I:2 '',;4ll:non 311Vtrtiorr. 1111:411123 Ck:tEZ SO LEAD, 34.1. CZABE 1,3 , • WM. BEESLIN, Editor end Proprietor. LEBANON, PA, WEDYESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1862 ED= 0:7 -At the meeting of the Demo cratic State Central Commit' ee, held at Harrisburg on Wednesday last, it was unanimously resolved that the next Democratic State Conve»tism for the nomination of candidateS for Au ditor General and Surveyor 'General, .he held at Irarriaburg, on the 4th of July next. The meeting was very harmonious, 4he nfortunate differen ces,of 1860 being entirely forgotten. ta,.Among the resolutions of the late Indiana Democratic State Con vention, which have the true Demo oratic ring,wo nd the following: "That if the ,party in power had shown the Faille desire to settle 'by amicable atijuetnionts our internal dis sensions before'hostilities had actually commenced, that the Administration has recently exhibited to avoid a war with our ancient enemy Great Britain, we confidently believe that peace and harmony would now reign throughout our borders." :WruY 13 IT week or two age there were 'minors rife that the traitor who had furnishedrthc rebels with im portant imformation had been discoV ered. lie stood high with the gov ernment, and was not a Democrat.— Nothing has been published in thepa pers; in that the whole affair has been bushed up. Was it because his poli tics are .nat of that stripe which it is fashionable. now-a-days to charge with treason and secessionism ? And is it less treasonable in a Republican to furnish information by which a Bull .Thui battle is lost, than for a Demo• erat to tio-dllin his power to suppress the Rebellion ? im..The. employees in thoPhiladel. phis Navy Yard struck, last week,.A. gainst the 'remit net of Congress re. diming their wages and extending the hours of labor. The laboring men think that members of Congress should:first begin on themselves. 0:r.11on. John Cessna, of Bedford, has gained the contest for a seat in the Legislature, in place of Mr. IIous• holder, Republican, who was return• ed as one of the Representatives of the Bedford and Somerset district. It is said that the rebels have twen ty...six well•eonstructed forts defend. Lag. icir main position at Manasses Junction. la.:President Lincoln at Philadel phia, about kJ-ear ago, said "circum stances may compel me to put my foot firmly (town." It, seems Vaal, lie has a slightuality -that way , now. Ie practised it upon:Fremont and 'Came ron, and may shortly -upon Welles, Chase, Blair, and some others. 14§6,The following is a description of . tho .new counterfeit Ve on the • Cu turatiiv. Bank, that have . duet their appearance: • COLUIIBIA BANK.-s's, altered-og. a forest scene; mon rolling logs and felling irces ; men in cornfield on the right; sbeep-shearers on left. IMr. Stanton has been confirm ed asSeeretary of War, and Mr. Cam. Cron as Minister to Russia. It has been suggested that Mr. oCaincroll take Mr. , Cummings along as &ere. tary of purchases and expenditures. KrTlloNow York Times says it is useless to , dony "that the President and his-Mends felt that life. Cameron has not been recently sympathizing with the administration, but on the contrary, has - been in active sympa. thy with politicians in Washington who are zealously and bitterly oppos ing the President and his measures," .07 - Vroin the proceedings of Con• .gress the public aro allowed to infer • that• even Mr. Chase, the Secretary of .the Treasury, has had an interest in acme of the -schemes to deplete the Treasury. Itwas4hreatened that:he would resign if the •extra appropria• tion of $150,000, for furnishing Treas ury notes was not allowed; that it would be a reflection upon him, Ste., Weil, it wag not allowed; hence, the reflection is upon .him, and probably we shall soon hear of his withdrawal, a4s•Catneron. ITT The Courier wants us to abuse Jeff. Davis. Well, here goes Jeff., you are. a dirty blaekguard, secessionist and traitor, and deserve to •be hung as high as any abolitionist_ in Us laud. nore t . haste ant much but, we fain ihinit sbarp, Ana when Jefr. sees it he.will•be overcome as deeply its he no doubt weekliis when he reads the .Courier. Ire cares:out, such things—well ho does. & E r When scamps turned up under Democratic administrations, the op• position held the whole party respon sible. Now, when they are afflicted with a of officials, of whom al. most CI cry other man is In •or suspected of ilaud and dishonesty, or complicity in schemes for plunder ing the treasury, they hope to avoid the responsibility by denouncing res• cality in general terms. It won't do. If they even were to specify the res., cality and rascals, instead of apolo• gizing for and screening them, they would still be accountable far their introduction Into-office, the same as they held the Dereoeracy-responsible. The Courier is weekly calling upon us to denounce-Jeff_Davie,:&c., hypo ' critically pretending that we - have I not done so. OureolaMns will speak for themselves on that point, and if not blatant and foul mouthed in our denunciations, we have expressed oar contempt for the traitors to the same effect. But why does.not the Courier denounce the persona ,who have foist-, ed hordes of traitors,,in the shape‘of plunderers and -swindlers, upon the' Treasury to suck the life blood of the nation, and as Mr. Dawes says, "com pel an ignominious peace, by depriv ing the government of the means to put down the rebellion." In this re spect we may compare records with the Courier. To talkto oui govern ment,from the - President down would :be likely to have .5011143 effect, while scolding Jeff. Davis is talking to the wind. - We reminded likr. Buchanan,' at the, outset of his aduilnistrittion, that lie was appointing "drunkards, gamblers and swindlers to office,"and received our pay ttherefor by the sCou der attempting rto make political cap ital against us, ,and. frequently. twit ting us for raising the waruing , voice. We have at-ali times 4,01d1y and 'fear lessly : pursued Vhe Tight and-Condemn ed the wrong, .and iu all the tribula. tions of the Democratic pairty, during_ the last few years, everybody that knows us ',always knew, where we stood- We had,.as we thought, the. ma Oiliness to be independent—because we wanted no office. How about:the Courier. Has it said, a word. against the men .whe -appointed 'Cummings, Morgan, and the host of o`there‘.vind leis to office and .contracts? it has sunk its independence by trimming its sails for, and pretending .to be, Whig, "Democratic," "Democratic" Whig, American, Know Nothing, Re. ; publican, Abolition, People's. Party, Union, , every thing by turns, and nothin'giong; -and MI this Within the , past six.years. Che assur ance to Taint -on t , to.as -whatwe:should publish and whatnot; WhOnme-should denounce and whom not.' Vhiletian,, the heathen are at thy own doors. Krlt is a pity th at Siberia is Dot a separate govern men t,-so that some big, scamps might be sent there to honorable exile. KrGen. Scott says he did not tome home on any public mission whatever, but because ho believed. we were on' the . ede of a war with Europe. The Old Fiero was fearful he would be cre,- tabled, should war occur, until the restoration of peace.- o:tr We are glad to welcome P. S.- DECEIERT, Esq., back to the ranks and to that staunch Democraticlour cal, the Charnbersburg Valley Spiiit. Great Federal Victory' in Kentucky. A Battle at Bamerset, C INCINNATT, Jan. 20.—A. , buttlc acrualought - Sofner set, Ky., on • Sat urday, between the Federal troop s under Gen. Sellceptr, and the ram Is under Gun. Zollieotier. The engagement. was Commerical, in the tnorning,nd-lasted till night fall: Gen. Zollieoffer.was killed and his army entirely defeated. The lose is heavy on both sides. [SECOND DEBI'ATCII.I The, Federal Mimi Confirmed. Loutsvitax, Jam. .20.—Gen. Thom as telegraphs to headquarters that on 'Friday night .Gen Zollicoffer came up to his encampmeirt, and attacked him at six o'clock• on Saturday morn ing, near 'Webb's CroseToads, in the vicinity of Somerset. At halfpast three o'clock on Salm.- (lay afternoon, ZolliCoffer and Bailie Peyton had been k:iled, and the yeb• els were in full retreat - to their en• trenehments, at Mill Springs. The Federal troops., were in tot pursuit. No further partiouhtrs save bcen received, •nor any at/Count of the losses on either side. -.Somerset, the scene .of the above victory, is the county seat of Pulaski county, Kentucky, a short distanee =north of the Cumberland river. Kr A later deSpatch confirms the intelligence of Zollicoffer's His body is now in possession of our troops. Not satisfied with repelling the reba attack, Generals ,Thomas and Sehoepff, made a- combined at tack upon the rebel entrenchments, which was fully sucoisstni, and re salted in the capture Of a large num ber of prisoners and all the camp; property of the enemy. Two hundred and seventy-five reb els were.killed and wounded. The dead were found on the field. . The 10th Indiana Regiment legit 75 killed and wounded. - INTefurther par ticulars of the Federal Jou have yet been received. CHANGE IN THE CABINET . The country was startled last week, by the announcement,' unheralded by any previous rumors, that Gen. Cam. cron had been displaced from the War Department, and the lion. Ed• win M. Stanton, a Democrat, who was Attorney General at the close of Mr. Buchanan's Administration, ap 7 pointed to Succeed him. The Presi dent appears to have taken the re sponsibility of this act upon himself, and in doing so, has shown a decision of character and an independence of partizan dictation, that arc worthy of the •commendation of all patriotic men. 1:t is well knownn - that great dissatisfaction with Secretary iCame ron's4Ldministration.of affairs has,.ex.- isted for - HOMO itiine, rind that Strenu; ous !efforts were made by ;leading men of Boston, New York, Philadelphia,, and , other &ides, to have -hlan -remov ed, The hordeof hungry jobbers ttnd speculators whecOntinually beseiged the War Ofß . .ce, ilmportuning its fread for contracts by which they might defraud the' Government and enrich thernselvcs • and thou success in too . many eases, .for Gen. CaMeron had numerous "old scores" to pay off) cm= casioned a feeling of disgust and in. dignation among the honest and high. minded friends of the administration, which found 'expression in rations ways; and Could:not be silkihcettokap. peztod: This, taken in connexion with Gen. - Cameron's .attenipt, at the opening of this sessiea Of Congress, to dictate a line of policY differing, in a .verY .4aportant partiou ar,fro in that marked oatiby the President, doubt. less led , tothe , changowhich, although suddenly announced, had: been,.in,all probability, for some time in contem plation.—Reddiug Gozette. Oz!rThe case •:of the- 'contested seat of the First Congressional !Distirict f ctf this State; was laSt week -decided',hy thollooso,of Representatives, Wash ington, in favor of Wen., g.-Lehman, democrat, the'•eitting member. Tho Committee oil Elections reported in favor of Mr. • .Tohn- AL. Butler's claim to the -seat, but it/10 , :House,. by a vo te of 77 to 65, declared tlbat-SlirLelrman was the rightfully elected meml:er. ft oit•-ding Railroad Company. .. • The annualtneetirig of the, 'Reading Rail road o piny to olt .1) lace at thi; Company's office, in l'hitadelploa, Alonday week. The following Officers were•eleoted for the en siling Sear President—Charles EL Smith. Managers—Asa Whitney, S. M., Witott,ll.;Er att. 11C .Kean, William °oilers, Jobn li. Town, A. E. Boric. Treasurer Sainuelltradford. Secretory-Will am If. Wilke:my • The receipts and expenditures for the year endiu g No vember 3i), 1861, are given as folloWs RECEIPTS. - Front Travel, 263,r51, equal. to 141,451 • through passengers tt43,904 69 Front Merchandise, 344.959 tons 406,32 t 22 From Coal, 1,639,535 tons - • 2,111.023 39 Front .the 'United States Mail and other .finuados • ' 49,599 43 =massif. ....... .Roadway 246,473 Sb ittinaltacks, allOwincea and all 191,085 fie 11282,133 43 Net;prollt for the year.... .... . ... .... . ........... 30 The rems 4, of. the zear's business, as condensed from 'the•tranaportntion andltucome :account, may •be stated thus.: Gross receipts $2945;833 73 Deduct working expenses, ;Deluding re newal fund 1492,933 27 Profits or receipts ester costa utorki rg the road $1,412,003 46 From ;which deduct' interest - on Bonded debt Air4,534.r00 Bonds and mortgages 33,532 06 • ' 740,366-00 Leaving for net profit or dividend fund, 3672,533 16 This has been credited as follows.: Sinking funds—. slso,ooo'oo' State - tax'on - '15;02.13 - 25 Dividend on preferred stock.... 108,628 00 Accrued interest on previous preferied atorki dividends not paid 24,065 40 italasca canted to reserved band, lea-. $373,919, 78 Amuriat to credit of reserVed 1800, per:veport of No setnber4o. 1800 $421 904 SG Oat of which 'hastheen paid KW dry Alsaarbacke on traffic •for. 1860-- ...... .... . ... ..... . 10,089 Totareserved fuotl The rolling stock of the Company, has been increased I,oso`cars. The transportation of live stock:chiefly for the 'New York market, via Allentown and Easton, has reached 35,411 tons—an increase of 264 per cent. over last year. The net profits on the Lebanon Valley Bristoch r during the past year, have•been equa/.-to the interest (.7 per cent.) on the bonds iesued for its , coustsuction f aud 4per cent. on the remainder ef,ite cost. la the exercise of tbe general authority given to the Board, of Managers, at the last annual meeting, a majority of stock has been purchased in the Allentown Rail road, and in the , Schuylkill and Susque hadna-Railroad. The road of the latter Company leads from Augurn, on the line of the Reading Railroad, 83 miles from Philadelphia, to Rockville, at the Bast end of tbe Pennsylvania Railroad 'Company's bridge across theßusquebanno, river,, a dis tance , of -64 miles. The -road is entirely free from floating - debt, and is subject to one mortgage of $97,000,, , at .6 per cent. in terest.. This purchase entirely obviates tbeye cessity of the construction of an extension of the Lebanon V,alley.Roacl to Oauphiti, estimated to cast abotit $200,000, and which Was authorized to be made by the stocithcrlders at their annual .meeting in aktuary, 1860. On the 15th of July, Mr.Vhitney felt it .11is fluty to withdraw from 'Presidency of the. Company, to give his attention to private affairs. Mr.• Charles E. Smith, previously Gate of the Managers ; 'was elected in his stead. Mr.J. Bteee resigned the office of Vice President, and became the .Chief Engineer of the Company. It has not been thought necessary to ell the Mice of 'Vice Flesi dept. Although their positions have been changed, the Company has had the benefit of the-assistance of both these, gentlemen. By order of the Board of IdaLagem • . -01•14142 LES B. SMITH, President,. Philadelphia, Jan. 11, 1862. o*-A. despatch from Carlo states that .an expedition which recently left there for Dallas. and. Aloomfield ,returned on the morning of the 18th hist With twenty-three rebel prison. es, and, that heavy cannonading on the Tennessee.river waihearcl at. Pa. ducab yesterday morqing A battle between Gen. Grant and, the enemy is supposed to be imilendiog. .. • Government ibinitriets. The following is the speech of Mr. Dawes, (Republican) of Massachu setts, on Monday of last week, in Con gress. We like to publish -Republi can speeches and documents. As the Courier has been dictating what speeches we should publish and what not, it certainly cannot find fault if We also have the presumption to its footsteps, and hope that this speech will appear in its' columns. REMARKS OF MR. DAWES. 'Sir, I have not failed to .notice, and I believe the. Committee or which I am a .member have not -failed to notice, in com mon with the:whole country, that for some unaccountable reason the charges upon .the national treasury, at this time of war, have been such as to reach nearly the bot tom of -the public chest.. .'During 'our -in vestigation startling facts-haVe come be. fore,thenotice of -this committee, and -to the notice of the whole country, touching the mode and manner of the expenditure of the public money. Some of these items I propose to call publist ittention to, and then to ask gentlemen Elie plain question, if at all, and if so, - how, when and where? The very first contract entered into by this government, after the troops had left their - homes to come here; in April,lasf, to -defend . the Capitol, by ; Whichthey were to be fed, was a contract entered- into for Cat tle. It was not made with a man whose business -it was to supply- cattle to the market, not with a man -Who knew the price of beet in the markets-of the coun try, but was entered into by the govern ment here with a man wellknoWn.in this, and in the other brench of Congress, 4for the last ten years, as an old political -di pendiary---one of the class of men who, in times past, made their money by Such operations _as buying the certificates of members for books at a discount and then 1 charging the ftill -amount. This contract was Made so that 'the first twenty-two hundred head of :Cattle: furnished was 'charged at Irate which.'enabled their original contractor to sublet it, in 'twenty 'four hours after, toe. man in New York who did not knowthe price of beef; so . that he put into his pockets, without stir ring, from his chair, thirty-two thousand dollars, and the. men who actitally fur nished the cattle in question put into their pockets.twepty-siX thousand dollars more, so that the contract under which these twenty-two hundred head ,of cattle were furnished to the army, was so made that the profit .of M-eight thousand dollars was realized . over the,fair market price.— It takes a -longer time- to enable a -thou sand head of cattle to reachthis city' from the States wheee they purchased than It takes the - army to consume them. I 'ask the House, at this rate, to -consider ha* . long the most ample Drovieiona - of the Treasury would be able to meet the -siniple demands 'for 'the - subsistence of the =army. Sir, poorly as - the army is 'Shod to-day, 'a '(lion of shoes have already been worn 'out, and a million more are be ing manufactured; and yet upon every one of these ehbes there has been a waste of seventy-five cents. Three-quarters of a million of dollars have been already worn out, and another three-quarters of a million of dollars upon shbee,is new _being man ufactured.. ln that deter - Went of the goy errunent contracts have been so plenty that gol,rernmeat officials have gone abut the streets with their pockets filled with 'them, and of mlrioh they made presents to the clergymen of their parishes, and with which *ere healed oldpolitical sores :and curedpolitical feuds.. Even the tele graph has -announced that high public functionaries have graced the love 'feasts which 'were got up to celebrate these ,po litical reconciliations, thus brought about while tire' hatchet of political aniniosity was buried in the grave of publip confi- ' dence, and the national credit crucified amongst malefactors.: We have - reported to us - the first fruits of one of these con treat.. A regiment of cavalry late reach ed Louisville, one thousand strong, and the board .of army officers there appointed for, the purpose have condemned four ; hundred and eighty-.five out of the thou santihorses :as . utterly werthless. The man who examined the horses declared, upon his oath, that there was not one of therm that was we,rth twenty dollars. ''.trey were blind; spavined:, eingboned, af ;Meted with the heaves, with the glanders, and with eVery disease that horeeflesh is heir to. These four hundred and eighty.? fiVe horses'cost- the government,. before they Were mustered into-the - service, fifty eight theustind two hundred dollars to transport them from:Pennsylvania to Lou isville, where they 'were' eondemned and cast off. . $2,90".,t38 73 EXI7 33 ,82" ea $70:),74..! 40 Mr, Marbly (Union), of Ky., asked what regimenilbese horses belonwto, and who furnished *too! Mr. Dawes—They ;belonged to Colonel William's regiment of cavalry, and they were purchased in Pennsylvania, from which State they were for Warded to Lou isville, where they were condemned.-L-- There are eighty-three regiments , of cav alry to-day, one thousand strong. It takes two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to put one of these regiments on focit before it moves. ‘'T wenty Million of dollars have thus been expended on these ceialry regiments before they lett the en campments where they were mustered into service, and hundreds and -hundreds of these horses. have been.condemned and send•back. to Elmira, and .to Annapolis, and to4his city, to spend the winter. Any day hundreds of them can, be seen round :this city, chained to trees, where they were left to starve to death. Gangs of two hundred horses, in various places, have been thus left to die and rot, till the Committee on the. District of Oolumbia have called for a measure of legislation to .protect the city from thedanger to be ap prehended from these horse Golgothas.— Ari ex-Goyernor of one .State offered to an ex-judge of another State five thou sand dollars to get him permission to raise one of these regiments of cavalry, and when the ex-Judge brought back the com mission the ex Governer takes it to his room at the hotel, while another plunder er sits at the keyhole watching like a mas tiff while he inside counts up forty thou sand dollars profit on the horses, and cal culates twenty thousand dollars more up on the accountrements and on the other details of furnishing these regiments. In addition to the arms in the hands of the six hundred thousand soldiers -in the field, there are numerous outstanding contracts, Made With private individealsnot made upon advertisement, not made with the knowledge of the public, but made by ex mernbers ofeengress, who knew no more of the difference between one class of arms and another than does a Methodist minister. Theta are outstanding con tracts for the entinnfacture of Springfield muskets, the first one of which cannot be I delivered in six -months from this day— ; There is a contract for 'the supply of one million and ninety thousand muskets, at twenty-eight dollars apiece, when the same quality of muskets is manufactured at Springfield for thirteen and a half apiece ; 1 and an ex-member of Congress is now in 1 Massachusetts, trying to get machinery I made by which he will be able to menu facture fn some six month hence, at twen ty-one dollars apiece,. those rifled musk ets manufactured to-day in that armory , for thirteen dollars and a half. Provi ' deuce, before six months, will dispose of . this war, or He will dispose of us. Not one of those-muskets thus contracted for will be of the slightest service in this emer gency, or before the providence of God, whether for good or •for evil, will dispose of it. 1 ask my friends from the, North and Northwest how they expect to bene fit by an armory at Chicago, at Rock Is land, and at.Q,nincy, when a -million and ninety:tvvothottsand muskets will, adcord 'dig to this cotitraet,•be,threwn upon the country; and-that after the war is over, and at such an enormous prim., in addi tion to other, outstandi rig contracts for-the manufacture, sometime hence, of two hundred and seventy-two thousand En field rifles I - Besides these ce seventy-. five thousand five hundred and forty three sets of harness, to be delivered by and by, at the- cost of one million nine hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars. I liavenet time to enumerate ail these contracts, when we appropriated, at the last session of Congress, for this purpose, twenty mit tens of dollars, thirty-seven millions and sonleethousand dollars had been already eledgedlocontractors—not Er the pun chape of arms for the men ,in the field, not to Protect them In fightingtheitecountrY's battles in this getaVemergency and peril, but for some-future use, for some future odcasion, or to meet some present need of the contractors, I don't kfiow which at this moment. And not only the appropri ation of last session has been exhausted; hut seventeen millions put upon it. The riot of the 19th of April in Baltimore open ed this ball, and'on the 21st of April, in the city of New York, there was organized a corps of plunderers of the Treasury, Two millions of dollars were entrusted to a poor, unfortunate, honest, . but entirely in competent editor of a paper in New York, to dispense it in the bestananner he could. Straightway this gentleman began to per chaze linen pantaloons, straw hats, Lon don porteredried herrings,-and such like provisions for the army, till be expended in this way these hendred and ninety thousand dollars of the money, and then he got scared and quit. (Laughter. )-- There is an appropriation, also, -for the supply of wood` to the army. This con tractor is pledged the payment of seven dollars a cord for all 'the Wood delivered to the different commands; 'wood collect ed after the labor of the soldiers them selves had cut down the trees to clear the ground for their batteries ; and then this contractor enniloYs the arnsy wagons to draw it to the several camps, and Ilse has no further trouble than to draw his seven dollars for a coed, leaving the Government to draw the wood. - (Laughter.) It costs two millions of dollars every day to sup port the army in the field. A hundred millions of dollars thavethas - been •expend ed since we met. 'OR the o.'2et dey of 'De cember, and 0.111 that 'time the army has been in repose. What the 'expenditure will increase to etben that great day shall arrive when -our-eyes shall be gladdened with a sight of the army in motion, I do not know. Auother tiurrdredxnlllioriswlll -go with the hundreds more l have enumer ated. Another hundred millions may be added to these before the 4th of March. What it may cost to put doWn the rebel lion I care very little, provided, always, that it be put down effectually. But, sir, faith without works is dead, and 1 am free to confess that my faith sottlehnies fails me, I mean My faith in-men, not my faith in the cause. When thehistery of these times shail be written, it will,' be a ,q - ues- Hon upbn whom the guilt ?Will rest 'Most heavy—upon him who has conspired' to destroy, or upon turn who has proved in competent to preserve; theinstitutions be queathed to us by oar fathers. It is no wonder that the - public treasury trembles and staggers-like a strong man with too ,gteat a burthen upon him. A strong man in an air exhausted receiver is not more helpless to day than is the treasury of his government beneath the exhausting pro cess to which it is subjected. The might y monarch of the forest himself may hold at bay the fiercest, vnighiest of his • foes, while the vile cur coming up behind him and opening bis fanas gives him a fatal wound; and although he may struggle on boldly end valiantly,,the life blood is silent ly trickling; frotinbiseart, and he is at laeteforeettto lesoeersabis grasp, and he grows faint and. faltem and, dies. The Treasurynotesiss,uedrin the face of these immenSeciuthiyKwithotir a'revenue from custom houses s from landtalessfrom any touree whatever., are beginning to pall in, 'the market. Already have they began tie sell at six per cent discount at the tables of the money changers; at the very time, too, that we - here exhibit the singular spectacle. of fraud, and Of a struggle with the Committee of Ways and Means itself, in an endeaver to lift uP 'and sustain the government of the country. Already the sutler—that curse of the camp, is follow ing the paymaster, as the shark follows the ship, buying up for four 'dollars Tiers , five egollars , of the wages , of the toldiers paidto them in "Treasury motes. I have no desire to hasten:the mesements.of the army, or to criticise the cohduct'oftits lead er's, but in view of the, stupendous drafts upon the Treasury, I must tay - that I long for the day - of striking the blow which will I bring this rebellion to an-end. Silty days longer of this state of things will bring a bout a result one'way or another, It is impossible that the treasury of the United States can meet, and continue to meet, this state of things sixty dais longer, and an ignominious peace niustebe submitted to unless we see to it that the credit of the country is sustained, and sustained, too, by the conviction going forth from this hall to the people of the country that we willtreit as traitors, ,not only those who are bold and manly enough to meet us face to face 'the field of strife, but all those also who clendestinely-and stealthi ly suek:the life-blood from its in this might y stpeggle. Wlti4ever 'measures may emanate from the Committee Of Ways and Means to meet Ad' retrieve this state lof things, they will but fall .like a *ad pall Von the public unless they giise this assurance;. that these - extraordinary and extreme measures to resuscitate, revive and replenish the`treasury, are not made to fill farther and longer the already gorg ed pockets: of the public plunderers.— How, then, are we to contribute in this matter to revive public confidence in our public men here, if it be not when these appropriations come up that we probe them, that we_ascertain whether there be anything in them that at this moment can be spared. Oar pressing duty now is to protect and savelhe4reasury from further wholesale or other system of plundering. In conclusion, he argued against paying for printing the Treasury notes, on the ground that the contract was improperly obtained. Doings in Congress. motiukr, January 13 Senate - H-Tlielitany Committee reported tlie . bill..irom tire House ttp propriating $150,000 to complete the defences of .Washington, city. - The Judiciary COmmittee-'repotted a gainst .the _passage of the veselation: to expel Senator „Bright -of Indiana. A resolution was offered:and laid over instructing the Committee on-Finance to inquire -into the -elpedienorof.pro. viding by the , dirbet'., taiation of all kinds of property, for . $200,000,000:Of revenue, also'.6ortire.lb tibiqr Year's for $800;000, 000,. - and ; , to, establish _a :fiscal agency -in Nev-1 'York. Mr. King introduced - -a tiilP to" 'authorise the -Secretary of the Treasury to is. sue Treasory 'notes to, the •amoun't of 4100,000,000 at seven per cent, ieter est, and providing : a =direct tax .of $lOOOO,OOO for .the payment.of titer est thereon. Referred. Rouse.—The CoMmittee on E tient; made a favorable - report ion 'the claim of Andrew dle.iiients Ito .a . seat 'in The llotthe of_ RePresontative front the. Fourth district of Tetrnes see.- The Select cotninittieon Cr-ciOn ment Contracts reported a series . - of resolutions, which were .adop Led, 'call ing on the War Derlartiliewt Far, great variety of information abont the sales of the army infiplim etc., in Utah, the debt incurred fOr unau thorized troops in Color:Ade, *ie..— The amendments to Oivil Appropria tion bill were then taken. atp. Alter some debate Mr. Ddiies - offerei -nn amendment which seethed to- Iseitgole the b . :601e. It approp"riateS - MOOO9 for printing and engravinii Treasury notes in addition to the former.appro priation, provided that no part ,of it shall be applied to payfor-any exist. ing contract. This ;vas "agreed to by yeas nays 44. The house reject ed theamendment made in ,e.oedmittee suspending the appropriations for the coast survey -daring the re.be.llion, and the bill then passed. - • rirj USDA Y, January 14. Senate:—Mr. Grimes' bill to release from the Washington Jail all person not :wick'. indictment TOT .crimes, in tended to •effeet the Telpri:se , of a 41 11 m• her of fugitives Mayas,. iwas ipassed— yeas; :31, nays 4. And thaSenaite ad journed. Ileuse.-I. l he 'bill to abolish 'the franking priyilege,,was takerrlip, and altar some discussioa, and scYcral at tempts to Itmend it, its passed by a rote of 187 to 42. The - hill appropri ating 835,000 for the. exhibition of American products at the World's Fair in London, was considered in Coin mittee of the Whole, and a lively debate Sollowed_in reference to our relations with. tlreat -Britain. The bill was .: fi'nally laid on the table by large majcirity, 'and. tire House ad journed. • WEDNESD.4Y, January 15. Mr. Truce - bull from the judiciary Corn mitte, to whom was referred the numerous' bills an reference to the con fiscation of the property of rebels &c,. reported then all back with one orig. hail bill as a substittte for the whole namely to confiscate the property and free the slaves of rebels. House.—Mr. Van Horn, from the Committee on Roads and Canals; re ported a resolution which was adopt. ed, calling on the Secretary of War for information having in view the construction of several branch rail roads, in order-to have more direct communication between Washington and New, York. Mr. Owning, from the CoirAnittee on Ways and Means, reported a':joint resolution, that in or der to pay the ordinary expenses of the government, and the interest on the national loan, and have an ample , sinking fund for its-ultimate liquida tion a tax be itnposed, which, with the tariff On - importii,will secure an.annu al revenue of notiess than $140,000,- 000. Mr- Vallandigham made* long speech in favor of taking active measures in relation to the finances of the country, and the resolution was finally passed by a vote of L to 5. Mr. Blair from the Military Com mittee, reported abill _ainendatory of the direct , tax bill, and 'for liberating and colonizing the slaves of rebels. A' bill prohibiting the Chinese coolie trade by Americans in American ves sels was passed. The Post Office Committee reporteda bill to raise rev. enue by a tax on printed matter car ried outside of the mails, the consid eration of which was postponed. In Committeeof the Whole, the,Fortift cation bill being utider 'consideration, Mr. Wadsworth, orlientuelly; inade and eloquent reply to uitpeeeh of Mr. Bitigham, of • Chie r in Win k& the lat ter said that Congress, under the con stitution,bas power to emancipate the slaves. At the conclusion of Mr. Wadsworth's Toni - arks, the House ad journed. TunitsnAli 'lO. The Senate received a, comrnuni. cation froni the Secretary of War, saying that his clerical force had been insufficient to properly answer their resolution, and that he hid not him self made' a single' contract. The bill for the protection of overland emigrants, was passet as also resolu- tions of iaquiry as to - certain vessels in the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and as to the amount paid to certain railroads: The bill in relatiOn to the arrest of Slaves - by military officals wia.tak en up and-discussed until the expiration =ufr the.' Morning term.-- The regular business was the Kati 'sas contested case : it was deeidc4 in Mr. Lane's favor by a vote of 24 to Bills Were passed by the llonset authorizing Vie Secretary of War to furnish clothing, and other necessa ries to Union prisoners in the rebel. States, and'amend the Act of 1557 with reference to the attendance of witnesses. The use of the. hall - -was granted for the, annual meeting of the Colonization Society. The Philadel phia contested election ease was dis (sussed for several hours- Fttuar,lanuary'll ! The Senate pussed the House Joist resolution declaratorY4 the purpose . to impose a . tar,. Ilic. ; POWellf,s vote being the only, one in the. 'negative and a resolution to pay Mr._ Stanton the usual compensation. A few other bills and resolutions were intrOduccd,. when the Senate went into F:xedul tive session. In the House, bills were passed itt; thorizinff the establishment of branch post offices, and appropriating. ss,z, 900,000 in the fortification . bill. A resolution. of inquiry as to• the pur chase of horses in Kentucky was passed. . Both. houses. adjmirtied: - to Monda. . . .... . ~,, -- ,- •, ' , ia - t. . . s. f ~'" r,' a, --, - : stgi— Henry IX Moore, Republican,- was re-elepted State Treasurer, oft Monday. The Democrats siipporimi Wm. V. MeGrdth.., The Union Democrats - voted cor Dr. SoneS R McClintock on the first -ballot. Mr, _Hoffer voted for sore, ;the Republican noniinee,, , on the first and last ballot, as was an, tticipated and predicted. goir The report that Gen. Wool in tended bombarding Norfoii, and .that ihe had given notice to the viotnen anal children to leave, is officialli con tradicted. . . . veN. At tho Citric) of going - to . times we bad. -from the , Burnside ExpeditiOn, Bar iohn Layering, who was exe cuted at ififflintown on` the act Kist. , for thlo murder of Henry Anker,oon fessed that he tmirdered Adaline Ba vor, near Mobrarille,Berks enanty, a few years „ago daring. the Pair. - Kr Herman York - es, Sergeant-at- Arms of the PennsylrAnia ennte died in Philadelphia, on Saturday * It is reported that the 93d Reg iment has removed from Camp Mary to Georgetown, and that the Regi ment to Which Capt. Weidnian'a Com pany is attacked, is to go to Kansas. stir Our I at Port Royal Airs said to be advaneing towards Savan nah. AL,TER.EI7I &M.—Five dollar , bills, ltered loom ones, on the,Crawford 'County Bank Vaasa made their ap pearance. Tile alteration is well ex ecuted, and mdculated to,cleceivo the. unwary. It is reported that the rebelt envoys, Mason and Slidell,.arrived safely at St. George, Bermuda, on the '9th` inst., wad thatthey sailed for St. Thomas-en the 10th, with the inten tion of taking passage at-that point for England. "Had we the power, we would place a musket in-the ,h,ands of every man from President down, who has been clammoring for the war and another onward movement of Jour troope.— We would place the Cabinet, the war members of Cpngress and war preach ers, of whatever sect, in tba fi=ery front ranks. The lesser- lights—war Governors, the members of 'Legisla tures, contractors, et omne genus, next, and the honest masses in the rear.-- • Then we Would command a forward movement, and when we come upon the enemy, would order rear ranks to charge bayonets, and thus bring,the war to a speedy termination. Don't you think it would prove a settler?" —Fairfield (Iowa) Union. *-The .Lebsin - on. atrefeetis I:brmeted lireekty. 1.E5.11105.", IVatetiMlMV, JAItUitiLY 220462.. Leta Mill,, Itx. Fern $025 - Mggs„ Smith Extra 020 Butter, 15 lb., 12 : Leb. Val; Super. Final,' 50 Tub or-salted butter, 10 Prime White Wheat, 126=;:. S - Prime Med Wheat 120.Vallow, S Prireelltye, • 554'411.1ere„ :11 t Corn, ' 45 Shouldere, 9 Oats, , Closer-see 4, 350 Soap, . 7 , Thnothreeed, 175 Bees-wax, Ptaxmeed, 125 White 'Stage, 3 Dried "Apples,l66u., 100 Mixed - Bags, -, 1 /Wed APP l 44,Pealed, 2 50 Flaa,'ll:lb; • 13M Peach ..snitit," 250 Orietles,-1125., 4 0 Peach "Ilutzele,"" 25- reatberi,lsl)., 0234 : Oberries, 150 W001,13 , 3i., 40 Onlens ' 37 ' Baup Beebe,* qt., IL •E'atatues, VI bus, 40 Vinegar, if . Apple Better, $1 crock. 44 The Philade lphia MineWC, . MONDAY . , Jan, 20.--The Flour max/mt undergone no change. There is setne.inlutryier r the . lietter grades, Mit low grades arefAlult.;.. The culy sales reported for export are 12011."barrelsk good Western extra family at $7, 21/01beirelirlowe grade do, at $5 75, 400 ,barrels .extra at 45 590 $5 7.5Vg barrel. Small sales for home contmtp tiawat $.5 25@5 8 7*.for,00ttimcii - Mid su.4. nerktio, $5 59 to $5.15f0r extrall. 811 . 4A8;-* 25 for extra family,tud $6 371 to for fumy lots—according an d Meal, aro veric ( laiat4 l . ..Ailtall ilelee of the format' at $3 75. The 1a Yid tielti at 's3 `4sllbahrelAsie Penna. Grain.--The efferingf of Wheatamtinnosmallti but this demand- ia'quite-modera to. SANS of 3,- 400 ,bustmlo fair and•priratt Penna. atitt-Western Re d 3 at $1 33(«}2 35 %a bushels. Wbitarengsa irocuAl. 40 to. $1 50. 500. bushels Penna. Rye sold at 72i cents. Corn is rather quiet. Bales. of new yellow at 58 cents and old at 62i cents-p a lot of 'new White sold at 58,cents. Oats are in fair demand and 2500 . bathe& Penna. sold at , cents bushel. in. state. Clove need ism. geed demand and 200 bushels prime sold at $4 6404 75 64 lbs. sales - of - Timothy. Flaxseed has declinedto 42"1011 bushel. CATTLE MASICIPL—The offerings and sides of Beef Cattle reached tome 1227 - ,144 this, week'at the 'different yards, at about pwrions rates, prices ranging from $6 to di the 100 si for common to good and prime quality, idolise rather dull. The principal sales were 'made sk 11.7®58. .Cows and Calves.—About , Bo.-hwirso been, posed of arrow $2O to . sB2:foi • thiringate k speck $26 to $3B for Cows and Calves, Sis:to.., canditlezu Hoge.—The receipts this week*heck 6600 head, and prices ruieff. rather lebilk„.. ts _sides of 5006 at Imbillrarist4.4obeast, - 14114. at the Avenue - Yard at "$4/€l5l tine XIII Itia let aecording to condition. - Shimp.i-wese sortek.:'?„,, , p 4111.`-sigaliL4 tasc gross, as IA quality.' •
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