The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 10, 1861, Page 1

oy +s Oe eee oe : ] . a i ‘ Ot Ol 8 ke a nel ae. Lt psartenearrab “THE 6 ‘Gorner Messen and Fulton sts., New York, (OUBEWORK—WANTED, A SMART, IN- te an girl to work, was ¢f Monet la ave and . Mr. STODDARD, OUBSEWORK—WANTED RESPECT- ‘wiehing @ home ror the winter, who un- abe lesred; appey ne Tab Talia ave, bp. SVANTS-FRMALS SERVANTS Wanted Pty et alana Lyman py he | T&D LADLE ie eo] MACHINE—WASTED LADIES Cer ences pete eee Retro aa & EMPLOYMENT-—Male. GENTS WANTED—CAN MAKE FROM ‘iy? $84, iv Che mall article 3 in GENTS WANTED, WITH FROM $10 A. to 880 capitel, to Introduce « new patent. o ek, can be mede certain; also Con: ite hte for eale, Great inducements, oa the Pa tee, 16 Nansen st, Room 4 ja8 8°18 moar Contre Market. 5.P UF ALL NA-~ ted to notics they can he suited with i to MAN. Hy ALE AND FKMALE E i of the city, with a cp 00, box £71 Bun office, for 8 days, full maim HORS ARSED WANTED —6 MEN ON einer coon ates . Blogle men Apply at 950 Rast 4 the roar, Jab 2176 DYMENT WANTED. BI nd — TWO JOURREYMOR AT THE Pee ry Wie tT ORSE-—-WANTED BY A RESPECTABLE lady « child t> dry nurse, who wishes the ase om ‘7 weet | Oth st, bet 8th and 9th aver, INSMITH AND GASFITTER-- EMPLOY. rc} tad ‘namith fahtngton et.” * - SAVINGS BANKS, 10 arenas and 434 at =, Bix per cent interest paid, and fore Jeauary (Cth ara tpi Pape of 7 cente received. 8 T. OI i JAMES F, CHAMBERLAIN, broretary, At becptaced f2 the erditof (aos Sraestom pe =r ww Selene the 10th ef January. ll Gepost sale TRL NUMBER 8894 FINANCIAL, &o NEW YORK, Wednesday, Jaa 9. The Stock market suffered a farther dec'ine txfay. On cpening of business there was s general desire to fell and a fall waa the consequence, We noticad an improvement in most kinds at the close, say from \ to 4) per cent, beter than the Board quotations, A further improvement tormcrrow is almost certain, tn cace we sre advised of no mouble in connection with the Biar of the Wert, at Charlest.n, la Sisty sticks dene, and in Gov rnment kik nothing for the fives; iS74, 92 red and Barked, and for sixcact 1807, 9) of rad di 10 meked, Of Roilrond bonds the #a os were very ight The Money ma ket is easier, Toore is a steady de mand for gocd paper, axd gilt edge names are want eA a9 per ornt, On cal the nominal ma'ket rave is G per ceat, on the best sectiritien. La foreign exchange we beer of mthirg doing tedsy, The closing tranr- \ioms wore at full rates on Louden, 1044 « 105%, New York exchange at Chicago sw Ator going down to 8 percent. it now command: Per cent premium, At 8+ Louls4 a5 per cant. are the ruling ravee, ‘The fellowing are Thompson Brothers’ olssing rates for currency to-day : New York, New Engiand an. Philadelphia. Baltimore iclnia and Tennesace North Carolina and Georgia § te Garo ina and Alabac: Liinola, Wis , Mussourt an Canads and Mcbigan, . Richa'd Berry, at present cashier of the Trades men's Tonk, has boon elected President thereof, in piace of Wiliam H_ Palle, who deo'ined a re-cleo- tion, Anthony Halsey bas bein app. inted cashier to fil the vacancy, The Aitoa Insurance Company bas adopted the P'an of allowing tte p Ney holders to participate to «£15 per cent. on the net profits of the Divina —The Fulton Fire Tosurance Go. hes declared «semi-annual divider d of 7 per cent., paya- bie om abe 10th inat, ‘Toe Market Fire Inswance ©», « rewi-annual divi. der d of 346 per cent., payable on demand, ‘Tae Knickerbocker Lasurance C). a ee: nts! «L.vidend of & per cent., payable on the 14sh inst, ‘The New World Fire Lasurance Co, a dividend of 4 per cent, payable on the 15th inst, The Arotic Fire Invuraces Co, a semi-annual divi- dend of 5 per cent, pazadle on the 14.h inst, quarterly dividend of 2 per cont, has been de- clared by the Becond Avenue RB: A Co payable on and efter the 16.h inet. atthe «fice of Moers, Wm and John O'Brien, No. 99 Wall at. xp rts (exclusive of specie) from New York to foreign porta, for the week ending Jau. 7: 1900 1361 Total for the week. + 1,062 827 2.930,175 By the Palestine, arrived at this port, we have re ceived about $161 000 in specie, ‘The Message of Gv. Dennison states ¥) of Ohio to be $16 927 834 21. A weiting of the Presidents or chief cfficers of the five At'entic lines is to be beld in Warhingion on the 2148 of the present month, 8TOCK EXCHANGR 6ALES—FIRST BOARD, aH a Ga, 0.. “ 8. 3 total debt 328S8S8e sesliescs8ese> aasece BERR K RK A STOCK FLUCTUATIONS, ‘This table ta derived by comparison of the Firs ies ab HS Wags Mat 50 for extra mate; $5 25, oe Weatern, #9 45:80 89/0" comtaon 50, ‘The demand for Southern fiyur is to « fair ext and the market is quite firm ; with sales 1900 bbls, $5 75 a $ 90 for common, and $6 » §7 50 for fancy and extra. Dans 2ur there is only » Hmited badness en are unchanged ; with sales 200 bbis. 88 $555.0 $1 2 tor common to choise extra. The bulk of the sales at $5 75 » $6 75, Rye flour is quie’, with trifling males at $3 50a$4 15 for common to choice \. Corn meal is quiet, and piices are nominally un- changed. at F Hams Bs'os of 45 pkgs. ore and 80, for Hams, Bascom ls and moady 21 96 08K e6T, end and te demand Febe ; ty d the Bi &: = z 5 THE NEW \ ORK SUN. TRURSDAY MOVN.NG, JAN.1), 1861, Fulton Strcet Prayer Meeting, A Young Virginia Lady for the Union.—Afior wing prayer for a boother, by the letters whieh she tend to the meting, abe adds: “Aud ob! that in this time of fear and troub'e the prayers of all Chytatians might ascend to our Pather tleay dows every quod and pe rfeot dally Vbat he wou'd coutinue to ws the B ossing of pemee; and preeerve 6) us this great aud giorions Coin whch cur fathers purchased with their blood.” Tue Spooker ssid, that if the Cristian Indies ot the South would speak to this mutiny, thousaads, and ten thousands woud be heant united in this wemo request, We hear of rome, who are engaged mm making cartridges and runaing Duties, aud rorspirg link but there are a thousand to ona are now with us engeged im prayer for the perp-tu- ity of this glorious Uaion, ‘Avotber cowhern lady writes from Jefferson Coy Virginis, the very scene of the Joun Baown raid, as follows, speaking of herself :— ++ She bessechos you not to be weary in praying for the perpetulty of our Union ava nation, and that the cotunse's of wicked men may be brought to nought,’ ‘There are the desires of the great body of Caris- Viana in our land—Ead, West, Nori aud South, 4 Little Boy of 13 Asking Prayert.—He camo nn aa the doors ware opaneds He was s fine look ing boy, but appeared to be in great dil “Can [see the minister!’ ho inquired, “What minister ao you m 1 mean the one who holds day, What do you want of himt* “1 want him to avk this meeting to pray for me,tor Tam a very wicked boy,” “Have you been stealing, robuing, or whatt'’ “0b! Bo, Boy hat, bas Lam ao wicked,” “What makes you think you are so wicked?* have thought #0 ever since I read the story of Sawans 1, MoCout um, the little boy that gent to thia meeting for prayer and died #0 happy. I want tobe a Christian like him,” tears, I gave him, said the gentleman to whom he had spcken, the bert direc. tions I gowd to lesd him at once to Chris as a Ba- viour, The prayers which followed thie request, none will ever forge whi'e memory iavts, The lite boy is of German parentage, both father and mother are profesrors of religion. The Little German Bey.—A father arose, and with very deep emotion said: 1 have been separated from my family for five yearr—myrelf living here, my femily in Germany. During all that tinue I have folt overwhelined with anxiety for the spiritual welfare of my wife and children. Pive years rolled away, and three weeks ago the fauily all were gathered together sgain, in this city, Last night I took my lite boy to a prayer mesting for the first time, and his young beart was touched, Ho is now sitting beside me,and he says bo me—"* ask tho movting to pray for me and my mother." The boy tneludes the mother in the reqrsst without any suggestion from me. This ts one of thy rigna of the Saviors coming. “I will tun the Learta of the fathers to the children, and the hearta of the chi dren to the fathers.'* ‘The Lord is coming. One hundred prayer meetings in the city every day —Do you know, raid a clergyman, how many player meetings there are in this city, every day dure ing this week of prayer? I bave nods that there ere mere them 100, I know of that number, and I do uot know all, Prayer Meeting at the Scotch Church.— ‘Tho third of the dally prayer meetings, held this week by direction of the Prosbytery of New York, ‘was at the Bootch Church on Fourteenth street, =a Yesterday Rsv. De, Srama opened the meeting ‘with the usual services, delivering a'so a short ad- ress from the text the fervent prayer of a rightcous man availeth muck Rev, Dr, ALEXANDER delivered @ prayer and an address, Iu the latter, Le spoke of Casistians as now fending before God ss intercomors for the world, and «f the impertance of their fully eppreciating this position in coming before Him in prayer, They should remember his love for the world, es well as his justice, and plead that the hearts of men may be turned to him, Ths present afflictions of our countey he regarded as ordered by (od, to Linpross upon the minds of Christians the consoloumers that they were dependent, not on human progres or clv- Liization, even for worldly prosperity, but on His nce, Lot not those who love the Lord be then dis- comfited by outward trials, especially those in the political world, but regard then as + vidences of God's Care, for “whom the Lied loves he chesteneth.” | Rv Mr Lownra and one or two others also dolivered prayers and brief addresses of much tho sae spiris, Ziee’s Bank. 1 know @ never-failing Bank, ‘Woli flied with golden store ; No other Bunk contains so mush ‘Toad can enrich the poor, Shou'd all the banks of Europe break, And that of E sgiand fall, Fear not that Zon's glorious bank Tor disc uate wul curtail ;— Gare ali the wea'th this world contains May never be compared ‘With what the grace of Gxd's dear Bon Wath for our souls prepared. Thousande cf ransom'd sinuars tear Tay have no Bite 0 aly coauee they jf misery ‘And 1uin by the + fom wow come b iis meoting every Though thouvaad notes, lie scaWered road, ‘All nign'd, aud seal'd and free, Yor many e doubting soul will say, Ab! they are nA for m9, Proud unbelief cannot edanit Such tidings to be tua; ‘And ye: I tell esc baokrupt aw, ‘Trev notes belong to you! Bome fear to go heonuso they feo! ‘Theie presens wants are rmall :—— Bone may away bocawe they think ‘They have no wants as all. Some fear they write so bad a hand ‘Their now s wiil be rejeoted, But always bu:nb'e sou's obta'n Muc) more than ty expeoted. I, toy right at the door have been With fal doubles ml _ Ku Mow keeps she bank, My notes mus be protested, was drawn with care, Lut when banker's eye it fell He sew it wanted on its {a0 ‘The name, Kama uel, And thould you bring aforged nite, Bigned by an angel's baad, IW could not bear the vearching glance ‘With which it would be scanned, ‘The notes tha\ are accepted there, Kicahorr, ror tet anes ey may, 3 aame ‘re ublerly dec ined. 7 Whenever all my money's spen', Nigar fda y ways For generar ald to presse” Some tradesmen fiad them elves o21pelied Continually to borrow ; Bat I today own all I need, dnd then I draw to-morrow. I've been s thousand times befure, never ; No notes can ever be refused, That are by grace accepted. ald all the tankers close their doors, bank stands open wide Te all tho Chosen tha Lert dy For whom the Bavior died, “Why note larger sum?" 4 live forever in such want, Wine ta we aan ‘Why come and draw «me peace, Whin you may have a pound P* Ald for the Gaffcrers in Kanone, ‘The last report of the Kaneas Relief Commit+ tea at Atchison, for the werk ending Decom\r 26, makee that 184 pounds «f whiest, owns, beans, de, been rece'ved fom various states; aro, eeveral boxes cf cothing, ‘The total amount distrituted during the same woek was 637,000 Pounds, which has berm rant to twonty one different ccuntion in the territory, and the benefits of the ehip~ ments have begun to be very sensibly realized aroong the suffers, ‘The pro ife We t comiiaues to rend ovr: it ts for the psop'e of the East to provide money to pay freight, and to provide for other impotent wanta of the suffering thousands of our fellow citizens, Contributions in money shoud bo remt ty the Tromurer, Joun E, Wintians, Eeq President of the Mote politan Bank, New York Gity, Donations of clothing may be sent to the rom of the C\ mmittes, No, 2 Cooper Tastit uve, ‘The United 8 ates and the American Express Gom- panies generously agree to forward all parce’s ad- dreveed to the rocm, or to 8 C Pownaor, Atchison, Kansas, snd markod “Kensas Relief," (.00 «f charge. Small parcels sent to the room will bs safely and careful y repacked. Notice of packages went direct to the territory by elther of the Express Companies named, should be given tothe agent of the U smmittes at the room, Opiatons of the Press. Of the Compromise proposition, prewnted by the Committee of Fourtean, reprosentiag .be border states, the Philadelphia North American says :— If accep able to the Soush,in place of Mr. Cacrtan- postion, ena dered by hiv 4 his frieudas a quaranty on whick thoy can atend to Olt di union, 18 try in ow Cpinion quite proper to support Wt tte proposed as rT which t# much better than at hy il tn any form Lt iw d through Congress, and vncerned, it wou'd: spply, imr would Cocur imany Krieg, mot woud any clement cf political piwer be Intoduced. Te woud be far more directly capal'e of practical exsoution than a yotber pane het have besa pr ws of the Bu denen years of P* bition would foiited the agitation directed toward the repest of the Compromise ine, aud who ®ought then peace was far better thaa theoresoal ®) inequality in the territories. How the southera disunt ni id heve President exccute the laws against northern vi tors ot them ia well exhibited in tho fo‘lowing ex: tract from the New Orleans Delta : ‘The attemps of Black Republican mob t prevent the dispa'ah from Pimaburg of a fow cannon for our southern forts and arsenals is one of the moat out rageous dole of violence and arrogance which has he provent excitement, Tt Federal au:horisy, under aavation, If Me. Boo of the firmness which he inxd proceedings in Botith Carolla --a #a'e beyond the contro! and authority of the Federal G. yorminent—toward his owa_coantry- men, who to be in the Uaion, it would er hibit him in a moro reepeolable character than be has diep'ay' 7 the Lpnehburg Virginian thinks het the + do. mestic peace” of the Old Dominion is a matter of Little moment with South Caroling, and inquires — avolved more than vucs in ths ‘ AvRAiaM Lincoun tf Ace we prepsed to. ndiuis that We ate lees go iNive than alte to whe} ecrma OU fale fate F ju Fu y of the ppardy, town exient in We do ny adyouate coaicion in the case of South Caro'ina—th ugh we believe the Federal Goverament ea that yight—bus wou d leave her,to the enjryment of al: the {cults of #ecernton and {solatlo vag Loth'pg inte thi ‘bt she carne, Bot Viigtnts, shat can po a git of five ofthe ‘mest flonrt Republic will be constructed, nor has of our fist Prosidans 501 seen the I tent to rome more profitab'e emp oy- ment than the adv. cacy of « Pacitic omfedaracy, Pacifie Repubite is # Iurleeque.on disunion, Affairs in the South. ‘The following caso we havo had reported to us ‘om the hentic sources lestoa, who went there from ty, is pomensed of @ pwoperty which he values at six thousend dollars, belng his houre acd furniture, He reesived an intimatk n, course delicate, that he was expscted to take two hundred dollars of the | ‘This sum, in the terrible condition of things at Charleston, he was uvable to raise, He wrote to bis friends ia Now York, dercriblng his predicament, and ex- pressing bis appreharsion that his house would be mobbed if he did not produce the money de- manded, His entreaties were so urgent, that his friends in New York mustered up the required sum.—National Republican, Tar Exace Disranons or Tur Forta.--An cflicar of the United States Coast Survey gives the follewing measurements, as taken from the latest surveys, made by the Coast Survey De- partment : ; Fort Sumter ia three and thres eight miles from one and one eight miles from Fort Moultrie, arters of a mile to the noarest land, one and three eight miles to Fort Johny and two ard fiv Pinckney, To from the town, and Fort Jobnson is two and a quarter miles fom the town. The brother of Major ANDgRsom, who recently visited that gallant soldier at Fort Sumter, under ths surveillance of the Charleston Committes, has arrived at Washington. He reporta that every~ joes was in good condition for an eff: de- nes. Exciramant at Harri RY.—Oa the night before last there was a gathering of armed people, principally from Casrlestowa and Mar- Tiebure at Harjer’s Ferry, whose. ertand wes evidently to prevent U. 8. truops from takiag possession of the Govern: 't property there ; it baing rumored in that vicinity ths, tha traia of that eveviog would bring up troops to that end ‘Tho 'izens of Harper's Ferry, however, «: them to understand that they would protec’ the righta ia thelr midst to the last y, un'il Virginia iu har soverizn cipac~ ity might leave the Union. So the parties from Chalestown and Marliosburg wisely conclujiog that they had got into the wrong box, lef: for their homes, A. ted elsewhere in the Star today, the expected. tr. arrived there Last pight, oer now yy eas, 3s Fe calat coet= pancy of the armory, &c.— ing) 8 The St. Catherine's (Canada) Journal says :— Letters have been reosived here, from some pram ste left Niagara two or three years better trou! da, but are not allowed to do so. The Vigilance Committee will let their familie: leave but not the men (these latter being wanted for militia- men, probsbly to maintain ‘Southern Rights" at. emergency). Information has resched the War Department that the Sub- Treasurer at Charleston has recone ly refused, by order of Gov. Picks, to give any money 4 the United States Paymaster at that station to pay the troops, Ch pect of the as] ato} woel ehgains ious fe ood eitvrot's tomive, “Aa 1 pase. from my ho- T em struck the woo begone appear- ‘ance ofthe city, Tbe same is observable at the wharves. ‘Anxiety is depicted on the faces of those whose interests are #0 seriou:ly invclved, and ther no lenges that brisk, dapper air for which many inhabitants were wont to be distinzuish- of toe the bare are do @ brisk busi bad 31 seoossion ‘is foarfully app city, ‘Trade te almost iz ay Ry Bes ite Hi! HH 4 EE z f F n i Lad % Fé g f t asf it Hi it 1861. Commiteecs of the Senate, ‘Tho following are the Committess of the State Sonate as announced by the Lieu'eimt Gover- nor: Ciaims—Mosers, Truman, P, P, Murphy, Low Geant. rence, Finanoe— Mowers, houre Bol’, a Ore ey, Colvin, + Connolly. Warner, igivus 8 cteder—M seers Toterna: Affairs of Towas and Countios—Mewra, MeGiraw, Spinola, one—Moting, Kitchamy M nigumory, —Mosars. Lapham, Gov, Kallyt Bie Messrs, Wa et Quam iy, Mont 8. Montgomery, R toh, Kolly. Commerce and Nevigaioa—M mer barbs) 1 M Marphy. ical re Messrs, Brieh, Abell, Gardiner, Livorstan — Moers, Somionsy MG aw, J M Mac. rh, Me lieary — Mone. Feasoy Willlems Bivod Insu anes Compan Spinola. P.ivileges and EloeNone—Mossra, chan ynd, Wil- llama, ©: molly, Manufsetoren— Mowers, Ball, Roberton, B'ood. Rotrenchmont—Momra, Keiciac, Willams, Kel~ y, jyailc Bulldings—Momra, Warner, Rotel, Gannol- i". E cotion and Division of Towns and Countion— Monain, Raney, Monsgomery, Blood, Vilages—M wars. Maaaiy-e, DLP. Mar= phe, Lawrenes. pic Mxpenditures—Menss, Foiry, Manniore, er. + Bptaois, esas, Wiliams, Perry, ‘en00, Syusionsy 4, 9 Matin! Biclotion—Menirs. P. P. Marphy, Wormer, vin, Public P.inting—Momrr, Richmond, Montyomery, mt pinoia. Manutseturo of Salt —Mours, Hillhows, Maaroe, Geanw ae Library —Woans. J. Mo Murphy, Muaroey bell. Neer —om rules of the Sanate—Musara, » &) A bany and § requebanna R, Mosars, Kumwy, Milhouse, © mavlly . Cent of the Mali Mervies. Tho entire cost of this servic) in Synth Cato- lina, for the yoar ending Juno 30: £85 59, Receipts 943.914 10, Paid @69.~ he department, #25 116 60, Hampshire cost $109,111 41, and paid 75.28, Excems of recalp's, @1 064 87. 204 195 55,'aad pald $207. 76 230 31 Paid @1 681,- Tecaipta, B04 0% 7H, Delaware cost @4.110 56. Paid $44,130 43, Excess of receipts, $11,019 87. Disteiet of Columbia cost $10.029 58, Paid 1.29201. Excens of receipts, $11.262 15, Virginia cost $530,008 75, Paid Excess of expendi Ohio cost @12 nd Kiowa, T: dixunion spy in th 0) sommiorita fully apprised of all information Lich he ruppased would be serviceable to them. nse«taouce of this communicative disposition, President and the Secretary of War fully the Secretary of the Interior their he transportation of plies to Fort Sumter, today itis nascar cocarred hetween the Presi dar eer se ‘mor when roe ‘Phere is also rumor that the investigations of the Morris Committes, which is now in New York, busily engaged in unveiling all the mysteries connected with the bs:raction of the Indian trust bonds, have ex- ‘erted seme influence ia this las: seces- sion from the Cabinet, as it is josed that ver; gross neglicence, at I 80K, will be expored.. Northern Citizeas at tho It is computed that at least one mil citizons of the South are natives of the northern states, who have settled in the South, and in many instances intermarried with southera famt- ier, and are among the most loyal and public spirited of the population. To lally true of Gecrgia, South Carolina and Louisiana. Charleston bas ‘a large proportion of natives of the northern states among ber population, and the city of Savanna is, ia ite habits and aspect, more like a seber, business Now Kagland town, than a southern city. New Orleans and Augu ta have each a large northern element, and there as ekewhere northern adoptal citizens are ‘among the most valuable and reliable men in the community. The numbar ef citizens of the North of southern birth is a'so very large. They may be found everywhore—in the most remote fons and, and are scattered all over the North-western states. There are more natives of Virginia now resident in New York than of Now Yorkers resident in Virgins In many ia- tances they too have inter-married into fainilies in the land of thelr adoption. Thus linked to- gether by the most sacrod ties, what new and ‘ble horrors are iavolved in the idea of war! Does it not become all good men, all men who have hamanity, all men who are not given over to bardnoss of heart and demoniacal malice and cruelty, tolabor with their whole souls, and to besiege the throne of Heaven with thelr supplications that this hitherto the happiest of all nations may bs saved from such an unnat- ural collision sod fearful catastrophe?—Balti. more American. a Major Andersoa’s Katho We have already referred to the services of Major Appensoa’s father at Trenton in 1770, The Lowisritle Journal saya: ‘Ile way also ia the battle of Brandy wize, and in other actions in the Korth, But bis services ia the South are of more interest to us at this time. He was at the nab in 1779, and in endeavoring the rawparts was throwa, or fall, such a height that he met with an injury b the tkock from which he never recovered On the -? of the gallant PuLas«r herecsive!, asa gift from the dying hero, his sword, which was fur a Jong time ‘in the ion of the family, but was unfortunately lost by the burning ef a house ia which it was deposited. In 1786 the Uolovel —then a Major—endared the siege of Coarleston, 8. C., acd was of course prisoner, remain- ing there in that condition for several more, but being exchanged in time to be present the elege and eaptare of York. On occasion he served as an aid to Gen. Lavarerra, who (it jay be remembered by many citizens of Louis- ville) recognized the on his last visit to this country, at his arrival at Portiacd, as bis old friend and companion in erms. Tt ls not a little singular that the ton of this oflicer sboul. | now be in defense of the same city for which bis father fought eighty years since, but against enemies how different! Slavery ‘a Kemens) 4 A cane came te ere Jui Parrtr yeater- day in the District Court for the Terri which involved the constitu iona'ity of th: slavery bill passed by the ture Last A negro woman, named Famer, claimed Hoaace Haver as ve, lef: his custody live at the house of Tho case was Marraras and Log 4 7 8 vores: : lther party to the marriage P St tired pears next preoeding such divores, have wiifaily da- PRICE ONE CEN( consultation, Mr. Dix left this nvorning for Washington, in obedier co wo the summ ms. It is not improbable, we imagine, that he be tendered the Postmaster (Jenoralshis, that Mr. Hor will be transferred entiroty to the War Department, for the onsrous duties of whieh department he has showed « remarkable capacity, Should Mr. Dix accept = position im Mr. Boouawan’s Cabinet, the country will have reason to congratulate ttaelf. In his patriotism, Integrity and ability the people will justly fool an unlimtted confienes, azd in such an honored porition Mr, Dix would fiod the graiifyiog re cogtition of bis private virtnes and palic ser- vicos. When such mon are sslectet for ottee, patriots can gladly forget polisieal distinc'ioar Coma er cial Advertiser. Mr, Gawrioon Rertking Vandy wht Senth Caroies. In the /#berater, of Janusry ith, Mr. Ganmr- 80 years of odivorial tervice to that jc u'nal with the following exal- tant prophecy of disunton—an event to which bo Has uncensingty directed bis energies :—"At la ‘the covenant death’ ia aculled and ‘tho agreement with hell’ bickon—at Toast, by action of South Satolina, and ors long, by ail the Javeholding states, for their doom inone. ‘The dissolution of the Union is tho abotitian of al very,'said Mr. ARNOLD, of Tonnomes, in the United States Heuse ‘of Representatives, few years ago. Hait the approsching jnbiles, yo millions who are woaring tho galling ehains of Savery, for, assuredly, the day of your rede tion crawa nigh, bringing liberty to you and sal - Is Lrora Towa, there ts one liquor ators to every Jb adult malee, THRRR FHOCKS OF AN PARTHQU IKK worn felt at Lancastor, I’s.,0n Sunday night, esch accom- panied with a heavy peal of thunoer, Havane surectaD AN ieraor: Letwron his wife aod a negro, Pat caught them in the act, at Wetumpk Saturday, and, frantic with raye, kille both, and his Hivile child, and ‘THRRATS OF MORTAR CALEAS NLOOD MONET is paid ore becoming. rife i STAvoOR was the last the police took the ake an artost. D. KIMratt was edon Monday, in « L with robbing his employers. On his person was fourd a quan- tity of atry ohpine with which ho said he intead- ed to will hima olf. TWo WATCIMEN HAD A Frat with four bur- elars at the South Reading Bank, Mass, carly en Bunday morning. ‘Ihe thieves had open the Icwer door of the bank, when ditcow+ pl they left set of burglars‘ tools behind m. A PIMLANrHRorio OLD GmrumMAN in St. Louis waa stopped on the street by a young wo- man, who appealed for his proteetion, telling the story of her feeling considerable i ised to see her again. wever, Reason—she had olen tis pocketbook, with $1.600-in money ond notes, Traxx THteves, who, on Sunday last, broke into a silver pantry, at Camden, N. fright by the’ voice of an unseen parrot, erving, ‘You !say devils, I see you! .John, bring my revolver !” that they fled through a wrong window into a naighbor's yard, where they were asvailed by a fierce dog. The polioe arrested one of them. A YOUNG LADY OF GOOD FANOLY was married at. Lawronceburr, lana, last weok, aud the bridal party were on the way tothe cars, when two officers were sen approaching, ithe groom jumped from his seat, cut across Lol dap peared, it ly ruppcou, forever. officers aame to arrest him beesuse he had bft a wife and three children in another town. Calamitios. Bronwoan wir LsrLAMMATION oF THE Lvsas, Avoust Dows, a young German em- ployee at Stanwix Hall, ‘albany janped out of in a fit of delirium,'on Sunday nicht, and, iv , ran tothe aiudson River Bs- tin and drowned himself, J. H. Brown comarrrap svtctiox while un- det aberration of mind, on the Little Miami i. RB. last week, Whi'ea train was coming at full speed, he divested himself of coat, vest and hat, and just asthe train came up he laid his on the rails. A rw DATS AGO, a dangh'or of Dr, Ieacn, of Cleveland, ninot taplained ager, Hei and thi was followed by intlemam on of powels, erysipelas and a fever of typhoid form, ich abe died. Dr, Brace w with « sore thuind during his daugh! hie hand swelled, and now he is lying point of death, after exhibiting the symptoms observed ia the uaughter, Tax Sur Scaxao, which has arrived at Bal- timore from Calcutta, afer an unusually loag passage, fell in wi'h a burnin steamer off Baha om) supposed to be the Bri ish mail steamer Delts, which plies bstwoen Sc. ‘dhomas and Halitix. The company of the vessel were, porticn of them, upon @ raft near tho stoam: and some of them struggling ia the w: soa ran very high at the time, so a9 to reader the launching of boa's peri ous, | No eff mate to save the unfortunate parsons in and around the wreck, baciuse of the danyar atl ing the undortaking, and from the fact that large part of the crow were dobilitated by the tcurvy, contracted during the long voyage. Ma. Feasxum Grevens, of Sslem, N.Y met with @ horrible accident, on Wednesday ho was going down a rather stee his horses wore frightened by the approac! team behind, and started off ut breakueck speed. In attempting to control them, Mr. Sra- Vans made the discovery, for tho first time, that they had no bits, and ha’ was utterly powerless, ‘They ran at an awful rate until they reached his house, when they mado a dash at his yate, but brought up with force agaiast a post, hooking and bounding off to the village, a mile and a halt distant, where they brought up ina stabl Then Mr, Sravans, for the (ist Uae, mi discovery, on turning to congratulate h upon thelr ercspe, that she sat by his #' corpse! In the contact with the posts at the 7, he had received a fosiful blow ously termina’ Political Items, WRTHvecow Weep having bein mentioned asa candidate for Senater in of Gov. Bawa be thus replies : ie are not, and never hall be, te for ates Senator, or for any ether office. Though not insensible, as the Searcher of hearts knows, to the kindness of friends, we ask notbing of them but their operation im electing other, more capable, better men, to high places.’ 9 in eftisy, on Tuesday nicht, because he voted for tho democratic ‘nominees for officers of the State Bevate, Just as it commenced burning, a ¢emo- crat went In and tore it down, but by mid, t another ore was set up and the burning comple- ted amid the shouts oth crowd, It is ascer'ain ed that Mr, Nogcrvas attended the Repuolican caucus, and voted therein, an hour ands half before the vote in the Sorate, Business Items. Asrmare ron nvrme firm at Alexandria, 000 for hogs. TAMPSD Loves may be exchanged at the N, ¥, Post office for ones, paying merely the original cost of velopes, 18 conte per 100, RATES OF ADVERTISING. TERMS CASH IN ADVANCE AAvertinementa—For every FOUR LINES ® one day, 60 cents: two days, § Mix days, er prise each days me ant Deaths, 25 cents for exch four Umea. Tertionnents of forumlines, Inserted a emvenience of the ofce, 84 for every . Mi. Ad vert.setnentg rece: ved \ eqstablichmont {0 ecairely chang ee f Scientific Items, Maacractone ov Inow Tonm.—A Vronc® firm are now extensively engaged in the mavetecters of tron tabes, consisting of two disting) sets—ths one called tight tubes, intended for wah pa-ponen of oom. Mruction, forniiare, ete, mado now require that the Joint shew'd be c'ore ; and the other of tuber, prop. ¥ 10 tal ed, of which the joints, being carefully dered, are capable of reximing 9 pressure of ob leat fiteen tino» pherer, and are intended for beat. ing purporer, fr coureyiog gas or fr Wo ms for chersion| werka, Toese \ubes a @ manufsctursd im two diffurent ways, according to thy purposes for which they are ded, and the peaure they are to bear, The common kinda which have to resi # premure of only fifteen to twenty five atmospheres, are united hive hem, being welded by juxtaps- sition im wrerion of three to five decreasing draw pistes, The degree of resistance of the weld im these tubes depends om their greater or ious thick. news, Fir purpores requi:ing'a much higher prewar, double taber, without joints, are made, T> make there, two common tubes are provided, in such « form of manner that ome will Jurt enter the other with fristicn, ‘The smal‘er is then inserted imto the larger, thre welds being opposite, and in thie state they ere drawn out st welding heat, and through o tories of decreasing guage, untti the diameter of the © Eas become smelter than that of the one latter is welded, amd, im some mesure, incv porated with the other, the two toge her making » ring’e tu @, which i¢ thus whhout jolot Woen « punch ta f_retbly introduced foto a tare thes nade, 19 tears it in rome part cf the citoumference, bar notin the direction of the weld- ing ef the extgrnal tubs, and if the triel is repeated in ¢ifferent portions of the eame tubs, which hae deem prev’ asly-rawn into reveral parte for the par- 1p *e, af each Wrist the tear will commence in » d.ffer- ure of resisians) poesenac d of @ ples of iron of equal thickness Boos Smee Gens, the Inventor of a shell gu ‘MM Wanwem arr te «fingenious arrangement. |The coe dition on whicl this gun has bees con struck ed— next to that of loading at the bresch—ts thas tte recoil shail be very Henited, aod tbat it shall mot re qubetots runup. § is secording y mounted on a cast-iron oarriage ancbilide we!l suited to those come 4 of ingenlows construction, traversing om 8 pivot p need about righteen incr in font of the head of thael da, acd therefire in the throat of the evramure, The opis of the gun Is four fee: fom tee ground, end the total !oogth of alide from ite head itu extrem iiy—heing the distance it would occupy im # coremate—is sor ewhot less than ten feet, o* from the pivot eleven fost and one-ha'f. Too extreme \readsh of carriage and slide is, in fon’, two feet fenend one halfinches, sad in rear three foo) twe ugh nes requiring % be run up, the gum is not ‘ecoll principle, the slide belng 9 constrested ast admit of s motion of the gun amd: carriage, when fired, of about throe fost six inches, which at first te horisoats’, and thon for about three feet om ‘an inclination upwards cf twelve and one-half de— grees, by moana of which she fores of recotl—the ‘weight moved being neatly six and one-fourth tone gradually resisted and overcome, Prom the polws to which the yum and carriage are thus rained, wo derconds by its own welght, ond, afier « few Inches horicontal mov'on, it received by an elawie cashion form d of \deoh bark placed vertically, and therefore perpendicularly to the direction of the force, making avhickness cf nine Inches) By this cushion all the vematule¢ moticn is absorbed. Foreign Items. A VERY GOoD InstrruTtON has just been stert- ed in Cubs; an acclimatin, which ie to troops arrivin, island during the summer months, It ia to be of capacity te tocelvo s thousand men, and the situation chesem for it ia most healthful, Scrat soctntaas ane Rirg ts Cama, The principal of there are the tes of the Ti of the White Lily, of the Blue Lily, of the Calt’s Head, of the un, of the Sparkling Honor, of the Unmlxed Bea, of the Yellow Cap, of the ‘Origa of the White ‘Cloud, of the Snort Sword, and lastly, the Selety that bas no sother,” ‘THR BORING OF AKTASIAR WELLS teoms to have been carried out with yreat success in the provitce of Constantine, in algeria; 50 walla leon opened since 1856, which yield, alte- about 15,000,000 -allons in the course of 4 hours, ‘Ther Donina Tie Last srestos or THE Exum Hoves cy Commons, it is raid that 10.473 hes were di 's made {40 speeches, A Wixe Maken tx Boxpaox, France, strack wich the fact tha: tho maturity of wine depeaded on the tem perature of the cellars in whieh it waa stored, made a terios of expeziments by regulat- ing the proesure of the atmosphere upon the bar- rela, which resalted in the preduction of wine im as many deys as it formerly took months, Age according to this theory, is not necessary for perfection of wine, ‘Tix Qoexn Dow,Gxe ov Swapxy, who dled receatly of #poplex formance of a play Dasiens snuorra wes (irty: far whea he tarried her's rhe was ceventeen. Her sis‘er Jour, had pre- viowly married Josarnt BosaPaure, Baa Avon's joined the Lutheran Church ; bis wife remained « Catholic, Sha stayed in Paris for rome time after his elevation fo the throne, and was not crowred at Stockholm until the #lst August, 1529, Misoollan neous Items, Ox Naw Yuan's migut, one of the female isoners in the State Prison Trentoo, N. J., ad a fine ton born, Thong the youngster commences b! let us hope that he may not end it there, Some TRARS AGO, # Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor elect was called upa ofor a speech. He acknowledged the honor, and added that he had no doubt he should make « Lieut, Govera- or, af that was the officehe had always held in his own TOTAL eMtGR Aron to Utah from the close of hostilities and new messuees a: by Berana™ Youra will add largely to the nomber coming, ON CERTAIB PORTIONS Ov THE ILLT#0UB PRAI- nies, corn le being used as fual, in lien of coal, and is found on excellent eubstitute, Im the dint ists referred to, corn is 12); genta per acd coal is15to17 eenta Not only ts the di ference in price in favor of the coro, of it gives more heat than a bushel of coal. ‘Tux Naw Svsrexstom Baiwan at Falls, is now open for travel, Ita I is 204 feet; from bed of river, 110 feet. bridge is suspended by two cables of 1,000 cach, from towers 25 feet in height. Kech is ‘of sustaioim; 1,206 pounda The 75 tons for several Its entire cost E eee