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FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1865.
FORNEY’S WAR PRESS,
VOS THH WEEK BNDING SATUBBAT, .JAN. 14, 1855.
I. POETRY. Sabbath-diy Thought j,” br David
Paul Brown—" Little Daisy,” by,Henry Pyma
*' Mother Heart, ” from the German,
ir. “ FATED,” an original tale, by Basoin.
111. EDITORIALS. —What shall we Pay-for Feaoa?-
The Fort and the Garrison—William Snaw Lindsay,
jl. P.—The Concentration of our Armies— Napoleon and
his Heir. Stc.
iv. letters from “occasional.”
V. THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE.
VI. SAVANNAH -Onr Sroolal Correspondence-De
scription of the City—Condiilonof its Inhabitants—lnoi
. Vil. WAS NEWS.—The Removal of Gen. Batter—
iha Teimesflee Campaign—Hood's Retreat—Late Rebel
VIII CITY INTELLIGENCE. —The Legal Profession
—The jjraft-Ths Game ol Cnrltng—lmporiant Railroad
Enterprise. No,
IX. GENERAL NEWS.-Christinas with Edwin For.
rest—The Passport Byitem—Fatal Rail oai Aooldeut
nearlork— Anglo-Rebel Pirates, &o.
x. THE IDEAL LIFE, by Vathek Brown. Chap. I.
XI. CHESS DEPARTMENT.—Editorial—Problem—
Chees in Philadelphia, England, and Germany.
XII. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
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The Abolition of Slavery.
" The anti-slavery resolutions of the Legis
latures of many States express, either in
formal declaration or indirectly; the gene
ral desire of the people that the amend
ment to the Constitution abolishing slavery
should be passed by Congress, The oppo
sition to it in the House is not candid.
The gentlemen who refuse to vote for a
measure which will blot out the stain of
barbarism from the charter of our coun
try do not dare to defend the great dis
grace of the nineteenth century. There are
not many northern men bold enough to
justify slavery in this day, but there are too
many who, upon pretexts of illegality and
technicality, tlirow their lnflaenee In its
favor.' Whatever may be thought of
these excuses now, history will re-,
cord but two parties on this mat
ter—the friends and the enemies of
freedom ; and while the majority of the
Opposition members of the House seem re
solved to’ be classed with the latter, it is
gratifying that some of the leading Demo -
crats nobly admit the necessity of
the United States formally among free na-'
tions. Mr. Odell, of New Tork, and Mr.
Yeaman, of Kentucky, have spoken ear
nestly in favor of the amendment, and have
given reasons tor their course which must
have great influence with the' Democratic
masses, though they may fail to change the
result in Congress. So far as the mere
technical objections to the measure are
concerned, Mr. Teaman settled them con
clusively, when he said:
First, tie passage of tils islnt resolution does not
determine thereafter, but gnly refers it to the peo
ple, tie source of all power, ♦
Second, that a man with an earnest respect for
tie people, and a profound regard , for our system
of government, mtgit very-consistently vote for its
submission, ana tien In ils State vote against its
ratification.
Tiird, seeing tie people have determined to do
It, it becomes idle part of wisdom to let it be done
as quickly as convenient, and witi no unnecessary
opposition. Let the agony be over and tie rubbish
cleared away.
But we are glad that Mr. Teaman and
Mr. Odell go further, and justify their ac
tion upon the eternal principles of right.
Mr. Odell acknowledges that slavery
caused the war; that until it is abolished
we cannot have true peace; that it is fated
to he ended in some way by the rebel
lion, and can only be properly ended
by constitutional power. In his own
words, “It will then he done effectually,
legally, and in a manner, to command the
respect of the nation, of the men that are
directly interested, and also of the civiliza
tion of the world.” He shows that the
rebel leaders are willing to abolish slavery,
and that the Union men of the South
demand that it shall be done. And
so far as the Democratic party is con
cerned, he shows that many of its great
leaders have been the enemies of sla
very, and how by slavery it has been
degraded and defeated. “I believe,” he
says, “ this thing of slavery has lifted its
hydra head above the Government of my
country. It has been for years a dead
weight upon our party. And the time, in
my humble judgment, has now come when
as a party we ought to unloose ourselves
from thiß dead body. We ought no long,
er consent to be dragged down by its in
fluence. We ought to accept the ' facts of
history,as they are transpiring around
us, and march on with the world
in its progress of human events.”
Mr. Teaman, speaking for Kentucky, de
clares that his State is “ being depopulated
by the ills of this strife. Her sons and
daughters are leaving her soil and their pa
ternal roofs to find Bafety and peace else
where. The exodus is frightful, and if her
people borrow trouble by fighting fete and
making a stand for slavery after it is
•overthrown, our State will be hopelessly
Tuined.” He appeals to his party whether
it should not cut loose from a dead carcass,
and proves that material as well as moral
interests demand the abolition of the worst
system of, forced labor the world has ever
known. .
Whether the amendment is passed of
not, these gentlemen •will have done their
part in the great work of reorganization,
which, though it may he delayed, cannot
he defeateD. We,do not yet despair of
the passage of the amendment by Con
gress and its submission to the people,
during this session, and if this great triumph
of common sense is achieved, it will be due
chiefly to the independence of such Demo
crats as Odell and Teaman. The Union
-members of the House are pledged to sup
port this anti-slavery policy; but as with
the gentlemen of the Opposition will rest
the responsibility if it is defeated, to them
should be given the chief honor if it is suc
cessful now.
Maximilian, Mexico, and Austria;
It is believed that the Emperor of Mexi
co, whose relations with this country are
so particularly undecided and undefined, is
already “hard uplaboring, in fact,
under an attack of impecuniosity which
threatens to be chronic, 'll would seem to
be the fate of some people ever to be in
debt—persons, too, who ought to pay their
way as they travel on the road of life.
Maximilian of Austria, when Archduke,
had a princely revenue; partly personal,
arising from the vast hereditary property
of the House of Hapsburg, and partly offi
cial, that is during the time he was_Viceroy
of Venetia. He is yet a young man, (born
in July v 188?,) but was heavily in debt
before he had attained his legal majority.
He was so much pressed by his creditors of
late years that he probably, was mainly
urged by this to accept the Mexican crown,
and dispossess himself of his princely
rights and family privileges as a niember of
the Imperial house of Austria. The loan
which certain European capitalists ad
vanced him at the solicitation of the Enipe
xor of the French is nearly all expended, as
might have been expected in a country,
more than half of which has not recognized
the Empire, and therefore declines being
taxed to support it. As for getting a few
more millions from Europe, that is out-of
the question, “ Once bit, twice warned”
is a sensible proverb, which foreign capi
talists will not fail to apply to the new Em
peror. There is money enough in Mexico,
to be sure, but most of it belongs to the
Church, and if Maximilian stretch out his
hand to grasp part of that, he is a doomed
man, for the clerical is the greatest ruling
power in Mexico.
Apart from the pecuniary difficulties
which have hung like a millstone from
Maximilian’s neck, dragging him down
into a frightftil abysm of insolvency,
perhaps he may have been led to shift
from Austria to, Mexico by a considera
tion of the doubtful prospects of his native
land, Austria is still a great empire,
but she. lost Lombardy very lately,
and her hold on Venetia may he said
to depend solely upon the will and plea
sure of the subtle ruler of France, .who
has only to sanction a movement on the
part of Victor Emmanuel and the last
shadow of "Austrian dominance in Italy
ronat. fail The Neapolitan Eangdom, the
greater part of the States of the Church,
the three Grand Duchies, and the fertile
province of Lombardy, all have fallen into
the hands of Victor Emmanuel within
the last six years, and Yenetia, the last
possession of the foreigner, can be annexed,
almost at a moment’s notice, with the
slightest expenditure of blood and treasure.
In. the Almanach de Gotlia Francis Joseph
continues to call King of Lom
bardy, but the iron crown of' Monza,
whose rim, legend says, is made from the
nails of the Holy Cross, has been placed
for the last time upon the head of a Haps
burg, and the title of King of Venetia,
also claimed by Franck Joseph, is even
now as nominal, as that of Francis
11., ex-monarch of Naples, who, though
discrowned and exiled, continues to call
himself “ King of the Two Sicilies and of
Jerusalem
The situation of affairs in Hungary, Bo
hemia, and Galicia, which still continue
portions of the Austrian empire, is not se
cure nor pleasant. These countries obsti
nately refuse to amalgamate with Austria
proper. Galicia continues to “bide its
time” for reunion with a future independ
ent Poland, while Bohemia anxiously as
pires to resuming, her position among the
kingdoms of Europe, and Hungary pants
for the time when, a free republic, she may
resume her nationality. It is molt signifi
cant, the Hungarian Freemasons lately
, elected General Istvan Turk their Grand
Master effective, and Kossuth their hono
rary Grand Master. It may be recollected
that Turk distinguished himself in the
-'ltalian war of 1849, in the German war
of independence after’ that, in the Cri
mean war, and again in Italy and
Sicily,, in 1859 and. 1860, under his
friend Garibaldi, and now a general of
division in the army of Italy, is confessedly
the best among living Hungarian soldiers.
Of Kossuth we need not say a .word —his
fate seems bound up with that of his loved
and native Hungary. But, we repeat, it is
significant that, at this particular time,-two
such men as Turr and Kossuth should be
picked out by the Freemasons of Hungary
for the highest honorary offices in their
gift
Austria is becoming weak, too, in ano
ther direction. 4 Prussia, comparatively a
new sovereignty, actually not erected into
a kingdom until the year 1701, is now try
ing to supplant Austria as the leading Po w
.er of the Fatherland ; and when this is
viewed in connection with an united Italy
threatening to resume possession of Yene
tia, with the Russian empire pressing close
upor£her northern frontier, with Roumain
nationality growing up in the East,
with disaffection throughout her domi
nions, with mutiny kept down by force
in her most important provinces, with
bankruptcy looming not indistinctly in
the future, and with an army which she
can neither maintain nor relinquish, it
must be admitted that Austria has before
her a dreary future. We freely acknow
ledge the strange vitality which the empire
has shown in many a crisis of its fate; and
it is possible that the two-beaked eagle
may weather this storm, as it has weathered
others. But the circumstances, perhaps,
may help to account (independent of Ms
personal difficulties) for the readiness with
which the Archduke Maximilian made
solemn provision by the Family Pact,
waiving his succession to the Austrian
throne, and allowing a score of relatives
and all their, possible cfescendants the
chance of stepping into it. With very
commendable prudence, he also bargained
for a sort of rehabilitation in Austria,
should the experiment of founding an im
perial dynasty prove to be a failure. «
Gas—High Price and Low Quality.
' There is a strong agitation among the
gas consumers of London to obtain a re
duction in the price of gas. They c'dm
plain that Plymouth, wMch is much more
remote from the collieries than London is,
has cheaper and better gas, and the com
plaint is well founded. The pride in Lofl
don is four shillings and sixpence (a little
over a dollar) per thousand cubic feet,
while the price in Plymouth is only two
sMllings and nine pence, or about sixty
six cents of our money. Yet the manu
facture of gas in Plymouth is sufficiently
profitable to induce the capitalists who ate
engaged in it to continue, it. Contrast
either of the English prices with that paid
in FhiladelpMa, and how great is the dif
ference ! It may be said that we pay three,
times what is paid in London, where, in
order to swell the city revenue, every
ton of coal that enters, whether by
water or railroad, pays a considerable
tax. The coal which is used at our
gas-works pays no tax to the city, is abun
dantly found in Pennsylvania, and can be
readily brought Mther by the railroads,
without very heavy cost. It will take a
great deal of argument and proof to per
suade us that the price of gas in this city
is not too high.
Even this could be borne, now that
prices have gone up, if the quality was
good. The coal fromwMch gas is. made
in England varies in its yield of illumi
nating power. We find the following in
Chambers' Encyclopedia, a very reliable
work of reference; “ The English caking
coals yield from 8,000 to 10,000 cubic feet
of gas per ton, of illuminating power, va
rying from 10 to sperm candles to a
burner coifsnming five feet per hour. The •
English cannel coals yield about 10,000
cubic feet per ton, of illuminating power
from 20 to 24 sperm candles. The
Scotch. parrot coals are very various
in quality, yielding from 8,000 to 13,-
000 cubic feet, per ton, varying in
illuminating power from sixteen up' to
thirty-five candles. As a general rule, the
parrot coals, wMch yield the greatest quan
tity of gas, yield also the highest illumi
nating power.” In short, this power va
ries from the equivalent to ten sperm
candles np to that of forty, though either
extreme is rare, in England. The better
the coal, the better the gas, and economy
in the price of the raw material is no saving
injthe end.
In Edinburgh, where the-productive
Scotch coal is used, there is a legal re
quirement that a burner consuming five
cubic feet of gas per hour shall produce
an illuminating light equal to that 'of
eighteen sperm candles; hut, in London,
where English coal is employed; the pro
duce, required by law, is one-tMrd less—
namely, a light equal to that given by
twelve sperm candles. The prioe being
about the same in both places, the canny
Scot has by fer the best of -.the bargain.
Here, unfortunately, there is no legal
and therefore imperative requirement
as to the quantity, wMch means
the quality, of light to be yielded by the
gas. Hence, the quality is usually below
what it ought to be. Across the great
waters, if a British gas-consumer thinks
that he is supplied with an article not as
good as the law commands him to he sup
plied with, he can appeal to a sworn gas
examiner to test the quality, and, if that is
found-to be below the standard fixed by
law, the complainant'may go to the nearest
magistrate, submit the examiner’s affidavit
of the fact, and have the gas company fined
$lOO, for each offence,- payable without de
lay and without appeal. It is, therefore,,
the interest of the gas-makers to keep" their’
manufacture up to the mark—wMch can
be done by using good coal, and by sub
jeering it to the moat approved processes
by which it .is converted into gas, the re
siduum being coke. Abroad, this perpetual
check on the gas-makers works extremely
well. Here, where there is neither test nor
check, we have to submit to whatever sort
of gas may be given; It is “Hobson’s
choice”—that or nothing.
Another point should be remembered by
gas-consumers. The worse the gas, the
greater its consumption, to procure a desi
derated quantity of light, and, .of course,
the larger amount to be paid for it. Thus,
the gas-people have a positive interest in
making inferior gas. Consumers, espe
cially, during the last three months, won
der why they have been compelled, in or
s der to obtain the required light, to notice
the gas-offiee that the pressure must be in
creased. ■ The higher the pressure, the
greater the consumption, and the larger
the cost to us. Will no sensible, practical
man in', the State Legislature take this
matter of gas in hand, and introduce a bill
under wMch consumers may be assured of
getting their money’s worth of gas ? .
The Cartoons of Raphael.*
Raphael de Sanzio flourished in Rome,
early in the sixteenth century, fortunate in
having for his patrons two Popes who ap
preciated his wonderful genius. During
the last five years of the pontificate of Ju
lius 11., and subsequently under his suc
cessor, Leo X., (of whom an ample notice
is to he found in the new number of the
National Quarterly Review,) he had ample
employ ment from these great men. About
the year 1514,*'Leo , X. commissioned Mm
to execute cartoons (or full-size drawings
oh paper,) from, which the Flemish art
weavers were to make tapestries, equal in
merit to some already in the Yatican. Two
sets of tapestries were made from these car
toons—one set for the Pope, the other as a
gift to Henby YIII., the English King, who
had hot then quarrelled with Rome. Both
sets are in existence, but much inferior in
merit to the cartoons. One set is in Rome,
the other remained in England until
the death of Charles 1,, when’ his art
collection was distributed, and the
Spanish ambassador purchased his set
and took it to. Spain. Not very long
ago it was brought back to England,
and finally, not being sold there, was
re-conveyed to the Continent, where it
remains. There were twenty-five of the
original cartoons executed by Raphael,
of which only seven remain. Neglect,
time, and other causes led to the destruc
tion of the rest. Charles 1., who was
fond of the fine arts, employed Rubens
to purchase these seven for Mm in
Brussels, and, when the royal collection
was dispersed, Cromwell purchased them
for the British nation. They were not
very MgMy estimated at that time, for
“ The Triumph of Julius Gsesar,” by
Andrea Mantegna, wMch still be
seen at Hampton Court Palace, near Lon
don, was valued at two thousand pounds,
wMle Raphael’s cartoons were estimated
as worth only three hundred. William
111. had a gallery built in Hampton Court
Palace for them, where they have since
remained, and have long been esteemed
of the greatest value, among the nu
merous productions by the Old Mas
ters, which are to be seen in the pub
lic and private galleries of England.
Domenighino, the Cabacci, Andrea
Mantegna, and other great painters made
cartoons—all inferior to those of Raphael—
which are to be seen in the Palazzo Gual
tieri at Orvieto. Several of Raphael’s
lost cartoons' have been partially trans
mitted to us by engravings, some of which
were executed from the tapestries, and a
few, it is thought, from "the originals. The,
subjects of these are—l, The Adoration of
the Kings; 2. Christ appearing to Mary
Magdalene ; 3. The Disciples at Emmaus;
4. The Murder of the Innocents; 5, The
Ascension." In.the Ambrosian Library at
Milan is the original cartoon of Raphael’s
“ School of Athens,” the fresco of which
is in the Yatican. The Duke of Buccleugh
has another of Raphael’s cartoons,. and
the present King of Italy is said to possess
two belonging to the set, of wMch the
seven in Hampton Court Palace formed a
part, hut their authenticity is doubtful,
as is that of the portion of one in the
National Gallery in London, wMch is
spoiled by being painted over with oil-color.
Hampton Court Palace is Open to the
public, and easily and rapidly accessible
from London at all seasons. The .cartoons
are special objects of interest, curiosity,
and attraction there, and engravers and
photographers have made them familiar to
all the world. Their subjects are: 1. The
Death of Ananias; 2. Elymas struck with
Blindness; 3. Paul Preaching at Athens;
4. The Sacrifice at Lystra; 5. St. Peter
healing the Lame Man; 6. Christ’s Charge
to Peter; 7. The Miraculous Draught of
Fishes The London FublisMng and Print
ing Company, (whose American manager
is Mr. H. A. Brown, 487 Broadway, N.
Y.,) have employed Mr. G. Gbeatbach,
one of the best engravers in England, to
reproduce these - surprisingly fine drawings
in the line manner, and the result is by far
the most artistical production of its class
ever brought before the, public. A com
petent writer has contributed accompanying
letter-press, consisting of an Introduction
and Memoir of Raphael, and a descrip
tion, with the quotation illustrated, of each
cartoon. The plates are printed on fine
paper—l 7 by 12 inches—in a handsome
portfolio, sind the series is well adapted for
the drawiDg r room fable, the library folio,
or to be separately framed The seven car
- toons .at Hamptpn Court Palace are the only
ones, drawn by Raphael, whose authenti
city is unquestionable.
The price of the set, in a folio, is only
$lO, and a few sets of Artists’ Proofs are
offered for $l5. These prices are precisely
the same as now obtained, in England, by
the London Printing and Publishing -Com
pany— and, if imported at the present price
of exchange and the heavy duty leviable
under the new .tariff, would probably be
thrice as mucin But tMs publisMng esta
blishment is content to lay the foundation
for a very great business in this country,
by maintaining its old prices, without the
slightest increase.
* Tli© Cartoons of Bapbftel. Engraved by 0. Great*
bach, from the original at Hampton- Court Palace. Tke
London Printing and king Company, 1 United.
Pateraobtei Jtow; and (B, A. Brown, manager,) 487
Broadwaj, New York.
On Wednesday .last the Supreme Court
appointed Anthony J. Drexbl, Esq., an
Inspector of the Eastern State Penitentiary,
in the place of Dr. Samuel' Jones, de
ceased. This is a selection which every
one will approve, and is an admirable In
stance of the discrimination exercised by
the appointing power.
WASHINGTON.
ADMIRAL FABBAGBT IN THE SENATE,
THE ANTI-BLAVEBY AMEITDIIEIVT.
OUR NAVY ON THE LAKES.
vice admiral fakragut on the floor
OF THE SENATE,
Vice Admiral Fabbagut visited the Senate to
day In companywith Oaptaia Drayton, the com
mander of the Admiral’s flag-ship. The Senate, at
the instance of Mr. G-bimbs, the chairman of the
Committee on Navai Affairs, took a recess of ten
minutes in order to afford Senators an opportunity
of Intercourse with that distinguished officer. The
Vice Admiral afterwards visited tie House of Re
presentatives, where many members were intro
duced to him.
THE anti-slavery CONSTITUTIONAL amend-
At least six: members of the House have prepared
themselves to speak on the anti-slavery constitu
tional amendment, in-addition to those who have
already expressed their views. The vote will pro
bably be taken this week. The indications are that
it will be a close one. Its friends are not yet satis
fied that the result will be favorable to them.
THE INCREASED ARMAMENT ON THE LAKES.
The Senate to-day received a message’ from the
President, in reply to a resolution requesting infor
mation concerning an arrangement limiting onr na
val armament on the Northern iakeß. An enclo
sure from the Secretary of State refers for its history
to the American State papers, showing that the
limitation of the force to be maintained ivas sought
by this Government,and that though the conven
tion with Great Britain was somewhat informal,
as published in the revised statutes, yet.it appears,
on consulting the original papers, to have been duly
approved by the President, ratified by the
Senate, and proclaimed by law. The arrangement
was made between Richabd Rush, acting Secre
tary of State, and Ohables Bagot, British envoy
extraordinary.' . .
NO NOTICE REQUIRED WHEN EXTRA SESSIONS
OF CONGRESS ARE TO RE CALLED.
Several days slnce,_pn motion of Senator Pomb
kot, the Committee on the Judiciary was instructed
to inquire if any further legislation was necessary
to enable the President to call an extra session of
Congress to meet the necessity of any pnbllo emer-.
gency without the delay of giving sixty days' notice
to' the members elect. The committee was to-day
discharged from the consideration of the subject, as
no law could be found requiring the President to
give any notice .whatever. It will be recolleoted
that Congress having adjourned without passing the
army appropriation bill, President Pibbos issued a
proclamation oalllDgfor.an immediate extra session.
Some of the members had left the city on their way
,hoihe, btlt retTumed to Washington on tho Executive
summons. ' The sixty days' notice has'usually been
THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 18S5.
Washington, Jan. 12.
given to afford an opportunity to fin vacancies and
to enable far-distant members to rbaob-Washington.
THE AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR. NOYKM
BER AND DECEMBER.
The bi-monthly report of the. Commissioner of
Agriculture for November and December says:
“However great the loss of farm labor has been,
especially In the Western States, the nsdal amount
of wheat, rye, and barley has boon sown-. The
weather has been unusually favorable tor putting
these crops In, and hence the labor of the oountry
has had a longer time during which to operate. It
has been equally as favorable for the growth of
these crops, and should they escape freezing out,
the spring will open with the promise of an undl
mlnished yield of these Important staples,”
THE RETURNS OP THE NATIONAL DOANS.
Since the ten-forty loan closed, on Saturday, re
turns have been made to the Treasury amounting
to about $32,000,000. Thls-would leave outstanding
about $4,000,000 of the $200,000,000 loan. But as
other returns are to be made, the amount unoub
sorlbed will be still further reduced.
INTERNAL REVENUE DECISION*
The Commissioner of Internal Bevenne has de
cided that In States where the nnmber of bushels
for a ton of eoal Is specified by State laws, the offi
cers of Internal revenue will adopt the provisions
of the law to the assessment of the tax.
SENATE confirmations.
The Senate to-day in executive'session confirmed
the following Presidential nominations:
John Wilson, of Illinois, to be'third auditor or the
Treasury. ! .
Stoddart B. Colby, or Vermont, to be register iOf
-the Treasury.
' Elijah Sells, of lowa, to bo auditor of N the Trea
sury for the Post Office Department. -
. Robert S. Bantoul to be collector of eußtems tor
the district of Salem and Beverly, In Massachusetts,
vice Philips, resigned. : j
. Chauneey Harris to be postmaster atrElizabeth,
New Jersey. . - ■
Charles McCntoheon, postmaster at Peekaklll,
New York. - • •
XXXVTITth CONGRESS—Second Session.
, ’ -
The CHAIR laid before the Senate ftaaessage from the
President giving informatlon ae to an- agreement be
tween the united fatales and Great Britain concerning
the naval force on the laker, which was orderedlo he
printed. -
RESOLUTIONS" AND . IrBTITIONS. *’ * '■
, Hr. WILSON, of Massachusetts, presented the pell
tion of Mrs. Jane Swißhelm. an inorease of
pay for femsle clerks which was referred to the Pl
nance Committee. . • ; '
Mr. TBUMBULL . from the Judiciary Committee, to
whom was referred a. resolution Instructing the com
mittee to inquire if further necessary to
authorize the President to c&U an cftra session. of Con
gress without giving Bixty days’;'notice, reported and
asked to be dieckarged . y , ■
Mr. ?nunbtrU Bald the commtfies coaid find no-law
requiring the President to give slitydays ’ notteer -
Mr. POWBLL, of Kentucky, from'the Committee on.
the Judiciary, reported hack the petition of certain
railroad companies, a skin g permi *sion to build a bridge
serose the Ohio river, at Louisville, ,He asked that the
gatition ha referred to the Committedlm Post Ofices and
ostHoaos. So ordered.
Mr. THtJMBULL, of Illinois, "offered a resolution,
which was adopted, calling upon the heads of Depart
ments for information as to ihe amount paid by each for
attorneys and solicitors.
Mr. DOOLIITLE, of-Wisconsin. called up aresolu
tion in relation to the sale of Indian lands, limiting- the
price of the same, which was passed.
THB REPEAL OP THH REOIPBOCITT TRSATT.
On motion of Mr. fcUMSER, of Massachusetts. the
Senate proceeded to the consideration of the reeolation to
repeal the reciprocity treaty.
RESPECTS TO ADMIRAir 3?ARBAGHTT.
Mr. HOW?, of Wisconsin,'took the floor in opposition
to ihe repeal of the treaty.
At hair past one o’clock Mr. GRIMES, of lowa, inter
rupted Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, by asking that the
Senate take a recess often minutes to allow its 'members
to pay their respects to Vice-Admiral Farragut, who
was upon the floor. ..
The recess was taken.
THB OAtTSBS OF THE WILMINCtTOIf FAILURE. :
Hr. WILSON, of Massachusetts," offered tb« follow
in a, which was adopted:
Mesnittd, That the Committee on the Conduct of the
War be directed to inquire into the causes of the failure
of the late expedition to Wilmington, M. C,, and tore
port back to the Senate.
Mr. HOWE then resumed the floor, and continued to
address the Senate on the reciprocity treaty.
THB RECIPROCITY DEBATE OOXTINUBD.
Hr. MORRILL succeeded Mr. Howe, and advocated
the repeal of the treaty, which, he said, had been un
favorable to the interests of fchepeOpl© of Hew England.
He argued to show that. the treaty had been unequal in
its operations, and. that the advantages of it had been
reaped by Canada to a greater extent tban by thnlM
ted States.
Mr. UHARDLEB, of Michigan, favored a repeal of the
treaty. The Board of *1 race or Detroit did not repre
sent the people of Michigan when they opposed its re
peal. .They represented ooly the Interests or merchants:
but the iarm*ra of Michigan were not in favor of the
twfttJa The people of Canada had been in sympathy
with the rebellion ever since it commenced, and this
war another reason why the action, recommended by
tl e Committee on Foreign Relations should betaken.
, Mr. FOOT, of Vermont, said he could see no occasion
for protracting a debate on a question on which U could
hardly be said there was divided opinion in Con
gross or the country. While the treaty had proved
ighly beneficial to the interests of the people of
Canada, it had proved prejudicial to the inters* ts of the
people of the United States. It was not reciprocal, only
in Maine.
Mr. HALE the repeal of the treatv.
stating that its advantages had been reciprocal, and not
one-sided, as ropre«ented by many Senators.
Mr. HA LB, after some remarks against the repeal,
moved to refer the subject to the Committee of Finance.
Mr. DOOLITTLE explained why he thould vote for
the resolution. He said the new revenue system of the
Government demanded the abrogation of the treaty.
Mr. WiLSOH said he had prepared an amendment
providlng that, instead of - repealing the treaty, a com*
mission be appointed to make a new treaty.
Further remarkswere made on the subject-by Messrs.
CCHRB&S, RIDDLE and HEHDEIO two former
in favor of the repeal of the treaty, and the latter
against it
Amotion to refer to the Judiciary Committee waslost.
The yeas and nays were called on the passage of the
resolution which resulted~yeas 31, nays 8. - ' ’
Thore voting in the negative were Messrs. BtiokaleWl
Dixon. Hale, Hendricks, Hicks, Howe, Ramsay, and
Van Winkle. ■ *
SUSPENSION OF. PAY.
Mr. HARLAH, of lowa, offered a resolution instruct
ing ihe Secretary of War to suspend all pay and alio st
ances of the offleereof the,command of Col Cnevlng
ton, of Colorado, until -an investigation of the conduct
of Col. Chevisgtonin the late attack on an Indian camp
shall take place, and thai -all articles taken from the
Indians shall he returned. Ordered to be printed.
The Senate then went into executive session, and soon
after adjourned.
HOUSE OF BEPKESENTATIVES.
Mr. BLIOT, of Massachusetts, Introduced a substi
lute for the. bill for the reorganization of the rebel
Slates, providing that none of them shall he allowed to
resume Bheir political relations until loyal citizens or
ganize a government republican In form, and forever
prohibiting involuntary slavery; and farther providing
that Louisiana shall resume her political relations under
her Constitution adopted April, 1564.
The substitute was ordered to he printed.
THK ABOtTTION OF StAVxfiv.
The House resumed the consideration of the proposed
conetuullchalamendment. ' -
Mr. SMITH, of Kentucky, felt it his duty, to lay aside
all personal cousldei ations and prejudices, and devote
himself alone to his country, hie whole country. No
thing, he contended, was more destructive to our peace
Iran the ultia decrine of Stats rights which had re
cently been proclaimed in this House. This doctrine,
if carried out, wonld subvert alii the’principles of the
Government and republicanism, and bring us to’ the
position of perfect despotism ana ruin. Hs denied the
argument ortho gentleman from Ohio (Mr, Pendleton),
that the right of revolution exists at all times; hut add
ed. any people would he. justifiable in resorting to the
right of revolution whenever the Government becomes
to oppressive and despotic as not to be borne,and when
there are no other means of redress!
Yet, gentlemen horeArsijold and audacious enough
to go a step beyond the most ultra bout! era llre-eatare,
It was the duty of Congress to pass jhis joint resolution
in order to afford the people an opportunity of passing
upon the amendment, and it was the doer, of the people
to adopt it. We should destroy slavery, root and
branch, as soon as possible. We must have the Union
without slatery, andno vote of Ms should be given bat
th&t which looks to the utter, cbeoltlte, and uncondi
tional abolition of slavery throughout tha ' osited
States. Hethanhed God he had seen the day when we
tan wipe out slavery, and Kentucky, acquiescing in
the act, will stand among the proudest Suites Of the
onion. • v.
Mr. Smith also spoke of the advantages which would
resnltJroin free labor.ln the Sonth,-.hothln an economic
and t atriotic aspect. If the negroes now in Kentucky
were taken out of the State, net a man there would raise
his voire' against It. He repeated! he was In favor of
the amendment, because he wanted a permanent peace
by removing the distracting cause. He had a ways
thought we wculd be sufficiently able to luppressthe
rebellion. This would be done, and then we could
march to Mexico and possess It or give it to the negroes
as a heritage of their victory over the I’tench. Wictn
and will do It. Napoleon .had better look well to his
interests an d MaxijmUlau to his.throne The nefarious
and.abominable doctrine of State right? will be wiped
out, and then we will have one Government of one peo
ple over all the States, free and . independent, every
State owing and rendering allegiance to the Govern
ment, and all stronger than ever before in our history.
Mr. COX, of Ohio, said the administration party had
made an anti-slavery ameidmtnt to the Constitution a
part of their political creed, while the opposing party
at Chicago proposed as their Issue the cessation of hos
tilities with a view to the calling of a National Conven
tion, in pnzsnanceof the fifth article of-ihs Constitution.
Begarding this as the most practical, that Convention
wamdau other questions. In easting his vote nomi
nating Mr. Pendleton for the Vice Presidency, he knew
that gentleman-endorsed the cessation of hostilities
ana the calltngrof a Convention.. Ifthic colleague had
been elected to the offlee which he wduld have graced
so well, be might new be appealing to,tbe people North
and South to call a Convention of all the people. The
North would have yielded, and his information was
that the South would not hold back, '
He proceeded to argue why, in a state of war, he was
opposed to making eneh a, radical amendment, but not
questioning the power to mal e it. If he thought that
'ey voting for the amendment he conldsave the Union,
he would do so though all the devils Berth and South
should expend their wrath egainstTdm, but he would
appeal to gentlemen to say whether he was bound to
’ vote for it if he believed its adoption would prolong the
war. He admitted the power under the guards of the
Constitution to establish slavery or ties institutions,
or entire monarchy or entire democracy, but he had no
fears teat the people v ould destroy tli-it liberties.
Mr. WOODBKIDGE, of Vermont, referring to Mr.
Cex, said ho regretted that a man who had always
lived upon Ntrtbern soil* and always lived the Union
se he did, thould, while admitting the.power, be un
willing to vote for an-&mendment to blot fiom the face
of the Government the only relie of barbarism which
blots and impairs Us beauty. He then argued the qnes
tion of the power to pass the pending resolution, de
nying, that it would interfere with vested rights.
Slavery had sought to strike a death-blow at the na
. tional life, and to overthrow the Government. - Could
if, therefore, he said that there was noipower to pro
gise a constitutional amendment to remove the danger ?
e thongtt not. To preserve the national, existence it
Is competent to say that slavery shall not. exist as pro
perty. Ho argued in favor of the poller l of passing the
joint resolution, declaring that slavery lots been tried
at the bar of Omnipotence and found waoijhg-
Mr. TRAYIR, of Pennsylvania, rsefegridio the argu
ments Which had been urgedomthsoppaetteside against
the resolution, and characterized the argument or Fer
nando Wood as infernal, which the gwntleman hgd
backed up by endeavoring to show that toe best way to
civilize savages was to make them and their ehtlaren
slaves to the remotest generation. He denied thav the
grant of power in the Constfntlon is limited, and era
unded, on the contrary, that ills an unlimited power!
in common with other powers' granted teethe Cosstltn-i:
tion. The people "held their liberties under theirowni
protecion and keeping, and if men cqme here and*
abuse their t.nst, and enact Immoral and-Unjust law*,
which subvert ihe free institutions ,of. Society, the !
remedy is with the people They would ejear this hall
of all such men, and send others to pass daws mac- 1 ,
ctrdanee with their welfare andjuetlco. - ;
Copgi ess did not propose to interfere, hut ,to afford an
opportunity to the people to say whether slavery shall
be abolished. If three-fourths of the States so declare,
they have the right under atd according to the forme of
the Constitution. ~ - ■ >
In the course.of his argument Mr THUYBR expressed
Mb regret that the gentleman from Ohio (Hr. Pemdle
ton). Si sustaining his views with regard tothe uncon
stitutionalliy ef the resolution should have Been driven
by stress of hie argument to resort to thaWW, and he
had trusted, that fast dying fallacy which had led nsto
our present troubles. ’
The House adjourned at 4 o'clock.
ISEESOB IN MISSOURI.
A MESSAGE FROM MISSOURI—SHE GREETS BEE
“ELDEST SISTEE” PENNSYLVANIA IN THE NEW
LIGHT OF FREEDOM—DESPATCHES .BETWEEN
GOVERNORS CDBTXrt AND FLBTOHBB.,
Harrisburg, Jan. 12.—The following despatch
was received by Governor Curtin to-day:
- Jefferson Ony, Mo., Jan. 11.
Tothe Governor of Pennsylvania: f :
Free Missouri greets her eldest sister. ,
T. O. Fletcher, Governor of Missouri.
Governor Curtin sent the following reply; |
To his Excellency T. C. Fletcher, Governor of Mis-
sonri, Jefferson Oity: , / : j
Forms) Ivasla, the first-born of freedom! welcomes!
her disenthralled sister State of Missouri,redeemed]
in the agony of the nation amid the throes of, 1
wanton rebellion. Her offering to liberty comes
baptized in her riohest blood, and will be aooeptod
by a falthfdl and free people as one of the. crowning
tributes to her matchless heroism and sacrifices to
preserve and perpetuate our eommoiAiationaUty.
A. G. Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania.
Democratic Nominations In New Harrrp-
Ookooed, N. H., Jan. 12.—The Democratic State
Convention to-day nominated E, W. Harrington, of
Manchester, for Governor; and O. A. G. Vaughn
for Railroad Commissioner. In the Second Con
greselonal district tho Democrats nominated D. w.
lark for Congress, and. in the Third, district B,
Blrgham. <■
THE WAR.
THE RULE OF SHERMAN IN SAVANNAH.
Unwilling Compliments Extorted from the
Mel Press.
HIS OBSERS IMPERATIVE—HH ACTS JUSTICE.
ANOTHER HEW MOVEMENT BY HIS ABMY,
landing or the major part at Beanfort.
CONTINUED DESERTIONS FROM IEE’S ARMY.
The Seamen Abandoning Ship, on the James.
His Cavalry Rebuilding the Weldon Railroad.
BXCEBBEB OF FOBBEST’S CAVAbBY IK KENTUCKY
AND TENNESSEE.
His lea Killing, Stealing, and Conseripting,
NEWS FROM IHE SOUTH TO, THE 10TH,
Aterestttg Facts from Many Quarter*.
CBNIBAI BHEB3UIPS ABMY.
AN ARRIVAL OF PART AT BEAUFORT*^
New Yoke, Jan. 12,—The steamer.O. O. Collins,
from Fort Royal with dates to the Tth, inis arrived.
A part of Gen. Sherman’s army, from Savannah,
had arrived at Beanfort by water.
GENERAL OK ANT’S ARMY.
ABBIVAL OF DESERTERS AND CONTRABANDS—THE
SBBBL OAVALRY IN —TUB
WBLDON RAILROAD BRING RbRiLT, V
Hhadquabtbbb Abut ox the Potomac,
Jan. 9,— Several deserters arrived to-day, besides
a large squad of contrabands, to the most wretched
condition Imaginable. They had travelled a long
distance to the rata and mad, and were dbjeots of
rplty to all who saw them. They report that the
rebel cavalry have withdrawn to Hicksford, on the
Weldon-Ballroad, where they are to winter quar
ters. They wore compelled to fall back to this
point, owing to the lack of forage between there
and Beam’s Station, and also for lack of transpor
tation, owing to the destruction of the railroad In
that district by General Warren. They however
picket as far as Beam’s Station,’ta the west side
of Hatcher’s Bun, with a division of Hill’s corps,
'located on the Boynton plank road. They have
been vely busy preparing the railroad north or
Hlcksiord for the relaying of the rails, bat as yet
none have been pat down, probably because they
do not possess them.
BXBSIi SEAMEN DESERTING—THE REBEL FLOTILLA
, v . EE. THB JAMBS. '
Among a party of rebel deserters who arrived to
Washington yesterday from City Point were several
of the erew of toe rebel gunboat Blohmond, who
report that ■ that vessel is lying above Chapsn’s
Bluff, on toe James river, with scarcely a sufficent
complement of men to work her, toe desertions
among her orew having been so numeftras within a
monthpast. ” p-.
TENNESSEE.
THE STATE CONVENTION UNANIMOUS' FOB ABOLI
TION AND PARSON BEOWNEOW.
Cincinnati, Jan. 12.— The Tennessee Convention
has harmonized East Tennessee, yielding the point
of repiesentatlon and rescinding toe vote of the first
day. The Business Committee reported a series of
amendments to toe Constitution, and recommended
their immediate submission to the popular vote.
The mlnorltyreport depreeated party action, denied
toe power of the Convention to propose toe amend,
meat, and called upon the Government to summon
a convention of one hundred delegates to revise toe
Constitution. No action was taken. TheConventlom
is unanimous for Immediate, abolition and Parson
Brownlow for Governor.
FOBBEST’S MEN MUBDBBpfG AND CONSCRIPTING
IN TBNNEBSBB AND KENTUCKY —SUPPOSED BE-
BEL DESIGNS ON PADUOAH.
Cairo, Jan. 12.— Forrest is represented to be con
centrating a large fosse at Paris, Tenn. A great
nnmber of his men are hovering aronnd their homes
in Tennessee and Kentucky, oonaoripting, robbing,
and murdering Union men. Rumors prevail of a
large force being organized to attack Paducah
again.
GUERILLAS FIRING ON OUB MISSISSIPPI STEAMBBS.
Caibo, Jan. 12.— The steamer Armada, from
Evansville, reports that Uniontown, Ky,, is to the
possession of guerillas, who were firing Into passing
Bteameis.
KENTUCKY.
OPERATIONS AGAINST GUERILLAS.
. Louisville, Jan. 12.— The Journal says that a
few days ago toe rebel Major Taylor sent a Sag of
truce into Hardensburg to assist toe -Home Guard
to protect that town against guerillas. His offer
was aoeepted, and he is now operating In conjunc
tion with -toe Home Guards against Davidson’s
gang. -
GEN. GRIERSON’S BAUD.
puetbe£ particulars concerning bssults—a
‘ FORTIFIED POSITION OAKBIED BY ASSAULT, AND
800 MEN CAPTURED—BOMB OF HOOD’S SUPPLIES
DBSTHOTBn, BTC.
Oaibo, Jan. 12.—The following further particu
lars of the recent raid have been derived from a re
liable source:
Onr forces brought In 700 prisoners, including two
oolonels and a large number of other officers, 1,000
able-bodied negroes, and 1,600 horses. Among the
prisoners were many officers, Including Brigadier
General G. Holson, i .
A fortified place called Egypt, on the Mobile and
Ohio. Railroad, was carried by assault, and the
garrison of five hundred rebels captured, whilst the
rebel General Gardner was in sight with two
thousand infantry, which General Grierson held at
bay. Colonel Karger’s..brigade charged the stock
ade on horseback, and fired over the top till Grier
son surrounded It.
The whole country was In arms by this time, and
forces were even brought from Maeon, Georgia.
Hampered by the large number of prisoners, and
opposed by greatly superior forces, Grierson could
not go to Oahawba-and release our prisoners, as
directed by General Dana, but struck for Grenada,
and then for Vicksburg. -
Forty miles o'f the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was
so badly damaged that Hood’s whole army cannot
repair It In a month. ■
New pontoons, new wagons, and a large amount
of supplies en. route for Hood’s army were destroyed
in the oars, besides the factories destroyed at Bank
ton, containing a large amount of doth, wool,
leather, and shoes, the railroad and public property
at Grenada, 800 wagons, and 600 new English car
bines for Forrest.
General Grierson’s losswas twenty-five killed and
eighty wounded,
NEW ©EK.EAWS
GENERAL ITEMS OF BUSINESS NEWS.
Caibo, Jan. 12.—The. steamer Niagara, from New
Orleans, has arrived, with the sth Regiment of New
Hampshire Volunteers, en route for home, and
thirty-five rebel prisoners, among whom are five
female smugglers bound for Alton.
- The steamship Oreole was to leave for New York
on the etb, and the Morning Star on the 7th.
In tho New Orleans market there was some in
quiry for cotton at low prices, hut no sales; no
bales had arrived at Havana from Matamoros-
Clarified sugar was quoted at 21K@2Sc. Prime
molasses $1.20. The produce market was very dull.
Larkin W, Roy, who murdered District Surgeon
D, G, Saddler, was hung at Eaton Rouge on the
30th ult. -
REBEL NEWS.
SHERMAN'S BULB IN SAVANNAH—THE CITIZENS
PROTECTED IN PBBSON AND PROPERTY—MO3B
RY BHCOVEBING PKOM HIS WOUND.
Washington, Jan. 12.— The Richmond Whig, of
the 10th, contains the following Items:
FROM SAVANNAH.
The Angusta Chronicle and Sentinel, of the Sth
instant, publishes a number of news Items derived
ftom a gentleman who left Savannah the Ist
Instant. The most perfect order is maintained in
the city. No soldier is allowed to Interfere with the
citizens In any particular. "
A citizen was arrested by a drunken soldier a few
days since. The citizen knocked the soldier down.
The officer of the guard, as soon as he arrived, said
nothing to the Mtlzeii, but had the soldier taken to
the.bafracks, gagged, and soundly whipped ibr his.
misbehavior. A drunken soidler who undertook to
create a disturbance recently, and who refused to
allow himself to be arrested, was shot down at once
by the guard.
One or two of the Insurance companies of Savan
nah are considering the project of establishing a
National Bank, for theissue of “greenbacks.” The
custom house and the post office are being cleaned
out preparatory to the commencement of business.
The Boldlers are not allowed, under any circum
stances, to enter private residences. The negroes-
In most cases are orderly and quiet, remaining
with their owneur and performing their customary
duties.
One store with goods from the North has already
been opened, Nothing but greenbacks are in circu
lation. The churches on Sunday are well filled
with ladles. On week-days, however, but few of
them are seen on the streets.
A majority of the male population have remained
lin the city. The families of most of those men who
tosave left soil remain. A majority of the citizens
have provisions for some time, but there is a scarci
ty of wood. ' -
'.General Sherman has announced.that he will
sion open the Savannah and Gulf Railroad, and
haul wood to the olty. No pass Is allowed to any
male person to go towards the olty. All remales
who are caught going towards the city are thorough
lysearohed.
Eleven hundred loaves of good bakers’ bread which
had been collected for the soldiers of the army, but
for 'which authorized agents did not eall, were on
Thursday turned over tothe poor associations,by
tbe committee acting id behalf of the soldiers’ din
ner, and were yesterday distributed to the poor. It
was ti nly a providential gift, for the eity Is entirely
out of of every kind, and for days past
has been unable to issue a pound of meal or ftour to
the hundreds who were sorely in need of them.
The Whig says: «We are glad to hear, through
the Virginian, of the arrival of Colonel- Moseby at
lils father’s residence, In Amherst. His wound Is
doing well, and he expects to be able to return to a
Short time. The Yankees will have another acoount
to settle when he gets back.’’
THE FORT OAINEB PBISONEBS EXCHANGED—THE
IBNNEBSEE RAILROAD BEING .BEPAIRED —THE
VIRGINIA SALT WOBKS TO BE SOON AGAIN IN
OPBBATION—GENS. HILL AND BEAUREGARD AT
OHABLBSTOH.
Washington, Jan. 12— Midnight.— I The following
is from. late Richmond papers:
Mdlma, Jan, 6.—The Fort Gabies prisoners
reaehed this city last evening. Major Oaroel, the
Assistant Commander of Exchange, has Issued an
order deolarteg them exchanged.
We learn that a large body of hands have been
employed on the Tennessee Kaffromi,J®P alr
'damage oaused by the late ra j a ® f f ,
work wUI be pushed forward with aU toe mobs.
touted energy of Col. Bowen and
and it Is hoped the repairs will be completed within
the next tlx weeks or two months.
A gentleman jnst from Saltville Informs .
Lynchburg Virginian that the works can be put in
operation agato.ln two weeks.
The damage done by toe enemy was not of a se
rious oharaoter. Gen. D. H. Hill has reported to
Beauregard at Charleston.
CINCIK NATL
THE OHIO LBOISLATUBE IN FAVOB OF THB TOTAL
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY—TESTIMONIAL TO SHEE-
HAN— BOLDIBBB FURNISHED BY OHIO.
Cincinnati, Jan. 12.—A resolution has been
passed by the Ohio Legislature, asking Congress to
adopt toe proposed amendment to toe Constitution
for toe abolition of slavery.
A meeting of prominent citizens of toe State was
held at Columbus yesterday, to take measures to
present to Gen. Sherman a testimonial of $lOO,OOO
in United Stateß stooka.
The Auditor’s report shows that toe whole num
ber of soldiers and marines furnished by the State
of Ohio has been 211,600; died to toe service, 18,500;
disabled, 8,000. -
CALIFOBKIA.
EXHIBITION OF THE ART UNION —THE REVENUE TO
THK GO VHRE MEKT VEOM THH BTATK.
San Fbanoibco, Jan, 12.—The California Art
Un ton, lately organized In this city, opens Its first
exhibition to-day, with 180 paintings, many of
which are by resident artists. The enterprise bids
fa£ to be a success.,
The annual report shows the total revenue of the
General Government, on the coast of the Pacific,
to be'about #9,000,000, and the total disbursements
*648,000, The duties collected on Imports amount:
e'd to nearly *6,000,000 in gold. Total coinage at
the mint, *16,000,000. The receipts of gold from
California show no abatement. The entire product
of gold and sliver from all the Pacific mines Is
about fifty-five millions, _
MORE RUMORS OF PEACE.
TIB REPORTS AND HEARSAYS GATHERED HP,
WHAT FOUNDATION THEN HATE, AND WHAT
' CLAIM TO BtfMKF.
When the Messrs. Blair departed for the front
before Petersburg, a thousand tongues at once
went a-wagglng, and as many rumors of approaoh-
Ing peace and calm negotiations and propositions
and delegations, ad libitum, went outover the coun-
try, to delight, In [the end'only to disappoint./ As.
we stated some days ago, Mr. F. P, Blair has again
gone down to Petersburg, and his movements are
again the signal lor an avalanehe of the phrases
“It is reported,” and “It Is said.” Simultaneous
with the departure of Mr. Blair, Is noted that of
General Singleton, a prominent Peace Democrat of
Illinois. “Puttwo and two together and they will
make four,” say mathematicians; “consider together
the movements of Messrs. Blair and singleton
and they mean peace,” cry the quid mines. The New
York World pretends to he entirely oertaln on the
subject, and states with careful precision the “exact
truth” of the matter. Its Washington correspon
dent says:
Mr. Blair has goneto.the rebel capital with the
full knowledge and consent or President Lincoln,
Mud Is clothed with all the authority requisite for
opening negotiations with Jeff Davis, with a view to
restore peace to the country. There Is no doubt
about this, nor wiU the rebel authorities be the least
Incredulous of Mr. Blair’s official character when
he shows his credentials. It Is also true that his
instructions as to the terms to be offered-to the
Blehmesd Government are embraced within these
three distinct propositions, eaoh and all of which
are final, viz: -
X. Amnesty to all, without regard to age, sex, or
position, and irrespective of what he dr they may
have done since the war began. Thlß includes all
the rebel civil and military officials,from Jeff Davis
down.
2, The Constitution os it is and the Union as it was.
Of course, some radical changes in both the Union
and the Constitution have been made by the party
now in power,’which will not be altered in the least.
But the point Is that the South Is to-be permitted to
return to the Union with all the rights and privi
leges which It held before any of the States seceded.
3. The total abolition of slavery. From this point
the President will not retract one lota. He does
not Insist upon the Immediate abolition of slavery,
hut he does Insist that such measures be taken by
the Southern States as will secure its extinction
within a reasonable length of time. This is a sine
qua non of the restoration o! peace. Such are the
chief leatnres ol the propositions which Mr. Blair
Is authorized to lay before the Confederate autho
rities.
This assumption of perfect knowledge by the oor
retpondent, when taken with the resolutions passed
In the rebel Congress on the 17th ult., forms a foun
dation upon whioh the despatches we print below
rest their chief claim to attention. Theseresolutlons
were offered by Mr. J. T. McMullen, of Georgia,
Snd are very verbose. The main resolution, indeed
the only one, as It was preceded by half a dozen
whereases, reads:
Resolved, That while It Is not expedient, and would
be Incompatible with the dignity or the Confederate
States, to send commissioners to WashingtonUlty
for the purpose of securing a cessation of hostilities,
yet it would be, in the judgment of this body, emi
nently proper that the Home of Representatives of the
Confederate States should despatch, without delay, to
some convenient point, a body.of commissioners, thir
teen m number, Composed of.one representative from
eaoh of said Stateß, to meet and confer with such in
diviiuals as may be appointed by the Government of
the United States in regard to all outstanding ques
tions of difference between the two Governments,
and to agree, if possible, upon the terms of a lasting
and honorable peacej 'subject to the ratification or the
respective Governments and of the sovereign Statffe
respectively represented therein.
In offering this, Mr. McMullen made a speeoh, of
which the followlng ls an abßtraot:
He addressed the House at considerable length,
urging the policy and the propriety of the Govern
ment proposing some terms of peace to the United
States Government. He believed this to be an un
holy-uncivilized, barbarous war, and thonght that
the Government should exhaust all means consistent
with its honor for the attainment of a speedy peace.
He had Information of a very important character.
He had information from Bishop Lay that General
Grant tad signified to him that any commissioners
appointed by the Confederate Government would
b'received bv the United States authorities at any
point they might designate, and that an equal
number of commissioners or persons would be ap
pointed on the par* or the. South to meet them, to
have a free and full Interchange of views upon the
subject or peace. Mr. McMullen proceeded to urge
that our Government should take some Initial steps
looking to bringing the war to a termination.’ Go
vernor Brown, and Vice President Stephens had
said that we were unwilling tq open negotiations with
the enemy for securing a peace. Let the Govern
ment open negotiations for peace. Let Congress
despatch Its commissioners Into the enemj’g lues;
let us show to the world that we are willing to ac
cept an honorable peace, and the mouths of Gover
nor Brown and his friends will be stopped.
Rumor, with these remarks, and the action of the
rebel House as a basis, avers that a commission has
actually been appointed as recommended to the re
solution,.and that It will meet Mr. Blair and such
others or high position who may have gone to the
lines of General Grant, and who are fully In pos
session of the ideas and policy of our Government,
All the names of this commission are not given, hut
nearly all the reports agree on those or at least,
nine: W. C. Rives, of Virginia; Deceit and Gill,
more, of North Carolina; Boyce and Orr, or South
Carolina; Judge White, of Georgia; Smith and
Singleton, of Mississippi, and A. H. Stephens, the
rebel Vice President.
Most of the minors end at this point, a conference
between the rebel commissioners acting for their
Piesident (Davis) and onr commissioners. But there
is one which goes far beyond this, and to effect con
tradlots all those which we have justgiven. Instead
of negotiation, it talks of surrender; instead of com
missioners, it speaks of dictators. It roads:
IMPORTANT NEWS—CALL FOB A CONVENTION OF
THB SOFTHBSN STATES—DAVIS TO BE DEPOSED
AKD A DIOTATOH APPOINTED.
Washington, Jan. 12.—A gentleman in this
city, who has seen the Richmond Enquirer of Tues
day, says that that paper mentions that a call is
ont for a Convention of the States, and the inten
tion of the authors is to revolutionize the rebellion,
depose Mr. Davis—without Congress appoints a
dictator—and perhaps surrender to the enemy.
■ Ingenuity may torture the departure of Blair, or
Singleton, or Smith, Into a peace mission, simply
because a few weeks before the ’ rebel Congress
passed a series of resolutions that are at best with
out meaning, so far as a restoration of the Union Is
concerned. But when there Is such a manifest con
tradiction as appears on comparison of the above
despatch, which is hours later than those referred
to at the beginning of this article, a good deal of
doubt is thrown on tho adthentlelty of thewhole
batch. The following Is the latest received on the
subject, and favors the doubting view:
THE PEACE RUMORS.
During the argument of Mr. Cox, of Ohio, to tho
House of Representatives to-day, he alluded to the
various rumors of persons going to Richmond for
the purpose of arranging a peace; but ho remarked
that the gentleman behind him (Mr. Fernando
Wood) had just said there was no truth in them.
Appbabanoe of thb Battle-field of Frank
lin.—The Nashville correspondent of the Cincin
nati Commercial writes: “ I lately passed over and
examined the field where was fought, November
30, one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles, for the
numbers engaged, ef the whole war. The carnage
among, the rebels must have been fearful. All
-along In front of the breastworks on which they
?} la _ r £‘;d, for several rods deep, the graves are
elustered thick ss to the most populous pot
ter’s-field of.,the Old World; As the rebels oc
cupied the field after the fight, they had abund
ant leisure to bury their dead decently, hence
there are none of those disgusting and revolting ex
hibitions that sometimes shook the beholder, but he
cannot repress a feeling of unfeigned sadness at the
thought that in the short space of four hours all
these multitudes were slaughtered in a vain strug
§le to accomplish the command of a madman. The
reastworks cross the Franklin pike at aright an
gle, and lt was right down this road and on either
side of it that the rebels charged In a solid phalanx
five lines deep. Behind the works lay the 23d
Corps, the 3d, Division to the left, the 2d Divi
sion to the right. In front of them the
destruction was far more terrible than else
where. They occupied a sort of salient to the
works, which projected forth and met the brunt
of the attack like a great rock to the edge of the
sea. The country Is level and perfectly open, and
the halls took full effect. Our men were crowded
so densely behind the works that those In the front
did nothing but fire the pieces which were loaded
by their comrades ,to the rear. It needs only
that one should look at tbe abattls of brash which
lay In front of them to learn what a deadly tor
rent oflead-filled all the Mr. To use the homely
comparison of one who helped In that day’s
work, l lt looks just as though it had been run
through a threshing machine,’ and so It does. >A
grove of Bmalllocusts just to the roar of our works
aPPSMaoce as It might IT a visitation,
oi nan had boon followed by one or locusts, and af
of Dark and limb picked off. The rebels buried their
dead by regiments; to rows parallel to the road.
They made the graves about eighteen inoheadeen.
and separated by a thin wall or earth. Some reiri.
monte number as many as fifty killed outright. The
whole number of dead, according to their own con
fession. Is about one thousand seven hundred aod
fifty. The working party, detailed for the purpose,
were occupied to their ghastly work fine, days und
nights. Each grave is marked by a little hoard,
with the name, company, and .regiment oarefullv
cut in It.”
—Louis Andes, who for, many yeans was the fa
vorite tenor of the Austrians, died at Ylenna tost
month. The poor felloe? was out of his senses, and
ho. is said to nave terribly the tost iiayjQf
THE EEGIBEA.TUBE.
QUBBB CYTABAOTKK OF BOAS ALBEADT OFFB3BD,
AMD LIKBLT TO BE—THB ATTEMPT TO OOSTBOL
THE BIVSBB OF OUB BTATB—A HEW PHELADEL
FBIA PABK BILL on THB TAPIH—WHO VI7R
THBBB IT, ABD WHVI
C&peclxl Correspondence of The Proie. j
Harrisburg, January 12,1865,
The rapidity with which, bills are offered In both
honses, and the projects which, It Is already whis
pered, will be brought to the attention of the mem
bers, have astonished even the old brethren of the
“ring,” who It was believed oould not be sur
prised at any scheme, however stupendous. Some
of these projects have already been mentioned to
yon, but there Is every reason to believe that others
which are now concocting wllljbeforo many weeks,
'be sufficiently matured to W acted npon, and pro
bably legalized. The locations to bo affected
are cnmerons, and even the citizens of Phila
delphia will find, npon awakening from their glum
bers some morning, that their taxes have been in
creased for the benefit of a few speculators, who
have sacrificed the public weal for self-aggrandize
ment. The amendment to the Constitution, voted
upon and adopted by a large majority at the Octo
ber election, is actually of such little Importance
that the good people of the Commonwealth might
as well have saved themselves the trouble of easting
their ballots In Its favor. The title of a Bill ex
presses but little more of the substance or purport
of the bill than it did before the adoption of the
amendment, and members are kept just asjmuoh
In the dark as to what they are voting on, unless
they read the different manuscripts or listen atten
tively while the olerk reads them, as of yore. No
better proof ofthls Is needed than the faet that only
yesterday a small document of half a dozen lines
was read, which in its tltle-and single section mere
ly provides for the repeal of a portion of an
act passed several -years since; and yet, when
the statutes or fifteen years ago are examined, It Is
ascertained that, by the enactment of this single
section, the Commonwealth will be empowered to
grant letters patent for the occupation of the beds
of rivers, and also, of course, for their sale. Many
of your readers will doubtless ask what can be
gained to any man’s pockets by holding the title to
a quantity of land fifty or a hundred feet below the
surface of the water; but they must remember that
much of this water flows through counties where
every foot of land, however high or low it may be,
has an Immense‘'value, real or Imaginary. Cribs,
too, may be erected In these waters, and before
many months have elapsed we would find the large
streams which wind through, the different oil re-*
glons of onr State filled with stone or wooden
structures, unsightly evidences of the cupidity or
mankind. That such will be the resnlt of any en
actment which takes from the State the power to
prohibit the occupation of the beds of large streams,
there cannot be the shadow ol a doubt.
Many of the citizens of Philadelphia are necessa
rily, from their Investments In Venango, Warren,
Greene, and other petroleum-producing counties,
deeply interested’ln any hill which will give such
unlimited powers to the persons who would by the
repeal of one act or the passage of another oorae
Into the possession of this mass of submerged earth,
but I desire to call attention to another project, la
which not only many of yonr oltlzens, but the large
majority of them, are particularly Interested. It Is
that which has for Its object the creation of a new
park on the west side of the Schuylkill, extending
along the river bank-from CallowhlU street to
Columbia avenne, and extending back to a point
not yet named. The elty, by the Act or Consolida
tion, has already the power to purchase land for
such a purpose, bnt there 1b evidently some appre
hension that the Councils will not purchase this
particular tract of hill aud dale, and an attempt Is
to be made to flank them by the passage of an act
which will compel them to buy the same at a sum
which will of course put an Immense “pile”
into the pockets of somebody, notwithstanding
the value of the land is to be appraised previous to
the purchase. Your correspondent has nothing to
say as to the propriety or necessity of Philadelphia
Increasing her number of “ public breathing places,”
as that is to be decided by the tax-payers of the city;
but the manner of bringing about the purchase is cer
tainly most reprehensible. The gentlemen from the
other portions of the State who will be called upon
to vote upon the measure can have no earthly inte
rest In a projectso entirely local, and It is neither
just nor right that they should be given the oppor
tunity to increase the taxes of the residents of Phila
delphia. That the bill will be offered there Is not a
doubt, but whether It will be passed is a question
the future only can answer. But it must be borne
In mind that It is not the members of the Legislature
who are the projectors of tbtsdeelgntoornamenttha
dlopes and bluffs of the western bankofthe Schuylkill.
It emanates from wealthy and respected gentlemen
of Philadelphia, who it must be believed would
not listen to any plan which would Increase taxa
tion or otherwise prove obnoxious to their fellow
citizens. But does not the very fact of presenting
Ewell jv bill indicate that there is something In a
state of decomposition In the land of the Danes 1
■The subject was Introduced first at a midnight feast
at the Continental, some weeks ago, at whloh were
present merchants, lawyers, statesmen, and Legis
lators. The cashier of thatjhotel can probably give
the names of the individuals who settled far the
sumptuous repast, bnt the Senators and Bepre-
Eentattves for whom It was prepared did not forgot
amid the popping of eorks and the rattling of
glasses that something else beeideß consideration
or esteem for their honorable paunches prompted
the expehtlve display. Bob Boy,
Legislative Proceedings.
SENATE.
Numerous petltione presented; among them the fol
lowing:
Mr. WOBTHIKGTOH, for introduction of water Into
Chester borough,
Mr. HOeE, lor ferry over Oil Creek, at Tarr Pam.
[A bill to tills effect waa passed. J
BILLS IXTBOmiCHD.
Mr. JAMBB, a supplement to the Hew Hope, Doylfis
town, and Horristown Railroad Company, vis: “That
the capital stock may he increased by furiher subscrip
tion or mortgastog their property ani'francnisss. as
may be deemed advisable, to carry into effect the privi
leges granted by the original, art and supplements
thereto, with power to connect wlthany railroad passing
up the valley of the Lehigh to the ooal mines of Penn
sylvania. and that the time for completmgeaid road is
hereby'extended for a period often years.”
Mr. HALL offered a resolution requesting the Judi
ciary Committee to report a bill modifying the Slate
laws so as to extend the benefits of State bounties to
Hancock’s corps. Pasted.
Tie Senate then adjourned until Monday evening
next, at S o’clock.
HOUSE.
The House met at 11 A. M.
Numerous petitions were presented, amonf (them the
folio-wing:
Ur. SBAKPLESS, from citizens of Downingtown for
sale of certain property. Also, to appropriate the
income from lands donated to Pennsywrama by the
Bnited States for the benefit, of the Farmers’ High
School of Centre connty.
Hesses, Satterthwait. Poster, Euddiman, Josephs,
'Watt, Miller, and Smith presented petitions in favor of
mating the Manaynnh bridge over the SohnyUtUl a
tree bridge.
Mr. FaMCOAST, a petition from Henry Wright for a
diyorce from bis -wife Mary. The petitioner married in
Hr gland inlSS&nndhis wife promised to follow him to
America npon the death of her father, (which happened
In 1865,) but np to this time hae never visited this conn-
The Honse then proceeded to eeleet a committeeto try
the contested election cate of George HeHaven, of Pci
ladelphls, whose seat Is contested by Albert JS. Scho
field. The.following-named committee was drawn,
vis: Messrs. Adlnm, Batsbach, Bortwin, daslett,Her
ron, Boss, Seybert, Wells, and Wood,
The Honse then proceeded to select a committee to try
the contested election case of Samuel Aileman, from
Union and Snyder counties. The following committee
was drawn, via; Messrs. Adlnm, Thomas. Bose, Bow
man. Begley, Boss, Hiller, Koonce, and Haslett,
Adjourned.
Xbe IViscoDsin legislature.
HER SAGS OF THE GOVBBNOB. .
Madison, Wig,, Jan, 12.— The State Legislature
was organized yesterday, by the election of F. M.
Stewart as clerk, and Williams as sergeant-at
arms, to the Senate; and W. W. Field as speaker,
John E. Dean as clerk, and Wilcox as sergeant-at
arms, In the Assembly—all “Unionists.”
The Governor’s message was delivered In ajjotat
convention of the two Houses to-day. It presents
a comprehensive view of the state of public affairs.
The State debt amonnts to twenty-five million dol
lars, all but ten of which has been Incurred for war
purposes, namely—for extra pay to the families or
volunteers. Very little of-the contingent fund for
>the relief of sick and wounded soldiers has been ex
pended.
Wisconsin has furnished 75,133 men to the army,
besides the hundred-days troops, and has now to
service 42,162. The Governor recommends an
amendment of the militia laws, the disfranchise
ment of those who flee from the draft, and the ex
tension of the soldiers’ suffrage law. The message
concludes with an argument to favor of the aboli
tion of slavery.
The Pleasures of tlic Passport System.
The Canadian papers are upon the “rampage.”
There Is a hitch to their affairs, a hiatus in the
heretofore steady \ flow of the Yankee stream
which dropped its lopee change along the routes
of Its travel. The Gollah of the State Depart
ment stands at the gates ef entrance and exit,
and sternly demands the production of a hit -of
printed paper with an autograph appended, set
ting forth the height, weight, general features,
color,'and nationality of the traveUer who knocks
for entrance, or who requests the privilege of va-.
moslng the monarchlal dominions. Of course, the
rushing tide presses up to the barrier, undulates
awhile, and then commeuces a steady'ebb. It, of
course, seeks ether and finding them
surges on Its course. So from Suspension Bridge
to the Oanadlan shore opposite Detroit there are
plenty of oar seats for our Canadian ooustos. Crowd
ing is out of fashion. Engineers and firemen are not
kept to a state of excitement over the steam-gauge,
brakemen lazily swing themselves around with the
wheel of their brakes, and conductors look hope
lessly down the empty platforms of the depots,
and sing out) to ghosts unseen their usual
“all aboard.” Dinners have ceased to smoke
on the tables; waiters keep their dirty aprons
on continually—a saving of laundry fees—and
the - empty tills of the cashiers, and of the'
beer and strong drink fountains, are strongly
suggestive of bankruptcy. Officers and directors
meet, look glum, and Inwardly curse the Yankee
who will not admit the Canadian right to harbor
raiders, allow them to run over the lines on a small
spree of murder, theft, and arson, and return to
find an official to keep their stolen moneys untll
they call for them, and ajudge who will stand be
tween them and justice. But the ourstog does notr
help them to hank their deposits or surplua to-snoh
a mounts as to suggest the pleasure of a fatdlvldend
at the end of the financial year.
The provincial towns and cities are-taking, up the
lament and the cursing. Yanhees-are doing more
business at home and less among our cousins. The
beds and dining tables of hotels are “the
banquet hall” of the. old song, “deserted;”
and, to a word, that grim passport- sentinel has
given our good, generous, philanthropic cousins a
great desire to see their relatives ouoe more to the
flesh and—their money. The. reciprocity treaty,
which, like .the .handle of a jug, was all on the
Canada-side, bids fair to suspend its act!on,an(l thus
cur dear: neighbors are la a double grief. If
they have to exist upon themselves, what can they
rof-lt will he' French against English, and
-both against their cousin . Jonathan, who re
fuses to come to their loving and depleting
embrace. “When this cruel war la oyer,” or
when Canada-shall be purged of raiders, or
cease to he made s& asylum tor- banditti who
plot treason aad how best to consummate it.
when their judges shall loam common sense and
neighbor-love, mixed with the smallest modicum ef
justice, and their officials Pease to fie “ pals ” to
keep the money of thieves, then, perhaps, the grim
passport sentinel win retfte; btU the si-caUedrocT
procity treaty has gone np, not to return to its- offi
cial earthly sphere, again, to our judgment.
Tmfisite of Turin says: “We were, right to
stating the complete accord which existed between
Parte and Turin on the subject or the Roman ques
tion, One of our correspondents assures us that
thq successive recall of the army OF occupation
from Borne Is to eommenoe at the end of January
next. A Frenoh division would, then leave Borne
and not he replaced. Evidently a fact of.that na
ture can only be considered aa probable eventuality,
but at least it la a symptom, which shows the excel
lent feelings of the cabtoqt or the Toileries."
BBW *»BK CT tf
[SIK dal Corresnmd^^tT;'
The Clamber *
Allen seem to be fairly Dltt 8 a ta Col.
less to anger than fa, sonow' 1
committee obliquely deni*.*
forwardly rejects
bnttat the same time; f or ttzL? -Non
wherefore art then Allem,
IT It moves at au, it . « k
that no man named Allen hL % ' loctl > .
Us opulent logic Md . Wa !es '
meantime, Savannah l*Z m O
nation which the OhamC w 5 , '
bound to make. In reply to f* 3 » pi
and speculations, Oolong,
letter to lis president. Ift" 80 J?'
raoter of his mission, he oS b
palnfol to be placed by the !! * ll 't it
unpleasant poslUons; a limns? it,
known. Colonel Allen is w "
donon, and pointed aH ra|o n
J? «• table taro Z f
truth Is that the ridlcnlons element h *i
In the contretemps, and the coirm 1 taj <W!'
appreciating the gravity ortho on," 11 *’ 1 *klu
giggled alike at the venerable??* k*k
gallant Colonel. Circumstance!
ofburlesquerleto the whole 9*
Savannah Is still » blockadedT”’
to the trading Pholades whoT*?’V.,
their stocks to the notice of thoS'*’^.!
The rash for permits has bemf^tlr
thepeanntman down to tbedr? oM,n «l
cal men of all trades and vocati™
arc disappointed.
granted, save‘upon special
Treat my Department at Wushu 1 * if
or the Uhf''
blockade may better be Imairtr.* f
Collector Draper’s mhslon tfthe S
“act to provide for the coUe4 o ! Uru «>
property, and fer the prevention or/ r
recUonary districts within the Cni'i."* 1 !i
carrlea out with him a corps of J „ *■>*
a lawyer and a phonograXr. Uai! ''
. . , the dbavt
is to bo avoided at all hazards »„
vldlng for the raising of»2.000 CM
bounties, has been introduced intuL !,,la ‘
pervlsors. Eight million doil BM h,„ :l!1;
expended. Mr. Blunt infringes
Federal authorities, and claims new
Meanwhile, recruiting drops oir
hardly more per week than we used w, ~
STUEST AFFAIR*
The Street-sweeps and laborers E ,..„
deficit in their personal eash-w’?’ 1 ’ 1- -
meeting to consider and speculate in . a " £ ‘-
non-payment of their wages bee.- o .cm" '■
ble incubus John Heefcerand his M £il ' :
junction. Money they needed, 'jui : ‘ ;5£
and dignity worthy of Eorw-v / m ' rK ’- -t
declared their solemn purpose not p !' li: i£
wages from any but the Comntr to ‘
speetor, thereby Ignoring the vetr ' 1
tentlons of the Citizens’ Astodstl’- 1:;s
mere pity, prevailed on Mr. Hecker s,!:' 1
the Injunction modified as to allow r m , 15 l!
these very wages. Probably the n,„. i? ri ’- £i
been Induced to tbls act by the cutho- -
whom the injunction has been generaiir ' ,s
“ Tke New York Sanitary and Chin4’p
Company” bas sent in propcsalstocWn
“for the stun of $300,000, as provided h-v
the Legislature.” Here is a speclto ca ! j“ ! *
to be accepted seems somewhat dtmbtfm rf
a chronic dlslnellnaUon to grant eontrvb *
are so painfully economical as to pw £'
“margin,” and the distribution therein,w
euro positions. However, while there i=n?'
Is hope.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Garandter, the Back or Commena f-,,,,
been convicted of the offence, the jurc a “
time recommending him to tho mus*£l
He t»as sentenced to Sing Sing for a tens 'J..
years and eight months. 1
George W. Morgan has sued the firm o; - y,
body & Co., claiming that they sold tu •: ,!
ruinous rates without notice, thereby
loss of $30,000. It appearing, however,
failed to “heep up his margin,” and ttr.o'ivi
had reserved an option to sell, the jury r en ;p
verdict for $l,OOO only, being the amoae
H margin” deposited.
THE AUSTRALASIAS APIOiT,
The steamer Australasian got afloat'
and passed out to sea this morning.
Tips jSYJHSIira STOCK BOASD,
10 F. ll.—Stocks better; market active ™
after tbe call. Gold 221 j after eali 221 v-i;
Hudson 108%; Beading 113 if; llfcliiiria
ny. ! Illinois Centralist,'* ; Fittsbwa
Island 102; Nortbuestem 34: do. pre'w ?
Fort Wayne 98X; Cumberland 42=. ; iiit".
sal3K- > ’
MASINB IKTBLLIQEKCB.
Arrived, ships Hudson, London ; r. w v,.... I
ditto; Republic, Bremen; Logan.AntierTiS
Marina iv. Lockwood, Havana; or!, - iuL-1
Malaga; Albatross,'Para; Martha, Stone lala
JBOSTOS.
TUB EXECUTION OB GEEKNB, THE ITAID2S E ;
DKKSS, D£BBBUBD—THS SAVANNAH rsl:i
Boston, Jan. 12.— T0-morrow was the da; a-=i»s
ed for the execution of G-roono, the SlilUa mo
derer, but It Is understood the Governor has wii
held his signature from the warrant, and t:,j esra
tion will be deferred for action by the Eieeatfn
Connell.
The fund for the relief of Samiat ilrens
amounts to twenty-five thousand dollar’.
The Steamer Greyhound willbedespatehtHr
tuiday to Sayannali, wifcii provisions.
If AKIN'S,
Arrived, ships Celestial Empire, from Bonds; 1
C. "Wtothrop, from Kew Orleans; harks E. i-'-Ur:
Jr., from do.; Albina,from do.
Trial, fob Whisky Smuggling.—Tka casta
F. 0. Tapley was resumed on Tuesday mortis.- b
Washington, at the military commission of site
Major Gen. Donbleday Is president. Tie tester,'
on the part of the Government was glmiaati:
three months since. Tapley Is charged witt twin
smuggled sutlers’ stores and liquor to the aratei
the field, and to parties to Alexandria, Vi.. «;£
he was chief of the detective force in ;L?: pits
during the latter part of 1863 and tbe earir pi:r;
1864; having received bribes to procure tts :,!aa
of persons under arrest by tie military. ani t: :■
tog prisoners to escape for bribes.
Public Entertainment-e
Chestnut-stbeet Theatee.— I Ttu rtifc
farewell benefit will he given to Miss Jew f
the well-known and accomplished : ■
the Warren combination. The bill jtk::;-
slstsof the popular comedy, “London A ; r::v
to which the beneficiary will appear as tie !
Lady Gay Spanker , and the farce of . u ! ’ ;:
maker’s Hat,” in which she will performu' :
Sallie Smart. This Is the last night tut: <st
sterltogAomedy performers.
Wax. NUT-street Thbatbe. —Mr. :
1)6 the recipient of a benefit at this theatre: '
Tom Taylor’s drama, “Still Waters Kt:
and “Don Csesar de Baron,” will be t— ■”
with Mr. Wallack to the characters cl
may and Dan C<csar. He will he well t-'; •' ;:
Mr. Davenport and Miss Eyttoge.
Arch- street Theatee.— A he::::
Etchings Is announced to-night, with a
gramme, comprising “The Blind Mari' 1 ;
ter,” “ The. Spirit of the Bhine,” and -r
-nle Flsh-Wlfe,” concluding with the
representation of Washington,
The Cibcxts.— The company now rerflrtSJ
the Circus Is really worth seeing, Mes-u- • :r;
and Hutchinson are pleasing gymnasts: tbe"
dogs wonderiul, and M’lle Sophy Sasfltis »-
M’lle Elite are certainly very graceful c ;•*
trienneß. Though the season is prc:ty *
vanced, yet the establishment is as attrafJ ,! ’
ever.
Cboss and Jabvis’ Soibbe.—An es*® s ”
lection of music has been made for Cro-:s -.of ’ -■
first classical soirt-e at the Foyer of the A«z«.
to-morrow evening. Schubert’s trio,
piano, violin, and violoncello, will be
Messrs. Jarvis, Gaertner, and Schmitz- s -
piano pieces will be played, a solo by Lbs:, ‘
vis, and a duett by Schumann, by Cross am
Beethoven’s quintette to E flat, for piano aa«- -
Instruments, is a composition of a peen.-sr
which the public have had but few upper u
of hearing. , . . ... -•
Mr. L. M. Gottshalx has stored to to--
and wHI give concerts on nest Thursday an - *
evenings at Concert Ball. This will b - t ,
visit to Philadelphia, prior to Ua depar... •
Mexico.
EStgnoe Blitz’s entertainments at the -
Building never wane, but continue as '•"■■■
amusing as ever.
THE CETY-
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(FOB ADDITIONAL PITY NEWS 831 FCC—-
the ikyikcibles’ BALL. , (
Last night the ball of the Bepublicao I ■--
given to honor of the re election of
coin, was held at the Academy of
"quet circle and balcony were filled f
and the dancing floor was com-ortao-.- ;
The ball was, to every sense,
half past eleven o’clock George Frano- . ,u:
present, was called upon for a spee.h- . ■>
ting to the north balcony box, ana r ' : ‘ .
ana thanked bis hearers lor tho nono. ;
He said he was unaccustomed to r- '
He could epeak to Chicago, bat -- *,, j.
what to say to an audience like that to • . ~
atked the audience to assign a =u»
would speak on it. The f° i! ° wlll ff? r "nj - •:
r.osed, when he made a number 0: ■ 1
marks upon th.eaui.H: Ths u ~
mond, and Petroleum.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT; ~a
lAast'eveolDg, about eeron
ton, 19 years ago,was run over a - „, ;
car! at the FaUs of Solmyik*n. a&t - .
legs badly crusted. He was ta..ea
PBRSOKAL. ..i
General George B-McClelUn and k-r, »
fa Philadelphia, making a 1 “
relatives here, prior to their depa
next week. ,
city iTfisa-
—l— T
* IsIKSCOTT PATBOLKUM AKD CCA-
Ohio.—A large well was struc t .. , er ;'
yazdßlrom tfce line ef tbe A--**
Intense exeitement exists In the T "‘'V r3i
Ohio. A good opportunity for a : 1; f. '
here offered. The office of St-’
218 Walnut street.
Skjbwan Not Gone Wests
W. Sherman who arrived at rib"' 1 ” : '
General W. T. Sherman, the b e ”\ '>
W. T. S. will not leave Georgy a *' .:,: ”
understood that he will send Soft-; "; ;
the Brown-Stone Clothing KaJ ; ” >
son, Nos. 603 and Bto Chestnut
that outfit of which wo spoke yes-** '
Seating by Moonlight on «ue ?
first and Walnut streets. cpo '
to night. A full and eupe-U >
and evening. ,
Geoegi Steoe & Oo '’ B ocif' v.;
Hamlin’s Cabinet Organs, fjr “ o
Gould, Seventh, and ObMtast