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The Wheeling Bridge case has brought the pow
ers of Congress and those OF the Supreme Cont Of
the United States, now sitting at Washington, into
conflict
A motion is before the Court for the enforcement
of its order already passed. requiring the bridge to
be removed or so altered not to be nuisance by
obstructing navigation.
1t is resisted the ground that Congress has de-
CARED and made the bridge post road. 1t is Gu
rious in this case to witness what transmutations
may be made in the constitutional opinions of pol
itcians. by altered circumstances A correspon-
dent of the Neo York Express has the following re-
marks on the subject:
The Court decided the bridge to be a nuisance
and orderedit to be removed, or suitable free in
gress and egress provided, by means of very high
draw bridge The Virginiaus took their case to
congress, where bill passed. making the bridge
a post road. The decree of the Court in the mean
time, remained, and the motion to be submitted on
behalf Of Pennsylvania is, thatit shall be enforced
Virginia viii up the Act of Congress for its nom
enforcement, and the Court has to meet the ques
ton OF its own power. Several of the Judges how
ever were against the the previous decision of the
Court, and among them Chief Justice fancy Hap
PLY, there has been no personal feeling between the
Court and Congress upon tho subject, but the two
branches of the Government are, nevertheless, in
conflict. If Congress can declare bridge across
the Ohio pos, road, so it can, in like manner, de-
clare bridge across the North and East River a
post route also, and obstruct navigation wherever
1t p!eases upon the inland waters of the United
States. Many now argue for power in this form,
who think there is no power in Congress to protect
rivers and harbors, and to keep them unobsuucted.
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THE PUBLIC PRINTING.

The following, from the Washington Uaion
shows the cost of public printing for two years.
Deduct the census printing, which is only executed
once in two years, and the sum of $4,000 is left
for the work for two years for both Houses of Con-
gress, viz for the House about $4,000, and for
the Senate about $4,000; or $4,000 gear for
the former and $4,000 gear for the latter. No
doubt, after paying the expenses of executing the
work, fair profit will be left the printers; but we
should hardly think it large enough to be very
serious object
The Washington Union says:
The PUBLIC PRINTING -I1s CosT.-We Law be-
fore our readers the report Of the Superintendent
Of Public Printer Its perusal will dispel many
very erroneous impressions as to the cost OF print
ing 10 the government, and the great profit made
by the public printing. We may be pardoned for
asking the attention of members of Congress to
toe clear and satisfactory exposition of this branch
of the public service made by Mr. Towers It Is
matter of qualification to US that this report fully
sustains the wisdom Of the choice made by the
House few days ago of printer TO that body for
the present session. The following reorganization
made by the Superintendent, shows the aggregate
result
Thirty Second Congress, First Session
Printing fot the Senate, (cost,) Sl4,839 IL
Printing for the House, (cost) 1922 80
Thirty Second Congress, Second Session
Printing for the Senate, Cost $24,930 II
Printing for the House, (cost) 1902 Sc
Printing Of the Census, Cost 5000 SO
Aggregate cost of printing under the act
Of 1852 1855 90
The cost of the paper for all the printing in the
above aggregate was Sl9l, 956 p. The cost of
the printing of the census will strike those with
surprise who have been led to suppose that the pub
We venture predict that the country will call for
another edition Of this valuable document it is al
ready manifest that the number orderedis too small
10 meet the demand
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REPORT FROM THE TaEAsURy.

The revision of the Custom Duties is the subject
OF hrst interest in the annual report of Mr. Guthrie
Hlsplan OF revision is briefly and very clearly set
forth 1t Is not complex in detail, though by what
difficulties it is likely 10 De surrounded in practical
execution, the public viii best Judge after the pub
hcahon or the list Of free articles and the schedne
OF ordinary and extraordinary duties. The whole
system of levyng the revenue from imports is 10 he
reduced to three:
lst. The present Free List is to be so ENLARGED as
70 take from the present annual resources of the De-
partment S. 100000.
I'd The dutiable articles are all to be brought un
der 70 per cent. cd pao1en or 100 per cent ad TO-
1ere'n The articles bearing the highest duty, and
all articles IN the freelist be specified; all others
TO bear % per cent
3D. The I'D Ualoren system to be adhered to un-
less Congress should deem it wise to make an ex-
cepton in favor Of specifics on Iron, with view to
give more steadiness TO that great interest.
These notifications will reduce the revenue. first
by the SS,000,O00 the free-list, and also 81 500
OOOby the REIMBURSEMENT Of the maximum and min
imum duties. Together, So, 100000. which is
thought will still leave the Treasury an income of
S45,OOO,OOOa year from the Custom House.
The notifications Of the Tariff are not designed
to go into effect until after the lst of January 1855
Much of the Report is given to the estimates and
business detail of the Department. The totaI In
ports and exports of the fiscal year ending the Both
OF June last, were:
TIosS imports S267, 97s,6 4T
eS' roielen specie 4,2ol,S82
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HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN ARKANSAS,

We yesterday had a conversation with Mr. ".
7. Trce, of Arkansas, who related to us the par
ticulars of ightful tragedy in Crittenden county
Of that State on Friday the 9Th inst between two
parties Of wood-chOppers,
The only account of the affair approaching au-
thentcity which had been obtained was through
the evidence Of man named Griffith, examined
not under oath by Sheriff Crump, Of Crittenden
county.
So far as we could CLEAN them, the facts are as
follows:
1t appears that quarrel had originated between
tw parties Of wood-choppers occupying separate
camps. One of the parties named Miller, asserted
that his life bad been threatened by two ofthe men
in the hostile cantonment
On this assumption Miller started on Friday for
their camp, accompanied by two comrades, named
Goodrich and Bean, and also by the witness Griffith
who says he only went TO see fair play.
Miller, Goodrich and Bean were each armed with
double barrelled gun.
On reaching the door of the shantee they enter
ed, and Miller advancing without a word of warn
ing or a demand for explanation, shot two Of the
men-the two whom he had charged with threat
enrg his lifc-dead upon the spot He then ex-
changed his empty gun with Goodrich for another
loaded one. No further violence was offered, how
ever, and the assailants retired,
On Saturday message was scent TO Sheriff
this bloody and murderous ARRAY in the lower part
of the county
Bean was arrested and is now in custody
Griffith, we presume, is also detained to serve as
witness or appear as criminal
Miller and Goodrich are still at large We do not /
assert these details to be strictly accurate but they
are probably nearly so. At all events we had them |
from good authority, and they are the most au-
thentic we could obtan-Nenphis appeal
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HOUSEKEEPING SESSION.

W EDNaDAI, DEC. II
The House met pursuant to adjournment.
Prayer by Rev. DR.. BAKER.
Mr. HEBB introduced a resolution to dispense
with mechanic labor in tie Penitentiary.
Resolution proposingto adjourn until the I'd jan
uary; read and laid on the table
Resolution referring the various subjects of the
Governors Message to the appropriate committees;
read, amended and adopted
On motion Of Mr.. WALLACE the House took up
the bill to authorize the County Court Of Blount
County to take stock in the Knoxville and Charles
ton Railroad and issue bonds for the same &c. read
third time and passed.
On motion of Mr.. CARROLL. the House took up
House bill to give further time to perfect land titles
and for other purposes; and on motion of Mr. CAR
RoL, the amendment of the Senate was amended;
and the bill replaced on the calendar
On notion for want Of quorum, the House adj
journed until Saturday morning, II o'clock
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THE BEST OF BOOTS AND sHoEsARE ALWAYS THE
CHEAPEST

CHARLES SAVERS, corner of Market and r,sS,
~ Union Streets would say to bis customers and SSEI
the public that he still continues to manufacture all ~
kinds of Boots and Shoes the shortest notice and of good
materials He has now on hand large stock of the above
named articles both heavy and light Of the latest fashion
of his make which he offers for sale at as low prices
as the quality be purchased in the city, All he
asks is to give him call and be convinced that It is to the
interest of the buyer to home industry He also
makes to order and keeps hand superior article of La
dies Shoes suitable for fall and winter wear
s. Rerairng done at the shortest notice and on rea
sonable terms VIC oct4-9p
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HoGs-A tight money market and warm weather
has caused great depression in the hog trade with
in the last day or two. The Cincinnati market is
laborng under the same depression, and the tee-
graph last night quotes them as low as 81 net
Sales were made yesterday Of 1000 10 4 200 head
at S4 Is, and one lot was offered at "a 12I with
out finding a purchaser. The pork houses were
not killing, but the arrivals were large. The pro-
duct is also dull. The market last evening had
decided downward tendency. We hear also of the
sales of 1000 head to be delivered next December,
at 81 20n net
The present pressure in the money market is
nothing unusual at this season The New Year
is approaching when settlements are made, and
much money is invested in hogs while the product
is mostly left on the market, owing to the low
stage of the river, which prevents shipments
Sight exchange on New Orleans is discount, and
6O-day bills per cent. interest added. The banks
are discountng very sparingly.-Louspiae Journal,
of the I'm.
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CHICAGO, Dec. l7.-There was a riots at La Sale
yesterday among the operatives on the Illinois Cen
fral Railroad, owing to the reduction of wages
One of the rioters was shot dead by a contractor
named Albert Story. Mr. Story's Office was after
wards attacked and pilaged, and Mr. Story brutally
murdered. Mrs. Story was fired upon but escaped.
1t is reported that Dunn, Story foreman, shot nine
laboTers. The Sheriff arrived, and met with resis
lance from tho rioters and shot one Irishman dead
and wounded two others. Thirty of the rioters
have been arrested. Mr.. Storys body was horribly
mutilated.
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STATE TENNEssE-DAVIDsON COUNTY.
hairs December Rules, 1853.

SKeIiOn UenuSs, admir-, &c,
James Russell and other, heirs december Rules 1893.
of Hannah RUSSELL decd.
EFORE the Clerk and Master of the County Court of
ID Davidson County. On motion and il appearing TO
the satisfaction of the Clerk that the following defendants
in the above cause wit Helen Dawson who resides in
the state Of Missouri and Andrew Russell jackson Russell
and Wesley RUSSELL the three last being children of Miles
Russell decd and residents of the State of Kentucky are
residents of this State and that the usual process Of
Court can not be served upon them therefore order
ed that publication be made paper for thirty DAYS
requiring said defendants to appear the February of
said Court 10 be held at the Court House in the town Of
Nashville the first Monday in February 1854 and plead
answer or demur TO the petition otherwise the said will be
taken Tor confessed and set for hearing urs them
+. k. CfiEATHAM,
dPcg3 -fr uuttl IstF Feb.
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COMPOSITE.
THE SONORA EXPEDITION.

A despatch in the Baltimore San states that the
party composing this expedition were spoken at sea
on the goth Of November, and that they had failed
in their attempt to set up an Independent govern
Inent IN Lower California elts
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50 A dispatch from Montpelier, w. of the
lst inst says that the bill repeating the liquor law
OF last session. had passed to be engrossed in the
House, by thirteen majority. The Senate is said
to be in favor of the law, with some modification.
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CHANCERY AT CARTHAGE.


Alexander billiard ct al
ON motion, anu it appearing to the Clerk and Master
" that Alexander billiard is nonresident of the State
OF Tennessee. Ii is therefore ordered that publication be
made for three successive weeks in the Union and Amer
requiring the said Alexander Billiard TO appear ut the
Court House in the town Of Carthage Smith County, eun
on the second Monday in February next then and there to
plead answer demur 10 compliments BILL and in
default thereof said bill viii be taken for confessed and set
TOR hearing ec pIrte as to them. A, MOORE
decZ2-w3w Clerk Master
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s267,97s,64T
4,2Ql,382


SzVzySO0yot0
Notice is taken of the arrangement and condi-
tional purchase of this city for the Assay Ofice.-
The Department is to pay So, 600 year for Bank
property IN Wall street, for the term of ten years
unless the Government should determine to uur-
chase 1t within two years. at $780, 600 and simple
interest from the beginning of the contract-ttbe
rents PAID, In the meanwhile to be credited on ac-
count.
The Secretary makes reference to. and remon-
strates against the claims of the late officers of the
Custom House of New York, to share in the pen
altles recovered on false or fraudulent entries He
suggests resistance of the claims now in Etioa
ton, TO the court of last resort and also chance of
the law on the subject guard against future
abuses
The strict enforcement of the Sub-Treasury act
he has endeavored to adhere to- Anusion is made
to the practice of his predecessors IN purchasing the
Public Stock, and transferring the public funds
through private Brokers and Agents, and in pla-
eng large sums IN their hands Tor this object These
accounts were early closed by Mr.. Guthrie with
out loss, except 100000 at Columbus. Ohio, and
the practice discontinued.
The operations of the Mint are favoFably referred
TO, and the unsettled Indebtedness to the Govern
ment under the credit system of revenue prior to
1912. made the subject of a suitable suggestion for
bringing these old claims to early an final adjust
ment They amount, from the commencement of
the Government to the adoption of the cash sys-
TEN, to over twenty-one million
For the fiscal year ending the Both of June last
the purchases of the Public Stocks amounted 10
S6,394 507. This swelled the actual expenditures
of the year to S53,O26,8lS. For the current fiscal
year, the revenues calculated to be 1865 70 O7O
the ordinary expenditures, actual and contingent,
exclusive of the public debt, SAG, 2O3 1926. During
the frstquarter Of the year, and to the Sd of De-
cember inst, the purchases of the public debt
amounted to S9,G1O,42l, or Sl5,064, 929 from the
lSt of July 1852, to the Sd of December, 1853 of
which the present Secretary has purchased SIP 772-
779 since the 4th of March last-New York T5b |
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~ Some years since an Englishman, whose
pronunciation was tinged with cockneyisms was
sent to preach to the bcnighted and wicked Hoo
siers of the little village of EIkhart in Indiana,
which Greeley calls "a tidy, vigorous borough with
a future before it" He thus commenced his dis
course: "Hinhabitants of Hel1hart come to the
haltar"
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Aggregate cost of printing, under the act
VERY IMPORTANT ISTELLIGENCE-TREATY OF
ALLIANCE BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.


The Arctic brought rumor that treaty Of ALI
had been agreed upon between France and
Englsnd, in reference to the Eastern Question.
The New York Rsro4 of the 18th positively
confirms the report upon the strength of special in
formation.
1t seems that the treaty was signedi London on
the eleventh of November, by Count WALEwsKI on
the part of France and Lord CLARENDON on the part
of England. The terms of the paper require Rus
STA to evscuate the Danubian principaites forth
with.
The treaty thus concluded was dispatched imme-
diatey by couriers to Berlin and Vienna with an
intimation that from the day of its arrival at each
Of those capitals period of seven days would be
allowed to the cabinets of Prussia and Austria to
determine their assent or refusal to enter into the
arrangement II rejected, it is understood that
France and England will take the settlement of the
Eastern Question into their OWE hands.
The Herald, commenting upon the possibility of
Joint declaration Of war from England and France
says:
"And as the shortest road to peace, when once
this declaration is made may safely assume that
the active operations Of the allies against Russia will
be one of the most effective and formidable descrp-
ton. by land and sea. We may count upon the
movement of two hundred thousand Frenchmen ia
the highest state of equipment and discipline across
the Rhine and the Alps to compel Austria and Prus-
STA to show their hands. We may also expect q
simultaneous movement Of the French and English
fleets near Constsnunople into the Black Sea and
that the determination of the Russians in those wa
tiers viii speedily follow: while, unless prevented by
the freezing Of the Baltic another squadron of the
allies will doubt at the time set sail for the
latitude of St Petersburg.
It adds:
"Thispositive and warlike alliance between France
end England is due first, TO the unmistaksbe wish
IS of the French army the French people and the
natural incnations of the Napoleon dynasty, rest
ing, as it does, upon the gores and the unavenged
disasters of the Empire Secondly, this alliance |
against the timid and trifng expedient of Lord |
Aberdeen, is due to the force of public opinion of
England, which is beginning to have voice even
in the foreign policy Of the government upon ques-
mons of such importance this Eastern struggle
Thus programme of prospective military opera
tions is opened before Of the most startling and
imposing grandeur. Once begun, upon the plan 90
this treaty of November, the war will probably 90
on, until Napoleon the Third on the Rhine the Pc,
tie Danube, the Ebe and the Nistua, shall avenge
the treacheres which Frustrated Napoleon the First.
II is the beginning Of a order of things and
God speed the right"
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eYs- The attempt 10 repeal the Homestead Ex-
emption law of Tennessee has failed, and the
Nashville Union very properly expresses its gratif-
.ation at the failure. A State which will protect
he poor against the casualties and vicisstudes of
ae, when il can be done without injury to the rich
W any one else, will always have the gratitude of
Is citizens. Protect the wife and mother against
he consequences Of waste by thoughteSs and
worthless husbands, and the State will have the
rayers and love Of the widow and orphan, as
se as of those who are worse off than widows
I'D orphans, because they are burthened with the
IMPORT Of worthless husband and father. Pro-
ct the unfortunate honest man from abject power
and the State will have the patriotic support of
rong arms glad hearts and willing minds We
sd Kentucky had good homestead exemption
v, or law exempting that which is equivalent to
modest home.-L Louisville Times.