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LATE AID IMPORTANT NEWS. It is reported in the Richmond Examiner that New Orleans has been taken by the Union forces, with a great destruction of property, cotton and steamboats. The newß is credited at Washington. We shall have to wait a few days for the particulars. Simultaneously with the glorious news from New Orleans we have the no less grateful in formation that Corinth has been evacuated— Beauregard having been outflanked and out generaled by Halleok. He is reported as falling back on Memphis. Some ekirmiehing has been going on in front of Yorktown, but no engagement of any great importance has yet taken place. We regret to annonnee the deoease of Major Qeneral Charles F. Smith, the hero of Fort Donelson, which took place at Savannah, Tennessee, on Friday last, after an illness of some two or three weeks. Gen. S. was a native of Philadelphia, and graduated at West Point in 1825. He distingnished himself greatly in the Mexican war, and was, be yond all question, one of the most aeoom' plished and bravest officers in the military service of the country. His death is a Na tional loss. WHITE vs. BLACK. The two races can never commingle, nor exist together on a common platform of equality. Abolitionists and sickly sentimental ists may pass by tbeir own color if they please, and reserve all tbeir sympathies for the ** suffering slave,” and crack-brained philosophers may theorize and persa&de them selves that the negro is capable of enjoying a common heritage of freedom with the white man, and, intoxicated with this idea, may endeavor to pot it in practice, as they are at tempting at present; but the silent workings of the irrevocable law of races will scatter all their fine spun theories and upset their cal culating philosophy. It is an old saying that M necessity knows no law,” and, from present appearances, in view of the threatened inun dation of ignorant blacks from the Sonth coming in contact with the white working man of the North, crowding him from his hitherto undisputed field of labor, the feeling of opposition will grow in intensity until the white man will feel the “necessity” of getting rid of the negro at whatever cost, and that feeling will eventually exterminate him or drive him beyond our borders. Ours is a Government of while men, made for the benefit of white men, and any Quixotic attempt of silly theorists to raise the negro to an equality with the white man, by seducing him from his natural field of labor in the South, to crowd ont the white laborer of the North, will only have the effect to hasten the day of his de struction. Reader, ponder over this question, for it is one that is rapidly coming np for solution, and will be more momentous in its oonseqaences than any that has yet come be fore the. American people. VOX POPVLI. The great Northwest is becoming revolu tionized, as the record in another column will abundantly show. In the recent municipal and townßhip elections in Michigan, Illinois and Indiana, we hsve achieved unexpected and unprecedented victories. In Wisconsin, lowa and Minnesota nearly every Republican stronghold has been revolutionized; and nearer borne, in New Jersey and New York, (to Bay nothing of our own State,) we have made greater gains than were ever made by a party in a single year before. The people are watohing the proceedings of Congress closely, and are becoming seriously alarmed at the rapid strides towards Abolitionism— henoe the unparalleled political revolution which is now going on all over the Northern States. Verily, the “ sober second thought .of the people is doing its work in our midst, and modern Republicanism will be crushed out cf existence by the onward and over whelming march of the Democracy. The Legislature of Pennsylvania has passed An act requiring the resumption of specie payments by the banks.” It exempts the banks' from all the penalties of suspension until the first Tuesday in February, 1863, and gives them immunity from all penalties by rea son of suspension incurred in the past. The notes of all solvent banks in the State, and the legal tender notes of the General Govern ment,are to be deomed and taken as “ curren cy,” “ for all purposes, ae the notes and balan ces due from specie-paying banks.” Privilege is given to the banks to issue small notes to the amount of 30 per cent of their capital actually paid in, which is an increase of 10 per cent, on their present privileges in this respect. .THIS CONFISCATION BILL. The Confiscation Bill was tabled in the House of Representatives, on Wednesday last, by a vote of 58 to 52. All the Democrats and Union men voted for laying it on the table, and all the Republicans againsf’it. Whsn the War is to End.— The Harris bnrg Telegraph of the Bth instant, closes its laaderas follows. "History will have a future lesson to teaoh' the necessity and the faot that the rebellion can only be finally and forever stopped by entirely disbanding that Democratic party which made Buchanan its idol and Bireokin ridgeits leader." Prom this, the public can mako their own calculation when the present war—at an ex •|g* P f miUions of dollar* odojMs likely to end. A fpw days previous thelWe priopi said that the war and slavery must end togetb£, , It now thinks that the Democratic jfoe same tuhe,: Kebabs .V- ■ The at Nesw York State have nwij. arrangements to nm » so-called Union fiwirwt at the next ejection, teas of* firm support to the NationefJAdmiSißbatiS* in all its measures, Constitutional tH othjfc AU“Un>dn” Demooreta tonß into thei«nks,ahd play second fiddle to fihe Republican petty. The abolitiotfiKlHtne gives the new party. or rather tbfc'old piurtj under a new name, a warm support The same gamCwill, doubtless, be attempted in Pennsylvania. The “ People’s Party ” State Committee, of whioh the notorioaa A. IL McCiiimr is Chairman, which meetaat Philadelphia on the first of May, will, we SDppose, call 5 Union No-Party State Con vention, with the hope of deceiving the honest and unsuspecting voters of the Commonwealth and perpetuating Bepnblican misrula. The garrisbarg Patriot very truthfully remarks: “ We reepect the man who sincerely: believes that the time of the Nation’s greatest peril is hot the time for party contentions; but tbe Bepnblican leaden do not mean to ignore their party, they mean, if possible, to prolong its life by triokery—by shams and artfnl de vices. No sensible man believes that tbe clashing of ideas can be avoided in this free Government. While Abolitionism seeks tbe destrnotion of tbe Constitution and the de moralization of tbe Government, Democrats and Conservatives will oppose that' fatal heresy, in whatsoever sphere it operates, whether as the open advocate of disunion, or disguised in the borrowed robes of patriotio Unionism. It must he sought, and fonght and vanquished wherever it finds oover.— When it denies its very name and calls itself the opposite of what it is, then it becomes jostsomuoh more dangerous as a seoret is than an open foe.” To he forewarned is to be forearmed. . Let the Demoorats, who are the true Union party of the eonntry, frown down all enoh attempts at deception. Let them stand firmly by tbeir time-honored principles, and Abolitionism, with all its disgnises, will be compelled to hide its dimished head in shame and mortifica tion before the piercing rayß of the sunlight of troth and patriotism. BEAUREGARD’S DISPATCH. The following dispatch from Beauregard to the confederate army headquarters in Richmond appears in tbe oity journals as hav ing been intercepted by Gen. Mitchell at Decatur: “ Corinth, April 9.1862. “ To General Samuel Cooper, Richmond, Va, : “ All present probabilities are that, when ever the enemy move on this position, he will do so with an overwhelming force of not less than 85.000 men. We can now muster only about 35,000 effectives. Tan Dorn may pos sibly join ns in a few days with abont 15,000 more. Can we not be reinforced from Pem berton’s army ? If defeated here we lose the Mississippi Valley, and probably our cause. Whereas, we could even afford to lose, for a while, Charleston and Savannah, for the pur pose of defeating Buell’s army, whioh would not only insure us the Valley of the Missis sippi, but our independence. G. T. Beauregard.” This has the appearanoo of being genuine, and if so is of undoubted importance; but there are reasons ibr believing it is a forgery of the paper in which it first appeared. It will be noticed that it is dated on the 9th inst.; but then General Mitchell did not seize HnDtßville until the 11th inst., and we did not hear of him at Decatur until several days after. The telegraph wire follows tho line of the railroad, and thore could have been no delay in sending the dispatch from Corinth to Richmond. A copy of tho dispatch may have been taken off the wire, either at Hunts ville or Decatur, before the arrival of the Union forces, but it is not usual to do so. Besides, how is it that Beauregard has only thirty-five thousand men, when he had ninety thousand at-Pittsburg Landing? It may have been that Beauregard knew of the oocnpancy of Decatur by General Mitchell, and sent this dispatch to deceive him and induce a premature attack. Altogether there needs better authority for better credence. GREAT DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH. The charter election in Jersey City, N. J.,re suited in a more.complete victory for the Dem oeratio party than at first reported. In a total vote of about 3,000, John B. Romar, Democrat, has a majority of 577 over Clark, Republican ; and Reilly, the oandidate of the Democratic party for Chief of Police, has 102 majority.— The Board of Aldermen will stand this year 13 Democrats to 5 Republicans, and the cho sen Freeholders are all Democrats. The De mocracy of Jersey City have done well and are deserving of great praise. The Standard, in announcing the result says : We believe that a revolution in the politics of the country is upon us, and that the election of yesterday is but a faint view of many greater disasters which the Greeleys, Sewards, and Sumners and Camerons are des tined to encounter in the fall oampaign, not only in this State, but throughout the length and breadth of the land. Conservatism must “ crush out ” petty seotions, and the sooner the good work is inaugurated the better. 8®“ The Democratic tide is rising gloriously in Ohio. Last week at the municipal election in Chillicotho, the Democratic candidate for Mayor was eleoted by 229 of a majority. The year before the Republicans elected their mayor by a majority of 161. Io Columbus, the Demoorats have elected all their candi dates by overwhelming majorities—their Mar shal by a majority of 783. Last spring, the Democrats oarried tbs city for the first time, sleeting tbsir candidate for Mayor by a ma jority of 64. The Fusionists of Dayton, who carried that city last fall by a majority of 500, were to tally rooted at the election on Monday—all their candidates being defeated by an average majority of 100. Mr. Vallandiohah has been repudiated in bis own home ! In Cincinnati, the Democracy elected one half the city officers and a majority ol the oonncilmen. In October last, the " Union” State ticket had one or two thousand majority NEWS OF I.AST WEEK. There is no very important event to rocord respecting the war. Each oolumn of the Fed eral army is gradually advancing. Banks has proceeded up the Shenandoah valley to Har risonburg, while Jackson’sarmy is retreating before him in the direotion ot Gordonsville.— Gen. Hallcck is within a short distance of Beauregard at Corinth, and wo . presume neither army is yet prepared for another battle’. Com. Foote is bombarding Fort Wright on the Mississippi. Gen. McDowell has occupied Fredericksburg on his advance towards Rich mond, while MoClellan is entrenching, &0., preparatory to attacking Yorktown. La test accounts state that Burnside has again occupied Elizabeth City, with some loss; while the surrender of Fort Pulaski is confirmed We have nothing very late from the neigh borhood of New Orleans. Indeed the past week was one of preparation—the present -may be one of battles and results. Utah. —Brigham Young was dnly eleoted 88 Hoyarnor of the State of Deseret on the j 3rd (Mast month. Hon. H. O. Kimball baa been eleoted Lieutenant Governor, and John M. Bernhisel representative. A meeting of the General Assembly will be held on the 14th of the present month to elect United Statps Senators,, one of whom is expected to beex-dalegateHooper. , _ timirornuNm. We hopeand trust, says': the -Allsntown Democrat, Hoi theradioahsts (of the Rmticeiy •tamp) which were: McClellan occupied Manassas wUjjMjSt “wad/ ihg ofjblood," havphid their the' Pittsburg tending. ?-Thi«s was bloodenbugh gheddn those occasions to sufflee,jih our opinion, for# whole campaign, and we trust that the moat exacting of gnimbling Abolition' radicals will agree with os. The contempla tion of each a massacre makes the hearttnfh sick and the blood ran cold; bat of coarse it was unavoidable, and, like all other inevitable afflictions, we most submit to it with the best graoe we can mnster. Law and order most be maintained, and legitimate government most be supported, at all hazards, or else w® have nothing left .bint anarchyand revolution. This horrible sacrifloe of haman life, is the penalty we most pay for our national indis cretion. The Union is being ire-baptised in the blood of its martyrs. May that baptism secure it what it seeks—an immortality 1 Bat, leaving Gen. McClillan to his ulti mate triumph over these Abolition vipers, let us return to the consideration of that lust for bloodshed which seems to characterise the latter. We entertain an intense disgust for all such sanguinary oowards, and so must every man who regards a oivil war in its proper light. In meeting a foe upon foreign soil, or in struggling with the invaders, of our native land, the spirit of wholesale slaughter may possibly have something to justify it, in the face of humanity, for the wanton destruc tion of human life. 'ln warring with erring brothers, at home, we have no such justifica tion for an inoonsiderate massacre either of onr gallant volunteers or of the ranks of enemy. It is a species of barbarity to uphold, at any time, the ferooious idea of “ wading through rivers of blood” to overthrow an op ponent who may be subjugated by means less destructive, but it is peculiarly reprehensible in the eyes of civilization when that opponent is of our own kith and kin; when, however wioked his attitude of rebellion, it is our duty to win, as well as coeroe him to his allegiance, by mingling a wise forbearance with over whelming force, a discreet magnanimity with a rigid respect for justice. And this is the doctrine of every citizen whose patriotism Is in his sonl instead of in his pocket; who loves his own country more than be does Ethiopia; who iB quite as earnest in his sympathy for the heroes of our battle-field as for the “ con trabands” they liberate, and no more wishes to see the soldiers of the Union butchered for glory than he is willing to see the negro , ill treated for pastime. It is only the abjeot cowards, who dare not fight at all, who are so anxious to witness the march of others through the gore of their fellow creatures. It is only he whose selfish heart is as bloodless as his face, who gloats over the heaped up corpses and bleaohing boneß of those who battle for him as his substitutes. It is only he who has no relative living with spirit enough in him to shoulder a mußketin defence of the liberty be abuses, who so yearns to hear the wail of the widow and orphan over brave men literally murdered to suit his savage notions of civil warfare. In short, it is only the quivering lipped truonlence which assassinated a Lyon at Springfield and would have assassinated a Mulligan at Lexington, that now denounces General McClellan for not having submitted himself and the Union army to a similar vic timisation at Manassas—and for the same reason, t. e., to acoommodate the diffidont ambition of a Greeley and a Fremont. MR. BLAIR'S SPEECH. Mr. Blais, of Missouri, delivered a speech in the House of Representatives on the 11th inst., which is supposed to refleot the policy of the President and the moderate wing of the Republican party. It is an able speech, abounding in sound and wholesome truth. In combating the idea of the emancipation ists that this is a “slaveholders rebellion,” and the shortest way to end it is.to decree unconditional and immediate freedom to the slaves, Mr. Blair says. Every man acquainted with the faots knows that it isfallaoious to call this a “ slaveholders rebellion. M If saoh was the faot, two divisions of onr army coaid have suppressed it without difficulty; the negroes themselves oould easily put down the two hundred and fifty thousand slaveholders; but it is a matter of history-that the slaveholders, as a body, were the last and most reluctant to join the rebellion. The representative men of that interest, like Badger of North Carolina, Aiken of South Carolina, and Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, struggled as long as there was hope against the rebellion, and for the obvious reason that the entire interests of the slave, holders were put in extreme jeopardy. It was the negro question afd not the slave question which made the rebellion—questions entirely different and requiring entirely different treatment; and it is as necessary to understand the distinction.!*) enable us to deal with it successfully, as it is that the physician should know the disease whioh he is called on to treat and to oure. If the rebellion was made by two hundred and fifty thousand slaveholders, for the sake of perpetuating slavery, then it might be a complete remedy to extirpate the institution ; but if the rebellion has grown out of the abhorrenoe of the non-slaveholders for the emancipation and the amal gamation, and their dread of “ negro equality/ how will their discontent be cured by the very measure the mere apprehension of which has driven them into rebellion ? No wise man desires to increase the number of enemies to the State within the hostile regions or divide its friends outside. Mr. Linooln knew that a decree of emancipation simply would certainly have this effect. Snob an act he knew was oalonlated to make rebels of the whole of the non-slave holders of the South, and at the same time to weaken the sympathy of a large number of the working men of the North, who arenot ready to see their brethren in the Sonth put on an equality with manumitted negroes. Again, Mr. Blltr asks: How will you execute a degree of emancipation which will set free the slaves of the South upon the soil and among a people the whole body of whom are opposed to it, and who have taken np arms in rebellion against this very idea of negro equality ? It oan only be done by the presence of an im mense army, sufficient to prevent the white race from re-enslaving the blaok, and by waging a con stant war upon the people of onr race for the protec tion of the black race. How long would it be en dured by the Northern people that a war should be waged upon the people of their own race at the South to make the blaoks their equals ? £ do not believe that any party could retain power at the North upon snob an issue. We should not overlook another consideration in dealing with this subject. Oar armies are composed of men, and men aot alike under similar circumstances. Northern men in the Sonth are not noted for any particular prejudice against slavery, and the soldiers whom it will be necessary to maintain at the South in order to secure the freedom of the enfranchised slaves, may come to look upon the matter in a different light, and the result may be simply a change of masters for the slaves. It is notorious that the contrabands are now the servants of onr soldiers. THE CAMERON REGIME IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT. The Philadelphia Inquirer says: “ A startling exposition of tbo mismanage ment of the War Department under ex-Secre» tary Cameron and Assistant Secretary Scott ia furnished by Executive document, No. 67, recently printed by the House of Representa* tives. It appears by this, that these two functionaries were busily engaged during last summer and fall making contracts for muskets and other small arms, until tbs aggregate of theiroperations summed up 1,976,240mu5ket5, rifles and carbines, 72,440 pistols, and 142,500 swordß; for whioh they obligated the Treasury to pay the trifling amount of $46,144,665.-- The arms were to be delivered, according to tho convenience of the contractor, at almost ; any time along in the next'two years, tho delivery of hundreds of thousands of them being ac commodatingly disposed over periods extend, ing from July, 1862, to December, 1863. “ While the public will be astounded at the vast magnitude and wild improvidence of these operations, there are other attending circum stances that will leave them hardly lees amazed. Whether we consider the exorbitant prices agreed upon, or the apparent privity with the bidders, or the censurable favoritism to defaulting and bogus contractors, or tho miserable inferiority of the arms thus procuri od, or the character of the contractors, (who were in large part neither manufacturers ot any kind nor dealers in arms,) .or the impolicy of the Department bringing into the field so many bidders to oompete with itself in the markets of Europe—-allehow a reokless system of; extravagance and jobbing, and a want of fortsight and administrative ability, shocking *> ,the institfete of every honest citizen 1 and well trained businessman. Everypart eftfie' book is , filled with oases Ulnstratisg the The Norik Aauria^n^miiiMsday: last, bad an editorial upon the present of onr military affaire, which takes SveiryT gloomy view of the sutgeefc The subjoined paragraphs indicate its tame:.-, 7 .... • to the. troops. No beta re-oeoupied the town. Weeanuo* take sufficient troopsafter the same. Operations have been begonagainat New Orleans with a force so totally inadequate as to render the enterprise perilous. Pensa cola baa been nearly abandoned by the rebels, yet we have not force enough there to go and take what lies awaiting us. Texas we have not .even touched at any. point, and .the expedition, destined to operate against ithad tobe broken up to furnish reinforcements for other armies in the field. . . Fremont has been planed in command of a department. covering an immense expanse of country in which the main line of. railway communication be tween Richmond and Mem phis lies, with so few troops that no one can tell what he is expected, to do- He hasdriven the rebels out of Northwestern Virginia, but has not men enough to attack them in their strongly-fortified position in the Shenandoah Mountain, while in Southern Virginia Hum phrey Marshall’s Brigade has not been even approached, nor is it likely to be. . The preparation of iron clad steamers fur niches a still mare remarkable illustration of our neglect. The rebels have already got ahead of us in this respeot; and if all we hear of their preparations at Norfolk, New Orleans, Mobile, Charleston, Savannah and elsewhere be reliable, or indeed half of it, we have reason to fear for our command of the aoast. How'any one can reconcile it with reason or common sense to ridicule these formidable efforts, or pronounce them failures, when the tests at the mouth of the Mississippi and in Hampton Roads prove their complete snooess, we oannot understand. There are others of our eotemporaries whioh exhibit an equally despondent feeling with re gard to the management of the war; and although we do not believe that tbe rebels are like to have either the naval or the military resonroes whioh many fear they will be able to make available, we greatly donbt the pol ioy of reducing the army before the great con flict has been decided. It will necessarily require a large number of troops to garrison places after they are taken, and every regiment so disposed of, mußt be deducted from tbe aotive foroe of the army. The farther our divisions advance into the rebel States, the greater will be the number required for this service. The time to reduce the army has not yet arrived; for if we expect to brmg the war to a speedy close, we mast hold every inch of ground taken from the insurgents. ABOLITIONISM RAMPANT. On Thursday last the following sentiments were uttered on the floor of Congress, by Mr. Lovejoy, of Illinois; The House. resumed the consideration of the confiscation bill from yesterday. Mr. Lovejoy said that while the Govern ment is engaged in a serious war to pat down the rebellion,, it was seen that this unnatural and parrioidal insurrection has sympathisers and advocates on this floor. Those who do fend slavery are the defenders of the rebellion; for slavery and rebellion are synonymous,— They are unchangeable terms. The Arch fiend, sent forth With treason marked on his brow, is represented by the great British poet as roaming over the world, exclaiming, “Me miienble! whioh way •hall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Whioh wayT fly is hell; myself am hell!” It is precisely the same with his progeny and first born, namely: tbe system of Ameri can slavery. Wherever slavery is,- there is rebellion; it is itself rebellion, its corner stone, pillars and support. He took the position that either slavery or the Republic must perish. He would tell the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Crittenden,) and all other defenders of the system, and those who cry themselves hoarse in attempt ing to throw the protection of tbe Constitu tion erouDd this destroyer of tbo Kepublio, that there is no city of refuge. Like an in fernal assassin it has its knife drawn, and is endeavoring to drive it to the heart of the Republic. We are bound to strike the mon ster, and gentlemen need not cry out “ tbe Constitution !” for its defence. It shall, he said, be slain, “in tbe name of my country and my God.” He denied that slavery has any guarantee or recognition in the Constitution. He argned that it was their right and duty to destroy slavery, becanse slavery is deitroying or will destroy tbe Republio. He was in favor of a restoration of the Union, with the right to stand on American soil anywhere, and pro claim his sentiments. He.wanted to stand anywhere on American soil without the en forcement of despotism to hold his tongue.— He wanted to speak in Sonth Carolina, Geor gia, Mississippi and Louisiana, without the threat of being lynched, or served with a ooat of tar and feathers. The gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Crit tenden) yesterday asked, “ What would the four millions of slaves do if turned loose?” Turned loose ! This term was used as if the slaves were wild beasts. Now, he had this to say at present. He wonld let them alone, to take care of themselves, which they were abundantly able to do. Slaveholders bad better turn their attention to another point, viz : What will they do when they cease to live on the unrequited sweat and toil of the slaves ? He denied that he and bis friends want to make this an anti slavery war, but they be lieved that the only way to put dowD rebellion, and restore peace and union, was to destroy slavery. FOREIGN NEWS. The steamship City of New York, which left Liverpool on the Bth, and Queenstown on the 9 th, arrived at New York on Tuesday morning last. A suspicions vessel, the Ovieto, a steamer of 750 tons, sailed from Liverpool on the 22d of March, ostensibly bound for Palermo, but supposed to be intended for the purpose of a Rebel privateer. Another vessel has arrived at Liverpool from Charleston with cotton.; Mr. Gladstone’s budget has been discussed in the House of Commons.— Daring the debate, Mr. Bentick, a Conserva tive member, attributed the distress of the country to tho inhuman policy of refusing .to recognize the Rebel States. The pirate vessel Sumter is still allowed to remain at Gibraltar and the Tuscarora remains at Algesirag. The question of floating batteries continues to absorb public attention in England; but the Government seemed Tesolved to pursue a cautious policy in entering on a new projeot of warlike defense, although they have ordered tho construction of a “Monitor.” Spain renews her assarance that itis her determina tion to abstain from any demonstration preju dioial to the independence of Mexico. The Times Paris correspondent states that the French and Spanish Governments now take the same view of Mexican affaire—a statement which may well be received with caution.— The cotton market ie firmer. Sales of the 7th and Bth at Liverpool 12,000 bales.— Breadstuffs still dull, but prices unchanged. Why the DirrERENCE?— The first thing that has been heard of Hannibal-Hablin, since bis election as Vice President of this country, was his evdouation of his seat as the presiding officer -of the U. S. Senate,. for the purpose of coming forward to take by the hand and welcome on the floor pf the Senate Wendell Phillips, the ohief disunionist of the North. . Hahlin evidently has not forgotten the words of Phillips, in 1856, as follows: “There ie merit in the Republican party. It is-the first eeotional party ever organized in the country. It is the North arrayed against foie South, The first creek in the iceberg is visible. You will yet hear it go with a crash through’the centre.” JGT The President has appointed and ths Senate have confirmed den. Cadwalader to be Majo r General and OoLGeaet to be Brig*. LOCALISED COURT mOOBBinXGI. The April term of the Court of Quarter IhOm w BaUbiit few ud Bums oa th» budi-Tb. attaßtUna of jmvn lbs flat da, wa, lumbßialnnoiMM. Th*'»or«ta».iwlia of Moag d*r wtaeaaygnj attoriac Jiif emartWi*' aßd? »k. t™oaertra or Orphiuf. Court aadOotmßanPtaai • •■. ■->■’’... • ■v _ Joht P. KOboiom, fer naUig flmitt agriust J. Ka tt«*ry, was brought Into Coart, and afterbearing the d*. 'taant’i ttwanvndiaiinedviUi utadaot forcoihL ■ ■* . '■ Another surety of the peace case, in which Stephen Bids was defendant w»lU«4«tnir hriV* eomplain •nt, waeffispotodof by ordering Stephan to pa] tha coats and gtreermrtty for bfeifood behavior. Otam Powell, for making eaadty. threats agatert KHsa Qainssli aji» was ordered loeptot into recognizance for her good Manor. ; ’• r' 1 .. Augustus Kletobaot waeacqnltted oa an indictment charring him with lareeny. John lh- Star, convicted of fonteatSoa and bastardy, received toe usual sen tone*. - ■ BBas Tucker, eoavfetedof an assault and battery on JTiniam jtoetaw»-was sentenced to fivamentb*? tapriMte mentiQ.toeOonnty Prison. -Bnmn Albright,-Indicted for was acquitted on toegropndoftnmmity. Si*Oonrtordered properprovision to nomad* for her. - ■ BamueLUdoh plead guilty tofaetag the father of a littfo Urieh, and received tha usual sentence. ~ : Baitar, residing on the Welsh mountain, was In aided for tooaati bat acquitted. Sh* testimony to unfit for publication. " ' Bobert Beard, oonvietod of larceny, was 'sentenced to three months* imprisonment in tha Comity Prison. William Thomas, convicted of fornication and bastardy, received theusnal sentence.: John Harris and Robert Proctor ware indicted for lar ceny. The drat "named plead guilty, and the latter was tried and convicted. Both were sentenced to ten months* im prison oenV each. John Hagen, convicted of fornication and bastardy, re ceived the anal sentence. A motion for a new trial was nude. Benben Beekmnd Catharine. Beck, indicted for area alt and battery on Henry 0. Bote, a aehool-teacber, were found guilty.. . : OomHh vs. John Thornton and Griffith Girard, forfrand niently removing and secreting their property. The in> diriment aecnses the defendantsof having removed and secreted property of various descriptions, with intent to evade the payment of n debt of John Thornton to William P. Cooper. It appears that Thornton rente 1 a woollen min from Cooper, and did not pay the rent; Cooper took a note for $250 on aeoount, which he (Cooper) got discounted, but It was protested and he (Hr. C.) paid it. On the night of January 81st the mill wsa running, lit np as usual, but in the morning it was stopped. Hr. Cooper then sought for Thornton, bnt conld not find him; he then, on inform*- tkm received, went to Christiana, and. found parte of the mill machinery in the warehouse there; he afterwards fonnd, in Girard’s possession, many portions of Thornton’s property, which Girard said he had bought and paid for, ana produced a receipt for the same. Among these were a horse, a rocks way, a cow, harness, melodeon, Ac., worth some $4OO, which he had bought, according to the receipt, for $240—48 Hr. Cooper said, “a great deal for the money.” After this Cooper and Thornton bad a .conversation, in which Cooper wished to make an arrangement of the mat ter, offering to settle if he brought back the property be longing to the mill, and that at Girard’s, give a judgment bond for the note for $260 already spoken of, and pay $2OO besides; this proposition he would not accept. Mr. C. made several other propositions, offering at last to settle if be would bring back the mill property and s2oobesides; still Thornton would not agree to the terms, and the proceed ings went on. A pulley belonging to the mill machinery was foond secreted in a barn on the road to Christiana.— This was the evidence of the prosecutor, Mr. Cooper him self (n his cross-examination, the conversation between the parties was gone over—showing that Thornton had claimed ne had a great deal of bis own machinery in the mill, for which he had paid, and eonfd not pay any money at that time: the prosecutor admitting that Thornton bad pnt machinery in the mill, the value of which he made $3OO. It also appeared that an appraisement was made of the property, which the defence showed was at Cooper’s in stance, to have the property fold for the payment of the rent; that Cooper was present and told the appraisers the prices of articles, in answerto their questions; that Cooper Issued a landlord’s warrant for the whole of the rent, while he hdd * note for a part of it, which wae not yet dne; that bo bought at the sale all the property, which had been §ppraised at some $7BO, for $158; that Cooper made a “trade” with them, allowing their beds to remain, and taking machinery which the wife claimed as her portion (under the $3OO law) In exchange, getting looms and stoves, appraised at $lO5, for beds, appraised at $5O; that Cooper bad instituted diverse proceedings against the defendant, and that his son had also got oat an execution •gainst him, to take what he had left; that be had. on the whole, distressed them more than was right. Verdict cot guilty, with county for costs. Many who heard the evi dence were of the opinion that the costa should have been paid by the prosecutor, to whom they were justly charge able. Juries do queer things, however, occasionally. Com’th vs. Elias Livingston. Indicted for passing coun terfeit money on Henry Fraim. ' The evidence was not ■nffident to convict, and thejury retained a verdict of not gnilty, in accordance with the instructions of the Coart.— L'vingrton was remanded to the Chester County Prison, where he is nnder conviction. THE COLUMBIA MURDER OABE. Com’th vs. John Johnson. This was an indictment for murder, committed by the defendant upon the person of Charles Watkins, both colored men. The case was called up for trial on Thursday afternoon. The jury was empanelled in the case in the usual form, several being too conscientious to servo in sneh a case.— The indictment set forth that the murder occurred on the night of the 16th of January, in Columbia. Some notice of the affair was published at the time, but wo will give the substance of the evidence as It was given. The parties are all from Colombia, where the affair occurred. Elisabeth J. Hutchinson, alias Hertxler, was sworn and testified that between 8 and 0 o’clock at night, date not re membered, John Johnson and Nathan Smith were et“ Welsh Mountain Sally’s” place, next door to Johnson’s; they were dancing there; witness went in, and Johnson asked her to sing him a jig. with which abe complied; in a abort time they adjournal to John Johnson’s next door; they had been there sometime (two colored womon, Johnson, Nathan Smith, and two white men) when Watkina came in and asked for something to drink; he was taking the bncket to go fur whiskey, when he and Johnson got to sparring; Johnson said, in reply to a cautionary remark from witness, that “Watkins might knock him down, and he wouldn't get angry, as tboy were good friends;” they then went out with tbo bucket, and after a while witness looked out the window and remarked to Nathan Smith that they bad their coats off; they then went oat and found them sparring; witness was going np to them to have Charley walk home with her, when. Johnson struck Watkins with his left hand, and oat at him twice with his right; Watkins fell, exclaiming, “Oh, mytl’m cut;”'wit ness had previously seen the blade of some sharp instru ment glisten in his hand; Watkins directly rose up, and Johnson made at him again, saying, “that’s what you want, yon son of a b—h, and I’ll give you some more;” Watkina then ran a short distance and fell at another wo man’s door; he was then carried to his boarding-place, and a constable sent for about 3 o’clock, when Charley was examined and Johnson arrested; the fight took place be tween 12 and 1 o’clock; Charley died 00-Batarday evening at 7 o’clock; Nathan Pmlth and John Johnson both went with us to Charley’s hoarding house (Margaret Loney’s). On cross-examination, the witness said that between the seven persons they had drank two quarts of whiskey. Nathan Smith testified that in the evening. Johnson called him In to take a drink at Sal’s; that the persons named by Elizabeth Hntcbinson were there; (his testi mony after this was merely a repetition of the former wit ness, and Is not necessary to be repeated until where he testified]; saw the wounds in Watkins* body; there were two cats; saw no blows in the tnasel previously, until the stroke by Johnson; we were about fifteen minutes in the house after Johnson and Watkihs left; they were talking mod laughing when we first came ont. On cross-examiua tion he said that they had one quart before the affair oc curred; saw no other whiskey; knew of no quarrel previ ously between the parties; never had any quarrel with either Johnson or Watkins myaelf. Dr. Samuel Devlin testified to the nature of the injuries; was called about 3 o’clock in the morning; found Charles Watkins on the:floor with two wonnds, one In the breast, the other in the abdomen; the first was about seven laches long, between the fifth and sixth ribs, and the long pro truded; tho. other was abont fourth inches long, and about eight or ten. Inches of the bowels were protruding; closed the wound in the breast, and attempted to rednee the bowels bnt could not, owing to the resistance of the patient, who could uot bear the pain; was obilged to leave him so until 10 o’clock-that day, when Dr. Bruner was called in; administered chloroform and ether, and attempt ed to return the bowels, to do so which I was compelled to enlarge the opening; the cut In the skin was four inehea, bnt that in the inside, being of the cavity of the abdomen, was only an Inch; we then closed the wound; nextuay there were signs of inflammation ; the next day it was folly developed, and some time on Saturday evening he died; the affair occurred on Tharsday morning; the wonnd in the chest was on the right side, and that In the abdo men on the left: these wonnds were the cause of his death; I told him I thought he would die; he uid he would rather die than be put Into such misery; during the same visit he made some declarations In presence of a jostiee; he said that It was John Johnson who ent him. On cross efamination be said the cuts might have been made in a moment; that they were sharp, smooth cuts, made with a ■harp instrument; Watkins showed no ill-feeling towards Johnson. Dr. Daniel J. Bruner said lie wss called in fay Dr. Devlin os Thursday morning to see Watkins; found him Is great agony; [he described the wounds just as Dr. Devlin's tes timony has already done, and corroborated him in other particulars, but produced nothing new.] Rebecca Jane Cate testified that she was at Johnson's between 9 and 19 o'clock ; that the persons previously mentioned were there at the time; the two white men, one a showman.and the other a soldier, both left in a day or two: Johnson was drinking; he took down a razor from the top of the cupboard and said, “this night I'm going, to cut some man's heart oat I" He then put the razor in his right trowsers pocket; she then went home, and saw nothing of the fight. On cross-examination she aaid: I don't know of any particular grndge between Vathan Bmith and Watkins; that Watkins told Smith that be [Watkins) had told Smith's wife, when she came out of jail, that her husband had been keeping company with Mb Hutchinson while Mrs. Smith was In prison; that this made an altercation between Watkins and Smith; Johnson was drank, more so than any of the rest; Lib Hutchinson was acting and “cutting up foolishness;" Johnson acted like a crazy man—was so drank that wit ness did not suppose he knew, what he was doing* The Commonwealth here closed, and a number of wif i nesses were called for the defence, but their testimony generally corroborated that of the Commonwealth, and proved that the whole party at the honee were drunk when the murder was committed. The testimony closed on Thursday evening. On Friday morning, A. M, Frantz, Esq., counsel far the prisoner, made a strong and sound argument in his favor, reviewing the evidence, and urging the Jury to remember that the whole party were beastly drank at the time, and that that circumstance detracted both from their evidence and Watkins' dying declaration. He showed that the evi dence for the prosecution was contradicted by sober wit* 1 nesses, who were, of course,, entitled to morq credit. He showed that the so-called admissions, Mich as that by the prisoner to the were a very unsafe and sus picious kind of evidence, and that, if any other hypothesis would aeeonnt for the filets, the doubt Involved Would force them to acquit the prisoner. On the whole it was an excellent plea. The District Attorney first started out by defining the difference between the degrees of murder—saying that such a state of drunkenness incapacitates thcmind for atHberaUont will reduce what would otherwise be a murder In the first degree to a murder in the second degree , but never reduced it below that* He then reviewed the testi mony, and dwelt particularly on that which bore most heavily against the prisoner—trying to invalidate the testimony of Mrs. Titus, (who was decidedly tbs most respectable looking witness upon the stand daring the trial) who was the main witness for the defence; claiming .that It was a murder in the first degree;, unless Johnson was so drunk that he was unable to form a deliberate pur pose; be thought there was no evidence of inch a stats of intoxication. The Judge charged the Jury, giving a resume of the evi* denc© for the Commonwealth and the defence, and defining the different grades of homicide, both at common law and by the net of 1794. The jury .then retired. About 1 o'clock the bell rang, indicating that the jury bad agreed. Ocrart met, and tbs jury returned a verdict of guilty of mnrder ln the second degree. . .. Johnson was then sentenced to an laVrr in tte Kutan Pcnllfftiifi for tan years. THE BATE HAKBOB MURDER CASE. Ha gafe_Hartor mnritor caw-mi called up tot trial at norm on IHday,. and after, oouldantiia delay a jury wax empanelled, rae Indictment waatton read, cbaralnj Lari Ned; Kanban and Bamnal NeR Sr, wttfcMlUngjnoob; Smaltsar on the rlyar near. Bate Harbor. The mordtr wax oocaaioned by ndtooteabont nflxb-pot in the rim. We gare a ibort aoeomil of tha mordar at tb.tim.it oc curred lxxt&U. Bxnrnxl Nell, Br„ix the ththerot Laxl and Benbeih. and 'lari waa the dafcndant on: trial,: -gt waa prored that the xbootlng waa dona bjr order of tba Ixlhar, —bo emus to bo ■ *ort of datpaado. Wa tjte below the eTl4enoaofapartlon ot tbawttnaaMe ibr tna proeecntion. the other wilmxxre only corrobdmtlag tuff aatimoai': ; in tbarinr, •* .v.y tawMlrfTTni nnfltar start rtotittaeTu" taaeteiaA river to tea that lt,te-coop>uy withjaeob fiiaaMiar [to* vma JUPrilfOiilMradtoite wwilhare i wewent eat to to Seffijtagbeii HeffiwofrßUte and them;tfceyoamehack, cud X askedthemWbnned given them orders to put a fish te at ay Unpaid they had taken their owvr to& toitea risiteteff would take their flMr W:tel I would Starts nut la my own agate they arid they wooian’tjteltrl atonrt how they vouht like if I, •ott doth* them itthey wouldn’t tek»ij|tout te gnod jtaeor, I worid take ttout myself; Sdartmßedhis totteSFto fight u*; I had an old axe ly ettOMduhkal ktwkri tbs rides off the SEfa* raised tteteyerson an# threw team Into theriverrJUwn loosened toe fltopot before, ahd let it float down the rfvecjwe toon went to wore.agatewere sitting there (ott the York comity aide, between tha canal and to* river.) abont an boar and a. half or two boon, wheu we saw the Nefb and the others ooaing op from their island with, three canoes; vre won dered what so many of them were .going to do; they went Uextto my lower fish-pot, and began to tear up at it; we than Jacob and myeslf) toward* the fish-pot where the Keflfc were; when wa came within 75 dr 100 yards of to* fish-pot, they fired off a gun; presently an other ganwas fired off; wa tom went oa slowly towards to* fish-pot. and when w* were within aboat SO steps, old Nsffi who was atendior alongside the fish-pot, retched over into to* fish-pot and pitted up a gun; I ealled ont to him, load, “don’t shoot, boys, we want to talk to you f* he up with hisgun, took a fair aim at me, swore some thliigfLeoald not tali whaA) let flymi struckme down ; th* ahot struck mi upon, toe thlgh and hip ; tha shot were what? ihm canod ascond-riaad buckshot; I knew nothing anymore; the boat was slipping along the will at the time; [witness produced the perforated panta loons;) there werefbor Nefft there, Bama*LBr4 Samuel, Jr-, Bonbon and Levi, and Side* and David Herehey; there were tore* gnna that I Saw; ffidea fired the first shot which struck the Water told Nfffshottheseeond time; he also aho* to* third tone, ud struck me; I was In the flrontpart of the boat, standing; -Keyset was sitting on a board In to* middle, and Jacob was In the back part of th* boat; the boat stopped against toe wall; the upper fish pot had been my tether*!; have fished there twentv five year*; have occupied the lower fish-pot two year*, which I bought; theaf&tfrwaa on the bth of September was on tha river, to Lancaster county. . K . I had lent tbe upper fish-pot to my neighbors, Henry Zsroher and Jacob Conrad; Eeyssr had a gnu when he went in the morning for docks; I had an axe; didn’t ua* It until after we talked; when Sides wanted to fight, Ja cob Smellier took off bis shirt and said he could fight a little too; don’t remember toe language used when they went away; Walton owned one-third of the lower fish-pot; he didn’t follow us, wedtng out; they didn’t motion to us to keepofT that I could see; I didn’t raise the paddle in a etrikhir position; I live about a mile from tha place; went to the York county shore.to wait for George Snoff, with whom I was to go to thesawmlll, to divide some boards; didn’t think of watching the Neffs; we said Walters should watch lest toe-Neffs-cut away the other fish-pot; that pot is about too yards from Walters’, slanting across tho river; didn’t attempt to strike Beuben Neff. By the prosecution. None of ua had a gun on the visit to the sscond fish-pot, when I was shot down. William Keyset, sworn—A man brought me 200 bushels of lime down the river; I was to come with the wagon at 10 o’clock; tfhen I went down the lime was not there; the man presently came and arid I conld not get the lime that day: John and Jacob Smeltser.then came here, as I was ready to go home; they asked me if I would go with them to the flshpot ; rtold them I would as I had a gun; there were five or six ducks about 200 yards off, near an island; I got Samuel Watkins’ gnn Dorn bis wife, as he wasn’tat home; we went, and the ducks flew away when within a hundred yard[p; we then went out to the fish-pot, where were Sides, Herehey and Levi and Beuben Neff; they were going off whan fimeltzer called them back.— [He then proceeded to go over toe tame ground as the pre vious witness in relation to the first affair, and it is not necessary to repeat ] After. repeating the starting out of their boat in the afternoon he said: While we were going we heard the crack of a gun, and soon after another; when we went ahead, and came within twenty steps of the fish pot, old Neff ratted his gun, and John cried, “Boys, don’t shoots we will talk to yon;” immediately old Neff cracked away, and John Smeltur fell back with hts head on my knee; I jumped up, Jacob standing behind him; one of the young Neffs raised another gnn, and Jacob hollored, “Boys, don’t shoot me, I will talk to yonthe gnn crack ed, and he foil over the side of the eanoe into the river, dead; the Naffa and Sides all jumped off In their skiff, and I halloed, “Boys, don’t run away, one man lying dead and the other not ter off;” they wouldn't hear to me, and went off; I jumped into the river and picked Jake up, and laid him with htt head on a stone, alongside the fish wall; I looked around and saw Samuel Walters coming through the river; he wanted me to take the body to the shore in the canoe; I told him we couldn’t do. that, we must get a Jnry over him; finally, wa took John and the body of Jacob to shore; theeanoe was standing rilll when Jacob was shot K. I heard none of them call out that we shouldn’t come near; John Smeltzer wasn’t ratting htt pole to strike Bauben Neff; It was the old man that shot Johnone of the boys shot Jacob; I said so before the squire; we found out afterwards that a.ball had gone through the canoe; Writers had no gnn; it was abont 500 yards from the Yoikconnty shore; the channel waa forty-five feet from the fish ; ot; Jacob was shot abont the navel; I examined his wounds; there were two of them; one place had nearly all the shots; the one who shot Jacob took deliberate aim, having the gnn at his shonlder. Dr. H. H. Bitner. sworn—l was called on to make a post mortem examination on September 6. 1861, on Jacob Smeltzer; I fonnd htt dead body on the York county shore; he had received a gun shot wound In the abdomen, with fourteen separate shot-wounds, two of them large enough to admit two or more shot; it might have been a ball; the shot had passed through the abdominal muscles, and also through toe lining membrane of the bowels, and had buried themselves in the large and small intestines; one shot had passed through the bowels and the costa, (he main artery of the system, along the epinri column; tbo ahot flattened; don’t know the kind of shot [ahot shown] this would of itself have produced immediate death by internal hemorrhage; I give it as my opinion that the man died of a gnn shot wound; any shot in the aorta, however small, would produce instant death. Tbo defendant, notwithstanding tbo adrerso circum stances under which he was placed, was given a most ex cellent character by a number of witnesses; audit was proved that it was through fear alone that he fired the gnn which is supposed to have killed Smeltzer. It was also proved that toe elder Neff was in the habit of treatiug and working his children like mere brutes, hitching bis daughters and sons in toe plow with ropes and streps, and making them plow on Sundays and other days. This evi dence &, doubtless, what acquitted tbe defendant. Tb# prosecution was ably conducted by Capt Franklin, District Attorney, and Samuel H. Reynolde, Esq., and tbe prisoner was just as ably defended by O. J. Dickey and J. B. Atnwake, Esqra. The easo was given to tbe jury, after a clear and inter estlog charge from Jndge Long, on Saturday night about 10 o’clock, and at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning they came into Court with a verdict of not guilty. Ihe Late Bishop Bowman—^Testimonials to ms Muio&t.—The congregations of Bt. James’ and St. John’s Churches in this city have placed tablets in their respective churches to commemorate the worth of their late Rector and tbe Assistant Bishop of the Diocese, Dr. Bowman. These tablets we regard as two of the finest specimens of ornamental marble work which have been in this city, aud they are highly creditable to tbe skill of Mr. Chas. M. Howell, by whom they were exe cuted. Both tablets are of tbe design of the one In St. Jamaa’Chnrch, erected to toe memory of Biehop White, and which Dr Bowman admired for its neatneßs and sim plicity. Those erected by Mr. Howell are, however, much superior both in material and workmanship. The material Is tbe best white statuary and black Irish marble, the tab-, let proper befog surmounted with a Bishop’s mitre, resting on the prayer book. Oo either side is a laurel leaf, beau tifully carved in white on a blaek relief The Inscription, the letters of which are symmetrically carved in the white marble, and then blacked, Is as follows on the St. James’ tablet: SACRED TO TBS MEMORY 0T ' . THE RT. REV. SAMUEL BOWMAN, D D., Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, and for 34 years Rector of this Church. KMIKSNT. IN HOUSXBS,' > BOUNTIOD3 nr caaairr, ZXALOOB OP GOOD WOKXB. To Commemorate his Wosth A grateful People have erected this Tablet. Born, May 21, 1800; Ordained, Aug. 25,1823; Elected Rector, Sept. 18,1827; , Consecrated Bishop, Aug. 25,1858; Died Aog. 3rd and Bnrled Aug. 6th, 1861. “ Be walked with Qod—and mu not.” The tablet la on the north side of the church, directly opposite that of Bishop White. Although the latter, made in Philadelphia, coet twice as much as this one, those who take the trouble to compare the two caunot fail at once to see the superiority or the Lancaster workmanship. It is also a notable fact that while two of the Philadelphia me chanics spent a week In putting up the Bishop White tab let. Mr. Howell nut his op in a day. . The tablet In Bt. John’s tt at the east end of tbe church, 5? i * J* 8 "* , chancel, and 1s shown in a much bettor light than that In St. James. It bears the following in scription : SACRED ' TO TBS ItKKOBT OP THE RT. REV. REV. SAMUEL BOWMAN, D. D., Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, and first Rector of this Church. Born, May 21,1800. Died, Aug. 8, J 361. thx iximxca a? Tins chttsch zb iros to bis xxxbct awd WATOHFUIOAXX. Ixstriuuiivg to the necessity of saints ; given to. hospitality. The Free Church, the existence of which is here Justly ascribed to the energy aud watchful care of the late Bishop, is of itself the most creditable and eriduriog monument to ms memory The text, taken from the words of 8t: Paul, (Romans, 12:13,) most beantlfolly tells the story of the Bishop « life and labor of love while he was with ns: for, like his Divine Master,' In whose service be lived and died, be, Indeed, “went about doing good,” “distributing to the necessity jjf saints—given to hospitality." Long will the hearts or his fellow^ittssna—especially of the poor • psriiMi where he labored—“keep bis memory green,, and at last bear testimony to the foot that, inas much as he ministered to the necessities of the least of these his brethren,he did it unto the Lord, with whom he W4 SF d ‘ “ and was not: for God took him” T® also notice that a tomb has been erected over the Bishop x remmlpx In St. Jamee’ Church-yard, nniform with those selected fay the Bishop himself for the loved ones by whose side he now lies—except that this one Is of fine Italian marble. The slab bears the following inscription : SACRED __ TO THE UIUOBT OX - THE RT. REV. SAMUEL BOWMAN, D. D- Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, and for 34 years Rector of St. James's Church. Born May 21, 1800. , Died August 3,1861. to& a £ «*** die in the lord from hence forth. Tea*jadh the Spirit that they may rest from their labours i and that works do follow fftem.”—Her. xiv: 13. .Over the Inscription, within a circle, is the mitre, sur mounted hv the cross and the Latin motto—“Aj cruxes —this motto and the cross belog the used by Dr. Bowman during his .ministry. This tomb was also executed by Mr. HowelL— Express. The Sfokteks’ Mat Hof.—The “ Sportiog Editor of The lutelligencsr’* acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from his old friends, the Sportere, to attend a May Hop, which they intend giving at Fulton Hall to morrow (Wednesday) evening. The Sportere, who are as fs. “““'lribatoTJutlon ix me. oepted, mod he wiu therefore plmeehlx “ bext foot fiMmoxt " 00 thlx oecmxioh, mnd Invitex mil hie friends to be tb.r« and see. Nousvtfons. THE KUITOR’B BOOK TABLE, n.—?, oln **»> Pabllxberm, I. iLPmuo* A inwiuiM. Philadelphia, an advance copy of “ Tbe Chan ”iDf,B.» Bomextle Norel of heal life," SCO octavo, I gifted author of “Tbe Bari's g^e ' Philadelphia Inquirer “THE CHANNINGB.”—“ We have perused the proof sheets of this new n<n:«l of Englfeb life just published by the well-1 n<ran.Philadelphia Arm of T. B. Peterson A Brothers. It* authoress lefts tttenisd Hn. Henry Wood, whose Earls Di«rs'iuid‘E*et Lynns.' have won a last jo* Mentation as works of literary. merit and genius. ♦TbeChanuinga* fully sustain* this writer's reputation as a trQthfnK delineator of human nature in it* various rtiases-and clurarffuA At tte present Urns; when so many tsmilias have heeu suddenly deprived of their customary wwurcMby the firaksof war, a valnable lenon may be derivedhy reading the noble course of‘Thr Channings' under similar difficulties. ‘Constenew'gains our wannest fcrfcJsofVteovarnere,'' while‘Oerald T«ke r Is much to be pitied for htr sad an predationofhwcharecter. ‘Arthur^SSSJ•SuS touch lobtotbsriyiffeetioo aa ( Hamlsh * in •GMloway»VM«d Nsnee'asd ‘tee the dfe , appototra jeitiov,«ra all and contribute i rssentieUy to the Interest of ths wbirii Inereaaes witt interest to tbe end. lt will nrove -to be-one. of the most popular novels ever printed, and will have an im~ ; neaas Mile.' It isrcaqplete in A knimtiw volnme’ of prerttree hundred pages, aadsohS at tnefewtffkie of fifty OMtor oopy/and wilihe anrooato anyplace, free' nlpostegfr onxearitting tbgtamoant.tottipp^ittarain. WAE NEWS. Tla* Q rear Beanes— JttmSrtrof Skeletons—*Ttee Dend aad _ , .Westent toPrinirenUbue fo bs' AIM with latter* from to* batti+Oriu 0 f Shikthor FKtabur£i*nfiiog, descriptive riurideete of the temme ..engagement. A AteMMrisnt of toe BwLoutt Btputefrn writes : - wa impontbte to ativ* without eantion, •■AtedJS*® **re thickly evrxiwhire fof miles— ppnletinfi * dezsn ip* space of as many feet. No raeh *B*ft* «*«r Jiefore 'sdtuMissdahrAmMiea: Th* oppo- P*ntetttyttthvhadfoUen,qaenlhebodlsar.f os* heaped upon thoto of the other. Wonnded meo, uanglad horses, crushed bedtee, axtended so interminably tt wts impossible to pan through them, sad the visitor would finally h* compelled to.turn and retrace hia atop*. . . Bates hid soaked the gronnd and covered It with pools of water, acid sometimes th* wounded coaid be seen crawl ing on to the dead and lying there to keep off from the damp earth. Many had died In'that position, and not a few of thr deatha ware - caused by exposure. . Physicians were busy, laboring nobly, hot instruments became blunted and useless, and surgtons dropped with fatigue at their posts before a fiftieth part of th* work had been done. Namben were drowned hy being unable to -crawl • away from'ihe positions where they had rallen, aodln'which the water rapidly collated. \ Your reader* can form sane Idee of the'esrnsge by picturingk wrik as ter as from Bb Loutt to the Bair Grounds among dead and djing, stretched, awpy ont of right on'etther side. The woods, ter beyond •or picket guards, are bring explored, and hundreds of injured; abandoned by tbe enemy on their retreat,'brought in. Every house between-here and Corinth <s a hospital. We visited several of them aud fouud the floor* covered with poor wretches, lying in pool* of blood, their arms or legs torn off; Days passed withont any nourishment, and in half the cases death outstripped tbe phyridana, and waa coming to their relief. Certainly a greater soene of wide-spread misery never The first day or two toe air was filled with groans, sobs and phrencied- enrsee, but now toe sufferers are quiet; not from cessation of pain, but mare exhaustion. We frequently, a little to one side, where first the ambu lances, afterwards the dead carts, had foiled to flod them, came across the bodies of men who had bled to death. Around them tbe grass was stained with blood, and often their hands were grasped convulsively on a few leaves, with which they had endeavored to stop the life-tide, until growing teinterand fainter, they had glven up in despair and laid back to die. One poor fellow, a boy,'who could not have been over fourteen, wav lying against a tree, a knife in his hand, with which he had carved the letters John. Da- The N-was but partiady finished, when death had compelled him to give np the gloomy task of carving htt own epitaph. The terrible destruction caused by cannon balls was evidenced in the sight of three bodies mangled tty the same shot The latter, a twelve-pounder, had attack a fourth man, while he waa evidently in a sit ting rostnre, hitting Immediately an the top of the head, and driving the fragments of ttull downward into the body, toe shot remaining half hidden between the should ers. I saw in three houses near onr outer pickets, and two miles from the battle gronnd, four wounded rebel captains and thirty or forty privates. Beauregard, as he retreated bore back with him htt wounded, leaving them in houses, barns, and fence orne sby the way. It la thus they are strewn over so great *a. space. One. of tha officers was being carried to a wagon as we stopped, and in the height of delirium waved an arm above his. head, cheering imaginary companies on to attack. It will be a week before all can be collected and taken care of, as the further ont onr pickets go, the' thicker they find them. Now tbe battle is over, it becomes a subject of wonder that the loss on both sides was not even greater. For two days the ballets flew withont cessation, and passed like a storm of destruction through the woods and camp. We were unable to flod, over the entire area of huudreds of acres, where tbe sternest tiring took place, a single tree that was not scarred- Some had thirty or forty bnlleta embedded in them, while shot and shell had covered the ground with limi-sand trunks. EURTfSfi TUB DEAJv A correspondent of tbe Cincinnati Tima writes: The bonndaries of the battle field are marked by graves. Bome are within half a mile ot tbe river, and thence they extend for ont the Corinth road. Each National ’ grave is marked hy a head board, containing tbe name of tbe de ceased. The rebels ere buried in pits. I saw one that contained one hundred and forty-nine bodies. Many of the wounded secessionists died before they were fonnd after the battle. One party of some forty men were found in a ravine, where they had crawled to obtain water, and some died with their heads in the brook. Another party was found close to the Corinth road, partially con sumed by lire. It seems that they had been placed,probably for shelter, in a pile of brash, and then deserted. Onr shells set fire to the brush heap, and two days after the battle their crisped bodies were found. ‘7 Fort Jackeon Bombarded, The Norfolk- Day Bool: has telegrams from New Orleans, giving intelligence of the bombardment of Fort Jackson, on the Mississippi, below that city. If ita accounts be cor* rect the attack must have been a very spirited one, for it states that 25.006 thirteen-inch ehell had been flred at the fort, of which one thousand bad follen inside of it. In war, as in politics, round numbers are suspicious, and we are under the impression that the figures here given are greatly, exaggerated. I tie not probable that such a quautity of war munitions would have been expended without renderiag the fortuntenalK and 5s still Use likely that of the shell thiown at inch a fort but one in twfnty five wru'd strike It. The report, however, leads to the belief that the forces which have been collected'at tho mouth of tbe Mississippi are at their work, and that we shall soon have stirring and more reliable news from that locality. Commodore Foote’s Position To prevent inisapprehenMon as to the exact, location of tho scene of Commodore Foove’s present operations, we may state that the fortification against which he is direct ing his energies is now called Fort Wright—formerly called Fort I’illoWk It is tho first rebel fortification on the river below New Madrid. It is near the mouth of the Hatcbie river, a few miles below Ocoola, Arkansas, on the opposite bluff, known as the first Chickasaw Bluff, somj twelve miles above Randolph, and. seventy-eight miles above Memphis. What Is now Fort Billow is Jnst above Memphis, at the mouth of Wolf river. Lite intelligence from our scoots proves that the rab-ls Lav© virtually abandoned their stronghold cf Randolph, where they once thought of making a stand, aud have concentrated their forcefl and artillery at Fort Wright. From Newbern. Baltimore,April24. The Old Point boat has arrived; but brings no news of importance from Fortress Monroe .or. Yorktown. Col. Sommer* and-Lteut. Carues came up this morning in tbe Old Point boat, having arrived there about an hour before the boat left, in tbe steamer Cossapk, from Newbein, They report that a fight occurred on Tubaday of last week, near the canal Jocks at Elizabe h City, between Oolonel Hawkins’ Ibth New York regiment and a force of rebels. The latter were repulsed with considerable loss. Our loss Is ostlmated at fifty killed and wounded. Col. Hawkins was wounded In the right breast and bis Adjutant was killed. Tbte fight la said to have token place on .Tuesday, but it is no doobt tbe one alluded to In the rebel papers. From Pittsburg Landing. Ontoieo, April 24. A special dispatch to the Times from Pittsburg Landing says that Gen. Mitchell's division has arrived at Tos combia. He has now possession of two hundred miles of tbo M< mpbti and Charleston railroad. Large reinforcements arrived at Piltebunr-XandfoK oa the 22d tost. w ■ . EXTRACT FROM THE OIINUTBS OF THE city: DEMOCRATIC execu tive COMMITTEE, HARRISBURG, APRIL, 33, LBB2. ’ On motion cf Wm. F-. Osier, seconded by William Hamilton, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted: Wh areas, This Committee is in possession of indubitable proofs of the existence of secret political sooieties in various parts of this Com monwealth, to wit: One in Lozerne county, of whiob Hoeea Carpentor is President; one com posed of Republican members and officers of the Legislature, of which E. W. Caprbn is President, aud H. V. Hall Seoretary; one in Dauphin county, of which David Mumma iB President and George Bergnef Seoretary ; and Whereas, The aforesaid Hosea Carpenter is authorized, by the “Luzerne County Loyal Union League,'’ to organize a Oonnty Conneil of the League in every oonnty of the State of Pennsylvania; and Whereas, The said Hosea Carpenter did, in the month of March last, arrived in the oity of Harrisburg and there organized the Legisla tive Loyal Union organization and the Danpbin C9nnty Loyal Union League ; aud -■ Whereas, The aforesaid. societies are.secret organizations, the members of which are hound by extra-judicial oaths, whose object is to elect candidates hy means unrecognized to the Constitution and the laws of Pennsylva nia; and .. Whereas, The article in the constitntions of the secret.. societies aforesaid, whioh provides that the ticket, agreed upon by a .committee of seven, shall noi he revealed until the morning of the election \ and the article which, nnder oath, restrains a brother from revealing {he name of any member of the Council, or the ex istence of, any such organization, except to a known brother, ure ample evidence thr.t tfj© ob jects of the eecret organisations aforesaid Bre illegal, and aim a deadly blow at the elective franchise and the liberties of the people; and Whereas, The name and title of the secret societies aforesaid, however specious and high-snnnding, are bnt a cloak to hide thosin ister proceedings of midnight conspirators ; therefore : Resolved, That the City Democratic Execu tive Committee of the city of Harrisburg hereby denounce to the people of Pennsylva nia the attempt now being - by certain Republicans, to organize in every comity or, this Commonwealth, secret political m close imitation of the dark lantern organi zations of tho past, the purpose of whioh is.to control township,, ward, connty, and State nominations for the especial behoof and benefit of the members thereof; to take a snap judg ment upon tbe people at tbe polls, and to screen from the light of - day, the dark maobinations against the liberties of the people, which may be devised, in secret con olave, by men whose oaths of, secrecy plaoe them,’aa they imagine, beyond tbe roaoh of the law. Resolved, That we recommend to the. Dem ocratic newspapers of this Commonwealth, the publication of the above preamble aDd resolu tions, to. the ; end that the people in their respective counties may be put upon their guard against the secret operations of the or ganizations aforesaid. _ A. 1. Rock fort, Pres’t. Lsvr Woi, finger, Sec’y. TOBACCO RAlSlaiQlN OHIO. Bnt few of our readers are proWbly aware of the quantity of tobacco prodneed in Ohio, Itappears that the Miami Valley, inßonth weatem, and the counties of Belmont,' Noble. Guernsey m 3 are the principaltobtcc o growihgßeeUona.-Themost of this tobaocp ia enlbvatea by gmairiarmers ■|S3^3SS?SSSS3Ss^SSaS-- psaassataMmi*
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