and not more than on -fifth uf our avalln eepopu- : la.i m have boon called to aru. V .i'nrta." rfoniU- , Ira iniiivs iivvc be- m • fc,imuste.i, nil I titb fiuer of their trei-ar,- ah; tost a worthlev as the.l paper u i which they are print- our financial 'eeelfit itw become the wonder of the \v > -Id. and ' oar own loyal citizens ha ve IVefy. and prumrtly i.vhn<eri the Ooverumeiit loans at par, thus lur 'ishinith: nmns ne*e>-.i;y to prosecute the war, thout borrowing a dollar from foremn iWers. ; ./hiiso the .Southern army an 1 Foariicyn | are ihmUhing for wan: of commissary suppliac. the ginneries of the North are-filled with abon huu-e. - While commerce, trade, and a.:- kui t are, iu the South are almost. totally destroyed, and by a rigid *nd vigorous blockade they are cut off from trade vith the world, the Northern Prates never w- rc eo completely prosperous as at rhis moment. Atr t "culture, commerce, manufactures, and trade oi all 1 ads are working up to their fullest capacity : the | by kone't iudu-rtry and toii ar - becoming r ap by enriched ; the ability to pay taxes sufficient to .y a foundation deep and broad enough to susmht the public credit should tlie.pubhc.debt quadruple its oroseot proportions is ample ; and with a loyalty oi heart aad devotion of purpo ;e, tl.ey are witling us they are able to pour '.heir wealth into the public treaiurrujitii treason is blotted froru this comment. Why then should any one doubt or fc-sir the result? With the- rebellion thus suppress- d, all elements oi discord removed by ihc if siruc'u 'nofriavery, the na tional life regenerated, we may safely anticipate an unbroken and prosperous future for the I niou. Un der the influence of its intelligent and educated labor wisely directed, of the unparalleled productions ot which :. v capable. of the \ - alth it will draw from the Old World, which si.uil be tributary to it, this great countr. thai! become, and remain under the entiles and prolecuon of a kind and _;ust Providence, the favored spot of all the earth, and the asylum of the down-trodden and oppressed of every nation, where honest labor and merit will receive their full reward. There shall be uo bound set in tlie limit less Tulare to the grandeur, prosperity, and power of the United States of Am- -lea. 2!u §erlfor;l § aqwyfr. BEDFORD PA.. FRiDIY, APRIL 15.1664. The bill for apportioning the State into Senato rial and Legislative districts, baa been reported in the Legislature. The count: -sof 8 -mertet ; Boi fbrd'anJ Fulton shall compose fire Twentieth tks- ' trict, aad elect one Senator. The same counties compose a Le/jialatire district, and elect t#o mem bers. It f >oks as though the bill had no: oetn re ported with the aaaerioaof the member from Bed ford county. A call for a meeting of the Union County Com mittee on Saturday the A'-'rd inst.. is pu.-iis.bea to dsv. The epecia! business before the Committee, as the call indicate?, will be the appointing of a delegate to the Stale Convention, to meet at Har mburg On the 28th in-tant A full attendance of the Committee is desired. Wc give this week, in full, a speech of Hon. J. K. Mooreliead, member of Congress from Pitts burgh. It is an able and instructive effort. It belongs to a class of speeches that should be read and circular "-1. THE MARYLAND ELECTION*. The Baltimore American says: 'The election of Wednesday, notwithstanding the comparatively small vote cast, is nevertheless a true index of the sentiment of the people ol Maryland. Notwithstanding thai in some of the counties the Union men wore divided, as in Kent, and in others that the disloyal were allowed to vote with impunity, the result-till - ne for ccngralu- j l.tion. The "sixty-five members required by th-. j Convection bill to be elected wkhonfc "military interference" have been so elected, an- 1 the "fifty members necessary to constitute "a quorum aftm organization"—and more than this number —will undoubtedly asseinble in the Capitol of the State 0:1 the 27th day of April, take the prescribed on> It, and enter ur-on the di.-rihurgo of their great du ties, the iiual consummation of which, without, a doubt, will place Maryland for the future in the course of prosperity and greatness, and join her U thegrert phalanx of Free States which have pro claimed for the Union and for Freedom." Dh. S. IiIMMEUL.. We see from the Holliday-l urg papers, that Dr. S. Kimuiell, of ifoliiday-burg, has made arrange ments to visit Woodbei-'-y, Bedford county, TuniD MONDAY of each month, and rec iain there until Wednesday evening, and the remainder of the week, be can be found at Martinsburg. Tlie Dr. las the reputation of being one of the best Den tists in this section cf eouirry. His work we be lieve, give.; very general satisfaction. Tlie Prospe, us of the N. Y. World is adver tized in the iNQrmx;: of this week. We ncv.l. not toll our readers that we have no ympa* i-.v w-fh its poll:" -al principles. But if thev war t "a "Democratic ' paper from New York, The T ,V orkl by all odds, s the paper to take. It is an ag], journal, an-.i is the chief organ of the Dcni jcraey whatever th at may be in this country. TUB Bbt-ROHD IXQUIRER comes to us IN im entire new dress, with anew heading, anda Dew proprietor, thus presenting a clean and tidy appearance, and promising a larger and more impe .-tant service in the advocacy of principle and defr-r.se of the Govern ment. B. F. McNeil has becoir.e the Editoraud pro prietor of THE IVQT IKETT. We 'mow him to be wor thy of the confidence and support of the people of Bediord county, fhe liufuirtr is surrounded by a large field in which to ope rate ; and we earnestly trust that it may prove a powerful adjunct in purifying Bed ford county political.;.— The Harruburj Daily Ttlegraph-. The l>EDfOiti> I\'Qru<Kß appeared last week in a new dress, and displaying great vigor and ability under the new editor— B. £. McNefl, Esq. We congratulate the Union men of Bedford on the im provement and eiScieney of their organ.— The Franklin Repository. KEVEBDV JOIUSOVS SPEECH. It is not more than two years since a dietin ftiished American, now abroad, wrote to a friend in this country that the Emancipation party of j the border slave states would soon become the lea ning party of the nation, and save it from its present perplexities and troubles. At that time, when President Lincoln himself was holding back under soine vague apprehension of what was term ed a border-state policy, the prophesy seemed ex travagant ; but receut events show that it was riot o wild a division as it appeared. Public opinion ■•u this country lias undergone prodigious changes . finee tne war began ; amounting almost to a sociai revolution, and turning the currents of theuation l life in u new and even reverse direction ; but no where h-ts tbe change been so rapid, so marked '.cad so decisive as in those middle slave states which Governor Seymour in his first message di>- tiuguished as the most moderate, most conversa tiva and wisest. Threo years ago it would nearly have cost a man bis lift: to urge the immediate abo lition of slavery in any one of them, and now there is scarcely one in winch the abolition of sla very is not the popular element controlling them. But wc have other evidences of the transforma tion, and none more striking than the fact that 7i everdy Johnson, the eloquent, and learned serta t rrfrcan Mtryla-l, sboa'drise in his phne and - Tftttrcrra! rtcaariptticn. in the ic-rm of an 1 ■JO ■ Oil. Si.-r.ator Jolm win, a* our readers n aware, fc long lecu net only cue of the most eminent lawyers of llelli uiyre,c: one yf the mostn&t-rcincdand conserva tive In tho temper of his opinions. A slavehloder ! himself, ami all his lifelong associated with slave huklc-i s, he has inherited and cherished the tradi tbms and dogmas that have prevailed in southern society. lie has maintained that driver}.', though ! not absolutely and morally right, was yet so in ! grained in the whole social structure of the South, that it could not ic eradicated without doing u damage which the good proposed would scarcely compensate. J Jut the shock, cf the rebellion have shaken him loose from his prejudices. He has been made to see that an institution malignant and wicked enough to wage a wanton war upon free j government is coo wicked and malignant to bo al iowedto continue in being ; and that, indeed, so long as it did continue in being there must be war between it ami the .government. Mr. Johnson prefers the government to slavery; ho would rati. ?r that a pernicious exercise should die than that ike whole body be disci; -ed ; and he i'av >r.- the exorcise of the constitutional power of amendment u> reach the end. As a military measure, tho proelaiii a cion of freedom to the slaves may have its use-; it may be absolutely necessary, indeed, to Jetadi them from the enemy and so break his power in pieces; there are circumstances, too. in which to restrain or punish the audacity ol rebels it may bo wise to confiscate their property / and release their slaves , but all these methods are iasuffi dent to destroy slavery. They eiuanc'P*'® the slaves of the time, but they do not rep o "' 1 ko tows by which slaves are made. In the teeth o; them all, slavery could be re-estabi' 3^e(A in " a - v stute, where the people willed it, c fi rß kdaj after the termination of the war. B" tan amnedment of the constitution, prohibiting 01 - v 'orever, goes behind state laws, digs under them, drags them out 1 y the roots, and consumes them off the face j of the earth. It is worthy of note, in the speech in which j Senator Jghn*® urges the amendment, that he j assumes the highest grounds of justice and right, jHe doesa" 1 - like some of the Kentucky Unionists, wbih? vYer the necessity which c-ompeis the rolin ' q uishuicnt of property in human beings; he does not justify emancipation ou any paltry calculation of inxpediemy, but lie at once takes thetoneofthe 'statesman, the moralist, and the man of individual self-respect, and savs, "this thing being wrong, it ought to cvase." It is an anomaly and a shame that four millions of human beings should be held In bondage and perpetual ignorance ; raid the evil must be removed. Y\ hat a rebuke is such uianli ness to the pitiful and sneaking defences of slavery still put forth, on occasion*, by afewno rt h era m-n whose education haabeen whollyinadliTerenS icbool, and whose proclivity to the monster is a kind oi spontaneous sycophancy, without motive and bred of inherent meanness of soul!—Al 11 Ecenma Post. HITEKDY JOHVROV OV TfE "PECrtZ\K I.VKTITVTiOX.- 1 "Occasional" writes as follows, ofTteverdy Jolr> son's great speech,—a speech already pre Jue\n~ a profound impression throughout the co - ant* v • "The greatest argument that has yet ' jee'y, raa V In favor of the amendment of the Fedvra\ Const-i --tation so as forever to prohibit slaver /i: the Uni ted States, and forever to remove t'ne origin and feeder of the rebellion and the caur jf diseonteij; among the people, was made in t'ae Senate bv Mr. Johnson oil the very day Itcfo" e Mr. Thompson made his plea against slavery ■ „ t j ie j ia tj 0 g lhe House. I have read this 3 Trnment 0 f Senator Johnson with great delight Un ,] instruction. It is wholly unexceptionable.. The delivery, the manner, and the matter this noble effort recall ed the Augustan era of t'. )e liepablte, and the ven craole statesmen, who cotcnaporaneous with the greatest men or t :e wa . ; j, ear j p ro . found :ui.ention fcy a full jjenute and crowded gal eries. lie told rr a f ew months ago, that he had dined with tr o illustrious John Marshall in the very room in w>, tuis letter is written. What a tribute to th > cause for which we are now con r< nJsng, that a patriot should discard all past theories arid. opinions, and plant himself ou the loaning I f,sis oi hostility to slavery! hot on 1 oi the sa otsel the Ilevolutton—not Patrick llen ry; hisb or Ames, Sam Adams, or Thomas JefFer •vUtl vet used more sublime language than the lollovJi-jg. Never will I forget the effect it pro ;' uc ' ' as it fell from Heverdy Johnson's lips 0:1 -t'gjday last: 'liememfcer, now the question is, Can that ill s'atution which deals with humanity as property; I A'hieh claims to shackle the mind, the soul, and body; which brim,-: to the level of the brute a portion of the ra-e of man. cease to he within the reach ot the political power of the people of the I nited State.., not because it was not at one time within their power, but because at that time they • itu not exert the power ? V> hat says the pream lo ? How pregnant with a conclusive answer i the preamble to the proposition that slavery can not l>e abolished! \V hat does that preamble B'a'e to_havebeen Site chief objects that the great and wise and good men had at heart in recommending too Constitution, with that preamble, to the adop tion of the American people ? That justice might Le established; that tranquility might be pre crv ed ; that the common ttelen.ee and general welfare might lie maintained; and, last and chief of all, ihat liberty might lie secured. Is there no justice ■ m putting an end to human slavery? Is there no danger to the tranquil ty of theeoantry in its ex istence? May it not interfere with, the common defence and general welfare? And, above all, is it consistent with any notion which the mind of man can conceive of human liberty? The very clause under which we: -ek to put an end to the i'.i stitutioUqthe amendatory clause, may have fc'on and, in ail probability was, inserted" into the in strument from a conviction that the time v.ouid come when Justice w >uld call so loudly for tbeex tinction of tlie institution that her call cor<ld not be disobeyed; when the peace and tranqv iiity of' the land would denia nd in thunder tones the des truction of the iiist.it ation as inconsistent with such peace and trunoiulitv'; and witen the so utimeut of the world would 1k c< .me shocked with the existence of a condition of th mgs in the only free Govern ment upon the iu< of the globe, -as far as the "Sv-1 1to loan in cone*-med, uk 3 toundci t uponprinri utterly incoiis wiljb H-Dy form of government than a government which secures ft-ee u"Ui; when the s -itintent of the w arid would ltc shocked by the continuing exist-nee of human bondage, and we should become the scoff and scorn of Curistettdom. ''lam not to Ixjtold, Mr. President, that our lathers looked to this race, merely because thev uiflered in color i win ourselves, as not entitled to the rights which tor themselves they declared to he inalienable, Tli.jre was not one of them, froru the most humid , intellectually and morallv—if there were any h unable in that great body which formed the Convention 1 hat recommended the Constitution of the United States to the adoption of the American people—who would not have i>etri shocked if he had been told that there wa < a right to make a sia-. e of any human The advocates of tsKverv now in our midst—l do not menu here, but iu rhe South and in some of the pulpit# of theNortli—say that slavery of the black race is of divine origin. Scriptural authority lor its existence and it* perpetual existence from "time 10 time, til), iis j think. the moral mind has be come nauseated by the declaration, has been rout heofor its ftaaetityaiic! its perpetual existence i lie havioi:r of mankind did not put an end to it by physical power, or by the declaration of an e\- isting illegality ht word. His mission upon earth was Slot to propagate His doctrines by force. lie came to save, net to conquer. J3 purpose was net to march araieb htgionj throughout the Labi- ' —' — **•' ' t :•>? pfce, fcui4a til . vhoM: safety II- wurattfiiiy. Hew ar , )r 1 rr influence.-,. Hu a'm3 at the heart mil ' 5 °* J lie inculcated Ilk d.x tlnes, IUOIV < m world, eulilitened ' before Hi; udviiut upoiliarth, hid i . , Was j discover, Hetaiight taiiin t]ieob;;., at £"' f ie *° ! 1 rhomb lie aimo.a.eecljhat the V >lh " I WAS to do to others as lidv. onld have ~'h " ' i" 18 " hito, to a?! men the worll over ■ and n-i/ 10 finds-not only a guawatd tor its exLtenceAuUbl ' it* esiatenw'. in the Sen# tire erwn*. „i , ! operation cl" the inflwoies which *iW brought, to pearon thcmjidof the ChristianSS'l the bWfe and showWft it to flW'iy to brack men. tliln it is not true i no. h, true. tkt H, fc! La k enuady applicable to tie black and to the wldte, to toe race of mat, a* he. then existed, or ash" Jaii'htexiat in all after tin*." find bless lie verily .ihnson for these £reat wards ! What what Old ,! " c what American citizen, wjl not tak* s t^cn ' to his heart, and store them, likf price to* s jewels, in the casket of his memory ? OCCASIONAL. Whilst the Jnfriban an U its coadjutors in fthe work of reform throup hoot, too .State have re a* on to change motinil congratijiations upon the. suc cessful rvsoh oi their labirs, neither t'.iey nor it must A'sc fittht of the fact jhat that re ft is only jj |t) inevitable shaping of 4 destiny theft was be* I coming day by day more ejearly m*\,ifcst. "Not unto us. bat to that Powft which averruies the affairs of nations and iniridual, & r their Imod' must be awarded the credit, th e praise and the 1 - Ka;ks - lt 18 but a huk )n foe g ri iat chain of hu man events which Providence u guiding and di recting for the fulfilment if | tjß own great pur . poses. Regarded m the liglt of a luora] conquest* Emancipation furnishes us, a , a Christian people, with abundant cause for gratitude. Viewed in iiferencc to economic ec 1 jsldertions, we cannot limp concluuing that it i i more just as well as more generous to thesfci rtfcolderg than they are to themselves. I iieir ] rejkdiccs scatter dust into t.icir eyes and blind t: ie „, j 0 f ao ts in which they are more nearly into-, JSted4han othors . The force o cany education and of oid association* is so trong that they <• annot appreciate the changes cOing on around t Jeu)j nor comprehend their phi losophy. but the srv ,c s w ;;j f a ]| fy ( , m their eves, and they will nnderstr.D d why IT on . R. J. ftftiker lias de ,.od. .rat ic course of his statistical researches, that Slr.v * r y t the census proves, is hostile to the progress 0 f wealth and population, to literature end mi acation. It i* hostile to the poor, keep inS dh em in want and ignorance; hostile to ia ' °' ' reducing it to servitude, and decreasing by * v tliirds the value of its products." They v \ further understand why he added, "the law ' ixtends even to counties, those having compara tively the ieweat tiuves being always in advance •'of the others. They will realirc—slowly, it is true, but surely— a truth to which they have been as strangers, that .Slavery, instead of being in any respect pro motive of individual or State advantage and prof it, is a stumbling block in the path of true prog ress ; instead of adding to material wealth, it is a mill-stone tied to the neck of all the elements of substantial prosperity; and wherever it has been the predominant system of labor, its supporters have steadily retrograded'in spite of tlio most fa vorable natural advantages. v> hat a happy change will come over the deiti ny of the fctaie when tins heavy incumbrance is lifted from our borders. As we gradually vrrk out the destiny reserved for us, we shall find la bor-saving machinery taking the place of ihedron bng and reluctant dnidgery of involuntary servi tude ; the school house, the lyeeum, the railroad and the telegraph, instead of the slave market ; ii.e, newspaper in piaceof hopeless ignorance ; f.gnl culture, refinement, taste, the arts, and Christian civilization, in lieu of int'dlectual extinguisnmcnt. e have reached the t< rmiiial point of our de cline and a- \vc face to me "right unoou" and re -ume cur march upon the great highway oi' na don.--, we shall begladdc led by witnessing at every "tep the development o 1 our resou'ccsby skilled ami intelligent labor. Where grow. a i liU teen re tarded we shall find evidences of thrift and com iort. .1 he degrcdatuui of labcr will pass into a myth, and its honest sua dese'rring merit will be acknowledged. The house will no longer be di vided against itself, and its threatened fall will bo averted. Maryland wilNtrfep forward and take her place where she should have been and might have been long ago—in the front rank of the sis terhood of States.— Be If more American. CONGRESS. Saturday, Apn I ft, Senate not in Session. In the House of lieprescntntives Mr. Colfax off. r cd a resolution fovdie expulsion ofMr. Long, Rep resentative l'rom the .Second District ofOhio, for hav ing declared hirimelfin favor of the recognition of lne so-called ( onfederata States, in a speech made on the btii of April. A lively discussion arose between Messrs. Co x, Garfield, Colfax, and others. Mr. Harris of > laryland, made a regular secession speech, endorsing what Mr. Long had said, favored the rec ognition of the south 119 an independent nation, and remarking that he hoped that the South never would bo suV.j ogated. He was called to order for uttering treasonable language, and considerable excitement j prevailed. Fernando \\ ood read from the manu script speech of Mr. Long the objectional sentiments and saidthat be concurred in them. The resolution to expel Mr. Long was postponed until Monday. Mr. Washburaethen offered a resolution to expel Mr. Harris. After a brief but exciting debate, the reso lution was not agreed to. Yeas 81; Nays 68—.not two-thirds. Mr. Schenck then offered a resolution of censure of Mr. Harris, which was adopted by a vote of ft 2 yeas to 18 nays. Adjourned. Monday, April 11, SEX ATE. The Committee on the Conduct of the War made a report, with the evidence in the investigation of the Florida expedition, ihe Military Committees re ported a bill to organize a regiment of veteran volun teer engineers. Mr. Grimes made a personal expla nation in regard to a certain report made by the Na val Committee, charging that the members of the committee had never seen the report, and that it was the work of Mr. Haie alone. Mr. Hale replied that the committee had unanimously authorized him to draw the report. The House Naval Appropriation bill, as reported from the Finance Committee, was taken up, and the amendments were ail concurred in. The most important one is thestrikingoutofss2o,000 for the purpose of building lloating dry docks for monitors at the New York and Philadelphia navy yards. Mr. Hale, on behalf of the Naval Committee, offered various amendments, which were adopted.— Pending an amendment appropriating 513,000 to purchase land for the extension of the Ckaricstown 1 navy-yard, the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives the report of Gen eral Grant, on the battle of Chattanooga, with the reports of the sub-commanders, were presented- Mr. Hooper introduced a bank or currency bill, which was postponed until Saturday. A resolution in structing the Naval Committee to report a bill for the location of a navy yard on the Delaware river, was laid over under the rules. It was agreed t adjtyjra from Monday until Thursday to alio* niemb?i.lU cU< * i'uiwraf ofHou. John 0. Rives. A rt>s■ I"i M.l' the President to appoint a tVll" tVll "' !U! tins harbors on the north western lsfl&J w,t 'f a vifiW °f tselectinf a siteforana- , val depot. *pa- c | re '""red to the Kara! Committee.— Mr. Craveiifti v/ n ''' ;iaa i offered a series ofresolu tions deciatfe" is dangerous tft attempt to amend the Opti y titution ;that any attempt of Cougress to reduce Stai ' ll to the coudition of territories is as revolutionary AS secession : that it is the duty of the i government If consider any proposition for reconcil i latum tht,uto> he oilerudby the insurgents, and that S the thai)\s of he nation are tendered to the officers, soldier * imdfceainen who have sogallanUy borne our tlag- I>Jhap arising, the resolutions were laid over. ! M<- 1 > -tvis, dfMarylandintroduced a bill establbhiat attoird ofp aval Adnimistration, to be predd-d it by the imretary of tl lc Navy. Referred to the 1 j vul Coiii:s< ieo. lae resolution heretofore c Jer * .by Mr. Ffcv, of Ohio, declaring that the war t s not ' w b r cd for tIR purpose of eon-piest, but for the resto j ration of ob|< encetothe Constitution v.ith the rights and equalityfe States unimpaired, Ac., ■,; tabled, by a vote oi ¥lto 61. The resolution to ejpcpel Mr. Cong; was tuet taken up and debated at gi.-eat length An evening fcsionwas held until after eleven o'clock but no vote * * taken upon the resolu' ,on. ~ Tli | liEIiEUJiON. ~A brother in-law of General f i ant was captured by guerrilla* est week, a few m d.es lelow Memphis, lie was condu. ing a cotton pls'atttioo. A party o&fugees, just -arrived at Washington from llichmfe.l, give glowir g acconnts of the rr*d ity with whiALEE is reinfr.rcing his army by con scription, wliu, though q jiet, is merciless in the extreme. li,asserted th AT LEE will have an army of eighty or kuety thorn and meu to open the spring campaign nitL There has krived i n Baltimore a refugee from Richmond, 'Jr brew A. RICK. Mrs. RlCK,despite the tyranny •!■„ reigns at Riccmond, has always pre served her inMty to the Union, and evinced a warm sympathy fomie suffering, of our officers and men who have be*: mprisoned in Richmond. Rer house was for nine I vs the hiding-place and refuge of Col. STREIUKT, vr B. B. MCDONALD and another offi cer, trier tLeJ seapeufroin Libby Prison, and were awaiting an .oftunity to get out of the citv. Mrs. i.ICE ha 3 rallied our lines in it destitute condi tion. iSiie lif. been forced to aLax.doii all she poses sed i' i RichJfc id. T I Jer nev. j -oni the Rod River Expedition is re cei' id in (|r > and New-Orleans, by steamship, wl-.i ch leftth Jitter place on the 3d inst. On the 28th o' March Gel smith's forces had a fight with the rebel Gen. Mk Taylor's army, 12.000 strong, on Cane River, f,miles above Alexandria, in which the rebels were ated with a loss of 200 killed and wounded, aifi 00 prisoners. It was Gen. Smith's intention to pi. sue tue eucni? find m&ke him fight & pitched batt . In die fight at Bayou Rapides, on March EIIR oreescaj lured two hundred and FlX ty prisoncs. ji hiding twenty-two officer.-, four guns aud four ,>d horses. Anexped:tfc. of 1 nion forces sent against Mount Libn ana Lfcyriew, Arkansas, returned to Piue Liuff, on tic |. rkanstw River, on the 31s: uit.— .'•.ount Ll> ILongview are 25 and 50miles south from Pine Sifci ou the Washita River, in Soath- Eastern -Art r. as. At Longview they destroyed the pontoon brctje, burned a train of 35 wagons loaded with camp and garrison (Kjuiptavnts, atninanitiuu, quarterma-eA'vtores, 4c., and captured 320 prison ers. On th-. ji h they encodltered Gen. Docking's iorce of 1 . ;0 feen, from Montieello. totttediiim. and pursued ft a ■>. miles, with a loss on his side of over 100 ki ed tn'l ounded. Our men captured a large quant dy of Mil-1 arms, tv.-o stands of colors, many wagons, ai.d 1 r 800 horses and mules. Our loss w; .1 not r-x Jljjj [ls in killed, wounded and missing, ■rieveral huidr * contrabands were brought in. The blooly qiulse of Forrests's guerrillas at the | Paducah fox s | uis to have checked his progress, and he is appa fitly retreating southward again, do ing all the itit t--e he can on his course through wes tern Kentucky tod Tennessee. The other projected invasions oitl i North have not yet commenced, and it is not cerUi[ S'hetherLongstreet is looking towards Kentucky or Miginia. The re-organization of the ; army of the Pi jt.mae is completed, and Gen. Grant is making js iprationa for the active campaign, which cannot i bumenee till the Virginia mud, sat urated by awi f B storm, has again dried up. The Red Rivet ex: Htion is marching on. At last ac counts it, has oi t pied Alexandria, Louisiana, with out opposition foe enemy failing back to Shrc-veport, where some f c b ng is expected. THE Rrnoi. 1 ".'T.OMATISTS TS E"norE. —Advices received by ll.ejl Htsu amer from Europe represent that the fyinetiiK of the Rebel diplomatists have ma terially changes ithin the jast two months. Mason is in dignified rff -ement — a perfect arcborite —hav- ing shut himself wght of sight of even his own co tetnporaries. | j Fli'lell is spedh '.ting, and has already obtained a notoriety among ne gamblers of the Bourse. He has made moneft but he never touches Confederate securities : and li e Slidell, so are ail his co-adven turers. It is n eable that the Rebel diplomatists are tar more sudpsful us speculators thuu they were as plenlpotentiafe s. Reports of exp- me quiet come from the Army of the Potomac. I'ie weather has been very wet for the past week, ak, the roads are in a horrible condi tion. Moseby p d choice spirits have to trouble the line# ir harass the sutlers. Everything indicates the zeul .nd energy with which both armies are preparing fof he great deadly, final campaign of the rebellion, fi • number of deserters from the en emy- is less nu nut' us than heretofore, owing proba bly to the iucreall circumspection of the officers. A highly impofc.nt General Orderhas been issued tVorn the headqujpersnfthe Army of the Potomac, which is intendec [n clear the decks generally for ac tive ope.r.U:oiis. -11 tiviiianr. sutlers and their em ployees, are ordc fii to the rear by the Kith. Mem bers of tiie Sanitly or Christian Commissions, ami registered newspiwer correspondents only, can re miiin. All propiwy for which there in no transpor tation, also goes ® the rear, and the authority of Corps Comma nder. to grant furloughs is revoked, and none to be giaited save iu extreme cases, or in case of re-euli Aeil veterans. DATES BY VAT IT CAIRO FKOW NEW OUI.EANS TO MAUCH 2I, AH B R L I:IVL'1), — The election iu Louisi ana, ou the 2 ith, for delegates to the Constitutional Convention, XSUL Ii in the complete triumph of the Free-State N .R. . The steamer J. 11. Eusxtll. with 700 bales oft CMon jnjd a quantity of cattle and hogs, was consum, . I ; ..- 0 at night, at Plaquemie. The Fteamer was c.I JC F passage from Vieksburgh to New (Irlciins, and too., i e from the sparks of her torches, LHC mails from AL itandria, together with the dis patches of Gen. GI SNT to the headquarters of the De partment oi the Gi If, were also burned. The rebel ram J enneasee was struck by a SQUALL on the Ist, while lying near Grant s ['ASS, below Mobile. Her arma- I went will prove a 1 tuvy loss to the rebels. It con sisted ot six 100-JX ruder Parrots. At Alexandria, on the 2ith, it was reported that all was quiet. Tho rebel force near tin RU was reported to lie twenty thou sand strong. It WS s nupjto-ed that their intention was to fail back abi mt fifty miles, arid there awuit an attack from onr fc tees. Gur gunboats bonnd for Sbreveport liad SIIFI-eded in getting over the shoals. A LAND force left AJEX.-mdriaon the 27tb, destined for Sbreveport. The fee* WAS under the eonnpiact! of Ges. SMITH. The Richvu.ub.l ExmUncr of the 2bth of Mure cnargM thai the Rebel Government bee treated Job Morgan with jealousy amJ injustice. The ExitmUt* ••ays mat two of Mnrgan'e r. ... ..,. r y man which was recruited by hiwaelf in Kentucky, and <1 special service under himself, have been transferrl to the coi rnti;.nil of Ger* Grigsby, a special pet Jj J.ft. I tar is. Morgan is there!' >;v left with a col maud of only about oW men. The Examiner has 1 so aa oc itiorial berating Jeff. Davis and the Cabinl > or tho alif/fd ueenfe.n u.'n-civi;;" I'.-.-g, dag ot ituoe to treat with him wit.ii regard tr. the 1 < oaijr ; oi pnsonorsr. The Examiner tr'-.tt* ofrß enact meat withdrawing one thousand millions 1 Con' '.-d.-rate paper from circulation, an.! thin! -I this "astonishing achievement in finances" is fcft bio enabling the South to continue theWnr indeM ite'y, the North will pattern by the Southern polift 't 1 this rs it bus <bn,e in ot-ier j,arfic;i'ars, and i coioe able to protract the aggression indefinitely! T;ie Examiner,, however, comforts itself with il be ief that cue Northern people will uotitand the i I •; liiui fit any s.K-ii liaaaciai measure. Robert iv I advertises in the iih.b|uoud papers for the recovft <; s7o,oo(bQonfederateoopjjou bonds, stolen t'ft theßegister's bureau. In if.be Wilmington (N.fc. Jurn :■■ here is an a-lvertia-r t -ring ! re #ard for the detection of the persons who set fir to the cotton stored in that city on the Bth of Fcljn arc. A Rebel letter (no date given) says that, eft Union vessels are lying otf Fort i'o well and ten ft, Fort Morgan. Ttie liaitrrcellea VV:tr iVutociv asaiast Peace UcmocrutN. Tho Chicaey. Post (War Democrat} rev.ftf at length, the recent outbreak in Illinois. fy quote from the. article. This Charleston a'Jair, mournful and distress*! as it is, w. : eventually prove a bit-ting to fin country, :t'al particularly to the democratic paft Ba d men, rufaiaous men, have for months beenft guig an out ii';eak. and a violent popular deinft sti ation ; they have told their followers that if ft: outbreak commenced it would be taken up ink! parts ot the Northwest, and that in a hand enenft tor the question of civil liberty would be deci ft Some moatfeaor more ago, a crazy fellow in in Up;, ry clothes assl holding a eomir.i don in the unty incited a score or more of his fellow soldiers to tin a newspaper office in Dayton, Ohio. They eft mitred the outrage, for which no legal apofcy con id be made. 'lhe noisy leader was arre.-m ft fiiis wrong vra- a precious boon to the men ft really desire and have been fomenting a re vol nft in the Northwest. The organ of this class infti city (the sec. eh Times) immediately notif.iedlfcl Democratic party of it:. 1 'duty.'' That duty itsh clairad to be that in ail cases where the civiftt mil;tary officersol' the government interfered jet their rights, they were not to resort to law.fin appeal to the courts, bti' were to shoot the ofiftr Ike "dogs. ' Ifthey did this, the support an lmi' in money and men ofiliecnt re Du.mocra yfta ib rally promised. A 'secret) meeting nf'ije.- deq e-atenum from all > art - of the State was ft in f bicagoin the seeor.i we k of March, to pot Eider upon a common i icasureof action. ft _ i'qe uelu 1 •:! ue-n at • hariestoa.ti■;lowed tlitfiar vicegiyoa tLciu liorr: tin - city, to .-Loot dow.fti officers like does, but when thoy looked ibzßr Democrats who were to rally to their sup ft they looked irt vain. Democrats have too Jni r lied on the la w and the courts for protection™! vindication of their right to resort to arnedfth lence to redress eves a wrong. The blood of® l men who have ta'Ji n on both sides at Charli ft. I will rest forever v jon the son is <>f the corrn ntwud infimoug men rchi urged litem to vind'n- o'ejfe ejicedi hi; the mn i<r of ptdJie or price tr <W/>ft <•'/. Let the people hold to a just responsiift tlie wretchcs wli v have incited and goaded on tftc deluded men 1c this bloody afiair at Charlf. •jr:. and let the pe< pie of all parties remember U t the Democrats have, by their actions, given a. fir: - ing a direct lie to tlu- men who tie prom -cd that, in ens;.' there ' e aimed resistanft;u the (rovemnent and i',s ofFitars. the Den: or Ac parry would rally, arms in hand, to shoot downllf offic 'a like ? Find out the men who <#>:t th s advice tuid these promises to the peoj ie, i upon tlieso ujen let the moral responsibility for Tie bloodshed and the lives lost at Clmidos ton rests l i'i'E SOT thehn PKEI: Laijou SYSTEM.-kfeitltT the ineSztation of matyr of the freed noroes-to "slosh around'' tor a living, nor the scot.iingof (heir mistaken friends about Gen Bank's despot t m, ha ve yet induced him to al nndon Lb systen of paid labor, ( ! n the contrary he is li ving his order on the subject rigorously execute! Adju tant General Reynolds issued a sunpl rraenter order on tho subject on the adth of Ma; eh as fol lows : Ail colored persons, of either sex, who are tr employed, or who have no visible meai ? of sut port, will b > taken in charge by Dob (i. 1 ITank?, -nperintend"nt of negro labor, who will nnke ] r - vision lor their ami pay, in acc®-- danee wit h exi tin/ department orders op the sjp j etof labor. Citizens are retjuested to report Ml •:t e? of vacant colored people to Col Hank-, ' No. l: 8 Juli.-i street. That no priveAe serrjat may be intc.rtered with in executing tiis orxßr, parties who em play colored people will give o ea-b a eertfinate ot employment, which t rtiluae will exhibit the name and residence of tip einp;- er. Citizens having colored people in their em ploy, who are mperflnous or insubordinate, w!! no promptly relieved of them by reporting ike fivi to Col. llaoh -. The eucce of Gon- Banks' syrtcm ban indt c d tho government to copy it in the management!>f the contrabands on the upper Mississippi, lid Gen. Thoma* has issued an order for the leaStg and working of plantations in the military distfiet of Mississippi, taking a abasi-x "for the sakl f uniformity,' the rules adopt4 by Gen. Banklin department of the (J iff. "with snt !i modificati is as the experience of the past year has dicta! p" They provide for (he hot- treatment of the e --groes, for comfortable rations, shelter and elotlmg, j and lor wages smounting to tcq dollars a mfth for an able-bodied man, and less rates for old ijm, women and cliildren. Under this system tl-re will of course-be eases of injustice, and fraud, lut no man cen doubt, that the negroes will fare 1 1- ter than if left to manage for themselves, and w,th no protection again-t the greed of the piantejl iS'piingfiehl Mass. RrpnlAieun. Ti! E M AI?VT. AVT> Er.EeTloN.—The result ofthe election in Maryland is a most gratifying eviiftice of the progress of anti-slavery sentiment ft a State which, at the commencement of theftar was one _of the most intensely pro-.s!.ft:ry in the Union, and. we may add. aft est as disloyal as any of the Soutfirn States except South Carolina. The firing jon Massachusetts; troops passing through Baltin e; the burning of bridges r.ml the tearing up of uii roads to prevent Northern troops from goi] ;t.o the relief of Washington ; the treasonable ae s of Marshal Kane. Kos \V'innns. and other 1m hie BaUimovians ; the attempt of the Maryland ! vis -1 a tore to take the Stati: out of the Union, an ithe raising of troops to assist in establishing the St cth >3rn C onfederacy, are chapters in the histo; } of Maryland which can never ho forgotten. Air no man at this day can liave fuffieient liardiho nto deny that dnvery was the cause of tlie disloya i|j ti'.de of Maryland three years ago. Bcenm t f) ;' slavery, many of her rulers and leading oiti£u, and certainly a majority of her wealthy class. , r ,. willing and_ anxious to east their lot witlk jhe Soul hern Confetjcn:ey. But the war has changed all this. It i-, indeed a civilizer. Omitting her slavehoMers, Markhna is to-day one of the most loyal Mates in the \*n iyn. Winter Davis and Revcrdy Johnsoa ind (iov. Hicks are her represeDtativeuuen. and tkeir voice is not only for a vigorous prosecution of the war, but thoy are earnestly in favor of destroying the cause of the war. They are emancipationists of the sfßiightest sect. And the result of tleir leadership is given us in the overwhelming y or . diet of the Maryland people on Wednesday in fa vor of calling convention to abolish slavery throughout the State. All hail, Maryland? We i can soon class thee and welcone'thee as a free State I of the new nation. — Pittsburgh Guu He. LMFOR TA NT M> TICK PAY IP! PAY TP! Person? tnowingthcmsclvrs inav'rtfy, to ms for !ir,n, a lvertiting or job work, jjill ronfertt favor byrilii ' upon inc Htnl settling tip at opcry ti? T <ifirr to c!ofi j coour,tj as soon as j>o9i|ih' J. 8. DrBBORM?. * apr. 15. 1864 c. ' "ii ifwur Luton State <;oiiventioii. Hie loyal wea of Pen n,< v! vatiia eowpririnr the NV ri^M lis"fe,!;, HAU JHI HSOAY, April 28, 1864. Each district will be stil led to tbrsttce repre*- tttutsiUnowhas m the, State Legislature. aid tha delegate* will be chosen at such times aid in such ®* nD,:r as " hal! bu directed by the respective Coumr committees. ' ihe State Convention is called for the purpose, f P.aemg sn nomination at. Electoral ticket, ectcrii d. ..>** at large to the Nahor al Convention f tb" . I tnon party to be heid at liattimore on th seventh ol June, and takingmich action a-, it mavdeem nroi>- - er in reference to the approaching Presidential ' cai vast*. TI:? selection of the district delegates from Penn sylvania to the National Convention is left—where it properly belong*—to the people assembled in their < ounty Conventions ; but the different County Com m tteesr.re earnestly requested to adopt such meas ures as will procure a fall attendance at their respect ive conventions, and thereby secure, in the choice of <•elegat.es, a fall and fair expression of the will of tua peopl<\ The committee cannotforbear to congratulate all lovers of liberty and the Union upon the recent tri umphs O! the good cause in New Hampshire and . onneeticat, and to express the hojK;. shared by all love l men. that they are only theforerunn-rsof mora splendid victories soon to be won in the saute causa alike by the bullet and the ballot. in behalf of the Union .State Centl flommittaa r ov tr * io' J AGE, Chairman. . <TE vt >v. IIAVERSLV, > Secrelariu, W >'\ 5 "-"- { apr. A —c. WASTE OK MOXRT AVD PAPER.-RlV'e HRAM by a dispatch . rotu \V atitmrton that a rvw edition i t hen. f.wiKß, Mf'Ci.Er tAX'sMilitary Memo ri?, u S *?■ 1 e hyr Government, indu-Jine li.t the dispatches from hiin which he omitted in I;, report, iho omitted dispatches, lving on SetveSary bTA.vrox'a table, we are told, "make a piiea mot and a half high." If we knew the cngth a.m breadth as well as the height of this •nc we injKhtexpresß a more intelligent opinion as ■" advivtbriity of printing it in the present, condition of tue finances. But, as it is said that die publication is to bo made for th-: "sake of hit •ory," we think it had better be deferred till the lustorical age. It U now the age of action. -V J. Tirnts. ©EE More UNTORTTVATI:.— We have few detail* " destruction, by a squall of the great rebel ram *i Mobile, of which we have so often heard during thedest two years. It is .said that she was an ex tremely powerful concern, her iron plating being six inches in thickness, and her armament consisting of six 100-pounder rifled Parrot guns, while h.-raubrna rine horn or speer was of immense size and sharp ness. This casuality adds another to the long list of defunct and unfortunate rebel rami, with whosa horns J EKE DAVIS Loped to split the Union. Thf >U VE OLD LlON.— While Gen. MeCW;*a was at-Washington he had said to the President, ;n arcuing for the ]>cmt)snla route, '"The roads are passable at all seasoas oi' the year." Now, b#- 'ore York town he says the "rains hare made thw roads almost impassable. * * ammunition and for. agee nld nor be brought up at ail." At Wa-fc i igton he itad described this cqantry a c much more favorable for offensive opt rations than that is front ot W a>l.ington, much more cleared land, the woods V-sedense, the soil more sandy." From the north the enemy have unassailable "intrenoh t l no.-itrons at Manassas." From the east he he holds a line in from, "one of the strongest ever "j>p< Ito an invading force in any country."— No general oi whom we ever read ha.- had sacli grower to hold all obstacle.- in his immediate front, the difficulties at Yorktown were unquestionably vreaj. Katalie-.' were, as the president said, only the "old ones shifted. Besides it is the eu.-torn in war, we suppose, to throw difficulties in the way of an invading arm; -. And a test of s-skilful gener al is that he surmounts them.— Springfield Mot*. ReptihUcnf. 'jJjj'Tidij 1 . """" March 4tli EMXA L. AUXSW, aged IS months, 8 weeks, and •!> d*v.w March Bth, Hirua K. Ar.siw, aged 3 years, "J months and b csys. March 1 lib, FRANK H. ACNEW, agcd-1 years, 11 months, 11 cays. Children of W. K. and A. E. Ag new. "I take the -•<? little lambs, said Christ j And lay them in my breast; Pro'crtion they eho.il find in Ma, In Me forever biesu" His words the happy parents hear. 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