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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19
THE CASE OF BAKER.

The non agreement of the Jury in the case
of Baker has elected from several journals
expressions of surprise and dissatisfaction, which
the facts do not altogether warrant. Many
circumstances combined to make this case
in which the disagreement Of the Jury was
to be regarded as very probable occurrence.
In the first place, the killing of Poole whether
it was premeditated or not, happened in the midst
of a sudden and confused fight, in which several
parties were engaged. AL OF most Of the wit
ne.ses to this ARRAY might be expected to speak
under decided bias. 1t is always difficult in
such cases to arrive at that clear and precise
ascertanweD Mt of facts which is thought necessary
to justly verdict Of murder
But what, in such case, is of no less i'm
portance than the deeds actually done, is the
motives and inducements to those deeds; that is
whether the killing was the sudden result Of
casual fray, or whether that fray designed and
sought with an intent to make it the occasion for
murder. Now the decision Of this all essential
point depends upon conclusion to be drawn from
circumstances, many of which were but mper
fectly developed in the testimony, and as to the
general drift of which the fairest and clearest
minds might come to 9 different conclusion.
Then, sgain the guilt or innocence Of Baker had
been nade sort of party question: and 10 cases
Of that sort the inherent difficulties of the issue
being complicated by degree greater or less of
personal and political bias on the part Of the ju-
rors, disagreement is naturally enough to be OK.
pected.
To all there We must add fourth reason, and
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER

Dor within tie State Is shall 20 increase their
value az to cause them TO Re hep; st homo. Re
liz We the slave frcm all dar ger OF being sold south
ond the activity of the underground railroad
will at leas. be lessered Relieve the pe)ple, who
claim t. be free from all necessity OF comiog here
to borrow money to make roads, aud roads will be
rapidly made Relieve the State from the necess-
t. Of seeing Der woDd rfu treasures Of coal and ore
remaining upprOduc iSe, aud her people Will soon
cease TO cone here TO neg for money Relieve the
trader from the necessity Of sending money abrOsd
to purchase iron, cloth lead AID sugar, and Wiz
eiLis will have some chances Of regainiDg her old
place il the Union. The longer she shall continue
20 keep her W, sh in the earth useless, while beg
eiDg help to make Der roa6s, the longer she must
c ntinue 20 decline; and as we see little prospect
Of change in her policy, We can see no reason
Dow TO doubt that the day is not far distant when
she will find herself reduced from the first position
ami pg the Stats to the eighth, if not even the
tenth New-Yoik, Pennsylsania, Ohio, and Mas
sachusetts, now lead her in the race, sud to that
number must speedily be added Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Wisconsin, aud Iowa.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19
The Tribune late Whig) Almanac for 1856

WILL BE ISSUED IN PEW DAYS.
In addition to the usus Calendar psges and AS
troromiosl Calculations this work viii contain
CLASSIFIED LISTS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE
AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
GoVIRsmEFr OF THE UNITED STATES, EXECUTIVE
AND JUDICIAL.
THK LAWS EsAcTLD BY THE LATE SESSION OF THE
XXXIIlp CoSeREss.
A RryIIw OF THE WAR IN THE CRMEA.
A CaREPuLLY.wRTTES History OF kansas TERRI
TOBY.
As ARTICLE ON WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
SrArK Coy sRsMEsrs-A list Of the States with their
Capitals, Governors, times Of holding Elections,
heetiogs OF Leeislsiu res, &c.
Tar POPULAR YoTE FOR PRESIDENT BY SrArss FOR
1914, as and52
ELEcTIoh RETURNS IRON ALL THE STATES IN THE
UNION, wherein elections were held for 1851
carefully compiled and compared with former
elections, expressly for The Tribune Almsnac.
ALDr OF TIE COUNTRIES, capitals and railing sover
siRus of the civilized world.
LtsT on THE PRIScIPAL CITIES OF THn WORLD.
with their populations, &c.
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Postage on the ALMANAC, cent each prepaid, or 3
cents each when not prepaid.
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1t WAS mentioned in our paper of yesterday that
a petition bad been presented to the Common
Council by the Knicke,bOcker Stage Company to
be paid for borse wbOse leg was broken BY fall
ing on the Russ pavement, which petition was rs-
ferred TO the Finance Committee. We are told in
The Commercial Adrertiser-and We notice sim-
lar statement in several other city journals
this Committee, it is thought, "will probably re-
sport against the petition, on the principle that
/" the cases in which damages are allowed are
I" those in which injuries result from detects
which with ordinary care cannot be perceived
" such, for instance, as hole in bridge or road
"whereas the condition of the Russ pavement is
well enough known, and if person voluntarily
drives over it he must look out for himself"
Those who expect the Committee to make any
such report must have very odd notions as to the
law, and the duties which it imposes on the City
Government in relation to the streets. Even cup
posing that the city is liable only for holes and other
defects which with ordinary care cannot be per-
ceived, what care would enable anybody to per-
ceive the slippery and dangerous places on the
Russ pavement? The answer that the whole of
it is slippery and dangerous, and that persons
drive over IL at IntlI own pcIll, may oo 'ciy Woh
as a joke, but will hardly 60 down in court of
law The city is under legal obligation to keep
the streets in a passable and safe condition. No
body is Obliged to look for holes, pitfalls, or slip
down places in the middle of the street; and for
all damages occurring by reason of such defects
the city is legally responsible The sooner, there
fore, the Russ pavement is put into safe condi-
ton the better for the city treasury.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19
VIRGINIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The Virginia papers inform US that the mer-
charitable coal existing in two counties OF tna'
State, Hampshire and Hardy, amounts, at the
lowest calculation to fifteen hundred and sixty
millions of tuns, and that the quantity of iron ore
within the coal formation reaches three hundred
ard seventy four millions Of tun'. To this II
We add the slicious fossliferous ore of the
Knobly Mountain, we Obtsin total OF more than
five hundred millions of tuns-and yet, wonder
full TO relate, this city is very soon to count
among its visitors a number Of gentlemen OF that
State who il is announced are coming in order
to AJAX hello in Wall street to enable them to pur
cbsie iron. These gentlemen are also ready, II
we are rightly informed, to lend their aid to every
MEASURE which can be devised with view to
prevent the possibility that single tun Of railroad
iron shall eve, be made within the Limits Of their
State
At the same moment that her people are thus
conspiriue TO prevent the demaod for cosi, iron
ore. or labor within the State the Legislature Ia
engaged in the consideration of laws for prevent.
ipS laborers from running out of the State, and
il ia proposed that for the purpose of efectins
that object there shall be sort OF revenue cutter
establish nent for the purpose OF boarding all yes
sels bound TO the North, and searching them for fu
pitiye slsyes and thus expending hundred dollars
for the purpose of saving one.
II the people of Virginia wish to prevent their
slaves from running away, all they need to
do Is to make such q demand for their Ia
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

Americans who desire to introduce agricultural
labor. saving machines into France-that is to say
net through the Custom House, for France guards
that with Cerberusl like watchfulness- by means
of obtaining patents in that country and selling the
came to advantage, or opening manufactures in
France, will be glad to learn Of ne Wy projected
Exposition of a special character. 1t is to be
strcty agricultural, and to take place in Paris, on
the ODD May, 1856, and to be followed by another on
the 22d May Of the year following. There will be
three grand divisions. Prizes will be given for
cattle, hogs rabbits, fowls and other farm animals;
for agricultural machines and utensils; and for
agricultural products. For labor-saying machines
thirty nine prizes, amounting to 1850 francs, will
be distributed. The expense Of transport from the
frontiers to the Capital will be paid by the French
Government A declaration filed at the Office o
the French Consul. General in this city before the
9th of April is the only formality required. Fa.
animals are to be excluded, only reproductive an
inals being admitted.
The great success Of Messrs, Mccormick, Pitt
al Others at the late Paris exhibition may induce
other Americans to try this coming Exposition.
Agricultural France doubtless will be present, AID
first prize will be followed by huge chances Of
money making as we have described.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

BY the Asia at Halifax we have Liverpool dates
to the 9Th inst. Rumors of peace constitute the
staple Of the war news. There has been no com
municstOn from Russia, but the Austrian Gov
ernm ont bad informed France, through her Minis
ter, of certain terms which Austria would propose
to Russia as an ultimatum These terms are said
to be great advance upon any yet offered From
the camp before Sevastopol there is nothing new.
All parties seem TO have received reenforcements
There is another rumor of the fall of Ksrs but it
needs confirmation. Parliament is prorogued until
the 3lst of January. The King of Sardinia has
been on visit TO LopdOn
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

The Union endeavOred to comfort itself for the
letter Of Francis P. Blair, which we published
the other day, totally dissenting from the entire
policy of the Kansas Nebraska bill, BY insauating
that Mr. Blair was dissatisfied that his son, Mont
gomery Blair, had not been appointed Chief Justice
Of the District Of Columbia, and by stating that
the son hmsef-who actually holds at present
the office of Solicitor to the new Court Of Claims
did not subscribe to his fathers opinions. But
this latter crumb of comfort The Union has been
deprived Of by q letter from Montgomery Rialr-
which, by the way, he seems to have had Come diff.
Guilty in getting printed In that journal expressly
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

BY our Mexican correspondence it will be seen
that decided act Of progressive reform has taken
place in Mexico which looks like an opening
wedge to better state Of things in that unhappy
country. The great curse of that State is the
utter preponderance of the ecclesiastical Pc yer
which sbsoIbs an immense portion of the land and
revenues of the country, and has not been amena-
bic to the civil courts. The new Governments
therefore, has taken the bold step of declaring
that henceorth all trials between citizens aud the
clergy shall be held in the civil courts. The
Archbishop of Mexico was duly militant there
upon, and said that the bishops and their priests
must not obey, and that he will appeal Immediate
ly to the Pope. He lie called traitor in the lead
ing Mexican journals. The measure is extremely
popular. 1t has also been applied to the military
who in the same way, as regards legal matters of
whatever kind with the citizens, are to be amena
BILE to the civil courts.
This much gained, and we may look for further
advancement in political freedom 10 Mexico I'm
less she brings the clergy right down to the level
of other mortals. she cannot escape the fangs Of
poverty and ignorance.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

For mol tbs, We might say for years, certain
persons, publishers, authors, and friends of
authors, not succeeding in getting into The TRIB-
UNE cOmmendatOry articles Of certain books in
which they felt an interest go about shaking their
heads, looking solemn and mysterious, and init
mating that strange stories might be told as to the
secret history of our literary criticisms AtleDgth
an article appears in The Publishers Circular con-
tanning gross charges of openness to bribery and
habit of being brbed against the press generally.
writer in The Boston atlas, who aligned himself
Epsilon" next took up the burden, directing
against THE TRIBUNE, by. name, the general
charges Of The Publishers Circular. This "Upsi.
Ion" charged, in substance, that THE TRIBUNE
enploJ ed as its principal literary critic person
who was fed by the hand Of two New York pub
fishing houses, who thus had him completely I'M
der their thumb, and that by consequence Impair
TALLY in the literary review of this journal was
out Of tie question, we being sold through the
critic we employed to the two publishing houses
above referred to.
Nor was "UptilOn" content with this snOny.
nous attack He inclosss his communication cut
from The Altos to one Of the principal propiie-
Tors Of THE TRIBUNE, taking special pains that
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in bis own handwriting, well known in our office,
that the name Of the writer Of the article would
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Not content with this be also writes to one Of the
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rected was by its terms authorized to comuuni-
cate to us, was signed not Epsilon" but f. Il.
Underwood
Mr.. Underwood thus assumed the position, not
merely in his impersonsl character Of "UpsilOn,'
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19
DOIkGs IN CONGRESS.

SENATE, Dec ls.-Tbe Senate did as near nothing
as possible, and sojou ned.
HousF, Dec. ia desultory debate occupied the
eniire sessOn. Mr.. Walker took upon him .ef the
task Of offending the Southern Know. Notbogs from
rewspsIer st;acks, pitching into the Democrats
mildly. He csimed that the Know Notbipgs were
the onlynationa party. Mr. 10 e. Of Pennsylv Anis
retoited, end charged The Kaow Nothngs with ruin
ing the Democracy in his State where Know Nothing
ism was Synonymous with Free Solism. Mr.. Allison
backed up the assertion Dir. Walker wanted to
combine sli Pfo-Slsvery men for the election Of q
Speal er. Mr. Wsshburn Of Maine claimed that the
men voting for Banks were tho true National party,
and was csteciized therefor by Mr.. Orr. Mr.. Camp
bell ard Mr. Jores OF Pennsylvania here mixed in,
end Democracy snd Know Nothingisn were freely
csnvssaed for an hour. Then Ex-Governor Smith of
ViIgiDi, spt MessIs Damrell, Gddiogs, Letcher aud
Humphrey Msrsball went in, overhauing Free-SoI
sp Abol tonism ara Squatter Sovereign y-ano 80
the session was used up.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

At the meeting of the Board Of Governors last
evening, Gov West made an attempt to retrect
an altar for Catholic worship at Randalls Island,
the same having been directed to be removed by
the vote of the Board at the previous meeting.
This is supported by the Democratic portion of
the Board The remainder of the members are in
favor of according equal privileges to all denom-
nations
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

MIxIcAS BOUNDARY CoaMssIos-We learn tnH
the Secretary Of the Interior has received intelligence
from Lieut. NJ Mcbler who had the work in charge,
that tie boundary Ike between the United States ana
Mexico has been estsb ished, and that Lieut.. NJ had
reached New. Orleans.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19
NetnTlnrk Daflp Ga;ibn,re
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1855.

We shall print, FOR regular subscribers. 1877 900
copies Of the WEEKLY TRIBUNE OF this week I, it, without
doubt the best advertising medium IN the country This /. the
last day for receiving Cor this weeks
Price Seventy FIVE Cents line.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

In the great property case in which the widow
of Gen. Gaines is the plaintiff the Louisiana Su.
preme Court has reversed the decision below aud
ordered Mrs Gaines to be put 10 possession of the
property devised to her by the late Daniel Clarke
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

NEWSPAPER CONSOLIDATION. - The Troy Whig
hes a report that The Albany Argus aud The Albany
Aa, are to be united on the lst Of January next the
nsme Of The Argrs to be retained.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

There were no ballots for Speaker yesterday
The session was given up to a rambling debate
which will probably continue to. day. Banks
chances are unimpaired
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

The steamship Crescent City of this port, bound
for Havana, was wrecked on one of the Bahama
reefs on the 9TH inst. The ship is total loss.
Passengers and baggage saved.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

The working of boats through the ice on the
eastern section of the EJie Canal has been sus.
pended, after degree of success entirely unlocked
for. The Canal ia now closed for the season.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

The trial of Samuel sprsgue for the murder of
Margaret Fierty wat commenced in the Court of
Sessions yesterday The prisoner shot the de-
ceased through the breast, at her residence, No.
go Delsucy. ST., some months ago.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

visit of Committee Of the Senate to inspect
the Fmigrant arrangements on Wards Island was
an excuse yesterday for DINER there al the ex
pense Of the Emigration Fund. The Committee
numbered three, the diners fifty.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19
STEARSs q nARvIrs

STEARKs q nARvIEB
WILDER PATENT SALAMANDER SAFES.
rxrkEI YEARS In aud have failed eress'ss
w., $50 secured by BsAsIEs LA BELLE Lock which
D preof against powder and burglars, for sale BY
STEAENs hAkvE,
No. l46 Waterst, New orb.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19

denying that be ever favored the passage Of n,
Kap,'as. Nebraska act.