The New York Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1854, Page 3

7 AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. Senin Soe Mees of the Uour er and Koqaty t —, ‘W.surxoron, Jan 31, 1854. The introduction of the bill repealing the Missouri has reopeved an agitation precisely pom mitts of the ear 1850. The Witmot proviss war has recommeuced. Mr. Richardson introduced Territorial bill in the House, similar to that of in Deugiss in the Senate, and forthwith Mr. Dean, a soft-shell supporter of the admiuistratien, submitted an oh peo asa aero to the Fong a nt of the Mirsouri prob Sidon very. Q@ne the jainst the bill is, that as the Freach gan established negro slavery, ‘Kthe prohibition will the territory ; itutiea, under fbe French law. To ooviate this difficulty, Mr. Dean a the proviso that nothing contained in the ‘bracka a ee oe construed as to sanction ‘the reestablishment of slavery. It is stated that the Secretary of State has only ‘recently expressed his concurreace in the repeal sf ‘the compromise, and that up to Priday last the Cabinet was divided on the measure. The sppear- ‘arce of Mr. Dickinson’s article in the Bi ton Courier proved the necessity of an immediate ad- ‘vance on the part of Gov. Marcy, and he hes come manfully forwsrd and adopted the new tes; of regulary and democracy. reason is clear. The Nebraska bil! is a movement in e game of which the Presidency is the prize. Mr. Douglas, Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Pierce have declared for it. Governor Marcy caruct afford to lose position, and accedes With the best grace possible, though not withoat visible constraint. The measure is to be a demo- tic meusnre. orthere is ‘said to be some doubt about Gen. Cass. He bas authorized no one to speak for him ead hes net for himself. He declared himself against itetion to-day, while insisting that Mr. Chase id have time to prepare his argument against the bill. This is by some tawen for a sign that he desires ‘to vindicate himeelf tn advance from the charge of agitation which is to be brought, against every man who does not un'te inthe movement to ua- settle'the memorab‘e adjustment of 1820. Mr. Clayton and Mr. Badger are expected to speek and vote against the bill, on the groaud of its manifest violation of faith. Mr. Bell is set dowa as hostile to it on the same grounds. Mr. Pearce, of Marylend, avery honorable, firm, and upright man, is believed to be bark a Generals Houston aod Bask continue oppoted to it, for the reason thatit will violate Indian rights, and precipitate, the dispow- sessed tribes upon Texas. There is some reasonable doubt, also, about Mr. Geyer, of Missouri, as the peo- ot that State seem to be nearly equally divided on e question. But, a'lowing that all the gentlemen whom I have gamed from the South vote against it, its passage | through the Senate may be considered certuin. The following Senatars from the North will vote | for it :—Norrls and Williams, of New Hampshire; | Toucey, of Connecticut; Thompson and Wright, New Jersey; Brodhead, of Pe Ivania; Bright and Pettit, of Ind’ava; Snieids and las, of [ili pois; Dodge and Jones, of fowa; and Weller and win, of Califorsia. Granting there may be seven negative votes from the South, they will be more than balanced by the fourteen from ‘the North. A probable majority of twelve fcr the bill may be reckoued in the Senate. In the House the result would vy nearty the same if the vote were teken immediately. Mr. Pheloa will probanly lose bis seat in the Sen- ate, though the majority against his claim to retain it will be small. I understand that a canvass of the viewsof members on the question shows an adverse jority of three or four, {twill probably be made known whether the Presi- dent has decided to send the treaty to the Senate or | General Gadsden back to Mexico. I am informed that provision is wade for the expelling the American marauders from Lower California. If that be cor- | rect, » prolonged and warm opposition may be ex- | pected to its confirmation. | It is eaid to be the intention of the Senate tounite | ith the House im the preparation of a scheme for the amendment of the constitution in respeet to the mode of choosing the President and Vice Presiient. The choice of a President is the great difficulty of our system of government. At che time of the for- mation of the constitution a plan that was mash favored was to select the chief magistrate by lot from the list of retiring- Senators at the expiration of each period of six years. This plan was the best that was then orhas been since saggested, and might with great advantage be now adopted. [O:rrenponceros ef the Baltimore San.) Wasuincron, Jan. 29, 1854. The joint committee of Congress will probably re- port on the awards of the rescuers of the passengers apd crew of the San Francieco to-morrow. Their deliberations thereon are looked for with interest, as 3s is presumed from the thorough investigation which hasbeen mace that the report will form a document well wor:by of peraral and preservation. It is eaia that they will appropriate eighty or a hundred thoa- sand dollars, to be distributed among the deliverers, Seatede sedi ae besides giving medals, &c., to captains of the Three | Bells, Kil H by aud Antarctic, Wasurnoter, Jan. 30, 1854. ‘The Mexican treaty and the Nebraska bill are now ‘the leading topics of the day. As regards the former, ‘there is no danger of its being razified in its present shape. It is, at best, bat a poor bargain for us, et- ting nothing radically, and teaving still room for fu- tare reclamations, jations treaties. Itisno final settlement with Mexico st ali, and on that ac: canes 8 very Jacgn pention of the Renate.te decidedly to the new jired by the treaty, it bas this advan’ batty anges it will not renew the slavery ag' a in any manner or 3 since from the accounts of men who have traversed it in all directions, xeither white men nor black men can live in it. In robbing Santa Apna of that strip of lan and paying bim twenty millions ot dollars, ‘‘we rob bim of” whizh not enriches us and makes him flush and fat. The free soil document which was sent to various era, but cially to the New York Tr:bune and ‘umes, Was mle signed by adolitionists. An attempt is made to inveigle other democratic members of the Btate of Ohio into it; but the majority of the delega- tion will stand firm by the compromise of 1840. There is some qualmishnesa visible among some of the members of the New Ergiaud delegations; but sickness was expected in that quarter, aod ia not ac- companied by any dangerons symptoms to the “con- federacy.” [Corres gondence of the Bal‘imore Sun } Wo»sainaton, Feb. 2, 1854. The Nebraska and Kansas bill is intimately son- nected with the subject of the Pacific Railroad. A disposition exists in some quarters to make an issue on the question whether she Pacific Rsilroad shall be made in slaveholding or non-slaveholding territory. The Central Pacific Railroad will pass through the posed territory of Kansas, and this is more likely te @ slaveboldirg territory, under Mr. Douglas’ bill, than Nebraska. I am now convinced that a se- rious and combived effort is to be made to carrry Central Rail- Col. Benton's project for his road route, and to exclude slavery from the territory in which that route will lie. The Benton railroad project, and the organization of the Kansas or Nebraska territory under the slave- ry restriction of 1420, are to be combined together, Foy Me! unite an immense furce in the country sad iu Congrees, {& The same two interests above named will also be combined to kill the Gadsden trea:y, for the reason that it affords an at:ractive railroad route at the _ and will add two slaveholding States to the Union. ‘Thus the great questions of the day are somewhat complicated with cach otber. On one hand we have ‘the treaty and two new slave territ ries, and @ south- ern railroad route; while, on the other hand, we have the proposition for twelve non-slavehoiding Btates, each as large as Obio, and one, if not two, railroads to the Pacific passing through them. In the Senate, some papers were called for to-day | in reference to the Kovzta ease, which gave rise to | an explanation on a matter which was the sabject of some doubt awhile ago, to wit: the mission of Amin Bey to this country. It has been represented that Mr. Brown, cur dragoman, brought here for his own porpores, and that Amin Bey was not a blic agent. But Gen Casa stated teday that he ‘Gen, Cass) had received a letter from Reschid echa, the prime ninister of the Suitan, aad whom be bad known in Paris, while Reschid Pasha was the Turkish armobesssdor, thankiog him for his ef- forts in the United States senate to P amg aa eppropriation for Amin Bey’s expenses, &c. [Correspordenes of the Oimoinoati Columbian.) Wasainoron, Jan. 25, 1854. Some time since Commander Brace, of the navy, tendered his resignation to the department, which ‘was accepted, and several officers were promoted to fill the vacancies occasioned thereby in the several ations of ravk. After commissions had been ee to these officers the department learned that e time of his resignation Commander Bruce was in a state of temporary insanity, and that therefore the resignation could not be considered a legal act, This fact gave rise to @ perplexing question in regard to the validity of the several pr mutions which bad | been made in consequence of the resignatioa. The | department fivally decided that Commander Brace shall be restored to the nuvy, aud tae promotions are pull and void. Several promotions are awaitin the action of the Senate, which was deferred unti the — of this question. They have since been Morse vs O'Retily, DECIK.OY OF THK SUPREME CovaT OS THE UNITED | ST aTAs. 1 your paper of the 21st uls yoa p.blish two different reporta relative to the lute deckion of the Supreme Court _ the long contested suit tween Moree and O'Reilly. The last resort waa onxect, Dut the firatisso tutally untrue that I have coacla. fo address you a few lites relative thereto, knowty x | | my invension and ‘impror the disposition of the Hsnatp to give correct infor- maior, notwithstanding it is imposed upon occa- ly. = decided riginated in Kentucky, in e case upon o in p 1848, before the District Court, in chamber, for an {ojonction restraining O'Reilly from using the Colum- Dian machine on the line running from Louisville to New Orleans. The cause was ably at the trans os hg or a Dist Lies The Golesticn’ machine wan "a combination of elec- tro and of ¢ magnets, though infringement. The Circuit Court pe: aes ‘thet injunction. An was taken appeal Reilly to the Supreme Court ? the United States, a ‘the fue oe efforts were used to break the Morse patent. The decision lately render- e ever the Kentucky injunction t O'Reilly, aud establishes the fact that Morse was the 01 — firat at, wd os ‘a Vere pet recording telegraph,” preceding Dr. ml ol German: Sera, Cooke and Wheatstone of England, Davy of England, and all others. It is unfortunate that in the principles of the eight claims there was not a decision of a majority. As it is, a minority de- cree becomes the law of the land until a eave ‘ocours requiring a full bench, when the principles contested in the court may be changed from that which now stands sslaw. Justices Taney, Catron, McLean and Daniel, sustained the decision as ren: dered ; Justices Grier, Nelson and Wayne. the dis- senting opinion; Justices Curtis and Campbell did not sit in the adjudication of the controversy. The former bad been Morse’s counsel, and the iatter ap- pointed since the arguments were submitted. Your reporter proceeds to say, that— The Court also hold that Professor Morse, in his eighth claim, patented more than he di<covered or fovented; and therfore that claiw ‘s disallowed which virtually makes valid the House and Bain patents, and effectually disposes of Professor Morse’s pretended claim to the art cf tele- graphing. Instead of the above being true, it is a very great error, ard certainly could not have been written by avy one who beard the decision. There never was @ more cones annibilation than was that of the Baia system. The were unanimous against the principles of the Bain patent. There is not left a mantle of gauze to clothe its form. The decision ex- * tinguished it from the face of the earth. As to tne House system, the Court was not so pointed, as it was not so blended in the case as to require the Court to render a decision touehing its infringement. The friends of Morse are more sanguine than ever that the House system does infringe on Morse. They regard the confirmation of the seven claims, as they now stand in connection with the patent of 1846, as ample and complete the House telegraph, ana I presume there will be but little delay in testing the question in New York or Pennsylvania eourts. Your reporter is not satisfied with giving a dis- torted statement relative to what was decided by the Court, but he proceeds to give a copy of the eighth claim of the patent of 1840, which the decision con- siders too broad, and ought to be disclatmed. Here is the claim. as published in your paper:— The eighth claim of Professor Morse. referred to abovs, is underswod to olaim the art ot tranemittiog and re- orrcing ixtelligencs—in other words, cleims “the com- Divation a g’ment of electro magnets im one or more circuits of metellic conductors, with armateres of magt ots for transmitticg intelligenos by siga sounds, or rither, between distant points, acd :o different potats, sim aitensourly Now, air, there is not one word of truth in the above. How any man can commit such a fabrication is beyond my conception. He either must be very ignorant or a base man. It appears to be garbled from one of the seven claims, but which I ani un- able % decipber. I now give you the whole of the claims, embracing the seven which were sustained triumphantly and uoanimously by the Court, and also the eighth, which wes considered too broad, and recommended to be disclaimed by four of the nine Judges. Parest—Juse 1840 Cuams—First Having taas faly described my in- vention, I wish it to be understood that I do mot claim the use of the gaivaule curreat, or currents of eetricity, for the purpose of telegraphic coma Bicatiors generally; bat w I mpectstly claim t is, making use x t! motive power of magnetism when developed by the ac ttop of such current or currents, aubstantislly an set forth im the foregoing cescription of the first priactgel pert of wy invention, as m-ans of operating or giving mcm to manbinery, which may be usel to im print cigosls upon paper or other suitable metari sl, or to uct sounds in any desired manner, for the purpose of Biegrephie commuvication at any distances The oaly ways in which the gaivanic current had been propyaed to be ured, prior to my iaveation and improvemmnt, were by | Dubbdien reeulting from decomposition aad the setion or exercise of electrical u) the etized bar or perdi, ent iho buvbioe aad th: ceflections of the needles | thus produord wer: nbjects of iuspection and had mo | power. or wire not appli-d t» recerd the communication Ptheretore, characterize my inven jon an the @rat re | eording or printing \ ph. by means of eleatro-mag | metiem. There are varv us known modes of producing | motions siarpeered Megvetiom. bat none of these had Deen appil pricr to ny foveotion asd imp ovemen: to sctuste een motion to printing or recording ma otinery, which Is the chief point of my invextion or im- | provement. | _ Second.—I also cleim as my invention and improve ment the emphymrrt of the machinery ealie! the ra- CF recording imetramest, composed of the train of | Sheek wheels, eyliaders and other apparatus, or their pe cnelero web for moving the material upoa which the j acters are to be imprinted acd for imprintieg said | eberscters, substantisliy asset forth in the foregrin: ee \ption of the second principsl part of wy inven- | . Toird.—I also elaim as my invention and improvement ‘the com bination of mac! herein described, consist | fog of the ges erator of elect ty, the eircuit of condce tors, the coo'rivance for elvsing and breshing the circuit, | the eleetro magce’, the pen or contrivance merkiog, | ond the macbisery for sustsining ant moving ‘he paper, ail tegether cocatituting one appara us, or telegraphic machine. which I decominate ihe Ame:i.an Electro Mag- netic Tek graph Fou:ta.—I also claim as my invention ths com>Ination of two or more gslvaric or electric circuits, wits inde pendent batteries substantially by the mean: herein de oe! , fe purpose of obvi«ting the timinisasd force of electre: métiem ip long cirnits, and ecaling ms to command sufficient power w put in motion registsring or Teoording machi: ery at acy di tance. Fitth—Lclimas wy fovention the system of sigay, corsisting cf dota and spaces, and of dots, rpsoes, and horizoatal lines, for nunerale, iatters, wor's or sen ‘ences, substactislly as bereia set forth aad illuctrsted for tele ‘alm as my inventicn the system of nigas, and spaces, and of cot et forte aod for recording them as sigvals for telegraphis pur; netees ne care their equiva! Dis: Hw it myself to the ap cifio ded ia the forego ing epee fication and cisiis, sence of my ‘nvention being the use of the mosive pover of the elscuds or gel Yauio current which I csll electro magartiam, howe: devoic pe’, fr marktig or printing intelligid!jcharaste:s Bigee fleverr, at a nee, bing @ new application of thet power of whieh Ielaim to be the frat inventor of -eoverer You will perceive from the above that the reporter has not ouly imposed on you, but slandered the court. He should be more careful, and refrain from preety statements wherein so many are interested having the truth, and nothing else but the trath. Instead of the court disposing of Prof. Morse’s pre- tended claim to the art of tele hing as your re- prter asserts. the decision to him is a grand triamph. ne of the highest judicial tribunals of the world— the Supreme Court of this nation—has woven for Morse a wreath of imperishable gems, worthy of the inventor of the art, “ that Jast and most wouderous birth cf this wonder teeming age.” ‘ot propore to of ir Wasuincron, Feb. 1, 1854. Carrrou. Miscellaneous Items. [From tue Waaringiva 8 ac. 2) It {8 thought in usually well informed politics oug in usueliy well in circles that the administration are still ph noid cided as to the propriety of sending the Gadsden treaty into the Senate. ‘e apprehend that it was the rubject of a very earnest cat meeting yester- dsy, and a'so of a long interview between the Secre- tary of Srate and the Mexican minister. Itis farther said among the 7 agar rg that the line neg »tiuted in she treaty differs widely from that which this gov- ernment essayed to obtain, which, avcordiug to these accounts, started from El Paso, by Gray's line, to the semmit of the Sierra Acha, or Espuelas; thence northwardly along the summit of those mountains to & point where the one hundred and eighth degree of longitude west of Greenwich crosses the thirtieth ‘allel of north latitude; thence west to the river jusgul, or Yagui; thence following the centre of said river to the gulfof California, as per Arrow- smith’s map. As obtained by the Gadsden " this lire goes on Cooke’s route to where the one hundred and eleventh lel of west longitude touches the thirty- parallel of north latitude; thence north-westwardly to the head of the guif, taking in about twenty miles of the gulf shore whereon there is no harbor. Such is the accoun; by Opponen’s of tke treaty, who are nei’ her few nor far bolween among “men about town” in Washington, LANDS FOR RAILROADS. The excitement with reference to the Nebraska Sons nO means serves to check the ardor of M4 ”” interested in obtaining granta of public lands for railroads, Most of them—aud they are numerous enoagh to man three or four co! of United States Infantry—are | night and day, and in all conceivable ways, to fair wea- ther for thei: respective projects. DEATH OF JAMC® M. 6MITH, OF VIRGINIA, INDIAN | AGENT AMONG TAB APACHRG. Governor Merriwether writes to the Indian Bu- | rean, announcing the death of the above named gen- tleman, which Lope ag on the 15th day of Decem- ber last, at Dona , New Mexico, about three hundred miles south of Santa Fe. His'son, a youth of about twenty years of age, was with Mr. 8. at the time. Governor M. has placed young Mr. 8. in cbarge of the property of the agency until he could fend an agent ty relieve him. He has ordered agent Graves trom Taos, to that duty. MONBY DUS FROM THE GOVERNMENT TO INDIANS. According to the regulation prevailing in the de- ts, when a eum of money's due from the | eo enacng sd minor children of an Indian, it |- a3 leng been the practice to recoguise the right of the father to receive it; and in all cases where claims erise under an Indian treaty, the claimaats being Indians, payments must be made to the [n- dians in Syne not to an Nyy A neo re- quired by the imperious interest of the Indians, and 0 directed by the President, in conformity witn the 3d section of the act of August 30, 1852, and the 3d section of the act of March 3, 1863. UNAUTHORISED PUKCHASDS OF SPECIB ON GOVERN- MENT ACOOUNT. A case was not long since before one of the de- enta here, in which it was ruled that no dis- irsing officer is authorised to purchase specie wit! out the special direction of the head of the depart- ment under which he acta, and an: charge he ma; make for premium, on unauthot purchases paid, THE FUBLIO LANDS IN ORRGON. will be disallowed. As the law regulating the disposal of the public domain in Oregon now stands, all are actually de- barred from becoming freeaolders there except ac- tual cultivators of the soil for four years previous to obtaining a fee-simple title. This provision of the law, intended of course to encoarage actual settle- ment and cultivation, is found to work badly; inas- much as it also operates to discourage tne emigration thither of mechasics, merchants, and professional men. The people of Oregon, on whose advice the provision in question was adopted, have already seen theirerror, and are now petitioning to have them subject to sale. The Commissioner of the Ger eral Land Office coinciding with them, has recom- mended to the Secretary ot the Interior the vrompt application there of the active system fur the sale of tbe public domain, which is in operation on this side of the Rocky mountains. Congress will doubtless encble the Land Office Bureau to do this ere the pre-, sent session ends. BONDS. We understand that there is no provision made b; law for surrendering, cancelling, or diseharging of- ficial or covtract bonds to the goverument, and it is the invariable practice of the governwent to retain them among the public archives, although the office of @ principsi may have expired, and his accounts may have been adjusted, or the conditions of the contract may have been fulfilled. (see opinions ot Attorney General Butler, Nov. 20,:1837, and Attor. ney Geueral Nelson, April 2, 1844.) COMPKOMISe WITH A 2ERTOK OF THE UNITED STATES, It is held by the government accounting officers that when the account of a disbursing officer is set- tiled at the Treasury, and eu't is brought against bim for the balance found due, and the matter is afterwards compromised by the entry of a judgment in favor of the United States, by consent, for an agreed sum less than the balance due, the judgement is conclusive as to all the items oa both sides of the account as settled. Items in favor of the officer, if embraced in the accouat, cannot afterwards be paid him at the Treasury, even though they were Impro- perly disallowed in the origina: settlement. THE CURKENT OF ATIONS OF THE © RXASURY. Ov the Ist of February there were of Creasary warrants entered on the books of the department— Fur the redemption 0: atu * . 976 21 For the Treasury Departm clusive of stocks. + 21.631 96 368 00 . 260 57 » 81,603 26 Political Intelligence RDITORIQ} OPINIONS ON THE NEBRASKA QUESTION. Tne Philadelphia Pennsylvanian, (democratic) says that although it tas hormofore strongly advocated the Missonri compromise as the beat ray to settle the excit ing iveues of alsvery ip the Territories, 1} now invohes the demvcracy to stand by Mc Dongles ta the position ne haa taken sgainst the enemies of the Univa and ths toss of the coustitution. Itvhicks the 4i+# urf line w.« render. ed inoperative by the ants of 1850, anc it th«refor# osanot be srplied to tee Territories, now ackiag admie-ion iato the Unton, The Hartford Courant, (wh'g,) admits that Congress has power toabrogate the Missouri compromixe, but questions the justice of such a repeal. It amerts, by interr izatioa, that there is a moral obligstion resting upon those who entered into roch an sgreement to abi’# by it aad thinks it absurd to suppose that she oom, romise of 1550 repealed tbat of 1820, The Qourant takes groand agaiust tne pro Porition of Mr. Dougias, but produocs no argameat to curtain iteelt. The Portemouth, New Hampshire, Gast, (demooratic) takes # pon-committal view of the Nebraska qasstioa, but Promises todo ali ip its power to reader invi:late the copstitution and perpe'uate the Union, aad if the slavery question ir to be re-opened it «ill uot fear to meetit It conce’ en the power of Congress, however, to repeal ether or both the ovm promise mearures, but deprecates the ore sent movement of Mr. Dongias The Charl-ston Standard, (democratic) is glad tha: the occasion bas arisen which vill ferce the Scuchern State® to the conviction that the comprowite of | 866 was a United States District Court. Before Hon. Judge !sgersoll. HABEAS CORPUS. Fes 8.—Jn the Matter of Alexander Heilbronn, claimed by the British Government as a Fugitive frem Justice for an Alleged Forgery.—In this case, (adjourned from ‘the day previous,) it wil) be recollected that a writ of habeas corpus was taken out, with a view of teating the question of authority at istue between the State and the United States Courts. The return to the writ by Abraham T. ‘Hillyer, United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York, was published in yesterday’s Hxmap, and according to the suggestion cf the Couft, Mr. Busteed, counsel jor the accused, prepared the following reply, which he now produced :— IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN Cp oR ep en In the matter of the habeas corpus ader Heil. biome, a» a tive from jastioe from Great Britain: Alexander Heilbronn, the fugitive in the foregoing writ, named for 1 to the return thereto of the Marshal of tos Ucited Si for Southern District of New York, says that the commit it by Jobn W. Nelson, Esq., in ale return nemed, anda copy of which commitment is thereto annexed, of your petitioner, ‘a illegal and void, for that the said Neléon bad co jurisdiction, either of the lator or of the alleged crime, to hear aad dense concerning which the said Nelson errant for the arreat of this relator at the seid Nelson obtained no origina! jarisdiction ot the case by virtue cf the requisition of the President of the United States upon him, com- manding him to issue » warrant (or the apprehension of this relator, as an alleged fugitive from jastice from Great Britain; there bad been no complaint under oath made against thir relator, cbarging him with the com- mission of any of the crimes enumerated in the treaty between the United Siates and Groat Britain for the giv- ing up of fugitives trom jusiice in certein cases, and be- cause such complaint uover oath ‘ss jarisdic'ional fae without which po autherity o: upon ta Nelkon, ‘That upon ihe hearing before the said Nolaon there was no proof that the relator was guilty of the crime alleged aio-t bin etaet upon the said hearing the said Nelson allowed in evidence before bim, prcofs diffecent from, and ia conflict with, the kind of evidence required by the sald treaty to establish the commission of the alleged crime, aad to au thorise the commiiment of the relator, and excluded evi- Genoe which cught to have been allowed by the uaid Nel rand Tat the papers upon which the said requisition of the President issued, and upon whieh the Nelson soted {> mekirg out the commi:ment in the return to this wilt pawed, wpon their face show that the facts alleged in tl id papers, if preven to be trae, do cot caicet the relator the crime alieged ther sin to beve brem committed; and That the raid commitment {* in all other respects il 1, ard iw violation of the righta of the relator. ALAXASDER HELL4RONN, mz Busteed. eounce! for the accase4, geve a state ment of the fac's of the case, which have already ap- peared in the HwmaLp Heilbronn wac arres:ed on a war. Tapt under the treaty, aud examined before Commissioner Nelson; pencing which, he was discharged from sustody by J Michell of the Supreme Cor advanced is Aby the treaty for the arrest of any ccmpiaint bad been maie—that the Commissio: the act of 1848 was planned on ies the act is uncopstitutionsl, and if it hall be deemed so, that the pritouer having been found withia the territory could be admitted before » commissioner; and tourthly, that the act ef Congress is void, and that the facts alleg: the treaty o extradition nere— dent of the United on referrit November, 1868; original records were lost ia the Gre; the cow pleint t» be found ta the affidavit of Mr Fannel, Loncop polio: man, was the only complaint p.evious to issuing of ihe werract. (This exsmination was objected to by the counsel om the other side.) The paper now shown to xe 188 copy of this warrant; when I issued my warrant, | bad no evicenos but the affiievit of Fuanel and the origit al depositions; the paper oow sliown tome are the copiee of origival depositicus; I ka! alzo produced before me by Funnel, by the Buglish magistrate; tates; do not recoliect the date, but, accused wa» arrested the day after the date of w brought before me; recollect that on or s! Now mber the counrel for the accused bin, th pl if oF ed it; cm the adjourned da: rties again s; hetore mt; the was thea 1 . prisoner reacy that the hearg should be then pri plication was made for an adjourni Proceeded with on the return of the warraat, be. heartog was had Jow-hearted troce. It raya the issue upoa the Nedra ka questicn, altho cunrinee the Soaih whetbe; rely upon the plighted faith of aswoist- 1d States, or whether the proteotisn of taeic right) 41 depend upon the r ability to detend them. ‘The Boeton Adas, (whig,) is of opinion that a: tae Mts- sourl compromise has been scquiecced in by all parties for thirty years, there shoald be mo attempt iad now to Gisturb it. Im opposicg ihe Nebraska vill it taxes coca. sion t be very revere upon Mr. Pierce, who, itse's cam foo edge shat the slavery question snouls The Detroit Democrat, (/ree soil ali over,) has nearly gone rabid on the Nevratke question, and lest we migat not be able to do jusiies to its sentiments, we «ill give an extract from one of its artisies;— bd Mil introduced sy 8. A D atione the bloody scour: pon weran’s sbrinking fi ud soour ces gray: be a jen which bis dep ndant—tn» bil which hancred dolars re ward ‘0 aby person who wiil clearly saw whether the soft demceracy ate or are sot the fiends of toe adaia intr stion.”” Supreme Court—In Chambers. Bet Hor Judge C orke, THE CASE OF BX-+LDEPMAN STURTSYANT—ANOTUSR BABEAS OUBPUS. Fre, 3—A writ of neb-as corpus having bea frsued in the case of Aldern an Sturtevant, the Si made a re. turn similar to ths lest—tbat he ‘hol 0 defendant by Virtue of ® writ of the Superior Court, ® copy of waich he aprnered. fieuea by 8 court of ecm Jow ro further proceecip Peratively reqoired by the statute to rewand the pris oer forthe th Mr Cowles entered oto an argument, coatending that the certiorari Isrued after the decision of the frat Danese placed pendente 1 order Was subseqnen'ly wade by bie Hone bim to to6 sustody of the 8 4 tof cartiorari was sued cut to bring t before the Gecerai Term. The is ving of a writ of certiorari hefure the order te remand had tabeneflect, urpends, ipso facto bat order. Cone quentiy, Mr Sturtevant being im custody o the cepaty sheriff pendente lite, and before the sudsequent order bed taben effect, the certiorari sw pended all pro- cercizge remanding him to the custody of the Suer'ff, «mi left bim virtuaily,in the hande o! Mr Valtes, and the She Tiff bad no right to take him into custody ander the ori aival precess. Mr. C. submitted thet uuless the atera ne cersity of the Jaw required it, hie Hono should not re masd Mr Sturtevent He is remanced for fifteen ‘ays’ imprisopment, and farther to remain io ovvfioement ual a certein sum of money be paid. rere be very great doubt as to the valicit; process, aud it in susceptible ef as clear & demonstration ss that the ever shone 1 rty cannct be beld uoder jena; BO) 0 vg the puvishment againgt ebich be be is remanied to the custody of (he Sheriff nd it turns owt that that proce sued, the party has vo redrean. It} lashes, yet admitting toast itr. Contes then proses 1 certiora:i ruspende the power of the Jud 6) A certiorari tokee up the rt above fr jority whiet be bad fo: the position in which the Sheriff the Sheriff ir liable to an ac ton fi ‘0 matter what view the court tat Mable, provided he bes mot the authority ot law fcr doing so. . Judge Clerke—It may be his misfortane, and i: i 8 perition, no doubt, to be placed in tha has the rght to appeal, and yet bin pavishment is going on ar the rawe tive. The retara of tre Sheriff xtates that be is beld ander s warrset ined out of the Supe rier Cort for miempt I cannot go behind the for'i eth prciion. which states thay rhali b+ the duty, &e. ¢f the court foribwith t. remaud ‘he p is yner te the ous tocy of he Sheriff, Thin section was eviveutly ceatgoed to prevent cre court fio” intmfering with the proces of arotber is+ned for s comtem pt. *. pal Mr. B. Hilton wen in atendance in opposition to the moti-p. bet from the views of the Judge it was unmeots sary im te, Jer, om behalf of the prisoner, tendere* to the 1) to the returm of the Sheriff denying that uncer the original com: my at alieging formation and belief that he was held aader the créer of Jadge Clerae remanding him to prison, and that order was not served unti) after the certiorari had locamentat y ev-de: prec uced before ine ep the hearing; Fuapel was snd srorn cn the part of the osimants ana wes examined cm the Repers claimed to be Fopvel proved that Mr, Mcgricge was an Alierman Londcp end ju tics of the ot Mr, Mugiidge were of bs ew Dutbing abeat the of the pene F abou’ the extent of the jarix is justices of t ace for the bireugh of London; he bad Dever read statntes<f Victoria om that rubjeot; do not brow what he state’ ab: at the etection or | t- he said that he had seen over 6:me tea or & dozen is own hand.wr +; pockets; the enly impor wen the Kentify ng 6f the copies of the d: puritions and the orig:wal <0: ged documents; these papérs were the only pico? of the ormmuunion of the forgery; culy witres# produced on bebalf of the clai orelly exsmined; it wis d ihe witrem ew poduced by imant to prova the affida- viz should be eras examined, and tae ceceipt of thone copies was objected to by the cpponite side; [ am a oom: nm ppou ted under the sixth nection of the act of exemined—I firally adjudicated upon this mat d made the commi'men’ afier hearing the proofs; ae or three witmesses wer 1d on the part of the rikoner. . R-examined— Witnesses were peoment by the aceused to prove that he bad been arrested and held to bail in an aciion of debt ; this was the main substance of their examination ; these witnes:es were Mr. Willet, Depu'y Sbenff; Mr. Whiting was called, but some admiasions thar ie made superseded the necessity of his beiog ex- amined. The Court here ac journed until the following morning at 10 o'clock. It was usderstood that ia the meantine Mr. Busieed should farnish Mr. Whiting counsel cprouite side, with his authorities, to enable the latt reply. Chamber of Commerce. The regular monthly meeting of the New York Cham ber of Commeree was heid on Wedneiday afternoen, a* the Merchants’ Beak. The attendance was full, anda ge smount cf business war brought forward for action, The Prevident, Mr. Perit, coe hair. the reading of the mi revious mest , she ‘ollowing were elected members of the Chamber: RW. Wertop, A R Frothingham. W. H Cai Peirte 2,8, Tucker, Mr. Charies Kneeland was’ lected to fil the vacarey om the Arbitration C mmittes occa sloned by the expired term of R. C, Goo: ing com mitters vot being prepared to rep: of the special A sbarge io the dey for holding the moth y ms-tivgs of the Chamber b dorm made by the Lagislsture, Eotice war given of @ proposed change in the by laws, to make them conform to It Tos PReIpent stated that important information hed bern received relative to s m‘nt in thin city, which led to | a hope that esinage mi ht be commen here o8 #.0n as the builcing in courre of erection for ao aaeay office should be Spished. It war only necm sary that another story be added, io order to furni+h all the seocmin dation for that purpose. It ba‘ alvo been ascertained that the ground a: jaoert to the proposed assay ¢ifins wan avails able for the ure of the government, should it be neadre. The Presicent thought that aa effort msde now te seorrs a mint for his city mignt be suce-ssfal Mr Ccrws fotimated that though the sttatoment of thivobj-ct wan extremely derirabdle, tn ths law providiog fer an a Fey Office the par-oss bad been ensential y acoom baer! be tection of the law reads as follows: — ad be ft t are or may bs pro- # deponits at the mint cf the Ua! reasurer thereof. Aud suck bullion without deley be meted, t idcate net! value thereof, payable in coins of the same metal an that deposited, either at the office of the As sistant Treesurer of the United States, lalNew Y« on at the mimt ¢f the United Sates, at the option of poritor, to be expressed in the certificates, cates shall be receivable at any time with! Utes Sate atthe fort" ow one eae ta as pater dere por’ New Yok, for the fall sam Avother section reads as follows :— Aud be it further enacted, Tnat the same be made and demanded Cyn at’ the assay office for other sharge shall be made to dapositors than by. authorized to = be madent the mint and the amcunt re- Sathorized, shall be se- defraying the centia- ceived from the oba: counted for and appropricsed’? owed, removing the prceseding to the General The Judge—I depy the right of that reply, and decide | that] have no power to go behind the retara of tue Bbe: if. Mr. Cowles avked that the ly be placed on file as part of the prow’ . The Judge assented ands new orcer wer made out the re-ocmmitment of Aldermaa Sturtevant, Hoularly for that the eoing should be cone bere, He comolated by La toe ¢ following preamble and reyolativa : — Whereas this Chember /s informe that fy is entirely practicable to accom; the actual sofning of gcld and silver, ae well an the Besaylog “hereo”, st we on ® writ of yy the learned ment Were—first that the complaint Tuxitive, war sbeolatel) necesrary, but that in tals case ne 7 fetion: secondly, that the extradition treaty and thi eoute themselves; thirdly, that of the State of New York, only such evidence as by the Jaws of that State would be admissible before a msgistrate ec in the papere do not, iftrae, amount to the crime of FY, aud are not 'withia the terms provided for by Mr. Busieed-thea produced as Me. Commissioner Nelecn, who deposed—I issued a v errant for the apprebeusion of Alexander Heilbronn, by the suthority of my appointment as commissioner under the act of Cong OF and by the requisition of ths Presl- to the warrant, see that it ie dated Ist of the original warrant isued Peper alleged to be forged wan pot preseuted 10 me when I issued my warren’; the ‘art; do pot recollect the precise day he was ¥ the 30th of before peared to proceed; he ‘ceeded acjopinment of a week; that adjodra- spot oxsented to by the sccused; the matter r the absence of jtke original alleged forged daca. before me subsequently; all ‘teaate prodeoed bo‘ore d the origins! alleged | ing frcm Havana on the 2)at January, throws soms ad me | ditional ligot up2n this subject. He rays that the ordinenoe declaring the emancipacos the peace, ind that the sigvatar-s ; Fuanel assay office now in process of construction in this city, izasmuch as @ slight alteration ia the strasture will sfforc sufisient room for ¢he purpose; aad #heress sacn course would rave to the government al! the risk sod ex © of transpor'ing bubion from N: ‘ork to Phila Ipbia and privging back cota im return; and wheress itis manifestly adv in respect to comveniecce, economy and pafet; y mint established ii ia city should be places in the immediate visinity of the Costom Bouse and Assistant Tieasurer’s office, therefore, Resolved, That in the opinion of the Ctamber of Com merce of the city o' New York, the interest of the govern ment ps} Tequires that provision be made at the assay office in this ci y for coining as well as assaying the pre- cicus metals. The resolution was parsed unanimously, and with in- structions that a copy be forwarded to one of the Jena. tors and one of the Representatives in Congrens. At this point of the sroceedicgs « petition from Mr. Copard, | Mail Steamers, was introduced, aad debated at Jen The objegt of the resolution is to procure s removal of heavy penalties inflicted upon abip-owners, (in cases where gee are smuggled on thelr ships without their pation ‘i not withstandiag every precaution, ) involving the forfeiture of their ships. Is stances were mentionec where heavy expenses have incurred by ship owners, umder present laws, for Une se cal pt. Marsball thought the laws in relation to «mag glipg were unjust and uno ly re, and he sp proved of the petition. He had had some experience in this matter bimeeif. In Evgland, in similar cases, the penalties are but a few bunired pounds, at most. Hore, ‘th formal importation of two or three watches con 8 the ship bringing them. Taw should be enacted instenter to cover the case. Two pasengers may smuggle, end one complain of the other, acd the ship be seized, when care op the part of the offi cere of the sbip might have prevented the crime. Sat the law prohibits the captain of a vessel from examining ye or’a ge. Mice etted tad adaghion of Vn messorial witb ovt farther delay The sutject bas been agitated {or some time, and was well uncersiood. Mr. Puenrx acd others recommended that the whole matter be referred to 2 committes, with powers; and after forther discussion » committee of three was appointed, conatating of Messre. Brower, Curtis and Phelps. ‘The following report was then presented:— To tha Chamber of Commerce of the State of New Yurk :— ‘The uncersigsed begs leave to report that he reesntly visited Al any, under imsrructioas from the Presidint of ‘the Chamber, charged with the united applieasion of the Whart avd Pier Committee, the Board of Under qriters, and the Chamber of Commerce, to the Legislature, to send dowo a committer from the Senate and Assembly te visit and examireour harbor, and confer with such of our citizens as are iotsresting themselves about measures to correct certain slieged entrcachments upoa our ia ciopensable facilities for revigation, ani by sach confer ence and oxeminaticn to'elie't information to guide them in formirg the requisite commiasion for fixiog the ex'e rior live of the bulkheads and piers in the wannor asked, Cetermicing, at the same time the prozer anportionments nd scientific and legal knowledge upon nai’ undersigned would further report that s.i4 com- t to fovitation, and have made ery thorough exam on of sll the essential points ‘bor, as wellon the Esst sa on the North river, bed full end freo interviews with partiee best formedin the matter and have returned to Albacp pro pered to mske such report asthe oase msy, in their Stigke, demand, ture aud extent of their report will probably be in a few cays reigned would further report having stated that a very decided opinion prevaile¢ smong a large ma- jority of the Chamber ard of our bariness raen generally, that grave errore had beeo committed in the neglecting of oor decks anc slips, That almost or quite every alip on ‘ork line of the East river was badly choked up and varios descriptions of deposita trom the city and from the o:e1k reked cut of our steamboats, That sund:y works were in contemplation, and some under y alerg the Brooklyn and New York shores, which works it was greatly fesred and dellsred, would iujure the navigation of the East river. Thur etroumstanced, it was farther stated as tho senso of this Chamber ard the Merchants’ Exchange Committee, that a commission combinirg high ca.to and prominenos of cbaracter, with eminent legal and practioe! and scien- Mle knowlege, abould be formed invested with fall pow ern to rend for pernops aud papera, and {a all other sulta- ble and proper woya to determine upon a final exterior Une; all the wharf and pier work now ia progress to be suspended during the action of snch commission A The undersigned furthermore most emphatically stated that this Chamber did not recognise the idea at all that there was any cor flict ef interes: in thin matter between New York and Brooalyn; mor did the Cnamber aharge upon any of their feilow-ci ixens improper mo:ives in thelr active, yet perfectly natural ceal in takiog care of their mvestaents in duck and wharf line property along the margin cf the river. At the same time it seemed not out of place to express the opinien that all the opposition to the conservative measures sovght by the Chamber of Commerce, and others, came from quite » limited number of individuals unwilling to stop their pravemt work, duricg the time the commission might require for the needful investigation. Th igned coincided in and aided in a partial ination of certata features of the case, #0 {ar to the extent of powers which the convemplated commis- sion might need to be invested with. Respectfally eub- mitted, GALES BARSTOW. Atiee te Ceestlice of uni b ‘ter the transaction of uninpactact business, the Chamber adjourned. sh Important from Cuba. INTRODUCTION OF FREE LABOR FROM AFRICA. The correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune wit free created w very great sensation here, and those ‘ations were sent ia to the local gover- query if the owners musi take them at cece to Hevana. Bat the measure cut where it nad not been ocatemplated, and » buzz was raised about tue ears of the General, which he hed nt foreseen. {le found that the bolders of emancipados wers nearly, if net quite all Sparisrds, personal friends oF former Oap- tain Geverals, and sowe of them intimately connected with perrona very high iu authori:y and very near the throve at bome in spain. who had reccived these Degroes Se personalfavers fiom the goveroment. They at onos went to bim acd loucly cemanced that the order should be rescinded and that the negroes should not be taken off the estaten just at the begivuing of the crop. Forts: tel tir Known opinions ard conntatoos, for there t @ Cubsm smong them, enabled them to talk pret ilv aud loudly, avd you may well belisve they were somewhat vio'ent and vociferous, Thay have cot d the rescinding of the proclamation. bat they obtained the issuing of orders to the local governors in the country to atop the ren ing of the negroes to the city. This is only s temporizirg measure; the weed of Aiscontent is sown among tbe negroes and must frus ify. The operation of the order here has been a litile dif. ferent. The negroes bave pri ited themrelves, and some five buncred of th: now in the government .. They comand their free papers at once, and re. fone to be spprentio d sgai-. The British Coasulate is somewhat troubled wich tiem, for they all think and sey openly thet the Eogieb government protecta tham General Pesuela in a ltue nonpluseed, bat yes ne bolds on ip bis origival Ceterminstion of csrrying oat the new policy toite end. The stopping of the slave trade is only apparent. The Africen expecitions are fi:ted ou’ in our owa harbor, and in the harbors on the coset, with gr re activity than ever, and 8 veral cargoes have been lauded laitly, I bave it from gocd authority, no lesa thaa that of three of the leadii lave traders, that the Captain Generai has received bis perquisite on each negro landed. I; is a lit- tle strarge thatthe Eoglich cruisers have ail besa with- Crawe at this janoture, but the rest of my letter mua: enable your readers to jucge asto the ultimate inten = of the government as to there cewly imported Af- ricanr, On the 18th instant the following olroular was addrese ed privately by the government to the several boards that constitute be admipistration, asd toa few prirate individuels bich in tts confidence :— serting oF not (w | mations regarcing the | African sppres form m in ed, and whatover else a: joot of #0 qromt impertance. ala : Hovans, Jem, 18, 1860 RQUES DE LA PEZURLA. In addition to this, | oan inform you that {t is poritive. ¥, asserted bere that the establishment of the system of fries apprentices ts already predestined, and thet It centes for thelr jmportation have already bee teveral jen. This fact may explain the pri ! be ia ang rag slavers. ‘cu may for much spilling of blood in this island before the year 1854 closes. i Supreme Court- Special Term, Before Judge Cierke. 81DENOK AND DOMICIL. Far. 3—Jn re Thomos Murphy and others ve Benjamin O. Stanley —This case came ap on » motion to set tilde an Atteebment cbteined b; plaintiffe against the as fendsat om the non-residence. The Jadge said :— Notwithstanding very positive statements con- toinee in the afidavi' suppor: of this motion, I think the plain'iffs hare rfMfciently proved that, et the time the atte chmeat was issued, ihe Cemfoll of the defendant was st Bradford, N. H. They bave satisfactorily shown that he there kept in ih hia wifeand lived, and im tertained his friends and exer- be clsed the demest'c rights and duties. Now, ass man can bave only one domiet’, and as I entirely concur with Jus- tee Psige im his able (pinion in Cra va. Wilson, G Barbour, 6(4,) that the terms legal residenos or inhadl- taney axd domiel! mean the same thing, (with afew ex- ceptions pot comprising this.case.) I osnnot evoid the conclusion that the defendant was non resident at the commencement of this action. His being engaged in busicess in Franklin county, im thie State, as @ store keeper, had no greater effect in making him a rerident here than « similer ccoupation tn Williamstown, Canada, made bie « legal remdent of that place. He prodably in tended to remove bis domieil at rome fature time from, Bradford to this State, an! ne might have mete the effi on & form er 06: asion to di bat he nevor put thet ia tention into execution by abardonicg his ‘omietl in New Hampabire and establishing one iA this Mate, For these reasons l ¢ismisa the order to show cause why the attachment should mot be set aside, with ten dollare Fre. 8—Emess of Posengers—"eputy Marshal D'Ae keler arrested J: hp Davia, mentor of the ship Eaterprise, | for brirgirg to thie port am exoden of parrnacgars beyond the rumber alluwed by law. Ths vannel was libelled at { the reme time. Capraty Davie was brow ght hefore Com Bi Hower Be ¢gbew, and bis Hoqor wloolied bin to ba | With reference to Mr. Curard, Me. Baowme aid that a./ In Eoglard as tosetisty the commitire of the Legislature in regard city began to come up, some with tusir na: ters and some without them, cemandirg th of thdse on p cir free pepers, and reports The Le ‘Trade. ‘The period for making up the aunual statements of the trade is at hand. The import of hi¢es ta'o this port from and do- mestio ports, during the yrar 1863, shows » ot we compared with 1862 cf 171.064 hides. This det : however, happens in the latter part of the year, vie the months of November acd December there wae # tt off as compared with the same months in , ihre ides. equal to 385,696 sides There is, tnetefors, a palpable deficiency im the coming wy of meiner during the spring ‘and summer months The leather from the last spring stook of hides ip and scld, apd the marke: at present is every description. The favor the ides of a greater Fey eres pS ae sur! 6 present y‘ ve eee oly ime pected ~ the number of +: which we sball publish when rendered. Sufficient information hss already bees that under the present prosperous condition of helo my ecticipal: oa end coasum; Theshipmente of boots ani shoes te Ca'iforaia aed tralia have been epermous during Cemant for ruitable ¢ markets get glutted ev #0 only teinporarliy—pew arrivals of emigrants sorb the surplus. Indepradent of the of @ of leather upon prices thin ranted on the fact of the prices of farming produc. the farcer jel liberal: on the continent there has been a large increase ip the consumption of leather daring the year, attributable, in a great measure, to the Australian gold, and the warlike preparations of the Buro- a if = ti i peap nations. The following fable shows the importa of articlon oum= nected with the leather trade in England: 1862. 1863. Increases Hides, dry, ewt 144,094 = 201,198" 67,000 De, salted.. 381402 52926 147'84a. Leather, Ibs. . 2,128,881 7,020,637 4,806,766 Boot fronts, pairs, . 536.8 624, 88,224 Women’s shoes. 118,612 174,459 66,847 27,9 ‘1, 49,783 whose enaual the following allusions to the American “The advance of prices we had to sotice at the close of ie ROSE 00, connec as siees usiform progress dur- os he se ee just spies, until cet gonns when, having sequ'red, perbaps, in some too accelerated speed, they reenived & cheok, not oaly by the alteration in the velue of money which osourre just at that pericd, pet elo, and chiefly, by the news of » su- perabunc ance of goods having been abi) to Australis; and as there can be no coubt that the remote region bad bee vance of prices. it was to be of orders {rom that country reacy bad its effect om some of the articles more promin- nat requize) for that distant market, fo ant 1 widerstion wuioh jlnte toe is, the small sto ke gerei> lly Om femergency, would be found ianequats ol tothe demacd Io our Inet year’s annual circular, 7 al; Jude to the fuereasee prosuer'ty of the intustrial elassas=« the great consnwers of leat ber—as one of the causes of the advanoed pices. And we believe we may still ealeulate upon theirountinued prosperity, notwithstanding that im some localities great discontent has been manifested Deonuse wages did not rise in proportion to the imereased prices of food, These upforiuoa'e ebullitions will, how- ever, no doubt, soon be allayed by conces:ions om either side. The fact of the fe pede in these cases their masters exhibits its reqvirements from this department of trade. our country should be involved im war, and its duration be long, prices must inevicably rise ; but we cannot bat hope #0 great av evil may yet be averted, or be Sneme. terml- nated. Onr foreign export trade in leather, independently of that of the colonise, has not been se large as during the rececicg year partisularly in that to the United States. r higher prices, with etill high import duties at most. of the foreign por i whatever they require of any other nation, wi may find (t—on the chespest terms. ree trade was first approached by Sir Robert Peel, thore who were engi ia Lohse every class Ceprec its introdact their intere:te would be sacmoyes. Bat tle pe which this bramch of our maocufactures now o00u; even without that reciprocity which is so desirable for the world, has plced those who are engeged thereinaw menufecturers a» well as merchants and traders—in a far better porition than whea they were under protective duties, while the whole of the bape ng Keto} has ey Re tuoe m the continent {rom Ma anc the United States. » “FORMGN TanneD LeaTHER.—North American hemlock tanned bicer, commenor rising early in tue year, and in September 34. per )b ,’more than 60 ‘per cent t that period fa the previous year. This advanee rt timulua to the importation, aad considerable lies hare arrived, a Jarge proportion of which are in stook. Large quantities of bellies and shoulders, bot. hemlock tcc oak tanned, Bave alo been brought f: the United States. Australia teaned hides fo) wame routine, nowinally, im our price ew: bat there were only quantities left at the close of the previous yeat, apc cnly cne amall importeiion during the Jear, cf 305 hides aud butts, which brought our bi; qvoistions, an advencs sinoe September, 1852, of I ii if] per sent. Tasned sole leather end dieraing hides from France have also been importaut artisles of import. pRRIKD LRATHRR.— A very great augmentation and Ge- map: * Fousan t fronts, have increased tuated in prices bene manufactere; thoe hides frow Germany, o ave been imported, and which ont ir fluence in checking, in some de dency of ihe articles they have sabstituted.”” From the foregoing remorks. it is pretty apperent that Engisnd will be mre likely to import than export leather Curing the present year, auls-s it in im the shape of boots ard abces to Austrilia. An intelligent correspondent, connected with the leather trade in England, rematke that the tayners of thet are preprrirg tormbart ip the business of importiog Ame- rican leather, besirvirg that the United States ts ere long destined fo sv ppty that country with o large share of the kather required (or ite wapte, inasmuch as it is satisfactorily ascertsines by uaprejaciond minds judges cf leatier, that American tenned sole leather De mace at slower cost tham it can be made in and with some little mtiog to tne of the people, snd greater care im the mode of facta nity | articleof equal if not superior quality to Kogiivh | can be produced. To be sonvineed of the trath of this | statementit is but urcsasary to be imformed thet Kagland bas net only to import ihe bide br ‘ant me- teriwe to tan wit, to ‘cost, | Sud in order to here the | bart apd hive jones. she bas to resort to substtiutes rodace bat an ivferlor article Whstiarequi ed of the American tanner is to afm a¥ greater perfection in his F Em ne Peony re Fog! ah ere good eovaomiets, they prefer a price for s g00d article to paying a low fora poor ope, The iedifferent aod careless manaer in whish American sole leather has been Soished, although it was intrinstes}ly good in its qasitty, has beens draw. beck in recommending 1 to the favor of the Koglish people, The fullosing table will show the present state Of the market a# to prige::— Hemlock Sole Siam price, Light weights 14 and under, B. A, hides, p. 1b.268 37 Miadle ¢o 14 to 20 do do 2a 266 Over do Wacdover do do 2e a Good damaged, per ib, saves -2le 23 Poor do ( CPPerroe + eeelTa 16 The above quaiities from inferior hides, say 1 to 134 conta. Hemlock, upper in rough, per Ib. 6 Do call do do . 6 Do do finivhed =O .....4 70 Oak Sole Slaug! ter, per | Dey bid ’ OO! ive ff Herness leather, hemlock, scarce per Ib. oak. do do Do ¢o Fipished ealf, American oak tanned, do Do o French do Dasstavorive Fike at Evizaseratown, N. J— A fire broxe out last evening, between eight and nine o'clock, in the large two story iron foundry of Mr. B. W. Tucker, situated on Jefferson street, pletely consuming it and the stock, part of his books. apa ed caused by the ignition of some Jocks which hear some castin, The lose of building, books stock is estimated at from $3,000 to $3,500, ly insured. The large oil cloth factory of Mr. Je was at one time in imminent danger, but, the exertions of the firemen, was saved from struction —Newark Advertiser, Feb. 2. Exgcvrron or rue Frortrve Stave Law.—One of the deputy marshals of New York arrived here terday in s sehooner with the runaway slave ‘ Joseph Moore, of P¢ It negro had been concealed on and took the slave in boeiye | for this port, they took passage and arrived terday, and the slave to his owners.—Vor- folk Beacon, Jam. 31, Mannsaoe ow 4 Rariroav.—A few moments sftor the train from Boston were agreeahl, surprised of ee Tkrnold a he razee. Whig, wes performed by the Rev. Mi Shaw, the passengers presented a the SS anata aso bak rete ‘ouple the vext ttstion, end returned in the next wa with many wishes for 8 bappy termination of taeig journey.