HOME MATTERS As there seenie to be an increased interest snug some portion of •:••• citizens, in.m.ti on to the subject of Life luau • ce. We would call attention to the Pittsb• gh Co, which from the wilt established chara :rand business capacity of the Directors renders, it deserving not only of the confidence but_ patronage of those wishing to effect an insurance; the advantages of which have been so strikingly set forth in ; numerous Instances of late in this city. - IsTrazarnio ro lovann ov Mvtac.—We an , . . deretand that Mr. "Henry Rohbook, the well known proferbor of music, so favorably known , hare, as teacher of the piano forui, will return to this city in February, to resume the duties of his profession. 0 Dittmar Ex CUTISIO, —The saint Clair . 13 tiards, CsPilan Eopy, and Presidents' dnards, Captain Gilfallan, will leave the,Allegheny depot, of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad, at ten o'clock, tilia . morning, for New Brighton, where they will be received by three military companies of Bea m-Comity, by _whim they have been invited to pay a visit to that beautiful section of the Country. ,They will return by the nine o'clock train to morrow. Miall, TRACHEA? . POSTITIiTE.—The mimic Tenobers' Tostitute commence { its sessions in LafaYetto Hall, on Wednesday morning, at . 10 o'eldhk. Mr. Mason opened the meeting by giv ing some &crania of the origin and progress of similar associations for eighteen years past., The first leas held in 1834, when . thce:elttaive object iron to explain and illbstrate: the inductive eye 'tom 'of teaching music. Mr. W. C. Woodbridge, oditor of Annals of . . :Education, had at that limit just returned '.om and had brought with him the original -bons by Nageli andPheiffer dm the subject, and . it was at his suggestion, awl the suggestion of :other...distinguished friends of education, that the first teacher's class was held. The class was The class .numbered twelve , members; it • has regularly increased until last August it num , beret' some fifteen hundred members.' Classes have also been held at different places, entending from Maine to Illinois. The.object of these classes - now isc. in addition .to the exposition of the methoarof teaching, to cultivate style'and taste in music fienerally and is chnreh.masic in particular. . We' r enly give a few of she leading thoughts of Mr. Mason's opening remarks' The remainder of the morning was spent, in singing psalmody. ' - "Mr. :M. made clear the distinction between the congregational and choir style, both by de scription and by illustration, and at this very first lesson some beautiful effects of piano were • brought opf in choir music, which we hare not been accustomed to heir. • The afternoon session commenced at 8 o'clock. 'The first hoar, was spent in a tehching exercise, the principles of inductive !and of deductive 'bstushing werecaplained and i lustrated by gram mar lessons and by, music le on, and were made .very plain. The last hour w spent in singing, alee 3, from a new work call • "The Glee Give." The sacred music in the naming was from Messrs.' Mason and Webb's la est work "Cantles he evening seesion comm need at half. past seiren and , was continued not I half past nine. Sacred music was sung the firs hour, and secular .sittalc the second hour,_ The namber of the class was considerably iarger in the evening, and the singing went off with good . pirit and inter est. We observed:quite a n her of teachers from abroad, mid some of the best musicians, and - members of the choir in our city, and we 'were truly delighterito see 'Englishmen, Ger mane, and Americans, Pennorylvaniarm, Yankees, Buckeyes and Virginians u;te to swell the 'the high eh eras of praise and ciy. • • REOSPTION or GOTTFRIED . KIFICEIL.—We tIUSt that oar citizens will turn oat evi moms at one today, on the wharf, to pay a tribute of respect to Dr. Gottfried Kinkel, the celebrated German patriot and scholar, who will arrive on the West Newton boat. . . Lammas on llama awn.—The lectures on yesmeriam, by „Doenir Keely, at Philo Halt, ,an attracting crowded houses. . ExCETTION OF DII. EISKI.L—The committee of Arrangements appointed at the meeting of citi zens, held at the U. States Hotel on Wednecoloy Last, met; pursuant to notice, on last evening, at the St. Charles Hotel On motion b of , Sam ',Honor, the Mayor of P. 1 . the Chair, and P. f . ..tarY• It having been anrion• man patriot Dr. Gottfrei patted by tile West Newt 17th, at 1 o'clock,: P. 11 Wm. Rose; Esq., • Resolved, That the C ' Mittens of thirteen to pro! to receive our expected .! American citizens., .1 The Chairman accord' lowing : del. Fleming, Esq., his ntsburgh,swas called to neon appointed Beare- ell that the great Ger- Kinkel, would be ex o boat, on Fridiy, Oct it was,: on motion of. • 'rmati appoint a eon, eed to the steamboat, cot on behalf of the &Y appointed the lot Hon. Wm. Wiilhins , C•L Roes Snowden, Gen. Wm. Larinierc Jr„ Henry McCullough, Wm. Rose,Saml. Fleming; Chas. H. Paulson, Col., Morgan Robertson, P. C. Shannon, CoL F. G. Kay,•Hon. Thomas M. Howe,Maj. David Lynch Samuel Roseberg. On motion, it was unanimously Resolved, -That the lion. W. W. Irwin be se lected as the orator to welcome our distinguish ed guest, on behalf of our - Arneleen citizens, at the Hotel. . Resolved, That we invite the people of Alio , %hen', county to co-operate with their German fellow citizens in all such arrangements as they may deem suitable, and may, have fixed upon for the purpose of emending appropriate honors 'to their distinguished guest, the PATILIOT Rix- Mr. Rose being called upon, made some do 'nent remarks in relation to the beneficial ob jects contemplated by the misSion of Dr. .Fin kel, and gave a.brief general outline of the pres ent eta% of affairs in. Europe. Remarks were also mule by Col. Black, Hon. M. W. Irwin, and Col. Ross Snowden. jgarTbe above committees are requested to . assemble, on Friday, of 1 o'clock, at the Non-' ongabela boost.. ASSAULT 11.7Ci1 , 73nrraar. ' —Tbomao McGoiern vnut committed to prison yesterday, by Alder man Patterson, of Birmingham, charged, on 'Oath or Peter Keenan, with striking him on the }feat qith a hoe. Lascxxx.—Elizabeth K ox was yesterday committed to prison by Major Guthrie, charged. on oath of Itrary Baldwin,• ith larceny. ASSVIT. &ND Barrcrir.+Georgn Shaffer was yeatenlay committed to prison by Alderman - Woods; charged, on oath of T. Kettle, with as sault and battery. Cosestirren.—Samh . laSbury. was committed tO im . isOrt on Wednesday, .by Mayor Fleming, charged -with recoiringAtoleu goals: _ - She was an inmate of a house in Allegheny, in which a gruuctity of articles of various kinds, which are Alleged to have been-stolen, were found. TILE P MILAN LIBRAIIT.— room las'been "elated in tho Athena's= to be oecupied s by the s. GermsFt Library ..451)eirction, recently formed in this oily, on-the model of the Young Men's Mercantile Library Amociten. THR INITAXITAMT'S op Econovir.--A large number of the inhabitants or this thriving little •village, are now on a • •risit of pleasure to this 1.• • Pasataa,Caterannir Moncr.-LJun. Mahaffey .leas on Wednesday fatly committed for trial, by Mayor Fleming, on a charge of passing coon • forfeit money. • . . ' DANGEBOUA I; nacrici..—While walking up Penn street yesterday, wo.obserred a number of . *non the top ofdi four atoryhouse, unrooffing thd building ; and throwing shingles and boards ~ indiscrimbantely upon the sidewalk, no intima •':.tion being given to passengers that any persons were at work on the roof, nor any guard being iilaced. whereby they might escape accidental Olio:little boy, trying to catch a falling had hie hand revorAy Inceenttd. Query. Is it consistent with city regulations to uaroof housee i ond`throw the underinle into the publi c drags aritheet taking condo . precnutiois for the public.eofety? Then, would be no ditruttl!},—no _~- ~.~. ===l trouble—in intimation to passers by - that they srere . . ger. This ought to be obserred in ell cases where missiles are thrown into the public streets. Far the Pittsburgh Gazette In the article under the head of ''European Opinion on American Pianos," in Tuesday's G aeta, Jenny Lind's "oprninn" on• Chickering's pianos Iran not claimed or intended. The fact that Chickering's pianos were used in Miss Linde concerts in New York and din - - out this country, and at the cotnerts'or Miss Catharine Flores, now in New York, was all,that was intedded to be conveyed. It is presumed that Silas Lind, as well as Mies Hayes - , employed the beet talent they could to aid them; and it is also,presurnablo.that they have used Chickering's pianos in preference to others. BY EI,EGRAPH IMEGI=I:=ECtM3 AND REPORTED FOR THE pITTSp URGII GAZETTE. FIIRTItER FOREIGN NEW S • BY THE STEAI SHIP AMERICA Nr lora:, 0ct...16.4 LNGLkND The news from the Australia gold. region, which continues to arrive, is cotthrniatery of the previous reports, as to the extent and richness , of the mines. Lord Londonderry had again addressed the President of the French Republic with reference to Abdo' Rader. The correspondence, however, • amounts to nothing practicable, London had been chiefly ...Tied with the el ection of Civil officers. Grimt excitement has been caused in Liver pool by the violent conduct of the Judge of the 'county court, towards Mr. Whitsey, editor of the Liverpool Journal, for s fancied insult. The Judge directed his imprisonment, without eel-c issuing a warrant, but was subsequently coin . pelted to go through the formality of the law. Mr. Whitsey was fined, and sentenced to two consecutive terms of imprisonment. The fines . were paid by subscription, and Mr. IV/limey was released. Ten . seamen, belonging' to the American ship Coltnnbia, mutinied on Wednesday. They bal ed down. Capt Biger and the mate, both f whom, were much injured. The men had been convicted, fined, and imprisoned. Hon. Abbott, Lawrence- the American Minia ter, was in Dublin visiting the public lestitutions and receiving great attention from the city an thorities and private ' Kossuth had been expected , in London, upjo the 18th is th it., when intelligence was rcciv that the French authorities had refused to grant him permission In pass through their territory from Marseilles, and it understood that be had sailed in the steamer :Mississippi, direct for N. York. It is said that the French refused to alletc Kossuth to pass through their territories from e desire to act in accorthluce with the wishes Of Austria and Russia. ea While the Mississippi was lying at Genoa, KO-. suth requested leave of the Sardinian Govern ment to rest a few moments ou Piedmont ground. The government replied that it did not wish to interpose the slightest obstacle to him, on his stay, but, in the present stale of its relations with neighboring posve4, it would be mindful of the circumstances what . might result therefrout and would leave it to their discretion to decide whether, under such circumstances M. Kossuth ought or ought not to invoke the hospitalities of the Piedmontese. This reply was opposod by able and influen tial parties, but Kossuth did not stay. The Queen was expected to visit Liverpool on the Bth inst. We have . adduces from Madrid to the 21st alt. It is stated thit the-authorities of Cuba had pro= posed a plan fig fortifying the Island, at the ex , pease of 40,000tk00 reals; but Gen. Concha is of opinion that a sum might be obtainad by the sae sing proposed by the War department.. A cotar mittee of general officers approved of Gen. Con chat plan. The excitement at Southampton repsectiag the arrival of Kossuth and his companions continued unabated. lie vratihipected about the 6th or 7th last.. It ig arranged thactmon the occasion of hie being' presented with an addeess by the city of London; he will proceed to the Guild Hall in an open carriage. with Lord Dudley Stewart. Commader Pullen of the Arctic eqpedition lari4 tied at Beal on Thursday. hem the lindson'4 Bay Co's.ship Prince of Wales.after carrying on: the most perilous search for Sir John Franklin, in the Arctic Seas in 1849 and 1N:30. The London Times mentions that letters freml Glasgow state the suspension of Messrs. Slaterl & Co., and Munson, :Merchant and Broker, with liabilities amounting to £30,000. Ossian E. Dodge, an American vocalist, has created some excitement in England, by offering $lO,OOO for the CrYstal Palace for one day andi night, soon after the close of the exhibition, for a monster concert. AUSTRIA AND TURKEI , According to a letter from Vienna, published in,the German Journals of Frankfort, the Aus, titian Governmenemanifeets its dissatisfaction with tho release of Kossuth, and had determined) to demand from the Ottoman Porte satisfaction for the persecution of the Christian population) of Bosnia; and enforce the demand by assent tdipg a hbdy of troops on the frontiers of the Turkish Cretin and Hergovinc. At a meeting of the Provisional. Committee at Paris, on'Thursday the Prittident ptated that while the country was tranquil,' there bed been noticed some agitation among the revolutionary parts in this city, generally in the Faubourg At. Germaine. The police have made a seizure of arms sup posed to have teen sent from abroad. Gen. Changarnier commented on the eeveri ty of the speech of the Minister of the Interior, at Charlotte, which be said might be disowned but could not be explained. The committee ad jouined until the Itab. The Times says that news from Fgypt rein ing to the disputa between the Pasha and the Sublime . Porte, which threatened to stop the construction of the Alexandria Railroad, ,has caused much excitement in this country, among all parties interested in the overland communi cation with India. Die anteed tbat measuree are in progresei for convening it. public meeting in London ol the enhject. PENNSYLVAhIk ELECTION MEEIGIMIMI - - Lehigh county—Biglees majority is it:37. The following is the rote :— Bigler, 3,196; Johnston, 2,819. Union—Johnston'a maj. is 900. The majority for Johnston in the city and county of Phihulelphis is about 2900. Berks—Official returns give Bigler 4,723 jority. Crawfordßiglers majority .3.5. Venaego—Majority for Bigler 60(1. Clarion—Gives 1000 majoritl for Bigl, Mercer—Majority 1170 for Bigler. • 811111,112—Bigler'n majority 200. Perry—Given 000, and tycoming 4)00 majori• ties for Bigler. Somerset-1,700 majority for Johnston. JENNY LIND CONCERT. Evrrnz.o, Oct. Di. Jenny Lind 's concert last night was Immensely luccesedul. PRIVATE DISPATCH. • flAaelsoverta, Oct. Id. The Whip have the Renate, end poseibly the House. , Coictssavi, Oct. 16. Sieioto County—gives Vinton 263 majority, and elects a Whig Senator by 421 moj. . Madison—Tinton 481) moj.; and Bates 523 over Beaus. Belmont—The Whig ticket to elected by from 400 to 200 majority. Marion—Democratic county ticket elected, excepting for surveyor; and the State ticket by .260 majority. Green—The county'aed State Whig tickets are elected, by from 700 to 800 majority. Morgan—The Democrotic county and State tickets ate elected, excepting Treasurer and , f'robate Judge. Granger—Cinton bi maj, but the Democratic Representative is elected by 1113. Washington—Vinton Ins 21)11 majority. The Whig county ticket is elected by a small ma jority. PRESIDENT FILLMORE WMuhlu Oat. 0ct.16. The Republic of this mohring, in an article upon the next Presidency, says that Mr. Fill more has adopted the rule of policy that his ad ministration shall be , carried on with single ref erence to the public gond. Ile is resolved,, re gardless of 411 personal conseni4 noes, to 'carry out the constitutional rights of all sections of the Union; and that the-honor and good faith of the COLlntrXphali.tre maintained inviolate, regardless of the temporary unpopularity of his adminis tration. Ile hay entered into no covenant, Made no committaLs, and seek, no rewards. Ile thinks that the choice of a 'Whig candidate for the • Presidim:v. should be left to the unbiassed action of the Iyhig party in convention. The Intelllgencer etate§ that Mr.- Webster will return to Washington on Monday next. ;RAILROAD OPPNENG; TOWN eo, Oct. 16. The cenmonT of turning ua. brst sod on the Toronto and Lake Huron Railroad, was perform ed to day by the Countess Elgin, in presence of 20,000 people. j..ord Elgin made .an excel lent address onthe occasion. NEW YORK MARKET E9==a NEW roux, Oct. 16. Cotton is steady, with sales Izoo bales at for mer rates. Flour—Sales 13,1500 bbls at $3 756,3 9t for state and western, and $4 1:26114 _5 ?or pure Genesee and fancy Michigan. - • •Graio—Slles 104)0 hushes Southern white wheat at KM, anll SOOO do Genesee white st 92c 1 7 ha. Sales 47,000 bushels corn at 5Gf for mixed. Provieions—Pork is steady at $l5 25 for, new mess, and $l2 50 for piime. Small stilesdard at 810-01 Id lb. tiroceries—The market it steady, with limited stales. • Stooks—Erie railroad declined 1; Reading advanced NEW ORLEANS NIARkET. Now ORraillg, Oct It;. Tae produce market is exceedingly dull. Flour stLouis brands are sclliog nt 75 ( 4 ) 3 85 -e bbl. Provisions—Nless Pork is offered at under $l5 vii bbl. Quotations for beef and pork are nominal. Butter—Good western is Pearce at • 15e ? pound. Cheese—Sales at 7 t l - 0 lb. Groceres—Nothing doing. in eugar. Rebelled molases dad declined, tee 17(3120c 1,/ gal Whiskey,-Sales at 19 +4(1-0c it gali, supormr. ILI.REEN * OIL CLOTH-500 yartl9 4, .4. LA sad 5 quarte On,.n Oil Cloth, rnr niir,,.. for erotic, to any manfactmeel fur [Dm D.rt.44...jußt Retired end for Mtl,artocio by u plot , or !erd. at tbo nwrr fount, Nt9+. 7 and 9 IVoul etreot. s9nl9 J. t IL PRILLIPS. • RON will he received in exelmnge (with a an amount of money) for TWO R1A1.11154 LOTS. /thy nu Piath Ward. Enuttim of ecoll ECAIPP. ATKINSON a .KEI.V. 1 - IA.RIS GREEN—HO cases of the celebra ted t.r.a, rewarded be tho cold 'nublsl nt the merioan lcuditutc fen uniformity of shade. ,and fn . hot., the docnat. mu. brilliant. )d o nermuteut.lin4m 111 pro ducal. Purchasing directlyo the Menolactuf,r..• are able to of on es favorable term. as Roy ‘le.t the Mountains J. VOlltoON MAK bill CO. -.1 _L 24 Wood street. Minnesota Capper Stook. 50 SII IoI IRES this eits A KILKIN .I .a lOW ,ott corner Market and Third A N Infallible Remedy for TI)OTH 1 T0rr....0n u. (..r mall lb. Teeth. Spongy and Illeedinc linmc, for M lV eI , OELL'S. ill at WilOd .11,4 • - I.:ENUINE MEDICINAL 1111 ANDY, A NI, MADEIRA WINE—Io Nut.— mod ou drsuclo. tot eel.. he .rrIA til.:ll9l:it a MolloW ELL, 144 i Wobd et. llEESE—lteibeiret, ceo COMIllf.. for sale by ,r 1.04 4 e. CANFIELD ALE ItA 'lO cask', MAN In note and tnr sale by rrlti .1 C 011 t AKE FISH-5 1110.4. White FiAlt; Tmut, tor ,Ate .1. It C5N11.1.L0 -I'ACK EItEL; hbls. lixii.primo W. R., for rOIIO by V er,s JAMES DALZEI.I... {Pater et. Large Noe s, 5,r •Dal JAM, UG AR d- MOLASSF:S--- Idadr.'prtrrin h. iiurt.o7 Co !Lau., - rr. fur .sin .10110$ DALLELL uM niter ot MEEMI . • 1 RUSH. POW'D SUGAR-50 lAA.. for b 3 ItUILIM F. IDG A INtiIIGAM 8 Li. MOLASSES—_ bbl.. goadate . . ; i•er by I , HI rityyVitll;YE itROOMS-170 doz. Corn, tbr rile by wnl WICK' A AGCANtIGL,z. ttRITANNIA TEA IV A Wit.' eaxidie.t.keli..TAGG Oath,' nda, Lamry, Oiravilble-. Ga. Chsta,...r., au..l tear} tka,..,1,1,1 Sp....tark... lAA./ ancl raver, at sa.pl II 14 WIG... {Y.! UNI)RIES,.... Nathan:a. b1.1•.'t,74.`" • ••• .• WALT awl rt , ta • 5 1 . 1 i . 1 ,v .A..1:-- . 7,111”.1.. N. 0, fu s j o lt l l L . l; . , l . , i v vm, 5 0 ,. ? A ASILT,,We ar,,,reltT:rteplistirdnum, ....I. .1,1. ‘ , l Invatuf.ctur, tuarl..• .""" •flel Fr ,, nt urar Alarlirt AR-75 111.1 X. prime N. 0., t. r NLIIItIt Mil: A I Nil • .I. k W ,ER A large !ripply of I lazard mob- YU .4.lvra, sop an , ll, std. 1..r1••t 02 wtr J 0,.1 01'1i/till NGLI LAD.) I'APERS.—Tbe best Lrt.lcu bad lwtLi blue ....am.. KW , " %Dirk. 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