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jui.iu.x-j.(iiuiji aniWfiitiixiiJi ijguiiusMauiiiiiiiiOi'iuJ-i 1 ASH PRICES OF ADVKRTISllta PCBLISHKD DAILY (Fxcept Sunday) A THE SUN IRON BUILDING, IOUTHEAST CORNER OF BALTIMORE AND BOVTH SYS, Br A. S. ABELL CO. Tii lit i eenred bT the Carriers to their nM r-s-rs in the City and Districts, and to surrounding tfitigs. Villages aad Towns, for SIX AND A tillilTERCE NT PER.

WEEK, payable Weekly, only to the Carrier by whom served. Frtci fob. Mailins. Single copy, two cntt one Wonth.Arfy etnts 3 months, dollar months, wfr-one year, four dollars. No pa-? rs are bnt from the longer than paid for.

Tub Wbfixy Sun one dollar a year. Jf i1 PRICE ONE CENT. BALTIMORE, SATURDAY: JANUARY 30, 1858. The Banks of the District of Columbia. It was stated in our congressional report yester A Successful Merchant -A communication in the Country Gentleman has a word In season for those young men who hanker after tickets In the great lottery of mercantile life: I am a city merchant, having commenced my career as an adventurer from the farm, on a salary of 80 per year, and having passed through half a year of incessant toil to reach the point where dependence ceases, and "dinner ahead" begins.

I filled a clerkship in several first-class mercantile houses, and was associated with a very considerable number of salesmen, accountants, and clerks generally. Nearly thirty years have passed since my city clerkship bgan, and the retrospect has developed the following results: All ercantile houses by whom I was employed have since failed one, after an eminently credita DRY GOODS, Ac. DRY GOODS KKO.U AUCTION. A part of A. Gold's stock sold by Trustees, to be run ofl'u'ider the new sy strm selling at the COR.

OK GAY AND HI8HSTS. MUSLlVSof all kinds at hif price; all wool 12-4 BLANKETS JS4 a pair, worth $7, and more of the $2 5'J, worth j4; beantiful UASSIMKItS for Dots' wear, 25 to AC, at any price in order to raise tne money on the place. At-K lor tne pooas sola at auction by the Trustees k. Gold, end running ofl" at th CORKK. GAY AND HIGH STREETS, OLn TOWN, New Store.

EVENING DRESS GOO US. INK. BLl'E and WHITE GL.ACB SILKS. Colored and Wnite TARLKTONS. V-d1" COLLARS: GLOVFS and RIB-BtNS.

RUCHE MOORK, J- Hanover street. V. HullCK is snilicg at So: Muslin 4o; one width wheeling l2Hc: Black Silfc5('o; Da Lames 6)c; Rug Carrtint S5o; lnjrain Carpeting 25o. Cal et A. V.

HtiUOK'lj. 2T5 Lexington strfiet, 2 doors from Pearl street. See RED POSTS in front. jl8-tf: BARGAINS! In DRV GOODS. EMBROIDERIES, VELVET Kl IJBONS, Ac, at the BLUE POST STORE.

No. 233 Lexiueton street. doors east of Pearl strewt. JOHN A. WlR'l'H.

jl9 tf! SI OCR SALE. DWIN AKtKS having puroh'-sd from the creditors, for ca-h, the ENTIRE STOCK OF 8. J. MAlLHOlE, will rnn it oh" at the store fr-merly occupied br Mailhouoe, on the CORNER. CANaL AND ORLEANS STS.

Having rented the store only for one month, and being oblized to dose out the stock wirMn that) ime. GREAT BARGAINS. MAY BE tXl'KUTKii. KD WIN AKER3, ja Central avenna and Orleans st. GREAT ATTRACTION.

RfiLI.Nfl OUT S'J Of i lino--! Sin'dat Jfigh Prices. 5M0 jds iE LA INKS, IZit'o, worth 25; 5. rtfl Mourning do. 12io, worth 25; 6. yds.

quality PKINTS. ltto, worth 12; IryoOyttsSniniit MUSLINS, and 10c; ydsBl-tk SlI.kS,60, 65, 70. 75 arid 80c; yds French IW erinoes. 50 and worth SI; 50 yds art nnd Black C'oth Clocks, half prioe; Yard wide Hir.ck SiikVELVKT.only NEaL'S CELEBRATED CHEAP STORES, 63 nnd P5 Baltimore aNwe Gay. nHL NEW SVSTEM OF 1 SELLING DRY GOODS.

HTWir nrrrsTinv crri ri" The system pre-eminentl buco essful, with great excitement ent. 1 lie store always luuoi -f customers. delighted with th CHEAPNESS OF OUR GOODS. All goods marked in pliin figures. 7 GOODS SOLD AT HIGH PRICES! Nor leas than the plain marks on them.

Our motto, if An Honest, ven. Pleasant Business," and we find our customers well pleased with our course. Just arrived, a ship load of SPLENDID NEW STYLES CLOTHS, Ac, of all kinds; atd more cf those soiled Blai ket-s, large size, only $2 25, xrorth S5. All these goods mwst be sold, in order to raise in cash this week. So call early and ee the Great Bargains to be hd at NEW SYSTEM STORE.

Cor. of GAY and HIGH Town, J. OSiiORN DUG AN. FINE FRENCH MERINO, 65 cents; Wool Plaids 12 cens, bent at 25 cents; 4 4 Prinfol Merinos 45 cents, worth 75; Figured De Lames cents, worth i5 rents: Blanke'ts half the usual price, at No. 162 Iexintton nar Eu-taw.

Sign of the GOI DEN EAGLE. tJaSl! 1MJV1ENSE SACRIFICE. SELLING OFF! SELLING OFF! The whola stock of Dry Goods, Trimmings, Embroideries. Cloaks, frhawls, Mennoes, Irish Linens, Muslins, EibtHins, Laces, Velvet Cloves, Cassimers, oM wlt be sold right ont, Without regard to cost, as all the Goods must be eold in order to close business. Evert person wishing cheap Goods thou Id call at once at JACOB STERN SON'S, 45 North Howard near Lexington.

N. B. Also, a large assortment of Velvet and Fancy BO ETS, which will be sold for less than half the original oost. j6-lmt BARGAINP! ONLY TEN DAYS LONGER. I shall continue to close out the balance of my atock- for ten dajs.

SILKS IN ROBES and by the yard. SH AWLS of every description. 'MERINOES, all at half prices. 100 doxen Rll GLOVES, best 50 ct.s. ROBERT VV.

DRYDElf, Jall-tf Nob. 89 and 91 Baltimore street. POSITIVELY SELLING OFF TO MAKE A CHANGE IN BUSINESS. Our entire s-oclt Will lie sold oil 1j March 10th. Those who wish to get Bargains will not be disappointed calling at H.

POLLACK J5-2mf No. 161 North Gay st. THE CASH BARGAIN STORE has received a lot of Printed Opera FLANNELS, 20 and 25, TrorthS7X; blk Alpaca, a great bargain; Cassinets cts, very cheap; Kerseys; Vestings: blkad white Delaines ISi, worth -white Flanno.s 12H, Ac. 'd22-tf OUT OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF BESS G001S, SHAWLS, CLOAKS, LAN ETS, ETC. GREAT BARGAINS WILL BE GIVEN.

H. POLLACK tFll 161 North Gay street. Hurrah: FOR CHEAP CLOTHTNG. LAWRENCE LOWMAN has REMOVED to No. 33 BA LTIMOR STREET, between Frederick street and Market space, AU my old customers in want of CHEAP CLOTHING will do well to give me a call, as I have reduced my prices still lower on aooount ot the cheap rent 1 am pajingnow.

Please don't save the trouble to cme down, as you will ret paid for it, N. B. Al! those in want of a GOOD SUIT.mads to order, don't forget the olace. LAWRENCE I.OWMAN. fa-tfj No.

33 Baltimore at. HEAVY UNBLfcAUHED MUSLIN for a do. yard wide 6Jc; Wool Flannel 12Ko; Plaid Linseys 12Hc; 8-4 L. T. Diaper S7Xo; Merinos 12H and Blankets 1 12 to per pair; Wool a-id Clotlrs.at the "BARGAIN STORE," cor Lexington ani Green its.

d7-tft LAIN AND TWILLED DOMET FLAN-NEL, onlv 12 cents, at the CENTRE MARKET STOR also, 4-4 brown Muslin, 6X o. heavy Oassinet. 37 all wool white Flannel, 25 plain black DeLaine, 12H ana many other bargains, or. Cexteb Mabkkt Sfack and Pratt St. d4 ttj THOS.

R. RICH, I report tr Jobbtr Fortign nd Dowttttie Dry tramis, A'o. 19 Hanomtr will this ri, onaitiTnlT antnmerjoe aalliiiE off. vrith- mt rtgard to cost, for cash, the entire balance of his rok of FALL WINTER DRY ffiOODS (frat inauoetneats win oe oneraa. is-u: Kb, MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH between fi6W York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Waahiiit WASHINGION AND NEW ORLEANS TE1 ix -'Vfii Pirect.ineludir A lex and ria Frederioksburg.Rich xnond, Petersburg, Wilmington, Raleigh, Columbia.

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AdvertixementsBhowlrIM gent In at ewtrly how TReported for the Baltimore Sun.) Proceedings ef the City Council. FlBST BRANCH. Friday, January 29th. Pre sent ail the members except Mr. bnnnwv Band el presented the petition of JoseDh asking payment of 81,772 50, for sinking an artesian well on Castlealley, near Pratt street referred.

Mr. Maddox presented the petition of Wm. C. Trego asking a reduction in the amount of his taxes and a refunding of certain taxes paid referred. Mr.

Stavlor presented the petition of Ja. Carrigan and others asking a change of the nims of French slreet to Front street referred. Mr. Hamilton presented the petition of John O. Ma-gee asking leave to use a certain stall for fish re ferred.

Mr. Beale presented the oetitfnn nf th judges and clerks of the late eleetion asking ad- oiuonat compensation wmcn was referred. Mr. Addison presented the petition of police offi cer Austin, asking payment of bills amounting to 912, being expenses incurred when wounded in" aiscnargeor nisauty reierrea. mr.

uianvuie, from the committee on claims, reported a resolution referring the petition of Jacob Sellers to the city auditor adopted. Mr. Glanvllle, from the same committee, reported a resolution to refer R. A. McAllister's petitition to the auditor adopted.

A communication was received from the; marshal of police, in answer to a resolution of inquiry, stating that ropes have not been placed at fires across streets, because no provision Is made to carry out the ordinance referred. Mr. Glanville, from the committee on claims, report-" ed a resolution to pay Chas. T. Hollo way Silo for repairing the Second street town clock adopted.

Mr. Glanville, from the committee on claims, re-, ported a resolution to pay Ellas Grimm S3 50 for dressing wounds of officer Kidd adopted. Mr. Dryden presented the petition of property holders for gas lamps on Marion street referred. A communication was received from the mayor enclosing a communication from B.

H. Latrobe, president of the Pittsburg and Connellsville Railroad Company, relative to the affairs of that company also, a communication from the McDonogh agents severally referred. The annual report of the water company was received and referred. Hynes offered a esolutlon inquiring of the city the cost of placing an Iron railing; in front of Patterson park, on Gist street, See. adopted.

Mr Bandtl offered, a resolution to placs fire plugs on Bank street, at Central avenue and Bond street referred. Air. Hamilton offered resolution to procure new chairs for the branch-rejected. Adjourned to Monday. Second Branch Branch met.

Present J. B. Seldenstricker, president, and all the members. Mr. Bierbower called up the ordinance to change the grade of Covington street, betweea Hughes and Montgomery, which was read.

It was taken up and adopted. Mr. Simms callel up the resolutions to allow the award made to Messrs. Reynolds, for the building of the new jail, which had been received from the first branch. Mr Kirk opposed it because there was no documentary evidence to show what the award wes.

Mr. Kelso did not know anything about it, and moved it lay upon the table -agreed to. A resolution was received from the first branca that the mayor extend an invitation to the National Agricultural Society to meet in vicinity of this city laid on the table. A resolution to employ J. Morris Cochran to attend to cases in the Court of Appeals was received from the first branch and laid on the table.

A resolution was received from the first branch to pay 9128 50 to the committee visiting Annapolis laid on the table. Adjourned. PROCEEDINGS OF THE COURTS. Criminal Court. Before Judge Stump.

Milton Whitney, Attorney for the State, prosecuting. The following business occupied yesterday: The case of Lewis F. Bowen, charged with, kidnapping a free colored boy, and selling hi at in Virginia, was fixed for trial on Monday week. Three cases against Archibald McAleese, charged with two assaults with intent to kill and a riot, were removed, on affidavit, to Baltimore County Court. He gave ball in the sum of $1,300 to appear and answer.

Henry S. Beavens, indicted on the charge of assaulting police officer Hamilton Muir witn intent to kill, was tried before the jury. The accused is a blind man, and it was in evidence that on the 18th of December last, as he was standing at the corner of Fish Market space, two persons passed along BeaveEs accused them of spitting oa him, which they denied. Mulr then went to Beavens, who was cursing and making a noise, and. putting his hand on Beavens' shoulder, mildly requested him to keep quiet and go into his house.

Beavens immediately exclaimed, "You of a I'll fix yon," a-ad raising his hand from bis side, fired a pistol, the ballot which pissed through Muir's left arm. Beavens followed up the shot by striking Muir several times over the head with his cane. Muir finally closed In with Beivensand got him down, where he held him till other officers came. Muir did not thtnk that Beavens knew him at the time he fired the pistol. The prisoner was born blind, and followed the business of an Itinerant musician and coneertlzec through the country.

He was on a drinking spree at the time of this occurrence. Jury ont at adjournment. D. D. GUI and J.

B. Willsoafor the defense. City Circuit Court. Before Judge Krebs. The.

following business occupied yesterday: The Baltimore Orphan Asyl lm vs. Mary De mangin. In the matter of habeas corpus in this case before reported the examina'ioa of witnesses was cor cludtd snd the case will be argued on Brown for petitioner; Cowan and itis lot aerenaanis. Common Fleas. Before Judge Marshall.

Th following business occupied yesterday: Louis Hebel vs. Geo. Leicht; appeal from Mitchell. Judgment reversed. Huntermuller vs.Thiddeus Ms-bee: appeal from Lawder.

Judgment reversed. Samuel Eiltnger vs. John Raymond; appeal from Bayzand. Judgment reversed. Superior Court.

Before Judge Lee. The following business occupied yesterday: Andrew Jamison vs. George Jackson; an action of replevin. Verdict for plaintiff with one cent damages. Supsemk Court of teb United Statss.

Thursday, January 23th. 1353. No. 30. David A.

Lecombe et plaintiffs in error, vs. Franklin Steele. In error to the Supreme Court for the Territory of Minnesota. Air. Justice Campbell delive-ed the opinion of the court, affirming the judgment of the said Supreme Court In this cause, with costs.

No. 54. Horace C. Silsby et appellants, vs. Elisha Foote.

The argument of this cause was by Mr. Foote for the appellee, and by Mr. Keller for the appellants. Finances of Louisiana. The of the Governor of Louisiana tj that on the 1st of January there was a balance ia the treasury of S48 416.

The estimates of receipts of the current year are the estimated expenditures are 91,413.803 probable deficiency, The Governor, in view of this deficiency, recommends increased economy. CrfHfEN Returning. The bodies of 3J dead ChlnaaC? now lying on one of our wharves, nicely lad "hf shipment to thei? long Th. frelght money on this lot is $,,500. 5a reti- eo iVttrs Letter, Jan.

5. A "Hard" Place Buffalo, N. Y-, toC "hard" place. The Utica (N. Morning HerJla says that there are now In the State Prison at Au burn, 202 convicts from Buffalo, being about one-third of all the convicts In that Institution.

Expelled The Nebraska House of Delegates have expelled Mr. Robertson, of the Omaha Ne-braskian, from the sittings of that body, for call ing one 01 tne members a "small potato." Confession Two slaves of Wm. D. Miller. at Lynchburg, have confessed to firing his tobacco warehouse, giving as a reason that they were tired of work.

IHT-The Savannah papers record the deaths of Dr. F. H. Demere, health officer, and of Mr. Wm.

Starr, an old citizen and a native of Wilming ton, uei. ID Dr. Thomas T. Everett, of New York, has been removed from his position as examiner in the Patent Office. l7The Blue Ridge Republican note the appearance of the fly la the wheat of that county.

At Hartford, they are now harvesting ice obtained in the vicinity of that city. It Is some six or seven inches thick. dVe never, jet knew a man disposed ta scorn the humble, who was not himself a fit Ob ject of scorn to the humblest. C3fThe revenue derived by the city ef Paris last year from the charges of admission to the Bourse was very nearly 1.000,000f. The number of marriages celebrated to.

Paris on the 9th instant amounted to upwards of 350! ID The city of Cleveland, Oh'lo, commenced the year out of debt, every matured obligation having been paid. IHT'Some half dozen cases of small-pox and varioloid have appeared at Catoctin, Frederick: county, Md. JUT" It was James T. Jordan, instead of Joha Jotdan, who was killed in the affray at Campbell Court House, on Tuesday last. fDSaUmaker m.

Bennett, Doian and Boatswain John McKinley have been ordered to the U. S. steam frigate Colorado. C7 On Tuesday and Wednesday 75,000 bushels of corn were sold at Norfolk, at 57 cents for white and GO cents for yellow. ITT" Benjamin Stevens has been re-elected ser.

geant-at-arms to the Massachusetts Legislature after a protracted struggle. IT Tbe ships Celotlal and Assyrian have arrived in England from China, with 1,240,100 lbs. of tea and 1,750 bales of silk. fCT-Amerlcan seamen are said be dying of yellow fever at Port-au-Prince, at the rate of five per day. U7-Mr.

Abel old citizen of Norfolk, Va, died on Monday. IDLt. E. Fairfax Gray, U. S.

has resigned his iXTTIve additional laborers were recei ved lata the navy-yard at Portmoatn, 1 euawuaj. nvy-yara at ronmouia, ice in the river at Albany become tttied, but foot ifcgerse sfill crowing. ID-' weak. LOCAL. MATTERS'.

Annval Report of the Water Board. From the annual report of the board of water commissioners for 1S57, to the city council, the following information is obtained: The receipts during the year were 6133 911 44, and the sum expended 8230,319 77, and the debts due by the department 92.942 61. The amount due the department is $25,381 50. -During the yer 18,240 feet of pipe were laid, at a cost of 914,136 27. The number ef new supplies put in was 887.

the annual rent of which will be 98,667. The whole number of sup- piles on the books is 11.582, and the water rent 50, which with the baths, wdter closets, wnoie rent 50. The number cf connections taken off during the year was 389, the rent of which amounted to and the number of supplies stopped for non-payment and let on again 420. The. repairs on conduit have exceeded the appropriation to the amount of 91,570 18, which was owing to the number of pipes destroyed last winter by the severe frost.

During the year 5,046 feet of pipe have been relaid to the depth of from four to five and a half feet, to suit the soil, less or more easily affected by the frost. The cost of repairs of fire plugs has exceeded the appropriation 31,297 61. The laying of the 20 inch main pipe from the pump-house to Ann street cost $50,401 21, being Sr4Ui ml more tnan tne original estimate. The reservoir ice-houses have been lined at a cost of 9593 40. Various repairs to the pump-house, res ervoirs, Ac, have been done and "Rural Mills" rented for eighteen months.

The supply of water during the past year was such as to require, from the 4th to the 20th of September the assistance of steam power for pumping, oa both pumps twelve days, and from tne 1st 01 ocioDer to tne 211m 01 woveinoer on one pump for twelve days. The water has not been so clear at all times as could have been desired owing to the size of the reservoirs not being sufS-cietrtlv large to let the stream be shut out a suffi cient length of time for it to become clear. Ntio Banking. Building Wm. G.

Thomas, Esq the president of the Fremont Savings Bank, is causing to be erected at the corner of Baltimore and Paca streets a new banking building, under the superintendence of Mr. David Carson, contractor, designeriaati builder, which is intended, when completed not many days hence, to be occupied bv the Fremont Savings Bank, under the style of the People's Bank, as rechartered by the Legislature. The edifice presents a front of 26 feet, running back to a full depth of 69 feet, and is tnree stories in neignt. Tne iront is or New Brunswick drab stone, exquisitely chiseled into ornamental door and window beads, mouldings and facings Tbe windows of the third story front are sqnare, those 01 tne second circular ana those of the first double circular headed. An apartment on the first floor, 23 by 30 feet, is intended for the banking room, where the business transactions of the association will be conducted.

Immediately above, on the second floor, is an apartment 25 by 25 feet, which will be occupied by the officers of tbe association. The banking apartment is supplied with safes for the keeping ef the funds and books. On Paca street the casements of the first story are protected by perpendicular iron reds. The windows looking upon this street are supplied with iron facings and capping of the same material. From Paca street areentrance conduits to the rear and upper stories of the structure.

The entrance front is by a broad stairway, which leads to the second story, terminating in a smaller one conducting to the third story, where is a hall suit-aisle for the meeting of societies, Ac. The building so far has been constructed in the most substantial manner, the front walls being two feet ia thickness and massive throughout. Excursion of the Pupils of the Blind Asylum. On Thursday the pupils of the Blind Asylum made an excursion to Annapolis, under the charge of Rev. James A.

McKenney. They left the Camden station by the regular train, accompanied by a number of friends, and after they reached the seat of government, the Senate chamber was asked for and granted for an exhibition of the pupils in their studies. The chamber was crowded, and the entertainment was of the most gratifying character. They were examined In their literary studies in presence of members of the Legislature, and showed a remarkable proficiency. Subsequently they gave a concert, and they executed the vocal parts with great precision and In excellent time.

A lad named Samuel B. Stewart, of this city, played the "Carnival of Venice" on the piano, and his effort wes entirely successful The party returned to the city yesterday morning, all highly pleased with the visit, though they were deprived of the pleasure cf seeing the city and its public buildings. The object of the excursion at this time was to give to the members of the Legislature a proper idea of the great benefit such an institution is calculated to confer upon those who are unfortunately blind, that the required assistance to place it on a firm basis may be obtained. In some of the older institutions or the blind they are taught to labor, and In many cases the articles manufactured are quite as well formed and executed as if a perfect vision had lent assistance to the task. jYres Officer Griffith, of the southern district, on Thursday night, about eight o'clock, discovered a fire burning in a small frame house on China street.

Tbe officer, without giving an alarm, put out the flames before any damage resulted therefrom. It is supposed the premises were designedly fired. At half-past eleven o'clock on Thurs day niyht officers Koss ana urown extinguished afire found burning in a new building on the same street, about a half square distant from the scene of the first burning. The building had been secured by the workmen, but an entrance was ef fected through the doorway, and r.re applied to some shavings scattered around The fire was put out by the officers without any alarm or damage. A fire broke out about half-past seven o'clock yesterday evening in the two-story building at the northeast corner of Charles and Saratoga owned and occupied as a conservatory by'Sarn'l Feast A Sons, florists.

The fire originated from the pipe leading from the furnace, used to regulate the temperature of the hot-house, and igniting to the framework above, soon set the whole of the rear ortion of the building on fire. The firemen were promptly on the spot, but a considerable portion or tne glass covering was aestroyea. ne damage to the building was about 9250. which is covered by insurance in tne oinceoi tne iquiiaoie Society. The damage to the stock, consisting of plants, was about Jumou, upon wmcn mere was no insurance.

Had the fire occurred at a later hour the combustible nature of the building would have rendered its entire destruction certain. Sudden Dea'h Yesterday morning a sudden deoth occurred in the family of Mr. B. Sturgeon, residing on McElderry street, near Aisqulth. On Thursday night his daughter Kate, aged 17 years, was in ner usual good health, ana, except naving been at the house of a neighbor a few minutes at twilight, was at home all the evening.

About ten o'clock she complained of toothache, and sent to a drugstore near by for some laudanum, with which she bathed face, Wfeen ter, who went for the laudanum, returned, she found that she had been vomiting, and proposed tbat she tell her mother, that she might do something for her. She replied that she was not sick, and did not wish anything said to her mother about It. Shortly after eleven o'clock she was again attacked with vomiting, which soon subsided, and she retired. At one o'clock she was again attacked, when she was removed to a room where there was a fire, and a physician called and remedies applied to excite the circulation of the blood, her extremities being She lingered until six o'clock yesterday morning, when she died. Several physicians were called and certified that death was caused by a determination of the blood to the brain, in consequence of Irregularity, and, though summoned to hold an inquest, Coroner Stevens deemed it unnecessary, as there was no doubt of the cause of death.

A Rescue. Yesterday application was made fo the eastern district police station for some effort to rescue a young girl, from fourteen to fifteen years of age, from a den of infamy in the vicinity of Kerr's wharf. The application was mtde by the mother. The girl was found, taken before Justice Audoun, ard restored to her mother, who was the original applicant. The officers were Messrs.

Flemming and Chaffinch. The Wtather. The weather yesterday was cold and disagreeable, and there were several attempts at a snow starm, none of which, however, proved successful. The clouds were heavy and tbe atmosphere cold and raw, with the wind from the northeast nearly all day. A short time before sundown the western horizon was clear, but soon again vas overcast, and up to a late hour there were still indications of a storm.

Robbery The grocery store of Mr. Geo. Bunting, at the northeast corner of Madison and Ensor streets, was entered on Wednesday night and robbed of a quantity of groceries, an overcoat, and 3 in change, which had been left In the drawer. The entrance was gained through a side door, and the robbery effected without alarming any of family, who were sleeping above. Arrest of a Fugitive Sergeant Townsend and tfficer Henning yesterday arrested Gharle3 Ander son on the charge of being a fugitive.

It appears that a few days since he was arrested upon the charge of assaulting and beating T. H. Lawson, Ac. He escaped and was found secreted In a cellar in Star alley Justice Griffin committed him to appear at court. Death of a Police Officer.

William Stockett. an officer attached to the southern district police, died on Thursday night, at his dwelling in Hughes street, between Light and William. Deceased was thirty-two years of age. and leaves a wife and one child. The funeral took place yesterday af- irrnoua Robbery of a Tool Manufactory.

Before daylight on Wednesday morning the tool manufactory of Mathew Hunt, on Gravel alley, near Franklin street, was forcibly entered bv burglars. who carried off a number of bars of highly teca- Assault teith a Knifes Officers Sanks and Tar ring, of the southern district, on Thursday night arrested Sarah Perkins, charged by Ann Maloney with assaulting and cutting her with a knife, at a house on Federal Justice Boyd committed her to Fintd. Lieut. Marsh, of tbe eastern district' VOL. LXIL NO.

67. THE SUM. DETAILS BY STE1MER CANADA. The Accident to the Steamer Ariel The Attempt to Assassinate Lotus Number of Arrefets, lice. The steamer Canada reached Boston yesterday afternoon, and her mails will probably arrive In this city this evening.

We have the following additional news by her: -The Accident to the Ariel. The Ariel, with S6 passengers, the mails and a heavy freight, left Bremen on December 3 1st She experienced strong westerly gales, which gradually increased until Jan. 6, 9 P. in lat. 50 longitude 29 she broke her starboard shaft just outside the ship.

She was hove too under drag; and storm sails, bat on the morning of the 9th it was found that her port wheel could be worked. The ship was then put about and moved east at the rate of eight knots per hour. She shipped several tremendous seas and broke her foreyard, when she was again laid to until the morning of the 9th. She succeeded In sighting Cape Clfar on the morning of the and reached ueenstown about noon the nextday. Sixty-six of her passengers and her mails were broughtto Boston by the Canada, which put into Cortfor them.

The Attempt on the Life of Napoleon. A dispatch to the London Times, dated the evening of the 14th, gives the following account the attempt to assassinate Louis Napoleon: l'be Emperor was fired at this evening at 9 o'clock, while entering the Italian Opera House, in Rue Lepellier. Some persons in the street were wounded. The Emperor showed himseir to the ptopleat the door of the Opera House, and was received with enthusiastic cheering. He remained till the end of the opera.

On his. return, at midnight, he was hailed with enthusiastic cheers by the multitude, who were waiting la the streets to grtet him." The Monitenr, of the ICth, says: "On their Majesties' arrival at the opera, three explosions, coming torn hollow projtctiles, were heard. A considerable number of persons who were stitioned before the theatre, including some soldiers of the escort, were wounded two of them mortally. The hat of the Emperor was pierced by a projectile, and General Ragauest, aid -de-camp of the Emperor, was slightly wounded la the neck. Two footmen were also wounded.

One of the horses attached to th Emperor's carriage was killed, and the carriage itstlf was broken by the projectiles." The latesrdlpatches say that sixty persons were wounded a'nd three killed by the projectiles thrown at tne carriage. The conspirators are Italians, and many arrests have been made. The Emperor and Empress suffered nething from the event, and on the following day they attended solemn mass, accompanied Dy the Minister of Stte. Pabis, Jan. 15 P.

M. Four Italians, among whm are Counts Orsini and Pierre, have been amsted. Many other arrests baw been made. There are five persons dead and fifty or sixty wourded by the explosion. Tte Emperor and.

Empress drove out to-day In an open caleche, without escort, through the streets of Paris. They were enttumasticallv cheered by the people. This morning the Emperor si eight of the sufferers at the hospital. Paris, Jan. 16 A.

-M. In addition to the foregoing particulars, it is ascertained that five minutes before the attempt, M. Pietre had arrested, close to the opera, an exile of the year 1852, who removed to Paris under a false name. On his person were found a grenade, a revolver and a poniaid. The police of Paris were forewarned by the Belgian police on Thursday of an intended attempt at assassination.

Of the sixty persons who are wounded eleven are In a dangerous condition. Some of them have been removed to the prison at Mazas. Aires'jj are multiplying hourly. Great Britain. Reform meetings were being extensively held, both in London and the Provinces.

The Chartists were taking part In them. On the 14th Instant the Bank of England reduced its rate of discount to five per being the lowest point touched for fifteen months. It was anticipated that a further reduction would fake place in a week or two. The dUcount houses have reduced the rates of allowance at call from 4 to 3U percent. The Joint Stock Bank has reduced the rate for deposits to 3 per cent.

The action of the bank imparted firmness to the stock market. Choice paper was negotia ted in the discount market at 3a4 per cent. B. C. T.

Gray Sz Sons, of London, tne Canadian trace, have suspended for about also, Bishop Gessing, wholesale stationers, for about The ship Oxford, of Westport, Maine, wai abandoned at sea in November, in a very leaky condition Capt. Minott and her crew were picked up and taken to Gibraltar by the American ship Mary and Martha. 'lie Times sajs that an impression seems teDe entertained that the amount of the Indian loan, instead of being limited to 3,000.100 or tuu, will ne as mucn as Jtiii.uuu.uou. TFrom the Times' City The attempted assassination of the Emperor Napoleon caused flatness in the funds to-day. The stock exchange rate for advances remains at three percent.

At the bank to-day applications were rather more numerous. In foreign exchanges this efternoon the rates were generally slightly lower than at last post. About 160.000 ia gold was taken to the bank to-day 100,000 Australian, by theTeviot, and the remainder Russian. From the Daily News' City Article. The decline in the funds to day was chiefly caused by the attempt on the Emperor Napoleon's life.

There are no new features to notice in the money market. France. It Is said that the question of the Danublan Principalities is now so complicated that no day can be fixed for the meeting of the Paris conference. The monthly statement of the Bank of France shows a loss of over eleven million franc In cash, held In Paris, and a gain of twenty-seven millions in the country branches. India.

The Rajah of Aarojhere and minister had been sentenced to death. The minister was hanged, but the sentence against the Raja awaits the confirmation of the Governor of India. Other executions had also taken place. No further rebel depredations were reported, and quiet prevailed generally. At Bombay the import market was generally lower.

Cotton had declined. Exchange was 2s2d. Spain. Baron Murlllo has been elected president of the lower chamber of the Cortes by a majority of eight over the ministerial candidate. A dispatch from Madrid of the 14th says that the Spanish ministry tendered their Teslgnatlon In consequence of the nomination of Bravo Mu-rillo.

Their resignation had not been accepted. The c.ablntt would remain in oflice If the Queen would consent to dissolve the Cortes. -j A dispatch from Madrid, dated Friday, the 15th, reports the acceptance of the resignation of the ministers and the formation of a new cabinet, as follows: Preident of the council, Isturitz; minister of finance, Ocaua; minister of justice, Boz; minister of the Interior, Diez; minister of the marine, Guesada, minister of war, Espeleta. Prussia. The Prussian Diet was opened on the 12th.

The opening speech was read by Baron Monteuffel. It refers to the Illness of the king, and expresses a confident hope of his speedy recovery; rejoices at the approaching matrimonial alliance between i i rr .1 i iwia auuiugiaiiui icicia iu i lie xsaiusu aui stein question, and says that Prussia and Austria are resolved, in union" with all the other governments of Federal Germany, to on the vindication of German rights and interests; also, alludes to the government measures to mitigate the recent panic. The allusion to the Danish question proaucea loua ana unanimous applause. Knssia. The nobles of the district of NIgua, NovagO' rod, following the examples of the nobles of LI- rhunla and St.

Petersburg, had asked the Empe- mr's permission to enirancnise their the Emperor had granted their request. China. The Hong Kong correspondent of the London Times, under date of November Hon. VVm. B.

Reed, tbe American Commissioner, re mained on board the frigate Minnesota, carefully avoiding any entangling alliances. He says the Minnesota, from her great size, would prove almost useless for warlike purposes In China The same letter predicts that the British would have possession of Canton before the end of the year, and that the free and unobstructed intercourse with China would be demanded. Commercial Intelligence. Lira pool PnonncK Makkkt. The Brokers and 'other circulars report Ashes steady, with a good business st 32s 9d 33s for Pots an I 3s 6d a 32s for Peai is.

Rosin hteadj commr n3 lid; fine 16. Cod Oil Sperm Oil scarce, and would letoh per ton h'ghei piioes. Quercitron Bark steady Philadelphi 1 8s 9d a 9s: ttal'imore 7s a 7s 61. ioverseed in good demand at 50a51s. Taiiow-Quo taiiors were barely iriNintained, but the market closed firmer Butchers' 65s.

Loudon Moskv a akket. The Bank of England bad reduced the rate of disooum to 5 per cent. Mess s. Baring Hros. quote money plentiful bslow the frank Consols for money aad for account 94JiMJ.

'I he bullion in the dank of Eng-lnnd had increased 714,000. Bar Silver 5s 1J1; Mexican Dollars 5 jtfd; Eagles Lo.ndon Markets Messrs. Baring Brothers quota rg Iron steady at 5sa55s6d; Linseed oil at.30s; Kioedufl: TaHow quiet-PeterEbarg 63 9d; Spirits 1 urpentine steady at Sts. Maikkts (lor the week ending Jan. t.Hi"n.iSni".?S.nwrd; Bale of the week 5,510 baiet; stock 87,0" 0 bales; New Orleans trei Breadstuff t.

Ashes aiefc-offee buoyant. On unchanged. Provisions dull. mger? diilUUgar Taito s'ghtly Baring Brothers siate the small but prices firm, and all qualities she ly edvanoa: M. f.

88,18678 IIW5; to In.Wdl. 13S8, do. do. Msschvseits 6s, bonds, Maryland do. 90: fenit'a 5 1, bonds 1377, Virginia 6s, 18? 6, 81a83; do.

5s 1888, 83; Penn'y Central 6s, 1st mtg 85; do do. Central 7s, 9o9i; Erie 3d mtg. Idinois entnl Bank shares. 6 discount: do.dj. 84.

Michigan Centra1 186), 8d89. Messrs. Bell dt Co. report the market quit but s'ightly dearer. New ork Central snares, 73a75; do.

do. 6s, 83485; Erie strcir, 19aS0; Erie 31 meg. bonds, sinking fund, 45 i.m. Tha London papers report the business of i he 14th as only in Illinois Central shares, at 6 discount. Colonel Cook's March to Join the Utah.

Army--Terrible Sufferings. Colonel Cook's report to the adjutant general of the Utah army, of his march from the Missouri to the valley of the Salt Lake, Is full of matter of curious Interest. He started In command of six companies second dragoons, from Fort Leaven, worth, on 17th September, and his journal ends with, his arrival at Fort Bridger on the 19th of November. He says: The regiment had been hastily recalled from service in the field, and allowed three or four days only by my then commanding officer to prepare for a march of eleven hundred miles, over an uninhabited and mountain wilderness. In that time the six companies of the regiment who were to compose the expedition were reorganized; one hundred and ten transfers necessarily made from and to other companies: horses to be condemned and many to be obtained; the companies paid, and about fifty desertions occurred; the commanders of four of them changed.

I marched tbem on the 17th. Then it was to be proved that three cr four more days were to be lost in waiting for the quartermaster's department to supply the absolutely necessary transportation. On the ISth, 107 mules were furnished, which the same day had arrived from a march of, perhaps, 2,000 miles to and from Bridger 's Pass; above 100 of the others were nearly worthless from want and age, and requiring several hours to harness a Uam. On the morning of the 19th twenty-seven teamsters were wanting, and men were furnished utterly ignorant of the business and without outfits. Half allowance, or six pounds a day of corn for horses and mules, was the largest item of transportation; three or four laundresses, with their children, were with each company.

The regular journal of each day's march is given, how it rained, and how the mules died, and the men complained. On October 5th he arrived at Fort Kearney; on the 15th crossed the South Platte the thermometer wss at 13, and the river full of ice. It was discretionary with Col. Cook to wrnter at Fort Laramie or to post on to Salt Lake. He preferred the latter course.

On November 4th his command was at Sweet Water Pass, in the Rocky mountains; next day they gained Devil's Gate. On the Gthwe found the ground once more white, and the snow falling, but then very mode ra ely. I marched as usual. On a four mile hUl the north wind and drifting snow became severe; the air seemed turned to frozen fog-; nothing could be seen; we were struggling in a freezing cloud. The lofty wall at 'Three Crossings' was a happy relief, but the guide, who had lately passed there, was relentless in pronouncing that there was no grass; the idea of finding and feeding upon grass in tbat wintry storm, under the deep snow, was hard to entertain, but as he promised grass and other shelter two miles further, we marched on, crossing twice more the rocky stream, half choked with snow and ice; finally he ltd us behind a great granite rock, but all too small for the promised shelter, only a part of the regiment could huddle there, in the deep snow; while, the lon night through, the storm continued, and in fearful eddies from above, before, behind, drove the falling and drifting snow.

Thus exposed, for the hope of grass, the poor animals were driven with great devotion by the men once more across the strtam, and three-quarters of a mile beyond, to the baf of a granite ridge, but which almost faced the storm; there the famished mules, crying pKeously, did not seek to eat, but desperately gathered in a mass, and some horses, escaping the guard, went back to the ford, where the lofty precipice first gave us so pleasant relief and shelter. Thus morning light had nothing cheering to reveal, the air still filled with driven snow the animals soon came driven In and mingled in confusion with rr en, went crunching the snow in the confined and wretched camp, tramping all things In their way. It was not a time to dwell on the fact that frora that mountain desert there was no retreat nor any shelter neir, but a time for action. But for six hours the frost or frozen fog fell thickly, like snow, and again we marched on as in a cloud. The deep snow drifts impeded us much, and In crossing Sweet Water the ice broke in the middle.

Marching ten miles only, I got a getter camp, and herded the homes on the hills; it was a dili'erent road, where a few days before the bodies of three frozen men were found. On the 8th the thermometer stood 44 deg. below the freezing point. The snow was deep; twenty-three mules gave out, and five wagons were abandoned. Nine trooper horses were left freezing and dying on the road, and a number soldiers and teamsters caa Deen irostDitten.

11 was a aesper-arelv cold night; the thermometers were broken, but by comparison must nave maricea aegree below zero. A bottle of sherry wine froze in a trur.k. Having lot about fifty mules in thirty-hours, the morning of the 11th, on the report of tbe quartermaster, I felt bound to leave a wagon in the bushes, filled with seventy-four extra saddles and bridles and seme sabres. Next day the corn gave oat; the mules were dy ing of hunger. Tbev gnawed and destroyed four wagontongues, a number of wagon covers, ate their ropes, and srettins' loose ate tbe sage fuel collected at the tents.

Some of these they also attacked. Nine died. The fast growing company of dismounted men were marched together as a separate com mand by day; the morning or the twelfth a number of them were frostbitten from not being in motion, although standing by fires. That day eighteen miles were marched to Big the guide found grass, and fuel with It; so good that the 13th was made a day of rest; the animals were all herded at the Fifty horses had been. lost since leaving Laramie.

He closes the report of his march with the fol lowing: I have 141 norses and have lost 134. Most of the loss has occurred much this side of South Pass, in comparatively moderate weather. It has been of s'ai vatlon. The earth has a no more lifeless, tree less, grassless desert; It contains scarcely a wolf to glut itseir on tne hundreds or aeaa ana irozen animals which, for thirty miles, nearly block the road with abandoned and shattered property. They mark, perhaps, beyond example in mstory, tbe steps ef an advancing army with the horrors ot a cusastrous retreat.

The Bkitish Bombakdmxxt Canton. A correspondent of the New York Times, writing on the 27th of November, on board the United SUte steamship San Jacinto, now at Hong Kong, gives some interesting particulars concerning the pro jected attack on Canton, which he says will be made on or about the first or December, minister Reed was at Macao, where the various plenipo tentiaries were also assembled in consultation over coming events. The writer says: The force which will be congregated before Canton will be as follows: Royal Marines Blue Jackets Royal Artillery, a portion of the 59th- regiment, now stationed nere, togetner with a French force of about 500 marines. There will be also 13 men-of-war, carrying an aggregate or lou guns, ana ao gun-ooats, eacn carrying rrom two to five guns of heavy calibre. Large as this iorce is, 11 is none too targe, 11 we may credit ru mors which reach us from Canton of the contem plated resistance of the Chinese.

They will renew, on a much larger scale than heretofjre, their attempts to burn and blow up the British vessels by means of fire-rafts. The disposition of the United States East India squadron is as follows: San Jacinto, Minnesota a -id Levant at Hong Kong. The Portsmouth Is at Macao, having been detained to carry Mr. Reed there. Ostendos Comeatibus.

By the mail of the 24th ult. the Levant received her orders to return to the States, for which she will probably start about tne lotn. or next montn. The writer further states that the English resi dents have a claim of 825.000,000 for property de stroyed at Canton, where would amply cover tne wnoie loss, ana mat Americans, or persons claiming to be Americans, have put in equal-ly extravagant claims. The 'Prophet's Family." A correspondent Of the Missouri Republican writes, taat last sum mer he was at Nauvoo and conversed with Mr.

BItoman, who is married to Joe Smith's widow He says: I sat at the table with the family, consisting of Mr. Bitoman ana wire, ana tnree sons 01 joe Smith, the eldest about 23 or 24; the second about 20; tbe third a lad of some 12 or 13 years. From Mr. Bitoman I learned that not one of the family believed in Mormonism. and that bis wife for merly Mrs.

Smith bad alwavs been opposed to it, as well as the boj s. Mrs. Bitoman is a masculine, Intelligent looking lady, of 45 or 47 years She is a native of New 1 oik. LlKri. A K.

Allen Supposed to bh Lost. We learn tbat about two weeks ago Lieut. Allen, with a small party of men, left the Dalles for ForrSimcoe. When they reached the Simcop mountains there was a severe snow raging, and the men fearing they would not be- able co maae the trip in safety returned, leaving Lieut. Allen to pursue his journey alone.

Since then he has not been beard from, and it is supposed per ished on the mountains. He had about 33,000 in catn witn mm. urtgonian. A Saltpetkb Speculation -There has been stored in the United States warehouses at this rrt for it vear ot large lot of saltpetre. for bich the owner some time since refused an offer about sixteen cents per pound, holding out for an additional cent.

uAt tbe present the market -price Is not much over six cents fer r-otind, the criglralcost being 19 or 11 cents day that in tbe Senate Mr. Slid ell, from theselec1 committee appointed on the subject of the condition of the corporations or associations acting as banks in the District of Columbia, had made an interesting report, accompanied by an important bill. The National Intelligencer has the follow ing synopsis of the report: The report is an elaborate one, consisting of some pages, in which is given a succinct history of tbe banks, the times of charter, and says, among other things, that "the question of the legality of the contracts made by tne banks that have nerecoiore eniuyea tue privileges of incorporation is one between them and their debtors, in which the public has no concern, and this committee has no disposition to speculate about the probable results of any question of that kind which may hereafter be brought before any judicial tribunal. That of the currency is of a very different character. It affects the interest of t.

1 every meraoer 01 mecoiiniiuuiiy, aim ougrras i bound, not only as-the special guardian of the people of the District of Columbia, but for the sake of example to the nation at large, to watsh with the most jealous eye everything that may have a tendencv to debase it. Were there an reasonable hope that we could return to what the committee considers to be the true theory of the constitution, a total prohibition of tbe circulation of paper money Issued under the authority of the seveial States, they would give such a measure their cordial support. "But, believing that the time Is yet distant when the national mind will be prepared for the adop tion 01 a purely metallic currency, tney win maae no suggestions of a general character, but will confine themselves to the subject immediately referred to them." It goes on further to say: "Bnt whatever advantage they may or might have derived from their circulation, these banks have no claim upon the indulgence of Congress. They exist and carry on business, if not in direct and open defiance of law, as your committee believes, certainly by a most shameless violation or tne spirit or an past if gisiatton rney nave, with one honorable exception, (the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Georgetown.) refused to give tne committee sucn information as will enaoie it to form any correct idea of their condition and solvency. The mere array of figures, showing a certain amount of assets in bills discounted, is not, for tbe purpose of any serious examination, worth the paper on which it is written.

A bank may have its portfolio bursting with promissory notes aEd ether evidences of debt, and be utterly unable to meet the demands of its and the refusal to permit any inquiry into the character of their securities is not calculated to create confidence in their soundness, tec. "Your full deliberation, is unanimously of opinion that it is expedient to prohibit the issue of all notes for circulation In the District of Columbia not expressly authorized by law to make such Issues, and to prevent the circulation of all bank notes issued out of the District Columbia of less denomination than fifty dollars, and reports the following resolution: "Reselved.That it Is Inexpedient to authorize es tablishments either of general or special laws for banks of issue within the District of Columbia." The bill which accompanies the report is, in substance, as allows; The first section declares that after the first day of A pril next It shall not be lawful for any person or any association whatever, chartered or unchar tered, witmn tms jjistrict, airecuy or inaireciiy, to issue or reissue, or pay out, pass, exchange, or put in circulation any bank note, bill, or any acknowledgment of indebtedness of any nature, character, or appearance of a bank note; and tbat any person so doing shall be held to be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction intTtor snail oe nnea not less man nicy aonarrs nor more than five hundred, ana may De imprisoned for a period of not less than three nor more than twelve montns. Tbe second section provides that after the first of April It Is made unlawful to issue notes or pay out any note of less denomination than $550 of any bank not located within the District of Columbia, and subjects all violations by inks, to a line of g5W. and by any other person to a fine of S25, one-balf to the informer and the other half to the United States. The third section makes.

In addition to the civil penalties for a violation of the last preceding section, a high misdemeanor, and upon conviction before the Criminal Court shall be fined not lets than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. How a Church was Cubko of Fbkmontism. The Hartford Times relates the following: A Congregational church in a neighboring State got so completely enlisted in the presidential contest, for Fremont and Jessie, that little attention was given to religious questions. The minister was constantly preaching, praying and exhorting upon political issues, and his deacons and the laymen followed suit at the prayer and conference meetings. Finally, a worthy old farmer, one of the stanchest and best members of the church, and a firm, undeviating democrat, was called upon to offer a prayer.

Lord," said he, "uphold the democratic party, which has received thy protecting support ever since the great Jeffersonian straggle. Continue to bless that party which has, under thy protection and providence, brought great blessings upon this republic. If it be thy pleasure, and I believe It will be, carry that party through this struggle to a complete triumph. Bless James Bu-clanan, the tried and honest statesman, and guide him safely to the presidential chair. Bless John Breckinridge, the young and zealous demrCat, and open to him the path of duty as well a3 that which leads straight to the Vice-Presidency.

Give them victory. bless the opponents of democracy personally, but utterly destroy taeir fanatical and lnjarious schemes, if it be thy will to do so, as I verily believe it is. Be on the side of the democracy. Lord, as thou hast been for the past fifty-six years, and on the 4th of March next we shall witness the inauguration of Pennsylvania's favorite son, and the people of this country will once more settle down In their peaceful pursuits, instead of warring wickedly, section against section, interest against Interest, and man asainst his brother. And I beseech thee.espe ciallyfree Christian churches from the political strire ana Ditierness wmcn are renaing mem asunder, destroying their usefulness, and turning them unhapnlly into mere political associations.

Let us Lear somttliiDg of thy word and mercy on the Sabbath. We have already been plied to full ness with political fanaticism, and our minister- has become a stump orator against ine gooa 01a party which thou in thy wisdom hast upheld so long, ancv so repeateaiy guiaea to victory, ana sustaintd in the establishment of sound mea sures turn his mind from these things, and diiecthis attention to his legitimate religious duties, or turn him over directly into the hands of the federal or abolition party, and let thenn. take care of him, and provide us with a true minister of the gospel. At any rate, the present state of things cannot last- If politics are to rule, I shall claim one-half the time in behalf of the democratic party, so that there may be fair dis cussion within these walls. Amen," This was a stumper.

It was the first prayer ever publicly offered in that church for the sue cess cf the democratic party and its nominees. tnougn nunareas 01 prayers ana exnnrtauons naa been made against tbat party. When the old man had finished there was a silence for half an tour, and the meeting then adjourned. And thus ended the political preaching in that church. From that time forward the minister attended to his gospel duties, and left all political question to pe setuea Dy tne people outside or tne Again the society prosperod.

and there was a better feeling among its members more Christian charity more brotherly love. The old man earnest prayer was answered in more respects than one. Abolition of Sl avert in Kansas. The following are the main sections of the bill which has passed one branch of the territorial Legislature of Kansas, abolishing slavery in that Territory after the first of March: Sec. 1.

Be It enacted by the Governor and Le glslaflve Assembly of the Territory of Kansas. Tbat slavery and involuntary servitude in the said Territory is hereby forever abolished and prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Sec. 2. All persons now held in slavery or in voluntary, servitude In said Territory whohavf heretofore, or shall hereafter be breught into the said Territory for the purpose of being so ate hereby declared to be free.

Sec, 3. Any person who shall now hold, orwho shall hereafter attempt to hold, any person In slavery or involuntaiy servitude in said Territory, except for the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall, upon conviction thereof, be declared gnilty of a mlsd meaner, and Ve punished by confinement at hard labor In the penitentiary for any term not less than t-J years nor more than five. That all laws and parts of laws estab lisbing, recognizing or regulating the institution of slavery in ihe Territory of Kansas, heretofore paBsfd by the Legislative Assembly, be and the same are hereby repealed. The remaining sections only provide for the mode of trial and punishment of those who ylo late the provisions of the law as given above. United States Army Officers in Califo- kia -A letter In the Los Angeles Star, dated Fort Tejon, Nov.

12, says: Lieut. W. T. Magruder I in command of the post. Lieut.

I. F. Mercer is here, in command of company of first dragoons; Lieut. H. V.

Dj-Hart, in" command of a detachment of company third artillery. Lieut. Mercer left twenty five men of bis company at San Diego, in charge of the headquarters, which be calls "the twenty-five Lteuts. Magruder and Mercer, Mr Morrison, the sutler, -several friends, -bad just returned from a bear hunt, during whlr.b they killed oneiweigbing .700 and another 500 besides a fine butik. aay aumber of pl- geons.

Ct'WU i Mli K.O-: ble career of fifteen years, was carried into nope-less bankruptcy by outside speculation, and another, after thirtv-tive years of unbounded success and credit, was a few months since in inextricable difficulties the result of a single dash of the pea and has forever closed Its mercantile existence. Of all the clerks with whom I have been associa ted, not one has achieved permanent success equal to the value or a weii-stocKea one nunarea acre farm, while from the most brilliant of their num ber the penitentiary, the hospital, the drunkard's grave have claimed their victims. Some embarked in business with lofty anticipations of success, but soon passed away in disaster, and the career of not a few would fill thrillingly illustrated chapters In the unwritten history of city merchants' clerks, and prove beyond a question that "Vice is a monster 01 sucn irigntiui mien, That to be hated needs but be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Some sanguinary youth may ask where the suc cessful men originate? I answer, they are one in- one hundred of those who embark in business, and in several hundred of those who seek clerkships, with anticipations of fortune In prospect. personally, Dy a rare comDinaiion 01 iavoraoie circurr stances, those "wonder flowers," that bloom but once in a lifetime, I am meeting what Is called success. The way to it was paved by years of incessant labor, of sixteen to eighteen hours per day, and such days and nights of toil as no farmer's boy that I have met with ever dreamed of in rural labors, and which, if applied to the cultivation of a hundred acre farm, would have developed hidden treasures not dreamed of by the reluctant plowman.

Hut, as years pass ana witn tne vanities of life, the gray hairs which are stealing upon me, my thoughts orten revert to tne nome-scenes of mv ctildbood in the country, and 1 feel tempted to shake off this artificial life, and seek for my declining years that repose and quiet which 1 imagine mignt De rouna in rural me, auiuug an intelliger.t and open hearted population devoted to agriculture, andsecuie my family those health- giving influences, both mental and physical, which cheerfnl country-life must apply to genial minds. Thi Drath of Madamk Rachel. Our foreign files have Interesting accounts of the "last mo ments on earth" of Rachel. The Paris Constitu-tionnel says: "She spoke with an unalterable serenity of her approaching end, saying to her friends that she baa taKen ice rana aparimeni in tne 1 lace Royale, tbat her friends who did her the honor to con to her faneral might be well received. As often happens sucb cases, either by the illusion of the invalid or tbe provision of Providence, as her end approached she ceased to anticipate It, and some days previous to her death she no lor-g-er suffered any pain.

She became resigned and docile as a child, and wrote a letter to her father, full of tenderness on the occasion of the new year. She expired tranquilly, witbout a single murmur or a Bs.h. and repeating aloud the prayers of the dying. There were in the death chamber one of her sisters, wno not quitted ner siae since tne commencement cf her malady; her doctor; Rose, her faithful maid; the rabbi of ice, and ten members of the consistory. Her countenance was so beautiful at the transformation that some one has tened for a photographist to preserve the features so pure and calm, that they will piss to posterity without being cisiortea cy a single pang." The lndependance lieige gives the information that the fortune left by Mile.

Rachel will amount 1.200,0l0f, without counting her jewels, which are of great value. This fortune is divided in half between her family, ascendant and descendant, with the exception of a legacy of to her sister Sarah, and an annual pension of 600f to her maid Rose. There should be also on her own life, with reversion on her children, but it is not known if the proper forms have been regularly complied with, it is supposed, in fact, that the death of Mile. Rachel will in one way or other give rise to a lawsuit. The London Times says a funeral service, ac cording to the Jewish rites, was celebrated at the Mariseilies railway terminus, where the remains of Mile.

Rachel, which arrived at that city on Thursday, had been deposited. In compliance with tbe wishes of her family, the prayers of the Eefcrew liturgy were read over her coffin, which was borne by Jews to tne carriage preparea ror it. The members of the family of the Grand Rabbi, accomranied by the chief officiating minister, the members of the Jewish Consistory of Marseilles and the Administrators of the Synagogue and of the Jewish Charitable Society, attended the cere mony and tendered a sincere tribute to the mem ory 01 the illustrious trageaienne. The Kossitth Family in America. A writer in the New York Journal of Commerce, speaking of the Kossuth family la the United States, says The daughters of the admirable Madame Mes-lenyi, the Nightingale of the Hungarian war hospitals, have been most generously cared for bv Mrs.

Cruger, of our city, and, under superior teachers, have grown up to sensible and accomplished womanhood, such as would have rejoiced the spirit of their departed mother, who exclaimed on her death-bed that she could now expire in peace, since her children would be in a better condition than if she had lived. Friends of Mad Zulovsky have purchased for her a little, firm in New Jersey, where she lives in comfort with her two youngest children. Her second son Is quite distinguished as a civil engineer in the West. The gentle, dUereet and accomplished Madame Ruttpay has established a boarding school for young ladies at Cornwall, near Newburg, which promises to be highly successful. Her eldest son, a graduate of Union College, is in the engineer department of the navy yard at Brooklyn; the second is in the navy agency at New York.

1 They are gentlen.anly, unexceptionable young men. A Warning to Slanderers The legal punish. ment for slander in Orange county, N. Is rather severe, though occasionally just enough, ft appears that some three months ago, a woman having a husband and family, goaded to desperation by a man who boasted that he was her paramour, publicly shot him with a pistol, the bullet knock-, ing out several of the fellow's teeth, and inflicting a severe wound. She was indicted for an asKault and battery with intent to kill, and tried at the Orange County Court la it week.

The jury, after an hour's absence, returned a verdict of acquittal, which was received with great applause by the sudience. Did all slanderers of this sort get their deserts, there would be quite a number of toothless individuals about. Panic Among School Children The teachers of Public School No. 5 found a strange panic prevailing among their scholars yesterday msrn-ing. Several cf the smaller ones were crying all the morning, while the stouter ones were discussing at all possible opportunities the methods they should adopt In case of a fire.

On came out that an old fortune telling hag had told them that the school house would take fire at o'clock that day, and that many of them would be burned. One little girl said that two firemen, who boarded at her mother's, told her -that the fire would happen at that hour. In spite of all the efforts of the teacners to caim teem, tne hour of closing was unusually icome to many of the little ones. Pitta York Times. 1 PosTOFFiCE AFFAihs.

Maryland and Pennsylvania -The poste.fiice at Mlddlebrook, Montgo- gomery county, is restorea to its former site; ill lam Buxton is appointed pos'master, vie? John W. Ilause, moved away. Establishments. Fulmerville, Pike county, Pa P. F.

Fulmer. postmaner; will be supplied by messen ger from Dingmao'a Ferry, 3 miles distant, three nmes a wees, moosic, juuzerne county, ia Henry Kern. ro9tme-r Natal Tne United Statessloop of war Decatur tf mained at Panama 19th Inst. The United States sloop of war St-Marys, Com Davits lemained at Honolulu on the 8th ult. Ma ines for the Uiltd States steam frigate Colorado will be taken from the Philadelphia and Wash ngton The Colorado will carry sixty rail and file, beides a crew of four hundred and uuy men.

The Christian Population of Of 12,500 Christian population of Calcatta 6,600 tre 5,000 are Eurasians or Anglo-Indians, (the progeny of white fathers and native motners,) ana too, are Americans, scattered throughout a large native population, number-ngsome 400,000, of which 270.000 are Hindoos. 115,000 are Mohammedans and the rest Asiatics. Another Victim of the National Hotel D13jiA.SE Col Charles A Jones, contractor for the building of the custom bouses at Chicago and vmwaukee, and for the. Washington aqueduct, died at Rochester, on Monday last. His nealth, It is stated, had been impaired ever since his visit to Washington at the time of President Buchanan's inauguration.

flowing in winter. We learn from the rauroaa men mat the rarmers oould be seen yesterday plowing in the fields along tbe road from 'bis city to Niagara Falls. It is a fact that there has not been six davs this winter but nlowinor rould have been dont easily and well. Rochester vended large amounts in rebuilding, reineulating and improving the condition of the Lines, to render there auostintnfl-reliiihle atd efficient for the AP11) akd CONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION OF DISPATCHES. The Magnetic Telegraph connects at New York with all the moat reliable lines running North and East, and dispatches are received and promptly transmitted from this ofhoe to all points North, Last 4 td South and Soathwest to Baltimore.

J. KENDALL, 113A-8TB General Superintendent. THE UVEK tl V1GURATOR, PREPARED BY DR. SAN FORD, IS A ORE AT SCI EN 1IFIC MEDICAL DISCOVERY, and isdailv working cures almost too great believe. It cores as ff by magie.

tvtm. tk first dost giving benefit, and seldom mora than one bottle is re-cuiredto eure any kind of Liver Complaint, frora -tli a worst Jaundice or Dvspepsy to a common teadaohe, all of wbioh are the result of a Diseased Liiver. One dose after eating Is sufficient. to relieve the rtomach, and prevent the food from using and soar- one dose taken before retiring prevents nightmare. Only one dose taken at night loosens the bowel gently and cures cotiveness.

One dose taken after each meal will our ay- lET'One dose of two tea spoonsful will always iieve Sick Headache. One bottle taken for female obstruction removes tne cause of the disease, and makes a perfect cure. Only one dose immediately refieves the Colio.whils One dose often repented is a sure euro for Cholera Uortiua, and a preventive Cholera. One dose taken often wid prevent the reenrrenes I Bilious Attacks, while it relieves all painful fel-lars. end bottle la needed to throw ont of the Cystem the effects of medicine after a long sickness.

One bottle taken for Jaundice removes all yellow-fces-s or nnnatural color from the skin. One dose taken a short time beiore eating rives Vigor to the appetite and makes food digest well. One dose often repeated cures Chronio Diarrhea la Its worst forms, while Summer and Bowel Com yeld almost to the first dose. Aom cures attacks caused by Worms, While lor worms in children there is no surer, safer ViP1 "inedy the world, as it ntvsr failt. these stAtemenU; they tlZfi -f evidence mrove, while all who use are givmt their anani-Sqous testimonr in its avor.

We take infinite pieunrt in recommending thU medicine as a preventive for Fever and Am cum Fever, and atlVevers of a BUiou. t1 fortes With oertaintj, and thousands are willing to testifr to its wonderful virtues. Among the hnndreds ot Liver Remedies new of-fdred to the puWiu, there are none ve oan so fnil reoorrunend as DR. SAN FORD'S IN VIGOR eo generally known now throughout th felnjon. Th.s preparation is truly a Lter litifrm-tor, producing the most happy results on all who use It.

A'inioft innumerable oertifioates have been g.ren of the great virtue of this mediotne by thoea the highest standing in society, and we know it to be the best preparation now before the pubiie, Hudson County Democrat. IS.IS ON DOLLAR PER BOTTLB. baNFORD Proprietors, Nv. Broadway, New York. GFe ale 8Si'B 8.

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1 I yecterday arrested Edwin Akers on the charge ol selling goods without license. Audoua lieldiilmtobaUlorhtiaweirinceatcoix-t. 1.