The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, SHITOR AND PKOPRIETOR, Orricr N. W CORNER OF NAS:AU AND FULTON srs cash in atvance, yuter, LD. tow cents per copy, $2 per annum. AID every Saburday, al wie. centa per ¢ Muropean Bi oery Wodnentay, y. $1 per annum to any part of Gre Ht of tie, Continent, bold to include poste; non the Shand ah af each month at ake caus pi ut wary no anny ay, at four conte por portent 1 wilt bo for TOR RESPO: NTA ARK PAROCULAWLX REQUNSTED 90 Skal ald Levess asp Pace Ax: SENT UB. NO NOVICE taken Of anonymous corr espontence, Wado not ted communication. LRTISEMENTS reaciced every lay; advertisements in- portal in the Wremiy HenaiD, Fase lameaun, and tn ive Calyornia and Kveropean Zalitions, Volumre XXIV AMUSEMENTS NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brose’ Tar Steancer—Lucas Bia Bonsta. ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mvsteais or Paxis— Box app Cox \ WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposita Bend streo.— OcroRooN. WALUACKE’S THEATRE, Painnd—Porring TUB QUESTION. Broadway.—Evgagrsonr’s LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE 621 Broadway, Ax Ux mQual Matcu—Loany f euwire. NEW BOWERY THRATRE, Bowery —Hnoiv—Imsa Ewiokant—Hexcures, fes' Tl 472 Brosdway— ¢ ~adway.—Gro, Curtsty's Mie NIRLO'S SALOON. NEW OPRRA LOB OPERAS AND of Representatives yesterday con- discussion of the slavery question, but no ballot was taken for Speaker. Wegives pretty | full report of the debate elsewhere, under the ap- | proprate heading. ublish a very interesting compilation of news from China and Japan, contained in late cor- respondence from Shanghae, Nagasaki, and Je ldo» this morning. The frigate Mississippi had returned | to Shanghae after an albsence of seven months, and our correspondent on bourd, dating on the 28th of | September, states that she had then just received | orders for an immediate voyage home, to the great joy ofallon board. The ship-of-war Germantown would bring the Japanese Commissioners to this country. James C. Hall, an ordinary seaman of excellent character, died of cholera on board the Missi i; he was a native of Saratoga. The s surveying steamer Fenimore Cooper had been wrecked in the harbor of Kanogawa, Japan; all Lands were saved, bat the vessel | would be a total loss. An Englishman, writing from Shanghae, favors us with his ideas on the late visit of our diplomatic mission | to Pekin. He is evidently a little hurt at | our sucet ‘ahe thinks were obtained un- der the shelter of the English and French guns. Admiral Hope continued much depressed in spirits | at his late defeat. A Jeddo letter gives us some | additional insight into the manners and castoms of | the Japanese. The laws there were very simple, and life and property secure to a wonderful de- gree. The natives laughed at the system of trial | by jury, asserting tha€ it was good only for “rogues and viliains.” Consul General Harris was at his post, in renewed health. The Dutch were making active exertions to extend their trade in the coun- try from their position at Nagasaki. A Russian treaty ratification mission was at Hakodadi, but some difficulties had occurred between the sailors and the Japanese, which it was thought would re- tard ita working. The Russian Consul there made himself very agreeable to the people in a daily round of visits and parties, and by the distri- bution of presents and sweetmeats to the young folks. From Bermuda we have files dated on the 234 ult. Rear Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C. B., is to succeed Sir Houston Stewart in command of the North American and West Indian naval sta- tions. In home politics, Sir Alexander Milne is a liberal. He has been a Lord of the Admiralty in three administrations, namely, Lord Aberdeen’s, and both of Lord Palmerston’s. A severe whirl- wind passed over the island, travelling from north- west to southeast, on the 23d ultimo, doing a good deal of damage to dwellings and plantations. A meteor, of a flaming red color, passed Hamilton harbor from north to south at the same moment. For the last two or three days the weather has ‘been remarkably cold, but not in any way unpleas- ant. Up tothe present time the season has been unusually mild. The furs, wrappers, shawls, &c., that were temporarily laid away, have again been brought in requisition, and the pedestrians appear to trudge along the streets at accelerated speed. At six o'clock last evening the mercury in the ther- mometer marked 2¢ degrees, or 4 degrees below the freezing point. The eales of cotton yesterdey were reported at 3,600 bules, about 2,000 of which were made in transit. Tho osed with steadiness, at 1Lsgc. for middling up: rwas dull, and prices favored purchasera. h sume specu- sales moderate, including Milwaukee club at $129. Corn was in fair de- mand, and prices siady at 85c. a Oc. for new and old yellow Jersey. York waa heavy and lower, with sales of mess at $16 37 a $16 of prime at $11 45 a $11 0. Sugare wore Oirza and more ac The sales embraced 1,700 bhds., 4,000 bugs Babia, and 50 boxes, at full pri- ces. Freights continued frm, with a fair arsount of en- gagomente, The government contract for 3,000 bbls. of pork was taken at $19.4 $1950, to be parked in full hooped barrels. Coffee was quiet and prices dnchangsd. Wuo Are Ocr Scxoor Commissioners? —The new School Board is now elected, and it would be well if we had a critical history of the char- acter, social positions and qualifications of the individuals who compose it. These men, who- ever they are, will be entrusted with the educa- Money sent by, mi? will be at the Postage snips not receteed as subscription “Aww rGor ite 10 Tagny, § Of the entire republican party. | questions of social organization and self. The Congressional Endorseres of RevS- lution=Shall Any One of Them be Speaker? Within the period of a little less than one year three remarkable and consecutive events have taken place, which indicate with l-gical precision and certainty the teudency and pro- gress of the republican party towards treason and revolution, . On the 27th of October, 1858, William H. Seward made bis brutal and bloody speech at Rochester, in this State, laying down the pro- gromme of the “irrepressible conflict,” which vas to end in converting New Orleans and other Southern cities into marts for the pro- ducts of free labor only, or else to turn Quincy Market in Boston into a slave pen. On the following 9th of March sixty-eight republican members of Congress signed a secret circular recommending Helper's revolutionary book, which calls upon the poor non-slavebolders in the South to make an agrarian revolution aud destroy the property of their more wealthy neighbors. In this incendiary publication the “irrepressible conflict” of William H. Seward is rendered still more brutal and bloody; because from an idea it is converted into & revolutionary plan, with treasonable appeals to the poorer classes. On the 16th of October, 1859, John Brown made his revolutionary attempt, by seizing upon the United States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, and murdering several inoffensive and peaceable citizens. In this he was only acting upon the punciples laid down by Seward at Rochester, and endorsed by sixty-eight members of Con- Wouiwismiy, ! T8% § gress, in the same manner that he had been ac- { customed to act in Kansas, with the applause These three events mark the course which is sursauns, &e—Biace Status, | being followed by the entire republican party, 5 Northern State anether armed expedition = { and the rapidity with which it is becoming an aggressive and revolutionary abolition party. One year ago Seward, in proclaiming his bru- tal and bloody doctrines, was denounced by many as being far too much advanced for the bulk of his party. Six months later, sixty- eight of its representative men in Congress en- dorsed the still more ultra incendiarism of Helper; and now the great bulk of the party worship the memory of John Brown, in prayer- fal meetings and requiems for the repose of his soul, while the Tribune begs that his epitaph shall not be written untjl nota single slave shall be found upon Mount Vernon or in the vales of Monticello. Such is the rapid progress of sectionalism in that party, and to-day it stands proclaiming open war against sister States, on government, not here, but there in the South where not a single adherent to its revolutionary views exists. Helper has only formalized what Seward preached, and John Brown has only practised what Helper formalized and sixty-eight mem- bers of Congress recommend. Among that sixty-eight stand the names of Grow and Sher- man, both of whom have been seriously pro- posed as Speakers of the national House of Representatives. How these men, who cor- dially recommend in a secret circular the re- volutionary doctrines of the incendiary Hel- per, can take the oath of fealty to the constitu- tion, which they must do on the organization of the House, they can best explain and justify to themselves; but if, after the public exposure that has been made of their secret proclivities, and their efforts to provoke a revolution and civil war, which will destroy the beautiful fabric of this Union, and involve every interest in itin ruin, either of them shall be elected Speaker of a national House of Representatives, we shall believe that all virtue and patriotism have left our public men, and that Congress has ceased to deserve the title of a national legislature. When Grow and Sherman placed their hands to that secret circular, earnestly recommending the treason of Helper, they for- feited the esteem of every conservative man, North or South, East or West, in this or in any other country. We pronounce them traitors to the nation in whose halls they seek to attain the seat of honor, and we call upon every honest man in the House of Representatives to see that neither Grow nor Sherman, nor any other of the sixty-eight imitators of Cataline, be se- lected for its presiding officer. SUPPRESSION OF THE Suave TravE IN THE Norn anp in tHE Sovra.—Major J. Egbert Farnham, who was suspected of complicity in landing the slaves from the yacht Wanderer at Savannah, was arrested in this city on Friday, by the United States authorities from Savan- nah, and was taken to that ple si custody, by the train yesterday afternoon. There has been a great deal said in the North about the slave trade, and the sentiment and practice of the South with reference to the laws of Congress enacted for its suppression yetitisafact worthy of some consideration | that, although several vessels suspected of be- ing fitted out for the purpose of ranning off slavesfrom the African coast have been seized in Northern ports, in no case, except one, was a conviction of the parties concerned pro- cured; while in the enly case of the kind oc- curring in the South—that of the Wanderer, in 1858—the yacht was confiscated, and though the authorities were not able to obtain a con- viction, the indicted party was not acquitted, eight of the jurors being for conviction and four for acquittal—although the individual on trial was @ prominent citizea of a Southern city. Again, in the arrest of Major Farnham we have the singular incident of the United States authorities pursuing him from a Southern city to this great Northern metropolis, arresting their prisoner and conveying him toa slave State, to answer for the violation of the laws affecting the slave trade. Jt appears that inti- i tions organized and carried into effect, As the i law now stands there is nothing to prevent a tion of our children; and in that single fact is | mation was received in Savannah that Major ample reason why they should be intelligent | Farnham was in New York; whereupon the ioe tomy? Muet we Have an Interstate Newtraiily Law? * It fo a curious fact, that in all the wise pron: sicna of flac constitution of the United Sites there is none to provide for the punishment of setting on foot armed expeditions in one State for the purpose of invading another, nor hay Cengress ever supplied the omission. Neu- tralily laws have been enacted against setting on foot armed expeditions against foreign coun- tries with which our government is at peace, but none to prevent the citizens of one State in this Union entering into conspiracies to invade another, and organizing an armed force for that purpoee. It seews as if the idea was so horrible to the founders of the republic that they shruak from naming or suggesting such a crime, They took for granted that it never could arise—that no parricides could ever be found who would gaia any considerable support for such an impious enterprise, They concluded, therefore, that it 1 was time enough to make provision against the enormity whenever the occasionarose, and that as Congress would have the power in its own hands to apply the remedy, “ sufficient unto the day was the evil thereof.” Unfortunately, the time has come for the ac- tion of Congress. Parricides have appeared, and some of them have paid the forfeit of their crimes ; some have yet to liquidate the debt due to justice, and some have escaped her long arm and fled to foreign lands, But the evil does not stop here. The Southern States are dangerously alarmed and excited at the facility with which they may be invaded by Northern hordes of desperadves, and gervile insurrec- successor to John Brown setting on foot in any againet Virginia er any of her sister States on Mason and Dixon’s line. Now, as prevention is always better than cure, and as ihe cure may sometimes be too late, there is an absolute necessity for a law of Congress to prevent such conspiracies as those in which John Brown embarked. State laws cannot be depended on; for the local authorities might be so tainted by treason themselves, or so strongly sympathize with the traitors, that they could not carry ont the laws, if indeed it were possible to have the neces- sary acis pasced in every State. Snch a gene- ral law, therefore, is needed as would reach all men in every State—even United States sena- tors and Governors of Slates; and that law should have for its sanction nothing less than the deat! penalty, and not even the President should have the power to pardon the criminal or commute his sentence. There now seems no doubt of the neces- sity of sucha law. But the question is, will a Congress in which the black repub- lican element is so large—an clement which sympathizes with John Brown and endorses Helper’s treasonable book—be likely to adupt this strong measure, so imperatively called for by the times. Ont of 231 votes for Speaker in the House of Representa- tives on Triday, Myr. Sherman, whoso name has been signed to the ciroular endorsing the “Impending Crisis,” received 110 votes, or within six of what were necessary to elect him. In fact, it is well known tbat he really required but two, and if these two could only be brought over the rest woald soltow. It seems, therefore, a forlorn hope, to ask sth a House of Representatives to pass this inw. But it ought, nevertheless, to be urged. and the onus thrown upon it of refusing to provide for the safety of the Union, and the beiter securi- ty of the Southern States against th® raids of men like John Brown. In this way either the republican party would be compelled to show its hand more distinctly, and fully develope its treasonable designs, or consent to a law which cannot injuriously affect any good man, any man loyal to the constitution. Such a bill would have the effect of drawing the line of de- marcation between traitors and loyalists; and the country will have no difficulty on which side to place those who may dare to oppose a measure which now appears 60 necessary for the peace and the safety of the Union. Jvuvce Dovcnias anp THE ADMINISTRATION.— According to the drift of the speeches of some of the Douglas Illinois delegation in the House, to say nothing of newspaper rumors from Washingion, Mr. Douglas is really disposed to fall back into the democratic fold of the admi- nistration. He is a sagacious man, and has doubtless discovered that his return to the full communion of the democratic church must be by the same door through which he left it. He has not abandoned his hopes of the Charleston Convention, and in this connection his evident desire for a treaty of peace with Mr. Buchanan is another proof of the moral power and in- creasing strength of the administration over the universal democracy. A few days hence, it is understood, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas—both of whom have lately suffered severely from sick- ness, and each of whom is still far from a com- plete restoration--wil) leave for the genial winter climate of Florida: and we hope that to each their visit may be attended by the hap- piest results. We expect yet to chronicle the complete restoratiun of the “Little Giant” to his former position in the democratic church, and to hear that his naturally good physical constitution is as fully re-established. Of Mrs. |, Douglas it is hardly necessary to say that we, in common with everybody, of every party, and of every section, entertain an “irrepres- sible” sympathy for the “Little Giant” on ber account, notwithstanding his continued pursuit of that treacherous Jack-o’-lantern, called “popular sovereignty.” Lastly, we be- lieve that a return, politically, to that expe- rienced party physician, Mr. Buchanan, and a winter visit to Florida or Havana, will be, poli- tically and physically, the very best treatment that Mr. Douglas could adopt to meet all the and faithful, educated, of good moral character | United States Marshal there telegraphed to the and respectable standing in the community. | officials here to arrest him; but he could not be Are'they such men? found. The Southern officers then came on Heretofore the School Commissioners, in- | afier him, and succeeded, as we stated, in se- Stead of attending to the education and moral | curing him. This is certainly a remarkable oc- training of the youth of the city, have applied | currence. And there have been many in- themselves to getiing up all kinds of jobs, | stances of like activity among the officials in whereby the money at their disposal may be | the South, where the institution of slavery expended to the best advantage for themselves | exists, which isso much vilified by Northern or their friends. They spent a million and a | agitators. In several cases vigorous prosecu- half this year; they may spend two millions | tions have been set on foot against persons sus- next year. It would be well, then, for every jy <cted of attempting to run slaves into South- one who knows anything about the parties re- | «:n ports. These facts, we think, go very far eently elected to these offices to send us an ac- | to show that a conservative national sentiment count of their personal histories, moral stand- | exists in the South, and an honest intention to ing, occupations and antecedents, in order that cary out faithfully the laws of the land, even we may know who they are and how our com- | when directed against that peculiar institution mon schools are tobe conducted for the en- guing year, denuaciation m other s ms of the country. necessities of his case. Tur First Frurrs or Fernanpo Woon’s Exec: TI0N.—-When Mr. Wood was Mayor before, he in- fisted, in his capacity of an ex-officio member of the Police Board, that the meetings of the Com- missioners should be cpen to the press. When Mr. Tiemann succeeded him, the meetings were immediately closed, and the press was shut out. Now, when Mr. Wood has become Mayor elect, and is about to enter upon office, (January 1,) these officials give out that their meetings will be open again to the pr-ss. This pation of what they know the new Mayor would insist upon, is to take from him the credit of the change, and save themselves the humilia- tion of being compelled to abandon the seoresy which is made the subject of so much bitter | of the Star Chamber, in a free country like this, bere a wt mectings of publig bodica ought to NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER Il, 1859. to be open to the reporters of the press, Cabi- net Councils alone excepted, The Commission- ers thug pay an involuntary tribute to Dif. Wood; and this resolution of theirs must be regarded as the first fruits of his election, the ante-puat we hope of better things to ome. ForeroN Be@aars in Tar Unirep Srares.— Not a great while ago we called the attention of our readers ¢o the numerous tricks to which foreign mendicanta resort, in order to get money from those good people who are always ready to pay for the happiness of seeing their names in the papers. They will pass by cases of real distress under their noses, in order to assist in such hopeful work as the conversion of the Irish to Protestantism, or the regeneration of the royal family of Dahomey. A notable instance was afforded of this weakness in the way which Wall street came down for the Irish Protestant missionaries who received the right hand of fellowship from the Presbyterian orga- nization in this city not long ago. The Church- man of last week exposes a similar operation which has been going on with regard to “the French Colony of Seceding Catholics at Kankakee.” The Churchman cautions the faithful of its denomination (High Church Episcopal) against “throwing away any more money” upon these people. The story was that people of the French colony, having se- ceded from Rome, were in the greatest dis- tress—in danger of starvation, and so on. But the Chicago papers now state that it is all a “bold invention’ to raise money in the East. Indeed, itis more than hinted that the alleged secession from Romanism is also a fabrication. We have little sympathy with people who suffer themselves to be bled in this way; they have been warned over and over again. The special case cited above was the strongest of all, however, as the dovle argument of actual dis- tress for the necessaries of life and persecution for opinion’s sake was put forward. It was an imposition which ought to be thoroughly ex- posed and condemned by every press in the land. Movements or THE New York Nationan De- mockacy IN REFERENUS TO THE CHARLESTON Convention.—The National Democratic State Cowmittee elected by the anti-Albany Regen- ey State Convention at Syracuse, will meet at Albany this coming Tuesday (the 15th inst.), at twelve o’clock, for the purpose of perfecting the organization in the sevéral Congressional districts, and for designating the time when the national democracy of said districts shall proceed to the election of their delegates to the Charleston Convention, in opposition tothe Regency delegation appointed in the lump at Syracuse last Septem)er. Our late election for Mayor has given to Furnando Wood a popular endorsement which will give to these distcict delegates at Charleston a great advantage over their rivals. In fact, the defeat of Wood in the late election was regarded by Tammany Hall and by the Albany Regency as indispen- sable, in view of their absolute control of the vote of New York in the Charleston Convention, But the tables have been turned upon them, and Wood, as the representative of the national democracy of this city and State, is now fully authorized to co-operate with them in the work of supplanting the nigger worshippers of St. ‘Tammany and the Regency at Charleston. We dare say, too, that it will be done, and that Dean Richmond, Peter Cagger and Confidence Cassidy will, in the end, find that they have fallen very far short of their calculations. Winter Sports rv THE Centra Park.—The sharp weather and the debris ofa premonitory snow storm naturally suggest those manly and bracing open air sports which belong especial- ly to the winter season, and for which the Cen- tral Park affords the most ample field. The ani- mated spectacle afforded last year by the skating pond, upon which the young man just upon the threshold of life, and the veteran who had seen all its toils and cares and troubles, but had still a place in his heart for the sports of his youth, fair ladies and gallant gentlemen, united in the most delightful, agreeable and health-giving of winter recreations. For the present winter we have still finer prospects. The skating pond will be kept in the best or- der, and the Commissioners will, undoubtedly, improve upon last year’s arrangements so far as to provide seats for the spectators and con- venient resting places for the skaters. We hear, too, that clubs are to be form- ed upon the Philadelphia model, which is an exceedingly gocd one. We are not all above acknowledging the just claims of the Provincials, and when they get an idea we are very glad to give them full credit for it. So much for the skaters. The opening of the main drive in the Park will give it an attraction for this winter over and above that which it possessed last year. The road avenue, four miles long, will make a magnificent arena for the display of fine sleigh- ing turn-outs, with all the agreeable and none of the disagreeable things that attend a snow carnival in the metropolis. With the skating and the sleighing together, the Park will at- tract as many, if not more, visiters in the win- ter than in the summer. Tur La Farge Untoy Movement.—It ap- pears that at the meeting held at the La Farge House, in behalf of a grand Union demonstration in this city, like those of Phila- delphia and Boston, there were such manifesta- tions of softening and milk and water, that Judge Bronson and some other national Union democrats left the gathering, satisfied that it was no place for them. ld line whigs, old line Know Nothings, and new line Tammany Hall men, and republicans, were very conspicuous in the arrangement of the programme. We would simply submit that this scheme of a mu- tual admiration meeting of these fossils is not the entertainment which the real national Union men of the city expect. The independent na- tional party supporting and electing Wood and Bronson in our late election, are the men who ought to control this proposed Union demon- stration, and they should be on hand at the ap- pointed time to put in their claim. In the ab- sence of Mr. Wood, Judge Bronson will be the most proper man for President of this proposed meeting, and his iriends, without distinction of party, should insist upon the recognition of his claims Lefore the committtee on the sub- ject and before the meeting itself. Let us have a real national Union meeting, and not the farce of a mutual admiration society of old po- litical fossils and lame duck: Poet Orviee Name Craw office at Crosby vi name of the Poet ew York, has been —~ THE LATEST NEWS. Re Arrival of the California Overland Mall, Sr. Lovrs, Dec. 10, 1859. ‘The overlaid matt with San Francisco dates of the 17th ultimo, passed Malloy’s station, at the western end of the telegraph line, this morning, but, owing to the absence of the keys of the mail bag, we aro again deprived of tho news snmmary for the Associated Press. The newa, with the mail, will probably reach here on Sunday night. Nows from Brazos, New Ontxans, Dec, 10, 1859. The steamship Arizona has arrived here with later Bravos dates and $112,000 in specie. Tivownsville dates of the 4th inst. are received. Seve- ra! oltirmisbes bad taken place, but nothing important bed occurred. a The Georgia Domoerntic State Convention. Muxpaxvi, Dec. 9, 1859. In (ho Democratic State Convention to-day, a resolution was inuodnced recommending Secretary Cobb for the Presidency, when a number of the rfembers withdrew, ou the ground that auch action on the part of the Conven- tion was irregular and unauthorized. Boiler Explosion at Scranton, Pa. Scranton, Pa., Dec, 10, 1859, Que of the boilers of the Hyde Park Coal Company's shaft exploded this morning. The boiler house and the foundation of the cracker were somewhat damaged. Loss not heavy. No person was killed, The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. Prrmesunc, Dec. 10, 1859. ‘This morning the Disirict Court granted a rule upou Joseph K. Edgerton, Receiver tor the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, appointed by tho Circuit Court for the Northern District of Ohio, to show cause why an attachment should not issuo agaiast him for ob- structing T. Haskins Dupuy in the discharge of his duty as sequestrator. Hearing was had this afternoon, Mr, Edgerton applied for time to obtain counsel. ‘The Court fixed on Saturday for the argument, upon the promise made by Mr. Edgerton that ke would not interfere with Mr. Dupuy in the discharge of his duties as sequestrator in Pennsylvania until the question of jurisdiction is set- tled. Mr. Dupuy is now in undisputed custody of the road and operating the same. The Northern Indiana Ratlroud. Torneo, Dec. 10, 1859. In the Smith and Desendorf case vs. the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad Company for damages arising out of the construction of depot buildings, &e.,a verdict for plaintiff’ for $11,182 was roudered yes- terday. The Nova Scotia Legislature. Sackvann, Dec, 10, 1859. ‘The Nova Scotia Legislature will meet on the 26th of January, 1860. ‘The Death of Young Leonard, at Norfolk. Nowroux, Va., Dec. 10, 1859. ‘The coroner's jury in the case of the hoy Leonard have rendered a verdict of accidental death, by a shot fem a gun which he held tn his own hands, The announcement of the verdict gave great relief to the community. Trade of Baliimorc, Baur orr, Dec. 10, 1859. Exports of the week, $142,551. Increase over same week last year, $9,580. Imports of the weel:, $185,716; decrease from same week fa: ‘ar, $18,408. Trade of Philadelphia. Pmiapsirnsa, Dec. 10, 1969. Exports of the week, $91,140; decrease from samo y last year, $40,000. ‘Imports, $197,900; increase over game week last year, $77,000, Maritime Intelligence. Boston, Dec, 10, 1869. The United States sloop of war Vincennes sailed from Port Praya October 29th, for Loando. W. A. Rea, a well known merchant, died suddenly last night. Brig Julia Ford reports, Sd inst., off the South Shoal, eaw a ship with a] her masts gone but the main; sbe appeared to be bound to New York, and she was standing to the west; had jury, fore and mizen masis. ‘Weather Reports, Monrreat, Dec. 10.—Weather mild and snowing heavily. ‘Thermometer 17 degrees above zaro. Quvessc, Dec. 10.—Weather mild. It snowed a little last night. Kixcston, Dec. 10.—A fine frosty morning. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Putavecruis, Dec. 10, 1859, Stocks dull, Pennsylvania State 6's, 93; Reading Rail road, 265%; Morris Canal, 692; Long Island Railroad, 112; Pennsyivania Railroad, 3734. Naw On1eaxs, Dec. 9, 1859, Cotton steady: sales to-day 12,500 bales; midoling, 103(c. alle. Bales of the week, 61,000 bales; receipts of the week, 76,000 do., against 60,000 in the same week last year. Exports of tho week, 44,000 bales; total ex ports this season, 518,600 do.; increased receipts at this port over last year, 153,000 do.’ do. wt all the ports, 240,- 000 do. ; stock, 387,600 do. Sugarfirm. Molasses, 42c’ New York hay, $27 2 $30. Pork buoyant: mess, $17. Coffee firm: prime, 113c. x 12}c.; sales of the week, 4.300 bags: imports, 10,600 bags; stock, 64,000 bags, 28,000 at the same time last year. Freights to Liverpool, 9-J6d.; to Havre. 135¢. SAVANNAH, Doc. 9,1859. Cotton—Sales to-day, 750 bales at a decline of’ 340. on the finer qualities. ‘The market is unsettled. Cuarteston, Dec. 8, 1859. Cotton—Receipts of the week 17,000 bales; sales to-day 800 bales. Rice dull, and the better qualities 3;c. a 3-16c. lower. Sterling’ exchange 8% a9 per cent’ pre- mium. Cuar.rston, Dec, 9, 1859. Cotton steady; sales to-day 2,500 bales. Cincixnati, Dec. 9. Fiovr frm at $5 150525. Wheatactive. Whisky firm at 22 cts. Provisions quiet. Pork firm at $12 1834. Hogs steady at yesterday’s rates. \DELPHIA, Dec. 10, 1859. Flour quict; superfine $5 a$5 43%. Wheat firm: sales 3,000 bushels; red, $1 30 a $1 32; white, $1 370 $1 48. Corn firm; sales 9,000 bushels yellow at 79c. a 89c.; old white, 90c.’ Whiskey firm at 263¢e, a 273¢c. Burro, Dec. 10—1 P. M. Flour steady, demand moderate: sales 800 bbls. Wheat quiet and nominally lower: holders are offering No. 2 Chicago spring at $101. Corn steady: sales 6,000 bushels new at 60c. Other grains nominal. Whiskey held at 26c. Imports to-day—1,500 bbls. flour, 3,000 bushels wheat and 5,000 bushels corn. No canal 8. Political Intelligence. ‘tux Kxstvexy Lugisiatvre—The Legisiatire of Ken- tueky met on the 6th inst., and organized by the election of Mr. Porter, of Woodford, Speaker of the Sonate, and Mr. Merriweather Speaker of the Honse—a triumph of the Breckinridgeites over the Guthrie men. PostvoNEMENT OF THe SENATORIAL ELECTION IN ALABAMA. — ‘The Senate of Alabama has refused, by a vote of 16 to 14, to concur with the House resolution to go into the election of United States Senator on Tnesday next. This astion is regarded as equivalent to a postpouement of the election of Senator for two yeare. : AccipeNtT ON wae Norrtken New Jertey Raroan.— Train No. 2, on the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, which left this city at 9:42 A. M., tor Piermont, while crossing the plank road about six miles north of. this city, struck a milk wagon containing two boys about seventeen years of age. The boys had stopped the wagon on hearing the approach of the train, but started again, when the engine struck them. Both boys wero futally injured. ‘TaeaTRE FRANCAIS.—A concert for the benclit of Sener Carlo Cheval will be given here thisovening. Mile. Darcy and M. Juignet, of the theatre, will assist, and the United States Navy Band will play a new polka by Signor Paulo Carella. How ror Youne Dear Mures —Amoog the offorts made to assist this deserving charity we notice that of the managers of the Model of Solomon's Temple, now on ox- hibitioa in this city. They will devote the proceeds of the exhibition on next Tuesday night to the Home. Arrest Under the Extradition Treaty, Dec, 0.—Dr. Gustay Schilling was arrested this morn- ng by Mr. Joseph Thompson, Deputy United States Marshal of this district, by virtue of a warrant of extradition issued by Geo. F. Betts, Esq. United States Commissioner, under the treaty oxisting betwoen the government of the United States and the kiugdom of Wurtemburg, charging Schilling with the crimes of for- gery, and alsopt the uticrance of bet te papers during tho years 1866 fand $1857. The accused was brought before Commissioner Betts and held for examination on Mon iay at one o'clock. “Owner of the Yacht Wanderer, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New Yor, ec. 16, 18: | How me to correct an erroneous statement mite in jou fseue of the 10th inst., to the effect that C. B. Lamar was the former owner of the slaver Wanderer. mnia-tatement was made in ai Slave Trade,at the North gentleman whose name ie associated with this élaver is C. A. 1. Taxonr, Waq., of Savannub, Georgia. Justice and truth demand. the ineer tlon of this correction at your bands, | Tay Anantan Nignts Ewnrerra: NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICA eaenna eae _ Books Received to December 9, Dy? Of the American Revolution, by Frank Moore. Benton's .“rtdgement of the Debates ef Congress. Wot, XIL Patton's History o.f the United States of Amerion, Bupyan’s Pilgrim's F, °6t¢86 (Appleton’s llustrated Eat. tion.) Bible Stories in Bible Language® Dies Irw (Appleton’s Mustrated 1.Ution.) Freuchers and Preaching, Appleton’s Cyclopwdia, Vols. 5, 6, and 7. Mary Le, or the Yankee in Ireland, ‘The Oakland Stories. The Arablan Nights Entertatnments (Apploton’s Lit» trated Edition.) ‘The Florence Stories. Abbot's Stories of Rainbow and Lucky, ‘The Merchant of Venice (Appleton’s Mustrated Edition} History of America, by Mary Howitt, Reynard the Fox (Appleton’s Illustrated Edition.) Martha's Hooks and Eyes. Loss and Gain. Mary Stanton, @ novel. A Christinas Reading of Mother Goose for Grown Fotis, Inavgural Addresses of T. W. Dwight and G. P. Marah, Columbia College. Moulton’s Analysis ot Amorican Laws. La Paix de Zurich, par 3. Tohehatcher, Poems, by Thomas Davie. Edited by John Mitchel, Princo Charlie, the Young Chevalicr. By Moriéotc Jobnes. DiaRY OF THE AMERICAN Ravouvtion, from news papers and original documents, by Frank Moore, 2 vols. Scribner. ‘This work, although strictly historical, haa a present po- litical value, Since it has been sought to confound the as- perity with which the acts of WasBington were occasion- ally assailed by contemporary newspapers with the Iam- guage of just indignation and horror which the trensom of Old Brown and his black republican associates has called forth on the part of all patriotic journals throughost’ the Union, it happens opportunely that we should have’ the means of comparizon placed within our reach. As Mr. Moore’s work is » carefei compilation fom the jourtais of the Revolutionary epoch of all the facts bearing uyom it, it furnishes, we need scarcely say, abundant evidence of the falsehood and gillinces of the attempted parallet: Apart from the incidental value which this feature gives the book, its importance as a collection of scarce histori+ cal memorials cannot be overestimated. We have peem: so accustomed to read American history through the me- divm of rhetorical periods, better adapted to Fourth of July orations than to the cain and mpartial investigation of past occurrences, that it is refreshing to meet with a book in which the exact color of events is preserved and the individuality of the author lost. Put together without motives of seliiugtration, but at the same time with ag much patient end discriminating research as if a literary reputation were involved in the task, these volumes are 1 us infinitely more nteresting than the most labored and. ornate history. Every page of them teems with facts gathered from the daily life of the Revolution, and thus, without the intervention of modern speculation, we have brought before us, not merely the actors in that great drama, but their actual thoughts, feclipgs and conyic- tiong. It is obvious that no artist of the peo, however skiliul, esn infuse into an historical narrative the vivid- ne¢s and truthfulnest which are to be found in contempo- rary records thus weeded of superfluities. When the history of public events in this country for the last quarter of a century comeé to be written, it will be found that the labors of no future Prescott or Bancroft willsatisfy the investigations of the political student. If be be decirous of probing the intricacies of the politi- cal questions of our times, he will be compelled tp turn to the files of the Hxrarp, unless, indeed, some con- scientious compiler like Mr. Moore should save him that trouble by placing within his reack a faithful epitome of their contents. ‘The quaint touches of humor and the sterling patriotian of many of the communications that were addressed to the press during the Revolutionary cpoch, strengthen powerfully our traditional impressions of the gound practi- cal sepse and enthusiasm which kindled the zeal of people determined to cast off the oppression of unjust taxation and of injudicious administration generally. In scenes in which the professed historian invests our Re- volutiopary sires with a prestige of romance which is utterly at variance with the Anglo-Saxon sobriety of their characters, we find them in this book stripped of their theatrical draperies, and their naturainess inspirgs us with a sympathy and admiration which can never be felt for the stilted heroes of that schoo! of writers. ‘The gpirit of unselfish patriotism seems to pervade most ‘of the men who are introdnced to ns in Mr. Moore's pages, and imparts to the book a national and historical interest. The newspaper extracts which it gives bring the convic- tion home to the reader that the American Revolution was rot instigated by Jacobins fred wih a mere zeal for abstract principles, but by sensible and indus- trious men disgusted with the abuses under which they were suffering, The great practical value of the book is that it reveals the absurdity with which politicians of the epread eagle school haye overlaid the plain and simple issuca of thought at work at the time of the Revolution. By placing theee issues in their true light, with the assist- ance of the information gicaned from contemporary journals, many of the social and political theories which were afterwards engrafted upon our institutions are made toappear as they reaily were—after-thoughts of a few ultra radical minds infected by a spirit of the French revolution, and not an out growth of the moral and intel- lectual condition of the masees of the people. If the conclusions that we have drawn from the book convey a wholesome lesson of moderation, we find in it, on the other hand, much to inflame our imagina- tions in the graphic descriptions which it gives of the incidents of the Revolutionary war. Wo cannot better illustrate their interest than by comparing the im- preesions made by the vivid accounts of the battles of the late Italian campaign, as they came hot from the tele- graph, with elaborate narratives of similar conflicts, in which the vitality of the scene is stifled in the turgia descriptions of the rhetorical historian, We devour the former with impactial eagerness, and as we scan its brief but intensely exciting items, we fancy that we can hear the roll of mnueketry and the boom of the cannon, The more carefully elaborated account of the same event, by the professional historian, interests us chiefly by ita style, in weighing which wo think more of the writer than of the avhject. However eloquently it may be treated, we cannot rekindle in our minds the ail-engrossing feclings of apxiety Which were inspired in us by the simple and un- adorned newspaper account, Hence tho great attraction and charm of the yolumes before us. They place the reader of onr times in exactly the same position as that of hiz predecestor in the Revolutionary epoch, who gleaned hin facts Jess fully, though perheps not less faithfully, from the Hrraup of his day. ‘The appearance of Mr. Moore's book is, as wo have alrendy obgerved, most fortunate, at a pe when the peddlers of treasen are constantly referring to the principles of the Revolution for prece- depts for their wicked and suicidal proceedings. It hag hitherto been difficult, owing to the inaccessibility of the fonrces from whence these materialsare drawn, to ob- tain anything like a correct idea of the state of popular fooling at the time “that tried men’s souls.” Wo have learned what this leader felt, and what that other wrote, Lut until now we haye not been in possession of what the daily and weekly prees—the mind of the peop! Tet ony’one read their sentiments, and then judge for him. seif whether the American Revolution was brought about, ard the Union cemented, by men of the stamp of the Sewarde, the Garrisons and the Wendell Phillipses. We do bot a people to hunt up stray passages in the writings ceches of the Jeaders of 1776, in order to draw from perversion exetses for disaffection and rebellion. » who wish to inform themselves exactly as to how our forefathers thought and felt on the miserable issues vhich it i sought to divide the country, have only to 1ske up Mr. Moore's book to be convinced that the preeedents for treason to the constit:tion which are ight to be drawn from the Revolutionary epoch, have no foundation eave in the disordered {maginations ot abolition fanatics, Pe Sarananea aa or tHe War tunbeltished wit wings. 1.tuel, Wells, Park Row. oo se ‘Those who are desirous of Preserving complete memo- rials of the late Italian campaign, cannot do better than Purchase this book. Pictorially, as well as textually, it shows a desire on the part of the compiler to give the pur- chaser the fullest value for bis money. ‘Tran: ted by the Re INMENTS. sla- sv. 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