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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1860. 3 V. rrmiiTire was illegal, as they were reporting an i ordinance was illegal, as they wcte reporting an Mt IxmVbxutm. ARCH STREET MILLINERY STORP Mm E.

CALDWELL, o. 824 Areh street, received for tbe llohuars, a choice and beaatifni 2 sortment of Dreas Caps, Head Dresses 'end nin, goods. BRITANNIA WARE. A a wTS PaWat Fire-Proof Tea Pot Warranted t0(K' ed-hot iron; beln? the cicut oaoful tnyention evtsrvt Also, Britannia and Hiiyar Plated Ware in all ita rrtil? H. 8.

BOAKOMAW. Kns. nd 45 A.reh uut. ALLIES' FANCY FURS OFEVErTdbI fcripticD. at MUTTON', Xo.

1704 Market ntnTt Durk Squirrel rets. Fitch, Mink. Sable, verylui suit the times. Ladies an? invited to call before onr chssirg and examine this stock. Furs icatl PPLES Bbi.s Cifoir varieties.

35 bbU. CideT: 100 bacs Hominv Buckwheat ard Com Meal; 20 bbls. dried Kew Ymi plums. Railroad Depot, Xo. 1224 Mrket street.

O. FP.ENTZEr 200 bags dried Peas. 30 per cent, cheaper than Kptt, for Soup Houses "tid Institutions. di wfip SEAL ENGRAVING. R.

LOVETT, jZ Sc. 200 S. Fifth steaet. helvw Walnut streets. BooS of Heraldry can seen at his esUblislunent, ccmajmS tii.iincil nacitis.

Cct3 cf Arms. Crefita. t-TuT" Acencrayedoii Stone Eeais, Siepet Kinps, fine pe Heids. R. L.

is also prepared to enave Coi-ponS Seals in superior manner. Ordari by mail will te promiit ly attended to. snUt R. DEL ANY ADAMsoxr Maawfscturers ot iue, ueiaiine. CuTiedaair.Pt, Cow-Hide Whir.

Flint and pand Paper, Ewry p' and Emery Cloth. Ground Lrit and Ftr.ery. Hair, 2eats Foot Oil, Bone Bust, 8TOE13S. PnUa-I-ipbia. No.

Ti i 3. Fonrth Bfeet-fork, Ho. 67B(ckman street, below Gold run, wd streets, above Co'uiJibia street. The Pricas riven for Glue Pieces, I-KKtfied Hides. Cs.nielW EorCT 'Bonw Cnroong.

anyH ACTIO A AND ANALYTICAL 1 ISTRY. The Laboratory or the subscribers is open dailv from 9 A. M. to HI'. M.

for Analyses of Os, Guanos, Waters, etc. Also, for the Instruction of Stu.ltnu iij Cheroktry. Mineralogy and Geology. Opinions givca ia Chemical questisns. Special instruction in THOMAS II.

GARRETT, JOHN J. REESK, M. dI4 fmw3m No. 10 Chant street. Tenth bel.

Market HESNUT GROVE WHISKEirvZ Sal? by C' WHARTON, Sole Agent, No. 116 nit street. For evidence cf its character, see cerhficaugj Philadelphia, Sect. 9th, ls58 We hav earefnll7 tested the sample of Cbesout Gre WTiiRke which you sent and find that it contains noj the Poisonous Substance known as Fubii Oil, wnich a the characteristic and Injurious intrredient of the Wilier to use. BOOTH, GARRETT CAMAC, Ivical Chemista.

CHARLES WHABTOK. Sole Ag4 Philadelphia- "iwf I A Every one la eomplainln? of their exorhitect gat Ea At Ko. 'Ait North Second street, may be seen the Lamps wi the World." Can be used where'er L'rht wanted. Cheaoar than eol oil, or gas. Ageats tt, making a week seUing taera.

Alore wanted 4 told Bo accidest. The Gag Lamps wiB light a room 20 feet square for cent an hour, or will bora all night for ont cent Dr. C. A. GREENE niyjSly Xo.

204 north Second street REN CONICAL WASHING MACHINES. THE TRIALS OF WASHING-DAY ARE ENDED. This is the only machine that will wh all kinds ui clothes perfectly without injury. It has been tested ia the laundrv of French's Hotel, and in numerous privai families, and elsewhere, with all other Washing Machines making anv pretensions to novelty, and has, in every ia. stance, performed its work iu less than half the time -quired bj any other, and mnch more thorougldy and sat islactoriiy.

It will wash without the necessity of soaking or boiling. These results are produced by the constant reaction of the suds, and not by friction of rubbing surfacts. It ig admirably adapted for introduction into stationary tubs in houses ith dl the modern improvements. In Families, Laundries. Hotels, Boarding-nous, Hospr tals, Asvlums.

schools, on Ships and Steamer and in the Army, it will be foand UNEQUALLED AND INDISPENSABLE. This Machine mav be seen in operation at the Lundry FRENCH'S HOI EL, and the depot. No. 419 Broadway, corner cf stieet. New Tork.

PRICE, ONLY TEN DOLLARS. FAIRBANKS EWING, Agents, No. 715 Chess Btreet. Philadelphia. Agents wanted in all parts of the United Stales.

Stud for a circ ular. P. R. FRENCH. Address Box No.

2P3 Post Office, New York city. This Machine took the f.ret prize (silver uiedali at 1 United States Fair. dii tutlisSti inj (goods. "fAKSEILLES QUILTS. We Have xow llA.

in stoie a full assortment of Marseilles tilu of aC the yarlous sizes and price, to which the attention of aU is respecUuDy soiicrUd. PJtRKlNS fc Importer! and dealers in Fancy and Staple Dry Goods. No. 8. Ninth street.

n' 1751 BROIDERIES FOR THE HOLI--i davs. The subscribers are opening a choice selectsor. of French Embroideries, Collars, Bets, Ac, fcr Ladies atid Children, at low prices. SHEPPAKD, VAN HARLINGEN A AREI30N, d'212wrp No. 1008 Chesnntstmt.

HOLIDAY Table CoTers, various siies; Afghans, newstyH, Quilts. Jiapkins. Table Cloths, Blankets, Tewels, Cao brie Handkerchiefs. Eirtbroidered Cellars, Sets, Ac. with a large sti ck of articles suitable for useful presenti for sale by SHEPPARD.

VAN 1LARLINGEN ARKi- SON. No. low Chesnut street. rREAT REDUCTION IX PRICES OP VUT Plain French Aterinoesand FiKnred Merinves; Velwt Poplins, I'rosted Poplins, and Figured Poplins; alloot de Laine. in neat and media in styles; all Wool and Union kin.tuni9 tvips- I fiiiiii do Ijuncs.

a erfK variety of new pattt rns; Cloaklnir Cloths, heaw bljct ribbed and ltahter fabric, at JAMES E. KAIGIEVS, 716 Arch street. Yt BALM ORALS- Choice Desisrns Poplin Corded Balmorals Dark Effects and Briftht Colors-Solid Colons, top and bottom. Our best display this season. SLARPIXSS BROTHERS.

Chesnut and EgKth streew. nuvrH PT A vo COVERS. bb ceiTed from the muiufacturec'i closing out sale, owf 100 French Table and Piano Covers, of fine cktiM beautiful desiens. which we are selling off at but Utile ot haU tixe Sbrmer price, of WELL SON, Housekeeping Dry Goods Store, n2 S. W.

comer Chesnut and Seventh street BEAT REDUCION IN DRY GOOD3 Ladies' Shaw reduced for Christmas. Gent Shawls, reuucea ior cnrisinias. De Laines and Poplins, reduced for Christmas. American and English Calicos, reduted mas. Unen Cambric Hdkis.

Gloves, low. at JOHN II. STOKES', No. KB Arch street B. Will open this morning, live more lots of Kl) ral Skirts.

1 011 TVTEW BLANKETS. fst Opbnkd Wyoming," our second instalment of tliU r'U s5! portatiou, of superior English Blanket, comprising a assortment of tne best goods made in England. They fullv equal to tbe last lot, which gave sueh general ssi laeuon, ana wui oe soia at tac same low prices. JOHN V. COWELL SO.

Importers of Blankets and Housekeeping Dry Gooes, ni Cornerof Chesnut and Seventh scr TTSEFUL AND SEASONABLE Glf at Low Prices. Double Damask Table Cloths and Napkins. Fringed and Damask Bordered Towels. Premium and Affghan Blankets. Fine Marseilles Qnilts.

Rich Lace Curtains. Brocatelle and Damask Curtains. Tapestry Furniture Covtrings. Embroidered Table and Piano Covers. SHEPPARD.

VAN HARLIXGKN A d'21 2wrp Importers, No. 100K Chesuut streefc HANDKERCHIEFS FOR PRESEX At M1LL1KRV to rCt 'fi Unen Stores, NO- Arch street, and No. Si S. Second street. LADIES' HANDKERCHIEFS.

Ladies' Tape and Corded Borders. Ladies' Hemstitched. Ladies' Tucked Borders. Ladies' Tuck and Scolloped Borders. Ladies' Herringbone Borders, very neat Ladies' Scolloped Borders, in colors.

Laeies' Printed Borders. Ladies' Embroidered new styles. never been surpassed, either in variety, beauty ot.Sfa nea. Oil KINGTON rOKALEKLY BAY STATE JdlLLi- Shawls of arl slsea, in great variety. Baiboased and Printed TAblb CovkkS.

Luiom Bkatkrs and Bkoao Cloths. BALMORAL SKIRTS. pomsKiMS and Double and Twisted CoatikoS. JM 8ackins i and heavy Zkphtr Clotks. a Twilled and Plain Flamkbla and OBJiA Printed Faxr CajwBTiacs.

Tor sale by FKOTHrXGHAM A WILLS- 1.4 nK av. atreflt. SO" ly 25 mwf WA rutins stre X0.36Letitis Aire: a ttc i fisJi Attraction. Ladies' Sealskin. Beaver.

Doeskin Coats, Cloaks, Sicilians, Excelsiors, Alm JSOW (afianlnff. onlAiUiifl aadArtniAnt noAO ff)rCW AttKEW St So. at S. intn Third Door above CUeanutU 24 CLOAKS CLOAKS CLOAKS DYERS. mat TUE SEA TERY NOVELTY OF AT THE LOWEST CASn PRICES.

MEJlCIIAjSTS' OWN MATERIALS MADE If SIRED. nEKKYlVlgj, 8. SHtHW dlO diJl Ko. 23 WINSLOWS doxn of tfcia hiirl codsI flerl en perl or the Corn when on tbe sob, BUSIER, Ageat forWiwlo. in mi 110 8.

Wharves. mAK 250 COCHRAN A KV98ELL? 1 V8K. Wharves and 107 nN, Water stwefc- jo imvci AVI1 MTSSRS' avctno BASKETS WITH annao irfsT sosr'S Sed and ilorticunarni Wrenjasfl o. St2 924 MrXet street. nT tt A PRESENTS! IIULIUax handsome uuent jfi ra SStofci.

Laces, (W Uloves and aac Aruclcsof ail uencripuoiis. tV1 th. cheapest in rabidly at the VCi ivnto M. S. DAVIS', yo.

32 K. Sixth gtreet the ciiy, at 0M UiStUbt TiniRTMAS PRESENTS Bur For a barrel of Harper's KcrrJ'-' lvourwu and friends a barrel of Harper a Terry Pt Kentucky, or Pennsylvania a annerior Meal on hand, and for sale at lowest casn prices. zf.ii VDER. Fourth and Vine streets. A GIFTS d216t I Rocking Horse Veioeipeues, Sleithf.

Sleds, Express Carts, Children's Gigs, Carriaifps, Wheel barrows, Ac. In Great Variety. Manufactured, Wholesale and. No. 214 Dock'street, Or, S.

E. eomer Third st. and Girard avenoe. alB HOLIDAY 1' n. VusT received, at ALLEN'S, So.

1034 Chesnut street, a large aliment of Suitable fornTT-n4YpTp'TS lVlflS KGS USES, SILVER ASD PEARL CARD rSKS 11 VFK PEARL AND TCRKEY MOROCCO SILVER 1'ENCIL CASES, FINE POCKET CLTLER1, Ac. BOOKS AKD JUVENILES SELLING OFF AT COST 15t ami gmty. WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER, AND It PLATED WAKE. 622 Market street, oath door sbove Decatar street. Large stock of fine tK0 and Silver Watches, fine Gold Jewt-lry and Pli Ware, of every variety and style, all of which we effer at the loweiit cash nces.

All goods are jruarautsed to represents K. and Jewerrv rep-ed de So. 622 Market street, south Bid. TAMES BARBER'S WHOLESALE AND Eetaii Clock Establishment, E. eorper Seocd nd Chesnut 1'HMadelphia, Agenw the Fatast Kr.uAiizine Thirty Day Clocks, a very desirable artveta Churcbee, hotels, bauks, costing hos.now.

coj sUpo, manufacturer or duo wiu i end warranted. Clock Trimmings of tvery deenpttaa arways on hand. vcjlSftt -rx DEN'S DISPLA JLl EOR TI1E HOLIDAYS, OF ATOMS, tv SiLVTER AKD PLATED WARE, AMERICAN ASD FRENCH 'LOCKS, Ac, Ac, Xo-w arranged, and an examination respcectfuuy so- "dlS wfm ly Ko. 70S MARKET street. PRESERVE THIS ADVERTISEMENT if vou wish to buy a bargain.

Large reduction in the price ofAVatchos. Jewelry, poong and Spectacles. ery la'cent assortment at the old established store. No. 242 N.

Record street, N. W. comer of New street. Gold and Sil-er Watches of every description. Chronometers.

English ar.d Geneva Levers and Lepini-s. oore than 20 per cent, cheaper ttmn former prices well regulated and warranted to keep good time, l'art'cular atwntioa paid to repairing watches, by experienced journeymen; apprentices employed. JOHN FKKIS, dlS turtislm Xo. 242 X. Set-and street.

A DWELL No. Chesnut street, JdANlTACTOUNG JEWXLrKS AND IiiPORTSE. OF Fine Watckes, Kich Jewh7 end Precious Steaos, Oiocks and ironies. iHl-r and Plated poods. Gold and Tortoise sshell JeweWy, Opera Olases.

Fans and Paris articles, Rornaa Statuary, A new acd yaiuable stock of our ovrn importation tn manufacture. Moderate, lixed prices attached to each article, tn Ty lowest it cap be gold. nl2m TVTATCHES, JEWELRY AND SILVER Ware, wholesale and retail. Wanted All persons flesircas of purcbastr.tr handsome Holiday Presents of Watches. Jewesry, or Ware, to know that walking a few steps further a town, they can purchase the yery same, class of poods, (warranted as to quality) at prices filty per cent, lower than the prices charged iu Chesnat street palaces, not having the enormous rents or extravagant expenses of such establishments to pay.

and havin? ao last horses to drive, the subscriber can afford to sell his goods at prices so much lower than such establishments, as to plao xery handsome poods at a rsry moderata price, within the reach of every one. At the same time the public are assured that a warrantee from this means sonietbiBp, ad parties purchasing their eoods here will find that every article is repretenteJ only foi trhat ii rtallv it. ParVcniar attention piven to orders 'for voods to be tuade cf any desired pattern, or to replacing pan of sow which rna- have bec lost or broken Wholesale Dealers. Watch-makers and Storekeepers generally, will here find the largest stock ol Jewelry. Watches.

Ac, in anyone store in the United States, at the lowest nett cash prices. N.B. Goods sent bv express to any part of tha States or Territories. It. MILL1UA, ao.

44 3. St. as West side, above Willow. T4EAK CO. ORIGINAL 1 STORE, 10.

553 Chesnut street. crisis: call and look at something new! A Great Fale of WORTH OF JKWELRT, CHAIN3, for 1 tach. A larce and anlnndid assortment of Jewelry to be sold without regard to t. 1UIK tiuiCK run tAtll. The fbllcwine list comprises some of articles sold at this establishment for $1 euch.it beinu impossible to enumerate them oil in circular form.

Call and examine for yourselves Large size aud splenaid cameo sets, goner.u retail prices. A-t to SI Tc. do. lava do. do.

10 to Io. do. earbuncle sets, do. 8 to Po. ladles enameled aud coral do.

do. 1 to Do. do. do. and carbuncle sets, do.

7 to Do. do. do. and ruby do. do.

7 to Do. gold cluster grape setting do. do. 10 to Do. do.

do. vase setting do. do. 10 to Do. do.

do. jet sets do. d. to To. do.

blurt mosaic ii. do. 6 to lo. d. gold stone mosaic do.

do. 6 to Do. co. calico sot do. do.

5 to Do. ribbon twists, with brilliants do. do. 6 to Do. bouquet seta, new styles, do.

do. to Do. enameled cluster, new styles, do. ds. 10 to OvurlOO other different- styles of ladies' jeweley; nie- tfalions, all styles, patterns and sizes; lockets ot every description: gold pens, 14 karat, wim silver extension tclilfr: sold pencils, sleeve buttons, studs, coral, lava, cameo and band bracelets gent's vest chains.

warranted to wear tor 10 years witnout cnanging color. and will stand the acid, 'lliey are usually sold Dy Jewel ers as solid gold chains all made in Paris. Vou can take vour choice lor 91 i-auies anu in'ni guiwu caauis, $1 each, usually sold by Jewelers at from $5 to $30 each ladies' and children's nock chains, beautiful patterns; armlets, briiriint, enameiea ana ruof seuiugs crosses, plain and enameled, for $1 each, retail prices from $5 to 320 each. Every style aud variety ui Jewelry and desirable goods for $1 each. This sale, at the above prices, will continue long enonsh to sell otf our immense stock, which was purchased at a great sacrifice from manufacturers wlio nave tailed.

Terms cash. Take your choice for 1 each. (jail ana see tne oest steca. 01 poous 111 1 uiiaaeiuaia. No sales to exceed one dozen of any one kind ot goods.

at the above prices, unices at our option. 11 r. a Ko. 585 Chesnut street, Philadelphia, pa. Those who order poods by mail, must aad 15 cents extra, to pay postage on a ample article on two articles, 2ft cents, and 9 cents on each additional' artic d21 fit miTE BEST PROVIDER SCHOOL IN the United States.

The Scientific and Classical institute, cnesnut street, N. W. corner of Tweltth 'street, is a superior seminary of learning for boys, embracing the primary English branches, the and superadding to thei routine of studies, In 1 Kllsn nrancnes, tne JMoaern ana Ancient these a very thorough and extensjre 1 all the Natural Sciences, compri sing Mineralogy, Geology, Chemistry, Sfatural Philoso- poy.isotacy, z.ooiogy anu Astreuoniy. uur conecuons of Philoeophictd Iimtruments, Cabinets of Minerals, Herbarlm of Plants, aud Museica of Zoolotrt ara un usually large arul complete for purposes. nhTIy 1 J.

ENSTS.Princlpal. TNSTRUCTIONS IN. DRAWING AND A Painting. T. HENRY SMrTJL Portrait Painter, respectfully In forms bis friends ailu'Tiie public, that he is desirous of giving lessons at his Stylo, Nibt 921 Chesnut st.

dat2wi24 MISS AERTS'EN'S 'SCHOOL FOR Yoiuig LadleiTPrice street. Gennautown, Is now open for the recepti' pupws. PROF. R. PALMER, No.

733 SANSOM street, will give instructions in Latin, Greek and Encash Lammaes. Private nd public tuition. Terms liberal. d-2I6t3S PRIME NEW. OROPN.

O. UGAR AND JL Molasses, for sale by, HILIP RE1LLY No. 1 water street. aii t15tf CHOICE GOVERNMENT JAVA, LA- onavra Kl aua lit, v.uncr. aiw, prima Rice, for sale by PHILIP street.

d22 6tl59 OATMEAL ATIEATj OATMEAL For sale to who1sale grooen and the trade In general by H. W. Hi n. J6. oor, rvi K.

cor. Front and Race sta. OS lm890 BOND'S BOSTON BISCUIT. The Sub, scribers. Sole AgenU, for Bond's, ia receiving tbe above superior goods, fresh every week Milk Biieuit, Butter Crackers.

Oyster Crackers, Pic Hie BiscuitJJVater (Traeken, 8oda Biscuit, Grahaia Crackers aad Wafers. jos. BveeiXB iw and a. harres. slaveholding and non-slavcholdiug States.

-Their institutions and industrial pursuits have made them totally different peoples. That equality tbe Government between the tvro sections ot the Union which once existed no longer exists. We but imitate the policy of our fathers in dissolving a union, with non slaveholding confederates, and seeking a confederation with slaveholding States. Experience has proved that slaveholding States cannot be safe in subjection to non-slaveholding S- ates. Indeed, no people ever expect to preserve their rights and liberties unless they arc their own custody.

To plunder and oppress where plunder and oppression can be practiced with impunity, seems to be the natural order of things. The fairest portions of the world have been turned into wildernesses, and the most civilized and prosperous communities have been impoverished and ruined by Anti-Slavery fanaticism. The people of the North have not left us in doubt as to their designs and policy. United as a section in the late Presidential election, they have elected as the exponent of their policy one who has openly declared that all the States of the United States must be made free States or Slave States. It is true that among those who aided in this election, there are various shades of Anti-Slavery hostility.

But if African slavery in thej Southern States be the evil their political combinations affirm it to be, the requisitions of an inexorable logic mast lead them to emancipation. If it is right to preclude or abolish slavery in a Territory, why should it be allowed to remain in the States The one is not at all more unconstitutional than the other, according to the decisions of the Supreme Caurt ef the United States. And when it is considered that the Northern States will soon have the power to make that Court what they please, and that the Constitution never has been any barrier whatever to their exercise of power, what check can there be to the unrestrained counsels of the North to emancipation? There is sympathy in association which carries men along without principle; but when there is principle, and that principle is ior tified by long existing prejudices and feelings, association is omnipotent in party influences. In spite of all disclaimers and professions, there nan lu tint nnfi en il to the snOmission by the South to the rule of a sectional anti-slavery Go vernment at Washington; and that end, directly or indirectly, must be trie emancipation of the slaves of the South. The hypocrisy of thirty vpnrs thf.

fnithlessnessof their whole course from th rnrnmpticrmcnt of our union with them show that the people of the non-slaveholding North are not and cannot be safe associates of the slave-holding South under a common Government. Not o'nlv their fanaticism, but their erroneous views of the principles ot free Governments, wT.r it whether, semrated from the Smith thov can maintain a free Government anion themselves. Brute numbers with them is tho otvut element of free srovernment. A majority i infallible and omnipotent. The right divine ml" in kin?" is onlv transferred to their cs- ivH'nritV- The verv obiect of all constitutions, in free, nomilar governments, is to restrain the majority.

Constitutions, therefore, according to their theory, must be most unrighteous inventions, restricting liberty. None ought to exist, but the body poli tic ought simply to have a political organiz; to bring out and enforce the will of a major riiia thorv triav le harmless in a small com- munitv. having" an identity of interests and pur- tita hut over a vast State still more, over a vast Confederacy, having various and confik-ting imprests and pursuits it is a remorseless despot ism. In resisting it. as applicable to ourselves, we are vindicating the great canse of free govern ment, more important, perhaps, to tne wona man the existence ot the unitea states, sor kmm-irg it, do we intend to depart from the safe instrumentality the system of government we have established with them reouires.

In smarfttinff from them we mvaae no rights no interest of theirs. We violate no obligation of dutv to them. As separate, independent Suites in Convention, we made the Constitution of the United States with them and as separate, inie- rcr.fl. nr Sratc-s. each State actinir tor itsolt, we adocted it.

Carolina, acting in her sove reign caoacitv. now thinks proper to secede from the Union. She did not pan with her sovereignty in adontinff the Constitution. Ihe last thing a State can be presumed to have surrendered is her sovereignty. Her sovereignty is her lilo.

Notning hut a dear, express tirant can alienate it. Infer ence should be dumb. Yet it is not at all surpris ing ihat those who have construed away all the limitations of the Constitution should also by con- strut tioa claim the annihilation of the sovereignty of the States. Having abolished all barriers to their omnipotence bv their faithless constructions in the opera tions of the General Government, it is most Darnial that thev should endeavor to do the same toward us in the States. The truth i3, they having violated the exprtss provisions ot the constitu tion, it is at an end as a compact.

It is morally oMitratorv onlv on those who choose to accept its perverted teniis. South Carolina, deeming the compact not only violated in particular features, but virtually aooushea Dy ner Aortnern couiouo ratcs, withdraws herself as a party from its obligations. The right to do so is denied by her Northern confederates. They desire to establish a despotism, not only omnipotent in Congress, but omnijiotent over the States; and as if to manifest the imperious necessity of our secession, they threaten us with the sword, to coerce submission to their rule. Citizens of the sl-vehokling States of the United States, circumstances beyond our control hive plated us in the van of the great controversy between the Northern and Southern States.

We would have preferred that other States should have assumed the position we now occupv. In dependent ourselves, we disclaim any design or desire to lead the councils of the other Southern States. Providence has cast our lot together, by extending over us au identity of pursuits, interests, and institutions. South Carolina desires no destiny separate from yours. To be one of a great slaveholding confederacy, stretching its arms over a territory larger than any Power in Europe possesses with population four times greater than than that of the whole United States when they achieved their independence of the ISritish Empire with productions which make our existence more important to the world than that of any other people inhabiting it with common institutions to defend, and common dangers to encounter we ask your sympathy and confederation.

While constituting a portion of the United States, it has been your statesmanship which has guided it in its mighty strides to power and expansion. In the field, as in the Cabinet, you have led the way to its renown and grandeur. Yen have loved the Union, in whose service your great statesmen have labored, and your great soldiers have fought and conquered not for the material benefits it conferred, but with the faith of agener-ous and devoted chivalry. You have long lingered and hoped over the shattered remains of a broken Constitution. Compronuse after compromise, formed by your concessions, has been tfamplad under foot, by your Northern confederates.

All fraternity of feeling between the North and the South is lost, or has been converted into hate; and we of the South are at last driven together by the stern destiny which controls the existence of nations. Your bitter experience of the faithlessness and rapacity of your Northern confederates may have been necessary to evolve those great principles of free government, upon which the liberties of the world depend, and to prepare you for the grand mission of vindicating and reestablishing them. We rejoice that other nations should be satisfied with their institutions. Self-complacency is a great element of happiness, with nations as with individuals. We are satisfied with ours.

If they prefer a system of industry iu which capital and labor are in perpetual conflict and chronic starvation keeps down the natural increase of population and a man i3 worked out in eight years and the law ordains that children shall be worked only ten hoars a day and the Sabre and baj net are the instruments of order- be it so. It is their affair, not ours. We prefer, however, our system of industry, by which labor and capital are identified in interest, and capital, therefore, protects labor, by which our population doubles every twenty years: by which staivation is unknown, and abundance crowns the land; by which order is preserved by an unpaid police, and the most fertile regions of the world where the Caucasian cannot labor are brought into usefulness by the labor of the African, and the whole world is blessed by our own productions. All we demand of other people is' to be let alone to work out our own high destinies United together, and we must be the most independent, as we are the most important among the nations of the world. United together, and we require no other instrument to conquer peace than ouf beneficent productions.

United together, ana we must oe a great, iree ana prosperous people, whose renown jnust spread throughout the civilized world, and pass down, we trust, to the remoteetiages. ask j'ou to join us in forming; i ..1 1 1.3: The Japanese. ia Jlong Kong the great event of the fortnight was the visit of the Japanese Ambassadors, in the steamer Niagara. They and their suite have availed themselves of their stay in Hong Kong to make nunut) inquiries into var' nous in siuiuuuiui oi tne piace. interests in the productions of their mines and innptt'aettires.

There is another evil in the condition of the Southern towards the Northern States, which our ancestors icfused to bear towardj Great Britain. Our ancestors not only taxed themselves, bat all the taxes collected from them were expended among them. Had thfly submitted to the pretensions of the British Government, the taxes collected from them would have been expended on other pans of the British Empire. They wero fully aware of the "effect of such a policy in im- poverishing the people from whom taxes are collected, and in enriching those who receive the benefit of their expenditure. To prevent the evils such a policy was one of the motives which dro them on to revolution.

Yet this British policy has been fully realized toward the Southern States by the Northern States. The people of the Southern States are not only taxed for the benefit the Northern States, but after the taxes are collected three-fourths of them are expended at the North. This cause, with others connected with the operation of the General Government, has provincialized the cities of the South. Their growth paralyzed, while they are the mere suburbs the Northern cities. The bases of the foreign commerce of the United States are the agricultural productions of the South; yet Southern cities do not carry it on.

Our foreign trade is almost annihilated. In 17 10 there were five shipyards in South Carolina to build ships to carry on our direct trade with Eyrope. Between 1740 and 1779 there were built in these yards twenty-fi ve square-rigged vessels, beside a great number of 6loops and schooners, to carry on our coast aud "West India trade. In the half century immediately pieceding the Revolution, from 172-3 to 1775, the population of South Carolina increased 6even-fold. No man can, for a moment, believe that our ancestors intended to establish over their posterity exactly the same sort of government they had overthrown.

The great object of the Constitution of the United States, iu its internal operation, was, doubtless, to secure the great end of the Revolution a limited free government a government limited to those matters oidy which were general and common to all portioas of the United States. All sectional or local interests were to be left to the States. By no other arrangement woull they obtain free government by a constitution common to so vast a Confederacy. Yet by gradual and steady encroachments on the part of the North, and submission on the purt of the South, the limitations in the constitution have been 6wcpt away, and the Government of the United States has become consolidated, with a claim of limitiess powers its operations. It is not at all surprising, while such is the character of the Government of the Unicoi States, that it should assume to possess po-er over all the institutions of the country.

The agitations cn the subject of slavery in the South arc the natural results of the consolidation of the Go vernment. Responsibility follows power; and if the people of the North have the power by Congress to promote the general welfare of the United State3," by any means they deem expedient, why should they not assail and overthrow the institution of slavery in the South They are for its continuance or existence, in proportion to their power. A majority in Congress, m-cording to their interested and perverted views, is omnipotent. The inducements to act upon the subject of slavery, under such circumstances, were so imperious as to amount almost to a moral necessity. To make, how ever, their numerical power available to rule the Union, the North must consolidate their cower.

It would not be united on any mat ter common to the whole Union in other words, on any constitutional subject for on such subjects divisions are as likely to exist in the North as in the South. Slavery was strictly a sectional interest. If this eould be made the criterion of parties at the North, the North could be united in its power, and thus cairy out its measures or' sectional ambition, encroachment, and aggrandizement. To build up their sectional predominance in the Union, the Constitution must le first abolished bv constructions but, that being done, the consolidation of the North to rule the South, by the tariff and slavery issues, was in the obvious course of things. The Constitution of the United States was an experiment.

The experiment consisted in uniting under one Government different peoples, living in different climates, and having different pursuits of industrv and institutions. It matters not how carefully the limitations of such a government be laid down in the constitution its must at least depend upon the good faith of the parties to the constitutional compact in enforcing them. It is not in the power of human language to exclude false inferences, constructions, anil perversions, in any constitution; and when vast sectional interests arc to be subserved, involving the appropriation of countless millions of money, it has not been the usual experience oi that words on parchment can arrest power. The) Constitution of the United spates, lrrespecin oi the interposition of the States, rested on the assumption that power would yield to faith that integrity would be stronger than interest, and that thus the limitations of the Constitution would be observed. The experiment has been fairly made.

Ti.f suthprn States, from the commencement of the Government, have striven to keep it within the orbit prescribed by the Constitution. The experiment has failed. The whole Constitution, by the constructions of the Northern people, has been swallowed up by a few words in its pre amble. In their reckless lust for power they seem unable to comprehend that seeming paradox, that the more power is given to the Geueral Government the weaker it becomes. Its strength consists in its generality and limitations.

To extend the scope of its power over sectional or local interests is to raise up against it opposition and resistance. In all uch matters the General Government must necessarily be a despotism, because all sectional or local interests must ever be represented by a minority in the councils of the General Governmenthaving no power to protect itself against the rule of the majority. The majority, constituted from thosa who l.o not represent these sectional or local interests, will control and govern them. A free people cannot submit to such a government; and the more it enlarges the sphero of its power the greater must lie the dissatisfaction it must produce, and the weaker it must become. On the contrary, the more it abstains from usurped powers, and tne more faithfully it adheres to the limitations of the Constitution, the stronger it is made.

The Northern people have had neither the wisdom nor the faith to perceive that to observe the limitation of the Constitution was the only way toitsper- Unde'r such a Government there must, of course, be many and endless "irrepressible conflicts, between the two great sections of the Union, ihe game faithlessness which has abolished the Constitution of the United States, will not fail to carry out the sectional purposes for which it has been abolished. There must be conflict; and the weaker section of the Union can only find peace and lihprtv in an independence of the North. The re peated efforts made by South Carolina, ina wise conservatism, to arrest the progress of the General Government in its fatal progress to consolidation, have been unsupported and denounced as faithless to the obligations of the Constitution by the very men and States who were destroying it by their usurpations. It is now too late to reform or restore the Government of the United States. All confidence in the North is lost in the South.

The faithlessness of half a century has opened a gulf of separation between them which no promise or engagements can fill. It cannot be believed that our ancestors would have assented to any union whatever with the people of the North, it the teeliugs ana opinions now existing among them had existed when the Constitution was framed. There was no tariff-no negro fanaticism. It was the delegates from New England who proposed, in the Convention which framed the Constitution, to the delegates from South Carolina and Georgia, that if they would agree to give Congress the power of regulating commerce by a majority, that they would support the extension of the African slave trade for twenty years. African slavery existed in all the States but one.

The idea that they would be made to pay that tribute to their Northern confederates which they had refused to pay to Great Britain, or that the institution of African slavery would be made the grand basis of a sectional or-, ganization of the North to rule the South, never crossed their imaginations. The Union of the Constitution was a Union of slaveholding States. It rests on slavery, by prescribing a representation in Congress for throe-fifths of our slaves. There is nothing in the proceedings of the Convention which framed the Constitution to show that the, Southern States would have formed any other Union; and still less that they would have formed a Union with more powerful non-elaveholding having a majority in both branches of the Legislature of VI in A- SWAM fc. lUXt I tolly.

Time and the progress of thingshuve to- taly altered the relations between the Northern Suthern States since the Union was first ftKtablishod. That identity of feeling, interests, and institutions which once existed is gone. -'They are now divided between agriculture and manufacturing and commercial States between ordinance already aaopiea. The amendment was not ngreea to ny a voig oi Yeas. IfcFsrc.

Adler, Brooks, Bumm, Cat tell, Creswell, Kckfeldt, Freeman, Uerker, Haiucs, Hall, Ingham, Leigh, Lynd, Mfgargeo, Moyer, McCrea, 1. J. McLean, U. IVMaLuaii, Muegteel, l'ascoe, Feci, Keeves, Server, Soutliworth, Sterr, Stoke, btokley, Strattou, Summers, Tliomus, Wol-bert, Wyckoff-r33. Nays.

Messrs. Andrew, Baird, Cramp, Duflield, Dungan, Enyard, Ueisz, Haas, Hacker, Hamilton, Harper, Ileiiry, llod-rdon, Hoffman, Kerr, Laning, Layer, Loughhn, Jas. Martin, A. Miller C. F.

Miller, Aloore, v. Met leary, McLloskey, rotter, Quinn, Kose, Kuhl, Shibe, Simont, Siuex, Sites, Stevenron, Williamson, Trego, l'reeideiit 33. ne proviso was then stricken out. Mr. D.

G. Thomas moved to strike out $2M0 for the conveyance of prisoners, and insert Mr. biMPSON moved to amend, to make the sum $-1000. Not agreed to, and the amendment was agreed to. A motion to amend to increase the appropria tion for fuel from $1500 to 82000, was not agreed to.

An amendment to add $000 for painting of po lice telegraph poles was voted down. The total appropriation to the Department was reduced from $411,045 to $428,545. Mr. miller proposed an amendment that no bill shall be countersigned by the Controller until the claims are supervised and approved of by the Committee on 1'ouce. agreed to.

The bill then passed. The Chairman submitted a communication from Major-General Robert Patterson, stating that it had been several months since he hid called at tention to the fact that a portion of the Arsenal lot had been illegally rented to the Western Mar ket Company, yet no action has been taken. Ke-feired to the Committee on Law. A petition from the Iratikhn Engine Company, asking to be located as a bream Fire Engine Company, was referred to the Committee on Trusts and Fire Companies. Mr.

Hacker called up the ordinance mating an appropriation of 19,040 to the department of the City Controller. Mr Leigh moved to reduce the amount for clci ks' salaries from $-1300 to $3700. Agresd to. The ordinance then passed as follows: For the salaiies of the Controller and Chief Cleik 83,700 00 For the salaries of the Assistant Clerka aud Messenger For books and stationery 800-00 or advertising annual statement in not more than two newspapers 3.000 00 For cleaning olhce 200 00 For incidental expcuFcs 250 00 For the salaries of four auditing clerks l.tiOO-OO For clerks engaged in auditing books of late Jteceiver oi laxes For the salary of one clerk in making du plicate of tax hook 29U-44 The ordinance regulating the markets was call ed up, discussed, and referred back to the committee to fix the rates svt which the stalls are rented. The ordinance authorizing the purchase of lots in the Eleventh and Fifteenth Wards, for School purposes, was called up and discussed at muck length by Messrs.

Miller, Ulyns, Lasnikg ana others. No quorum voting, Councils adjourned. THE SECESSION MOVEMENT. The Sovereignty of South Carolina. The address of the poph of South Curwtna, SiMbltdiH Loiwint ion, to the people oj the hoJdiny States of the United Stutes.

It is now seventv-three years since the union betw een the United States was made by the Con stitution of the United States. During this period their advance in wealth, prosperity and power has been with scarcelv a parallel in the history ot the world. The great object ot their union as external defence" from the agressions of more powerful nations; now complete, fiom their mere progress in power, thirty-one millions of pxple with a commerce and navigation which explores every 6ca, anu ot agucuirurai prouuenons wmcu are nccssary to every civiiizea people, commanu the friendship ot the wona. liut, untortunateiy, our internal peaee has rot grown with our external prosperity. Discontent and contention have moved in the bosom of the Confederacy for the last thirty-live years.

During this tune fcouth Carolina nas twice called her people together in solemn convention, to take into consideration the agressions and unconstitutional wrongs perpetrated by the people of the North cn the eople of the South. These wrorgs were submitted to by the people of the South, under tne cope ana expectation mat mcy wotddbe final, liut these hopes and expecta tions have moved to be void. Instead ot oeing incentives to forbearance our submission has only instigated to new forms of aggressions and outrage, and South Carolina, again assembling her people in convention, nas mis oay aissoiveu ner connection with the States constituting the United States. Thfi r.ne preat evil, from which all other evils have iiowed. is the overthrow of the Constituri ion the of the United States.

The Government of United States is no longer the government of a confederate lepublic, but of a consolidated democracy. It is to longer a free government, but a despotism. It is, in fact, such a government as Gieat Britain attempted to set over our fathers, and which was resisted and defeated by a seven years' struggle for independence. The revolution of 1776 turned upon one groat principle, self-government and self-taxation, the criterion of sell-government. Where the interests of tw people united together under one government are different, each must have the power to protect its interests by the organization of the uovernment or tney cannoi ue iree.

nie interests of Gieat Britain and of the Colonies were different and antagonistic. Great Britain was desirous of carrying out the policy of all nations tow ard their colonies of making them tributary to their wealth and power. She had vast and complicated relations with the whole world. Her policy toward her North American colonies wa3 to identify them with her in all these complicated relations, and to make them bear, in common with the rest of the empire, the full burden of her obligations and necessities. She had a vast mibllc debt: she had a Euro pean policy and an Asiatic policy, which had occasioned the accumm ulation of her puMlc debt, and which kept her in continual wars.

The North American colonies saw their interests, pouticai and commercial, sacrificed by such a policy. Their interests required that they should not be identified with the burdens and wars oi me mother country. They had been settled under charters which gave them self-government, at least so far as their property was concerned. They had taxed themselves, and had never been taxed by vio (Vvortimont ftnM Uritiiin. To make them a part cf a consolidated empire, the Parliament of fiwat determined to assume the power of legislating for the colonies in all cases whatsoever.

Our ancestors resisted the pretension, lhey refused to be a part of the consolidated Government of Great Britain. The Southern States now stand exactly in tne i -XT .1. Qi.itaa til at same position towaru me iiunirau w. our ancestors in the colonies did toward Great Britain. The Northern otates, naviu mo juaj in Congress, claim the same power of omnipotence legislation as the British Parliament The rreneral welfare is the only limit to the legislation of either; and the majority in Congress, as the British Parliament, are iue 6uicjuuSj i expediency of the legislation this general wel-exTHuwiujr Government of the lare reiuuw n.n-am.

United States has become ment and the people oi me wmuciu ivj SeStomt the verydespotism their fathers threw off in the Revolution of 1776. The consolidation of the Governmcm or orea Britain over the colonies ASSJ ried out by the taxes. The British 1 arnameni SertSkt tax the colonies to womoteBnjsh interests. Our lathers rcsisiou uu v- TheV claimedthe right of self-taxation through sented in the British raruameui, not rightfully be taxed littjgg The British Government, however, offered them a representation in the was not sufficient to enable them Jwotert ttem selves from the minority, and they refused it. taxation without a BveithS Timfivtinn thrre w'as no difference.

By neuner SufthS'cXies'tax refused1 to pay the taxes laid by the British rar- UaThenSouthern States now stand in the same re lation toward the 'Northern owxes, mc matSrortatation that Thlr a ward the people JSjJ minority in Congress, xueir rY x. against nmust Congress is i taxation and they are taxed by the people of the JNOrtn lor meir s.vVt-:h,. Great Britain taxea SWf a. A MmHon Parliament 7tMttMVftSSA'' States have been laid witn a view oi Buurviug the interests of tne isonn. auo pwd South have been taxed by dUtoes on importejiaot.

for revenue, bat -for an object inconsistent witli revenue to promote, by prohibitions, xiorthexu of of is of pinLADELTULV, FRIDAY, DEC. 28. OP CITY cuunww. The regular stated meetings of both branches of Councils were held yesterday afternoon. Select urancu.

Mr. oa MMrUfoDkfrom the Committee to verifvtto the state of the accounts following as City tund Trust una ft resolution 45 foftho expenses of said meeting. The VU after 25 was added to the Branch, authori-zing a temporary loan, was taken up and passed fiXjSf ordinance from Common Council, appropriating $250 to the Cohockiink Hose Company since it has had a 6teamer, was taken up. Mr. Fox withdrew his objections to the bill, stated at tbe last meeting, and said he would vote for the ordinance, as it was an act of justice to the Company.

Mr. Ckaig also favored the bill. Mr. Davis was opposed to favoring companies who locate themselves a3 steam fire companies, without regard to th-3 wishes of Councils or to the locality in which tfc ey were situated. lie thought the course of the Hope eminently proper in asking Councils to locate them.

The bill was then passed finally. The resolution laid over at last meeting, directing the laying of water pipe in Forty-first street, Bnckncl street, and other thoroughfares, was taltPTi tin. Mr. Bradford said there were about thirty TmnsAa waiting tor these Bioes to be laid Unrlrnel street. Mr.

Davis asked for the reading of the report the ouestion. He thought that these nouses were waiting for the pine, thero could be no better time than the present to employ some of the labor which is waiting for employment during the present bard times. The city will be reimbursed very soon for the expense. Mr. Neal thought the resolution ought not to pass.

Mr. Megary thought that as gas pips was being laid at present, water pipe could be laid with equal propriety. Messrs. Drayton, Riley, Smedley, Fox, Wethekill, and others, made remarks on the question; after which, the resolution passed finally. A communication was received from Major-General Patterson in reference to the "nuisance" created bv the Western Market Company at the Arsenal, Sixteenth and Filbert streets.

It is all about having a fence around the Arsenal lot, which is used by the Market Company. The City Solicitor thinks the military ought to feneeout the and the Mojor-General thinks the city ought to do it. Mr. Benton offered an ordinance making an appropriation to pay for a fence around the Arsenal lot. Referred to Committee on Law.

The bill locating the Fairmount, United States, Assistance, Southwark and Humane Steam Fire Engines, postponed from last meeting, was taken up- Mr. Neal said we had twenty-three eteam fire engines now, and as he had heard that one steamer was equal to ten hand engines, he did not see the use of adding five to that number. Besides, wc have already twenty-two hand engines and fifty-two hose companies in service. He did not see why we ehould appropriate 2000 to each of these new steamers. A pnid tire department would not cost so much.

Then, too, there are applications for three or four more! Air. Davis moved to amend to insert among the companies to be located ''The Shinier Hose, liecd street. lielow Second." Mr. Dougherty moved to amend by adding "The MoyamensingHose Company, Eighth street; below Catharine." Mr. Bradford was in favor of those Companies which had passed the Committee ana were re ported in the bill.

25r. thought the bill should go back to the Committee on Fire and Trusts, to TinvP! th locations better arramred. Mr. Benton disasrreed with the last speaker; ii fhnnrrht thfl Chamber competent to decide the matter now. The Shiftier, for instance, would be hp most, southern comnanv in the city, and would o-onH them, lie also Wished to add to the comnanies to be ideated, "The Spring Garden Hose, Twentieth street above cailowiuu.

A communication from the Shinier Hose Company was read, expressing their desire to be 1 x-a-ted as a steamer. Mr. Smedley moved to add to the companies to hp. located The Washington Engine Com- in Frankford street." and "The Franklin Vnoinp Cnmnanv. in TTnitv street.

Frankford." Mr. Megary made some remarks on the bill, nH vaa hr Mr. Davis. The latter ex plained that ho had offered the name of the ShifHer" because he had been asked by members if that Mr. Dougherty presented the claims of the Moyamensmg" to be located.

Mpssra. ClNNODO. NEAL. MclNTYRE, WETH- eri li. and.

others discussed the ire department at length. Mr. Ginnodo thought the names of some of the best of the companies were like the names of our household gods Mr. Fox also discussed the question of the re-organization of the Fire Department. He wanted to know how many steamers were necessary to protect the city, and he congratulated the city on the great general improvement of the Department, while, there were yet some black spots upon it which he wished he could wipe out.

He thought tie Department should be brought to some more methodic state. He wanted the bill sent to the Committee on Fire and Trusts for thi3 purpose. After some further debate the bill was referred to the Committee on Fire and Trusts, by the sub-ioined vote Yeas Messrs. Beideman, Davis, Dougherty, Drayton, Ford, Fox, ones, Mclntj i e. Neal, Kiley, Smedley, Wetberill 12.

Says Messrs. Benton. Bradford. Craig, Dickson, Ginnodo, JLemen.McMackui, Megary, Norman, Wallace 10. Council then adjourned.

Common Branch. The Chair presented a communication from the Controllers, stating that the expenditures of the Controllers of the Public Schools for 1831 were estimated at and the expenses of lighting the city, $245,000. Referred to the Committee on Finance. The ordinance appropriating $411,04583 for the support of the Police Department, as amended at the special meeting, was called up. A motion to refer the ordinance back to the Committee was discussed at some length, and finally withdrawn.

Mr. Hacker called attention to the fact that the number of policemen had been reduced to 045 men which would induce the inference that the Harbor Police was not wanted, and the Mayor had said he would not appoint them unless provision was made for 663 men. Even with this number, after deducting the number detailed for telegraph operations, there would only be left 580 men for active service. Mr. D.

G. Thomas moved to amend to strike out 645 men, at a cost of $352,100, and insert 063 men and He argued that the city was steadily increasing, and that more patrol duty was now required than ever. The present force is about 80 men less than in the time of Mayor Yaex. He had a conversation with the Mayor, in which he said that the proviso requiring him to appoint the Harbor Police from this number was unlawful. Mr.

Miller ridiculed this opinion of the Mayor, and declared that it was only an attempt to take $11,000 out of the Treasury. He had never seen any petitions for a Paver and Harbor Police he did not think they were wanted. Mr. Megargee said a River and Harbor Police was absolutely necessary. Ho knew of many in-atances in which boatmen had been robbed, and it was nece6sasy that they should be protected.

He trusted they would sustain th Mayor. Mr. Potter said it was not so much in the number of men, as the quality. He nro-nArt that the Mayor, by uniforming the police, had added at least eoual to fifty men to the force, tta vm in favor of keeping down the cost of the department. Mr.

Qcinn argued that the force was sufficient. axui mat uic oxayur wuiu auiui, iuer ana llar- hot Police from the number named in the Mr. Cresswell hau commence in tne Mayor, and desired to support mm. lie tneugnt mat G00 men for Philadelphia and 1800 for New York was nf nronortion. Mt.

JUSJGB WUtended that the proviso to this.