She frift'OTtl ;i!aquiw. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, JAN. 211. 1865. .. _ J .. " IJ. _ HI - - - -. - -L-J- Slavery Abolished in Tenneßsee--ProKres of Emancipation. A Union State Convention in Tennessee has unanimously decreed the immediate abolition of rlavery throughout State and its prohibition foi ever; and it was futfher decreed that there should be no compensation to slave owners. The propo sitions are to be submitted for the ratification of the people on the 22d of Febuary, when, doubtless the same popular elements which brought togeth er this Convention will establish its work as the future organic law of the Coramowealth. Missouri was not far behind Marylaud in her resolution of emancipation, and now Tennessee, close upon the heels of Missouri, has, in/ a mo ment, been added to the list of free Status. Such are the results of that insane enterprise of narrow sighted, self conceited and reckless Southern poli ticians to break up the Union and found an inde • pendent Southern confederacy by war on the "corner stone"' of slavery. Thus this troublesome institution, which otherwise might have survived in this country, under a reign of peace, for a cen- tury to come, may be pronounced as as already de stroyed. Before the end of five years from the bombardment of Fort Sumptcr, we may hazard the prediction that there will be "neither sla very nor involuntary servitude, except in the pun ishment of crimes," in any hole or corner of the Unit :d States, from the British possessions to the Mexican boundary. It will have ceased to even in the prolific swamps of South Carolina. A constitutional amendment covering the whole U nion as it was and as it will be, is the thing which will setitle this business. Snch are the fruits of this momentous and rev olutionizing war. plunged far into the perpetuation and expanlion of Slavery. It seems to us that it was but the other day that President Lincoln sub mitted his original plan of emancipation to Con gress, whereby slavery would be removed from the country by the year of grace 1900. We have just entered the year 1565, and we find slavery a boiishad in West Virginia, Maryland. Missouri and Tennessee, enveloped beyond any chance of escape in Delaware and Kentucky, overthrown in Arkansas and Louisiana, nearly swept away by the fixes of war from old Virginia, and so serious ly cut up, crippled and demoralzed in all the rest of the South that its absolute extinction is threat by Jeff. Davis as the la <, chance for saving a rem nant of his ' 'confederacy.'' The work which, through a hundred years of domestic peace we had xrdly approached, is thus substantially accompli ed within four years of tremendous and resistless civil war. Let the friends of the constitutional amendment we have indicated wait in paitence a little longer, and we guess that they will yet find, even in the present House of Representatives, the two-thirds vote re quired to carxy rhe proposition to the several States. Before the end of the year 1865 we antic ipate the complete extinction of slavery, and a re construction of States and parties upon different principles than those of Northern abolitionists and Southern fire-eaters. The revolution must finish its course, and wise men will not stand in its way. Death of Edward Everett. We are startled by the announcement of the sudden death ot Edward Everett. He died of ap oplexy Sunday morning, at his residence in Bos ton. Mr. Everett has latterly held no public po sition, but his death will create as much deep and respectful regret as if he had held the highest of fice in the land. His accomplishment as a schol ar, his eloquence as ah orator, his public services as a patriot and his personal qualities as a man, have commanded for him the universal respect and esteem of his countrymen. No young man ever entered more briiliantly or with more deserv ed applause than he upon the public career which was so long and so honorable —no were the prom ises of youth ever more completely fulfilled than in his instance. Mr. Everett was almost the last of the great orators of this country. He had cul tivated eloquence as an art. Everything he said, whether the occation was great or trivial, was the best, and was said in the best style and manner, which the most careful and conscientious prepara tion could devise. All the resourses of his splen did scholarship were made tributary to the com pleteness and effect of his public speeches. Some of his orations will stand permanently as the very best productions of American eloquence, not mere ly in a single department, but on all the various topics, of which he seemed to be equally master; and all his writings arc characterized >by eminent clearness and purity of style, and the utmost grace and felicity of language. But Mr. Everett's strongest claim upon the affectionate gratitnde of the American people, lies in the compete and ab solute consecration of the last years of his life to the cause of his country. Previous to the out break of tne rebellion, forseeing its imminence, and despairing of the ability of any party or poli- i tical successes to avert it, he devoted himself, with all his heart and strength, to a systematic ap peal to the patriotism of the people, as embodied in their love for the memory of Washington; and from the moment the existence of the Govern ment was threatened by armed insurrection, he brought every faculty of his mind, and every en ergy of his soul to its defence. With a degree of laborious industry which find few parallels, he has used his voice and his pen upon every oppor tune occasion, and with eminentability, in support of the Government, and in aid of every move ment to increase its energy, or supply the necessi ties and relieve the suffering of those engaged in its defence. It would not be easy to name any man to whose labors, within his proper sphere, the country is more largely indebted than to Mr. Everett. He has spent a long and laborious life in the service of the public ; he had reached a ripe age before his labors wereinterrupted, andhismem ory will be held in lasting honor by his grateful countrymen.—W K Tina* uf Monday. RECOGNITION OP THE SOUTH.—A letter to the the New York Triimne from Canada professes to give the origin of the rumor concerning the recog nition of the South by England and France, on the 4th of March next. The writer says: "Dudley Mann, it seems, has written to San ders that Slidell told him (Mann) that he (Slidell) had learned from Drouyn de Lhuys that it was the Emperor's intention to recognue the Confed eracy in the spring, but, that there was little or no hope of England's uniting in this scheme. Oat of this on cUt of M&nn's a Confederate manufac tured the story of the positive determination of the two powers to coma to the help of the rebels.'' WE are obliged to Messrs. Householder ancl Armstrong and C. R. Coburn, State Superinten dents for public documents. J. Steese has been re-elected Superintendent pf Public buildings, tpad Gitjuude at Hprrisburg- This Impending Collapse. The experiment of Federal Government, based on an extreme interpretation of ,ihe doctrine of State rights, which the rebels are making, is like ly to come speedily to a disastrous close. The muti -rings of a serious approaching conflict be tween the anthorities of several of the seceded States and those at. Richmond are becoming very distinct and portentous, and it require* no special gift of prescience to forsee that when the contest once fairly begins in earnest, as it inevitably must sooner or later, the central power must go down, and the flimy fabric of the Confederacy be broken to pieces, and dissolved into nonentity. The result of the experiment, however, when ever it arrives, wi'l be of inestimable value to the whole nation in the impressive warning it will give against the fatal political heresy that any federal system can possibly endure, of which the several constituent members are allowed to have, or are recognised as having, a jurisdiction superior to, or even equal with that of the General Government intended to unite them all, and therefore to be necessarily sovereign over them all. It is well, perhaps, that the ultra State-rights politicians of the South have had an opportunity to tost their favorite and cherished theory under circumstances fLved to try it severely, though the Southern people will have paid most dearly for the overthrow of the absurd dogma* by which a set of insane and wicked demagogues in that sec tion have led them almost to the verge of utter ruin. Even Jefferson Davis himself, whose offi cial authority is now being open'y defied by the Governors of certain States, must begin to have his eyes opened to the frail and precarious founda tion on which his power rests, and to deplore the evil hour fn which he gave himself over to the maddest enterprise in which intelligent men ever engaged. He must see that even if it were pos sible for the militaiy forces of the rebellion to succeed finally in conquering the independence of the Confederate States, their peace would soon be disturbed, not only bv conflicts between the States themselves, but between the States and the Fed eral Government, and that the certain issue would be in the end a total failure of the one great ob ject for which the war was undertaken. It is morally impossible that a number of States which respectively claim to be intergral and sov ereign, and which are controlled by a centrifugal tendency stronger than any which operates to bold them in steady and orde.ly revolution around a common central Government, cannot long hold together; and hence all that the leaders and par tisans of the war for a Southern Confederacy will achieve must aLimately be found to be but "Dead Sea fruits, which turn to |ashes on our lips'' The Governors of Mississippi and Alabama are denying Davis' authoritv over the militia of their respective Commonwealths, and the Alabama Legislature has adjourned without having so a mended the militia law as to meet the requisitions of the War Department at Richmond. Another subject of disagreement is the right to declare who shall he exempted from military service—Gover nor Watts, of Alabama, asserting that the whole ma! er is within his discretion, and positively re fusing to give up the point. Moreover, we per cieve that while the citizens of Savannah are re joicing in their deliverance by Sherman, and eag erly engaging to renew their allegiance to the U nited Staies, the press of Georgia are already dis cussing the question whether it will be treason io the rebel Government to secede from it. On the heels of all this the rebel Congress, in debating a plan for the consolidation of the regiments in the insurgent army, are disputing whether the ap pointment of the officers shall be given to the men or to General-Lee; and Mr. Miles, of South Car olina, is reported to have favored a proposition to make General Lee an all-powerful dictator, by en trusting him absolutely with all military authority over the rebel forces. We confess that these and like events in the South seem to us to be unmistakabc indications of a rapidly approaching collapse of the Rebellion and the re-establishment of peace and union with the cheerful consent rnd co-operation of a large majority of the Southern people. Th*s consuma tion, of course may be delayed by various unfore seen contingencies, but it cannot bo postponed for any great length of time. Even if dissensions were not brewing in the Confederate States which promise to destroy both the civil and military power of the Richmond Government, it is quite certain that the rebels cannot much longer prose cute the war, in view of the rapid exhaustion of their resources. On the whole, therefore, the prospect is encouraging to the Union cause.— Phila. Evening Telegraph. PENNSYLVANIA QUOTA TO BE REDUCED.— The Legislative Committee returned from their visit to Washington on Thursday the 14th inst. The Committee had an interview with Provost Marshal General Fry, who informed them that a new assign ment of quotas will be made in a few days, and that the quota of Pennsylvania will be reduced. Men who have deserted after being mustered in will be credited to the districts for which they volunteer, and naval enlistments for uuknown terms will be accounted as for three years. The quota of New York will be increased. General Fry says that the Government is determined this time to have the men. and will arrange accordingly. It is said that the interpretation put upou Pro vost Marshal General Fry's recent order in refer ence to credits under former ealls for troops was wrong and unjust to that officer. Every district is fully credited with the number of men it has furnished. The details were such as to satisfy entirely the Committee of the Legislature of this State who recently went to Washington in refer ence to the matter. GEN. BUTLER, who stopped at Fortress Monroe several days, on his way home, has been summon ed to Washington by the congressional war com mittee, to testify as to the Fort Fisher fiasco. The promotion of Gen. Weitzel to a full major-gener alship, at the suggestion of Gen. Grant, would seem to show that he comes out of the affair with honor. The effect of the investigation by the con gressional committee will be to keep an agitation, while it is very doubtful if all the facts upon which Gen. Grant and the President acted in the case will be disclosed. A correspondent of a Boston paper writes from New York that General McCleilan leaves for his Eu ropean tour the first week in February. He has de clined the offer of the private vessel tendered by his friends. He leaves in tho steamer China, and will be gone a couple of years. He is made perfectly easy in pecuniary matters. He will make a thor ough study of the military science in Europe. In the beginning of the month of September last Sheridan was simply a cap tain in the Thirteenth In fantry. Twenty days later he became a Brigadier, and in less than two months time a Major General in the regular service, are the rewards.of gal lantry and skill. The 8. P. & C. It. R. Our article of last week in regard to th( ; . P. & C. K. R., has given rise to considerable renrk. and calls forth a denial ot the. rumor alluded ? iron; Senator Householder. The statement in ou*rticle, that the Company designed to abandon of the routes east of Bloody Run. was made |i good authority, and we are cf the notwijstand ing Mr. Hooseholders's disclaimer, that aucia pur pose is or baa been contemplated by the most influential members of the company. SENATE CHAMBER. Harrisbig. > January 16, 1865. / B. F. MCNEII, Esq.. I)tor sir: —From your last week's issue, J-egret to learn that a report is current, that the Sqthern Penna. and Conneßaville It. It. Company d4s not intend constructing their road farther east thn Mt. Dallas, the terminus of the Bedford R. R. I would say, from my intimate knowledge f the designs of the Company, that such report, n my opinion, is without the shadow of truth to susiin it. In an interview with Col. Wright, the Prddent. of the Company, a few days ago, I received thonost positive assurance to the contrary. It mint so happen that that portion of the road lying wst of Mt. Dallas may be completed first, for local resons, but that the Company intends abandoning thipnain idea —the construction of a grand trunk ro-jf—has never been contemplated, even for a moment. Youus truly, GEO. W. HOUSEHOLDER. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL The Washington correspondent of the Baton Ad vertiser says : "As some papers or persot i appear to believe that Mr. Fe.senden is or will be i candi date for the French Mission, it seems pro pr to sa.v that the President intimated to him some weks ago that he should have the appointment if lu : ijslred it and that Mr. Fessenden then answered th if his people should re.um him io the Senate, h would not exchange his seat there for any office inthe gift of the Government There is no reason tr sup posing that he is of any different opin ion it>w that he is elected. The Tennessee State Convention has unajimous ly adopted resolutions abolishing and forev)r pro hibiting slavery within that State, and abrogating the secession ordinance and all the laws pas sed n pur suance thereof. These are to be voted on by the people on the 22nd of February, and if they ire a dopted, an election for Governor and members of Legislature will he held on the 4th day of March, next. Hon. James Guthrie has been elected United States Senator for Kentucky, in place of Lazarus W. Powell, whose term expires with the present session of Congress. Mr. Guthrie was chosen on the first ballot, receiving sixty-five votes to fifty-six for Geo. Rousseau. Richmond papers of the 13th inst., chronicle the arrival of Hon. S. P. Blair in that city, bnt witbold the particulars of his visit. They profess to regard his mission as an attempt on the part of M % Lin coln to set the Rebel Government wrong be' jre the world, by proposidg terms of peace which h< -jtnows they cannot accept. The Pennsylvania Congressmen are naug Hy fel lows to joke so wi.h gray-haired and veneral ilj Thad Stevens. They have been talking with hit n about urging him as a candidate for Mr. Fessendet i"r place and he thought they were in earnest and sai die was too old and not well enough to attend to th e aities. Thad Stevens as Secretary of the treasury is t very great and wicked joke.— Spring/field, (Ma ss. Re publican. Representative Washburne of Illinois in digiantly denies a report that he has been concerned in ivhis ky speculations. He says he never drank, 1 loujjbt or sold a drop of whisky in his life. Aaron H. Cragvn, the newly elected United States Senator from New Hampshire, for the ten n of ax years from the 4th of March next, was bore in Ver mont in 1821. He is a lawyer by profession, was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature fran 1852 to 1855, and was a member of Congress from 1857 to 1859. Joseph Chamberlain, Esq., formerly a resident t>f Johnstown, and twice a Representative from Can bria and Somerset counties in the Penn.sylrada Legislature, died at Cleveland, Ohio, a few weeks since. Gen. Sickles sailed in the Costa Rica for A spin wall, on Thursday the 12th inst. It is rumored that he goes to look into the intrigues supposed to e carried on in Central America and Mexico. Application will be made to the British pari iamoit at the next session to give the Prince of Wales $l5O 000 more anual income. If he can't support his wife and child on his present income, $200,000 he had better go to work. H. M. Flint, the "Druid" of the N. Y. World, is reported to carry on correspondence with the rebels by carrier pigeons. One of the birds was shot near Point Lookout, and several communications found on it written in cipher on fine tissue paper. TheN. Y. Times correspondent says the removal of Gen. Butler developed a surprisingly small amount os feeling at Washington. General Joe Lane, of Kansas, was re-elected to the United States Senate, for the term of six yeare, on the 13thinst. WAR SUMMARY. The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the Nor folk Old Dominion, gives the following intelligence about Sherman s operations, which we find nowhere else: "I learn that the expedition which went up the Savannah River the other day, met with great success. When about sixty miles up the river, a large force was landed, which was inarch to the Columbia and South Carolina road, when about ten miles of the road was completely destroyed. The expedition met with little or no opposition. Gen. Foster's forces captured a company of South Caro lina militia in the vicinity of Hardeeville. They had been in the field but two weeks, and did not seem to relish hard fighting overmuch. This successful expedition is a part of the grand project which has for its object the complete isolation of Richmond. And not many weeks will pass before Sherman will have entire possession of all the railroads connecting Virginia with the cotton States." General Sherman is moving in earnest either upon Charleston or Branchville, and perhaps on both.— The Richmond papers announce that he crossed a considerable portion of his army over the Savannah river on the Cth inst., and that at the date of latest accounts he was marching towards and was near Grahamsville, South Carolina, on the railroad run ning from Savannah to Charleston, thirty-four miles from the former and seventy from the latter place. The Rebels are unable to determine, though, wheth er he is moving on Charleston or Branchville, sixty two miles north of it, and on the railroad running from that city to Augusta, Ga. This road they ex pect Kilpatrick'a cavalry will cut. Grahamsville is about the same distance from Charleston and Branch ville, and the Rebels are thus rendered doubtful ns to which point he will attack. . An arrival from Port Royal confirms the Rebel report that Gen. Sherman had sent the Seventeenth Corps to Beaufort to co operate with Gen. Foster. We have some particulars of the Rebel atttack at Beverly-Court, West Virginia, Wednesday morning, nth. The attacking force was commanded by Gen. Wiekham. ot Bosser's division, and the Union troops at ihc post, consisting of the Thirty-fourth Ohio In fantry and the Eighth Ohio Cavalry, under Col. Fer ney, were taken by aurprse, as well as out-number ed, the Rebels rushing in upou them suddenly about diiy-break. Sharp skirmishing ensued: but we have no report of the casualties. Cols. Forney and Ymmt and about four hundred of their men, it is said, were taken prisoners: but the two Colonels and aboift two hundred men soon after succeeded in esayawjg and regaining the Union lines. The Rebels Wtwrtti toward Lewisburg. The Southern papers mention a report &&t during the storm on Tuesday night the UnioM army advan ced their picket line on their left, and state that vast amoants of stores are being transported in that di rection by Gen. Grant's railroad, over which trains are constantly running night and day. They appre hend that Gen. Grant will long march from that point. A Halifax. N. S.. despatch states that the late reb el pirate Tallahassee, now changed to a blockade runner, and cuMed the '.Chameleon, is under arrest at Bermuda. The blockade runnera Owl, Stagg, Charlotte. Maria Campbell, Whisper, Susan. Bierue Dieppe, are also at Bermuda, and the Colonel Lamb ifi at Nassau. Forty-three blockade runners have been lost out of seventy-one which have visited Ber muda during the pas„ year. GENERAL NEWS DISTRESSING CASE OK HYDROPHOBIA. —A son of Mr. John P. Grabbill, living near Marietta, and a bou. 14 yt airs of age, died of Hydrophobia on Thurs day morni .sg las,. He was bitten by a strange dog some few weeks since but as the wound was trifling nothing serious was apprehended. A few days be fore he died - however, unpleasant symptoms set in and doc.or .ilinkle being called, found at once that the boy wa snffe.in'j from that most dreadful of all diseases- liyb opaobta. ALe. suffering for two days wi. the most violent, spasms death bame io his relief on Thursday movai.ig.— Luneasiar Fxami.ier, Sat urday 14 th i ml. PETRIFACTION. —-A remarkable petrifaction of an entire tree, i f is said, was lately discovered in the Baltimore mi ne on the Mnnongahela river, by the miners, whil o blasting for c<>al. The piece of the trunk taken out weighs neatly four thonsand'pounds and siill ther remains the root of the tree imbedded in the coal. I'here are a'so to be found in the same mine petrifaction of the cactus and Other plants pe culiar to trip ical climates.— Pittsburg Post. SNAKE STO'RY. —The Gettysburg Star furnishes us the following snake story: Mr Levi Gulden, of M 4.. Joy township . exhibited at our office, on Saturdf.y last a curiosi iv in the shape of a black snake, which lie found the day previous lying on the snow, grace fully coiled np and frozen as "stiff as a poker."— His snake ship measured four feet and three inc hos in length' ana was of what is known as the "Run ner" speci'es. A few weeks ago he found a garter snake near the same spot in the same uncomfortable condition. PETROLEUM IK RUSSIA.— -European papers state that the Pet tinsula of Saukoran (Asiatic Russia) con tains numerous springs of petroleum. No fewer than 100 are now worked and yield annnally about 4,000 tons of petroleum, similar to that brought from America. T nere are also many springs in the isle of Taman. Bio Pr.K'E.—The Llwellyn well, situated on forty feel square of lhe one acre owned by the Rath bone Company, was sold last weuk fur $150,000 cash. — The Llwellyn well produced 1,400 bbls daily before it was stopped up by the rebel Gnu. Jones. A BIG HAUL. —Mi. G. Cornelius Hartzell, of Highland township, one day last week, captured nine full grown coons at one haul. He tracked them to a large hollow tree where the, whole family had evidently taken op winter quarters.— Adams Sentinel 9th inst. A dress pa'ade of bounty jumpers took place at Indianapolis, Ind., a few days since. Over oae.kan dred of them were lashed two-and-two to a Jong rope witn a hurculean african leading thecoluranthrough the principal streets leading a bell. The oil excitement in the Dunkard, or Greene co. Pa., regions is increasing. Large transactions in the oil lands are frequent, and ihe greatest eager ness is exhibited, it is believed by experienced oil men that this regton is equal to Oil Creek or West Virginia. THE WAR FOR THE UNION. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH! Special Dispatch to the Bedford Inqxierer.- PnTsm-Rc, Thursday, Jan. 19, '65 11 o'clock, A. M. The attack on Fort Fisher was made Sunday P. M. First assault was repulsed : the second assault was made by a part of the 10th Corps. The enenay 3000 strong was driven from the fort about 12 mid night. Whiting, rebel Gen., and about 2800 men surrendered. Our loss 7 to 800. Early Monday Morning the enemy's Magazine exploded killing and wounding over 200. Sherman moved his troops from Savannah last week, 17th and 12th Corps went by transports to Beaufort. In House of Representatives yesterday Thad. Ste vens endeavored to prevent an investigation into the arrest and confinements in Old Capitol. Five votes with Stevens' werein favor ofsuspendginvestigntions Gen, Butler was before war committee again yester day. He claims that the Fort Fisher attack was the occasion and not the cause of his removal. He says he should have the right to enter into full particulars before the war committe. and define his conduct since he assumed command of the Va. & N. C. Dept. Gen. Terry has been promoted to a full Maj. Genera! Deserters from Lee's army say that 45 miles of the Danville R. R., was destroyed by recent heavy rains. Every bridge and culvert is carried away. They re port Lee's army likely to be entirely out of ratioos soon. FULWELL. VICTORY!! Fort Fisher, the key to Wilmington, is ours ! By a series of daring assaults, with a courage and ability almost unprecedented in the history of ware fare, our forces succeeded in capturing a fort declared inaccessible by one of the ablest en gineers in our service. What will be the sentiments of the Richmond Dispatch, now, which only two days since declared that "Fort Fisher was stronger than ever'/'' The importance of the victory cannot he over-es timated. The system of blockade-running is for ever stopped. Not a port remains into which they can gain entrance. The effect in Europe will be immense. Savannah and Wilmington will bo followed by Charleston and Richmond. The poli ticians of the Continent will appreciate the impor tance of the great successes thus achieved, and no further fears need be entertained of foreign inter vention.—Even in g Telegrgph. FORT MOKROE, Jan. 16. Hon. Gideon Wells. Secretary of the Navy: The Atlantic isjust in from Wilmington. Fort Fisher and the works on Federal Point are in our possession. The assault was made by the army and sailors on Sunday afternoon, and by 11 l\ M., the works were ours. The losses are heavy. Lieuts. S. W. Preston and B. 11. Porter, of the Navy, are killed. Our captures were 72 guns and about 2500 pris oners. General Whiting and Colonel Lamb, rebels, are prisoners and wounded. The Vanderbilt is on her way north with dispatehes. Two 15-inch guns were burst on the Monitors. (Signed) E. T. NICHOCS, Commanding. ULORIOOS NEWS. The IfthMfre <*arri*on Prison era. ('ator oiGeneral H biting and Col. Lamb. The i'ort Captured by Assault. 2,500 Prisoners and 72 Gtmn Captured. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. ) \ia FORTRESS MONROE J a u. 15. j Brigadier General J, J. tfatvlins: GENERAL: —I have the honor to report that Fort Fisher was vjsrricd by assault this afternoon and evening by assault this afternoon and evening by General Division of the Second brigade of the First division of the 29th Army Corps, ai<b ed by a battalion of marines and seamen from the navy. Washington, Jan. 17, 10.40 A. m. Muj. Gen. Dtx, New York: The following official dispatches have.beeu re ceived at this depart menu H eaikjuaHOTßrsSlJ. S. FORCES, ) ON FEBKRAL POINT, N. C. J The assault was preceded by a heavy bombard mint from the Federal fleet, and was made at 3.-10 l. St. when the iirst brigade. Gen. Curtis, of Ames' division, effected a lodgement upon the parapet, but i'B possession of the work was not obtained until 50 o'clock. P. si. The behfitkir of both officers and men was most adurmble; all the works south of Fort Fisher anemow occupied by our troops. We haw no less than 1200 prisoners, including General Whiting and Colonel Lauib, the Coui niaad*t of the fort. I regret to say that our loss is severe, especial ly in officers. 1 *xn not yet able to form any estimate of the ■amber of casualties. (Signed) ALFRED 11. TERRY. Commanding Expedition. FORT FISHER, Jan. 16.— 2 A. M —Hon. C. A. .Dana. Asxietant Scretary af War: After a careful reconnoissance on the 14ih. it was decided to risk an assault on Fort Fisher. Paine's divis ion, with Col. Abbott s brigade, were to hold our l>ne, already strung across the Peninsula and fa cing Wilmington, against Hoke, while Ames' di vision should assault on the west end of the land front, and 400 marines and 1,600 sailors on the east end. After three hours of a heavy navy fire, the assault was made at 3 p M., on the 15th.— General Curtis' brigade led. and as soon as h got on the west end of the la::d front, was followed by Pennybacker's and later by Bell's. After des perate fighting, gaining foot by foot, and with severe loss, at 5 P. M., we had possession of about half the land front. Abbott's brigade was then Liken from our line facing Wilmington, and put into Fort Fisher, and on pushing it forward, at 10 P. M., it took the rest of the work, with little re sistance. The garrison fell back to the extreme point of the Peninsula, where they were followed and cap tured : among others Gen. Whiting and Col. I jamb, both wounded. I think we have have captured 1,000 prisoners. I hope our own low may not exceed 500, but it is impossible to in the nhht. Among the wounded are the commanders ot the leading brig ades, Gen. Curtis being wounded, not severely, but Colonels Pennypacker and Bell dangerously. The land point was a formidable one, the para pet in places fifteen to twenty feet high, but the men went at it nobly and under a severe musket ry iire. The marines and sailors went up gallant ly, but the musketry fire from the east end of the land point was so severe that they did not succeed in entering the work. The navy tire on the work, judging fiom the holes, must have been terrific. Many of the guns were injured. How many there were on the point I cannot say, perhaps 30 or 40. (Signed) C. B. CONESTOCK, Lieut. Col. A. D. C., Chief Engineer. Another dispatch estimates the number of pris oners captured at 2,500 and the number of guns at 72. Gen. Grant telegraphs, in honor of the great triumph achieved by the united valor of the army and ncvy. that he has ordered a salute of 100 guns to be tired by each of the armies opera ting against Richmond. C. A. DANA, Assistant Secretary of War. CONGRESS. TUESDAY Jan. 10. SENATE. — A resolution was passed calling upon the Adjutant General for a list of the nii\jor and brigadier generals in the army on the Ist of Janua ry. Mr. Ruckalew introduced a bill to repeal the act to authorize recruiting for the U. 8. army in the rebel Siates. Mr. Saulsbury offered a resolution asking the secretary of War by what authority vol unteers for thirty and ninety days were called in.o service. The finance Commi'uee reported the House bill to supply deficiencies in last year's ap- Cropriations, and also the Consular Appropriation ill. The la,ter was taken up, but,, ai.er some dis cussion. was postponed until Friday. The Deficien cy bill was taken up, and after considerable debate and unsuccessful attempts to amend it, was passed. Mr. \V ilson introduced a bill authorizing the ap pointment of a Second Assistant Secretary of War. Referred to the Military Committee. Alter an Ex ecutive session, adjourned. HOUSE. — Engaged in the discussion of the Sen ate's resolution to amend the Constitution of ,he Listed States so as to abolish slavery throughout the country. A vote was not reached oti the reso iiftion. WEDSDSDAY Jan. 11. petition was presented from citizens ot V irginia asking that a Territorial government be substituted in place of the present State govern me ill, and was relerred to the Committee on Terri toties. A bill was passed authorizing the appoint ment of a Second secretary of War. It provides for such appointment from officers now connected wuh the At ar Depaitment, for the term of one year, at a salary of !*G,OOO per year, The resolution to repeal the Reciprocity treaty was called up and oc cupied the attention of the Senate until the adjourn ment. No action was taken on the resolution. L-H JNDICIAI 7 Committee reported a bill, which was passed, to amend the Civil Appro priation act. by adding a proviso that in any action by or against any executors, administrators or guardians, in which judgement may have been ren dered for or against them- neither party shall be al lowed to testify against the oilier on any transaction, unless called to testiiy by the opposite pav'tv or- by the court. The House then resumed ihe considei ation of the proposed amendment to the constitu tion, which was debated at length, pendiii" which the House adjourned. THUCKHAT, Jan. 12. SEXATE.—A message from the President was re ceived, containing an agreement with Great britain as to the naval force on the lakes. The Judiciary Committee reported that the President might con vene an extra cession without sixty days' notice— Ihe petition to build a railway bridge across the Ohio at Louisville was referred to ihe Post-office committee. Ihe Senate discussed the repeal of the reciprocity treaty. A recess was to receive Vice "wragut, and a committee to inquire into the failure at AA ilming.on, Mr. Howe, of AA'iscon sin, and Mr. Hale, of New Hampshire, opposed the re pern. Mr. Sumner, Mr. Morrill, Mr. Chandler, Mr. root and Mr. Doolittle favored it. A motion to refer to the Judiciary Committee was lost, and the resolution passed by a vote of 31 to 8. The Senate went into Executive session and adjourned. HOUSE. —Mr. Eliot, of Massachusetts, introduced fi substitute for the bill for the reorganization of rebel Slates, which was ordered to be printed, and the House considered the constitutional amend ment. Mr. Smith, of Kentucky; Mr Cnv Ohio ; Mr. AVoodbridge, of Vermont, and '.Mr Thayer of Pennsylvania, discussed the matter, and adjourned without action. FRIDAT, Jan. 13. SENATE. -A MESSAGE from the President was read, and ordered to be printed, in relation to the a Ele ment between the United Stale and Great fiS concerning the naval force on the lakes. The com luUon of inquiry into the cause of fkilure at VVil tmngton tvu* adopted, fhe resolution to repeal the Reciprocity 1 reuty was taken np and debated. -aOMcr#. Howe of Wisconsin, Hale, of New Hamp. shire. aud others spoke against, and Messrs. Mor ril, Foot and Dophttle in favor of, the motion tn k>< peal. A motion to refer the matter tf) the •'ndiciatt Committee was lost. The yp&a ami nays were calf ed on the of the resolution, lvhit-k wag adopted by K Vote of 31 to ft. A reeohttbri s g t adopted to investigate charges against Vol Cbivington, who is avWiisetl of extreme fera'eltty to ward the Indiawk ht Colorado. Hortith —A substitute for the bill to reorganize the rebel States was introduced, and ordered Yo IV printed. The House then resumed the dfirpVUKhM of the proposed constitutional amendment. Hbhfeell es m favor of the amendment uterehranc by Messrs. Smith of Kentucky, WoodWdjfe of Vermont, and Thayer of Pennsylvania. Mr. Cox argued against making such a radietti amendment while the coun try was in a Miilfc of war. although he did not ques tion the ptt%er to make it MONDAY, Jan. lt>. SENATE. —Mr. Wade introduced a resolution di recting that the same treatment be awarded to rebel prisoners that our prisoners have received in the South. After some discussion the resolntion was referred to the Military Committee. The citizens of Boston petitioned for the postponement of action on the Bankrupt .bib- in order that its provisions may not be extended to persons in States that have been in rebellion. The bill authorizing railroad companies to carry passengers, mails and troops from one State to another was called up, but after some discussion was postponed until Wednesday.— The Military Committee reported several bills which were ordered tr be printed. The Secretary of the Interior replied tc a resolution that the number of pension agents is not limited by law, and that they are appointed by him. After an Executive session adjourned. House.—A bill proprosing to increase the duties on spirits distilled after July next was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Cox, of Ohio offered a resolution declaring that it is the duty of the President toadopt some means to secure a cessa tion of hostilities and a Union of the States, which was laid on the table. The Senate amendments to the resolution relative to the termination of the re ciprocity treaty were concurred in. Mr. Wilson in troduced a bill abolishing the present district courts establishing citcuit courts, etc., which wills referred to the Committee on Judiciary. The Committee on Ways and Means was instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the Internal Revenue law as will provide a tax, not exceeding one cent per mile, on every passenger travelling by railroad, steamboat orother public conveyance, in addition to ihe present tax. The Navy Appropriation bill, for the year ending June 1866, was reported. A Com mittee of Conference was appointed on the amend ments to the Deficiency Appropriation bill. The bill to provide a Republican government for the re bellious States was taken up, and after a speech from M. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, the House ad journed. THE LEGISLATURE. TUESDAY, Jan. 9. , SENATE. —Among the bills introduced was one authorizing the Governor to pay bounties to volun teers anil |persons furnising substitutes. The Ju dicial y Committee was instructed to inquire into the expediency of expending the ten millions three hundred thousand dollars secured for the public works for the extinguishment of the State debt.— The standing committees were announced, and nominations were made for Slate Treasurer. A number of bills of a private character was passed. Adjourned. House. —A petition contesting the seat of George De Haven, of the Fifteenth dislric.. on the ground that he bud not lived in the district one year, was presented, and Thursday was fix ad for the drawing of the committee. The seat oi Samuel Orwig. of the Lycoming district, was also contested. The difficulty arises out of the soldiers' vote. The com mit,ee wili be drawn on Friday. Numerous bills were introduced. They were generally of a privrte naiure. One disfranchises persons escaping from or avoiding military service. The Standing com mittees were announced. Nominations were also made for the State Treasurer. Adjourned. §Uu' Slrerifeeauiite, OFFICE HUNTINGDON AT BROAD TOP MOUNTAIN R. It. CO. Philadelphia, Jua. 16, 1-64. The annual meeting of the tockholders of this Company will be held at their office, No. 258 South lid Street. I'hi'ia., on Tuesday, the 7th day of February. 1865, at 11 o'clock, A. M., when an Election will be hold for a President and Twelve Directors for the ensuing vear. ' J. P. AERTBEN, Jan. 20-fit Secretary. VTOTICE TO TRESPASSERS. JIA I hereby caution all persons not to hunt, fish, de stroyftiinber or trespass our our property,Jin any way what ever, as we will prosecute any persun that disregards this notice. LEVI SMITH. Monroe Tp., J. 11. SPARKS, E. Providence Tp. Jan. 20, 1865-3t T7l STRAY JU Came to the subscriber's, living in Union township, about harvest last, a red and white MULEY HEIFER, supposed to be about one year old last spring. No ear marks. The owner is requested to come forward, prove property, pay charges and take her away. Jan. 6, lS6j-."t. MOBES ALLISON. EXECUTORS- NOTICE. Letters testamentary having been granted by the Re gister of Dedford Conntv to the undersigned. EN ecu tors of the last will and testament of John Woisel, late St. Clair Township, deceased, notice is hereby giien t ■ all persons indebted to the estate of said deceased, to make immediete payment and those having claims will pre- .ii them properly authenticated for settlement. JOHN W ELS EL. Jan. 6, ISSo-fit. JOHN FICKES. I EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. u Letters testamentary upon the last will and testament of Mary M. Ifaase, late of the Borough of Sehellsburg, dcc'tl, having been issued t*> the subscriber the by Regis ter of Bedford County, all persons having claims againt the t state are notified to present the same for settlement, and all persons indebted are requested to make payment immediately. DUNCAN M'VICKER. Sehellsburg, Jan. 6. 186i-6t. VFOTICK. X> All persons owing the late firm of J. M. Bamdollar A Son, cither by note or Book account, are hereby no tified to make Payment on orbefoie the first of next April. After that time, all accounts and notes will be placed in the hands of a proper officer for collection. J. M. BARNDOLLAR. J. J BARNDOLLAR. Bloody Run. Jan. 6, 1865 St. \ 1 11NISTRATOR'S N<>Tl< K. ii Letters ~f Administration on the estate of George Beisel, late of St Clair Township, deceased, having been gtanted to the subscriber, living in said Township, all persons indebted to said estate are hereby notified to make payment immediately, and those having claims against the same will present tbem properly authenticat ed for settlement. MORRIS WALKER, Nov. ."0, 1864-(janfi'Cs,2t) Administrator. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letters of administration having been granted to the subscriber, residing in the Borough of Bedford, on the estate of Margaret Bulger, late of Middle Woodbcrv Tp.. deceased, all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will make payment without delay and those having claims against the same, will present them pro perly authenticated for settlement. „ ,„ , *- J K - DUIIBORROVV. Dec.l 6, 84-6 T. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. hereas letters of administration have been granted | to the undersigned, on the estate of Joseph O. Blackburn, lato of .Napier Township, deceased, persons knowing them selves indebted to said estate will make immediate pay ment and those having claims will present them for settle m<r? EDMUND 8. BLACKBURN, ec.lfi, 64-fit Administrator. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.— Letters of administration having been granted to the undersigned upon the estate of Levi McGregor, lato of St. tlair township, dee'd, by the Register of Bedford Co., all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will muko immediate payment, and those having claims against the same will present them properly authenticated for set tie"t. JACOB BKCKLY, Dec. 9, 1864-fit. Administrator. EXECUTORS' NOTICE Letters testamentary to the estate of William A. Mock, lato of I nion township, deceased, having been granted by the Register of Bedford County to the undersigned, all persons having claims against said estate will" present tbem for settlement, and those knowing themselves in debted will be required to make immediate payni, nt. .SAMUEL MOCK A SAMUEL A. MOCK. De0.16,64-bt Executors. .... , ladies' and Children's Hats. Ihe latest styles at CHARLES OAKFORD A SON'S Continental Hotel, Philadelphia.
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