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THE LANCASTER INTELIIGENCER Will pass into the hands of a new firm on the first day of July next. The new firm will be COOPER, SAN DERSON & Co. The paper after that time will be issued as the Daily and Weekly Intelligencer. The different committees in the townships having the interests of the enterprise in charge are requested to make report as speedily as possible to H. B. SWARR, Esq., so that the final ar rangements can be consummated. A Terrible Contest, We have nothing very reliable as yet from the terrific conflict which has been going on since Wednesday last between the armies of Lieuten ant General GRANT and General LEE, in Virginia. That it is a bloody series of battles, unequalled in the history of the war, is beyond question, and the public mind is deeply agitated in cpnsequence of the indefiniteness of the reports from the scene of strife. In the absence of any official information we give a synopsis of the reports in another column, from which we infer that, so far, the Federal army is victorious, and that the Confeder ates have been worsted and driven back towards Richmond. We must wait a few days for the official ac counts. Mr. Voorhees' Speech. We publish on our first page the great speech of Hon. D. W. VOOR HEES, of Indiana, delivered in Con gress in opposition to the resolution of expulsion of Mr. LONG, offered by the Speaker of the House. The speech of Mr. V. is one of the boldest and most eloquent uttered upon the floor of Congress during the present session, and is, of itself, sufficient to place him in the front rank of the statesmen and orators of the present day. Mr. V. is yet a young man, and, if, he lives, is des tined at no distant day to occupy the same position before the Ameri can people that was awarded to HENRY CLAY, in the zenith of his fame, that of being the greatest of living orators. We bespeak for the speech a careful and unprejudiced perusal, being firmly of the belief that nothing we could have published will give them more satisfaction. New York Against Lincoln. An address to the Republican National Committee, urging the postponement of the Republican Con vention, has been issued by the lead ing Republican politicians of New York. It is signed by sixteen State Senators and a number of other lead ing men, and it is said that nearly the whole of the members of the Legislature approve of it. Indeed, resolutionOntroduced in that body approving of Lincoln's administra tion and favoring his re-election, have been suppressed, through fear that they would be voted down.— The movement to postpone the COn vention is one in hostility to Lin coln. These facts show plainly that New York is against him, and it re mains to be seen whether the Shod dyites will dare to nominate him in the face of this great fact. The Working Classes. The wrongs of the working classes are closely hidden under a veil of spurious prosperity. Because working men receive generally a little higher wages than formerly, it is said they are prosperous and hap py. But this is not so. Look at it in its true light. Under the reign of Shoddy, a man may receive fifty per cent., perhaps double, for his week's work, compared with his wages before the war. But is he a gainer ? Let him answer : " I now pay three times more than former. ly for nearly every article of clothing for my family, and double, or more, 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 outgoes, to say nothing of the impossibility of laying up, anything against a rainy day." Such is that Abolition and Shoddy " prosperity " which is rung in the ears of our workingmen when their votes are Wanted to help shoddyites to fat contracts and demagogues to fat offices. The seeming prosperity is hollow ; it is a lie upon its face. It raises the wages of labor for a time, and at the same time increases, to a much greater extent, the price of every article the laborer must buy for himself and family. In the mean time Shoddy gets well paid for its investments ; Abolition parasites get rich offices and plenty of public plunder, arid are merry and jubilant over the ruin of their country and the poverty and misery that have come and are coming upon its toil ing millions. LlOlllll/1311 OY THY TARIYP. Congress after five months of legislating in regard to negroes and slavery, was, on Friday week, compelled, by the necessities of the Treasury, to devote five minutes to legitimate legislation. They ;passed an sot increas ing the present tariff fifty per °eat., the law to continue for sixty days. Five months of the people's time squandered in utopian schemes of emancipation and negro equality, and only five minutes devoted to the actual necessities of the country. Had Con gress, five months ago, commenced a revision of our tariff laws, we could, months ago, base had a well matured and disoriminating scale of duties. Having squandered their time in senseless debate about Abolitionism, we have the silly bill alluded to, which will add to, in stead of relieving the people's burden. The New York World thus exposes this spasmodic effort at legislation : It has been evident, ever since Congress met and the report of the Secretary of the Treasury was transmitted, that the session could not close without a very material in crease of the tariff. The consequence was what might have been expected. Orders were sent abroad in anticipation of high duties, and goods have been pouring into the country all winter. Th i tide of importations reached its flood in March. Orders for goods in excess of the immediate demand, with a view to take advantage of the existing tariff, would not -naturally be sent out so late as to bring the goods into port after the end of April ; for it was not to be presumed that Congress .would take more than five months to revise the tariff. But now, when the imports of the season are pretty muoh all in, Congress makes itself an object of derision by this absurd burlesque on legislation. In March the im ports at this port amounted to nearly twenty-four million dollars according to their specie valuation at the foreign ports ; an amount much larger than has been im ported in any previous month since the begin ning of the war. The increase of imports at New York since the first of January, says the Pittsburg Post, is nearly fifty per cent. on those for the first three months of last year. This was pro duced by the expectation of Congress raising the duties. And now, continues the World, !...after the country is glutted with merchan dise, our sapient Congress is seised with a sudden fright and juke up the duties fifty per cent. The effect of such a measure, at this late day, will simply be to tax the country to enrich the foreign owners of this vast amount of merchandise. All these goods which have been hurried into the country while Congress has been procrastinating will rise in the hands of their owners, and the peo. ple be impoverished by an onerous tax of millions, not a dollar of which goes into the treasury. If Congress had matured and passed a reasonable tariff in December or January, this tax on the community would have been paid to support the Government, and' not, as now, to enrich the importers. During the sixty days, the goods that arrive will be entered in bond, as nobody will care to pay the new duties when the rates may, at the end of sixty days, be less on the particu• lar kind of merchandise he imports. During those sixty days very little gold will be wanted for the payment of duties, and it is possible that the expected effect of that circumstance on the pride of gold is one reason for the passage of this strange law. But if less gold is wanted for duties more will be wanted for remittances, and gold, instead of being transferred from the banks into the sob-treasury, will be sent out of the country. The holders of imported goods will now be anxious to realize, and sales will result in the conversion of large amounts of currency into gold for remittance to Europe. So that, in every point of view, the new law is a piece of consummate folly. LABOR PAYS THE TAXES It is truly said that the people of this country have not yet begun 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 is to fall the enormous debt of $4,000,0000,000. There fore, so much of the capital of the country is sunk—is worse than destroyed, 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 mut 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 bow far it ie safe to carry such a system, and have we not reached the limit already ? The farmer and the mechanic pay the taxes, while the rich man, who has in voked 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 becomes 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 in• creased. Already the Government Mortgage upon every farm and every house and lot, is °nor_ moue, and every day's continuance of this reckless Administration increases it. So long as the Republican party continve in power, we have no reason to expect to Bee an end to this struggle. Tits Two attn. Pleoz.—The new two cent piece which has been recommended by Con gress resembele very mush in appearance a gold coin : On one side there is a wreath of wheat in the center of which is stamped " 2 cents " and around which are the words " United States of America." On the other side there is a shield of liberty bearing the words " God is our Trutt." It was feared that this new issue of money, like all that has been circulated for three years back would be made of paper. It will be a refreshing sight to see a new issue of coin—an article of great scarcity now-adays. Adjournment. The Legislature of Pennsylvania adjourned on Wednesday night last. The appropriation bill and most of the more important bills were passed. The Legislature will meet again in August next, to agree on legislation to enable the soldiers to vote, in the event of the people ratifying the proposed amendments to the Con stitution. Delirium Tremens ! We are really afraid that the temperance editor of the Express has been laboring under an attack of delirium tremens or something else.— GEIST sees nothing but snakes ! For a confirmation of this see the Ex press of Friday evening. BROWN'S BRONCHIAL Thomas. for (loughs, Colds, Pulmonary and Asthmatio Disordecrs, have proved their efficacy by a test of many years, and have received testimonials from eminent men who have used them. aNICIP RIXEMDITION. IGen. BANKS' Red River expedition, says the New Hampshire Patriot, was undertaken mainly to obtain a large amount of cotton I which was supposed_ to be " laying round loose" along Red river. It was simply a great marauding expedition—s foray for plunder and spoils. The objet of the ex pedition has doubtless been defeated by the delay occasioned by the defeat and retreat of Banks' forces, and the expedition will there fore probably be given up. As the enemy will have time to remove or destroy all the cotton in the region before Banks' army is " reorganised " and reinforced sufficiently to warrant another advance, it is not likely that the attempt to reach Shreveport will again be made at present. This expedition has resulted even more disastrously than was reported last week. The shameless but characteristic lying of the Government tools, which announced magnifi cent victories was resorted to as usual to deceive the people and to break the force of the sad reality which it was known would soon shock the public mind. Instead of the magnificent victories so exultingly reported, after and during a series of bloody conflicts, Gen. Banks retreated some forty miles down the river, leaving his dead and wounded, his artillery, his wagons and his supplies. The extent of the disaster will never be made known. A letter from New Orleans says : The disaster to oar arms on the Red river has proved a very serious one, in which we have lost some 7000 in killed and wounded, 200 army wagons with stores, &c., 19 pieces of artillery with caissons, ammunition, &0., 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. A despatch from Washington says; a letter has been received there from Admiral Porter, who commands the gunboats co operating with Banks' army, which " pronounces GEM. Banks' expedition a complete failure. Besides over thirty pieces of artillery, a large quantity of small aims, several hundred wagons and a ,first-class gunboat (the Eastport,) near 4000 prisoners have been lost; also, in addition, the Paymaster's safe, containing a million dollars in greenbacks, was captured by the rebels." It is feared that this disaster may lead to another. Gen. Steele with 15,000 men was advancing through Arkansas to join Banks at Shreveport. Having disposed of Banks, it is feared the active rebel Generale will turn upon Steele with an overwhelming force and annihilate his army. The managemeit of this expedition by Gen. Banks is sharply criticised and severely censured. A letter from New Orleans says : I have seen a large number of those who were in the fight, and they all agree that Banks, by marching up his men in brigades, to encounter the massed army of Kirby Smith, simply led them to a wholesale slaughter, and hie lose of eighteen pieces of artillery, among which was Nime' Battery, shows how effective he made his artillery." The N. Y. Evening Post, an Administration paper always friendly to Banks, says : As to the military management of General Banks it is too early yet to speak a decisive word ; but the newspaper accounts thus far received of his grand expedition up the Red River, and of the late battles at Pleasant Ridge, are anything but assuring ; they would seem to show the most prodigious blunders in the whole ordering of the march and the con filet. For a commander who is approaching the presence of the enemy to send cavalry some eight miles in advance of hie main army, to let the baggage train of that cavalry occupy the only road between the two , and when the cavalry is attacked by superior numbers of infantry, not to withdraw it, but to support it with one or two light - brigades, is to evince bad judgment, to say the least. General Banks' policy was to defer battle as long-as he could until he should be joined by the forces under General Steele and others, rapidly concentrating, and then fall upon the enemy with superior numbers. According to the representations we have, he allowed himself to be drawn into the fight under disadvanta• geoue -circumstances ; he lost needlessly both men and munitions ; and if on the third day we partially retrieved the case by a merciless slaughter of the rebels, who had become too confident, it was owing to the endurance and valor of the troops, and not to the generalship of the commander. It is stated that in this bold push into the enemy's country in search of plunder, Banks' column was thirty six miles long! The cav alry were four miles ahead of the nearest corps of infantry ; that twelve miles ahead of the next, and that twenty miles ahead of the reserve ! No one corps was within supporting distance of the other ; and it was not till they were burled back and heaped upon each other that the troops made an effectual resistance. They fought bravely, and sacrificed much, to repair the errors of a political General, who was using them for a 'political scheme and a moneyed speculation. An expedition thus managed could not reasonably be expected to succeed ; and its failure brings disgrace upon all concerned in its management. It has ef fectually blighted Banks' Presidential pros pects, and thus effected one of the standing purposes of Lincoln—the " suppression " of rival candidates for the Baltimore nomination. E=IMIZIECEEI The Philadelphia Bulletin, of Friday eve ning, thus truthfully speaks of the Abolition Legislature of Pennsylvania which has just adjourned much to the relief of the people I The people of Pennsylvania are to be con— gratulated on the adjournment of the Legis lature. The session has been one of unparal leled mischief, the full extent of which no one can now pretend to estimate. Even the pamphlet laws, when they are published, will not begin to show all the evil that has been enacted ; for there are hundreds of bills, the full purpose of which does not appear in their titles or contents. The means used to obtain the passage of most of the bills were as dis— graceful as the enactments themselves. That hot-bed of corruption, Harrisburg, was never before so infested with the agents of bribery, politely called lobbyists. Bills had to be bought through committees and through each house, and the votes of members had their price, while the lobbyists themselves pocketed a large share of the sums exacted from per— eons anxious to procure legislation. The Philadelphia delegation, with a few honorable exceptions, was a disgrace to the city. They effected nothing for the good of Philadelphia, bat they did a great dual for its injury. When a measure for the benefit of the city was proposed, even their advocacy of it was useless; for they had not the respect of the country members, and they were consequently without influence. The bad work of the session, had its fitting climax in the scandal— ous scenes of rowdyism of the closing night sessions, of which our correspondence has given a slight sketch. Let us hope that such another Legislature may never again be elected. HAVE WE A BLOCKADING SQUAD- The New York Herald says the blockade runners are doing a thriving business while Mr. Welles, the Secretary of the Navy, is taking a comfortable nap. They are running freely, it appears, to and fro upon the ocean, carrying rebel products to Europe, and bring ing book rebel supplies from the sympathizers on the other aide of the Atlantic. We hear of twelve vessels arriving at Liverpool in two days, laden with cotton from the rebel States. We also learn by our files from Bermuda that the steamer Minnie has just brought in there even hundred and thirty-two tone of cotton and three hundred and thirty boxes of tobacco from Wilmington, and that quite a fleet of steamers had reached that island laden with merchandise for the use of the Southern rebels. These facts suggest the question, have we a blockading squadron on our coast at all? The port of Wilmington certainly might as well be innocent of the presence of any such portion of the new service. IMPORTANT HISTORICAL LETTER. The Portsmouth (Ohio) rams of the 23rd publishes for the first time,. thefollowing letter from S. P. Chase to a proininent Re publican of that plane. The originaLreeently came into the possession of the editor of the runes, which he well remarks is of great value, as revealing the polioy that controlled the leading statesmen of the Republican party just previous to, and at the time of their in stalment into power. It throws considerable light upon the animus of those members ,of the Peace Conference, who thought the Union would not be worth a curse, in the language of Senator Chandler, of Michigan, without a little blood-letting. The following is a copy of Mr. Chase's letter : WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 1861. Dear Sir : Thanks for your note and expla nation of that vote. It may be useful. There is a greater disposition to compromise than I like to see. But I hope for the best. Half a dozen of the Border State gentlemen have been in our room to night. Etheridge and Stokes, of Tennessee, Adams and Bristow, of Kentucky, Gilmer, of North Carolina, and others. I really sympathize with them, but see no reason why we should sacrifice pertnar• neatly a LARGE power to help them, for the purpose of gaining temporarily a LITTLE one. Yours, 'cordially, S. P. Caen. Can any one who reads this letter of Mr. Chase fail to see who brought this war on, and who is responsible for the present condi tion of things? Read•the letter over again, particularly the lines in italic. When Mr. Chase wrote that there was a greater disposition to compromise than he liked to see, he meant among his own party friends, for the Democrats were all for corn promise to avoid civil war and separation. Mr. Chase, of course, resisted the disposition to compromise which he found among hie party friends. The result is now upon the country in one of the most etupenduone and sacrificing wars of modern times. To the entreaties of the Border State men he turned a deaf ear. He could see no reason why the Republican party " should saorifloe permanently a large power " to help them, "for the purpose of gaining, temporarily, a little one." He regarded the permanent as cendency of the Republican party of far more importance than the peace of the Border States, and their retention in the Union. This letter of Mr. Chase will form a part of the history of the fall of the great American Re. public, and connect his name indissolubly with its destruction. THE ELECTION FARCE IN LOUISI Gen. James M. Ashley, of Ohio, is a mem bar of Congress who is very apt to say what he thinks. He is an uncompromising Repub lican ; but this circumstance does not prevent him from having a most contemptuous opin ion of Mr. Lincoln, and his demagogical trick for getting voters for his own reelection, by the farce of holding elections in rebel States, where we have only the most precarious foot ing for our armies, and where, the instant that they are withdrawn, the whole commu nity are a unit in expressing their attachment to the rebel cause. Recently, in a speech de livered in Congress, General Ashley made the following statement with reference to the late elections in Louisiana. He said: " The farce of an election was gone through with, and of course the men representing an organization whose loyalty never was ques tioned were defeated. It could not well have been otherwise. A military commander who announces that ' martial law is the fundamen tal law of the State,' and .that all must vote, would not find it difficult to elect any one he may designate, especially when the aggregate vote did not exceed ten or eleven thousand, with three candidates in the field. Hahn's whole vote in the State, as claimed by his friends, is only 6,l7l—less than one fourth of my congressional district. " There are fifty-four parishes in the State, only twelve of which are under our control. Of the number who voted for Hahn, I have been credibly informed that over 1,000 were employed in the quartermaster's department ; about 550 are policemen in the City of New Orleans ; city laborers 1,100, and other city officers 100 ; some 1,600 were soldiers, claim- ing to be citizens of Louisiana. The acting mayor of New Orleans was removed by Gen. Banks, and one appointed who could and would control the votes and influence of the 550 policemen, city laborers and city officers. With all the military power of the depart ment to support Hahn, with the votes of all the Government employees, the Louisiana soldiers and policemen, his entire vote in the twelve parishes is but 6,171, and yet this in significant vote is paraded before the country, and unblushingly called the ioice of the entire State of Louisiana, which, in 1860, gave a vote of over 50,000. Hahn had hardly as many votes in the entire State as Mrs. General Beauregard had sympathizing rebel mourners in attendance upon her funeral in the city of New Orleans a day or two after this eletion." TRUE ELOQUENCE. The following truly eloquent pas Sage is from the speech of Hon. Oeo. H. Pendleton, of Ohio, on freedom of speech in Congress * * * My imagination paints another When your work shall have been fully accomplished ; when your mission shall have been all executed ; when your Constitution I shall be dead, our Sovernment destroyed, our liberties gone ; when these States, held in their proper position by the power of our matchless Constitution, and emulating in their harmoni ous action the stars which circle around the footstool of the Eternal Throne, amidst the music of the spheres, shall have given place to " States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; a land rent with civil feuds, and:drenohed with fraternal blood ; " impartial history will hold its dread inquest, and before appalled human ity will render judgment, that degenerate children, discarding the teachings of their fathers, deserting the lessons of the past, de parting from " the ways of pleasantness and peace, rebelliing against the wisdom and be nificence of Gad, with their hearts tilled with pride and their souls filled with passion and fanaticism, raised their hands to strike ;the matricidal blow, and received at that moment from the vengeance of indignant and outraged Heaven, the just punishment of their terrible and nameless crime. DESPERATE PRIZE FIGHT. On Wednesday morning last a prize fight took place, near the Gwynedd Station, on the North Pennsylvania Railroad, Montgomery county, six miles north from Norristown. The place selected was an open field adjoining a small copse of woods, and the fight was witnessed by a large concourse of spectators from New York and Philadelphia. The fight was fur $5OO aside, and there was heavy betting, considerable money changing hands. The names of the principals are Dorney Har ris, an Englishman, residing in New York, and Patsey Marley, hailing from the same city. The fight commenced at quarter past 10 o'- clock and continued for one hour and forty-five minutes. Harris took his place in the ring a half hour before the contest commenced. His seconds were James Elliott and Barney Aaron ; those of Marley were Kit Burns and John Monaghan. Daniel Carrigan acted as referee. In the second round Harris bad hie rib broken, although the accident did not disconcert him in the least, as he showed no signs of pain. After the tenth or twelfth round it was evident that Marley was fast failing and the betting was two to one on Harris. Over seventy rounds were fought when Marley's seconds threw up the sponge and Harris was declared the winner. Marley's face exhibited signs of the most severe punishment. He was totally blind, both eyes being closed, and his head was swollen as large as a bushel basket. Although blind. he was reluctant to give up the fight, and eried like a child when carried from the ring. Harris, on the other hand, escaped without any serious injury, his face not showing a scratch. His only injury is a bioken rib.— No attempt was made by the authorities to interfere with the contest. HAlL.—Considerable of a hail storm passed over the North-Western part of Chester coun— ty, and edge of Berke, on Wednesday. last, Fortunately the crops or fruit trees were not far enough advanoed to receive any damage. It had the effect to chill the atmospheie. imif.l4 :1;711:1 1 4.%. -77,1 HoN. JAMBS BROOKS ON " TEBOWING AFRI- ' dill Drew n ANINIOAN ETV', vo itamave Wares Marg."— , A large sod brilliant audience of ladies and gentlemen at tended the lecture of Hew Jasras BEOONT,