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won* 1 aaS-fisa
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UMBKSLLAS A°ND PARASOLS,
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Vtra ffttHDXKD DIPFSESKT VAaiXTIMS Ot VMpBSLLAB
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PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1860.
C|b §r t ss.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1860.
The Signers.*
As yet wo aro a youDg nation, but wo havo
the advantage, from that fact, of being ablo to
collect, from tho commencement, such accu
rate memorials, historical personal, of
public events and Individuals as no other
country has at any time obtained. In Europe,
tho early history of nations has boon deli
vered chiefly through tradition, which is gene
rally but another name for fiction. In Eng
land, for example, historians can do little
more than guess at tho particulars of distant
events, and at tho motives of those who acted
in them.
Later down, they become more accurate,
but there still is much uncertainty, amid con
tending narratives. For examplo, a mattorao
comparatively modern as tho conduct and
character of William Penn, has been involved
in controversy by tho imputations caßt upon
both by Macaulay.
Our history, as an independent nation, no
minally commences with the issue of the great
and impressive Manifesto—tho composition of
which reflects so much credit upon Thomas
Jefferson —now world-known as tho Declara
tion of Independence, which is dated July the
Fourth, 1776.
Virtually, however, we might commoncc it,
with propriety, about a hundred years ago,—
namely in 1700, when George tho Third com
menced his roign. Immediately after, his
Minister, Grenville, impressed him with the
idea that the British revenue might bo largely
augmented by levying taxeß, for other than
local purposes, upon tho Provinces or Colo
nies in North America. His plea—for injus
tice always has an excuse, more or less
plausible—was that as tho costly war with
Franco, (concluded by the conquest of
Canada, followed by the Peace of Paris, in
1763,) had been undertaken in some meosure
for tho defence of North America, it was only
just that North America should bear a portion
of the burthens which tho war imposed. Ho
assumed the power of the Parliament in'
London to tax tho Colonies without their
own consent, and, as Lord Mahon declares, it
never occurred to George Grenville “to
weigh tho danger of wide-spread and in
creasing alienation against the profit of a
petty import.” In 1764, he introduced his
Stamp Duties* Resolutions, which, in 1766, ho
embodied in his well-known Stamp Act. The
Colonies naturally were dissatisfied. Virginia
took the lead in public protest, and tho first
to give bold utterance to tho general discon
tent was
" Henry, tho forest-born Damosthonos,
"Whose Umnder shook the Philip of the seas.”
In little more than ten years from the com
mencement of this struggle between Might
and Right, the associated Colonies had issued
the far-famed Declaration of Independence.
Thanks to the taste for collecting Auto
graphs, immense collections for national and
personal history aro to bo found in this coun
try. One would think tbati with little diffi
culty, numerous complete sets of the auto
graphs of the Signers of the Declaration
might have b<?cn obtained. On tho contrary,
they aro very scarce. Out of tho whole fifty
six who pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honors to free this country
from British misrulo, some were men who had
previously taken no ostensible part in public
life, and a few died early—though most of
them lived long. In eleven cases, indeed,
only mere signatures, outside of tho Declara
tion, can now bo obtained for love or money.
Dr. Sprague, of Albany, bas a complete
collection o t the Autographs of tho Signors.
Dr. Raffles, of Liverpool, (England,) has ano
ther. Queen Victoria's collection, which wo
have Been in the prlvato Library at Windsor
Castlo, is nearly complete, wanting only tho
handwriting of three of tho Signers. We be
lievo that tho only complete collections are
those of Dr. Sprague und Dr. Rafilcß. Of
course, tho original document is at Washing
ton, where it is kept much more carefully
than Magna Charta, now to bo seen in tho
British Museum, in LondoD, having been
placed there by an antiquarian, who, at tho
very nick of time, rescued it from tho shears
of a matter-of-fact tailor, who was about cut
ting it up into measures for his trade !
More than ono oxact fac-similo of our De
claration of Independence has boon made by
engravers. Wo are not Buro whether copies
have also been executed by tho photographic
art. But something more than a mere fac
simile has been required by the growing intel
ligence of the ago, and tho strong patriotism
of tho American people. Mr. Brotherhead
has supplied this want, and produced a quarto
volume, iu which he gives not only fac-similo
letters of tho flfty-six Signors, but sixty-one
neatly engraved illustrations, consisting of
portraits, residences, &c., from original draw
ing8 * or from photographs executed expressly
for this work. Wherever a picturo of tho re
sidence could be obtained, that was preferred;
failing this, tho portrait is given. Tho resi
dences of Benjamin Rush, George Clyraer,
Robert Morris, and James Wilson wero drawn
from memory by Mr. Charles A. Poulson,
“ and their accuracy is attested by those who
well remember, not only tho houses them
selves, but tho occupants.” Residences aro
engraved; birth-places; ono church, built by
a signer; burial-places and tombs, and nume
rous portraits, aro hero introduced. There is
neither a portrait of Button Gwinnett, nor a
view of his residence, but instead is a sketch
of tho duel with Col. Lachlan Mclntosh, in
which ho 1011. So, too, of T. Lynch, Jr.,
lost at sea. An allegorical skotch, designed
and executed with taste and spirit, is given, as
frame-work to this portrait.
Most of the autograph letters hero are now
first published. The following collectors have
liberally assisted Mr. Brothorhead by loans ef
these documents: Ferdinand J. Drcer, Frank
M. fitting, B. 0. Davis, Joseph J. Meekloy,
William Whiteman, M. Polock, 'Simon Gratz,
John Jay Smith, (editor of * American His
torical and Literary Curiosities,”) and G. M.
Connaroc, Philadelphia; Lewis C. Cist, St.
Louis, Missouri; Mrs. George T. Olmsted,
Princeton, N» J.; J. IC. TefTt, Savannah,
Georgia; Dr. Joseph J. Cohen, Baltimore;
T. M. liodnoy, Esq., Delaware, &c. Out of
tho numerous autographs thus placed at his
disposal, Mr. Brothorhead has judiciously se
lected those which more particularly bear upon
tho great subject of Independence. Thus wo
find Abraham Clark, of Elizabeth, FT. J.,
(born 1720, died 1794,) writing to his friend,
Colonel Elias Dayton, upon the very day on
which the Declaration was signed “in Con
gress, July 4,177 G.” He tells his friend :
“ At the time oar Foroos in Canada were ro
treating before a victorious army, while General
Howe, with a largo armament, is advancing to
wards New York, our Congress resolved to deolore
the United Colonies Free and Independent States.
A Declaration of this Purpose, I expect, will this
day pass Congress; it is nearly gone through,
after whioh H will bo proclaimed with all tho Btato
and Solomnity circumstances will admit. It is
gono so far that we must now be a free and inde
pendent Btato, or a Conquered Coantry.”
Ho adds: “This seems now to be a trying
season, but that indulgent Father who hath
hitherto preserved us will, I trust, appear for
our help and prevent our boiDg Crushed j if
otherwise, his Will be done.” His last words
aro «Wo can die hero but onco; may our
business, all our purposes and pursuits, tend
to fit us for that important event.”
Tho actual circumstances under which tho
Declaration of Independence was signed are
related in a letter from Governor Thomas
McKean, (there is a view of Ducho’s houso,
South Third street, his residence,) dated
“ Philadelphia, August 22, 1813.” no was
then in his 70th year, and died in June, 1817.
In Sanderson’s Biography of the Signers, it
is stated that though McKean’s name is sub
scribod to tho original instrument deposited
•The Book of the Signers: Containing Fao-MmUe
Letters of tho Signors of tho Deola-ation of Inde
pendence. Illustrated, also, with sixty-one Engra
vings, from original Photographs and drawings of their
Residences, Portraits, &o. From the Collodions of an
Association of American Antiquaries. Edited by Wil.
Ham Br'otherhead. 4to. Philadelphia: 'William Bro
'herhead.
In tho office ol the Secretary of State ftt
Washington, ho doos not appear as a sub.
senber to tho copy published in tho Journals
of Congress, and a long extract is given from
a lotter of his, written in September, 1796, to
tho lato Mr. Dallas, on tho subject. In tho
letter to Ciesar ftodney, of Wilmington, hero
published by Mr. Brotherhoad, wo have Gov.
McKean’s fuller and final statement:
u Tn the printed public Journal for Congress for
1776, vul 2, it would appear that tho Declaration
of Independence wsßsigned on tho 4th of July by
the membors whose names aro there inserted, but
tho foot Is not eo 4 for no person signed it on that
day nor for many days after; and aniODg tho
names subporlbod, ono wrs against it—Mr. Reed—
and seven were not in Congress on that day—
namely; Messrs. Morris, Rnsb, CJymer, Smith,
Taylor, .and Ross, of Pennsylvania; and Mr.
Thornton, of Now Hampshire: nor wore tho six
gentlemenl»Btnamed at thattimomembors: the
five for P. were appointed Delegates by
the Convention of that State on the 26th July,
and Mr. Thornton entered Congress for the first
timo on the 4th of November following: when the
names of Henry Wisner, of Now York, and Thos.
MoKean, of Delaware, are not printod as subscri
bers, though both were present and Voted Tor In*
dependence.
“ Hore ialso colours are oortainly buDg out;
there is culpability somewhere. What I oan offer
as an explanation o; apology is this; that on tho
4th of July, 1776, thADeolaration of Independents
was ordored toboingrossed on parchment and thon
to be signed, and I cave been, totd that a resolve
had pusaed a few days after, and was .entered on
the secret joarnal, that no person should have a
seat in Congress, during that year, until he should
have signed the Declaration, in. order (as I have
been given to understand) to .prevent .traitors or
spies from warming themselves .amongst .ua. I was
not in Congress after thft,4tb> .for gome months,
having marohedwith my.regiment of.associators
. of this oity, as Colonel, to> Support. General Wash
ington until a flyingoamp of'en, thousand men was
completed. When toe associators were discharged,
I returned to Philadelphia, took my post In Con
gress, and then signed tho Declaration on parch
mont. jln Ootoberi 1776.1 Two dnySafter I wpnt:
to Newcastle, joined.the Convention for.forming a
Constitution for the future State of Delaware,
(having boon elected a member for Newoastlo
county,) which I wrote In a tavern,, without booh
Or any assistance,”'
Ho might have added, thathe was • solicited*
to do this by a committee of gentlemen who
waited upon him on his arrival at Dover,after
a long and fatiguing ride**-that he sat up all
night to do it—-and that he presented it to the
House, at 10 the next morning, when it was
unanimously adopted. • *
Many of the other documents here present
ed, With illustrations and in fac-sifnile, are fall
of historical interest. John Hancock informs
General Washington, in March) 1776, that he
sends him $250,000 for the. use of the army
undor his command, Robert Morris, in the
May following, writes, as Vico’ President of
tho Marino Committee to tfcat gallant officer,
Captain John Barry—grandfather of P. Barry
Hayes of this city—commanding him, among
other things, “to defend tho Pass at Fort Island,
and to prevent their coming up to tho city,”
(Philadelphia) and also to “ assist in taking,
sinking, and destroying tho Enemy, if its
thought advisable to pursuo thorn.” Dr. B.
Rush writes a friendly letter to the eccentric
Earl of Buchan, relative to tho loss of tho
Washington • snuff-box, and complimenting
him on the elevation of Thomas Erskine, his
lordship’s brother, to tho Chancellorship of
England, and a seat in tho House of
Lords. Dr. Franklin, in April, 1788, near
tho close of his career, writes to a
• friend in Paris, mentioning that ho had the
project, when his three years of service would
expire, in tho October following, to rotiro to
his grandson’s villa and complete his Memoirs,
but that ho had resolved to proceed in that
work to-morrow, and continue at it daily till
finished, which, If my Health permit, may be
in tho ensuing summer.” He alludes to the
approaching oledtlon of the first President,
and thinks, with his correspondent, “ that tho
two Chambers [in tho National Legislature]
were not necessary.” There is a Charge to
the Grand Jury in Philadelphia, before the
disruption with England, highly eulogizing its
Constitution and G overnment. There is a let
ter—but It would take several columns to give
a catalogue raisoond of tho contents of this
work. To bo appealed, it must bo carcfklly
examined and studied.
There is an editorial introduction which has
tho rare fault of boing only too brief. In ono
of tho footnotes to this Mr. Brotherhoad gives
a list qf the authors, of Sanderson’s Lives of
the Signers, assigning to each writer his re
spective contribution. This has never before
been published, and is very interesting. San
derson himself wroto only two lives—those oi
Rush and Franklin ; Robert "Wain, Jr., con
tributed thirteen; Edward Ingersoll wrote
eight, and H. D. Gilpin nine. Thomas Jef
ferson was tho biographer of "Wythe; John
Adams, of Hancock ; Samuel Adams, of John
Adams; Edward Everett, of Ralph Sherman,
and R. Penn Smith, of Francis Hopkioson.
In all respocts—design, accuracy, historical
importance, personal interest, judicious se
lection, appropriate illustrations, and perfec
tion of artistical and mochanical execution—
Brothorhead’s Book of tho Signors is entitled
to rank as a National Work. In a few days
sets of tho plates, on India paper, will bo
ready for delivery, and it is intended to sell
them separately, if required.
Mr. Brotherhoad announces, as in prepara*
tion and to appear in 1861, Tho Book of tho
Generals of the Revolution, being biographical
sketches of each, with fac-similo lotters and
oighty-oight portraits, views, &c.
Literary and Historical Accuracy*
[The following editorial articlo appeared in a portion
of our edition yesterday, but was omitted m thoso
papers circulated in the city, to mako room for addi
tional elootion returns received after our paper wont to
press-)
George Augustus Sala, an English man of
letters, author of many books, and contribu
tor to the Cornhill Magazine —in opposition
to which ho announces a new magazine, to bo
called Temple Bar —contributes a weekly co
lumn of gossip and criticism, under the head
of “ Literature and Art,” to the Illustrated
London News. In the number of this paper
dated October 20th, Mr. Sala notices the re
cont death of Rembrandt Peale, and confess
es his “ scant acquaintance—almost amount
ing to ignorance—of the works of Mr. Rem
brandt Peale.” Perhaps so ; but many of
Mr. Peale’s works aro to be seen in some of
tho best private picturo-gallories of England,
where they are highly appreciated. Mr.
Sala then proceeds to philosophize upon the
remarkable fact that “in tho quiet Quaker
City, an American artist has died at the patri
archal age of eighty-three!” We bog to in
form him that Thomas Sully, In tho same
quiet city, is now in his seventy-eighth year,
and is still ono ot the host portrait-painters,
not in America alone, but in tho world. Cer
tainly no living artist equals him in paintiDg
the portraits of women. Mr. Sala then
bursts into a paroxysm of speculation.
“ Why,” he exclaims, “ Peale, as a juvenile
aTtist, might have taken tho portrait of
George IVAsniNGrox.”
Might, Mr. Sala ? Why, ho did. What is
more, it is a matter of opinion whether he or
Gilbert Stuart took tho best portrait of tho
Father of his Country.
Not content with this notable exhibition of
ignorance respecting an American artist of
high reputo, Mr. Sala proceeds to blunder
about people nearer homo. He adds:
“ And thus It is evor that the present shake
hands with the past, and tho hawthorn blossom,
blown by tho spring breezes from tho hedge, is
wafted away with tho dead leaf of last antumn.
When tke Duke of York was in America ho
found there Volnoy, the historian of ‘ Tho Ruins
of Empires.’ Volnoy ! it seems a hundred years
ago since ho died ; and yet next private viow-day
—and wo hope for many private view-days at tbo
Royal Academy or tho Water-color Sooiety—wo
shall be ablo to point out a spruce, trim, notivo old
gentleman, and gay to some ourtous friend, ‘Yon
der goes the man who has seen Volney, and was at
Now York when tho futhor of Queen Viotoria camo
to see the alienated horitago of his family. That
man is John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst.’ ”
Tho quasi-pootry of tho first sentcnco ex
hibits its author’s predilection for “fine
writiug,” which, as every ono knows, is very
hard reading. But it bappons that tho Duko
of York —Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke’s profligate
Buko el* Y K ork—never was in America. He
was in Holland in 1793 and again in 1799, each
timo in command of an English army, and on
both occasions was soundly “whipped” by
tho French.
If tho Duko of T'ork over paw Volney, it
certainly was not in America. Who, then, did
see Volney there ? « Tho father of Queen
ViCToniA.” Yes, but that gentleman was not
tho Buko of York, but the Duke of Kent!
There is some slight excuse for an English
author and journalist having “ entire igno
rance of Rembrandt Peaib, but it is amusing,
if not surprising, to find him blundering about
the parontago of his Sovereign Lady, the
Queen, and confounding tho Duke of York,
her hncle, With tho Duke of Kent, her father.
PERSONALAND POLITICAL.
—George D. l’rontioo, in the Louisville Journal ,
Bays: “ Missouri and Tennessee, and Kcntuoky
and Virginia, and Maryland, deprecate the disso
lution of tho Union, but South Carolina and Flo*
rida and Goorgift swear that the Union Bhall be
dssolved on account of tho esoapo of Missouri’s,
Tennessee’s, Kentucky’s, Virginia’s and Mary
land’s slaves ! What disinterested creatures South
Carolina, Florida, and Georgia must bo!”
—The London American announces that Messrs.
Howes & Cushing’s great oircus, which has been
on exhibition for some time in England, will be
sold on tho 17th. inBt. Mr. Howes, who retires
upon a large fortuno acquired from hia profession,
purposes buying a largo estato upon tho Rhine,
upon whioh is ft baronial oaatle. The title, accom
panying tho estate will give our great A m otioon
oirous proprietor the title of Baron Howes.
—Tonnyaon is engagod in writing a new poom,
founded on tho history of Queenßoadioea. His
admirers, to whom he seemed to have no field for
poetio action—after 'having harvested the rich
growth of Arthurian legends for bis “ Idyls of the
King,” will rejoioe to learn that he has found more
work to do, and has chosen such a noble and purely
English thome.
The literary man who has made the pen a
profession longest now alive, is Cyruß Redding, of
England, who has been jast fifty-fivo years in ao 4
tivity, and has probably written more than any
living ootemporary. Ho was personally acquaint
ed with Lewis,’*- Wolcot, Tophanr, Sheridan, Can
ning, Scott, WUbod, Hogg, Moore, Campbell, &0.,
with nnmorous distinguished foreigners, and eha
rasters, not ’literary, bub eminent in the arts and
natural philosophy. He may he called a link bo
tweon the past and presout in tho same profession.
His first printod essay bore date 1804, and he is yet
in health. Besides contributing to most of the
best known periodicals of the past, and editing
above a hundred volumo3, besides, from thirty to
forty of whioh he was tho author, he established
six newspapers, which he edited, in England, one
his own. He also edited one in Franoe, and was
connected with five others in this country. He
wroto in nearly ail tho prfnoipal poriodioals up to
1852. What is more singular, he set out in sup.
port of liberal principles whoa ail was against
them, and be lived to see them triumphant when
in bis gray hairs.
Rev. J. D. Torry, a ministor of long-standing
in tho Oneida M. E. Conference, has brought dis
grace upon himself and discredit upon his denomi
nation. Charges mado against him that he had used
the church whoro ho officiated as a place of as*
eignation, have been bo far verified that he has
been suspended from all ministerial functions un
til the next session of the Conforon.ce, which will
be held in Utioa in tho spring.
Innesa has recently completed a landaoapo
ouiitled “ A Thundergust”—and while it is In ma
ny respects a reproduction of some of his earlier
works, it possesses many points of superior excel
lence. Tho vast extent of absoluto perspective
cannot fail to impress one—the heavy forogoing
shadow of the dense and brooding oloud—the ma
jestic bending of tbo grand old oaks—the grace
ful yielding of tho lesser 7Cgotation—the scamper
ing homeward of the lifo-like shoop, and the per
turbed and troubled appearance of tbo human
figures, are elemonts with which the artist has
suecoedcd in painting a wonderfully fine picture,
and one which will add to his deservedly high
reputation.
—That veteran defender of State rights, old
Father Ritchie, who had suoh an Influence upon
tho opinion of Virginia politicians of his time, and,
wo may add, upon the Democratic party of his
time, wrote as follows in tho Riohmond Enquirer ,
Novombor 1, 1814; “No man, no association of
men, no State, or set of States, has a light to
withdraw itself from this Union of its own ac
count. Tho same power that knit us together can
unknit. The same formality whioh formed tho
links of tho Union is neoessary to dissolve it. The
majority of States whioh formod tho Union must
ooneont to tbo withdrawal of any one branch of it.
Until that consent has been obtained, any attempt
to dissolve the Union, or distract tho efficacy of its
constitutional Uwe, is treason—treason to all in
tents and purposes.”
Count Arrivabene, the special oorrospondent
of tho London Daily with Garibaldi, who
was reported to have been killed at tho bottle of
tho Volturno, was only taken prisoner. He was
made a prisoner at the time when Garibaldi and
bis attendant officers were surprised and nearly
taken in the ambuscade between Santa Maria and
Santa Angelo.
—Tho school children of Switzerland have pur
chased for $ll,OOO tho Gratis tho birth-place of
Toll, whero he and three others oonspired for the
deliverance of his country from its oppressors.
The place is to be consecrated to national uses, like
Mount Vernon, in this country.
—A single house in London has given to M. Hose,
photographer to the King of Prussia, an order for
thirty thousand copies of portraits of members of
tho royal family.
—The Medical Sooicty of Virginia have ap
pointed a comnuttoo to apply to the next Legis
lature of that Stnto for a chartor for a house of
refuge for inobriatos.
—Mrs Governor Morgan, of New York, did not
reooive “a splendid diamond necklace” from the
Prince of Wales. The story is pronounood a silly
pieoo of gossip.
—South Carolina planters aro hunting up beds
of marl, as a fertilizer; ono gentleman who paid
a dollar an aoro for land two years ago has refused
twenty dollars an aero for tho whole plantation, as
renovated by this ingredient.
Among tho poems in manuscript loft by the
lato Major Eastman, wo find one with tho title of
“Tho Orphan,” which wo print below. From the
freshness of tho ink in whioh it is writton, the in
ference is that it was one of the last—perhaps the
vory last—of his pootioal productions. It is as
sweet in conception as it is graceful in dlotion.—
Vermont Patriot.
THE ORPHAN.
BY CHARLES Q. EASTMAN.
We loved her as our own, poor child,
And through the weary years
We nursed hor life with oonatant caro
And kissed her silent tearß.
She strove to seem contented while
We cheered her through the day,
But when alone at night, poor ohild,
She wept her life away.
We strove by every art, poor ohild,
By every tender art,
And every gentle means to win
Her sorrow from her heart.
But Btill she drooped beneath our oare,
t nd sadder grew each day,
Her cheek was always wet, poor ohild,
She wept her life away.
Slill while she wept and strove, poor ohild,
To pay our love with smiloa,
And hide her sorrow from our hearts
With sweet and playful wiles,
Her lip grew whiter and her oheek
Grew paler day by day,
And struggling with her grief, poor ohild,
Sho wept her life a way.
She died when summer oame, poor child,
The child we could not save,
And hardly mourning that she slept,
We laid her in the grave.
Bho never could forget tho day
Her sainted mother died;
They could not live apart, poor ohild,
They slumber sido by tide.
Thk Great Mare’s Nest— Just as we expected,
th* whole s ory about the offer of the Vioo-Presidenoy
to Wm. L. Yanooy, was one of Geo. Sanders’ jokes, as
will appear from tho following lettorto the Charles
ton Courier. By the way, siroe the privacy of this
dining puty has been invaded by the Breckinridge
newsmongers. contrary to all the rules ofwell bred so
ciety, is it not a little strange to find Yancey in sooial
contr.ot, “ cheok bv jowl” with such men as John W.
Forney and Co..’— Montgomery Confederation.
Not at all strange. Messrs. Yanooy and Forney
aro tho best of friends. One of the finest eulogies
on Yancey wo over road appeared in the editorial
columns of Fornoy’s Philadelphia Press , on the
occasion of Mr Yancey’s reoent visit to the North,
and we haven’t a doubt that Colonel Yanoey re.
oiprocutos every sentiment of friendship and admi
ration whioh Colonel Forney has expressed for
him. And what of It, except in tho minds of those
contracted Breckinridge editors or orators who
protend to think that every adopted foreign oiti
zon is an “ nbolitionist,” only fit to “ blaok boots,”
aDd every Northern-born man “a traitor to the
South ”
And suppose Forney and Yanooy do love each
other, is that any worse than Governor Moßao, of
Mississippi, during last winter at tho sumptuous
table of tho tbon prospective Presidential candi
date of the Blnok Republicans, William H. Howard?
When the Union is “ busted up,” there aro lots of
little private social ties to be severed.— John For
syth's Mobile Register.
Governor Letcher’s Recent Visit to
Alexandria. Tho Alexandria (Va.) Gazette
says: “Tho prompt notico taken by Governor
Lotoher of a note addressed to him from Cincin
nati-said to bo from the samo person who in
formed Secretary Floyd oi the John Brown raid,
some time before it occurred—is mentioned in an
other part of to-day’s Gazette. Governor Letcher
viritod this city in connection with this Informa
tion, and it was by his advioe that tho military of
this oity, last week, resumed tholr nightly drill,
to bo in roadlnees for efficient servioe whenever
callod upon. It is noedleos to say that no appre
benslon wbatover is entertained of any movement
calling for military Interference, and that the ad
vioe of the Governor was only to make ‘ assurance
doubly sure.’ ”
TWO CENTS.
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE
Sentence of William Byerly.
Yesterday was fixod by Judge Thompson for the
hearing of the testimony in support of the reason
for a new trial in the case of William Byerly, con
victed of election fraud.
The first witness called was Thomas W. Price;
Sworn and teatifiod as follows: I have some ac
quaintance with Pot6r B. Simmons; before ho was
ompannelled as a juror I had a conversation with
him in One of tho Tenth-streat cars; wo conversed
about the “ First district' easo,” and ho expressed
a very decided opinion as to the course of Mr. By*
erly ; he mentioned Mr. Byerlv’s Dame; Ido not
recolleot the precise language used by him, but tho
inference I drew was that ho thought Mr. Byerly
guilty and ought to bo punished; I certainly so
understood.
Cross-examined.—The conversation turned on
tho evidence givon before Jho Recorder; I did not
know bo was on tho panel; I suggested to him that
some allowance wqb to bo mado for tho testimony
of tho witnesses for tho Commonwealth, as they*
were interested in denouncing the roturn, but ho
took the opposite view of the case.
Henry A. Gildea sworn.—l know John Lane,
(father of one of tho jurors;) I mot John Bane, and
I did not know then that his son was on the jury;
it was on a Sunday; £ hod a talk with the lather
about hia son; (the witness was not allowed to de*
tail tho conversation); I did not visit the house;
I did not 800 tho son. •
John Lane sworn.—My son Halbert was one of
tho jurors in the Byerly case; I bad somo‘talk
with him wbilo the oaso-was progressing, and be
foro tho verdict was Tendered; it wtfs afteT Mr
Glides had seen me; Glides told me that thoro
was an attempt being mndo to bribe or buy some
body to stuy out or acquit Byerly; I then told my
bod that ho should hoar the evidence, and make
up hia mind for himself; I told him abaut the re
port; I t6td hitri thab the report'was that the
friends of Bailor or Byeriy had bodfc offeriog mo
ney to buy the jury; I said nothing to him as to
how ho should decido the oase; when Gildea met
mo, we commenced talking about the Byerly case,
as evorybody wns doing tho samo thing; Mr. Gil
dea then told me that there was u report that n
young man in the neighborhood was to be bought,
Rnd I then told jhim that my son was one of tho
jurors; I don’t think Mr Gildea knew my son was
on the.juryup fcftbat timo.
At this pointthe examination was delayed until
certain witnesses wore sent for.
An officer wasdespatchod for the absent witness,
and on his rotprn it, was reported that the gentle
man was not to be found.
Mf. Mann wns opposed to any farther continu
ance Tho testimony nspresented by tho defence bad
not boon of such a character as to avail for a new
trial, Tri. regard to Mr. Simmons, Mr. Mann’s
recollection was that, while it waa true that he was
called to the stand and'sworn on his voire doire,
yet the counsel for tho defendant had seen fit to
allow him to peas into the jury bo* without chal
lenging nnd without examining him os to his for
mation and expression of an opinion
After acting thus, it was now too lato to chal
lenge. The counsel for Mr Byorly referred to
their notes of the oase, but expressed their inabili
ty to settle this point, p-3 there was nothing but
that Mr. Simmons bad boon oalled to the stand
and sworn on his voire doire, hot whether tho usaal
question was put to him, there was no note.
The judge expressed his opinioo that the evi
dence was not sufficient to warrant a new trial
It was finally agreed that Mr. Simmons should
be examined, and he testified as follows: I was
called to the stand and sworn true answers to
make; I was only asked one question, and that by
the District Attornoy; he asked mo my name;
tho counsel for the defence did not ask me any
questions, and Mr. Simpson, ono of the oeunsel,
told mo to tnko my soat in the jury-box
Cross-examined by Mr. Cassidy.—l did not tell
the counsel for the defence that I had formed and
expressed an opinion as to the guiltor innocence of
the aocused.
Mr. Oaaaidy then asked the ooart to pass upon
the reasons, so that they oould carry tho record to
the Supromo Court, if it should be decided to take
that stop. After tho expression of the views of
the judge, the oounscl for tho defence did not
think it advisable to nrguo tho motion for a sew
trial.
Judge Thompson then in detail went over tho
case, overruling tho reasons. In regard to tho
reasons ob to whioh the evidence had been
offerod, ho oould not see that Mr. Price sus
tained the allegation of the defonos. In the
conversation speken of by him. it might be
that an impression would rest on his mind arising
from his own view of tho ease. Mr. Price had
refused to say that Mr Simmons bad expressed an
opinion ; he had merely givon hia impression of it.
A man could argue a oaso upon the evidence in a
newspapor, and ho might hold that suoh a result
would follow from the testimony as published, and
yet he might not have formed an opinion as to the
guilt or innocenoe of the party. With these views
the motion was overruled, and the judge proceeded
to pass sentence In doing sb he said he was- glad
to say that this was the first offonco of this nature
over sustained against a party in thisoonnty. The
judge then referred to the enormity of the charge
and its effeot noon the institutions of this country.
There was no ofFenoo whioh moro direotly struck at
the perpetuity of our institutions than that which
bed been laid to tbo defondant’s obargo.
It bad been alleged.that the acoused was tho
viotim of a conspiracy, inasmuch as he could not
read nor write with facility, but the jury have not
so considered. They had regarded him as the
party who had knowingly and wilfully under
: taken to perpetrate this fraud. The judge bad no
doubt that there wore others more intelligent,
becauso better educated, engaged with him in this
transaction, but whether they wore more skilled
in matters pertaining to elections might bo ques
tioned. But whoever these outside parties might
bo, it did not affect the greatness of tho offenoe
committed by tho uccu.«od. With tho justness of
the verdict the judgo had no reason to find fault.
Tho jury was of hi 3 own selection, after carefal
scrutiny by able counsel, and after the full exer
cise of the right of challenge.
Mr. Byerly was then sentenced to pay a fine of
$3OO, and to undorgo an imprisonment of two
years and six months in the county prison.
During the morning John Frame was put on
trial, charged with cruelty to animals. OSoer
Hodgo testified as follows : On tho 22i of last
month the defendant came along Book street with
his team of eight or ten mulos, drawing a train of
three oars, one an emigrant oar, filled, and two
baggage oars; tho mules stopped, and I told the
driver that ho had better leave one of tho oars
behind, hut he rofnsed, and the mules were again
started, and the driver commenced striking the
animals as hard as he could ; ono mule was beaten
badly; the blood ran down its legs; he used a
whip; ho has frequently done the same thing.
John Young, toe starter of the passenger oars
on Book s'rcot, testified that ho saw the beating at
a distanco, and was unable to tell how severe it
was. Ho also testified that ho had soon railroad
horses used worso than this one.
The defenoo called tho brakesman (who Is him-
Belf under indictment for a similar offence), and be
testified that there was no eruelty in the case. The
contractor for the conveyance of the emigrants and
baggage testified that tho defendant was a oareful
driver. Jury out.
District Court—JudgeHare.—Tho Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania vs. The Pennsylvania
KailroadCompany —An action to rooover for ton
nago tax. Verdiot by agreement for plaintiff for
$110,097.87.
Jaoob Borger vs. James H. Smith. An action
on a promissory note. Verdiot for plaintiff for
$6-17 58.
James D. Pratt and Ed. Pratt, surviving execu
tors, va Mary Van Horn and Thomas H. Gesnor,
administrators, <io. An action to reoover a ba
lance duo on a mortgage. Verdict for plaintiff for
$422 40.
Jaoios J Koon vs. Riohard Edge, garnishee.
An action to recover money in the hands of garni
sheo. Verdict for plaintiff for $l2O.
Wm Lewis vs. Philip L. Brown, owner or re
puted owner, Ac. An action on a moohanio’s lien.
Verdiot for plaintiff for $l7O 80.
Daniol B. Wermanvs. Thomas M. Martin and
Charlotte Martin. An aotion on a mortgage. Ver
diot for plaintiff for $5,703.
Charles Field vs Charles Jaokson. An action
on a promissory note. Verdict for plaintiff $-420 58.
E A I) H. DoWolfo vs. John W. Massey. An ac
tion a promissory note. Verdict for plaintiff for
$251 91.
D. Chambers vs Wm. F. Springer. An notion
on a book aocount Verdict for plaiQtifffor $l4O 20.
Wm. Wallace vs. K. C Matlaok. An notion on
a book acoount. Verdiot for plaintiff for $223.
W. H. Lawson and others, trading, &o , vs.
Israel Lukons. An aotion on a promissory noto.
Verdiot for plaintiff for $2OO 70
Abel Reed vs. 'lho Eastern Market Compnny.
An action on a mcohanic’s lien. Verdiot for plain
tiff for 1,057 81.
Jacob Young, Sr., and Mary, his wife, vs. Sami.
W. Simon. An aotion for money loaned. Verdiot
for plaintiff for $212
In most of the above cases vordiots were takon
by agreement.
Julia Ann Cook vs. Wm. Henry Parker, admin
istrator pendente lue of Alexander Parker, de
ceased. An notion on a mortgage. The defenoo
alleged that at tho timo tho mortgage wasoxeouted
Mr. Parker was insane. Want of consideration is
also alleged in defence. On trial.
District C.hjrt—Judge Stroud. —Julia
A. Button, John J. Bowen, and William O. Bowen,
minors, by the guardian, John E Latta, vs. Tue
City of Philadelphia. This was an action to re
covor the amount of an award of a road jury. Vor
dit for plaintifffor $2,541 66
David Wallace and John F. Proston vs. Tho
City oFPhiladelphia. An action to reoover dama
ges for injuries sustained by reason of tho nogleot
of tho defendants During tho heavy rainstorm,
in August last, tho houses belonging to the plain-"
tiff wore damaged. Tho houses are in Manayunk
on Levering streot, and some twelve feet of dirt
wore washed into rhoso houses, and lho natural
water oourse thus formed by the loss of tho street
dirt, resulted ia tho groat damago to the eloYon
houses owned by tho plaintiff. Plaintiff suffered a
non-suit
Large Railroad Business—Tho PittsbuTg
Chronicle says : “ The freight business being done
by the Pennsylvania Railroad just now is large
and beyond nil precedent—so large, indeed, that
but for the extraordinary resources and facilities
of the company the lino would bo wholly unequal
to its accommodation. From this point abuui four
teen thousand tons of freight were shipped East
last week. This was the heaviest week’s business
ever dono on the Westorn division, yot the indica
tions are that tho traffio for the current week will
excoed it by at least ono thousand tons. The bus
tle and aotivity that prevail at the different dopots
is astonishing. Twohundrod and thirty-four oars
were loajed ovory day last week ; yot, so admira
ble were Mr. Carnegie’s arrangements, that no de
lay or disorder whatever occurred. Everything
movod like o’oek-work, ami the whole fourteen
thousand tons woro shipped with ti despatch and
regularity that was really astonishing. The road
now, for good and oogent reasons, dees not publish
a monthly report; but when at tho annual meet
ing tho returns of its earnings are exhibited, it
will bo found that its receipts for tho last month
will tar exceed those of any other lino of tho same
length in the United States.”
the weekly press.
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THB-WjmXLTPIUttS.
CALIFORNIA PRESS.
Issued three timos a Month, in time for the Californio
Steamers.
Rumored Loss of aUßited Slates Vessel.
IFrom the New York .World of yesterday.]
® ! B „ Gr ?f*y forenogn.tho most painful excitement
E.w t,lc naval ciwlw of this city, owing to
,J l\ a newspaper letter from Brazil, con-
Sl? m*»T?«il°i pn 7 ate oofflnunieations, announced
the molanoholy intelligence that a burning pro
peller, supposed to be the United States steam pin-
Wt Seminole, wa. ,e.n off Pernambuco, Bra«[l.
The Seminote left Norfolk to join our Brazil mu*.
dron on the 14th of July last, or thereabouts, and
was consequently over two months oat on the 25 tb
of September, at- which date she had not reached
Rio. The probability that the rumor of her low is
a cruel hoax has been altogether overruled.
In view of the recent letters from the ship, which
declared her to be a complete failure, we subjoia
an extract from a communication received from her
a few days ago. The writer, dating from Marau
ham, September IS, speaks thus: “We arrived at
thi3 place on the Bth of the present month, and
have been here 6vcr sinco. It was our intention,
when leaving the States, to put into Barbadoes lor
coal; but, owing to the deorepid condition of this
miserable craft, we did not touch at that 'place,
but put into Cayenne, it being in the latitude in
which we wore at the time of changing our course
the most convenient. This vessel has been aeknow
! lodged by alLhands on board to be a failure. The
condensers, which were tried as an experiment, dn
tho distillation of water, were always getting out
of order, and wore found not.te meet the require
ments of the ship, and, consequently, we were
some days compelled to subsist on a small allow
ance of water, barely Sufficient to keep body and
spul together. She leaks so,badly, and rolls so
heavily, that all the bread on board has been spoil
ed. condemned, and pitohed into the sea ” '
The Seminole was one of the seven now steam
gunboats built in accordance with a late act of
CoDgress. She was constructed under the super
intendence of Mr. Borter,-whose desire to get her
up as oheapljr as possible' may have been a chief
cause of her failure. She ranked with -be Pawnee,
Narragansetti Wyoming, PacoUzk, and Iroquois ,
the first guQboats.'erer registered in the navy of
the United States The Seminole was launched
at Ponsacola _the. 2Sd of june, 1859, Miss
Martha Porter 'christening her. She was subse
quently sent to Norfolk to receive her machinery,
and sailed from that port for Rio as stated. Her
passage down*tho haroor resulted satisfactorily, no
less than nine knots an hour having been got out of
her with an ordinary force of steam.
Tho flteerbg-whoel of the old corvotte Austin,
tho last remnant of tho Texan navy, whioh was
broken up some years ago in Florida, was trans
ferred to the Seminole The dimensions of the
latter woro as follows: Length over all, 219 feet;
depth of hold, 14 feet; extreme breadth of beam,
31 feet; tonnage, 801 tons. She was very strong
ly built, and could carry into ten feet water a gun
weighing 25.000 pounds. The machinery was con
structed «t the Morgan Iron Works, in this city,
and consisted of two horizontal back aoting en
gines, with cylinders fifty inches in diameter, and
thirty inches stroke. She bad a two-bladed true
sorew brass propeller, nino feet -six inches in dia
motor, and seventeen feet pitoh. The total weight
of the maobihory was throe buudred and one tons,
and the consumption of coal twenty-two tons per
day.
As tbo several rumors relative to the loss of men
of-war have turned out inero fabrications, it is
quite probable that this ene may be of the same
class. It should be borne in mind that tho passage
from Maranham to Rio Is seldom made by national
ships in less than ten days; and that the Seminole
wos coaling at tbo former place on - the 18th ult.
The Congress, Savannah, Niagara, and Pawnee,
were all reported lo3t when they were perfectly
safe at anchor, and we believe that the Seminole
is, by this time, secure in Kio, notwithstanding the
painful coincidents that tho unfortunate rumor
brings to the surface Annexed is,a list of Scots
nole's officers:
Commander, G. A. Prentiss.
Lieutenants, J. C. Howell, F. P. Carter, W. P.
A. Campbell
Paymaster, Miles II Morcsa.
Assistant Surgeon, George Peok.
Chief Engineer. N P Patter son.
First Assistant, J. B Kimball.
Other assistants, N. P. LUtig, R. E. Harris, N
C. Starr, and J. T. Kelletor.
Master, C. 0 Norton.
Midshipmen, A. B. Wharton, A. A. McNair, W.
11. Barton and A. E Walker
Commander’s clerk, N. F. Fagan; Purser’s
olerk, JohnF. DJnntsin: carpenter, Luther Man
sen; gunner, Thomas Robinson,
Murders in New Orleans.
FIYB ATJSN STABBED OX THIS SABBATH—ONE DEAD
AND THREE HYING.
[From tho New Orleans Bee, Oct. 29.]
. James Gallagher and his wife, Margaret, who
live on Jalia stroet, have not been able to live
together in harmony on account of his undue love
of getting intoxicated and of her fondness for de
livering tempcranco leotures Yesterday after
noon he came homo about two o’clook drunk and
quarrelsome, and when she oommcnced lecturing
him he abused her Her nephew, a young man
, named Martin McDonald, interfered in hor behalf
and abused Gallaghor, who struck him. A fight
ensued, during which Gallagher reoeiyed three
stab wounds in tho left side from McDonald.
About an hour prorious, Edward Fitzgerald was
stabbed in the abdomen by Benjamin S. Brown, in
Tilleston’s dray yard, on fit. Thomas street, near
Richard. Brown, who is the foroman for Tiiles
ton, says thdt Fitzgerald, employed as a driver,
has been neglecting his work, nnd that he advised
Tilleston to discharge him In consequence of
this, Fitzgorald has been seeking a difficulty with
him, and bantered him tofigbtj even going so far
as to strike him on Saturday evening. Yesterday
afternoon, while they were in the yard, Fitzgerald
commenced abasing and threatening Brown, who
backed toward one of the sheds, and, drawing bis
knife, warned tho other not to assault him.' Fitz
gerald seized a dray pin and made an attempt to
strike Brown, who caught the blow on his shoul
der, and thrust tho knife into Fitzgerald’s abdo
men.
At 91 o’olock last night Mr. Victor Piquet was
walking with bis wife and her maid, when, as tboy
passed a disreputable drinking saloon on St. Philip
street, between Bourbon and Royal, one of aorowd
of young mon, named Joseph Prudhomme, spoke
tffHtre servant, a very respaotable white girl, in an
obscenely and insulting manner. Mr. Piquet did
not hear him, but his wife did, and she tartly re
buked Prodbomme, who thereupon abused her
most vilely. Piquet turned round and said to him,
“You m%ake, sir; this is a lady and my wife.”
Prudhomrae replied, with an oath, that he did not
oare whether sho was a wife or not, and repeated
his abuse, when Piquet nnd bis wife and servant
parsed on. Soon he beard qaiok steps behind him,
and his wife, who looked behind, told him the
young man was running np to them. Mr. Piquet
turned at the corner of Royal street, and drew the
sword from his cane just as Prudhomme rushed at
him. He made two stabs in tho left side of
Prudhomme, thrnstiDg with eomuob force as to
bend tho sword all out of shape. Prudhomme
was placed in & cab to be taken to the Charity
Hospital, but before tboy reached there he breathed
his last.
At the samo hour a stabbing affair occurred at
A. W. Bosworth A Co.’s ioe-bouso, in whioh one
man, named Meran, was very severely out in the
thigh by another, named Higgins. They had been
in company together all the evening, and the stab
bing was purely'accidental, or rather the result of
oarelessness, white they were skylarking together.
At ten o’olooklast night a shocking tragedy was
enacted, in reality, on tho stage of the German
Thoatre, or Conoert Hall, on Poydras street, be
tween St Charles and Carondolet. They woro
playing tho drama of “The Wolf,” and at that
moment were acting a scono in a gambling-house,
where a young man is fleeced of his last dime, and,
when he charges tho gambler with cheating, is
stabbed and killed. John Kruger was playing the
part of the gambler, and Emile Steuor that of the
rained young man. Krngor had not'-been fur
nished with a stage dagger by tho property man,
and borrowed a real one from Officer Berwin, who
was the special policeman in Ccncort Hall.
In acting such scenes with real daggers on the
stago, the person who strikes the blow keeps his
elbow out further than the point of the woapoft.
and the person who pretends to receive tho fatal
thrust loans backward, so that the striker’s elbow,
coming agonist his breast, stops tho motion. Steuer
was, unhappily, somewhat intoxioated, and when
he should have thrown himself baokward, he sud
denly stooped forward, and before Kruger could
oheok the impetus of his arm, the dagger had gone
into the right side of Steuer’s neck, opening a gash
te the baokbono The unfortunate aotor was in
stantly carried off the stago and sent to the Charity
Hospital mortally wounded, wbilo Kruger was
taken to the look-up by Officers Dalton and Berwin.
The ourtain was down but a short time, the pool
of blood was washed up, and then it was announced
to the audienoo that tho drama could not be con*
eluded, but that a throe would be substituted. The
audienoo applauded, up went the curtain, and for
a whole hour the follow-actors of poor Steuer ex
erted themselves to mako fun, while the auditors
laughed and applauded, ns if the spilling of a
man's blood was a more trifle.
The felave Trade in New York.
“ South-street,” who keeps a bulletin of the
movements of slavors, and reports them through
the Evening Post, gives tho following Statements ;
Tho Louise (reported heretofore as having gone
on a slavo cruise) has returned from St. Jagn fl e
Cuba, and will probably fit out from this port The
Erie. Weather Gauge, Kate , J. J Cobb, and
Thomas Achorn are all in custody of tho United
btatos authorities. At Norfolk, Va , there are the
Triton and Storm King under seizure. Tho Pa/-
mottiA has sailed for Havana, after “changing
hands” in the customary ray. Tho Kate's party,
it is hinted, kuow all about the Falmouth. The
Cygnet and William are still at Mobil" Cspt.
Bowen, who lauded 1,300 slaves from the Sultana,
reported to have been tho MohatoZ , has managed
to got out of this port as mastor and part owner of
the ship Nightingale. The other owner is a Por
tuguase merohant, doing buriucss in this city.
Tho vessel has since arrived at Liverpool, (a round
about way to the Coast of Africa,) nnd if 6he takes
a cargo, she will carry 2 000 slaves to Cuba. A
small brig, formerly soboonor-rigged, lately sailed
from a Southern port for the coast, and a slave
oargo. The slaver Wanderer cleared from Hava
na on the Ist of Ootobor; but on'the 27th still re
mained at thfri port. The City of Norfolk- ,
steamer, has heen towed into Havana; the brig
Nancy has sailed from the same port for a (rngo;
tho Ardennes was still there, and lho schooner
Byron , captured by a Spanish war-steamer, was
oarried in there, having 371 souls on board. The
slaver Lyon , owned by a Spaniard in New York,
has been sold there. Cuban parties have ordered
a propeller from New York to undertake the same
ontorprisoin which the City of Norfolk so nearly
succeeded Tho proclamation of the Captain-
General of Cuba is pronounced a ** stool-pigeon af
fair.”
A Sad Case.—A lad named Frederick
Cooper, who, at the ago of only fifteen years, had
become an habitual drunkard, fell upon the rail
road track at Jersey City on Tuesduy evening,
whilo intoxicated, and was run over by a train of
oars.. His legs were crushed to a jolly, and be
survived but a few hours. Only an hour before he
died he indulged in the most profane language.
He had v spent the greater part of his life in the
county jail, and at the present timo there are three
brothors and ono sister confined in prison.