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'WREN DEKOCEATta TEINCIPLES CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE
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WM. N. BRESLIN, Editor and Proprietor
LEBANON, PA
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1,1 S tl2
SUSPENSION OF SPECIE PAT
KENT&
The banks of New York suspended
specie payments on Saturday even•
ing. The Government, and the Phil.
adelphia, Boston, and other city banks
on Monday, and we presume the coun
try banks will follow suit instanter, if
not quicker. The Now York Herald
says this "is a judicious movement,
and will not prove in any degree pre
judicial to our business affairs. A
short time ago our city banks had a
specie accumulation of some forty
millions of dollars. It has been re
duced to twenty-five millions—a re
duction which indicates a drain and
a strain which it is prudent to stop.
In looking out for their own inter
ests at this crisis the banks are con
sulting those of the government and
the country, for they arc intimately
blended with each other. Our finan•
vial affairs will now go on smoothly.
No country of modern times has ev
er yet been involved in a great war
without being compelled to resort to
the precautionary measure of a bank
suspension of specie payments. By
this movement the two hundred and
seventy-five millions of.specie in the
country will be retained hero for our
own use."
An extensive fire occurred in
the Government stables, at Washing
ton, on Wednesday night, of last
week, in which nearly two hundred
horses perished. A large quantity of
harness, &e., belonging to Govern
ment was also destroyed. The fire
resulted from carelessness.
10§,. Among the candidates for Chief
Clerk of the House of Ecpresenta.
lives we notice the name of Dl. P.
BOYER, of Reading. He was a mem
ber of the last Legislature from
Berke, and would make a capital
Clerk. We trust he may be elected.
The Legislature meets next Tuesday.
COLORED- PEOPLE ARMING
We are glad to see that the colored
people are moving, and it is likely
that in a few days they will complete
a strong military organization. The
colored company in Halifax is very
efficient, and one of the best there.—
illontreat Gazette.
The colored people in Canada, for
the most part, are fugitives from the
slave States—sent thither by the
Northern Abolitionists, over the U.
G. R. R. It says as little for the ne
gro's ingratitude as for his apprecia.
tion of the blessings of "freedom,"
that he should thus be showing an in
clination to take up arms, as it were,
to help Jeff. Davis fight his benefactor!
Ai' It is rumored that Wells,Sec
rotary of the Navy will s hortly re
sign.
Gen. McClellan has been confined
to his houso by a slight attack of ty-
phoid fever.
The rebels are again occupying the
;round of the late conflict' at Dranes
villa. A battle between them and
the Pennsylvania Reserves is looked
for.
It is said that Lord Lyons sent, on
Monday, an English vessel to Fort
"Warren -to take on board Masnn and
Slidell.
SUIT ECM A PASTOR% SA LARY.—Tho
Methodist clergyman in Ware, Mass.,
was recently unable to collect the a•
mount of his salary, and sued for the
balance due. him. 'The defence
claimed that under the Methodist eye.
tom nothing was due him, as he was
• sent by the Conference, not called by
the society, and therefore all pay
ments were voluntary and not the re
sult of a legal agreement, and if the
trustees did not collect the full a
mount of the salary there was no le
gal manner of collecting the balance.
The court decided in favor of the.trus
tees and against the clergyman:
DEFENSES OF WASH' SOTO:V.—Ac
cording to the report. of the Chief
Engineer of the .Army—Gen. Bar
'marth—made to the Secretary of War,
there are forty-eight defensive works
around and in close vicinity to -Wash
ington, which mount three hundred
guns that defend a circureferance.of
thirty-five miles—exceeding by
,ems.;
:oral miles, in this respect, the perime.- -
ter of the largestlartification of mod
.'rn times . , 4s4hese works - ,in many
instances were throl,vn.4H:hastily
4 4
:an the.face of the enemy,: 1;4:7: are
4,artly incomplete, but can - - - er 'made
,erfect in a very few weeks, at an ex
ionse of $150,000.
sir The. Kentucky Legislature,
itting,at Frankfort has passed a res.
>I utiontbrOtikla:Lio.th branches, thank
,,.Oil Presid*for his modification .
•1 • Goneua . r o ne's proclamation
.ISectatArYOaraeren'a. ranert, and
.!nesting hirn-to dionilog :Mr. Cam
r'- T.l frQUi bigir'o644.Ftftt•
.147- The determination of our gov
ernment to release Mason and Slidell
was received, pretty gtnerally, at first
thought, with gratification, not
ibe
cause people think t •ight, to release
them, or that it is net a sacrifice of
national honor, after having so vio•
len tly lauded the arrest, officially and
otherwise, but because it will avoid a
war with England, anq enable us to
persevere more energkeally in the
prosecution of hostilities against the
insurgents. 'Whether; England will
be any the more friendly towards us
hereafter, and whether it will de
lay the recognition of Re boldom a
week longer, and .whether the people .
and press of England insult and
despise us less and respect us more,
remains to be seen. If England, in
order to break tho Southern block
.,
ade, should demand "separation" and
"apology" for other "outrages"•soon
again, having found us so pliant and
prompt this time, inaUy people will
not be surprised.
Stif - The most disgraceful chapter
in oar country's histo+,:not except
ing the Southern rebel ion, is to be
found in the deyeloprnonks of Van
Wyck Committee. Thlkt 4 '':at a; time
when the nation is in khe: - greatest
peril, and when every ! dollar necessa
ry.. to carry on the war:hasto be bor
rowed at a high. rate of interest, men
in positions of trust and responsibili
ty should be so inconceivably base as
to devote all their energies to plund
ering the Treasury, shows a depth of
corruption that may well excite ap
prehension for the future. If it is
true that this war is meant as a chas
tisement for our national sins, and if
the love of money is ono of the sins
for which we are suffering,. then we
can never expect Heaven 'to smile
upon our cause so long as this system
of wholesale plunder is allowed to
flourish, and- the detected criminals
are permitted to escape condign pun
ish men t.--ffarrisburg Pat.' and Union.
THE WAR TARIFF
The following is a copy of the
new Tariff Bill, as passed by both
Houses of Congress and signed by the
President in the fore part of the .
week. It goes into effect immediate
ly:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled.—
That from and after ,the date of pm
sage of this act, in lien of the duties
heretofore imposed by law on articles
hereinafter mentioned, there shall be
levied, collected and paid on the goods
wares, and merchandise herein enu
merated and provided for imported
from foreign countries, the following
daties.and rates of duty that is to say :
First : On '.all teas 20 cents per
pound.
Second : Coffee of all kinds, 5 cents
per pound. •
Third : On all raw sugar, common
ly called, Muscovado or brown sugar,
and on sugars not advanced above
No. 12 Dutch standard by cloying,
'boiling, clarifying, or other process,
.and on syrup of sugar, or of sugar
cane, and concentrated molasseS, or
concentrated melado, 2 . 4- cents per
pound ;
on white and cloyed sugars,
when advanced beyond the raw state,
above No. 12, Dutch standard by clan:
ifying or other process, and not yet
refined, 3 cents per pound. On xefin
od, sugars, whether loaf, lump or pul
verized, 5 cents per pound. On sug
ars after being refined when they are
tinctured, colored or in any other way
pdulteratod ; and on sugar candy, 8
cents per pound; on molasses, 6 cents
per gallon ; provided thak...911 syrups
of sugar, or sugar cane; concentrated '
molasses, orconcentrated melado, en
tered under the name of molasses, or
any other name than syrup of sugar
or of sugar cane, concentrated molas
ses or concentrated melado, shall be
liable to forfeiture to tho United States
and the same shall be forfeited.
The following schedule will show
the increase of duty ou these articles
since the passage of the tariff of
March last:
Tarqf of March, 1861. duty, 1861. Dec. 23,1801
Teo Free. 15 cents. 20 rentß-
Coffee Free. 334 cents,s cents.
Sugar (clayed) :y 4 cent. 2 'cents. a route,
Sugar (brown) it( cent. 2 cents. 234 cents.
SW - Mr. .A n teR Snyder, whose death
at Pottstown we noticed lust week,
was the youngest son of the late Gov
ernor Snyder, of Pennsylvania, and
grandson of that eminent -man John
Antes, who was sent by the Moravi-.
:ins, about the year 1750;as Mission
ary to Egypt—whose writings are
still extant. He was fifteen yews. in.
the service of the Reading Railroad
Company as Engineer of the Road.
way Department. His professional
filliciency was so appreciated .by the
head of the engineering corps as to
cause him io be placed in charge of
the construction of those extensive
bridges which span the Schuylkill' at
the fitlls, near Philadelphia, and above
Reading. Mr. Snyder was a gradu
ate of West Point, and resigned his
lieutenancy of the 2d Infantry in
1830, to . pursue the profession of civil
engineer. •His career as an engineer
has been one of actiVity, that would
have brought a less.cliffident and re
tiring man more pronilnently before
his fellow citizens. For seven years
he served this State, spending two of
them in England, under acommission
to inspect and purchase railroad iron
and locomotives, and returning to take
the position of Chief F.ngineer.of the
St:ito works: From 1837 to 1839 the
State of Kentucky retained him as
engineer during which time be was
' engaged in the improvement of the
Rock Oftstle and Cumberland RiVer
Navigation. In 1840 and 1841 he
Was eMployed. in constructing the
Susquehanna division.of the Penney!.
Vaoia Canal. In '44 and '45 be en
tered the service of the State of Penn
414,31vania again, ; and in 1845 and '46
he was Resident Engineer on the en
largement of the Schuylkill, naviga
tion. From that time, with a short
interval, he was with the Reading
Railroad Company. The company
have lost in his demise a faithful, at
tenths and competent officer. His
health, at intervals delicate, gradual
ly declined after an accident that lie
met with, (at Lebanon) which for a
time invalided him. For six months
he was confined to his bed and though
greatly afflicted he bore his trial With
resignation, calmness, and even cheer
fulness. He was an humble Christian
through life, and looked forward to a
better inheritance. Ara he lived so he
died—assured of his participation in
the bright realities of a sinless and
sorrowless world. Greatly esteemed
by all, he was beloved and admired
by those who knew him intimately.
He loaves a bereaved widow, and five
little children who are too young to
realize the loss they have sustained.—
His remains, attended by all the offi
cers of the engineering corps, by ma
ny of the chief employees of the com
pany, and by a large number of his
friends from Pottstown and Reading,
were conveyed by a special train on
Saturday, 21st, to Pottsville, for in
terment in the family vault. lie was
in the 56th year of his age.
STATISTICS OF FRENCH POU L'T'RY.
—The w hole country rears 30,960,000
hens, yielding 3,715,200,000 eggs, of
the value of 148,608,000 f. ($29,721,.
600.) When to this we acid the val.
ue of fowls as food, the number of
cocks, pullets and capons, we find
that the entire produce of poultry in
France may be valued at 182,880,000 f.
($36,576,000.) But wbile thiS may
be regarded as the actual produce of
France at the present time an immense
increase may be calculated upon. By
an improved system of feeding, and
by increasing the amount of laying
eggs by means of artificial heat, the
grand total is enlarged from the a
mount just named to 835,640,000 f.
(8167,128,000.) Eggs are consumed
in Paris to the amount of 3,784,243
lbs. weight annually ; and in, many
parts of the country they constitute
along with bacon, the principle food
of the inhabitants. France, as al
ready mentioned, exports to England,
in eggs and poultry, to the value of
6,000,000 f. annually ($1,200,000;) and
also largely to Russia, Spain and
Switzerland.
DEATH OF PRINCE ALBERT.—The
last European steamer brings the un
expected intelligence that Prince Al
bert, consort of Queen Victoria, died
of typhoid fever at 11 o'clock on Sat
urdry night, the 13th ult. He was
born at Rosenau, August 26, 1819,
and was the second, son of Ernest,
Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. On
the sth of February, 1840, he was
married to Queen Victoria since which
event the British Parliament has giv
en him a personal allowance of $l5O
- a year. He also held numerous
lucrative and honorary. appointments
and by his accomplishments, his de
votion to art ; .science, agriculture,
and industrial interests, he gained
the respect and kind regard of the
people of England. Although . for
bidden, by the peculiar nature of his
position, to interfere in political af
fairs, the eniployments to which he
devoted himself; and his high person
al character, won for him a reputa
tion which many monarchs who pos.
sussed far greater power never ob
tained. His untimely death is uni
versally lamented by the British
people.
GEN. BUTLER'S EXPEDITION
LANDED AT SHIP ISLAND.
'The advance .portion of Gen. But.
ler's expedition has at last been heard
from. The . steamer Constitution,
which carried the Twenty-sixth Mas
sachusetts and Ninth" Connecticut,
regiments from Portland, has arrived
at Fortress Monroe after: safely land
ing the troops and their munitions on
Ship Isiand, which is situated in the
Gulf of Mexico, thirty miles north of
the Chandeleur . Islands and about
seventy-five miles from New Qrleans
It will doubtless be held as a base of
operations against either Mobile or
the Cresent City. Gen. Pbelps;who
was in command of these regiments
has issued a proclamation - to the ley
al citizens of the South which is in
tensely abolition in tts tone, and cal
culated to drive the loyal citizens of
that country at once over to the reb
els. This. proclamation is reported
to have created much dissatisfaction
among the officers and soldiers under
his command. It differs so Much
from all the proclamations formerly
issued,by Union commanderS tbat it
is scarcely probable it was authorized
by the Administration.
A TREASONABLE AFFAIR
A gentleman who attended the re
cent lecture of Wendell Philips. in
New York city informs'the Argus, of
an incident which aptly illustrates the
character of the audience, and shows
it to have been fully in harmony with
that of the speaker. His oration
was a complete farrago of treason,
one-fifth of which, if uttered by a
Democrat, would have consigned the
individual instantly to Fort, Lafayette
or Warren. The incident alluded to
is not reported in the daily papers.—
At the close of a treasonable passage
where Philips avowed that he was for
the Union because ho hoped the Con
stitution would be overriden, a per
son in the ball called out, "Three
cheers for Abe Lincoln and the Con
stitution !" The response was an in
stant shout of "Hustle him out !" and
be was hustle out, ignominiously.
Gen. _Fremont was present, and
whenever his name was uttered by
the speaker, this gang of treason-mon•
gers and despisers of the Constitu
tion vociferously applauded, while
Gen. McClellan's name was passed
over in utter silence. Fremont alone
of all the Generals of the army, was
judged to leave shown sufficient con
tempt for Constitutional restraints,
and enough of the dictator, to suit
this revolutionary conclave, which
reminds one of the clubs in which
Robespierre used to rant, anti the
sans culottes of Paris to applaud.
Ilie" A Yankee in lewallas just taught ducks
o swim in het water with mob success that t hey
ay hailed eggs. -
Fightin,._ , by Prociasnatiori.
A NEW PLAN.
While the Abolitionists have been
so fiercely advocating a proclamation
of freedom to the slaves as a military
necessity, and a great and certain way
of crushing rebellion, is itinot surpris.
ing that another plan, and one much
more likely to be successful, has whol
ly escaped their notice, and they have
entirely failed to bring it, to the at
tention of the Government?
The plan is that the PreSident should
be at on - co authorized by Congress to
issue a proclamation abolishing the.
explosive qualities of gunpowder in
all the Southern Statcs,.,exceptsuch
gunpowder as may be in the posses
sion of loyal citizens.
0 course, according to the modern
logic which is accepted by the oppo
sition party, it must be plain to every
one that gunpowder is the cause of
the war. Or, speaking more accu
rately, the explosive principle in gun
powder is the whole foundation on
which the rebels rest their opposition
to the Government. If there was no
gunpowder at the South. or if gun
powder 3 rebel
lion won article
which is an life,
were re ye no
more bat i Con
federacy tpse.—
Clearly, taut to
deprive the rebels of gunpowder than
of anything else. With.outslaves they
might fight; without gunpowder they
would not and could noi.':
If, may be doubted by some cold
blooded dealers in facts and reason,
whether a proclamation would effect
the object. But why not ? Would
it not reach the ears of every one
who has any gunpowder, and would
he not be at once terrified by the fear
ful future that he would behold?—
Proclamations in our days Are not
expected to hurt. They are weapons
of terror. It is very true that, the
President has not by proclamation
the immediate - ability to make the
thin g act as a chernical solvent, so
that thesounding phrases in which
he would couch his maeife o s hould
destroy the a ffi nities of • nitre.
and charcoal: Bat th, t the
plan at all. Want of pl . no ar
gument against a pi•odfamation.- it
would only be necessary, after Mak
ing the announcement; 'to .send our
soldiers into the South, and wherever
We found' any gunpowder, burn it.—
The proclamation of course mast be
followed up by the strong arm of the
law.to enforce it. But some of the
same dismal croakers tell us that if
we intend to enforce the proclama
tion by sending armies to Conquer
the rebels first and enforce it after
wards, we might as well abandon the
proclamation since the rebellion would
be already crushed by the armies
There is' some truth id this notion,
and the same idea struck us With ref
erence to the proelamation of freedom
to the slaves, Tian - idly, that if we mast
conquer the rebels as the-only way of
enforcing it, we may perhaps as well
reserve the proclamation till we haVe
conquered. But those who advocate
the slave prod:libation say .there is
nothing in this:
One of our eotemporaries thus
speaks of the way proclamations will
work: .
Let the Government proclaim its fixed resolve
to know no rebel henceforth as• the owner of a
Unionist. Let it declare that whosoever comes
froth the rebels to our side is thenceforth free—
and the rebel leaders themselves rill everywhere,
circulate the pronlaination in hopes of thereby
.titnulating their slaveholdirtg confederates to
more frenzied efforts and further contributions.—
Within a week, the news Would he disenssed in
•very parlor; two days more would suffice to dif
fuse it through every 'slave-hut—through. all
"quarters!' From the hour of such diffusion,
the rebellion would be doomed.
Now it strikes us that the same
sort of proclamation in reference to
the abstract . principle of explosive
saltpetre would be at least quite as
likely to produce the effect. Why
has not the attention of Congress
been drawn to it?—Journal of -Com
merce.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
In view of the Startling exposures
of
. fraud made by the Van Wyck.
Coturnittee, 601710 .of the, Republican
papers console themselves with the
refleetiOn -that if corruption has oc
curred under this administration, its
own partizans have not hesitated to
expose it. We don't see how this
mitigates the enormity of the frauds
perpetrated by the chosen agents of
the Government, or relieves it from
the just odium of squandering the
public money at a time when above
all others its dibburstnent should
have been jealously guarded.
Mason and Slidell to be giv-
'PH up.
As we eXpected from the beginning,
England would depand the release of
Messrs. Mason.and Slidell and an apology,
and our Government - would yield . to the
demand. The' correspondence between
the two governments was published on
Saturday, and is in substance as follows
—Earl Russell, Her Britannic Majesty's
Seeretary of State for Foreign . A ffai rs, af
ter reciting the circumstances under
which he understood the capture of those
parties to have been made, proceeds to
characterize it as an outrage .on the Brit
ish flag, and after expressing the hope and
belief that it had not been authorized by
our Government, asks, as raparation ap
propriate to such an aggression, that the
four gentlemen designated should be re
leased, and that an apology should be giv
en for what the Government 4Great Bri
tain deems an affront of her flag.
In answer to this demand, Mr. Seward
enters upon a long discussion .of the ques
tion of international law involved in the
case, and' in conclusion, says, ' , III decide'
this case in favor of my own Government,
I must disavow its most cherished princi
ples, and adhere to that policy; I must
surrender the case itself. It will:be seen,-
therefore, that this Government could not
deny the justice of the claim presented to
us in this respect, -Upon its merits. We
are asked to do to the British- nation just
what we. have always insisted all nations
ought -to do to us. The claim of the brit
ish government is not made in a .discotirt
eous manner. ThiS government, since
its organization, has never used more
guarded language in a similar case.
"In coming to my conclusion, - I have
not forgotten that if the safety of thiS Uni
on required the detention-of the captured
'persons, it would be the right and the du
ty of this Government to detain them ;
but the effectual check and waning pro
portions of the existing rebellion, as well
as the comparative- unimportance of the
captured persons themselves, when dis
passionately weighed, happily forbid me
from resorting to that defence. Nor am
I unaware that American citizens are not
in any case to he unnecessarily surren
dered for any purpose into the keeping of
a foreign State.. Only the captured per
sons, however, or others who are interest
ed in theni, could justly raise the ques
tion on that ground. Nor have I been
tempted at all by suggestions that cases
might be found in history where Great
Britain refused to yield to other nations,
and even to ourselves, claims like that
which is now before us. Those cases oc
curred when Great Britain, as well as the
United. States, was the home of genefa
dons which, with all their . peculiar inter
ests and passions, have passed a way.—
She could in no other way so effectually
disavow any such injury as we think she
does by assuming now as her own the
ground upon which we then stood. It
would tell little for our -own claims to the
character of a just and magnanimous peo
ple if we should so far consent to be guid
ed by the law of retaliation as to lift up
buried injuries from their graves to op
pose against what national consistency
and national conscience compel us to re
gard as a claim internationally right.
"PUtting behind me all suggestions of
this kind, I prefer to express my satisfac
ion that by the adjustment of the present
case upon principles conleSsedly Ameri
can, and yet, as I trust,•mutually satisfac•
tory to both the nations concerned, a ques
tion is finally and rightfully settled be
tween them which, heretofore, exhausted
not, only all forms of peaceful discussion,
but the arbitrament of war itself for more
than half a century, alienated the two
countries.from each other, and perplexed
with fears and apprehensions all other na
tions.
'The four persons in question are now
held in miliSary custody at Fort Warren,
in the State of MasSachusetts. They will
he cheerfully liberated. Your Lordship
will please indicate a time and place for
receiving them.
"I avail myself of this occasion to offer
to your Lordship a renewed assurance of
my very high consideration.
(Signed) ."'Wm. H. Saw Re."
Here follows a letter from Mr. Thou
vend', the French Minister of State, and
the reply of Mr. Seward. The French
Minister's letter sets forth the facts of the
arrests, and points out the danger it in
volves, and urges a compliance with the
demands of the British Government ; and
Mr. Seward replies that before Mr. nou
velles dispatch had been received, our
,Government had decided on its course of
action, and conclUdes by an expression
that the President appreciates the kindly
motive of the French Government.
Lord Lyons replies to Mr. Seward - that
he - Will without delay, do himself the hon
or to confer personally, on the arrange
ments to be made for delivering the four
gentlemen to him, in order that they :nay
be again placed under the protection.op
the British flag.
XXXVIIth Congress
Abstract of Proceedings
Dec. 20=1n the Senate, the
Military Committee reported the House
joint resolution recognizing the gallantry
and services of the heroic 'General Lyon
and his soldiers, and after eulogies by
Pomeroy, Dixon and Foster, it was pass
ed. The Committee on Foreign Rela
tions reported the House bill for the relief
of the owners of the British ship Perth
shire, which was laid on the table. The
Judiciary Corturnittee reported back the
bill to abolish the United States Supreme
Court, and were discharged froth its con
sideration. After .a speech from Mr. Wil
ley against secession, the Senate held an
executive session, and then adjourned till
Monday.
In the House, Mr. Stevens, of pennsyl
vania; repOried a bill, which was passed,
appropriating 5150,000 to complete the
defences of Washington. The House
passed the. Senate bill providing for trans
mittincr* allotments of pay of volunteers to
their families, and also the Senate bill au
thorizing the appointment ofgeneral court
martial in the time of war. A resolution
was adopted instructing the Committee
on Military Affairs to report a bill to a
mend the law relative to chaplains, so as
to prevent the exclusion of any religious
society. Mr. Julian offered a resolution,
which was paSsed, instructing the Judic
iary- Committee to report a bill to amend
the fugitive slave law so as to forhid the
rendition of fugitive slaves, without satis
factory proOf being first made that the
claiment of such fugitive is lOyal to the
Union. A resolution was liaised return
ing thanks to Colonel Mulligan, and au
thorizing his. regiment to bear on their
colors . the name ofLexington. The Com
mittee on Military Affairs wat instructed
to report a bill providing an additional ar
ticle of war, by which all officers of the
army shall be prohibited from using their
soldiers to return fugitive slaves, pending
the consideration of which the House ad
journed.
Mos - DAN, Dec. 23. In the Senate, Mr.
Grimes gave notice of a bill to place one
of the military hospitals in Washington
under the care ofhornceopathic physicians.
The Committee on Finance reported a
bill appropriating 441,500,000 for gun
boats on the western rivers, and It' vas
passed. The bill from the House to in
crease the duties on sugar, tea and coffee
was passed. The resolution from the
House to adjourn till January 2AI, was; ire
ceived, but on:the vote being reached,.the
members left the Senate without a quo
rum, and it adjourned.
In the Senate, Mr.. Vallandigham intro
duced a bitty Which was referred and or
dered ti; be printed, to enforce the writ
of habeas corpus and secure- the liberty,
of citizens. Mr. Noels, of Missouti,,intro
duced a resolution, which was referred, to
suspend. for twelve months the collection
of the national direct tax in Missouri.—
Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Ways
and Means, asked .leave to report a . bill to
increase-the duties On teas to cents -per
pound, on, coffee to 5 cents per. pound, on'
sugars and 5* ceno4)er,pound , ac-
cording to quality, and on molasses .6 ots.
per galloir. Mr. Vallandig:ha4kobjeSe,
to the introduction of the bill, but the
rulei were suspended, the bill discussed,
the previous question demo nded —no quo
'um voting ••-,a call of the House ordered,
and the bill paSsed by yeas 77, nays 29.
Mr. Fenton introduced a bill granting
lands to build'a pacific railroad from the
Missouri line to San Francisco, and it
was referred. A joint resolution to ad
journ till the second day of Jaruary was
adopted. The Judiciary Committee re
ported a bill to reorganize the Supreme
Court, but it was postponed. As the Sen
ate had refused to consider the adjourn
ment resolution, another was passed for
the House to adjoiwriOl Thursday, and
till Monday, and then till January 2d.
TIMSDANT, Dec. the Senate, noth
ing of importance occurred. There were
only 20 Senators present, the remainder
enjoying the holidaYS. An executive ses
sion was lield and the Senate then ad
journed until Thursday. The House was
not in session:
THURSDAY, Dec. 26.—1 n the Senate,
Mr. Hale oflered a reaolution calling for
the correspondence relative to theleizure
of Mason and Slidell, but Mr. Sunmer ob
jected to it, whereuport.Mr. Hale made • a
furious war speech. To this Mr: Sumner
replied briefly, and as he is chairman 01
the Committee on Foreign. Relations, and
in the confidence of the State Department,
his declarations are important. From his
declarations he left it to be inferred that
the English demand§ are not arrogant, or
if they are have not been received by Env
ernment ; that the AdminiStration might
favor an arbitration and that the difficulty
would be honorably and amicably adjust
ed. The resolution of Mr. -Hale was laid
over. Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, gave no
tice of a bill to confiscate every species of
property of all persons 'wile had any con
nection with the southern .revolt in civil,
military or naval capacity. Mr. Harlan
introduced a bill establishing provincial
governments in the seceded States. Mr.
Howe introduced a bill amending the Fu
gitive Slave act. The Senate adjourned
till Monday. The House was only in
session to adjourn till Monday.
IS ANYBODY HIT I—ThO
,correspcindent
of the Boston Journal tells the: following
stor
who
1 • *an 4 pretty
ut wh uccess at
e . nt, found .1 urt time
since very hard push , and was
fetind by the administratiot obe not on
ly a very seedy individual btit a very great
bore. The President endured until he
Could endure no longer. -
.00 day as a
cabinet meeting was about to break up,
the President Called his Secretaries to at
tend to one thing more. Gentlemen,"
quoth he, "something must be done for
this man Johnson. He ain't got money
enough to get out of town with, and if he
had he Wouldn't . go—unleSs the rebels be
gan to shell the place. He's got to be
maintained somehow ; -noW What d'ye
say l"
Mr. Seward shook his head. Mr.
Chase, had nothing. Mr. Blair had long
since disposed of the subjedt. Mr. Smith
had no employment; so every-body turn
ed to the War Secretary for an answer to:
the President's question. - • '
"Well," said Mr. Cameron, "I don't see
but we will have to take the usual course.
I'll make him a Paymaster."
The New
.Bedford Neredry makes the
following conundrum: "Wily; are the
Home Guards like the lathented'col. Bak-:
erg Because the last thing he 'di'd was to
die for his country, and that is the very
last thing they intend to' do."
THE ENEMY 'AGAIN ATS DRAINStELLE.-
Friday's dispatches - from Washington
brought us the unwelcome news that the
pickets of McCall's division have been
driven in at Drainesville, the very scene
of the late victory, the enemy .having
promptly reoccupied the .ground with a
whole division ofnineteen regiments, while
our Generals allowed Crd's brigade to re
treat back to the quarters of McCall's di-`
vision.
The Norfolk Day Book makes the list of
the rebel loss in the battle field at brains
vile 43 killed, 143 wounded. and '44 miss
ing ; total 280.
vm,.. The Hon. A. B. Ely, a mem
ber of Congras from Nei*-York, who
was among the. spectators at the bat
tle of Bull Run, and taken ..prisoner
by the onelny, was released on Wed
Destiny in e..eh,aii,., , re.for the Hon. C.
J. Faulkner, of Virginia, who 3vris
liberated from:FOrt Warren on pa4ole,
for this purpose.
Latest front Port Royal---Cltarleston
Harbo.t Closed Up.
NEW YORK , Thursday, Dec. 26:
The steamship Marion• arrived at
this port last evening, having sailed
from Port Royal on Saturday last.—
She brings news of great interest.—
On the 19th inst., Gen. Wright, with
seven companies of the Seventh Con
necticut Re g iment , embarked on the
Marion and proceededto Ty bee Is
land. Arriving the next day, they
came to anchor by the lighthouse
and commenced unloading, when a
heavy fire of shot arictshell - Was open
ed froM Fort Pulaski, without, how
ever, doing any damage... Gon. Ste
vens' 'brigade is still encamped at
Beaufort, and it is expeded . that a
dash will be made on the Charleston
and Savannah - Railroad. Gen. Viele'S
expedition has been abandoned, ow-'
ing, it is.said, town unfortunate disa
a
b reenicnt between Commodore Du
pont..and Gen. Sherman,
The main ship channel to Charles
ton harbor is now effectually closed
up by our stone fleet. 'The work of
sinking the Whalers commenced
the 19th inst., and on the. night of
the 24th fifteen of them had .gone
down, thus completely stopping all
egress andingresslo Charleston by
that channel. The leet was :towed
over the bar by, am vessels of our
blockading squadron fgqm P2,rt Roy
al,: and as each hulk roaehWits des
tination the, phlg NV with drawn, an d
she quietly .settled own
EXECUTION OF LANA,IIA.N.
Far.DERICK ) Md., Dec. 23
The finding of the court martial in
the case of John Lanahan, for shoot
ing Major Lewis, of -the Forty.sixth
Pennsylvania Itegiment; and sen
tencing hint to he hang, was approve
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tence • WELB Rarricd into effect this tif
ternoon At 2 ceeleckron the, '4,iigers
town, road, two Andes%fottn, the eitri'
in 'the, presone,s of the Nil
Ile died without a struggle. The .
Ibody was taken passesssan by hiE , ,
friends. Many citizens weft' ptesent
as spectators.
rm, John C. Heenan, the Benicia: ,
Boy, has arrived in Cincinnati, intend
ing to raise a company of Troops for
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