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uzo. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
SALESDELELSON. Assoctato.
LANOABTFA PA, MAY 3, 1864.
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Now out flag Is flung to the wild winds fres,
Let It float der our father land,
And the guard of its spotless fame shall be
Columbia's chosen band.
" CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS
£0 THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT
AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
111M."-DANIZI. WIBSTER.
COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING
The Democratic County Committee will meet In this
city, on THURSDAY, MAY bth, at 11 o'clock, A. H., at
Shobsee Hotel, for the purpose of organizing, and to con
sider important business. R. It. TSHUDY,
A. J. BURMAN, Sec'y. Chairman.
Adamstown—Samuel Styer.
Bart—J. D. Laverty.
Breeknock—David McColm.
Cgemarvon—
Clay—Edwin Elsa,
Colerain—S. W. Imeher.
Columbia—N. W.—H. M. North.
" —B. W.—James Shroeder.
• CocaDeo Fast—Cyrus Besm.
Cocaßoo Wert—Reuben Bucher.
Conestoga—a. D. Stehmen.
Conoy—Geo. Bennet.
Donegal East—P. J. Albright.
Donegal West—Wm. Morning.
Dm/more—Wm. Lee.
Earl—Wm Ellmaker.
Earl East—Geo. Duchman.
Earl West—Henry Betroth.
Eden—Wm. Dungan.
Ellzabeth—Joe. B. Keener.
Elizabethtown—H. T. Shultz.
Ephrata—Jeremiah Mohler.
Falton—J. H. Clendenin.
Eel:opticld East—Dr. B. Parker.
Hempteld Weet—J. M.
Lampeter East—John D. Martin.
lampeter West—Samuel Long.
City—N. W. W.—A. J. Steinman.
N. E. W —H. B. Bwarr.
8. E. W —J. H. Hegener.
" 8. W. W.—Dr. Henry Carpenter.
Lancaster Twp.—Becjamlu Huber.
Leacock—Jahn L Lightner.
Lescoolt Upper--Grabill H. Swope.
Little Britain—Jesse Jenkins.
Mauheim Borough—N. Worley.
Mai/beim Twp.—B J McGrann.
Manor—Geo. G. Brush.
Marietta—Dr. Jno. Huston. •
Martio—W. N. Gibson.
Mt. Joy Bor.—Henry Shaffner.
Mt. Joy Twp.—Jacob Baker.
Paradieo—G-o. L. tick ert.
Penn—James McMullen.
Pequea—John Sehner.
Providence—Dr. J K Raub.
liapho—Joeeph Detweiler.
Sadscury—J. D Harrar.
Sallsbur3 —B. Baxter Black.
Strasburg I' Spencer.
• Twp.—F
Warwick—R. B. TFkindy.
lynah:ogtoo or.—Jos. E. Charles
" When the Devil got mak the Devil a Monk would
When the Devil got well the devil a Monk was he."
The above well known distich was forci
bly brought to our mind when reading the
subjoined resolutions offered by Dr. CLING-
Ell, and unanimously passed by the Aboli
tion County Convention which met at Ful
ton Hall on the 25th ultimo :
Resolved, That the thanks of the Union party of
Lanoatter county, through its delegates this day as
sembled in County Convention, is hereby tendered
to the Examiner and Herald, Express, and Yolks
jreund, newspapers, for their determined and per
sistent efforts to expose and warn the people of the
designs of a few men to control and manage the nom
inations of the Union party of the county, by means
of a secret, oath-bound organization, to which only
such as are disposed to be submissive and wiling in
struments are admitted.
Resolved, That such an oath-bound organization
as is known to be in existence within the Union
party of Lancaster county, is both a disgrace and a
fraud upon the party, and members of it who pro
cure their nominations through and by means of it,
are unworthy of and not entitled to the votes of the
people at the polls.
Resolved, That the County Committee is hereby
instructed to require a written pledge from all can
didates that they are not associated with, bound to,
or under any oath or obligation to such an organiza
tion.
Now, we venture to assert that there
was not a delegate in that Convention, if
he was twenty years of age at the time,
who was not a member in full communion
of the secret, oath-bound political organi
zation of Know Nothings in 1854 ; and
we think we are equally safe in saying
that they are each and all members of
another secret, oath-bound political organ
ization, now in existence, known as the
Union League.
The resolutions, of course, are aimed at
GEORGE BRUBAKER and the Thugs, s)
called. Whether such an organization
exists in our midst or not, we have no
means of knowing ; but, if it does, it is
among the Abolitionists themselves—the
Democrats having neither part nor lot in
such a scabby arrangement. But we do
not think it fair to saddle the sins of the
whole Abolition patty upon Mr. BRUBA
KER, and make him Vie scape-goat of
worse men than himself, especially as they
were all in the same boat in 1854, and
are now good and true fellow members of
the Union League. There is a sense of
honor and fair play even among thieves,
and we do not see why there should be an
absence of it among the " loyal " men of
Lancaster county. BRUBAKER may be all
that his political friends represent him ;
but admitting that much, we believe him
to be no greater political scamp than
those who are engaged in maligning him
for selfish and partisan purposes. The
whole Abolition party of Lancaster county
—we mean the leaders and plate-liokers—
are as corrupt and unprincipled as it is
possible for men to be, and if-there is any
difference, we are inclined to the opinion
that the 6i Chief of the Thugs " has the
best record of the whole batch.
SPECIAL ELECT lONS.
A special election will be held on the First
Tuesday sn August, on the Constitutional
amendments allowing the soldiers to vote.
The Legislature will adjourn to meet again on
Tuesday, the 23d of August, to count the
votes on the amendments, and pass an act to
enable the soldiers to vote at the October and
November elections.
Look Out for Greenbacks !
sir Gen. Simort CAMERON has
been appointed Chairman of the
Abolition State Central Committee.
per' The Legislature have passed a res
olution for final adjournment on Thursday
eV, the bth of May.
STA.TAPiToL.—The question of re
moving the State Capitol to Philadelphia,
whioh has so long been agitated by' the
press, was finally killed in the House on
Wednesday last, by a vote of 71 to 19.
VOORHEES ON PULPIT POLITICS. • i THE ROAD TO RUIN.
The Hon. D. W. Woman (says the Car- In the midst of the flashed and riotous prod- I
iplity around us, there is an ominous some.
bon Democrat) delivered a speech in Congress
on the sth ult., which in point of solid ar- thin g erer m n a di n e of v ery
eense a to ir ak himself—W h at 5 4 12 1 13 :t p d . I
s
gnment,, bistorioal illustrations and Po it mean ? Where end when is it to end ? The
pattiotisni is unsurpassed, perhaps, by any commonest necessaries of life are advancing
farther and further, day by day, beyond the
delivered within the halls of our national
carries the reader i ne gi t itay reach of ordinary means. In every depart-
Legislature. It j merit of industry labor is Clam - g for in - Crease
back to the palmy days of our
. once 1 111 PPY I of conipernsation,tibich is hardly grantedbe
&public and revives the mentor, of the mss-. fore increasing priedameste a necessity for
ter efferte of Webster, Clay, Calhoun; Benton, I new demands. The relations of employerand
and others of that bright galaxy of sages and e ta mpi n oyed are perpf.Valliyntaanrrelledy , s at r i i d n a . n-
g ,
patriots whose voices were ever heard in the I up, go
from their unc ertainty rapi and comp l ication.
cause of human freedom and in warning of 1 What such antagonisms clay result in we may
the threatened inroads of fanaticism upon the learn from the darkest annals of social confu
foundations of our governmental structure. ,ion. • •
The spirit of gambling meanwhile has
This speech places Mr. Vooanres first among passed from William street and the Coal Hole
the statesmen of America, as he stands upon into every channel of trade. Legitimate busi
the floor of Congress, pleading in terms of ness can scarcely be said to exist anywhere,
earnest supplication and lofty and sublime
s a u tl e d h tt u e s lii n raden ess dtemsannddsretlaurtlyspeixriist
exists no
eloquence, the cause of his sinking country, to where. Buying and selling, importation and
the unheeding despot and his minions who in exportation, every provision for the future
their reckless fanaticism and blind bigotry must depend upon fluctuations of value, whioh
rener all transactions as uncrtan as if
are hurrying it into the wild maeletrom of
slated by the ti
turn of a- card. e
A l
single unreg
-
irretrievable ruin. lttokytihnffie of the pack which is being per-
We sincerely regret that the great length of
this master-piece of a master mind precludes
its publication in our columns, bat we shall
from time to time give our readers the benefit
of extracts from it. In appealing to the pure
and unselfish hearts of the people for the sal
vation of his loved country, and holding forth
to them the immutable truths of the Bible as
authority for the principles which he so ably
advocates, he uses the following language :
Bat there is another class who preside over,
the ministrations of this inspired book, and
who mingle with their offerings to God the
poison of political prejudices, before whom
the cause of humanity, union, and peace need
not be presented. That large portion of the
land who, claiming to be the chosen agents of
the merciful Redeemer, fill the cup of the
sacrament with rancor and vengeance, bear
none of the sweet, angelic tones which plead
from every page of his gospels in favor of
that individual and national charity which
suffereth long and is kind. They teach their
flocks no longer to hunger and thirst after
righteousness, but to hanger and thirst for
the blood of their enemies. They ascend the
sacred desk no more to pray that gentle peace
like the dews of Heaven may descend upon
our wounded and distracted country, but to
declaim in warlike strains in the face of the
Almighty upon the delight which they feel
in the infliction of human agony. They have
reversed the order of the millenium which the
Christian world has looked forward to since
the days of the prophets. The one which
they hail in fond anticipation is that in which
every plough-share shall become a sword, and
every pruning hook a spear ; in which con
scription, slaughter, and taxation shall go
hand in hand; " when the keepers of the
house shall tremble, and the strong men shall
bow themselves, and the grinders cease be
cause they are few, and those that look out of
the windows be darkened, and the doors shall
be shut in the streets when the sound of the
grinding is low : * * * * *
because man goeth to his long home and the
mourners go about the streets."
To these men much of the sorrow which
now overshadows our homes is properly at
tributable. They have ever been, and are to
day, the foremost enemies of domestic tran
quility. Agitation on matters pertaining to
civil government has been their element.
Sedition against laws which conflict with
their ignorant and selfish bigotry has been a
favorite calling in all countries in every age.
They have a higher law than the sermon on
the mount; and the word of God is made to
fit the Procustean bed of their blind and
furious prejudices, which they mistake for
conscience. Sir, I here proclaim as a fact to
which all history attests, that wherever in the
tide of time the ministry of the Most High
have assumed as a part of their duties the
control of affairs of State and the policy of
nations, they have appeared as the advocates
of despotism, the friends of high prerogative,
the defenders of oppression, the allies of
tyranny—obstacles in the pathway of pro
gress, enemies to popular rights, and estor
dopers of the poor and laboring masses.
Tax on Incomes.
Congress has adopted, in the
House, an amendment to the Tax
Bill, by Mr. FRANK, of N. Y., tax
ing incomes of $6OO and not exceed
ing $lO,OOO, five per cent.; incomes
of $lO,OOO to 25,000, a tax of 7 1 per
cent.; on all incomes exceeding 425,-
000, a tax of ten per cent. This
proposition, although it finally pre
vailed, was bitterly opposed by Mr.
THAD. STEVENS, the Administration
leader in the House. He claimed
that it was unjust on the rich man.
He is quite ready to make the labor
ing man and the mechanic feel the
full effects of this war which he was
so resolutely bent upon producing ;
but he seems to be unwilling that
rich men (who have a hundred ways
of placing a portion of their wealth
beyond the reach of the tax gather
er) should be subjected to their
proper share of the burdens of the
war. Mr. STEVENS seems to be as
zealous in his efforts to shield the
rich class of the community as he is
in his open and declared hostility to
a restoration of the Union. The
poor are taxed already to the full ex
tent of their means, in the increased
cost of living. It would seem to be
enough for such patriots as THAD
DEUS STEVENS to know that the di
rect and certain tendency of this war
is to make the rich richer, and the poor
poorer. Why should he seek to ac
celerate the process ?
EIS' We sincerely regret to learn that
the offica of the New Hampshire Patriot,
at Concord, N. H., was entirely destroyed
by fire on the morning of the 22d tilt.—
The fire is supposed to have been the work
of an incendiary. The misfortune, how
ever, has not interfered with the publication
of the Patriot, which is one of the ablest,
boldest and most consistent Democratic
papers in the country. Phoenix like, it
has arisen from the ashes," and will battle
as fearlessly as ever for the success and
ascendancy of Democratic principles. We
tender MR. BUTTERFIELD, the able and in
trepid editor, our heartfelt wishes for the
greatest possible success financially and
otherwise. Would that the people of that
plague spot, New England, all thought
and anted as he does.
The Maryland Election.
The whole vote oast at the recent elec
tion for delegates to the Abolition Conven
tion of Maryland was as follows : For a
Convention, 31,593—against it, 19,524--
in all about 51,000 votes. At the Presi
dential election of 1860 the vote in the
State was 92,000, or about three times the
number of votes cast by the Abolitionists
at the election of 1864. So, then, about
one-third of all the votes in the State have
(under military dictation) elected sixt -
one of the ninety-six delegates, who, in
the arroganoo of power inspired by Fade
al b •yonets, will assemble in Convention
and change the organic law of Maryland
in its most vital features, and in direct
opposition to the well-known sentiments of
an overwhelming majority of the people.—
This is one of the many outrages which
save been inflicted on the citizens of that
ancient Commonwealth.
petually shuffled may convert the millionaire
of to-day into the pauper that he was six
months ago, and the yachts and villas, the
dinners and suppers and flowers at Delmoni
co's, the horse palaces with the equipages and
the studs within them may pass, by the same
shuffle, to the Aladdins of to-morrow, the
paupers of to day. Nor is it merely the hasty
wealth of the gambler and the speculator
which trembles in the. scales. All the accu
mulations of honest and patient industry, the
pittance of the helpless thousands who form
what may be called the retired list of society,
the little savings of the thrifty poor, all are
subject to the same contingencies and the
same catastrophes.
Yet, while every man's house rests upon a
quick-sand, scarce any man appears to heed
the peril which is nwierneath him. Society
rushes on as if there were no to-morrow. The
wildness of speculation grows madder every
hour. Luxury and waste go reeling in " bac
chanal profusion." Purple and fine linen,
diamonds and plate, feasts and debauchery,
are the staple of thought and life. The inge
nuity of extravagance is racked for new devices
of splendor and display, which could only be
justified if wealth were endless and boundless.
And yet no one but an idiot can think, and
no one but an impostor will pretend, that we
are as rich as when the wax began—much less,
that we have grown or are growing richer.—
We have lost the enormous production of the
Southern States, the chief and once exhaust
less fountain of our wealth and prosperity.—
We have lest the commerce which that pro
duction required and supported, as well as the
market for our manufactures which the pro
deicers afforded us.
We have annihilated, for the time, the ag
ricultural riches of the border States, by over
turning the whole system of labor on which it
depended. We have grievously diminished
the productive capacity of the Northern and
Western States by withdrawing nearly .all
their young and vigorous manhood from the
plow to the shambles. We have squandered
and are squandering untold millions upon
army and navy contracts, and have given over
hundreds of millions more to destruction in
military exigencies. The expenditures of a
month are now nearly twice the whole reven
ue of a year in normal times. We are taxed
besides for State and Federal purposes to an
amount which would have created a revolu
tion in the palmy days of our Union and
prosperity.
Whence came the wealth, then for our
spendthrift saturnalia? Is it real? When we
were in the full enjoyment of our unimpaired
resources, we could not build a railway or
canal without borrowing capital abroad. We
had not money enough for the business of the
country, and hence we became borrowers
for every purpose outside of it. Now' that
our burdens have increased a thousand 'fold s ,
and our resources are c )mpn.ratively dried
up, we have what is called money so abur4lant
as to overrun the moat licentious caprices of
prodigality.
Can men of the commonest intelligence look
upon such a scene without trembling for the
convulsions it forbodes ? Can they fail to see
that their wealth is a phantom and not a re
ality, and that whatever is substantial, in the
abundance of money around them, is but the
result of the fact that productive and legiti
mate business is at an end, and that the cap
ital which it once employed, so happily, in
fostering and supporting industry and labor.
is now idle, to be gambled with and wasted?
What blindness is so blind as not to perceive
that our feet must be upon the crumbling
edges of a financial pit-fall, when the Secreta
ry of the Treasury of the United States is
among us, confessedly to join in the thim
ble rigging of the gold market, with all the
coin of the Government, and can so affect that
market by his game as to bring down the
standard of all values ten per cent. in a morn
ing. _ . .
We are afraid that it is too late to cry be
ware I The song of the siren is in the ears of
men, and they will not heed the destruction
to which they are hastening The crash may
come on us at any hour. We are inviting it,
hastening it, deserving it—doing everything
but preparing for it. That it must come, all
the parallels end warnings of history tech us,
unless Providence has endowed Air. Chase
and ourselves with the miraculous faculty of
blowing bubbles which cannot burst. Alas I
that the road to ruin should be so plain, and
that a whole people should still walk in it as
recklessly as if no other people had travelled
it before, in recklessness, to doom.—New York
Daily News.
THE WAR
General Forrest seems to march with a ra
pidity which almost rivals Stonewall Jackson.
He has now attacked Decatur, in Alabama,
the extreme right of the Chattanooga army.
After the Fort Pillow affair Forrest went south
to Memphis, and, at the same time, ordered a
force which watched the Federal garrison, at
Vicksburg, to move to Jackson. Memphis
was frightened for a short time, but the
enemy disappeared, and, almost at the same
time, the Confederates withdrew from Jackson
northward to Canton. The two columns
united at Holly Springs. The marches were
long, but nearly all Forresee troops are
mounted and move with celerity. They are
reported to be marching on Decatur, and have
taken a position ten miles west of the town.
The garrison there has sent for aid to Hunts.
villa, thirty miles distant, but the forces at
both places being quite small, it is uncertain
what resistance they can make. Decatur is
too far distant from Chattanooga to get
speedy assistance from Sherman. There are
all kinds of rumors of a battle at Decatur but
nothing definite. General Forrest has not
abandoned Eastern Kentucky. He still holds
it, though hie force must be small.
From the Red River the Federal troops are
reported entrenched at Grand &ore, and the
Confederates moving upon them. Very little
that is definite is yet known of the movements
of either army since the battle, though Banks
has very likely placed the Red River between
him and his enemies. The Federal losses at
the recent battle are thirty-four hundred
killed and wounded and four thousand pris—
oners. Admiral Porter in a letter to the Sec
retary of the Navy confirms the accounts of
the disaster and also- the report that the Con•
federates had let the water out of the river.
He regards the expedition as a failure.
There are still nothing but rumors from the
army of the Potomac. Every account agrees
that General Lee is still bringing forward
reinforcements, and it seems almost certain
that North Carolina lids been abandoned by
the Confederates, who have gone northward.
Affairs on the Rapidan are very near a crisis.
Mar Gen. BUTLZR lately enforced the right
of a " colored lady " to sit at the table with
white folks on board of steamers to and from
hie dominions, and he discharged a mail
agent and censured the clerk of a steamer for
objecting to " the sublime mingling of the
races." Butler is a " progressive ;" he has
made a more rapid advance in his political
views than any other man. Some think he is
the author of the pamphlet on •" Misoegens
time Shouldn't wonder
TEEM WORKING OL/►f/s
The wrongs of the working classes are, close.
ly hidden under a veil of spurious prosperity.
Because working men receive generally a little
higher wages than formerly, it is said they are 1
prosperous and happy. Bat thi; is not so. ,
Look at it in its true light. Under the reign' ',
of Shoddy, a men may receive fifty per cent,
perhaps double, for his weeks work compared' ,
with his wages before the war. But is he a,
gainer ? Let him answer :
" I now pay three times more than formerly
for nearly every article of clothing for my
family, and doable, or treble, for coffee. tea,
sugar, and all the other necessaries of life. I
find it growing every day more difficult to
make my income square off my out goes, to say
nothing of the impossibility of laying up any
thing against a rainy day. "
Snob is that Abolition and Shoddy " pros
perity" which is rung in the ears of our
workingmen when their votes are wanted to
help shoddyites to fat contracts and dema
gogues to fat offices. The seeming prosperity
is hollow ;itis a lie upon its face. It raises
the wages of labor for a time, and at the same
time increases, to a much greater extant, the
price of every article the laborer must buy for
himself and family. In the meantime Shoddy
gets well paid for its investments ; Abolition
parasites get rich offices and plenty of public
plunder, and are merry and jubilant over the
rain of their country, and the poverty and
misery that have come and are ooming upon
its toiling millions.
/NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY
The New York Tribune says,'` the nation is
drifting steadily toward bankruptcy. We are
now in the grandest crisis of our national
history; and we Moose dwarfs to do the work
which might well employ angels. Something
must be done to stop the tendency to ruin s or
the country is lost beyond redemption."—
This is strong language to oome from a party
organ. But who is to blame for allowing
"the nation to drift into bankruptcy?" The
Administration have had things all their own
way ; not an obstacle has been interposed by
the people of the North. After conducting
the war for three years under such circum—
stances, the Tribune now admits that there is
danger that " the country will be lost beiond
redemption !" There may be one hope left.
The time for a change is coming, and the
people can, if they will, place men at the head
of the Government and in Congress who are
not dwarfs—mete who understand the prinoiji!!
pies upon which Government was founded,
and who will endeavor to restore the Union.
THE FAIR CLOSED
The New York Sanitary Fair closed on
Saturday week. The army sword was
awarded to General GRANT, • and the navy
sword to CommodOre Row.or of the Brooklyn
navy yard. At the close of the polls, the vote
stood as follows :
For General McCWien
For General Grant..
MeClellan's majority over Grant
Scattering
After the close :of the polls sealed envel
opee were received and opened. The first
large contribution was one from Mr. J. H.
Lyon, containing $lO3, collected in about five
minutes in front of the Jersey City Steamboat
Company's office, for Measmatr. The votes
of a thousand dollars and upwards were *as
Yollows " Loyal " men of New York,"
$lO,OOO for GRANT ; " loyal" men of New
York," $2,097 for GRANT ; " loyal " New
Englanders," $3,000 for GRANT ; `loyal' men
of New York," $l,OOO for GRANT.
The final footing up was as follows
Total v0te...... ....
Grant
McClellan
Scattering ......
Grant's majority
It is stated that McOLmaaw's vote repre,
cents a larger number of persons than GRANT'S,
indicating that the wealthy contractors and
office-holders shelled out liberally. The Union
Leagues went into the business E. eoretly, hay
ing announced from the first that MCCLELLAN
must and should be beaten.
The gross receipe from the Fair foot up
$l. 064,278,49, from which are to be deduct—
ed the expeiiees.
WHAT IS FILEEDOOI I
The Manchester (N. H.) Daily Union,
commenting upon a recent speech of Mr.
Lincoln in Baltimore, says :
It is very true that different notions are
entertained in regard to what freedom is. Mr.
Lincoln is the exponent of one theory. That
teaches that the military power may arrest
any man at any time, and thrust him into a
dungeon ; and that he shall not have the power
to inquire in a court of law why= he is thus
treated. It teaches that newspapers may be
suppressed fur expressing opinions adverse to
the governing authority ; that men may be
exiled for the same cause ; that men shall not
vote unless they will take an unconstitutional
oath and vote as military dictators may direct.
This is Mr. Lincoln's idea of freedom ; and he
happily refers to recent events in Maryland as
illustrations of its working. If the people of
that State could have an impartial vote to day,
three•fourths of them would vote Mr. Lincoln
a halter ; yet, under the operation of•his theory
of freedom, they vote him a crown.
" Here lie a people who, in their efforts to
give freedom to the negroes, lost their own."
That epitaph stands td-day, but it will be
effaced. Every State and every man will yet
have all the freedom the Constitution gives
them. They hope to get it in November by
peaceful means ; but if they fail then, they
will struggle on, and win at last ; for our race
never fought King George seven years for
freedom, to be re enslaved by King Abe in
three years or thirty. Mark that.
I=l
JOHN W. FORNEY, favorite lackey of Lin.
coin's Administration, writes from Washing
ton to his Philadelphia newspaper : " A few
months ago I thought we were near the end
of the rebellion ; at present I don't think we
have reached the middle of it !"
On last Thursday, three years after Lin
coln's declaration of war on the Southern
States, half a million of men have fallen by'
disease and wounds, and a million more have
been incapacitated for the pursuits of quiet
industry. The paper of the Federal Govern
ment has dwindled from being worth its face
in gold, to being worth, last Thursday fore
noon, less than fifty-three cents on the dollar.
If we are not half through the " rebellion,"
and the " best government," etc., has lost
credit to the amount of more than forty-seven
cents on every one hundred, it follows that,
when the Federal "promises to pay" dwindle
to a nominal value of six nickel cents for each
promised dollar, we will not yet be through
with it ! The able-bodied men of the country
slaughtered—starving widows and orphans
peopling the North—a ruined and impover
ished country—what of all this? Will not
"the government:" that reduces its subjects
—no longer citizens—to this condition, be still
recognized, and embalmed in history, as " the
best government the sun ever shone upon ?"
—Freeman's Journal.
THE RED RIVER DISASTER.-A mercantile
house in Boston furnishes the Courier with the
following extract from a letter of their corres
pondent in New Orleans :
" The disaster to our arms in the Red River
has proved a very serious one, in which we
have lost some 7,000 in killed and wounded,
209 army wagons with stores, etc., 19. pieces
of artillery with caissons, ammunition, etc.,
even the personal effects of staff officers. 'We
have the entire gunboat flotilla above the
rapids, with the water of the river turned into
Bayou Pierre, so that the boats are useless.
General Banks has been forced to retreat 60
miles, after suffering great lose, and the
enemy are now between the gunboats and the
army.
itM. The following remark of Mr. LINCOLN
in his reply to the Chicago Committee, who
asked him to abolish slavery by proclamation,
reads queerly at the present time :
" You remember the slave who asked his
master :'lf I should call a sheep's tail a leg,
how many legs would it have?' Five.' No,,
only four, for my calling the tail a leg would
not oaks it so." Now. gentlemen ' if I say to
the slaves • you are free ,' they would by no
more free than at parent' ."
LOCAL DKPARTKENT.
Hos. Jew Beocixe.—Da not forget the
leetnne of this distinguished geatisows, at Talton
,OD Tburaday owning next, below tits Young Nees Dein
piratic Asendetion. It will bei a rare Snot.
. —ln the prscesdbase of bows= tai Friday kat we see
that the hinds:tar mad odorous &handy for more yro-
Pdif V. Shish') siel ones bed Wilke -7 eommeind in Faith
mop, menarted
_that tf_3l.r. Ream bad been • reddest
of that saw be inlaid bays beta scot tos MIA Lead. - Let
the Dimomecy of.lsairaitar therefore abow their
anon of the sterling tweedy, ability-sad cortrawilritr.
Moats, end their seven* contempt for one of bbembee
„.„
ONg TO THZ rRONT ACIAIN.—On Wednes
day morning the ffith regiment, 001. Hambright com
manding, started to rejoin the Army of the Cumberland.
The regiment farmed In Centre Stumm and marched to
the intersection of the Railroad and the Harrisburg turn.
pike, being accompanied on the ronteby a large concourse
of friends and citizen!. A large crowd wax in attendanse
.to see ” the WU" off, and at i2et'dock they got aboard a
special train, which had been waiting for them, and moved
off amid the muds of the band, the waving of handker
chiefs and the load cheers of the crowd 'mumbled to give
them a farewell greeting.
The regiment mastered about four hundred men, and
will be - joined by more than two hundred new rec ruits,
who have bun sent to theft:mg from time to time, u soon
u it reaches is destination.
&Turfy NINTH Ix Pirrsßuita.—The
Pittsburg anastavial of Friday gives the following ao
count of the antral of the regiment in that city. It will
be seen that oar men were handsomely treated by the cit 4
sans of that place:
"The veterans of the Seventy Ninth regiment, Pennsyl
vania volunteers, arrived in the city yesterday morning
from the Bast, where they hays been spending their thirty
days' furlough at their homes in Lancaster county. The
regiment numbers some four hundred men, and are still
under command of Colonel H. A. Hambright, who entered
the service on the lath of Auguit. 1861, and has re-enlist
d, and will again iced his tried veterans to victory. The
Seventy Ninth were originally attached to Gen. Negley's
Brigade, and have as bar a record for gallantry and 'rood
conduct as that of any regiment in the army. There are
no Pittsburgh companies in the regiment, but Michael H.
Locher, the Major, la a citizen of Allegheny, and was the
.1
recipient of a serenade .yesterday morning by the baud,
immediately after the arrival of the regiment from Har
risburg. [This is a mistake. Maj. Locher has never been
a citizen of Allegheny. The serenade was doubtless given
to the Surgeon of the regiment, Dr. Wright, who Is a cid.
ten of that place.] During the forenoon the Seventy
Ninth paraded through the principal streets of the city.
and attracted much notice by their soldierly bearing and
the precision of their movements.
"During their stay in the city the men were entertained
by • bountiful repeat, prepared under the auspices of the
ladies and gentlemen in charge of the Pittsburgh Sub.
detente Committee. After all had partaken of the good
things sot before them, one of the rank and file, a Mr.
Martin. on behalf of his brother soldiers, made a neat and
appropriate speech. Hs said this was the third time the
men of the 79th had been placed under obligations to the
Pittsburgh Subaletence Committee, and he desired. on
behalf of his comrade•ln.anne, to return their heartfelt
thanks to the members of the Committee. He trusted •
kind Providence would watch 'and guard them, that they
might be enabled to continue In the good work in which
they had been so long engaged. Three cheers were given
for the Committee, after which the regiment took up its
line of march for the depot, and at two o'clock in the after
noon left for the Army of the Cumberland."
MAIL CONTRACTS AWARDED.—The proposals
for carrying the malls were opened at Washington City on
yesterday week. The following were awarded to Lancaster
county and vicinity:
From Downingtown, by Beartown and Bine Ball, to New
Holland, three times a week. Michael Bard and William
M. Smith, $569.
From Pheenixellte, by Churchtown, Goodell's, Blue
Bail, New Holland, Bareville, Leaeock and Binkley's
Bridge, to Lancaster, three times a week. Elmore Everett
and Calvin Scripture, $1,224
Prom Peiiningtonville, by Collamer, to Octoraro, three
times a week. Jesse Davie, $159.
Prom Penningtotivillo, by Bartell* Clonmell, Kirk
wood, Cotentin and Oak Shade, to Fulton Home, twice a
week. • P. Dinar', $275.
From Oxford, by Mount Vernon end Cotentin. to Me
chanics' Grove, twice a week. Francis M. Dare, $1.65.
From Oxford, by Hopewell Cotton Works, Glen Roy,
Oak Hill, Goshen and Wakefield, to Peters' Creek, six
times a week. Posey J. Nichols, $360.
From Lancaster, by Willow Street, Bmlthvllle, Bock,
Chesnut Level, Green, Peters' Creek, Pleasant Grove,
. Bock Springs, Md., Conowingo and Rowlandsellle, to Port
Deposit, Md., three time, a week. Isaac !dishier, $315.
Prom Lancaster, by Landis Valley, Oregon, West End
and Farmeraville, to Hinkletown, three times a week.—
Semiah Killian, $290.
From Lancaster, by Neffsvllle, Linz Rotbseille, Mill.
way, Lincoln, Ephrata, Reamstown and Adamstown, to
Beading, six times a week, with an additional daily mall,
except Sunday, to Lltis. Tobias Barth, $l,BOO.
From Lancaster, by Beet Hempfield to Manheim. six
itimes a week. Michael J. Philbin, $325.
From Lancaster, by Sporting Hill, Old Line and Master.
soneille, to Colebrook, twice a week. George H. Hartman,
1 $228.
From Btraaburg to Leaman Mee, 5 miles and back, six
times a week, by railroad. John F. and Cyrus W. Herr,
$415.
From Gap, by Caine, to Pequea, six times a week. Davis
Clemson, $l9B.
From Gap, by New Milltown, to Intercourse, three times
a week. William Gabel, Br., $149.
Prom Christiana, by Smyrna, Bart, May, Quarryville
and Mechanic? Grove, to Chesnut Level, twice a week.—
Israel .I._Tyson, $295.
From Enterprise, by Groff's Store, Barevile, Vogansi
villa and Reidenbach'm Store, to Terre Hill, those times a
week. Semlah Killian, $l9O.
From Litia, by Brauereville, Durlach and Schoeneck,
to Sinking Spring, twice a week. Tobias Barth, $474.
From Brickerville, by Dorlach and Lincoln, to Ephrata.
six times a week. Jacob Wolf, $3OO.
From Manbeim. by White Oak, to Penn, twice a week.
John S. Brosey, $77.
From Columbia, by Manor and Highville. to Ekta Har
bor, three times a week. John D. Moore, $2BO.
From Columbia to Silver Springs, three times a week.
No bid.
From Safe Harbor, by Conestoga, Martinville, Mount
Nebo, Colemanvilla Rawlinsvilie Bethesda and Liberty
Square, to Chesnut Level, twice a week. John Clark, $284.
From Goshen, by Fulton House, to Chesnut Level, six
. times a week. William H. Potts, $225
From t'ak Hill, by Kirk's Mills, Wrightia Dale and
Lyle's, to. Pleasant Grove, twice a week. John B. Brown,
$145.
44,983
.80.291
.14,509
. 183
.15,782
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-012 Wednes
day morning last the Lancaster Accommodation Train ran
off the track one mile west of Parkesburg. It ran about
fifty yards to the crossing, or switch, where the baggage
car crossed to the north track, running into a freight
train which had previously crossed over to allow the pas
senger train to pass. The flagman on the train, Mr. Free.
land, residing near Birdin•Hand, Lancaster county, w 113
so severely injured that he died in about half an hour
after the accident. No one else was Injured. The baggage
and front passenger care and two freight care were badly
Injured, and about fifty barrels of coal oil lost.
THE LADY'S FRIEND for May has made its
appearance. The engraving of "The Lovers" is beautiful
both in design and execution. The double fashion plate
(colored) is also a pretty embellishment, besides being
useful to the ladies, who usually find themselves at this
season with nothing to wear. The reading matter is fully
up to the excellent standard of this new Magazine. Pub
lished by Deacon k Peterson, 319 Walnut Street, Phila
delphia. Price $2 a year.
Pavanes's L +DRS' MAGAVNE for May is already out.
Its Lontisplece, entitled " Deceiving Granny," is an en
graving on steel—amusing, and telling its own story.
Music, fanbion.plates, and readable letter-press form the
staplo of its contents. The domestic receipts given in
"The Editors Table" are all very good—because plain and
not costly. Pulladelphia C. J. Peterson, 800 Chestnut
street-2 a year.
The Democrats in Congress proposed to in
crease the pay of non-commissioned officers
and private soldiers, but the Abolitionists,
who have a majority in both the Senate and
House, refused to pass the bill. They how
ever, are anxious to increase the pay of every
body connected with the civil Departments of
Government, on the ground of the great de
preciation of the currency. Why should not
the same reason operate in favor of the sol
dier ? Is he not, too, paid in this same de
preciated representative of money ? If they
have the respect and affection for the men who
have left home and friends and are periling
life nod health in defense of the government
they profess to have, why do they refuse to do
them justice also? And yet these hypocrites
have the audacity to charge our Democratic
State Senators with voting against a resolu
tion recommending the increased pay, when
they know that their reason for so doing was
that they did not wish to recognize the Senate
as being organised at all, or as being compe
tent to take action on any subject whatever.
The vote in Congress shows which party is the
true friend of the soldier, and most of the
soldiers will be posted before the election as
to the manner in which they have been treated
by their pretended Abolition friends. The
Democratic State Senators did not vote
against the soldiers receiving additional pay ;
but refused to recognise the revolutionary
conduct of the Abolitionists, who attempted
to proceed to do business with a Speaker who
had not been elected as their presiding officer.
LARGE SHIPMENT OF SPECIE TO
EUROPE.
Two steamers sailed from New York on
Saturday week for Liverpool, taking out the
large sum of $1,775,000 in coin. On this the
New York Express remarks :
These shipments, heavy as they are, it is
said would'have been much larger, but for the
fact that the government paid out on its sales
small gold, and the leading banking houses
have offered + a per cent. to exchange this
for double-eagles, which are scarce. The
double-eagles are cashed on arrival at a
fixed price, but the small coin suffer delay
and expense on being sent to the mint.—
This large shipment of coin is souther evi
dence of the extravagance of the country.—
We do not suppose it will be stopped by any
preaching of ours—nor ought it, until debts
are paid contracted for importations made—
but the fact that we are compelled to send so
much gold to Europe, in addition to all the
Government bonds forwarded and all the
goods exported, does not speak well for the
judgment or patriotism of the people in a
period of civil war.
The importations for the week are the
heaviest on record, and amount in the aggre
gate to between' seven and eight millions.—
The importations for the week are greatly in
excess for the corresponding Beason during
the past two years. The comparison stands :
1862, $3,342,594 ; 1863, $4,622,012 ; 1864
$7,468,933
A COPPERISH RESOLUTION
The Republican Convention which nomin
ated President Lincoln, in 1860, passed the
following resolve:
" Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate
of the rights of the States, and especially the
right of each State to order and control its own
domestic institutions according to its judgment
exclusively, is essential to that balance of pow
er on which the perfection and endurance of
our social fabric depend ; and we denounce the
lawless invasion, by armed forces, of the soil of
any State or 2lrritorg , no Mafia under what
pretext, as among tie gravest of crimes!"
TREASON II TKO OARUISIT.
Some time ago Gen. Blair, one of the rep
resentatives from Missouri in the Federal
Congress, brought charges of corruption
against the Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon
P. Chase, and asked for a committee of inves
tigation, which, we believe, was not granted.
The attack upon the Secretary, however,
was galling to himself and his friends, std
they resolved upon retaliation.
Mr. M'Clurg, a colleague of Gen. Blair,
gowned the !suer with having speculated in
liquors, while in command in the army, under
cover of orders for military supplies, to the
amount of $8,600. A committee, at the re
quest of Gen. Blair, was appointed to investi
gate the charge, and they reported on
Saturday, 236 April, entirely exonerating the
GeneraL They say that the original order,
signed by Gen Blair and eight other officers,
was for the Bum of $l5O or $175 only, fur
liquor and agars ; but that the order was
subset:trendy altered by Michael Powers to
call for $8,600 worth for Powers' own specu
lating purposes. The committee say :
"As a specimen of the alterations one may
be referred to—that as to brandy. The origi.
nal order was for five gallons. By inserting
the figure 2 before the figure 5, and adding
the word each to it, it became an order, as
nine persons had signed it, for 225 gallons."
After the :folding of the report Gen. Blair
addressed the House, charging that the twn
sations made against him were in consequence
of his hostility to Secretary Chase's " Trade
Regulations," and his plan for " letting the
Southern States go." He more than intimated
that the orders had been altered or forged at
the Treasury Department ; the evidence show
ing that the forgery was made public by a
Treasury agent, who knew its character. He
almost flatly charged the Secretary with trea
son, alleging that he was in favor of letting
the Southern States go in peace ; was opposed
to reinforcing Fort Sumpter and employing
troops to put down the rebellion ; and that he
still holds these views, being now engaged in
maturing a plan to let the Southern States go
in peace and e f fect a permanent dissolution of
the Union.
Farther than this he alleged that under the
Secretary's " Trade Regulations," contraband
goods pass constantly beyond our lines, and
read letters to show that, recently five barrels
of percussion caps were sent from Memphis
to the enemy.
Still farther, he charged the Secretary with
using his official power and influence for
Presidential purposes—squandering the pro
ceeds of plantations abandoned' by the rebels
to sustain Pomeroy's National Executive
Committee, which was working in his
[Chase's] interest for the Presidential nomin
ation and to carry on the war generally
against the Administration.
Still worse than this, he charged distinctly,
on the authority of an eminent citizen of
New York, understood to be Win. H. Aspin.
wall, that ,the Secretary has given his son-in
law, Senator Sprague, a permit (of course to
trade in contraband, under the Treasury
" Regulations,") by which he will realize two
million dollars ; and that Jay Cooke, the
agent and relative of the Secretary, had re
ceived $450,000 for nine months' services,
part of which he used in buying up newspa
pers for his relative and patron.
When we reflect that these charges were
made upon the floor of Congress, by a mem
ber possessing the full confidence of the Pr ts
ident of the United States, and who is also a
Major General in the army, recently assigned
to command by the President, we cannot but
consider them serious.
Would Major General Blair hazard his rep
utation by preferring such charges against a
member of the Cabinet without having in his
possession the evidence to establish their
truth? And would President Linci.lo am
sign General Blair to an important command
after he had made such charges unless be—
President Lincoln—believed them to be true ?
We think not.
What then does this quarrel between the
warring factions of the dominant political
party reveal?
The astounding fact that a member of the
Cabinet—no less a pertoartge than Salmon
P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury—the
man who controls the financial operations of
the Government, is traitorously trying to dis
rupt the Union—that he is traitorously sup
plying the rebels with military supplies—
that he is corruptly appropriating Govern
ment funds to political purposes, and enrich.
lug his relatives, by the most nefarious means,
at the expense of the people.
And further, the fact.still more astounding,
that the President of the United States, with
all the knowledge upon the subject which
Gen. Blair possesses—retains this traitor,
speculator and oorruptionist in his Cabinet I
" We are making hitory," said Mr. Lin
coln. Truly we are—but such a history I It
will be without parallel, we trust, as it cer
tainly is without precedent.
After such a revelation of treason 'and
fraud in the very bosom of the Administra
tion, it ie superfluous to inquire—" Whither
are we drifting ?—Patriot & Union.
A VISIT TJ FORT SUMTER.—The Richmond
correspondent of the London Times has been
paying a visit to Fort Sumter, (Feb. 22,) and
here is what he saw and felt
"We were obliged to go 'l4 night, as the
fort is only situated 1, 400 yards from Battery
Grego, from where the Yankees generaly shell
the place night and day, and would sink you in
a minute did not the darkness cover your ap
proach. We started about 6 o'clock. It had
just got dark, and after an hour's sail we
reached it. 35,000 shells have now been
thrown against this devoted place, a mass of
iron equal to 3,000 tons. Several times the
flagstaff has been shot away, and as quickly
replaced, and still the cry is 'no surrender.'
"The place, as we approached it, looked like
a mound in the middle of the water. All of a
sudden the moon burst forth, and showed us
the place with the distinctiveness of day. The
scene is deeply impressed upon my memory.
The place looked as if an earthquake had
taken place, and thrown down the walls, or
like some magnificent ruin which the hand of
time had desolated The jagged edges of the
walls standing out in bold relief, with the
sentries passing slowly up and down the ram
parts, made it truly an impressive sight.
Fortunately, they were not shelling when I
was there ;it being very well protected by
sandbags, however, in place of the walls, very
few men get hit. The fort is about four acres
in size, all the walls are down except the west,
I on the side of the city, which is partly so ;
! however, it is stronger than ever, and it will
I long prove a thorn in the sides of the
t Yankees."
TIM PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES.
HARRISBURG, April 29—Evening.
In the House of Representatives this even
ing, Mr. Barger made an important state
ment relative to the fifteen regiments of
Pennsylvania reserves. These men he stated
entered the service of Pennsylvania in May,
three years ago, but were not mustered into
the national service until two months after.
ward. They were now greatly dissatisfied,
so much so that a number were under arrestt
the men claiming that their time of service ex.
pired in May and the National Government
contending that it extended until July.
Mr. Barger read-an extract from a letter
from Colonel ItlcCatidlesg, commanding the
division,: relative to this dissatisfaction and
expressing fears that the men will refuse to
serve after May.
Mr. Barger, and Mr. Smith, of Chester,
called upon Governor Curtin this morning,
•od the Governor urged some action on the
part of the Legislature to induce the Nation
al Government to comply with the demand of
the Reserves.
In accordance with this suggestion, Mr.
Barger offered a resolution urgently soliciting
the President to discharge the Reserves.
I Po add to the dissatisfaction of the men it
5s stated that some of their former comrades
who had left and joined the regulars, had
already been discharged under an order of
the War Department, which allowed soldiers
leaving the volunteers and joining the regu
lars, to count their three years from the date
of their original enrolment, and not from the
date of their actual muster into the national
service.
The resolution of Mr. Barger was unani—
mously adopted.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF A STEAM BOILER.-
At twenty five minutes before eight o'clock,
last Monday morning, a steam boiler at the
large factory of !Messrs. Cornelius t Baker,
manufacturers of chandeliers and gas fixtures,
on Cherry street, below Ninth, in the city of
Philadelphia, exploded with terrific effect,
killing four persons instantly, and badly
wounding eighteen or twenty others, four of
whom:have since died. The cause of the ex
plosion has not yet been ascertained, but an
investigation is now going on, under the direct.
tion of the Coroner.
WHO PAY TIM TAXES.
The people of this country have not yet be•
gun to feel the effects of the taxation that is
in store for them. The value of the real and
personal estate in the United States in 1860
was $17,000.000,000. This amount embraced
the whole Union, North, South, East, and
West. It must be admitted that the amount
at this time is much less. Upon what there
is left must fall the enormous debt of $4,000,.
000,000. Therefore, so much of the capital
of the country is sunk—is worse than destroy
ed, because it is a burden, a dead weight
upon what there is left for all time to come.
The bonds issued by the United States are
to draw interest, but they are exempt from
taxation. The effect of this is that the farmer
and mechanic must pay, while the capitalist
who has ready cash to invest escapes taxation
by investing his money in United States
bonds.
In this way this immense debt of $4,000,-
000,000 is withdrawn from the productive
capital of the country,.and becomes a burden
upon the remainder. The question naturally
arises, as to how far it is safe to carry such a
system, and have we not nearly reached the
limit already ? The farmer and the meohanio
pay the taxes, while the rich man, who has
invested his capital in bonds, is exempt and
not obliged to pay a cent. The rich are to
grow richer, and the poor poorer, under such
a system. The discrimination is against the
laboring men of the country. Labor is taxed,
while capital become privileged and escapes.
It is therefore for the interest of every farmer,
every mechanic, every laboring man of small
means, that the debt shall not be increased.
Already the Government mortgage upon
every farm and every house and lot is enor.
mous, and every day's continuance of this
reckless Administration increases it. So
long as the Republican party continue in
Dower, we have no reason to expect to see an
end to this struggle.—Albany Argus.
NEGRO TROOPS.
The Cincinnati Gazelle gives the following
account of trouble in Texas with the negro
troops. The truth is, negro soldiers are going
to be a grand failure. More white soldiers
have already been sacrificed in prisons and in
battles than all the negro \ troops, now equip
ped and officered, will ever be worth :
" The Texas correspondent of the New York
Herald says that the colored troops garrison
ing Fort Esperansa, Texas, being the Four
teenth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, many
of whom are from the West, mutinied on the
31st of March, refusing to do duty. The Six
teenth Ohio was at once ordered up and a
battery stationed in direct range of the muti
neers' camp. This prevented a further out
bteak. The rebellious artillerymen were then
directed to assemble without arms outside the
fort, and marched to another post The oourt
martial called in the case will probably sen
tence twelve or fourteen of the ringleaders to
hard labor for a year. The difficulty seems to
have arisen from the promises of equal pay
with white soldiers being given them, and that
if Congress would not allow it the State of
Rhode Island would make up the deficiency.
When the paymaster came round they refused
to receive the $lO a month, thouT.h the officers
assured them that the honor of the State was
pledged for the $3 additional. Our dispatch
es also mention that General Butler is very
desirous that colored troops should be paid
the same as the white. He says they are
becoming demoralized through their dissat
isfaction on this point and the failure of the
Government to afford them protection.
CONGRESS-FIRM' SESSION,
In the Senate, a bill was introduced for the adjust
ment of the claims of aliens against the United States
since the beginning of the war. A resolution by Mr.
Sumner looking to the New Jersey railroad troubles
was introduced. The Montana bill was taken up
and At. Doolittle spoke. The Senate appointed a
Committee of Conference, and will give up its negro
voting ideas.
In the Hone a resolution was adopted giving
wounded soldiers honorably discharged a bounty Of
one hundred dollars. A bill was introduced for the
more severe punishment 01 guerrillas. the tax bill
was then taken up. Gold sales were taxed one fifth
of use per cent. Hogs slaughtered ten cents per
head. Sheep and lambs tire cents. Insurance
companies pay one-and-a-half per cent. on their
gross receipts. Lotteries, Zoo., for sanitary fairs, are
exempt. Theatres are taxed two per cent. Mr.
Stevens offered a resolution of inquiry whether Frank
Blair was a Major General. Mr. Wood offered one
about the New York Custom House frauds., Mr.
Morrill one to increase the duties until July lot.
This was debated at some length, and Mr. Stevens
offered an amendment to make the increase fifty par
cent. for sixty days
In the Senate a bill was introduced providing that
no naval of f icer shall be retired, under the age of
sixty-two. A resolution appropriating twenty-five
millions for equipping the new levies of troops was
referred to the Finance Committee. The post-office
money order bill was passed. The Bank bill was
taken up and amended so as to admit any banks al
ready constituted, having five millions of capital.
The Senate took no vote on the bill.
In the House a Committee was appointed, of which
Mr. Alley, of Massaohusetts, is Chairman, to look
after the protection of the Northeastern boundary of
Maine. The tax bill was taken up. Five per cent.
was made the tax on Incomes from United state se
curities. The Income Tax was made as follows:
Under $lO,OOO, five per cent ; between $lO,OOO, and
$25,000 seven and a-half per cent.; over $25,000 ten
per cent. ...An amendment to tax the salaries of Con
gressmen wasiteoted by a large majority—of course.
In the evening various land grant bills were report
ed and passed
in the Senate petitions were presented for an in-*
crease of soldiers' pay. The !louse bills preventing
marine collisions, and frauds by changing the names
of vessels were passed. The Bank litll was taken
up and debated, but without any action, was laid
over. The President was called upon for Information
about Nevada. The Pacific railroad bill was made
the special order for next Monday.
In the House the tax bill was taken up. Com
mercial brokers pay $26; brown and muscovado
sugar pay two cents a pound; refined sugars from
three to five cents ; bills of sale of vessels, convey
ances of property, bonds and mortgages pay fifty
cent for each five hundred dollars ; chewing tobacco
pays thirty-five cents a pound. The resolution to
appropriate twenty-five millions for the hundred
day men was rushed through the House in three
minutes. A bill was passed increasing the pay of
Custom inspectors to four dollars a day. The tax
bill was again taken up. Quicksilver pays five per
oent. Sales of sugar refillerepay 2i percent. Hail
roads pay 2i per cent. on gross receipts.
Tutrasnar, April 28.
In the Senate • bill was passed for the relief of
Clerks in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The House
resolution increasing the duties on imports fifty per
cent. until July 1, was taken up. An attempt was
made to reduce it to thirty-three per cent. but rojeot
ed, yeas 17, nays 21. An effort to exempt goods in
bond was also rejected, yeas 18, nays 19. 'lhe reso
lution was plumed as sent from the House.
In the House the Tax bill was considered 'and
bank taxes discussed. A message from the President
asking relief for East Tennessee was communicated.
Also another explaining the status of lienerals
Behenok and Blair. Mr. Schenck introduced a
resolution calling for information about Blair's
status. It was not considered and the tax bill was
again taken up. No action was bad however.
FRIDAY, April 29.
In the Senate a bill was introduced for the batter
government of Indians. It was proposed to print
Genekal McDowell's report on Western Cotton Spec
ulaALA which caused a debate, in which the Bed
River affair was discussed. The resolution was
adopted. The Bank bill was taken up, and the
Senate, by yeas 11, nays 28, refused to exempt
their capital from State taxation.
In the Rouse, after a personal squabble on Mis
souri, and other kinds of politics, a resolution was
offered calling upon the President for information
about General Blair. This Mr. Brooks proposed to
amend by asking for information about the Treasury
greenback printing office. The Republicans tried to
suppress him, but he triumphed, but after some time
withdrew his amendment. The resolution about
Blair was passed. The bill for governments in se
ceded States was taken up and Mr. Stevens proposed
a substitute remanding conquered States back to the
oondition of Territories.
In the Senate on Saturday a resolution was offer
ed by Mr. Wilson, providing that no °Maar who has
resigned from the military service shall be returned
to command without a new confirmation by the Sen
ate. This strikes at Frank Blair.
In the House a Committee was appointed at the
request of Mr. Garfield, one of Secretary Chase's
friends, to investigate the affair of the Treasury
Department. The Senate amendments to the army
appropriation bill were taken up. One placing ne
groes on the same footing as white soldiers, caused
much debate, and was finally agreed to yeas 81,
nays 49.
Tux U. S. 10.40 LoAN.—lnstructions.to the
National Banks acting as loan agents were
not issued from the Treasury at Washington
until March 26th. The Banks did not gener
ally begin to reoeive subscriptions until one
week later, and in distant parts of the coun
try have yet hardly begun to work, but the
subscriptions reported by mail to the Treasury
up to April 22d, amount to over $33,000,000,
and the sum actually subscribed but not yet
reported at that date is much greater. The
attempts of interested parties to compel the
Seeretary of the Treasury to raise the rate of
interest on this loan have signally failed.
The experience of:the last few weeks gives us
every reason to believe that all the money the
Treasury desires to borrow, can be obtained
for five per cent. interest in gold.
ger A bill allowing all negroea who have
resided one year in Washington, provided
they pay one dollar school tax to vote, has
passed the U. S. Senate, and been referred to
the House. This measure, if oonsuminated,
will make 10,000 negro voters in the Dis—
trict
MONDAY, April 25
TUESDAY, April 26
WZDNIEIDAY, April 27
SATZEILLY April 30