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THE TRIBUNE. FEBRUARY 1. FOR PRESIDENT, HENRY CL.AY. vvVsiVG the of Kebrnarr. at 7 o'clock.

DAVli) GRAHAM, hairroai. Charles R. Secretaries. T. Death of Hon.

Alex. learn with profound regret the death of Hon. Alexander Porter, U. S. Senator from Louisiana, at his re? sidence in the parish of St.

Mary's, on the 13th alt. He was a native of Ireland, 58 years of age, having emigrated to Louisiana 33 years ago. He has been a Member of the Legislature, a Judge of the Supreme Court, served out one term in the U. S. Senate, and was in 1842 elected for a full term of six years from March, 1843.

He was a very intimate personal as well as ardent political friend of Mr. Clay. We think a Whig will be elected to fill his place. Hardware, and the Memorial. a taste of the screws.

In the memorial to Congress of Messrs. Edwin Hunt, R. Kingsland Co. V. S.

Roosevelt and others, Importers of Hardware, we find the following item, designed to exhibit the iniquities and enormities of the present Tariff: Screws, iron, called 1 Wood a cask of James's, value 15s. equal to $310: duty 12c. per lb. weight 2,250 lbs. duty paid $270 00, 87 per cent." Now 15s.

is not $310, as any clerk must know, but 59, increasing the cost $27 59, and reducing the per ccntage of duty in propor tion. But never mind we admit that the duty on Wood Screws is heavy, and intended to be Protective. But what has been its effect on the interest of the American consumer This is the essential point, but this is a point on which these gentlemen fail to give Congress any information. And yet they know, every man of them, that these same Screws arc cheaper under our present Tariff than they ever were the For? eign Manufacturers, and James especially, re? duced their prices immediately on the passage of this Tariff, and expressly to counteract it; and that he is now trying to sell them much below his former prices in our market, yet cannot, to any extent, because the American article is better and cheaper and undersells him. But abolish the Tariffand give the British full swing here, and they, with their immense capitals, low inter? est and cheaper iron and labor, would soon upset our young American Manufactures, no matter at what cost, and then they would sell at their own prices again, affording to Messrs.

Hunt, Kingsland, Roosevelt Co. the liberal profits of the good old time. All dealers understand that the profits on Imported goods are always more liberal than on the Home pro? ducer is always at hand, and ready to supply all orders at his uniform prices; but let the supply of an imported article run short, and there is a chance for a 1 Hunt Co. know that no supply can be had for months, and if they have a supply, they very naturally put up the price. Here is the substantial reason why the Mercantile interest always leans to an Importing is a larger margin, and better pro? fits.

Thus when 1 James's the article cited by the Importing gentlemen, cost $3 25 casn to tiuporc, mat was not tue importers- price here, by Jong odds; it was Four Dollars forty four cents, by the. cask. (A better American ar? ticle is now selling here at Three Dollars twen ty.five.) And here is the advantage these gen? tlemen have of our side in making cxliibits when we say that the American article costs so much, we mean that it can be bought here for that price, by any man who wants a quantity; but their prices of Foreign Hardware arc not those at which any man here can buy them, but those at which they say they can buy uni? formly leaving out Freight from the Manufactory to Liverpool; Liverpool charges, freight across the Atlantic, cScc. beside the wide margin between the price at which the goods can be im? ported, and that at which any body but an im? porter can procure them here; which we have just seen is or recently was 25 per cent. But no matter; let us have a comparison on JamesV with 4 American Wood Screws Amount of a cask jThe same cask of' Ameri of James's Wood can Screws nt present prices at 50 pr ct dis.

is 21 15s, being the lowest price this article was ever sent out pre? vious to 15s at $4 I 27 Caik sl carriage 32s 7 74 234 01 Commission, 39... 7 02 Ship'ng charges 95 A 6. 7. 19 00 Groce 20 40 2u 26 29 31 7. 8.

9. 28 20 40 40 20 30 32 3-1 1 3 8. 9. 10 88 80 E0 160 40 33 35 37 10 1. 8.

9. 10. H. 128 20 co i2o i2o so' 43 46 Ml) 10. 11, 12.

82 60 60 50 40 241 98 51 -'5 61) Duty 25per 60 49 11 13-C 44 40 Interest fiprct on 98. 33 6 13 12. 13. 14.5 56 40 40 5 20 40 20) expenses and nn cartuce. 50 14.

33 40 20 2n) Cash Uli 16.L12 60 10 $493 60 Discount 35 pr et. 172 76 320 8-1 Discount for cash 5 percent. 16 01 8( Jrof ptevious to 1842 James' Screws were sent out at 45 and 47? average 45; and it was often very difficult for the mer. chants to obtain them even at much sc that it was often stipulated in giving an ordei that a certain portion of James's Screws should be sent. The article then cost (at 45 per cent) 75 the net cash to import.

The American Screwy at the time of the passage of the late Tariff about $-1 the they now cost 25 per as per statement, or 19 percent less when the late Tarirl passed. James (anxious to keep the trade) entered into an arrangement with the agent of a large Birmingham house to supply his Screws to the mer? chants here at 84 the jC, six months' credit, being equivalent to the the price of former years, but could obtain no orders. In fact Ledsam's Screws," scarcely if at all inferior to James's, are now offered here at but meet little or no American article at $325 being regarded as decidedly preferable. Now let us suppose Messrs. Hunt, Kingsland Co.

had gone before Congress with a true and complete statement, instead of their incorrect and partial one, (for there is hardly an item in their table which the cost to import ia not materi. ally and olten glaringly understated,) saying, "This Tariff has reduced the price of Wood Screws to the American People, while incrcas 1 incr the per centageof Revenue paid to the Gov 'crnment; it has widened the market for Amen 1 can "Wood Screws, and so enabled the manufac turers to employ a much larger number of American mechanics and the enlarged and steady demand has enabled our artisans to reduce materially the price of the article below that of 'either British or American in former years: but we cannot make so great profits now as formerly, 'since no man is goose enough to pay us 2o per cent, profit on articles he can procure in a few hours of the makers about as cheap as we can. We 1 therefore pray your honorable body to break down the Tariff, allow the great Foreign manufactur ers to use up, at whatever expense, their Ameri can rivals, deprive the American workmen of employment, and get the trade all back into their own hands, and then they and we can do busi. 'ness satisfactorily, charge liberal prices, and 1 make the good old profits of former This would have been plain, honest talk though we think it would hardly have induced Congress to cut down the Tariff. What of that The story they hate told will not produce that effect either, and it has the additional drawback of not being the fair thing.

have not yet done with Hardware. International Copyright. The Cincinnati Morning Herald argues that authors have no natural moral right of property in their own works, but that whatever right of property they may have is conventional and created by law The man who has produced a bin of grain, or a box of axes, has a natural right to use them or sell them on such terms as he pleases; but the man who, with equal labor and greater genius, has in the same time produced a Poem or a he has no right at all to his product! He may read it, indeed, if he can find a sly place where he shall not be observed; but the moment he attempts to realize a share of bread and clothing for his labor, the first man who buys a copy to read or sell again may set to work in opposition to the author, producing copies for the mere cost of copying, and so strike dead the right founded on absolute production is a moral unsoundness, a want of heart, implied in this argument, that strikes us as most revolting. We instinctively clap a hand on our money there happens to be any thing in it? whenever we hear a man arguing against Inter 1 national Copyright. But the Herald, after inferring, correctly enough, that Copyright, if absolute, ought to be world-wide and perpetual, affirms? "God never cave intellect to be thus locked up by these miserable devices of monopoly.

The man does not deserve freuius, who wouldfdemand any further protection for it from Government, than enough to secure him a fair share of the good things of this life." Well, sir, how do you know that the author to whom you deny the right of fixing a price on the products of his own books you insist on reading without paying him a not thereby deprived of a fair share of the good things of this life." We all know that Walter Scott lived long a bankrupt and died a martyr I to his superhuman efforts to pay his debts, when one cent per volume from those who in this coun? try read with delight his works would have ensur? ed him an old age of allluence and Wordsworth and Coleridge have been needy and straitened while the best intellects throughout our land were irradiated and elevated by their genius. Henry Neele and Thomas Haynes Ravi.f.y died carlv in life, victims of destitution, misery, blighted hopes, while our country was ringing with their still rising fame which never brought them from their hundreds of thou? sands of American admirers the price of a loaf of might swell the catalogue indefinitely, but the task is thankless. But test the Herald's logic. Mr. Alison devotes twenty years to the compilation of his History and, being a subject of Great Britain, he will re? ceive therefrom, wc will suppose, an adequate remuneration.

But suppose he had been born in Switzerland instead, or suppose Scotland were still an independent kingdom, his recompense, in the absence of International Copyright, would not have been one-tenth so much as now. Yet would his necessities, his wants, or his just deserts have been less Would he not have a just claim for recompense on all who chose to avail them? selves of his labors And can wc better deter? mine the just measure of his due than by securing to him what people choose to give for his produc tions rather than not have them logic oi the Cincinnati man is as loose as his honesty. Cole's are informed that the exhibition of these fine paintings will soon close, and they be finally removed. Those who do not see them will lose an opportunity of seeing good paintings that does not often occur. 4i The Notch in tho White Mountains "is admirably painted.

The old bald mountain with the mist round the variegated waterfall, are all so like nature that one scarcely seems to be looking on a painting, but the scene itself. The Past and Present" are both ad? mirably painted, though badly named. It is dif? ficult to conceive the bustle and freshness and animation of life to be the Past, and the dilapida? ted ruined moat, and the shattered Keep, as representing the Present, although it is all strictly true. Ruins and the Past are too in? timately associated in our minds to be easily sep? arated. But the "Present" is finely finished, and how gloriously the fading sunlight streams through the ruined archway before you.

The effect of light there is admirable. The aqueducts stretching across the Campagna of Rome arc drawn also just as they stand. The onlv objee tion to the picture is, Mr. Cole has given too great luxuriance to the country around. The barren? ness and sterility, or at least the stinted growth of that to the loneliness of the scene, and, even if it had not existed, an artist we think would have been apt to have made it so, for the effect, instead of erring on the other side of na.

turc. Mr. Cole has lately added a new to this collection, "A Scene on the This is in his natural vein, and is surpassing beautiful. The declining sun defines the huge Catskill Mountains with that peculiar clearness against the evening sky which is observed only at sunset. The stream sleeps in quiet beautv be.

low, and the smoke of a locomotive that is speed? ing over it floats back along the hill-side, and tho deep shades fall over the grecn-sward, all just as they are seen by the lover of nature who rides of a summer evening back of the beautiful village of Catskill. But with all his beauty and natnral. nesa, Mr. Cole will color too much. He cannot get the green, green enough, and the luxuriance of nature, luxuriant enough.

We regard this as a defect. We advise those of our readers who have not seen these pain tings to do so before they are final? ly removed. ins? Trie Weather. The severe cold still continues, despite the brief promise of night before last. The North River is frozen solid down within a short distance of this City, and the Erie Railroad boats can no longer reach Piermont.

The Harbor and Bay are full of floating ice, which obstruct and embarrass the movements of the shipping and ferry-boats. The Sound is filled with floating ice, and completely blockaded up about Throg's Neck, so that the Mohegan, which started for Boston yesterday morning, was obliged to return without effecting a passage. There has been no boat or Mail from Boston since Saturday night, and probably none I has reached Boston. The Housatonic route was blockaded yesterday, and we had only a Land Mail from New-Haven of Tuesday evening. It is an anxious time for those who expect friends from the Eastward.

P. S. From the East at last I About 11 o'clock last evening we were favored by Messrs. Harnden Co. with Boston papers of Tuesday, brought express by them over land? the Sound being effectually closed.

We clip the following items mainly from the Boston Mail of edition at 9 A. M. The Atlas of Tuesday morning has returns from 10 towns of the votes cast at the election held the day before in the Third Congressional District. They Abbott, Whig, Osgood, Loco, 2,018 Abolition 546. Mr.

Ab? bott's net gain 257, which renders his election nearly certain. The Mail says No abatement in the cold this Thermometer still coquetting with zero. Britannia is advertised to for Liver? pool to-morrow but how she is to get out of the harbor is a question for the members of the stone house in Charlestown in solve. She is as appa- rentlv locked in ice as we were last night in the arms of Morpheus. It seems to us that if our mer? chants hud hired bout to run down to the islands during these cold nights, in order to keep the chan? nel open, they would thereby have saved money and trouble.

First rate skating on the ice in the harbor. Two of our first men are reported to have gone down to drink, yesterday, through an in-hole in the ice, und come out below the islands. They report that the codfish do not perspire so freely as they did six months ago. Capital second trial of Aimer Ro? gers, Jr. who killed Air.

Lincoln, Warden of the Statt; Prison, will be commenced this morning in the Supreme Court. George T. Bigelow and Geo. Bemis, Esqrs. for the prisoner.

Fires in house. and barn of Mr. Ezra Fuller, of Necdhum, were entirely destroyed by lire about 2 o'clock yesterday morning, with all their The house was occupied by Mr. Fuller and by Lucius B. Nutting, and their I families had barely time to escape the flames, some of them with nothing but their night clothes.

ZZiT The Norfolk Chronicle contains the details of four extensive fires, all the work of incendiaries, which have taken place on different farms in Thet ford and its vicinity on Saturday lust. This dia? bolical and destructive spirit is said to be rife in that district. Fires in learn from Winslow's Express that a fire broke out in Bangor on Thurs? day morning last, which totally destroyed a barn be? longing to Ezrtt Jewell, together with three horses, eighteen pigs and seventy tons of hay. The prop? erty was insured for from 1500 to $2000. About the same time a fire broke out in Dexter, in a large woollen factory owned by Culler, which was entirely destroyed with its contents.

By this lire about L00 operatives, mule and female, are thrown out of employment. There was $20,000 insured on this property. $16,000 at the Etna Office, Hartford, and the balance at the Mutual, orcester. The factory and machinery cost 70,000. The Frontier Journal states that a large stable, owned by Mr.

Joseph Foss of Weston, was destroyed by fire on the nit. A considerable amount oi property was destroyed among which were one yoke of oxen, two valuable horses, IUI tons of hay, 200 bushels oats, and seven barrels of pork. Said to be the work ofthat reckless incendiary, the pipe. In Crawford, a few days since, a double Saw? mill and Shingle Machine, together with a large quantity of lumber, were consumed by fire. Palmo's Oeera the new Opera House is now one of the lions of the day, we paid it a short visit yesterday.

It is situated in Chamber-street, next the Arcade Bath, with which it is connected. The decorations of the interior are of the most tasteful and gorgeous description. The medallions and fronts of the boxes as well as the scenery generally, are in a much higher style of art than such decorations usually are. The drop scene, which is very beautiful, was executed by Guidicini and Monachesi, tho architectural scenery by fBragaldi and Mulini, the landscapes by P. Grain, and the medallions and other paintings in oil by S.

Chtnnon. These works are all highlv creditable to the artists employed upon them. The decorations have all been executed under the su? perintendence of Bragaldi. The mode of illumina? ting is beautiful and unique, the side chandeliers being formed to resemble clusters of colored can? dles. The audience part of the house is conve? niently arranged, every seat being numbered and se? cure to the holder of the ticket with the correspond? ing number, by which arrangement every person is certain of a seat.

The entrance to the pit is through the centre of the boxes like the parquette of the French Theatre in New-Orleans, where the most fashionable ladies sit, and the price is the same lo all parts of the house. The Company is as strong as Mr. Palmo has been able to make it with the materials within his reach, and the orchestral portion is unusually powerful and effective, embra? cing thirty-two of the best performers in the city, with Rapetti for a leader. A band of wind instru ments of twelve members is also enlaced for the stage. The chorus consists of twenty-four perform? ers and twelve supernumeraries.

A sufficient number of officers have been engaged to preserve order in and about the house, and the Railroad Company have engaged to run a convenient car after the conclusion of the performances, for the accommodation of persons living in the upper part of the city. Great credit is due to Mr. Palmo for one reform he has introduced: there is no part of his house devoted to purposes of assignation, and no female can enter the house unless accompanied bv a gen? tleman. This is one great step towards wiping away the stain which rests on those places of amuse? ment. We are truly happy to see that Mr.

Palmo has the courage to be right on this point. the whole the Opera House is a beautiful es? tablishment, and till the appointments evince a poli? tic liberality, and the opera music will have an opportunity of hearing the best operas in a style equal to any thing ever attempted on this sido of the Atlantic. The is extremely well adapted for concerts and lectures, and we should think would be a capital place for holding the Phreno-Mnemono techmc lectures of Prof. Gouraud, could it be ob? tained tor thut purpose. A Defalcation Third Tell? er of the Merchants' Bank, considering him? self on his death-bed, sent for the cashier of the bank on Monday evening, and in antici? pation of the discovery of his defalcation, at the examination of the bank accounts, ad knowledged that he had defrauded the bank to the amount of TWENTY THOUSAND DOL? LARS which deficency is now ascertained to be exactly the sum abstracted.

The name of the third teller is Mr. Kissum. Adv The JMany Evening Journal, copying hrticles borrowed frooi ru by the Express, correcttheerron Ol the litter journal. The two line, which rj.e Express, added tti appropriating oar Mississippi article on the election of (Jen. Speight U.

S. Senator contain a bad error. The name of the Dew Governor of Mississippi is not (j Brower but Albert Gallatin Brown. PlT Parke Godwin gave a most instructive Lecture on Democracy-, Pacific and Construe tivef at the Society Library last evening. He premised that the great Problem of the Age is the ascertainment and removal of the causes of our wide-spread and increasing Want and the downward tendencies of our whole Social state.

In old Countries we see the masses constantly becoming more dependent, degraded and miserable, while Wealth, though increasing, is steadily concentrating into few hands, and yet fewer. This is a universal fact; and its univer? sality proves that it does not result from this or that Political organization, as it is manifested alike under all. In our own Country, this result is postponed and obscured, not, averted, by our youthful vigor and our abundance of unappro? priated land. But in Europe, and especially in Great Britain, the condition of the great majority has long been and still is growing worse and worse, so that, while Labor produces far more now than formerly, it receives a much smaller share of the product; and the workman in every7 department receives but half as much wheat or beef for a week's work to-day as he did live hun? dred years ago, when his work produced but half what it now does. This cannot go on the work? man has already reached the brink of starvation, and is often driven beyond it.

A reform must be effected, or universal anarchy and destitution are inevitable. Democracy proclaims the equal rights of all men. It demands equal laws, equal privileges, equal opportunities for all. It contemplates Hu? manity as one vast symmetrical body, of which the individuals arc members. But no Govern? ment, no party, has ever accepted and acted upon the full idea of Democracy.

No party proposes measures calculated to place the poor and hum? ble where Democracy implies that they should be. Governments arc devoted to the protection of life and property which consists of the results of past Labor; while the active, breathing Labor of most precious Property? this is left a prey to its own necessities and to the rapacity of Capital, with which it ought to be in trustful union, but is more generally at deplorable variance. United Union of Cap? ital and Labor in a true and mutually beneficent is the great work to be accom? plished, and their means of effecting it arc re? vealed in the system of Industrial Association proclaimed by Charles Fourier. Organization is essential to efficiency in all peaceful as in warlike, in industrial as in philanthropic effort. Every church, or intem? perance society, or township, is in some sort an Association.

But we need complete and univer? sal, not imperfect and partial Association; the de? fective must be replaced by the perfect. Espe? cially must Labor, the great fountain and support of all improvement, be rightly organized and di? rected. The great battle of our age is to emanci? pate and dignify make it efficient, in? dependent, attractive. With this result arc con I nected and blended Intellectual elevation for the mass, and all Social blessings. This result it is the destiny of our age to attain, though the pro? gress and triumph of Association.

Such, hastily penned, arc a few of the ideas of Mr. Godwin's Lecture. mass of those attempting to do business have a very imperfect notion of the immense advantages of Advertising. Many a man gives a thousand dollars a year for a favora? ble Stand, yd gruUgCS a hundred fur advovtioing not reflecting that a hundred men would be made acquainted with his business through the newspa? pers where one would pass and observe his store, though in the most favorable location. There arc a few who understand this matter and arc making fortunes, while thousands around them arc toiling in like pursuits barely to live, and often failing in that.

Wc have been impressed with this truth a thousand times, but especially in observing new Inventions. Last fall, for instance, a friend called in to beg a favorable notice of a new Stave-Cutting Machine, invented by a Vermont, cr. We complied, but remarked, If this ma? chine is what you represent it, the proprietor ought not to ask favors of any must be able to command whatever he requires." lie said the man was quite poor, his invention new and unknown, Sic. and it was generous to give him a we gave it. Afterward wc saw his was no mistake in the opinion of a better man, backing ours, it was richly worth $50,000.

Yet the owner went back into the mountains, and there he will proba? bly remain, until, in the rapid progress of im? provement, something as good in the same line will have been invented by some one else, and then his chance will be gone; though he ought to have made with it in two Sonic shrewder man may buy up for a song the invention that he so little understands how to profit extraordinary chance may ena ble him to reap a portion of the just fruits of such an the probability is all the other way. The man does not understand doing business. An inventor should proceed on a very different plan. First satisfying himself that his invention is of positive and available value, he should, if destitute, unite with him, by sale or partnership, a man who has means and knows how to do business. He should now obtain the opinion and certificates of scientific men of established fame, paying them the value of their time and trouble.

These he should publish, conspicuously and wide? ly, in the newspapers, and not think of begging their columns either. Running to Editors for puffs is not the thing at all. The public will not be likely to give much heed to the fact that an Editor thinks (per order) this or that a "ood thing; but the judgment of Silliman, or Ren wick, or whoever is eminent in the line of the in? vention, will be heard and respected. With their commendations before him, an Editor can speak to some purpose. Of course, a man must have something worth advertising, and know how and wherein to ad? vertise, or he will probably throw away his money.

No business can be done to advantage without fitness in the doer. But, these conditions fulfilled, money may be made in abundance in departments of trade which are now languid and profitless; and we are sure that three times the present amount of advertising might be done with great advantage both to the advertisers and the public. The understand that this beautiful and valuable instrument is now packed up and stored in Philadelphia. Dr. Lardner.

who was lecturing with it having failed to meet with suc cess in his efforts to make it profitable, the eompanv who own it have thought best to ithdraw it. Nashville Whig bill tu additional revenue to meet the liabilities of the State, ha? at length passed both House? of the General Apsembly. Precious Metals, for the Cnrrcncy, No. X. What is the Currency 1 in precise language and of what does it consist as to matter of fact I I assume, as incontrovertible, that it consists of the precious metals, in whatever form found out of the earth, and of nothing else.

These metals are the Currency of the World, by the nature and force of things, by the laws of trade, and by the universal consent of all arc, and must be so, independent of legislation, or with its sanction. They arc in no sense the creature of legislation, but may be and are con? firmed by legislative enactments. They are THE CURRENCY, because of their intrinsic value in themselves, and because of the great amount of useful purposes to which they can be applied. Some of the peculiarities of gold are, that it can? not be dissolved by water, corroded by the atmo? sphere, or burnt by fire it is consequently im? perishable in its is susceptible of the least possible division and capable of reunion. Silver docs not possess aU these qualities, but most nearly in these peculiarities resembles gold.

Sil? ver may be drawn into a wire so fine that one grain will extend more than 400 feet, an ounce of gold encircling silver, may be drawn into a wire so fine as to extend more than 1300 miles. The great value and beauty of these metals circumscribe their use, but nothing is more evident, than if more abundant, they would be applied to innu? merable uses, for which they are now too expen? sive. If more abundant they would be used for cooking untensils, and for table furniture, for ma? ny mechanical and agricultural instruments, and as a material in building: nothing, for instance, could be more durable than gold for covering the roofs of buildings and no material is more easily wrought; gold or silver would form a chain of great strength for agricultural or other purposes? hence it does not follow that if these metals were as plenty as iron, they would be less valuable than iron, an assertion frequently made. They are not, however, as plenty as iron, and there is not the least probably that they ever will be. The Former of all things, has given the metals, as all things else in such proportions, as he saw tit, wishout consulting any of his creatures, and their wisdom consists in properly applying, and using the fallacy of all such unnatural assumptions.

They are like assuming that if gravitation tended upward, every would fly from the it does not tend upward, and wc are not in danger of such a catastrophe, and are in as little danger of the precious metals becoming as plenty as iron. In England silver is not a legal tender for sums above twenty shillings, still it is as much curren? cy there as in the United States, and in ingots, and bars, constitutes a large portion of the funds in the Bank of England. P. To the Editors of the Commercial Jldvei tiser Upon looking over my letter of to-day, just now, in your evening paper, 1 notice two errors which must have occurred in transcription. The words affirmative" and have been made to change places.

In the second paragraph the sentence should read you answer in th? affirmative.you must abandon the principles of your Church. Should you answer in the negative you must aban? don your own principles. In the seventh paragraph it should rend? If you can answer in the affirmative and sustain your affirmation, Vour obedient servant, JONA. VYAINWRIGHT. Thursday afternoon Jan.

30di. 13. Perrault, the former Cashier of the New-Orleans Citizens' Bank, indicted for embez? zling the funds of that institution, has been tried iiml acquitted. We are requested to call the attention of Hardware dealers to the great sale of rIardwarof Cutlery, by J. S.

Platt, at 10 o'clock this day. invite the attention of our readers to the exertions of the Messrs. Fowlers and Strachau, who are now giving Lectures in the city, in Williamsburgh, and Jersey City, and soon ex? pect to give a full course in Brooklyn, and ut Clin? ton Hall in this city. It appears they are deter? mined to spare no pains to bring this subject before the public in such manner as to make it highly in? teresting, practical and useful! The main object of their Lectures is to reform und improve mankind, by presenting the true function of each faculty of the mind; the cause and consequence of their perver? sion, and the evil effects of such perversion on the minds of others hence, in the course of their Lec? tures, they have occasion to speak of the cause of moPt of the evils existing in society and their reme edy. This they do in measured terms.

They have published many books upon subjects of vital im? portance, handledjn such a practical and comraon Bi nse manner as to make them oi value to They have traveled over every State in the Union and the Provinces, and their experience and practi? cal talents qualify them to be instructive in their Lectures and beneficial to those who consult them for delineations of character. They have accumulated a larsre und very expen? sive Cabinet, containing notorious skulls, drawings of particular persons, and busts or casts of distin? guished and remarkable individuals of this and other countries. The other day, we noticed a most ad? mirable cast of H. Clay: also of Thomas H. Ben? ton, Weitster.

Henry A. Wise, N. P. TuJImadde, Dr. Cliannimr.

William Lesiir-tt, Ovc. Tin collection is open to the inspection of every person free of charge, and is well worth examining. Phrenology, in tin hands of those gentlemen, has a definite and tangible shape; and we advise the yuumi, both male and parent, the teacher, and the man of consult them professionally, if they wish to form suitable associations for life, put their children to proper employments, or obtain the services of those who will serve them faithfully. Prof. bronson will lecture this evening on the Laws of Body and Mind at the Consistory Room.

giving a copy of his Elements of Physiology to every auditor. We are requested to say that the John Wr. Tiiorne mentioned in the case of John W. Thome vs. Samuel H.

Moser, is not the John W. Thome of L18 Broad street and 1G Hudson street. Sheriff Circular of this gen tleman ia iu our advertising columns, to which we would di? rect die attention of oar readeis and the public Sttch an otfice as he proposes to is one 'if great conven? ience to the bar, and we think will me-t with encourage? ment. Mr. Westervelt'i long experience and acquaint? ance iu this City well qualifi-s him for the business.

Lejral treutlernen from abroad who may send him for service, will have tlnir business doue with promptness and accuracy. Tue Comic Lecture on Animal Magnetism at.the'Ame? rican Museum will be repeated to-rnidit. tor the tourth die beside other splendid entertainments by Valentine and others. The Gips-v Queen is still theie. My Son, Robert VV.

Edmonds, having abandoned my protection and home, this is to inform die pub? lic that he is not authorized to transact any business of any kind on my account. to request my friends, if they shoald meet him, to force him to return to my place of Residence, Hudson-street. jJl W. EDMONDS. -y Phonos Grapho announces another Lecture Custom Hall, Friday Evksiig, at 7 o'clock.

Subjects? Psycography and or the embo? diment of Thought and reprcirntativei of the from the Organs of Sprech and the operation will be happily illustrated, (tu satisfy many inquiries in relation to this pai ticular,) by Pictohiai. elucidation, visible to all in the House. This, together with the Process ok the Akt, will be practically (as well as orally) explained and demon? strated. This Lecture will be Introductory to a Course of Five L-ctures with practical lessons, soon as a Class of Five Hundred shall have eeu organized of botli Ladies ami Gen txemex There will also be Five subsequent Lectures (slow, distinct Oritions.) upon amusing and interesting subjects, in order to reduce the science to practice wiih facility and happy effect. Tickets lor Friday Evening 90 cents.

Tn be had the Atheut-nm Hotel, th-'-arlton House. WaVerley House, die of Tammany Hall, 2nd at the door. Different Tickets for the full Course, payable when the Class shall have been organized, of which due notice will be given, in this and other journals of the day. 1 HARD1NGE By This Morning's Mail. Rejeotion of yir.

porler, Correspondence of The Tribune. Wisiiiv.JTuJi. Toenljy, Jan. Mr. Greelry? Dear Sir: Porter has rejected this day.

He only obtained thke Walker of Havward of and Sevier of Arkansas. 42 voted agairst' bun. Xo party vote this Some very tall en. deuce was before tlie Senate. will be hung up tie at least.

He may be confirmed but his recent course in the House renders it doubtful CrjsHiso will not receive the assent of tie Senate to his mission but the $15,000 has been expended. Upsiu goes to France shortly; and it con. sidered almost' necessary thai Mr. Webstir should be called in to negotiate with Mr. Pack, enhara about the Oregon Territory.

The nomination of Mr. Powell to Altona his not been acted upon, nor will it be till Choate leaves the Senate. Walker of Miss, is desirous of having bis name sent in as Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. I think those facts will open the eyes of a fev people in New-York. The Senate are in a very wrathy mood juu now, and it is doubtful whether thev would con.

firm even the nomination of a Webster, just now. There were five Senators and thirteen men. bers of the House at the Levee to-night, and any quantity of ladies. Weather as cold as Nova Zembla, almost. JrjNIOS, Junior.

number of persons now dail. arriving in the city we rather think exceeds thing of the kind known at the same period of season at any former time. 0. Picavune. I nited States Supreme Court, Tuesday Jan.

1. Alexander G. McNutt, who sues for the use of Leggitt, Smith ec Law rence, vs. Richard J. Bland et al.

In error to tin Circuit Court of the United States for the Souib ern District of Mississippi. Mr. Justice Baldwii delivered the opinion ol this Court, reversing thi judgment of said Circuit Court in this cause wirj costs, and remanding the cause, with directions enter judgment for the plaintiff in that Court. ISro. K).

Edmund P. Gaines and wife, complain ants. vs. Beverly Chew et A SS TONAL CEEDINGS. by the reporter of the new-york tribune Reject ion ol" Hr.

Rule, dec. Washington, In Senate, to-day, among various memorial! presented was one by Mr. Buchahan from the proprietor of the Ledger and other citizens of Philadelphia for payment of Treasury Notes re? fused by the Secretary of the Treasury as having been stolen by some person connected with the New-Orleans Custom House; stating that the notes were taken in the ordinary course of busi? ness, bearing no mark of having been canceled, tfce. Mr. B.

hoped, as there were other cases, that a general bill would be reported for the pay? ment of these notes, which was demanded by justice and "good faith. Referred to the Judi? ciary Committee. Berrien, from this Committee, reported back the House bill to refund Gen. Jackson's Fine with an amendment providing that nothing in the act be construed as a censure of Jadgc Hall, by whom it was imposed. Resolutions were offered (and lie over) by Mr.

Semple, calling on the President for an estimate of the expense of expense of employing a vessel of the Home Squadron to run at. regular intervals from New Orleans via Cuba, Porto Rico, to the Carrihean Sea. and one to Chugres once a month and by Mr. Benton, requesting the President to give notice to the British Govern? ment lor the termination of the provision of the late treaty in relation to the escape of criminals from justice also, one in relation to the escape of slaves to the British dominions under said treaty. The remainder of the day was consumed in Executive session, in which the nomination of Mr.

Porter as Secretary of War was rejected. In the House, the consideration of Mr. Adams' report on the rules was resumed during the morn? ing hour; ami Mr. Stiles of concluded his eloquent speech in support of the 21st rule; re? plying to the arguments of Messrs. ling man of N.C., Beardsley and others; warmly denounc? ing the movements of the Abolitionists as directly and inevitably tending to a dissolution of the Union; appealing to Northern men for their aid.

The subject was laid over; and on motion of Mr. Parmenter, the House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the Union (Mr. J. Campbell in the Chair) and again took up the bill to authorize the transfer of appropriations from one head to another in the Navy during the present fiscal year. Mr.

P. again explained the necessity of the bill, the appropriation for repairs of vessels having been expended and others re? maining unused and demanded by the necessi? ties of the public service to be applied to this ob? ject. Urgent appeals were made in behalf of the discharged workmen at several stations, to em? ploy whom there was no authority unless this power wus given. Alter a debate by various gentlemen during the day, the bill was reported to the House, with an amendment; and without action thereon, the House adjourned. Argus.

Things in Philadelphia. Correspondence of the JNew-York Tribune. Philadelphia, Jan. M. the Pennsylvania Senate a resolution has been introduced of an important cha? racter, instructing the Committee on Ways and Means to bring forward a bill for the sale of the Delaware division of the Pennsylvania Canal, and also the main line of public improvements from Phi? ladelphia to Pittsburg.

The matter elicited considerable debate, in the course of which Mr. Champneys stated he believed the Main Line to be worth twenty-Jive million ilol lur.s, and that it had been much undervalued. Mr. sometimes entertains strange no? tions in a political point of that with proper management the work would in the end be able to pay die whole debt of tlie State. To ask twenty-five millions would be tantamount to pass a law that the work should not be sold.

Mr. S. was in favor of parting with a small portion of the Public Improvements, and managing the rest 1 with care and thing unknown to the present administration. The State was able to pay her if the taxes were in proportion with those of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, I have no doubt the interest on the same would be difficulty was in the non-fulfilment of laws passed! In the hiU2uage of a once great man, Nicholas Bid die, the curse of the State is that her public men would not come out in favor of public honesty, but turned all their attention to the nursing of their own miserable popularity! For the past two years the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has been in a tem? not of repudiation, and it is time something was done to relieve the People from the stain now rivetted upon them. The question is one of irreat importance, and before the debate the Senate adjourned.

I will, however, advise you at the earliest moment of all that trans? pires. The bill to reduce the capital stock of the Penn? sylvania Bank from $400 to $250 per share, has passed the Senate. In the House, Hon. George Toland from the city made some verv appropriate and sensible re? marks relative to the passage of a resolution pro viding for the payment of the interest on the public debt.17 Mr. Smith of Bucks County, has spoken up? on the same subject.

Girard sreneral meeting ol me Stockholders of this Institution will take place on Saturday next at 12 o'clock. I will forward an ac i count ot the same for Monday's Tribune..