THE OBSERVER. - B. F. SLOAN". Editor. ?WE& 113. 110 m INAS IN £DVANU ERI&,PA.. SATUIJDAY, DEC. IT, 1R59 Organisation of the House—ileotion of Speaker. Nearly two weeks have passed since the assembling of Congress, and the House of Representativei has not yet organised. I n the meantime, the country waits for the Message of the president, and looks anx iously for his views upon many grave and important questions ; and we will have to wait until it is decided whether a good and true National man is to be the third offi cer of the Government, or whether we are to be cursed as a nation with a Black Republican Speaker of the John Sherman, Hin ton-H oward- Hel per school. From the reports of the proceedings of the House, as they reach us from day to day, it is seen that as has been all along prophe cieAL those intense, unterrified Democrats, Hickman, Schwartz Co., are now playing into the hands or the -republicans." From Monday's reports it appears that the now notorious John Hickman is wincing under the charge of the l'cri.stuotwn, of Saturil it y last, that he had entered into a combine by which the Anti-Lecompton votes were to be given to John Sherman, on condition that John W. Forney ' was to be elected Clerk of the House. The l'Aggresei/ve" Policy of the "Re- publican" Party The New York notes, a paper which in ISL 6 was strongly "Republican," and advo cated the election of Fremont to the Pres idency, don't seem to relish the evident tendency of its party to A bolunnotsm ; and in a well-written and judicious article on the present tendencies of the "Republican" party, it puts forth in a strong light the facts that while the express purpose for which that party was organized has been acvmplislied, while it has no unity of opinion or harmony of action on any other article of political faith, its leaders are now abolitionizing its platform and urging its adherents to a position in violation of the Constitution. Thousands of calm and so ber-minded "Republicans" declare that they can have no share in this "progress ive" movement ; thousands are seeking now for some other channel of action— some association of men for political pur poses which shall fairly express aarue, so ber and Constitution-loving sentiment, and at the same Lime shall be possessed of more than the one idea of anti-slavery. The 'Ames alleges that the party is becoming rapidly Abditionized ; that. "instead of Lai "iting its aims to prevent the extension of "slavery, it is preparing to wage open war "on slavery itself in the Southern States ; "that it is thus gradually throwing aside "its national character, and becoming "openly a sectional, Anti-Slavery, Aboli "Lion party. Its leading organs deny the "charge in words,—but the very terms of "the denial involve a substantial admission "to its truth." If we are not grossly mistaken in our in terpretation of the popular mind, the ele ments of disruption are already planted in the Republican party, and • when it be comes evident, as soon it must, that its drift is towards abolitionism and active ag gression upon the South, the large moder ate element within it will desert the organ isation and seek some other alliance. i The Democratic party as the party in power for many years put has of course been the object of assault and attack by those who were on the "outs." We have been repeatedly called the plunder party, a confederated band of robders, held to gether by nothing but the instinct of prey, corruption and bribery, as going for the "spoils," and the "loaves and fishes."— Certainly the Democratic party hair always deemed it proper to refuse positions to her enemies, positions which would enable them to do her injury, but at least, the Democratic party has never made "spoils" the basis of her organization. It is found ed on something not quite so ephemeral, or else it could not have weathered so many storms and survived so many shocks. But "spoils" are made the basis of the present opposition. Give us the Speaker, say the Republicans to the Americans, and we will give you the Clerk. They say the same to the Democrats who voted against Lecomp- ton. So we go. We will adhere fearlessly to principle—as long as we can do nothing better, but riches are better than honour and place better than integrity. Republi can patriots are no better than other patri ota at least. What a disappointment ! flow the mighty have fallen, and the great laid low ! = air The "republican" party, by their representatives in congress, are not only contestants for the government of the country, but they are also in the prisoner's box under indictment as sympathisers w k itiaurderers, promoters of disunion and a rs of treasonable practices. This is the dilemma of the party in Congress now, By mere brute force of members, they seek places of trust with their hands red with blood, and their hearts foul from thoughts as black as Egyptian darkness, and with this taint of treason upon them they hard ly know where to look for aid to carry out their plane of party and personal aggran dizement. The indorsement of a nefari ous publication is explained flippantly enough by the implicated members, by saying that they did not know what they signed—a lame excuse, but it is all they have, and it remains to be seen how far it will avail them. Nice Yoax &ixrms.—The result of the late exciting political contest in New York city, affords abundant proof that the De mocracy of that great commercial metrop olis are still untainted with abolitionism and other ;nu of its ilk. Of the entire Democratic vote of the city, Mr. Wood has received 30,340, and this on a division of the party: The highest vote ever given in the city by the united Democracy was two years ago, when Mr*. Wood received about 41,000 on a larger vote than now cut.— This would show that Mr. Havemeyer, the Tammany candidate, has received about 10,600 Democratic vote~the remaining 16,000 which he received having been given him by Old Line Whigs, Americans, and Republicans. The Tammany Hall clique nominated a candidate whose well known Republican proclivities it was hoped would bring to his suppert au. the members of that party! But even they did not, as a body, consider him politically honest enough to sustain him. Aid to litcroin's ViOtims. While the Abolitiduist,press and preach ers are extolling thl traitor Brown as a martyr, and demanding pecuniary aid to compensate his him* for the misdeeds of the father, they forgOt many things, and among them this: one of the innocent victims of Brown's oWn cruelty needs the very sort of assistance they lavish on Brown's guilty family—for alllhis family participat ed. physically or morally, in his crimes.— The Mrs. Halals DOyle of Kansas. whose sons the old fanatic Crown most savagely murdered In their ; mother's presence, needs aid, and, what is more, deserves it. Why is the philanthropy of the Abolition ists indifferent to heti fate? Why is there no sympathy for thO forlorn mother, the blood of whose slaughtered sons called loudly to Heaven for vengeance on the would-be Cromwell •of the Abolitionist shriekers ? Is it neeessary to be a crimi nal in order to excite the kindly attention of your true-Abolitionist? By the laws of the land old Brown was adjudged it traitor and a murderer. As such he most justly was hanged. These Abolitionists who ap plaud his course and condemn his sentence think him neither traitor nor murderer. But he was so, nevertheless, in wish, word and work. Therefore they admire him Therefore they applaud him. Pool Mt,. Doyle was the wife of a good law-abiding citizen , her sons were law-loving men Brown slew them in her presence, unheed ing her appeals for mercy ; and he quitted the scene os his diabolical deed with inno cent blood on his head and a heart broken mother's curste on his soul. Where are the subscriptions'f'or this poor woman 7 Have we no portraits of her slain sons or of her suffering self? The New York Express has opened a subscription list in her favor.— We approve die plan, and pray that it may be well sustained. It forms a practic a l comment on the most shameful insult which the Abolitionists have put on the people and the laws their base sympa thy for a heantlikss murderer, whose thick skull had conceived but one idea, and that was- nigger. HORACE. ( .("L)GEL. , SUER WAS nrCR TUC HEAD or Krttotau.—)loraceslreeley returns, thro' the columns of the Tribune, a spirited re ply to Mr. Kellogg, of Illinois. for the assault made upon him in the House of Representatives, In which he takes partic ular pains to hat Mr. John Sherman, the Republican candidate for Speakr, a left handed blow. It. is well known that Sher man, as well as Kellogg, signed the recom mendation for Helper's book, and that he seeks to avoid responsibility by the craven excuse that he did not know the character of the work he was helping to circulate.— Greeley denies the charge made by Kel logg, that the bargain with Senator Doug las to aid the latter in being elected Senator from Illinois, and concludes his letter with the following paragraph : "Mr. Kellogg, there is just one remain ing tie of sympathy between Senator Doug las and myself, now that the old relations of political antagonism between us are cornpletgly re-established: I detest his doctrines, but I like his PLUCK. Had Ae signed, ever so Aedlesaly, a circular restom mending Tom Paine's Age of Reason, you would never have found him prevaricating, nor apologizing, nor depreciating : he would have simply told his adversaries to make the most of it. 0 that some Republicans cduld be not merely ahnost but altogether such as he is in this respect, however un like in every other!" Poor JOHN SHItItHAN 1 . despised by the conservative men of the country for rec ommending Helper's infamous work, and scorned by his own party friends for the vain and cowardly excuses by means of which he seeks to avoid the responsibility of his act, he is likely to suffer the fate of most men who attempt to carry water on both shoulders, and fear to be anything courageously. Even his own friend and supporter, Horace Greeley, administers to him a contemptuous kick. The following eloquent extratet is from a sermon delivered on last Thanks giving clay, in Philadelphia, by ker. John Chambers : "What man in his house to-day, what man belonging to these United States, (and may the time never come when any mortal on the footstool of God Almighty shall be able to say anything else than these United States,)—what man in this Nation, wheth er he be a native or adopted citizen, is willing to see this Union dissolved ? You may say thernis no danger. I tell you, my brethren, there is danger, unless our peo ple come up tO the great duty in of obeying God, of "rendering unto Caesar the things that are Ciesat's"—unless our pulpits cease their clamor against the Constitution and the laws—unless the ministers of God re gard their duty of fidelity to Caesar and fidelity to God—unless men cease preach ing from the altar that it is better to put into a man's hand a rifle, a death-weapon, rather than a mother's Bible—unless we cease the agitation and abuse that arrays State against State—unless we abandon all sectionalism, and resolve that we will ad here to the Constitution and the laws, reforming that Constitution and these laws, when necessary, by legitimate and ordina ry method. If we move on in this way, our Republic will remain. If there is any man who would wish to see this nation severed, who would tear into fp ag.ments that banner of stripes and stars, and pluck the feathers from the proud eagle of my country, let him fall crushed and mangled before a gazing, a laughing. a blaspheming world of crowns and despotic seeptresi. I sayto-day, before the Eternal I AM, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, (and if I were on the banks of the Potomac, standing by his vault at Mount Vernon, 1 would say it over the sacred dust of the immortal Washing ton,) the man that would labor, would wish for the dissolution of the American Union, let him be anathema miaranat !" gar In a few days a new coinage of half dollars, produced at the United States Mint, will be submitted for the approval of Government. The new coin is the same sizes. those now in circulation, but is thick er at the rim, owing to the deeper sinking of the die. On one side is a medallion por trait of Wssetxt;rosi, with the head wreath ed in laurel, and the word Liberty in a scroll over the bust ; at the bottom is the date ; and around the whole the words "United States of America," in plain raised letters. On the reverse, I wreath of grain envelopes the words "Half-Dollar" in the same kind of letter. 1 li.t.rvois.—'Tbe fireepokt (Ills.) Bulletin recommends Hictm Bitionv, Esq., of Free- I p or t, as the Democra4 candidate for Governor of that State. 1 Were we a resi dent of the "Sucker St‘te," we should i tcl second that recommends • n. Mr. B. is a sterling Democrat ;he w a candidate for hmu l Congress against E. B. W' borne (' lusty blows for Freedom") las year, and ,sue ceeded in reducing that rifleman's rzta jority about four t d from whit it WM in 1856. Cualuurroilrar, Vs. The town is filling up with stingers to witness the executions which are to take place on Friday. The system of excluding citizens, adopted at John Brown's execu tion, is not to be repeated. Govern! Willard, of Indiana, accom panied by Mrs. Crowley, of New York, sis ter of Cook, and the Hon. D. IL Voorhees, Attorney General of Indiana, arrived yes. terday and visited Cook. The interview with his sister was most affecting. Later in the day Dr. Swinton and wife, of Indi ana, and Miss Hughes arrived. Mn. Staunton is a sister of Cook's, and Miss Hughes a cousin. They all visited the prisoner, presenting a scene of grief and anguish scarcely to be described. They proposed to see him again, but through the advice of Goy. Wil lard, each wrote him a few farewell lines, and all the ladies then leftior their homes, the male relatives de/doling to remain with him to the last. Arrangements have been made to have the body taken to New York for interment. Some of the relatives of Coppie are expected to arrive. His body will be taken to his mother, at Springdale, lowa. The bodies of Green and Co peland, ie thought, will not be claimed. If they are not, they will be decently interred near the gallows. The prisoners were quite cheerful this morning, and are now mak ing religious preparations for death. Cook was much cast down atter parting with his sisters, but is now perfectly calm and collected awaitigg his doom. Naw YORK., Dee. 14. The bark Magenta, Capt. Hopkins, of fireen Bay, Mich., arrived this morning from Montreal, which port she left on the 14th Nov. • MEN AC • F.t LLa y Dec. 14 A fire in this place at 4 o'clock this morning, destroyed the old Mechanic's Hall and 12 buildings. boss not less than 1550,1510, mostly covered by insurance. GC'ORMS/ON A L. --SIN A TB. —Washington, Dec. I4.—The Vice President announced the Committee on Mr. Mason's resolution adopted yesterday, which consists of Messrs. Mason, Davis, Collamer, Fitch and Doolittle. Mr. Pugh submitlitl . a resolution which lies over instructing the Committee on Territories to inquire into the expediency of repealing so much of the act for the re organization of the Territorial Government of New Mexico, and such as requires all laws passed by those Territories to be sub mitted to Congress for approval . or rejec tion. Mallory gave notice of his intention to introduce a bill to regulate and increase the pay of the Navy. The Senate then proceeded to the elec tion of Chaplain. On the first ballot there was no choice. On the second Rev. Dr. hurley we elected, receiving 35 votes out out of 50. THE CHIRIQUI ANTIQUITIRS.—The last ar rival from Chiriqui brought down about $30,000 of gold images from the Indian huacas, of a quality equal to the beet yet received, the majonty of which had already been disposed of at $2O per ounce. It is probable that during the dry 'sawn, which is now set in, many more Imams will be discovered, but it can hardly be expected that many discoveries. will be made after the present season, as during that time the entire country is likely to be examined. Little historical information, however, can he expected from the class of persons en gaged in the grave diggings, as they go there, not for the sake of research, but purely with the object of getting gold ; and unless scientific men are sent to inqestigate the subject, little, if any, information is likely to be thrown on the origin of these antiquities or the race of people whose re main lie buried with them. This should not be so. It is rarely that such an oppor tunity offers for throwing light on a gene ration that has passed away centuries ago, and whose works give evidence of their advanced state of civilization, although the world appears ignorant even of their exist ence. sir The London Morning Past charac terises t he recent Brussels telegram re specting a simultaneous disarmament by France and England as being absurd on the face. Disarmament, says the Post, is the very last thing France could ask—the very last thing England could accede to. Our armaments are not all based upon any French preparations if we adopt measures of a defensive nature ; they are undertaken against all comers and against combination of powers. We do not vary in accordance with the varying strength of our neighbors. The Pon believes that the preliminaries which the English government have con sidered necessary previous to the assembly of a Congress are in fair way of settlement, and we may, therefore, look forward to the assembly of the Congress at no very distant date. The Times says, the report in ques tion was from the hrst only unworthy of attention. ROTAL Vii TO CANADA.—The promise made by her Majesty Victoria, to the Ca nadian deputation was to the effect that either the Prince of Wales or Prince Alfred should visit the Great North American province next Summer excepting a rup ture, ways the latest London papers, with some great power, there is every reason to believe that the promise will be fulfilled. The matter has been sufficiently discussed, and it is understood that the Prince will not only be present at the opening of the great work for which the presence of roy ality was specially solicited, but that he will remain a sufficient time in Canada to become well actrainted with all its more interesting localities, and the physical char acteristics of the country. CEMIII ABOLITION OF FLOUGINO IN THR BRITISH Aaxr.—The Duke of Cambridge, Comman der-in-Chief of the British army, has just issued an order which is virtually an aboli tion of the punishment of flogging hereto fore much practiced in the service. The soldiers on entering the service are to be classified in two classes, in the first of which they will not be liable to corporeal punish ment except for aggravated mutinous con duct in time of war. They will continue in the first class until they commit certain crimes for which they will be degraded to the second class, in which they may be subjected to co rp oreal punishment. unin terrupted good conduct for a year will transfer him for a second time to the first class. The plan is ingenious and seems likely to accomplish its purpose and put an end to flogging, except for aggravated offences committed by incorigible men. PICRFORIII•NCI Or ♦ STRANGE BET.—Yes terday an extraordinary scene took place in Broadway. A politician, who had bet that he would walk in his bare feet from the St. Nicholas Hotel to the Astor Hotta., after afife and drum, or forfeit $3OO, if Fernando Wood was elected, performed his wager yesterday between 3 and 4 o'clock. He took the middle of the street for his journey, and was followed by several hun dred men and boys. On reaching the Astor House he took a carriage and rode home as quickly as possible. A bet of a similar nature was discharged a few days ago by a respectable man sweeping th• cross-walk corner of Fulton and Nassau street, for the most part of a day.—New York (Leerier and Eng. I===l A M/NIATTILIC HOISC—Oipt. Trecarten, of the ship Henrietta, which arrived from Leghorn on Saturday evening, lute brought with him a diminutive horse. it is a Jet black stallion, and has a smooth coat, with a long mane and tail. Although it is but seven hands high, it is perfectly shaped.— During the voyage, the animal has had the freedom of the ship, and has ambled around the deck much es a large dog would have done under similar cirmunstan oes. Capt. Trecarten has a vehicle to match his horse, and in a few days expects to astonish New Yorkers with the magnifi cence of his turn-out.—Nos York Time. g'ocat and gitouts.; lir Mr. Devitt . potoptotti Jr, ow to* and roopectod citizen of OW* se 1411100villo on Uwe* act, 111aP8 roan. WIT Nsvisa* hie flag4r ogee* ollbrelp eesson," end test irsittitrely s tteatesterer o i ezoept smsll strip is the olieaael• 'fir The Owens, in speaking of a bend of negro minstrels says, "one olomifion is, they show too mach siggsw," Is it possible! .. The "sailor's chapel," was dedicated last Sunday. The swim were ronducted by Revs. Lyon, Blackburn and Norton. lllfiir Rey. Mr. Foasirrits, of tkis city, WM announced for the second lecture in the Winter course at ConnesutyWe, lest evening. air A friend sends us the oopy for a card which he wishes us to print, with directions to "proem:rein and spenstite it so it will read like Newspaper talk 1" Well try. f or We were sorry to be among the "stay at-bomes" upon the occasion of the excursion to Warren, hut pressing duties prevented an attendance. 'tutors n. —We neglected last week to notice the removal of W at.sn's Order Depot, to the Meat Market of Adam Wild, on Cheapside -- He advertiser; Baltimore and Delaware Bay Oysters at prices to suit. *sr Fl oenebody writes to the Gazette. from Washington, that some of the "republican" members —deemed it necessary to go armed!" What "lusty blows for freedom" they would strike, if they only had the opportunity' j We have received s letter frotu Rev. J. E King, of Fort Edward, N Y. in answer to our correspondent, "L," froni Washington Co., N. Y.—but too late for notice ihiv week. YONII4IIIVILLZ —The "old friends and warm sympathisers" of Osaawotamie Brown, in Young:mine, tolled their Church bell, and fired minute guns on the 2d inst.,. for which action they will he heartily ashamed iwfore they are another year older. Sitr• The Meadville Frrr Pres: states that the silver ore about which there ha.. been so much excitement lately, tutus out t., he mica ! Prof. Williams has an►lyied it, and pronoun ces it "good for nix. ' This puts an , end to the silver speculation. mar Among the -invited guests - at the railroad celebration on Thursday. we were pleased to meet Mills' Brass Bend. of North- East. This company. altholigh having been organised but three or four months, give evi dence of musical acquirements that would do no discredit to older coteries , of the art. TILAIIISPOMITION.—The Buffalo Cunanerridi has done it. That paper Pap, OW Brown LA call Ossawatomie. By the fashion of tranwo aition, Goy. Wiee ought to tie called "Wotauas somie." [ What an HA,! OA 'lay .1 We would also make a general application of the same to all backere of Old Bumf. thir The Conneautville Courier, in speaking of the Erie & Pittsburgh R. It., says the track laying is progressing daily ; Jamestown is ex pected to be reached by Christmas. At present. the trains are very irregular, and are little or no accommodation to travelers and residents along the line. We hope fora better stale of things hereafter. H er The Jamestown Fire Companies are re joking in two new fire engines constructed for that village. They are respectively named the "Deluge" and the "Ikatise"...,and are accord ing to the Jamestown papers elegant "ma sheens." One fire company !timbers 44 men, the other 85. war The Werra' Mad says that the Sunbu ry & Erie cars now run to the Depot ground in Warren, arriving about 4 o'clock in the after norNt t and lealing at 101 in the forenoon. The Switches, to table. Engine house anti Depot buildings, are not yet finished, and of course the train is somewhat irregular, and things are yet in some confusion. CHAUTAUQUA LAKE CLOS ID.—The J &mem own Journal says :—"The C. C. Dennis made her last trip for the season this week, tying up here on Wednesday night for the winter. To day (Thursday) the Lake is nearly closed with ice. The past season has been a very good one for the boat, and she has probably done a larger freight and passenger business than was ever done on the Lake in one season be fore." Remixes& TUE l'ooa.—•The poor ye have always with you," was not less an admonition than a fact, when it come from the lips of the Saviour. It was intended for all time, and calculated for to-day as well as two thousand years ago. The poor we have with us, and it is our duty to provide for their wants and con tribute to their Comfort. There is more desti tution and suffering in our own city than most people dream of. --Lanier. chested ood dyter Jr. typotoll of Idooled, drag egos PoedorLog o'er this. truth, znasomon'o baud,. rtdal And yield a tythe to humble charity'o, Or clutch ber pine with more ettoruleir • "reap, And Meth with ttte wind. et grief were want." - Flornalmorg TelegragA. 344., We are informaed that Judge Galbraith publicly declared during the trial of Foust, for murder, at Erie, two or three weeks since, that be would never again affix his signature to a license to sell intoxicating liquors : We believe he is the first President Judge who has come up to that pitch of moral heroism—though nearly all are willing to-censure the poor devil who buys the poison. Judge Galbraith de serves much credit for thus pioneering so just a declaration from the bench : and now that be has broken the ice, we trust other President Judges will feel their duty urging them to a like declaration and prartice.—Pulfer County Journal. Judge Galbraith publicly declared nothing of the kind during the trial of• Foust, nor did he declare that be would "never again" affix hie signature to license during any other trial. He did say, during the trial of one Miller, for keeping a disorderly house, wherein it was shown that liquor was freely given to minors, that such cases almost tempted him to refuse ever again signing • license. So the ice is only tracked, Mr. Journal. Erasmus*, iron Wtsyss.—A lady who has successfully tried the plan herein given, hands it to an exchange for publication. It may be interesting to the lovers of bowers, though the season is rather late for carrying out the sug oestiOn made : A most beautiful and easily ittahted show of evergreens may be had by a very simple plan, which btu been found to an swer remarkably well on a small scale. If geranium branches, takes' from luxuriant and healthy t just before the winter seta in, be cut as slips, and immersed in soap-wa ter, they will, alter drooping for • few days, shed their leaves, put forth fresh ones and con tinue in the finest vigor all winter. By placing • number of bottles, thus filled, in a flower basket, with moss to conceal the bottles, a show of evergreen is easily insured for the whole winter. All the different varieties of the plant being used, the various shapes and colors of the leaves blend into a very beautiful effect.— They require no fresh water. BONN * IE BELL Like two rosebads crashed is meow Are the cheeks of Boas& Dell, Like the violets tbst grow 'Mang the daisies i• the dell Are her eyes—the Man of Wed Ns* a mortal Mart did swell With lush pre sad hod delight As the oyes of Boogie Bell. Music trembles on the lip Of the fairy Bonnie Bell ; Oh ! I'd give each sweets to sip, Wealth that Orman Wer eould tell ; I would cola my brain sad soul. Could the mintage buy a veil That would watt me to my goal— Waft and win me Bonnie Bell' As the sound of Over Aae, . Is the voice of Bonnie Bell ;, t L Wit, like bubbles on the 11111" i Pure al pearls in ocean shell, Sparkle through her golden these; Joyful as a marriage bell I could glide adown life's stream In one boat with Bonnie Bell. •- We are quite sure, that lovers of music will be delighted to learn that "Harry Squires," little Mary McVicker and ler \ lifolfman, pian ist, propose to give a Concert in this city nest week, probably on Wednesday or Thursday evening. It would be useless for us to assure our read ers, that to bear "Harry Squires" sing, is a delicious treat. He who could draw crowded houses in -Naples for twenty-seven njghts in succession, who moved the lovers of the "Art Divine" in London, Florence, Roston, New York and other cities akmtich as Orpheus did the aionen of the brooks or the trees of the woods ; and who received from all of high title of "The Great American Tenor," such an one we say needs no praise from us. The following are a few brief extracts from such papers as the London Testes, Herald and Adnertuer. and the Naples Joensai of Art. The latter paper after speaking rapturously of his success in different places in Italy, says : All these essays, however, are mere nothing compared to the clamorous applause which greeted him on the stage of the theatre of St. Ferdinand° of Naples, as first tenor in the Trovatore of Verdi. This magic opera was re peated there no less than - twenty-seven times, but amongst the principal performers Squires alone was applauded in all his pieces ; for him only the - people ran to the theatre, and he on his part omitted nothing to attract still more the sympathies of the public. * * • At Sorrento, there took place • public concert at. which were united as spectators illustrious travellers and the elite of the Capital ; among these there was the Royal Highness, the Count of Syracuse, the King's brother, who, after the concert, was pleased to wait upon Squires and express his satisfaction at the beauty of his voice and the superior style of his singing. From the Loodon Morning Chronicle * * * The distinguishing feature of this series of performances, however, was the debut of Mr Henry Squires, than whom a more promising tenor-has not of late years appear ed. He possesses the rare advantage of I singularly sweet and well cultivated voice, re markable at once for compass and for volume, and he wins the absolutely enthusiastic appro val of his audience by the dramatic reeling Ind expression with which he renders his parts. From tit* London Morning A4►.►tiwr, Jul 7 16 * * * The great_ novelty and perhaps attraction of the evening was, however, the debut of an English singer, who has obtained a Continental celebrity, he having been per forming these last four years with oonsider able success in the Italian theatres. Mr. Henry Squires, the artist in question, is a tenor of the first class. * * * The tone of voice is that of Sims Beeves, and, like that great artist, be owes much to the most diligent cultivation of singing as an art. His manner, of course, participates in the method, set by the great tenor of the time, Mario. From U. Liverpool Uersld, Oct. 34. No English tenor hut appeared, since the advent of Sims Ruyan. that bids so fair to at tain a sterling popularity u Mr. Butts's. From tba London Timor • * Before the curtain fell he had achieved a triumphant success, and secured for himself the position of one of the first En glish tenors of the day. • • • He was vo ciferously encored in hie song from the tower, and, at the conclusion of the opera, he was loudly called for, lie has but to go on aad prosper. In addition to the above, the critiques of this country have unanimously pronounced hint "The unrivalled .American Tenor." Of little Mary MeVicker, we have not room to speak. Only twelve years of age, she has won from erowdeill houses in the Eastern and Western cities the appellation of "The Great Musical Prodigy." We hope our readers will all go and bear them. We have notioed this Concert at length, because it is refreshing to have an opportunity, amid so much trash, of hearing an entertainjoent of so high-an order. fir The Gazette is "forced to the conclu sion" that the reason why we do not "object to the daily expression of treasonable senti ments by Solithern newspapers and Southern congressmen." is "because those expressions" come from a "par rieellenee Democratic source, and it is therefore prudent to take no notice of them ! ' In the same breath, that paper chari tably declares it. would be "gratified to learn" if it is mistaken We can assure our cotemporary Just he was nevee more "mistaken!' in his life. The Obaerver has no space to devote to the "treasonable sentiments" of Members of Con gress from the Gulf States, or from their par tisan presses. We feel ourselves inadequate to the performance of the duty we have al home. When all such men as the editor of the Gazette come around to our views of political morality, it will he time enough to "hold up to public execration" the sins of our Southern nigh hor.. We promise the Gazelle, if it will turn in and help us purify the body politic in our own sectilin, we will, after the accomplishment of that desirable purpose, devote our wit , le at tention to the reformation of the South, con ,istent with our duty to fragrant Booriboohla Gba. We are no "Aqinidab Sleek." The "poor ye have always with you" was intended by the Saviour as an admonition in more ways than one and if the Gazette will only adopt the one great "mind your own business" prin ciple of the Democratic creed, it wiU take • long step towards that much-wished-for recon ciliation between the conflicting social sad po litical interests of the North and South. Is the Gazette "gratified!" VOL A t the adjourned meeting of the friends of the Industrial Reform School. held at the Baptist church on Mondsy er, the fol lowing resolution was unanimot, ;y adopted : Resolved, That Rev. Wm. Raw, William liimrod, Prof. Clark, James Sill, Esq., and A. E. Foster, be a Committee to prepare and pub lish an address to the people, on the subject of an Industrial Reform School, and the necessity for such an institution for inebriate*, vagrants and criminals who are susceptible of reforma tion, by the exercise of practical care and in struction and htbor, instead of imprisonment, and that said Committee take measures for the organisation of a Count Aiwa:dation, auxiliary to the "Penn In Reform School" [Advertioemeat.] (fir The Treasurer of the Brie Canal Com pany acknowledges the receipt of Otte Hundred Dollars through the hands of Bishop Tonna, of the Catholic church, restitution through the confessional. DAVID McALIETEE, Trees, Erie Canal Co ITEMS .OF NEWS. —Vie papers of the Interior of the State say that slam has Same at lea, and that the merry numb of sleigh bells prevails. --A Wan dsstiat et Chicago recently stat ed in Mt atilrese to his faiethren that the value of it* Otte mid leaf annually used in the United States for the replacing and repair of delketiviieeth, is $2,260,000. —The tostmaster General has ordered of the contractor a further supply of the new self ruling stamped envelopes, upon an improved pattern. The new addition will appear seine time in Jannao. —The wife of Mr. Fernando Wood, the May or elect of New York, died very suddenly Friday morning after giving birth to a child. In respect to Mayor Wood, and to the well known virtues of the deceased, the Boyd of Councilmen met, and, having received • com munication on that subject, pasted resolutions of regret and sympathy. —The coroner's jury at Norfolk, Va., in the ease of the boy Leonard, have rendered • ver dict of accidental death from • shot from a gun ' which he held in his hands. The atinovnce meat of the verdict gave great relief to the community. —Capt. J. S. Farnham, late commander of the slave yacht Wanderer, was arrested in New York Saturday on. requisition from Savannah, sad takes to that city. He is charged with having forcibly detained • number of negroes oa board the Wanderer last May. —A married woman, living at a place called Gawthrep, near °matt, has been delivered of a female gild having two heads and three isms. The third arm proceeded from the hack, sad was found to be two arms in one common interment as far as the wrist, whore it sepe rated into - two hands, one having the usual number of fingers and thumb, the other only two fingers and thumb. The child died shortly before birth. —AM the regular passenger boats running on Lake Ontario and the river have suit running for the season. The Bsy :ital., Cataract and Niagara, belonging to the aide line, have laid sip at Rochester. The stesmer+ to Montreal are running mostly on account of freight, of which there is a large supply still arriving from the West. —Some ingeniona person has patented a very ingenious little article tor facilitating the read ing of newspapers and books in the ears and city stages. It is a simple adaption of magni fying focus concentrated upon each Itne singly, thus enlarging the type and at the same time avoiding an unsteadine.os of movement, which we find so annoying in littentpts at reading while riding. --Oa the frontier of Tessa t wo white women have recently been captured by she Indians, sad carried into captivity Patrick Murphy. of Young county, offered 1.900 reward for the recovery of , his sister, who was thus stolvn, and bands or armed men are out .in pur+uu of Indians who stole a Mrs. Cornett from Bel knap. —About two weeks since the body or an In dian, whose intestines were protruding, was found in the woods in Morristown. Brown , Wis., and close by lay a dead bear, weighing over 400 pounds, which had been 'hut .I.r..iigh the neck, but had strength enough to kill hi+ destroyer before be died. —The Governor of Virginia has issued his message to the Senate and House of Delegates of the general Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia- As might have been expei•ted• it is a very elaborate and a very able docurrui The Harper's Ferry insurrection occupies, of amuse, a very large share of the Governor attention. He deals with it moderately. lint firmly and thorougly. —The Portland .4ryar reports that Her Dr. Chickering and Rev. Mr. Moore, of that city, exchanged pulpits on Sabbath of last week When the latter was about half through with his - discourse, at the High Street Church, lie suddenly stopped and remarked that the ser mon had cost him a great deal of labor, hut as it seemed not to interest the audience, as many of them were asleep, be would proceed with it no longer. He then closed the meeting with a prayer and benediction, —lt is announced in Porter' Sprit of the Awes that Col. COLT hos invented a revolving shot gun. It says that upon a late trial of this valuable gun at *distance of thirty yards, it put 175 pellets in a circle of 12 inches diam eter, penetrating 75 sheets of brown paper the shot used being No. 6, If ounces and two drachms of powder to each charge. The gun is a Ave shooter, and is finished in fine style. The cartridges are manufactured to suit lb gun, tad are impervious to the effects of as ter or • dampness. —The Winans steamer, which has been so long building, under the direction of her in ventors, made a trial trip from Baltimore on Friday afternoon, and arrived safely at Norfolk the next day. She was accompe.nied by Clin ton and Walter Winans, sons of one of the proprietors. The steamer has been put in condition for sea service, sad it is the inten• Lion of the proprietors to immediately make a series of experimental trips with her from Nor folk out to sea, superintended by themselves in person. —Hon. Theodore Sedgewick, a distinguished member of the New York Bar, and United States District Attorney for that district, died on ThtLradlly evening, at his family residenrr, in Stockbridge. He was widely and favorably known as a lawyer of ability, and also as the author of a treatise on the -Measure of Dam ages," and another upon "Btatutes ' The first mentioned of these books has attained a wide celebrity, not only in this country, but also in &rope. Mr. Sedgwick's death was suitatdy noticed is several of the New York Courts on Friday, which adjourned upon the announce ment, —The Comptroller, of New York city. emt - mates the expenditures of the City Govennuent for the year 1860 at $6,914,1'20 36, and its revenues at $3%,482 95, making the amount necessary to be raised by tax for Corporation purposes $8,587,040 41. The amount required to be raised by tax for State or County purpo ses Is estimated at $1,980,000 00, making with an additional item of $=9,3,59, (19 to cover deficiencies, a total of 8,807,000 00. The amount of I li Levy for all puce-poses in 1t459, '59,809,268 09. Bull though the Comptroller's estimates for 1080 ate under those of 18.7)9, the items may be chanted by the Common Council Nor do the estimates provide for the deficiency 'which exists in the finances of the Corporal ioti. —The Canada correspondent of the N. V. Amee observes that serious tears for the per manency of the Canadian meant line to Liver pool are entertained, In oonsequence of the loss of the Indian. That reseal was uninsured, sad as the company has hitherto had to con tend against the disadvantages of a non-paying business, there is reason to apprehend an &bondwoman of the enterprise. Nothing, save a subsidy from the British Treasury as gener ous as that • accorded to the Cunarders, can prevent this deplorable result. To oblain this ooneession, the Canadians are using every means of acting on public opinion at home, and upon the authorities in London. not without hopes of success. ser We would call the attention of Alm. clients, Hotel Proprietors sad others, to o w facilities for the execution of every des cr i ption of Colored Printing. We eannot be eseeri e i in this branch of the business, either here st elsewhere. All work ordertd from the 06.,. net office through the mail will meet with s s prompt attention as though it was attended to in person. sir Accvtox every day and evening. 7 4 meet all the demands it is now found necessary to reel goods at Auction all the time. p f ,,, , t fail to go to CHlMlTileff Auction room and let good bargains in •Weoessary articles for Ley family, and for Christmas presents. It i the pLaoe to buy. Her Sparit of the Age, Mew peered last week considerably enlarged, " (I in a new dress,--e sure indication of an app re ciliate and reading community. 'Saw You, Dec. 1:). In the United States Circuit Court toli 4y Judge Ingersoll presiding, Maroney feased judgment on stealing $.50,015) f rom Adams Express Company at Montgotue rl Alabama. He will be tried on a criminal stitt r Montgomery. WA.. Recently in England, eight of the workmen of the Pottery Works of Messr s Josiah W edgewood & Sons, were enter tained at a public dinner by their fellos workmen, and a few friends. They 1 1 , 1 v,. each been r d,; T t i l t i4 service of the firm over fifty yeaf a he eldest had been with the same employers for the unprecedented term of sixty-six years, and still regularly performs his allotted daily task. So long a connection between the employers and employed is doubtless without parallel, and speaks as well for the one ss for the other. im:nos sir The Boston Post says that the.eape Cod people are making their fortunes on cranberries. They are converting their meadows . intocranberry fields. and some o f them have, it is said, been un a tour this Fall to Virginia to examine the Great lit, mal Swamp, with the view of ii , rertaming whether it will answer for the erantxtrry culture. The Barnstable Patnut says that the cranberry culture yields almost a fabu lous profit, no man can deny ; and it seem• to be almost universally admitted that no cranberries equal in quality those of Cod. 'CUMAIO74Y VAX MX CUMXD, orgreatif alleviated by the use et CANTERS' KXTltitet T WEVI and LI VIE PUWDER, both lariats tio ne are entirely vegetable and tan be used with peneet eafet) DEATHS. In Union, on the I Ith inst., of Typhoid I's Ter, 'll ILLIA.SI SMILEY, aged L.i years At the re.idence of his S on-in-law, James Evans, in Nlilkreek, inn Tuesday the 13th ins& , ('l)\ R. 11) BR( 114" N, aged 87 years. Mr. Brown fir.t visited Erie in 1+.03, and removed to this place from Berk. county with his family in May, IAI4, engaging here in merchandising Some ten years afterwards he purchased and occupied for msny years the farm in Milicreek now occupied ter Conrad Brown, Jr.—Oa: Zo-glag'o Nrcrtimunts. NEAT! CH E IP!! 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I 811..11.1'01 tO) ag.nt I r tb.• Of Wearer., JI rirad of Flortinted-to tie rot ~ t Fate, and too. to Elm the 0.4 e and roe/wore *ale In .11 city W KA V V.R Perrone w tali tog to get the ArtRUINS MY.* Wlll reroent bier anti go to RA I.liiilN'S 1114117 STOKE, En.., !tee 17, '.".9-1191 — fr. 5, Reed HMI , .- . NI III( 'E 14 herell - nit en to the htClek holders el the Erie City Rallemmi Compel , . mat the annuel meeting for the election of ollem.e ho hold at their odic* in tiwi City of Erie, oti Mon.i.t, the 9th t.l.y "(JanunLey next, between the bourn of 2 an.. 4 o clock, I' M J. g. SPENCILK I.Mee Mlle ('no City It it. Co .1 Sec', Kilt . , Dec 17, 1.*9 ', N , .Ti, hereby given to the bx'k lud , tora of the F.ne It North East RAAlroa. n tompatte that the annual meeting tor the election of (leer. *Mt. h. 14 at to th e city of F. t !, e , on Tuesday the loth day of January next between the h. e•• of 10, A X. and 4, I'. M. .1 C. SPILNCEM, Ofriop & k R. R. Co , Rne, !Ire IT, 1650. SASH, DOORS & BLINDS. T ll F. sub,tcriher having leak‘ed the gitt , lately °erupted by (.71WHIC k Co., would le speetfull inform the public that he will continue to matt ut*etare NASD, DOIGISIII.INDS, STICKING MOULDINGS, Ike.. tt' t' twat materials, and in a style of workmanship that c tc.t iw eteelled in this city. , l'l:l.'ArE PLANING autl S('ltt )LI, S.IWING promptly attend. Co sad ewe ted In • earner nese tier. All vrork and priors a cheap ae the eliespeek ebop on Pooch St., s low doors north of Baptist flanrch Erie Dee 17 1119101-26tf JAME, CROOK. T'N 1)1 - 01 i 1 xs AND tENANTs, I offer my services to porooo/1 10 pursuit of Dwellings or stores, and propose to take the scene. of those who emh to trot them, sad UM/ form so rldlYalf. °Moe for both parties. W. CHRSTIIEL En., Dee IT, 1669 —3126 °Zee In Auction Room fine amortment of the best brands sod antes for male eery den at BALDWIN'S DRUG STORE, ffi N.. 6, ffeed Meow. Cil EL`4l.3f A N'S FEMALE PILLS, for its at BALDWIN'S DRUG MGR, CM THOMIN)N's SYRiT OF IPEAC.- An excellent article for the enne of Clugas ity ?nts. are, told at BALDWIN'S DRUG STORK, 28.tt PERFUMERY.—Ladies and Gentlemen 'Bailor to got good Portiroory at rodiserd wUI vein BALDWIN'S DRUG STORE, Ltt No. s, Rood Boum. =Z! CM ===2 ===:l
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