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N bargain, and tho hard cash had disappeared. Let us, | ers. Witness also stated that ono of the , who then, derive consolation from these —l "y went by the name'of roy making wrgret Wh all ite lauded superioritics, cannot save a le from. ts to rise when Americans should . Kary, convaleions, te atine Teasrccliie ce oF | Taree etme Tellier sobiiien, sad Salltvan ben ci ana mnaieteaale was again called, when the cross. examinétion was re pn rary eumed, Accompani another man, Mr. 4 pr teenth rece emmeteeagie | be eaten ome. tee a te stem exter men wi A Auto every portea of the Union, bad been broughtto s | try. Ho oeald not say if be intended to keep thom; he benefits to eve: dead pause. The same copaequences have resulted from siml- far canines to many other beaches of useful manutaciure. It is self-evident (hat where there is no ability to purchase manu- fctured artcien thee cannot be wold, and couse quently ms ‘This statement is clear so far as it goes; but it states an evil without proposing its cure, which is the duty of a statesman. Mr. Buchanan's argument is feeble in a e tule. latter is often ab- ted out crimipating between natural and mercant former must always exist, though the sent, and the ruler of a republic should have why both are not always in harmony, the il- lusivative case cited by himself there was plenty of iron which the railway required, and yet she miumers were thrown out of work and the Tailway could pot The iron manufacturers in the various States are described as baving sutfered more than amy ciber class, and yet the whole operation was wuhm ie country, pative material and native labor alone demg eagaged. We can understand that if more foreign goods wuee Gm perted than could be paid for by American exports (he Dwance would have to be provided for in gold, i We cau readily comprehend that this “ overtrading’”® ‘would entail pupisument on those engaged in it; but why, of necessity, Sbould it injuriously affect those who were no partigs to this imprudence—those solely occupied in do- mestie manufactures, which involved no obligatious with the foreigner? In this case, then, we perceive 00 en- Viable wistom iu Gemocratic institutions. The innocent are punished for the acts of the guilty—the plough, the loom, aod the anvil, falling victims to the reck- less speculator in foreign productions. We proceed to ‘the subject of the tariff, which the President speciti- cally conpects with the financial condition of the country. The late commercial panic, he informs us, which produced pecumary distress, reduced the amount rom foreign Countries to such an extent that has proved inadequate to meet the necessa may have intended to do so He went to confess; the | priest Fy mond 8 give absolution till he —_ = through them. It was at the suggestion of a police that he frat went to Skibbereen. The takenidation of the approver then ended, and the trial was adjourned to next morning. Fiupay.—Seven or eight witnesse> were produced who wero not examined fully—examin’ ons were merely read over to them and cross-examined. One of the constables contradicted the eviden: . of the informer as to the privac} of the room called ‘‘Phosnix Room,” in Morty Downing’s bouse; he stated it was always open to the public, and even the constabulary bad taken refreshment there. The form of oaths tobe taken was not produced, but the in- former stated it verbally in bis evidence. Three of tho prisoners, McCarthy, Driscoll and Stack, had not been ex- amined, but they were identitied by the informer. ‘The inquiry Closed to-da} o'clock. M’Carthy, ‘Stack and Driscoll were on their own recogni- zances of £100 each to come’ up to trial when callod on. Collinan, Duffin, Dennis Dowli Patrick Dowling, Timo- thy McCarthy, ‘O'Shea, and O'Brien, were admitted to bail, themselves in £100 each, and two sureties of £50 each, to appear at tho assizes. Daniel McCarthy, E. Sul- livan, J. Donoghan, M. Moynam, W. O’Shea, and Morty Downing, were committed for trial, without bail, The solicitors for the prigoners returned thanks to the magistrates and crown solicitors for the manner in which the proceedings had been conducted. The Spanish War with Mexico. DEBATE IN THE SENATE AT MADRID—ADDRESS TO THE THRONE—GENERAL PRIM’S AMENDMENT—REPLY OF MINISTERS, ETC., ETC. (Paris (Dee. 19) correspondence of the London Times.) A debate took place in the Spanish Senate on the 13th ou the pregent serious quarrel between Spain and Mexico. of the government, and to repair the deticit proposes to raise the tariff. Heavier duties are to be posed on foreign productions, which of course will re- | move them still further from the reach of the consumer. | The peopic are wot to be allowed to buy as much as they did ib past years, apd the inevitable consequence will be | ‘that they cannot sell as much. Not selling as much, they Will pot produce as wuch—or, in other words, the markets of their labor will be narrowed. Such is the nature of E In our monarchy we act on the very | relieving the pressure of indirect taxes the justidcation of the princi. and” income tax, however | Immediately ta 2 ¢ been as Ww as elves. Th to make good the losses ¢ rence of panics is to be though they are inevitable tinue: m tw heen Ter ther he car Will the good aHe wine be ambition. Zhe iamondiorues af | tue cured anil mecomee Mune GNC TU. MoMA From the oO | anu en =I uF fenanp stvengtluened the | th the warmer ane my wl them mxKunn oF May America flourish, | it be traneplanted [From the London Star, Dec. 24. President Buchanan's solicitude for the wappression ot the Coban slave trade and “for the civilization of be nigbted Africa,” may, in charity, be accepted as sincere; but that the continuance of the traffic im slaves should be reckoned 4s one of the chief “sources of aunoyance to the American people,” and be alleged as @ reason for the ac- quisition of Cuba by the United States, is nothing but a huge piece of political hypocrisy, far too transparent to delude any but the most wilfully’ blind. Sach sabterfage is unworthy of agreat pation. It has the additional de- merit ef being gratuitous. It has been, for at least a quarter of a century, a settled point of the policy of the federal government to acquire Cuba. Nay, the very period for the consummation of this event was forcibly dwelt upon, in 1823, by Mr. Adams, then Secretary of State at Washington, in a despatch which he addressed to Mr. Nelson, the American envoy at Madrid, and which contained the following remarkable passage:— Such, indeed, are, between the interests of that island and of this country, the veographical, commercial, moral and politi eal relations, formed by nature, gathering, in the process of ‘time, and even now verging to maturity, that tn looking for- ward to the probable course of events, for'tue short period of half a century, it is scarcely possible to resist the couviction the anuexation of Cuba to our federal republic will be in- Gispensable to the continuance and integrity of the Union ‘We, upon this side of the Atlantic, may be permitted to question whether tha Union would not be quite as safe without Cuba as with it. At the same time we may ad- mit that, from an American point of viow the possession of that isiand would be of vast importance to the United States, for it commands the great highway which modern commerce has an increasing tendency to traverse to make its shortest transit to the Fast. The President resapitu he politi h would render the acqui- sition of Coba desirable, and they have been submitted on every possible occasion to Spain, France and Kagland. 1 648 Mr. Buchanan, as Secretary of State, even went so far as to act upon them and autho- rise My. Sanders, ,the American Eavoy at Ma. drid, to make maximum prepared pain a bena fide offer for it, fixing tne e which the President of the repablic was give at a buared millions of dollars, or 0 sterling. In the long correspondence, too, States, France and England respecting having for its object to guarantee of Cuba, and prevent it from fall- e hands of “any European Power,’ the ulterior ‘al republic in relation ‘to tl was bot disguised any more than when Mr. Buc to the memorable Ostend Conferenc that Cuba must be acquired by America; ‘aud ifnot by fair means, then by force. Instead of now again insisting upon a multitude of petty grievances, which are but 80 many pretexte snugly stowed away for use when the opportunity may preseut itself for a forcible seizure of the have heen only honeet, and by far more Statestnanlike, to declare that, in bis *u¢ t, the time had arrived t6 renew negotiations with Spain for its acqu sition by, purchase, and for carrying out im relation to it what hail long been the fixed policy gf the federal government, ‘The European Powers must understand that this is the fact. Two only of them—of course except Spain—have any real interest in the issue, namely, France and England, and these have recorded it to be their fixed deter: mination not to allow America to annex Cuba. In Februar 1853, lord John Russell, addressing Mr. Crampton on the ‘subject of the rejection by the eral government of the proposition to con- cinde the tripartite convention already alluded to, said, “that while fully admitting the right of the United Btates to reject the propoeal that was made by Lord Malmesbury and M, de Turgot, Great Britain must at once resume her berty, aud upon any occasion that may call for it be free to act either singly or in conjunction with other Powers, as to the way seen fit.” Hence, whenever the policy of America with regard to Cuba begins to assume a substantial form, we may t a political complication of no ordinary kind, which it will be well to watch, lest it embroil us in a transatlantic war. No doubl, were Cuba to pass into the possession | of the United States, the slave trade would be atonce | abolished, and this would be so much gained to humanity. The Cubans thernselves have everything to acquire by the transfer, for itis scarcely possible a people can be inore ‘oppressed and overtaxed than they by the nominees of Spanish corruption. The slaves would be at least as weil off under American masters, and that must awful system of immigration which augments their numbers would probably experience the same fate as the traific in negroes. Thai the commerce of the island would be im- mengely increasedgadmits of no doubt; nor can there be a ference of opinion that the position of the United States, as a maritime nation, would be greatly improved. What is there to set against these probabilities’ ‘The Feeling in Parts. {Paris (Dec. 21) Correspondence of the London Herald.] The paseage in President Buchanan's epeech regarding Spain Kas cxctted mach sttention. ‘Ties bolileose ina ‘viduals who are always seeing in their mind’s eye a war between France and England, or @ war between France and Austria, are beginning to indulge in similar and equally probable anticipations with regard to the United States. [From the Paris Presse, Dec. Nover has the alliance between th (France and Spain) been more durable and cordial saying of Louis XIV. ‘dl n'y @ plus de Pyrenees, come almost literally true. French companies structing railways in the Peninsula, which w Continuation to those already existing in France, diers of the two countries are fighting side by side in Co | chin-China, to a an {fjury common 19 both: their | fleets cruise together in the Guifof Mexico, and Cuba ix | by the French almoxt as much as the Spanish flag. 2.) two countries The The Irish Secret Society Prisoners. (From the Cork Examiner, Dec, 24. } The prisoners were brought up for examination on Wed neaday the 22d. Counsel for prisonets, Messrs. M'Dowing and H. 'B, Julian. For the Crown, Mr. Pagan. Mr. Fagan the proceedings by a short statement on behalf of Crown. Mr. M‘Dowing applied that a professional re- be allowed to take the evidence of witnesres, with understanding that it should not be published in thi journals. The application was op) 1 by wi lengthened discussion the magistrates re. | fased the a reporter. Dr. ivan, the approvor, was then called, and stated ‘Was Worn & member at a fair at Bustry, on the Qu ,~ Took two oaths—one of secrecy, ani ove of Attended a meeting at “Priest's Leap, of Cork and Kerry, ana drijied there, of Bantry and Kenmare mot, the o to take up arms, as the Americans on the oc og ie who would be joined. by the ‘and Ireland was then to be an independent re- his oaths he was bound to take up arms at a y, and yield implicit ovedivace to bis lead. ‘This quarrel is of more than two i, standing, when the Madrid Cabinet recalled their Minister from Mexico. An attempt was made both by France and England to bring the two governments to an understanding, but with- ont effect, though it was then admitied, as it is now, by weil informed Spaniards, that all the fault was not on the side of Mexico. “Spain hus, as yeu are aware, « cousidera. ble naval force in the Cuban waters, with troops ready to to Tampico, and it is difficult to imagine how hos- Ubbes can be avoided. A tetter from Madrid of the 14th gives the following ac- count of what passed in the Senate:— The Commission charged with presenting to the Senate the reply to the speech from the throoe merely para- phrased tbe paragraph relating to Mexico. The amend- ment of General Prim was to this offect— The Senate bave seen with much regret that our differences with Neaico sili sursist Those differences would have had a pacific solution if ber Majesty's goverument had been ani mated by s conciliatory and just spirit. The Senate are of the origin of those differences is unworthy oi the par is pation, and therefore they see with pain warlike pre Hous made Uy your Majesty's government, as the force of s will never give us the force of right, which we have not. When the question was put that’ this amendment be opted, Geperal Ros de Olapo roae and moved the order he Gay. after two hoars had been lost in disputing as ether be sbould be beard, Gen. Prim obtained leave vigor and persistence maintained the te to exprezs their opinion on the acts of rament. He declared that the public were gene- ‘ent of the real character of the affair, and that womance cxplamed the warlixe feeling they had sted. He explaimed the history of the conventions ‘Dietwd iste Woh Mexico for the payment of certain sums ¢ Spamish subjects. K was impossi- to n@mmit Uaat there was fraud on both sides. By Mt mews there were comprised im the list of Clusaus sume which did pot belong to Spanish subjects— whiwh. im faci, was the indispemssbie condition of their le- General Pram observed that the illegal claims re Ubms mixed op with legal ones formed one. evture Cebit, which amounted to aboat $3,009, matt of WU). Be repé letiers and other documents disclosing the autr poet that hac leew set on foot to get rid of M. Lozano, the Sruzush Mumster at Memeo, and to obtain the nomiaa. tun of smother who would be more accommodating to the cimments. He afSrmed thet M Lozano’s 4 pretensions of the Spanish government, and the marders committed ov Spanish subjects at San Vicente and other places, were the two affaira which threatened to lead to war between Spain and Mexico. General Prim laid oa the table of the Senate other documents, which ho said that Spanish decorum forbade him to read. He maintained Uiat they ought not lo force Mexico to pay what she did not owe—Mexico, a country founded by their ancestors, bound to them by ties of , by the same religion and by the same habits and usages. accused the Spanish Ministers of a poticy arrogant and unieeling—a policy which seemed sometimes directed in favor of a restoration, which was utterly absurd, instead of a policy conciliatory and respectful to the established government of Mexico. He aljuded algo to the project of founding in Mexico a mo- narchy in favor of the children of Maria ‘ina, which was started in 1847, and which cost so much money to Spain, General Prim was not of opinion that the Mex! government ought to be made responsible for the murders commitied on Spanish subjects. They were brigands who perpetrated those crimes, and the Mexican authorities sent detachments of soldiers in pursuit of the malefactors. Some of the criminals were arrested, tried, condemned and executed. It was clear that the Mexican authorities had done all in their power to give satisfaction to Spain After showing that there were unfounded demands among the bona fide ones, and which Mexico could not and ought not to pay, and that the murderers of Spanish subjects had already expiated their crimes with their hves, General Prim ended with these words:— if you desire to make war, why do you not attack the savage Morocco who insult our flag? Why do you remain satisfied with the payment by the Emperor of Morocco of the pric of a sh p captured two years ago by the Moors of the Riff Is the blood of Spanish soldiers shed in combats with the Moors on the Melilla frontier of no value, to be of no ac. covnt? Are these insults, which I will not detail for very shame sake, unworthy of notice? Yet they are far more real and more dishonoring than any grievances we may have against Mexico. Why so much energy against a ration which is failing to pieces every day, and so much patience with Moroecor Do not the Moors of the Riff hold cur soldiers as prisoners, and do they not threaten to put them to death uuless we restore the guns which they used in battering Melt "hy, if you are so ardent, do you not demand satisfaction from the Eoglish goverument for the expressions uttered by Lord Matmesbury against our country? Do not be so arrogant to Mexico, which cannot «ppese you with an army or a ficet, What do you expec to gain diton. You will gain nothing b injluence which the Spanish r: Hold back, then, if it be yet time; if it if your guns have alreaty opened fire in aialy wish the flag of the country Certainly that is what Ldesire; and if, iver, you have need of au additional sword, pon mine. s reauined at the four Senators who bad been successiv eign Affaire, addressed the Houee. 7. as the telegraph has already informed us amendtnent was rejected. The critical state of aff and the probability of antage of it to prose tify an allusion 80 Cabinets, with « each of whom * The debat of the 14th, and 'y Ministers of’ For. result was, that General Prim’s m Spain and Mexico, d n filibasters taking ad » their designs ov Cuba, may jus- son again to the subject 1 has had the benefitos six different diferent Ministers of Foreign Affairs, dove his best to solve, or to embroil what is called the ean question.” In the adjoarn debate on General Privm’s amendment in the Senate, four of these Mmisters, being members of that body, spoke; of the remaining three, one was absent aud two have no seat iu the House, The ¢x-Minister, M. Pastor Diaz, on whom resta the responsibility of recall” ing the last diplomatic agent of Spain in Mexico, replied toGenerai Prim. M. Pastor Diaz is a poot, altraromantic, though not the most remarkabie. fis speech would not, perhaps, have been out of place in the days before Cer vantes had written, and while Spain still retamed the habits, manners, and ideas of the middie ages; but in modern times it gives rather a poor notion of the wisdom. of Spanish statesmen. Don't tatk to me,” eaid the high minded senator, “of ilegal claims, which may be about two millions of dollars. Two millions of dollars! Is this paltry sain sufficieut to put in movement even a charity bey at a Spanish gatey Docs General Prim take Spa- niards for wretebed mendicants?” This sort of eloquence drew down much applause. Paltry as this sum is, I dare say the foreign creditors of Spain would not look upon it so scoilingly as the poetical Senator: it is, as you are aware, (be amwwmt which was included among the tna fide claims against Mexico. With all his chivalrous contempt for hard dollars, M. Pastor Diaz for- got that the original quarrel with Mexico was precisely about money, and about money only, the outrages on Spanish subjects by Mexicans coming long after, He said lost Mexico in @ material point of view, she ed it asa “moral colony, a political province, of which her enemies would deprive her. Spam must for: tify the Mexican race, ag, if some day Mexico become the vietim of her warlike tendencies, should be taken by the Yankees, to be afterwards used by them as manure for their plantations" (no great compliment, one would snppose), “Spain would then put on mour: child who had perished ina distant clime. Diaz cherishes the hope that Mexico will not disappear— “she has sitll much vigor—her nationality will again flouriah—the blood of Spain will prevail over. the fair-haired races of other skies.” If Spain be war with Mexico, he thinks that it will siraply : “ike that given by afencing master to his pupils, that they may learn ‘how afterwards to defend themerives from their adversari M. Pastor Diaz ended by declaring that Spain was a great Power, and it use ehe was so that it was sought to depress hor of aiding her, and evento pity her, as if she were weak, After afew words of amore businesslike character, the present Minister of Foreign Affaire explained. He éaid, that as regarded the pending questions with Mexico, the breaking of the treaty (for the t of Spanish claims), and the murders committed on Spanish sub jects, relations were suspended with Mexico, by the viola. tion of the treaties, for there were three not ated, without the Spanish government doing anything more than —- After the violation of the treaties the terrible events of the Tierra Caliente occurred, and it then required the shedding of Spanish blood to sos that, if not in the whole republic, at least ina considerable part of it, there was a premeditated plan for exterm! nating the Spanish race. It was only then that the Mexi- can (pg 4 announced the total rupture of diplom: o tio a After three treaties, the minister observed, Vicente, Mexico resolved, without reference to the Spanish govern: ment, aud contrary to tue treaty of 1863, to revise the claims admitted as legitimate. In this Mexico was in the wrong, fer it resulted from the discussion of the subje's that there wore, i point of fact, illegal claims introduced among the bona fide ones, to the great prejudice of the honest claimants. It waa then that the ‘differenes agsumod the gravity it now has, The late Spanish Minister in Mexico, instend of exacting the fulfilment of the treaties, consented to their revision, was recalled and disavowed by his government, Minister gxplained why whe qub- EW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1859. wih ¥. Lafragua Salted. J Baciend France their trl mediation, w! ‘was ac- ps 4 dloxien to obtain if passed since it was offered. Recently a Minister Plenipo- teutiary offered (o treat, but the Spanish government could ot enter into relations with him without being as- sured beforehand that he came authorized to settle all the matters. Tho it, ho said, sent some abips to protect their object waa, there- | fore, peace and ‘n did not and could oot aspire to a protectorate, iis eeneae could ahe tolerate that Spaniards should bo outraged by the Mexican ro- | Pin closed the discussion, and Genoral Prim's amend- you are already aware, was rejected unani- mously.” France. ‘THK MONTALEMBERT APPEAL AND MIS FINAL SEN- TENCK—DEATH OF AN RDITOR—A N&W FINANCIAL SCHEME—STATE OF THK LOURSE. Our Paria advices are dated on the 24th ult. ‘The hearing of the appeal of Count do Montalombert created the same amount of interest and excitemont as the original trial, and the limited area of the court was crowded to its full extent by & distinguished axdlence, Eleven Judges were on the bench. |. Dufaure and Berryer again made brilliant speeches in defence of Mon- talembert, and were several umes loudly a ded. The reault of the appeal was received by the North American, which ls thus recorded in the Faris eorrespoadouce of the At five o'clock the Judges retired to deliberate. They remained in deliberation full two hours anda half. On agnin taking their seats the president, M. Perrot de Che- wolics, delivered the judgment of the Court, duced to three months, oye imposed by the Police Court, 000 | ; maintain francs fine, but by the withdrawal of one of the counts inthe indictment, completely ‘M. de Mon- talembert from the effects of the law of the 27th of February, 1868, under which, even afer com- pleting his punishment, he was liable to be trans- ported to Alger or be exiled. As this was une of the principal objects of the appeal against the sen- tence of the Poiwe Court, the judgment of the Cour Im- periale, 8 unquestionably’ a triumph over the govern- ment. ' The decision, which was pronounced at half. past keven o'clock, was received by ail present with the great- eat satisfaction, and M. de Montalembert was warmly con- gratulated by his triends. M. Hippolyte Rigault, a distinguished Parisian journal- ist, died after a brief illness, at the early ago of 38 years. A Paris letter says that the ‘Societe Commorciale and Induatriello” was making steady progress, It will bogin with « capital of 60,000,000 f/ anc, of which forty millions wili be at once paid up. ‘The President is to be named by the Emperor, ana have the right to veto, It has no con- nection with the Credit Mobilier. ‘The Moniteur publishes the usual official returns, The receipts of November amounted to £605 096 sterfng, being an increase of £10,825 as compared with November last year. The amount received during the eleven months Was £6,694,003, showing a decrease us compared with the same period of 1867 of £108,004. ‘The Grand Duke Constantine, of Russia, reached Paris on the afternoon of the 20th ult., visited ‘the Emperor at two, afterwards visited the members of the Imperial family, and then went to the Russian Embassy, where be received the Ministers aud others; in the evening ho dined atthe Tuileries, and afterwards visited the Opera. Next day he attended a grand dinner at the Russian om. bagey, and on the following evening returned to Marseilles. The Emperor vieited the Grand Duke Constantine on Tuesday, the 21st ulumo. The legisiative labors of the session will commence on February 7. There will be held, it is eaid, a solemn sit- ting of the Legislative Body in the Sulledes Ktats,a grand apartment im the new Louvre, set apart specially for occa- sions of this sort. ‘Ihe Paris correspondent of the London 2imes says that the wholesale trade in Paris is dull, and some anxiety is felt lest the heavy engagements to be met at the end. of the year may not be fo punctually discharged as they ought to be. There ig a general decline in the price of wheat in the French provincial markets. The Paris su- gar market appears to have attained its maximum, though the demand continues brisk. The rise in the silk markets 1s beginning to deter purchasers. The Bourse was firm on the 24th. opened at 73.30 and closed 73.35. The 3 per cents News from China. TEE TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS ENDED—CANTON QUIET— MARKET KEPOKTS. The China mail, with Houg Kong dates to November 15, had reached Suez. ho oo negotiations in regard to the tariff had been con- cluded, At Canton political affairs were quiet, but business was checked by high prices. ‘The exchanges had become more unfavorable for Eng- land. AtHong Kong the rate had advanced to 4s. 9d., and ‘at Shanghae to 68 6igd. The tea settlement showed a decrease of 9,000,000 Ibs., with very littie businessgat Foo-Chow-Foo and Shanghae, where prices bad checked operations. ‘The deliveries of silk exhibited a failing off of 9,500 bales, the quantity exported being stated at 30,000 bales. The Ship Isanc Wright Burned. TWO HUNDRED PASSENGERS ON BOARD—GREAT CON- ¥FUSION—LOSS OF PROPERTY—LIVES ALL SAVED— FIRING \ THE VESSKL FROM A WAR SIP. At two o'clock on the morning of the 23d ult. a fire broke out in the hoki of the sbip Isaac Wright, as she was lying at anchor in the Mersey river. She was about to sail for New York, and had on board about 200 pas- sengers. On th larm of fire being given great consternation prevailed on board, but as some steamtugs and ferr; beats were quickly alongside the passengers were all rescued, many of them only half clad, and leaving all their property bebind them. Several’ passengers were nearly suffocated in their berths; but, thanks to the vigi- lance of the officials, no lives were lost. After the rescue of the pessengers the vessel was towed up the river to he Sloyne, and ran so near the shore that at low water she was lettdry. Shots were fired into the vessel below the water line from a man.of-war, in order to assist in sivking her before the tide receded. Several engines con- tinned to play on the ship for hoars, but the flames were not fully subdued until the following day. Tie cause of the fire bad not been ascertained, neither is the extent of the damage mentioned. The cargo consisted of fine goods and about 800 tons of fron, and it, together with the vessel, is said to have been fully insured [From the Liverpool Post, Dec. 23.] From one ot the passengers, an \telligent Irishman, we learned that the ship went into the river on Saturday, and was intended to ail on Monday, but was detained. The passengers retired to their berths at the usual time last night, when everything appeared to be “all right.”’ Shortly before midnight the carpenter of the vessel visited the pussengers for the purpose of examining, or making ap exchange of tickets, when he said he smelled asirong indiantion of fire. The alarm took, the passen- $% beesme aroused, got out of their beds, and the fest consternation prevailed, It was uot long before ake poured into their berths, several were nearly suf- ated, and one or two had’ to be carried on deck. so far as can at present be ascertained, no lost. [From the Liverpool Timos, Dec, 25.) The emigrant ship Isaac Wright, of 1,500 tong, and be: to Messrs. Baring Brothers, was on Thursday partially destroyed by fire, while lying in the Mersey, 1 jor New York. ‘The fire was observed about two in the morning, When a report was raised on the londing stage that a large ship, at anchor in the river, was on fire, and the officers on duty on the south landing stage at once manned a boat and put off to some tags, for the purpose of giving the information and sending assistance. At this time the Woodside passenger boat Prince, Captain Ic, passed the boat, was informed of the calamity, and alter landing his passengers, at once proceeded to the ship, which was lying at avebor in the river between Kyremont and New Brighton. That something was amiss on board the ship became now apparent, for there ascend- ed from hér blue lights, rockets, &c., in rapid succession. On reaching the vessel it was ascertained to be the Isaac Wright, outward bound, for New York, with flames issuing from various portions of the hull. ‘There were between 200 and 300 passengers on board, and the consternation of these ‘be more readily ima- gined than describec—a considerable portion of them be- ing females, many with infante in their arma. ‘One or two other steamers quickly arrived alongside the vessel, including the Conqueror, and covery aasistance was atlorded. The passengers were got on board the ‘tugs, @ large proportion of them scarcely half dressed, with nearly naked children in their arms, and conve; to the north landing stage where they found shelter for the time beneath the’ample shed, Some of them to save a portion of their clothing; but by far the largest r ae Neg no Ue agbed their lives and quit wu Thing ship as they stood, leaving their property to chance. It is stated, however, thi the had been a little more cool and collected they might have saved the whole of their wearing apparel and perty that was at all ble. Mr. Hodgson, the Harbor Master, on being made ac- quainted with the facts, immediately procured a tug and proceeded to the Isaac Wright; and after making Inqui- Ties, gave Mirections that the fire engine from Hatton Gar- den should be brought alongside. This was dove with all possible speed, but the efforts to extinguish the flames were almost fruitless. Seeing this to be the case, the burning vessel was towed up to the Sloyne, out of th way of the river traffic, and anchored in shallow water. At nine o'clock Captain Mends, comman:er of her Ma- jesty’s ship Hastings, with his officers and about eighty of the crew, proceeded to the unfortunate vessel and ren- dered very valuable assistance. A small gun was placed on board & boat, and forty twelve pound shots were fired at intervals of three or four ,miuntes into the hull of the Isaac Wright. Only twenty-one shots, however, took eftect, and even then the vere! made water very slowly, owing to the cargo being packed exceedingly close. Of course, it is yet impossible to estimate the dat a but both to vessel and cargo \t must be very great. We understand that the ship and Mer cargo, the lator consist. ing principally of fine goods and about’ 800 tons of iron, Were inaured, ‘The origin of the tire has not yet been a8: cortained. ‘The lsane Wright belonged to the “Old Black Ball line” of American packets i wevnderstand that the agents, Meesre. Baring Brothers, will forward the passengers New York by the ship Great Weetern, which ig intended to leave the port to-day. Morkets. . THE LONDON MONEY MARKET. [From the London Mercantile Gazette (City Article) De- cember 24.) The money market is (one o'clock P. M.) unaltered; the demand je good, and 234 per cent is the minimum rate out of doors, The telegraphic advices from China are unfavorable to the prospects of the money markot, the rates of exchange showing @ further adverse action of about 5 per cent, and consequently the exports of silver thence will be accele- rated. The Stock Exchange preronts quite a holiday appear: ance this morning, the attendance of mombors boing very thin, and there i# ot much business doing in any descrip: tion of securities, The funds are almost stationary, con sols being exactly the #ame ns at the close of last night. The quotation is 963¢ a 96%; the reduced and the new three per cents are 9714 n 974; Ranke stock, 224 a 226; BX chequer bills are 36s. a 398. premium, stocks are and the market ox- hie ae Tange Tak nx poe Seattle 9236 to 98, ditto scri.s 5% a 3 discount % a 6 discount. ‘The Railway share market partakes in the genoral dul- ness of busincas, and prices are scarcely go strong. BB, descriptions of shares are without any important ‘The funds and other public securities are (half- two o'clock) quiet. aid Consols, a 96%. ‘Ata meeting of tie bondholders of New Granada, the tions of the government for a settlement of the jn debt were rejected. The return from the-lank of England for the wook end- ing the 22d December gives the following results when compared with the previous week :— Public deposite........£9,660,818 Increase, , being a decrease of £40,265, and the stock of bullion in bot departments is £19,148, 007, showing an increase of £124,- 628 when compared with the precesing return. +. There is little toremark on in the bullion market, The demand ia limited, and bar silver is taken at our qnota- tion, but dollars are offering freely at the printed price. The export of gold for tho Continent is now very small, and for the present the imports from Russia have ceased, £5. d. Foreign gold in bars (standard), per oz. 8.17 9 Foreign sliver in bars (standard), per oz 05 1% Gold coin—Portuguese pieces, por 318 0 316 3 atriot, per 0: 314 3 Spanish, per oz... 816 6 » per 07, 816 0 ‘Ten guilder pieces, per 0: 310 0 Silver coin—Mexican, per oz. = 0 6 0% Spanish pillar dollars, per oz. 051 South American dollars, per oz. vee O 211 The following are the latest quotations of the foreign ex- changes in Londen aud Paris:— LONDON. PARIS, Short. Short. On Paris....26 10 « 25 13 On London, .25 11 ia 25 09 On Amst’dm IL 143ga 1116 Onamet’dm. 214 a 213% ‘The city article of the London Times contains the follow- ing:— The position of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Com- pany, whose first mortgage bonds are largely held 1m Fogland, and the coupons which have remained ander de- fault since 1856, has been carefully investigated by Mr. Alexander Trotter, of the firm of Capel & Co., by whom a tour was undertaken for the purpose. In a circular to the bondholders he discourages any resort to foreclosure, aud expresses & conviction that if they will agree to some plan z emi for the currept year, so as toenable the » be applied to put the road in a sound condition, d be no doubt that its future carnings wil! render their position perfectly secure. Me, Trotter does not entor into any detail of the circumstances uader which Mr. W. H, Aspinwall and his associates—by whom the completion of the line was undertaken—have allowed this necessity for prolonged suspension to arise; but for the sake of American railway management, which is every day fall- ing into worse odor, although it seemed a year or two back to have reached its loweat depth, it may be hoped a clear explanation from those gentlemen will ultimately be forthcoming. {From the London Times (City Article) Dec. 25.] The English funds opened steadily this morning, and Fubsequently experienced an improvement of % per cent, which was maintained, the market closing with a firm ap- pearance. In the discount market the minimum rate to- day was 234 per cent. The appiications at the bank were more numerous than for some weeks past. [From the London News (City Article) Dec. 25.] Business very limited to-day, owing to the approach of the holidays. The funds closed at a rise of 3¢ per cent. ‘The discount market shows an uctive demand. No bullion operations at the Bank. ‘The returus of the Board of Tra‘ the eleven months of the present year were issued yester- day. They exbibit the important increase of £1,690,621, or about 20 per cent in the imports, as compared with No- ber, 1857, when the monetary crisis was beginning to cepress the trade. The comparison of the eleven months shows, however, a decrease of about 7 per cent. The important revival of the export trade here indica- ted is partly occasioned by the shipments of cotton goods goods to India, BARING BROTHERS AND CO.’S CIRCULAR. Lonvox, Dec. 24—6 P. M. Our colonial and foreign produce markets have been very quiet, with little change in prices; they closed yes- terday for the holidays. Money is plentiful. Consols shut, and 96% a 97 tor the account. Bar silver 5s. 154d. Mexican collars 68. 14gd. American eagles 763, 3d. Deabloons, Spa. nish, 768. 6d. South American 74s, American stocks conti- nue steady, with some demand for State bonds; without change. British colonial rather flatter. Canada ed 116%. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia 1133, alia. Cocmsxat firm: 100 bags Honduras brought 3a. 4d. 0 2s, 8d for low wo fale silver. Cocoa.—75 bags Trinidad were t in trom 51s. a Sis. for middling red. i Of Corre the value is well maintained: 566 casks, 830 barrels and bags plantation Ceylon sold, low middling to good middiing bold colory bringing 684. 4 72a. 6d.; small, 64s, a 65s. 6d.; 980 bags Madras, fetched, fine fine ‘ordina- Ty, bale O88, a O88. 6. good and fine ordinary, 635, a 675; ec are or8, 300 t ba Maat mre t a 506. "A cargo ags good first Rio, insured f. Day has changed hands at 468. 9d, 2, Correx has advanced. Tough cake and tile £107 10s.; best selected £110 10s.; sheathing 12d.; Y. M. sheath: ng Cony. —The supply of English wheat has been small, and it sold readily at former prices. Foreign is without change, Last week’s average price of English wheat was 40s. a, on 99,187 quarters returned. We quote white American wheat at 40s, a 428.; red 368.0408. Flour 20s, a 243. Corron steady, with a small business. Hxar meets with little inquiry, St, Petersburg clean, £29; 287 bales Manila, very ordinary common, soid at £20 a £20 15s. ; 800 bales Sunn middling and good fetched £17 5s. a £22 8s.; 4,000 bales Jute brought £15 12s. 6d. for very common to £22 10s, for fine. Tkov.—The market is quiet at £6 10s. for rails, f. 0. b. in Wales. Scotch pigs quiet at 45s, a 65s. for mixed numbers on the Clyde kAD.—A good business has been done in retined pig at a £28 108; common do. at £21 1be. Lixskxp firm ; 528. has been paid for a cargo of Taganrog off the coast, delivered. On1.—Linsved, 298. 9d.; cocoa mut, 378. 6d. for Ceylon, 408. for Cochin; palm, 984. a 40s. 12,000 bi Rangoon, one third damay ed, sold first class, 68.068. 6d. for second, and 58. 60. & Os. for third aad repacked. The sound was held for 7. 6d. ;ather low quatity. 1,680 bags Bengal were also bought in,low middiing whi 1 And good middling old white bare grain 9s. 94; 100 casks Carolina partly sold at 20s. 6d. for fuir white. a —Pepper quict: 407 bags ord. and mid. dusty g taken in at 34d. a Bd. Nutmogs steady: 46 cases 601d, good bold at 2s. 8d. a 2s. 9d, Cassia Lignea: 271 boxes Sold, Jat pile mid. bringin 193, Cloves 50 bags Zanzibar of fair quality Sreuree firm: £22 a £22 ScGan.—The market is quiet, but prices are fully sup- ported. The sales of West India are 2,600 hhds.; 2,260 bags Mauritive sold from 38s. 6d. a 408, 6d. for middling to fine grainy brown; 4s. a 448. for grey and yellow mall realized 27% 6d. grain. Of 3,915 bags Bengal part were sold ‘at 448. 6d. a 47s. 6d, for middling gray yellow to middling white Re- hares. 672 bags Madras ‘br Ought, good soft yellow, 425, Cd. a 435.; native brown, 30s, 6d, 2.237 bags Pe nang went at’ steady prices, jow and middling yellow bringing 40s. a 428. ‘Privately 600 boxes Havana, No. 14, on the spot have changed hands at 45s. 6d., and afloat, 3,600 bage brown Bahia, insured f. p. a.,have been sold for a nexr port at 23a. 6d. Tattow.—St. Petersburg, Y. C. 50s. 9d. on the spot. The tea sales on the 21st instant comprised 15,671 picgs., of which 8,005 were without reserve. Tho sale went with fair spirit but at irregular prices, and 9,100 found buyers. Binck leaf teus sold ab fair to fall prices, but the flavory kinds, in some instances, at a decline of ld. a 2d. per pound on the extreme prices realized last sale, | The Market has since been firm. Common congou Tid. per und. anime —Rough, 10s.; American spirits, in casks, ‘Tiv.—English firm: blocks, 1238; bars, 124s.; straite, 1286,; banoa, 1268, RICHARDSON, SPENCE AND Livenroor AR. 1858. Dec. 24 To-day no cotton or corn market is hel, so that we do not isue Our usual tabular circular. Corrox,—The miirket, depressed by the advices Africa, of increased erop’ estimates, has continned dull'all the week. Holders offer their stocks freely, particularly uplands, and nearly the whote improvement of last woek has again been lost. In Manchester trade is active, but spinners look for adecline in prices of the new material, and limit their purchases to present requirements. Mid- dling Orleans, 7d.; Mobile, 6 13-16d.; Upland, 6 11-16d. Brrapstvrys.—The arrivals this week consist of 4,729 bushels wheat, 1,026 bbls, flour, from the States: 1/802 quarters Wheat, 2,282 sacks flour, from France; 17,06) quarters wheat, $,689 quarters corn, rom the Mediterra- and Black Sea, and 167 bbis. flour from South America. Farmers’ deliveries of wheat for the week ending last Sa- turday were 99,187 quarters at 403. 2d., against 101,379 quarters at 498, 3d. in the corresponding week of last year. The general tone of the corn trade continues sleady. In wheat there 18 not much business doing, but former rates are fully maintained. Flour neg- leeted, and nominal. Indian corn ‘slow, without change in value. A few retail sales’ of Ame- rican white have been made at Sle. a S28. por quar- ter. ' We quote: wheat, red Chicago, 44. 64. a 5e.; Mil- waukic, 6s. a 58, 6d. ; Indiana, 68. a 6.’ 3d.; white Western, 6e, 0 68, 34. ; Southern, 68. 6d. a 78, 3d. per 70 Ibs. Flour, 208, a 218.; xtra Ohio, 2s, a @ 24y.; Western, 198, a 208, 78.; yellow, 273, per 480 ibs, Bexv continnes very slow, holders offering their stocks and prices have still a downward tendency. Pork to vell at late rates, Bacon—Little doing; Irish «od home cure a shade firmer. Lard—The excited ad- from America bi led to the withdrawal of the Tr part of the stock from the market, but this hag little influence on the demand, which continues limited, About 70 tons have been sold at S48, 64. a 668. per cwt. Late this afternoon 100 tons have been sold at 66s., and 56. has been made for 60 bbis. fine, ‘Tarow quiet at late prices; 628. is nominal quotation for “Butehers’ Association.” In London the market is dull at 508, 6d. a 608, 9d. per owt. for P. Y. C. Rosty.—Common searce and wanted; gales have been made at 48, 6d. a 48. Md., and 1,000 barrels are reported at de. 10364. Bark.--26 bhds. Philadelphia sold at 88. 9d., and 100 bags Baltimore at 68. 3d, fexps.—More inquiry for clover; 20 tons sold, ex-store, at 52s., and 10 tons to arrive at 60s. por cwt. Timothy slow ut 278. Od, a 288, THE LATEST MARKET REPORT. Livarvoor, Bec, 26—Noon, Business is entirely suepended to-day, The railroad trains are ronning according to Sunday time table, #0 that the London papers of to-day will reach us too late for trapsausgion by the Africa. and the Slave Trade. SOUTHERN OPINIONS ON THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADB. the Columbus (Ga.) Times, Jau. 1.) ‘The arrival of the Wanderer with a cargo of slaves has created a little talk about the policy of re-opening the twade at the South, and elicited greut tears of sympathy from the abolitionists at the North. Few Suuthern mea Genie the law violated, no matter how terrible the penal- | ty for a slight offence, and hence their willinguess to | punish those with death who run the gauntlet in carrying | on the African slave trade, But we egremeas no Southern man thinks the trade any criminal uilunce ex- cept #0 far as the law makes it. It is an offence against | the law and of a corporation to dre rockets ‘within its limita ; there is no crime in tho act itself. As long as siavory is held w be a divine institu- tion—as.long as Southern men regard it us right, aud With a conscience void of olfence can carry on the slave trade between the States—zo tong will they con- demn the slave trade as @ matter of poly merely, and not as an offence against humanity or mo- rality. It is an estabiished Dropnekion, that our title to property in slaves cannot be defended without defending the African slave trade. The policy of introducing it ig entirel different question, and is one upon which Southern men may legitimately differ without any sus- | picion of their want of loyalty to the institution. if isa question of commerce which is to be regulated by the -wants and demands of a community. No Southern man we trust, however, will contend that the slave trade is “piracy”—though the United States law makes it £0, and we obey the luw—without admitting that the slave ia plvoder. If itis w crime to take him it is a crime to keep im, and we may as well abandon slavery ag to admit @ “wrong in the means of its formation.” ‘Yhen while we desire to be understood as neither advo- cating nor opposing the policy of re-opening the Airican lave trade—while we desire to have executed the law as ong as it is on the statute book, yet we will never believe t is an offence to carry on the slave trade, except as made +0 by law. It is a legat and not a moral olleuce. It may be impracticable to discuss the re-opening of be african siave trade—the brand of “piracy’’ pat upon t will never be wiped out 48 long as the North is in the scendancy. This Southern men may expect—the South 8 too weak to put on the statute book that ‘“siavery is ight.” ‘they wilisoon be unable to admit a slave State— | t will be impracticable—toen we imagine we shall sub- | mit. In the meantime, it is becoming the South that she | should vindicate her integrity and the purity o€ her insti- | tutions by assuming the true position, that slavery is net- ther @ political, moral por social evil—that it is divine in| ite origin—that our title to saves is found in the justice of the slave trade—that we try men for carrying it on bo- tween another country and this in accor e with law, while we oppose the introduotion of more slaves as & mat: ter of policy, and policy only. [From the Montgomery (Aia.) Adverticer, Jan, “| We agree with our estemed cotemporary ‘of the Times in a portion of his article: we as deoidediy condemn the remainder. We do uot believe that the African slave trade 1s a “lega) and not a moral offence.” To establish a degree of similarity between the firing off of rocketa in the streets and a procedure that has murder as its neces- sary origin, a procedure that requires War and massacre as its primary step, that uestroys a dozen negroes in order to land one safe on American soit—to compare these two requires certainly the uimost brilliancy of analogistic reasoning. It is very common for us to speak of what is commonly known as “mock pbilanthropy.’” So fur as ap- plied to the abolition sentinients of the North, the teria has been ajust one, Let us beware how we lessen the moral strength of our position by giving to these mock philanthropists a realand honest subject of repreach for us and our institutions. The South at presens occupies a position before the world that exceeds in moral grandeur al} that has ever transpired since the history of the uni- verse. ‘A comparatively insignificant section in point of num- bers, with social institutions which, forty years since had no defenders, no sympathizers, nO earnest apologisis, even among her own peop!e; with the moral sentiment of the world falsely arrayed aguinst hor vital interests; with her own federal brethren growing day by day morg envious of her prosperity, more embittered aguinst her people, having to contend against every obsticle that foreign enmity and national favoritism could interpose, we behold the South rising superior to every difficuily that besets the path of a young nationality, fearless of the military superiority of her toes, and diedaiuful of their opprobrium, rising higher and higher in the scale of civilized nations, until she stands now the conlessed arbiter of com- mercial civilization, proud and invincible. And this mighty triumph we owe to the wisdom of her states- men, wisely guiding and directing the noblest and most humane system of labor that the world has over Let us continue to be guided by the teachings of the great apostles of Soutlurn independence. Let us stand firm for the right, reject the visionary theories that would make us grasp at impracticabilities, while we surrender our strongest defences. Lot us fight for slavory as it is inthe South, not as Northern ship owgers would have it. We are united now against foreign waF and civil treason. Let us beware how we kindle the torch of de- mestic dissension by striking a death biow at the peouni- ary intereats of the owners of two hundred millions of Southern property. ‘The South now occupies a position before the eyes of the world more grand and imposing than any nation upon the face of the globe. Others court tho friendship of their neighbors; she may demand it. She has nothing to fear from the armics and the navies of Europe, for she clothes the soldier and the sailor. She need not tremble before the commercial supremacy of Britain, for the manufac- turer and the ship owners of England depend upon her for their material and om cargoes. She need no longer cower beneath the philippics of Wilberforce and of Su- therland, for the enlightenment of the nineteenth cen- tury has dispelled the dim clouds of European fanaticism, andexhibited her institutions in their true light, as the wisest and the most humane that human wisdom ¢an sug- gest. It is true that abolitionism at the North ison the increase, but even for that we have an unfailing remedy. Without our “Northern allies we know that we ma: still flourish and prosper. Without us, disunion, inevita- ble disunion, will teach them that they cannot exist in @ distinct nationality; and amidst anarchy and civil war they willregret, aud may even repair, the self-inflicted ‘njuries that must follow their blind and headlong fanati- cism. * Through toil and suffering, with the contumely of Christendom lavished upon us, we have raised up for ourselves a class of laborers precisely adapted to our soil and our climate, We have shown the Smiths and the Cobbetts of Britain that slavery is an econo- mical system of labor. We have proven to the Wil- berforces and the Sutherlauds that it is a humane in- stitution. But who can maintain tbat the landing of fifty millions of wild savages upon our shores is to add to the wealth, the security and the progress of Southern civiliza- tion? Who will maintain that the encouragement of the cruelties of barbarian warfare, and the horrors of the “ middle passage,” is worthy of a Christian and enlight- slaveholding community’ We agree with our cotom- porary of the Zimes in declaring that it is time the South assumed the position that slavery is neither a “ moral, social nor political evil.”” We are willing to labor with hina for the abolition of the federal laws tat made the slave trade piracy. But we are not willing that the defenders of slavery in the South should be forced to become the de- fenders of the African slave trade. We are not willing that the inhumanity of the slave ships should be classed with the mercies of Southern planters. We aro not willing that the owners of Southern negroes shor! be compelled to udvoeate a * policy’? that destroys half their property at one blow. Repeal the laws if you will, for we oppose any federal legisiation that implies even an indirect slur upon the fair name of the South. Repeal the federal laws, for in the present heated state of the public mind, the’ very dead- liest blows may be struck ab the true inwrests of oar sec- tion, under the guise of devotion to the South, Repeal the federal laws, butonly that we may declare in so doing that the South shall carry out her own policy, unawed by Norther fanaticism or foreign menace. Ht’ if it be "re- pealed, let every Southern State pass laws even more stringent, because more easily executed, Let it bo death by the law of Alabama to introduce # cargo of Africans, |+ ag it is death to conspire in any other way against the se- ty and prosperity of the commouwealth. While wo ¢ no other resource, let the laws of the United States be enforced for the protection of our negro property, un- til Alabema takes upon her hands the authority which 1s Jusily her due, INLAND TRAFFIC IN BLACKS—ANOTHER LOT OF MIS- SOUKI NEGRORS TAKEN SOUTH. [From the St. Louis Democrat, Dec. 6.) We have no intention of concealing our satisfaction at the rapidly increasing importance of the commerce in blacks between Missouri and the Souht. There is no true friend of the State who will not be gratified by the fact that the siaves of Missouri are rapidly finding purchasers who take them out of the State, and leave in their stead thousands of good dollars, enabling their former owners to pay for the labor of white men in tilling the ground and raising the rich crops which our farms are capable of pro- ducing under labor intelligently directed. ‘The South is doing a good work for Miseourl. We have to record the departure of anottiér lot of negroes from our midst. The steamer EK. M. Ryland, which arrived on Tuesday night from the Missouri, brought twenty-nine aduits and children, male and female.’ They were the property of Tom Smith, Feq., of Independence, and bought at an average of ons thousand dollars a head, as a speculation, by Mr. Gwin, of Vicksburg, Miseissippi. ' Mr. Gwin says that six or seven of these negroes are among, the finest he ever saw, and cost him twelve hundred doll each. BURNING OF NEGRO MURDERERS. The Union Springs (Ala.) Gasette of the 24th ult. gives the following account of the murder of Mr. Wiley Jonkins by his slave Muford, and the subsequent execution of the assassin by burning: — The deceased has the reputation of having, even to a fault, been a kind and humane master. On the day be- fore the murder, Mr. J. had whipped this boy, Milford, or had him whipped, for some misdemeanor, and. had him chained or locked till Monday morning, when ho went to him, took off his chain, and told him to “go to the milland go to work.”? The boy made some impudent reply, when Mr. J. told him if he did not stop bis insolence he would knock him down with a lock, aud turned to walk away. The boy then took an axe that was lying near and struck Mr. J. on the head, and knocked him down, dropped the axe and walked away afew steps, then turned and went back, took the axe and struck him threo times more on the head, aud retired a short distance and sat down, making no attempt to escape. A public meeting of the citizens, ee ye was called on Wednesday, to determine what should done with the nogro, when the proposition was. to burn him alive, every one, to the number of two to three hundred, voting for it. That evening at three o'clock, in the presence of dye hundred. paren, he was chained to & tree and burned, Just before the fire was act he confirmed the above tementin every particular. He stated also that ho bad determined to kill his master some timo bie having him wi the day before had not i him to the brutal |—that he had his knife open in his pocket to do the deed, when his master should come to unfaaton him, but his heart failed him—but that when he told him if he did not stop his insolence he would knock him down, ho then proceeded to execute his fell pur- Pome culprit ceased to show any signe of life two anda. balf minutes from the time the torch was applied. A SIMILAR AFFAIR IN MISSOURI. On the 24th ult. Mr. ‘Simon B. Thornhill, who rosided near Troy, Mo., punished one of his negroes’ for miscon du ¢ negro then rushed on his master with a large knife, and stabbed him, which caused his death in two days. The negro was taken to Troy and confined in jail. ‘The affair caused mugh excitement in the county, and on Saturday @ very large number of persons collected at Troy, repaired to the jail, took the murderer out, ant | lynched bim by burning. 3 and the Administration~Thg Tiantie Cane Displaying his True Colors. (From the Chicago Duily o8—Home organ of Mr, Douglas} JAMES BUCHANAN. An unwillingness to say or do anyt that might te any possible manver be Considered as tending to @ political contest in which our friends had a romak interest, has for many months restrained us in ree and candid’ expression uf cur judgment of the acts of the ad- inen to our readers. hun Legislatu Sit sarin kes vebbvona tne totieoontle excuse for silence on our part, and therefore it ts tat we ask the ¢ ning. act was passed. The aa- thor of that bill became the object of all the #landers and villifications of the abolitionists and free soilers in ail of the country. The act embraced au application the greatest principle of American constitutional liberty, At ‘tho time of the passage of that act, ly two and Lie near; years of the intense exeitemeut which ensued, Jamos Ba- Chanan was absent from the United States; he was per- forming a8 an official penny post between Mr. Marcy and the British government, and devoted his leisure hours to speech making at Excter Hail. At homo “there were mon who, knowing his age, and supposing that in their haute he could be made a tool to promote their selfish ends, commenced an intrigue to Dire him foisted upon the de- mocratic party. The old man, however, was upon one point a little weak. He never approved the Kangas-Nebraska act, and bad no desire to become identified with it. The letter to Slidell upon that point never was published in full. He shortly after returned to the United 4 nominajed at Cincinnati through the kindness of Mr. Douglas, who urged his friends to give Mr, Buchanaa the two-third vote which he had failed to obtain. But that convention made a platform, the life of which was the Kansas: Nebraska act, and a pledge(or its fair and faithful application. that he would Amvrican legislation, James Buchanan § it been supposed for an instant that he would seek to destroy it, t0 make it a mockery and a cheat, he would have been consigned to an oblivion ag Wheatlaud, which would bave known no dis- turbance eave that which would have attended tho inter- mentof his person. Hardly had he taken the oath of office before he was surrounded by a of political hucksters—men, who having neither ability or position themselves, devote their lives to attempts to others who do those qualities, Such men as Cobb, Biack, Bigler, Fitch, Bright, Glancy Jones, Grund, ‘and Sideil, took possession of the old man. They flattered him in bis old age, a8 they would a boy on his first ap- pearance in a long-tatled coat ; and their success has seom more enduring with him than it would have beea with the boy, for the lutter, in a fow months, would have sven throogh the attempt upon him, while the old man, in his declining years, actuaily feeds upon the fulsome adulation of the creatures who boast of their using him for their ‘own purposes. ‘One of hie first acts was to appoint Walker Governor of Kaneas, and instruct lim toact fairly and thea, before one year, removed the same officer for obeying those ingtruc- tions! He used Senator Douglas to induco Walker to go Kantag under instructions—the same under which Watker assured the people (bat they should have the privilege of voting for or against their own constitution; and in less than one year he ruled Douglas and Walker out of the democratic party because they faithfully adhered te thelr first position. Since the opening of 1868 the administration has b it would seem, endeavoring to sound the lowest depths political meanness. It has sought to terrify men by pro- scription; to buy men by bestowing office upon them; and to corrupt men by holding out inducements to corruption, It hus dizmissed honesty from the custody of the pubiie funds, and invested convicted knavery with the trea- surer’s key. It bas stooped te acts from which Bomba would turn with disgust, and which would be considered revolting in a despotism. It has songht directly, by the application of federal money, to coerce the people into the choice of particular individuals as representatives, and then lamented with crocodtiean anguish over the dangers which peril our liberties by the employment of money to control ciections. Owing his present position, and all the positions he ever held, to the democratic party, this James Buchanan, as- suming the tone of a Louis Napoleon, has sought to dictate to the people of Illinois the men for whom they should vote, He has, through the gang of miserable officehold- ers who hang at bis coat skirts und despise the facile sta- pidity which allows them to rule him, sought the election of an unanimous republican delegation to Congress from this State. The people refused to obey the despot, and he has, through his official organs, Seononatet them outlaws. He has told them that if they re- should gated it, and those who confirm A by ther action, ‘may never merican ‘hope to hear the voice of the Ai may triumph at Charleston, in the Convention, but God them before the people. ‘Two years have nearly elapsed since Mr. Buchanan com- men his administration, and they bave been two years of deep mortification and disaster to the democratic party. He has devoted ono entire year of it to the destruction of the democracy of Illinois; and that democracy to-day are stronger than they could possibly have been had he been their leader. He has been defeated by the republi- cans wherever he has endeavored to elect his own friends, and has been defeated by the democracy wherever he has sought to elect republicans. It is cause for rejoicing to know that not a man who, in Congress, refused to aban- don the democratic platform at Mr. Buchanan's has been defeated by the people, and, while we regret the elevation of a republican majority 1 we cannot mourn over defeat of those who principle in order to gratify the malign counsels of a via- dictive cabal of Presidential aspirants. ‘We know that Mr. Buchanan is advanced in years; we know that he has held office during a long j we know that his bead has been presen over by rier time, but what was said of another is not the less true of bim, thatthe man ‘who, after having seen the conse- quences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of abhorrence or contempt.’’ Weekly pe ee of Deaths n the city and county of New York, from the lst day ef January, to the 8th day of January, 1869. Men, 69; women, 90; boys, 109; girls, 123—Total, 301. Adults, 159; children, 252; males, 178; females, 218; colored persons, 4, DISKASES, Abscess ofthe lungs...... 1 Fever, typhoid. 1 Aibuminaria and Bright’s Fever, typhus . Fy disease of 1 Fracture of the skull. 2.7) 1 Amputation, 1 Heart, disease of......... 8 Anemia, 1 Heart, disease of, valvular 1 ‘Apoplexy. 9 Hooping congh.. vel “Asphyxia. 1 Inflammavonof biadder: 1 Bleeding. 3 Inflammation of bowels... 8 Bleeding from lungg.-..-- 2 Inflammation of brain... 8 Brain, disease of. 1 Inflammation of heart... 1 3 Inflammation of iangs,..-1T 1 Inflammation of stomach, 1 1 Inflammation of throat... 2 Cancer of the womb, 1 Inflammation of womb. 1 Casualties, by falis,.//11) 2 Induration of cellular tis- Casualty, by'railroad....; 1 Casualties, by being Fun- OVEF...0.0+++ 2 Kilied or murdered, by Cholera infantuin. 1 — stabbing... . Cirrhosis of the liver... 1 Liver, disease of. Congestion of the brain... 9 Lues veneres........ Congestion of the lungs... 6 Malformation of lungs Consumption ..... ot Convulsions, infantile, Convulsions, puerperal Croup. Marastmus, adult. 1 1 Fy 8 Dn 4 "OPBY «essere Dropsy in the head . 3 Enlargement of the heart, 2 Erysipelas “5 1 1 1 8 2 5 1 Exposure..... Fever, bilious, Fover, gastric Fover, interm| Fover, puerporal Fever, remittent. Fever, scarlet, Fever, ship,.. mre Re mcm cera mmr mcme Cm deaths, compared with the correspond- and of last week, was as fol- Week ending Jan. 10, 1867. “ jan. 9, 1868, Decrease this week, RRCAPITULATI Boves, joints, &c.. brine andnerves. nerative organs, . Heart and blood vessels. 11 Lungs, throat, &. Old age...... % Skin, &c., and eruptive fevers, 2 —Of which 10 wore from violent causes. aces. Austria...... 2 1,2" British America. 1 3 lane 1 France 3 2 Germany, - 20 266 Holland, 1 2 hare . 2 2 vs 2 pony ‘PUBLIO Almshouse, Bik’s Isiand.. 4 Lunatic Asylum, BI’dale., 2 Bollevne Hos; ‘31 Randall’s{si'd Nurs Hosp, 2 City Hospital 6 St. Luke’s Hospital. 2 ‘Bee 3 St. Vincent's Hospital 3 4 Ward's Isl. Emig 't Hos’l.. 8 i Workhouse, Bik’ls Island, 1 1,