The New York Herald Newspaper, December 25, 1852, Page 3

low Hampshire Correspondence. Conconn, N H , Deo. 22, 1852. The Herald Always Well Posted Up—Hnw Presiden- tial Candidates Destroyed Back Other Last Spring —The Disaster Which Befel Cuss, Buchananand Dowglas—Similar Danger t0 the Competitors for Gen. Pierce's Cabinet—Hm Edmund Burke —John P. Hale Still “A Crump” in the U. 8. Senate--Gen, Pierce's Movemrnts— Arrival of Bos- ton Aldermen—A Recherche Dinner at the Eagle Hotel—‘Hospitalities” E ctended to Gen. Pierce— List of Foreign Arrivals wn Pennacook--Sleigh- ing and Ocld Weather, &+ Happening to come acrossan old copy of the Fenty to-day, dated Meron 29, 1852, more than months previous to the mostiog of either of the jst Domooractit or Whig Natioas! Conventions. I found init a letter which I sent you, dated Wash- ington, Maroh'26. Allow me to reproduce one or j#wo predictions made therein, which have since be- come history. It speculated thus, concerning the |prospeeta of the whige:— ‘The democrats have become alarmed at the quarrel which raged for few deysin*h» douse, in relacion to the claims of some of their Pre-idential aspirants, and to be hushing up matters by mutual consent. On the other band, the whigs appear to b+ apeing arew. The controversy wh: pripelpal organs. Norch aad partion- w York, as to the reeprouve olatms of Fill- ll roon show useifin Uongress. At iedg-d. that Scott’s chances 4 matosof all the government tronege im the hands of deward Vorwin & Co., Me. be di ord = But his friends eteoggle, ulthough they ur Webster, with onl; ie Tadoed, there to be mobody left to arsert mis claims bat your Col. Webb Wall and Scate «irnets are some “pamp- ) im thelr way, but a little behin ithe times for poll- fimanciering. early-s month earlier, (Feb 1.) I wrote you “Mr. Webster is entirely vat of the qaestion”— “Mr. Fillmore has not the most remote idea of pg on his own hook; he will eventually surren- to W. H. Seward for the benefit of Gen Scott,” jyunn o, the favorite candidate of such Southern whig pullers as Edward Stanly aod James 0. Jones. fin the same letters, I prediowd that Gon. Svott ould ‘write no letters sustaiaiog the compromise.” ally, your oorrespondent, Mc Heeap, fore- hadowed, nesrly four and a oalf months before the Whig National Conventioa met, and full nine months before the late Presidential election, the ‘whole programme of tnat party's operations, with be single exception that Gen Sco:t would be sent put Weat, on the ove of the elevtion, and get caught ‘ith his what d’yo.call-’ems down, on board of a pboat. 80 much for the whigs Now what wero the pre- ions about the opera‘ions of the democrats? The Hollowing extract from the letter dated ‘-Washing- March 26,” already alludsd to, told the exact | ory about who woulda’t be nomiaated by the Da- fmocratic National Convention, two months in ad- France :— Itis mow well understood am*ng the kaowing ones Phere, that mefther Cass. Buch+osa wor Dovglas, can get rth itimore momiostivu. Susneosm sock, for some eeks past, has been decidedly »aesd as berworn the three §=The eonsequence is (hes tm- frixots of the first nd laet bave alreacy oeguo to «took twods asin appa | t im the Virginis State Conerm:-u h-ia yasterday, and | the day before. That Stu’: @il vo orwamit itelé bat tang by te wield the baleuce of p wer ia che convention, Did not the whole thing tura ous jusi so? Well, | ft did. Did either Cass, Burnasua or Douglas get | he Baltimore nomioatuioa? No, thay did not hat prevented it? Why, Casa und Bushauan got into a regular muss a3 early ax the commencement | of the lest session of Congress, and about the tims e above was written, were ‘in the full tide of ful exporiment,” trying to ‘‘ wind’ each w. Any shrewd bystander could ses that they rere too nearly matched to bet safely on. I; was ely to be, ag it proved to be, a drawa game; or, ther, they both promised to die qame Little Dor stood by wa ching the issus, and waiting e n of the wrens so ely on hts own ao- ount, #0 soon as the two big ‘uns bad flaally given the ghost. But, unfortunately for him, his weds, of your civy, pushed him « little too ddenly inte the ring, ana bo was squeezed to | eath by falling between the big belies of the | wo old fogies, just as they were cumtng to “close | ngs.” As one of ‘the kuowing oaes” alladed fin the above extract, and an inp«rial observer of | vents going on in the great asiioaal arena, your 0 poncent was the first co send tne news for the | polumne of the HERALD. | Ambitious politisiacs and aspirants for office are erally the last class of men wo Jearn wisdom from | xperienco. With tue bievory ot Mr. Polk’s nomi- pation, the manner in which Harrison and Taylor | ere used to displace Mr Ciay. it would ssem that | ther Messrs. Cass or Buchanan could have had | but little encouragement w expect the last demo- ratio nomination. Bat still they both did expect it, and were disappointed, because their party was | determined not to be defeated two terms in succes | ‘ole for places in the | abinet, the fifty candida ) already in the field o fill only seven stations would do well o study and meditate @ little upon the his- of Presidential aspirants The people of he Union who have selected Gen Pierce for their jof magistrete will not be satisfied simply to see inavgurated. They have chosen him a: Prosi- Hout for four years. He is, doubdcless, aware of the ct, and mess to be President for that time, if he And to this end he mill havo a cabinet around to advisc and ind distate o him; acebinet which shall act with a singlo eye owards helping bim achieve @ succcsaful aaminis- | ration, which shall be aunit, which shall favor and | jountenance none of che cliqnes and fections of the Hemocratio perty, and whica rhall not be compossd, | ither in whole or in purt, of working asgirauta for the succession. Gen Pierce, withons doub:, hag | sagacity te perceive tnat these ends cannot bo | tained by selecting for cabinet stations men who, rayed against oshers, ure already in tno fioid, | bushing their cli 8 for preference on account of | heir psrtioular locality, the previous scation which hey may have occupied, &o No ore can yet tell the probable composition of he new cabinet. But, for the reason: already given, je should not be surprised to tnd Gen. Pierce fol- wing in the footsteps of the convention waict un- xpectedly nominat him And, sinse the Balti nore delegates wero not williog to jeopardize the noes of the democratic party's success by solect- bg for a leader some big aspirant, wich every ele- pent of availability previonsly kaocked out of him yy some other big axpirant, eo Gen Pierce ma: little shy about periiling the success of hi tration by selostiag the same kind of maserial for ig counsellors and advie The fato of Mossrs. | Dass, Buchanan, Dougtas, and others, in the tilt pr the Baltimore nomination, should be seriously ogiteted upon, meditated upon, pondered ugon, by who are seeking their fortunes from the noxt dministration, from vow until the toh of March. | Iseo that Hon. Edmund Burke, of tnis State, nderlined in tho revised lint of candidates for the | oabinet, published in the Heratn of December 9. A rumor has been prevalent nore far so: y' that Mr. B contemplates establishing a new mocratio paper in this town, in opposition to | be Patriot, ‘General Pierce’s home organ ” | this is s0, Afr. B.’s namo has probaly boon pub- | hed for @ place in the cabinet without his | thority. The passage of a resolution in the United States onate, on Tuesday last, authorizing the President b confer the ravk of Liuteawns Geueral on Gon. att, by @ voteof thirty-six to twolve, is anothei nee of the superior wot and iu@uenve of Mr J. ture for the time being No man | ail himself of whe prejudices and points of an oppovemt better than he. Thus, he wishes to curry peace ta the Senate, | violent speech, au: im Voter, in oppo- | id project. It isthen sure to be “put | Ve) with. Mr. Bale wanted bia frisad | en. Scott (for whom be labored te the bust of hig lity “ont West” in the lave oampsiga) to bo | ide a “Lieutenant General.” there're he op- J, and voted against the project. when it came , in company with his frieod and fello# parcizan ator Chase, of Ohio Enough said The Soush: | in Senators—cepesiaily Col Cle: pgth for tho resolution, and it is ox Mr. Gale waiks out into che refrosnmont om, back of the Senate poet oflize. takosa— lunch, | 14 Jaughs over his tact wish some oae of Goagral ott’s partioular friends, say Sena’or Langam or v. Jones. Mr Hate is “some punpkine” Ho ’tany!bing else He was born whore pumpkins igineliy came from He is also reputed to ve a od judge ef wo He ont in reality &staw abou! all che niggers in the Sou-hora | tes, and Cuba to boot. So far from it, ho one | ed the opinion that they were netcher more | Jere than beasts in baman shape—not fit to ” Mr. Hale, like Brudder Grovley, is great at mble Tigging “Now you soe him, and now you 't seo him.” Qol. Oiemens did't eee him inst day. oral Pierce bes been absent from town several Gays, Tevutaing tiie mocuaty.’ “Ou | visited addressed the scholars Kirk’ te ( ‘no the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company, the Independent Fusiliers _ Gen. Pierce, Caleb Cushing, Major Lally, and other prominent officers or the re ty in the procession, and mare! mud, ancle sidence of the father of ti atreot, to the Fitchburg depos ortége Jeoneteet the place of interment, on Charlestown eck, General P. leaving the procession at the jay General Picrce attended the obsequies )beerv. our Logislature in honor of the late Daniel Webster. After prayer by Rev Dyer H. Sanborn, chaplain, an able and highly interest- ing eulogy was pronounced. in the forenoon, at the Representatives’ Hall. by Hon. Ira Perley, of thir town, before a numerous audience, fooluding a large number of ladies, which crowded the room to orerhe Wibe. A committee of the Boston city government ar- rived in town this forenoon. Bosides attending the Webster obsequies, I learn that » part of their mis- sion is to extend the hospitalities of that ity to General Pierce, on bis passage through for Febi the Whits House, on or about the 25th of next. The committee consists of Al- eed, Ober, Hobart, Spinney, and Kim- mente at Gibson’s Eagle Hotel, id for ten, and the best dinner which Mejor Gibson could get up at a short notice, invited General Pierce, and four other good jadges of the ‘' fixens,” to take seats with them, and, as I write, ars experimenting on the following pro- gramme des victuals, which 1 forward for your edification :— 0900000000000000080080890000000 ° EaGLE HOTSBL, r OPPOSITE THE CaPITOL. MAIN STREET, CONCORD, N, H, © JOHN GIBSON. Proprietor. ° December 22. 1362. ° BILL OF FARE. ° sour o Mook Turtle. ° COLD MEATS ° Ham. Pressed beef. ° Tongue, Boned turkey, with jelly. 5 ° BOILED Turkey, oyster sauce. Hi Leg mutton, caper sauce. am. BNTRERS. Lobster salad. Macaroni pies. Eecalloped oysters, u Fried pickerel. Oyater pies. Beef, horse radish. Game. Black duck, apple jelly. Partridges, 2 la mode. v Wil i jelly. ae cee Potatoes. Onions. Turnips. Bweet potatoes. Mashed potatoes. Lettuce. PASTR| Bird’s nest pudding. Cranberry tarte. Mince Goosebercy pie. pie. Apple pie. Bquash pie. DESERT Ice creams. wine jelly. brasdy pesohes, blackberry jam, raspberry juin. pioeapvle jelly, apples, tlmonds raimny. figs, grapes. dlberts, Carrant tarts. ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ry ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° walnuts, pecap nuts. Charlotte russe, WINES. MADEIRA, Noor, Old, (imported in 1880.) Bordeaux. Blackburn's Hockbiemer, SHERRY OLaRer. © Duff Gordon & Co. Chateau Margaux, o Brown, (very old ) Bt Juien, o Yrierte’s pale, Post. o Hunt's No. 1. Blova Margaur. PORTER AND ALE. Hibbort’s London porter. Pececeseocoo oo eo OOOO OO OOD ODD OO OeOSDEODOODODOO o Old, (1632,) By ° CHAMPAGNE, T. o Heideick. Falsirn's do, o Schrieder. Dove&Co do, 0006000000000020000000000000 It isnot very probable that General Picros will be able to accept the bospitalities of the city of Boston, and being awere of it. perhaps, the com- mittee bave taxen this method of giviag hin a liminary touch, here ‘on his native heath,” a jittle in advance. The following ‘‘ foreigners” havo arrived in town since my last :— AT GASS’ AMERICAN HOUSE Monvar, Deo 20—9 K Roberts, New York; E. T. Nichols. Boston; B. ¥. Morse, Augusta, Me ; Mi. Fisher, Trenton, N. J. Tuxspar, Deo 21—B @. Eastman, Nashville, Tenn; M. I. Rorke, New York city. AT GIBSON’#, EAGLE HOTEL. GEN. '# QUARTER! Farmar, Dec. 17 H. Grosvenor, South Croton, Mass. ; J-Brocket, Alford, Me; Jas G. Phelps, Burling ton, Vt ; J. Hart, Boston. Baturvar, Deo 19.—J. 8. Glidden, Lowell ; Geo. 0. Hall, New York ; L. J. Ware, Boston ; 8. Webster, Bos: ton. Moxpar, Deo, 20.—T. R. Hubbard, Fall River, Mi J.B Hall snd lady. Boston; Samuel Marshail, York ; John 8. Hldridge, Boston; Waa. 1. Uleiok, New York. Tvrspar, Deo 21—J M, Whiton, Boston; P. P. Todd, Blackstone, Mars; DE. Somes and lady. aco Me ; J. Btevers, New York; Jas. E. Raton. Boston; E. L, Jones, do ; Jos. L Gibb, White Mountains; 0 ¥. Eaton, Bai ton, Vt.;C. W. Smith,do ; 0. J. Gilman, Brunswick, Me; Chas. Chapin, Brattleboro, Vé. Wepespay, Deo 22.—Aldermen Reed, Ober, Hobart, Spinney and Kimball Borton; W. A, Dun, do; Signor Blita, Brooklyn, New York. The sleighing is capital—never better. About a foot ef snow fell last Thursday, followed by one day’s rain, which froee hard ; it will last anvil the ” « January thaw. Tais morning, thermometer at only two degre bove zero. PaNNACOOK. Sro.en Goons —A den of thieves hasrecently boon broken up at Sexonville, and « large quantity of stolen goods found. This gaug of robbers went to the place at two months since, and rented a house in a secluded eat an extensive rai woods. (heir movements ‘and vow the frequent rob- spot soon awakened suspicio: beries recently attempted, or committed, im toa: and the neighboring towns, ate traced to this source. Chute, the prineipsl, is «till at large He has frequently escaped from the officers. though ted by sovres of our citizens, the adjacent forests iurnishing # secure re- treat Chute mor wn once fired upon’ bis pursuers, and at other times intimidated them by the throatening The stolea goods found o:reted @ baads of Jolia R Clark, con- glad to Geliver them to their Oliver stable, who wonld owners. They consist in part ¢f broadoloths, shawls. rob } ftannels counterpsnes, table linen, quanti ; Inates’ thoes. ro various kinds, Kc ,&0. ‘The houre us now doserted. and Chute’s goods amd family have been removed to parts unknown, John H. Lee, one of his accomplices, was arrested in the woods, He has sineo contessed. and. in default of bail. has beow remanded for trial.—Bosion Trevaller, Dec. 22, Tue Canprpatrs ror Cowcress ix Sovru Cano.tva.—The new arrangement of the Congressional districts fe likely to produce some eontert for thy honor Of rerving the State at Washiogten Mesers. Urr and Wallace were thrown into the samo district, aud there- fore one of them must take a beating, and stay at home. In Mr. Burt's old district, Messrs, Brooks and Pickens bad been announced before the distriet was marked out; since then, Mr. A. O, (iarlington, of Newberry, bes been entered. and sevoral others ary spoken of In Mr Wood Ward's district, Hon Jos A. Blaok and Cel. W. W. Boyce, and Bon, F. J. Moses will try their strength In Mr. Colcosk’s distriet. Messrs. Owem and Keitt are to their relative strength. Thus fer, Mr McQueen without opposition, rumor that Dr Bradiey oppore him aving proved basoless In Charie there will be mo contest; the people are too we! fled with their presomt representative, Hon. William Aiken, to think of getting up opposition to him. —Charlesion Merewry, Dec. 21. Burning or Ligutnovss on Bear Istanp —We learn that the lighthouse aod dweilmg house on Bear Isjand, near Mount Desert, were consumed by fire on turday morning last, about daylight, It is said the pro- visione and farniture of the kerper were mostly saved, but all the stores brlonging to the United States were de atroyed The origin of the fire bas not traaspired but government wiil probably order an investigation. [t iva matter of regret that that excellent harbor. so much re- sorted to by vervels in the winter. mart bs without a light the precent winter — Bangor Mercury, Dee. 22, Sixcuan Acowent —Yosterday morning, « master mechanic, named Whitney, on the Vermoat and Meseacbusetta Railroad, was ridipg on a locomotive to render assiatanoe to the cattle traia which was anab'e to proceed for the lack of motive power. whoa the engine came in collision wich the train Mr. Whitney jumped from the locomotive and broke his leg short off just beiow: the knee. 4 singular feature of this accident was that tho leg broken was mado of cork, Mr, Whitacy haviag Brevicuely lost his own leg by aocldent.—Boston Braveller, ee, 23, Gexrrovs Orrar —A writer tn the Now Or. leans Picayune. wno contends that Mr. Lemmon was un- justly deprived of bis slaves ia New York offers that gen teman 9 permanent home in Texas, in the fee simple, ot as much land as he moy require for farmlog etook raising, or the culture of cot Che wri er has fifty thoussat Sores. with clear titles. {a different counties of the state, and offers him a selection from any onv he may desire, Conrviction AND Svicipe — trial of youn Byrd. of Albany, Ga, for Killing Jones last fall, came off at the late term ot Baker court aad ocoupled nine days, The jury returned @ verdict of Mmsnelsughter Byrd listened to the verdict fa silence, retorned to prison. rhaved himesll, wrote to bis father and other friends, and then took pruvsio sold from which he died immed: Savannah Kepublican Deo 2, Zz Navioation.—Canal navi ation was prac: pended m week since; but boats eontinuad to Up to satarday, the water remained ig to Rne When of asda sy 80 a to wn modiateiy. Fenn bed 3. sings Cavan th THE LECTURE OUR NEW JERSEY CORRESPONDENCE. Broomviziy, New Jersey, Deo. 28, 1852. It may not be uninteresting for you to know that our quict village of schools is occasionally enlivened by the visite of literery men. The Bloomfeld Lyooum was in- structed and delighted last evening by a truly eloquent address from A. Oakey Hall, Heq,. of your city, (who re ceived the rudiments of bis education in this place.) to which it would be folly for me to attempt to do justice. ‘The following is a brief and imperfect outline. JUVENIS. MR. HALL’S ADDRESS. T should outrage the feelings of my own heart, and it would be to the discredit of my manhood, said Mr. Hail, standing among 00 many familiar feces as I now do, if I should speak as coldly as if I stood among strangers. Sixteen ago 1 left your midst for the stirring scomes 4 Gan These wen nats bash on shred in my path, as I come here to-ni:ht, which did not look upon me witha familiar look. There was not a flake of mortar in yonder sacred edifice which did not seem familier to me; there was not a blade of grass on yonder green which had not yielded tothe joyous spring of my youthful feet. Mr. Hall then alluded to the short notice he had had of the leoture, saying that it was but three days since he reseiv- ed the invitation; and had it come from strangers he should have declined, but coming as it aid from his for- mer friends of Bloomfeld, he accepted it. He then said he was about to lead us in an old road of history. It ‘was @ fine old institution of the Roman Catholic charch, before it brcame corrupted. that many days were coa- nected with certain saints = Th: # Of one saint com- menced one month. and that o her. anoiber. Che suggerts my subject It is the 22d of December. Two hundred and thirty.two years ago this very day, were the foundations of vbis republic laid. The fourta of July was the day on which, in the parlance of civilians, we were made free; but the 22d of December was the true birthday of our liberties I will make it ths ceatre picoe around which my thoughts shall cluster. More eloquent tongues tham mime have beon engaged in this tesk ani master-minds have trembled at it. But it belongs mot to me to disentomd the poetry of that period Os histori: walls bang master pictures, which for me to touch wouid be bat to deface. Bat the mind will go back totast frail bark which t precarious auchor nears shore whish of mavigation mekes the hearts of tremble. T seem to hear some si- ‘duy life rite and backaeyed? Are ne things trite and hackneyed, I ? 1e scenes of eve We liveinthe midst of hear some man of contrast speaking witn praise ani tri- bute of the obivairic Ferdinand de Soto and the noble- minded Captain Smith. Of these I will speak with lau- dation, for the days of sectioualivm are gons Standing on the rook of Piymouth, we may revert to the ecenes of 5 img beck upon the stormy waters he hai just passed, as we have just passed the stormy waters of divunion. The beaths of Lincolnshire had seen the committal of the Pilgrims, and the swords of tho civilized savages hed driven them forth upon the ooean. Ob! that thy might have been able to look forward but sixty-cight years, and see those who then would leave the shores of that land they had just left! ‘They were then emigrants, ay units among teus of thousands of native inhabitants Wats pers bad come to them from Jamestown. that there was there a land where they might bo free from oppression, and where their rufferings would cease The shores where they landed had been awept by direave, that th» Pilgrims there might land. Of their religious sufferiags wo are Dot Bow to speak; but let us linger for a moment oa their bark nll be one of that hundred who clus. tered around that table where was spread that hage parchment, with its queer chirography. Tae gay leagh and prattle of childhood was hushed as they looked up. bet which surprised their chi di-h gare. bation was upon every countenance as name after ni subscribed imchivography which might have been like thst of John Hanoook. which stood outin suck old relief upom the sub» Ball then rei quent declaration of icdep-adsase Me, their coveuant commen ing on it ashe pro coaded and speaking of their abidiog loyalty. Ic was the introduction to the Declaration of Independonos Depead upen it, every word of that docam-nt was lati apon ths bearts of eaah one of its forty signers; it is certainly a | under which it was written, and che esres which crashed the | hearts of ite writers Is contsined all tne prinsiplesof | political liberty. I prefer the pame civil; it comoreheads | The Leydea Pilgrims taid the foundations of cur civil liberty But there is tae pame of one map connected wi'h the whole subjsct; nove venerated mere the oivil liberty of the Pilgrims or was fonder of dilating vpom them. than that mun for whom the nation have not yet laid off the panoply of mourning. of the cities of our land, have Pulgria ming. adjourned forthe year. In mignt of that ocean. whose waves the prow of the Mayflower formerly kissed, did he literalty spell out that coastitution TemarFabie document. Consider the cireums political with much beside. ‘To night, in mai Focleties, in mou of which be became so distinguisbed s defender. of the Meyflower Not so with that Englishaaa who: sbell of life the iron hoof of the gailoping steed of death. | off solately. Mr. the torthcomiog pumber of "s Monthly coa- tinued the speaker thou trae poet, nothiag io nature indicated that a great man was dead. Not so for Amori- ca's greatest statesman Autumn rained tributary leaves on his grave. while art was drought to bear to deoorate the funeral of the other Daniel Webster died not alone and unattended; he died in the midst of bis family and friends. invoking blessings upoa them and bi: nine lay under that elm tree whose suede had 00 jooied his brow. Farmer bands bore his remains ve and wild nature not the confines ofa cathe dral contained the remains of the greatest statesman, not only of America or of Ergland. but ofall time. ‘Iwo hundred snd thirty two years ago wero the forndations of this republic laid = Who can tell where we will be two hundred snd thirty.two years from this time? Let us eberish the ‘principles of those Pilgrims. and reverence their religion. Let us alto adopt their motto + Liserty avd Religion” —yes, liberty and reiigion, one and inseps " then reed whit The Po) & Business in the West, The pork pecking in Louisville, says the Courier of December 6, is increasing; but the Warm woatkor that has prevailed during the week has groatly re- tarded operations. The pens are all full, and the number of hogs on the road isimmenso The num ber of hogs slaughtered up to the Sth inst., is 78 282, and 34,900 remain in pen. ready for the | slaughter. Prices are quite firm, at $6 net for hogs, with, however, no ma-erial gales. Tne bost hogs that bave come into Louisville this season were from Boyle and Lincoln counties. Spencer county will sexd forth 15,000 hogs The packete at Now Albany, Ia, were in fall operation on Saturday, bat we did not hear how many hogs they had slanghtered. Messrs A S. White & Co expect to reseive today 14,000 hogs At Terra Haute, Ia., there aro five packing houses in operation, with more hogs in pon than ever was known before, and sales at $5 65 net The Medison Courier of Saturday, says thet up: wards of $6 is offered, and thas the averags weight of the hogs killed, so far this season, is ten per cont lese than the averego of last year. At Quincey ond Jacksonville, Ill, on tho 27th, but few hogs had been received, aud prices were firm at five cents. We shy the followiag re- marks from the St Louis Nevs, which estimates the number of hogs to be packed there this season at 30 000:— We incline to the opinion that much undue exoi‘e- ment bas and continues to prevail throushout the West, im regard to hogs provisivas &o It would seen that the branch of business is no loager under the control of the common and untversslly uskuowlodged law of trade, fupply and cemand; in truth there are put lightly con- tiderea, if at all thought of im the present pante for hogs, On the Ohio, we tee individuels. towns, and even cities, errayed against exch other in the ull absorbing rase for ‘wine. It is not who shall prosure the best and at the cheapest rate, but who can afford the highest price or get toe jar, number. This state of things may be vory satisfactory to the furmor, the feeder. and a few fortunate speculators. but we question very much if it proves uiti- mately of any great advantage to tie general peo-perity of the countsy. Inflated values, consequent uoon grouudioss, often preconceived notions of consumption sad demand never fail to recoil with terrible effect upon one class oranother. If upon the speculator. it Injures the mer- obant; if upen the merchant. it prejadices tae farm if upon one or silof these, {t impuirs confidence, unsebties trade. and inveriably does mote harm than good, It twid the old stock of pork and lard will be noarly or quite exbausted before the new gets fairly into market and that the quantity of bacon and other smoked mea's will alro be great.y reduoed; and it is farther stated that the stock of all kfhds of previsions will pe lees at the close of the p erent, than known at any time for several years, & 4 But teking scother view, admitting the old atook to be | exhausted, the a pply this season will be botter, and pork, lard, and other products go to market at rates fall | iifty per cent above the opening prices last your. fearon new pork started in this market at $11 $1 farrel apd gradually advanced in Now Orleans and at other points to $21 a $12; bat it is shown that two thirds of the entire crop reached the consumer at a price above $16 0r $16 The bulk was taken at # comps: tively low price. and the winder Went through alt the mutations of speculation, and finally at the heel of sea- fon. declined reveral dollars por bbl. The prise now paid for hogs must renitze $16 a $17 per bbL in moss pork; 93 to 10c por tb. in lard; or the packer loses money. iigh prices will lesren the copsumption to some exteut anda Jargrr proportion of the crop will be pickied leas smoked, The Louisville Courier of the 7th inst. says:— Owing to the exceeding inclement and warm weather, there was pothing doing in hoge and holders are demanding 6'40 net, with more hogs in the pens and neighborbood than ever was knowa before The averng ight of the hogs packed thus far this Last 2 per ompared wiih last your ¢ been forwarded fcom th to this city, to pay for pork A sale of 1000 hogs was je yesterday im this (Jefferson) county, at $4 60, gross Is Suaveny 4 Sint—Six hundrod and sixty thou tard five bundred and sixty-three slaves aro owned in this country by ministers of the gospel and mambots of 219.665 by tho 125,009 by the 10L.000 by the Compbeliites; ama 50,000 by otber denominations, Post Orricw Orrrations —Established—Ax- drorville, Fravkiin coony Now York, Joseph B Day, tmastor; West Redding, Falrdeld county. Conn, | james H Griffin marter; Swatara, Sobuyik'\! conn- ty. Pa, Daciel ‘as, Poeay 7 ba ae conedgrville, .Ateg! county. New Yor! Kawoas Ma semoia, Dlke thy Pe, w dlatemene, His life was one continued defence of the religion and principles | Prices aro very firm, | of the pork hous+r. chows a fallicg off of | the 5 We also, ed fire proof bnilding for its library Mr. Bea- tition of paty Zapote to the government of | croft lectured upon re} and, in s0 doing, gave Ni in wi he brings serious charges on | some wholesome to the prodigslity and the representative of the State, for having formally | corruption of the city fathers. Dr. Hawks spoke tendered the cession of the territories in question. upon the of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Tn the said treaty, which we this bet peices we find the formal and explicit yocogs ition by tl United States of 801 ty of the Mosquite nation, and the right which England has claimed in favor of the aborigines. It is not our intention to enter into this matter, nor even t@ expross our opinion with regard to it; but we cannot de leas than notice the con end iNogiee course of the United States in respect It is s notorious fact, that many years ago the pay of oe vee lore of a —— and opinions, incessantly sought to pursuade Nicaragua that the United States would maneed acknowledge the legal existence of the Mosquito country. It is a no- torious fect, that the diplomatic agents of the American republic, in Central America and in Eng land, have done all in their power to induco government of Nicaragua to refuse its acquiescence to the Epglish protectorate of the Mosquitos. We do not wish to quote any of the endless articles writ- ten in this spirit by American editors. We shall confine ourtelves to copying eome of the official do uments which we have at hand, published by the government of the United States, with regard to the questions raised in the Senate, in 1850 and 1951— of the ocoupation of Tigre Island and the blockading of the pores of Salvador, and also some of thoee to be found in the recent work of the charge, Squier, or in the columns of the American Wig Review, an American paper. Among tho instructions givento the Anglo-Ams- rican delegates to the Panama Congress was the following :—‘‘ There is not within the limits of the American continont a single point in which a Eu- ropean colony could sot its foot without violating the territorial rights of come American State. Any endeavor having this object in view, and every es tablishment for the purpose of transmitting reign rights to a European power, must be regarded as an inadmissible usurpation.” Secretary Clayton, on giving his instructions to Squier, among other things says the following:— **It is evident that the rights claimed in favor of the King of the Mosquitos aro founded on repeated usurpations. Will the other powers interested in the free canalization of Nicaragua allow their in- terests to suffer from such pretensions? As far as the United States are concerned, you may oonfident- ly answer in the negative ” The same Secretary of State, in his communica- tion of Mey 7, 1851, to the Anglo-American repre: sentative at Nicaragua, says:—‘* Great Britain will very ay adopt tho means requisite for extin- guisbing tho title of the Morquico Indians. We never have and never shall recognise the legal ex- istence or the sovereignty of the Mosquito king, or apy other Indian in America—a contrary course would be to deny the right of the United States to their own continent.” Tho correspondence between the government at Wasbington and its ministers in Loudon, Banoroft and Lawrence, bears testimony to the constant ef- forts of the United States in this respect. In oon- formity with euch reiterated pretensions, the agente of the United States abroad always endeavored to persuade thos of Nicaragua that their government | would never consent to favor the claims of the Eag- | lish with regard to the Mosquito’ id these same agents, Hise and Squier, succoeded in persuading the government of Nicaragua that it should resist ee of its territory in favor of that tril How is it, thon, that the Amorican govorament should not only lend its co-operation to that which it always declared tbat it would oppose, but should even enter into a treaty with Eagland, whereby an important portion of Nicaragua is conveyed to thes Indian tribe which has been repeatedly called the farco of the pretended Mosquito nason. Those wbo sre conversant with the manceavree that have | caused the English and North Americapsinterests to harmonize explain this contradiction factorily. We bave already seid that tho Congress of Nisa ragua had refused to accop; the treaty,in whioh the | United States hays not acted as that Stato had rea- | ton to expect, after the confidense which it had re- | posed in them. But we fear that whatevor resolu: | tion may be adopted, it will not avert the evils i reaten Nicaragua, for the final article of | id treaty provides, that in case the same | sbould not be accepted, then the contracting parties | will take measures to cause the Olayton Balwor treaty, of April 19, 1850, to be put into execution. nows, has boon tod as ‘one knows, imeerpre: ox: tendieg the rights of the Moequitos to all tho east- ern coast of Honduras and Nicarag Bo Lord | Palmerston declared, in his communication of April 15, 1850; 80 the English representative at Nivara gua declared, on the 15th of August of the samo year; and so Mr. Bulwer states, in his communica- tion to the Anglo: American government, which last is analyzed in the March number (1351) of the Whig American Review. The execution of the treaty of April 30, ultimo, | whether accepted or not by Nicaragua, is. we grieve | to say, ulated to complicate affairs still farchor. | But this is really what the United States desire, and, therefore, we have stated in our number of the 9th | ult thattho history of the last fw years showsthatnot | only the diplomatic agents, but even the private ¢ zens of the United States, are nothing loth to seizo every opportunity of complicating the affairs of those republics which they would appear to pro- tect. What matters it, though, if they can derive | lasting bonefit therefrom—benefit in tho present, in | the canalisation, and benefit in the future, in the event of probable annexation. Matrimonial Pet!tion, | _ The following petition, asking the Legislature of this Btate to enact a law which wil make the crime of #e- duction a3 holy and binding as the marriage contract, is now in circulation In Syracuse, the city of isms, womna’s rights, spiritual rappers, and anti slavery and disunioa doctrines To tue Hon. Lecisiatune or tur State of New Your The undersigned citizens of —-—. boing duly im pressed with the great wrong dono both tothe male and | female by that law now upon our statute book, which consigns to a felon's cell persons for no other reason than that of educing om unwartied person. This law, 60 far | ng regards unmarried persons, 18 unwise, unjust. crael, | wicked and oppressive, and ought to be repssied for the following reasvns, among others, too numerous to be overlook | Wiret, Qhe strong desire of tho sex! together, Je one of the strongest passions of man’s | mature implanted In man by God himself for a glorious | Purpose it being nothing loss than that of propagating | the species fer God said unto bis children, » (> forth, aultiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and | that for no other reason than that cf complying with | this command, human iaw consigns the maa toa lvlon's | coll, ond the woman to infamy aud disgrase, while her cffepring bae the mack of Cain stamped upon its fu: id to cohabit | | Now inorder to prevent in future these accumulated evils | we pray your honorable body to repeal said law so far as St regards upmarried pereons, and to pass @ Inw in its stead which rhall declare that whenover aa unmarciod | white male person cohabits wiih an unmarried while fo- | mute person, and she conoeives by bim. by that act they | become man and wife. joined together in wedlock ia the | | holy bouds of metrimeny, and that they are no more twein. but one flesh, and what God has joined togschor | let no man put asunder; for action speass louder thea | Words. end is something more thane mere promise of | marriege or an outward c-romony. but is actaal marriage Pare this law, and you will have conferred a great blee sing upon both the man and the woman and their offspring. friends and relatives; yea more, the community at Largs; | for then they will no longer be shooked by those terrine while ing state of desperation beeause the man refuses | | pubjiely to acknowledge @ marriage which had slcendy taken place im private between then The same law | should apply to colored pertons In like circumstanosy. | To thore who desire the pound of flesh. rogardioss of oo sequences, whose hearts are harder than the aeth mill stove we would refer them to the exsmpls of Christ, who spake as never man spake, and sald uavo the | woman who was taken iu the very act of aduitery. | “Neither do.T condemn thee; go tby way and sic no | more.” And further, it shonld be declared by law tant ail children begotten either in or out of wedlock should be heirs to the property of bo'h of their parents, tiast it may no longer be suid that the ouitdien’s teoth are set on | | edge by their parents eating sour grapes | | Svrere oF AN Op Serriee iN Onto.—Captain | W. W. Williams aged about sixty-two, one of the esriiest | settlers of this aeotion, ecmmitted suicide at is residences | in Newburgh on Sunday night, by haoging htmseif 15 is suppored by bis neighbors thet grief for thy loss of his wite, some two years ago, has preyed upon his tind uatil it overcame his reason, and that the aot was the rosult of temporary insanity. Capt. Williams oame to Cleroland } when the country was a wilderness, and participated in | ell the pleasures, privations, trials aad dangers of pioneer life He was a minute map, end rerved Doaorably in the defence of the Northwest under ev. Harrison “Lutolii | gent. notive and upright, he was always much esteemed, | and had a largs circle of acquaintances—all friends. For some tworty yeare he had been an exemplary momber of he Disciple Uburch, and he od w competency of this world’s gcods. Inour last intorview with him the past fall, Capt. W. referred to the changes he bad wit aera. d--to his groat regard sor Harrison. Perry ‘0 the death of her way had deen the tolace ‘o his childrem now grown up—and suid wich | much emotion thet he wasn | tary tree left of the thick fores | pose of his Jong ocoupted homes lomrelf farther with the cares of Herald, Dee, 22, Onttaary, | Willieom N. Jeffers, Kq, the oldest, and one of the ablost, practising attorneys in West Jersey. saya the Phi ladolpha Ledger, died at his residence in Ormden, on the 2edinet. Mr J commenced tee practice of law in sa lem some forty yenrs ago, He has several ties repre. | vented the peoplo of that county im the Legitlatare, and ‘wee there, for years, Prosecuting Atiorney. as he was in the county of Canfven at the time of hi ath Tie was contemporary in practice with the Into @hangellor Wil- Memeon, Eping. Soott, Wall, Southard, Vroom, Horn. Div wee, BB Vide OL cline sataste vein + ad not trouble farm.— Cleveland | or and murder perpetvated by the feinsle | ready for tril next torm, ai yesterday, robbing J rervont. of yerlous sums of moaey. The evidenes was very tedious. the prosecutor belong subjected co a lon cross oxsinination by Mr Oliaton. Thero way no Brot of identity of the money found ia her possession, and for the defence it wae proven that she bad some money of her own ip powrorston previously, and she reoelved an excel- lent character the caro under charge of the court, and the jury revurned, after un abeence of about ten minates. with # verdict of not guilty terts, and the court also adjourned CONCLUSION OF TH brought them imto court in the course of the das were 6| charged with the vrual acknowledgment of their services, by the providing Jadge. Howard, U.3N., lately in y pas skepticism of the great Virginian on this point. Dr. Hawks went into » careful analysis of tho abua- dant evidence in favor of the declaration ha been made, and detailed fully the facts conneo! withis. Mr Banoroft was present, and it can hard- ly be doubted that the able and convincing argu: ment of the lecturer will have aa influence in modi- ing his convictions on the subject. The rage of @ town for a fow weeks, howover, has been the discourses of Mr. Thackeray upon the Eng lish comic’ writers. They have beon attended by large audiences, both at the time of their first delivery and in their repetition. Mr. Thaokera: has great steay and terseness of style. an: writes with an idiomatic case and freedom which is as rare as it is beautiful. Hoe has a salutary horror of all cant and shams, and visits with just reproba- tion whatever looks like hypocrisy or deceit. We were struck, especially, by the absence of all that straining after effect which is.so obvious inthe most of our professional lecturers. The effect of this sim- ple, direct mode of expression upon the audiences who bave listened to him, has been such as to jus- tify onfidence in the good judgment of the pub- shows that distinct utterance, a direct and simple style, and plain good sense, form the basis of @ public lecturer's success ‘he manner of Mr. Thackeray, both in style and utterance, we think better than the subjects which he baschosen. We regret that he should uso his fine powers of thought and expression for the pur- poss of giving new celebrity and circulation to some of the most objectionable writers in all English literature. Wycherly and Congreve, Fielding, Bmollet, and Sterne, have been the subject of a por- tion of bis lectures. These have been listened to by large audiences, mainly of young men and young women. How, wo ask, are thore 7ouoe ladies who listen to bis high commen¢ation of the plays and novels of these writers, to understand his oriticism unless they read them? A critical lecture on “Hamlet,” or “*Lycidas,” or ‘‘[vanhoo,” would be stupid and unintelligible to one who had not read the originals upon which the criticism was made. We venture to say that not one yousg lady in five hundred, of those who hoard these lectures, had ever read one of Congreve’s plays or of Fielding’s novels. If s had done so in some sly corner of a library, s! would not be very likely to acknowledge it to a male friend. What, then, will be the natural re sult of these lectures, endorsing and even exagge- rating the litorary merit of some ofthe most eb- scene of Exglfsh writers? It will be to excite a tendency in the minds of the young to look into these creations of prostituted genius, that they may understand the grounds of tho critio’s admiration. Cheap editions of Smollett’s and Fielding's novels have already been reprinted in this city, aad we at told that Mr. Thackeray’s lectures havo created for them an enormous sale. We seo them in raiiroad cars and on booksellers’ counters, and we doubt uot | that the scenes of vico which they portray with so wuch gusto have been mado familiar to thousands of young persons of both sexes, who, but for these attractive lectures, would never havo thought of reeaiieeaee licentious and immoral tales of a past age. What father or mother would ba willing to fee _@ son or a daughter engaged upon the pages oi Congreve or Fielding, that they might be able co | teet the correctvess of the lecturer’s critical judg. ment? Much indignation was a few years ago ex- prevsed against @ large publishing house in this city for flooding the coun:ry with l'rench novelw of a li- centious and disorganiz'ng character. Bub nothing that Eugene Sue or Paul de Kock ever wrote can compare, for unmitigated filth and grossness, with some of these novels, which have been made tho enbject of eritioal commendation in this course of Jeotures. If Fielding is oommended under such circumstances he will be read. Theve lectures have already created a market for these works, and they are scattering their insidious poison in thousands of families, and sapping the Virtuo of thousands of young hearts. Genlus is no excuse for perilling the dearest interests of society Jt issaid that Fielding has wit and humor. So have the blackguards who haunt the low theatres aoe ae pours Fy M the B, Ay of the youn, taking them ti 6 bowel eoa'rTe or the beer shop, tn order to hear thts Wie and hi mor! It may be thought that we are unduly equcamish on this point; but we ask any person who thinks us so, if he would be willing to read aloud a play of Wychorley, or a novel of Ssmoltect, to a sister, a daughter, or a son? We care not for the genius of these men. Thoy prostitated the gifts of God to tho basest purposes. They catered to the lowoat ions of human nature for gain. They were willing to taint virgin large and adorn the profligate, by the gifte of genius, for the paltry by pittance which they often spent upon fallen beings | whom their writings and example had helped to make vile. We say that a man of genius, liko Mr. Thackeray, has no right to disinter these loathsome books from the gravee to which tho public conscionce of a past ago had consigned them, and serve them up asthe mental aliment for the young, the im- pressible, and the pure. Court of General Sessions. Before the Recorder and Ald. Haley and Barr. rue DOTY PERJURY CASHE—POSTPONEMENT. KC, was to commence this term, was deolied this morniug—~ circumstances conspiring to compel # postponement. On the opening of tae court, which was crowded as be- fore, Sir, Vandervoort, the Clerk of the Court, called over the jury pancls, inoluding the extra one ordora dyester- | day. when twenty-eight only an:we; to their mages, Atter'some conversation among the counsel and court, ‘The Reccrder announced the reeult and observed that the accused hed the right to chalienge poremp orliy twenty. and if thet were exercived, thay would be lefe without a sufficient number to form ® jary; and a cause had been commenced which wonld nearly occupy the day. I was eleo very clear, considering the asual coarse taken by trials of this description, that if commenced row, it would not be concluded till pext term Foc bis own part, he would be wililog ¢o sit all day to morrow to get tbrougn the case; bat where it clearly probable ‘that it woald tal ore than the balance of the term, be was tncliged ‘o think that commoncing it woull bo e: ing @ power beyond that contemplated by the st: tute, and compelling, perhaps, many of Lue jurors tu re- matn duricg the vecation who had been attending here faithfully and ponctually through their term of service, It was clearly impracdcabls to get through ‘during the term, and therefi re the court are under the nocontit, of postponing it wotil the next term. for the first day Mr. Olark then said, as they had it before them, that Mre. Sinclair. their important witness, would not be bere untit the eleventh; would it not be aa well to set it dowm perexptorily about that time ? Tue Recorder replied, that must dea matter for ar- rangement, asthe court ‘this term, he thought, would pot make any appointment for a particular day in tho rt next, | Mr. Whiting—We do not uoderstand that we are to be prepared by the first day. a The Revsorder.—It must be let tothe district attor- ney of for arravgement. The court esn only send it over tll the next term in the regular course. ‘The Attorney Generali would devia that it should be now understood. lert there may bee mistake by wit essen or othere, that if [ om to assis it cannot be tried, and pochaps tt the cubecquent term; I caumot be here any day iu Jao wor Air Clark—I must be permitted to say sword. This ment wes found fn April and Mr Forrest, as we underrtana, has been absent in various parts of the Uat- ted tater He returns in December, eud the proseoution force on the trial by every means, We are now inform: od tha: Mra Sinolsic will be here in January: itis very un- Hinely she will be here in February; and must say [ think it deatdediy unjost that the court ehould ascept fuck ap intimation Mr Cbatileid—It ‘irs. Sinclair is going away, it is essy to take her teetimony de bene esse Nir. Cietk--Yes; and s0 can the prosecution if Mr. For- rest ie going away. and it is much better and more pro per tbat the witmersee for the prosecution shall give ‘their evilence in writing as they come first, Mr Whiting—Ws now give notice that we shall be shall demand to be heard, Mr. Clerk—And I would make another ruggestion t this coppection. The Dirtrlot Attorney has power to re- coguise witnesses, and if there !s any danger thats proso- | cutor is going sway, hore is # prizon to keep bim in. ‘The Recorder raid the disousion was useless; the court could wake vo farther order. nt's counsel repeated their notice, and the par- court ties jel ACQUITTAL ‘The trial of Margaret Lannen which was commencea umed The privoner wae charged with than D. Howard. with whom ¢he lived as The counsel on both sides submitted ‘Tho posit jury were then discharged for the TSM DISCHARGE OF THR G@RaND gURY ‘The Grend Jury having found a large number of bilia, aod The court stands adjourned till the Grst Monday in January next, Naval Intelligence, Restorations avo Proworions—OCommander W. L. dered to the sloop of war Marion, bas rerigned, This. with the death of Comman der Dale, promos Master M K. Warrington and Master HL. K. Davenport. late commander of the Oresovnt City, to the rank of eutemnnts —Nor/’k Beacon, but shali we risk the virtue ~The hard-fought question whether this trial | forrrorat.] Biated Session, Boaap or Acpgamen, Dee 94, 1688, Present—Rishard T Compton, Ca men Mocre, Hi on Best, — Brisley, Ward, Denase rook. minutes of the mecting were read and ap- Catlin, for a my > ot dip ittee om Finanee. © By the same—Petition of Walter 8. Grifich oad Joside Gillespie. for lease of east side of Pier wees Pier 6 East river. To Committee on Plasecs _— bars fore pler foot OC Twwatyrnicns sng a . th ” To Committee on Piers, Wharves ana mene INVITATIONS. An invitation was received from Messrs. Heoker we@ Brothers, to attend their New Year's fete at Oroton Mids; tie to Tth of January next, which was 00. 4 motion was bere made to call theroll. pearing the was declared adjourned until Mondey,. 27th insteut, 6 o’clook, P. M. Df. VALENTINE, Clock. i Ring. Wells, Anderson. Bouton, McGown, Wright, Whee lan Barker, Rogers, Valentine, MeVonkey, PRTITIONS By Assistant Alderman Kinc—Of William Radford, for lease of touth side of pier 43 North river, with half of bulkhead. To Committee on Finance. By Arsistant Alderman Bouroy—Of Sixth Avenas Railroad Compeny. asking to be allowed to lay track in Jer: Barclay, Church, and Chambers and with resolution that the Street Commissioner stey proceedings in the matter of the double tresk of the Bixth and Eighth Avenue Ratiroead Company, im Cob “lege place, until they have the single track fintshed im Vesey, Barclay, Church, and Chambers streets. To Com mittee on Bixth and Eighth Avenue Railroad, INVITATION Of Crotom Flour Mills, 301 Ch: street, thom their New Year's féte, from 8d to 7th January. Ae. ba og ‘he Board then adjourned to Mon: at 6 o'clock. From the Minutes. eadacenis EDWARD SANFORD, Oleck. i river, Boanp ov Assistant ALDERuan, 653 Fuivav, Deo. 24, 1 Parsent—Arsistant Aldermen Breaden, im the Brown. Tait, Mabbatt, O’Brien, Rodman Wood: Theatrical and Musical, Bowsay Turatre —The entertainments announeed by M1. Hamblin for this afternoon and evening aroeuch at must draw crowded houses Three exoellent pieces are offered for the afternoon , namely, the ratio drama of “ La Ba; 6,” the fine deamas.of ‘: bert Maeaire” and “ Bluo Beard,” which ere all cast im an excellent manner. The evening's amuseawat wilt consist of the beautiful play of * Pizarro,” with Bian, Btevens, Miss Heron, and other distinguished artists the leading characters. This piece will be succeeded ty Bohemtan Girl,” aad the ole will Serminate with “ The,Mystery,”’ With such attractive entertainments, no doubt the Bowery qill be crowded. Baoapway Tusatre —The operatic fairy epectacte of the “Peri.” the new pleoe which has been produced by Mr. Marshall. at cons! ble expense. the scenery being Denutiful, will be prerented this evening for the lant tian as Mad. Aibont and » splendid opera troupe, are eng: for Monday evening Those, then, who have not eon Wise Richings in the new opera, should svall themselves of tae: only opportunity of doing so. Besides this attcactive phe, the opera called the ‘ Postillton of Lonjameeu,* ‘will alzo be produced, with an effective cast. Mise Riche | ings is ably aselsted by Mr. Richings, Mr. Bishop Med, Ponisi, and other artists of eminence in their profersion, Nino's Ganpen —A rare and exceedingl entertainment is announced for this eventing The amusements will commence with the farce of * Setvey Baker,” in which the dramatic corps will appoear. This piece will be succeeded bythe grand equestrian spectacle entitled ‘Maxeppa.”? which has been in preparation for some time, and will be produced in great spleador, Ath | the eoting’ borves and ponies belonging to th | equestrian manager. Mr Kufus Wele! costumes. banners, trappings. propert are all new end we doubt not, from ign ol which Nible bears asa manager that those woo visit his | theatre will be delighted. Between both pieces Mad Ducy Barre will dance w pas 5 Bunton’s Tueatre.—The selections made by Bartom for this evening are such as cannot fail to crowa Ceres. department of the Chambers street theatre. The | piece im order will be one which 1s always witnewed with pleasure namely, the “Serious Family.” fo see Bartom alvne, as Awinadab Sleek is worth che price of admiveium ‘The next feature will be @ panoramic exhibiiion, wack will be succeeded by the laughable piece called ‘ Ove Thousand Milliners.”’ and tho entertainments wilt termi- pate with the fine drama called ‘Robert Macaire.” ald | the talented artists attached to Burton's theatre will ap- pear, Nationa, Tigatre.—Purdy announces three perform ances. In the morning. at halt past ton, the entertetm Ments Will commence with the “Spitfire » wil be followed by “Land Sharks and Sea Gulls,” and the “aye tte Lily.” Inthe afternoon the pieces are “Hawk, the Highwaymen,” and “Don Juan ;” and in the eveatng, ‘Obeap Excursion.” the beautiful dramacalled “Bre te Irish Prizoesn,” and the new pleco called the “Myste Lily,” which has been specially arranged for the Carust- mas holidays. It will, then, be readily perceived by the | above programme, that Purdy bas catered well for big patrons,and mo doubt will be properly rewarded, Wattack’s Tuxatne.—This ably managed theatre ie gaining every hour In publis estimation, as being a piece ‘Where the most refined and instractive entertainments are presented. The exertions of Mr Wallack cannot fail | tobe successful. Every otber evening he gives one or other of the fine old comedies, the respective parts tm which aze filled fby artists of the first stamp {n the drae matio olrole ; and to night he gives two new pieces.called 4 My Christmes Dinner,” and “Mysterious Rapvings.” te- gether with Popping the Question,” andthe “Happy Man” @ evening the orchestra will exeeate gems. Remember. Blake, Lester Wale cot, Miss Laure Keene, and ali the stars, will eppear. Writr’s Trrarne or Vantetics.—Christmas will be | celebrated to-day, at this favorite and beautifal litte. theatre by three grard pefformauces. Ia the mornit | Will be given “ Paddy Miles’ Boy.’ and the‘ @ilier | bis Men;” in the aiternoon, ‘* Victorine.” the * Bleek Po and the “ Forty Thicves;" and in the evening the “Bolitary of the Heath.” the “tischievous Ni and the“ Forty Thieves,” ail of which are well cast. The company numbers many eminent artists. Asericay Muszum — Vive performances are announce@ to take place at this highly popular and extensive estab= lishment to day, at each of which General Tom Tham’ will give bis interesting pirsonations “ Fortune's Frotie’® will be given in the morning.“ Ruymond and Agnes” ef 2 ond 4 o'clock in the afternoon and the “Forty Chieves® | at Gand 8} o'clock in the evening. | _ Cincus —The little folks wil! have a fine opportunity of | #pending Chrietmas happil ‘ho Amphitheutre to dey— | there being two performances provided ons im the after- | Room and the other in the evening, a: each of #hich aff | the talented equestrians of the compaay will appear. | The house wiil surely be crowded om both occasions. Cunisty’s Orrna Hover —Obtisty’s minstrels, whoss performances for the past six years have bern #0 Jjasgy applauded by cowded assembjages. anuounce two per- forwanves (0-day—efternoon snd ing—for eash of | which they bave provided an excellont programme, com elsting of vocal and instrumenta! performances, with | dancing Woon's Mixsrrecs—This popular company of mirth- | Provoking dazkies offer an exovllens tion of vooum | and instrumental pieces, danciog and bar'esques for thig | afternoon and evering. Toose who wish to spead @ plea sunt hour or two, should gee Wood's Minstrels to day. Roveet Hewr the great neerom: whoee pea the astemisbiment of crowded aa \ ory Lavo —This 1g is beoot more attractive at ev 7 The admirers of the besuiifal ia should not lose the opportunity of seeing tt Mate. Tounnainy, the oslebrated French equestrienma, | is to appear again thisevoning. at the Bquestziaa Lnsth | tute, Brockiyh She will be susisted by Ler! North; und) | otner favorite performers | Superior Court—Part First, Before Hon Judge Paine, Dre, 23.—Sarah ann McGoghvs C, Godfrey and Siphen Philbin This was an action for under | the following cireurastances :—It Cay by the evitenco | adduced by General Sondford and B. L, Biliiege em part of piaimtiff that In October, 1851, Mr. Gunther was concerned in the erectiom of three browa stone houses im Foorteenth street, mear Second avenue, snd the other defeadext, Mr, Phiblin was the Dmg ingaged to de the plumbing work on thore buildings, wareh it be came wecersary tu lay & waste pipe from ning v t the sidewalk. and compecti of the sidewalk by the plumbers in houses, aud dislveated ber ancle. | bas been ruffering ever tines, is contended by Mr. Bbaffer, for the defendants, tha’ they usd due pre- | caution to avold accidents, whieh i* denied by the plaime tif, who contends ubet they bed no light. barrieade, oe sig Pal, to designate this damgerous place where the asd- dent ocourred. On application of counsel. Mr. Gaatner was discharged from the complaint om the ground the® ip constructing thoes houses. he soted wader s power of | atvorney from his father, The Gourt, however, ds thet. under the testimony, the ease should go ta the jary ss to the defendant Philbin. The jury, at «late Ream, rendered a verdict for plaintiff of $400. Common Fiesen tare eoesead Before Hon Jadge Daly Dro. &h Alfred Emmersen 0s The New York and New Haven Kailreod Company —The plaintiff tm this case ened the defendants for damages dome him by alleged carte & ness cn fond w the part of the driver of ti which, it was also conten Tt apecared that the age Wagon waa the pialntiff as he was going slong the Bowe. 1851. upsetting his rockaway (veblole) an@ im For the defence. the pare pan : 4 it is contended that the wagon was prope! that the plaintiff was himself the cause of the accidents ord that the defendants did not employ the driver mor | own the borres; but that they bad # contract with the Fiarlem, Railroad Company to tate ali the cars of the de | fendants trom bo a ho bw Kea indte ye p Thirty-recond street, where steam | The jor} thle morning rendered « roaled verdict for plaim | tiff, for $40. ibjuring Supreme Co Before Hon J | Deo. 24 —The epesial term Katwards, 7 motions wee opened, {| end adjourned to Plday meat,