1t #t t gtntir GrO. SANDERSON EDITOR.. A.. SANDKILSON. Alsoeliate. ;LANCASTER, PA., APRIL 26, 1864 Air 5. N. Prieranani - k Cles Ammon Arum, 87 Perk Bow, New York atm and 10 nolo sizo Boston. & IL Thrersitorsa k Oa, are kw The &wade ishillpmestr, and the moat Morn= and hugest drool& lag N In tha Bolted Bedsit widths thasselm— nay are as to sontraet form at car lowest rates Wrlttataaz Awe" No. $ll5 Broadway, New ;1;2 are anthariebUo reoetie - advertte hor The pessoor, at oar lowest - rata. - I‘l..Toina Wzasizes Arritamoira Aar= is located at N 0.60 North 6th street, Philadelphia. He is authorised to native advertisements and imbarriptkois for The Lanouter S. inkaencer. S. Ngze, No.l Bcollay's Building, Court St., Boston, isoaraued Agent for receiving advertisements, Ac. OUR FLACK_ Now our gag is flung to the wild winds free, Let It float o'er our father land, And the guard of its spotless fame shall be Columbla's chosen band. "CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND.THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM "—DexuL WZIISTER. ser- Hon. ALEXANDER LONG'S speech, for the delivery of which the Abolitionists attempted to expel him from Congress, will be found at length in to-day's Intelligencer.— We advise our readers to give it a careful perusal, and then judge for themselves as to its character. Gold at 179 Per Cent. On Saturday, in Philadelphia, the price of Gold closed at 179 per cent. This reduces the value of Greenbacks to about 56 cents in the dollar, and therefore enhances the price of all the necessaries of life in the same proportion. Two dollars for one at the end of the third year of the war —think of it ! Of course the ex penses of the Government will now .be nearly doubled so far as the pay ment of interest and the purchase of supplies for the Army are concerned, and all this, too, in the very face of the specie certificates and other kite flying expedients of the Secretary of the Treasury. It will, at the present rate of depreciation of paper, cost the Government, at the lowest cal culation, four millions of dollars per day to carry on the war. How long can the country stand this drain upon its resources ? How long will the people be willing to have these enormous burdens piled upon their shoulders through the folly and recklessness of the men in power at Washington ? If the war is to be continued for another year we shall have a National debt to carry of not less than FOUR THOUSAND MILLIONS, the interest of which, at 6 per cent., will amount to two hundred and forty millions per annum ! Of this sum Pennsylvania will have to pay not less than twenty-four millions, or twelve times the amount of her present State tax. How are the people to stand such enormous tax ation ? This is a question of fearful import to every man, woman and child in our Commonwealth. How are we to bear the enormous load of debt which has already been saddled upon us by a blundering and cor rupt Administration, and what is the remedy ? Let the people reflect calmly and soberly, and answer at the polls. The Ship of State is rapidly approaching a terrible abyss of destruction, and nothing can save it, if salvation be possible, but the restoration of Democratic pilots to the helm. Enormous Taxation. Secretary CHASE'S letter to the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, dated on the 12th inst., will open the eyes of the people to what is coming. He says that " noth ing short of taxation to the amount of one-half our expenditures " will save the Government from bank ruptcy and ruin. Now, as it is ad mitted on all hands that our expenses are, at the very lowest estimate, one thousand millions per annum, it is easy to perceive that, according to the Secretary's published opinion, the enormous sum of FrVE HUNDRED MILLIONS a year must be raised by taxation ! Can the country stand this, is a pertinent question ? This would require an average assessment of $25 per head for every man, woman and child in the loyal States. Is this the entertainment the people were invited to when they were asked to vote for ABRAHAM LINCOLN ! The Valley Sentinel We have received the first num ber of The Valley Sentinel, published at Shippensburg, Cumberland co., Pa., by WILLIAM KENNEDY, Esq., late of the Valley Spirit. The paper presents a very neat typographical appearance, and Mr. KENNEDY has the requisite ability to make it a first-class journal. It is deserving of the hearty patronage of the De mocracy of the Cumberland Valley, and has our warmest wishes for the same. gar Butter was sold in the Syra cuse (N. Y.) market, last week, at 25 cents per lb., showing a falling off there of about 15 cents-within a week or two ; and in the City of New York it was selling at 35 cents. In our market, on Saturday, the Farmers still had the conscience to demand 40 cents per lb. New Jemmy ALL DEMOCRATIC.—The recent elections in New Jersey snow that the " Blues" are more intensely Democratic than ever. The Democratic gains in some counties are immense. In the city of Trenton the Miscegenators were beaten by over 400 ma jority. sir The Democracy of Peoria, Illinois, in the recent munic;pal election, carried their whole ticket by increased majorities over last year; and other cities and towns in that State dill the same, . —The town elections in Michigan, ?Niftily held, have resulted very tolerably to tbs Dentoorsay. POPVLAit f*" At no time, says the New Hampshire Pa triot, since the commencement of the war have there been such palpable and threatening in dications of popular discontent—of wide spread and absorbing dissatisfaction with the Government and of alarm at the inevitable effects of its proceedings. So absolutely irre pressible has become this feeling that the Be publican press has'been forced to give it ex pression ; and during the last two weeks we have seen some of the most able and Witten- tial of these organs uttering rebuke, warning and denunciation which, if uttered by Denso- orate, would be held as oonolusive evidence of " disloyalty," and bring upon them the °barge of seeking to give aid and comfort to the enemy. The New York Times, asserts that the rebellion ie abetted by the Republican majority in Congress. It charges them with "long and flagrant neglect of duty," with " faithlessness" and "guilt." It declares that " by their fault the prices of everything that sustains life are rapidly mounting ;" that " the ourrenoy is gradually turning into worthless rags," and that " inoh by inch, foot by foot, the Government moves on straight before the eyes of ita guardians, towards the bottomless pit of bankruptcy." It declares that the popular discontent is " profound and intense," and that those in power at WaSh ington " are the source of it and the object of it." The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, another able and influential organ of the Republican, °barges that the Government has perpetrated a great fraud upon the country in represent ing that its bonds were to be paid in gold and hen making them payable in " greenbacks," which, it says, when the 5-20 bonds are pay able, "may not be worth two cents per dol- ar," and that the holder of the bonds " may be paid in a handful of notes that will not buy him a loaf." It alleges that the Secre tary of the Treasury " pays no regard to the solemn pledge of the Government." It says the public debt increased $100,000,000 in the month of March, and was $300,000,000 more on the let of April than the Seoretary esti mated it would be on the let of July next. The N. Y. Post, one of the ablest, firmest and most ultra supporters of the Administra tion, warns the people that we are on the brink of destruction—that " we are in a boat which a rapid current is hurrying towards a preoi pine ;" and it says that while the evil and the danger increase daily, it sees no remedy likely to be applied. The same paper quotes from Brownson's Review some fearful remarks upon Lincoln. Brownson, a Republican candidate for Congress last fall, enlarges upon Lincoln's utter incompetency, and asks —" You ask not, can this man carry the nation through its terrible struggles ; but can the nation carry this man through them and not perish in the attempt 1" And the best Brownson, endorsed by the Post, can say of Lincoln, is—" His only fault is, the misfortune of being uncon scious of his own unfitness for his place !" The Springfield (Mass.) Republican is no less bold in its strictures upon those in power who are rushing us on to ruin through their knavery and incompetency. It says : Things begin to look equally. A Govern ment dollar is worth but 55i cents ; specula tion is running up the prices of the neces saries of life, even faster than the Government paper runs down ; the wealth of the country is passing from the many to the few, and the laboring classes are becoming dispirited and silent ; and Congress has neither the wisdom nor the courage to adopt the measures that are essential to avert the crisis to which all these things tend. Indeed. Congress seems to be oblivious alike to these facts and to the growing dissatisfaction of the people. The members devote themselves to polities or speculation outside of the capitol, so that i is difficult to get together a quorum for legis tion. * - . Congress has been more than four months n session; what has it done? What solitary practical measure of any importance has it perfected ? It devotes one day in every week wholly to buncombe speeches, and uses up nearly every other day in the same way. It is ready enough to pass fine resolutions against rebellion and slavery, and to pledge the re sources of the country to put them down, but when it comes to practical measures, without which there can be no success, it halts and stumbles and postpones, and acts as if it did not know what must be dune, or knowing had not the pluck to do it. * A. month more of useless talk in Congress will put gold up to 200, inflict remedilesl damage upon the business of the country, and so demoralize the people that any con ceivable catastrophe will be possible. There is still one source of confidence left. We have larger and better armies than ever before, with leaders of tried ability and courage, and at length a unity of plan and movement under a single guiding mind. The I salvation of the Union now rests with Gen. I Grant and his veterans. All that Congress I can do is to furnish the " sinews of war," and leave the Generals alone. Let a tax be levied sufficient to save us from impending national bankruptcy, and then Congress may either adjourn or amuse itself with President making at the expense of the people. But let the essential thing be done, and at once, or the people will soon be praying for a Crom well to drive the National legislators from their seats and take in hand the work they persist ently neglect. We might fill columns with similar evidence from " loyal" papers, of the discontent, die. satisfaction and despondency which pervade the public mind in relation to the conduct and, condition of public affairs. Everywhere we see and hear proof of this ; everywhere we hear the Administration denounced for its wretched incompetency and its lack of ap preciation of the real situation of the nation ; everywhere its measures are reprobated as adding to the embarrassments of the people and tending to hasten the general ruin which all anticipate ; everywhere is Congress cursed for its inefficiency, its faithlessness, its utter' lank of both the capacity and the honesty requisite to the task devolving upon them.— And as the result of all this, we see suoh despondency, almost reaching utter despair, as never before characterized a great people in a vital crisis—such indeed as but too plainly betokens that apathy and indifference which precede and invite the death of nation al and individual freedom. It is doubtful whether the people can he aroused from this state and inspired with the courage to make one vigorous effort for self-preservation. If Ithey can, they will be saved—the Union will be restored and their personal rights preserv ed ; but if not, all is lost. Taxation. " The people demand taxation," say the Republican papers. Such people are scarce in this region ; but if any such there are, they have but to " wait a little longer ' and their wish will be fully gratified. It is all very patriotic for those who are sub ject to little taxation, those whose money is invested in Government stocks exempt from taxation, and those who are making fortunes out of the war—it is very patriotic for such people to " demand taxation " upon their less favored neighbors; but we are inclined to think that honest, industrious, hard-working people, who find it difficult to pro vide for their families the very neces saries of life, do not join in the shod dyite " demand for taxation." It is adding insult to injury to represent the mass of people as demanding on increase of the burthens which now oppress them. IPZ OH. In the United States Senate, April 7, Mr. HEIIDEILEON, of Missouri, made an elaborate speech in favor of the proposed amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery. He is one of the ablest advocates of the Abolition of slavery throughont the nation, and one of the devoted adherents to the National ;Ad ministration, in Congress ; yet he used lan guage which, it appears to us, expressed sen timents so similar to those pronounced by Mr: Loma, that it would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer to tell the difference. We quote from Mr. HINDMISON'S speech : * * * If it become evident that the friends of slavery are staing enough in this country to resist all reasonable efforts to subdue them, I shall act upon it. lam not prepared to ruin the country in a vain effort to do what cannot be done. Shall this war go on forever?. Is this common cry of " the last man and the last dollar," poetry, patri otio or braggadocio? Should the war go on until the public debt equals the entire wealth of the country ? Should the whole capital of the people be forced into Federal securi ties, and these securities made the basis of an irredeemable paper circulation ? Should it go on until misery broods over the whole land ; until the civil authorities shall become impo tent, and all rights of person and property stand at the mercy of military power ? Should it go on until the members of the Senate and House of Representatives shall •owe their places here to the bayonet instead of the ballot box ; until they become as contemptible as the Rump Parliament that so long enacted the bidding of military usurpation to the over throw of the English Constitution, to be finally expelled from place by the power they had so basely served ? Should it go on until cor ruption and fraud, the necessary concomitants of civil war shall have crept into high places and put on the garb of patriotism ; until offi cers become so numerous that official patron age may quarter one-half of the people upon the other half and give them the means of perpetuating their own power 1 Should it continue until, exhausted, the nation would welcome the coming of a Cromwell or a Bonaparte; until provost marshals with mili • tary police shall be stationed in every village in the Northern States, displacing the civil authority, issuing orders for governing people heretofore supposed to be able to govern themselves, teaching how God shall be wor shipped, prescribing new and strange offences, and punishing them by courts-martial ? Should it continue, until financial ruin brings misery, and misery rushes into anarchy, when no hope but despotism is left? Mr. President, a few years more of civil war, and the outlines of this picture will be seen. It cannot be otherwise. It is the necessary result of a long civil strife. Peace parties will spring up ; the war party will denounce them as traitors ; the publication of newspapers will be suppressed, and freedom of speech denied ; mobs will retaliate ; the blunders as well. as the corruptions of the war party will tend to strengthen the convictions of the peace party; the period being otos of violence, each party , appeals to violence, the one to hold the other to obtain power ; the ballot-box becomes a mockery, a cheat ; in stead of proclaiming the voice of a free peo ple it speaks the subdued language of base subserviency or the bold tones of military despotism. ABOLITION HYPOCRIS Y The Republicans tried to expel Mr. Lora from the House for saying that he preferred the acknowledgement of the independence of the South to the extermination of her people. This was his whole offence. Yet in the debate upon the proposition, an Abolition member, Mr. GRINNELL, of lowa, said: " I would rather say a thousand times, let the country be divided—the South go their way all slave and the North all free—rather than to see the country once more under Democratic misrule." This is patriotism, but Mr. LoNa's remark was treason, according to Abolition logic ! The shameful hypocrisy and partisan motive of this whole movement, are well illustrated by this. But another little fact is equally significant in this direction. The whole Republican force in the House united in declaring Mr. LoNa's speech to be treasonable and well de signed to afford aid and comfort to the enemy. Yet the leading men among them subscribed for thousands of copies of this " treasonable speech" for circulation among their constilu• ents ! If it was treason to utter the speech, was it not equally treason to circulate it?— Yet this was done by the very men who spoke loudest and were most active in support of the movement to expel Mr. LoNa! From the N. Y. Herald I 3=l=:l=3:l The following table shows the relative value of a currency dollar to coin at the different rates of premium from 1 to 100. The frac tions given are as near the cents as they can be approached without the aid of parts of mills. The table will be found valuable for preservation, and will tend to undeceive many who are of the impression that the amount of premium must be subtracted from the cur rency dollar in order to ascertain its relative value : I aloe of a Cur. Dollar. Prem 101.- 101- 103.- 104... 106._ 106.- 107.- 108.- 109... 110... 111... 112... 113 114 116 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 • 126 127 128 . 129 130 131 132 133 184 135 136 137 138 139 140 140 142 143 144 146 146 147 148 149 160 .95~ .94 t g .908 ler The N. Y. World, in reply to the slang of the Tribune, enumerates some of the classes who will certainly support the Republican candidate for the Presidency, as follows : 1. All the howling, bloodthirsty fanatics from Mai ie to California. 2. Every blaspheming infidel and atheist in the country. 3. The filthy praoticers of the doctrine of miscegenation ; every one of them. 4. Every idle and dissolute negro. 5. All the thievish shoddy contractors—the vultures who fatten on the publio waste and offal of the State. 6. The army of corrupt office-holders. 7. The great stook gamblers without ex oeption. 8. All the speculators and extortioners who are running up prices at the expense of the p00r... 9. The Men who pay poor sewing:women starvation prices for work on army clothing. This list might be extended indefinitely, but it will suffice. How does tho Tribune like this application of its own argument? THE CONFEDERATE ARMY A statement was recently made in the Confederate Rotate of Representatives, giving the numbers of troops supplied to the army by the respective States since the war began, ae follows: Alabama has famished 40,000 ; Georgia, 54,000 ; Louisiana. 38,000 ; liiistiseippl, 40,000 ; North Caro lina, 25,000 ; South Carolina, 25,000 ; Texas, 29,000; Tennessee, 34,000 ; 103,000 ; Arkansas, 28,000; Kentucky; 20,000; hiarYland, 20,000 ; Mis 'curl, 35,000. Total--001,000'. 100ADDEPARTMINTi . COIIIIT PROCK E Dimas. The - April Term of the Court of Quarter Sambas was held last week, unamencing on Monday, before Judges Loao and Baurron. The list of Grand Jurors was called and Pun= Far, Sag, appointed p ori , man. Judge LONG charged the jury, and alter calliag their attention to the manner in .whieltAkmuttoskm before them were to be conduited, he alluded at lenitth to our public Institutions, the Poor House. flotattal and County Prison. Az we deem Shia pert of the charge of importance to the public we publish it in hill : PBIBON DIPASCPLINZ, as It also will be your duty before you adjouratoeialt the public institutions supported by the county. The press:lt gounty Prison was erected at considerable expense, for the purpose of lnaugaratlag that system of prison died- eights the distinguishing feature of which is separate confinement at labor. This system In a great measure is peculiar to Pennejlvants, which was the first State that adopted It as a means of punishment. When the people of this county had determined upon introducing that mode of punishment here, they found that the old prison, which preceded the present one, and which had been built at an early day, ghostly after the county was estab lished, was, like Most buildings built for similar purposes in thou days, defective in its structure and unfitted for the discipline which they wished to Introduce. In order, therefore, to accomplish their object, it was necessary to erect the present prison, or one of similar character, and possessing the necessary improvements, now considered essential to the moral reformation of the prisoner. There Le no community that we have any knowledge of that has manifeated a more benevolent dispoeiticin towards the prisoner than the people of Pennsylvania. When we look upon their acts, either u individuals or legislators, we And them acting as If imbued with the philanthropic spirit which animated the humane founder of this Com monwealth, and giving force to the sublime.Vreeepts of the Christian religion, In regard to those who have sub jected themselves to the denunciation of the penal laws of the country. Tradition, If not history, Informs ni .that many years ego, about the time cf the revolutionary war, the reforma- Von of criminals was a aubJect which engaged the atten tion of the citizens of Philadelphia, who, for the purpose of making their labors more effectual, formed themselves into an association, whose ohject was the amelioration of the condition of the convicts. This association, or one of similar character, has been kept in existence to the present time, and their labor of lose has produced fruit worthy of so noble an enterprise. Actuated by the same noble im pulses, we find the Legislature of our State a few years after the glorious struggle for independence had been brought to a happy conclusion, and when the adjustment of the difficulties growing out of that contest was premed upon the attention of the statesmen of those times, and claiming no doubt almost their constant attention, yet in that eventful period we find them not forgetful of the claims of humanity, and turning their attention to the improvement of those harsh laws, many of them being Imitations of laws which existed in England; and thus, I believe, setting the firstlixample in thin country of softening the rigor of those laws. and conforming them more to the genial spirit of the Christian religion. This act of the Legislature, the improvement of the penal rode, which then governed in this State, was a subject of gen eral applause. and an example which other common. wealthe soon followed. But the people of this State, as if never forgetful of the condition of that unfortunate class, whose offences brought them under the ban of the criminal laws,and as if always solicitous to promote their welfare, some years after wards we find them again, by their representatives iu the Legislature, engaged in the good work, in endeavor ing not only to promote their welfare, but alsdthe welfare of society, in trying to establish a prison discipline, by which the errors of the system then in use would be tier= rected, and which resulted in the adoption of the present system, viz: separate confinement at labor. The friends of the measure in the Legislature ware so well satisfied with the correctness of this system, that they directed two Penitentiaries to be erected upon that theory, one at Philadelphia and another at Pittsburg. The one at Phll• adelphia appears to be admirably conducted, and in a manner which has satisfied the expectations of the friends of that system of punishment. I refer to the one in Phil adelphia, because I have no knowledge of the working of the one in Pittsburg. Those Penitentiaries form the model of our County Prison, with perhap some modification. At the time the law was passed adopting this system there was much speculation with those who felt an interest in the subject as to the effect which such confinement would have not only upon the mind, but also upon the physical condition of the convict. E - xperience, however ' I think, has 'hole"' that, that, whatever may be its defects, it Is a decided improve ment upon the former mode of punishment. When the convicts were all congregated together, without dlscriml• nation as to the nature or magnitude of the offence, or the age of the parties, this rather might be considered a school of vice, than an institution intended or designed as a school for the reformation of the offender. The difficulties which have heretofore existed In some f our public inatitutions, 'and which have become a sub act of criticism and of public animadversion, have prompt :a me to make these remarks, endeavoring to show the 'merest which those who have gone before us, as well • those of our day have manifested In regard to a subject which, in every civilized and christian community, is a matter of great importance, (I refer to the proper punish ment of crimes and the treatment of criminals,) with a hope that the bright examples which they have set us might stir up officers who are entrusted with enforcing the sentence of the law, as well as all others who. are remiss in the performance of their duty, to greater diligence, and to a strict performance of the important duty with which they are Invested. Experience hoe shown that a law, no matter how wholesome its provisions, if . improperly exe cuted, fells short of its purpose, and but improperly answers the expectation of the lawgiver. Laws to be of (active must be properly executed; and where an officer neglects his duty, or is indifferent as to the manner of the performance of the duty, it will be in vain to look for any favorable result from his stewardship. The first duty of an officer is obedience to the laws, and when he heeds not its demands he becomes recreant to his trust, and where there is no proper appreciation of the moral and legal ris• sponsibllity in which his office involves him, be will be likely to fall in him undertaking. It was remarked of the Father of his Country that he performed his private and public duties with reference to his future responsibility. Influenced by considerations of this kind, no officer, pea sensing sufficient abilities, will be likely to come short of what in required of him. The manner in which the public institutions of a coun try are conducted in sometimes viewed as reflecting the character of Its citizens. It is therefore of great import ance that ours should be of a model character, and this consideration ought to be an additional incentive to the officers having charge of them to the proper performance of their duty. In the views which I have expressed I do not wish to be underetcod as having any personal allusion. Most of the persons now having charge of our public institutions have been placed there too recently and the time has been too short to develop their official character; but I wish this to be considered a general call to duty. To their, who have heretofore been wide awake upon the subject and have lived up to the requirements of the law, of course the remarks which I have submitted will have no applica tion. The morning session of the Court on Monday was occu pied in receiving constables' returns, and the transaction of business in the Common Pleas and Orphans' Courts. In the case of the Com'tla vs. Samuel Spindler, a verdlc of not guilty was token. • Com'th vs. Elias Futer. This defendant was convicted of an assault and battery upon the person of Mary Dorn bough, and was - sentenced to pay a tine of twenty-flee cents and costs. John Dubree was adjudged to be the father of a babe whom he was unwilling to own, and received the usual sentence. e. Elizabeth Reese, wife of 'inches Reese of this city, was convicted of selling liquor without license, and sentenced to pay a fine of $6 and costs • Jacob Fraser, for threatening violence to the person of Samuel Farmer, Was bound over to keep the peace and pay a fine of po and costs. John Hagen was charged with fornication and bastardy on the oath of Recta Shenk. Verdict goilty of fornication alone. Sentenced to pay a fine of $1 and costs. Com'th vs. Isaac Bowman. Charged with removing a line stone or land mark between a tract of land owned by himself and another owned conjointly by Benjamin B. Herr and Amos L. Witmer, of Strasburg township. Verdict nut guilty, with Bowman for ono-third of the costs, and Herr and Witmer for the remainder. William Hughes plead guilty to using incendiary lam gettge inciting to riot, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $1 and costs. Com'th vs. ilittay Frederick. Larceny of some articles from Daniel Herr and Joseph Boyd. Sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each Indictment. Mice Cecilia Doyle was complained against by Miss Anna Bullock, for choking her in Rersier's Beer Saloon, ou Dinah'a 11111, this city. Judge Long thoughtvery pro perly that beer houses were no places for young women, and sentenced each to pay a fine of $l, and divided the costs between them. Com'th va Charles Krauts Indicted for malicious mischief on the property of Christian Elchman, on Fre mont street, this city. Verdict not guilty, and county for costs Com'th ye. Henry Shelly. Indtoted for seduction, fond cation and bastardy. The prosecutrix having died since the charges were preferred, the indictment for seduction was withdrawn, and a verdict of guilty was rendered on the other charge. Sentenced deferred on account of a motion for a new trial being made . Com'th vs. John Mace. Indicted for the larceny of a [ alue y. Cur. Dollar. ..65 X 6 61 F' ) 63r; -627/ horse from Peter Heruby, of Rapho township. Verdict guilty, Senhenced to four years' imprisonment In the County Prison. Com'th Samuel McCormick. Indicted for the larceny of some turkeys from Stephen Girard Bickham. The jury, without leaving the box, rendered a verdict of not guilty. Augustan Miller plead guilty to stealing eleven dollars from the drawer of a tavern. Sentenced to three years in the County Prison. One of the first fruits of the disgusting doctrine of "Mis cegenation' was brought to light in our Court last week, and of course all the believers in this new fanatical theory were delighted at it, beings reduced to practice. An ugly looking black follow, named Augustus Dickenson, plead guilty to the charges of adultery and fornication and- bas tardy, with a rather good looking yonng white woman, named Sarah JOllOl4, of Little Britain township. Judge Long regretted that he could not impose a severer sentence than the following: On the charge of adultery he was sentenced to pay a fine of $5OO and the costs, and m !saver undergo au imprisonment in the County Prison for one year. On the charge of fornication and bastardy the usual sentence was imposed. Com'th vs Mary Henderson. Indicted for embezzle ment. Verdict not guilty, and comity for costs. Com'th vs. William H. Watson, colored. Indicted for assault and battery on hie wife Sentenced to pay a fine of $l and undergo three months' imprisonment. Com'th vs. Franklin Neff and Philip Flood. Indicted' for committing a rape on the person of itliasbeth Snyder. The evidence was so clearly for acquits' tat the Com monwealth abandoned the case. Com'th vs. William Sourbeer. Indicted for rape. The Jury found him guilty of assault and battery. Motion for a new trial made. Com'th vs. Nathaniel Garman. Three indictments, for Belling liquor without license, for selling liquor to minors, and for selling liquor on Sundays. Verdict guilty. Sen tenced to pay a flue of $lO and coats and ten days' impels. onment fur ceiling liquor to minors, the sante for selling on Sunday, and the costs of the snit for selling without license. 166 167 188 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 187 188 189 ,190 191 192 193 1194..- 195 198 197 .51A .51% 51 5C E 7 4 ,4 :50 1 % .50 Com'tli vs. Isaac Mclntire. Larceny at Marquart's Tavern in this city. Sentenced to six months' imprison ment. Com'th vs. David Evans Fornication and bastardy with Anna Heintleman. Verdict guilty. The usual sentence. Com'th vs. Elisabeth Slackly. Keeping a bawdy hociee, on Dinah's Hill, this city, on complaint of John %Wirer. Verdict not guilty, and the costs divided between the prosecutor and defendant. NEW STORE.—Mr. HERRMAN MILLER, the well-known Steam Soap and Candle Manufacturer, of 145 North Queen street, has opened a branch store at No. 33 Jtast King street, for the accommodation of his numerous Customers and others. Mr. M. came to this city some fifteen years since a poor man, bat by energy, honesty and pane• veranco has secured a handsome competency; and also succeeded in establishing ono of the largest businesses of the kind in the State. He has a very large establishment in North Queen street, the details of which he superin tends In person. ' In his business dealings and social intercourse he is an accommodating and pleasant gentle. man, and is folly deserving of the liberal patronage which has been bestowed upon him. CORDWAINER? STRIKE:—The Journeymen Cordwahsers attar city struck for an increase of wages a few da3s since, and their demand was promptly acceded to by the •'Bosses" FENCIBLES' RE-lINION.—The Bth Annual lie-Union of the LancastailiFeneibles took place at their Armory, Fulton Hall, eel Tuesday evening hut. A large number of invited guests were in attendance who did full Justice to the abundance of good things on band. Col. FRANKLIN presided, and speech, song, wit and 'sentiment were the order of the evening until a late hdur. These rivnniona of the. Ferielbles are always among the happiest of social gatherings. SPLENDID SHAD.—Our thallkti are due oar good D. mocratio friend, Mr. Grows Grim, who has a heart as big as tilmseP", for a pair of the finest shad we have seen this season. They were truly delicious and pal. stable, and the wish of all who•partook of them was that George might “live a thousand years and his shadow never grcw leis.' He dots a rushing business, simply because be always has an 6 No. 1 stock i n hand. • READ THE ADV:ERTIBEHENT of 'Squire ERB in today's Intelllgenetm He is Agent fur hicOonntok's world•reeowned Beeper and Mower. --- 11iejAites•Broo Ks 0 - Ai - Airiti. cur Dose is Anstsrme Stn. To EXILATI WHITI 11 tn."— We have the great pleasure of announcing that the Hon. lax= 810013 will posiltirely lecture before the Young Men's Deumoratio .odation of lids city. on Thursday evening, May sth, at Fait= Hall. Subject: Throwing African Dust in American Eyes. to Enslave Whits Men." It is a lather novel one, and yet not just so novel attar all. whin we 'ate into_ extsideration that the air is fall of just nub particles of but as ths distiogodstuvi gentlemlui rears W. Mr. B. is stray able man and an accompllshad - speatir. He Is a more thorn in Unsaid* of Ike Abolition members of Congress, and partladarbi the" Teroseable Chairman of the Committee of Ways, Mr. Thaddeus Stir rem, whose pet ruinous financial schemes ha 'handles without gloms. Gansu, Sreas.wcyrnsa.—Thia brave and accomplished officer paid a short visit to oar city on yes terday, to see his compatriot in arms, OoL lisweamme, and was called upon by a large number of oar citsens. The 79th Band gave him a hands me serenade, and he made a fitting response to the compliment. He left to the 220 p. m. train for the West. THE 792.11 To Lseve.—The 79th, we ander- Wand, will leave to-morrow for the Army of the Cumber land, the order to report at Chester having been revoked. Many a elgh will be heaved and tear dropped at the de• parture of the brave fellow.. Tae Passovsa.—Our Jewish population began on Wednesday evening last the observance of the feast of the Parsover, by which the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt L commemorated. The principal feature of this festival is the regulation concern ing unleaVened or unfermented bread, which must be eaten during the season of seven days, and is done to commemorate an incident In the hurried departure of the Israelites, by which the dough which they carried across their shoulders wee baked. In the eon while they traveled. This but takes Its name from the feet that when the Angel of the Lord was uniting the first born in every Egyptian house, "he poised over" the residences of the Israelites. Ramotous.—Rev. B. W. SCRif AUK, pastor of the German Lutheran Church of this city, has accepted the call of the Salem Lutheran Church of Lebanon, Pa, and will preach his introductory sermon on the first Sun day in July. Rev. G. Y. Kamm, former pastor, preached to Trinity Lutheran Church, Duke street, on Sunday morning and evening lest. The sermons ware exceedingly able and eloquent. Rey. Fasuanv D. Hokum, rector of St. John's Free Church, Spring Garden, preached his farewell discourse, on Sunday evening hut, to a crowded congregation. ON THMIS WAY Hous.—The Veterans of the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry are on their way home on a thirty days' furlough, and on Sunday week arrived ,at Louisville, Ky., where they were to be paid their bounty and draw clothing. The regiment is expected at Harris burg every day. Companies P and 6 are from ibis county. Mew POST MdSTESS.—Jacob Martin has been appointed Post Muter at Martinsville, in place of Benjamin Bees, resigned; William Rodgers td. Terre Hill, in place of William B. Shirk, resigned; and Henry L. Uhler at Pogue*, vice John P. Sweigart, felled to bond. —The Post Office at Nine Points has been re-established, and John M. Rutter appointed Postmaster. LITIRARY.—Godey's Lady's Book, for May, is embellished with a beautiful engraving entitled "May Flowers," a splendid Puhion Plata, Patterns of various kind., &a, att. The reading matter is also excellent, and the whole number throughout is one of the very tut that Godey has yet awned—and that is saying a great deal. LIST OF Juaoaa to serve in the Court of Common Pleas, commenting Monday, May 23 : Daniel Bowman, Brecknock. Hervey Brackbill, Strasburg. Henry Bruner, Columbia Bor. David Beam, Leacock. John Difienbangh, Etat Hemptleld. Levi Engle, Conoy. John D. Ebersole, West Donegal. Abraham Greenawalt, Elizabethtown 13.3 r Martin Good, Conestoga. Samuel Good, West Earl. Andrew Hackman, Warwick. Henry Hagy, Penn. H H. Kurtz, Manhelm. Henry Kehler West Hempfield. Samuel L. Lea d, East Cocallco. Joel Miller, Rut Hempdeld. Michael McCullom, City. Sanders McCullough, Drumore. JOeeph Miller, Manheira Bor. Henry Musselman, East Donegal. Benjamin Rider. Warwick. John Rohrer, West Lampeter. David Pfonts, Clay. Joseph Snavely, Leacock. Thomas Silvitts, City. Henry Steager, Mount Joy Bor. George Spindle, City. Frederick Saner, Manor. William H. Sproul, Sadebury. Jacob R. Shenk, Manor. George Twining, City. James Wood, Little Britain. George Wilson, Salisbury. Michael Wise, Salisbury. Jacob Zecher, City. GETTING SCARED 1 The Harrisburg Telegragh of Wednesday last has the following doleful,artiole in refer ence to the war.. It smacks very strongly of treason, but as it emanates from such a " loyal " source of course it must be all right. It is, however, none the lees significant: We are fast approaching the crisis in the progress of this- war. A oollision between the Army of the Potomac and that led by Gen. Lee, must decide, not merely the prowess of our soldiers and the skill of their commanders, but it will settle the destiny of the nation. It is useless to disguise the tact, that coin munities have now contributed that antount in men and money, which leave them on the verge wher patience ceases to be a virtue, and where great changes take place for better or for worse. Hence we must succeed with the armies now in the field, or the war will resolve itself into one of vast tumult, compelling every man to entrench himself in his own home, there to defend or perish with his family. We might as well be apprised of this fact now, as have it buret upon us suddenly in all its fearful reality. indeed the truth has been kept too long from the people—the nation has pursued its pleasure, the speculator has accu mulated his wealth, the politician has achieved his success—and all the while the people have been making their sacrifices, wives giving up husbands, fathers devoting eons, to swell the the ranks of the armies, that liberty might be preserved and the nation rescued from danger. For three years thie has lasted, and now the end must come. We cannot stand another year of expense, of waste by the loss of labor and the riot of speculation, such as have marked the three years of the war. The Army of the Potomac must end the war—or its defeat, during the campaign now just being.in augurated, will open the door wide for the invasion of the North, and thus seal forever the doom of the Republic. We believe that the great crisis of the war is now upon us. All things seem to tend to this belief. And yet strange as it may appear, those most interested in the business of pro viding against the worst that may happen, are doing the least. Indeed, if the ruin of the republic should oome upon us—if the capitals of the States North and of the nation, should fall into the hands of the enemy, it will be while the representatives of the people are engaged in vain struggles politically, or pro jests concerning themselves pecuniarily ; while Congress is frittering away its time in exhibitions of blackguardisem, while one-half of its members are pursuing their own inter. este to the neglect of the public business— while the speculator is oppressing and almost starving labor—and while licentiousness and riot fill the land. Rome to fiddling Nero did not present a more frightful picture, than do the States, that are loyal as well as the States that are rebellious, exhibit to the world. When all this will end, or how it will end, God only knows, and we can only say, God save the Republic 1 THE New COPPERHEAD MARTYR.=The last "martyr to despotic power," according to the Copperhead organs, is certain Hawley D. Clapp, whom Gen, Dix has committed to Fort Lafayette. He was the chief of a gang of bounty swindlers, otherwise called "brokers," who are estimated by Gen. Dix to have stolen four hundred thousand dollars from recruits at a single office in New York. These men have taken from $2O to $5O in return for bogus promises of special positions fur re cruits, they have seduced boys from their homes to secure their enlistment, drugged meu and enlisted them while unconscious—in short, have perpetrated every imaginable form of outrage and deception. The proofs against Clapp were of the clearest nature, while the offences came directly within the jurisdiction of the military tribunals. We submit, then, that Clapp makes a very fair Copperhead martyr, and we hope he will remain so for a long time.—Boston Journal. This " new copperhead martyr" was a Re publican candidate for Senator last:fall, at the very time when he was engaged in the rasoali• ties described by the Journal. He was one of the "vigorous prosecution of the war" patriots whom the Journal delights to honor, ' and was as loud mouthed and foul-mouthed as that paper is in denouncing as traitors all who oppose and expose the rasoalities of Government pimps: and public plunderers. These foots show the honesty and truthful. ness of the Journal.—New Hampshire Pa triot j In Milwaukee, on the sth, the , munici pal election took place and resulted in a sweep ing triumph of the Democracy. They elected all their candidates, with two unimportant ex captions. The News of that city says : The result is without a parallel and one of the most significant signs of the times. Out side a small circle of politicians, influenced by official patronage, Mr. Lincoln and his policy have no friends in the metropolis of Wisconsin. He% intelligent and patriotic population can neither be driven nor bribed from a consistent and earnest support of the free Government and fraternal Union established by the fathers of the Espublio. BPEEOH OF HON. ALEXANDER. LONG. COONOLUDED.] But Mr. Chairman, how do we stand in the eyea of the civilised world to.day,-in waging a war of subjugation and conquest against the Confederate States,' - which have seceded from mini:id set up a Government of their own ? Are we nQt inconsistent with all our former acts? Have we not been early to admit this proper with regard to others? There never was a people on the face of the earth that de manded an independent government, that did not have the sympathy of the American peo ple; and ought we now t ) shrink from the doe ttine we have been willing to apply to others ? y earliest recollection is the appeal made by Clay and Webster in behalf of Greece, in 1824, when they so eloquently declaimed in that behalf on this floor and in the other branch of Congress. Whether it was Greece, or the States of South America, or Poland or Hungary, or Italy or Ireland, the fact that a large country, for any cause, demanded a distmot and separate government, always re ceived the warmest sympathy and support of the American - people, irrespective of party. Even as late as December, 1860, after Mr. Lincoln was elected, and after the preliminary step! for secession had been taken, the paper having the largest circulation of any in the Republican party, and having more influence than any other in the formation of Republican opinion, declared that it could see no reason why, if three millions of colonists oould separate from the British Crown in 1776, that eix millions of Southerners could not separate from us in 1861. I have been as much puraled,!, as the distinguished Republican editor, Mr. Greeley,tto find looking at it as a revolutionary right, the difference in position. Ought we to shrink from the application of a doctrine to ourselves which we have been so wiling to apply to other nations, such as Austria, Russia and Spain? If we do what will be the judgment of impartial history? How much better it would have been for us and for the clause of Democracy throughout the globe. What a splendid tribute it would have been to a Republican government if we had parted in peace with our dissatisfied sister States, Mr. Everett recommended as late as February, 1861. sustained by such leading Republican journals as the Cincinnati Commercial, New York Tribune, Indianapolis Journal, Chicago Tribune, . New Haven (Connecticut) Palladium, Coluinbus Journal, and Salmon P.. Chase, now Secretary of the Treasury, and many others of that school. What in monarchial countries had required a long and bloody war, would have been ac complished by Democratic Principles and republican sense of justice. What a splendid proof it would have afforded of the capacity of the people for self government. What a valuable lesson it would have conveyed to the whole civilized world. The fact that we could rise superior to all prejudices and pas sions, and to have conquered ourselves, would have been the highest triumph that we had ever achieved. I regret as much, Mr. Chair man, as any gentleman upon this floor, that any of our sister States should have desired to cut asunder the ligaments that bound them to us. None would be more willing than my self to make any reasonable sacrifice to induce them to return to their partnership with us ; but still recognizing the truth of the doctrine taught by the fathers of the Republic, and so fairly expressed by Mr. John Quincy Adams, that our Government was after all, in the heart, it would be better, severe as would be the pang of regret, to part in friendship, rather than to hold sovereign States pinned to us by the bayonet, as Mr. Grimly expressed it in 1862. What advance have we made in the science and principles of government, Mr. Chairman, if we cannot rise above the Austro- Russian principle of holding subject provinces by the power of force and coercion ? -What be comes of the Declaration of Independence and of all our teachings for eighty years? After all, Mr. Chairman, it is not the extent of ter ritory which should be the Gbject of our de sires. Better sacrifice over nine-tenths of the territory than destroy our republican form of government. What our people desired in 1861., and which I honored though I regarded as mistaken, was the preservation of the Gov ernment and the retention of our jurisdiction over the whole territory. They were rightly willing to sacrifice every material considera tion for that purpose. Land is nothing, Mr. Chairman, compared to liberty. We existed as a Republio when the mouth of the Missis sippi was held by a foreign power, when we had nothing west of that river, when Florida was held against us ; and we could exist again, if by the chastisement of Heaven we should , be curtailed to our old territorial dimensions.) For fifteen millions of dollars we purchased the whole of that immense territory, and were it a hundred thousand times as valuable its preservation would not b; worth our admira ble form of government. Pride of territorial ambition is a vulgar:and low ambition of na tional greatness. Russia and China can vie with us in that ; but who would not rather reside in one of the cantons of Switzerland, or in Great Britain, than in those countries. It is not in the extent of territory we possess, but the manner in which we govern it that' renders us respectable. Many gentlemen seem rather to look to the quantity than the quality. All republics have been destroyed by the thirst of territorial aggrandizement and the lust of conquest. The great object of our government should be to develops and cul tivate the internal resources of those friendly to its jurisdiction, rather than to extend it over hostile and foreign people. It is in that character that true patriotism is to be cultiva ted and true national glory found. Especially should all republics cultivate the arts of peace, since it is by the war power that free governments are commonly over turned. The charge has been made that democracy is turbulent, warlike and aggres sive; but, if so, it is a terrible misconception of its true interests, for upon the people fall the awful calamities of armed collisions. An eminent poet has said—Lord Byron—that war was a game which, if the people were wise, kings and princes would never play at. The venerable Dr. Franklin, at the close of his illustrious career, remarked : " That there was never a good war or a bad peace." We have made, Mr. Chairman, by this war, eight millions of bitter enemies upon the American Continent. While time shall last, the recollections of this bloody strife will never fade from the memories of the people North and South, but will be handed down to the latest generation. The words Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Murfreesboro',„ Rich mond, Vicksburg and Fort Donelson are words of division and disunion, and will serve to bring up emotions of eternal hate. if it were true, as was alleged by a distinguished San- at6r from Ohio (Mr. Wade), in a speech in Portland in 1855, " that he believed that no I two nations on the earth hated each other as the North and South," how much more true is the remark now; after they have been ar rayed in such bloody contests. It is the object of the sword to cut and to cleave asunder, but never to unite. What union is there between Russia and Poland. between Austria and Hungary, between England and Catholic Ireland, where the sword and the bayonet- for centuries have been employed ? Instead of conferring national strength, they are a source of weakness to countries that held them in subjection, and which would this day be stronger without them than with them. Mr. Chairman, these lessons of history are full of warning and example. Mach better would it have been for us in the beginning— much better would it be for us now—to con sent to a division of our magnificent empire, and cultivate amicable relations with our es tranged brethren, than to seek to hold them to us by the power of the sword. Hero let me avert to the common, yet perfectly glaring and apparent error, that to part with our jurisdic tion over eleven States involves the destruction of the government. The statement of the pro position demonstrates its absurdity. As well might one say, who had a farm of two hun dred acres of land, that he had lost his little deed to all of it because, by some misfortune, he had parted with fifty. In losing the South, not one function of our Government over us is surrendered. It remains over us as completely sovereign as it ever did. Here let me say as the experience of my individual be lief, that if it had been understood in the North as in the South, that by the terms of the Fedefal compact a State bad a right to secede from the Union, this disruption would never have occurred. Had the North so understood the matter there would have been upon its part a forbearance from the exercise of extreme measures, and a desire not to press our Southern sisters to the wall, that would ever have maintained the Confederacy i.n broken. It was the prevalence of the idea of the Consolidationiets in the North, that the Southern States had no right and would not secede, that tempted them to that fatal policy that has sundered the Confederacy. It is said that no confederacy clan exist by a recognition of this principle, but such was not the view of the fathers of oar Government, Ballot the-viesrof &IRlison 16 their immortal resolutions of 1798 and 1799. It has been said, Mr. Chairman, that it would make the confederacy a rope of sand, but if so it is strange that the Southern Con federacy, where it is recognized, should hold together through such a bloody pressure as we have applied to it for the last three years; is it a rope of sand that endures all that. But to return, Mr. Chairman. As will be judged, perhaps, by the tenor of theseremarks, I am reluctantly and des_po ndingly forced to the conclusion that the Union is lost, never to be restored. I regard the dreams of the re storation of the Union, which are the pride of my life, and to restore which even now I would pour out my heart's blood, as worse than idle. I see neither North nor South any sentiment on which it is possible to build a Union—those elements of union whioh Mr. Adams described have by the process of time been destroyed. Worse, yea, worse than that, Mr. Chairman, I am forced to the conclusion that in attempting to preserve our jurisdiction over the Southern States, we have lost our constitutional form of government' over the Northern. What has been predicted by our be stand most eminent statesmen has oome to pass ; in grasping at the shadow, we have lost the substance ; in striving to retain the casket of liberty in whioh our jewels were con. fined, we have lost those precious muniments of freedom. Oar Government, as all know, is not anything resembling what it was three years ago ; there is not one single vestige of the Constitution remaining ; every clause and letter of it has been violated, and I have no idea myself that it will ever again be respect ed. Revolutions never go backward to the point at which they started. There has always been a large party in this country favorable to a strong or monarchial govern ment, and they have now all the elements upon which to establish one. They have a vast army, an immense public debt, and ir irresponsible Executive. Ambitious to retain power, he is a candidate for re-election, and as commander in -chief, it is charged (whether true or false I shall not undertake to decide), that•he has already used the army in the Florida expedition to advance his chances of success. One of the Generals he has deoapita ed (General Fremont) has entered the flald to dispute his claim to a continuance in power, and if the Chronicleof this city, the President's organ, is correct in its construction of the suggestions of the N. York Herald, speaking of Lieutenant General Grant, the question is already mooted whether-he, in certain contin gencies, at the head of the army would not be justified in assuming the reins of government. The very idea upon which this war is found ed—coercion of States, leads to despotism ; to preserve a republican form of government under any Constitution, under the prevalence of the doctrines now in vogue is clearly im possible. These convictions of the complete overthrow of our government are as unwel come and unpleasant to me as they are to any member of this House. Would to God the facts were such I could cherish other convic tions. I may bo denounced as disloyal and unpatriotic for entertaining them, but it will only be by shallow fools and arrant knaves, who do not know 3r will not admit the differ nee between recognizing a fact and creating its existence. A man may not desire to die, but nevertheless his belief will not alter the fact of his mortality. I shalt not in these re marks review the unpleasant and acrimonious controversy of who is responsible for the death and destruction of our Republic. Ido not see that any such discussion now would be productive of good. I entertain clear and strong convictions upon that point, convictions that I have no doubt will be shared in by the impartial historian of the future. For the present I am willing- to let the past with all its recollections rest, provided we can snatch from the common ruin some of our relics of freedom. Ido not share in the belief Cuter tained by many of my political friends on this floor and elsewhere, that any peace is attainable upon the basis of Union and recon struction. If the Democratic party were in power to-day - I have no idea, and honesty compels me to declare it, that they could re store the Union over thirty-four States. My mind has undergone an entire change upon that subject. I believe that there are but two alternatives, and these are, either an ac knowledgment of the South as an independent nation, or their complete subjugation and extermination as a people; and of these alter natives I prefer the former. Mr. Chairman, I take little or no interest in the discussion of the question which many of my political friends would make an issue, as to how this war sluff be prosecuted, its manner and object. I regard that as worse than trifling with the great question. I du not believe there can be any prosecution of the war against a sovereign State under the Constitution, and I do not believe that a war so carried on can be prosecuted so as to ren— der it proper, justifiable or expedient. An unconstitutional war clan only be carried on in an unconstitutional manner, and to prose— cute it further under the idea of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Stevens,) as a war waged against the Confederate States as an independent nation, for the purpose of con quest and subjugation, as he proposes, and the Administration is in truth and fact doing, I am equally opposed. I will say further, Mr. Chairman, that if this war is to be still further prosecuted, 'I prefer that it shall be done under the auspices of those who now conduct its management, as I do not wish the party with. which I am connected to be in any degree responsible for its results, which cannot be otherwise than disastrous and suicidal—let the responsibility remain where it is until we can have a change of policy instead of men, if such a thing is possible. Nothing could be more fatal to the Democratic party :than to seek to come into power pledged to a continuance of A war policy—such a policy would be a libel upon its creed in the past and the ideas that lie at the basis of all free governments, and would lead to its complete demoralization and ruin. I believe that the masses of the Democratic party are for peace, that they would be placed in a false position if they should nominate a war candidate for the Presidency and eeek to make the issue upon the narrow basis of how the war should be prosecuted. For my own part, as I have already indicated, I fear that our old Government cannot be preserved, even under the best auspices, and under any policy that may be now adopted ; yet I desire to see the democratic party with which I have always been connected, preserve its consistency and , Republican oharacter unshaken. OUR NATIONAL FINANCES. The following important letter from Score. tary CHASE was laid before the Senate on Satur day week. It is to be hoped its suggestions will be speedily carried out by Congress. It is surely time that they gave us more work and less talk : TREASURY 14P'T., April 12, 1864. Sir: Nothwithstanding the diminished amount of United States notes in circulation, and the gradual withdrawal from use as cur rency of interest-bearing United States notes made a legal-tender for their face, the price of gold continues to advance. This effect can only be attributed to one or two causes, and is probably due in part to each. First, to the increase of notes of local banks; and, secondly, to the efforts of speculators. I have already submitted through you to the consideration of the Committee on Finance a bill intended as a remedy for the first evil. I now beg leave to submit to its consideration a bill intended as a remedy for the second. The first bill, if it become a law, will have, I doubt not, the most salutary consequences. The effect of the second will probably be more immediate, though perhaps not of such per manent importance. I ask for both a candid consideration, and,, if approved, the favorable action of Congress. It must not be thought, however, that I re gard either or both of these measures as ade quate remedies for financial disorders. Noth ing short of taxation td one-half of the amount of our current expenditures, and a reduction of those expenditures to the lowest point com patible with efficiency, will insure financial success to the Government. And without military success, all measures will fail. Very respectfully, yours, S. P. Calm Secretary of the Treasury. Hon. W. P. FESSEND&N, Chairman of the Committee on Finance. EVACUATION OF PILATE.A. NEW YORK, April 23. Advisee from Hilton Head confirm the re, ported evacuation of Pilecke, Florida, by our forces, who brought away everything in the shape of military stores. They were•: not molested by the enemy. A number of Union families came away with them. A transport steamer, the Gen. Hunter, was destroyed by a torpedo in the St. John's river, on the 13th inst., twelve miles above Jacksonville. : , -The quartermaster of the steatner was killed. ; - .She had neither cargo nor peasengeq.
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