Ulf Vrtss.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26,1862.
EXTRACT FROM THE LAST SPEECH OF
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.—" The conspiracy
to break up the Union is u fact now known to
all. Armies are being raised, and war levied
to accomplish it. There cau be but two sides
to the controversYL Every mau must be au the
side of the United States or against it. Thera
can be no neutrals in this war. There can be
none but patriots and traitors."
WAR BULLETIN.
Official Order in - Relation to Military In.
telligenee.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, Feb. 25, 1861.
Ordered—First, On and after the 26th day of
February instant, the President, by virtue of the
act of Congress, takes military possession of all the
telegraph lines in the United States.
Second. All telegraphic communications in re
gard to military operations, not expressly autho
rized by the War Department, the general com
manding, or the generals commanding the armies
in the field in the several departments, are abso
lutely forbidden.
nird. All newspapers publishing military nen,
however obtained, and by whatever medium re
ceived, not authorized by the official authority
mentioned in the preceding paragraph, will be ex
cluded thereafter from receiving information by
telegraph, or from kinematics their papers by
railroad.
Fourth. Edwards S Sanford is made military
supervisor of telegraphic messages throughout the
United States. Anson Stager is made military
superintendent of all telegraph sines and Ages in
the United States.
Fifth. This possession and control of the tele
graph lines is not intended to interfere in any re
speot with the ordinary affairs of the companies, or
with private messages.
By order of the President.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War
Approaching the Finale
It is reported from England that, in reply to
agents from cc the so-called Southern Confede
racy," Earl litissELL declared that England
could not acknowledge the independent and
distinct nationality of the rebel States, until
they had actually achieved it. As this was
before our late brilliant successes by land and
sea, it is clear that the South has nothing, to
hope from England. These successes will
operate doubly—in securing the neutrality of
foreign Powers, in giving the Unionists con
tinued confidence in the ability and de
sire of the Government to put down the
foul rebellion ; in disabusing the South of the
vainglorious presumption that it could aue
cesgully carry out its treason, and in re
viving the Union feeling of loyalty which had
been crushed down by the strong arm of force
in the rebellious States. We are rapidly ar
riving at the total defeat of that treason which,
but a short time ago, was so vicious; so in
sulting, and so rampant. The Southern news
papers, and especially those' of Riclunond,
have been compelled, by the logic of events,
to acknowledge this, and while a dark and
disastrous future looms before them, are now
busy in denouncing, as feeble and effete, the
- prime movers of the treason.
The ceremonial of inaugurating Hr. JEFFEIL.
SON DAvis as President of the Southern Con
federation, which was acted at Richmond, last
Saturday, while the loyal States were joyously
celebrating the anniversary of WAsursorron's
birthday, must be considered one of the most
sad mockeries of state ever exhibited in any
country. The double-dyed traitor was in
stalled as head of a Confederacy which is fall
ing to pieces, and a barren sceptre was placed
in his hand. Even his inaugural address ad
ruffled the multiplied reverses of the Confede
rate forces, and those who heard it must have
felt that the vain orator of the hour, at once
traitorous and imbecile, stood upon the verge
of a precipice so evidently crumbling beneath
his feet, that his fate was inevitable. Yet a
little time, and, if not a prisoner in a Union
jail, he will be a wretched fugitive in a foreign
land_
The War in Tennessee
A further confirmation of the news of the
occupation of Nashville by General BUELL'S
army has been received. The statement that
Governor Haunts has ordered the Tennessee
troops to lay down their arms is also reiterated.
It is reported that white flags are flying around
Memphis. There are strong evidences that a
panic has seized a large portion of the eneTiy,
and that a powerful Union reaction has taken
place. But, on the other hand, it is reported that
a strong force of the insurgents has been con
centrated at Murfreesboro', a point on the
railroad leading southeast from Nashville, and
that they are preparing to make a stand
against our army there. We have not yet
gained control of the great railroad leading
from Tennessee into Virginia, and its indis
pensable value to the rebel leaders will proba
bly induce them to risk a terrific battle before
yielding it to our army.
THE REBEL CONGRESS has little disposition
to embrace the Border States in their delibe
rations. These unfortunate communities have
been badly treated by the oligarchy. We read
in the proceedings of the first day's session
that, dining the ballot for the Clerk of the
House of Representatives, a pathetic appeal
was made to the members in favor of the
election of Mr. Jonxsox, "a citizen of Mis
souri," to that position, if The member from
Missouri," says the report, "made an appro
priate and touching allusion to the sacrifices
made by her citizens and the sufferings she
had endured to release herself front the oppres
sive thraldom of the Abolition Government."
Furthermore, it was said that JOHNSON would
accept the position as a high compliment.
The Congress was inexorable. It would
neither sympathize with the sufferings of Mis
souri nor bestow a compliment upoa the
modest Mr. Jouxsokr, but very calmly elected
Mr. EMMETT Dixoti, of Georgia, a creature of
HOWELL Cosa. In the organization of the
new Government, not one of the downtrodden
Border States is represented. The presiding
officers of both branches of Congress are from
Virginia, the Secretary of the Senate from
North Carolina, the doorkeeper from' South
Carolina. The doorkeeper of the House is
from Alabama, the clerk, as we have said, from
Georgia. Kentucky, and Tennessee, and Mis
souri, all of them represented on the fioor,
have no practical recognition in awarding the
favors of Congress. They do not belong to
the close cotton corporation, and, with all
their sacrifices, are regarded with suspicion
and distrust.
GENERAL PE/CE has been driven from his
camp at Cross Hollow, in Arkansas, and com
pelled to abandon his sick and wounded and
his provisions. The oppressed Union men of
that State will soon be delivered from the
dominion of the Secession tyrants.
TELEGRAPHIC ALLITERATION.—The telegra
phic reporters seem to have acquired a great
fondness for the letter f; and our readers will,
no doubt, be amused by their account of the
"further flight of the fleet-footed Floyd," anti
of the cc flags flying" over rebel forts and for
tified towns. The successes of Commodore
Foote; the capture of Fort Henry and Fcnt
Donelson the frantic fears and fretful fore
bodings of the F. F. V.'s; and the frightful
future frowning , down upon the fated and false
foemen in the field against freedom, have ren
dered them somewhat facetious.
Public Amusements.
The "White Terror " is doing badly at the
Walnut, having scared most of the patrons of the
establishment. It is loosely constructed, and very
improbable.
Mrs. M. A. (larretteon, the lessee of the Walnut.-
street Theatre, takes a benefit on Saturday night,
when Edwin Forrest will play Hamlet, he having
agreed some time ago, in consideration of Mrs.
Garrettson loaning some of her company to him,
to play for her benefit. On this occasion, John
McCullough will enact the Ghost, and Edwin
Adams the part of Laertes.
John McCullough has just returned from Brook
lyn, where he was very favorably noticed. Ile
goes to Baltimore with Mr. Forrest.
Curtis Ty's Mittersinr.s will open in this eity on
the evening of Friday next. The mention of this
company is security for overflowing houses.
CARTE DE VISITE OF HON. WILLIAM WILKINS.
—A very flue card pbotograph of Lion. Wilma
Wilkins has just been executed by Mr. F. Guts
kunst, Arch street, above Seventh. His numerous
friends in this city, and throughout the country,
will be glad to secure so fine a picture and so ex
cellent • likeness of this honored Pennsylvania
statesman.
-Tea Wat.su Boni arr.—The anniversary dinner
of this society will be given at the Continental
Hotel on next Saturday, being St. David's day.
The Inaugural of Jeff Davis
The Senate of the United States having
ceased forever to be an arena for the utterance
of the false statements and false reasoning
which are the invariable characteristics of
the speeches of the leaders of the rebellion,
the Secession chieftain, JEFFERSON DAVIS,
found temporary relief in giving expression
to them in his inaugural address.
Ile made scarcely a single allegation which
was not grossly untrue, and dress - scarcely an
inference which was warranted by facts. It is
singularly false that the rebels 2 / hope to per
petuate the principles of our Revolutionary
fathers." It is grossly untrue that their
original aim Vlan to institute 4( a government
which would better secure the liberties for the
preservation of which the Union wag estabh.4ll
- Every right it was formed to secure was
as well guarded at the time the conspirators
commenced their attempts to destroy it as at
any previous period of our national history.
It is untrue that the action of our Govern
ment in resorting, with great reluctance, to
precautionary measures against a few of the
swarm of spies and traitors who at one time
infested the North, de.stroyed cc the confidence
of the wet hopeful" men of the South
in the value of the Union. It is grossly
untrue that personal liberty and freedom
of speech, of thought, and of the press,
have been respected in the South, since
the war began. Thousands of memorable and
horrid examples of rebel cruelty and barbar
ism have already been recounted. It is so
Plain a fact that open opposition to the con—
spiracy in the rebel region jeopardized the
property, liberty, and life of every patriot
bold enough to declare his sentiments, that no
cane man could think for a moment of ques
tioning it. In the North, - not a traitor has
been hung, not one individual's property has
been confiscated by civil process; not a single
human being has been severely puuished or
maltreated for expressing Secession sentiments.
Even the few sent to Fort Lafayette or Fort
Warren, were, after a short incarceration, re
leased. But,. in the South, Union men have
been robbed of hundreds of millions of dollars,
numerous estates has been confiscated, thou
sands have been shamefully maltreated, im
prisoned, persecuted, exiled, or murdered, for
no other crime than faithfully adhering to their
obligations as loyal citizens. JEFFERSON DAs ts
ell knowa these faete, and the shameleaa man
ner in which he perverts and wilfully falsifies
them, proves that he is as untruthful as he is
rebellious.
Nothing could be more false than the alle
gation
(ration that the Federal Government if had
ceased to answer the ends for which it was
ordained and established." Its success had
conferred a degree of prosperity unprecedent
ed in the annals of the world upon the Atneri=
can people, and even the interest, or ((insti
tution," to which the conspirators profess
supreme devotion had expanded in power and
wealth to a point infinitely beyond the ex
pectation of any pro-slavery man that could
have existed in the Revolutionary period, if,
indeed, any men. of the modern pro-slavery
school lived in that era.
The Southern Confederacy has not grown
froin Et 6s to thirteen States." To till this
complement the rebel President must include
Missouri and Kentucky, both of which are
now completely in our possession. We have
te- ft much stronger foothold in - Virginia ?
North Carolina; and Tennessee, than the rebels
ever gained in Missouri or Kentncl:y. In fact,
thel'e is scarcely one of the States yet under
the 'partial dominion of DAvls, over which we
- do not iiow exorcise almost as much control
as the rebels ever exercised over the homes of
Huns CLAY and THOMAS H. BENTON.
The allegation, "that the final result" in
favor of the rebellion' is not doubtful," can
not be believed by a single rational being who
is acquainted with the actual condition of af
fairs and the relative strength and resources
of the armies arrayed agatinst each other. It
is universally disbelieved in the North, and
that it is doubted in the South, the groans of
despair now re-echoing through that region
amply prove.
The allegation that the period is near at
hand when the kivrth will " &Is prigig qn
immense load of debt" is equally untruthful.
The American people only ask that such legis
lation be perfeeted as will bear equitably upon
their immense resources, and they justly en
tertain an abiding confidence that they will
with ease and cheerfulness be enabled to bear
all the burdens which the war may impose.
The allusion to the blockade contradicts
itself. While it is termed a cc pretended
blockade," Davis alleges that the people of
the South are becoming self-supporting and
independent, by the existing necessity for
the development of manufacturing industry.
There is, perhaps, a larger grain of truth in
the last assertion than any other statement
made by the Rebel President.
Re states, too, that the Constitution of the
Southern Confederacy "admits of no coerced
association," and Yet the Vain attempt to force
Kentucky and Missouri into an abhorred union
with the rebellion against their clearly ex
pressed wishes, is fresh in the recollection of
every reader of current events.
It is doubtful whether any document, pur
porting to be a grave political paper, ever com
pressed within so short a space more
_glaring
falsehoods. The father of lies could not have
eoncoe.ted a batch of grosser misstatements,
The Inaugural proves at once the desperation
of the cause which requires such a lamentable
exhibition of untruthfulness to temporarily
sustain it, and the contempt of the Rebel
leaders for popular intelligence. If, indeed,
"Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies amid her worshippers,"
no better evidence of the speedy suppression of
the conspiracy could be given (in view of the
terrific blows lately inflicted upon it by our
armies) than the nature of the apology made
for it by its chosen chieftain.
The Prophecies of a Year Ago.
A twelvemonth of war severely tries the
memories of men. Already - the details of a
year ago seem vague and half forgotten, for a
long history has been compressed into a span,
and the reckoning is lost in the quick succes
sion of events. What is most remembered
pertains to the camp and field—as incidents of
battle and bombardment; while the antece
dent matters of legislation, Statecraft and di
plomacy, wane in the redder light Of Tictory
or defeat. The American Congress, one year
ago, contained the germ of this giant insurrec
tion. A vivid fancy could even then have
traced out the march of armies and the path
of navies, with the great spirits in Congress
assembled the future heroes and commanders.
It would not have been hard, for instance, to
anticipate WlDFALL—contemptuous, reckless,
and prodigal—the occupant of an open boat,
making his way, amid shot and shell, to the
shattered walls of Fort Sumpter. SLIDELL—
in all but persOn, the BELIAL of this era—
might have been seen, in imagination, deserting
his native land to bear afar, and by night, the
documents of treason. And DAVIS, preserv
ing under the calm bosom of the Senator the
heart of the fratricide, must have been, if
any, the master conspirat or.
It happens, fortunately, that the Congres
sional Globe of that memorable session has just
been received. We have here the speeches of
the three gentlemen cited, on the occasion of
their foimal withdrawal from the Senate.
They, are polished addres3Cs s evidently pre
-pared with care, and in the consciousness that
each orator, was about to do the greatest action
of his life. Cunning synopses of sophism,
pathetic parting perorations, sounding de
fiances, and appeals to justice and freedom,
are the staples of these addresses,—models of
their several styles, and to be scanned, word
by word, with the equal eye of posterity. To
be a prophet, in olden times, was to be, by
implication, something of an orator; but, to
be an orator in these times, is not by any
means to be much of a prophet. Unfortu
nately fbr Messrs. DAVIS, SLIDELL, and Wm-
FALL, they ventured to prophesy, and the
Congressional Globe of F ebr nary, 1861, con
tains sonic astounding predictions, that should,
by this time, have been fulfilled.
MT. SLIDELL is noticed to be particularly
profane in his overreach of fate. cc Gentle
men," said he, on the occasion of Ids fare
well, cc we R ill not fire lirst." His telescope
evidently missed Fort Sumpter. But, antici
pating our fire, Mr. SLIDELL further said :
64 Your mercantile marine must either sail
under foreign flags or rot at your wharves."
The few, vessels in Albemarle, Port Royal,
and Hampton Roads were, perhaps, not
included in this computation. As a last
evidence of curses come home to roost, we
quote Mr. SLIDELL'S peroration
1, They who have so foully murdered the Consti
tution and the Union will And, when too late, like
the Scottish Thane, that for Banque's issue they
have filed their minds; they have.but plsoed upon
THE PRESS -PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1862
their heads a fruitless crown, and put a barren
sceptre in their gripe, no son of theirs suc
ceeding.' "
We commend the aptness of the quotation
to Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS, inaugurated at Rich
mond a few days ago.
The latter gentleman's farewell address may
be likened to the famous oration of BALA.AIf
at the hills of Moab. Both rosy to corm; the
inheritors of the land, and sat down with un
willing blessings. Mr. DAVIS' valedictory was
mild and conciliatory, full of good wishes for
his Northern colleagues, but stating in trench
ant terms that " we proclaim our independence
and take the hazard." That the hazard is
upon them, Mr. DAVIS himself will scarcely
now - deny.
It was reserved for Mr. Wu:FALL to retain
his seat to the last, and defy the Senate with
all his characteristic mockery, mirth, and
menace. A very Mephistophiles, he sneered
where he could not destroy, and lefc his empty
curse ringing in thc Capitol when he departed.
"You publish newspapers;" said Mr. WM
r_kr.z, concluding his series of grievances ; "you
deliver lectures, you print patnphlets, and
you send them among us l" Some commo
tion ensuing in the galleries, they were ordered
to be cleared. " You will be fortunate, Mr.
President, (said Mr. WIGFALL,) if the galleries
do not clear the Senate before very long."
Still further to manifest his malevolence,
Wror ALT drew parallels between Northern and
Southern courage, stigmatizing the citizens of
the Northwest and New England as lacking
the attributes of valor and perseverance, and
About to be tittu•sltaled only for ignominious and
universal defeat. Later events have vindicated
the Northmen—if v indication they needed--and
the boasted chivalry, having been beaten upon
the inland and the coast, already - raise the
white flag to beg protection and forbearance.
The three Senators themselves have suffered
half the punishment of treason--Wroe.krz iso
lated, Sulam!, banished, DAVis the habitant of
a tottering throne and a beleaguered kingdom,
with the darker destinies reserved of beggary
and upbraiding at home, pity abroad, and in
any event utter disappointment and disgrace.
The success that deifies infamy and makes
penance o en for rebellion, has not been theirs.
Seeking sympathy from their hereditary ene
mies, they have been rebuffed ; the flower of
their army is captive ; their sovereignties are
invaded, and their towns burned or depopu
lated. These are the answers to the vauntings
of a year ago, and there are answers to come
more decisive, because more terrible and just.
THE POLITICIANS - Or NEW ENGLAND are very
busy ih VieW of the defiling spring elections.
The importance of these elections cannot be
overrated. We remember how eagerly - the
action of the New England States was watched
during the early part of 1861 ; when the re.
hellion was gradually developing into its
present appalling proportions—and with what
joy the vote of Rhode Island in favor of a
Democratic Governor was at first hailed by
the traitors in Montgomery_ To his honor
be it said, that from the beginning, Governor
SPRAGUE has been among the most loyal and
patriotic of all our public men.
A few days ago the Democratic Convention
of Rhode Island assembled in the city of Pro
vidence to make nominations for State officers.
The proceedings are before us. The Conten
tion was managed by the editor of a newspaper
in Providence, who narrowly escaped the in..
dignation of the people for Ms disloyalty some
months ago. Constant in his opposition to
the war, he exhibits his consistency now by
committing the Convention of Rhode Island to
sentiments almost as treasonable as those for
which he experienced the indignation of the
people last summer.
The resolutions adopted are fair specimens
of the disloyal Northern feeling. The Seces
sion scheme is spoken of as « unreasonable
and criminal," and the loyal people of the
North are denounced for the "unnatural and
unrichteous hatred of citizens of sister States."
1 hey de:4re to " reassure the misguided peo
ple of the South" by declaring that they
"mean no warfare upon their institutions,"
diatom. war is not one of revenge, but simply
for the reconstruction of the Union. The
aggressions of the North are eloquently pie
lured, and the atrocities of he Abolitionists
round a most indignant paragraph. Treason
is treated in tones of gentle remonstrance,
Northern opinions with the fiercest indigna
tion, and the great mission of the Democratic
organization is that of rendering harmless "the
assaults of Northern sectionalists upon consti
tutional liberty."
We should complain of none of these things
under ordinary circumstances. if those men
really meant what they say, little fault could
be found. We charge, however, that under
neath all' these smooth professions there lurks
a bitter hatred of the war—an eager desire to
overturn the Government. In Rhode Island
the same conspiracy exists that we see around
us in Pennsylvania—that manifests itself in
Ohio, Indiana, and New York. Not one of
these men has uttered a word of hearty Sym
pathy for the Union since this contest com
menced. They were against us in the be
ginning, and they are against us now. Their
opposition at first was open and effective.
Now, by the slow, insidious process of party
machinery, they aim at the same results. /hey
opposed the war when war was a question of
administrative policy ; now they- seek to em
barrass the operations of the war, by misrep
resenting our loyal statesmen, antagonizing
necessary measures of finance, fomenting
foreign complications, and producing discon
tent in the minds of the people. To this
end, Mr. 'WILLIAM B. REED writes scurri
lous pamphlets; Mr. BIDDLE alludes to
the war as a cc Black-Republican
job ;" Mr. VALLArtmonAzt preaches gene
kal disloyalty ; Mr. PRVIILETOR arraigns the
Administration for suspending the writ of
habeas corpus; Mr. VOORHEES declaims about
emancipation; Mr. Woo]) writes treasonable
fiction, and Mr. SAYLES, with the aid of Rhode
Island Democrat% passes resolutions like those
before us. There is no word of practical sym
pathy for our brave soldiers, not a single ar
gument in favor of any righteous measure of
national policy—not a hopeful or cheering
sentiment,
These Rhode Island leaders manage their
affairs with some tact. They nominate Go
vernor SPRAGUE for re-election. There have
been no conditions to his loyalty; and no pos
sible contingency can arise in which he will
allow himself to be an opponent of the war.
He deserves a re-election to his high office,
and no doubt the people of Rhode Island will
gladly re-elect him. The so-called Democratic
leaders, anxious to help their schemes with
the aid of his high popularity, ostentatiously
place him- in nomination, at the same time
proclaiming their sympathy with Secession so
far as that is practicable and safe. They ap
propriate SPRAGUE as they have appropriated
President LINCOLN, General MCCLELLAN, and
Secretary STANTON. If they can establish that
any of these men believe in their organization,
it will be a very good speculations
The duty of Governor SPRAGUE seems to
be a plain one. He should repudiate the men
who are thus trifling with his just and well
earned fame. He is on the record fora prompt
prosecution of the War, and as being anxious
for a consolidation of all former political par-.
ties in a general Union organization. He has
now a grand opportunity to give a new proof
of his 4evotion to the cause, and serve it at
home as effectually as he has served it in the
field. Proclaiming his platform to be the
Union, and the Administration in its efforts to
restore the Union, let him cast aside the men
who would ruin him as they have tried to ruin
the country. Such a course would be in happy
consistency with his patriotic and self-sa
crificing character.
An Expedition down the Mississippi.
UZI= r LAO 9r TIWV4 — RETURN OF Tan E2CPE
CAIRO, Feb. 24.—An expedition composed of four
iron-clad gunboats, with the Twenty-seventh Illinois ;
and a battalion of the Eighth Wisconsin Regiments,
made a reconnoisietnee down the river this morning, and
discovered that the rebels had seised all the flat-boats
Nulcl skiffs, as far up the river as they dared to come
also that there had been a movement of the troops at
Columbus, but whether reinforcements had arrived was
not learned.
The gunboats and mortar-boats ware getting into po
sition on the Missouri aide of the river, when a rebel
steamer, with a white gag, made its appearance. Some
rebel officers came on board the Cincinnati, and a son
witamitn teat place, lasting over two hour& with what
result has not boon made known, but the expedition re
turned to Cairo.
New Jersey Legislature
TRENTON, Feb. 25.—Governer Olden to-day sent Into
the Senate the name of General Theodore Runyon late
brigadier General of the first New Jeraey contingent. fur
the poet of Brevet Major General of the Militia of New
Jersey. The atanination - was confirmed. This lea corn.
niiment suggested by the Legislature to the services of
Gen. Runyon as commander of the New Jersey brigade.
From California
SAN FRANoieno, Feb. 24.—The Weather has been
rainy for the past three days, again causing a partial
overflow of Sacramento City, there having been no op
portunity to repair the levees for its protection since De
cember and January. The damage is insignificant . , We
thakeensed by the Interruption of business.
LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL."
WASHINGTON, February 25, 1862.
If Secession is destined to be a tragic failure,
many of the incidents pointing to its spee,dy
overthrow are indescribably ridiculous and
comic. In looking over the first day's pro
ceedings of the so-called Confederate Con
gress, at Richmond, and in scanning the list of
the members present, it is not difficult to
imagine the various sensations of the leaders
then and there assembled. Their study seems
to have been to imitate, as closely as possible,
the rules and forms of the two Houses of the
regular National Legislature, and indeed most
of the actors in that solemn farce bad gathered
considerable experience, during long years of
service in the Federal Congress: Many of
them are on record as the authors of the bit
terest denunciations of the Secession leaders.
Nr. Henry S. Foote, now a member of the
traitor House of Representatives, a little more
than a year ago traversed Tennessee And Nis
. sissippi, scattering broadcast the most defiant
instil a and denunciations of Wm. L. Yancey
and Jefferson Davis. He bearded these ram
pant lions of treason in their very dens, and
was so intent in effinis to prove his sincerity
as freely to imperil his life by proposing to
meet the rebel chiefs in mortal combat. Foote
has been one of the high-priests of the Union
men South for more than twelve years, and
when he returned from California he threw
himself into the last Presidential melee, glorying
in his past achievements against the followers
of Calhoun, and predicting all the bloody con
sequences of their machinations. llow tar
this notorious agitator really feels the mission
he has now undertaken, may be understood by
this reference to his history. I notice that
Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, appeared and
took the oath to cc support the Constitution of
the Confederate States of America,' and that
others known for their early devotion to the
Union sentiment followed his example ; among
them, Orr of South Carolina, Geo. W. Jones of
Tennessee, Wright of Georgia, Boteler, Lyons,
and Preston, of Virginia, Smith of North
Carolina, and even Meredith P. Gentry of Ten
nessee. As these reluctant conspirators hear
the sound of the triumphant cannon and the
news of the victorious advance of the Federal
army, and anticipate their doom, they must
unconsciously recall the days when, with
honest eloquence, they pledged themselves to
support the Union and to oppose its enemies.
Caught in the trap set for them by their mortal
foes, Davis and Slidell, and Singleton and
Barksdale, and Pryor and Extra Billy Smith,
they no doubt frequently remind these men of
the strait in which they stand and of the
awful miseries inflicted upon a once happy
people. As day after day, the success of
the armies of the Republic is made more
certain, the regret and remorse of these
compulsory Secessionists will find utter
ance, and bitter feuds be the inevitable re
suit. Already the Richmond papers in
dulg,e in offensive criminations upon the chief
usurpers, and these words will soon find a
response among the surrounding people, who
in their turn will insist upon their represents:
tires taking the same course. Probably the
most significant feature of the proceedings of
the rebel Congress, is the speech of Thomas
S. Bocock, on taking the chair -as Speaker of
the House. He does not conceal the exist
ence of "jealousies and heart-burnings"
among his associates: He admits that it some
grow restive under the enforcement of the
rules Which you make for your own govern
ment." With singular fatuity, he asks the
conspirators around him to respect the oaths
they have taken to support the rebel usurpa
tion, and tells them that it is "better to sub
mit to momentary inconvenience than to
injure representative honor or violate public
faith ;" adding that, "in the whQIQ I)QQIt of
expedients, there is no place for falsehood or
perjury." This language, addressed to an
assemblage composed of men whose souls
are black with the sin of perjury, must
have been heard with mingled emotions of
humiliation and scorn ; and now that it
has gone to the Southern people, it will be
greeted as a mockery of their desperate and
defenceless condition, and as a new proof of
the villainy of their would-be masters. No
element seems to have been wanted to crown
the infamy of this treasonable cabal. Clergy
men appeared invoking the Divine Presenee
to sanctify - the great crime of rebellion, and
the farce of an election of President and
Vice President was consummated with
an affected dignity, all the more farcical
when it is known that the conspiracy it
self is rapidly drawing to an end.s The
rebel Congress is, in fact, inextricably sur
rounded. It can neither advance nor fall
back. Legislating under the constant ap
prehension of beirtg captured by the troops of
the Republic, appalled by the rumors of a
rising against it among the masses its mem
bers have deceived, many of them will wel
come the hour when a state of things so peril
ens is exchanged for the rigid certainty of
confinement in the common jails, of banish.
ment to foreign lands, or even of death by the
hangman's rope. Some will probably rush
into suicide, and by this confess the enormity
of their offences, and cheat the awful majesty
of the Constitution.
Turning from this sombre side of the Seces
sion picture, let us glance for a moment at
the comic aspect of the case. The National
Inklligencer of this morning prints a letter
fromthat consummate ingrate and ass, Matthew
F. Maury, ex-Superintendent of the National
Observatory, se well known in Washington
and elsewhere as a beggar at the doors of Con.
gress and the Departments for personal favors,
and as the writer of puffs in his own praise in
Northern newspapers. He is a fair specimen
of a class of satellites indigenous to this ten
miles square, creatures who have grown rich
upon the bounty of past Administrations,
and have foisted upon all branches of the
public service their connections, relatives,
and friends. When the rebellion broke out
they made a hasty exit from the snuggeries in
which they had so long nestled and revelled,
and now they look back upon departed luxu
ries and sinecures, and amid wretchedness
and rags moan over the fate that has over
taken them. The letter Of Maury is addressed
to that superfine humbug, CaFtain Lynch, of
Dead Sea memory, who fled into the rebellion
after having cheated a number of honest men
in the city of Philadelphia where he had
been living for a long -time at their
expense. He was one of the parishioners
of the notorious divine, Henry A. Wise, Jr.,
who was driven from
,his pulpit in West
Philadelphia for insulting his congroga.
tion by preaching Secession sermons. Maury
tells Lynch that the Confederate Government
is constructing one hundred steam launches
or gunboats, which are to be completed by
June, and are intended for bay and river ope
rations. The letter is dated on the 19th of
January, and although couched in the Ercles
vein, unconsciously exposes the poverty of the
rebellion. He says : as We want one hundred
lieutenants to command these boats," rind
then with piteous air inquires: cc Where are
they to come from ?" Es Judging from the
way things look at present," he adds,
,‘ we shall not be able to get more than
twenty from those now in the navy;" and
then he asks, as Where are the rest to come
from ?" To this question he himself re
spends : "My own thoughts suggest, as a
source of supply, the educated youth of the
land—young men of the best blood—between
the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, who
have pride, ancestral renown, and family repu
tation to encourage them and to be sustained.
The choice lies between these and merchant
captains, pilots, and watermen generally." If
there is any sight more abject than another,
it is to see a proud upstart out at the elbows—
a Robert Macaire who will not forget his aris
tocratic tastes though starving and desperate.
These thieves have a great longing for gentle
blood, and flatter themselves that their ras
calities will be forgiven because of their ances
tral names. Ido not know how far back the
Maury family can trace their lineage, but from
such specimens as M. F. M., it is fair to presume
that they have inherited a talent for stealing
from some distinguished nobleman who ended
his days in a convict cell. Thee, says Matthew,
there are one hundred age o 4d lieutenants to
be rated as such, and some of these," he con
cludes, cc will come from the navy and from
those who resigned more than a year ago from
the old navy." For the rest, as in the other
case, he proposes " to draw upon the blood of
the land." Alas ! there has been a little too
much iblood-letting already in the South
to induce a hope of the realization of this
expectation. Unfortunately for those descend
ants of the F. F. V's., the aristocracy is
only a minority of the people of the South,
and this minority is either exhausted, defeated,
or on its way to other and safer scenes. The
Southern navy is among the things that were.
It exists only in the imagination of such fools
as Maury and such cowards as Lynch. In a
few weeks it will be swept from all cow wa
ters, and be remembered only as the weakest,
most contemptible, and most temporary of the
whole Secession pageant. Maury ends his let
ter by asking office at the hands of Lynch, and
ho, poor fellow, received the letter just before
he lied from G oldsborough, leaving his navy
in the hands of that lord of the sea, who
crushed it like an eggshell. I trust you will
print Mailry?s letter in full. It is by far the
most entertaining evidence I have yet men of
the folly and madness of the whole Southern
conspiracy. OCCASIONAL.
FROM WASHINGTON.
AN IMPORTANT ORDER FROM SE
CRETARY STANTON.
Despatches from Corn. Foote.
THE PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
Special Despatches to "The Press."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 180
iIDPOIVIAt pm,
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTED-
NESS TO runLic CREDITORS
Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Re
presentatives of the United States, to Congress
assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be,
and be is hereby, authorized to cause to be issued,
to any public creditor who may be desirous to re
ceive the same, upon requisition of the head of the
proper department, in satisfaction of audited and
settled demands against the United
States,-certifi
cates for the whole amount duo, or parts thereof,
not less than one thousand dollars, signed by the
Treasurer of the United Stites and countersigned,
as may be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury,
which certificates shall be payable in one year from
date, or earlier, at the option of the Government,
and shall bear interest at the rate of six per contain
per MUM.
The above important measure has passed both
houses, and will be a law tomorrow. Let all public
creditors, particularly those in humble circum
stances, soldiers, workmen, and others, take care
not to sacrifice their claims to the money sharks,
now eager to prey upon them. The Oovernment
will pay them all, principal and interest.
Our Senators.
Senator COWAN has seat in the Senate, looking
well. Senator WILMOT is enabled to attend regu
larly to his Senatorial duties, having greatly re
covered health and strength since his recent:illness.
Reduction of Paymasters.
Paymaster General Lentinn has been in con
sultation with the Committees on Military Affairs of
both branches of Congress, maturing a project for
the reduction of the present large number of pay
masters. It is thought some thirty of the addi
tional appointments will be dropped from the Mi l
the Paymaster General believing that the public
service will be benefited by the change.
Extortion at Port Royal.
In the military district of General SHERMAN, in
the State of South Carolina, some scourcir9le, WhO
deserve to be shot or hanged, have succeeded in
impressing upon our soldiers the idea that the tree-
Fury notes will never be redeemed. Many of the
poor fellows, frightened at the representations of
the knaves, sold their pay at a discount of fifty
cents on the dollar. It is necessary that there
should be a civil Government in South Carolina.
If there are not loyal people enough to organize a
new and loyal commonwealth, let a provisional sys
tem be adopted, under the authority of the military
army of occupation, Bit it is necessary that we
should have cciiirts oflaw and civil tribunals, for
the prevention of such evils as the one now prevail
ing among our soldiers at Port Royal.
Slavery in the District
The question of abolishing slavery in the Distriot
of Columbia is exciting much attention among
members of Congress, and there can be little doubt*
of the ultimate passage of the bill now before that
body providing for emancipation and compensation.
Slavery in the District is little more than a name.
Comparatively few of our citizens are masters, and
the general sentiment of the people is opposed to
the existence of slavery. As an institution, it
should no longer exist in the capital of the great
American Republic.
The Weather.
We had a hurricane yesterday, doing much
damage to property, and imperilling the lives of
our people. To•day it is very cold, dry, and clear.
A bright sun is shining, the roads aro hard and
dense. There is great hustle and preparation in
our camps. Ho ! for an advance !
The Collection of Cotton Seed..
The agricultural department of the Patent Mee
has received a letter from North Carolina stating
that collections of cotton geed were being made at
Roanoke Island, and other points in that State,
which will be sent hither at an early day. The
seedAwill be distributed, for the purpose of experi
ment, through the Middle and Northwestern States.
Arrival of Vol. Wood.
COI. WOOD, who commanded the Fourteenth
New York Brooklyn Regiment at Bull Run, and
who was taken prisoner at that battle, arrived here
to-day, having been released from the rebel prison.
He :paid a visit to the camp of his regiment, sta
tioned near Upton's Hill, and was enthusiastically
received by the soldiers.
THE CAPTURE OF NASHVILLE.
THE NEWS FULLY CONFIRMED.
Further Flight of the Fleet-
Footed Floyd.
THE WHITE FLAG FLYING AT
RIEDIPHIS
Sr. Lotus, Feb. 25.--The Republican's Cairo
despatch says the occupation of Nashville has been
confirmed.
Our troops took possession of the city without op
position.
Floyd fled, as usual.
The report that Governor Harris had ordered all
the Tennessee troops to lay down their arms and go
home, is also confirmed.
The Tennessee Legislature is called to meet on
Monday next.
No opposition to the Union movements is -made
anywhere on the Cumberland river.
It is also reported that white flags are flying at
Memphis.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 25.—A deserter from the rebel
army, who arrived at Munfordsville to•day, re
ports that the national flag is flying over Nashville,
and that the rebels pretend to be concentrating
200,000 men at Murfreesboro', intending to give
battle there.
Sr. Loris, Feb. 25.—Two old citizens of St.
Louis, who left Memphis on Tuesday last, arrived
here to-day.
They report that on the day they left Memphis
the Tennessee Legislature arrived there from
Nashville, and were to meet on the following day
to discuss the present state of affairs in that State.
The people were rapidly arriving at Memphis
from liastriiilei #Bll 99ParCgating in large num
bers.
All the gold and silver that could be got hold of
had been moved to Memphis.
A panio of colossal dimensions had seized the
rebels, State and Confederate scrip was of no
value whatever.
There were only 3,000 rebel troops at New Ma
drid, under Colonel Gunter.
Earthworks had been erected a short distance
below New Madrid. Jeff Thompson held no com
mand there.
THE WAR IN ARKANSAS.
Price Driven from his Stronghold
at Cross Hollow.
HIS SICK AND WOUNDED LEFT BEHIND
Gen. Curtis' Army Living on the Eneiny's
Provisions
DESPATCH FROM GEN. HALLECK TO GEN. M'CLELLAN
ST. Louis, Feb. 25.—General Ila Cock this
morning telegraphed to General McClellan as fol
lows
" Price's army has been driven from his strong
post at Croce Hollow.
" The enemy left hie 1414 k and wounded, and
such stores as he could not destroy.
"He burned the extensive barracks at that place
to prevent our troops from occupying them.
" General Curtis says that most of our provisions,
for the last ten days, hay, been taken from the
enemy."
Presentation of Flags to the neroes of
Mill Sp-rings.
Loutammn, February - 25.-The Ninth Ohio and
Second Minnesota Regiments this afternoon receiyed
two splendid flogs from the loyal hullea of Loubwille, in
commemoration of their victory, at Mill Springs, on
January 19. Considerable enthusiasm attended the pre
sentation.
Arrival of the North Star.
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.... The steamer 1V . 910 Man from
Aspinwall, arrived at 10 &clock this nioruiug. Site
brings no news of importance from the Isthmus. She
yawed the steamer Northern Light on the 18th lost.
The V. 8. frigate Saranac had arrived at Panama.
The 'Wyoming towed the storeohip Fredonia from Val
paraiso to Callao. The Wyoming was expected at. Pa
nama. The Cvane wait to leave fur Callao.
The Federal Loss at Fort Donelson.
eutosuo, Feb. 26.—The official ream show that 321
were killed, 1,064 woundtd, aria 11V) [Dialling. in General,
ItcOlernaatt's divisiou, at the tight at Full Donstssa,
: v I o) 1 ifi-' '' 7 ' \I 1
4
Wastruferoa, Fetr. 25, 1882.
[CLOsi: SioNDAY's HrthaSl•:lYllfN.)
SENATE.
Certain Railroads in filoisourii
The Joint resolution in relation to certain railromio In
Mllasourt was thou taken up.
1101VARD (11k0.)hioeed to sinned the timtwabla
en an to strike out the words •, public oneiotott," and in•
sell insurgents, on the ground that culling them ralmia,
public enemies, will he recognizing thorn UR brlligerents.
Mr it aLE tNep ) ULOVed to strike out the whole pro
amble, which mutton was agreed to.
M r . HARLAN ( Rep.) bit to amend the resolution
no no to mato It it RAY to tell other tumid to whicSl lonia
have boon granted.
Bin WILSO.T.i (Rap.), of Massachusetts, Raid ho hoped
the amendment would not be adopted, and thought there
was necessity for prompt action on tilt resolution.
These roads lost an immense. ammint of property by
bridges being burned, etc.,because they were loyal, and
they had exhausted all teir resources hi the support A
the Got erunient, and would he obliged to Houma their
operations unless the Cloven:anent would pay the coat of
transportatien.
Mr. HARLAN remarked that he eonld eec no dif
ference in the roads or the different States, and thought
all ought to be treated alike.
Alter some Further discussion, the amendment was re
jected.
Mr. CLARK (Rev.) moved to amend .10 at the route
shall bring in no claim for damage is future.
Mr. Plat EROY (Rep.) thought this proposition unjust,
at it would shut out these roado from claims for da
mages actually done.
Mr. WILSON said he did not intend to pay any
damages to anybody growing out of the war_ Ho know
there ware gross frauds in damages i and persons migi
the United otatee uniform are in the habit of certifying
to damages three and tour times too numb. Bills for
damages and losses Imo would pay, but ho would not pay
them until the debt of war was paid. He wanted it un
derstood that claims for dittnag.e are rot to ho paid until
the detail of the Government aro all paid.
111 r. PODIE ROY thought that the genatur hem MBA-
BachnEettB had to ought iu a bill to pay the people of tho
District for damages he proposed to make.
Mr. WILSON (Rep.), of Massachusetts, said that had
nothing to do with the war. lie thought it was right to
pay a fair price for property taken under his bill, and
would be willing to pa.y the same amount to Marylaud if
bto mild abolish slavery in three or four yoarffi
The amendment of Mr. Clark was agreed to, and the
resolution as amended was then passed.
The Case of Senator Slavic*.
After which, the ease of Mr. Starke wee taken up,
when
Mr. MeDOtill ALL (D.) protected against any win
sion of the aeuatur trc a violation of the fundantontal law
and Constitution.
Mr. DOOLITTLE (lisp.) said that the Constitution
said that the Semite might judge of the qualifications of its
members, but that it does not state whether before
or after taking his seat i and the question arises whe
ther a majority has the right to oxcludn_ llpon ex
aminations he 'was inclined to think the Senate might
judge of certain ditqualifications, such as disloyalty,
&c. [Be referred to the evidence against Starke and
hie letter to the Committee on the Judiciary, in which
be referred to Starke's speech, where he said that nine
States had already seceded.] Ito also laid that Mr.
Starke came here and proposed to take the oath to sup
pat the 'United States, What United Statve iloee he
mean 1 The whole ur only such as Davis has left I In
swearing to support the Constitution, does he mean to
asset t the supremacy that the Constitution has over all
the States'? During all this struggle we must guard
against jealousy in all departments of the Government,
especially in the Senate. Had Starke confine.. hitt:weir to
a general denial. I might not haie Toted against his re.
caption; but he seemed to adhere to his opinion, which
limits the oath, and does not include the nine States men
tioned as having seceded.
Mr. HOWE (Rep ) said that Oregon had sent a man here
wbo came with a prima facie right. And there le no
competent evidence to exclude him, and the Senate has
no right to relate the representation or admission of
Oregon - whilst the case is being hied. Thiel, practically,
is a question of expulsion, which the Senate has no right
to determine by a mere majority. Without concluding,
Mr. Bowe yielded to a motion to lay the subject aside.
Conference Committees , Report on the United
COMI!!==1
rEggENDEN (IW.) submittal a repast frees the
committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the
two Rouses on the bill to authorize the issue of United
Suites notes and for the redemption or funding thereof,
and for finding the floating debt of the United States.
The committee recommend that the Senate recede from
their second, fourth, and fifth amendments, by which the
old notes now out were retained, Waned of issuing now
ones to the whole amount or $150,000,000; that the
House recede from their disagreement to the ninth and
fourteenth amendments of the tmuate, by which the notes
are made redeemable at the pleasure of the Government
after five years and payable in twenty years; that the
House recede ?rum their amendments to the eighteenth
amendment of the Senate.
The bontite amendment autherised the dopeeit of therm
notes for not less than thirty days, in sums of not less
than $lOO, with any of the assistant treasurers of the
United States, for which deposit certificates were to be
issued Leming five per cent. interest, the interest to
cease at the pleasure of the Secretary of the Treasury,
and the aggregate of the deposits not to exceed twezty
fin million dollars, The House amendment Is the Renate
amendment (from which they recede) was to insert the
words "or coin," so as to allow deposits to be made in
notes or coin, and to strike out the fi ye percent. interest
and insert " at the rate which toe Secretary of the Tree-
Bury may front time to time prescribe, not exceeding six
per cent. per annum."
The committee on conference also recommend that the
Senate recede from so much of their tenth amendment
as proposes to insert words in lieu of the words stricken
out, and that the House agree to the amendment as so
modified. The tenth amendment of the donate was the
amendment striking out the provisions authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to Issue a portion of the bonds
at seven percent. interest ? payable in five years, and in
serting bonds bearing tievOn three-tenths per cent, in
terest, payable in two years, and the effect of the com.
mitten's agreement is to strike out both provisions.
The committee of conference also recommend that
the House recede from front its disagreement to the
Senate's nineteenth amendment, and agree to the same
with the following amendments; Afterthe word "good,".
in the second line, strike out the scrods tt the proceeds of
the sale of the public lands and the proceeds of all proper
ty seized and sold under the laws of the United ;states as
the property of rebels," and insert the words, " shall be
paid in coin;" and after the word " taxes," in the first
section of the twenty-first line, insert "internal ;"
and after the word "duties," in the sume line, strike out
the word " imposts, " and after the word "States ? " in
the twenty-third line, invert "except duties on jet
ports ;" and in line thirty, after the word interest,"
insert the words 6, and duties on imports." The effect of
these alterations is to make the ditties on imports paya
ble in coin, and to pledge them specifically for the pay
ment of the interest on the notes and bonds, and for the
purpose of raising a fund to redeem the principal, and
elrll,le.ts out of tie. getiM4 amendment the pledge of the
public lands and the proceeds of the property toizod as
the property of rebels.
The report was concurred in.
Subsequently a message Iron, the House of 'Represent
ntires announced that they had also concurred in the
report.
The Case of inv.. Starke Resumed,
The Senate resumed the consideration or the resolution
respecting the admission of lie. Starke as a Senator from
Oregon, and it was argued by Mr. McDougall, Mr. Doo•
little, and Mr. Howe, and again postponei.
After a short executive session, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIIITS.
Resolution of Thanks.
Mr. ROSCOE CONKLING (Rep.), of New York,
offered the following :
Resolved, By-.the Senate and House of Representa
tives, That the thanks of Congress are due, nod are here
by presented, to Major Generals Halleck and Grant, for
planning the recent movements within flick SesiiecLlVii
divisions; and to both these generals ' as well as to the
officers and men under their command, for achieving the
glorious victories in which these movements resulted.
Mr. CON RUNG said be merely asked that the reso
lution shall lie over for the present. He desired that the
men who earned those honors should wear teem, and all
the honor to which thoy are entitled.
Mr. COX (Dem.), of Ohio, had no objection to the re
solution, tut thought it ought to be a little more ex
tended. It was a matter of opinion as to whom the
credit of planning these movements belonged He
thought the gentleman, on a former day, gave the credit
to the Joint Committee on the CendUct of the War, Re
solutions of thanks to our officers and mon ought to be
cal efully drawn, so that no one entitled to credit should
be excluded. He therefore moved that this subject be
referred to the Committee on Military Aftaire.
Hr. CON - KLING. I am very glad, heised, that the
get Conan from Ohio has mole reference to the remarks
which frit from me the other dor. They Wass, hat, as he
supposed, to the effect that to the Joint Committee on the
Conduct of the War wero due those victories, or any other
of the results referred to. I am glad to repeat what I
then said, that to that committee, along with other kin
dred agencies, including the action of the House, were
due the necessary and important reforms which led to the
victoriee achieved. And I i w ilelitliSS to predict that,
when the history of these victories shall tie known, it
will turn out that not alone to the established - mode of
doing things in the military department: that not alone
to those agencies to which we were trusting when Congress
met, are due those results, but to more recent action—to
obedience to those sentiments which, though criticised,
have prevailed in this Monte and throughout the
country—are due these achievements which have re.
suited in our late gloi ions victories. And to the generals
named, and to other generals in their departments, are
due the achievements and victories—victories which
have not been organized by men sitting in a room doing
that which has been termed " organizing victories;"
but that they have been achieved by the bold and rem
lute men having . the faith and confidence of their sol
diers; by men who have believed that the hearts of the
patriotic soldiers were in this cause, Bud that their zeal
was the best discipilue and drill With which to fight those
battles. 'I hese victories are due to the men who have
believed in action rather than in 6 . organized victories"
by the year or month. I should be sorry to exclude
from the tallest meed of praise any man, high or low,
to whom any of this credit is due at.a qty ratelata
in offering this resolution, and asking that it bo laid over
till a future day, is that Congress and the country may
disci Lninate and accord the public praise to all the men
that are entitled to it, and may crown with heroic honors
the real crusaders in this war. I should be glad to have
it embrace the Danko of every man who deserve. the
honor. Ent I shall accomplish my olunct when I shall
bare prevented the assumption by any general or gene.
rals to whom credit is not due to claim great credit due to
some one in connection with these victories.
Proposed Amandmient.
Mr. FENTON (Rep.) said he had drawn up an
emendinent which lie thought embraced his colleague's
idea. It read as follows ;
o That the shanks of Congress lie tendered to the offi
cers and soldiers who have rushed to arms to sustain the
fabric which our fathers erected, and whose devotion has
been alike conspicuous, whether in camp or in the field,
whether by that cheerful patriotiun and unwearied ardor
to he led to the face of the ei envies of our country, or
their matchless valor in contest."
CONKLiIi it objected to the pronbied afeelifiment.
It was an entire transformation of his resolution. lie
repeated, be meant, If possible, to secure the action of
the benate, in connection with the House, to award, at
the proper time, the precise mood of credit to the bravo
men entitled to it; not only as to the execution and
achievement, but the planning and conception which led
to the victories, Re again asked that hie resolution lie
over for debate.
Mr. WASHBLIRNIC said no gentleman to the House
would be unwilling to award every weed of praise to the
gentlemen named in the resolution of the gentleman from
New York. In one of the genet als named he felt a very
great interest—namely, General Grant—a man, lie might
say; as brave as he wasßliaieet and incorruptible, and
while he would thank Ilalleck and Grant, lie - would not
forget other brave num at the siege of Dennison. lie
world not forget McOlermend, our late associate here,
and Logan, at present a member of this House, and all
the brave officers in that memorable field. The country
will do justice to all.
Mr. CONKLING repeated, that to the two genesals
muutd are due the thanks of Congress for the movements,
resulting in victory, planned in their reepoollMS diet-
Rion.. Gentlemen are at liberty to offer independent
propositioes, such as they deemed justice required. He
bad go desire to exclude any person who participated in
the victories connected with such movements. He
merely. wished to inaugurates proper and just discrimi
nation for actual merit.
H r . cos gave his reasons for MOViUg to refer the re
solution to the Cementite on Military Anise. GenaPill4
Smith and McClernand were entitled to an equal snare of
recognition.
Per. MALLORY. And General Buell.
And another voice added the name of Commodore
Foote.
Dir. COX, resuming . , said that to discriminate was to
derogate, when certainfavorites were eingltil %At while
cohere, equally meritorious, were excluded. lie was
willing to vote at a proper Vino the just meed pritiee,
but the people would not thank Congress for
dlacrfwi
hatting against men who as bravely did their duty. The
gentleman (Mr. Cenkling) said he did not believe iu or
! genising victories at a distance; but it am turn out,
I when the fire burnt through the smoke, that others are
I entitled to ceedit—iireludiug the lleoesel-iii.Ohief—
for the grand achievements in Kentucky and Tonnes
! see. The gentleman gave his reasons, why the House
should postpone action upon his resolution of thanks.
It was tides The gentleman did not know now, butufight
know hereafter, who are entitled to eredit for the victo-.
rinie. Be could net mow tell alio aro entitled. The Co.
veremeut, Mr. Cox remarked, had wAy thitiikmi tun_
Grant by making him a Minor Gewerak lie hoped Gone-.
rale Smith and McClernand weal, be promoted ro. the.
Mann rank. Let us not by prejudging this matter do in
juetice either to the army or the navy. Let the. sonunit
i tee take this retelusion as they do other reSchlitkuuS, and
discrimiuste justly and thirty.
L/Str. htßLLulhtl (itep.),, of Illinois, said Ma resolution
Elet:hires la express terra* that the achievements in the
Western Departmeets, and the military tuovenneute there,
were planned, coureived, and carried out by the subor
dinate offieers—.ley' qett, cltent and. Om Itutteck. The.s.,l
gentlemeu ere both sworn officers, mud have acted e
commanderd of divielons in thMir redpectite depertment4.
Bnt It Should be remembered that all the commanders of
the nrmied are enberdinmte officers, and enbject to the
eTdern and nentr,t of the (toner:4iii-011er of the Awe
ricrtn army. If there is no general Mani there ought
to he, and the counfry looks to the eegallehment of a,
eyetem of campaign chrentated and doeigNol to put down
rebellion,
To the Comtnander-in-chief and his tint subordinate,
and to the brave soldiers under them, we are ihrlebted for
time Tietoiles beht - rti that than esiaN.and Inte
existed, a well gligested, clots, leaned policy of campaign
that will effectivally put down this rebellion. The reso
lution indicatraihat this is not the case, Girt that either
dinate officers hme sprung up in a night, who conceived,
Independent of the military ovganizstian of the Go
vernnierit, Tide campaign, althotaiiMrestoltiug
a statement which S assert is a alzgict charge against the
commanding gene.:-.4. It hi ah of sid,,pt to detract tram
that high officer, and to deprive bluer the credit due to
him as the officer :Am had planned. and organized an'
campaign. I believe, and declare unhesitatingly, that a
Hyatem of movements, Sultninating in' these glorious vic
tories, and which will emu/ put down rebellion, has been
ce u eetved and directed 1,7 the commanding. general and
the chit{ Nxtmitive of t.tm coltritti, 1 71.411 wit, Mill/
owning the resolution, detract one iolitlrour these who
have earned credit In the campaign of the-West. I am
opposed to the resolution, but from no disreapect to Ge
nerals Grant and Ifalleck. They have been already
thanked by the Executive and by the Secretary of War,
and, more than that, have received the heartfelt thanks of
the American peopla—a higher tribute thstn.any sat of
?Petit how"ft liiph..tht it pcnitimil an par, Artilit nut
enough t I sim imposed to any such silent. insidious at.
tempt of any kind to detract from the character of the
general now coniniandiog the army of the Unittsh States.
Mr. °IAN (Rep.) said that those who oppose the
resolution seem to misapprehend its object,- whichr was
to ascertain who it was that plauned and executed the
movements which resulted in- the victories. Thome who
Wore RIJN itill“ to learn micht probably amain the litlmmatt
thin by calling upon the. Secreiary of War: It was
sufficient to know, however, that somebody drew up the
plan.
Mr. WASIIBURWE could not agree with. his , sal
lessm (Kellogg) that the resolution reflected upon any
9be Ntgonif .Ip3 had l.lrefi4y niiggentudi
lie thought It bad better be referred to the Commingle on
Military A !fairs. Under the operation of the previous
question, it was so referred.
The Post Office Appropriation Bi lls
The House then took np, briefly considered, and passed
the Post Office appropriation bill.
Our Relations with Foreign Powers,
Mr. 111AISIAIW (U.), of Tennessee, offered a resolu
tion, Width was passed, calling upon the President to in
form the House, if net incompatible with the public in
terest, whether any foreign Power has received into her
ports any foreign ship to land the prisonerm which.tnoy
hail captured, end whether food and stores have bean
furnished at such ports, or machinery permitted to be
repaired, &c.
Bounty to Discharged Volunteers.
Mr. HOLMAN offered a resolution, which WM
adopted, instructing the Committee on Military Affairs
to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill granting
a lininity of fifty dollars to all twelve-months yolunteyrs
*ha may be honorably discharged,
Passage of the Indian Appropriation Bill.
The Indian appropriation bill wee taken up
Mr. eIIELLABABGER made a speech, maintaining
that the Government is endowed with all, power over
persons and property ae incident to a civilised war, with
the additional powerwhich all gavarnmenta have IMP
treason, and also advocated the policy of einancipation.
The Indian approprtation bill was passed.
The Treasury Note Bill.
Mr. STEVENS made a report on the United States
note bill, which, having been explained, the report was
adopted by a rote of 97 aphid 21
Seizure of Railroads and Telegraph Lines.
Mr. 110L'MAN (Dem.) introduced a joint resoluti;
explanatory of the act authorizing the' President, in c
taut cocci, to take possession of railroad and telegraph
lines. The resolution declares the act shall not be con
strued so as to authorize the construction of any railroad,
9f 1h c 911114911911 Of BUY fin9llliVi limo, the greater part
of able,' remained incomplete at the time of the passage
of the act, or to engage in any extended work of railroad
construction ; and that so much of the act as authorizes
the extension or completion of any railroad be repealed:
The resolution was passed
The Evidence Relating to Major General
Fremont.
Mr. STEVENS (Rep.) of Pennsylvania, offered the fol
lowing :
Resolved, That the Joint Committee on the Conduct of
the War be requested to furnish to this House or, publish
the evidence taken by said committee relative to Major
General John C. Fremont, while in command of the
Western district, if, in thvir opinion, it is not incompati.
ble with the public interest.
Objection wee wade to the introduction of the reso
lution.
Mr. STEVENS moved to suspend the rules.
The rules were suspended, and the resolution adopted
Adjourned twenty minutes after four o'clock.
TUESDA.Y 7 S PROOEEDI I NQS
SENATE.
Recommittal of the Treasury-Note Rill.
On motion of Mr. FESSENDEN (Rep.), of Maine, the
motion agreeing to the report of the committee of con
ference on the treasury-note bill was reconsidered, and
the benate &agreed io the reports, and the hill wea n
eon:mitten to the committee of conference.
Petition Presented.
Mr. CHANDLER (Rep.), of Michigan, presented a pe
tition asking that Fremont be appointed Ligautenant
General of the army.
New Granada and Ceara Men_
Nr. SUMNER (Rep.), of Massachusetts, from the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, reported a resolution to carry
into effect the convention between New Granada and
Costa Rica. Paused.
Construction of Railroads by the War Depart-
Dlr. GRIMES (Rep.), of lowa, offered a reolution [tak
ing the Secretary of War whether any contracts bad
been made or any steps taken towards the contract for
the construction of any railroads by the War Depart
ment and if so, by what authority, and with whom, and
by the authority of what law it hadbeen made.
clecupation and Cultivation of Cotton Lands
Mr. WADE (Rep.). of Ohio. from the Committee on
Territories, reported back the bill for the occupation and
cultivation of certain cotton lands in the possession of
the United States.
Mr. HALE (Rep.), of New Hampshire, offered an
amendment limiting the appropriation to $20,000.
Adopted.
OARLILE (U.), of Vitillt.te, said that the hill ht
volved 601110 very intp3rtant principles of, constitution
ality and expediency, and wanted time to examine toe
bill. He moved to lay it on the ta‘de.
. .
Mr. BALE hoped tho Senate would pass this bill, and
several others, aul especial!) the bill for confiscation.
We Lad thousan s sod millions of dollars here, in this
very city; belonging to rebels, which ought to be ntr
tended to
• •
On motion of Air. DOOLITTLr. (Item), of Wisconsin,
the bill was postponed till to-morrow, and made the spe
cial order.
Confiscation of Rebel Property
Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep.), of Illinois, moved to take up
the bill for the coaramatleii of tba proptPky of WAIL Ha
said there was a pressing necessity forits passage. With
in a few weeks the property of a rebel general in this
city bed been Bold and the proceeds transmitted to him,
N bile we were sitting here and taxing ourselves and im
posing a paper currency on the suffering soldiers. The
bill was takenand some verbal amendments made to
.r
the bill, when the morning hour ex p:red, and the OW.-
called up the special order, the case of Banator tiltarke,
from Oregon.
Dlr. TRUMBULL moved to postpone the special order,
and continue the consideration of this bill. Agreed to—
yeas 22, nays 15.
Dlr. TRUMBULL said that the bill was calculated to
fithgt the property of those rebels who are not under the
jurisdiction of the United States at the time. To aruid
the charge of unconstitutionality, the bill could only for-'
leis the estates of traitors during their lifetime. He re
ferred to several cases and decisions of the courts ilea--
ing the ground taken to} the bill, and contended that
we have the right to treat the rebels as enemies and
'rakers but, of course, we do not intend to harry all
the moll engaged in the rebellion but the ma.
leaders and instigators must be brought to the halter
Ile argued that we have a perfect right to confiscate the
property of rebels, and that it has been settlid by the
Supreme Court that Congress has the power to pass a
confiscation bill. the Government has the right to take
persons who may be bound by contract to rebel 4 or titko
the children even, and draft them into the service of tits
Government. The master cannot hold a slave by any
stronger tenure The Government authority. is porn
mount to State Jaw in such canes.
. . .
Mr. POMEROY (Rep.), of Kansas, objected to the
third election, which provides for colonization. lie
thought we could not afford to send out of the couniri ,
laLoring men and producers, and if it was insisted upon
Le should move to amend by providing for the colonl.
cation of the slaveholders, who were dangerous to the
country anu whose loss would not be felt.
Mr. WILLEY (t.), or Virginia, wanted to know
where there was any constitutional power for the Post.
dent cotoinzing negroen. lle was willing to co-operate
in the must stringent measuree fur the confiscation of
property, but had the Senator from Illinois counted the
immense cost of the scheme of colonization 1 It would
cost 5500 a Lead to colonize and keep ignorant slaves.
Mr. POMEROY said that his amendment obviates
that. as there would be only a few slaveholders left to
colonize , .
Mr WILLRY: I trrojpoe to hang all antic traitors,
and thus ease the cost of transportation. [Applause In
the gallery—immediately suppressed by the chair.]
Issue of Government Certificates of Indebted.
By consent, Mr. TBSSBNVEN (Bep.), of Maine, in
troduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Tres-
Lary to issue to public creditors certificates for the whole
amsuut a the debt, said certificated to be not leas than
51,000, payable in one year, or earlier, at the option of
the Government, bearing six per cent. interest.
On motion of Mr. FESSENDER, the bill can taken
up and passed.
The Confiscation Bill Resumed.
The Ornate renamed the consideration of tho confistra.
Lion bill.
Mr. TEN EYCK (Rep.), of New Jersey, thought the
third section very important. He said there was great
aversion at the North to having large masses of free ne
'aces tomtit loose among them, to the injury of other la
borers j nor could they be allowed to roam at large in the
Mr. SUMNER (Rep.) said he entirely agroodwith the
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Pomeroy) to the objection to
any recognition of the fugitive-slave law, which, he
thought, never had tha authority of the Constitution.
He moved to make a verbal amendment to obviate all
tan.picion of am thing of that kind.
The amendment wee adapted.
On motion of Mr. PUWELL (Dem.), the Dill was post
poned till to-morrow.
On motion of Mr. SUMNER the Senate went into
into executive session, and subsequently adjourned.
[PROCEEDINGS Ob• TUESDAY.]
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Writs of Habra* Porwas.
On motion of Mr. MALLORY (U . . 5. of Kentucky,. the
Committee on the Judiciary were instructed to inquire
into the propriety of investing the United States commis •
sinners with power to issue writs of habeas corpus and
hold persons to bail for good behavior, and to Increase
the compensation of said cummiedieuers.
taa on Public Offleerst Salaries.
Mr. VAN WYCK (Rep.) Introduced a bill to tax the
salmi( s of public officers, which was referred to the
ow el uitteti of Ways and Means. The bill is as follows:
A BILL TO TAN_ TB SA!. ARIL'S ON GOVERN.
iRENT OFF ICJ RS
lie it enacted, tit. ftOTI9I 1, That alt officers of
Government, however elected or appointed, except post
masters eprointed by the Postmaster omural, mud consuls
receiving no stated salary now receiving fees ass part of
their compensation, shall hereafter pay all such fees into
the Treasury of the United States, and shall not be al
lowed to retain any part thereat, and at-the expiration
of each year of service shall make and Me with thmTrea
auiy Deparhappt at Washington an. an:Ma:Pit that. they
have collected all fees required by law, retained no tiara
of the same, and paid the whole amount inteethe-Tres
sury of the United States.
Sec. 2. :Ind be it further enacted, that the salary or
compensation of all °dicers of Governments civil, add
tidy, or naval, foreign ministers and. manila ' .and per
sons In the employ of and doing service for the hfiwern-
Meld, F1i,4l kr tirce4 as follows: When the autuniLsalary
or compensation of such priavn in inn ihnusand dullard
and upwards, thirty per cent ; seven thoueand time hun
dred collars and upwards, twenty-tive per cont.; five
thousand dollars and upwards, twenty per cent.; three
thousand dollars and upwards, fifteen pep coat.; two
thousand dollars and ups arda, ten per, cent. ;, one thou
send dollars and upwards, dye per cent.
doe. y The tax imposed by the second section of NS
act dish be collected. by the dleldirsing,beicer at the
time he pays the salary or compensation and from the
emu due at the time. of the payment, awl shall Immo
dish ler be paid by him into the Treasnay at the United
Stales.
blaims for Property Ilestrorodt by U. S
Troops..
Dlr. FENTON (iftep.). of New York,. intratuced a hilt
relating to the claims for losses by chlidreetion of property,
by the troops et the United States daring the rebellim,
The U. S. Note. Bill Referred
Tito United States note bill, at tho inetanee of %I. Se
mate. has ban referred bads to , Ow coinnaltr9 ft 9 g94+
ferettee,
The. Cavatry Service
Mr. BLUR (Rep.), of Missouri, celled untimtilenute
bill to rwhace the niunber of osyslry regiruerAs. Be paid,
ill explanation, that the number of Sllea regiments is
seveuty-eight. the organization of some bf which is 1111.-
nodal; and, besides anus for 411 tlivut cannot kp
conveniently procured, Complete sr:dements can ho made
up by the pending bill. Some of the enlisted men do not
know how to side, Bud perhaps never will lemma. The
Government would owe abouttno.fourth of its present
oxpenditnees by the Mlgeago of this measure-the ex.
berme of maintaining a single regiment being a million
dollars per year.
The flouts amended the bill so as to reduce the num•
toen of cavalry regiments to fifty Instead of fort., as aro..
post.d by the amain, with We Pr that Aura and
enlisted men neceseerily dlecliarged by the operation of
title hid shall reterrothroe monelbe ll pay in addition to
the allowance prescribed by law. MI officers of cavalry
are to be eat:wither by a board et °c corn as to tbelr flt
nem, &c.
Thool l l 4 thug umrn , lo, woo tiro'N ?Wed?
intlemnflication of lientuckf 'Union mein.
Mr. °rider's (1.J.„ of Kentucky) resothtton wan adhpt...
ed, instructing the Committee en Claim:Pt° inquire Into
the propriety of reporting- whin to indemnify the Un:inc
men in the Thitl Congressional district of Kentucky,
and other Conu - Jumional dieericte of arm State, for
domPet3 ona celuad_, by !4t• f2 - fßill'it
Confederate troupe and tueir trident an d nun abetter%
Compensation ofi Navy yard Empl:,vres.
Mr. VAN WICK ‘llep.), of New York, eulteltted
znsolet‘sn, which woo adopted, dtreeth)g the ermunttoe
on Natal Affairs to Ktamino lobo wad report an the
necetteit7 of repealing the Bth eeettolvof the act cf,Con
grese entsSted .6 an act farther to promate the effirimacy
of the navy," approTttl in Decrratnn-liint. The nviton
in lue3tion , relates to the csmpenstan; s 4 ernployett iA
Phu navy yards.
Tax upom Cotton:
Mr. KELLOGG (Bop ), of Illinois, tuttrailaced a ree.*
hition, which was adopted, instructing tint Cornmittee eR
Ways and Means to inquire into the expediency of
ing i 147 i Di'threo ante par noninl'on cotton, and mak.
ing such a tax alien thereon ; persona andioseporationa
to be prohibited front currying or transporting the Same
until the tux is paid.
Brawl% Mint at Mtltvvr,
Mr. NA,YIiA.III) (U.), of Tennessee, from tree Com•
mitt., or Ways and Menne, reported a bill to•oats4llep
branch mint at Dearer Oita, Culuretio Territory, to be
under the control of the Director of the Mint at , Phila
delphia, eubject to the inntructione of the Secretary of
the Treanury, and' the tum of *IMMO in appropriated to
carry out tide act and to defray the expenses If! the
current year r ent for the fiscal year ending with.,Anne,
Mr, SAR{•FiA-NT tnoi , ,), bF umiroilh, 641194 n•vat
tention of the House to the tact that early in the eastion,
a bill was introduced. to establish a branch mint in•Ne
varla Territory. Ito had been informed, on reliable. tes
timony, that three millions a month are mined in. Ne.
...dm while that much is not mined during twelve
mraltlla in Vglornilo,
Nl'. WASFIItIiILNI3 flteii.)4 Of Illinois, said; it' wag
true, as stated by Mr. Birgeant, that the bill to establish
a branch islet in Nevada was offered, bait was referred
to the Committee on Commerce. Ile therefore suggestod:
that this bill go,.with the other, to the Committee of
Ways and Means, to be considered together. This was•
agi esti to.
. . .
Mr. KELLEY (Re*,), of Pei1i0q1%.41314, tii44 the
bill for a branch mint in Now York should lio similarly
referred, but to thio objection was made.
Mr. N IiTT, Delegate: from Colorado, bald • that
if the statistics ateted,by Mr.. Sergeant were true. he wee
not aware of the fact; but a branch mint for Colorado
was recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Nevada was only three or four hundred miles from the
Pan Pritncle , n Irritnoh. iiaint t while Volaritdo wee twooir-
five hundred miles from any mint or may office. Renee
the necessity for a branch mint in that Territory.
The Oath of Allegfanee to be Administered to
Sailin,g Masters.
Mr. ILIOT (Rep.), of lifnesachuedte ' from the Own—
relttee Commerce, reported a bill diVetting that the
Collectors of the Kevertitports causerio'lie udminietered
the oath of allegiance, and to support the Constitnthm or
the 'United States, to the masters of all kmerlcan vessels
clearing for foreign or other ports, during the pr,sent
rebellion; the violation of the oath to be visited with the
pains and penalties provided for wilful and corrupt per
jury. Thu hill wan ;Werth
Uniform:3lone) . Order System for Post Offices.
On motion of Mr. BLAKE (Rep.), of Ohio, the Rouse
took up and pushed the bill authorizing the Postmaster
General to establish a uniform money order system at
all post offices deemed suitable therefor. On orders from
to *lO a commission of live cents le to be charged ;
on $2O, a commission of ten cants and for every add!-
?
tlonal siO tiro cents.
Extension. of. Postal Facilities.
Mr. COLFAX (ltep.), of Indiana, reported a bill au.
thorieins the Postmaster General to vomit additional
articles to be sent by mail at the present ratted book
peatage. He said that uneer the present law, roots,
Miner filid ree 1n gollld Vg PPM ROI 911 t ypnt HT
ounce, but ttooltingti for a aolaigr4 flap s and many other.
articles of that character, could only be sent at Jetty.
rates. The bill wee passed unabiniouely.
Transportation of Government Property and
Troops.
Mr. PORTER (Rep.), of lud lanal from the Committee
on the Jndiriary, reported n remlutton, which wee paned,
that the several railroad committee which hate received
from the Governmer t grants of land to aid in the con
structiot of their railroads, are required to transport the
property and troops of the United States free of all toile
or other charges whatever.
• Dlr. PENDLETON (Dem.), of Ohio, from the Com
mittre on the Judiciary, reported a bill. which was
rtioncth regninting the time of holding the United States
DlplrSet Cotn•t lu KetilltekV.
. . . .
Additional Judicial District in New YArk
Mr. IiIVEN (Rep.), of Now York, front the Committee
on the Judiciary, reported a bill to establish an additional
judicial district in tke State of New York, to be called.
the eastern district. He showed the necessity for this
VehMtitibli that Nate Yak new ET.
population of three or four millions, and the city of New
York alone gives more business to the district court than
is transacted In any ether district in the United States.
The only expense involved in this addition is the salary
cf another judge, which will be more than saved in the
travelling expenses now necessary between distant
After a ilehatej,the bill was pawed,
On motion of Mr. STEVENS (Rep.), of Pennsylvania,
the eenate bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury
to issue certificates of indebtedness to public creditors
was taken up and passed.
The bill extending the laws regulating the intercourse.
with the Indian tribes over the Indian reservation; in
California, was also Dueled.
Mr. BLAIR (Rep ), of Missouri, from the Military
Committee, reported a bid authorizing the employment
of engineer volunteers, one company to be attached Jo a
brigade. Ordered to to printed.
Air. BLAIR. (Rep.), of Missouri, from the Military
Committee, reported a bill to establish an additional
article of vier for the goTernmeiot of the ai•ns of the
United Mates, es follows: 61, till officers in the military
service are prohibited from employing any of the forces
under their respective commands for the purpose of re
turning fugitives from service or labor, escaping from
those who claim such service or labor to be dna to them ;
and any officer farm,' guilty by court-martial of violating
this article shall he dismissed from the eervice,"
Mr. BINOILAIII (lisp.), of Ohio, movedan amendment
so as to Include not only oilicera, but all persons in the
naval or military service of the Dieted States.
Mr. MALLORY (U.), of Kentucky, looked upon Oda
measure ati an delft to repeal the fugitive•elave law, and
ea a ocelot of the Staten to claim their property.. He
moved a postponement of the bill. .
Mr, 'BLAIR (Rep.), Mlosorwl, 60;lot officom
eould be engaged in better business than returning fugi•
tiVO
Mr. BINGIUM.was against the postponement of the
Mr. WICKLIFFE (t.), of Kentucky, mentioned the
fact that after the capture of Fort Dr/nelson, General
Quint caused twelve slaves who tool been forme] into the
rebel service from Kentucky, t r he returned in their Pias
ters. He wished to know whether the proposition now
pending intended to prohibit military officers from per
forming such acts of justice to loyal citizens.
Mr. CRIDER opposed the bill, looking upon it as an
inrirect way of repealing the fugitive-stare law,
M. BINGFIAM Sapllad that tha bill was Hamad fa
confine oticere to their legitimate duty, and prohibit
them from interfering with the civil law. Such practices
should not be tolerated for a moment by the American
people. lie would not punish those who kidnap, but
have them shot.
Mr. MALLORY said that Kentucky had as stringent
laws against kidnapping as any other State.
liINGIIVIrt had mad It the isirejmitt.iii a WA
of a fogi dee who had at the risk of his life swain the
Ohio into Indiana, thinking when under the stars and
stripes that he would be protected, but it wee said that
he was suspected of the crime of running away, when a
company of soldiers was detailed, and he was escorted
to his master. if that was the practice to be pursued
by the army and nary. under the tleg of the Ittitirlte, it
would be better to Weer with midnight Marl:peas every
. _
star that floats upon the azure field,
a practice enough to consign to eternal infamy the
man who dared to practice it Whet are we lighting
for 1 Per the administra.ion ofinetice, and among other
things fur the priliciPlY iblit n 9 MR ffhall be condemned
or deprivtd of his liberty without our process of law.
Mr. DIVEN. I want the gentleman from Ohio to
specify where any military officer has hunted down any
fneitive slave for the purpose of returning him to his
master.
Dlr. BINGHAM, The way case I referred to is
0i,041, It, Wine the blutli of shame to the fees of every
American.
Mr. DIVEN. It is a matter founded on falsehood.
Mr. BINGHAM. How do you know that I
Mr. DIVEN. I have just as much reason to believe it
untrue as you have to believe it Is true.
Mr. BINGHAM. The statement, which has received
arkletteh all over the lend. is characterized by the One
Ilenien as a falsehood. I know the ladt Waffle it bee
been publieheu in the newspapers, and I have never seen
it contradicted.
Mr. DIVER was understood to say that was because
the gentleman only read me-sided newspapers.
Mr. VALLANDIGHAM (Dem.), of Ohio, moved to
lay the bill on the table. Not agreed to—yeas 43, nays
87.
Mr. WEIGHT (rnion), of Pennsylvania, moved to
adjourn. Not agreed to—yeas nays 95.
The question on postponing the hill till the first Wednes
day in March was disagreed to—yeas 51, nays 73.
The main tytu Mimi was ordered, when
Mr. JOHNSON (Dem). of Pennsylvania, moved to ad
journ. Not agreed to—yeas-11, nays 78.
Ede KINGII &WS amendment; prohibiting any person
eounectel with the army or navy from retUrning fugi
tives. was agreed to.
Mr. CRITTENDEN (C), of Kentucky, said he wished
to occupy only two minutes In his remarks, but
Dlr. LOVEJOY persisted in his objection, the natant.
IDOU6 consent being necessary for further debate.
Mr. STEELE (Dem.) / of New Ye, kJ oWettfi 14 thco
third reading of the bill, on lire ground that It had not
been engrossed.
;several ineffectual efforts were made to adjourn by the
opponents of the bill.
Mr. NALLANDIGHAM (Dem.), of Ohio, raise! a
point of order, which the Speaker overruled.
N T , lIICICMAN (Detn.l., of Pennsylvania, vainly an. ,
deavored to ()net amendment,
The bill Watt then finally panel by n vote of ea yeas le
42 nays, as follows :
YEAS—Messrs. Africk, Alley, Arnold, Ashley, Babbitt,
Baker, Baxter, Beaman, Bingham, Blair (Mo.), Blair
(Pa.), Make, Buffington, Chamberlain, Clark, Golk,l4_
Fisdarlrk A. Coaling, Busses COW/UM GoUlfgre -
Coviele Cutter, Davie, Disvn,EditrliolirEawardEl, Wet.
Ely, jessenden, Franchot, trrank, Gooch, Gooditin,
Gnawer, Gurley, Hale, Hanchett, Harrison, Hooper,
Hutchins, Julian, Kelley, Kellogg Lansing, Lamar,
LeveleY, McKnight, McPherson, Mitchell, Morrill
(Me.), Nixon, Odell, Patton, Phelps (Oal.), Pike,. 14wrie
roy, PoUtr, Nice (Mass.), Rice (Me.), Riddle, Wilms
s, H.i, Sedgwick , Sheffield. Shermam - nloan, Speiabling,
wims, Thomas (Alas,), Trowtaidge,.
Nan Horn, Van Yalkenburgh, Wall, Wallace, alien
(Me.). Walton (VW, Washburn, White (800, Wilson,
Windom, and V 1 orcester.
NATO—Messrs. Aneona, Bailey (Pa.), BMA), Blair
(Va.), Clement, Corning, Cravens, Crestield, Crittenden.,
Dunlap, English, Crider, Hall, [larding, floiman. John
eon. Knapp, Law, /Anent lirr4l7r Lehmann
Stevan], MPlLtiflPi Morris, Humor, Pendleton, Perry,
Price, Bonita (Mo.), Steel (N. Y.), Steel Ca. JO.
Thomas (Md.) allandighain, Vithard, Vorhees, Ward,
Webster,'Wiekliffee, Wood, Woodruff, and Wright.
The ] louse then adjourned.
Arrival of the liistinguished Fort Dom.,-
son Prisoners eat linallhaltpalit —The Lobs
of the Indiana Troops.
INDIANAPOLIS, Neb. 20.—Geu. Buckner and. stag,. in
cluding Majors Cosby. Hays, and Caseatlr ;. Caps. Taw.
.1 Clay, Charles Johnson, and E. H. IdeDonat, end 3.
N. Gallaher, Buckner's private secretary, reeohed.bare ,
at 1 o'clock this morainic. with 300 other prisoners.
Among thigh %IV 1111qPI , cf 1111 .1 4,117, 91. General TWO
rosn's staff; Majors neaten, Karam, end dept. atior
mau, of Gen. Bushrod. Johnston's shalt ;, ()sot Frank
Money (formerly of Garibaldi's stall); Capt. Bailee, In
gram. Steam dm Juol Chaplet', of Tennessee, sad ar
tillery and infantry, Suggeone (Merles Whiney nut W.G.
Owen, of Washington. city.
Illomoug the prhouese whe arrived on. Sunday and yes
toulaya are Lieutenant VolPsel enaPiThe Xigligh Ken'
tuck) 1. Colonel John DI. Litters, Lieuteuani 4. elulsal
Abernathy, of thii 1111'1Y-third Tenneseee ;.arul Laostenauit
Colonel Overton.
Gen. Buckner Ix confined alone In Mg room hatlia railed
States Court hones
There aro now in this city,, at,Lahtyette,, wad Terre
haute, nearly 0,000 prisoners.
TL: alnethd hat of the killed. atel.litroundbil of the In.
Mane regiments at the tight it Fort Thowbwei foots nta.
3d 11:410 , N8
Mlle& Wounded!,
111eventS, Regiment..... ..........
Twenty. disk ..... I.^dit
bitty -.first Regianent.........„.... -
Forty. fourth • --
1.114 >second Regiment.... .... a tit
oAboial Despateik.froin Comatoodore Foote
THE UNION SIAVIINENT IN TENNESSEE, AND
ALA,NAgAs
IVAsimurrox, Tub, sr.,—The Navy 1" easels:neat re—
' tatted the following arnIPM9In t
CAIRO, Fat.„24, 1862.
Lieutenant Commanding ()whin, with the gunboat
i
Taylor, Lai just arrved front Tennessee, selsalppl,
and Alabama, anti rports the Won Beu ßU timmt I.
South Tennessee, and North Alabama, to be very giro.
Attu anal him book today, and will call at Fore H.
to titf.vinvouy tba Att uboak icilibh Will
P . O OF those Staten to raise Vaion forces wlthla tht l bor
di re.. A. H. Foot% rim Officer tVarunaand ng.
To tile GIDEON Wltuatt. s ew m ut. , the ee