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The News.
..The : peny express arrived at. St. Joseph, ells
goliorc. yestorday,..wi tit - four days' later news from
Coollfo!aia and .the Reside coast. There was in-'
excitement, extreme anxiety being
felt ,in .. yestote of the Pennsylvania election.
Drnelviaridge .was losing , strength" in the Pattifie.
StateS.: Colonel 'aker, - Senator 7 eleet - of 'Oregon,:
was - abient to : visit California, to atump:the State
for Lincoln.- The rainy season had ecimmeneed.
'PruineVvi*om Grogonls unimportant. The Don
ghat f3MM,Sonatore had issued a proclamation de.
fe'lling their votes for Colonel E. D. Baker as
United States Senator. _ -
iln
, •
-artlete appeared in the LOuieville Journal
ocieiterday, the newspaper edited by George D.
Pretitioe; . Eig., and the ablest organ of Bell and
gverett in this country, which the telegraph deems ,
soitfielentlY iniportent-to. apprise us of before the
It is stated, that there has been received,
ffcfin-Weihington, hatelltgenee:Ahat , a meeting of
theEece*prileteders . wee reoentlyheld there; that
araong,thasq pedant were Judge 'Meek, of Ala-•
beam, and Senator Wigfali, of Texas, and that it
was definitely determined that within thirty days
after'Llneoln's citation, should that event take
place;Beuth Carolina would declare herself lode
pirident,lnd send a minister plenipotentiary to
3 1, 4 a'shingten demanding of the Admiaietration of
Bueltionavi a recognition of He nationality.
Tide step free to be followed by a similar coarse on
the pert et other States, and in the course of time
a Sinothein Confederacy would be ferried.
We . learn from Boston of another calamity at
see: A ishini schooner, hailing from Gloucester,
was ran down by a steamer and rendered
untnanaegable., The;wreetc floated around for two
days, "when seven of the orew who were clinging to
Wirere • washed off. The balance of the crew, to
the'number of nine, abandoned the wreck and took
to - the'eek in an open boat. The boat eapsised,
two of 'the nine were devoured by sharks two
died' from exhaustion, and the remainder were
rescued by a Portuguese 'vessel and taken to San
We learn (rem Mobile that the Board of 'Health
of that city reports that all traces of yellow fever
have disappeafed, and that the city is perfectly
healthy.
Melees' from Utah to the sth of October have
been readied. Hon. W. IL, Hooper, delegate to
OongreM,
,accompanied by his wife, bad left Salt
Lakadity - , for :Washington, and with him had de.
parted the last of the Mormon missionaries for the
States mod Earope. Among the miseionaries were
three of the " Twelve Arestles"—Orson Pratt,
Evades' Snow, and George Q. Cannon—the first
two destined for the States and the last for Eng
land. Five of the Twelve are now absent among
the " Gentiles" working for the cause of Mormon-
Ism. An agrioultural fair had been hold at Provo,
which trim attended frith considerable encase, and
another wen in" progress In Salt Lake City. More
Indian hoitilities are reported in the northern part
of ibaterritory. A party of emigrints, number
ingAhnue-twenty, had been attacked, and bad lost
all-tbeli Wagons and Monk before assistance could
reach them. The party Dad arrived at Salt Lake
City, ,under escort of United States troops, in a
destitute condition. Capt. Rath, of the Indian
Bureau at Washington, had arrived in the Terri
tory, to look lifter the Government property con
nected'. with the Indian Agenoy of Dr, Forney,'
which has already cost the Gojernment two Qom
minions. '
News to the 6th instant has been received from
Janieica, W. I. An effort Is being made to intro
duce the oulture of cotton into the island In this
movement the settlers will be encouraged by the
llttuover Fociety of Industry. A. number of,Eng
lish capitalists are endeavoring 'to carry out the
prejeiit. An agent of Garibaldi was in Jamaica
endeavoring to obtain subscriptions to the work of
(*ltalian independence. There is much feeling in
favii of the Liberator, and the movement Is gene
ral 'throughout the island. The autumnal rains
were highly favorable to the crops, and there was
ovetyyrospect of an abundant yield. She sugar
estate( Were in fine condition.
Tke jury in the ease of William ByerlY, oherged
with fraud in the First Congressional Wattled, came
Joie court yesterday and rendered a verdict of
guilty. The prisoner was remanded into custody.
We - have news from New Mexico, by way of In
(ism,iedence. Missouri. the milLhavms arrived at
Fe were very troublesome, and so terrified were
the "citizens that none of them dared to venture
beyond - their homes, for fear Of being massacred.
A forte had gone after the Navajoes, but no intel
ligence of their movements bad been received.
The Byer!) , Case.
This Jury empanaellett in the case of Ws.
BYERLY returned a verdict of guilty yester-
day morning. 'lntense interest has been felt
in the progress of this trial, not only on ac
count of its bearing upon the final decision of
theshestion involved in the Contest between
Mr. 4BAiA27 and Mr: Bonin, for the honor of
representing the First district in the neat
COrigress; but because it was calculated-to
illustrate the extent to which the election
laWs of our State . could be violated with im
punity.. It is scarcely possible to conceive
of a more dangerous and demoralizing spe
cies .of political fraud than that of which
the defendant in this case has been found
guilty. , _By .the substitution of a Ihiso return
frOnanne of our wards for the true one, the
declared result of an important election was
completely•changed, and the certificate given
to"one . wbom the correct returns show to have
been defeated. If this species of legerdemain
is tolerated, and the men who resort to it are
permitted to go, unpunished, it is clear that in
our political contests the question will soon
become, not who can poll the most votes, hut
who can perpetrate the most unblushing and
scandalous frauds. We, fear 'that many of
the local politicians of our city, of both par
ties, have become so familiarized with unfair
proceedings in the delegate elections, that they
have but little respect for the laws which pro
vide for the punishment of those who are
guilty of dishonest conduct in the regular mit..
State,land Presidential elections. And
this feeling of contempt for the purity of tho
• great American tribunal—the ballot-box—has
beat'strengthened by the fact that party pre
judices, political influence, or other causes,'
hare'generally proved effective shields of
violaters of our election laws, no matter
hotr , 'flagrant have boon the onneos
they have committed. It is to ho hoped
the' proceedings in the case we are discussing
will 'provo a salutary example, not only by
shoivlng that speedy punishment will over
take any one who May commit the offence of
Wtoh BYER= was accused, but also by indi
eating that other species of cheating cannot be
safely resorted to. It Is not at all improbable
that;smobg the numerous crowd of spectators
who,thronged the courteroom and Its avenues
while the trial was krogressing, there were
few'.vidio have not. been over-respectful
. of existing stattitesi and, at all events, it will
dOeime,ot them. no harm to know that our
election 'awe are not altogether obsolete.
'Tne 'hawing Sufferers,
The-past season has been one of a very'ex
tiaordinary and unfortunate character in a
large portion of the Territory of Kansas. A
protincte&drought,nnexampled in the history
of ptir countryi has prevailed, and utterly de.
stieyeeali the crops of many farmers, who
.
rell4eniitely upon the accustomed fertility
°tithe soil for their subsistence. The failure
ofthe:Wititer wheat crop was followed by the
failertr:of the - spring wheat, the corn, the
bizekwheat, 'and, the, potato cops, an& thou
sena imionande emigrants ' who hid' bitt
recently= settled , in , that country have thug
beri"lett: in 'an entirely,,desiltute condition.
Thei;iditeinent .madelY Dr; Cusszas Mi
nna, whose card we publlah'idthia niornines
Pas's, : we . nie - satisfied Is, perfectly . reliable;
aintwetrust the • appeal for aid which- he pro.
senhkiveur citizens will be liberally, respond
ehf:t4.,',l:titiladelphians are rarely indifferent
to:: the atitierlogs of, their fellow.nien= . cien
theseibii live in foreign lands—and they will
dpixpt* Wl** '419 their share , Wirer&
assisting their , .unfortunate "- countrymen who
are now suffering ,from a calamity which was
iinforeseeti, and which - they could not possibly
Iko o4 -' 1 siba'c 4 P-iliwilisiztte,this (Mice
torus , relief of . ttie galererst will be properly
azikilist 7 o their aid and, meanwhile, we trust
efforts of hfr. Titian " among
oliet. liminess- Men,
,and the efforts'of -the
cliiii'clieN to Obtairichllections -
,
ioie, will be successful.
What They Do an 'Europe.
It is extremely difficult, out of a great mass
of foreign journals, to arrive at any satisfac
tory conclusion concerning the actual condi
,lion of affairs in Europe.
Franco has withdrawn her Ambassador from
Turin, as if to make a show of disapprobation
at the invasion of the Papal dominions by
VICTOR EMMANUEL'S troops, but there is
general suspicion that NAPOLEON is playing a
double game—publicly angry with VICTOR
EMMANUEL, and privately backing him up. It
is reported that . Sardinia, Genoa, and the Li
gurian coast will be finally surrendered to NA
POLEON as the price of his complicity, or
rather of his abstaining from resisting VICTOR
Ealtetarat' spresent action in the States of
the Church and Naples. It has been strong
ly denied that any such transfer of territory
by Sardinia to France is contemplates, but
the same denial was made, as regards Savoy
and Nice, a few weeks before their being
given up to France. Nor, VICTOR EMMANUEL
having been so mean as to part with Savoy,
the cradle of his race, can it be expected
that ho 'will have any hesitation, should bis
policy suggest it, of surrendering Sardinia,
whence comes his title of King. When he
becomes King of Italy, he will probably care
vary little for the island of Sardinia.
Russia find Prussia are understood to hhvo
solemnly protested against VICTOR EMMANU
EL'S invasion of the Kingdom of Naples.
Little does he care for them. Already ho is
in Naples, virtual King of Italy.
Austria, beggarly and bankrupt though it
be, is trying to make a warlike manifestation
against Views. Douse Er.. In reality, this is
nut a move to retain Venetia until such time
as it may Mit VICTOR EMMANUEL to take it.
There are two ways of ettectingithis appropria
tion—brarms and by purchase. The former
Is the cheaper way, but there is no knowing
but that it may awaken Confederated Ger
many. On the chance of such awakening,
Count CAVOUR would probably buy.
France, which wishes to act up to the letter
of its agreement to support the Pope in Rome,
is supposed to be anxious to got him out of it.
His Holiness will lose much of his prestige if
be abandon Rome, where ho is still a temporal
as, well as a spiritual ruler.' But two persons,
who have not very greatly agreed of late—we
mean CevOurt and GAarnmau—have one mind
about the Eternal City. In his recent speech
to the Piedmont Parliament, Count CAvouß
emphatically declared that Rome must be the
capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and that its
becoming so was only a question of time.
GARIBALDI, 14110 is opposed to delay, simply
says Omit he will proclaim VICTOR EMMANUEL
King of Italy from the summit of the Quirinal,
and that ho hastens to do It. Where, it he
leave Rome, shall the Pope reside 7 Is ho
likely to lease that " wills" at Washington
Heights from Mr. BENNETT 7 If so, how for
tunate for both landlord and tenant that the
Herald has at length succeeded in badgering
the Corporation of New York to do the
grading of the Heights i The long agony Is
over; BENNETT'S cottage will be made acces
sible, as soon as possible,'at the public ex
pense.
The ox-King of Naples, commonly nick
named Bombelino, has turned out much bet.
ter than was expected. When he fled from
Naples to the seaport called Gaeta, it was
generally supposed that his purpose was to
embark upon a steamboat and fly to some
asylum in Spain. Instead of this, he went to
Capaa, which is strongly fortified, and there
collected an army of 30,000 men. He was
besieged, at Capna, by a body of patriots,
numbering some 15,000, under Genrommr.
Ho made an attack upon this force, and, in
the surprise, very nearly defeated it. True it
is; he had two soldiers to every one com
manded by Gkammn. There was a great
deal of hard fighting, for nearly three days,
which ended in a great victory for GARIBALDI.
But the truth is that not only the King of
Naples, but bis brothers, fought with great
bravery. The King commanded his army in
person, and showed skill as well as courage.
He fell back upon Capua, but the probability
is that, ere this, ho has either fled or been
again defeated ; for VICTOR Dorman. had
entered the Kingdom of Naples, at the head
of his Piedmontese army, and, advancing
from the north, while GARIBALDI was posted
to the south of Capua, would place the ex-
King of Naples between two hostile forces.
It is not unlikely that, ere this, 'VICTOR
ESIIIANIISL has been elected King of the Two
Sicilies, by universal suffrage. Within six
months, if present prospects continue, be will
bo King of Italy. England professes neutral
ity, in this contest, but her sympathies =t
railer; and independence.
Speech - of Mr. Dougherty.
Our townsman, DANIEL DOUGHERTY, Esq.,
whose great fame, as an orator, is only equal
led by his patriotic devotion to principle, will
pronounce an elaborate argument, this even
ing, at National Guards' Dail, 'face street, in
favor of the nomination and principles of
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, and in opposition io
the designs and doctrines of the Disunion
party. Those who are desirous of bearing
sound and lasting truths eloquently and irre
sistibly advocated should not pass by this op.
portunity. ' Mr. DOUGHERTY has lately ad
dressed, the Democracy of New Jersey and
Delaware with the happiest results.
TUE ASEATWOR'S Guina.—The second and third
numbore of this neat semi•montbly, published by
Beek k Lawton, for gratuitous circulation, contains
a variety of information which those who affect
musk) will be glad to receive. Mr. Louis Delft's
now national song ("God and Our Onion," mush)
by Dr. Leopold Meignen,) is given hero in full,
and is a production of which, for poetry and pa
triotism, he may well be proud. In the concluding
verse, however, we find an abominable rhyme,
banner and Ilosannah—to match the sound the
latter word, acpording to Mr. Dela, should be pro
nounced Hosannar, which le cookneyish in the ox.
treme, and indefensible; besides spoiling a noble
song. Ho must alter it.
. TEN Illustrated London. News, of the 13th
inst., with a double supplement, and the Illus
trated News of the World, same date, with por
trait and memoir of William Chambers, the Editi
burgh publisher, were received yesterday from
Callender & Co , Third street. These journals
give the history of the time, by pen and pencil.
The Straight Douglas Ticket in New
Jersey.
At a meeting held at the Astor Dome, New
York, on the 30th of October, called by Jacob
Vannetta, ER.; member of the Democratic Ex:na
tive Oommittep of the, United States for New Jer
sey, it Was unanimously resolved
That. Wherfas, The State Central Committee have
recently,c in violation of the express inetr notions given
them by the State Couventiou of New Jersey, held on.
the twenty-filth day of July last, at which electors or
the regular Dernocraoy were nominated, contrary to
repeated pledges on their part ignoring ouch power,
and to the wishes and expectations of the true friends
of Stephen A. Douglas in New Jersey, attempted to
defeat the regular organization thereof by forming an
electoral ticket on which are embreeed elements an
tagonistie to the principles of non-intervention Now,
therefore,
a Refolved, That, adhering to the pritiMples enunci
ated in past Conventions of the Deocratio party, we
re-establish and confirm the eleotor a l ticket formed by
the Convention aforesaid, and utterly ignoring and re
pudiating affiliation with the spurious offshoot of De-
Morn, known as the Seceders . pledge ourselves to
rapport none other than eleotors favorable to the elec
tion of Stephen A. Dou and Hersobel V. Johnson,
and call upon the honest glas
voters of New Jersey not to
succumb to the treachery by which their rights are
sought to •he invaded. but to stand grin by their time
honored prinoiples and platform. • w
And whereas. it appears that one of the etcetera on
the regular ticket, by reason of holding an °Moe is. ap
eording to the provision of the Conetitutton, disqualified
front holding that position, we nominate Thomas N.
McCarter, of J3useeit °entity, instead of Daniel 13, An
derson as such elector.
• The following is the straight Douglas ticket for New
Jersey
I Joel Parker, Moses Wise,_
, Cook, Thomas N. MoCatter,
Abraham W. Nash, Theodore Runyon,
Joseph Viiet.
which we earnestly recommend to the support of the
people of_New Jersey.
Jacob Yarnatta Daniell, Anderson,
Jame*M ticovet, tieing° D. lialetead,
0. B. Ad .
min. D. O. MeQuinn,
Wm. V. Dalrymple,
R. D. McClelland, J. Rigger,
Edmund T. Carpenter, D. 8. stand,
Edward C. Moore.
AUCTION NOTION.—N.' P . Panooast, auctioneer,
431 Chestnut street, will sell this morning, at 10
o'olook, 000 lois goods suited to present retail sales,
consisting of rich and new style embroideries,
bonnet trimmings, ribbons, millinery goods, bon
net velvet, Germantown fanny knit goods, hosiery,
notions, Sco.
MESSRS. Times & Solis had a largo solo of
real estate and stooks yesterday; a report of which
will bo found in another column.
Collision at Sea.
SIIPPEEINGS OP THE CRIIP OF A FISHING VESSEL--
BOSTON, Oct. 30.—1 t to reported here that a fish ;
tug sehooner, of Gloucester, was recently run
down by a steamer near (jape Canso. After float
ing two dam the wrecked schooner being water
logged and seven of the 01119 washed overboard)
the survivors, nine in number, took to their boat,
which capsized, and two cf the -unfortunate men
were devoured by sharks. The remaining seven
recovered the boat, but Subsequently two died
from exhaustion The enrvlvors were finally res
cued by a Porttigueso vessel, and denied to Bt.
Domingo.
Later from Iravana.
'NEW Onmots, Oat. So.—The steamer Do Soto
has arrived from Havana, with dates to the 27Th
inst., She brings no news of importance.
The sugar market is unchanged; the growing
orop is in excellent condition. Other articles are
nnohanged.
, •TON CORR SP: k.
Letter from " Occasional."
Oortespondeeee of The Press.]
WASHINGTON, Ootobor 30, 1860
The Southern people are about to be put to a
severe trial. They hove endured many einem tho in
auguration of James Buchanan, but that in store
for them (if we may judge from indications that
multiply with every day) will test Mike their pa
triotism and their co ninon goose Their leaders
were leaders in the wrong of Lecompton, on the
English bill, in support of the proscriptions of the
Administration; anti abovo all, in their unjust whr
upon Stephen A. Douglas, the bravest and boldest
of their Nortborn Milos. These leaders have ad.
manned upon all these transgressions, and are now
rallying the masses, in every State south of the
Potomac, in the namo of Disunion, without a rea
sonable provocation, and with every good augury,
and all tho facts of the coo pleading against them.
No nation can go to war upon another without just
cause. Civilized nations analyze with inexorable
impartiality the motives of cabinets and of kings,
and every revolution must &pond for mom, or
rather for permanenoy, upon the righteous motives
which bays dictated and conducted it.
The plan of the dismemberment of this Confe
deracy rests entirely upon prejudice and passion.
It will, unquestionably, he the most melancholy
spectacle that has ever been presentpd to man
kind, if the eight millions of the South *all con
sent to place themselves under a revolutionary
banner, and to make war upon their kindred—
first a war of finance, then a social war, and finally
a civil war, which may bathe both sections in fra
ternal blood: Their leaders allege that such a re
volution and such a conflict is necessary, because
the Northern people are their enemies. On all
sides wo see the strongest evidences of affection
for the Southern people. If individuals in the
Republican party have expressed ultra opinions,
lot it not be forgotten that many of these opinions
were extorted from them by the usurpations of the
Administration, sustained and backed by extreme
Southern politicians.
Who that remembers the scones at tho opening of
the present Congress, when, day after day, North
ern Representative's were held responsible for the
invasion of John Brown, while they were repeat
edly denying it, and when that invasion was de
nounced by their newspapers and leaders—who
that recalls the attacks made upon Republican
members by Southern fire-eaters—who that read
over the offensive articles in the New York Herald
and the Washington Constitution, charging that
the entire Republican party wore impelled by
an insane purpose of destroying all the rights of
tho South, will wonder if, after such assaults : and
in the face of such an indiotment, retaliatory sen
timents of equal violence were of frequent subse
quent occurrence? . And now, when a calmer state
of opinion prevails, *and when the oleotion of a
Republican President is imminent, how eon the
Southern people reconcile to themselves the course
of their leaders, in asking that the verdict of the
ballot:boxes should be followed by an internecine
conflict, and that a citizen fairly chosen to the
Chief Magistracy, should not only be, prevented
from taking his seat, but that the very decree that
declares him chosen should be made the signal for
instant secession and disunion?
The first wrong contemplated by the insane con
trollers of punk opinion in the South is an
"overt act." They refuse to wait for Mr. Lin
coln to strike. They disdain the declaration of
his friends, that ho will not aim a blow at their
rights, but will, in all things, protect them, and
madly rush their whole people upon a crisis which,
once begun, can never be repaired. What an ad
vantage such a movement will give to the one
mini of the South How effectually it will ornsh
out national and conservative men in the free
States! The Abolitionists, the Garriions, the
George Thompson', and the Wendell Phill ivies will,
with this weapon in their hands, go before the
people of the North and the Northwest, and show
that all their conservative declarations amount to
nothing, and that If they do not vote to please the
South they shall not vote at all.
I do not believe that my Southern fellow• country.
men aro willing to assume all these fearful respon
sibilities simply for the purpose of gratifying am
bitious and designing men. Bat how Is secession
to bo acoomplished 7 Granting, for the sake of the
argument, that the Southern people, having once
agreed to secede, they cannot be forced back into
the Union—lire the patriotic masses of the South
ready to give up all their hopes and interests for
the untried experiment of imaginary independence,
whits'', in fact, would prove to be complete depend
ence upon foreign Powers? Aro they willing to sur
render all partnership in the common territories of
the Union? To give into the bailie of the North the
public treasuree, and to shut themselves off from
all those reciprocal advuntages which they now
enjoy with the Northern and Northwestern people?
Or do they intend to take violent possession of the
archives and the public buildings at this piano; to
seize upon the armories of the United States;
to capture the navy, and to monopolize the
whole machinery of government? But more than
this. The twin evil of disunionism mutt be the re
pudiation of honest debts. Already some of the
Southern papers have declared chat Southern mer
chants will not pay what they owe to the North.
What chivalric , son of the South is willing to cover
himself with the shame of repudiation? Who
that remembers the ignominy that fell upon Nis
eisslppi, year. ago—from which she has not yet re
to pay her just obligations;. — v7JU Imitate
her disgraceful example? ft is estimated that more
than two hundred millions, owed by the South to the
pity of New York alone, will bo unpaid in the
event of secession and dissolution. And who will
lose this? Not tho Republican party, 'for the
masses of that organization live away from
the great commercial centres. No; the ruinous
results of repudiation will fall upon the conser
vative men of the important free cities—the very
men, in fact, who are now banded together in
trying to protest the rights of the Southern peo
ple. Unhappily, too, as if still further to mark
the madmen that rules the hour, the present pe
cuniary condition of the Southern States is far
from flattering. Whilst crepe are poor, and.'
credit low, preparations for the great catastro
phe are threatened by their leaders.
Imagine what a state of things it will be when
railroad communication between the free and slave
States is entirely cut off, or when enormous taxes
aro levied against Northern commodities along
Mason and Dixon's lino ; when the navigation of
the Mississippi is interrupted, and when Northern
ships aro prevented from landing their cargoes at
Southern wharves. Without estimating the re
duction of the value of slave property and
its certain Insecurity when secession takes place,
what cart of compensation, in view of ell other
calamities, will an alliance with Groat
thin and Franco Lifer to the. Southern 'Peo
ple? The tint nation, it Is said, cannot exist
without regular supplies of Southern cotton; but
is it not notorious that both aro committed to the
extirpation of African slavery, and that the mo
ment they attempt to make themselves the pro
tectors of the peou!iar institution of our South,
Victoria and Napoleon will fill their own dominions
with new elements of disturbance and civil war?
I forbear a more extended allusion to tills hateful
subject. God save na and the Southern people
from the universal distress that must fall upon all
sections, should not the mad and measureless follies
of the Disunionists be arrested before it isdoo late !
It appears that Bonner, of the New York Ledger,
when he invited Mr. Buchanan to become a con
tributor to his journal, proposed to pay his Excel
lency for his productions, and I have it from good
authority, that a thousand dollar check was the
offered retaining fee. No man alive has a greater
regard for the almighty dollar than the 0. P. P.
Re has husbanded his resources well. All the
money entrusted to his care for his relatives ha
bean profitably invested, and I. have no doubt when
he retires to Wheatland, and begins to count over
his treasures, the household economy of his Ad
ministration will prove to have been most sovero
and corroat. Justice to him requires that I should
say that he declined tho generous offer of Mr. Eon-
Abr. although some of his best friends advised him
to aooept it. If the liboral editor of the'New York
Ledger will renew his proposition after the fourth
of Marsh, the ex-Prosident will probably give him
some capital articles, desoriptivo of the public
mon of his Own Time.
Ono of Mr. Buchanan's prime investments,
shortly after ho got into dlidculty with the good
mon of the Demooratio party, was General Sam
Houston, of Texas. They bad boon bitter enemies
for years, and bad spoken disparagingly of each
other. Old Sam knew well bow to take the mon
sure of J. 8., and was fond of showing it to his in
timates. For a little while the gallant Texan
humored the President ; hnt latterly, his eyes ho
log opened to the real objects of the Administra
tion, ho has not hesitated, with characteristic
promptitude, to show hin contempt for these objects.
In a late speech, in Austin, Texas, ho took the
boldest ground against Mr. Bueljanan's party; ex.
tracts from which may not be out of plooc in this
correspondence. I copy:
"But, fellow•citizens, we have a new party in
our midst. They have deserted the old - Demo
essay, and, under the lead of Mr. Yancey, have
started what they call a Southern Constitutional
party. They say that they could not get their
constitutional rights in the National Demooraoy ;
and because the platform wee adopted whioh they
all endorsed; and under which they all fought in
1855, they seceded. It will be recollected that I
objected to that platform in 1555, but I was de
clared to be wrong. They all denounced mo then;
but now they suddenly see that the platform won't
do, and they secede to get their constitutional
rights. They are keepers of the Constitution;
they don't went anything but the Constitution,
and they won't have anything but the Consti
tution. They have studied it so profoundly
that they claim to know bettor what it means
than the men who made it. They have nomi
nated Southern Constitutional candidates, and
have men travelling about the country expound
ing the Constitution; and yet there is scarcely
ono of them but will tell you that, notwith
standing the fact that Mr. Lincoln may be elooted
in the mode pointed out by the Constitution and
hy a constitutional majority, they will not submit,
Yon hear It from the stump—you read it in their
papers and in their resolutions--that if Mr. lan
coin is elected the Union is to be dissolved, Here
is a constitutional party that Intends to violate the
Constitution because a man is constitutionally
cleated President. Here is a constitutional party
that proolattne it treasonable for a mall to uphold
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1860.
the Conetitution. If the people oonettintionally
sleet a President, te the minority to resist him?
Do they intend to carry lhatflrinelple Into their
new Southern Coafeidetaoy7 If: they do, we can
readily conceive hew long it will last. They doom
it patriotism now to 'eyeliner the Bevernment.
Let them succeed, andin that class of patriots they
will be able to ontrival Maxim
"But who are the, teaohera of this new-Tangled
Southern Constitutional Demooracy ? Are they
not men like Yancey and Wigan, who have been
always regarded as beyond the pale of National
Demoaraoy ? Transplants from the South Ca
rolina nursery of disunion? Whenever and
wherever_ the spirit of nullifleation and. disunion
has shown itself, they and their coadjutors have
been fotind' zealously at work. They have been
defeated time and again; but, like Men who
have a purpose, they have not ceased their efforts.
No sacrifice of pride or dignity boa been deemed
too groat if it assisted in the great purpose of dis
union. What if they assailed the Compromise of
1850: they endorsed it In the platform of 1852.
From non-intervention they turn to intervention.
From the 'peculiar advocates of State Rights, de
lving the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, they
become the advocates of the Supremo Court as an
arbiter, and about for the Deed Scott decision.
'_nything for disunion! They can as readily die
delve the Union upon one Isaac as another. At
the Nashville Convention they de:tennis:o to die.
solve it, unless the Iffissenri Compromise line wee
extended to the Pacific. In 1854 they deemed the
' existence of this line a cause of separation, and de
manded Its repeal. The admission of Kansas was
the next ultimatum, and now it is the election of
Mr. Lincoln. Should they fall, it will bo the
adoption of the slave code, and the repeal of the
laws making the demo trade piracy,"
*
"I have appealed to the old Whigs. Let toe
now invoke the shade of Andrew Jackson, and ask
Democrats whether the doctrines which, in these
latter days, are called Southern Constitution al
Democracy, were Democracy then ? Mon of 1832,
when flashed that angle eye so bright, when more
proudly stood that form that never quailed, than
when repelling the shock of disunion? Jackson
was the embodiment of Demooracy then, Re came
forth in the name of the people and fought these
heresies which are now proclaimed hero as Demo
cracy. Democrats, you remember; Whigs, you re
member, how Clay and Webster aided Jackson to
put down nullification and secession ! Will you
stand back now, when both are openly avowed by
sectionalism North and South?
't I Invoke the illustrious name of Jaokson, and
bid you not prove recreant to his memory. 20
those who plot the ruin of their country, North or
South, that namo brings no pleasant remembrances ;
but to the national men of long service, to the
young mon who have been roared to love that
name, I appeal. The same 1E240 is upon you that
wee upon him. He stood with the Constitution at
his book, and defied disunion. Let the people say
to these Abolition agitators of tho North, audio
the Disunion agitators of the South, You cannot
dissolve this Union. We will pot you both down;
but we will not let the Union go !'
"Now, mark me, I do not sail all those Demo
crats who are in the ranks of this Southern Con
stitutional party—l do not proclaim their candi
dates to be—Diounionista. You have their records
and present declarations, and can judge for your-
Selves. There are good and loyal mon to be found
in this party. and I would not charge them wrongly.
" No, my follow•citizens. do not say that all
those Southern Constitutional Democrats are Dis•
unionists ; but I do say that all the Southern Die
unionists are Southern Constitutional Democrats.
" I oan speak but little longer ; but let my last
words be remembered by you. When I look back
and remember the names which are canonised as
the tutelar saints of liberty, and the warning they
have given you against disunion. I cannot believe
that you 'will be led astray. I cannot long be
among you. My sands of life aro fast running
out. As the glass becomes exhausted, if I can
feel that I min leave my country prosper
ous and united, I shall die content. To leave
men with whom I have mingled in troubled
times, and whom I have learned to lova as
brothers—to leave the children of those whom
I have seen pass away, after lives of de
votion to the Union—to leave the people who have
borne me up and sustained me—to leave my coun
try, and not feel that the liberty and happiness
that I have enjoyed would still be theirs, would
be the worst pang of death. I am to leave chil
dren among you to share the fate of your children.
Think you I feel no interest in the future for
their sakes? We axe passing away. They must
encounter the evils that are to come. In the far
distant future, the generations that spring from
our loins are to venture in the path et glory and
honor. If untrammelled, who can tell thiciniglity
progress they will make? If cast adrift—lf the
calamitous cures of disunion is indicted upon
them, who can picture their misfortune and
shame?" " OCCASIONAL.
(Correspondence of The nen.]
IVAsurNaTorr, October 80, 1860
If there was a necessity of inoreasing the ruate
rial of defeat in Now York, nothing bettor could
have been done than to permit Governor Stevens,
the Yankee fire•eater from Washington Territory,
to address the people, as he did last Siturday
night. As chairman of the Disunion Committee ;
as author of the clam-eater" pamphlet, wherein
he calls Judge Douglas a travelling mountebank;
as ono of the vilest and most bitter tradneers of
that groat statesman, be is, indeed, the man to ad
vise the New York Democraoy what they have to
do! It is almost contemptible to think that '.ono
of Judge Douglas' butchers, ono of the loaders of
the bolters, and seceders from the regular Demo
oratio organization, should dare to muko his ap
pearance before Douglas men, and ask them to
vote for a fusion tioket, by which these traitors hope
to elect their own renegade ticket! Men like
Governor Stems do more by a single speech to
open the eyes of the Douglas men, than all the
Republican papers can do - In a year. To the Go
vernor the bad result in your Rtatemust also be as
cribed. Ile has been very active in your cam
paign, constantly travelling between hero andPhi
ladelphla. The ,vrook before the election ho stop
pod at the latter city, Do Is now in Now York,
pnicrtimuww-chs-rolfcretpira-A auk- ,Dancerktlic
of Mr. Douglas; and no true Democrat to the coun
try, who will veto for Mr. Breokinridge ; for
they oppose politiesl opponents, but despise and
shun traitors.
The plan of the Seceders is to make Breokin
ridge President at all hazards—i. e , if not' of the
whole United States, at least of a Southern Re
public. Mr. Buchanan is initiated in that move
ment, and be is to make over to Mr. Breokinridge
the public' archives, treasury, buildings, army and
navy, in tho event of the success of the secession
movement ; for the Seceders still hope to carry
all the alive States next November Should they
not be able to do that, then they will either have
to wait a little, or change the programme alto'
gather.
Great efforts are made by tho Administration
press to convince the publio thatfiecretary Thomp
son has not taken into consideration the political
creed as much as the neoesary professional qualifi
cations of an applicant for a clerkship in the Cen
sus Bureau. Bat that is all bosh ! If not, let
those papers come forward and prove that there is
one single Republican or Douglas man in that of
fice nt vr ! KAPPA.
ARCII•STREET TBEATRIL-Mr. Edwin Booth
will commence an engagement here this evening,
opening as Gloster, In the tragedy of t , King
Itieltard III." Mr. Booth is one of the most
popular stars" who visit this city, and, Weed,
no performer at Aroh street Theatre bee so many
and snob warm admirers.
WALAUVETHEET THEATRE.—Might we suggest
to Dr. Cunnington that the music of the Mar
seine's°, en "The Dead Heart" (or out of it)
ought not be played by the orchestra in double
quick time. At present, Mr. Hill, who attempts
to sing the words, boo to run a race with the
orchestra who play the music. The piny Conti-
Hues attractive—thanks to the noting of Mr.
Adams, Mr. Wright, and Miss C. Jetforson—and
will probably run next week, as well as the re
maining four evenings of thitt.
THE OPILUA.—There is a rumor of the Italian
singers revisiting Philadelphia after the election.
We doubt it, for the heavy arrears duo to Donna
pars, printers, singers, and others, remain unliqrd
dated. A portion of the company played " Lee
Iluguenotsrat New York, on Monday evening.
The Tribune has : "A word must, however, be said
concerning the ditbut of Miss Fanny Heron. Her
voice is a contralto, with a tendency to the mosso
soprano, rich in quality, fall in tono, and remarka
bly froth. Bho has also a suMoient facility in exe
cution, and pn excellent method. Her knowledge
of stage business Is very good, and her perform
ance generally was marked by a rare intelligence.
The part of the Page is an ungracious one for a
debutante, the costume usually worn being, to say
the leost, not becoming to moat women. In almost
moot any other character, Miss HOron would have
appeared to even greater advantage than in the
one she last night filled; and that, under the cir
oumetancee, she made so decided a success, shoa]
clearly that she is an artist of great ability and
much promise."
The herald reports that Miss Fanny Heron bad
"quite a sums. She has a good moszo•soprano
voice, not powerful, but round and sweet in its
tones, with on excellent method and a brilliant
execution. The good opinion formed of her, in
Philadelphia was fully confirmed by the verdict of
the audience last night." The Missos Heron aro
engaged for Havana.
Ma. Jour; BROUGUAU.—Thisvtlk•kuosvu author
actor has appeared, with great success, at the Hay
market Theatre, London, in his own play of "Ro
mance and Reality."
Ozo. H. linnitEßT'S CONCRUT.—This evening,
at Musloal Fund Ball, Mr. Bonkort will have a
Concert, at which, besides himself, Madame Jo.
hannson, Mr. Thomas Bishop, Mr. 'Wooster, of
New York, Mr. C. Bohmilz, Mr. W. Menem, and
others will perform. In the programme, the In.
otramental and vocal performances aro pretty
fairly balanced—but with a preponderance of the
former. Concert-givers rarely recollect that while
instrumental playing may be most pleasing to
themselves, alleging is more gratifying to the au
dience at large. A favorite pupil of Mr. Benkert's
will perform Thalborg's, beautiful variations of
"Home, Sweet Homo," on the piano -forte. The
Concert, which will open with an 'instrumental
quintotte, commences exactly at 8 this evening.
Onr.v Tarim] A/MTH MORE.—This will be Mr.
Anderson's last night but three at Concert Hall.
To-morrow evening Ivill be for the benefit of his
eldest daughter, and on Saturday he loaves us.
Those who have not seen him, and who wish to
have a good seat when they visit Concert Hall,
should really avail themselves of the opportunity
afforded this evening.
Death of Lieut. S. T. Darrand, D. S. N.
P.ETER STRUM, VO., Oct. 30.—Ltout. John T.
Barrand, U. S. N., died auddonly on Sunday night,
Letter from ~ Kappa."
Public Amusements.
LATEST NEW'S
By Telegraph to The Preso •
MOH WASHINGTON.
Special Despatches to "The Press."
WABIiIIiGTON, Oct 30, IMO.
Great Stock Gatablin,g Operation
I have information to the effect that the panio
movement, by which certain securities wore to be
stricken down, and hundreds of good men ruined
thereby, originated In Now York, and has been
in course of preparation for months past. It is
said that several hundred thousand dollars will bo
realized by the parties secretly interested in this
great " bear " organization. In a few days I ex
pect to got the names of tho engineers.
Postntost er of Detroit
The removal of Mr. WALKER, the popular post
master of Detroit, by Mr. BuctintrAN, for no other
sin than that of being devoted to the cause of STE
PREN A. DOUGLAS, has created great indignation
in Michigan. 'Before his removal the Democrats
were confident of electing lifruttop to Congress,
front the Detroit district, but this blow of the Pre
sident is generally regarded as fatal to hia pros
pects. Gen CASg, who knows Mr. NVALKEit's
worth, made a feoble attempt to save him, but the
President gave orders that the great axe should
fall.
The Old Jackson Men
Nearly all the old Jackson men aro against the
Disunionlsla and Seceders. Fneners P. ItrAin,
Amos Kasnat,L, IlannY Howl, WILLIAIt ALLEN,
GEORGE W. JONES, and lieu llousrox are among
the Hot.
LATER FROM. CALIFORNIA.
[BY PONY min-msg.]
Sr. JosErn, Mo., oat. n.—Tho pony express,
with four days' later California news, arrived this
morning, forty hours behind time.
SAN Frt ‘Ncis.co, Cot. 17, 3 40 P. M
MARlNE.—Arrived on the IGth, slop Trophy from
liiverpool; railed 13th. ship Hornet for Now York; 11
Storm King for Hong Kong,
Iconian for Sydney.
On the 15th. the ship 'tie tawe s lost vrhito costing into
bart. She wait in charge of a pilot when grounding, and
lame is attached to turn for attempting to enter the port
in a dense fog. The leant agent of the underwriters in
the East and Europe, neis , sted by CApt. Roaby, merino
surveyor for 1 lops, held a survey upon the wreck yes
terday, and unanimously decided that sho was a total
loss, and that the bast thing that could be done would be
to sell her on Thursday, for the benefit of whom it may
concern. _ . .
COMMERCIAL
SAN FRANCISCO, Oat. 17,—Little of interest has oo
ourred in the market since the departure of the last
oteenter. Quotations aro without particular chan4o,
though under a somewhat improved demand from the
country the market generally Imo acquired a somewhat
firmer tone, Nnloadlng transactions nave (=erred that
require notice.
lite receipts of wheat have been very hews , ; the beet
shipping parcels cannot be quoted above SI cc, and
chippers are less eager than buyers. ant nothing has
been done in tonnage. 'i he ship Meteor will load wi.h
grain for Liverpool. The capper-ship E. F. Willetts
will 80011 sail for New York. In her cargo will he 67
Pipes pf Cohlorni wine,'and
intervals,
future similar ship
ments will he made at regular to supply an
agency established at the East.
GENERAL NEWS.
Ths pony express, with St. Louis dates to the
7th, was telegraphed. from Carson Valley this
morning
Thera is an intense anxiety to receive the news
of the next express, with dates to the 10th of Sop.
tember, when tho result of tbo Pennsylvania elec
tion is expected. Tho politicians generally con
cede that if Foster is Mooted California will go for
Douglas; while if Foster is defeated, and the other
Northern State eleetiona result in Republican vic
tories' there will bo great danger of California
going for Lincoln Under the aroma of discouraging
Eastern news, it is generally conceded that the
Breckinridneparty are losing strength here.
`Colonel L.D.Baker, the Republican Senator
elect for Oregon, is expected to arrive at San
Francisco by Mauler today. Ws partisan friends
are preparing to gtvo him u public reception. fle
is expected to make a tour of the State for the
benefit of the Republican ticket
Brevet Brigadier General Clark, commander of
the Department of California, died in this oily to
day from chronic diarrhoea, after an illness of two
weeks. Ito has served in the United States army
since 1812 ; was through the war in Mexico, and
was promoted to the distinguished position he
occupied at the time of his death for meritorious
conduit at the siege of Vera Cruz.
The fact cabin passengers who left New York on
September Ist have published' a card in the San
Francisco Papers, since their arrival here, severely
censuring the condition and management of that
steamer, on which they allege they wero denied
the ordinary necessaries of life. The parties com
plaining are highly respectable.
The rainy season has fairly commenced, this ex
press leaving in a most drenching storm.
ORDION
The news from Oregon is unimpo!tant the papers
received being devoted to politics.
The Democratio pnpors of both wings have
generally denounced the coalition which elected
ono Republican Senator. This has brought out
an address from the fiftoon Douglas members of
the Legislature who united with the Republicans,
in which they excuse themselves as follows :
" In voting for Colonel Baker wo were influenced,
to some extent, by his position upon the slavery
question in the Territories—a position differing but
little from that of our own patty. Although noting
With the Republicans, Colonel Baiter, in tho can-
V 0.83 of this Stale last spring, openly declared
himself in favor oipractical nonintervention, and
allowing the Territories, as well as the States, to
settle their dornestio affairs in their own way. ilia
open and repeated declarations upon the stump in
California, during the State canvass of lest year,
with his private prof, ssions more recently made,
leave us no room to doubt his sincerity. In voting
for him, therefore, our sacrifice of principle seems
to be more iu name than substance. Aside from
partisan politics, we are satisfied that Colonel
Baker will prove a wise, able, and prudent Sena
tor, and will reflect credit upon the State which
has entrusted him with the position, which is more
than can be said, wills truth, of our Senators
hitherto."
gtolti
been said in the public prints recently
of gold dollars into pieces of largo donominakii
it may be stated that orders for that purposo have
been issued from this Treasury Department in two
special oases only, and then on representation that
tho smaller coins occasion much inconvenience in
tho rereipte and disbursonsonts, for no sooner are
they paid out than they aro again returned in bu
siness transactions, thorn appearing to be a re
dundanoy of thorn among commercial classes.
The Assistant Treasurer at New York was, for the
greater facility in counting, authorized to have
about two millions of them reooined, and the As
sistant Treasurer at St. Louis, upwards of ono hun
dred and fifty thousand, for similar reasons. This
recsinago, however, applies to the original or ear
lier issues, which, it is known, aro smaller in oir
oumforaree and thiokor than the latter, and nu
porior coin. Of the former those are now nine
millions. and of the latter six millions in simula
tion. On an application or complaint, a few days
since, from Philadelphia, two hundred thousand
dollars of the now dollars were sent from Now
York to tho Mint, whence they were withdrawn,
and vary many of them again found their way to
New York Indio the gold dollars aro a great
convenience in small, it is considered that thorn is
a rodunclaney of them for largo transactions, and
hence tho resent special orders in relation to the
receinego. There dose not seem to be any purpose
so to reduce the amount of this desoription of coin
as to inconvenionee the publio.
Kansas Allturs
LEAVENWORTH, Oot. 30.—ahe Tcntes, of this
oily, has Information from Southern Kansas, that a
company of U S. dragoons, sixty in number, under
command of Capt. Sturgis. accompanied by Indian
Agont Cowan, had barn driving tho settlers from
what is known as tho Chorokoa toutral lands.
The nines' correspondent states that seventy
four houses had been burned, and the occupants
been turned out. Much excitement prevails in
Southern Kansas in consequence, but it is thought
the statements aro greatly exaggerated.
A mooting of the citizens of this county was hold
last evening, to devise plans for the general re
lief of the sufferers in the Territory. A committee
was appointed to solicit immediate aid from the
East A committee was also appointed to act in
concert with the committees appointed by other
counties in the matter, and a call has been lamed
for a conference at Lawrence on the 14th of No.
vember.
The river is exceedingly low at this point, and
navigation difficult.
The Threatened Seceision
LOUISVILLE, Ost. 30.—Tbe Journal, of this
morning, says that remarkably shrewd and well
informed politicians, teoently from Washington,
state that some of the principal Brechitaridge
leaders in the South, including Senator Wigfoil,
and Judge Meek, of Alabama, agreed on lost
Thursday upon a plan of notion in case of Lin
coln's election, vis, ; That South Carolina, within
thirty days after the oleotlon, would doplare her
self independent, and send an atubaspador to
Washington, asicing a recognition. If oho was re
cognized as an independent power, the other South.
orn States would follow suit, and after a sufficient
,number of States wore thus rooognizod, the South
ern Confederacy would be formed.
The New Yurk Auti-Rent Suits
ALBANY, October 40 —The Anti-Rent suits wore
titian! disposed of in the Supreme Court this
morning The Court of Appeals, it will be re
membered, affirmed the judgment of the Supreme
Court, which was in favor et the landlord, and di
rected the record anti proceedings to be committed
to the Supremo Court The centiliter was filed
this morning, whereupon Judge Rogeboom di.
rooted an order to be entered declaring that
the judgment of the Court of Appeals stand
as the judgment of the Supremo Court, and
the plaintiffs have execution against the de
fendants for damages and costs. Under this
decision the landlord can proceed at once to irons
executions of the judgments rendered for the ro
oovery of the amount claimed, and also the tests
of the different actions.
Front New Mexico.
FiDIWENDEN6T, MO , 001:' , 11.--The Now Meal.
oan moil, with dates to the 15th instant, arrived
to day.
Mr. Auherg has succeeded in recovering sixty
throe of hit mules that worn stolen by the Indians.
In all probability, that is all ho over will get bock.
The hostilo Indians are all around Haute. Po, and
the citizens dare not venture any distanoo out for
fenr of being murdored.
There is no norm from the army In the MOOR
tales, sent out in pursuit of the Navajos Indians.
No hostile Indians were seen on the plains, and
the news from Moro is of no Importance.
A Forgery Denounced.
LEXINOTON, Ky., Oot 30.—Vice President I.lreek
inridge authorizes the anneutoeurent that the let
ter published over his signature, purporting to be
addressed to Pr. J. T. P. Colman, Elizabeth City,
North Carolina,. under date of the 6th inst., is a
forgery, lie has written no rush letter.
Douglas in Georgia
AUGUSTA, Oct. :30 —Mr Douglas bas been hailed
en tbutdastioally along his route In Upper Georgia
Thousands greeted bite at Atlanta.
Financial '1 voltaic, in Ilnliin ore
BALTIMORE., 013 t :10 —Considerable trouble exists
among the stook btchere, and ccvrial failurts uro
reported
Arrival of the Steamer Illinois.
NEW Yorac, Oet, —Tho steamship Illinois,
from Havre and Sontbampton, Las strived. !kr
(NW have boon anticipated.
THE CITY.
AMUSEMENTS TIM EVENING
WALNUT-STREET THEATRE, Walnut and Ninth ate.—
" TheiDead Heart"—" A Popular Comodietta."
WHEATLEY it CLARKE'S ARCII-sTREET
THEATRE,
Arch street, above alath.--" Rice and III."
CONTINENTAL THEATRE, Walnut at., above Eighth.—
The (heat American Consolidated Circus Company.
_TAN AMEURGII & Co.'s MAMMOTH MENAGERIE AND
GREAT MORAL EXHIBITION, Tenth and Callowhill.
hicDowounit's OLYMPIC (WA Gaieties). Race street,
above Second.—" Katy, the Hot Corn Girl"—"The
Artful Dodger."
CONCERT BALL. Chestnut street, above Twelfth..—
.The Wizard of the North."
SANVOILD'E OPERA HOUSE, Elaventb atreot, al.ove
Chestnut—Concert nightly.
Speech of Hon. John A. Bingham,
of Ohio, at National Hall.
LAST OP THE GRAND SERIES
GREAT ENTHUSIASM
National Hall witnessed, last evening, the last,
perhaps the best, of the great series of Republican
addresses in favor of " freedom and protection.''
We doubt that any Presidential campaign ever
witnessed a finer array of partisan orators upon
the same side—Sherman and Adams, Dickman and
Dayton Train end Reeder, Stanton and Bingham.
These gentlemen have, for the most part, confined
their dissertations to the question of slavery ex
tension. Mr. Bingham tempered his remarks
upon that question with somo well.meant allusions
to the manufseturing interests of Pennsylvania,
and the necessity for their protection. Me has
earned for himself a high reputation for ability as
a forensic orator", and was born in Mercer, Penn
sylvania, in 1815.
In 1854, he was elected by the Republicans to
represent the Twenty-first district of Ohio in Con
gress, and took his seat with John Sherman in
1855. His majority at that time was 2,300. lle
was ono of the sixty who voted for the famous
Blake resolutions declaring' all men free At the
recent State election, his district gave him a plu
rality of 4,100, and a clear majority over the whole
fusion vote of 3,4.00. The Twentyfirat district of
Ohio comprises that section of the State adjacent
to the " Pan-bandlo," and adjoining 'to Virginia.
In person Mr. Bingham is small, with prom - inent
bones, and features sharp and resolute. Ho has a
small gray eye, which ho uses with great keenness
and fire. His voice is not deep, hut untiring and
distinct. He moves from spot to spot during deli
very, and his language is of a classical precision,
even in its most florid descriptions. Nona of GM
groat Republican orators have equalled him in the
pungency and applicability of metaphor and ex
ample. Occasionally sentences indloative of a re
fined poetic tuition intruded into the sterner ar
guments The speech - was rapturously hailed ;at
times the applause grew wearisome from its ex
'less, and painful from its loudness.
The meeting was called to order, by. Geo. Riche,
who nominated Robert S. Reeves for President.
He said that the honored eon of Ohio. John Sher
man, had already addressed the Philadelphia Re
pubficans ; to-night another honored son of Ohio
was to speak.
Mr. Bingham was greeted with three minutes of
applause. It was his purpose to speak plainly of
public' mon and measures, without giving offence.
He was to speak as a citizen, not as a partisan ;
riot for a section, but a whole country; and above
all, not for despotism, but for liberty. [Applause ]
Who would eaoriBco the interests of the many for
the claims of the few ? For such, Philadelphia
should never be a home. He stood under the sha
dow of Independence Hall, to proclaim, in the spi
rit of its early patriots, devotion to the principles
of which Abraham Lincoln wee the champion.
He could neither be bribed nor scared from the
issues which would devolve upon him. [Three
cheers ] He stood pledged to the tedustrlel inter.
eats of the people of the country and the conserva
tion of the bread domain to free white labor—land
for the landless—homes for the laborer. [Ap
plause ] The fathers of the Republic in this city
proclaimed the creed which he was proclaiming
Every well-informed man knew that the necessity
for Republican legislation led to the adoption of
the Constitution. There was then a want of power
in the General Government to provide for the inte
rests of the people. The Legislature of Virginia,
in that early day, demanded of their delegates to
Congress protection for free industry. The Con
stitution Wes framed for the "general welfare,"
" common defence," and to inaugurate "the bless
legs nf Ilbarty." [Applause.]
' "No person should be depived of his property
but by duo process of law . " Judge Taney was
not beard of then. [Laughter.] No distinction of
persons was made in the Constitution—no nobility
but that of the heart, the brain, and the hand. In
such spirit they legislated; there was no bickering
between South and North; it was plain to all men
that the legislation then was for the good of f-eo
men. Tho only State which proposed to incorpo
rate the word slave was South Carolina. She has
acknowledged ever since an unclean spirit. (Re
newed applause. i And the father of the Constitu
tion arose in his place, and said it was wrong
[Shouts.] If a free Government was to sauced at
all, it must be through the energies of the home
people. How was it that the question of protec
tion to free industry was controverted to day ?
The opposition to protection first originated in
South Carolina. In 1830 they organized companies
of " Minute-Men " to resist the collection of reve
nues. In 1844 Pennsylvania was persuaded that
James K. Polk was as good a tariff man as the
lion-hearted commoner of Kentucky, [tremendous
ehoorsd and was deceived. The Union had paid
$500,000,000 on the single article of iron to keels'
up the price of negroos for 300,000 slaveholders.
The treasury deficit was then adverted to. The
deficit arose from defects in tho revenue system,
which, daring throe years, had amounted to a sum
of $20,000,000. It would not take long to break the
Government. In the last Congress the Committee
of Ways end Means, headed by John Sherman,
[cheers,] acoompanted by Thaddeus Stevens, the
Nestor of the Howie, [applause,] reported a hill
for protection to Ameremn industry. Then, a gen
tleman from the South had said that cotton was
king, and not iron " In the speech of William H.
Seward protection was adverted to. Mr. Dangles
had at that time a sore thro;11. (Laughter.] He
could not toll his masters in Congress as ho spoke
in Lancaster to Pennsylvantaies—for on its ebony
throne, cotton was enshrined in tharneietenl. speak
trete_Stophen these momentous word
Ltl i mu
te MilinWlrearrl r di v e e algal } thti ear
support of South Carolina, whose Senator (Ham:
mond) had stigmatized the Northern laborers as
" rnud-silis of society." Yet we were told that
Breakinridge and Douglas were equally good tariff
mon with honest Abe Lincoln. The plains which
rolled from the :Mississippi to the Golden Gates of
tho Pacific were to blossom with the fruits of free
mon, or blighted by the tread of the aheckled
But it was " unoonstitutional to protect freedom
in the Territories." They bad to wait eighty-four
years until the old Chief Justice grew white and
his intelloot darkened before ho would sign e
Dred Scott bill.
In the case of American Insurance Company vs.
Contard, Chief Juatioo Marshall had decided that
Congress had a right to exclude slavery from the
Territories.
Air. Bingham hero cited a great number of eases,
to prove that Congrese should legislate to protect
free white labor in the Territories, and alluded to
the admission of Ohio with the proviso that domes.
tic Eervitudo should never be tolerated therein
Stephen A. Douglas had voted in the case of Texas
to restrict slavery north of ifs degrees.
Calhoun's login really meant that there was no
Government at all—Calhoun, whore intellect he
admired, whore private virtues ho revered. • Could
nut Congress protect the laborer in the Territories
from murder, or treason? why not from slavery,
the sum of all villainies, for which no man could
find apology? Slavery had become a Democratic
institution, to bo protected by Federal law in all
the Territories, or to be established there by the
Supreme Court. The people were superior to the
Supreme Court, as they ought to ho. (Cheers J
Mr. Bingham continued at groat length to de
nounce the idea that the Government could not
protect the Territories from slavery, which. eon,
demntd mon to labormithoutreward and die with
out hope. [Cheers ] Kansas had been driven out
of the Union like Hagar, because she had dared to
reject slavery. She has been rejected because she
would gins a Republican vote in the Presidential
election. Where wee the champion of popular
eoVorolgnty when Charlet Sumner was assailed in
the Senate chamber? , Douglas had said, unable to
answer his argument, "Does the speaker coped to
be kicked like nalog that he may receive sympa
thy?"
In Buchanan's first message he had advocated
the admission of Kansas with a slave Constitution.
That infamous Constitution had been defeated in
the house by the Republloane, aided by a few
honest Demoorate of the North like noble John
Hickman. [Shrieks, prolonged and deafening
When Kansas came again, with a free charter in
her band, she was omit aside. Where was, then,
the champion of popular sovereignty ? [Laughter
That was an Issue now, the admission of free
Kamm The infamous white and black slave
modes of How Mexico WON ales to be considered.
Every person eontrezted to do service in the Terri
tory should bo subject to corporeal correction by
the employer, and the court should not interfere—
whipping white mon and women, perchance ! For
this code Democratic. Senators bad voted. A more
infamoua law never existed, since the bloody code
of Drees, than the black cede of the same Terri
tory—providing for the Imprisonment of a twelve.
month of every black man, and, at the end of that
time, the selling of him at public auotion.
True labor entitled its performer to the grail.
tude of the employer. lie who finds out his own .
true work is a hero of God's. The question was
up gravely before an American Congress whether
these codee should bo repealed. It was repealed
in the House, for it would not do to talk of popu
lar sovereignty whore the lash fell on the backs of
white mon and women. In the Senate, Mr. Dou.
gins (15th and lath May) had played the part of
Balaarn'e ass, which lifted its lips and spoke when
the angel stood in its way. The immortal angel
of ,liberty had appeared to him, and in its radiant
foes Xing Cotton (his &lam) hail chnbbed him,
and he had meekly said : "Am Inot thine ass ?"
{Tremendous laughter.) lie had said to the South,
" The slave code extends your institution up to
38 north latitude; these Blank Republicans would
repeal it." This issue was now to be decided ;
should these infamous codes be repealed ?
The homestead bill was then referred to at
length. Lincoln was pledged to it, and its praati
oat effect would be to spread civilization over the
unfilled prairies, where the buffalo and the Indian
roved. Air Bingham then referred to the course
of Congress in the matter and the President's veto. ,
In the South the great proportion of non.slaie-
were landless; they would make an exodue
from the slave-cursed States, and, as they made
four-fifths of the whole population of the South,
its representation in Congress would wofully di
minish. This was the sewed of the opposition of
the South to the homestead bill. Tho Union would
bo best cemented by vailtiplying the number of
ft eeholdere. Turn to Webster's oration: " When
the Pilgrims left the Old World they turned their
hacks upon the feudal system, and adopted the
freehold syntem. This fixed the frame of our civil !
institutions."
France, under King Louis, adopted a freehold
system, and had not Franco changed that law,
that law would have changed France. Louis, with
cotton umbrella and a flve•frano piece, skulked
nteny from Franco, and (lied in a foreign shore.
Give men a home and hearthstone to fight tor.
"Shouts and applauso.l That was a beautiful story
of Horatio, who, as he stood against false. hestus,
looked first to the white yorch of hla home and
said :
" 0, Tiber, father Tiber.
To whom the lionises may,
A nowise hien, a Roman hf,,
Take them In charge this day."
If they hod strength in the Union end faith in
the Constitution, let thorn plant the home of the free
non rather titan the but of the siege. Sentl l‘y the
Conaitution in its spirit no well as its letter. The
tiod of the Fathers will preserve the Confederacy,
and the clouds which gather over the country will
vanish in the triumph of free principles. This is to
he, and God grantthat alb the vestiges of our abomi
nations may everituallyivanish—when slavery shall
not be our boast, but our - scorn,
,and martyrs for
freedom be rewarded with Other doom than tho
disgraceful scaffold [Nine cheers I
Mr. Bache then proposed the following resolu
tions, which were unanimously carried:
Resolved, That we return our thanks to the
Hon. Sohn A. Bingham, of Ohio, for his able,,
earnest, and eloquent exposition of the principles
of our party.
Resolver!, That the people of Pennsylvania ex
change congratulations with their brethren of Ohio
upon the magnificent results already achieved, and
assure them of their hearty co-operation in a still
greater triumph in November.
Hon. James Oarupbhll then made a speeds - , al
lading to the Pennsylvania parentage of Mr. Bing
ham, and arguing the absurdity of threata of dis
union.
Barbecue in the - Twenty-fourth Ward.
Er=
The third of the series of grand barbecues came
off in West'Philaddlphia yesterday afternoon, in
honor of the election of Andrew G. Curtin as Co.
vernor of Pennsylvania. It has been extensively
rumored that these jubilant Ovations are intended
rather to reimburse the treasuries of certain pas
senger-railway companies, than to indicate any
extraordinary,enthnsiasm for the , triumph of the
Republican party. The two previous ox-roastings
have been marked by graphic and singular scenes,
and that of yesterday overtopped its predecessors
in an excess of burlesque, whloh finally resulted in
a general animmage among the idiots assembled
to do reverence to the Governoveleet.
The ox was presented to the Twenty-fourth Ward
People's Association by Dlr. Clouds. The spot
selected for the affair stands immediately opposite
the terminus of, the West Philadelphia Passenger
Railway, and consists of a field or pasture lot ad
mirably adapted for popular gatherin g s. Unfor
tunately, however, it is adjacent to the Democratic
Headquarters, .and it was evident et the com
mencement of the performance that efforts would
be made to ridicule the proceedings Nine o'clock
in the morning was the hour announced for the be
ginning of the sport, and, notwithstanding the
heavy rain which set in about that time end con
tinued during the day, by two o'clock a large
crowd of people was in attendance, who were shel
tered from the pelting sterna beneath capacious
umbrellas of varied hues.
Finally, the huge animal was taken from the
fire, and the initiatory promise of carving was be.
gun by two sturdy butchers Slices of no mini
ream cite wore out from the quartera aid ribs, and
given out to the hungry men, accompanied by
peony rolls There you greasy sandwiches were
adapted to the appetite of the masses, whose faces
soon assumed a wonderfully oleaginous appear
ance.
Jut about this limo coven colored gentlemen,
with the instruments,of music commonly alleged to
aceoinpany plantation melodies, made their ap
pearance on the .Demooratic platform, and drew
off about two-thirds of the recipients of " beef."
The ebony'
vocalists sang sentiments relative to
Ilarper's IfOrry; add' at Into miserable verse the
good time cowing, of perfect equality and practi
cal R epublicanitim. The vilified barbecue parties
heard with patience ; until is drunken individual
attempted a mock negro harangue from the same
platform, whiob led - to a general row.' Noses die.
charged copiously of blood, and bruises were as
largely supplied. The affair - finally - quieted, and
some speeches were made by George L ; Martin and
Dr. R -K. Smith.
THE, PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS IN' PIMA.-
DELPIibt—SKETCH OF THEIR PLATFORII—SORE STA.
TISTICB —l,Ve gave. in The Press of Saturday a
sketch of the " Sunday institute," in which we
alluded to the Progressive Friends as partaking in
some manner of the " liberal" or infidel seatiment
of that association. Unfortunately for the Pro
gressive Friends - we confounded them with a body
known by the title of " Congregational Friends of
Troth." The former feel aggrieved that they are
placed in association with confessed infidels, per
haps atheists. To amend, in some measure, the
effect of this misstatement, we have been at pains
to compile from their pnbliontions the objects of
their organization. ,
The first Pennsylvania Convention was held in
1852, and. we believe, at Longwood meeting-house,
near Kennett, Cheater county. The inaugurators
were chiefly members of the Society of Friends,
who opined that in that body there was an excess
of coldness And of formalism, which verged upon
positive inanity. In the call for•their fourth an
nual convention, they stated that "the Progressive
Friends have no creed as a bads of association.
Their object is to buildup a sect, armed with eccle
siastical power, and endowed with authority to de
fine the boundaries of thought and restrain the
freedom of speech and action, but to unite persons
of every shade of theological opinion, in orris SPIRIT
OF LOVE, to 'do poi unto all men as they haire
opportunity;' to cultivate in themselves whatso
ever is pnro, generous, and ennobling; to worship
God in the service of humanity ; to investigate
those questions of individual and social duty, ?thief'
the experiences of daily life and'the conflict of sects,
parties, classes, and nationalities, aro perpetually
;
evolving to vindicate the primordial rights of
man. and plead the cause of the poor, the ignorant,
the degraded, and the oppressed; to testify against
those systems of popular wickedness which derive
their support from a false church and a corrupt
government ; to promote the cause of 'pure and
undefiled religion , by a firm resistance to impo
sitions; to elevate the standard of public morals,
by teaching mon to revere, as paramount to all
human sides, the law written by the finger of God
in their own minds and hearts; to exemplify
the spirit of universal brotherhood, and to pro
claim the evangel of Peace on earth, good will to
men.'"
We find addressed to the Convention congratula
tory letters from Lydia. Maria Child, James Free
man Clarke, Lucy Stone Blackwell, Wm. H. Fish
- •
Gerrit Smith, W. L. Garrison, the Hutchinson
family, Charles H. Whipple, Geo. F. Noyes, A. D.
Mayo, John G. Fee, and a large number of other
reformers, less widely known. Several of these
letters were from pastors of churches, particularly
of the Unitarian and Congregational schools. The
proceedings were opened with prayer and singing ;
committees were appointed upon a number of re
form subjects, and dlaoussions of an earnest but
charitable character engrossed the sessions. A
groat diversity of views was exhibited, and &num
ber of interrogatories, the treatment of each of
which would have judiciously engrossed a whole
nerary, proposed to —t
The piatteturar testimonie
aiamost
recent conventions, claims for
for
oar ~...
troverted rights; dereands for spiritualism a fair
z.,..,...5 t ,...ii0rpr0p05es that schools shall be free
from seotarian influence ; encourages physical edu
cation ; and total abstinence; denounces the use of
tobacco, and opposes war ; condemns capital pun
ishment ; advocates social equality-and universal
freedom, and proposes a number of minor reforms,
which have been agitated for many years in this
and other progressive countries.
The tone of the successive conventions hes been
sufficiently moderate to commend the organization
to many rational minds. A recent inquiry into
the resources and intelligence of the prominent
movers in the enterprise has convinced us that
they are warmly and prudently enlisted for the in•
ooption of the several experiments proposed ; and
whatever may be private or popular opinion as to
the impracticability or wisdom of their conga teat,
we have heard, not even from the strictest cynic,
an impeachment of the integrity and earnestniss
of the Philadelphia Progressives.
The Philadelphia organisation meet every San•
day efterncon nt an academy in Sixth street, be
low Race. T li. Langshore, EN ,is the secretary,
we believe. They state, in a recent circular, that
their weekly meetings were instituted in January,
I SSU.
"The as:cciation accepts all general subjects
affecting tho interests of man as appropriate for
its investigation and action.
"The meetings have not been largo, bat deeply
interesting, and we hope will soon attract many
inquiring minds, who will cooperate with us ut
once if acquainted with our principles and
designs
" We had scarcely inaugurated this movement
before we were made -conscious of its necessity.
The first attempt to discuss popular theology was
the signal for efforts to proscribe no and suppress
our meeting. Publio halls mem closed against us
and the cry of Infidel was raised against our
efforts "
Wo cite the above is a matter of local news.
Whatever interests any large class of citizens is a
legitimate subject for looal exposition. We are
pleased with the opportunity to rectify a mistake,
and at the same time enlighten general readers as
to the claims of a public °Markle°.
PRECOCIOUS Youns. Yesterday, Re.
corder Roost committed three lads fors further
hewing upon a serious charge Their names are
Hamilton Adams, seventeen years of age, Robert
DeGmt, aged sixteen, and John blathers, aged
twenty. Adams was employed in Robert War.
nook's dry goods store, northwest corner of Eighth
and Filbert Streets. For some time past, Mr.
Warnock has missed goods from his store, but Was
unable to trees the source whence they (Heap.
peered. He made known the feats to the Re
corder, who put Giber Carlin on the scent,
who discovered Nathans buokatering block stilt
handkerchiefs, kid gloves, and other articles cf
fancy dry goods about as streets, and selling theta
to his acguairdenoes at low prices., Nathens was
arrested, when he made a confession of bow be
came by the goods, implicating Adams an' De
Groot as the parties from whom be obtained teem.
Tho goods were identified by Mr. Warnock as those
taken from his store. Ile estimates that he has
lost between $5OO and $OOO worth of goods In this
way. DeGroot was employed in a store in the
vicinity, 'and it ja alleged, acted as a sort of agent
In passing the goods from Adams , to Nathans.
Another hearing wilt take place in the ease this
morning before the Recorder. , '
THE OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
ENTBEDD AND RANSACSIID.—SOOIO time during
Monday night the office of "the District Attorney,
in the Adelphia Building, Fifth street, below Wal
nut, was entered. The intruder obtained admis
sion by clambering through a transom window
over the door. The drawers, racks, &c , wore
broken open and ransacked, batnothing was taken,
'so far as can be ascertained. It is supposed that
the robber was in search of some paper in which
60 woe interested. Mr. Mann wishes it understood
that there are no valuables kept in his offloo. and
that important papers are placed out of the roach
of ordinary thieves. A knowledge of these facts
will save burglars trouble, and prevent damage to
the cabinet•ware in the office.
PURLIO LAMPS =Books have itrat, been
opened at the Central and District gas offices for
the securing of greater attention to the department
•of publio lamps. Citizens are requested to give
information respecting accidents which may hap.
pen to the public lamps, or of any failure in light
ing or extinguishing them at the proper time, or
.if not properly cleaned and in goad lighting con
dition This affair is ono of importance. In some
outer sections of the oily it is a frequent occur
rence to End squares utterly destitute of light, and
we believe that the' whole Second police district
contains, on its river front, but two lights. The
public lamps are equally effectual, in many eases,
with a police force; bar, although gas is thus an
able policeman; it does not folio* that all able
policemen are only gas.
THE GREAT WILMINGTON PARADE --
SLAVS-STATE DEPUTATIONS —The People's parade
at Wilmington, Delaware, this evening, will he a
great political demonstration. The line will proba
bly be 10,000 Stronk,:and among the Wide• Awake
deputations present , will be (nubs from Oecequan,
Virginia, 'Washington city, and Baltimore. Ches
ter county will be represented by SOO mounted
men, while the Philadelphia clubs will also have a
representation. It appears from this that the Re
publicans aro even hopeful of carrying Delaware
for Lincoln,
OLD GUARD OF 1844.—A large number of
ancient Americans assembled, last evening, at the
People's Headquarters, and formed themselves into
a club. for parade, on Friday night, with the Twin•
cola 'Wide•Awakes. Some speeohea wore made, in
which the anolent Know• Nothing sentiments wore
reiterated, and arguments adduced to prove that
tho "Old Guard" were justified in rallying with
the ltepublioans.
DE. WILLIAM Aiita txvs A& Dg.
YOUNG were arrested and-taken before
: gam
Henry, at the Central Station, yesterday morn
ing, en the charge of circulating obscene
and filth] publications as , advertisements of
their business. It was in evidence that hand
bills of peculiarly gross character, and bearing
the name of Dr. - Alexander as the advertiser,
were enclosed in envelopes and thrown into
houses and stores of respectable citizens. We
have heard of some of them that . fell Into
the bands of young ladies. The defendants were
required to give bail in $l,OOO each, to answer.
Wo know nothing of the merit or demerit of
the case in question ; but that the Mayor has
turned his attention to the reformation of a gra
'tuitous literature of a certain stamp, is crefflta
blo to himself and just to the vitae. The -vari
ous book-stands clustering about the Exchange,
expose for sale the rankest of French novels, and
it has become a common occurrence to find the
passenger railway cars flooded with advertise
ments of quack medicines, detailing indeeeneles
too vile to be tolerated. Where such things are,
let the parties who thus set - propriety at naught
be brought to account. Such - advertisements,
thrown into homes to pollute the minds of children
and of ladies, are sufficient indictments of an of
fence rank and fulsome.
BainAL ASBALILS—A man named Michael
Hollis, residing on Coates street, between Twenty
first and Twenty-second streets, was assailed by a
gang of rowdies about three o'clock yesterday
morning, and pursued for several squares. It ap•
pears he got into a difficulty with the men at Broad
and Callowhill streets, and endeavored to escape
horn them, but without avail. When be reached
Broad and Parrish streets he cried Ic milder"
sevoral times, and alarmed the neighborhood.
Hollis finally succeeded in reaching his home, so
badly bruised that it was currently reported yes
terday afternoon that he had died from the effects
of his injuries. He was unable to give any olue
that may lead to the detection of the perpetrators
of the assault
CHIEF ENGINEER LYLE. The feeling
among the firemen and the polkie force appears to
be of the wannest character, towards the new
Chief Engineer, singe his display of judgment
and decision at the threatened conflagration of
Saturday last. Since so much relative to the Sal
vation of property depends upon this officer, it is
gratifying to all property holders to know that
Mr. Lyle has, in the early part of his career, -Vin
dicated his ability.
DRAM OF A Bole' FROM VIOTANON.—
Coroner Former was sent for, yesterday, to hold
an iutiurst in the ease of a boy named William
Moraine, nine years of ago, who died ,at No. 1740
St. Joseph's avenue, Ninth ward. It was rumored
that tho death of the deceased was caused by his
having boon beaten by other boys, which subse
quently proved to he without foundation.
conoNsn's litouissr —Nathaniel Delano,
a white man employed on the schooner Alice Lee,
lying at eiehmond, fell deed on the deck, yester
day afternoon. Deceased was about thirtreight
years of age, and leaves a wife in Boston. Verdict,
death from causes unknown.
LARGE SAVA STOCKS REAL FSTATZ, 4.0:
Messrs. M. Thomas & Sons sold yesterday, at noon,
v et o
the Exchange, the tollorring real estate, stooks,
: •
Per share.
6 shares Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank - $57 57
32•• Commercial Bank- 53 25
JO '' Pennsylvania Railrg ad Company 38 76
10 " Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. 611 A
1 " Mercantile Library Company 860
Building lot, Twentieth street, north of /Market
• $llO
Three-story brisk store and dwelling, No. 1631
Lombard street Lot 70 by 78 feet 1,600
Large lot. Front street, south of Franklin street,
103 feet 10 inches front, and 90 feet deep ...... 1,900
Valuable tract of land, 62 acres 99 perches, with
mansion, barn, &c., near Belmont avenue.
-
Twenty-fourth ward. $2BB per 18 0 , 6
Stone mansion and lot. Twenty-fourth ward . 1,225
Country residence, and about 4 acres, Oak lane,
Twenty-second ward • ... . • 3,960
Three story brick dwelling, No .. 310 South Front
street 20 by 123 feet ~
Three.story brink dwelling, No. 318 BoutE 'Pieta 4040
street. 20 by 125 feet 4 690
Valuable bugsnesB property. Warehouso S. W.
corner of Delaware avenue and Ton alley. 62
feet 6 inches front. and 94 feet de •p. Subject to
a mortgage or $4 MO • ~ 27400
77
Dwelling and store, N 0.2,0 LombardLombard street, 20 by
At prim - to safe since laVt report.
irredeemable ground mat of 113.000. Loco
Residence, southeast corner of Tenth*anevral
.... • • 16 600
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE
CON CLUSION of ilia BYERLY CASE—VE.II
- GUlLTY.—Yesterday morning the court room
was densely packed with - people anxious to-hear
the result of the trial of William Sperry wino
charge of fraud. The excitement among those who
hailed from the Fourth ward was partiittlarly
great, as rumors had ,prevailed, during Monday
evening, that a verdict had been rendered atter,
the usual hour for the adjournment of the Court;
This, of course, was not tone, but credit was
given to the story from the faot that Mr. Byerly
had been arrested at 7 o'eloek, and looked up in
the Fifth-ward station-house until near 10 o'clock,
when Mr. Cassidy succeeded in procuring his re.
lease by , an order from Judge Thompson.
The difficulty originated from the feet that the
officers of 'court made a mistake alto the bail of
the defendant The individual who was at first
taken to bo the ono was considered worthless, and
hence the warrant of arrest. It was subsequently
discovered that the hail was perfect 3.
As Mr. Sharkey was about to take the verdict,
Mr. Brewster, one of the counsel for the defendant,
atone and said, on behalf of Mr. Byerly, he ob. ,
jected to the reception of a, sealed verdict. The
act of Assembly made this punishment infamous,
and upon the grade of punishment this was ale
lony, and consequently there could be no separa.
tion of a jury without the consent of the prisoner's
counsel.
Mr. Brewster asked the judge to make a note of
their oijcztion.
'no verdict was then taken. It was "Guilty."
Mr. Brewstisr then asked the court to defer action
on the verdict until Saturday, and in the mean
while, if there was any question as to the bail, it
might be increased to any amount.
Judge 'Thompson sailßl that, under the peculiar
circumstances of this case, he could not take hail.
If a motion was made, he would take the matter
into consideration.
Mr. Brewster hoped his Honor would decide the
question speedily, in justice to the defendant, to.,
- w-11 S - udge Thompson promised to &spine •
lion before the court adjourned, and he did so by
refusirg to grant it, and Mr. Byetly was taken-to
prison.
The punishment affixed by law is an imprison
ment not to exceed three years, a fine not to exceed
$l,OOO, and deprived of citizenship.
tiNITRI3 STATES CIRCUIT COURT—Judge,
Grier.—Woolston vs. The John A. Warner. In
this ease, which was argued on an appeal from the
decision of Judge Cadwalader, who held that the
admiralty jurisdiction dii not attach, Judge Grier
has given a decision, in which he says:
I see no deficiency in the statements of this
libel, to Meg this ease within the jurisdiction of
the Court of Admiralty.
It is not disputed that a contract to starry pas.
sengers 'en the high seas is as much a maritime
contract as that to carry freight—and that the ves
sel is bound by the contract of the master, as FOOD
as the passenger has been received on board and
the voyage conateenoed In Minturn Ts. King,
How. 469, it was taken for granted
The voyage in this case was from the port of
Philadelphia to Cape May, and thence to the
Great Eastern, and thence back to Philadelphia.
This was not a mere contract for transportation
from one place to another in the came State, or
from one part of the port of Philadelphia to ano
ther. It was a contract to carry on the high seas
to a town in another State, and thence to a certain
point in the Atlantic ocean. It is as much a ma
ritime contract as one to carry a passenger to
England or China ; nor is it less a maritime con
tract because the vessel is bound to take the ruts-
Boner to a certain place and bring him bank
again.
Nor is it material to the definition of a maritime
contract, to show in the libel whether the passen
ger was travelling for amusement or on business.
On a charter party of a vessel to sail for the banks
of Newfoundland to catch mackerel, it could hardly
be seriously averred that because the ship was
chartered, not only to carry out bat to fetch back
again, that the contract was not maritime, or that
the man that went to catch flab to sell would "have
his remety in admiralty, while he who *ant to
fish for pleasure or amusement could not ; nor is
there any magic in the word " Excursion,"
which will take the contract out of the Category
If a number of gentlemen were to charter a
vessel to take them on an excursion of pleasure to
the Mediterranean Sea and back again, it would
be making a distinction where there is no dif
ference, to say such a contract is not maritime,
while a charter party to go to Sicily for a load of
oranges would be.
I am of opinion that the libel exhibited a ease
sufficient to give the District Court jurisdiction in
Admiralty, and that process should be awarded as
prayed for in the libel. The Mark will return the
record with the certificate of the decree of this
court to that effect.
Clondaniel ye. the barge Parkhill. Appeal in
Admiralty. In this ease Judge Grier road an
opinion, ordering a decree for libellant, and that
tho cane be referred to II 0. Ruts, Er% ,as master,
to report the amount of damage.
QUARTER Ssmictxs—Judge Thompson.—
The ordinary business which has been interrupted
by Mr. Byerly'a case was resumed.
Richard Butler Price, who stands convicted of
an assault and battery upon Dr. Deffte, was tined
$5O at d costs.
Disnuar COURT Judge Hare.—James
S. Keep TS Nary Ann Coleman. An action to re.
cover on a bond. Defence, that when thd bond was
executed the defendant was married to Mr. John
Daemon. Verdict for defendant.
Joseph Whartonby ve John B. Newman. An
action to recover for services rendered. Before
reported. Verdict for plaintiff for $43
George W Gaines vs. James Barrett, Jr., and
John MeCandler. This was an action to recover
damages The plaintiff, tvtd is a colored man, got
into one of the Spruce and Pine-streets passenger
cars, and waa ejected by the defendants, ne of
whom was a passenger, and the other the conductor.
An notion of assault and battery was brought
in tho Quarter Sessions, which resulted in the
acquittal of the defendants, and then the present
action was instituted to recover damages. By
agreement a verdiet for plaintiff for $5 was taken,
subject to the opinion of the court.
Edward Tunnay vs. Edward White, executor, Au.
An action to recover on a book account Verdict
for plaintiff for $125 .
DISTRICT OJURT—Judge Stroud.—D.
Mooro it Co. vs the Croon and Coates•streets Pas
songer Railway Company. Before reported. Ter
dint for plaintiff for $15,048.
John Saholl vs. Benjamin Sage and Hugh Moll
veins. An action of trover.
Dorothea Sobanclhand vs. Wood, Wilson, 3;
Wood. A feigned Imo to tea the ownership of
certain goods. Verdict for plaintiff.
Speech of Air. Crittenden.
ST. Louis, October 30 —Senator Crittenden ad
dressed a large audience, composed of men of all
patties, at the Court Douse last night. He eulo•
gized Douglas as a national man, a statesman, and
for his course in opposition to Lecompton, and
urged the Union men of all parties to vote for Mr.
Bell as the only candidate whose success Feted
give peace to the country. He could see no reme;
dy whatever in dissolving the Union or seceding
from it, though the Republican party may elect
their President. We can outvote them In the Na
tional Legislature, and prevent harm from being
done The South can find constitutional safety in
the Union, and preserve that greatest of bleestsga
for this country. He concluded by saying that it
would be his prayer that this Union may last be
yond any calculation.
From Mexico.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 30.—Recent Mexican ad
vices report that $400,000 of the conducts recently
seized has boon resbred.