Vje Vrtss.
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1862.
THE LATEST WAR NEWS
The event that will stand ontprominently in the
',Way of the rebellion is the septum or New Or
leans, for it is an unmistakable premonition that
the course of the rebellion is nearly run. The pro
bability, at present, seems to be that we shall
only have one or two more great battles; and that
these, if successful, will bring about a cessation of
hostilities, and a return of the revolted States to
their allegiance The rebel juurnats admit that the
capture ot the Southern metropolis is the most
severe reverse which they have yet sustained.
Extracts frtan their columns appear in another
pert of our paper. Although the news commu
nicated is meagre, it sufficiently establishes that
the forts on Lake Ponekartrain have been aban
doned, and the rebel gunboats on the lake
burned. These were the principal reliance of the
city for defence, as it was expected that the chief at
tack was to be made from above, and not from our
gulf expedition, It further appears that Forts
Jackson and Philip, the lower defences, bad not
been reduced at latest accounts, but were still oc
cupied by the rebels, whose speedy surrender was
almost inevitable. That the city has been occupied
by our troops is not yet fully ascertained. The
Richmond Dicpatrh states that the demand for its
.surrendte bad been made by Com. Earragut. The
rebel General Lovell had returned a refusal, and
withdrawn his troops to safer quarters. Several days
must elapse before the official despatches of the
taking of the city can reach - Washington, and the
public must be patient meanwhile. When the
battle of New Orleans was fought, January Bth,
1815, the news did not reach us until the 11th of
Ftbruary,—and even this was deemed speed quite
remarkable in those days. The intelligence was
thirty-two hours in reaching Boston from Now York.
The Cato:Wan Centina of February 6th said
4 , We have nothing later from New Orleans' than
January 6th." Two days afterwards the same
paper said I ti News of battle of Now Orleans
received."
By the arrival of the flag of truce boat at
Fortress Monroe we have later Southern intelli
gence. Nine vessels started from Charleston with
the intention of running the blockade, but four of
theta were captured by our fleet. If we may be
lieve the Norfolk _Ail/ Battb the markets of that
place contain very few edibles, and grave hints are
thrown out, that the people will soon be in a
starving condition. Samuel B. Todd—a brother of
Mrs. Frcatient Lincoln—who had made himself in
finnous even in the eyes of the rebels, by his cruel
treatment of the Federal prisoners in the Tobacco
Witrthme in Rie4 l 49 l uli has died from wounch
received in the Shiloh battle. The;
err,rozac is
hi urly expected in Hampton Roads.
floret nor Curtin has issued a general order that
" Shiloh, April 7, 1562," shall be inscribed on the
Rag of the Seventy-seventh Penn syl vania;Regiment,
and "Falmouth, April 18, ISG2," be inscribed on
the Iles of the First Penikylvinin avalry, in ac
knowledgment of the soldierlike conduct exhibit
ed by those regiments during the engagements
named. The (governor, we are pleased to see, has
received the gratifying intelligence from Surgeon
(general Smith, near Yorktown, that the arrange
ments have been perfected far the care and prompt
transportation io their homes of the killed and
wounded Pennsylvanians who may engage in the
coming battle. The floating hospital, under charge
of the surgeon general, can reach this city, via the
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal, thus avoiding a
rough sea•voyage. Hundreds of brave and valu
able lives will thus be saved. Pennsylvania has
matte greater preparations for the care and com
fort of her wounded volunteers than any other
State. For the sake of humanity, and the reputa
tion of our Commonwealth, we rejoice to reoord
this fact.
Congress Yesterday.
SsitA^tr..—Mr. Wade ; of Ohio l from the Cora
mime on ilia Conduct of tile War. made a report
concerning rebel atrocities at Manassas, which
will be found in another column. The home
stead bill was postponed till to-day. Mesam Wil
inot,Wrigbt, Gowan, and Ilnle caproencrl then:wolves
in favor of some confiscation measure, the bill
coming up. Mr. Cowan's motion to refer to a
special committee was lost.
BOVAR.—Mr_ Eliot, of Massachusetts, submitted
bills providing for confiscation and emancipation,
which were referred to the select committee. The
resolutions reported by the Government Contract
Committee were taken up. The resolution re
questing the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust
certain clt.ints for 11.41 carbines, purchased by Gen.
FrAmant, was passed. Also, the resolution oppos
ing the condemnation of citizens upon ex parte evi
dence taken by investigating committees. Also, a
resolution condemning the employment of irre
aparstible private parties for public dillies, and the
making of private contracts for supplying the de.
partments Also, a resolution disapprpving of the
policy of Mr. Cameron in twitting certain contracts.
The re-ablution condemning the Seeretary of the
Navy for employing Mr. George D. Morgan as
agent to make certain purchases was voted down.
A bill was reported to establish a land district in
Nevada.
WE PUBLISH to day the report of the joint
Committee on the Conduct of the War, made
in Congress Testeratts, in reference to the
barbarous treatment by the rebels, at Ma
nassas, of the remains of officers and soldiers
of the United states killed in battle there.
Tile perusal of this report will make the
fietat creep with horror. The brutal desecra
tion of the dead and the Ptendish torture
of the wounded it reveals, seem so unna
tural and inhuman that We hesitate to believe
that mich avt* could iIAYQ been committed
by tot n. The rebels liave indeed made a
reputation for themselves, and when, hereafter,
the world wishes to illustrate the perfection
of malignant hatred and devilish cruelty, in-
stead of pointing to the Sepoys or savages,
it will take the Secessionists for its example.
Itlt%er Slow
The British Adtoiratty has actually deter
mined to build an Kriesmon-Coles cupola war
ship, at a cost of £lBO,OOO, (equal to $900,-
000,) to bo launched next February. To tit
her for sea will probably occupy two or three
months more. Here, then, is an expenditure
thrice as great as that upon our saucy Monitor,
and twelve months, instead of three, taken to
do the work. A few war.steamerp are tl ha
iron -cared, at leisure. Meantime, France is
hard at work in creating a great iron-clad war
fleet.
Beath of lbe Rev. Wm. 11. Brisbane
With sincere regret we announce the death
of the ReT. Wn. lex li. BRISBANE, the faith
ful and ~:-.vered pastor of the Green-street
Methodist Episcopal Church, in this city. His
illness appeared too slight to create an appre
henbion of its proving mortal ; but, on Tuesday
night, it unexpectedly terminated in his de
mise. Mr. BRISBANE was a gentleman of high
intellect, cultivatsd by good ediicatien, and,
we might add, unceasing study. In every re_
lation of private life he was respected and be
loved, and his loss will be deeply Mt, not only
by his familyand relatives, but by those for
whom his mind was publicly engaged—namely,
the Congregation over whom he presided as
Pastor, and the Conference of which he was
en useful member. Mt modest nature forbade
his aiming at becoming prominenc, but he per
formed his duty, as a Christian Teacher, with
ability and zeal, and his loss will not be easily
repaired nor speedily supplied.
Be taught us how to live, au& price tol high
For son a lemon. taught rtg how to die
The Bev. Mr. BRISBANE has been removed
at the early age of thirty-eight, a period of
when there generally is hope lor many future
years of ugefulneus. From his early death, we
gain another lessor., if such were needed, of
the uncertainty of human expectation.
l.dii 5a CALE. ot/ D/ei 000.2, LT,Z2I (,loons, go
SIERY, Ac.—The attention of purchisers is re
quested to the large and fresh assortment of British,
French, Berman. India, and domestic dry-goods,
Moult and white cheetted rilKzr, hiti2iLrl, house•
keeping linen goods, fancy articles, ac., embracing
about 775 lots woollens, worsteds, litmus, cottons,
and silks Also, by order of executors, milk and
gingham umbrellas, and fine parasols and sun
shades. To be peremptorily sold, by catalogue, on
four mouths' credit, commencing this morning
at 10 o'clock, and lu ha continued, without inter
miskhin, all day, and part of the evening, by John
B Myers Co., auctioneers, Nus. 232 and 234
Market street.
LC. 11 Shinn - I stile .1 cedar aad other rails
will take place at Haddonfield, New Jersey, on
Saturday, the 3d of May, and not the 231, as arm
nenurly adircitiord: See nOvinliAMutst , in amain
column.
IT APPRAus that we have given great of.
fence to the Breckinridge papers throughout
the State because we persist in classing them
among the sympathisers with the enemies of
our country ; and these preeieus public trai
tors attempt to answer the charge by shield
ing themselves behind the brave men now
fighting in the field for the flag of the Union.
There is as much dinrenee between these
partisans and the soldiers as there is between
the armed traitors and the loyal men in the
South. It is a universal coincidence that
wherever a newspaper was found advocating
JOHN C. BRNClttNittnet end opposing greleftke
A. DOUGLAS in 18130, that newspaper is now
the most virulent in its abuse of the Adminis
tration of ur. LINCOLN, and the most cautious
and gentle in its denunciation of the rebellion.
There is nothing like illustrating such an as
sertion...ly ever-present examples. There is
IIODOsoN, of the Jelfersonian, whose newspa
per was the synonym of treason during the
dark hours of last year, and was closed by the
public authorities; SANDERSON, of the Lan
caster Inlelligencer, the immediate organ of
JAMES Buena:NAN, the great Public Criminal of'
his age and time ; J. LAWRENCE GETZ, of the
Reading Gazette, the mouthpiece of ANCONA ;
ACKER 2 of the Norristown Regkter, who ad
hered to BRECKINRIDGE up to the moment of
his flight into the rebel army ; LATIMER, of the
Clearfield Republican, the organ of WILLIAM
BIGLER; lifeDowsn., of the Harrisburg Pa
triot, the organ of the same weak-kneed poli
tician; WELsti, of the York Gazette, the
Chairman of the Breckinridge State Commit
tee, and so on to the end of the chapter.
There is not one of these men who does not in
his heart of hearts feel that every victory over
the Secessionists is a defeat of his hopes, and
every defeat of the American flag his personal
victory. It is true, this class of men claim to
be Democrats par excellence, but did they not
all claim to be true friends of the Union in
1860, when they followed the fortunes of Mr.
BRECKINRIINIE in the face of the admonitions
of Dot:ob./is and thousands of others that their
movenieht would end lit diatiidoii and war?
Did they not. adhere to this same man when he
stood up in the capital of his country and glo
ried in his treason, like them cowering his pro
fessions with ardent arguments in favor of the
Constitution he was plotting to destroy ? How
they are appreciated by the soldiers in battle
an intelligent correspondent of the Boston
Journal, who is now with the fleet of Com
modore FOOTE, explains to the readers of that
paper. He says :
"During the eleven months which I have passed
with the armies, east, and west, I have endeavored
to give not only army operations, but also an occa
sional review of the opinions of soldiers and ci
vilians, with a desire always to represent things
truthfully ; therefore I turn from the fleet and the
army to give the opinion of a Southern man now
on board the fleet—a citizen of Memphis, who till
recently has been in that hot bed of Secession. Ile
depicts in terse language the effect of Secession
upon morality, /a hie turn words ; It &mays
all moral responsmility. No man who embraces
Secession is to be trusted. Men with whom I have
bad business dealings for years, and whom, I
thought honest, do not hesitate t.) violate -Weir
ranot, aaletnn pladgea WIMP that they have heemte
Secessionists. It affects men and women alike, and
even preachers of the gospel !' These words tally
with what I have stated in former letters. It is
testimony concurrent with that of such men as
Gov. Joh - nada, and Emerson
Etheridge.
"As this gentleman has also given his opinion of
a certain class of Northern men, I will quote his
words. 'The worst enemies we have are those
.Northern Democrats which are represented by mob
papers. as the Chicago Times and the Cinctnitati
Inquirer.' If be bad known the proclivities of
Such papers published in New England, he could
have enlarged his list. Such papers, and that class
of men who hold to the principles advonated by
those papers, are declared to be the worst enemies
of the Union men of the South ! The Secessionists
understand by intuition who are their sympathizers
in the North, and the Union men also understand
who are their enemies. They understand that all
the talk of their Dernoeratiefrieildi latent the was
being waged for Abolition purposes is fudge. Abo
lition agitation in the border slave States is just
commencing. Not many months hence it will be
the great theme in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri,
and - -Maryland. Compensated emancipation is a
new idea to the border State men. My informant
seys that at Nashville it is already a great topic of
discussion. Men are taking sides. Shrewd slave
holders,beein to See that it is time for them to sell
out. They know that the inevitable march of events
will lead, sooner or later. to emancipation, and,
like sensible men, they are bound to make the most
of it. 1 would not be understood as presenting
simply my own speculations, hut the views of a
high toned, intelligent Union merchant of Mem
phis."
IT Is becoming almost as difficult to re
alize that we were recently elusively devoted.
to the arts of peace as it once was to believe
that, iu an incredibly short period, we should
put one of the largest armies that was ever
organized into the field. In less than a year
we have not only recruited, drilled, and
equipped more than half a million of men,
but they have won more victories, and dis
played more daring and more varied military
talent, than the veteran legions of NAPOLEON
in any equal space of time.
henceforth, let the wisdom, power, and pa
triotism of a great free people never be
questioned. It they occasionally err, most
nobly do they atone l'or their mistakes.
The meshes of traitors were woven
so closely around them, and the cant
of treason against " coercion " waS an
widely and artfully disseminated, that it
seemed this glorious nation would inevitably
be destroyed without a single manly effort be
ing made for its preservation_ There were
groans of despair and mutterings of indigna
tion at the prospective overthrow of the Re
public i but no one fully realized the giant
strength of the people, and their ability and .
readiness to display, 'upon their own soil, in
the nineteenth century, more real heroism
then ever adorned the history of Greece or
Rome.
President Locomt was one of the few men
who sounded the depths of the popular heart.
On his journey from Springfield to the capit%l
he wisely deviated from the usual course of
Presidents elect, by mingling freely among
the masses he NV es to govern. On his journey
through Indiana, Ohio, New York, New Jer
sey, and Pennsylvania, he saw millions of his
countr3 men, and stood face to face with tens of
thousands of the gallant men who have since
braved danger on many a bloody field. While
he was threatened with assassination at Bald
more, and found the capital overflowing with
treason, his heart was, doubtless, nerved in
many a trying hour by a recollection of the
heaving masses of patriotic men who had
greeted him in his journey through the free
Stales, anti who, while they insisted upon a
rigid fulfilment of his duties, were not un
mindful of their own. They expec3ted him to
assume all the responsibilities, and to perform
all the duties of his high station, and not to
merely wield power, like his predecessor, for
partisan aggrandizement, and for the gratifica
tion of his individual hatreds and affections.
Though they little knew how much would be
required of them, they were sternly re
solved to do their whole duty. The mutual
confidence existing between the people and
their Executive was the only tie that
bound the nation together. All the other
ligaments were severed. No army or navy
of practical use was within reach, or, in
deed, in existence. The lower branch of
Congress was not in session; the Senate, un.
der the old organization, was rotten to the
core. Bad the President faltered before the
appalling difficulties that confronted him, all
would have been lost. Had the people not
been willing to sustain brave words by brave
deeds, and to attest their love for the Union
by noble action as well as by loud profea
sions, the Republic would have been de
stroyed.
But, in the very depth of our intricate in
and misfortunes, the germ of na
tional preservation was formed. Treason, en
couraged by the imbecility and open encour
agenients of the last Adillinititfation, finally
reached a culminating, point, beyond which,
every man who had a drop of patriotic blood
in his veins felt that forbearance would cease
to be a virtue. Then our kind-hearted but
firmly patriotic Chief Magistrate spoke the
right word at the right time, and the re
sponse was such as till] world has never
witnessed. All the concentrated fire and
energy of tlm nation burst forth in one
vast flood of patriotism that would have
/Is/Arils/I ant 5e....A.,” kortPorta - , had' ts barriers
been twice as formidable. There were inevit
able blunders, misfortunes, and disappoint
/4MM at fird, Th 9 eager impatience that or
isted ninth them unavoidable. But never
were mistakes more speedily rectified, or
omissions more quickly supplied. For the
h‘st nis mouths, one vast series of triumphs
have been accumulating, one upon the other,
until the world resounds with the brilliancy of
our victories, and the military critics of other
countries regard with awe and astonishment
the completeness and rapidity of our successes.
A slumbering giant has indeed been roused;
arA thick and fast, to
the terror of those who goaded him to wrath,
the spectacle is as strange as it is sublime and
terrible.
In almost every imaginable description of
military achievement our forces have been
fried. They have seen service in nearly all
climes, and encountered hardship, exposure,
and danger in nearly all their Protean shapes.
The mountains of Western Virginia are almost
as cold as the steppes of Russia, and the plains
of Ship Island and Port Royal are almost as
warm and unhealthy as the deserts of Egypt.
But no matter where or how the enemy are to
be attacked, our troops never fall to respond
to the calls of their leaders. They bravely
fight on open fields, in wild forests, against
frowning batteries or massive forts. They
rush forward to face death as cheerfully as
they would welcome loved friends, and they
triumph, be the peril what it may, in all their
daring enterprises.
The beasts of our grandiloquent Fourth of
July orators are far more than realized by the
events of these wondrous times, as our
soldiers sweep on to victory after victory in the
great Mississippi valley and on the Atlantic sea
board. With Nashville and Now Orleans in
our possession, we look forward to the cap
ture of Memphis, Norfolk, Richmond, Ra
leigh, Charleston, Savannah, and Mobile, as a
foregone conclusion, and, through the thick
clouds that have been lowering upon our
country, the light of peace and a United na
tion is dawning. The Union has been tried in
the fire of a fierce furnace ; but the crackling
flames, with all the havoc and ruin they have
wrought, have demonstrated its strength, and
falsified all the hopes of traitors and the pre
dictions of domestic and foreign foes.
LETTER PROM OCC AS N A.L."
WASHINGTON, April 0 0, 1862
Truly is pod our counsellor and our com
mander. In such a struggle as this—a vast em
pire for our field and freedom for our inspiration
and our hope—no human power could shape
our ends or dissolve our d ifficulties. The
Plank Movement at New Orleans is the Event
of the age. To attack the salient. point of an
army is one thing, but to surround and capture
It whole errantry, and by ono bold blew lay a
whole people powerless at your feet, another
and a very different affair. In this last and
most resplendent of our triumphs, I see and
welcome the presence of a superintending
Providence. What a contrast between the Bth
of January, 1815, and the 25th of April,
(the 'day doubtless of the capitulation of
New Orleans,) 18G2 ! General Jackson had
hardly more than a division of soldiers ;
and yet he beat back and annihilated
a British army that bad Won its laurels
under Wellington ; mowing down their ranks
as if the Angel of Devastation had come
to his aid, and manuring the soil with the
richest blood of England_ And why was thin
Because his cause was just ; because he fought
to repel a foreign invader; because he fought
for the preserratton of the American Union.
The navy, under Commodore Parragut and
Major General Butler, attacked New Orleans
in the same cause and for the same great ob
ject. Many thousands more men rallied to its
defence than were gathered under the standard
of Jackson, forty-seven years ago. They had
innumerable advantages. They had all the
appliances and aids of modern science in war
fare, and had announced their determination
to die rather than surrender. But the city is
now in the possession of our troops, and the
traitor braggarts, who have so long oppressed
and betrayed the people, are flying before our
victorious arms.
We may now safely contemplate the rapid
close of .the rebellion. The effect of this in
telligence upon the troops at Yorktown
and in the neighborhood of Corinth will
be exhilarating. It will fall upon the
ears of the traitors like a warning from the
skies. Our brave fellows will be fired with
a new enthusiasm, and their adversaries with
a new despair: The soldiers who fight under
the rebel flag will henceforward be controlled
by the double emotion that they are contend
in against a liberal and magnanimous Govern
ment, and in favor of a desperate band of ma
lignant leaders. The truth is, the armed
conspiracy is a mare conspiracy to help the
limittmea of a very few men_ It never had the
confidence of the majority of the Southern
people. Secession prevailed either by force
or fraud. Thousands voted for it under
threats, and those who did not go to the polls
were counted in its favor, and abundant evi
dence has shown that in many cases whole
districts were enrolled that had never thrown
a ballot. Hundreds of the rebel prisoners
confess that they have done wrong, and gladly
take the oath of allegiance. The cause that
depends upon such support cannot triumph.
Its speedy and complete - overthrow is inevita
ble.
Simultaneous with this glorious intelligence
comes the address of the Union Democrats
and Republicans of New York, which I trust
you will lay before the readers of The Press.
It is a paper well worthy of the times, awl no
man really devoted to the country can fail to
approve alike its premises and conclusions.
It it= the platferm not merely of a party, but
of the whole people. There is not a word of
it that should not be remembered and
cherished. There is not a Democrat in the
ilmiy who will net seeept it as his 6VAd3. The
brave defenders of our flag have seen so much
of the horrors of Secession that they cannot
tolerate the men in, private life who have no
higher ambition than that of sympathizing
with it. They have experienced notonly the
worst of crueltie:s, but many of them have
been witnesses of horrible atrocities perpe
trated upon our wounded prisoners, and even
upon the bodies of those who have fallen in
battle. While the Breckinridge politicians
are seeking to excite the people with the cry
that Mr. Lincoln's friends desire to arm the
negroes of the South, the Union soldiers see
the negroes marshalled by thousands in the
rebel service ; and while these same politicians
insist that the Constitution is being violated
by the Republicans, these soldiers behold the
enemies of that Constitution in the traitors'
ranks ridiculing and reviling. I have yet to
meetan officer or a private who is not earnestly
in favor of any organization that sustains the
Ailinibistration, and opposes the Breekinridge
levders. Let us hope that the spirit which
animates the Republicans of New York will
be elonlated by the ReptiblieMlS of Pennsyl
vania. I have just learned that in the district
represented by Mr. Grow, the Speaker of the
House, this is the almost unanimous feeling
of the friends of the Adiniuistration, and I am
happy to add that Senator Wilmot cordially
sustains the movement. In that district the
Republicans have things their own way. They
require no assistance from Democrats to elect
their candidates, but, recognizing the presence
of thousands of Democrats in the army, they
cheerfully give their concurrence to the policy
that combines all the people in private life,
like that which combines our gallant heroes
in the battle field. Of course, the party
hacks who yoted for the Disunion candidate
for President in 1860 will denounce every ef
fort of this character, but I look forward to
the day when hundreds of the ablest men of
the old Democracy will show their a;proval of
this great and patriotic purpose. Let such
men, bolero allowing themselves to be longer
misled by the William B. Reeds and George
M. Whartons, and James Buchanans, carefully
peruse the address of the Union men of New
Yale. In this they will Rua material Por re
flection, and encouragement for action. There
is no radicalism in that noble appeal. It is in-
Atm:* with the firmest and most devotional`
patriotism. It ignores all the past except that
which should be remembered; it anticipates a
hopeful future; it offertt to the )ciang men a
wide aad +empties field it U % the best
recollections of the glorious past; and, better
than all, it buries in a common grave the ha
treds and prejudices that have so long stained
and marred the politics of our country.
Gen. sherunwo Operations Hi Santa
Carolina.
Major PANOBORNR, who has been on Gen. Same an's
staff at Port Royal, S. C., is now here. Ho states that
it was felt by Ghent, EL null Yul. DUPONT that Se
ventral' and Charleston might have been taken with
great loss of life, but the military operations
that bad been resolved upon held great numb.
ben of the mirth hi cheek at hMb tha.a.
and *emanated in the glorious exploit of capturing Fort
Pulaski. Major PANGBORNS Nays that the walls are
not so injured but that they may readily be made
as good as tow_ The wall eoneleted of two partitions of
brick, with sand bags between Two strong batteriea were
planted so as to bang away at the portion of the wall
near which the magazine was known to be. The pieces
were aimed so as to ally off SectIVIS MPH 99019111 Vitt It IS
not supposed that tho IMMO destruction could ho pro
duced upon concrete or granite walls. The Eighth
Maine and Forty-eighth Now York were engaged for
several weeks in cutting trees in swamps, and pulling
Chun by hand a mile LIP two ibrovak CLO moramtee, fo
make corduroy roads.
Appointment.
WILLIAM ALT.VN BRYAN, EN., or Viraioia, neybow of
latog Disponi. ban berm as/ el,l Fof th< Sur...
-of Inspectors of the Post Office Depettmeut.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, TIMRSDAY, MAY 1, 1862:
FROM WASHINGTON.
AN APPUL FOR LAST TENNESSEE.
royalists Eeing Murdered and Plundered.
HE IS TO BE MADE A MAJOR GENERAL
TEE REBEL ATROCITIES AT MANASSAS.
A New Homestead BM Introduced.
Our Soldiers and Sailors to Reap the Benefit
Special Despatches to The ?rem"
An Appeal for East Tennessee
A letter runlets] Mite front a gentleman high In an
lhority in Tennessee. contains the following:
"Say t., the Postmaster General that we are succeed
leg 'beyond our moat sanguine expectations. As soon as
the rebel army is driven beyond the limits of Tennessee,
the state will stand for fhe Union by an overwhelsaing
majority. I hope the Government will be Impressed
with the absolute necessity of the army entering East
Tennessee. They are murdering and plundering our
people by thousands. Their acts of inhumanity and
Isfichifitk are :without. parallel." The letter concludes
it Greet God ! la there no relief for that people 7"
The Post Office Department has reopened the follow
int (aces in. Tennessee : Murfreesboro', Springfield, and
Fratklin.
The splendid tribute of Major General RALLECK to
this intrepid officer, published in The Press to-day, is
worth a dozen brevets. You will remember that he was
mu, It complained of when fleet In command of the milt
tary district composed of Kentucky and Missouri, and ho
germs to have gone to the battle of Shiloh not simply to
vindicate his reputation, but if necessary to sacridce his
life. His whole theory of the war alone the valley of the
Mississippi has been fully confirmed. tie contended that
nothing effective could he done in that quarter without
an army of tw•o hundred thousand men, and more than
that number is now assembled under Generala iIALLECK,
' GRANT' and 1:11.T.L1.. General Shalt IN is the brother of
Mon. Jona SHERMAN, Senator in Congreaa from Ohio.
Gun. T. W. SHERMAN, in accordance with the recom
mendation of Gen. RALLECK, has been nominated fur
Major General.
The secretary of the Interior is beset by some parties
who want to get contracts for the Capitd csnat , uction
whose antecedents are rather of the lobby character.
When Gen. Menus supervised the conacructiori, be gave
contracts only to persons of the highest character who
were regularly engaged in business. In other words, he
paid fair prices S r good work. lie disbursed a half a
dozen millions of dopers for no other compensation than
the pay of captain In the army.
New Homestead Act—Benefit of the Army.
Senator CARLILE introduced a bill to day, ass Rabat,
trite fOr the homestead act, providing that all commit,
tinned, non-commisaoned officers, privates, and ruu,i
clans of the army. and all persons in the naval service,
during the present rebellion, shall. in lieu of one hun
dred dollars bounty money to which they are now enti
tieo, be autberinti to enter HQ acre, of any Imam,
priated Finds, which may be gobject to pre.emption, at
$1.25 per acre, or 80 acres at $2 60 per acre.
The Tax Bill.
The tax bill will most probably not reach the Senate
Ibis Couator 61 110,1, atter a brief absonee, bile
returned to the sessions of the Finance Committee, but
Senator PEAries still remains absent from illness The
published changes made in the House hill are by no means
accurate, being unauthorized by the committee, and are,
therefore, calculated to mislead the public. It is evident
that the Douse bill will be very much changed. Rfirlloll.
stranceo continue to pour in from every conceivable in
tereet, hilt eeiefislly tram the lieunrsdeelere To=day the
memorial of the New York Chamber of Commerce was
presented, advocating an entirely different system of
taxat.on from that adopted by the House.
The Confiscation Bill in the Senate.
The vote in the Npnate to-day, refusing by four majo
rity to refer the subject of the confiscation of rebel pro
perty to a select committee, was regarded as a test vote
between the friends and opponents of the measure, and
a triumph for the formtr.
New Post Offices.
Postmaster General BLAIR, today, established a new
post office at. Hanover, Howard county, aid , and ap
pointed ROBEItT W. WILSON postmaster—between Ent
Ridge Landing and Annapolis Junction,
Also, a new office at Bear Lake, Warren county, Pa.,
CALEB CARR, postmaster—between Pine Valley, Pa.,
and Broken Straw, N. Y.
The newly. restored mail service, from Waahingtou by
Tails Chinch, reach Clove, and Vienna to Fairfax Court
House, went into operation to day, in charge of Mr.
Joni W. CLrnn, the contractor. The service 41ir99
tinir9 a with.
Route from Martinsburg, Virginia, to Williamsport,
Maryland, is now let to blionscr. st. MILLER, of Ha
gerstown, Maryland The service is six times a week',
to connect both waya with the card to and from rtatti
more and Washington.
Contrabands.
Over thirty-six contr..bande arrived here yesterday.
TLAV arts nonorally poorly clad. and have had but little to
eat for some thus. Their tales of sorrow and suffering
usually follow abut the same strain, and in many ii -
stat.c-e are piteous in thv extreme. They report that there
are itYW tqlf vcracr , gwv., between r9t9ali4 aml
Ramhanunck rivers, many of them having long since
departed from Eastern Yirgiuia. It is estimated that
there must he nearly two thousand of these contrabands
at present in Vi'aehina ton .
The Emancipation Commissioners
Have held their first sesaion, and have already received
numerous applications from elave.owners—the very first'
beirg from the largest in the city. The commisshmers
have tbe tilanhe all drawn up for tile armors, and also
the necessary papers to be given to the emancipated
colored person, which he is to hold as legal evidence of
his freedom. It ie probable that the labor of the COM
tiei6ablitlfl will he unite large in a very brief time.
This dietiuguisbed officer was in the Capitol this morn./
ing, conferring with the Finance Committee of the
Sinate and the Committee of Ways and Means in the
Dome_ 13e stated to Mr. FESSENDgIi and Mr drawls
that we had seven bundr.d thousand a, live and ener
getic soldiers in the field in &fence of the Union.
Major General Cadwalader.
General CADWALADKR ie still ia town, in fine health
and spirits. awaiting orders. It is stated that there are
fifty thousand of the 801.8 of Pennsylvania in the army of
tne Potomac, under ItloCiaLnss, Bluilownia.,
ar.d . Why EiSOMICI not ihL fearless effacer be
plead at the bead of a diribion compoaeit of these men - 1
Mail Messengers Apponited—Maryland
and Pennsylvania.
Green Spring itanive, Four /mho, ant/ liittlo fireorgo•
tom a. from North Mountaiu, (B. Jr, 0. B. 8.,) W. W.
F.St7I.KWEI.L.
A; Agricultural College, near lll3dlondburg,
T 0011,4 31_1(1111_ 111 011C11 of J. L. HOPP.
At Old Town, alleAbeny county, Md., EZHICIHL KENA-
I - Lk, in place of JOHN KING.
At Duncanaville, Pa, JOHN XCCABIC, in place of Wx.
YAI7OIIN.
The heat news continues to be received from General
bIoCLELL.62Ir. Although his operations are necessarily
slow, tie work will be effectively done- No douot is en
lel Milled on tint point.
What of McDowell, Banks, and Geary
They are all within supporting distance, and the stra..
fere movement of McDoweLL has se elarne-d the rebels
that a large force was sent forward on Monday to repel
hie advance. ile it not yet in Fredericksburg, but ex
pecte to enter to.day.
increasing the Adjutant qeneral's Office
&saior Witten IMPatitlAik a hill to-day, adieu to
the Adjutant General's ofllce, by regular promotion of
the present officers, one colonel, two lieutenant colonels,
and nine majors; and that the grads of captain in that
office shall limonites he abolished, and all vacancies on.
earring in the grade of major shall be selected from the
captains in the army.
- The Iron-elad. Vessels at New Orleans.
Mr. J. P. ERNLIMIS told IL DISHIER at Richmond,
that they had an iron-clad veesel at New Orleans which
was more tormidable ttan the Merrimac But all the
iron clads of New Orleans construction have turned out
badly, from the fact that thore are no each capabilities at
teat point tor imitaing suct compitzloconcerna am at Nor',
folk.
The Families of Messrs. Brownlow and
The temiliee et blegarii.l4LaNAltp and BROWNLOW have
arrived in this ells,.
If the Administration shall not, in i4l reereet• l meet
the expectations of the conn 274 On tailors srlll not
be for want of volunteer advi e on thd Wile/ ftnancial,
and slavery questions. Numerous lettere mitering it
are , olai; carditantlY received nem all parts of the UMW
States, and even from foreign lands.
Commander WM. IiODCHRS TAYLOR has received pre-
WlOff 0141 1 3 !rpm tl ,O Nay, Derartagi OW mo
n and of the Housatonic.
Bastunt. B. RATIIIHOSE, of New Ymk, ham been ap
pointed acting master.
DAVID DfcManua bap been appointed acting 3d as.
engineer, tort ordered to the 11. B. slioatmor Con
necticut.
F. JOSSELYN has been app Anted actiug master, and
ordered to the Washington navy yard.
Jowl 0. Onnann ) acting iniiatar'a matc, hoe been pro.
mated to acting 'limiter.
From General Hallook'S Army.
SERIOUS SKIRMISH NEAR CORINTH.
OCCASIONAL.
THE UNITED Slain TROOPS VICTORIOUS.
CAIRO, April 30.—The steamer which has just arrived
from Pittsburg Landing reports that a serious skirmish
took place between the advance of the Federal army,
,00,5 and . r or , b o dy of robeio, aro muds AMA
Corinth:
The United States troops were victorious. No mention
is made of she loam on either side.
The Malted !Dalai farces took timer-Mita 115P161.4.5411.
The earatonading was still heard "rhea the steamer
left.
FROM FORT 'WRIGHT.
aET rosco Apm So •A. Special Impatcla from Cwiro to
the Times says: An arrival from Tiptonvillo reports that
heavy cannonading wee heard throughout Monday
night end Tuesany in the direction of Fort Wright
'Duro has been no arrival from the fleet alma Monday
Dem
It is apprehended that the rebel fleet at the fort had
been teihforced by the 8,1711 k -eta from New Orleans, aud
attacked our fleet This was not unexpected, nod the
erl.-1..,, from it. fleet gaysf Ammurmaeo amt. domMO
dore Foote - wail fully plepared to meet tbe enemy.
TRIBUTE TO BEN. W. T. SHERMAN
NAVAL 'APPOINTMENTS.
WASHINGTON, April 30, 1862.
General WA' Sherman
The Capitol Construction
IN THIGINIA.
Adjutant General Thomas
Wbat of alcUleitan
Maynard
Advice to the Administration,
Naval Appointments.
HEAVY CANNONADING HEARD.
Report of the Joint Committee on
the Conduct of the War.
The Rebels Worse than Savages—The
Atrocities they Committed upon our
Dead and Wounded lit Manassas—They
Torture the Wounded, Burn the Dead,
and use their Skulls fur Drinking Cups,
and their Bones for Drumsticks, Finger.
/Opp, am—Horrible Detail of the Bru
tish Cruelties Practised upon the Union
Soldiers.
The Juint Committee on the Conduct of the Present
War made the following report to-day, in the Senate: 1
On the Bret day of April the Oen ste of the United
States adopted the following resolution ; which was refer
red to the Committee on the Conduct of the War:
Resolved, That the Select Gemmittee on the Conduct of
the War be directed to coliect.the eridieme with regard to
11w berberelle treatment by the reticle, in Mffilabialli of
the re Mama or officers and soldiers of the Culled *Mee
Milled in battle there; end that the said select committee
aire Inquire into the tact whether the Indian Ravaged
have been employed by the rebels. in their military ser
vice, against the Government of the United States, and
how such waileee low heen'eoedweted by said eaeeeeti
In pursuance of the instructions contained in tins re
solution, your committee have the honor to report that
they teatuined a number of witnesses, whose testimony
le herewith enbmiited.
Air. Nathaniel F Parker, who was captured at Falling
Waters, Vireitlia. teutilies that he woe kart in close con
finement, denied extreme ' and, with a number of others,
huddled up in a room ; that their food, generally scant,
was always bad. and sometime,' nauseous; that the
wounded had neither medical attention nor humane
treatment, tied that many of these latter died from sheer
neglect; that lire el the prisoners were idiot by the
,retries outride, and that he saw one man Tibbithe of
the New Yolk Twenty• Eleventh Regiment, shot at, he Will
lateen g Lis window, on the Bth of No cumber, and that
be dim of the wound on the ffith. The perpetrator of
thin foul murder was eubaequenely promoted by chip rebel
Deem mut ht
Dr. J. M. Homiston, surgeon of the Fourteenth New
York or Brooklyn reginieut, captured at Bull Run, testi
tee teat when he solicited permission to remain on the
Bold and b. attend to wounded n en, some of wham were
in a helpless and
_ eelefili condition, and authritig fir
water, he was brutally refused. They offered him nei
ther water nor anything io the shape of food. He and
his companions awed in the streets of Manassas, sur
rounded by a threateeing and boisterous crowd and
veto alters tads thrust into an old building, and lair,
willivut ttuatelibuce or CC . Veriligl 4? (deep en the hire
floor. It was only when faint, and without tood for
twenty-four hours. that tome cola bacon was grudgingly
given to them. When, at laic, they were permitted
to go to the relief of our wounded, the Secession burgeon
would not allow theft to perform operations, but
entruettel the wounded to hie young aettietente,
.° some of them with no more knowledge of what they
attempted to du than an apothecary's cork." Aid fur;
then, "that three inexperienced surgeons performed e pc
rations upon our men in a most horrible manner; some
of them were absolutely frightful." " When," he adds,
b I Asked LAMM , Batty la allow Mil to ea,e,itele the leg
of Corporal Prescott, of our regiment, and said that the
man mind die if it were nut done, he teed m« that I
should be snowed to de it." While Doctor Homiston
was waiting he says a Secessionist came through the
room and said f " they aro operating upon one of the
Yankee's legs up stairs." .• 1 went up and fomel that
they had cutoirPrescotter leg. The assistants were pulling
on the flesh at each side, try tog to get flap enough to cover
the bone. They had sawed off the bone without leaving
any of the neat to form the flaps to cover it ,• and with
all the force they could use they could noted flap enough
to cover the bone. They were then obliged to caw off
about an inch more of the bone, and evea then, when
they came to put in the sutures (the stitchee).tkey could
not approximate the edges within lees than au inch and
a hell of each other; of course, as soon tie there wan any
swelling, the stitch..s tote out and khe bone stuck through
again. Dr. hexane tried afterwards to remedy it by per
forming another operation, but Prescott had become so
debilitated that he aid not survive." Corporal Pres
cott wee a young man of high position, and had received
a very liberal education.
The same willow &gosling the offerings of the wound-
ed after the battle as inconceivably horrible; with bad
ford, no covericg. no water. They were lying upon the
floor as thickly as they could he laid. " There was not
a particle of light in the house to enable us to move
an ong them." Deaf to all his appeals. they continued
le refute water to theta lanktind Mtn, and he was wily
enabled to procure it by rotting cups under the eaves to
catch the rain that was falling, and in this way be spent
the night catching the water and conveying it to the
w..unded to dnitk. Ae th re was no light, he was oblige]
to deal on hie hands and keens to avoid Marmit , on their
wounded times: and, he adds, "it is not a wonder that
beet morning w 3 found that several ha , died during the
night." The young surge-one, who seemed to dehght in
basking alai butchering three brave defenders of our
ceuntry's flag, were not, it would seem, permitted to
p- rfc ru, any operations upon the rebel wounded. •. Some
of our wounded," says this witness, " were lei= lying
upon the battle-field until Tuesday night and Wed
needay tueruipg. When brought in, their woneds
vete cenipletely alive with larvae deposited there by the
thee, having laid out ti rough a I the rain Storm of Mon.
day, and the hot, eullry ennehine of 'Steed sy." The
dead laid epee the field unburied for five days; and this
he laded men not only of hie own. the Fourteenth Regi
ment, hut of other regiment.. This witness testillea that
the rebel dead were carried off and interred decently. Iu
answer to a question whether the Confederates them
selves orate nut glee destitute of medicine, he replied,
"they could not have been, to* they look all ours, even to
our tangiest instruments.' He received none of the at
feline', from the surgeons on the other side, . 4 which," to
use his own language, "I should have shown to them
had our position been reversed."
The te etlieeey of Williatit P Ratklai, &SALAAM. giii 4 4.a
of the Foul tevuth New York Regiment, Who was taken
prisoner at &idle) 'a Church, contirms the statement of
Dr Botuisluti in regard to the brutal operations on tior•
poral Prescott. tie also states that after Ile himself had
been rrstieYTl S5 O Aiftill)9l.4t ..bet tcswd 94e din' with
bib fart on she winnow- mil, the sentry outside caned to
him to take thew in. and on looking out he saw the dau
b, with hie musket cocked and pointed at hint, and with
drew in time to save his lite He gives evidence of the
carriers. heartless, and cruel mann. r in which the sur
geon., operat..l upon our men Previous to leaving for
Ittehmond. and ten or ea etre days after the battle, ho
saw some or the Union soldiers unburext on the field,
and entirely naked. AA Bilking around were a great many
women, attritive over the horrid trent.
fl hi cage of Dr. Forem en. of one of the New York re
giments, is mentioned by Dr. Swaim. " Whea milting
into his ambulance to look after bin own w,unded he was
fired upon by the rebels. When he told teem who he
Sae, they raid they would take a Darting shot
at him, which they did, wounding him in the leg. He
Led b e e 1 , ,,,ke on. sad hie s e ers.." tos hoots and as they
drove along his spurs would catch in the twit board of the
ambulance. c ..usiug him to shrialt with agony." An officer
rode up, and, pacing his pistol to his head, threatened
to shout him if he continued to scream. This was on
SlitaltlYt the day of the Utile
One of the most important witnesses was Gen. James
B Ricketts, well known in Wastimeten and throughout
the country, lately promoted for hie daring and self
sacrificing courage. After having been w. untied in the
battle of Bull Ruh, he was captured, anti as he lay help.
tees to his beck, a party of rebels peeling Imo cried out,
'•-Knock out his brains, the d—t Yankee." He met
General Beauregerd, an old acquaintance, only a year
his senior at the United States Military Academy, where
both were educated. He had met the rebel Bawd In
the South a number of times. By this head of the
retail mill, on the day atter the battle, he Wile told that
his (General Bickett'e) treatment would cepend noon the
tee enema extended to the rebel privateers. His first
lieutenant, Ramsey, who was killed, was stripped of
uteri enitle of his clethivg hut hie socks, and loft
Didjetl On the Held. Ile molded that those or our
wounded who died in Richmond were buried in the
negro burying-ground among the uegroes, and were
put into the earth in the most unfeeling mete.
ner. The statement of other witneesee as to how the
prisoners were treated is fully contirreed by Crenated
Pickens. He himselt7while in prison, subsisted mainly
neon chat he purchased with his own money, the
motley brought to him by his wife. "We Led," he
says. "what they called bacon coon—SOUP made of
Imbed bacon, the bacon being a little r tumid —which yon
seeld pct pc...early ear i awl mat for a man whose sy stem
was being d• allied by a wound is no diet at all." In re
ply, to a quenion whether he bad heard anything about
our prisoners being shot by the rebel sentries, he
anewereo ; .- lee, a number of our Mtn were shot. In
One instance two were shot; one was killed, and the
other wounded by a: man who rested his gun un the
window-sill while he capped it."
General Picket% in reference to his having been held
an one ol the hostages for the privateers, states: ei I coo.
sidereci it bail treatment to be selected as a hostage for a
privtoeer, when I was .0 lame mat I could not Walk,
and while no wounds were atilt open and unhealed. At
tt it time Genital Wieder crone to see me. He hed been
an officer in my regiment; I had known him for twenty
cild y ears. It Man tin the 9th of November
chat he came
. fs sue me. Ile saw that my woonde were still unhealed;
. be saw tin coI ditiOn ; but that very day he received an
older to select hostae.eo for the privateers, and, notwith
mending he knew my condition, tee text day, Sunday,
the ltith of November, I was selected as one of the hos
twee'
a I Mardi" he continues, f‘ of a great many of our pri.
Boyers who had been bayonetted and diet. I saw three
cf them—tee that had been bayonetted. and on- of Dunn
shot. Otte was named Louis Francis, of the New York
Fourteenth. Helmet received fourteeu bayonet wounds—
ore through hie privatee--and ate teed one wound very
noteh like mine, on the knee. in commuuenee of which
his leg was amputated after twelve weeks had passed ;
and 1 would state here that in regard `o his case, when
it was deterruitted to amputate his leg, I heard Dr. Pea
chy, the rebel surgeon, remark to one of his young as
eleleffilei ' 1 won't be Wee) j YOU Pen d 9 if j' and the
young man am it. I saw a number in my room. many
of whom beer been badly amputated The nape over the
stump were drawn teo tight, and some the bones pro
true ed.
" A man by the name of Prese , tt (the same referred to
In (ha hl.4iiitiatiP el gilP/M6h itoliii.ioo) lthin ism uhttoti
twice, and was then, I think, moved to Richmond
the tats were healed. lireecott dad under this treat
ment. I heard a rebel doctor on the steps below my
II OM say, 'that he wished he could take out the hearts
of the d—ii Yankees as easily its ho could take off their
'bee' home of the Southern gentlemen treated me very
i handsomely. Wade Hampton, who was opposed to my
' battery, came to see me and behaved like a generous
mem)."
II appears, as a part of the history of this rebellion,
Boa aen. Ricketts was visited by his wife, who, having
Mbt heard that be was killed in battle, afterwards that
he was alive but wounded, travelled under great difficul
t ties to Manassas to see her husband. He nays: "ens
' had almost to tight her way through, but succeeded finally
in reaching me on the fourth day after the bottle. Treece
Were eiabt persons in Mt Lewis iloute, at Mana7l,ll i to
the roam where I lay. and my wile, for the weeke, dIAPI
in that room, on the floor by my side, without a bed.
When we got to Rictuuoud there were- six of us ID &room,
among them col. w apex, who nimbler:id with us until he
Waft taken to Charleston. There we were all in one Yootll
- amino daur to it. It was numb as ft would be
here if Mt Pletild iiikV Off the deers of this committee
rot 113, and then fill the passage with wounded soldiers.
'ln the hot summer mouths the stencil from their
taymeas, i...,a front the ulenelle they awed, was fearful.
limn) was no privacy at all, because, there being no
door, the room could not be closed. We were there as a
common show. COMMA Wilcox and myself were objects
of iuterest, and were gazed upon ae if we were a couple
of sae i.g, e. The people would cocoa 'ln there and say
all sorts of thing* to ua and about us, until I was obliged
to tell them that 1 was a prisoner, and had nothing to
say. On our way to Richmond, when we reached Uor
doneville, waoy women crowded around the cars,
aid tithed my wife if she evoked, If rho washed,
how the got there, Finally, mrs, Ricketts
appealed to the officer in charge, and told
him that it was not the Memnon that we should be
subjected to this treatment, and if it was continued etie
would make it known to the authorities. General John
eedi took my wifels ERPtillint and Minn at Ifshowsits,
kept them, and has them yet far aught I knee. When
I got to Richmond, I spoke to several gentlemen about
time and so did Mrs. Iticketta The. said, of course. the
carriage ae.d horses should be returned; but they never
were "There is env debt," says this gallant soldier,
"'that I octant Yery much IV pay, and muffing Boarded
me so mun h now as the fact that me Sounds prevent me
from enteriber upon active service at once."
7Le case of Louis rranalr, who was terribly wetted.]
IWO liffiliftelfedi and 1 . 4 S a leg, le referriel tv by Herrera'
ltd' tette; Out the merimony of Yreencia trinister to start
ling. lie welt a private in the New York Fourteenth re
giment. He say s: ..1 was attacked by two rebel soldiers,
and wumidedin the right knee with the bayonet Ae F
lay on the and they k, pt bayonetting me until f received
fourteen ono. de. one then left ~,n, the ellud"-Parlealuin a ,
over me, when a Union soldier coming up, shot him in
the breast, and he fell dead. I lay en the ground until 1G
o'clock next day. I was then removed in a wagon to re
build:us ; 111) Mounds examined and pat Daily dressed._
tin the MitureaY relining W# w.m.e carried lv Diti
-1
"lacers, and from there to the grosses le - mph - al at Meh
mond. My leg having partially mortified, I consented
that it should be amputated. which venation was per-
I termed be a young man. I instated that they should
al ow Dr. Swath. to be present, for I wanted one liaion
pa ,. ,h-re 11 I died andel. the' of,el-8,t1611_ The eetekei
and the band clipped front negh et, and the hone pro
truded ; and 'about two weeks after soother operation
was yellowed, at which time another piece of the thigh
bone RM. &awed off. Six weeks after the amputation, and
he tet.. it heeled. I was removed to the tobacco factory,
Two operatiotes were subsequently perfumed on
Francie--ohe at Fortress Monroe and one at Brooklyn.
New York—after his release from captivity.
Revolting as these di.closuree are, at was when the
coremittet, cattle to examine witnevere in referents to the
treatment Cr our heroic dead that the ilourie.it spirit of
the rebel leader, was most promi- ently exhinited.
Daniel Bixhy, Jr., of Washington, testifies that he went
out in company with G. A. Smart, of Cambridge, felsrlOX.
chosen!), wee went to search for the body of hie brother,
vb., fill at Rlackhurnte Ford in the action of the ltith Of
July. They found the grave. The &dhoti were idol:M
ittel as those of lila brother on account of some peculi
arity in the make, tor they h .d been meets by ht- motner ;
and, in order to identify them, other clothes made by her
were taken, that they might compare them.
•• we mend ee bead in the g ram, and no Is SR6lll5f any
litd—nothing but the clothes and portieres of the flesh.
Wo found the roman of throe other halloo MI touothor,
The clothes were there i some 11 . 00 was left, but no
bones." The witness also rambles that Mrs. Pierce But
ler. who live, near the place, said that etre had open the
rebels boiling portion. of the bodies of orirdead in order
to obtain their bones as reqes. They could not waft for
them to decay. hiss said that she had seen 4eurnstlcke
made of ". Yankee shinbones," ac they coifed them. Sire.
Butler abo stated that she had seen a skull that one of
the New Orleans artillery had, which, he said, Ire Wee
going to send home and hare mounted. and that kre
tended to drink a brandy punch out of it the day he was
married.
Frederick fich9l4ll l of the city of Brooklyn, Now YOlllll
testified that lie proceeded to the bitttle-field of Bull Blur
on the fourth of tide mouth (April) to find the placer
where be supposed hie brother's body was buried. Mr.
Seimles, who is a man of un•tuestioned character, by his
testimony fully confirms the statement,, of other wit
news. lie met a free negro, 1151 11e4 Shawl or Simone,
who Mated that, is wise a common thing for the rebel
soldiers to exhibit the hones of the Yankees. I
found," he says, it in the bush,,,, In the neighbor
hood, a part of a %once° uniform, with the sleeve
sticking out of the grave, and a portion of the pants.'
loons. Attempting to pull it up, I saw the two ends of
the grave wore situ unopened, but the initiale had hoon
prised up, pulling up the extremities of the uniform at
some places, the sleeves of the Oda in another, and a
portion of the pantaloons. Dr. Swaim (ono of the cur_
goons, whose testimony has already been referred So)
Plut.d out the frenetie* wherte the Oeeelisioniste had
buried their own dead, and, on examination, it appeared
that their remains had not been disturbed at oil Mr.
&hob s met p tree negro.'named Hampton, who resided
near the place. and when he told him the manner in
which these bodies had been dug up. he said he knew it
bad been done, and added that the rebels had commenced
digging bodice two or three day. after they were bortwi,
for the purpose, at first, of obtaining the button" °lithely
uniforms, and that afterwards they disinterred them to
set their bonee. lie said they ban taken rails and pushed
the ends down in the centre under the middle of the
bodice, and prised them up,
ss The Information the tingion of n".1...vt. Pr.A—
lin Lewie corroborated telly the statement of this man,
Ilampton. They Said that a good many of the bodice
bad been stritgs. naked on the held before they were
buried, and that some were hurled naked. I went to.
Mr. Lewis' I cruse and spoke to him of the manner in
nsis 0h these bodies had been disinterred. lie admitted
tliat it was infamous, and condemned principally the
Louisiana Tigers. of General Wheat's division. He ad
mitted that our wounded had been very badly treated."
In confirmation of ttie testimony of Dr. Swaim acid Dr
flomintom thin witness avers that Mr. Lewis mentioned
a 'mother of instances of men who had been murdered
by had suraical treatment.
Mr. Lewis was atrial I that a pestilence wonlill break
out in consequence of the dead being left unburied, and
stated that he had gone and waroed the neighborhood
and had ihr. di ad burirth tanning his own man to waist
in doing so. '•Ein dubday Intuiting (yesterday), 1 Went
out in wirch of my brother's grave We found the
trench, and dug for the bodies hslow. They were
eighteen inches to two feet below the surface. arid hail
been hustled iu in any way. In one cud of the trench,
we found. not morn than two or thr4e inehaa bein4 , the
aurface, the thighbone of a man which had evidently
been dug up atter the burial. At the other end of the
tt ench, ee found the shinbone of a man, which had bees
struck - by a musket bail and split. The bodies at the
°ids Mid been pried up.
tt While digging there, a party of soldiers came along
and showed us a part of a shinbone, five or six inches
long, whh b had the end sawed off. They said they had
found it, among many other pieces, in one or the cabins
the rebels had deserted. From the appearance of it,
pieces bad bee sewed off to niche linger , rings, At soon
as the 'peafowl noticed this, they said that the rebels had
had rings made of the hones of -wur dead, and that they
had It em for sale in their camps. When Dr. Swaim saw
the boor, ho said it was a part of the shinbone or a man.
The soldiers represented that there were lots of these
honest nattered through the rend huts blush,' ~,lo:;•leas."
&c. Mr. Lewis and his negroes all spoke of Gel. James
Cameron's body, and knew that L. it had been stripped,
anti also where it lied been buried." &Ir. Sehoi e s, i g
snewer to a question of one of the committee. descrilyrd
the different treatment extendt d to the Union soldiers and
the rebel dead. Tim lett. r had little headboards placed
at the head of their respective graves and marked ; none
of tht ni had the appearance of having been disturbed.
The evidence or thatdisangniebed and patriotic citi
zen, Bon. William Sprague, Governor of the State of
Rhode 7cland, confirms and forams same of the most re
vblthiu
stutementa of formtr witneseee. Idie object fu
visiting the battle. field was to recover the bodies of Co
lonel Slocum Mill Major Halloo, of the Rhode Island re
giment. Ile took out with him several of his own men
to identify the graves. On reaching the place he states
that t , we commenced digging for the betties of
(Una Sgteittai wed Mal& IlallnG ttl a dw.t o
out to us by there man who had been io the actioo.
_ . .
s , While digging, some negro women - came n p and as. ell
whom we were looking for, and at the same time said
that • Color el Flocuo' had been dug up by the robels,
by Mlle men of a Georgia regiment, hia heed out tiff.
and his body taken to a ravine thirty or forty yards be
low, and there burned. We stopped digging and went
to the spot designated, where we found coals and ashes
and btu es mingled together A lirle distance from
there we found a shirt (still buttoned at the neck) l
and a Manses with lar g e quantities of hair up -n
it, everything indicating the burning of a body
there. We returned and dug down at the spot indi
cated as the grave of Major Ballou, but fon id no
body there; but at the place pointed nut as the grave
whets Col Slocum was butted, we found a box, which,
upon dieing raised and op. ned, was found to contain the
body of Col. Slocum. The soldiers who had buried the
two bodies were satisfied that the grave which had been
opened, the body taken out, beheaded, and burn-d, wee
tl at ct Major Ballou, because it was not in the spot
u here Vol.:locum was buried, but rather to the right of it.
They at once said that the rebels had made a Mi./bath, and
had taken the body of Maj. Baltou for that of Col. Slocum.
The shirt foam] near the place where the body was
burned I recognized as one belonging to Major Balton,
as ] bad been very intimate with him. We gathered up
the ashes containiug the psrtiou of his remains that ware
l..ft. and isul !Mtn iu a coffin_ !anther with hid end
the bleak. with the hair Mlt neon It. alter we had done
ti is we went to that portion of the field where the battle
bad first commenced, and began to dig for the remains of
Captain 9os er. We brought a soldier with us co deyig
nuts the piece where ho was rippled, 14 Ada 1190
wonudetl in the bailie, sod had moon from Clip window of
the bonze where the Captain was interred. On opening
ths'ilitch or trench. we found it filled with soldiers, all
buried with their faces downward. On taking no some
fear or five, we di-covered the remains of Captain row,r,
thoee' of the IritU• took them, placed
them in a coffin, mid brought them horns.
In rept) to a question of a member of the committee,
as to whether he was satiefien that they were buried in
tentionnily with their laces dowfiward, Gov. Bpragne's
answer was, ti Lidoubtedis ! Beyond all controversy I"
and that nit wag dove ass mark of indignity." It as.
ewer to another question, as to what their object could
have been, especially in regard to tne body of Catena(
Slocum hr replied, a Sheer brutality, and nothing else.
They did it cn account of his courage and chivalry, in
fotein s Lin eeeimeo t, fearlessly seed heevely, op th-ot-
Ide de=frayed about one-half of that Georgia regiment.,
which was made up of their beet citzeus " When toe
inquiry was put whether he thought these barbarities
were committed by that regiment, he responded, s: By
Mei Mlle ft gimeut as I was EMIL" Whit their own
Brat) lime buried with marble timid and root stouesi gull
MIMI! upon them, ours were buried, as 4 have statvd. in
titumbes. This eminent winless emeindem his testimony
as foiews: "1 have published an ord,r to my second
regiment, to which these officers were attached that I
shad not be sariefled with what they alma do neless toey
give an account of one rebel killed for each of their
ow u number "
The members of your committee might content them
selves by leaving this teettniony to the Senate and the
People without a mid of comment; but when the enee
Wes of a just and generous Government are attempting
to excite the sy mpathy of diel.yal men in our own coun
try, and to solicit the aid of t 'reign Governments by the
grossest mists pr. scum! ions of the objects of the tear and
of the connuct of the olli.-ers and so!diere of the ft w poli c ,
!lie, the mutt starving ovidence of Their inethetelty and
ithornaroty, deserves tome notice at our hands
History will be examined in vain for a parallel to
this rebellion. against a good Government. Long pre
pared for by ambitious num, who were made doubly
confident of success by the aid and counsel of former
Administrations, and by the Nita that their plane
were unobserved by a magnanimous people they pre
cipitated the war at a moment when the General
Administration bed just been changed. under circum
stances of astounding perfidy. Without a single reit
sooahlo ground of cootelatot and to the face of
prayed marrfestations of moderation and peace on the
part of the President and his friends. they took up arms
and declarsd that they would never surrender until their
rebellion bad been recognized, or me institutions es-
Itiblatil t our filbert hod Dftu dratroycd. Tht people
of the loyal States, a; lam couvincea that they could pre•
Bette their libel ties only by an appeal to the God of bat
tles, rushed to the standard of the Republic in response
to the call of the Met* Magistrate.
Every step of this monstrous treason has been
n 006,1 byviolence 1001 crame.No krammgre.dion 11413
been ter, greet and no wt oug too idler:ling for its leaders.
They thereat. , ded the sanctity of the atbs they bad
taken to support the Constitution; they reendiatad all
their obligetions to the people of the free Stotts j they
deceivrd bbd betrayed their own inilowToitizena, and
crowned their armies with forced !MIMI they drove
from their linnet all who would not yield to their despot
ism, or filled their prisons with men who would not en
list under their flag. They have now crowned the rebel
nob by the perpetration of deeds scarcely known even to
ellYege
The investigations or your committee have esta
blished this fact beyond controversy. The witnesses
called before us were men of undoubted veracity and
character. Some of them occupy high positions in
the army- eta others high poeihous in civil lite. Dif
firing iu pelitiClll fltafilMentili their Mittens rescind
rtnierhable concurrence or opinion and tifjudgment.
Our fellow-countrymen. heretofore sufficiently fm•
pressed by the generosity dud forbearance of the Govern
ment of the United States. and the barbarous character
of the crusade against it, will be shocked by the otate
zue.is of }twee uoiropeoehod Ond ooinkpeetoloablo
ne , .see. and foreign latticing mu-t, with one accord, how
ever they have hesitated heretofore, consign to lasting
odium the authors of crimes which, in all their details,
extern the worst raceme of the Septum of India.
Inhumanity to the living has been the leading trait of
the rebel leadere, but it wae reserved for your committee
to diulose, se a concerted eyetent, their insults to the
wounded, and their mutilation and desecration of the
gallant dead. Our soldiers taken prisoners in bottorolle
battle hayt been subjected to the most shameful treat.
Went.
All the considerations that inspire chivalric emotions
and generous e.msideistion fur brave men have been as
segai did. It is almost beyond belief that men fight
ing in such a cause as ours, and sustained by a Govern-
Mt nt alneli in the midst of violence and treaohery hag
given repeated evidences of its indulgence, should have
been sajected to treatment never before resortel to by
one foreign nation in a conflict with another. All the
courtesies of professional and civil life seem to have boa
discarded.
fit & +eery reveal ocdealoa,
kokttd btvu e 4 ntrvile'd humane feetums, at
ter the battle of Butt Ilem coolly proposed to bold Geu. Rick
etts as a hostage for one of the murderous privateers, and
the-rebel surgeons disdained intereourve stud Collllllll6lCll
lion with our own Burgeons, taken in honorable battle.
The outrages upon them lid will revive the recollections of
the cruelties to which manta tithes subject I heir prison
ers. They were buried In many cages naked, with their
feces downwatd. They were left to decay on the open
pir, their bent B earth Off as 111/0101. 1 sometimes, all the
testinillhY MIMI, to be used as personal adornments, nod
of e witness deliberately aeerft that the fiemi of ono of our
most gallant officers one cut "if by a S , Ceerfotliet. to be
turned into a drinking cup on the occasion of his mive-
Tinge. Illonetions es thie revelation may Meer to bbi
van' committee rave bten int/A.lllcl that daring the Wel
two weeks the atoll of a Union soldier learkbeen exhibit
ed in the Rice of the eergeaut-at-arms oa thy Rouse pr
Itelerreentativea, which had been convortml smell'
a mrpose. and which had been found on the pare rd Oyu&
of the retal prisovera akert I. a recent iouflick. The Gel
flowery of Governor Sprague. of Rhode Island, to mot
intermitting. It confirms the worst reports against the re
bel soldiers. and conclusively proves that the body of one
of the bravest officers in the volunt.er servim was
burned, lie deer not hesitate to add that this hyena
desecration or the nouorro cerpsO wee 0000000 tne rebels
believed it to be the body of Colonel Shicom, against
wte no they were infuriated for having displayed so much
cottage and chivalry in forcing his regiment fearlessly
and bravely upon them. These disclosures, establishing.
I.e.:de/dill, do. the zahairtrdit Inktiminity of
tee rebel leaders, will he read with sorrow and i rod igroition
by the people of the loyal States. They should inspire
three people to remwed exertions to protect our country
from the reatotation to power of such men. They should,
and we believe they wiii. arouse the and horror
of foreign nations against this unholy renellion.
Let it Le curs to furnish, nevertheless. a continued
cent] ant to such barbarities and crimes. Let us porde-
Tyre in the good work of maintaining the authority of
the Cunetitution, mid t r Terming to imitate the moue
ileum practical we here been called np in to IniMatigatee
Your committee beg to say. in conclusion, that they
have not let been enabled to gather testimony in regard
to the addluotord inquiry suggerted by the resolution of
the eenefe. ehether Indian savages have beau employed
lot tits ikellials It. mi haft eteelee MLitt the Uovernment
of en ifeelled States, and how finch wa fare has been
gemlike. d by the said savage,. but that they have taken
the wiser steps to attend to this imp errant duty.
B. F. WADE, Chairmen.
Colonel Lee and Major Revere Exchanged.
itinimie, April 30 —Colonel Lee and name Revere
bare lit en exchanged, and being thus ',bored of their
parole, will etert to join their regiment at Yorktown
inma.ccliattiy.
The North American Ott Father Point.
QUXBRC, April :O.—The 'Mauler North Aoptrioan
'pimp pelltur Point at 11,3 i e'dock list might. Her ad-
MA'S Virre received via usp.
A French War Steamer at New York
NEW YORE Audi 30.—Tht• Fit:mob war. rammer 4%-
yiradeTg *hived at this pill, this evening, from flaysna,
The Ssaiiish frigate Baba Candi= sailed [polity.
Strainer Off Cape Race.
ET. JOHNS. N. F , April 29 —A large Rican= Palmed
Nue kae4 An Monday morning. bound 9 rVia- Her name
la Watauga.
XXXVIITH COMM-MST SESSION.
VIEWS ON THE CINIEHIMITIOS HILL,
Speeches *I Slemirs. Wilmot, Wright, Coo/l ,
and Hale.
The Purchase of 6,000 Carbines by Gen. Fremont.
THE GOVERNMENT TO ADJUST THE CLAIM
CONVICTION UPON EX-PASTE TECTINONT,
TAKEN IN COMMITTEE, CONDENSED.
The House Opposed to Private Contracts for
Supphes.
WASIMIGTON, April 30, 3)62.
SENATE.
Taxation.
Mr. MASIIIB (WT.), of New York, premented a me-
mortal Imre the ClimbPr of Commerce of New York, in
relation to the ustem of taxation.
Itehel iiariparitirs al. Manassas.
Mr. WADY. Olen.), of Ohio, from the Committee on
the Comilla of the war, made a report in relation to the
barbarous treatment of the soldiers at Matmeass. Ordered
to be minted.
- •
Mr- 1 "/ " 7
4 .. (IL), of Itliono, moroll to print on
a,
eitr r. neforred to the Committee on Printing.
Washington and Georgetown Railroad.
Mr. MfinitlLL (R.P.), or Moine, from the Commit
tee on the District of Colombia, reporter a bill to Incor
porate the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Com
pany.
Adjutant General's Departirmirlet.
•
Mr WILSON (Rev.), of Illatoachusette, introduced
bill for the better orgaidzation of the Adjutant Geueral's
Department. Referred.
Homestead Bill.
On motion of Mr. WADY., the homestead 1M was
taken up
XI% CARLILE (IL), of Virginia, offerei a substitute
or pie bill. The consideration of the bill was postponed
till to-mot row.
Military Hospital
Mr 112.3M11.11 (Dem.), of Oregon, introduced a hill
to Alfiend the act of 180., providing for a nidimry hospital
for invalid Hoidiots.
Arrest of Kentuckians.
Mr. rowell'a resolution, Watt , ' on the Secretary of
State for information uoneerniug the urroat of persons
in the state of Kentucky, was taken up.
Dlr. VOWELL (Dem ), of Kentucky, laid that he
had been much amazed at the opposition to this reeolu..
hon. The eubetisute, offered by the Senator from Mae.
sachablia (Mr. WAR 11WPRIS, an to
av id getting the information ached fur.
. .
Be Paid the Secretary of State bad arrested these men
in palpable violation of the Constitution, usnrped the
powers i , ebinging to the body of the magistracy, and
trampled under toot the most sacred constitutional Head
of genatorfr.,rn
younted to ehtelli the Secretary of State from the just in
dignation of tto people. Lie wanted no shuffling off of
the question. If the Secretary of State had not manli
ness enough to refuse to violate the Constitution at the
tacking eTVII of the President, thou he wee unworthy of
confidence and a mere tool.
hlr. WILSON (Rep ), of Massachusetts, said the Se
nator from Kentucky was standing up hors today ar
raigning the Administration for the acts it had Boon aid
heaping words of opprobrium on the Secretary of State
_woreti offers dva to the gamic , out to lova men of the
country.
Confiscation Bill
The morning hour having expired, the coulise atiou bil
was taken up.
SP! VA! 91 Mr. Wilmot.
Mr. WILMUT (Rep.), of Pennsylvania, said the bill
proposed to free the slaves of the rebels and confiscate the
mop rty of traitors. He was in favor of the provisions of
the bill. He would give freedom to the slave of every rebel,
and truetto the policy of the President to work out gradual
emancipation. Be couteuded that a aver? was the true
relsellimi, for it had ire cause except hawed
to republican institutions, arid it wa. the duty of the
Government to to cripple the power of slavery as to in•
sure the future safety of the Government. The right of
Lhe Pir km to self. defence is well settled by all authori
ties. 8 " it was right to 09 pll Shat Wile nocoodary for
eelf-cefence, lie coutended that the bill wee iu no way 011•
noxious m the international law.- Nobody supposes
that its passage would provoke the hostility of eel"
nation. Indeed, the pa , sege of the emancipation
portion of the hill would receive the plaudits
ofthe - right to coivo toe
pi opt rty of alien encodes is well settled i hat it
was contented that when a person was both a
piddle enemy and a perjured traitor, then we ino,t not
touch his property. 1 his was simply absurd; the Go
vernment lute the right to mimeo both the right of a
belligerent and a envereign against the rebels (He
qaottli at some length the derishm of Jnetice Sprague, of
?Massa. husetts.) Neither is the bill unconstitutional in
regard to being a bff IL of attainder. The Constitution
Funirly provides that is C 0112131011 law the cons , ouaricsa or
ettniotlrr Hall not f011, , w hen Aro rebel ro.
fugees to he allowed to live iu affluence in foreign coun
tries irom the proceeds of their great estates hero . ? The
bill has to feature of a bill of attainder, or a bill of pains
and penalties. He contended that the pasiage of the hill
was demanded by the strongest considerations of justice.
The rebellion must be crushed out, and the leaders &Omit
from the country. or punished, and their property con
iterated.
Speech of Mr. Wright.
Mr. WItIGIiT (II.), of Indiana, said he was in favor
of some confiscation bill. The rebellion tenet be crusued
tiud hu centrally hoped for the towage of eurne
zursaurn for tho conflecittion of the property of those en•
gaged in rebellion. The Government hue forborne till
forbearance had become dishonor. It wee time that
tresses, cones, whither in the form of rebellion or the
mate iva idii.um guise of free speech, which gloats over
b4t451 01....tade whisk hvatimitt, lha
Union. Ile referred to the character of the war, and said
thtre wore two hinds of war. Oue he would call perfect
war, which was a war between one independent nation and
another. Ile would designate the otter as a mixed or
civilltr Ths perfect war iR under the control of find
lea s, known as +he laws of nations but the ease is very
diff.-rritt with civil wer. In the present war, line of the
patties btaltC a in the double relation of enemies at..d
citi-
ZOOS. It was a mere aggravation of crime Committed by
individual citizens, whivh had grown to the climensldgp
Cr a war, and the war against them ebould oe viewed as
an attempt Id arrest them fur orioles. No nation has
any light to interiors with us in the treatment of our
own criminals. lie was tired of bearing the leaders of
this rebellion called ..orettiren." They bad shocked
the civilized aorta by their unparalleled barbaritint, and
trio) are our mortal toes, and snould be treats I Si Buell.
Ile alto conterded that, as the armies go South. tltey
must be subsisted upon the rebels, and those who hal
broken the p.-ace should be obliged to supp3rt thoi.e who
conic to reetore it. lie would give the rebels sixty days
io 1,. ; - dowo rhea arme, ancl :hose
why poreiet in di, re
bellion should suffer the consequences.
. Speech of Mr. Cowan.
COWA3T (Rep.), of Pennsylvania ' spoke at some
leumili in four oi his motion to the bill to a ipncial
committee, tie wee as much in favor of proceeding
against the rebels as any man, but there seemed to be
great differences about this measure, and he proposed to
send all the different measures to a committee, so that
arruothing tensible might be Nought out. All the rebels
V..{1,111t 1111 10 Ct 311,71 CO /1,,,,tRa ie tioosihmiott
sue way, and he thought they would du that very thing
by pass' , g the lulls of attainder. There wee soother
idea which steno d to be above everything in yie minds
of some that is the emancipation of the staves.
lf the ear nit conducted on that principle, and for
that purpose, it will niche the South a unit against us,
and a unit over yueli au event of territory cannot be
subdued. This is a Goveinment cd the prod'o, 'nub we
nines not ignore entirely a e opinions of a large portion
of the reople. We are fighting to restore the Consti
ii.od to do tioa .ea esiist h easeful Mid cited by
the I', nAitution ourselves. Tole war must be governed
by the laws of war. The old contiscat . bills oily owl
tinned the war. awl made feuds forever. Hs thought
that all old party differences should cease, and we should
/MTV MT icy 9Pnot—tv put &nit the rePplilon
Speech of Mr. Hale.
II&LE ( Rep ), of New Hampshire, said that eve
ry question under Heaven seemed to be discussed on this
tamp). proposition. To-day the country was in a state
of war, and tho property of Union men till over the South
bad been seized or destroyed, and they themselves art yen
our. To•da> the rebel spies were in the employ of the
Government. while the Union men were driven out to
mauve. He was opposed to referring this matter to a
committee, because he wanted action. The people de
ntal:tied action, and it the tleaate retuee to act they will
lied that they are not the a:morns:tont, but that there
is a people who are really the Government. It
was time that we should do soutething. and our
811 Out," es seems to infect everything. We had a winter
nem raign oh the Niemen, and now seem likeli to hare a
totem( r cumpeign at Yorgtown. He tuouaht if there
it at , any deert in the bill it die tot go fat enough. He
wanted t °teething to touch the rebels in our very midst
here. They lice everywhere. as way be seen in those
weekly met-smile where eo• called teachers of the Gospel
Mitt to read the ;doer fliChtted 17 a patriot , hotted for
ttx victory of the Government. and Whore, when read,
frerenna go on; of the church, turning their hawks on the
alter of faith and their country.
Mr. Mel (item.), of California, rebuked the
levity of Hr. Dale, and epolo, at length. contend
itig that the bill would tend to create war and wail.
DU It.
Amendment to Mr. Cowan's Motion.
Nr. 'HOWARD (Rep ), of Michigan offered an amend
ment to Mr. Cowan's motion of reference, with iuetruc•
1.144..4 to the aawtntttr a to being in a hill for the eonQeea
tinn of the prop-rts of all th« leading ittattraeat4. gad the
etuaecipallau of the slave!' of all persona who have taken
up arm,. awainFt the United States.
D.tvis moved to amend Mr. Howavi's amend,
Meta by etrililvg Grit all Oat rulato to Notuicipatioa.
liejectra . .
IRAs—Messrs. Cathie, Davie, Henderson, Latham,
McJrugyll. Nesmith, Powell, Saulsbury, Stark, Willey,
and Wilson (Bio )-11.
NAY*-27•
Mr. LivIVABD then withdrew bia amendment.
Amendment.
Mr. DOOLITTLE (Rep.), of Wisconsin, offered an
eantnciment to Mr. Cowan's resolution, that the commit
tee shall report on next Monday or Tuesday. Adopted.
Mr. Cowan's Artesian ite l ected.
Alter tut [her discussion ! Mr. Cowau'e motion Co War
was irjectia,
nAg,
FciptA 4 46p !Lep.) esmith (Dem.
V . 9 4ier (Aep 1 nywell (Drum.
Henderson (II.) Saulsbury (Dem )
Howe (Rep) Starke (Dem.)
Latheun (Dem.) Willey (
McDougall (Dem.) Wilson (U.), Mo.
1. 1 1 - 914 Din g (1 p,)
Garble (U ,
Coilnmer (Rep.)
Cowell (Rep.)
Davi. (Union)
Doolittle (Rep.)
NAYS_
King (Rep.)
Lane ( Rep.), Ind.
Lane (11 ) Kansas
Morrill (Rap.)
Pemee69 (LUIS-)
Sherman /I!^^ 1
SiiiiMer ( ep.)
Anthony (Rep.)
Chandler (Rep.)
Clark (RaP-)
Dixon (Rep.)
Griv.ee (f 3 p.)
nAle(ilep.)
Name ()pp)
Ho raid (Rep.)
The Eounto then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Confisention and Emancipation.
Mr ELIOT (lief.), el" BlAseettunetta, submitted titiO
tainsi one to Colln.celte rebel property and vrovido for
the pe) men; of the expt-nees of the wawa rebellion,
and 1e other purposes; tire other to free the slaves of
rebeiff egainet the Governsaemt. Ramrod to the Select
C~ae t
fir. ItialllFFE (U. ji of Kentucky. sated lam to
Kari duce a yesolation natrairing by ',that antboritY Gem
Il utter had lePil , A are ordt-r to emancipate MATH.
hir. HUTCHINS, of Ohio, Mr. LOVEJOY, of Illinois,
and (there. objected.
Resolution' on Government Contracts,
The resolutions reported by the Cotntalttee on Con
tracts were taken up.
Dlr. STEVENS.' motion to lay them on the table was
reject. d.
The Winn ins resolution of the aeries Iles rtti4 ;
Resolved, That the Secretary or the Treasury he ra
mp an d to adjust the claim against the Government for
the five thousand Hall carbines purchased through
Simon Stevens, Ifea by Gen Jot ti C. Fremont, on the
QUI doy of August, 1801 and afterwards delivered at the
vuttep 6 R ll ti l ff ArPv!'O', ab the fir of 9t . tools on the
basis f a sale of snrh arms to the government for #l.l.
each, rejectivg all other demands against the Govern
ment on account of the purchase of the said arms.
An unr ucceradul effort aan made to amend the reso
lution, t y makiug it vim! " purclionst from blown
Stevens "
Mr FENTON (Ern.), or Now York, moved to amend
the resolution, by adding: Provided, that nothinghereln
contained shall be en construed as to exonerate the Go•
vertoment ft OM the pas went of any claims arising from
•i'...tifteatssnit..44 hi , ;La
thor,rec admired the government.
Thin wan rrjectel—) 53. against 71 .
The Resolution Adopted
TLs rarrhillen, as originally renOritd, Was adOldsda.
rsaii 120. nays 28.
Mr. Colfax's Resolution Adopted.
Mr. COLFAX'S resolution was adopted—yeas 90, nays
91. It 11 as t-llowa
• -
Resolurd, That the come adop'i d by the Naval Ins
vestignuog Committee of IEOI, of ci minuniasting to the
officers of the Government copies or the evidence apps
reedly to them and giving them an opportunity to
mosa-examine the aitnesses against them or to refute or
explain their testimony, is, in the opinion of this Houss,
Veol-11,7 h stiern whorewer pra.clicallhn by the, tnee.4l
- connutttroa appotuted by order of the louse of
Bepreeet tativee, especially where the said committees re
m ire sod collect such testimony in secret sessfor and
thee it le contrary to the plail.est principles of justice to
c4lidenlll any citizen upon ff pork DTI4PUN HAM
egelnet hint by a committee in tvcret, nue the Baum 91
Mitch ha not if praelfeablei tier laid Won him fryttle
soh) ormemittee with an opportroity to explain or nide
H, before the), report L made Odic.
?fie following renolution, aa reported b 7 the vomudtteof
wee adopted :
Employment la Irresponsible rartlep-orTrlyate
Resolved, That thirprectice of employing irreetittredhle
porgies having boot/eh/A eotmer,tion with !bb Clovertenent
in the performance of petite donee which may be' Per
i orm ed by the regular of2cere of the Goyernment, and of
purchasing by private contract supplies for Chet dilfarinst
WNW, Mtn,/ 70)er9 CM and hay competition' might
prole rly invited by winnower.% eid rertlawnenta Per proper
p ro p c ,..i., L injIMOMI to the public *orrice, and tattle
the asquoiilled diuspprobatiow of Ink) Houle.
The following rosolutlon, twe subreireet by Mr, ritiL ,
MAN (nun.), from the mmlllllloll% wise mad!
Aeseked, that Sirton. Camaro% lute Secretary of
Wer. by insetting Alexander Cammings with The terse
trot or ewes sums of the public money, uutherity ttr
iebase water" oupprhurvnthout restriction, without
rwintring trout him any guarantee for the faithful per
-I.OIIIIMICO tof lilt cubes., when.the services . of competent
Public °Muer, were avallatte 6 and by Involving the Go•
rennin nt to o ran October of contracts with. persousnot
legitimately engaged to the bnelness pettahring to the
subject metier pf such contructe--eepecielly tug the ear
chip& of arm for future delivery—has atlbpteee a polio/
highly iblllteatie 4o Mc public acs ice, and ab..rvio g the
eenimrs of this house. '
'lbis retro:ll7lon wee adopte34 by it , vete. etr 7.6 yeas
against. 45 nay B, :
Aldrich (Bea , )'
Allen (Dvta.)y
Aeceba ( Dem ))
Bailey (llenr.ylla
Baker (Rep.)/
Biddle (Dem.))
Blair (Rep.); MDI
Browne (U.), Re I(
Buffinton (Bep.)l
Calvert (U.)
Cagey.
Clark (Rep )
1332221
Cobb. (Dem.)
Conklieg,Fred. A
(ReP.)
Corning.
COX (earn
Crieheld (U.,)
Crittenden (U )
Cutler (Rep.)
Lewes (Rep.)
Delauo (Rep.)
Dunlap (U,)
Dunn (Rap.)
Arnold (Rep.)
Bal.bitt (Rep.)
Boma!! (BM)
Bingham ( Rep )
Blair (Rep.), Pa.
Blake (Rep )
Burnham (Rep.)
Campbell (Rep.)
Chamberlain (.11 )
Colfax (Rep.)
Conkiipp, B. (R.)
Duell (Rep.) •
Bdperton (Rep.)
Eliot (Rep.)
(Rep,)
Fesekadep (RPD.)
Mr. Bolroaa'a second resolution woe then read,.ne fol—
lows:
Resobcd, That tho Storotary of elm Navy, la +ha mi..
ploy mut of Ueorge D. Morgan, without requiting from
Lim any guarantee for the faithful performance of his
duties in the purchase of a large number of versolefor
the public use, with a compensation dependent on the
prices paid for much vessel!, receivable from•tho. oeller r
instead of el:opt°, tog responsible, officers of iue o warn.
mut, has adopted a talky unauthorised by law, de
stiuctive of public economy and public confidence, and
deserves the censure of this llou9e.
The Resolution Rejected..
Thix remolution was rejected—Fowl 45 1 uage72, Tht
ixUrrostivft vole, wan IlLe. ?0110 W
Mei,ers. Allen, Ancona, babbitt, Bailey of Penni!flys-
Ma, Beaman, Biddle, Blair of Vi:iglais, Caleort,
Cle
m,nts, Fr.d A. Conkling, Roscoe Cookling, Cox, Cris
field, Duidap, Donn, Crider, Hanehett, Hiarding,
KjWPP'? Ku!,Po, ftiollorouo, Mallory,
ma, 1 : 7 .0a, Pioll7, Ziorion, Pngen, POlldlOs
ton,Porter, Whit:son, Rollins of Missouri, filieelle
of low Jersey, Thouiss of 'Hartland, Vallaudixhank,
Voorhees, Wallace, Washburne, Webster, Wickliffe,
Wilson, and Worcmter.
The House then went into Committee of the Whole on
the state of the union on the Pacific•railtoal bill, the ,
bu,ine,e bring principally confined to perfecting a 'rub
sti Lute which had been tatted.
The COUhnlltlee roma.
Mr. KELLOGG (Rep.), of fdi :Wpm], from the Com
mittee on Public Lauda, reported e bill to establinh aland
dihtrict in Nevada.
The House then adjourned
The Details of the Fall of New Orleans
Ctino, April .30.—A refugee from rtfemphis reports
that the teem of Humboldt was occupied by a emaiL
rebel force; engaged in ihrowing no dorm/lye worke.
brieg4 Merahhlg Dame of the 28th. They dobtaha
but lithe matter, further than a confirmation of the fall
of New Orleans. The Asaktnas grumbles that the rebel
authorities suppress the details in regal d to the affair,
aria rays that 'nothing 1;m; the Ore Not of the surrender
is known.
The same paper says ties Southern people are fast
losing all confidence in their river defence'. It le gene
ra•ly acheitie.l. II I ll.e ti ecieral army can he TM iongec
successfully resisted. It - also intimates a lack of confi
dence in the stability of the Southern Confederacy by
adviping its patrons to invest whet money they have In
real estate nhlic the Donlon can be made in the cur.
rency now In circulation, which consists principally al
rebel treasury rote..
The conscription law is being rigidly enforced. The
Union men are secreting themselves or flying to avoid its
o i per. lot.
The same refugee also reports that merchants who
are of avowed Secession proclivities are removing their
goods to places of concealment and security Large ,
slumbers of families are moving away daily The idea
of Intihihd the fault has basil abaadensd, la 66fi4ddilehell
of the determined opposition of propertyholders.
It is currently reported, at Memphis, that Bearwegsrd
hss not over eighty thousand men at Coriatis p and no
hope is entertained of his successfully resisting General
Ilaileck, who was believed to have two hundred thou
sand men.
As our informant left Xeniale it woe reported that
rebel g untoia 9eeF from 14.s+ Oi tlha
bound up the ricer to join FloMoo' flbot.
CAIRO, April 30.—The wear in the Ohio rose es
Inch last night, sua is from eta to ten inches above the
old levee. The water has been steied by the rtittlnnoo
ani maim cor Sin MUM Wi/9 le Goolitully al work
with large gangs of men throwing up additional embank.
rheas. It ill confidently ea pectcd that in this way the
danger will be averted, though a very Blight wind will
evidently inundate the city.
tam 'muter Is noninnuttaing !made of tI ievee,
and in many p'aces is several feet deep. The principal
streets are navigated by skiffs.
Long trains of troght care stand on the levee, and are
OCCGIPIed so dwvilingo bi Mullin no ban boon driven
from their homes.
FROM GEN. BANKS' COLUMN.
rlAiittlanitnette, APPII 28 —General llabkd elSited We.
Williams' division hen loot night, and returned to New
market to-day. While here he received a despatch from
Washington, announcing the Union occupation of New
Orleans. The intelligence canned great joy among our
army, and corresponding depression among the inhabi.
tante, who have been for days past congratulating them.
selves and each other that the nest news would be our
defeat at Yorktown. A national salute fn honor of the
event will be fired at noon to-morrow.
Through &caption channels, it is learned that the Go
vernor of North Carolina was arrested and imprisoned in
Richmond, about two weeks ago, on account of his Untrue
scullion%
It wee observed today that liens Jackson had moved
Lie wagon-train back some elx miles since yesterday, in
dicating an intention to retire still further to the rear,
or of his entertaining a dread of attack by our forces.
A e plactrov o@ onvialry Wow th. ouly Total force disco
vered to• day on the right aide of the Shenandoah. These,
With oLe wagon, entered the village of MeGaugheystawn.
where they remained till about dusk. Tin.y came by the
Port iteriuhllo route:
We !lava nothing deaf Matellt of the reeart of the et
eupati..m of Staunton by Gen. Milroy. The river is Kull
too high to attempt a passage with safety. A. dense
smoke wee Nen in that direction te•dayt but the came
ie unknown.
If.teutisonitrun, Va., April 29 —At noon to-day, a
Rationed e•alute wee fired from au entinence near tbe town
in boner of the event at New °Maul, The regimental
bands Rumbled at the court house square, and played
t.,:::: the b
ilColrubiti." The moldiere gave ntue cheers, and
nd followed in the airs of the n Awl, White.
ti 11410,1? and fl The Star BDanalatt Bariaari"
Atter a mesa the !Ands conardidaled and marched
through the principal Mx - veto, playing .4 Yankee Doodle"
and "Dixie,. to the disgust of certain prominent MlMl
tobta, TAs wcothcr le pica wnt.
Three thousand ramie, under Qom - Edward Johnson,
formerly of the United States army, are posted a few
milk kk from Staunton, but in a position easily accestuble
for tecape t in ease of Gen. Milroy's approach.
The meet reliable 110 , 1f9 frere CFPTOP/Tik a i 9 4 1 19
atfk-a that only four briglidee are there, hot niitnbering
18,000 men, Longstreot, with hie command, has gone
Sit T9ll44Wrik John&Al re4rc't he Will prohablY
yoinfortta tien. JOFloon! on Blue IMO,
The Bichtnohd Pxantiner, of the 22d, gam in effect t.
.1. The destiny of Confederacy is trembling on the
result at Yorktown. It' ire ore 511CGC/Iglll, it Will give to
six mouths for currying out fllB srniu l Ipkltl6 Ut Maim
and equipping a large army, and launching a fleet of
Aferrimace ; but if uneuecessful, Virpigia , es tort!"
Ten Eyck (Rep.)
Trumbull (Rep.)
Wade (Rao.)
Wilkinson (Rep.)
(Bas_)
/ 1.1 ALVA
Wrigkt (Union.)
FROM .uA.nrusiguNcs:
HONORS TO PVINSYLVANIA REGINISIV.
144 Panliavlvasin Maplist , xt Varklaws_
HARRISBURG, April 30.—The following order has just
been lend :
ELM VQVA talittS OF TOR PIINF43VT.YARIAMILtrtA,
Anuismws. April 30, 1883.
In acknowledgment of the gallantry of the Beeentl
- iiftrimoßt pf ilifautzTi Pennsylvania vc44oe?flit
Colonel F. B. fttliMbangll coamoudlngj al IMO% TOEDit
and of the Find Regiment of Cavalry, Penney Wants
volunteere, Colonel George D. Bayard commanding, at
imouth, Va., it le ordered that "Shiloh, April 7th,
1994 that he iRMPIbOII OR the Sig of the galiwittg.
sevroth Regiment of lufautry, and that 4 + l e almonth,
April 19th, 1862," be inscribed on the ling of the First
Itraiment of Cavalry, and that till order be read at the
head of DB the regillithill Of renneyfranio yoluntcvn,
By order of A. G. CIIRTINI
Governor and Commander-in•Ohief.
A. L. Itussutt, Adjutant General.
Th 9 QirMagi* MR91411 1,111 0 14 " 1 " we '
Runelh the moat gratifying intelligent& from Cane=
General Smith, near Yorktown, in relation to the per.
reeled arrangements for the care and prompt transporta
tion of the killed and wounded Pennsylvania soldhlre
-points l etti i te vo,e pun° heieltal eindhe Itla
charge will accommodate over SOO patients, tica, can
reach Philadelphia via the Delaware and Chesapeake
Canal, than avoiding the roughneas of a sea voyage.
Re eobehaka by laying that tovvylynnis le thy Pair
Eta eon the Peninsula fully lin Dated for every emer.
Hyper, and that these preparations Will undonhtedly..bei
instrumental in saving the lives or hundreds or brave
men that would otherwise be lost for want of care NA
Proper .ccc......c1.1166.
MEMMI
Mr. Cameron•, Coalraets.
YEAS.
rnglish (n.)
Gooch tup.)
AGrider (U.),
Mall (II.)
taro (.Itern,l
tticitarcison, ( Dom)
Illbbinson (E.Dem
llblline(r..)y)y.H.
)bolting gr.)‘
Mlle! (Rep.)
Smith Deen , l
9+a la (6.), N.Y.
Steel.: (U}; ti. J.
Stratton (Rep.)
Thomas (
Thernas (U.), 1126...
Trlti - OcE , PI).
Vallauoighant(D)
Verroo (Rep.)
Vibbard (Uom.)
Voorhees (Dem.)
Waiton (Rep.), Irt.
Ward pm.)
Webetor (IT.)
Wheeler (aim.)
Wickliffe (.1).
Wilson Sep.)
Wood ( ( em,)
Woodruff! (Main.)
I, Haneliett (Rep."
'arding (U.)
Harriman (Union).
(Item.)
Horton (Dep.)
Nestigen (Dem.)
illlnlklry (II.)
May (Derr.)
Menzies (U.)
MStohell ( Rep.)
hlbrrill(ltep) Vt.
Morrie (Dens,)
Nixon (Rep.)
Noble (Dena.)
Nnell.( Dem .)
Norton !Dem.)
Nugen ((Dem.),
Odell (Dem.),
Petton ( Rep.)
reeMet (Dem.)
Perry (Dem.)
NAYS.
Vranchol. (Rep.)
Frank (RL:p.)
990 d win (Bop.)
Llano; ohnu.)
Hooper (Rep.)
Witching (Rep.)
JIIIIbID (•aep.)
Kellogg (R )Mich.
Mimi (BO 111.
Liauelng'( Rep.)
Lehman (Dem.)
Lovejoy (Rep.)
McPherson (Rep.)
Moorhead (Rep.)
Motel)) (Rep.)Me.
Rice (Rese)4 Ito.
Riddle (ittp.)
Sergeant (11,0(4
Otligwicii, ono
Shanks (R,)
Sheffield (U.)
Shellabarger (B.)
Steverin (Rep )
Trimble (Rog)
Trowbridge (IL)
Van Valkenourgle
(Rep.)
Wall( Rep )t
Wanner. (RAD.)
White 01..)„ Zuct
Mr. Morgan's Purchasrss
Laud Do'partntent , In Noun.. La
FROM MEMPHIS.
Suppressed by the Rebels.
FROM CAIRO.
LATER.
(ORNRRIL ORDER 14101 21]