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General CurtißS has taken possession of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and captured a num ber of prisoners, stores, and baggage. The rebels .burned part of the town and then flod. Forty-two officers and men of the Fifth Mis souri Cavalry were poisoned at Mudtown by eating poisoned food, which the rebels left behind them. A dispatoh to the Chicago Times says there is hut one Union man in Clarksville, Tenn., and he is sixty years old. The people glory in seoession, hut are in great fear lest the town be burned. East week the rebels ship ped a thousand negroes from the place. The capture of Fort Donelson has alarmed the rebel states; .and several of the governors have issued calls for additional troops, which, if not filled by volunteers, more summary measures will be resorted to. We have received official news of the Burn side expedition up to the 20th ult. The fed eral vessels had visited Edenton, which was taken undisturbed possession of. A part of a rebel artillery regiment stationed there fled preoipitately without firing a Bhot. Visits were made to Commodore Goldsborough by the authorities and others, many of whom ex pressed sentiments of loyalty to the Union.— A proclamation to the people of North Caro lina had been issued by Gen. Burnside and Commodore Goldsborough, stating their object to be to invade none of their rights, but to assert the authority of tli'e United States, and inviting them to return to their allegiance.— Seven rebel vessels had been destroyed since onr fleet reached Hatterns Island. There is no official announcement of the occupation of Nashville, but a despatch from Cairo states positively that the Federal troops under Gen. Buell entered the place on Monday. It is also stated that the Legislature adjourned on Saturday, to meet again at Memphis. A raport waß in circulation that commissioners had been appointed to arrange termß with the Federal authorities for a transfer of allegiance and that Gov. Harris had offered to turn the Confederate forces over to the Union. A later despatch confirms the statement of the evacuation of Nashville, but reports that Gov. Harris burned all the State papers and then accompanied the Confederate troops in their retreat to Murfreesboro. Gen. Grant has declared martial law in West Tennessee. Murfreesboro, where it is reported that the Confederates are now concentrating, is the capital of Rutherford oounty, Tenn., about thirty miles southeast of Nashville, on the railroad to Charleston, S. C. The town was the seat of Government of the State from 1817 to 1827, when the State House was destroyed by fire, and the capitol then removed to . Nashville. It contains about six thousand inhabitants. Nothing further has been received from Columbus, but reports received from Confed erate sources represent that they will make a stand there. Troops arc concentrating at Randolph and Memphis, Tenn., the streets of the latter city being barricaded with cotton bales. Late Memphis papers contain a war speech delivered by Gov. Harris, and the reported pacification of the State is denied. THE GREAT STORM The storm of yesterday week did immense damage in various parts of the country, north and Bonth—especially along the sea costs and the great lakes. Amongst other casualties waß the breaking of the telegraph cable which was intended to oross the Chesapeake Bay below Fortress Mon roe. On the day that the Hoboken sailed, sixteen miles of the cable were laid in the most successful manner, when the operations were stopped for the night. On Monday the Hoboken waS occupied in taking soundings, when the severe blow of that day struck her at noon. Her steampipe broke soon after, and she became unmanageable—drifting upon Cape Henry, where she went ashore and broke in two. All hands remained on the wreck until about 11 o’clock on Tuesday, whon they were rescued by the steamer Spaulding. The Hoboken is a total loss. The remainder of the cable, about fifteen miles, was destroyed be. fore it was abandoned. About an equal quantity is laid in the bay, and the end is buoyed up. At Boston a terrible fire occurred during the storm, which destroyed property to the amount of about $BOO,OOO. At all the sea ports more or less damage was done to' the shipping, and on land many houses were un roofed and otherwise injured. The same was the case throughout the country. We have not had a severer blow for many years. FIRESIDE PATRIOTS I Why don't some of our hale, hearty, brawny young fellowß, who are so fond of denouncing their Democratic neighbors as traitors and disunionista, show their patriotism by shoulder ing'their muskets and marching in defence of their country, instead of permitting it all to evaporate in thin air in the lager beer saloonß where they are frequently to be found. We have a half dozen or more of such Republican stay-at-home patriots in our mind’s eye, all of whom should be compelled, if they won’t do it voluntarily, to take their places in the ranks alongside the brave men who are battling for the Union and the integrity of the Nation. INAUGURAL OF JEFF. DAVIS. Thiß document, which we publish entire, 1 makes ah ineffectual attempt to put a bold face upon the desperate condition of the rebels. Its language is that of a man who has well nigh lost all.hope. , < |y Sen. Basics is now occupying Harper’s Ber ry, CJhirlestOTrh and'Hartinsburg, in Virginia, with a portion of his command. THE SKCBSV OCT I I The wonder has been with many for some . time past, why it is that one section <>£ the ; Republican party is bo hostile to General vMc(3leu,4W. The New-TorkjZft&une furnishes 'toiler;*> r^V* 118 rcitints the: gallant 'ypungr.eomihaiider of our anmes filled downfromhis lofty elevation, uot becauie he ia incapable to, dhrpuiaMyJ)nt bdbause'lie is nSt an possibly, obtain too muon influence and repu tation for the future political prospeots of that revolutionary organization. Mark how its partizanmotiveaare exposed in the following of anarticle publishedonSaturday week: --“If-any one is in possession ofevidenca that Gen. McClellan is—as weknow Secretary Stanton to be-in favor of thoroughly crash ing out the rebellion in the shortest practicable time aha by the most Wafflly eflSctaye means; we will thank him for that evidence. Bat we beg him to comprehend -that this is not a qaestion affecting. Gen. M.’s abilityto plan or conduot a. campaign—not at all. We do not enter upon that field of inquiry. What' we want to be assured of is that, if be could to-morrow order an advance that would crush" the rebellion at a blow, not hesitate on the reflection that he would be likely to kill several thousand good .voters, whopi be. might need in 1864 when,he runs for,President as the candidate of the reunited and rein vigorated Sham. Democracy.” Here is the secret of the assanltshpOn Gen. McClellan, says the Patriot & Union, - He is regarded as a> prospective Democratic .can didate for the Presidency, and must bo written down, used np, discredited and degraded, lest, he may become popular and formidable as a political leader, in 1864. He may have the requisite ability to plan and conduot a cam paign, but his mental view is oiroumscribed by old forms and ideas—he has no apprecia tion of the beauties of Abolitionism, and oh horror of horrors 1 he acted when a citizen with the “Breckinridge Democracy!" This last touch is thrown in by way of producing a loyal shudder ; for although it seems to be admitted that Gen. Dir and Gen. Butler and Andy Johnson and a host of others, con spicuous in their support of the Government, were “Breckinridge Democrats,” this is the first time we have heard Gen. McClellan ac cused of that great crime. We do not claim for Gen. McClellan more than his just share of credit, but we do pro test against the attempts being made to rob him of his meed of glory, because he is not aB crazy on the nigger as Scmnek and Gree ley, or because these “ Union sliders ” appre hend that he may possibly become a candidate for President in 1864, and beat Fremont or some other Abolition humbug. THE TREASURY ROTE BILIi. The United Stateß note bill bas reoeived the President’s signature, and become a law. The moßt important of the Senate’s amendments, that making the interest on all the obligations of the United States payable in coin, is a part of the bill aB it finally passed. The duties on imports are set apart as a fund for the payment of this interest, and the creation of a sinking fund for the liquidation of the principal. The bill authorizes the issue of a hundred and fifty millions of notes in addition to those now in circulation ; but it contemplates the with drawal of these last from oiroulation, while the new ones may be repeatedly paid out after being received for government dues. The old notes and specio will alone be received in pay ment of duties on imported goods ; the new ones are receivable for every other kind of government dues, and are a legal tender for the payment of all publio and private debts except interest on government notes and bonds, and dues at the custom house. It will be seen that the new currency has some advantages over the notes of the sue- Dended banks, so long as the suspension of Bpecie payments continues. They can be nsed for the payment of taxes, for which bank notes cannot, and they will legally discharge all private debts. Being convertible into interest bearing bonds, they will facilitate the funding of the public debt, and through this channel and the payment of taxes a large amount of them will be constantly withdrawn from circu lation to be as constantly returned into it by tho Government. GOVERNOR SPRAGUE. This gentleman, the gallant and accom plished Governor of Rhode Island, has ac cepted a re-nomiDation at the hands of the Democracy, resolutions and all, declaring to the Committee from the State Convention who waited upon him, that he had “ always found the Democratic party true to the Union.” And all this, too, in the very teeth of the ukase issued by John W. Forney, the Re publican Clerk of theU. S. Senate, command ing the Governor to “ repudiate the men who are thus trifling with his just and well-earned fame,” and also to “ cast aside the men who would ruin him.” English, Forney insisted upon Governor Sprague declining the Democratic nomination and then throwing himself into the outstretched arms of his (Forney’s). Abolition party. But the impu dent command was unheeded. The patriotic Governor of Rhode Island is too firm a Demo crat and too good a Union man, to be either frightened or cajoled into, the Disunion Aboli tion party by the threats or flattery of this treacherous and unprincipled would-be dicta- AUDITOR GENERAIi. Richardson L. Wright, Esq., of Philadel phia, and Col. W. T. H. Pauley, of Greene county, (formerly editor of the Waynesburg Messenger,) are spoken of in connexion with the Democratic nomination for Auditor Gen eral. They are both good and true men, and either of them would make a capital officer. We believe the names of other gentlemen have been mentioned in different quarters of the State, but we do not recolleet them at present. Several gentlemen have also been Bpoken of for Surveyor General. SENATOR FROM INDIANA. '• in!) Governor Morton, of Indiana, haß appointed ex-Governor Joseph A. Wright, U. S. Sena tor, in place of Mr. Bright, who was expelled. Governor Wright’s last publio servioe was as Minister, under President Buchanan’s admin istration, to the Court of Berlin. He is a staunch Union man and a Democrat, and the appointments all the more.creditable in being bestowed by a Republican Governor. OUR LOSS AT FORT DONELSON. The offioial return of the killed, woondi and missing in General McClernand’sDivision, at the taking of Fort Donelson, foots up as follows: killed 321, wounded 1054, and miss ing 150—in a 111,525. This Division consisted of eleven Illinois arid one Ohio Regiments and four batteries. The loss of the other two Divis ions engaged we have, not yet seen,stated. DEATH Of GEN. LANDER Brigadier Geberal Francis W. Lander died at Pawpaw, Western Virginia, on Batnrday last, from the debilitating effects of a wound received at the battle of Ball's Bluff. - . General Jahes Shields has been appointed to the oommand made vacant by the death of .Gen. Lander., .COLUMBUS EVACUATED. Commodore Foote, it is said, has telegraphed to the Navy Depeitment that Columiras/Kj., is being evacp&ted by the rebels.' This' news is doubted by other dispatches. - irr! - - ; : GeneralsßiicKNia andTiLdpHAN.thc. rebalcfhceißi'captiiradiat.Fort. Donclsonj have been sent for safe keeping to Fort Warren. STATES HOT REBELS. Already the question is discussed, says the '~Del&w|re Gazette, what shall he done uqth.. the Southern States wßese inhabitants are in the retwljlpn is overcome, and lowsh*ilti^'li|9go#^^ to coh»der 'the of any euoh discussion it iswrhll to »tot at once and die-, nose pf jhe crude and impolitic notions which" I ; a re put forward' maniiUie adopfion of which as mere theories would seriously inter-! fere with the proseoution of the war for the suppression of the revolt. The chief and most dangerous heresy which is tanght by some of tbe-radieal raen.ie Mr. Charles Sumner embeAieiTJM-eirieeiofTeeoltttipni that werealonoe tabled in the Senate, .never, let ns hppe, to. be Raised from the i dead in that - The doctrine that States =have ceased to ex ist as .States, because :*npfS or : lees of their, inhabitants are in revolt against the United. Stateß, would suit very well the men who desire to place all State institutions in the; hands of Congress, and then press Congress! to abolish slavery. This'was the confessed’ object of Sumner’s resolutions, confessed be- cause so Btated in the succession of proposi tions laid down in them. But there is a prominent, difficulty jn the way of adopting this view. Massachusetts and other States, a few years ago, passed acta in violation of the Constitution, and defiant to the laws of the United Btates. This was a revolt by State Legislatures. When the Courts pronounced ■the laws unconstitutional, the people of the States took them into their own hands, and we heard stories of resoues from’ United Slates Marshals, and popular sovereignty, in the way of mobs, was brought to bear in the various-' States-which had arrayed themselves against' the law. It would have been a very unfor tunate precedent, if suoh had been found, for declaring Massachusetts a suioide, and, her. State existence forever terminated because of a condition of rebellion. For there would he. found abundant politicians to argue that the rebellion was complete, and Massachusetts might have been suddenly deolared a territory I Without, however, going to the past for illustrations of the folly of this dootrine, it better suits the importance of the subject for Americans to argue on principle that it is erroneous, and tends to anarohy. The ad ministration of Mr.. Lincoln has had great difficulty in contending with those who have endeavored to draw it over to the work of con quest and resulting tyranny. The war has been stoutly maintained thus far on the prin ciple that a State cannot secede, cannot cease to exist; that Legislatures or Conventions enaoting ordinances of secession do mere nullities, so far as these acts are concerned. — That such ordinances are waste paper, and every constitutional act of the State authori ties remains law, to be obeyed and observed, so far as they can be consistent with the present necessities of war. This priuoiple I forbids any discussion of this question how to | govern the States hereafter. They will govern themselves forever, until the whole form of the American Constitution is overthrown.— Their laws, their institutions, their rights, are I equally with our own the subjects of consti tutional protection; nor is it possible, without the most violent and fatal blow to Republican institutions, that Virginia or North Carolina, or New York or Massachusetts, should ever become territory of the United States, to be governed by Congress, or that the U. States should ever be able to hold one foot of land in any one of those States, to the exclusion of the State jurisdiction over it, without permis sion from the State. If pestilence, or famine, or the visitation of God in any form, should sweep away from Massachusetts her vaßt and busy population, leaving her cities deserted and her fields uncultivated, so long as ten men remained to claim the succession of that sovereignty which dates back of the United States Constitution, just so long it would remain in them, and when the last man was gone from her soil, it would still be impossible for the United States to claim any jurisdiction over it by virtue of the Constitution, except only to the extent she now exercises ; and if she took possession of the vaoant territory, it would only be as she may now take possession of unoccupied islands in the sea, and her au thority would date from the act of taking pos session, and not from any previous rights of the central government over Massachusetts. This is the necessity of our form of govern ment. It is to be hoped wo shall not be led to lose Bight of it. The days of the French revolution would return with lightning speed, if these gentlemen oould induce the adoption of the idea that the South is no longer a part of the United States, and is the legitimate Bubjeot of conquest, to beheld as asubjugated foe. This is no war of States against States. It is a war of government against revolted citi zens. The whole foundation of the war is in the few words of the Constitution, which give to Congress power “ to provide for calling forth, the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions The theory that the Union is gone, would reduce the army to a lawless mob. The idea that a State in revolt, as a State, very natural ly arises from our constant use of the names of States as disaffected or “ seceded but the object of the war is the suppression of an insurrection againßt the Constitution and the Union, in which men are the revolters, and the assemblages of these mfin are to be sup pressed. Thanks to the firmness of the Presi dent, the war has been steadfastly kept on this ground, and the result, if in our favor, will.be to restore in South Carolina and other States, the power of the laws of the. Union, of which, when it is so restored, South Carolina and those States will be peaceable members exer cising their ancient rights. “ Always trub to tbb Union.” —Gov. Sprague of Rhode Island, in accepting the nomination of the Democratic Convention, said ’“ he had always found the Democratic party trde to the Union.” This is the glory of that glorious old party, and they do not share it with any other ; the same cannot trnly be said of any other party. Let the people think of this important fact at this time, when nil ad mit and profeßS to deplore the danger to the Union, and when its salvation is the professed desire of all. Who are its safest guardians and most reliable friends, those who have af uay been truo to it, or those who have never been sof THE TELEGRAPH LINES. The General Government has taken posses sion of all the,telegraph Rues throughout : the loyal States—of eoqrse, while that is the ease, no dispatches,- other-thau those, which meet its approval, oan be transmitted. This measure is gone into as a “ military necessity," 80 that the Government may not be embarrassed in the prosecution of 1 the waif. Execution or a Slaver. —Nathaniel Gordon',' (he convicted slaver, was executed at New Yofk' bii Friday week. He made no speech. On the night before he attempted to commit suicide’ by smoking' segars which were ■ saturated -with strychnine.This,’ we believe, is the first execution under the law of iDongress' -declaring the: slave trade < piracy i- 1 - ’Strenuous efforts weremadebytbe shipping interests -of Netr Ycitfpo.fiiVe'Ms- sentence commuted to’ im'ptiso'nineht, dud ;thuB : «fvert I without avail. RHODE IBI.AHD DEMOCRATIC STATE ! COHVEKTIOK—RK-NOMIKATIOS OF GOT. SPIUGUK. -'"jrjj& Cemocrats of Rhode Island held a con vention in Providence 2oth nit, and renominated Governor tiaiL- -The aotive part he bah t*fcin TOAh§ war 1 is familiar to the whole oonntrj. Tbeonly Damocratio Governor in the Northern States, a’i;4hocommencement of the war, hie was. the, Jiaijldiieto take the field in“jjeredn, wbtbh'h£ (iid at the head of the Rhode Island troops.— Thßre'can he no reasonable doubt of his tri umphant re-election. The resolutions adopted by the convention are ronservafive And-patffotio, and will be heartily endorsed-(by tijemaßsee-Qf-therpeoe? _ple in all tha_ loyal States. We quote the fol - - -.- ■ - -- Etsdoed, That while this oivil war oontin uas,iiisourdnty ..and theduty of lojal citizens, : to render to the (Government a cheer ful i&idearnesY support; to'.stand fly it in' the enforcement of &U Constitutional ineas—' tires tending to’the suppression of armed re bellion ; to give its officers, so far as they are true-ip . the trußts reposed in them, the aid an comfort which may be derived from our moral influence and physical resources. And that we extend to those citizens .of our own and* other States who have responded to the ball of lie; Government (or the protection whioh arms alone can give, oiir hearty com* emendation and warmest sympathies.. . We congratulate them upon the.recent brilliant, victories whioh their valor has achieved, and bespeak for them, when their work shall have been accomplished and their purpose con -eommated in the restoration of the Union, the warm gratitude of all true patriots. • Resolved , That the efforts now being made to divert this war from its original purpose, as proclaimed by the President and Congress of the United States seven months ago—the maintenance of the Federal Constitution and the preservation of the Union's integrity— and to turn it into & war for the emancipa tion of slaves’ and the subjugation of the' Southern States, or their return to a territo rial condition, is an effort against the Union, against the Constitution, against justice and against humanity, and should be promptly frowned upon by all the friends of Democratic institutions. It is unworthy of loyal citizens, and can find support only with sectional fa natics, who have no love for the Union, or desire for its restoration, and highest patriotism is an unnatural and unrighteous hatred of the cithens of sister States. And whereas, we perceive gratifying indications that President Lincoln is resisting and will continue to resist this treasonable effort, it is further resolved, that in such patriotic re sistance he is entitled to and doeß and shall continue to receive our cordial sympathy and unfaltering support Resolved , That to bring the present war to a final and happy conclusion, and secure a union of hearts as well as a union of hands, it is absolutely necessary to reassure the misguided people of the South that we mean no warfare upon their rights, and are actua ted by no spirit of revenge; to disavow, in the language of ,Gov. Sprague, " any other wish than that of bringing together these now belligerent States, without the losb to any one of them of a single right or privilege whioh it has heretofore enjoyed;" to show, by our acts as well as by our professions, that our whole purpose is to preserve our Government just as it came to us from the hands of our fathers—to regard all the guar anties of the Constitution, whether to States or to the people of the States—and to become once more a powerful and prosperous nation, and a harmonious and happy people. And that, to this end, it is the duty of the Demo cratic party, not only to preserve its distinc tive organization, but to demonstrate, by hon orable and patriotic measures, both its deter mination and its power to withstand and render harmless the assaults of Northern eectionalists upon constitutional liberty. Resolved, That the effort now being made to secure to adopted citizens in this. State their just political rightß, meets with our hearty sympathy and is entitled to and shall receive our cordial support; that the purpose of this effort is especially commended to us at this time, by the promptness and unanimity with which this class of our citizens are raU lying to the support of our institutions ; and that we urge upon the present General As sembly of our State to take such measures as are necessary to bring their claims to an equality of political privilege, directly before the people. FORNEY ON BRECKINRIDGE The re-eleotion of Mayor Sanderson, in the City of Lancaster, has afforded that virtuous man, John W. Forney, another opportunity to attack what he calls the Breckinridge De mocracy. Breckinridge is a traitor, and every Democrat in the free States who does not be lieve in the immaculate Forney, is necessarily a friend of the revolted Kentuckian, and con sequently a traitor too. In this way the pliant tool of Forrest, sncceeds in proving that a majority of the voters of the City of Lancas ter are like Breckinridge traitors to the Union. Why, among the most notorious toadies, who hung upon the skirts of Breckinridge, this au dacions Forney was always tbe most conspiou ous. The “ courtly Breckinridge,” and such terms of imperial endearment, daily decorated the columns of the Press, in its siokly adula- tion of that crafty politician. Forney, Dan Sickles, tbe Chevalier Wykoff, and their set of exemplary and virtuous politicians were the genteel coterie which regarded Breckinridge as its peculiar representative. As for Judge Douglas, he understood the virtuous John; he trusted him as much as he did “ adders fanged,” and just about aB much as tbe friends of the deceased trust Forney now. It is very evident, from tbe frequent spas modic efforts ofTorney, to alarm the people against the “Breckinridge Democracy”— meaning thereby all those whom he cannot carry with him m his pilgrimage to the camp of Black Republicanism—that Abolitionism in his opinion at present, is resting upon a weak foundation. We appreciate his sensi tiveness upon these points. It would be a lamentable thing, as he Biiggeßts, if the De mocracy of Pennsylvania Bhould again become dominant, because in that event it might assist in lifting the disinterested and patriotic For ney from the snug little sinecure he so hand- Bomely fills in the United States Senate. Forney’s apprehension of the rebel leaders being restored to power in the Union through the efforts of the Northern Democracy is quite tender, indeed, and exhibits nnnsual sagacity in that vigilant sentinel on the watch towers of our suffering country. Long may he wave ; public virtue, like his, is very rare, and we Bhould endeavor to lift ourselves to its sublime and charming comprehension.— Pitlsbmrg Post. A PERTINENT QUESTION. What sort of a viotory would it have been at Donelson, asks the Chicago Times, and how prond should we have felt over, it, if half a dozen regiments, more or less, of negroes had been engaged in the battle on oar side J The abolitionists have been insisting that the negroes should be armed and put into the field by the Bide of our white soldiers, and had it been done, doubtless the abolitionists, would now be claiming that negro gallantry and prowess had won the battle. The Nohination op Gen. Scott With orawn.—lt is understood that tbe nomination of Lieutenant General Seott as minister extra ordinary to Mexico, made by the President, recently, in view of the foreign complications in that country, has been withdrawn. The most intimate frienda of General Seott Bay that, while appreciating the high honor songht to he oonferred, he is reluctant to undertake such duties on account only of the, present state of his health. t&i Hon Benjamin Starke, appointed by the Governor of Oregon a U. S. Senator from that Btate, to fill the vaoanoy caused by Col- Baker’s death, was admitted to his seat on Thursday, after several weeks’ delay, oanßed by an accusation of disloyalty that Mas trumped up against him by political oppoi neats. The following was the vote on his admission: , , . ? Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Browning, Carlile, Col lamer, Cowan* Davis, Tessenden, roster, Harris, -Henderson,, Howe, Jenson, Kennedy, Latham, Mo* Dougall, Nesmith, Pearce, Powell, Bice, Saulabory, Sherman,- Simmon^' Ten Eyck, Thomson,- Willey and .Wilson (Moi)—26. : *• * . Nats—Moran. Chwdler, Olaik, Davis, Doolittle, ■Foote; Grimes,vmiB, Bulan, Howard, King, Lone ,(InC») Mbrtill, Pomeroy, Bomner, IrambaQi'WAilf, 1 ! Wilkinson, Wilmot, end Wilson (Mass.) —19. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. Great Store at Sea—Failure to Lay the TrTiTfT m t T>IT **— MoKioiHWvs6.—fVi» Bal* imorfTH Spaulding amved this afternoon, illßgleft Eomoks Islmad tha dal before yesterday, and Hattbrea yesterdaY.. Sjntridlu* »e ledtn of the MnreoCthe attemptta Jay Ore telegraji «M» Mfow the |p»y_ ' i\. s ’ ' i- x - Oath. day that thaßobokeu sallod sixteen mOataf the cablewsre-laMrin thsxnbst successful manner, whew the ■dpetaUons were stoppedfor thenigbt. Yericrdsy the Ho* token iras occupied la taking *bondlng*».xS*D thp revere .klcwoftfcat dAy noon. 'QiNrrtßtCTma broke soohaftetj'-Ahdxhebecame unmanagsdble drifting apon Cape Henry, where she went ashore and broke In two last night. . All the hands remained on the wreck until about 11 o’clock"this forenoon, when the Spaulding took them off. It is stated that the Hoboken passed within sight of the blockading steamer Cambridge, but the latter paid her no notice. A conple other naval vessels also passed her without offering to render assistance. The Hoboken is a total torn.- TbeTemainder of theqable, about fifteen miles, was destroyed before H was abandoned; aßont an equal ? quantity isUid intbwbay, and. Uw end ii haojed.op —Hr.. Hoax H; Hxkbbiqhv, of this dty, was on board the .Hoboken dori.ng.the whole of the storm.. He was en gaged in assisting to lay the Telegraph Cable. Hie deecrfp- breaking of the vessel, apd other ecepee-and. in cl-, dents, is Intensely vivi eland interesting, and corroborate* entirely the above account. The boat’s crew deserted the nwael. end loft thosoon hoard to tbeixfato. .Daring the whole night Mr. H. and his companions remained in the - cabin, and ware-jin prater yearly up to their necks, tha wind blowing a terrific gala, and the waves lashing furi ? 'bnsly kgMnst the sides of the Vessel/ It was truly a night . of horror, ,and neither tongue nor nen can describe the feelings jof those on board. Mr. H. la now at home, and i we are sorry to learn is suffering sever sly from, a heavy oold, which he contracted from the exposure, . Religious.— Rev. Dr. Hodgson, Presiding Eider of this District, will preach in the Duke Street M.E. Church, on Snoday morning next, andln St Paul’s M. E. Church, Soqlh Queen street, |n the evening. March.— March came in like. & lion, and, according to the old saying, will go out like a lamb.— Whether the saying is true or not, there must have been a new hand at the bellows,on Saturday. and his first blow was a decided ‘‘snorter,” worthy of old Boreas himself and One that would very likely tear things, and did cause con siderable commotion among the pretty devotees of crino line who were unfortunate enough to be on the streets. “ Blow ye winds Qf winter. Blow ye winds —y—oh I Blow ye winds of printer, Biow^—blow—blow I” • ■ The Howard Evenings.— E. H. Yundt, delivered the last lecture before the Howard, on the question,‘"Do we needs Stronger Central Governmentt” The leetnrer made an able and ingenious argument for the wrong side of the question, vix: centralization of power- Tbe discnsslon was participated In by Messrs. Col*. Patter, son, Maj. Ditmark, Hiester, Coulson, Wylie, Barr, Gen. Steinman and Cadweil.. - The lecture'this evening will be delivered by Rev. Gxo. Hxacocx, of St Paul’s M. E. Chnrch. Subject; u lsthe Judgment of Conscience always correct?” . Soldier Shot.— We learn from tha Harris burg papers that Lieut. Bamuel 0. Konigmacher, son of the late Joseph Konigmacher, Esq, of this county, has become Involved in a serious difficulty at Harrisburg. It appears that a soldier named Frank Van Valbnrg, of York, Pa, Quartermaster Sergeant of Capt. Dorsbelmer’a Company, Col Zeigle’s Regiment; was shot about 11 o’clock on Mon day night, the 2Uh nit., in front of Banter’s lager beer ea loon, by another soldier belonging to Col. Meredith’s Regi ment, 56th Pennsylvania, now 6aid to be Lieut. Konig macher. It seems that a squad of men Qf Capt. Dorabelm er’s company were sent to arrest atragglerß. While passing around they visited Banter’s lager beer saloon, where they found two soldiers fighting. Van Valbnrg, the sergeant in command of the sqnad, Interfered, when one of the soldiers shot him with a pistol, the ball piercing hla breast near the nipple and entering the right long. A cousin of the wounded man knocked the soldier down, but be made his eseape, leaving his bat on tbe ground, by which it was discovered that he belonged to the 50th Regiment. The wounded man was taken to Herr’s Hotel, where he Is yet lingering. On Tuesday last complaint was made, and Lieut. Konlgmaeher was arrested and committed to prison, tbe critical condition of Van Valbnrg not permitting the Mayor to take bail. —Since the above was In type, we learn from the Express that Lieut Konigmacher has been released from custody, and joined his Regiment. The wounded man is getting better. How to Direct Letters. — The Louisville papers call attention to the fact that persons ata distance, who are attempting to hold correspondence with their friends in the army In Kentucky, continue to indalge In the habit of addressing their letters to the camps at which they suppose their correspondents are quartered. We would again remind such persons that it Is only necessary to direct their letters plaioly to the regiment and company to which the recipient of the letter belongs, directing the letter to Louisville, when It will be forwarded to its proper destination. The Postmaster at Louisville is informed as to the changes which are constantly occurring in the loca tions of regiments. Bold Attempt at Highway Robbery.— On Wednesday last, about 1 o’clock, P. M. f as Mr. Jacob Herr, who resides near Petersburg, was returning borne from marketing in this city, he was met on the turnpike, above tbe Little Conestoga, by three men, who hailed him to stop. Aa he stopped his horse and wagon, not suspecting their objeot, one of them attempted to drag him oat, while the other two made for the horse’s head. Mr. Herr, now seeing that foul play was evidently their object, whipped up his horse, the wheel knocking down the rascal at his side, while his companions failed to catch the horse, and he thus made bis escape. Mr. Herr, being a Mennonits, will not take any legal measures with a view of bringing, the scoundrels to justice, although we have no donbt they might be Identified. Record Your Deeds.— Persons holding deeds should have them recorded, if they want to retain an indisputable title to tbelr property. Disputes without nomber, and expensive and tedious law-suits in many In stances, grow out of not having conveyances recorded.— For be It remembered that if a deed is not recorded within six mouths after its acknowledgment, the person from whom the property is bought may make a second and secret conveyance of if, and if the second deed is Jirst re corded, It renders the first deed worthless This leaves tbe buyer no resource but by suit for fraud against the party from he purchased. This trouble and many others would be spared purchasers if they would immediately put their deeds on record, aod this may be done at small ex pense. Let none of oar readers neglect this important matter longer, if they have conveyances in their possession. Many persons are in favor of imposing a heavy tax on unrecorded deeds, and the matter is talked of in the Legislature. Catholic Rules for the Observance of Leut is the Diocese or Philadelphia.—'Tbe Right Rev. Bishop Wood, of this Diocese, has issued the following rules for the observance of the forthcoming Lent: Tbe first day of fcent, Ash-Wednesday, falls this year on the sth of March. 1. All the faithful, who have completed their twenty first year, are bound to observe tbe feast of Lent, unless dispensed for Legitimate reasons. 2. One meal a day only is allowed, except ou Sundays. 3. This meal is not to be taken until about noon. On those days on which permission is granted to eat meat, both meat and.fish are not to be used at the same meal, even by way of condiment. 6. A collation or partial meal is allowed in the evening. The general practice of pious Christians limits its quantity to the fourth part of an ordinary meal. 6. Bread, butter, cheese, fruit of all kinds, salads, vege tables, and fish, are permitted at the collation. Milk and eggvare prohibited. 7. Custom has made it lawful to drluk in the morning some warm liquid such as tea and coffee, or thin chocolate made with water. 8. Necessity and custom have authorized tbe use of lard instead of butter, In preparing fish, vegetables, Ac. 0. The following persons are not bound to observe tbe fast, viz: All under twenty-one years of age; the sick; pregnant women, and those giving sock to infants; those who are obliged to do bard work; and all who through weakness cannot fast without Injury to their health. 10. Tbe use of meat is allowed by dispensation at any time on Sundays, bntonly at the foil meal on all Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, except Thursday lo Holy Week. 11. Persons exempted from the obligations ortastiog, by age or laborious occupation, are nbt restricted to tbe use of meat at one meal only, on those days on which ltß use is granted by dispensation. Fatal Railorad Accident.— On Monday evening Nathan Miles, colored, with his wife and another woman, returning from a funeral in Marietta, were met •on the Pennsylvania Railroad jnst below the tunnel by the Harrisburg Accommodation Train. Tbe wind was blowing a gale—so strong that the party had been afraid to venture down the tow-path—which prevented the ap proaching train being heard, and it was only by the light of the reflector on the engine that the women who were in advance discovered it when close upon them. They screamed and eprang from tbe track, and Just cleared the train. Miles, who was an old man, also struggled off the track, but probably stumbled forward, for he was struck by the train oh the head and knocked down beside the rails. Tbe train was stopped, and tbe injured man with his com panions taken aboard and brought back to town. Miles was' carried into the switch-tender's office, where he died in about fifteen minutes. Dr. Hotteostein was called In, but pronounced the injury fatal atflrstslgbt. He remained uotil the iDjnred mau expired. Miles was a quiet and in flustrious man—one of th 6 best of ouroolored inhabitants. Much sympathy Is expressed for bis family. Deputy Coroner Hunter held an inquest, and tbe usual verdict was returned. There was no carelessness on the part- of the engineer, as he whistled “down brakes” as soon as he discovered the females on the track, but the train eouid not be ebecked in time.— Saturday's Columbia Spy. A Needed Reform.—The following article we clip from the local colomoß of the Harrisburg Patriot of Saturday last. The comments of the editor ou the In jurious effects' resulting from the too frequent changes of hooka In our Common Schools are just and proper; and the article applies with such force to Schools nearer home that we do not beatltate to give it a place in the local depart ment of The Intelligencer: A Reform Nxxdxd.—lt is to be hoped that war, taxation and corruption Investigations will not so completely absorb the attention of onr legislators as to make them entirely forget onr Common Schools. Excellent as the system Is, and much good as It is doing to the rising generation, it Is not so Derfect but what it is.susceptible of reform in certain of Ha ramifications. There la one subject which certainly de mands the attention of the Legialature, and it is strange to us that the Superintendent has not already noticed it, and that !s the absolute necessity of having uniform text books throughout the State for a period or not less than three years at a time. Every school district in the Btate adopts such text books as may suit the views of a majority of the Directors. This in Itself would be no particular subject of complaint, if such hooka were continued in use any length of time, bnt It is the frequent changes which cause trouble, annoyance and expanse. We have both seen and felt the injustice of these unnecessary changes. A Board of DI tec tors meet, and adopt a aeries of books. Before they are scarcely soiled an oily-tongoed Yankee book agent cornea along, and by his persuasive powers of eloquence convinces a majority of the Board that the Bonders in use are defective, and that those he has are mnch superior. Forthwith a change if ordered. Next a ohap comes along with an improved series of Geographies, much better and considerably cheaper than those in nse. He perseveres until the children come homo some evening with the nnwelcome intelligence that they must get new Geographies, and so on throughout the lUt of all the books used in school. This Is extremely op- Dresdve on the poor man, and we bare known some who were übliged to keep tbelr children from school because they could not keep up with, the changes in books. Why some two year, ago, while residing in a town, -we a drawer of upwards of thirty School books quite i* good as sew, bat utterly.valueless on account of being no longer in use. This evlimnstberemadied.and there Is a way to do it It would -fc® placing in the hands of the Superintendent an immense power and patronage to name all the text books to he used in the Common Schools of Pennsylvania for thres years, and we should nbt like to see It done; bnt we should like to see a law passed giving the Governor the power of-appointing a commiuloo of four persona from different sections of the State, who, in conjunction with the Superintendent, should: decide upon andfix for the next three years ensuing, the text books of the schools.— Wheh’thistime expired, is new commission might be ap 'pointed tovevfef the books,.-or adopt anything new and mefauiat mignt In the meaptlme have been brought be- to this effect in the Senate a few years ago and every Senator acknowledged its necessity, but it was too late in the session tq he acted upon. . Ifc a Quandary. —We doubt not the Diree tors of the Poor are in a quandary j ust now, because of the hrettv little fight raging between the Allopathic and Ho ujoecpatblo tfiipoUnU as to who shall be FhyaicUns to the Hospital and Poor House. “When Doctors disagree, whq is toderfde?” r - ! All the Labob Porkers Beaten !—So ‘writes e eorreepondeot to u,. Mr. A. Kmtsidt, Batcher, Aieughtered e Hog. 20,month! old. onthe 261 h of Febrau* beloßgtng trf Mr.Ootm B. Muundia, of BtMsburg town .hip, which weighed when properly dtc«ed The correspondent farther wishes to know who can.oeat 'thAti end went, the Borough of Streeborg end Leoipet.r to try egeln. IHAVeVBAL ADDRESS. Tho following Inaugural Address was de- livered by afeßiohmond, on the 22d ultimo: w- • -■>- Fzxxow-CrmsHß: On thl» the birthday of the man most identified .with tbu establishment of : American Indepen dence, miff Wnesfh the moavmeotareetpd to commemorate bia'herofc-virtue* and thore ofhi* compatriots, we have •ssemkiaß to "usher into esriftencoiba/permanent Govern ment of tbe Confederate Btet*s. Through this instrumen ■sality, under thnfevor of Divine Providence, we hope to perpetuate the principle* of our ReTolntionary fathers. Today, thq memory md theMtaN.se*m fitly associated. T Itli with mingled fifglagneftoifelUty and pride that I 'appear'to take,' la the presence of the' people and before high Heaven, the oath prescribed as a qualification for the exalted station to which the voice of the peo plexus called me. Deeplv sensible of all that is Implied by this manifestation of the peoples confidence, I am yet more profoundly impremed by the vast' responsibility of the offlee, and humbly feel my own unworthinere. In return for their kindness I can only offer assnranes of the gratitude with which it li received, and ean but pledge a zealous devotion of every faculty to tbe service of those who have chosen me as their Chief Magistrate. When a long course of clan legislation, directed not to the- general weliareybut to the-aggrandizement of the Northern section of theUnlon, culminated In a warfare ou the domestic institutions of the Southern States—when the dogmas of a sectional party, substituted for the provis ions of the constitutional compact, threatened to destroy the sovereign right* oT the 'States,-itt"ortfioas States," ' -withdrawing from tbe confederated together tq exercise tbe-right end 1 perforin -the duty of Instituting n : Government which would better secure Übertkz fbr the preservation of which that Union Iras established. . Whateverof hope ,some may have- entertained that* - rt turning sense of justice would remove the. danger, with, which our rights'were threatened, ana render It possible ti preserve tbe Union and the constitution, must baye been dispelled by the malignity and barbarity of the Northern States in the prosecution of the existing war/ The confi dence of.the most hopeful among.ui must have tool destroyed by' tbe disregard they have recently exhibited tar all the time-honored bulwarks of civil Stud religions liberty. Bastiles filled with prisoners, arrested without civil process or indictment duly found; the writ of habeas corpus suspended by Executive ™»"*>**; a Btate Legltia.. ; ture controlled by the imprisonment of members whose avowed principles snggestod to the Federal Executive that -, there might be another added to thVlist qf Beceded.States; elections held under threats of a military power; civil officers, peaceful dtisens and gentle; women incarcerated for opinion’s sake, proclaimed the incapacity of our late associates to administer a government as free, liberal and humane as that established Aroar.common me, For proof of the sincerity oronr purpose to maintain our ancient institutions, we may point to the Constitution of the Confederacy and the laws enacted under it, as. well as to tbe fiict, that through all the necessities of an unequal straggle, there has been no act on our part to impair, per sonal liberty, or tbe freedom of speech, of thought or of the press. The courts have been open, the-judicial func tions fully executed, and every right of the peaceful citl sen Inaintaiaed as securely as If a war of Invasion .had not disturbed the land. v ' The people of the States now confederated became.con vinced that the Government of the United States bas fallen into the hands of a sectional majority, who would prevert that most saered of all trusts to the destruction of the rights which It was pledged to protect. They believed that to remain longer in the . Union would subject them to a continuance of a dispa rasing discrimination, submission to which would bo inconsistent with their welfare, and In tolerable to a prefud people They, therefore determined to sever its bonds and establish a new confederacy for themselve*. The experiment instituted by our Revolutionary fathers, of a voluntary nnlon of sovereign States for purposes specified in a solemn compact, had beon perverted by those who, feeling power and forgetting right, were determined to respect no law bntthelr own will. The government bad ceased to answer the ends fur which It was ordained and established. To save ourselves from a revolution which, in its silent but rapid progress, was about to place us under the despotism of numbers, and preserve in spirit, as well as In form, a system of Government we believed to be peculiarly fitted to our condition, and fall of promise for mankind, we determined to make a new association, com posed of Btates homogeneous in interest, In poliry and in feeling. True to our traditions of peace and our love of Justice, we sent commissioners to the United States to propose a fair and amicable settlement of all questions of publlo debt or property which might be In dispute. Bat the Govern ment at Washington, denying our right to self government, refused even to llstdn to any proposals for a peaceful separation. Nothing was then left to us but to prepare for war. The first year in our history has been the most e rentfni In the annals of io this continent. A new Government has been established and its machinery put Into operation ovor aa area exceeding seven hundred thousand square miles. The great principle upon which we have been willing to basard everything that is dear to man have made conquests for ns which would never have been achieved by the sword. Our confederacy has grown from six to thirteen States, and Maryland already united to us by hallowed memories and material interests, will, I believe, when able to speak with unstified voice, connect her destiny with the South. Our people have rallied with unexampled unauimtty to the support of the 'great principles of constitutional govern ment with firm resolve to perpetuate by arms the rights which they could not peacefully secure. Millions of men, it is estimated, are now standing In hostile array, and waging war along a frontier of thousands of miles. Bat tles have been fought, sieges have been condocted, and although the contest Is not ended, and tbe tide for tbo moment is against us, the final result in onr favor is not doabtfnl. . The period is near at hand when our foes must sink under an immense load ot debt which they have incurred, a debt which, in tbeir effort to subjugate ns has already attained aneh fearful dimensions as will subject them to burthens which must continue to oppress them for genera tions to come. Wo, too, have had our trials and difficulties. That we are to escape them in future is not to be hoped. It was to be expected when we entered opon this war that It would expose our people to sacrifices and cost them much, both ot money and blood. But we know the value of tbe object for which we struggled, and understood the nature of the war in which we were engaged. Nothing could be so bad as failure, and any sacrifice would be cheap as Jhe price of success in such a contest. But the picture has its lights as well as its shadows. This great strife has awakened In .the people tbe highest emotions and qualities of tbe soul. It is cultivat ing feelings of patriotism, virtue and courage. Instances of self sacrifice and of generous devotion to the noble cause for wbleh we are contending are rifo throughout the land. Never has a people evinced a - more determined spirit than tb&t now animating men, women and children lo every part of ourcouDtry. Upon the first call the men fly to arms; and wives and mothers send their husbands and sods to battle without a murmur of regret. It was, perhaps, io the ordination of Providence that we were to be taught the value of our liberties by the price which we pay for them. ' » The recollections of this great contest, with all its com mon traditions of glory, of sacrifice of blood, will be the bond of harmony and enduriDg affection amongst the peo ple. producing unity In policy, fraternity In sentiment and joint effort in war. Nor have the material sacrifices of the past year been made without some corresponding beneflti If the acqnl* etcance of foreign nations in a pretended blockade has de prlved ns of onr commerce with them, Ifr is fast making ns a self-supporting and an independent people. Thablcoksde, If effectual and permanent, could only serve to divert onr industry from the production of articles for export, and' employ It In BupplylDg commodities for domestic use. It is a satisfaction that we have maintained the war by onr unaided exertions. We have neither aaked nor re ceived assistance from any quarter. Yet tbe interest in volved is not wholly your own. The world at large is con cerned In opening our markets to its commerce. When the independence of the Confederate States Is recognized by the nations of the earth, and we are free to follow our interests and inclinations by cultivating for* Ign trade, the, SoothermStates will off-it to manufacturing nations tbe most fuvdrsble markets which ever Invited their commeroe.; Cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, provisions, timber and naval stores, will forolsh attractive exchanges. Nor would tbe constancy of these supplies he likely lo be disturbed by. war. Onr confederate strength will be too great to tempt aggression; and was there ever a people whose interests and principles committed them so fully to a peaceful policy as those of the Confederate States ? By the character of their productions they are too deeply interest«d in foreign com l merce wantonly to disturb it. War of conquest they can not wage, because the constitution of their confederacy' admits of no coerced association. Cit il war therecanDot ha between Sta'es held together by their volition only. Tbf* rule of voluntary association, which eannot fail to be con servative. by s curing Just and Impartial government at home, does not dimioish the security of the obligations by which Confederate States may be bound to foreign nations. In proof of this it is to be rembered that, at the .first moment rf Asserting their right of Secession, these States proposed n settlement on tbe basil of a common liability for the obligations of the General Government Fellow citizen?, after tbe struggles of ages had conce crated tbe rights of tbe Englishman to tbe constitutional representative government our colonial ancestors were forced to vindicate that birthright by an appeal to eroas* Success crowned their efforts, and they provided for their posterity a peaceful remedy against future aggression. ' Tbe tyranny of an unbridled majority, tbe most odious aDd least responsible form of despotism, has denied ns both the right and tbe remedy. Therefore we are inarms to renew such sacrifices as onr fathers made to the holy cause of constitutional liberty. At tbe darkest hour of onr struggle tbe provisional gives place to the permanent Government. After a series of successes and victories, which covered our arms with glory, we have recently met with serious disasters. But in the heart of a people re solved to be free these disasters tend bnt to stimulate to increased resistance. ' , To show ourselves worthy of tbe inheritance bequeathed to ns by the patriots of tbe Revolution, we must emulSte that heroic devotion which made reverse to them bnt f the eroelble in which their patriotism was refined. With confidence In the wisdom and virtue of those who will share with me the responsibility, and aid me In the conduct of public affairs; securely relying on tbe patriot ism and courage of the people, of which the war has furnished so many examples, I deeply feel the weight of the responsibilities I now, with unaffected diffidence am about to assume; and, fully realising the inadequacy of human power to guide and sustain, my hope is reverently fixed on Him whose favor is ever vouchsafed to - tbe cause which U just. With Humble gratitude and adoration,.ac knowledging the Providence which has so visibly* pro tected the Confederacy during its brief but eventfal career, to Thee, oh God, I trustingly commit myself.' and prayer fully invoke Thy blessing on my country and Its cause. FROM EUROPE. By the arrival of the steamship Hibernian at Portland on Thursday, we have foreign dates to the 14th ultimo—five days later than those previously received. In the House of Lordß, on the 10th nit., Earl Carnarvon oalled attention to the imprisonment of British sub. jeots by the federal government, to which Earl Russell replied that the speaker had hot made allowance for the peculiar state of affairs in the United States, which justified urgent measures. He also said that. England had done the same in times of difficulty, and that if the President believed that the .parties were engaged in treasonable conspiracies,. hg- did not see how her majesty’s government,could interfere. Earl Malmesbury, in asking for the papers connected with the blockade, com. mended the eonduet of the " government in reference to the question. Mr. Bright; gave notice to the House of Commons that he in. tended to bring up for conßifferqtion th? state of international law as it affects the rights of belligerents. An order has Jjegn ; issued to reduce the number of men .and gijns. pf: the ships now in commission.. In tho offioial cor-., reepondence concerning the intervention in, Mexico ia a letter from Earl Russell, in-which he statee that if the Mexican people place the Arobduke Maximilian on the throne there is nothing in the convention to prevent itj and, on the' other hand, Engknd would be notparty to a forcible intervention fob this purpose. I®- Gapt. Jonathan B. StSVifiKßßi* fo*-' merly of York, Pa., whs one of the taking of Fort Donelsom'’ Ueooqiin'Widea' a company ip the. 2d Regimen t • Io wa, Volup .teerB,.ahd was aiwst A time of hie death. VISIT TO THB BATTLE-FIELD Correspondence of the Chicago Times.] Fort Donilson, Tenn, Feb. 17. I was invited on SdhdaymorniDg, by Qen. McClernand, to take a rido over the battle field. It wonld be difficult to describe in afew worda the scenes which have met my view. The battle-ground was chiefly confined to the space outside the rebel fortifications, ex tending op the river bank a distance of two miles, to the paint where General McCler nand’s forces rallied from . the retirement which they vjere at first forced into by the im. petnuns charge of the enemy. It mast be remembered that it was here that the grand sortie was made by the rebels up the river bank with the intention of turning our right flank and cutting their way ont. Some ten or twelve - thoasand men composed the forces sent ont for this purpose. They advanced under, cover of-a deadly .fire of artillery, and steadily drove Gen. MoClernand’s force, be fore them a- distance" of fifty or sixty rods. Our troops here made a stand, and having been "re.chforcedTiy one or two regiments, [■began the'. assaults before which. the enemy iWere forced to retreat. The ground was con tested with desperation, and the slaughter on both sides was immense. The whole space of two miles was strewed with dead, who lay in every imaginable shape and form.. Federals and' rebels were promiscuously mingled, sometimes grappled in the fierce death-throe, somotimea facing each other as they gave and received the fatal shot or thrust, sometimes lying across one another, and again heaped in piles which lay six or seven deep. I could imagine nothing more terrible than the silent indications of agony that-marked-the features of the pale corpses which fay at-every step. Though dead and rigid fn every muscle, they still writhed and seemed to. turn to catch the passing breese for a cooling breath. Staring eyes, gaping mouths, alenohed hands and Btrangely con tracted limbs, Beemingly drawn into the smallest compass, as if by a mighty effort to rend -asunder some irresistible bond whioh held' them .down to the torture of which they died... /One sat against a tree, and, with month and eyes wide opeD, looked up into the sky as’ l? to catch a’glance at its fleeting spirit. Another clutched the branch of an overhanging tree, and hung half sus pended, as in the death pang he raised him self partly from tho ground. The other hand grasped his faithful musket, aud the compression of the mouth told of the deter mination which would have been fatal to a foo had life ebbed a minute later. A third clung with both hands to a bayonet, which was buried iu the ground, in the act of striking for the heart of a rebel foe. Great numbers day in heaps, just as tho fire of the artillery mowed them down, mangling their forms into an almost undistinguishable maSB. Many of our men had evidently fallen vic tims to the rebel sharpshooters, for they were pierced through the head by rifle bullets, some in tho forehead, some in the eyes, others in the bridge of the nose, in the cheeks and in the mouth. This circumstanoe verified a statement made, to me by a rebel officer among tho prisoners, that their men were trained to shoot low and aim for the face, while ours, as a general thing, fired at random, and Bhot over their heads. The enemv, iu their retreat, carried off their wounded and a great many of their dead, so that ours far outnumbered them on tho field. The scene of action had been mostly in the woods, although there were two open places of an acre or two where the fight had raged furiously, and tho ground was covered with dead. All the way up to their intrenchments the same scene of death was presented. There were two miles of dead strewn thickly, mingled with firearms, artillery, dead horses and the pnrnphernalia of the battle-field. It was a scene never to be forgotten—never to be desoribed. LEGISLATIVE. The proceedings at Harrisburg have been of but little general interest during the past few. days. On the 25th ult., the joint resolution of Mr.. Irish, instructing our Congressmen to vote for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, passed the Senate. The Senato bill, providing for the payment of certain,mil* itary claims also passed. In the House a bill was passed, authorizing the arrest of profes sional thieves in Philadelphia. The bill does not include army and navy contractors. Mr. Bergner, the Postmaster, refused to give the names of the members who received from him postage stamps. lam not so certain but this is right enough. If the Legislature intends to practice economy, reduce the ex penditures of the Legislature, and to this Extent relieve the tax-payers of the Common wealth, the best way is, to do away .with the printing of public documents, the Legislative record and the franking privilege. This would he an effort at economy in the right direction, «nd would save to the taxpayers quite a sum. So far as this question of postage stamps is concerned, it was, probably, well enough to have the subject ventilated. The bill to repeal the law of 1858, regulating ‘the rate of interest, was under discussion on Friday last, until the hour of adjournment. — The passage of this bill would restore the old , law in regard to usury. J The Tonnage Tax Investigating Committee was in session last week. The Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company appeared before it in obedience to the summons, with the exception of the President, Mr. Thompson, who sent a satisfactory excuse for hie absence. The proceedings of the' Committee were of oourse Becret; but we Igarn that those Directors who are on certain Committees were retained for examination, and the balance discharged. The examination of these directors will show whether the Company was cognizant of the use of corrupt or improper means to procure the repeal of the tonnage tax ; and if it should be satisfactorily established that it was not, then the Company in its organized capacity, most be relieved of prejudice. Powers' Hotel. —It is a great satisfaction in visiting a large city to find a hotel conve niently situated and having a certain homelike air about it, and therefore we heartily com mend Powers' Hotel, New York City. Its proprietor, Mr. H. L. Powers, has recently made large additions to Yt, refitted, in fact modernized it, until now it has all the sul>- stantial conveniences of first-class houses without their exorbitant charges. Its tables are laden with the substantials and luxuries of the season in abundance ; its chambers are roomy, with good beds and sufficient toilet appurtenances, while frnmits windows a better viewof Broadway can be obtained than front almost any Hotel situated upon it. The ladies' parlors are spacious and beautifully furnished, so that even a rainy day in New-York can be pledsantfy spent in viewing the panorama of a great city, aB it moves on with sights, scenes and incidents over changing, and hardly equalled upon any stage. With its advantages of situation this Hotel has long been a popular stopping place for merchants visiting New— York, but now, under its present management and with its recent improvements, we antici pate a 4l perfect rush." Among the regular boarders at'this hotel is Commodore Nutt; Barnum's new man in miniature, who is said to be a bard nut to crack, and whose jokes keep the table In a roar. It is a matter of some interest to our readers to know that they can find in New-York City a hotel, situated directly opposite the Aator House, offering to its guests the conveniences and accommodations of a first-class house for the unusually moderate charge of one dollar and fifty cents per day, and we recommend them to try Powers' Hotel. They will find that its proprietor possesses the accomplish ment of knowiog how to keep a hotel. THE PBISOSBBS. i 6000 ot the Fort Donelson prisoners have .arrived at Chicago. 2000 have reached In dianapolis. The Cincinnati Commercial says they are tie hardest looking men ever collect ed together, ununiformed, in rags of all colors* with Carpet lor blankets. The privates assert : that Secession' has gone up, that they are better treated and fed here than they have been for the past- six months. Most of the men are anxious to take the oath of allegiance.. Three of their Surgeons have been partied to attend to their sick, which are beooming.qmto nuinefous." The officers are not uniformed, and do'not loofc much superior to privates.— . -The prisoners are from Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. :■ hloas PENNSYLVANIA TbOOPS ObPEHED TO- Wassinoton.— During the last week,, twelve. 7 0 f the Pennsylvania Reserve Regiments en camped near Harrisburg, Philadelphia and' other points, whose services had not yet been 'accepted by the Federal Government, received orders to march to Washington forthwith.— ■SevenOf the-number—Col. Angertoth’s Heavy Artillery, and.si* Infantry Regiments—left on - Monday and Tuesday, and the remainder w«n. following as fast as means of .transportobqn arefbnrilshed.
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