tion for Sa% wag by seizing a Jarre basket of cow f >ed she was about to carry iuto the stabies. and hurrying thither in a frightened way, much as though lie was taking it from a burning Sense. Af.er that Zack, seemed to be perpetually on the watch for opportunities to save the fair sally from heavier work. These delicate attritions could n >;failto 'ttract the attention of the Widowßrown W id, really respecting the young man. invited him ito the Louse to spend the evening, and from t iat time Zachariah was a fixitv. lie would set in the chirtyjgj corner of the old-fashioned house, scarcely ever speaking, dividing his attention equally between the tire and feasting his eye.soa b'ally. For two year* this quietadoration wenton, and the neighbors wondered why, as there was nothing to prevent it, they did not marry. It never has be. n known whether the idea arose out of Zaeli's brain, or whether it "was a hint from a friend, but at last be did fiud courage topop the question. It was doue i j this way. The time was New Year's Ere, a r .d the fair Sally bad been preparing a stout jug of mulled cider, that she night have something too cliecr Zach's heart with, wnen he came in. Zach. he drank, and took his accustomed scat in the chimney corner. where h sat quietly, as usual. for a few minutes, ano then, without any previous symptoms, he rose up to hi fall height, six feet and two inches, putting his bead up the chimney, eo that little f him was eccn above the waist, and delivered the following oration: —'If somebody loved stoiueoody a* well as somebody loves somebody, somebody would marry somebody. 11 Zack. remained witii his head op the chimney after this speech, silent as- deatn. for some minutes, until he came forth from his place of refuge, at the earnest solicitation cu \V ld ow Brown, with a fae glowing like the setting sun. The thing was doue. however, and Zach. auu ly were married in a few weeks after ; aad_ we art convinced that if either of vhem could be maueed to talk, now, after tho trial of a dozen years, they would uav that dic-v arc entirely satisfied with that mode of poppiug the question. ©u grtfsrJ f aqaiw. BEDFORD PA.. FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1864. I Hiring the past week we have b-cn absent fron oar post of duty. We kn >w of nothing iikolv t draw us away ay in very •'--.•a. V, t. hoyo here after to give greater originulity, freshness and va riety to the columns of Tire lisQtnaisß. s ""'" endeavor to make each number an jSIM upon tho preceding one. Vt e arc f 01 printing office and making other ardent, hC done heretofore- _ .orriieibddJidflvANi.v rvilroao. V b'll if before the Legislature for the repeal of t ocharter of the Connellsville railroad in respect t ,>th*tp*rt of it east of Connellsville. Another bill ispeodiagin connection with this, (which we jjire to-day i for the incorporation of the "'Connells rile and Southern Pennsylvania Railway Company It will be noticed that the greater part of the eor p irators ars leading citizens of Bedford, Somerset, Fulton and Franklin counties. Among them are also several of the principal officers of the Cum berland Valley railroad, and four prominent New York capitalists. The company are authorized to construct a railroad from Connellsville to the Ma ryland State line, and to connect the game with the Pittsburg and Connellsville r&ilroadand also "to construct, a road from auy point on said line to connect with any road or roads in the Susquehan na Valley or west thereof, and tomakesnch branch es as the directors may deem expedient and nec essary, in the Southern tier of counties of Ponn avlvanin," &c. By the rout, contemplated the railroad will pass through Bedford Borough, reaching it from the west byway of Buffalo creek and the Raystown Branch. The capital stock is fixed at ten millions, divided into shares of fifty dollars each with the privilege of increasing the shares. The franchises conferred upon the Pittsburg and Connellsville railroad are transferred to the new company.— compensation to the oid company being provided lbr. The forfeiture is based upon the non-use of the franchise by the Pittsburg and Connellsville Company ; —the company under different names, having had an existence of over twenty-five years. Paring this tirno they haveonlyconstructed about fifty-seven miles of tha road. tVe hope the bill will pass. The long neglected interests of the region traversed by this road de mands such Legislation as w ill tend to develop its rich coal and iron resources. 7V Franklin Repository says of this project; "Of the ahiliiyand purpose of the parties desiring the act of incorporation to construct the road promptly we are fully persuaded ; and a glance at the corporators named—nearly ail of them living cn a direct lino from Ghambsrsburg west —points conclusively to tho rone the main road would be certain to take. It would doubtless make the junc tion with the Cumberland Valley at this point, and thus make the Pittsburg and Connelsville a direct feeder to the commerce of our own State instead of leaving the wealth of south-western Pennsylva nia to Baltimore. It would at or.ee develop the vast wealth of thesouthern counties immediately westof us, and give us new and vastly cheaper avenuesfor luniberand coal, besides enhancing the value of ev eryarrc of land in this sectiou of the State. Now that the leading railroads of the State have evinced a determination to construct this road, the- legis lators from southern Pennsylvania, and all who desire to divert the vast trade of the southern route to Philadelphia, or to Baltimore over Ponnsylva nia improvements, should promptly give the nec essary authority, and three years more will see the iron horse singing his wild song over tbe Al legheniee hi* three leading routes —all bearing their commerce to the great emporium of ouf State— and roarihg new fields and towns as if by magic on their lines. Now is the time to secure this vital improvement for this part of the State, and we earnestly hope to record the passage of the bill be fore the close of the present session. GOLD. The United States Fenatc was engaged on Fri day last in a warm and protracted discussion of tho merits of Senator .Sherman's gold hill, which pro hibits speculative transactions in gold, making tjie participants in such transactions liable to severe punishment. During the discussion, Mr. Sher man presented the following letter on the subject from the Secretary of tho treasury. In a letter to Mr. Fcssenden, Chairman of the Finance Com mittee, under date of the Treasury Department, April 12, ISC4, the Secretary of the Treasury say s: f lR withstanding the diminished amount or tne L nitoa States notes in circulation, and our gradual withdrawal from use, as currency, of in terest bearing United States notes made a legal tender for their place, the price of gold continue? to advance. This sffoetcan onlv be attributed to one oi two causes and is probably due in part to each. First, tbe inerea.se of the notes of' local banks ; and secondly, the efforts of speculators.— I have already submitted through you to thecon- Pideratio i of the Committee on Finance a hill in tended as a remedy for the first evili I now beg leave to submit to its consideration a bill intended as a remedy for the second. The first bill if it bo come? .aw wiii have. J doubt not. the most salu te. > •"ujuonve*. The effects of the second will I probably be more immediate, though perhaps of oat *uch permanent importance. I ask for both a candid consideration, and if approved, the favor able, action of Congress, ft must not be thought, however, that f regard either orboth of these meas ures as adequate remedies for financial disorder. Nothing short of taxation to one-half of the cur reatexpendiutre* to the lowest point compatible with emniency. will insure financial success to the Government, and without military success all meas ures will fail. Very respectfully yours, >S, P. ( "HARE. It is thought that this measure will pass the Senate and be at once urged through the House. That the proposed legislation will bring down the price of the precious commodity, is argued from the fact th*' the gold gamblers against whom it is aimed have had much to do with the putting it up to the present high figure. And here we could not introduceany remarks more apropos than the following from a New York paper of Friday. They should open the eyes of some good people who have thought the world was coming to an cud just because gold has so recently been up among the eighties. "Gold is publicly stated to have gone up yester day to 189 ; but the people ought to understand very clearly that this statement is not true. The ptije ofgold is 165, as government is selling it at that. Any quotation of gold above that pciut if fietitous and not in any sense real. But bow dor s it happen that these statements of the high price of gold are madp ? An answer to this quest*"' shows that the newspapers must necessarily nive at the deception. They most give the "! K ' ~ aliens in gold on the street, -.c whatever prioes, though the oporr tions are Actions. ° ,er *" rior. in gold in which the. ostensible P r "\ 18 J-* en r v four cents higher tha., gold can he Wt for ob viously has not tha purchase off" ltsob : acd sue!, operaH ,n ,-e of exactly ** same nature as the bets ma-> between the ,wnblerigger and his iceoir.pli jgto inveigle the.™ ones who stand iy. Such are the open*"™ >.* wh ". h ld P"? to • vn—operations be>** n gold gamblers to catch rtiird''parties : and mch operations are made to anv extent without dollar changing hands or be ■Wg ever ever sf n by either party. All this would do comparatively small hanu if it stayed m \\ all I'tre+t. Bat the news goes abroad that gold has gone up to these high figures, and the retail deal ,,ri the necessaries of life, even if he knows such a rise to be unreal, ni akes it thf? pretext for adding (ire or ten per cent to the price of the articles he deals in. and thus the people are cheated. Their only remedy is to ku DW the truth, and not be impo sed upon with such it reason for a rise in prices." In this connection we also introduce the follow ing ooinions of the Cincinnati Gazette oa the bill of Mr. Stevens, published in our columns on Sat urday. Assuming that the bill will pass, it says : "If so. it will contract the currency within a year over $200,000,000. This would do more to break down the nrice of gold, and check inflation of pri ces than all the resolutions intended merely to bear the market, that Congress could pass in six months. The Eastern banks, and partirulnrlythose ofPenn sylvania and new Jersey, have been issuing their notes at a fearful .-ace. and the country wherever they are permitted to circulate is fairly flooded with them. The ; >"11 referred to sTikeaat the root of the evil. But Congress should not stop here. There i also a necessity for a law suspending the authority of national banks to issue notes. Let the latter be enacted in connection with the meas ure introduced by Mr, Stevens, and the evil result ing from a superabundance of currency will disap pear. '' Bf.rsMoXDAY ix "WALI.- STREET. —Yesterday WAS an awfully "blue day" in Wall-street. The liberal sub scriptions forth© Government Ten-forties, the heavy payments for duti'-s at the Custom-house, the calling in of loans the r.ipid contraction of the volume of circulating notes by the banks, all tended to increase tho stringency in the money market and the panic in stocks and merchandise. At the various sessions of the Stock Boar is. as well as in th© open street, stocks were thrown on the market unreservedly, and prices were depressed—lightly on Government secu rities, but moft fearfully on nearly the whole list of ' 'fancies."' I 'rincipals were mercilessly sacrificed by their brokers, margins wiped out, contracts repudia ted. abusive epithets lustily interchanged, and some lively pugilist c exercise indulged in, much.to the en tertainment of disinterested and patriotic spectators of "the slaughter of the innocents." At the close of the day s festivities lame ducks were a drug iuthe market, and the erstwhile much envied stock gam blers could find none so poor as to do them rever ence. They have sowed the wind and have reaped the whirlwind.— V. 3". Times of Tuesday. Thr State Constitutional Convention. Yv"• publish m our advertising col nm ns t his morn ing the Proclamation of Governor Bradford, an nouncing the res ait of the late election in this State on the question of calling a State Constitutional Convent ion. Tl.e Governor states that the whole vote cast was 51, 314, of which 31,593 were for, and 19,524 against a convention. He, therefore, as j required by the Act of Assembly, proclaims that; the Convention authorized by the act will be con- ! vened inthecit 7 of Annapolis ori Wednesday. 27th j instant, when the delegates legally elected there- j to will assemble nnd enter on the discharge of their | dories.— Baltimore American. THE TRAlT —There are two conflicting statements j concerning the drafu published in the Eastern papers j —one that it has been postponed until the first of j Nfav, and the other that it has been postponed un- j til the first of June. 3Ve also see it stated that the j deficiency of Xew fork City and Brooklyn under all j calls is not over five thousand, and that Pennsylvania is only behind in her quota under all calls some fif teen thousand, ft is evident that the Government is disposed to avoid adroit if the people will only manifest a disposition to promptly fill their quotas by volunteering. PARDONED. —Joseph Moore, convicted in Cam bria county of killing Jordan Marbourg some time since. has been pardoned by the Governor. Moore, it will be recollected, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and scntensed to the peniten tiary for a period of six years. Mr. STEVENS has reported from the Committee of \\ ays and Means to the House a bill which taxes all Bank note 3 issued for circulation at the rate of three pcrcnt. per annum, and prescribes that no such notes shall, after one year from the date of tho passage of this act, be issued, unless •ueh issue should hereafter be authorized by act of Congress. THE REBELLION. Gen. Rinks made an expedition into Virginia, from Point Lookout, during the earlier portion of the week. He returned on Thursday with $50,000 worth worth of tobacco, taken in transitu from Richmond to Baltimore, and a gang of blockade runners. A Lieutenant and fifty-two men, deserters from the rebels, arrived on Friday night at Chattanooga, reporting that Hardee's corps had been ordered away from Dalton, and a portion of it had already gone, it was believed, to Virginia. Ou Friday a body of rebel cavalry made an attack on our pickets at Bristow Station, killing one man and wounding two others of the Thirteenth Pennsyl vania Regiment. They were driven off after a few shots had been exchanged, but carried their wound ed with theai. Lieut.-Gen. Grant had passed the spot in the cfu - only a few moments before the attack, and the supposition is that the rebels designed to make him prisoner.. Gen. Kilpatrick has been relieved from duty with tharmy of the Potomac, and ordered to report to Gen. Shorn un at Memphis. He is succeeded in the command of the Third Cavalry Division by General Wilson. The report of the affair at Port Pillow, which seem ed almost too horrible to be believed, is confirmed by official advices reeeit ed at the "War Department from Gen. Sherman. Three hundred black soldiers surrendered to the rebel fiends, and were butchered without mercy. Fifty-three white soldiers were kill ed and one hundred wounded. It is almost certain that retaliation will bo resorted to. Advices from Cairo Saturday describe Western Kentucky to be in a greatly alarmed co ntJlt ' on ' an< i the peop'e everywhere preparingtodef eD themselves against Forrest's horde of scoundrels. Iho latest news from Padueah says that no dghting had rot oc curred, there, and the Union were vigilant ly patrolling the river. REPORTS PROM hree other negroes were but ied alive by tho at Fort Pillow, making five in all. All were "funded but one. He was forced t i help dig tliP its ' wus then thrown in and cov ered up. Gen. <7h aimers said to a Federal officer on the Flat# , a H f y that it was their intention "to show no to home-made Yankees"—thereby meaning southerners serving in the Union army and negroes "but that genuine Yankees would be treated as prisoners of war." Encouraging news from Gen. Steele's army, up to April 7, is received. He had then reached a point on the Little Missouri River, about 2-1 miles from Cam ien,. and expected next day to form a junction with Gen. Thoyer, who was marching from Fort Smith.— Gen. Steele had been several times attacked by Mar maduke and Shelby with cavalry and artillery, but in i ach case the rebels had been handsomely repulsed. 1 here was a large force of rebels in advance, but it was not believed they would make much of a stand. A dispatch dated Pilot Knob, April 8, from Lient.- Col. J. N. Herder, commanding the post, states that Capt. Mills, Third Cavalry, Missouri State Militia, stationed at Farmington, Mo., hod just returned from Prairie-du-Racher, 111., where he was sent, with some members of tho, Captain's company, after some ban dits. He reports a complete success, having had a fight with a notorious gang of robbers, killed three and wounded several—among them the notori ous bushwhacker and guerrrilla chief. John Highly, who had 10% been tho terror of this part of the State. The Third, Seventh and Eighth Kentucky Regi ments are overrunning Western Kentucky with im punity ; and the inhabitants are in a constant state of suspense, not knowing at what hour they may be at tacked. Everybody has slept in their clothes forthe past two nights, ready to defend themselves or de camp, as circumstances might require. The gunboats are constantly "patrolling," and tak ing every precaution to prevent the rebels from crossing the river here, by destroying all the skill's and sinking all other craft that "could be used for that purpose. REPORTS FROM MEMPHIS. —There i3not much said, but there is a general grittingof teeth among the Offi '•ers here when the massacre of the brave garrison at Fort Pillow is alluded te. Several officers have been heard to say that unless the Government takes retri butive steps, they will consider it their duty to shoot every man of Forrests command they meet, and take no prisoners. The soldiers threaten to shoot Forrest's men now in Irvin Prison, if they can got a chance. This is the general feeling. General Stuart, in his report to the President on the gunboat canal betweeu tidewater and the lakes, estimates the cost of a ship-canal around tho Falls of Niagara, one hundred and five feet wide on the surface, and ninety-five feet wide on the bottom, with twelve feet depth of water, having locks two hundred and seventy-five feet long, by forty-five feet wide in the chamber, capable of passing a gunboat of one thousand two hundred and fifty tons burthen, at s•>, o-78, 947, with single locks, and $7,5J8,029 with double locks. This is the average cost of five lines surveyed last year; the average length of lines is eight miles and three thousand and seventy feet.— In the brief synopsis recently given of this report, the cost of this canal was erroneously printed at front $10,000,000 to $13,000,000. SITI'ATIOK tx VntcnriA.—The Columbus Sun says: "We have good reasons for believing Virginia to be the scene of the next hostile engagement of a gener al nature. The enemy's movements are pointing to this conclusion, and we need not be startled at any time to hear that General Lee has fallen back to the environs of the capital, and that a stupendous de coy movement is being made by the enemy on the south side of the James River, from the direction of north-eastern North Carolina. Large numbers of citireas, non-combatants, of the northern counties of Virginia are being arrested by the enemy. This has been the usual prelude to general movements, and may. in the present instance, bo intended to cov er designs looking to a change in the present posi tion of Meade's (now Grant' 3) army." TRAXS-MISSIASIPPI MIUTARY MOVEMENT. —The St. Louis Republican, of Thursday, thus sums up the military movements in the southwest: There seems to have been a general concentration of troops west of the Mississippi for the campaign in Louisiana and Texas. There are now on the more General A. S. Smith's troops from Vieksburg, General Franklin's from Opelousos, General Steele's from Little Rock, und the troops composing the ar my of the Frontier from Fort Smith, under General I hayer. The Second and Sixth Kansas cavalry, the Twelfth. Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Eighteenth lowa, and Second Kansas, A. D., received orders on the 19th to move next day, from Fort Smith. Alto gether there can hardly be less than forty thousand thus put on the march against Price', Taylor A Co. The rebels, of course, cannot bring into the field any such number as this, and must either fight at great disadvantage, surrender, or attempt to elude pursuit by rapid travelling. The latter course is prob ablj- the one that will be adopted. As the Trans- Mississippi rebels cannot join, or be joined by any troops on the eastern aid# of the "big drink," their lir.e of retreat lies towards Mexico, or in the direc tion of the sotting sun. The prospect is that the Confederate force in that quarter, if not captured, will be routed and dispersed, and the rebellion "clean ed out" pretty much in all of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Dispackes from Cairo bring us a story almost too horrible in its details for human belief, but which comes with such directness to leave no doubt of its truth. The attack on Fort Pillow by the rebels under Forrest, was followed up by frequent, demands for its surrender, which were refused by Major Booth, who command ed the fort, but while these flags were being sent For rest took occasion to make more favorable disposi tions of his forces. The flags being refused, the fight was kept up until 3 P. M., when Major Booth was killed, und the rebels, in large numbers, swarm ed over the intrenchments. Immediately upon the surrender ensued a scene which baffles description.- Up to that time comparatively few of our men had been killed ; but, insatiate us fiends, the rebels com menced an Indiscriminate butchery of the whites and blacks, including the wounded. Both white and black were bayononed, shot or sabred; even dead bodies were horribly mutilated, aud children of sev en and eight years and several negro women killed \l ; ~ 7 in cold blood. Soldier# unabie to speak from wounds were shot dead, and their bodies rolled down the banks iut > the river. The dead and wounded ne groes w|re piled in heaps and burned, and several citizens who had joined our forces for protection, were kiM or wounded. Out of the garrison of six huudrc-ntract fof any such purchase or sale at other than their! ordinary places of business. All con tracts in violation of the act are void. The pen alties for tiii violation are a fine of not more than SIO,OOO nor iess than SI,OOO, or imprisonment for notless thap throe months normoie than one year, ' or both, k the discretion of the Court. The Senate went into executive session, and shortly afterward aiijourded. 1 locst.-4-Mr. Willson asked leave to offer a res- 1 o.'ution thiß unless otherwise ordered, this House wiJleach dak take a recess from 4j until 7 o'clock, for the purpose of holding night sessions for the transaction \of business. Objection was made from the oaaosition side. The House resumed the consideration of the resolution to expel Mr. Long. Mr J Rogers opposed the resolution. Mr. Colfax rose j;o demand the previous question.— j Mr. Pendlif on said that two or three gentlemen on tha opposition side desired to speak. Mr. Col fax replied ilat bis heart was disposed to accede to the request. but public, duty demanded that he should raaka the motion. <>n Tuesday. Mr. El clridge had 'raised a point, of order that Mr. Broomall's substitute for Mr. Colfax's resolution, declaring My Long an unworthy member of this House, was Lot in order. The Speaker pro tem (Mr. Rollins, X. H. ) declared the substitute in or- , der. It did jot propose to censure Mr. Long for words spokcp in debate, but for the publication \ of hisspeeoliin New-Tort, showing him to be in ! favor of the yecognuatioa of the Southern Con federacy, and aiding the traitors in arms against j the Governiheet. The Speaker pro tem. declared i .Mr. Broomall's substitute in oi der. ?dr Kldridge j appealed from the decision of the Chair. The i question be rag taken, the Chair was sustained; j leas, 75; says, 65. Mr. Colfax said as Mr. j Broomall'a proposition would accomplish a similar , object, lie woeid accept it for his own, to. expel | the gentleman from Ohio, as it was evident a J sufficient number of votes could not be obtained for expulsion. He demanded the previous ques tion. Mr. Cor. wanted to move to lay the resolu tion on the table. Mr. Davis gave notice that he should revive ihe original resolution of expulsion The question was stated, Shall the main question be now put? .Mr. Cox demanded the Yeas and j Nays. Mr. Colfax remarked that if no delays were intended, tie had better proceed with Lis re marks. Mr. oox replied that he and his l'riend did not want fir, delay, but they thought on a question of sues importance there ought to be a j record of namck. Tiie main question was then ; ordered. Yeas, 75. Nays, 71. .Mr. Colfax then supported the proposition, which he had present ed in the performance of his duty, lie showed that when Mr. >o)ay was Speaker he came down from the chair numerous times to reply to Josiah Quincy, who ltvi expressed himself ogainst the war of 1812. [lie answered various gentlemen, contending that just such speeches as that of Mr Long incited rims in New-York and Illinois, and encouraged the enemy at|Riehmond and elsewhere, gladdening their hearts and strengthening their hands. The debate was continued by Mr. Long and Mr. Colfax until a late hour, when a vote was taken uponjthe first resolution, viz: "That the said Alexander Long b© and he is hereby de clared to he an unworthy member of this House." This was adopted—Yeas 80, Nay 70. — (>ne Democmt voted 'Yea," Mr. I Bailey of Pennsylvania; nine Border-State men voted "Naf" Those absent or not voting were; Mrssrs. U. B. Blair. Blow, Brandagee, Brook, Freemat Clark, Colfax. Henry Winter Davis. L !. Daiis, Dixon, Donnelly, Edf/erton, Eliot, English, lenton. Gerald, Hale, C. J J. Har ris, A. M. Huburd, Hurburd, Le Blond. Lit tlejohn. Jjonej, McAllister, Muldloton. Moorhead, Scofield, Spauldifg, Stiles, Tracy, WADS WORTH, Williamc, Ben. Vood —in all 32, of whom one is Border State, 1 ljare Democrats, and 20 are Re publican Unionist". It was moved that the otler resolutions be Mr Colfax was willing to withdraw them, jl-ut Mr. Chanicr of New-York objected. The rbioluhon was finally laid on the table, 71 to '">9—tie Democrats"voting "Nav." — The preamble was then agreed to, 78 t005.' Ad journed. In the Senate Saturday, considerable interest was taken in the news of the massacre of troops at Fort Pillow : AID, on motion of Senator HOW ARD, a resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on thelCooduct of the War to inquire into it, and whethtr For* Pillow could have been reinforced or evacuated, and that said Committee be instructed to report at as early a day as posstblc. Earnest, speeches Were made by Me3rs. Howard, Wilson, .Johnson. I,'oaness and Grimes, in favor ! of strict measures gf retaliation, man for man, or two tor on©. The Senate then took up the bill to provide for the collection of direct taxes in the Ju diciary Committee. The amendments were agreed to. Ihe bill was Laid over, and the Senate pro ceeded to the consideration of the bill prohibiting ' speculation in gold and foreign exchange, which, attar discussion, wai passed by a vote of 23 against In the House the consideration of the Bank bill was resumed, and, On motion of Mr. FLNTON, an amendment was agrsed upon, to the effect that the capital stock of the banks under the act should be liable to taxation by the .States at the ?amo rales as that imposed upon moneys in pri vate hands, provided that no State tax "should be imposed on any part of the capital stock of such association whioh might bo invested in United States bonds deposited as security for the eircula tion. Ihe bill was then ordered to be engrossed and read a third timt. The report of the Com mittee on declaring that Mr. B. M. KITCHEN, of \\ est Virginia, not entitled to a scat as representative of it.o seventh 1 Harriet, was calle inp and debated, resulting in rCslution de claring ihe gentlemen duly elected and entitled to a sot. The report of the Select Committee on I IMMIGRATION was submitted by Mr. WASHBI.BSS i ot Illinois. It advocates the paeaago of a bill en, couragi ng imni igration trom foreign countries to 1 supply the demand for laborers which is made by * the absence in the field of so vast a number. j In the IT. 8. Senate, on Monday, the Finance •] Committee reported the Army Appropriation bill, | the total amount being £x,97,640. The tive Executive and Judicial Appropriation hi. 1 from the Ilou.se was considered in Committee of the \v hole, and several amendments, increasing pay, were adopted. Jn the House of Representatives, Mr. Kasson introduced a bill to extend the western boundry of lowa to the Missouri river. A resolution to hold night so-sion was agreed to. Resolutions declar ing that in the present conditiou of the country and ita finauces it isine imperative duty of Con gress to raise the taxes so as to largely increase the revenue ot_ the government, and for this purpose a much higher rate of duties should be imposed on all luxuries imported from abroad, and on all luxuries produced in the United States, and that the issue of State banks should be taxed, were adopted. Mr. Holmau, of Indiana, offered a res olution that "the present deranged condition of the public finances can oulvbe effectually remedied by reducing the amount of paper currency-" which was laid ovor. Mr. Stevens—submitted a resolu-jj tion that for sixty days after its passage all dntiesn on imported goods wares and merchandise, now! provided by iaw, shall be increased by the addition! of fifty per cent. Referred to the Committee ofjl the Whole on the state of the Union. The Na-b tional Bank bill was passed—yeas 7H, Ifeya 63.—jj The People s Pacific railroad bill was debated. —i Mr. Stevens again offered bis resolution to inerea*d the present foreign duties, but a suspension of the rules for its consideration was refused. Mr. Mors I rill offered a somewhat simila-i resolution but no quorum voted and the House adjourned. j j Confederate Civilization. || We have another confederate "victory" to re. ranks a leeiing instigated by .heir officers equal to that of savages. The Govern ment muse act.. As the life of a sol.fcr nn(ler ouf Jag is as dear as that of any rebel, nothing less than life is dictated by our reputation and our ?L y 1[ i waD H know wh y these disas ters had been brought against our flag, while w appropriated money wit-out stint. He moved to amend the resolution by directing the Committer ftlso to inquire whether Fort Pillow could uothave been reinforced or evacuated. Which was agreed to. Mr. HOWARD then withdrew the clause requiring the committee to send sonic of their numbers to the spot, and as thug modified, the resolution wa* adopted. THE JHANMAOBE AT IOKT IMI.XOW. Ilnrbarlile* of the RchclH...jS(>iiier M, r L "Vftro Soulier* K,i r t„i All\o.-Th.-y work I lu'iiiM'lm oat of I lie OruinHl nml are SHIM]. On Tuesday morning the 12th inst. the rebel ; General I Forrest with some six thousand men, at tacked fort Pillow. Soon after the attack. For i r( lt sent a flag of truce demanding the surrender ot the fort and garrison, in the meanwhile d'opo , *' n (s force so as to gain an advantage. *>[&; or j Booth, of the Thirteenth Tennessee (U.S.) Heavy l Art!lien-, formerly the First Alabama Cava!:y j (colored) refused to receive a flair of truce, and j lighting was resumed. Afterwards a second flag came in, which wa< also refused. Both flags g3v® I ku® advantage ofg&ining new position*. ! ihe battle was kept up till three o'clock I'. M when Major Booth was killed and Major Bradford | took command. The rebels hail come in swarms ! over to our troops compelling them to surrender. immediately upon the surrender the reUls com menced an indiscriminate butchery of the white® and bla-ks, including those of both colors who had been previously wounded. The dead and wounded negroes were piled in heaps and burned and several citizens who joined our forces for pro i tectum, were killed or wounded. The black soldiers, becoming demoralized, rush ed to the rear, iheir white officers having thrown down their arms. Both black and white were bay oneted, or sabred, and even dead bodie# w?ri horribly mutilated. Children of seven or eight years of age. and several negro women, wcrekilled Soldiers unable to speak, from their wounds, wer j shot dead, and their bodies rolled down th® banks mto the river. Out of a garrison of six hundred men, only two hundred remaining alive I he steamer Platte \ alley came up about ,ij o'- clock. She was hailed by the Rebels under a flag of truce, and her men sent ashore to lurv the dea l and take aboard such of the wounded as the rebels had allowed to live. Ffty seven were taken aboard, including seven or eight colored men. Eight of them died on the way up. The steamer arrived here thi • evening, ana was immediately sent to tho Mound ( ity ilJospit-a! t'j discharge her passenger?. -M ' pi'- . Fix guns were captured by the Rebels, and car ried oft including two 10 pound Parrott* and two 12 pound howitzers. A- large amount of stores were destroyed and carried away, Tho intention of the rebels seemed to be to evacuate the plac® and more on towards Memphis. Several of the guns captured by Forrest at Fort Pillow wer® spiked I efbre falling into his hands. The others were turned upon tho gun-boat No, 7, which, from cxhansta.tio.li. havingfired some three hundred rounds, was compelled to withdraw. Al though only tin-clad, she received but slight irjn ry. Gen. Lee arrived and assumed the command at the beginning of the battle, previous to which Chalmers diiected the movements. Forrest, with the main force, retired after tho fight 1.1 Brownsville, taking with bim the funds he had captnred. While the steamer Platte Valley lay uuder a flap of truce, takiDg on the wounded, the rabel of ficer,-, among them Chalmers, went aboard, and sonm of our officers showed them great deference, drinking with them, and showing other marks of courtesy. FT. LOUIS. April 15. —A correspondent of the I nion of this city, who was aboard the PlatSe Val ley, at fort Pillow, gives an even more appalling de cription o the flendishness of the Rebels than our Oario despatch. Many of our wounded, he says, were shot in the hospital, and the remainder were driven out of th® buildings. which were burned. After th® battle the rebels went over the field I and shot the negroes who had notdied from their | previous wounds. Many of those who deserved to be treated as prisoners of war, as the rebels said, were ordered to fall into line, when thev wer® inhumanly shot down. Of three hundred and fifty colored troops, not more than fifty-six escaped the massacre, and not an officer that commanded them survives. (Jen. Chalmerstoldtheeorrespondent oftheUn ion that although it was against the policy of his "Government" to spare the negro soldiers and their officers, he had done all in his power to stop the carnage. At the same time he said he believ ed it was right. Some further particulars of the horrible massa cre at Fort Pillow have been received. The atroc ities committed by the rebels are almost beyond belief. An affidavit, made at Cario by a wound ed soldier, declares that the Quartermaster of th® Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry was, while living, nailed toa board by the rebels and ihrown into th® flames ofa burning building atFort Pillow. Rebel Barbarities. We have often argued that the whole tendency of the Blave system was to harden and barbarize ; the persons coming under its influence. Thomas I Jefferson, whom the "anti-abolition democrats" profess to reverence and respect, remarked thi effect years ago with characteristic discernment and humanitv, "'The whole commerce between mas ter and slave." he said, 'is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous pas-ions, the most unremit ting despotism on the one part and degrading sub missions on the other. " "The man must be a prodigy who can retain hii manners and moral® under such circumstances." Indeed, wo might quote a dozen other passages from a dozen other authorities to show the cruel nature of sla very. But they who have watched the course and pro gress of this war need the observations and opin ions of no men as to the effects of slavery upoa human character. They now see it with their oiu eve-. It is malignant, diabolical, fiendish. From the day on which it was shown, in report of th® Committee on the Conduct of the War. how south ern soldiers could make keepsakes of the .bonus of our fallen braves at Bull Run. and hawk them about among the women even, till the horrors of the Libbv Prison House were revealed to us by our escaping captives, wo have had reason to know the utter and brutal cruelty of those who hav® been trained in the school of slavery. To these evidences the despatches oftho more ing add a horrible cumulation in the doings erf th® rebel captors of Fort Pillow, near Memphis. Ten nessee. Enraged by the stubborn resistance of fered to them by its heroic defenders, when they were enabled to seize it at last by overwhelming numbers, they fell upontheirvictims without iner icy or quarter. ( hir brave troops, white and black, : were put to death in cold blood : tender women ' and little children were bayonetted ; neither age ; nor sex were a protection against -he bloodthirsty fury of these savages; and out of a noble garrison of six huudred men scarcely one-third remain alive, — X. }" Ev-eniiu/ l J od. BEDFORD IIALL ASSOCIATION. Tho Stockholders of tli# Bed FOR.:; Hall Association. Its herchy notified that ttc annual election for five trut#.iot RIITID association will HO BOLD at the Odd bellows UALI iu Bedford Borough ou Monday the second day of May, 1854 between tho bom* of one au L throe o'clock, P. M„ of said FJ,NOTICE is ALSO GIVEN that the trustees of said ASSO CIATION have declared a serai -annual dividend of five pnr centum UPON the capital stock whieh the etoekbolders oa receive BY calling UPON TUT TREASURER -ohn K. Jordan. 5. L. Krsswm* I £*trttciry. a r r. 22- 13i--e.