The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1855, Page 3

WOW PUBLICATIONS. Postan Rerorm; tts Urncent Necessity AND Pgacticanmity. By Puiny Mines. Stringer & Townsend. ‘80 much has been said and written on the subject of postal reform, and so little real progress has been made in it, that we almost despair of arriving ot any practical solution of the difficulties with which the question is encumbered. There are too many political interests, too many fat sinecures involved in it not to raise against whatever measures may be Proposed a storm of opposition. In this country the Post Office is regarded rather as an appanage of the roling party of the day than as an important instrument of the public service. Whoever, there- fore, undertakes to apply the besom of reformation to it, aitempts a task more Quixotic than hopeful in its nature. The pamphlet of Mr. Miles, so far as its clear demonstration of the monster abuses of the department goes, may be regarded ag an ex- tremely useful publication. We all feel that the postal service is not what it is in other coun- ‘tries, and what it might be rendered in this All are not, however, acquainted with the obstacle thrown in the way of its proper working. The facts and data collected by Mr. Miles will, if they serve no other purpore, stund as an evidence agains: us at some future time that we knew the sources 0 its mal-administration and made no effort to reach them. The plea of ignorance will, at all events, not avail us against the charge of such an inexplicable neglect of our interests. Speaking first of the abuse of the franking privi. lege, which the common sense of the English people has long since abolished, Mr. Miles says :— The appropriations made on account of franked matter amount in fourteen year to between five and six millions of dollars, but all the deficit, or the diiference between the receipts and expenses of the department have beenanade up by turther appropriations. if instead of $9,080,828, the difference between the postal receipts and expenses, appropriations had been made to the ‘Amount of $28,000,000—-the actual cost of transporting franked matter at the rate paid by citizens—thore would now be a gurplus of $18,919,172 to the credit of the Post Office Department, ascumulated in fourteen years, with- out reckoning the interest | The following is the plan which he suggests to remedy this wasteful extravagance of the public re. sources. He would :— Have Government envelopes of various sizes, and also sheets ro that contain forms of official letters, printed with the names of the various offices and dep1rt- ments of government on the outside, so that when the letter or envelope is folded and ready to receieve the #u- perscription, there will be on the left hand upper corner of the face of the letter, in bold type, the name of the branch of government from which it emanated; as ‘State by oe “War Department,” “Navy Department,” arent: At Interior,” Pont Ofte,” “Attorney General,” «Fxecutive,”) “House of Rep.,”” “ Senate,” &e., &. Then, have it a felony or misdemeanor, with a heey penalty, for hese to be used by any but those who are entitled to use them; and, moreover, have ita fixed rule that none of thess are 6 go free through the mai except such as are mailed at the city Post Office in Wash- ington, aod by an officer or messenger of the department from which they come. Then all that are dropped clan- destinely into the Yost Oltice will be stopped, or charged with posiage, the same as other letters, And have every document rated and charged—at prepaid rates—in tis city Post Office, and sn account kept with each depart ment and branch of she government, and an appropria. tion made annually from the freasury to meet it. Re- quire every book, paper, pamphlet, and printed sheat to be done u/ in » wrapper upen at the ends, or charged 1+t- ter postage, eo that government and government viticials shall have no « privilege” im this respect thats not on- Joyed by the citizen. ‘Books, speeches, and public dveu- ments would go with all facility, safety, and couvenieuce; but bundles of clovhing for the laundry, rolls of tobacco, samples of machinery, fire-arms, and vu other hee- rogeneous articles would not load the mails under gov- ernment ‘' franks.” On the subject of the importance of uniformity of postage Mr. Miles makes the following very forcibie remarks:~— We bave been flattering ourselves for some time that we have ndopted, as far as circurnstances will admit the great postal improvements advanced by Mr. Rowlan: Mili. Yes, the play of Hamlet, #ich the part of Hamlet ieft out! We have lw postage, it is true, but we have entirely overlooked the principle of uniformity, “tne primary condition of the simplicity of srrangements,” and the attendant economy of labor and expenditure; and yet we wonder why the system dove not work better. A watch without its mainspring, who would call it a time-piece? We have thee rates of postage on letters alone, and three methods of computing those rates about equivsient to six rates of postage, the number there were before the first reduction, in 1840. As for yeriodicals, pamphlets ond books, the rates vary with every ningle ounce that the parcels weigh—as ui “ computation and as uncalled for as it would be to divide the rates by quarter-ouncea ar penuyweights. Going from the size of small pamphlets up to octavo volumes that weigh three pounds snd a half, we have over fifty rates ot book postage. Six or seven rates, making n variation ot charge, except by halt pounds, after gettin above eight ounces, would ans#er every purpose of equit end justice, be far more convenieat for the public, aa: save three quarters of the labor ot postmasters in com: puting the postage. Our ‘drop letteca’’ are charged one cent; thore that are sent through the mails, distances not exceeding three thousand miles, three ‘ceats, aad those that are sent more than three thousand miles, ten cents. Drop letters are not charged by welght; lettecs that are sent through the mails, but not ont of the ecauntry, are computed at a single rate for each half ounce; avd letters that are sent to Great Britain, aad some other countries, if weighing more than an ounce, are rated by tue ounce, two posiages for each ounce in weight, or fraction cf an ounce beyond the first, All letters, drop, domestic and foreign, should be rated by this last method, bea | no account of single half ounces boyond the first. Our legislators and postal authorities seem to think that there can be no Justice or equity in a reale of ebarces without going to tue greatest extreme of division, subdivision and minutim. t a contrast to our way of doing business is that of both the British covernment and the British people! stamp was abolished in England, tl railroads have bad a mer .ing and agreed upon a charges for carrying papers, asking just the same for all parcel, without regard to distance. The cturge for par- cols of different sizes only varies accord! o the fol- lowing icale of weights: 3, 6, 12, 21 and uunilA, £0 spectively. A parcel weighing 18 pounds same As One of 24 pounds, and ono of 25 pounds th 8 one of 48, In doing a very large business, like that of carrying parcols, or transporting books, letters aud papers, the state of the’ case is sinply thie:—By maktag as tew subdivisions s possible, the saving of Iubor ia s@ great that the average cost can be made far leas tham it could be to go into great minutim, and bave a long and varied scale of charges. There is’ a large gain for all parties. What would be thought of an express company that had ‘A beparate and distinct charge for parcel according to the exact weight, varying the price for transportation with each eingle Oanee, from one ounce wp to six pounds’ And yet the oseless labor, the direct folly of such a course, would be no greater’ or more conspicuous then cur heterogeneous, varied, and almost innumerable variety of charges for mail matter. That is exactly the scale Of book postage in our Post Gilice The sconemy of labor in receiving, rating, mailing and clivering letters, by simplification of the various Cuties in the Post Office, is enormous, and would not be apprecinted or believed without seeing the facts, The actu e) expense to our Post Office, entailed by the uxeless labor connected with ‘be varied charges and different methors puting postage, and in making out and comparing fie, a8 can be demonstrated, ts not much if any less dollars ayear. Let as compare the pri mary cvst of distribution in Great Britain now with what it was before there was uniform postage, and also the cost of distribution in that country with what it ts with ur. undoubted authority, (vampllet on ‘* Post- ” by Rowland Hill; third edition, page 12.) we learn that the expense attending the local distriba tion of letters in Great Britain, previous te the adoption of the uniform postage of one penny in 1840, was two-thirds of the entire expense of the postal system, Ins report on postage presented to Parliament (Parl. Doc, No. 421; ear 186%, page 5) we learn that the total expense of the ritioh Pot Giliee, in 1830, was £756,099, or, in our cur- cy, 784,906. The number of letters sent through che post thas Year im Great Britain, was 82,470,596. From Offctal report of the United States ond Brtish Post Of- fees for 1864, 1 have found the various items of expense, and obtained the éntimated number of Jetters mailed, and [find the following reauits :-— Bepense of Local No.of each 1000 Country. . Letters. Lather. Great Britain, $2,525,902 $2,470,500 830 Great Britsin 5 8,235,105 443,640,301 7 United States./))..1864 2,649,422 119 684,418 2k ‘There ‘‘local expenses’ are only a ae bro the rating, stamping. mailing, sorting, ap ing letters Sit por Ueak'in the 440s Cibede--aad betng eotecaeet od with everything relating to transportation, distances or length of iontes, must be nearly parallel, if wader the same system, in the two countries. We nee from this that the local expenses in the United States l’oat Office are three times as » in proportion to the number of let- ters roailed, as in Great j and there they are at this time Irs than one-fourth as much as were pre vious to the introduction of a uniform rate of postige The actusi difference, too, is much grester than these fig- pres represent, A system of free letter delivery an} local receiving houses for mailing letters in towns ani clvies, absorbs Just about one half of the Britlh “local expenses.” The system of letter delivery is much more universel, and consequently more ex- pensive in Great Britain now than it was 1899, and this is # large i em of expense that we do not have im our Post Office at Here are the figures. In Great Britain there are 8,721 letter carriers, and their annual salaries amount {0 $1,406,085, There a6 8,561 *ub-postmasters and letter receivers, who are paid $473,495. If we take one-balf of this last sum as the salaries of the “ letter re- ceivers,”” and add it to the salaries of the letter carriers, it will give us $1,942,682; and thie deducted from the “local expenses” of the British Post Office will leave $1,500,51-., or three dollars and a ball for each thousaad letters, independent of the expense of carriers and re celvers. 2 ben ‘tha we beve 24,000 Post Offi ses, white In Great ite Kbere ate oulye little over 8,000, the local expenses with us, distribuied over so many loealitirs, must mecessarily be much greater than in Great Britsia. This may be admitted, and | will deduct from our ‘local expensey’’ the sum of $1,108,472, being NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 186565. E the labor of receiving, ig all our letters—when F —if they could do it—it would cost $1,410, twelve dollars for each thousand local expenses in our Post Office the same as in Britain (viz, $3 50 per 1,000 letters, )—letter carriers ter receivers of course ex the amount be $418,719, instead of $1,410, milion rannum | aigstet ——with our variable and inconvenient rates of postage— as Weg tters as they now do, the be (at $12 per 1,000, ) $5,323,788, and carriers or Jeiter receivers t wages are in some instances lower ia Great Britain than in this country, and that as they have far more letters than we have, the ex are proportionally Jona. But will all this account for a three-fold difference? Willany circumstances except the reinction of labor attendant on 4 system of uniformity and eimplicity, account for the fact that before the uniform rate of as A the local expenses in Great Britain were ‘more than four times as great in_propurtion to the num- ber of letters as they have been since, and the accommo- dations to the public far less? In view of these facta ix the ment for a uniform rate of postage of any value or not ‘The question of uniformity of charge: on letters -be- comes question of high and low rates of postage, it. be- comes a question of economy, of profit, of a surplus that can be invested in varlous and much needed im- provement, With uniformity and simplicity ia the mail service, our rates of postage might at ance be reduced 33 per cent. Many hundred thousand dollars of our annual postal ses might be saved, or the amount of Inbor now employed, with uniformity for a basis, would suffice for a three or four-fold increase of business. Our letters could all be sent through the post at a uniform charge of two cents, and have our Post Office as well supported ax it could be at the rates we now pay. It must be obvious to every one that the large ba- siness in the delivery of letters done by the city express companies, is 80 mach diverted from the Post Office revenues. Let us see what our anthor says of equitable ratengt postage in connection with that subject:— If there fs any value at all in the argument for a uni- form rate of postage; if, ax we see clearly there is a large economy and 4 great convenience in a singlo rate letters of the same weight; if there is a simple justice in charging ail our citizens alike for an indis- bie government service; the question is, What shall that rate be? Now, if it is admitted that no one would complain were the uniform rate of letter postage three cents instead of two; if that might be thought low enough —and some tell me they think {t is—Iam prepared to show that with that rate we shall lose one of the largest advantages that we expect to gain, both for the Post ofice and sha public ve ball Tone’ for. the Bost office the most table brani every good postal system, the local circulation in cities anatowns. "And wile all of this Incrative trafic is lost to the postal establishment, the population of our large places will be no better ac- commodated than they are at present, and the want of proper postal facilities in cities ia rpore needed and more severely felt than any othe: postal requirement. Pri companies are orgnnized—at least in New York—and a collecting and delivering letters four or five times a day, at two cents a letter. They find it profitable, or they would not dojit, and the » people now accustomed to pay two cents for a celivery of their letters, or one for those dropped in & Post office to be called for, would be very reluctant to pay three. Were the government to take all the business of collecting and delivering letters in cities into the charge of the Post offico—as should, most unquestiona- bly, be done—and ssppreas the private companies by declaring that branch of postal affairs illegal, the same as transporting letters through the country by fall or couch —if this were done, and we had one reilly good and effi- cient postal system in our cities, would it be practicable or easy to induce the public to pay three cents for such letters’ One cent will not pay for collecting, receiving and delivering, and if we bave a two cout rate for ‘drop’ or city letters, and threo ceats for those that go through the mails, we lose all the advantages, the conventence, and the economy of uniformity in our postal system, ‘The amount ‘of business done in collecting and deli- vering letters by private persons in the city of New Yore is not merely a matter of conjecture of gaess- work, The two that do the largest tusiness have given The the following facts and etalistios of their operations, One employs 45 letter carriers, has over 2,500 receiving boxes, where letters can be davosi ted in various parts of the city, and collects and delivers, or deposits in the city Post Office for the mails, from’ 6,000 to 15,000 letters daily. In one day—jusi before an election, | think— there were passed through his hands, he tells me, in cullecting and delivering, 164,000 letters. This was the largest day’ work he ever did. Another party tela me he employs 25 letter carriers, rents $50 boxes in his pri- : h, und collects and delivers dey. There are three or joot—perhaps more—in the city, where boxes are rented, and lettera received, hanted out to the persons addressed, or doposited in the city Post Office. The box rent received by these private Post Offices amounts {to $4000 or $5,000. year. Now ifwe teke this information as correct—and there is no reason to suppose it to be much overs ated—we rhall have in two establishmects at least 29,000 letters a day, With the private post offices besides, where boxes are ren’ed and letters handed ont, the number of letters collected ani delivered, or de- posited in the city Post Office in New York (by private rties) cannot be less altogether than 26,000 daily. Fin would mske 9,126,000 letters in a year, which, at two cents # letter, amounts to no less than $182,500, Those letters that are received by some of these pri parties for deli into the eity Post Office, are only charged one cent, but when we Irok wt the extra charge for box-rent—$4 & year exch, beriden the regular charge on the letters—we cannot think that these persons, with their little armies of private letter carriers, receive leas than $180,000 a yeor fur their postal services. Whore is the wisdom, it may be asked, in an enactment of Con- gress, that declares the carriage of letters by private ariies trom New York to Philadelphia fllegal, and pun- -hes it with heavy penalties, and at the same time allows any to set up & private postal system iaa ci'y that ix five miles long? Joart discerning must see chat this very circulation of letters in cities is altogether tLe moat profitable branch of a postal «ystem. Of that, more inlly hereafter, under the head of ‘Letter Cartiers."” If” the government, in the exercise of {ta functions, claims letter carrying as @ business exclusive- ly its own, i) must attend to the wants of the people, or private enterprise will supply the deficiency. What com- Parison can there be between one really good ayatem, a regular, rapid and prompt letter delivery in places like New York ond Philadelphia, ten or twelve times a diy, one rate of letter peed for all éiatences, no box rents to pay, noextra charge for delivery, and with uniformity and simplicity for « besis—-what comportson can there be between such @ system and the irregularity, the delay, the expense, the extra charges, and the uncertainty that we now have in our mixture of public and private poste? So far as the cireulation of letters in cities is concerned we have our choice to put up with the three or four dif- ferent modes of conveyance and delivery that we have, and all decidedly bad, or sweep them all away by Con kreesional enactment, and creates good system in their stead, When we see the large business that ix done by the private parties that have ext» we consider the immense yu advertisements, snd bustness an: go through the port, provived they were conveyed and Celivered rapicly and promptly, eight or ton tines doy, at the low and uniform charge e far r use that would be made of the ponéence, by the rich ar must be evident, I think, that this rate will be more re munerative than are our present varied rates. The rates which Mr. Miles thinks would work well in this country, are as follows:- He would bave oll single letters-letiers nc Lali an ounce in weight—ratet at tw letters weighing more than half an ounee, but aot more than aa ounee, four cents, and above that weight reckon hy the ounce, and pay no attention to the half ounces; charging two postages for each ounce or fraction of an ounce be- youd the first. How much more nient will rates of postage be that ron through » gradation of two, four, eight, twelve, sixteen, twenty, and twenty-four cents than such an irregular set of ates a4 we now have; vir one, three, six, pine, ten, twelve, fit ighteon, twen- , ny , twenty one Ke., &e. If we iad the rates of post rmity th : I propore, wo should req Just four denowinations of postage stamps, tw, four, ‘ight, and twenty-four cents, respectiy How much more convenient would these be then th now in use! For all single 0, clreulars, and transient papors, the two cent stampe would be used, and with the four deas- minations, every letter, whatever its «ize, for omestic, could be paid by ‘one or two stamps, Thon 2 it a fixed principle that everything uot prepaid vid be charged just double, ly our prevent rates of postage, weekly nowspaperi buiged 1i cents a yee, within the State where printed, nd outef the State, 26 cents a year, These are ratex upeements that would exceoting hat tn paying costege quarterly or balf yearly, canuot be civided or subdivided roto even sums.” Lat all news- charged @ falr aver: papers, wherever published, neiween these two rates; and ® sum that cam be paid in car etn, either quarterly or half-yearly. There 14 no It seems to me, 10 easily reckoned. #0 conveniently vided, and #0 equitable, * the following,— Per Year. — Ser Quarter. 20 cents, 5 cents. ou Piper wo « 1s 190 « “ Monthly ere not exceeding four ounces in be charged 12 cents four eateediog eight oucot, $6 conte, aul over eight vet but rot exceed ng sixieen ounces, 48 cents s i quarterly, emi-rontbly, and other , in the eame propor: tiem We have no space for further extracts. Those who desire to be thoroughly posted up on posta! questions, had better purchase the pamphlet. Caere; A Stony or Rervsticaw Equaniry. lips, Lampson & Co., Boston. This novel, attriluted to the pen of a New England gentleman of the name of Story, but from internal evidence more probably written by the aathoress of “Ida May,” has, from its political character, excited & good deal both of friendly and adverse criticism. We published on Monday last an extended notice of the plot, and we have only to add that the impres. sions created by the book generally are in the highest degree favorable to ita success. Even the abolition- ist papers concede to it the merit of being one of the cleverest productions of the day. Whilst noticing one of the publications of this firm, we may as well avail ourselves of the opportunity of expressing our satisfaction at the programme of Phi- | historical works which they have put out. Mr, Prescott has, we find, transferred the pistes of all his books to their house, and will publish with them his forthcoming History of the Reign of Philip the Second of Spain. The contract made with him is said to ja volve @ larger amount of copy right than was ever agreed upon in any similar instrument in this country. Tax Wivow Brvorr Parnas, by Alice B. Neal- J. C. Derby. ‘The collection of papers which have been recent- ly published under the above title are already fami- liar to the public, through™the medium of Neal’s Saturday Gazette. The originality and vigor of thought, and the raciness’ of humor which distin- guish them, fully justify their republication in a complete form. We question if, in the whole range of the works of our comic writers, there is to be found anything more eccentric and laughter provok- ing than these curious sketches. We have only room for a single extract :- WIDOW JENKINS’ ANIMOSITY. 0, yes! I remember I promised 10 tell you the cause 0 widder Jinkinses ennimosity to me— pasa th) breac—well, you see, Deacon Bedott (he wa’n’t deacon then begs he Nae Bay ol bmg to butter, dew—he ‘come to Jetown to teach the deestrict seboo! was originally from the Black river beep? 3 His was ® forebanded tarmer, and he'd give Hezekior plete eddication—he took to larnin’ naterally. tea agreeable? | 4’ no wher round, corn Is your ther wa’n’t his equil for cypheria’ ell, Squire Smith he was out in them and he got acquainted with Hezekier, and he see pa that he was an oncommo» condueed him to come to Kier. pass the cheeze ti Miss cheese! dew tell? wcll husband could’t eat cheese without impunity durta’ the Inst years of his life— used to ray that it Jay like a stun on his stomick; as sure as he eat a piece 0’ cheeze for hia supper, he'd lay awake groavin’ all night, if he dident take some kind ofan antigote to prevent it, But I wax gwine to tell —Well, the day after he come to our place, Squire Smith's folks bad « quiltin’—I was there—'t wa'n't lon afore Sally was married (she ‘tis Sain Pendergrasses wits she was a makin’ her quilts—though ‘twas ginocally thought she was engaged to Mose Hewlet, and as to that matter, it ’s my opinion she might bettdr a had him than the one she did bave, I neverthought Sam Vendergrass waa much—none 0? the Pendergrasses ain't no great rhakes, though he 's good enough for Sal Smith. Melixsy, why don’t you sarve out the sss? ‘That sass ain't fust Tate—you see; while’t was a dewin’ Loviney Skinner, she come in with that are subscription paper, to git up & s0- clety for ‘ the universal diffasion of elevation among the colored poperlation," and while Iwas lookin’ at it to see who'd sigue and how much they gi’n, the sass got over- did. Butt was gwine to tell about that quiltin’. Ther was a number o’ young folks thero—seo—there was Prisalllly Poole (that’s me), Poll Bingham (Bill Jinkinses wider), Huddy Hewlit (she married Nat Farntash aud both on ‘em dled to the westard « nuinber o” years ao), and Sally Smith (Sam Pendergrasses wife), and the Peabodys (Jeru- thy married Shadrack Dany—but Betsey ain't marred yet, thovgh I »’pose ifevery anybody tried faithfully to git a husband Beta’ Peaboty has), and Nab Hickston (she tis Major Coon’s wife now), though then al ’n't no- thin’ buta milliner’s appriatice. 1 remember, | won dered at the Smiths for icvitin’ her, but they never was pertikkler who they went , aud *he always had a wonderful way 0’ crowdin’ in. 'See—you heerd, dideut you, how’t she said J tried to keteh the Major,’ but he okt ruther higher ’n to marry widder Bedotty He must a lookt consarn-ed high when he took Nab Hinksten ! she’s a purty critter to be tryin’ to disperse my charne- ter, {dew say! I'll let her Know ’t Deacon Bedott’s wid- ain't a gwine to be put down by the like o’ her, What was he, pray teil, in her young days? Imake it a pint never to #xy nothin’ against nobody—but trath ala’t no slander, think it ix? and all creation knows sho wa’n't nobody. Why her father was a poor drunken shack away down in Bottietown, aad her mother touk in wasa in’, and Nab Alaksten herself worked out fora half» dol lar # week, till Mies Potter was down there oue time a visitin’ Paison Potter's relations, and she took pity on her aud tetched her up to Wiggletown to live with her; but after a apell she got above dewin’ housework and went into Miss Dickerson’s milliner shop, and there she slayee till Zeb Hawkins married her, aud after he died uf delirreum trimmins, she sot tew to keich somebody else, and at last phe draw’d in Major Coon—he’d been disap: pinted (’t ain't for me to say ‘who disappinted him), aud so be dident care much who he married: and now she's Mies Major Coon! O! deary me, it’s enough to make a bhby sick to Kee the alrs she puta on. Did you nee her come nippin’ into meetin’ last Sebber day wita that are great long ostridge feather in ber buunit, and a shawl as big asa bed kiver? But I gould pat up with her if she wouldent slander her betters. She and Miss Jinkins ia wonderful intimit now, though [ remember when Poll Bingbam hild her head hizh enough above Nab Hinksten; at that quiltin’ #be dident rearce y speak to her. In your cup out? Take some more biead—not no more? why you don’t eat nothing—t"\ afeard you won't make out a supper—well dew take a pisce o’ the awestcake—1 ain't sure about it bein’ good; Melissy made it and she’s apt to git in a leetls tew much molaises—but them nat cakes | know is good, for | made 'em myself, and I dew think I make puterkes about as good ax anybody elas. Kier’s « won ‘erful favoryte 0’ nutcakes ain't you Kier? put bis father couldentest 'em atali for a namber 0? eur efore he died-—they were tew rich for his stout Jom anwure as he cata nuteake he used to have a sisi xyell afterward. But { was a gwine to tell Low oll Bing- ham come to take such a spite against me—well, the be nin’ on’t commenced at that sre quiltin’,” In the enin’ you see the young mencome. Chere wax Heze: Ader Bedott—Zeb Hawkins, (he ‘twas Miss Cooa’s tuat husband, he got to be a worthlesa critter afore he aled,) and Shubal Green, ( ax & wonderful good singer, iad anamein’ powerful , used to sing in meetin’ and nigh wbout raise the ruffo’ the meetin’ house off,) and ‘Zophar Slocum- he wax studyin’ to be a doctor, he was a smart young wan but dreifel humbly: be uset to wri the poltry for the + Wiggleton Hancer.’’ He got drat fully in love with # young wowa once, and sve dident reeipperate his feeling’—'tain’t for me to tell who the woman was, | don’t approve o’ tellia’ such t H. he got into such « t account 0 her that at Jast he writ her a letter tellin’ of her how't hecouldent stan such undifference no longer, and if «ae continood to use him so, he was determined to commit telf-suiride—at the end 0’ the letter he put in a varee vo! poitry—it rays :— 0! ‘iss dretfnl thing to be In such distress and miseree I'm eny most a natteral fool All on account o° Silly Poole! There! I've let on who 'twar—bain’t 1) but he altered his ind sbout killin’ bimeel{, and was married about three months after to Sophier Jones. Take snother nat cake—dew. Why, what a small exter you be! I’m afeared he vittals don’t «uit you. Well, lew #06 who else was there, O! Tin Crane. He was a wonderful safily feller —dicent scarcely know enough to go in when it rained, though he was purty sharp atinakin’ money, He married omy Kenfpe, Deacon Kenipe’s sister—they went to the Wast- ard, and I’ve beer) they'd got to be quite rich. 1 guess it must be owin’ to Miss Crane’s scrapin’ and savin’, tor the was ‘he stingiest of all crested eritters, What aid ou say, Kier? Jism Crane ecmin’ back here % live! Vell, "twon't be no great addition to Wiggletown, for they ain't——Whet! kier Bedott’ Miss Crane dead! Land o' liberty! shat an awdel thing! Dear me? 1 dew feel amazin’ sorry tor Mr. Crane | how onfortinate| 10 lose his wife! such © nice woman as she was, tew ! What cid you say, Melisay Bedott? How’t I joat called Miss Crane a Fiingy critter? you must a misunderstood ine & purpose | I said rhe was an oneommon equinorsteal woman, Jalways thought » master sight of Miss Crane, though I must say she wa'n't quite good en yugh for such a man as Timothy Crane, He's an auszin’ fine man. | letowa and teach school. pablo young mun, and so he kg 4. Don’t never eat raid he dident know nothing? Kier Bedott, how you dew minnderstand. {meant that he was a wonderful un of nrive man, well disposed toward eversbly. Well, I'm glad Mr, Crane’s @ comin’ back here; should think ‘would be melancholy to stay there after buryin’ bie pardner, His poor motherless darters, tew { I foel for them, It’s a dretful thing for galls to be lett without a mother! Melissy, what be you winkin’ to Kier for? Den't you know it’s very unproper to wink? Kie Leacon Kenipe say whut complaint Mise Crane ibe eperdemic ! how you talk ! that’s a turrible vt I remenibe did f t be very opploasant to sta; companion was tore away from & place wh in by much an age Yon't you be helped vom’ complaint as the eperdemic. to nothing more? 0 h—I was goin Yow Fell Bingham came to be seh an intm: h when he omnes back, 4! bet forty great apples phe’ll dey it, 6h tracted rifed ever sines he was a wi geese Timothy Crane ain't « man to be nt fat, humbly, ab ter tub: I'm gray, ew. Melicay Becott, Ihnow ‘I'm rather geay to sidiness and trouble. Thada’t a gray hair la when yer par died, 1 pin’t as old ae wilder J bomber o! year. I thiuk 'twould be a ge Mr dou’t you invite bim to step in ve with bim 1 fee) re dispensation nme friendly person to worn dinking as sou ae he gits here, fe Kier, I wish you when you see him; I want fo o to sympathize with him io bia a know what 'tis to lose s pardoer. ExPRRiMENntat INVESTIGATION OF THE Setait MANT- restarions. by Robert Hare, M. D)., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, aad member of varions learned societies. Partridge & Brittan, Broadway. The conversion of Judge Mdmonds to the creed of the visionaries who call themselves spiritualists, ha» prepared ux for any amount of aberration amongst literary and scientific men. As they are proverbially the moet prone to scepticiem on religious matters, they are the most liable to fall ints delusions which pretend to substitute psychological evidence for Christian revelation. We regret to enumerate Pro- feesor Hare, a name honorably known in the scientifie world, amongst the victims of the spirited mani His antecedents have given an importance to hi» adhesion which has been made the most of. So far, however, a8 his teachings and literary labore ae an apostle of the new creed are concerned, nv apprehension need be entertained of their covalt. His late lecture at the Tabernacle on «piritoalian failed to throw any light on the Hxyptien darkness of the shiject, and we look valoly through his book for fair premmptive nds for the abandonment of the Cliristian faith wach aman, if, indeed, he ever was a sincere believer. His work is, nevertheless, not without interest, from Crane agin } dew ict the manner in which the author has brought the peculiar tendencies of his mind to bear on the inves- tigation of what he calls “the truth.” He hae originated what may not inaptly be termed “ the mechanics of spiritualism," and we shall no doubt s00n be flooded with treatises showing the possibili- ty of realizing the dream of Jacob's ludder, and of ascending to heaven by a scientifically constructed stairway. We select, by way of showing the ad- vance which spiritual science has made, the follow- ing description of an instrument, by which the Pro- fessor says spirits were enabled to move a table un- der the influence of mediumship, yet in no wise under the control‘of the medium employed, even clairvoyance being nullifed—eredat Judaeus:— ‘The table is about six fret in length and sixteen inches in width, so contrived 8 to «eparate into three parts fur conveniency of carriage, The pair of legs under the right side are ‘Thoee on the left side upon an axle, pootog forations suitably made for its reception. sista of & rod of about one-half le an inch iu thickuess. ‘The axle serves for two wheels of about six inches di- ameter, of which one ix grooved. A’ disk, already de- soribed as appertaining to apparatus in « preceding p: is secured upon a pivot affixed toa strip of wood, which is made to ulide between two other strips attached to the frame of the table just under the top board, By these meann, the band embraces both the hub of the disk and tye wheel; when this turns, in consequence of the shov- lng of the table horizontally along the floor, the disk turns with the wheel, and as much faster ay the ciroumfeience cf the groove in the hub ix less than that of the groove ip the wheel. The index is inthis apparatus, situated precisely ay in that deseribed ia plate I; and any mortal hyving due hold of the table, may, by shoving {t one way or. the other, bring any letter under the index, 40 na to spell out any desired word. But no person, sitting as the mediura is in the engraving represented to rit, with the plate on two bells, can actuate the disk so ax to spell out words as above mentioned, Uttorly incapacttated from inoving the table, 1! were manifoxtly impossible to actuate the disk, or to interfere with the movements otherwise im- parted, In the ewploy ment of the apparatus, it hax been sug- gested that through clairvoyance the ‘medium might soe the letters, despite of the xereen, or might learn thom from the mind of the observer; but Ip tuls ease. the medium sees the letters without the aid of clairvoyance but this power does not aczount for the regulation of the manifestations, since, even seeing the letters, they cannot control the mavements Ko as to give to the intul- tive power thus exercised any efficacy. ‘On the surface of the table, on the right, may be seen 2 board upon castors. This was contrived Aw a snbatitute for the plate on balls, ‘The casters, of course, perform the same office as the balls in allowing a solid iaterial communication be'ween the hands of the medium and the table, without giving the power to induce or control the movement. Evidenily, though by any horfzontal iim pulse the mediam might cause the casiork to tura and the board to move in consequence, the force necessary to effect this must fall short of that requisite to move’ the table. In point of fact, the board, whea under the plate, balla and hands of the medium, was often moved rapidly to and fro wihout moving the table, [> move this, under such conditions, without moving the board or tray, required a distinct rpiritual process, of much greater difficulty, and which some spirits were either un- willing or unable to employ successfully. We will not insult the common sense of our readers by quoting any more of the absurdities by which it is filled. We can only sigh over the fatuity and vanity which lead men of Dr. Hare's in- tellectual calibre into the toils of the deceiver. Tue Works or Cuances Lamp, edited by T. N. Talfourd. Harper & Brothers. Talfourd’s edition of the works of the immortal Elia is two well known to require any commenda- tion at our hands. The republication of it by the Messrs. Harpers, ina cheap and at the same tine elegant form, is a fact that will be hailed with plea- sure by all Jovers of English literature. Havren’s Cuassican Linkary. Cicero's Offices, Cusar’s Commentaries and Xoe- nophon’s Anabasig are amongst the last issues of this beautiful serial edition. Revised by the beat classical authorities, handsomely brought out and fixed at a price which places them within the reach of all, these translations of the classics must find a place in every private as well a4 public collection. PERIODIOALS. PutNam’s vor December presents greater variety in its articles than usual. They are of a lighter and more popular stamp than we are accustomed to see in its pages, its proprietors having probably discovered that the wsthetics of literatare are less profitable, in a pecuniary sense, than the ephemera suited to the morbid and trivial tastes of the day. The paper on European armies is a compilation of statistical data of present interest, the value of which would have been greatly enhanced if some attempt had been made to reduce to mathematical demonstration the actual effective force of Russia. “ How I came to he Married” is a pleasantly written confession of the innocent way in which people get into serapes of which they had no previous notion. The eriticiam on Longfellow’s “ Song of Hiawatha” is cleverly done, a little over enthusiastic, perhapa, in its appreciation of its merits, but still showing grounds for its faith. ‘The following sums up the reviewer's opinion of this production :~ 1 Abreath of the pine foree's ie ia the poem—a healthy céer ot the woodlands and the meadows pervades { There are peges over which we lingwr. as we linger by the shores of nfuir water at sunve!, aud passages as erlap aud vigor as aa the curling bark of the birch, Asare the of the genuine epirit of le lidlincness, ite tenderness and ite joy the poem seems (ous singularly successful. of the “reminiscences” will, no doabt “ Sturleson | Deimeks ip main, nevertheless, an 4 Oar triend nurmur over it pin! bat it rem: ndepens w and will re A and original tent Antiquartans will go to it for Mostra fe ; uf poetry will go te r withful p 1 of poetic mare wil general go tots for pleasure? Bat for oor those trochees, and @ general prepe bave agnirst barbacie nines and n hesitatingly suy | Yeu.” “Low Life in Saiara,” describes vividly the tm preetions created by a journey over “the great wa terleas waste,” as it is called by the children of Ha gur. Of the noble animal so poetically but appro- priately styled in their language “t hip of the desert,” the writer seys:— “A child ie born upto ast" exotaime the joyful Arab, whe er camel is added to his numerous berd 4 sion which we we should an ar veigbbors crowd eagerly sround the newly arr triend of the tribe, In joy and in grief, at howe » abroad thee the Arab’s best tet When ehind, ea hia familier face, and groans and like & bear until he returns, rous eyea—the only m his mhante h grote Hi he listen f d rperks to t gan. 4 the sweet greeting er whe 1 © bim the ancient» tk Ata ight sign, the long tines of ex n counted by thousands, staud instantly #Ull; faicbCat n spreads bi washen bis feoe with wand arning bia bre holy grave « el et I et the ery tv beard © the days of Me the very centre of nomadie patrin wh hous t ther trade n intere would bein the Arab’s power, As tokes (te place, as in the desert of (io nels and horses are raid will to exter in original wit nese, paetares become more fer’ stions more va nd alt rela thous enc proviase se into m state, and son there fe but ome more step to fre oapo tine 4») close is the connection bet «e« soil, aad man and naturet The concluding chapter o “ Life Amongst the great | Mormons’ would be amusing, were it not for the la mentable picture whieh it presents of self linposed degradation. As amongst the peculiar institutions» of this singular commanity, our revders have not perhaps, heard of the “Council of Health,” we may an well quote, for their edification, the writer's de scription of ome:— A MORMON COUNCIL OF April 6.1 did not intend to say the saints, male or female, bat | wae tempted to attend a meeting of the Counel! of Health, am fall of what I sew and heard, that it will be» relief to xive » brief account of it. This Connell of Henivo, ne it b* called, is @ sort of female socie'y something like our Doress societion, whose members have meetlogs Wo talk «ner thew cecasional various eather and pains aol the mode of cure, There are a few who eal! themselves phy- ticles in the and they are privileged toa went in this portant assembiage. The meeting war in ope of the ward schoolhouse ‘There were from forty to Gifty prevent. old aod y end, judging from phywiegnomien! indies tions | with two or three exceptions, belongel to the clom of igneramee, There seemed to be nv The cider vere des\itute one mild ned apd softened feelings whieh often form © oprecable rethet to old ‘The specie ne bt he wrinkled, epliefal, bag like orter, ‘Ime Jy Ini a rough an relewtioss hand apon torm oF portion were to me, ifaeything more rope there war ne youthfel ty of appearance ar were Mupld, aad vensustity jai ewallewed wp ail womanly feelings called to order by Dr. Riolarts, « homey shone wore eutiovently all, wont reteeming rs aie we doner, on wid t troobie wort ‘ ooo f they were not wat of vet eels pleas ripreed the devil would reign At this tn climax, he brought hs ia ove ae though he int then and th ee poe pareve de hoods of one at managed to get up no nach ferocity 0 ex fay Lonely ps ol ‘oan be sat dows, w ‘prague, « mau look of vulgar dissipa- tion, then rose ‘and made « few common ie prson A sbout health, In the meantime, the women began to manifest much uneasiness, twisting, weaving, and rock- a and fro, as though they intonaed to do's wnet og ive when they gut a chance. Ax soon as Dr 5 sat down, sister Newman bounded up like @ cork, and ia spiteful nd sharp toves sald that Mormon women saghe hot to be subject to pain, but thet disease and death mast be banished from amor thom, and go to the Gen’ ile, where they belonged ot Ged’ would. sco glorify his name by cutting off the rotten nations of the esrth; and then the women would obey thelr husbands, love thew, wait on them, and if they wanted more wives, holp to get thea. It was a rambling tirade, aod there was enc more of the same kind, but I can unly report the sabstance. She wan succeeded by sister Susanne Lippinant one of Dr. Kichards! hoaris, and a fair aperimon of tho degraded clase of sptritual'mives One of the sinters bear ie whin- pered, ‘She is full of the aphit’’ Teould easily see that she was full of spirits that came from the distillery. She advcented pouring down Lobelia until the devite ware driven out of the body. She ‘astened her red. guosenerry eyes upon me, and made some ill-natured remarks about Gentiles, "She finally .broke forth Jato an unkavan tongue, and, as near as [ean recollect, Une were the words:—‘Bit, ele, elo, ela—come, coma, como~reli.. rele, rela, relo—sela, seio, ele. selum.”? This gibberish was re- repeated over two or three times. Sister Sessions then arove and translated these mysterlous words, The intor- pretation proved to be ® mere repetition of what the in- spired Susanna had before said tn murdered English. Sister Seasions took her seat, and sister Gibbs got up, fully pomsonsed, to overtiowing, with the notion of heat. ng, even to the mending of broken Umbs, by faith and the laying on of han: By some unlucky mishap, arm bad been disk and eke roundly asserted it had been instantaneousty put into ite place by this divine process, tut alas! exercise bad put ber aria out of join a second time, and whe pitéonsly bemoaned her fate with tears, lest the Lord might vt condescend to heal her She was a wielched case of cragy fanati- cio. Others poured ent nonsense ta the sume +train, (me woman had « afflicted with werotul remedy applied. two brothers lid ed v Vater Nostera over their bend: moved by the spirit to bless th tongue, badly who wae h to have th Using like thexe nave, wt serum.” The sister, who hs as interpreter the meaning to t r utterances y proved to the invocation of reat blessings, both tempor five everyting that heat outnumber Jeane, and Jaorb Voor thing. she looked as though she needed some betior guar. for temporal comforts than these empty sounds have heen over oightoen; had « large bab: 4 _another child at home, way poorly ol v§ and undoubtedly half fed. My guide book Aupiy Shearer, was with me, She, too, made some remarks, which, to do her justios, wore a» good deal more to the purpose, sister Sessions again took the oor, and related a dream of the night befor, of « remarkable fight between the Lord and the dew! His sooty mojesty enme pretty near obtainicg the mastery but was finally overcome, and, a the moral of the attale, the Lord ndvived her to use Lobelia in curing disease we that would drive the devil away, With tils crowaing dose the ineeting adjourned. ‘This is @ faithful account of the meeting, except that | have been compelled to soften dowa some of the expres A desire; her see! was to sions used, which were too grorm to be repeated. Tt haw aven me the horrors. I begin lo have a sapsratitious dread that we may be ip cou way presented trom lea ing xt the me appeluted, and oul stay i this place in definitely prolonged. Taw Rerusiic or Linersa.—-The establish seat of Liberia is an object which taast result in the cab | cert ~—_ Mr, aohn M. Botts and Our Richmond Corresponden' ro THE EDITOR OF THE HmRALD. Aston tovsx, New Youre, Nov. 24, 1966. My attention ».*4 called, » short time since toe statement made your Richmond cogrespondent, to the effect that I was ,“¢solved on being presented us @ candidate for # neat in the Senate of the United Staten, which i to be filled at the approaching eee sion of the Legislature, and t.'*t my friends were actively engaged in efforts to vecure’ ™y election. As soon us the above statement waa “een It Rick, mond, the National American of that chy, Which te conducted by those most likely to know #0n’ of the movements of my political friends, promptly” reaponded, and pronounced the whole statement ut terly unfounded and fulse, from beginning to end— since which the same correspon ent has secn Gt * repeat in the followi whick take from last Handay'e Wuaton? = Llearn ‘hat John Letcher, of this State, will be bedere the texislature as a candidate for the United Mate» Senatorship. The prospect of Mr. Mason’a ins a ig Abe ae Oe wr. beget Sees looked to with s conaldetable “ogres o hence, it la preentmed, Mr, Levoher's aspirations ter tae Senatorship. Under any circumstance. | am informed that di Governor vest pie te * canteen and {n the anon's appoln to mission, mt Ge nosnecshat, thore is every reason to think that he would Meanwhile, Botts pnrauea * the even tonor of his way,’” revolved. turn qa what will, to eogage in the contest, Yes, he is bound to run, ao matior though he aould nob save Lis cistanoe. Of ali politicians living ho t« the lea Oixplrited by defeat or waversity. Nv Prey be boiiiga jo hundred be. to the fight with n nerve and energy \iat Lerpeake a one tainty of succoss During the resent fale in this city, noticed in the Notional American a apeooh of hin delivered some months ago at a state fair in New Hampabire, It wae reproduced for the seeond or third time in this instance, with o view, of course, to taver hin pretendone te the United States Senatorship—some eay the S'residency; Letter Wil. I tar, however, the cancun aystom whiok his wily adversaries pur-un ao Knocedsfnlly in the manage- ment of electiona, will obviate the poasivllity of « diviel in the democratis vote—the only foundation upoo whisk he could rest any hope of muecess. I do not» tha’ be will withdraw from the sontest, sad as this proa- pect is. He will acquire some pelty fame by the more nso lation of his name with « positon #0 ed, which may te oT effect in favor of bia preten sione for the , ¥hile no great dishonor cae at- tach te his cefeat fo view of the overwhelming power of he democracy in the State, He will see the fight aut, certaln And ugain, in Priday's insne of the Henanp, E find, from the same souree, the following extract: — Botts will go in fe all cfreamstances, Defeat bene Obappointiment to hin. Long babit baa so femi- liwriged bia with w , that he can atany ime re celve the tidings of a disastar wih the most perfect com- placevey. His friends here wouder how the Ha@aLe -be- © aware of bby porition and pects iu regard to the ning election for the Senate, Th no means of knowing who your correapon- nt is, but if fam not imisinlormed ae to the per- n, he in not only « foreign political epponent, but who is altogether a stranger to me, tomy but that he has some sinister object in thus repeating his sense- lem fubrieations, which are designed to place me in A Jae and ridicnlous position, is manifest, but what that object may be must be left to conjecture. It is in, however, that he has very little regard for natter thongh he ‘te he relies ageim an forthe or thoughts, movements and intentions | the means by Which it ix to be adcomplished, | elreulat versal freedom and ¢leyation of the African race. | Including the Maryland colony, tts territory extends | from the Shabac Fiver on the north (near the bri tish colony of Sierra Leone), a distance of about six hundred miles towards the south and cast, between the parallels of 4) and 74 degrees north lutitade, Perpetual verdure covers the id, while of the country is diversified with gentle hilla and sloping valley’. Says Sishop Sevtt my opin is healthy, much more so Uhan that of our (A ican) Southern coast. I never saw a more vigorous and healthy people than the natives, nor did I ever see the human form better lope The arclimuted colonists, too, enjoy excellent health. As to emigrants from another clime, they must pass through a process of acclimation, which will, in general, be bevere or otherwise, according to their own habits.” een twenty und thirty rivera, flowing into the Atlantic, wator the country—ihe chief of which are the St. Paul's, Junk, John's, Mechtia, Sinea, and the Cavally. On the St. Pauls several have heen commenced, and its banks are at with many comfortable brick dwellinga. Uj of four hundred farms are located on tide river, on which reside more than three thousand cultivators, Land is sold at $40 and $50 an acre. In 1852, about nine thousand pounds of sugar were made on the St. Pauls; it is of good quality, light in color, and as well granvlated as the best Porto Rico. Hesides the great staples of sugar can be raised, to au indetinite aman inger, arrowroct, pepper, ground nuts and indigo. Nearly all our garden vegetables, aud those peculiar to thé tropies, may be abundantly enltivated. A greut variety of fruite abound, among which may be found the banana, pine apple, guava, lemon, orange, tamarind yeon nat. 8, | ietonm nnd falee? As your eolumos Lave been used by him for the not what appears tome aya wilfal and ma- licious misrepre { and as f cannot entertain a eneph iid encourage such an abuse of he has been employed, even towards one to whom it is notorioas the Hamann ie wdly, (though for what good cawe 1] am at a krow,) mny | not indolge the hope that you will grant me the privi naylng, through the same chemel thet) there is one friend of mine in init Who hos entertained or expressed a hot election ty the the result of ln-t Glection# wow ascertained, he is unknown to me; and thet as for mysel’, | woald quite as soon expect an invitation from » Umperor Alexander to ie command of he Crimes, aa th dt by the present legislotive ody of iny own State. 1 pre me the olject of the conductor of the y | bketp in employing correspondents at a distance fu part at least, to ascertain the condition of pab- | lie rentiment, and the movements of polittenl - ties, for the int humerous reade fabulous tories cloth,” for the 1 mation and oalightentnent ie and not for the clreutat of “Toanufactared out of whole crpone of misrepresenting and tain ) leading: if so, the services of this correspondent | night be dispensed with without werlous los to the There are immense forests of woods snitable for | ding and furniture after in Europe and the United most common tree j* the nat which is extracted the sively exported Lo France America. Eighty thousand African coast in 192 Hducation tx encouraged and cajed for, and the refining light of Christian truth diffused throughoot the length and breadth of the land. Where thirty years ago the degraded heathen native built his hat and offered human victims to hi« fulee rode, or the tan ten an a ay ring pair, from palm ctl now most exten- Germa a prising twenty towns aud vila, of ten thousand eemen. The public build school-houses, and the chur evince the of an enlightened Christian community, destined to rd peace, happiness and full manhood to ita worthy dwellers, and truth and civil and spiritual ife to all Africa 6, the happy # Pp Trinvre to Mayor Yoov—Among the i of the recent canvass in the eity of New Yor is none more instructive or wignificant to polltheia than the resolution s Mayor Wood, adopted meeting. held at the Met nings prior to the ef olved, That we ng the udministrat the great municipal reform opolitan theatre, « few ev It fs in these word {in hin a bolt y knows the necting fre emanated, cota’ the most intellivent, dents of the m 1 ut nearly al! politically ry 7 the hject of itizen, now the emer bering these things moet to commend the 4 ‘ capacity whieh transforms w friends, or the manly who, rising above the unk the politicien in the patriot and placed ord thin mer he f the reward w grateful community will never tall to render v honest, capab nd fearless public vervant. Al Argus, Noe. 22. Yinup oy THe Lake Svrenion Corre Minne T enent has been a very proxperous year for the Lake Superior copper mines, The tohu yleld of copper for 1466 ix extimated at 0 41,000 lus, whieh at present prices, is worth 1 606,.000. The Lake Hupertor Jowrne! weys the yield exceeds its extimates by 1.000 tous, and adde of ‘The copper that baw gone below thin semen haw f theme font of par ju wpir an Ww been more thoroughly cleansed than ber re. th average for the whole range being 70 per cout. Law ear the average was between 6 and 60 per cent. prevent prospects are that the yield wil! be nearly double The coming year, a many mines that have Just began operations will become ‘arte ships pera. were compelled to stop operstions hy the, pocey pressure of the last winter are reson ing Uvelr ow and doing well. These are good grounds for a he lief that nearly ai) the inne thet were closed up will be opened and worked, and tavet of the locations are good ones. An yet, the work of developing the wealth of the Upper Penineuls bas bot Jost vegun, avd we may look forward to a (nerease In predaction more rapid than hes yet teen thought of - am iner@ase that will tend ww give confidence and mability to our “) liar inetitutions } Court of Clatay aY, Nov, 12. The court met at 11 o'¢lock. were all present. David Baley, Req, of wets Charleston, South Carolina, appeared, aad was worn an ettorney of this court e argiment in Le privateer APmatrong cial 4 frem yexterdny,) was rewmmed by HH lips, whe was followed by Hon. Char Penns) twanka, who concladed hie ren jeltor will follow with bis argement Adjourned. The camwood is sought | | Limitations, We notice aleo that some of the mines that | panes or the public, for what reliance can hereafter w placed in any statement he may make, when there ia not any perty in the city of Richtooud, 1 w to amert, who will not re- gard bis stotements, in reference to the movements and expectations of my friends and mywelf, as ridi- culousiy abeurd and groundless, and a% wilfully ma- if they are not, lot him state upon - what or upon whore authority he has felt Dhiunseif at liberty thus to use ing name, and give publicity w the insane workings of hia ‘Weantted im ‘ination. I am, very reapectfally, Ke., . Borra. Joun fingular Case of Digamy. (Prom che Uhiladelphia Ledger Now. 24.) Yesterday morning. 1p the Court of Bes. sions, before Judge Thompaon, Wu. P. P. Beulord wes eharged with bivamy. The defendant ts a physician, and reides in Newark, N. J, It te on the part of the Commonwealth, that the defendent war manied to one Phabe Howell, in New York, in the year 145, and that in the your 151 he woe also harried, in the city of Philadel phia.to Abby Avo Tichever. The flewt wife iv fi ity of New York, and the ia the wife residing Tichener war proved by the mbalst he ceremony in this city. The defends d morzinge resided in Newark, N. J, hin loot wife ond her family also reside. The defendant ard his wife bave lived together since their marrage. and will live together in Newark, and have a it I » defence it that the marriage of the ¢ ant to Mise war a forced roarriage againet never lived together; that ehe never @ as her horvaud; that she i» now living in New York: and (bat peither she norany of her friends t ty with this proseention ident rever, ¥ re hinmnaelf as having been legally murriod in New York Lhe defen e allege t he toarriage in New York, iu 1°43, we neta legal marriage, A warrant bad Leen laeved for the arrest of the defendant for an alleged loproper tutercourse with the lady; the de- fendaut company with # brother @ friend, ent to the the lady, for the purpone of the warrant, and that, while there, the ht foto the room, and a minister sent tyicleotly protested against the ‘ that veither the defend- t the viade any reeponmes to the cere- held a hwodkerchiel be- me being between forty tol when 4 wile t wince lis tage, aod ! J anked | oma sb 1; and after the ceretgony y left the house, and they jove that time, The se teocret from the world for talleging ana reason that it 1) lt for breach of promiae vw " leged be had been eu tried in N wk NOS defence that thin 4 at the instance of the wife The brother, Dr. or, wow very intimate with the defendant, vdicine, in hie office, at oF arringe with hie mister, oped that the brother knew of the wh, that he bad guid matter, and found | wae, ae ie segedin he own lenyoage, alle bamtvag, Rome time In the wpring of LeG6, 9 ditheulty occurred Geteeen Dr. Tichener, who ie else 8 praethel in Newsrk, and Dr fenterd, tee , ad $e thin, it te alleged, wiiebs \) the present proseco- ton The de‘entant aleo pleada the Statute of hich ‘eqairen that waite of thin kind court Le brought wide two years from the time of Le ofince charged—that be, the recond To thin part of the defence the Common were thet Ube wtatate of tire itations doer met to the detendect in thin case, inaemach, leged. the defendant wes out of the State tive from The defendant denies 8 fogitive from jostter, slleging that hie ho Newark wae well knows Ww the princs for the protecation; that at the time of marriage he wee end hes been ever since ving plywelan in the city of Newark, and baa there for the last twenty years, and ie well cs jFel Eee ties: ty the citizens of that place, that be has repeatedly \iited Miiledelphia since bie marriage, remaining ‘Toown ww the prosecctor, The defendant laa s witnewes in atfendasce from New dence on toh dew Some thirty witnesses were rpm ped a te the good character of the defendant, some titpe, and Chat these viele were ‘i . court 1 opt) o late hows Inet night, and closed evs end that be wae wel kee oe 6 phyrician of ox lemdve tier, in Newark, for rome _. years care was then adjourned antll yy morning. Sivteee robered cod Wwihew were before the Pelion Comat of Cinelan st om the 30th imvtant, for ioe lon ep & Webber) ate Afrines free lowe boarding hewer Recktiown, Priseliie Amtram the landhuty of (he lebteen!, wee Stet twenty dollwes, aos (6 there 0 ddlars each, tot