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Senator Wilson having been referred to | }y Mr. Realf in bis testimony, that gentleman will | pppear before the Committee on Monday for pur- Poses of 3 ation. & ) having announced 4 willingness to withdraw” his name whenever a more suitable can- didate for Spe.tker should be selected, the republi- can members of Cucisress yesterday canvassed the field for a substitute, but found no person so likely gs Mr. Sherman to concentrate the entire republi- pan strength. The Statg Sonate was not in session yesterday. in “he Assembly, a bill providing for the asgess- mront and payment of the damages occasioned by The destruction of the Quarantine buildings was re- ported upon favorably. A bill was introdaced to smend the Revised Statutes by repealing all those | portions on which decisions of the Court of Appeals against tenants in autirent cases were based. A | Dill wag plso introduced appropriating $100,000 | yn aid of the People's College. After the transac- Alam of sampapnimncrtant business, the Mouse ad Journe: ‘onday evening. s é Z Our letters from Mexico, dated in the city on the | Jet and Sth inst., published wodty, contain a very | clear and matter of fact synopsis of thé Porton of | affyirs in that foreign intervention—American or Anglo-Amieri- can—is pointed out, and the good which woul re- sult frot such # woygment made evident. The ! leading Jesuits and other priests were auvionsly | plotting for the establishment ofa monarchy. The | feeling for a war with the United States ran very high ia the capital, and was fostered by the charet party with great energy. Miramon's Valle and Rocha in their very stroz opened his way to Vera C which pected, would be immed y atta ofa F: te troops, havi D dem the ial pressure mad: Juarez by the French Minister secking to collect over $2,000,000 of money claims. Miramon was to a triumphal ovation on his retarn to the city Mexico. The soldiers under command of Gen. Villa had plundered all the churches near Cuantla, and killed two of the priests. Mr. Wag- ner, Prussian Minister, was daily looked for. The low tariff clause of the Met Aly gave great Batisfaction to the for traders The overland mail from the P December 39, from ¢ DIA ington and Columbia, re tion yesterd The news is very in- teresting. Business inSan Francisco had improved, not v Mining operations had ended ts on account of the led among the Lake Valley, who were d, . with advices a rom Oregon shed Malloy’s sta- from cold and hung Cattle were also Starving on unt of searcity of hay, wh was worth $150 a tom It was tho ession among miners that a gene- gold and silver mines extended on the ‘@ Nevada to the Colorado ron are to December Li still continued. Reports of epredations were prevalent at Portland. The n Washington are to December 23. A tremendous storm had occurred in Paget's Sound, which occasioned much loss. The advices from I Columbia contain no news of interest. | News from the Sandwich Islands to the 10th De- | cember states that all the whaling flect had been beard from. The Board of Education having a by the decision of the Supreme Co: ter of the pay of the tea by Jaw compelling the read the public schools, Mr. Michael J. O'Donnell, prin- cipal of the grammar department of Ward Sch: No.5, in Mott street, has accepted the position of standard bearer, and secured the sery of Mr. James T. Brady to test the question on his behalf. By this disinterested act, Mr. O'Donnell r rest of the contumacions teachers from - convenience, as they will be paid their salaries the moment a mandamus is served on the President of the Board. The case, it is expected, will come up before the Supreme Court at an carly day, and all legal technicalities are to be waived, in order that the question may be tried purely on its merits and | settled as speedily az possible. The Board of dito abide | t in the ybeyed the g of the Scriptures in s wi aol Education have agreed to simply put in, in their answer to the mandamus, the following documents :—Section 18 of the law creating the Board; the by-law adopted June 15, 1859; and the acknowledgment of the teachers that said bylaw was not complied with. Bhould the Board of Education he defeated, ase is not to be carried to a higher tribunal, bat the teachers have reserved their right to test the question to the last. | The steamship New York sailed from this port yesterday for Southampton and Bremen, with 103 peesengers and $75,000 in specie. Tae Potomac river is now free of ice. By rever- he country. The necessity of astrang | NEW YORK HE ing to our advertising col interesi:d will nee that ( line of steamers will resume their regular weekly trips oo Satuday next to Jamestun and other poiats. ‘bhe cotton marhet ) eetenday continued quite Qron with 800 bales, tne ja which were about 2590 ia. » Priecs tur lot 10 store clased etl, on the basw of a u ut Like. for middiing eplacde. ‘The foreigu pews depressed the ma ket for flour, while it Geeioet generally about Se. per burreifor bearly ali deserivtions. ‘Phere was « pause ia Wheat, and Sales Were eo Hmited as to render quotations vowleal, while holders demanded previous rates. Corn War beavy, And Boll ACSC, for Jersey aud Soutoorn yel- low, Which WAS a decline, but with rather more doing al the concession, ork was higher, but not active, with BAlER Of OlE MOKK AL FIG HO & $i6 H8, now do. at FIT 2 8917 50, old prime at $11 62% a SH 76, and at $13 for Dew, Sugars wero caster, wid closed at io. per Id. de- chine on the week's gales fer gome ipivas. The Wansections embraced 400 a 600 buds. Freights wore steady, and engagements fair to Liverpoo! and London. The News from Mextco—Drifting Late Another War witn Phat Repabiic, While the Senawe is dosing over the ratifica- tion of the new treaty with Mexico, the cle. ments of another war with that republic, or of our necessary armed intervention there, are rapidly gathering. The recent accounta from Vera Cruz inform us thet Miramon, the military chief of the church party, has succeeded in defeating the liberals in the West, and subjecting the dis- trict of Culime. This gives him a port on the Pecilic, and the President should immedi- ately order some portion of the Pacific squad- ron to make its presence there seen and feit by the authorities of the church. It is added, in the lute accounts, that the young church Jeader was expected in the capital on the 6th ef January, when he would at once make a second demonstration against Vera Cruz, the preparations for which have already been made. His lust year’s attempt to take that eity, and ihe events that have followed that failure, do not lead us to suppose that he will succeed inthe present movement; but the ebances of war are uncertain, and this should lead us to contemplate the present position of Mexico and its retations towards this country, For two years the present civil war has raged there, between the people on one side, and the privileged classes of the priesthood and the military on the other. On the field of battle the skill of the trained soldier has con- stantly triumphed over the undisciplined efforts of the popular masses which support the Juarez goverument, Yet the church and the army combined have not been xble to subdue the country to their rnle. Whenever the exi- gencies of (be war have caused the army of the church to abandon any portion of the country, the people there have at once returned to their allegiance to the constitutional government and restored its authority, The continual re- currence of (this fact has exhausted the means of both parties for carryiug on the war, and renders the triumph of the anti-popular party a mere qnestion of time. The recuperant energy of the liberals, in constantly rendering new conquests necessary to the church and army, is rapidly diminishing its chances for success. lig men as well as its money are waning day by day, The clergy of Mexico are well convinced of is fact, and have, therefore, endeavored to wu | procure European assistance in their strife. Ja this they have failed, and at the present moment they see no other chance for escaping the fate which awaits them at the nands of Juarez than another occupation of the country by the ar- mies of the United States. They remember with unction the protection to property and overy existine rivht by Gen, Scott; and they bf ene eros . now wish to interpose the same shield between ! their vast possessions and the determination of a 7 wy he the constitutionalists to confistate we ayes use of the State, Hence the violent coutsé LoS c iedad, the organ of Bishop Mungina, and : of all the other church party journals in Mexi- nst this country. Waris openly advo- ted by them. Every outrage has been com- ited on our representatives and citizens in Mexico wherever the church party prevails. Tosult upon insult has been heaped upon us; and should they be able to get to Vera Cruz, they will force a war upon us at all hazards. There is the logic of selfishness in their course. Pretending to be exceedingly irate at imagina- ry aggressions on our part, the priesthood would provoke areal aggression, in order to save their own possessions by the sacrifice of the nation. This state of things should be taken into consideration by the Senate; and it should take care that its delay, by deferring the ratification of our treaty, does not result in making us be- come, at the costof much blood and millions of treasure, the supporters and defenders of one of the most corrupt and heartless religious organizations on this continent. The, true pre- ventive for such a condition of things is to ‘sue such a course as will enable the con- tional government there to carry out the ecclesiastical reforms it has initiated. This the treaty does; and we are curious to see if, in the vote upon it, the anti-papist elements of the North will be found ranged with the cor- { rapt Romish priesthood of Mexico. A Frew Sr ron Mr. Hickman.-In the Houge debate the other day, Mr. Hickman. of Pennsylvania, made use of a very absurd ex- preesion in king of the probable effects of Southern secession upon the North. He stated that the proportion of population was agai the slave States in the proportion of eig nillions to eight, and that, therefore, it the latter attempted to secede on account of the election of a black republican President, or for any other cause, they would soon be whipped into submission. We sre afraid that the honorable gentleman was a little hasty. If we take the Pre vote of 1856—and a question of this kind is to de settled by actual voters—we shall find that Mr. Buchanan received in the free States 1,224,750 votes, Mr. Fillmore 393,590; that Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Fillmore received alto- gether 1,618,510 votes, against Mr. Fremont’s 1,o41,sl2; that Buchanan and Fillmore re ceived seventy per cent of the whole popular vete, and that in the free States there was a popu- lar majority a; Fremont of nearly three hundred thousand votes. There can be no rea- sonable doubt that the Union feeling at the North is as strong, perhaps stronger, now than it was in 1856; and if so, Mr. Hickman’s caleu- lation should be exactly reversed. The popu lation of the Central States represented by the Buchanan and Fillmore vote would turn, not against the South, but against the black repnb- licans who had brought abont the action of the South and ruined the trade of the country. The people of the North would be dividediato two or three factions, each warring with d othe 2 | the other, and the i Me bands eo full of Northerd Pebeliion that aid from this quarter to fered fhe South icto fubmirsion could not be look! far, There would be a divided North 2B united South, aud Mr man's ei! amiltions Would turn out tot & Jack Pa! ‘shine wen in buel Lincein green, ‘The merchants Manufac- turers of the North would never se@ the conte royed without a determined and bit- on to the party which pregipitated such a crisis on the couutry, and they would hold Seward and the endorsers of the Helper wouk reponsibie for it. Affairs in Kurops—a Speck of Wav on the Horizon. The latest news from Kurope by the Circassian contains two or three very. sigaiil cant points, which to the mind indigute that, ubless the obstacles which stand in the way of the proposed Congress be speedily temoved, affairs om that Continent ave drifting war-wise. ‘The Napoleonic plan of disposing of Papal difficulty, as expressed in the pa let, is mauifeatiy acceptable tu the great telligent lay Catholics, as well as Protestant nations of Europe, whiley same time it receives a determined from the majority of the Catholio | and clergy—a fact which must ve ex; the ecclesiastics of the Church every instructed and governed by the ho: meat at Rome, just as ministers tiary, charges des affaires and cor other nations are instructed and go the governments from which they are accredit. ed. Unless the vexed questions concerning italian affairs and the nature of Pope's temporal sovereignty can be amicably settled by a general Congress, we confess thf we see no alternative but avotber war, com! vory probably with an exciting coatest b na the Catholic clergy and the enlightened jou of the laity of the Charch, t It will be remembered that Count Walewski declared that the programme of the Laguer- ronierre pamphlet should form no part of ibe policy of the French government while he was at the bead of foreign affairs; avd. following hard upoa that declaration we hear of the dis- missal or withdrawal of Waleweki from that posi- tion. This is the first significant poingin the late news, aud looks as if the Emperor way resolved that the programme of the pamphlet @kould be the imperial policy. Again: Marshal Vaillant, who assumed a command in Italy ig the war, not because he was a prominen, @ghting man, but that his wisdom aad experi be at band to assist Napoleon, ha: called to France, and a thorough fig! McMahon, the hero of Magenta, has to Italy in his place. And again: clares that unless the Pope abando: no more deracy @ ler opp These three circumstances, it mast be ad- mitted, are open to anything but « pagificatory interpretation. The peaceful tenor of the Em- peror’s remarks to the diplomatic corps on New Year's day, it is true, has served tempo- rarily to allay somewhat the fears of Europe; but the ambiguous declarations of Napoleon are not very reliable, particulariy ‘when we re member that preceding the late h words were all of pence, until eve of the day when the first divisions of the French army were ordered to cross the Alps and con- front the eagles of Austria upon the plains of Lombardy. Upon the whole, thea, the condi- tion of Europe seems perilous at the present moment; and predicating upon the failure of the Congress of Paris to settle the Etalixa ques- tion, we hard) gee the mode of escape Bran eines ~via Witlble strugd’s "iween the combined Powers of France, England, Prussia, and possibly Russta, backed up by the public opinion of all the Protestant peoples and the intelligent Catholic laity, on the one side, and the Catholic Powers on the other—o conflict, the results whereof are fearfal to contemplate. In the end the Pope will be compelled to accept the position which Napoleon so wisely and judicionsly pro- poses for him; but in the meantime all Europe will be convulsed, and a tide of bleod will bear Italy to the consummation of her destinies. The Kesults of Afiican Lator in the New World When Columbus discovered the New World, the fact became disclosed that there existed a vast interiropical region, extendiag from twenty to thirty degrees on each side of the equator: which contained the richest and most prolific soil to be found on the face of the globe, bu‘ the immense resources of which, without th¢ employment of African labor, could not be de veloped. Africa was populous, teeming with mil- Hons of the darkest skinned and wildest tribes, whose prisoners captured in war were continual- ly destroyed. When a field was opened in the hot latitudes of America—-the only climate suitable for their employment——their captives, instead of being killed, were purchased and sent hither, where their services have been at- tended with the most important results. The negro races of Africa are estimated at about 30,000,000, Since the commencement of the slave trade only about five millions have been imported into the New World, which amounts to buta small per centage of the num- bers slain in their savage warfare. And the exportation of the five millions was, to a great extent, a mere question of death or deportation: Of the whole number of Africans introduced into the Now World, 1,700,000 were landed in the British West India possessions, $75,000 (up to 1808) in the United States, and the remainder were sent to other European possessions in the | New World. African labor in the tropical re- ential | gions of the West has done more to advance and extend commerce and the arts of civilization over the world than any other cause that we know of: and to-day civilization is from one to two centuries ahead of what it would hare been without it—because white labor could not have accomplished whatit has performed. There exist at the present time in the New World, including the United States, Brazil, Cuba and Porto Rico, about 7,000,000 of Africanslaves, the results of whose labor exceed those of any similar number of persons, white or black, bond or free, to be found anywhere else on the face of the earth. Without descending into partica- lars, we may state that the annual value of products raised by Afri ave labor amounts to not lest than $40,000,009, nearly $240,000,000 of which is supplied by the United States. In this estimate we include cotton, coffee, engar, tobacco, rice, naval stores aud indigo. The consumption of these articles by the white races of the temperate latitudes has become an immonse necessity. Of the gene- Natick; , SUNDAY, JANUARY 22,, 1860. Siates for 1859-60, ¢ timated at 4,200,000 bales may be put down at $200,000,000. The trang portation of these immease supplies, their trans- formation by manufsctucing processes, and their redistribution, in changed torms, give em- ployment to millions of tons of shipping, aud affurd support to miltions upoa millions of free white Isborers ull over the civilized world. By the increase and expansion of commerce civilization bas been spread to the remoutest corners of the globe, while, steamships have been multiplied, railroads extended, aud com munication of ail kinds increased to aa exteut they would not have reached ia acentury with out the developement of the agricutiural re sources of the wopics in the West by Afgcan labor. And yet we find the monstrous doctrine taught that Afvicau labor is inimical to the free jabor of the North. The growers of grain, on which cattle and bogs are fattened fur Soutaera cvusumptiva; the ehip caulker and joiner uf Maine; the grass grower and hay outter of New Luglaad, whose remuneration is derived from 4 Suathera :aar- ket; the boot and shoe makers of Lyna and the draymen and other laburers of the North, are taught to belleve that African m ouemy to their work. Heace we fiud: that, hough the South takes from three quarters to four-fifths of all the boots and shoes made at the North, and which sustains an im- mense hide und leather trade in New York, the workmen of Lynn and Natick, Massachusetts, atter workisg all day in making beogau shoes for the negroes of the South, go at night to abolition prayer meetings, to join in supplica tious to the Most High that THe would interfere to deprive them aud their families of employ ment aud of bread, by destroying African labor and the Union together, If African labor is an evil, the North and the civilized world bave extracted an immense and incalculable good out of it, This uty ve suid not only of the whites, but of the blacks alsu. The cotton bales of the Unived States have kept Eogtand aud America at peace for forty years, and prevented the whites from mutual staugh ter, Emancipation is not ouly the destruction of African labor, but the extermination of the Begroes themselves. All those intertropical comaunities of the New World in which emaa cipation bas been enforced have goue to the dogs, while the blacks among them are geada- ally dying out; those, on the conteary, which have preserved African labor continue to be prosperous, powerful and progressive. Tous, the island of Cuba, though oppressed by an effete monarchy, is worth more to its goverament and to the world at large than all the other West India islands put together. Among ull the South American States Brazil is the only one which bas maiatained a stable and prosperous government, and she is the only oue which has preserved African labor. In the Spanish South American States, though sadiy taizgoverned, African labor was preserved while under the rule of Spain, and it gave sta- bility aud prosperity to their provincial rale, objectionable though it was in other respects. When the provinces threw off the Spanish yoke, their people were seized with the fanaticism of the age, and destroyed African labor, which drove out Spanish capital, and left the people & prey to anarchy and revolution. Venezuela aboliaked by emancipation African labor. No- body afterwards wanted to work, but all wente4 to rule—blacks, whites, and half breeds; hence her history ta written in civil wars and bloodshed. Peru followed her exam- ple, and revolution after revolution has beea the Fesult: and had it bot been forthe discovery age: ea ee ut bird manure on the Chinchas, Wuere vat men have to be employed to load ships, she would, ere this, have sunk iuto hopeless bank- ruptey and ruin. Chile, on account of her valuable copper miues, attracted foreiga capitalists, whose influence has helped to impart some degree of stability to her government. But she, too, experieaces a fair share of revolutions, In the other States revo- lutions are the rule, and peace the exception. We also behold the richest country in the New World, comprised in the five Central American States, nearly stripped of population, its fruit- ful soil uncultivated, its mines unworked, and its petty governments without strength, stability or respectability. There nobody cares to labor, and all, black and white, struggle by cunning deceit or force to govern their fellows, Tura- ing to Mexico, we behold a country whose wealth in soil and minerals is fabulous, devas- tated by the brigandism of civil war—a coun. try where life and property have ceased to find protection, while anarchy and bloodshed arrest all human progress. What influence is mainly chargeable with having inflicted such irreparable injury upon the New World, by the destruction of African labor? That of great Britain. Like the axe in the hands ‘of the reckless woodman, she has contributed to destroy what centuries of labor cannot restore; and if one half of this Union, and that by all odds the most conservative portion, has not been overthrown and deso- lated by civil war, worse than that which destroyed the West India Jelands and involved half the American continent in bloodshed and anarchy, it has not been her fault, nor the fault of her incendiary agents—the abolitionists of the free States of the North. With all her eru- sades against African labor in the New World, she knows of late whom to trust in South America. Not long since she made a h loan to Brazil, and at rates considerably al par, while she would not touch the coupons of those States which have abolished negro labor with a ten foot pole. The Southern States have a great duty to perform, and one which they owe alike to them- selves, to the African Inborers committed to their charge, to the stability of government, to commerce, to civi and progress of the human race generally, to discharge with fidelity and humanity. The tendency of atl communities, but more espe- cially in the emervating climate of the tropics, where African labor overthrown, is to anarchy on the one hand, and to the one-man power on the other. The destruction of Afri- can Jabor by emancipation and the final ex- tinction of the race are synonymous, This is seen to be the result in the West Indies, as well ag in the free States of the North. In J ica, by an official report sent by citizens of that island to Mr. Labonehere, then Secretary for the Colonies, it appears that, owing to the want of proper cleanliness and other hygienic precautions, together with the neglect of vaccination—matters carefally attended to by our Southern planters—the fatal is 1850-51 about 50,000 of the negro population were swept off. It is also stated thag the ac- grees would not work, and that unless supplies of labor could be obtaiued trom other sources, either from Africaas taken from sluvers, or from the cvolies, the productions of the island, aud the negroes themselves, promised ulti- mately to disappear. It is not alone ia the tropics that emancipa- tion of the African race leads to their de- struction. When the first census of the United States was taken iu 1790, there were 40,000 African slaves in the free States of the North, and 27,000 free negroes, making a total of 67,000 The increase of the slaves of the South has been at the rapid rate of about thirty per cent each decade. Now, bad the negroes at the North increased as fast as the negroes at the South, by the end of the sixth decade, or in sixty years, they should have amounted to about 326,000; but instead of this, we find that the census of 1850 only gives a total of about 149,000; a part of which was supplied by recruits frem the South. What has become of the missing negroes? Some masters, pro- bably to prevent their loss by emancipation, the South; yet this does ‘‘thele While disappearance, Every New Yorker and Jerseyman of four core and ten can recollect the time when ae- groes were more numerous than they are now. He can remember when they labored about our docks, loading and unloading vessels,inspiriting each other by their loud aud sonorous songs— when (bey labored in the streets, waited in ho- tels and served in private families. Where are they now? Where have they mysteriously disappeared? If you want an answer, examine the tumuli in our pottersfields, or consult the dissectors in our medical colleges—places to which pneumonia, typhus fever, varioloid, con- sumption, scrofulous affections, and other wasting diseases, engendered often amidst want and fath, have consigned them. Yon, sir, say you are an abolitionist, a friend of the biacks, and that your purpose is to eman- cipate or destroy the labor of four millions of Africans. Have you ever reflected upon the con- sequences of such an act both to the blacks and to the whites in this country, as well as in Europe? The act of emancipation could only end in the extermination of the negroes, and in irretrieva- ble disasters to the whites, North and South Then wby, in God’s name, labor to bring about results which cannot only do no good, but must bring upon the races involved and the civilized world generally unutterable and irre- parable ruin? What then does fanaticism labor for? For anarchy, civil war and bloodshed—for the ex- termination of the negro, and the irreparable ruin and bankruptcy of the whites; for the des- truction of commerce and the arrest of civili- zation. All, all are to be levelled, uprooted and sacrificed to the fulfilment of an insane and satanically inspired idea preached by mad men, believed in by fools, and practised by knaves. From all such suicidal efforts, “Good Lord, deliver us!” Seemann Proposed Conference of Southern States. Wasmxcros, Jan. 21, 1500, ‘The Baton Rouge Ga:rtie says that reeolutions are to be preeented to the Legislature of Louisiana proposing a con- erence of Southern Staies, ia rolation to commercial non- intervention with the States of the North. Mr. Samuel B. Ruggles Seriously 11. Locxront, Jan 21, 1300, Mr. Samuel B. Ruggles has beon and AW continues #2 with an atta@k of the Inngs, at the roshienco nor Hunt, in Lockport. enim ~ eed Death of Captain Yoyes—Fi Bostox, Jaa. 21, 1860, Captain Joeeplt ©, Noyes, of tho United States reyanuo cutter Jackzon, died at Vastport, Mc., on Tuesday, and wes buried yesterday, He had been in the revenue service about thirty years.” A ire early this morning destroyed the building, No. 714 Washington stroet, occupied by Baker & Perry, cabi pet, fash and blind manufactory, Caarlos Newman's billiard room, Louis Adam hing store and TL. M. Wood's fish market. The building was owned by Stephon Fitzgerald. Loss, $15,000. e, dee Sentence for Manslaughter. Boston, Ji In the Superior Court this morning CI hue, for manslavghter, in kk sentenced to fiiteen month: 1560, rles Ti, Gova- ing Hurrech ¥rocborn, was prisonmont. Burning of Flour Mills in Onto. Marv A We. Cram’s flour mills were by $20,000. Ingured Arrest on Charge of False) otonces. Seveph Hyman, of the fi sion merchants, of this charge of obtaining, under fa! goods to the extent of ten thou. Sailing of the Vigo. THLaDEUrMs; Jan. 2 The steamship Vigo sailed from this port to twenty passengers and a full cargo of merchandise. ies The Hungarian Outward Bound. PORTLAND, Ja is Tho stoamsbip Hungarian sailod at four o ternoon for Liverpool. Aaclina Patti and the Rostonians. Bostow, Jan, 21, 1880. Adelina Patti has quite entranced the Boeto: Zerlina, in “Don Giovanni. ter this afternoon, and received a per tion, and to the happiness | plauge and bouquets. The Academ; every part, and the singing and acting of the yoong prima donna was indeed euperd. Markets. New ORcmASs, dan. 20, 1960 Cotton buoyant, at an advanes of .c., owing to favare able advices from Mnropo. Sal 5,000 baiea. Wing He. a ic. The mark rely swept f k 95,000 bales—the largest amount re corded for a single week. against 76,000 last year of the week $1,000: ‘Total export for the season 877 Keceipts at this port abead of last year Z31,000. Ditto at Swuthern ports 405,000. t 460,000 last Purapetraga, Jan. 21, 18 Breadstufis generally very dull Wheat uachan, Corn yt » Oats declined le. Whiskey Obituary. Died, at Penfield Hill, Vortland, Coun., on the ith inet., Zenvion Pasvixio, Esq, aged 95 years, Mr. Penfleld was a voter for seventy-four years. During that long time he never failed to vote, except on a single occasion, when he was absent from heme. Hs yoted for Washington, Jotter son, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Polk, Pierce snd Buchanan. He was always carly at the polls, ready with his ballot. Mar. Penfield retained a good degree of vigor of mind and body tothe last. Born in March, 1785, he lived and died on the spot where he was born. He often represented his native town in the J was for many years the Town Clerk aul } ways remarkably accurate and reliable in ie his duties, BrxiAsin Lev, one of the oldest citizens of New Or- s, died in that city on the 10th inst, Ho was well 8 tbo condnetor of a price current for many yoars and @ stationer, and at ono tiine was engaged im a large wad lucrulive business, ee erence th waa’? hive | ral aggregate, the cotton crop of the Uattad | Prevalevce of cholera aad saial!pox ocourred simultaneously, aod that ia the siugle year of brands | ' beautifully decorated with ; ' t H | ster short struggle. On bein ee et City Katelligence, POLITIOIANS AT LOGOKRERADS—A DEB TURBANOK IN WALL STRRET. The vicinity of Wail stroet, near Nassan, was witness of 4 rother exciting sceno yesterday a'terncon, As Col John C, McCaua, a lawyer, was approaching his office tm Wail strect, be was met by Mr. Chee. K. Graham, emgmear of the Navy Yard, who made an astauit upon bim wih @ stick which be had in bis hand. Diffrent versions of sne affair are given by the friends of either party, and im order that both sides of the story may bo known,’ we aub- is COLD + the frienda of Col, McCann #ay that Charlee K. Grahass ana De Wit C Grabam met Col. Moo. om his office and, avested by a maa taey had with thom, commenc an asgauit on bim, ove of thew striking him over the head. with astiek, McOuvn took ihe suck Irom him, give ene of them a sound thrashing, aad made two of the three: ron, ‘The friende of Mr. Graham say, on the other hand, that be accosted Mr. McCunn in Wail street, near his fod struck him over the bead with @ grape vine which broke in two ai the dret viow, Grakam this up with his fists, striking McCuua once or twice. Witt C. Graham at this moment came across the and against him McCunn’s wrath was now directed. struck bim over the face, ki off bis hat and cles, when Graham retarned tho biow. Here the sndet an ths crowd interfered and separawd whe The difdonity is said to have arisen out of a which took place last Thuraday night, uuder the foil Circumstances:—Grabam and are bam, it 18 6aid, was mak! some remarks, whea he was ard in Congress, pho tasie piace tfleruoon, when Grattan took Ube wulmmary moded Were nevertheless too great for some people to reeiet, ‘and consoquently there were to be soon in Broadway divers perambulating top boots and elevated petti- coats, the latter sweeping the sidewalks @ ¢ergo, and im that way, perhaps, rendering « very great, though unde- signed, service to the contractors. Garments bespattered: with mud, and hittle bits of shoes, containing litle bits of fairy like feet, all covered over with dirt and dripping with nasty moisture, were of course quive common spae- tacles, and caused the ill-starred wearers to cures our back- Gliding municipal atepfathers, who don’t and won't mind their particular business. We don’t mean to #ay that the ladies indulged in the profanation of sw: aring, but we de Say that they scolded , sometimes right out, but more ohem only setto voce; showing by flashing eyes and frowas as early Savage as pretty faces oan axsime the extent of their incigaation, mortification, perturbation - yy rs Among the rash specimens of dr; ds that ventured to dare the picking, thawing and Seabing of tho day, Were two real. genuine, unmictaxeable red petticoats, tae gorgeous scarict of which, at first sight, exbivited ‘the: much taiked of Balmoral iu its fullest glory. But whas it wag at second sight, that ia, after progressiag the ex- tent of a few blocks aiong Broadway, might have beem seen by any one who, like the writer, was an eye wit- ness, but could not be described. The red siicted ladies first hove tn sight somewhore in tha vicinity of Duane street, and paraded proudly towards the Park, uncom- sclously, perhaps, gatheriug as they wont the mud which arose at every footfall, and added anything but beauty to the scarlet garments. On they went, bow- ever, observing and obgerved, until thoy arrived at the corner of Browiway and Chambers street, where they came to a halt, ovidently with the intention of croesit But this was a feat which required some mathematical cake culation, and therefore the Balmorals s'opped, seemiug te survey the field of ice, dotted with innumerable povls of filthy water, which lay before them, with feclings of doubs and hesitation. But the delay was on'y momentary; the Rubicon must be crossed, and so tho braver of the two advanced ‘boldly, picking her steps with the utmost auton, like Mise’ Pussy, Stealing over the snow. Step No. 1, all right; No. sound; No. 3, ditto; No. 4, hard, but muday; No.'S, ai whore was tho polite officer, generally on hand at this Corner, to rescue tho dear creature from the threatening danger? The little foot was seen to press itself upon a de- ceptive looking mound of snow, but in en inetant dowa i went, disappearing like ligbtning, and duwn algo went the fair owner in the midst of mud and slush and water. What a predicament, and what a situation for a red petti- coat! A rush was imstantly made towards the victim ef dirty streets, and, more frightened and mortified thi thy the lady was speedily settled safely on her feet ouce more. A few minutes thereafter a was procured, and the twascarlet petticoats having crushed themselves ia, were soon driven of home as rapiaiy as horses could fy. ‘Thus ended an exhibition of the Balmoral the day before yesterday, under difficuities which should been secu to bo appreciated. A Pmsoxgn Wirnovr 4x Orrexcr.—On Friday ovening yourg girl employed in the building No. 51 Chambers Etreet, not being “up to time,” accidentally got locked im Ly the porter, who departed at the usual hour, with the koy in his pocket, lilile dreaming that he was loaviog a fir prisoner bebind him. After vainly endeavoring to unbar the deor, the girl be; to eta littie | her position, ard to contemplate wit disgust propel cf remaining alone in the big house pony Filed with uppleasant Blue Beardish the eco vber “vaghtz, aio ascended to the second story, where ~ sete ae the window and nanea the pessors bY as lustily as sho was able in hor irightoned condition. Some of the boys of No. 1's fre truck, bearing the cry of distress, bastened to the rescue wih @Jadder, but the imprisoned girl could not be por- suaded to achieve her freedom in this man,.o"» Aue here fore waited until tas pArter arrived with his Key ,* Joased her from o: Tre Counc at Loucrennal Foard ef Councilmen of the stand have given considerable cissatistaction at g many of the members, especially on the republican side. Itceems that the republicans were promised prominent positions on the leading committees for their vote for the Presidency of the Board ; but, with the excoption of the chairmanship of the Committee on Roads, they have beon, they alle; if ‘The list of tho committees Ds.—Tho selection in thé nfairiy treated. rhows, however, thet the republicans havo had second choice on nearly all of the committees, while democrats who have bern in the Board for several terms have boom aced upon the most inaignificant committees. Daring here have Leen somegbarp words among pmombers, and it would be woil for the Brady tion Committee to subpoua some of them. Perhaps might be induced to tell what fat jobs were to be thade @ portion of the comproiaise between the republicans and ne 68, Ap Accronst—Anotitn NAMB ¥ Wm. Ingham, a stoutand | powerfnl man,a machjoist or blacksmith by trade, and i much respected among his acquaintances, is now lying at the houze oi Holding, No. 129 Cedar streot, suffering ed at the accident on the Hudson Riv- breast bone is fractured, bis head is very mech cut and bruised, and he is considerabiy in- jured in other parts of his body. He was sitting in the train when the ent took sible for some time; but as soon as red to be iaken to the house of Mr. id of hig, im this city. His injuries wi probsbiy couiina him for a month. He was on his way } from Sing Sing to Newark, N. J. ‘The Hoboken Yacht Cid gave their fourth annual ball on Wednesday evening last at the Tivoli, Hoboken. The ‘air Was got up regardless of expense, the room being 3 of all nations. The attend- ance was quite large and jonable, but none too much for comfort. Dodworth’s Band added raucn to the enjoy- ant of the evening, dancing bemg np with greas init until near morp. Quite a number of guests were Present, among whom was—Commodoro Barker, Mayor Carpenter and E. W. Tryon, Esq., besides delogations from various boat clubs from other places. A Wim Porrome —The steamship Patapsco, Captaia layeld, from Yortiend, brings for exbibition white ¢, Which was caught in the Saginaw river; it weigne ibs, and is a rare gpecimen of the porpoise. Tt wae caught by three Canadians, by whom it will be exhibited G* BCOU 48 & Suitable place is found, Police Intelligence. ; Carrere oy Brxezars—On Friday night, about twelve { C’elock, as officer Dennett, of the Twenty eecond precinet, was patrolling his beat, ho discovered a light streaming from the chincks of the door of the pork packing cata- Dlishment of Lippencott, Martin & Co,, Tenth avenue, be- tween Forty-second and Forty third streets, and on peer- ing throngh saw two young burglars at work, one ondea- yoring to open the drawer of the deak,the other enaea- yoring to pry open the safe. Otiicor Dennett procured the assistance of two other officers and entered. The burglars tlod to the second story, where they endeavored fo make their exit by the window, brt wore captared to the station bonse they gave iF NAMES a8 ham Harrie. Westerday morning hem for examination. A Yoururcy Tumr,—George Tany teen, siole $130 from his employe 100 Prince strect, and decamped with he {spent th & youth, aged iim Vanostrand, No. to Albany, where holidays. ‘The money soon disappeared, rned to the city a fow days since, when he “i Dy officer Van Duse , of the Third precinct. | having stolen the mébey, and was commit i | meen et 02 Connolly for examination. Personal Intelligence. Capt. Van Viiet, of the United Statos army, is in towa, and stopping at the New York Motel. ‘The Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriof of the Vth inst, says:— Two prominent politietans—one spoken van candidate for Governor of Fe proaching our borough in the vorthe terday, bad some azisunderstanding in reteren cal matters, which finally to blows oad a fashioned knock-down. The combatants, fo: separated bofore auy serious injury occurred, Wh.coler, formerig ’ ‘been arrested for Iwwending Crisis, Se: audolph county, Ne Once Tnran’s Bow Surveyor of Guilford county cireulaung sixty copies of Helper voral persons have beca arresigd 4. 00 @ slmilar gbarge,