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au imeelf in an Nate Union is the upholder of an iu the Lebanon Law School, Mr. er by a democratic , the ebarges him with stealing a bundred thousand dollars of ‘io public money. fe could fill « volume with similar instances, but those are rh to show that there is no shade or variation of religion, law, race, politics or knavery, that does not fod @ bome in the bosom of the great democratic party. From the Albany Argus and Atlas—democratic organ on y Arthe half shell.) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. + ‘The New Yorx Henan is occupying iteelf very much in ‘setiling the question who shall bo next Prosident. A short time ago it renominated Fremont; later, it dragged Gen. Beott back upon the course: now its sufirages are for Gon. 1. If the General needed the caution, we sheald parody the warning of Poor Tom, and say, ‘Let not the creaking of eboes or the rustling of silke betray shy poor heart to ‘woman.’’ Let the General remember the fatal hug which \ Live Bake George,” and shrink from sucn friendship. Gen. Weol is too respecta- ble a men to be made the victim of fae Heratn’s vaga- vies. Let that journai cocupy itself with men of its own stam Faerie: - Wee are not aware that a Presidentiel election is to take prior to 1860; yet a large pumber ol newspapers are iscussing the subject as if it were ealy a fow weeks off. ‘There is actually almost time for one of Butterfleld’s Cali- fernia overland mail carriers to Lre & fame sufficient ‘te make him the Pathinder ef the opposition. Let us wait. rom the Roston Post—regular democratic spoils organ.] The New York Henao is 80 prolitc in Presidential can didates that it appears anxious to movopolize the business of furnishing them to both parties, It offers the democrats vg ‘Wool, and the republicans Gen. Scott. Of Gen. Wool HERALD cays :— “His ones claims, we believo, were first agitated in 1852; but he was not aesociated with the party wire- workers, and they were afraid of him. Aman of this comp! |, however, is the very man for a comprom'se at Charleston, from the very fact that his garments are elear of all contact with the dirty work of caucus and con- vention blers. Berides, his military achievements, and bis fig character as ap honest soldier and patriot, are no small advantages In bis fayor. Above all, itis enly upon some such uncommitted, ansectionalized and popular vame that the democracy in 1860 can present auy- thing like a respectable front to the enemy, while with such a leader they may possibly recbyer all they have lost ‘and carry the day.”’ About Gen, Seott the Herat remarks :— “Jt te only ageneral concentration of the opposition upon geome such no-party national and universally acceptable wan as Gen. Scott, and according to the programme of 1840, that can give them the victory in 1860.” {From the Chicago Press aud Tribune—republican organ.} FOR THE LAMBS OF TIR FLOCK. In Mr. Douglas’ Philadelphia oration, as reported by tho Press of that city, we fiud the following curious pa ragraph:— ‘In lilinois I had the democratic organization with me in every ounty and in the State; and in Illinois the oue- mice of popular sovereignty bolted the regular nomina- tions, «nd attempted to destroy the organization of the democratic party. That example, set by our enemies in Tiimova of bolting reguiar nominationa, compelled you to rebuke proscription by following their example. (Three re. etek in Pennsylvania, in New York, or in any other State, let them reflect that it is the result of the ex- ample set by themeelves mm Illinois.” (Great applause. ) This piteous appeal for admittance into the democratic kitchen would have no special significance if it were not addressed to an audience mainly free soil and avowedly ‘outside of the democratic organization—calling on them to take hold and break down the doors, for the purpose of getting him and themselves back among the flesh pots @f that celebrated cook room. If there is anything widely and thoroughly known in the politics of the year past, it 1s that when the New York and Penn- aylvania battle was sct—when such men as Forney, Has- kin, Clark and their associates had repudiated the admin- tetration and settied with the republicans the prelimina- ries of a joint victory in the Congressional elections—thero had been no nominations in Illinois, and therefore no bolting of nominations. It must have been a special sur- priee to the anti-Lecompton men of the Quaker metropolis to learn that they did not refuse to vote for Florence, Lan- dy, Phillips aitd’-the rest of the Lecomptonites because they were conscientiously opposed to them, but because the example of bolting regutar nominations had been set Dy a squad of officeholders in Iinois. It must have been gratifying to Mr. Forney himself to be informed that his Opposition to Jehu Glancy Jones was ‘the result” of somebody else's opposition to somebody out this way, The impudence of the thing is eminently suggestive of our Squatter Sovereign. Our information concerning the anti-Lecompton demo- ‘rats outside of Iinois, and especially those of Pennsylva- nia and Indians, tends’ altogether to the conclusion that they want no excuses for having bolted the nominations of their party, ‘and that they want no peace nor truce with gr, slavery democracy. Their policy is that which Doug- himself once taught—though then applying it to the friends instead of the enemies of free Kangas—to “ fight from Charleston or Philadelphia, provided he stands by their principles. If their preferences were sifted they would be found adhering, by a large majority, to the lat- ter. This Mr. Dougias knows full well; and his speech to the Quakers is simply a train of sait leading through the into the deserted fold. Will these inexperienced lambs Jap their way back to the Charleston nominee and the Charleston piatiorm? [From the Brooklyn Evening Star.) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. The New York Hxratp is occupying itself very much in settling the question who shall be next President. A short time ago it re-nominated Fremont. Later, it dragged Gen, Scott back upon the course, Now its suffrages are for Gen. Wool. News &c., from Correspondents. POLICE REPORTS OF NUISANCES—FINES COLLECTED— ‘WHERE 18 THE MONEY? Mr. J. Fitzpatrick, of the Sixteenth ward, says that the remissness of duty complained of on the part of the police of this city, in not reporting violations of city ordinances, should not apply to those of the Sixteenth ward. Captain Carpenter has recently reported every- thing that he deemed obnoxious to the public—such as awnings partially covering sidewalks, fish stands, &. In ‘all cases that the writer is aware of, the sum of two dol- Jars and fifty conts was paid into the Corporation Attorney's fice by those against whom complaints were made. «Now, will you have the goodness to gratily the public and tho writer by informing them to what use this money is applied, or to whom it goes?’ We can only say, we would if we could. THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE—GOOD PICKINGS FOR POSTMASTERS. “Qountryman” says he knows a Postmaster who de- Fives a greater benefit from his franking privilege than the Department does from his Post Office. He thinks the ‘Dest. way to make the Post Office Department ex: penses would be to abolish this privilege, which he thinks is paying the Postmaster two salaries, and quite a8 unjust as making a poor man pay taxes on a farm which is not paid for, while the holder of the mortgages pays taxes on them. BREAD AND SOUP FOR THE POOR OF NEW YORK. Mr. L. L—— feels very strongly for the poor of New York during the cold winter weather, and thinks they might he well and cheaply fed at cost, on tho principle of the ‘French cuisines ambulantes. He knows a number of jianthropic gentlemen who would engage to supply 1,000 0 1,600 pintes of soup per day, warm, at all honrs, at a cost of but two cents per plate, , provided the "ssanction could beobtained. The {8 as good as it is old, and there is no obstacle to the good work being immediately carried on without the sanction of the Mayor, though his Honor would undoubtedly approve of it and {ond it hia ald. STATISTICS OF TRON PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION. “p,”” gives us the tollowing stati of iron, suggested by the recent iron movement in Philadelphia:— ‘The amount of railroad iron imported in 1854 was 282,400 tons. The amount of hoop, scrap, nail, rail rods, cables, boiler plate, screws, anvils and iron fabrics, about 260, tons more. The value of this iron was about $32,000,000. The balance of trade against the United States in 1854 was about $29,000,000, besides tho amount of foreign re-exported. There are now in the United States about 21,000 miles of railroad. At 100 tons per mile, the amount of iron required for their con- struction was 2,100,000 tons. At $60 per ton, the value of the iron would be $126,000,000. The whole cost was about $630,000,000. The annual wear and tear being estimated at 8 per cent, the amount required for repair would cost, at ‘the same price, $10,080,000 a year. The whole amount of ‘on fabrics consumed in the United States in about 1,350,000 tons; tho value of the whole 000. The amount of iron manufactured in ‘States in 1868 was 812,000 tons—a falling off the Unit since 1856 of 188,000 tons, The imports of iron during ‘the last year were inconsiderable, on account of the large mantitiés on hand in the warehouses of our large cities in mount of grain annually consumed in the furnaces forges and foundries of Pennsylvania alone is about 7,000,000 of bushels, with a corresponding quantity of beef, pork, potatoes, hay, &e. , &c. GO¥. FLOYD TO BE SENT TO CONGRESS. ‘Our Richmond (Va.) correspondent states that it is tho ‘tmtention of the friends of Governor Floyd, tho Secretary Of War, to run him for tho noxt vacant seat in the United Btates Senate. He adds, that it is probable that Beverley B. Douglas, who bas for many years represented the coun- tes of King William and King’ and Queen in the State So- nate, will bo an indepondant candidate for the Con- Se district, in opposition to Judge John 8. Clarke, Present representative. SLEEPING, REFRESHMENT AND SMOKING CARS. A “Traveller” recommends that to the sleeping cars now being introduced on some of our railways there be added refreslimont and smoking cars, The latter of these oon- ventences bas been already provided on the Hadson River Railroad and on somo of the New Engiand ines. We think "y aurea adoption gall three would add greatly to " eller ani to ii poncer wale. nd to increase railroad pas- STARVATION FOR NAVY OFFICERS. A “Friend of the Navy” earnestly urges the passage of the Increase Naval Pay bill, He says that within the Inst feven years the expenses of naval officers have increased wo much that they haye exhausted all their priya If any men are disposed to complain of party * | NEW YO on a par with those of other nations. NAVAL ACADHMY AT ANNAPOLIS, MIDSHIPMEN, BTO- Ano ser neval-correspondent compisins that, owimg to the pr’ went Naval Academy system at Annapolis, all the youns gters who should be practically learning vheir pro- fessic m ag midshipmen are confined to theoretical studies, and! dat consequently the navy is almost entirely without this class of: nace Masters’ mates and coxswains are annually, to the furtier suxa of $42 001 eet down 19 last for buildings, contingent expenses, &0. ts midshipmen would fearn afloat all'that they learn at the academy, and would ‘be rendering some service te the country for their pay of $360 a year. Every midshipman educated at Annapolis, he estimates, coste the pn vo about $5,000 for his four years’ training, without his making the slight- est return in the shape of services. If the old system could turn out such officers as the Matrys, the Dahigrens and (he Davises, he sees no reason for substituting for it another which offers no solid advantages for the expense by which it is attended, NATURAL WEALTH OF WASHINGTON -TERRITORY. A correspondent in Washingten Territory, in writing about ils resources, says:—The soil of the Territory is ad- mitted to be fertile and productive. Ite farming and graz- ing lends ore abundant in quantity and unsurpassed in quality; its timber and coal are inexhaustible; its climate healthy; and no State in the Union can boast of so vast a communication by water. These are solid and lasting ad- vantages, are sufficient of thomselves, without the gold and other mineral wealth known to exist in the Territory, to make it ere long a country of vast importance. 'The Attack on Fort Scott by the Kansas Free State Border Ruffians. [Correspondence of the St. Louis Republican.) Fort Scorr, K. T., Dec. 17, 1868. Southern Kansas is agaia in # condition bordering upon civil war. Capt. Montgomery, the ‘‘froo State" bandit chief, is under arms in the couuties of Bourbon and Lina, assisted by Capt John Brown,of Ossawatomie memory, and other Jeaders. Yesterday morning, a8 daylight was about dawning, these leaders, with their companies, numbering from seventy to one hundred men, entered the town of Fort Scott for the purpose of rescuing “Ben Rice,” one of their number, from the custody of the sheriff. That officer at the time was sleeping on his “claim,” more than a mile out of town, and did not hear the alarm till it was too late. Our townsmen were all asleep in. their separate houses, Before the inmates of the ‘Free State Hotel,” in which the prisoner was kept, knew what was going on, these guerriiias had possession of the building, and were striking off the chains of the prisoner, who was hela vnder indictment for murder and assauit, with intent to kill. Captain Montgomery had a fire already kindied outside, with which to fire the building, in cage any one should shoot, Our town is so compactly built that ono fire must necessarily destroy at least $100,000 worth of property. Deputy Marshal Campbell, who kept the house, held one of the rooms agaiust them, assisted by some friends. ‘They tried to get hold of him to hang or shoot him. Toey spapped a Sharpe's rifle at Mr. Diamon, the jaiior of Rice. Having reacued Rice they went {to pillaging the rooms. They stole shirts, coats, boots, gloves and whatever it was profitable to take. ‘They got aSharpe’s rifle from Mr. Galiaber, our Postmas- ter, worth $50, though it was not in his possession at the time of their taking it. They wok guns and pistols wherever they could find them. Tucy were go doubly armed with revolvers and Sharpe's rifles that the few who had guns gaw no chance to resist them. While this was going on inside, Captain Montgomery remained on the public square with at least half of his men. He took the precaution to station guards at every — to shoot or capture whoever might present them- selves, Later in the engagement, the house and store of Dr. Blake Little became the scene of most intense interest. If the excitement was intense outside, it was thrilling to the inmates. There were in the house the ‘old Doctor,” his son, Juba H, Little, who was recently our Deputy Marshal, his friend, George A. Crawford, the President of the Town Company, and tho biack girl aud little black boy. Mr. . informs me that they were aroused from sleep by the little boy apnouncing that the town was full of “ jay- hawkers,” who had taken the hotel. As soon as thoy could dress and seize their guns, John Little rushed to the door to see whether the Sheriff's posse were rallying, and to view the position of Montgomery’s men. The guard advancing on him, he told him to stand back. The request not being obeyed, they both fired so simultaneously that Mr. C. did not ascertain that the guard had fired until ‘after all was over, and he found the ball bad lodged just above Mr. Little’s head. Mr. L. then closed the door, remarking that he had shot one of them. The early hour of the morning pre- cluding the probability of any firing by the citizens as a posse, the inmates could only act on the defensive until they should hear that the action had become general. On the one side of them were windows ate | out upon the pointed rifles, from one of which came a bail through the window, the stove-pipe and a ition wall. They could bear steps about the doors, and momentarily expected the first firing to be followed up by an ory or upoo tho house. Soon John Little disappeared into the storeroom, im order to get e view of the hotel and the mob. He mounted a dry goods box, and was rabbing the dust off the window aoa door, when a ball penetrated his forehead and felled him to the floor. Covered with blood and gasping in death, he lay there for two long hours before our townsmen could know of his condition. In almost breathless suspense, and in this house of death, Dr. Little and Mr. Crawford awaited tho inevitable doom. There was not the remotest chance to call in friendly sym| for the dying—nor even to announce the condit nom of Lewd eae No ter of an} on Part of our citizens, no know- Toten of ee ee of it, no chance for anything but the fate that poor John had met like a man. @ ‘was some hope of selling life to better advantage, and that wasall. They heard tho cry to fire the building, in which were several kogs of powder. They saw them plant tho eannon against the house, and the riflemen range round the doors and windows. They heard the order to ‘make ” At that thrilling moment Mr. C. advanced to an uy stairs window, and raised his hand to lift it, think- ing it might appease the crowd or rally friends to tell Little had been shot. But a dozen rifles starod him in the face, and he saw no chance but to take fate as it might come. Just then a lady outside raised the cry that there were women and children in the house. A Mowment’s time was given to get them out. A lady rushed in and got the girl and boy out; but they wero (rightened back by the rifles. As the doclor looked through the part- ly opened door, they drew sight upon him and demanded him to lay down Pa Pos This he refused to do—re- ‘marking that they had killed his son, and his own life was now but of little value, In this parley and sus- nse, Mrs. Campbeil and daughter rushed in, and an old ce State man planted himself in the door ‘to prevent the mob from shooting in. A barricade of pointed rifles ‘was close around the door, The announcement of Little's death seemed to be a reprieve for the doctor and Mr. C. They passed out through a barricade of cooked rifles. Mr. €. then Capt. Montgomery to spare the bullding and the goods, ‘They begun the work of plonder by stealing the belt and pistol from the body of the dying man. Some of them chuckled in glee as he breathed his last. They seized upon the store goods like vultures upon prey. In less than half anhour they packed up and carti ay not leas than $6,000 worth of the Doctor’s best goois. Governor Ran- som, Mr. Crawofrd and others reasoned with them, shamed them, denounced them, but all to no. purpose. They were ‘then powerless to do more. The hotel stable was then broken open, and men rushed in to steal horses. Mr. ©. and Suerltt Bull erat oe. theon to. damit. 48 last—the Sheriff got Captain Montgomery ring his ‘men out of the store. ‘And all this,” said one of hin, “ig to show you what freemen can do.” Th a long conference afterwards, held on the street, be- tween Mr, C. on the part of our citizens and Captain Mont- gomery, the latter avowed his determination to resist the government to the death. He could annoy the United States ‘ag long ag the Seminole Indians did. He and his men would resist all arrests for past offunces, and would remain in the fleld until they have secured their terms. He said that Dr. Little had justly forfeited his life to the people of Kangas for helping to frame the Lecompton constitu. tion, but that his gray hairs spared him. Ho talked as if a state of war existed, and justified his acts under that plea, He pledged his life that outrages should coase if pod tee oe ‘will not bring the law to bear upon the past conduct of himself and his men, Mr. ©. replied that we bave no right to compromise crime; that we can only leave him and his men to an- swer to the offended law; that while he would be making ges his men would be committing fresh _robbe- ries; that his persecution of pro-slavery mon would call down vengeance on the heads of innocent free State men, and that he might soon be ible for another Marais des ene. murder, He assured Montgomery that sinco _ cry Brochetts, gooey bebe fed 8 of the pro-slavery party gone, the free State men will defend thppro-tlavery men of town with thoir lives, of which he would have received if he had not taken us unawares, He replied to all the other posi- tions of Montgomery—and this ended the scene. A French View of the Duquesne Lotter. {Translated from the Paris Constitutionnel, Deo. 19, for the New York Hara. ‘When Washington, after ight years of a wise adminis- tration as President of the Amorioan Union, ned honors and the burden of power, he addressed adieu to the young republic, It was the political will, the venerable legacy of him to whom the ensuing generations wore to award the title of Father of the Country. Now, in that solemn manifest, Washington, above ail, exhorted his countrymen to cherish and maintain ‘the unity of government which constituted them ina single nation.’ ‘That is,’ added he, ‘one of the principal pillars of the ‘building ot your true independence. * is the paila- dium of your political security and of P. Prosperity. * ® Ropulse with indignation even the jow of an at- tempt to separate any part whatsoever from the rest of the country, or to impair the sacred bonds which unite tho different parts of the republic.” Such was the supremo advice of that experienced patriot. Sixty years have scarcely clapsed, and now, already, the word disunion, which would ther have boon con: sidered a8 a national blasphemy, is rest pronounced, ‘Now nowspapers and pamphlets are printed to discuss and support the idea of a complete separation of the North ‘What is more; oven the successor of ‘Washington, the present President, declares openly that he deapairs of the maintenance of the Union. ‘Does not Mr. Buchanan's letter to the committee for tho celebration of tho evacuation of Fort nesne seom tho alarm cry of a disco statesman? One perceives that that anxious patriot of whom he speaks is no other than himself, It is he who wanting, with the experience of the past and the present, to cast a glance into the fu- ture, speculates if, in a century, the republic shall still be united, or if it shall not have’ been violently divided and separated into hostile groups, or Mually if, attor terrible struggles, it shall pot have fatally bent ite hoad under mili tary deapotiam, present gouoration, gays he, must de- RK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1859. pre tong ex) the grav’ mper—do oe gee Lene Satsority to his fears and his wars ry fact is, it few years quite a displacing of P eee nthe Liserions Union. tae taka gainin, ae prepara long time. Several causes have brought that change about: the aewly organized States have rejected slavery, thus increasing the strength of the abolitioniats; then the dtvisiong which enfeeble the influence of the Northern States are gradually disaj ing. The latter have a reat superiority over the Southern States, as well in rela tion to population ag to wealth. It is therefore near the day when all the political movements of the country will be concentrated upon a question which will exhibit acom. plete antagonism between the North and theSouth. Like that of slavery, for example, the latter will be mastered. That may be the cage at the next Presidential election. The putherners are not blind in relation to thi will be in the minority. ‘Therefore they begin to specu- late if they would not do better to form a federation apart, rather than to remain united with the North, which is going to dictate to them. ‘They suspect that they have no thing to xain and everything to lose in maintaining the Union, which would place them in a kind of vassalage to- wards the North, which is more powerful. Those ideas are brought to bgbt in pamphlets, in which one goes even 80 far as to chow-—with statistics and commercial tariffs to Support it—that under the present régime of the Union all the benefits would be for the North and all the disad- vantages and the churges for the South. The uneasiness of Mr. Buchanan is therefore not ground- less; it is justified by the jealous distrust which begins to prevail in the Southern section of the republic, as well as by the abolitionist tendenctes of the Northern States. The nature of the recent partial election of members of Con- grees authorizes the prevision that the deflaitive struggle Detween those rival influences is not far distant. wil be the issue of the struggle? Will it justify the bad omens perceived by the President? Will it’ be the separation of the American Union into two hostile republics? Or will the citizens of the South and of the North have the wisdom to fol low the advico which Washington addressed to their fathers in 1797, and which Mr, Buchanan repeats to them in 1858-9, And if they go beyond this, and accomplish the separation, will the sinister predictions of their tirat and last Presidents be realized? In the letter which we have quoted Mr. Buchanan points out another peril, which is at the same time a shameful plague—the venality in the elections. Here, also, he tries to make the song blush in recalling to remezabrance the virtues of their fathers. In the good times of the repub- lic the votes were not bought, as at the present day; con. victions alone, and pot money, suggested the choice of the candidates. Without strict ‘political probity a republic caunot exist—disorder enters with the vorraption, and liberty dies. ‘Thus speaks Mr. Buchanan, as previously the philoss- phic Channing had also spoken: “I am forced to acknow- ledge,” said that eloquent moralist, im 1937, ia bis letter upon the annexatiou of Texas, “that a corruption which threatens liberty and our dearest interests—that a policy which can give to that corruption a new and durable en- couragement, indefinitely muitiplies the public and private crimet—bas ‘to be signalized ag the greatest calamity which could befall us.’ : ‘That policy, condemned by Channing, and which be dreaded xs mich a8 corruption, is that which Mr. Bucha- nan himself has supported until now, and which he has again developed, it seems, in his message of the 6th inst., which we have not yet received. It is the policy of inde: finite extension, of encroachments, of too rapid and dis- proportionate an increase of territory. “If that country knew itseif, or was disposed to take advantage of that knowiedge, it should feel the necessity of putting a chock to the passion which leads it to extend its territory.” Those are also Channing's words. One sees that if Mr. Buchanan has a right to address severe reproaches and serious warnings ‘0 his country: men, be can himelf receive some useful lessons of one of tue most conspicuous genluses produced by the United States. It is for the interest of tho maintenance of the Union that he deplores the agitation produced by the slavery question; it is in the same patriotic spirit that Chunning wrote against the policy of the Monroe doctrine and the Ostend manifesto, which support themselves. ‘Why Spanish-America has Declined. {Translated for the New York Heraxp from Ei Diario de la Marina of Havana, Dec. 31.] ‘The spectacle offered by tho people of Spanish-America, distracted as they are by civil wars, misled by pernicious maxims, and victims of terrible convulsions, causes aifliction and sorrow to all those who look with interest on the destiny of civilization in the New World; but, besides this, it is @ distressing tacle to all those who look on it from the stand point which must necessarily be taken by him who feels a natural sympathy with the race which Peoples those regions. at we beiee to this latter class will easily be admit- ted by those who remember the manner in which tho Span. American questions have always been treated in is paper; and likewise it will not be wondered at that those questions attract so frequently our attention, and that in treating them—as we cannot d to settle them definttely—we endeavor to <reommend te, spirit of our race, associated spirit \e century, snaremedy for the misfortunes of countries whose. in! habitants are of the same origin, speak the same language and have the eame creed with us. Worthy, in fact, of careful stady and deep meditation is the destiny of those countries which offer to the con- sideration of the philosopher and the politician the strangest phenomena. Heaven has profusely scattered there all the elements of wealth and p1 ity; and not- ‘withstanding that, misery devours them. It gave their in habitants a mild and peaceable character, and nevertheless they lacerate ‘other in bloody strifes. It inspired them with sentiments of independence and the instinct of self-preservation, and with all that they do not succeed either in themselves or in provecting their ex- igtence against the soares of foreign greediness. It willed that revolutions should pass by them, preceded by the terrible disappointments of other nations; and yet every revolutionary excess has taken its permauent abo.te there. Fess to render them the home of — and happi- ness, heaven covered with fruits their immense plains, gave them an enchanting climate, and adorned them with all the magnificence of ature; and, nevertheless, they are only seat of sorrow and misfortune, from whence peace, with all its charms, has fled, and where discord reigns with all ita horrors. These phenomena well deserve to be explained; for, with- out any doubt, in their explanation lies the solution of tue problem which involves the fature of Spaaish- America. Let us hasten to declare that if such is the generat con- dition of those countries, there are happily some excep tions to it, Not all of them are plunged in that deplorable state of backwardness which is in the most of them the bitter fruit of their sterile discords; some of them fort nately have understood the c mdjtions of their well beng, and march trauquilly inthe read of progress, led by the spirit of the epoch and assisted by the trastitions of their race, And these exceptions are the more acceptable, as, serve on the one side as a point of repose for our eyes, wearied by those saddening spectacles, they on the other side evidently exhibit the remedy for the evils which some of them suffer, and show the origin of the good which others enjoy. The increasing prosperity of Chile, and that which during certain periots some others of the b giee cio gr republics have exhibited, compared with e perpetual disasters which afflict the’ rest of thom, clearly prove that if the question of political forms may, perhaps, be an object of controversy with nations, this is not the case with the question of principles and social ele. ments; that if to the former there may be different solu- tions, according to different cases and circumstances, there is only one possible solution for the latter—that nations never abandon those principies with impunity, and on the contrary that those who have common sense enough to respect them, and to found on them their institutions, never fail to wholesome fruits from them. Of all those republics that which offers the mostatriking example of these truths is the Mexican ropubtic, and for thie reason we select It to-day to offer some considerations on its actual situation, and on the causes which have brought it to the sad extremity’wherein we behold it. It is, on the other side, the most important country of Spanish- America, on account of the extent and riches ot its soil, the number of its inhabitants, the character of its revolutions, the influence it is destined to exercise over the relations between the Old and the New World, and even of the misfortunes of wiich it is a victim; all those circumstances aro sufficient for us to look on it with that special predilection of which we bave more than once ven proof in ite bebalf. However, there is still another circumstance which ex- ean that disposition of our mind, and which particular. ly touches our Spanish hearts. Mexico was, in the centu- ries of our lustre, the theatre of our most splendid glory; in that country was written ono of the finest pages of our ‘annals, and the father and founder of that society was one of those heroes who are the most brilliant in the catalogue of our heroes, What was called Now Spain deserved that name, for it was great and superb, like Old Spain; our forefathers left there the stamp of their greatness im pressed upon cities of palaces and magnificent temples, the worthy abode of ‘istian and Spanish civilization, and their colossal works, which are the pride of the coan- try and the admiration of the foreigner, will forever mani fest the genius of that civilization. Well, thon, the destiny of Mexico Interests us; for there was a time when its history and ours formed only one and the same history; for it awakens in us remembrances as dear as they are glorious, which naturally lead us to resolve a historical question of the highest importance for the vindication of our name ‘and for the good of those countries. Several of its sons look for the explanation of its misfortunes to a projudg ment which, invented by prejudiced foreigners, was favorably received by passionate rivalries; they say that tho ‘misfortunes of Spanish-Amorica proceed from the ‘vices and social organization left there 7 ‘the metropolis; ‘and this error not only sustains in the New World one of tho greatest wrongs ever inflicted von historical truth, but it perpetuates there one of the aged ‘most fertile in those misfortunes and disustors which up to this day nike ees those Pay ted oe 10, ‘not true that in is ee ee the mis- fortunes which the people suffer who were hor children. Mexico will furnish us tho proofs, and Mexico ro- sembies herein ali tho other republics, her sisters. The enlightened men who straggle there against the marasmus that consumes them; against tho discord which lacerates them, and against the abuses them, do not find opposed to them tho CEeeies eeIERe Ne CEES Mo Snooess of thoir ‘ts, No, What they meet with is sometimes the abuse ‘of thoao traditions, and almost always the contempt of them. Well, wo must resolutely protest both against the abuse and against the contempt of thom; and in so doing wo know that we defend not only our own history, but also that of the Spanish American pooplo, and wo aro sure to act both in the interest of their own good and of the vindication of our namo, Tt Js not the fault of Spain that the history of indepen- dent Mexico is a series of violent reactions, and a con- ‘inval exaggeration of fing jer that, its ante- ‘and, perbaps, out of hatred to its social elements, iglators gave it a federal constitution, copied {rem the North American; that later, in order to’ escape from that extremity, others conducted it to the extremity of an absorbing 5 Uhat at one time «0 the name of the conservative principle it was shut up und imprisoned within the circle of miserable ideas, a: carried away against the current of the time by retrograde views; that at other (mes, in the name of the revolutionary Privetble its destinie. were delivered into the power o/ turbulent mobs, and te governmental eystem employe! in the destruction of whateve: there is great and respee table in the traditions; that it: parties gave themse vex names they did not deserve, invoked idvas wey did not , and converted the country into a thes're of revo lations wherein instead of the great politic:! principics and the true interests of the nation, class mterests, ut) spirit of parties and individual ambitions were grapplius with each other, Such are the facts that have happened in Mexico, and this ia not tho heritage left there by Spain. Neither that lic nor any other in South America which has suffered similar misfortunes, can find in the legislation of their ancient metropolis or in the customs they ipherited from ber, a precedent to authorize them to throw upon the education received from her their actual disasters. If history did not give it the lie, the facta which are actu- ally passing there, in the sight of the whole world, would do so. They prove that the traditional spirit, far from being an obstacie to the progress of Spavish Ame rica, is, on the contrary, the principle most eilica ciously fitted to favor it. We have slréady mentions one of the Spanish-American republics where, in the policy and administration, the traditions of the past are pre eerved, not only without any obstacle to progress, bu asgociated with all the improvement and ametioration which constitute the happiness and greatness of nations It is the only republic which grows and prospers; it is th only one which has preserved intact the traditional princi ples at the bottom of its institutions; the others, which forgot them, are unhappy. In order to find peace, pros erity and progress aseociated with the traditions of th jpanish race, we need only cast our eyes on Spain and her possessions in Asia and America, The Peninsula, with prodigious rapidity places herself on a level with th Most advanced nations; the Philippines are the happivs region ofthe East; Cuba is the admiration of the world. ese {acts have @ signification which cannot be mis- en by the people of Spanish-America, At all events, we wish to call attention to them before pointing ont the causes which have brought the Mexican republic to that state of anarohy and dissolution wherein to-day she fiuds herself. The Extradition of Fugitives—Horse Stealing and Slave Stealing in Virginia and Oho. (From the Richmond Enquirer, Jan. 12.] Something more than a month ago a requisition was made on the Governor of Virgiia by the Governor of Onio for the extradition of a certain Jesse M. Chidester, charged with having stolen a horse in Champaign county, Ohio. The case bad been fully made out before the Grand Jury of Champaign county, and the same evideuco upon which the Grand cay had acted being laid before the Governor of Virginia, the warrant for extradition was, ut course, issued. Shortly after the issue of the warrant, the Governor received the following curious letter from Chidester.» Romivr’s Minis, Harrison, Cousty, Va., Deo. 11, 1853. Drak Sin—It may be that you will be requested by the authorities of Obio that I may be arrested tor theft; if sv, Trequest your honor not to recognise their request until Ohio firet gives up her fugitives to the South. Now, sir, my cage is this:—As I aw many fugitives escaping on the under ground railread for Canada and the Northern States, and the people of the North doing all they could to effvet their eecape, “with a few honorable exceptions, however,”’ and as the North is giving money todefray the expenses of the underground railroad—and here I append the reading of their handbills—“Frederick Douglags will address the citizens of Mechanicsburg, on the —— of June, 1856. All persons desirous of hearing the first living orator, and the genius which nature has reared to hersel’, and to aseist the underground railroad, turn ont, Twenty-five cents admittance, Novpareil printing office, Springfield, Ohio.” And these handbills are headed in ‘large ivtters, read- ing thus: Underground Railroad.” These things Lave the sanction of the ministry, tho prayers of the chureh, the appiandits of society and the well wishes of the community. Being opposed to such violation of law, T thought to have informed agaiust thom; but, sir, tary feathers, a sharp rail and water would have been my portion, for it was threatened, and I would have beea spurned out of society. And being opposed to abolition ism, I resolved to leave that political pool of staguatod waters, from whore surface arises the poisonous eillavia which is infecting this governmeat with the doleful disease, consumption. I took a horse of an abolitionist and rode him into Kentucky, and turned bim loose iv the road, resolving in my mind, now, sirs, come and got him— yourun off our negroes, we run olf your horses, Now this took place two years ‘ago: , as I ama Southern map, they desire to have me that they might sift me as wheat, I knew I was violating law, and I knew they yio- ated, and I placed myself on the same platform with them; and I desire to fight it out with them. Now, Bir, if there is a spot within your kind, charitable breast in which I can cast anchor to stay my cause, make it accessible. Tam no bad man. I have friends in Ohio and here; and I cap have many signers to my request. I don’t want you to do against your convictions. I want you to inves- ve my case. Sir, it is useless for me to write to you about the abo- litionieta, You already know their many violations of law, and it, too, with impunity. You already know eke end fe ea honor bene) the South; and I am nm can ap) ‘Oue who is so well’ oy ofthe Ne informed of ‘orth. Now, sir, [make a proposition: tf tho North wit! make good to the South all damages which the South has sus- tained in consequence of the escape of fugitive slaves to the North, I will give bond and security to do the same t> the North for the damage I have done to the North; or, if the North will bring to justice all of her men who have violated the fugitive slave law, I will go and give myself up to the North. , I submit this for your consideration. I expect to y and Lrg moder yp ee ot our candidate for Governor, and oppose this hot- led, rotten-hearted and Diack abolitionism, But I forbear tit! { hear from you. 1 hope zou will answer this. If you request it, I will come to to bee you as 800m as my schoui is out, and also faroish you with a list—a large list—of signers in be half of my cause; and among them honorable and wealthy men. So please to answer as soon as ible, and let me know the whole matter. Direct your letters to Roming's Mills, Harrison county, Va, I remain yours, &o % JESSE M. CHIDESTER. Me his Excellency Hevry A. Wise, Governor of Vir- ginia. The Barbour Jeffersonian, of the 7th inst., publishes the following communication containing a statement, in some particulars, differing from that of Chidester :— Pre Tree, Barvour County, Dec. 23, 1858. Fprror JRFFERSONTAN :—SiR—Having occasion to go to Romine’s Milla to-day, [found an excitement prevailing among#t a number of persons assembled at flood’s tavern to talk over the circumstances connected with the arrest on the 12th of one Jesse M. Chidester, by virtue of a war. rant iseued by Governor Wise, upoa the requisition of the Governor of Ohio, charged with stealing a horse im Champaign county, Obio, within the last twelve months. Tbe arrest was made by a Mr. Owens, known to Chidester as the sheriff of the said Champaign county, assisted by the sheriff of Doddridge county, in this State. Chidester’s version, substantially concedet by Owens, was that when residing in one of the counties of Kentucky, vordering on the Obio river, a negro man slave escaped into Obio, and Chidester having reason to believe that he arking in the vicinity of his (Chidester’s) mother’s, who formerly lived in Harrison county, and for a number of years has resided near Urbanna, Ohio, purchased the nogro from the owner, captured him in Champaign coun- ty, and was in the act of carrying him back to Kentacky, when a host of abolitionists ‘rose in arms, rescued the nogro, and Chidester, secing his life in danger, mounted a horse; furnished by @ friend, who caught it up under the excitement of the moment, upon which he fled into Ken. tucky, turning the horse loose upon the bank of the Ohio river. He was afterwards indicted by the Grand Jury of Champaign county, upon which a wisition was made and granted; of course the abolition res were suppressed , or Governor Wise would never have touched it. And I doubt, had the been known to our people generally,’ whether the arrest conld have been made at Romine’s Mills. If the fanatics of Ohio are al- lowed with impunity to steal and withhold their neigh- bors’ property, why should they complain at the loss of « horse, when a speedy oxit from their oil is rendered the only alternative for of life and limb? Chidester is an intelligent, agreeabie young man, and has stamped upon his countenance such ‘marks of inno- cence that no man could take him for a common thief. | think the facts should be noticed by the press. 8. ‘We cannot go to the same length with Mr. Chidester, and advocate horse stealing in Ohio as @ proper ‘and justiflable method of retaliation for slave stealing in irginia; but we Rom to oar Northern friends to bear us out in ition that the prompt extradition by the Governor of Virginia of a fugitive from Ohio, charged with horse stealing, requires equally prompt extradition by the Governor Ohio, not only of fugitive slaves from Virginia, but fagitivos from justice charged with stealing slay The Dutch Monopoly in the Indian Seas. TO THE BDITOR OF THE HERALD. New York, Jan. 7, 1859. When, in your estimable journal of the 25th day of November last, bi was reported that Jambi was taken by the Dutch, “Oceanicus” gave to your read- ers some geographical, statistical and political in- formation about that State, and in the meantime told them thatit would probably be a matter of investiga- tion in the present Congress whether American in- tervention is necessary or not for breaking up the Dutch monopoly in the Indian Archipelago, for opening its ports for the American trade and Ame- rican missionaries of the Gospel. The Singapore Free Press, well known by its insidious, envious and ambitious spirit against the rights of sovereignty of the Netherlands over some of the magnificent and populous islands in the great Eastern Archipelago, made Oceanicus believe that Holland exercises no authority whatever over the {sland of Bali, and that she has no more ht of jurisdiction over the northern portions of Ja matra, Celebes, &., a than the United States, By this authority Oceani- cus, in his firet so-called correction, made a com- plaint against the Dutch monopolyiNbehal Mol two of the mightiest matters ofjhumanginterest aud pas- sion—in behalf of wealth afd religion—trade andghe Gospel. As for the trade, he blamed the poiicy of the government of the Netherlands in excluding from its eastern possessions the settlement of foreigners without permission of the Governor General; and as for the a, of the Gospel, he says:—“The possessions of the Dutch in the Bast are now the only portions of the earth under a civiliged or semi-civilized government which the Pi tata Pa te ment of an rndeniable fact—-the of va le On ani several ports in question for the wor! after the lst day of May, 1859. After that Oceanicus jouraal of the 26th day of December If the organ of the: Indian journals, ter aueonsd of Singapore. Again he denies again (in 1st) mds Miri th the right of sovereignty of the Neverthelands over its possessions in the Indian Archipelago. Now it is afact belonging to histery. that after the great European war sqnines France the Dutch sove- reignty in that archipelago, by sad between the belligerent parties, and especially between Eng- land and the Nevherlands, was restored. It is a fact that the Prince and the people of Bali, after a couple of battles ten <= Bgo, were brought to the ackowledgment of the sovereignty of the King of the Netherlands. It is a fact also that the repeated breach of the treaties between the Kin, ofthe Netherlands and the Sultan of Jambi wit! Tegard to the pimtes on the Java sea was a ver: een cause for the last inflicted chastisement, whic is called by Oceanicus a filibustering raid, with just about as much propriety as in a plying the same epithet to the punishment recentiy ven to the eaters ofmen by Americans, Then his com- plaint against the closure of the ports in the Indian Archipelago against foreign trade is modified in so far that now only the duties of export and certain onerous restrictions are the catalogue ofhis whole mercantile grievances. But still, besides the entan of the right of sovereignty and the edom of trade, Odéeanicus says there is another grievance (the true grievance) against Holland, to wit: that no American citizen is permit- ted to enter the interior of any of the above named islands, whether his object be curiosity, trade or As for the curious—whether scientific, or politic, or industrious—certainly 30 long as the kingdom of the Netherlands is an indepen- dent State, it shall be a matter for its government exclusively to decide whether Alexander Vou Hum- boldt or Oceanicus will! be admitted into the regions where, since the glorious time of its sovereignty, And (besides that no scientific man ever is refused leave to enter the mentioned islands), certain foreigner a few 1s ago, then warmly defended by the Eng- ish-Indian journals, especially of Singapore, re- to spread the Gospel. first republic, it has exercised, the conduct of a pelled, however, by the government of his native country, cannot be used as an argnuinent for modi- ¢ Dutch policy in this regard. In behalf of the curious American intervention certainly will be ing unnecessary. Will it in behalf of the spreading and preaching of the Gospel? The assertions of Oceanicus relative to this matter testify his profound ignorance or his unjastifiable icila fide + T omitted to answer this patt of his complaint in my first re- ply, for the reason that it seemed to me to bea mere mistake, which should be corrected by himself. Instead, however, of correction, the utterly false complaint has become the true grievance against Holland, A few words will be sufficient_to prove the falsehood. Certainly there is a European, East India trade, and the developement of the one may do harm Does Oceanicus know a Euro- ean, an American and an East Indian Gospel? I now but one—the Gospel of the Lord, who is the same for every one and everywhere. Does Oceani- cus believe that, besides the Pope or the Church of Rome, old England and young America alone send missionaries of the Gospel—their Christian ambas- as well as an American to the other. sadors? Does Oceanicus believe that the fie or preaching of the Gospel in the English lang by English or American missionar natives of the Netherlands? the East and West Indies; he ought to know that the Bible Society of the Netherlands translated the holy book in the different languages of the natives of the colonies in the Indian Archipelago; and if he knows that, he shall be convinced that the spreading of the Gospel in the above named regions is not in want of American intervention. Witiram F. Orren, Our Montreal Correspondence, Monrrear, Canada, Jan. 6, 1859. Political Differences—T’he Spous System in Full Worsiip Amongst the Native Canadians—Lord Bury’s Railroad Policy—Location of the Seat of Go- vernment—The Great Squabble, and ils Refe- rence to the Queen—Shifling of the Premiers— Blasi—Love of Titles and Royal Why Montreal was Punished, &c. Ise6 in the HeRaxp letters from almost every part of the world. Mexico, Central America, Cuba, San Francisco, Paraguay, China, Japan, all boast of a special correspondent. But up here, beyond the forty-fifth parallel, there 1s a great country that ex- tends for more than a thousand miles along the frontiers of the United States, containing more than three millions of inhabitants, nearly allied to you in blood and language, that presents a virgin field for a special correspondent to cultivate. With your favor, then, I will commence the new year by Posting up your readers in Canadian affairs. Politics here are in rather a mixed state. In fact, there are no political questions for Canadians to quarrel about. The whole thing isa question of office. Who shall be Attorney General, who shall be Commissioner of Public Works, who shall pocket the fattest contracts, who shall make the deepest grab into the public chest, are the main points of political difference. Plunder is the aim and end of all the parties. But not plunder alone. The true blue Canadian is animated, pervaded and controlled by one other motive, which, though subsidiary, is still power- ful. That is the love cof titles. One ray of the royal favor will gild the wintry life time of the Canadian, condemned, alas, to live so far from courts and sovereigns. One smile from royalty will throw Jean Baptiste into a state of ecstacy. One dinner at Windsor Castle will transport him into the seventh heaven of felicity. But what shall we say of him who passes two days beneath the roof of majesty? Language is too weak—words are too feeble--to portray the bliss of the happy and thrice happy man. Is it not the subject af telegraphic despatches? Do not the ocean steamers sail faster when bearing the news to Canada? Does not the laconic De Sauty swear and rave at the imperfect current that strives in vain to carry the glad tidings across the Atlantic? And is it not—ah, breathe it softly—is it not the sweet prejude that will soon thunder forth into the grand anthem of knighthood? Go on, then, rejoicing, on thy happy path—mavte ‘ier Jean Baptiste virtwte—for when the scions of the royal family come in the summer there will be an outpouring of the royal bounty such as the age has never seen. Bury married a Canadian wife, and must be supposed to know sonicthing of the Canadian character. When he was here, about two months ago—the funny Lord—he tried to tickle the provinces into building six hun- dred miles of a worthless railway by talking about Canadian peerages—aeu tetigisti Lord Bury. The trap is well baited—will the animal be caught? _ T said there were no political questions to divide arties. Yet there is a local question that has own both provinces into convulsions. That is the location of the seat of aes. Where will it go? Is it Montreal, or Kingston, or Toronto, or Quebec, or Three Rivers, or the wilderness, that will secure the prize? It was all settled once. Acting on the true British Sep that the ae cannot be wrong, the Canadian jiament referred the question eo har. The Queen named Bytown, alias Ottawa City, asthe capital—the first village of importance a man would arrive at when travel- ling south from the North Pole, The selection was advocated in a military light. No hostile prety - though opposed by men as courageous as js i the ya0es of Bladensburg, could ever capture Ottawa City. The invaders would inevita bly be lost in the woods, trying to find it. Well, the award was made——whether right or wrong, the re- feree had decided the question. John Canadian had gone into the business with his eyes open. He knew the alarming scarcity of maps of (Ca- nada in England. He knew it if the London apers had located Ottawa Ci on the fiikna of Anticosti, as they did on Lake Ontario, that the geographical accuracy of the statement would have been unquestioned by the British pub lic. And he knew, too, how disinterested would be the advice under which the selection would be made. And so John Canadian ought to have open- ed his pocketbook and gone on with his buildings. Bat John is a shrewd fellow, and had no idea of making Ottawa City the great whiskey mart of Ca- nada, So he buttoned up his pockets and politely declared that “it was inexpedient to locate the ca- ital at Ottawa City.” This was a thunderbolt. Governor General Ministers, auditors and sec Yetaries, first clerks and second clerks and third clerks and doorkeepers, who had been investing in land wpa tas direction, looked blank with des- pair. The Ministry resigned on the question. Hon. George Brown—peace to his manes!—editor of the Toronto Globe, gathered around him from all Fate) of Canada a band of politicians, and car- ried on the government for two consecutive days. What their policy was, what they would have done, must ever remain to posterity a mystery a4 in scrutable as what was written in the Books of the Sybil. Political life has its disappointments as well as its gratification. The reform party— they ought to commence the work 0 reformation upon themselves—were not long in power. Parliament dissolved the firm. of Brown, Dorion, McGee & ©: on short notice, and it is currently reported that the Governor General apptied his thunvh to the end of his nose and extended his fingers in the shape of a fan, ig age jes will bring more Gentiles to the faith in our Saviour than the preaching of the Gospel in the language of the If not, he ought to know that the Society for Spreading theGospel of the Netherlands sends its Christian ambassadors to 3 when applied to for a dissolution by the ‘int- ed ertiere—an undignified act, certainly, for Sir Edmond Head, but undoubtedly a historical fact, The old Ministry, after having flung over an old tub to the whale of op) depen? baned back to power, and announced that the seat of government remain in statu quo; that Parliament should decide when the official pendulum should cease to vibrate between and Toronto. And so the whole nestion was left open again. Butit ‘that ih . Cartier, who was Premier for Lee Canes. went to England after the Parliament had adjoarn- ed; that he had there many discouses with Co- lonial Secretary on the relations between the good and the beautiful and the infinite and the lofty; that not only did he set at the feet of Bulwer Lytton and list his rhapsodies, but Mr. Cartier—George Etienne Cartier, as he wrote his name when he signed his name to the petition for annexation to the United States—was permitted to gaze full on the bright- nese of majesty. Mr. Cartier dined with the Queen, Mr. Cartier slept at Windsor, Mr. Cartier listened to the outpourings of decorous religion from the mouth of the yal haplain; and Mr. Cartier's eyes were opened. How large Ottowa City loomed up from’ the dinner table! how central was its location, and how defensible! The last lingering prejudice against Bytown has vanished; and straightway he -hurries home, summons his colleagues, and imparts to them the discovery he has just made, that Bytown is the Ararat on which the ark of government must rest. But it don’t go down with all his associates. They had not been dining with the . Quee' and -did“not see the affair in a Windsor t, and Mr. Sicotte. the best man in the Cabinet—resigned. The curtain has not yet risen on another act in this ludicrous drama. “ However, the present Minis- try are nearly dead; their extremities are cold; they have just health enough to last till Parliament meets, and then they will give up the ghost. What will be done with the seat of government question it is impossible to conjecture. Montreal is undoubtedly the place that would command the second voice of all Canadians, for many and good reasons. It was once the capital; but some of its citizens had the audacity to throw brickbats at Lord Elgin, stave in the hat of his aide-de camp, and per- form a variety of practical jokes, including buruin, down the Government House; and for this Montrea! was deprived of the little rivulets of Provincial expenditure that trickle down on hotel! keepers, But by this time the citizens have learned to pay due respect to the representative of their sovereign; and if the seat of government should be located at Montreal, they would he innocent of mud balls and guiltless of brickbats. But nous verrons—soon we shall know all. POST OFFICE NOTICE OST OFFICE NOTICR.—THE MAILS FOR BUROPR via Liverpool, per steamer TTY OF MANCHESTER, ‘Will close at this office on Saturday, the Ith day of January, at 1034 o'clock A.M. gISAAC V. FOWLEn, Postmaster, fake ALP up-ubdut six iaonthe. Li; welght aba forty Pekivwhie inser been, igetaas cea ot 8 brass chal om his neck; aoawors to the nie of Spruck Une der wil be lberaily rewarton by racaraing 180" roadway. Geo. b. CUMMINGS OUND—IN A BROADWAY AND FIFTH AVENUE stage, on Saturday last, a portemonnaie, with a amail sum of mioney, which the ‘owner can have by calling at Joseph U. Orvis’, 203 broadway. 5 ys ee GOING FROM CROSBY STR*ET, UP ‘Broome to the Bowery, down the Bowery to Grand. up Grand to Norfolk street,'a breastpin, with a red carbuncle ie it, of which the owner thinks a great deal more than ite setual worth. The finder will receive $5 reward by leaving it at 65 Crosby street, in the store. b Agar ont BOOK NO. 2,032, OF JNO. GRIFFEN AND vings Bank. ‘Newfoundland ¢ omnds; short by and a wife on the Kmigrant Industrial nay ‘The finder will please Jeave the same at the bank, No. 6Cham- bers sireet. 5 BP Y THE 13TH INST., BETWEEN CANALSTREBT and 26) Fitth avenue, a lsdy’a gold wa'ea, witha piece of ld chain attached and iuiti-Is on the back "The Ander will Moerally rewarded by leaving the same at 261 Fifth avenue. OST-ON THURSDAY NIGHT, A MEMORANDUM book, containing letters, Ac., which is of no value to any One but the owner. Itis upposed to have been dropped ta & Fourth avenue car, between Twenty-seventh stecet and Bleecker street A liberal reward will be paid by leuving the fame at No. 9 Barclay street, up stairs OST—IN PASSING FROM TWENTY FIFTH St LN Yori Brosklyn, on the evening of the 13h leet, & bracelet of earbuncle, blood stone, eofuelian ant, agate ¢ finder w: at rewi win; 4 £00, 68 Brosdvey bie conven onenegian Lost or SATURDAY, A LARGE BLACK foundiand dog, with whit breast and white epots on feet, brass collar and lock on; answers to the vame of Dash. Who: CS Ay return him to 9% East Broadway will be liderally re- NEW- OST—IN WILLIAMSBURG, A D'S Me ma LADY'S GOLD HUNT. ‘ng watch, the Fitth ts, through Fifth and B street It asa ki ing found the same will be suitib! same to A. ‘corner LS, OR STOLEN— WITHIN A FEW DAYS, A POCKET. ‘DOOR Delopging to the su! oy. ihe amount of two huitdred aod atiy PECTACLES, GOLD, Ss retarning the one Broadway, will be ly rewarded. eth a iene teens peel ees et PURGLARY.-ONE RUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. — store of the undersigned was enterei on the ight 3 silks, above Tecovery of the property, or in pro- GRIFFIN & BUCKLEY, 346 Broadway, REWARD.—LOST, ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, from 113 Third avenue, © small flax colored slat, with black ears. The will confers favor by revarning her to he number. She is valnable only ae 8 pet. RAWARD—LOST, THURSDAY EVENING, JANU ary 13, a small package contslaing a protested draft on ion, and other security of no value but to the owner. The finder wil please leave address Draft, Herald office, 10 BEWARD.<LOsT, ON SATURDAY EVENING, coming from Third avenue through For street to the Sixth avenue cars, a dark reuicale, coutainiog papere of valve to the loser only, and several relica of value. The fader Will receive the above reward by returning the eame to 368 Hudson s‘reet, near King, to E. J Workmaa. $2QO BETSERTSTPLES; ON TORSDAY, JANUARY 11, 180@, from 216 Secon avenue.’a gold hunting de- tached lever wateh, H. Perrigaux maker, 3 634, Loo case; name inside Virginia Pauline Duling; Slee, 8 gold’ chain. Whoever will retarn the same (the above address or to 138 Bowery, to Hugh Kelly, wil! receive the above reward. 2. REWARD.—LOST O8 STOLRN, A GENTLE- single stone diamoni breasipin, set in gold. The above the property man’s reward will be paid oa recovery of \d positively no questions asked. = oT no aA MES EL GOADBY, No, 2 Broaaway. 25 REWARD.—.08T. ON THE ISTH 148TANT, 18 going from Dodworth's saloon through Twenty third Madison at T Fifth avenue apd first cameo shape name ved on back the thore reward by feaviog t with Ball, THE LECTURE SKASO: LECTURE ON ROBEKT BUR THE SCOTTISH \ fo) felvay ase feentrs crasten sy ctsy yf 1 wr ins on Wontay Jan. 24, 1869. Doors open at 7! lecture ‘orommence at 8 0" 4 eee conto cash; two tokels admitting a gentleman and ‘iekeus to be had of the members of the club and at the prin. cipsl hotels and muste in New Yi mand Servey Ony. ‘RICHARD COUBRANE, Becrelary. NTIQVITIES OF AMERICA —DR, DE HASS, OFAIR ‘mac ot the Commitee on of ciety, in the hall of the fing, dan: 1b; 1800. The lecture wi he inte uctory 1 & 00" ing, Jam. 15, 1859. age wil be Inte wat ad a ‘b American Archwology Pubject, acter, construction extent \,. ard relles. Single tickets £0 centy, io be obtained of cbs ede Crowe, 60 Sepetnaz nal Gesnattey, sr 33 de , way, bie vam GRUnGE POLSOM, HAW W. FRAN TARO. Dwian Ky LEX, Hy Ia gamer b) At one o'eloek, at Cnton ‘Hall, Fey ‘Admatasion 80 ent IECOND LECTURE OF THE COURSE IN THE i K church, corner of Gouverneur and ‘Jan. wih, Subject" Herote min ah evolution.” Lecture to commence at 8 0’ RM, LARMONT, $2 MERCER STRERT, CORNER OF Mt. Nicholas ote, low Yor’. D weerand Boe PM ‘by appointment, R, WARD'S OFFICE, 486 BROADWAY, SOUTHEAST A. MMU 10 P.M, dad A. M. ill 12 R_ RALPH'S OFFICES, No. 62 BLERCKER STREET. D) abive trom tore ail kind from 6 ui _ ROR EAR |. WATSON, 89 BROOME STEMET, SFOOND BLOCK Feentof Keoadway. Gules boure frem 8 in the morning 08 In the ov