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The News,
Th» politisal «zoiiMQ«iit Is psrrsdioc flnsneial
circles. InPhltadelphU, yestarday.e saeetlngof
the bank presidents we* held, and, after motors de
liberation, ■ nutation *u adopted bp alarge ma
jority direottngthe suspension of speela,payments.
Tbe jtask efiberc assign ai their reason tor this
coane of aottos', a detin to-aid ourbusineto msn
by an expsnilon of discounts. -The announcement
did sot treats now than a temporary excitement
ataohg oar bminsss men/and favorably affeoted
the ltockmerket. The movement of the banka in
themalter of aaapenaion seems to bare been general
la 1 .: several' of oar lesdltag oltles. In Baltimore,
Wadilhgton, and Virginia, the banks have tot
peoded. In New Yolk they wjll permit an expan
sion, limited only by the legitimate wants of mer
ehaats.' Thilr stock of speoie will be virtually the
common property of the various corporations, and
alt demands will be' met by a united effort ou'tkn
part of .ovary member of the flnanoial union. Hie
New York journals congratulate themselves on
hating their banks a nbitantial unit, end refer la
ierms of congratulation to the relief it will afford
their basinen men in ease of financial difficulty,
The Boston people of the Radios! Abolitionist
Mbool, who believe In John Brown and bis me
mory, are making arrangements for holding n
meeting to commemorate the anniversary of Us
execution it Harper’s Ferry. Tremont Temple
hat. hnan.engagad for the' ooceaion, and the time is
setfor the 3d of Deoember, when it to expeoted
Wendell Phillips, Win. L. Qarriton, and others,
wiU disoues the question, “How can American
slavery be abolished 1”
- Gov. Brown, of Georgia, sent a specie! mes
sage .to the ‘Legislature of that State yesterday,
while It Was in aeeeionat HilledgevlUe. In view
of the eieoticra of Ltuooln, and to promote and
unite the sentiment of the State, he incidentally
advised the. Legislature to elect the Presidential
Beaters of the State on Saturday. The recom
mendation was adopted. This will enable door
gisto votsln the electoral college, and not db-
MoMMae'her as was feared. £. B. Rhett, of
Snhth .Carolina, ‘ and E. Rnfin, of Virginia, two
gentlemen notorious as Dlsunionitts, wore in
vited to take scats on Ota floor of the House.
Governor Banks will soon leave If assaohnsotta,
for.the scans of hia future railroad labors In the
West;- On .Wednesday evening the olUteai of
Waltham, the birth-plaes of the Gaveraor, ten
dered to Governor Banks and Malady, a.compli
mentary levee. The ovation was given by the
petite, irrespective of party. The Governor was
presented with a service of plate, and Hrs. Banka
resolved a Yataable grid watch.
By the bark Clara, wbloh arrived ht Hew York
yesterday, we hays, hews from Heraeaibo to Oe
tober 17. Itsraealbo was perfectly quiet, and
trad# Wet going on with the interior provfhoes, ay
theFoderallits bed been routed in the nylghbor
hoodof Frugello and Herlda, by Gen, Aadfade,' In
the battle all the Federal ehleb were taken priso
ners. Coffee was scares, and prises ware, ad-,
vaaeibg. The crop was all in, and no mors sup
plies eeuld be expected before the end of. Jan nary
next; Hideewet* also very teams. Theoirilwar
Id Hew Granada had prevented the nsnal arrival
of this article.
Tbe 6hul»ton Mercury publishes a eorrsot
list of tho Fedtvol troops now stationed. In the
Southern States, *a follows: At Fort Monroe, Va.,
A companies of artillery; at Fayetteville arsenal,
N.0.,1 oompany of attiliery at Fort Moultrie,
S-C.,2 companies of artillery; at Augusta, Ga.,
1 companyof arllUafy; at Kqy Weat, Fla., 1 oom
pM7 of artillery; at Barrancas barracks, near
Fonaaoola, Fla., 1 eompaßy of artillery; at Baton
Bongo, La.;, i oompany of artttlaiy—totkl,-about
SOft stu. : Thetu an about 125 United Statu ma
jlata at Norfolk and Pensacola. The rMralUng
stations etJeffenon, Ho., and Loaiarillo ban no
faHeoiapany garrisoning them jut now.
, Coinapondonoo from Tubao, Arlaona, under
dato of November 1, tolls us that the revolu
tion in Sonora i» progressing slowly, eatuiag great
daatrastloa to life and property. Gnat exeesatt
and oatragM won eommittad by the Yagalea, who
had been employed on the ranohei aa poona, as
many aa a doson nnsheroa haring boon murdered.
The coaditlon of tho eorratry Is very doplorablo
many, of tho finest baolondaa being abandoned.
A letter from a Herald correspondent at Fort
Bathanaa, Bow Mexioo, sires an interesting ac
enat of tho march of United States troops from
Catitp Floyd, Utah, to that post, and of scenes and
Incidents on the orate. .Information neoired from
flnaora states that the rumor of a battle fonght at
BarmoelUa was a rose of Gen. Peaqolera, who had
hetm deserted by moat of his followers. Sonon
had declared lot 1 , its former Gorernor, Gandara,
who, at islet accounts, was at the city of. Una, with
a force of two thonaaad men.
The keeper of the notorious Sunday theatrical
establishment in New lork, known as the Odeon,
was, on Taesday, convicted before a jnry of viola
ting the'‘Sunday law-” This law kad, the day
before, beea pronounced eonatitaUooal by Judge
tieffman, of the Supreme Coart of Now York city.
Bnapeneion of the Philadelphia Banka.
In 1857 the financial contagion jbegnn in the
Went, and was arrested inthe South. In
iB6O, owing entirely to '• political cahses, the
finaaalal. contagion begins in the South, and
win'evidently not ho arrested until it has co
vered the whole' errantry. This in no time to
iodolge in reproaches, bnt Soutbem bank,
rnptcy is a dismal preparation for that halcyon
condition oi .independence and prosperity, so
eioqnently anticipated by the Disunion leaders.
Tho suspension of - the Southern banks has in
duced the hanks of Philadelphia, as a matter
of Sett-protection, and in order to relieve the
surrounding' community, to follow the ex
ample.: it was the only available preventive;
and we do not doubt it will prove to he : a
l eseefevll than if the banks had contracted,
andrefaaed all favors totheir'eustomers. We
least have a cnrrency. and mer
reasonabie extent.
At aperiod like this those who conduct onr
flnahelal system should exercise the moat
liberal course in regard to alt establishments
in . which Urge numbers of working men are
employed. The New Tork banks have acted
upon the patriotic idea of swimming'pr sinking
together. 1 This spirit cannot be too generally
emulated. Hen. of capital should coma for
ward and assist thelrnelghbors, and the banka
Which «*. boldest and moat generous will make
a gobd investment by reposing 'confidence in
toe jihtilie, who will be glad to remember them
gratefully in more prosperous times,
between the-present panic
awd 'tlmt of 1857 ls in the fact that we are
bettor prepared for it, and that this pecuniary
pealp is toe result of political instead, of money
Sjpftfiillatioiu.lt is, in truth, the work of par
tj lepden. How that wo have a country and
a%htoirwortb saving, aa we conceive we have,
all eltisens are concerned jn standing shoulder
to shoulder by'esch btber.' There is another,
'tor'eonpfirt and co-operation in the fhet
*h«Hfc»di9brenees between toe free and slave''
BttpftS <: iiu*t' : bo adjusted;before toe public
settle upon firm foundations. |
Thwa 'idaM beno hollo* promises, no patched. '
#• ter tpfdsy. to. be broken;
ltP&'Mfta#di-'td-moitowv^■ -ini
s-ifcet wtato; the Constitution for our guide,|
ilfijlpMttliUisoperftructnreerect such a com-:
. past' asi'cai-.'ftam Jbe broken or disturbed.
■haHl, exctt«iMbft, animosiUes, s#d agpes
(|«MkAT«powß Wou both sides. Theto is
ciit Hnlle' HUMuat to be repented of and for-
'many toingsthat ill into 1
' to, and other* tltottltoy.
—a6>,oo»codo. If the aplrit or Governor
; .to:' ; TM,;Fa«sa, of:
PMNpHt >* aooqitad by toe South, my hava
*° it will be cheerfhlly responded to in
to* Ksstoead Northwest.
The Bight and Consequences of Seces-
In the debate which occurred many years,
ago in the Senate of the United States, upon
certain resolutions introduced into that body
by Hr. Somoits, of Bhode Island; Hr. Cai.-
houk, in the ceursa of the . speech "he made
on that occasion, designated the men to whom,
as he conceived, belonged the honor of being
the chief anthora of the Federal Constitution.
Whatever might be due to the merits of
others, “Jt hi owing” sa!4he,«< it is owing—l
speak, it here; in honor of New England and
the Northern-States—it'is owing mainlyto the
States : of Connecticut and New Jersey that
we have's Federal instead of a National Go.
vernment ; that we have the. best Government,
instead of themost despotic and intolerable
on the earth. Who were the men of these
Sthtes to whom we are Indebted for this ad
mirable Government? . I will name them.
Their names ongm to be engraven on brass,
and live forever. They were Chief Justice
Euswoeth, Boan SnianAn, and Jndge
PatteMoe, of New Jersey; The other Statca
farther Sonth were blind; they did not see
the future. Bnt to the sagacity and coolness
oi these three men, aided ,by a few others,
'bnt not so prominent, .we owe the present
Constitution.”
■ Chief Justice Ellswobtb having taken so
conspicuous a part in the formation of the
Constitution,'it is but reasonable to conclude
that he understood its character and design.
Did he reg&rdit as a mere partnership, from
which shy one of the partners might, at any
time, and from any motive, withdraw ? Certain
ly not. He was one of the Senators from Con
necticut in the, first Congress, which met at
NewTork on' the 4th of. Match, 1789. On
the interesting qnestlon which arose in the
Senate as to the President’s power : of removal
from office, Eilswoith took occasion to ex
press-the opinion he entertained as to the
eidshilßlohly by the sufferance of the States ?
Could they destroy it whenever they pleased
by resuming the powers with which they had
clothed it ? Such was hot the opinion be
entertained. He contended that tha powers
ofthe Constitution were all vested—parted
from the people, tirom the States —and vested
in the .Government which the Constitution
contemplated./ That was the view he main
tained and enforced. Having given np, sur
rendered to' the General Government, certain
powers, who does not perceive; that the
attempt to resume those powers, by any one or
mere ofthe States, is an attempt to take what
does hot belong to them, and an invasion of
the rights and prerogatives of the general au
thority,'Which it is bound by every Considera
tion of duty and self-preservation to resist{?
And, fortnnately, the Constitution has olothed
it with efficient means of resistance. It does
hot act directly on the States in their political
capacity, bnt on the people of the States. If
they violate'Hie the Union, even if in
compliance with the mandates of their own
particular States, they incur nevertheless the
penalty. And this, for the plain reason that the
Constitution and the laws, made in pnrsnance
of it, ’are the' supreme law of the land, any
thing ih.the Constitntion or laws of any State
to thechnttsiy notwithstanding. It would be
vain tor .a delinquent individual to plead that
his State had seceded from the Union, and,
therefore, discharged his obligation to obey
the laws of the Union. ;The’ answer would be,
that no-State can withdraw from the Union
without resuming power which it has given
np, without asserting an authority which it has
surrendered, and this no State can do of itself.
The consent of the party to whom the sur
render has' been made must first be obtained,
and ibis consent' can be obtained only in one
inode—namely, by. an amendment of the Con
stitution. ;
>Bnt suppose -file; delinquent individual
should recelvd < the support of his. State, and
that !it s&onld marshal .its forces for his pro
tection—what then ? -.We do not conceive that
the csse.admitsof difficulty. The laws of the
Union must be enforced. If this can only be
done by means, of an armed force, then an
aimed farce, most be employed. We tray that
the day may never, arrive when the General
Government shall be brought into hostile con
flict with any: State; bnt what would he the
consequence if.it should quietly permit one
or more of the States to throw oil its juris
diction, . and - erect themselves into a separate
nationality ? ’Practically, therewould bean
end to oursyatem of government!. If South
Carolina may secedatoiiUy, Now York may
secede-to-morrow. Slate after State would
withdraw in the irritation of a political defeat,
or to subserve a local policy and supposed in
terost, until the iair fabric ot onr united Go
vernment would topple to tbe ground.
«It we permit the Union to expire,” said
Chief Jnstice Eixswoars—and we have seen
that Mr. CAuaotnt regarded him as one of the
chief architects of the Constitution—“the
least that may he expected ia that the Europe,
an Powers wiU form alliances—some with one
State, and some with another—and play the
States off one against. another, and that we
shall he involved in all the labyrinths of Eu
ropean politics. * * Enongh has been said
to show that a power in the. General Govern
ment to enforce the- decrees of the Union is
absolutely necessary.” “Without coercive
power, government is ineffectual, or, rather,
is no government at all.”
We concur with the sagacions, clear-head
ed statesman of Connecticut. Without a co
ercive power in the General Government, and
without an energetic exertion of that power
when an occasion lor its exercise arises, the
inheritance bequeathed to ns by the patriots
of the Bevolutien will be frittered away and
destroyed. The power exists; and if the
American people are not lost' to all sense of
the position which they hold in the eyes of
mankind—if they have not ceased to be
worthy descendants of tbe men of the Bevo
lution—if they mean .that their constitutional
liberties shall remain intact and inviolate, they
will insist upon its exercise. They should call
upon their Senators and Representatives
in Congress, in clear and unmistakable
tones, to adopt such measures in the
present crisis as will vindicate the majo
rity of the Bepnblic. It is the sworn con
stitutional duty of the President to. take
care that the laws be faithfully executed. We
rejoice to hear that Hr. Bdchakan, true to
his oath of office, true to the solemn obliga
tions that attach to bis exalted station, will
not allow South Carolina, or any other State,
so far as he has the power to prevent it, to in-
terdict and resist the execution of the laws
of the United States within its limits. Let
him act, in the present crisis, with something
oi the spirit and decision of General Jackson
in a similar emergency, and he will earn the
everlasting gratitude of his country. We
foresee , that ha will be assailed with vehe
ment denunciation on the part of the disaf
fected Statea; but let him remain true to
toe Constitution and the tfnion, and, though
umnas/he'may" couuaenxiy Teiyvra-uio r
port and applauding voice of the great body
of bis countrymen. Odium is temporary,
bnt honor acquired in tho fearl >ss discharge
of duty to an everlasting possession.
Lenpp’s Gallery.
The late Mr. CnABi.KS M. Luurp, oi New
Tork, bad collected a noble gallery of paint
ings, chiefly .consisting of valuable works by
American artists, among whom were Ailsion,
Coi*,Cbapkax,Lidtzk, Dueand, Faob, Ekn
sett, HoaTXHaTON, Mouht, and others. The
Evening Poet says i
', " Lot 88 wu a perfect little gem of a landsoapo
(representing, if we mistake not, the Oattersklll
Pills), painted by Cole, and lot 40 wti a medlooie
portrait of a plebeian Roman woman, by Page; the
former wu sold for ¥3O, and tbe latter for $75. A
partralt of Mr. Clay brought $7O. About tbil stage
of the sale (from lot 3fi to ,42) a deep voloe was
heard among the bidders, and ooouionally a paint
ing weald bo < knocked, down ’to that voloe. In
answer to the auotlonoer’s interrogatory, 1 Name,
air V the dean voice responded l Format.’ All faces
.tuned involuntarily towards him, beads peered
ovor other heads, and necks approximated to diß
leeeUon In attempting to get a view of the trage
dian.-’ Mr. Forrest bought tbe following ptotures:
Constantinople, by Preiloii, $45 j Page’s Portrait
pf tbe Plebeian Boman Woman, $75: Henry Olay,
by Ltnfian. $75; John 0. Calhoun, by Da Block,
$l3O ( Katharine add Petruohto, by Washington
Alleton, $540; Ferdinand and laabella, by Chap
man,’sllo.’? ’
~ ;Mr. f'omKKBT, n great artist himself, warmly
appreciates the labors of other artists, whether
bfthepenor pencil. His large library is well
chosen, and his picture-gallery is rapidly fill
ing with the finest works of native artists. .
“ A masterly letter of the Hon. -.HESBt H.
Wxrti, of : thi< city, will-be found, on too first
i*g*- V.
'; Tbe.weathsrin tba Soutb iswintry. We learn
fteel Aigasta, Georgia, .that; there, wu a . fatal
; hwwi yesterday t.mosfntag. ;' In tbis vioinity the
Weather is quite cool, and many indioattons of
frost were manifest yesterday morning.
The Voice of Virginia
Govemor Letohek’s letter to James S.
Brisdin sounds the dear key-note to the
Union party all over the country. It is wor
thy of the Chief Magistrate of the Old Do.
minion. We reprint the following sentences
as deserving of the highest commendation:
" In year haste to assail your Southern fellow
oitizens you seem to have forgotten that your own
State is, to some extent at least, responsible for the
present alarming oriels in publio affairs. If lam
not greatly mistaken, Pennsylvania is one of the
eleven non-elaveholding States whioh have passed
statutes, now in full foroe and effeot, designed to
obatruot tbe exeoutlon of the fugitive-slave law.
This is one of the grievanoes of whioh the Southern
people have complained for years; and although
earnest and respeotful appeals have been addressed
to you to remove this cause of irritation and com
plaint, those appeals have passed unheeded.
11 As a oonssrvatlve man, who ardently desires the
perpetnlty of the Union, under the Constitution, I
appeal to you, and to the conservative element of
the North, to arouse yonrselvea at onoe, and Ini
tiate the proper measures to seonro a repeal of
those obnoxious laws. Suoh aotion on tho part of
your Legislature will have a most happy influence
in relieving the Southern mind, and restoring
peace and quiet throughont our now fearfully ex
olted country.
“The South asks only for the fair and faithful exe
cution of the laws passed for the reoovery and pro
teotion of her property—that you will cease to
embarrass and lend your aid to effeot their execu
tion, according to their letter and spirit—that if
her property shall escape, and bo lound In the non-
Blaveholding Statoß, you will see that it is promptly
restored to the rightful owner. Surely there is
patriotism enough in Pennsylvania, and the other
non slaveholding States, to grant what the law has
declared to be onr due, especially when the pre
servation of tbe Union depends upon it. In eon*
eluding this branch of the subjeot, permit me to
add, that if the North will respect and uphold the
rights of the States, the Union will be perpetual,
our oountry wiU continue to grow in power and in
finance, the people of all sections will have scoured
to them, the blessings of poace, quiet, and order,
and a prosperity, suoh as has never been known or
appreciated in onr past history, will be tho nodes
sary result.
‘‘ltwill requite prudenoe, wisdom, and patriot
ism to avert the evils now impending over our
oountry. Crimination and inflammatory langnage
oan have no other effect than to exasperate, and
thns precipitate a result that is already imminent.
In We of danger to the Union it is the duty
of patffflK in' allseotionsof our oountry to culti
vate a kind, generous, and conciliatory spirit, odo
towards another. Tour letter, however, breathes
nothing of this kind; yon taunt the Sooth with
your superiority of numbers, and threaten to crush
them by your fanoied power.”
Mr. Bhisbis cannot protend to speak the
sentiments of the people among whom ho re
sides, lor there is not to be found in this broad
land a more conservative ans law-abiding com
munity than those of middle Pennsylvania.
Far removed from the extreme anti-slavery
feeling of onr southern border, Bollefonte is
tbe seat of intelligence, refinement, and
nationality; and Governor Letcueb may rest
assured that his generous and statesmanlike
recommendations will be nswhoro more heart-
ily approved than in the counties of Centre,
Oloarfield, Clinton, Mifflin, and Lycoming,
and, indeed, all along the Juniata and the
ITest Branch.
What true American can object to tho de
mand of Governor Letoheb, couched, os it is,
in language so conciliatory, and inspired by
such a fervent lovo for all parts of the Union ?
In tho second section of the fourth article
the Constitution of tho United States contains
the following clause, which we print iu em
phatic type, so that all citizens may see their
duty, and resolve to discharge It:
“Mo person held to service or labor in one
State, under the laws thereof, escaping into
another, ahull, in consequence of any law or
regulation therein, be discharged from such
service or labor, bnt shall be delivered up on
claim of the party to whom sucli service or
labor may be due.”
Ail parties profess to bo bound by tho Con
stitution, and no man or organization can set
it at defiance with impunity. The Southern
Dißuniomsts, after prating superfine devo
tion to it for sixty years, may discover to
their cos,t that the fate which has overtaken
ail men in the North who have attempted to
resist its injunctions may also be theirs. Tbe
President ofthe United States, the Governors
of all the thirty-three States of tho Union, the
judges of onr courts, tbe representatives oi
tho people, and the citizens of foreign birth,
all take a solemn oath to support the Consti
tution. To oppose it is nullification, to resist
it is treason. Mere rhetoricians and hu
manitarians, acting in irresponsible ca
pacities, may laugh at the Genstitu-
tion, or, in tho language,of the illustrious
Gabmson, declare it “ a covenant with deatlr
and a league with hell;” but when an Ameri
can is colled into a high position, executive
or representative, he finds his course of ac
tion marked out and limited by the Federal
Constitntion, as by the decree of fate itself.
Hence all the States that havo offended against
this mandatory and explicit clause in the Con
stitution, should accept the eloquent appeal
of tbe Governor of Virginia, rotrace their
steps, and do that act of grace, which will he
all the more graceful, inasmuch as it will come
from the section which has just triumphed in
the Presidential election.
Mr. LmcoiH, in his two or throo short
speeches, counsels kindness to the defeated
party, and this good advico conld not bo more
aptly and touchingly illustrated than for tho
different States oi tho Union that havo boon
engaged in obstructing and resisting tho on.
forcomont of that clause oi tho Federal Con
stitution just copied, publicly and promptly to
remove all restrictive statutes from thoir
records.
In this place wo perform an agreeable task
in correcting a misstatement in our leading
article oi yesterday, in Which wo spoko oi
tho State act of 1847, and called for its re
peal on tho ground that it Teinsed tho use, of
enr jails to tho Federal officers in tho. event of
a capture of a fugitive slave. No snch clause
is now to be found iu tho act of 1847—the
Legislature of 1852, under tho administration
of Governor Bmiek, having abrogated that
section; and we republish this morning, from
tho columns of our cotemporary, the Phila
delphia Inquirer, of'Wednesday, a wery clear
and satisfactory statement of tho existing
legislation of Pennsylvania In regard to that
clause of the Constitution providing for tho
rendition of lugitivo slavos, with tho remark
that if there is any one section of tho law, as it
stands, that can be construed by any conserva
tive Southern statesman to interfero with the
rights of Southern citizens in this State, it
ought to he at once repealed. ■ On this point
we shall have something to say hereafter.
The New York Evening Post, in the exu
berance of its joy over Lincoln's oleotion, says
that “ the right and justioa of tholr oause is pro
olaimed by the mighty voice of a targe majority
of thirty millions of people.” Now, Instead of
this being tha cue, Mr. Lincoln will be eleoted
with a majority of the States' against him, and
with probably only about onoahird of the popular
vote in his iavor. It will thus present the as
tounding faet of one-third of tha American people
ruling two-thirds. —Easton Argus , Breckinridge.
Not any more strange than tho recent at
tempt of one-third of the Democratic Conven
tion to rnlo two-thirds, and, failing in this,
breaking up the Democratic party, and causing
the election of Mr. Lincoln.
Tha Eastern papers say that both the cod and
maokerel fisheries have been very suacessfol the
present eeason, and nearly all who have engaged
in it have prospered beyond tho average of former
years. Shis Is peculiarly gratifying because of
-ure-ftiot.of the partial failures of past seasons—
—r —-'-I,- ,t- ..,1 .
counts published from Provinoetown, Harwich,
and Dennis, we infer that owners of vessels are
reaping a golden harvest, and that crews have
abundant reason to ocngratnlatc themselves on
tbelrigreat success.
Thackeray’s “Four Georges,” lately tn the
Cornkill Magazine , has been republished, by the
Harpers, with the original Illustrations. It forms
a neat 12mo. volume, and will be read with plea
sure by those who heard the oontents delivered as
leotures.
Labub Bale or Fdbniiube.—This morning at
10 o’clock, at No. 914 Chestnut street, Birch A
Bon sell a large assortment ef superior household
furniture, piano-forte, mirrors, Ao.
Thomas A Sons' Sales To-Day.—Sale of fnrni.
turn this morning, No. 1804 Green street. Bale ol
valuable law library to-day, the books now ar
ranged for examination at the auction rooms.
Auction Notice—Salb or Oabpets.—The
attention of purohuers Is requested to the valua
ble assortment of Engtisb, Brussels, three-ply, and
ingrain oarpets, druggets, hemp earpet, eoooa mat
tings, Ao., to he sold by eatalogue, on six mouths’
oredit, this morning, at 10i o’elook, by Myers,
Olaghorn, A Co., auctioneers, No. 4135 and 415
Aroh street.
California News at Hand.
Fobt Keahney, Nov. 22.—The pony expresa
which left, San Francisco on the evening of the
10th Instant passed here at 4 o’oloek this morning,
but left no despatches for the Associated Press.
Tbe pony was over twenty-font hours behind time,
owing to tbe bad storms on the mountains.
The wind here, is east of north, and blowing a
file, accompanied with a fall of fine dry snow,
he meroury marks 20 deg..
The few Pike’s Peakers who are now on the
road in this vioinity have pitched their tents and
anchored them to await the abatement ofthe
storm: it being almost impossible to travel with ex
teams and tent-wagons in such boisterous weather.
•. Frost at Angusta, Ga.
Auousta, Ga., Nov. 22.-A killing frost oc
curred this morning.
THE PRESS,—PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1860.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter from “Occasional.”
[Correspondence ot
Wab November 22,1860.
While there is no rte\. difßonlty in the Cabinet of
Mr Buohanan, there Is manifest uneasiness, Mr.
Oobb, two days ago, had not begun to write his
annual report as Secretary of the Treasury. He
seems to be folly convinced that oriels is at
hand, and argues on this anticipation with oharao
teristio ability and earnestness. When I remem
ber his able letter against secession, in 1851, and
bis fearless determination to make a sacrifice of
himself rather than allow the thought of secession
to control tho people of Georgia, beoause of the
passage of the Compromise Measures, I find it no
easy matter to believo that he can be sincere In
his present opinions. There is less oauso for seces
sion now than there was in 1850. Tho opposition
to the admission of California on tho part ot
Mr. Hunter, Mr. Mason, and othors, beoause
of, its alleged extravagant boundaries, had
something practical in it; bat I would like
Mr. Cobb to tell me,what reason he has for asking
Georgia to follow South Carclina into the wilder
ness of dissolution and of anarchy? There is but
one; and will he admit that? Ho cannot make
the eleotion of Mr. Lluooln the pretext, because
he was constitutionally chosen, and Mr. Cobb, a
constitutional statesman and an experienced law
yer, is bound, not only to wait for the overt act?
but to regard him as Inucoent until proved guilty.
Will he, thon, throw himself upon, and go befor
bis people with, the idea that Georgia shall trail
her proud empire banner in the dust as the abject
Inferior of South Carolina, only because the South
has become a minority m the TJnton ? This is the
pretext offered by the treasonable fanatics of
South Carolina. They propose to leave the Union
with a hurrah, and say that they do so beoause
they find themselves losing their influence inside
of our family of Republics. Thoy do not regard
tbe eleotion of Mr. Lincoln os the chief cause of
their movement. It oomes to them simply as a
provocative, an appetizer, and a stimulant, bnt
they go behind present or even reoont events, and
declare that the safety for slavery in the South is to
live outside of the American Union. Now, will
Mr. Cobb acoept this theory as his Own? If he
does, oan he justify it to himself as an honorable :
man ?
With Mr. Cobb’s opinions, be oannot remain
in tho Cebinel, should tbe President take tbe
Jaokson, and, heretofore, tbe Cobb, idea, and
hence it may be that -he has a reason for delaying
tbe preparation of bis annual report. Should be
go, he will leave in good hntnor, and will, of
oourse, take with him Mr. Secretary Thompson,
of Mississippi.
The New York Herald has been trying to
oreate the lmpr,ssion that Governor Floyd sympa
thizes with Mr. Cobb. If ho.does, then there is no
faith in man. I know that within the last ten
days he has made’ the most positive deolaratioDß
that in no event would he oonsent to a secession or
dissolution, simply on aooount of the eleotion of
Mr. Linooln.
Mr. Buchanan’s inetsago was not completed
until Wednesday, and he is still polishing it into
shape. The grounds be may take I have not been
made acquainted with, although I see that the
New York Herald, his'personal organ, Insists that
he will squarely reiterate and enforce tho old
OTaokson platform against nullification and seces
sion. If ho does, of course Messrs. Cobb and
Thompson will retire.
South. Carolina has gone too far to recede. She
will seoede, and sho will go it alone, if she oannot
get companions. Her fire-eaters have succeeded
in firing tho hearts of the whole people with but
one idea, and that is of revolutionary independence.
A gentleman present at Charleston a few days ago,
informs me that he never saw anything to equal
the delirium of all ciasies in that oity. They are
making flags brilliant with lone stars, and heavy
with palmetto trees, whioh are hung out from
railroad depots and storehouses, hotels, hoso
beuses, and theatres. Ladies are making cockades
and banners, painters are painting,poets are poet
izlng, musioians are serenading, orators are speak
log, and minute men are organizing, and there
seems to bo a general saturnalia. In truth, tho
only thing that convinced him that South Caroli
na was not so muoh in earnest as she desired to
appear in the newspapers, was the fact that her
people seemed to be on a grand frolic—a Grecian
symposium, where, for the time being, all thought
and all discretion are lost in the exhilaration of
the moment. If General Washington were to ap
pear among these revollors arranging to destroy
their country, and repeat h!s Farewell Ad
dress , they might not burn him in effigy,
but they would order him beyond their
domains. But woo upon Old Iliokory l If
ho, like the anoient Old, could come forth from his
charnel house, and repeat hie proclamation, there
would he no respect, no xofuge, no rescue for him.
Can it be possible that the border States are ready
to foUow.tbese frantic men? Ido sot believe it,
and therefore I am sot sorry that South Carolina
has put her foot down, and hoe determined toleudv
In the crusade upon the Constitution and tho Union.
With suoh a plonoer, Goorgla, Alabama, MlseU-
Bippi, and Loui*l flna nay- h«! 1 Lasitato.-
Our New York Letter.
HEAVY BEOaiPTS OF PBODDOB—CONSTERNATION
AIIOHG THE FIGHTIHG MSN : BILLY MULLIGAN —
• A* INDUSTRIAL CORQBIBB OF LAZY PEOPLE—
GREAT JOT 2H WAISh STREET—A $25,090 OFFICE
IN R£W YORK TBBOWR UP BY GEN. KYS—OLIJ
JIEBBIAM OR TUB PLEASANT WEATBSR—JOHN
u’lnrak.
[Correspondence oi Tiie Press.]
Notwithstanding tho inauspicious look of busi
ness matters generally, tho produce of the groat
West, coming to tidowator through tho Erie Canal,
continues to increase at a rate that folly justifies
tho belief that tho tolls for tho year will exooed
over throo millions of dollars. Tho receipts for
the second week of this month and for the year are
as follows:
Tolls received for the seoond week m
vember, i 860... - 9153.417 14
Do. m 1859..
Inorema in IflfiO. 9»7.414 04
Tolls received for two weeks- in November*
1860...... ~ $2« 433 60
Do. in U3,B2i 34
Inorease in 18C0 —— , Qblfiis 16
Tolls reoeived from the opening of navis&~
tion to, and including the second week ill
November, leco §2 19
Do. in 1869.... B5
Increase in 1850 81.837,981i4
The oonviotion, yesterday, of one of our most no
torious fighting men, Billy Mulligan, has sent con
sternation to the hearta of all' the head-punohers
of the town. Unless some unexpected “ cehoodlo
Ing” takes place, the ohoerfnl William will bo
sent up to Bing Bing for at least two years. It is
rumored among the fanoy that same cf his friends
will, at the first convenient season, administer a
bruising to Morrissey for the unrelenting manner
in whioh he has pursued Mulligan, Apropos of
fighting men: “ Awful Gardner,” who was a bully
ohap when he was one of tho world’s people, has
dona a deal of praotioal good slnoe he knocked off
fighting, beoame a tetotaller, and “ got religion.”
During the past eighteen months ho has induoed,
at his ooffoe house, fifteen hundred persons to sign
tho temperanoo pledge. How muoh better ire feel
when we have entirely reformed!
One of the pestilent hnmbugs with whioh Now
York is periodically affiioted is new in session at
Metropolitan Hall. It' assumes the imposing title
of an “ Industrial Congress,” and a very great im
position it is. The “ Congress” is eomposed of
about thirty seedy, long-haired, lank-visaged peo
ple, lesy-loeking oreatnres, who talk a great deal
ahont industry, bnt nre doubtless as idle a set of
vagabonds as worn ever out of an almshouse. Tho
most prominent industrial of the lot is a congress
woman named Ernestine It- Bose, who always has
a oall to say something whenever there is an infidel
convention or anti-slavery meeting. The first re
solution the oongress adopted yesterday was, that
all existing laws about trade and industry were
false, and should ba abolished right away. The
sens and daughters of toil resolved a variety of
other momentous matters, and then went away to
some eating house, and sat to work very iudustTi
ouslyat memo ana lagoT. - ■*
There is great joy among tho alnnera'of Wall
street this morning at the aotion of the banks yes
terday. Their oombiaation and agreement in
reference to speoie and discounts is practically to
merge all the banks, for thetimo being, into, one
monster bank, and thus avoid a run upon each
other for epooie in settlements.
In a Hartford paper reoelved here last evening
I oame ooross the following curious paragraph
abont a big thing in tho seoret-serviOe way, whioh
is good go3Bip, whether true or not:
“ Among the changes thftt have taken place, I
notice your former fellow oitizen, Geo. W. Sayles,
Esq , has received the appointment of Censor of
tho Imperial Husslan Government, ofßoe of the
Comptroller, 160 Fulton etreet, New York. I
leam this appointment will take a large portion of
his time, and is one of the results of the late elec
tion, General Nye, who has held the appointment
of Censor for the year past, having resigned, ho is
spoken of as likely to bo oolleotor of this port.
“ Tho office of Oonsor Is said to be worth, in sala
ry and perduisitos, some $20,000 per annum; but,
as it is a ssorot service, the writer oannot get at
the exsot foots in tho premises. It seems, although
wa are on friendly terms with the Imperial Rus
sian Government, wo havo a secret agont in our
midst who keeps the Government posted as to all
delinquencies of the officers and attaohos of tho
embassy at Washington, and who has the disburse
ment of large sums of money from what is termed
the Hussion itesorvo Fund. I will keopyon
posted at intervals as the panio increases ’’ “What
on airth,” as Mrs. Partington would say, could
have induced my sanguinary friend, General Nye,
to resign a twenty-fivo-thousand-dollar matter
like this?
That wonderful creature, «• E. Merriam,” of
Brooklyn, who, for a century past, has devoted
himself to a daily Bnd nightly rorutiny'of tho ther
mometer, and is hot or cold precisely according to
the quicksilver, Informs the public ns follows:
gsi l( Daring a period of seventy-two consecutive
years, ovor whioh our rooords oxtend, in fifty-one
of the number in the firat twenty days of the month
of November tho temperatnre fell here to or below
the freestng line on the scale of Fahrenheit, which
Is 32 degrees. ,
“November, 1807, was odd from 13th to 20th,
both days Inolnslvo, tholowest temperature ranging
from thirty-four to thirty-two degrees.
“In 1810, tho temperature foil to twenty-ono
degrees on the 3d of the month, and nil of the first
five days in that month wore cold. .
“ In 1813, the temperature foil to twenty-five
degrees on the 15th or November, and the weather
was cold from Ijth to 17th, both days inclusive.
.Occasional.
• New Yobk, Novomber 22, 1860.
“November, 1820, gave nine days, in the first
twenty days of the month, in whloh the low tem
peratures ranged from twenty-three to thirty-two
degrees.
“ In November, 1838, 1843, 1848, 1851, 1854,
1853,1857. 1858, and 1869, each presented several
days. In the first twenty days of the month, in
wbioh tho temperature fell below the ioy line. 1 ’
I oopy a bit of porsonal gossip about one of the
most modest men and most gifted aTtlsta in the
country, John MoLenan:
" I met an old friend of your senior’s tho day
before election, by name J, F. H. Claiborne. Ho
presented me with two works he has rooently pub
lished. One is the ‘Life and Time of Gen. Sam
Dale, tho Mississippi Partisan,’ published by Har
per & Brothers. A more interesting book I have
never road. It contains thirteen superb illuatra-
Hons, done by John MoLenan.
“That name reminds tno of n singular history.
MoLennn u tho second, if not tho superior, to
Dsrley. Ho gets $5,000 a year for hla designs for
them alono. Darley gets the same snm for doing
the designs of the American Tract Booiety pnhlf
oations. Outside, MoLenan gets $2O to $lOO for a
few hours work wilhapenoil. What a chance'
MoLonan oamo to New York in 1854, when Jo.
Seovil had his famons Pick newspaper. MoLenan
oommenoed on that, and for his first drawing in
that paper he received. s2—not one of oyer 290
drawings for the Pick would MoLenan look at or
touoh now for less than $25. His talent with the
penoil is wondorful. MoLenan’,was born in Cincin
nati. He is a perfeot worshipper of scenery, and
whenever he oan shako off the dnst of New York,
off he goes to the Oatsklll or "White Alountains,
where he can fish to his heart’s content, and drink
in Nature’s wild beauty. That is good—Nature’s
wild boauty.”
Henry Ward Beecher at Concert Hall
Last Evening.
The opening looturo of tho “ Peeplo’s Literary
Institute” oonrss was delivered last evoning, by
tho Hev. Henry Ward Sseeher j and never was an
andienoo moro exactly limited to tho oapaoity of
tho plaoo in whioh it was nssemblsd. Nearly half
an hour before the hour of oommenolog thoy woro
obliged to stop the Bale of tickets, every seat, and
every foot ot standing room, on the main floor,
stage, in tho galleries, and in tho boxes, fully oc
cupied, and, inuoh to the regret of those having
the management, some pereons who had previously
purohased tiokots wero unable to obtain admis
sion.
At eight o’olook, J. W. White, Bsq , ssoretary of
the “ Institute,” read tho fntnre programme of the
present course, and conoluded by introducing to
tho audience Dr. Wm. H. Allen, president of
Girard College The latter said that before intro
ducing the distinguished lootnrer, he would make
a statement at tho request of tho People’s Literary
Institute. Ho was glad to see the splondid house
with whioh their present coarse of leotures was in
augurated. This ooursa, as designated, he said, was
one of the most brilliant, and any tbreo oat of the
ten whioh it embraced, ho thought, were worth
moro than tho cost of the’ whole. Ho also vindica
ted the People's Literary Institute from the oharge
of inviting only leoturors of a certain class, to tho
exolusion of others. They had invited a largo
number of eminent men, in all professions, real,
ding in all parts of the Union, oithor one of whom
would have been insured a respeotablo hearing
in tho event of his aoooptanoe. [Applause.]
This Institute waa not a myth, as ima
gined, but a real thing, having a «local
habitation and a name.” Its profits had in no
one season fell short of three hundred, dollars a
year, nor had it in any one Instance exooedod six
hundred dollare, out of which tho secretary's
salary had to ho paid, and the balance visa appro
priated as a reserve fund to meet contingent losses,
and ultimately to bo devoted to the formation ol a
library, whioh, under tho ciroumstanoes, however,
waa not likely soon to ho realized, as the fund thus
far had only reaohed tho sum of five hundred
dollars.
Mr. Boecher being Introduced, said ho was about
to read a leolnro entitled <- Young America ”
Men, no said, wero gradually confined to a limited
rango of exporionoo. If tho ago he jree, thera
would always be a young nationality and an old
nationality. We had an old Amorioa, and a young
America; and, thank God ! there was now, too, a
young Italy. Tho most .interesting thing In any
State was its young, forming foroo. He did not
moan to disouss tho themo proposed in its popular
acceptation, tho common characteristics of whioh
wore altogether physical. It was supposed that
onr young "Americans, as mon of a new country,
must themselves be new. Now, while tho country
might be now, and our institutions new, yet hit'
nan nature was old. In al! the popular expecta
tions of tho young American there was nothing'
worthy or really noblo.
It took more to make a man in onr time than in
any other period of tho world. We represented,
as it wero, the young stock for the last three hun
dred years. Onr ancestors had been the disturbers
of the peace in every European country from whioh
they came, and so because thoy had been men of
conscience and real life, who dared to do right at
their physloal poril. Thus, with the Dutch, Ger
mans, French, Irish, Sopteh, and Huguenots the
prevailing idea end thought had been human
liberty.
The Chinese had a way of growing u dwarf
4reea”—dear little trees—capable of growing in a
slx-inoh pot, that could bo carried in doors and
snugly managed on a shelf. So political and reli
gious rlrvlcl had- o-elr Sls.lßcn pots fo*. Ji.cn
mon. [Laogbter.] Not fio had been our ancestors,
tehey had beau trees, reaohing, virtually, to boa
von, and striking deep their roots in every direc
tion, and praising God with their outstretched
brsnehes, and toe, said ho, wero thoir stookl This
oiimax involved one ol Mr. Beeoher’a peculiar
rhetorical thunder-olsps, to whioh the electrio
power of his oratorioal efforts is largely attribu
table.
•In the North of our country ho bolioved the old
Anglo-Saxon element predominated, and it still
showed itself In its stubborn determinations to
stand up for its moral rights. In the South he
thought the Norman element was in the asoondant,
and tbo peculiar characteristics of Southern people
were in accordance with their national descent.
Ho held that one of tho first elements of national
greatness was Its physical vigor. He knew there
was a sentimentality which quite dospised the body;
yet the latter was as important as the mind itself
All who had ever attained power in the world, and
rotainod it, had been men of great physical
strength. There most be mind, but there must be
body too. There was such a thing as religious and in
tellectual dissipation, that should be guarded
against as much as any other dissipation. It was a
common saying that great men seldom had great
children. Now, In the first plaoe, all men were not
great who had that reputation', and upon the
whole, ho doubted if tho children of auoh, upon the
average, were not generally quite as great as their
parents, if they were only so estimated. He next
branched out in a disquisition upon the physiologi
cal laws of hereditary descent, in which some of
the too common errors of sooioty were duly scored.
He held that the man who took the young men
of onr oltlca and built them up physically,
while he might not bo preaching the Gospel,
was at least wbioh would contribute
more effeotually to its being preaohed by others.
It was usual with some to designate a ♦* gentleman,”
as “ one who lives without work.” There oould bo
no greater absurdity. No man fulfilled the object
of his existenoe who did not habitually employ hU
body and mind. The idea whloh some men had of
continuing in buelness with the view of amassing a
competency and then “ retiring,” was severely ri*
diouled. Praotloally, the ambition of suoh was
realised by attaining to the dignity of making
themselves the laughing-stock of fools. Men had the
right to retire, he would admit, but he insisted that
when they did, the sexton ought to shut the door af
ter them! The only excoption to this rule allowed by
the leoturor was th caged, who, by a religions life,
bad become thoroughly divosted of the dross of our
sinful natures. Suoh might remain, with profit,
as an example to tho younger, to point them to
heaven.
A remark here made by the leoturer, that ser
vile work was a curse,” eliolted a faint, uncertain
clapping, that showed the presonoe of an element
in tho audlenoe whloh, to the speaker’s credit, was
doomed to disappointment.
Sir Charles Fox and Sir Joseph Paxton, it was
said, in connection with his remarks upon the dig
nity of labor, bad reoelved their affixed titles on
account of thoir meohanical skill. Their titles
made them neither more nor less. The covern
-raomr-«u* conntrv re
ceived the highest tribute at thj speakerVhancilp
as offering no ahackloa to the development of the
noblest and brightest [character. In our morals,
ho was sorry to say, our advantages had not been
properly employed, for in the matter of honesty
we were not any moro scrupulous, he believed,
than the people of other nations.
Our institutions, in the next plaoe, were said to
be most favorable to the development of true inde
pendente of character. What was, however, often
oalled the best government, was really the worst.
That family government was the beat and most
efficient which brought children eooneat to a moral
status, when they needed no government. Polltios
had onco belonged to courts and statesmen; but
now, thank God! the people were becoming
stronger than politicians. It was ssid, and ho be
lieved n was true, that no judgo could administer
law, contrary to the common sentiments of the
community, more than ten years. She common
people wore fast becoming tbe judgo of judges, and
tbo lord of lords!
We bad a right, in the next plaoe, to expect from
tbe young a certain degree of youth. Some peo
ple thought moral excellence consisted in being
prematurely old, though it was an unhappy mis
take which taught the youth of a community to
substitute ideas for feelings. The young ought to
be taught to cultivate genorous aspirations, ana
Implioitly to follow them, if they would fill the
plaocs for whioh God had intended them.
Having concluded his leotute proper, Mr.
Boecher said ho was now ready to commenoe bis
address , adding that if any prepent wished to
leave, they had tho oppfirtunity so. As,
howovor, none attempted to leave, he proceeded to
pay hla regatjjp to the pisunlonists in tbe most
Beeoberieh style, in the course of which ha was
applauded repeatedly. So far as It respeoted the
States determined to accede, they were like the
unruly members of a family, whioh being out in
tbooold a little while for their disobedience, would
be glad to return. For his own part, while be
wished to effer nothing inflammatory, he stood
precisely whore he hod always stood upon the
great question of the day, nor should he ever re
cede from It.
LATEST NEWS
By Telegraph to the Press.
PROM WASHINGTON.
Speoial Despatches to “ The Press."
Washington, Nor. 22,1860.
The Baptist State Convention of Alabama has
deolared unanimously for seoesaloa. The Baptists
of this olty hare deolared unanimously for mode*
ration. What will the Christian Ohnroh be worth
when the American Union is dissolved?
Alabama.
The Governor of Alabama has deoided to call an
election for delegates to a State Convention on the
24th of December, the Convention to meet on the
7th of January. He takes strong ground for so*
aession.
Suspension of tlie Washington Banks*
Notwithstanding the suspension of the Washing*
ton banks, they have never been in a better con
dition than they are now. It is a mere preoau.
tionary measure.
Mr*. Lincoln and the Fugitive-Slave
The Republican leaders here, without oxcep
tion, agree that the new Legislatures of the North*
ern Btates, whloh have laws against the enforce
ment of the fugitive-slave law, should repeal
such statutes at onoe, and I have no doubt this is
aooording to Mr. Lincoln’s wishes. Success oon
servatises every party.
Probable Change m the United States
Senate.
That close corporation, the United Btatea Benato
trembles.to its centre at a probable ohange in its
organization after the fourth of March, 1861.
They Fear the People.
Nothing frightens the Secessionists more than
the threat to carry the oaso before the people, and
hence the reason, for calling conventions at an
early moment.
Supreme Court ol' the United States.
Justice Way**, of Georgia, and Chief Justice
Taney, ot Maryland, are both strong Union men.
The acceding South fears the reorganization of the
Supreme Court of the United States, and the ap
pointment of hostile judges under Mr. Lincoln's
Administration. Disunion could have no worse
foes than Taney, Wayne, and Grier of Penn
sylvania. -
Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Dela
ware, Tennessee, and Missouri Ta
booed by the Fire-eaters.
The Disunionistfi distrust these conservative
States, and do not like the idea of meeting them in
a single Southern Convention. The border Stateß
should recollect the moment they get into that
Convention they will either have to secede them
selves, or compel theDisunionists to sooede They
never ean agree.
Washington Dull.
The arrivals are few, although the indications
are gratifying os to an animated winter.
[DESPATCHES TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ]
THB CABINET PROCEEDINGS HARMONIOUS THE
OUTBREAK IN KAM6AB—THE UNITED STATES
TREASURY.
Washington, November 22.—Theie have been
no special meetings of the Cabinet to consider ques
tions growing out of the secession movements.
Harmony has hitherto characterised their pro
ceedings.
It was to day authentically stated that nothing
has recently occurred iu their deliberations to pro
duce distraction.
. The President to-day reoetved Judge William's
despatch from Warsaw, Missouri, acquainting him
with the alarming state of affairs in Kansas.
Additional orders have been transmitted to Ge
neral Harney to resort to all available means to
orusb the insurgents
The receipts into the Treasury for the week
ending on Monday amounted to $1,432,000, includ
ing about 400,000 only from customs. Amount of
drafts paid, about $2,000,000, a portion being for
tbo redemption of treasury notes, leaving subjeot
to draft $3,495,000.
The resignation of tbe United States marshal of
South Carolina was received by the President to
day.
Lieutenant A. Armstrong, of Georgia, has re
signed hla post in the navy.
Captain Maynadier has been assigned to the
charge of the Ordnance Bureau, in pl&oe of Colonel
Craig, who has been placed in the inspection aer
vtoe
The amount received for lands sold during the
year ending with June, was $1,844,000.
Washington, Nov. 22.— The father of General
Walbridge, of New York, died this morning, after
suffering an illness of several weeks.
The Georgia Legislature.
Milubdobville, Nov. 21 Gov. Brown sent to
the Legislature to-day a epeoial message. In
view of the election of Lincoln, and to promote and
unite the sentiment of the State, he incidentally
advised the Legislature to eleot the Presidential
Electors of tho State on Saturday. The recom
mendation was adopted.
K. B. Bbett, £. Ruffin, and GerteralPillow were
invited to-ieats on'thefloor of the SenateT‘ w ~
Ex-Governor MoDonald is Wing quite feeble at
Marietta, and oould not go to Mtiledgevtile to vote
as a Breckinridge elector, if the Legislature seleota
him.
It is probable that the Legislature will take a
recess alter the Ist of December—some think nng
die— others to a fixed time. The adjournment may
bo anhiect to a call o«tms*».—- - :—-
From New Orteous.
New Orleans, Nov. 21.—Messrs. J. H. Ash
bridge & Nephew’s circular, of to-day, reports 102
ships and 39 barks in port; due, 38 ships and 9
barks. Total tonnage, 155.904 tons in port and
due. Vessels doored for this port, not yet due,
49 ships and 10 barks. Reoeipt of Cottcn from
Ist September, 698,415 bales; stock of Cotton,
296.174 bales. Stock of Tobacco, 12,750 hhds.
Middling Cotton, lOio. Freights to Liverpool,
10*32da|d; to Havre, ljo.
The Pennsylvania itailroad.
A THROUGH KHEIGQT BUSINESS DOING AT riTTSBUItG.
PiTTSDunu, Nov. 22 -—The statement made by
tbe Cincinnati Gazette, that the Pennsylvania rail
road Is blocked frith local freight at this point,
and is refusing to receive from the West, is un
founded. livery ton of East-bcund produce is
despatched daily. No oause for accumulation ex
ists, and no foar of any need bo folt.
Bank Suspensions.
Wheeling, Va., Nov. 22—The banks oi this
dty suspended specie payments this morning.
West Chester, Pa., Nov. 22 —The Bank of
Chester County will Buspend speoie payments to
morrow.
Norfolk, Va., Nov. 22— The branches of the
Virginia banks at Norfolk and Portsmouth have
suspended, as also the Farmers’ Bank of Norfolk.
Washington, Nov. 22 —The banks of this city
have suspended specie payment. The suspension
has not oaueed any panic here.
Fire at Albany, Georgia.
Augusta, Ga.,Nov. 22 —A fire at Albany, on
the 16th, destroyed Shaw’s carriage repository,
Hill, Might, & Marshall’s carriage shop, and two
brlok stores occupied by Crass & Bridentack. Tbe
amount ot loss over the insurance was $13,000.
The fire was the work of an incendiary.
Compliment to Governor Banks.
Boston, Nov. 22.—A complimentary levee was
given to Governor Banks and lady, last evening,
by the oltisens of Waltham, irrespective of party.
The Governor was presented with a service of
plate, and Mrs. Banks reoeived a valuable gold
watch.
The Steamer Edinburgh.
St. Johns. N. F., Nov. 22 —A steamship, sup
pesed to be the Edinburgh, passed Cape Race lasi
evening, bound east.
Markets by Telegraph.
Cincinnati, Nov. 22.—The market opened extremely
dull to-dav, and the prioes for all article* were unset*
tied, but the new* from New York established more
firmness, though no important advance took plaoe.
Flour is quoted at $4 25®4 SO. Wh sky is firmer; UH
olffevrac asked attheolose. Hogs duu; sates of 3,000
at 95 80a6. In Provisions nothing was done to-day,
Cincinnati Money Market.
Cincinnati, Nov. 22.—The money market wru very
dose to-day. Kxohange on New Toric was firmer, but
not higher.
Boston Money Market.
PROPOSED EXPANSION BT THE BANKS.
Boston, Nov. 22.—N0 serious results have yet attend
ed the financial pressure, remittances being received
Irom toe South as usual. Should an emergency require
it, tbe directors of all tbe banks propose to discount five
millions as speedily as possible, to moke money easy,
Trouble m the Harvard College.
[From tho Boston Traveller. Nov. 20.]
The rumor of a case of shooting at Harvard
Collage proves to be oorreot. A eonple of Freih
meawere walking on the street Inst evening, when
mot by a band of Sophomores, and the
” oni) of tho former, and,
proceeding to violent measarov, -kiajmmmmlon
pulled a pistol—which, it appears, was onlyloadec"
with powder—from his pocket, and fired in tbo
face of one of tho Sophomores. Tbo powder black
ened tho face of tho young man, but, beyond this,
no damage was done. *
After thlß prooeeding, the parties all went to
Uieir rooms, whoro the Sophomores commenced
firing oannon-oraekers and making a great noise
threaten ng to annihilate any Freshman they met
afterward.
Hearing of tho disturbance from the police, al
though to-day the police ia Old Oambaidgeare
quite Ignorant of the particulars of the affair, a
mooting of tbo faculty of the college was at once
ealled, and an Investigation gone into.
Although we are uninformed of the evidence
brought before tbejn, they deolded to suspend nine
of tho Sophomores, for terms varying from one to
two yeare and a half.
This being made known this forenoon, tho Sophs
to the number of one hundred hired a job wagon,
and seating the suspended students in it, attached
ropes after the fashion of fire companies to tho
shafts, and thus drew their associates through tho
streets of Old Cambridge. 6
Arriving opposite President Felton’s house, they
gave three groans, and tauntingly oalled him out
to make a speech, and this course was pursued in
front of the rcßidenoes of others of the faouity
Not meeting with much sympathy around the
college they prooooded to Oambridgeport, with the
intention of dragging the suspended members into
Boston, but, when they got as far «S the TJnlver.
sallst Church, they concluded to stop, and cutting the
rope, by whloh the wagon was drawn by them, inm
mall pieoes, each took a small piece-£na pii oit ~
itio the button.hole of his ooat apfooesamu was
formed, and tbo orowd marched baric Vo the college
th ° «*>« ‘ole
. n ul!?'i« o S. t , l iL aotlO ? t of l hl> wi[l not be the
'll? 8 lh ® fa °v»lty soem determined
to put a stop to the extreme measures taken of
Into yonrs by the Sophomores toward the Freshmen,
Fff.hm?n derStl l?' 1 j t . h “ t thoy considered the two
oonrs b o they“o“ d C '™ i ' >E M •» «>®
,-iw‘>u Tlt * N Notice.—N. F. Pancodst, auetlonror,
S°i“S t ." I “ t i wUI “ ll this morning, al l i
0 clock, 500 lots of desirably goods for present
°™»'»ttßg in of Cjermantown fqnoy knit
goods, hosiery, orioket j|aokets, embroideries, laoe
Y®tis, Frenoh flowers, ribbons, bonnet velvets,
gents ties, gloves, do. Catalogues now ready.
THE CITY.
AM UBEMRNTB THM EVENING.
J&m L «’!?£5 T r tt ? KT .T B *«BS t Walnut and Ninth ata.-
Komtio am JuUet” A Thumping Legally.”
ChaUhE*. Arch-sires? Thratrr,
ottfie o u “ h-" Werner”-”Lonely Man
Bon-niKK, Clieatmit street.
Si 1 “ d Minstrels.
<IM» gnieUee). Race atreet.
••Dnmb B Si?fceno^' Lonol) ' M »" «*» «<=<>“ ”~
ThroSft”meS?McsSolSiff u t^"-J^ l g‘s“' -
oftSSSyjSEftJiSSE'
MBiPQBABTW, franklin ftape—Conoett nightly.
Mebti.ng TO SKOODE FJtOM A Church
Her. George Vf. Smiley haying been rejeoted by
the proper authorities of the Reformed Dutoh
Cburch, pursuant to a call made for him to become
the .pastor of the oburob of that denomination at
tho oorner of Seventh and Spring Garden streets,
iu this oity, a congregational meeting was held in
the leoture room of the latter,-yesterday afternoon,
at 31 o'clock, in compliance with the following
call, made by the trustees of the church in ques
tion : - ,
a oaiiof the congregation be made,
p a . CB .. 1 j 1 the lecture-room, on Thursday, the3la
° ojook I*. M.,for the purpose of oon-
SJriWif. V 1?. propriety of diuoiv.nr our connection
hi Utch VhwchS as, entered into
the SS.S 1 coDKregfttionaf meeting held
■Srttmn ♦h°/«‘kS r lL’ 18 l*:£ n accordance with the ninth
seotion ol the charter ot this congregation."
At tha appointed hour Mr. John M. Kennedy
movod that Mr. Edwin Booth take the ohair, on
jJf'Sff 1 -? S ”biob the letter anggested tho eleotlon
?!H Lit”: a n n ,. “f " orolar y After reading
the above call, the Chairman aaid that, although
it was customary so to do, he would not, at thia
stage ot the proceedings, oooupy their time with
any faiths; explanation of their dbjeot
Mr. John M. Kennedy, (a non-member of
ohuroh,) as the representative of tho Smiley party,
then read the following preamble, resolutions, and
soforth:
We, the consregation of the First Hoforo.ed Dutch
i iiurch, m genera! meeting assembled, dud notice ot
t 2 lh * usual way, bavin* been given, feel it
n?.w ,M^L duty 'a 1 . 11 H 1 p l ain *jid public manoer, lo state
the doctrine of the Atonement. Webe-
Gftrt he founded on the infallible word of
eSd t?snh d .. h S, re . bT woolami our boiler that the word of
following f ' 1 P 5m and' explicit manner, the
a , n ,d wdling Saviour, who will in
nowise oast out any soul that comes to H’m.
uands. receive pardon and renovation. h f U
3 r “ere js no ohstaolo in the war of any sinner',
owning but what exists in himself. The door of merer
oanpot be set wider open than it is; the invitations %
Christ could not be more kind and fall. W 0M or
4. The whole blame of the smner J erum.whorefn»««
to oome to Christ, will he at hi« own door. The only
obstacle ie his, own perverseness and unwillinsniuu
, h!> w 8 L wB ?ri * 1 to.nye life to his greatest enemies, i
they would come to Him; lor He complains, «• Yewil
not come unto me, that ye may have life."
„ «• The conversion of a single soul is the work of God
only. The same poorer whiohcausodhght to shine out
*^‘ D 6 , lnt °oui hearts. Creation is a
y°T k ..s ro ,s er ,God only, but conversion is & ‘new
KPS&WIS* ~oh , r J f(Jlllre * Power as really divine as that
by whioh tbe worlds were formed.
6. God has directed the Gospe) to be preaohed to every
creature, without discrimination, and every one who
hears it has a divine, warrant to receive it; and if he
ovarianmgw lvalion! bfu nc 18 » f Ood plod,ad ?orh.s
„.Ty,M? EK A s ’ This 00 ?*7?*{ v tiqn.at a regular meeting
aS}?iH 0T did duly eleot the Rev. George VIC
Smiley, of Louisville. Kentucky, at pastor or this
oburch } and whereas, the oonsiatorr of this ohuroh and
!u?>n 81 f of Philadelphia have refused to confirm said
election, for the alleged reason of his not agreeing in
doctrine with the standards of the Dutoh Reformed
Ohuroh on the subject of the Atonement bat he haring
ever expressed his belief in the dootrine* we hereby
whereas, this congregation feels deeply
8S r ifvt e ? # lb .® avowed reasona inducing the action of
the said jndioatones with whioh we are oonneoted,in
thus rejecting the man of our ohoioe, whom we desire
to minister to us in spiritual things; and whereas, this
haii? r «J?i ,0 ft?»! d, p l 7 a T 0 , t f,2 rtb ® »*ne. at » meeting
A?^V 3Sl3 * fl ?reo to apply to the Re
formed Dutoh Charon to be received into their conneo
tion, and were so alterwaros received, and have ever
since enjoyed tbe nromiry of the living teacher, preach
the great doctrine hereinbefore set forth and
which we desire to have ever proclaimed from this uul
we have been forbiddsn by the notion of
SS£!il c li? dieaton !i , *i* ,rMI w * ,,08 - to which we as a
Lr e,onf 5 and whereas, in order to enjoy the full
rights of consoieaqe, it becomes necessary for this con
negation to dissolve the connection intowh’oh they
Now 0 therefwe 61 - n day of April, 1813 s
firff** Ti,at i b y virtue nfauthontj.vetted in as, and
°rtbecharter cf this congre
gation, we hereby do dissolve all oonneotion with the
Keformsd Butoh Chnroh, nrd hold onrssives free &nd
o»»«»tioS “3
. ThM sncistarv of this msstihs is hare
dt directed to send a couy of the above resolut on to
the president ana secretary of the Cl&isis of Philadel
phia,
After reading the above, Mr. Kennedy engaged
in an extended disquisition upon various points of
theology, denouncing the doctrines of the Bible
as held and expounded by the ablest theologians
in the Reformed Dutch Ohuroh, and as held by tho
Reformed churches generally, in the most nn
sparing manner, generally misquoting Scripture,
when he quoted ic at all, and npon the whole de
veloped one of the most ludicrous systems of 44 free
thinking,” natural theology, that ithas been our
pleasure or oar pain to listen to. Not satisfied
with ono spceoh upon the sobjset, he spoke thiee
times, oconpylng in sit about one hour of the hour
end a half during whioh the meeting was con
tinued.
Mr. Kennedy moved also that, in view of the
fact that the court had yesterday morning proffered
an injunction npon tho ohuroh, if any aaoess'.on
stop should bo taken, the consistory of the ohnrch
should bo requested to confer with the trustees for
the purpose of filling the pnlpit until the matter
la finally decided by tho court, on Wednesday
next. '
Mr John Linton next mode a speech in opposi
tion to Mr. Kennedy’s resolution, in whioh ha re
oommanded n compliance on the part of all con
cerned with the recommendations of thooouxtto
close the church, until the difficulty was legally
adjusted. Though a sympathiser in the movement
whioh had brought them together, and himself a
friend of. Mr. Bmiley, he thought that nothing
would be lost by making thia concession. On the
oontrary, It jrould be better fbr them to eot on the
friends of
Ding.
At the close of Mr. Linton’s condolatory speseh,
however, Mr. Kennedy again rose, andyntb mnoh
feeling, declared that he ‘’wouldn’t give si snap (!)
for the decrees of any civil court when it attempted
to interfere with ecclesiastical matters.” The
efieot of this was evidently convincing that Mr.
Kennedy was right, as Mr Linton subsequently
rose and withdrew hie objeetlon, and voied for
the resolution.
The veto in favor of recommending a conference
of the trustees with the oonsistory of theoburob,
respecting the filling of the pulpit, was then taken
and resulted 69 in favor to 43 sgainit. The latter
vote was regarded as a fair expression of those
who are in favor of retaining the churoh in its
present conneotion with the Reformed Dutoh
Churoh.
The meeting adjourned to meet again on next
Tuesday week, at 3} o'clock P. M., for final notion.
Tbe proceedings, we are happy to add, were of a
more peaceful oharnoter than was by many an
ticipated, the Dutchmen having, with the excep
tion of a single ten-mlnntos speech, by one of
their number, taken a quiet part In the matter
from first to last This “ ten-minutes speech,”
as was alleged by the member of the congregation
who made it, was mainly elicited by Mr. Kenne
dy’s contemptuous language towards onr courts,
and the plain statements of God’s Word; and the
only indecent exceptions to the general propriety
of the hour was on the part of certain females,
who nnsexed themselves by making mouths at one
of the speakers!
The Lath Hknet K. Etbong.—The fol
, lowing incident in Mr Strong’s life may be of in
terest : He was born at. Pittsfield, Massachusetts,
Maroh 2,1797, and was sixty- three years of age at
the time of his decease. His father and grand
father were farmers. Ue was prepared for college
by an Episcopal clergyman. At the age-of
eighteen he went to Union College, in the State
ot New York, where he remained two years. He
then removed to Howard ’University, where he
graduated. Returning to Pittsfield, he received
the appointment of principal of the seminary
tbero, and studied law. At the. age of twenty
seven years he emigrated from Pittsfield to Har
risburg, where he continued the study of the law,
and was admitted to practice at the bar- Here he
started the Intelligencer, the first Whig paper
published iu Harrisburg. He served as State Li
brarian for three years—during 1841, ’42, and ’43.
He then removed to Philadelphia. Having ba
come the owner of valuable coal lands in Schuylkill
county, bis attontlon was turned to the study of
geology and mineralogy.
He possessed - a very valuable collection of
minerals. In tbe year 1854 Mr. Strong was
elected a member of the lower house of the State
.Legislature from Philadelphia, and was re-eleotcd
in 1855 and 1856 At the session of 1858 he was
chosen Speaker of the House. Iu the fall of 1859
bo wo? again eleoted to the House of Representa
tives, and filled the post of obairman of tbe Com
mittee of Ways and Means in the session of IQ6O.
During tbo past campaign Mr. Strong bas been
active for Mr. Linocln Tbe day before his death
he conversed with his friends, and enjoyed the best
health., He leaves a widow, two eons and two
daughters. The sons are settled in XUlaoli as
farmers, but the rost of tho family reside here.
Pittsburg anti-Tax Contention. —-
Commissioners Z Patterson acd J. Brauf. and ex-
Commissioners George Hamilton and John H.
MolJbenny, of Pittsburg, bare oalled an anti-Tax
Delegate convention, to consider the propriety of
obeying the law. The election for delegates will
be hold to-morrow. The oall is issued from Alle
gheny county jail, and states that ” The under
signed. County Commissioners, are now In prison
for refusing to obey the Supreme Court in their
! attempt to compel your cfficeis to do an act which
we consider unjust to those who placed us in
power. We, therefore, appeal to the people to
• -jnstruofue in the duty devolving, as wo are will
ing and ready to abide [by whatever decision tbe
majority may deem right and proper.
“ The Supremo Court, now in session, has issued
a peremptory mandamus, authorising your ohosen
officers to levy a tax to pay interest on $150,000 of
stock, said to be subscribed to the Ohartien Val
ley Railroad Company. We Invite the speolal at
tention of tax-payers to this, as well as other mat
ters that pertain to your immediate interest, qon
aidorlng that, as all power emanates directly from
the poople themselves, wo hold ourselves in readi
ness to submit to such, and none others.
It is thus probablo that the Commissioners are
about tocotne to terms. The matter Is Interesting
to Philadelphians.
The N?w Homan Catholic Churoh, on
tub Annunciation —This building, at the south
east corner of Tenth and Diokinson streets, is ra
pidly approaching completion, so much so that it
will be opened on Christmas morning next, under
tka pastoral charge of the Rev. Father MoAuany.
The building is 126 feet in length on Dickinson
street, by 05 feet in width. It will have a briok
tower in front 120 feet high, surmounted by a spire
of 50 feet, rendering the entire height of tower
anil spiro 170 feet. Ninety feet of the brick work
of the tower is already finished, in which is a grand
window 32 by 16 feot, immediately over the prin
cipal entrance, capped by a granite oross, set in
tho brick work. There ore Jwo windows on eaeh
side of the giand window, in the tower, above and
corresponding with tbe side entrances of the
church On each side of the body ©f the ohurch
there are nine wipdows, with corresponding win
dows in tbe basement, whiob is intended far tho
jarochfal gobool-housa of the new parish. The in
erior, m its flooring and choir gallery, and in Its
preparations tor the grand and side altars, ap
pears to bavo been constructed with care and so
idity.
The Mkhcantilb Binefiuiei. -Associa
tion will celobroto its nlD.teenth anniversary, nt
the Mueioa) Fund Hall, this evening Addresses
vrili be delivered by Revs A. A Willitg, Joseph
A. Beiss, and George 11. Stuart. Tickets mar be
had of thp president.
Fair foe tiih Bsniuir of Tiun it y-
CimKcn —A Fair for the benefit of the Hols Trinltv
(Roman Catholio) Churoh, corjer of Sixth end
Spruce streets, will cojimanao on IfondaT. Kovem
ber 26, in the whsol-houae attached to the ohfirch
pnj be continued two weeks. ’
Academy or Natural Science— Dxath
of Major John Baton Ls Conte.—a SMeioi MMfc.
ing of the Academy was held yesterday boob
to tako some action upon tho death of tho Uta
vice president of the society, Major John Eaton Lo
died on tho 21st Inst, at his raldonea,
iiiZo apraoe utteet. The deceased was born in
Georgia in 1783, at the close of tho Revolutionary
rpo r eohss be?o r w°' llar ‘ ° f hlB Ilft * r ® dotea * d *»'.*“
Dr. Isaac Lea presided. . ..
Dr. Fisher said that he was one of tha shUet
friends or -be deceased, having known him !>U
maleiy for inoro ,hsn thirty At the tla*ef
his death he was probably the oldest netnnlilt ia
tbo oonntry. In his yonth ho devotod <**Tnrtlf to
scienoo and engineering, and ©coupled dutac «
portion of his life the position of major In tha dam
of military engineers. w*j»
Some of tbo finest public works in tho country
were designed or constructed under Us direction;
a “ 0 °g. Fort Monroe, and other dofireeoa at
Old Point Comfort, and several works in south
Carolina, Florida, and Georgia. Ho was oca*
ployed in planning and constructing the defenoes of
New York harbor. While thus in theforvieoof
his country, he was known also as one of the moat
accurate naturalists in tho world. Ho did not con
fine himself to a single branch of science, although
in sorno, as herpetology and entomology, ho was
more than proficient.
In conjunction with Boisdttvnl ho had published
® n ' tojwlogwa! .work, and was debarred by the
Snm^A?? 61180 alr . ead J inourred from publishing
? ?? w, gra J iD S 8 - a »d investigations, to be
found in manusoript at his late reridenee. In her
petology fad was among the leading authorities.
Bis fame was known abioad better than In Atnari
ca., He had adorned the Academy since his con
nection with it, and in his death science had sus
tained the loss or a patron and a disciple
Dr. Elwin had known the deceased long and
intimately, his friendship extending through forty
two years. He would add a testimonial to las
abilities as a botanist and a linguist. Ha was a fine
Greek and Oriental scholar, being oonversant with
the Persian and tho Syrian. In general scholar-
B s l P*o was remarkably learned, and, In foot, one
S° 3t aoQom Plish«d men in the country.
Mr. Foulk testified to Major Le.Conte's convert
sational powers aud genial charaotor. ’ ••
♦v.* ,• t r tb ® n offered resolutions providing for
the usual interchange of sympathy with tha family
of the deceased, snd for the preparation of £&
memoirs by Mr. John Otsaan.
-7. h0 ./ e 8 wer ® adopted. Tho Academy
will attend the funeral of the deceased in a bod/
Brilliant Meteor.—Last night, st- t
quarter before ten o’clock, a beautiful mateor
passed through the sky. Our reporier, who was
standing » front of The Press office desorihea it,
aa a star, twice the rise of tha,largest vitiblwpla
net, followed by a train of fire, scattering at the
extremity of the trail into miniature stain. It
moved with slow and even motion east by north,
pasaing through the cluster of the Hyades in Tha
head of Taurus, ts pace was so slow that ha
walked mearurediy aoross Chestnut street, and np
tuw CnB r°f m H ? U V E ® 6U F 8 > beeping it all the that 4n
view. It vanjshed xn the direction of New York,
seeming to sink behind the horiion. A number of
persons upon Chestnut street, returning from Mr.
Beecher s lecture, were witnesses ef the pfcfaome
son. We received lost evening a number of de
scriptions of the affair. The meteor
all acoounts, to bare been about forty seconds in
£“**2? } he , sk y> WM one of the most
beautiful that has been remarked..
Celebration op JFt* Patrick’s Day.—-
The delegates from the different Roman Catholic
Sooietits have already commenced, to make ar
rangements for the celebration of fit Patrick’s
day,- March 17, 1861. A meeting wit held a tow
evenings ago at the Philopatrfaa Hell, at wh& a
numbor of literary and beneficial aodetiw. and
three or four Sodalities, were represented. ‘A re
solution wss adopted that the Catholie bodies cele
brate Monday, tbe 18ib of next March, for St.
Patricks day, by a grand oration In oiebf Our
large balls, the proceeds to he distributed amoOßt
Bt. John's Orphan Asylum, St. Joseph's Female
Orphan Asylum, and St. Vincent’s Home. A. com
mittee of one from each tooiety were appointed to
make tbe necessary arrangements^ to angegt lho*
orator, &o. They will report at the next meeting
of tbe Convention, whioh will take place Decem
ber 7th.
Willum Sxcckton, who died *t his
home in Burlington county, New Jersey,‘ on
Tuesday evening, was the father of Rev. Thomas
fl Stockton of this city, present chaplain to Con
, wa * X ho *P nn der and editor (in 1821) of
the Wesleyan Repository , the periodical which
commenced the work .of reform in American Mo-’
thodism, and resulted in the reformation of the
Methodist Protestant Ohuroh. He was one ofthe.
earliest pioneers of the temperance cauee, having’,
published an original volume on the sabieetfodr
years previous to the organization of the AjiMriean
Temperance Society, in Boston, in 1825.
He bad been a resident of this oify thirty-five
years, seventeen of which were passed as one of
the officers of the Blookley Almshouse.
Attempted Highway Robbery. —On
Wednesday night, between eleven twelve
o’clock, Mr. Walter B. Dick, a well-known oiti
ien, was accosted in Second street, near tbo. new
market, by a man who asked him for five eenta &
pay his fare to Oamdeh.' Mr. Dick waa about to
comply with the request, when tbe fellow seised
him by the throat and attempted to rob him.
Dlok called for help, and the robber took te his
heels; but he was pursued and captured by a po
liceman. The highwayman had a hearing yester
day, before Alderman Beltier. He was committed
in default of $1,5Q0 bait to answer.° -
Another Parade ’on Thanksgiving
Bay. —The Pint. Regiment if
Brigade, under command of Colonel
SSY* 8 / J f > * UI P a f»d« on
29th lost. On this ocoasios the National Guard.
Captain. Lyle, will make their last panda with
}be regiment, the -Guards having taken tha.pen-.
liminary steps to organise a separate regiment
The consent of General CadwAladerhas been ob
tained, and the National Guard Regiment will
make its first parade on the 11th of December
_acxL-- ,
Washington Monument Association op
the First Schooi, District orpEibsYLVAuiA.—
This association held Its asnual meeting on Taes
day tvenmg, Bt iheir room., «2 WuLt .SIT
3hofollowing offioera woreeloctod to aorroforth*
foUomn ? yoar: PreMdont, Qoorg. P
r 3r\oh'F" da ?Ss. WiIIU,nAU «S: S-CMUrie.
Jo«ph V C h oop:” nd IhM - S - Iwwj
K I.V.CT IO N OF BAI LTV AY fliannwiaa.—T.b.
terday afternoon, both brandies oi .k, cii.
oils met in convention, and eleotef-** fnlle»h>-
director. of the Pennsylvania and NorthwMtara
Railroad Companies, to represent the »tasrA™3
by tbe oity: Pennsylvania Railroad—
Bodine, John M. Kennedy, Ed l
Northwestern Railroad—A. R Foerine, r.m.fir
Conrad, Jacob Thomas. - *»meaJß.
A New Steamer fob Geemantovv
The Fellowship steam fire-engine will be haled
on Thanksgiving day,- the 29th instant, and on aT
afternoon of the aame day. between the - honn .f
two and fire o’riook, a publis trial of the Ifiie
will bo given at tho corner of Main and Amah
etreets, Germantown.
Sudden Death,—Mary Ann Smith,
forty-five years, and residing on Dork Run
near Cedar Bill Cemetery, was found deal in foj
yesterday morning. -
Bobbery atHolmesburg.—The restfence
of Mr. Desilver, at Holmesbarg, was enter*) k»
burglars on Wednesday night, and robbed of i
large quantity of valuable household goods.
University Alumni
the anniversary of the University Alumni
speeches will be delivered by Rev. Dr. Godin
and Rov. H. E. Montgomery, of New York.
Movements of Mr. Lincoln.
Chicago, Nov. 21.—Mr. Lineoin, the Presides
elect, left Springfield for thiselty at eloven o’ekefc
this forenoon, aooomp&nied by Mrs. Lincoln, Ssio?
tor Trumbull and family, and Don Piatt and wifej,
of Ohio. Mr. Lineoin purchased his tickets on<|
travelled in a crowded and inconvenient oar, l>k%
other democratic sovereigns, neither the oompasy
nor conductor showing him any courtesy
although the same corporation recently conveyed
a foreign prince on a speolal train over their rand
with oil the honors. The conductor permitted,
four ironed convicts—one a murderer—to enter
the oar and take seats between tbe families of Mr.
Lincoln and Senator Trumbull. The sheriff having
the culprits in charge is a Douglas Democrat
A Urge ooncourse of oltisens were present at the
depot in Springfield to witness the departure of
Mr. Unooln. He hoard many a “ God bless yon,”
and •* Safe retars*.”
Although the visit of Mr Licooln to this oity
was not generally known In this State, yet crowd*
of poople assembled at every depot, and con
gratulatory demonstrations of some kUd were*
made at the town of Lioooln. Several hundred
ladies and gentlemen assembled at the depot, and
shouted for Lincoln until he appeared, when sum*
enthusiastic “Suoker” introduced him aa the ?f*u
sident of the United States. The orowd cheered
vociferously, when Mr. Lincoln said :
“FaLLOw* Citizens : £ thank you for UUmark of
yourkindness towards mo. I have keen ihufe opan
Springfield for the last few months, and thereto*
have been unable to greet you, as I waa foimerU
in the habit of doing. lam passing on my way to
Chicago, and am happy la doing so to be able to
meot so many ot my fnends in Logan- county, and
if to do no more, to to exchange with you the com
pliments of the season, and te thank you forth*
many kindnesses you have manifested towards
I am not in tho habit of making speeches now, and
I would therefore ask to be exoueed from entering
upon any discussion of the political topseaof the
day. lam glad to see so many happy faeea and to
listen to so many' pleasant expressions. Again
thanking you for this honor, I trill pass on mw
journey. l ’
Bowing to the enthusiastic orowd, Mr. Lineoin
entered the car, whioh was already In motions
At Bloomington, a very Urge orowd aaaeisbUd,
and after many calls, Mr. lunoold appeared and
spoke again, as. follows ;
“FXLtOW.CITIZESS Ot BLOOHRdTOX A 8
MoLban County : lam glad to meei you after a
longer separation than has been oommt.n between
you and mo. I thank you for the good report yew
made of tbe election in Old McLean. Tbe people
of the oountry have again fixed up their affairs for
a constitutional period of time. By the way, X
think very much of the people, as an oM friend
eaid he thought of woman. Belaid when he lost
his first wife, who had been a groat help to him in
bis business, he thought he was ruined—that ha
could never find another to fill her piaee. At
length, however, he married another, who he found
did quite as well 98 the first, and that his quintal
now was that any woman would do well wholes
well done by. So K I think of the whole .people of
this nation—they will .ever do well if well done
by. We wUI try to do well by them in ail ports of
the oountry, North and South', with entire confi
dence that &H will be well with all of us.”
A federal salute was fired while tho train stepped
at -BJoomiagton.
After Mr. Lincoln concludtd his speech. Senator
Trumbull was oalled out, sod responded briefly.
Mrs.. Lincoln received quite an ovation st this
point, as well as her husband. She bore herself ad
mirably, bowing gracefully to the crowd.-and
shaking hands with those who approaohed hereto
that purpose In the oar ,
On the arrival of the President elect at the depot
in this oity he was met by a few gentlemen,
who took the party in private taiheTre
monk House, where they are quartered. -
Tbe arrival of Mr. Lincoln wsn not known ia this
city except to a select few, until yesterday’a He
rald arrived here this evening about an hour be
fore the Presidential party. Hence therawu no
demonstration at the depot.
Mr. If smliu is expected to-morrow.
Mr. Llhqolp will remain here about two days,
and then ratura to Springfield.— Heroic
Onr Prigs Clothing ob ~ jap
SvYLßs.made in the beat manner, *x»Te«lv for is.
FAIL SALES. LOWEST otUini meet majitM ia
Plain Fifurea. All rood* mod* tooraerwarranted sati*.
fOetory. OurONE-pRICE system is striotlxadhcrad
to, All are therabr treated alike, - -
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