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-<j. only two hundred remained alive. The
steamed Pittte T 'alley came up at about half-past 3
o'clockj and was failed by the rebels under a flag of
truce. }ieii were sent ashore to bury the dead, and
take aboard such of the wounded as the enemy had
allowed/to live, h ifty-seven were taken aboard, in
cluding pven or eight colored. Eight died ou the
way up t|j • airo. Six guns were captured by the reb
els, and carried off, including two ten-pound Parrots
and two twelve-pound howitzers. A large amount
of stores was destroyed or carried away. They seem
ed to be moving toward Memphis.
"CONGRESS.
SKICATI, April 14. —The bill to enable the peo
ple of Nebraska to form a Constitution and State
Government was passed without amendment.—
Mr. Powell renewed his amendment to the Naval
Appropriation bill repealing the fishing bounties,
but afterward withdrew it. The bill was then
passed, the amendments agreed to in Committee
of the M hole on Tuesday being retained. The
bill to stony into effect the treaty between the
I nitcd States and Great Britain for the final set
tlement ot the claims of the Hudson's Bay and j
Puget Sound Agricultural company, was passed j
Mr. Chailer introduced a bill, in addition to the j
several aets iu relation to commercial intercourse j
between pe loyal and insurrectionary States, pro- I
viding toy the collection of abandoned property, j
Ac. Keferr;'! to the Committee on Commerce.— j
Mr. Harding reported a bill granting to railroad j
and teiegnph lines from Emporia, via Council !
< i rove, to point on the Pacific Branch road, near I
Fort Riley, alternate section of land for ten sections j
on each tide of the road; also, authorizing a |
change of rout, via Lawrence and Walkarusa Yal- :
ley, to run from Lawreuce to Emporia. The I
House bill fixing the date of the loss of the brig
Bainbrida?. and for the relief of the officers, sea- j
men, ant* marines of the same, passed. The
joint resomtion of thanks of Admiral Porter was |
passed, the House hill amending the act equal- i
lzing the grade of line officers in the Navy was I
passed. Mr. .Sherman reported a substitute for
bill No. lbjti. It provides that it shall be unlawful
to make any contracts for the purchase or sale or
delivery of any gold coin or bullion, or of foreign
exchange., it any time subsequent, by making of
contract oifpr the payment of any sum, fixed or
in default of the delivery of e aid coin.
Ac. It provides, also, that none but bona-fi.de
owners, in actual possession, shall make a con
tract for the sale of gold, and forbids any banker
or broker |r other person to make Bale of gold
coin or bulion or foreign exchange, or to make
o >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.
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We have another confederate "victory" to r<y-,
ord —another evidence of the chivalry and civilij
zation of rebellion to chronicle. It harmonizes
with the past, and is attuned to that butchery and
murder which, if all else were blotted out, has
made the present war eternally memorable.
The rebel General Forrest, with about six thoul
sandmen, attacked Fort Pillow, on the Mississip.
pi river, near Memphis, on Tuesday morning, the 1
12tli iris!. The fort was held by Major Booth, of S
the 3d Tennessee U. S. artillery, with a garrison I
of six hundred men, largely composed of negro i
soldiers. A flag of truce preceded the attack, but
was not received. A second Sag was sent, and
similarly refused* In despite of the rules of war
the rebels employed both flags to improve their
position. The fight continued until 3 o clock ia
the afternoon, "•■hen, the commander and his chief
officers having been killed, the rebels carried this
works by storm. This, though in behalf of wrong,
was unfairly fair, and precedented in a few con
demned instances of war. But when the last flag
was denied, when the rebels had stormed FLC
works, and with overwhelming numbers carried
them, they manifested a spirit and showed a de
pravity which would have disgraced the court <)f
Beelzebub. When the white offiers yielded, their
colored commander* attempted to escape. They
left the order of battle and rushed to the rear, ft
was an opportunity not often enjoyed by the reb
els, They improved it in a manner worthy of the
censors of ' Beast Butler.'' Their overwhelming
numbers caused a surrender. 8o soon as the sur
render was made, and war, by the lawa of war.
was stopped, they began a butchery which, if the
received reports are correct, would have augment
ed the villainy of the savage assassins of Miss Me-
Urc-a, and det pened the shame of Fejee Islanders.
Read it, weigh it judge it; and then, ifwhatis now
reported as veritable and authentic piovesto be
really such, estimate the character of siave rMsd
lion. Few Union men have been thus far killed.
Numbers did the work and won the ground.—
When a similar result had been reached in the
Malakoff or the R< dan, the conquered heioes were
as tenderly treated as though they had been wo
men. Even Hyder Ali, when he swept the Car
natic withu besom of destruction. spared the brave
and honored unfortunate heroes. Soult, receiv
ing hisfoernan's sword, complimented him upon
the desperation with which he had held it. Indi
an warfare abonnds in instances whore savage nu
bility acknowledged and paid tribute to resolution.
The confederates commented an indiscriminate
slaughter of their prisoners, regardless of color,
and assassinated those whom they found wounded!
Dead and maimed negroes werepiled together and
burned in heaps! Loyal citizens, who had joined
the foices of the Union for protection, were attack
ed and killed. Is this war or —murder? Is this
civilization or barbarism V Is this chivalry or pa
ganism ? Tire questions can be left to the calm
verdict of history and the general judgment of
mankind.
But mere murder is not all. Wa can find an
excuse for many ex, esses of {hot blood wreaked
upon opponents. The savages of southern insti
tutions shot, sabred and bayoneted their white
and black opponents indiscriminately, even after
surrender. Whosoever yielded was killed, and
the very bodies of the dead were torn wich a jack
al s ferocity. Negro women were murdered ; chil
dren not eight years old were butchered; soldiers
gasping in their gore were pierced with fresh
wounds, and their maimed bodies thrown into the
river. Two-thirds of the entire garrison was kill
ed; and all of this was done, by "our misguided
southern brethren !" —by those with whom so
many northerners are willing to fraternize.
A passing steamer was signalled by the rebels
and fifty-seven wounded men were put on board,
of whom eight died before reaching port. The at
tack cost us many lives, two ten-pound r Parrott
rifles and twotwclva poundhowitzer-. The stores
were destroyed or transported, and the manly he
roes of civil war waged for slavery marched away
with laurels colered by the butchery oftheir woun
ded opponents, and signalized by the murder of
inoffensive women anct children. Their victory
however, was like that won against Rome, of which
the victor said, "such another conquest would be
our defeat.''
We allude to this as an instance and exemplifi
cation of the ferocity of that treason which grew
frantic over Mumforcfs just execution, and the
milder punishment of his abettors. It is notgrate- I
ful to record such crimes against our very foes.— |
But h" the characteristics of the war are cverto be
known, and its nature to be justly appreciaied,
these proofs cannot be ignored. Can toomuch be
done toprevent and topunish such excessive bar
barism in behalf of such excessive wrong ? — Xorth
American.
THE FORT PILLOW MASSACRE.
DEBATE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
Mr. HOWARD, of Michigan. (Union.) offered a
resolution that tlie Committee on the Conduct of
the war inquired into the expediency of sending
such of their number as they may depute to Fort
Pillow, Tenn., inquire into the late massacre of
Union troops, and report as possible.
Mr. FESSXNDEN, of Maine, (Union,) thought!
that, unless in cases of extreme urgency, it was
hardly worth while- for members of Congress to
moke these inquirise at a distance. Their place
of duty was here. We are coming to a period in
the session when it wae very important to have all
the members present for the dispatch of business.
It was the duty of the War Department to look
into these matters, and it was presumed it would
duly discharge that duty.
Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, (Union.) said
that he had called at the \\ ar Department this
morning, and the Secretary had told him he had a
dispatch from Gen SHERMAN, saying that about
three hundred of oursoldisrs had been massacred
at Fort Pillow, and he intended to make immcdi- j
ate invesiigation of the matter. He had appoint- '
ed officers for that purpose. Gen. SHERMAN was I
not on the spot, hut had received his information
in the way the other statement came.
Mr. HOWARD said he wished to get ths original
evidence of persons on the spot. It would &e a
disgrace to ins nation not to avenge promptly this
gross wrong. No matter what was the color of
the soldiers, this must be done. It would be im
possible to keepcolored troops in the service, un
less we protected them the same as white troops.
It concerned the national honor to protect the
men who are fighting our battles, and those who
wear our uniform. If this is not done, the black |
troops, by reason of these threatened terror, a?
some critical hour in battle may lose us the day.—
It has baon and he supposed it would continue to
be the practice of riie rebel* to put them to death
in cold blood, or sell them into Slavery when cap
•tared, and hide it from our offioer*; but he was for
.huliauon mar, for man, and, if
PVT" He was tor retaliation in
:kud the Mrorwt ummtr Promptest
;!? r :. J< T SOK ' f - %la ry!;.nd. (Union,)
Th- ,ie rePOlu i KHl ' buck dld " : -
*o rar enough. Jhm was not the Sirs', time a snuii
garrison had Gen left to be sacrificed. 11, had bee*
lone at 1 adueah. Kentucky. Those in eon,maud
;,n that region should know their responsibility t
die Govern men;, and should know that there is
ro;->e. 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.
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