commercial interests, would not necessarily deprive the masses Af the . American people of any articles essential to their physical welfare, unless tea and 'cof fee, spices, foreign liquors, silks, and broad cloths are to be considered indispensable. In our country, the tido of fortune ebbs and flows abong its manifold interests, and it is abnost impossible that they should all bo situtiltaneensly in a suffering condition. When agriculture langnishes in ono region, it flou rishes inanother ; or when there is a stagnation in domnierce, manufacturing may prove highly profitable; or when the manufacturing interest is depressed, the aggregate wealth of the coun try may be receiving a biro° !percale from the success of those engaged in commerce and ag riculture, ' If 'Our sole' reliance were placed upon any one of these great interests, cur present cou. dition would be infinitely, less fortunate than it is, even thOugh that interest should repre sent as large an amount of aggregate wealth as all three combined;' because our seenritY against an overwhelming and universal cala mity would be swept away, and we should be subjected to fatal dangers frordeventa which the experience of the work boa shown are but too likely to Occur. the commercial houses of the North, carrying terror and destruction in its path: The great Northwest, too, where the speculative ma nia at its height, was completely pars, lyzed. But, fortunately, the large crops and high prices of the great staple of the South enriched that section of the Union, and ena bled it to assist in re-establishing confidence and restoring prosperity in the North. Dor.' lug the:present 'season the great Northwest, and, indeed, all the grain-growing States, have been blessed with most bounteous crops. It is estimated that the wheat crop of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, I New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin will be at least 125,000,000 of bush els, _valued at $130,000,000 in its home market. Their yield in 1860 was 85,500,000, valued at about $90,000,000. The corn crop•of the corn-exporting States of 'lllinois, Indiana, 'Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia, was, in 1850, 852,000,000 bushels, valued at about $176,- 000,000. This pear; it isestimatedat 500,000,- 000 bushels, valued at 8260,000,000. ' These prolific harvesta are particularly acceptable of s time when there has been a failure in the cropeof some of the Southern States and in Europe, because they enable the Northwest to supply the large demands likely to be made upon her bursting granaries, and to restore her shattered fortunes. They serve, too, to ad monish us how all sections of our country may become mutually beneficial to each other, and to Warn us, in these days of dangerous agita tions, of the strength of union and the weak. nese of, isolated States, Fitzgerald , s City Item. This week, the City Item oommenries its four• teenitt annual volume. It le by far the oldest drambtio and literary journal in this country, has a lane circulation, and le oanducted with ability and spirit. May it endure a thouaand yearit, end may we live to sea the prediotion Kilned Degrading the Governor of Damascus, _The ,Gorernor of Dapnasons yap pyblioly de graded at Constantinople on the 6th rat., by order of the Sultan. st letter to the New York World ," The ceremony was eitilteAurcioaing: Ka Was one of the idghty•llve great Pashas of th e , empire. If. was taken to the great 'squire in front of the War Department. Some thousanda'of troops were assembled in-the form of a hollow square, with many- high officers, military and 'evil. ..The Pasha was led into the centre of tbis square, The imperial order was than road, atter which his brass fee button, Ms sword, ko.,mers roughly torn , olf from him, and it was loudly proelsimed that Ahmet, late Pasha, Governor General of the pro ; Crate of Damascus, and Commander-in•Ohlef of the army of Arabistan, was now degraded, stripped of all rank tool ofiloes, and redoes& to the rank of common soldier. lie was then ignominiously mewled to prison by two or three 4117411,8011. whence he was taken, to Beirut to be tried for his life." Manure Coasos has opened a course of Soirees, at her residenoe, No. 937 Spruce street, for convex. .national Frenoh for young ladies, which think, be of the very greatest service in rendering this universal ,lauguage familiar and useful. The solrelas have nothing of the sehoolroom in these' meetings, , Obaradeo, seeneS from emiedies read log, and such games u require tuatng, wiirdiver. dry the amusements. These 001030, to liehioh 110 gentlemen are admitted, will, Ire trust, give our young ladies courage ti'3, bring to light the result of their studios. Tan particular attention of jobbers and retallore h • requested to the gale of twelve hundred lots fano) , and staple Broach dry goods, of the importa tion of Meech, Benkard k Hutton, this morning, Briday, September 21, at 10 o'oloak, and to be eon tinned on Saturday, at 10 o'clock, by Porno:tee, Brinley, oa.,anotloneere, No. 429 Market greet, 'oomprising the ferret and most attractive escort meat of fine gooda,ever offered in We market. 'l4ll or PAVatuAllaar96B;-0. J. Wolbort to Co. will continuo t4,oille of papar.hanging, at tbe, WaferOOM of Hart,Montgoroory, "k Co., NO: 922 Chestnut strbet, this morning, at Uro'olook. - .Thera Will be shoat 756 lota, exoltudie;ht . oatalogue, and the attention of all, paShisers la,reepeotfally le. vital to this large pereapplory iale. Luton Postmen HAL* tqf 1 36,11PETC "attention of luirabiserlf le requited to the valua ble 4,ntioholoe tunOrnisentof rioh.. English trel4et,, Sitwell, Ingrain, Venetian, fleinp and List car pets; rigs, Coooti =Mingo; do:, to, be sold this morning at fit o'olook, broitalogue, six „maths', credit, by Myers, olngborn, Co., auctioneers, N6.418¢ and 416 Aroh street. THE PRESS-PMUDELPIDA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1860. The POitv School' and One Session. The "ligitatiosi orthisiktbject will be rueful ; eyes ', , r if 'pe t. proposed is not adopted. Avattpig tbakilliisaelthaaittentiori et the com-. 'twiny to' thielOndition Uf our public schools fe ben - afield i fliino matter of general interest more lannollately concerns the public welfare —politically or socially—than the systeM of education "that now prevails among ns. To make eta , Obit° schools successful they Must b e p o p u lar; they must have in abiding phee in the; affections of the,peoplc. The establish intent ,of the Boys'. 'Central High. tSchopl, and—the Normal School for Giria,,,by cur- A min , an honorable and , neefal -;stlim , lent for a pupil's ambition, tended, I in' no small degree, to make the masses bve the common schools. Shortly , after this im petus was impartod to their progress, several private Schools of long standing and high character diminished rapidly in the number of their -pupils, and others, of inferior reptita. dim; Wert; entirely broken up. But of late years entirely opposite tendency is ob -servable. The private Schools are flourish ing, while the number of children attending our public Schools does not bear so large a proportion to the entire population as it did five years ago. Indeed, it has been stated that, 'while large numbers frequent the pri marl, schools, which aro designed for very young, children, for whom but few private schools are adapted, the , grammar schools have difficulty in keeping up their slid share of scholars. It, will naturally be asked why is this ? Have the teachers deteriorated in attainment, skill, and industry ? This is. not probable, for unusual care has lately been taken in educating and selecting them.. But two other reasons may be assigned as among those whiCh have weakened the popularity of the public schools. The first Is the great competition which the preparation of appli bents for the two High Schools occasions. It hap induced the teachers to urgtkon the stu dies of each scholar to such en execute° de gree, that the young mind totters, and often completely falls, under the load. Connump, tion, St. Vitus' dance, hysterical derange ments, and other'diseasea, are often the result of the imposition of these onerous tasks upon tender minds' and bodies. Many children, who would otherwise become hearty and vigo rous men and women, are, in consequence, doomed to a shortened and sickly existence,. Many anxious parents, who are keenly alive to this danger, therefore, remove their chil dren from the public schools, and either allow them to remain without any tuition for many Months, or send them to private schools, where the pressure is not so great. The other consideration bears more directly on the former than at first might appear. Nearly all the private schools have adopted the plan of holding one prolonged session of' from five to six hours, with a half hour's internals. sloe, Instead of that of .holding two sessions of three home each. The public schools, except the two High Schools, adhere to the latter plan. Now, as little time itt the moat success fhl common schools is given in 3chool for study, most of the lessons must be prepared at home. To study at noon is injurious, as it interferes with digestion. To study atter school closes for the day shuts out, all oppor tunity for healthy exercise, to which children should devote, at least four hours daily. Two sessions break up the day into two divi sions, and prevent proper attention to both propitiatory study and to exorcise. By one session in the schools this difficulty would be obviated. If the pupils were dismissed at half past one or two o'clock, they would have the afternoon uninterrupted for necessary exercise to counteract the exhausting effects of con. tinuous study, and the evening for such pre. paration as the character of their lessons might -need. These reasons may account, in part, for the giminished popularity of our public schools;. 'but proper action, that would obviate the evils referred to, would strengthen the system of education in the hearts of the people, as yell as increase its efficiency to a very groat extent. PlOlip 4krocksements. Aceozny OB Idnaio.—liothing but the strongest desire 0 within the djbut of ear own Prime Donne, Agnes and //renews Natal' could have brought so many persons out, last night. The weather was disastrously Inclement; but the at. tendanae was thrice what might have been looked for under the atm instanees. The slaters • have every cans. to be gratified with their reception and with - the applause which greeted them .lbraahgreatlf llJllilaca llMllroleTtand given greater MAO to her miner eine* she last sang in this eity. Her voice has ob tained fulness and strength, without losing any of its delicate tone. She walks the stage well, and is a good actress. The beautiful air, by Leonora, " Tame la notte," in the filet act, speedily tested her voice, and her execetton was charming. ro the trio which closes that 41cit be showed her ability to singing concerted must° In perfect time—which Is a trifle more dleletet than many Imagine. In Act IL, she eaareell sp. pears, but there Is one beautiful piece, with the Count and Menrico, which she gave effeotialy, In the Third Aot, (which opens, by the way, tith a beautiful tent-mane expressly painted for his Opere,) Agnes Hatali' again does not appear Mil near the olose—bnt, in a lovely duet with Hrini (lfastrloo) she again disthignished herfif. Throughout kalif.; she bad a great deal of ag. Ing—P4llsloDate expression, too—to whiob she m itered fullest justice. Her 1111080118 culminated Me, and the audience were eithusluliti in the °Ol sten of their delight. „ , Francesca Hata% as Asuaena, does not ownr until the second Act. She almost opened'', ith the eavatina aside la vamps," and, within as minutes after, when she related the story der wrongs and of bar revenge, the audience felt at a great dramatic 'wallet was before them. he lm aped contralto voice, which as yet Is a Ille degolent in the lower Antes, brit, well as o..Bitt, it was her magnificent eating which ohiegy pressed us. Von listen and yen look, and ear n eye inform your mind that Francesca Natal throwing her intellect and feeling into the ntte once which she makes. hispeolally observahle w this in Let 111., and it deepened and boosuie centrated in the last Aot. Signor Errant, of the !famine opera troupe, W a very acceptable Mantua. Ills verse is not delicate In tone as Segueli's has been, but it Int l sasses more power. Moreover, be aels v 67 we whereas Brignolt le not only awkward and eilumi pat hes not got the first idea of noting:--on stage, we all see that plignoll le—a stsek ! ; Erni le a mere bird of passage bete, ppid ban le' rata, to Havana very shortly. Signor E. Earth, as the Couttt, sang bett'ar tin on any previtus occasion within our reColleotio. W 8 hear that Figaro, which be playa Oda eve. frig in the Rity her of Seville, ia his chef stlceuvri The Warta reoeption which the Sisters! Natal. had, was terminated, when the /errata fell, by s bark of the most genuine enthuhum ever beard In this house. They have made a great hit. This evening, path and Brignolt appemito the Barber. TOmprrewlegeniag thasisters Natal! will" play together in "Premiss -ISorgis.;' A)1,01-011telleT Talekena.—The'FlOreneet have e, benefit evening, ' Won't it be a bumper? Don't they ,deserve that It should be? A. lively ponsedietta will agreeably commence the perform• lames, after which—h Leila Rookh." Merano . * parody of Ella Zoyara, with a rosirnificent pro , perky-borne, of unknown blood and breed, Is one of the finest things in the comic drama! Mr. and Mr's. Pionappn ,00mmenoe en engagement at Haiti ' more on Monday. )3very body will lament her, and how many will ring, ao they think of htm, " Dia, Willy, we have misaed you I" Wmartre.stanar Tansmix.—That exeellent se tor, James-W. Wailsek, junior, will appear this evening, to" Oliver Twist," taking the charatter of Fagan, in which he loaves s/1 competition far' behind, His engagement concludes tomorrow pys 117ext week, Miss Caroline M,„Riehings and Mr. Beier Rdpitingarrill perform bore. "Conrprawran Vialailanikv-The Holman ram*, on whose superior merits we 1017 gays opt apto= l ton, have a benefit here this evening, with a whole; ()bangs of perfonnwooes. They util give two UMW plisses, ("I'unehltiello's Wooing," and " Where there's a Wilt there's a Way,") besides their anal routine of singing and musts i and the clarions little , et w a e l.9, the /Sth Inst. Capt. female dwarf will also Appear. treDrgo i ,b °mamma RAlrealoA.D.—The WWI Wrzear) OF TAX lioane.—Tals remarkable 4 0 1 .'1 0 3 t o ) p ;Reading and Columbia Railroad -men, ratio hits li terally parformed fa the four quer- fits Iran ITy O l ll, , extr a t s o t llt u o rt 7 u ntneer a estimate. tars of the globe, and also in Australia, whleh some he to(noluding re g=lZ, t inTis h o o 1, 11 : d folke—pernettatingabutt—ealithefifth, commences . .lreijOtare,hing It ready for - laying '' , t iOr a si c a l at Caleeett Zell on Monday evening'. tie has ,pnt • u r e l e 9l o Feadolfara—sevrty-rdne thousand lan of nook to venire its eem- They payme r n l , A o / t ra a nd dollars of t . ra r u s tred sulfa one hundred and forth an extraordinary 4and, th erefore, elairaeter • lotto) card, announcing his intention. ,Thle *admit k of the rol a notice to-Morrow, *Pr we! kpre consulted WorOeS• pie slobs Mae of the ros4 t4 ' fatt i' tiOtt! d thousand n ifhto at tim M e an a hei n m . nap t a e h r ly an io d V in e e b p s i t d e e r n a ft ri n to w t o b r eica s sAghefp hasam eptreomfoarehly. The interjeded Into it. Is it imiN;itlierd , to ask o w t h on et a h r ;r . "he has not en understanding with the di a answer •Inakers, eompel the public to buy their bOOlO, Ne be given tot contraotois.—Z, :nor, . imfaster Ex. • to understand his sent. acts? , oCoot:wb1:1:1'21 histlfBdttrubsaritkeil. 110 BRESPoliritOf the Nolo Orleans LARGE , BALI OP FOnalptilts, PiettOß, &O.—OVO 11 a, k r i tinq frotiooston, Texao, on August 400 lots of DOW and second•hand household , tuna 711 1etila t e u reduly informed of the burn. tore will be mold this morning, oommonolng at 1 o f the Akrzea l l ," ° l l ' OW" of Northern Taxes; anexecation of several whit, o'olook, at Binh A Son's auction , store, 'No: '9l nfonnittienpod uo t th the n ro d aowtng Cheitrott street, 61148P1 Ih ßiPrato.' lonn e fdal an d ; SITErsa raie •• 7 • ° h ue DNATiI -OP AN OLD htunamtrirohn CJ. We! tier, one of our °Meet maintain% 4tett dudl d 0 1.7:. Or; WO4iiiieda7 evening, fit''ilirspir meet ing, in the lecture-room of Dr.'l3irnea' IClhntett Wishington Biusre, of oongeetion of the brain. BY MIDNIGHT MAIL /KR STORK IN TIER GULF Or lIRRIGO. The Damage In Mobile. In another part of to.day's Press we give.some of the details of the late feerful storm in the Gulf of Mexico. By the Southern malls whielt arrived at midnight, we are enabled to furnish additional Red interesting particulars. The Mobile Register of the 16th inst. says : Friday night, shortly before 10 o'clock, a rain commeneed; which gradually inorensed dating the night. The wind, which at find was northerly, graditally worked round to the east and southeast, and at the thee we write (12 (Moak) it has been blowing furiously since an early hour of the morn ing, the rain eontinulng with increasing strength. The water has risen beyond the corner of Dauphin cad Water streets, and our merchants are hey se curing their goods. All the wharves, except that at the foot of Dauphin street, are under water, and the water Still rising. The wind, at present, is more southerly, but shifting. - About eleven o'clock the eastern gable of the 'guard-house fell down, t , .‘ the high gratification of some of the prisoners, who hailed it as an interpo. Mien of Heaven on their behalf. • At half pest one the wind had veered to west of south, and was considerably abated. The wind, too, had nearly ceased. Business throughout the day wee entirely me. pended. Not a bale of cotton was sold, or a single commercial transaction has been effected. In fast, our citizens devoted themselves wholly to tbo la borious work of saving their property; and those whose interests were not imperilled nobly came to the rescue of their less fortunate neighbors. There was a large arrival of cotton on the wharves and in warehouses, which wee decimal} , damaged by the water. The steamer Baltic. lying across the river, naught fire about two o'clock. The fire was put out by the hands on board, and but little damage was done. It is rumored and feared that the steamer Bt. Nicholas, of Messrs. Cox. Brainard, do Co., is lost, or seriously damaged. She is said to be blown up OA one of the wharves near Hitehoook's Press. The steamer John lirigga, owned by Mr. Cox, lying at the Mario° Ways, was blown across the river, and Is 120 W four hundred yards from the bank of the river. Everything above bor boiler deck—chimneys, cabin, 40.—1 e gone, and nothing except the machinery will be saved, which will coat as much as it is worth to nave it. The boat bed been recently repaired. The steamer Waverly. owned by the Moore. Meabere, was also blown from the Ways woes into the marsh. just above One•mile creek, with her chimney' down and upper works gone. She will probably be Rotten off with but little damage. The steamer Warder, Captain H. R. Johnson, lying at one of the upper wharves, lost one of bar chtmneye, and sustains a damage of about $l2OO We also learn that the salt barge of Mr. M. Waring, at the foot of Government street, cep. aired and threw into the river about font thousand seeks of salt: The lope in the warehouse* le said to be about thirty thousand sacks. The wharves are injured very much. All arti cles of merchandise on them, the wood at the wood-yards, the lumber and saw loge at the mule. have bean swept away, and a very eartous loss of promiscuou Whichio w s arts has been eustained, the exert amount 01 lee cannot learn or now approxi mate. To add to the horrors of the day, at 'about two o'clock the fire-bell rang a tall for the department to subdue a fire on the south side of Government street, just below floyal. Fortunately, however, Httle or no damage was done. Again, between three and font o'clock, the alarm of tire was sounded, and it was soon ascertained that the warehouse of Messrs Pomeroy & Marshall, in which a large amount of /hue was stored, was on fire. Being surrounded on all sides by water to the depth pf several feet, it was impossible to an• preach the building, and the fire bad to take Its coarse. We also learn that the fire oommunioated itself to Goodman's warehouse, in which there we - c souse three thousand bales of cotton, all of which was destroyed. By this time the water bad guilt elently yfOeded to enable the tire engines to ap proach the scene, but the drift Bud otbpr meats rendered their. blimp In a great rpeasure abortive. In the city warehouse the loath wall was blown down, and several bales of cotton burned. Ketobum's warehouse had a large part of the east wall blown down, and the north gable end fell in. The water was deep, but notwithstanding it and other obstructions, every one of the Are companies "plunged in," and up to the men's waists, worked the machines and labored like Trojans in their con tention with the sire Ring. We do not remember ever before to have seen 'men labor with such seal and devoted determination. The damegb done is great, but we did not learn to what amount, or se to insurance. In the absence of facts it is idle to gam, but we hope that matters are exaggerated, and that the actual lose will be far below the mini mum of supposition. The railroad track being submerged, of course the Mississippi passenger train failed to arrive— neither could the Citronelle train go np last even ing. Towards night the wind 'roared to the southward and in a manner lulled, but the rain still continues to pour down In torrents. Oneyear ego to-day, September 15, our city was visited by a simi lar storm. One singularity about these storms is the total absence of lightning and thunder, while it rains incessantly. It is feared that a good deal of damage has been done to the shipping in the lower bay arid along the coast. Many vessels are expected at this sea son from Northern ports. We shall wait intelli gence in hone and suspense. In Tuesday's Issue.* we will endeavpr to give fuller particulars. We minuet now oven esti mate the toas t but suppose it is not far from $500,000. From Pike's Peak. LYNCH LAW RAMPANT-ISSN HMI WITHOUT TUN NORM 07 A TRIAL. • 'Ec ne rani ifirriflitkenta f a i ta t t hrhe m i r kiee m ewho Tereierii resided at Neweygo, Michigan, where Ito hes a wife and family, and who kept the Vasquez Rotel in &traria or West Denver, during hut' fait and 'win ter, wee secretly_ banged to a tree, a mile above Denver, on the Platte, for having been found to be a prominent member of a party of horae.atealers which has been infesting this section. Shear was found ha the !horning, banging from a tree, above the' town, with a piece of paper pinned' to his orotbee, on which was written, , This man, Xohn Shear, was hung fry we Citizens. h prover X. was prOv, that , ii a horse.thtet" The knot was tied In regular hangmen's style, end the perform• awe seemed to have been executed by experienced heeds A ooroner'a jury was summoned by Vigi• lease Sheriff Middaugh. It °owlets of the fat- lowing citizens: E C. Jacobs, J. 11. Dudley, 0. S. Riddling, Darling Smith, F. M. Cole, L. T. l'ol.. lanebee, Charles G. Obeever, Jeremiah Kershaw, Jas. Titrington, Myers Warner, Walker Whitkro, J. a. Bentley. J. T. Maskerson, being duly sworn and examined, testified that he noticed the ; man hanging on the tree •as he passed over the rancho at sunrise that morning. W. E. Shaw toothier], that be passed by the pima the evening previous, and no feed nothing. Verdict of the jun......" We, the Jim, summoned to sit upon the billy of John Shear, deteased, find that he came to his death through banging, ,by the hands of some person or persons unknown to rte." Shear was reported to be one of the principal men in the gang, whleh feet was eonfirmect to be an absolute certainty by evidence. The remalne of Shear were taken from where they were hung to the City Ileinifel here, where they were pre via, ooffleed, and-removed to the buying-ground and deeeotly interted. All manner of reports and 'rumors of hangings !molten rife on the streets here during the past thirty hoer!, and it Is kelfevpd that ale or seven more Men have been found Swinging from limbs of trees up and down the Platte and em Merry Creek, above town. Some firms aro said to bare sent on their orders for heavy supplies of hemp rope, in addition to eupplies already op hand. es hey jadge, from present indloatione, they will find a market for all of It before the season is over here, A, 0. Ford, Erci , formerly from Council Bluffs, or lowa on the laussouri river border, and a lawyer of emetderebie ability was suspected , and, 115 we heir, proven to be president of a party of evil do. ere here. Ito loft in the express cornett yesterday Molting for Leavenworth oily to defend the deeps. redo,Jamee A. Gordon, at Leavenworth. Be was foliated down the road or five miles by ex or 4401tOielde22/1 of this region, mounted on horse beekwith loaded rifles, who stopped the coach; in vieh were five or six paasengers for the States, se armed' 00)4 to 'Wog fist , and the balance to rive on about their butilieei. - Rani, septa x or eight men with levelled rifles, left the 'settle, and accompanied his captors over a few mit on Eight mile creek, where he was shot or stpg up for bin reputed deeds. Exceptions have b taken to-day by some of our citizens to the IsMary action, and a meeting is milled In front tee post.otdoe, on poraplo street, to "organize tilietivean of punishing tten ere aga na. ° Ttoe.l d, and °d t l to resent further oases - of , bio t a• ght,' and on the spar of the moment ! i? Ivo; a wife to Council Wolfe, we hear, and is 84 apposed tR have "goneg up the . \ . , Pidian Fight on Tel'ai, Zahottring appears in the Ban Antonio (Tens) lierakbe fib instant : " Oar B. D. Mores, First ()aviary, oolo =DOM southern column of the Mows,. and Can=expedition, which moved from Fort Cobb, Ia department of Texas, some weeks sines, Is that on the 7th ult. he came up with a larply of Comanches and Kioways, and, links, Cheyennes, estimated at from stir bpi to eight hundred, on the lie pd b /19471 5t PirY Wive west of Port Kear ney. 2udlgna 44d prepared to Ire ' , attic, M but:ears their courage too ligkt o.i the/ of the troops', and they tie d in Pr' et" o 'departed bravery. 'A running fight ove *Of about fifteen miles stunted, which to Ay the Indians separating Into small p eft spattering in all directions, rendering fo es Tit lthpootille, f Twenty•nine Indians ar „ inwThave been killed, but fmna the nature or Winlihent, and the country over widen it r o fnorivrill probably be impossible to tell tAftsithe actual loss of the Indians. Thu I ‘°'‘Repe was gne pawn missing—mpposed [ t *sore bekilledv-and t/4reo wqundcd i two WO" Jut, were alto 10144.11* , ratsuctra . t' Tholnoendarfas were )011t1 " In islariee,iiktog a raid into Tons nltst Unfit of johilrown into Virginia ; but lthin thtet Week o b public °pluton has beta ttsolibiloa It ramie*, eatablleted, beyond a Yap; to late $a are Justly attributable Ottaeret, outing ludo. tbe vas of Aboltiloa .., LATEST NEWS By Telegraph to The Prom DISA9IIIOIIO CONFLAGRATION AT PORT SMITH, ARKANSAS. LOSS OF $200,000. The Post Office Destroyed with 4.000 Letters Veer - 8111111. Ark.. 800. 20.—This morning, at about 4 o'clock, a tire broke out in this place, which restated in the destruction of tie City Hote l and the garrison block of buildings. The value of the buildings which were deetroyec WU about $lOO,OOO, and the foilowlug additional losses were sustained on merchandise, furni ture, .ke, : Button k Spring, dealers in dry goods, groceries, &a., loss $30,000. No insurance. Waiter .t Emirate, dry goods, $15,000. Insured $lO,OOO. A. Natnllton Cline, druggist, $20,000. No in surance, BBDnett Ar. Foss, dry goods, so., $15,000. In Oared $5.000. The Times printing office, $5,000, No icon ranee. 'I G. W. Linton, $2,000. No losuronoo, J. B. Gridley, $1,500. Insured $1.200. Col. Sprlna law Ace. $l, ,500. No insurance. Overland M all Co., $500,. No Insurance. And the post-officio, inolading 4,000 letters and the last California mall for Memphis. The entire loss by this disastrous conflagration amounted to fully $200,000. The origin of the flee In unknown, but ft is supposed to have been the wort of an incendiary. From California. Poor Primus.] Joszru Mo., Sept. 20.—The poly express, with California dates to September Bth, arrived hero lent night. GENERAL NEWS. With the exception of some political movements, there bee not been an Incident of any Interest abroad since the departure of the last express. The Douglas State Convention held its session at Sacramento on the sth and Bth Inst. The State was folly reproseated, and more than half of the delegates were supporters of Mr. Latham and the Administration lest year. The representation was such as indicates a strong probability that the State will go for Douglas. Hammond, liamphrey, Griffith, Don • Fable de J.Aguetra, and Geo. F. Price were nominated for electors, The resolutions which were adopted by the Con vention censure the California delegates for seced ing from the Charleston Convention, and repu diate tho intervention' doctrines of the Republi cans of the North, and the Dlsunionists of the South ; insist upon our rights to San Juan island, and demand their speedy enforcement; favor the overland malls and telegraphs, and the Paoifio Esilroad, and urge the aid of Vongreea to their euppere. All the necessary 'taps will be taken to condaot the canvass vigorously. ' The Bell and Everett party held their Conven tion on the same days. There were 217 delegatee present, representing twenty-sin counties--oon siderably more than half the State, The proceed ings were very harmonious, though the organisa tion has not yet manifested much strength. If subsequent advises from the But are favorable to its fusion with the Douglas party, it may adopt that policy. The Republioarls are actively oauvasiing the State. All their best speakers are in the geld, and' hey are gaining the rapport of many anti- Lecompton Democrats of feet year ; while the Dou glas party appears to be gaining from the Lecomp tonnes. The recent unfavorable news from the Southern States is at present disheartening some of the Breokbarldge party. An Intensely exciting contest is going on in Ban Frandsen over the local nominations. The Repub licans, who heretofore ;thesis united with the former Vigilance Committee suoceeslon party in choosing the city and county oihrers, now propose to bring out a partisan ticket. This movement has called out "so sppe4l to the people," signed by two thousand citizens, irre• optative of party, nrging a continued adherence to the reform policy in municipal affairs. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. BAN Francisco, Sept. 8, 3 40 P. M.—There have been no arrivals slue the departure of the lut ex press. Balled—Ship St. Helena, for Liverpool. The ship White Swallow hag cleared for Mel bourne, with over 16,000 seeks of wheat and 11,000 seeks of oath. The ships Nonpareil and David Brown have been chartered to load with wheat for leiverpool. Commercial Intelligence. SATURDAY. PeMember 8, 4 P. kl.—A very fair country trade has imparted better feeling Co the rnArket. For imports. the transaorione from first hands continue mo derate, with no larder kiddie 't Hero hell been no par ticular alteration in prince. Ateu Beef and Prime Pork are to demand. for shipment to China. at 915 tv dbl. Foreig_n kite is (tromps, Raw lingers fi rmer. Fo reign Brandies more attire ; lots to the trade at easier The market is without any other noticeable features. More activity is lookod for during the ensuing week. An rotiee es busini•se is doing an Wheat, principal ly for Enghod. at 81.45te1 .50 per bush. Tonnage continues seam, and high freights hare to to paid. From Pike's Peek. Sr. JOHEPIi, Sept. 20.—The Pike's peak express reached bore last night, bringing from $40,000 to SIAM In the hands of passengers. Business at Denver City is fast reviving, and the streets present a very lively appearance. The hot weather being 'about over, and the cold weather coming on, parties aro arriving from the mountains to purchase their winter supplies. Discoveries of silver continue to be made, which promise to yield well. A crevice, from Ave to Mx hundred feet in length, where silver shows Itself to to the surface in mad ore, is reported to have been discovered. Several assays bare been made, with different remits, ranging from. MO gl.,Morjea t us i ; Lb flr Moneta weighing one and a half ounces are sald•to have been taken out. Reports are in circulation that the are is worthless. The silver leads WO being inspected, and if they yield near as mash as reported many millions of dollars will be realised yearly. The gold claims continue to pay as largely as ever. The coaches to end from penrer City are orowdcd every trip, Frorn the Piaina. TEE OFR/MAIM TRLEORAPR - FREFATIATIONB FOR naronrzso TUB SLICTION IN "catrifoaltra. Fowl 'Bwrrn, Ark., Sept -20.—Six hundred troops and seventy wagons, from 'the Plains, Capt. Sturgis commanding, arrived here yesterday, Swine, Nebraska Territory, Sept. 20.—8 y a messenger just in from the Plains, we learn that the telegreph poles are set within ninety miles of Fort Kearney, and although they have to be hauled a distance of fifty miles on the western portion of the line, the company are putting them up at the rate of Ste and six miles per day. The poles will be up to Fort Kearney by the roiddle.of October, and the wires stretched about the Ist of November, The eompany hare pushed the construction of the line thus far so rapidly In order to have It ready to transmit. the November elections by pony express via Port Kearney, whisk will insure a gain of nearly two days upon the present time. From Havana. Nay Outrage, Sept. 20.—The steamship Oa tumba arrived to•day, from Havana on the 17th Socar is dull and unchanged; sales at 81 reale Stook in port, 170,000 boxes. Molasses, is inactive Raohange on London 15i4151 per cent, prem. On Nest yark,4t per cent. prem. Preights de alining, , IVltsbington Affairs. Wasnouvou, Sept 20 —The War Department has relieved Captain Merge from all the duties as signed to him in the spatial orders of July. lie it directed to immediately tarn over to Captain Den , ham Chief Engineer of the Washington Ague , duct; all the books, money, plans, eta., pertaining to the same, in hie pouvision. Captain hfeigs fa also relieved from the charge of the eonstrtietion of Fort Madison, and is as. signed to the charge Af the construction of Fort Jefferson, at Garden Key, Florida. Be win enter upon this duty as moon as possible. The disbursements on the amount of the "Wash ington Aqueduot and Potomac , Water Works will 'hereafter - be tondo by Onptaln Bonham. The receipts Into the Treasury daring bet week amounted to $1.177,000, or $2?,0,000 more than in tho prevlope "pet:. " . . . Congressional NOminations. ItlW rause. •, • , EAszott,Septunaer C. Berthoud of Warren county, bsa been nominated for Con Kress by the Republicans of the Third district New Jersey. ydligidentiBßTTEl STOCKBRIDGE, Meea., Sept, 2Q.--Ilon. dienry B. Dawes pee td•day renotdneted' by the Reptiblicans or the Eleventh district far re•oteottop to Con- E=NEM Rotas, N. 'V., Fept 20.—DeWitt 0. Grove bee bean nominated for Congrete by tha Democrat , ' c( tbe Twentieth distriot. Misesouri Breekinyulge Convention. Sr. Laura, Sept. 20.—A special despatch to the R•publirnn trays the Breektarldge State Conven tion met at Jefferson City to day. Fifty-eight donaties were represented. Col. John W. Retook, of Green minty, presided. Nothing of importance was done to.dsy, the Convention adjourning till 7 o'clock this evening. Walker Shot , NtAY ORI,tANO, Sept. 140.—Hy the arrival of the steamer Franofueo the report N furniehed that Om Welker and Col. Rueter hare been shot by the Honduras 'Goverment. WeNor's men were allowed to depart unmolested. I. 0." O. F NAHLIVILLNI, Sept —..-The Grand Lodge of United t-tates L 0. 0 R. paid a complimentary visit to Mre . President Polk yesterday, and t he members 'blind "the Hermitage" to-day In a tody. Ta o G ran d T,odge ben rejected the proposed amendments to the oonetiNtion. The Louiaville nontl Memphis Rlltivoad. Loots vzxxx, Sept. 20.—The Louisville And stem• phis railroad wee opened yesterday to Clarksville, and the road will be opened to tipnaphte by the first of February next. The Ohio at Pittsburg. PITTSBIIRO, September 20 —The ii.linerva has arrived from Wheeling. The following boats have departed; J. Q. Baker, for Wheeling; Mumma, Or Cincinnati, LouiiviSs, and St. ate are loading for the prinolparQhio and Hleelesippt ports. Fire at Kew /raven, Conn. NE IV Heusi, Conn. pept. go —Judoon'o sus pender works wero.deairoyed by fire this morning. The lose amounted to $40,000, on which there la a parttel Insurance. The O hIP Mary, of New Yoric., 'Reported Ashore. New ()Arista, September 20.—Tho ship Georgi ans, reports haring passed a ehip ashore on Mo• sells shoals, suppoied to bo the Mary, from Now York, Mond to Now Orhamt. Th'e Sloop'eec T ilar Preble at poeton. Donor, September 20.--Tb e Vatted States sloop of•wer Preblo arrbred here tbis 11101mizik THE CITY.; AM US EINENTS Tilla EVENING. WAIMUT•111111, T, Walnut and Ninth sta.— " Cilivek Twist "—" Black-Used Susan.' 'Wendt:ter k OtAllaVo Axe& - Tns:ran. Aron stilet, above data Roogn"—" Twine !denied. ' ACADTAIT or MIMIC,. Broad and Loonst emits.— " The B , zber of Fertile' fdeposorrotes NRW 11AIET111. Bane street, above Seoond.—•• The Ravels." OPILR• flows, Eleventh street. &WY. Chestnut.—Conoert nightly. (YONTINNKTAI., Walnut et. above Eighth.— Holman Juvenile Parlor Otters Troupe. PICNIVITLYAXIA ACADIIIT OP THI /4111 ARM. No. 1026 Chestnut street.—Exhibition n Palatines and • sonlytnre, every morning and attertioori. d poist,ta BuLDINGS 001EltumOlf--AWAin or Ootsrusos.—The 13111 Olen or the Coma:anion for new County Buildings—at hut, those who have not declined servlng--met, pursuant to notice, yea• testis" morning. The bids for eontrut, u nen• thud in yesterday's Pm{, were received. They were as follows: Pennsylvania Pieyoa and Lea Marble. Bin* llarbls. other trend Kilgore and Hod- Stones. der etfltird...-11.1111.000 W 81.111426 61,161,510n0 R. I. Dobbins—. 1 465 63101 LBW 7/I 00 1.21 t eles oo J'Ketcham - 1 215,616 II 1,079,51 g 91 1,006 516.99 Edwin Render e. lin W J. Co e_inr 148760 0W ) 1 ,25!,600.00 1.1i78 B SD 0 0 0 0 p646ps ue base. /410.000.00 ( without specifying materisla), 81,076000. On motion of Mr. Cuyier. Mr. McArthur, having bad the 'contract awarded him, mu /squatted to furnish to the president of the Commission the names and residence of his securities before font o'clock yesterday afternoon. A letter was read from Mr. John McArthur, en closing certificates from builders, meeter me• chanics, &a , stating their belief in the truffolency of the specification as presented by Mr. McArthur. Judge Thompson moved that these papers be eant to Mr. Benton, chairman of the Committee on City Property, in compliance with Mr. MoArthur'e request, with the understanding that they are to be returned to the Board at the earliest eonvonlono« of the committee. The motion prevailed. Judge Allison offered the following resolution • _ . Resolved, That the buildings be - construeted sound Pennsylvania marble of no darker color, and at feast equal quality to that used In the con struction of the Xerohante Eiehange of this city. Judge Ludlow offered the following as an amend ment : 4, That the basement and stripe of the buildings be oolutraorwl a/Pennsylvania marble of similar color and at least equal in quality, to that used In the oonstrastion of the Merehanta' Broberg*. and that Lee marble be used in the oonstruotion of the remaining portions of the buildings" Mayor Henry moved as an amendment, "That the materials to be used in the construction of the Public buildings Shall be of stone. of quality equal in compactness and similar In color to the speci men of Belleville J) sandstone, now before the commission." The vote being taken noon the amendment of the Mayor. It restated as follows: Yas.e—Mr. Trego and Mayor Henry. Nero—Judges Stroud, Allison, end Ludlow, and Mr. Cuyler. Lost. The vote upon the amendment of Judge Ludlow was as follows: Tees Judge Ludlow, Mr. Cuyier. Nara—Judges Stroud, Allison, and Ludlow, Mr. Trego and Mayor Henry. Lost. The original resolution, offered by Judge Allison. wee then adopted unanimouely. A eommunlcation was received from Mr. Benton stating that the letter of the eorenclerionere bad been received, and that it would be submitted to the Committee on City Property at their meeting to-day. Judge Stroud moved to proceed to the adoption of proposals and to award the contract. Agreed u Judge Thompson voted for Mr. Ketcham. Mr. Trego Mr Caviar " Mr. McArthur. Judge Stroud Judge Allison " Mr. Ketcham. Judge Ludlow " Mr. MoAnthur. Mr. If enry—Preet. " Judges Thompson and AB/son, and Mr. Trego, before voting, said that, having no reason to believe that the proposal of Mr. Retohara is sot made to good faith, and, after proper coaddere- Goo, they felt bound to vote for the adoption of his psonosale as the lowest Judges Stroud and Ludlow, Messrs Cuyler and Mayor Henry. la voting to award the contraet to Mr. John McArthur, Jr., assign upon the minutes upon the minutes their reason that the two lower bids differ so largely in their several amounts from all the other proposals before the commission, as to warrant the belief that the fencer ere not based upon sufficient and reliable eetiuustes. On motion of judge Thompson, Judge Stroud and Mr. Cuykr, who prepared the form of con tract, were authorised to supervise its engross ment. The following resolution, offered by Mr. Trego, was adopted unanimously : Resolved, That in the consideration of the va rious plane for public' buildings enbusitted to this board, though they have given the preference to the designs of Mr. McArthur, they deem it but an sot of peace to express their approbation of the sweat/choral taste and skill displayed in the plans of Mr. George S. Bothell, which they consider as pluming merits of a high order. The commission then adjourned to meet again at the Mayor's office at nine o'clock this morning The awarding of the contract created the ereat. eat excitement throughout the city. The affair 113 now considered as positively arranged, and the shambles on Chestnut street will, in a few years, be exchanged for durable and commodious build ings. DEA= or Jogs V. Wawa.— Mr. John C. 'Weber, a erellAtiown eitisen and merohant, died very suddenly on Wednesday evening. Mr. Weber was attending a prayer meeting in the lecture room of the obnroh of Be, Albert Barnes, on Weehington Square, and was obaerved, during the dewing of a hymn, to be fanning himself nervously, as tboegb be leu in a avast heat Soon after, he commenced breathing heavily and foaming at the month. Several gen. peva Intruelistel v hurried to his assipmeop e all had reauVa be Wi dead . h. occurrence tensed a very painted excitement among the con. gregation present at the meeting. The rause of the sudden death of Mr. Weber is attributed to sppoplexy. Ile was In apparent good health 3m ' madietely before the melansholy event. The de -1 caund was in sixiy•iirst year of his age, and on. married. Flo was one of the oldest cuerehants en Market street. Re wee formerly of the Arm of Weber 4 Kendall and more •reeentty of the Arm of Hammen, Snyder, it Co' Sines 1857 be hes been out of business. Mr. Weber was much Weaned by all who enjoyed • the plums Of his acquaintance. Camara lir Tvities--Dirsaermas Conart.— I We are indebted to Mr. B. Flounders, one of the Resistant marshals' of Delaware county, for the fol lowing items; Springfield township contains 1,112 inhabitants. 70 ferms. and 10 establishments of prodoosive industry. Upper Darby township con. taint 2,378 inhabitan fe, TO fanny. and 21 establish. manta of productive industry. Marvin township contains 017 Inhabitants, 85 farms, and 9 establish ments of productive Industry. Newt•Asso township contains 830 Inhabitants, 88 farms, anal' establish &lints of productive industry. Mr. Flonaders met with an old lady in New, town township aged ninety-four yaws, who was in the rioinity of Brandywine at the time of the battle of Chadd'a Ford, and has still a vivid testi lection of many little incidents connected then. with, and is yet strong and healthy, and able to drive out by herself. Ile also met with another lady, aged ninety. three year., who was at school at Concord at the time the British ramie were blown up in the Delaware, at Fort Mifflin; and she tau remember the shook as though it were yesterday. She said that the benches and everything else in the sohool• romp were made to tremble. PIIMADILPIII4 Boor MO, Lit —Not- Withstatidirg the amount of book melee at the New York 'trade auction, last week, where $350,000 worth of volumes were dirooeed of. the Philadel phia Wes, at the rooms of Thomas is has been unusually suocessfal. More than $30,00 worth of books were sold yesterday, Chiefly to Southern and Weeteru tradesmen. The Invelee of M. Cow perthwaink Co. met with 'handsome sales. This firm will hereafter confine lie bosinese to its own publications. Of Warren's School Geographies, of which the invoice nonsieted of *boot 2500, there were sold nearly 10 000. The bidding was very spirited, and they have disposed of more then $lO 000 worth of hooka. The other invoiocs, were those of Crosby is Niohote, Millerßarlock, Booty Carey Baird, John B. Potter, William 311- nide, J. Parry, Gnold k Linoolo, and Blanchard ct Lea. To day, the magnifieent Invoices of law books will be sold, of Little d Brown, end Key .t Frother, with ,the contributions of Ticknor Fields. There were present. yeiterday, represen iativis from thirty or forty firms. FATAL 'A CCIDEIrr AT THE tiIANATUNIC. GAS Wongs.—Yesterday afternoon, about 5 o'clock the workmen at the gas works et Miner:lnk were engage,{ in hoisting • heavy girder when some part of the machinery gave way, and the girder fell to the ground with great violence. A large number of men were collected on the spot, and one of their number, Thome* Carerty, was kilted tn. 'tenth,. His body was conveyed to his residence, in the vicinity of the gal works. James Clacker, aged twenty-three years, had his right leg frac tured by pleoe of timber falling upen him, and was otherwise seriously Injured. He was brought to the Pennsylvania Hospital lest evening Ano ther men, whose name we were unable s learn. was so seriously Inland that no hope were enter tained or his recovery. OA uacrS IN RELATION TO TIIE Nacc- PUBLIC BOTLDIXOS —Yesterday afternoon a caucus of the Democratic members of Pelee! sad Common Coun cils met at the Globe Hotel, Sixth street, below Chestnut street, to determine what action they wilt take In regard to the matter's! the erection of the new public bulltilogs. A considerable member of the Democratic members of both branches re fused to join it. the movement, believing it unwire and imoolitio to 0 0 =01 the party upon the gab joct, it being understood that theme who got DP the , 1 movement were opt - tied to the erection of the pub lic. buildings at the present time, A lter some time spent la deliberation, the canons adjaurned without taking any action open the subject. STELLING A OARRIAGE.—On Wednesday afternoon a fellow jumped into a handsome car riage whlolt bed been left standing in the street for a moment, and he drove off with the bone and yehlole. 04cer limn am the thief driving along Tenth street, near Loenst, yesterday, and he pursued him to Tenth and Wharton streets, where lie secured him end the plunder. The accused was taken before a Magistrate and committed for a further hearing ilesiciTAL CABS.—A colored man, named Theresa Williams, a woodchopper, lives in a but in the woods near Germantown. Owing to the heavy rein which prevailed at en early , hoar yes terday morning, the roof of MOO caved In, and be was buried beneath the tele/. Gee o f his legs was broken, and be wee otherwise serirnsly in jured. lie was admitted to the Pennsylvania Rea psi. FATAL ACGlD.ENT.— Yesterday afternoon amen named .Tohn aged 38 years, employ ed in the manufactory of the Philadelphia Cabi net Makers' Association, Alder street above Mu ter, Twentieth Ward, wee killed by opleoe of tim ber striking him on the breast while working at a oirettlar saw. The deceased leaven a Alfa sail four ohildren. TUN WILKESILIERN FArn. — We learn that during the coptlnuenee of the great raiz at Wilkeabarre, the North Pennsylvania Railroad will Woo Hakes to Wilkesbarre at the very tow rate of 4.3. Return tickets will also besold at the some pries In Wilkssbarra. The tickets will be good for live days. • MIAD INFANT IN A CCILVIIRT..--TIIO dead body of an infant child was found in the culvert at Charlotte and Culvert streets, Sixteenth ward, yesterday morning. The body was batte n to the Seventesntioard stiittoslooloy.asi• 40 coronae_ was sant for. rirogoogiftiv rat- Cifr Comae is. r siddhbomilis therepueday rpi ked by Seitlilrarelke• of tXtv MELT= II1140 1 1(4. cointriasibstinsi, follows. ern? etted. Gad rei- ,a , tta l rl " be tl AMo ll Arenter=usailly water.tsEelne; fiti e- a - MG --- ther - scatiol Perawerse, f r school in Twersinineend mina: Co. ea Generigai gas Works in the neenth'irard 7 1,8; 41sighi.eir penreefewer ornate afar MA -fawn 'anther mints; atom Om Chmitehi• Wa ter- Departneept. easing air *Ur 11, 02 of We ts 1a Tit mean* to girtipuien from wine am badly attune hp from the Board • /i'llatit. eanuttieg ea et their visite to the filth! pollen al InamMaird ~it'vetret and Wilting affiliation FR ' of remodyins SO WINO • 111111111111* awe ses &neat • , hem Cas per W. Morris conerna lon, {ll, ait Mark street. who Walla faith • Weil-met vow rem • for the opening of xford street t fee the eneeires4l penile lamps In Bridestweri , t v eiggeineellter. eiGnieete• an neal Were Age pretense Means esemeers, atut also rerouted to the sittintate esinentien• • A onoletin to air ersonpi_pe r o therid.Thirtacith. Whereat. Park, - Slersath. ?lan. ,Ashbertosi.lienzt iota. and other stolen wsw tinned eafililiatallit C. ni • minas. end agreed to. • - - - s Alec, so ordinance from the same eantaittn, trans ferring MOAB to the Wren MaperteeredidwandrY Sar anac Agreed to. A commementioa wrie received from the corearisein to ant the neer sonny huileinsa. inviting the Clamber fa notatuntrutte to tee antennas lay nf..rwation is its power oetioerraind Mr. Ore, ton's at an. that the •seingiostions were 10 vaguely sad Worts prepared aa to subject the arty to rise of Genoa, to.. &e. nered to he *stared to the mtaedea Iliad wined. The teams float of the Vire Dap tetra eat were then rionartned_Lbssion hen reptated nth, proper com mittee. Tits Assonant gagmen for the Thies drainer, trams seat is contested. it set menial 11l tip (*aims • tioa. A bill a neer non the limed Of Health, for tloee retire, the duties ofireirpeng alien the streets of the oily. wit offered by sir Pro. ton, and referred to the Committee On. A peti trot for raw-scoria Trnrity - ioarth Ward wee re erred tone °menage*. A resolution to appropriate eezo f or nkht na m e, i n the Third sect on ern rerertad. Mr. Millar, orniaid a *south** to/ ti Sint special nontroirtio to ianin into the haw pies for timatelnr the streets. with power to advertise TM the purpose in three daily pap ers The writhes. Florin was strionn tut. and the re solution was adoutad. "A resole+ion of testate as to the Propriety of enesti - Latins a riser end harbor end bark' 10ttes, wee etre ed mid referred to the Conumitt-e fel Polies. Id 48n:44 1 as offire4 roothitton to sensertwint• 141.- for thosarporee Illetrony D..pertimmt. to ika y for reramint the demeans done by the late food. per tteelarly is the Twente.sweend sod Tgreatr.ga i rd wards, and to clean the streets. The reeotation treated a diettemitia.ia *With News. Vretherill. M.A. and others. desereeed as Isfeemua the present system:l of @leonine the streets. deetartng the contract ',Warn to be the cede 2reptir or. Mr. Drayton moved to trine sit 41112 Aft from the CAW*. the former men Woe for street eteantne alone. and to twert IMAM lensed. erkiel. Via *erect tr. Mr. Beidemon offered c ram virgin that the foyer more report deny to the Chief Commieneem the pro gips, mad.. io sheet etesatne. eel whet streets bare bees &eased ;mph day' alma bow may ears met men were implored. white the diet sal odd &NI at Whet once. and that the reports shell be Sled for insrpeation by Conceits Asreed to. A resohibort Wherein% the adyertishty for properties for street-oleanoW for the next Jeer by the Consnaa con er was armed to. nTbe bill from thm Chamber. alining Interest to dis honored city erarrents. er_s reported Mr flee Cetaintitt es on Fin&Moe, to *horn it was referred - at the previous Ine.tl. Mr. test stated that be bed )reformation from the Olt, 13 0 1.114 m o n to the 4tiality of the mealtarie. Which ucon vote tweed mewed routing. Mr. Beideman voted no and recorded the meson for his vote. bees use he considered it seavratent to c matt me a temperer , loon.' .1d ewe Fon. ercifekin. ratter. Dotieherty. end Le mon. alert voted "no." and fennued mutt to M. tteide m.n. aaaitmml);the saga avers *or rhetr elpieektLett. Mr. Fox. on the <Modica of third reading, moved a reference to the eoreautsee. with ok.resitiners to 0'r.a.411 the Written element of the CitY eteliertor that the hill ix not operative so a tenteereer Mr. dennseated each levies. as. he hut lost teemed that the ordinance had beat UMW. by i t Citv Solicitor. curler aidi that white to hishly sapproved the sent of the rilialtitiOn• be meld mot vas foe , t estil the reopen *ammo of the eobeitor wee recorded in the Chant , er as a mordent for his action. Mr Mob:Mira. who had Wrote wive/rated peeteoas ni tint, now expressed Aimee( /*Oohed, sad a vat. Ina eaten. Tee heft passed or a vote of IS to 4—Nato. Messrs. Pox. Broyhill., MOM ati n p,,,t Mr. Davis offered a resolevon that the e`ontwotiee rm pmperty report why the polies dene-tinent in rd Sprint Goen WI was sot glinted and repaired ' fl ea Us • test or the ttildins. dented to. Oe motive of We. Bradford tee Witmer the Wistretif Deputment, soaking aparopnatione to that department to clean the straits, sue most demises by the late storm. Wanted from Costivon Coiroeil without win - , orrenocoraa bitten up. Tate casonear thew heeded from its, loosed went by a rots of is to e. 'The ordinanoe ehasaaas looaliv of • on•-lact house to tee Niath ward as wesc.,2 by Oilman Opoaral, was to gee rred in. Also, one for the en appoint - went ores sonatiost outflow . ..to the one- Irrlrrtien ors new bridge over tie rry_kill, at a WAIT AWTS osorilook. A resolenon wee offered if Ms, fhwyton. that liquify be made or , he Cdi Sobeitov "yip, Mteftelas %it Pal ms Interest op eitv warrants.' Mr. Meal taratabt tau stoustaybxmeoleitY• It eyelet not be otherwise that *eel. Mr Drayton then added. "a nd whether thie same coastautes terasorary tow, Tito, resoletiad was Weed to The muff*. of the Chief and Asestant Firm Vali ”oere mg 'arced}, repo tad. were now waeltnetsd by the Chamber. en motion. the ordinance realise ha theparch WI 01 . the hied upon the wing beak of the deboll/oV,lnis wade the order °treat Thor 457 The bill edesittitte the Kisireeteine. Pim Cimr.mittY was called tip. after a slumber or souse retwitha. atm pawing a wound reset.%) it sew pewee liesSY. Alm. leas coring:Med in the Mt the arestruotiost Of a culvert in Lessner street. Y lytnk. The - resolatioa telative to the Wetted wellinged code, Si passed in Common Comical. wee warmed n... 01 the respective solvents will be tams In shame 07 the wreend cromatitutea. • No other hi/sinew of Debi* interest nwe treagnotett. e3MlPhlift cite introdeeldne ec • eremite from alb Con trollers of PoNio &hooks. asking SAMS Stir night sett,ote 'whisk was be to the cosesnttie. ' The Chamber then wi/onmed. CO.MIIO/1 COUNICIL. The following commendations and petitions were r - ceived and referred to the a phloem,* menanineen A communication from Mr. flukeehine, Chief of the Water Department,, eating for an astrooration 4 d3.0(0. It stateetbse Me Veer seep west done daring thy past Kummer by the ' , vend works attached to the department bee Paled them to their utmost catonity. This was reseertei InMeiMMT: owing to the nutmeat /Jested direst's, and the' eery law mete of Mir wirer at the time in the fiehuylkill. The water fertnehed the people by all the works mbised. in the month 0, , el., was 541 Leann gal mg ea exam of TA Mil.tre. The amount of water coomisted some date witanse.o ref gatloci. The eon/m=ool4Mo eels referrer) to the Coln. mitts, on is ter. ementuateatlosrelmins enointin Penrose r erry bridge tree was received and referred. and the usual ,:ember ultra for gaglamys. Water iness. dc. Sailker. fence Psi Coaseittee on Masses. re ports! a resolution for the payment of tnfrest en out mane jug warrants. providing that. fa.- all warrant. that Entif b• jostled Auntie te• leitr. they shall beer tetanal: at the este of stater cent from the nate of presems. bon. the said unman to rie Mere% let. MI. Mr. Andrew MilMr made ..spieseh, In which he charged that the Finance Committee had presented the above in order to mite the law. aid wag as ingenirna way of rateies lands. The committee Mama there is a deficiency. bat does not 'sr why it he so. replied that one of the masers way there ." • oehcleacy ewe that the rate of taxation ten hot SI 75. Mr or nmi vows in revor of that sum when be knew that at least IS was required The rattans:, of the Controller hed been rewired Oa PrOtdae. d 0 1, 1000 that tl ere lades the atm few IMO thereof 119.955.. from lasso mad other renews whale Mr. Mires' stirs there Is a dellcieney of one eal Sion of dot The plan advised in the omelets* kind two before acted of th'e mite i thal la ire t h /21r lielieso4 4 l l sion of time limited to the hret. of 11: r . telh. UM. sod. if the Seurat of the Contvolter are otimem. the aftweat the debeleno7 ia bet - or Mr gale oonsdered that Ma action of ther l itiance no Con itteehtd been eerier or bias ere from? • he ginning, and conceded that the ereeent mats of thugs wee Melee to the low rate or tu ft ing- • Mr. Potter said that the Fspasos Committee mom mended *l.BO for the rale of that text tine. and that sum w meet the. etymon expeesee, of the airy. provided there s , ,s an appropriation ma de K neennin amount. he effect was that there hed hansom extra appropriation hearty reaching fleo Age- True the o ty had been tiorneelled to emend MAO for teddies sta lion- houses. tied *large earn would be meshed to re • pair the damage dons im the rawest hoary rams II the rare had bemi fixed at It 5 0 or es. %WY Indl`d tun only have been able to pay the warn. M. bat a small rundue Would remain is as Trite/wry at the end of the year. Mr. Miner offered. as an amendment to the rem's bet, and the merrning line endorsed shall be received in payment of tares and a her debts doe the city." Mr. ne M. said he promoted the amend. ent because he theht it was jostle dee to alt thaw holden warrants, that they might be allowed to pay them to the MX•llBeeirer whe y MT. . Necker opeosed the amendment. and contended teat such a Measure wanktgetratty ern nernian the afar re of the oty Governmerat. Mr. Minute* favored its gememiass he %might by this meas. our taxer would be paid 10110412 tees they are at_present air. Potter thought the city had no ntht to nuke their warrants I. legal tender. Mr. Casan ad roosted the pasaue of the arostdmoot, / Der some farther debate, it woe lost by a vote of yoaa M. nays 43. Mr. Hacker's reEdn'iOn wile then adopted. hir . Detker..trout the same egrainutmei. presented a resolution. approvitis the sureties of David ht. Lyle. thief eumeer a nde Fire Detainment The wee are John Agnew Wm. S. Mann. The resoleboo wse a t reed to. Mr. Ingram. offered it revolution reinitiating Select Connell to intern the ordinaries wand at the last rust log authorizing the tits beer Ilepartweet to advertise for proooeie for °Warming ne stneetn, Mot agreed to. Mr. Freeman. from the Cottomnsematoor retiorted a resolution transferring reruns nesse tbe_iiiwopria- Von to the Deparlteent Of the Poor. Mr. Cattell. from the Committee as Serveys. pre vented an ordinance =mot - tams the temporary so pointment of se assistant engineer- to Oreille*, the con - stnietiort or the Cheetnutstreet brides- - - An amendmentwas offered to give the asmaitatment to the Sim or and city sermon Which was taliti &CO ordinanoe agreed to. Mr. D. Thomas reded a twolgitten' client but the election house of Eigh ce th precinct et the Ninth ward to II iaoetbeeat corner of kwenty.simond 14 Cuthbert streets Agreed to- - The resolution from Select Council relative to eleaos ing the street. was concurred tr.. Mr. HcCleerf rued up the ordinance probi haat rail way compames Iron allowing their cari to +sod at the Menem:an of any street. sod &winds it. ender any penalty of ten dollars• provided that the OnhaS22oo !tan eot be pat into force Watt sixty tan suer It becomes arr. A motion to refer the ordin Ones Oct a aelsot committee of three members of Common Conant for eauttiamion was agreed to. adjourned.' CITY IT HMS. &zaw-Piead Tea and Coffee Selo gad Urea, 7 , 44)12, eat rtvrd. era fine/owed, IA greet ranety of stiles. at wboleaale and rebut. by Z. W. Will Menefeeterete, Mt Chestnut Sine,. Tag °rise Leer name — There was a crowded boo*. at the egetes last a.gbt. and the boan Sad ba -0011111,1 prevented •gistrering gritty of tut woolen and brave emu " The ladies area the Wan (tilts of ache, &O sad the inaionty of the gentlemen were tad in elegant garments from tae Droiro-atooo Cloth - lag Heti of Rooke3 t WOW, Nos , 103 and a 0.5 eat street, &bora Bath. it WSJ •care to be remem bered. Irony handle Table Knitte r Ivory bandle Demon Petra. Ivory bindle CA nets and heels, B. W. eaten. Co, ft Chestnut street. Tare Poirrstssa --11• who bat a beast; glow• ins wits kindness and good via tO7IM4e Ira Talks"- plea. and who la guided in tan elf risian of tlram (WI ita by mood *oilman ileum, la AO trail itOhte imut. Pot:tens / a doe" not oonalst is wearily a wear Lot SL 3 tm• and gracefully lilltot yam bat se yon meet su nest:min ttn ;4; it does Mg ecuthiet In &MUNI maw and CI wen ne [peach, bat to silence and honest &sane to proseuts the happineu of Wee around rot: ix the readiness to wtortgo• your owa *sae and eomfort to add to the en joy meat ot otLan. In See. In an b4=aort aredeavor to induce ail men to bay their °lakes at tb• see-pru, store of Granada Stokes. No. dr C:4agVat et9e weer[ %rentable ti,rt so pram tad Ina cash Itowsa'a biameaysb F 10.% are an ancient re. lady for all derangement" of the bowels. lisMinsi e t - 44 thinness. lick and nermua boadtahe. dYiriSP.l4, to. Anwar of sedeotery lira should always use them They are reliable and life. and do not detalanta ; eau be taken at al/ timee inthout inectiVellienec They Con tain go meroyry r plc mot to the tuts. Chia fig toa azativa effect, welt. two fist are irai6clent to prOdzie• In native parse. Prepare] oat,' by G. C. Bower. Ehath and Vine. and ao'd by leading policies. P ri se Don; ta ttlX mints_ I The Pacific Telegraph Contract. WAIIIII.OTON, SeptSibtoy't foi e Pacific telegraph contract Le hi the only onebid th e. now b fora the Seevetary of the Treerety, the others having been withdrawn. fits bid waa the highest, being the maximum limit of the act of Contras*. Some prolialuarT legal gneetion Ternisiel to be des. tided. but the probability to that the gentlict till be awarded to hint. Secretary:Cats; If le known, is gefitotsa of gleaning the work td seek hand* at tell/ et once andertale and owspleste the line. 1 •AIDIVAL OP riirnaits-Antaiwirks on Boaan.-..Lart Welt, (lOW} dirlatistAintssfawt Ike bark Mats, front Seim It larthimi, while coming into this pork west-aelisisl ,ea it s iq u , Bank,. 'Wait natured Owner! to ha 'about two fist per hour. fiks WO geteirthia gby as im stesmtug Acktiles, fis tandistrinitil Tea Aaiun bribes bitellaNi.lllll4 Woman sod J . P. KgOosAik'bOtiOftimui., r is charged with ha,_riongnelis Ineglikesiker In the left rids with - a triklaslotnikeheiti olt tit. rust, At Sagas ; the mart etrottasietr - ", tti• lestmew mitka 00'os Stallst. 77 • A -, rest, (oil etNinof. - . ~.
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