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BUSIHfr*3 iroficEs. " 0 Cekw's Bjjfi i Style H*1* w*r* «4* . Hrf. wmiw in.Mts »»J que.iir.are ¦ Ol mx. N* ai«Bit>*d»»* Fx. klsiok!.Hsrns A Oo , Fashi > Halbere We IS* Broad* >. peetfelty . «f *. £-| a?^wmtwst» aad w.T -mu-. lb* t*m* lijteral ir»'n.i» which'hey hav, . -' - »cessee * * II. ¦trie to «on tee I l *ftoitr»ta*uc* n**\Ve take pleasure id caUini atu;n- Oa to aa Mli«itiMiii>. t f be ITaaol n ef tueS"ene* ef bV-hOlogy, on the Sirst Page lavahi « aw ret to road it I.adibb, THR LABI CeaWCB..Ib -ot au.seeof tho great n *»e«y »f Ct if. rata OeM . ii Boi'M . iff el . ». r'''"iwi*: tar d.y Goods, at a', oy baH heir f-raw prreii.c ->t ef Bilks. tba-.lt. Mari«*. co<:;»; »*. «* »;»;.' " Cashmere*, bi k Bah ste. Lade* C »<l t. 11;.» ''"*'. hate. Cloths. ( at.nt.fr.. fce . Be Great hirrar-ms» eiieetof a* tfc«-» c * ... »» ^ »" ''.,n " d' , *V.n. foU . * !j ' %fM*"%M Bor^r.No 321 Gra^d f.. BW. Orchard. Wat f;oor>s .Omeat excitement..¦ the estea^ve .ale -J Wet G.~<t at G. M B'»:.ixa'* will eoetisi.* afawdatti-.i.sr Ladies reeidtng at a d.it.ac* and ail iho»* who have a-it bad an opportunity of calling hatare will ncd it grea'lv to tbtir intorett by giviag u. aa aarly call, aa tbeae g-.cda are e»!linr at a'",ut 30 per etat. Emm B.»nufectorert' prices.consisting of Table Liueas, .birtiBc i.iaeae, Toweling.. l.aea Napkin*. Maraeille* Quilts Be Ax Now it vmn !.< {¦¦. ir.-j ltf»i GM Boi.JM.. -So 3>IOrand-at , cog. 0'Chard._ Calirornia (.old..Specimens, Quartz aad Band bought by H &> Lit mo it tr Co, Gold and Silver Beficers aal Aaaay t a. Swtep 8ir.'lter. and cleanereof earth's airaerala. and all kant-a auhetances that contain the ab'rve n.etalt. O'd gold, a.lver, diamond, and precious ¦toco* bought, jeweler*' aad .'.'vemnitha' aweepa. oiet aad ail bard aab.Ui.cv- eivoad at the Ref.nerv, No 43 Ana at.. New-York II IJtMWBtA fir Lac« and Muslin Oirtaihs, at cost of bjaor'atioa, viz Muslin from St to $10 Bine Lac* from ft to$ll Eitra aaw aty e* do., from |10 to $30 JB. B Dealer* aid families ewa f.ad the best a<eor'-m*Bt satheror || Km PaSOi S, No. SSOj Hroadwajr Btore etteavAs back to Beads-et. It ««Ba din r ok .hb Aa roK Muti at !%m tttx ri'Mrtsr ' Nbw-VoUK, Ja a 1853 FF The ftaaltits jog statement of the allairs ol thit Company ta ibl;.bed ia conformity with the r*- auwemeat. of the chart* r atrroant *f Premiuei» u< t 'narked off Drrem- ber It, 1131. .$321.836 13 Amount of Premmms on Maria* and Inland NaviaalKra. and Tran»i*rta'l'.B riss. forth* year eadtag Deeembor 31 1B3I.¦ ttl,8ut> 05 Total amount ef pre.niumo.%'H t 673 40 Amount ef «ara*d pretn, irus dunar the yeaw aa abwre.. -.$t« 8'il M L.a* retara premnnns. SO 601 14_ Net earead premiums 1831.$S0i M 9>, Loese. paid during samci.en.nl $389,'/J7 14 tt»iuiursi,r« sou. a. ripea.e. and bad debts._. 38 CIS 1 1 448.63'! 38 Net earaed profits-.$I54.«34 7g Tb* profit* of tb* Comt.stif fnon th* td Ap'il, 184», to it... Slat 11. "i in foi wkkBh BfmBaalaa are i.aued, amount to.$177,530 SO Additional profit* aa abov*-._154.654 7S Net *4vrataga to Slat December. 1831 .$J« Mt 78 The A*a*te <tt the Com; any ea the Slat Decem¬ ber, IB}!, wore as folio wa BUia toeoivable....$|t»4,137 72 <?aeb. ... jt.884 15 Loans on atocka. 88,830 00 Premium aceoaale to b* closed by note* or cash, scrip of sundry M .taal lasarancc Com- panio* aad aalvagoa. 61.97} 31 $61082 V 20 XW This Oompany take no Fir* Riaka diar(iaiierted~wilh Marino Rikka. The Board of Trustee* have Tbi* Day declared a Divi d*nd of twenty four per e*nt. oa lha earned premium* of the year ending Dec 31, 1831, for which cerufictSea will he issued oa ami after the 7tn ot April nest. Alt" aa laterett .f .it percent, on the scrip beretofoie issued, pu> able in .ash on aad aflar the 3d or Kern »ary. By asaas of m . n >.ri BOWABO V STRONG Secretary TltUkTBBS. r*b*<le*Cook. Bran, is Saiddy. P A. H. Remold Thomas TiUilou, Saiu'l K K... .., « Caaa. Connolly v 8. Latbrop, Eueu B Ctinkar, Klish Bobbias. Sidney Brook*. JoLu A McOaw, Paul Alden, Geo. Orisweld. Jr., Woi V Batkley, Thomas Daahair P';a* Poi.v.rt. Arthm Piooogan, W. Keut, 8.5 C«da/. B. J. Browa, James e fly/; . John Haiiior, Predenok A. Lee, Wiluam Biyce, James Mtera, tiMrgeBiid. J W Culbeit, JaraesS uart. J.'ba ¦ Kitewiag. RT Woedward, Ssiuiiwl I. Barli, Alfred Bar rat f, Th*.¦*>;¦,, Era's L. Cook, C d Huid, U.*e.t L Tay or, Bee A Mumfurd j.lwaie tn.i.o.... k j, i'hi.tei.d*B, «m.k Lothrop, B B. Utowater. L. 8 Pond. Joaiah O. Low, L B. w SSBBI ZEBKDEE ntlOK, Presinent. EDWARD ANTHONY, Vic* P-ee.de..: BpwaRD A. Btbomi, Sec clary. jil ImMWedkE* Fowi.br cti Wells, Phrenolotriats and Bublisbets, Clinton Hall, No. r3i Nassau St., N*w York, aad No. ltl Waahingten at , Bo.tou f)b,mea' wi h titter* dear- Ob. men wnii mothet« and wivea. A aingl* pair, if ..rut m time, PeretiBi < e aaB] la*4 tie irlivsa. 1*1*' Oettaii.lv. U l.adiea dance all the .seeing at a party or a bsll tu whi'e satia tlippert or «Biteia. paicbaaed at Mil i s,B s. and lh*> siep out, even to their oariiago, wuboula pair of good warm Oaitera, cloth baiton Boot, or Ind.a rubuer Snoea on, whv, they might teke cold, and a old.but no matter, gentlemen, buy a pair far them in tin.e st J 11 Mili kr'k, No 134 Canal it. }}%¦ d tor k Dvi m DbabI '. 8o Hamlet »aid, L\ON bo ducat ask«. One f his (Itsks, Coating BBS h .If a d. 1 ar, Be Ibue y. ach.. fly, w ill kill Then buv. Al d per:i Ct blies «rill follow. LtoaV Magnetic Powdor mid PilU.No 121 Broadway, is/ st* Dm, Rboibb1 Sybi r ob Libbbwobt, Tar BjnOEAtM Al.tiil'A This taf», pleai mt and highly eflica- .jSMt medtciue baa beea fairl« lested b aw ewa eitneaa, who. o i ot he.it.te to |.n.a..in.i e it superior 10 all other eipeototaat* fot any wi ... ataa or dtaoae* al Hi* tespira- tory orgaat Tao w.vrtt ueeaVi .u* cured by it iut«.> ov 'pot sale by A. L 8. 0T1U ft Co., at the Depot. No 31« Broadway, aad by all retail limttidt. Ptiea la ler<* bottle* $1, or three bottles I * si If Fntss .Albnit * B*clBck ^aturtlay eTtn- inr, a tita broke- out La the I itee f 'jr-etor/ brick btnMuif No 94? Bin iowzyy, etu.iJing back oter IM feet on Mutray-st,. cupted by the following per acut llaseiueiit fl.Hii t>, Wm. C. Btout, card and seal engiaver Ihm Bl d eccau Boon by Ball, Black e% Co jewelry and silverware m tnufacturers third floor by W YV Nile* and B Bagley, lawyers. Mr. Von Bkcllme, artificial lateral maker, Henry Ktley, tailor, Themas Jon s, tr i her ol penmanship, and M. Liitever and B Baslth, ar-hite ts fourth loot by D, K. Gav ll.OsijtitKfo.. ptst. 1> W C U SU eile, artist, and Horace NoUnd,»« uip'.or. Trie fire otiginated in Mr (.avit'a daguerreotype estatiluhment, and at hen Aral diaoot ci«- stabs have bcea easily extin¬ guished with a few pat!* of water. Mr G w ;is near by when the fire broke cut, and discovering that it was in his premises tan QUieeTJ to the room, and had nearly succeealgii Btsa uttering the flames with bis overtoat, when he w ..^,,i,l tu desist, being newly sBtTovated by the Cense smoke which had alrca.l) atleo itr «;... it The ptompti.ets » b which the hell ringer gave the alatm, toe s brought a large body of firemen upon the ground, who by then name utr act ton, succeeded in a ahoit time incoiiiiiietelv eajhduing the devouring clean at, whi. h at first threatened the Uestructioa of considerable proper'v The rear portion of the fourth story occtipied by Mr. Gertt, Hoiace Nulard, ard Boutelie the Artiat, was eatuely deetio\-d by !.*, together with the property oi ihewecup.H t», which ts n,i insured. The pietwuty ol the BS.yaJatt »>i UM sBBQBd an ! third atory wrsa damaged kyj a ster M the amount of several thousand dollaia Mr Gattt e.ün ate« Mi 1 es at about $.1 OOo This lose falls testily urvn ftlBA, as lite (hrtsfBltf de¬ stroyed area all he pos^eeatd. aad he is not tn- sureO a dollar. Some Use since he met wuh b similar saisfertunc hts ea'ahliahtuent m Albany having beea destroyn'. but there he was insured. Mr G had a gieat number of pictures, of which about t>Ot> were ol di>;m,utshol Amencans Theae wete all destroyed, and as atany ol tbc originals are dead, tftey can never be rep aced. He saved only ab«. Uta dosen pictures in ail. be s Klee two medals which had beea awa.ledto him.one by the State Agricultural Society, and the other bv the American Institute Wetrastt.) see Mr G at wv.rk again boob, when all his old friends should give htm a lift. Mr Skelllne estimates his loss at Bits.' no in¬ surance Mr. Nolat.c, the semlp'or, hts sustained considerable loss He bad just completed a mag- BioctHtt bust, in marble, of Professor Eru kaoa, for the i ostUBon Council of IU'timoie. which is coni- plete l> rt incd, the h. at having rraike\! o ! ^utivins of the ntaible Mb»ms Hall, ( i t A Co sustained slight damage By water Their mute; se st.vk of silver and jewelry, valued atasoie than a quarter of a uii'lloa, aa> fully iLsured The Cbiei ot Pssns e. Capt Silvery o! the let. t apt l^onant of the tsd, Capt Hopkias aad As- nstanl-Capt. Olmstead of the W. Capt. Carpenter of the Mh, Capt Breun an ot the fib. and Capt Yoor- Beea of toe the 13th Waide, were early od the ground with a large MM of men. and saved a large amount of (>ro|«t.y from being stolen. Tnere we-e aujr quest Us of lh:e«e« rsa the groun.', anxioislv hopiBg for the destrc Mob al the buiKltng. that thev aaAfttt peasder front the exi*n*ive jewelry store ol Messrs B II A Co 1 he store door was. however. etroBgle gmardtii bv orocr oi the Chief, and every oae retueed admittance, altbouiirt many persons tCoubtlesa tltievee) ca'ioi lit a fite. Jly way and iaxiutreel if the proprtetore had sustaiued any dam- .Yesterday aflrrwooj}, about S o clock, a 5re oo- curred us the dwelling-house. No iiu Yesey st , .(> cupied by Mr Langccn which waa ocossioned by taa burning of a sooty chimney. But UOsB dakuafe tau Cone Va Ue prerrutee. i NEW-YORK TRIBUNE. NLVN Y'JKK, MoNDAV, FLU. 1''. The Whig Almaxac -This nnnuil Ut IH12 bas sow been tome four weeks lisuef, and the sale* bare eicee'ei 2j,000 copies, though still ihcrt of the number recju red to repay the atf) of its preparation. Copies are ttill selling rapidly, bat nit ose-tenth «o fait a* they would be if the Peop'.e r ,< !d only orrtair them There ia not a County aeat in tbe Tree Pta'cs where a hundred might not readily be eoW if t'.iey were only accessible, and no PoM Office where a dozen would not go offlikedew if any one w ould pro ure them. Ttere is noother form in which the same amount of unirersally de- tirahle and practical information, which erery citi¬ zen will need at Waft fifty times in the course of the year, could be obtained for four tunes the coat and this alone can be tent through the Maili at a rnder¬ ate cost For $1 we send ten coplea for anydia tiu.- e abort of 5o() mile *, pittaee paid; if the distance be orer M mtlea, we can only rend eight copies, as the pottage (which we must pay in advance) it double. This ia as low as we have ever offered them the only difference being that the Postage is exacted of us, and therefore deducted from the number of copie» tent. W e have received a number of letter* from seve¬ ral of our moit distinguished citizens bearing teiti. nosy to the value <jf this year's Almanac. One now before us saya the A'manac would be cheap at 91, and that the synopsis of the acts passed by Congress at its last session is alone cheap at twice the cott of the work Scores have spoken of it in tbe same tfarat. There ought to be 100,000 copies of the Whig Al- nnnac taken thu year, and would be if those who deem its circulation beneficent would only give a little attention to the matter. Any one may inclose a dollar arid get its value in Almanacs with a moral certainty |tbat his neighbors (and not Whigs only) will gladly take at cott all he does not wish to keep. Friends of the Whig ttmm and of the diffusion of knowledge' do not stund each back of the other, but order some Whig Almanacs for circulation in vour teveral neighborhoods, and you will thank ut (or giving the advice and urging it upon you. .We cannot furnish sets of the Whig Almanacs of past years. We have them not, and no means of reproducing them It ia of no use to offer an enhanced ptioa for a full set ant would give $i for one for our own use Those who wish to file w ill find in thiSyeat't a pretty good account of past F.lectione of decided importance, and may at least make a be¬ ginning now. Whoever keeps a clean file for ten or twelve years will be able to sell it for more than itt cost. _ An Apology..The type on which The Trrlune it now printed is shamefully worn, yet we are unable to procure the quantity we need for some weeks.probably not before the firat w eek in April. Meantime we beiecch our readers to have patience, promising never to be caught in such a plight again. Bear with ui for a few tedious weeks, and we wil remember the kindness for years. For Europe. The next number of The Tribune for Europe** Cuculation will be issued TO-MORROW MORNINC, .it 9 o'clock. It will contain all the Latest News up to the time of going to presa. The Kump* taila from Boston on Wednesday at 12 o'clock. Topic* of ihr .Horning. [The following mattere, occurring in the tttff, or re¬ ceived fry Mail or Telegraph, will be found, more or lent mt Itngth, in our columns this morning J Sunday's silence broods BbrBTUUnglf on Topical tendencies. (Jovernor FootB has wisely considered U prudent to decline monopolizing all the oliices in Mississippi. It is a piece of modesty which we should not have expected Iroiu that quarter < apt. LeOOg'a letter on the Kosstith corre¬ spondence. A aeries of »hört speeches bj Kosstith, en nute from Columbus to Cincinnati, wnh a abort speech to tbe Typograj hical i'liion of Cincinnati, giving cogent reasons lor declining too Bleich public speaking. A threatened inundation from an ice-dam on the Susquelianiia below Columbia. A new arrangement for expediting the Southern mail still talked ol ami still needeJ. A lailroad train destroyed by lire on the liiorjjiu Railroad. Orotund has been broken on the Ohio and v isjataippi Railroad Look at the Sixth Page for tome Musi¬ cal matters from Kurope, with Miscellaneous items condensed from foreign journals, Judge Raker corrects our Washington Telegraphist ; Appointments by the President, Senatorial!/ ."auctioned; News from New-Mexico, followed by Dsssfsl intelligence and a letter (rom Lake Superior. l,oss of a ship at Nantucket, and Dthai items by telegraph; Proceedings of our State Legislature on Saturday, a column ol Mail GtaanatWfs ami City Items Political News , Com t Proceedings Kml 1". state Sales. \c. Ost the Seventh Page Dr. Dowev's Sivtti l ecture on the Problem of Human Dettiay. Prvl. t'Uyot's Lecture Reconcihin: Scripture with Bciaaos, and anothercoluninoi Mail (ileam inge. First Delegate to Whig KatioMaI t\wi n ri.-n..The first District Convention for the choice of a Delegate to the next Whig Na- tional Convention (if such there be) was held at Bataria a few daya since. C. R. Thompson, EotttOf of the La Roy tiazette.' was chosen LVegate. w ith Hon. J. A. Mi Elwwx (.Senator) as Substitute. The Convention was lor Scott all over, and so resolved. The District (OaaV e»tc. Wyoming and Allegany Counties) is one of the largest in the State, gave 1.700 Whigmtior. ity last Fall, and can give ?,öO0 in a Presidential contest. It adjoin* Erie County, the home ot Messrs. Fiümore, Hall and Havens Mr. Thompson, the Delegate, is a Taj lor Postmas¬ ter, relieved from duty by the firm just named "Mrs. Hrcoks, wife of a New-Vork M.C., hat been presented with a fine carnage, as a com on- men! to her husband for bis course on the Compro¬ mise measures." v The almve notice of a verr substantial compliment lately paid to our distinguished Rep- resentatire in Congress is going the rounds ot the newspapers. As - the Compromise ¦ ensures" is now the delicate and courtly synonym tor the Fugitive Law. should like to know whether the course ¦ so applauded refers to our Mem¬ ber's dexterity in dodging the decisive vote on that admirable measure, or to hit su'itequent agility in dodging the dodge. Ci^ The Richmond Examiner has the following good thing, relerring to a candidate for the Baltimore Presidential nomination, now as travels " Hon James Buc!.*u. ¦ It if 'ho city, on a nan to s persoual fma4-aa a | uaicnUnl." Tfcr Vlesin* LarSB I>ed-;e-d. Senator Berkman »f our City has civpu notice si s bill to be submitted by him 11 atolifh Licenees and confer on the Board of Supervisors of esch County the p-.wer of re >ubi1iTvj therein thetralT'C in S^iritou* Liquors. Tliis is substantially the s> stem now pre¬ vailing in Massachusetts and some other States, and it answers no good purpose.. Under its operation, Rumselling may ei-uly be lawful on one side of an imiginary line and unlawful on the other : lawful a few rr.L'ts further on, and unlawful afier another hour's ride.and so on. Next year, it may be lawful where it was unlawful this, and unlawful where it was lawful, anH so on in a perpetual whirlk'ig. And all this under the same law Mr. Beekman's plan is in¬ ferior eTen to that of Massachusetts, in that it commits the 'regulation' of the Liquor Traffic to the Supervisors, whose election is governed by a medley of political, local ard personal considerations, instea<l of «"utnmissionera elected expressly for this fluty: We venture to assure Mr. Beekman. and lO others who with him may be seeking some N'Tth-West Passage between right ai d wrong, that they cannot succeed. Rum- teliixg either a legitimate, wholesome, ¦. r :i.ti.Ckblc business, which ought to be (diinitted and protected, as much as the telling of Bread, Moat, Potatoes or Fruit, or it is a pernicious, baneful, destructive i,.Hiit. which ought to be outlawed and .'.hibiteo', as the keeping of gaming-houses or haunts of lewdness is. There is no ii&lf- way ground, and it is labor lost to t:} to make any. Mr. Beckman's anti-Rum constituents will not regard this movement as fulfilling the measure of their just ex¬ pectations, and do not desire the passage of any such act as he foreshadows. They want Thk Maine Law That has worked and is now working admirably, while he seeks to supplant it by one which his proved a decided failure. It has no basis of principle to stand upon, and must tumble like Iiagon before the Ark when confronted with the Maine Law. GcBtlemCD Legislators if you will give the People the Law they have asked for, very well: if not, they will endeavor to take it in their own good time. But if you cannot give us the Law, at least oblige us with the Vote! Atneric-nn Idea*. Le Phare <7< Nen:~York replies to our re¬ cent observations entitled M France In¬ tuited, " in an elaborate article from which we extract the following " It would be unjust on our part not to admit in the writer of TU« Tribun* a quite exact study of our country, a certain truth of considerations, more im¬ partiality than we are wont to meet w ith, and even a fund of kindness toward the French nation With all theee elements of a sincere and complete judg- n eLt, we still do not see that he has succeeded in "en g much nearer than others to the just and the true .. The reason is that he has fallen into error if not iiito a common prejudice ami while, with a parsl- moniousnen. be describes the special institutions of France, he obstinately goes on, by a strange anom¬ aly, to judge them from the American point of view. The reason tstbat along with au instinctive sentiment of justice, bis judgment is formed in advance and his' conclusion drawn even before he has laid down the premises. In vain Hie natural tendency of Ins ! can ning and the lopicai force of the facts he sets fonh lead him to altogether different ccductions his cot re is marked out. between an unchangeable suiting point and goal, and to these be is invincioiy UnielleO. " V\ i l i.o person be found, then sufficiently free from i.htioi alor political prejudices, to judge France in berseli und by herself, without insisting on taking as the standard of her acts, any Institution«, names hi o social and territorial conditions which are not bets' »*-."*. "We will then ask The Tribune and the entire An eru ar. press, m the name of what logic it is that the;, persist in mdgirg France on the same ground, and by lite same laws as one of the States of the I i ion For in fhct, this is what happens. People tro Y i! dirnarit at Mr, 6trive which sh ill most con- dm.n her, as if n stead of having abdicated in wea- rinets. or ry force of circumstances a «emblaure of a retubit ml leb caused her only wotutds and anxiety, sie hut titriert irrevocably, in a day of ignoole aJriaht, that BtaraaJ principles of libertv. .' lit tore pronouncing with such viruleuce.it would have been a email thing, it seems tD its, to interre- tale Fiaiire hersel;. to ask her if the majority of ,;t r people were not ready, in reality of 0OB> scieiice. lo abandon the SVBtem which the Snd of l)t cember overthrew. [I Franse replies ailirma- Htelytothis question if she declares plainly, that for oi.e re. son or another she does not consider her- self as new suited for & republic, what right have we. foreigners or Frenchmen in foreign lands, to force her to be republican, and to cover her with oppro- brium and invectives because she does not alt arc cur ideas ' . * * .'Aid when The 7V»eeaM proclaims that France has fallen from the rank she had assumed, and de- tiflifi the futility of all nrete? n 'ed super'ontv of na¬ tion over nation, we will ask in our turn, by what tis.ht it and its associates set themselves up as su¬ preme arbiters of the destinies of another coun¬ try . . . " As for our personal tem'encies, our cotetnporary of 7ae 'I'm <.ne is mistaken in supposing them antt- rept.bliCin Thev are FVtwea, nulling more, noth- irj(!eii. Only we follow France where she leads t s, aid have l.ot Ihe ste rile presumption to dire, t hct, A far-< 11 sentinel ot our country we receive froaa he r our »atch-word and countersign, and without ecu g so far asto say 4 France can do no wrong.' we bear as, the sole motto upon our banner, the fire worcs so often repeated by American patriotism ' Kight or wrong our country " Francs, right w j wrong"" The Phare objects to our strictures, that ihcy are uttered exclusively from Ameri- cur, ideas, and that we seek to measure Fiance by a mere American prejudice. We dem} the justice of this objection, and ap- peal to the facts. It is notorious that France has lately un- dergone a violent charge in her form of go'eriiment.that this change has been ac« ct mpanied by the suppression of every form of public liberty, by the violation of the most solemn pledges and oaths, binding Um m who made it, and by ihe banishment of ii.any of ihe most illustrious French- n.en ; and that, after all, it has been acqui¬ esced is and recognized by a nation that had claimed to be the soul of chivalry and mai.ly courage, and the very pioneer of modern civilization and intelligence. How is this possible ! is the unitersal question.. Some reply, Because the Fren.Ii are a weak, frivolous, fickle, bragging people, with no moral back-bone, fit only to be slaves. We deny the truth of this severe, or if the Phare pleases, insulting judgment W e say it is not the people who are bad and cvuteniptible. but that their institutions are essyitiaJly despotic. They are in a great iiiesisiible machine. All that Louis Na¬ poleon has done is to seize the crank» tu« aj !oag is he Ml hold a he his the i ation at his mercy. To this the Phire H plii B, that we are talking from national or I i:;cal piejudice. Tut let us look at the matter mire near- ! There are two great political systems in the wcrld, that of Despotism and that of Lileity. Now we understand by Li'ierty that system in which the people govern themselves and mansge their own public allairs according to their own c nvictions and wishes. Despotism is tint system in which they *rv governed from above, by persons set over them, who manage their afTnira for them according to their own su¬ preme pleasure. Where there is local self- fovernmci.t there is liberty: whert there is centralization tbcre is despotism. And this, we make bold to say, is no American Idea or national prejudice, but a matter ot principle, as universal as human nature and ss true at Paris as it is at Pittsburgh. I- ranee lives under a system of centraliza¬ tion. a»d has done so for more than half a century. Therefore it has lived under a system of despotism, exposed to all the chances, the revolutions and convulsions to which despotism is liable. In 1848,by one of these chances, the principle of liberty ar.d eelf government w as asserted in terms, but the despctie system was continued in fact, llii.ee the recent events. And in those tveits it is not the mere change of government which we regard with horror and disgu.-t, but the shameless, bloody, and utteily tyrannical way of its ¦flOOtnpa.ah meat It is one thing f*»r a nation delibe- lately, ai d after ample dis ussion,to change [fr political stitem: it is one thing for a people in a volcanic bant of indignation to extingniah the pretensions of obstinate and ¦elfiab kings ot aristocracies: but it is an- ¦ r ar.d a very ditTereut thing for a single ba> knipl perjurer by audacious and mur- ens violence to oveithrow a constitution r d destroy the sole legal guarantee, not of ical self-government, but of the principles Mit of which in time it must have grown. The one ia the act of a nation and is re¬ spectable the other of I villain who tram¬ ples a nation under foot. Hut say some, Centralization is necessary (o France ; in her capacity of the leader of civilization and the representative of lib¬ erty .she has a great battle to fight against Rus>ia and tyranny in general. She must accordingly retain a sort of military organ¬ ization, in order to he able to act with iir ity both defensively and aggressively against the mighty power ol darkness. The idea of minding other people's busi¬ ness is more absurd for a nation than for a private man, and for France it is most ab¬ surd of all. If France, instead of keeping a great standing army and taking care of Europe at large, had devoted herself to industry, education, decentralization and the establishment of real self-government, for the past twenty-five years, she would I ave had no revolutions, and would at this day have exercised twice the power over Kurope that she now does, and exercised it peacefully, while her people would have been happy and progressing in wealth, in¬ telligence and all that constitutes national greatness. Now this may also be an American idea, 1 ut it is, we think, common aenat and truth a3 well. And itacercs vain to talk about social and territorial conditions preventing its gradual application in France. It might have been applied by any Covern- ment thas has existed there since the Em- peior was crowned, not of course, all at once, hut by suitable degree. Hut this has not been done; it has suited them better to maintain despotism, and we see wherethev have come to. In extenuation of the part the French na¬ tion have been made to play by Louis. Na¬ poleon, (his conduct it does not extenuate, but from patriotic views, declines to con¬ demn.) the Phare say s the people wero tired of the Rt public and wanted to* be rid of it. ( ertai/dy a very eauer want that must be, whit h requires to be helped by such entice- ;i rail as Louis Napoleon has found neces¬ sary to got himself to his present position. If the nation really wanted to do this tiling, why. not wait till the election of next May, and let a new Assembly be chosen, which could have voted a revision of the Consti¬ tution? Thus the want mi^ht have been gratified in a legitimate and peaceful way without bloodshed, perjury or terror. Hut the troth is, that nobody believes in any inch rational want, and that the conviction was universal in France that a free, fair election would only confirm the Republic. Our cetenuporary finishes with that pa¬ triotic common place, M Our country right or wren::." This miy be a respectable sentiment, but we confess our inability to appreciate its worth. In our judgment the man who abdicates his minhood. renounces bis reason and smothers his instincts of I truth and justice, to set up a mere patriotic fa Ivg in their stead, may deserve credit for a blind and narrow enthusiasm, but ren- Ätn a very pcor honor to the country he loves and the cause he attempts to serve. CF Hon. Horace Mans will to-mjrrow evening lecture in the Broadway Tabernacle, in the People's Course.) and proposes to present .Some Tl.ougL.ta for a Young Woman,' a counterpart to his well known Lecture of a law years since, entitled 'Some Thoughts lor a Young Man.' Although the position and needs Of Woman will be more especially considered in this Lecture, yet Men wfl] find its truths worthy of thtir consideration also. and the unequaled cheapneis of the People's Course must impel buniireds ta give their wives, sisters and female cousins a chance to hear it. Mr. Mann hsd had large eipenence as s Superintendent of Educa¬ tion in Massachusetts Lefore he become a Mem. I er of Congress, and is widely known as a pro. anti r i.ieras well a* a bold and t«itbJul ipeakor. The friends of Reform and Progress 'n Brooklyn, Wiiliamaburgh, «See .should BOOM ever to hear him, an his Congrcssiontl dutie* will not i ermit him to spvak fro¦ place to place. The attendance vrtll doubtless be numerous. Kossuth and Cart- t.oc ; We publish ilu* mornin? the statement of Capt LotM with reference the ditlieultiet al. leged to have taken place between himself and KoaWri while on board the Mississippi. He af¬ firms that, in th* entire passage, there was l>ut a single ditTerer.ce between them, an 1 that merely a misunderstanding;. When it Ma sei lea, the people came in boats crowding around the ship to salute Kossuth. shouting and clapping their hands in a pecu'iar French fashion, while drums 'n the City were beating ; the Captain said to the Governor, that if he would retire from the deck, perhaps the people would disperse; otherwi.-e, he (the Captain) feared a comp ouuse of the (lag Kossuth understood him to say, that he (Kossuth) had already compromised the (lag, by receiving the welcome of the people, and also understood the request to w ithdraw as a com¬ mand. But alterw ard the matter was explained between them, when the Captain exhibited to Kossuth his cruising orders, which w ere very sti let in ifspect to the conduct ot those on board the skip while m friendly ports, and especially foibidding all manifestation ol sympathy with any political party With this explanation Kos¬ suth was satisfied, and thencelorward perfectly friendly relations existed between them. The Captain's letter is couched insiuanlv. -.: i^ht-forward style. It show s that in the case i< farad to I is action did not exceed his orderst t! at in intention at least, if not in manner, it was respectful toward Kossuth. and that there was i.o self-contradiction in the statements with re- »I act to the voyage published here in his name olicr his arrival At the same tune, it shows that Kossuth, even whih thinkim; himself or- doted from the deck, and accused of c >mpro Ii ising the rlaf, w t ubeved the wish ol the Cap¬ tain, an 1 withdrew from the people who were clatnOfOOt to show him honor. It seems evident, however, from the tone Of tie letter, that the Captain, and w e may presume others of his oflicert, regarded the Hungarians with sympathy lor their forlorn condition as exiles, rather than fcr their immovable tleter- Blil ation and hope that their country should yet D8 blessed with freedom and independence. e are aware that sympathy and agreement m political opinions cannot be commanded, but yet wc should rc;oice to see the sympathies of officers of the American Republic always warm ami glowing on the side of liberty, and never on that of despotism. VW The Republican World. Mi< hael Dobknt's new weekly paper, has a bold and slashing leader on European Politics, with teference to the Presidential question. Mr. I), settles, ort band, that the Whig party is constitu¬ tionally hostile to the cause tj Diverse! Free¬ dom, and then proceeds " Upon the Baltimore Convention a tremendous responsibility will devolve. It is the sun of the elec¬ tive system, ami shoulti he free to all. No dark spot should be allowed on its mac. Let the Baltimore platform be swept clear of self-interest, of faittion, of local ptedilection, and personal dislike and obll- gatioiis, or there is imminent danger of a bad and dis¬ astrous selection. 1 lie division of spoils compromise i ore that must not be beard of, if republicanism would escape disgrace So, too, must sectional con¬ siderations. This once, lei the naked majesty of boaOStcoBi Icttoi s rule tbe decision, and harmonise the »ia s of the representatives of the people, and It! lbs only question engaging those convictions be, v.ho IS Fvcal TO ritE office. fUM cocstbv tiik occasion I Montesquieu savs, that the basis of a Republican's education should be virtue. Wbo is it that has been taught m the proper school Is there a man, fresh, vigorous, true, faithful to his convictions and bis word Is there a man prompt to do, as he is quick to think, and resolute to determine I Is there a man whose tense of right has never been sacrificed to a false diplomacy Is there a man who can read tbe nations, tiot in protocols or diplomatic notes, but In their history and tendency 1 Is there a maa wbo will iiibttiiute for the treacherous jargon of courts the i i kid truth* 1* there a man who will neither bully lorrlinnk ' Is the re a man, in fact, mirroring iu bis intellect, bis judgment, und hit heart, the uiicorrupt- cd origin, growth, majesty, and destiny of the coun¬ try If there be. let him be choten, without refer- rocs to pledges, prejudices, passions, or interested feeiitgt; the choice will be a crowinag triumph for Liberty now and hereafter '. .This is understood to point to " The Little Giant" as the ought-to-be candidate for Preti- '. nt Whether it would or would not be necos- varj to write under the portrait "This is a Horse " in order to insure its recourtitioii, we do not say. But w e entreat Mr. Doheny.who will -re some things relating to American Politics lather clearer before his hair is gray.to just keep bit WBBtlbW eye on that embryo Baltimore Convention and note what sort ol a declaration [1 putt forth with regard to European Politics \merican duty in reference thereto. If that luminous '. sun" shall let it* light shine honest¬ ly and la:rly on the down trodden Millions of Ku¬ rf pe, we will acknowledge the corn if not, we shall insist an The rVorUTi doing that same. Is nut this fair ' Is it a bargain ' PoaaiBLT a Svw I*osT-OmcK..It 11 i.tiderstcod by those who are well informed that ne¬ gotiation are in progress between the Government at Washington and Alex. T. »Stewart, the dry goodt merchant of this City, which may rssul" in tbs pur¬ chase of the Utter party's iplemdid marble store, to te fitted cp as the New-York Post-OfEce ft- The Ohio Free Soil I (invention, at t'oltmlmj, Fete li, rwcwtataaaauSoui John P, H»!e tot President, and Samuel L*wt» Ohio) for Vice-Presidi nt Irish State PfUseJtfEM..The resolu¬ tions which passed the rloard of Assistant Alder¬ men on Wednesday evening, were introduced by T.n othy O'Brien, who so worthily represents tie Fourth Ward in that body. New-York Towa f*lertia«t. ,Tiooa Co.Supervisors for 1859 Whig. tippint em Newark.E W Brown. Barton_H 3. Davis. Nichols.H W Shoemaker.Berkthire.iltrrit Jewett. 0wOfO Jamet Ely.3. Candor....Horace Booth. Richford..C Randall. Spencer ...\. H Miller Tioga_0, otrang-f. HKMT'NG CO. Bi r Flats.P W Breed. E mira_Chat. Hulett Catharine-* Dix.Wm ila'rirg. Veteran..1) N Btti:e:: 3.8<uthport .Chat E'an*. ( hemutg..W H L ttle. Krin.j A. M-.Key. ratlin.J. n. Been. Cayata..7. I -r/ Two to be elected la Elmira Village 11 LTOM co. BioadaJbin.J. Clark, Euparatb_8. Srcith. B tecier.. T. Enot Ophenbeim..L L Header. Garoga_I. r Martin Northampton Johnttown A C Churchül Stratford.... .4. M«vfi«ld...M Brown. Perth.B Voeburgh-« 8TEIBEN CO .[In part j Wheeler..G. W. Wheeler Bath_P. c Cos* Pitttburgh j. Anderson Wayne..j. Evelan . HowaiS...A Brunen I roana .j Btnda Ca.TpoeU W McNeil. Aroca...H H Boi hton-1 Erwin.I' Balcom. Hornby ...P Corenboven Thurston. C Boughtoc. Painter Port Wm Imne < aton.Jas. Lawns. 9. HP Bev. E. H. Chapir's sermon on the death of Dr. Doane, attracted a large a-. Hence to the Mu.Tay st. Church yesterday morning Erery seat sad standing place was occupied, and haadtsds Lai to turn swap THE LATEST NBW& By Tfle^rspb to the New-York Triboae $o*V.rrn TtUortfh Qfij-r, coratrof /fawevrr mrU Beaver sat, kee«mh at Cincinnati. Ci.aciaaATi. Saturday, Feb II Hit Kossuth addressed the Hinganan Fund Aseoeia. tfM Ibis ereairg, at Smith and Nixon's Hall Cm thousand BOSS« »ere present, and maay offered b>f h prices for sdaiseion. but the number was limited Hinii'er.OMt speech, but promise 1 ha |a si next week, when it u expec'ed he will ad tress all tr« (i «11 . of Hungary, at the Ham Itun Ra lrotd Stadl It Is um'e mood that tV hat .;uet to oome off aad ir Kotsatt w'il be present to mate a fee remarks at Mat ... I rem the Henth.TVrtnessee Whi.: Ceitvrattoa -Laad Tar the loulaa« la Texas-f eastita» tien el Loaisiaita, Ac. BaLnvi Ri:, Sstur'ay, Feb. 11 lajj; The Tcnreseee W r g State Coaveattaa ass adjotaraed nsa I aftt i . inaoodoas scsai »a Tae Dt legates appointed to the National Conventma were inatractsa to rota f"r Ftlloasfs lor Pretueat aid J. C Jenes for Vice President A Mil h-s been nitro 'u-ed into the Texas Lentis. tart, »eitir.g apart ten U agues of laud fur some of es ol luci.ibs who hare for a long period teen located In Ihe State The House of Representsill et of Lonlsiant hare passta to a second reaoing the bill calling a Conten¬ tion to amend the Constitution. 1 be Vircinia House of Delegates hare ptseed a Mil to pruetit seine hauling in the riser Accoaae between the 1Mb day of May and tae Uta day of August A serere thunc'er »tonn occurred at Anntpaus ee \\ ( t - ,i> last. Southern .Moll Mr. Thra«h,*r senator \\>m Marine Disaster-. Bar rtHOH, Feb lj, UN, The Southern Mail arrived here this uurntag, with dates as late as due. Ihr s,'i irci-.y P>cejrv*# publishes a letter frea Jons S Til a »ii lb. written immediately a'ler a* arrival m bpstin. l!c had not then been set at K ertv, but tats he Bad re »i>< 1 a letter from the Aiueiuan Miaiater, Mr Baaaiaeaa, who aas «eatt- lng for dispatches 'rein Mr. \\ c uter before apply, wg to the So T.'sh Government In behalf of the pruv oi.t ts Mr T writes that he ha '. b< en am Uy treated BiaaseM and been enabled to Jo much lor the com- lort of the other pi Leonora. Tfce «ithdr.t *al .' i..)virn r I rt at a caodi* dec fcr the I n ted State« Senate, is connrmel Is a letter he says, tb.tt b-Mnir tin* ilnng to participate in the responsibility of defeating ai election,aad thus permitti-3 a vacancy to arise tn the Senatorial representation ia Coaartss, stilish would contaae for nearly twei*e months, it is his decide! wish that his sans should be no longer used in conaectioa »Uli tbe place in question, if tt is thought by ha friends snd the friends of the I nion that his wits- drawal would in the least degree te nd to expedite the election of a Senator. The Vu-auune says that an oilicial order was re¬ vived in New-Orleans concerning the reception ol i't l.aboide, tlie Spanish Consul, directing a sa¬ lute to be given to whateter vessel he arrived is, "ns a proof," writes Secretary Conrad to (lea Twiggs, ''of the respect the I nited State» euterttiss for himself and for his Government, and in return f»r the grave injustice done to him, and for the in¬ sult and offense given to hia country by an uns,ov en able mob The ship Rome, vt Inch hts arrived at NewOrlesa* from London, reports that on the 1st of January eat fell in with the British bark Medium, of Yarmouth, Nora Scotia, in a sinking condition, and took ofJoffl- ecra and crew and brought them In The Medium was from Newport, Wales, and bound to City Polat. V irguua, with a cargo of railroad 'ron Arrival ef tbe Southern Mail Hunting tt Railroad Cars and Contents-Arrct of rail adelphia Kpert«iuen -Ground Breiten en Us Ohio and Mississippi Kallreud. Buir i.i. Feb. IS, l»j'l I tic Southern Mail is in, but brings us nothing et- yend Savannah. A train of six cars on the Georgia Central Rail¬ road, took lire on tbe 15th tost., and were destroys*! with all their contente, consisting of »v bsleeei cotton. Two sportsmen from Philadelphia, who were gua- ning on the Potomac, weie arrested yesterday for violating tbe ducking law. The men were dned aad their guns and boat condemned. Tbe ceremony of breaking ground on the Ohio end Mississippi Railroad took p ace at lllinoistoea, ou the Hi tost. There was a large attendance, and the ceremony was very impersing. ArruudVnieat for Southern Mall, fcc. tvAaaiaoroa, Feh U. WM Arrangements for expediting the great atari be¬ tween New-York and New-Orleana, were closed at the Department yesterday, will go in operation os the first or March next. A large number of persoas were baptized i. the Potomac to day Kentucky and the Presidency. Lot ISVILLB, Friday. Feo 11, ISM. The Whig citizens of Paducah, and several of the adjoining cotinues, in general convention en VVsd- nesday last, adopted resolutions declanug the see. 'in.' t f that portion of tbe State in favor of Joha J. Crittenden as the VVhtg candidate for the Prea- c< ncy. 1 lie Convention was attended oy nearly ¥>i delegates. a- The .Susuuchanna and Schoylklll Rivers. PaiLanaLPaia, Feb. is, ihm. The recent freshet on the SttsqaahaAaa ooes net seem to have aliected the ice at Havre de Urses, and tie water haa now* fallen so low that ths let bridge is hs available as ever. I torn Reading. we learn tint the Schuylkill «i hibits as yet ro indlratlors of a freshet * a Megre Hurflrrer Arrr«,ted. I' >i aaai arata, Feb it -u p M Jones Sebmont, a BOarO, who committed s rase on Ms stepcau^hte r. a girl ten years of age,aih>rt lime ago. w hid caused her death, was arrested yes- tarda*, near Coshen, Orange County He sru brought to tins plaee, and lodged in ; til this after¬ noon The ship Shannuga. ¦oeran, F-iday, Feb 13, IM The ile.im tug R II F«rnes ,..«» jeen sent by Ut li.surar.ee ofleaa to the assistance o( the ship Susi- ii'iga, at Nantucket. There have been no armals here, to day, esoept a tew F.aatern coasters e i Flood in the antguebanaa. Colcmbia, Saturday, Feb 11, ISM. Tbe stiKjuphanna River is very h gh, and the water in some place* sis fetet over the ice The ice in the 8us(j<ieh<iai>a staled ibis moraiaf a few miles ubove here, aBd in consequence o( its obstiuction presented bv tbe ein ige, is now gorged up to ailhnt about six featoi the Bridge, am! at soae points ai>ove, evtl, to a grta.er biBbt tftaa the Bridge list If The River is much swollen, ant in con sequence of the ,mmei.se mase of ice. it is gisatiy feared lhaiht* Bridge may be swept away H*'. at i,a («uat v.. Saturday, Feb 11, \m% We learn from Port Deposit that tba ¦<:. lathe iBsquaauaaa tus broken ti^ at tttat piece, aad for son,. Btlos above. 1 hn water it six feet deep over the ice, soda teriois freshet and much damege u «;(;.<-(.. (.(»(. ?- The Columbia Bridge.Ire and Freshets in the SiiH'iiienaunah. PauaMAPBIA, Feb 15. ISJI. The ice in tbe Susquehaimah has fome iagtrgs at Washington, four mnes below i.« nun, aod bscked up to within ten feet of the fl >or of the bridge, winch is thirty feet above low water Tbc T* e Water Uaastl is covered with Ice aad water from Columbia to W.,.!,n,g on, wherea ^ree^h of hfty yaids in the Canal bans ali'trds an outlet for the water from ihe Rner, which rushes through great I impetuosity, with a tsll of ten feet. Saould there t e a aucden thaw, great damage must ensse 1 be 1 urnpike Bricge on the east tide ol tne wer a short cist^iice below < oluroont is carried s«sf At IIsirisk.org UsS mi r is clear of lea to aid-'ia- town. Ti eie has been a connder it) e fic-uet, WX* iss-.bridii § 1 r.t Jouuta la claai ol tea .Maviuatlen oftl.e Ohio River LotTIsviLLi, Saturday, Feb 14,185* Tneacatber at lists place is Ir? *jH O'i«ioe«i brisk. Tneic is sufficient water on toe Fans lei C ts of .he largest dais. Later from Columbia-Rirer FaiHa«-- Coluivibia. Pa F.b 15 18" Tbe water at tbe bnege haa faUen ten Inches, ana all tear of damage to the bridge h<s ubstded l»Iarkeu-A>porVd MaFwRt CiuBLEsToa. Saturday. Feb. 14, MMb CoTTO.aof good quality has advanced an eiglia Baaai the Paetae'i advices The »a.ei »ere IMW baits, at Ti'a'l Sales brisk at the Utter pnee PaoviDXitca. Feo. I*. I*M CofToa. Since the arrival of the P«.;iSc hol j'" are more brm, ai d prices held an eighth higher I aa sales have barn m .derate, tc, meet the oemtn<l foe fön» un.|tion. \\ e |uote Oneai s arid Mobile Fai'at li old, Middling Fair, 10. L'pUnd Fair, 9i«>l<'. MMolWf Fair, I Wool.Trere is steady inquiry, atd prices are fully up to last week's rates Toe foliowiax are tte sales for li e week Fleece, ss.700 lbs. at price* raafaif from Mi to 45. mostly al 3:i and4Sc«ui«. Pallad, 39 11.0 ins , at prices ranging Iroin 3i to 4f_ Foreigi. a.too lbs , at JIc. Tutsi s»iei ol tae wees, %0MUitie Pbintiro CLOTHit-Tbere hss been 'ontaJero.* activity in the market Ibis week, and un m are nr a with an upaaid tendency Tna tales are fil,**1 pieces

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atrroant *f Premiuei» u< t 'narked off Drrem-ber It,1131. .$321.836 13

Amount of Premmms on Maria* and InlandNaviaalKra. and Tran»i*rta'l'.B riss. forth*year eadtag Deeembor 31 1B3I.¦ ttl,8ut> 05

Total amount ef pre.niumo.%'H t 673 40

Amount ef «ara*d pretn, irus dunarthe yeaw aa abwre..-.$t« 8'il M

L.a* retara premnnns. SO60114_Net earead premiums 1831.$S0iM 9>,

Loese. paid during samci.en.nl $389,'/J7 14tt»iuiursi,r« sou. a. ripea.e.and bad debts._. 38 CIS 1 1 448.63'! 38Net earaed profits-.$I54.«34 7g

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Additional profit* aa abov*-._154.654 7SNet *4vrataga to Slat December. 1831 .$J« Mt 78

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BUia toeoivable....$|t»4,137 72<?aeb. ... jt.884 15

Loans on atocka. 88,830 00Premium aceoaale to b* closed by note* orcash, scrip of sundry M .taal lasarancc Com-panio* aad aalvagoa. 61.97} 31

$61082 V 20

XW This Oompany take no Fir* Riaka diar(iaiierted~wilhMarino Rikka.The Board of Trustee* have Tbi* Day declared a Divi

d*nd of twenty four per e*nt. oa lha earned premium* ofthe year ending Dec 31, 1831, for which cerufictSea will heissued oa ami after the 7tn ot April nest. Alt" aa laterett.f .it percent, on the scrip beretofoie issued, pu> able in.ash on aad aflar the 3d or Kern »ary.

By asaas of m . n >.riBOWABO V STRONG Secretary

TltUkTBBS.r*b*<le*Cook. Bran, is Saiddy. P A. H. RemoldThomas TiUilou, Saiu'l K K... .., « Caaa. Connollyv 8. Latbrop, Eueu B Ctinkar, Klish Bobbias.Sidney Brook*. JoLu A McOaw, Paul Alden,Geo. Orisweld. Jr., Woi V Batkley, Thomas DaahairP';a* Poi.v.rt. Arthm Piooogan, W. Keut, 8.5 C«da/.B. J. Browa, James e fly/; . John Haiiior,Predenok A. Lee, Wiluam Biyce, James Mtera,tiMrgeBiid. J W Culbeit, JaraesS uart.J.'ba ¦ Kitewiag. R T Woedward, Ssiuiiwl I. Barli,Alfred Barrat f, Th*.¦*>;¦,, Era's L. Cook,C d Huid, U.*e.t L Tay or, Bee A Mumfurdj.lwaie tn.i.o.... k j, i'hi.tei.d*B, «m.k Lothrop,B B. Utowater. L. 8 Pond. Joaiah O. Low,

L B. w SSBBIZEBKDEE ntlOK, Presinent.EDWARD ANTHONY, Vic* P-ee.de..:

BpwaRD A. Btbomi, Sec clary. jil ImMWedkE*

Fowi.br cti Wells, Phrenolotriats andBublisbets, Clinton Hall, No. r3i Nassau St., N*w York,aad No. ltl Waahingten at , Bo.tou

f)b,mea' wi h titter* dear-Ob. men wnii mothet« and wivea.A aingl* pair, if ..rut m time,PeretiBi < e aaB] la*4 tie irlivsa.

1*1*' Oettaii.lv. U l.adiea dance all the.seeing at a party or a bsll tu whi'e satia tlippert or«Biteia. paicbaaed at Mil i s,B s. and lh*> siep out, evento their oariiago, wuboula pair of good warm Oaitera,cloth baiton Boot, or Ind.a rubuer Snoea on, whv, theymight teke cold, and a old.but no matter, gentlemen,buy a pair far them in tin.e st J 11 Mili kr'k, No 134Canal it.

}}%¦ d tor k Dvi m DbabI '.8o Hamlet »aid,

L\ON bo ducat ask«.One f his (Itsks,

Coating BBS h .If a d. 1 ar,Be Ibue y. ach.. fly,w ill kill Then buv.

Al d per:i Ct blies «rill follow.LtoaV Magnetic Powdor mid PilU.No 121 Broadway,is/ st*

Dm, Rboibb1 Sybi r ob Libbbwobt, TarBjnOEAtM Al.tiil'A This taf», pleai mt and highly eflica-.jSMt medtciue baa beea fairl« lested b aw ewa eitneaa,who. o i ot he.it.te to |.n.a..in.i e it superior 10 all othereipeototaat* fot any wi ... ataa or dtaoae* al Hi* tespira-tory orgaat Tao w.vrtt ueeaVi .u* cured by it iut«.> ov

'pot sale by A. L 8. 0T1U ft Co., at the Depot. No 31«Broadway, aad by all retail limttidt. Ptiea la ler<*bottle* $1, or three bottles I * si If

Fntss .Albnit * B*clBck ^aturtlay eTtn-inr, a tita broke- out La the I itee f 'jr-etor/ brickbtnMuif No 94? Bin iowzyy, etu.iJing back oter IMfeet on Mutray-st,. cupted by the following peracut llaseiueiit fl.Hii t>, Wm. C. Btout, card andseal engiaver Ihm Bl d eccau Boon by Ball, Blacke% Co jewelry and silverware m tnufacturers thirdfloor by W YV Nile* and B Bagley, lawyers. Mr.Von Bkcllme, artificial lateral maker, Henry Ktley,tailor, Themas Jon s, tr i her ol penmanship, andM. Liitever and B Baslth, ar-hite ts fourth loot byD, K. Gav ll.OsijtitKfo.. ptst. 1> W C U SU eile, artist,and Horace NoUnd,»« uip'.or. Trie fire otiginatedin Mr (.avit'a daguerreotype estatiluhment, andat hen Aral diaoot ci«- stabs have bcea easily extin¬guished with a few pat!* of water. Mr G w ;is nearby when the fire broke cut, and discovering that itwas in his premises tan QUieeTJ to the room, and hadnearly succeealgii Btsa uttering the flames with bisovertoat, when he w .« ..^,,i,l tu desist, beingnewly sBtTovated by the Cense smoke which hadalrca.l) atleo itr «;... it

The ptompti.ets » b which the hell ringer gavethe alatm, toe s brought a large body of firemen uponthe ground, who by then name utr act ton, succeededin a ahoit time incoiiiiiietelv eajhduing the devouringclean at, whi. h at first threatened the Uestructioa ofconsiderable proper'vThe rear portion of the fourth story occtipied by

Mr. Gertt, Hoiace Nulard, ard Boutelie the Artiat,was eatuely deetio\-d by !.*, together with theproperty oi ihewecup.H t», which ts n,i insured. Thepietwuty ol the BS.yaJatt »>i UM sBBQBd an ! thirdatory wrsa damaged kyj a ster M the amount of severalthousand dollaiaMr Gattt e.ün ate« Mi 1 es at about $.1 OOo This

lose falls testily urvn ftlBA, as lite (hrtsfBltf de¬stroyed area all he pos^eeatd. aad he is not tn-sureO a dollar. Some Use since he met wuhb similar saisfertunc hts ea'ahliahtuent m Albanyhaving beea destroyn'. but there he was insured.Mr G had a gieat number of pictures, of whichabout t>Ot> were ol di>;m,utshol Amencans Theaewete all destroyed, and as atany ol tbc originals aredead, tftey can never be rep aced. He saved onlyab«. Uta dosen pictures in ail. be sKlee two medalswhich had beea awa.ledto him.one by the StateAgricultural Society, and the other bv the AmericanInstitute Wetrastt.) see Mr G at wv.rk againboob, when all his old friends should give htm a lift.Mr Skelllne estimates his loss at Bits.' no in¬

surance Mr. Nolat.c, the semlp'or, hts sustainedconsiderable loss He bad just completed a mag-BioctHtt bust, in marble, of Professor Eru kaoa, forthe i ostUBon Council of IU'timoie. which is coni-plete l> rt incd, the h. at having rraike\! o ! ^utivinsof the ntaibleMb»ms Hall, ( i t A Co sustained slight damage

By water Their mute; se st.vk of silver and jewelry,valued atasoie than a quarter of a uii'lloa, aa> fullyiLsured The Cbiei ot Pssns e. Capt Silvery o! thelet. t apt l^onant of the tsd, Capt Hopkias aad As-nstanl-Capt. Olmstead of the W. Capt. Carpenter ofthe Mh, Capt Breun an ot the fib. and Capt Yoor-Beea of toe the 13th Waide, were early od theground with a large MM of men. and saved a largeamount of (>ro|«t.y from being stolen. Tnere we-e

aujr quest Us of lh:e«e« rsa the groun.', anxioislvhopiBg for the destrc Mob al the buiKltng. that thevaaAfttt peasder front the exi*n*ive jewelry store olMessrs B II A Co 1 he store door was. however.etroBgle gmardtii bv orocr oi the Chief, and everyoae retueed admittance, altbouiirt many personstCoubtlesa tltievee) ca'ioi lit a fite. Jly way andiaxiutreel if the proprtetore had sustaiued any dam-

.Yesterday aflrrwooj}, about S o clock, a 5re oo-curred us the dwelling-house. No iiu Yesey st , .(>cupied by Mr Langccn which waa ocossioned bytaa burning of a sooty chimney. But UOsB dakuafetau Cone Va Ue prerrutee. i

NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.NLVN Y'JKK, MoNDAV, FLU. 1''.

The Whig Almaxac -This nnnuil UtIH12 bas sow been tome four weeks lisuef, and

the sale* bare eicee'ei 2j,000 copies, though still

ihcrt of the number recju red to repay the atf) of its

preparation. Copies are ttill selling rapidly, bat nit

ose-tenth «o fait a* they would be if the Peop'.er ,< !d only orrtair them There ia not a County aeat

in tbe Tree Pta'cs where a hundred might not

readily be eoW if t'.iey were only accessible, and no

PoM Office where a dozen would not go offlikedewif any one w ould pro ure them. Ttere is nootherform in which the same amount of unirersally de-tirahle and practical information, which erery citi¬

zen will need at Waft fifty times in the course of the

year, could be obtained for four tunes the coat andthis alone can be tent through the Maili at a rnder¬ate cost For $1 we send ten coplea for anydiatiu.- e abort of 5o() mile *, pittaee paid; if the distance

be orer M mtlea, we can only rend eight copies, as

the pottage (which we must pay in advance) it

double. This ia as low as we have ever offered

them the only difference being that the Postage is

exacted of us, and therefore deducted from the

number of copie» tent.W e have received a number of letter* from seve¬

ral of our moit distinguished citizens bearing teiti.

nosy to the value <jf this year's Almanac. One now

before us saya the A'manac would be cheap at 91,and that the synopsis of the acts passed by Congressat its last session is alone cheap at twice the cott of

the work Scores have spoken of it in tbe same

tfarat.There ought to be 100,000 copies of the Whig Al-

nnnac taken thu year, and would be if those whodeem its circulation beneficent would only give a

little attention to the matter. Any one may inclosea dollar arid get its value in Almanacs with a moralcertainty |tbat his neighbors (and not Whigs only)will gladly take at cott all he does not wish to keep.Friends of the Whig ttmm and of the diffusion ofknowledge' do not stund each back of the other,but order some Whig Almanacs for circulation invour teveral neighborhoods, and you will thank ut

(or giving the advice and urging it upon you..We cannot furnish sets of the Whig Almanacs

of past years. We have them not, and no means ofreproducing them It ia of no use to offer an enhancedptioa for a full set ant would give $i for one forour own use Those who wish to file w ill find in

thiSyeat't a pretty good account of past F.lectioneof decided importance, and may at least make a be¬ginning now. Whoever keeps a clean file for tenor twelve years will be able to sell it for more thanitt cost.

_

An Apology..The type on which TheTrrlune it now printed is shamefully worn, yet weare unable to procure the quantity we need for someweeks.probably not before the firat w eek in April.Meantime we beiecch our readers to have patience,promising never to be caught in such a plight again.Bear with ui for a few tedious weeks, and we wilremember the kindness for years.

For Europe.The next number of The Tribune for Europe**

Cuculation will be issued TO-MORROWMORNINC, .it 9 o'clock. It will contain all theLatest News up to the time of going to presa. TheKump* taila from Boston on Wednesday at 12o'clock.

Topic* of ihr .Horning.[The following mattere, occurring in the tttff, or re¬

ceived fry Mail or Telegraph, will befound, more or lentmt Itngth, in our columns this morning JSunday's silence broods BbrBTUUnglf on

Topical tendencies.(Jovernor FootB has wisely considered U

prudent to decline monopolizing all the oliicesin Mississippi. It is a piece of modesty whichwe should not have expected Iroiu that quarter

< apt. LeOOg'a letter on the Kosstith corre¬

spondence.A aeries of »hört speeches bj Kosstith,

en nute from Columbus to Cincinnati, wnh a

abort speech to tbe Typograj hical i'liion ofCincinnati, giving cogent reasons lor decliningtoo Bleich public speaking.A threatened inundation from an ice-dam

on the Susquelianiia below Columbia.A new arrangement for expediting the

Southern mail still talked ol ami still needeJ.A lailroad train destroyed by lire on the

liiorjjiu Railroad.Orotund has been broken on the Ohio and

v isjataippi RailroadLook at the Sixth Page for tome Musi¬

cal matters from Kurope, with Miscellaneousitems condensed from foreign journals, JudgeRaker corrects our Washington Telegraphist ;

Appointments by the President, Senatorial!/."auctioned; News from New-Mexico, followedby Dsssfsl intelligence and a letter (rom LakeSuperior. l,oss of a ship at Nantucket, andDthai items by telegraph; Proceedings of ourState Legislature on Saturday, a column olMail GtaanatWfs ami City Items Political News ,

Com t Proceedings Kml 1". state Sales. \c.Ost the Seventh Page Dr. Dowev's Sivtti

l ecture on the Problem of Human Dettiay.Prvl. t'Uyot's Lecture Reconcihin: Scripturewith Bciaaos, and anothercoluninoi Mail (ileaminge.

First Delegate to Whig KatioMaIt\wi n ri.-n..The first District Convention forthe choice of a Delegate to the next Whig Na-tional Convention (if such there be) was held atBataria a few daya since. C. R. Thompson,EotttOf of the La Roy tiazette.' was chosenLVegate. w ith Hon. J. A. Mi Elwwx (.Senator)as Substitute. The Convention was lor Scottall over, and so resolved. The District (OaaVe»tc. Wyoming and Allegany Counties) is one ofthe largest in the State, gave 1.700 Whigmtior.ity last Fall, and can give ?,öO0 in a Presidentialcontest. It adjoin* Erie County, the home otMessrs. Fiümore, Hall and Havens Mr.Thompson, the Delegate, is a Taj lor Postmas¬ter, relieved from duty by the firm just named

"Mrs. Hrcoks, wife of a New-Vork M.C.,hat been presented with a fine carnage, as a com on-men! to her husband for bis course on the Compro¬mise measures." v

The almve notice of a verr substantialcompliment lately paid to our distinguished Rep-resentatire in Congress is going the rounds ot thenewspapers. As - the Compromise ¦ ensures"is now the delicate and courtly synonym tor theFugitive Law. w« should like to know whetherthe course ¦ so applauded refers to our Mem¬

ber's dexterity in dodging the decisive vote onthat admirable measure, or to hit su'itequentagility in dodging the dodge.Ci^ The Richmond Examiner has the

following good thing, relerring to a candidatefor the Baltimore Presidential nomination, now

as travels" Hon James Buc!.*u. ¦ It if 'ho city, on a nan to

s persoual fma4-aa a | uaicnUnl."

Tfcr Vlesin* LarSB I>ed-;e-d.Senator Berkman »f our City has civpu

notice si s bill to be submitted by him 11

atolifh Licenees and confer on the Boardof Supervisors of esch County the p-.werof re >ubi1iTvj therein thetralT'C in S^iritou*Liquors.

Tliis is substantially the s> stem now pre¬vailing in Massachusetts and some otherStates, and it answers no good purpose..Under its operation, Rumselling may ei-ulybe lawful on one side of an imiginary lineand unlawful on the other : lawful a fewrr.L'ts further on, and unlawful afier anotherhour's ride.and so on. Next year, it maybe lawful where it was unlawful this, andunlawful where it was lawful, anH so on ina perpetual whirlk'ig. And all this underthe same law Mr. Beekman's plan is in¬ferior eTen to that of Massachusetts, inthat it commits the 'regulation' of theLiquor Traffic to the Supervisors, whoseelection is governed by a medley of political,local ard personal considerations, instea<lof «"utnmissionera elected expressly for thisfluty:We venture to assure Mr. Beekman. and

lO others who with him may be seekingsome N'Tth-West Passage between rightai d wrong, that they cannot succeed. Rum-teliixg i» either a legitimate, wholesome,¦. r :i.ti.Ckblc business, which ought to be

(diinitted and protected, as much as thetelling of Bread, Moat, Potatoes or Fruit,or it is a pernicious, baneful, destructivei,.Hiit. which ought to be outlawed and.'.hibiteo', as the keeping of gaming-houses

or haunts of lewdness is. There is no

ii&lf- way ground, and it is labor lost to

t:} to make any. Mr. Beckman's anti-Rumconstituents will not regard this movement

as fulfilling the measure of their just ex¬

pectations, and do not desire the passage ofany such act as he foreshadows. Theywant Thk Maine Law That has workedand is now working admirably, while heseeks to supplant it by one which hisproved a decided failure. It has no basisof principle to stand upon, and must tumblelike Iiagon before the Ark when confrontedwith the Maine Law.GcBtlemCD Legislators if you will give

the People the Law they have asked for,very well: if not, they will endeavor totake it in their own good time. But if youcannot give us the Law, at least oblige us

with the Vote!Atneric-nn Idea*.

Le Phare <7< Nen:~York replies to our re¬

cent observations entitled M France In¬tuited," in an elaborate article from whichwe extract the following" It would be unjust on our part not to admit in the

writer of TU« Tribun* a quite exact study of ourcountry, a certain truth of considerations, more im¬partiality than we are wont to meet w ith, and evena fund of kindness toward the French nation Withall theee elements of a sincere and complete judg-n eLt, we still do not see that he has succeeded in"en g much nearer than others to the just and the

true.. The reason is that he has fallen into error if not

iiito a common prejudice ami while, with a parsl-moniousnen. be describes the special institutions ofFrance, he obstinately goes on, by a strange anom¬

aly, to judge them from the American point of view.The reason tstbat along with au instinctive sentimentof justice, bis judgment is formed in advance andhis' conclusion drawn even before he has laid downthe premises. In vain Hie natural tendency of Ins! can ning and the lopicai force of the facts he setsfonh lead him to altogether different ccductions hiscot re is marked out. between an unchangeablesuiting point and goal, and to these be is invincioiyUnielleO." V\ i l i.o person be found, then sufficiently free

from i.htioi alor political prejudices, to judge Francein berseli und by herself, without insisting on takingas the standard of her acts, any Institution«, nameshi o social and territorial conditions which are notbets' »*-."*."We will then ask The Tribune and the entire

An eru ar. press, m the name of what logic it is thatthe;, persist in mdgirg France on the same ground,and by lite same laws as one of the States of theI i ion For in fhct, this is what happens. Peopletro Y i! dirnarit at Mr, 6trive which sh ill most con-dm.n her, as if n stead of having abdicated in wea-rinets. or ry force of circumstances a «emblaure of aretubit ml leb caused her only wotutds and anxiety,sie hut titriert irrevocably, in a day of ignooleaJriaht, that BtaraaJ principles of libertv.

.' lit tore pronouncing with such viruleuce.it wouldhave been a email thing, it seems tD its, to interre-tale Fiaiire hersel;. to ask her if the majority of,;t r people were not ready, in reality of 0OB>scieiice. lo abandon the SVBtem which the Sndof l)t cember overthrew. [I Franse replies ailirma-Htelytothis question if she declares plainly, thatfor oi.e re. son or another she does not consider her-self as new suited for & republic, what right have we.foreigners or Frenchmen in foreign lands, to forceher to be republican, and to cover her with oppro-brium and invectives because she does not alt arccur ideas ' . * *

.'Aid when The 7V»eeaM proclaims that Francehas fallen from the rank she had assumed, and de-tiflifi the futility of all nrete?n 'ed super'ontv of na¬tion over nation, we will ask in our turn, by whattis.ht it and its associates set themselves up as su¬preme arbiters of the destinies of another coun¬try . . .

" As for our personal tem'encies, our cotetnporaryof 7ae 'I'm <.ne is mistaken in supposing them antt-rept.bliCin Thev are FVtwea, nulling more, noth-irj(!eii. Only we follow France where she leadst s, aid have l.ot Ihe ste rile presumption to dire, thct, A far-< 11 sentinel ot our country we receive froaahe r our »atch-word and countersign, and withoutecu g so far asto say 4 France can do no wrong.' webear as, the sole motto upon our banner, the fireworcs so often repeated by American patriotism' Kight or wrong our country " Francs, right w jwrong""

The Phare objects to our strictures, thatihcy are uttered exclusively from Ameri-cur, ideas, and that we seek to measureFiance by a mere American prejudice. Wedem} the justice of this objection, and ap-peal to the facts.

It is notorious that France has lately un-

dergone a violent charge in her form ofgo'eriiment.that this change has been ac«ct mpanied by the suppression of every formof public liberty, by the violation of themost solemn pledges and oaths, bindingUm m who made it, and by ihe banishmentof ii.any of ihe most illustrious French-n.en ; and that, after all, it has been acqui¬esced is and recognized by a nation thathad claimed to be the soul of chivalry andmai.ly courage, and the very pioneer ofmodern civilization and intelligence. Howis this possible ! is the unitersal question..Some reply, Because the Fren.Ii are a

weak, frivolous, fickle, bragging people,with no moral back-bone, fit only to beslaves. We deny the truth of this severe,or if the Phare pleases, insulting judgmentW e say it is not the people who are bad andcvuteniptible. but that their institutions are

essyitiaJly despotic. They are in a greatiiiesisiible machine. All that Louis Na¬poleon has done is to seize the crank»tu« aj !oag is he Ml hold a he his

the i ation at his mercy. To this the PhireH plii B, that we are talking from national or

I i:;cal piejudice.Tut let us look at the matter mire near-

! There are two great political systemsin the wcrld, that of Despotism and that of

Lileity. Now we understand by Li'iertythat system in which the people governthemselves and mansge their own publicallairs according to their own c nvictionsand wishes. Despotism is tint system inwhich they *rv governed from above, bypersons set over them, who manage theirafTnira for them according to their own su¬

preme pleasure. Where there is local self-fovernmci.t there is liberty: whert thereis centralization tbcre is despotism. Andthis, we make bold to say, is no AmericanIdea or national prejudice, but a matter ot

principle, as universal as human nature andss true at Paris as it is at Pittsburgh.I- ranee lives under a system of centraliza¬tion. a»d has done so for more than half a

century. Therefore it has lived under a

system of despotism, exposed to all thechances, the revolutions and convulsions to

which despotism is liable. In 1848,by one

of these chances, the principle of libertyar.d eelf government w as asserted in terms,but the despctie system was continued infact, llii.ee the recent events. And inthose tveits it is not the mere change ofgovernment which we regard with horrorand disgu.-t, but the shameless, bloody, andutteily tyrannical way of its ¦flOOtnpa.ahmeat It is one thing f*»r a nation delibe-lately, ai d after ample dis ussion,to change[fr political stitem: it is one thing for a

people in a volcanic bant of indignation toextingniah the pretensions of obstinate and¦elfiab kings ot aristocracies: but it is an-

¦ r ar.d a very ditTereut thing for a singleba> knipl perjurer by audacious and mur-

ens violence to oveithrow a constitutionr d destroy the sole legal guarantee, not of

ical self-government, but of the principlesMit of which in time it must have grown.The one ia the act of a nation and is re¬

spectable the other of I villain who tram¬

ples a nation under foot.Hut say some, Centralization is necessary

(o France ; in her capacity of the leader ofcivilization and the representative of lib¬erty .she has a great battle to fight againstRus>ia and tyranny in general. She must

accordingly retain a sort of military organ¬ization, in order to he able to act withiir ity both defensively and aggressivelyagainst the mighty power ol darkness.The idea of minding other people's busi¬

ness is more absurd for a nation than for a

private man, and for France it is most ab¬surd of all. If France, instead of keepinga great standing army and taking care ofEurope at large, had devoted herself to

industry, education, decentralization andthe establishment of real self-government,for the past twenty-five years, she wouldI ave had no revolutions, and would at thisday have exercised twice the power over

Kurope that she now does, and exercisedit peacefully, while her people would havebeen happy and progressing in wealth, in¬telligence and all that constitutes nationalgreatness.Now this may also be an American idea,

1 ut it is, we think, common aenat and trutha3 well. And itacercs vain to talk aboutsocial and territorial conditions preventingits gradual application in France. Itmight have been applied by any Covern-ment thas has existed there since the Em-peior was crowned, not of course, all at

once, hut by suitable degree. Hut this hasnot been done; it has suited them better tomaintain despotism, and we see wherethevhave come to.

In extenuation of the part the French na¬

tion have been made to play by Louis. Na¬poleon, (his conduct it does not extenuate,but from patriotic views, declines to con¬

demn.) the Phare say s the people wero tiredof the Rt public and wanted to* be rid of it.( ertai/dy a very eauer want that must be,whit h requires to be helped by such entice-;i rail as Louis Napoleon has found neces¬

sary to got himself to his present position.If the nation really wanted to do this tiling,why. not wait till the election of next May,and let a new Assembly be chosen, whichcould have voted a revision of the Consti¬tution? Thus the want mi^ht have beengratified in a legitimate and peaceful waywithout bloodshed, perjury or terror. Hutthe troth is, that nobody believes in anyinch rational want, and that the convictionwas universal in France that a free, fairelection would only confirm the Republic.Our cetenuporary finishes with that pa¬

triotic common place, M Our country rightor wren::." This miy be a respectablesentiment, but we confess our inability toappreciate its worth. In our judgment theman who abdicates his minhood. renouncesbis reason and smothers his instincts of Itruth and justice, to set up a mere patrioticfa Ivg in their stead, may deserve creditfor a blind and narrow enthusiasm, but ren-Ätn a very pcor honor to the country heloves and the cause he attempts to serve.

CF Hon. Horace Mans will to-mjrrowevening lecture in the Broadway Tabernacle, inthe People's Course.) and proposes to present.Some Tl.ougL.ta for a Young Woman,' acounterpart to his well known Lecture of a lawyears since, entitled 'Some Thoughts lor a

Young Man.' Although the position and needsOf Woman will be more especially considered inthis Lecture, yet Men wfl] find its truths worthyof thtir consideration also. and the unequaledcheapneis of the People's Course must impelbuniireds ta give their wives, sisters and femalecousins a chance to hear it. Mr. Mann hsd hadlarge eipenence as s Superintendent of Educa¬tion in Massachusetts Lefore he become a Mem.I er of Congress, and is widely known as a pro.anti r i.ieras well a* a bold and t«itbJulipeakor. The friends of Reform and Progress

'n Brooklyn, Wiiliamaburgh, «See .should BOOMever to hear him, an his Congrcssiontl dutie*will not i ermit him to spvak fro¦ place to place.The attendance vrtll doubtless be numerous.

Kossuth and Cart- t.oc ;

We publish ilu* mornin? the statement ofCapt LotM with reference the ditlieultiet al.leged to have taken place between himself andKoaWri while on board the Mississippi. He af¬firms that, in th* entire passage, there was l>ut a

single ditTerer.ce between them, an 1 that merelya misunderstanding;. When it Ma sei lea, the

people came in boats crowding around the shipto salute Kossuth. shouting and clapping theirhands in a pecu'iar French fashion, while drums'n the City were beating ; the Captain said to theGovernor, that if he would retire from the deck,perhaps the people would disperse; otherwi.-e,he (the Captain) feared a comp ouuse of the(lag Kossuth understood him to say, that he(Kossuth) had already compromised the (lag, byreceiving the welcome of the people, and alsounderstood the request to w ithdraw as a com¬

mand. But alterw ard the matter was explainedbetween them, when the Captain exhibited to

Kossuth his cruising orders, which w ere verysti let in ifspect to the conduct ot those on boardthe skip while m friendly ports, and especiallyfoibidding all manifestation ol sympathy withany political party With this explanation Kos¬suth was satisfied, and thencelorward perfectlyfriendly relations existed between them.The Captain's letter is couched insiuanlv.

-.: i^ht-forward style. It show s that in the case

i< farad to I is action did not exceed his orderstt! at in intention at least, if not in manner, it was

respectful toward Kossuth. and that there was

i.o self-contradiction in the statements with re-

»I act to the voyage published here in his name

olicr his arrival At the same tune, it showsthat Kossuth, even whih thinkim; himself or-

doted from the deck, and accused of c >mproIi ising the rlaf, w t ubeved the wish ol the Cap¬tain, an 1 withdrew from the people who were

clatnOfOOt to show him honor.It seems evident, however, from the tone Of

tie letter, that the Captain, and w e may presumeothers of his oflicert, regarded the Hungarianswith sympathy lor their forlorn condition as

exiles, rather than fcr their immovable tleter-Blil ation and hope that their country should yetD8 blessed with freedom and independence.V» e are aware that sympathy and agreement mpolitical opinions cannot be commanded, but yetwc should rc;oice to see the sympathies ofofficers of the American Republic always warmami glowing on the side of liberty, and never on

that of despotism.VW The Republican World. Mi< hael

Dobknt's new weekly paper, has a bold andslashing leader on European Politics, withteference to the Presidential question. Mr. I),settles, ort band, that the Whig party is constitu¬

tionally hostile to the cause tj Diverse! Free¬dom, and then proceeds" Upon the Baltimore Convention a tremendous

responsibility will devolve. It is the sun of the elec¬tive system, ami shoulti he free to all. No dark spotshould be allowed on its mac. Let the Baltimoreplatform be swept clear of self-interest, of faittion,of local ptedilection, and personal dislike and obll-gatioiis, or there is imminent danger of a bad and dis¬astrous selection. 1 lie division of spoils compromisei ore that must not be beard of, if republicanismwould escape disgrace So, too, must sectional con¬siderations. This once, lei the naked majesty ofboaOStcoBi Icttoi s rule tbe decision, and harmonisethe »ia s of the representatives of the people, andIt! lbs only question engaging those convictions be,v.ho IS Fvcal TO ritE office. fUM cocstbv tiik

occasion IMontesquieu savs, that the basis of a Republican's

education should be virtue. Wbo is it that has beentaught m the proper school Is there a man, fresh,vigorous, true, faithful to his convictions and bisword Is there a man prompt to do, as he is quickto think, and resolute to determine I Is there a manwhose tense of right has never been sacrificed to afalse diplomacy Is there a man who can read tbenations, tiot in protocols or diplomatic notes, but Intheir history and tendency 1 Is there a maa wbo williiibttiiute for the treacherous jargon of courts thei i kid truth* 1* there a man who will neither bullylorrlinnk ' Is the re a man, in fact, mirroring iu bisintellect, bis judgment, und hit heart, the uiicorrupt-cd origin, growth, majesty, and destiny of the coun¬try If there be. let him be choten, without refer-rocs to pledges, prejudices, passions, or interestedfeeiitgt; the choice will be a crowinag triumph forLiberty now and hereafter '.

.This is understood to point to " The LittleGiant" as the ought-to-be candidate for Preti-'. nt Whether it would or would not be necos-

varj to write under the portrait "This is a

Horse " in order to insure its recourtitioii, we donot say. But w e entreat Mr. Doheny.who will-re some things relating to American Politicslather clearer before his hair is gray.to justkeep bit WBBtlbW eye on that embryo BaltimoreConvention and note what sort ol a declaration[1 putt forth with regard to European Politics

\merican duty in reference thereto. If thatluminous '. sun" shall let it* light shine honest¬ly and la:rly on the down trodden Millions of Ku¬rf pe, we will acknowledge the corn if not, we

shall insist an The rVorUTi doing that same. Isnut this fair ' Is it a bargain '

PoaaiBLT a Svw I*osT-OmcK..It 11i.tiderstcod by those who are well informed that ne¬

gotiation are in progress between the Governmentat Washington and Alex. T. »Stewart, the dry goodtmerchant of this City, which may rssul" in tbs pur¬chase of the Utter party's iplemdid marble store, tote fitted cp as the New-York Post-OfEce

ft- The Ohio Free Soil I (invention, att'oltmlmj, Fete li, rwcwtataaaauSoui John P, H»!etot President, and Samuel L*wt» Ohio) forVice-Presidi nt

Irish State PfUseJtfEM..The resolu¬tions which passed the rloard of Assistant Alder¬men on Wednesday evening, were introduced byT.n othy O'Brien, who so worthily representstie Fourth Ward in that body.

New-York Towa f*lertia«t.,Tiooa Co.Supervisors for 1859

Whig. tippintemNewark.E W Brown. Barton_H 3. Davis.Nichols.H W Shoemaker.Berkthire.iltrrit Jewett.0wOfO Jamet Ely.3. Candor....Horace Booth.

Richford..C Randall.Spencer ...\. H MillerTioga_0, otrang-f.

HKMT'NG CO.Bi r Flats.P W Breed. E mira_Chat. HulettCatharine-* Dix.Wm ila'rirg.Veteran..1) N Btti:e:: 3.8<uthport .Chat E'an*.

( hemutg..W H L ttle.Krin.j A. M-.Key.ratlin.J. n. Been.Cayata..7.

I -r/ Two to be elected la Elmira Village11 LTOM co.

BioadaJbin.J. Clark, Euparatb_8. Srcith.B tecier.. T. Enot Ophenbeim..L L Header.Garoga_I. r Martin NorthamptonJohnttown A C Churchül Stratford.... .4.M«vfi«ld...M Brown.Perth.B Voeburgh-«

8TEIBEN CO .[In part jWheeler..G. W. Wheeler Bath_P. c Cos*Pitttburgh j. Anderson Wayne..j. Evelan .

HowaiS...A Brunen I roana .j BtndaCa.TpoeU W McNeil. Aroca...H H Boi hton-1Erwin.I' Balcom.Hornby ...P CorenbovenThurston. C Boughtoc.Painter Port Wm Imne< aton.Jas. Lawns. 9.

HP Bev. E. H. Chapir's sermon on thedeath of Dr. Doane, attracted a large a-. Hence tothe Mu.Tay st. Church yesterday morning Ereryseat sad standing place was occupied, and haadtsdsLai to turn swap

THE LATEST NBW&By Tfle^rspb to the New-York Triboae

$o*V.rrn TtUortfh Qfij-r, coratrof /fawevrr mrU Beaver sat,

kee«mh at Cincinnati.Ci.aciaaATi. Saturday, Feb II Hit

Kossuth addressed the Hinganan Fund Aseoeia.tfM Ibis ereairg, at Smith and Nixon's Hall Cmthousand BOSS« »ere present, and maay offeredb>f h prices for sdaiseion. but the number was limitedHinii'er.OMt speech, but promise 1 ha |a si nextweek, when it u expec'ed he will ad tress all tr«(i «11 . of Hungary, at the Ham Itun Ra lrotd StadlIt Is um'emood that tV hat .;uet i« to oome off aadir Kotsatt w'il be present to mate a fee remarksat Mat

...

I rem the Henth.TVrtnessee Whi.: Ceitvrattoa-Laad Tar the loulaa« la Texas-f eastita»tien el Loaisiaita, Ac.

BaLnvi Ri:, Sstur'ay, Feb. 11 lajj;The Tcnreseee W r g State Coaveattaa assadjotaraed nsa I aftt i . inaoodoas scsai »a TaeDt legates appointed to the National Conventmawere inatractsa to rota f"r Ftlloasfs lor Pretueataid J. C Jenes for Vice PresidentA Mil h-s been nitro 'u-ed into the Texas Lentis.

tart, »eitir.g apart ten U agues of laud fur some ofes ol luci.ibs who hare for a long periodteen located In Ihe State

The House of Representsill et of Lonlsiant harepassta to a second reaoing the bill calling a Conten¬tion to amend the Constitution.

1 be Vircinia House of Delegates hare ptseed aMil to pruetit seine hauling in the riser Accoaaebetween the 1Mb day of May and tae Uta day ofAugustA serere thunc'er »tonn occurred at Anntpaus ee

\\ ( t - ,i> last.

Southern .Moll Mr. Thra«h,*r senator \\>mMarine Disaster-.

Bar rtHOH, Feb lj, UN,The Southern Mail arrived here this uurntag,

with dates as late as due.Ihr s,'i irci-.y P>cejrv*# publishes a letter frea

Jons S Til a »ii lb. written immediately a'ler a*arrival m bpstin. l!c had not then been set at Kertv, but tats he Bad re »i>< 1 a letter from theAiueiuan Miaiater, Mr Baaaiaeaa, who aas «eatt-lng for dispatches 'rein Mr. \\ c uter before apply,wg to the So T.'sh Government In behalf of the pruvoi.t ts Mr T writes that he ha '. b< en am Uy treatedBiaaseM and been enabled to Jo much lor the com-lort of the other pi Leonora.

Tfce «ithdr.t *al .' i..)virn r I rt at a caodi*dec fcr the I n ted State« Senate, is connrmel Isa letter he says, tb.tt b-Mnir tin* ilnng to participatein the responsibility of defeating ai election,aadthus permitti-3 a vacancy to arise tn the Senatorialrepresentation ia Coaartss, stilish would contaaefor nearly twei*e months, it is his decide! wish thathis sans should be no longer used in conaectioa»Uli tbe place in question, if tt is thought by hafriends snd the friends of the I nion that his wits-drawal would in the least degree te nd to expeditethe election of a Senator.

The Vu-auune says that an oilicial order was re¬vived in New-Orleans concerning the reception olS« i't l.aboide, tlie Spanish Consul, directing a sa¬lute to be given to whateter vessel he arrived is,"ns a proof," writes Secretary Conrad to (leaTwiggs, ''of the respect the I nited State» euterttissfor himself and for his Government, and in returnf»r the grave injustice done to him, and for the in¬sult and offense given to hia country by an uns,oven able mobThe ship Rome, vt Inch hts arrived at NewOrlesa*

from London, reports that on the 1st of January eatfell in with the British bark Medium, of Yarmouth,Nora Scotia, in a sinking condition, and took ofJoffl-ecra and crew and brought them In The Mediumwas from Newport, Wales, and bound to City Polat.V irguua, with a cargo of railroad 'ron

Arrival ef tbe Southern Mail Hunting ttRailroad Cars and Contents-Arrct of railadelphia Kpert«iuen -Ground Breiten en UsOhio and Mississippi Kallreud.

Buir i.i. Feb. IS, l»j'lI tic Southern Mail is in, but brings us nothing et-

yend Savannah.A train of six cars on the Georgia Central Rail¬

road, took lire on tbe 15th tost., and were destroys*!with all their contente, consisting of »v bsleeeicotton.Two sportsmen from Philadelphia, who were gua-

ning on the Potomac, weie arrested yesterday forviolating tbe ducking law. The men were dned aadtheir guns and boat condemned.Tbe ceremony of breaking ground on the Ohio

end Mississippi Railroad took p ace at lllinoistoea,ou the Hi tost. There was a large attendance, andthe ceremony was very impersing.

ArruudVnieat for Southern Mall, fcc.tvAaaiaoroa, Feh U. WM

Arrangements for expediting the great atari be¬tween New-York and New-Orleana, were closed atthe Department yesterday, will go in operation osthe first or March next. A large number of persoaswere baptized i. the Potomac to day

Kentucky and the Presidency.Lot ISVILLB, Friday. Feo 11, ISM.

The Whig citizens of Paducah, and several of theadjoining cotinues, in general convention en VVsd-nesday last, adopted resolutions declanug the see.'in.' t f that portion of tbe State in favor of JohaJ. Crittenden as the VVhtg candidate for the Prea-c< ncy. 1 lie Convention was attended oy nearly ¥>idelegates.

a-The .Susuuchanna and Schoylklll Rivers.

PaiLanaLPaia, Feb. is, ihm.The recent freshet on the SttsqaahaAaa ooes net

seem to have aliected the ice at Havre de Urses,and tie water haa now* fallen so low that ths letbridge is hs available as ever.

I torn Reading. we learn tint the Schuylkill «ihibits as yet ro indlratlors of a freshet

* aMegre Hurflrrer Arrr«,ted.

I' >i aaai arata, Feb it -u p MJones Sebmont, a BOarO, who committed s rase

on Ms stepcau^hte r. a girl ten years of age,aih>rtlime ago. w hid caused her death, was arrested yes-tarda*, near Coshen, Orange County He srubrought to tins plaee, and lodged in ; til this after¬noon

The ship Shannuga.¦oeran, F-iday, Feb 13, IM

The ile.im tug R II F«rnes ,..«» jeen sent by Utli.surar.ee ofleaa to the assistance o( the ship Susi-ii'iga, at Nantucket.There have been no armals here, to day, esoept

a tew F.aatern coasterse i

Flood in the antguebanaa.Colcmbia, Saturday, Feb 11, ISM.

Tbe stiKjuphanna River is very h gh, and thewater in some place* sis fetet over the iceThe ice in the 8us(j<ieh<iai>a staled ibis moraiaf

a few miles ubove here, aBd in consequence o( itsobstiuction presented bv tbe ein ige, is now gorgedup to ailhnt about six featoi the Bridge, am! at soaepoints ai>ove, evtl, to a grta.er biBbt tftaa theBridge list IfThe River is much swollen, ant in con sequence of

the ,mmei.se mase of ice. it is gisatiy feared lhaiht*Bridge may be swept away

H*'. at i,a («uat v.. Saturday, Feb 11, \m%We learn from Port Deposit that tba ¦<:. latheiBsquaauaaa tus broken ti^ at tttat piece, aad forson,. Btlos above. 1 hn water it six feet deep overthe ice, soda teriois freshet and much damege u«;(;.<-(.. (.(»(.

?-The Columbia Bridge.Ire and Freshets in the

SiiH'iiienaunah.PauaMAPBIA, Feb 15. ISJI.

The ice in tbe Susquehaimah has fome iagtrgsat Washington, four mnes below i.« nun, aodbscked up to within ten feet of the fl >or of thebridge, winch is thirty feet above low waterTbc T* e Water Uaastl is covered with Ice aad

water from Columbia to W.,.!,n,g on, wherea ^ree^hof hfty yaids in the Canal bans ali'trds an outlet forthe water from ihe Rner, which rushes throughgreat I impetuosity, with a tsll of ten feet. Saouldthere t e a aucden thaw, great damage must ensse1 be 1 urnpike Bricge on the east tide ol tne wer

a short cist^iice below < oluroont is carried s«sfAt IIsirisk.org UsS mi r is clear of lea to aid-'ia-town. Ti eie has been a connder it) e fic-uet, WX*iss-.bridii § 1 r.t Jouuta la claai ol tea

.Maviuatlen oftl.e Ohio RiverLotTIsviLLi, Saturday, Feb 14,185*

Tneacatber at lists place is Ir? *jH O'i«ioe«ibrisk. Tneic is sufficient water on toe Fans leiC ts of .he largest dais.

Later from Columbia-Rirer FaiHa«--Coluivibia. Pa F.b 15 18"

Tbe water at tbe bnege haa faUen ten Inches, anaall tear of damage to the bridge h<s ubstded

l»Iarkeu-A>porVd t» MaFwRtCiuBLEsToa. Saturday. Feb. 14, MMb

CoTTO.aof good quality has advanced an eigliaBaaai the Paetae'i advices The »a.ei »ere IMWbaits, at Ti'a'l Sales brisk at the Utter pnee

PaoviDXitca. Feo. I*. I*MCofToa. Since the arrival of the P«.;iSc hol j'"

are more brm, ai d prices held an eighth higher I aasales have barn m .derate, tc, meet the oemtn<l foe

fön» un.|tion. \\ e |uote Oneai s arid Mobile Fai'atli old, Middling Fair, 10. L'pUnd Fair, 9i«>l<'.MMolWf Fair, IWool.Trere is steady inquiry, atd prices are

fully up to last week's rates Toe foliowiax are ttesales for li e week Fleece, ss.700 lbs. at price*raafaif from Mi to 45. mostly al 3:i and4Sc«ui«.Pallad, 39 11.0 ins , at prices ranging Iroin 3i to 4f_Foreigi. a.too lbs , at JIc. Tutsi s»iei ol tae wees,%0MUitiePbintiro CLOTHit-Tbere hss been 'ontaJero.*

activity in the market Ibis week, and un m are nr a

with an upaaid tendency Tna tales are fil,**1pieces