-14 0; - t i lt k 4 143 • 140131011110 DAILY,-(ERTSDATS EXCEPTED,) • BY 411114 W. FORNEY. OFFICE NO. 41T OILESTNUT STREET DAILY PRESS. ,Ifernuva'Onnyit rim WESK, aayable to the Carrier. • ilhaledick Bubionb)no out of the City at 131. X DOLLAR , ' Pitt dt(NUY~ '01:1V DOLLAR'S TOR EIORT lIIONTIIB, Yhttis DOLLARIi TOR SIX MONTRll — envanahlr iu ad siattee:fer the time ordered. ...iERI-WEEKLY PRESS. Railedeeiabsoribere ant of the City at Times Don nine eide 'digitate in advance. COMMISSION HOUSES SHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTCHINSON, - NO. 112 CHESTNUT ST , COMMISSION MERCHANTS Folt THE SALE OF, PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. WASHINGTON FORNIhRLY BAY STATE AlltAta, SHAW L 8 of all eizas in groat variety. 'Embalmed and Printed TABLE COVERS, UNION BEAVERS and 1311.0,0 CLOTHS. • 'BALMORAL SKIRTS -DOESKINS. and Double and Twisted COATINGS. ISACRINSE, and Heavy ZEPHYR CLOPHS. Twined and Plain FLANNELS and OPERA FLAN NELS, Printed FELT CARPETING& For rale by FROTIUNG.LIAIE k WELLS. 34 South FRONT Street, sad 35 LETITIA. Street. GROCERIES. N ki_OW FRUIT. .19UNCH, LAYER, AND SEEDLESS RAISINS', CURRANTS, CITRON, ORANGES, PRUNES, FIGS, &0., &o. ALBERT 0. ROBERTS. DEALER, IN FINE , GROCERIES. non Comer ELEVENTH and . VINE Strom. FAMILY FLOUR, NUDE FROM CUOIOB-Wllllll4 WHEAT C. H. IVIATTSON. 8. W. eor. &ROB itud TENTH ■treew 'eV SEWING MACHINES. WHEELER, & WILSON. - Prices Reduced, N0v.15,1860. SEWING 'MACHINES. see CHESTNUT STREET SECOND FLOOR HARRIS' BOUDOIR SEWING MACHINE. tio.i—FOlL TMMY' DOB. No. a—A Nftw MACULAE, FOR QULLTIND AND HEAyY. WORK. Oiew.frimi two epooli without the trouble of re- M sodiumh little Street ise, Or sai•At No, 720 ARCHPhiladelphia, and 148.7$11AliTIMORBBL. Baltimore Md. IdOLIDAY,PRESE 4 NTEL HOLIDAY PRESENTS FOR GENTLE MI=ALS.—NEW STYLE Genllemen's WRAP PERS, SOARFB,4IO4IIF- TIRS, MUFFLERS, lIMBROLDERED BOSOMS. SHIRTS, GLOVES, &a., suitable and tuieful holiday presents at J. NA. SCOTTS, 814 CHESTNUT Street, MS A few doing below the Continental Hotel." UMBRELLAS► FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. Finished with entirely new and beautiful style Book& beadle& ROB ROY. , FIUME CHARLIE, Mc9HERSON, ROYAL STUART. AND OTHERS. !OR BALE BY WM. A. DROWN & CO, 4imaetwin MARKET STREET. W:ILTERES, JEWELRY, &c. rlll4 - BEST GOLD JENVELRY-TBE .11 GOLD JEAKEI.!. . , ANOTHER LANGE CONBIGNMaN D T OF COLD AND PLATED 4 gRONEN-DP 8. 9 8 11 - ROKEN-UP • BROKEN UP A BROKEN-UP _ MANUFACTURER. No'eslvaiiina,Viltgr Gift Jewelry sold In our &tab- Mk- IT IS IT it 3 IT IN _ 'tar& ,9 1 10LD AND DEANPLTED EtOODS. . , ;BEAN EAN & C 0 ..% - Nt, g 8:4 4 No. D4CRESITATI4eiIt e . hlrdTtolt; below Fourth. north Bide. • , . . . ... CRISIS! - CALL AND LOOK AT. bObIETHING NEW: A GREAT RAW?. OF $75,081 WORTH OF JEWELRY , CHAINS, &c. ALL FOX $1 EACH. .4 10 br t a a n d,inflendid anortment of Jewelry to be sold _._ - 7 1171714:1111310E FOR SI FACG. The following hstoomenses some of the articles sold an Ilde setabliahment for 01 each. it bolus impossible to gairnerate them alkin . circular form. Call and examine far your/elves: / ir else and Splendid Cameo Sete, General Retail c do. do. Lima . d 0....... 10 to 30 • do. do. - Carbuncle sets-- Bto JO . Ladle"' Enameled and Coral d 0...—. I to. 110 ", , do. do. and Carlon:els do— 7to 30 - da. , do . - and Ruby do.— 7to 00 - Gold cluster Grape Setting beta do-10 to JO do, do , vase - do. do —lO to 93 .e.:do.' do. • Jet Set do. do-- 6to 13 so. Black Mosato do. do— 6to 12 • do. Gold.stone Mamie do. do—. 6to 13 I do. Calico Sets do. do—. 6to 12 ibbon rents, with brilliants do.— Bto 15 - . suet Sem. new style do. d 0...... Bto 20 Iled &Mord°. do. - 40.-10 to 10 Gear other different. styles Ladles' Jewelry; fde tlmo , all styles, patterns. and sixes; Lockets of-every piles ; hold Pen, It Unit. with Silver Extension er; Gold_rendila, Gold Thimbles, Plated, barer axe, isles,* savfflis, Stads,_rno., in.; Coral, Lava, . end Bard Bracelets; %tints 'Vest Chains, war ranted to wear for ten years without changing color. rid ell= Ind 0014 . ai They l are sd ral l ty rold You by 0 Moir glider& Ore sot.. made glhoeni autille.4ll each, usually sold by iewell•rs at from 0S Hob; Ladies' said Children's Nook Chains, isaftermi ; Asmlets, brilliant, enamelled, and n 1 Inners i Grosses, Johan and enamelled. for SI :Nutt times from 115 to $ 0) esoh. - l ivery atria mid variety oflnwelry end des treble goods for 1111moh * L iu . bis ems , at the above snots, will contivie 1099 gaga sell off con immense stook. "blob was par e ar a great haeriSoe from man yen who NM hid, ..• .. • • Gotland see MI neat stoolkof ghoils In Philadelphia. Tyree flesh. Talreyour choice for Oleaoh• Ito eats' to 419019 M one dozen of *twins kind of goods at Me above prim, haltsa at oar Oellee ; Di&eri OO. - --: No. 336 OftgaTEUTStreet. Philadithis. Tot - ate arbotirdsr goods by mail, must send Gent, extta,*-pMeititle on a single article Yoe - tiro arti ohne 111 , isid Points onsach additional arEole. BIMAD pun -AND OHZAP BREAD, HANUFACTIMED BY TEE MEOHANWA.I.4 BAKERY. MIX U O1?AIUD A? 77111 YOLLOWIA• .11.80881110811., wawa, 111, cr t. entof Broad end U. Id. OLdif..— --Pp:Li:strops t, below H. Mod End. fil. R th isorner Sixth end JATACI, & 8011, -.... ~. • No. te v eliorth Vlfth itreet. JOHN O. MOTET -,......-- No.l2lBVinestreet. 7. P.)l7lTrid.. ....---„No.113 North Fifth street. d. SOOY--.....L... ----8. E. corner Firth and r n IF. W, AATHFWB--eZnnitenth and Di MORT. —..-...lga " d st:11, 8 1%low WeI "WWI GARVIN —:- —Oki Lombard street. ip. OffITATNEY.-......-.........3 6 l l l V i =g et B s txteenth WM Q0URTNEY.............-N:i n s i t South Twelfth 8. If. WANAMAKEL-4.--F •d er al street, above Sixth. 8. LICNTZ.-.........---Corn h eArth Fourth a and % ler 1.. - NOLLAND.-..- --8, j 4n0 " littteenth an DAVID SADDLER--..-.N ° . " 43 or Eleventh /.111 , 037Th1d11.....--71t r ipnth Att . below 8. i T0N1111411.—...—L-No. ;e N orth Front ill, ' 8000....- .--. ;.-...B. ll rOorner of Itaienth TlT tr F. WORM&- --:NVler4tait and t ih nrlllZif.Tilifii.--.-I,.oll4iint alalTl4ll.-..........-... —...B.:g . . e . t irter Broad and 7744 T. iivn....:—........Co a r a n d e it r i i , %4lt . dreet S. 11!.1!9 I.i ._.......NWportNeth and iai l eti ip IffolFilY r Fir,:.:-.:---Terenz-looond 'toot, ab. AleU. F*11T0N..:..... Co u rtier Coates. Fifth and art*. Sit+ I. I:4ll3ixit—..-.-No.aiiil Coates street D. P. & T. p. WOLF Girard avenue. WM. MoCHIACKEN --Don Hamilton street. ifgaZLY aim* * l a m*. id e alon e siti t ar, el"h Ar. itreat. nth •- corner l ° 1 11 a omen Jusauumyr7 lvi arenth and or z t 4; . l ij " sto rem Arlreet. CaLialina rd°64. ilAogt Lanni, Penns. SEN 'ARNDT-- --. Tremont and Pine erove _arms. ,14, 1 ;0WN,8E1TD..--. went Mester, Penne KoQL Atlantic City. Pl. * . 44 . T0N Florence. N. I. Coltun i bts, Ps. IdrAATIN ,&-'QUAYLE'S . -Amax, lITATIOMIRY. TOY. Alp FANCY GOODS .531 P 0 A/ o SkA ', 3'4 1 : 1 8 1 $ WALNUT sTRKET, 'l4 • • IMPOW 3 ' PHILADELPHIA c• - • - • • • • ••••• I,: tztz,fq s,‘‘‘ / ;:). 11. L'' LI" • ' ri•s 4 A• . • - `ll, ;;,44,14= ' t•/ ; !AV' • -r \.• _ •• • - 1 , ;: !:g • VOL. 4.-NO. 140. The NeW,Bonnet. BT THE BAUD Or , VOWBB BALL. " Hubby. dear. Iwant a bonnet." Said a lady to her lord,, " Ope adorned with ostrich feathers, Girdled with a golden cord." • " you shall have," , rolled her husband, No such bonnet, that I swear; Yen oan find, Pm very certain. Something good enough to wear." Off he wont; then said his ledY " Times are hard, I'll prudent be I can find, no doubt. a bonnet He'll be very proud to see. "Yesterday a Muir he purchased ; 'One in which Witcat a dash When on Chestnut street he sees me Weanng Granny's old Full of fee she sought the attic. Found the bonnet. and in haste Went to inset her prudent husband, ...Known to be a man of taste. Fast to Chestnut street she hurried, , Meeting with her husband there, She exclaimed, •• I've loan; a bonnet. • Something good enough to wear.' " Take it off," be muttered. rasping. Don't be seen in that abroad ; You shall have the feathered b onnet. Girdled with a golden cord " For her head he boo, ht the bonnet, For her shoulders bought a shawl, Both with money saved on clothing .Bought for self at Tower Hall. Witter Stook °losing out at greatly reduoed prmee. at TOWER BALL. 618 Itta.RE,T Street, Philadelphial BENNETT do CO. NEW PUBLICATIONS. 1 1 H1 CONSTITUTION OF TR& UNITED STATES. Jest published. in neat pamphlet form. Single copies, S cents ; .112 per hundred. The Trade supplied, by RO-F% & TOUIrt.E.Y, Wholesale Agents, No. 111 NASSAU Street, Or by the Publishers, FRAN( )F- HART & g 1 ( 4 . le9-0t No 61 COURTLAND Street. Now York. G. EVANS' GIFT-BOOK STORE, ‘-", • No. 439 . C . 114 EBTlyU'r.Btrset_ BUY Seat Bo- i; 103 eT All Book. are gold as oheap se at any other store,and Yoh have the advantage of reoenhog • handsome GM with ear& Book. You can get NEW AND FREBII COPIES dell the Standard Books in every department of Lite rature, together with ALL, 'MB TOW BOOKS.' As won as published. ands Gift worth from One to One Hundred Dollars with each. fleierMined to Maintain eitShigh reputation ahvadli bestowed tome our enterprise, toe shall present to our customers a superior quality and greater assortment of Gifts than heretofore, aid guarantied to give satis faction. REMEMBER. That every purobaser of a ok. to the amount of $1 or upwards , roomy. a handsome Present, whereb they have the advantage of obtaining - TWO OIFTS. FOR THE PRICE OF ONE. And in many instances thevralue received will be a hundred fold the amount invested. TO THE ritOOF. Call in,and one surohnse will assure you that the beat place in the city to buy Holidaroks. is at ONO OE G. EVANS' COFT.BOOK eT_ABLIEHMENT. No. 439 Clihlt tNUT Street. rhiladelphia. !Weapon, visiting the aity are respacrfully invited to call and examine the large oolleotaori of Books. dell tt 186 I LINDSAY & BLAHISTON'S •• PHYSICIAN'S VISITING LIST Fox Price for Patient.' loath , r with a d 6 ieoth" for 60 Patient& cloth, 75 " leather with tacks .__._....._. to for p Patients, 19D1.,tuck Prlae for iss F l a N ti T en ß ui ßL y E e att . ru: H in coo t..... 1 703 di fo of slob .... 00 /50 toots with poohets—..l 20 ALBA. DIARIES of all kinds, to various bindings, for 2861. BLANK BOOKS of all kinds on hand or made Promptly to order. LINDSAY & BLAXISTON. Publishers. al SW SOUTH SIXTH St.. above Chestnut. LOOKING GLASSES. LOOKING-CILASSEB, PORTRAIT AND P/OTURN PRAM= ENGRAVINGS. OIL PAINSIMIN. two he. JAPES S. SABLE & SON, HILTORTERS. MANUFACTURERS, WHOLE SALE AND RETAIL DEALERS. EARLES , GALLERIES, ele CIEeTNIT ■TZEST, THE WEEKLY PRESS. A NEW VOLUMEI-1861. THE WEEKLY PRESS will enter upon a New Ye tune with the New Year. To say, nerelY, that our paper hue been aueeessfad would be to give far too weak and indefinite an Idea of our position—for, not only has THE WEEKLY PRESS been established on sseoure and permanent foundation, bntit le, in reality, a marvellous example of the degree of favor which a rightly-oonduoted LITERARY, POLITICAL, AND NEWS JOURNAL can receive at the hands of a liberal and enlightened ambito. Our most grateful thanks are tendered for the patronage already bestowed upon no, and we ahallsparo no efforts which may serve to render the paper oven more attractive. useful, and popular lathe future. The POLITICAL course of THE WEEKLY PRESS need not be enlarged upon here. Independent, 'toady and fearless, it has battled, unwaveringly and zealous irt in defence of the RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE against EXECUTIVE USURPATION, and unfair and Oran/tidal legiaLsbon; ever declaring and adhering to the doctrine that POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY cone-- tutor the fuzideunentalbasis - of our free institutions, and that the intelligence and patriotism of our citizens wit always be preservative of a wise,lus t, sod salutary Goy. eminent. These are the principles to which THE WEEKLY PRESS has been committed, and to these it will adhere, OUR NEWS COLUMNS will (lentil:me, to be subject to tuiremltting care and attention, and all diligence be employed to make One paper a oompendium of all the principal events of Inte rest which transpire at home and abroad. The LITERARY character of THE WEEKLY PAW, now universally acknowledged to be of an ele vated stamp, shall not only maintain its present high standing, but shall be enhanced by important and valua ble contributions from able writers. Deeming PII/LITY op /CORALS the great safeguard of private happiness and public prosperity, we shall carefully exclude from cur columns everything which may reasonably be objected to on the score of improper tendency. The fields of pure literature afford sufficient material to make an AC CEPTABLE FAMILY NEWSPAPER, containing all the elements of excellence, without h single objection able line ; and the proprietor of the THE WEEKLY PRESS our justly claim that no heed of a family need hesitate tolet its columns go under the notice of any member of his household. The general features of the paper, in addition to ite POLITIOAL AND NEWS DEPARTMENTS, will be Poetry, Azlekis. RiottrapAv. and Original anri So laded Take, ohoeen for their lemma of life, ilittetra. times of lurton, depiotert o pf plangent, and general writ--and adapted, in their* variety, to the tastes of both sexes and all ages.. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT, Due care wilt be taken to furnish our readers with correct :and reliable reports of the produce and cattle markets, made up to the latest hour. In a word, it will be the endeavor of those concerned to make THE WEEKLY PRESS continue a favorite FAMILY JOURNAL, embodying all the characteristics of a carefully-prepared newspaper. Subsonptions are respeetfally solicited. To those who propose patronizing the " WEEKLY PRESS," promptitude• in forwarding their orders for the Raw Vomits .11 earnestly recommended, as, from present iudioation.e, It is believed that large as the edition may be which will be printed, it will notions be in our power to furnish bacuktumbers, in whieb cue disappointment mtuitooost TEEMS: One Coen one 00 Three Ciiplee, one year.— 600 Frye Copies, one year. ,—.— .. 600 Ten Comet, one year........_....... .._ l2 00 Twenty Copies. to one address, at the rate of 81 per annum .•...... . 20 00 Twenty Copies, to one address of sub sub 'amber 71 00 Any poison sending us a Club of Twenty or more, wil be entitled to In extra copy. We continue to mend TIM WEEKLY MEWS to Clergymen for 101. linemen Cosies will be forwarded to those who ra ved them. Subscription.' may 00111M81200 at any time. Terms always cash, is advance. All letters to be addressed to JOHN W.. FORNEY No. 417 CHESTNUT STREET, 1-1 - 1 A. T" 3P. IE3 I . JOB PRINTING. TUB NEW JOB PRINTING} OFFICE " THE PRESS" is prepared to exeoute neatly, cheaply, and expedltloludy EVERT DESCRIPTION OP PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL PRL.VTING. PAMPHLETS, PAPEIt BOOK% CIRCULARS, -BLANKS OF EVERY PESORIPTION FOSTERJI, HANDBILLII, CZ= AUCTIONEERS, LAWYERS, MERaItANTP, MAI4UFACTUREBB, MECHANICS, BANKS RAILROAD AND INSURANCE COMPANIES. filir AU ordsra left et the Pubbostlon Office of The I'm., No. 417 CHESTNUT tweet, trill be brow attondtd t. 01: r r s SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1861 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. In one of his letters to Lord Byron, the poet Shelley characterized a mutual acquaint ance as being cc regular only in Irregularity." This person must have been a blood-relation of the eccentric pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, whose lecture-appointments so often end in dtsappointment. Ho was engaged to lecture for the People's Literary Institute, a body which seems to have a remarkable ten dency for Abolitionist orators, and it is said that, when applied to for the title of his sub ject, he curtly sent back word that, under ex isting [political ? circumstances, he declined naming any particular subject. What induces us to think that this off-hand impertinence ac tually did occur, is the fact that the advertise ments merely announced "Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will lecture." The two thousand persons who filled Concert Hall, on Thursday evening, went there, it would thus appear, simply to hear Mr. Beecher talk—about any thing. Ho has, to a large extent, what is fa miliarly called the gift of the gab, and little more. Bis popularity in this city ought to be beaten down by his failing, for the third time, to meet his engagement with a Philadelphia audience. If they are so spiritless as ever again to give him another chance, they de serve to be again insulted. Of course, so in genious a gentleman cannot be at a loss for a plausible excuse. It is probable that he may not condescend to make any. Let us supply one for him. On the evening of Tuesday, January Bth, while others were celebrating the anniversary of General Jackson's victory over the British at New Orleans, Hr. Beecher was very diffe rently employed. Others were thinking of glory—he, of dollars: In other words, he was acting as puffer at the auction of pews in Ply mouth Church, and seems to have done that business very well, for the New York Times concludes its report of the proceedings thus : " The sale throughout was more than satisfactory to the trustees. They estimate that the amount realised in premiums is from ten to twenty per cent. more than was .ever realized before. The valuations plaood upon the pews are the same as last year." Plymouth Church—the only place of public amusement open in Brooklyn on Sundays— sbelonge to a body of shareholders, who, for several years, have paid Mr. Beecher a very large salary as its preacher. As a permanent "star," be has been very attractive—in other words, very profitable to the owners of the building. In other places of worship, certain rates are fixed as the annual rentage of the pews. But, in Plymouth Church—as at Castle Garden, Now York, on the occasion of Jenny Lind's first appearance—the seats are set up at auction, and the premium sometimes ex ceeds tho rent! For example, on Tuesday evening, pew 89, accommodating six persons, was "knocked down" at $l6O premium; the rent being $l3O. Think of $290 for one year's IMO of a six-seat pew cg under" Mr. Beecher I It would seem that in inverse ratio to the dif ficulty of a rich man's entering the Kingdom of heaven, is the facility with which he may become a pew-holder in Plymouth Church. The sale—an auction in the house of God! —took place on Tuesday evening, and the New York Tribune says "the church was crowded by an eager audience long before the hour appointed for the sale, there being a large number of ladies present," and the same report adds, ct Much merriment was oc_ casioned by some of the incidents of the evening, no one seeming to enjoy the sport more than did the Plymoyth Church pastor himself." This merriment, this sport, which so much tickled Mr. Beecher, took place, be it noted, in a building dedicated to the worship of God. "Previous to the sale," we aro told by The Tribune, «lir. Beecher addressed his congregation in a pleasant manner, congratu lating them upon the prosperity which had attended the church during the past year, and assuring them that no efforts of his should be lacking during the ensuing one to secure the same or even greater success." Thus, when a popular actor takes hie benefit at a theatre, and makes a speech during the performances, be thanks the audience for the patronage they have given him during the past season, and adds, in Mr. Beecher's iden tical words, 4( that no efforts of his should be lacking during the ensuing one to secure the same or even greater success." Farther, The Tribune reports Mr. Beecher as saying "that, at the last sale of pews, there were upwards of one hundred members of his congregation who were unable to se cure seats, from the fact that the premiums ranged higher than their means. He was sorry for this, but did not see how it could be helped so long ea there were a great many more members than there were seats. He hoped they would eat down the premiums this year and keep them down. After he had stated the conditions of the sale, ho introduced the auctioneer, Mr. Pilsbnry." Any one who reads this will perceive why there was merriment at the sale, and why Mr. Beecher enjoyed the sport. Ho know, and every other person at the time also knew, that he (Beecher) was there, that night, not cc to cut down the premiums this year, and keep them down," but to raise and to augment them. It was a bit of fun his making any other pretence. He was there to talk the audi ence into giving higher premiums than ever, and be succeeded, for in addition to the pew rents, $12,686, he succeeded in getting $16,- 686 for premiums thereon—being $417 more than the premiums brought last year. There is more to come in from chairs in the aisles. I7tr!= We beg to suggest the probability of Mr. &echoed not having yet recovered from the fatigue of his labors as assistant auctioneer on Tuesday. This might have overpowered him, until it was too late to start by any train on Thursday. To be sure, he might have tele graphed. But that would have cost forty cents—too large an outlay for the notoriously poor pastor of Plymouth Church. Another Royal Visitor. The latest personal news from England is that Prince AVAIIIRD, second son of Queen Voyeurs, is about visiting this portion of the great American continent. He already has been to the Brazils, after which he went to the Cape of Good Hope. He has, indeed, been much of a traveller, for so young a per son. Ho comes hither, to the British North American naval station, whence, no doubt, he will visit the United States. The actual official position of this young gentleman is—Midshipman in the Royal Navy. In this respect, ho follows the example of his grand_ uncle, Prince Wroasm HExny, one of GEoaou the Third's younger sons, who regularly served in the navy—part of the time under Nimsox— and rose to the rank ofAdmiral, by regular gra dation, and without Jumping over the heads of officers Who had duly served their time. His elder brother, the Prince of Wales, when he entered the army, had tho rank of full Colonel, without over holding any inferior rank. It will be remembered that Prince WILLIAM 1113IILY, afterwards created Duke of Clarence, finally succeeded to the British Crown, on the death of GEORGE the Fourth, and became WILLIAM the Fourth, under whom the Reform Bill of 1832 passed into the Statute-Book. • ALERED ERNEST ALDER; hereditary Prince of the Blood Royal, and Duke of Saxe-Co bourg-Gotha; iS VIOTORWS fourth child and second son. Ho will complete his 17th year, on the 4th August, 1861. By a family arrangement, cntered into about six years ago, this youth will become Grand- Duke of the unitedlduchiea of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha, on the death of his uncle, Duke ERNEST 11., elder brother of Ammar, Prince Consort of England. Duke EnNEirr has no children, and should he die before Queen VIC TORIA'S husband, the Sovereignty of Saxe- Cobourg-Gotha would descend to the latter. John Bull, however, had such unpleasant ex perience—from the accession of the House of BILL HEADS, IMMO PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1861. Hanover, in 1714, to the death of WILLIAM IV., in 1837—0 f the expense of maintaining a , 1 beggarly German province, in addition to the United Kingdom proper, that it was con- 1 sidered absolutely necessary to make, some arrangement which would give assurance. that the petty principality of Saxe-Cobourg-: Gotha should not be annexed, by succession,: to the English Crown. At some future day,il then, should lie live long enough, Prince AL-il raze, "the Royal tar," will inherit his I uncle's vast dominions. He may have to waitll for some time, as Duke EnNtsx is not yet'l forty-three years old, and Royalty, however] potty its realm, is proverbially long-lived. The two Duchies of Cobourg and Gothad now united, comprise a territory of 799 squarel miles—being about fifty square miles smaller than the area of Allegheny county. The united; population is about 130,000—about equal to:1 that of the city of Pittsburg. It has, on a very ,• miniature scale, a Public Treasury, Public' Debt, Taxes, a Standing Army, a Militia, a l Ducal Court, a Council of State,, a Primo Minister, and an apology for a Legislature I Not until May, 1852, was a Constitutional Government granted to this pigmy Duchy. Small as it is, however, there are many yet smaller Sovereignties in Germany, and it is safe to predict that there never will be that national oneness in that country, which alone creates and preserves liberty, until these small States be all amalgamated into one great Union. Interposition of the Border Slave States. The following letter, written by a gentle man of this city to one of our personal friends, is submitted to our readers as well worth at' , tentive perusal. The writer is one of the people, whom we have recently invited to as sist in the discussion of the questions now pressing for settlement : PniaADELPHIA, December 29, 1860. DEAR Sin: The Idea I suggested to you a few evenings since, at the La Pierre louse, whioh you desired me to commit to paper—via : " That a Con vention of the Border slave States might bo made efficiently instrumental in °fleeting a settlement of our national diOlenities"—has, I observe, boon made the basis of a movement at Washington, at the instance of Vice President Breokinridge. It appears that Mr. Breckinridge has prepared an address to the Border slave States, recommend ing a Convention of said States, for the purpose of considering the present condition of the country, and the recommendation of some method by whioh existing difficulties may be adjusted I regard this as the most practieal movement yet made, for reasons atlas I will briefly assign It is, I think, quite evident that no effort that tan or will be made, by any of the States which cast their vote for Mr. Lincoln, either by the people thereof or by their representatives in Congress, can be seriously entertained, or favorably con sidered by the free States apparently determined upon seoession. The fooling between these two sections Is already ranch exasperated, and is be coming more so every day. Each would doubt the sincerity of the other in any propositlorithat might be made, and, hence, any arrangement between them. growing out of the tietiolis of either, is im possible. The four slave States referred to ate doubtless stimulated in their secession movements ,by the belief that they now have, or will hereafter secure, the sympathy and support of the other Pin slave States This Is substantially the capital npon whioh they are working. If they succeed in`draw ing the remaining slave States into their views and purposes, the combination will then assume a most formidable oharaoter, and a dissolution of the Union is Inevitable ; but if unsuccessful in this de sign, then the secession movement sinks into com parative Insignificance, and will fail by reason of its own weakness—it will have lost the moral and material support which is absolutely necessary to its success. Now, I think you will agree with mo that this project of holding: a Convention of the ten Border States, as they are called, is, if not the only, cer tainly the best, means that can be adopted to se cure a satisfactory and final settlement of the whole difficulty. The people of the Border slave States, wo understand, are very generally most anxious to preserve the Union, if it can be done upon principles just and equitable to all sections of the countryt; they are likewise generally desirenti of maintaining the institution of slavery, for they have as deep, it not a deeper, interest in that question as have the Gulf States. Both these foots are recognised as well by the free Vtates, as by the States disposed to secede ; 'the former believe in their devotion to the Union, and the latter have confidence in their desire to maintain slavery. Theylmay be said to be, to a very great degree, free from the prejudices and passion of both ex treme sections. /a is not apparent, then, that they are the best, it not the only arbiters, that can be safely selected. Standing, as it were, between the two adverse, hostile sootiona ; sympathising, to some, extent, with both, in what each considers of paramount importance, and yet differing with both upon certain issues, is not their decision likely to be reasonable and just to all parties, under the oiroumstances of the case? I have all my life been opposed to slavery, in the abstract, but I am not unmindful of the clear ly-defined rights of the slavehoiding States, and I believe that the time has not yet arrived, nor ever will arrive, when the people of this country will justify or tolerate any invasion of those rights. I understand Mr. Brcokinridge's plan is to have delegates to the proposed Convention selected fresh from the people. This is certainly who, and much better than that the Subject should be sub mitted to the members of Congress. The trite son timents of the people will thus bo reflected in the delegates chosen, whilst the members of Congress, partaking of the partisan charaoter of those who elected them, would represent mainly, if not only, such partisan sentiments. Suoh oonnention will certainly bring about a solution of the question, either for weal or for woe ; if it decides for seces sion, without making any effort at reconciliation, which I do not believe to be possible', then the question will be settled, and a dissoltytion of the Union becomes a fixed fact But, suppose they determine to recommend euoh amendments to the Constitution as in their judgment meet the exigency of the ease, such amendments will, in all human probability, be just and reason able; not such, perhaps, as the ultra mon of either hostile motion will approve, bat such as a largo majority of the people, both North and South, will be willing to accept and maintain. Depend upon It, if any such reasonable remedy is submitted to popular action, radicalism, wherever it may be found.will be crushed out in the contest,by the over powering influence which springs from a love of the Union, and an anxious desire to perpetuate it. But it is not only the thus strengthened conserva tive, Union-loving feeling that will exercise a be nefloial influence upon the action of the five States most inclined to mmento° : they will discover from the thus action of the proposed Convention that their hellish purpose of destroying the Union is without sympathy among the people of the Border slave States; that the moral and material aid upon which they depended has been withdrawn; and that, so far as their main purpose fa concerned,' they are virtually out in the cold, houseiess and homeless, with none so poor as to do them reve rence. But is there any danger that such a Con vention as Mr. Breekinridge proposes, will en dorse the extreme measures of the Seeessionista ? I think there is none ; for, apart from the belief that it will be in favor of maintaining the Union for the sake of the Union, a regard for the part'. oular interests of the States represented will in fluence a determined opposition to any measure calculated to dismember the Confederacy. A dis solution of the U 13102, no matter what shape the fragments may assume in the future, would be, if not destruction, at least a positive and enduring injury, oolong as slavery was continued. Let us look for a moment at the probable conse quences to the Border slave States, if a dissolution, even though a peaceable one, should take plane With the existing deeporeated feeling In the free States against slavery upon principle,which is more likely to increase than diminish, it not pro bable—nay, it is altogether impossible—that nay arrangement could be made between the two Go vernments, for the return of fugitives from labor, that might escape from the Southern Confederacy. The consequence would be, that slave property in the Border slave States would decrease so much in value, from its unsafe and unreliable oharaoter, that slave•owners would find it to their intarest to take and soil their negroos farther South, where they would be much more valuable, by reason of the greater difficulty of their escaping into the Northern Confederacy The ground thus made vacant by the abstraction of slave labor would most certainly bo suppled by free white labor, which would sooner or later inevitably load tc• making such States free Those States which are Border slavofitates now, would, in the course of time, become free, and the slave States adjacent would, in their turn, become Border States, only iu their turn to become free States also, by the same prooess. Thus, alavory would gradually but surely be driven into the smallest possible space, in tho moat southern extremity of the land, if not driven entirely out of the present limits of the United States. And what would become of the States that bad thus thrown off the yoke of slavery ? Undoubtedly, they would break off their allegiance with the Southern Confederacy, and rejoin the Northern Union—coining book to their friends like the prodigal eon, after they had discovered the error of their waye. If this reasoning be correct, then a dissolution of the Union is practical emancipation, which the Border States mast strenuously resist. Assuming, then, that the proposed Convention cannot probably embrace the secession doctrine, it will certainly produce this result, if none other —it will establish a distinctive line of principles and policy as between the States represented therein and the other slave States, which will have its influence, as well at the present time an in the future, and if it should fail to restore peace and concord, it may mono a poaoofal separation, and thereby prevent the horrors of civil war. Those, my dear sir, are briefly soma of the rec• sons which inspire me with great hopes in regard to the result of the proposed Convention. Doubt less, others of greater weight will suggest them selves to you, as you reflect upon the subject. FitaNg. GWIN, Esq., for nearly seven years past postmaster of Now Albany, Ind,, died in that oity, on the Oth instant, at tho ago of thirty-one When only eiateen, ho went to the Mexican war, where he was attaohed to the parson of General Jo Lane, and, though but a ohild as it were, fought gallantly at Buena Vista. Too young to be regu larly enlisted, he was not entitled to a land war rant for hie oervioes, but, upon the representations of his old commando?, a apecdal law was pasted by congress granting him the usual warrant. The Revolution in the South A VIAVLUKTIMUTE. A Mississippi paper says : By the kindness of our friend, Col. White, me are permitted to publish the following interesting letter from Charleston, South Carolina. CHARLBEITOI4. SOVEREIGNTY, S. C., Dee, 31, 1860, 7 o'clock P. M. Mr DEAR UNCLE : Enclosed I send you special issue from Charleston Memo y. You will readily perceive what is likely to follow. Intense excite ment prevails. We soon expect to have bloody work. I have °mason, Abbott. now in the army of our beloved State, stationed at Fort Moultrie, now in our possession. It lies opposite to Fort Sumter, en almost Impregnable fort in possession of the late United States troops. I presume we will be compelled to take, at any rats to try and take, tkat fort before many hours. It most be of nines. city a bloody conflict. We must Imo very largely. In haste. Your nephew, A. J. Wntrz. BEALL FAVORS TrIANKFULLY REOEIVED"—AN OFFICIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT EXECUT/VE OFFICE, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 7,1861. Ben . ). Marderai, Esq., Charleston, S. C.: Stu : I am instrnoted 'by his Exoellenoy the Go• vernor to iaturn you hiaaoknowliidgment for the liattictio and liboraldonetion of ten thousand dol• late, made by you to the State. This contribution) tniado, as it ie, at a time of peculiar oiteneY, far , ' Dishes an example worthy of imitation, tipd You to the grateful re'membranoo of your fellow•oitltene. Be plealed to acieept the 'thanks of his Bxoellenoy, and the assutauces'oloonaido. ration and respect from Your ab't servant, 0. G. MEIMINGER, Secretary. EXECUTIVE OFFICE, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, I January 7, 1861. J. E. P. Lazarus, Esq., Charleston, S. C.: SIR: am inatruoted by his Excellency the Governor to acknowledge your donation of five hundred dollars to the publio service. This exhibition of patriotism is -peculiarly gra tifying at mob a time of exigency, and entitles you to the thanks of his Excellency, which I am authorized to tender to you. 'With much respect, your obedient servant, C. G. MERAIINGER, Secretary. A SOUTHERN ADMINISTRATION - . - In the event that Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana unite with the Palmetto Republic in forming a Southern Confederacy, we will "take time by the forelock "in suggesting the following strong ticket for the positions named : ,President, A. G. BROWN, of Mississippi. Vice President, J. H. flettmoun ' of South Carolina. Cabinet Officers, Secretary of State, W. L Yencoy, of Alabama; Secretary of Treasury, R. B Rhett, of South Ca rolina; Secretary of War, Jeff. Davis, of Missis sippi; Secretary of Navy, John Slidell, of Louisi• ana ; Secretary of Interior, G. S. Hawkins, of Florida; Postmaster General, Mark A. Cooper, of Georgia ; Attorney General, James Gardner, Jr., of Georgis. —Augusta (Ga ) Dispatch. !LIFE AT PORT PULASKI A correspondent of the Savannah Rrpubfican, writes : The Chatham Artillery have had an offer from a lady in Savannah, whose husband is a mem ber of the corps, tobomo down and eat ac nurse if her services are needed. Her letter was read in the quarters last night, and was received with three hearty cheers, and a:letter of acceptance moved to be written her to that effect. Another lady sent ue a splendid fruit oako, iced over, and the word " Secession" wrought in with eager; still another, whose na me, is unknown, sent us a package of lint. There may be similar instances of kindneFS towards the other corps, but as I have no opportunity of finding it out, I do not mention them. It is impossible to imagine a gayer and more animated scene than tho fort is daring the day; the men rapidly passing to and fro doing the va. eons duties assigned them ; the labor is severe, and one would suppose that by night nature would claim her rest, but up to tatoo, which is beaten at nine o'clock at night, every quarter resounds with gay sounds and shouts that seine from many hearts. The " lilarseillalse," " Dixie's Land," " filiokey are you Drunk" "Rap Slap," and other songs with like euphonious names, ring out upon the night. But after tatoo all is stilt and silent as death. A schooner arrived last night, having on board a very largo quantity of powder, and it is being put in the magastne to•day. TRE SOUTHERN VOTERS OVERAWED Wo published yesterday an extract from the At lanta (1.1 a.) Confederacy stating that the voters of that Stato were " dragooned and bullied, by threats, jeers and sneers," by the minute men, inte'lroting for the secession candidates. From statements of the Alabama papers it is very evi dent that a similar system was pursued in that State. The Mobile Advertiser says that the vote of Montgomery county for delegates to thooonven- Hon was less than 1.200, while at the Presidential election it was 2,719. Mr. Watts, who was on the separate b'eoesnon ticket with Mr. Yancey, ran ahead of the latter 227 votes The Montgomery (Ala.) Confederation mentions counties in which the iota oast was less than at tho Presidential election by upwards of one thou• sand. In Mississippi and Georgia there is also a great disparity in many counties. What is quite as striking is the fact that in those same counties the immediate Secession candidates wero Invariably elected, anti in nanny roses by less than one third of the entire vote of their respective districts. Only one inference ran be drawn from these facts. That it, that the people feared to express thoir true sentiments upon the most momentous question that ever name before them, and therefore staid away from the polls. Such apathy, in a time of ex traordinary excitement, cannot otherwise be ex• plained. DIRINIONISM IN MARYLAND Sender Pearce has yielded to the outside pres sure, and united In a request for convening the Legislature of Maryland. Governor Maks still resists this soheme, which has for its moving in spiratiOn a purpose to make her an instrument of the disunion conspirsoy, end of a revolutionary at tempt to establish a Provisional Government on the 4th of March for a Southern Confederacy. While Maryland refuses to join the plot, It has no hope of success. Hence, every effort is directed there, but with no intention of allowing her any influence in the movement if the traitors should succeed in inaugurating it. The whole programme of the revolutionists is constructed on a Mexican model, and only needs a pronunoiamiento to be complete, which Mr. Wigfail will probably issue before long. A LEADER WANTED IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The Paiiona; InielkTencer says that a wealthy planter in South Carolina, writing to a friend in Washington, uses the following language: " The eyes of our people aro directed in every quarter, anxiously looking for some sort of loader who can put the right worth: in their mouths, com prehend the entanglement of the skein, and sug gest the beet mode of unraveling it. I think, upon calm consideration, it may be asserted. that disunion, instead of affording a remedy for all our woes, will only entail greater injuries upon us. Providence seems, by placing us in a country where there are no marked natural boundaries, where we have a common language, and, by land carriage and water oommunioation, groat feolilties for enjoying the largest free trade in the world, to design the closest intimacy, or, that falling, the fiercest enmity between these States. * * * If civil war should unhappily ensue, I shall trans far the little faith T. have in the Bible to the Ile merle Poems." SERVILE INSURRECTION IN MAUNA A gentleman in Troy has received a private let ter, dated at ilaymmille, Alabama, December 25, which Bays: "Our people aro greatly mita now on two subjects, the certain withdrawal of Alabama from the Union, and negro insurrections. About twenty miles from hero they have disooverod a plot among the negroes, headed by a white man, or perhaps more than one, to rise on the 26th of this month, and murder all the white folks they could find. The plot was providentially discovered, the white men arrested, and, after establishing their guilt beyond a doubt, they wore hung up, together with five or six negroes. To•day I hoard of another plot about thirty miles from here, in another direction. 'three white men have been arrested, and about thirty negroes. Report nye they will be hung today. The white mon aro Northern MOIL" BURNING O A PALIDITTO I,,LAG At Nioholasville, Kentucky, on Fast Day, a na tional flag, presented by the ladles to a military oompany, was hoisted on the court house. Whilst the community were at ohuroh, a Palmetto flag was hoisted above it, which caused great indigna• ties, when it was taken down, delivered to the ladies, and burned in the public square. FATAL ACCIDENT AT CASTLE PINCKNEY We are pained to record that, on Monday night, shortly after ten o'clock, as one of the sentinels at Castle Pinckney was going his rounds, ho was ap proached by a person at the time unknown. Tho sentinel presented his musket in the not of chal lenging him, when the piece unfortunately wont off, and the stranger immediately fell. On exam ination it proved to be Private R. L. Holmes, of the Carolina Light Infantry. The hall had taken effect in the left side under the shoulder, traversing both lungs, and inflicting a wound from the effects of which he survived only twenty minutes. Robert Little Holmes was the eon of Wm. 11. and M. P. Holmes. He was born in this city on the 10th of February, 1830, and has thus fallen the first victim in the noble cause of South Carolina independence. He is deeply mourned by his parents, brothers, and sisters, as well as by a large number of relatives and friends His high sense of the duties of life had in no ordinary degree en deared him to those who know him best. His ro maine will rest In the cemetery of Magnolia. The funeral services will be at the Circular Churoh l at ton o'clock, this day (Wednesday).—Mereury. A POYARNMENT NOT/014 EXECUTIVE DIEPARTIMNT, I January 7, 1861. All the bureaus of this department have been removed to the house No. 107 Meeting street. Per. sons having business with the Governor, or at the (ace of the Adjutant General, or of any of the Secretaries In the Executive Department, will find the respective offices open daily at eleven o'clock A. M., at the place above named. (lONE TO WAR We EOO by the last number of the Marion (S. 0.) Star that both the editors of that parlor havo gone down to Charleston to do military duty. FRED TOMTIT FOR FLORIDA The employees of the South Caroltniall office rotnrn their thanks to Mr. P. Cantwell for the supply of spirstua/ refreshment furnished thorn to drink SUOMI to the secession of Florida. name To AN OCTOGENARIAN The Sargcon•General tenders his thanks for a contribution to his departmont, from " an old lady, born um day Obarfoston was aurtondored to the British-12th May, 1780." SHINPLABTERB.—The town council of Win chester, Va., has determined to make an issue of corporation due bills, to the amount of $5,000, in notes of the denomination of ono dollar ; fifty cents, and twentpfivo ante. The Military Strength and Weakness of Charleston. [From the Charleston Mercury.] War is imminent. General Soott has control of the United States Government War is his trade, and war is now his counsel. The sword is his orbiter, and to the sword he now looks. Informa tion 'has passed throughout the whole country, from New York to New Orleans, that two hundred and fifty men are ordered to the Charleston harbor for the purpose of reinforcing the United States command at Fort Sumpter. What is our power to resist this act of war, and what is our danger of failure in the attempt? Fort Moultrie is directly under the guns of Fort Sumpter. Wo venture little in the assertion that its power to maintain a struggle against Fort Sumpter is quite inadequate. The attempt will but make bar a slaughter-pen of our beet citizens. To what point or points, and to what power, are we to look for means of adequate and effectual warfare and defence? Are our redoubts on Mor rie Island, and on the east endof Sullivan's Island, at this moment adequate for the complete protec tion of our harbor against all attacks that can new be made 'upon ns ? if not, will it be said that Fort Moultrie can sink any vessel or war-steamer that attempts to come under her guns? Granted. But what, if suoh man•of-war, in attempting to enter our harbor, is brought to by tho belle from our redoubts ? What hinders her from turning tail, and going again to sea with her reinforcemeats? Will we. not have opened war with the United States? And will not Mel. Anderson be empowered and compel. , led, as an officer of the United States Goiernment, to open fire on Fort Moultrie? And will he not do it? And can he not entirely dismantle her in forty-eight hours? flaying completed his work, what will hinder the said' man-of-war from again entering our harbor, and bearing her reinforce ments to Fort Sumpter? Nothing, surely, but the strength of our redoubts, and their ability to sink her. Are they in a condition to do it, beyond a doubt? We confess to have no accurate military information on the point. It may be so. But if not, is there time for delay? Five, ten thousand negro laborers can, and could have been had. Should these points not be made our ohief reliance? Two hundred horses (which can be bad) can re move a large body of cannon in a day. Two or five thousand laborers can throw up a large embank ment in twenty-four hours. Is not this the time to do it? Why should not at least thirty cannon be placed at the east end of Sullivan's Island? It strikes in, (not being military men,) that this is our point, and not Fort Moultrie But if this is not sufficient, why cannot all of our channels, except Mai St's channel, be blocked up for the time being? Is it not worth it to maintain our power? Will it cost money to remove hereafter such ob structions? To be sure it will. But will it not east many, many valuable lives, if it is not done? Unless, indeed, the redoubts we have spoken of are in a sufficient state of readiness to protect, beyond a doubt, the harbor from all and any attacks by sea. M ill it not do more? Will it not, fur the time, tie our hands, and virtually subjeot us to the foreign policy and hostile power of the United States Government? We have said before, we are not military men. We have no aooarate knowledge on the Subject. We do not intend to interfere with those who have, and whose bust:less it is to direct such matters. Eat the condition of affairs is urgent. We would simply suggest each ideas as occur to ns in the emergency, and leave them to go for what they are worth. In all events, let no eostdelay promptitude and action. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. —The Palestine brings us intelligence of the death, by apoplexy, on the 20th ult., of Alfred Bunt, who for some two years past has boon living at Boulogne. Mr. Bunn is principally known from his connection with the stage. In 1826 he was the manager of the Birmingham Theatre, and in 1833 managed both the Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres In London, continuing his charge of the 'Drury Lane till 1848. During this long period Mr. Bunn produced the popular series of operas by Balfe, while he effected engagements with such performers in their various departments as Malibran, Kean, and McCready; and our own Forrest was through him first brought before an English publio. Mr. Bann has written a weak book on America ; three sprightly volumes, enti tled The Stage, Before and Behind the Curtain," and the libretto to Balfe's "Bohemian Girl," many of the songs of which are so familiar in this country. In private life be was mach esteemed. Ilia death was very sudden, and he continued writing for the London Era to the day before his decease.—.2V. Y Evening Post. An immense gathering of all parties in coun cil took place at Chicago, on Saturday evening, the sth inst. Both majority and minority resolu tions were presented, the former being adopted and the latter voted down. no majority resolu tions expressed the determination of the meeting to preserve the Briton at all hazards, and endorsed the aollon of Major Anderson. —Rumor comes from Charleston, S. C , that King Cotton is about to be made use of to defend the Secessionists. It is the intention to cover the bales with a foot of earth, so as to prevent =fix gration from the hot shells to be expeoted from Fort Sumpter. If the obstruetions contemplated for the harbor should be made, Charleston will no longer be a port of entry. —A Havana correspondent says : " Mr. Smith, the acrobat at ChiarinPs Cirous, on New Year' B night, in making the leap for life,' struck his head against a ladder, missed the rope, and fell thirtyfour feet, making several somersaults to the ground, felling On his feet 14e a eat, rinhaert. It is a rather singular circumstance that a short time previously Thomas Hanlon, at reported in my last letter, in making the same desperate leap, also missed the rope, and fell to tbo ground, not, how ever, without sustaining some injury." —The Baltimore Patriot has received a letter staring that men are patrolling itarbrd county, from Ifavre•do•Graoo to near the Pennsylvania lino, every hour, day and night. Each man has ono mile to walk back and forth, and the report is, that these patrols aro under the appointment of the governor, receiving $2 50 per day. The wri ter of the letter, as yell as the Patriot, wants to know what it means. —The St. Charles, the largest and most fashion able hotel in New Orleans, and whioh every win ter averages from five to eight hundred. Northern boarders, has at this time but thirteen guests hail ing narth of Mason and Dixon's line. —General Scott received a despatch from a friend of Anderson, at Charleston, but it is quite vague, 'En order to escape sece.ssiou!eensorship, and gave no definite information. General Soott replied that Major Anderson was a discreet officer, and needed no further orders. —Mr. Town appeared in the Rouse Thursday, and visited the Republican aide. Messrs. Adrain and Larabee were the only Demearats who paid their respects. Things have suddenly °banged all around. Mr. Frederick Seward has, we understand sold his interest in the Albany Evening Journa to Mr. Richardson. Mr. Seward, In disposing o his interest, retires also from his editorial oon neotion with the Journal. —Tho National Intelltgencer has Intelligence which indicates the prevalence of a strong Union sentiment in Texas. Cockades are not so numerous as heretofore. —The New Orleans True Delta announces, in terms of great indignation, an order issued some days since by one of the militia chieftains of that city, to fire a salute of fifteen guns in celebration of Jackson's victory. —A man in the New York Clipper challenges all the world to a sleeping match. lie sleeps five days on a stretch, and thinks he can exceed that time. The despatch to the Cincinnati Commercial, from Springfield, Illinois, says .51r. Chase's busi ness there is one of mere consultation with Mr. Lincoln, and that he is not going into the Cabinet. Mr. Douglas received in Michigan just one vote more than he did in Wisconsin. thus : Miohi gall, 65,052; Wisconsin, 65,051. The Do Kalb county (111.) Leader runs up the name of " Major Anderson, of Fort Sumpter, S. C.," for President in 1884. —Tito dlaunlonists talk of deposing Governor Hiets. They will not stick at revolution in Mary land, if necessary to remove a atumbling•blook to their schemes of revolutionizing the country. —Mrs. Major Anderson arrived in Charleston, on Saturday evening last, and, by permission of Gov. Pickens, is now with her husband at Fort Sumpter. Mr. Bunch, the British consul, substantially recognizes the independent Government of South Carolina, and grants certificates to outgoing British vessels. lion. Albert Pike, of Arkansas, poet and po litician, has been in the city for several days, but left for Washington. Ile is a staunch Union man. - COL J. B. F. Bisset, one of Chicago's oldest oitisons, died on Friday last. Tanchnits, the celebrated Leipsio publisher, has been raised to the rank of hereditary baron. —About one-third of the counties in Georgia did not elect members to the State Convention. —M. Thiess will publish, in the beginning of December. hls eighteenth volume, and ho an nounces his intention of extending the work to twenty volumes. Tho "History of tho Consulate and the Empire," strictly speaking, is complete in the seventeen volumes already published, but the author deltes to complete the "History ef Napo leon," and the throe now volumes, which will, as it were, form an appendix, are to contain—the eighteenth, the history of the Pint Restoration and the Congress of Vienna; the nineteenth, the So journ in Elba and tho return of Napoleon; the twentieth volume, Waterloo and St. Helena. The lost volumes are promised to be ready in the course of 1801.—Athontrum. have been favored with the following ex traot from a private letter dated Austin, Texas Deoembor 22, 1860 : “The Union mon of Western Texas are (while I am writing) making a tremendous demonstration by way of polo-raising and processions. This evening we have a toroh•light procession. In faot a seceder can hardly bo found. The masses are rising to defend the stars and stripes. At the Elmo time justio mast be administered,” TWO CINTS. GENERA.L, NEWS. CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY AND THE lissuctosii, TEM —At a dinner given by the President recent ly, to the Supreme and other judges of this Dis trict, it is authoritatively stated' that Chief Jus tice Taney said, 'c that, if alive, he would ad minister the oath of office to Lira:min if he livid to go to Springfield to do it !" This was worthy of the patriotism of the chief judicial officer of the Republic, and shows that the venerable man has still preserved some of the fire of the immortal Jackson, who gave him the distinguished position ho now occupies. The rumors are still prevalent hero that a secretly-organized mob contemplates rushing into the Roma of Representatives on the day set apart by the Constitution to count the votes for President, with the intention of destroy ing the legal returns, so that Lincoln cannot be lawfully proclaimed the President elect. Such a report at any other time than this would be looked upon as the vilest trash, but unlikely aa such a procoeding as this is to happen, nreparatiobaleve been made to meet it NuAra —Washington Cor respondence of the N , st Chester (Pa.),Repub licatt. STEALING THE the Sd of Ta nnery five mail-bags, coming to and going from the poet-office in this city, have been stolen and rifted of their contents. It was not discovered until last night, and was then brought to light by finding the mail-bag from this city for Rutland, Vt and Montreal, Canada, at Beet Albany, lying 'near a fence, oat open, and its contents missing. The bag was conveyed across the river, and placed in the depot, awaiting the arrival of the train from Now York, to be forwarded to its destination. Since then it has been ascertained that a mail for Mohawk, another for Seneca Falls, and a third for Canajoharie, are missing. There i.e also a mail-bag from Saratoga Springs, for this city, missing. -In -those bags there are known to have been several registered letters, and a quantity of postage stamps. It is supposed that these bags were stolen from the depots in this city, and we understand that the postmaster has sent for Mr Holbrook, to sift the matter out.—. Albany To ur., Wednesday. , HR. GARRISON STRIKING HANDS W/TII SOUTH CAROLINA.—In the Liberator of January 4. Mr. Garrison closes a review of his thirty years of edi torial service to that journal with the following ex ultant prophesy of disunion—an event to which he has unceasingly directed hie energies : "At last 'the covenant with death' is annulled and the 'agree ment with hell' broken—at least, by the action of South Carolina, and, era long, by all the slave 'holding States but their doom is one. The dime lotion of the Union is the abolition of slavery,' said ,Mr. Arnold, of Tennessee, in the United States 'Rouse of Representatives, a few years ago. Hail the approaching jcibilee, ye millions who are wear ing the galling chains of slavery, for, assuredly, the day of your redemption draws nigh, bringing 'liberty to yon and salvation to the whole land." WONDERFUL ESCAPE OP A FIREMAN—DETER 'TION OF AN EXPRESS TRAIN.—When the express train dawn last night was between Rhinebeck and •Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson River Railroad, one of the rods which connect the driving-wheels with the locomotive broke. In an instant the fireman (who was sitting in his reat) was sent sprawling on the coals of the tender, fortunately uninjured. His escape from instant death was almost a miracle, as the seat upon which he sat and the whole side of the engine house were shivered topieoes by ths revolving broken rod. The soft cushion on which he sat no doubt' saved his life, as before the rod could penetrate that he lay at the bottom of the tender. The train was at once stopped, and in half an hour was on its way to Poughkeepsie, running with one connecting rod. At that place another engine was procured, and the train arrived in this city in time. EMPLOYMENT FOR Two T M OOSAN ED FIV HUN DRED OPERATIVES.—During the past six months, large additions have been made to the Peal& Mills, the Pemberton Mill has been rebuilt, on an enlarged scale, and the Everett Mills have also been prepared for the manufacture of cotton. All these establishments are situated in Lawrence, will come into full operation during the first quarter of the present year, and will require about two thou sand five hundred operatives. It has been sup posed, until recently, that it would be difficult to ilnd opiratives in Now England for these establish ments, but as the boot and shoe business has been overdone for some time pest, it.is now presumed that enough operatives will be found in the vi cinity, without advent:l°oh° rate of wages. Tau State of llia.asaebusetta 'keeps up the old custom of giving a dinner to her Representa tives annually, on the assembling of the Legisla ture. The knife-and-fork performances follow a blue-light sermon, as in the olden time. This year the State bought the dinnerfor its Representatives at the Parker Route, in Boston—a splendid house, by the way. Besides any quantity of eating, there Massachusetts legislators did a "rather tall amount" of dunking! They sWallowed 225 bottles of wine, worth from $2 to $4 a battle, (being about one bottle to each Representative present ) The State bought it—and its law-makers drank it —the Maina law Gekg in full force when the liquor ran down the lew-makers' throats. Does that need any comment? Tun COLUMBUS ARTEOLAN WELL.—A recent report to the Legislature of Ohio states that the artesian well at the State Rouse is 2,775 feet in depth, passing through the following geological strata—drift, devonian, and upper and lower On rim—the bottom being now in sandstone. In re gard to the probabilities of finding water by far ther boring, the report cencludes that water will never be found—not bemuse water•bearing rtrata have not been permeated, but because they lie so horizontal that no powor can be obtained to force the water to the surface. "I`he water at the bottom of the well, if found, would be blood•warm. IMPORT OF COFFEE.—The total importations into the United States from Brazil during the past year amount to 859,481 bags, which, added to the stook in all the seaports on the ..8/st December, 1859, (estimated at 100,90 bogs) 'which, after de ducting the stook on band a,, the present time in all the Atlantic ports, (135,000 bags,) gives &ma. gumption and in hands of the trade in the interior of the oonntry, 834,481 bags—which, compared with the quantity taken for consumption last year, shows a decrease of 259,338 bags. TUE COAL TRADE.—The quantity of Penn sylvania anthracite coal brought to market in the year 1880, was about eight and a half millions of tone, or double the quantity reported ten years ago. In addition to this large domestic export, there is at least a million and a half tons consumed at the point of production in Eastern Pennsylva nia, or produced in the western portion . of the State. THE WOOL TRADE.—The present state of our monetary and political affairs, which has served to depress the wool market in this country, all through the month of December, has not exer cised any influence on the market for wade abroad. In our home market there is a prospect of mare Inquiry at the present low rates, (ts the mills have been running from half to full time, and their stook has become reduced. A MAIL carrier in Crawford county, lowa, was ohaaed by wolves a few nighta since, and finally compelled to take refuge in a tree, where he remained until morning, half frozen and frightened nearly to death. The savage beasts growled around him until about daylight, when they took their departure. The carrier's horao was pursued by a portion of the peek, and is sup posed to have been eaten by them. A I,BTTER from Tucson, Arizona, to the New York Journal of Commerce, says that Gov. Pesquiora, of Sonora, bad declared the " right of way' from all the ports on the Gulf of California into this Territory free from all ditties, let, or hindrance to persons or property. The deoree is published in the Government paper at Urea. This is very important notion for the interests of Ari zona. YLyB AND FRIIIT GRONVING.—A Vine and Fruit Growers' Association has been establisbed in St. Louis, with a oapital stock of $250 000, the object of which is the establishment of a great and permanent home trade for the people of St. Louts, by causing the cultivation of the waste lands of Missouri, as largo as the whole State of Massa. ohusette. The company has already commenced the cultivation of a plantation of 1,000 acres, 100 of which has been covered with vines and fruit trees. Tug Dorn CROP.—The gold shipments from California the present year will probably fall from sit to seven end a half millions below those of 1859. The gold supply of Australia is also dimi nishing. To offset this combined deoroase, how ever, there ie an increased yield in the Fraser River and Oregon mines, while Pike's Peak is con tributing largely to make up the defloiency ; the Washoo region promises a marvelous product, and new discoveries of great richness are reported several hundred miles south of the Pike's Peak region. Tnw Toronto Freeman complains that the Roman Catholic Bishops of Toronto and the priests are often insulted by the vilest language and hoot inge of even the children from the very doors of their schools. Bishops who have visited the city have declared that for the first time in their lives they have been insulted in Toronto. THERE are nine English, two French, one Spanish, and four German daily papers in San Francisco. Thera are twenty-two weeklies, where of eighteen aro English, three French, and one Italian. There are seven monthlies, one of which is medical and another religious. GARIBALDIENNES," a new mantlet,ls worn by Parisian ladies It is simply an ordinary seek of cloth, of a color to snit, the taste of the wearer, profusely decorated with brandobourgs all down the front, which gives it a very hussar, or rather military, look. VILLAINOUS.—The Troy ✓lrena notices in a commendatory manner the invention of a substi tute for fire arms, in the shape of a cylinder filled with vitriol and discharged by a spring. A vit. lainons affair, and far more likely to be used for evil purposes than for_ self-protection. LIQUOR SELLING has been entirely stopped in Hardin, lowa. Last week the last liquor seller in the place, and his wife, joined the Good Tem pters. Tun rum negro slaves directly imported into Cuba were forty °agrees brought from the Cape do Verde Islands in 1562. They were sold for about $5O or $6O cash. BUSINESS REVIVING.—Tho Hartford Courant says that the extensive mills at Baltic, and other large mills in that direction, commenced running full time on Monday. Conn in Ur.iu.—According to the Salt Lake correspondent of the New York Tomes, there is no doubt that coal exists in large quantities in the great basin of Utah. Tun Bank of Kentucky has made a dona tion of five hundred dollars for the relief of the poor of Louisville. TWENTY patriots of the Revolution died during the past year. Eighty-two are all that aro now left. AN old lady, who has used glasses thirty years, has perfectly recovered her sight, at Salem, Massachusetts. OWENSBORO' (Ky.) was lighted with gas for the first time on New Year's eve. THE - WEERLY EMESEL- Tas Waaayt /111111 Will be sent to nbeevitem by mall (per annuM, in :alytincs.) at ----.80.00 Three Copies, S.OO .Five 0 00 Ten " ',twenty " " " (to one addreas).9o.oo Twenty Copies, or over (to address of each subscriber,) each—, 1.20 For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will send extra copy to the getter-up of the Club. Mr Postmasters are requested to not es Agents ter TIM WEILL! Palms. CALIFORNIA PRESS. /wed three thou a Math, in timo for the California Staamers, Weekly Review of the Philadelphia Markets. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11, 1861. Business in all departments continues dull and un settled, the ' , roiling news from the South having•a tendency to limit operations, and the markets gene rally are dull. Bark is in steady demand. In Bread gaffs there' is a better feeling, and for Flour, Wheat, and Corn rather higher prices have been realized. Coal is dull: Coffee, Sugar, and Molas ses are selling moderately •at former quotations. Cotton has been excited, and prices have meter', edvaneed. In Fieb, Fruit, Hemp, and Hides no change. The Iron market continues at a stand. Naval Stems and Oils are ivithoni alteration. In Previsions tliere is a better feeling. Blue u batter. Salt is inehanged: Clovorseed is in fair d emend, but in other kinds there is little or nothing doing. Wool• is Mere inquired for. Freights continue dull. . Tho Breadstuffs market is firm, but the demand for most kinds continues limited, and the market rather quiet. Soma 3 000 bble flour only found buyers, for export,l at $5.2545 50 for superfine; $5 02} for good city mills do ; $5 500 75 for extra, and $5lO 50 per bbl. for fancy brands, as in quality, which is an udvonde on last week's rates At the close there are no sellers at our lowest figures, the stook of superfine Niel; very light and the market very firm Rye Flour is scaroo and selling at $3 6250 75 per bbl. Pennsylvania Corn Meal is held at $3 per bbl , which is above the views of buyers. The following is the inspection of Flour and Meal for the weelt ending January 10. 1861: Half barrels of Barrels of emperfine._. 9,907 do. lute 123 do. do. 136 -1 244 Wirsar —The ts continua light as o ceipwell as the offerings, and the demand good at full prices. Bales include 20 000 bus , ranging from 1250 'for common to 1330 per bus. for prime Western and Pennsylvania, 135 e for prime Southern rode, and 14051503 for white. Rye is in fair iequest, and 2,000 bus.. mostly Pennsylvania, sold at 75a761. Corn has been in demand at a slight ad vanoe. Bales of 22,000 bus. at 70.1710 for old yel low, and 580633 for new, closing at our highest potations Oats are in good demand at full rates: Bales of 15,000 bee. at 340 for Delaware, and 34e350 for Pennsylvania, chiefly of the ilatler. Barley is steady at 755, and Barley Malt at 85a953 ;per bus. PROVISIONS —There is a better feeling in the market, but not much doing. The receipts and stooks of Mess Pork are small; sales of Western and eity•paoked Mess at $17a17 50 per bbl, and abort time; for prime prices are nominal; oity packed Men Beef sells in a small way for ship stores at $12414 per bbl ; no sales of India Beef have been reported; Dressed Hogs command $8 50 a 6 75 the 100 His; Bacon is quiet; the receipts and stooks are small; sales of plain and fancy canvassed Hams at 11ia133•, Sides at 10o; and Shoulders at 80, cash and 60 days. Green Meats— The receipts from the West have somewhat in creased, brit there is more inquiry, and we ad vance our quotations; sales of Hams in salt and pickle at Mac, 60 days; sides at 83c ' now held at ilo ; Shoulders at &ion. Lard—?he demand con tinues limited, but prices are better; sales of tierces and bbls 10Ia10/o; kegs at llalllo, short 'Hine. Butter is dull ; there is a moderate inquiry for Roll at 11.1100, but inferior is very dull, and sells slowly at 12o; sales of solid packed, in small lots, at gene, as to quality, and Cheese at 10alle per lb. METALS —The transactions continue limited; sales of 200 tons No. 1 anthracite at $22 50, 6 mos. Scotch Pig is entirely nominal. Bar and Boiler Iron sell slowly at previous rates. Lead is but little inquired for, buyers holding eff for lower prices. Copper—hheathing is dull at 27e. 1,050 sheets American Yellow Metal sold at 190, 6 mos. BARK...-1110 receipts and stocks of Qaercitron are very light, and it is held with more firmness; sales of first quality No. 1. at 525, aad second qua lity do. at $2O. No Tanner's Bark hake, and prices nominal. BEESWAX is scarce; good yellow is held at 32a 33e per lb. OANDLlM—Tbereas been rather more inquiry for Adamantine, withsales of 1,000 boxes city made at 17a18o, 4 and 6 months, chiefly to go out of the' market. Sperm Candles are unchanged, and Tallow are dull at 11a12, per lb. COAL —There is very little doing, and the ship ments that aro now going forward are on account of former contracts. There is a moderate inquiry for the supply of the home trade, at about previous rates. Covirus. —There has been more Being since last week, and the market closed firm; sales of 3,600' bass Rio, at 111112.1.3 for-.lnferior and good ; and 2 000 bags Laguayra at 134a131e, on time. corroe.--The upward movement noticed at the clone of last week still continues, and holders have again put rip their _ratinsa llaj I.4ea comprise 800 bales at 10Ic for ordinary ; 13a1.310, cash, for middling fair uplands; do Memphis, at laio; and good middling Georgia, at 121612 a, cash. The stook is very much reduced. The following is the movement since the Ist of September last, as compared with the previous throe years: 1061. ISO. 1859. 1858. Receipts al ports. 1,730 0002301.010 1 931 000 1,146 CCO Export to Cl't Britain.. 754000 901 000 686900 MOO Export to France.- .109 000 225 003 284 000 131,070 Export to other F. P... 108 tao 104,010 155 000 113.000 Total export-- —1,061 00 1,231.1X10 I,fus.coo 5840E0 litOck on hand 6117,000 99u,000 T 70,000 1567,000 Of which, during the past week, included In the above: Reeetpta at ports. Export to t-'t Bruton.. bxport to France....._ Expert to other F. P. Total exports. 111.013 169 000 150 000 94.000 6113)0 78 OW 49,030 26.660 17.600 3.600 16,10 20.003 6 003 13 OM 73.000 9 003 79.000 122,030 87.000 80 060 SU3IIIARY Receipts—Decrease at t ?v...., compared with last year, 571 000 bales. Exports— Decrease to Great Britain 148,000 bales ; decrease to France 36,000: increase to other foreign ports, 4,000. Total demean in exports, 180,000 bales. DRUGS AND Dyne —Trade is nearly at a stand. Some Soda Ash sold at $2.50, and Opium and In digo on terms kept private. - Frain—There aro 'very few Mackerel coming forward, and but few wanted, the inquiry being almost entirely confined to store lots; sales of medium No. Is atsl4 50a15, large do at $16'16 50, largo 2s at $12a12 50, medium do at $9 50. and small 3a at $5. Pickled Herring rango from $2 75 to 8175—the latter for choice Labradors; 3,009 extra smoked Herring sold on private terms. Salmon are held at $l7, but without sales. FEATHERS are unchanged ; 20 sacks good West ern sold at 430 per lb ; we quote at 43s4Sa. FREIGHTS are dull and unsettled, and no en gagements of any consequence have been made publie to alter quotations in either foreign or coastwise rates. Faure —There is a good jobbing demand for Foreign but otherwise the transactions are limited. Sales of Raisins at $1.90a2, and half and quarter boxes at proportionate rates Layers sell at $2 10 a 2 25, and new Currants at filo on time. Domeatio Fruit is not so abundant, and the supply of green Apples has fallen off Sales at $1 50e3 per bbl as ilk condition. Dried Apples are very dull at 21a4a. Dried Peaches sell slowly at Salts per pound. Cranberries range from $4l to $l4 per bbl. GINSENG is steady. 1,500 pounds crude sold on private terms. G11400.--lhore is nothing doing at this season, hut prices are nominally unchanged. HEMP is quiet, and ,we hear of no sales of fo- reign or domestic. Ilona —There are but few here, and they are but little Inquired for ; sales of Eastern and West tern at 29a320. Old Hops are not wanted. Lumnsa.—There is but little movement in any kind, and no change to notice in prices ; a lot of Southern Yellow Sap Boards sold at $13a14. Laths range from SL 75a1.85. Piokets are held at $6 a 7 per lit. MoLasses is quiet, and without sales to any ex tent,; we quote New Orleans at 3.5a360, 4 mos. NAVAL 6TORES.—Rosin, TAT, and Pitch nre very dull, and for the former prices are nominal. Spi rits of Turpentine is scarce and in fair request; sales at 38a390, cash, part to arrive, and New York pkgs. at 40s. 0/LB.—Linseed Oil having declined to 500, there has been some speculative demand, with constde 4able transaadons at 50a51e. Winter Sperm ranges from $1 Oral 70, 4 mos. Lard Oil is very quiet; we quote winter at 92a950. City made Red DA Is worth 52a54.0 nor I%mill:a —There is but little here; we quote soft at $3 per ton. Baca is held higher ; sales of 150 °asks at $3.75, now held at $4-4 months. SALT is unchanged Two Imports of Ashton's fine remain unsold. 2,400 sacks have also come to a dealer. . . heans.—There has been more doing in Clover seed, and 2,500 bus fair to prime quality sold at $5 a 5 40 per bu, mostly at $5 2555.37 i. Timothy is lower; 300 bus sold at $2.25 per bu. In Flaxseed nothing doing. It is hold at Si 50 por bu. boom:L.—There is a firm feeling in the market, but not much doing; sales of 200 hhda common to good now crop New Orleans at 69.6.10, on time, and 200 boxes Havana on private terms. SPIRITS —There is no change in foreign. N. E. Rum is steady at 33a340. hisky is better, sell ing at 1911910 for Pennsylvania and Ohio bids.; drudge 17a1710 ; and bhds. at 17ia18a per gallon. TALLOW is unchanged; sales of otty rendered at 95a92, and country at 9a, sash. Ts/ie.—But little doing in either blacks or greens, and no change to notice. TOBACCO —Prices are steady for both leaf and manufactured, but there is very little selling. WooL.—There is rather more inquiry from manufaoturers, but the difference in the views of buyers and sellers limits operations, and the mar ket is quiet and prices about the same as last quoted. THE DUKE ow BRUNSWICK' AND HIS DIAMONDS.— An account was given some time back of pro ceedings between the Duke of Brunswick and a printer, named Weisener, relative to the printing by the latter of a catalogue of the former's dia monds. Weisoner brought an action against the Duke, before the civil tribunal, to obtain pay ment, for the printing, and the ease was heard 9 0f ol4 B .9 3 atlday. Ho stated that the Duke had himself drawn up the catalogue, which comprised upwards of 1,200 objects, the total value being re presented to be the enormous sum of 15,300,000 f. An account of the weight, origin, form, and value of each article was given, and as, besides, a history of the most celebrated diamonds was added, the catalogue extended to 255 pages. The Duke had. beforehand agreed to pay hint 3io. par page for each copy, and that sum multiplied by the number of pages and the number of copies struck off, made the 9,830 f. claimed. On the part of his Highness it was contended that no stipula tion as to price had been entered into, and On offer of 3,500 f. was made as amply sufficient remunera tion for the work done. The tribunal, after heat ing pleadings for both parties, decided that the sum to be paid by the Duke should bo B,ooof. In the course of the Pleadings it was mentioned in cidentally that th - e Duke is now negotiating for the purchase of two diamonds, his offer for one being 1,100,000 f., and for the other 3,000,000 f. Naver..—The United States frigate Con- Nress and gunboat Seminole.were at Rio Janeiro, or. 22.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers