, pusialiib'Vin.ihiluNVAWsxilstmn),) ;RR JOHN! W. FORNEY. ortroz NO. 417 08118TNITT STREET : rssba. Twnelf Cho* inn 'Tann; ,petable to' the Carrier. Mathnito fhtioronbste out of the City at Six DOLL - ARS PER ' . ; 46R/Si .IP;civi, DOLL - ARS FOR EIGHT Mouxne, Tlinit . 2l,ii!:Vep: Si MONTneZ7lnvintibli In ad venni foi the time ordered. PRESS. Mailed to subogribera out of the Pity at 7111M14 DoL ceaeriiii . idirarioe. .coluffiepToN HOUSES. ER.!AX , Y, HAZARD, HIITOEU!NSON; S •: TO. Ii g 'CHESTNUT ST COMMISSION MERCHANTS - • TOR - TgEgIALE or PiIILADELPHI47MADE GOODS; &SUINGTON FORMERLY BAY STATE ?MIA SRAW.LB of &liaises in great variety, Zinbonedand Printed TABLE COVERS,• urfios PEAVERS and BROAD CLOTBB BALMOR NIA SHIRTS noosprtsi and Ddriblsand Twisted COATINGS. 44 SAbICINGS, and Heavy ZEPHYR CLOTHE, - Twilled and Plain FLANNELS and OPERA FLAN NELL • Printed FELT CARPETING& For sale by FROTERNONAM WELLIf. , 34 Bonth FRONT &feet. and 35 LETITIA Street. )724 a GROCERIES. N4,-.w." FRUIT. BUNCH. , LAYER, AND SEEDLESS RAISINSO • lIIMRANTN, CITRON, ORMIGES, PRATIfEa, FMB, &0., aco. ' _ - , ata.4lWlrr 0. ROBERTS. REALM!: IL ierROOE.RIES: . oonie; ELEVEN= Mid. VINE &nit& IMMIX: AMOUR, itAiw Pipit CHOICE MITER MIKAN O. MATTSON. 11.1 1 t.imir:AROR and ISIITR streets. SEWING MACHINES. & W1T13914. ?floes 'Rednce4, Nov. 15, 1880. SEWING gAGHINEEL 696 STREET z-SECONII' FL4?OI 1/01-9so HARRIS' BOUDOIR HEWING MAOI-I.INE. Rix bsFR_LbAI MUM& 11 , -A. NSW MROtB, FOR QIIIIIIIIOF AND HE ANY WORT. Bap WV !tort two eimmi t a i without BO trouble of re wßlrMeasariVlAO rigel ° , Itlidelphia, and No. TWIIALTIMOJUS pt.. Baltimore, Md. .ocal-Stri HOLIDAY PRESE#ITS. HOLIDAY PRESENTS FOR GENTLE htEN.—NEW STYLE GentIemeg,e4M HWWACIFhaTIIITOMEMO.: mita and we al holiday ereeerot . scoprs, 814 cIIiESTNUT Street . , deli A few doom below the •• Continental Bete ' ditUMBRELLAS, . FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, 'Finished with entirety new and beautiful style Boololt handles. • ROB ROY, PRINCE CHARLIE, XcrILIWION, - ROYAL ?STUART,' AND OTHERS. • - Wog Mal BY WM. A. DROWN & dell-tlil2 ' 446 MARKET STREET. OrATenzs, - .)EWELRY, &c. THIr'BEST , "GOLD ' 'JEWELRY:47TUE' AN ssar 9oLa JEW Eett O R ~..,_ _ _ LA Rot intigiaitmaW TE 00f4D AND PLATED GOODS, FROM . A BROX4-11P 1 }843-K-94:131: 15FAOTDA "" "-" No Oilvinieed, Gilt or Gift Jewelry sold in Ottr Fetab-' lishmerat. - + IT 15" IT In ' IT IS IT IS • ALL 012.1110111 -GOLD' AND pLATED GOODS.' N, DEAN ' WEI • DEAN ft 0.'1:1 •,- ',DAAN 8 `,0.'21 t ' ' DEAN te.cp.'is -, ' - ORIEINAL ill STONE,- No. 335 clp.l.9lleUT Street, third More below Foor#4 north side. - . • ORI518! ' _ • , GALL APIP LOON AT NOMETHIND NEW! -• #iitt EAT A A LE OF - • 175,501 WOR OP , JEWELRY: OILAINB, Esc. A L FOE 11 ACH. _- A lane andeplendid twelittmeht of 2ifweliT tO be sold withoet nwnl_to omit. - •• • • • . 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Just published. in neat psmphlet form,- Angle itopies, baits; 412 Per baptised.* 'The Trade sionlied,by, RO ts ANdiTCIIOI44EI , - WholesnleAgenti, '1914,316.3.31 Street, Or by the Sahlishers, - • ' FRANOIs HART dc ish•et. • . No 63 COURTLAND Street, New York. Gl3. EVANS I GIFT , BOOK STORE, • Ndi. 4 9CHg TtiUTStreet'' • • BUY 'YOUR, ,BOOKA AT EVANS'. Ail Books are sold as cheap as at any,other store, and YOU have the adealltaite;of receiving a handsome Gift with esoh Soot: Youcan get - • NSW AND-FRESH' coPiEs, - of all the Standard Bookie in every department 01 Lite rature, together with AbLe'rfiE' riF.'W nom: `As soon as published. 'and a Oift worth from One to One Hundred Dollars witheach. ' Deteratisad 'to Osaingain the high ret 'dation alriadv &lambed *Pon our eaterprise,let ska t present is our customers a superior quality and Maier assortmalot qt Gifts than Acroloforit,' and suaraetted to gine satis- Maim, REMEMBER, That every purchaser of a Book, to the amount of 41 or Upwards, will reoeiVe a handsome Present, where hrthey have the • advantage of obtaining TWO GIFTS FOR THE .PRIOE. OF ONE. And in mazy instances the value received will be a hundred fold the amount invested. TO PROOF. Call In, and one purchase's!!! assure you that the beet place in the city to'buy liolidatßooks. r. at ottOrtelt 6. .EVANIV GIFT-1100K_EATABLISH WENT, No. 439 OKLA t*PIUT Street, Philadelphia. Stranger. welting the city la are reapeotfblly Invited to el mill tf and examine the rge' 00IMOtiOn of Books. . dl 1861 LINDSAY & BLARISTON'S 1881 • rintalclAN's ,VISITING LIST FOR . Prise fol. F a"el i '' for 50 Futlents, cloth, 75 leather with 100k5,._..... 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' • No. 417' CHESTNUT STREET, :XL 4S. p.va. x.,:pkrwr JO : -FEINTING rrIE NEW 'JOB PRINTING ORFid "THE ' PRESS" iiprepered to eXeCide usistbr.dbettPll, end expeditious'? MILT DEICAIPTION OP PLAIN. AND ORNAMENTAL PRINTING PAPIPOLETBI PAPER RORKE. CIRCULARS, BLANKS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION POBTEES, HANDBILLS, PRINTING : Tog '4IIOTIONEERtI. LAIVYBR9I MERCILO're;bIANUFACTIIRERB, RAILROAD AND INBbRANDE comp/aims, srAti °Mete' lettiteibe_?eblioitiori ORSae of The OHEOTHU'R etreet, wilt be erciorn (11, I) r VrE56, C 7 FRIDAY, JANUARY 11; 1861 Certain changes among the higher English diplomatists are thus announced in the London Gazette of Tuesday, December 11th: " The Queen has been graciously pleased to ap• point Lord Napier, now Her Majesty's Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherlands, to be Her Majesty's Am bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of All the Russian. " - The Queen has also bean gracionalipleased to appoint Sir John Fiennes Cram ton, K. 0.13., now Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of All the Hussies, to be Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Mi nister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain. " The Queen has 1118.1 been graolously pleased to appoint Sir Andrew Buohanari, K. C. B , now Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and ,Minister Plo• nipotentiary to the Queen of Spain, to be Her Ma jesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary fe the King of the Netherlands." This is an advantageous transfer for Lord NAMES., whose emoluments wore considera bly curtailed by his removal from Washing ton, where his salary was £4,500 a year, to the Hague, where it was only £3,600. Wo presume that ‘c the Queen has been gracious ly pleased " to get rid of the little pique against his Lordship which sent him into a sort of exile from the pleasant excitement of American society, to the dreary monotony of the speakers of High Dutch at the Hague, a mere village: Moreover, we learn that Lord NAPLES, in companionship with Lord BLOOn- FIELD, Envoy Extraordinary to Berlin, is to be sworn in as member of the Privy Council. Hitherto, the mission to St. Peters burg, like that to Austria, Spain, the United States, and • seven other countries, has been only of the second class : France and Turkey alone receiving first-class representatives of British royalty. That is, to Franco and Tur key were sent Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, while to Russia, the United States, and several other countries were deputed only Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary. The Embassy to Russia, while only second class, paid £6,000 a year to its representative; exalted to the first class, it will probably be worth as much as that of Turkey, which is £B,OOO a year. The Ambassador to Paris gets £lO,OOO, with a palatial residence, and other advantages, which actually swell it to about £14,000, or very nearly thrice the nominal income of the President of the United States. Sir Jogs ORAIIPTON gains no increase of salary by being removed to Madrid from St. Petersburg. The salary is £6,000 for each place. But it is said that the severe climate of Russia has been injurious to the health of juvenile Lady CRAMPTON, nee VICTORIA. BLUE, and it has been reported that the high-born Mies of the Emperor ALEXANDRIOB.eOIIrI were cold as their own winter in their reception of Lady CRAMPTON, who had been a public vocal ist. All circumstances considered, then, per haps Sir Joan CRAMPTON may find Madrid mach more pleasant residence than St. Pe tersburg. The third change is a strange one. Sir ANDREW BUOIIANAN is removed from the Embassy to Spain, salary £6,000 a year, to that of the Netherlands, worth only £3,600. This is a more severe fall than was Lord NA PIER'S, from Washington to the Hague. Upon this the London TIMRB discourses thus: " Some two years ago Sir Andrew Buchanan was suddenly whisked away from-Copenhagen, where he had been for 15 years, toldadrid. The costs of removal and of a new establishment in an expen sive and remote capital aro scarcely defrayed,' the new servants are scarcely broken into their duties, when a tolegraphio despatch arrives, stating that Her Majesty has been pleased to transfer his Ex, collet:toy to the Legation at the Hague—a place of no importance and much smaller emolument. Such a transfirOn (sot, can be looked upon only as a stigma, which, in this ease, is eminently undeserved. Sir Andrew Buchanan has been, I:recording to all tbrvant. tin u a n s b iii to i l e x Oggil n n a service hasbeen a Minister for several years, and on his arrival in Spain applied herseef with such success to his du ties that he mastered the language perfectly, eon.' ducted the negotiations concerning the Moorish war satisfactorily to his superiors, and at the same time has managed to obtain popularity among the Spaniards. Why such a man should be half ra ined by a second removal, and the country de prived of his services just at the time that they aro likely to become fully efficient, are queetioss that must be asked of Lord John Russell. The anhap py envoy, we believe, forwarded a strong remon strance, but in vain ; the thing was done, and last Tuesday's Gazette announced the change offi cially. .The diplomatic service of all nations, it seems to us, may be greatly amended. Our own system, which sent such a man as JEnu GEANOT JONES, the rejected of Barks county ) to represent the United States at Vienna, certainly appears capable of improvement. The Times pleasantly comments on the fact that the recent changes in the South of Eu rope have materially diminished the chances of English diplomatists. It says, gc Florence --dear, pleasant retreat, fit asylum for a grace ful Peer's old age—is gone. The last Minister has quitted the banks of the Arno; the last stars and crosses have glittered in the galleries of the Pitti Palace. •England, if represented at all at the Tuscan capital, will be repre sented by some vulgar Consul; perhaps a person educated to business, who began life with a pen behind his ear ; perhaps, still worse, the conceited victor in a competitive examination, proud of his answers in hydro statics and the earlier literature of the Mon gols. Rome, which has hitherto given an At tache from Florence the importance, if not the rank of a Minister, will, in a few years, perhaps a few months, vanish from among the temporal Powers of Europe. Naples, a Mission on a level with those of Prussia or Spain, has boon wrested by Gintruziar from the aspirations of the service. What,' too, if in the course of a few years Germany, with her eight•and-thirty Courts, should take it into her head to follow the example of the Italians! But the present is dreadful enough to contemplate. Evident ly the only hope of the diplomatists is in a compensating disruption of Empires. South Carolina must be watched with singular anxi ety. A first-class Mission' to the Southern Republic would be but a proper boon of Pro vidence to those from whom it has taken such veined possessions." It will bo somo time, we guess, before that Mission is accredited I The Paris correspondent of the Times, under date of December 18, plainly declares that all the diplomatic changes referred to have been caused by the desire of Lord Jolts IitiSSELD, Foreign Minister of England, to pro vide for Mr. Elmer; one of the Minto family, with whom his Lordship is closely connected by marriage. It seems that Mr. Emorr, who was Minister to Naples, has boon thrown out of situation (and salary) by the change of dynasty in Naples. As Loid John's relation, ho must be provided for. Therefore, 81r Joan Owirron has been sent to Madrid, from which it is arranged thathe shall retire, in a few months, when his thirty.flfth year of public service will be completed, and he will be entitled to his otium cum dignit ate—Lord CussrEn run's translation of which was di Leisure and a pension." , Mr. ELLIOTT is then to have the Embassy to .Spain—an advance in salary of from £4,000 to ,£6,000 a year. Lord Nionn, It is added, was offered the Governorship of Madras, that Mr. ELLIOTT might have his place at the Hague, but refused it, as it would vitiate his claims for a diplomatic pension. One of these days, perhaps, if Lord Jour; Ressetz's nepotism continuos, the House of Commons may direct a ‘i Coved° Investigation" to take place. BILL IMAM" [For The Freer.] I am a citizen of West Ifempfield township, Lan. caster county. Our taxes aro heavy, mine amount. ing to about $2OO a year. I wish to know whether I have net as good a right to secede as South Ca rolina or Neto York? I desire to establish a VlOnarchy zit a small way, myself to be king ; and to be entirely independent of the world. I have vary many friends, in numbers about equal to tho white population of South Carolina, two gone, a revolver, and three bulldogs, six months' provisions, &a. If you think I am right, say so, and I will fight it to the Litter end. WEST HEMTVELD. LABELS higCnAPEICH, BANKS —The merchants of New Orleans are unfurling the Pelican Flag from their warehouser'. Diplomatic Movements. Can an Individual Snead° I PHILADELPHIA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1861. The Heart of the American People, 000 said, and what he would have done, now, Beating high for,the Honor and Safety pe may readily infer. May his successor be equal of the country, as rn 1813. • to the emergency! (For The Press.] Go on, Mr. Editor, in your bold and patriotic Mu EDITOR: The enthusiastic and overwhelm- came of rousing the Governmont and people to ing demonstration at National Hall, on Saturday l a Pans° of their highest duties. Jackson Is dead, night, for sustaining the Government "iii what. bat his spirit lives in the hearts of his country. ever measures they may adopt to support Major men, whose gathered energies, acquired end nor • Anderson, and mamttain the supremacy of the • tUed tu new triumphs In peace and war, since Constitutton and lairs of the'United States ;" Jackson lived, every hour is bringing, the deafening and prolonged cheers which wont . —" like the multitudinous sea," up, time after time, from the hearts of the im- ' tot the reeoue and preservation of their glorious mouse assemblage, am these and kindred anti- ! Ution—that Union which Washington founded, monte reverberated through the Hall, and wore end for which Washington would have died ! borne to the breeze by the swelling chorus of nu- DIE UNION FOREVER Ronal airs, exalting to a height rarely equalled the patriotism of ouch individual man present, and making the econo altogether ono of the most remarkable ever witnessed in Philadelphia—all this recalls, and recalls vividly, something of the history of the last war with England, when the patriotism of the people 'was wrought up to the highest pitch, as well under defeat as the often reourring and soul•stirring'notas of victory, show ing how the popular heart can boat " where oasis ono, under their noble institutions, (the institu tions of the Union and Coislitution,) identifies hiMself with the nation, mud seems as sorely struck down by a public osiamity as a personal blow." The late Richard Rush, ono of whose sons Intro aimed to the meeting at National Hall the raining resolutions of the committee, Winch wore received with such en outburst of popular enthusiasm, has loft on record some reflections, growing out of the capture (almost the only naval defeat of ,the war) of the American frigate Chesapeake by the British • frigate Shannon, of which I amstrongly reminded by the 'incidents of that mooting, and which may well be sailed up now, when the Union is threat ened with rebellion as formidable', as was then the gigantic foe against whom all hearts and hands were united. In the first volume of " Rush's Residence in London," p. 499, published in 1833, the author, thus refers to that celebrated capture, and the events that followed it, the anbjeot, it seems, having been called up by an English gentleman who bad alluded to the action between the Chesa peake and Shannon: "The Chesapeake, it is true, was captured. The British captain sought the battle with, a lofty, daring spirit, and won hie prizugaliantly. Let no Americans gainsay this; for is 'it for Amerioarte to rob valor of its renown ? We heard how the ex ploit was hailed in England; the more, as it seemed to break the spell of a series of naval en counters between the two nations, that bad ter minated againat her. But, whatever joy It created there, I do not think that it equalled—nay, T am sure that it did not—the opposite fooling hero. I remember—who among us can forget ?—the first ru mor of it; I remember, also, the confident,- the universal, incredulity; then I remember how the post-offices, for several days, were surrounded by anxioop inquiring thousands; how even groups of citizens rode out on the highways, striving to oatoh something by anticipation as the mall ap proached, under the startling reports that Enures* direly came In. At last, when hope was gone— when the certainty of her capture could no longer be hidden, I remember the public gloom. Solemn processions, funeral discourses, testified it ; from North to South—in the sea-ports—in . the interior—everywhere it was the same 'lllln't give up the skip,' the dying words of Lawrence, slain by the first fire, were on every tongue Wrappped in his flag as a winding sheet, his re mains were conveyed by the victors to Halifax, and committed to British earth, with honors due to the brave. But not long did they lie there. vessel, fitted out by the prompt, affectionate pa triotism of twelve Now England sea captains, and by them exclusively manned, bore them back to his country—the country he had honorok the country that loved him. There they repose, under the laurel es the oppress; for ho, too, in his turn, had formerly triumphed, ship to ship, over the proud old flag of England. Others may augur the naval destinies of the United States from thel4re pentad and splendid victories in the very infairy , of the Republio; I, from the grief that follovied 'this defeat, It 'Unabated the intensity of feeling existing among a people where eaoh one, undei their noble institutions, identified himself with the nation, and seemed as sorely struck down by a public calamity as a personal blow. What may, l not be hoped from such a people in the acitioyet.-;1 inents of war?' What in all that may traduce that . piosmityand glary - la peace, If title to salved and their happy and powerful Union?" - 1 Let us hope, Mr. Editor, as we triumphed so gloriously before Europe and the world, in that abort, but memorable and most unequal war with England, even "in the very infancy of the Republic," our naval, thunders astonishing, mankin i by the brilliancy and rapidity of their achievements, that now, when wo have reached to the life of.. man, the first groat REBELLION AGAINST THE UNION that has yet developed itself (for all former outbreaks have been as no thing to this) may be as signally, and speedily, and completely put down. Let it be our ceaseless aim, and prayer to the great Ruler of Nations, to accomplish this result peaceably, if we can, by all manner of fraternal efforts, and every honorable and just concession and compromise, even to the extent of yielding something that may be honorably yielded, in the spirit, and for the sake, of peace—permanent peace; but, if all falls, if our misguided fellow citizens in those parts of the confederacy now bristling with treason persist in following the load of traitors to its bitter fruits, then lot the undying principles of Jackson's Proclamation rally all hearts. Let the Government do its duty, and be motioned, at every hazard. Lot rebellion be crushed out at every hazard. The combined land and naval forces of tho country, which it is the duty of the Chief Magistrate to call to his aid, if unable otherwise to cause "the laws to bo faith fully *mooted," will soon do it. And let the cant about "coercing a sovereign State". cease ; and it will cease, just so soon as a sovereign State ceases to vilify, and threaten, and coerce, and endeavor to trample under foot THE UNITED STATES. "There is yet time," mild Jackson, to the mis guided mon of South Carolina, in 1832, "to show that the descendants of the Pinckney, the Samp lers, the Rutiedges, and of the thousand other names which adorn the pages of your Revolution ary history, will not abandon that Union, to sup port which so many of them fought and bled end died. I adjure you, as you honor their memory— as you love the cause of freedom to which they de dicated their lives—as you prize the peace of yOur country, the lives of its best citizens, and your own fair fame, to retrace your stops. Snatch from the archives of your State the disorganizing edict of Its Convention—bid its members to reassemble and promulgate the decided expressions of your will to remain in the path which alone can oonduot you to safety, prosperity and honor—tell them that, compared ,to disunion, all other evils are light, bocause that brings with it an accumulation of all—deolare that you will never take the field unless the Star Spangled Banner of your country shall float over you—that you will not be stigma tized when dead, and dishonored and scorned while you live, as the authors of the first attack on the Constitution of your country ! Its destroy ers you cannot be. You may disturb its peace, you may interrupt the course of its prosperity, you may cloud its reputation for stability; but its tram guiltily will be restored, its prosperity will return, and the stain upon its national character will be transferred, and remain an eternal blot on the memory of those who caused the disorder. "Fellow-citizens of the United States: The threat of unhallowed disunion, the names of those (once respected) by whom it was uttered, the ar ray of military force to support it, denote the ap proach of a crisis in our affairs, on which the con tinuance of our unexampled prosperity, our politi cal existence, and perhaps that of all free govern ments may depend. The conjuncture demanded a free, a full and explicit onunolation, not only of my intentions but of my principles of action ; and as the claim was asserted of a right by a State to annul the laws of the Union, and oven to Secede from it at pleasure, a frank exposition of my opinions In relation to the origin and form of our Government, and the construction I give to the instrument by which it was created, seemed to be proper. Having the fullest confidence in the justness of the legal and constitutional opinion of my duties whioh has been expressed, I rely with equal confidence on your undivided support in my determination to execute the laws—to preserve the Union by all constitutional MOM—to arrest, if possible, by mo derate but firm measures, the necessity for a re course to force; and if it be the will of Heaven, that the recurrence of its primeval curse on man for the shedding of a brother's blood should fall upon our land, that it be not called down by any offensive aot on the part of the United States. ' " Fellow-oitizena : The momentous case is be fore you. On your undivided support of your Go vernment depends the decision of the groat ques tion it Involves, whether your sacred Union will be preserved, and the binning it secures to us as ono people shall be perpetuated. " No ono can doubt ,that the unanimity with which that decision will be expressed will be such as to inspire new confidence in republican institu- Gone, and that the prudence, the wisdom, and the courage which it will bring to their defence, will transmit them unimpaired and invigorated to our children." Snob were the memorable words of warning, and such the resolute will, of Jackson, at a oriels which was as nothing compared to this. 'The result they achieved - is before' the world. What he would Phila , Sap. 8, 1861 The Fugitive-slave Law. Lgprreapondenoa of The Preas.l MONMOUTH, 111., Jaa. 7,1861 poses somewhat struck with sable of the positions of a gentleman, signing him delf "Keystone;" in a contribution to your paper, while endeavoring to prove, that " men of the 10rth are, by no means,' without excuso, in law ijnd in . morale, for the course they have pur- Budd," in reference to the execution of the fugitive• 81490 law. shall not endeavor to proveithat they are " Without excuse," yet acute positions maintained by," Keystone," to our mind, would hardly sub stantiate the possession of it. Ilia fundamental poeitiori is, that, it being wrong morally to return the fugitive, all law that commands it is null and void. To prove this important promise, he quotes - fro i ra Deuteronomy, where itsaye, " Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant which iS escaped hem his master unto thee." Let us see what meaning (melba drawn from that pa6sge. That command was addressed to the tribee of Israel while in their journeying from Egypt to the promised land. They lived together, as it were, a miniature ,confederacy. Each tribe possessed its particular place for encampment. Bath lived within its own borders. They bad all eqUally been told: "Both thy bondman and thy bondmahls, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you. * * Shall take them as an inheritance for your ohildtea after you, to inherit them for a possession : They shad be your bondman forever." It is pro bible that One tribe had availed itself of that privi lege 'iqually with another. Who would suppose that the passage quoted by "Keystone ," meant that Benjamin should not de liver to Judah his escaped servant, or that fugitives fivin the tents of Dan would be free in those of Manasseh ? We think there might be a better ap plication. Those tribes were taught of God. They were surrounded by othors who knew him not, and who I were destined to destruction. Servants fleeing I from the Moabite or the Ammonite found in their berdets the presence, and felt the influence of a Being 'that . could be experioneed nowhere else. Vat, doubtless, was one reason why eervants should not be delivered to those who, at best, were appointed for extermination. If the passage could have been Intended to apply to servants fleeing from tribe to tribe of the Israelites, the case with which - the escape could have been effeoted would have rendered the year of jubilee rather unnecon ry. 84 ' We live in the United States in a manner some what similar to those Israelitish tribes. Each btate has its own borders. Each possesses eiviliza. Don and Christianity. Before " Keystone" can go veto his notion by the passage he quotes, he must show. that these Northern States are held in pecu liar favor by the Divine Goodness, while the South is ordained for destruction—that the relation be tween them and the South is like that of Israel and the Moabite. Perhaps no ono will. possess presumption sufficient to make the attempt. The argument he would attempt to draw from Paul's Epistle to Philemon has been refuted time and again by learned commentators. Passing that, we fall ,upon what ha styles " that glorious maxim of English law," which, versified by Cow per, is— Slaves cannot breathe in England." Remembering the outrages growing out of the infamous coolie trade, used by nor in place of Af rican labor; knowing the condition of thousands of operatives in her factories, and laborers in hoe coal-pits, I, an an American, can And. other themes than England's magnanimity that equally de rialtd enlogium. His next point is that the oontraot has been viola ted for forty years by the South, beoause, as he says, Citizens of the North have not been granted their constitutional rights. The inhabitants of the North have always been allowed the same privileges 'that the citizens of the Southern States grant to .cue another. If a murderer Is th.. Northern fitetusi, witcre the ponalty was imprismunent for As fled to the South where the punlahmenrwas diatb,le could not hope to mope the halter if he Committed homfoide there. Neither could 11 OM, son or free negro in the North hope for equal viru lence and liberty of spceoh and action when it jeo pardized the lives of his fellows. Free nogroes would never have been imprisoned nor Northern citizens ,interfored, with in the South, had not their conduct excited and justified easpiclon. But !‘lieystone" thinks that the South should be grate ful to the North for affording them an opportunity to got rid of the moat• dangerous of their slaves. Upon tho same prondple ought not "Keystone" to bless that robber and justify hint for his deed, who plunders hint of hts wealth because it may endanger his eternal salvation ? .We have no objection to paying the value of fugitives in gold, or any other way, if it is satisfac tory to the South, but we cannot, with good faith, substitute oven money in the place of the escaped slave without its consent. The institution is theirs. We are not its defend er. The sin is theirs, if they abuse the system. They have a posterity t• provide for, an eternity to look forward to. Let them work out their own salvation. if the system is wrong, there is a Pro vidence which will provide for its removal, but it will never be haatened by the violation of law and the violence of war. We are no advocate for the extension or perpetuation of slavery. It is a sys tem manifestly liable to great abuse ; but that it is a sin per se we unequivocally deny. Had it boon so, it would not have been permitted so nn qualifiedly to the chosen people ; neither would Christ, and the apostles, living at the time when tile master possessed the power of life and death over hie slaves, have failed to condemn it openly, as they did other outbreaking sins. Lied it been so, the apostle, instead of Instructing the master how to act in that relation, would have exhorted him to put it as far from him as theft, murder, or blasphemy. The ein of slavery, then, being only in its abase, let those answer for, it who abuse it. Wo have .agreed in solemn compact to return to the matter his slave ; if he abuses him, the sin be upon'ltle own head. Let us faithfully, then, discharge our part of that compact, under which uanumborod blessings have crowned both sections of our country. For, even looking to the welfare of the nogro alone, judging from the past, in no other way can we hope for so many blessings upon the African race as by the peace and prosperity of the American Republic. Secretary Thompson's Resignation. HIS LETTER TO TEE PRESIDENT AND THE REPLY WASHINGTON January 8, 1831.-3:rt.: It Is with extreme regret I have just learned that additional troops hove been ordered to Charleston. This sub ject has been frequently discussed in Cabinet coun cil ; and when on Monday night, Mat of December ultimo, the orders for reinforcements to Fort Sump ter were oountermanded, 1 distinctly understood from you that ne order of the kind would be made without being previously considered and decided in Cabinet. It is true that on Wednesday, January 2d, this subjeot was again discussed in Cabinet, but certainly no oonolusion wee reacted, and the War Department was not justified in ordering reinforoe meets without something more than woe then said. I learn, however, this morning, for the first time, that the steamer Star of the West sailed from New York last Saturday night with two hundred and fifty men, under Lieutenant Bartlett, bound for Fort Sumpter. Under theao circumstances I feel bound to rosignmy commission, as ono of your conatitutional advisers, into your hands. With high respect, your obedient servant, J. Muni's oN. His Excellency JAMES BUCHANAN, President of the United States. ilreeninarox, Jan. 9, 1861.—Sin: I have re ceived and socepted your resignation, on yester day, of the office of Soore'ary of the Interior. On Monday evening, 31st December, 1860, I sus ponded the orders which had been issued by the War and Navy Departments to send the Brooklyn. with reinforcements to Fort Sumpter. Of this I informed you on the ammo evening. I stated to you my reason for this suspension, which you knew, from its nature, would be speedily removed. In consequence of your request, however, I pro mised that these orders should not be renewed "without being previously oonSidered and decided in Cabinet " This promise was faithfully observed on my part. In order to carry it into effect, I called a special Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, 2d January, 1861, in which the question of sending reinforcements to Fort Sumpter was amply discussed both by your self and others. The decided majority of opinions was against you. At this moment the answer of the South Ca rolina " commissioners" to my com munication to them of the list December was re ceived and read. It produced much indignation among the members of the Cabinet. After a fur ther brief conversation, I employed the following language: "It is now all over, and reinforcements must be sent." Judge Black said, at the moment of my deoision, that after this letter the Cabinet would be unanimous, and I heard no dissenting voice. Indeed, the spirit and tone of the letter loft no doubt on my mind that Fort Sumpter would be immediately attacked, and hence the necessity of sending reinforcements there without delay. Whilst you admit " that on Wednesday, January 2d, this subject was again discussed in Cabinet," you say, " but certainty no conclusion was reached, and the War Department was not justified in or dering reinforcements without something more than was then said." You are certainly mistaken in alleging that "no aonolusion was reached." In this your recollection la entirely different from that of your font oldest colleagues in the Cabinet. In deed, my language was so unmistakable that the Beetetaries of War and the Navy proceeded to net upon it without any further intercourse with my. self then what you hoard, or might have hoard me say. You had been so emphatic in opposing those reinforoements that .1 thought you would resign in consequence of my decision. I deeply regret that you have been mistaken in yolnt of faot, though I firmly believe honestly mistaken. Still it is cer tain you have not the lees been mistaken. Yours, very respectfully, JAMES BUCEIANAN. Ron. JAOO4 Trtollllloli. Our New York Letter PROSPECTS FOR WESTERN TRADE—POBT•OFPICE ADVERTISING: NEWSPAPER GOSSIP: HERALD, TIMES, TRIBUNE, WORLD, POST, SUN, JOURNAL OF COMMERCE, EXPRESS—LARGE INCREASE OF EXPORTS OF DOMESTIC PRODUCE—NEW YORE CENTRAL RAILROAD—BEECHER STOCK UP TWEN TY PER CENT.—THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE AND THE STOLEN BONDS—THIRTEENTH REGI MENT TO GARRISON FORT HAMILTON—HOW WE CELEBRATED TEE BIGIITR—POBT•OFF10E MAT• TEES. ICATOSpOIIdOIIOO of The tress.] Ninv Yortic, Jon 9, 1861 Wholesale dealers are looking forward to an unusually large spring business from the West. The unprecedented amount of breadstuffs it has sent to tide water and the remunerative prices re ceived, bavo made the farmers so comfortably off that they will dip largely into good things to wear for themselves and families. Scarcely anything in the way of purchases it anticipated from the South. The poet-office advertising of letters uncalled for in this city for the entrant year was yesterday awarded to the Herald, that paper swearing to an average daily circulation of 77,107 during the last month, not including its Sunday edition, which Postmaster Dix deolinod to consider. The Sun fell short of the Herald some 20,000; but that paper seems to be running down in all its depart ments. There are, by the way, several rumors current in reforenoe to our daily papers. One, that there is talk of discontinuing the World; another, that the Beaches propose to start a new Sun; another, that the Journal of Commerce is about to curtail its blanket-dimensions in consequence of the decrease of advertisements. Hitherto the Journal of Continsrei is understood to have di vided (for two or throe years at least) among its proprietors one thousand dollars per week. The Times, since the commencement of the secession excitement, is understood to have inoreased its daily circulation about twelve thousand. The weakly edition of the Tribune , is larger than ever— being upwards of two hundred thousand. On this edition alone the concern realizes a profit of over one hundred thousand dollars. The Evening Post is doing a largely-increased business, and will this year pay its proprietors not less than seventy-five thousand dollars. The Empress keeps pace in all respects with its cotemporaries, and exceeds nearly all of them in the industry and fulness of its city department. • The commercial public were agreeably surprised yesterday at the magnitude of the exports for last week, the Custom House tables showing a total of $2,925,775—near1y three millions of dollara— against $1,042,827 in the corresponding week last year. The principal items exported were cotton, breadstuffs, and provisions, which command such prices in England as to afford a handsome profit to the chipper. Sinoe the conclusion of peace with China, our merchants are shipping liberally to that country. The earnings of tho New York Central Railroad for December, 1860, are $522,918.85—ab0ut two thousand five hundred dollars over those of De cember, 1859. As was anticipated, the: renting of pews in Beooher's ohnroh, at Brooklyn, last evening, was the scone of ranch merriment. The crowd was great, and the interest in the sale showed that Beecher stook is steadily appreciating•. The total realized from the sale was about twenty per cent. more than the amount realized last year, premi um for pews varying from $l7 up to $l7O Thai was the way the Boooherites celebrated the Eighth of January in Brooklyn., The Congressional committee appointed to take testimony relative to the bonds stolen from the De partment of the Interior are holding sessions in ono of the parlors of the St. Nicholas Hotel, Mr. Morris, of Illinois, noting as chairman. A few wit nesses wore examined, but nothing elicited that afforded any clue to the robbery that has not here tofore been published. Ordora have boon lamed to the Thirteenth Regi ment in Brooklyn to hold themselves in readineae to take charge of Fort Hamilton, on the transfer of the 'United States troops now there to some point whore needed by the Government. The anniversary of that little affair down at New Orleans was celebrated last evening by balls and banquets at the St. Nicholas Hotel and Tammany Hall. At the former one hundred prominent gen tlemen were furnished with nine invitations each— three for gentlemen and six for ladies—and the re sult Was a large and brilliant assembly; among the gentlemen present were Governor Fish, Governor hang,John Van Baron, August Belmont, Gillian O. Yerplanck, George P. Morris, and people of that sort, with their families. At Tammany there were speeches by Daniel S. Dickinson, Samuel J. Tilden, Hiram Walbridge, John L. O'Sullivan, and other '• bravos "; so that, on the whole, New York may be said to have honored the day with becoming ceremonial. Postmaster Dix received orders just before the let of January to advance the rent of boxes at the post office to eight dollars per annum. The price has heretofore been six dollars. As there aro five thousand boxes at the office, the Government will gain ten thousand dollars of revenue. Third As sistant Postmaster General Zevely is In town to day on business of the department. It is intended to make somo now arrangements in reference to the charge for delivering drop-letters. HURON. Dlr. Lincoln's Administration. SENATOR REWARD ACCEPTS TIM POSITION OF SE The Albany Evening Journal of Wednosday thus announcea Mr. Seward's acceptance' of the 'position of Secretary of State, tendered him by Mr. Lincoln: In transferring to our own columns, from those of the Utica Morning Herald, a warm tribute to the services of a distinguished statesman, we are at liberty to say that on or before the 4th of March Gov. Seward will resign his seat in the Senate, preparatory to his entrance upon other publio duties. Early in December Mr. Lincoln addressed Mr. Seward, at Washington, a letter kindly expressive of hie confidence and regard, and cordially offering him the Department of State; to which Mr. S. im mediately replied, expressing his grateful sense both of the honor conferred, and of the gratifying manner in whioh. the offer was made, asking such time for reflection as was due to both, and to the importance of the question. There wore many reasons why Mr. Seward did not desire the position he is to take, some of which aro of a public and some of a personal character. But they were overruled by a sense of duty. De had contributed to the election of Mr. Lincoln, in whose qualities of head and heart, and in whose fitness for the high office of President, he has full confidence and•reliance. Ile had been largely instrumental in bringing about that condition of public affairs which adds to the responsibilities of the incoming Administration; and be did not feel at liberty to shrink from any post or share of duty or difficulty that the crisis im poses. And, after visiting home, and consult ing those on whose affection and judgment he is accustomed to rely Mr. Seward accepted a trust for which, by his knowledge, ability, in dustry and integrity, he is, happily, well quail. Led—a trust which, however honored and graced by the eminent statesmen who have preceded him, will lose nothing of its lustre under his auspices. And with the remark that, on no former occasion, has a President offered, or a Secretary accepted, that department, in a manner more delicate and respectful to each, or more independent and honor able to both, we dismiss the subject, not, however, without putting cn record the prediction that Pre sident and Premier will so discharge their duties, amid all the difficulties that surround them, as to preserve the blessings of Union, end to deserve and receive the homage of their countrymen. THE iom.ovniva beautiful lines wore written by a gentleman holding a distinguished posi tion under the Federal Government in Wash ington city: PARODY. WOODMAN, SPARE lIIAT TREE." Madmen, spare that flag! Touoh not a single star ; From sea to mountain orag Its stripes have gleamed afar; 'Tivas our forefathers' hand That gave it as our lot, There, madmen, lot it stand, Your rago'shtill harm it not ! That Hag of Liberty, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea; And would ye strike it down? Madmen, suspend your will, Cut not its heaven born ties ; Our Country's ensign still, flireaked with celestial dyes! On Ocean's wave and heath, In battle and in blast, Our fathers cheered beneath, Cr nailed it to the mast; A tear for thoso who fell, For those who lived, renown, It caught their last farewell— Oh ! do not hew it dawn. Our heart-strings round thee cling, And mom'ries o'er theo (movie; On field and deck thy wing fins been a freeman's shroud ! Old flag, the storm still brave; And Traitors, leave the spot ; While we've an arm to save Your rage shall harm it not EXEOUTED.—Davis Lewis Bradford was exe cuted on Friday afternoon, at Terre Haute, for the murder of John L. Wright—the circumstances of which wo stated at the time of the occurrence. Bradford assorted his innocence—deolaring that he killed Wright in self-defence. Rio wife and chil. dren were with him in the evening and the morn ing before his execution. The military of Torre Haute formed a guard around the scaffold to pre vent the multitude from pressing too near it in order to attempt the gratification of curiosity. The scaffold was within a high er:llo3nm and the execution witnessed only by a few persons epeeist ly called in to see it, TWO CENTS. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL' —The Tallahassee Sentinel concludes a long ar ticle with this salutary counsel : Many excellent end good citizens will favor Florida's seceding alone, but we cannot think'that they haie duly or rightly considered the nature and constuirteriCes of the step. Ones taken it can never be retraced, and should st prove, as we believe it false one, the consequences will long be felt. But we do, sincerely hope that our fellow-oltizent will Weigh this matter well, and that the conservative mess of the people, not-blinded by passion or ani mosity towards any party or section, will T . u t down by casting their votes for members to the coming Convention opposed to so mad and ruinous a measure —The St. LOllll3 Republican Mix alludes to the , settession ordinasibe neivi in ocintedupiatlen i't<The're need be rio passing tile Convention 1:411On a fait — beets. 7.46 ettoltlienatefial district - elect the'number of italfienators as delegiteic tothe.- Convention. This wlllglyet a i tinlfiolent numbei of delegates, and they will,be elected i more nearly in prOportion to population. Bo eleoted,"it may be ea-- peCted that their action will have, great Intliitente with the peeple of this But thOY will not be driven by the minority into heoessibti." —lliram Crafts, of Carleton, N. 8., went on board a schooner at Portland, en Saturday night, and found his way to a berth and turned in. The schooner bad been fumigated and smoked, on Sa turday, with charcoal and brimstone, for the pur pose of killing rats, and all the crevices had been covered with paper to confine the fumes. Crafts was dead when the vessel was opened. on Sunday. —An on dit of the day is that the steamship.fas. Vhitney has been chartered by the Government to convey troops and munitions of war to Fort Jef ferson, on the Tortugas shoals, near Key West, and will leave Boston. Fort Jefferson is not quite finished, and has only a few guns mounted. When finished It will mount 120 gun's. —E B. Ward, the Napoleon of lake steamboat owners, writes to the Detroit Advertiser that be has iron sufficient for 700 heavy cannon, and 20;000 stand of rifles, which he will sell to the State of Michigan on twenty years' time, if they will make it up in guns to be used to preserve the The Baltimore Clipper Bays that a petition to Congress, urging the adoption of Mr. Critten den's compromise measures, is in circulation in that oily with a list of names 500 feet long, con taining about 10,000 signatures. Over $50,000,000 are represented by the parties signing this peti tion. 7 The Harrisburg Patriot and Union is au thOrlzod to state that Senator Bigler is not, and Lae not been, a candidate for the Democratic can ons nomination for United States Senator; and that so soon as be learned that his name had been used in connection with the nomination, he post tively and peremptorily declined. Because Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland lose fugitive slaves, whilst Bengt Caro. ilia loses none, the proposes to coerce them into a condition of things in which they would lose al/ they have, and be involved in bloodshed, confla gration, and ruin besides.—Louisville Journal. —The hope that some posthumous volumes of Macaulay's great history would be given to the world, is to be disappointed. The North, .13ritirk Review states that but little of the history has been left in a state which will allow of its publi nation. —Andrew Hopkins, lisq., formerly editor of the Harrisburg Patriot, and more recently Register of the Land Office in Nebraska Territory, has pur chased the Brie Observer, one of the oldest De mocratic papers west of the Allegheny mountains. —Major Anderson, of Fort Sampler notoriety, Is not a Kentuckian, but a native of Buokinghem county, Va. He married a lady In Georgia, and owns a large landed and slave property there. —Mr. Lincoln is expected to start for Washing ton about the middle of February. The route is yet unfixed. The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago road have tendered a special train. Commodore Platt died at Newburg, New York, on the 12th of December. He was aid to Commodore McDonough in the battle of Lake Champlain, in 1813. —Professor Kackley, of Columbia College, is very low with typhoid fever, which, it is feared, has already produced congestion of the brain. —Governor Curtin is now at Bellefonte, Pa., and deco not intend to go to Harrisburg until near la. auguration day. GENERAL. NEWS. A COMFORTABLE POSITION FOR A DUTCH MAN.—Writing from Batavia, a newspaper corres pondent says the Governor General, Mr. Pahud, is of an agreeable Dutch physique, very affable and courtly in manners, and what with a salary of $lOO,OOO a year, a perfect paradise of a country residence, about forty miles in the interior, and almost absolute away over his vies-royalty, he may be supposed to worry through existence in the ()harming Wand of Java with -considerable satisfaction end thankfulness, as well to himself as his dependents. - Om CREEK RAILROAD.—It is announced that engineers are about to commence a survey of the Oil Creek Railroad. It is thought the road will not only he of vast importance to the 011-pro duoers and lumbermen in those parts, who will have their articles carried for half the price It new costa them, but will be remunerative to the stock holders. It is computed that there are now about four hundred barrels of oil per day, which would pass over it if construoted, and the probabilities aro, that it will be doubled and trebled before it can possibly be completed. PLEASURES or Lug IN NEW Siggico.—On the 4th ult., five men, all Americans, came to an untimely end in Albuquerque under the following oireumstance3 : A soldier, after carefully rolling hiteself up in his blankets, committed euioide by blowing his brains out with a pistol. Another sol dier, to satisfy some old grudge, shot his sergeant; and he was lynched the same day. A gambler was killed in a fight with one of his companions; and the last was a victim in a duel between a soldier and a blacksmith, the soldier killing the black smith. MIOEIOAN ARSENAL.—The Detroit Tribune learns from a reliable solute that the gen•car riages at the arsenal, at Doarboro, have been de' stroyed by fire. In reply to a question, the officer in charge stated that the carriegee were of no use, and had bean doatroyed to preserve the old iron, which was alone valuable. An explanation is asked of &oratory Floyd, the affair being con sidered rather singular at the time. COOLIES FROM nix PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.— The ship Emigrants arrived at Havana on the 20th, from the Philippine Islands, with one hon• dred and seventy-eight Chinese coolies on board. They were imported by the house of Troncoso, Buetament, do Co., and hired out at four dollars a month, instead of six dollars, which has been -the usual price for this olass of laborers. And yet the Philippine coolie la said to be more faithful, docile, and intelligent than those direct from their native country. EXEOrniON WannANT.—Gov. Banks and the Executive Council of 1800 closed up their la bors on Saturday, and among their last doings was the issue of a warrant for the execution of Alex ander Desmarteau, at Spring fi eld, Friday, March 29. Desmarteau is a young - Frenchman, and was tried and sentenced last May, for the rape and murder of the child Augustine Lucas, at Chico- Foe, in the autumn of 1858. NEW EXPREOS COMPANY.—A new company le being formed for an express business through. out the United States, to be called the " Conti nental Express Company." There will be fifteen trustees in its management, composed of bankers and railroad men in the country. The capital is $1,000,000 in cash. Stephen 11. Alden, president of the Albany Exchange Bank, 1t is said,' has the offer of the presidency. - STOPPED.—The Montour iron works, at Dan ville, Pa., have suspended operations, thus throwing out of employment several hundred hands in mid winter. The Intelligeneer says, in cone:piano* of the hard times, the company proposed a reduc tion of wages, which the workmen refused to ac cede to, and hence the stoppage. TREY have a local Jack Sheppard In Cleve land, Ohio. After having escaped three times, he was put into a cell alone on Friday night, with Ankles on his feet. He freed himself from the shackles, unlocked three cell doors, crawled through a defective wall of an old cell, and reach ed the open air jot in time to be nabbed by a passing officer. A CALIFORNIA. JULIET.—A beautiful young girl, betrothed to the gallant young fireman, Bar rier, recently killed at Ban Franoisoo, begged to see hie remains before burial ; In the death•oham ber she swallowed poison, but, being observed, her life was saved. Fnryr-sox thousand dollars have been sub scribed for the aid of the Pope in the diocese of Havana, and sixteen thousand in the diocese of Bt. Jago de Cuba, together, seventy•two thousand dol lars, which amount has been remitted to the Nuncio of Pio IX at Madrid. PIRATIOAL VEssEL IX TUE LEVANT. —A Sardinian vessel, loaded with arms and ammuni tion from Genoa, and having false papers, had been stopped at Constantinople. It wile believed to be a part of the Hungarian invading expedi tion. A PALMETTO FLAG RAISED IN CONNECTIOTT• —Some waggish young fellows raised a Palmetto flag on Fort little, New Haven harbor, Saturday night, and there it waved defiantly in the breeze of Sunday morning till the citizens removed it. IT appears by a table, in the Davenport Gazette, that the average price of wheat at that point has been higher the present season than for any similar period within the past ten years. THE Charleston Mercury, in its shipping nows, describes New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, New York, and other porta of the United States, as foreign ports. THE commissioners of Northampton county wish a lean of $15,000 for the purpose of crimple ting,their new court house. Fetus men working on a claim, at Pike's peak, below Georgia geleb, one day lest week took out a little over $5OO HENRY Jervis was frozen to death on his father's doorstep, at Richmond, Virginia, OR 56-. turday, after a night's debaneh. THE WEEKLY PRESS. . Tag WUILY PUSS WOI be stoat to OttblOrfb1:01 bi ,mail (per annum, in eidvanaed at ----SLOG Three Copier, " at ............... COO Five " " VS .........—............ IS 00 Ten " " " --..12.00 Ihrentr " " • " (to one addross),9o:oo Twenty Copies, or over (to Wrong Of each subeariber,) each 1.90 For r, Club of Twenty-cote or over, we will toad sit extra OoPY to the getter-up of the Club. OT Postmasters are requested to aot as Agents for Tax WIZILT Pazss. CALIFOB.NIA PRESS. homed three timec a Month, in enlister the California Mesmer& rioceedings of City Councils. The regular data(' meeting of both branohes of Colinas was held yesterday afternoon. SELECT BRANCH. _ _ - Theo. Ouyier , Preddeni:inilie Tho one gelation% and oommurdoatlone were reoeived and referred. - A memorial fro& Dr. Wm. Shippen calling at tention to the Not that the name of Geri. Charles Lee IA erroneously affixed to the portrait of Gen. Arthur Lee in Independents:ol:W. For a -Are•alama box in • the Diligent Bose Home. The committee to verify thecae& accounts of the City Treasurer made a report showing the state of the treasury on the 9th mat. • From the,Pranklin•ffesp Company, asking to be located as a steam Ire-engine. . DAVIS offered a resolution requesting, the Mayor to inform (Sennale whether the number of stean engines now located is adequate for the wants of the oily, and whether the same are pro porlyatationed ; which was agreed to. The bill from Common Council for •the opening of Waterloo and other streets wee ttletponed.. A petition from the Western Hose-Company eating tb be located a steam fire-engine was re • delved.; The bill 'from. Common Council making an ap prdptiatlon to the 'Girard Estate was called up and finally , postponed until the superintendent of the 'estate furniabeseertain information. . - A bill fig the, opening of Fifth greet, above Ger mantown rohd was taken up. Mr.. Vern - Jammu offered' a proviso the)? the pr 8 is n er w ty ri li i o n l g de t r i Ll i n a th gr e ee t e in n ity . pr p e a e y en lor to- daTi u o"petial littds—gaVe The to .a• long and tiresome *debate when the proviso was voted down. - The bill then passed finally. , Mr.' BARTOLET, from the Committee on Fire and Trusts, made a report in favor of lodating the Fair- - mount, Humane, Asslatance, and Hilted States fire sionipanies es steam engine companies. - A- motion to recommit the bill was debated at length, and passed-finally, by a vote of 14 to 8 . Mr. BENTON offered a resolution tendering the use of Select Council Chamber to the Committee on Elections of the Legislature, to consider the - con tested-election case of the First district—which was not agreed to. A communication was read from the Adjutant Geheral, stating that .the Governor had ordered him to restore the -Arsenal grounds into-the pos. sestion of Major Weaver, thereby dispossessing the Western Market Company Of the part of the Ar seeal grounds, formerly leased tOtheni. The com munication was ordered to be placed on the, file. ' The Chamber now went into a committee of the whole for the purpose of constiering thelin from Common Connoil,making an appropriation 0f5294,- 700 to the Department of Highways. .Mr..Meln tyre in the chair The bill war dismissed for ever an . hour, at them there not being a quorums of members present, and passed finally, with certain amendments. The Chamber then adjourned. COMMON COUNCIL. Chief Engineer Lyle submitted hie first quar terly re . port. The number of fires occurring daring his period of offiee has been ninety-nine. Estimated loss $131,933 ineuranee 88,058 Lose after deducting insurance... $48,875 The Fire Department new consists of ninety companies, with twenty-six steam fire engines, forty six hand engines, ono hundred and fourteen hone carriages, 1,555 feet 'of ladders, misty-six hooks, one hundred and thirty-nine axes, and 76,238 feet of hose. There are connected with the department twenty:five engineers, twenty drivers, and two hundred and thirteen horses. The number of members is 11,721. The Franklin Hose Company asked to be loca ted. The Diligent Hose Company asked that the fire alarm be introduced into their house. Connell then oonourred in. the amendments to police bill as passed by Neleot Connell. The ordinance making appropriations to the De partment of City Property was then taken up. The item appropriating $lO,OOO to Norris Square being stricken Mr. MoCralastr Made an urgent appeal for its reinstatement. The present wooden paling around that square would probably be blown down during the winter, or taken for firewood by some poor families. If the square should be enclosed with permanent iron rails, Councils would be spared the expense of additional appropriations in time to come. Mr. FREEMAN made a speech to prove that it would be false policy to paes the same. Messrs. FREEMAN and A. MILLER vented their relative lentiments of political economy as to the financial management of the city in =oh matters. The ,former was closely listened to and. be was granted a considerable prolongation of time. Mr. LEND thought the question was one of sim ple arithmetio. Park expenditures were to a great extent devtted for posterity, and posterity should pay Dir them. Mr. LYAD exhibited that those who Toted against hispolioy. wore preferring to pay Motel of $54,500 at preienfrathet than a sum of $38.15 per annum,' and allow the principal to liquidate itself by sink ing fund. Tue - ayes and noes were - called upon the question of atriking out a proviso, making park appropria tions subject to permanent loan, to be Paid. hereaf ter instead of raising the ADM by taxation. Ayes 19, noes 48. Tho proviso was not stricken ont. On the question to devote $l,OOO to planting boulevards in south Broad street, the same wee appropri 6. ated. The total. cppropriationituounts to $110,85 Mr. HAMM, of the Finauoe Committee, report ed a bill appropriating $525,186 to the School Board Ordered to be printed The same gentleman offered a bill fixing the rate of taxation for 1861 viz : $2.20- on the $lOO of as sessed property. Whole amount required,s3, ' 333, 565 06 The total value of-property asseseed is $154,039,103. The rate of twenty-two mills on the dollar will give $3,338,860 26. The ordinance was not considered. An ordinance from Select Cotton to pay a boy $lOO for services was not passed. The appropriation bill to the Law Department was taken up in Committee of the Whole, Mr. Ithiper in the chair. The item of $3,000 for ad vertising liens caused much objection. It wee ma terially amended,. The bill appropriates $22,050. A ooniumnicatioa was received from Mr. Me gargee, chairman of the special committee to in vestigate into the certain alleged yolloy of the directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany. The committee report that the Mayor be authorised to represent Philadelphia at the next meeting of the Pennsylvania Railroad stock holders; and vote for the appointment of a com mittee of stockholders to examine into the opera. lions of the company, and also for the appoint. ment of a similar committee every year. Messrs. Qunnt and A Murata deprecated any interference in the matters of the company. There were good men at the bead of the company, and the; ity was aptly represented in the same. Mr. QUINN stated that the committee had not properly reported. They were authorised to give feats, and , tot report a resolatiori. hixositairx read a number of newspaper ex tpaots to prove the compliolty of the officers of the company in certain discrepancies. Mr. CRESWELL defended the railroad directors and managers. • Mr. Qui NN stated that Mr. Megargee had troubles himself many times upon this question. He had become a positive monomania upon the alleged misisanagement of the road. Whenever a presort; Wien of plate had been made by grateful am-_ ploYees to gentlemen of worth connected with the road, Mr. Megargee saw some discrepancy in the same. Ho hoped that the matter would be sum marily disposed of. Mr. RITES supported Mr. Megargee. Mr. Porton stated that Couricils would do much better to attend to its legitimate duties. In the present matter they could not aot intelligently. Theeity had already three direotore of ability in the corporation. They could attend to all matters of In. tenet, and the character of the company could only be injured by such special investigation. The $5,000,000 invested by the city - should not be imperilled by impeaching the management of the road. The interests of Philadelphia, and of the Pennsylvania road, were identical. Mr. /deserve had been a, director in the road at one time, and his 'feelings had been warped against it. If in vestigation were to be made, let it be made through the three city directors of the road. Messrs. Thum, and Ilizasnazu defended the , resolution. The iesolution was not postponed—yeas 28, nap 313. Mr. Liam voted' , no" on the question of indefi nite postponement, because he thought that the managers of the road should have opportunity to vindicate themselves On the guestiou of passing the resolution, 1.. b MCKIM stated that its introduction was calculated to injure the road. He did not mean to impeach Mr. Megargee, bat the resolution was intended to stigmatise .he road end injure it. The introduo tion, of argument, from „petty gilts, etc., was un worthy of a Councilman, Mr. BACKER also denied that tho matter coati:l.h° tested by a stook vote. In this he was controverted by Dr. litites and Mr. Hodgson. The former thought that the road should act above suspicion. Mr. Quncx alleged that Mr. Megarge was go verned by private malice and by revenge, because he was disappointed in coal speculations. M. Matammus replied that it was .ifsiss." No man' who knew him could so impugn his motives. The vote stood as follows: For the resolution from speolal committee, 74; against, 27. Agreed to Mr. Mc nsartr offered a resolution relative to Fair Hill Square. Tim Board will moot again on Monday at three o'olook. From Utah. Governor Cumming thus concludes his message to the Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory : m an y of the laws now on the statute-book Were passed under a condition of things which will soon (tease to exist. You cannot reasonably anti cipate a oontinuanoe of the partial isolation which has obaraoterized your early history in this re glen. It must be borne in mind that you are situ ated upon thegreat highway between the oceans, whiolt is already traversed by expresses and tele graphs, emits soon to witness the establishment of a railroad, transporting through your valleys the commodities of the world. It would be well that you make timely preparation for changes that are fast approaching you, and aro ultimately inevita ble. New relations between yourselves, and be tween yourselves and the outer world must contr. I would; therefore, urge upon you that you appoint committees to prepare a code of laws, stilted to the present and future requirements of this commu nity. " The judges are constituted your legal advisers in these matters ; to them I refer you. " A. CIIIIMIRG." OIL IN ALLEQIIENY COIINTIANEW YORK.— Oil bas hen discovered in large quantities in the immediate vicinity of the town of Cuba, Allegkeny oormty, New York, and great excitement exists in ooasequenee. The location of the new wells le within a mile of the Erie Railroad.
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