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EVe Vrtss.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER ?A, 1861
igN'THAVT MUER THE LAST SPEECH OF
STEPHEN A. DOUCIi..Ag.- 1 4 The conspiracy
to breal, up the ration is a fact now known to
all. Armies are being raised, and war levied
i,ee.nanligh it. There can be but two sides
to the controversy. Every man must be on the
side of the United States or against it. There
call be no neutrals in this war. There can be
Lour 1.1 rasaa trzators.."
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Tim LATEST WAR NEWS.
The Washington correspondent of the Now York
A-4 says that Mr. Adams, our minister
to England, reports to the State Department that
ho had an interview with Earl Russell, after the
dicsuitsion of the Trent affair in the British Cabinet,
but no definite conclurions were arrived at. Lord
Lyons has opened a preliminary correspondence
with &watery Seward: but ho has ne yet =do no
demands upon the Government, and will await
the arrival of further instructions before entering
into ft regular exchange of diplomatic 111188iV138,
There is considerable anxiety to know the nature
of the demands which will be made by England,
and the questions at issue arc warmly diaousied
in all quarters
The troops connected with General Burnside's
expedition to same of the paints 911 th 4 *4lltherll
coast aro making preparations for their departure,
although it is nut likely that that event will take
place till near the first of January. The forces
to be engaged will consist of three brigades of
infantry, fifteen regiments in all, or about fourteen
4,l,oliAttea %JAIL Rho claws brigades will be under
the command of Generals Foster, Rhino, and some
other otileer not yet named, the whole under the
.00mioaild of Oenetql Iturrigide. The Fiftieth Penn
sylvania, Colonel Ilartranft, is the only Pennsyl-
vania regiment yet named to take part in the
expedition, altisougb, before it Starts, two or three
more regiments from the came State will, no doubt,
be added to it The vessels that are also to take
part are arriving tinily at Annapolis,
Owing to the wisp foresight of Secretary Came
ron, we will soon have in this country an abundant
supply of good and serviceable arms, Mr. Tharlow
Weed writes from Paris that Mr. Szlmyler, the
Government agent for the purchase of arms in
Europe, his completed his mission, by obtaining
over one hundred thousand rifles in Austria and
Saxony, equal to any in the world, and that he is
snaking preparations to ship them as soon as pod.
The war excitement in Canada continues una
bated. The Quebec papers publish an official order
which require the immediate formation of one
company of seventy-five privates in each battalion
of the regular and no man will be accepted
"OW does not To) unteer £vr immediate service and
on a day's notice. A large quantity of military
stores : consisting of sixty- eight pounders, shot, lad
ebell boa bean dalpatehed. for Toronto and
Kingston, and more will soon follow.
The Death of rrinee Albert_
The steamer Persia brings us the sad and
unexpected intelligence that Prince ALBERT,
consort of Queen VicmottA, died of gastric
fever at noon on Sunday, the 15th instant.
He was born at Rosenati, August 26, 1819,
and was the second son of EARNEST, Duke of
Saxe-GO - burg Gutha. On the ath or February,
1840, he was married to Queen IricroniA,
since which event the British Parliament has
given him -a pemmal alio - yr - at:co of $1.50,000 a
year. He also held numerous lucrative and
honorary appointments, and by his accom
plishments, his devotion to art, science, agri.
culture, and industrial interests, he gained
the respect and kind regard of the people of
England, and of nearly all other civilized coun
tries. Although forbidden, by the peculiar
nature of leis pcsition, to interfere in political
affairs, the employments to which he devoted
himself, and his high personal character, won
for him a reputation which many monarchs
who possessed far greater power never ob
tained_ fir death will be universally
mented.
The Foster Home.
tT he Managers of the Foster Home Associa
tion, on Hamilton street, corner of Twentieth
street, propose to give a good dinner to - the
poor little darlings under their charge i and,
on their behalf, we appeal once more to the
kind-hearted and the charitable to send to-day
their contributive, whether in money - or pro
visions, or otherwise, to the matron at the
Home. No more fitting season for such an
appropriation at the hands of the Christian
community could be found than the anniver
sary of the birth of Him whose injunction still
carries to the hearts of his followers the hea
venly admonition, Suffer little children to
come unto me, and forbid them not."
Sucepastg.r. wArt is not mado with hinntad
bayonets and blank cartridges. The immedi
ate object of war is to destroy and disable.
The more destructive it can justly be made,
the more seldom will nations indulge in its
horrors. Kid gloves arc an anomaly that
would disfigure an earnest struggle for national
existence. All have read FOLLOICS descrip
tion of the hitter days, wherein men met each
other in the streets, bowed politely, stabbed
each other, and gracefully returned their
reeking blades to their scabbards. This is
very well as satire, but would prove fearful as
fact.
THE ENEMY has shown his disposition to
make this fight without gloves. While we
may not vinulatc his ferocity without Isavurring
a ruinous loss of self-respect, we can evince an
earnest purpose by using all legitimate weapons
agninat him_ In his general order, Gen_ lat.
LECK takes up a very effective weapon, and
proposes to use it with vigor and despatch.
The traitors should not only survey the ruin
they have made, but be forced to repair it, in
so much as their property can contribute to
that end. If many censured before, they will
applaud now, and when his policy becomes
uniformly the policy of our chieftains, the first
step toward enduring peace will have been
taken.
New Publications
Vuttisvmxs BooKs.--Extremely appropriate to
the season is the publication : in two volumea, of the
whole of Dickens's Christmas Stories, with original
illustrations by Darley. The previous issue con
tained 44 The Old Curiosity shop," in three volumes,
similarly illustrated. The publisher is James Mil
ler, New York, (successor to W. A. Townsend,)
whose agent here is John McFarlan, 33 South
Sixth area, from whom we :deo hare recoiled
Part X. of The Rebellion Record," with fine por
traits, on steel, of Brigadier Generals Blanker and
&swans.
HARPERS MAC:AM:E.—We have received the
January number, from J. B. Lippincott & Co.
T. B. Puon.—ln our mention, yesterday, of the
01' Robia t. 6 the riddle—for
what oldTrapbois used to nail "a con-si-de-ra-tion"
—we omitted T. B. Pugh, corner of Sixth and
Chestnut, who hex a variety of gift-beaks, in all
varieties of binding, suited for all ages and for all
seasons, at reduced prices, too, to suit the times.
To such as keep up the old custom of having " a
round gnme" oi, Christmas Eve, we commend his
Patent Playing Cards, with Union desiens, in gold
and colors, on the back. They are the finest we
ever saw, even superior to those by Delarue, of
London.
GOMIS Tor Presents
In addition to the iti_triblishmants enumerated in
our "Boliday Direet.,ry" yesterday, we invite at
tention to the beautiful ''Noiseless Sewing Ma
chines" of Meiar.. & Baker, No. 730 Chest
nut_ noir elegant ate& of thaea invaluable
labor-saving ins', uments affords a tempting oppor
tunity for persors so disposed to make an acceptable
gift of lasting value.
The first numbers of the " Sunday•fiehool World,"
and the " W.: hi" for 1862, have just been
honed. The fernier has had one very successful
year's experienev_ 117111 the latter is a. new addition
to the publications of this beneficent and catholic
institution, intrtoicd fur circulation among the
thousands of children in its various missionary
fields throughout the Union, They are both beau
tifully illustrated, end ore models of the typographic
art. The rending matter also is unexceptionably
Bond_ The splendid stook of hooks of the A. S S.
deserves special attention in selecting gifts.
Mr. T. B. Puey Sixth and Chestnut streets,
offers juvenile books at forty per cent. less than
tLe Ile. 6. also a finastoek of Fancy
Goods, of a good quality, at moderate prices.
Thv WIN Plait fVvla Washington ? due at
12 o'clock last night, again failed to reach HS,
owing, doubt:es:4, to the storm that prevailed
during yesterday.
Smith O'Brien's Letter
Mr. Pot r„ 0 9 1-artmd, lettt.r to Mr. EIJI wA
which we published yesterday, is extremely
characteristic of the writer. Eminently im
pulsive and entirely anti-English, Mr. O'BRIEN
is so wholly Irish in heart and soul as to
give very wild advice to Mr. SIMARD,
ye+ with such thorough earnestness, that it
is impossible to (tont his sincerity. sepa•
rated into two distinct portions, of specula
tion and of fact, this letter possesses no small
-totems+, from the eireotostooces of the time
and front the writer's influence on the Irish
mind, at home, or abroad.
H 6 bóke is that the United States will ac
cept the challenge of England, and eagerly
plunge into war. He does not conceal Iho
difficulties ahead, alined insuperable, ho ad-
Init.3, if our civil war continues. Ile recom
mends that, by diplomatic delays, all answer
to British demands be postponed as long as
- possible, and this fora double purpose—fleet, to
gain time for deliberation and for preparation,
and next to employ that time in sending
and gmluet to the Confederate
headquarters as ambassadors from the lefty
rid Government to treat for the immediate
Blitipensiell of arms, and for the early adjuht
ment of the questions at issue between the
North and South.
These recommendations arc so palpably im
practicable, that we are surprised at their tieing
offered by Mr. O'BRIEN. They are simply
speculative, without any knowledge of the
temper of 1111111'S minds here ; or, indeed, of
the actual points at issue between the North
aril "The so-called Southern Contederatiim."
In the conducting portion of the lottor, WhOla
Mr. Swill O'BnISN collies down to matters of
fact, he is an authority_
With coma truth and face ; he proclaims
the entire sympathy of Ireland with the 'United
States. 4 c There is not," he says, le among
the nations of the earth, a people who enter.
lain towards the United States of America so
much affection as is felt
_by the Irish." Ho
traces this back to the kind treatment of the
Irish by the Americans, at all times, under all
circumstances. He points to the fact that
two Inmdrvd tlanhund Irishmen are now in
arms for their adopted country, over whose
dead bodies a British army must tread ere
they subdue or degrade this Union: lie
truly declare 3 lha4. fittAid Irish soldiera CC pant
for the opportunity, of avenging the wrongs of
their . : race," while Ireland herself, with five
ra llfi o p* of ibhablisattt, will sympathize with
America rather than with England, should
war arise between the to. All this is true.
It is impossible to exaggerate the anti• English
feeling of the Irish race in this country.
Driven hither by misrule, they have never
fbrgotten the wrongs inflicted on their father
land by that cruel and heartless step-mother,
England, and they do pant for the opportunity
of one day clearing off all scores 'of long
cherished antipathy and revenge.
Already public meetings have been held in
Ireland, at which resolutions have been passed
declaring the impossibility of Ireland, with her
personal relations to the United States, re
maining au indifferent spectator of the struggle
And ArwekicA, a.t.a
0
upon all Irishmen to forgot their past dif
ferences, and make an united rally for the
old cause of their country.
One united Irish action, which May be
looked for, is the positive refusal to enter the
British army. Ono-half of that forgo is GOlll7
posed of Irishmen, who are scarcely to be de
pended on, if ever brought in contact with
Americans. The temptation to enter the Bri,
tish army is very small—the pay being only
twenty,six cents a day, ($7.60 a month), out
of which the soldier has to provide his own
food, and all of hie wearing apparel except
outer clothing. The British Government has
directed that the vacancies in her sixtv,nine
reigimenta of infantry shall be immediately
filled up by : ecruiting in Ireland. We very
much question whether Irishmen, strongly
bouild to America by numerous personal ties
and steong political sympathy, will enlist to
fight against this country. We hold; with
ShliTH O'BRIEN, that IriShmen; in their - own
VAIIIIItry cc `roll beA-e,
tunity of avenging the wrongs of their race."
French Mediation
Already we have communicated the im
portant intelligence that General WINFIELD
SCOTT, who so lately went to Europe to TN
cruit his health, has returned by the .drago,
on a mission of peace, bringing to our Govern
ment at Washington the expression of the
Emperor NAPOLEON'S &Sire to bring about,
as a mediator, a pacific solution of the diffi
culty between England and the United States.
The sentiments expressed in GeIICTSI SCOTT'S
letter, on American affairs, lately published
in the French and English papers, have been
accepted with favor all over Btu-ore—except
in England, which seems to have gone off at
half cock on the question of the mail steamer
Trent, and is making as great proparations for
battle as if the principle at stake were the very
existence of the British Empire. On the
contrary, the true issue is—the continuance of
rALMERSTON, RUSSELL, & CO., in o f fice.
The conduct of General SCOTT in returning
to this country, despite his impaired health
an d -e 4r - ai ly iv e<l. yews, 56 seen after he had
gone to Europe, is of a piece, in its self-sacri
ficing act of duty, with the whole conduct of
his prolonged and illustri , :-us life. It is ano
ther instance of patriotic zeal manifested by
him—it adds one more link to the chain of
obligation which binds the heart of his native
land to the venerable citizen-soldier.
Most of, the English papers, we observe, in
dicate that, if war should break out between
Great Britain anti the United States, it was
more than probable that France wotild side
with England. It has always appeared obvi
ous to us that the policy of liAnor..aom would
be different from this, and all the Paris pa
pers, with the exception of the Moniteur,
(which, as the Government organ, will scarce.
ly speak prematurely,) declare that, in the
event of a war, France will be neutral. Her
policy and her interest combine to keep her
so. France, the earliest - European rower to
help us, formerly, in our great contest for In
dependence, has no cause for quarrel with us.
P.kuee bill scare ly he so foolish .as to help
England, by aiding her in a strife with us.
Above all, the sympathies of France must be,
And are, more decidedly with us than they
ever can be with England. Lastly, by con.
tinning neutral, France will secure the advan
tage of our extensive carrying trade, should
hostilities. commence.
Until something is positively known regard
ing the propositions from the Emperor NAPO•
LEON, of winch General SCOTT is said tO be the
bearer, we can only speculate, very generally,
upon the subject of his mediation. If he has
proffered it, his is the act - of a huniane and
wise sovereign. In the United States we can
may say that the threatened tempest of war
will net be of their dottiri as of their malting_
The world has seen with what eager alacrity,
with what precipitous impatience, England
has seined upon a pretext for quarreling with
uS, and this, too, at a crisis when a generous
antagonist would have remembered that our
bands were already pretty fully employed in
putting down a great and most eauSeless re
bellion. If the , worst must come—if England
still should
Cry havne, and let slip the dogs of war,
w•e shall not shrink from the appeal to arms
which may be forced upon us. If the media=
Mori of Franco has been offered, and should be
accepted, the United States can have no desire
to throw dillieulties in the way, but will make
cycry fair concision which justice and policy
rosy demand—every reasonable concession, we
mean, short of surrendering the national
honor..
Tits: 01. n FRAIQKLIN ALUANAC for 1882 contains
a chronicle of the great rebellion, embracing a di
gested statement of events connected with the 00n.
=piracy to overthrow the United States government,
from the assemblage of the political Conventions, in
May end June, 1860, to the Ist of NovemberlBlll,
Embracing a record of important political move
tnente, military operations, battles, sieges, skir
mishes, ravel actions, and everything connected
- with the campaign, the date of each event, the
number of forces engaged and losses on each side ;
so to furnish a compendious digest of information
for reference in study,
The almanac will also contain tables of the cen
sus of 1860, and a great variety of other useful and
interesting information. Price ten cents. A. Winch,
itt.:o Chestnut street, yuldishei..
PoILTANT TO MEReIIANTS.-0 Ur postmaster
adverWea thia morning that a supplementary mail
for Europe will he despatched this day at ono
o'clock. The regular mail closed last night, but
liar extra mail will reach Boston in time to connect
nigh the eleinner
The pertmaster and hie aceirtants aro uoterealnect
to give every facility in their power to the mercan
ithe community.
LETTER FROM " OCCASION AL:"
WASHINGTON, Dee. 23, 1801.
If the Government of the United States had
been fl 9 precipitate roi that of Great Britain,
nothing could have prevented such a conflict
as would have deluged this continent in blued.
When the whole patriotic press, of every class
and condition, among the loyal people of tins
country, were applauding and honoring Capt.
Wilkes for arresting Mason and Slidell, the
ricaldent maintained a toignilicant reticence,
nail the Secretary of State patiently waited
the course of events. How different the
course a the British Government.! In:Tired
only by hatred of the United States, and act
ing upon the ex parte and angry statement of
the prejudiced officers of the mail steamer
Treat, the Minintry rushed to the extreme of
madness, stimulating their organs to the bit
terest language, and encouraging their people
in the most inflammatory demi mstratio lig. For
getting how much British emissaries had contri
buted to the Abolition sentiment in this country,
from the days f Trollops and if,asii 'trail and
George Thompson from the explosions
against slavery at Exeter Hall, the luxurious
baniretc extended to Mrs_ Stowe, the autho
ress of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the rhetorical
outpourings against the South in both Ileu . ses
of Parliament—.the British Government hils.
Wiled to throw its entire weight against ,the,
free States and in favor of the slave rebellion.
They would not wait for the explanation of the;
Administration of Mr. Lincoln. Indeed, (hey'
had been admonished by the studied and placid
and fraternal despatches of Mr. Seward, (run
ning through the four previous months,) that
nothing retaliatory or recriminatory might be
looked for from our Chief Magistrate. But
they only romemhered that they influlacd sin
terely an antageni .
!:71 to us which they had for
A quarter of a century persistently denied,
and else that our institutions were beset
by an army of robbers and ingrates, and that
now, if never before, the time had arrived
- Own a fetal Me* might be struck - at our ex.
istenee. Fired with this hatred and this am
bition, they, forgot, in their insensate pride,
that they had a eharastee fa lose among the
nations of the earth, and many powerful ele
ments of demoralization even in the British
kingdom, which might at any moment be com
bined and crystallized into a formidable revo
lution. Long before this the British Cabinet
and the British public have undoubtedly ben
brought to their senses. Their drunken rage
having passed away, they now realize, in sober
reflection, the fearful Mistake they have made.
Influenced alike by their own unreasoning mad
ness and by the sublime dignityand calmness of
the United States, by the daily evidences of
OUr own power and the decreasing power of
the rebellion, the judgment even of their sister
monarchies is rapidly changing against Great
_Britain, and in faVor of the American cause.
France comes forward to proclaim her neutra
lity, and the German Confederacies show fre
quent indications of a disposition to pause be
fore committing themselves to a complication
which has neither justice, morality, fair pro.
vocation, or international law to sustain it. ,
But if the unanimity of the British public, at
first so fiery and exacting, is certain to change
in a short time, what will the English rulers
say to the exhibition of. Irish unanimity in
favor of the cause of righteous and rational
freedom in the new world, and against the
conduct of her Majosty?s counsellors in the
old!! Unappr fled by the war-like preparations
of their old oppressors; unterrified by the
threats of those who make hostility to America
a test in the governing country, the Irish
voice is raised in tierce, indignant, and thrill
ing opposition to the British Crown,- and in
eager, passionate, and unmistakable approval
of the American Government. That brave
people, remembering the Irish millions who
sust3lh to -them the most sacred relatipria in
this country, and recalling the unnumbered
aggressions of their British tyrants, aro clearly
resolved to take advantage of England's at.
tempt to strike at us precisely as sho takes ad
vantage of our own internal difficulties. Their
example will run like wild-are into every class
in the Emerald isle—witi extend to Australia
—will neutralize British sympathy in Canada,
and will do more to sally the Irish race in the
United States around our imperilled flag than
any event of this exciting crisis. Such is
England's dilemma! We have only tranquilly
to bide our time_ When Lord Lyoretshall send
back to his masters the moderate and dignified
answer of Mr. Seward, the discomfiture of
the British aristoeraey will be complote,
The civilized world will not hesitate, while
applauding the magnanimous course of the
United States, to affix the lasting seal of con
demnation upon the arrogant and domineering
proceedings of the British Government.
"To lie Delivered lip."
[For The Press.]
" I.tierer eurrt-mAor I"—that was the story
When Lawrence and Perry met the invader:
Those were the old times when valor won glory
And the sailor and soldier were strong as the trader:
TreREOll swung With as the flag it profaned,
Iligh-minded men and not money-bags reigned,
Our scutchoon no enemy tarnished or stained,
And in the State's vengeance no menaces stayed her
Well, be It so! Muer our seamen;
Let Mason still vaunt, and Slidell go on plotting !
What we arc, let the world say; we used to be freemen,
And drowned British tea as we ought to drown eaten.
tyul r ay old out I.: I - % Pe - et
She pliantly yields them to Admirals foreign—
While Faneuil Hall hears the cannon peels jarring,
And Russell the details is pleasantly jotting.
Ay give them up Wilkes, or Dupont, or McClellan
What is the Right worth—have they not the Power?
Make Fairfax a pirate, a fiend, and a felon,
And hang Irtira-tn ottatna at the peak of /he Tower.
If the lion should roar hold the throat of the eagle,
Let our war-ships be hares at the teeth of the beagle,
Nor hoist, as of yore, to the scream of the sea-gull,
The stare that made tyranny tremble and cower
How will they fete with M. P.'s and Lord :Mayors
The patricide twins, who the ruin hare dealt,
While Birmingham eneere, with the regal betrayer&
At the wrath of the Yankee, the threat of the Celt.
God I for our country, this shame resting on her—
Better thine island, Emmett, O'Connor—
/Mier the grace dined aboye our dishonor
Than remembrance that Freedom to Tyranny knelt
G. A. T
Forrest at the Academy.
The representations efllretamora and Jack Cade
have drawn the usual brilliant audiences at the
Academy. The former play abounds in intense
peenea, and the language is, in places, highly poeti•
cal. There is, however, little attempt to indivi
dualize the characters, and the incidents are lamely
connected, illetamora IS the prodnotion of John
A. Stone, an actor of some note. Its history is an
evidence of the capacity of genius to impress itself
upon the age. A trifling play, wordy, loose, and
dragging, kw boon made by Mr. Forrest ,one of
the dramas of the time, and the name of the chief
that he personates has become, in some sort, his
torical. The play will be repeated to-morrow
night. Satchel', the Bolden comedian, an artist of
rare powers, will appear at the Academy this eve
ning in connection with Cubes.
Wnsnt - STA ENT TiT r: AT HU —A dramatisation of
Dickens' (some say Wilkie Collins') novel of the
44 Message from the Sea " has been produced at the
Walnut, with J. S. Clarke fl 3 &tad 'organ, Mr.
Clarke would do well to confine himself to his an
cient characters. The " Message" has some good
scenes, but it is wretchedly constructed, and, to
*bo has...semi the novel. irregular and unin
teresting. The burning island is handsomely ren
dered, and Messrs. Clarke and Adams do their best
to puke the drama successful. The performance,
last evening, reminded llb of a rehearsal.
CONTINENTAL THEATRE.—The " Forty Thieves,"
a spectacular piece for the boys, will be produced
611 Wednesday et the Continental_ It hag bean
prepared at considerable cost, and will draw good
audiences during the week.
HOLIDAY Pkasamtc.—J. E. GoaLai, Seventh
and Chestnut streets, is selling his elegant Pianos
and Melodeons at greatly reduced prices. Such
induaeniehis were Yk43,61 , 154461% threi`ed te. pur
chasers.
LARGE POSITIVE SALE UP BOOTS, SHOES, BEG
OAR P., TRAVELLING-11A Oa, ke__Thasarly attention
of purchasers is requested to the large assortment
of boots, shoes, brogans, travelling-bags, hats, caps,
tte., embracing, first-class seasonable goods l of city
and Eastern manufacture, to be peremptorily sold,
by catalogue, for cash, commencing this morning, at
10 o'clock, by Myers, Claghorn, & Co., auctioneers,
Nos_ 232 and 234 Market street.
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.—Pianos and Melodeons ean
b 9 inPgbt from am lip tsi 414'44444, at extraordi
nary reductions on all former priori Call, and
you will be satisfied. J. E. Goutou, Seventh and
Chestnut streets.
SALE TO•DAY — STOCKS AND REAL ESTATI — At
the Exchange, at 12 o'clock, including handsome
residence, Arch street, (estate of the late Dr.
Junncy,) several other clesiralale Dwellings, Badness
Stands, &c. See Thoma.! 4- Sons' pamphlet cella;
/agues and advertisements.
niisT - GlAg§ FARM.—They will sell, on Tuesday,
lmt., one of the most valuable Farms in Mont.
goinery county, by order of the heirs of Jzostere
Longstreth, deceased.
1 I .; P 4 Y DECEMBER V-, 1561.
LATEST NEWS
FROM WASHINGTON.
The President has approved and signed the hill
" to further and promote the efficiency of the navy."
It provides that, whenever the name of any naval
officer, who is pew or may hereafter be in the Unite
States sorvieo, — eltelt have bean bona on tho Naval
Register forty-five years, he shall be retired from
active service, and his memo entered on the retired
HA of offutvre of the gentle to which hi", haion r a st
the time of such retirement.
The President is authorized to assign any suoh
officer to shore duty, who shalt receive the shore
r ,- of 1,1". g rade, and to det:di from the retired list
of the navy. for the commands of squadrons and
single ships, such officers as be may believe the good
of the service requires to be thus placed in com
mand ; and SUOO officers may, if, upon the recom•
mendation of the President, they shall receive a
vote of thanks of Congress for their services and
gallantry ill notion against, an enemy, be restored to
the active list, and not otherwise.
The President hes also authority to select any
officer from the grades of captain or commander in
the novir.eo him t 9 tbv cvmmend of a
squadron, with tbo rank and title of a flag
officer,—any officer thus assigned to have the
Raft authority, and receive the same obo.
dience, from the commanders of ships in his
squadron holding commissions of an older date
Olen his, that he would be entitled to receive,
were his commission the oldest, and to receives whoa
so employed, the pay to which he would have been
entitled if he continued on the active list.
Alj offi7:l3 retired under this act are to rocelyg
16 ret i red pay of their gralie l a@ i w Ma 6v th
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to cause
ed medals of honor to be prepared, with
6 t u lV i o tn h b t::ul
o r rublornalin &Mins, which shall be be
stowed upon such petty officers, seamen, landsmen,
and marines as shall most distinguish tZ,', , n 9 e l7 " by
their gallantrg in eatiee T and btti4 ' am nlike.
qualities during the present war, and the sum 01
$l,OOO is appropriated for the purpose of carrying
this section into effect.
The Tea, sugar, and Coffee Tax Bill
(AS PASSED BY BOTH HOUSES OP CONGRESS.)
The following is the tax bill passed by bath
Douses of Congress to-day
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hewett' . Re
presentatives of the United States of America,
to Congress asseanhled—
Thob frau' and otter the date of the passage of
this act, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed
by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, there
shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods,
wares, and marehandisa herein enemoratsd and
provided for, imported from Foreign countries, the
following duties and rates of duty, that is to say :
First On all teas, twenty (20) cents per pound.
Coffee, of all kinds, five (5) cents per pound.
Second. On raw auger. commonly Balled Musco
vado or brown sugar '
and on sugars not advanced
above No. 12. Dutch standard, by cloying, boiling,
clarifying. or other precess ; and on syrup of sugar
or sugar cane and concentrated molasses, or concen
trated Made, two cents and a half (21) per pound.
On sugars after being refined, when they are
tinctured, colored, or in any way adulterated, and
on augur candy, eight (8) cents per pound.
On molasses, 111 X (6) cents per gallon.
Provided. that all so,rups of sugar or of sugar
cane, concentrated molasses or concentrated meta
do, entered under the name of molasses, or any
tho.n or concentrated
molasses or concentrated meludo, shall be liable to
forfeiture to the United States, and the same shall
be forfeited.
Official documents show that the Coolie trade
still continues in the face of all remonstrance and
propriety, mild, among other thiPgs stabled tO tin
Government, our consul at - Batavia writes that
Spanish vessels load at the celebrated pirate haunt,
and it is more than suspected that they trade with
pirates for their victims_
The British Government admits that Coolies are
kidnapped, and are subject to great oppression and
misery, but proposes a general scheme of ameliora
tion, In order that the African slave-traile may be
suppressed by the substitution of Coolies, arguing
that a supply of such Asiatics would fully meet the
demand for laborers in countries vitqc ncgrm uct
now profitably employed.
t In this connection, it may be stated that Repro_
sentativo ELIOT, of Massachusetts, has been the
means of eliciting important facts on the subjcot Of
the Coolie trade—the efficlid documents having
been transmitted to the House. ; in compliance with
his resolution, and the bill beretofore reported by
him to suppress it, so fur as Amerieart vessels ere
concerned, will bo pressed on its passage by Con
gress.
Economy of the Soldiers Encouraged,
According to a general army order just issued,
the Subeistence Department will purchase at cost
prices all sound articles of subsistence saved by the
troops or employees by an swonomiettl use as
management of their rations. All other sales of
provisions issued by the Government to any person
whomsoever are strictly forbidden. This regu
lation is intended to embrace the listings from
bakeries and in hospitals, as well as all other
savings from the army ration.
The Cage of Colonel Kerrigan.
Colonel li&nnrUAN was released to-day on his
parole till next Monday, for the purpose of pro
ceeding to New York to visit his family and attend
the funeral of his brother.
OCCASIONAL
Philadelphia Aridly Clothiers to be Paid.
A delegation of Philadelphia clothiers visited
G morel Einion to-day, to limning as to the pron.
peots of reeeiving pay for the clothing they had
furnished to the army. They were informed that
a million dollars were sent thither to-day, and
Mid that million would be trenamitted in the eourse
of the week.
The Steamer Pensacola Ready for Service.
Capt. MORRIS has officially reported that, the
steamer fensacol'a is toady for sorricco Tho
steam-steering apparatus is successful.
WARRENTOWN, Mo., Dee. 23.—The destruction
of the North Missouri Railroad is complete, as was
at first stated. AL short distances, all the way
from here to Hudson, the track is tom up, the ties
burned, and the rails broken or bent so as to be
R.4001/2.
Wellsburg Station was burnt, with all ita con
tents. The large bridge over Davis' fork, on Salt
river, west of the town of Mexico, and the bridge
crowing Quiver ricer, were inirrit, and all the
culverts either burnt or torn down, and ears of all
kinds destroyed.
Who the parties are that engaged in this work of
wholesale destruction is not known but it la stated
that the inhabitants along the line say no repairs
can be made except where the road is guarded by
Federal troupe.
An extra from the Army Argus office has been
in circulation for two days, which says The day
of retribution is at hand," and that 0,000 men who
have been under Priorre command are now north
of the Missouri river, and more are coming.
From Cairo—General Grant an Command.
CA/RO, Dec. 23.-Bpecial order No. 78 places
General Grant in command of the military district of
Cairo, which comprises southern Illinois, that par
tha et Rcutivesy west of the CamberlAnd ri T yr.
and the counties in Missouri south of Cape Girar:
dean.
ci t prg will be trerisferrett fgent, redgeah
to Cairo.
FREDEMWK, Peg, 23,—Lnnnhnn In hang at tin
o'clock this afternoon. He died without a strug
gle. The body was taken possession of by his
friends. Many citizens were presont as spectators.
.'lie -voi‘thaF 1& gbekil7.
Arrival of the .North Star from Aspinwall.
$822 ) 000 TREANOR& - WRECK OF A FRENCH
NEW - roux, Dec. 23. Tho steamship North.
Star, from Aspinwall on the 14th inst., arrived at
this port this evening. She brings $.822,1300 in
treasure, And the California motto of the Ist inst.
The i'renehtranspor Resource, bound
to Callao, was wrecked when forty miles south of
'Valparaiso. She bad over 600 troops aboard, only
five or six of whom were saved.
. . .
General San Ramon has been elected President
of Peru. He was at Arequipa, and had been joined
by 3.000 additional troops.
The coffee crop of Costa Rica is short.
blookado of lloonavontnia had tavoilasied
by the loss of one of the vessels, and surrender of
the other to General Mosquera's forces.
Interesting frem Orogen, —Destriacihre
SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 19.—The ship Forest Queen.
arrived to-day from Velpiirtilso.
The 8t. , . MCI . .Po-c-:!o brow Oregon date to the
12th, and advices from 'Victoria to the 7th instant.
Also $780,000 in gold.
The recent , tre:thets were terribly destructive to
property in the Yeni; , y4 borsieriPg On 114() rivers of
Oregon. Nearly all the 'louring mills or the State,
end large quantities of grain, were destroyed.
Most of the frame warehouses in Oregon City
were washed away, and the town flooded—the
wetter hello; four feet d=ap
lint two houses wore left standing at Linn City.
TILE STEAMERS PRIMA AND AUSTRALASIAN PASS
CAVE RACE, Dec. 23.—The English steamers
1- 1 .”--L. Atka .A.,,),,i141.44.re5) pegged here at 5 &Meek
this evening with troops for Quebec. The Austra
lasian was 20 milts astern of the Persia.
They were to sail on the 15th instant, with 1,100
soldiers, 5,000 stand of arms, 390 tons of storm and
two batteries of artillery.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Aa arrival at this port
furniFhca St. Johns, Forte Rice, adviees to Decem
ber 9tb. A Spanish steamer, loaded with troops,
bad arrived and loft for Mexico. Several compa
nies, garrigoned at Porto Rico, had volunteered
their PARIAAAR fer the expedition. and tailed in the
same Btettmer.
Gen. Prim was daily expooted on route to take
command of the 'Spanish forces.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Special Despatches to "• The Press."
WASHINGTON, DOOOEHbOT 23, 1801
The Retirement of Naval Officers.
The Coolie Trade
THE WAR IN MISSOURI.
Execution of Lanahan.
TBA:forcavr-000 I•ObT
Freshets
Troops for Canada
IMIEMEI
The Spanish Expedition to Mexico
LATER FROM EUROPE.
The Steamer Persia off' Cape Race.
DEATH OF PRINCE ALBERT
Earl Derby Approves the Policy of the Govern-
twit relative to the, Treat Affair
T. JOHNS, N. F.. Dec. 23.—The steamship rer
ej2 passed here this evening, with 1,100 troops,
bound for the River Du Loup or bite, She loft
Liverpool on the Milt inst., to which date she brings
papers. Prince Albert expired, of gastric fever, at
noon on Sunday.
The Livorpoid Itferrrrry, of tt. 14. h, states that
reports prevailed in London that . the Earl of Derby
had been consulted by the Government, and ap
proved of its policy in reference to the American
difficulty.
. .
It is suggested to ship-owners to instruot the onp
ta ins of outward-bound ships to signalize any Eng
lish vessels that war with Amnion is probable.
This suggestion is strongly approved of by under
writers.
The Avtarala6 lan. sailed from Liverpool on the
13th with troops for Canada.
The first division of the Tenth brioluie, garrison
nrlillery ; embarked per Niagara foralifax,
It is understood that ten companies of onglnooro
are to be sent to British America.
Vienna adyices to the 10th state that during the
Emperor's stay in Venice he liberated all the po-
NAPLES, Din. 13.—Borges, the brigand chief,
has been executed.
LoNnom, Friday afternoon, Dee. 13.—conFois
armito yeateptlay'a prim., hut toA,1„1,1. 001.,
and then reached to the opening Fi e° , poi,
way shares have been
on :n the absonuo of busi
ness, but closedshade better. Bank shares
steady. tt geellatteetta shaves dull at previous
ratok
The arrivals of American wheat and flour are
heavy, and a small business is doing, with prices in
favor of buyere.
PARIS, Poo. 13.—The Bourse is heavy, and
menthe cloud at 67f. 60a.
[The Persia brought no despatches for the Am
ended Press, and the above items are gleaned from
th 9 rgper.v.l
Additional Foreign News per Edinburgh.
Sr. Joni, N. F., Dec. 23.—The following is the
l o t va t tetelll 6 ence furnished by the steamer
burgh, which passed Cape Race on Saturday
night :
LONDON I Deo, 12,The Journal de Ifavre, the
Semimhoi-01. of Mimillan. and tho Gltattele, of
flordLux, advroo the wench floveritiiient, to pre
serve a atrict neutrality in ease of war between
England and Amoriaa.
The Paris Temp approves of the proposal of the
London Daily News to appeal to the mediation of
friendly Powers, in accordance with the agreement
made at the Paris Conference, in 1856, and says
that no other Power than Prance can be the ;Ra
diator.
The Paris Presse advocates the energetic inter
vention of France between England and America.
The Opiniana. Araii451.4.4 the attla of tho
Premix Liberal party, mays that Prance should not
follow the example of England should the latter
recognize the South.
Tice Mina°, of Tarin, warns England against
beginning a war with America, as trance would
take advantage of it to interfere in the East.
The Austrian papers state that a war between
England and America would remove the only oh-
Doyle in Bureps efinhot French ambition s and that
France would begin a war against Qermany.
Rumors Regarding the Trent Affair.
25Aw loan, Dee. lro,—The Pear, of Mit evening,
says: "Private letters from well•advised sources
in Washington represent that certain interviews
were had between Lard Lyons and Mr. Seward im
mediattly after the Trent affairs and their re•
spective letters to London, based on the disavowal
of all knowledge of our Government that such cap
ture was to take place, and of all purpose to insult
the British flag, have delayed the presentation of
the per,lnptury demand of. BraLlt Government,
which come out in the Europa. Further advices
from London will, probably. be awaited."
A special despatch from Washington to the Post
girea MIMIC to a rumor that the Cabinet had re.
solved to Meese, Mason and Slidell, Mid onion had
gone on to ship them at ones to Halifax. The Post
regards this ad improbable,
naval intelligence
NEW Yona, Deo. 23.—St. Thomas advices to De
cember 7 have been received by an arrival at this
Port.. Thu U. S. steamer Iroquois wall At St. Witcl
inas, to San on the StIE on a cruise. The IT, S. ship
Shepperd Knapp was also in port.
The Madison Barracks
Sierwry HinDon, 2.1-0.116 aereprtnl of
Seventh Regiment of United States Regulars, from
New Mexico, under Lieutenant Ryan, arrived here
on Saturday, for garrison duty at Madison Bar
na&
New York Bank Statement.
NEw Yonx, Dec 23.—The bank statement for
the week ending on Saturday shows—
An of loaki4 4:i 7 862,174
An increase of specie 2.622,107
An increase in circulation 21,143
An increase in deposits 4,482,011.
lusitrance of Gout 11110. Borth 011 ti
NEW Yoni, Deo. 23.—The Board of Fire In
ourance Companies of this city have resolved to
charge a special rate of three per cent. on all coal,
rock.) and earth Oa. •••••
The Gunboat Keystone State.
NEW YORK, Deo. 23 —The gunboat Keystone
Rhiho. was at MAPlfilida ea 15th biatant
Comments of the Canadian Press
[From the Montreal Herald.]
RAT 15 Tlai GOTracilitt MIT Dona I — The people
are moving with a will. There never was a greater
(perhaps never so great.) unanimity of sentiment
among the people of Canada than now. Each man
is ready to do his utmost to repel any invader from
the soil. Meantime the Government is silent. The
people wait and wait on—patiently, so far—yet the
Government makes no sign. The militia officers
receive no instructions—no authority to move.
We hear of the General's going to Quebec to con
sult with the Government, mats
"ItfalbrOOk sic truant pas."
We get no news of what is to be done, No one
knows where they are to find arms to fight with.
Montreal is most exposed—the most tempting bait
for the attack of our dear neighbors ; but no step is
being taken to secure it by fortifications of any sort.
This will not do. It may suit ministers to rest se=
curely beneath the guns of the citadel of Quebec,
but the country requires more than this at their
hands. Men ask angrily if we are to be 5.1.01 i.
Seed. This is the result, doubtless, of sheer im
patience. Governmont cannot act till it re•
ceivea the despatches by the Europa. Yet what
can be expected but impatience of the slight
est delay at such a time as this ? Mon are
ready to Wert, They Illtrftl forward to the ranks,
and would move on to battle as gaily as a bride
groom to the church, but they ask for arms and
leaders, and they are not yet forthcoming. They
are waiting with every nerve strained to hear the
word spuken t and watching for a movement which
will set them in motion. The word and sign have
not yet been given. Just now oath day—nay, each
hour—of delay, is in the highest degree dangerous.
Preptratione whlch sense too late furnish more cause
for regret than those that are made too soon. No
one will blame the Government for the most prompt
and vigorous action now. All will blame them if,
throe' their Isebee, any important position is loft
unprotected. Gan any one tell us about the condi-
tion of the batteries on St. Helen's island? Can
any one inform us when it is proposed to protect
the Victoria bridge by a tete the pout? Bow many
swne ere rnotottea, or ready for mountin g s, 4e pro
tect this great city from a coup de main ? These
are the questions men ask each other in the street,
and no one can answer. Let us hope answers will
be forthcoming ere the week is out,
Foreign Items.
At a dinner in Berlin, a short time since, at•
tended by seventy or eighty Amerioais, Mr. Judd,
our Illimster to Breast*, expressed the opinion that
the recent affair respecting the English mail boat
would not oblige England to take warlike measures.
A Paris letter says : " Mrs. Eustis, the wife of
Mr, Slid ell's secretary . , Las arrived is Paris ;wawa
panied- by Colonel Lemat, of Louisiana, who was a
passetiger on board the Trent. Mrs. Slidell and
her daughters remain for some days longer in
London,"
A Turin correspondent of the In deptottlan ee states
that Mazzini is dangerously ill, in England, and
that several of his friends at Genoa and Milan have
been summoned to his bedside. The Deputy Sala ?
who was his colleague at home during 00 trium
virate of 1849, is said to be among the number.
The Ilreenorzal ele Lille says : "Two days ago a
young girl, named Maria H—, who was shut up in
the convent of the Bon Pasteur, resolved to make
her escape from the place, but which she Could only
do by scaling a wall. On reaching the top of it, she
was preparing herself to drop on the other side, a
depth of eighteen feet ? and was already iangine• by
her hands, when a man, who was passing, ruled
forward and attempted to catch her in his arms.
The shock to him was, however, so great that he
was knocked down and rather severely shaken, and
before be bad raoavaiad bithsalf the ;yossise i gint had
fled. She has, it is thought, taken refuge with her
family."
According to the Trieste Gazette M. Kossuth is
seriously ill; it is said that he exhibits alarming
consumptive symptoms.
The Temps p_ublishes the following extraordinary
statement: " Mach has been said for the last two
days of a drama, of which an aristooratio religious
boarding-ecbool in the rsubours- it, Gerussui was
the theatre. Two you g lad es were playing during
the hours of recreation, when one struck the other
in the face and knocked out one of her eyes. Her
family were immediately apprised of the accident.
The father name to the school, and after seeing his
daughter, he asked to see the young lady who had
struck her. She came, when he drew a pistol from
under hig c 194 mid fired into her face. The un
fortunausgirl is so dreadfully wounded that if she
recover she will be disfigured for lite."
The remains of the author of The Marseillaise"
have recently been removed to the cemetery of
Cholsrlo-P.Ol. The follosyhig lagailption is en
graved on the tomb ; "Li repose Claude-Joseph
Rouget de Lisle, tie a Lone-le-Saulnier en 1709,
snort a Oboisy-le-Roi en 1830. Q. and la Revolu
tion Francais, en 1792, out a combattre les Rois, it
lui donna pour valuer° In chant do la rdersoillaisu,"
Fno3i NEW Onr.noNs.The Frankfort corres
pondent of the Cincinnati Gazette gives that paper
—l 7 tok s r.ph—the following item of infoo=aiation!
"An important letter has been received by a Sa
unter here, from a bitter rebel relative is New Or.
leans. Having been sent by private hands. the
letter underwent no censorship thorn, It piclreres
the valor and determination on their side, but he
says : ' Candor compels me to add, that moraeltan
a majority of ovr people,. awl those, too, of the
lest classes, are Tinton mea t and will ai.l the
LinCo(7l iTitiaoAM 1 , 107,(1 , 1 , 17, - ontorfitalry
" The writer occupies a high social . wsition in
New Orleans. and has every opportunity of know
ing the popular sentiment.'
A CIIARGE FOIL TRH OLD SHIPS OF TIM STONE
SQVAPRON.—From Whaling up the Northern Seta
to Sealing up the Southern ports.
CDIARGERS FOR THE Allan.—The Sutlers.
ri==l
IRO3I OUR Sunny BLADE.—It is a 110tirstablO
fact that. Ililt on Head is held ,by our troop , word
in Baud.
Tuts. Wenn KIND OF TENT FOR A. AtiLDIEII ma
Dwtmt. IN.—Discontent.
A Svatvion OF PLATE.—The Naval S , .!rvice, Mitt
that shire Go About in plate armor..
XXXVIITH CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION,
WASIIINGTON, Dec. 2:;, IS6I
MEM3I!
Mr. CRIMES, OI IJM9a, git.vo that lln to
trothico a 101 l h, have one of the hostpital4 inWaßhitat
ton Ono,' under the care or a hornocupathic phy-tdcinn,
Mr LANE. of Indiana, presented the crellentiala of
the lion. Garrett Davis, Senator tihmt from Ketitticky, is
Akira of Itvorkitiriftgo,
Mr. PA 4, IS ;top owl, 1111 d tobk hie Pat.
Mr. tO; MN PA:, of filansac 'inset ts, presented the me
fluvial from eitizona of Boston, stating that too freedom
of the preen had teen abridged, :Hid asking for relief.
Nr. FIGMENDEN, or hlititti., from I.lw Cummitteo nn
Fibabe°. I( tiliVted Hieing appropriationg for gun
bourg MI thy W.htyri, rivers
1 hr hill, whirl, appropriates 51,500,000. was passed.
Mr. !UNIT, of Now York, offered a re:mintier) that the
Preiddiait he r414 , 114MA 1., 110.6E0.43 01.1.11.!Kidillif.1 itl (11(1
courts of law itgairmi persona who may have been ar
rested by the. Execuliye a ithority, and who are now re
maining in custody, so that a judicial examination may
Ire had in each case, to ascertain who are allowed to
tan tha bath +A alledianea and who detaititel. Ltid
over.
Mr. SIMMONS. of Rhode 'Bland, offered a resolution
that a t elect committee of three be ammilded to consider
the ox pedieacy of conneetiog NOM° of the military - an-I
natal statinnt on the Cttilat by tlll l / 1 11illine hat.graph,
Adopted.
A communication wan received from t h u Qaarterma +ter
General, in reply to a resolution, an to what articles
should bo add by the sutlers. Referral to tho Cominittro
on Military AlTuirn,
mr. WILSOII, ur lignmaclititintbn introilucctl the ful•
lowing bill:
Whereas, officers in the military service of lho United
States have, without the authority of law, and against
the plainest (Homes or inctice and humanity, canted
persons rlaimeti as ingitirce frtnii service or l&lormu Do
sb trim), held, anti delivered nu; A tal,
ich,r,„o, ‘ such sachet had !nought dishonor noon
cm Arms, awl reproach epos; our Getorntoent; There
fore, be It
licsahed, fir ., That any officer in the military or
naval vei vice of the United States who shall cams any
person, claimed to be h dm) to service or labor by reason
of African descent, to be seized, lield, detained, or de
livered un. or for o,y Dermot chaining - moth orvieo or
labor, olmil he deemed tuilty of it tuiddetnnattor, shall be
dishonorably discharged, and forever ineligible to any
appointment in the military or natal service of the
United States.
Mr. It A 11121 g, of New York, introdured ft bill to Dm.
vide for the appointment of an additional jild&O lit die
Southern district of Netv York.
Also, a bill to regulete and chatme the circuit of the
United States Court for the Northern diqrict of Now
'Work_
The Renate then went Into exeentive ee.elnn•
(In the reope n ing of the dyers, the bill to inerenze the
number of cadets in the West Point Academy was taken
up. The bill increases the number from 170 to 30.
Mr. WADE, of Ohio, Gauged the hill, Ilg !Odium
gretilly to the mipense of the Governtnent.
Dir. WILSON, of Memel:heel:Up, Held that ell over the
country call was made for ofEicers from Weer Point to
lead the troupe.
giI.V.ItMAY, 12,1-, relsleA
tiff:l3m Ile said that during the venation of
oppgreeg ho had lidunteers in Ohiq, and came to
• oeloses to act es eotoneig. But when
Wunhine.toti to pc,— --
lit got heie In the fey . of iLe enemy, Adjol.a=,i •-efene
Thomas wanted to take two officers—the only officers
that home how to give the word of command—and send
them to a regiment in Oregon. If this is the way the
regular army is to be used, he would oppose any increase
of cutlets at West Point,
The discussion was continued at some length by
Messrs. Wilson, Grimes, and Wade.
Mr CHANDLER, of Michigan, said he was ready to
ahrlfsh the West Poit.t academy entirely. He believed
that West Point was the touts of the rebellion_ A
Southern affiene had related at Montreal lately that there
were enough ol•l army officers in favor of the South, now
in the United Stales army, to prevent the Federal troops
front acquiring a victory. We cannot rely on the regular
artily. lie believed West Point had produced morn
traitors than any other place since the days of Judas
Itcuriot.
Mi. FESSENDEN, of Maine, said if the war was con.
tinned for four or five years, in the present extravagant
manner, we would not hare money fineugh to pay any
body. He did hot agree with his felend4 who opposed
the Weet Point seaderoy, bet could say that tho war
would come to an end disastrous to the country, and that
very soon ' if wo did not begin to economize the expeusel.
Ho was reedy to begin 0001101111.2illff at the first 011116M
tilty that minted
At present there seems to he a race between Congress
rind the EXPelltiTO as to which could spend the most
money. Ile gave, as an instance, the experience of the
Government on the 'motion of cavalry no an arm of tile
service. At first the flo ferment thought It dill not
Is ant cavalry, and then it thought it did, and allowed
men to raise them everywhere. He had beau told that
the Geveronient aid not waot and could not uso more
than 10,000 or 20,000 cavalry; yet sixty regiments had
ices roiretli and there woo no nor for Mom nib to
steps had been taken to disband the extra number, or
atop the enlisting of more regiments. lle could give
ninny tiler instances of an equal want of judgment
ethich Lad been shown in Cho conduct of the war.
furiLur oor,”1,101-atIon iho weku then paolpenc.3
until to-morrow.
The bill from the }louse to inert Coo the duties on
tea, coffee, and sugar, was taken tie and pat,,rl.
3'13 , rffolutio fr(tin tiuy i-ivgn to tqw.gt! On 44c. 2a of
January was r Tat rod.
On the question to concur in the resolution there was
found to he no quorum present.
Bo the Senate stiounted.
ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. PERRY, of New derroy, imrodneed a bill pro
viding for the better organization of the military
mlablimlunent. WI-erred.
Mr. ginITT, of Pennsylvania, a bill for the pre
servation and improvement of the harbor of Erie, Penn
sylvania. Ertel.led.
Mr. VALLANDIGLIAM, of Ohio, introduced a bill
to @atom the writ of habeas corium and secure the
liberty of citimene. The bill provitle4 that, etcent when
Congress shall have suspended the writ, in obedience to
necessity for the public safety, any person confined or
detained in any jail, dungeon, fortress, or other place of
gr in any giber Will whatiomr depfiYed
of Lis liberty; by any Tlnitol notes intim; chili Mitary,
or naval, or by any pi r4on under any claim of authority
from the United States, shall have the privilege of the
writ forthwith, before any eourt or judge of the United
States.
P rize rerosol or stostea +, Ale iaa.ra or OAKT the
writ is punished with a penalty of *l,OOO to the party
aggrieved, and a fine or imprie , nrnent, Or both, at the
diecretiuu of the court. It forbids, order the same penal
ties, the recommitment for the otme offeace of mu ene
once Osectmrgull vu a writ of itatante GOlllll5l and prohi•
bite also the removal of prisoner* from one State or
district to another.
Tbo eighth section of the bill provides that no offi
cer of the United States, civil, military, or naval, shall,
.index I.v pretence or anthorlip whatever, e..C.:14
of Congress, attempt to auspend the privilege of the writ,
under penalty of a fine not exceeding 55,000, and impri
sonment not exceeding two years, and gives also a right
of action for damages to the party aggrieved.
Mellon inch p~ :, ~idea the if
afore., civil, military, or naval, shall, except when Congroa
shall have suspended the writ of habeas corpus, issue any
warrant or order of arrest fur any person as a prisoner of
Nate or political offender and not forthwith deliver
snots t.erboiv to the ladielel autho,lh.. for *riot, aooh of
fender shall be fined in any sum from $l,OOO to $5,000, or
imprisoned from six months to one year, or both, at the
discretion of the court, and mot eover gives a right of ac
tion for damages to the party aggrieved. The bill pro
rof ono of enforelm 6 the orders of 460 court
in the cases which may come before it.
The bill was referred to the Committee on the Judi
ciary, arid ordered Co be printed.
Mr. NORLL, of Missouri, introduced a joint resoln-
G.,' to stsopen k for twelre months the collect:on of the
national oireet tax in Missouri. Referred.
Mr. WA PTE, delegate from New Mexico ' introduced a
bill providing a temporary Government for Arizona. Re
ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pato, a MU ambling for the examination of claims,
owing to the Indian deprtalatlone in New Mexico. Re
fered.
The House then resumed the consideration of the reso
lution ram ed on Friday by Mr. Wilson, of Indiana,
requoeting the Committee on Military tilfaire to ro
port a bill ter the ellßallll3llt of an additional
article on war for the government of the army,
whereby all officers in the military service of the
United States shall be prohibited from using any portion
of the forces unth r their respective commands for the
vuYv,As of failtia4 .la.‘.= fr.:. ..-1.-
bor, and to provide for the punishment of such officers
as may violate said article by dismissal from the ser
vice.
Mr. NULL moved to table the resolution. Disagreed
The resolution was parsed—yeas 67, noes not counted.
On motion of Mr. TANDEVER, of lowa, the Com
mittee on Territories was directed to inquire into tho
tXpetlivacy hi eutoWitihing Trrritorill Governmen
the limits of the disloyal Mates or districts, anti report
by bill or otherwise.
On motion el Mr. EHE TFIELD, of Rhode Island, the
Commit, ea on Military Affairs NV:IF instructed to inquire
into the necessity of fortifying the east and west entrances
lotiori.Coosott i3ay, Vtizadc Isteod, and report by Wit
or otherwise..
Mr. MORRILL, of Vermont, from the Committee of
Ways and Means, Relied leave to report a bill to increase
the duties on tea, coffers and sugar. It proposes a duty
ola lea of all kind.: of ‘a cenia per povatal ova ,covVae.,
cents i and sugars 254, 5, and 5 cents, according to qua
lity i molasses, 6 cents per gallon.
Idr. VALLARDIGRAM objected to the introduction
of the bill, but
O. series /3.£ Mi/...111.011U1LL, the Pules were sus
pended for that purpose.
Mr. MORRILL said that this billwas simply in accord
ance wills the recommendation of the Secretory of the
Treasury It was supposed that the incomes proposed
would yield seven or eight millions of dollars, provided
the same quantities of the articles be imported as in
1860. The Lill should be passed at once, in order to se
cure the sugar crop immediately coming into the coun
try, and the tea and coffee soon expected to arrive. The
prices of tbese articles have already risen In anticipaticon
of the passage of this bill. So the consumers pay just as
much now as if the bill was already a law of the laud.
The Committee of Ways and Menus intend bringing in a
supplemental tariff bill for the further increase of the
revenue, when the general subject will coma up for dig
eussion.
Mr. VALLANDIGHAM briefly opposed the bill. By
the increase of duties these articles will be absolutely
interdicted. Already in the West four bushels of cora
are necessary to buy one pound of coffee. The Imports
of foreign merchandise are millions less than they were
years age. This subject should be postponed until a pro
per tariff system can be adjusted to meet the necessities
of the country - tnd its changed condition. The present
Wilt law was au Incongruous composition, of throe to,
patine Seta, with two or three different systems for levy
ing duties.
Mr. MORRILL demanded the previous question.
No quorum Toted, and a cad of the Reuse was resorted
to, for the purpose of Rowing a inistum.
The bill was PIIbPPIIIIPIIS/Y psesetl—yeas IT, nays 29.
WASEIBURNE, of Illinois, introduced a resolu
tion calling on the Secretary of the Navy fur copies of
the correspondence with certain parties on the subject of
batteringsrami and steam vessels for the coast and hat.
boy !defence. Referred to the Committee on Naval Af
fairs.
Mr. MOORHEAD, of Pi 711183AVRIAR, introduced a reso
lution, which was adopted, instructing the Ouniinitteo on
the Judiciary to report a bili, providing that any 'insult
or persOns maned or employed in the present Manion
be forever rendered incapable of holding any aka or
trust under the Constitution and laws of the United
States.
_ .
NuMOMIIN resolutions of it:11111in' were adopted,
Also, a resolution railing on the Secretary of War to
foruish the House with information conmArning the qusn
tity of arms purchased since the 12th of April last, the
prices paid, nod the enrregrontlenee between the Secretary
of War and Vltirf 9f thr atiiri4ll pflnanco, relgliso t 9
Ire arms narcotised lly Genera( Fionionh
Mr. FENTON, of. New York, introduced a bill grant
ing binds for the purpose of constructing a line of rail
roads from the Missouri river to San 'Francisco, Re
ferred to the special c_ommittoe on that mitilect,
On motion of Mr. 'BLAKE, of Ohio, the tionunitieo on
Poet Offices and Post Roads was instructed to inquire and.
report a system by which money may be safely trans
mitted through the mails.
Mr. nutylinlin, of Tennessee, introduced a resoln.
tlon, which was adopted, inetructing the Committee on.
Commerce to. Inquire as to the extension of maritime
facilities in order to facilitate emigrati,n by those who.
wish to leave Ireland by reason of the approaching
mine witch is apprehended in that country.
&Mr. CON, of Vino, asked leave to Mtn , a ra-sointiore
that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to.coim
municate to the Home what, if any, changes can, be
made iu the present tariff, with n view solely tmtlin.ir,
cream of revenue, MN Mg in such communication: he
specify, in detail, the maximum of revenue which mrsy,in
his opittion,,be received by a change in the Garay/teach
article of import on which duties are now levied.
Mr. 818 - YENS, of ronnsylvania, objected, am/ the
reFolutinn won 1144 fecaiv"l,
of Illinois, introduced; a re - se:halmn
that, the Senate concurring, when the House adjourn to
day, it be till the 2d of January. Adopted.
Mr. BINGHAM, of Ohio, front the Committee. on the
Judiciary, reporteil a 1 , 111 aniriidtit9ri n.f
laCi to este-
Until the judicial at stem. It provides for tTF, circuity
in dead of ono in the Northwestern States, and consoli
dates the fifth and nintl. circuits, coosiothlg. of Ala .anus,
irlißihißippi, Arkansas., and Texas, into one.
It duo not Change IliV•111111112Vr j4oarBl, but leaves the
Buntline Conn as it id now.
Mr. of Illinois, said that, instead of legis
lating now for the norlhwe3t corner or a fraction of the
Ilopublic, they should do jintiro to every portion, and
thoroughly reorganize the whole It stem. The bill was
rostpoeed till lie.- tl,hd tla.
KPILLOG(i, of Illinois, said that he onde..tood
there was no quorum in the Senate to act on his former
resolution, and therefor) offered another, namely That
when the move,. ,otjeurn to-day, it be till Thtiraly
't 11 , It tilt th
twat, '` t" -t -
loWing 'Monday, and then tilt the 11 Of ja d it..rF, This
reyohltion Was masa, and tho Home tntio , lrue.. l till
Thursday.
THE CITY.
AMUSEMEN TS THIS EVENING
AMERMAN AOADEMIT OP MOSlO—Broad and LOCO!!
etreets—Crand Cuba i POOL
WaaArtoffra COWPINRAPPAL TatAra>t lWßlnnt street,
ab.vo Eighth.- 4, The Swithiirti Robollinn by Sin and
Land"—. , The Cataract of tho Gangoi."
AROII-BTRIZE7 THICATRH—Aron arrest, above Sixth.—
" Thc Robbers "—Guillatano Toll Mad av a March
Lliur-STREET TFINATRE—Ninth RIO Walnut sta.—
" A. blessage front the area "—" Bob Nettles "—" State
S"crtax:' •
TEMPLE or Woapag3—N, orner Tenth and Moat
nut, street*.—Olguor Mara Eatortainmoui,
Celebration of Christmnst
The Mission School of St. blatthies Uhurch, (Lutheran [ )
1„ win eete raw the arty with appropromo
exercises. Thin congregation biti two chords, One
in 11 , :df•velith street, above Girard aumile, the other in
Christian street. near Sixth. 0.. the or:med.. of the
'celebration, b) roue wig Le sting, aillirease,M4iypro, ow,
be l , ntilvar litSirtf•-litil not being coin
ph. led, the religious celebration of the day in this parish
will nitre plea° in the temporary church-edi lice oil Smo
ther street, whir h will be prettily (Melted with greetr.
All lie primary, aecinalitry, grammar. and high
will chum for the lic.lidtive to-day, with the eitat6l.i;kl , ,
erclses of past yi are, embracing vocal mimic, reek:diens
by the pupil-, and addresses by the Plau' Direct...a and
by members of the Board of Control. Allusions will be
outdo by some of gentlemen, rongratinating the pu
pils tlpelt lira minima of nil. rtieintiery and ntliestehie,
talei.tled their egertiona to the voltmtpor army.
'Pio:Morse Literary Itnitititte intend to emulate the ex
am ple ut previous years in the distribution of 1,000 loaves
of bread to the poor.
At ilaucel itnd !IRA"' 11211, on Thursday erenina,
Rev. Georges AV. Hadley will lecture upon a Hieing Wlildlt
blet.de science with attractiveness, the " Mammoth Cave
of lietitu,ky." This e11V,13.1 is one of the sutural won
ders of the earth, and, ut the present time, pogaed3P3 nil
nddrd sourest from lining the rinogitory of vast stores of
nut urally-foitutal italtrietrn.
At St. Joi,eph's Catholic. Church, Willing's alley,
Christmas ear will have a great attractiveness, be the
*earlier bright or stormy_ A principal feature hero, as
le pea 1 , err , aklll Int Oat hlfidiAtlOll IO tnlniatnre of the
stable of Bethlehem. The church wili be feste .nefl with
cc ci greens, and ail efficient choir will render the musical
4-1011 , 11 K. An appropriate sermon will be preached et
10M A. DI. by the paxter, Bev. Father flarhelin.
. she ' F eet ofnea, 6,liege, will he opened to-hlorrow
hem 8 to 9 A. -M and from 3 to 3 P td, for the con
venience of the public.
The managers of the Bedford-street Mission School
are now preparing for the usual Christmas dinner to the
lb.. wilt be 5 4.4 w re
ceive donations of suitable articles to fu rn ish th e tables.
roultryl meats, bread, die., or money, will be thankfully
tem:is-ea a's contributions to the dinner. Contributions
may be sent to the missionary, !tee. Jeremiah Beckwith,
of the jaou.r, CUD 11..11 , ..ra Areet,or to e.-ny ..f
following managers, viz : It. S. Yard, 209 Spruce street;
J. U. Bludsall, 808 Chestnut street.; J. R. Steelman, 52
Eoullt Second street TIMIIII4II Sappington, 308 Market
Wert With IL 9itY9lllloo. 7/2 &tali t3maci street; thy.
31.1111 km. 828 Arch street:
At the Western litorket 'Home.
an maraet
streets, a grand (:1454,141 fair will ho held, continuing
for scsurPl 11919: (lip building has been surmounted
it null PRIMA it
with tour mtgs. ao.....ivrly' , --odr4s of }an_
didappearance, being illuminated with
The
terns, and festooned with flags and..evergreet.s. _
prewations were being prosecuted with energy as we
passed there yestortlay.
At the eltrit4lan Evangelical Reformed Ohnseli, Crean
street, la-low Sixteenth, the first anniversary of the dedi
cation of that Wince Ail! be celebrated to-morrow. The
ground and church building have cost $24,000. The
pastor, Rev. J. 11, Giesey, will deliver a suitable sermon.
at sass Si~ir..l
As? i , Not eto- 1 bOrALieyhi e, 14.,40 0
of Refuge, St. John's Orphans' n VITIM, and the ether
beneveleut institutions, the inmates—adult and children
—will participate in a Christmas dinner, furnished by
the Board of Manegere.
All khe ens.,etnent. %NM epula durira— }he
day. Manager Sanford, of the American Opera
will, in accoutaiv:e with the custom of yore, distrlbute
1,000 leaves of bread to feerl the hungry. The American
Opera House will preeent three, performances—mernine,
pi t,4 will the egiar pvpilior phyet-4 of
resort.
It is customary for the pupils of Girard College to have
two or three days recess during Chriitinaa week. , Thlif
will 1e the race this year when all those who hare rela
tives a , ill ti sit there, zed theee who l,cve nor wf4l vowpo
themselves in different ways. Those that remain at the
College during Christmas day will be feasted with Ek grand
dinni r.
The inmates of the Northern- Rome for Friendless
Childran will have their !MIA Illirintmea &mire as I a
grand ceiehrandit in the afternoon. Tho programine
will include singing and epeeehes by prominent clergy.
men. vim will detail the operations of the organization
during the pact year.
A grand dinner will be gorrod 1111 for the nld sailors
At d niavine , A At the NAtal ABylttin, Lti Crlty'g Ferry rmid.
There will al.to be services during the day in the chapel.
At the Almshouse nothing unusual will take place—ex
cept in the chile ren's wards. For Item it will b.i a day
ol enjoyment, and they will be furnished with a number
of luxuries not included in their daily bill of fare. - There
ni ;dm be preaching by the Rev. Edward C. Jones.
The employers nt the navy yard will, if they desire,
have an opportunity to celebrate the day. All those who
Utah to work; however: will be allowed the privilen, et
eVerVtliibg i 4 heite at present.
On Christmas evening, at half past seven o'clock, there
will be a Sendai School Concert of sacred and patri,,t,c
nine c in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Sine
street_ The inimical progratomo will embrsee solos.
duets, and choruses. Addresses will be delivered by
Rev. James Emmett Wilson of. Ohio, Rev. James 11.
Lightbourn, and others. A Pleasant time may be antici
pabd.
The celebration at the Volunteer Refreshment Siloam
ie not to be of a very marked character. All regiments
which may arrive in this city, however, to-morrow or
upon the succeeding day, will be lihvally snpplierl with
meats and poultry, the managers of the Western Market
Company having generously donated [to ear.luade of
such provielone to theme Instituting.
The lady manners of the Union 'Temporary Home
will hold an Artists' Reception, for the benefit of
the institution's fund, beginning on Thursday eve.
ning and closing on Friday evening at halt past ten.
A number of artists ,and • tiro patrons him, with
great liberality, consented to 'contribute paintings
for the exhibition. The entertainment is novel in
character, and charitable persons of refilled taste
will have an opportunity of spending several plea-
ASIA L6ii£4 kluttn4 Otis healdLys, midis 2,1,11,-,..; an lu,...tfta
non which eminently deserves their sympath;...
NATAL MATTER.S.—SiIiCe the breaking out
of the ret.,1111.,u the fulivv46.- vc-aarl* 1m -iv bum; cowita-vicf
ed in this city. At the navy card there has been built
and launched the Miami and Tuscarora. The Miami is
nearly ready for calling,
and the Tuscarora, after re
ceiving her armament at New York, sailed a fen d syn
eines_ Tha Juniata is new nearly ready foe lannahluA,
and the keel of the Monoeyake la le about to be JAW.. As
coon ac the Juniata is launched, the keel for the sloop
of-war Shenandoah will be laid. At private chip yards
in the city three gunboats have been built, viz: The
Winultielsm. by Ina. Lynn; the Sefaftt, by Jamb
Direly and the /Wed, by Hillman & Streaker. These
three vessels cost, for the hulls, $158,500, and the ma
chinery, 000. A bark, built by Charles Williams,
of this city, was purchased by the Government, and fit
ted tunas a gunboat. The Stare and Stripes, hutlt by
SiMpott & Neill, way ai.4o purchased immediately after
she was oil the ducks. The Government changed her
name to the Kittanning, and made a gunboat of bar.
Among the ordnance stores recently received at the
navy yard ars a number of 12-ineh betnbahalia, dssirtned
for the mortars from Port Pitt, to be place 3 on the
bomb-bonts.
The Maid' ship _Albion, which was recently captured
oft the daranntih river, in attempting to run the tiLiek
tele, lk new on her way to thin port She ii loaded with
reit and coal.
The United States gunboat Tahoma has left the navy
yard to join the blockading fleet. She made a trial trip
83 far as the Capes a few days since, when an average
rate of speed of nine knots an hour was attained.
The Ifarrford in slut in Mu dry •doch, iforciiing num.
101111 repo is.
It wee expected that the Juniata would be launched
about the beginning or the year, but on account of her
machinery not being ready, a dolor of two or three weeks
min follow.
The repairs to the Pokyhatan will take a long time,
as all her planking above water line is so decayed that it
will have to be replaced. Her machinery will also need
repairing.
Three vessels ere new lying. in the stream opposite the
navy yard reedy for departnre. Thae are the Wain
sloop-of-war Brooklyn under command of Commodore
Thomas T. Craven tali schooner JO n 1 ,38 S. Chambers,
commanded by Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Dennir;
writ!. LlAtitkaaht 116.5. L-11,
commanding. The Prookhot has been much improved
Mote her arrival at the yarn, awl has also been furnished
with heavier metal. nen armament now coneisis of
twenti -one nine-inch guns, one eight-pound rifle pi vot
atm, anti two +wave- F orma howitzers. the
carries one eleven-inch pivot-gun, a twenty-pound Par
rott gun, and two 24 -pound howitzers . The Chambers
is armed with five 32-prtunders.
The City Ice Boat is now lying above the navy yard,
hiiich .411401146 a by , her resent service on the Potomac,
and totally unfit for use, should the Delaware became
closed by ice• At a meeting of the Corn Exchange Asso
ciation held yesterday morning, Mr. n.reltibuld Getty in
the chair, a resolution was adopted authorizing the ap•
poltdmetit of a AttMlia committee to petition. Cannella for
an appropriation to ID her at oncefor active duty, should
her services be required.
MORE GUN:S.—During yesterday morning
sorsrai Jorge mortars pined througn tins city on
their way to New York. They came fom the Fort Pitt
Iron Works at Pittsburg. These mortars are of thirteen
inch bore, and weigh about nine tons each. A large
quantity of thirteen-inch balls stet shells has also bean
rbiPacji tv 2f Cyt Yvric w4htu a tow dwy* - pwc, *o t34liVlr
day a block gun, a hundred and titly-powader, from
Pittsburg, was also sent ever to that city. There are
also several large mortars at the depot at West Phila
delphia awaiting tram nation.
CHARGED WITH PICKING POCKETS,--A man,
who gave the name of William Gob: was arrested
on unday afternoon, upon simpleton of having picked
the pocket of a ponileman at the post (Arise. fin HIM
also idol tilled as one of a party who witO at a Plate neat
Front and Willow streets, on Saturday, about the time a
gold watch and chain were stolen. William was com
mitted for a further hearing.
THE NINETT-NINTII REGDIENT.—The Com
pany called Jackach Zouares, commanded by Captain
J. J. Carberry, is now in a fair way for completion, and
will probably march in a few days. It is attached to the
(.IJ.lwar-minths Pi-FIRAUIVIIIIIII
Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Tin:nuns W. Swee.
toy. The main body of thin regiment is now encamped
in Virginia. near Alexandria, and forms the , nstrome loft
of the grand army of the Potomac, in the brigade of Cm
xe,wl
COMMENCED OPERATIONS.—The manufactu
ring egabliAment of Meesrs. Ridgway, Rolf, d; Lawson,
at Ocintantawn, whieli wan deutroyed Um about Kix
weeks since, has been rebuilt, and connueoeed.utkeratiouA
yesterday morning. The firm is engaged: in tusking
bayonets and sabres fur the taovernmenr, fc.e: which new
and inrproved machinery has been placed in the °dab
lightuott These bnyonebt are fur the liu.RahLritleti, to
be tnabUfaettued by the Mellon. Jenks, at lithlosburg.
DONATlOlsia.—Captain R. C. Hix:lo, Edward
J. Et‘lllW.ll mtl 4014 1v,144:48, iithitewtedge the receipt
of rho following bum for company 1, ofairurnin Ho-i
-nsult, prisoners at Richmond; Francis Lucas, $5, F.
Lucas,Jr., $2; Sallie Lucas, $1; C. Lucas,Bl ; J. Lucas,
$2; lit Lucas, S.l; John Lucas. $1; %Ytui. E. Stevens
M re. .1. Smith, $5; B. Taoism., $5; J. Mears,
,D,a;enni, f Rpht - vt W. , lilt
ter, $5 ; Miss Gilbert, $5.
THE COURIA.—P_TISI PRAlA — Justice Timap
11_ P,aiith ea_ Alhatt lklooleaton. AR
action of ejectment. 'Verdict, by agreement, for
tiff.
David Wallace and John F. Preston vs. The City of
Phil. , delphia. An ,tc,tion to recover damages for tuns
hy r6lutlfri tz.aaait of the shower lad tunconor.
by which Levering street, Mailoyitiik, wag waelied
l'lnintilTs owned pnaperty near the nue of Um !draw, not
the water, in rnlet.ina through Levering streotOteured
the foundations of the bounds.
QUARTER 1514 , 11'.107iii , —.111i1g0 Allf6orh—The• jhroll for
the seeetal why! Of the term eery exiled yesthettity nem: ,
lug.
Ilenry Culltns nag put on tria ' rcharged with.crnelty
a hone, the proyorty of Hr. Yonaciver, the proprietor of
livery itaFto Tho horst] atm gam animal hire by
Thurso A hilareng nn the 111P.Iit lie twerderealiretttatlN
tens hint:,. - the an aftt moon, and driven to. bad tint. lie
VAIN funudea•,vi. The defence called one Wiali)Pl, who,trea
tilted tha%,leter haul left the carriage, ktunna-
Ilion Who hard been with Wei throve tic hire at I rapid
malt• tbr11:101 thetitY for urwrly two tom, and itra tint
him to Ow Aside.
The racy rendered a verdict of not
IS e itubmiti (1 - 'MC 0
evehiutr. a Meeting (.3 . thu Board QC Tratiu was held at
lluir motile, Fifth EvAl Ch' tbrit streeta. 19r the purpose
of ;tracing a 'yew r t , by Dr. II tty es, of his lute North Polar
n1)010011. PCtiITP has PIFVVAY WWI piIDINIO,
atinalincu al the et casi , a wsia quite fair.
UNKNOWN Max hlLLKO.—Yesterday aftor
m.on, botweea 5 and 6 o'clock, a man, whoso canto +No
could uut tuvortain, Am run uvor by the fridaht coca at
Third mid Market treets, and iublanlly killed, Efau+a
a driver, and, it it; suppoaed, fell from the cnr. The body
woo umoved to the Sixth ward atation•home, and the
cormter natiflfd.
Flttr.—Last. evening . , ft slight fire•
occurred at the residence of John Mottehou OrchAd
Street. above Bron - n. The damage was teittilm.
"THE TIOMF. MISSIONARY SOCIETY OP THE
Cley or Ihut.n A. " —The twenty-sixth anni
.yet.arr of lido old ....I exceil.oot beoevoloat
n held on Saldaith evening, in the sdetliodbit Epiacopal
church, Green stn et, above Tenth. The preadent,
Geo. 11. Stuart, Etql , tilled the chair, and, after flinging
and Ira ) el, Huhroittell to the Very hlrile s.l , :ionce pro
td. ILA t*et.ty-.l,:fh !khhthtl repot)
1116,1-.412u; and appropriate luldrlOtHeN were :mole by the
lttY. W. 11 Ilrionane, printer of tire church, and tho
Tier. T. S. lien Pin, of the flroal-street llardeit Chatroh,
and 0. 11. :Stuart, Ent. TIM exnrcimnA were interaneraad
with 'aiming by tho chair. 1.1,4 awl hittain havitk»
been eldtettal for the nectudoti.
Filan the report learn that, altioiugh the anuaint
of funds raked by the association the pa-t ye fall 4
much short of a hat it has been for many years previous,
the amount of good acraniptihlwil, the Mo.llllQaPil ttre
happy hi, pay, to proportionably greater.
(In Deentuber IG, 1860, the treasurer of the agtociatiou
hart in bin hands, left over from the provinh4 year, 14.
ba
lance belonging to the "Poor Fund," of $315.77; front
In, Ihibs, to 1i0ce0.1,..,c is , tut,., ludo-7v., he
hire received for ttu• benefit of the poor ,g_nia -
king together s3,rl L7Q. During the SUMO period hr• hat
paid out for the relict of the poor, incHuline the inciden
tal expel:sett itoeittrithly como•cto.l therewith, $3,.5!19.93
_14.4. , :+1t5.0 Ink the I. Poor P0.0t," o
balance of $1.97.
Of the funds contribute.l to pay the missiottari-s; he
h ai l a b a l a pc s , on hand. reeenther MTh, lgr,o, of $:2.1).1;
has !Pet. d for toni purpose, up to nereuiller 15111,
1 hfil; 347i1.8ti; 111111 NI ha to tilt 11114gioL114riqt,
F , 175: having a balmy in big hatirbt nl 95 ogniN.
laming the year ending 'December 151 ii, lAril, 1200
families: hove been usoistecl: 'llB4 orders for coal, '2O (10.
for VW' d, to the Hick 1184 'clo. for groceries, it) p.ire of
11111101 100 orlitirs ofclothing, fi hoatirl , of finani4 I knx
(Jr unney, 1 anti of corn menl, and 1 dn, of )Lair wnra
given. 1191 viciti were made by tutu 511adonarie , 4, who
Matt (bitted MID payee of religious traeh, 47 prayer
hoohe, mid 130 copies of the Holy t 0.1.4,011 , 3, 4Y mcr.
AMIN )10Vu teen f.fi'M'bed, 'Ol pilw . ooti notrtio . z.; worn
livid, no vo iithernrn ntsruarl, rd deaths !rive ne , ..lirrtal
among those in the rare of the recietl , and 19 perstitict
have made a profeesinn of religion. 81 cens..4 were nl
- unworthy of aeaialannry 10,1 19 could not 1,1. fonni.
.
F9lolth'il 41 . off ird cYPry
nTirrr, no 611701) adtnnj halo bPOII NOTI.IO/ With ro MR.
/le/li t - iiiplu3 runt in the country, an ill Prlllotl4 `,l!arA ;
hut temporary employment wan procured for veer inn
hundred persons in the city. Itern the managers trunk
remark, that any one w•i+king to employ a parrion, main
or 11 mule. for tiny period, !tort nr lon2, can nestrly
wayn be so prliell on applicatibn at the cacti or the society,
No. 42 North Fifth qtroot, between house of two mid
Lice o'clock P. M.
r the Porno mann aq otatarl AU LT, only etoht male
find four female ehihiftti bare, (hiring the Inuit year, bean
PIACO la!Olienel.tt and good homes in the country. A. 4
ile larger number of thege ta.a..r children are the
ornitring of drunken and hew - Atoll pilaw' 'a, and they have
been Dent algulatt of arinta, filth, end
terkrlgalheat, to hornea of *tette, cleatalneza. And DrenlY.
%here they mill be brought daily under the inductive of
intelligent and Clirtitiart revenue.
Seven yearn have elapsed !dove the society added thin
Ten important feature to its operation!, and it agora
tliA rligioporg groin FAtidAetiil lit iwifilr aide t 4 gat, that
or the eight hundred and four chi] teen furnimhed during
that tithe with good and comfortable homes, at leak nine
tordha of thrill have done well.
ILA zap
!hor f.116W-Ctt4'PrAtoi..4l;no f.,rwari liblany to
their aid tide winter, ti; "ve every k 6 " ull to fear
thaa it will he a nevare and trying ono to many who hay*
nem known want before,
LITTLE SCHUYLKILL NAVIGATION COMPANV.
—Ail'Jjou meeting of tae stockholders of the Little
SchuylkilliHreitua i. 24 Navigation Company was held
yeafe lay morntrkg. Ttr, 11 , 4 o.:: of the ltla lag 4 t'4l. read,'
to that of the Comm!lite bf 23,Ar01na4.13 Wad read, had
after conriderable ilitcurelen It WWI resolved that the en
tire proceedings upon the subject ohnohl ho tail upon the
fable, and the press requested not to runtish them. Com
menting want Chit 'requcst, plr, Otilills.n 7V4errycl that
"the, trouble wax to control the reporters I" that he had
called on The l'rees at the close of the last meeting (two
weeks since) to prevent the publication of hie address,
which hail been taken by two stenographer:4,lnd that tho
areomcript of his oprrids 1709 accompa
nied with remarks of an impertinent character. Mr.
Milliken Is slighdy in error, in several particulars. There
was but one reporter of The Press at that meeting, and
lie wee ?lel a etenegre,plter• lie he hot the slightest re
collrctinn of haring min/ Mr, of haring ileltr.
lard to hint the manuscript of Lis speech, or of baron.
treated him impertinently. Cu thocontrat y, the s7tiech,
as pacau graphically reported by u-, it otilt in our posatil-
Dim, It wits 1101 lay 911 Wedliosday went
Met, for the DiDIPIL err sou that - ha publication would hart,
been an act of gross inntitice to the board of Managers
of the company, and a trench of faith that could have
added nought to our reputation for enterprise.
TO IMPORTERS AND OTTEER3.-..STNOPSIS OF
THE NEW CUSTOM PtGELATION:4.—Wn stspierAtan4 that
new and more etrint:ent regulations will go into rttfert
among uftiCers of the cutltums upon January Ist, by order
Of Collector Tteduefl. They are sulAilatilily ai ameteil:
tt , ii77t. All officers nr tee PllOOll,l are prehMit4d, undor
life penelty of dienlisBal, (I'olll receiving any pragents frcnn
imports r., manure, captains, or others, in the shape of
!Nome, etc.
Second. All samples arc to be placed tinder the eharr
or thy sturriturprr, rur a pc , rial or 'Moro day; ( (Turing
which time the owner or importer may call cw l reoeiro
them. If not called for within that time, they aro to be
placed in suitable boxes or vessels, and donated to sorb.
charitable inetitutione as the Collector iney derittuate,
„ . .
Third. All 6flicera of rho ongoing knowing if a val.
tion of either of the foregoing reenlittienx, end failing to
report the same to the Collector, will be contiilereil par
ticcps crintinie, cod dcelt with as prnyilled in the first
regulation,
The abueee, for the pact year, have been so groat that
the importers were compelled to solicit the 'Met rentiou of
the Collector, for the protection of their interests.
DEATH Or A WELL•KNOWN
terdaY morning Dr. U. P. BlattLeh, long an egtimahla
family pr•ysician in this city, &EA at his rarldenre, in
North Tenth atroet. He, wag ;thaw yesrs of
age, and a graduate of the University of Pennsyivania.
A DisriMati§iftb loam that
Colonel Mulligan, the hero of Lexington, hoe nr•epted
en invitation to lecture in this city, fur the benefit of St,
John's Orphan Asyln:n. Friday . priming of tho pre
cent week• has been geleeted. The breve Oelonol will
attract a monster audience.
SWORD PRESENTATION.—Copt. E. S. llowand,
of Company N, Colonel Angerath's First PennrcOmirda
11.t4i5. 11114.1) Iu L ,, IRID 41 tk4 Dia
mond eottage, Camden, bag been made the rsseiptent of rs
'very handsome sword, sash, and belt, as a token of
esteem and respect of his numerous friends.
POSTPONEMENT OF DR. CHAPIN'S LECTURE.—.
In eontequerice of the illness of Rev. Dr. Chapin, the
lecture announced for last ereninst by the People's , Lite
rary Institute was postponed. Due notice will ha gtite
of Um delirety.
ROM - IEI).—A man frum lloyiestown, while
in company with a woman on Sunday evening, on Race
street, near Seventh, was robbed. of SW: The' wows*
wee failinsnnentlY himitrd and the moncy 100Ytitt
Tim Mot' wet commun.
Iv TowN.—Colonel William F. Small, of the!
Twenty-sixth Pennsylvinin Regiment, is now in. this city.
il4 is iu this enjoyment of excellent health. suubleukweir.-
cee4llr Ply fine.
RETURNED.---Mr. John T. Mahoney, one or
the lialstotion frpm thin 941 to convey the retuarnil
11 - retain's to Irtlandi line returned. Mr. Dlnhony in an
architect of some considerable skill, and employed the crp.
portnnity Utile in Europe to examine the most promt•
nent church edifices. -
IN A Etyma Cos urnoN.—The lad Koller, who'.
was hurt by the explosion at the Animal, at ILiflesbura
wan in a critical condition yesterday morning. He is in
jured Internally, and mortification set in on Sunda/
night. His case is considered hopeless.
DESTROYING Pt BLIOPROPERTY.—Three boys
were arrested on Saturday afterinion, fur cutting soma•
of the trees in Fairmount Park. They were committed.
Thim thmild he a warning to other youths who par foal
inclined to injuro the property in me park.
A LOST GIRL.—A little girl, named.Bennel,
has been at the Senna-district station-home since Friday
niftht himL All that can ha ascertained Malin) to her
hOtn N that she liren in Filbert street, near a market
house.
WT 7 gTIVrITMMMUM.
THE MONEY MARKET.
PHILADELPHIA, December 2, 1661.
Itat llttln business Wed transacted at the Stuck Board
to-day, sith litho fluctuation in prices, except for Penn
s} lvania Railroad stock, which declined again x, selling
al wfto4:tg Itailroad shares opened at 10 9.16, and
declined to 16 7.16 to 16%.
In the money market there is very little doing, and
the quotations are nearly nominal.
OFFICIAL BANK STATEMENT,
WEEKLY AVERAGES OF THE PHILADELPHIA. BANES
BANKS.
13.z_ lg. ga_
, -
$4,155,000 81,176,000 1,191,0061,149,000
3,414,597 3,50;366 02i,560 , , 924,54
5,241,844. 5,054,335 1,530, - =5,1,523,253
1,007,000. 1,1456,000 341,0(10 072,000
2,131,000 , 2,074,000 262,010 i 313,2Y1
1,012,000 1,017,000 342,030; 363,000
200,222 1,025,757; 328,252, , 26',610
785,7961 81.r2,346 203,245, 1x:1,380
0E4,1311 0.10,1!,11i, 154.r.1111 161,1.:V/
1,519,0211 1,a57,8;4; 504,312 1 t 34,872
1,321,5901 1,270,100 160,596) 165,000
821,54.0: 728,640, 200,201: 172,168
2,534,7601 2,505,451; 363,385 351,921
610,3 1 151 520,708' 182.655 232,224
328,3141 057,032, 121,000 121,773
311,786 1 926,2431 135,681 132,470
573,8281 579,011, 101,209: 1110,11.3
502,000 513,000 i 108,000 128,005
4.96,500 494,000' 51 4 0001 73,000
I --
31,140,202 31,060,101;7,354,1127,10,7,286
8A37.8.
Philadelphia... ;
North America";
Farm &Mech..?
Mechanics' I
N. Mee.1ee....1
Southwark.... .1
Kensington
krprs TolernAAF
Western.
Man & tech ..
Corunke,reo•
Girard.........
Connulktaiion...
City
Commonwealth.
Corn raghanse
Union
COMM
111. i 114A_ ; Dad. 111
52,855,000,5:1,826,000 8259,04X1
2,380,947 1 2,255,266: 21900141
14,938,538 4,079,394: 278,5401
i,oal,ona! 1,395,000, Eit.ooo l
1. , 1,16,1:&; 1.31/2,111124,135.
1,828,000 i 1,:t13,000! 81,000
835,453 , 842,2411 0.4,7'001
005,04 726,795! 133,376 i
011,1991 021,99 1 1' 90,939
1,110.752 1,155,301 123,060
821,712, 701,075! 74,01451
734,334, 075,598 1 48,725
1,478,10 1,421,314: 130,11
611,04 51e14100 117.100
401,118 989,419' 1.15,47',
681,41 p; 570,103 58,21
373,655 - 331,-173 01,9:
0.1,00 d, 313,000 70,000
90g1,0041; 01.000: 74.0011
Mils&
North America.
Farm & Mech..
Mechanics'
N. Liberties....
Southwark
Keusiugtoti
i'vnu TowlAAp
Western
Man. a. Mech..
Counnerce....“
Girard •
Coll4oiidatiOU
City
Cananona - calth
Corn Exchange
Tale aggreguteu compaxu with those of reeling
IN=
Dec.l.6. Dec. 2-3.
Cnpital Stock *11,970,150 g 11,9711,159..
Lemats 31,140,222 31,069,0C1. Dec. 80.433.1
6Mie TOCeI,I4 7 7 167,2e4..D0c.199014...
Tito Ent other lika i 1 1 352,067 I,:ili,r,ii,,Prc,./ VT,Tilat
Due to other Bks... 3,077,000 :?,04 ,4 ,648 Dee. V 4204.
Depumit4 2.'2,9211,402 22,549,49.3..D0c, ZIT 03..1
Circulation 2,157024 2,114.50—P0n , 73474,
LOlinii.l atiecid, Itarcuru,l rvpoitts,
July 1 .23,967,20016,685,303 i?,101,312!1E,931,943.
Aug.. 5 24,211,521 5,743,321 :0,059.57115,941,581
Sept. 2 ....28,557,29 I t 1,179,4842,074,049 :10:14,71';i1
GS S;s .38,.te4,-3,4nn j,nr,',:t73:-...,,111,4434 1.4;111 ~dal
Zyttly ,
-I off
2'2
r5,34.,577
10 r 7 S7l 497
or
0 JO .20,713,817
Oct. 7 50,409,119
" 14 ~ 50,251,157 0,94.55.45
ll ' 4 ll ‘ 7o iVai 61 4 n 5 )7 4
" *SS „ .2EI 505,509 11,:514,033
Nov. 4.....,....28,431,735 1\1114,77
.... 27,871,443 lytr,7ool
" 15 .27.2.9.7921 - ...513,809
U0.49M3111,4FT, 10 8 1
Dec. 2... ..... 7,404,550 i
•4 .11,1 1,5X217,5110,5 N I
.. 14 . 31,141)„132; 7,554,112
~ 23 51.151141,117,107.5013
rriLs fulledvitut is it !litontent of him tiotuquikusu ut the
Pbi:ailetpbto dettrA,44 House, for /tie week. ewiting Dec.
furnished by 2nutnitger, Vaiiirsti R. Arnold, E 44.:,
Clearings. lioliwoes.
Dec, IIL ~,,, :3" 3314657 7.5 821.11A2 'll
6 i IT .. `1489,070 83 174,312 38
15... ¢ 5 ;;1,1134T 101,11;;;,17
« 14 ..... 2,370,0 r, 17 209,3.4.96
• 20 214,90,152 44 1117A4 fit
131 ..• 2 17471 1 '01 PO 1 6 ;1 1 78 31
815,745,8 ft GT $51,,108,5i8 08
Teter n ' Corn fr.tfeit 141entor, for Jar.tiriry 1, 1862
is beard to-day, in season for the halid aye, and oyery
fteirlityper oliOll/41 nit neglect P) pecan* n now. ThOrf
le an much reagtql in going will.iont a Conntfrfckik Datoc.
t9S in thew) ATe of ingenioti trawl, ns in VIM without
1 911LCIII
CIRCULATION
A:133,000
231, 'API
251,7213 •
115.000
1.21,090..
78040
0,350
133'115
88,70.
113,955
78:0&5
4%865
12E,'270
60, aid
111,210
54,130
61,060
70,000
71.000
2,113,04.
,14.'3,503.‘1,.976,1.)1:7
2.11.14.49U1t0-4.).
" 1:11
2,:',411,7;;11 . 30,1 1 29,Fea.
•4,14;ii),,3: 1 112110taNi.
Sil.3 ',Dia 7.0,321M4r
•:,,Ti;.1,11; 20,;;Ch/ L AI.
7,53:,4 0 84 20,1182,67.3
- 2,135.41: IV, Z.Cr2,141
770 4 , ‘ l 4 PVltAtha
20-13,121•23. 1 1.4 li
1.3 a
2,;.N11,4 4 '.) ',.',A,..01.1135
. 22 ,P 20 , 40 Lila, 017.t2.4
A,113,65u0z.:043,16.3