D. . r — - . NOVEMBER 29. 1860. - To AnYtnTiAPxe.—The circulation of The Prim exoeeda thatof aayothardaify paper u iii Philadelphia, with a«in|le; exception. Sa ttsfaotoiy proof of tple fact, will, becheerfuUy a ,.g|TW>to>dT«rtfiwra. 2dE ■ tVKEIt LY PRESS. ■> for .SATURDAY next, M now, oat. and oan b* had at *** i T for maiUnt. fltoontain* LATEST NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS. Am w«a ib'£dltori*le.onall'the bopnlir to»ioe of the dor. 'So inißi taper t«Mi*h*d tibettar muted for peroone in the city to mail to their friendi out of town, a* a ei*oie oopy i* a complete hirtory of the timee for • ttattoaadinx weak.' i - CONTENTS: CHOICE POETRY. —-My Both** KnAXT-r-TH* 'Union—Thb PbaXpot, Charor ‘or Y*ax*. ORIGINAL POETSY.-Th*Raw Rbtbpigh Aaair. • SELECTED' STORY.—Th* D*h*x A*n’e Bier*. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.--Fa*m**»’ . B«a-F**nuto Him inWinriß-Rica Soil Attn. *' UGoon Stock—Ruin roeFrrrieo Catxl*—Ga**tc ~ : ''r«* »o* 89111*0 1* th*. Spxixo—Pmhiho op i'riGluaP* ViXRt-D»«r PlocaHino. EDITORIALS-—T** Lradrrs o* tb* 'Expoblicah ’-Pa*tr Ciitbß CRteto—A Gom* po* Gxhtlxxx* '.' BXx*t*oV*»icx X'ei’B M*. Luicoih’e Admirii fSarto*—<**»•**vi*tA «n> rn* Fcoitiv*-Blav* ' .S-ii3>rQi*i*Aim’a Tol**ation —T*s Union: Ir .-Me*t'bb Px?irrvre —Tux Ahibicah Union ve. "'Thr.lSodthiah Cokprdrract—Th* Bight Ann v i. Conanotnaciß O* Beceioio*— I Th* Yoiox op Vib ,J. otnix—JSutPKnalo* op th* 1 Philahrlphla Baku— ■ - JtaUa Libbaata—Thb Philosophy os Facta Ann WjLptatimii: Data pop Mhchahti ash SrArpmin —The Two Aomixalo—lb 'tmb Pbxsibbrt Elxct S-A'ln F*vo* op “ Nrqro . PttDALllr”-Tb* Amrei . CAB Marine—Jab as Bcckahan akb Abraham Lincoln.’ . . MISCELLANEOUS.— Popclatioh op txx Dippxsext Otttxil Ansfnx Baiuoas Rodtxb xxrwxxn. via '•'? -> iS*'S*AiOA*B Ann th* Ohio Vaiibt—Nbws 8 cm- MART—OKnIKAL NBWB.Ac. :; COMSiUNICATION-To the Public. 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Thißpepene tabliihad axproulp for' ; l‘ r .i CALIFORNIA CIRCULATION, And oenUini a complete Banltnart of what hee tra&a . pirad t* our Citp. State, ud tho Atlanta Statee, eieoe tho doaartire of tho lent etoamer for Califorufe Potai Paoi.—EogUeh Polltioa and Polloy; The c Statlstioian; Col. F. W. Lander; I'lPanosal and Politioal; A Vieit to WhaatUsd; - MaaUng-of the Cabinet; Th* Pulpit—Sermon on the Baearraotfon; Four Daje’ Liter Nona fron L,£*rop*; Froaa. Sonora. Fobete Pao*.—Gasaral Oalifomla Eonndary Cotnmlaafon; Henry ■ i RVWitaba the Orlata; Marina Intelflganoa. The New*. “' . ■ ■ , , * d " .'is;. The, Arabia, which left Liverpool on the 17th, ?ttd QneeMtown on the 18lb, arrived et Halifax evening.; The Prince of Wales bad '■‘iinOSed Kbgland. The Seethed been detained by .jjsS’d, weather, end had. only a week’apioviiloni ■ The leteit advises report bualnets at London as nearly suspended, In oonrequenoe of the high "'retoof aooney. Cotton has declined on all deierlg tlone. Then was a rumor that the Duke of New castle would reoelva the order of the darter from ..-her Majesty, a raoancy haring been created by the deatb of tha Dohe of Blohmnnd. TheJta _ preis Dngenie arrived In London on the 14th Inst., l ' and remained there two days In the atrlotest Incog nito. She 'trill make a rislt to Sootland, in the o hepeof repairing her impaired health., • The pony express arrived at Tort Kearney yea- ,te»4«j with thne. d»j«’ liter new horn C»U -' Caralfi. Sw neither on the raonnUioi wu •tons)', j 'tfceesptee*'rider xopoiflsc three feet of monos the booth Pom end Rocfcy Bldg*. Zho retorai ' from the State juetided ell phrttei tn eobeedisg It to Lincoln. It i« rappoeed ho will Clrrj It by from r,.-:t|Tt.:to eight hud red plorality. Then nu mnoh - enalety tskso* the effect of Uocoje’e electloaon t Soothers Statee, eli partiee feartageerfoai 4 oon»Uet- : tiV‘pr«jriety' oi • Peelfio Coofederaoyhad been aide, hat' dnMMid-.hr the pines Seaatallr, • | . ; _ AUBbn of cWjMoa-**— — 7, . . iJiea to Gw-rfileke, ?r «*» S^tor to ““ *»•■ Legiilatora, toopnaiderthe dil "uajenqparitoivh* rapllae by reftutog the reqaeat ' Bit Governor ti willing to go ti far u powlbl# In deTesM of Southern right*; bot h* U unwilling to Maryland in the poilflon of teaming'to cn , treasonable design. igilott the Govern 'acat'usdthoUnion.. ' . ■ A Sew .York Journal publUbwe report from -Teanaaiie to the elfeet that John Bell hae-pr*-- ■snored an elaborate addreeeto the Amerioan poo. „ pla on the. eriela, taking itrong groundaagainit ’ the right of aeceuion and iha expediency of It, and . -dereonittaUag th* rain to. th* border State* which muit follow from the Gulf Stitt** going oni. Mr, S'ißeli; ft la undaretood, adviee* conciliatory me*. .. anna, and ehow* how etrong the united South wUI be 77ngetoat;*ny BopnhUoan foray, and how Lincoln ' wlllhe compalled to be conic tvatlv*. t'-.jjlhl aebobner Forest Kong, Captain Perry, wthav* lies of Bio Janeiro paper* to Ootober 11, being, however, only on* day later than prevloaa ] data*. The laat qnotation of exehenge on London | • ’ w** 2».W. On the 10th aaleiofooße* were 15,000 '■ ’ nag*.' There bt ho.new* of any interaat to onr ' ‘ road’ert. The riecHona, municipal, .*e:, war* ge ‘ lag oh had doling no more than thu tuna] amonnt iT '*f exettement throughout the coantry. •Th# chip OUver Jordan, Capt. Bobbin*, of " Rockland, from Baltimore, for Panama, foundered Ti’t aS tta rtver Platte, on the 6th of September, ar ;; ; . nrwriohllyii reported. The onw; laft tho eUp In 1 : '-fht*n boati, pne of whioh eaprleed, and th# ooeu. I 5 thid* ware picked up and dlvldad batween the yISSU two' boat*., One, of there waa eapdaed to ' beaebtog, and eevon oat of the twelve men to her were drownad. The remnant or the crow arrived » - 'At Bio Grande on the 15th of September; and oemo •7 , jo.gww Yorkm the brig Young Avuncaj whioh ar rtrbd Tatidey 1 ' " IA " Ike iteuuhip Matansas, Captain Llaaagang, : ttem MaUniae on tbo22d, arrived at New York oh ■-Tueiday averting. The health of the city . la re-. .'j .pdrt*d good, .and the-coming Crop vorj promiring, | by tolegraph that a apeotol daepateh, pnhilihad to the' SL Loala Periucrat, ray* tha ••: yrinatdra under Qtn. Froit were awaiting order* " '' froia Gov. Stewart before proceeding to the Kane** holder, Burner* wefeenrrent to JeSenon City that | th* Governor had ordered the troopa to return, to . . nnneni of the Prerident having given Gen. - Barney direotlena to puraua and arreit Montgo mery wherever found. Aotlon will be poatponed onUl further advieei from the wene of the diiturb-. V Tho revriuliou la progrerelng to Mozuo, and i* evidently approaching a oriel*. All partial wot* preparing for a ohahge of government. Miramon’a '■ darianittoa of hi* ipahllHy .to defend the capital ~ diai'tad eOdLlarabl*. excitement. Tha lait ac i :#ounta itate that the ConstltuUonillate had.dp ,.7i (arid' Tieubaya and Guadalajara. ; It w*§ h*-’ -ey nivid, I that the eapital would turrender without a ’ ....... of Philadalpbla CouneUmou are uatfr'tn-Otoeianati for th* purpow of examining r tka ganaral operatiosi of th* munlolptl d*p*rt manta' of'thatelty. They were raeeivadby th* V\f "Maybe «pd a deputation of th* City Council, whom ;.'. gM*t* they are. They will loav* lor homo to-mor '■ f#W •Tttifigi 1 ir l Tbf it«amKhlp Alabama, whieb *rriT#d fit H#w . York from Savannah, Georgia, brought bankthlr u ty-four rieerato panongere, who, it i* tald, were hot parulttad to land; the aame oonreo being pur ! ned In that otty at to Chailtaton—all itdtag* i puMSgan being ratoned. If than report* ar* •7/ oatmt, th* nooaber of poreoh. nnt back &om Chariaaton la 123, and from Savannah 92. Italian Opera. - ®h« nxjond night of the pmnt opera season was l ’ ; 11 fli» oooasion of a lug* and fuhionable andlonoe ' A#*4*»y Muio lu * •»“*««• Tit opera 7: inmutij fD Ernanl,” Madame Colson apposr ;r' i being brought boforo tho contain at tho cloro of tho r irot aot. Midasne Colson, a) Elvtra, song nnn 1,, ‘ v ‘ " 1 H*r toting throughout tho oporn irat Kifasdeepeh* ll BbrlgUa sang much bottor lost night s3w dUhlh MeaJsy erasing.. Krory indiootionthus ■:/i ;j ; y u feiic Amaaementa. •' Aliaott til th* plaoaa of publla amoMment in i tUaattywlU gin Woentartalamenta to-day, t j ; aflanaa* »*4 araning, with a proapaot of fall 'T ho—d 1 Thaahagtvin* Day. bate* ataanad u a •!“S ;**II4»JV : '• i«/ < t".‘<•- *v adi’i '■ ItM.P«ra«»o*.—W» na*d hardly realnd oar -W& 'raaiwtatfe** B. P.BMU»ht»,*«i., ofßoaton, who** the author the “Mti. Partington the Harrltoa Uto g-il "■Wa*«W , at <* the aatartafameat aiaiawe, iattana far a yraiaeworthy parpo**, ihoald lame W»aaoTaTfl*iria«lK»*a. The Bight Course oi the friends of the Union. The extreme Republican papors, North and Northwest, laugh at the demands for tho.repoal of certain State lawa obstructing tlio act of Congress, based upon tho Constitution,of the United States, in regard, to {agitiro slaves, and for the abrogation of such other statntos as are Tepngnant to the feelings ot the South ern people on this subjeot. The other extreme (composed oi the fire-eaters and Socession- Ists) treat, with equal scorn, the efforts ol tho National and Union-loving men in reforonce to this adverse legislation. Tho one side In sists upon retaining this legislation on the statute-book, and the other asserts that if this legislation is it will not lesson tholr demands upon the Southern people to break up the Confederacy. Thus it is that men of opposite opinions, both 'striving to attain a common end—al though the one section denies the charge oi disunion, while the other openly avows It— are brought together. Tho men who ask for the prohibition of slavery in the Territories, and those who ask for its protection, by Con gressional action, are now joining hands to prevent the removal of one of tlv great stum bling-blocks to the proper adjustment of this qnestion, which has so long vexed the coun try. Caleb Cushing, some years ago, in a speech ot signal ability, in the Legislature of Massa chusetts, showed that Sonth Carolina and Mas sachusetts, each representing a theory sup- posed to be antagonistic to the other, had for years been the headquarters of nearly every scheme looking to the overthrow of tho Re public ; and that no comprehensive national statesmanship, looking to tho preservation ot the Union by respecting tho equality of tho States, could.maintaih itself in either. Mr. Webster lost the affection of Massachusetts when he ceased to be the mere echo of the sentiment of that State, and Mr. Calhoun, with all his great abilities, kept hiß position in Sonth Carolina only by coltivating the loci' fanaticism ot his State, and by yielding his early national record. We find that tho nttra-Ropuhlicans hoso thoir hostility to the repeal oi the obnoxious laws referred to, upon tbo ground that to yiold in that respect would be to oxhibit cowardice — would be showing woakness of spirit—and an eminent Republican journalist states that tho Repnblicans must not bo « bullied” into such a concession. Somo contond that to do so would be to surrondor a curtain theory in re gard to human rights. Others defiantly de clare that the Union had hotter go to piucos than to accept such a compromise, us that which demauds strict obedionco to tho man datory provisions of the Federal Constitution. Mr. Rheti and his school, which now num bers thousands who have heretofore stood by the country, not only doom this proposition insufficient, bnt say that, as tho Union has failed to servo their purposes, and in consequonce of Mr. Lincoln’s election by the votes of Northern peoplo alone, it is thoir dnty and their destiny, their interest and their inclination, to secede from tho Union, and that no terms that may be offered to them, in [ older to arrest this step, wifi bo accepted. I . Congress assembles on Monday next. Tho j Indications dearly point to the fact that I the Northern and border States wifi be fonnd co-operating in a body for the preservation of- tho Confederacy. We think it wifi dearly appear that most of the Cotton States intend to retire at an early day; and, in so doing, they wifi take care to provide the most strin- I gent legislation against all the freo States, and particularly against those which stubbornly re fuse to repeal lheir laws obstructing the exe cution of the fugitive-slave act. The Go vernment Itself is on the verge of bank ruptcy; and the Secretary of the Treasury will immediately state this fact, so that the repre sentatives of the people can provide for tho , public necessities by loan or otherwise. The Morrill tariff bill, which passed the last popu lar branch of Congress, is now npon the table oi'the United States Senate. It has gone through the ordeal of the Finance Committee in'the tetter body, haying been reported just libefore the-adjonrunent by Hr. Hubtek, witb I a recommendation that it do not pasß. It would be the height of folly to attempt to carry I on the Administration by means of a loan or [troasory. notes, whan, oitr revenues are being l ent off uid oqr-pablic credit - damaged. Thus byre should, in all probabilityjNave a currency Seiiatora of the great Middle States wifi take I npthe Morrill Wit, And, with- the aid of their 1 .colleagues from the border Slave States, enact I it into.a law, there wifi be some basis for the | restoration of public confidence—at least! among.the.Commonwealths that conclude to 1 remain in tho Union—and such an inducement I I to the revival of business as ina y ward off what | is supposed to be upon ns, viz: tho calamities | ' of a hard winter, growing ontof tbo discharge I of hundreds and thousands ol laboiorß in our I j cities and towns. I /The Dlsunlonists who may remain in Con-1 Mess'cannot complain of this legislation as I injurious to them, because they bavo already I avowed their determination to go, and that! I which might, be a cause of objection under I other circumstances, will be a matter of indit- I ferencetothemnow. Such action on tho part of | Congress wonldmspire every Northern Statoto J move at once in the enforcement of the fugi-1 I tive-slave law. If New England refuses ta I repeal her offensive acts., let not Pennsylvania land Ohio hesitate; and it Now England wifi I consent to abrogate her laws, hut not as I against the seceding and revolting States, le I her exclude them in her legislation. In other .1 words, the duty of all the people of the freo I States Is to make entry effort to strengthen the J Union men of the border slave States) including Louisiana. We look forward to tho day not far ulßtanl when the Middle States and tbo Northwest, I and Virginia and Kentucky, including Loul- J si&na, California, and Oregon, may become a I grand Confederacy, the progress, power, and I prosperity of which will become so control!-1 j ing, and the liberality of its policy so manifest, I os to induce those who now clamor for soccs-1 slon .and disunion gladly to return, and place I themselves under its protection. For tho pro-1 sent, let it Buffico that tho Legislatures of the free States owe it to thcmsolvos to adopt I I prompt measures in roforcnco to their prohl- I bltory statutes; and it tho Union Eoprcßonta- I tlves In Congress shall encourage tho sent!-1 I ment by such action as wo have indicated, wo {may not only’ahield ourselves from many of I the blows now aimod at tho integrity of tho I Union, but in ft great degree paralyze tho of- I forts’ of those who are engaged in tho Seces- I Mon movement. Toleration. * \ correspondent courteously excepts to our baying praised Gabibaldi’s liberality in not only allowing the English Protestants to eroet B church at Naples, but also , in presenting them with a site for the sacred edifice, and adds that neither at Borne nor in Spain is there, or tw been, any obstacle thrown in the way of Protestants worshipping together, in their own houses ef prayer. It is true that permission is granted in Rome, provided that the assem bling and separation ot the congregation bo done in tbe least public manner, but, as re gards religions toleration in Borne, we find an illnstration of it in the very latest foreign journal before ns, which says: “ About three hundred Protestants, connected witli tho rail way now building near Bllboa, having collected a lew Sundays ago to worship, a number of Spanish officials entered the church and put a stop to the service." The remark ofonrNew York correspond ent, “Huron,” in reierenco to The World, the last newspaper enterprise in that great city, should not be understood as reflecting upon the management of that paper, or as dis couraging the experiment of increasing it from a penny to a two-cent journal. The World was established, and is conducted by gentlemen who are laboring hard to- deserve success, and we trust their expectations may be realized. The Montgomery Advertiser, the central organ of the Disunions of Alabama, speaks of the great conservative States of Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland, as follows: it We think that all the Cotton States will ne cessarily follow South Carolina and Alabama, within less than three months after their .se cession. We do not think that semi-Aboli ttonized Missouri, or the State, in which Botxs, and White* Davis, and P.ehiioe are leaders of peat parties, will follow ns until kicked out of the Union.” *' Piano Fobtxs.— Great reduction till Ist of January the prises of these beautiful instru ments, made by Seven, Baeon,'* Co., Hsllet, Darts, A Co., and others. J. E. Gould, Seventh and Chestnut streets. Thanksgiving. The terse and oloquently-oxprcssod procla mation of Governor Paokek, sotting apart a day oi thanks for tho poople of this Com monwealth, noods no word ot ours to com mend It to' our readers. The day and tho holy associations whioli eiustor around it—for nothing oan bo moro improssivo Hum tho thought that a groat Commonwealth kneels in union and oommuuion at tho throne of God—will he generally observed by tho peo ple of tho State, The custom is a good one, and worthy of tho grand old States of Now England. This is the Governor’s proclama- tion i PENNSYLVANIA, as. In - the name and by the authority of the Com• tnonwsalth of Pennsylvania. ' WILLIAM F. PACKER, GOVERNOR OF THE BAIT) COMMON WEAT,fn : A PROCLAMATION. FaLLOW-oiTizENfi : Tho revolutions of the year have again brought us to our annual festival of Thanksgiving to Almighty God. In no preooding year have wo had moro abundant oauso for gratis tude and praise. The rovolving seasons have brought with them health and plenty. The sum mer fruits and the autumn harvests have been gatbored and garnered with unwonted exuberanoe. A healthful aotlvity has porvaded all the depart ments of life; and provident industry haß met with a generous reward. Tho inorease of material wealth has been liberally employed in sustaining our educational and religious institutions, and both are making the most gratifying progress in en lightening and purifying the publio mind. While, in Europe, oentral and absolute governments, by their pressure on personal rights and liberty, aro producing exoitements which threaten to upheave the very foundations of sooloty, and have led, in some Instances, to bloody and oruel wars, we, in the enjoyment of constitutional libarty, and under the proteotion of just and equal laws, aro peace fully pursuing the avocatlpns of life, and engaging Id whatever promises to advanoe our sooial ana in dividual improvement and happiness. “The lines are,” indeed, “ fallen to us in pleasant plocoe, and we have a goodly heritage." In all this we see the orderings of a kind and meroiful Provi dence, whioh call not only for our reoognition, but for our publio Thanksgiving and Praise. Under this conviotion, I, William P. Packer, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby* appoint Thursday . the twenty-ninth day of November next , to be observed as a day of pablio Thanksgiving and Prayor, and reoommend to all our people, that setting aside, on that day, all worldly pursuits, they assemble in their respeotive places of worship and unito in offering thanks to i God for His manifold goodness, and imploring His i forgiveness, and the oontinuanco of His meroies. I Given 1 under my hand and tho Great Seal of tho State, at Harrisburg, this twenty-fourth day of > I October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and of the Commonwealth tho eighty-fifth. Wh. F. Packer. By tho Governor: Wh. M. Hiesteu, Secretary of the Commonwealth. More About the Water Gas. Wo porecivo that tho contest between tho City Gas Works, and the gentlemen who aro interested in tho manufactory of water gas, has not been closed, although tho former' has consented to light tho Girard llouso du ring tho repairing of tlvo machinery necessary to a fair trial of their invention. We have no moro interest in this matter than that which concerns tho entire community; but we be lieve that it is the duty ot tho managers of tho City Gas Company to extend every facility to tho experiment for testing tho cheapness and quality of tho water gas. Wo understand, from good authority, that tho parties con cerned in making tho gas which has been used at tho Girard House have lost many thousands of dollars, owing to tho course of tho officers at the head of tho old system, and that other ! obstructive steps are contemplated. This is sheer obstinacy or worse. It can do no good to tho public, and will only awaken a deeper Interest in tho discovery which is thus sought i to be depreciated and embarrassed. Monsieur Blondin. This afternoon, anil alio in the evening, Mon s’our Blondin will reproduce, at tho Academy of Musio, the most remarkable of tho wonderful and adventurous feats with whioh he “ astonUhed the natives” and Royalty, at Niagara Falls. If any bold-hearted gentleman, weighing two hundred pounds, or thereabouts, has any ambition to ride, on Blondin’# shonlders, from the stage to the upper gallery, and b&okftagein, upon no broador tramrbiid than & stretched ropo, M. Blcndln will be happy to accommodate him. Ladles, who de sire to take this excursion, must previously reduce themselves to a state of Bloom'erißm, by discarding their hoops nnd crinoline, whioh, we understand, M. Blondin thinks would be rather in the way. The Academy of Mueio will have some thousands within its walls to-day. | Greatness, whatever its character, generally hu I imitators. It is so M. Blondin. There are now In England two or three performers on tl)e I rope who call themselves “ Blondin,” and, to carry the Imposition fully out, Advertise them selves as having crossed Niagara in a sack, upon 'Stilt#, with people on their a *©w contains ah elaborate advertisement I from a pseudo-" Blondin,” minutely describing his I passage over the Rapids, and promising a fac simile of that surprising performance. There is another u Blondin” now exhibiting In London, as the veritable “ Hero of Niagara,” and, on tho strength of this pretence, orowds are thronging Ito see him. As yet, however, as M. Blondin por- I lonslly awared us a few days ago, when he oalled I upon us, accompanied by bis intelligent agent, I (Mr. Henry Coleman, formerly of Liverpool, and I an old friend of ours,) tho real hero of Niagara [ palls has not yet set foot npon English soil. He I purposes to visit England next April, and he lias ev- I otj reason to expect and believe, that the Prlnoe of I Wales, who witnessed bis perilous feats at Niagara, J and sent him a munificent token of his admiration I and approbation, will be as kind to him on English las be was upon Canadian Boil. The Prince ex- I pressed a hope, ©if that oooasion, that M. Blondin I would not retire from hlB hazardous profession until | after he had performed in England. I This day, M. Blondin will execute his most rc- Inownod and difficult feats, and of course he will I draw large houses. The Improvement of the Blind. 1 Oar attention bar been oallod to a new enter- I prise headed by Mr. Eli W. Whelan, designed to contribute to the improvement of the blind. The main feature of Mr. Whelan's plan oonsiete of a periodical printod in raised letters. Although the first oi its kind over proposed to be published, no special argumont is necessary to prove its im- I poftance, sinoo rvhatovor aan bo said in favor of I toaoliing the blind to read, or providing a perma nent literature for them, will apply equally to it. Mr. Whelan earnestly invites all porsons in- I tsrosted in this good oause to snbsoribo, and thereby Rid in establishing the projeoted under taking ; and especially solioils the aid and en couragement of tho managers, principals, and te&ohers of tho soveral Institutions for tho Blind in Ibis and other oountrlos. 1* is designed to ap pear monthly, eommenotog as soon ns a suflloicnt j number of subscribers shall hafe boen prooured to defray the expense of publication. Each number will consist of from ton to fourteen largo folio pages, and will furnish what in goneral terms may bo called periodical literature, together with snob current itoms of news as may bo compatiblo with its oharaoter and limits. All communications addressed to E. W. Wholan, Philadelphia, in referonco to tho subject, will ho ’ thankfully received. The Most Popular Christmas Book. Tho Drawing Boom Portrait Gallery, containing portrait from life, with full and accurate memoirs of eminent living European and Amerioan per sonages—the portraits engraved on atecl-is about as good a Christmas present asoanbemade. Thera are one hundred end forty-four ongravings, In four volumes folio, handsomely bound, and supplied by H. A. Brown & Co., 14 Hanover Btreet, Boston (the Amerioan Agents,) for $22, or, unbound in paper wrappers, for $13.75. With tho Illustrated News of the World, an admirable pictorial Eng lish journal, one portrait a wook is supplied at $8 a yoar. Mossrs. H. A. Brown, of Boston, wilt for ward these, and all inquiries and remittances should be sent to them. Their advertisement givos toiler particulars. The Bobbin Bov.—Tho fruits of the “Bobbin Boy * ’ begin to anpear. In a village about twenty* jive miles from* Boston, several youth read the book when it was first issued, and they tame dlately deoided to form a “ Debating Club ” like Nat’s. At first no spectators were admitted to their discussions, but soon the doors were thrown | open and the publio welcomed. Every week now the ball is filled with parents and other friends, delighted to witness the progress these boys of fifteen or sixteen years of age are making in tho excellent exeroise of debating.— Boston Tran script. {The Bobbin Boy is an excellent book for boys, stimulating and enoonraging their minds to healthy aotion. 11l publishers (J. E. Tilton & Co., Boston) have a companion volume in tho press- a new Life of Eranklin, which has long been required for young folks.]-—Ed. Prhso. Orphans’ Court Sales, Real Estate.—Tho mas & Sons’ Bale next Tuesday will’inolade the estatos of F. D. Hall, S. Fliok, P. Cane, J. Bheiner, and J. Koib, by order of Orphape’ Court, besides property for other owners. Seo advertise ment, auction head. Pamphlet catalogues on Saturday. Garibaldi's Poverty. A letter from Capua, of November 5, in the Prtsss sevs- “King Vlotor Emmanuel IscomlDg, fnd G’aribaldt is go&g. Booh, at least, is the ge nerar Mentation. 0 Garibaldi having told his se- Mature Bnd two aida-de-oamp to hold themselves in readiness to depart, they foltit indispensable to remind him that he wwabsolutely without money, and that he must think how to prooure a few hun. dredfianos for his voyage. The faol Is that *•*« man who haß given to Piedmont eight millions of ffir™M,‘VolTth a 4rwfh? 8 ay re°^S^ Kt k th^ nothing to live upon bnthis little farm at Caprera, which haß hitherto never produced more than 1.5 - (£6O) a year. Bnoh 6 the real position of t&o man who has conquered the Neapolitan Bour bons and added one of the most splendid jewels Which adorn Victor Emmanuel’s crown.” THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1860. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. Letter from Occasional,” [Correspondence of The Preic.l Washington, Nov. 23, iB6O. Ou Monday next, the second and olcdng session of iho Thirty-sixth Congress will assemble in this city. It is oomposod of llepresentativos and Delo gatoß from all the States and Territories. Whe ther it shall be the last Congress of an unbroken Union Will depend alone upon Providenoo. It is now hoping against hope to expoot reasonable ao tion on tho part of those who have resolved to re- tire from onr family of Republics. Every day adds to the evidenoe that South Carolina, Alaba ma, and Mississippi will seoede before the fourth of Maroh, unless, in the meantime, moderate coun sels should prevail, and those who marshal the way to dissolution shall entirely ohange their oonrse. Muoh good may be done, however, during the com ing session. The Republicans, in December of 1859, bore themselvos with admirable equanimity. They received all tho attacks of the extiome Southern men with singular complaoenoy and for bearance. If this deportment was desirable a yoar ago it is,a thousand times more desirable now*. If they could afford to rejoot all passionate retort and reorimioation when they wore out of power, they oan cerL *uiy afford to oxoroiso similar self-denial when the ruponsibiUties of oonduoting the Administration of the Government have boon laid upon' their shoulders. The common danger may inspire oommon patriotism. The im pending catastrophe may still the tempestuous waves of anger and of hatred. The South contains many good and staunoh friends of the country in its respective delegations, and it is upon theso repre sentatives of tho conservative olasses in that sec- tion that everything depends. Millson, Harris, and Clemens, of Virginia; Branob, Gilmer, and Winslow, of North Carolina; Houston and Cobb, of Alabama; Miles Taylor and Boaligny, of Louisiana; Brown, Anderson, and Stephoneon, of Kentucky; Quarles, Etheridge, and Nelson, of Tennessee; Phelps and Craig, of Missouri, will, I hope, be found on the side of oonoiliation. Similar anticipation is indulged a* to suoh Senators as Pearce of Maryland, Hunter of Virginia, CHng man of North CuroUna J# Pitzpatriok of Alabama, and Johnson of Tonnessco. Let the appeal to the hearts of tho whole Union come from an old states man like Crittenden, of Kentuoky, and I think it will not bo unheedod. As yet, so few members have arrived, that nothing can bo foretold as to the probable course of the Southern members ia the coming session. Our friends should recollect that they have eve rything to lose by impulsive and inconsidorate ac- tton. They have to deal, not with strangers, but with countrymen; and if they dosire to make suoh a record up as they can stand by, and to fur nish suoh a contrast as will do them honor here after, they will be guided by no other motives hut those which should inspiro every man when a universal calamity is at hand. The daily publication of the Congressional Globe will bo resumed on Monday next, and will be continued during the session of Congress. It is the most successful and entorprising parliamen tary journal in the world; and ae the debates are reportod in it verbatim, one of tho most interest ing to all who liko to peruse the discussions of great questions. Mr, Rives, the proprietor of tho Globe, is a man of great energy and experience, and deserves the rich reward he is reaping from his invaluable paper. Occasional. Our New York letter. NATIONAL ACADEMY 0? DESIGN : GROWS RICH AND GOES UP TOWN—FLOUR AND WHEAT IN NEW YORK—EXPORTS FOR LAST WEEK AND THE YEAR —CURIOUS CRIMINAL STATISTICS —ALDERMANIO LITERATURE—NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. [Correspondenceo! The Press.] _ A _ ... Njjiv York, November 28, 1860. Three Days Later from California. The National Academy of Design, now grown [Hr Pony Express.} wealthy by tho rise in value of its leal estate, (paid Four Kkaenbv, Nov. 28.—The pony express to be worth over $125,000.) is about to move still *b}®b !*ft San Franoisco on the evening or the farther op town, having purchased a site for a 7? Je a^ou * °® e o’clock this morniDg, vt ’ . .. ® * __ The express rider reports three feet of snow on the suitable building at tho oorner of Fourth avenno South Pass and Rooky Rldga. and Twenty third street—one of the very finest lo- By this arrival we are in receipt of tho following oationß in tho city. The lots are eighty by one oclvues; hundred feet; tbo price paid, $50,000. Tho pro- AN i°i: lS< vi’ ? ov ',_ 17 ’ P. M.—Arrived posed building wilt cost about the same sum. Sfr !«,’ 1 As is customary at the dote of oanal naviga- ship Winged Arrow, from Boston. Sailed Novem* tioc, the prlnoipal dcalore in breadstuff* hare b®r 14, whale ship Eliza Adams, on a cruise; bark united in preparing a statement, showing the bionflrrand,'for Cape Town, South Africa, with a quantity of wheat and flour now in store in this ca SE^M? 1 v«m win.K <<, „„ , . , , ... , . i.- x*» .mi - inq amp Pam Flush Is nearly leaded with wheat oity. It is ns follows. for Cork; the ship Meteor is ready to sail for Li* Stock of flour at this port, 700 383 barrels. remol with wheat, and the ship Trophy ißnoarlv “ whont “ 3,553,745 bushels. loaded for New York. 3 The average consumption of flour in the oity COJIMERCIAL.— I The country trade haßprovedlieht of New York in about 55,000 to 05,000 barrels per r ™“ week. «i p JP earftnco Y? °f weakneea that increase the In these days of political and commercial panic, feruucof Batavia Sugars and hea we have at least one regular weekly source of con- SEffiATo?'will! iTo". aP&'s® Eolation In tbo publication of tbe custom house re- 3 - 95 ‘ Coffee was well .msuinod. Domestic ra* turns of exports. For the past week the nggregete SgE* W#' xcaohed $2,421,176—near1y a million mere .than lt!s&?jj' Bra^ QU :K w !i e * atad l®bne ©f !«2o frojn in the cortesponding week of last year, fcincotho Ist of January wo have a grand total of $90,010,116, &orS?d t « g MSmMS.*‘ against $60,652,063 last year. An increase of reriorand one of them mar so there, and the other, thirty milliona of dollar# In what wo have sent al«Uo™»s ar. nearly Xu New York, there are thousand# who takeii* still from 500 to 800 ahea? naturally to tho Tombs and Blackwell’a litadiaa. el Y^nb7l^,d duoks do to the water.- This afternoon, in glancing « =»*“•' »«7, Oregon, on. the at the monthly etatement of the Commissioners of oomaes: Lincoln, 6,08^ to HSShrS» r -48Bi“ Charities and Oorreotlon, I observed that our old Doiglas 3,850; Bell, 148. The re Sras g «» 4 'w : friend Mary Agin, alia, Brassy, was, on th. 11th eve,oonJtiM The'fe o September, committed to the oity prison for th* 2O ‘fift ,TSit fortieth time; Celia Bliss for the/hr„«A ttmh; Patrick Cluney (aged 28) for the fiftieth time; ahee figures. Cass, Ciury, and Wtartok onln* Mary Connor for the sixtieth timo; Mary. Curley “gW t ki heard from, and will inowaso (agod 28), fifty times; Marla Connor, fifty times. M E“ * “.JftI 1 *?-.. Catharine Carroll, alias Sobastopol(aged20),/or/y times; Josephine Hewlett (egedlB), fifty times; S&iem sta.cs on tho fucsHM Vt,r Alloo Wade sixty times, and two preolous old looingtho election of Lincoln. AU tho eovles Smith Popplnger, an exotic from Now “fWtes "re greatly-moderated, lienublroan»°»i Jersey, and Sarah Wright, of Ireland, just one tl£?ZZ‘t" e e^imitH ,C na± l , of serious hundred times each. Scores of others-lhere »re rom tno P resonfc condition of the ono thousand and ninety commitments registered 'J Republican illumination in San Franni™ in all—were recommitted for the twentieth, thir- in . n .°* » f £ ■>° B l"’ a eleoUon, was a oompfe tieth, and fortieth time! Doesn’t that speak *»», of th? oit Z«*P™ded to well for tho moral culture of the “governing . g,ral Ulunfina'tlon. is < ’sn^ il i classes” of New York’ The Oomnuationcra he ,t the RepubUoans gene?Xar 0 gK .n are doing something, however, towards put- cxugaood. ' K erauy are not in an tine a stop to this lazy, voluntary, self-lnoir- ISsorjmonto Standard , tho organ of tho "oration, by sending the drunkards, men and women alike, up to the island, and making them n ; a l Oregon to seriously consider tie" question do a regular ten-hours-a-day labor. It is proving of orizinga soparate Repuhlio on ttmPacifln a wonderful reformer. TdooL f t\T ats , to ob^B l«u" Empathy In the way of politioal, aldermanio Uterature, I ? ‘\° P««. noticed,# few moments since, as I was passing stirfv/du P Ban FraucUln the 15°th tut from down town, a two-foot-rquare placard, on whioh soiiusc irougit no St. Louis letters’, thus d? appearod tho round red Japanese flog, and on that pil the I newspapers .of their nsusl Ewtern cm a pioturo of Tommy and bis everlasting sword, re4enoe, though letters from Now York came with tho words, “Anti-Japanese Independent Re- ,v'ere galo of wind n„. publican candidate for Alderman, T. J. Kobarts.” lb bout tfo State for the pari two da/s r can I shouldn’t wondor if tho Fifth district follows, by tUrainerto ateomors to anohor in tiie’bay raft way of appreciating tho joke, should oast “that o > Dti “ t , s an FranoiKo. No sarious palladium of our liborties, tho ballot,” infavorof woug“S? v (^etah.l°. B . l l, p P ! ?® in , tll9 »ar . . x!j. and send him in gorgeous array down to « Zfc°aS? tho Oity Hall. If he is tho ohap that got up tho y many telegraph poles aro blown down „nd placard, then, as Mrs. I-artington says, “ he’s got be >’«P»ired lor some days o’wmg States corvette Cu;;issr/a?.'r/, wldch a^S^^l^enff^, 8 arrived at this port a few days since to reooivo her j, tiro dtys ahead of tho sohodulo time battery, sailed yesterday to join tho Homo *■«« been given for tho oond'emna squadron. On her arrival at the headquarters of | d o{ ? oint ' at **>• entranoo of the , fejsWMK. was “ now on the Paoifio station, whose death was c S'f P m y ,? n iS e th * oommani nonneed on Monday, was a native o New York/Ve e Dent seat to Walla-Walla to aid the and had served twenty-two years without paeans?" nls the rank of lieutenant, sixteen years and five ; BaKviNKT Riven, Oot. 20. months at sen, and was unemployed only two yean and^ew^h^™. 01 !' s * ter “ 'oooessfnl and two months. Of no other navy thnn been as far as Owyhee and can it he said that there are on the r S, gi3ter “jail" that' wife il^tha’f.”,' oa ?. ““JJ “Mount hundrodandseventy-flvepersonswhohavo speniail that wee in th 9 train. Mr. Myers, the Twenty to thirty two yeurs'below the. rank of hmfly”h" B °moriinf ‘ * ‘° “V ‘ Bn Tbe o Ute°Bt I date3 ir (Nov. 16) from the fimbalafto wore sent out S from iho P^H squadron glvu tho location of tho vessels thus: freshi vegetables, boof, and Marys. having some fever on board, was »>« . meet them near ing - iheilfarragrmselt, having provisioned at / 3tJ . or 4‘k instant,' The de nama had returned to Callao, but would not, J® * 8 “f tho mol heart-rending oharaoter. The oonrse, salute tho Peruvian flag; tho ’"iP?'! 801 elal “ of nudlly, having Mr. Olay on board, was on bor way to Pan>° ri PP^. c , s eft perish. For ma at whioh port, also, the Saranac and Leva* dajs provioust their discovery they had sub aio* oxpeoted. Tho Cyane's whereabouts is nod Upon hum.anl9Bh from the bodies of those riven, and if she be not at Panama when her °T? i i l,^ (l S”i' I S®J h H rB ' ? huo had,fed upon the g onoN '^ P Qj l mh^ ) o a n r o 'detaehmem in • » co th e main bar found, near a small stream i.ater from Mexico. women and oMren naked and in a state of [From the Now Orleans Pioavuue. Nov.St.l c t ! r < tnce tha o^a ftmh «o toons wni after a five-weeks siege, the O, V ®A Softened to thtaost touching emotions of has at length falton, and is now gnrrisoneh By LI h 33 im«iately followed bvth?«e= beret forces The towori ,‘} , Md OnrecolyruV twoen Qon. Cestillo, as tho friend of the -viimtelHaonoe at thorfc the ssnsaHnn r.n *. ® tto 4 P rcnKfthrL^ lajara was efleoted wrih the d “|biien and ohilrentho train. B A phvstoian' new uniforms by the ti7th, broueht bvarnMM Genoral Doblado was expected on tho 19&private hands ab 0575,000 fn eoTd SSt? November in Guanajuato, whore great preparations, Bi tioh disoovorie silver ore or® renortln were on foot for welcoming him. ,[been made in Idsoi county Somoof Mexico. Rfijaa pud “Brownsville” Camjal ar, OJ / A lbS T^ e &l«ga«ionatthe pity llf been Backed by orderß of Mlramon '1380 3,fl tho superstllious of the Indians of tlmt and from the »«“«» ®f 4°““ a “mI-JS I ®’ « 8 ioniinoas earanoc. The S, uh‘ belonging to the English bondholders, DBarl s\?J“id of this alngulano la said t arrived at Southampton on Saturday, the 17th. London, Nov. 18 —The United States minister, Mr. Dallas, Lord Palmorstoa, and Lord and Lady John Russell, are on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor. Tho Observer remarks that the invita tion of tho American minister to Windsor, so soon after the arrival of the Prinoe of Wales, in com pany with the heads of the Government, is a proof and a grateful acknowledgment of the hospitality of tho President, and the attention and enthusiasm upon the heir of the British throne exhibited by all ranks and olasses of the people ef tho United States. From Mexico. New Orleans, Nov. 27.—8 y the arrival of tho Bohooncr Alphonsine , from Tampioo onthelflth inst., the following Mexioan intelligence in fur nished : Regarding the $400,000 recovered from the seized conduota, the courts decided in favor of a pro-rata distribution. * Everybody was preparing for a change of go vernment. Miramon’a declaration of his inability to defend the capital oieated considerable excitement. The last aooonnts state that the Constitutionalists had captured Tacubaya and Guadalajara. It was be lieved that the oapital would surrender without a struggle. From Washington. Washington, Nov. 28.—Seoretary Cobb is con valescent, and to-day attended an extra meeting of the Cabinet. To-morrow being set apart by the municipal au thorities for a day of thanksgiving, all the publio departments will be closed. Soarcoly a dozen members of Congress hAve as yet arrivedhere. Thaddens Hyatt called upon the President to day in furtherance of his efforts for a postpone ment of the Kansas land sales. The Railroad Bonds. Pittsburg, Nov. 28.—The' county Convention has instructed the commissioners to appoint a com mittee to negotiate the bads ofa compromise, and to report at an adjourned meeting. Mr. Hamll tjatton received the unanimous vote of tUconvra- Mexican Affairs. Pr ! §aS > J^ , ’ o . r 23 T ThB New Orleans t o he?ompleto of ov a ertoow j ofooi e sl“ “f thero a, tte beglining of the enli ol The Southern Movement* d3as£«asx*aaK «f a! oMhS.*" hRB bMn ten,, "' a for th « «» i=pSS-SSSr S.‘*«iS£“;ssESr ! S d Z a u d S. aDtl “*«« !S. p. - isiludclphiu Councilman at Cincinnati. E5S¥«5 M«™ r and a denotation of tie'CUv OooEoi) 7 who s' “a °,r?‘ ‘“l* morning. Py " m tore on Friday The Electoral Voto ol Virginia. ! lutnwOND, Va. Nov 2S-JTh- In--?* « Sdlo,f/&in<-V}lfEs turns from Ohio county* which 1 *?/? ality l 0 re ’ tho electoral vote of the Slalo h 'to f B r t MklSrfdge g!V<> Tlie Georgia State' Fair. MSS Suspension ol Charleston Banks, road Bank have suspended specie payments 'Thu ***"' The Ohio nt Pittsburg. vn?o-“^«£'Si C f : £ p m r water in ohannel, and rising. 1 et 01 The Chemical Bank ol New Fork. ? 0V - SS.-The Chemical Bank has n.eSn^Pt- 11 d ? 0 “ 1 lh ’ blowing house, In oonso to S ,ttoB 4110 B P«oie of that in “;ra" X“ {anii to th ° p»- Arrival ol the Government Steamer Brooklyn. Nobfolk, Nov. 28,-The United States steamer Ihoollyu has arrived from Ohiriqui. She brines home the commissioners who visited Chiriani the Lsgoonßooo del Corn./etc. All on hoard aro well The orew wilj be paid or hore. Suspension of the St. Eonls Banks, St. Louis, Nov. 28.-All tho banks of this oitv eioopting tho Moohamos' Bank, whloh withstood misSn'g 6 ° f ,S 57 ’ ™P-^ B^p“rn! Arrival of tho Nova Scotian* „ r^? l ‘ T , l ' B!«• Arnhlhiif AHCH-ei»IKT THSATBS, Him Dramatist! or, Stop SK”-° i~'T h 0 Dost Ship”-'* The Serious Fa •“g ihe Lonely Man of ihe Ocean,” .. Thi 1, llmX E rd ” T 3fA TEB . Walnut and Ninth its,-' Baftle oT Kins’ll I Mountain!” 8 ’” 00 Robinson; tU Ja'ekShepp^ 118 Co'nd^d’M” Jayne's Commonwealth Building, Chestnut above Sixth.—Biroh and Sharpley’e MlnstreiaV 6 ire * Cl Sanford’s Opera House, Eleventh street, atova Chestnut.—Concert nightly. Headquarters, Franklin Plaoo.—Concert nightly. Meeting of Manufacturers to Take Some Meakh op Reducing the Amount e? Pro* auctions.—a meeting of influential gentlemen, manufacturers of ootton and woollen goods in Philadelphia and vicinity, was held at the estab lishment of Garsed St Co., No. 22 North Front street, yesterday noon. About forty gentlemen were present. Mr. Abraham Lately, of Delaware oounty, presided. H. A. Dubrlng acted as secre tary. The president stated that the object of the meet ing was to consider the present depressed state of aflairs, and to agree upon some plan by which less goods should be manufactured. By unanimity of aotion there could be less produotlon without & general stoppage. Mr. Riobard Garsed said that it was evident that production must bo decreased. The supply was greater than the demand. The partial stoppage in 1857 had been attended with good effects, and he believed that it would now be attended with like beneficial results. He regretted that there was so little harmony among persoua where there is so great an interest. There is no market at home or abroad, and some way of lessening the supply generally, and fairly distributing the reduction, should be devised. Mr. John Dunlap mado seme remaks on the philosophy of trade. H labor is in excess of the demand, there must bo depression, without regard to political causes. When there i* an overglut of goods, prices must inevitably ccme down. There are pertain goods now in the market sufficient to last two years, if there are no more of them made. Xhere are too many goods mado, and the supply must be diminished, or thoso undo must be sold at ruinous rates. The president again urged the necessity of re ducing the supply, or there would bo a general crash through the glut of goods. He was opposed to reducing pricos of labor, but he wanted to see the mills run half time. He thought the depres sion would bo temporary, and it only noeued a unanimous lessening of tbo supply to prevent se rious loss Mr. William Bowers proposed that the meetiog pledge itself to unity of aotion. Mr. Garsed moved that a second weotingshould bo held, whore there would bo a more general re presentation of the large interests involved. Mr. Kent also made some remarks. It was evi dent that a great diversity of opinion prevailed among the manufacturers. . After some further discussion the meeting ad journed to meet again en Saturday at noon, tbo persons present agreeing to rigu the call for the second meeting. . After adjournment, the manufacturers gathered m knots to diseass the questions at issue. We un derstood that the politiosl crisis had materially af fected the demand for certain goods, and that goods of a certain kind had beon manufactured in im mense quantities. Unless greater unanimity pre vail among the manufacturers, little oan be done. The Negro Valet of J. Buchonait Cross.—Bob Burrlll, the valet of Cross, theforger, whose romantic attachment to that unprincipled man formed tbo staple of gossip and admiration ae the time of his master’s downfall, is now in Rioh- P l .®,, »Va » his seoond sale to the highest bidder. ° At the time of Col. Cross’ first trial in Philadel phia, (several months before the commission of the offenoe of which be was convicted,) Bob ohlval rously volunteered to go South and mortgage him self to raise money for his master. He went, and nothing more was thought of him or his advantage, nnU! within a day or two, when he was heard from at Riohmond, Va. It seems that Bob had been sold once, and was, at last accounts, in Richmond, awaiting a second sale, when he expected to be sent farther South. Bob has sent on to this city to endeavor to pro cure his old passport, in whioh he was declared to be a free white mao. The paper was given to the wife of Cross, by the police, after the trial, and no thing is known of her whereabouts. While in Paris, Col Cross obtained for his friend this passport, whioh was duly signed by Mr. Ma son, then minister to Franoe, and whioh repre sented Bob as a free white oitizen of the United States Mr. Mason, upon discovering the facts, was very desirous ofxeoovering possession of the passpart, but he was not snooessfal. Bob has negro blood in his veins, but his whife akin, straight hair, and his Intelligence and easy manners, enable him to pass readily for a white man. Detective Horse Companies.—The sea son is at band when the numerous companies for the detection of horse thieves, and other villains, hold their animal, meetings, and eat their annual dinners. These companies are a peculiar feature of this seolion of the State; .and in adjoining coun ties there are some twenty-five of them in active operation. They have beoome so popular that every neighborhood .has an organisation of this kind, and among them may he found the best eiti- S mmm 4 '-£? ‘W«f g«D«r*lly fiids it impossible “vi ! p , 111684 alert « minute men ’> are often tto U the" Ck «d'S , .“ b ° u, . lB ® r k ® k “ coasmftted sharpness if in ™„t ms l- b * Possessed of unusual i rl-HS™*'sss-KSss *0 ‘ k « * B,Oll tlo T mlwn^ mN< !, D f r wiU bu celebrated by Idons at illTh. pa i r “ d V 110 ?! 7 re,crr « i ‘a. Mi ser- tho h “, r , ohM - 7116 religions observance of tho occasion mil not bo confined to the Chris, tiau portion of the community. The Jowiah Svna S W Smitei OSB o 5 p ay L- bo «P«‘ei fcomlleva. others. y ’ • 1 • Krauth ' Jr - »• D , and i, *i~,° il i. terDn , on a Union Prayer Meeting will | he held in the Union M. jj. Churoh, Manrth ftriat i bal ® w Aroh, at 3 o'olook. This meetKaa bUn , held annually ou Thanksgiving Da, ever elnoe Iho fhe iate!°“ ation WM isaa In relation to his duties as to the oare of tho observatory and a J? 8 t 0 re P° rt all tha ftots to this f i a l tiie stated meeting in jMnutry next Hiah 0 Sohno 1 ! ° f th ® ® bOT « “H be bad vhrited the Btbbbbt and Andalusia Turnpike «5« il/?' ght^Char1 * 8 Goody, S. Rodman Mor gan, and Jesse E. Smith, .managers. ta in 1 !? Wl3s -F I 0 Bbidse is thus alluded Csm r the Norristown RaUroad (“P' i, Th , e . b / ialn bnildios will be 120 feJ long and 50 feet in width tvm v» v », ut* JPi2 9 9 aft «rnoon at one o’olook, from his ?{* ”J Uo ,T ««• 1115 South street it,w“l be pfel?«ra fers f tho Seooni »«■»«“* A New Steamer— The now town f b r « haf" IOWB V p Pl,e Company ofOorLnn- & T h In tha 00 M» Pl,t,d ' and wi “ b » ‘* k «“ mad» y ' Th» «. olteinooa a public trial will bo apparatus is constructed on tho ovO m£r n f aa . lbe ASBisln noo, oxoept that her stoaui wlh iaw , i£^SrjgSp" d sh ° is "”' M Diruijjrtu.—This fearful disease Ins pro* varied to u great extont, In tho vloinity of tho Porr. Chase, for tie last six weeks It h. 5 been mofo iQjnageable than in soma othar seotlons u gupTovsilod/andbutfew deaths haVe ooourred | The Adjutant G ene aALsmp. —The Scott Legion, wrth a host of oivio and military friends are urging tho claims of General William i? a for the “next Adjutant Generalshl * “* P ‘ SmaU Mail Bobbery Cask—Fotthbb Hearing t? TH * S AaB or Keaton—The huriu in m D ~l ob^e ry 00 tt « Philadelphia .ad Nofril wMoontlnued, at the office of the i;”;:?' 1 commissioner, yesterday afternoon. c? 1 -. C \ W was deduced by some new wit offlef U . b k P<^aei f ' om ‘ho Philadelphia port offloe and the Oermantewu depot •Mr. Samuel Bell, being sworn, testified— That he tha Philadelphia post office; as sists in closing the mails; on every other morning dosed about sixty poaches, and every evening ar ranges papers for distribution. Mr Bell produced a moil pouoh-one used between Philadelphia and Mansyunk. The poaoh produeed was marked Manayunk,” and was about the same rise as the other used on that route, and furnished with the same kind of look. One pouch goes un to Mans yunk from the depot at Hintk and Sraen every morning, leeving the poet office at about five o’clcok; a pouch comesback in the evening; pr+> Burned it wee sot the same pouch thftt west sp is the morning, but was one similar. - - The pouch produced had been used to collect the mails of yesterday, to ha sent to Manayunk this morning. * On last Monday week. 19'h instant, witness ex amined a poaoh for Manayunk, and found it looked; on IVedntsdey, 21st instant, did likewise: ILVi, 0 ™? tb ,° duty ul Mr. Bell, alter icing the ponchcs closed, to distribulo them on the flow, ao ,lH„f s Af lboir ., rß3 P eo,i ve destinations;' the floor? f the m “' wagon tskM thom fro,n the v,.nb ~ Both ba « s ote| i f « Mwa yunk were about the same size: there aro at lost So?- b„Tof Is 01f v , ’ a,lT ‘ 8 b»gs, according to their sizes, both of the tags for Manayunk were No 3*l the keys to all pouohes are kept in tha Post Office Department; witness did not make uu mail on Friday, 16th instant; did not know wh?dU • wa" ou duly on Friday of every other week; pouches used on tho Norristown rood oon tain both letters and newspapers. David Morris being sworn, testified to being dis tributing clerk in the Philadelphia post offioe, gene rri duty bolng to distribute moils; was on duty on Friday, 10th instant; remained on duty from 3 p a on Thursday morning, to 7 o’clock Friday morning; on tho latter morning there were two dutinot packages for Plymouth Moating, put m Manayuak pouohes; by a package is meant one or more Utters put np in coarse wrapping paper and direoted to their place of destination; the reason there happened to bo two distinct packages for Plymouth Meeting, instead of being united in one, was because they had coine from different post offices, and were transmitted as they came* wit ness was present when the mails were received on the iGIh instant; dosed tho pouoh himself; ex amined the mail before it was closed, closed it, and put it down for the driver to take it to the depot; that mail is generally taken away before tho others are distributed on the floor. Crcss-enaminatiou.—The bag for tho morning speoified (loth Inst.) contained 12 paoksges for Mansyunk, S packages direoted leverington, 3 paokages directed Barron Kill. 2 for Andora, 1 for Marion, and 2 for Plymouth Moating; there were also some papers in the bag, which, on that morn ing, was about tw.-thirda full; the letters were pioked oat from among the papers and put in on tho top; was not positive tho driver took tha pouch away; there are two pouohes for Manayunk; did Dot koow there were not more. William Duffy sworn—Drives mail-wagon for Messrs. Dorn A Cowper; carries the mail baga io Ninth and Green streets from the port office in the morning; this is the ninth week of his driving; has driven steadily for two or three weeka; wltners carries geneially two ponohes, and a tied bag, to the dopet, whioh articles he gets from tha bass ment of the post office. Cross-examined Delivers mail lo & yougmxn at the depot, regularly authorised to receive it; accused had no connection with mail pouches, ex cept by special order of the superintendent; driver leaves depot before it is light. Mr. Chas. S Oatin sworn.—Distributing clerk in the Philadelphia post office; on Monday, 19th inst., put letters in the Manayunk pouoh to go to that place; on that morning there was, exclusive of the Philadelphia mails, 20 letters for Manayunk, one from Harrisburg, of official size, with three eent stamp The conductor of the Norristown train, Mr. Kriebel, testified that Keaton had been in the habit of carrying tho mail into the car. After the hearing of farther witnesses Keaton was held in $l,OOO bail to answer at court. To the Hon. A. S. McOlheb, Chairman of the People’s State Committee—Sir ? The under signed, citizens of Philadelphia, gratefully enure dating the energy, ability, and fidelity, whiohVave marked your coarse as ohairman of tha People’s State Committee, during the exoitlug campaigns whioh have be«n triumphantly cloaedoy tha alio* tion of Andrew a. Curtin to the Gubernatorial chair of Pennsylvania, and Abraham Idneoln and Hannibal Hamlin to the Presidency and Yiea Pre sidency of the United States, beg leave to Under you the compliment ofa public dinner, in this city, • at such time as will best accord with your own con venience. Trusting that you will aeoept this invitation, we respeotfally ask you to designate the day. IT n/I Very truly, your friends, Henry C. Carey, Morion MeMieheel. and others CffAttBBRSBtTHQ. Nov. 27 , iB6o.—Gentlemen • Your favor of the 24th instant, addressed to me aa chairman of the People’s State Committee, and In* 1 »• to aocepfc the compliment of a public din ner in Philadelphia, ia at hand. Soohau invitation, eoming as it does from lead ing eidzena of Philadelphia, in commercial, manu facturing, and political circles, I cannot disregard. . I therefore gratefully accept the proffered kind* ness, and would name Saturday, December first, i “v? 0 Very truly yours, A K. MoCttrui. > y«. c hudwig, Morton , MoMiohael, Charios S. Ogden, Fjqs, and others. > Dkpaktctse of the' Hops Hose Company 1. fob New Yoke— The Hope Hose Company left I this city laet evening, at nine o’elooki ttoa Wal ' York rfty. Thty sfesJCBS33aS' ginas. in Now York. There is expeotedta hm « *"»“« « hohHo manifestation*of u* vs£° on tint occasion beyond the mere trl.l pwity of the «mtirti o g tria! of u,a «• ~T b® « TOrit ® apparatus of tha ffew Yorken i. e f build, whose faotary ta rt w'n The Hopo Engine played 176 r*at jhwrJ.w “ n ‘“ cb one elghufnoßle former*, bJtrtlth theyexpeotto P pi»y'OT er a 2BoTh^Srtnihai oonlidcnUy oxpeoted that the trirtSftb^a ZlninT «*"* '» ~ Lk “ OK IU'VK—Mr. John Hartley, of lox thus#, lately shot a lar < *ehawlr “S «/•" /«"»» W J l p lob f “* a 9 ' *h® ?Jher. It was sent to Dr. Martindaio who stuffed it for preservation. a “ °, .;.^ SBNTATIOH, ~ l,ast cveni ng, s splendid « gn i? lamp was presented to theAsautance Steam fire Fng-.no Comcany, by Paszalo AssemDiy. cn S. AI i OAnKT ITtaTEB, who was badly burned t?“day ! TTfS&v, ,S tKr - Same time last sear. “ 8 07, -»■ ••■B.MT 03 lstla is MM M IM,«8or I inoreue * ~rrr— ' i'-of second call cUUonal C 5 “s7^r aßa,d t 0 *'* roti bid. The coupon fives of 1874 are offeredlt Mi?