The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1855, Page 2

138 THE MONETARY EXCITEMENT AT 87. LOUIS, Page & Bacon’s Circular—Ran on the Bank nh eee Onie and Mississipp! Rallroad— Tie Solvency of St. Louis Bankers—Stand- ing of Page ‘& Bacon, de. IROULAR OF PAGE & BACON. beeo . afcidetsanaeeteeeeatamens mes our painful duty to tran: yeu Pe ds issued in our 8t. Louis papers this morning. At the nt writing, we can add nothing ~- on mat- ters m which you have a personal interest, for which you may resonably have some solicitude. "We beg leave to ttate that we have madearrangemeats to place all enclosures for cdlection from toreign corre- spendents, both those now in our hands and all received em and this date, at the Bank of the State of Mis- TL for the credit of oF remittance to the proper per . All collections and moneys received on sod after this date, from home and country correspondents hay- aug current accounts with us, will be placed ia the hands of our esteemed and res: ible fetlow-citix: ® Robert M. Henning, Esq., who will directly advise of ani a) ble for the 5 soon as possible, our books will be written up, and every correspondent advised of the state of his account, Bo soon, too, as we can cast about us and ascertaia our precise situation, we shall make s full statement of our ‘affairs; mesowhile, we ask the indulgence of our friends fer the amouct of time requisite for this, with a house ‘whose operations are as extended as ours, assuring them that the decpest and sincerest we have at unfortunate juncture, is one of leas solicitude for eurselves, than of regret fur the temporary inconve- nience and misrortune of such as br 8 with as. & BAOON, NOTICE. All outstanding drafts drawn on Page & Bacon by J. red on pre- Bunn, of Springfield, Ul,, will be duly ion at the office of Heuning & Woodrull. Lov, January 15, 1855, [From the St. Louis Republican, Jan 15.] THE MONETARY APPAIRS OF ST. LOUIS. ‘The announcement contained ia our yesterday’s issue, ‘of the suspension of the banking house of Page & Bacon, qested a wide-xpread sensation in our community, which was not diminished, but rather increased, by the fact that Messrs. Loker, Renick & Co., bankers, ‘did aot epen their doors. Ordinary business was left unattend- ed to, and the public mind seemed absorbed at first in the public calamity of the stoppage of Page & Bacon, and afterwards im the run which commenced on the etuer banking bouses of the oity. Scop after 9 o'clock A. M. it was manifest that a run had eomuenced upon Lucas & Simonds, L. A. Benoist & Co., and the Boatmen’s Savings Institution, and it was continued uninterruptedly, but without any manifesta tion of unpleasant fecling, until 4 0’clock—tne usual Dour of clormg on Saturdays—when those three estab- Wehments closed their doors for the day, having prompt- Jy met every call of their depositors, Other banking ouses were subjected tosumewhat more than ordinary galls, and ali sustained themselves without faltering Many persons presented the notes of the Bank of, the Btate of Missou tits counter, and received specie for them; but, thauss to the fact that. in the must troa- Blew times we bave ever bad, that institution has never failed in o single instance to meet, in gold nad sHiver, all demands upon it and to the further fact, well kao vo to exist, that it bas ample means at hand for aay ewor- wey, nothing like arun upon it was attempiol, nor oe we the least idea there will be. It ¥as evident throughout the day that the panic was nes, to any considerable extent, among the substantial merebants of our c home of them. doubtless, drew ‘thelr deposits. but more to meet the liabilities of the day than from any yy with regard to the safety of their moaty. Noobserver in the different houses could have failed’ to see, as we are advised the fact was, that it was ‘the small depositors that composed the bulk of the @rowds. Indeed, we know of many of our citizens, hav- fing thousands on deposi: where ovhecs had tens, wo did net craw a check, or make apy move indicative of unea- sineas of feeling; but on the contrary expressed openly their regrt they had not the means to increase their de- ag It mas & murked jesture in the street converaa- ws that no expressions of unbind feeling towaris the Bankers were beard; showing a deep-seated couviotion im the minds of depositors that their money was in the handsof men of the highest integrity, who, whatever ht be the resnit of the day’s pressure, were above all icion of any unworthy desire, purpose or act, We look buck upen the proceedings of the day with a feeling of uomingled regret that, without, a8 we conceiva, any suflicient reason, such an excite: ment, leacing tv such a run upon our bankers, suoald Dave sprung vp. The suspension of two of our back fog Louser, with whom the others had no connection whatever, cousti{uted no ground for a rup upon the lat- r. While the day lasted, 1t was, however, man.festly ef no ava) to attempt te produce any ex ended counter tmpression on the pable mind. Unfortunately, peca piary excitements seem to deprive many mea of the @apacily as well as disposition to look calmly at, or to earon dsparsionately upon, the circamstances of the Dour. But the day, with all its anxieties ani events, bae clored, and a day of rest intervenes, whizh we hope Fill lead ‘to something hke serenity and reflection very hour that this excitement continues is a detriment te all the interests of our city; every maa who coa tributes to keep it alive assumes ® weight of responsi- Dility from which he might well shrink. Every citizen ‘who labors to calm the public miod down to a sober and rvssoning basis, deserves the thaaks of the wiole com- munity. We uvbesitatingly declare our conviction that this panie bas not provecded from any impression oa the Pablic mind that Lucas &Siwones, Benoist & Co., or Koutmen’s Institution, were, in thomselves, unable @ meet all legitimate demands upon them in the rega- Jer course of business. Not one man who withdrew Isis Ceporits frem them, if he could have answered eeoly, would have affirmed that bis ast was the ra salt of anything but the suapeosion of the otner houses Every depositor with Lucas & Simonds knew, os the ‘hele community does, that the senior member of that Deuse is this day worth, upon a moderate estimate, two ands bal’ miliious of dollars, to say nothing of the pro- peity of the other members, and the assets of tae firsn, It is equally weil kuown that Benotat & Co. are men of Jame wealth, *ho have conducted their business with erest prodence; and that the Boatmen’s Insticution is mavaged by some of the most careful aad upright busi- met» men in our city, and that its loans are in every ia- stence on short paper, secured by three names Yet, with these facts well Known, and without any single iu- @eation of inadility or inlisposition im these houses to meet all the demands of their bu-iness, the apprelen- sion caured by the disaste.# of otters, led to the results ‘we bave mentioned. We are thankful that, so far, no injury has resulted fiwem those untoward movements, and if depositors will make apy attempt at sober conmderation of what has paseod. and of what their duty ix undec tue cirenmstaa- Sh we feel an undouvting certainty that confidence will be iromediately restored and matters assume their Fented course. OW10 AND MISSISSIPPT RATLROAD. We poticr some anxiety in the community relative to : ‘the proweat teudition of this road. Tose fa expressed ‘tus, \we suspension of Page & Bacon, the financial agents ‘ef the company, will stop wort upon the road, and ¢e- Day its completion to Vineennes. We do not, however, end any such rosult, It is to be remembered thal Suite is no finapelal conection bitween the Illinois ui- vision and the enstern division of this great work. The former stands aloce; ita stock bas never been consol dated with that of the eastern end, aod ia by a large per ‘eentage more valuable, the cont of con truction per mile Doing immensely less than in Indiana and vbio, We Yaave Do official information of the amount of money re- quired to complete the road to Vincennes, but expect hear of aapeedy meeting of the Board of Directors, ‘anda report from the Chief Enginecr. We understand, hevwever, from reliable authority, that ‘will fally prepare tbe road bed for the laying of ths track, a tbat the monthly receipys of the road, now 000 to $15,000, w from $. ll, after dedusting cost of ‘operation, leave sufficient funds in the hands of the com- to pay for laying the track. Sufticient iron is on § orf here and at Vincennes to complete the road. ‘Assuming the above to be tras—and we have no doubt the report of the Chief Engineer will corroborate ever staterent—the question at once arises: shail the road, ‘andor any state of the money market, be allowed to stop for aduy? One hundred thousand dollars gives us a di- sect communication with the Eastera cities, shorter, with the temporary diverging right angle to Terre ,) by neventy-five or eighty miles, than the preseat ‘about jouruey by Chicago. One hundred thousaad dollars gives us a good paying roa, takiag, from the day ‘ef ite completion, more than half the travel of the Chi ange ond Mississippi Railroad, probably two-thirdsef all that Eastern travel which ia now compolled to pass Chiengo on ite this alt: The ute, interest, must be protected. TI complstion of the make: the seven hundred and fifty thousand @ollars of stock owned and paid for by the city and coan- lily rank with the , good payitg xtook, which wl sp % tocke in the morket. Lett still, and tt is comperatively worthl city of St Lovis, many of our movt heavily interested in tne securities of regret the temporary embarrassmen’ eon, whore enterprising spirit ead advancement of ft. Louls have led them to gavance largely upon the bondd and stock of this road, Probably nothing can be of more immediate benoit to ‘Bis house than the protection and mu taining of these securities by the prompt ani energetic action of the of Directors, failed by the countenance and action of Bt Louis, All stockholders are greatly securing the completion and uperation of 4 it is our wpocial tuty as public journal sts, rotaction of the large aubseription of our reat and favorite work. Let ov exertion or red, For the prevent the Ohio and Miasis- Company must act independent of their mts, Their duty to the stockbolters in this ‘eer a» sunlight. If they have no mney on det them give their paper, let them ¢ income Jet them sell boods if necessary, at a discount; , let them raise $100,000, and finieh the roa. than this sum will be Jost by allowing the work to How long will it take to waste that sum of money ‘the decay of trestle work, rotting of ties on the ground, washing of banks, filling in of cuts, &e., &o.? We are not asuming to teach any one a line of duty. We know the directors are able, far-seeing and sagacious men. We also kuow the public apirit of the cltizens of ‘St. Leonia. We know the pride and the interest they have in this noble work, hut now is the time for prompt and ready action. Let the word go out from the com- pany, and if necessary, helping bands will be found to garry on the work. PAGE & BACON. A glance at the eoterprising and liberal spirit which has marked the distinguishe gentiemen who campose this he power to fill the vanite ‘ban! At present necessa- to relieve them from a temporary depression, canuot Bat & moat favorable effe ton the poblic mind the interest they have ani(ormly taken in Louis, and the “material aid” they her pudtic as well as private Such men deserve the 8 confidence I rY f i | i A Hi si LY rT 2 citirens, t doubt bat that sach a Banca wil be tenia. Interwoven: ‘ the ‘Inert & Bacon are, with the prosperity o an pe aa that Vrocpentty has been by their liberal sub- Jeny than 6100,000 | well-earned je justifies a belief in their w of the boua conf commevsurate with that character, should, by every rule of justice, be e: ded. yi Among the indi nently to aid in the construction , when that magnifieent enterprise was presented to the pabtie was one of the gentlemen of whom we are speak: . Hie liberal sum of thirty- satisfy the ambition of many a man, and entitle the subscriber to an enviable reputation, The firm, however, bas subse- quently, from time to time, made advances for the pro- secution of the work, to the amount of one or two haa- dred thousand dollars. The Ohio ani Mississippi Rail- road, which ia to connect tr Louis with Cincinnati, and tbrow into the lap of our commerce the agrieu!tui ducts of a rich portion of Ilnois and the Wabash leo, owes its constructioa mainly to the same energetic and public spirited gentlemen. The road ix now nearly completed, and during the ap- Jreealice: summer we may hope to witness it im success- ‘ul operation. The Bellsville and St. Louis Railroad is avother evidence of the same liberatity, and although of lesser magnitoée, yet itis proving daily of graat im- portanee toour trade And, then, they have assinted most materially in pushing forward the important work destined to reach the limit of the northern portion of our State—the North Missouri Railroad—by which a valuable portion of our territory will be brought into close proximity with St. Louis. In advancing to the city and county of 5%. J ouis large amounts of money te meet their bonds, the frm of Page & Bacon staud in the relation of public benefactors. Independent of all these public evidences of liberality by the above named firm, Mr. Bacon has sbowa his assisted to embel- ees and to his eiforu, in part, isumeot of a commer- cial library, which promises to be of the greatest useful. peas, Wo repeat, theroiore, that such men are eutitled to our highest regard and esteom, and that they deserve, when a parsing cloud throws a temporary shadow on their path of honor and progress, that we should walt with confidence brighter hour From the St. Louis latelligencer, Jan. 16.] We look for an early resumption by this house. The energy apd exbaustless resources of Henry D. Bacon will not brook bara as they are. He was, we have reason to suppose, fairly taken by surprise, by the events of last week, We hope to hear, and we expect to hear, though wo dave not a word from any onw aathoritud to speaks for him, that Mr. Bacon will shortly open a baakiag house at New York, and that the threo houses at San Fraacis- co, New York and St Louis, will continue to sondact, but within their own oontiol, the immensely large and profitatde business in gold shipments, which taey have neeured in California. Te suppowe by many that, if they hol had this ar. rangement all along, and tueir business certainly justi- fied it, the recent ill’ fate would not have befalien thea. PUBLIC CONFIDENCE. If capital can restore fully the pabdhe coafldence m re- lation to monetary affairs at this tune, we presume the following eard, subscribed by many Of our wealthiest citizens, muxt have that elect ‘The gentlemen who pledge themselves and guarantee their property to make good the deposits in the baaking houses mained, repre sept at jeart eight willons of dollars, This +3 certainly suficient for the most panic-stricken lepositor, Besidis the money basia which this subscription presenta, it ex- hibits » moral power worthy of the highest comsidera- tion, Men, impelled by an honorable mativa to protect the character and standing of our city, both aa regards ber commercial credit and the quiet of ‘ths comman.ty, have volunteered their private fortunes tor the purpose, and no one can require stronger evidence of the entire sufety of his funds:— TO THE PUBLIC The undersigned, knowing and relying on the ample ability of the following bank'ng houses, in the city of St, Louis, and witha view of quietung’ the public mind in’ regard to the safety of deposits made with :heva, bere by pledge themselves, and over as a guarantes tueie property, to maue good ali deposita with either of said bankiog ‘houses, to wit:—scssra Lucas & Simonds, Bogy, Milteaberyer & Go., Teason & Davjen, Le A, Bo- noist’& Oo, John J. Anderson & Co., Darvy & Barksdale, and Boatmen’s Savings Institution. J. O'Fallen, D. A January, Ed Walsh, Joha How, Loais A. Labsaume, James iMarrison, J. B. Brot, Austrew Christy, 1. M Kennett, Cuarles P, Choutian, PANIO ON CHANGE. SATURDAY KVENING, Jan. 13 ‘Transactions to-day, on *Changs, were extremely ti- mited, emounting, indeed, to buts few lots of grain, and ‘these principally to teeders, Our entire population was in an excitement of an unusual character, growng out Such anotuer scene bas never witnessed in St. Louis. & Brother, sou tsined relative to the ability of a few houses here aod elsewhere, to maintain their it; and when this morning we announced the failure of Page & Bacon, panic peized the citizens, to a greater of ieas exvent,aad & yun upon our bankers was tie consequence. A large amount of deposits was withura yu daring the day; bat up to the hour of closing business (4 o’elock), the af ferent houses had taintained their staading tu the puo- licratistaction. Several of the bankers kept open doors until dark, exhibiting thereby their willingness as wall ax capacity to meet promptly every Kiabity We sap- pose, from the manner in woich depositors have boen ensured of the safety of their funds, that all excite- ment ceased at the close of the day, and that we may not anticipate a continuance of the rupoa Monday. ‘There is certamly no jusy ground ‘or a want of eonii- dence at present, Messrs. Page & Bacon state toeir entirely ample for the liqui pet them, and all must be aware that Lucas , ax well as other houses, are fully prevared, even it a short time be required for the purpo: to re- deem, to the utmo-t farthing, ther indebteine whole difficulty 1s mere matter of time. The Boat- men’s Saving Institution have ther money oat on short loans, and a few days ar-only requisite to oullect these od seplenish the vaults of taat instilation with cash to the full extent of its liabilities. Tpere is 90 in tention to swinvle @ single depositor, and we are coati- dent that wita the exercise ot proper coutiience and coul reflection, the amalienst loss will not be sustained, OARD OF LOKER, RENICK & co. A Canp.—The undersigued, while they devply regret the difficulties altuded to 10 tueir notigg esterday hanten to assure thelr depositorg aud Zyt3siath last F dare melon” pay all their liaviites, and that at an early day they will resume payment in part, if notin whowe. Thoso having notes or dralta left here for collection, will please call and get thom. St. Louis, Jan, 13, 1855. LOKER, RENICK & CO. {Correspondence of the St. Louis Republican. ) THE SCENES OF SATURDAY. How useless, and 0 the panics sometimes got up in communities! People seem bereft of their ordinary quiet senses, and rush in @ state of alarm to acts whien, unter other cir- cumstances, they would never commit. A. B, has suspended, therefore ail seem to conclude no body can pay, and they all rush to maxe their ayprehen- sions good, not recollecting that the means of every man, in order to be wade usefal, must be actively employed aud if so employed cannot in a moment be made availa- ble without notice, ‘There has been son day—let us calmly © candid inquirer will agree with me t necessary excitement. No one of the houses on which any ran bas been mide has been unable to meet all the calls made; they ha all stood the cusb, and I think all can stand a great deal more than oan possibly oe presented against them. But let us contemplate the matier. ‘The Boatmou’s Savings Institution is a place of de- portte for gain—that is, persons place their moasy there that it may be sate, and at the same time may earn eozething. Now everybody knows that money mast be loaned, that it may make interest; aud hence ths institution has discountec paper, which is abuatantly secured, avd will be paid at maturity; but can deposi- tora suppose the officers can have the money oa haad, anc yet have it loaned out, making money tor them? O+ course they must see the impossivulity of this thing, And yet they go to craw their monty Woy, this moaey could oot be safer anywhere—there are no bad debts made, the notes are sll good, they can ail be called in within ninety days, and ail depositors can be paid. But waat can these persons do with the money they have drawa today? It may be said itis tafe in their own hanas. Possibly it may be; bat it ment in our city to- nd i think every it wa» a most would have been quite as safe wuere it was this mora. ing, and where most of it dountioss will again be placed on Monday morning—the Bostmen's Savings Lostit 12:00. Now look into toe banking house of Lucas & Smonds: how strange it is that there-should b> a ran un them, as there was today; could any one for oay moment sup- pore that they were oot « safe depository ?—abundantly good for all they owe to their depositors? No oac, #bo will reflect, ean for a moment tuppose they are other. wise than recured for any amount the house may ove. But they had no reason to expect last night that to day they would be caled on to pay ali moneys deposited with toem, why should they expect Toere was no reason. They bad cash on ban! suificient to moees all legitimate Cemand—more they need aut bave had = But without notice, or reason to expect, they are calls} on | by some to pay, anc fore, others are alarmed, and | they come also, All who oome ore pei, but many otbers come, with confidence aotmpai ths solysuey and ability, and integrity of the bouse, thoy deposit | Inrgely. probably, even this day, the deposits | largely exceed th» payments. And why should it not ve sot Contemplate the immense wealth of this howse— look at the head of it—worth millions, unen: All the members of the house with imaeuse mea! should confidence be impaired’ They do mute business—are not ergaged in spec thing could be safer than depesits with them, and when the people bave a moment to retlect, they will see the folly of becoming wild. Bo also with Lewis A. Bonoist. He is also immensely wealthy, nor does he engage in any hazardous specula- tions. He is about the oldest broxer here, agd will go through this little trial anscatehed. His means are am- ple—noboay need fear. Bat he had no reason either to expect this, and it does seem unfair to attempt thens at tacks, which must derange all our operativas, and for whieh there i# no.neceasity. One thing is certain—if our bankers are impaired all our operations are injared. Now let us all, as citizens of St. Louis, determing to use very effort to allay this excitement, because if it cy Sree tb ccie es Sete to ra of one house this morsiog, on & telegraphic teh from New York last night, produce s run on other per- festly solvent? & Bacon are very rich. I think the head of that dollars, and the house ta worth st least three millions of NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1855. on Monday next let us show ives and our bankers, and all will Lossof the Clipper Ship Tingqua, from China. ‘The clipper ship Tingqua, Capt. Whitmore, bound to this city from Shanghae, Sept. 15, has been totally lost with a very valuable cargo, She straskem the outer shoal off Cape Hatteras, on the night of the 12th inst., in thick weather, and was abandoned by tha captain aud crew twenty-four hours afterwards. When they left she was full of water, ber stern was knocked off, and part of her bottom oat. The vessel was owned by Oly- phant & Son, of this city, and was valued at $10,000, which is fully covered by insurance. She was 668 tons register, and was built by Mr. George Raynes, at Ports- mouth, N. H.,in 1862 Her cargo was valued at up- wards of $300,000, also insured, principally in Wall Mreet. Capt. Whitmore apd part of the crew arrived here on the night of ihe 17th, in the schooner R. L. Meyers, from Washington, N. C.; the remainder of the crew are on board the scbooner CE, Stratton, bound to Philadelphia, They were taken from the wrecked ship by the schooner’s boats, which bore down to her as soon as her signals of distress were discoverad, The following account of the disaster wan furaished by Capt. Whitmore:— I sailed trom Sbanghae Sept. 15; parsed Anjier Oct. 27; continued on the yoyage, making aod reiiuving sail as the occasion required, but witbout any remarkable oc currence tranepiring.’ On the lth inst., at nooa, had an observation, which showed our ponition to be lat, 32 40, lon. 16 W., which would bring the ship 160 miles south and 40 miles east of Hatteras Shoal. For nix days prior to i ie had strong northeast winds, which pre: vented us from getting as much of an ofieg as was dy- sired, and were driven as above. On that day, wind light, from the southward, and our course up to the time of observation was NNW. At noun, kept her north, aad continued this course until 6 P. M,, the wind gradually shifting srount to westward, wth ram ani thickwea- ther, accompanied by thunder and lightoing. There be- ing every npyerrance of a northwest gale at the time, lowered the thermometer every half hour, in anticipa- tion of striking tLe Gulf Stream, but noticed no varia- tion until 6 P. M., wher the thermometer suddenly showed a difference of five degrees—having heen 65 pro- vious, and then exhibiting 70 degrees—ny which we huew we were in the Gulf Stream. At 9 P. M. tar wind blew stropg from the northwest, and, although elovw- hauled, we could not keep closer thaa NNK., aad #9 con tinued until 4 A.M when the wind canted more to the westward, and allowed the ship tocome u course we bept until 10A. M, after w wind carted sumewbat more, ani we alterel tho courre to north. ‘This course, allowing for a tvo and a half knot current in the Gulf Stream, ruoniog northeast, would have carried us by our calculation at least fifty miler to the eastward of the meridian of Hatteras, with the current still setting off, At 10 A.M, & dense fog came on, rendering it impossible to see tho length of the snip. At 11:80 the foz lghted up for a moment, and the look out mada sail, whieh was re- ohn jo be a square rigged vessel, to windward, aad wading the same course, by the optoion entertained as to the position of the ship. At 12:30 P.M, ning or any breakers being heard 1 suddenly struck the hoitom an ° , unshipping the rudder and evidently in- juring ber seriwusly. Put her sails all aback aud soand- ed the found three feet water in tho hold, ant the false keel floating alongside in several pivess. Ship continued to rtrike very heavily. Got an anchor ready for running out, and commenced fring guns to attract the attention of any vessel passing in tbe n»ighberbood. At % o’elock the ‘fog again litted, whea we found the versel before acen to be a schooner, pow lying about a mile to the eastward of us. As avon as she made our signal of distrens she endeavored to work upto us. Sent a boat on board of her, and found her to be tne C. 0. Stratton, of Philadelphia, ibe wate of which came on board, aud advined us t leave the ship ot oneo, ay eho was ina very dangerous position, and the wind and sea, rising rapidty. At So'ciock the ship had six feet water in her hold, and at 6 o'clock the same water inside as outsiie of ber, £ent one boat’s crew off, with part of the me.’s luggage, to the schooner, with the intention for them to return for the balavee of the crew, At 6o’clock bho boat nob returning sent the second boat off with all the crew ex- cept two m the captain, mate, and steward remain: ing. The vennel was pow evidently breaking up, as pieces ot ber bottom heyt com ng ap alongride. und the cabin was follof water From this time o'clock contioued firing guns and bailing vi to ur,) ond in shifting in orcer to keep then At this time rr B. L. Meyers, Captain Weeks, rounded to noar us, wnen the master and balance of the erew left tue saip and went on board of ber, Lay by sue stip uot 1A. M. when we lost right of her, aupposed in coasequence of her falling over. At4 A.M. the wind and sea increased, ko that the schooner was compelled to ran arvund to leeward of the shoal, where she lay until daylight, o% wrich time saw the shrp about twenty miles to eastward of the hght, lyiag on ber broaiside, entirely under water from her mansipging att; apparently settling fast, the sea breaking clear over ber. Vindiag it impossible to save anythiog, and wind and sen increasing, bore away Jer New York, where we arrived Jan. 18. at 3A, M. Captain Weeks, of the scboozer B. L, Meyers, frem Washington, N.C., Jan. 11, who reseued Capt Whit- more and part of his crew, gives the following reporti— After lying wind bound, vith eastearly wind and a Tough sea, for eleven day: d to sea—wind from wertward and thick; at 4 ry thick; at 6 P.M. fog cleared away. Kan east, to pass oute.de Hatteras shoal, At11 P M. jibed ship to han) to northward, in i2 fathoms water— Cape Hatteras light bearing NW. by N Madea light on port bow, supposed to be a steamship for Cherleston, wheu a signal gun being fired from the ship, lufled as near as prudent, and witn- in hailing distance. Ship on the shonis sud filliog fast, their Soats gone; tacked @ to, aod saw a boat fom the ship; lay close to the ship and was soon boarded by the mate, who reported ber to be tue Tingqua from Shanghae for New York, nearly full of water, ove beat ofl, and Captain and on er two men op board still; wixhed to lay by them until morning, to rave the other boat’s crew, suould they voard the ship again, ond property, if possibie, Advised the mate to Toturn Aya Upiog gil the others, as I dit cot thine the ship would hold together loog, wa she lay in an exposed without rituation, acd the win ani ae& were lower very fost; the deat returned and — brough' of the Captain and otbers, who goton board with éiill- culty. The Captain persuaded me to lay by uatil morn- ing but lost night of the abip soon after. “Supposed her mats to have fallen; but atill lay by, in the hose of picking up the otuer boat before day light. acd fea rising, #0 we ran under the lea of the eboals. After slight diecovered the ebip some fifteen milos from the pe. Ran to her, and found the stern poss gone, Im- posible to save anything. The following comprised the Tinzqua’s cargo:— Fifty dales wool Yogg & Co.; 22 do, silk Duncan, Sher- man & Co, 15 phgs tea Cheney & Brothers; 377 to or der; $04 do. Brown, Brothers &Co.; 645 do 22 pkgs sill to order; 114 pkgs silk to order: 3640 W. Wilson Sons; 208 pags tea to order; 1490 do, Wetmora & Cry- cer; 110 do. do ; 26 Wm, Wilson & Sona; 304 to order; 2,216 do. Goodhue & Co.; 1,403 lo K. D) Van Wagenen; 801 to order; 687 do. mise to order; 17 ailk piece gools, 14 do. mdse, 2,706 pegs tea, and 131 to order. Court of General Sessions, Before Hon Recorder Snuth, Jaxvany 18,—Charge of Robbery —Lhomas Wells, Jobn Gillon, John Manyan, and Mary Ann Forsyth, were jointly indicted for rebbing Francis Osborne of $4 in motey, while in a bouse of illfame"in Little Water atreet,on the night of the Ist of January The only evie sins the prisouers was thet given the comp! t himself, who confessed that ne was drawk at the time, He was moreover @ mun of bal character, being in prison under four indictments for passing ewan: terfert . The jury therefore woult not credit bis story without corroboration, wh.ch was sot produced, Verdict, not guilty. Obvaining Money Under False Pretences —Adam Na- than was indicted for obtaining money frum Jubo Kanten, 4 German emigra: representations, ‘The story told by complainant was, that oa tre 2d of Heptember be left Aotwerp, previous to which he obtaned a ticdet from Risebmuller and Lovecher, acknowle!ging the re ceipt of half his passage money, anit direct og the nalance to be paid in New York B+fore landing lera, the de- fendant, representing himself an Georich Rivchmaller, took complainant's tlexet, and obtained from hun $3, giving ano her ticket fm retarn, which purported to take the bearer from New York to Chicago, but was found te be good ooty as faras Bullelo Mtr. Phi defendant, move toquand the indictment. o: that the complaizact’s namo w: stead of Xanten, and the jury Mpe- cial verdiet in con-equence of this variau.¢ between indistment and the pro Larceny —Wevlel Krockle, a German, was indicted for stealing a wateb and chain f watke in the e Bertha Liebas; city of & baker he went into hor room street) ov the Zith of Uctovor, to heave tefendant roved to have been in the s room, by these who testitied that be im there with a watch in his band; oot this was the mam evidence against him tending to extaniisa bis ewlt. Namerous witnesses wore exarainos tn prove the prisoner's previous gooa charactor. Verdict, not gailty. Hogs Packed, and ‘Brtoes, on the Upper Mis The following is a atatement of hogs packe nt all the prinetpal points in lows up to January §, 185 At Mureatine, 8,200 hogn, at Ke. a dMo, Davenport, 3,290, at 32. a de. x Burhngton, 10,500, at aXe 6 2% Oquawka, 3,100, at 2%c. a 3Ko. New Boston, 900, at So. a 8%o. Towa City, 1,400, at 240. a Bike. Wapello, 1,100, at 8c. a 3x0. Keokuk, 14,006, at de. a UMe. lock, of FB Causcy, of INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR POLLOCK, OF 3 PENNSYLVANIA, TUESDAY, aan. 16, 1866. pe ubliean lostitutions are the pride, and justly the Fans py = 4 To ony tem br plo, maintain them our duty. and religious liberty— freedom of a} of the press, the rights of con- science and freedom of worship—are the ht and ‘the boast of the American eit'zen, No rosele it, mo ‘pont In the enjoyment of these blessin; bigh and the low, mee fall seoy io it, them all, When leees rights are assailed, these privi- leges enda: |, either by mad ambition, or by in fluences foreign to the true interests of nation, and at war with love of eountry—that noble impulse of the American heart, which prompts it to revere home and ative land as sacrec objects of its allections—it is then the ballot box in its ompipotence, speaking in thunder tones the will ef the people, rebukes wrong, and vin- » the freedom of the man—the independence of the citizen, To the American people have these blessings been committed as a wacred trust; ever be, their guardians and defenders. citizen, incependent and free, uninfluencad by partizan atiashwents, unswed by ecclesiastical authority or gvosily intolerauce—in the «trength of iearless mai and in the bold assertion #! his rights—should exhibit to the workd a ive illustrat on of the superior benefite of Awerican republicani+m; proclaiming a trae and single allegiance to his country, apd to no other power but “the God that makes and preverves us as a ne! ee ‘Virtue, intelligence aad trath foundation of our repiblic, By these our institutions and 5 can aud will be preserved. Ignorance is not the mother of patrictism, or of republics. It is the enemy and de- wtroyer of both. Education, in its enlig! }, eleva- ting and reforming influences, in the full power of its beneficent results, slould be encouraged by the State. Not that mere intellectual catture that leaves the mind @ moral waste, unfit to understand the duties of the mao or citizen, out that hither education, founded upon, directed, and controlled by sound and elovated moral principle—that resognizes the Bible as the foundation of true hmowledge, us the text book alike of the child and ibe American siatedman, andas the great charter and bulwark of civil and religious freedom The knowledge thus acquired is the proper conservative of States and naiwns; more potent an its cnergy to uphold the inati- tutions of f ym and the rights of man, than armies and navies in their proudest strength, ‘The framers of our constitution under .tood this, and wisely provided for the establishment of sshools and “the promotion of the arts and sciences, in ove or more aomiinaries of leurcing,” that the advantages of educa- tion might b 9 by all. ‘To improve the ellcency of this syatem, not only by perfecting our common schools, but by encouraging aad aiding “one or more”? bigher literary institutions, im which teachers can be trained and qualified; and to ia- crease the fund appropriated to educational purposes, arvcbjects which will at all times recoive my willing approval. Money liberally, yet wisely, expended in the ursuit and promotion of knowledge, is true economy. Ae integrity of this system aad ite furd must be pre- served, No divisioo of this fund for political or secta- riaD purpo es should ever be made or attempted. To d.- vise tx te destroy, Party amd sectarian jeatousies would be engendered; the unity and harmony of the nystem destroyed, aud its novle objects frustrated aad cefeated, Bigotry might rejvize, patriotism would weep over such a result, * * . * * Pennsylvania, occupying as she does an important and proud position in the sisterhood of Btates, caanot be ia- different to she policy and acts of the natiooal govera- went. ler voice, petential jor good in other days, vught not to be disregarded now, Devoted to the constitution and the Unior—ay she was the first to sanction, she will be the lust to encanger the ove or violate the other. Kegarcing with jealous eare the rights of her sister ttates, she will be ever realy to ¢efend herown, The blood of her 8 poured out onthe many battle flekle of tho revolution, attests ber devotion to tae great principles of Artrican freedom—tbe cen‘re trutn of Awerican repoblicaniom, To the constitution in all ite integrity; to tl ‘nion in ite strength and harmony; to the mainiepanee in its purity, of the faith aud honor of our country. Pennsylvania now ia, and always has beer, plecge’—o pluige never violated, and not to be violnier, until patriotirm ceases to be a virtue, and Nb- erty tu be known only a4 & name Fstertaming thee tentiments, and sctnated by an exclurive derive to promote the peace, harmony and wel- fare of our belved coun ry, the reeent action of tae ational Congress and Executive, in repeating a solemo compromise, only loss sacred in public estimation thea the constitution tisef—thua attempting 10 extond the institution of demestic slavery in the territorial doman of the nation, violating the phghted faith the country, arousing rectional j ing the agitation of vexed and distracting ques Daw recvived from the people of our owa and other States of the Untos, their stera aud merited re- bube, With no desire to restrain the full and entire consti- tutnal rights of the States, vor to interferes direc:ly or indircet)y with the r domestic mstitauons, the people of Verney lvania, im view of the repeat of the Missouri oom premise, the principle involved im it, aod the conse en resulting trom it, as marked already by fraud, , have re-afirmed their opposition to » of slavery into territory now free, and re- pledge “to the doctrives of the act of 1780 whieh resieved an by constitutional means fom a griev ons poeta! evil, to the great ordinances of 1737, in its fali fcope and all its beneficent principios; to the protection of the personal nghts of every human’ being uader th constitution of Pennsylvania, and the constitation o , the Luited Sates, by maintaining invio'ate the trial by jury, and the writ of hadeas corpus; to the assertion of the Gue rights of the North as well as of the South, and tu the integitty of the Union ’” ‘The declorstion of these doctrines ia bat the recogrt- tion of the fundamental praciples of freelom and human Tights. They aie neither new nor atartling They were taught by patriotic fa'hers at the watcbfires of our country’s defenders, axd learned amid the bloody snows mighty throes of war and revo- ped with indelible lavoress upom great charter of our rights, and embodied ia the Jeyisiation of the best and purest davs of the repubtis; tilled the ad teil barnng from the lips o! oratersand atate-men, whose memorivs are eamartal aa the i" nejpies they enerished. They have berm the watch word and the hepe of millions who have zone be- fore us—are the watchword and hope ef milions pow, .and will be of miltions yet unborn. In many questions of natonal and truly American pelicy, the due protection of American labor and indus- try agninet Lne depress ng influence of foreign iabor and eapital—the improvement of our rivers and harbors— the national detence»—tie equitatle datribution of the proceeds of the public lana among the States, in aid of education and to relieve from debt ani taxa*ios—a dicious Homestead vill—reform in the naturalizatoin laws, and the protection of our country against the immi- ration and importation of foreign paupers and convicts in all there, we as @ State and people, are deeply inte rested. aod to their acoption aad promotion every en- ecouragement shoulce be given, TRaVGURAL ADDRESS OF GOV. PRFER PF. CAUBRY, OF _DELAWARB, aT DOVER, aan. 16, 1855. | * * Aw the servant of a gallant and patriotic paople—as the Chief a: trate of a State, whose spirit and geotus, and not ber met and bounds have determined her peaition in the national estimato—it would not becoms me to comment upon the centlicta of faction, Not such ‘was the recent election in th te. But the history of the popular mind of » commonwealth ix the history of its life, ite honor aud its fortunes, and a great organic movement of that mind, such as we now witness—ong that uphfts, sweeps. and bears ooward with it the com- toa Ae ita interests, may not, upon such an occa- sion, be ignored. We have seen a ro assertion of the de- claration, and a re-enactment of the struggle for inde. pendence. Jt would be tnjustice to the people of Dela. are to be silent on the progress and triumph of that sentament which, hindled at the alvar-fires of the revo. lution, bas spread with miraculous speed from heart to heart; hoi ed our American people in the holy bro- therbood of patriotirm, and has secured the triumph— not mine— ¥ wab’s—not the victory of art or elo- quener, of parties or politicians—but of a froe people, im whore ts the Aim»rican — too long smothered the ashes of exhausted factions, has burst forth, wn parity nd power. This affords jus grounds for an exaltation, in which every American is pri- Vileged and may be proud to share, for in it no old party has Leen exalted; it vrings to no trae American ry oceation for regret or mortification, 0 memory of wrong, and no fear of injustice. As a broad and bri sertion of the principles of American hberty—the only true literty which tne world knows, or har hnown— agtinging reshly from the people, wad faithful to all the noble and time-abiting seotimeuts that render the voice of native masnes, when spantaecous and unper. verted, the voice of eteroal rignt—it must be recogmesd ae 4 (rumph in which every real American basan equal interest, and an equal claim When, ouder the i: fluence of a rentiment so lofty, the of @ State cootiie their highest offiee to the f one of themsetyos, in trast that it aball be ad- pare and exalted spirit, mis soli. relation to the exaltation of his riotic pride, and the fervor of his grautade, Such is the anxt ty with which I approach the duties that munt, for atime, be ming. Lie whose task it is to guard the untarn'shed hover of Delaware, bas 8 bigh and holy The stranger who consult chart of our nial Republic hardly discovers our State amid her leviathan sisters; but be who stadies the boetory of Awerivan valor, American devotion, aad Anerican etatesmanship, aver ber pictured a gisat on every page. Tbosxe who won the lwucels of our hberty in our revo utiovary Ftruggie who raw the declaration oar- ried by her vote, and knew no Geld trom Long Isiand to Camcen and Kutaw where Delaware id pot leave ber martyrs, and always nearest the foe—no crins io her counei.s where Lelaware cid not maintain the causo of the covntry—no exigency where Delaware was not amrng the foremost of the confederaey in defence of the Uniog—have done her ample ce, and their ebiluren, of whatever section of our common country, will rejoice that, in the present crisia, when the cause Ameriean inc ependence agaiart foreign dominaifon has agar invoked the patriot spirits of land, Delaware has beeu the foremost *ta‘e to revord her vote openly and boldly on the side of her country. Sister common. wealtha have followed and will follow with ble ardor, and, io after times, when the chiliren of our li:tle State sbafl exult over the many triumphs of her patriotiam, it Will et be forgetivn thet, Bee ing of the na- tion’s mibions for the public and fearless re-assertion of unshackled independence, Delsware—aa a State—led the yan; Delaware struck the rat blow—Delaware wou vietory. a ‘which bas deen #0 harshly forced from road, our ple, bos no fenture in commen with = past qolitice! soutroversien— mere domestic con- testa which have recognized @ and fraternal diference of those whe in a united Coretaa te ase Sones . The 7 ore to invaders ive foreign alle- gianee tos prince and if, aad standing be- | tween, the Wave dictated their own they are, and must , American . Upon our young and then unburthened country. 3 feel- ‘merican sy! bave sought to exclude the Bible from the American schools; and have freely denounced the most cherished ciples of Awerican religious liberty; and all this, it should be remembered, has a] rom those to whom al} that our fathers bave won, an tis dear to us, was freely offered; all this was foreign in ite origin, authors and acte—all this was unprovoked, wanton, long and patiently endured—endured tit foreign demagngue claimed our country as their own, and made re and our safety the counters with which they played th game of foreign politics. At length the reaction and the rescue came. Its his- tory is xalted evidence of the titness of the American eople, for the most trying exigencies of self government. ‘0 son of the soil can regard nd its proof of Ameri- can intelligence, patriotism and virtue, without pride and exultation. ‘It borrowe ald, it knew no leader, it cought no counsel Tne movement burst, like a bolt, from the overcharged cloud of Aroerican wrongs—sud- den, spontaneous and universal; it knew no parent but the old and ever t: Ameriean heart. It bad, and it orator, no oracle, no leader, no aid. ple, North and South, East and West, the cup of foreign arrogance and usurpation 1g, quietly stepped forth by myriads from their homes, and secorved the decree. It caa never be revoked. It can never be regretted. Horeafter it will be pointed to as the noblest evidence of American intel- Hgenee, patriotism and independence; and when so re- mewbered, Deiaware will not be forgotten as the fore- mort to imp commonwealth’s ‘That triumph, st ould it prove to be national, will im- pore many and maje-tic duties. The first will be to sur. round, as with @ wail of fire, which no pollution can in- vade, dat Holy of B oe eee and closely we, ceeding will rise the duty of r ing immigration ; closing theavenues which have communicated with the Lg aons and lasar-houses of Hurope; of defeating the un- generous policy by which foreign princes force us to receive the aafe Bs gp iciruion) which their Laos ae country vomits forth, constraining us to support their paupers, and to expose the property and lives of our people to the vugian skill and des of their ts ansported felons. Aw a tax and @ per:) the heaviest and werst, as a wanton wrong and outrage, it should be redrevsed in the first boure of realized national American victory. But the more pervading and vital triumphs of the second American revobution will be those which will establich, as the settled policy, foreign and domestic, of the nation, the saving principle of American Indepen- dence, a8 apphked, not only to the right of suffrage, but to the privileges, sacred and tmestimahle, of our booest bardhanded hume labor. Tne policy dy which our country bas been, in its trade, its currency, its veried industrial pursuits, agriculiural, mechanical, and otnervise, and m its soca: habits of expenciture and laxury, thrust into and wate a part of Europe, iva treason sgainst American honor and American inte! Itina repudiation of all the peculiar adventag Providence, in requital of the virtu ction. We sebemes of politicians and to glut gers, invited and drawa bave, to the g upon owr country on and st aa equal thare of the evils which attend, as théir parasite and clinging curses, the wasting crimes and vices of Europe, Our true independence, real happiness and secure policy are to be realized only by fosiering our own American bomer—tbeir industry, mutual relstions, aad matual self-reliance. im regard to every pol virtue ond oye, to ail of pride and confiience associated with that American liverty which—as the earthquake shakes and the tempent overshadows all else of the civilized world— grows brighter and Gearer to us, itis apparent that the time bas arrived whem owr evuniry must separate ber policy trom the imtrigues and machinatioas of Europe— from the ,stratgy avd baci on by which European councils and interests boastfully betrayei the iadepea- dence of American industry, and made our Isad tribu- tary, as it now unhappily ts, to Englaol und France; forced upon as, witb their luxuries, their vicws; and adi- ed to the usurpation, the heavy imposition of a mor strous and perpetual debt—a debt sbared by every American; a debt which drains our country of ita specie, aud which subjects it, throughout every fibre of its giant frame, to the agony of su Gnancial convulsion a# that which now afliicts w will be the patriovis throbbing of the great American heart, avd vain the vigor of the American aym to re-achieve Awerican Iodepenience, until our land shall have been made indepenaent fu taat form which alt ower bas its source—ber industry. ‘4 then, will sbe cease to be a European ill she be the America of our ut—rieh in her own resources—ai Ler own streryth, avd happy in her owa freedom The ¢rimes and oppressiona, the wrongs and war. of arope may terrify and torture their own world; put not a ripple of the storm will break upon our shores. Till that eon- summation shall have been effected, our duty willbe vnfuiiled, and oor triumph—however g}:ricus—incom- plete; the oracles of our American patriarchs and pro- phets will renin empty, aud the real mussion, holy, calm and beneficent, of our American destiny un- achieved, In the federal Union, the general acd State Fe vernments, revolving their appropriate orba, neither unite por clash—their mutual infinence in- duces @ mutual interest, and the individual States watch with anxiety the disc, darkened or lustrous as her councily determine, of the central orb. ‘the history of Delaware, in her relations with the general gevernment, has slways been inierosting and conspicuous; and in any crisis {thas been her fortune to prove—as the mont illustrious repubiies of the past, notexcelling Delaware in extent of territory have also shown—that real greatmess consists in the exaltation of virtue and spirit, and pot in vastness of proportion. In the present aapect of our general goveroment, there is more for hope—that hope which always abides with a confidence tn th —thaa for present felicitation. government bas been #0 admin- istered, as to leave to the people ample seope for the ex- erelae, through their representatives, of thir wisdom ard love of country. Im the trials which the feeblencss and faults of an unhappy administration have imposed upon the country, Deiaware will again, we may conf- dently trust, be found as in all the past, at her post—true to the ezalied obligations of the constitution. But it may be remarbed, filustration of the extraordinary wer and success of our systeni, and of the entire re- ianee due to American prudence and patriotism—that pever haa our ntry been so secure as when her dan- ger seemed greatest. ‘The perile which in regard to the Union, Fy Meggan manifestly that tt was immovable aa the hills; every indication of weak- ness or folly in the government has tothe an wrtunity, never expected, of the all of their wiedom and devotion. KXOW NOTHING MOVEMENTS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE — NOMINATIONS BY THK KNOW NOTHING CONV&N- TION. The Manchester Mérror states that the meeting of the Know Nothing State Convention was held in that city on the 17th instant, The convention was beld in toe Hall of the Smyth block, and we learn the following nomina- tions were made:—Rev. Jobn Moore. Universalist min- ister, of Concord, for Governor, Frauk IH. Lyford, of Manchester, for Railroad Comunissioner; Elder Pike’ of Newmarket, a Methodist minister, for Representauve from District Nu, 1; Mason W. Tappan, of ford, for Distriet No 2; A. H. Cragin, of Tokanon, for District Ne. 3. The frien Marston, of Exeter, Cariatio, of Dover, and Whitebouse, of Rochester, are much excited, and threaten to bolt. NEW JERSEY KNOW NOTHINGS, Trenton Letter, Jan. 17.) yuncil of the Hordentown Order of Ameri met in thin city yesterday, some seveaty subordi- nate Courcils being represented. This branch of the Order is radependent of the general United States orgaat- sation, but efforts are making to effect an eutire union in this State, Iam informed tyat the wabject was dis- curred at length in their sessions yesterday, aud a favo- rable decision was made, The advantage of such o union and of concentration of effort among the Amerie cana of the State, would unquestionably be very great, and it is to be bo; that the decision of the state Couneil will be carried into effect withowt delay. The several Councila were repren-pted im the meeting yester- day by rome of the best and ablest mea in New Jersey. Msxican Bounpany Coxmisston— We uvier- stand (hat official information has been reecived (rom at El Paso, to the eff-ct that he missioner, at thst ace, on the Sd of December, w il the questions ‘at could possibly lead to auy difficulty of solution were discussed and sat sfactorily seutled, The twe com- misrioners Dave agreed upon the parallel of 3147 as the iniial point of indary om the RioGrande. Major Kwory tad commenced tae erection of an observatory for the astronomical determination of that point; but paving reviouely made obvervations when oreo the old lige, which appropriately establish that point, he wan ele thereby, with the approbation of the tioner, to place parties in the field for Mexican Com ‘the commencement of the survey of the line westward from that point. We have no doubt that, ander the di- upon the cause the broad seal of a | VOL. XX. Report of the Western House Abstract Refuge. “ ‘The sixth annus! report of the Managers of the West- erm House of Refuge was laid before the Assembly on ‘Wednesday. ‘The report commences with » description of the farm: and builaings, which are said to be productive as te the former, and handsome and convenient as to the latter. ‘The addition to the buildings, for which am approgria- tion was made at the last session of the Legislature, are rapidly, and willadd much to the comfort and facilities of the institution. ‘The boys are variously engaged, in making cane chal seats, children’s shoes and willow baskets, and some are employed on the farm and in the tailors’ shop. They are all diligent, contented and happy. Three hours anda half each day are devoted to school studies and « suffi- cient time is allowed for recreation. ‘The whole cost of the institution will not much ex- ceed $110,000 when the additions now in progress are completed. It was opened August 11, 1849. The offi- ers of the Institution are enumerated .—Fred. F. Backus being President and John Greig 1st Vice Presi- dent, No death has occurred among the inmates during the past year. and but few cases of sickuess have been re- ported. The farm has yielded a fair return, al not #0 productive as it has sometimes been, owing to drought of the last summer. The number of boys in the Refuge om the first of January, 1856, was fifty more than the building now completed was designed to accom- modate ; but ft Is thought the completion of the additional buildings new in process of erection will pro- vide sufficient accu! ‘tion for the inmates for some to come. e yrovisions made for the instruction of the boys are thought to be the most efficient means of thorough reformat The duties of the principal teacher are, however, ssid to be arduous, and an additional assistant will be soon needed. The amount received and to be received for the labor Dboys for the year is over $8,000, This may be red a large sum When it is remembered that the average age of the boys is only about thirteen years, ‘The introduction of gas into the building is resonr- mended as a matter of economy, as well as a bie improvement it is the more indispensable, inasmuch as the evenings are devoted to instruction, as a proper and mecesaury means of guarding against ‘escape; and ip oolroom. good lights are of course needed sche The fe islature 18 invited to appoint a committee, shall visit the institution, examine its condition, and review its management. The Superivteadent’s report shows that the number of boys received into the institution siuce its opening: bas been 405. Number of inmates at date of last report. 205» Number received during che year..... ++ 168 Whole number during 1854 866 Indentured and discharged. . 103 In the bone on Jan, 1, 1855. seseereseseceee 268 Of the 161 new inmates, there were received from Monroe county, 64; from Erie, 38; St. Lawrence, 11; Onondaga, 9;, Uswego and Cayvga, 7 each; Ontario and Oneida, 6 each: Jetlerson, 3; Orleans, Tioga, Chemung, Chauts uque and Liv.ngeton, 2 each; and six other coun- re lesch, Six were returned after indenture or dis- charge. ‘The average age of the inmates is 13 years, 4 months and26days, In the list we find that 29 are 13 years old, and two 6 years. a bemeah crete a of the children is as follows:—Ameri- cans, fereignert, 95; colored, 4, The commitments for petit larceny, 1 and larceny, 16; burglary, $ vagrancy and other crimes, 22. Of the inmates adwitted during the year 36 had no fathers living, 34 had no mothers, 21 had loat both pa- rents, 67 bad intemperate parents, and the parents of eight were separated a my 1804, forty have been indentured to various trader; five have besn sent to sea on whaling voyages, and fifly discharged to pucents or guardians. ‘There bave been as many as eight escapes daring the ear. Th‘s large number is accounted for by the fact at in consequence of the work upon the new buil Doards and scaffolding have been necessarily left arou: the grounds, affording facilities of eacape which do not cndinartiy xine, ae aa hepa value of the farm products, aggregat $1,018 84, La “ i Out of the money seft by visiters at the gates, rived. 81 the library fund has rece’ 04 56 Falance last yeats.......006 22 85 Tota) fund for year,, - 126 91 Expended for books, 3, 107 73 Palance in band Jan. 1, 1855, 9 18 An interesting sketch of the events cecurring at the institution duing the year is given in extracts from a Gnily journal kept by the Superimtendent, the tone of whieb is an indication of the good teeling which prevails in the House, and of the prosperous #md happy condi- tion of ite sfiairs One extract, January oth te peca- Karly painful to read, bot at the same time, is» strik- ing proot of the benefits of an instrtation whicb rescues child:en of a tender ace from the evil influences which too olten surround them in their childbood. The jour- na! rayn, ** This wax quarterly visiting ¢ay, and man; of the children had the cpportumties of sceioy thele parents and friends. To rome it would be well if they should never see them again.” Under the date of July 4 we find that on “ glorious In- dependence Day,” po iabor was requited of the children, anda general glor fication was permitted. Extra food was rerved out, and the journal says, “ Peanuts and crackers were ed among the boys, which they epredily Cespatebed. A very interesting collection of letters is appended to ‘the report, from bo: ho have left the institution, and from pertons who have taken children therefrom; the tone of which proves satisfactorily the beneficial results which, in a majority of cases, flow from the operation of the law which provides this reformatory asylam for vi- cious and neglected children. i. The teacher's report shows that there have been ré- ceived into the school during the year, 156 scholars. Of these, when they entered, 16 were ignorant of the alphabet; 28 could read and spell monosyilables, 81 could read imperfectly, 28 tolerably, and 2 well. 116 could not wr.te their own names, and 40 could write. The whole number in school on January 1, 1855, was 263; of whom 2% cculd rend and spell in one ayllable, 76 in more thar one, 68 could read readily, 78 accurately, and 16 understaniingly. 0 study written arithmetic, 114 mental arithwetic, 36 geography, 12 grammar, 206 practice penmanship. One hundred and fifty eight books have been added to the library during the year; exercises in voeal music, gular teacher, bave been connmenced, and are thought to be very beneficial, in subduing the grosser passions, and touching the finer sensibilities of nature. ‘The prospenty of the schrol has been by the erowded condition of the school rooms; a dificulty which Mil be obviated by the completion of ‘the new building, in which a larger ape rtment is provided. The Treasurer’s report shows the following sum- mary — Palence in bank January 1, 1854, . $160 95 Cash for board of boy 200 Cash for labor of bo: 7,987 66 Drafts on the State 8,000 00 140 16 Balanee in bank Jannary 1, 1855 Theatres and Exhi Broapway Theatne.—The rella”” is still drawing large tinue to do so for the next weok. no experse in producing ittin splendor. The rougbout is very good, and L. Pyne’s vocalization affords the utmost pleasure. Mr. Borrani is a great {a- vorite, and deservedly #0, Bowrny Taares.—The popular dramatic and eques- trian actress, La Belle Adare, appears in the uce to = drema of ‘Jack Sheppard,” in which she will introd ber famous horse Cindereiis. The drama of the ‘ Crock of Gold”? will commence the entertainment), and will close with the draws of “ Kit Carson” —Mr. W. Derr as Kit Carson, Berron’s Tueatax.—The pieces announced for this evening by Manager Burton, are the eoinedy of ‘‘Seorets Worth Know ng,’ in which Burton, Jordan, Johnaton, Mise mond, and Mrs. Hughes appear—the orchestra will play select pieces of music, and the entertainments will close with the satire of ‘‘apollo in New York”— Burton an Jupiter. ‘WALsacn’s THEATRE —The new five act play of “Night apd Morving,’’ being much admired po) Bah drawn houses, is announced Ca for this evening—Lea- er, Blake, Brougham, Bland, Miss Rosa Bennett and Mrs. Conover in the leading parta. ing “A Lady and Gen- tleman in « Pecuharly Porplexing the amusements, M PouTAN TaxaTns —A new drama, founded upon e in Judia, will be produced to-might. It is en- titled “Kamos, or the Klephant of At ” in which all the prinerpal members of Wi 1's dramatic company appear. Tbe amusements commence with va- rious feats im the ring by Sands’ equesinan company. American Mostum.—The ai “Aa Like ag Woov's ments given bere are, as usual, wel attended, Various sorgs, instramental pieces, and the ‘‘Mummy” are the features of the ever ing- EVCKLEY’s BERENADERS.—Negro melodies, a plantation Macuanice’ Haut.—The entertain. Sig, ® violin solo, and the burleague on the opera of “*Cin- derella”” are aced for this eveniog. Mr. L. Short takes bis benefit om Saturddy evening. bim have a bomper. Dosatpson’s Orgna Hovse.—Hope Chapel is visited nightly by large numbers to hear the Ethypion delines- tions of thin company, The ‘(Masquerade onda all.’’ Ma, F. FE. Boncess takes his benefit on Sanday the Metropclitan theatre. The concert will be one at interest, as several accomplished artiste have volunteer- iv giment; we preeome by refusing and thue ue Tim self before a court martial.” pe ts seye:—It is sald that Col of eminent lawyers in ‘that there is nothing In the State which gives the power which exercised. We believe that the Supreme gervienry ponte over tial, vo eee a t F if rT E ij 5 , Predicament’’ closes .+ .