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WlLPrTh patent 8ai.AMANDER SaFWJ?.
TwitTltl ta aa* aod have *?*e? ' i. >?? t.. r*e?"-*e
|A.-tr immu from ,iiu?? of Are.
fWw Hotat. aorored by Br ?**??> La rtKU.B Loci, wtneb
0) ew? * aar'a*' onw ?' aod botglert, for ?? ? hy
Irl .kv? b MaRViB,
ftO. l# Wttar-oL,N?w-tork.
Hgtoey nie a (rent Ionian v*bo always ?et? bit
IlaM at Baal's, (l rn-r i?? Hro<dw?y ?od Fa fin it I. ait 1
?>1 skew yoo o ui*n .f refWd r*?u>? ?u?i of taring propone!*
ti?o. Thnr i- a .*u.ut in K?ox'* t'tle th?t *'rt:t? g-'i :e -
to liegatee offlrlth h t .-?rcb-? ? g'ntlenmn't eve ?* |*-e?ly
at oeiperh wr>n.?n '>r a rot* ifieea pamtiag Indeed, teafial
heiaty p. Heel 11 of workmaaeOie. er.d Bo boot of ma ei .?Ii
elrtwd .0 all of ..m,.\? u.aii' faciuira_
Winter Circular to Laimr?AsBeasj the
nixojded ??tio'? froaej e'csiat Onis'-. Lowe-s ore will no
fpariat ooaac of ibe an' ? ouaote aeto of Mink / ,0t mpriper'y
aastod it* An-aixan t-aSlei *v*r i.ft-r?H to Now Vor?, fas
a?r? of a fall tot ot eeit of Mink, InruJirg Tipp?', Muff and
Daflb, it ? *?.??' <1' BttlJ ?ad. 11t " of th*** b?lot1fgl aid
na? .'>? j on boll I if BB*TT TTTT at Otr TfrnV 1 SpJaaiid
TirriT? rf thr ??ir* ia a't* rial at from ?W to fO each
Wall?'? W h LieaLE ami Kkthl Kit Emporium.
No ill II ?.'wtj. ? ripwlte St, fan'.'*.
Kali- and Wim er Caps.?We aak attention
t* tb* Tall and 1 'er ('ti s 01 oor man?'a it are for Gentlemen,
Yoolh aad Children. Tbe eaoolletice of onr cap me*.'.ia*
eoodaiU-d by 0* KH boo ?ecured to u? art extensiv* pat
ronifr from oo- c i ;-n and the tr?v?:iti? f 'ibi.e Th* atyln and
qnaTty of tbo ' IaI.l Cam," no*? Aral otf-ired, eana A fail to
meet thr approval of tent emeei ?eeking c mitort ?imoiiin'l with
eeoocmy. Least k Co., Hatters, Aetor Houm.
Plaid Cashmikes! Plaid Cashmf res !!?
Tbr*e --sew of e'< ?.n' Plaid CttHMrari JojM r-n lived and will
be offered Thi? 1 ?v a 'ho very low price nf 1 per yard?the
?aine m umdii to d 01 8)1.
JR. H. Liadbeater It Co.. '?''>? 317 Broadway.
Dry Goods at Reduced Pricls.?k. M
Li am ? ati r St Co., N't. -17 Broadway, are new oflenng mm
rVtaoot aod eboapett Mtoitmon' ol Day (looi.s to b-. fiund la
tbia city. JLiev'.i purr .a^rd largely at the pr<*en'. reluced
ptite* vr-ey are enaMeo to *?nl any ?Ittel?* li 'heir line ?t fully
25 per cent'e?o than t*-?y can be pt>:cka**d f..r at any other
(tire. Ia Bilk*, n- Lolowi Shawl*, Lace Cortain*, d-rii a*,
Kn>t"Oioaritw. ilaaaot), Uoi.U, Lia-na, Re, will be foond
*o?se rxt'0 b*r*'ju>.
Jp.t Goiids.?.Tuet received, a new aagortoient
Of Bracelet*, Bronze*, N'calaee* Chkteisine*.Sleeve Bottona,
Btiii*, ko. AJ*o. f?t ?' 0 dud J-?i ry a ?ie?t varie'y, ot
Oiooaai. R oak dm as U [OWaOBBS'l
No 5^7 Rroaawat, cruer of 8pricg-*t.
Brocatemps. Satin Uei.aine.s, Dam\skh,
CoBMIOBf, WllMV.' SHAI)K*, La' I COBTAIII, I'. lit ..tv
A Krn.i ?'i?, No Kill Broadway have a a-je t'ock of the
above good* peroonai y m ected friim t'te h -ai inanuu\-.tx>rie<? -o
Prate*. Some Nt * Btyleo ee-r be'ore b"".? t f>nr. k. tl
bavo oatabilebttt a r>potaHon for ?t-l.lna t td* chvip and
thru ia-i? an') la ere* lef Uoaa i* a jriml toat it* appreciated.
|fo. 291 Unwadway ord Rat e-et.
MntllfO PLAIDS We shall offi* This Dvy,
Vi,(*o yard* MtitiNo Plaids, ab lea OOton and of the host
qna'Py hnportod, ai rot it Shii luos a Varp.
Colombian Hall No. 2<<IUr*nd*t.
Qifth and Presents.?iJuat received and for
Mia at reduced prlcf*.the choicest selection of LaoiRi' Han
ca-uts Necklaoet. mb Cote*, Jet Bracelet*, Trsvelinc Baa
keta, Kana, Portocuery and Soaps: also every varietv of Toys,
Doli? und Ganrjoa, at Koatu't Kuncy Bazaar, 448 Broadway.
Pianos. Melodens and Music for the HoLf<
riAY?. ? HoaacB WaTBBB, Aceat Im tbe sale cf the beat tfottoa
and New- Vork Pienes, is now eel um, ot No. 333 Broadway, an
entin y tor stoik <f superior Mklodsoxs, Mnsic and all
kind*cf Mnsieal MsrohenrJ.se, at greatly redoceo price* No
botUr oppononiiy to wenre great bargains v. as ever otfere l.
Tbe popular and extensive Horace Waters Catalogae of Manic
for tale at balf-ptice until January 1,1956. Mosic sent by Mul.
peetptJi
For the Holidays.
a iarge assortment o' Isdia-Rcbseb Toys, (some new aad
beauUfoT dedsns ) and manufactured expreuly for the Holi?
days, each as Bai LI (plain golden and io farcy calors.) Ooldcn
WaTcHrs, I.Afuhim. Dolli of all lisei " Littlb Rhu
RiDisii Hooai." Plowib Bau>. Sqi'ibbbls, Mo.lKkVI,
SiNciic BiBDi,PgBOQt'iTi,ac.,bes,dsiheivy stock of other
Rabber o od? at wholOMie or by tingle ortlcle.
D. Hodcma?, No. 27 Maiden Isne, corner NaiU'i tt.
Tittle's Emporium
or
Englitb, French, German, aod American
Fikcv Oooos, Noviltiis, tin Tori,
No. 345 Broadway.
Professor De Gbath's Electric Oil.?
AlTOBISHISG TlSTIMOSV. " ClBLIILE. Pa, Oot. 39,1H5S.
" OaavLBMii: VV'itb rtasaect to you Ei.cctric Oil, I coa
only My there was cover anything like tt. Perton? are coming
for k from all direction!, aod report the must wonderful cares of
Baroi, Stiff Joints, KboiimatUm, Neara'sta, Headatbo, kc, I
ovtw beard of before Troly youo. B. K. KiirrAR."
Tke Klbctbic Oil I a soothing balm for all Acnes, Pains,
Bruises, Swelling*. Soree, ko. Ladle*find It core*Sore Nipple*
oad Coked Breasts. Crtpp'o* are take* off tbetr erotchei lo
B single night. Atk the thousand* who are dally benefited by
III one. Sold by ivery Dragglat la city, town and conatr", by
Mr. Loads. Hu lau ?t. ; by Mr. Onion, Bowery j by Mrs. Hayes,
Brooklya,aad by the general agent* Bainm <k Pass,
No. 304 Broadoray, cor. Oosne-it.
One of the Mistakes.?Ladies who pay a
fcigkpiioo for II lr Ositsbs la Sroodwar may be ?Mured that
no prettier or more durable OaiTltls can be I .und than at Ct?
tirll'i No. 238 Bowery. CaBTBCLL hat a tire! claw, trad",
hi* Oair?Bi are um It r.rr . :??t and they are eotd al tbe low
rata af I? and 14 ?hilllog?. Piaese try them.
More Light akd Less Money?Fun Aiiem?.
?To the Lovers op Small Gas Bills ?When Ri 1
Oas Bboolatob will givs leralts like tbo following, ltaoaiy
to decide that Qassaa bs bornad at vury low rates aad mite
light fx lrat mooei It detirtble to all. Argand Rnruers can bi
made to baro beauttfnlly with Iba Roroiatir. Call and tee the
Maokino that piodno*?iu}h greatrMoltt At tbe
CIICIBkATI watbb worbi.
Consumed in Dectn.ber. lot'a. witboat Regulator.... 14.7R6 feet
Caan med in Jaioary, 1433 with Begalaor.5,R33feet
Monthly ?arlog in Avoi 1 Regulator, with a baiter
light. 1.933 f**t
L. WaBUE.s, Resident Engineer
Illustrttlent at No. V62 Broadway, New-York, and joaetion
of Clinton and Folton . is., 10 tbe Orag store
J. L 3 ..... < ? Secretary.
A Work on the History, Prevention and Cure of
the Cbroute DU***et of the Reavlratory, Clrcalatory, Dl^eative,
Secretory and Abaorbent, (Jo. lading the glanila and akin,) Nor?
ton? and Motor byatem? of ibe tke Hnmao Koooomy.
Tai PtiiLosonrr or Liviisi Or, the W?y to Enjoy Life and
Its Cou Ibrei, aad to secure Longevity.
With numerous Engravings illustrating the varlon* syWemt of
gh* human orgaidsan. By A. S. Heath, M. 0.,
No. B3C Broadway, New-York.
Tke above introductory work oa Chronic Disease* and Pulmo?
nary Consumption, their Prevention oad Treatment, la now
reedy, and will he *enl to any address free of charge.
Patient* at a dUtance eon consult Dr. Heath by letter, stat?
ing their ease* roily. Office hours 9 to 4._
Dr. B. 8. Fitch, author of " 8tx Lectnrea on
CoooBMptmo," kc, ? 1 thee No 714 Broadway, open daily (San
day4m0optf.il from 9 nntil 5 o'olock, treat* Coaaaaipuon, A?th
m?, Dk?iatei of tbe Heart, und oil Cbrooio Disease* of Malet
and Female*. Consultation free._
Wu.dfji'8 Patent Salamander Safes, aa
asaol vietorkma Tbo foUnwiog wa* this moroutg reaeived
from OaurgU: CoMYEBt. Oa.Nov. 1?, 183S.
Mi-.:- B 0. Wildbb, k Co., No. 182 WotsrsL, N. Y.?
Ossaaisaaai On tbe 9ih ln?t. mywarehoaoe, with all my mer
ekaadkee, wos totally destroyed by Bsa My books, papers aod
notoi. wwk aeJ7* m cash, were ail Mvod In tho WiLDia Pat
sit Salamabdki Sair wo'ch 1 parr hated of you a abort time
?lore in New York. On opening tbe an? y - c cau luaaine my
surprise, m well a* of those here who wi nesaed It, to Bod tbey
wore net even ecorchef. This mvoto teat ha* MtisHed all in this
vlemlty cf tbe saper*oaity of your jaetly celebrated Kirs-Pbook
8ara end wi i be the means of seilPni many f>r yon. I shall
be kt hew York In February, and shall thou want another.
Very resp'y. Dabibl Scott.
Crutadoro's Hair-Dte, Wins and Toupees
Staad preetnieent above all competition. a soite of olefant pri?
vate ogtartsoenti for app.ylng tri? famont Dye. the greatest
etaedard arhele of its kind throughout tho world. Ml* new
ttylo of SVict and Turin are per feet 1 >n itae.t. Wholesale
aod retail at L'BltToDOao't, No. 6 Attor Hoaoo^_
Hollow a y'h OnfTBraNT and Pills are highly
racaatmoodod fur tbe care of EryrlpeiM. Tbev act In u .1? u
safa th* *y?tQM, cloinslog and purifyisg tbe Mood, and never
fail tooare any b'kio dloraso. bowovor ?; ? tbe cue may
bo Sold tt 'he manufactories, Ns 80 Maiden lano, New Yotk,
tod Mo 144 Stiad, Loti' on. and by all Draggitti, at 25 cenU,
fc.'t oaoas. and 81 per pot or box.
Batchelor's Hair Dye?Wigs and Toupees.?
telebraud *?u?ll?bo?ent U No. 233 Broadway. Twelve
Bvtvate room* ?xprtttly for Ui? application of hu famont lUtl
,"4t<,,,,lor,i Wiot and Tovrilt have improvement!
f^tjall oik*ra, exa*utag In b?aaty of arrangement *o peculiar
SB uakt Boo**. The l*rg*?t cock of "Vies la th* world.
Batchilqr'i, No. 2J3 BroaJwoy.
The Trlbaui* aar Kouwpo
We ehaM tarru* Tins MORNINQ an Edition of
Thb ?iM-WaEKtt Tribubb for circulation la
Europe. It will oontaia an the latert Newa np to
the ume wl'Rvrtit: - ; SimrVe copies ia wrappers,
ready for matting, can be had at the counter in tbe
publication office. Price Six Ceuta. The etearnship
Caadtdawiil leave Boston for Liverpool To-Morrow
BtiSe'eloatL,
Tbe Mai) by this s^Miaer witl close la tha city at
li o'clock this afternoon.
lubacripLions and AdrfirtisemeirBi for Tai Nxw
Iorr Trjbdhi can be left with the following Agents t
PAJtis.-Charlea Hartwu k No. 18 Kue Vivionne.
LoirxKHi.-klr. W. Thomas, Noo. 18 and tl Cath
s>rbae ataiot, Strand.
Tnt Bbalth or M'lls Bachkl.?We Isarn by a
privat?) dlspatth from Charleston, communicated to
us by the gaoUegaaa to whom U is addressod, that
M Us Kachel a lived in that city on Saturday noon,
pexsaetly restored in health. She was to Bail for Ha
vana to-day where ahe would instantly resume her
poftorsaaiicc. ^^^^_imitmmmmmmmmm
Postkbs Mail Ti? Axtibid.?Yesterday the
graat Eastern mail by railroad closed at? p. m. This
P>M| will continue nntil farther notice.
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1855.
AP?rKTiv?MrKTi inronoVd t$t Tu? Wr? ?t.r Ttirtrae of
II ' w. i k ahm.id t,e herded io by nona to-day. The bwraSSASS
edition onw united of thm paper, mek<-e it u??-.-??ary, in order ta
SOcnmI ?'?''.<!., tuet oor friends ehould Ibue early haad
io ?ielr ftnor?. ^_
DoncM n < "?<.? '. V
S> nate, Dec. 3 -The Snate mot at 12 o'clock, ani
r.'ior cwbariiis: in such new mMniic-n es were p-i-sent
ai?'' fixier the hour of meeting at noon, adjourned.
HoOOw.I>ee. ::.?Tho House tue* at 12 o'cl* k, the
C t-k, John W. Forney, calling to order. T??o hur
arad t*.cnt\-five members answered to their
ran es. The first WheN of importance being tha
snectioa) of ?opaaker, the House proceeded to vote.
After thiee ballot* without an fJootioB, the Homo ad
jour r ed.
The prosecution in the caw of Lew. Btker
rested their case last evetiinjr. and tbe exanina
timi of the witxessee for the defense v. ill bo com.
mt need to-day. The evideece for the defense will
probably occupy three daji.
The Board of Canvarsers still continue tbeir
lahora, tfceir pay aDd their dinners. Fortunately,
tbe law will rot pennit any further dehy, and the
business must be finished to day.
Dispatches received yeeterd.-.y from various
pointa alorg the Erie Canal, represent that there
was no ice and that the boats were moving along
veiy fnely.
The Know-No things wore defeated in the charter
election at Ppriigfield, Mass., yccterday. Ansel
PhHps.jr., the Democratic candidate for Mayor,
being elected by 200 majority.
We Rive Ot ano her page the estimates of the
Controller for city expenses during the coming
jear. YVlia:ever notiona of retrenchment may
Lave been entertained by our go'd, easy tax-pay.
I erf, will be effectually demolished by the atern
facts of this document. The amount of money
wanted to greane the machinery of Gorernraent for
I ? 56 is nearly ?ii and a half millions of dollars, or
more than tm dollars per head for every mau, wo?
man ai;d child in the city. This is an increase of
$032,000 over last year. We do not imsgine that
any form of words that the English laneuage is ca?
pable of can arid to the imprest veness of these
facta and figures, nor will it be necessary to rec?
ommend the perusal of the Controller'a document.
It overflows with materials more interesting if not
more fabulous than the wildest romance. Tons
ai d hundreds of thousands of dollars are tossed
here and there as mere trifles, and the increase of
a hundred thousand now and then is set do.vn as a
matter of course, without even tbe formality of an
exclamation. What are we coming to ? has been
so often asked that no one heeds the question; nor
would any heed it, we fear, if the amount wasted
for what is called City Government were sixteen
instead of six millions.
KANSAS.
A characteristic letter from Gen. Stringfollo?f
to some Alabama correspondent, printed in another
column, has a particular interett at the present
moment, in connection with the rumors of a civil
war in Kansas. It is apparent from this letter that
stringft lloa is much disappointed at not having
been able hitherto to bring tbe question to the ar.
bitrainent of blows. Confident of his power to
muster a force of " border ruffians " three or four
times aa numeroua aa the bona fide citizens of
Kanras, he is quite indignant at what he calls the
cowardice of the Free-State men and thoir dispo?
sition to refer the matter to Congress instead of
fighting it out on the spot Very likely the calling
out of the militia by Governor Shmnon, reported
by telegraph is intended to favor Atchison's evi?
dent wish to precipitate a fight, and to drive away
the Free-State men before they become so nu?
meroua as to defy the " border ruffians." Those
ruffians, of course, constitute the only militia
likely to listen to Gov. Shannon's call.
It will be seen that at ths end of his latter,
Stiingfellow frankly confesses the truth of all the
charges brought against him and his " border
ruffians" by Tut: Tkimne; and insolently
threatens to do far more and worse than he or
they have ever been charged with attempting.
This threatening letter, be it observed, is
dated from Weston, in Missouri, of which place
Stringfellow ia a resident. The absolute dictator?
ship over Kansas assumed by the Missouri border
ruffian is highly characteristic of the whole scheme
for making Kansas a Slave State.
Some curious particular respecting tbe trial of
McCrea for murtVr, and other proceedings now
going on before Judge Lecompte, will also be
found in the letter of our own special Kansas cor?
respondent. The motion for dismissing the Clerk
ot the Court and suspending from practice two of
tbe leading lawyers, for their participation In the
lynching ot Mr. l'hillips, himself also a member of
the bar?an occurrence tbe particulars were pub?
lished some time since?will be an excellent
means of testing tbe profession of being " Law
and Order" men, set up by tho officials of the
Territory. The case of the lynching of Phillips
is before the same Grand Jury that found aa in?
dictment for murder against McCrea. McCrea,
it will be recollected, acting purely in self-defense,
shot a border ruffian who had attacked him. Be
is indicted for murder, yet the very same jury
hesitate to find a bill against the acknowledged
patticipatora in o cowardly combination which
waylaid Phillips, abducted him from the Terri?
tory, and inflicted upon him the most ?ruel indig?
nities.
a MKTAMOHFHOSIS NOT IN OVID.
Our Southern slave driving brethren have long
eajoyed a reputation for comfortable self-compV
cency and modest assurance quite unparalleled,
unless indeed we ought to except tho cases of
the famous kettle immortalized in fable, and the
no less famous Pharisee immortalized in parable
who bad no othtr greeting for his neighbor than
that haughty one ol " Stand aside, I am holier
than thon."
But the kettle and the Pharisee, and their re?
spective backers, may as well hold their tongues
for the future, and give over a contsat in which
their inferiority has become but too manifest. It
is useless for them to attempt any longsr to con?
tend with tke Eouth Carolina euve-driven and
fire-eaters, so atmirably embodied in the perawn
and speaking ao emphatically by the voice of Mr.
Adama, tbe Governor of that lordly little State.
Of course we allude to tho justification set forth
by the said Mr. Adama in his recent message to
tbe South Carolina Legislature for hia overaoer
like piece of vulgar lU-mannors and impotent spite
?so significant of the small advance which civili?
zation or politeness hare yet made in that part of
the wotld, or can bo expected ever to make ia a
slaveholder community?in returnirg with an in
solent mtsBage to the Governor of Massachusetts
certain resolutions which the Legislature of that
State had pa- --.< paj matten of national concern,
and which Got. Gardner had been requested to
transmit to the Executives of all the'State*, with
a request to laj tht t:i b. fore their rev rire
legislatures.
These resolutions retard f.? the recent conspiracy
between Southern slsvehol icr* and North.-?
doughfaces to extend Slavery into Kansas a?d
they expressed the firm determination of Mism
cbusctta not to i-,;<?>it to that infamous fraud.
Mich resolutions, of course, were not very mit 'h
to Gov. Adams's liking. Nevertheless, tbe subject
matter was clearly such as MassichusetN had a
concern in, and her resolutions, though emphatic
aid decided, were expressed in such mod-rstc
und diplomatic phra*eo)ogy that tbi most cri'ical
carper could find no fault with them. All this the
Overfper Governor substantially admits He con?
fesses that there wus nothing in the resolutions
themselves at which any exception oould be taken.
'? Had Massachusetts," he says, "confin-d herself
"tot he resolutions expressive of her purpose in rela
" tion to Slavery, impertinent as I may have rezarl
"edtlem, I would have received them with indif
" ferecce, and transmitted them without comment"
?for tbe very good reason, it is to he presumed, that
any attempt to comment upon them would nly
have made the matter worse. Such, bowe or, be?
ing tbe state of the case, tbe Massachusetts resolu?
tions did but rankle the deeper in Governor
Adams's sensitive bosom. A party to a fraud whon
called to account, even though io terms the most
deeOTOOJ and unexceptionable, very naturally gets
into a passion and takes to insulting those whom
he has robbed. This was a ruse which, according
to tbe ilaveholding eystem of tactics so brilliantly
illustrated of late by Governor Wise in his auswar
to a Horton Committee, and to which Governor
Adams has now added a new glory, imperatively
demanded an exhibition of slave-driving spunk.
The wolf in the fabl*??to recur again to Coop
balked in his attempted quarrel with the limb for
riling the water from below in the stream out of
which the wolf was drinking, nevertheless found a
pretence for fulfilling his original hlo>dy
intentions. Governor Adams, in the charac?
ter of the wolf of Slavery, easily finds a sim?
ilar pretense for making but one mouthful,
as it were, of the poor trembling Iamb Massa?
chusetts?for so he seems to regard that State?
which had been so impertinent as to bleat out a
remonstrance against the eating up of her sister
lamb, Kansas. No objection could be taken to
the Massachusetts resolutions, except, indeed,
the never failing, ordinary slave-driving pretense
for abuse and flogging?that of impertinence;
but, Bays Governor Adams, " I consider the acts
? 'of her late Legislature" (meaning, we suppose,
the Personal Liberty bill) " as an insult and an
" outrage upon every member of the confederacy,
" who has a tight to demand the enforcement of
;< the Fegitive Slave Art. A State Legislature ?
"deliberately, unblushingly, impiously, violating
-' her constitutional obligations, and whose peo
" plo resist the execution of the lawa even to the
? ? shedding of blood, is not entitled to comity from
" us, and I feel that 1 should not hesitate to atfix
" on such conduct tbe seal of official condemna
" tion. Tbe interchange of civilitiea with a peo
" pie who feel ;.t to be no dishonor to prevent the
" recovery of stolen property will hardly reclaim
" the faithless, and is incompatible with the re
" spect which honeaty owes to iteelf."
Now taking into account some little occurrences
which have heretofore happened in the relations
and diplomatic intercourse between South Carolina
and Massachusetts, and certain enactments of I
South Carolina expmsly intended to deprive the
State of Massachusetts and her citizens of tho
rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution of
tbo United States, this fine flourish of injured sen
sibility and righteous indignation on the part of
Gov. Adams must bo set down as decidedly the
m<>st impudent thing of which we recollect ever
to have heard- We might, in fact, challenge even
Wise himself, or T/<r L nton, or Caleb Cushing,
to beat it. The facts to which we refer were not
done in a corner. They are famili?r to everybody.
South Carolina, years ago, passed a law for putting
into jail, and under certain contingencies selling
into Slavery, every colored mariner who, driven
by Btorms or in pursuit of his lawful business,
should come within her borders. This act waa pro?
nounced a violation of the Federal Constitution by a
Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States,
himself a native and a citizen of South Carolina,
and this opinion was sustained by the legal profes?
sion generally throughout the country. Neverthe
lesa, South Carolina still persisted, in spite of re?
peated remonstrances, in imprisoning colored citi?
zens of Massachusetts, and in meanly extorting
money from them in the name of jail fees, under '
the threat that unless they submitted to this piece
of petty sponging they should be sold into slavery.
Finally, Massachusetts sends an rgent to South Car?
olina for the express purpose of making a caaei
and bringing the question of the constitutionality
of this legislation, and of these kidnapping opera?
tions and petty plunderings before the Supreme
Conit of the United States. That agent?a most
venerable and respectable citizen?is, with his
sick daughter, forcibly driven out of the State by
a mob composed of the leading citizens of Charles?
ton, with threats that he shall be tarred and
feathered and worse if he returns ; and this mob
action is adopted and backed up by the Legisla?
ture of South Carolina by tbe enactment of a law
by which the coming into that State for the pur?
pose of instituting any suit designed to teat the
constitutionality of imprisoning citizens of Massa?
chusetts, sponging them of their money, and aeij.
irg them into Slavery, is made a h ,'hly penal of?
fense I And at the foot of all this, Gov. Adams
undertakes to read Massachusetts a lecture about
" unblushingly"?as though among the other ex?
tensive prerogatives of the slaTeholdors was that
of never blushing at any raactlity-'' and 0f im?
piously"?as though the shareholders were gods
upon earth?" violating her constitutional obli?
gations !"
What a treasure Gov. Adama would be to aome
of our enterprising city brasa-founders, if they could
only lay hold of him I Not all the copper-minoa of
Lake Superior and the xme-mines of New Jersey
together would be able to afford such an inex?
haustible supply of material. The next time
South Carolina has occasion to found cannon
wherewith to resist the enforce meat of the laws
of the United States, we should advise her by all
means to cast Got. Adams bodily into the melt?
ing pot So patriotic, so belligerent an individual
would certainly not object to such a metamor?
phosis. Indeed, in fancy we see him open
mouthed, and in the process of being transformed
into a brass piece of the blunderbuss order, belch?
ing forth already fire and smoke in defense of the
eocstitutional righta of South Catalina; of course,
still true to ais South Carolin principle*, be
could icarcely bo expected to go off in behalf of
any other State. Noise enough there is, in all cm
seienoe, Whi plenty of smoke and tow wadding;
but. sot** how or otber, the shot seems to be
wamii ii
Indeed if we are to pit implicit onfidmee is
the oracular atBotinccment Oi ti vi-mor Adan.?'?
nie.snk.0, the time in w-'iich his services in the
alov i>t*t?d capacity will lx> imperatirely needed,
is npid'y approaching?as witness the following
aw'ul paragraph I
" Th* a?riri>i n Ir re'a ion ta Sia-e'v continue to
in-'tp*' sTid w ras i-ily te-icin.? to u ld<>-vly tormina
tio . lit iure? irnich it was) roped by sosa*,, woaM
?if* quiet ti (as) tmiatl| aad di?-ni yUi its ce ioira
tion., hi't * veo bot v recoub'e tne effoita sad aur
ii * r.t i* ? p??*-er of ab-iliM'-n Civil war ia a ?itr fal
? alau.i ? bat Ha M ,u-. e* at ta ha ensured in areaaT
, it t< de|iadsj|sjsj iird lala Tne peopl* of South
CaflAaa B" alir? t" the ii-suh. ano are imodloJ of taakf
oh iya .o'- bfj n e calm, be^ana? thev are pre^ir?d
Bl " se f reliao .' 1 cy have rot forijoft<-Ti ther his
tor*- i.r" not fad to\ii-< icate i's feAchiigs. The
ri,l t ta . rovt 'e i aw ?nir!# for their tntire security,
hei bn ii -f i <" by the b'ood of th* ir an estor*. and it
will in v- r Itireitdariots. Come whet may, th?y
will Co the r outv. a?!d Ifnv? the >orsequences to
(led "
The people of South Carolina, it (eetna, " hare
" not tor -orten their history, and will not fail to
" vindicate it? teaching." The history of South
Catolina ig briifly this: ehe waa only induced to
como into the " American Association"?that
pledge of commercial non-intercourse with Great
Britain, at d the first articles of union between the
Nor h An.erican Colonies?by an express excep
tii n from the non exportation clause of tha article
of r ce. at that time the cb >f article cf South
Ctmlina production Subsequently she alone 01
all the States, except her feeble ne'ghbir Georgia,
suffered her.=elf, thronsh the multiplicity of her
donestic traitors, to be overrun aod conquer J by
the common enemy, to whoie rule (the submitted
with but .ery feeble attempts to sLske it off?the
exploits of her fame us part -in corpi being chiefly
limited to stealing negroes from the plantation of
tbe Tories. For every soldier furnished to the
Continental ranks, she supplied at least five to the
British reorients, which were largely recruited in
South Carolina, where Tom* of the worst and
most ferocious s'arop were to be found in abund?
ance?till at last she was reconquered and reia
st-ted in the Union by a Northern general and
troops rent from her sister States.
In the Convention which framed the Federal
Constitution her subjects distinguished themselves
by the preference which they gave to slaveholding
over all other interest*, and by threatening not to
come into the Union nnless they were allowed
to continue the African slave trade, which South
Carolina, in common with all the States, upon
enteting into the American Association, had sol?
emnly renounced. In General Jackson's time
South Carolina undertook to nullify acts of Con?
gress, and to resist tho collection of the Federal
revenue. Her efforts sinoe to stir up tbe Southern
States to secede from tbe Union, and to form a
Southern slaveholding confederacy, are known to
everybody. Her legislative operations for impris?
oning, sponging and enslaving citizens of Massa?
chusetts, and or frightening them from prosecuting
their rights in the Federal Court?, have been
already mentioned. Such is the " past history"
of South Carolina; suck are " tbe teachings"
which her fature history, if we are to believe
Governor Adams, " will not fail to vindicate."
Mil) im, khk"?.
In taking tho ground that, as trade is now organ?
ized, middlemen are inimical to the interest of
society, and thence deducing a system of inter?
changes which shall exclude their intermediary
participation, we know that we run counter to tha
argumenta of most political economists. But it ia
not well to be blinded by the mere force of
authority. A common-sense view of things wil]
frequently overturn the most ingenious deductions
of ratiocination. When we see one half of our in
dm trial community suffering privations from their
insufficient earnings, and know that this insuffici?
ency is principally caused by an arbitary enhance?
ment in the cost of their daily food, we naturally
inquire if there ii no remedy for thii evil.
Our Western producers of food are willing to
sell their commodities to us at a certain price, and
yet before tbey reach the band of the consumer
the price paid to the Western grower is almoat
doubled. Can this evil find no remedy ? Can we
not devise a plan whereby the commodity of the
grower can be retailed to the consumer with the
mere addition of the cost of transport, and the ex?
pense of the labor employed upon it ? We think so i
in fact in other cases of less importance to the needy
consumer, we see a more simple, and therefore
an improved plan in successful operation. In a
former article we dwelt upon the immense loas of
time and consequent cost to the consumer in?
volved in our present retail system?when
each butcher spends half a day in buy?
ing two or three head of cattle while
he could at an equal expense of time purchase a
whole drove. This misapplication of industry is
avoided by our western packers. The amount of
provisions exported from this country bears no
appreciable proportion to tbe amount consumed
at home; it is the mere overflowing of the cup.
Still, to supply this foreign demand, which is of
such comparative ^significance, we see the dic?
tates of common sense carried out, the interchange
of commodities facilitated, and the ultimate eost to
the consumer greatly mitigated. The packers of
provision* for the foreign market content them?
selves with no such primitive arrangement as we
see practiced here among out retail dealers; they
estimate the amount they have to supply, and they
set themselves like intelligent commercial men
about the performance of the duty. These two
principles, which we neglect, they consistently
carry out, namely, the facilitation of exchanges,
and the aggregation of labor.
Then why cannot we adopt the same perfected
system, and supply provisions to tbe community
in the directest manner, and with the least possi?
ble, intermediate cost? Why not estimate the
amount required, engage upon the task of purvey?
ing that amimat just the number of hands the
labor requires, and aave the cost to the community
of the misapplied industry af two-thirds of those
at present thus employed ' Such a chaos as now
pervades our distribution of the necessaries of
life must tall heavily upon every consumer.
Our provisions come ta us arbitrarily taxed be?
yond all patient endurance. Capital is abundant,
and combinations of individuals operating by means
of it buy up everything; monopolizing, in fact, not
only the medium through which the necesaaries of
man are supplied, but the very necessaries of life
themiel ves We have no need to enlarge upon tke
extent to wkich this abuse is carried: oor readers
whose walks ever extend to our country markets
and boat-landings, Bast have remarked the
swarm of jobbers ready to pounce upoi every?
thing that arrives, aad, like tha Mormon locusts,
devour every green thing in the lead. An in?
stance of this intermediate meddling came to
oir knowledge a short time nines, which sets ia
. ft etear lurht the iftiquitoos t?<rp..ring with
I ?> nation's hanger, which i* openly practiced A
dour speculator in thia city bought I,(MX) barrel*
of flour of a Virginia miller, and ia due time had
tbem afloftt at hi* wharf Wi.hoat displacing a
single barrel kail speculator disposed af them at
an advance of three shillings per barrel apon the
original price to a brother doaler?the but pur?
chaser of course paying the etat of transport and
other expenses. But this is not all. After this
arbitrary addition of $:!?."> to the cost of the flour,
this second p'trcbtser retails the consignment in
small quantities to meet the wants of city ba?
kers, and closes out the lot at a further enhance?
ment of a dollar a barrel.
Dees this transaction?and it is one of daily
occurrence?square with the arguments of politi?
cal economists I In the case of thes? speculators,
each steadily pursuing his own aggranndiaement,
is the well being of tbe cc-mmoni*) subserved ?
We ask ton no legislative or municipal interfer?
ence to remedy this ev J, we merely call the public
attention to the subject, satisfied that general
action in the matter cannot fail to evolve order
from tbe present confusion Where we suffer is
\ in the inadequacy of the capital employed by those
; who directly supply the waBts of consumers.
When the baker, for instance wants a stock of
dour, ho is restricted in his purchase to the
amount of cash he has in hand which, with the
minority of our metropolitan bakers, is inconsider
I able. This trifling purehase must be effected
; qniekly; it would, clearly, cause great inconve?
nience to bim to have to wait tho transport of a
few barrels from at y Weetern or Southern port.
Hence arises the need of the middleman, who,
bringing an unlimited supply of capital into the
field, is enabltd to purchase of the miller in any
pBBwIrUa ; and by the complications the innova?
te n has introduced, we ultimately pay pretty
deaily for the accommodation.
Our only remedy lies in the organization of
machinery adequate to the task of supplying the
dema'dof the community. We want a capital
subpcribrd that shall be sufficient to purchase our
Hour and our cattle of the Western producer in
large quantities, and, forwarding them to us with?
out any intermediate dabbling, prepare the com?
modities and retail them to the consumer with the
least possible enhancement consistent with the
expense incurred; but we are glad to say that
some;bing is already being done in the direction of
reform. In The t'.iprest Messenger we read as
follows:
" Table butter commands in New-York City three
shillings a pound?in a large number of towns named
in onr table it is ({noted aa low as twenty cents, and ia
some places as low aa twelve cents. Its trans x>rta
tionfrom these places by express would cost in the
ratio to their remoteness, from one to three coats per
pound. Lot any one, therefore, wishing to purchase,
tieposit the money at the Kipress (?tiico in ha own
locality, or wi'h us, and the orcor shall go forward to
tbe Kxprraa agent wbe e the parchase is to be made,
who wi>l then select the required qum ity, if not lese
than a tub, and forward to ueslination with the bill of
cbaigts. Tbe same system may be observed in order?
ing e'her articlt-a, if not too bulky, mentioned in
The Express affisffiir*! table; and if largely avaied
of, It cannot fall to equalize fbe markets in uo incon?
siderable dot roe, and abolish the speculators' enormi
tiei in the matter of piioea for the necessaries of life."
This valuable suggestion affords a ready remedy
to those consimers who have it in their power to
advance the required sum; but the remedy to
meet our caae must be more general, and supply
to every purchaser a cheaper loaf, and a pound of
beef for less cost.
PROTKCTIOH OF THE BlIIPWRBCKEiD.
Prior to last Spring there were established on the
coasts of Long Island and New-Jersey 34 life-sav.
ing stationa, each of them equipped with a heavy
metallic life-boat, an iron life-ear, mortar, shot,
lines and other humane appliances for saving the
persons and property of the shipwrecked. The
vast commerce of this port often called these into
requisition, and almost as frequently demonstrated
their insufficiency as well as inefficiency. Ob a
former occasion we called attention to the ab?
surdity ef placing, at great expense, heavy, cum?
brous, unmanageable iron life boats on these sta?
tions, when the fishermen of the coast make and
use a light cedar-boat, easily transported over the
sand and costing comparatively little; in most
cases this is used in the surf, while its metal com?
petitor, if the wreckers have succeeded in drag?
ging it to the spot, lies useless on the beach.
The loss of the ahip 1'owhattan, with all on
board, followed by the aad fate of the New Era,
both on the New-Jersey coast, opened the eyes of
Congress to the necessity for legislative action,
and in December last " An Act for the better pre
" serration of life and property from veasels ship
" wrecked on the coaita of the United States,"
was passed. Since the passage of this bill the sta?
tions on tbe Long-Island and New Jersey coasts
have been increased to fifty eight, or one for every
five miles of the beach. In accordance with the
provisions of the act, each of these stations, to?
gether with its contents, is under the care of a
keeper, with a salary of $200 a year, whose duty
it is to organize a crew and proceed to the assist?
ance of mariners wrecked within his district.
Two superintendents, with the powers and duties
of Inspectors of the Customs, have charge of and
inspect each station along their several coasts, for
which they receive a salary of $1,500 a year. The
same Congress, before adjourning, appropriated
the following sums of money to carry out the re?
quirements of the act I for the coast generally,
flO.GOO; for the Long-Island coaat, $10,009; for
the coast of New-Jersey $20,000, and for Lake
Michigan $12,500. Of the appropriation for the
coast generally, Long Island received the whole, to
gether with its own appropriation, making in all
$20,000, the remainder of the money being dis?
posed of as appropriated, aad a balance of old ap?
propriations was expended for Long Island and
New-Jersey.
Mark now the result of this outlay: the appro?
priations have been exhausted in furnishing the
stations, and as no money remains to pay the
proper officers to take care of them, everything is
at a stand-still, and the property?probably nog.
lected and left to rust and rot?will become uf
terly useless, so that the next time it is needed
for the preservation of lives and cargoes it will
but prove, as heretofore, their certain destruction.
But this is not all. Disregarding the experience
of the past, unmindful of the repeated expoetala
tions of the press and the warnings of the wreck?
ers themselves?in short, regardless of every con?
sideration but the interests of certain lifeboat
manufacturers, the officers charged with the duty
of disbursing the appropriations seem to have
bought the biggest boats they could get, without
any regard whatever to their utility. In conse?
quence the eoastmea are, it the majority of
cases, less able to render assistance to tke ship,
wrecked thaa before these stations were estab?
lished. Ab an example of tho judgment dis?
played, tbe wreck master at East Hamptoa, Loaf
Island, states that there two life-saving stations it
Momtaik and one at Napeaque, whir* are fur?
nished with Aeatf metallic li? boats that require
(twelve or fourteen men to move, while fire, or
?iz men can bandle a light woodea boat; taat
I there are but (Mr houaea within sixteen miles of
1 Montauk Point, and that, in th- event of a wreck
coming on ahore.it would he accessary to send
ten to fifteen mil** for help sufficient to handle one
of the large metallic life boats. And this stiar
ment holds gooi in regard to the niajoritj of t.*
stations. The beach is separated from the maia
land slong the greater part of the I?ng Fslatd aad
New Jersey coasts by a hay varying in width from
two to five miles. It is on this beach, inhabted
by a few scattered fishermen and therr families,
who are frequently isolated for da)s and even
weeks from the ma'n land by f >gi and let, that
tkese stations, with their unwieldy boats, are
located.
We learn that a movement is on foot to supply
each of the stations on the coasts with lighter
boats of wood or iron, according as the people of
the locality prefer. 1 his is to be done through aa
appropriation by Cotigress; meanwhile,(rod help
the poor shipwrecked.
We 3 esterday took occasion to make some com
trents upon the recent report of the Association
for Ameliorating the Condition of the Poor, but
there is one point in that document with
which we desire to express our concur?
rence rather more fully We believe with
It that Soup Kitchens are the very wont
form in which charity was ever administered.
We hope for the honor of New-York we may never
have another one; and certainly such scenes as were
witnessed last Winter atoned some o' these pro*
niicuous feeding places never akovM occur ic any
einlimi country. Almost equallr pernicious is
the habit of many families in this cry of liliing
beggars baskets at th*-ir o n kitchen* As mneh
as we deprecate waste we would rat! er see this
food thrown iLto the fire. If beggars clamor at
our doors it would be far wiser charity to call a
police officer and give them into custody than to
give them food. Street begg'og has become a ter?
rible nuisance in New-York, and is increasing
every day: it will soon be unmanageable unless all
thinking people unite in the effort to put it down.
We k'inw of no more acceptable labor for the
Association to engage in than that of suppressing
soup Kitchens and street begging. " Favored
" with such advantages fordoing so great and good
" a work, it should not be satisfied with what it
" has done in regard to social and moral improve
" ment" until it has accomplished this greatest of
all improvements in the condition of the poor.
We learn from good authority taat the deficit it
the Post Office Department for the present year
will be about two millions and a half of dollars, or
some three-quarters of a million more than last
year. There has been added during the year same
;;,?00 miles of road service to the operations of tke
Department. ^^^^^^^^^^^^
FROM WASHINGTON.
From Our Own Correspondent
W \?iiim. m* Dec. 2, 1856.
As the time of deciding the fate of the organisa?
tion of the House approaches, the interest becomes
intensified and the outside pressure increases.
Upon tho surface to-day there is a manifeat re?
action in sentiment and a bracing up of purpose,
such as has not been witnessed since the forees
began to assemble. The manifest leaning of tbe
House is toward Mr. Banks of Massachusetts, foe
the Bpeakership, who ia said to eombine all the
elements of character and qualitieation. Hereto?
fore the prejudice exoited against thet " did Bap ,
State" haa alarmed the timid and rendered his
support hesitating. Now, this shrinking seems to
have yielded to a more deliberate and determined
policy. An argument urged in his behalf is that the
Clerkship being conceded to Mr. Cullom, an equiv?
alent should be given to an original Democrat,
attached to tbe Anti-Nebraska organization, ia
order to equalize the footing of both tbe old par.
ties in the new movement. Such a consideration
is not without its just force in the abstract, and at
his particular juncture, when votes are votes,
exerts no small degree of influence. The aiher
ents of Mr. Fuller are still earnest and enthusias?
tic, and will not abandon him without mantfos?
and conclusive reasons. It is very well aecer
tamed, notwithstanding his known objections t>
tbe Nebraska bill and Us general course aa a Pres
State representative in Congress, that eeveti
Southern members are prepared to sustain bii
should the probability of aa election be at all ap?
parent. As things now stand, the chances are tot
the Speaker will be chosen without support frtn
tbe South at all, or in very homeopathic propr*
tiona.
According to the antieipation expressed ia if
first letter, the conferences of the anti Adminiskv
tion forces abandonded theideaof a general causa,
contenting themselves with resolving to sippet a
candidate opposed to the repeal of the Mi*sari
Compromise. This was clearly the most pruoat
course, and allows men who might be ham peed
by the drill of a caucus the privilege of free aetsa,
and of ultimate cooperation inacommon priaeips.
Mr. Washburne of Maine withdrew his nsme pai
tively as a candidate, having never encouraed
its use.
Tbe Democratic nomination! are just Taat
might have been expected, aad embody the ?ati
ment of the party oa the agitating issues. Mr.
Richardson will command the aid ot a share oftbe
Southern Know Nothings Ms! Whigs, who regard
this as a good opportunity of proving their tana*
doxy by rallying under tbe standard of the (bief
Engineer of the Nebraska iniquity.
All the candidatea are regarded In ft JMf?
mentary light by the one for printer, Mr. WeaWL
And strange to say, though he is notoriously imati
fied with Tl* Union-i* a recognized parttsa of
that school, and received their caucus *onina
tion-there are men calling themselves Kerubli
cans who sie now laboring to divert force eaough
to his support in order to carry the election This
s notoriously a mercenary transaction, to wlieft
the New-York delegation particularly should 1?**
w ith scrutiny, *e an effort is making to miatasa*
their votes by false and selfiab representations. li?
the Administration organ aad the m>st unscrupa
lous opponent of Republican principles mast bt
sustained, let it be done fairly aod above board
but not by secret treachery in order to hoedwial
honest constituencies. Enough has been aseer
taixed in this business to cause every vote to kj
scsnned carefully, and to demand that the reeow
shall go out to the country with a full exposures!
facts.
It ia likely, that in order to avoid any violent pr>
ceedings against Denmark, and yet at the saaft
time to have the right for which the Unite!
States have eon tended, the Presideat wQl reeeav
mend ia his Meassge the payment of a eotnxnut>
tion for the cost of lighthouses, buovs. aad tat
like, which Derne ark has incurred and saust easy
tinue, upon condition that the tax on commerce
be abandoned. The Foreign Legations bars avail
interested in the question regard this as the baaw
of an equitable adjustment, aad will dd?abuafi
press its adoption. The year's notice g*
the Treaty will expire on the 14th of Aaril ftW
and if the negotiations should not be than oon
cluded, and Denmark should solicit further iadutf*
enoe of time, with a view of co?p.?*ing ta*
arrangement, it may be graated, withit*um
standing that the tax shall cease until the aasa
aogotiauou be made. WftsU.