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B 03 I MESS HOTIOES. To Advertisers-?Tho Large Circu satiok of The rrftuM In both city and country, and ?.?pe eltJ\v n lai.dile.. render* It the liest |k)m.lilt> medium for nil Sow who Ah to make their business and want* known to the 11,0 Wblch wU1 ,",,Ur? P"""1* and profitable re tum?._. iTlTv KXTISIN6 i) I r k C T 0 b t . j??w advertisements H'll.1. be pol-no under THElB respective; heads as rot.low?: FIRST PAGE. SECOND PAGE. SECOND PAGE. Sjjtctai Nfitieet. frwtrtrcfioi. Pianot. Political Notiett ..., Water Cure.Mtgnctic Powder.. SedmbvAuction...[For Salt. Sewing MacAiXe,.. Wanted . T? I*t. Coal, ep. Want Place,.!. fnrd?wr<-. third page. Boarding.! Window Shade s... Insurance. Sew Publication:. j Hate. Pitentt. Amueemrnf. Telegraph. PropotaU. Vinan^al.1 Jewelry. Legal Notice*. For the tMidautMi r>rV (*oo4t. California. seventh PAG F. Clothing. Traveling. Ccrparafn Notiert, liedicinct.' fr'or Europe, (re... h0lii>AV (ilFTS.?Among the many fan? cy article* offered to the attention of those purchasing to make presents, the Tool Cheats for sale by J. W. k c. Sl'i. t.ivas, 7(3 Sixth av. comer Waverlv place, ehould not be forgotten. These Chests are titled up in the most tasteful atvle. and contHin tools which are really excellent. We. can baldly suggest anything more appropriate or pleasing to a boy than a gift of this k'.nd. U e have also a general assortment of Fancy and Furnishing Hardware, euch as Codec Ums. Tea Sets, Table Cutlery, Spoons, Trays, Can? tors. 4:C. Sec at very moderate prices. j. \V. k C. SULLIVAN. 76 Slxth-av. corner Waverly-place. The New Year's Gift Concert.?It 1a just three days, leaving out Christmas day, since this Concert was announced, and the tickets were ready for de? livery : in that brief lime, over ftro tho-tt'tnd tick'tt have been disposed of, and much inconvenience huS been experi? enced bv the crowds which throng the Ollico 3nu Broad? way. Barely 600 tickets remain to be disposed of, and several days are yet wanting to the Concert. We earnestly recommend our friends to lose no time in registering their names, rw, although the Concert does not Uike place until the 3d but, at Tripler Hall, the books will nectisarlly clo6e In a day or two. a Seasonable Presents.?As this is the season when husbands who love their wives feel bound to wrap them up In comfortable furs?und when parents who love their boys, are in the habit of treating them with new cans, "all round'?it may not bo deemed mal aprupotlu call their attention to the very full and complete assortment of these artirlea to be found at the establishment of K.nox, 128 Fulton at, whose fashionable hats have attained such a world wide celebrity. This gentleman has acquired u vast popularity ut our fairs, and elsewhere, for the excellence of his rnnnuiactures. Presents for the Holidays.?If any Of our readers wish to mak" suitable Presents for the Holi? days, we recommend them to our friend, j. B. Miller, 131 Canal-id., Where they ran find beautiful Embroidered Toilet Slippers, (for ladies and gents,} Quilted Coots and Buskins, Jenny Llnd Toilet Shoes, Gaiter Boots and Slippers for Cails and Parties, with Misses'and Children's Boon and Shoes in great variety. Ladies, give him a call. A Suitable Holiday Present.?One of the most appropriate presents a gentleman can make a lady, is a aetot Young's beautiful Fura, nnd there is no bet? ter place in the City to get then than at Young's cheap Fur Stores, 613 Broadway and 96 Bowery. ' d27 ttrt Of"" Velvet Cloaks and Sacks; Cloth, Silk and Merino do, of the most desirable styles and patterns and ftt greatly reduced prices, may be found at Hitchcock 4c Leadbeater's, 347 Broad way, corner of l.eonard-ai. where also every variety of Dry floods, Silks, Shawls, Merluocs, Do Laities, Cashmeres, Calicoes and everything else. In fact, that ladies wear or families u*e ?ran be obtained cheaper than In any other part of tho City. Their Sixpenny Calicoes and Shilling De Lajne?, as well us many Of their -ilher cheap goods, are most desirable for holiday presents for domestic*. d27 if From the Sunday Disputed. 'Progress <>f Art.?Talk of Art- Unions, Academies of Design, and all such matters as much as you please. For our part, we believe that there Is us much tal lent employed in the Daguerrian Artus there is in any of those Institutions which cluiui so large a share of public at? tention. Look at the magnificent rooms recently opened in .Broadway, on the corner of Leonard-st, by WlHTEHURST, and the no leas splendid specimens of art which are there exhibiu-d. WlliTEIlURST is perhaps the most extensively engaged in this business of any man In the United Stales.? He bus now in auccessfid operation. Daguerroan Galleries In five or aix oflhe leading c'.V.es ofihe Union, in which the most talented artists are engaged. Vigil these rooms if you would know the amount of tulenl and capital employed in this useful an 1 popular art. Dr. Roger's Strut of Liverwort, Tar, ami Cakch alacua ?This Medicine has now become aatatidaril article for tho cure of Coughs, Colds, Influenza. Bronchitis, and all other Lung Complaints tending to CONSUMPTION. II is prepared bv a thoroughlyeducafd Physician, fa graduate of. the University of Pennsylvania;)?it contains no opium, calomel, or any other mineral, or poiaonous in ereaient,'.? prompt in Ua aciion, always safe., and will cure the worst Cold or Cough, au aurely aa ills liken. Among those who have used ii In this city, wu would refer to William Clark, plumber, Flfty-ar-cond-at.; T. Nlc A!I/?i<t ! fl Fulton-sbj a. Lung, l aker." 388 Pearl-St ; Rev. 11. Hum. I'nalurluf tho Church of lbe Good Shepherd, and iiionv liundred others. Clergymen, Public Sneakers, and u I others affected with Bronchitis are especially advised to try the above. For sale ut tho Dbpot, Gothic Hall, 316 Broad way, and by all the Cilv retail Druggists. Price? In large bottles, S'l: or 6 bottles for$5; d?7 2W Br^ Watts's Nervous Antidote has already cured hundreds of case* of Nervous Debility. Neu ralgiu.'Tic Doloreux, RVii.tiat s.t, Gout, Palsy, Asthma, sCousuujplloni Convulsions, St. Vita's Dance,|DelerlumTre? mens, SpaftlM, Ciamps. Anaphrodisls, und every hour brings frech ptoof of lie miraculous power, fl per bottle, 102 Nassau si Children's Beaver Hats, Gifts I'or New Ye-ak ? Ban i a. led ConaI-8t., has a choice assort iiimiii of Children's Black, Pure, White and Drub Fur Hais. Boys' New Style Felt Caps. Children's Velvet and Cloth OapH, kc . neat und appropriate articles ua Now Years Gifts lie Is selling his entire stock of those lush inunble articles, at n very low price. Fur Tippets, Boas and Cuffs for New Year ?Banta, UK! Caual-st., baa made the most aioule arraugeraents lo supply his customers with choice and elegant Furs. Thero is nothing that would prove more acceptable to a laflv. as a gift, than n set of Rich and Kie? f-ant Furs, und Baut? ha? anticipated their wants, and re? plenished Ida stock for the uppronciu,^' holiday. A Great Fool.?Wallett, the Clown, ? ho is now performing at the Circus, is certainly the great est'fool Ihnt has yet appeared in this country. If you wish to laugh, go and hear him. liciititiftil arul Extensive Assort? ment of Watches, in hunting and open-face eases, both Gold and Silver, suitable lor ladies- and gentlemen, and at Ute most reasonable prices, for anie at John SYSavagr's, 93 Pulton-eL, where also ean be found a largo assortment ol Gold I'ena ond Oold Pencil cases, The celebrated Richelieu Ever-Pointed Oold Pens sold only us above. Gentlemen's Furnishings.?Gentle? men have been in the habit of paying exorbitant prices for their Under Sbirli und DrKwers.licarfs and Cravats, Pocket Handkerchiefs, Gloyes. Hosiery,kc.; but if they wi.l look over the assortment of HlTBHCOCK -v. Lt: IDBEATER, on the corner of Broadway and Loouurd-sts. thev will find that they can get even thiug of the kind there, und lor about one half the puce they have to pay at u gentlemen's t?rniililti? aiore- _ d27 If The Latest Fashions.?Andrews <Sc Lanphier, Tailors, 203 Broadway, make up the Finest Goods at the Lowest Pricks fore- n4 eodMWiSif Holiday Presents?Season of Furs! ?GbNIN, 214 Broadway, solicits the attention of the ladies to his uiagnlhcent aasoi unont of superb Fura. made up in tlie newest and most fashionable styles, and conslslin'' of lull seta of Hudson Bay Sable. Russian Sable, Roval Er inttie. Stone Alartln. Chinchiils, Rock .Martin, Mink, Ike. His stork of Mulls, \'tctoriues and Culls, he Is confident has never been surpassed by any ever submitted to the good laato and judgment of the ladies of New-York. An immense stock orgentlemen's Fur and Plush Caps, oi the most rechcnhi pattern*, combining elegauce with warmth, has also just been opeued, and all who desire to fortify themselves against the blasts of Winter are invited to call and examine them. Ladles' Fur and Felt Bonnets, together with Rn elogart variety ot lovely Hats for children. G ENI N, d2ti St_214 Broadway, opposite St. Paul's. Sleigh Roues and Carriage Mats.? Oenin, 214 Broadway, baa a splendid assortment of Robes consisting oi White Polar Bear. Hudson liav ami Prairie Woif, Buffalo, ic. trimmed und nntrlmmed. Also Fur .Mats, to protect the feet. gen in, dSt* 3t_214 Broadway. op)>osite St. Paul's. Removal.?Wari.ocks, Hatters, have removed to 27? Broadway, Irving Ilouge. d24 tf EP? Visiting Cards for New-Year Cafls, elegantly engraved and printed on the rluest French Porce? lain Curds, at Everobll's, 302 Broadway, come- D?nne? st. Mr. Everde!! has a branch store at 2 Wall-st ,,sar Broadway, for the accommodation of his down-town et s ^ometB_d24 c ?Call and Examine.?More than or iinwy attention tax beou paid by the subscriber tbis season, to make his assortment of Useful and Fancy Arti? cles superior to any ?imliar stock hi this city, and success baeetteced those exertions, us is proved by a uiscriitiina toeiHiblic. DAVIS COLL A MORE, dJ4 Gt 447 Broadway, near Grand-el. SrLENDID U1FTS for THE SEASON.? Lawrence's Daguerreotypes, the size of life?call and see ibets. A gTeat variety of/beautiful caskets foi Daguerreo ?.Wri io had nowhere else. Also. Puts and Lockets of werv'si/e Rooms 209 Broadway, three doers below Kul tonVt._d^tw Youth's and Children's Clothing, at Wholesale.?JOSEPH B. CLOSE it SMITH, . aar,in_.......' A ImfiiFtil T ' t* I i"Pi H ??Irl it wholesale.?j Wx. I M* v."?-w ? ...... u, 7D and 81 WllUam-street, would inform Hie trade gen erally that lliev have now on hand s large and handsome assortment of "the latest and most fasWsnsU litres of the ?hoTo Clothing, at yery reduced prices_dH? I3r gcF" Fowlers & Wells. Phrenologist* aud publishers. Clinton Holl 181 Naaw-st near the Para Pariaj?" and Biso.v e Ca i na ! ?A g< >od oriety of Figures, as "Sabrina." "Miranda" ?'Ouanllan ngef" "Good Night." " Flight into Ki;vpL" "Greyhounds ' Cbalc." i.c Sc. andagreat Variety or other useful dfaacvar'icles DAVIS COLL AMOR K, uo.j ... 147 Broadway near Ofann-at, NEW-YORK TRIBUNE. NEW-YORK, FRIDAY, DEO. 2?. ES^The Steamship Ohio, with the Cali? fornia and Havana .Mails, has put into Nor? folk in distress having suffered severely by the late gales, but all safe. We pre Rum she will remain some days to refit, and that the Mails will come along to-mor. row via Baltimore and Philadelphia. GF* There is positively no foundation for the rumor that Jenny Lino, Barnura and party were lost in the furious gale of Mon? day, any more than there was for the re? port that the Ohio had gone ashore and broken uponSijuam Beach. The night on which they went by Steamboat from Wil? mington to Charleston, S. C. was a stormy one, and the boat this way encountered rough usage, but came through safe. The storm deranged the Telegraph wires, and no Mail has since come up from Charles? ton, perhaps justifying the inference that the one which went down on Sunday night did not reach Charleston in season to make her return trip regularly?nothing worse. We trust to-day will dispel all shadows of apprehension. P. S.?A late dispatch brings us the gratifying inteligence of the safe arrival of the steamer, upon which Jenny Lir.d and suite embarked, at Charleston. 13F Congress, in both Houses, fully de? monstrated yesterday its incapacity to do anything before the close of the Holidays, and thereupon, having fully justified itself in the eyes of the Country; adjourned over to Monday next. f3F The Express, under the head of " Rabid Ajrain." thus speaks of The Trib? une and its <. omments on the pendinr: Fugi? tive Slave case: "The Editor of that duaky sheet, it seems to us, could not scold nor rave worse, nor moro roundly berate Iiis neighbors, were he h woolly head himself, with Uncle Sara's officer! seeking to arrest him as a ' fugitive.' ? The Old Book commands us to "re? member those in bonds as bound with them." and we should very gladly believe that we are faithful to this lofty require? ment. We are afraid, however, that we have not fully deserved The Express's compliment. The Bights of Woman. The Legislature of New-York has done much within the last few years to relieve Woman from the legal and civil disabili? ties under which she has labored for cen? turies of darkness and oppression. Some impediments have been inter posed to the power formerly cnirvyed !>y husbands to squander the patrimony or the earnings of their wives, and in other respects improve? ments have been made upon the old code which made the wife almost a chattel per? sonal of her husband, but there is room for further progress in the same direction. By the following Memorial, it will be seen Hint nn eflbrt is to be made for a decisive change this winter. We are not sure that too much is not asked in this Memorial, but there is no fear that too much will be granted, and the agitation likely to ensue cannot fail to exert a salutary influence. Here is the form : To the Honorable, the Membtri QJ the Ltgitfaturt of (Ik State of Keto- York. The petition of the undersigned, inhabitants of the State of New-York, respectfully represents : f That, in the opinion of your petitioners, the Laws pf thin State in relation to Woman do vio? lence to her natural and inalienable rights, and are contrary to the spirit and principles of a republic which is based on the declaration that taxation without representation is tyranny. Woman, therefore, as her property is taxed, and sho has to bear a share of the public burdens, and enjoys or Buffers with her country, ought to have all the rights and privileges in forming the laws and governing the country equal with man. Also, as a married woman is subject to all the vicissitudes of life arising from the cares involved on the providing for and bringing up of a family, and the sufferings incident on poverty and adver? sity, as well as man, she feels herself entitled to the protection of the laws regulating marriage. "VN e therefore pray your Honorable Body to enact such laws as will give all Women the elect? ive franchise, with all the privilege of holding office, etc. the same as roan; and to married women, in case of separation, the right to hold, bestow or bequeath an equal share of all the property her husband and herself may possess. Persons willing to aid in procuring signa? tures to this Memorial may obtain copies in proper form at Fowlers & Weils's, 131 Nassau-st. -?? The Evening Mirror was a noisy Taylor and is now a vociferous Fillmore Whig paper of the -Silver Crey ' species A favored correspondent in the South thus descants nnobjected to in its columns: "The recent elections in Arew-York, Massachu? setts and Michigan have cast a gloom upon the Union-loving men, and the daily vituperation fouud in many of the papers, against Slavery and Slaveholders, will certainly result in the' total alienation of both sections." ?As the three States above-named are about all that have held Elections since Mr. Fillmore acceded to the Presidency, which have not gone overwhelmingly for the Opposition, we must infer that if the Lvo-Focos had been permitted to carry every State there would have been nothing left to wish for. 1ST We make room to-day for a spicy etter from Washington, entitled " Whin Pencilings al the Capital," grumbling about :he dispensation of Executive patronage, the retention of so many Loco-Focos in office. Sec. We know the writer to be well informed, and readily accord him a hearing, only wishing it distinctly under? stood that we do not sympathise in his sor? rows. Perhaps we may have labored some for Whig ascendancy in time past, but if we ever did, the filling if Clerkships in th? Departments with Whigs instead of Loco F0CO8 was no part of nur inducement or object. Instead of having fair Clerks turned out because of their politics, we would like to see a Whig National Administration that would keep every good Clerk and Messen? ger in office, never inquiring into his poli? tics, but rigidly displacing every idler and loafer, increasing the hours of Labor in the Departments to at least eight, reducing the salarie- of all that are paid more than they I would be in private establishments, and ; thus saving the Country at least $100,000 1 per annum. That is the kind of Reform we sigh for?when shall we see it .' A ; man who gets a Clerkship on Political ' grounds will be very apt to regard it as a , reward for past services rather than a9 a : sphere of prospective duty. ? Our correspondent is a profoundly ? National' Whig, and has no claim to speak for 'Seward men.' Whatever course ihcv may feel bound to pursue in any con? tingency will not be governed by the dis ' position of Washington Clerkships. Sndinn Corn. Puce is probably the chief article of sus? tenance of the larger number of human be? ings; Wheat of the next class in number ; but the grain which ought to be most cul? tivated and relied on isourMai/.c or Indian Corn. Its production demands labor and care, but the growing plant ean hardly be surpassed in luxuriance or beauty, and we know nothing else above-ground?certainly no d-rain?of which so large an amount of ' food can be. annually obtained from a we'd ! cultivated acre. It is far more reliable for ! a food yield than Wheat, and the insects which assail it are far more within the reach of man's exterminating warfare. It grows rankly and matures seasonably over two-thirds of the earth's habitable surface, and, under thorough cultivation, will yield one hundred bushels or two and a half tuns of highly nutritious grain to the acre, beside a large amount of fodder for cattle; or, sowed properly and cut green, as many as tw-elve tuns to the acre of the best food for cattle has been obtained. The world ! hears enough of our Cotton-crop, and any ; worm, or blight, or drouth, or flood, or prc i mature frost affecting it, is telegraphed and i trumpeted all over the civilized world; po : litical orators and mercantile writers talk I as though the world existed by the grace of Cotton, whereas our Corn-crop is worth i three of our Cotton any year of our lives. But our Corn is mainly consumed at home, while our Cotton in good part goes abroad, and this belittles the importance of the for? mer and magnifies that of the latter. There is a stupid prejudice throughout the Free States against the use of Corn as an article of human food, which seems to be based on a presumption that it is a coarse and homely grain, designed for hogs and cattle, in the South, this prejudice is unknown, and Corn bread of various kinds and other preparations of this grain arc constantly provided and freely used in every household, from highest to lowest. Much ; of this prejudice is simply absurd, but it has I some foundation in the current, ignorance : with regard to the preparation and preserva 1 tion of the flour of Corn. The plant has been known to the civilized world for com? paratively few ages, and is not yet fully I understood nor fairly treated by the great majority even of our own people, while in ; El'rope it has had no chance at all. The j farina of Corn is among the sweetest ami ? most delicate of any'., which the earth pro 1 duces, if properly cured. But the ripe grain ; contains moisture and the flour readily ab , sorbs more, and in consequence a good part of that consumed in this countrv, with i nearly all that is sent abroad, is in the tirst . place very imperfectly prepared, and then i dampened, heated, soured, or rendered j musty, until it is not decentfood for a well j bred hog. This is no fault of the grain, but : of the wretched methods current of curing, j grinding, packing and transporting it. < >n j account of these, British and Irish papers j speak disparagingly of the taste of Corn j bread without the remotest idea of what that taste rightfully is. Of Mr. J. R. Stafford, nn Ohioan, who j has for several years been engaged in de? vising and perfecting improved methods of manufacturing and putting up Corn Flour, we have repeatedly spoken. His recently patented methods have received the stamp of scientific and practical approbation, earn? ing him several Gold Medals and other gratifying testimonials. The new and ex? tensive mills constructed under his auspices j at the Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn, are now turning out an ample supply of 'Indian Corn Flour' and ? Indian Corn Farina' of the best quality, utterly divested of moist? ure and so put up as to be proof against de? terioration or change by transportation, time or temperature. We advise cverv one to procure a box of this 1 Flour' and one of this ' Farina,' as samples of the best r preparations of grain for human food ever j yet made. The attention of shippers of j Breadstuff*, we presume, has already been j drawn to them. When time has been af? forded to test their endurance and excel ! lence, a very large export trade in these ar? ticles will doubtless grow up, and the con? sumption of Indian Corn, both at home and abroad, be largely augmented. t3f Gov. Doti'-. majority for Congress in the Northern District of Wisconsin is already ??5,J?3?i, with Calumet County to come in. It has rolled in so strongof late that the 'regular' organs have stopped calling Gov. D. a Whig, and begin to consider him a pretty tolerable Democrat, li. C. Kobart. the ' regular candidate, carried one Coonty?Sbeboygan. a The Ca?c of Adam CUbxon. Tlic fad that a free citizen of New-Jer? sey was last week arrested on a false pre? tense and without legal warrant in Phila? delphia, dragged before a U. S. Commis? sioner, his liberty sworn awav, and he hur? ried oil'into Slavery?all not merely with ! out any credible testimony but in defiance making a deep impression. Even the noisi? est champions of the Fugitive Slave Law are touched by it. while the more moderate and candid supporters ofthat act are deep? ly moved. The Commercial Advertiser, alter recapitulating the leading faet9, ob? serves : "We bog to say that Mr. Commissioner Inrrra bam, of Philadelphia, baa struck a deadlier blow at the Fugitive .Slave Law, ns it is, than all its opponents pat together. He has proved that it can be perverted to injustice. He has made its enemios to rejoice, and has convinced us of the propriety of a reservation we have repeatedly made when speaking of this enactment?made by Washington Hunt in his letter to Mr. Granger, and made by many others who have desired that the act should be entitled to the respect of a law of the land, and be universally recognized as ob? ligatory, and entitled to popular obedience and support?to wit: that it was capable .if amend? ment, and might safely be made less rigorous." The Express, however, is determined not to see anything wrong in the law, nor any reason for allowing an alleged fugitive a Tiial by Jury, in the farts of this case. Tt closes an article on the subject as follows: - Bj the way, it may as well be added, in re? gard to the slave case we are alluding to, that the negro Gibson was committed to safe hands by Commissioner Ingraham, and that there was no chance of his being delivered over to any one, un? less he should be the actual owner of Gibson. The alleged slave was not iianded over to the claimants of Gibson by Mr. Ingraham, but was sent to Maryland by faithful ami trustworthy offi? cers of Philadelphia, and well known by Mr. In? graham to be worthy of the trust reposed in them. We have the authority of the Pennsylvania!, for this statement." ?Was there ever so contemptible a dodge, so barefaced a no-such-thing, before Commissioner Ingraham adjudged the man before him to be not Adam Gibson, the freeman he declared himself, but Emery Rice, the slave of Wm. Knight of Elkton, Md. Fie gave him in charge of a U. S. officer, to be conveyed at Government ex? pense to his adjudged owner. 1 fe was ac? cordingly conveyed to Mr. Knight, but that gentleman, seeing at a glance that he was not his slave, refused to take him. He had simply to receive him, and the man would have been a slave for life. The United States sent the man into Slavery by virtue of the Fugitive Act: the adjudged owner set him at liberty by disavowing the ownership affirmed by the Commissioner. The law had nothing to do with his rescue from bondage; the Commissioner had (if possible) still less ; the honesty of Mr, Knight was his only shield. Now consider that many, if not most of the Fugitives from Slavery are sol I 'running' to Slave traders (whose character and standing at the South were so truthfully portrayed last year by Mr. Clay) and anyone may judge whether the rescue of Mr. Gibson was not a sheer accident. Ought the liberty or slavery of freemen to turn on the chance of their falling into the hands of such masters a - Mr. Knight ? Pinn for itcgulntlng Newspaper Postage. To the Editor of The Tribune: Various suggestions have been made respect, ing the postage on Newspapers. Would not a charge of one-half cent, PREPAID, on all papers and for all distances, and one cent postpaid, secure the following adyantaf??! 1 Uniformity; 2. Consistency with proposed regulations fur letter postage, encouraging pre? payment; ;i. Security of revenue for the Depart | ment Irom the printed matter it conveys, and drawing it all into the mails, and 4. Encourage a wider circulation of useful journals. If the suggestion is a practical and timely one, please give it your indorsement and advocacy. HE?ER. n? No. Sir, we cannot indorse any such plan, because it is not equal and just. A thousand Tribunes sent by mail into Iowa or Texaaoughl to pay more postage than 80 many of the lournals printed and circu r?ithin the limits of those States res 1 enerally within a few miles of the place of publication. Uniformity is a good thing in its place, but a uniform tnx of so much per head for the support of the (Government would not be a good thing, neither would a uniform allowance of Mile? age?so many dollars to each?to Mem? bers of Congress from Maryland and Min? nesota. Uniformity is convenient, but Justice is the paramount consideration. Journals of not inordinate size, carried less than thirty, forty or fifty miles through the Mails, ought to be delivered on the pre? payment of a very -mall annual charge ? we prefer ten cents per annum for a week? ly and in a like a ratio for those publish? ed more frequently. The expense of car. r\ing these is nothing ; that of mailing very iiitle: and the Postmasters who deliver them (generally Country Store-Keepers who gain custom by their office) can well afford to deliver them without charge.? We believe ten cents a year in advance for each Weekly carried less than forty miles through the Mails would fairly reimburse the Government for the expense of such transportation, and that is all that should be required. But it is entirely wrong to carry anything free except the official cor? respondence of the Post-Office Department. Everything should pay it- -hare?the Gov? ernment a> well as the humblest individual If one package is allowed to go free on one pretext, another will slip through on an? other, and there will be no stopping the leak thus opened. Make everything pay, but tax each class as lightly as possible? such is the correct principle. We still hope to see it recognized and conformed to by Congress. ?</. Connlltntlorj mid Fugitive Slave* No in I To the Editor of The Tribune . In tbia number vre deaign to offer some obaer \ rations, in respect to the Mahner of carrying into execution the provision for the reclamation of Tu- i gitivo. Slaves. The executive agenet, is a distinct ! question by itself. What is the proper manne- ! of that agency1 The capture of a Immun being j in order to carry him back into hopeless bondage ' is bad enough, cruel enough to make humanity weep, when done in the best possible manner.? No person of bumano feelings can think of it without horror. It is cruel?cruel to the very last degree. On the soil of freedom, and in the bosom of freemen, it is an inconsistency, than which none under heaven can be greater. Yot' as we have admitted, our forefathers entered into a covenant, which gave their assent to this strange incongruity? an assent not yet repealed, stiil ex? isting in the national character. There it is in black and wbite, the standing dijgrace of repub licanism. | If then men must be captured and returned to the horrors of Slavery, the winner of the act is a question of no minor interest. The Northern States certainly cannot permit a race of Slave hunters to roam over the soil, alarming the com j tnunity, and seizing men at their discretion.? This is not their construction of the Constitution. They do not understand the compact as implying this power. There are two principles in relation Co this subject, that are peculiarly dear to a Northern bosom, and which must be respected in this effort to reclaim Fugitive Slaves. The first is, that every human occupant of the soil, be he black or white, is presumptively a free? man. At the North color is not the badge of a freeman or a slave. Many colored men are citi? zens; and all carry with them prima facie evi? dence of self-ownership. This is the legal and practical doctrine of the North irreversibly lixed in the convictions ami sense of the people ? | Hence, when a man ia claimed as a slave at the North, the presumption i.-i against the claim?a presumption remaining good until set aside by special evidence. This, as i:i all justice ought to j be the fact, throws the burden of proof upon the | claimant. He is to prove all the facts recited in the Constitution as the antecedents of the obliga? tion to deliver up a Fugitive Slave. He is to show that the man whom he seeks to recover, is a slave under the laws of one of the States?that he the claimant is the owner, or the authorized agent of the latter?and that this slave is a fugi? tive, and has made his escape from his master's pos? session. He must establish all the fact* supposed in the Constitution, in relation to the particular man he claims, so as to identify his person. This I is obviously a just rule. There is a question of j fact to be settled, before the constitutional pro? vision con touch the case; and iiH the facts hypothetically set forth in that provision, are to be proved. Fo reverse this doctrine would place the colored people of the North in the greatest peril, and leave them exposed to the rapacity and plunder of kidnappers. This would be a state of things, neither the laws nor the moral sense of the community can toierate. The other principle respects the judicial ascer? tainment of the fact, that a given man falls under the provision which requires his delivery as a fu? gitive from slavery. How is this fact to be ascer? tained I By what the Constitution denominates a ' ihie process of law," providing, as it does, that no person shall be deprived of his life, liberty, or property without such a process. What, at least in the Northern States, is a due process of law ? It is a trial touching the question of fact to be ascertained, before a iegally constituted tribunal, having jurisdiction in the premises, and consisting o( a Judge and a Jury. This is the Northern idea of such a process. It applies to life, liberty and property?to all legal issues arris ing between parties. Before such a tribunal there are parties, having a cause, undertaking to show ; its nature, and invoking the rule of law. To make out a case, evidence becomes necessary as part of I a " due process of law." The use of this legal instrument is the common privilege of both par? ties, each bcirg entitled to a hearing through tes ! timony before a verdict is rendered. By obvious propriety neither is a competent witness in his own cause. If it be a civil issue, no one is com i petert to testify who has any property-interest to be affected by the result of the verdict. All these ideas belong to a '"due process of law." ? And if in any instance under the sun they should be held sacred, it is when a human being is tried for his freedom. The trial ought to be conducted according to the established principles of legal investigation practiced in the State where it oc? curs. A man is claimed as a slave ; perhaps he is a cilizeii ; at any rate he is presumed to be a i freeman on Northern ground ; and shall he be taken* from the State, and sent oil' into hopeless bondage, without the protection of a trial before aJurynt CCTIntryme? j Shah lie be denied the right and full opportunity of a legal defense, simply because a Slave-catcher claims him as property .' The Constitution ordains no such enor? mity. The obligation to deliver becomes real not when the "claim" is made, but'establisbed; and until so established, the person claimed is entitled to all the protection tho law gives to any citizen or subject. For aught that appears to tho con? trary, the claim is spurious ; the reverse is not to be assumed, but proved before a .lury by the or dinary usages of trial. Let the evidence be 'dreh coming; let there be a full opportunity to respond to that evidence and rebnt it | let a .lury of twelve men hear all the testimony and pleadings, and then decide the question of fact according to evi? dence. Justice demands this. Public feeling demands it. The Constitution does not, by the remotest hint, imply any other mode of procedure. No Other mode is reconcilable with tlie principles of the Federal Constitution; no other is in har? mony with the Constitutions of the free States. The free States neither tolerating nor approving slavery, and unaccustomed to witness its cruel? ties cannot quietly consent to anything less, both from a sense of justice and a sense of safety. It may be -aid, that such a mode of carrying out the* provision of the Constitution would in? volve so many inconveniences to the claimant, as to amount to a practical denial of his claim; and therefore that he ought to have some more sum? mary and short-hand method for catching runaway slaves. In reply, let it be remembered that the provision itself specifies no method in which the claim shall be prosecuted. Hence, the general principles of the Federal and State Constitutions ought to determine the mode; and if so, it will most certainly be a trial by Jury. The incon? veniences to the claimant are no greater than justice requires. If in the free States, not gov erned by the laws of Slavery, he demands Legal possession of a man as his property, then let him prove the facts requisite to its validity before a Jury of freemen, taken from the community where the delivery is to be made. The Constitu? tion does not bind the free States to deliver up Fugitive Slaves, until the question is settled that the person to be delivered up is a, slave. They Rre to know trh?m they are giving up to be car? ried into bondage; else, they may be sending their own citizens into slavery. The inconven? iences to the claimant are only those which result from Justice, in connection with the misfortune of having property that will run away. It is not the fault of the free States that the slave runs away: and if the master undertakes to find his fugitive property, the inconveniences of the search are justly and properly his ; he must Jind it in the legal judgment of the community where he brings the claim. The free States do not com? pel him to the search : yet, they are anxious that he should commit no mistake?that lie should get the right man. It may be said, that no Nortlurrn Jury would render a ^ordict according to evidence in such a case. This is said without authority. It assumes t'natja Northern J arv would violate their oath; it is indeed an implied charge of perjury. We doubt not, that a Northern Jury would scrutinize the evidence with great care, as they ought; but there is no sufficient proof that they would not find a man guilty of being a slave upon suitable evidence. If, however, Northern juries would not decide such cases according to testimony, then how utterly futile is the attempt to enforce the provision of the Constitution by a summary meth? od ! If public feeling is so strongly opposed to the thing, that no twelve men under oath can be trusted with the case, then, alas ! for the system of Slave-catching! Men hunters then had better stay at home, and remedy their losses in some other wav. If what they desire cannot be done through the agencv of juries, it cannot be done at all, without arousing'the Northern mind to a pitch of indignation not so easily managed.? Northern people love law and order; and for this reason they love the bulwark of personal liberty ? the right of trial by JffRI t?te iijiiividtta cation I. '.a not ciain It may again be .aid, that the ca?e of a Fagi trve sure u analogous to that of a fugitive (r\fB J**tocc who i? delivered up without a jury trial llio only [Klint of analogy is the mere fact that they are both fugitives. In all other respects tha cases are unlike. Tbe fugitive from justice is charged with a enme gainst the State frow State, and not a pri :ie surrender of hts ?rity, that he may be ment found against s given up for the sposed of by a " dae der is no conviction. The slave, on the -3 a -rimtntd ; he is I l,>-.th? State, he is claimed by an TK 7~v 7 u m e owe< ?errice or labor.? ,1 ^n^Vc,1he mfLn r'?''"e<l as a slave into f;3' f , cll!m^t decides the whole ca?e; it is in f.ict a verdict of slave? <? -?;?o. .u Pcoportime^r?^^ r 5 m,' Process of 19 w." must be tV/b the delivery. I he man is not surrendered for trial, trie surrender is an act nil verdiot against him. Hence Northern men owe it to justice, and equally the safety of colored men mariyof whom are citizens, to insist that a "due process of law" as interpreted in the Federal and State Constttu tions. should precede this surreuder. Let it not be said, that the question of freedom or slavery can be tried at the South. The North, wo con? clude, are not prepared to surrender up colored men, to be transported to the South, and therJ tried under the presumptions and disadvantages of the Slav;; codeX' Tins would be the grossest injustice. It is equivalent to consigning them to slavery before the fact is legally ascertained that they are slaves. At the South a black akin pre? sumes slavery, and possession presumes title. Shall colored men without an impartial trial bo sent from the soil of freedom to that of slavery, to be cursed and doomed with these presumptions ' We think not among a people actuated b> the sense of justice. It is the want of these just nnd equitable fea tures that mad'.' the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 so odious to tho Northern people, und is now arousing the indignation ol the free States against that of 1S50. Neither conforms to the idea of " a due process ol law, as understood by immemo? rial usage, or within the meaning of the Federal Constitution or that of the respective States. To drag n man before a Commissioner, and then di? pose of the whole question i;i a " summary man? ner/'without the right of trial bj Jury, without the privilege ot the writ of corpus, without the opportunity of procuring council or rebutting evidence, with no appeal Irom this Commissioner Judge, is such an uutratre upon all the forms of law and the principles of civil justice, that nothing but slavery ''ottld ever perpetrate it. If Southern men expect to catch runaway slaves in this way, they will not do a very successful business.~ They may lind some sympathy with a few whose principles are in the market to bo bought up by Southern trade.- but the groat body of tho North do not understand the Constitution as authorizing any such procedure. The provision itself is a heavy tax on tho spirit of freedom?-sulHoiently so not to be made worse by niothods that out? rage nil the leual forms to which freemen nre a;-, rustoined. HUMAN RIGHTS. Tho New Geometry?The Author'* l,am. To the Editor of The Tribune; 1 notice, Mr. Editor, that somebody in Th.; Tribune of the Htli inst. has demolished by a single blow (in his own estimation/ my "New Elements of Geometry," the volume recently published by Mr. Putnam in this city and by Mr. Bentley in London. The writer conceals his name under an algebraical signature; but from the tone of authority with which he assumes to speak for professional mathematicians, lie doubt less intended to convey the impression that he belongs to that respectable and intellectual class of society and had a right to speak as one having authority. For ho says, in referenco to my " New Elements,'1 that "nothing hut the most vague ideas of Geometry and the loosest and ilimjiest kind of investigation pervade the whole book," and that " mathematicians and others who have a just conception of the subject will throw it aside with contempt.'' What a pity it is that a person, who had the courage (in tho dark) to use such language as this, could not, in nearly a whole volume of re? marks, present one single fact or one single de _ monstration to show that he had a right to um such languige. My volume was all before him where to pick and choose his points of nttaok? why did he not by reasoning and demonstrations show up its fallacies and its errors, and thus by breaking through its " loose and fiimsy" barrier's place himself upon honorable vantage ground' Why did he not at Joftaj convict it of one single eiTOrof principle or demonstration ' He has not J- . Jo tho sligbtost.degree. For reasoning he advances nothing tzt l."'4 almplo assertion, and for demonstration, nothing but his content*;; But even these arguments, urged with so much force and so much assumed authority, may serve to deceive readers who are unacquainted with the subjdet, or who have not seen tho volume in question. The great interests of truth ami sci? ence, therefore no less than justice to myself, seem to require some further remark. My assailant ??yj: "The definitions and ax? ioms of geometry," as laid down by Euclid and received bv all geometers, are far above tbe reach of this modern mode of inquiry?entirely beyond this age of progress and reform. Oae might as well attempt to change the nature ol the Being who formed these geometrical truths, na these definitions." And he adds that the chief of these detinitions are. that " A point it that which hat position, but not magnitude," snd " A line is length without breadth." Whet a Daniel come to judgment! The brat of these two definitions is not Euclid's, but a very modern definition, given by Professor Playfair.? Euclid's definition was, "/f point is that which hath no parts." And it is but the other day, as it were, that Professor Piayfair, applying to this an? cient definition "the principles of modern free in? quiry, " and finding it not so good or so conforms ble tc truth in all circumstances as it might be. changed it for one which he thought better. Now. my wise antagonist for Professor, if he will allow rue to call him so, in lieu of his unspeakable alge? braic signature,! my wise antagonist Professor should have kno wn that it has been by no means an uncommon thing for modem writers on geometry to change or modify definitions. Many of Eueltd s definitions have been ( hanged in many different wajs !>v different geometers. His definition ol a a "straight line,'' of " parallel lines," of a " plaue, of "ratio," and others, have been changed ami modified in various ways to suit the ideas of vari? ous geometers. Whenever it has been found that definitions did not truly represent tbe discovered principles of geometry, tbe fixed, eternally exist fnenrmciples of that unchanging science, J believe it 1 L been the practice of geometets, in all ages, o " apply the principles of modern free inquiry at wB my wise 'professor is so prodigiously SsSened, to find defintions that would truly rep resrS theie principles. And this is the head and n-1 < f my offense> in attacking the principles of S geometry " My fellow sinners '?/!>?? Partie nlar are such men as Professors P ayfair, Y-ung. Sin vm, D'Alembert, Boscoviob, Legere, and E oUters. My sins may be larger than heg buttbey are certainly of the same kind, lhare discovered principles in geometry whioh Ow de finitiona hitherto in used- not truly.?J?fgg have ventured to change those definite I * the case And I have presented demons rations six " that the definitions and the principle, ogre" in every possible case, and therefore i ?lato bat my definitions are the right ones. Piof.'Plajfair changed the ?W^i^J* I have changed the definition of ? WhyJtag I done so ! Because I have discovered that the laws and operations of geometry make even uae. in every possible case, to have the. bre^aad the thickness of the unit used in ^^[-^ Therefore the old definition, that ' a line TS a ?eS without breadth, did ?ot truly repress the lines of geometrical ?P?^'"dJl? changed it for definitions conformable to ti.we laws8 I have also discovered that the laws and Ration, of geometry make every^^ every possible case, to have thelhtckwtf^' ? d unit Led in the calculation Therefore thejW definition, that " a surface is length and of geometry recognize but one /'^//^ y0r