1t Vrts.s+ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1862. EXTRACT FROM THE LAST SPEECH OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.- 46 The conspiracy to break up the Union is a fact now known to 511. Armies are being raised, and war levied is accomplish it. There can be but two sides in the con . Every man must be on the side of the United States or against it. There eau be no neutrals in this war. There can be none but patriots and traitors.” THE LATEST WAR !NEWS The spirit of the Union soldiers is being wrought up to a high pitch of enthusiasm. In all the late conflicts which have occurred, whether on a large or a small scale, whether between pickets, scouting parties, companies, regiments, or brigades, our troops have been uniformly victorious. Those who have become inured to the hardships of camp-life, end fairly drilled and disciplined, allow, wherever they have officers upon whom they can rely, that they are now prepared to prove themselves as su perior, as soldiers, as they were in peaceful times as citizens; as bfave and terrible in war as they were industrious and useful in peaoe. No matter what hardships they may endure, they rarely complain of them—but a desire for the fierce excitement of battle is almost universally ex pressed. Their great want is a chance to meet the enemy, and to punish the insolent eiders and abettors of the wicked rebellion. When they grumble, it is not about their food or clothing, but about inaction. Neither do they grieve about the prospect of taxation ; although, as one of them writes to us, not a few of them " pay more taxes than the tax grumblers who stay at home ;" and they are ready and eager to literally risk their lives end fortunes for the preservation of their country. We want no better evidenceof *the waning' con. dition of the rebellion now existing in the Southern portion of the Union than the document which we publish this morning, addressed to the people of Georgia by Howell Cobb, Robert Toombs, Martin J. Crawford, and Thomas R. R. Cobb. Coming from such a high source—its signers all being members of the rebel Congress, and men in high favor with the Jeff. Davis Govern ment—it may be taken as a semi- official exposure of the views held by the ruling Secessionists. Al though the document is intended as an appeal to the people of Georgia to put forth extra effort to resist the invasion of the Federal troops, it bears on its face a virtual acknowledgment of the tottering con dition of the whole rebel dynasty, and shows con clusively, that before many weeks have passed by, the Southern people need not be surprised to hoer of the fulling of the 6ocoaviun edifies into a mass of ruins. It may therefore be inferred that this manifesto was issued by its signers, in the hope that it may help to avert the blow that will surely fall upon their heads when the people of the South find out how their rulers have, for the purpose of advancing their own ambitious and hellish designs, basely betrayed them, and brought ruin and starvation to their once happy and prosperous homes. The prospect of foreign intervention is frankly acknowledged to be as remote as ever, and the peo ple are told that if they wish to make the present rebellion successful it must be done by the work of their own heads and hands. The wonderful unanimity and resources of the loyal people in helping to crush the rebellion have surprised them, and they express the opinion that, in the coming spring, the Federal troops, by a simultaneous movement, and with a giant's grasp, will attempt to crush them.. If such an event should happen— and God grant it may—they counsel that every Georgian with a sword in hand should meet the " murderer and robber " on the threshold, and that every woman have a torch, and every child a fire-brand so that the homes of our youth be made ashes, and the fields of our heritage be made desolate." They are also advised to share their fortune and crust with their "faithful" slaves. We suspect that the people of Georgia, remember ing how they were so basely deceived before, will not take the above " patriotic" advice—and that instead of the "faithful" slaves staying to share tonevrerust .- or trim maams, tuey first opportunity to decamp and obtain a better better living. The address states that the people should all be united, "giving a trustful and generous confidence to those selected as our leaders, in our camps and council chambers," and frown down all factious opposition and eeriseriouu criticism. It also counsels rapid aggressive action, BO as to "make our enemies feel, at their own fire sides, the horrors of a war brought on by them selves." But how they are going to carry on this "aggressive" war into the firesides of the loyal people of the Union, these wise men of Georgia do .not tell us. It is all very well, for the sake of bombastic effect, and to help to keep up the droop ing spirits of their people, to talk about such as "aggressive" war; but when it comes to be tried, they will find that they have enough to do to keep their own firesides out of the " giant's grasp," without carrying the war among their " &hassles." Thurlow Weed, Esq., editor of the Albany Eve ning Journal, writing from London, under date of January 9th, says : I have met distinguished personages, members of the Ministry, the Government, and of Parliament, •at dinners and breakfasts, with whom I have conversed fully upon the American questions, and while I am not at liberty to use names or publish conversations, I may say that the Union has many and strong friends here. And lam sorry to add that, although the Trent trouble is out of the way, we shall need all that those friends can do for us. The moment Parliament meets, agi tation of American questions will commence. The blockade will be attacked from one iparter, whole another section will demand a recognition of the independence of the Confederate States. Nor is it from England alone thit this kind of pressure will conic. France is even more restive than England under the blockade. At breakfast, a few days since, a distinguished Member of Parliament, who has been much in America, remarked with emphasis that he had for merly entertained a high opinion of " Judge Lynch," looking with much favor upon that species of impromptu jurisprudence, known as "Lynch Law," but since it failed to hang Floyd, Cobb, and Thompson, of Buchanan's Cabinet, he had ignored, and was disgusted with the system. Our minister to this Court, Mr. Adams. is " the right man for the right place." Beside his know ledge of the duties, and his ability to discharge than, both Mr. Adams and his family possess, in an eminent degree, the personal and social quali ties which commend them to the high and refined circles and associations which surround them, and in which they are moving. Nor did the change, in this regard, occur any too early, for I learn, from unquestionable authority, that the interests of the Government, here, as in France, were but indif ferently represented. Ax ExcnAsoE of prisoners has come to be not only a matter of Christian kindness, but of economy. We not only feed and clothe a host of non-producers in our prisoners of war, but we pay, or ought to pay, full wages to our soldiers in Southern prisons. In refusing to establish a system of exchange, we elect to discriminate against our loyal soldiers in the matters of comfortable quarters and good ra tions. Besides this, the hearts of our captive soldiers ache for their Northern homes, and the mothers who.gave them to their country thought rather of honorable deaths on the field or in the breach, than of slow tortures in Southern prisons. Let the boys come home The Telegraphs It is reported cg that the number of messages over all the lines during the past year was 2,800,000, yielding a total income of $1,422,000. Should Congress, in the new tax bill, impose three cents on each message, an income of a little over 584,000 would be realized from that source, or 54 per centum on the aggregate amount of business." It is so obvious that the number of telegraph messages, over all the lines, in 1861, must have exceeded the above return by very many millions, that the - figures cannot be accepted as correct. The amount to be realized by even so small an im post as three cents on each message would be a great deal more than the small sum set down here as the probable total. The Telegraph Companies are ready to submit to the tax, if required, and, indeed, all through the war, have exhibited the most loyal alacrity in help ing the Government by all means in their power. 1 WE CANNOT but think the Government has done well in placing the rebel privateersmen on the footing of prisoners of war. Why it should be more heinous to pounce upon a ship's cargo than a farmer's granary, is not quite so clear as one could wish it to be, if it be really worse. At the worst, privateers are but water guerillas—whose kind on the land we have been catching and g , swearing in" from the beginning up to a recent day. If privateers prey upon unarmed vessels, gueril as prey upon unarmed farmers. In so much ath act the part of cowards, and forfeit the spect of all honorable men. But justice would bang the one as soon as the other. Taxation is Necessary If there be one thing more than another upon which the loyal and patriotic people of this Union have set their minds, it is that money, constituting the sinews of War, shall be liberally supplied for the suppression of the foul rebellion which has swept through the South—apolitical tornado, desolating and de stroylng all that it has touched. This libe rality has a right to expect, on its part, that the funds thus supplied shall be used with discretion and with as much economy as is consistent with the efficiency of the service for which it is disbursed. The necessary expenses of crushing the Re bellion are to be supplied by a judicious sys tem of taxation, wbieh must be so levied as to press upon every class in the community in proportion to their means. In England, where the aristocracy, (nobles and men of broad acres and vast rentals,) have usurped the rights of the people and return their own nominees as members of the House of Commons, from which all taxation must emanate, it has hap pened, for the last hundred and fifty years, that the public revenue was mainly raised out of the small incomes and earnings of the mid dle and industrial classes, while the as higher classes" (as they were insolently self-styled) paid comparatively little. For example, the ducal palace called Northumberland House, at Charing Cross,London, actually paid no greater house tax and window tax, though it was a fitting dwelling for its pompous lord, with an income of $5,000 a day, than was exacted from the hard-working little man who kept a petty hosier's shop next door. Constituted as we arc, socially and politically, such an anomaly as this would scarcely be created in this country, under any circumstances, or, if created, would speedily be broken down. Here, as everywhere else, Wealth has a cer tain influence,—but with us, such influence does not make it so far master of the position as to exempt it, wholly or partially, from its fair contribution to the fiscal exigencies of the nation. Whether the sums necessary to carry on the expenses of the Republic, either in war or peace, be raised by loan or imposts, the basis must be taxation. The interest on all moneys lent to the public treasury must be raised by taxation, and, were the amount of this even double what it is likely to be, under any cir cumstances, we are able and we are willing to supply it. The great principle of fair taxation is to lean lightest on the producing classes and heaviest on the wealihy. For this purpose, luxuries should be niada to pay: beOaUse those who can afford to use them, can afford to pay for them. So, too, the necessaries of life should be taxed as lightly as possible,—for the producing classes, on whom such imposts would mainly fall, really are made to pay double. For example, the grocers are not content with adding on the tax to the legiti mate selling price of tea, coffee, sugar, &c., but contrive to double it, by adding on about as much more to the purchaser. Thus when there is a tax of two cents a pound on sugar, or of ten cents on tea, these amounts only are not added on, but four cents and twenty cents are added on. The worst is, that, of these necessaries, a poor man's family con sumes as much, on the average, as the family of the millionaire. Taxes upon luxuries alone, however, justifi able, will not raise all the revenue now re quired, to maintain the honor and the integral union of the country. It will be imperatively requisite to make taxation general, so that it may reach all—for it would be unjust to make wealth sustain all the burden. Congress is now engaged on a plan of taxation, fairly adjusted to the pecuniary means of the people. It will include a great variety of subjects, and due regard will be paid, no doubt, to the pru dence of keeping down the cost of collection. There is an Old saying in England, ' the king's cheese is lost in its parings," which would he appropriate here. The cost of gathering in the revenue must be kept within bounds, and there is scarcely a greater social evil than the establishment of an army of tax collectors and excisemen_ As to raising funds' by loan, of which we shall have something yet to say, it is a legiti mate mode. England, whose population was 11,000,000 at the beginning of this century, slimed war with France, from 1793 to 1815, and raised the necessary funds chiefly by loan. In 1793, when the war commenced, the Na tional Debt of England was $1,160,150,240, and in 1815, when it ended, the amount had swelled to 54,115,441,181, simply for fighting against France, which had done her no wrong. England incurred an addition of some three thousand million dollars to her debt. Shall we, battling for our integrity and unity as a nation, shrink from the ne cessary cost ? We smile at those who are affected by the fluctuations of the money market as respects the value of our National stock. These are but trade-winds. To hear some people speak, the smallest fall in the market value makes them shiver ; what would they say if they kneW that, within this present century, the market price of £lOO in the 3-per cent. British Consols bad been as low as 47i, and as high as 101.1. ? If England, sixty years ago, with manufacturing resources almost un developed, and a population of eleven mil lions, could safely add three thousand millions to her Nitional Debt, what must our resources be, in 1862, with all our productive forces in full activity, and a population nearly twice as great as England had in 1500 ? Yes, we arc able, and we are willing to be taxed; for we are fighting not alone in the cause of nationality, but of universal freedom and humanity. No greater contest, no purer cause, did man ever draw the sword for. De Gasparin on the American Question. Last March, immediately after the inaugu ration of President LINCOLN, Count AGENDA DE GASPARIN, a French politician and author of great ability and high character, formerly in Ministerial office during the reign of L 91715 PHILIPPE, published a volume entitled cc The Uprising of a Great People : the United States," of which Mr. SCRIBNER, of New York, published a translation, last June, spi ritedly executed by MARY L. BOOTH. We no ticed this volume when it appeared, because it was the finest example of political prediction we had ever read. Written before the Rebellion bad culminated as it did, it foretold, step by step (as subsequent events proved) all that would and did occur. It is a remarkably sugges tive fact, on which we shall not pause to remark, that though English journals have copiously noticed other foreign publications on the Ame rican question, they have carefully avoided any mention of DE GASPARTN'S "Uprising - of a Great People." A second and revised edi tion of the translation has just been issued by Mr. SCRIBNER, to which is now added a chap ter on the Treat affair, entitled 4, A Word of Peace on the difference between England and the United States," published in Paris nearly a month before intimation of the surrender of MASON and SLIDELL officially reached Europe. Count nu GASPARIN anticipated it, and said, "Far from being a humiliation to the Govern ment at Washington, this act of wisdom would be one of its brightest titles to glory. It would prove that it is not wanting in moral power ; that men calumniate it in representing it as a slave of a bad Democracy, incapable of resisting the clamor of the streets, and of ac cepting, for the safety of the country, an hour of unpopularity." It is gratifying to find an accomplished foreigner, of known ability and with honorable experience in practical statesmanship (under his father and under M. GeizoT), thus endors ing, by anticipation, the policy pursued by 3tr. SEwARD—a policy so frank, transparent, and manly that it appears to have disarmed the apparent hostility of the British Ministry, and converted it into admiration of the sagacity and courage which dared risk unpopularity by doing what public policy rendered prudent and proper. But our people, however impul sive, are quick at appreciation, and felt that the apparent concession was, indeed, a for ward step, placing our Government on the highest vantage ground, not only with respect to England, but to the whole of Europe. M. ns GASPARIN prophesied in December,'“ I add, that a marked return towards friendly re lations with England will be manifested the moment that the latter shows herself more amicable to Anierica." Already, this is so. It is significant that, discussing, the affair of the Trent, M- DE GASPARIN says that, though Captain WILKEs' manner of procedure was rough, he had the question of right upon his side. lie argues, if MASON and SLIDELL had merely been political refugees, the British stag would have protected them, anywhere. But, he adds, they were accredited ambassadors to Europe, and, therefore, liable to seizure, on Sir William Scott's ruling. As to precedents, lie says, England simply THE PRESS.-PHTLADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FERIITTARY 5, 18C2. asserts, I permit no one to imitate me ; what I practised in times past, I authorize no one to practise to.day." So, England's reported disapproval of our Stone Blockade, though, in 1804, when BONAPARTE threatened invasion, the same thing was done, by the British Ad miralty, in the entrance of the port of Bou logne, and the same was repeated, in 1807, in the port of Alexandria. The manner in which the British Ministry, through Lord LYONS, put the demand to our Government for the surrender of SLIDELL and MASON deserves praise for its calmness and courtesy. It has been declared, in the Eng lish journals, that Queen VICTORIA. herself revised Lord lcssELL's despatch to Lord LIONS : and softened its expressions, haying a womanly as well as a regal desire to keep down whatever might tend to create or increase acerbity in Washington. We hope that this is true—it will go far to increase the American respect for Queen Vie- TORIA'S high personal character—a respect which lately, amid anticipations of war with England, expressed deep sympathy for her Majesty's recent domestic deprivation. LETTER FROM ,4 OCCASIONAL." WASHINGTON, February 4, 1802 Every department of the Federal Govern ment, especially the executive and legisla tive, alike the Secretary of State, and the heads of the committees on foreign relations in the Senate and the House, confidently be lieves that there wily be no conflict between the British Government and our own unless Under eirelMiStanGes now not anticipated. The most cordial relations have been re estab lished between Mr. Seward, Lord Lyons, the British Minister, and M. Mercier, the French Minister. And Ido not step out of the record when I say that the head of our Department of State has been congratulated by all, or nearly all, the representatives of foreign Powers now in this city. The moderation and independence of his course have dis armed a vigilant and unreasoning animosity on the one hand, and challenged and con firmed a hearty admiration on the other. There are but two_ roads to a- recognition of the Southern rebellion by the Great Powers of En-rope: First, the failure, on the part of our army, to strike a speedy, sudden, and anni hilating blow at the so-called Confederacy—a blow that will not only crush the head of the serpent, upon the Potomac, but will pulverize the serpent itself, even to its extremities; and, second, our own interference in the Mexican complication, in response to the ap peals of Mexico herself. Now, whatever may be the real motive for concentrating three great navies in the Gulf of Mexico, ordinary sagacity must prompt us to hold our hands from nil complicity with this movement upon our sister Republic. We have neither the time nor the means to answer her demands upon us; and whatever the future may extract from this demonstration of England, France, and Spain, it is enough for us that the only consequence of throwing ourselves into the strife will be to precipitate an immense force upon our Southern coasts. Masterly inac tivity is our policy in regard to this Mexican question. However mortifying it would be to see the great Powers recognizing the Southern Confederacy, we must not shut our eyes to the possibility of such a contingency, should we fail to overwhelm the rebellion. Our experience, within the last year, has most severely taught us the lesson that na tions are like individuals, and that self-in terest controls in both cases. England and France want cotton, and France wants to bacco. The armies of the United States can gratify them both by a series of triumphs that will end the rebellion, by subjigating its leaders, revive and reorganize the Union sen timent all over the South, and reopen such ports as may be necessary to supply the de mands of the manufacturers of the Old World. I repeat that war with England is impossible under any present view of coming events. Public * Amusements. Mr. and Mrs. Williams remain in Philadelphia three nights longer, when they positively take their departure for Baltimore and Washington. Prestige feels no rivalry, and although the Wil- Humes have many rivals, many of whom are ta lented, versatile, and ambitious, they are, never theless, more successful now than ever before. The bill to-night includes two characteristic pieces. John Drew still fills the Arch-street Theatre, al though he has produced no new or novel pieces. He is, as we have said, amiable, humorous, and capable; but these are characteristics that need re liance, probity, and prudence to strengthen and ani mate them. Genius must be vigilant if it would not lose its equality, and ability vitiates on the stage sooner than elsewhere, unless constantly pro gressive. Mr. Drew's bill to-night is a good one, which he must sustain with credit. 1 ‘ Tun ANACREOUTIC."—The soiree of this new society takes place to-morrow evening, at the Academy of Music. A good programme has been prepared, and those who have been favored with cards of invitation expect a genuine musical en tertainment. The concerts of the old Musical Fund and Philharmonic Societies are remembered by all, and, since their decline, a void has been created which " The Anaereoutie " is designed to ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS.—A panorama of the greatrebellion, said to be equally creditable as a work 'of fact and of art, is now on exhibition at the Assembly Buildings. It illustrates all the leading events of the war, from Sumpter to Port Royal, and is painted upon fourteen thousand feet of can vas, including upwards of one hundred scenes. A Saturday afternoon exhibition will be given, in ad dition to regular evening exhibitions. We have had no good panorama in this city for a long period of time. It is to be hoped that the present will be acceptable to friends of the picturesque and the beautiful. THE FRENCH BENEVOLENT BALL, which will coma off on the evening of February 11th, will doubtless be a splendid affair. Most of the tickets have been already taken, and the participants in the fat) will be of the most reputable and influen tial character. [Fur The Press.' I am one of those who, when our country was threatened by a Secession foe, and when rebellion took the place of happy freedom, raised my hand in defence of our national colors, and pledged my life and sacrificed my property for the war. I an a reader of all the important journals of our North ern cities, and in reading them I see in the doings of the Senate some curious things. The most cu rious of all is a bill for the purpose of reducing the pay of commissioned officers, and the doing away of regimental bands. &c. Now, sir, from nearly a year's experience in actual service, I think I can say that the passage of such a bill would be the most detrimental thing that could befall our army. It is well known that the expenses of commissioned officers are very great. The regulations prescribe that they shalt wear such and such uniform, and they must necessarily present a neat appearance. This uniform is costly, and when in actual service cannot last any groat length of time. Then, too, they have their board and other expenses, which are considerable. Again, air : It is well known that the largest part of our army are the son and brothers of the poor. Whoever saw an officer getting rich, even on the pay he now receives? I repeat it, nearly all of our officers are poor, and they have gained their present rank either from merit in education or from some gallant act. They have great responsibilities resting upon them. They need all they receive at the hands of Government, and they should have it. Let some of the renowned gentlemen who are agita ting this question come here into Camp Pierpont, or go to any other camp, and take charge of a company, or fill the duties of any cominiasioned officer. - Let bim spend one year in the service, yea, one month, and experience the hardships of a soldier's life, and, mark it, he will play a different tune. There is a widt difference in treading the paved halls of Congress or the streets of a city, and here, where the sacred soil is ten inches deep. There is a difference in talking about soldieringand playing soldier, of reading about battles, and being in them. I say, let them try it, and then you will see them walk up to the paymaster's table, and be glad to receive the amount that is now paid commissioned officers. Again, we need music. A regimental band is one of the finest institutions of a regiment. Remember there is great monotony in camp life, and at times every soldier's heart beats to thoughts of his happy fireside. We have cloudy hours, and at such times, what is more soul-stirring than good music? A band is the life of a regiment. It facilitates our march. It cheers our gloomy hours. It makes us feel cheerful. Wo all love music. And why should our Government deny na this pleasure? They say the expenses of the army are-too great. Can not these dignitaries commence at the head? Can not those immense sums of money that are annually paid to the heads of our Government be curtailed ? Cannot some of the salaries received by different gentlemen in 'Washington be reduced? I think they can. Then, let them commence in the right place, and let those who have pledged their lives in defence of their country ; those who are willing . to shed their blood on the battle dota— -1 say, let them receive what so justly belongs to them, and what they so justly earn. And let our music corps remain with us, playing sweet songs to our country's freedom—making the soldier's heart beat high with patriotism and love of his own free hills. Then will our army remain pros perous and happy, and when we meet the enemy wo will tight with renewed energy, knowing that our country appreciates our doings. Yours truly, W. Townson!), Sergeant in the Sixth Rgt. P. A. V. C. CARP PIERPONT, Jan. 30, 1862. LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. FROM WASHINGTON. Special Despatches to 6 . The Press." WASHINGTON, February 4, 1.382. Confirmations by the U. S. Senate. HENRY M. NAGLEE was confirmed to-day as brigadier general by a unanimous vote of the Se nate. Mr. NAGLEE is a native of Philadelphia, and has been for some time a resident of California. He is an experienced and capable officer. EDIVAIM C. Plinf.t.g, of Vermont, to be brigade surgeon in tlie volunteer force of the United States. BENJAMIN C. WELTING, of California, to be At torney of the United States in and for the Southern District of California, in the place of KimnaLL H. DIMMICK, deceased. The Trouble in the Alexandria Hospital• The statement published by some or the invalids in the hospital at Alexandria will lead to a tho rough investigation into the matter. A gentleman, who is no doubt a surgeon in the institution, says the invalids are very bard to manage. They de mand as much food as if they were in a good state of health, and in those cases it is the duty of the sutler to refuse them. Convalescing soldiers are always permitted to go out of the hospital several times during the week for air and exercise. They very often come back intoxicated, and are quarrel some and difficult to manage. They fight with the surgeons and the stewards, and sometimes three or four men must be detailed before the drunken sol dier is subdued and confined. It is alleged that the complaints against the management of the in stitution come from this class of its inmates. I am enabled, on authority, to deny the state ment that it is intended to remove the Naval Academy from Newport, Rhode Island, to its old position at Annapolis. The effort to effect the re moval failed—the interests of the Government re quiring that it should remain Where it is now located. Pennsylvania Regimental Affairs. The Sixty-sixth Pennsylvania regiment, Colonel JOHN PATRICK, (formerly the Thirtieth, Colonel A. W. CuAwiwy,) is still encamped, eu the Baltimore turnpike, dye miles from Frodortok, bid. The men have received their new uniforms. The regi ment is remarkably healthy, but two deaths having occurred since it left Philadelphia. The Pennsyl vania Twenty-ninth regiment, Colonel JOHN K. Mummy, is encamped near the Sixti-sixth. Both regiments are in a high state of discipline. Colonel CHARTRY is in this •ity very low with the con sumption. The Flinty-ninth Pennsylvania avgimont is now without any field officers, they having all resigned. There has been trouble in this regiment ever since it arrived here. The present officers, it is believed, resigned because they feared they would be slaughtered " by the Examining Board. Important Treasury Circulars—The Pay ment of the Interest on the United States Loan. The following official notices were to-day pro mulgated by the Treasury Department : cc Holders of the bonds of the United States, payable in three years from date, the coupons of the semi-annual interest thereon being due on the 19th instant, We hereby notified that provision has been made for the payment in coin of all such coupons, agreeably to their tenor, at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, in the city of New York. " All such coupons must be presented at that office, accompanied with a schedule, showing the number and amount of each coupn, tQgcther with the aggregate MILL of each parcel. " Three full business days, for examination and verification, before payment, will be required. "Notice is hereby given of the readiness of this Department to redeem the treasury notes payable in one year from date, authorized by act of Con gress approved December 21, 1857 and the treasury notes payable in sixty days from date, au thorized by act of Congress approved the 2d of March, 1861. " The interest on the treasury notes of the above issues will cease on the 7th day of April next, by the terms of those acts respectively. " To-day the last note of the fifty millions of 'United States notes is in the hands of the signers, and the whole work will be finished to-morrow." /t is remarkable that no accident or loss has oc curred in the execution of this great work. The Secretary of the Treasury received to-day the following telegram from the Governor of Cali fornia : I am instructed, by resolution of the Legislature of California, to, inform you that this State will as sume andTpay into the treasury of the - United States the direct tax of $251,533, apportioned to this State by act of Congress. LELAND STANFORD. Governor of California. Despatches from the Rebel Government. At half pest SHYER o'clock Sunday evening, Capt. JAMES P. BROUIALLARD, late assistant; adjutant general of Brigadier General GEORGE SYKES, ar rived in Washington with despatches from General JOHNSTON, of the rebel army, to General MCCLEL LAN. These despatches were brought within our lines at Palls Church, by Colonel ileums, of the Second Virginia Cavalry Regiment. The fact of his arrival being telegraphed to Gen. MCCLELLAN, it was answered that the colonel should be conducted blindfolded to his quarters at Washington; but afterwards it was telegraphed that the colonel should be brought to the Arlington House, and that the message should be conveyed by special messenger to Washington. As we have before stated, these despatches were brought to Gen. MCCLELLAN by the captain named, who is now connected with Gen. McDow- Exx's staff. An immediate answer was requested, but Gen. MCCLELLAN replied that in consequence of the importance of the despatches, he would be obliged to confer with the Secretary of War, before a reply could be forwarded. Yesterday morning a conference washeld at Gen MoCLErLex's office. Rare there were present the President, Secretary Sreirrox, Mr. BATES, and others composing the Cabinet. At four o'clock this afternoon we understand that no answer had yet been returned, but we have no doubt but that before the day expires the matter will be reached. OCCASIONAL The probability is that the bearer of the despatch es from the rebel army left Arlington House at noon today, and that the answer from our Govern ment will be forwarded, some time to-morrow morning, under a flag of truce. The following deaths of Pennsylvanians are re ported : Corporal Bernard Farlbroeh, Company C, Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, at camp; Granville S. P. Arnold, Company I, Sixth Penn sylvania Cavalry, at camp ; Charles E. Brown, Company A, Thirtyfirst Pennsylvania, at camp; Camden Pritnet, Company 11, Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves, at Camp Pierpont ; Thomas Casey, Com pany E, Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, at the Seminary Hospital ; Corporal John Hayes, Company G, Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volun teers, at camp ; and James Rose, Company C, Third Pennsylvania Reserves, at Camp Pierpont. Precautions against the Smuggling of Liquor into Camps. Capt. R. W. Evans has been stationed at Long Bridge, to see that no spirituous liquors are either carried over that structure or down the river for troops. The steamer Telegraph, destined for Budd's Ferry, having twenty barrels of whisky on board, was to-day prevented from making her trip. The liquor is, in such cases, confiscated. Officers, however, are at liberty to claim any which may , be intended for them, and must appear at the Provost Marshal's aloe for that purpose. The military authorities are earnestly at work, preventing the demoralization of soldiers by means of intoxicating drinks. Brigadier General Henry M. Naglee. Lieutenant Colonel HENRY M. NAGLEE was to day confirmed by the Senate as a brigadier general of volunteers. Gun. NAGLEE is a native of Phila delphia, and a graduate of the West Paint Military Academy. Re saw service in the war with the In dians in Oregon, and won much esteem at that time in the determined resistance which he made to'an attempt of speculators to clothe his men with rai ment unfit for military duty. Soon after the settlement of the war, in which be displayed much bravery, the California gold fever broke out, into which he entered as a civilian with the same indomitable perseverance and energy as had characterized him at an officer; and rose to distinction and wealth as a citizen of San Francisco. On the breaking out of the rebellion he again of fered his services to the Government, and returned to the Eastern States.with General HALLECK. His military abilities being recognized by General MC CLELLAN from long personal intimacy, he was at once tendered a command in the army of the Po tomac. No answer has yet been given to the rebel flag of truce, nor have the contentb of the despatches transpired. Miscellaneous. The President, to-day, gave his °Meinl approval to the bill for the seizure of railroads and telegraph lines, whenever a military necessity exists for such action. The public reception at the Presidential mansion, which was to have been held to-night, has been postponed, to allow time to prepare for Mrs. Luc- CPLN'S grand ball to-morrow night, The three inches of snow which recently fell is rapidly melting to-day. The roads across the Po tomac, it is needless to say, are worse than ever just now. The Rouse Committee of Ways and Means, this morning, were evenly divided on the issue of ma king the proposed new treasury notes a legal tender. Great doubt oxide ae to the passage of the bill with the legal-tender clause in it. Governor ANDREW, of Massachusetts, was before the Committee on Coast Defences, to-day, urging the erection of additional defences on the coast of Massachusetts. come time ago the House called upon the Secre tary of War to inform them why oertain troops in this vicinity were not provided with arras. A response has been transmitted, saying that a portion of the Eighty-ninth New York Regiment The Naval Academy SACRAMENTO, January 31 Deaths of Pennsylvanians. The Rebel Flag of Truce. were for a time without them for the roman that there were none in the arsenal they were willing to receive, but that since then a supply of Austrian rifles had been received, and the regiment armed with them. The remonstrance of the Chamber of Commerce, of New York, against the passage of an act creating the office of Solicitor of Customs of the Port of New York, was presented to the Rouse to-day by Repre sentative F. A. CONKLIN°. The Bright ease will probably be disposed of to. morrow. It is still attractive, the Senate galleries to-clay being crowded. Information has reached here that the Ericsson floating battery authorized by act of Congress of August last, and to be commanded by Lieutenant Wonvuw, will, in the course of next:week, be suffi ciently completed to teat its eifioienoy. THE WAR IN MISSOURI. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 4.—Advices from the West state that the Seventh Regiment, Colonel Stevenson, left Laraine for Lexington on Monday, and will hold that post during the winter. They cannot reach that place too soon. Information has been received that the day after that place was evacuated by the Kansas First Regiment, the rebels cut down the American flag. On the Sunday following, the notorious Joe Shelby, with a gang .of freebooters, took possession of the town. All tho troops along the line of tho Pacific Rail road, west Of ,Tetferiant City, are under marching orders. The Nebraska First Regiment is going across the country to Kansas, a number of regiments are going South to join General Davis, and Brigadier General Steel's brigade ii coming down the road to be for- warded to Kentucky. General Pope will remain and make his headquarters at Jefferson City. From New Mexico KANSAS CITY, Feb. 4.—The Santa Fe mail, with dates to the 20th of January, has arrived. Nothing of interest has occurred in the Territory since the departure of the last mail. The Indiana are more troublesome than ever, killing the Mexicans and driving off their stock. Six dead bodies were brought to Albuquerque last week. All the able-bodied men aro in the field, leaving the old and feeble to protect their homes. There has been no advance of the United States troops southward, and there are no signs of the Texans coming up the Paces, ARRIVAL OF THE NORTHERN LIGHT. $850,000 IN SPECIE. WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP COLUMBUS. MTERESTI NG FROM SOUTH AMERICA. RUMORED ARREST OF THE SARANAC'S OFFICERS DT CAPT. RITCHIE. Nan - Tenn, Feb. 4.—The Northern l e ig fit , fres Atplawall, hea arrive& with 100 passengers and $8.50,000 in treasure. The steamer Columbus was lost on the Bth of December, on Point Remedios. No lives were lost. The Northern Light brings Panama dates to the 24th ult. The United States ship Cyane was at Panama. The United States steamer Lancaster had sailed for San Francisco. Business was dull at Panama, owing to the troubles in the interior. Capt. Ritchie, of the United States steamer Sara nac, is reported have all his officers under arrest. The cause is not reported. The British ateabioi from St. Thouraa states that the pirate Sumpter was seen by the steamer from Havana cruising close to St. Domingo. The steamer Columbus, wrecked at Point Re medios, had a cargo valued at $1,500,000, mostly English goods. Her passengers have arrived here by the Northern Light. Where have been heavy rains in Costa Rica, da• maging the coffee crop. Chili was tranquil. Large shipments of flour and wheat are going forward to Europe. An attack had been made, in the harbor of Cal lao, by the steamer Ucayala, upon the Chilian steamer Loa, the former firing several times at the latter ; but being threatened by a British war ves sel, the former Mt for Chinches, pursued 1,7 the Parana .ran. and Loa. Upon the latter arriving, the crew of the Ucayala abandoned her, fleeing to the interior. Mr. Robinson, United States minister, was form ally received by the Peruvian authorities on the 10th. At Aspinwall, on the 24th, the soldiers quartered in the jail broke open the doors, releasing all the Prisoners, and afterwards ranged the town, arrest• ing several innocent persons on the charge of being enemies to the Government. Several shots wore fired, but nobody killed. The.steamer Republic, from California for Aca pulco, was on the beach at Acapulco, caulking, having been strained in the late gale, during which her captain bad to throw overboard her deck load. The etecaner 9 r izaLa., which connected with the korthertt Light, brought 570 packages of Mexican cotton from Acapulco. Electron at Lancaster LANCASTER, Feb. 4. George Sanderson was was re-elected mayor to-day, over Dr. Cassiday, the Citizens' Union candidate, by 34 majority. The contest was very warm. Jesse D. Bright. Ara ANY, Feb 4.—The Senate this morning passed a resolution declaring that Jesse D. Bright is a trsitor, anti ought to be removed from the U. S. Senate. XXXVIITII CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION. WASIIINGTOIi t Feb. 4, 1862 SENATE. Petitions and Resolutions Presented. Mr. SUMNER (Rep.), of Massachusetts, presented the petition of the manufacturers of steam machinery, at Poston, evilest the bill reducing the grade of engineere on United blame shine. Mr. HOWARD (Rep.), of Michigan, presented the resolution of the Legislature of Michigan ask ing the passage of a km to punish frauds on the Tree- SUIT Also, a resolution passed by the same Legislature, in favor of a direct tax, according to property. Re ferred. Alsc, a resolution bi - the same Legislature, against the sale of intenienting liquors to the officers of the army. The Republics of Liberia and Hayti. Mr. SUMNER, from the Committee on Foreign Af fairs, reported a bill authorizing the appointment of di plomatic representatives to the Republics of Liberia and Hayti. The Kansas Expedition Dlr. POMEROY (Rep.), of Kansas, asked to take up the resolution of inquiry offered yeeterday, relative to the co/annual of the Kansas Department, calling on the Se cretary of War for copies of his orders to that command —whether it was to be commanded by Gen. Lane, and whether the orders had been changed since Gen. Lane belt Washington, and whether the recent order of Gen. Hunter was according to the orders of the Department herO. Mr.CARLILE (ti.), of Virginia, hoped the resolution would He over. There were some good reams why it should not pass. • Mr. POMEROY paid the resolution was offered accord ing to a suggestion of the Secretary of War. Mr. CARMLN wanted to know what action Congress proposed to take. Did Congress propose to take the di rection of the war If the resolution was in accordance with a suggestion of the Secretary of War, he should op pose it, however. line resolution thon passed. The Construction of Iron-elml Stn.%litek6 Mr. MALE (Rep.), of New Hampshire, moved to take up the bill providing for the construction 'of iron-clad steamers. Agreed to. Mr. HALE moved to withdraw both the amendments of the committee, and asked the Senate to make the bill the special order of Friday, when he intended to address the Senate on the report of the Naval Committee on the Secretary of the Navy. The bill could then be passed as it came from the House. Mr. MORRILL (Ilep.), of Maine, said the bill pro pored to build twenty iron-clad steamers. This style of naval architecture was yet entirely an experiment. Franco and England are trying the experiment, and the Board of Admiralty had reported its success as doubtful. There were no rolling mills in the country that could do the work, and probably the work could not be done in twelve months. lie opposed the whole thing as imprac ticable. Mr. HALE of New Hampshire, said he was informed that the boats could be built in five months, and were strongly recommended by the Executive Department and the Secretary of War. . . Mr. GRIMES (Rep.), of lowa, was surprised at the information given by the Senator from Maine. The only instance where iron-clad boats had been under fire was in the Grimes, where the French vessels went within eight hundred yards of the fort, and, being exPosed to a heavy fire,received but little damage, while they de stroyed th fort. He believed that the introduction of steam altered the whole system of coast defences. Eight thousand shots had , been tired by the rebels at the ves sels coming up the river here, and only one vessel was materially damaged. Mr. COWAN (Rep.), of Pennsylvania, had some doubts about ordering steam iron-clad ships, but he was willing to vete the money and let the President take the re sponsibility. He moved to amend, so as to authorise the President to build twenty iron-clad gunboats, or such other boats as the public interest demands, and let the men whose busieess it is decide what kind of boats to build, and let them take the responsibility. Mr. COLLAMER (Rep.), of Vermont, asked if they were intended to be sea-going vessels'? Mr. GRIMES said they were not to be cruisers. On motion of Mr. HALE (Rev.), the report of the Naval Committee on the Secretary of the Navy was taken up and made the special order for Friday. Mr. MORRILL (Rep.) said that he had seen the plans, and they were all to be of the same character. There were gunboats of a thousand tons and scows in course of construction, which were never intended to go out of sight of land. They were never recommended. Mr. GRIMES thought the bill was drawn in the Department of the Secretary of the Navy. The Secre tary had at least a dozen times urged the passage of the bill. Mr. SHERMAN (Rep.) thought thatif the amendment of the Senator front Pennsylvania was adopted, the Presi dent might build a thousand boats if be pleased. The As sistant Secretary of the Navy had said that the Depart snout could not build more than ten of the boats In a ) ear, and it was doubtful If it could do that. Mr. CLARK (Rep.), of Rhode Island, moved to recom mit the bill to the Ravel Committee. Agreed to. Bills Reported. Mr. WILSON (Rep.), of Mass achusetts, from the Com mittee on Military Affairs, reported a bill to define the pay and emoluments of officers of the army, as a sub stitute for the original bill. Mr. POMEROY (Rep.), of Kansas. introduced a bill to aid in constructing the railroad and telegraph lines to the Pacific. Referred. The Case of Senator Bright. The case of Senator Bright was then taken up. Mr. BROWNING (Rep.), of Illinois, said he was satisfied that the Senate could expel a member, though he had not committed any overt act or offence. lie re ferred to the case of Mr. Blunt, of Tennessee. Be thought the only enestion is, whether the writing of such a letter as the Senator 40 written le inconsistent with the duties of a Senator": In his opinion, the Se nate ought to adopt the resolution of expulsion. He bad listened in vain throughout the whole debate for any declaration by the Senator from Indiana as to the opin ions he entertains at present—whether he desires the success of the Government or the triumph of treason. The only thing be had declared was that ho is opposed to coercion, and in his (Mr ltrowning's) opinion, those who am apposed to coercion ure, in fact, desirous of the success of the rebels. If the record of the Senator was taken to the rebel camps they would make no objection to receiving him with open hands. He considered the letter of the Senator m moral treason, for which the Se nator ought to be expelled. Re felt constrained by the highest duty which be owed to his country to vote for the expulsion of the Senator. Mr. Dixon . (Rep.), of Connecticut, referred to the comilltutiohal provision against Stakes forraftrg !separate confederations, &c. Ho contended that Jeff Mole was the leader of the treasonable States. Ito did nut agree with the opinion that the Senator from Indiana waagrditY of overt treason or nothing. If the myna was judged by his &sites rather than by his acts, then har seemed to be in favor of the rebellion. Should the Senate then retain him in his seat'! The Senator was of doubtful loyalty. The people had the right to demand that the ?Amato staff ho purged of all disloyalty. Air_ DOOLITTLE (Rep.) said the debate had• taken a wide range already, Ge wished morels , to 'date a few -eontlidorations, which, in his jteigment, demandled the vote he expected to Rite. lie should not consider the former course of the Senator, or the votes he may have given, or the opinions lie 'may have expressed. It was conceded on all sides that If the letter was written to day it would be unqualified treason. The question then itg, whet was the character of the letter when it was written on the lit of March '1 On the let of March war actually did exist. The conspirator., had actually levied war. It had been AAA that the Senator when be wrote the letter did not believe there would be any war. The only reason he (Mr. D.) could see for such a belief was, what to him was a monstrous supposition, that the Government will suffer itself to be destroyed without striking a single blow. Ile ~ould not but consider the letter calcu lated to give aid to the traitors, and should be com pelled to vote for the expulsion of the Senator. Mr. WILLEY (U.), of Virginia, said that but for the allusion of the Senator from Indialiato himself lie should have said nothing on this subject. He appreciated the delicacy of Lie position as a new member, hilt had Mich 11 hatred of rebellion—refugee-as be wee. crate, 5,15 gkete, With his estate confiscated, and a price set on his head, and the blood of his neighbors and friends not yet dry on his native hills—be confessed to such abhorrence to the accursed rebellion that ha could hardly dare to trust to his own judgment in speaking of it, yet he should meet the question without any party prejudice. Ile thought it was not fair to the Senator from Indiana to travel so far out of the record as some Senators had done. Idr. 'DAVIS (II.), of Kentucky, interrupting, Brain lm had referred only to the course of the Senator In Miff Chamber. According to the record, the Senator from Indiana had only attended three sittings of the Com mittee of Finance. . il V g lL . L it E o i t T i k e id re t c h o s i t l there were other instances of - - Mr. BRIGHT said he didn't know that any reconl was kept, but if there watt curb a record, it Was not correct. Mr. DAVIS said the clerk of the committee kept a re cord of the perrond present at its meetings. Mr. PEARCE (Dem.}, of Mari lead, said ire. had hewn a member of that committee for fifteen years, and never . knew of the existence of ally such record. Mr. WILLEY said this discussion only showed that we must not travel out of the record. In regard to this let ter, be did not think the excuses of the Senator wore un reasonable. lie might have believed there would be no war on the Ist of March. But he called the particular attention of the Senator to the explanation he wished him to nicks to the principle deatiied i n the leiter wi him in September. There could be no doubt then as to the state of the country. The Senator had declared that lie was always opposed to secession ; yet he declared in that letter and redeclarea here, on the floor of the Senate, that he is opposed to all coercion. He should reserve his decision till he heard from the Senator on that point. Mr. BRIGHT said, if the Senator would permit, he would read two resolutions which hail been passed at a large political meeting in Indiana, in Sanitary last, rakish embodied hie pentimenta. They were as follows! Resolved, That in this national emergency the Demo cracy of Indiana banish all feeling of passion or resent ment, and will recollect only their duty to the whole country; that this war should not be waged in a spirit of conquest and subjugation. nor for the purpose of over throwing the rights of the Southern States, but to defend at.d maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and pre serve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, aid tights Of the several States unimpaired. Resolved, That as soon as these objects are accom plished the war ought to cease ; Butt we will sustain with all our energies the war for the Constitution and the in tegrity of the Cole., hot , °peened to a war for the emancipation of the negroes or the subjugation of the Southern States. Mr. BRIGHT said that, as far as these resolutions go, they comprised his platform. If he was turned out of this body, be proposed, on these resolutions, to go again before the people who had so long and so often honored him. Mr. WILLEY said he must ask the Senator still far ther to define what lie did mean by the stateinent that jig wee entirety - opposed to coercion, when the country is in dabger and the rebels were trying to overthrew the Go vernment 7 Speech of Mr. Sumner Mr. SUMNER Mr. President: This debate is about to close ; but, before the vote is taken. I wish briefly to review it, and to show again that there is but one cons elusion which can truly satisfy the Senate or the coun try. If yosir just judgment in this case were not of in calculable importance both for the Senate and the coun try—helping to elevate the one and to inspire the other— I should not venture again to claim your attention. Such a precedent, so fruitful in great influences, should be commended and vindicated that it may remain forever unquestioned as one of the pillars of that constitutional security which is the object of government itself. Out of nil who bays apksti, we naturally yield pi.ece dence on this occasion to the Senator front Indiana, Mr. Bright. Big speech was not long; but it afforded ample ground for regret, if not for condemnation. It showed of fensively the same spirit which is found in the original letter ; nor did it suggest anything in apology, except that the bearer of the letter was his life-long friend, and that when he wrote the letter he did not dream of war; in other words, an art or ninineatienable ditloyalty was put under the double cloak of a life-long friendship. and of professed ignorance of the real condition of things. Because the bearer of the letter was his life-long friend, and because the Senator did not see war ahead, therefore he was justified in sending forth this life long friend on an errand of disloyalty, if not of treason itself, and of making him the instrument of aid and comfort to an organized rebellion. Of course, such an argument shows weakness, and not strength ; and the very weakness out of which it sprung naturally heellMO illirMiolled and 1111illSt, If any personal feeling could disturb that perfect equanimity which with me, on this OCeSI3IOD, is at once a sentiment and a duty, I might complain of that vindictive tone which broke forth, not only in personal imputations, but also in the menace that what I bad said on the case of the Senator I dared not say again here or elsewhere; but I make no complaint. It is sufficient for me that I spoke in the conscious dis charge of my duty, and that I know of nothing In the vindictive tone or in the menace of the Senator which can interfere _with ouch duty as r uudeasia d it Therefdre, I put aside what he has said, whether of per tonal imputation or personal menace, or of argument ; for they all leave him worse than if he had continued silent. I put aside, also, the elaborate argument, lasting throughout a whole day, of the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Davis) practically exalting slavery above the Con stitution, and insisting that, while WC is ellerificed and property is taken—while great rights are trodden down, and all human energies are enlisted in defence of our country, slavery alone is too sacred to be touched. Sir, I put aside this argument, because it is utterly out of place and irrelevant in the present discussion ; and I trust it will not be my habit in debate to rankle from that straight line which is the shortest way to the desired point. There is a time to sow and a time to reap; awl there will be a time tO disCtiss the constitutional power of Congress to put an end to this rebellion, even if, in so doing, it is constrained to put an end to slavery itself. I put aside, also, the suggestion of the Senator [min New York (Mi. Harris), to the effeet that the Senator from Indiana is now on trial that our proceedings ewe judicial; and that the evidence before us is insuf ficient to satisfy the requirements of such a case. Surely, this assumption proceeds on a mistake. The Senator from Indiana is not on trial, in the ordinary understanding of that term; nor are our procceiings judicial nor is the evidence insufficient for the ease in band. Under the Constitution, each house, with the concurrence of two-thirds, may expel a member;. but this large discretionary power Is given simply for the protection of the body in the exercise of an honest and honorable self-defence. The Senate itself. is on trial just as much as the Senator; and permit me to say that the Senate will condemn itself if it allow any person to continue among its members who has forfeited that special confidence in his loyalty which is essential to hie usefulness as a Senator. It is vain to say that the evidence is insufficient. Technically and judicially ills may be the case; but according to all legislative prece dents, and all the rules of COMIIIO , I life, it is obviously sufficient, for it is beyond all practical doubt. My friend front New York did not hesitate at this session to vote for the expulsion of Breckinridge, of Polk, and of Johnson, witboutone scrap of evidence that he would re cognize as a judge on the beach. How can he now re quire evidence which he did not reauire then I I put aside, also, the argument of the Senator from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Cowan), so carefully and elaborately stated. to the effect that, on the lot of March, when the disloyal letter was written, there was no war actually existing between the rebel States and the United States: Even if this assumption were correct ; even if the United States were still hesitating what course to adopt, nothing is clearer than this : the rebel States were in rebellion, organized, armed, and offen sive. with the avowed mimosa of overthrowing the National government within their borders; and such rebellion was beyond all question a levying a war under the Constitution of the United States, so that all adhe rence to it, giving aid and comfort, was treason itself. But even if you are not disposed to admit that there was an actual levying of war on the part of the rebels— though of this there can be no doubt—there was sorely a preparation and a purpose so to do; and any contribu tion to such preparation and purpose was disloyalty, if not treason Clearly Jettepon Davis, at that time, was a traitor. What, then, can be thought of a Senator who offered arms to the traitor I put aside, also, the suggestion of the Senator from New Jersey, (Mr. Ten Byek,) founded on the language of the President in his inaugural address of the 4th March. It is true that the President spoke of the rebels in generous, fraternal words—such words as became the Chief Magistrate of a great people, who bad not yet re nounced the idea of conquering by kindness, and who had not forgotten that Leviathan was tamed by a ord. But whatever may have been the language of the Presi dent, it is none the lees clear that the rebellion, at that very moment, was completely organized, by a succession of overt acts, which fixed the treasonable position of he authors, and especially of its chief, to whom the letter offering arms was addressed. I put aside the argument of the Senator Irma Califor nia, (Mr. Latham.) especially that part of It founded on the tolerance shown by the Senate to treason when ut tered here by the retiring rebels. Nobody questions that treason was uttered on this 1100 T, or that treasonable counsels went forth from this chamber. But the Senate was then controlled by the associates of the Senator of Indiana, and it was not in our power to check or chastise the traitors. It is within the recollection of many that those utterances were beard on this aide of the chamber, not only with an indignant patriotism, but with a bitter, rankling regret that the Sonata was then so entirely in the hands of the traitors that we were obliged to hear in silence. Surely, such utterances, black with treason, emanating the very voice of the rebellion, cannot be an apology for the disloyal letter of the Senator from In diana ; nor can our silence, when we were powerless to act, be any argument for silence now that power and responsibility are ours. Let me add, also, that others may use the argument in this case, that the Senator has declared himself against the coercion of the rebel States, or that he has refused to vote the necessary means for the suppression of the rebellion ; but I use no such argument. lifuch as I should lament such a course, and justly obnoxious as I should regard it, yet I cannot consider it as an argument for the expulsion of the Senator. Freedom of debate is one of the triumphs of modern civiliza tion, and It shall never be impaired by any vote or any word cf mine. To this freedom I have held fast when almost alone in this body ; and what I have steadfastly vindicated for myself againet all odds, I elicit never deity to another. Therefore, if I am the judge, there is no Senator who will not always be perfectly free to speak and vote as he shall think beat on every question which shall legitimately arise; but beyond this immunity he must not go. Be shall not talk treason ; he shall not parley with rebellion; he shall not address to it words of sympathy and good will; especially, he shall not recog 1112e Its chief hi his peetended thatiaeter of Petinident, nor shall he send to him improved tire-arms to be.era ployed in the work of treason. Putting aside all these considerations, the case against the Senator twin Indiana is clear. All apologies, all excuses utterly fail. It is vain to say that the bearer of the letter was his life-long friend, as it is vain to soy, also, that the Senator did not dream that there would be war, The first apology in as feeble as the scrim Melees. If the Senetor did tint dream thatthere would he war, then why send arm to the chief of the mullion I To Jefferson Davin as a private citizen, to letrei son Davis as a patriot Senator, there was no occasion or motive for send ing arms. It was only to Jefferson Davis as chief of the re bellion that arms could be sent; and to him, in that charac ter, they were sent. But even if the rebellion were not at that time maelfeet It, evert ildh,-44 It ,:toasty was— dill the sending et arms was a positive provocation and contribution to its outbreak, especially when the arms were sent by a Senator. And now, at the risk of repeti tion, I say again, it is not necessary that the war should have been commenced on the part of the United Staten. It is enough that on the part of Jefferson Davis, at the date of the letter, there was au actual levying of w.r, or, at least, a purpose to levy war; and in either of these two CeSea—the last ag well as the Iltet—the guilt of the Se nator offering arms was complete—call it treason or call it simply disloyalty, if you will. It Is in vain you seek to surround hint on this occasion with the technical defences of it judicial tribunal. This will not do. They are out of place. God grant that, in the toludnistration of justice, a citizen arraigned fur his life may always be presumed innocent till lie is proved guilty. But, while zealously asserting this presumption in a criminal trial, I utterly deny it in the present Cage. The two proceedings are radically unlike. In theme we think most of the individual ; ip the other we think mot of Slot Senate. The nag-officer of is fleet, or the commasn der of a garrison, when suspected only of correspondence with the enemy, is without delay deprived of his com mand; nor Cab any technical presumptions of Innocence lie invoked in his defence. For the sake of the fleet, for tide sake of the gal risen which must not be betrayed, it was your duty to see diet lie is deprived of his command ; nor CAD a suspected Senator, wits all bit confidential trusts—legislative, diplomatic, and taticintita—st. ant ant tolerance that would be denied to a suspected llapafibor or to a suspected commander of a garrison. If not strong, pure, and upright in himself, lie must not expect to find strength, purity, and uprightness in any pr taiunptigns of innocence or in technical rule of law. For the sake of the Senate he must hs deprived of his place. Afterwards, . should he bo arraifilhed at law, he *ill be allowed to am file) all the devices and weapons familiar to judicial pro ceedings. BM there Is another Marion into which the Senator lias fifiten•, and it seems to me that the Senator from New York', prat perhaps other Senators, Dave followed him. It is the assumption that, in depriving the So. nator of seer, we take frays him sometliNg that is really his. 'flits is a naietako.. A Senator it, simply a trustee. The Streator Is trustee for Indiana. But Ws fidelity as treetho f* now drawn *e. question ; and since no person is allowed to continuo tier trustee whims cha racter le not above' totepicion—inviretb according to the Irtognogo of she. low, by abereima x..44—the .n. 4 0. of the Senator should obviously be remanded to the' State for which be 31.111 assumes to act. Should he' be wrengell by expulsion,. thew will that Stalk- promptly re turn bin) to his present trust. and our judginient will Lir genereusly reversed. The Senator has no right for him self here; lie does not represent himself; but he repres , sentshin State, of whielabeis elected, most cinifidential ttUotee,' and when his fidelity in openly impeached, there ' it no pews/nal right whit s' entf beeNtie hit ahi Id, Toll me not of Ilia seat of the Senator. Lot the Senator be cautious in his language. iry co:stoat , the seat - may be his ; but in reality the seat belongs to Indiana; and this honored Stale—unsurpassed:in. contributions to Via pa triot armies of the republic—inny justly protest against any longer mierepresentationion this floor by a disloyal Senator. But the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Cowan) TX. clsims—and the Senator from York follows him , in saying—that theeffence of thelenator is " treason or nothing." For myself, I have no-hesitation in expreee ing the cot vietion that it fit treason; frit bo not tronsott in n Senator tweet - al lams to an open. traitor, whom ha at the same time acknowledges in life traitorous charac ter, then it were pester to blot outtbe crime of treason from the statute-book, and to erase• its definition front the Conetitution. Sir, it is treason. gut even if it be not treason, according to all Om. technical re riniremente of the erime, it is obvionety and un questionably an act of disloyalty era discreditable, BO nnworthy, and ea dangerous, as• to render the duty of the Semite imperative. to it nothing that the Senator should write friendly lettenc.nate open ac knowledgments, and ollir watlike aid to. w public trai tor? Ts it nothing that, sitting in this- Chamber, the Senator should send to the chief of the rebellion words of sympathy and arms of. power? Is it nothing that the Senator should address the traitor in arms. of courtesy and official respect'? Is- it nothing that the Senator should call tle traitor "his excellency," and: should hail him "President of the Confederate States?" And is it nothing that the Senator should offer to the.traitor ItqdrepßO, r hot, of nil thlngo, lie mot coveted; tiostruo• tivo anus, to be turned - against that Constittaion which the Senator had sworn to support "Is this nothing?. Why then the world and all that's fret is nothing; The covering sky is nothing." * ti * "Nor nothing have these nothings, If this be nothing." Sir, the case is too plain for argument. Yon cannot argue that two and tWA make four—that a straight lino in the shortest distance between two pointi;: or that the sun shines in the sky. All three am palpable at once to reason and to sense. Bnt, IF I did not see before me honored Senators, valued friends, who.think otherwise, I should say that to the patriot soul it is hardly less palpable that a Senator acknowledging, in friendly correspotdence, the chief of a. rebellion which was set on foot in defence of the United' Stutes,and sending to this chief arms, the only use of whiclrcan be in upholding the rebellion, has justly forfeited that.eon lidence in his loyalty whicb is esmuclrueetictimiddem4rne mission to entitle him to continue In this Chamber. The case is very plain, and we have taken too- muelytime to consider it. We have been dilitory when we ought to have been prompt, and we have hearkened to technical defences when we ought to have surrendered to that in dignation which disloyalty is calculated to arouse. The Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Clark) has re minded us—as John Quincy Adams reminded the gene ration of his time—of that beautiful work of act in the other wing of they Capitol, where the Muse of History, with faithful pen, registers the transactions, of each day ; altd he trueted that, over against the. record or nest disloyalty, another page might heath With the just judgment which followed. Ilut there. is aneth. er work of art, famous as art itself; awl proceed ing from its greatest master, which may admonish , us precisely what to do. The ancient satrap Heliodorus. acting in the name of a distant sovereign, hedentered that sumptuous temple dedicated to thetrue God, where Mood the golden candlesticks and where hung the veil which woo let unrent, and profanely sought to reach the Very altar itself, when suddenly, at the intereession of the high priest, an angelic heirsulnah, armed with thongs, is seen to dash the intruder upon the marble pavement, and to sweep him from the sacred presence. lint, saw that disloyalty in the acknowledged name of a distant traitor, intrudes into this. sanctuary of the Constitution, and insists upon sitting at our altar, surely there should be an indignant chastisement, ns Hain as the angelic horseman that mores Militarist! in the olors of liethielle. In vain do You, seek to• inter pose considerations of lenity or forbearance. The case does not allow them. I know well the beauty and the greatness of charity. For the Senator I have charity ; but there is a better charity due to the Senate,. whose eolemn trusts are in jeopardy; and even. if you do not accept completely the saying of antiquity,. which makes duly to country the great charity which. embraces all other charities, you will not 4.etif OA it is RI least a commanding onligattnn by the side of which all that we owe to the Senstnr is small. And, sir, do not forget—let the precious example be present in your souls—that He who has taught us the beauty and the greatness of charity as the first who seized the thongs to scourge the money changers from the temple of tho Lord. Dlr. DAVIS (U.), of Kentucky, contended that he never said that starers was superior to the . Constitution, He was always attracted by these grandiloquent w.pho niorie speeches. The Senator shakes his imperial locks like Jove: but he was not the Jove of the Senate or of the country. There were other minds as large as his, who were willing to do justice to all the people of the States. The gentleman from Massachusetts, In the course of his sacred readings, might remember one Go liath, who thought himself invincible, as does the Se nator. The Senator might, perhaps, meet the same fate. On motion of err. LATUAItf (Dom,), of California. the Semite Ilion Went into eVedllllll6 se.taoii (meetly adjounted. ROI:SE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Treasury-note Bill—Speech of Mr. Morrill. The House went into Committee of the Whole on the treasury note bill. Mr. MORRILL (Rep.), of Vermont, said that this measure was urged by Mr. Spaulding as a war MeasUre, and one ofof 11 e did not think theft hostilities would be ot Biwa long continuation, for with the melting of the snow and ice, our armies would rush toward the Gulf to crush the rebels. The men of the East will only ask for the opportunity to leave on' the war of epithets, and try what virtue tbere is in steel. He had no fear of the result We can close the war by the 30th of July next, as well US in thirty years, thereby economizing Wood we Weil to treasure. If this paper money is a war measure, it is not waged against the enemy, who May grin with delight. He would as soon provide Chinese wooden gone for the enemy as paper money. What we most need is money. He objected to the bill because of its utter impoltcy Contracts have been entered into and not yet paid, and from the heavy monthly disbursements to the army the Government can flood the country with one hundred and fifty millions of notes as a legal tender, proposed by the first section of this bill. The emsoeuenee will be that the cost of carrying on the war will be in creased by the augmentation of the cost of supplies, and an inflation of the currency would he inevitable. Be argued at length to show the evil effects of nicking these notes a legal tender. If this should be done, we will not be able to retrace our steps, but must go on. If the bill be passed, it should first be amended by making these notes apply to contracts hereafter to be made. They should do nothing in the nature of an ex post facto law, which it would be, on that subject. There Is no lack of moans in the loyal Mtatee to give our credit a foundation ite gelid tie the footstool of Jehovah. Our armies have only to be properly marshalled and led to prove their in vincibility. lie repealed that he was opposed to the bill, because it would unfortunately damage the na tional credit, and cut off other chances of life. It would reduce the constitutional standard of values. It would inflate the paper currency, and thus increase the cost of the war, and the scheme must utterly fail. It involved a question of doubtful constitutionality—a breach of public faith. It wadi banish all specie from circula tion. It would dampen the Woe of the Men at home as well as those in the field, and degrade us in the esti mation of other nations, and cripple American labor. Besides there was no necessity for such a desperate measure. The substitute proposed by the minority of the Committee of Ways and ?deans is, in his opinion, better than the original bill. He did not object to paper issues to a limited extent, but be wanted to establish metes and bounds; he wanted the notes to be placed en a solid foundation, that they may be fully &oil valeet to the standard of currency, This could be done by fixing the amount beyond which such 158110 cannot be made, with adequate taxation to maintain them. In alluding to the state of the war, he said that General McClellan mast harvest the advantages within the next ninety days; otherwise, he will be gazetted as a gentleman, but nut a general. Speech of Mr. Conklin. Mr. ROSCOE CONKLING (Bey.), of New York, said there Arnold Le some policy worthy of the occasion. Let the have no makeshifts and subterfuges to dodge honest taxation. Let us say, flatfooted. what the truth is, and what we mean. The people require no opiates and lulls bys from vs. Will we not heed the teachings of history, as sanctioned by our fathers I Do we not know that laws for taxation ought to accompany emissions of paper Do we pot know that provision must be made for its ul tin ate redemption 1 He denied the plea of necessity to take this .mestion out of the settled rules. Why should we dep,rt from the trodden path of safety to coin false money from the crucible called debt What reason was there for believing that money cannot be raised by the old model The country is rich, and money is more abundant than ever. There are two hundred and fifty millions of gold in the North, and if we deserve it we can have it. It is an aspersion on the country to Pay that the people wilt shrink from all legiti mate expenses in annihiinting the rebellion, They have made their tribute more precious than treasure. But the people must know what is to be done with the money, and some things which are not to be done. The money must not be swept into the lap of gamblers and thieves, in high or low places, whether in or out of office. They must know that It is not to be squandered on favorites—whether politicians or brothers lit-inn', clergymen or women. They must know that fru. gabry prevails and retrenchment has begun. They must know that a vigorous policy is pursued in the conduct of the war—a policy destructive to rebellion, and more crushing to those who have an idea of accepting anything but the absolute submission of the rebels. It was not fur the delay in advancing upon Manassas or anywhere ebe that complaint is made. The point of controversy lees entirely different. It was the cithaustive policy that hit condemned—a policy which sought to subdue on agri cultural people of eight millions, while their slaves were tmploy cd by them in the field, and the whites were en gaged in war. In the course of his argument lie spoke against a great banking scheme about to be introduced, the design of which seemed to be to prevent the local banks from re suming specie payment. It seemed to be the design in high quarters to preach a crusade against the banks, thereby raising a prejudice against them. Ho proceeded to give his reasons why he should vote against any at tempt by legislation to make aught but gold and silver a Meal tender. The proposition was a new ono. No pre cedent for it could be found, and, besides, it was unconsti tutional. Every attorney, agent, trustee, commission merchant, or any other person acting in a Anon and character, whoever received bard money will relieve himself by buying up the spurious currency. Every body will do it who is not more honest than Congress. Such a scheme was never thought of, even under James Buchanan and Monroe Edwards. Passing by alt legal and moral obligations, and looking at the uuestion hi its peennistry aspect, it is utterly undeserving of credit, acid should be shunned, and regarded as a fraud and folly. The floodgates of dishonesty would be opened by making this paper a legal tenser. He rejoiced that the Legisla tune of New York had pot its seal on this swindle by a vote of almost two to one. Speech of Mr. Bingham Mr. BINGHAM (Bea ), of Ohio, in replying to Mr. Pendleton, said that Daniel Webster did assert the pro position that the Government of the United States may authorize the it stile of paper money as currency. The Constitution was made for one people, with one destiny —that is money, in every country beneath the eon, which tin• n ovel-0.110d)- nhall drelore money within the limit, of its jut Shells end hides, as well as gold and silvee, hate been made money. The seventh:MY here is known an the prorle of the Mated States of a merles, and has the power to determine what shall be money, or, in other words, the standard of value and the medium for facilitating the exchange of commodities, and what shall be the legal tender in payment of debts. A Govern ment ',silliest! this rower would be no Government at all. lie further iergued the emPlibitienal nneatini and nei4 nOthing ever was a legal tender excepting What was made such by express provision of the law. The Constitution nowhere declares what shall be a legal tender in the dis charge of obligations. He did not like the phraseology in the bill, that these issues shall be redeemable at the idea• are of the United States. They should be redeem able as a certain day, in the legally•established measure of value. Speech of Mr. Sheffield. BURFFIRLD (Rep.), of Rhode Island, quoted the words of Webster, ..There can be no legal tender but gold and silver, mid foreign coins regulated by law." They bad all sworn to sneport the Constitution. Let them beware, and keep within the purview of that obli gation. Be was fedi ier opposed to making the notes pro posed to be issued a legal tender, because it wasdishonest, sad that was reason enough for him. This WIC would in terfere with the local banks and produce distresses which it required no seer to foretell. Tax us, he said, and we will cheerfully pay; but paw, Nit metiettrei eerttainnig the JO gal louder clause, and you will deprive us of the ability to pay. Stripe from Ills bill the legal tender clans°, awl he would vote for it. Bring forward a banking scholia, and he would support that, ualnes some bettor measure shall be presented. Produce a tax bill, and it should receive his support. But ho could vote for no bill making trea sury notes a legal lender A situate scheme was tried iu Rhode Island at the close of the Revolution and failed. Thu committee then roe& Mr. WICKLIFFE (11.), of lentockY. gave notice is►t if he could obtain the floor to-morrow ha would more to close the debate, for the purpose of relieving the country, by final action on the b The House then ad:lomat • THE CITY. AMOSEMENTB MIR ZYNNINO. ARCM-STEEP.? TIIRATRIC—Areta Wed, aborit .s St. Patrick's Eve"—" More Minoring Than OEM" WALNIIT•STR/LET Tit SATRE —Nint* and Walnut eta.-- /Shandy Maguire"—“Patlenro and rersovaranct"— " The Irish Lion." COII7INENTAL TifeaTur.---Walout etroot.ntoora Uncle Tom's Cabin," Talmo or Wormaan-41, come TOttreatid Ghat. w! fftreols,—blgnor Mdrelf L'inarlainmont, Bull.nwt—Terith grog, below Chlutuut.— " Panorama of America and the great Bobollion:)' ARREST OF A GANG OF THIEVES. Stvtrege Sceae. Yeeterdsty afternoon at two oJekeic, a motley arc. ray of pickpockets and. two Women, their aocom:- plioes, were brought before Alderman David Belt-. ler, at' the Central Police Ratite, :to answer the charge of being drunk and disorderly,. and otherwise maintaining an illegitimate's:nil &morons resort in Fifth street, below South. Soak resort is known as the "Bugle" Hbtal, asd its donieens eoneeetil the But - 16 "rehlY7 "7 ThlWOb i Mill) 17/21011 wo caricatured in these columns last week. The hotel is avowedly a•thieves 4 headquarters; and offenders, both giaphaired and young, carried on .their orgies to its chambers night after night. This establishment was• kept by Peter Burns. Yesterday Officer Eckert, of the Second. district, obtained from Mayor Maury a warrant for the er rut of the Droprietor and all persons found is the place. The warrant Was execuied•about half past ten o'clock, by Sergeant Selby, accompanied by a squad of officers: The house was• entirely sur rounded and everybody found•within:was•eaptured. The prisoners were all taken to the Central police station and locked up. They gave their namoeae Peter Burns, Francis Dillon, Charles Moore, James Carmel, Henry Davis, John Williams, Thoomo Joyce, George Williams, John Housemen, Jaw Nolan, William Oliver, William:LA. Myers John C. Burns, John Houghton, Henry Gerkor, Ana Arnet, and Melinda Williams. Peter Burns. ' the proprietor of the place, was held in $l,OOO bail to answer at court. Henry Ikerker was-diseharged, as it could. not bw shewn that he was. a thief. He works at Web binding, and:stated that he had. stopped In• At the= "Bugle" to see some one. The rest of the party were held in ssoo.bait for their good behavior, except the two girls, bail being. entered for them by a man named John. O'Brien. It was with great difficulty that any of the Second district officers could be made to testify against the. prisoners. Before the• arrest they were loud• in their denunciation of the place known as the " Bugle," and the character of its occupants; but when placed On the Witness-stand did not seem. willing to testify to anything, but merely answered. gnestions asked, and. seine of these very- reluc-. tantly. Alderman Betties expressed his disgust of the whole matter, and was finally compelled to call in Detectives Henderson and Collation, who exposed. the character of most of the prisoners as.known to. them. Some of the party have served terms- of imprisonment. NAVAL Ankh.— The United States steam sloop-of-Wer Timtarora, now engaged in watching the rebel ttektner Nash ville, at Southampton, is one of the four sloops con tracted for by the Navy Department in June, 1861. to be finished in four months. She was completed on the 16th of November last, several days• before the specified time bad elapsed ; and; being;aceepted• without a trial trip, left this portearly in Dom:Luber to complete her armament in New Irerk. ght, Isf‘ that city on the 15th of the same month for Foal, and then for England, whore she is now engaged• in watching the Nashville. None of the other three• vessels contracted for at the same time ) in. other cities, have yet left their wharves, only one of them has had steam on, and neither MI go to sea in less than a month. . . _ The IF ssaiiickon , Itasca, and Seiota-,three-out i of the nineteen gunboats contracted for n.dittfust last to be done in 105, 120, and 135 days respective ly, were the first to go to sea, leaving, in the order named. Several of this class of boats have not yet been able to leave port. The Philadelphia vessels above named were all finished within the eirecifled tithe, The Miami, which has Just left this port, was the first finished of: twelve side-wheel gunboats or dered by the Government in August last to be done in four months. She was tried on December 26th, has been entirely equipped, and is now in service. None of the others have yet had steam up. Similar promptitude has always been shown i 4 completing the United States vessels built in this city, the extraordinary facilities which exist here, and the energy, and of our mechanies, enable us to turn out vessels in about one half the time required in other cities. The sloop-of-war St. Loicis, tweaty-two guns, dropped down to New Castloyesterday, where she will practice her guns and drill her crew a few days, and then put to sea. She sails for the Medi tvrritnetizi, where she will protect our commerce and keep a look-out for the Swot r . She is a fine vessel, with a splendid set of officers. Her chief officers are as follows: • Commander, M. C. Marin, Florida; Lieutenant, Jas. A. Ireer, Ohio: Surgeon, A. L. Gihon, Phila delphia; Master, Wm. F. Stewart, Pennsylvania; Paymaster. J. P. Post, Missouri ; Acting Masters, J. F. Johnson, tireo, Cables, and Jos. Rowe. MEETING OF THE 31lincitAlyr9.--Yesterdsy morning, at a meeting of the members of the Corn Exchange Association, Mr. Philip B. Mingle, the vice president, announced in appropriate terms the decease of Mr. James Barrett. Sr. Messrs. A. J. Derbyshire, Henry Budd, and James Steel, were appointed a committee, who reported the following ptealmble and resolutions : Whereas, Tn the dispensation of an all.wise Provi dence, death has removed from among us our late mem ber and ex-president, Mr. James Barrett, Sr.; and Whereas, In his decease the Association has been de prived of one of its oldest, most useful, and influential members; Philadelphia of one of tier distinguished and bighly esteemed merchants, and the community of meat acid e.,:mplery eitigep ; therefore, Resolved, That the members of this Association, in view of this bereavement, tender their mutual condolence and heartfelt sympathies to the aMieted family, in this their sad loss. Rego/red, That the above preamble and reaelutinua b 3 engrossed on the minutes of the Asi...ciation, and that a copy of the some be presented to the family of the de ceased. Resolved, That the members of this Asnoetatlon at tend the funeral in a budy. . Mr, ArcliThald Getty seconded the resolutions in a few remarks, in which he referred in glowing language to the many virtues of the deceased, and the high esteem in which he was held by his nu merous business associates. The preamble and resolutions were unanimously agreed to. SERIOUS A FFAlR.—Yesterday morning, John Kiley wee before Alderinanßeitler upon the charge of having assaulted a man named Chas. Dougherty, alias Smith, a soldier belonging to the Irish Brigade, in a violent manner, at a house in the vicinity of Front and Union streets, as reported yesterday. The assailant used a very heavy hickory club. Dougherty was beaten about the head, and seri ously injured. He has three wounds. The sufferer was conveyed to the bospital. He was unable to Teak, mid tem hot 'expected to live thToulep the night. He was still alive yesterday morning, but in a very critical condition. Eliza McCabe, Mar garet Curdy, Bridget Brennan, and Catharine Dougherty were arrested upon the charge of being accessories. They wore all committed for a further hearing. THE CONTESTED-ELEC no; cAsEs.--Ygst e r. day morning, in the Court of Common Pleat, the contested-election case of Stevenson vs. Lawrence was resumed, The deposition of Captain Gain establishes that in Company C, of Colonel Ballier's regiment, there was no list of taxables ; minors voted ; the band, chaplain, and thirty-four mem bers of other companies, voted in Company C ; no proof of residence or payment of taxes required no person was asked if he was a qualified voter; and yet nearly all the members of the company are foreigners ; no naturalization paper produced. The deposition of John George Bosset, first lieu tenant of Company Li, Colonel Baffler's regiment, is, in substance, that there was no list of taxables ; no proof required; and the lieutenant states, " t let them all vote ;" no proof of residence or pay ment of tame§ required. A number of other witnesses were also examined. ANNIVERSARY OF TIIE CRUM! HOME.--• Yesterday morning, the sixth annual meeting of the Church Home for children was held in the base ment of St. Luke's Church. The attendance was quite large. The report shows that there are now fifty children in the Home. The expenses of con ducting the establishment during the year amount ed to $3,015. An election was held for officers. Dr. F. M. Dixon was elected dentist; Miss Johnson, matron ; and teacher, Miss M. A. Ker. FOR FORT LAFAYETTE.—This morning Mar shale Jenkins and Sharkey, with two associates and a delegate from the press of — Philadelphia Mr, George Alfred Townsend, will leave the city for Fort Lafayette ; New York harbor, with the pirates of the Petrel and of the Jeff Davis. A tug boat will take the pirates and suite at Jersey City and deliver them safely at the American Misfile. We expect a full account of the prisoners and fortress tomorrow. SLIIIHT FIRE.-A fire occurred about eight o'clock on Monday evening in the coal-oil manu factory on Beach street, below Laurel. The damage done was trifling. Several fire companies were upon the ground, but their services were not re aired. CRUELTY TO ANlMALS.—Yesterday morn ing, James Quart was arrested at Eleventh street and Girard avenue upon the charge or cruelly beating his horse, and was held to answer by Al derman Haines. Charles Miller was also held by Alderman Beit ler on the same charge. BRUTAL AUSAULT.-41. man named George Young was arrested, about four o'clock yesterday morning, at hie residence, Shippen and Spofford streets, for beating his wife with a club. fie was committed by Alderman Dallas. ICE. IN THE DELAITAKE.—There was a cun slJereble quantity of floating ice in the Deiewure yesterday, but nut sufficient to interfere with lAA . AWAITING AN OWNER.—A bundle of Un made clothing, found by one of the officers of the Second-polico district, is at their 'etatioct awaiting en owner. IN his lust letter from London, Mr. Weed says: After breakfasting this morning with Mr. Ellice, I went to the great American banker, George Pea body,. Esq., who retires from business before long, and Is endeavoring to do good with his large for tune. While, of 601iT86, lam not P 6410540" to sy.tak of what is to roman sealed, I may say that he is ,iust now maturing a plan for disposing of $560,000, in a way that, should the opportunity be afforded, will prove permanently precious to the unfortunate and destitute of London, and beneficial in other and important respects. GEN. BUELL has refused to accept the re. Figlllitickl) of several regimental quartermasters, foir the reason that the exigencies of the service axe such tbsb he cannot dispense with their serytects ON TUESDAY there were 7,30 troola at Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati—four Wintry regiments, three cavalry regiments and one com pany of cavalry, cud eigbt batteries of artillery, AT A SALE of securities in Albany, Now York. the other day. $15,000 r Mississippi and Missouri first bonds (sooorid ser,detl) sold at 18 per cent.
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