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TOMDAYiJANUARY 1, 1861
Tql,rainentiaS:77 - 4 1 ht , ,circulation of Tan
Passe exceeds that- of anylither daily paper
In Pldludelpbbri with a'aingle exeeption. Sa
tisfactory proof of this fact will be cheeefolly
given to p.dvertisinsi'7
FiaelaPasa,:-,Theilletorle Events of 1860; The
Politioal,Dvata of
,1860; A Sauthern.Gentleman
AttelnOta'lo 'Elope` With, a Young Lady of New
York i.,l.laeraters; Personal eno Political ; Gene
ral *arikeho . . ,F 014.1 PAGII —Letter from Lan.
oastc , ;,Mesertatien of Fort Moultrie; The Death
of Relphlainhawk the Banker lift Veteran; Ex
teogii..,!*4lo4 Noworiwko ; Maiinelnblli
gen4e,
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Thiltiiiis6t'sit Wales - it the Tomb of
Wftshington ;
Duke erNEwnaarrsa. was in this
city, be mentioned to a gentleman connected
with t ths{ press, whip happened to be a very
old aoqualitance of hie, that among all the
circumstances arising outof the recent Royal
visit Ao:tbe New World, nothing so deeply af.
rented:him` and all ram witnessed it, an the
denittince of the Prince of WALES at the
manimienin 'of Washington. ccl was grati
fied „to , ,,notice," said his Grace, " that the
Prinee,ekmered intensely interested in that
last s reiting place of the great Soldier, States-
man, and -Patriot. Mr. BUCHANAIkt, who' had
doubtless repeatedly visited Mount Vernon,
seemed to'hite no mental excitement what
ever`, upon this occasion, but the Heir of Eng
land paused long and silently before the grave
of Wisitncirox, and, he tore himself away,,
I conldiee'thit his breast heaved with ,sep=
preniedMiotion, and that the tears trembled
in his eyes. From that moment," the Duke
added; "I became more firmly impressed than
ever= with the conviction that the visit of the
Prince ot , Wsras to this country would do
more than fifty Treaties to promote the friend_
liederelations between the United States and
s the Sild'Oeuritry,' as yon call it here."
Jl.Via gratifying to know that the feelings
which, were awakened in the Prince's mind by
his 'irisit to the burial-piice* Mount Vernon,
were not temporary. They have survived the
occtuitom. - ! No doubt, when the Prince related
his 'se tritvePi, history ", to his parents, he
dweletiplinDist visit, rather thin upon any
dthei; 'From 'the Living, he received hoinsge
entish; , and to spare, but as yeipects,the
instals:les:fined, tire homege was reverently
retideretfiy himself. His father, Prince Ax
emir, is chancellor of the University of Cam
bridge; (elected In 1847, on the death of the
late • Duke of-Northumberland,) and, in the
official notice, in the London Times of the 11th
instoretind the following:
"Vie Royal Highness; the Prince Column, Chan
cellor of the University of Cambridge, being
pleased to give annually a gold medal for the en
c oaregeatent of English poetry, the Viee Channel
lor gives nodes that the prise will :be given, this
year, to snob resident undergraduate as shall oom
pose the, best poem on The Prince of Wales at
the Tomb of Washington.' N. 8.-1' he taeteleee
are to be feet in to the Vito Chancellor on or be
fore Muth St, 1861, and are not to exceed two hen.
dred lines in length."
All this is at once complimentary and sug
gestive. Ent we think it right to warn our
friends Abet -they must not expect that this
prise poem will beat all worthy of the subject.
Lord Mooaciiii wrote two prize-poems, while
an tuideireduate at Cambridge, (the subject
being Ponipeii " and ti,Evening,") and
neither rose above mediocrity. In fact,
as a general rale, Cambridge Prize Poems are
blttex had." ho are these of. Oxford,
thongh_BXofakin Hnnit's "Palestine," one
of the noblest compositions- of the age, was
ono of them, and Dean Mnixax's rt Apollo
Belvidere," another. We have no list of
the . Cambridge Prize . Poems , but 'we have
refill nearly the whole of them, and it appears
to is, gianCing hack at the whole, that only
three have risen above the flattest mediocrity
—comely, CHARLES GRANT'S the Re
storation of Learning -to the East ;" -WIN
THROP MACKWORTH FRANS'S upon Au.
trails," (his ci Athens " was pedantic, though
it succeeded;)` and Buawr,a's upon ig Sculp
ture."
Therefore,•„46dging from the past,, we are
not Iticell.lolmve a very brilliant poem, from
Cambridge, upon ecTbe Prince of •Wales at
7 T. T7 - msg, o erlng such a enhject for the
Gleineeller's, Gold Medal. "
.
tc A Tale of Two Cities.
The: retails by - the 'eenems-takers, which
gave Nei, .Yerk a population of nearly 250,-
000 morn than that of Philadelphia, are too
obviously inaccurate is be argued against. At
least one-half - of the inhabitants of Brooklyn,
Wilffekahurg,', Jersey City, Hoboken, Staten
Islaod, and the banks of the Hudson, who do
buslnetW hi Nei York, have boon counted,
. ,
tw l 9 o-.-- ** P,.
whore - they reside with their
familial, andagign, individually, at their offices
or atoreelil New York. - ' . '
iiillii ' Afius oday Dispatch we find an article,
written with considerable clearness, which
.
properlyabiditides figures : of arithmetic for
rhetorical figures of speech, laying bare the•
physical and moral differences between New
Yolk aid Ptillsidelphia. It runs thus : ' ,
gi.the ratitris of ' the United States census _for 1
1863airegradully appearing in detail, and we are
gathering ' information upon .points heretofore
doeibtfal or dinpated. We believe that no pit yla
added with the manner in whioh the work - has
barn &welly the Federal ahem, unless, perhaps,
it be Now York, in which there laved reason
a
- to gave tat all the travellers and sojourners in
the hmell sad -boarding home were counted as
e ode '-of the, population .. New York, m
oor - 'lO' the cenaatakers, has a population of
81 ' areas, who ilie in 54,838 dwellings. Phi
onf
lad phh: Is Wit down fo ra population of MAW,
who ha in 83;279 houses, In other words, there
are - in pails:WO& 35,641 dwallink•honiebe' more
thawia ;Nee York La the latter city, the ave.
rap lutiber , Of-residents in 'each dwelling I.
14 911-100; Reedy fifteen - persons to a hoots. In
this alto, the average amber of residents to @soh
hoe* MB 32-100 ;- is _ tat in this pity more than
twolotilii-hr• asolisary to - accommodate as
'awry `voorlit sails New' York' are huddled in
one.T-'Tarty Until thew Ihnt 'Philadelphia is the
largN* sty lei thli Baited 'State, mvering more
grauedphavhig more , building, and' sustaining
- its goailattoin wire asatortablp than that of any,
other My' its the (Jaen. • Th e dletribidon of Water
sagas Wake oats:wive are than in Nee York.
The small homes have beth,, mid ' thoasaatis of
fasafila here sada -life.) aw. of private bath
math" Asir ellmillap, who, in Now York; Maid
near apest ask It flee forthe anew that they
PeY 5 1 1 tits any. ,flees ; Philadelphia is more ea.
Maim : ea Asslay,- Oar „Mreets, although net
as elan :a they might be, are nab better I that
ParMager- thus Mom of New. York; whilst our
undevrouad dralaage, beta more paha, takes
off drowse Natter that would otherwise nada
A patilential sad deadly Infitiena. . As a home for
the. poor: manorkieh Ohre him advantages not to
be had in ether cities, PhUadeltitia is a most at
tea/give plum; whilst, AS a piece , of riddance for
thirrish„ so oily' caw offer more attractive oppor.
11 , - 1 7 , 1 ° .'-'4 l . 7.lO).YFut of luxury and 1 00 4_
4 . realdys,-PrhlohlsimuldeMi althea of New
1
Y ;'ll4`rieslMal :Witt a' poptdsthm of 273;426
TossoW. -- asic Os 10 80,828 unbar, an average of
3.9P-aitiffy oat Wiens to each boas. Ida a
*arias feet that Philadelphia he more dwelling,
houtettliad Sew York sad Brooklyn united. The
latter' alai. logether, km up 'a • population Of
1,0117,303 "Mar them sway in 84,861 dwel
ling- pso t !Philadelphia, with a popula
tion to brBlll,ll6l3thait Neer - York and Brooklyn";
eetaarponseneet ems sereilleellitig hones than
than two idles. Antal Nest York ratio! peeking
haat twinge in -dwelling hossekeetarplus or
dwalibt tb00554114414-.. searamedate solar than
766a3insees,-- antsegh, M s ee p p nary wasithio
ble tot% .washangssorepsoplorthen at present.
live La Lesesile,,Nasdngten, D. 0., forw York,
flo itsoirissa...Fresill owe, end many other cities
whiglialte Ow Idlar• is 10 4 91 1 *Pbble truktuat
tees.. ' We way icaldir-thase .11:lugs wish some
estisfeetion.. Ptilletelibti ,is the i
largest oily in
e a - unitag-gteteir, - it not the halt diniell pow' etsd7'li; , lsiirei , to'lts - peopleroomtv ltva, istet , 'l4 , llnetrel to 'kir woe roo m to vis, a nd
a pert** fcw.oniftrt tad AIiOTIMIt. Theft are
A -etwhieli a hat good; debt to, be
prat'' , pet as cherish Chet- a. to * i mam ..
whießeitigiviretlOwn to a Inetitoells." ' -7--- "' -7
(Wannest insomuch atombiso4liit4tkeln
amTnfit;the!ti.iitlyw: Olt 4 has been count-,
ed over whip rhy.eraUnciateri of its own, sad
the: tairUhttbinle - found tOhelp,goonliore thai
the'.44lalatieteirie Made it:. -The eerie course
-is aliewC•belittibrseed in Philadtfiptili, and,i6
Wald not surprise na ,to find our population
" 4.10 0* OW , * :' ' ' : - -
311:440014,411' Near , York, s' crowd of
camativisiters et hotels ' and: besadlothempos,
as iiiitai - iiii'liiooldratee, and Other pub
id *rl T L C41ate4,1 14 .! i. the actual mai: .
aengk iNewlotiras
much as that
of Philedshgatclre,dorditit„ - 1
..___ . /414 Will ' IiViAiliCfriker(iihauld be a
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sinS/Eff,wP: 4.1 1 04 1 11104 Mein England, where
the.o*Writbag r ,o;peeplc-, le done - on one and
24 !-*4 0.1 - 4 - 4 s - M20 4 *44 1 t 'l4 4 i length: and I
breed iiCtltileee4Clierei , in tit* an aro
two*" hemp* edtldw OutertwAsotrledge, at'
wallet 111 , 0 4 4 1 4 Waktee4l6 - - Ifthele
0 1 110 0, ..*4 1 0 4 :.
plifitik7itiiii imam tor each omission , of,
theb'm- Lgliti#Oduitoidonthilththrti'Atyiev
A'a#4" la-. 1 ,1 ,,
Tbelyqjtree Gala for: ttteJ9a4baut t Ap t ,l '
.: - - - . 1 ,;4 1 = , - , wt 4- itersol: - "'. -:',.-•
'Ne..ltl - iiiiing or W14'411,14 as' tom
.. „10, 7 os owes, In honor of the awn aid
The Right of Secession.
The most dangerous feature of the political
perils which menace the nation, is the bold
ness and confidence with which the right of
secession, as a peaceful and legal remedy for'
any real or imaginary evils inherent in the
Federal Government, or appiehended in, the
future adininistration of it, is asserted. - The
doctrine has time and again been advanced,
and as often refuted, but never before did it
possess as many ardent supporters and de
termined adherents as at present. In all former
national emergencies, the great Congressional
leaders, and the 'wise and patriotic statesmen
who possessed the confidence of the country,
se promptly and earnestly combatted it, that
they almost completely silenced the clamors
of its advocates. But' now there are few in
the South to denounce it, and, although the
great body of the people of the North still
repudiate it, it has some earnest defenders
among them. If it be true that the American
Union is not a complete and efficient Govern
ment, and that any State within its confines
has the right "to throw off all allegiance to it
by mere legislative action, or by the declara
tion of a State Convention, then, indeed, the
framers of the Constitution performed their
duties in an inefficient and trifling manneri or
nearly all the great statesmen who helped to
form it, and the masses of the American
people, have spent the last eighty years in the
most wonderful and complete delusion that
any intelligent portion of mankind ever fell
into. When the stout walls of Jericho fell at
the sound of the Jewish trumpets, it was
justly accounted a great miracle ; but it would
be equally strange if the firm foundations of
our Constitution, ratified by the people of the
whole United States, should be swept away
by the blast of a few illegal and unconstitu
tional State ordinances, purporting to absolve
the.people of a few sections of our country
from all allegiance to the National (lovern
meat.
Much is said and written daily about State
sovereignty. There is no doubt that within
certain limits and for certain purposes the
States pdssess complete and unequivocal,
powers. But in the sense in which the laws
of nations recognize independent and sovereign
States, the different Commonwealths of our
Union are not now and never were sovereign.
There is not one of them (except Texas) that
at any time since its settlement by the white
race, nor even before the formation of the
present Constitution, was in reality sovereign
and independent. Before the Revolution, the
original thirteen colonies were dependencies
of Great Britain, and in throwing off the Bri
dal.; yoke, by the Declaration of Independence,
they did not wage a contest for the separate
independence of thirteen different sovereign
ties ; but their revolution was a combined and
joint one, made in their name and behalf, by
the " Representatives of the United States of
America, in General Congress assembled." It
was the United States of America as a nation,
or a united body of people residing in different
colonies, who struggled to acquire the posi
tion of a nation, that levied war against Groat
Britain, contracted alliances with foreign
countries, established commercial regulations,
and„ finally obtained from Great Britain a
recognition. of their joint (but not several)
independence, when a treaty of peace was
Made with the mother country.
Soon after the Declaration of Independence
was signed—indeed, on the 12th of July, 1779
Articles of Confederation, whose avowed ob
ject was to form a PERPETUAL UNION,
were reported to Congress, and were debated
from time to time, whenever the pressing exi
gencies of public affairs permitted, until final.
ly, they were ratified July 9, 1778,..by ten
States, and aahort time afterwards by the three
other States. Even these Articles of Confe
deration, though they bound the States to
gether.by a much more feeble and inefficient
tiethan that which now connects Them, would
still have prevented South Carolina from le-
gaily &sunning the independent attitude to
which she now aspires, because the old Con.
gee:As was entrusted with some of the powers
she assumes, and every State was bound to
abide by its determination on all questions
which. by the Confedeiatton were submitted
to it, and Mr. Jessansox contended that it
possessed the right of cc coercion."
But the Confederation was found, on trial,
to ;confer too small a share of power on the
kleairal Government, and to permit too much
1' of State . tion. To reined • this de.
, , ai i ion .y e peopliiTfthi
Whole country, and after it had, in their
()Pinion, formed a "more perfect Union" be-
Weft States which had previously announced,
in solemn terms to the civilized world, their
unalterable determination to preserve a "per
petual Union," they had a right to believe,
4 unquestionably the manses of the American
people have ever since supposed, that the
peaceable dissolution of the Union was an
utter
,imiossibility, and that it could and
*mild never be dissevered, except by the
overwhelming power of a hostile invading
nation.
No distinct portion of the American Union,
therefore—except Texas, whose short ex
perience of a completely sovereign position
wail so harassing, turbulent, and perilous,
that, she repeatedly and eagerly sought for re
lief from her perplexities and embarrassments
by admission into our Confederacy—ever was
sovereign and independent in the sense in
which those words are recognized by the law
of nations. Their sovereignty was originally
overshadowed by the European Governments
that first conquered and colonized them. The
very act of throwing off this original allegiance
to foreign countries was accompanied by an
aeknowledgniont of the sovereign power of our
Nrtional Government on all the great ques
tions with which complete nations treat with
each other, And since She Revolution our
national ties, in a legal sense, instead of having
been weakened, have constantly been strength
ened, not only by the formation of the Consti
tution to render the Union more perfect, but
by' the numerous treaties which have been
formed with foreign Powers ; the obligations
wo have contracted ; the duties wo have as
sumed; the almost innumerable laws which
have been enacted by the Congress of the
Whole nation. The States were not only never
sovereign - in the sense in which South Caro
lina:now.prochrims herself to be independent
by her Secession ordinance, but every hour of
their existence since the Declaration of Inde
pendence has created now barricrs against
their legal right to assume such a position.
EVen if we' were dead to every prompting of
patriotionr, every sacred memory of the past,
add every hope of the
our
we were wil
ling :to sacrifice all vast material inte
rests on the blind impulse of passion, and
ready to fling our nation away, in as mad and
phrentied a spirit as that of the suicide
when he rushes unbidden into a hopeless fu
ture; a sense of honor should restrain us. We
aesihonnd together indissolubly, for weal or
woe, by a long' aeries of Sacred compacts. The
idea, thathecatuienfe* of the most unimport
ant of them
,have occasionally been violated,
Men are, therefore, justified in violating them
and: that because we have not been en
abled at all times, and at all seasons, to comply
with every one of Our obligations, the whole
Witten must be destroyed, and' every pledge,
at borne and abroad, to the people of foreign
edxntries, and to the teeming millions of our
oirn population 'who have looked for peace,
safety, and protection to ,our great Contede.
racy, must be shatneltilly broken, is one of the
Most _visionary, revolutionary, and horrible
that' ever entered into the human brain. Not
only are those who attempt to break up the
Cimiedemey rebellious outlaws, but these who
are unwilling to make every reasonable effort
td preierve peaceably if they can, forci
bly if they mnst"—are almost equally guilty.
is a bad preparation for the fulfilment of
tlr.^Prophecy that starvation and bankruptcy
are to fall upon all our Northern cities to
notice that immense orders are being received
from Liverpool for Western produce—particu
larly for mess-pork and bulk meats—but there
is still a large supply on hand to food the fire
eaters, if only they will send on their gold
with their orders..
8a; Honia—This evening, at Concert
Chestnut ',street, there will be a Concert in
08 of at. Vlncernt'a Home, one of the many es
tlinahlO charities In this city, which, at the present
plinths season, and, indiedist all seasene, is mach
in nsid of the sickles and Sharitabie rapport of
the benevolent. In the , present instande, every
One trio attandi this Concert will at once benefit
,the' charity and personally experience the gratid
eation of heeling - ,
- , , r i • •'- - lindadn'Troubles in Texas. '
ahnsleitistsars.DiO.Ajok hr li_of Texas lod i ass, 900
stsoags ara Luta i j autos o miss , sad show hoist! e
latossioss,Jrhis ne t tl es ! at S at, shwa ass is awns in
*tire tniiintoexe, - , , . , _ , -
uoneeenietior PSIIOI2 are organising Kee the sperm of
denim.
The Railroad Communications Be
tween Philadelphia and New York. I
It is certainly among the note-worthy things
of the time, that between the two greatest
cities of the Americm continent, lying so con
tiguous as do New York and Philadelphia, and
'constituting a thorintgbfare for trade and
travel almost the greatest in the world, the
facilities for travel should yet be among , the
meanest, the least commodious, and the most
expensive.
The traveller, in going from New York in
almost any other direction, West, North, or
East, goes for about two cents a mile. On his
route to Philadelphia alone, where the traffic
is greatest, and the natural obstacles to travel
fewest, and where, by alt ordinary laws of
trade, the fare should be lowest, he must pay
just one-third more. Going in other direc
tions, he may go at almost any hour to suit
his convenience, and at rates of speed fully up
to the present state of engineering science.
On the Philadelphia route, where the demand
for travel is enough to warrant almost any
number of trains, ho finds infrequent trains,
slow rates of locomotion, and most tedious
stoppages. On other routes, ho finds commo
dious and inviting depots, and cars fitted up
with all the latest contrivances for promoting
the comfort of passengers, and for reducing to
a miuiramia the annoyance arising from the ne
cessary incumbrances of travel. But let him
turn has face towards Philadelphia, and he is
soon made to feel' that his carriers know fall
well that lie has practically no other route in
his power but theirs, and that he has nothing
loft but to be content with such accommoda
tions as they choose to give him. Is there a
route of travel in the civilized world, connect
ing two snob first-class cities—one with seven,
the other with eight hundred thousand inha
bitants—less than a hundred miles apart, with
so few natural obstructions, and-so many natu_
ral advantages for railway travel, where yet
the prices are so high, the trainsjso infrequent,
the rates of locomotion so slow, and the gene
ral accommodations so far behind the times?
But, the reader will say, what is the use of
all this groaning ! The burden is on us ; we
have to bear it. Let us take it as easy as we
can, and be thankful it is no worse. The
Legislature of Now Jersey, by a formal act of
legislation, to which, wise or unwise, they
were perfectly competent, have granted to a
certain company the exclusive right to earry
passengers across the State of New Jersey,
from city to city. For this privilege the
company have paid a valuable consideration.
They have thereby acquired legal rights. The
State cannot be called upon to break its faith.
It must hold to the contract.
The friends of the Monopoly should under
stand that this argument of the faith of con
tracts is a double•edged weapon. It cuts both
ways. Practically, every right acquired by
special legislation is an invasion of some
other right. The tight to build a railroad at
all, or to build any road, is an invasion of
the legal rights of every land-owner through
whose property the road goes. The Legisla
ture of New Jersey, for the sake of a supposed
great public benefit, takes from John Jones
the lands, water privileges, and other tent
tonal rights, for which he has paid a valuable
consideration, and which be holds under the
plighted faith of the moat sacred laws of the
Commonwealth, and gives those rights, and
franchises to other parties to build a railroad
or a eanal k . The Legislature provides, in
deed, for the equitable compensation of the
party thus stripped of his lights, It none
the less, however, does not ask his consent.
It takes, without „consent, the guarantied
rights of one party, and gives them to another
party, solely in virtue of its sovereign power
as a State, and with a view to the greater
general good, A State is not sovereign—it
is not a State at all—except so far as it hits
this power.
If a Legislature, for adequate reasons, and
after due compecsation, may take a right from
one party and give it to a second, it may, for
equal reason, and after like compensation,
take that right from said second party, and
give it to a third. The Camden and Amboy
Railroad Company has no exclusive rights,
which have not been granted them at the ex
pense of other • parties. The entire land on
which the road was built was taken from others.
The right, also, has been taken from all other
parties, either to build for themselves, or to
have built for them, some other road by which
to travel from New York to Philadelphia. No
. • . ..ellOnfett that they are now le
gally vested in the Camden and Amboy Rail
road Company, and that they have a large pecu
niary value. All that is claimed is, that when.
ever the public exigencies require it, the Le
gislature may, in like manner, Told or transfer
these rights, only taking care, as in the first
case, to provide for an equitable compensa
tion.
The great inoulms, then, is not necessarily
a fixed fact. It is well understood that parties
with ample capital, and with large experience
in railroading, are prepared to do the following
things :
1. To pay tho Camden and Amboy Company
the value of the exclusive clause in their
charter, the same to be determined by legal
and equitable assessment.
2. To ask for themselves no such exclusive
right, but to leave the Legislature free to
grant the right of railway transit across the
State to as many as may choose to risk their
money in it.
3. To secure to the State, under the new
arrangement, as much revenue from the right
of transit as it now receives, or can receive,
under the monopoly.
4. To build a double track the whole dis
tance between the two cities, and to equip it
with engines, cars, depots, wharves, and other
accommodationa, such as are to be found in
other first-class lines of railway travel.
5. To run twelve through trains daily, each
way, with a great increase of trains on the
Philadelphia end of the line.
O. To run through from city to city, regu r
Carly in three hours.
7. To charge for passengers, on the moat
expansive trains, not more than two dollars,
and in some trains as low as one dollar.
These things being so, it is in the nature of
the case that people will grumble. Every
man who is obliged to take from four to six
hours in the transit, when ho might just as
well make it in three, who is obliged to go at
hours ,most inconvenient to himself, and who
is obliged finally to pay for his rido three
dollars, when he might.have it for two, can
not but feel that ho is subjected to an unjust
and an unnecessary imposition.
Academy of Music Last Night.
EDWIN BOOTH AND CIIARpOTTE O,ITSMIAN
An audience, as densely exowded as that wbioh
assembled on the occasion of Miss Cushman's
benefit, on Friday evening, was gathered last
night to witness the produotion of "Maobeth, ,,
and the entree of Edwin Booth and Miss Cushman
in the two principal idles.
Were we to say that the performance was a com
plete end brilliant SUCCORS, we should but faintly
describe the "'rapt attention and enthusiasm
which prevailed amid the audience, from the rise
of the curtain to its fall. There appeared to be
as evident intention on theitatt of alt present to
thoroughly scan and analyse the performance, and
see feel assured that all present were gratified with
the result of their critical examinations. Not
Point was lost, not a sentence familiar to Bak
spearean students passed unnotel.
Miss Cushman's Lady Macbeth has ever been
regarded as one of, if not her greatest perfor
mance. We question if, since the days of Mrs.
Boldens t we have bad any actress who has so
thoroughly realized the ideal of the cold, remorse•
leas, cruel, cunning woman, whom ambition
has tempted to her fall, and who in pursuit of
it tempts Macbeth to his inevitable lain—anon
coaxing, anon threatening, then by sneering con
tempt goading him to her own resolves, or when
his heart fails or conscience plays the coward with
it, excusing his weakness to those whose watch
ful eyes are' upon him. Lady Macbeth is
a true type of a woman fallen from her high
estate as man's friend, guide, and omnforter—
losing her sex, and becoming a remorseless fiend—
and as such Miss Cushman paints her, from her
first soliloquy, when the poisonous dart of ambi
tion strikes her on receiving the missive from
Macbeth, to her trauma* vision of remorse
and death. It is true the picture is as terrible as
it is graphic ; but it is true to the author, for none
other than such an one could Lady Illacbegt
'have been, unless ilbnkspeare limned a gross ex
aggeration.
Mr. Edwin Booth's lifitcheth is a great per
formanoe, and evidently a long and earnest
true to the suppositious history of the man,
the promptinge of ambition, and the weakness o'
charampt by whioh ho fell a viotim to Hai; snares
by whioh he was encompassed, from his tint meet
lag; frith the witches to his death at the hands of
lifuextuff. Everything tende to show that until lals
first latel interview with the' eird sisters be was
a gallant , Soldier:who had torpromptinga but Ms
flier ; and Who; basking hi bis king and kinsman's
favor, :felt _ that be was rewarded equal to hie de
aorta la the tamale whioh wreathed his bow. &rook
by the witches' fret propheoy and its immediate
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1., 1861.
fulfilment, in the exultation of the moment he
confides the circumstanee to his wife, and she it is
who tempts him, step by step, to aid tho juggling
fiends in the fulfilment of their prophecy ; at first
he showti that his natnre•revolt' at the mime she
would nave him perpetrate, until, goaded by her
taunts, he listens to her—then shyly seconds her
efforts—then, having taken the great step which
seals his doom, the suceessive steps in the grada
tions of crime are easily taken, until his heart is
callous to fooling or remorse, and he becomes both
fiend and coward.
These were the successive phases of charaeter
which Mr. Booth most graphically painted. Un
like Most tragedians, who at once piotnro Mac.
beth from the moment he places his foot on the
stage as the murderer and tyrant, he took especial
pains to mark the gradations in his career; the
frank and gallant soldier, stopped in his home
ward march of triumph by the witches—puzzled
by their prophesy—its fulfilment—his meeting
with his wife—her temptation to a deed which in
his soul he abhors, and the subsequent results were
all finely shadowed forth in a continuum' line ad
minating in a true dramatic climax, honorable
alike to the aotor and the student Much as we
admire Mr. Booth, great as is our faith in his ge
nius ; which time will atilt more fully develop ;
and often as we have witnessed his personations
with pleasurable interest, wo have never been
more gratified with any of his performances than
that of last evening.
Time and space only permit us to say that Mr.
Showell rondo' ed ample justice to Inetthif ; that
Mr. Studley was an
_excellent Banque, and that
Messrs. John Gilbert, Baker, and Johnson gave
graphic portraitures of the three witches. " Mac-
beth " will be repeated this and every evening
this week.
Our New York Letter
DIVIDEND WEEK: TEN MILLIONS TO BE DISTRIBU.
TED—A DAD PAIVORE—IIIPORTS AND EXPORTS OP
1860—NEW PUBLIOLTIONS—ME PLATT WANTS TO
HAKE $20,000, SO HOLDS ON TO THE CITY PUNDS.—
THE DEAD OP 1860 --- A MEMORIAL--'' TIIE
SEVENTH "—GOSSIP AT THE CUSTOM' HOUSE—IN
TERESTING ARMY AND NAVY INTELLIGENCE—
. SUSPENSION OP THE CITY CHAMBERLAIN.
[CorrespondenoCef The Press.)
Aside from the festivities of Christmas and New
Year, to which rich end poor, high and low, ail
alike look forward with more or less pleasure!, tho
present week brings higher and more substan
tantial satisfaction to that large class in the com
munity who are so fortunate as to be owners of di
vidond•paying stacks. For this is dividend week,
when interest is paid oil State, city, end county
bonds, and on bank, insurance, and all sorts of
of stooks. The insurance companies of New York,
over a hundred in number, with a capital of nine
teen millions, will divide among their stockholders
about $2,900 000, and over fifty four banks, repre
senting a capital of about seventy millions, will
distribute as much more. Tha batiks and insu
rance companies of Brooklyn and Jersey City, and
companies of other sorts, having their headquar
tere here, will swell the grand aggregath of cash
to be dividended to nearly, if not quite, tan mil
lions of dollars.
The failure of Edward Lambert d Co , the great
Bilk jobbers, is said to be a very bad one. To one
French. importing firm they aro indebted $125,000.
The personal expenses of the bead of the firm, who
has been living in a quiet way in Brooklyn, are
stated to have been $167 000 in ten years.
The imports at this port, for the twelve months
ending, on December 28, amount to $101,944,468,
which is $11,208,156 less than the amount imported
in the corresponding period in 18.59. The exports
daring the same period exceed those Of 18.59 by
$24,826,506,making a grand total in our favor, this
year, of $36,034,662.
The Harpers have in press the following new
publications: A System of Surgery, Theoretical
and Practical, In Treatises, by various authors.
Arranged and edited by T. Holmes, M. A , Cautal;
Japanese Fragments, by Captain Sherard Osborn;
Young Benjamin Franklin, by Mayhew; Thorn
bury's British Artists ; Carthage and hor Remains,
by Davis; Woatberbound, by Southre ; Foster's
History of England ; Boner's Memoir of Rev.
David Sandman ; Rough's History of Christianity
in India
Mr. Platt, who has been so summarily ejected
from the City Chamber'alum declines to pay over
to his successor the funds of the city until after the
let of January. Tho reason is, that on the Ist about
one million of dollars has to be disbursed, upon
which the Chamberlain is allowed to charge a
commission of two per cent. Mr. Platt thinks it
will be altogether a convenient and good thing for
him to pay out that amount, as his pay for doing
it comes to the consoling sum of just twenty thou•
sand dollars.
During the year which closes to day there have
passed from this city to that bourne whence
none return, about twenty-three thousand people
The mot statistlos are not yet completed, but.thoy
tell me at the Registrar's office that the above will
vary not more than a hundred or two from the
actual count.
A memorial, signed by our most Influential ci
sane, will be promoted to the Legislature, asking for the re•enaohntntateg - col - elifilian New York
with *their negro slaves, unmolested, for a period
of nine months; also requesting the repeat of
all laws, if any now exist on the statute-books of thi s
State, tending in any way to obstruct or defeat the
fogitive•slave law.
- The Seventh Regiment have concluded to de
oline the invitation to visit London. On the oth
and 10th of January they are to have a grand pub.
lie reception, for which ten thousand Invitations
have boon issued.
There Is a little flutter of excitement at the Qua.
tom-house as to what shall be done with the
Charleston steamers. Hereafter their clearances
from Charleston will be rondo out in the name of
the State of South Carolina as a Power independent
of the
° United States, and the custom-house are
bothered as to what they shall do about it. The
Cannata, by the way, which sailed yesterday for
Charleston, took out a large cargo, but no muskets.
Another unprecedented military march has been
accomplished by a regiment of the United States
army. A large portion of the Seventh regiment,
marched from Camp Floyd, U. T., to Fort Bu
chanan, New Mexico, travelled 1,000 miles and
spent one hundred and forty days on the road. This
is one of the most lengthy military journeys
recorded. It Is not generally known that the
longest march of Infantry ever accomplished was
completed a year ago by an American regiment,
the Sixth, which left Fort laivenworth, Banns,
eu route to California, a distance of 2,800 miles,
and were onellhandred and ninety days on the
road, of which one hundred and slx . ty.two ware
actually passed In (narahing. This march was
nearly twice the length of Ilannibal's from Italy
to Spain; more than twice as long as Xenophon's
ten thousand, and muoh longer, than Napoleon's
journey to Moscow. The) Sixth suffered all the
way. At Carson Valley, the snow fell for three
days, and at the end of that time lay on the
ground eighteen inches deep. Tho fatigue and
labor of tho endless campaigns incident to the
American service are said to be of so debili
tating a oharaeter, that of 14,000 men nominally
considered efficient, hardly 6,000 could be selected
fit to compete with regularly.dbmiplined forces.
The entire cavalry is in a wretched state, men
and horses being daily inoapaoitated for duty by
illness and want.
The United States eteam•frigate Roanoke, late
flag-ship of the Gulf fleet, Was put on the dry-dock
yesterday, at the Brooklyn navy yard, to be pre
pared for, service. Meile for squadrons will be
taken out as follows: To the some squadron, by
the Macedonian, to sail from Portsmouth, IC IL,
in a few days ; to the Mediterranean, in a letter
bag now open at the Naval Library and Institute,
Boston, to close on the bib of January; for the
African squadron, in the Ftoreship Relief, to sail
from Now York in about ten days. Lettere, books,
and parcels delivered at the different yards named,
will go safely to, the reppeetiver stations.
P S—l have just learned at thp City Balltbat
Mayor Wood has suspended Ddintt Devlcn from
the ohamberielney, to which he was appointed by
a sharp illanoll4l7o while the Mayor was absent
on his bridal tour. The Mayor possesses the power
to suspend, under theleharter, and the Comptroller
has recognised It by direoting all receivers of funds
for the city to deposit in the Chemical Bank until
the question is legally Fettled. Bunort.
BY THE MIDNIGHT MAILS.
gt , The South Carolina Commissioners have, up to
this time, had but a single interview with the Pre
sident. In that interview they doubtless handed
him a note in effeot demanding that he shall order
Anderson's command from Fort Sumpter book to
Fort Moultrie 'They are saying tp many Visitors
that they have notified the President that unless
receiving mule official Anwar to that note to-day,
they will return at once to South Carolina and re
port the failure of their efforts at negotiation.—
Washington Star.
There is also a report here, which, to me, how
ever, seems incredible , that ' the Convention, by
formal vote, have determined to BOMBARD FORT
Boiterzu , If the report proves true, there can be
little doubt that Major Anderson, in self-defence,
will turn his gum upon the city of Charleston.—
Correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser.
The Baltimore .Exchange understands that Go
vernor Bioko entertains top idea of oellipg a pen
ventlonlkiniself in certain contingencies, without
the intervention of the Legislature. no Ex
change declares that such a convention would
have no more authority than one convoked by any,
other °Risen, and adds:
" we repeat our inability to comprehend the
halluoination under which the governor ip laboring,
and which induces him te suppose that no public
functionary but himself is sufficiently holiest, in.
telligent, or patriotic to be trusted with the desti
nies of the State in the most momentous period of
Its history. ,,
The Richmond Enquirer thus comments upon
the conduct of Mcjor Anderson in evacuating Fort
Moultrie :
"Major Anderson bag shown his unfitness for
the command at Charleston. Ho should be re
called, and these forte, the source of trouble
and anxiety, perhaps of civil war, should be
delivered over to the authorities of South Caro
lina. Their retention by the General Govern
ment is entirely unneoessory—is trifling with
therpublio peace. If South Carolina determines
never to return to the Union, eventually the
forte must be bar's; if she goes return to the?
Union, the forts return with her. If the nubile,
Peace bellew preserved, the work of rooonstruc=
lion may soon begin, and- result in a more , perms
mat find,.duroble Confedoraoy, in which South
Carolina will be included, white a collision with
the forts forbid 'all'hope orraoonstruotiod, - involves
all the Southern States in permanent disunion,
forces another Confederaoy, and blots from the
page of history the " United States of America "
In all dander, is not too much involved In the
empty point of holding these forts?
LATEST NEWS
By Telegraph to The Press.
Special Despatches to " The Press.
New YORK, Deo. 3t, 1860
The galleris were throated to overflowing, and
ladies gatherd about the doors, in the lobbies, apd on
the floor.
Mr. CRIT7NDEN. of Kentucky'. offered a resolu
tion that a prtion of the gallery be eat apatt for the
foreign minters. their families, and suites.
Mr. DAVI!. of Mississippi. objected, and card he
thought thereotes no occasion for it,
Mr. MASOI, of Virginia, spoke in favor of the reso
lution. and
Mr. &SWAMP followed on the same side. It was then
agreed to.
Mr. POW:I.L. of Kentucky. reported from the
Committee c' Thirteen, that the committee had not
been able ti agree on any general plan of adjust
ment. and aged that the Journal of the committee be
printed
Mr. DOUILAti, of Illinois, said that he wished to
' speak on than:Nem. Paatiomed till Wednezday.
Mr. CRIVENDEN asked that the Senate set apart
some day fa the ooneideration of a joint resolution to
be offered V him. Made the spernal order for Wed•
header.
Mr. WIL9N, of Massachusetts, offered a resole
lion of inquiy. that the Secretary o f War be requested
to inform tit toecale what disposition had been made
of the aria' maoe at the National armories,. if any
had been sal; if so. at what price, and to whom, and
what moon is now in the arsenals, and how protected.
The bill amusing the Territorial Government of
.Ari zone madalien up.
Mr. TROY BULL, of Illinois, spoke in favor of the
amendment to allow the Mexican law abolishing
slaver* too rotto)* in force.
Mr. GREgar of Missouri, said that Mr. Brown's
amendment anot change ant law it only proposed to
Continue tbe.xisting law. Ile was In favor of leaving
the people il i to choose their own laws .
The soma .der wee here taken up, being the bill
for a. odu. , ion of Kansas. ft was postponed till
." r
/L P "
Do4 /4. th ' et fhtN i ti g ,..7 a t °unions, paid that ho had sun-
I the prslarnt
of souk wdatamowto.LB4.al9ll., of
assu me th, we at infOrmation. ue eepti, h a d re ,,..tbdly warned the. North that they Were
driving theato cunt that would result in separation,
but the south had been speared at anti maligned.
s ,lt was with no spirit of recrimination, but to perform
be cuty, that he walled to call attention to a speech he
bed made four years ego. predicting this result.
e quoted frost a s
wee p made in May. late. In wo uld
tic taid that the time woulo come when the South would
throw the sword Into the soale with their rights. He
lewd the ivord, because he it'd not believe in peaceable
sec/atom rove md the words whit% were uttered four
tAr. age proved true to-day. Would to Gcd that the
fesis of civil war, then expressed, may prove to be
only teen s but front what be had heard it almost
seemed al if the other aide of the °handier dearred
civil war. South Carolina had declared herself, cepa
rated. the membore of the 'other Mateo, stand
here to import hor or else to put her &lyre.
T har
is
the
real issue, and there IS no dee to dieguise it. We are
not pernwed to ignore the fact that the determination
ie not confned to South' Carolina, fur next week nava-
Alalarna, cad Florida also arparate;and the
week alto Gomm a little Inter Louisiana. and Carolina Arkansas:Mow, shell we recognise that South Caroline.
lean irdmendent State, or coerce her by forge?
Ile anted that thepeople had the right to decilitre
themedvie free—an Inherent and inalienable right A
Convertioa oepas s edople, duly assembled. could meal
an ordltameby a former Convention, subject
only to the modification of exercising a doe reirard to
the convict made with others. South Carolina had, by
her DOM* met in Convention in MO, repealed the ordi
nance nab by ihe people met in Convention in NM
lie quobc from Webater's speech in the Rhode Wand
case, to slow that the Convention of the people was
duly agienbled, and under the proper authority. He
her. each that the Union was a compact. out a comma
was not buding on oneparty unless the other puttee
ale° knit it—a compact broken by one is broken by all.
Mr. Beiranin also quoted from aladieen to sustain hie
Doer Lim
Be stidthat ci t e f or ce
found in the Constitution any
limonite ;emote force to coerce a State, and referred
to the olc Confederation. and stud that nine Stated
eecedet from that for the express reason that the cont
emn was rot kept. Finally, all the States seceded- but
Shed° Island-and north Carolina, leaving them as
former Sates. He claimed this as a precedent in the
formation of the present Constitution to show the nein
of blab seceecon. But who Was, to Midge if the compact
was token ' If only a pecuniary matter, the Cornet
tutionprovided away to settle question . but If broken
Political's, the Constitution proVideelto War. Hit read
the denies of the Convention which formed the Con
stitutim to show that they refused to make the' Senate
the julge, or to give the President a veto upon State
notion or give to Concrete the power tonegatiVe Slate
and espeoially refusing to gore ally power
to fore the States. Yet. when the State Conventions
comet° ratify the Coactituthall, complaints Were teethe
that tie Staten were not eaflierently impure. if We ad
mit. is we mast. that eintain political rights are
guarantied to the Elates. then if thee are denied where
is theremedy ?
Bur Celle that South Carolina should send two
Senatirs, but the majority' should refine to receive
but ; what power is there to compel the ma
jority to repair the wrong Suppose South Carolina
then withdr we who Is to any that it was in violation
of tit Constitution, or revolutionary? Suppose, aga n.
that be w one perpetrated is not quite so clear to the
Roil. but equally 40 to South Carolina. Su pow that
she indented amine to the Territories,' is she without
a renedy under the Constitution? If none, then she
must be the judge of the wrong and the mode of re-
diess read an extract from the eddying of John
Adana, delivered in New York, in 1838, in which Ire
said hat nations themoolVes must be the sole Judge
of whether their complicit,' are broken, and also saying
teat, when the fraternal feeling between the States is
gone, it is tune to imamate in peace, and return to
their ineinal state. He said that a notional President
had leen elected, and could, with the aid of aloe.
tioua'Senate, grant all benefits and appoint from one
smithy) all South fficers, Carolina
thus ruin the ISouth.
Sultio.e Carolina us multaken in sunning that
wring has been done her? Still that does not alter the
issue,whether we permit her to withdraw or attempt
to fore her back. In reply to the Senator from Vets
consit, ( Lootr. IM ills,) he claimed that a citizen was
bourn to obey the State Government. senators say they
gqill tot coerce a State, but they will enforce the
lawn optima indivit was. But how wilt YOU putlith an
nulivdual thettnts. for treneop ? Where will you
bind tie jaded' and jury, whim 'ail hip lbllow-oitimiall
thickly lies done tight?
Yot °anin blookade port without declaring war;
you manta embargo one port without cloning the who!,
of than. He Maimed that Congress or the President
had re power to go into a State and enforce the law
Withint the intervention of a civil power, and come
moil armless which must precede military force. He
argue] that re,enne sou d not be oolleoted by force.
Suclatireats are only a pretext to cover up the real
cmelier', than which there us no other, whether we
shall acknowledge the independence of a seceding
Stare or reduce her to subjection by , war. He read
fromVattel, to Allow that the hy poonboal keeping of
comnots was of no avail, and referred to the case of
RheshmigeLlD, who promised not to use steel against his
cs ett y ri e ,ilo m sel b sZr a h nTipe al to the Republican Se-
Moe. He said they claimed the right, under the Con
stitukon. to Cony the rights of the South, tp enpomage
the ribber, of their pt 'petty, to ottO Clem thleVee and
rnuriblere, tor t den, them the right of treopt, and to
arieueplate a &internee eopulatimi. hesought them
to Letitia parting be in peace, But if they 'multi pervert
the
.Ounetitution, and undertake to subjugate the
Noun. then, appealing to the Supreme Judge, we will
meetthe tame as best becomes! freemen. He could not
foret)3 the rogue of co horrible a contest. The fortunes
ofsay might be adverse to them (the Smith) !their
Otter Wain be in llama, the. honors of insurrection
nugtt be added to those of cavil war, but the North
eon never subjugate them ; could never convert their
free tone of toil to vassals ; could never degrade them
to a servile, inferior race. Never, never applause
from oh pans of the galleries. shouts and orlon, waving
of lendkerohuefs, and hurrahs, and great confusion
throughout the obamber.l
Mr. MASON, of ,Virginia as soon as his Mee could
ha hand, moved that the galleries be instantly oleared.
Hie notion was seennued by %number of vousee, and
N I I .IiITTEW i I d O Via'lVenfißgtietnirsi. chain, ordered
the Strgoant-at-o nos to clear the gallery. Illisseal
MLY CLEF: moved to adjourn.
aIr.MA 9 ON hoped they would not edjourn till the
d'l nO yeashe Senate was oed.
htand nays were celled on the motion to ad
journ
Wilde the names wore tieing cqled, the Sergeant.at,
Atintoleared the gollery..
The motion to adjourn was negatived—Yana 33,
n TI g rALASON said lie did not Intend to clear the
i ll e rrn i rfi. of Oregon, got the floor, but yielded to
a motion to adjourn,
Ad Turned till Wednesday,
ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
The SPEAKER laid before the Wouse a ooloinuntca
bon from the late Ceuretary of War explaining the
rename why lie gave pertain [Mealtime to Retread,
Maitre, & Co .Justifying lite cairn° in doing nay nail
an Hive litigation into ail tie official note
Alp BOOLWK., of Virciela, moved that the coinnumi
canto be referred to the se got committee to investi
gate the abstraction of the Indian truet funde.
Mr, CURTIN, of lowa, opposed this course.
Mr. BOCOCK said Mr. Curtin could appear as a wit
ness before the oonirrittee, nod briefly contended that
the communtoation sheltie tells that direction, as the
heOretary of War says he t ai beencomplioate,i, t“
Wile extent, an a party to the eUestiop bonito The Com
mittee.
hIeCORTIB denied that he had offered himsolf as a
witness and remarked that the deereptry had made a
maltreat with Russell, Majors, & Co. Without authority
or laW to the prejudice of other parties. - •
, • Mr. OROW of rennaylvanint raised a point of order
that the eea r etity r of War, had no authority bylaw to
oomMuniatite with I he House at lite will
Mr. 110000 If. said the question name too late. When
a public officer believes himself Mittel, implicit ••'' in an
improper transaction, he hag ;lie light do Nubile here
and Rektor no int ont.gation.
The BYBAKE.ft said it did not appear to him that,
while it ie made the duty of the President to transmit
communications, the heads of departments could not dO
aO.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASIIIMOTON, Dec 31, 1860.
Proposition of IXT2i. C. F. Adams..
Mow Mexico
The Southern conspirators are in a bad position.
The adoption of Mr Adams' proposition, in the
Committee of Pbirty•three, to pass an enabling aot
to admit New Mexico into the Union, has struok
theta like a thunderbolt Thus, the Territorial
question south of the Missouri Compromise line
will be settled. ihere is to differentia between
them and the Northern Democrats, that the people
of a Territory have a right to Eny whether they
want to have slavery or not, when they come to
forma a State government. They all agree on that
point. Admit Now Mexico, and there will be an
end to tbo vexed Territorial question. She bee
population *slough for a State; besides, she has
been a Territory long enough, having been orga•
nixed in 185) The Republicans will have to
be satisfied vith whatever Constitution the people
of New Mexico may select. If they should want
slavery, (which is not probable, as there are no
slaves in the whole Territory,) lot them come in as
n slave State.
The Personal-Liberty Bills.
On the othat hand, the declarations of leading
Republicans, as Messrs. SHERMAN, Conwist, Can.
TIN, and , others, that they are in favor of the
repeal of tie ao called liberty bills, which in
fringe upon . the exeoution of the fugitive•alave
law, will atoy the Southern conspirators from com
plaining befbre their people about that point.
They, wilt, berofore, by these ant, loan the whole
bails of thnf• argument in favor of the South going
out of the Utica. Their people, and espeoially all
those who lave something to lose, will now be
enabled to lad out that it is not true that the
North is wiling to break down their institutions,
and deprive hem of their rights in the Union.
The Republicans and the Union.
No party is more interested in the continuance of
he Won than the Republicans. They ell wish
that Mr. LIZCOLN shall be President over the whole
United Stiaes. Let them act accordingly. Let
them forge , small partisan feeling, and assume pa
triotio gromds. The masses of the Southern people,
who are now misled Into the belief that the Repub-
lican partyis inimical to the South, will then find
out that tbw were mistaken. Let:us preserve the
Union—w Mout it, our States will he insignificant
and helplea.
Captain Anderson.
Captiin ANDERSON'S conduct is to be approved
of in the House.
Proposed Admission of Utah
The lime adjourned over, to meet again on
Wedninda).
Mr. iloorzn, delegate from Utah, offered a bill
to admit Utah ea a State.
Coercion—An Exciting Seetie.
ROGER A PRYOR offered a resolution, that it was
against reptblican liberty to coerce a State to re•
main in tto Union A motion was made to lay it
on the tabe, the extreme Republicans and the
Southern non voting against it. The Republicans,
however, ator words changed their votes to aye.
Almost a cane took place between MOCLERNAND,
of Illinois, and BAR/MALE, of Misoi•sippi, the
former obarglag the latter ani his friends with a
design to breik up the Union. Both were shaking
fists at yeah Our. KAPPA.
36Th CONGRESS---SECOND SESSION.
oitAeinfloToN, Peo 3
SENATE.
Mr. CLEMENS . of Virginia. referred to the act of
11368 to slim
that it le expressly provided that the Se
cretary of War shall have the right to make communi
oetione in regard to contracts.
Mr. GROW of Pennsylvania. did art consider that the
law was applicable to this case.
The merreation war reierred to the select com
mittee Oa • abstraetion of the bones.
Mr. Met HKRSON. of Pennsylvania asked leave,
bit objection Was made, to offer a resolution calling on
the seoretary ot War to inform the Holum what trans
fers of oanpoti or munitions had been removed from
the arsenate since April, 1860 ; what sales of arms have
been made eubaequent to that time, and to whom, and
whether
c w E ON a o e
N p w u Yo c
k
t asked leave to offer the
following :
Resolved, That the several States did not ordain
and establish" this Government ; that it was made be
the people of the United States "in order to
form a more perfect Union, establish justice. in
sure domestic tranquillity. provide for the com
mon- defence.l promote the general welfare and
secure the bleaings of liberty to themselves and their
Posterity;' that, for suoh
G propoge. the people withdrew
from their several State overnments certain powers
and vested them In one General Government, whose
Constitution"anything treating Constitution pieme law
of the land
any State to the contrary notwithstanding; that we
are not thirty-three nations, but one nation, made euoli
by the Constitution. and known to the world as the
American nation; that any nation bee the right of
Be f preservation. the right to defend itself against
enemies (torn without and traitors from within; that
we believe this nation has the power to do so, and that
it is its duty to exercise it.
Mr. MAYNARD. of Tenueetee, objected to the in
troduction of the resolution, when
Mr. McK EON withdrew it.
Mr. BINGHAM, of Ohio. introduced a bill to further
Provide for the collection of duty on imports. Referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. HOOPER, delegate from Utah, prevented a me
morial from the pee le of that Ton itory praying to be
admitted into the Union as a State. Referred to the
Committee on Territories.
Mr. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania, offered a resolution
requesting the President to common Mete to the House,
if not incompatible with the public intereaty, the con
dition of the forte, arsenals, and other property at
Charleston ; whether any measures had been taken to
garrison and put them in 00E di non after it booeme evi
dent that South Carolina intended to secede ; what
troops were there then and now; whether any orders
had been given to reinforce Fort Munster (? t since it
had been seized by the insurgents
whetherhat orders had
been given to the officinal and any vessels of
war had been ordered thither vince the seizure of the
same by the rebels.
Mr. BRANCH - , of North Carolina. objected to the re
ception of the revolution. en the rules require that surd,
calls en the President for information should lie over
one day.
The SPEAKER said that Mr. finitudes point of or
der war well taken.
M r. STEVENS moved the suspension of 0.0 rules.
The SP KAI( li-Et copied :bat the motion was nor
now to order. One hour must first elites°.
Mr. PRYOR, of Virginia. offered preservewng
Received. '1 hat any attempt to the Union
between the St tee of the Confederacy by force would
be imoreetinab e, and destructive to republican liberty.
He demanded the previous question, which was or
dered.
tab,e. STANTON, of Ohio, moved that it lay on the
'Mr. HILL, of Georgia. 1 move to adjeurn. I want
to put down this resolution-making business—it dis
tracts the aouniry.
Mr. CRAWFORD, of Georgia. I 'lair my colleague to
w ithdraw his motion.
Mr. HILL. I cannot
r. SHERMAN. of Ohio The previous question has
already been ordered.
Mr. HILL. I want all the resolutions touching the
condition of the country to have the amen reference.
Mr. STANTON. 11 the gentleman wilt permit me to
offer a substitute, I will withdraw my motion to lay the
resolution on the table.
Mr. HINDMAN, of Arkansas. I lope the issue will
be met directly, as certain newspapers and orators
have been talking about coercion.
klr. HILL insisted on his motion to adjourn.
Some words of an exalting she racier PPassed lotween
Messrs. Barksdale and McCiernand. The only words
heard amid the contusion ware something sheet shirk
ing the queetson. The breeze was not serious, and
soon blew over. Mr. Barksdale exclaimed We are
ready to meet you.
The motion to adjourn was negatived.
The question was taken on the motion to table the re
solutinn. When the name of Vallandigham was called.
he said, " as this involves the direction question of
coercion, I vote no."
The resolution was tabled—yeae 96 , naps M.
YEA!—Mesers. Adams ( Mass ). Admit (KY.). Aileen,
Aldrink. Allen. Babbitt. Beale, Bingham, Blear. Birdie,
Brayton. Briggs. Buffinton. Burlingame, Burnham,
Campbell, Carey. Case, Clemens. Colfax, Conkling,
Cox, Davis ( Ind.), Dawn/. Duet], Edgerton. Elliott. Par,
wiheridge, Farnsworth Fenton,Foster, Fouke.
French, Gooch. Growßale, Harrigld.), Hatten,Hel
wick, Hill, riolmnn, Howard (Ohio), Howard ((dice.),
Humphrey. Hutchins. Lipkin, Kellogg ( Mich.) Ken
yen, Kilgore. Larrabee Leach ( Mesh.). Lee. Longneak
er. Loomis, Lovejoy, Marstnn, Martin (Ohio), May
nard. M'Kean. MKiddy, M'Knight. M!Phoraon. Mont
gomery, Moore (Ky.). Morrie( Pa. I. Morrie (111.1, Morse,
Noel!. Olin. Palmer. Pendleton. Perry. Pettit. Porter.
Quarles. Edwin R, Reynolds, Robinson (R. 1.), Robin
son (III.). Royce, eherman, Spauldine, Stanton. Ste
vens, Stoke', Tappan Thayer . 'thanker, Vance, "%retri
ever. Verree. Wade, Walton, Wash hurn ( Wash'
borne (III.) Webster. Wilson. and Winoom-98
NAY 3, Menem Alley. Anderson (Mo.). Ashley,
Avery, Barkedale, Barrett. Hawk, 13ranoth Burch,
Clark ( Mo.). Cloptnn. Cobb, John Cochrane Crate
( Mo.). Crawford , Curry. Curtis, Barnette, (loan.
Edmundeon Florence, Garnett. Gattrell. Herdsman,
Jenkins.Vit Hinuman, Houston, Hug Jankson.
Jones, Leach (N C.), Logan Love, Martin
(Va.). hloClernand. Molise, Moore (Ala.), Niblaok,
Peyton, Pryor Pugh. Rigel,. Rust. Poop. rt.:Alex. tem-
Flate_sn Spinner. Thomas, Vallandlgham. WeUs, White
ley, Winslow, W odiand Wright-55,
John Coehrane's ((N.Y.( resolution was adopted,
granting the use of the Hall of the House of Represen
tatives on the day set spurt for humiliation and prayer.
under the direction of the Chaplains of the two Houses.
Mr. STh VE^ 8 called up his resolution above noted.
Mr. SPANTON proposed , at a substitute, that the
Committee on Military Affairs inquire and report how.
to Whom, and at what price arms have been distributed
sines January, 1860, and also what is the condition of
the forte. arsenals, dock yerds, etc., of the country;
whether they are aupplied with adequate garrieone, and
whether any further measures are required to protest
the public property, and that the committee have power
to send for persons endpapers, and have leave to report
"Yt T n Eli
Mr. S ENR refused to acieept the substitute. He
wanted the President to speak for himself.
Mr Stevens' motion to suspend the rules for the re
ception of the resolution was disagreed to—yeas 91, nays
62—not two. thirds.
Mr. Stanton's substitute wee adopted as an indepen
dent resolution.
Mr. DAVIS, of Indiana, asked leave to offer a presto
bits reeding the secession ordinance °Muth "molten,
and concluding with a reso'ution 'lnstructing the Com
mittee on the Judiciary to inquire into the same. and
report at any time what legislation, if any, has become
necessary on the part of Congress in consequence of
the position South Oarolinkbas thus assumed.
Mr, LOVEJOY, of Illinois. and Mr. BARKSDALE.
of Mississippi, severally obleotea.
Mr. DAVIS moved a suspension of the rules.
Mr. HOLMAN. of Indiana, wished to offer o sub
iritute aasertingthat the right of n. Butte to withdraw
from the Union is not reeognized by the Constitution;
that neither the President nor Congress is invested
with authority to recognize any State in any cham
fer otherwise than as a State of the Ilmon ; that the
General Government in invested with the power to
oolleot the revenue and protect the nobles property
wherever situated ; that the Committee on the Judicia
ry Inquire whether snob laws are in force ne will ena
ble the Government to maintain the property in the
several States and elsewhere. and to collect the reve
nue when an attempt should be made to resist thesame;
and that the committee inquire whether, in their opi
nion, the laws are Insufficient for the acoompliehment
of these purposes. If ae. that they report what mea
sures are necessary by the employment of the army
quirff: "".r.trianeuts_ ACtiif}ogOrtnlnn_ MDT Ifs
r. HILT 6E1°, 5 1, s. ./...-aubjent.on
the table, ved—Yeas 42; nays 03.
Without coming to a enrclusion on the subject, Cie
House adjourned till Wednesday.
SIX DAYS LATER FROM EUROP
ARRIVAL OF THE KANGAROO AN
NORM AMERICA.
Advance in Cotton and Breadstuff
Mas,snere of English and French Pr
boners In Chinn
PORTLAND, Mo., Deo. 31 —The!stoaniship North Ame
rica, with Queenstown datos to the :Ist arrived at this
port this morning.
The steamship Glasgow had arrived out.
faiiled
nego ti b a mba rdm en e
w a u c d a recomm e nce ha vthg
19th.
A deseaten from Lit. Petersburg says the English pri
sonera Dorimenn, llowlby, and Anderson, and three
French odium's, had been massacred In the Chineee.
This information is given ea cert
The directors of the Atlantic telegraph have deter—
mined to keep the concern afloat with the hope that
something favorable May happen.
The Lniadon Times' [May happen.
elf Tliursday evening
says: " Funds opened la a decline of and embers
etiently experiencdd a further fall. owing to the unsa
tisfamory news of +Grins at Bombay, and the depres
s on of the Paris Bourse, coueled with an intimation
given by Austria that she must either sell yenatia. Qr
pr tgrr e a (g r o v f a d r i ge i t h i:tift ri eg f e ' ' ' st oak: ag ohnnge is four
per cent "With an active deniand.
The disaount market is Wive.
M
AERICAN lago[of —The foilovieg [hies are re -
poeted • '
Illinois Central IS per cent. disocunt,
Erie Railroad 2503-13‘.
shipping intelligence.
Arrived tram Blitlanelphia shin Montebello at Liver
Pool,
From Baltimore, ahuia Unicn and Ocean, at Bre
men.
Commoreial Intelligence.
LIVERPOOL COTTON hi ARKET—Priday.The
sales of the week amount to 133,000 bales; prices have
advanced on the week.
Brea datuils firm--P revisions quiet.
1.04D0 N.—Coneols, 93 for account.
LIVERPOOL COrrON MARKET, Deo. 2L-Ihe
ea es of the week have been MVO., including WOOD on
speculation an port offor export The American ad
vices and the r peace with China caused an ad
vance of lid. The martet closed buoyant at the fol
lowing quotations
Fair Orleans _..._.. d Middlings.. • ..7.4d.
—.7. 4 iti, •
Uplands_ " ...... yd.
The gales to-day (Friday) have been MOH bales. in
cluding s (sOO bales for speculation and • export. Stook
in port, A 39,000 bales, of whichveoee bales are Amer,
can. ; . . •
BREAMTITYPC—Tbere 114 a good denten for Bread
stuffs. Corn °loved with Mt adranoing ten snob.
THE LAT.SBT. fl TkLEORAPIi TO UOVh(S
-• • TOWN:.
LONDON, peoeinber 20. -The Para CO11.St(tUti011911:
ease the solution' of the Austrian-Venetia question
aPereaohing a decisive crisis. Alt Europe seems to
have apprehensions for the miming spring. Will the
wisdom r f the (Thverriment of the Emperor know how
to prevent a etpiggle without tin object? The situation
of Augtria in Venetia is deplorable. A lista', who knows
how provinces are gamed. will also remain tier how they
are lost Barpn Von do marling siees thing, in a dif
ferent light horn Oeneral Bone& lc, and has already
weighed the chanc rela t i o n w etruggle.
The Herald says toto Arne:loan affairs that
arrangements are making to prooure additimml sums
from the Liverpool Branch Bank of England, for trans
misaion, in case the next intelligence ehould not be
more favorable.
distrustaily News:aye the c o ur s e growing feeling of
with respeot to the of affairs in Ame
rica. It is feared that our market will yet be called
relief of the country.
Ra n g r a ga t A b ertl e l u a e r efstali h p e revails in the English
market far the great American staples, corn and cotton,
points in the same direction.
:''rota Pl4's Peak.
Voar Kann Nay, Dee. M —The Central Overland anti
r tim'e Peek MXprole pages(' hero yesterdaY,
Whop the coach was at Galt Lake City the weather
was very cold. It was reported that one driver hod
frozen to death beyond the Laramie.
DeNvial. cm, Deo. 27.—Chrletmae passed in jollity
and good humor. There were only two or three tights,
in which no weapons wOre used. The day was more
like Edo fourth of July than midwinter.
The recession news produced but little mention.
A shooting affray took plane at Cannon City it few
days ago. Oao man was wounded.
Recent arrivals from Son Juan report a vast extent
of country with placer diggings that will pay from two
to ten cents per pan in coarse gold. Little can be dew)
there before may or JULIO.
A project in on foot to open a road from the California
guloh direct to the pew minds. Which will make Denver
the nearest tradlhg point to them out of the mountains.
The mountain roads continue good and open.
Daily coaches are running full to and from the pope
lous mining settlements.
Wreck of the Ship Enp,RII,
WILMINGTON, N. C.. Deo. 91—The ship Bmtna. of
Liverpool. one hunched dziys from Bombay, for New
Yong. with a Cargo of wool. flaxseed. and senna , in a
sinking condition, was rim ashore on Pride, night,
three miles northeast of the new Inlet light. The cap
tain and crew wore Raved. but the vessel has bilged.
Heavy weather to day, with the wind from the north
east.
The Five-Million Loan,
WAIIIIINGTOti t Deo, 31.—Corta;nnal tjei 111 . Now York
have Iropored to take the rernainder o the fi ve-million
loan• ever three millions/ but the particulars have not
yet b I
received here. t was said, however. at the
Treaeury Department to-day. that the whole amount
would probably be realized In the course of the week.
when the requisitions of the various disbursing officers
would be marl The Congressmen are among those
whoee arrearages have not) at been settled.
I' ' al.lBo 110004,
I,ION6AY.TEII. r9O. ja 110 truth In the report
oiroulated'in Philudolytun and elbewhere, that Mr. Liu
ontitin,e reeddonee. nt Wheatland, was burned down
last night.
From Havanns-Cominoreird
- t rlaw ORLHAN3. Dec- 31,-The steamship O e 500,
from Sayan% on the 27th Ind, allays/ lora tilts eve
runs.
'The monetary omens yrro severe. 62000000, in tree-
OM notes, apit t3EOO OW to now bonds hail been leaned,
and the merchants of Matanzas had agreed to receive
them
A Philadelplna SeamaA PAVAIN
New Yorte, Deo. SL—Thornea C. A Bpi, 4eaman Qr
Philadelphia, was Mat overboard from the ship Aus
tralia. from Liverpool on the 17th Met.
Pennsylvania Legislature.
CANCITEI NOMINATIONS.
HLRFelestißo. Deo. 31.—Both parties in the Legisla
ture will hold their mousse this evening. The follow
ing nominations ate agreed upon:
0 the Senate, the Republicans willaominate Robert
fMnr . of eohuyikill - for Speaker Russell Errett,
(nark; and Harman Yentas, for Sergeant- at- ins,
The Democrats will nominate Jeremiah Shindle, of
Lehlge. for rpeeker.
I e the He e e e•—the HaPulebians' will ,nominate for
Speaker Elfsha w n
"emi Nenango ; for Vlerk. Mr.
Rama, of Carbon • for asogent-at-erms, Mr. Mat
thew. o f Philadelph i a The Democrats will nominate
for Speaker Dr. Hill, of Montgomery ; for Clerk, Jacob
Ziegler ; for Sergeant-at-Arm, John Gill. of Phila
delphia-
The members are nearly all here.
The Republican members of the Hours met to callous
this (waving and nominated Elisha W. Dav is, of Ve
nous). for Speaker ;R. R. auoh. of Carbon, for Clerk;
E. W. Capron. of Chrster. for assistant clerk.
.Tran
seri hing Clerks, E. W. Wallace of Pluladelptua. and
Messrs. Hermiston. Nichols, and Porter; Sergeant-at-
Arms. Mr. Matthews, of Philadelphia—Small Poi hL
competitor, receiving Ont 7 votes; Postmaver, A.
Woodhouse, of Wayne ; oorkeeper, H Dalackett.
From Harusburg.
SENATOR CAMERON EtPORTED TO HAVE BEEN AP
POINTED SECNETART OF TIM TREASURY TINDER
3111. LINOULN.
tianmennao, Deo. 31.—A private neonatal', received
by a citizen of tins plaz, to-night, announces that Mr.
Lincoln has appointed senator Cameron as Secretary
of the 'lmam. Mr. Cameron is now at Springfield,
and is stated to have accepted the appointment. The
authority for this information is deemed reliable.
HARRISBURG. Deceintpr al.—There is a et ono anta
gonism to the appointment of General Cameron to Lin
coln's Cabinet.
Mr. Lincoln telegraphed to Alexander K. McClure to
come to Springfield, which order Mr. McClure obeyed
immediately. Mr. McClure's opposed to Cameron, and
will meet the latter at Springfield. It is supposed that
a violent rupture will ensue. which it is believed will
end in the appointment of William L. Dayton, of New
Jerre'', to a place in the Cabinet.
At the Demooratio canoes of the members of the
House to-night Dr. Hill. of Montgomery Comity, wee
nominated for to-night,
and Jacob Ziegler for Chief
Clerk.
fhe Republican caucus of the House nominated
Elmira W. Davis for Speaker, and Edward Rauch for
Clerk. The Republican calcine of the t enate nomi
nated Robert Palmer for Speaker. and Russell hirrett
for Clark.
The Democratic Senate caucus will be held to mor•
row.
Alabama Commissioner in Missouri.
Sr. Louis, Deo .30.—A speinal &sestet to the Reptsb
li.,,,, from Jefferson City. states that Mr. Crooner, the
rommiesuortor from olabsins i made a strong aeceseion
speech last ni.ht, in the hall of the Home of Repre
sentatives. Ho said that he dii net believe that. in is
commercial or industrial point of view, the Southern
States would be tne losers in ease of a eisruption of the
Government, He sate the South did not deeire to re
open the African slave trade. His remarks were occa
sionally applauded.
A meeting was thee held in the Senate chamber, to
consider the suggestions of Mr. Cooper, On' motion of
Mr. Parsons. late Bre^kbaridge candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor, John Ryer, Senator from Dent county,
took the chair. Mr. Parsons further moved that Col.
Balton, of Benton county, be secretary. Col. Balton
declined. He said that lie could not approve of any
measure tending to gammon. He would eta, in the
Union until he wee forced put of it. There was yet hope
that matters might be amicably adjusted. A resolution
was adopted stating that during the coming semen the
Legislature would ewess its opinions olimially upon
the questions now distraoting the Union , and furnish
the Governor of Alabama a copy or such resolutions on
the subject as the General Assembly may adopt.
The Assembly meets to-Morrow. Major Harris, Gen.
Puce, and Col. Balton are the most prominent canda
datos for the lipeakerehip of the House, but it ie doubt
ful whether either can be elected.
The Republican urges that no Secessionist should
be elected Speaker, but reeoininends the passage of
an not early in the session calling a Convention of
commisaionera of tha slave States at Baltimore, to
state explicitly the grievances and aggressions of
the North.
The South Carolina, Convention.
CHAIM/MON. Dec. 31.—0 n the opening of the Con
vention this morning the President stated that the
question before the b ody yesterday', on closing the se
cret mansion. wan a resolution relative to the removal of
the light houses and buoys.
On motion o a t
Mr. Chestnut, the Convention Went into
secret session.
-• • • - • • •
CHARLKSTON,I/80.31.—Tg iL Laid. on the authority of
the Chairman on Engrossing Bills. that secret nor
will r inoinallrmoiler the attention of the Conve on
until the final adjournment.
CiIaRLESTON, Deo. 31.—N0 reatrietione have been
placed on the telegraph. We-do not report mere ru
mors arthe expense of the press ; there to plenty of that
kind of information In cumulation. Whatever hae
publto. transpired of importance has been faithfully
chronicled.
From 'Washington.
THE REPORTED APPOINTMENT OF GENERAL SCOTT
AS SECRETARY OF WAR IMPOUNDED -POSTMAS
TER.GESERAL HOLT ACTING AS SECRETARY
SECRETARIES THOMPSON AND THOMAS STILL IN
THE CABINET.
WARRINGTON. Dec 21.—The report which prevailed
throughout the city this afternoon that Limit -General
Boon had been appointed eisoretary of War, ad iererim ,
produced a thrilling effect, and occasioned much Indig
nation among the deoessioniata, who are lolly aware
that General Scott is in favor of extensive military pre
parations.
The truth ie. Postmaster General bolt in in tempo
rarr charge of the Department, and to-night was at
tending to the duties there, in company with the chief
Mork. General Scott has not been at the Department
or the President's house today.
Both Becretariea Thompson and Thomas were at the
Cabinet meeting to-day, though rumor had declared
otherwise.
Many reports prevail, with no truth for their founds
tion, and which /servo only to add to the already in
tense eamtement,
. .
mr• Bingham's bill further to provide for the oolleo
tion of duty on imports. whir& was introduced in the
House to-day, and referred to the Committee on the
Jutheiary, looks to an increase of the President's power
to onforee the revenue laws.
Latesl from Washington.
NO DECISIVE ACTION DT TUB CABINET-THE PRE
MGM'S SPECIAL MESSAGE.
Wasniarixota. Dee. 01.—No decisive action was taken
by the Cabinet to-day genitive to the Charleston forts.
The President's special message wilt probably be
trtnemitted to Oongreas on Wednesday.- It is under
stood that he will submit such femme' have come to his
knowledge, for such legislative action as may be con
sidered necessary °condemns the secession movements.
Senator Bunter Wanes introducing a resolution
having in view the adjustment of the, property and
other questions with any seceding Diets.
hir.'i resoott. the secretary of the Carolina oeustrOs
sioners, will leave Waehington to-morrow, for Charles
ton. The commissioners will remain, to await gsgoou
tive and Legislative action.
Five Days Later front Europe.
Arrival of the Kangaroo' at New York
The screw steamer Kangaroo, Capt 'Morehouse,
which tailed from Liverpool at eleven A. M. on
the 10th, and from Queenstown en the 20th D. New York at noon yeatirdayi
bebaeiag / 1 v. 4 . 3- l Afer Sm.
The eifreses arrive iit - urre. 2 ,....a.....vae-retar-D.
Comber, he king been detained outside the bar for
several hours by low tide.
The Prince Albert, which was to have-left Gal
way for Bt. Johns, Newfoundland, on the 18th, bad
boon withdrawn, and the "Galway. lino" is tem
porarily epspended.
The ship thorp,iadia front Now Orleans for Li
verpool, was burnt at ton on the 20th November.
Captain and Drew saved by the:Leos Woodbury,
and landed at Queenstown
On the afternoon of the 15th December, just as
theEnglieh'Oebinet wee on the point of separating,
they received a telegram from Bf. Petersburg an
nouncing that intelligence from Pekin to the 9th
of November had reached the Bastian Govern.
ment that peace was concluded on the 211th of
October and the ratifications exohenged, and that
on the sth of November the allied forces unmated
Pekin, and the Emperor was expected immediate
ly to return to that city.
The British Parliament hes been further pre
maned until the sth of February, on which day it
will assemble for the despatch of buciness.
The Duke of Newcastle Itind beep formally in
vested with the Girder of the Garter with the usual
Oatemonies.
There was a rumor that the British Government
bed sent out, inetruotions for a naval-force to be
concentrated In Merlon waters, inconsequence of
the late gross outrage perpetrated On the property
of British citizens.
The detailed reports of the North Atlantic
telegraph expedition were shortly to be made
public In the meantime, the papers publish
some preliminary reports, together with a letter
from 81r Leopold McClintock to Sir Charles Bright,
giving a very favorable opinion respecting the pro
posed route for the cable.
As the President's message in detail did not
reach London till the 13th, the London papers
which criticise it had not reached Liverpool when
the Kangaroo sailed.
The Times says the message is an evasion of all
responsibility, and contrasts the President's timid
policy with the held oourse of Jackson.
The Globo says the message is, in fact, an appeal
to the North to make ommemdans to tbe &loath.
Tho distress at Coventry is such that forty thou
sand weavors are said to be setnally starving.
The Moniteur says the Emperor has decided
that, from January next, and by way 01 reciprocity,
Englishmen visiting France 8411 be permitted to
enter and travel through the country without pus
ports.
A decree is published suppressing the prohibi
tion against the sinport from Algeria of barbs for tanning purpoStaf.
; l ike Archbllbop of Lyons had published a laugh.
ty pamphlet against the imposition of a stamp
upon pastoral letters treating of political matters.
He prononnees the imposition of the etamphumill.
Oting and not to be submitted to by the bishops.
As the new commercial treaty between France
and Belgium will render the importation of coal
absolutely free, the English coal will be also en
titled to enter duty free into France.
The Paris flour market was firm. Wheat also
wee well maintained, and closed with an advan
cing tendenov
The Paris bourse. on the 18th, wasratber. firmer.
Benito olosed at 68 85.
The French fleet wee e;ipc.oted loon to leave
Gaeta
A telegram rrom Boma of the 18th, says the bom
bardment of Gaeta was to be recommenoed, in con
sequence of the lion acceptance by Brawls IL of
the conditions of surrender.
Rumors were again current tat Count Reohberg
w4s about to retire from otos, •
The Bungarran Gonference at. Gran was opened
no the 18th. The electoral law of 1848 was
promptly adopted.
A new tariff is to be submitted to the Cerise of
Spain in January.
The Russian Government has contracted with
the Thameo Iron Works Company, London, for an
iron•cased frigate of 8,320 tone and great power.
Other vessels of the same clam are to be furnished
from year to year.
The Bombay mail of November 2et bad reached
Mend Hoc and would arrive in Vanden on the
20th
%Business wee et 61 sland4tlll, owing to the re-
Beetmeut against the income tax. Exchange wall
higher Freights were fully 10a per ton higher.
A new oompany wag in oouree of formation in
London for running a line of screw•tteamera to
The French mails from Itrar,il, gin% Rio dates cf
November 25, had areved. Ooffee was firm at
511500a511600 fpr good firsts. Stook, 50,000 begs.
4aohange, 21.
A. Letter from Major Anderson.
We have boon furnished, by a gentleman of Bal.
ttmore, says the Baltimore Eschangemlth the fol
lowing letter, from the oommander of the United
States forces at Charleston. As anything frcm
qat quatter la of interest, we lay it before our
readers:
FORT MOULTRIE, 8 U., Deo. 25, 1860,
8111: I thank you for the trouble you
were kind enough to take in connoting some of
tho rumors about me. Yor, are right in the opinion
that I could not, aiAd woul d not, say anything con
tradictory of them. My plan always has boon to
try to di . . my duty honestly and folly, and to trust
that in the good sense ofjustioo of the people tlley
could give me credit for good intentions, oven if
my judgment should turn out not is have bean
good.
I most confess that .T, stunt that tho papers are
making en mutt cf my position here. Ido slot dos
serve tho laost oredlt for what I am doing • no-
Wag more thou any one else would do in my
position, and perhaps not dans half so well ea
many othorc would di. I receive, noarly by every
l imit, loiters o gymtrathy, sad many of them from
atraogopt
;1014-thn t it, will not be lopgivel9Waintiliait,
will oour -to g i ve - ton a ammo/ being teliilY4
from nay present position. •"- " .
Thanktos yen for your kind remertfLrenee of
rge I are, truly yours, ' ROBIRT ANDERSON, .
To Baltimore,
V' IN A'l C lAL AND COMMERCIAL.
!lie Molter Market.
December 31. DM.
City loana advanced p today at the Stook Board,
Libre fives I, hltnchtll Rallread 4, lisadiag Bail
ruld Fled the li.t generally was held at Meier
figures.
The money market is active at the same quota.
ions as on Saturday.
OFFICIAL BAN]
ArBIRLT AVERAGES OF T,
K STATEMENT.
HE pumLnimpau ALAN/•
Snarls. 903018.
Hants. --
Dec. 31. Deo. 24. Deo. 31. Deo 24.
- -- ----
Philadelphia.... 83.781,000 83.733001 1664,039 8448,660'
North America 8,031,041 2,918 303 600,867 =or
Farm & Mech.. 4632,661 4 6E8,472 614,765 019.137
Commercial....
Keehanica .... • 1.661,742 1.670,756 =No MA*
N. Liberties.... 1,177,600 1,137,090 122,000 130,140
Southwark...... 891 8,1 894,913 289,660 260.1185
Kensington.... 817,487 817,063 117,786 117,733
Penn Town ship 706,207 711,246 119,641 113.836
Western ... .. .. 1,324,443 1,333 381 187,867 190,612
Man. & Mech.. 1,095.925 1,1. 6,797 112,065 102,4469
Commerce...... 700,794 647 496 179,483 11121,4421
'Girard........ 2,281 447. 2,321.164 361,1177 261 609
Tradesmen . ... . 546,581' 647.575 160,779 181,926
Consolidation.. 623.685 525 452 63.767 60365
City ..... ...- • 767,008 779,942 99447 93.692
Un loll . •-- . 530,437 638 023 95.176
Commoniealto 440 600 460.360 67.6 8 , 61 94 ,31
2346
Corn Exchange 407,806 416 034 66,925 33,710
. Total .. -•• • 33 9 27,097 37.072 906 3,884 464 3 838 MO
DIPOSITS. CIRCULATION.
BANNS. ----------
Deo. 31. De 0.24. Deo. 81 De 0.24.
--- - --- -
ihiladelphia•-• 11,641,000 81,7 0 5, 060 3298.000 8296.000
orth America. 1,905,724 1.814,703 192478 inAat
arm & Medi- 3.117.312 3.122:971 656,170 869,54)
rmmercial..... 743061 813 000 144.000 140 000
echanice,.... 746,953 771831 mato 136 960
. Liberties.... 765,000 76 ,(110 103,000 UB2OO
ontliWark.... • • 709 441 714 944 95,606 66.236
Kensington..., • 480,1341 446,706 152.376 161,360
Penn '1 ownshir. 456 911 463,701 67,966 71.676
Western...
. • 247,614 836,251 128.669 139 030
Man. & 610011,. 602 040 15117.504 99,72 s 102.416
Commerce ..... . E 60.275 5 3,251 72.480 73 619
Girard 1,013 313 1,063 049 280.675 204 870
Tradesmen's.- 474.862 466 910 86 423 86,027
Consolidation • 346,756 111,813 112,690 112,316
Cit 7 364,857 365,063 24.640 SS Pal
Union._ ... 113,273 231.174 1110,260 134.548
CommongsAlth 103,190 Ed 521 84,815 87.915
Corn Exchange 187,312 181,038 60,415 11.5115
221111111
r The aggregates of the bank statement compare
with those of previous reports as follows :
Dee. 24. Deo. 31,
Capital Stook *11,807644 811.8137,645
Loans 27.072 905 25.927.097-Deo. 145 808
5pecie......... 3,81800 5,884,461 leo, 46,584
flue fm othr Ski— 1,826 481 1391,667-leo. 54 41741
Due to other Bka... 3,281,098 3 482.991..1a0. Int ant
De ... 15.216 612 15.133,744.. Deo. 82 1158
.. 2229,430 2,610,715.. Deo. 6,714
Loans. slime. Cironlatum. Descents.
Nov. 4, 1867.51,199,463 371,464 2,141,113 texasjes
Jan.11,1863.21,M2,374 ,770,701 1,011,023 11,40,262
J ell 6.. _ .21211,928 336,817 2,434,181 16,6116418
Jan. 5, 150.36,461,057 .063.356 3,741,764 17,90355
July 6. -26,446,410 .1217,063 2,1E08,203 15,481964
Jan. 3.1660-26,324,137 0030,361 2,866,401 14,981,206
July 2..__.26.801,338 .374,549 2,696,186 15,594 215
Aug. 6 26,936.227 800,443 2,7277,207 HAM_ Ml_
!apt. 27 095,028 ,757 917 3,838325 49 , 2 31.412
Oot. 1..._.27.931,763 376,099 2,833210 16.80 M.
Nov. 27,980 837 .167.967 2,887,613 16.739.335
1 1 -.4.2 7 2 6 4 669 ,011,943 - 2,892312 16,264,146
10 26,775.878 .115,632 2,791 711_ 16403,121
28,076,323 ' 346.612 2.640,912 14 299,619
Dec. 26.979 207 .333,527 3,637.961 /5.921,156
• 27.087,687 ,627,067 2 661,196 15.1 7 2.30
" 17 27.084.868 711 297 2 .626,98 3 12312 ,854
"
24.......51,012,908' 338360 2.529.4 , 0 12216,612
" 31.....26,937,097. ,884464 3.610,716 2640,744
The following is a statement of the 12113641146 . 339n8
of the Philadelphia Clearing House for the week
ending December 31, 1860, as furnished by the
manager, George E. Arnold, E2q. :
learms,ll7 e. Salanose.
Ms. 18331
3.597.923 74 414 met Sd /82
5247481 80 M 11,726
3.102,704 61 542.71281
3,264,404 24 1161.656 23
De 0.24.--.......
it - - • • • - • •
..
815.917,6 M 88 82.880A8 17
The followiog are the quotations of Domed'.
Ezobange, as furnished by Messrs. Drexel lc Co.,
No. 34 South Third street :
Now York exchange.-- is
Bo:ttor
Bal Viet .
timore exehanse—,—
American cold— . ..... Y.® X,
An country Panda not
John G. Martin, Zig., stook broker, in Bolick,
has prepared the following dividend list, which will
be of interest pp many of our readers :
The following dividends are payable in January,
at the date given in the margin. The Berkshire;
Railroad is quarterly. The dividends are all pay
able in this city, excepting the Providence and
Worcaater Railroad, at Providence, Rhode Island,
and Worcester and Nashua, at Worcester, at the
treasurers' offices.
The only inereue in railroad dividends is i per
cent. by the Boston and Lowell, and 50 oents.per
sham on the Wen:miter and Nashua ' most of the
roads now being regular 8 per -cent. stooks. The
Eastern Railroad pays its drat cash dividend since
January, 1854. In July, of that year, 4 per cent.
was divided, and payable in Dist Boston Perry
stook, then worth about 75 oenta on the dollar. The
$710,000 Eastern Railroad 5 per-eent. bonds, due in
1862, have been renewed at 6 per cent., ten year.
from January 1, 1881, and the amount made $750,,
000. The bonds are convertible into stook at par,
any time within eight years, and the $40,000 in
crease is to be applied toward/ reducing the bombs
of 1874.
Manufacturing stooks divide handsomely, but
show little change from July last, owing to the
payments having been inoreased at that time over
previous periods. The Contocook omits its divi
dend at this time The Bates, Chicopee, mkt
Douglas - Axe Manufacturing Companies will pro...
bably make dividends, but have not yet decided,
This reduces the aggregate amount some oillo,ooitt
The East Boston Dry-Dook Company awl United
States Hotel Company have resumed dividends,
The American Insurance Company sloes not make
up until Monday, December M, and is, therefor*,
omitted from the table. The payments, as a whole,
cannot fail to be satisfactory to the parties in
terested, and the circulation of over $3,000,000
among Its numerous recipients will be mod ao
oeptable at this time.
Dividends. .11 net.
Payable. Stocks. 7, Jan. Jan.
Jan. Railroad Cos. Capital. j lg l o. 1864. 1860.
he Berkshire Railroad 4320400 I 1 Ed 45.100
- 1 Boston and Lowell... 101,000 4 s 73400
1 Boston and Mane... 4.155 703 4 4 145
4100p00
195
1 Poston & Woreeeter. 4.48 4 4
1 Fitehburg ...... 3.540,44 3 3 106.230
14 Fulani
_._— • 2,143 401) • 2 67,04
-14 Eastern. in . • . 492,500 - 2 9449
7 Metropolitan (Borne) 601.1110 5 5 ' 311:0511
8 Middlesex (Horse).- 348 000 4 4 •113400,
1 Old Cot' y&Fa 1 R iv. 3415.141 3 3
1 Pittsfield et N.Adisins 480.01;0 3 3 13.40
t . ,C I ll ' Affn ' B r . 4
i n la ot 1
1 .. altha& wow! vei 10 44 4 4 •
I Wester n- . moo 4 4 144,
7 Wo eater IC:. Veghla 18,710 ens 82 .11214 ,38,065 s
maa
Miscellaneous ...... _ gi. 6111.873
Interest on - • •.• •• • MI 650
Mannf.ao Lurie g -
.• - •
- - • • 84 1 41.
Railroad dividends-- .• • ••• ••• - _ 1.160X11
Total for Jan., 1101..._.._._... SS oto.ne
• • Juts, laa,
.. fan, 1860- . ........ • ........ 052401
• July, 1859..
• • • .1.270.13$
• . Jan., /559 -. •• • --- 2,635,348
Philadelplua Stock Exchange Sales '
Deomobor 31. 1550.
sroRTED BY B. E. 3r.A.T.H.11371.61 orchards' Exchange:
^llO3l UUI>JI.I,
200 Patina as....••oash. 891.5 500 Poona -
1100 abt do- 89/. 10 Morris Can Drafeh
900 d0.......e55h. Mi .3 do. ~.pref.cati.lo766
4000 d 0...-. ... .90 5 Lehigh Scrip. 311‘
1000 City es.-- :New. 9910 10 Penns R-- earn.
MO Reading 6s '8e..... 71 4 d0........0aah.
3:0 Reading _ lont.osh. 15 13 d0........0a5h. 3
10 d 0...-. owls. 171; 4 do
33 do ...0 & P... 18 S
6) 30 do.
6 d 0.... - • 69.3f1 Farm & - Maoris nk.
BETWEEN BOARDS.
4000 Penns 5.4 cash.. 90 . 30 Reading R-...csah., rig
20:0 N Yehrov. 66120
6 Race & Vine... cell. 181 6 Alines ill.. 5911
SECOND BOARD
6000 Penna. °soh. SO 130 N Reana R•• —•-
6000 do ••.. 90 3 • •.--. • 7'4
900 City 6s Ck P. •csh 904 54 d 0..............
600 Clara & Araby 61'3183 111 do.. -- .- s
1000 do.„ 81 50 Little &hi 12
1000 Lohigh Valley Be.. 90 60 Reading R- - ...eah. 18
1000 do —._ 90 50 do _ -cash. 18
Minaniu..._ 6914 ao do_ -cash. 18
a Noma Canal prel.lo73sl 10 Cain & Amh-2dys.llB
3 Penns R •••-•-• • 367 ii 3 do -_:- -Sdra•ll.ll
e.otatfa YRICEE—FIRST
1.1. AM %
IS.
94
115 9.1
.9910 100 3 i
53:11*.
18 18
.63
Bid. .13 .l.
; Elmira R yrf 113 IS
; /shwa 73 73..—.88 66
Lou Island R--!N, ,loti
: Leh CI &N, .4 , 1 47.ta
Leh CI& N 50ri0..51% 33
North Peo_na R_, IN 8
N Penns II 63......8675 6813:
N Poona R 10a- -60 _ 9
leatawinia It Con. 3 'll
ICatavriews nrfd... -... 13
,;Frazikrd & 8 8., 46 4775
&I lt 3d-streets R. 47 NI
ltao333Vine In 8..78 /ON
West Phila ft ....33 461‘._
8911100 & POO—. alt 8
Green & COMM ..7116 ..
Philadelphia •
Pala 6".
PhiLs Op,new..
Penns es%
Read R
nestling bile 113::
Road ra N 'M...._
Read nit 6e'B3-..
Penns R -
Penns R adult ae
Mor °loon. •
Morris Canal.iii:3
lig
86X 3831 ,
86 88
.68 ;
107 M 107111
.78 4
.64 4
78
• ...
&oh N Imp as.: .
Settnyt Vs, Btk
tichuyl Nav pet
Elmira
Philadelphia Illarkals.
Dzomenim. 31-lairesirts.
The Flour market ie unchanged, with limited mei - eta
and small sales. The salue for elopmenh commis* nv,
bble eupetfine, at 941231 per bbl, anti 2.0011 hble -Ohio
extra and extra family, part Diamond Mlle. on priyara
terms. There lea steady borne demand, at from 1 115-37 K.
f or comman, mperfine. and exha >. SO 6266 fur 'extra
family ; and 9d Mena for houry brands, as to aueditir.
too Ws Rio Flottr gold at 93.64}(„ Corn ffieat is quiet,
at 83 gir bbl for rearm, tram,
salWn a
13 - o The 6oi v n ryfort f e c g o odoma wau 'a and
Weatent red ; 1360 for Southern do; lasemoofor whit*.
Byers token on arrival at 760 is not
Pennsylvania, and am
for Delaware. Corn—There is not ninth coming for
ward o l das of new yellow at 68*890. Dart in the ears.
and at 68sTho- 'blob is an advamse. Oats are an
ohanted ; sales of Southern at 210, and Pennsylvania at
ate q' b it . salt of SKI bus Barley was made at
)60.
Baaa.—Flat No. I QUercitron is held firmly at
4ir toe.
COTTO3 is firmly held, but there re very little doing.
Oltonsilits.—Not ninth doing; small &slob of Rio
Coffee at 11)in , 1330, 4 months.
PIOVMONS continua very quiet, and we hear of no
sales worthy of note.
Hasps —uloverseed is in steady demand ; sales of MO
bus. at 85.2108.3135 for prime Iota; we quote Timothy
at_2l4)o2ao. and Flaxseed at $1.40
Is held rather higher ; tales of lao bete Penn
sylvania at 180 ; Oluoltherito ; li d at/8o; arid drudge
at 170 lfr gallon.
Philadelphia Cattle Market.
PHILADELPHIA. Thicembei.3l.l69o.
The receipts of Beef Cattle are small this week,
only reaohms about 950 head. The lifarket was more
active. and prices 250 the 100 Ms higher' thin last
quoted.
8 1. Abrahams, Chester co.. s4.soes.
18 Sanderson & Sabha, Chester no 8808A0-
44 Scott & Kimble, Maryland, 87.5609,
36 Kimble & Kirk. Maryland, ,17 5009.
20 J ones 61oPillell, Jr., Maryland, $408.7:F,
95 p,Dathaway, Virginia, 8809.
73 P. rdeFsrect,VjirCus. $708.75.
44 Coohran :sac ad, Chester co . 880969.
25 John Toed. Chester co., 38.e9 25.
90 Mooney & Smith. Ohio. 87.5008,7 s.
134 B. Seldomridge Ohio. 88.39,
5.5 Ault & Vnelter:Peuneylv4l,lA. 317e9
16 Coate & Trainor, Checlck co.. 875008. P
51 Sutton & Seymour, Virginia. 53.10n9 o.
15 ft. Neely, Cheett; 87m8.75.
58 Fuller & Broa reun•ylvamis. ar. 9
45 Chandler Alexander. Cheetek .„_„.
19 JohnCd . fp. Founsylvauis,
17 Fisher, Delaware, $4e4.50,
D Sento:l3l, Delaware, elaop , o ;
Marents. $3 50.
15 J. Kaufman. renuartraVr
.1 Miler. Penneziyalle u r
. 4 6 '6
90950.
Tee rem:Pune 01 St 4so ,__s‘ e ii.s . large as meal tine
week. 0n1y_ra.,,,,a,m,,,mg2trY..3 10 ' 6 head et p rices ranging
from 434 to 30 ant' 4. as to oonation
about L'o'" Anreed and sold at from $25 to 5189
bead, aocordins to 4 .; jity
.529 Kok! 50 14 1 ,' the Aveime Drove-yard, at from
$707.50 v net.
lit° artivat llogs at
lend. Imhoff . ' Union Drove
yard reooemi a b ut 1.227 ,at prtces ranging from
87 to 8} 58.# 'OKI Ms, net, accordin; to quality.
- -
Markets by Telegraph.
_. ll .ti.Tllionn Deo M.—Flour firm; Howard and Ohio
U6lO. - CityMill.46. Che at firm; red 91a/
whito $16001.61 Corn ste ady ; new yellow .:0 66041 c.
Priwieiona inner. Meg! Pork l)112S. Lard 100. Coffee
wady at 190;;33. ightskr nominal at 1 90.
at i laz l iTl i ft tagrnr43 - 3,47,;, steady st 404*. -.
lasses sells at 330240, 1' her advancing ; Mee at 19149
MB 6211. Corn active at 61075 0 . York buoyant at 4160
LS TS. Freithte on Cotton to Liverpool alightly ad -
towed, being quoted at 11.163 ; on liarral6-16m
CINCINNATI,Deoember M.—Flour—Tim foreign ed •
vices caused greater Summate; sales at 41.6004.611.
Whisky declined; rake at 13310. Hoge dull; a large.
number were offered. SA fil
O were sold at ikftlelt le, trte
atter once for eytre large. Remote of the week SO,-
OW. Mere Fork dull at 9184 Lard 90.