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FROM OUR PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENT.

PHILADELPHIA, April 3, 1857.

Mr. EDITOR:—We really begin to feel quite serious concerning our Quaker city, it has become so unusually lively. These two or three weeks past we have been all excitement. You remember that Dr. E.K. KANE'S remains came here to their last resting place—what a sad but exciting time it made for us!—Well, we have had little but excitement since Dr. KANE'S remains were scarce reposed in Laurel Hill Cemetery, under the shades of the Necropolis, and within sound of the Sabbath bell of his native city—when, as if to mock our grief at the loss of him who was just now among us, and is not, and yet lives still, and ever more—ELISHA KENT KANE—the Supreme Court of the United States hurried at us its infamous decision in the case of Dred Scott vs. J.F.H. Sanford. Of course our austral-eyed city press had not much to say on the subject. The Ledger, with its accustomed meanness came to the support of TANEY, and yet this same Ledger numbers its daily colored readers by thousands. One or two other of our press came out boldly and set forth a programme of action in accordance with the infamous edict. "No more clamoring for Negro equality," said they; "no more of Negroes taking promiscuous seats in churches, and R.R. Cars: in short, Negroes must leave the country and go to Africa, or be content to remain in their proper place." The Morning Times must always be excepted in our strictures upon the course of the Philadelphia Press; it has recently come out in a double sheet, and is Republican to the core, besides being decidedly much more ably edited than its city cotemporaries. We cannot quite understand how it is that our colored fellow citizens will persist in paying their fifty dollars daily to The Ledger, when such a noble sheet exists in our midst as The Philadelphia Morning Times. We hope this will not long be so.

The colored citizens, ever wide-awake to their interests, held a rousing meeting at the Institute from which hundreds had to go away for want of room. The following, clipped