BEDFORD GAZETTE. -HKDFOR, Pa- FtiiiT 7771 : : nTu is, is6i. B. F. Mevfirs, Editor & Proprietor. TEIUIAR DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS! For fiie Union, the ronstitntion ami Hie law- ASSOCIATE JUDGE, GEN JAMES BURNS. JUNIATA. TREASURER, MAJ. A. J. SANSOM, Bedford BOR. COMMISSIONER j PHILIP SHOE MAKER. COLERAIN. POOR DIRECTOR, HENRY WERTZ, C. VALLEY. AUDITOR, DANIEL L. DEFIBAUGH, SNAKE SPRING. WWrnr^ NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE ! A new volume of the Bedford Gazette, will be gin on the 2d of August next. All ol our nt subscribers who will pay by that time, or by next Court, will get the paper tor $l, r ;0. This rule will be strictly observed. CT'h II persons who are .n ar rears, are respectfully to pay up, as we need money. Tbis request is not intended lor those who pay regularly, but for those who allow their accounts to run too long. All Administra tors and Executors owing us for a longer time than three months, for estate printing, are expected to call and settle by next Court. People and Agent. Whilst it is unquestionably our duty to sup port the Government in its efforts to maintain its Constitutional authority, it is also our right, as well as our duty, to canvass and discuss the measures of the Executive and other depart ments of the Government, whetherthose meas ures relate to the Southern rebellion, or any other subject of public interest. In common, therefore, with the great mass of Democratic editors throughout the North, we have thus tar freely and fully criticised the movements and conduct ot the powers that he, and now that wnai must oe raKen as me programme or ine Legislative and Executive Departments of the Government, we deem it only right and proper to indicate our impressions of its correctness and propriety. The genera! lone of the Message—that is, so far as it relates to the right and the obligation of the Government to defend itself and to put down those in rebellion against its authority— is entirely correct. No sane man, at least no friend of Constitutional liberty, can doubt for a moment, that those who have been chosen bv the people to administer the Government, have the right and are charged with '.he du'v, lo preserve the Government. There is, however, tin! one mode by which it run be preserved, and that is the Constitutional mode. The agents of the people who are to administer the laws are themselvps sworn to obey the lews. Why ? Because it they were to trample them under loot, not only would they he a - guilty as those against whom they are appointed to enforce them, but our Government would be at an end and anarchy and confusion would reign in the land. Hence, every public officer, from the President down to the lowest corporal in the army, engaged in maintaining the authority ot the Constitution and enforcing the laws, must himself obey the Constitution and laws, or lie is no better than the veriest rebel in the armv ot Davis and Beauregard. Hence, ii we would have our Government maintained, if we would have order come out of the chaos of f lie present unfortunate civil war, if we would have our liberties preserved and our national integrity restored, we must cleave to the Constitution and compel the Executive and Congress to stand upon it. as the rock of our political salvation. for these considerations we find it incum bent upon us to express our emphatic disappro bation ot the course of the President in assu ming the power to authorize a military officer to suspend jhe sacred Constitutional privilege Ot the Habeas Corpus. The Piesident attempts to justify his action in this matter, not only bv the plea of "necessity," but by a somewhat sophistical legal aigutnent. We think the fol lowing eminent authorities should be sufficient to satisfy lawyers, as well as the n ,•> illiterate j citizens, upon this subject. " Ntxt to personal security," sus Mr. Jus tice Blackstone, " the Jaw oi" E; gland regards, "asserts and pr< serve* the p. is L liberty ©f iu "dividoals. This personal libertt c r.sits in the "power of locomotion, of changing situation or "moving one's ;, r>on lo whatsoever place one's "own inclination nay tiir cf, without inipris "onment or re.':' •, us.! by course f "law. "By the Pntirt fjy , C _ j t "enacted (hat no p , j.. , "detained wii'io t can- - •. u :• c . j.,. •may make answer accord,; r i . law. IN in "( ar. 1 -i. (a. Id. it a:;y per m h re trained , : "his liberty by order or dec.• of any illegal "court, or by the command of the KINO'S MA r-T\ in pec.•!>. or by warrant of the council 1 "board, or of any of the privy council, he shall ''upon demand of his counsel, have a writ of "habeas corpus to bring his body before the "Court of King's Bench >f (Immon Pleas, who "shall determine whether Urn cause of bis com "mitment be just, and hereupon to do as to jus "!ice shall appertain. "To bereave a man of life, or by violence to "confiscate his estate without accusation or tri "a! would be so gross and notorious an act of "despotism as must at once convey the alarm of "tyranny throughout the whole kingdom, but "confinement oi the person by secretly hutrv "ing him to jail where his sufferings are un ,fknown or forgotten is a less public, su i "king and therefore a more, 'dangerous engine "of arbitrary government. And yet sometimes, "when the Siate is in real danger, even this "may be a necessary measure. Bat the happi "ness of our own Constitution is Hud it is not "left to the Executive power to determine when "the danger of ihe State is so great as to render "this measui e expedient; Jor it is the Parlia "ment only, or Legislative pzwer, that tvhenev "er it sees proper can authorize ihe Crown, by "suspending the Habeas Corpus .let for a short limited time, to imprison suspected per "sons without giving nay reason for so doing." —Commentaries on the Laics of England, Vol. i . pp. ]35 136. Chief fnstice Marshal!, in the case ol Boll man, 3 Cranch, 100, says - "If at any time " the public safety should require the susperr "sion of the power vested by this act (the pow "cr to grant writs of habeas corpus) in the Courts "of the United States, it is for the Legislature | "to say so. That question depends on political ' "considerations on which (he Legislature is to "decide. Until the Legislative will be express : "rd, this Court can only see its duty and must ' "obey (he laws." This was in a case of Trea ! son. Judge Story <ll his Commentaries on the Con stitution, sec. 1336, says : " It would seem as "the power is granted to Congress to suspend j "the writ of .habeas corpus in case of rebellion ' "or invasion, that the right to judge whether "the exigency had arisen must exclusively be "long to that body." In 1807, when great alarm existed as to Burr's conspiracy, a bill wa? brought before the Sen ate in secret session to suspend the writ of ha beas corpus. When brought in the House of Repres ntatives, that body refu-ed to consider it in secret session, and by a vo'e of 113 to 10 rejected the bill on its first reading. On that occasion Mr. Dana of Connec'.mut used the following language : " This bill authorizes the "arrest.of persons not merely by the President "or ofher high officers, but by any pprson ad ding under him. I imagine this to be wholly "without precedent. If treason was marching "to force us from our seats, t xcoutd not npree "thus to destroy the fundamental principle- of "the Constitution, or commit such an act either "of despotism or pusillanimity." Again we might refer to the seizure of pri vate despatches in Northern telegraph offices, by the direction of the Secretary of War, which the President does not even attempt to excuse, and as a suitable sequel to which, the right of petition has been denied in (be very metropolis of the North. But we will confine ourselves j to the Message, for the present, and ask the at j tenlion of the patriotic, Union-loving reader, for 3 mntr-pnl tr> r uotza—wjp><iwt..il tnt* eitl Lincoln, in ins roundabout, circumlocutionarv discussion oI the right of Secession, tells us that "the Union is older than any of the States, and in fact, that it created them as States." Every school-boy knows that this is not true. Histo ry tells us that the States formed the Union that as soon as the Colonies became independ ent of Great Britain, they became sovereign and | independent Stales—that as States they formed | ii w onft'iteration, u.s Slsitt'sthfv replied the Ar * tides of Confederation, and as the people of the | several States, they adopted the present Consti j tut ion, the several States ratifying it s ; irately, j Mr. Lincoln also asserts that " the States hav j tie.'her more nor less power than that reserved i to them in the Union by the Constitution." j The Constitution does not define, or describe the powers of the States. It does, however, define, describe and limit the powers of the Federal Government, at the same time asserting that all powers not expressly granted in it to I the Federal Government, are reserved to the j States. The fact is that the President is a Fed jeralet, a Consoiidationist, and he could not | forego an opportunity of leveling a blow at the i Democratic theory ot cur Government. The ; agent oi the people in the white House, chosen jby Electors appointed v. it bin certain State : lines, he would blot out of existence the very I fact from which he derives his authority. If if had not been for State lines Mr. Lincoln would i ; not lbii! <'av w President of the T nited States, i j Jr,t hatJ n<>t been tor State lines, Washington j i City would not have been protected in the hour : jo! its peril, by Massachusetts, New York and j . Pennsylvania bayonets. If it were not for j I State lines, there would be anarchy in the I -North, and worse than anarchy in the reat cil ;es of the East. G e warn the people, therefore, to be vigilant ;of tli' ir rights. Disliust everything that is j clonp public officers in violation oi law and ;of the Constitution. Discard every thought ; I hat visits your mind in apology for the assump lion of power on the part of your servants in j office. Guaid continually against encroach ments oi the Executive, and firmly retain the | light of the individual as against the tyianny I the majority, m the dark maze that u be tere us, let us find our way caution: ly, yet bold ly and without (altering. it e h.n e been s. own a letter from a Union B West era Virginia, recently received by a aentleman in this pi acp, lioin which we learn that the people ot that section are divided into three parties, viz : Union men, unconditional, comprising t'hoc? one fourth of the population, Union men' . Gm tb* Fed ra! G v rnroent and oppose;, tun Votary occupation, eon.;.r WK l ne population , the remaining fourth bemg Sec nwists. i telle, cornpla;;.: th.tthe KepnbOan p. l oin the ,Nc„th ciicuJatinz in that <h i'l't lion, b) gm, wholesale statements., Iteww c: is ir the North cjng traitors, d-c., give irrch ■; coar*genoent to the Seeessioai ts. One of these publish-.; 1..n a outulreti rnite. , thi- place, is i.aoied it. ? letr { •. \> jr ~. p . V , Hon. John Cessna. The Democratic party of Bedford county 1 held a convention on Tuesday, June 18th, and j put in nomination a regular party ticket, to be supported at the approaching election. The | spirit which characterized the convention was j more partisan than patriotic. Little was said j or done '.hat showed loyalty to the Union rath er than fealty to party. After the regular nom inations were made. Hon. John Cessna present ed a series of resolutions, breathing a spirit of patriotism and loyalty to the Union, which were almost unanimously voted down, and Jjtn self, bv some of the convention, declared to be read out ol the party, and no longer to bo re garded as a true and faithful Democrat. Is this because Mr. Cessna had moral courage enough to forsake party, at this eventful period ©four political history, and it a time when every loy al citizen is active in doing what he can to pre serve the noblest, freest and best Government on the face of the earth ? Is >t because, in the i Charleston Convention, he dared to offer a SP ries of resolutions embracing the Tariff, which was so much needed at the time 1 Or was it because he was resolute enough to face a faction of his party, and support the late lamented Hon. S. A. Douglas in his past herculean efforts to establish the doctrine of popular sovereignty, and with him to speak in thunder tones in be half of our present Administration? Was it any or all of tiiese that called firth the power of the convention against this patriot? No matter what induced it, ."Mr, Cessna was right. He proved himself a patriotic and hon est trinn, and the world has not beheld his course in vain. A loyal people will reward him: and whether he becomes still a more zealous sup porter of Mr. Lincoln or not, we shall not for get him for the loyalty and patriotism he has already evinced. We copy the preceding article from the Cliambt rsbnrg Dispatch, of th? 12th inst. The I falsehoods contained in the above, are sufficient ! to determine the political bias of the editor of | the Dlsp-tfck , ar.d it is, therefore, needless to sav that he is a rabid, ultra and %ncomprotnis mg R publican." S It is false, Mr. Dispatch, that " little was ' said or d. R.i " in'tht late Democratic Convention, " that showed loyalty to the Union rather than fealty to party." The r solutions pas.* dby that Convention breathed thespirit'of true patriotism. : pledging the Democracy to the strict observance j and fearless vindication of the Constitution, as well as to the support of the Government and i the maintenance of the Union. But, ol course, j they could not receive the endorsement of a blinded, bigoted and besotted zealot who is rea ; dy to throw the Constitution (o the dege, rather than give up his adln rente to a political favor j ile elevated to office by a minority ol the Aner i ican people. ' j It is false that" after the regular nominations ' , were made Mr. Cessna presented a series of res ' i olutlom," kc., which were voted down. That gentleman was not a member of the Convention ' ; nor was he present at any time during the sit ' ting of that body. \*o other resolutions than those adopted, weie submitted to the Coiven ' i tion, and every member of the Convention vo | Tt :s false 'flat Mr. Cessna was "declared to ■he read out of the party." His name was not i eve-n mentioned in the Convention. It is false, likewise, that Mr. Cessna is "a | zealous supporter of Mr. Lincoln." We take him at his word when we say that be is for the : Government, and r.ct tor any particular officer j whose province if is to administer it. The Dispatch informs us that Mr. C. was j right tn his support of Mr. Douglas. Why, ; 'hen, did not the editor of that paper support j Judge Douglas ? Had the leaves and fishes anything to do with his npostacy from his own convictions of right t In fine, we think the Dispatch man had bet j ter act on the principle of non-intervention, in ; the future, (a principle which Mr. Douglas and j his friends, also tried hard to establish,) or. in ; other words, lie had better mind his own busi | ners and let other people's alone. At stiv rate, j il he must meddle with what does not concern | him, let him lie a tittle more particular, here after, as to !i; facts. With this admonition j '.VP leave him to his own reflections. Ail Important Admission. j The following from the last issue ot the Bed | ford Inquirer , sbouid forever set at rest the i question as to whether the Democratic party is i in favor of the Union . The Gazette says that we take "great pains to j P'OVu that Democrats are Union men," ai, ! that ! "to t:i; a end we publish the letters and speeches of I crr.nent Democrats," and ' 'that Democrats have al ways beet- !oi the Dnion." Now, weplul m)ty. We ao publish the 1 ettersand speeches ol "ermn-nf temocrals "to prove that Democrats" end the Phe Bed ordS.J" ™ U,,ion ' '< he couise of cession ; i • s -'®ioq paper, and publishes the 'reason able mc, sa g 0 . Dai iSj (Vc> As a pari that •party is toyal to the Constitution and tht Union, am, to prove to Democrats who see no other paper t.iau that this is the fact, we publish these articles. T' !C aJmiision in favcr cf the Unionism of the Dnnocracy, contained in the above, is as im portant as '.he logic oft he Inquirer on the sub ject ot the secession-ism ol the Gazette, is pro found and it resistible. Because we published the Messag, of Jefferson Davis fur the itr.forir.a tion of our readers, as did those good Republi can papers, the Philadelphia Bulletin, and Philadelphia In quit er , we are. forsooth, a se cessionist . By a parity of reasoning, w must be a Republican, because vv • published Lin coln's message in our last. The Dernoctats ol Bedford county had better keep aiuyeon c, as according to the logic tu the Inquirer, we must be buffi Republican and Secession!,!: To be such a monster would be enough to cause one take fright at his own shadow ! U;r frieocs of the Somerset Democrat are * r,; - ' ; ■ ur "b'.sl bow," for the flatter ing notice given us in their issue of July ]otf. Oa the question ot puffs, they will ptaw con sider r- /Lie/'.headed. Long mav th e Demo-! crcf wave, ami long may its able 'and i-a-Uss eoii-irs live to be the champions of the truth i Collecting the Arms. JVlaj. Sansom, Brigade Inspector fur tins coun ty, i* at present engaged in collecting the arms in possession of the various military companies in the county. As some persons have an erro neous notion that the Major is doing this o| his own motion, we publish below the order of the Military Department at Harrisburg. ADTI TANT GENERAL'S Or KICK, Harrisburg, .June 2."tb, 1801. DEAR. Sir. : I have been appointed Aid, by the Governor and Adjutant General, and au thorized to demand and collect all tlie Military arms of the State, and give receipts for the same. You are instructed to make out a Report, giving Ist. The names of Captains of all Compani.es in Bedford County. 2d. Name of the Company. 3d. The Post Office address. 4-th. The number, kind and quality of the Arms, &c. You are now authorized to collect all the Arms, good and bad, in your County, to wit : Muskets, Rifles, Swords, Pistols, Tents, Cannon and equipments, and box them up and direct to E. M, BtDDLE, Adjutant General, Harrisburg, Pa. When the Arms are remodeled they will he properly distributed to organized Companies. Please keep exact account of necessary ex pense?, and the time employed, so that you can make oath to it if requited. Indorse on boxes number of Brigade and Di vision. Report to TOR when the Arms are shipped. Very Respectfully Yours, O. H. WHEELER, Major. Maj. A. J. SANSOM, Brig. Inspector , 1 —l6 Div, For the Bedford Gazette. I Fourth of July Celebration at Woodberry. MR. EDITOR : You will confer a lavor on ! your friends.in this neighborhood by giving a ! place to the following brief account ot how we i spent the fourth in Wood berry. In tlie first I place let ine ?tate that a celebration of our na : tional birth day on a grand scale was contem | plated, printed handbills were circulated—and I lie people called uoon to turn out and show j their patriotic devotion to their country by a i general pai ticipation in the exercises of the oc casion. The call was nobly .responded to— : from the hills and valleys they came—citizens | and soldiers—all departments andprofessions .ot life were fully represented—in a word the | town was alive with ','tair women and brave ; men." \bout ha.i past tea o'clock Sam I. J. Cast tier, j finely mounted on a large iron gray noise, dressed with badges appropriate to such an oc casion, formed the procession in the town in the following order near Dr. C. F. Oelleig's : First C'apt. Dan'l. M. Hire's PaHonsville iiifies, ; 2d Potter's Creek Guards, commanded by C'apt. i John B. Fluck, 3d Miilerstowr. Guards, com manded by Capt. J. Nicodemus,Jr.,r. Tth tiie Woodbury Zouaves, Capt. E. D. Brisban, all in full uniform, sth Orators of the day, 6th the ; Sunday Schools; 7th Ladies, Slli Gentlemen, j four abreast. The military companies, by the j why, deser.ve particular mention, for (heir very I gentlemanly conduct and soldier-like appear ; lained in their drilling, In the~short'time tfj have been practiceing. The procession being I formed about half a mile in length, counter : marched through the town, and then proceeded j lo the splendid grove of Dr. Sam'l. H. Smith adjacent to the town, where a stand had been er> cted for the speakers. Ihe meeting beiug calh'j to order by iiev. | John H. Wilkinson, who, according to previ ous arrangetm nls announced the officers ot the j day, Col, John C. Everhart was C3llpd to the | Cii;ur , Isaac Burger and George Soulsby, were made vice presidents and Jacob Brenneman, i Esq., secretary. Ihe meeting being organized j the fife and drums played a beautiful national air. aoliD L. b'atteifield, Esq.., was then called | upon to read the Declaration of Independence . ; which IK ihti in .1 very char and creditable . manner. The Star Spangled Banner was then | rung by the Lad is in most excellent style. G. I it. Spang, Esq., being then called to the stand, , delivered one of the most heart stirring and pa triotic orations that it i,a.> ever been your 1 correspondent's pleasure to listen to. Coin j mencing at the settlement o! the colonies, he ; gave a graphic description of the history of our forefathers down to.the framing of the Declara j tion of Independence ; his picture of the trials .and hardships, G n. Washington and his little j band of patriots had to endure in achieving the I libeities we enjoy, caused the tears to start in j the eyes of .many of his hearers. Following j the course of events down to the present crisis : which he dwelt upon at some length, he plainly showed that the whole difficulty arose irmn a j IrXV tiaitnous aspirants who are*lu>ting f> r u n . j holy power ■ his sp.-.-ch was interrupted with j i.i appliisisi; at different intervals. | Ihe Eviies being again called on sunt' the ! Red, White and Blue, very beautifully. ° The i dinner was now announced, the speakers tneri by order of the Marshal headed the pru i cession and marched to the table, the military | j and citizens foil lowing, and partook of a sump- j j tons dinner such as we have never seen before. 1 I wo tables, one between two and three hundred ; feet long, were put up in the grove—and iiter ally crammed with loads of finest subslantials and choicest delicacies; everything that could satisfy the hungriest appetite or tempt the most fastidious epicure was there in abundance.— Not less than eighteen hundred persons partook of dinner at the one table, whilst about two hundred connected with the Sunday Schools, teachers and schollars occupied the other which was almost seventy-five feet in length. Cold turkeys, hams, chickens, beef, bread, butter, i cheese, pies, cakes, pickles, preserves, fruit ticc., j were there in profusion and plenty of good hot j co.I e lor all. After all had ialen and were .satisfied there were still many, many lull baa j Lets of provisions h ft. This was distributed a- I mong persons in t! e neighborhood who receiv jed it in the same kind spirit in which it was I given. 1 his elegant, free dinner, reflects great ; credit upon the hearts and hands of the good j . people of Woodbury and the surrounding conn- i ; '*} by whom it was furnished and prepared. ■ Aftei dinner the marshal again formed the ! military m line and marched to the stand.— ( Ai ij. A. J. Sansom being called ujion, sung the! "Mar Spangled Banner" and "Gay and Happy" ! in good styie, which 'as highly applauded by : .tie audience. Hon. J tin ( >ss.;a bein<? then I loudly called, took the stand and delivered one! 1 of the most patriotic speeches we have heard j ( since the country's pits, nt cri !>, indeed lie did I 1 C;o audio all who heard him. • 1 dwelling entirely on thp present war, am) diffi culties now at issue between the Government and the Rebels. Tears were seen coursing the cheeks of stout hearted mm during the delivery of his speech ; lie showed clearly that there were hut two sides to this question, that all good and loyal citizens must support the Const it U tion and the Government, proving to a demon j stratioa that the secess-onists are in the wrong, i and that the Government is in the right, that there is no middle course, that every man must ibe either a Patriot or a Rebel. At the concln j sion, three hearty cheers were given for the | speakers. A number ol toasts were then read | by J. R. Dor'jorruw, Esq., which were heartily ; responded to by John B. Flucfe, Esq., J. E. Sat lerfield, Prof. J. W. Dickerson, and John Wil kinson, at the conclusion of which the band played another national air. I'lte military was then again formed into line—headed by the marshal, the orators, ladies and citizens, (ailing into ranks and again marched into town, cotin tei-marcbed tkreugb the streets, and were dis ' missed in regular order by the marshal, S. J. Catfner, E<q. j In conclusion, we must say that the whole i affair did credit to Woodbury and the surroun -1 i ding country. There was no disturbance of a ny kind, not a drunken man to be seen during i the whole of the celebration. Indeed we must j say that we had a happy Fourth—a day that ; will long be remembered by ail who were pres ent. Maj. A.J. Sansom organized the Wood berry Zouaves into a military company, JACOB BREN NEMAN, Secretary. \i lR MWS. ! FiJOM W ASH I .\~GTOftu The following dispatch was received to-day at the Army Headquarters from General ,\lc Cleiian : BEVERLY, July 13, 1861. Col. E. D. TOWNSBND, Washington, D. C.: The success of to-day is ail that I could desire. , We captured six brass cannon, of which one is • rifled,.and all the enemy's camp equipage and j transportation, even to his cups. The number oi tent- A ill j.ou.. >ly reach two hundred, and j more Man sixty w3gons. Their killed and I wounded will amount to fully one hundred and j fifty, with at least one hundred prisoners, and j more coming in constantly. I know already of ; ten officers killed and prisoners. Their retreat j was complete. I occupied Beverly by a rapid j march. Garnet! abandoned his camp early this muring, leaving much of his equipage. He can e within a few miles of Beverly, but our j rapid march turned him back in great confusion, j and he is now retreating on the road to St. I George, General Morns ts to follow him up closely. I have telegraphed for the two Penn sylvania regiments at Cumberland to join Gen eral Hill at Rowlesburg. The General is con centrating ail his troops at Row lesburg, and will cut off Garnett's retreat near West Union, or if : possible at St- George; I may say that we have ! driven out some ten thousand troops, strongly intrenched, with the loss of eleven killed and thirty-five wounded. Provision returns lound here show Garnett's force to have been ten thousand men. They w-re Eastern Virginians, Georgians, Tennesseeans, and 1 think Carolini . nns. To-morrow I can give full details as to prisoners, ice. I trust that General Cox has y - > f,i ica rm! ur <. c linntwn Va.ley. In that case 1 shall havt accomplish ed the object of liberating Western Virginia 1 tiope the Generat-in-Chief will apju-ove' of my operations. G. C. McCLELLA N. Major-General, Department of Ohio. The following was received July 13ih, iruis Beverly, Virginia REV-OUT OF GENERAL MCCLELLAN TO LIEUT. GEN. SCOTT—I have received trom Col. Pe- I gram propositions for the surrender with tns j officers a r.d remnant of his command say 60J | men. They are said to be extremely penitent, i and determined never again to take up arms' j against the General Government. I shall have j near 900 or 1,000 prisoners to take care of ; when Col. Peg ram comes in. The latest ac counts made the iois of the rebels in killed some i 150. FROM BALTIMORE. BALTIMORE, July 13. John Merriman was to-day released from custody at Fort McHenry on forty thousand dollars hail. WASHINGTON, July 15.—The following im portant despatch lias just been received bv the War Department : HUTTONSVILLE, July 14-th, 1861. To Col. E. 1). Townt-end, Assistant Adju tant General : DEAR Sin : Gen. Garoett. of the rebel for ces has been completely defeated. We have taken aii his baggage and 7 guns. His army Is completely demolished. Gen. Garnett is among the killed. The rebels are r.ow completely annihilated in Western Virginia. Our loss is thirteen kill to, a.i. iv>t. over forty wounded. 'The enemy's loss is fully two hundred killed, and we have taken over one thousand prisoners. Seven gnus have been taken in all. I still look with hopes io the capture of the remnants of Garnett's array, by Gen. Hill. The troops defeated were the crack Re*j ments of Eastern Virginia, aided bv Georgians Tennesseeans and South Carolinians. Our success is complex, and Secession is killed in this pal of the country. (Signed) GEO. 13. AfcCLRLLAN, Major General U. S. A. Light America u Vessels Captured by die Privateer Stumer. Ihe U.S. Mail steamship Columbia Capt. Auams, arrived yesterday, after a passage of three days and fourteen hours from Havana which port she left on the !oth hist. We are indebted to the Purser lor the fol .owmg report of the captures by the Confed erate States privateer Sumpter : The privateer steamer Sumter, belong to the Confederate States of the South, cam, into toe hai oar of Cienluegos on tne morning / the Wn mat., bringing in as prizes the brigs Cuba I ALc nas, Naiad, Albert Adams, i3en Dunning • aud the bars* West Wind and Louisa Kilha.n. I lie same steamer fell in with the ship Golden ! ivut.it t, at sea, and set tire to her, havim* ore viuudiy taken of} her crow. | h orn. Semmes, of the Sumpter, sent an offi-! cei on shore with a letter to the Governo- if I town, wno telegraphed to the Captain General ! I'l It;.-'.ructions. The American Consul at ' - tele raplied to the Consul G nernl a' Ha ! van., ihe Steam.; ieft again the rmxt day,! having rcceiveti a supply of coal and water. " i ANOTHER ACCOUNT. HAVANA, July 10, 18GI. ' Nothing new of local interest. The priva teer Sumter, ol the Confederate States, has made capture of eight American vessels on the South Side of Cuba in the last 10 days, Ml „i which have been sent into Cieufuegos as piizes except one, which was burned at sea. Tn' Baiks West Wind and Louisa Kilham, from Crenhiegcg lor Falmouth and orders, brigs Ben Dunning, Albert Adams and Naiad, from Cien fugos for New York, taken, as Consul Geneial Shuleldt says, but a short distance fiom t'ien fuegos; brigs Cuba Machias, Irorn Trinidad lor New York, also taken but a short distance Irom tin- coast and sent "into Cienfuegos: the ship Golden Rocket, from Havana for Cientu,. gos, taken and burned near th e Isle ol Pines officers and crew landed by the privatee- Cienlugos. It is reported that the privateer which has done all this mischief was the for mer steamship Cabana, but many seem to think it was the former iMarquis de la Habaua. XiXVHtli lougTiss— Extra Stssioo in accordance with the President's Procla mation, Congress assembled in extraordinary session on the 4-th day of July instant. Including Andrew Johnson of Tennessee there are forty-five Senators,of whom thirty are Republicans. The number ot members ct the House of Representatives is reduced by se cession from two hundred and thiity seven to one hundred and eighty. Ot these one hun dred arid four are Republicans, with two in California to hear from. In the Senate on that da} thirty-nine Sena tors appeared in their places, including Messrs. Breckenridge and Powell, of Kentucky; John son, of Tennessee; and Polk and Johnson, ol Missouri. The new members having been qualified, Mr. Wilson gave notice of the lot lowing important bills : i. A bill to ratify and confirm certain ac tj of the President for the suppression of insurrec tion and rebellion. 2. A bill to authorize the employment ol volunteers for enforcing the laws and protect ing public property. 3. A bill to increase the present military es tablishment of the United States. 4-. A bill providing for the better organiza lion of the military establishment. 5. A bili to promote the efficiency of tin army. 6. A biil for organizing a volunteer militia force, to be called the .National Guard oi tin- United States. In the House 157 members answered to their names. Without delay the House proceeded to business and on the second ballot elected Gaiusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania, Speaker, and Emerson Etberidge, of Tennessee, Clerk Edward Ball, of Ohio was snbsequenlly chosen Srrgeant at-arms, and Ira Goodenow,of New York, Doorkeeper. In the Senate on Friday, G. T. Brown was elected Scrgeant-at-arms. On Saturday in the Senate, Mr. Wilson pre sented the several bills of which he gave notice on Thursday. In the Senate on Monday, Mr. Wilson, from the Military Committee reported back the bill legalizing the acts of the President, and also the bill aulhonzing the employment of the vol uuteers in enforcing the laws and protecting public property. In itie House among the bills introduced was one to repeal all laws establishing ports of entry in the'.seceded State 3. A resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on the Jud iciary to report a bill confiscating the prepar ly of every officer in the service of the Confed erate States. The House on Tuesday passed the bill ap piopriating six millions of' dollars for the pay ment of the three months volunteers. The res olution ot Mr. Lovejov declaring it to be no part ot the duty of soldiers of the United States to capture or return fugitive slaves was adopted —yeas 92, nays 55. In the Senate, or. Wednesday, Mr. Clark of lerred a resolution providing for the expulsion from the Senate, of Senators Mason-, Hunter Clingman, Bragg, Nibeolson, Sebastian, Mitch ell and others, formerly Senators from tii Seceded States. Adopted. Ihe Senate took up joint resolution No. 1 acknowledging alt the acts of President Lincoln relating to the present rebellion. j A prolonged and interesting debate arose u;- | on thebill which was participated in by Sena - r? r f, ' on ' Fessendea, Kennedy am f I oik when Mr. Wilson moved that the bill In j over until Thursday, to allow Mr. Polk t> continue his remarks in opposition to the bill The Senate then took up the Force Bill.— Mr. Saulsbnry, of Delaware, moved that two hundred thousand be inserted instead of tiv. hundred thousand men. This number he sai l was sufficient to protect the capital and all the loyal States Irom invasion, and if more than tins number v.as required they could be easilv obtained. The amendment was disagreed to The bill was amended by increasing the num ber of the army to 500,000 men, and bv auth orizing a loan of §500,000,000, instead ot * 1-00,000,000, and finally passed. The House after the expiration of the morn ing hour, resolved itself into Committee ot the V\ hole on the State of the Union, and took tin der consideration the special order, a bill auth orizing a national loan and for other purposes. Mr. Vallandigham of Ohio, addressed the House in an able and eloquent speech in oppo sition to the bill. Afer the conclusion of Mr. ailaiidigiiam's speech, the "previous ques tion' was called and the bill was passed by ayes 146, nays 5. due nays were Atessrs. Burnett, of Kentucky Norton and lit id of Msssouri, Wood, ol New Vork,and Vallandigham. All the Maryland delegation voted in the af firmative except Mr. May, absent. | A Bill has passed the Senate authorizing the President to employ a force of 500,000 men, j and to make a loan of Five Hundred millions of dollars. It will also pass the House. .Notice of the introduction ofa hill for a geneiai Bank rup Law, has also been given. A Resolution offered by Mr. Lovejoy, to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law, received the votes of G2 Republi can members of the House, being a large ma jority of that party in Congress, bul failed to pass. A Resolution offered bv Mr. Burnett of Kentucky, to the effect that the present war is not waged for the subjugation of the Sou!h t but merely for the maintenance of the Govern ment, was lost, all the Republicans voting u gainst it. Resolutions offered in the Senate to confine the appointment of high officers in the army to graduates of West Point and persons hiving seen military service, were voted down by the Republican;;,
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