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of your ; pechap! told a by and by to that pernicious tondency of —— ar @ weloome to m Erin groan, with ha be alarmed. M: 5 " wel cinnati Committee. eer Oclaen ad ducaisaing in hundreds of | new dt remained firmly attached to the bhp public speeches every recess of my soul; and if you ill Wd FIRST SPEE CHIN THE SOUTH id enon veo you toow ts by Bidding More Jnvestments in Munitions of War, e., Ke, Be, Lenya and the Committec. From Omeinnati Commercial, Feb 27.) An interview whieh tiok place, on Wednesda: evening, at the Burnet House, bet Korsatl and the Hungarian Committee, which had cb of the arrangements of the meeting at the depou, Was & subject of goneral conversation round the @itinens, yesterday; aod if the history related by those present be really true, a portion ef that it mpathy manifosted towards the ‘(o- ‘wernor of Hungary” ought to be applied in inkmoe- @iate extenuation of the sufferings of the local ciently prepared to counteract ite effect. However, atend ot areeting tau, mayest erter £0 much is @ fact, that in tho first time there was no oe Lary herocs, have brought upon them the sad de- organized opposition apparent. Bu’ when, by and | Position, ford, of cnfruitfal sereante—tand whose condition | bY, it became conspicuous that out of my humble now, instead of provoking the splenetic jests of party merriment, should excite tho unfeigaed cx- pression of public commisseration. Well, they had apaudience in the private apartment of the (io- vernor, one of the main objects of the interview Being to hand over to him the material aid col- lJeeted for admission to the meeting—some $1,200 ‘Phe first words, it is said, were spoken by Kossuth —* You see, gentlemen, your grand demonstration fer the Hungarian cause wasa failure '|—a failure |! —afailare!'!!” [A short pause and long faces fol- os thie Mars which was uttered with pecaliar omphazis. A spokesman of the committee here attempted to cffer an explanation in apology, alluding to the thertness of the notice given to the public, and the disappointment felt at postpening the day of mecet- ibg a2 originally notified, his own indisposition sug- ing the alteration, &c Kossurn—Oh, too much committee ; too inefii- — LA obilling sensation was bere observa- -J + Sroxgeman—We really ourselves feel greatly mortified at the thinness of the assemblage, but, Kossuru—Thick of it, gentlemen! I had your sssurance I should recoive $10,000 to-day, and nov J find not twelve bundred people at y meeting. Sd The commitice then severally assured Kossuth their exertions had not beon spared in endoavoriog ‘to collect a crowd. Kossuru—| humbly thauk you, gentlemen, but M1 bad been suffered to carryout my own arrange ments 1 could have obtaived as much material sid im forty-eight hours as, through your kindaess, ! have received in fifteon daye. “i ‘The manner of Kossuth wae all this time excited; the committce sat in silent and composed on- @arance, seeming to think that “anger has its pri- vilego,” and the general anxiety was to discover what was coming next. Koseuth, in a style of remonstrance, then pro- @eeded to ray thathe had been deceived—that upen the strength of the assurance given to him he made contracts forthe supply of several thousand dollars worth of cavalry harness—but his arrange ments bad been broken through by thig ill-mansged * Your large committees are in¢fliciont. ‘When in Europe,” said ho, ‘‘! heard ofa rovolu- | tionary committee of one hundred and forty person: iw Vienna, and I at once forsaw they would do no- thing—gentiemen, you illustrate the propriety of | that conclusion’ ‘Brief intervals of clouded ab- | atraction fellowed each ofthese pithy denunciations, but the momentary suspension of oral castiga:ion | was supplied by the withering look and excited | gesture of Kossuth— “ Aye, every joint should seem to curse and ban, And even now his burdened heart would break, Bhould he not curse them ”” He also gave a “‘broadhint” to the committee that they bad taken out $5,000 worth of Huagarian bonds, which bad been unaccounted for. The com- mittee handed over thesum collected at the mect- ing, and shortly after retired, with ‘their honors upon thea.” KOSSUTH’S DEPARTURE FROM CINCINNATI. Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, Kossuth | and suite left the Burnet House, in company with Sécutenant Governor Lane of Indiana, aad Messrs. Coombs and Sallivant, of the entire committce of arrangements, for the Wisconsin No. 2. Shortly after their arrival, the boat pushed off, went up the river a short distance, rounded to, and went by the eity at a rapid rate, with American, Hungarian, po f Turkish flags streaming from different parts of the boat. Absut three hundred persons crowded the steamers, and gave three cheers for Kossuth a3 the boat eped by. On the Wiseonsin were deputa- tions from Madison and Indianapolis, both jadios and gentlemen, numbering. in all, about sixty per- sons, who had come up to escort the Governor and suite down. A number of persons frem this city went down to Madison to witness the reception. Out of the large Committee of Arrangements, but two were atthe Burnet Houre yesterday morning to escort Kossuth to the river, and extend the cour me welcome you ige R hag 3 approbation to my cause. There is a principle in this your weloome. J ean with olevated brow thank yeu for it, and tell you that I understand the value of yoar weloom and say, God bless you, citizens of Cevington, aa “Hurrah for Kentucky, the bold aad brave. (Great applause.) And there is another reason whylam giad not to have been able to visit the South at aneariior time. Jn the first weeks of my arrival in the United Statee, my enemies, headed by Mr. Bodisoo and Mr. Hulsemann, either underrated the politisal im- portance of the genereus sympathy 1 was honored with, and took it for a passing emotion, whioh melts away by its very outburst, or they were not suffi- peace the United States, Divine Providence jasmade an opportunity for the mani euch principles as Bar peye some weight to that course which the poople of the tation of in regard nited States, might adopt in its foreizn policy, when the ackaow- ledg ment of those principies not only sproad through- out the vast territory of your glorious isnd, but aiso got the sanction of State Legislatures, and roso eventually to the anthority of a largely diffused pub- lie opinioa—when, not only those who, with honest conviction, and not animated but fe honorable mo- tives, dissented in opinion, and disclosed oponiy masons, and all the host of public and privat enemies, opened the eluices of thoir venomous flood, and left nothing undone to falsify historical truths, to disparage the fair ronown of my country, aud 30 ist the dust of vile calumny upon my persoaa cbaracter; and all this foul work of maligaity they pursue openly and secretly, with savh uassrapalous- ness, fuch perverseness, aod such porversity, that, indeed, 1 can say | have emptied the bitter cup of venom to the very bottom. {do not complain of it That was, and always will be the fate of public life fhe brighter, the nobler the aim, the moro enemies has tt to moet Ihave been, of a strange devtiny, aud not by my merit, too conspicuous in @ noble, popular cause. { have too much disturbed the proud sesurity of mighty tyrants, not to know that there mast bo men who only are sorry that the dooalogua has not some other ten precepts, in order that they migut charge me with having offendedthemall. Ivisa wonderful sight, indeed, to sce mankind haying such epemics amongst men; bat! know thesa aro not the worst fruite whisn the hosts of wasps porti- naciously assail. I may bleed to death, uader stings, bat so long aa I have one single drop of blood in wy veins, no violence and no indigaity will suceeed to step my honest endeavors to restore my country to its national independence, and to seo arepublic establishod there, where now fmpions despotiem sways; and | trust to God that, should they even succeed to eting me to death, out of my very ashes will others rite, to accomplish the great work of jast retribution However, 80 much is true, that had | had tho honor to visit the South before honest oppositioa and dishonert hostility bad 20 controvertod my course, your sympathy would have had but the character of Serre nee of my course; but now, as mattors stand, it has also tte character of dis- approbation ef the course of my opponents and my enemies. nd this, gentlemen, | take to bo @ great benefit. The generous sympathy you honor me with to-day has the full value of a favorable ver- dict, and I bow with fervent gratitude before the grand jury of public opinion in Kentucky. Kectucky soil upon which | have, for the firat time, the hovorto address a large assembly of Southerao gentlemen. Permit mo to state the two motives of this my aseertion. The first is, that Kentucky has, throughout the world, the reputation of indomitable, ardent eo- orgy; and, indeed, the short but glorious history of your country is full of etriking evidences of this uuth. Now, eir, if ever there was a cause tho ad- vocate of which bas reason to look for perssverant energy in thoge who are friendly disposed to support him, the cause of Hungary is indeed such. [am often told that there is a striking likeness between the unmerited honors ! receive and those once be- stowed upon Lafayette I repeatedly endeavored to explain tho diferente Lafayette was a great man. I haye not the elightest claim to that reputitin. Lafayetoe was a benefactor to America. [, alas, had never opportunity to do any good to your country, and am sn bumble petitioner, linked with ever! benefice. The honors bestowed upon Lafayoite were entirely of a personal character Those the people and government of the United States hoor me with, have nothing of a personal character, but are entirely to principle The very resolation which, on the 17th of February, were unanimously tesy due their guest One of the committee at temptedto address Korsuth, by thanking him fo his kindness in visiting Cincinnati, and extending te him the well wishos of the citizens. This oc eurred in a large crowd on the harrioane deck of | thebost. Kossuth, who appeared somewaat irri- tated, repliod, ‘Sir, 1 want geome freedom, somo | rest ; do not speak to me--leave.” Hore an expla: | mation wasofiered, when the Magyar continued, | “New, do not bother me; leave me, do, do; go away!” and the officer retired, while K ossuih turned to his lady, and commenced emelling a boquet of flowers. Messuth’ Welcome in Kentucky—-!is Speech at Covington, Kossuth was welcomed to Kentucky, and to the South, by the citizens of Covington, on Tuesday, | Feb. 24, 1852. An immense throng greeted bim at | the landing as he crossed the river trom Cincinnati, | and amid the hesrticst hurrahs he was conducted to | the public square, where in s most eloquent sp2cch frem Ex-Governor Morebead, he was formally ten- @ered the right hand of feliowship in behalf of the Kossuth responded a: follows:-- adopted by the citizens of Covington, have this dif ference You declare there that you sympathize with the | oppresred of all nations, wherever despotism has reared its serpent head; you proclaim to regard the | late etruggle in Hungary as one 6f peculiar iate- 1est—you declare the Huesian interference outrage- ous and contrary to the Jaws of nations, of justice, and of humanity, aud ever, as to myself, you honor me with your gen?rous attention, not out of what ever personal regard, but out of your sympathy for the principle of nationa! liberty—out of averzion for tyrants, and out of approbation of those principles, T humbly plead. All this, gentlemen, is a matter of principle, and that is precisely wat makes me say that | feel hap py to hear such declaration, and to receive auch a welcome on Kentucky soil, because, if the honor | have thankfully to acknowiedge would be an honor of personal character, well, there would be no | onergy required for it. You might thon say, “ we have honored the man, and the matter is done;” but the matter is net done by haviog honored the persecuted advocate of those principles. Your GENRLE! I thank you for the open, straight welcome of to day, is but the pronunsia' of forward, and affectionate manifestation of your | course, you resolved to pursue, aud for this ** ener. sympathy. gy” isall! canwish. Toeay, ** Kentucky” is so The spirit of the South is warm, and wherever much as ‘‘the lard of indomitable energy,” and in warmth is, there is life; and it is Ife, warm life, to which | appeal, against the chilling frosts of des- petiem, whlch not only murders, physically and spi- ritually, the present generation, but consumes tho very life-rource of posterity, by depriving it of na- tional vitality. : Gentlemen, it is now, for the firsttime, that I breathe the sir ofa Southern State. It is now, for the firettime, that | hear the thundering cheers of a mars of Southern republicans, sent up to high Heaven, in support cf great political principles. which | plead. |t ie now, for the first time, | have the honor to address a Southern aseembl, T feel happy, sir, that this gratifying oppor y was not earlier offered to me. | feel happy, fir, that it is Kentucky soil upon whioh J, for the first time, bave the opportunity. feel happy that | had not earlier this oppor Ys out of two motiver:—Virst, because in meeting the South, | feel particularly anxious to.be wel, that very fact, there is a thunderbolstor those ty- raute ou carib, who arrogantly trample beneath their feet, the law of nations. Why, geatlemen, the laws of nations, of justice and of humanity, are @ property common to all nations on earth. |: is aleo your own property. (rentlemen, ani let him beware who dares to touch the property of a Ken- tucky man. Let him stili more beware, who dares to violate the property of Kentucky, the nation, the State. He could as well dare to gers oko a fro deafening to the flame of lightning. as to pr tf upon Kentucky's brew. } id reseon, it, gentlemen, that Kentusky its inst and by its | interesta to the We I take this combinatic ahappy augury, be in both these {acts there is a ray of cause, If] am not mistaken, the Southern States of thi known. Yes, gentlemen, the character of the great republic, attach to no principle a greater South isa noble pride, and is mortally «pposed to | value; and none they cherish moro than the pria- arrogance andambition; | bave also, in my breast, ciple ef self-government Lhis. i somewhat of that noble pride, or rather of that | right, they will not yield to what. at if [ ucky, moral dignity—so much e0, gentlemen could win ali the famous riflemen of tien on earth resolu (and famoue they are indeed in Earope: there is self-gev rt to foreign interfer almost a magic of unparalleled superiority con- to the influence of altied friends neoted with the word, of a Kent y rifieman,) Well. gentlemen, this great principle of s»lf- «Cheering ) Yes, if | could win ali the famous ifiemen ef Kentucky, to ight for my dear Hun- gers—ifl could succeed theroin only by getting, as it were by stealth, into your heats, by con ing ene tingle excuse of my heart—in a word, by not making known who and what | am, and what are my principles, my wishes, my aim, and my pros- pecte—indeed, gentlemen, | would prefer to be dri- on away in shame from your country, thea to get our enemies sent aid by falechood, though it were bet the falsehood of not having said enough about what sort of fellow! am. (Creat applause ) Men of the South are straight, short in words, short in deeds, their hearts upon thoir lips, and their hand ready to do what their lips preciaim Now, to such men, | feel doubly the duty to come with open breast. Therefore it is that | rejoice that Circumstances prevented me from com’ sooner tothe South. tad! come earlier, you would, per- haps have received mo with a generous comparsion for my pereona! eufferings— you would have perhaps taken me for a weary wanderer, tired of past toils, ae to no future activity, but only for a place of rest where to die in peace and tranyuility—and you taken me with ion by the hand and otfered me the generousalme of your tender sympathy, and then when | had told you that | am not the man you take me for—that! look not for rost, but for the gove nlucnt is precisely tue ground Is it is this principle for whieh my nation rose like one man. It is this principle, for the maintenance of which, in the eternal code of na- ture, and of nature's rod; the people of Hungary fought like demigeds, and spent its sacred martyr- blood in torrents upon the battle field, and on the seoffold. it is this prineiplo which, in a donble way, wae inthe most sasrilegious manner violated by the Emperor of Austria and th pon which lussia It is thie which, without restoration Hungary to its soversign indeps: dence, t is no hope to see restored its fovercign authority in the great Statute Book of all mankiad, but rather the violation of it 0 & pos- tile digease, till it be blotted rom the earth, where it is considered, and with full right considered, as the strongest barrier against despot iem, and therefore bated by ali despois, and by all ambiticus wer, and by all wh body to despots and amb Lou know, gentiem: government has two foreign interference ention to the fast, that I urope whilo already, under the per- iple of centralization; labored a g: nicious influence of meane of bold ity: that J want nothing f not only kings pur y tho ain self; that | e strength enough in these entralize ¢ er in their governmen shoulders to wear boldly a moontaia of pr | unfortunately, even versity—that | can hunger and support the burning | lican movement gun, and the winter's frost, but | cannot stoop to live on mercy; that | hate tyrants and foar nono but God Almighty. (Applawe) With theso eon 3 neurpor timents | come to your country, to claim, in tho I instita name of my down-trodden fa'borlan Kiean America skould prove faithful to its fur tal principles, and stretch out its gigantic arms ov the waver and tell the despote that nations must | have fair play—ihatno foreign violence shoald dare | to interfere with the sovereign right of self-govern- | ment; and had told you that | claim from America for our nations! independence what America has re- th c minal respons: bility of ministers, and for sriiamontary omnipotence; lostead of oliaging to municipal institutions, as to a breakwater against he cnoroachmente of kings, mir re, and parlia- ments; and thas raising ministexial responsibility, to the degree of reality, and parliamentary power, to the giorioue position of the people’s sorvaats, instead of making it by illimitea omnipotence, the ceived from Europe for its own independence. | masses of th le, whi Jind | told you all "bis after | had fem bread | master but aii Iveste be real Save tone wt you, and acted yous salt, and tipped at thy | ingland, the oid Anglo-Sazon m freedom in its national capacity of a mighty poworon carth, | people to arms, to defend the palladium of our na. their oppositioz, but also the Bodisoos and Halse | | have eaid, sir, thas | feel also happy that it is | | | | | | | | ; ag | ties to your country, not by given but received | | the government of |’rance a vanguard of Kussia, great iples of self-government, and though openly encroached upon by the perjurious dynasty, ith bas conserved it through all*centuries—against all attacks of Austria; and it was for the purpose to get rid of these pernicious attacks, that we avail- ed ourselves of the condition of Europe in 1848, and yuarasteed with tho sanction of our thanking, (! je we will never have one more,) our old nation- | al self-government, by substituting the individual responsibility ef ministers for the former, but al- ways national government of a board of council, se hy being a corporayion, was of course in reality not responsible, though by law it was. The tyrant of, Austria, whom, in aa evil hour, our forofathers elected to be also our constitutions! king, seeing their impious dosign of centralization obstructed, forsook ail honor, broke their solema cath, tore to pi the very basis of their kingly capacity, and attacked flungary, when unprepared to mect such an attack, in the most scandalous manner; and no} expecting to meet @ resolute op- because we had no army, no money, no ammunition, no arms, no frieads, declared our oon- stitution and our national self-government, which they conserved through a thousand years, @: once and forever abolished. re But my heart revolted against thi: criligious injustice. My political friends aud I called our tioval existence—the priaciple of self-government, and that political, civil, and religious liberty, aad those demosratio institutions which we, upon that glorious basis of self goverament, have suc- ceeded to assert to all the people of Hungary. ‘The people nobly answered my call. We have beaten the ecntralizing tyrant to the dust, drove him out from our country, and we answered his im pious ce lizing designs by hie dothronement, and by the declaration of our independence. Were we right to do so or not? wee We were; aud we have accompl'sked vietoriously our lawful work, and have tsken our compoteat seat amongst the independent nations on ear:a. But she asked indépendent powers, and aias! the United States themselves lingered to recognise our dearly bought, our gloriously achieved iadopon- donce, and upon this lingering; beaten Austria took its refege under the shelter of the other pria- ciple, hostile to the right of self-government, the sacriligious principle of foreign armed interferer os, which you in your resolution so justly denounse as eoueaty to the law of nations, of justise, and ha- manity. Rusia, no, the Czar of Russia, declaved that the example of Hungary is dangerous, and interferred; and@, aided by treason, succeeded te crush down free- dom and self-government in Hungary, and so estad- lish centralized absolutism where, through all past ages, it waa never established yet. And, alas, the United States let her accomplish, silently, this vio- lation of the common lawe of nations. 4 Now, mark well, gentlemen, the laws of nations upon which you raised the lofty walls of your in- dependence, exists no more. Despots are united and leagued against freedom end national self- government, which they declare inconsistent with their divine (rather Satanic) rigats. Upon | this basis every nation on the European conticent | is crushed or put inte a precarious sitnation, | St. Petersburg transferred to Paris, and Logland hersef forced to arm and to prepare for self defence at home. Theso are the immediate | coneequonces of the priaciple of self govera- ment being crushed down by a double vislencs in Hupngary—first, by that of centralization, and then by foreign interference. Yonder great pria- ciple of self-government can only bo restored to its full weight by tho restoration of Hungary to its sovereign independence. If this is not soon ashiev- ed, look to the consequences. Things will go on as thoy went on in Huugary—first, the priaciple of centralization will be fostered amongst you; all the scoret craft of foreign diplomacy; many separate intentions (a8 is always the case) will got into the snare; and when you, gentlemen of the Sout oppose, with ail your wonted energy, to this ten- dency of your dear principle of self-government, the pretensione of the European con:isent, united in their anti-national league, will ferment your internal rd, and then declare your examp'e dangerous to order on earth! and foreign interfer- ence steps in for centralization in America. Indeed, gentlemen, if there is any placo on earth where this prospectus is worthy co be contidered with peculiarcare, it is the Southern States of this great Unicn, because there is the now pronounced strong held of the great principle of seli-govern- ment. But besides this intimate harmony of your most splendid political doctrine with the cnief Lo | advance, | bave full reason to co graphical position of Kentucky te with the cause of Hungarian inde Kentucky. bordered by that fair river thore, be- longs to that great valley of the Mississippi, which, by tho wonderful combination of its rivers and lakes, connected with the Galf of Mexioo, as well dence 5 as with the Atlantic, by Divine Providence itsclf, is | psinted out to have @ large commercial inter- | course with the Old World. I have been too long | in addressing you. T cannot dwell upon this sub- | jeos. Let is be, therefore, enough, when | atate, that with the restoration of Hangary to its national | independence, and in the necessary results which | must accompany it, large markets, like 2 world, | would open to the agricultural, manufacturiag, | commeroial, acd shippig interests of the United | States, and chiefly to the South and West. Where- as, on tke contrary, Hungary, oppreesed, is the footsteol to that preponderance of Russia, which | rush into the flame and get their wings singed, let them FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, errr MONEY BARK Waprzsvsy, Mare 3-6 P, M. ‘The excitement im Wall street still continues un- abated. The bulls are in fine spirits, and anticipate » much greater infiation, Those who realise at present prices will have more cause for cengratulation than those who come into the market now as buyers. We, however, have no doubt but that the advance in prices will attract speculators, and reHeve those who have been helders so long. We have repeatedly cautioned out- sidere against coming im at the top of the market. The modus eperandi of these cernering combinations has been pretty clearly shown, notwithstanding which we are prepared to see them enter the movement at its eulmi- nating point, and become saddled with the moet worth- lere fancies on the list, at high prises. Nothing will satiafy them but having thelr own way, and if they will doso, There i nothing like # little dear experience, The moet unfortunate part of the business, is the fact that the rome victim gete singed more than onee. It would not do for the regular street spesulator to have outelders too well posted up. Itis mecessary that there should be many speculators who are satisfied to go it bind, It is pretty certain that those who pur- chase fancy stooks, at present prices, belong to that claes ofoperators, It would be pretty difficult, in our opinion, to find @ sane, sensible man, who really believed Brie or Reading Railroad stock to be worth what they are now selling ot in this market. We can find, at this moment, sdosen of men in Wall street, who, a few weeks since were loudin their condemnation of all faney stooks, but who now puff and praise them, as being among the bes; investments of the day, and who will, before the lapse of meny weeks, returm to their former opinion, and abuse all kinds of stocks, end doallthey can to depress the market value of the very stoeks which are, at thie mo_ ment, such great faveritee, The opimion of any broker io Wall street, relative to the aetual value of any siock, isnot wortharush. They are governed entirely by seit interest,acd noone can blame them for that. If they, unfortunately, happn to be large holders of acy fancy stoek, of course there is no other etock so good in the market; om the other band, if they bappen to be short of apy particular stock, it is, of course, daugercus to touch it, and sil are advised te go long or short, ne may best euit the views or eelfimterest of Ube individual git- ;PB aD opinion. At the firet board, to.dsy, most of the fancies com- manded better prices. It will be seem, however, that most of the purchases were op time, principally buyers | option. The bears have made their appesramce in great foree. The rapid rite of the past two days, in connection with the high prices previously ruling, has given them more confidence and a wider margin. The opportunity | to put out desirable contracts, is too favorable tolet pass, and purcharers will probably have as much stock offered as their meane or credit will permit them to take. Railroad advanced *, per cent; Readiog Railroad Harlem. Long Island, 3;; Oanton Co. ';; Morris Canal, s; Norwich and Weroeater 1; Portemouth Co, }¢; Zine Co., 34. ‘The reeeipts at the office of the Aesistant Treasurer of this port, today, amounted to $187,246; payments | $47,009 43— balance, $2,170 435 78, | The bill allowirg Virginia Sixes to be received as secu rily for circulation, under the New Jersey General Bank- ing Law, paseed the Senate of that State by a vote of 15 to 2,and the House by s vote of 45 tol, Virginia Sixes are among the best State securities ia the country, and will noon be entirely sbrorbed by foreign capitaliets. The value cf merchandise imported into this port dur- ing the month of February, in each of the past two years, wae ae annexed:— Commence or THe Port or Raw Yorx--Iuronre. Withdrawn | Free Dutiab'e from Ware | Muse.” house. Goods. Specie. Te | Feb. 3°51. .$9 444.007 £00.098 1.265,0% lod. 171 | Feb. 1864,. 7,024 982 1,788,997 1,110,949 110205 10,05 678 S21 585,714 Decrease in February, 1852. Decrease in Jannory, itb2... «ee SL 5} Total decrease this yoor... eee eee eee ‘The value of goods entered for consumption in Fes- ruary, Was $1,008,383. The decrease in importations for the month just closed, has not been as large as we anti- oipated. Notwithstanding this fact, the increase in ex- ports of specie from this port in the same time, amounted to more than four millions of dollarr. Therecent operations in Reading Railroad stock have been very large. The parties concerned in the corner have at Jength determined to carry the stock toa higher point. With this view imaenre purcbates and sales | have beem made, and great eagerness manifested to get poszession cf siock. Whether the transactions ure rea! | ornot, thore outside of & certain circle of operators must be left to conj ve. There are so many falre and de- | ceptive operations agreed upon beforehand, and sham salesand purchases made, that it is difficult to discri minate the real from the unreal, The idea is vaguely thrown out by dark hints and inuendoes, that the cause of this continued great advance is based on the certainty of an increased dividend this year, and with the promise ef an extra etock dividend. The etock dividend, we euppore, is certain. There is no difficulty in creating capital, and it will be augmented until the company, to ence seen in all its over-reaching omnipotence, even | suit the Philadeiphis ideas, shall be as gigantic ae that | not of Ohio manufacture, Europo will and mustraise tho brass wall’of prohibi- | fthe late Bank of the United States. Tho Pottsville tion against all political and commercialintercourse | Miners’ Journal of the 23th, informs us that the road with republican America. | brought down, for the week ending last Thursday. Gentlemen, I know that upon the broad fi our freedom, particular motives may regulate your | national policy. In that respect, self preservation, | honor, and interost, must and will guide your steps, | and not the generous emotion of sympathy. Ilap- | tion om the railroad are as follows :— 028,161 tome at the seme period last year, showing a de- ily, 1 am convinced that tho self preservation, | From M. Cavbm, §. Hwwen, — P. Clinton onor, and interest of this republic, will, by the , To Ricbmond...... $1 50 $l 45 $l 25 continued discussion of these important subjects, To Philadelphia 1 60 145 125 more and more, thus come to light, as to prove , that your national interests require, your sclf- | | preservation commands, end the gtory of your republig equally desires that you should’ not allow despotism to become almighty in ita combined crusade against freedom and national felf-goverpment 1 rely upon it, that trath» will triumph at last. Would to God it be , tity will equal that of inst year. This is establis! not too late. But, though in that respoct, opinions may differ yet. So much, I know, that | in your private capacity, itis your noble privilege to follow the generous impulse of congenial sympa- The above rates are the rams as those of last year, which averaged §1 22per ton, and an average of twenty cents less than the published rates of the year before, when the arerage was something over $150, the continued deficiency of the quantity of coal brought bya significant bint in the eame journal, which reluctantly ad. mits that coal is falling in price, and is likely to go to alow | rate. The Miners’ Journal say: The usual machiasry thy. You have often done so, man of Kentacky ; | for depressing prices has been put in operation by the oiten you bavo followed the natural inclination of | middlemen at Philadelphia, and doleful tales are told o¢ your hearts, flocked to the ranks of American | the great supply of coal in market. If the middle men volunteers, without political considerations, show- ing to the world that resoever there is a work for tho bold and brave--wheresoover a new glory is to be gathered to the gerland of free, republican Ainenica, Kentucky does nover hesitate; Kentuoky knows that its heart ig always on the right side; Kentueky ays always, what you say in your reso- lutions, that you sympathiee with oppressed nations; and Kontucky ke: place among the “brave andthe beld’’ (Applause.) Aa for Europe, we don’t ciaim your bravery. We feel resolution enough to fight our battles with | mountains and streame,and the Canal will be ready to our own hands: and (iod knows wo will. Bub | ese poi far as Manayunk on Moadsy or Tuesday wo humbly and confidently claim your active, O operative, aud practical sympathy, within the limite | next, unless we havea change of weather, The Company of your laws, waatever be the policy of your govern- | ®T¢ ergaged in putting in two quard-locks at Manayaok, ment | which will prevent any bonts passing that point before | know, gentlemen, that there isa chord in the | the 6thor 6th of March.” From the above extract we | cb of the Ua patil wis ag ined * fails to ring | <pserve that the great hope and expectation that the | patlons oppretged iii oe Of | yeiircad was to doall the business this year, has vanished, " The canal is in no danger from freshets. From all that an be learned cf the prospects of the Resding Railroad, Upon this sympathy I rely. and so thanking you | wastuly for the benefit of the present day, | confi- | | @ the present bslf-year, we do not see the possibility of dontly trust that, though the right bank of the Ohio proves indeed genetous in its sympathy for chcose to cell ahead at low rates, they must tuke the con- sequences; there is a legal power here that can and will secure fair paying prices to the operators, miners, and will be exercised, if necessary, in self-proseryation » We also learn that the Schuylkill Canal is in fine order Onthis subject the Journal informs us:— “For severaj | Geys past we have hadateuch of Spring weather—the 1 | thelr kaving any surplus after meeting their current | Pas . aaa left bank cf tho Oklo WHI | eypenses, Am earned dividend ts out of tho question, “poring the delivery of this epeesh, the greatest | but it dors not follow that none will be paid. With an enthusiaem prevailed, and at its conclusion, one | Unfunded debt account open, money can be obtained at | universal ehout went up from the vart throng, in sympathy with the Hungarian cause. The Steamer Baltic. rhe Lem the National Jnteliizericer, Tet inet ] : he noble coran steamer Baltic etill liew at hormoorings | The City Council of Brie, Penn,, hays, by a unanimous just above Alexandria, The President hi ved the | : ¥ tivating ar kan ooaiae tocein tin Tip wilde ao tor | Yote, tubsoribed three hundred thousard dollars—$300,- morrow, acoompanied by the cabinet, foreiga ministers, | (C0—to the stock of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Uom- e s oc a of Cougrers and rach one oped pany. The county of Erie will probably subseribe two ¢ in, to whi no Liberal proprietor aud ge dircotcr besentended Invications, ‘Thecoembraos arnu- | Pundred thourand—$200,000—to the same company. We mercus® ocmpapy, We nnderstand, as the ship, vast as | want all rivel lines of rallroadsit is possible toget, There , hex capecity is, hens pte &ecommodate at ins OM | ig nothing like competition, If no one else but property Cention of Me. Colian ie ko AY" spew | holdersrent estate owners—subecribed to stook in rail- in, to Femain here eight or ten days, | Toads, we should not care how many roads were built, cr ¢ Lis sbip up to the city; but, how high competition run, As itis, mechanics and men | dropping aneber cif Alexandria, he learned by tele | of moderate meanp are induced to subsoribe for stock tn | | the different companies; and not receiving muoh benef’ | from the roads in any other way bat in dividends, they some rate, and, asthe Company's credit in the money | market depends entirely upon favorable reports, we may | expect most flattering accounts wil, from time to time, enoh the public ear. ph that an accident to the ateamer Atiantic would make it neceerary for the Daltio to teke that sh Eaturday, on the line to Liverpool, wh early cn to New York,end induced bim, during his | neti there stay. to reanin whece he wa, Instead Of chumging | Metequentiy radiy dleappotuted, and are serious. suf, his mecrings. ‘he visiters have, | fexers. Blece to reach the ship hy steamboats ard Hp of far A new inland route betwoon this city and Boston hes | or five miles instead of one. would add to the pleasure of the vieit. We mention thece facts to remove an impree been arranged, Contracts have been made between the | ton Nevy Yard a few years ago; the elp of the line Oo- } tlom erroncourly spread in rome of the papers, that the New Haven and New London, New London and Palmer, Baitie viele come up oo ns iy bee of sn inect | ene ie and Worcester Railroads, which will recare “1 pte r jot so, The e ‘| « through route from New Haven and New York to Bos- Sn any VATA ee erent onmne Up to the WashlRe- | sn twenty miles shorter tham any existing one, and | that the line will be ready for travel upon the opening of te New Haven and New London road, on the 1st of Juwe | next, According to the arrangemonte entered into, the | New Lowdon and Paimer Company is to bring its road into the depot of the New Haven and New London, at the | latter city; and she Norwieb and Worcester is to build & bridge acrom the river at Nerwish—thue conxertiog lumbus was built there; aud the fleet of frigates which | went cut to attack Tripoil, in 1603, used there, #nd called from there Seievacae ixrensive RainRoav Br SINESS.—Forty-one hun- dred packeges ef goods arrived in Pittabarg, vie the Brownsville and Weet Newton router, on the 26s inst. Gunna Route woat tres Baltimore over the railroad 10 eld of | 24.312 tons, and thus far for the year, 241,811 tons, agaiust | creare of 86,350 tone, The rates of toll and transporte- | From | to market, there is but little probability that the quan. | laborers engaged in the trade this year—and that power | snow and ice has almort entirely disappearad from our | | equippiog as above, the companies will pay to the con- with the New Lendon and Palmer read. It is also o part of the project to build the branch frem the Norwich and Woreester, at Daysville, to the Rhode Island line, and thence by the Woonsesket route te the Nerfolk county read, and so into Boston. Thus a line will be formed between New Hevem and Boston, twenty-nine miles shorter than the Hartford and Springfield line, aad with; probably, but one change of cars upon the route. So far as existing roads are concerned, the line will doubtless be 4n operation by June let, and it is thought the whole line may be completed by that time. ‘The annexed statement shows the amount of gold dust landed at Panama ineach month of the past two Jears, sccording to official returns from the American Consel at Panama:— or Gorn Dvsr at Panama—1850 anv 1851, 1860. 1851, $3,875,000 1,810,000 December .. Total...... oe + $20,376,044 $35,802,013 Increase in favor of 1851, seneeee oeeeee s+ $15,515,008 The arrivals at Panama during the past year—1851— correspond pretty well with seme of the Oustem House returns of shipments from Sar Francisoo during the fame period. We have, however, seen several Custom House reports from San Francisco, and no two are alike, They differ several millions of dollars, and it is impossible to tell which ie correct. We annex one received by pri- vate hand from California, showing the aggregate expor- ation of gold dust and coin from San Frano isco up to the let ¢f January, 1862:— Emrent oy Gorv Dest anv Brecie rnom Ban Faan- cwco. July, 1851.... 9: 3.821,245 00 August....... 3,311,100 00 Bept..e ees... 386166 00 Ootober. 4.433875 00 989,825 00 November .... 4007 762 79 8,793'866 00 6,011,002 00 May. 8,079,672 00 dune. 2.881.200 00 ‘Total. Previous to Ootober 31, 1860......+ Total to January 1, 1852... ..4..0646. $70,471,495 79 Of the above amount only a small portion was coin, which was shipped principally to China. It is impossible te estimate the amount of gold dust carried away from California in the hands of passengers, but it was the im- pression in San ! rancisco that it was equal to fifty per cent of the amount entered at the Custom Houre, ‘The Cleveland Herald publishes a schedule of the rate of tolls upon the Obio canal for 1852, as fixed by the Board of Public Works. It says that upon many of the leading articles reductions have been made, Ia 1861, the through toll upon flour was 21 cents 6 mills, and in the rame proportion of $1 per 1,000 lbs. upon pork, beef. and wheat. Under the new rates, flour, beef, pork, and whiskey, pay 8 cents per owt, or flour 17 esate 2 mills per bbl; wheat, 133 miles or over, 4 cents 8 mills per burhel; corm, 190 miles or over, 3 cents 3 mills, On salt reduction of 12 cents per bbl. is made, ana it now pays 18 cents per bbl. for any distance cver 100 miles. The tolls upon fish and lime sre reduced in @ similar proportion with those upon salt | Great exertions are being made to secure the transmis. | sion of Zanesville flour via Sandurky, and a correspon- dent ef the Plaindcaler writes that contractors are offor- | ing te deliver on board at Sandusky, fer 36 cents a bb). | The charge to Cleveland, last year, was 45 cents | bol., at which price but little profit was made upon the reigbt. If this business is to be retained for Cleveland, | & reduction of toll upon it from 17 cents 2 mills to 8 | cents per bbl. must be made, The growth of the city of Chicago has probably been | ae rapid as that of any other city in the Western coun, | try, and that is saying a great deal. Ducing the year— 1851—one thousand buildings were erected, at a cost of nearly one million of dollars. Chicago must ultimately be a great centre for railroads. Several are already com- Pleted, and several others in course efconstruction. The Chicago and Galena Railway is completed 80 miles, ba. lance under contract. The Rock Island and Chicazo Railroad, compieted six miles, with the whole route to the Mississippi under contract. The Central Military Tract Railway, baving a large portion under contract. The Aurora Extension Railway, completed 14 miles, to be extended 85 miles further, to intersect a branch of the Great Centra! Railroad. at La Salle, on the Ilinois river. ‘the Beloit Branch Railway, The Chicag» and Wis:on tin Railway. The Chicago Milwaukie avd (reen Buy Railway. The Great Central Raliway from Chicago to Cairo, of whose bonds four millions were receotly sold ia New York. The Michigan Centra! and the Michigan Southern railways, both of which will bs finisned to Chicago in the courre of the prerent month, There will be sold at auction, ia the Merchant's Ex- change, on the 10th inst., bonds of the Western Vermoct Railroad Company, amounting to three hundred thou- sand dollars—$3€0 0CO—maturing in 1860, 1865, and 1870, in sume of $1,000 each, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent yer annum, payable semi-annually, at the Merchant's Bank in the city of New York. These bonds are part cf an issue of $4(0,000, secured by the first and only mortgage on their road to Shephard Knapp and George Briggs, of New York, trustees, the balance of which insue bas been taken in the country at par. The Western Vermont Railroad extends south from Rutland 63 miles, wholly within the State of Vermont, to the northwest corner of Bennington, where it unites with the Troy and Bennington Railroad: under a favorite arrangement for mutual traffic. | At Rutland it branches of from the Rutland and Burlington Railroad, at a point where the latte, road, after connecting with the Rutland aud Whitehall, Baratoga, and Schenectady roads, diverges from its north | and south course, curving to the eastward to cross the | Green Mountains. Forty-two miles of the road are now | employed for traffic, from Rutland south to Arlington, Vermont—the iron and materials are all rendy for the rest of the road—and the whole main line would have | been completed ere this, but for the delay in getting | ghe iron down, consequemt upon the unprecedented | severity and early closing in of the winter. The work | bas been done by the farmers and manufacturers along | the line of the road, who have subscribed $400,000 to tae | stock, and have paid up their subscriptions with com- | mendabie promptness; and the company now come forward for the first time before the public, to raise, by a tale of their bonds, the eum meoessary to complete the payments for their purchases of iron and furniture. ‘The prospects of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad ' Company are of the most favorable charecter. Bubscrip. tions for more than two millions of dollars bat mm ob. tained from different cities and counties along the line ofthe rod, and no doubt exists but that the road will be completed at an early day. Mi . Seymour & Jo, the well known enterprising railroad contractors, have con- tracted to build, finish, furnish, and equip the entire line of road. extending from the oity of Cincinnati to the city of Bt. Louis, for the gross sum of nine millioas of dollars, the distance not to exceed three hundred and thirty-five miles, the psyments to be made as follows, as the work progresees :—Reven-eighteenthain cash: five and one- half eighteenths in stock of the company; five and one- half eighteenths in the bonda of the company, Thus, for he entire constructidn, engineering, fa-nishing and tractors nine willions, as follows, via.i—Three and one- half militous in cosh; two and three-quarter millions in ttock; two and three-quarter millions in bonds. | For the sum of nine ,millicns the contractors obligate themeelves to finish, in fire years, the entire werk, and to tura over to the company each euscessive section, 80 soon a6 it may be finished, with adequate depots and ma- chinery for werking eo much of the line a» may be then ready for ure. Tt will be seen that, by this contract, the companies ob- Iigate themrelves to pay the contractors three and one- half millions of dollars in cash, to be obtained from subscriptions of etock, and from the loan of the city of Cincinnati, There remains at present yet to be obtained about one and a half millions ef stock eubrcription, to complete the entire amount of cath required under the contract. The companies have, however, rererved the right to irsue one million of dollars of recond mortgege bonds, in cage it be impos. sible to procure the necessary amount of cash from other rescurces, (here bonds only to be iseued after five mil- lions cf dollars thall have been expended on the con. struction of the work, It le confidently believed that the entire amount in stock, required under the contract, will be taken in the west, fo goon as arrangements can Lg Ad the oiti ped of Cia. J persons living alo: the line fp Obio, Indians and Linois, oe ‘The bonds given by the compantes to the contractors in part payment, aregecured bye first mc eon all the property of the companies. The sum total thus reoured, emounts to two millions seven hundred and fifty thousand doliars, No other mortgage can be given by toe compa: except that already mentioned, of one miilion of 's, which it ie believed will never be required, and, if used, can only be employed after the expenditure of five miilions of doilers in construction and equipment. It will thus be seen that the probable amount for which the road will stand mortgaged will be two millions and three- nies, do i 8 Boarcely than these secured by the first lien. a ree Exchan, oa 111 Int Imp, "47. 2 iadiane! a ‘ Benen x 2 3 F 13 Ae io B* Erie Oe 60 Ni aon Brig Goa ann 1 seo io is 2000, Se 100 Not Hy 65 she Mech ani bay NF Hed 10 Irving Bk. 10 a 50 Brosdway 150 7 37 Bk of N A 20 BINS % Benever 309 Ports 7 10 Ohio Life 100 7 35 Albany 9936 100 7 2. do 9 1100 Read n to Morsis Canal TR boo it 00 32. b80 1s” UO ng 00 Me aie 6 100 shu Erie BR... 82K 40 Roading RA... (890 71 70 ao" ae 99 ite 100 300 0 ) WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT. Oerrectxp Waprxsvay, Mancu 3, ror tue New Youu ALD. NEW YorK MARKET. ineash. Goods stored to be seid at pub~ end of one year. The ton sn ali ceser HAY. 100 the.— = 85 06% | Worth River,,.—70 a—80 12a 6 1k! Heupr— Russia.cl'n,toa710— aS ae outshot. .190— 2200 dow rov'd.115 — 9125 -3 do. — 0180 a - U'pool, pereh.. 725 a—— Enubridite.... 6.0) 3—— COCOA Mara min: ORDA: americas, prib— 134a— — fer +109 10) Bale va COR os lw a ale 3 a 2B a2 aH a 1K, 13 a1 a— 18 do, Bo Te ig lo, poor d0.— 7 s— 5 heltrough— 90 a4 —- Rockland, o's. 1284 LIQUOKS— it ‘Weat,. — 40 et Middiing Uplde— 77(a— 8% Whisk — Vga Bia 2ees!! sees! _— pee — am The om ent’ ky a- 8 Satinetts a—- 80 coke. a a- 3 a— 7 | lron,Se pig,ten 20 a—18 erican,do 21 — a—19 | Am, commonl9— an— Am, bar... .0— s—— -—” ish bar, .34— 260 — Porto Rico Reetea-# Fp Gard. kc, eweet— VAL STO! REP +175 9187 175 ® we Brim’o, fir sul.— 4}g9— — 1 ton 50— 25250 1 Borantchprib—25. 37% er...— 20 a— — ee BSS: Theat Millia al BEI288I7 x G. Arabic,so1 G. Arabic, pkd.— 85 Gem oe 3 SH Pee os Lao Dy Lic. Paste, Bie.— Lic, Paste, Col.— 19341 Madder, Ombro— 10 VOVSRe: ws Se G3— th’, No8,}.1b— ort SEE RICR, 19 lbs. 5 BALT— T TTTTTTTTTTT SB BSREe Bes qeckee ae lige B emer] Mam 37% 6: u xe T— a— — a0 a sis 0 6 en i a 6% a 9 118 a2? 6 109 w TITTT weeiiones 1 TT Tit suMesss & Trrrry 1! gee fauisitiii quarters, While under no circumstances exceed res ana three-quarter tence maillions. ‘The security is, therefore, abundant in event; st4e neh Genbved that after ibe espengitury of Sve pale Bivtiiiey Brigiiirs SERTTTT

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