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lIATURUAY, JANUARY 5, 1861
LITERATURE
LIFE IN THE OLD WORLD; OR, TWO YEARS IN
SWITZERLAND AND ITALY. By FREI/ERMA
BREMER. Translated by Mary Hewitt, 2 vole. Phi
2'. B. Peterson ¢ Brnt hers.
A. notice, accompanying this work, tolls us
that it is to issued in advance of its publication
in England." On the contrary, it was pub
lished in England, by Hurst & Blackett, on the
first of December—five Weeks back. It is
quite true, however, thrt this American edi
tion was cc set up," from the translator's
manuscript. Moreover, the title, given by
the author and published in England, is
simply cc Two Years in Switzerland and
Italy." The American publisher has no
right to alter this to cc Life ih this did
World." This practice of changing titles,
which We retently reprehended when noticing
Mrs. Browning's last volume of poems, issued
by Messrs. Francis, of New York, must be dis
countenanced. It Is not fair, either to the
public or to authors.
Miss Bremer's two years in Switzerland and
Italy were from 1856 to 1858, inclusive. The
first volume, in which she relates cc her
travel's history" in Switzerland, In by tar the
most Interesting and inhtraCtfie. Truth to
say, it Is the test account of Switzerland, its
people, and its scenery, that has been pub
lished for many years—certainly since J. F.
Cooper's book upon the same subject. Tho
old lady, in this volume, is garrulous and ge'
nial, sketching scenery in a sew graphiC 'Sen
tences, and photographing character with
equal rapidity and effect. The second volume,
devoted to her Italian journeyings, is much in
ferior. It is spun out by improbable heart
stories which she calls cc romantic opt
sodes"—wholly out of place, and so evidently
worked up, by the novelist's pen, that ono
knows not how much of them may be Dole.
A "romantic episode" to mawkish and
strained an the adVentuh's of the cc Princess
Elsa" and her lovers sent us to bed, yawning.
Moreover, there seems to be terrible book
making in this volume—pages of quotations
from Neander and other writers, and oven
Pompeii has its description eked out by seven
pages from Pliny's letter to Tacituo, de
scribing the conflagration which destroyed it.
Like ether bid Wellie r n who write books,
Miss Itreihed . ha's a hobby. Here it is Polemi
cal Controversy, wearily occupiag one half
of the volume which she devotes to Italy.
She reports long conversations on religion
with such suspicious particularity as to favor
the presumption that she draws upon her In
vention rather than her Memory ; , and, a's
Might be expected, Whether the talks with
Pope or Cardinal, `Carmelite or Abbess,—
tqerner invariably has the best of the
argument. In Switzerland and Belgium, she
is moderately Protestant, but almost bellige
rently so in Italy. Her literary reputation
obtained her a good reception in Rennin
society, and she seems to hate abused it, by
perpetually intruding her religious opinions,
on all tecasions. She must have been a ter
rible bore to the well-bred Romans. Here Is
part of her description of her interview with
the Pope
Madame de M. told am that Madame -----
celebrated for bar talent in teb% - orting t'roteatanto.
the had `tont'llried to the Catholic Church more
than sixty persons, partly in France, partly in
Rome.
I bad now so often said, " t will ask the Pope!"
that I myself became rather prisms an to what his
answer would be, and I resolved to make my joke
earnest I bfid always regarded Pio Nono as an
unusually liberal Catholic ; and his amiable ap.
pearance, ae well as his liberal sympathies, which
be avowed at the time of his ascending the pontifi
cal throne, had won my heart. For these and other
reasons, t was glad to have an opportunity of a
nearer view of Pie None.
I preferred my request for en altdienoli through
our kind and ever-benevolent and polite Scandi
navian consul, Cavalier° Bravo And two days
afterwards, early in the morning, 1 received a
4 ommand to go that came day to the Vatican. The
printed letter by which this was communicated
contained also directions as to how I was to be
dressed—namely, in black silk with a veil. At
four o'clock, accordingly, last Sunday ofternoon,
was In the saloon of the Vatican, to which I was
introduced by a young page in a seatlet•silk dress.
In a spacious room, ornamented by two large pie.
turns, several ladies and some gentlemen wpth
seated, waiting for their sagrams, they also hay.
ing requested ail. ienoeM The Pope on Sunday
afternoon givers addiences, especially to ladies, who
ilb allayed, however, to be accompanied by their
husbands or eons. We waited about an hour. I
contemplated the two largo pictures which coon.
pied two whole walls of the apartment. They were
paintings of a middling quality, representing the
revelation of l'lnsmacotata, Vcrgine to Pio
Nono, and of his solemn announcement of this
dogma in the Church of St. Peter's.
The persons waiting in the room were called in
to the Pope in the order in which they had arrived.
They went in by twos or threes at a time. I was
summoned to enter alone, as I had come.
Before entering the Pope's room, I had to wait
in
yet a little while a well lighted corridor, where
two oardinala politely took charge of me. The
eldest, still young a handsome, fair, very tall
gentleman, with quite a worldly appearance under
the ecclesiastical cloak and cap (Monsignor° de
Merode), talked about my writings, with which I
am sure that he was only acquainted from a oriti.
cal notice of them , which has lately appeared in
French paper, the Consttiutionnel
He supposed that 1 was a " Catholic ?"
I replied in the negative.
"Oh I but you mast bedoine One. You must be
!converted ; you must not stop half-way ! A lady
such as you"—and so on.
He was interrupted by the summons to the Pope.
I entered, attended by Monsignore de Merode,
who knelt at the door and left me alone with " His
Holiness." I saw at the farther end of an oblong,
light, and very simply-furnished room, a man of a
stout but handsome_figure, standing at a writing
table, dressed in a leng white garment, with soar
lot lapels and cap. I made one low curtsey at the
door, another in the middle of the room, in obedi
ence to the Pope's sign to me to advance, and yet
third as I approached him and took my stand on
the same little carpet with him, which I did in ao
conform) with his friendly indication of his will.
(For such persons as do not kneel to the Pope are
required by the ceremonial to make three curtseys
or bows )
The portraits of the Pope are in general like
Liar ; but his full, short, and broad countenance
has, when seen more nearly, less expression of
kindness and considerably more of self-will and
temper than the portraits exhibit. The glance of
the blue eye is lively, but not profound, and is
defioient in earnestness. The complexion and
physique generally indicate the beg, of health, a
good appetite, and a good cook.
The Pope oast his eye on a written paper which
he hold irt his hand ; and having inquired about
my country and place of residence, added, " You
have written somewhat ?"
Myself --Yes, your Holiness ; novels of domestic
life, more properly'desoriptions of Ills, but in the
form of novels.
Tho Pope.—But you are a Catholic ?
Myself.—No, your IlolineEa, not a Roman Ca
Motto.
The Pope —Then you must become one. There
le ne completeness or consequence out of the Ca
tholic Church.
Myself —Permit roe, your ilolinees, to ash a
question ?
So she proceeds, through several pages, to
badger His Holiness. His concluding words
convey a lesson which might have convoyed a
lesson and reproof to this theological old maid.
He said «I will tell you something. Pray !
pray for light from the Lord,—lor grace to
acknowledge the truth,—because this is the
only Means of attaining to it. Controversy
Will de no good. In controversy is pride and
self-love. People, In controversy, make a
parade of their knowledge,—of their acute_
nose,—and, after all, every ono continues to
hold his own views. Prayer alone gives
light and strength for the acquirement of the
truth and grace. Pray every day, every
night before you go to rest, and I hope that
graco and light may be given to you ; for God
wishes that we should humble ourselves, and
He gives grace to the humble. And now,
God bless and keep you, for time and oter.
nity !"
There is more good souse and unaffected
piety in these words than we have been able
to find in Miss Bremer's two volumes.
Having thus freely animadverted on the
radical defects of Miss Bremer's now book,
we may repeat that in description, though
sometimes not quite accurate, she writes with
spirit and. success. Skip tho religions twad
dle, and the book will amuse and inform you.
—Major Anderson is said to have written to the
War Department that Fort Sumpter in in every way
tenable; that (although one of the &sterns evi
dently leaks, and admits enough salt water to
make the contents braokish) there will be no want
of water or food ; that by husbanding the fuel they
ban cook their provisions, and, in short, that they
can defend themselves in their stronghold.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1861.
Our Now York Letter.
BANKRUPTCIES IN 1860 MERCANTILE AtENtliErl :
NUMBER OF STORES IN thil b. B.—AbbIIE . PATE
tit PAILUREFI IN FIVE YEARS—CURIOUS PACT
'CONNECTED WITH THE STOLEN PONDS—POLICE
STATISTICS.
ICorresnondonoe.ol The Pressj
NEW YonK, January 4, 1560.
I have just glanced through a curious airoular,
issued by Dun, Boyd, Co., proprietors of a mer
cantile agency in this city, with branches in six
teen of the principal cities of the Union. ono in
London, ono in Montreal, and one in Toronto•
These agencies are to the mercantile world what
detectives are to the pollee. They ferret out all
lame ducks and rogues; ascertain the pecuniary
condition of every person chgaged in selling
goods or any sort in every village and hamlet
in the country, and transmit it to head•
quarters here, whence copies are sent to the
branch emcee. The local agents of this great
agency are lawyers, who usually furnish in
formation gratis, but, by way of remuneration,
are generally employed to do collecting buainess
for the patrons of the agency, unless the parties
suing have counsel of their own. The nuthber of
fail tfroa reportlid during the nine months pre
ceding October was 3,076, with an indebtedness of
$45,332,138, and from October to January 852
failures, with liabilities to the amount of $38,-
687,633. Recent heavy suspensions are not in
cluded. They would augment the amount ma
terially. The total liabilities of those who failed
in 1860 foot up $84,010,771 against $68,367,000
for 1850. In reference to the Southern trade the
circular contains the following paragraph, which
I deem of sufficient interst to rilprodhca!
4 , the teivir tbS adeices which rotten us from
all points South warrants us in saying that no one
need doubt the honorable intentions of the South
ern merchant, and that his indebtedness will be
faithfully discharged as promptly as events permit.
There will be delay in settlement, but this delay
will riot arise from any premeditated clause or pre
sent desire , to postpone payment. The reoltunit
lions on cotton last spring and at pfesent, have
had their influence in producing a stringent money
market. For some two or three months during
the spring, there was an average loss of $7 50 per
bale on all the cotton shipped. This loss had to
bo met mainly by bank accommodation, and this
has compelled renewals in full of accommodation
paper through all the Southern bank centres.
This has in a measure diverted the banking capi
tal from business circles generally ; prevented the
moving of crops; arid, in fact, stagnated capital
and paralysed business Added to this, want of
confidence, engendered hy the Preeent political
crisis, will, readily aboicr that a very general exten
sion will bo needed by Southern merchants,•and,
as we think, safely given."
The number of stores in the United States on
the Ist of January, 1860, is stated to be 229,734.
The number of failures and amount of liabilities
from 1857 to 1860 inclusive, are as follows :
No. of failurcß. 'LAMAUtica.
1853. . .4 637.-- --. 100,187 671
1869 2 273.-- .... V 16r 109
.71
o'nl in four yeare.17,661 ,5:653,97.5 342
A curious fact wag developed yesterday in con
nection with tho Indian trust•fund embezzlement,
Application was made by Thempeou Brothers to
the United States Court to vacate the temporary
injunction against them as holders of some of the
bonds. In their affidavit it is set forth that they
had ono of the North Cantina bonds similtkr In
number to one of Plose alleged to have been stolen,
ant that it had been previously for tow years be
fore they purchased it in the possession of the
president of the Merchants' Bank. Query: How
did it get outof the Interior Department two years
ago?
The annual report of the Superintendent of
Police for the year ending November 1 has just
appeared in pamphlet form. It is filled with
teresting matter• toitcbing the organization, opera
tion!, and results of the present system. There
are in the city of New York 412/ miles of streets,
which gives to each patrolman an average of near
ly seven-cightbe of a mile over which he must do
patrol duty. Down town, however, tho distance
has been reduced in order to protoot the More valu
able and more exposed eomeacrelal houies. This
lengthened out the patrols torch to such an eir.-
lent that the recent addition of four hundred men
to the fovea became necessary. There are in the
city over eleven miles of piers, which era watched
by the harbor police. The total number of per.
cons arrested during the year was :
Males 57,953
Females 25,784
Total
Of these there were
Natives of the United States 18,419
Foreigners 63,318
There notild
Read and write " Atl2
Were married 41,162
I append a few curious statistics of the 3 , oar ;
Mores and dwellings found open and secured-. 2.335
Elms extnaguislied bypolieb -- • -- '72
1.1118005 reSened fr om drowning
Stray horses, &a., restored— 1,063
Hurt or sick parsons cared for. • 1,722
Deed bodies reported to comer 125
Abandoned infante.. ......
Lost Waldron restored to retreats.-- .. 6 al
seat to a1meh0u5e........ —...... 763
Destitute people 62,227
The pollee have recerered stolen troperty during
the four quarters, valued altogether at $0t,670.37.
The telegraph system, under the direction of its
:superintendent, Mr. Robinson, has proved an emi
nent success—over 100,000 messages having been
delivered. ItunoN.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
—Three companies of United States flying artil
lery are to bo onncentrated at or near Washington
on the occasion of the Inauguration of Mr. Lin
coln, and Gen Scott will superintend the necessa
ry arrangements for preserving order, in cam any
breach of the peace is attempted.
--The Independent suggests Major Anderson, of
Fort Sumpter, for Secretary of War under the new
Administration. A good many persons have thought
of hint in connection with that post.
—A oorrespoadant writes from Washington: "I
learn by private iettora that an eitort is making by
the merchants of Boston to raise terenty.five thou-
Sand dollars, to be presented to Governor N. P.
Ranks, to induce him td forego his engagement
with the Illinois Central Railroad, and continue in
polities. This is said to be a part of a programme
to induce him to take a place in Mr. Lincoln's
Cabinet, which there is no doubt ho could have it
be would take It.
—The Charleston Courier of Tuesday says:
" Wo understand that the several banks through
out the State wilt agree to take their respective
proportions of the State loan of four hundred
thousand dollars authorized at the present session
of the Legislature for the military defence of the
State " We have seen is stated in letters from
Charleston that this loan has not beau voluntarily
subscribed, but apportioned by the State authori
ties amongst the banks and most wealthy citizens.
It is the first loan authorized for military pur
poses.
—Chain, the clover Parisian caricaturist, is
making himself very merry with tho long range
weapons now so generally In vogue. According to
him the word of command on drill will be, !, At
tention ! Fpy glasses ! Fire !" The new wea
pons enabling tho hostile armies to fight at great
distances ; the vanquished army will be summoned
by telegraph to surrender, and a victorious hero
returned from the battlefield, and recounting
tho events of the campaign, when interrogated
respecting the personal appearance of the people
against whom ho has been fighting, will be obliged
to confess his inability to satisfy the curiosity of
his hearers upon this point, as, though he saw the
fire, he was quite out of sight of the enemy.
Captain Abner Doubleday, second in com
mand at Port Sumpter, was born at Balston Spa,
New York, in 189, entered West Point in 1818,
and graduated in 1842 11e served gallantly in
Mexico and Florida, till 1858, when ha wee sent
to Fort Moultrie.
--The Charleston Courier of Tuesday' etatea
that on the preceding day a corps of riflemen,
formed•from the membership of the Vigilant Piro
Company, mot at their engine-house, and, after
enlisting In the service of the Commonwealth for
one year, were marched to the Commercial wharf,
and were there embarked on board the steamer
Excel for secret Hervice. The company numbered
nine five men, rank and file, and were clad in an
undress uniform of homeepun•oloth, trimmed with
rod. This is the germ, we suppose, of the regular
army of South Carolina.
—The best understanding &Cots between Secre
tary Holt and (ion. Soott, no tho former very pro
perly defers to the experience of the latter on
military matters, and does not attempt to sot up
an arbitrary standard of hie own, as Messrs. Davis
and Floyd did, in utter disregard of his views or
recommendations.
—Captain Gossett, surveying hind in British
Columbia, advooates the use of balloons for that
purpose, to avoid mountain gorges.
—Walter Savage Lander, the British poet, who
was banished Irons his country, and fined for libel
ing a lady some years sines, has now been disoor
vexed libelling a clergyman by moans of matte.
bearing no printer's name.
—Mr. Ash. W. Carr, through the Union Springs
Ihrald, challenges any person In the Stain, of his
weight, to compote with him on skates. He con•
alders himself champion of the heavy weights, and
stands ready to make good his claim, against all
comers.
—Lord Clyde, tato Sir Conn Campbell, and tho
Duke of Cambrige, recently honored a tailor's ball
with their presence. Verily, the goose is getting
up in the world.
—Rev. J. E. Grammer, rector of tho Episcopal
Church, in Smyrna, Dol. has accepted a call to a
church In Oolmbue, Ohio.
RELIGIOtJS.
06ervItnee of the PTt►ttoniii hst )ay
In a large number—we presume a majority—of
our churches yesterday (the day appointed by the
Chief Alpgietrate of the nation for that purpose)
was, in some way, elaservbd by religions assem
blies. Whether the fast was kopt with strictness
to an'y extent, beyond the usual hour of the morn
ing meal, we are unable to say, though it is proba
ble that light breakfasts and heartier dinners pro.
vatted; inasmuch as this is about as much se mo
dern religious fasts amount to under the most fa
vorable eircomstances. The rest of the items em
braced in the President's recommendations, we
have reason to believe, elicited a more general ro
sponse. In many places of worship there were
preaching services, either in the morning or after
noon, though in more there wore only congrega
tional meetings for prayer Among the latter
class were the major portion of Baptist and Mettle
pist, Episcopal aunties, whilst in the Presbyterian
and Episcopal ohurchee preaching was more
enel'6.l
At St. Stephen's Church, Tenth street, below
Market, there was a sermon preached by the
rector, Dr. Dacaohet, in the morning, at 11, and
a meeting for prayer at 4 in the afternoon.
Dr. DucacheVs Sermon.
The text selected by Rev. Dr. Ducsachet, as the
subject of his discourse, was the that and second
Versos of the second chapter of ,Ted, to wit :
"Rlow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an
aletro in, my holy mountain I let all the inhabi
tants in the land tremble; for the day of the Lord
cometh, for it is nigh at hand: a day of darkness
and gloominess, a day of clouds and think dark-.
Re said that, in obedience to the call of the
Chief Magistrate of these United States, they, as
citizens and as Christian men, had come together
for, the purpose of Making a pitblia confession of
their individual and national sins, and to implore
God to turn away the well-earned judgments of
Almighty God. Re trusted that, throughout the
Republic, , men would .to.day assemble in •their
churches far a similar purpose. Re believed no
measure could be more appropriate to our present
cironmstances than that for which this day bad
teen set apart. It was, indeed, a day of gloomi
ness, of clouds, and of thief( darimess and what
was P 3 be the lite.° God only !Inew. lie alone
could protect and save us, and it was right, there
fore, to prostrate ourselves before Rim; for who
could tell but that the Lord would yet be gracious
Mato :us, and accept the repentance which was to
be this day manifested. lie trusted, in view of
this, that they came together with something more
than mere words
Taking up the speotal topics of hie theme, he
said that if ever there was a time when the, truth
rhould be plainly told, and honestly reeeivZd, that
time woe now. The prophecy which be had read
as his text,.reforred to a condition of the prophet's
country similar to our own at the present moment,
a time of darkness and gloom. None could he so
blind, ho said, no not to know that an alarming
oriels was upon us Some indeed laughed, and
predicted a speedy deliverance from our threatened
diffoulties, but this wtr sheer folly. As yet, we
hadoap seell the dim hieltering of the lightning's
glare, ominous of the coming sterns.
: Ife felt that he was called upon to speak out
rdldly (spoken with intense feeling). Everywhere
elee hearts were failing them from fear of ap
pteaohing calamities. The demon of discord was
abroad, sowing the seeds of strife and of faction.
Mad who, he caked, could wonder at this state of
things? Our brethren (at the South) had been
deohly Fasitked oy harangues and unlawful sta
tutes, at well as from Northern pulpits, and by
Mountebank lecturers—the latter often being
paid for their work. No wonder, under these oft
oumetances, that our brethren felt that the day of
their happiness in the Union was pant ! lie called
his congregation to witness that throughout hie
long ministry among, them, he had never insulted
thbat by bringing politica into the pislpit, and if
ho understood himself, he never would disgrace
his place and its functions by doing so. What he
said now was general, end not partisan in its pur
port. Tho more question of slavery was not the
whole of our present.troublee There Were causes far
back of this, whioh, if so disposed he could easily
name, but he feltithat tho present was no time for re
crimination. Great things were at hand ; perhaps
mournful thing!.
But there were chareeterietioa in our present
dlilleulties which ehowod that we had a Centro
verify with God himself. This was even in the
prostrate condition of affairs in our commercial
cities. !lore the speaker drew a oomparieen be
tween. the Piesident nod the King of /Nineveh, C, hd
came :Gaa frets the throne, threw off his purple,
and cut down in sackcloth and ashes. Our duty,
under the circuit:Mateo, was, to heed these admo
nitions of Providence, and forsake the iniquities
by which they had been invoked.
....83,737
Sermon by Dr. %Vodsivorth.
At the Arih•street Drezih,teriab Church, Aroh
street, above Tenth, tho Rev. Charles Wadsworth,
D. D., preached a tormon, at 11 in the morning,
from these words:
" Who oan tell if tied will turn and repent, and
tarn away from His fierce anger, that wa perish
not." Jonah iii : 9.
There was a very largo attendance, the house
being entirely filled. After a most earnest, elo•
quest, and comprehensive prayer, the speaker
commenced his discourse with an introductory al
lusion to the Scriptural authority for observing
fasts. Ho said that the duty of observing fasts, in
times of great national peril, was plainly taught
in the Bible ; in confirmation of which, ho re
ferred us to variona Oases In the hi'tory of God's
dealings with both Jewish and Gentile natlono.
He held, therefore, that the appointment of such a
day by the President bad all the force of DEvine
sanction. It was, moreover, cheering . to every
pious heart to see such a general acknowledgment
of our national sine. But, for this national fast
day to bribg the desired blessing, It lust be all
that it pretends to be. Gcd would tolerate no de
ception in this matter. We must not come to
gether to consider the sins of other people and
overlook our own. Such hypoorlay and self•right
eousness would onlj , serve to increase the Divine
displeasure.
It sometimes happened that the sin which was
not in itself the greatest, woe made the occasion of
punishment of a great number of sine, and it was
for such that we were now afflicted Here the
speaker briefly recounted the statistics of the do
cologne, and the flagrant mariner in which every
one of them had been, and was now being, violated
throughout the length and breadth of our country;
until today we stood like a drunken giant with
our face against God, and our hearts hardened by
unpunished iniquity. The fact that God only
punishes nations in this world was here inter
woven with striking force. Taking up the imme
diate cause of the troubles which surround us he
said that none could be so unlilnlosophioal as not
to see that it was our actions and attitude, in ono
way or another, with reference to the subject of
slavery, that had brought all this evil upon us.
For his own part, he had no sympathy with those
(however honest they 'night be) who said that our
present national calamities are God's judgment
upon slavery itself. If this were true, then, in
deed, it was time for the poeyle to rise up and put
it out of existence ; but It was not true.
loast-Day Services at St. Matthew's
Lutheran Claud', New Street.
A large audience assembled, last evening, in the
New-street Lutheran Ohurob, of which Rev. E.
W. Nutter is the pastor. The meeting wits rather
ono for humiliation and prayer, than for preach.
In. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Butter, presided, and
introduced the services with singing, and the
reading of the 9th chapter of Daniel, containing
that prophet's memorable confession and prayer,
in view of the manifold shortcomings and trans
gressions or Israel. After loading in a fervent
and impressive prayer, Rev. Mr. Button re
marked, without Meeting any particular text,
that he bad been not a little perplexed, in his own
mind, whether to say anything on this occasion.
We have read of a "wise and masterly inns
tivity," and he believed there were occasions when
we might, with propriety, observe a " wise and
masterly eilenee.' The public, however, expect
ministers, on those occasions, to take the lend in
counsel and exhortation,
and it was only to meet
this expectation that he had obtained the consent
of his own mind to offer these remarks, as be pre
ferred that the day bo spent mainly In prayer.
Sermons are addressed to carte, whereas prayers
aro addressed to God, We have had, perhaps, too
much of the one, and too little, certainly, of the
other.
Observances such no wo aro engaged in this hour,
in obedience to the recommendation of the Chief
Magistrate of the country, aro of great antiquity.
Tho chosen people of God, as we have heard from
the Scripture reading, engaged in them with great
forvonoy. And never a nation in the revolving
tido of time has had greater reason for humiliation
and prayer than wo of these United States Tho
sun, in his course through the heavens, does not
shins upon a more favored lend Separated from
the wars and commotions of the Old World by wide
oceans—with a climate so diversified as to be
adapted to almost every peculiarity of constitu
tion, and yielding a variety of products—with the
amplest educational facilities, the most 11EITO•
striated commerce, prosecuted by the moat ener
getic mon—a voluntary church—and a most excel
lent and benign form of government, we can truly
say God bath not dealt so with any nation."
Ito bath dropped fatness upon our paths, and the
very clouds of heaven have been to us an over
flowing born of plenty.
And yet we aro rent, and torn,
and distraoted,
and, assomo seem to think, on the very verge of
intestine war. Who is to blame? I am not here
as a partisan to decide My impression is wo are
all to blame; North, South, East, and West. We
have all forsaken God, and aro dipping buckets
in Pliiindelphut
into ifrolien &Rend, bringing nothing tip. Here
there ate no vitgip innobenta to oast either first
Or second stidnes. We arein like condemnation on
both eideZ of Makin , and Pipit, for whatever oleo
Is sectional, forgetfulnesS of Plod and His mercies
and benefits, is unquestionably national.
The main cause of this obliviousness of the Di
vine mercy, unquestionably,has been our prospe
rwi. ilesburun hat waled fat, and kicked., Like
Adam from the plastic hand of God, and Jupltet
from the head of Minerva, we sprang into the ma
turity of a perfeot character at a single bound,
nod attained suddenly to the elevation to which
other nations have attained only by painful and
laborious degrees. And now, as prosperity has
only served to pamper us with pride, God is evi
dently employing the medicine of correction, by
tending upqn our nation deep and bitter adversity.
130 he tried the ohildten of Israel, whoa allotments
were a perfect barometer of their allegiance, or
otherwise, to God. When they forsook God, God
forsook them; and so it is with us, and with every
other nation on the globe. We can no more expect,
as a nation, to endure and prosper, forgetful of the
Divine precepts, than an individual can hope to
remain healthy and strong. who lives in the habi
tual violation of the rules of temperance and chas
tity. And if this fiery ordeal, through which the
nation is passing, is thus sanctified to our national
good, then may we, like David of old, thank God,
there for our afflietiope than for our mercies; sine°
the former will have worked oxt fot ue a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."
In conolusion,Rev. Mr. Matter reiterated the sen
timents of joyous and cheerful trust, expressed on
Thanksgiving Day. In the valley of Aohor, other
wise called the " Valley of Trouble," God opened
to the children of Israel the " door of Hope."
From the first, this nation has been the nurseling
of God's providence, and the recipient of His su
perabundant goodness, and surely he will not for
sake us now, leaving our mission unfulfilled.
Under his guidance and favor t the good old Stun
STATR will yet outride the billows in safety. As
a duty of Practical life, however, which none of us
can evade, forbearing crimination and recrimina
tion, we must all rally, as one man, to the standard
of the Law and the UNION. The right of the ma
forily to govern, when exercised under the sanc
tion of law and, the Constitution, is the " vital ele
ment of It republic Von papa?, von Dei, is true
in an important minim. The voice of the people is
the voice of God. And they that resist it, " re•
ceive to themselves damnation." They that would
overturn this fair fabric, erected by so much toil,
and treasure, and blood, are TRAITORS, and de
serve a traitor's doom. Our prayer to God is, that
he may give them speedy repentance, lest they fill
up the measure of their iniquity to the brim, and
reap the fruit of their own folly.
After singing a few appropriate hymns, and the
offering up of several prayers by laymen of the
congregation, the audience dispersed, highly grail-
Led witii the criereiCes of the atening.
A Sermon Delivered by Rev. Reuben
Jeffrey.
Yesterday morning the congregation of the
Third Baptist Church, corner of Fifth and But
tonwood streets, celebrated the " Day of National
Devotion" by a sermon from the pastor, Rev.
Reuben Jeffrey. The Revs. J. Hyatt Smith and
Winston ,assisted in the services. An efficient
choir made beautiful innliS, and tho sermon was
followed by the national air, sung by full voices
and the deep-lunged organ, of the " Star Spangled
Banner."
The Hoy. gentleman seleoted a passage of
Scripture frt in the 60th Pealna
" Give ea help from trouble, for vain to the italp of
man."
Mr. Jeffrey stated at length the circumstances
of the occasion. They met, in common with great
multitudes of American Christians, to confess their
national shortcominga, and to humble themselves
therefor before God, to implore him to save the
land from desolation, for the day of distress hod
come upon them, It was truly a time of cals.
Laity. Gloom had covered the aides, and wrath,
long impending, seamed about to burst. Tho arm
of enterprise wee palsied ; men of means wore
husbanding their resources, and the cry for bread
had already begun its dismal plaint from the ha
bitations of the poor. The high counsels of the
nations were, futile as foolishness, and the land
stood divided ag,aPist itself, stricken from strength
to shivering, and from confidence to fear.
There had been national humbleness before, but
not like this. Pestilence had stalked abroad, and
the nation's hand was lower than its knee. But
to day's sorrow was greater than such. There had
been financial oriole, and sorrow thereby; today,
sliver was plenteous as atones; yet the hopes of
the people were poorer than barrenness. The
land had known, in older days, tyranny and op
pression: but behold, the people walk abroad un
gyved and free, yet sorrowful and sad of brow.
Alas ! therS Was a gtinfons fate loyvering upon
the sky. Tho roar of cannon from the far•off Ce
lestial City had floated over the sea, And Christian
Americans trembled in the conseiousness that
such aocents were prophetio of a civil war, euoh as
the people of our own land never know before.
Unlike that ancient people, we feared no foreipn
foe. The trouble was internal; of our own foment
ing ; summoned by the madness of sectional and
phtisnihropie fanaticism, and the foundation of the
whole Republic was quivering.
The greatest civil experiment which the world
ever now woo threatened with disgraceful failure;
despotio mon wore about to hail the annihilation
of the Republio with triumph, and the ship of
State rode on a stormy sea.
Mr. Jeffrey here drew a vivid picture of the
nation, in the similitude of a etranding'ahip. Ono
spar had already floated away, and others were
starting from their sockets ; the nag overhead no
longer streamed with ail the symbols intact, and
there w/19 no man of all the stricken crew to
guide the craft with safety.
bush danger was the result of conspiracy ; for
the mon of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusa•
loin were plotting together.
Deny as no might, the movement of dissolution
had boon inaugurated. There wore those who
beds* Contemplated destruction, who had formed
the roeolution , and hid gobs no far in the matter
that they were incapable of receding. ''wo, al
ternatives alone seemed to remain: peaceful se
cession, or mar for coercion
From either alternative the heart of the patriot
shrunk back with repugnance, and horror lay like
a reptile upon either result. From the battle
fields of an earlier year, the voices of the fathers
came over to us. The hollow tones of these spas,
tre men adjured us to prolong what they establish.
ad, and that consecrated Ilall of Independence be
same populous with those great names, who staked
their lives for our happiness and the eternal welfare
of the land.
The reverend gentlemen's description at this
point was most telicitous. He declared, in the
imaginative language of the departed, that dis
union must not be. Wo wore a great brotherhood,
divided into States but to secure common happi
ness, and knowing no blessing which dissolution
would not go fat' to destroy, Our social arrange
nients, our religious and philanthropic associations,
were based upon the porpotuity of the American
Union, and all divers interests were to be assimi
lated in the common Congress.
Mr. Jeffrey than addressed the Chosen Friends'
Lodge of Odd Follows, some seventy in number,
congregated by order in the front pews of the
(thumb. Their assooiation comprehended the good
of man, but its practical charities had been
wrought out under the Confodoraoy, and the name
of Odd Fellows was indissoluble from that of
" American."
The hopes of humanity were all with the Union.
The down•troddon, who looked afar upon it as a
place of refuge, regarded every token of its down
fall with terror; and despotism knew that when its
star wont out the whole sky would be covered with
thick darkness.
As an abstract question, the right of the Govern
ment to protect itself from treason, within and
without, did not admit of an honest difference of
opinion. But were the people prepared to wage
war with their brethren?
What painter could Ox upon canvass the revolt
ing and bloody picture of such a war No song
could verse it; no tongue declare it; husbands
and sons slain in the cities, and in every valley
the moan of the birds of boding War itself sick
ened at such butchery, and the angels of mercy
hid their faces in grief. We are not, said the
speaker, cowards, at either North or South, but
brothers everywhere
If oven war should subdue the South, would the
union of feeling be restored? Animosities, thus
subdued, would be only intensified into permanent
hate. What should be done? Should disaffection,
uninterrupted, grow up to treason, and treason
ripen to rebellion? Should traitors vaunt their
falsity in open Congress, end should the President
take his teat with the knife and the bayonet for.
Over at his heart?
AU eyes were upon Charleston harbor, and
should a single drop of blood fall upon its masonry,
the valleys of the North would be 'bristling with
arms. Lot a single man of that Spartan band fall
by the bands of tho Seceders, and the civil strife
would start from angry inactivity into active re.
" Flgguld the North still make concession'? There
were many sober men who despaired of such a me
dium for pesos. To concede would be but to defer
difficulty. Those who had acted up to honest con
victions had nothing to regret. It had been said
that Pennsylvania and the North had violated Con
stitutional guarantees. Alight not the North,
with more or equal reason, hurl back the
accusation? Tho North had nothing to
repent. It appealed to the civilized world, to the
philanthropy of the bunion rase, for the legitima
cy of its position. The South mistook the North.
The latter did differ with their brethren, but had
disobeyed no compact and no provision. Any at
tempt to provent the inauguration of the President
elect would be worthy of the traitor's doom. Thom
who denied his right to the Chief Magistraoy were
traitors; those who feared the consequences of
inauguration wore cowards
No court of law had dooided that the North had
violated the Constitution. The charge against the
honor of Pennsylvania, the speakiir believed to
be unfounded ; if it bad any foundation in truth,
let the obnoxious ordinances be repealed at once.
The speaker would add his voice to no admission
of the treason or wrong-doing of the North. 110
quoted from Governor Packer's message, as indi
cative of the attitude of Pennsylvania. Rio State
stretched a fraternal, nay, a supplicating hand
toward the South. Would the South hear its plea?
After thus delinoating with great fidelity, the
mutual interests of the sections in the Union, he
drew with equal attention to detail a picture of
disunion, and adverted to the impossibility of
human effort to adjust the question. God alone
held the book of fate. What was left in reserve
for America no human judgment know. Prayer
and supplication which had availed before, might
again move the heart of the omnipotent Ruler of
nations ; and, with his approbation,
" Long may the star-spangled banner otill wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
The Noon.Dny Prayer Meeting.
In conecquence of numerous other religions ser
vices, the Noon•dny Business Union Prayer Meet
ing woe appointed to bo hold at 121 o'clock, in
stead of at 12. The church (Ransom street, below
Ninth) was never more thoroughly filled. The
chair, on this occasion, was occupied by Mr P.
Simone, who, after malting a short Introductory
address, setting forth the special objects of the
meeting, stated that he hoped persons present who
TWO CENTS.
Were in the beta of participating frequently In
these meotingd, would give way, to tome extant, to
strangers, of whom there were a large number in
attendance.
The Rev. Dr. Cooper rose and said that the hour
should be spent in prayer. They all knew per
fectly well the causes of the troubles that had
brought them together,
and they knew also tole=
alone they could, go for deliverance, and it wee
therefore tilting that the boar should be spent in
prostrating 'themselves lidera God in importunate
prayer.
This request was acted upon, and the entire hour
was spent in solemn prayer and praise. The con
gregation were dismissed with a benediotion by the
Rev. J. Wheaton Smith.
The Rev. T. W. Craoraft, Rector of the Church
of IThe Epiphany, preached an eloquent sermon
froth tae tett:
" I exhort therafo:'e, that, first of all, supplica•
tions, prayers, interocasio'ne, std giving of thanks,
be made for all men ;—for iingd,,and for oil that
aro in authority; that we may lead a cluiet and
peaceable life in all godliness and honesty."—
Tim. ii. 1,2 v.
At the Central Presbyterian Church, N. S.,
Coates street, below Fourth, a sermon was
preached, yesterday morning, by . Rev George
Duffield, from the text Isaiah vin, 11.44 "For
the Lord epako thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed the that 1 should not walk in the way of
this people, saying
" Say ye not, A confederattg; tis all of them to
whom this people shall say, a confederacy; neither
fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
" Panotify the Lord of hosts himself, and let
him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
" And he shall bo for a sanotuary ; hut for a
stone of atumbling and for a ,rock of offence to
both the houses oflsrael, for a gin, and for a snare
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem."
This discourse ,was& resume of our national his
tory, Rim the time of the colonization down to
the present eta, ,ie4 was divfded into five heads,
as follows :
1. Oar National Merotes. •
2. Our National Sins.
3 Our National Judgments.
4 Oar National
5 Our 'National Duties.
Each of these divisions was elucidated at tenth.
A parallel was drawn betsvc6n our individult sins
and the visitation of national judgtrients. Under
the first division of the sermon was enumerated
the great revivals that visited tbiknation from the
of -its fermation.downJo the Lootoat „rev!.
val of 1858. Then the reverend gen tl eman diu
coursed at length upon the sins of nation..
The first sin was that of ingratitude. "God was
loft out of the Constitution, which does not even so
much as recognize Ria being," and, as Dr. Mason
says, "Does not aohnowledgJi that we own a God
at alt." Tha nin of infidelity was also inoluded
under this heading, the speaker asserting that, from
the sowing of the dr:Satin's teeth, we ere now be
ginning to reap the Cadmean harvest. The viola.
tion of the Sabbath day, by the trAnsportatlon
mails, was also considered as having a significant
bearing upon the second division of his sermon.
The sins of cannery and murder were also
touched upon.
Rev. A A Reinke of the Moravian Church,
coiner Franklin and Wood streets, preaohed to a
very attentive find deeply interested congregation
a very earnest sermon, from the te*t i "It is not
by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, aaith the
Lord."
The speaker represented that we had forsaken
the good old path in which our fathers trod, and
bad trusted in our own might, and had forsaken
the Lord, who bad suffered these evils to come
upon us, so that we should tarn again to Rim, on
whom alone we should depend, and from whom we
had received all our national and individual 13lees
logs. lie traded our present difficulties to wrongs
on the part of the Rorth, as Well as the South, and
recommended brotherly concessions on Voth sides.
The North should not rail at the South on ac-
count of her institutions; but as they existed there
when the Union was formed, they should bo tole
rated, and sooner or later our Southern brethren
would feel slavery to be an evil, and by our coun
sel and assistance we should aid them to get rid of
it. Ito deprecated a resort to arms, as that would
only widen the breach, and separate the hearts of
the North and South, without a union of which
there could bb no political Union
A largo audiSnce EsseMbled is the church on
Raoo street, near Fifth, to hear a eormott from Rev,
Mr. Seise Ms text was Matthew ill, "And
now, also, the axe is laid at the root of the tree,
therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good
fruit is hewn down and oast Into the fire."
The Presbyterian church, corner of Broad and
hansom street, was crowded to overflowing at the
hour for opening the exercises. Every seat on the
main floor and in the galleries had its occupant,
and there were many persons standing. The
pastor, the Bev. John Chambers, occupied the
pulpit, and preached from tho subjoined text,
found in the seventh chapter of Jeremiah :
"The word that same to Jeremiah saying,
"Stand in the gate of the Lord l s house, and
proclaim thore this word, and say, near the word
of the Lord, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these
gates to worship the Lord.
" Thus saith the Lord of Moats, the God of Is
rael, Amend your ways and your doings, and I
will cause you to dwell in this place.
"Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The tem
ple of the Lord, The temple are them
"For if ye thoroughly athend poet ways and
your doings; if ye thoroughly e.teottto judgment
between a man and his neighbor ;
" If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless,
and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in
this niece, neither walk after other gods to your
tart;
" Then will # 0R469 yen to dwell in this place,
in the land that I gdvt ta your fathers, forever
and ever.—Versos 1-7.
The speaker, after announcing the tag, and
dwelling on its emphatic clauses, said that ft be
came the minister of the Gospel, at this period, to
stand in this groat Western gate—this temple of
tne Lord—this refuge of the oppressed of all
nations, and utter the words of the Lord in warn•
ing to the people. lie (the speaker) believed that
we stood on the very brink of a civil war.
The idea might tie laughed at, but this was no
time to laugh—" fools make a mock of sin ;" but it
becomes us to look with solemnity at this grave
matter—this probability of a civil war In a Country
whore mon scarcely know what fear means.
Ile then proceeded to show what, In view of the
crisis, a minister ought to preach to:our American
Israel, with its thirty-four tribes. The messenger
of the Lord ought to tell the people of their ways,
and beseeoh them to amend them as the Lord
saith. We thought the great cause of our present
peril lay in unauthorized religious teachings—in
the pharasaism which arrogates to itself all thevir
tue of the land. and in the corrupt and enigmatical
exegesis of portions of the Holy Scriptures.
The speaker thought God spoke to us to-day in
behalf of justice, and called upon us to amend our
blood-shedding ways, our ways of oppression, and
all other sins of national magnitude as committed
by States, cities, tonne, or townships; for lie af
firmed every command of the Deoalogue 111 this
day violated in every State, city, borough, and
even township of the Confederacy.
The speaker then took up the Ten Command- , 1
manta, one by one, and showed the guilt of the '
people. How we Americans worship other gods
than the true God ; how profanity and blasphemy
are rife; how the Sabbath is broken ; bow
"Young America" refuses due honor to parents
and the aged; how murder stalks abroad all over
the country; how (if we may believe what we say
of each other) we are but little better than a na
tion of thieves; how false witness is borne against
our neighbor! Yes, said the speaker, at present
there is almost a premium offered for the man who
will abuse and malign the President of the United
States and other high officials. The press teems
with false witness against our neighbors, and the
newspapers would lose more than half their circu
lation if they would tell nothing but the truth.
The speaker then showed how bribery and cor
ruption abound, to the defeat of justice ; how di
vorces are granted on un-scriptural and adulte•
rous grounds, and he had been told that the price
of a divorce was now only twenty dollars!
The institution of slavery has been blamed with
most of the evils that afflict the land, but the
speaker did not agree in the opinion that slavery
was the damning sin it was called. There wore
evils in the system, of (mum, just as there were in
other institutions Divinely created, (marriage, for
instance,) but the speaker thought it exceedingly
inconsistent for the oppenents of slavery to be wil
ling that it should exist in the old States and be
kept out of the Territories. This was absurd If
slavery was wrong it ought to be crushed out, just
like drunkenness or any other sin The morality
of this notion of ' 4 walling in " slavery was very
singular.
Mr Chambers discussed the other sins of our
country, and argued that we telk too much about
our own rig/as and not enough about our duties.
He thought free speech and a free press had their
limits. Within these limits they were a good
thing. In closing, he affectionately appealed to
his hearers to heed the words of the Lord if they
would purge themselves of sin and save their
country.
A number of eloquent sermons were also preach
ed at other churches, in all of which, with one or
two exceptiona, the present dangers that are now
threatening the country were alluded to, and in
some ca9os spoken upon at length.
—'Cho Herald correspondent thus writes from
Washington :
" The feature at the Capitol to day was the
speech of Judge Douglas, who followed Senator
Baker, of Oregon. The Little Giant' was never
in better voice, health or spirits, and his speech
was almost Websterion in its power, logio, and
eloquence Tho Republicans do not like it, be
-00.11.90 ho laid the present troubles at the doors of
the politicians of their party; and the Secessionists
do not speak favorably of it, because ho denied
the right of secession ; but the great mass of the
middle men, the centre and heart and main de
pendence of the country in the hour of danger,
applaud it as one of the greatest sreohea deli
vered in the donate since the days of Henry Clay.
The galleries were again crowded to suffocation,
although the weather was stormy and disa
greeable."
ODD FELLOWSHIP IN NEW JERSEY.—Thero
are now in the State of Now Jersey 88 lodges ;
initiations during the year, 406, reinstated, 55 ;
suspended, 333; deaths. 34; present number of
members, 4,864; expended for relief of members,
widows, orphans, 34., $1,188,181 ; income, $20,387.
TUE sloop Spray, on which the murders
were committed by the Chinaman Jackalow, as
supposed, is missing and thought to be lost. She
was to be used on Cape Fear river, N C., and bee
been missing two months Binco her departure for
that destination.
Tim Monde, of Paris, has made a discovery,
that the abolition of passports, in the case of
English travellers, will necessitate a genoral
measure of the same tendency, and points out that,
unless this is so, Frenchmen will have to come to
England to be naturalized, in order to be free in
France
KELLEY'S ISLAM) in Lake Erie is one vine
yard. The principal grape is the Catawba, which
yields inimitable wine. An acre in full bearing
Will produce seven thousand pounds, Worth $455.
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Weekly Review of the Philadelphia
Markets.
Business has been languid and dull in all the
departments of trade, without mush prospect of
any immediate improvement. Quereitron Bark
is in steady request. In Breadstuffs there is a
further improvement. Flour, Corn Meal, Wheat,
and Corn have advanced. There has been more
home demand for 'Cotton, and prices have ad-
Vanoed. Fish come foiward slowly, and meet a
limited inquiry. In Fruit there is less doing. No
change in neriip or Hides: , The Iron market is
qniet. Lead le steady. Naval Stores are dull, but
Spirits of Turpentine is edam and commands bet
ter prices. Oils of all kinds- areatulet. Prrrsi
sione—Thero is very little doing, bat holders are
firmer in their demands Rise is mare active. Salt
—There is none Aaft in first hands. Cloremerl 18/
in rather better demand. Tallow, Teas, and To
badeo sell sloWl i v.. Wool is:drill. r,
The liresdsinffsi;marlret is belter again'
this
week, the haws front abroad being more favorable
for Most kinds, land holders are leseatilious in
The demefid fee Fleur. however, .is limited, and
only some 5,000, bbls. found buyers for export. at
$5 121a5 25 for superfinir, and $5.371a5 75 per bid
for extra, and extra ineludilag $,OOO bbla.
mostly of the latter, on tonne kept private.. Th e
safes to Cm retailers :and bakers range at from
$51675 far common to good superfine, extras; mid
land, log, ati to quality. Rye Flour fa 80814141ana
sedliog at $3 621a3 75. Corn Moalhae been more
inquired far, and 300 bbls. Pennsylvania Meal geld
at $2 '75 per bbl.
Tao following is the inspection of Flour and
Meal for the week ending January 3, 1861:
Barrels of auperfluo.--.--_—___ 10,548
, :do. One --. 47
do. midd1ing5......._.__.. , ....... 175.
do. Rye-. —....-- ..... 100
do. Corn Meal...—. 100
do. C0ndemned..............----
~,..1 • Total..-- —,..103/00
wnitsv.—The offeringa Are very Light and
prlcos about the same,, with sales of 18,000 bus. at
125a1t138 for common to prime Western and
Pe'nnnylvaniB red ; 12381350 for Southern do, and
1.85e1508. for white. Rye has been In good do
mSnd, en 4 1,500 bus sold at 700. for Pennsylva•
nia, and 70a for Delaware. Cord lit shore bloated
for end prices have advanced. Sales of 25,000 bus.,
el4 a
,
sing oft, 700 for .old ,
Ns xellow, and 000 for new.-
res of whitd Corn Oats are firmer. 15,000 b sold at 1123 for Del aware, and 33ia340 for
Pennsylvania. - fihip's StnffB , aommand sl7alB,
and Middlings $21a22 par ted. Of Barley 3,000 1
bus. sold at 75a.
Prtovistows.—The market is farmer, but the
transactions are very moderate ; small sales ell
Mess Pork at $16.50 per barrel; but little. prime
here, and prices are nominal. There is no_vapert
&mend for Beef, find the sales are confined to
small toiSfor ship mom at $12a14 per bbl for on"
Mess; A aale t of Beef llama was made at 415 247.
Dressed logs are coming forward freely and selling
at $61x61 per 100 'pounds Bacon is quiet. Small
ealsa of liams at 'llial2la for plain and fancy
oared I Sides at 914100, sad Shoulders at 71030,
sixty days, mealy to go South, Oreen Meats coma
forward slowly. Sales of 200,000 pounds in bulk
Sides, at 81a813 for Sides, road Shoulders at 6 / 1 610,
eixty days. Lard continues quiet. Sales of tierces
and bbls at 10a10/o, and kegs at 110 on time.
Batter—There is a fair demand for good roll at
15a170, but common and medium qualities are dull
at 12a14c ; solid moves off slowly at 9e1.00. Cheese
estate' a fate inquiey, arid wises aro steady. Sales
of Now York at 10a - 104 . 03 mostly to go out or the
market. -
hinraLs.—The market for Pig Iron 18 very du)]
and the sales limited, at about previous rates.
Scotch Pig is nominally held at $22, 6 mos. Bars
and Boiler Mates are unchanged.
LEAD.—There is very little demand, and but
HEN here. A sale'ef Galena was made a leavings
ago, on private terms.
dol , Prit is not inquired for. We quote Sheathing
at 200, and Yellow Metal at 1.90, 6 mos
Beitic.—Thera is very little Queroitron offering,
and but little demand for it; small sales of No. 31
at $25 per ton. Tanners' Bark is quiet.
BanewAx is scarce, and selling, in a small way,
at 32a330 per lb, for good Yellow.
CANDLEB.—Bperm are selling 81011i7 at.o6a32e,
4 mot; city-made Adamantine command 16ia1ecr,
on time ; Tallow Candles are dull at 118120 Mal.
Corral.—The market is firm, and there is a
steady demand. Sales of SOO bags low grade and
prime Rio at from 11 to 1310, 300 bags Leguayra
at 13fa1310, and some St. Domingo at 120, 4 mos.
COTTON.—Prices aro isio better, and the market
more salvo, with sales of 800 bales,Mostly up•
lands, at So for inferior, 10allfa for low to goad
middling, 1281210 for middling fair—mostly oath,
and 13a130, four menthe.
The following is tho movement since the Ist of
September last, as compared with the previous
three years:
IP6O. 1859. 1858. 1857.
Reoeinta at.porte, —.1,619.000 2,148,0601.781 0001,031,0'8.
Export to G't Britain.. 693 000 824.000 837,1321 334,069
Export to France . 317,000 184,069 249,000 111,090
Export to other 102 000 91,000 132.000 84.000
Total e2port-- 972.0001,109,000 901 . 1 3 21 839,000
Ettoek on hand---- 085,00] 968,003 712,089 633,000
Of whin!, during the paat week, included in the
above
Receipts at Mts. 101.001 105.000 149 MO 102,001
Exp or t t o ...71 80,000 93 030 69,000 .33.000
Export to France.— 21,000 16,000 21,000 9,080
Export to other F. P... 13,000 9 030 /9.000 7OM
Toialexports.. ... 123,000 118.000 99,000 49,000
Dliuna AND DYER —Very little doing. We nets
Sales of Soda Ash at 2Z , a2Bs, on time, and Sicarbo
talc Of Soda on private terms.
Path—The receipts are light, and the sales of
Maokorel confined to store lots at $15.500.6 per
bbl for medium la; $17517.50 for large do; $12.5C.
for large 23; $9 for medium do; $9 25 for large,
$6 50a9,75 for medium, and $5 for small is. Cod
fish eel! in a smell way at $3 25 per 100 /ba. Pickled
Herring are unchanged. Sales at $2.7562 22 per
bbl,
gENENSES —Good Western sell in lota at 47a50e
per lb.
FIIIJIT.—BMIIIeSS has been moderato. Retains
are selling at $1 90.2 05 per boa; $1 05 for half,
and 501550 for quarters; 3,000 pkga sold from the
vessel on private terms. Green Apples are be
coming scarce; sales at $1.50a3 per bbl; Dried do.
sell at 218330 per lb Dried Peaches at sa6fo for
unrared quarters; 7aBo for halves, and 9a120 for
pared. Cranberries are not so plenty, and com
mand s6al2 per bbl.
Friarears.—T6 Liverpool there has been morn
doing; among the engagements, we notice Flour
at 3s Pd; Corn at 121 d, in ship's bags; Lard at
42s 61; Cotton at ; Wool at 13, and Clover
mod at 455. To London, wo quote at 13d for Grain,
and 4s for Flour. Some shipments are being made
to don Francisco via New York at 35a300 per foot.
Several vessels were chartered to load home, from
Cuba, at 420 for Sugar, and $3 for Molasses; and
a brig to Bordeaux, at $9 per ton. To the South,
the rates are unchanged. but there is very little
going forward; in Coal freights there is little or
nothing doing, the shipping season being over.
GINSENG —For crude and clarified there is no
inquiry, ad prices aro nominal.
Damp is very quiet, and no sales are reported.
Roza —There have been no transactions in
foreign; oily slaughter range from 31 to 7o per
pound, six months.
GOES.—The supply is light, but fully equal to
the demand. Bales of new _Eastern and Western
at 29a330 per , pound.
LIINDER.—Thete is but little movement in any
description, and no change in prises ; some South
ern Yellow Sap Boards sold at $13a14, and Sus
quehanna White Pine Boards. in lots, at $14a17.
llemlook Boards are worth $lO. No change in
Laths
Atoriassas —There is a bettor feeling in the
market and more inquiry. Sales of Cuba on pri
vate terms, and New Orleans at 35c, four months.
NAVAL Stongs.—Rosin continues plenty and
dolt ; sales of common at $1 20, 4 months. Tar
ranges from $2 50 to $2.75 for Newborn and Wil
mington. Pitch is dull at $1.70a1.90. Spirits of
Turpentine la scarce, and sells in lots at 38a400
per gallon.
Ozta.—Lineeod Oil is selling in lots at 508520
in oaths and bbls. Red OR is scarce . . Bales of
Crude Whale at 52a53e. Refined do at 60a65e,
and Winter Sperm at $1.60 per gallon.
Imports Into the United States for the last ten
years:
Year.
IMNZEMI
10 0 38 - 17.122 173 573
1356 e 1,889 195,779
1855.--. 68.254 178,186
5854-- • - 60,415 321,593
80,067 2.11,599
PLASTEll.—Nothing doing, and we quote rat at
$3 per ton.
Rice is better, and moro active, with 831 es at
$3 50a4 per 100 lbs., cash and on time.
SALT is unohanged ; I,SOO sacks ground has:oame
to a dealer.
SEEDS —Thera has been more doing in Clover
seed, and prices aro rather lower; sales of 3,000
bus of fair and prime at $555 50 per bu, including
some recleaned on terms kept private. Sales of
Timothy at $2.25, and Flaxseed at $1.403145 per
bushel.
Sneers.—Brandy and Gin are quiet. In do
mestic tipirits there is a steady businesa doing ;
sales of N. E. Rum at 32034 e Whisky is held
firmly, and at the close holden; put up their prices
lc per gallon ; sales of Ohio bbls. at 1810; Penna.
do. at 180; bhds at 17/e; and drudge at 'Milne
per gallon.
SUGAR continues inactive, but prices are firm;
tbo stook is moderate; soles of Cuba, in lots, at
Notqo ; New Orleans at 81,610 ; and boxes Cuba at
60,6?0, t 11103., far brown and yellow.
TALLOW.—TbOrO is more inquiry, with moderate
sales; we quote city rendered at Piagio, and
country at SiASio'per lb.
TOBACCO —Leaf and manufactured sell slowly at
previous rates, and very little here.
Wool. —The market continues very dull, and
prices irregular, there being a wide range between
the cash and time prices, aLd but little demand
from manufacturers.
Mn. WHITCOMB, of blesardis, a short time
since, while hunting on Big Machias stream, above
A s bi ss d, Me., fell in with a herd of bull moose,
s i x in number, and without running them. ma
naged to creep upon one after another, till be
killed five of the six.
A WORKMAN of Paris has just discovered a
method of preserving gas and water pipes from
rust by enveloping them in a thick coat of clay.
Such is the importance of the discovery that the
city of Paris has granted the man a pension for
life.
A STATEMENT of the marine losses reported
in 1860, shows a tots). of 383 vessels, valued (with
out cargo) at $6,237 000, a decrease of 19 vessels,
and en increase of $838,000 in value.
THE New York Commercial learns that two
or three hundred colored families will remove
from Baltimore to New Haven, Cona., is the com
ing spring,
TILE second Wednesday in Febmary is the
day fixed by law for counting the electoral votes
in Congress, and declaring the election of Presi
dent and Vice President of the United States.
AUSTRIA has just iesucd bank notes of the
value of four oeuta each !
JANUARY, 4, 1860