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NEWELL b r rP i f } ' ,) 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. THE WEEKLY PRESS. "hie WRzio,Y Passe wilt be eellt to subscribers bl mall (per annum, in ealvanoe,) at ----AMOS Three Copies. " COO Five -- 8 Oe Ten " Twenir '• " •• (to one addrese).2o.oo Twenty Copies, or over (to &Wen of each subsoriber,) 140 For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will send as extra copy to the getter-up of the Club. tar Postmasters are requested to act as /.gents for Tan WRIMLY Pules. CALIFORNIA PRESS. lemed three timer a Month, in time for the Californt • Steamers. 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