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THE WAR NEWS, Fort Pulaski, near the mouth of the Savan nah River, unconditionally surrendered to oiir troops on the 11th. Seven breeoheß were made in the wall by our batteries of Parrot guns at King’s Landing; the enemy’s guns were dismounted, the magazine pierced by our halls, and over one thousand large shells ex ploded within the Fort. None of the garrison were killed and four wounded. Preparations are making for the siege of Fort Maoon. Our troops are getting heavy gunß into position. The enemy’s communica tion by land and water has been entirely out off and it is expected he will soon surrender. At Yorktown, on Tuesday, a section of ar tillery was posted within half a mile of the rebel' batteries supported by infantry, and fifteen shots were fired into their earthworks before they were able to bring their guns to bear. Our men afterwards withdrew without damage. Heavy guns are mounted on the enemy’s fortifications. General Grant’s official report of the battle of Pittsburg Landing, has at length been given to the publio. It is very brief, and enters into but few details. The substance of what we are told is, that after sustaining “ the most continuous fire of musketry and artillery ever heard on this oontiuent, the entire line fell back nearly half way from their camps to the Landing.” Subsequent to this, however, General Grant claims that by the arrival of Buell’s forces, which did not reach the field of battle until night—the enemy was repulsed. The following day, Monday, at dawn the en gagement was renewed, and the result was “ the gradual repulse of the enemy at all points of the line, from nine o’clock till proba bly five o’clock in the afternoon, when it be came evident that he was retreating. No pursuit was made that night, in consequence of the exhaustion of the men and the im practicable nature of the road but the next morning, Tuesday, General Sherman followed the enemy and found that his main army had retreated in good order. The exact loss in killed and wounded, General Grant says, can not be known for a day or two. He, however, places it approximately at fifteen hundred killed, and thirty-five hundred wounded.- He is entirely silent as to the number of prisoners captured by the Confederates. He states, further, that the loss of artillery was great.— The loss of the enemy in killed and left on the field is stated to be “ greater than their own.” The report of General Sherman is ako ap pended, but it furnishes no additional infor mation. It is stated in the Washington cor respondence of the New York Post that the Committee on the conduct of the War “ are about to inquire into the oauses of the late surprise of our troops at Pittsburg Landing.” A force of 4,000 men, in five transports, and accompanied by two gunboats, on Satur day night proceeded from Pittsburg Landing up the Tennessee Biver, to a point near Last port, and marohing inland, destroyed two bridges on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. A small Confederate force was found there.— Four of their number were killed. Gen. Halleok has assumed command of the army in the field. The rebel force has its headquarters near Corinth. There is a space of only two miles between the armies, and another battle is imminent. MORE FOLLY. The bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia has been signed by the President, and is therefore a law of the land. Amongst other provisions it appropriates ONE MIL LION OF DOLLARS to pay the value of the slaves to their owners, and $lOO,OOO to pay the expenses of such of the released slaves as may wish to emigrate to Hayti, Liberia, or elsewhere. This is another beautiful specimen of Abolition legislation. At a time like this, when the nation is plunged deeply into debt, and the people will soon be made to groan under a heavy load of taxation for the sup port of the war, the mad fanatics who rule at Washington throw away a whole million of money to pay for a few thousand negroes!— What next ? BANK CHARTERS. A bill re chartering the Columbia Bank, for ten years, passed both branches of the Legislature, and is now in the hands of' the Governor awaiting his signature. The bill to re charter the Lancaster County Bank failed to pass, principally for the reason that it had four years of its present charter unexpired. I®* Hon. Theodore Fbelinghuysen died on Saturday week, at his residence in Bruns wick, N. J., aged 75 years. He was Attorney General of New Jersey eleven years, IT. S. Senator six years, Chancellor of the Univer sity of New York eleven years, President of Rutger’s College twelve years, the Whig oandidate for Vice-President in 1844, be sides .several other positions of trust and responsibility. He was an eminently reli gions man, and took an aotive part in the various religions and benevolent enterprises of the age. * WHO ARB THR mitnOAUTI* We see it reported in a New York paper that Cabl Shcbz, one of the great Abolition moguls, who President Lincoln appointed: Minister to Spain some time since, and who ip now'hanging around Washington begging fer-a Brigadier General's commission, in a recent speech used the following startling language: \ i* The Union is gone.-; You. cannot restore it never. The cirole of-ideas in which the political transactions of the old Union moved, is forever broken; it cannot be restored.— The inotual confidence on which the political transactions of the old Union rested baa been discovered to be illusory; it is irretrievably gone.” The nnmber of Abolitionists who make thiß avowal are increased almost every day. Al though among the foremost to profess zeal for the Union when hostilities were threatened, they are now the first to proclaim that all is lost. The motive is transparent. When con vinced that the war cannot be an anti-slavery war, they confess to being like the woman whose husband encountered a bear—they “ don’t care which gets whipped.” Again, on a recent occasion, in Congress, John Bingham, an Abolition member from Ohio, in a debate on the Tax Bill, made use of the following treasonable language: “Who in the name of heaven wants the cot ton States or any other State this side of per dition to remain in the Union, if slavery is to continue.” What do you think of such language, reader 1 Suppose it had been uttered by a Demooratio member —why every Abolition sheet in the country would have set up a howl, and his expulsion would have been demanded by them for uttering sentiments that “ would embarrass the government in the successful prosecution of the war,” and, we think, with some show of reason. But thiß man is an Abolitionist, and, of course, what he says is all right. Talk of Vallandigham—why he never uttered a speech, nor do we believe en tertained a thought half so vilely treasonable as this. We are in favor of free speech, but we think that if the administration desires to act consistently in a matter of this kind, there is but one place fit for Bingham —his connec tion with a certain party ought not to shield him from the same kind of punishment meted out to other for alleged similar offences.— These rabid gentlemen are rapidly ranging themselves on the side of dissolution, and are retarding the settlement of our present diffi culties as much as the southern armed rebels. WHO SHOULD FAT, The N. Y. Tribune says: “ Those who are so much disturbed at the prospeot of heavy taxation, ought, to be con sistent, to go in for making the rebels pay the cost of the war, which they have causelessly and inexcusably forced upon the country.” We go in most heartily for the proposition of making those who have caused the war, pay the cost. Under that rule, truly says the Detroit Free Press, the N. Y. Tribune would have to pay not less than one hundred millions of dollars. That is the smallest possible com putation whioh any candid, intelligent and fair-minded man, under the above rule, could apportion as its share. Indeed it may be safely stated that if Horace Greeley had never had an existence, or, living, had never edited or published a newspaper, this rebellion would not have occurred, and the country would now be at peace, and a hundred thousand liveß and a thousand millions of dollars would have been Bpared to the country. We do not by this assert that Greeley and his vindictive savage assaults upon the South and slavery have been the sole cause of the war, but we do assert, and it is as plain as that two and two make four, that without the aid of the savage assaults of Northern anti slavery presses and politicians upon the South, Southern people and Southern institutions, Southern conspirators could never have crowd ed the people of the Southern States into re , bellion. We know abolition papers squirm under this view, but it is solemn truth never theless, and history will so record it. DEMOCRATIC PAPERS In the proceedings of Congress, on Monday I last, we observe that “Mr. Carlile of Va., presented petitions in favor of allowing Dem ocratic papers the same privileges of the mails as is enjoyed by the Republican pa pers.” A petition of this kind sounds a little strange in a Republican Government like our own, where all are supposed to en joy equal rights and common privileges, but it' is, nevertheless, a fact that Democratic papers have been excluded from the mails for no other reason than that the editors and conductors of thoso Journals have dared to exercise a freeman’s right in criticising the acts of the administration. For this aot alone, the administration of President Lincoln has denied them the right of sending their papers to actual subscribers by mail. This arbitrary exercise of power has not been resorted to before by any administration since the adop tion of the Federal Constitution, Bave the administration of the elder Adams. The Constitution guarantees the freedom of the press, and yet with this clause of the Con stitution staring them full in the face, the Republican party has abridged the freedom of the press by denying to the conductors of public journals the necessary mail facilities. We are glad that Mr. Carlile has called the attention of Congress and the country to the fact that the present administration haß de prived the Democratic papers of privileges whioh the Republican papers enjoy. If the conductors of Democratic papers have pub lished articles of a treasonable character, the Government has its remedy in the law. Out side of that the administration has no moral or legal right to go. Ours is a Government ■ of laws, or should be. ARREST OF SIMON CAMERON. Hon. Simon Cameron, late Secretary of War, was arrested in Philadelphia on Tuesday last, by Deputy Sheriff Helmbold, on a writ issued by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. On the 19th of August, 1861, Cameron, who was then Secretary of War, caused Pierce Butler, Esq., a well-known citizen of Philadelphia, to be arrested and conveyed to Fort Lafayette, where he was detained for five weeks and then discharged, without any reason being given therefor, or for his arrest, and this suit is now brought to test the constitutionality of his imprisonment.— Butler was suspected of being in correspondence with the rebel States, and he was arrested by the order of Cameron without prooess of law, and without any assigned cause, his trunks, drawers, wardrobe and entire apartments searched, and private papers taken possession of by U. S. Millward and four assistants. NEW YORK FREEMAN’S JOURNAL. This able organ of the Catholic faith, whioh was forbidden the use of the mails some months ago, and its editor, Jambs A. McMaster, Esq., imprisoned in Fort Lafayette, has been restored its privileges, and again made its appearanee. Mr. MoM. is an able writer and high-toned journalist, and why he was deprived of his liberty and the means of subsist ence, he nor nobody else oan tell. In the number before üb, for which we are indebted to the kindness of an esteemed friend, the editor says of his past “We stand by the record we have made. Wo have not a retraction to make, nor an explanation— not of a single sentenoe or word. It is written, and will remain. Outside of what we have published in our own paper, there is not a word written, nor an act done or attempted, that by the most vicious can be tortured into a charge against ns.” A Hero’s Death.— At the battle of Win chester, among the acts of chivalry performed on the field was one by private Graham, 84th Pennsylvania. He carried the regimental standard. The left hand, whioh held it, was shot off; but before the Star Spangled Banner fell to the ground, he grasped it with the re maining hand and held it triumphantly. The right arm Was next disabled; but before the colors fell, he was killed by a third ball. He was a native of the Emerald Isle. KHOW-HOTHISBISH RBVIVBD, We publish below an expose from the Har risburg Patriot, of a new secret political ord» after -the manner of . the infamous Know- Nothing organization of 1854, ‘ It zooms to have bad its origin in Luzerne county, and the Wilksbarre Union says: “It will bo recol lected that wo warned the people- several weeks ago that' something .of this kind was going on; though we could‘-hot exactly telh what it was; and we were further satisfied,' when Professor McCoy [the same itinerant lecturer who held forth in this city several weeks ago] was commissioned by Governor Curtin and the prominent Republicans of the Legislature, to visit every county-seat: and deliver his lecture on the Onion, that there was something behind it all that was out of sight—that somebody was paying Professor McCoy’s expenses and paying for his breath, connected with political purposes in some way, and we have no doubt that it was connected with just this business of Carpenter-forming ‘ Loyal Leagues.’ ” The Patriot says that a branch of this secret political organization has been established in Dauphin county, with George Bergner, Post master at Harrisburg, for its Secretary, and warns the people against this new phase of Republicanism which is beginning to manifest itself. And we have no doubt that the leading Republicans of Lancaster county, who are prepared for anything to save them from their impending doom, will also embraoe thiß project with open arms, and we may therefore shortly expect Know-Nothingism revived among us, in all its hideous aspects, but under the new name of a “ Loyal Union League." We, therefore, thus early caution the people of Lancaster county against this new device of the Abolitionists. These men “ ohoose dark, ness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.” We give the subjoined extracts from its constitution, together with the following docu ment, which folly explains itself: We, the undersigned, Committee of Luzerne Loyal Union League, hereby authorize our President Hosra Carpenter, to organize a County Council of the League in every county in the State of Pennsylvania, and when he shall have so organized two thirds of the counties of the Commonwealth, he is em powered to oall a meeting of the Presidents of each County Council, to meet at Harrisburg, for the purpose of forming a State Council, by giving them ten days notice of such meeting. A receipt signed by Hosea Carpenter for $5, for organizing a County Connoil, will be deemed a sufficient voucher to admit the President to the firßt State meeting. D. N. Lathrop, Carbondale, Pa. S. P. Lonostreet, Wilkes-Barre. E. C. Wadhams, Plymouth. D. G. Driesbaoh, Beach Haven. J. T. Fellows, Hyde Park. D. H. Jat, Soranton. C. J. Baldwin, Wilkes-Barre. S. A. Northrop, Parks Green. Theodore Strong, Pittston. Scranton, March 4, 1862. On my arrival at Harrisburg, I immediate ly oalled on Hon. W. W. Ketoham, Senator from Luzerne. On telling him my business ho said he would introduce me to a gentle man in the House of Representatives who would understand the business of framing the Constitution, and was entirely reliable in every respeot. He then introduced me to E. W. Capron, Assistant Clerk of the House (and editor of the Chester county Times , of West Chester, Pa.) Mr. Capron immediately entered upon the work, and wrote out the articles of Constitution and prepared them for the printer. Mr. Capron is now President of the Legis lative Loyal Union Organization, and H. V. Hall, Esq., is Corresponding Secretary. Any information that may be required by Loyal men in any part of the State concerning the organization of the Legislative Counoil may be obtained by addressing the above named President or Seorotary at Harrisburg during the session of the Legislature. Any informa- I tion relative to Dauphin county ehonld be ad dressed to David Mumma, President, or to Geo. Bergner, Corresponding Secretary at * Harrisburg. Any communication for me Bhould be ad . dressed to Harrisburg, care of George Berg ner, Esq., Postmaster, and editor of the 1 Harrisburg Telegraph. CONSTITUTION TBE LOYAL UNION , OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTED 1802. Article VI. It is the duty of the seven committee to have a separate meeting as a committee, to nominate a ticket to be sup ported at the borough and township elections, and not to reveal the ticket until the morning of the election; the committee shall designate one from among their number to represent their borough, ward or township in County Convention for the nomination of a county ticket to be supported at the general election. Artiole VIII. It shall be the duty pf every member to support the ticket nominated by the Committee or their representatives; no President, Secretary, or Committee, is to be nominated in the Order. Artiole IX. Every subordinate Council shall make returns to the County Council on the first Saturday in each month, stating the number of brothers and the amount of contribution by each brother, with the name of the contributor. On the first Saturday of August of each year a full list shall be pre pared by the County Council of all brothers who have contributed during the year, their names, and the amount contributed, and the list thus prepared shall be sent to each sub ordinate Council in the county. Article X. On the first Monday in August in each year a list of brothers who are candi dates for the county offices, shall be sent to the Corresponding Secretary of the county, to be certified by the President countersigned by the Secretary, stating that they were true and loyal brothers in good standing, and that they are worthy to hold the office which they desire to fill; and the Corresponding Secretary shall send a copy of said names and certificates to the subordinate Counoil in the county. Article XYIL In approaching a person who is known to be of the. right stamp, the brother will first show him the declaration card and ask him how that suits him. If he replies that he endorses the sentiments, then present him the second card. If he iB willing to pledge himself to that, ask him if he will keep confidentially and sacredly the secret of any names to the pledge or roll you may pre sent to him for his signature, if he should not be willing to sign it. If he replies in the affirmative, the declaration may be presented for his signature ; but be must not bo informed where Abe lives and travels, before his name is signed to the declaration roll. Article XVIII. No brother shall reveal the name of any member of the Counoil, nor its place of meeting; nor shall he reveal the fset, that any such organization exists in any township, unless to a known brother ; and no brother shall be allowed to communicate the pass word, unless it be the President of a Council, or. in his absence, the Vice Presi dent ; and if any brother shall reveal any private matters whatever, concerning the ex istence, working or doings of any Council, his name shall forthwith be stricken from the roll of members, and notice of his treachery sent throughout all the Councils of the Order. A Whig Opinion. —The Boston Courier, the old Whig organ of Massachusetts, after remarking upon the expulsion of Mr. Bright from the U. S. Senate, which it approves, goes on to say: ‘But Mr. Bright should not suffer alone: there are greater offenders against the Union than the Indiana Senator. The sooundrels who are swindling the Government, from Sec retary Welles’ brother-in-law to the sutlers who rob the soldiers, are as guilty, aye more guilty ; and while be has rightly enough been shut out of the Senate, thousands of these speculating scamps should be shut up in the penitentiaries. We believe with Senator Hale, that if the Union eause is lost, it will be thro’ the knavery of employees of the Government, and not from the strength of the rebels. We shall obroniole with the greatest pleasure the first punishment of some one of the leeohes who have been deteoted in suoking the life blood of the Government. As yet, however, they have all escaped." iaa »TUta or a yxa&. Hne year ago this day the news was pub tobed that Fort Sumter had fallen under the ueanlts of rebel batteries. A most eventful year 1 in which have been compressed the most startling and exciting events. » r-. We desire to direct tto'*«edtiofi: b£ our tenders briefly to some facts on< record to remove many false impressions. Oir .the Bth of January 1861, two month* before the inauguration of President LiHO)LN» Mr. Bu -4JIM3CAN' sent a special tnestoge earnestly directing its attention to. tbe prepa rations-necessary to meet tbe coming Btorm.— He reiterated tbe conviction, deepened and confirmed by reflection, that no State bad the right to secede from tbe Union; expressed his determination to -* 1 collect the -pnblie rev—- “ enoe.and protect the public property as far “ as this might be practicable under existing laws,” and called upon Congress.. to. .take prompt and immediate .measures to meet the emergency, either by strengthening the inili tary arm of the Government, so as to enable it to cope with rebellion, or by adjusting the difficulties by an equitable settlement upon tbe basis of tbe Crittenden compromise, then ; under consideration in Congress. That body, it is well known, adopted neither course sug gested by the President. It refused to com -1 promise and it also refused to enact a force 1 bill; and it adjourned on tbe 4tb of March, • 1861, leaving the affairs of the nation precisely [ in the same unsettled condition in which it P found them. Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated on the 4th of March under the protection of the military assembled at Washington by his predecessor. In his Inaugural address he declared that in view of the Constitution and laws the Union was unbroken, and continued in these wordß: “ The power confided to me will be used to «* hold, occupy and possess the property and “ plaoes belonging to the Government, and to ** collect duties and imports, but beyond what u may be necessary for these objects there “ will be no invasion, no using of force against “or among people anywhere” . Upon the principle thus laid down for the guidance of his administration Mr. Lincoln acted until war was forced upon the Govern ment by the rebel assaults upon Fort Sumter. The difficulties in the way of sending rein forcements to the garrison in Sumter were so great, that the idea of evacuating it entirely was at one time seriously entertained and even resolved upon. Mr. Lincoln discovered that with the limited force and authority Congress had left at hiß disposal he oould not do otherwise than his predecessor had done ; and consequently the policy of Mr. Buchanan was pursued as long as the rebels themselves rendered it possible—that is, the polioy of abstinenoe on the part of the Gov ernment from any act designed to inaugurate civil war. Nay, further, not only was the idea of withdrawing the garrison from Somter seriously entertained, but, as Mr. Lincoln informs us in his message of July 4th, 1861, it was “resolved to inform the Governor of “ South Carolina that he might expect an afc “ tempt would be made to provision the fort, “ and that if the attempt should not be resist “ ed, there would be no effort to throw in men, “ arms or ammunition without further notice , “or in case of an attack upon the fort.” This establishes the fact beyond controversy that the present Administration so.far from inaug urating or desiring war, went much further than the Administration of Mr. Buchanan to avoid it; and even condescended to negotiate and bargain with the rebel authorities in or der that there might be no war. We should not instance these facts were it not for a popular impression that the incoming of the present Administration inaugurated a new order of things; and that whereas Mr. Buchanan pursued a feeble and irresolute oourse, Mr. Lincoln oame into power with the settled resolve to subdue the rebellion by force of arms. Such is not the fact. The present Administration went very far beyond the preceding one in its negotiations with the rebels—and was literally foroed to take up arms in self-defense and to rescue the Capital j from the Bpoiler. Lest some may even yet, in the faoe of these facte, doubt the truth of the position they establish, we beg their attention to the follow ing remarkable and conclusive dispatch ad dressed by Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams, our Minister to England, on the 10th of April, 1861, only three days before the guns of Fori Moultrie opened their fire upon the ramparts of Fort Sumter ; “ The President neither looks for nor appre hends any actual and permanent dismember ment of the American Union, especially by a line of latitude. He iB not disposed to rejec't a cardinal dogma of the South, namely, that the Federal Government, cannot reduce the Seceded States to obedience by conquest, even although he were disposed to question that proposition. But, in fact, the President wil lingly accepts it as true. Only an imperial or despotic government could subjugate thor oughly disaffected and insuirectionam/ members j of the Slate. This federal republican system of ours is, of all forms of government, the very one which is most unfitted for such a labor. Happily, however, this is only an im aginary defect. The system has within itself adequate, peaceful, conservative and recuper ative forces. Firmness on the part of the Government, in preserving and maintaining the public institutions and property, and in executing the laws where authority can be exercised without waging war t combined with such measures of justice, moderation and forbearance as will disarm reasoning oppo sition, will be sufficient to secure the public safety until returning reflection, concurring with the fearful experience of social evils, the inevitable fruits of faction, shall bring the recusant members cheerfully back into the family, which, after all, must prove their best and happiest, ns it undeniably is their natural home. The Constitution of the United States provides for that return, by authorizing Con gress,“on application to be made by a certain majority of the States, to assemble a National Convention, in which the organic law, can, if it bo needful, be revised so as to remove all obstacles to a re union, so suitable to the hab its of the people, and so eminently conducive to the common safety and welfare. Keeping that remedy steadily in view, the President, on the one hand, will not suffer the Federal authority to fall into abeyance, nor will he, on the other, aggravate existing evils, by at tempts at coercion, which must assume the form of direct war t against any of the revolutionary States.” The language of this dispatch sounds so strange in our ears in view of the experience of the past year, that many will, no doubt, read it With amazement, and be disposed to question its authenticity ; but it is published in a volume of diplomatic correspondence by Mr. Seward for the edification of his friends, if not for his own glorification. Mark the fact that it was written only three days before the attack upon Sumter. Its language is emi nently paoifio and unwarlike. When it was penned the Administration neither apprehen ded the assault upon Sumter nor contemplated the employment of force to bring back the rebel States to their allegiance, but looked only to the use of peaceful and conservative means to accomplish the restoration of the Union. Mr. Buchanan, who has been denounced as a dotard and execrated as a traitor, be cause he did not assume the initiative in oivil war, never went farther, if so far, in his efforts to avert the collision, than did Mr. Lincoln and his “ Brime Minister,” Mr. Seward; and when the passions and prejudices of men shall so far abate as to enable them to read correctly the history of the past eighteen months, they will discover that Mr. Buchanan did every thing that a statesman and a patriot could to preserve onr institutions and avert the dread ful calamity of civil war. While these faots tend to vindicate the late Administration they also afford the strongest justification of the Government in prosecuting this war against rebellion, showing, as they do, that the war was forced upon us, and that it is waged to maintain our institutions against those who attempted and are attempting their overthrow. —Harrisburg Patriot of Tuesday. WBP In the beginning of the secession move ment, ex Gov. Adahs, of South Carolina, said: “ The Abolitionists are our best friends.— Thank God for what they have all ready done; and for the inestimable blessing they were about to confer, they were entitled to our warmest gratitude. [Laughter.] Their as saults have been unceasing, but all for our good. * * * They have furnished us with a justification for dissolving our connexion with them.” With equal unction, says the Boston Post, and we doubt not with equal sincerity, Mr. Phillips, in his speech delivered in Washing ton city, returned “ Thanks to God that He had created Gen. Beauregard,” who fired on Fort Sumter that first gun whose vibration be came the tocsin of our-present oivil war. LOCAL DEPASTHEIiT. The Seventy Seventh Pennsylvania at jgHlwin.—AJottw from Dr. Fronk Irfahr-tt. .nnroon of 77fh PpnnKylT.ni. regiment, in which is o»pt- Pj far’s Aotnpeor of this city, was received iaPittsbnrg on the 17 th. In which.he - gives a few.aadmeoa] ptrOrulara of thnlate gnat battle afßhUoabfor Pittsbntg banding. ThoDoetbr ■asms, overwhelmed with the magnitude of' the conflict, and thongh-hw states.'tiiai one loss was iwy “• speaks of th* result m glorteus vktory ;for the JTnlon teoeftr The Seventy-Seventh vagiment, CoLStumbangh, m to McCoafc’a.diririou, and playad a moat con xpteuooapSriin Tbabtlga4aJ>fttt®k’.<*ppoo^ Sunday Morning, ahfl' marched twanty&ree TTrfJca to the scene of the engagement, over the moat horrible roada, ar riving at Savannah about 9 P. M. The battle-field was reached that night, and the men lay down in the mud and rain notil daylight, when they joined in an attack on the enemy, which was condneted in gallant style. The Seventy- Seventh made a brilliant bayonet charge, and covered it self with glory. The entire division complimented them - for-their steadiness and- bravery -and-the dashing manner in which the charge was executed- McCook's division, he - -state*, waa badly .cat ap* bat the Beventy-SeTenth^thongh in the thickest of the fight, had bat five kflled and ten wopnded. The Doctor gives a description of the sickening spectacle battlefield presented after the fight. Hundreds of bodies and the carcasses of horses innumer able lay festering in the son, while the air seemed Slack with bnaards, attracted thither by the stench which filled the-.atmosphere for miles• around. The writer himself would seem to have bad a busy time of It. He was en gaged in dressing the wounded from 11 A. M.till midnight on the seventh, and had not his clothes or boots off for a week. We hope in the eonrse of a day or two to be able to give. some account of tbe part which Capt. Pyferis company took in the engagement from himself or eome of the members. The probable reason why we have not received anything direct from them is owing to an order issued a day after the battle that no letters should be forwarded from camp for a period of five days; The few which have come through were no donbt brought by private bands. From the above account, I*ncaster has good reason to be proud of her gal ; lant sous. There are almost one hundred and fifty Lan- easterians inthe 77th. Mr. George Zecher, of this city, who volunteered in Hambrigfatia regiment, bat Is attsched to the signal corps, wes Is the fight the second day. The corps, after a forced reached the scene about 2 o'clock on 6unday, and at once got to work signaling for reinforcements, which they continued through the night and antU noon the next day, when that part of the work being done, and their signals stowed away, Mr. Zecher, Lieut, and others, took rifles and went into the ranks of the Becond Kentucky regiment, where .they fought four hours, or un» til victory perched upon the Union banners. The Second Kentucky went Into the fight with 975 men, and came out with only 405. Gen. Buell the signal corps very highly, and intends presenting them with medals as an acknowl edgment of their important services on the occasion. Mr. Zecher, in a letter to his sister, describes the scene after the battle as one never to be forgotten by those who witnessed it. He rode over the battle-field four times, and says that on one acre of gronnd be counted 600 of the ene - my’a dead, while the number on our side was not much less. In one heap were 25 dead rebels. He says, wbeo our ballß hit they generally killed, while the rebel shots were not quite so fatal. Among bis trophies is a sword, a watch chain, and a fancy bridle and bit.— Saturdays Express. —Since the above was in type, Mr. Bernard T. Hubxr, of this office, has received a letter from Corporal Jons J. Hartlet, of Capt. Pyfer’s company, under date of the 13th inat., in which he says: “ I am proud to 6ay that we were the first Lancaster boys in a fight, and it was a hard one. I can’t see bow we got off so lucky Wt did not lose a man out of our company. We lost one man killed and seven wounded out of the regiment. “Our regiment took one Colonel and eight other officers prisoners, and we also helps 1 to take a battery from the rebels. The boys stood their ground well—they stood shoulder to shoulder and arm to arm.” The Corporal says the 77th were on the battle gronnd from 8 o'clock. A. M-» till 6 o'clock, P. &1-, on Monday, the second day of the fight. The battle ground was seven miles in length and four In width. He also speaks in the highest terms of our gallant friend Capt. Pyfxr, who he says was with the company all the time. Lancaster may well feel proud of her sous who are attached to the 77 th. Sad Accident. — The boiler of one of the locomotives drawing a freight train on the Pennsylvania Railroad exploded, a short distance below this city, on yesterday morning, and the Engineer, Isaac. Finkabinr, was instantly killed and the Fireman, named Fisbeb, mor : tally wounded. Mr. F. was one of the oldest, most careful and best Engineers ou the road, and, with his fomily, re. sided at Oclumbia, where be owned a handsome property. His remains were takeu there yesterday afternoon for interment. Anniversary Entertainment. — The Fen cibles commemorated the anniversary of the battle of Lex ington, April 19tb, 1T75, and also the 19th of April, 1801, the day on which they lett Lancaster to enter the three months’ service, by an entertainment at their Armory, Fulton Hall, on Saturday evening last. A number of in vited guests were present, and, we nnderatand, those in attendance had a good time of it. The Fencibles’ enter tainments are always prime afiaits. Mr. Stevens’ Appointments.— Much am lety has been expressed and felt on the part of applicants for the appointment of Army and Navy cadets to learn the result of the examination. We have looked In vain through the Lancaster papers for the announcement of the success ful|candldates,;who are we learn from Mr. Stevens, Gx&a, of gtrasburg, or neighborhood, we believe, for West Point, and Houston, of Marietta, for the Naval Academy. Tbe examiners reported to Mr Stevens that the appli cants as a body stood a most admirable examination, bo many of them deserving the appointment, that it was only after tbe most careful comparison of their respective merits that a decision was arrived at. .We hope tbe appointees will in no manner disappoint the high expectation of tbe examining committee, and will do honor to the appoint ment of Mr. Stevens.— Saturday's Columbia Spy. —The candidates selected are Mr. Edward Houston, a nephew of onr friend Dr, John Houston, of Marietta, for the Naval School, and Mr. Hikro B. Herr, now a clerk in tbe office of the Clerk of the Quarter Sessions, for the Mil itary Academy. The latter has not yet received a notifica tion of his appointment. Mr. Houston received a notice : from the Navy Department to report at tbe Naval Bchool 1 at Newport, R. 1., by the 20th Inst., and started thither on Wednesday last. D. G, Eshleman, Esq., No. 36 North Duke ptreet, In this city, offers for sale ono of the best farms in tbe interior of the State. It produced 1,000 bushels of wheat last season, and Is sufficiently large to be divided iDto two farms, and thus double its producing qualities Give him a call, and you will doubtless avail yourself of hie offer. Tbe farm miy not be long In market. See ad vertisement in another column. The Lancaster County Regiment.— A cor respondent of tbe Philadelphia Press, writing from Colum bia, Tennessee, under date of thq Bth lost., pays the fol lowing handsome compliment to Col. Uambright’s Lancas ter County Regiment, tbe 79th: “ Yesterday afternoon I was tendered the services of a horse, and permission to go where I pleased. After riding around tbe suburbs for a while, in company with an aid of General Negley, and another gentleman, I paid a visit to the camp of the Seventy-Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, Col. Hambright. I arrived in time to witness a dress and regimental-parade, which was very fine indeed. This regi ment Is encamped in a beautiful grove abont one mile from tbe city, the most complete place for an encampment I have ever seen. The regiment has seen a large amonnt of suffering, I am informed, and tbe men are thoroughly identified with the vicissitudes and trials of war. Colonel Hambright is in good health, with tbe exception of a bad cold. He has lost one commissioned officer, of tbe city of Lancaster, and sixty odd privates. Abont that number bare been sent borne as incompetent and incapable of en during the fatigue and exposure of camp life. There are about one hundred men on the sick list at present. But those who are well are strong and robust,.and have the name of being tbe best-drilled body of men who have been In this vicinity. At present there are 880 meu In the regi ment. The only complaint I beard from any of the men was that they were not placed in the advance. Pennsyl vania will never be disgraced by tbis regiment, if I may ' j udge by their excellent drill, efficient and gallant officers, and tbe desire they manifest of ‘-something to do.” Col. Hambright himself informs me that he is quite disappoint ed in being in the reserve. Several officers of other regi ments bestow great praise on the Seventy-Ninth Pennsyl vania, and call it the crack regiment of tbe brigade.” Thanks.— Our thanks are due Lieut. Colo nel Ddceiman, of tbe Lancaster County Regiment, for con tinued favors, in tbe shape of Tennessee journals. The papers received are tbe Bally Nashville Union of tbe lltb inst., and the Seventh Brigade Journal of the same date. Tbe latter paper Is published at Columbia, Tenn., by seven printers in Gen. Negley’s Brigade, four of the number be longing to the Lancaster County Regiment. Their names are Corporals John A. Keller and Charles W. WiLKT,and Privates Henry M. Gbiteb and William BL Wise. The other three, Sergeant .Thomas Bryant, and Privates Homer G. Leonard and C. P Kellogg, are attached to the Ist Wisconsin Regiment. We can well imagine with what pleapant feelings our jolly, whole-souled friend, Harry Geiter “works at case” again, being now in his old ele ment. He is one of the best-known “Typos” in the State, and we are glad to learn that he is In the enjoyment of his wonted health and buoyancy of spirits. “May his shadow never grow less.” Lieut. Ober. —We had the pleasure on Fri day evening of taking by the hand Lieut. Benjamin H. Cber, who has arrived at his home, iu this city, to recruit his health from a severe attack of Typhoid Fever, which prostrated him at Nashville for several weeks. We are glad to know that he is now convalescing rapidly, although still looking very thin. “Ben” speaks in the highest terms of bis brother officers, Capt. Pyfeb and Lieut Dochman, and their kind attentions to him, whenever it was possible to extend such, whilst the 77th Regiment was encamped near Nashville. A Splendid Flagstaff and Flag.—The members of Friendsbip Fire Company, No. 1, raised a splendid Flagstaff and Flag in front of their Engine House, North Duke street, od Thursday afternoon last. It is de cidedly the prettiest in the city. The Friendship has given sufficient evidence of its bravery and patriotism by sending many of Its members to tbe field, and in this further evi dence of its devotion to the “old flag,” it is only carrying out Its reputation of “never doing things by halves.”— Long may tbe Stars and Stripes wave. Parson Brownlow. — This somewhat noted and eccentric individual pseeed through this city on his way to Philadelphia on Thursday evening last, in the 7.54 train. At the depot qnite a large concourse of people were assembled to greet him, and when the train arrived he was called out and Introduced to the assemblage by Gen. B. A. BHAEWER. The Parson made the following remarks: “I thank you, friends, on behalf of Tennessee; and I want to say to you that, as soon as a fair election can be held in the State, under tbe auspices of Gov. Johnson, we intend to vote back the State into the old Union by the handsome majority of 60,000 votes. [Tremendous applause.] It is said, in holy writ, that tbe great Apostle of the Gen tiles once fonght with beasts at Ephesus; for the last twelve months I have been fighting with tbe devil, Tom Walker, Secession and Jeff. Davis 1 [Laughter and cheers.] These accursed rebels at one time threatened to bang me, and I told them I would rather hang than renounce my sentiments or suppress my professions of love for the old Union. And I would tell you that we in Tennessee will support no mao, and vote for no man, who has not been, through the whole rebellion of 1861 and ’62, a thorough, unconditional Udlou man 1 [Cheers] ‘The Union of these States must be preserved,’ old Andrew Jackson once said, and we will preserve It, though It he at the expense of everything else that we hola dear.” He then retired amid loud and continued applause, which was kept up until the train moved oat of the depot. Goal Oil and the Insurance Companies. —The Cincinnati Price Current has the following in refer* ence to the safety of storage of coal and carbon oils: We noticed in our last the action of the Insurance Com panles of this city and the ’agencies of foreign companies, regarding storage of coal and carbon oils. Within the past week tests hare been made bj a competent chemist, at the direction of oar city authorities, for the purpose of ascer taining at what temperature these oils would explode, or take fire, with the following results : Temperature Temperature it emitted a It took fire, flashing Tspor. Lncesco, Pittsburg - 00 Union Coal Oil Company, Mayirille.,.l4s New Tork Companies, Cannelton Coal Oil, Kanawha -.165 Lyons, Pittsburg 70 Newport, Newport. 82 —, Pittsburg, 73 Miami, Cincinnati 05 Natrona - *.lOB Juniata - .. - 34 Name of Oil. The oils to be tested were placed in an open vessel and heated by a water bath to the temperature indicated. Thus It will be seen there are but three of the samples submitted safe to be kept in summer, or to be consumed for illuminating purposes. The fact is as we bare before stated-the competition which exists in the trade has in* duced manufacturers to leave too much of the Benzole or Naptha in this oil. and the consequence is that confidence in its safety) for illuminating purposes, has been greatly Impaired. —We clip the above from the Philadelphia, Ledger, and commend it to the attention of our citizens. It will be perceived that coal oil, so ninch used in I*ncaster, Lf pe* collarly liable to explode, and therefore very. unsafe—al most as much so m gunpowder Itselfi Merchants, keeping the article for sale, and consumers cannot he too eareful in handling It, QuAtttEß Conn Ths April term nf the tioart of Qnartar flattens ootnmeneed yesterday— Judges Low and Buns* on tha benoh. Evans' from B. j. Etui A Oil, YorttfFi* a lotofispleodid young trees of tbe very choicest kinds of fhilfc '*Tbeir nursery is one of tite most extenstv%|n the Bt*!e, embracing the greatest va rieties offruit,ornamental and shade trees, flower*, shrub bed gripe vines, fia* £e~ all of which they furnish at the most reasonable rates. Persons desirous of procuring the beet enduxxt reliable grafted fruit trees, would do well to.aend him their orders, t - A SadCabrop Drowning.—On last Sunday mfterjsbqti, about four oi'cloek.Haary JL Snyder, a lad of about-ten yean, son ofMr. Isaac Snyder, whilst playlog on tbe rafts lying along the shore below the bridge, foil In and was drowned before assistance coaid reach him. . Ha was in company with his bfttheßasd other boys at the time of his death. Reports as to the manner of the acci dent differ—some of his companions reporting that he foil from an oarstem in endeavoring to cross from one raft to another; whilst a rtverman who was near says that the - tittle- fotiow-waa aitting-oa- the-head-block of a raft with his back to his comrades, who ealied to him, and on his turning suddenly he lost his balance and foil In backwards. ; Tbe raftman ran to his assistance, but only arrived lb time to see hltfeet disappear under Abe raft. In spite of every exertion at the time and since, and the stimulus of a reward offered by Mr. Snyder, the body still remains un discovered. It is probably under one of the numerous rafts which lie thickly crowded immediately around the scene of the aeddent. Mr.Sayderhaa general sympathy in his sad loss.— Saturday’s Columbia Spy. HEW CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT. Under the Apportionment Bill'recently passed, the population and the party divi sions are exhibited in the following table. For the Philadelphia Districts the vote given is that for Clerk of Orphans’ Court, October, 1861, but for all the other Dis tricts we have taken the vote between Cubtin and Foster, in October, 1860, that being the latest available vote FIRST DISTRICT—PHILADELPHIA. Second Ward....... Third Ward....... Fourth Ward..... Fifth Ward Sixth Ward Eleventh Ward.. Population, 130,320. 5,268 7,217 SECOND DISTRICT—PHILADELPHIA. First Ward 2,004 1,690 Seventh Ward. Eighth Ward.. Ninth Ward,... Tenth Ward, Population, 129,353. 7,763 5,709 THIRD DISTRICT—PHILADELPHIA. Twelfth Ward .. 897 998 Thirteen thi Ward 1,351 1,140 Sixteenth Ward 1,078 1,181 Seventeenth Ward 754 1,547 Eighteenth Ward 1,661 836 Nineteenth Ward 1,386 1,515 Population, 125,843. 7,127 7,217 FOURTH DISTRICT—PHILADELPHIA. Fourteenth Ward. Fifteenth Ward Twentieth Ward Twenty-first Ward..... Twenty-fourth Ward. A Population, 127,864, FIFTH DISTRICT—PHILADELPHIA. Twenty-second Ward...... 1,307 870 Twenty-third Ward 1,234 1,104 Twenty-fifth Ward fill 882 Bucks county 6,383 6,330 Population, 119,958. 9.435 9,186 SIXTH DISTRICT. Montgomery oounty 5,812 7,392 Lehigh county 4,166 4,566 Population, 105,254. 9,978 11,958 SEVENTH DISTRICT. Chester county 7,540 5,913 Delaware county 3,183 1,996 Population, 114,656. 10,723 7,909 EIGHTH DISTRICT. Berkß county., 6,883 10,318 Population, 93,819. * NINTH DISTRICT. Lancaster county 13,012 7,153 Population, 116,315. TENTH DISTRICT. Schuylkill county 7,301 7,067 Lebanon county 3,847 2,234 Population, 121,346. 11,148 9,301 ELEVENTH DISTRICT. Northampton county 3,507 5,249 Carbon county 1,722 1,930 Monroe County, Pike county Wayne county, Population, 125,140. 8,985 TWELFTH DISTRICT. , Luzerne county 6,662 6,916 * Susquehanna county 4,110 2*456 Population, 126,510. 10,772 9,372 THIRTEENTH DISTRICT. Bradford county 6,664 2,328 Wyoming county, Sullivan county.. Columbia couaty, Montour county.. Population, 105,030. 11,145 7,972 FOURTEENTH DISTRICT. Northumberland county 2,544 2,812 Union county. 1,820 1,019 Snyder county 1,704 1,134 Juniata county.. 1,503 1,465 Dauphin county ..... 4,555 3,302 Population, 121,815. 12,126 9,732 FIFTEENTH DISTRICT. Cumberland county 3,625 3,716 York county 5,322 6,665 Perry county 2,416 2,128 Population, 131,092. 11,363 12,509 SIXTEENTH DISTRICT. Adams county 2,773 2,849 Franklin county 4,053 3,379 Fulton county ... 828 957 Bedford county, 2,464 2,561 Somerset county 2,980 1,362 Population, 132,792. 13,098 11,108 SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT. Cambria county. 2,177 2,583 Blair county 3,051 . 2,121 Huntingdon county 3,042 2,172 Mifflin county 1,723 1,490 Population, 101,427. 9,993 8,366 EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT. Tioga county 4,147 1,331 Potter county.. 1,410 615 Lycoming county 3,615 3,034 Clinton county 1,750 1,703 Centre county 3,165 2,824 Population, 124,735. 14,087 9,507 NINETEENTH DISTRICT, Jefferson county 1,886 Erie county 5,613 Warren county. 2,112 McKean county 1,048 Elk county 421 Cameron county Forest county Clearfield county Population, 121,314. 12,695 TWENTIETH DTSTKICT. Crawford, c0unty......... 5,277 3,178 Mercer county 3,624 2,794 Venango county 2,581 2,122 Clarion county 2,791 2,297 Population, 135,650. 13,277 TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT Indiana county 3,672 1,886 Westmoreland county 4,830 5,276 Eayette county 3,382 3,556 Populuation, 127.382. 11,884 TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT Allegheny (part)J 10,507 Population, 126,364. TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT. Allegheny county (part)J§ 4,493 438 Batler county 3.526 2,548 Armstrong county 3,474 2,698 Population 123,867. 11,493 TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT; Lawrence county 2,645 959 Beaver county 2,682 1,715 Washington county 4,768 4,206 Greene county..... 1,529 2,669 Population, 123,287 + Congressional vote'of October, 1860. Also vote of October, 1860. G. W. Cas 8 got some votes in this districtwbioh are not included. The Press Censorship a Huhbog.— A rebel circular has been found by our army on the peninsula, near Yorktown, giving a fall des cription of the present Federal movement?, with all the details; also, Gen. Magruder’b plan for defeating the Union programme.— The .enemy most have received this informa tion from a high source several weeks ago, or they could not have got the: circular out ,so soon. This and other similar incidents, prove conclusively that the press censorship is a nuisance and a humbug. Unless its ob ject be to keep the news of the actual results of the war from the people _of ; .the. North,, it is as useless to the Government as it is un satisfactory to the public. 194 96 102 101 115 136 4BotiTiosti« vaioMPauv* Two Important bills werepuced in Congreeson Frt* day week which foil/ oonfirma the faet that the abe- Ution of slavery U one'of tfie.ieaditfg?tgnots of this war oh the part of the HepabUeah Mambezs of Con* grew and of tip Republican party. The bilT to abolish jhayery in the District of Colombia pamed the Honse of Kepresentatives by thadcoisivevote of 93 against 39, as follows: Yeas.— Messrs. Aldrich, Alley, Arnold*. Ashley, Babbitt, Bakery Baxter, Beadun, Bingham, Blair, of Ho.,Blair, of Pa., Blake, Bmwne,of B. L, Boffinton, Campbell; Chamberlain,'-Clark, Colfax, F. A. Conkling, B.: Conkling, Covode, Daria Dawes, Delano, Diren, Duell, Dunn, JBgerton, Edwards, Eliot, English, Fenton, Fessenden, Fisher, Franc hot, Frank, Gooch, Goodwin, Granger, Haight, Hale, Hanchott, Harrison, Hiokinan, Hooper, Hutohing, Jolian, Kelley, Kellogg of Mioh., KUlihger, Lans ing,. Loomis,. liQTmoy, McKnight, McPherson, Mitchell, Moorhead, Morrill orMe., Morrill ofVh, Nixon, Odell, Olin, Patton, Pike, Porter, Potter Bloe of Mass., Bice, of Me., Biddle, Bollins of N. fl. r -Sargent, Sedgwick, Shank, Sheffield, Shellaberger, Sloan, Spaulding, Stevens, Stratton, Thomas of Mass., Train, Trowbridge, van:Horn, Van Valkenbuigh. Verree, Wallace, Walton, of Vt., Waahbamo, Wheeler, Whiteof Ind., Wilson, ..Win- . dom » - v - Nats.— Memrs. Allen, Bailor of Pa., Biddle, Blair of Va., Brown of Ya., Caasey, Crittenden, Delapl&ine, Crider, Hall, Harding, Holman. John son, Knapp, Law, Lasear, Mallory, May, Mensies, Morris, Noble, Norton, Nugent, Pendleton, Perry, Prioe, Bollins of Mo., Shlel, Steele of N. Y., Steele of N. J., Thomas of Md., Vallandigham, Voorhees, Wadsworth, Wood, White of Ohio, Wloklmb, Wright. Only two members from slaveholding States (Messrs. Blair of Missouri, and Fisher of Delaware,) voted for the bill, and of the thirty-nine against it twenty-two are from the Free States. A number of the Democrats from New York were absent, and the .name of Mr. Cobb from New Jersey does not appear in the published list of yeas and nays. A long debate ensued on the Anal passage of the bill, of which we give a few extracts: Mr. Nixon, of New Jersey, spoke in favor of the principles of the bill, reoognising the express consti tutional power to abolish slavery here in making just compensation to the owners. He reviewed the course of the South in severe terms,,and uttered tho threat that it was time for the people of the South and European nations to undersund that the people of the North are in earnest iu this matter, and before they will submit to the triumph of this. rebellion they will, should the necessities of the hour as a last resort require it, arm every slave of rebel masters, drive the rebels beyond their borders , and hold tho territories for the homo of negroes. The venerable Cbittbndsn, of Kentucky, made some remarks in a despondent and warning tone. He said the projeot to abolish slavery in the Distriot of Columbia had .been rebooted time and again by Congress in the palmiest days of the Kepublio. Ho enquired what practical advantage would be derived from its becoming a law. The time for suoh aotion was inauspicious. Under the misapprehensions en gendered by suoh measures, the insurgents had fought with fury. Would nob the passage of this bill strengthen them in the belief that suoh is the pur pose of Congress? Xt would be considered by. the rebels as the general purpose to interfere with slavery in the States. In oonolusion, he condemned the pro posed confiscation acts, saying our business is to heal, to pacify and to oonsolidate all the States in one great nation and to restore the former brother hood. Viotory is the moment of generosity, and true polioy does not require vengeance for what is already done. Let mercy and mild and moderate counsels prevail. Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, said there was a new gospel, namely: All men are equal before the law, no matter on what part of the earth he was born. This, however, has long been ignored by one olass of our fellow-citizens. .In reply to Mr. Crittenden, he remarked that no time was inauspicious for doing justice and removing the odium, shame and disgrace to the letter and spirit of the Constitution/ whioh have too long been violated in this very heart of the republio before the eyes of the publio law-givers. Mr. Cradlbbaugh offered an amendment so as to make the bill apply to the emancipation of the white slaves in the territories. It should not be confined to persons of African blood. Slavery in the Distriot of Columbia was nothing to be compared with that whioh exists in some of the territories. Hep. Hem. 1,453 1,675 870 1,160 682 1,345 808 1,111 672 951 783 975 1,779 1,088 1,149 998 1,185 971 1,848 1,728 1,782 1,819 1,107 980 1,284 1,225 Mr. Lovejov, of Illinois, said the amendment was not appropriate, as it was proposed to .strangle the bill now before them. The amendment was rejeotcd. Mr. Wright (Pa.; offered a proviso requiring the President to issue a proclamation for a special elec tion of a majority of the legal voters, being required to affirm ana ratify the oot. If this was adopted he would vote for the bill. Not a solitary person resid ing here has asked for its passage, ana besides, it interests the people of the Distriot only. News has recently reached here of the success of oar armies, and we are waiting with anxiety events at Yorktown, and it was a most inauspicious time to ohange the fundamental law. Mr.,PoTTEB (Wis.) said that Mr. Wright was mis taken. Petitions had been presented. Mr. Weight replied that he had heard of none. Mr. Stevens (Pa.) said it was somewhere written, “ The wicked shall be damned.” (Laughter.) Now, he suggested to his colleague (Weight) a farther proviso that the wioked consent thereto. (Uenewed laughter.) It was just as reasonable os the amend' ment of his colleague. Mr. Weight’s amendment was rejected. Mr* Biddle, of Pa., opposed the bill as inexpedi ent and inopportune, and asked why it was now pressed upon Congress. He proceeded to read from the Washington National Republican , of April 8, that the number of negroes in the by reason of current events , has become alarming; that it is a reservoir into which streams run and mast have an outlet; that the restrictions of the Baltimore and Ohio Kailroad on the transportation of negroes obstruct their passage to the North; that It had been represented in a communication in the. Press newspaper of Philadelphia, tbatoontrabands sent from Hen. Banks’ column nad been gladly reoeived, and that a thousand more were looked for in that oity, and that an an indefinite number might be favorably disposed of there ; that as soon as this bill passed the House, the railroad must convey such negroes to the North. Sinoe this, said Mr. Biddle, is to happen when this bill passes, as a representative of Pennsylvania, my vote shall not help to pass It. £ will not help to make this city the flood-gate through which, at this critical period, all the smaller channels of industry at the North shall be chocked and blaokened. Now that you have practically nullified the Constitutional provision for the reclamation of the swarms of fugi tives, thousands and tens of thousands may come like blaok locusts and settle down upon us. Against this threatened inundation Pennsylvania may need protection. So far as my vote oan give it she shall have it now. I would not hurry thia unfortunate race northward to be repulsed there. I weuld leave it where nature and circumstances seem to have de termined its abode. The common sense of the coun try is warning us that the common sense policy toward slavery is to let the subject alone. 'Mr.. LovEJOT in the course of the debate on the . amendments, said that he was tired of hearing dis cussions about law, when it was known that every slave was robbed of his liberty without a show of law. Mr. Bonn (Ind.) expressed his astonishment that any of the members should wish to pass this bill through without affording an opportunity to offer amendments to a measure of soon importance. Mr. Harding (Ky.) moved to strike ont the proviso that the entire snm appraised and apportioned shall not exceed, in the aggregate, an amount equal to $3OO for each person shown to have been so held by lawful claim. He said there was a strange and un usual haste manifested for the passage of.the bill. Mr. Lovejot expressed his desire to speak. Mr. Harding replied, when the gentleman gets sober on this question £ will hear him with pleasure. Mr. Lovejot said he asked no ooortesy from the gentleman Mr Harding’s amendment was rejected. Mr. Wickliffe (£y.) offered an amendment to strike ont a clause against excluding witnesses on account of color, saying tWs was contrary to the law of the District. Mr. Stevens said that it was an outrageous law. A man of credit, whether blaok or white, ought to be a witness. Mr. Wickliffe’* amendment was rejected. Mr. Dunn said it was the -determination of soma gentlemen to pass the bill, no matter how impeifeot ft was. - There was a higher tribunal than this—the American people, to which they were responsible. During his remarks be was called to order, from the Bepnbllean ride, when he remarked he supposed if he nad uttered some fool abuse of slavery ne would have been heard. The hot haste with Wniob the bill was pressed, more than ever convinced him it was oovered with imperfeotions. At the same time he believed slavery ought to be abolished in the Dis trict, but this should be effected in the proper way. Mr. Wickliffe offered a substitute for the bill, m substance that no person not now in the District of Colombia, or who may hereafter be born therein, shall be held as slaves; persons coming to reside temporarily in the District may bring their servants with them ; those now held as slaves to remain such until emancipated by their respective owners, com pensation to be paid therefor; the bill to receive ■ the approval of tne legal voters. Rejected. Mr. Menzibs (Ky.) offered a substitute that chil dren born of slaves on and after the the Ist of May be free, and at 18 assert their freedom,