THE GAZETTE.
LEWISTOWN, PA.
Wednesday, June 18, 186^'.
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Flag of the < eheart's only home,
Bv angel hands to valor given!
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome
And all tny hues were born in heaven;
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us
With freedom's soil beneath our feet.
And freedom's banner streaming o'er us.
THE PEOPLE'S STATE CONVENTION.
THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHO DESIRE
cordially to unite in sustaining the NATIONAL
ADMINISTRATION in its patriotic efforts to sup
press a sectional and unholy rebellion against the
UNITY OF THE REPUBLIC, and who desire to sup
port, by every power of the Government, one hun
dred thousand heroic brethren in arms, braving dis
ease and the perils of the field to preserve the t nion
of our Fathers, are requested to select the number
of Delegates equal to the Legislative Representation
of the State, at such times and in sucli manner as
wilt best respond to the spirit of this cali, to meet in
STATE CONVENTION at HA RRISBURG. on THURS
DAY, the SEVENTEENTH DAY OF JULY next, at
II o'clock, on said day, to nominate Candidates for
the offices of AUDITOR GENERAL and SURVEY
OR GENERAL, and to take such measures as may
be deemed necessary to strengthen the Government
in this season of common peril to a common country.
A. K. McCLURE.
Chairman People's State Committee.
GEO. W. HAMMEHSLT, ) .
JOHN M - SDLLIVAN, / -^cretanes.
For Auditor General,
Hon. THOMAS E. COCHRAN.
COMMITTEE MEETING.
THE County Convention held last sum
mer having made no appointment of a
representative delegate to the People's Par
ty State Convention, the county committee
arc requested to meet at the Gazette Office
on Saturday, 28th June, at 1 o'clock p. m.
The committee is composed of the follow
ing persons:
Lewistown, W. W.—George Frysinger.
Lewistown, E. W.—D. D. Mutther9bough.
Wayne—Jaracs Wharton.
Newton Hamilton—John Purcell.
Oliver—John Marsden.
McVeytown—G. W. Mcßride.
Bratton—llenry Hartzler.
Granvillo—G. B. Penepacker.
Derry—William Creighton.
Brown—William Johnston.
Old Armagh—A. W. Graff.
New Armagh —Oliver P. Smith.
Union—W. C. Nelson.
Decatur—A. Mutthersbough,
Menno—lsaac Steely.
GEORGE FRYSINGER,
Lewistown, June 18,1862. Chairman.
B>BL.The course of the patent democracy
in this State—particularly of the Lewis
town Democrat and other papers which
endorse the \ allandigham Tory Address—
jn urging on the spirit of party, seems to
be highly apjiroved by the rebel papers.
Witness the following from the Memphis
Appeal of the 6th of June, the day be
fore the naval fight near that place :
" Tbo difference between the people of
the two sections is manifest, and presents an
aspect highly favorable to the South. Polit
ical questions agitate the North, and contests
for political supremacy are continuous. With
us, the only spirit of emulation is, who si. ah
do the most in honorable warfare, to
the common enemy. Let our people, there
fore continue kouehl, for with a divided
enemy we cannot fall. The right, if persis
tently battled for, will triumph."
The presses south, and the kind we speak
of North, also agree in lauding Vallandig
haui!
Postage and Exchange Newspapers.
On the Ist of July, a system inaugura
ted by Benjamin Franklin, allowing pub
lishers of newspapers to receive exchanges
free of postage, will be done away with,
Congress having adopted a sweeping act of
a few lines abolishing the franking privil
ege. We have as yet seen no suggestion
in any of our cotemporaries as to the course
they intend to pursue, but as considerable
curtailing no doubt will take place, it may
be as well to draw attention to the subject,
and ascertain whether the act goes into effect.
Gn inquiry at the Post Office, we learn that
no instructions have been received from the
Department relative to the matter; and as
by law the postage is payable at the com
mencement of the quarter, some editors
with " nary red" in pocket will wake up
with a snort when this something new un
der the sun is poked at them by a P. M.
It is true the bills will not be as formida
ble as might be supposed, as a calculation
will show, but still large enough to scare a
hungry printer. Forinstancc 50 exchang
es in the £>tate would cost 31.62$ per quar
ter, and say 25 out of the State 81.62$
more, making $3.25 per quarter, or $13.00
a year. For a larger or smaller number
calculations can be easily made. What say
our brethren of the black art? Shall things
remain in statu quo, or shall there be a gen
eral shedding of crocodile tears at parting
with some dear friends ?
The Shenandoah Valley-
The National Intelligencer, in an article
on the recent occurrences in this valley,
speaks our sentiments to the letter. It
has been evident for weeks to any one with
half an idea in his head that separate com
mands there, procured probably for no other
purpose than that some "General may glor
ify himself through sundry newspapers, is
costing many valuable lives and giving aid
and comfort to the enemy. Let either
Banks, Fremont, or some one else at once be
appointed commander of all the troops
there, and we will bear no more rumors
that one body has been checked or another
surprised or defeated. It the Department
will not take the matter in hand, we hope
the President will, as he did at Norfolk.—
That paper says:
"It was our understanding at one time
that Major General Banks was charged with
the military administration of affairs in the
Valley of the Shenandoah, which for this
purpose, wis constituted a separate depart
ment. But at present, with Major General
Fremont dating his despatches from the
" Mountain Department," while, in point of
fact, he is, geographically, in the aforesaid
" Department of the Shenandoah," and with
Generals Sigel and Shields and McDowell
co operating with the whole or parts of
their commands in "the pursuit of Jackson,"
we are at a loss to comprehend the ensemble
of the movements which, it is eaid, have con
curred to the end in view, but apparently with
such little success. If any single General in
that field is charged with the direction and
oversight of the movements that are made,
it seems to us that his name should be known,
whether it be Gen. Banks, or Gea. Sigel, or
Gen. McDowell, or Gen. Fremont. If, for
instance, a disaster has befallen Gen. Shields
while hastening to the support of Gen. Fre
mont, it would be interesting to know under
whose orders or instructions the former was
immediately acting. While, if all the var
ious corps, divisions and armies now opera
ting in the Shenandoah Valley are really
subject to no military commander in chief
on the spot, we need not wonder at the little
success which has attended the combinations
formed against a dashing partizan warrior
like Jackson. Such a man must be fought
by an adversary who is ever on the alert to
mark his windings or his devious marches
or to discover his ambuscades, and who from
observations made, we repeat, on the spot,
can marshall all the forces according to the
demand of the occasion."
Governor Johnson on the War.
On the second instant Governor Andrew
Johnson made a speech at Columbia, Ten
nessee, from which we clip the following
extracts. While some northern patent
democrats, like 'one of the editors' of the
Lewistown Democrat who held office under
the now Rebel General Cobb, still has the
effrontery to talk publicly of making con
cessions to the South , that old tried and true
democrat Andy Johnson, rejects all com
promise, let alone concession. This too is
done right in the midst of rebels. He said—
Put down this iniquitous rebellion and you
stand precisely where you did befure it occur
red. Now, the Federal Government does not
seek to interfere with your rights. Its sole
purpose is to put down an unjust, unholy, ;
damnable rebellion, which has brought anar- j
chy on the State. The rebels have left you i
without any Government, hut you have the
same triad constitution and forms of laws.— ;
Come up and vitalize them by acting the part I
of patriots.
But let me teil you, that this Government |
must pass into the hands of its friends—not j
of its foes. [Applause.] Traitors and rebels j
shall not exercise authority under auy circutn ;
stances. The power of tho State is for the j
loyal alone. Then the day of deliverance |
will be at hand. Then the vandals wili fly
from East Tennessee, and law will be restored.
Then we will have an election for Congress
men, Legislators, Governor, Magistrates and
all other officers. But all these must be the
fast and avowed friends of the Federal Union
and of the Constitution. No offices can be
trusted to enemies. The hour has come when
tho Government must know its friends and
its friends must know the Government. Then
only can. we enjoy the blessings of peace.
NO COMPROMISE.
Men tell us we must compromise. We will ;
compromise only by making them submit; by
doing as Jefferson did with Burr—conquer
them, and make them obedient. What better
Government do we want than the present!
What have we got to compromise ? Has any
one 'lost his rights' in the Union? If so, let
him come forward and look me in the face,
and tell me what he has lost.
Lost your rights! Well, 1 have determined
to give all who say this a chance to get their
rights by sending them off South to fight for
their rights, and give them in exchange for
some of those poor fellows in the rebel army
who have found their rights and want to come
home. I don't think these fellows who blus
ter about rights have much appetite for fight
ing. Some of them would rather go to the
devil than enter the army. Rights, indeed !
They gave me mine by turning my sick wife
and little boy into the streets. That is the
way they gave me my rights. Let me tell
these clamorera that there are 800,000 white
people and only 33,000 slaveholders in Ten
nessee. You are disturbing the stability of
slavery by your senseless cries, and making it
j valuless. Its sole protection is the Union.
OUR WORK.
I love my Government, and do not desire to
live after it is destroyed. If Bhe is to be in
terred in the great tomb of nations, I pray
that I may be buried on her bosom, and I ask
no prouder winding 6heet to enshroud me than
, that Hag which protected me and was the
peerless symbol of her glory. Come up, my
countrymen, to the rescue of your institutions.
Let us give a long pull, a strong pull, and a
pull altogether, and Tennessee shall yet be
redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled from
: the sceptre of Rebel despotism, from this in
! fernal rebellion now making desolate the land.
Let us bear onward and upward the flag of the
Union, and, if need be, let it be baptized with
fire and bathed in a nation's blood.
I intend to go through with this fight. If
need be, my blood shall be poured out as a
libation to freedom. I have been menaoed
with assassination. Little as I like such a
death—and I would rather meet my adver
sary face to face, and die in a manly, open
fight—l will brave even this in discharge of
my duty. Who would live, and be the ab
ject slave of Rebel tyranny ? Life would
have no sweetness ODder sueh a rale. Let us
remember, too, that we can well afford to die
in this cause, for the blood of martyrs is the
seed of the church. Where one devoted pat
riot perishes five hundred will take his place,
even more devoted and zealous. In what I
have said I have spoken from the record of
the country. I challenge investigation. For
months past you have been allowed to hear
but one side, and your minds have been poi
soned with falsehoods. Now let us have the
truth.
Sentiments of a True Democrat.
The Lewistown Democrat will please
read the following notions from a Democrat
and a soldier, and profit thereby :
Henry L Cake, Colonel commanding of
the 96th Regiment of Pennsylvania Vol
uuteers —who was a private in Captain Mc-
Donald's company, which was among the
first to reach the Capital after the fall of
Sumter, when all was gloom and desponden
cy, and who has since been promoted to the
high position he occupies—is well known
in this State as an ardent Democrat. He
and his regiment are now iu the advauce
under General McClellan, and we are not
surprised to hear that he has proved to be
a most efficient, energetic, and popular com
mander. Col. Cake, iu a recent letter to
Col. J. H. Puleston, military agent of Penn
sylvania, expresses some opinions which
will be read with interest, written, as they
are, from the battle : field, and being the
sentiments of a conscientious Democrat.
' That the war will be prosecuted to a suc
cessful issue for the Union is beyond a perad
venture. I did not vote for Mr. Lincoln, but
I believe that God Almighty had a hand in
his election. He has three good years to
conquer a peace, but the present Congress has
only one. It would seem impossible that this
violent and vindictive contest can drag out
another 'twelve month,' but it may. The old
stagers of the Democratic party are lying in
wait, and by a judicious handling of the 'war
debt,' ' the .taxes,' the 'Black Republican,
Abolition,' scare crow, 'that annually eman
cipates a flood of black labor, and sets itNorth
to the undoing of free labor at home,' it is
just probable that a large majority of such
politicians as Biddle and Ancona will take
the place of the present more conservative
majority, and then where are ice?
'As sure as it happens, I believe the great
traitor Breckinridge, and his party, or all that
is left of them, will be invited back, and the
war will have accomplished nothing. Thus
it may overtako us again in your time and
mine. The Yanceys of the South will be
more exacting than ever, and while they again
come to the North to insult us with impunity,
will prohibit our speaking above a whisper in
Dixie.
' We can never be at peace with the South
until an inflexible policy in regard to slavery
has been established. Therefore, meet the
question now. Let its abolition he so gradual
as to be almost imperceptible. If this can be
done, who doubts that every portion of the
South—the cotton, rice, sug r, tobacco, hemp,
and turpentine region—will accommodate it
self to the new order of things? It requires
no Daniel to suggest, but a great party only
can carry out the details of the 'mode.'
' Let all who are slaves remain slaves till
they die ; but after the Ist of January, or the
4th of July, k-t no human being be born
to slavery in the United States of America.
This has nothing to do with the disposition of
the confiscated property of the rebels: and if
Government want- to go farther, lot a price
be named arid paid for the slaves of such
States voluntarily asking the precipitation of
emancipation.
'This war should bear some fruit. Let
that fruit he a hundred years of peace.'
Col. Cake, it will be seen, goes further
than the Republicans do, and though ad
vocating vhak used to he democracy
twenty years ago, will no doubt be de
nounced by the Vallandighaua torics as an
abolitionist and all the other choice terms
now usually found in Buchanan's dictiona
ry.
The Missouri State Convention
In the Convention last week, the bill de
fining the qualifications of voters passed
by a vote of 42 yeas to 27 nays. The first
section of this bill prevents all persons who
have been engaged in the rebellion, since
the 17th of December last, from voting j
at any State election hereafter. The second
section provides that before any person
shall be elected or appointed to office he
shall take an oath that he has not, during
tho present rebellion, wilfully taken up
arms or levied war against the United
States, nor against the Provisional Govern
ment of Missouri, nor adhered to the ene
mies of either. The third section prescribes
the penalty for falsely taking the oath
of allegiance, which is required to be taken
by the President, Professors and Curators
of the University of Missouri, by all Bank
officers, by common School Teachers, who
are paid by public money, by School Mas
ters, by officers of incorporated companies
and by licensed or ordained preachers be
fore performing the ceremony of marriage ;
the penalty for not complying is a fine of
not less than $lO nor more than s2oo—to
take effect in ninety days. The fifth sec
tion requires the Judges and Clerks of
elections to swear that they will not receive
nor record votes from persons who have
not taken the oath. The sixth section
authorizes the Legislature to repeal or mod
ify these provisions when expedient. This
bill is a hard blow at the Breckinridge
democracy, and if adopted in other South
ern States as they agaiu fall into the Union,
will annihilate that party both North and
South.
BgL.An old man named John Hamilton,
whilst engaged in cutting timber on a ridge
near Huntingdon, was struck by a falling tree
and instantly killed.
WAR NEWS.
We have but little news of interest from
our armies this week. Beauregard was
still retreating at last accounts —M'Clellan
making some progress towards Richmond,
but slowly—and but little heard from the
Shenandoah. In the south our fleet and
army officers are meting out just punish
ment to prowling rebels and towns harbor
ing them, while in Virginia the leniency
with which the most nndisguised traitors
are treated has already resulted in several
disasters, these scoundrels acting as spies.
A despatch from the Agent of the Assoeia
ted Press at Gen. McClellan's headquar
ters, gives an elaborate account of the raid at
Tunsall's station on Friday last. The raid
was made by a cavalry and artillery force
under Gen. Stewart to the number of about
1800, and was a most bold and partly suc
cessful movement, failing only in the des
truction of the bridge. They burnt two
schooners on the Pamunky, destroyed a num
ber of wagons, capturing the mules and
teamsters, wantonly killing several of the
latter, and fired ioto a passing train, killing
two and wounding several. Although pur
sued they succeeded in making their escape
across the peninsula back to Richmond.
We have by despatches both from Mem
phis and Gen. McClellan's headquarters cop
ies of a despatch from Charleston showing
that Gen. Hunter is pushing on his advance
on that city with great energy. The rebels
admit that he maintains his footing on James
Island and has compelled them to fall hack.
FRONT ROTAL, -June 15 —The results of the
battle at Port Republic, on .Monday last, be
tween a portion of Shields' division and Jack
son's rebel army, are now ascertained as near
as can be. The names already given arc
known to be among the killed and wounded,
although many classed among the missing
are no doubt badly injured, but our troops
being compelled to retire before a foe so su
perir in numbers and in all other respects
except bravery, rnauy were necessarily left on
the field, whose names could not be ascertain
ed, and of the large number classed as mis
sing many wi'l dt übtless find their way back
to their regiments.
The force eugaged wu3 composed mostly of
Western men who did their duty nobly, as
was evidenced by their fighting a foe mure
than five times their number for five hours
and then retreating in order, except une or
two regiments which were completely surroun
ded and compelled to take to the mountains,
many of whom made their way back to the
division.
The 7th Indiana Regiment, Col. Gaven, did
a noble duty, holding their position on the
right for four hours against a vastly superior
force, repeatedly charging and driving the
enemy like sheep. They left Fredericksburg
SCO strong and arrived at Port Republic with
only 300, the remainder being left along the
route sick and disabled, and after the fight
they mustered about 140, losing more than
half their force.
The 29th and GGth Ohio also lost heavily,
as may be seen by the list of casualties.
The three batteries of artillery, Clark's
Robinson'*, and Huntington's are entitled to
great praise for the gallant part they took m
the action. Ilad the First and Second bri
gades been enabled to reach the scene of ac
tion, an entirely different result would un
doubtedly have ensued.
After Monthly's fight it is understood that
Jackson took the road towards Stannards
viile, passing through the Gap of the Blue
Ridge M -tintains, in a line for Gordoitsville,
ut which point there is a railroad common;
cation with Richmond.
From Gen. Fremont's Division.
Headquarters Mountain Department, )
P'KT REPUBLIC, June 9, noon, V
(via Martinsburg. June L' 2.) J j
Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
There was was uo eollisiun with the enemy
after dark lust night. This morning we re
newed the inarch against him, entering the
woods in buttle order. His cavalry appear
ed on our dunks. (Jen. Blenker had the left,
Gen. Milmy the right and Gen. Schenck the
centre, with a reserve of Gen. Stahl's Brigade
and General Bayard's. The enemy was
found to be in full retreat on Port Republic,
and our advance found his rear guard bare
ly across the river and the bridge in flames.
Our advance came on so suddenly that some
of the officers remaining on this side escaped
with the loss of their horses.
A cannonading during the forenoon appris
ed us of an engagement, and I am informed
here that Gen. Jackson attacked Gen. Shields
this morning and after a severe engagement
drove him down the river and is now in pur
suit. I have sent an officer with a detach
ment ef cavalry to open communication with
Gen. Shields.
This morning detachments were occupied
in searching the grounds covered by yester
day's action at Cross Keys for our remaining
dead and wounded. I am not yet fully in
formed, but think 125 will cover our loss in
killed, and 500 that of our wounded.
The enemy's loss we cannot clearly ascer
tain. He was engaged during the night in
carrying off his dead and wounded in wagons.
This morning upon our march, upwards of
200 of his dead were counted in one field, the
greater part badly mutilated by cannon shot.
Many of his dead were also scattered
through the woods, and many bad already
been buried. A number of prisoners have
been taken during the pursuit.
I regret to have lost many good officers.—
Gen. Stahl's Brigade was in the hottest part
of the field (which was the left wing) from
the beginning of the fight. The Brigade lost
in officers five killed and seventeen wounded ;
and oue of his regiments alone—the Eighth
New York—has buried t>s men. The Gari
baldi Guard, next after, suffered most severe
ly ; and, following this regiment, the 40th
New York, the Bucktail Rifles, of Gen. Bay
ard and Gen. Milroy's Brigades. One of the
Bucktail companies has lost all its officers,
commissioned and non-commissioned.
The loss in Gen. Shenck's Brigade was
less although he inflicted severe loss on the
enemy, principally by artillery fire. Of my
Staff I lost a good officer killed, Capt. Nich
olas Dunnka. Many horses were killed in
our batteries, which the enemy repeatedly at
tempted to take, but were repulsed by canis
ter fire generally. 1 feel myself permitted to
say that all our troops, by their endurance of
this severe march and their splendid conduct
in the battle, are entitled to the President's
commendation, and the officers throughout
behaved with great gallantry and efficiency,
which requires that I should make particular
mention of them, which I trust will receive
the particular notice of the President as soon
possible.
I will send in a full report, but in this re
spect I am unable to make any more partic
ular distinction than that pointed out in the
description of the battle. Respectfully,
(Signed) J. G. FRFMONT,
Major General Commanding.
The Loss by the Late Flood
The loss by the great flood in the Lehigh
valley, is estimated at five millions dollars.
The Philadelphia Inquirer publishei an
elaborate report of the disasters, which
says that about one hundred persons were
drowned by the sudden rise of the waters.
At Mauch Chunk, there was a high lock
which gave way, engulfing a large number
of boats on which at least fifty persons
were sleeping, all of whom perished. At
that point the water was twenty-seven feet
high, being six feet higher than in the
great flood of 1841.
A correspondent of the Lebanon Courier
gives a description of the late flood which
devastated the Swatara region, from which
we extract the following :
It is simply impossible to give anything
like an accurate statement of the destruction
and damage of property, besides the large
number of lives lost, by tbe recent heavy
freshet on the Swatara creek, commencing at
the " Big dam," or main reservoir of the
Union Canal. Besides the injury to
the Union, I can only name a few of the
large number who have suffered: Philip
Mease, (his family having left in the evening,)
lost his barn, all his stock, fences, in short,
everything on his property, excepting hia
stone dwelling-house and summer house.—
One of his oxen was, however, found next
morning in one of the fields with the trough
fast to his chain ; this was the only animal
saved ; his damage is heavy ; Michael Kurr's,
$500; John Philips, 1500—the water having
come up to the first floor of his store, besides
taking a large number of rails. The Union
Forge's loss is S3OOO, the flood having taken
away the saw-mill and run-out, fences, lum
ber, &c. Kshleman and Heilmati's loss of
lumber is S2OOO : Meily's is also heavy. Be
sides these, every one having property along
the Swatara suffered more or less.
The count}* (as well as some township)
bridges were all swept away, not even leav
ing the piers standing, so complete was the
destruction. The woods along the creek are
filled with piles of wood, pieces ot bridges,
logs, green trees, stumps and fragments of
fences, pig-pens, sheds, parts of saw mills,
furniture, stray pieces of wrecked boats,
boards, shingles, and almost everything that
can float can be found—dead cattle, sheep,
hogs, Jke. Some heaps are as large as ordi
nary two story houses.
The number of lives lost is nine—three of
the Proudfoots' family ; William Boughter's
family, (excepting himself,) consisting of
Mrs. 8., two children and maid : Mrs. David
Brunner and hired girl. There are a number
of other instances of parties being saved only
by escaping through the water up to their
shoulders. Those nine who perished were
within a distance of a mile and three quar
ters, all living along the creek and canal,
near the Union Forge.
Commencing at the extreme head of the
Union Canal company's works, the Big Dam,
situated about two utiles above Pinogrove, or
better known as the Berger Reservoir, is en
tirely swept away, carrying great destruction
with it—riiree grist mills, some sawing mills
and a number (if other improvements, such
as all our feeder dams at and near Pinegrove,
together with ail the bridges across the canal
and Swatara, doing greet damage all along
the line. The little dam is also swept away,
leaving the channel in such condition that a
stranger could scarcely know that a canal
was ever there. The Big Dam in Swatara
Gap, known as the Main Reservoir, is also
swept away to near tiie bottom, carrying with
it all the aequeduets and bridges, with but
few canal bridges left. The general damage
to the embankments from Pinegrove to Jones
town is immense, in many places scarcely
showing that ever a canal was thoro.
The Big Dam or Main Reservoir, is situa
ted in Swatara Gap, 45 feet high at breast,
base 200 ieet. This reservoir is six miles in
length and covers 700 acres of land—deep
water all through the dam.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the lOcli, the application
of the Territory of Utah for admission as a
State of tho Union was received. The bill to 1
donate lands to States and Territories that
may establish colleges for the advancement of
agriculture and the mechanis arts was amend- ;
ed and finally passed—ayes 32, nay7. The 1
Civil Expense Appropriation bill was passed, j
A communication was read in the House
of Representatives from the Charge d'Affairs
of Denmark proposing the initiation of a sys- j
tem for the transfer of contrabands and ro
captured Africans to the island St. Croix,
West Indies. The bill providing for the ap- '
pointment of a German Professor at West
Point was passed.
The House of Representatives on the 11th, i
adopted a resolution authorizing the striking 1
of medals commemorative of the bombard- !
ment of Fort Sumter for presentation to Major
Anderson and the officers and men of the gar
rison. A resolution was adopted charging
Benjamin Wood, a member of the House
from New York, with communicating or at
tempting to communicate important informa
tion to the Rebels, and authorizing the Com
mittee on the Judiciary to investigate the
charge. A joint resolution was adopted set
ting apart the 14th of June and the 4th of
July as National holidays.
The Pacific Railroad bill was taken up and
postponed. The bill to provide additional
medical officers for the volunteer service was
passed.
In the Senate on the I2th, Mr. Davis in
troduced a resolution directing that the rebel
Gen. Buckner be transferred to the civil au
thorities of Kentucky to be tried for treason.
Mr. Wilson introduced a bill supplementary
to the aot abolishing slavery in the District.
The Pacific Railroad bill was debated but not
acted upon.
The tax bill as amended by the Senate was
reported |o the House. The amendments
were generally non concurred in and the bill
referred to a committee of Conference of the
two Houses. The bill regulating the employ
ment of convicts in the District Penitentiary
was passed. The bill providing fqr the erec
tion of a new jail in th'o District of Colombia
was rejected.
In the Senate on the 13th, after the more,
ing hour, during which a variety of subjects
were discussed, the Naval Appropriation bill
was taken up. On amendment to appropriate
$22,797 for the contingent expenses of the
Naya! Academy, and $25,000 for repairs of
the buildings at Annapolis, a prolonged dis
cussion took place, tbe roal question at issue
beiDg the return of the Nayal Academy to
Annapolis. The amendment of the commit*
tee was finally adopted—yeas 28, nays 9
the Senate thus recorded itself in favor of
the Academy at Annapolis. An amendment
abolishing the spirit ration, and substituting
for it an allowance of live cents per diem was
adopted.
The House passed the Senate resolution ma*
king an appropriation for raising the sunken
vessels in and about Hampton Roads ; also a
resolution of thanks to Lieutenant Morris
who commanded the frigate Cumberland sunk
by the Merrimac. The Senate bill providing
for tbe appointment of additional Army Sur
geons was passed, as was also the Senate bill
prescribing an oath of loyalty for grand and
petit jurors serving in United States Courts.
Senator Harris's bill to establi h Pr vis
ional Governments in the Rebel country, as
reported from the Committee on the Judi"
ciary, amended so as to empower the Presi
dent to establish Provisional Government#
for each of the Rebel States, not districts, as
it originally stood; arid a clause is added pro
viding tiiat the Legislative power shall not
be so exercised as to " interfere with the laws
and institutions existing in such States at
the time the authorities assumed to array the
same against the United States further than
shall be necessary to carry into effect the
provisions and purposes of this act."
The Secretary of the Treasury in a letter
to tbe Committee on Ways and Means, says,
under the law ?GO,<K)0,000 demand notes, re
ceivable for customs, have been issued, and
$90,000,000 notes not so receivable. The
outstanding amount is therefore $150,000,000.
beiDg the entire sum heretofore authorized
by the existing statutes. Of this aggregate
$50,500,000 in demand notes are held by
banks and capitalists, and not used as circu
lation, being held at a premium in conse
quence of their availability for customs. The
whole issue of $00,000,000 in demand notes
may thus be regarded as practically with
drawn from circulation. The limit of tempo*
rary deposit is now reached, and nothing
further can be expected from that source.—
It is therefore upon the conversion of United
States notes into five and twenty hundredths
now pracfically limited to the $90,000,000
of legal tender note's, and from the receipts
from customs that the Treasury must main
ly depend under existing legislation for meaus
to meet current expenditures. Hence the
suggestion of the Secretary of the Treasury
for authority to issue $150,009,000 legal ten
der notes, of not less denomination than
five dol'ars, in accordance with which the bill
was reported from the Committee on Ways
and Means,
On Monday a week Mr. Gurley present
ed a petition from 033 citizens of Cincin
nati, Ohio, asking for the expulsion of the
lion. C. L. \ aliandigham from the House
of Representatives, the petitioners believ
ing him, as they declare, to be a traitor to
his country, and a disgrace to the State ol
Ohio.
£c3°"Th<.: New York Tribune incorrect
ly reported lion. J as. T. Hale as voting
against the Emancipation Bill when it was
iirst presented, he being necessarily absent
attending the Supreme Court, lie wks
present and voted I'm ou the motion to
reconsider and also for a bill emancipating
the slaves ol ail holding office under the
Southern Confederacy or iu any manner
voluntarily aiding the Rebellion.
A Great Camp of Instruction
We learn by an order from the Adjutant
General's Office that a "Camp of Ins ruction"
for fifty thousand men—cavalry, artillery,
and infantry, in due proportions—is to be
immediately formed near Annapolis, Mary
land, Major General Wool will command the
camp, in addition to his duties as department
commander. The ground will be seleeted,
and the troops, which will be assembled as
rapidly as possible under orders from the
War Department, will be placed in position as
they arrive. Brig. Gen. L. P. Graham is as
signed to duty as chief of cavalry at the same
camp; Brevet Brig. Gon. Ilarvey Brown as
chief of artillery; and a chief of the infantry
arm is to be hereafter designated. The chief of
Ordnance, the Quartermaster Gen., Commissa
ry General, Surgeon General, and Paymastir
General each are to designate an experienced
regular officer as the chief of their respective
departments at the camp. It is left to the
experienced officer to whom has been assigned
the command of the camp to arrange the de
tails of brigading, equipping, drilling, and
disciplining the Reserve Corps d'Armee to be
thus formed under him.
vm ®mw mm.
AS the action of the Keiief Board does not
seem to be fully comprehended, frequent
applications for relief being made in person
or by letter to the undersigned, he deems it
proper to state that payments will be tem 1
porarily renewed to those formerly on tbs
list on presentation of certificate signed by
not less than three known taxpayers, stating
ing that the applicant has not received suffi
cient from her husband or other support, to
enable her, together with her own industry,
to make a living for herself and family, and
giving reasons for such inability. This is
intended for the benefit of all really in tieed,
and for no others.
The orders issued under this regulation
are continued only until the troops are again
paid off.
Blank certificates can be procured from
those who have heretofore distributed orders
GEORGE
Secretary of Belief Board
Lewistown, June 18,1862.