X thntrit atttiurtiort. 'want osmoonAsso Panicretss cuss so &sap, WI cam TO rosaaw." WK. ;h" AV • Ai for aad Proprietor, LEBANON, PA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL Y. 1862. O& The. latest we have' from Gen. McClellan's army advanolng on York town, is to Saturday noon. Sonia skirmishing had taken place with several killed and wounded on our side. There is no doubt but a great battle will, if it has not already, take place there. WASHINGTON, April 6, 1862. The News from Fortress Monroe. lilt() town to day has been in a state of excitement, owing to a report of Gen. Wool, that a fight was probably going on at. Yorktown. In the ab sence of any positive knowledge from the War Department, all kinds of ru mors gained credit of a defeat, heavy loss, &c., but at alate hour "to•niglA the Government have advicesOria Cherrystone, that our lines ruwitp to within a short distance of Yorktown but no general fight had taken, the enemy falling buck without fighting. The cannonading first heard was caused by our troops shelling the woods as they advanced. star The Spring Elections in Penn. sylvania, as a general thing resulted gloriously in favor of the Democrats. Many places that had scarcely ever gone for the Democrats resulted this time in a victory for'our side.'Among others we notice that in York bor ough the Democrats elected their Chief Burgess, for the second time in thirty years. In Carlisle the Demo. °ratio candidate for Chief Burgess WAS sleeted, being the first in twenty years. Hundreds upon hundreds of other places have achieved Demo cratic victories which are considered as merely the advance guard of what is coming next fall. Iter We despair of inducing the courier to acknowledge itself uncon. ditionally for the Union, the Consti tution. and the enforcement of the laws. It later the Union with reservations! It is for the Constitution if inter preted to its satisfaction, but it won't say that it is for the Constitution as explained by tho Constitutional and legal power of the land, if that ex• planation is not to its liking. It is in favor of the "enforcement of the laws," but will not commit it self in favor of enforcing ALL the laws. Snob patriotism can be found in abundance even in the rebel armies, probably in Jeff. Davis's Cabinet.— Can it be wondered that we think it of trifling moment to abuse Jeff. Da vie, who probably never saw the AD VERTIBEEt, when there is BO much weak-kneed patriotism in the North, which requires attention. Reiterat• ing expressions of disgust and scorn of those In arms against their coun try, would be like the action of so many good Christians, who, in, their efforts to christianize and civilize the heathen overlook the heathen at their own doors. We are sorry the Courier does not embrace the opportunity we have given it, to alp:ince its uncondition al and unaeserved devotion to the Union, Constitution and Laws. But we will give it one more opportu nity : Does it prefer the emancipation of tho restoration of the Ern, ion as it was before the rebellion ? its. The Legislature will adjourn on Friday next, the 11th inet. The terms of 11 Republican Senators wt.- pire with this session, giving a plen tiful margin to the. Democrats to elect a Democratic'Sen'ate. iii" Hon. Thomas B. Cooper, Dem. ocrat,representatve in Congress from the Lehigh and Bucks District has been obliged to return home from Washington on account of a bronchi al complaint with which he is afflicted Mr. Cooper died on Friday last. WA. Among the killed, at the bat tle of Winchester was Capt. Gallach. erof Blair county, as brave and patri otic a settles ever lived. He was a "BretiltinAlge,Difmocrar` daring the last Paesiden tial,conteet. The North ern Bredkinridgers, are being rapidly reetueed in numbers, no doubt to the ingrate-satisfaction of the Itepobll, cant., They are being_ killect'dff like ile;Clin battling for their. conntry. OtriWelearmAY.telegnaptiihat Is land Ito,,,AAvvitligaretion, transports eannokaud everything is, taken.— The aihnanpe of our army is irretisti. MI BM PASSED THE SZNATE.--The bill for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, passed the Senate on Thursday., by a vote of 29 yeas to 14 nays. An amendment, offered by Mr. Doolittle. (Rep.) of Wisconsin, appropriating 6100,000 to aid the vol. untary emigration of the negroes lib erated by the bill, to Hayti or Libe ria, was adopted—.7 - yeas 29, nays 14. The yeas are ALL Republicans, and the nays all Derpocrate and Union _ _ AND THEN. AT THIS. • DISCURDITABLIE PARSI*ONY:r*-The Senate Naval. Committee' reported against alloviiiig tJi iailore and men on board the sleep" of war Cumber land, who lost their clothing in the late action with.the Herrimeat Per trees Monroe, 'OO each. It is well known that these poor fellows lost everything they had, and yet Sen. ate refuses to allow them the small pittance of 860 to prOcuro the nein& eery articles to keep them warm.— It was recommended by the Presi dent and Secretary of the Navy. If the sailors were a parcel of niggers they would probably fare better.— One day Congress appropriates mil lions for the blacks the iiext it is un willing to allow a few dollars to white men to replace clothing:lol4 in the service ef their country. r Congress has decided not to IoY an advertising Tax upon Country newspapers. Only those haVing a large circulation are to be taxed. Its a pity that the bill cannot be made to discriminate, and that those only, like the New-York Tribune, that helped to bring on the war should be made to pay. sar The oplinsition have been mak ing a great ado,for several months past, about • a secret organization said to exist.in the Northern States, call ed the Knights of the Golden Circle. Information was lately •furnished the administration relative--thereto, in which the Initials of 'Franklin Pierce figured prominently as a member of the order. Just about the time that Mr. Seward was listening tothetrea son of Wendell Phillipsln Washing ton, he ordered one of his', clerks to address a curt note to the Ex-Presi dent asking an explanation, and the subject was even =alluded to in the. Senate. rlkir. in such style as to elicit an apology:froth Mr. Seward. There_is no telling how far patriotism,miglithave driven 'the vit.- tuous Wendell Phillips-Itepublicang— it might huve resulted even in the incarceration of Mr: Pierce in. Fort Warren—on the strength of-,tbe anon ymous accusation ; had it:-not 4edked out that the whole operation of.-tilie Golden Oiiere Knight's .was ahoax, got up by a man named ;'ll4pkins to fool the - Detroit papers. He got caught in his own trap, iwhen he con fessed the whole affair? There the matter ends except the:Weakness of our opponents whe can: unly see tree gon in Democracy, apd,rtriotism in Disunion. le; : The following is an extract from the lecture of Wendell Phillips, delivered at Washington on the .14th of March, , in, the presence of Mem bers of the Gabinet, senators, Repre sentatives, ifs,o, He_ repeated it in several cities; and attempted it in Cincinnati, with very indifferent stie , nese:— "I have labored nineteen , years to take nineteen states out of this Union, and if I have spent any nineteen,years to the sat isfaction of my Puritan conscience, it was those nineteen years. The child of six generations of Puritans, I was taught at a mothers knee, to love purity before peace. And when Daniel Webster taught me that the Union meant making white men hypocrits and black men slaves, that it meant lynch law in the Carolinas and mob law in Massachusetts, that it meant lies , in the pulpit and main the Senate when I was told that the cementing of the Union was returning slaves to their mas ters, in the name of the, God I love, and had been taught to honor, I cursed the Constitution and the. Union, and endeav ored to break it_; and, thank God, it is broken." • "Unless within twelve months or twen ty-four, Maryland is a free State, Dela ware and half Virginia, would to God that building (the Capitol,) with this city of Washington, had been - shelled - lb ashes last July." . SenatorTrumbull'sEmaneipa. tion Bill was the order of the day in the United States Senate on Monday. It is ixpeeted that it will.bedispeSed of this week, when the Senate will take up the. Tax bill and .thO Rouse go to, work on the Tariff. Of. course the Republicans are not agitating the slavery question, They -. onlyke.Cp it before the peephi. so, The rebels last week attempted to capture Col. Geary's column, at White Plains,on the Rappahannock, Va., but'be outwitted them, by a. re treat, made it stand in the mountains, and they were afraid to follow him. DO'CIBLZ - STATZ GOVERNMENTS:7-T h e following'-,named-,five States have a double-headed - government, some rov ing and otißirir stationary likt , rwr• • ttoimosross, gintubkr, Boriatoidagdao, • - • Gomm, Jompoe. Athwart; tasiston ClaibaineT. Jahkaoa. Nortb Caroltits, . burble Nash "Taylor, awary TClark. • Trameselo, Androwlobnoon, Lam' b. Barite. - Vitgutitt, Prithla H. Plerpont, 4 JiaNistastahar. , • BE BM NEE LOOK AT THIS Mir Sherman made a speech in Congress last week in which be said that the Republican party had nevsr taken an offensive step' in regard to slavery, but that he Was now in fa vor of adopting, A policy and pursu, ing it. Heaven help him forthus fib bing. Is John getting to be a dema gogue as well as the rest of his par ty. If we have had nothing-o f fensive from the Republican party hereto fore; and if they are only going to begin now what will they do I, Our notion is thitt slavery is the life, -soul and substance of Republicanism, and that its members are more f'or it' then they dolor the' tintoh; or the Constitution Congress has been in session since DSConlher, and scarcely a day haa passed: but some proposi tion embracing• the inevitable nigger has been considered, and that too at the axpense of We „necessary legiala tion for the well-fare of our army and the Country. Progresti of the 'War. At no former period:have the move ments of the Federal army been watched with greater solicitude than now. For months the nation has been gathering up its strength,. but only withih the last few days have we seen the entire mass of soldiery fully engaged in their work. The preparatory labor of discipline, equip. mont and organization is finished.— Departments have been assigned to the respective.heads'of 'military divi sions and we now see seven arMies in the field, operating from, a base line of full two thousand miles. First the army tinder. Gen.' Me-. Clellan, the movements of which for the present must be left to'conjecture but all eyes ate directed to it - with anxious expectancy. The armies :in the Valley of. the Shenandoah and Western Virginia-are comparatively nnobseried, but will be heard from in duo time. Mean. while, Gene. Johnson and Lee are en trenching themselves On the Rappa hannock with • a force estimated as high as 150,000 or 180,000men',. and are also believed to_ be throw:it:lg up works on the Rapidan. The position thus chosen by the rebel army in Vir ginia is favorable to defensive war fare, being rugged.. and heavily,' titn. bered. McDowell is -watching.'them on one side and MeClellin oet, ihe other. From Virginia attention is "-pirtial ly diverted• to the extreme West. At Island No. Ten, affairs progress slow ly, iterfding certain "Movements sup posed to be directed-against the ene my's rear. As at lianassaa, so in this instance, strategy inay be more sueoessfethatt a -direct ttitsault, at tended, 'as it neeeSsarily would be, with a fearful sacrifice of This is the more apparent from the imprao ticability of reduning the rebel' posi tion by the use :of mortar& Pooie and Pope 'here keep 15,000 or 20;000 of the enemy very busy, and ail par ties seem to,bc prepairing for a des perate fight. Beauregard continues to concen trate his forces at Corinth, in the northeaStern corner cif Missigsippi, twenty-five miles from Savitimah, Tennessee, where FGen.;Grant is chief in cortimand. The rebel' line of de fence has for its base the Carleston and Memphis Real and extends as far east as Decatni, Ala, and Wegt ward'so far as may beifeeesiiry for the defence of itlemphis. _Only a'few days ago, Beauregard Was known to have in his departnient_ Generals, Polk, A. S. Johnson, Pillow, Cheuth am, and otliers of note. Tke rebel position will be better, understood from the following extract of a letter from Savanah to the Cincinnati .G-i -zette Corinth seems to be the centre of rebel, opera tion-s. Their pew line of defense has forint bait' the Charleston & Memphis road, the preservation of which ,is ,absolutely,necessary to any pretense of resistance tbrongh Northern Mississippi, Ala. barna and Georgia. Along this railroad are Tuseumbia and Fro - ranee, at the foot or the mus. ole shoals and the junction with the Nashville and Florence road where the rebels have had farces since Donelson fell; Decatur, near the head of theslower muscle shoal, where the greater part of the Donelson and Bowling Green forces are said to have concentrated at first after the retreat from Nashville; Huntsville and Belleforitain, at both of which there are Skid to be small bodies of troops ; Stevenson,:importap Las the junction 'with the railroad from Nashville thropgb Murfreesboro, through which the rebela retreated ; and Chat tanooga, a strong anli - ,Amportant .pesition. All these points are east of Corinth, and all, 'except the last, are in Alatiania: To the west - of Corint ,t e road runs in a tol erably smile:lll'AM l'olifiroph is, a hundred miles distant ; and• northwest rune the , road to Jackson, almost in the centre of West Tennessee, where rebel fortifications are said to. be. preparing with great rapidity,. Another corms p cord r, n says :-There is no need to- disguise the tact that we, have , serious work-.ahead of. tie. = The rebels are not Fell posted, but they have the Most skillful engineers from the old - United States army.— Not only. does Memphisf Co. rinth, but defeat=, ere opens to lin-ar my larger than that of the. Potomac, the whole territory of the Gulf -States and the rebels are not, ignoran . t.of the extrernity of their Including, the forces at Corinth and Decatur, the rebel' are supposed to have a force of 50,000 men,: and as their position is only :ten or fifteen miles distant from the - .Federal :pick et lines, a battle cannotdong bedefer red. Of Bees.preciue whereabouts we have nothing :.on which to rely for an opinion. - Much solicitude has been felt for Gen. Curtis, since receiving the re port. of his having fallen bark from Pea Ridge toKeitsville, Mo., but this movement.was simply to keep within reach of.suppljes and reinforbemente, wh:ch at last-accourits he. w4ts. - .daily expecting to receive. Gen: Price :was reported to be at Fort,:. Smith, en trenching himself,-and was supposeil to -have . 40,000 men,. bnt' the' latest .acconbts.represent that,he .10as 4nov. ing toward - Memphis, tojOin Iteanre -gard. " - 7 - =. 7 These are only some of 'the more important movements of tb elandfor ces. ...Meanwhile, Porter and Yarra -gutaikprobs,hlroperatitgattieW or= ~0101:14P; loans, and Burnside on the Atlantic coast,—so that the rebellious States are al most encircled, and , besected ,by the Union forces. The surrender of Fort Pulaski, at Savannah, cannot be deferred much longer. MEASURES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NEGRO INTRO DUCED IN CONGRESS. 1. Recognition of the Negro Em pire of Hayti. • 2. Abolitionment.of negro slivery in the District of Columbia. 3. Prohibiting our army officers from returning fugitive slaves. 4. Establishing. a plantation for free negroes in South Carolina, and taxing the people of the North to suppcirt it. 6: Proposes to aid the State's' to abolish negro slavery, by taxing the Northern people to pay for the slaves. 6. •2o repeal the Fugitive-slave Law. - 7. To repeal the law which forbids negroes from being stage.drivers of carrying the 'United States mail. 8. To prohibit slaveholders from taking their slaves into Arisonia Ter. ritory. There are other measures of a ern ilar kind, but not yet been fully ma tured and laid befnre Congress. By the time that body gives them a full discussion it will have little leisure to consider the interests of white men. No wonder petitions are, being send into Congress evenfrom New England to let the negro question alone. FROM ISLAND No. 10. A Midnight Visit to- the Upper Fort • The GunsiSpiked. WASHINGTON, April 3.—The follow ing official despatch has been received from Com. Foote : IL S. F1,4%.43 , ST;AMEIt "BENTON,7 OFF ISLAND No. 10-4pril 2, 1862. Hon. Gideon •Welles, Secretary of the' Navy :—Last night an armed boat expedition was fitted out from the squadron and the-land forces at this point, under command of. Colo nel Roberts of the Forty-third Illi nois Regiment. The five boats corn prising the expedition, were in charge of First Master J. V. Johnson, as sisted by Fourth Master G. P. Lord, Fourth Master Pierce, Fourth Master Norgan, And Master's Mate Searville, each' with a boat's crew of twenty ,men: from their respective vessels, carrying in all one , hundred men, ex clusiye of the officers, under the com mand of Colonel Roberts. At midnight the-boats reached the upper or No. 1 fort, •and pulling di yectly in its, face, carried it, receiving only, the harmless fire-of two senti nels, who ran on, discharging their muskets, , while : the Rebel troops in the vicinity rapidly retreated; where upon Colonel Roberts - spiked the six _guns mounted in the fort and retired with the boats, uninjured. The commanding officer represents that all under his command manifest. ed, by, their coolness and determina tion, that they were ready to perform moye hazardous services had it been necessary : to .the Julfillment of the ob ject of the expedition. I have the honor to .-be, -very re spectfully, &c., Youftiervant, - A. H. FOOTE, Flag Officer. REBELS OUTFLANKED AT CO- RINTII, MISSISSIPPI YoRK, April 5.--The New York World, in an extra, says that private information, derived from a reliable source, has reached here that 13eauregard has been outflanked in Ole position his Rebel army occupied _near Corinth, Mississippi, and was compelled to fall hack ; and alEpAhat a heavy bodrof United Seates troops bad got in between the enemy and the city, of Memphis, not far from the Mississippi„thus cutting off com munication and retreat. "GOorioUs news," adds. the -World, "may be expected . from that quarter in a.day : or two." Advance of Gen. Banks to Woodstock, Ya,. The army under Gen. Banks advanced troth. Straulburg to Woodstock on Tfiurs day - mornirig of lait week. The rebel Gen. Ashby, with a body of cavalry 'and infantry, attempted to dispute their pas sage, but was driven back upon Eden burg, five miles south of Woodstock.— The rebels in retreating burned several bridges. Or From Port Royal we learn the for midable batteries on Skidaway and•Creen Islands have been abandoned by the 'reb. els, the guns having been withdrawn in order to be placed nearer Savannah. The abandonment of these batteries gives us complete control of Isirashaw and Ossiban Sounds and•themontlisuf Vernon and Wilmington rivers, which form im portant approaches to that city. We furtherlearn.that •the surrender of FOrt Pulaski - was daily 'expected, the place having been for thirty daywpast cut off from communication with Savannah, except an occasional ro.whoet which es caped the pickets. Deserters say that the garrison of the fort consists of 500 men, and that two German companies had re volted and were placed in irons. Gen. Sherman would summon the fort to sur render on the first of April, and ifrefused would shell"; it. His mortars and siege guns could not be reached by the fire of the fort. Savannah is strongly fortified and defended by 2ONQ troops. There was great despondencylikeharleston, the fall of Newbern having ,caused general consternation. „extraordinary Batik Rob ' bery. Uncle Satn's Soldiers used to carry . out the plan. ADne of the most bare-faced bank rob fierieS weever heard of took place at St. Long', Missouri, on the 27th of - March.-- The chief actor was a mere boY named Redman. The city being under martial law, and a very sharp lookout being kept after Secessionists, the youngster forged an order of the provost marshal, asking a military officer in command in the city for a squid of six men , to aid in the arrest of Mr. - Harnmer; of the firinnfllarniner & Co., bankers, on a charge of diSloyalty to the Government Net being altogether Satisfied with the aspect 'of the provost marshal's signature to the request, the at. ficer.amilied tiiirernstxit9„4etto * Another forgery enabled &Amin to pro cure the services of a squad of men from a Wisconsin regiment, who accompanied him to the banking house, which is situa ted in one of the most crowded thorough fares of the city. Stationing the guard at the door, Redman entered and informed Mr. Harnmer that he was a prisoner.— Mr. Hammer asked an explanation. This was refused him, and he was told to go in stantly with the guard. The banker be gun to put up his bills and gold, but that was what the young scoundrel did not want above all things, and accordingly he forbade it. Resistance only brought the guard with their bristling bayonets, and Hammer, at risk of impalement, threw what he could readily catch up into the safe and locked it. On being .prdered to Open ft he refused, bid was obliged to give up the key. The lock being a combina tion one, Redman could not open it, al. though'he tried very hard. Hammer was commanded to unlock the safe, but that he absolutely refused to do, and was given over to the guard, who took hint to a place of custody. Meanwhile Redman gather ed up what money was left—some $2,250 —and pocketed it. He then mede his way coolly through the crowd around the door and effected his escape. While the act of plunder Was_going on; a partner in the bank ran to the provost marshal to learn the cause of the sudden and unjust arrest of the head of the firm, when- he 'discovered that no order had been issued for Mr. Hammer's arrest. The St. Louis News, which gives the history of the affair of which the above is the substance, says : "Further inquiries showed "that there was,something wrong, and upon sending an order to the guard for the release.ofthe prisoner, about four o'clock, in the after noon, the denouement of the plot was reached. The banker had been robbed and imprisoned ; Uncle Sam's troops had been used to do tte work, and the bold scamp who planned and executed:the dar ing scheme had, for the time, , escaped.— Notwithstanding his good luck, however, he has since been arrested, and will short ly enact the next scene, in the drama he so successfully began. He has earned a place in the penitentiary, and a position among the first cracksmen of the age." Otr - The portion of Virginia and Mary land between the Mountain Department and the Blue Ridge, has been formed into a department with the name of the De partment of the Shenandoah, under the command of Major-General Banks. The portion,of Virginia East of the Blue Ridge and West of the Potomac and the Freder icksburg and, Richmond, Railroad, with the District of Columbia, and the territory between the Potomac and the Patuxent, is formed into a department called the De partment 01 the Rappahannock, under the command of Mitjor General McDowell. "THE UNION Gous."—Carl Schurz, late Minister to Spain, is reported as having spoken as follows, in a recent public ad dress : "The Union is gone. You cannot re store it—never. The circle of ideas in which the political transactions of the old Union moved, is forever broken; it can not be restored. The mutual confidence on which the political transactions 'of the old. Union rested has been discovered to be illusory; it is irretrievably gone." The number of abolitionists who make this avowal is increased almost every day. Though among the foremost to profess zeal for the Union when hostilities were threatentid, they are now the first to pro claim that all is lost. The motive is trans parent. When convinced that the war cannot be made an anti-slavery war, they confess to being like the woman whose husband encountered a bear,—they "don't care which gets. whipped." TISSUE cIiENERAIS MOM MASSACHUSETTS. —The Salem Gazette says Massachusetts has furnished-four Generals for the Rebel army, namely :—Wm. 11. Chase Whiting, Albert G. Blanchard, Daniel Ruggles, and Mansfield Lovell, son of the late Surgeon- General Joseph Lovell. Asotaviox MovEmsprrs.—We: learn that ,Senator Wilson's bill~ provides that the United States Governmeht will pay the States of Maryland and Delaware $250 for each slave they will emancipate.— There are 90,000 slaves in those States, and the bill, therefore, calls upon the peo ple of the North for over twenty-two mil lions of dollars, if those States should ac cept the.proposition and set free the slaves. If any, thing could reconcile.us to this un constitutional and offensive scheme, it would be an amendment that the free ne groes should all settle in Massachusetts and become a, part of Senator Wilson's constituents ! M - In illustration of the power of fan cy, the case of the old lady who watched the vane to see vvhen her rheumatism was going to begin, is, not equal to that of the store-keeper who painted the lower part of his stove red and saved seventy-five per cent, in the consumption of wood thereby during the winter. The illusion was so complete that one man tried to make him pay for a pair of boots that he had burnt at the stove. RECRUITING STOPPED.- AN officers en gaged in the recruiting, service have been ordered , to their realitients and• notice giv. en to the Governors of Btites that no new enlistments nor levies will-be received un til further orders from the War Depart. ment. - The force now in the field is deemed amply sufficient for the suppression of the Rebellion and the' sreedy termination.of the war. RHODE 'DIA N D .n.t.e.crioN.—The election in Rhode Island on W‘dnesiday resulted in the success of the penkocratic and, Cori stitutional Union ticket h - eaded by Gov ernor Sprague. The Legislature was, al so carried by the same party. Their ma jority on- joint ballot, is about 36. This will, probably secure the election of a pem ocratic U. S. Senator to- succeed Hen. James F. Simmons, whose term expires on the 4th of March, 1863. From the, Pretrittatee Daily Post, April 8 RHODE ISLAND ELECTIONL— RADICALISM AGAIN GONE UNDER. Our State election came off yester day, "according to law." The De. mocracy and Conservatives had nom.- inated the State ticket of last year. The Eepublicans made no nominations and in most of the towns a minority of them, though attending the polls to contest the election of Senator! and Representative‘ did :not vote: for r! State office. They profefised great' , r4arit. for ' • - OM Gov. Sprague li short time ago when it was possible that they might there by disaffect jealous Democrats; but they very generally f.ailed to show Wig regard by voting for him. Nev ertheless, he je handsomely enough elected: His vote in' all the towns but three -Coventry, New Shoreham and West Greenwich—is ten thousand six 'hundred and sixty-three; while the vote against him, asreported, is barely forty ( About' 'fOur hundred and thirty Reptiblicans probably vo ted for him in this city,-less then sev en hundred (we judge from a hasty glance at the figures sont'us for Rep resentative's) in the whole State. Considering the abience of any State nominations of our opponents was calculate 4 to _assure Democrats and Conservatives of a triumph with out any effort to achieve it, and that in a large number of towns the char acter of the Assembly delegation was conceded Wore the day Of election arrived, it will be admitted, we think, that our friends behaved nobly.— Their vote is even larger than we had supposed it would be. The General Assembly is'about the same as last year--- 7 .the only difference being a trifling gain to the friends of Governor Sprague. We have a hand some majority in the Senate, ditto in the House of Representatives, and ditto, of course, in the Grand Corn. mittee. This secures the election of a conservative 13 S. Senator in place of James F. Simmons; and any other conservative which may be called for by. 'the interests of the State or the country. lIQOP SKIRT TAX The war tax bill before Congress proposes to lay a heavy tax on ladies' hoop skirts, so that our Wives, daugh ters and work girls will have to show• up their. skirts when..til assessor comes round. Glorioni idea, indeed! On Friday last this seetion. was up in Congress, and Mr. Wright, of Pa:,_ with great gallantry for the ladies, _moved to strike out the section tax ing ladies's skirts, when the following debate took place : Mr. Wright (Pa) appealed to Mr. Horton to show his gallanty by sue taining his motion to strike out the clause taxing skirts. It was known that.the gentleman from Ohio *(Mr. Horton) was not only a favorite with the ladies, but the best looking and best behaved man in the House, and he therefore appealed to, hini. Mr, Horton replied that ;with this tax the cost of skirts would not be one.fourth the price they were, four years aeo. The tax would produce half ,a million of dollars, Those who wear hoops would be'gratifsecl in in- Erectly sustaining the Government which is sustaining them. Mr. Pendleton (Ohio), ' inquired whether this amendment would have the tendency to raise or lower the skirts ? (Laughter) Mr. Horton expressed his surprise that his colleague, of all other men, should have asked this question. Mr. Wright's motion was rejected. THE NATIONAL TAX Hear what our Republican contem porary of the Pittsburg Gazette says of the War Tax.: "We have no wish to create undue alarm, but we are approaching a crisis in our history that we :cannot, con template without shrinking. We have felt the visits .of.the tax-gather er before, but his visits - have been as mere trifies compared' to what they Will be. The Philadelphia Ledger has been makingsome eatculatior.s of the amount each State will have to raise of the national tax Absent to be Lid : "The sum to be raised and paid in,- to the U. a.. Treasury by New York every year will be 621,344,142; Penn. sYlvania, 615,886,435; ,phicl,WB67,- 701 ; Indiana, 7,09475 ; nii no Trom e 414, 643 ; and the, other States in the cheerful ratio. These are e normous emus,. and by no „process which can be devised, can they be col lected without being felt. quarters the attempt topollect it will fall little short of _confiscation. New England, New York, 'Pennsylvania and New Jersey may go through such a tax with 'the breath of life re maining in them, but it is -douutfUl whether there is another State loyal or disloyal that can go, half way thro' THE WAY THE 'MONEY GOES. Our readers are pretty well posted as to the way the - pnblie money has been plundered by the Fremonters, Cameronians, and Wellesites. We now sUbMit, from good Republican authority, a speciineti of financial economy in the U.' S. Senate, under the administration of its Seeretati:3s Forney. The following is an extract from a recent speech of Senator Hale, of New Hampshire: "I have endeavored to arrest some of our expenditures here in the Sen ate; and now I will mention another fact to this econonkifiarSenate, all of whom agree;that economy is so no: cessary. We are reduced in numbers: we are about forty-nine -instead of sixty-eight, as we used to be; and yet we are • administering the , Senate to-day vastly more expensively, with more officers and more salaries than we ever paid before. We_require our Secretary at the commencement of every year, to give us a,list of his em ployees, their ~number and tompenba tion. I have looked at the list for the last eight or. ten years, 'and the /id to day is nearly double. what it was. tew years ago, and,the salaries .are much higher." And this state of things, is tolera ted and, sanctioned by ,w . :, , Reptiblican Senate; at the time When the Gov eminent is running into . debt at the rate of nearly'two millions a day, to carry on the war, and, Congress is about levying upon the people an an.. nual tax.ot more than one hundred millions Of dollars! - • _ lornorarr MaTima:nrie stir has lately existed in ethoclist circles of Philadelphia, ai3oorbt, of the Rev. Mr. Chambers having ordained three merrateis of that, organization.as clergSrnion, in order that gi l y might become ch4pjaplp . !!1 tbsi tjrmy. The 011 46 1 i . ;kt 14. 0 11aniVeisis in- Atieoh444,#,CtuTkielf.i94Tl4o)..-8:*; prise was created at his action. Ac: cording to announcement, he, on Sun day afternoon, preached in vindica tion Of his course, at his church in Broad street, near Chestnut. The crowd wits very great, the aisles being completely filled. It appeared that the candidates for ordination had rendered services of a religious nature in the army of the Potomac, and that Secretary Camer on.had offered a Chiplaincy to them providing= two- could procure an or , dination. They applied to a Confer ence in session in this State, but their application was not received till the Conference .-had adjourned. One of them then addreesed'Elisbop Scott, of the MetVodilnlitfireh, on thOitibject, wh9, for.kale rINACTt not being able to ordain vim, gave him a letter to Chambers, requesting him to perform the ceremony and itattng that his -ordination would be . qiiite Affica °ions U 8 his own. Ur:. Chambers, considerinithe aux iety of the candidate to bo iiiiMedi ately at work upon his spiritlzalf.--,Mis tfioetimongtlio.sOldiers, He subsequently ordained the Iwo , other candidates who came highly recommended to hiin, 'coniddering that the authority of Bishop Scott to , officiate in regard to the first would apply equally well to thp last. GOV. JOHNSON TO: TALE PEO PLE OF TENNESSEE. Brave "Andy Johnson," who -has accomplished more and sacrificed more for the Union cause than all the theorists and prattlers in .Con gress, in assuming the office of Mili tary Governor of Tennessee, states with dignityandelearnesa*ttlie2peo pie of that State the object fortejiph he comes atnongthem. • He contrasts tile former prosperous condition of Tennessee with its pretient deplora ble state to'which it has been - reduced by rebellion. He:announces that his mission is to restore law order indi vidual and public rights and 'au thority of the Government. -He does not seek to enforce any of the revolu tionary theories so plentifully broach ed in Congress, but quotes the resolu tion adopted at the Extra Session for the purpose of assuring the people that the object of the war is the res toration of the. power of the Govern ment as it was before it was tempo rily disturbed by the revolt, , of Ten nessee andqther confederate States. To those who have remained stead fast to the dovernment he .promises honors and rewards—to, the erring and misguided, pardon, but to "intel ligent and-conscious treason'irt places," punishment l- ' The proclamation is well conceived and %veil expressed in all its parts, and the best resnite are, to beantici pated from the adrniniitration of Gov. Johnson, who will use the pow era entrusted to him with: - modera tion'and wisdom. STATISTICS OF .'REF, NEGRO POPULATION. Frotn the subjoined tables which are conviled from the census of 1860, it will, be seen that the free negro population of the:slave.holdingstates is considerably in excess over-that of the non-elan:holding states., rez-sseaszoo.. Alabama, 2,630 Arkansas 137 Delaware, 10,723 Florida, • 89 Georgia, - 3,945 Kentucky, , 10,148 Louisiana, 18,838 Maryland, 483,718 Mississippi, 731 Missouri, 2,983 North Carolipa,t 30,097 South Carolina,. 9,84$ Tennessee, • 7;235 Texas, 339 Virginia,s'7,s'l9 D. of olutubla, 11,10? NUMBER OF fl California, 3,816 Connecticut, 8,542 Illinois, 7,060 Indiana, 10,869 lowa, 1,023 Mumma, 623 1,195 Massachusetts!, 9,45 . 4 Michigan, 6,823 Minnesota, 228 N. Hampihire, 450 New Jersey, 24,947 New York, 49,005 Ohio, 36,225 Oregon,' 121 Pennsylvania, 46,373 Rhode laland, 3,918 Vermpnt,, 582 Wisoonsin, 1,481 M , 1 0 1110 young_man Au.sson who nddenlydied so on the Yltit,a'at Ma son, N. IL, discl,o,f worms A worm eleven inchek king was found in Ihroat which had, strangled him.— When he was found in bea a worm about, ten inches long was found rjr trig near his mouth. These worms '‘liad, crawled up -from his stomach:— 'Rho young man - had Trobably, not teaten much for several days, as his stomach was nearly empty, perhapi Aiming the worms, to' ook elsewhere ffir food. Oz Alluding to the vast army in Tennessee, Mr. Etheridge said, - in his !Nashville speech, that a lady asked soldier "Ho* far-does' your arn4 , *tend Y" "Maim, it reachis-to the Worth pole, and when I left - two oth. er regiments were trying to get in.? SINGULAR CAUSE OP DEATH.---1t " figated that Capt. Slaymaker of this lowa Second,. and formerly of York county, Pa., came to Ms death at We battle of Port, Donelson in a singular manner. 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