The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1868, Page 10

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET., and to and consiqnesn tothe masiens-of imward bound vee LECTURES LAST NICHT. FROM NEW YORK TO JERUSALEM. Lecture by Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, A small audience assembled at the Fifth avenue Baptist church, on Forty-sixth strect, last evening, to isten to Rev, J. Hyatt Smith’s recital of his trip from New York to Jerusalem, and of what he had seen on the way. The journey was made In 1862, in the midst of our late war, and it gave the lecturer many opportunities of observation, which he en- “Skipping the ocean,” as he said, on the Scotia, he paid a high compliment to Captain Jud- kms, but was less complimentary to the sea, and referred to Henry Ward Beecher, who also hoped for another and better state, there was no more sea boisterous a to be corked up. visited essayed.to kiss the Blarney stone, but it w: where no one could kiss 1t. He aiso of Daniel O'Connell: glowing tribute to ‘Wits. and WASHIN ann CONTINUED FROM THIRD PAGE. peneficent than topia_of Sir Thomas More. himself to this work, in which THE PHILADELPHIA MURDER. ; ; Trial of George S, and Camilla E. Twitche!! for the Murder of Mrs. Hili—Empanelling a CLEARED. Steamship Eagle, Greene, Havana— Atlantic Mall Steam- Bi yt England, Prentiss, Havana via Key West— - Steamship Gen Barnes, Morton, Savannah—Livingston, Steamshiy Beregoase, Steamship Ashland, owen Wile 101 Hee an uineton, No Th e, Bragg, Portland") F Ames.” {From the Philadeiphia ced Telegraph of yeter- ay. COURT OF OYEK AND TERMINER, ~~ Judges Brewater and Ludlow; District Attorneys rt; T. P. Ransford, Sheppard and Hi: John O'Byrne and William B. Charles H. T. Coil Mann, counsel for the prisoners, This ing being tne day fixed for the trial of 8. Twitchell, Jr., and Camilla EB, Twitchell, his wife, for the murder of Mrs. Mary E, Hill, crowds ple gathered about the court house to get an and perhaps a gilmpse of the unfortunate before the court met every ave- ma a o'clock bed hall and stairway of the court house present disagreeable scene, being filled to their utmost with bootblacks, old women, young women and ren, eager for the door to open in order that might rush in to secure a take in greedily every little incident that would occur? in this solemn proceeding, at the doors of a menagerie, Where the most terrible of wild beasts are to be exhibited. And this con- tinued throughout the morning, the entry being 80 blocked that lawyers and even the judges wio at- front found the undertaking It is to be hoped that this will be prevented hereafter; indeed, Judge Ludlow, at the meeting of the court, sent for a posse of policemen to Keep the way cleat ‘At ten o'clock the prisoners were brought in, Mrs. Twitchell closely veiled and leaning on the arm of her husband, and holding her head bowed down. As they passed along the centre aisle the spectators on each side turned and gazed upon them with the deepest mterest, and those who were seated om at a distance actually stood up on tiptoe to satisfy them- Bi E—G F Bulley a pbell, Antwerp—Funch, Meincke & Sark P C Warwick (Br), Chichester, Rio Janeiro via Wil- Bark Ann (Br), Cam ail the governments on .the h the mouth of the Mississip) Stel of Mexico = mage oe eatates. le was, hows 4 nderstand and remember the discussion our first acquisition of purchase—which extended from the Guif the west band of the Mississippi to the Lake ‘of the Woods; and though sometimes of the means by which they comed each of the several acqut which our country hae come to stretch from ocean to ocean, to have @ longer apd more valuable coast Jine on the Pacific than any other nation, circle the Gulf from Caj Every suecessive acqi nerved his purpose, SHIELDS, Dec 3—Th whish atrack the American Lioyd’s Surveyor tiftcate of being seaworthy and fit to proce Miscellaneous. ahoresof the Gulf ton of foreign pot that attended isan Po..ock Rre LicuTsHip—' pilot boat J W Elwell, relative to the difficulties under which shelabored in towing the Pollock Rip Lightship into New- port, will be found interesting: Thu Dec bowing wees, ‘boat AtS AM sawa following report of the in ought dees Berens Toman; Smith & Co, PRS, 5 a Schr Southern Cross (Br), Georj Umpirer 0a. cee te rae (Br), Holmes, Wolfville via Portland—H J De Comstock, Mobile—Johnaon & Higgins. St John, Wilmington, NO roas “& Nickerson, Baltimore—C E arton, Bonsall, Puiladelpbia—' ith. Gene John Lancaster, Williams, P)iladelphia—W B Vonder- ty, Meredith, Philade!phin—Baker & Di + , Cobb, New Belford Fersuson ¢ Wow, City of New York (Br, Tibbets, Liverpool ARRIVALS. REPORTED BY THE HERALD STEAM YACHT2. Liverpool Dec 5, via Ques ngers, to E Cunard. wel- sitions of territory by gra and here the lecturer paid a oun Van Buren, the rarest of intellect, and who had never position for which his talents qualt- through the cemetery he was struck with the inscription, “Sacred to the memor: Protestant im a consecrate: Catholic churchyard. He asked his Irish guide and received for answer that Steel died for liberty, and liberty makes brothers of us all. reverend speaker mentioned his meeting a Greek on board of @ vessel in the Mediterrancan, and the exchange of the words Americano Greco made friends, and they looked a couple of repubiics out of their eyes. Dr. Smith allusions to Tam O’Shanter and Bobby Burns; also to @ ‘practical’, friend, who didn’t know beans, yet would fish the Jordan for trout, and to a beautiful fable of a child buried amid the ruins of a house cail- ing ont in feeble voice to the men on the point of tiring in their search, ‘“‘Heave away; I’m no dead yet.” The four principal cities he would classify as follows:—Dublin, the capital of wit; Edinboro, the capital of literature; London, the capital of*Co merce, and Paris, the capital of glory. Newgate, in company with a distinguished, now ex- tinguished gentleman, the gallery of wax ures of Madame Toussaud gave him an opportunity for reciting some anecdotes, which, though not new, ping Spurgeon,” the reve . Charles L. Wilson, Secretary of the, American Legation at London, to whom he brought @ letter from Thurlow Weed, and from whom he got the advice to say as little as possible of his country, as it was unpopular at the time. Charles Francis Adams he described as an accom- who never forgets that he is the grandson of his grandfather and the son of his He spoke of the House of Commons being as a Western barroom, and he begged pardon of a Western barroom for coim- paring it with the House of Commons. small tators and commentators in that scribed Palmerston’s appearance, over to the House of in company with Lord Clifford, he had an oppor- tunity to see all, and he declared it worth a trip to London only to see the two House of Lords, “The Sieep of the Duke of Argyle” of Blucher and Wellington.” commented on the Euglish and their love of coun- which he pronounced the great strength of ‘This day begins with the wind WNW, Under close reefed sails, heading N by 1 / ‘and beat up to it; at4 AM fag too under main Wy sea runnin, out to ip; sent boat to herto know if she wanted asa! that he wanted to be towed fi new 7 inch hawser to her and ie wi a heavy sea run- M parted hawner;lay by her; at 12 M, lat 29 St another hawser to her, and steered Ny but modereting; at 11 PM ‘wind NW, So is day. Friday. Dec 11—This day Sable to the Rio Grande. ition confirmed his faith and ‘The theory of Mr. Stevens’ ideal republic awarded home and culture to each indus- With this generous theory slavery consequently, the it aceursed institu- A 3 trious citizen. of Thomas Steel’’—a was incompauble, and he worn and unrelenting foe tion. He did not wage war ppon slavery because he envied the wealth and power of the master, was wont to thank God for having blessed his youth with poverty, aud was ever ready to confront the haughty master, because his great heart sympathized with the outraged and helpless slave. ance of the Union would have dispelled Mr. Ste- venus faith in the. ultimate redemption of the ple of the world from toll to which they have ever been sub- the breaking out of the slaveholders’ re- beilion seemed to rejuvenate him and inspire hm With superhuman strength. He was always in his Seat, and when sessions were so far protracted, as they sometimes were during the ‘Ihiriy-seventh, Tabty-elghth and Thirty-ninth Congresses, light came and dimmed the artificial ligt Hall, the old man’s pungent witticisms would rouse many of the younger members from drowsinese and To maintain the Union he would have exhausted the country’s resources jn men and mate- riais of war, and wien the rebellion had been crushed he proposed measures that, hai they been have eradicated its causes and its recurrence confiscation as @ puuishment wo crime mevited it. He was captain nares tempted to enter the TR almost a hopeless one. And here the 15th—Steamsh; 8 with light winds from the pve, head to the W made some humorous jat 12M, lat 4031, lp Java (Br), Lott, wind NE by E, st bs rs with mdse and passe y at SPM was spoker't was spoken PM, 200 iallen east of Sandy "Hook, "anw steamsh wind breezing up aga eoliting now, dothle the sails all aroun at6 PM close reefe A 4 E; ate ate sot ihe owing aud. blow Shinneeock Light peach N by wit ‘mil wind N, blowing st Saturday, Dec from N; at 2 AM wind NN’ Bhinnecock Ligi laboring peo) ‘he ignorance aud il D for ifalifax and Liverpool. 8 (NG), Barends, Hamburg Dec 3, ant Had strong weal Dec 8, iat 49 08, lon 19, passed a si doned, with all spare standin wi wes Brewster and Ludiow appeared upon the bench, and the prisoners’ counsel being present court was opened at the usual hour, District Attorney Sheppard arose and said: day was assign trial of the case of the Com and Camilla E. Twitchell, oners are now in court with their counsel, aud I therefore ask that a jury be called. ion being offered by counsel for the pri- ne clerk was about stating to the prisoners re to be sent to the bar to be tried, when he was interrupted by Mr. f ay It please your Honor, unde t ich cases made and provided, Camilla ves for a severance of ly ster—The motion 1s granted. Mr. Sheppard—I now mov the case of George S. Twitche! Mr. Galton, the clerk, inform: he was sent to the bar far trial, and that he was en- | titled to challenge twenty of tue jurors peremptorily | and as many more as he should have good cause for ending to WNW, ay ‘begins with x strong breeze z had iron anchors on ity Indian Agur hi Ice out het natne bound Ei et in toward the land; still it bearing NNE 17 mil Newport; at 7 AM, being close in the land, SAM lontauk Point; at 2 PM, squalls, took in the foresail to. PM passed Point Judith; at chored in Newport harbor, wind W. So ends this day. Surp PERUVIAN, belonging to Wm F Weld & Co, from Ma- nila, discharged on Tuesday at the Harbeck stores, Brookiyn, 4300 bales of hemp in 8 hours. Such auick dispatch was never beet L008 to 2000 bales being considered ore and high poop dec! wiiite; catild not passed a Conard steamer, pasted an Inman steamer, do} bne of the national steamers, hip Nebraaea, Hence for Liv Steamship Isaac Bell, Bourne, Richmond, City Point anc Norfolk, with mdse aud passengers, 10 the Old Domiain oncluded to go to parting the hawser; at were well told, “5) le sail; at 4:45 PM an- lecturer spoke of Steainehip Neptune, Baker, Boston, with mdse, to Wm P jew Bedford, with mdse and rod. before known in this avery good day's wor Notice to Mariners. The Black Buoy at Kingsland Beach, Pein ayer aaa The Pollock Rip Lightboat lett tow of a US steam tender, for her sac not propose those whose great incapable of a vindictive g Vhe system of land monopoly whieu had prevailed in the South as the essential support of slavery, and he He Knew that the rebel leaders ‘Were conquered but not subdued, and, appreciating the power they derived from the ownership of the land on which the body of the people were to labor and live, Le would deprive tiem of flat power. . He the slave had given the land of the South its value, and be would reward the freedman by giving him a homestead as a slight re- turn for the unrequited work he lad done w slave. He knew that the loyal soldier had sayed the south to the Union and freedom, and he would in- vate him to dweil under. his and by his counsels assist in its future govern- ment. He knew that a landed aristocrac; landless class are alike dangerous in a republic, and he would abolish Such were the humane considerations which prompted him to propose and support measures which the weak and timeserving denounced as harsh ‘The system of labor for wages, a8 at is exemplified in Great Britain and on the Conti- nent, is as inconsistent with his ideal republic as Contemplating the ever-increasing volume of yauperism in the British islands, the unnatural and excessive toil demanded from women in the land and Belgium, and frem the hal agricuitural laborers in the fen gangs of Engiand, bis emotions might have been ex- pressed in the indignant exclamation of the Abbe de ja Mennais:—“But for labor at wi name out of hell.” Liat deity to republican principles required gov- ernment to protect those whose toil 1s the source of aii presperity against the wrongs and woes endured by the laboring people of countries in which social distinctions are recognized by law, and ancient evils are regarded as vested rights; and wit What steadipess and power he endeavored to protect the wages of the American workman by the im) tien of adequate duties on the production of under paid iaborers of Europe every gentleman on this Moor knows. But he was no foe to commerce. dn the republic his youthful imagimation pictured Nature lent her aids to the people. The fleids gave forth rich harvests; the mines yielded their precious or useful svores; aud each mountain stream, as it sped its way to the see, lightened the burden of man by moving the machinery he guided without ex- ‘The consumer and the producer perfect means of exchanges of modiies and the taxes imposed by middie men and the many agents required by trade with distant nations were saved to the producer. Legislature of Pennsylvania or the Congress of the united States, no project for the development of latent resources or improved transpo. came within lis conception of constitutional limits ever failed for the want of his support, our alinost limitless rauge of climate and soil, and boundless and diversified agricuitural and mineral resvurces, he regarded our country as sutlicient not only for its present population, but for bundreds of le tn the enjoyment of every material comfort, and the-pefluements of a better than Augus- Keganding our country as a refuge for all inequalities of other intelligence of Steamship Wamsntta, Fizh, rs, to Ferguson & Wo Ship American Congress, Jordan, sondon, Co, Is anchored'on te Vark Sabra Moses (ir), Killam, Cardiff, 39 days, with rail- way iron, to Boyd & Hincken. ‘Aad rough weather on the Bark Lochnaw (Br), Murdock, Plymouth, mise, to Salem & Co. _E sage.’ Dec 14, lat 27 20, lon 70 40, spoke brig Jaman for Boston. Delius (NG), He E. Twitchell m | mdse, to Grinnell James River, has that a jury be called in , It. would obliterate it. as neoisome and unrul, ed the prisoner that port on the 15th inst, in rings, Had heavy weat! wy Weather LONG I8LAND 8OUND—BUOY MISSING. 7 David G Horton, Hell Gate pilot, cess Rock, westward of Sands’ Point, by some means unknown. Immediate mi taken to have it rej in or out of Long porta the Brioy on Suc- ‘been carried away eases ahould be it is dangerous to vessels beating Bremen, 55 days, cE the entire passage; sprung rudder, lost and spilt sail rail and bilwarks and forecastle, —— Brig Edwin Rowe, Mears, Denia Oct 25, 20th, ‘and Teneriffe ‘Nov For the last three weeks ha foremast and split saila, No date, brig Mary E Ladd, from Brig Harvest Queen (Br), Robin, Rio Janeiro, 52 ‘Wright—vessel to’ order. the tor Nov 20 in lon 9, und had heavy weather; has been 15 days making 300 miles, Brig J Bienkhorn (Br), Williams, Carthagena via Newport, Maracaibo, 38 days, wil oie foc Willlam Rogers, a juror, was called. Mr. Sheppard—Mr. Rogers, have you formed or ex- pressed an opinion as to the guilt or mnocence of the prisoner, George 8. Twitchell, Jr.? with mdse, to EP grand pictures in the assed Gibraltar W Kiwell & Co, weather, sprung heat “iat 290, lon 600}, bpoke ¥RANCE—NORTH COA8T—ALTERATION IN POSITION OF Pr Octal information has been re from the 16th day of Nov tion would take place in the The light will be exhibited from a tower recently erected Lanvaon, between Flouguerneau ‘and the head is a fixed white rather mofe than & mile is elevated 170 feet above: and ‘The Meetil r na ne LIGHT. Mr. Sheppard—Do you now entertain an opinio! glen ak abiolataee: thas the following altera- Plouguerneau light, own vine in its midst Judge Brewster—Mr. Rogers, I will now put to you the question adopted by this court in Berger's case, affirmed afterward by the Supreme Court and used in Probst’s case:—Notwithstanding the opinion you have formed, can y the guilt or innocence of the prisoner upon the evi- dence submitted to you and upon that alone, unin- fluenced by the opinion or impression you say you have formed ? Juror—I think I would be influenced by the opinion T have formed, Challenged for cause by the Commonwealth, and challenge sustained, George W. Ash called as a juror. juestion put by the District Attorney he said he had ‘formed and expressed an opinion; but in response to the question by the Court he said he thought he could try the case by the evidence alone, uvin- fluenced by that opinion, and therefore the challenge of the Commonwealth was overruled, examined by counsel for the defence he said he would be influenced by his opinion, was challenged for cause by the defence, and the challenge was sus- offee to John 8 in Paris he saw the Emperor, who had what he Soren ai called a “coin look,”’ and the Empress, who bowed in her carriage to all, and, confidentially to his audi- ence, with the injunction to teil it not in Jersey, nor publish it to Stubbs and and stephen H. Tyng, Jr., caugl after the Emperor's carriage, .by a single act ury box and de: 1, with mase, to J rig Nile (Br), Whitter, ‘ke, to Schmilinkky, Lotz & Oo. vessel Had heavy weather from the north and cast off Hatteras, trom thence 6 days, with strong north wind and rain; Dec 7, lat 31 39, lon 72 4 could not tell whet! even with the water and abandoned: 1 ‘saw a chr with the loss of foresail, Brig Madonna, Jordan, Demarara via Tarpaulin Cove, with mdse, to Jed Frye & Co. ota, Ross, Aspinwall, 21 days, with mdse, to J F split sails; has been Brig Virginia, Johnston, Martinique, 21 days, with sugar, to $B Reynal « Son. First 10 days had Sue weater 0 ana (of Boston), O'Neil, Cardenas, 18 days, loses Taylor—vessel to master. Hi Hatteras with stron; and stove part of deck load of molasses. Moore, Nueviias, M1 days, with molasses Thompson & Hunter. light, visible th: bearin, oe by F. na at res rae oo clear weather should tus consists of a parabolic re- we tower is 70 feet high, rectangular, white, and built of ge fond bot = hg) Vrach Lal Meh of Thornes. RU EAOONS ON THE PLATUS AND JUMENT ROCKS. a ¢ Platus rock, Lancleux bay,” he told that himself the epidemic and ran outing, “Vive UBm- skipping” Germany and only referring to his trip up the Rhine from Cologne to Mayence, he glanced at Switzerland and Mont Blanc, with its White clouded peak overlooking the Jura; spoke of Rome and its treasures of art in the Vatican and St. Peter's; described the Pope, whom the lecturer, with peculiar emphasis, repeatedly called Papa Nino; ve an entertaining account of his trip across the Mediterranean to Alexandria and of his experience there and on board French steamers, and finally landed at the gates of Jerusalem, where he stop] and closed his lecture, promising a description o! city of Holy Writ hereafter. ‘ THE LOST ARTS. Lecture by Wendell Phillips at Stefuway and vindictive. ne mast standin; er a brig or schooner, she being neal coal mines of Enj bearing SE by tender children o! In answer t) a Also that a small tower bands of black and red, and surmoui has been erected on the nd the tower on Jw painted in horizontal bands of black 3 there is no ways believed Mr, Stevens 1 bay, hi dis of black'and red, 7? Nas been jc. Variation 23 degrees westerly been 12 days north of WEST COAST OF AFRICA—RIVFR GAMBIA, ‘The lichts on Barra Point and Cape St Mary, at the entrance iver Gambia, on the west ‘coast of 1 been exhibited for some mont! of the river cannot be depended upon. Whalemen. Geet Re cou sncinemanrs an ‘eRpokea- Hept 16 Inti9 8, on 66 E, bark Sea Queen, Movers, featport, no report of oll rig rt to Thos J Owen & Co—vessel to een 15 days north of Hatteras with heavy NW and WNW Hook bearing W by N, 20 miles dis- parently a large vessel, as her Nuevitas, 83 days, via Edgartown, filer & Honghton. )y Brown, Cow Bay, 15 days, with coal, to C Swain. Brig Aylsford (Br), Minnis, Windsor, NS, 15 plaster to Weatherapoon Bros—vessel to Heney & Park Brig Abby Thaxter, Parker, Bangor, to G Boardma: Brig Adaline Richardson, W: Ts bound to Philadel lander, Macomber, Schr Wm Hunter, Hark ber to Murray, Ferria & Co. naval stores, to Bentley, ™che Mary Louisa, Gaskell, Washington, NG, ¢ days, with Schr fn fi W NG, naval stores, to % Mill ray — weed a Calais, 9 days, with luuber, izzie A Watson, Watson, Calais, Cuneta Oot ee ee ee te ine, Fox, Calais via Norwich, where she dis- Kon Ernidon, Small, Eastport, 8 days, with lumber, to Jed Schr Tennessee, Mills, Machias vin Norwalk, where she chr Giekaburg Nickerson, Bangor, with lumber, to Chase, ‘Schr Alice Keen, Richards, Bangor vin Newport, where rasbington, Mott, Ellsworth via New Haven, where she discharged. Schr Siar, McGarthlln, Portland, 8 days, with produce, to Tae bees ad in, Rewbs i, Newb Chass: Boeken. 6 days, with tinased, Sehr Mary A Crawford, Crawford, Boston for Philadel- ila. Plachr W H Salter, Steele, Boston for Philadelphia. Sehr John B Daly, W Warren, Schr R H Wales, Schr W W Brainard, Pendleton, Sehr Helen Mar, Rich, Falrha Schr Cynthia Jai Schr AJ Duflield, Mr. Landis called, said he had not formed or ex- opinion, and had seruples on this subject of capital punishment, and was accepted as a juror. After calling a number of other gentlemen. of whom were incompetent because of 0] the venire was exhausted without the obtaining of Eight were in the box. Ir, Mann here asked that the jurors who had been selected should be sworn. Judge Brewster said that was not tne practice of Mr. Mann said that for the not been the practice, but it now that of many of our counties, and he knew no reason why it should not be so; for these gentlemen, though chosen as competent, would be sent out and kept together until the beginning of the trial, and would not have resting upon them the obligation of no conscientious and the buoys at the entrance gales; 16th inst, Sand; fant, Baw a sunken opmasts were about The fourth lecture in the course before the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen was delivered last evening by Wendell Phillips, at Steinway Hall. Every seat in the spacious hall was filled; and the brilliant lecturer—as he always 1s, livering a new or an old lecture—was listened to with earnest and breathless attention. ‘The lecture on “The Lost Arts,” so often delivered in the past eix years before American andiences, was the one given last evenii stereotype jecture Mr. Phi additional jurors, y er. 10 days, with lumber, ht, Portland, 3 Hay vat in here for ince Edward Island. with tim- lad heavy weather.” Magy q hiner & Phomas. whether de- (Q'Gaunt, from Calcutta for New York, Sept 9, Freese, from Rotterdam for Savannah, Ship'Sarah Newman, bound South, Oct 2, lat 010 N, lon Bark America (NQ), from Bi ey Sperone jremerhaven for New York, Bark Endymion, from New York for London, Nov 2%, lat ea Molhe (NG), reported from New York, Oct 16, lat 28, i Richmond for Rio Gran S1on 40. rande Foreign Ports. NTWERP, Dec 8—Arrived, Friedrich Gusta’ Knudeen, do; St Vincent Croacy, Crosby, NYdrk. hausting labor. ast ten years it had rmert, transportation ly was and is Before entering on his ips prefatorily digressed, considerable length, + giving views of the present system of public lectures. He approved of the system of lecturing now in such ve it as his opinion that as a sort of popular college and a means of bringing y men 5 Se ey Cis « (01 ature and the arts, these immense amount of good. From this he glided into his lecture—a feast of collated facts of sur} worth and enjoyment. Our present century, showed, was conceited on every subject but the fine arts, There was still a disposition to acknowledge the superiority of the old masters, but in everything else the people of to-day, try, believe they are far He insisted that of some three hundred distinguish- mblished in the English the plots of fully two hundred an vented thousands of years before pay were of remarkable antiquity. The stories put on the Irish were mosily all stories, Joe Miller’s jokes, instead of being two hundred yeara old, were fully two thousand years He next in turn showed the antiquity of giass, the telescope, the steam engine, makin iron, the balloon, tombstone, electric telegraph, re- istols, breech-loading guns and other inven- ie, in fact, could find nothing—not even sher- ry cobblers, which were made in the time of Aristo- phanes—new under the sun except the daguerreo- type and the printing preas. » showed how the old arts became lost through hiding know.edge in the bosoms of ki the upper castes, through using tyrants and to overawe the masses of the people, kept in ignorance and servitude. PERIOD OF THE NOVeMMEA METEORS, NeWwsuRG, Dec, 16, 1868. To THE Eprror or THE HERALD:— t The majority of the people have the idea that there can only be one period to the November stream of meteors, and that this period is certainly thirty- three years, This idea has perha| | the fact of their reappearance every thirty-tnree but it does not follow because they reappear in this time that their period must be thirty-three years, as we will soon show. shown that the following periods will answer as weil as the period of thirty-three years, viz.:— Whether tn the riation that The Court preferred adhering to the practice of the court sanctioned by their ancestors, and overruled Mr. Hagert then moved the Court to send for the Sheriff and direct him to draw from Is wheel 400 names from which to select eighty talesmen, which motion the Court granted. es being suspended, a number of persons, men and women, no doubt friends of the prisoners, gathered about the dock and engaged in Mr. Twitchell was dressed popular vogue, Bark (? Rio Somes ks, and imparting valu- history, biogra) ootatea were aa an ‘ork. Satled from the roads ALGOa BAY, Oct 17— pALEXANDRLA, Egypt, Nov 14—Sailed, 0 $—Arrived, Rio Grande, Rocket, New ailed ai, 5 F Wheeler, Harris, NYork; Lykurg, Petersen, BELFABt, Dee 2—Arrived, G Tommasino, Criscuolo, New BnovwansiAVEN, Dec2—Arrived, Queen of Scots, Lock- Dec 8—Arrivod, Jenny, Yor! conversation with them. with more care and preciseness than w pearances in court, and Mrs, in deep mourning. evinced no more than ordinary thing that occurred. At the close of our report the Sherif was drawing the speciai venire. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS. Steadman, Shaw & Cincinnati, failed on Wednesday. John Plummer, & carpenter, fell froma house in Baltimore Wednesday, and was instantly killed, William McMahon, a printer, of Louisville, Ken- tucky, has fallen heir to £8,000 sterling, bequeathed by a deceased relative in England, In the criminal court of Baltimore, Wednesday, John McNamara, indicted for killing his wife, was found guilty of murder in the first degree. ‘Thomas Cooley, @ prominent farmer and former uibwick, Mass., hung himself in hig who could, Hee from the ag essential it to be the primary duty of the State to insure the proficiency of every chiid in “orthography, reading, grammar aad arithmetic, which, by the ex- pericnce of the worid, are pronounced to be the rudlinentai branches of all _knowledge.”’ not consent to withhold the privileges of an electo? from a man because he was literate, and thus pun- ish bim because the State had not done its duty py him in chutcheed; but he proposed that the govern- provide schoolhouses, teachers and ppliances tor the education of ail children, further enact “that no father or guardian shall be permitted to vote at any election for any : officer Who siall not ba’ hall of tae number of his c: wes of five and fifteen y one, that one, to attend School during at least eight months within eact of the years they are en- Mr. Stevens believed in the possibility of the commercial independence of the He also knew that when that should 1 the people could bring their domestic relations into harmony with the fundamental ide: ublican government. IL Por go | of this coun- of all other They appeared collected interest in any- ayy were in- Christian BREMERHAVEN, delphia ; Abi ‘Santa, do? Sailed Ist, Berlin (@), Undu x, Dec 2—Sailed, hi Schr Lucy H Gibso1 Hartman, Phiia- dott & Ci ‘ Y ese, Baltimore ; 4th, Admiral, do. gen Augusta, Piitzkow, ‘Arrived, Mary “Awa Mel ve BoMBAY, Nov 7—In pT oy i Mora 0, dry goods merchanis, of Providence. ment should |, Providence for Virginia, urphy: Mi rn, ard McManus, Foster. 'and St aused at least . or wards bet ‘ung; bark Oriental, Bal . or it he have ‘ort. lgeport for Philadelphia, Z in conclusion, he ann, Savannah. Buay, Lockha parka, Willis + Killman, and Sarah Bil d others, 4, Nov SSalted, Ann (not Cam) Tugnizza, NYork; . N Churchill, Murphy, for ‘on Hampton Roads. Steamships Palestine, Liverpool; Rhein, kins, for Callaor Ashland, Wilmin N tol, E; brig'M L B, Barbados. Wind at sunset SW. Marige Disasters. 1P was seen ashore recently with two wreckers alongside, ‘No doubt the ‘Iwo Brothers, from Bath for New Orleans, before rey 10AN SHIP, with loss of main and mizzen ma felon pm Soe on pdasans, from Shields Nov 96 for New inst with loss of rudder head, reported on Saturday last ff Galveston, 13th, arrived {Oth inst. 3 and priests and it as the sceptre of titled to attend school.” TagosEa, ise, San Francisco Cnited States, When the aye is them with persuasive ani u the American peovi little nationalities of Europe Wut they may do, wil dictate the mternal policy Ui se batons must adopt on pain of seeing their uluable citizens, allured by our happier con- di ion, come to swell the power ai ‘Then will his dream be fuldlied, and iting Mouunrent of conclusive force, ‘on areef near Body Istand svead of aswing the Savannah. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov 2%—Salled, Sollectta, Romano, ‘ork. ‘iy Dec 8—Arrived, ) Cummi Hiadelphia (and anchored) ; York for London ( Oif do 4, Tamerl The Alumni of Princeton College. vanquet yesterday evening to Rey. James President of the College, gentlemen were present. An action for tort has been brought by Richard H. rand Aldermen of Cam- A number of distinguished Plookrsg, oterdem hs P Sumner, from Philadelphia for Al- 1 be ruled, anu PARK KING Brep, Dexter, York, returned to Shields 16tl BAPK FORTUNA, from Bremen, as ashore on the North Breaker in the Onter Koads of Galveston rtland 15th inst from Ragged Island, 1n 72.40, encountered a heavy SE, changing suddenly to W, with a rou; shifted cargo between decks and aplit (NG), Harjes, from New bth inst off the Dana, Jr., against the May bridge, to recover $5,000 damages for causing his nate to be removed or omitted from the voting list, thereby depriving him of his vote Will the world behold the originated from -Salled, United Kingiom tephen i, "do; BA Bar EMARKS OF MR, WOOD. Mr. Woop, (deim.) of N. Y., felt no embarrassment in rising to untte is voice With those who appropri- ately pay a jast public tribute to the memory of their Alluding to the wide dit- Mf opinion that had existed between Mr. Stevens and hinsell, he sata that could not deter him irom the expression of a just homage to his acter aga inan, Whether considered as a citizen tes As when living we recognized of the foremost intellects of this how cing dead, let us forget the controver- ies that divided us, and remember only the higher tes and personal attributes which have at all Utnes commanded our attention. nt tribute to the intellect of Mr, Stevens and to unple aforded by his exalted life. trathiut to his instincts, to his nature. maa of rare, natural, mental power, self-reliance and eulire independence of character, which rendered him a formidable and succe: se qualities more than uy es of taferior men, Who yielded to the errors anu prejudices of the time rather than sufter def Mr. Wood regarded Mr. Stevens as an embodiment of ov iginal personal individuality, pute ihat he possessed many noble qualities, GENOA, Nov 30—Arrive (Ag Way, Russe! th, H Houston, French, Boston. Arrived, H'J Burton, Burton, Nieuwe re; Maggie, Putnam, Phila- Kulken, NewYork ; je: New Orieans. reports Nov 3, lat ‘nard, Crowell, Professor Newton has fh sea, during which EUROPEAN MARKETS. distinguished associate. Clara, Probat, Balti 0 Ayetlg Tie, Shaw, NYork. 4—Arrived, Hara! jrookman, Savin, do; 8 34, Britanma, Smith, York for Bremen, Island of Viieland, wilt at Brake in 198, and is owned consists of 500 bales col hhds tobacco stems, 348 LONpON MONRY MARKET.—Loxpon, Dec. 17—5 P. M.—Consols closed at 92'; for money 9 United States five-twenty Railway shares dull, nd 9235 for the | registered 654 tons, was He has also shown that the period of 354 days has the most probability of being the true Let us explain how this period satisfies the If we suppose a body revoly- ing ina circle with a period of 354.62 days, it must be a little less distant from the snn than the earth, and its velocity in its orpit must be a little greater, and this we find agrees with observation; that is to say, the velocity of the meteors exceeds a little the velocity of the earth in its orbit. revolved in such ecliptic we would ceroons tobacco, wainut, 22 bdis sandpaper, &e. BARK Orpurus (NG), Kautzer, from Baltimore Noy 8 for e Hanks, near Nieawe Brie, 27%; Mh. Panis Bourse.—Paris, Der, firm; rentes, 70f. 55¢., ex coupon. BOURSE.—FXANKFoRT, Dec. United States flye-twenty bonds, 79 for the old issue. ARKET.—LIVERPOOL, . M.—Cotton—The market closed quiet. Mid- ditng uplands on the spot, 10°,d middling Orleans, 10%. The sales of the day have been 10,000 bali —The Bourse is as stranded Ist inst o1 lobacco) was bel casks of tobacco bad been envi was being discharged. The vessel remained tight, BARK ASTRRIAS, Raniett, from Boston for New Orleans, 1 bet re at Northeast Pans. As she would probably come steamships Cuba, Dukehart, jaryland, Johnson, Baltimore Dec 3—Pnt in, Jenny Lind, Sherwood, Perces Hinkley, orf data of the question. for New Orleans, ism or WIGHT, m Portsmouth, seeking. Exnaeros, 30, £0v, 2, jac Saiied Mth, brigJ Liverroot, Dec 3—Ai bean Mr, Wood patd a te reported Arrived, bri ‘on the 12th inst Wea chy, ali — (Br), Perkins, Golconda, Baker, Baltimore; obile. York; British Trident, bet to arrive, 10%<d.; | the tide was rising xOY, before reported ashore, came off AM of 15th, If the meteors Potts marine railway for me plane as the ave meteoric showers quite fre- ne paths of the meteors are inclined to the ecliptic, and can gnly encounter the earth at the nodes. For example, suppose a shower occurs at the node in 186s, then in 354 days (about the meteors return to earth does not arrive at ay, ind—and while the earth is travelling eleven days the node the meteors travel eleven days lane of the earth’s path, so that the earth does not touch them. thus seen to be gainin, earth at each return to is, when will they be MARKET.—Havnr, Dec, 17.—Cotton will discharge et dull both on the spot and to arrive; tres ordinaire on the spot, 123f. POOL BREADSTUFFS MARter.—LIVERPOOL, Dec. 17.—Wheat firm. Flour, 26s, od, per bbl. for Western canal. LiverrooL PRODUCE MARKeT.—LiveRPooL, Dec. 7—Evening.—Petroleum closed quiet; refined, 1s, 74, per galion. 'VERPOOL PROVISION MARKET.—LiveRPoon, Dec. O48. per ewt. for Cur . per bbis. for Kastern prin: RODUCE MARKET.—Loxpon, Dee, 17— nm the common 16 SRA SrpR, Brinton, for New York, Waterford Deo 2, has lost one anchor and ch BRIG Frep CLaAnk of Maracail Bri, for New York ‘on the morning of heavy north wind he Island of St Cs Vessel before reported), n Evans, New Orleans jes, Jones, San Franci it Il, Afric, Berry, an Orleans; Wilson, NYork (entered London (Brooks, N , jibernian (s), Daniel Webster a he orth part of u the Gulf of Venezuela, yh Indian prea Captain, mate and one the node until cargo total loss. 4 Preston, Donald, Bickford, Savannah Oct 14 for New Orleans) York; Exeelaior, Browne, Philadel Portland; Jumna, Fox, San were also made by Messrs. Moorhead, Maynard, Ashley, of Ohto, Miller, Kooutz, ‘Cake, Woodward, Robt and Sypher, afver which from Kingston. Ja, via Old into Key West 17th inst leaky periand cut. Pork, Brio EvOEN®. A Rep, Lyle, Harbor, Ja, for New York, put have to undergo some slight repairs, Br1o CHARLES ALDI ‘The meteors are about eleven days on the The question now again, or when will gain 366 +A It will readily appear that if they gain eleven days in one revolution of the earth around the gun in thirty-three years they will gain 363 days. Hence in thirty-three years and 4 littie over after for another, from Orchilla, be- 71, had very heavy WSW, vessel . Dee. 17,—Petro- Sif. but sellers ior Vullateiphie AN \KGENIOUS SWINDLER CAUSHT. — ‘ork (and was off Yesterday afternoon Robert A. Russell, of No. 200 East Fourth street, calied at the Eleventh precincs ation house and advised the officers in charge that @ young man named Daniel Hunt had feloniously ined from his place of business biases door-knobs, Valued at $54, under the following 18 buoyant; buyers offer agale for three Deal 4th); Fawn, Nelson, Lranonn, Nov % —Sailed, fork. MrseINA, Nov 3—Arri Clara Jenkins, Gil ‘Mth, JH Pearse: EUROPEAN MARINE NEWS. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 17.—The steamship Baltimore, from Baltimore, arrived SHIELDS, Dec. 17.—The bark King Bird, Dexter, which sailed from this put back with loss of her rudder head, NG N janac for Now Yorke=-Tiiy Day. Bure Anronat West (Bn, from Pictou, reported a of the 7th, while in Boston bay, lost fore. wenterly winds; afters as Cape Cod, where , and reached Boston without fur- Yhatham, reports =, patore ie ved, B P Stewart, Holland, Gir- large ring a So” we inight use the call and lone a lots Boston ; 96th, Mores Day, we have mentioned, ~ ave explained seems observations better than the rest. thirty-three years is adinitted Must change the orbit from We have endeavored in this article to bring to the our readers how easy and || the data of the problem by marked It has been re & quantity of | this port yeaterday. 20_Salled, Statira, Wi tb, Lem do 2Rb, Lemuel, Hi ¥ Dec ba ved A" Jeans; A Batchelder, Steclinan, MALAGA, Nov mi AG J NOr- them with an a jewett, Reed, signed George they should be charged called upon Baie ELENA, of St Jobn, NB, with a cargo of sugar and rood, Ac, Was wrecked near Little River, Out- aié of ihe 7th inst. ‘The crew were saved with joming all thetr personal effects, ‘and the circle to an ellipse, the steamer Jatier gentieman a4 one had long deait at the store in this character of were delivered to the bearer, er try made as matructed. bil, as requested, it Was asceriaine ho se bad been badiy swindled, “couse MeKeever at once set to work to appre- id the ingenious young Daniel, and fortunately covered Lim’ last evening coming from a Ni when he Was arrested. This ly scurched, and the goods in one of the rooms. arrayed before Justice Mansfeld, at the + Market louce Court, this morniag. Dreyer, NYork. ‘Olaens NY ork} , comprehension of all simple it is to explain this short period. motion of the meteors are r planets and comets of short not probable the meteors could revolve with a re- trograde motion with so short a period; but as the moons of Jupiter, Saturn and the earth’s moon re- volve in the same direction it would seem reasonabie | to Suppose all moens ought to revolve in the sane But when one remembers that the moons of Uranus revolve in a different direction one is | forced to acknowledge that this Is one of those cases. Why it Is so we cannot say, but In the case of the meteors may it not be an | exceptional case, similar to that of the moons of jcLelian, Callao. Lord Clarendon, Lavender, for NYork, In port achr Annie Eldridge, Clifford, siluxtaaray Dee 3—Salled, bark Elverton, Benson, Balti - NAPLES, Nov 24—Arrived, Echo, Putt, NYork Martin, Ficket, do; 26th, Union, Nicholson, and MINGEVITAS, Now %In port bark Ellen Dyer, just ar PORTLAND, Dec 8—Put in, Martha Bowker, Goodburn, rom Batavia lor Ai fied 3d, bark Rosina, Robertson (from NYork), Antwerp. ved, Cardenas, Payne, Naples. farer, Blackford, New rows, Ded S-Arrived, M Margaretha, Dalen, yrennnam, ‘Dee 1—Cleared, Mary M Bird, Packard, New St VINCENT, CV, Nov 19—Arrived, Warren Hallett, Cant- FAUT POND, WCA, Nov 16—In port hark Alvertinn, hor: EWS. act ATACAIHO, Nov: Baia MARY E THOMPHON, from Philadelphia for Boston, wrecked, was owned by Messrs Pendieton & others, and was not insured. t Hawkins, of achr J W Web- otwerp, belore reported by cable lowing report: -Salled (rom Philadel- Jewlar occurred until the forenvon when « gale commenced from the night, blowing exceedingly hard, wind veering to 30; ship running under and as all the ire direct, it 18 Captain Walsh ana the a Tont, maken the, ward and westward fart poles and making considerable water, but ex | abatement of the wind, jet her come to cro sen running at the of water; the leak still increasing, a’ about 8PM became waterlog ends, Cut away tio masa any and became anmanagerdic. PORT OF NEW YORK, DECENBYR 17, 1868. it is so 18 cer- Herald Packages. ind Pursers of Vesnels arriving ai thie port will please deliver all packages intended for the HeeatDto our regularly authorized agents who are attxcned to our Steam fleet. The New York Associate! (ress do not now ad to the delivery of packages, » the proceedings | | either food of water; heavy Kea washing DENTS LAST WIGHT. Ann McNally, residing in Harlem, wee knocked down and siigitly Jujired last evening at the corner )/ Canal and Mulberry streets, by @ horse and wagon of Prospect strect, | J and rolled on her beam- |, Branch, Card, do. URENSTOWN, piliadelph washing away the FINE IN STANTON STREET. ‘This moraing about one o'clock a fire broke out on | the first floor of the tenement house situated in the rear of No. 147 Stanton street, ‘ romainder of the night we were larhed to the the mainmast, light, thing under the poop deck, leaving us this’ day more m. collet marine reports nor an will be seen by the following extract fr of the regular monthly meeting held May Resolved, That on ven by George Taken hom. Willam D, Jobnson, ‘Wenty-eizht years of ace, last evening* at thc 1 Third avenue, bY * foot severely. ‘The apartments were gous to leave The sea going it THOMAG, Nov 2—Arrived, bark Costaretti, Emerson, | simplicity, rigidly, Parbados; xchr Walter Raleigh, sajjet for Packs Talanda). skeraon, do’ (and both » Monde, Ftaraee, NYork. ed, Helena. Knuth. Phiade whl by water will am All communications from American Ports. ALEXANDRIA, Dec 15—Arrived, steamships John Gib- sont Winters, NYork; Rebeces Chichester, do. BOSTON, Dec 16—Arrived, schra Pinta, Smith, Alexandria; Eastern Belle, K{iborn, Baltimore; JO Patterson, Corson, Philadelphin: Belle, Chase, Rondout; Trade Wind, Babb, NYork, "Below brig PI Nevins, and ‘bitve: achr 8 © Smith. Clenfed—Ships Winged Hunter, Small, Bombay; Jara (new of Boston, 101d tous’, Hassett, NYork: bark Melbourne (Bn, Horton Bate aes cee Fevidie W Aiton, Cumming, Flores anda market; Annie Amsden Bangs, Cienfuegos; Nellie 0 Paine, Doane, Sagua: Pioneer, Pearce, New Orleans; White Parte NYork | St Croix, Collins, Jacksonville; Governor Y ‘Smith, Crowell. Haltrmore. 1ith—Arrived, bark Peter Crerar (Hr), Liverpool; brig J m, Ju; Nellie Gay, Banlett, Savannah; Chas Miller, firewer, Wilminsto sc achre, Walras (Br), 8t Do- ‘and Charlie ie, NYor BALTIMORE, Deo 16-Arri nna Framat (Swe), San- sen, Riodaneire; Dedance, Halls T Wines, Hulse; George, Hunt: Oliver Schofield, Dissosway, and Oceanus, Satter! Niork. Below brig Charles Albert &B5, Hardy," from OF Cleared—Schre Ciara Smith, Smith. Cuba; A M Chadwick, Conn, and Teano Benen rere, Cuba Oe Tague Baker, Purvere, Boston; Daniel Holmes, ri George Lvtimer, i ~ Dec rived, achrs Convoy, French, annah; Frank Barker, Reed, allimore for Belfas CHARLESTON, Dec 14—: . Valls, Havana.’ Arrived, brig Pensativo (Sp); Tith_Arrived, schrs Thos Jefferson, NYork; Rosalie, Nas- sau. NP. Pa ee Aca Dec 14—Arrived, schr Panthea, Rackett, Eliza- port. EDGARTOWN, Dec 10—Arrived, achrs Charlie & Willie, Thomas, NYork for Boston: Leontine, Pratt, do for Belfast; Serb te fd i) te ith—, ved, schrs Pear! inkham, and Oriole, Rondout for Boston: Bengal, Stetson,’ and Richard oll French, NYork for do; Nettle Cushing, Pressey, do ratawamteak, Lord, do’ for Salem: Fannie Barney, do for Rockport, Me; Trade Wind, Babb, do for Bos: ton. 1W3th—Returned, schr Julin Elizabeth. Night of 10th inst, off Pollock Rip, came in collision with schr Chas Jackson, of Camden, NJ, and the J E carried away headgear and start” ed bowsprit; the CJ had jibstay carried away, with other m. 2 age. In port, evening, the above arrivals: also schra Susan, Du- mont, arrived 11th, from Rockland for Norfolk ; Rob, Hickey, arrived some days ago in outer Roads, from NYork for Boston. FORTRESS MONROE, Dec 17—Sailed, steamship Key West, NYork: brig Charles Albert, Baltimore. Passed out (from Norfolk), brige H F Eaton, for the Mediterranean ; Tontsa, for Guadaloupe: Lizzie Kimball, Nellie Clifford, and. Springbok, for the West Indies, FALL RIVER, Dec 15—-Arrived, schra Roxanne Burley, Elizabethport ; Chancellor, do. GALVESTON, c 8—-Arrived, steamships Lord Bute (Br) , Baker, Liverpool; Gulf City. Stewart, NYork. Cleared 8th. steamship Wilmington, Cole. NYork. HOLMES’ HOLE, Dec 14, PM— Arrived, sehra Lizzie, Tab- but, Philadelphia for Boston; Addie Blaisdell, Garfield, Bi ton for Savannah; Emma B Shaw, Shaw, do for Baltimore; Geo H Beat, Simi Paul & Thompson, Godfrey ; Thos Clyde, Scull; Wm Watton, Reeves,and Mary Weaver, Weaver, do Philadelphia; Finvack, Graham, do for figs oe Va; M Rein- hart, Hand, Salem for Philade!phia ; Ruth Shaw, Shaw, Port- land for Morris River; John Nye, Wiley, Hingham for Not- folk ; Orozimbo, Bagley, Belfast for Fall Rive S& Nellie Gay, Rolerson, Addie Hale; schrs Luey Holmes, Sarah Bernice, Starlicht, Lucy H_ Cogswell, Hiram Tucker, Jason, Wm Penn, Gertrude, Jane C Patterson, Pra- dence, Lizzie A Watson, ) Washburn. Sophie Wilson, Sidney Price, Wm 8 Baker, Wm Thompson, Enterprise (Br), Atlan— tlc (Br), HN Miller, Annie May, DS Siner, Old Chad, J C ! ‘Thompson. Lith, 9 AM—Arrived, brig Caroline Eddy, Rease, Bucksport for NYork; aches Ann E Valentine, Baileys, and Et L Marts, Marts, Philadelnhia for Boston’ Richard Law, York, and Transit, Racket, do for Gloucester; Loduakia, ‘Eaton, Fitzabethport for Salem; D Gifford, Jerrold, and Caroling Young, Young, Boston for Philadelphia; Henry N Squire, Chase, do for Wood's Hole; Rebecca Florence, Leach, do for NYork: Louisa Smith, Orcutt, Bucksport for do; Black Swan, French, Lincolnville for do; Queen of the Fleet, Brew- er, Rockland for do. Sailed—Schra Addie Blaisdell, Emma B Shaw, George H Bent, Paul & Thompson, Thos Clyde, Wm Walton, Mary Wea- ver, Finback, M Reinhart, Ruth Shaw, John Nye, Orozimbo, Henry N Squire, D Gilford, Rebecea Florence, Caroline Young, Black Swan, Queen of ‘the Fleet. 1sth, PM—Arrived, brig Almon Rowell, Davia, Philadelphia. for Portland; schra Emma A Higgins, Ryder. Rappahannock River, Va, for Boston ; Lonie A Swett, Kennedy, Tangier for do; Marion Draper, Meady, NYork for do; Geo B McClellan, Keene, and Lucy J ‘Warren: Allen, Baltimore for Belfasi. Sailed—Brigs Meirose, A F Larrabee, Caroline Eddy ; schrs Richard Law, Transit, Louise Smith. 16th—Arnived, schraT J Trafton, Dame, Alexandria for Boston; Fanny K Shaw, Watts,’ Darien, Ga, for do; AJ Bentley, Hennell, Georgetown, DO. for Salem (latter sailed). Sailed—Sehre Einma B Higgins, Lonie A Swett. KEY WEST, Deo 17—Put in, brig Engene A Reed, Lyne, Jamaica for NYork (see Disasters). soa Dec ll--Arrived, schr Mary E Hoxie, Berry, jonington, 18th—Arrived, bark Omoa (Br), Porter. Kingston, Ja. r Ship Nueva Anrealia (Sp), Pelayo, Barcelona. |, Peruvian convoy steam- eared Ships Toma (Br), Hays: Whampoa (Br), Carters Waverly (Br), Gellan, and Hermine (Brem), Wilms,'Liverpool ; achr Lizzie Lina (Bri, Webster, Ruatan, 1%th—Arrived, ships Advance, Morrison, and Bessie & An- na, Hughes, Liverpool : Tranquebar, Howard. Bath ; brig JH Kennedy, Bellman, and Palkoa (Sp), Avstrich, Havana; achr Three Sisters. Henderson, Ruatan. Below ship Kelvin, Mc- Fee, from St Thomas; bark Asterias, Ranlett, from Boston; sehr Angeline, Ward, from Ri le Cieared—Steamshipe Guit Stream, Spencer, N¥ork ; Georze Cromwell, Vail, do: Santiago de Cubs, McDiarmid, do; Cuba, Dukehart, Baltimore via Havana; schr JB Small’ (Br), Swa- by Hon. to sea Sth, ships Golconda, and Wallace ; bark Jean- ne: 7th, bark Roselta McNeill; &h, brig Maria Louisa. Souruwest Pass, Dec 11—Sailed, ship Alaska, and bark Sitka: 12th, bark Doretta. NEW BEDFORD, Dec 14—Arrived, achrs 8 L Simmons, Gandy, and Sarah E Jones, Stanley, Philadelphia, 15th—Salled, schr M A Rowland, Fuller, NYork. 1eh— Arrived, brig M H Reed, Henson, Philadelphia. Sailed—Schr P L Whiton, Cobb, Baltimore. NEWPORT, Dec 14, PM— Arrived, schrs Charles A Stetson, Gloucester for Elizabethport; Entire, Kinnear, bast Green- wich for NYork; Connecticut, Stephenson, Providence for Newark; Clarissa Allen, Hale, do for NYork; Emerald, Nor- ton, NYork for Wareham. Sailed—Schr Mary E Amsden, Smith, Georgetown, DC, for Boston. plth—Salled, brig T Turner, Perkins, Salt Cay, TI, for New a PM —Arrived, achr Richard Borden, Rorden, pceneiphie. actQRWICH, Dec 14—Sailed, schr Fair Wind, Frisbie, Phila- EW LONDON, Dec 14—Arrived, schrs Dr_ Franklin, Bllzabethport: Dick Williams, and J Wilson, Boston for NEW HAVEN, Dec 16—Arrived, brig. T Tower, Perking, St Croix and Turks island; schra Margaret Powell, Fenton, Phi- ladelphia; Peter Ritter, Hollister, Port Johnson; Horizon, Edwards, Elizabethport ; Joseph Corwin, do; Spray, Martin, do; Cloud, Jones, do. Geared—Schr ‘Audie P Avery, Ryan, for NYork, bound to Cuba. PHILADELPHIA, Dec 16—Arrived, steamships Roman, Raker, Boston ; Hunter, Harding, Providence; achra Alice B= Parker, Boston: Mary’ Anna, Adame, NHaven; American Earle, Bhay, Providence; Annie V Bergen, Thompson, New Cleared—Steamship Norman, Crowell, Boston ; brige Gof- fredo (Ital, Balsamo, Gibraltar; A B Patterson, Wilkie, Ea- ayra; A M Knight, Knight, NYork; schrs Taylor & Mathis, Cheeseman, Cardenas; A Hammond, Paine, Boston; J V Wellington, Chipman, do; F G Russell, Clark, Mobile. RWRS, 14,6 PM. ‘k Thos Dallett, Duncan, from Rio Janeiro for N'York; also at the Breakwater, schrs 8 Hf Falconer, and J Vaughn, from NYork for Nirginin, PORTLAND, Dec 15—Arri: steamship Nestorian (Br), Dutton. Liverpool via Londonderry; bark Phiiena, Davis, island: brig Walter Howes, Pierce, Philadelphia. ared—Bark Atlantic (Br;, McKenzie, Buenos Ayres; brigs Frontier, Skinner, Cardenas: ge Amos, Brown, ; schra Emma Bacon, Case, Baltimore; Nellie Chase, , Hamilton, NYork. Salled—Brig Hattie S Emery; achrs Emma Bacon, Ethan Alien. RICHMOND, Dec 15—Arrived, brig Renner (NG), Von wren, NYork. WILMINGTON, NC, Dec 17—Arrived, steamsbip Fair- ka, NYork, : ___ MISCELLANEOUS, | BSOLUTE DIVORCES LEGALLY OBTAINED IN AL diireres No charge till divorce obtained, A Public and Commis- sioner of Deeds for ever State. F. 1. KING, "Counsellor at Law, 261 Broadway. 8 USUAL. The most extensive and beautiful assortment of Good in the city for HOLIDAY PRESENTS, SILVER PLATED WARE, TABLE CUTLERY, FANCY ARTICLES IN WOODEN WARE, WORK BASKETS BIRD CAGES, VAS! PARIAN WARE AND BRONZE ORNAMENTS, for iess than cost of importation, T BASSFORD'S, COOPER INSTITUTE, CORNER STORES. 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