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THE GREAT BATTLE.
The battle of Pittsbnrg Landing, in Ten
nessee, whioh took place on Sunday and Mon
day of last week, was unquestionably one of
the most bloody and desperate ever fought
npon this oontinent. Fall particulars are
given in our columns, and, although the loss
of life is Dot near so great as at first repre
sented, yet, ander the most favorable aspeot
of the case, it was a terrible and sanguin
ary conflict. The result is another glorious
victory for the Union, and has added fresh
and undying laurels to General Grant, the
hero of Fort Donelson. and the brave and
patriotic army which followed his lead. What
effeot this terrible defeat of the rebels will
have upon them remains to be seen. It must
oertainly disoourage the masses of the people
in the Southern States, and induce them to
out loose from their leaders and return
to their allegiance. As defeat of their
armies follows defeat in rapid succession,
they must be convinced that longer resistance
is useless, and a persistence in rebellion
will only the more certainly involve them
in' irretrievable ruin.
The victory at Pittsburg Landing, we ap
prehend, opens up the way for the oapture of
Memphis. This latter oity once in our pos
session, the navigation of the Mississippi will
be unobstructed to our river fleet, and" New
Orleans must ere long bo also in possession of
our troops.
The history of the world furnishes no par
allel to the gigantic rebellion which has been
progressing for the last twelve months in this
country, and it is doubtful whether any other
Government could have withstood so mighty a
shook as was aimed at the life of the Nation.
Future ages will wonder when they read its
record, and the great battle at Pittsburg
Landing will be a fruitful theme for the his
torian. All honor to the brave and patriotic
men who so nobly sustained the honor and
flag of the Republic on that trying occasion.
ADJOURNMENT.
The State Legislature adjourned sine die
on Friday last. Previous to adjourning, the
Senate elected Hon. Georqe P. Lawrence,
(Rep.) Speaker, in place of Mr. Hall whose
term of office has expired.
The bill to repeal the Act of 1861
commuting the tonnage duties on the Penn
sylvania Railroad, passed the Senate on Wed
nesday evening, with amendments imposing a
tax on the tonnage of all the transportation
companies of the Commonwealth, and refer
ring the question of the constitutionally of
the Commutation Act to the Supreme Court.
The House refused to concur in these amend
ments, which practically defeated the object
of the repeal bill, and so the bill was lost.
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.
The passage of the bill for the abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia passed the
House of Representatives, at Washington, on
Friday last, by a vote of 93 to 39. Only two
members from theslave-holding States, Messrs.
Blair, of Missouri, and Fisher, of Delaware,
voted for it; .and of the 39 votes against it,
22 were from the free States.
“ CRUSHING ’> REPORT.
The New York Herald correspondent says
Messrs. Holt, Davis and Campbell, Com
missioners appointed to investigate the war
olaims against the Government in the Missouri
Department under Fremont, have made a
report in which they Btate that the olaims
presented amount to $8,000,000. They show
that money especially directed to the payment
of some of these olaims, was diverted to the
payment of Fremont’s favorite contractor and
California orony, Baird—that when mechanics
and laborers could not be paid, large sums
were paid to this favorite, and that he oould
always get money when no one else oould
obtain a cent. The correspondent says “ the
report is regarded as a complete crushing out
of the pretensions of Fremont, and a practical
illustration of at least his incapacity to man
age puhlio affairs of great importance." Yet
he has been assigned another Department,
where the same course of incompetency and
corruption will of course be pursued.
HARK IT.
The N. Y. Tribune, in relation to the cor
respondence between Secretary Siwaro and
Gen. Pierce, says: “That Ex-President Pierce
had really entangledhimself in any treasonable
alliance with a seoret association, was probably
never believed by anybody.” Then why this
infamous attempt to make some one believe it ?
Why was this bogus exposition of a bogus con
spiracy furnished for publication, by Govern
ment officials, after Mr. Seward had discover
ed and admitted its true oharaoter ? A more
knavish, scoundrelly proceeding never dis
graced high officials, under any civilized
Government, than this is shown to have been-
A bare perusal of the documents must fill
eveiy honest mind with indignation and con
tempt towards men who have been guilty of
this deliberate attempt, by fraud and false
hood, to rain the fair fame of political oppo
nent*.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
The ridionlons story of Ex-President
Pierce's connection with a secret league of
Secessionists has been folly exploded by the
papers sent in to Congress from the State
Department, which we published last week,
and exploded in a manner, too, which reflects
no credit on the administration of that de
partment daring the past year. It seems that
a Mr. Hopuns wrote an .anonymous letter,
for the purpose of playing a practical joke on
a Detroit paper, and inducing the editors to
believe that they had discovered a secession
plot. He mailed the letter to an unknown
man, and awaited the result. It came in a
way he did not expect, for, after a lapse of
some weeks, he was suddenly arrested as a
traitor. Meantime the anonymous letter was
sent to the State Department at Washington,
and as the initials of President Pierce’s name
were in it, Mr. Seward wrote him (or, rather,
caused his Chief Clerk to write) a very cart
and peremptory letter. Mr. Pierce resented
the cart tone and demand of the State De
partment, and hence the correspondence which
we gave in onr last issue.
Speaking of the correspondence which passed
on the subject between the Secretary and Ex-
President, the Harrisburg Patriot very prop
erly and pointedly remarks;
All this would be a very small affair, were
it not an illustration of the cheapness at which
the reputation of even our most distinguished
citizens is held in this day. An anonymous
letter, written in joke, finds it way to the
State Department, and is ground sufficient for
what cannot but be regarded as a very offen
sive letter to an Ex-Preßident of the United
States. Mr. Seward certainly makes an
ample apology so far as he is personally con
cerned. He states that he designed to give
Mr. Pierce a knowledge of the use of his
name by a traitor. Perhaps he also desired
to give bins the opportunity of placing on
record a denial of the anonymous charges.—
Bat the whole thing should have been passed
by in silence and contempt, instead of being
referred to Mr. Pierce for “ explanation.”
EMANCIPATION—THE COST.
Abolitionists, in Congress and out of it, talk
very flippantly of emancipating all the South
ern slaves, and paying the slaveholders for
them. Let us look at the figures of suoh a
proposition. There are four million of slaves.
The bill now in Congress, which proposes to
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia,
fixes the price to be paid by the General Gov
ernment at three hundred dollars per'head.
At that rate the emancipation of all the
Southern slaves would cost twelve hundred
million dollars , without including the cost of
carrying out the plan, or of disposing of
free negroes after emancipation. This
sum, according to the Constitution, would
have to be apportioned among the States, ac
cording to the population. As th* white
population of the United States, according to
the census of 1860, was about twenty-seven
millions, and the populatfcn of Michigan
three-fourths of a million, the share for the
citizens of Michigan to pay on this specula
tion would be about $33,333,333. Detroit
Free Press.
Pennsylvania's proportion of this “nigger
trade,” would be near three times the sum to
be paid by Michigan, or over ninety-two
millions of dollars, which would exceed forty
dollars for every man, woman and child in the
State ! If, when thus purchased, the slaves
are to he colonized, or sent to some distant
country, they would have to be maintained,
in part at least, by us; and this would involve
an enormous annual expense. But if they
are not to be colonized, they must he dis
tributed over the Northern States, wherever
the people of those States will permit. It is
well known that they would not be tolerated
in the West, and most of them would there
fore be thrown upon the Middle and Eastern
States. But supposing they aTe distributed
over the North in proportion to population,
Pennsylvania's share of the four million ne
groes, would be over three hundred thousand!
Do the people of this State want to pay
ninety-two millions of dollars to free the
slaves of the South, and then take three hun
dred thousand of them home to be supported
mainly as paupers? If so, let them support
Republicanism and they will probably be
gratified in this.
TOO MANY MEN.
It appears from declarations made in the
Senate by Messrs. Fessenden and Wilson,
that we have from 150,000 to 200,000 more
men in the field than we need, or than was
intended to be raised. In the Globe of the
29th ult., we find Mr. Fessenden reported
thus:
“ My honorable friend from Massachusetts
(Mr. Wilson) says there are so many brigades
in tbe array. We all know there are a. great
many mork than Congress ever intended there
should be ; that we intended from the begin
ning and we so legislated, that the number of
volunteers to be raised should be limited to
five hundred thousand ; but although Congress
in its language expressed the idea, and it was
stated bo over and over again, it accidentally
gave a power which extended to a million, or
was so construed as to extend to a million,
and under that our army haß b.een swollen up
to over seven hundred thousand men.”
Upon this Mr. Wilson (Chairman of the
Military Committee,) said in substance that he
had agreed to a proposition made by the Sena
tor from Maine, the other day, to reduce the
number of men to five hundred thousand, and
also to stop recruiting. He added :“ I believe
we have to-day one hundred and fifty thous
and more men under the pay of the Govern
ment than we need or can well use. I have
not a doubt of it, and think it ought to be
checked.”
Such being the admitted fact, the question
naturally arises, why is not something done
to relieve the country from the great expense
thus needlessly imposed ? It appears by the
statement of Mr. Fessenden, that we have
two hundred thousand more men than are
needed or than Congress intended, and by
that of Mr. Wilson, that we have one hun
dred and fifty thousand more—and yet the
latter, whose special province it is to see to
it, “ does nothing.” On a moderate calcula
tion, then, we are spending for the army a
million of dollars a day more than is neces
sary ; all through the gross negligence,
bungling and inefficiency of those who direct
and control the legislation of Congress!
Bank or Commerce at Erie.— The commit
tee appointed by the Senate of Pennsylvania
to investigate the affaire of the exploded Bank
of Commeroe at Erie, in this State, have made
'their report.
The report states, among other things, that
the Bank suspended in November, 1860,
although an assignment was not compelled
until January, 1862. It appears to have been
in active sympathy and co-operation with the
Sunbury and Erie railroad, two of the Direc
tors of which were two of its officers. The
circulation at the time of the failure was
$125,000, a considerable number of the notes
being in the hands of employees of the S. and
E. Railroad, to whom they had been paid.
On the morning of the failure, at an unusual
hour, it was testified that Mr. Wright removed
all tbe valuable assets of the concern to his
own room. These are supposed to have
amounted to $331,611, of which but about
$60,000. have been applied to the payment of
the liabilities of the Bank. The loss falls prin
cipally upon the farming and laboring olasses.
The ooncern was founded upon the remains of
the “Erie City Bank,” the capital stock of
whiob, at the time of the change, was sworn
by the Directors to be valueless. Yet it is in
evidence that {his stock was carried forward
to the new organization, the “ Bank of Com
merof>! and Talaed at about $72,000. Lox
and Wisconsin Improvement etook figures in
the testimony.
The report exhibits a degree of corruption
and yiUainy on the part of the officers of the
BanJj)tti>hioh should consign them to a felon’s
eellS The oondnot of the President, O. B.
Wright, and Gideon J. Ball, Cashier,' is
strongly oensured by the committee.
THE DAT OF SMALL THINGS.
When one reflects on the coarse of radical
abolitionism, its political works and its effects,
it certainly* appears as if we had fallen;on tbe
day of small things. When, since the world
was made, has a nation been wrecked on so
small a rock ? For fifty years wo discussed in
onr national councils and among our people,*
questions of public policy that go to the foun
dation of national existence. We formed par
ties, went into elections, conducted our public
affairs, on principles that are important to all
national strength, which will always be im
portant in the future of the country, if it lasts
a thousand years. On these great principles
of political economy on the application of
them to oar Republican experiment, we dif
fered as citizens, bat we were learning the
troth from day to day, and our country was
prosperous under the most beneficent govern
ment on earth, when the ship of state struck
this rock, thrown in its course by men of
small minds and one idea. Forgetting everv
great principle of unionism, forgetting all the
wisdom which our fathers taught ns in their
discussions, and forgetting above all the con
servative advice of the father of his country,
these men closed their eyes to subjects of real
national importance, and devoted their exer-
to placing and magnifying one obstruc
tion in the path of onr prosperity.
The result has been terrible, and now that
the people are aroused to the necessity of sav
ing the nation, the same one idea is made the
grand obstacle in the way of safety and res
toration to power.
If in the days of the formation of the Con
stitution such lack of wisdom, such'limited
political views, such devotion to one idea had
characterized either the men of all the States
or those of any particular one, we should never
bavg had existence as the United States.—
The principle that they inaugurated was one
of large and liberal political character, by
which our nation might in time be a repnblio
of nations, nor was it impossible that the
whole continent, or the whole world might be
united in a free government, based on mutual
forbearance and mutual support, under those
sagacious and magnificent plans of union.
It is not too late to restore the work of the
Fathers and adopt again their wise advice.—
Let us have done with these small things and
small men. Why should the nation be shaken
because a noted abolitionist, (who avows
himself a disunionist of old, and only a Union
man now becanse he thinks the war will
make it a Union to his liking,) is received on
the floor of the Senate with some show of re
spect by some one, or eats his dinner with a
member of Congress ? It is not a day of small
things ? Wby should the people despair be
cause the Congress of the United States
wastes valuable hours and days and weeks of
the nation’s life, over a bill to abolish slavery
in a few square miles of territory ? It is the
day of small things. Beyond, these days
there are better, and unless we greatly mis
take the indications of the American mind,
we shall before long rise to a conception of
the great questions on which our national
prosperity will depend, and, in the good time
comiDg. a new race of statesmen and a revival
of the old conservative union principles, will
displace the very memory of small politicians
who now convulse the country with their
enormous trifles, and their one-idea political
economy.— N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT.
The following Apportionment Bill has been
passed by both branches of the Legislature
and approved by the Governor :
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of Hie Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met , and
it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
same , That for tbe purpose of electing repre
sentatives of the people of Pennsylvania, to
serve in the House of Representatives in the
Congress ofphe United States, this State shall
be divided into twenty-four districts, as fol
lows ;
I. Second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and
eleventh wards in the city of Philadelphia.
11. First, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth
wards in the city of Philadelphia.
111. Twelfth, thirteenth, sixteenth, eigh
teenth and nineteenth wards in the city of
Philadelphia.
IV. Fourteenth, fifteenth, twentieth, twen
ty-first and twenty fourth wards in the city of
Philadelphia.
V. Twenty-second, twenty-third and
twenty fifth wards in the city of Philadelphia
and the county of Buoks.
VI. Montgomery and Lehigh counties.
Vn. Chester and Delaware counties.
VIII. Berks county.
IX Lancaster county.
X. Schuylkill and Lebanon counties.
XI. Northampton, Carbon, Monroo, Pike
and Wayne counties.
XII. Luzerne and Susquehanna counties.
XIII. Bradford, Wyoming, Sullivan, Col
; umbia and Montour counties. - •
XIV. Northumberland, Union, Snyder,
Juniata and Dauphin counties.
XV. Cumberland, York and Perry coun
ties.
XVI. Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford
and Somerset counties.
XVII. Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon and
Mifflin counties.
XVIII. Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Tioga
and Potter counties.
XIX. Erie, Warren, M’Kean, Forest, Elk,
Cameron, Jefferson and Clearfield counties.
XX. Crawford, Venango, Mercer and
Clarion counties.
XXI. Indiana, Westmoreland and Fayette
counties.
XXII. Allegheny county south of the
Ohio and Allegheny rivers, including Nevil
island.
XXIII Allegheny county north of the
Ohio and Allegheny rivers and Butler aDd
Armstrong counties.
XXIV. Lawrence, Beaver, Washington
and Greene counties.
A PREDICTION VERIFIED.
The New York World (Republican) a short
time since put on record the following predic
tion. It said :
“ As soon as the war draws visibly to a
dose, the Democratic party will, in any event,
spring up again in full vigor. Heavy taxa
tion, the corrupt squandering of the public
money brought to light by Congressional Com
mittees of Investigation, and the questionable
stretches of power to which the Executive
authority has resorted, will be charged home
upon the party, which was alone responsible
for the administration of the government.”
The prediction is being verified. At the
recent town and city elections in New York,
and other States, Democratic triumphs are
recorded throughout. The gains are sufficient
to show a complete revolution in public senti
ment, and in the language of the World pre
sents evidence that the Democratic party has
sprung up again in full vigor. The New
York Argus, in commenting upon the results,
remarks ;
“ If anybody has been led to believe the
absurd stories set afloat by the Republican
press, about the disbanding and prostration
of the Demoeratic party, the late vigorous
movement at the town and city elections must
have dissipated the delusion. Never, within
our experience of political life, has the true
spirit of Democracy been more fully aroused,
or tbe purposes of conservative men more ap
parent, than at the present hour.
“ The fearful peril in which the secession
ists and abolitionists have involved our insti
tutions, has aroused the patriotism of the
masses, and from all parts of the oountry
comes up the cry for a restoration of the pure
and sound Constitutional doctrines of the
Democracy—for a return to the good old dayß
when the Government was administered upon
a Constitutional basis.
“ The bold, bad attempt of the Republicans
to identify Democracy with secession, has
signally failed, and the ultra Republicans
stand convicted as the only disunion partv in
the North."
Cost of Generals.— Mr. Grimes stated in
the Senate on Friday week, that the present
number of Brigadier Generals in the army of
the United States was one hundred and
eighty, and twenty Major Generalß, and that
the pay of the Brigadiers was a trifle short of
$4,000 per year, with an overage of $3OO for
commutation of quarters, <to. $96 for fuel,
and something further for lights, stationery,
or about $1,000,000 per annum, as the total
expense for Generals, and that there were
Generalß enough for an army of 730,000 men.
He asserted that the Federal army was the
largest, best olothed, and best fed in the
world.
VftOH HARRISBURG.
Report* o t Investigating Committees—
Tne Tonnage Tax—Evidence at Brlb*
- ery and Corruption-Money Abundant*
l y Distributed.
Harrisburg, April 8,1862.
The oommittee to Investigate the means respited
to to procure the passage of theact for the commute-.
tion of the tonnage tax upon the Pennsylvania
Railroad, made their report to the Legislature this
afternoon. The committee in their investigations
have confined themselves to the means employed to
secure the passage of the aet, and havo ciassed the
testimony taken under three heads, as follows: —
Tampering with the press; the distribution of eight
hundred thousand dollars due the' State by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company among other rail
road companies; and the distribution of cash by
Thomas A. Scott, Vice President of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company.
Mr. Fuller testified to having paid the editor of
the Allentown Democrat two thousand dollars to
sustain Senator Shikdel and to publish the Tonnage
Tax hill. -This money, Mr. Fuller states, was his
own, but the Committee declare that this is improb
able. The editor of the Brownsville Clipper visited
the room of Mr. Scott, at Coverly’s Hotel, and
Mr. Scott handed to him three or four hundred dol
lars to support the bill. The editor testifies to that
fact himself. The Committee believe that money to
the amount of thousands of dollars was thus ex
pended.
It was in evidence that the section of the commu
tation bill requiring the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company to assist other railroad companies in the
State, was inserted for the purpose of inducing the
members from the’ counties through whioh' these
roads passed to vote for the passage of the bill. Mr.
Burrs, a member of the Legislature from Allegheny
county, was induced to favor the commutation bill
by the promise of Mr. Scott that the Pittsburg and
Steubenville Railroad should be completed, and Mr.
Scott entered into a written agreement to take four
hundred thousand dollars worth of the bonds of the
Northwestern Railroad Company at par, when their
value was only estimated at twenty-five oents on the
dollar. The Senators and Representatives residing
on the line of the Northwestern Railroad conse
quently voted for the bill. By suoh means as these,
eight hundred thousand dollars, which should have
gone into the State Treasury, was divided among
certain railroads.
' The Committee next considered the direct applica
tion of money as a means of bribery. The individual
pointed out as being the chief agent in the distribu
tion of the funds was Mr. Thomas A. Scott. In
March. Jast the Committee addressed a note to Mr.
Stanton, Secretary of War, desiring to know at
what time Mr. Scott could visit Harrisburg, without
interfering with bis duties to the Government. Mr.
Stanton replied on the Bth of Maroh;' that Mr.
Scott was then at Cairo, and would be relieved on
the 10th. A subpoena was then loft at tbe house of
Mr. Scott, but he did not come before the Commit
tee, and while they were temporarily absent at
Pittsburg he passed through Harrisburg without
stopping. On the 25th of March, the Committee
again telegraphed to Secretary Stanton to ascertain
where Mr. Scott could be fonnd. The reply was
that Scott would be relieved from duty at Fortress
Monroe in four days. The Sergeant* at-Arms was
accordingly despatched to Washington to subpoena
Mr. Scott, but was unable to find him, and the
Committee believe that he purposely kept out ot the
way.
Mr. Kennedy Marshall, a member of the House
from Allegheny county last year, testified that at
the olose of the session he visited the room of Mr.
Scott, at Coverly’s Hotel, and was handed a
package containing five hundred dollars. Mr. Scott
remarked to Mr. Marshall that the package had
been left for him and that he did not know what it
contained. There were other paokages lying about
the room at the time. Mr. Marshall further testi
fied that he had always been in favor of the repeal
of the Tonnage Tax, and had voted for the Commu
tation bill without any expectation of a reward. Mr.
Marshall also testified that he had visited the room
of Speaker ©avis and saw five or seven thousand
dollars lying upon the bed. Mr. Davis said that
he had received the money from Scott, but subse
quently denied that faot. Davis aooompanied Mr.
Marshall up the Allegheny river, and gave him a
portion of the money to carry, remarking that he
wos afraid to oarry bo much himself. The Commit
tee has endeavored to procure the attendance of Mr.
Davis, but has not succeeded up to the present
time.
Thomas Osterhout was a member of the Legis
lature from Wyoming oounty last year, and parties
testified to having heard him say that he had made
a good thing out of the tonnage tax bill, and that he
had paid all his debts amounting to one or two
thousand dollars. Osterhout was subpoonaed, but
having been warned by a man named George H.
Bard well, was thus enabled to elude the Sergeant
at-Arms. This Bardwell is also believed to have
been instrumental in inducing an important witness,
named Gearhart, to leave Harrisburg in the night
time.
John Edgar Thomson, President of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company, was summoned to appear
before the Committee, but replied that bad health
would not permit him to attend. A sub-committee
was appointed and proceeded to Philadelphia, to ob
tain the testimony of Mr. Thomson ; but he refused
to recoive them, and a certificate from J. Pancoast,
M. D., stating that, Mr. Thomson could not be seen,
was shown to the Committee.
Seven Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company were examined, but testified that they
knew nothing about any bribery.
Mr. Thomas T. Firth, the Treasurer of the Com
pany, also failed to appear before the Committee,
excusing himself on account of ill health. He sub
sequently expressed a willingness to appear, but was
not examined.
In summing up their report the committee express
a positive oonviotion, from the evidence before them,
that unlawful means were used to procure the pas
sage of the Commutation bill by Mr. SCott, who
has since successfully eluded the summons of the
oommittee.
The above report was presented in the House of
Representatives this afternoon.
Mr. Williams then made a speech. He deolared
that Mr. Thomson had been seen upon Chesnut
street, looking as well as ever, two days after the
date of the certificate of the physioian, which was
shown to the Committee. Mr. W. then moved that
ten thousand copies of the report be printed. No
decisive aotion was taken upon this proposition
however.
THE BANK BILL INVESTIGATION.
The Committee to investigate the means used to
secure the passage of the bank bill of last year made
a brief report. The Committee state that the evi
dence elicited failed to show any fraud or bribery.
REPORT ON SHODDY—A FRAUDULENT CON-
The Committee to investigate the alleged frauds
in the olothing famished to the volunteers also made
a report. They state that no fraud was shown in
the expenditure of the loan of three million dollars,
but the disbursement of tbe loan of half a million
dollars was not so carefully guarded. The Commit
tee charge that Charles M. Neal made a fraudu
lent contract with Frowenpeld, afid say that Fbow
enpeld should be compelled to refund the sum of
three dollars and fifty cents upon every suit of clo
thing furnished. The remainder of the report de
velopes no new cases of fraud.
TRUTH WELL TOLD.
On the subject of “The Curse of Canaan,”
one of our sensation preachers has recently
delivered a Beries of sermons and had them
printed in pamphlet form. The publication
has been reviewed at length, by several able
writers, in the columns of the Easton Express,
and pretty effectually “ used up.” In Mon
day's edition we find a communication in
reference to this same subject, from which we
clip the following paragraph :
” Are the peace of Zion promoted, and her
borders enlarged by the manner of teaching
and writing practised by our modern divines?
Has it not divided the church in this country ;
the Tract Society ; the Bible Society ; the Mis
sionary Society ? Oye professed ministers of
the gospel, a fearful responsibility rests upon
you, for the present distracted situation of our
beloved Zion. The Pulpit has done more to
facilitate and accomplish the present trouble
in American affairs, than any and all other
causes combined. We albknow its power, and
had it been used for peace instead of war, no
such war had come upon us. We speak for
the entire country. The insane ranting and
fanatioal ravings of Garrison and Phillips and
their school, never effected anything serious,
till it brought the clergy of our land under its
influence; since then it has swept the land
with the besom of destruction and has culmi
nated in a triumph of infidelity alike over
Church and State. They were made converts
by denunciation. Slaves to fear, they fall
down and worship t*he same hideous Demon,
that those haters of God, those repudiators of
the Bible, those denouncers of our Constitution
have set up, and as their new object of worship
must have a religious faith to support it, they,
like Mahomet, pervert and torture the Bible,
to sustain their new Religion. Are not these
things so? Do not these impious Atheists
demand a new Bible, an Anti-Slavery Bible and
a new God, an Anti Slavery God ? A few
statements will prove the truth or falsity of our
charge against the Pulpit. A large number
of so-called Gospel ministers have been praying
and preaching inceßsan tly for a few years past,
on the sabject of slavery. Not a prayer of
fered that did not embrace it. It has been
drummed continually in our ears, by Dominies,
(and political demagogues,) till our tympan
ums reverberate, and re-eoho Slavery, Slavery,
Slavery, till nought else can find a hearing,
and we are brought to pity, then endure and
then embrace, that which at first was so repul
sive as to give ub great offence ? Are not these
things so ?
Every word and line true. If we had had
a Noah in our day and generation, he could
have inflicted no greater curse on the Ameri
can Republic, than to have sent us the horde of
fanatical, abolition preachers who now infest
the land. They are as great a pest as the
locusts and frogs ever were to Egypt. They
have done more to bring our Nation into its
present distracted condition than any other
class of men ; and what is worse, they have
done more injury to the Christian church than
they can repair in the balance of their lives.
If tbe whole tribe had been seized ten years
ago, and with the miserable “ fire-eaters” of
the South, been exported to some distant
foreign clime, we would not now be engaged
in a civil war.—- Easton Argus.
CONNECTICUT ELECTION.
The eleotion in Connecticut took place on
Monday week, and resulted in the complete
triumph of the Republicans, by a larger ma
jority than last year.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Funkral of Another Soldier.—The fan
ere! of Corporal Edwaex EL Hucauoar, of Oompiny I
Laococter County Regiment, took place from the late reel*
dene® of his grandmother, in South Qieen street, below
Gorman, oa Son day afternoon at 3 o’clock. The funeral
•ervica* were conducted by Rey.F. W. Ookxu>, of Trinity
Lutheran Church. The military escort consisted of the
Artillery Cadeta.'Capt. Young, who fired the usual salute
ait the .grave. The remains were latarrefi.at Woodward
Dill, and the funeral was attended by an Immense con
course of people.
. Locomotives on the Pennsylvania Bail
xoad — Coer of Ft cl, Aa —The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany now owns 229 locomotlveo, of which 151 are In first
class condition, and 43 are in running order. Of the whole
nnrnber 24 new engines were added daring 1861. The to
tal pasaenger engine mileage daring the past'year was
1418,137 miles; of freight, 3,149,694; and distributing en
gines 146405—making the grand total 4,413,016 miles, or
779,591 miles more than was run in 1860. The average
coat per mile ran for repairs of engines, and the cost of
sew engines added daring the year, was $7.81. A raving
of 76 cents per 100 miles in fuel over tbs cost of 1860 has
been effected, by adapting more of the engines to the use
of coaL In 1858 the coet of fnel per run of 100 miles was
sB*l9, and in 1861 only $6.41. The Company now owns
3,192 eight-wheeled cars, and 578 four-wheeled cars.
The Lutheran General Stnod.—This
large and influential religious body, the meeting of whioh
was postponed last year ou account of our national diffi
culties, will convene in Trinity Lutheran Church, this
city, on the first day of May next. It* is expected that
there will be a large attendance of delegates, and business
of much importance will be transacted.
A Ball bv the Colored Bon Ton.
“ Some were black, and some were blacker.
And some were the color of a chaw terhacker.”
For weeks past the bon ton among onr colored popula
tion hare been on the qui vive in reference to a grand ball,
which was to be given last night at the “Conestoga House,”
Reigart’s Landing, 8. East Ward. The arrangements have
been on the moot extensive scale, and invitations were ex
tended to many of the distingue of the colored population
In several of the principal elttes. Per consequence, we are
informed that a large number of “rostorrats” (ride Madam
Delilah Boeton’s Dictionary) from New York/Pniladelphia
and Washington would be present. The master of cere
monies was to be Colonel (!) Chester. Who or where this
gallant gentleman hails from we are unable to say. It is
sufficient to note, that he was doublets thoroughly compe
tent for his laborious task,
“ And when the music arose with Its voluptuous swell.
And soft eyes spake love to eyes which spake again,”
and the heels of the sterner sex made “double-quick time,”
while th 9 fragrant odors of the fairer sex, who glided fairy
like through the masy dance, permeated all quarters of the
saloon, Colonel (!) Chester then shone forth in his effulgent
glory,
“ And all went merry as a marriage belL”
Medical.— Dr. A. J. Carpenter has been
elected one of the Physicians to the County Hospital, vice
Dr. Compton, resigned.
Prison Clerk.—Mr. Jacob L. Hotfheieb
has been re elected Clerk of the County Prison for the en
suing year.
Deep Snow. —By far the deepest snow of
the season fell on Tuesday and Wednesday last, the Bth
and 9th last. The sqpw on Thursday morning lay about
fifteen inches deep ou*a level. Daring the progress of the
storm the snow drifted in many places to snch an extent
as to prevent travel daring Thursday. The railroad cats
were almost literally filled np. and the cars from Philadel
phia and Pittsburg were unable to get through until the
afternoon. Sleighs were in requisition, and a goodly num
ber of onr citizens took advantage of this almost unprece
dented fall of snow to eDjoy the pleasures of a ride.
During the wars of Napoleon, and especially when the
French Army was in Rnssia, the heaviest snow storms oc
curred that were ever known in Europe. The Savons of
France, as well as the astronomers of England, and in fact
of all Enrope, maintained that these snow storms were the
results of heavy cannonading, whioh produced concussion
in the air. Of course there were those who scouted the
idea; but may we not infer that there is something in this
theory, and that the loDg continued discharges of artillery
on the Mississippi have had the effect of disturbing the
elements, amfcbringtng ns this most unseasonable fall of
snow ? We ao not assert this to be so, but merely call at
tention to this somewhat ancient bnt nevertheless novel
subject.
The Giethean Anniversart.—The Goeth
ean Literary Society of Franklin and Marshall College give
their annual exhibition at Fulton Hall this evening.
Fatal Accident. —A man named Abrabam
Lind was killed at the Wabauk Baw Mill, on Saturday last,
by being caught in the machinery. He was an employee
in the establishment.
For The lutelUgencer.
As an unqualified supporter aDd an uncompromising
friend of the late Hoo. Stephen A. Douglas, aDd as one al
ways closely allied to the great principles of that States
man, we have often wondered whether the great masses
of the Douglas Democracy have watched, through alt its
fitfol changes, the course latterly adopted by one who in
’56 was the petted idol of the Democracy in this Btate, and
who In ’6O professed to be the oracle and spokesman of the
Douglas wing of the party. That man is John W. Forney,
who Seems to have arrogated to himself in these times of
alike National patriotism and degeneracy a sort of political
censorship, before which political organizations be they
what they will must quail, and before whose deductions
the powers of tho President and Congress'dwindle into
nothingness, and the provisions of the National Constitu
tion rink into insignificance.
Assuming to be a Democrat . yet acting with and endorsing
the most radical in policy. With a vain and false profusion
of l ‘true faith," he preserves no land mark or vestige of our
once glorious and etemnl Democratic principles ; but with a
policy distorted and amalgamated, without scope or limit ,
and amenable to nothing, a motley compound of radicalism
and conservatism, he has stilt the brazen cheeked mendacity ,
after having sacrificed alike principle and organization for
a “in«s of pottage the consideration of office, to appeal to
the Democratic masses, and in the name of a Democrat.
Loudest in bis praise of the illustrious Donglas and the
advocacy of his principles, ho is the first to accept office
from and eudoree the principles of a party for which Doug
las never had any affinity, and to which, as shown by the
record, he was unalterably opposed. Any careful reader of
the Press caunot fail to tee that all this cooafaut effort to
keep alive the old feud and resuscitate dead issues, that
the persistent method of malignity and persecution, with
which the immaculate editor of that sheet sees fit to follow
and stigmatize, to say the least, many loyal men in the
Democratic party, does not arise from any measure of ex
alted patriotism,—but from the selfish motives and con
temptuous desire for self-aggrandizement. Day after day,
column after column In the Press is devoted to ao expose
of the supposed machinations of the Democratic party and
its policy in Congress. Cries lond and long for the union
of all the elements in the formation of oDe grand Union
party— upon the consummation of which the political vitality
of John IF. Forney unquestionably depends. Yet it seems
strange to one who is disposed in the absence of all excite
ment, and in the midst of all this apparent show of sincer
ity. that with ail the denouncement and misrepresentation
of Democratic principles and Democrats which the editor’s
vernacular is capable of, not one iota, syllable or word of
censure should be heaped upon other policies and radicalisms,
men and means, by which the best government ever framed
by the bands of man must by its own internecine etrifribo
destroyed and inevitably fall.
A recent editorial in the Press on the passage of the Tax
Bill, and the amendment for the taxing of slates, shows
clearly the spirit in which it was conceived. Lotfjoy and
others voted against the amendment, because “it would be
a fatal recognition of the negro as a chattel." Forney makes
flu imputation of disloyalty here,—bnt then comos the
seventy-five Democrats, who also voted in the negative,
bnt for the reason that such a measure “t could have placed
upon the Southern men some of the burdens of the war." On
the final passage of the Bill he says, “there were hot thir
teen negative votes. Three Republicans voted against it
from local rtasons —tlie remainder being Democrats . who are
only consistent tn supporting such measures as will embar
rass the government ." Among ihssx Forney can find no
possible assumption of “local bxasonb.” More comment
is unnecessary. One thing John W. Forney will yet have
to learn—that when he associates himself with men and
measures foreign to the Democratic party, which has ever
risen to the magnitude of the occasion, and that, too, with
self interest in prospective, he will have to look elsewhere
and find other support than among the honest Democratic
masses, to aid him in getting up a new party or in inaug
urating new policies. Bachelor.
POPULAR HOBS,
In speaking of the recent egging of Wen
dell Phillips and Mr. Sahuel Aabon, the
N. Y. Herald, at the oonolnsion of a long arti
ole, showing the change of sentiment from
Abolition mobs, to mobbing Abolitionists,
says:
Abolitionism has proved itself praotioally
disunionism, and the people are beginning to
fully appreciate this fact. The people see
that the abolitioniste furnished the rebel con
spirators with the only pretext with which
they could entioe the South out of the Union.
The people see that abolitionism is impossible
without disunion ; for the South is worthless
without its slave labor, and without the South
and its old institutions the Union is divided
and obsolete. The negroes are leaving the
South by hundreds, and with them goes all
Southern industry, oapital, produce, commerce
and wealth. The negroes are coming here by
hundreds, and with them oome amalgamation,
increased taxes, orowdedpoor houses, a surplus
of blaok laborers, the substitution of blacks for
whites in many departments of industry, and
consequent distress, misery and starvation
oar poor whites. The people see that,
bad as slavery may be, there is no possible
way of getting rid of it jußt at present with
out the utter ruin of both North and South.
Abolitionism has, therefore, come to mean
simply the abolition of the country, and it is
regarded as far worse than even secession ; for
that left ns at least a North. To neither the
abolition of the oonntry nor to that other ex
treme of disunion will the patriotic people
listen for a single moment They want the
Union as it was. Since the successes of our
armies the abolitionists are the only persons
who stand in the way of this consummation ;
and so the people have declared that the abo
litionists must be silenced. They will mob
abolition orators, as they mobbed peace
orators, and suppress abolition organs, as they
suppressed peace organs, until, as before, the
government takes its cue from the people and
crashes out abolitionism, as it is crashing oat
secession and rebellion.
This is the oanse of the mobs against abo
litionists, and this is the philosophy of these
outbreaks. Let those concerned take notice.
How Paeson Brownlow looxs at thi
Twins, Abolitionism and Secessionist..—
When Parson Brownlow addressed the citi
zens of Cinoinnati, he said, among other
things, “ that he knew not what might be
the sentiments of the audience he was addres
sing ; be did not desire to wheedle the North
because he was in the North, nor did he
favor the South when he wae in the Sontb,
bnt he would say that if one. hundred of the
rank, talented, notorious and corrupt Aboli
tionists of the North, and odo hundred of the
mean, thieving, dirty and corrupt Sppession
ißts, who have been leaders in the Soqtb, had
been taken to Washington months ago, and
Strang up in the pablio square, we would
never have been saddened with our present
troubles.”
VHII,ADBI«PHIA CORRKaPONDBSCK.
.. ■ _ PaTLMiu.au. April oth, 1862.
HBB3W. Edrou: The two great events of to-day, or
rather the two great item* of news of to-day, are the ad
vaoce ofGem MeCDolUja oa Yorktowu, and the capture of
Island No 16~ But where U the use of enlarging upon
them here, when, at the rate we live now—surrounded
every day by big events—they must necessarily become
old and stale before this letter shall avail the digits or
your readers. In the week between now and then Rich
mondnrey be oars, Memphis ours, Corinth oars, Jeff. Da
n* Sepoy* blown from th 9 mouths or cannon, and
wn. McClellan next President of the United States. Who
accident at Jackson’s Cartridge Factory,
week, continues to find new vl>
IrPf - .s°® death of one or two of the wounded every day.
5° r* nu ®? Br ° r the deed is fifteen, while there ore
toi?bl"dSSSS ,r ° QD(IM ’ » nd fro® ‘bis
S nf e *v B !S* mw Bienville, Commander Steed
the Blockading Squadron, has arrived at the
**o bo* l ®! UoaL Badd and
Acting Master Mather, killed in the late ambuscade at
n r « T , h< ’ Khod * •»««« <»■ 8»t
-ord.y for the Golf of Mexico, UUng oat a large amount
ofitoTM. ana a mail lor the earlon, blockading fleet,.—
Several other vessels ore still at the Yard. 6
The ladles of the city are preparing for a splendid fair to
be given for the benefit of our noble charity, the Volnn
tear Refreshment Association. The building used will be
Levy’s celebrated double store on Chesnut street The
interior of this building is of itself of the richest and most
imposing character, and with all the adornments end
decorations to be Introduced for the occasion the effeot will
be something worth while. Bare flowers and plants have
been offered in profusion from the hot-hoases of our citi
zens, and the galleries, skylights, etc., will be gaily fes
tooned with flags, banners and feransparencieit. Of evenings
the whole will be brilliantly illuminated. The Germania
Orchestra of Carl Seats has been engaged, and will dis
course eloquent music, while the galleries will be specially
reserved for the promenaders who desire to “march
around.” Altogether the affair promise* to be something
elegant That it will also be successful in potting money
into the treasury of the deserviog charity it is iatendsd to
benefit, we can hardly doubt
Just as we ore about preparing to give our usual resume
of literary matters for the last few weeks the report comas
that Beauregard has been captured. Johnson kilted, and
the whole rebel army near Corinth debated and dispersed.
This is a piece of good news for which we were hardly pre
pared when we uttered the speculation at the commence
ment of this letter. We only hate one hope now—that it
may all be true.
The foreign Quarterly Reviews, with Blackwood, con
tinue to pay their respects to us on the Rebellion question.
The lost we have seen is a pretty sharp article in the
“London Quarterly” for January, American re-prlut of L.
Scott A Co-, New York. Everybody should read it. The
other papers, on Miss Knight’s Autobiography, Popular
Education, Railways, etc., ore all genial, well informed,
pleasant and instructive.
For March “Blackwood” gives us a fins number. Classic
or Gothic, the Battle of Btyles, is a delightful critical art
paper. Bolwer continues his glowlog and genial chapters
of Caxtonlana. Leaves from the Club Books, Translations
of the Odyssey, and Characteristics of Language, are all
fine literary papers We could tell our readers a seeret
about the authorship of the beautiful story, Salem Chapel,
and perhaps we shall next month. Let them all read this
story.
_ In a neat pamphlet T. B. Peterson A Brothers, here, pub
lish the celebrated “Speeches of Geo. Francis Train on tbe
Rebellion.” These spirited, dashing addresses delivered
to the people of England have had a wonderful offect In
taking the scales off their eyes and setting them right
toward uo. Tbe proceeds of the sale of the book are for
the support of the London American, the only journal
abroad devoted to American interests.
The same publishers issue, at half-a-dollar, a new novel
by the now famous authoress of East Lynne, Mrs. Ellen
Wood. That story was a great success, bnt we are moob
mistaken If “The Earl’s Heirs” does not equal It. It is
written with great power. Is essentially dramatic, with
character finely developed, but Its almost faultless con
struction constitutes its greatest merit. Messrs Petersoo
may harry up as many books by this author as they can
get. Tb» y will all sell. We see that one is already an
nounced, The Channings, to be printed from advance sheets.
The readers of the Atlantic Monthly will remember the
fine “Story of To-Day” but lately completed in its pages.—
Messrs. Ticknor A Fields have now published it in a hand
some volume with the name of the heroine, “Margaret
Howth,” for the title. We need not say that It is a power
fully written story, excepting to those who have not made
Its acquaintance in the periodical. The thread of the story
is similar to that in Life In the Iron Mills. It is a story of
Borrow and want, bat these things do not obtrude in a re
volting manner, as in most stories of tbe kind, and alto
gether the narrative will delight all classes of readers.
The same publishers issue this week a new book by the
pleasant author of the Recreations of a Country Parson,
but lately noticed in these pages and already passed Into
a tenth edition. Beautifully printed and bound, the new
book, which is called “Leisure Hours In Town,” will be
everywhere accepted for its outward adornment, and for
the internal worth which Its exquisite covering indicates.
No book but a good book, in these war times, could be got
up so lavishly. The Rev. Mr. Boyd is a finished essayist,
suggestive of Lamb aod Leigh Hunt, and we do not wonder
that be has an army of readers. Leisure Hours is simply
one of the most genial books ever written.
From tho press of T. 0. H. P. Burnham. Boston, the
pnblic has this week a very pleasant story by Norman Mac
leod, entitled “The Old Lieutenant and Hia Son.” This
Btory is iasned in pamphlet form, bnt it is very handsomely
printed. Tho opening chapter, descriptive of the old lieu
tenant, is gracefully and spiritedly written, and the inters
est is admirably sustained throughout the entire story.
Norman Maeleod Is a very polished and graceful writer,
not of the sensational school, but something much more
substantial.
The same pnbllsher issues, and Lippincott and Potorsoa
have for sale here, “Cadet Life at West Point.” by an Offi
cer of tbe U. S. A.; one elegant volume, 16 mo., eteel front
ispiece, and a sketch of the institution by Benson J. Los
sing. This is a book that is published just at tho right
time. Who has not an interest in West Point now, wbeo
all our successes in the field are won by the graduates of
the institution? The book describes the inner life of tbe
Rcbool. and describes it well—as well as Tom Brown de
scribes life at Ragby—and higher praise than this no one
can ever expect or desire.
We believe we have already said that Bheldon A Co.
New York, have become the publishers of the exquisite,
series of Dickens’ Works with Darley’s and Gilbert’s illus
trations, commenced by W. A. Townsend A Co., and fol
lowed up by Mr. Gregory. They have just published the
snventh novel of the series, “Martin Chnzslewlt,” In four
16 mo. volumes. This spirited story has been the theme
of more bitter criticism than any others from the pen of
the great author; but in reading Dickens’ strictures upon
cs We never forget that he has said jnst as hard things of
his own people as of ns. And what a wonderfnl panorama
of characters and caricatures does this story unfold 1 Mar
tin himself, and Mr. Pecksniff, and Mark Taply, aod Good
Mr. Jooa«. and Mrs. Gamp, and Mrs. Harris, and Tom
Pinch and Todgers, and a host of others, over all of whom
we have a hsarty laugh again hoplDg that the reader may
do likewise. As for the external appearance of these vol
umes it is everything that could be desired. We have al
ready npoken fully od that point. All book lovers should
secure the volumes as they appear. li.
JBS?” Read what the apologist of the traitor
Phillips (Horace Greely) says of his efforts to
destroy the Union :
Wendell Phillips.— A year ago Wendell
Phillips would have been sacrificed to the
Devil of Slavery anywhere on Pennsylvania
Avenue. Today he was introduced by Mr.
Sumner on to the floor of the Senate. The
Vice President left his seat and greeted him
with marked respect. The attentions of Sen
ators to. the apostle of Abolition were of the
most flattering character. Marvellous con
quest of prejudices, and marvellous movement
of Northern ideas.
Listening to Wendell Phillips’s lecture this
evening, in the Smithsonian Institute, were
Senator Powell of Kentucky, and many other
Southern men of note, and the Vice President
of the United States, and Congressmen of both
Houses thickly sat about the orator on the
platform. Daring his lecture he was frequent
ly interrupted by applause, which was at no
time so hearty as when he spoke of Gen.
Fremont, who on the eve of victory, a thou
sand miles from the Capitol, at a word from the
President, Bheatbed bis Bword. Then, said
Mr. Phillips :
; “ America said to Europe, * I breed heroes;
sit down at my feet.’ John Brown, first of
all men, deserved the Mountain Department,
next Fremont. Of the President’s emancipa
tion message he said it was a voice from the
holy of the holiest. It meant just this: Gen
tlemen of the Border States, now ie your time
to sell. The exigency may arise that will
call me to take your slaves if yon refuse to sell
now.
The old negro preacher said that if there
were a text in the Bible bidding him go
through a stone wall, he would jump at it, and
trust to the Lord for getting him through. The
President had gone at Slavery. It was for the
nation to him through. The message was
a very little wedge, but it was a wedge when
in 1823 Emancipation was initiated in the
West Indies by a suggestion that the Colonial
Legislatures should ameliorate the condition
of the slave.
It was a very little wedge, but it was driven
home. The President had not entered Canaan,
bnt he had turned his face towards it, saying,
if I can’t conquer with cannon, I will with
emancipation. The message asserted the fit
ness to govern the 19,000,000 who had shaken
off their Southern masters. There was no
doubt of the constitutional powor to do what
the President threatened. Anything could
be done in time of war to save the States.
In suspending the writ of habeas corpus,
making Treasury Notes a legal tender, block
ading Charleston with snnken stone vessels,
the Constitution of Peaee had been tranßgresa*
ed as it was in the embargo in 1812, in the
purchase of the mouth of the Mississippi and
of Florida, and the theft of Texas.
To-day Abraham Lincoln was the most un
limited despot this side of China. He sits to
day snrronnded by thunderbolts forged by
South Carolina. He has bnt to pnt forth hie
word and hurl one at the system of slavery.—
We mast help the President to make this war
of ideas. The Sooth had marohed np to the
Potomac with neither men, monitions, nor
money—an idea.
We bad men, munitions, money, and Major
Generals, but not an idea. Quaker guns on
one side, a Quaker General on the other—[an
allusion which was received with tumnltnons
applause]—still, Mr. Phillips said fight.—
Every cannon fired by Halleck, or heard by
McClellan (he never fired one) is a better Anti-
Slavery lecturer than a thousand snob as I.
The end is sore.
If Abraham Lincoln does not have the negro
on his side, Jefferson Davis will have him on
bis. Two paths lead to the end, one a true
path; one a false one, whieh shall make the
acute disease chronic.”
Appealing to hie hearers to seize the golden
moment, Mr. Phillips olosed with 'words of
burning eloquence whieh we will not mutilate
by attempting to transcribe from memorv.—
N. f. Tribune.
CINCINNATI ELECTION.
April 8.
_ At the pity election yesterday the TTncondi
ion Union party elected the Judge of the
Supreme Court, city commissioner, director of
the Infirmary, wharf masters, thirteen conn
cilmen. The Democratic Uniop party elected
the polioe clerk, trustee of the water works,
and six eonnoilmen.
mmSfBNTH CONGRESS—FmL SESSION.
' * Monday, April 7,
In tho Senate to-day Mi. Wilson, from the Mill*
tary Committee, reported, a bill authorising the
President to transfer the appropriation made for
fortifications to the building of ixon-oiad gunboats.
The confiscation bill was taken np, and Mr. Tram*
bull spoke at length in favor of its passage. At the
conclusion of Mr. Trumbull's remarks farther con
sideration of the snbjeot was postponed until Tues
day. The idenate then weat into executive session.
An the HoosoMr. White offered a resolution, which
was passed, providing for the sppointment of a com
mittee of nine members to inquire and report
whether any plan eau .be reoouunended for the
extinction of slavery, by gradual emancipation, in
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennes
see, and Missouri by the people or local authorities
of those States; and whetber.iuoh an otyeot is expe
dient and desirable, and if so what provision should
be made therefor. The House proooeded to act de
finitively on the amendments to the tax bill hereto
fore reported from the Committee of the Whole, and
oonoorred in a large number. Farther consideration
of the biU was postponed until Tuesday. Mr.
Conkling, from the JadieUry Committee, reported
a bill establishing a uniform bankrupt law.
Tuesday, April 8.
In the Senate to-day the Confiscation bill was
taken up, and Mr. Heuderson spoke at length against
the expediency of the measure at the present time.
Mr. Hide introduced a bill to amend the bill regula
ting the pay of the navy. Mr. .Wilson introduced
n bul to confirm the act of the President in aooepting
the services of certain engineer volunteer troops.—
The Senate then went into executive session.
m l. oa3o u large nnrnber of amendments to
the Tax bill were oonoorred in, and the bill was then
passed by a vote of 125 against 13. The House went
into Committee of the Whole on the State of the
Union, and renewed consideration of the Paoifio
Kauroad and Telegraph bill. Mr. Colfax, from the
Committee on Pos&ofaces, reported bock the bill es
tablishing oor Lain post routes, whioh was passed.—
Mr. Dunn, from the Committee on Military Affairs,
reported a joint resolution, whioh was passed, extend
ing to officers and men in all the military depart
ments the provisions of the aot securing to the sol
diers in the Western Military Department their pay,
bounty, and pensions. Mr. Morrill introduced a bill,
whioh was referred, to punish and prevent the prac
tice of polygamy.
.. Wednesday, April 9.
In the Senate to-day Mr. Howe presented a memo
rial of the Legislature of Wisconsin for the establish
ment of a national armory and depot in that state.
Mr. Trumbull introduced a bill for the more effectual
enforcement of the laws of the United States, for the
security and keeping of the peace, for good behavior.
The bill relating to fixing salaries of distriot attor
news was passed. The Senate then went into execu
tive session.
In the House the-Senate bill to inorease the effi
ciency of the medical department of the army was
amended by incorporating surgeons from the volun
teer service with the regular staff, and it was then
passed. Mr. Stevens, from the Committee on Ways
and Means, reported a bill making further appropri
ations for oertain oivil expenses of the government.
The House concurred in nearly all the Senate amend
ments to the Postoffice Appropriation bill. The joint
resolution, that Congress ought to co-operate with
and afford aid to any citato adopting gradual emanci
pation was amended by substituting the Senate’s
amendment of the words “ United States ” for
u Congress,” and agreed to by the House. The
House concurred in the Senate’s amendment to the
House bill authorizing branoh postoffioes in cities.—
The Senate bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the ab
olition of slavery in the District of Columbia,- and
$lOO,OOO for colonization, was referred to the Com
mittee of the Whole on the State of the Union. The
Hoose then went into committee on the Paoifio
Railroad bill.
Thursday, April 10.
The Senate adopted a resolution to-day calling
upon the Secretary of War to report what disposition
has been made of the vessels oaptured by General
Burnside at Roanoke. Mr. Wilson gave notioe that
he should introduce a bill to-day to amend the fugi
tive slave law of 1850. The bill to establish a line
of steamships between San Francisco and Shanghai
was taken up, and Mr. Latham spoke in favor of its
passage. The confiscation bill was then considered,
and Mr. Willey offered an amendment appropriating
$500,000 for the colonization of free negroes, made
free by this bill or otherwise. Mr. Hale opposed the
amendment, and Mr. Trumbull also participated in
the debate, but pending the discussion the Senate
went into executive session.
In the Mr. VaUandigham, from the Com
mittee on Publio Lands, reported a substitute for the
Senate joint resolution, which was passed, giving
construction to tbo aot of 1856 granting lands to
Wisconsin for railroad purposes. Mr. Arnold intro
duced a resolution, which was referred to the Com
mittee on Military Affairs, expressing gratitude to
tbe Almighty for our recent triumphs, and giving
tbe thanks of Congress to tbe gallant officers and
soldiers who participated in tho late engagements.
Mr. Stevens, from the Committee on Ways and Means
reported back the Senate’s amendments to the naval
appropriation bill. The House concurred in the
amendment appropriating $13,000,000 for the con
struction of iron-olad vessels of war as a substitute
for the original item. The amendment to ihe appro
priation for the Stevens Battery was passed. The
resolution that, the Senate concurring, Congress will
adjourn sine die on the third Monday in May was
agreed to. The Pacific Railroad bill was postponed
one week. Mr. Wright from the Military Commit
tee, reported a bill, which was recommitted, to facil
itate the transportation of troops, mails, and stores
of the United States between the cities of Washing
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Hew York. In
Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union
the bill regulating the frankiDg -privilege was de
bated without result. The Senate bill for the aboli
tion of slavery in the Distriot of Columbia was then
taken up, and Mr. Thomas spoke on the question of
confiscation.
Friday, April 11.
In the Senate, to-day, Mr. Wilson introduced a
bill amendatory of the fugitive slave aot. Mr. Howa
offered a resolution, which was adopted, that the
Military Committee be instructed *to inquire what
troops have been or are being mustered into the ser
vice of-the United States as Home Guards, and who
refuse to go beyond the limits of their state; Mr.
Henderson offered a resolution, whioh was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary, that a majority
of the senators now in the Senate, and duly eleotea,
shall constitute a quorum. The bill to remove all
disabilities of oolor la carrying the mails was passed
by a vote of twenty-four to eleven. The confiscation
bill was taken up and further debated by Messrs.
Doolittle, Trumbull, and Willey. The Senate then
went into executive session. Adjourned till Monday.
In the House to-day the bill for the relief of Gea.
Grant was passed. Mr. Browne, from the Commit
tee on Elections, reported a resolution, whioh was
ordered to be printed, that Mr. Vandevere, of lowa,
has not been entitled to a seat in the House sinoe ho
was mustered into the military service of the United
States. In Committee of the Whole the bill for the
abolition of slavery in tbe District of Columbia was
taken up, and a lengthy debate ensued. Several
amendments were offered, but rejected. Finally the
Committee rose, and the bill was reported to the
House preoisely as it came from the Senate. It was
then passed by a vote of 93 against 39. Adjourned
till Monday.'
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
Habrisbubo, April 11,1862.
SbnatB.— ’ The Senate met at 11 o’olock, to-day.
The usual oommittees were appointed to notify the
Governor and the House that the Senate was prepared
to adjourn at noon.
. Speaker Hall made a farewell address, in the
tonne of whioh he paid an eloquent tribute to Col.
Murray and other Pennsylvania heroes, who have
fallen daring the war.
An election for Speaker of the Senate was then
gone into with the subjoined result:
George V. Lawrence 23
H. S. Mott - -■ 10
Mr. Lawrence was then sworn in.
On motion, the thanks of the Senate were tendered
to Speaker Hall and other officers :
The Senate then adjourned.
House. —The House, at the session of last evening,
concurred in the Senate's amendments to the Race
and Vine and Fairmonnt Passenger Railway bills
and the bill to amend the license laws.
The bill to appoint commissioners to revise the tax
laws passed finally. It gives each commissioner
$BOO.
The House adjourned at 1 o’olock.
To-day the House met at the tzsnal hour.
Mr. Armstrong, on behalf of the House, presented
Speaker Rowe with a gold headed cane.
The usual oommittees were appointed in reference
to the adjournment.
A resolution passed (having previously passed the
Senate) requesting the Governor not to famish cer
tified oopies of the qct to incorporate the Union Ex
press Company, .which was sent to him by mistake
and also, repealing the same.
Speaker Rowe, after the usual resolution of thanks,
made a farewell address, and the House adjourned.
Terrible Destruction of Life.— The Eco
de Europa of the 15th ult., whioh is now
published io Orizaba, gives the following
particulars of the explosion in the Mexican
quarters, and whioh took place at a place
called San Andres de Chalohicomula:
“On Friday, the 7th inst., there occurred
in the village of San Andres, Chalohicomula,
one of those terrible misfortunes that cannot
be contemplated without a movement of com
passion mingled with terror. About two
thousand men of the Mexican army were
quartered in the Commissariat building, the
whole or the greater part belonging to the
corps raised in the State of Oajaca. There
were inside the building large quantities of
powder and monitions of war, which, instead
of being warehoused, lay in disorder on the
gronnd, within reach of the fires homing in
the court yards and of the oigars of the
smokers. At 8 o'clock the above mentioned
day, from canses that we do not know, but
which mark a very unfortunate negligence, a
spark fell on one of the chests of gunpowder,
and suddenly communioated fire to the rest,
the immense building came to the ground
with a dreadful crash, burying immediately
under its mins all that were inside. We have
been assured that there perished more than a
thousand persons, some five hundred remain
ing wounded or horribly mutilated.
A Mysterious Occurrence.— Mr. “Daniel
Brunnner, Jr., a respectable citizen of Eagle
ville, Montgomery county, after visiting a
young lady in Norristown, on Friday evening
last, started on his return home; but when
the carriage and horse reaohed the first toll
gate above Norristown, he wag discovered to
be missing. Search was at once made, and
next morning his body was found in Stony
creek, within the liifiits of the borough,
bearing upon it the ; marks of having been
foully; dealt with. Mr. Brunner was!in his
35th year.- What subsequent investigation of
the melancholy oiroumstance were .developed,
we are riot informed.