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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1862.
EXTRACT FROM THE LAST SPEECH OF
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.—“ The conspiracy
to break up the 'Union is a fact now known to
all: Armies ire being raised' and War
to accomplish it. There can be but two sides
to the controversy. Every man must be on the
side of the United States or against it. There
can lie no neutrals in this war. There can be
neat but patriots. sad trailers -1s
THE LATEST WAR NEWS.
We see no reason to doubt the rumor which comes
to us from Norfolk, via Fortress Morava, to the of.
feet that Savannah had been captured by our
forces. When the last steamer left Port Royal, ac
tive preparations were being made for such a move
matt, grid it is probable that the plan has been car
ried out. Our naval offteera had discovered a
channel by which our gunboats could reach the Sa
vannah river, and thence the city itself, without
running the gauntlet of the guns of Fort Pulaski—
one of the bat structures of its kind on the South.
ern coast. On their way to the city, the only ob
stacle that our forces would be likely to encounter
would be Fort Jackson—a small fort, situated four
miles from Savannah—mounting ten twenty-four
pounders, two mortars, and about eight howitzers.
A despatch from Chicago states that the position
occupied by our troops in the attack upon Fort
Donelson was such that but one of our regiments
could operate at a time, while the rebels could con
centrate their whole strength upon us. The first
zegiment to receive the rebels was the Eighteenth
Illinois, which fought with desperate courage.
They were followed by the Eighth Illinois, who at
length, from leek of ammunition, were forced to
retire. Oen. Wallace then sent his brigade to re
inforce Glen. MoClernand. The Thirtrfirst Illinois
defended Swartz's battery under a most destructive
fire, until its lieutenant colonel was killed, and its
acting major, seven captains, and a number of lieu
tenants wounded. The object of the rebels
was, undoubtedly, to out their way through our
troops, wbieh they might have accomplished but
for a portion of Wallace's division driving them
back into their entrenchments.
The General Johnson captured is a Bashrod
Johnson, and not A. Sidney Johnson, as at first
reported. The escaped prisoners have, it is sup
-1,06,3d, gone to ...ashen% or Clarksville, where they
will make another stand. A despatch from Cairo
states that, on the evening of the 17th, a great
light was seen in the direction of Clarksville, and
it was thought that the rebate might hive burned
their town in anticipation of an attack from tha
gunboats.
We publish an order issued by Secretary
Stanton, in which he states that after the Farewell
Address of Washington is read, in the Rouse of
Representatives at Washington, on the 22d of
February, the rebel flags captured in the late bat
tles will be presented, by the Adjutant General,
to Congress, to be disposed of as that body :nay
direct.
&Concerning [the blockade of the Southern ports,
an officer of our fleet writes that only three steam
ers have got oflt of Charleston in ninety days, and
only two out of Savannah. In the rigid blockade
of the French ports by Great Britain, during the
last great European war, there was nothing that
was as complete and effective as our present block
ade is. Our blockade against vessels going in is
4xjually. effective, which :is proved by the exorbi
tant prices for all foreign commodities throughout
the Southern States.
Wspccial despatch from Fortress Monio r
flag of trace was neat to Oraney island on
Monday with three passengers and packages of
letters. A communication was sera by this oppor :
tunity to General Huger, the rebel commander at
'Norfolk, proposing a gancral exchange of prtsoii
ers. General Huger referred the question to his
Government, and a favorabltqn.mworatice- some
it-iljbekrhilindied of our brave soldiers who still
remain in the hands of the enemy, and gladden the
hearts of thousands of their friends.
Congress Yesterday
The victories in Tennessee continued to absorb
the attention of both branches of Congreal yester
day, to the extTtision of important business. In the
Senate; a bill was introduced by Mr. Harris, of New.
York; declaring a forfeiture of the rights and pri
vileges of those who take up arms against the
United States. it was ordered to be printed. A
joint resolution of the House, directing the cons
misnomer to have the public building in Washing
ton illuminated on the evening of the 22d inst., in
honor of the recent victories, was passed.
In; the House, the joint Senate resolution tender
ing thanks to Captain Dupont and the gallant offi
cers and men of his command for the Victory of
Port Royal in November last -was unanimously
concurred in. The United States note bill, with the
Senate modifications, has been made the special
order for to-day The report of the House
Committee on the Senate's amendments will be
found in another column, The Homo adjourned
unusually early, as a testimonial of its admiration
of the courage evinced by our officers and mon in
the recent battles in Tennesesee.
The reunsytvania Legiehature.
In the State Legislature yesterday, resolutions of
thanks and congratulation relative to the recent
successes in Tennessee were adopted.
In the Rouse, a resolution was read instructing
the Committee on Ways and Means to have pre
pared and printed such tax bills, and also such
bills revising the laws for the assessment and col-
lection of State and county taxes, as in its judgment
might be deemed necessary to be acted upon. The
resolution was laid aside for the present. In the
Senate, a joint resolution was introduced, providing
for the adjournment of the Legislature on the 218 t
of March, to re-assemble on the 17th of June.
The Latest Foreign News.
The steamship Edznburgh has arrived at New
York, with dates to the 4th inst. The pirates Nash
ville had left Southampton on the 3d inst., passing
the Tuscarora off Cowes. The Federal gunboat
had steam, up and was ready to give chase, bat the
British steamer Shannon was hoveriug round to
keep her in check for twentyfour hours.--The
Naahville was last seen outside of the Needles,
Steaming out of the channel at full speed. It is
very doubtful that her twenty-four-hours' start
will save her, as the Tuscarora is a Philadelphia
gunboat, and remarkable for her speed. Earl
Remain letter to the Amiraiii, relativa t 4 the We
made of British ports by the belligerents, was re
ceived with general favor by the English press, and
Commended for its impartiality.
Austria has agreed to accept the throne of Mexi-'
co, which the Arch-duke Maximilian will ascend.
In exehange for the crown, however, Venetia is not
to be ceded.
THE overwhelming news from all parts of
the country ; the general retreat of the rebels
along the whole line, Mid the Unceasing record
of victories, recall the prophecy of our corre
spondent s; Occasional" as written in the month
of June. We reprint it as being peculiarly
appropriate at this joyous time :
"When Davis retires, where will he go? Beaten
in Virginia, disgraced and humiliated, where will
his army like a wounded snake, drag the length of
its poisonous and bleeding body? Of course, to the
Cotton States—to North Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, and Mississippi! And what to do there?
To resuscitate, to feed, and to plunder. What an
invocation, this, to the misguided people to whom
be bag presented himself as a great Deliverer?
What a sequel to all his promises! Weil may they
behold the retirement of his troops urea - their fields
and threshholds with terror. lie never can advance
to the position he has lost and is losing. He must
fall back—fall backs.- - all the time. AM what a re
treat ! Before him a Government stronger than•any
in the world, and a people united by the consciousness
of a good cause; behind him a disappointed, de
pressed, and bankrupt population. Nor, when these
Secession hordes leave the soil which they have pol
luted, will Mr. Lincoln pursue them. His first care
will be to assist to heal the wounds of Virginia, to
teeters to her her fields channelled by the hoofs of
the traitor, to that they may once more blossom and
bloom ; to give back to her the Constitution stolen
from her, and to bring together those who have
beets part( d I,:t insidious and treacherous us-n. As
to Mason, Wise, Hunter, and the rest of that fast
failing aristocracy who have lost the prize they
have played for, he will leave them to their own
people—the same stern jurors and judges who will
dispose of the chiefs of the Confederacy in their
own good time, when they get them back trb their
respective bailiwicks.
" Richmond, which is now the capital of the
Southern Confederacy,' Rill not gee many ses
sions of the Traitor Congress. Montgomery was
the cradle of the new Disunion—Rielunond will be
its graven'
MANY OF TUE REBEL TROOPS, whose twelve
month term of enlistment has expired, have
returned-to their homes. Some of them, it is
true, haVe nominally re-enlisted, and promised
to rejoin the Secession army after enjoying
a short furlough. But if they spend a few
weeks at their flre-sides, it will probably prove
so difficult for them to find their old comrades
and commanders, unless they seek them
among the prisoners in the Union camps, that
they will scarcely attempt so desperate an un
dertaking.
THE shout of victory is over ! Let us see
what we have gained ; We read the multitttde
of despatches with an eager and bewildered
eye—the glaring announcement of- the tele
graph—the confused statements of excited
eye-witnesses—the elaborate narratives of the
special correspondents—the sober chronicle of
the official despatch—the long lists of the dead
and wounded, and . the clear,ringing sentences
of the Secretary of War thanking the army
for its gallant deeds, and recommending the
cold steel and close grapple to loyal soldiers.
We revel in a sea of triumph, and catch the
grateful waves of victory as they come from
the West and the South—from the tributary
streams of the Mississippi, and the stormy
coasts 9f Carolina. We doubt the eestaey
of our own feelings, and in the gush of
general joy filling every heart we 'see only
the victory and the triumphant standard of our
country unfolding over the smoke and carnage
of the well-fought field. We ring out merry
peals in honor of the brave, and toll the funeral
bells to the memory of the fallen; we tell our
children of the bravery of McCmcia.A.N, and
GRANT, and Brnxspz—of the sad and gallant
fate of BAKER, and LION, and ' GRNDLN—and
roe in these triumphs only the glare and glory
of military success. Let us now pass from
these personal and fascinating details, and,
while the story of our recent successes is pass•
ing into history, see what has been gained by
the Republic in the triumph of its arms.
The immediate result of our Western victo
ries will be the liberation of Kentucky, Mis
souri, and Tennessee. " promised when I
came here," said General HALLECK, on Mon
day evening, to an enthusiastic crowd in St.
jmuis, gc with your aid, to drive the enemies
of our flag from your State. This has been
done'; they are now virtually out of Kentucky
and soon will be out of Tennessee." In these
results we see the masterly strategy of those
who managed this campaign. The.victory at
Mill Spring freed Southern Central Kentucky
from the grasp of - BeLmcorran, the triumph
at Fort Henry, and the _energy with which it
was followed up, brought an immense army in
the rear of Bowling Green and Columbus.
The evacuation of Bowling Green was a
Union victory, for in the departure of the rebel
army ~ rebellion forever departed from the
gallant State of Kentucky. The haughty me-
nace or BRECKINRIDGE and BURNETT when
they seceded that theywould drive the invader
from the soil of Kentucky, anti that in taking•
up arms they were conducting a defensive war,
finds an appropriate answer in their present
'rapid flight from the theatre of their tyranny
and usurpation. The success at Fort Donel
aaa--the greatest victory of the war—gives us
the control of the Cumberland and Tennessee
rivers, and will compel a hasty , retreat from
Columbus. Columbus was the point from
which the army of Nice drew its sustenance;
the strength of Columbus was maintained by
the army of PRICE in Southern Missouri ; and
now that the Missouri rebel army has surren
dered, leaving GRANT in the rear of Columbus
with an immense army, Columbus must be
evacuated or captured. Missouri and Ken
tucky are no longer the battle-grounds of con
tending armies, and the war is transferred to
Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama.
In our political vocabulary such a term as
"The Border States" no longer exists. The
trials of the loyal men in these States are
over. They have had a fearful time since the
commencement Of the rebellion. The horrors
of this conflict have been brought home to
their doors; their fields and farms have been
desolated; devastation has spread along the
banks of the Ohio, the Missouri, and the Cum
berland; families have been divided, and all
the untold miseries of civil war have been
I upon them for months. Instead of being the
1 instruments of Secession, they were its ,
vic
tims. Their public men were only broUght
1 into the oligarchy When a refufgal to enter
I would have been •followed by the v confis-
Ication of their property, banishment, or
1 death. The very Gustavus A: HENRY,
I after whom the captured.fort was named, was
one of the most eloquent of the Union men
sc tl eTe bt ol t i l l tr ' re i Centl i blordy
1 Seorn u thA_ L SBut.li e in
I conflict, was not only a hereditary friend of the
I Union, but represented a great Union party in
118.56, for the second office In the gift of
the American people. These men were
among the last to join the rebels. c, Ti'an.
became traitors when loyal+, noonme a
test of courage. There are thousands like
them, who went into the Confederate
scheme with reluctance, yielding up their alle
giance rather than endure the pains inflicted
upon such men as ANDREW Jonesoe, Mr.
MAYNARD, Mr. IsTersos, and their followers in
I prison and among the mountains. These men
1
are now upon the magnanimity-of the Govern
ment. Those who have sinned will be pun
ished, according to the measure of thektrans-
I gressions. For the weak and timid, pardon ;
for the malicious and treacherous, punishment.
We have gained confidenCe in our army.
It is no longer a debated question, as to
whether the men of the North or the men of
the South are the braver, laud more disci
plined. The present contests have presented
all the phases of war, and in no one liranch of
military science have they shown themselves
superior, or even equal to our armies. At
Mill Spring there was a hand-to-hand fight, a
F bayonet charge, and a resistance to cavalry,
and we whipped them. At Fort Henry there
was an artillery combat, and behind our wood
en walls we overmastered the long line of well
made and solid ramparts. At Fort Donelson the
most celebrated scenes of the Crimea, scenes
immortalized in the bloodiest memories of the
Malakoff and the Reda . % were again enacted.
Thero is no feat of war more difficult than to
carry a fort at the point of the bayonet, and
yet at the point of the bayonet we carried
Fort Donelson, over guns and eartlaworks,
and every defensive appliance. The forced
marches of this war have been made by our
own men. They were in a strange, rough
country, and in midwinter. They have not
only conquered the enemy, but they have
conquered the tempest on the sea, and She
rain, the snows and frost on the land.
Few narratives are more heartrending than
those which tell of the trials and dangers of
the Sherman and Burnside Expeditions. The
stormy days off the inclement shoals of Hat
teras, the perilous navigation to Port ROyal
Harbor, the wreck of transports, and the loss
of men and horses in the ocean, and those
who know anything of war will Appreciate
the indescribable hardships attending the
march of an army from Cairo to Fort Donelson
in the dreary days of midwinter.
We have gained confidence in ourselves.
What a sad and weary nation we were a few
days ago. Our Senators sat- in a gloomy
Senate,.and, looking out upon the darkness
brooding everywhere, vainly looked for a gleam
of hope, We looked over the sea and found
the allow of the earth laughing at our ca.
larnity, and mocking the fears that filled our
hearts. There were those who_ actually be
lieved that, in the hands of haughty Eng
land, the destinies of this nation and the
termination of this war rested. We were
angry, impatient, petulant, selfish, and
• sick at heart. The menace of an English
nobleman—the dreaded menace of the Em
peror of the French brought terror and grief
upon us. Our treasury was empty, and the
suggestion of a magnificent treasury scheme
almost demoralized Congress. The patriots
prayed for protection, our enemies plotted a
disgraceful and humiliating peace. Members
of Congress delivered elaborate orations, and
their only theme was the nation's shame.
They seemed to have a morbid delight in de
tailing villainy and error, and misfortune;
they gloated over every administrative blun
der, and declaimed tragedy and poetry about
contracts and short rations. We doubted the
President, the Cabinet, our Commander-in-
Chief, the commanders of our various armies.
We doubted tele another ; we doubted our
selves. We were on the eve of general de
moralization, but any fear of Such A disaster
no longer exists. Mr. COLFAX arose amid
profound silence, says the telegraph, and read
a despatch announcing the victories in Ten
nessee, whereupon there was loud applause on
the floors and the galleries. No more elo
quent—no more cheering and joyous senti
meet ever appeared upon the records of Con.
gress. It was the sign of returning vigor.
The clouds are-lifting from the national sky,
and we look upon a glorious and majestic
prospect.
We look upon a prospect of speedy peace.
No concession to slavery here, or despotism
elsewhere. No compromise with treason and
infamy. No surrender of national honor and
self-respect. No abject submission to the
social and political tyranny which has kept a
whole Republic in thraldom. We look upon
a discomfitted enemy lurking amid the Courts
and Cabinets of European Powers; for in this
general job we must not forget the victories
conquered by the Secretary of State,
the silent thunders of whose artillery
have been as effective as the cannon of BURN
SIDE and GRANT. It is a day of triumph, and
the coming anniversary will be such a day as
has never been , known in the history of this
or auy land. The Rebellion is rapidly perish
ing. As Mr. SEwARD so truthfully and beau
tifully said in his instructions to Mr. Mmisii,
our Minister to Turin—“ It will perish by
simply coming to confront the American people,
fur the first time brought to meet that enemy
of national peace and safety in f arms; Vie
people are aroused, awakened, resolute, and
determined. We no longer fear—indeed we
hardly deprecate—the disaster of civil war
brought upon us, without fault. Vire, now see
that it may, be regarded as a necessary trial to
preserve' the perfection of our Constitution,
and to remove all remaining distrust its du
rability and adaptation to the universal wants
of mankind."
The Suppression tf the Rebellion
Rebellion, like many other disorders, is
speedily crushed when it is vigorouSly at
tacked. It will soon become so difficult, if
not impossible, for the people of the South to
protract the war, and they will have so little
to gain and so much to lose by vainly attempt
ing to resist an irresistible Powers that they
must <inevitably awake from their fantastic
dream of Southern Independence. Every
great nation has been profoundly agitated at
some period of its history by insurrections
and by rebellious wars. Sometimes, even in
the strongest Governments, these attempts are
temporarily crowned with great success;; but
vigorous and warlike peoples, who are im
pressed with is strong feeling of pistriotiain or
of nationality, rarely fail to suppress them.
We have seen the rapid rise of the Secession
conspiracy, 'and we are now witnessing
its almost equally rapid decline, To use an
old simile, it went up like a rocket, and
it is now going down like a stick. But a few
months ago Maryland was 'deeply imbued
with the Secession feeling. Large portions of
Missottel and Kentucky, were in the possession
of the Rebels, who, indeed, had so-called
Confederate State Governments established
within their limits. Before the advance of our
armies these traitorous orgenizations have dis
asipeneed as morning mists beneath a burning
sun. In the districts we overrun, Unionism
speedily becomes more popular and fashiona
ble than SeCessionism. The strong pressure
against treason on the outer limits of tho re
bellious region will soon create an almost
equally strong Pressure against It from the
very heart of Secessia. Already the faithful
Union men of the South are beginning to be
treated rather as men whose favor is to be so
licited rather than as objects of cruel and
unjust persecution. The prominent con
spirators are fast losing their influence
over their dupes and 'victims. Their prog
nostieations have been unfulfilled. Their
plans have failed. They promised wealth
and independence--they have poduced po
verty and subjugation. They promised vic
tory, and they have met with overwhelming
defeats_ They promised security for Southern
institUtions, and they have endangered all the
interests of the South. They promised to
surround slavery with new and insurmountable
bulVcarks, and they have inflicted upon it more
lgorous bloAt thati all the &mead Abolitionists
in the world Could have dealt it. They claimed
to be the saviors, and they have shown them
selves the betrayers, of the South. The peo
ple in the rebellions States have a thousand
fold more reason to rise up now in rebellion
against the conspirators who misled them
than they bad 'to rebel against the bend
dent Government which protected all
their rights, and was the source of unnum
bered blessings. NOW that out vietorious
standards are planted in nearly every State,
and that divisions of our army are rapidly ap
proaching nearly every important point, the
Union sentiment must speedily again find en•
bvyresdsei°snpa;ira,nsdomoure B b ta y n i da nt r e d re S s w :b 1;
but 11 1 : an k Se
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n Sin w ee h r i e ch ioVlfo d r the Union
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noble Republica e tills nation tho
that ever existed.
acn nV'taZi'lltnnazit - achievement of our
army, instead of satisfying the patriotic spirit
of our troops and the adventurous genius of
our generals, proves but the incentive to
further euterprises. Scarce had Fort Henry
fallen before Fort Donelson was attacked, and
simultaneous with the news of its capture, we
heard of the expedition of Commodore FOOTN
against Clarksville, Tennessee. BURNSIDE,
not satisfied with taking Roanoke Island,
pushes his way gallantly into other quarters
of North Carolina. SHERMAN has beleaguered
Savannah, and there are rumors that it stir
rendered without firing a gun. PRIOR has
been pntsued to the remotest corners of'
Southwestern Missouri, and his position is a
very hazardous one, He must either retreat,
disperse his hordes, or risk a battle in which
he will inevitably be defeated. BUELL and
HALLEOK lave an, immense force ready for an
irresistible march upon Tennessee, which
will drive the enemy in dismay before it.
The rebel army in Virginia will, in due time,
also, no doubt,, be properly attended to.
When its communications with the Southwest
are cut off by our occupation of Tennessee,
and its communications with North Carolina
are destroyed by the Burnside Expedition, it
will fall an easy prey. There is an f 4 ana
conda tightening its coils around Virginia,
which will give a death-grip to rebellion in the
Old Dominion.
An Unconditional Surrender
When the rebel commanders at Roanoke
Island and Fort Donelson asked our victorious
generals on what terms they could capitulate,
the answer was pointed and decisive : an un
conditional surrender. These are the terms
%Mt Which the Whole rebellion will eventually
be. crushed. The American peoplo are not
Cruel or vindictive; they are more apt to par
don offences which should be punished than to
inflict unmerited chastisement. But the armed
foes of the Republic must and will be van
quished and dispersed; and the misguided
citizens of the South will find the Govern
ment of the United Statesfar more mindful
of their true interests, and more beneficent in
its eperetiene, than the, hegus Ventederacy
which the haughty 'conspirators, who have as
sumed control of their destinies, have-vainly
sought to establish.
The Letter of General Buckner
There is something peculiarly amusing in
the letter of General BUCKNICR to General
Grum; in which the former complains that
his desire tor favorable terms of capitulation
was not complied with. The doughty rebel
chieftain says he is compelled, notwithstand
ing the brilliant success of the ConCederate
arms, to accept the ungenerous and.unchival
rous terms" proposed by the victorious Union
hero. He could not refrain from uttering a
characteristically vain-glorious boast, even at
the moment when, by his own confession, he
had met with a humiliating defeat; and he had
the bad taste to talk of unchivalrous terms, after
the booted 'Southern chivgiry had become the
jest and scorn of the world, both by its want
of prowess; and by its violation of all the
humane, loyal, and generous instincts of the
ancient order of knighthood.
-II up
The Next News from Europe.
The steamer Norwegian, which was to have
left Liverpool for New York on the sixth, can
scarcely bring the Queen's speech on the open
ing of Parliament unless she drop in at
Queenstown p en route. The Canada, leaving
L:iverpool for Boston, on the Bth inst, will
bring latest news from Europe to the 9th, and
may be expected, olf Cape Race, to-morrow
or next day. She may bring very important
news of the proposed policy of England and
Pfarice towards this country.
No PEOPLE rejoice more enthusiastically
over the Union victories than the refugees
from the South, who were driven from their
}mimes beco.uso they would not support the
Secession movement. They fully understand
the selfish aims and the barbarity of the ambi
tious conspirators. They have felt the op_
pression of the reign of terror, which the rebel
leaders established, and they rejoice now that
retributive justice has inaugurated a new Reign
of Terror, in which the Union armies are
awaited with fear and trembling, by the promi
nent traitors.
A LATE telegraphic despatch from Ken
tucky stated that a division of our troops was
about to go up Salt river. At all events, they
have rowed a large portion of the enemy up
that classic stream.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1862.
LETTERS FROM 64 OCCASIONAL."
Wesnixams, Feb. 17 5 1862.
Tho late city.election at Lancaster, Penn
sylvania, which resulted in the success of the
Breckinridge Democracy by a very meagre
majority, teaches a truthful lesson to patriotic
voters. The opponents of Sanderson, the
Buchanan-Breckinridge candidate for Mayor,
charged upon him and his followers sympathy
with the enemies of the Union, which these
latter stoutly denied. They even went it DlM
shot beyond the most loyal in their profes
sions of patriotism. Mingled with these os
tentatious declarations, however, was, of
course, the usual assaults upon Mr. Lin
coin'a Administration, and the tiSilei anti
sions to extravagance and corruption. It
was this attitude of noisy patriotism and
complaining partisanship that induced enough
people to vote for Sanderson to re-elect
him. The point of the moral is the man
ner in which this result is received. Is it
received as a tribute to the country any
where ? Is it regarded as a verdict in favor of
the Union by any one man, or by any
one newspaper ? No Wherever it is
greeted with exultation, it is by those
whose hatred of the war is so intense
that they only refrain from expressing it
because they dread incarceration and punish
ment. The people who elected Sanderson
believed what he said to be true. They have
only to see how he is appreciated by the
avowed enemies of the country, since their
Totes bate been given to him, to Seel how
mistaken they were in this belief. It is scarcely
possible that they would have elected James
Buchanan Mayor of Lancaster. I hear that he
is one of the most loyal of men now ; 'that his
patriotism breaks out all over him like an erup
tion; that he drinks it in his water, his whis
ky, and his wine; eats it with his ducks and
his roast beef; and hugs it to his artar"Ct
a m
in his delicious dreams. He even Mika of his
country as if somebody but bleu& 'had not
put the dagger to her heart, and the poi
son in her veins. And yet, who would
believe in such a man or such professions ?
The fact happens to be that Sanderson is his
warmest defender and friend, and that in
honoring Sanderson you honor and gratify the
greatest ingrate and traitor to a free people
and the deadliest foe of free institutions, not
excepting Jefferson Davis, on the face of the
earth.
Some of the apologists of the ex-President
may call this personal feeling. It is not. My
only object is to forewarn the people agaipst
trusting the men who have produced this state
of things in Ahaping the events that are rapidly
developing themselves. The great work of
the war will be how to dispose of the seceded .
States after they have been conquered—and
those who are to take thArge Of this wp.ric mu st
not be the refuse of the Buchanan Adminis
tration. In fact, the moment the rebels realize
that their day is over, they will constitute the
Dreckinridge Democrats of the North their
legatees, and will rely-upon thOn-tO melte 0011
tents us kill enabla the despoilers of the Re
public to come back to Washington and renew
the despotism they have so long exercised in
the Federal councils. The first object of the
sympathizers with secession in the free States is
to secure the next National House of Representa
tives, and every such election as that in Lan
caster is simply preliminary end preparatory to
this achievement. In their efforts to this end
they will outbid everybody in loyal demon
strations. How far these demonstrations are
to be trusted, you may understand by look
ing over the votes of the . majority of the
Democrats in your State Legislature, and
of the majority of the Democrats in the
Congress of the United States. heuld the
popular branch of Congress be lost to thii Ad
ministration by the intrigues of the Breckin
ridge leaders and the divisions among loyal men,
any reconstruction of the Union would, in all
probability, be the eventual restoration to
power of the Secession leaders. This would
be accomplished by a series of manoeuvres
against the policy of Mr. Lincoln, and by
wearing out the public patience to such a de
gree that any settlement would at la* beau- ,
cepted. Do not understatid me as -pleading
for a pure Republican party organizapn• No
such purpose, I am
_satiafic.i--i---auu 4, rindJur
to - De deSired is a solid, 'rigor
ous, and generous union of all loyal men, with
out reference to old , party names, and, lam
happy to say, that this idea meets almost uni
versal approval among the most distinguished
members of the Republican, party. Against
such a combination, of course ; all the instincts
and interests of the Breckinridge party will be
arrayed. Every nerve will be strained to de
feat it, and there is not a calumny too, gross,
a misrepresentation too monstrous, that will
not be resorted to in order to effect this ob
ject. Hence, the election at 'Lancaster was
a most admonitory lesson. In a short time ,
elections will take place in Maine, New Hamp
shire, and Connecticut, and next October
Pennsylvania will be called upon to choose
members of Congress and a Leg'slature, which
will have the duty to perform of choosink, a
United States Senator for six years from the
4th of March next. In the city of Philadel.
delphia, many important officers will be upon
the card. Your Mayor, your City Council
men, five Congressmen, and almostone-fifth of
of the Rouse of Rvpresentatives of the State. I
You will perceive at a glance how the fireek
infidge Democracy will struggle for tbeseprizes.
at is the duty of loyal Denimit - ifs;with such
a prospect before them ? Will they strike
hands with the men who sympathize with
Davis and the Secession traitors? or will they
array themselves under the broad flag of the
Union in order that the relmllion may be
crushed, and such a reconstruction brought
about as will give tone and vigor to the loyal
men of the slave States ; and punish or banish
those desperate despots now in arms against
the country. They are invited to this, not
only by the President and his Cabinet, but by
every sincere Republican in. the land, and my
ardent hope is, that they will aecept,this invi
tation, so sincerely tendered, with promptitude
and joy. OCCASIONAL.
WAsurbrrox, Feb..lB, 1862.
The-happiest of the Secession Traitors are
the worthies now sojourning and luxuriating
in London and Paris—John Slidell, James hf.
Mason, W: L. Yancey, A. Dudley Mann,
Philip Rost, George Eustis, and that most ac
tive of all the agents of treason, the notorious
P. Corbin, operator, money-lender, and
general political intriguante. Safe from all
harm, these selfish men will never venture to
return to the United States. Long before
this, they have, doubtless, been convinced that
their unequalled ingratitude and scoundrelism
was destined to defeat and to punishment. The
failure to enlist even the over-willing syMpathies
_of England and France actively on the side
of the rebellion must have been anfheient to
disgust them with their mission ; and when
they hear bow their so-called Confederacy is
crumbling into rottenness and ruin, they will
felicitate each other that they are safely out
of danger. Not one of these traitors will ever
dare to show his face either in thh adhering or
the seceded States. -If- they enter the first
they will be tried, convicted, and punished as
traitors, and if they seek their old homes they
will turn upon and rend them. Yu most pitia
able contrast to the sedurity of these men in
their foreign hiding-places is the dilemma of
_their fellow-conspirators who are forced to
remain and to run the hazard of the die. What
the course of the Government will be in re
gard to these men cannot be anticipated with
certainty. That they have forfeited their lives
by their many overt acts of treason is undoubt
edly true, and that an earnest public opinion
will demand their execution or their perpetual
exclusion from the United States is equally
true. What measure of justice would be too
severe for such a man as Jefferson Davis, or
John B. Floyd, or John Letchur, or Howell
Cobb, or Alexander H. Stephens, or John. C.
Breckintidge ? Hew they would have acted
had positions been reversed with Andrew
Johnson or John S. Carlile in their hands,
everybody knows. These patriots would have
been summarily punished because they re
fused to accept and endorse the crime of the
Secession leaders. If there is one thing that
loyal men can agree upon, it is that the coun
try must be rid of the men who have plotted
its destruction. They must neither •be per
witted to live in the South nor to come
to the city of Washington ; and it is
the duty of Mr. Lincoln to take' imme
diate steps to effect this object. There will
be no lack of the friends of the +Union
hereafter in the Southern States. The traitor
chiefs arc a minority even of the leading men
of the slave States, and thousands who have
been forced to give , way to these demagogues,
and to follow their - lead, will now emerge
from their obscurity, accept the offers of the
Administration, and assist in the trial and
punishment of those Who have kept them
down and plunged the Republic into a civil
war. There is not a seceded State, with the
exception, possibly, of South Carolina, in
which a large Union party could not be
speedily organized. Tennessee contains thou
sands of patriotic men, who would gladly
seize the opportunity to depose lahata G.
Harris, the recreant Governor, and to seize
the Legislature and commit the members
to the same process that was so successfully
resorted to against the Secession members of
the Maryland Legislature. In North Caroßua,
the experiment of Secession was forced upon
the people. Men like Holden, of the Raleigh
Standard, ex-Governor Morehead, George E.
Badger, and W. A. Graham, yielded only be
cause they could not successfully resist; and
when they
_realize in the indulgent and
magnanimous rule of the Federal Govern
ment the ample encouragement to follow the
example of the patriots of Kentucky and Mis
iouri, they will only be too proud to act. In
Alabama, the ordinance of Secession was car
ried by a eta - Armed fraud, and those of us
who recall the agony with which George
S. Houston left his seat in Congress,
and the tears and self-reproaches of Wil
liamson R. W. Cobb, when he retired, can
easily imagine the joy with which such
men will welcome the advance of our conquer
ing columns. Georgia cannot continue to be
oppressed by Cobb, and Toombs, and Stephens.
All her interests are on the side of peace and
against disunion ; and her young men will
seize .upon any pretext to assort their supre
macy and to accept_tle liberal offers of the
General Government. As to Louisiana, Pierre
Soule has not been silent and inactive without
a good Cause, and you will remember that,
even in the very torrent and tempest of the
Secession insanity, the Now Orleans True
Della continued to hurl its defiance at the
heads of Davis and his cabal. That paper,
conducted by the intrepid Irishman, John
Maginnis, can now wield a tremendous influ
ence if properly sustained by our victorious
arms. The reasons that will operate to cre
ate a formidable Union party in Louisi
ana are strengthened by the fact that the Mis
sissippi is being rapidly cleared by our gun
boats, and that the mouth of that great river is
hermetically sealed by our squadron; and when
the blockade is removed by the capture of New
Orleans, bankruptcy, starvation, and commer
cial atrophy, will be succeeded by prosperity,
peace, and a universal revival of trade. As to
Texas and Arkansas, even the most intolerant
of the Secession leaders have frequently and
lately admitted that there was a strong loyal
sentiment in both these States. Arkansas is,
infect, the creature of the Federal Govern
ment, and her people will loudly rejoice when
I I they can once more feel that their generous
almoner is about to reappear among them. The
Germanaof Texas want no inducements to strike
for the old flag. Their inherent hostility to
slavery, their frequently manifested contempt
for such miscreants as W 'grail, would in them
selves render them an element most difficult
to hold, even if treason were not certain to be
crushed. Mississippi will, of course, attempt
to maintain an independent antagonism, but
there is a latent Union element even there.
Jefferson Davis himself was defeated in Mis
sissippi when he opposed the Compromise
measures, eleven years agorand a Northern
I man, Wm. Henry auriso, orrio tho glecto
rat vote of that State against Martin Van
Buren when the latter was the spoiled favo
rite of the Southern politicians. Should
South Carolina refuse to surrender, let the
strong arm and the strong remedy be applied
in her ease ! Absorb her in Georgia, or
_blot
her name forever from the American map.
Establish a Provisional Government, re
duce her to a territorial condition, and
let her leaders be taught the severe pe
nalties of the great crime they originated,
and the indescribable calamities they
inflicted upon millions of happy people.
Florida alone remains to be considered ? but
as she is relatively not a township in popula
tion} she may be left to the wise guardianship
of polow3l Brown, the military statesman who
has exclusive charge of that Congressional
district. OCCANONAL.
L A - T ES T NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE REBEL FLAGS CAPTURED IN
THE LATE VICTORIES.
THEY ARE TO - BE.PRESENTED-TO CORGREM
AN MORTAL= RUMOR ABOUT THE REBEL
VICE PRESEDEIT
THE PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
THE CASE OF MR. STARKE, OF OREGON.
The Senate's Amendment to the Foititcation
Bill Adopted by the House.
REPORT OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON
THE TREB6URY•NOTE BILL.
Special Despatches to " The Press."
WASHINGTON, February 18,1802.
The - United States Note Bill—Report of
the House Committee on Ways and
Means on the Senate Amendments.
The Committee on Ways and Means recommend
that the House agree to about two-thirds of the
Senate amendment' to the United States note bill,
and that they disagree to those reducing the num
ber of the United States notes authorized to be is
sued from $150,000,000 to $100,000,000, and to the
striking out of the original provito that fifty millions
of the notes shall be in lien of the;demand treasury
mates authorized by the act of .1 . 14 last, he.
The committee also recommend that the House
disagree to the Senate amendment that the July
notes shall be receivable in payment of taxes,
duties, imports, excises, debts, and demands of
every kind due tit the United States, and of all
claims and demands of every kind, except for in
terest upon bonds and notes; which shall be paid in
win. Also, to _disagree to the amendment fixing
tbe redemption of the bonds at the pleasure of the
United States after five years, and payable"in
twenty years from data
The committee recommend the retention of the
previa° for the exchange of the bonds of the United
States bearing interest at 7 per contain, and a disa
greement to the Senate amendment authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of the
bends at the market value. They recommend a
disagreement to the Senate's new section, which
pledges the custom duties and the proceeds of the
of public lands and of property seized and sold
under the laws of the United States as the property
of rebels as, a special fund for the payment in coin
Of the interest on the bonds and notes, and for the
purchase or payment of one per centum of the en
tire debt, to be set apart as a sinking fund, the in
terest on which, in like manner, to be applied to
the purchase or payment of the public debt; the
residue thereof to be paid into the Treasury.
The . committee recommend the agreement of
the House to another new section of the Senate,
with an amendment which they propose—namely,
authorizing the deposit of notes or coin in exchange
far certificates , and instead of five per cent= into.
rest on such certificates, to substitute, at snob
rates of interest which the Secretary of the Treasury
may from time to time prescribe, not exceeding six
per centum ; and any amount of notes or coin so
deposited may be withdrawn from deposit at any
time, after ten days' notice, on the return of the
certi f icates."
.The President's Household.
The usual Tuesday reception did not take plaoe
to-night at toe Executive mansion, owing to the eon
tinned iEnms of the President's children, one of
*horn IN Intim* in,
Rejected Army Clothing.
The Militery'Board of Impeders, appointed by
thefleneral in chief, are engaged in examining the
supplies recently received at the clothing depart
ment from Philadelphia and New York. The re
main of their first day's labor was to condemn
25.000 infantry privates' coats, which articles cost
the Government $187.750. From all appearances,
the Board will continue in seat-ion fur a lung time.
It has been found necessary to order the erection
of a huge shed ) for the purpose of storing rejected
clothing. In order to protect the Government from
being swindled by the wholesale, and the better to
secure the health and• comfort of the army, efforts
are making to organize a bureau to furnish the
troops with clothing,oamp and garrison eqdipage,
and to he eStablished aiigiisr to the other bureaus
of the War Department, though separate and die-
Unet from them all.
Among the arrivals to.night are General Rums
and Minister CAMERON.
- An Important Rumor.
nig currently reported to-night that ALEXA.N.
Dan H. PrarnENS, the recelitly-eleated Viee Pre
sident of the rebel Confederacy, has resigned that
office, and urges the return of the seceded Status
to, the Federal Union.
Presentation of Rebel Flags to Congress—
The Celebration of the 22d
Tho following ordor, rolatiro to the presentation
of rebel flags to Congress, was issued to-day :
WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON D. C., Feb. 18.
It is ordered by the President, Commander-in.
Chief of the army and navy, that, on the 22d day
of February, in the ball of the Home of Repre.
selitatiVeti, 'lmmediately after the Farewell Ad
dress of George Washington shall have been read,
the rebel flags lately captured by the United
States forces shall be presented to Congress by the
Adjutant General, to be disposed of as Congress
may direct. By order of the President.
EDWIN M STANTON, Saeretary of War.
Circular.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE U. S. ARMY,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, D. D., Feb. 18, 1802.
The general officers who, under the joint resolu
tion' of Congress, may be invited to attend the
ceremonies in the Chamber or the House of Repre
sentatives on Saturday, the 22d day of February,
inst., will assemble in the old Supreme Court-room
at a quarter to twelve o'clock of that day.
By command of Mar General McClellan.
L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.
Senator Ltttham.
The City Councils of New York appropriated the
sum of three thousand dollars to celebrate the
Coming anniversary of Washington's birthday in
an appropriate manner. Senator LAMOI, a Cali
fornia, was invited to deliver an oration; but in
consequence of his numerous engagements as a
member of the Military Committee, and his ardu
ous duties in the Senate, he was compelled to de
cline. This is a high compliment, on the part of
New York, to the eminent and eloquent Senator
from California.
Confirmations.
The Senate, yesterday, in executive session,
made the following confirmations :
MOHAN B. WALLACE to ho Vatted Staten Mar
shal for the Western District of Missouri.
J. HOWARD ReTnnea, of New York, to be asp
tain in the Twelfth Infantry.
Senatorial Wit
When the 046retery of the Senate, Mr. Fenunr,
read the despatch announcing the victory at Fort
Donelson, there was loud applause in the galleries.
The following dialogue took place :
till! VICE PRESIDENT. That's J2igkt! The
chair rules that the Cheating in the galleries wag
not in applause or censure of any action of the
Senate, and they would not, therefore, be called to
order.
[A despatch from a rebel source was afterwards
read, confirming the first account, when the ap
plause in the galleries was renewed. I
Mr. FOSTER. I would inquire of the chair if it
is in to applaud a rebel despatch ? [Laughter.]
Tea Vice PRESIDENT. It IS, when 8110 h It des
patch is reliable and true. [Laughter and Ap
plause.]
THE FORT DONELSON VICTORY.
FURTHER DETAILS.
Desperate Bravery of our Troops
GENERAL A, SIDNEY JOHNSTON NOT TAKEN,
SUPPOSED BMW OF CLAEXSVILLE
TILE REBELS
Cuteado, Feb. 18.—The Tribune's special de
spatch from Fort Donelson says that the position of
the ground occupied by our troops in the attack
neon Fort Donelson was such that riot more than
one regiment could operate at the same time, while
the rebels could bring nearly their whole force to
boar against us. The first regiment to receive the
rebels was the Eighteenth Illinois, which fought
with desperate courage until their ammunition was
errhaueteti, when they were forced to retire. They
were replaced by the Eighth Illinois, who were also
driven back after firing their last round.
Meanwhile, the other regiments were lending
such feeble assistance as their positions would ad
mit. General Lewis Wallace was then ordered to
reinforce Genera Meeleriiabd, ad he itek two
brigades to the centre. The Thirty-first Illinois,
Colonel Logan, fought like veterans, defending
Swartz's battery, under the most gallant fire, until
every horse at the battery was killed, together
with all the officers who bad charge of the gum, as
well as the lieutenant colonel, the acting major,
seven captains, and a number of lieutenants wound
ed. The regiment being nearly surrounded, Capt.
Cooke, who was left in command, drew off what
there was lett, not, however, until their last round
was expended, and they had commenced driving
the rebels before them.
The Second brigade then came up and took the
place of the retired one, and fought desperately,
_losing a great number of killed : butL__wttliikega,
ty-ninth and Fifty-ninth Ohio, drove the rebels
back to their entrenchments—gaining a portion of
the ground lost. The object of the rebels was evi
dently to cut their way through our troops.
The General Johnston taken is Bushrott Johnston,
a brigadier general, from Tennessee, and not A.
Sidney Johnston, as generally apposed.
Caine, Feb. 17.—The steamer Memphis arrived
from Fort Donelson this evening, bringing a Missis
sippi regiment as prisoners, and fifty or sixty
wounded soldiers, who were left at Mound City.
Eight or nine other boats are on their way with
rebel prisoners. The rebels who have escaped, it
is supposed, have gone to Nashville or Clarksville,
where, it * is believed, the rebels will attempt to
make another stand.
2hia evening a great light was seen for several
hours in the direction of Clarksville ; and it is sup
posed that the rebels have either burned the town
or their steamboats in the river to prevent them
falling into our hands.
The rebel officers admit that if we take Nashville,
the rebellion in is gone up.
Tho prisoners will probably hc int it. Cifit.
Douglas, Chicago.
Another Account of the Last Day's Fight.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 18.—The following is an ac
count of the fighting, on Saturdah at Fort Donal-
On Saturday morning the battle was resumed
with unusual vigor and determination.
The Eighth, Eighteenth, Twentieth, and Thirty
first Illinois Regiments occupied positions above
the fort. They were about preparing a little food
for the day's sustenance when the rebels opened on
rhea a fire of musketry.
A line of battle was at once formed, and the
storm of leaden hail returned, perceptibly thinning
the rebel ranks.
The rebels, from their advantageous positions,
showered upon our ranks most murderous volleys
of musketry, grape, and canister, killing and
wounding our men almost by companies at every
round. Yet every man stood his ground bravely.
These four regiments held their ground, dealing
death and dying, and fighting against appalling
odds, and in the face of every disadvantage. The
Eighteenth Illinois Regiment seems to have resisted
the aeierest storm. Against their ranks the rebels
directed their heaviest fire, but, instead of falling
back, they advanced to the face of the enemy, and
there stood in the very jaws of death, with scarcely
a prospect that a single man would escape.
' For three hours these regiments, numbering
Scarcely 3,000 men, held their ground against the
whole rebel garrison,
At one tibia the Eighteenth, being Fatally
flanked, was exposed to a crass-fire of both mus
ketry and artillery, bat our right wing soon re
lieved them. At this critical moment, Col. Lawler
fell. baptain Bash, acting lieutenant colonel, then
assumed. the command, but was soon wounded.
Captain Cruse was shot dead. Captain Lawler was
mortally wounded. Lieutenants Munsford and
Thompson were killed, Captains Dillon and Wilson
and Lieutenants Kelly and Scanlan wounded,
so that the daring cs Egyptian Regiment" stood
before an almost overwhelming force, witbotili offs.
ears. They fell in heaps, dead and wounded. Com
panies were bereft of captains and lieutenants, and
captains were almost bereft of companies.
Thirother three regiments did their duty nobly.
Colonel," Oglesby, Marsh, and Logan, dashed along
the ranks, waving their hats and cheering their
men on to the conflict. "Suffer death," cried
Logan, "but disgrace never ! Stand firm !" and
well they heeded him. Many fell dead and wounded.
Among the latter were Colonel Logan and Lieut.
Col. Whit*.
Col. Ogelsby and Marsh's regiments fought des
perately, losing, like other regiments, an undue
proportion of officers.
• Col. Ogelsby displayed a coolneas and courage
that has elicited the highest praise, and served well
in stimulating his men.
Never, perhaps, on the American continent has
a more bloody battle been fought
An officer who participated, and was wounded,
in the tight says the scene beggars description. So
thickly was the battle-field strewn with the dead
and wounded that he could have traversed aorwrof
it b 7
- y taking almost every step upon a prostrate
The rebels - fought with desperation, their artil
twist using their pieces with the most fearful effect.
On either aide could be heard scores of those in
command cheering on their men. The four Illinois
regiments held their ground full three hours.
Nearly one third bad been killed or wounded, and
yet the bnienee stood firm. Linadly, reinforce
tuenta arrived, and for Am hour the slaughter was
continued,
About 4 o'clock our right wing . turned the ene
my's left, and the rebels fell back into their fortifi
cations and our flag was planted upon the position
occupied by their left wing. Fee a time the
slaughter then ceased.
Dresser's and Schwartz's batteries were captured
during the action, but the Eighteenth Illinois, with
clubbed muskets, recovered Dressers's battery,
while the Thirty-first recovered that of Captain
Schwartz.
Still Another Account.
Sr. Louis, Feb. 18.—The Fort Doneloon cor
respondent of the Republlcan gives the following
account of the fighting on Saturday :
Yesterday (Saturday) morning, just at daylight,
a heavy sortie was made by the garrison from the
left portion of their works. This attack was made
upon the extreme right wing of the Union army,
where it was strongest.
A part of Oen. MeClernand's division, under
Col. Oglesby, consisting of his brigade, was sta
tioned there ; also, 'Schwartz's and dloVister's
batteries. The point was upon a ridgd leading into
the right redoubt, and situated just about the
main fort.
During the night the enemy eould be heard
busily at work, but it was impossible to tell at
what, es thicket and woods encompassed the Union
troops on every side, obstructing the view in every
direction.
At daylight, a large body of the enemy suddenly
appeared on the extreme right will of Coloud
oglesby'e command, and openid a tumble Are with
cannon from their redoubt, playing, at the same
time, upon our forces from the guns which had been
placed in position on the night previous.
The camps of the Twentylaiath and Thirty-first
Illinois were most exposed. The whole brigade
was at once formed into line, as follows :
The Eighteenth Illinois Regiment hold the OX •
treme right. The Eighth Illinois came next; then
the Thirtieth Illinois, then the Twenty-ninth
Illinois supportin_g. the right of Capt. Schwartz's
battery, and the Thirty.first Illinois defending the
artillery on the left.
From the firing t,r the RA guff until 0 15'8186k,
the battle raged unremittingly and with tearful
loss on both sides. Again, and again, our troops
drove the enemy back, but they were often rein
forced, while our troops had, owing to the ex
tended lines of the army, and also their position on
the extreme right; to ght unassisted,
More gallant fighting never took place than that
of the Union troops. Exposed to the terrible firing
of triple their number, they stood their ground un
til, in some regiments, every officer was killed or
wounded. At last, and then reluctantly, regiment
by regiment, they slowly fell bads, 'leaving
Schwartz battery, and three of McAllister a
guns in the rebel bands. Retiring a few hundred
yards, they all then made a stand, and Gen.
Smith arrived with reinforcements, and at once
drove the enemy again into their works.
In the first of the battle also, Col. W. H. L.
Wallace's brigad, comprising the Eleventh,
Twentieth, Seventeenth, and Forty-eight re
giments participated. Also Cot McArthur's
brigade, all of which troops suffered severely.
Opposed to them were 12,000 rebels, supported by
guns that had been carefully placed in proper posi
tion.
, tioncral grant baying, in command of tho divi
sion, driven the enemy beek with reinforcements,
and gained the lost ground, at onoe ordered an ad
vance, by General Smith, on the left.
Reported Capture of Price
PITTSBURG, Feb. 18.—A private despatch from
Chicago nye that Price and his whole army have
been captured by our troops.
No Foundation for the Rumor
Camerae. Feb. 18.—There is no foundation for
the report that General Prioe and his army have
bean capturcd,
Exhibition of Union Feeling at Baltimore.
BALTIMORE. Feb. 18.—A lecture, delivered to
night avtbe Maryland Institute, was the occasion
of an exciting demonstration of Union feeling.
The Rev. Mr. Fogit, while delivering a leoture,
branched off on political affairs, and, alladiag 49 049
test.oath, by the Legislature; for clergymen, said
that, whilst he was a Union man, he would suffer
martyrdom before he would submit to such an oath,
adding, if this be treason, make the most of it!
The audience immediately became greatly excited,
and all sorts of noises were made. Cheers were
offered for the Union, and groane for the git7ealief,
The lecturer was compelled to desist, and the audi
•nce dispersed.
Rejoicings at Lancaster.
LANCASTER, Feb. 18.—The city is enlivened this
evening by She ringies b9lle, bury% firing of
gems, and other demonstrations of joy over the re
cent Union victories. This demonstration was
gotten up by the Association of Patriot Daughters,
whose labors in behalf of the volunteers have been
unremitting since the issuing of the President's
proclamation in April last. Arrangements are also
making for a propor oelebration of Washington's
Birthday in this 4:34.
Itejoicingik at San Francisco
. SAN Fnescisco, Feb. 17.—The announoement
of the capture of Fort Doneleen has been received
here, and there is great rejoicing over the victory.
Fire at Hamilton, C. W.
ILAMILTON. Feb. 18.—The Great Western Eleva
tor was burned, this afternoon, with 28,000 bushels
of grain.
Rejoicing in Chester.
[Correspondence of The Press.]
CHESTER, Feb. 18, 1862.
All the bells in our town are sending forth jubi
lant peals this morning, in honor of the great
Union victory in TOPIieSPIP9., The 914 cannon fias
been brought into requisition, and the gunners are
firing round after round for the glorious success of
our arms in the South and West. The stars and
stripes are displayed from every flag-pole and win
dow ; work has been, in a great measure, suspend
ed, end our cidzene have given themselves up to
general rejoicing. W.
THE WORLD'S HORSE FAIR will be held in Chi
cago, commencing on the second day of September
next, and continuing two weeks. The fair will be
open to all nations for competition, and it is ex
pected that the collection will be the finest ever
exhibited at a horse fair in America, $25,000 in
premiums will be given. There will be a $l,OOO
premium for the best trotter, and probably the
same for the best running horse, one mile; also, a
e5OO F rei:am - a fat the best lady Adam, COI muss=
teen exhibitions every day; also, a series of elk
races and other novelties. Stock, farm, and road
horses will receive over one-third of the premiums,
which are the largest ever given. The otters tr i s . ;
Pere', - air Ivratg; liintri * w York ; general
superintendent, J. Milton Smith, Chicago; secre
tary, W. P. Isham, Chicago.
Our Washington correspondent states that an im
portant rumor was prevalent in Washington last
night, to the effect that Alexander H. Stephens, the
Vice President of the rebel Confederacy, has re
signed, and that he favors a return of the seceded
States to the Federal Union.
XXXVIITII CONGRESS-FIEST SESSION,
WASHINGTOII6 Feb. 18, 1882.
SENATE.
Relief of Ireland.
?dr. HOWE (Sep.), of Wisconsin, prosented the joint
resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin in favor of the
relief of Ireland front famine, referring to her brave eons
who area winning glory for us on our battle fields. Re
ferred.
Forfeiture of Personal Rights.
Mr. HARRIS (Rep.), of New York, introduced a bill
declaring the forfeiture of the rights and privileges of
under the Cosnititution of the United
States. Referred.
lise of Railroads in Missouri.
Mr. WILSON (Rep.), of Massachuaetts, front the Ju
diciary Committee, reported back the joint rerolution from
the House in relation to certain railroads in Missouri.
The resolution authorizes the Secretary of War to pay
certain railroads in Missouri for the transportation Of
troops and supp!ies.
Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep.), of Illinois, thought it in
volved the very important gueetion of paying damage%
and should be well considered.
Pending the consideration, a message arrived from the
House asking for the return of the resolution,
The Wafthingtott
Mr. WILSON (Rep.), of NaHßACiausetta i introduced a
resolution that the Committee ou the District of Colum
bia be instructed to inquire into tin, judicial management
of the jail in the city of Worthington. He had read a let
ter from Mr. Duval, stating that great Rinke@ were com
mitted in the jail, and especially the hogging prisoners in
a severe manner. Adopted.
1 7 11ELIMUYA of Mtlit4
Mr. HABILIS moved to print the bill offered by him.
He said the bill was founded on the English principle of
outlawry, and provides for a forfeiture of the rights and
privileges, under the laws, of those who take up arms
against the 'United States. It was ordered to be printed.
Illumination of the Public Buildings.
Ili joint resolution received from the ROll5O, tLrt the
Commissioner of - Public Buildings be directed to
nate all the public buildings on Saturday next, the 22d of
February, in honor of the recent victories, was taken up
and passed.
The Case Of Mr. Starke.
'The ease of Hr. Starke. of Oregon, Wa3 taken up.
ldr. HARRIS eald a number of papers and atildartti
were laid before the committee in regard to certain con
versations, &c., of Mr. Starke. The question before the
committee was whether such evidence wee' sufficient to
prevent the prima facie right to take the oath of office.
'The committee thought not They thought that the Se
na s had only the right to judge of a member's qualifies-
OM Of fitTtiggi MA tin constitutional right of the per.
son to IBM his Seat
Mr. MALE (Bey.), of New Hampshire, offered an or
der that the case be recommitted to the Judiciary Com
mitten, with instructions to report on the tact@ whether
they were sufficient to show Ms disloyalty or not. He
thought the very question for the committee to decide
was whether the person was qualified to hold a seat. If
there wee no radium° to prevent hie tithing the
then there was no evidence to prevent his holding the
seat.
Mr. SUMNER (Rep.), of Massachusetts, proceeded to
speak at length on the question. He contended that if
the Senate was to judge of the qualifications of a Sena
tor only the age, citizenship, and residence in a State,
than an open traitor might come and claim Lis seat, and
the Senate had no right to lonian' out: He affirmed
that loyalty was also a qualification, and referred to ar
ticle sixth, section third, of the Constitution, providing
that an oath to preserve the Constitution must be taken
previous to a Senator taking his seat. He contended
that this was, in fact, a qualification of loyalty. Then
disloyalty was disqualification, and the only question left
is, when is the evidence to be moldered BV claimed
that offering to take the oath was not eufficient against
evidence of disloyalty.
Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep.) of Illinois, said he did not
think a very important question was involved in this
matter. The committee claimed that any person coming
here with a proper certificate had the right to take his
seat, no matter bow infamous his character may have
been. It anoint absurd to receive a man only to turn
bim out the next day. 'Under such a rule, Governor
Magorlin, of Kentucky, might send Buckner, or any
known traitor, and the Senate be obliged to receive him.
The courts have decided that a disloyal person can hold
no office or nubile trust under the United States. He
admitted that the decision of the courts was not a rule for
the Senate i but, would any Senator vote to admit a judge
who bad taken a btibe,, and thus rendered himself Malls
gible by the law of courts 1 If not, then the Senate must
agree to this principle.
Importance of the Case.
Mr. CARLILE (U.), of Virginia, considered this ono
of the most Important questions that could be presented.
It was a question of ths power of the maiority of the fie•
nate to exclude a State from representation. Rethought
It fair to infer that a State should be careful to send norm
but persons lit aild maim to represent a State. The eyi.
deuce in this case is entirely ex paste,' and the person
claiming the seat solemnly declares that MI these charges
are from bitter political opponents, and that all the ails
go dohs em,ibst his lei e false. Was not a State
the hest Judge of the qualifications of its representa
tives 1 He thought that the Senate had only power to
expel a member after he took his seat, and for hie eabse
(Luria uric, • •
Mt. TRIJMRULL asked, Suppose Floyd were sent here
from Virmuts, could we not expel Lima '1
Mr. CARLILE thought not; but It was not fair to
assume that the State or . Governor would send such a
person.
Mr. CLARK (Rep.), of New Hampshire, asked if the
Stale of Nity f Omuta send here a man who
was afterwards found to be a horse-thief, would.not the
Senate expel him
Mr. CABLILE did not think the State would do such
a thing; but if it did, he thought it would be one of
those disadvantages to which the Senate would have to
submit. He did not believe that either House lout
pot er to go beyond the qualifications mentioned iu the.
Constitution. He moved that. if the ease be recous,
sniffed at ail, it be to a special cammittea.
Mr. MoDOUGALL (D.). of California, thought ittrea •
question of right of the State of Oregon. That State had
passed on the qualifications of the Senator, and he do.
med that, when a person presented himself with. all the
constitutional qualifications and the credenttels of the
State, the Senate had any right to shut lta dome eft
him.
Mr. TEM EYCK (Rey.) *odd the simple atuuddon was
whether the subject should be recommitted to the Judi.
Clary Committee. There could be no earthly podia that,
It would only cause delay. The equate already has all
the facts is tha me, Pad ought to sat cut the cm so tt
stud,.
Mr. DAVIS (Rep.), of Kentucky, spoke at some length
against the report of the committee, contending that
loyalty was a proper qualification for consideration.
Mr. CLARK disagreed from the report of the com
mittee, tie argued that the pros - Ilion Of the Consti
tution that the oath be taken to support the Constitution
shows that iryalty is a proper qualification, and the
Senate wee not precluded by the taking of the oath from
considering other evidence,
Mr. MORRILL (Rep.), of Maine, thought the Senate
was In no condition to judge the ease. The only evi
dence before it wee entirely ex parte, He would tend
the subject back to the committee far further evidence:l
Mr. FOSTER (Rep.), of Connecticut, said that the
credentials of the Senator and certain papers were re
ferred to the Judiciary Committee to ascertain whether
the appointee was untitled to take the oath. It was now
argued that the committee had decided that even a dis
loyal man might to he admitted If he had the proper
eredentiale. The committee had decided nothing of the
tart. Ile referred to their YOWL They decided the
question referred to them, and nothing else. Ile did not
believe a mere majority was sufficient to expel a man un
der the Constitution, and thought It doubtful whether
we ought to keep a man out until we made an investiga
tion, thus practically expelling him.
Mr. SUMNER moved to amend the resolution of the
committee, so as to reed that Mt. Starke, being now
charged with disloyalty, is not entitled to take the oath
without previous Investigation. Re contended that the
presentation of the credentials did not cut off the. Senate
from Inquiries as to age or citizenship, and surely ought
not to preclude Inquiries on the graver question of 109-.
Mr. FESSENDEN (Rep), of Maine, said the papers
were in the first instance Rent to him, and though he had
doubted as to whether Mr. Starke ought net tote allowed
to take the oath, still he thought it best to have the case
submitted to the committee. The committee have reported
that, under all the circumstances, the applicant is entitled
to take the oath, and be was dispelled to concur in the
report.
According to the ideas pul. forward, an applicant would
not be allowed to purge himself by taking an oath. He
would not allow an, admitted traitor to take the oath, but
he thought this was not a case where such a rule could
be established. It is a precedent fraught with immense
danger to give a mere majority the power to exclude a
Senator, and should only be done In the most extreme
cases. Was this oda a case 7 If such language had
been used by a Senator as is attributed to the appointee
from Oregon, It would be sufficient to justify his expul
sion. But this evidence is all ex parte, and we do not
know the circumstances. Most of the language was ut
tered long ago. He knew men who are now serving their
country In the field who at the same time talked ae freely
OH the Sehalor from Qftel9ll J 8 Neill tp have lotto, 441 p,
the applicant's allegation of loyalty now and willingness
to take the oath ate strong points against makingeo very
danterons a pr. cedent.
Mr. HALE t Rep.), of New Hampshire, thought that
the report of the committee contemplated subsequent
proceedings. He paid a high compliment to the talent
and ability of the Judiciary Committee, and said we
ought to expect from them a full and explicit report,
Mr. DIXON (Rep.), of Colieetielit, said amps of
the graveet kind had been brought against the applicant
fur the Senatorship from Oregon, which, if tree, certain
ly unfit hini for a seat on thin floor. Ile did not think
any man who would utter such language, or entertsin
comb views as charged, could ever purge himself of dis
loyalty by taking the oath, 11ir, Dixon then read from
the affidliVite.
Mr. NEM' rrt . (Rep.), of Oregon, called attention to
some of the evidence which said that Starke spoke of the
Palmetto flag, Ac., but this in said to have been in De
comber, 1860, long before the semeseion of any State was
known in Oregon.
Mr. lIRNORR . SON (If 1, of Missouri, said that taking
ea untie liEld a saltier with a man's own conscience, UV
thought we could not go behind the Constitution, but must
admit the applicant, and then, if we tind him disloyal, ex
pel him.
Pending the consideration of the question the Senate
adjourned.
OUSE CIF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Port Royal Victory—Thanks'
On motion of Mr. %VASIL (Rep.), of fitinobi,
the 'donee took tip the See ate joint resolution, tendering
the thanks of Congress to Capt. Dupont, and the officers
and men under his command, for the decisive and splen
did vitt wy at Port Royal, in November lust.
Also, the Senate resolution tendering the thanks Or
COPPOVIP to the Juin 1414 hh fef i fifidif 00 , RoVidaig+
of Almighty God, achieving a series of brilliant victories
over the enemy, and iu behalf of the Union and the Con.
Ptitut ion.
•both were passed unanimously.
The Fortification Bill.
The Hii coinurM to tli9tii.nsWi M 1 '4'03104 0 the
fortification bllL
The U. S. Note Bill.
BTETENt (Rep.), of Pennsylvania, from the
Committee of Ways any Means, retorted back the United
States note bill with some modifications. On hie motion,
it was made the special order for to-morrow, at one
The Grade of Navy-Line Officers,
Mr. BIiDCWICH (Itep ), of Nnw York, reported a bill
to equalize tLe grade of the line officers of the Mary.
The Prize Law.
bfr. TIMM AS (Roy.), of Massar:hnsetts, introduced
kw for the better administration of the law of prim.
The Illumination of the Pithlie Buildings,
Mr. TRAIN (Itep.), of Massachusetts, introduced Ups
following, which was unanimously adopted :
Resolved, the Senate concurring, That the Commis
sinner of Public Buildings order the public buildings to
be illuminated on Saturday evening, in honor of the re
cent victories obtained by the army and navy of the
United States.
Appreciation of the Recent Victories.
Mr. WASUBMINE Introduced the following, Which
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, As a mark of respect for the memory of the
brave men who have been killed, and sympathy for those
who have been wounded, in the recent victories of our
arms in South Caroiiun, Kentucky, TomoNols if4ftl4
Carolina, And Virginia, as wall as a testimonial or the
profound admiration of this House for the persistent and
undaunted courage of all the officers and soldiers, sailors
and marines engaged, and who have achieved for them
selves and conferred upon the country imperishable
honor and renown, that this House do now adjourn.
The resolution was unanimously adopted, and the
noose accordingly
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
Hanlon/so February 18,1892.
_ _
SENATE,
The Senate watt called to older at It o'clock by the
Speaker. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Woods, or the Baptist
Church.:
Kr. DONOVAN presented a petition of two hundrei
or Philadelphia for the abehtion of cnrbatona
hir. SMITH; of Monti/omen% run ni ng of
the peerage of a
law for preventing cattle running aflame in Montgom
ery county.
Reports of Committees
Mr. BENSON (Finance), with amendments, the MU
providing for the payment of officers for recruiting ser
vices.
Mr. CRAWFORD, (itame), with a negative recom
nitiniliii9Rl tho bill ;Tolling for the payment of certain
military expenses,
Mr. CONNELL (game), ag committed, the bill
ding for the adjudication and payment of certain military
claims.
One thonoand extra copies were ordered to be printed
for the me of the Senate.
Mr. MaOLIIRE (same), as committed, the bill for the
relief of John Boas, late euperintendent of the Allegheny
Pettege !tamed Mae, ea oat emitted, the filiki.lemeutio
the penal laws of the Voramoowealth,
Mr. PENNEY (Judiciary), as committed, The bill to
establish a fee bill in Dauphin county in certain cages.
Mr. CLYMER (same), as committed, the bill to la
th:lC@ the rate of payment for advertising delinquent tax
payers in the city of Philadelphia ; also, as committed,
the bill to divorce George Parker and Garottes bla
Milli IBEFOaii;ei , d ;
Mr. CLYMER, a supplement to the act Incorporating
the Rita Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Mao, a bill Dying the commencement of the term of
sheriffs in the 'leveret counties of the Commonwealth.
Mr. IabILTZ, a bill relative to hawkers and pettier. in
York and Montgomery counties.
. .
Mr. PENNEY, a supplement to the Pittsburg and
Chill:laud Bulimia ConiPittiyi
Bilis Considered, &c
On motion of Mr. CLYMEE, the supplement to the
act regulating proceedings in courts of justice was takau
up and passed. This bill is intended to facilitate 11111014.
ments in equity Droneedinge.
- •
9n motion of lslr. LA:100N, the bill providing for Nit
trausportatton the remelts of deceased soldiers wee con.
shirred and passed.
On potion of Mr. PENNEY, the bilrrelative to the
claim of Thomas J. Keenan, prothonotary of the Western
district of the Supreme Court, was considered and passed.
On motion of Mr. REILLY, the bill to incorporate the
North American Shaft Company was takes up snit
missed to second reading. and laid over under the rule.
On motion of Mr. SERRILL, the bill to Incorporate
the New London Aemociation, for the detection of thieve.
and the recovery of stolen property, was considered and
passed.
Mr. CRAWFORD, on leave given, Introduced a joint
resolution. providing for the adjenrornent of the Legis
lature on the 21st of March, to re-aseembTh oq Marla
of June next.
Bfr. 135tVrtf rend in place a bill relakire ko For i atils
streets in Philadelphia.
Mr. NICIIOLS read a bin creating two additional' W.
'minors in the First ward of the city of Philadelphia:
On motion of Mr. CONNELL, the bill relative to rail
road companies, empowering them to accept the provi
sions of the general railroad law, so far as they , may
Billet; waa considered and postponed,
Mr. DONOVAN, on leeve even, read In place a bill
relative to gas companiee.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
The , House assembled at 10 ALAI., Hon. Jam Itows #
Speaker, in the dolt . . Prayer by BOY, Mr. Shulnakar.
A quorum of toontbora orment. Thejournal of vaster•
day was read sad approved.
On motion of Mr. (MANX, the House took a new
until 11 o'clock.
The Recess
Luring the reseed: the membere witnessed the Arinz of
a salute of a hundred guns by Tillman's Battery. Oho
thunder of cannon was accompanied by inertial meal°
and the ringing of bells.
Reassanabling of the Mouse.
The House reassembled at 11 o'olock, Hon. At,. BOWS,
Speaker, iu the chair.
Mr. WILLIAMS, of Alloghwy, from the Comiiltkil
on Federal Relations, presented the following isinPressa.
lulimle relotiTo to the recent yictorin of the maim et the
United State..
Retrived, by the Senate, &c., That the general
Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania haareceived with ,
a thtill ad exultation, to which no language can gives
adequate expreseion the glorious tidings which have
flashed in rapid andtlazzling succession from the fields
of. Mill Springs, Fort Berry, and BAnaneke, and-culmi
nating in the bloody but triumphant and• desists*
struggle of Fort Donelson and that, in ilektioWletigithnit
of the holy patriotlem andl unflinching valor which hays
reflected now lustre upon the American 11 ame,.and given
those fields to history, they do hereby tender to the
officers and men who have so nobly sustained the honor
of our Hag thereon the heartfelt thanks of theveoplo.or
Ole Story,
Resolved. That it is not amongst the least gratifying
fact connected with recent triumphs of our arms thattba
navy of the United States, whist' has already contributed
so largely by its prowess upon the seas in giving 1111-11
name and position amongst the great Powersof the earth,.
should have done so much in the present struggle-to
testify its unshaken loyalty to the nation,aull to vindt
nate its anuient and wellasarnsd ronnwm
. . . . .
Resolved, That While they thue testify to.the stirsiwitsl
of those bard fought flehle their souse of the great ser—
vice rendered to our common, country, they dedre to
give a tear to the memories of the martyred dead, who
have sealed their devotion to the cause of freedomity tits
offering of their lives, anibto tender their sympathies to
every loyal heart and home that have been saddened by
the calamities of war.
Resolved, That the Governor be rentleated to fogrard
copies of these resolutiout to the commanding oilleetwor
the several divisions of our army and navy which bays
participated in the engagements referred•to therein. with
the request that they may lie read In the , preemies of
their respective commode.
The resolutions were taken upon., by oneasui minted.
WILDEY called for the yeas and nays at their
final nallltago—yeaa 83, nape 10.
Gtr. CRASH?. remarked that, on thteiday one year am
Jefferson Davis ntai inaugurated President. of the South.
ern Confederacy.
SI r nit H INV, a Cambria, from time entatalttee on
Ways and Means, presented the fallowing resolution
Respired, That the commissioness of each county be
requested to Inform their respective cepresseitativee of the
number of fatuities of volunteers, anti the number of
persons coinpoe i ng vault falai' whit irirosiiit itid froin %ft
county, and the amount paid each family per week, and
the esgresate amount paid by the county up to lids date,
and that the clerk bu directed to have circulars printed,
to he forwarded to the commissioners of the respective
counties to be returned with the information required.,
Passed,
Mr. 21/OHAM, of A 1141065 -7 41Mial ills MOWN&
revolutions:
Whereas, The joint caismittee of both flonseitoinoo
thorieed to confer with the thatenittee of Ways, MA
Means of Congress and theflecretary of the Treenail,lts.
regard to the reTenne noir to bo required from the
of Pennsylvania, after such conference, was unahht.
ascertain, definitely. the ontotrat and el:Weal' of olio*
Strati on until the WARM lAbs of the
went should be MOW fully mahlred therefore,
Resolved, The the present Legielature %ensilage= oh
Tnday, March 21, at I o'clock P. K. of said: dies, to re.
aseengile, in *Mounted session, on Tuesdlons 11, at
10 o'clock h. N. or said day.
Resoleo3, That the Committee of Ways Li Y ears, Of
Ouch sub. committee of ha members as NI authorises to see
for It, La instructed to hare preeetted, said printed denims
the recess, in the form of bilis, ready to he acted use AI bit
Ws House, mph tax bills, and OD tbill revising ocumiwa
for th e aeteeethent and collection of State and onion
texas, ati in its judgment may be required.
The rotelutione are IRK edge ter the prompt,