It Vitss.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1862.
EXTRACT FROM THE LAST SPEECH OF
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. - 6 The conspiracy'
to break up the Union is a isict now known to
all. Armies are being raised, and war levied
to accomplish it. There can be bat two sides
to the controversy'. EVCri.ntan Minn be on the
side ef the United States or against it. There
can be no neutrals in this war. There can be
none but patriots and traitors."
THE LATEST WAR NEWS
The Navy Dep.•rtrnent has received official de•
apatchis from Commodore Goldeborough, which
will be found on our first page. Our fleet, after
leaving Hatteras, destroyed four rebel vessels and
captured a fifth. Commodore Galdsborough states
that our forces took undisturbed possession of
Edenton, in additiori b to capturing a number of eart
hen, together with two sohooners loaded with corn
and cotton. Many of the Edentonians professed
sentiments of loyalty to the Government. General
Burnside and Commodore Goldsborough had issued
a conciliatory proclamation to the people of North
Carolina.
A. recent number of a newspaper published in
Verona, Italy, declares that the pirate Sumpter
will no longer attempt depredations on American
commerce, but be held at the disposition of Gari
baldi end of an expeditionary force, which will
disembark with him in Albania or Dalmatia, while
another party. under Nicotera, would invade the
Pont:Aral States. The Sumpter, at last accounts.
was at Tangiers, Africa.
An executive order in relation to State prisoners
haB beau belied by Secretary Stanton. The order
commissions Major General Dix, in Baltimore, and
the Ron. Edward Pierpont, in New York, to ex
amine the cases of State prisoners remaining.in the
military custody of the Government, and to de
termine whether the public safety demands their
continued confinement.
In Select Council, yesterday, something out of
the usual routine of business came up, whiCh de
serves honorable mention in the " Latest War
News" column. Mr. Fux, of the Twelfth ward,
offered a preamble, accompanied with resolutions,
urging the authorities at Washington to fit out a
Southern expedition from this city, and requesting
our representatives in the " City of magnificent
distances" to UM all proper means for the further
ance of the object. The ,
preamble and resolutions
were agreed to.
We are informed upon telegraphic authority
(which is conceived to be much more reliable in its
assertions since the bulletin of Secretary Stanton)
that General Curtia has taken possession of Pay.
etteville, Ark., capturing a number of prisoners,
stores, etc. Before leaving, the rebels burned a
portion of the town, probably as an intimation that
they are not to be trifled with. They then crossed
the Boston mountain precipitately. The latter
desperate movement, to be fully appreciated,
must be read in close connection with the
following extract from a letter found by our
troops in Price's camp. It is dated "Dover,
Arkansas, December 17, BR," and was written by
James L. Adams ; who applied to Price for a sur
geons-hip :
" Our men over the Boston mountains pen and
swing the mountain boys who oppose Southern
alien ; they have in camp thirty, and in the Bar
rowville jail seventy-two, in the Clinton jail thirty
five, and have cent twenty-seven to Little Rock.
w e l ee k u p some as let: aateia as Dover, We will
kill all we can get. certain; every one is so many
less. I hope you will soon get help enough to clear
out the last one in your State. If you know them
they ought to be killed, as the older they grow the
more stubborn they get."
But the fbeTe, atrocious es it is, does not do full
justice to the fiendish spirit which animates the
Arkansas traitors. The despatch which brings us
the intelligence of the taking of Fayetteville by our
troops, likewise informs us that some forty-two
(Munro and men of a MlL , souri regiment had been
poisoned at Uniontown by eating drugged food,
purposely left behind by the enemy. One of our
officers had died from the effects of the poison, and
a number of cabers had suffered severely.
A despatch from Camp Hollows, Arkansas, dated
February 24th, states that our troops took posses
sion of Fayetteville at 416V01i o'clock on the pre
ceding morning, and that Price and McCulloch
were then 4eyond Boston mountain.
The purpose of the allied intervention in Mexi
can again has been construed in some quarters to
mean something more than mere conqtleg of tho
unhappy republic. The Washington correspondent
of the New York Evening Post says : "It is sus
pected at the State Depart:nent that the purpose of
those Powers, after having got complete possession
of Mexico, is to operate against this 4rievornment,
and in favor of the rebellion from that point. It is
further believed that the rebelcommissioners in En-.
rope are in favor of the allied occupation of
Mexico. with the understanding that the new Go
vernment which is to be eonetrucked wit! acknow
ledge the independence of the Southern Confede-
The fail of Fort DonalFon has paralyzed the
wbole South, and drafting must ere long be com
menced. The New Orlearn Bee condemns the
Confederate Government for not sending sufficient
numbers of troops to the West, and yet, in the
very next sentence, admits the impossibility of
such a procedure, by urging that a general call to
arms has become necessary to oppose even a show
of resistance to our victorious army The Govern
or of Alabama has called for twelve regiments,
winch. must be obtained. The Governor of
Georgis also calls fur twelve regiments, and,
states that, if the requisition is not Ailed by the
4th of Merch nest, a draft will be ordered.
The London Satarday Review, which has made
itself notorious as one of the foreign defenders of the
rebels, in its number for February Bth uses the fol
lowing language in the course of an article on the
blockade. It. says!
ci Whether the people of the Southern States
vrculd pettier in bedding their cotton if there were
any chance of smuggling it to the European market,
we have :coyely the means of pronouncing an opi
nion ; but one of two tbings is certain—either the
Jiffy/veva between four pence anti thirteen pence
per pound is insufficient to overcome the patriotic
scruples of the Confederates, or else a blockade,
which is certainly not the most effieient possible,
has nevertheless been successful in entirely stopping
a traffic which offers unheard-of profits, and on
which the richest and most energetic class in the
world is dependent. for its salvation. The fervent
orators who seek to drive this country from, her
neutrality forget that their denunciations of a paper
blockade do not altogether harmonize with their
unfortunately too true pictures of the sufferings
which it is entailing on Lancashire."
Congress Yesterday.
Streceorr.—Mr. Davie, of Kentucky, offered a sub
stitute for the tetdi..46lo.l4:yik bat, which wad or d cro d
to be printed.
The ease of Mr. Starke was resumed. The
amendment of Mr. Sumner was lost, (yeas 18, nays
26), and the original resolution as reported by the
committee (L a , that Mr. hterke be allowed t 4 take
the oath) was agreed to, (yeas 26, nays 19). The
oath was then administered.
The bill to increase the efficiency of the Medical
Department of the Army was passed with amend
met
Boum—The Upton ease being taken up., it was
decided, by a vote of 73 yeas against a nays, that
Mr. Upton was not entitled to a seat.
Mr. Dawes, of Mastiachuletts, from the Commit
tee on Elections, made a report, aeoompanied with
a resolution, declaring Mr. John P. Verree en
titled to a seat from the Third Congressional dis
trict of Pennsylvania. The subject was postponed.
A revolution was adopted calling on the Secre
tary of War to communicate to the liouse the re
port and correspondence of the St. Louis C9mmis
sion, appointed to examine claims against the
Western Military Department.
Pennsylvania Legislature
SENATE.—Mr. Connell presented resolutions of
the Board of School Directors of the Twenty-second
ward. Philadelphia. approving of the bill to reor
ganize the Board of School Controllers. The bill
has met with no opposition, we believe, except from
the members of the Board themselves, and will
probably become a law.
Ilousx.—The special order was a further supple
ment to the act regulating common schools. The
supplement, which provides that twenty-two dtiis
shall constitute a reboot meuth, instead of twenty
four, as heretofore, was adopted, and the bill post
poned for the present.
PUBLICATWIS Riccamem—From S. C. Upham,
404 Chestnut street, the RlTlStrated Ntw.c of the
Ti - orhi, of February 8, with One portrait, engraved
on steel, of Lerd Derby, and Illustrated London
News, of same date. Also, something in the man
ner of "The Sociable Snake," so well knosfn to
juveniles, The Game of Secession, or Sketches of
the - Rebellion. It has several good portraits of no
tabilities, North and South, and several other
sketches referring to the progress and porMitukent
of the Rebellion.
ENGLISH PICTORIALS.—From W. B. Zieber,
South Third street, we have adv i see@ copies of the
Illustrated London News and Punch, both of
the Bth ink.
The Suppression of War hue
Although there is a disposition in some
quarters to complain of the late order of the
War Department in relation to the publication
of war news, the wisdom and justice of the
policy which dictated it cannot be questioned.
It is nut intended, we believe, to suptu=ess aity
details respecting battles which have actually
occurred, but is only designed to prevent the
enemy from learning the position and strength
of our armies and their contemplated move
ments. It is utterly impossible for a great
campaign to be successfully conducted when
the opposing generals are fully informed of
the power and plans of those who conduct
it. One great cause of the triumph of
our armies in Kentucky was the careful
concealment of the movements of our forces
from the reporters of Northern papers. Of
this restriction they loudly complained, but
it doubtless had a most important influence in
securing the brilliant victories over which the
whole nation now rejoices.
It is alleg,ed by some, who complain of the
bite order, that the enemy gain all the in
formation that is valuable to them before it
can be transmitted to our newspapers for pub
lication. If this statement is true, it is to be
regretted; but we trust the proper authorities
are doing all in their power to break up every
randficatiou of the rebel-spy system, whether
it assumes the shape of disclosures of use
ful information, made for the express pur
pose of enlightening the Southern armies,
or takes the more plausible shake of
gratifying the curiosity of loyal readers by
publications which, in spite of all possible ree
cautions, reach the rebel lines almost as soon
as they fall into the hands of those for whom
they are specially intended. If spies in the
pay or interest of the rebels still infest our
camps and Departments, they should speedily
be detected and consigned to the doom which
the lawk of war and the usages of all naOkuis
pronounce upon such dangerous foes. But,
simultaneous with the destruction of the open
spy system, should be the prevention of the
imprudent piddication in Northern journals.
It will be of little use to adopt half-way
measures, and it would be folly either to
spare any possible precautions to disarm the
professional spies and to fetter the press„ or to
effectually stop the diselosures of the chosen
spies of the rebels, and to leave the press un
fettered. The army may well say, ci A plague
on both your houses."
Nothing that can with propriety and entire
safety be published, will, we presume, be Slip
pressed under the new arrangement. If our
soldiers gain a battle, a full description of their
heroism and valor will be placed before the
Public. If they meet with disaster, in due
time the American people will learn all the
unfortunate particulars !
But there is something terrible in the thought,
that, while hundreds of thousands of our brave
soldiers are perilling their lives in defence of
our liberties, and for the preservation of our
noble Republic, those who are quietly reposing
at home should desire to add, in any way, to
their dangers by announcing to their deadly
foes where they can be conveniently attacked,
how their movements can be fiustrated, and
how they can most easily be slaughtered.
Eager as we may be to obtain the 4 ; latest in
telligence," we should not be reckless and
- wicked enough to pay for it the fearful price
of the lives of companies or whole regiments
of our brave troops, who may be unnecessarily
sacrificed solely, on account of knowledge
gained by the enemy through premature dis
closures from the Northern press. No man
should be unwilling to wait for a few hours or
a few days for news of battles lost or of vic
tories won, if, by keeping him in temporary
ignorance, there was a reasonable prospect
that the chances of the success or tile safety
of any portion of our vast twiny would be im
proved.
The Desperate Counsels of the Southern
Journals
The late numbers of
Southern journals
which have reached us almost universally fall
back upon the doleful theory proclaimed in
the manifesto published some time ago by
DOWELL COBB, Toomes, & Co., as the only one
which can, with any show of plausibility, be
invented to justify a hope that the fantastic
dream of Southern independence can ever be
realized. They urge the people of the South
to fall back when necessary, as the Russians
fell back before NAPOLEON, burning their
cities, devastating their homes, destroying
their plantations, and retreating to swamps
and impenetrable fastnesses. They say that
they cannot be conquered—that every true
man and e` - ,cry true woman will perish before
they will submit to the restoration of the
Union.
But it is 4 noticeable fitc,t, that with these
fierce counsels are nearly always mingled de
nunciations of some who are supposed to be
unwilling to obey them. The editors who
cater for the sanguinary tastes of the "chi
valry''arc fully conscious that they have
rnany in their midst who have not the least
desire in the world to oiler themselves up, like
Bindoo widows, upon the funeral pyre cof
Southern independence. There are millions
in the rebellious States who never loved
Secession well enough to indulge in such
melo-dramatic and fatal grief over is grave,
and who would much rather jeopardize their
lives to save the Republic than destroy them
on account of the failure of the-conspirators
to dissever it. The success of Qur GOVQIII
- in already restoring its authority over
districts which, at one time, resounded with
as much blatant bombast as now tickles the
ears of the traitors in the regions not yet re
deemed by the triumphant march of our
armies, proves how easily a succession of fu
ture victories will crush the rebellion in the
States which are at present controlled by the
conspirators. Resides, it is a noticeable fact
that, in actual battle, the armies of the enemy,
whether they are attacked on the open field, in
entrenched camps, or in strong fortifications,
show quite as much readiness to flee or to
surrender, as to perish in defence of their
posts. They have not evinced in any of their
late conflicts any excess of the spirit which
induces some armies to ic die all—die nobly—
die like demigods." At Hatteras Inlet, at
Port Royal, at Fort Henry, at Roanoke Island,
at Fort Donelson, at Clarksville, at Nashville,
they had little disposition to win ci victory or
death." There are doubtless many brave men
in the Southern army—many who will willing
ly meet death in the bad cause they have es
poused—but there has been no proof given
that they are more ready to continue forever a
hopeless and desperate conflict than the people
of other countries who have been easily con
quered.
That the leading conspirators, who know
richly they tuerit the fate of felons, and
see that their doom is clearly foreshadowed,
should desire to draw down in one common
ruin the whole people whom they have misled
and betrayed, is, perhaps, natural enough.
But it is only a new proof of their selfish
wickedness ; and the very fury of their pas
sions, and the terrible nature of the sacrifices
they ask the people of the South to volunta
rily and foolishly submit to, may assist to dis
pel the delusions of those who are now actively
sustaining the rebellion, and incline them to
seek shelter and protection under the flag of
the Union.
Mexico.
A telegraphic despatch from Washington
informs us that the President's recent nomi
nation of General Scorr as Minister Extraordi
nary to Mexico, has been withdrawn on ac
count of the ill-health of the veteran,-hero.
As the foreign complications which threaten
the penee of the Me lean Republic are as far
from adjustment as ever, and as the destiny
of the land of Conrez may not be, without its
influence on our own future history, the ne
cessity of nominating a new minister for the
delicate mission would seem to be unquestion
able.
WuEN rogues fall out honest men get
their dues," is a proverb perhaps as trite as
it is true; but it received so pointed an illus
tration in a late speech of Mr. Bores, in the
rebel Congress, at Richmond, that we cannot
forbear quoting it. In criticising the action
lof the Southern army, he said: We have to
learn from the enemy. When the battle of
Manassas was lost, Scorr was set aside. MC
DOWELL was never more heard of. They have
evinced an extraordinary.energy ; when one man
failed they took another; they searched until
they found one of military power, and now we
begin to 'feel the result of their policy." This
is a peculiarly significant and sincere acknowl
edgment.of the energetic manner in which the
war against the rebellion has been condUcted
by the Administration, and shows how fully
the traitors are learning to respect and fear a
power they defied and, at one time, pretended
I to despise.
LETTER FROM 0 . OCCASIONAL,'
WASHINGTON, February '27, Be
Whatever may he said of the strong and
stringent order of Secretary Stanton in regard
to the publication of information as to the
movements of the aemy, that picatrice will in
terfere sadly with sensational newspapers and
enterprising correspondents. Hereafter you
must look for reliable intelligence to the morn
ing bulletins of the associated daily telegraphic
reports. It is not believed that this ar
rangement will be a permanent ono, but,
while it lasts, those who have flourished
upon the exciting intelligence of inde
fatigable news gatherers will be forced
to content themselves with plain facts
and unmistakable results. Great mischief
has undoubtedly been the result of the rivalry
between the agents of different journals at
this point, who, however loyal, have, in most
cases, thought more of supplying the latest
intelligence than of withholding that which
might expose the plans of the army to the
common enemy. Let us be content to await
the sequel of events now in rapid and forward
progress.
It is almost impossible to predict the exact
policy of the Administration and its friends
on the important questions that must
arise after the defeat of the rebels. Great di . -
Versity of opinion exists among those who
entertain a patriotic desire to reach and occu
py a common ground. This is but natural,
in vier of the enormous and unprecedented
magnitude of the issues involved, and the des
tinies to be disposed of. Many favorite theo
ries and dogmas must be either changed or
given up, in consideration of the interests de
pendent upon prudent and patriotic action.
Fortunately, the Administration of Mr. Lin
coln has more than three years to run, during
which period the designs of the still active
enemies of the Union and secret sympathizers
with treason can be bathed and counteracted,
and the aseendene,y of the Constitution re
stored and secured for all time to come.
00G ASIONAL
Mr. Gregory, M. P., for the South.
The South is unfortunate in its Parlia
mentary champion in the House of Commons.
Mr. liltlbtm HENRY GREVORT, member of
Galway county, is an Irishman of Very small
account. He has reached his grand climac
teric (having been born in 1817,) and to him
might be applied the apostrophe—
It Even now, though youth ite bloom hag shed,
No lights of ago adorn thee!,
Nothing was heard of Mr. GREGORY until
last year, when he assumed the position of ad
vocate-general for the Southern traitors. He
had spent a summer in the eolith, we believe,
which he boasts of as giving him familiar ac
quaintance Will all places, all parties, and all
politics in the 'United States. Yet the man is
no tyro in parliamentary life. He represented
Dublin city from January 1842 to July 1847,
when the electors, dissatisfied with their
Orator Mnm, permitted him to retire. The
next ten years were passed, we have heard,
on the turf—but the slight circumstance of not
paying his horse-raging debts threw him out
of the sporting line, and, by some influence
yet unexplained, he Nvas elected member for
Galway in 1857, and re-elected in 1859. His
landed property is in the West of Ireland,
Mr. Onnoortr, professedly that anomalous
nondescript a "Liberal-Conservative" (which
is equivalent to a mild hyena or a white
raven), really is that worst sort of politician—
a Tory Irishman- It runs in his blood, For
many years, greatly to the grief of his op
pressed countrymen, WILLIAM GREGORY, his
uncle, was perpetual Secretary of Ireland,
acting under MANNERS, the Chancellor, and
SAunni, the bigoted Attorney-General, as the
constant evil genius of the island. He feath
ered his nest warmly during his long continu
ance in office, and the present representative
of Galway and of the South inherited the
property they accumulated. That he has not
hem able to preserve it all, is, perhaps, more
his fault than his misfortune—considering
how it went.
The policy of the British Government has
been to rule Ireland, by misgovernment.
Divide el impera—the unchristian precept of
ruling by dividing a people—might be assum
ed as the motto of her Irish policy. When
ever the Viceroy n • as liberal, the Chief Se
cretary was the reverse, and rice versa. Bat,
whatever the personal changes, one man re
mained in office, overriding the scanty libe
ralism of his superiors—nominally Under-
Secretary for Ireland, but actually superior to
his chief, superior in power even to the Vice
roy himself. Whoever else quitted office,
WILLIAM GREGORY remained, a living incu
bus upon his native land, universally hated,
with 66 curses not loud but deep" accompany
ing the utterance of hiS name. His nephew,
the present member for cc the South" in the
British Parliament, is equally intolerant—he
is every way worthy of his mission.
His employers have omitted to keep him
well-informed as to the actual condition of
"The so-called Southern 'Confederation."
Hence, there is a great discrepancy in what he
said, in the House of Commons, on the 6th
instant, and what Mr. ITEEFERSO2I DATIS said,
011 the same subject, when inaugurated, on
the 22d. Mr. GREGORY talked to the British
Parliament of "a paper blockade," of cg the
utter inefficiency or the blockade," and so on,
but Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS, WhO may be sup,
posed to know something of the subject,
reluctantly but fully confessed that the block
ade deprived the South of all chance of ex
porting cotton, tobacco, rice, or any other of
its natural products. It is clear front this that
Mr. GREGORY ought to receive a ngtv brief
front his clients—equally unfortunate in a bad
cause and such an advocate as himself.
Southern Logic.
Judging from his inaugural address, Mr.
JEFFERSON DA.vis is qualified to fill the chair
of Logic in one of the lJniversities of the
Flying Island of Laputa. He is not only a
philosopher sat generis, but also a remarkable
optimist. He reminds one of the physician who
as his patient successively enumerated all the
bad symptoms of a mortal ailment, kept on
exclaiming, while life was fluttering and ebbing
away, tcexcellent symptoms "—despite of
which the sick man breathed his last. Mr.
JEFFERBON Davis assured his discontented ad
ditors at Richmond, last Saturday, that all their
misfortunes were for the best, and that there
was something satisfactory and consoling even
in c 4 the serious reverses " which, he was fain
to admit, the rebellious conspiracy has recent-
Iy experienced.
He carries out this optimism, and rather re
joices at the existence of the blockade. He
includes it among the as corresponding bene
fits" which, in his catalogue, W. to be net off
against ccthe material sacrifices of the past
year." He says, ce if the acquiescence of
foreign nations in a pretended blockade has
deprived us of our commerce with them, it is
fast making us a selfzsupporting and an Mae
pendent people." Here, with all respect to
Professor DAVIS, we submit that a blockade
which deprives the South of its commerce
cannot precisely be called pretended. It was
to effect this—it was to cut off the commerce
of the South that the blockade was established,
and has been somewhat effectively maintained.
Mr. DAVIS adds : "The blockade, if effec
tual and permanent,"—lf? Why, it has de
prived the South of its commerce !---cc could
only serve to divert our industry from the
production of articles for export, and employ
it in supplying commodities for domestic use."
Farther on, he enumerates the articles of ex
port so produced, which the blockade keeps
on Southern ground,—they are cotton, sugar,
rice, tobacco, provisions, timber, and naval
stores. The export of these has entirely
ceased, thanks to the (c pretended blockade,"
and the productive industry of the South does
not apply itself to supplying C4ll4lTieditlea for
domestic use. In fact, the rebellion bias mainly
siispended labor in the South, and afforded
such license to the "peculiar institution,"
that were the Rebellion to cease to-morrow,
and the Union once again be in statu quo, the
owners of estates in the Smith would find it
difficult to organize one half the labor which
they used before the war.
No doubt, the South has a large amount of
articles fitted for export. If, as Mr. DAVIS
says, the blockade is only "pretended," how
has it happened that the cotton, rice, sugar,
and other articles of the exchange, which con
stitutes commerce, remain in the South f A
blockade which retains these, surprisingly re
sembles a reality.
MRS. LYDIA JANE rzansori, a well-known
authoress, died at her r esidenee, near Adrion,
klichigan, a few days singe. 8h e wee a native of
Middletovre, Connecticut.
THE mercury in the thermometer, on Satur
day morning, at Chatham, Now DruimidA, wsd
thirty dogreti bbitl tit*.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1862.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Despatches to 41 The Press."
Executive Order No. 2—ln Relation to
State Prisoners.
Welt DI:PART:WENT,
WASIIINGTON CITY, Feb. 27, 1862
It is ordered, first, that a apeeial commission
of two persons, one of military rank and the other
in civil life, be appointed to examine the eases of
the State prisoners remaining in the military custo
dy of the United States, and to determine whether,
in view of the public safety and the existing re
bellion, they should be discharged, or remain in
military custody, or be remitted to the civil tri
bunals for trial.
Second. That Major General John A. Dix, com
manding in Baltimore, and the lion. Edwards
Pierrepont, of New York, be, and they are hereby,
appointed commissioners for the purposes above
mentioned, and they two authorized to examine,
hear, and determine the oases aforesaid ex parte,
and in a summary manner, at such times and places
as in their discretion they may appoint, and make
full report to the War Department.
By order of the President,
Enwin M. STANToN, Secretary of War.
Letter from the King of Siam.
The KING OF Sum, in his letter accompanying
valuable presents, says: Elephants are regarded as
the most remarkable of the large quadrupeds by
the Americans, so that if any one has an elephant's
tusk of large size, and will deposit it in any public
place, people come by thousands crowding to see it,
saying it is a wonderful thing. For this and other
reaetwat be effete to procure and send elephants, to
be let loose to increase and multiply on the conti
nent of America.
The President, in reply, remarked that this Go
vernment would not hesitate'to avail itself of so
generous an offer if the object were ono which
could be made practically useful in the present
condition of the Lotted States. Our political con
dition, however, does not reach a latitude so low as
to favor the multiplication of the elephant, and
steam, on land as well as on water, has been our
best and most efficient agent of transportation in
internal commerce.
A National Foundry. •
Senator WILSON'S bill, reported by him from the
Military Committee to-day, as amended, retains.
the main features for the establishment of a na
tional foundry, pretties for selection of a site on
the tide-water of the Hudson river, or New York
harbor, and appropriates one million dollars for
the erection of buildings and other expenses in
curred under the act.
.Nomination of Gen. Scott WithdraWn,
It is understood that the nomination of Lieutenant
Oelleral SCOTT all Minister Extraordinary to Mex ,
leo, made by the President recently in view of the
foreign complications in that country, has beeh
withdrawn. The most intimate friends of General
SCOTT say that, while appreciating the high honor
sought to be conferred,he is reluctant to undertake
each duties on account only of the present state of
his health.
Col. BEALL, First Cavalry ; Major CHANDLER,
Fifth Infantry, and Major UNDeuwoon, Eighteeotti
Infantry, have been placed on the retired list by
order of the War Department.
A Description of Fayetteville Ark.
rilyetterillo is a flourishing post village, and the
capital of Washington county, Arkanses-200 miles
northwest of Little Rock. It has an elevated and
picturesque situation, and numerous springs of
pure water. It has two large and flourishing
schools, and is the centre of an active trade. It
contains a U. S. land office, three charehes, and
a handsome court house. It has a population of
several thousands.
Confiscating Plan of Senator Davis.
The following amendment is intended to be pro
posed by Mr. DAVIS, of kentucky, to Senate bill
151, to confiscate the property and free the slaves
of rebels,
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert
the followbg
That from and after the passage of this act, all the
property and estate of every kitel soever, real, personal,
or mixed, corporeal or incurporeal, and every right what-
Oyer, equi-ebie, fn poistasiun, reversion, or re•
or in nation ' of dies, end every person being a
citizen of the United States, who shalt then' De engaged
in levying war against the United States, or shall be ed
berme to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort,
shall be forfeited for and during the natural life of the
owner or owners thereof, to each end all .the loyal
citizens of the tn. ted.States, who may have hereto
fore, or who ellen hereafter, sutler lass and damage
by , Jensen of erryforfeitere,evaatwatieu, conversion, ap
propriation, or seizure of any_ property, estate, or rights
of what kind soever, or of money, bonds, obligations, or
chests in action to them belonging, by the pretended
Government of the so-caned Confederate States of
America, or any of them, or by any pretended govern
ment of any other of the . United States ; or by any per
son or persons in the civil, military, or naval service of
the tail Contederate States, or any of them, or any
pretended Government of any other of the United
states; and all the right, title, interests, and
estate, legal or equitable, in posteesion, reversion, or re
mainder, or in action, in and to any property or estate,
and all other rights, Ac., herein declared to be forfeited,
of the Goners thereof so forfeiting the same, for and
during the term of their natural lase& respectively, shall
vest in all such loyal citizens of the Uniteet States as may
have heretofore, or as shall hereafter, suffer,less and
aemeee by the agencies and in the tootle end , manner
birom before tel forth ; area shell etre rest in the loyal
representatives of each and every officer, soldier ', Bailor,
or marine, or oilier person in the military or natal oers
vice of the United States, who may have heretofore, or
shall hereafter die in seen service; and aleo in fill per-
BOLE who have heretofore, or shall hereafter, suffer per
manent disability of body or mind in the military or
naval service of the United States during the existing
war of retallivn. Provided, 'SW all the property,
estate, rights, :le, Au. , eo forfeited and vested. shall be
subject to a prior lien for the payment and satisfaction of
all the debts and liabilities of the persons no forfeiting
the *mute.
Sac 2. And be it further enacted, That the legal re
presentatives of all deer need persons, whu may be enti
tled to the benefit of [bisect, shell be held and adjudged
to have sustained damages to the amount of five Muir,
Bond dollars; in right of such deceased pecans ; OA)
damages o. all other peruse to whom they are secured by
this act, shall be ascertained by a jury to be empanelled
and sworn for that purpose.
Sac. 3. And be it further enacted, That all persons
entitled to send under this act, may institute proceedings,
in their own name, against any person or persons having
iC hisi hi r, or their peeeetteloa or custody, any property.
estate, sights, money, Londe, cbligatiens, or chose& in
lichen, hereby made subject to the satisfaction of their
claims, and shall proceed in vain for the disposition sad
sale of the same, and of the produce taereof, in the form
and nature of an attachment, in any district, circuit, or
other court of the United States, of any State or Terri
tory in which the subject of the suit may be; and such
court may adjudge and order the same, or so much thereof
as may be sufficient, to,be eel I upon tomb terms es may
be equitable and proper, and the proceeds to be paid to
the claimant or claimauts in futiefaction of his, her, or
their damages. Any number of persons may institute
proceedings under this act as actors, end against any
number of persons baring the possession or custody of
any proper subject of the snit ; and aniendmeuts to the
pleadings may be made, front time to time, to bring new
parties. either in the nature of plaintiffs or defendants, be
fore me court, BM the actors Shall have their eptiale
eett,seet le ihe order in whit& their reepective pleadings
were filed; and in cases whose there are more actors than
one, and their pleadings were filed jointly, or at the same
time, mid the muds arising trom the suit will not satisfy
all their claims, they shell be paid pro rata.
SEC. 4. Anti be it further enacted, That the several
colitis to which proceedings under this act may be ineti
toted, tea) from time to time adopt such rulee, forme,
and modes of proceeding, in relation to constructive ser
vice of w ocei.s, and all other points as shall he seasona
ble, eon v orient, and equitable, to give operation and
effect to it. But the court shall not have power to re
quite bond, or to impose any terms whatever upon any
purchaser of property, estate-rights, Ac., sold under this
act, to twee the same forthccming et any future time;
nor shall it in any ease adjudge cots ip fever of any die,
lo) at &Irmo or Prom&
SEC. 5 And be it further enacted, That all rights
whir* under this act shall be assignable, either in law
or equity ; and the assignee or assignees may sue for the
rights so assigued, in his, her, or their own name or
names.
SEC B. And be it further enacted, That all suits under
this act shall be commented Within five years next after
the enberdatien et the State. and Tereiterlee in rebel
lion to the authority, Coediturion, and laws of the United
States; hut the representatives of deceased persons shall
have one year thereafter to institute suits. And this act
shall have no operation or effect whatever until the ex
piration of thirty days from the day of its ptureage.
TICE VIITED STATES TEQOPfi POISONED
ST ./Lows, Feb. 27.—The following despatch was
sent from headquarters, to-stoy, to Major General
McClellan, Washington :
Gen. Curtis has taken possession of Fayetteville,
Arkansas ' capturing a number of prisoners, stores,
baggage, de. The enemy burnt part of the town
beiere leaving. They have crossed the Boston
Mountain in great conflation. We aro now in re
session of all their strongholds.
Forty-two officers end men of the Fifth MB.
sonri Cavalry were poisoned atMudtown by eating
poisoned food which the rebels left behind them.
The gallant Captain Dolfert died, and Lieut. Colo
nel Dania and Captain Schram have suffered
much, but are recovering. The indignation of our
fioldiere is very great, but they have been restrained
from retaliating upontim Frisoners of war.
H. W. HALLECK, Major General.
CROSS HOLLOWS, Ark., Feb 24.—Our army. is
waiting for supplies, and will not be likely to move
for ten or twelve days. Price and McCulloch are
beyond the Boston Mountains. Our troops took
possession of Fayptteville at II e'cleek, yesterday
morning. The ruins of the town were smoking
when the troops entered.
The rebels are badly demoralized. A Louisiana
and a Texas regiment are with McCulloch.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 23.—The New Orleans Bee
confesses to the magnitude of the calamity at Fort
boncison, and condemns the neglect and apathy of
the Confederate Government in not sending sufficient
numbers of troops Westward. It says a general call
to arms bas become an inevitable necessity.
The Memphis Ava?ancitc, of the 224 says that
the Governor of Alabama hum called *for twolve
regiments from that State 7 end if not forthcoming
other measures will be used to fill the requ:sition.
The Governor of Georgia calls also for twelve
regiments from that State, and says if the requisi
tion is net filled by the 4th of March a draft will
be ordered.
A company near KiMsekon, Barton county, is
preparing to tura out one thototant Fenn of oalt
petre from a aaltpetre cave in that vicinity.
The peach and plum trees in Rome, Georgia, are
blooming, and the wheat crop is promising, and al
most too forward.
THE WAR IN
CAPTURE OF FAYETTEVILLE.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN DOLFERT.
FROM TILE SOUTH.
Call for Troops—Draft Threatened
Cotton cards are being manufactured in Dawson,
Goo-gle.
From San Francisco—The Inundation.
SAN Frustersoo, Feb. 26.-The a teemer St.
Louis, from Panama, has arrived.
The weather is better, but the late rains interrupt
thepounnunleat'on with the interior. Most of the
streets of t acramento are uayigabbs by mall boatel,
THE WAR IN TENNESSEE.
CHICAGO, February 27.—A special despatch to
the Times, of this pity, dated Clarksville, the 2:3d
instant, levee the following gloomy account of the
state of feeling among the people there It says
there is but one Union man in the town, and he is
sixty years old, or he would have been killed long
ago. The Hon. Cave Jolliness, who was a powerful
advocate of the Union until the war commenced, is
now as powerful an advocate on the other side. Re
mpg that the only effect of our succemem will be to
drive the people of Tennessee into the mountains
and render them desperate.
There is not a spark of Union feeling here, and
no ono pretends to disguise the fact. The people
of Clarksville glory in Secession, but, at the same
time, they gre trembling lest their town should be
burned. There was a large quantity of rebel stores,
a portian of which was carried off and the remain
der destroyed. The rebel leaders shipped a thou
sand negroes last week from Clarksville.
From the Upper Potomac—Six Soldiers
Drowned
SANDY Holm Feb. 27.-- Six soldiers were
drowned in the Potomac yesterday by the upset
ting of a boat. They all belonged to Company P,
of Col. Geary's regiment. Their names were as
follows : Abram Spicer, Alexander Helverson,
John Wood, -- Artlep, and John Torode. The un
fortunate men would not have met with the di:mg
ter; had they not become alarmed at the careening
of the boat.
Rebels Driven from Missouri.
SIXTY PRISONERS CAPTURED-EXPLOSION AT CO-
LumauS
Sr. LOCUS, Fob. 27.—C01. 'Wood's cavalry has
driven the rebels out, of Dent, Texas, and Howell
counties, Missouri, and taken sixty rebel , prisoners.
A Cairo despatch says that a heavy rumbling ex
plosion was heardreyesterday, in the direction of
Columbus. The rebels are supposed to be blowing
np their entrenchments.
ravirril: CONGIISSS4IRST . SISSIOL
W unnawrox, Feb. 27, DM
SENATE.
A NATIONAL FOUNDRY.
Mr. WILSON (Rep.), of Moomichußothi, reported back
from the Committee CM MilititY:) , Affairs the bill providing
for a national foundry and furnace, with on amendment
striking out the provision for a furnace.
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE. CONFISCATION BILL
Dlr. DAVIS (C.), of Kentucky, offered a bill as a sub.
stitute for the confiscation bill. Ordered to be printed.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY.
On motion of Mr. WILRON. the bill to iiltkr634l. the
efficiency of tho medical department of the army was
taken up. '
Mr. SHICBMAN (Rep.), of Ohio, called the attention
of the Senate to the very large increase is the salaries of
surgeons contemplated by the bill. He said he was
to increase the number of surgeons, an would not
vole for an Increase of salary.
CittIKES (Rep.), of lows, moved to add " or tho
medical corps of Yoluhtears." so that they could be Be
lot:kit from volunteers as well as the regale. , army.
Mr. WILSON (Rep.), of Maseachus tts, moved to
amend, so as to provide that the additional surgeons be
selected horn the medical corps of the army. Adopted.
Mersin. NESMIT El (Dam.), ERIE (Dem.), and
BROWNING (Rep.), opposed the amendment, as cal
culated to dieorgantze the medical corps of the army,
and allow any one lt9 aeNgt 118 mere DoMimi and
medical quack&
CIVIL APPROPRIATION.
Mr. PEARCB (Dern ), from the committee of con
ference on the civil appropriation, preeented a report,
which woe agreed to.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY.
The Berate resumed the consideration of the bill to le
r Mr. Grilnee' amendment,
Inedigai department of the
cLe m e
t t h h e e
ucei:tniociyi
beinthgeo
that the surgeon general, medical inepectore, dx., be se
lected irom the volunteers as well as the regular army.
Mr. NESMITH (Dem.), of Oregon, said that tho com—
mittee had considered the bill carefully. They had all
sorts of theories and IV/101.18 with plans before them.
One spiritualist came before them and wanted the Go
vernment to employ a corps of spiritual sappers to draw
wagons out of the mud, and also to be employed as elate-
Yoy ante.
After further AiMll36ioll Dir. Grimes' amendment was
adopted.
THE STARKE CASE
( The morning hour having arrived, the case of Mr
starke, of Oregon, was taken uD•
Mr. HOWARD (Rep.) spoke against the admission of Mr.
Starke on the ground of self-defence. Could not the
Senate keep out a beterietto tettitei', who, we bad reason
to believe, only came here as a spy to aid in the over
throw of the Government 7 Certainly the Senate could
keep out such a man. How does she. Senate possess the
poster to punish for contempt Not from the express
power of tee Constitution, but from the right of self
preservation. The Supreme Court had decided that the
Moose of Representatives had the right to punish
Pir/115.0111 foe soalerept. if we could expel a prirato in.
(ruder or spy, could any credentials found in his pocket
prevent such an exclusion if he came with the OM pur
pose in his heart
Be contended that Mr. Starke, at the time the disloyal
declarations were said to be made, must have known
what was going on in the country. He referred to the
affidavits of Mr. Starke's declarations, and said that ho
heliel*d the people of Oregon wereoutraged by the send•
tog here of such a person as Mr Starke. If these affida
vits are true; if the claiment ertertains such views, he
is not a fit man for Senator, but is in his heart a traitor.
While we see mothers giving up their eons, and the peo
ple all over the country giving their lives for the de
fence of their country, so long as he was a Senator, he
never would consent that a traitor should take his seat
here, so la fp hint God.
AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT
Mr. DAT/9 (U.). of Kontuckri moved to amend air.
ffninner's ameudnient so that it will rea t, that the evi
dence is not sufficient to preclude the said Benjamin
Starke from taking the oath prescribed by the Constitu
tion ; therefore, that be be permitted to take the oath and
his seat.
Mr. BROWNING (Rep.), of Illinois, wanted to know
whether, in voting for Mr. Sumuer's saimimetit, it
would take two-thirds to pass it; and whether, after a
Perron is appointed Bender, and accepts, ha is net a
r i
member of the e nate in fact, even before taking the
oath, mai. the 2re, that it cr.tuld take two thirds. to
prevent' biro fro exeroieleg the rights ~f a Senator.
Mr. SHERMAN (Rep.), of Ohio, said that Baron
Rothschild was a member of Parliament eleven years
without takir g the Oath, and the House of Representa
tives this year expelled two members who never took the
oath at all. ,
ittri BROWNING thought that Mr. Starke was alena
tor already, and that the Senate might expel a man be
fore he ttok the oath, but he thought it a fairer way to
admit a man, that we might hear his defence, and so get
evidence on both sides. He thought it a precedent of
great danger to give the Senate power, by a majority, to
"disenfranchiko a State. .
Mr_ ROWII (Rti,) roved to .ald do ittr. Davie'
amendment the words "until such time ae eatinfactory
evidence can be procured of the truth or falsity of such
charges." Agreed to.
Mr. KABUL": (Esp.), of New York, said that it was
the wish of Mr. &in ke that bubo sworn in, anti teen that
the papers be recommitted to the Committee es the Ju
diciary to inunire into the truth of the charges.
Mr. 'PEN RICK (Rep.), of New Jersey, was opp?sed
to any further reforetes to the coma:ditto°. flu vented
The case settled now. AU the evidence was here now.
After further discussion, Mr. DAVIS withirew his
amendment, leaving the question on Kr. Stunner's
amendment, which was disagreed to—yeas 18, nays 2G.
Messrs. Anthony, Colluder, Johnson, and Fessenden
explained that by their votes they did not intend to ex
press any opinion on the question of expulsion, when
that ahoald come up afterward, but thought it best to
admit Mr. &alto that they minht hear hit defunem
The question then came up on the resolution of the
committee
Mr. DOOLITTLE (Rep.), of Wisconsin, moved to
add the words, "That it does not prejudice any subse
quent proceedings." Adopted.
Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep.), of Illinois, said that if the
resolution was ad,pted, be thought it would and tho "see,
It was Amply ssving 'hat the clenate would not look at
the character of a man if he came here all covered with
infamy, and not look at the chsrge of treason though
sworn to by fifty witnesses.
The vote was then taken on the resolution of the nom.
mittee, that be (Mr. Starke) was entitled to take the
oath..
S Res—M.3am Anthony, Browning, Carl le, Collamer,
Cowan; Davie, Yeaaenden, l'agtby, Ifeadersea,
Johnson,; Kennedy, Latham, 51cDougall, Ne
smith, Pearce, Powell, Rice, Saulsbury, Sherman, Sim
mons, Ten Ryck, Thomson, Willey, and Wilson of Mis
souri-2G.
N.SYS—Dießars. Chandler, Clark, Dixon, Doolittle,
Foot, Grimes, Dale, Harlan, Howard, King. Lane of
Indiana, Morrill. Pomeroy, Sumner, Trumbull, Wade,
Wihnet, and Wilson of Massachneetta.-19.
hir. ST/1 - KKK Wen came forward and look the oath.
THE tibION COTTON SUPPLY COMPANY.
Mr. GRIMES (Ilep.), of lowa, presented the memorial
of Charles Fletcher, asking for a charter for the Union
Cotton Supply Company. with power to lease or purchase
lands in any part of 'he United States, and contract with
free taborere, dtc. Btferred.
trrzamitcY 111 E MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Mr. RAVE fßep.ir`of New Hampshire, moved to fur
ther amend the bill to increase the efficiency of tho
diced depaitment, io OJ3 to allow the selection of surgeon
general, inspectors, Sce., from the country at large. Re
jected. !
--Mr. SIFICIIMAN,mwed to amend no as to reduce the
alga of Burgeon General from that of Brig-Wier Gene
ral to . Colonel of Caralry. Agreed to. Also, au amend
ment to reduce the olaries of Assistant Surgeon General
and Medical Inspector. which was agreed to.
Mr. GRIMES Awed an amendment that the provi
sions of this act her existence so long as the rebellion
taste and no longs T Agreed to.
The bill was the pained.
The conliscatimaill was taken up. and the Senate
ad
iourncd. ,
HOUSI OF ttEPRESENTATIYES
THE 01VIL APPROPRIATION.
The House COUCtinkl in the report of the committee
Of conference on the &agreeing amaulmonta to tire bill
making appropriationdfor sundry civil expenses.
ADDITIONAL CLERKS.
Itlr. STICTENS (lip.), of Pennsylvania, from the
Committee of Ways aid &leans, reported a bill providing
for the appointment oradditional clerics in the Assistant
Treasurer's office at Rev York. Referred.
PATRIOTIC PAPHRS FOR DISTRIBUTION
Mr. WittaftT (II.): of Faunas lvatda y •introSaced a
joint resolution that the proclamation of Andrew Jack
son, on the Pnbject of nullification ' together with the
Farewell Address 'of Vtaslington, be printed for distri
bution.
Mr. I.7EVENB 011ep.e, P,itimsylvaniai moved the
additiol of the Pechiration Indeteadence. Agreed to.
The resolution - wee; Wm referred to the Committee on
Printing. , --
TIIE•FP2OIf, &ACTION An,
Tlieltouse then resumol ire consideration of the Upten
election case.
. . .
Mr. DELANO (Rep.), ntl Mr. HARRISON (U.),
spoke in favor of, and Dr. LOOMIS (R.p.), and Mr.
DAWES (Rep.), against tli claims of Mr. Upton.
The Muse (Mole , ed, bta vote of 73 agaluit 50, that
Dlr. Upton is not entitled I M
RO.
Tile Third Dist r t Contested Case.
Mr. DAWES (Rep ), ofosschusetis, from the Com.
13
mitten on Elections , mad{ a report, accompanied by
resolutions, that John RIO, is not, and John r. Verreo
is, entitled to a seat from tlis Third Congressional dis•
trict of Pennsylvania. TAJ consideration of the case
WAS postponed.
WESTERN SITLITARC DEPARTMENT.
On molten of Mr. WASIAIRNE, (Rep.), of Illinois,
front the Governmenteentrat Committee, the resolution
wad adopted calling on the Scretary of War to cocarou
nicate to the Room the (Tolland correepondence of the
Con miseion eitting a fit. ;ouie for examination of
~,r
claims growing out of airs li the Western Military De
partment. The noun en alonrymj,
The Gunboats /foquols and Quaker City.
raw Yook. Feb. 2T—ale Reamer Iroquois WWI at S.
Thomas on the 12th or. The Quaker City sailed -on
the 4111, on a cruise.
Death of Prof. ikon, of Harvard College.
DOI , TON, F 1
anDOnCing
uonego, at 01
The Rel
BClt TON, Ft
street amount
half that am
Marko by Telegraph.
et" 1 "-kfi- FO6. 21 flour in ink demand at 41 - 4.5 4 1.
Wheat dull . and 203 c wer 3 sales of red at 96098 e;
wiilte SIoLOS. Whia is in good demand. and yo
bleier; melees at 18c. vieions dull; 50 bbls mess Pork,
to till an army cont 4, at 812; bulk meats lower;
250,000 The sold at 3 or shoulders and &Nes ler rides.
Lard Id offered at 71[..Vxchange has declined to par
gold dull at 2X ; out Is abundant ante aim at go)
•bi'' mt.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
The Senate was called to order at eleven o'clock by the
Speaker.
Mr. McGill - RI stated that Nome of the regirnente of
tbo Reserve uorps were without officers. The act of last
D 1 ay required that the company officers should be elected
by the privates. This had been found so demoralizing
that the regimental officers refused to order elections to
fill vacancies. fie asked and obtained leave to intro
duce a bill repealing so touch of the act of nay tact au
thorizing the Res. rye Corps tp elect it. own officers,
which would put them on precisely the seem footing as
the 80,000 troops front Pennsylvania, and enAhlo these
vacancies to be immediately tilled.
The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee, mid
a motion made to discharge the committee and primed
to its consideration, which wits discusawl and not agreed
to—yeas 10, nays 20.
Mr. CONNELL, a remonstrance from ono hundred
citizens of Germantown against the proposed supple
ment to the North Philadelphia Plank Bowl Company.
Meyers. DONA VAN, Sant H, and BOUGHTER, erv.th
presented remonstrances of similar import.
Mr. CONNELL presented resolutions of the Board of.
School Directors of the Twenty-second ward, Philadel
phia, cordially approving of the bill to reorganize the
Board of School Controllers, which were read.
Mr. DONAVAN' presented a communication from the
School Board of the 'twenty. fifth ward, remonstrating
against the hill to reorganize the Board of Controllers,
which was read.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
Mr. PENNEY (Judiciary), as committed, the supple
ment to the act relating to the attachment of vim iels.
tr. CLYMER (same), es committed, the bill to re
store a separate representathm to the counties of Bed
ford, Perry, Cumberland, and Somerset,
Mr. CRAWFORD, a supplement to the act relative to
public printing.
Mr. BOUND, a bill relative to the Shamokin Valley
and Pottsville, Railroad Company.
Also, o condiment to tne actin :orporatitn the Shamo
kin and Brim Valley (Mal llonmany.
motion
On of Mr, KETCHAM .. the bill relative to the
deice of minim] P..Erobst was considered and Psaiied•
alr. 1301:GliTElt read in place a further eupplement
to the act incorporating the city of Harrisburg. Ad -
jurued.
The Home met at 10 A. M., Lion. John Rowe,
Speaker, in the chair. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Steele.
REPORTS OF COMMITTICKS.
Mr. DUFFIRLI), of Philadelphia, (Judiciary-, local,)
with an amendment, an act to create two additional as•
aeseora in the First ward, city of Philadelphia ; also, with
a negative recommendation, au act to repeal an act rela
ting to the collection of taxes in the Twenty-third ward,
Philadelphia.
air. RAMSEY, of York, (Roads, Bridges, and Canals.)
as committed - an net to change the width of York street,
in the oily of Phill4.ll4ola.
. .
11ANUEI, of Pitiladelphis, (Corporations,) as
committed, an act to incorporate the Peoplo's Insurance
Contrany of Norristown.
Mr. BITIEB, of Snyder, (Corporations ' ) as com
mitted, an act to extend the charter of the Norristown
t. axing% Loan, and Building Association.
Mr. ftAMBLE, of ticlaware, a bill to incorporate the
Motown,. Farm Stock Association of Delawaro county.
Mr. WORLEY, of Lancaster, a bill to extend the
charter or tho Lancaoter County flank.
Mr. ARMITRO NG, of Lycoming, a supplement to an
act incorporating the Pennsylvania Bible society.
Mr. ABBOT, of Philadelphia, a bill to incorporate
the Entomological Society of Philadelphia.
Alen, a bill to provide far the filiMeaccor ate amusement
and valuation of property in the city of Philadelphia.
Mr. FREELAND, of Dauphin, a bill relative to eel
laterala.
Mr. DENNIS, of Philadelphia, a bill supplementary to
an act to incorporate the Fairmcunt and. Arch-street
City ressenger Railway Company,
Mr. 7, IEGLE tt, of Jeffersoq, a bill to enable land and
improvement oompauiegh incorporated under the laws of
this Ci3nimonweslth, tti Rieet Sho pava‘ali of HEMS upon
land had by said companies.
Also, a supplement to an act entitled «An art for the
greater certainty of title and more secure enjoyment of
real eetete," approved A pril 22,1826.
Mr. GRANT, of Butler, a supplement to the act en
titled *. An act for the sale of the Main Line of the
Public Works."
31r, 6311TH, of Philadelphia, a bill to rapeal an ant
apptakeed April It,ll, entitled " A further supplement
to an act incorporating the city of Philadelphia, itt ro
feremce to allowances and penalties in collecting taxes."
Mr. ABBOT, of Philadelphia, a bill to authorize
"Francis P. Mower, ti ustee under the will of Francis
Deal, to convey eertaiu real estate in Philadelphia.
Mr. MYERS, of Lancaster, a supplement to an act
incorporating the Reading
. and Columbia Railroad
Company. . _
A further suptitrirrent to the act entitled 61 An act for
the regulation and contimmuce of a system of educa
tion by common schools," approved the Bth of May,
1854, was taken up.
I'ERBIIING, of Cambria. The sentiment of the
State is against the section of the bill requiriag tour
weeks to constitute a teacher's meuta. The effect will
bt tc. exelte OPPoeition to the eetnnion.gettool spasm.
The wag' s of teachers for twenty days, of six hours
each, are too great when compared with the time of the
common laborer
31r. ELLIOT, of Tioga. A man's services are worth
what his ahalhies will bring him.
801ITH, of Cheater. A teacher who employs his
time faithfully does not find his duties at an end for the
day when the school is out He paws timer th-epless
NUM The mind is racked. His physical system is worn
out, and the ruied refuses to impart instruction when
confined continuously to his school-houae, without any
day of general rest and recreation. The great vice of
the present system of education, both in common schools
and boarding schools, is that we are driving everything
ahead with regard to our children.
Mr. WIG!) AN, of. Allrghrny. We bad better fix
it-malty-two das aas the length 0r a mouth. But what
busine‘s at all have we to say four weeks iu one vacation
that' constitute a menthl
Mr. PERSHING, of Cambria. lam not in favor of
teaching six days in a week. They should be kept open
five days in a week, but not twenty days a month.
Mr. GROSS, of Allegheny. The bat does not permit
the days in which there is no school to be lost by the
teachers. The Satuidays are to be appropriaied to the
improvement of the teachers by means of institutes_
Mr. ELM, gr Predford. The labor of a teacher during
six hours of the day is more exhausting, both mentally
and physically, than any ether kind of labor. We must
look to the interest of the teacher as well its the scholar.
Mr. ' , AYERS, of Lancatter, preferred that the calendar
month be adopted.
Mr. COWAN, of Warren. A system t work well should
be uniform. He was in favor of the bill as it stood, so
far ae it relates to the time. Let the whole State under
bt!thti 04.4 so many'filays constitute ii school month.
IiINONINIT, of Erie. I have always measured the
intelligence of a community by their liberstity towards
their teachers. That teacher wins considers his services
worth something is the one who is the most benefit to
the community. We want cultivated teachers.
kir. CisA THAN, of Clinton. The amendment of the
gentleman from Cambria, making twenty-two days a
month, Is a liberal one.
Ur. WlLLielim of Allegheny. A calendar month is
Is month according to our law. The great Command says
six days shalt thou work, and do all thy work. When a
3 ear meant a year teachers were conscientious. Now, it
is otherwise. all that is required of the teacher is to se
cure the good favor of the school directors. According
to this bill we are to throw hi the daturdays to teach the
teener; Wes, who 10 fh teaeh the teachers t Who it
to regulate the Instruction? Why, I think the man why
undertakes to teach and yet is to attend an institute to be
taught mere, had better stop teaching. There was a
time, be recollected, when the only holiday riven to
scholars, and the only leisure time for the teacher, was
Saturday afternoon.
The rote on the amendment making twenty-two days
a scboal month was —64 y tad, 20 nays • therefore, the
amendment was wielded.
ktr. TWITCHELL, of trio, moved to amend, that
"One half the number of Saturdays , ' be appropriated to
exereiPes or institutes for the linprovement of the
teachers.
CRANE, of Wayne, moved to amend by making
it one Saturday" of rack mouth.
Mr. Crane's amendmeat was agreed to.
On motion of Mr. BIGIIAM, of Allegheny, the bill
Wag POOtiKIIO3 for the present,
The message from the Senate was taken up and die
poeed of.
JOINT RESOLUTION OF THANKS TO PHILA
DELPHIA COUNCIL&
On motion of tar. tJES NA, of ileafora, the House
proceeded to the coneideration of the joint resolution of
Checks tq tho ityot end Com Mild ot. Pnitadelphiai for
their hOnitallty extended to the members of the Legisla
ture on the 22d of Febru•iry•
Mr. 'WILLIAMS, of Alieglieny, had no objzction to
returning thanks for the hospitality extended members
of the Legislature, but he thought it might appear that
the Legislature adjourned to meet in Philadelphia, in
stead of adjourning till the next Mouday, February 24,
for the purpose of participating in the cereitionjec Ut
said the g . -at ral Imprt3eion was that the Legislature
adjoin ued here to meet in Philadelphia, but such was
not the case.
Pending the remarks of - Mr. BIGUAM, of Allegheny,
the hour of adjournment arrt.ed, whereupon the Speaker
adjourned the Moose till 10 A. M. to-morrow.
TWO= DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
TRI BLOCKADE UNDER CONSIDERATION
Dreadstnils and Provisions Declining
COTTON FIRM—CONSUs oat
PORTLAND, Me., Feb. 27.—The steamship Hibernian,
from Liverpool on the 13th, Till Londonderry on the 14th
inst . ., are ived here at 'ha , * o'clock Ude afternoon.
The staaroshitc 5am24114., froin New York - , arrived at
Southampton on the 9th instant.
The steamship Arabia, from New York, arrived at
Liverpool on the 10th instant.
The steamship North American, from Portland, ar
rived at Liverpool on the 12th instant.
American affairs had been debated in the Ileum of
Lords, and impure relative to the blockade of the South
ern poris were promised shortly by Bari Bum%
The European political news is goneral/y unimportant.
The steamship ..eEtn a, for Now York, was detained at
Liverpool until the 13th instant.
GREAT BRITAIN.'
In the House of Lords, on the 10th, the Earl of Car.
narvon said that he bad received information that no less
than three Britiett subjects were confined in the prisons
Of the Federal Government, and lain there for some
months, and denied a trial or their release unless they
look ;the oath of allegiance to the United States. He
hoped the Government would take earnest steps in the
case, and at once declare what was to be the position of
Britieli subjects in the Federal States.
Earl Russell said that Lord Carnarvon could hardly
have read the papers which were laid on the table, for if
he had ho would have seen that these cases had been
brought under the notice of the Government. Neither
had ha made allowance far the peculiar state- of affairs
in the United Stated, ' which justified urgent measures.
In England. Parliament had given the Government, in
times of difficulty, authority to arrest persons on sus
picion, and it had to be frequently done without their
being brought to trial.
This Government had complained of the- arbitrary
manner in which these arrests had been made, by the
We authority of the President of the United Stated,
without legislative sanction. He was not disposed to de
fend the acts of the United . Staten Government. Con
gress had decided that the prerogative belonged to the
President, and if he believed that the parties were en
gaged in treaßnnable conepiraeiee, ea alleged, he (Earl
Russell) could not see bow her Majesty's Government
kuitia 4ihich wile eheolattely
cos airy, ulthough it was exercised with unneciesary
harshness.
The American Government alleged that they had un
doubted proof of the complicity of these pereone in con
spiracies, and thin her Melody's Government was not in
a position to contradict ; but they had entered a strong
remonstrance against the manner in which the arrests
Ifilde made and the prisoners treatedh and also case of
thole pri WWI would be earnestly watched . by Omit,
Earl Bushell, in a late litter to Sir Charles Wyke,
touching the rumor that the Archduke Maximilian would
be called to the throne of Mexico, says if the PiteXiCed
people, by a spontaneous movement, place the Austrian
Archduke on the throne, there is nothing in the Con
vention to prevent it. On the other hand, we could be
no parties to a forcible interveution for this purpose.
Earl Derby was ready to make every allowance for
the difficulties of the G'overument of the Federal States,
but them cases naturally excited indignation, after the
arbitrary manner in which British snhjects had been hi
variably treated, and the very unconrteous replies of the
Federal Government to the remonstrances of Earl. Rua.
eell, who Lad quietly accepted the views of Mr. Seward
in this case, which he was not disposed to do.at- fleet.
Ile would therefore ask the noble Earl if, in any 'English
precedents of this kind, it w as made a condition of being
brought to trial to forswear allegiance to his own. comae
try 1 1f the right to arrest on suspicion was admitted,
the subsequent treatment Wee unpreeedeatad.
Earl Ruesell had no knoaledgo of the details in those
cater, having had no notice of the quaillipn. He was not
aware that the o.th of allegiance to the Federal Govern
ment had been tendered except one vibe bad declared
his intention of becoming a subject of the United States.
Teri
..itligno!l, In !MY ts. Uri DouonSbmwe 901 1 19
believed the Federal Goverment had not tendered the
reeeivA, here
n, of liarsard
Boston.
in Commercial
is insured for
HARRISBURG, February 27, 1882.
SENATE.
PETITIONS
BMA INTRODUCKD
HOUSE.
BILLS . ILTIMODUC I&D
brECIAL ORDER
oath 01 allegiance to Bridal dubjecte, knowing them to
be ouch.
Exrl Idralineshury, in asking for the papers connected
with the blockade, complained that the Times had de
liberately represented that Earl Derby advocated its
being forcibly raffled. He approved et the conduct of
the Government, and the question Malone for Horn
to deside ;but. it 'sins desirable to know what WM the
real state of the blockade. Be expressed doubts of the
policy of the declaration of l'arie in 1856, and did not
believe they would or could he carried out in great wars,
when circumstances would he too strong for abstract
principles.
Earl Russell said that, on the first night, he was glad
to fit d that the noble Earl opposite Isad approved of the
conduct of the Government, and the country must feel
confidence when all its leading men were agreed. The
pews were now being printed. They would be in their
lordships' bands before long, and he hoped they would
reserve their opinions till then, considering the im
portance of the question.
In the House of Commons, on the 10th Mat., Mr. Cob
den gave notice that, at an early day, he intended to
bring under the consideration
of the House the state Qf
international and inarillino law, as it aftecte the rights of
neutrals
The London-Daffy New reviews the engagement at
Mill Sprints, Ry , as a genuine and important Federal
success, end thinks if, an it may reAsooahly hope, that
the Federal troops engaged in it may be taken an a re
presentative specimen of the Union army an it has be
under McClellan, the result of rapid and decisive
action cannot he doubted.
The diplomatic correspondence concerning the intemn
tien in Mexico hail been laid before Patliati i ent.
It was announced in London, on the 11th instamt, that
the negotiations with certain capitalists of that city, for
the four millions eterdng loan to the French Go
vernment, or its agents, had been suddenly broken oft'.
The cause of the abandonment was not stated, except an
intimation to enliscribera that the securities which were
to he hypothecated are not to ho obtained.
The dieconnt bank at St. Etienne loin stopped pay
ment. Ite capital, to the 41111911 ht of 9E400%000 frane.4,
has }men hut.
FRANCE
Paris letters say that Slidell was received by IV, Thou
venel in a private capacity, his diplomatic assumption of
character being distinctly ignored.
The bill for the convention of the 4,4 per cent. rentee
having been rammed by the Chamber of Depntte3, by a
VOA of no In 19, the Bonfire, on the 11th Instant, unani
mously declared that it did not oppose the promulgation
of the law for each convereion.
The Paris Bourse was dull, awl the 'vete' were quotea
at 71125 e.
M. Mon has accepted the presidency of Congress, made
vacant by the death of Martinez de la Boss.
It is said that FTNTICO haw coooente.l to fix tho amount
of the sletlitidl tlebt of 1E23 at 20..011000 frames, mail that
a decree for its Lottlamsnt has re ld the royal signa
ture.
A great popular demonetration took place at Genoa, on
Sunday the wh, In favor of. Victor Emmanuel and Rome
as the capital of Italy.
At Milan on the same day preparations had boon made
for a demonetration, but the municipality fecund a notice
that such demonstrations were uselerS, Aiid adyistair Vita
Milanese to exercise their constitutional rights by sign
ing the following protest:
a hhough respecting the Sovereign Pontiff of Rome
as the Head of the laurel, we look upon Rome as the
capital of Italy, with one king, Victor Emmanuel."
This protest soon received an immense number of
signatures.
Barn Mewl' had homed a circular as the Moisao
question, in which he observes the aovernmeut Mill pur
sues the execution of the notional wishea. and has for
mally stated by what ways and means it intends to pro
ceed to Rome. The Ministry alone will decide on these
sirens and the opportunity of employing them. The
Government degree that its labors may not be impeded
by inconsiderate arts of enthusiasm and clamorous mani
festations.
Profeete should enlighten public opinion, and make
use of their authority, in order to prevent these popular
manifestations.
Popular demonstrations have taken place in several
other Italian towns.
The cotton manufacturers nt Genoa, who employ tip.
wards of 25,00 hands, held a meeting to consider means
of alleviating the effects of tne present crisis in the cot
ton trade. committee was appointed to T 91 3 913 en the
matter.
TIIIIKEY
A severe engagement had taken place between the
Turks and Montenegrins near Scutari.
The loss was heavy on both aide&
INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA.
Additional telegrams of these mails had been received.
Tramporte and other Teasels sailing round the Cape Of
Good lione are haling wad.
MELnocaNs, Dec. 26. , —"1he amount of gold shipped
since the last mail has been 173,2-Iks minces. Trade is
steady.
The Jemmy mails from the west coast of Africa had
reached Eeglatl.
Increased activity in the - slave trate was reported,
The aithdra»•al of the American squadron led imme
diately to a large increaae in the number of vessels car
ry ing the American Msg.
1110 harms MOINE/ OYELM, fips Now York, but
eailSng under British colors, bad been seized in the roads
of Cape Cowden the suspicion that the was a slaver.
LATEST VIA LIVERPOOL
layenrooL, Feb. 13, P. fd.—The steamship Eines was
detained here until this morning. She sailed simultane
ously with the. Hibernian.
It WOO ititolldEd to deepateh the Ittoturnor ritMat.Ea.ttePg
for New York in April.
The House of Lords, on the 12th inatant, waa not in
sesbion.
The proceedings in the House of Commons, on the same
day, were merely of a formal nature.
The. London Times, of the 13th, publishes further cor
respondence from Dr. Doane% from New York. In it
the writer says that the army of the Patentee is hot/Moly
to move till the winter is over, and that a mutinousspirit
prevailed among the men, many of whom are better off
than ever they were; and that the various expeditions by
sea bad, so tar, accomplished nothing of moment. The
affair in Kentucky he regards as the greatest success yot
achieved by the Federate.
The treasury returns for the year ending 31st Decem
ber twat chow all axceue of expenditure over receipt, or
512,014,207.
FRANCE
The Bourse on the 12th closed firmer; Rented TX 35c.
Another note on the slink of the Valley of the Dappes
had been addressed by the Swiss Government to M.
Thenvenel. It maintains the position taken by Switzer
land, and regrets that France has not arrived at a simi
lar conviction.
It WAS Considered probable that goner Gonzales would
be appointed Spanibb ambassador al Paria, and that Se
-nor Moritz will ba President of the Council of state.
AUSTRIA.
Letters frost Vienna are filled with most lamentable
accounts of the inundation. The district submerged iu
Vienna alone. cotuprises a population of 80,000 persona
to be provided for. Rain fell for four days, almost with
out interndesion. ISrialges and viaducts W t dostroyoll,
aid the roilroad service woe nearly all suspended.
Several towns were also inundated by the Danube, in
cluding Premburg and Peatb.
Other continental rivers, particularly those in 'Tolland,
had also greatly risen, and were causing much alarm.
The Prince of Wales had arrived at Vienna, and had
been visited by the Einperor Francis Joseph, and the
Archdukes.
TUARRY,
A severe engagement between the Turks and Montene
grins bad taken plan near Sestori. The loss ems heavy
on both sides.
•
THE ENGLISH FUNDS.—The English funds, ou the
I2th Instant, were firm but dull. Consols were a shade
bigger, dosing with 'borer* et 93, The discount =Met
was sass. Good bilis sold et O.N sa.„4.
VERY LATEST VIA. LIVERPOOL
LIYEMPOOL. Feb. 13, P. M.--1 he Hibernian is de
tained till to-night. There is little news of moment since
the closing of the despatches this morning.
The steamship Parana, from Halifax, arrived at Ports
mouth on the 13th; and the City of Manchester, from
New Toth, arrived at Oueenatown the same day.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The Times, in an editorial on Burside's Expedition,
toys the force engaged it plainly inadequate to the ser
'VICO expected, und, if Burnside wishes success, he will
entrench himself, estab fah a good hese of operations, and
await reicfereements before running the risk of pane
1, ating the enemy's country.
The Great Exhibition building in London has been
delivered up to the conunissionere by the contractors.
It Was virtually completed at noon en the instant, at
stipulated in the contract knot herculean efforts were
made to accomplish this result.
PARIS, Feb. 13.—The 'cur publishes the law on
the optional conversion of the 434 par cents. Tho de
cree fixes the difference to be paid at If 40c for 4% per
cents. and 4f 20c for the 4 per cents.
DI AMU IP. Fen. 12.—Sener Mott will retain Ws appoint?
mart voinimeeador to FriILIOU in addition to his new
poet a Prowamt of CODATOPS.
The statement that some public office has been offered
to Narvacz, is unfounded.
POBTUG&T,
Connt De Louza, liDnisfer of Finance under Don
Mignel, is dead, aged 89.
LONDON MONEY MARKET.—Tha funds on Thug
alty tubed nrtner, Coma, tY546'6•;1.
Amtrican securities unaltered.
Commercial Intelligence.
[Per Hibernian.]
LIVERNIOL, Feb. 13.—Corrox.--Sales of three days,
including Wednesday, 28,000 bales, including 16,000 to
speculators and exporters. The market closed firmer,
and svith an upward tclitiouoy, but without change In
pricre.
BRICADSTUFFS —Messrs:Wakefield, Nash, & Co., Rich
ardson. Spence, Si, Co., and others, report Flour heavy,
and 6d lower—quoted 288315. Weeat quiet, but steady.
Corn flat at 6d decline; mixed, 30s 3d; yellow, 30s 6d;
white. 34037 e.
PnnvisioNs —Beef dull and unchanged. Pork de
Pardll oval', Lard Tau dull at 43at46e. Tat
low quirt at 45006.1 6d.
PRODUCE—Ashes quiet; . Pots 345, Pearls 33s dd.
Sugar very dull. Coffee—Sales small. Dice quiet.
Rosin dull at 3.2 s 9desl3B for common. Spirits Turpon..
tit a quiet, but steady.
LONDON ill A RIA ETS.—R host firm ; Flour dull. and
6d mils lower ; Sugar stead> 5 Coffee Elm 5 Tos buoyant
Bice easier i Tallow steady at 46s 9d; Linseed Oil steady
3le 3d.
AMERICAN REcuarrrics.—Sa'os of Illinois Cen
tral shares at 44X c0433i discount. Erica, 280,29,51.
LATEST WA DERBY
LIVERPOOL, February 14.—Cotton—The Brokers' cir
cular resorts the sales of the week at 54 000 bales inclu
ding 17,00 to speculators, and 10,000 to exporters, The
market closed firmer and with an unward tendency, but
tinchanged sato quotations. Tho Bales to-day (Friday)
are estimated at 12,000 bales, including 0.000 to specula
tors and exporters, the market closing firmer but unal
tered as to price's. The authorized quotations are:
Fair. Middling.
Orleans.... Ire r
Mobiles
Uplands 13% 12%
Stock in port estimated at 525,000 bales, of which 194,-
600 are American.
Breadstriffs steady except Corn, which is dull at 30s for
mixed.
Provisions declining.
LONDON. Feb. 14.—Coneols closed at 031 for money.
The Minion In the bank hal increased .689,090,
Illinois Central shares 44 dbicounts Erie's '43%039,
LoNnet, February I4.—The monthly return of the
Bank of France showean increase iu cash of 47,500,000
francs, in bank notes of 34,000,000, in treasury notes of
ten and two-thirds mialona, in current accounts of 40,-
100,000, on advances 32,250,000, and a decrease in balls
discounted and not due of 13,000,000.
VERY LATEST PER HIBERNIAN.
[By Telogrn/It to Londonderry , ]
Reat.tst, Feb. 13.—Important evettla are approaching
In Germany. Saxony having proposed the reconstruc
tion of Germany more strictly as a Confederacy, Prussia
replied that she considered the Gorman confederation as
an international, and not a federal part of Prussia,
and hinted also that a reform of the Federal Conatitu-
Ha might ha carried out in end% a waythat,
besides the Union comprising Austria, a
closer Federal union.neight ha formed between Prussia
and such German Status as might loin her, thereby me.
tabiishing a kind of political 7.lllllprbretn. Although this
was no formal proposal but a dffre suggestion, Austria,
Bavaria, Annoyer,. Saxony, and a majority of the other
:lane, Baden. Ned Coburg excepted, remitted, a
collective note to Prussia pretesting against liar
viowe, and annonacing their intention to hold a
Conference for the reorganization of Germany In ac
cordance with the views of Saxony, and inviting Prussia
to join the Confin soca. Ptussla declined, and this is ex
pected to lead to a diesolution of the Federal Diet.
Debates on the German question are expected in the
Prussian Chambers, which may bring about a crisis in
Oerutassl,
111.isisits, Fels, 13—The Nottlifse la etat at Cibe4liqt
although the English authorities gave her notice to.
qnit. Several of her crew have landed' and will not re
embark.
LIN IttiPOOL., Feb. 14.—The political news is unite..
portent.
The. Bank of France has gained!, during the month ' ,
forty-seven millions of francs in specie.
LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
LONDORDIRRY, Feb, I.L—Arrived front New 'Yorke.
Catharine,' at Deal; Willliw Tell, at (DieeikateAnt,; Ga
lena, at Havre; You Laffort and . Lehsen, at Kingstown.l
Zebra, at Oporto.
Arrived from Philadelpide—Xighilts, at Dublin.
New Jersey Legislature.
TagarON, Feb. TI.--The Committee of Ova Legislature,
to examine the en tre Of the Oferchanhe RPnk of Trae•
tom, rf•roit. ,l Olio 410-seem ilea the: found evidence of
iinseundwee. gaol being anthoeieed to swo&r
eeteeo, and vend for persona and payers, the omanaittee
found the doors of the bank cloyed lioedny, and that the
otticeria had left the city after pay Vag nearly all the dee°.
niters in Trenton. The committee reconenend the bank '
to be closed, and the charter repealed.
Tha Non. AMStil Kefl44)ii Winn hon
_
si Getter& dtreldion and the /Team Walla.,'
LECTURES LAST NIGHT.
Rev. E. W. flutter's Lecture tot Concert
Anil. on 6, Our Country."
The third and lad of the Impulae ow% of lean.*
given at Concert Hall, in behalf of the Lutheran Board
of Publication, was delivered Met evening by thellev. B.
W. Hotter, pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church.
His subject was tt Our Country," and his treatment of it
was received with the warmest demonetrations of appro
val by the large and appreciative audience le oitaadame.
Mr. Hilton opened with a brief Minion to the few
casuists who maintain that patriotism is not A metal and
religious virtue. Upon this point he, the speaker, had
no scruples. Olt the contrary, be regarded loos of coun
try, eepecially If the country ho wisely governed, as •
moral and religious duty, enjoined by the Word of God—
enforced by the precepts of Moses and of Christ. This noble
instinct was in fact In planted by the hand of the Crtm
tef, find to deny its right to act wee therefore aboard and
illogical. For a citizen of the United States to feel no
more &devilment, to his own country than to any other,
was equivalent to a man entertaining no stronger teenage
for his own wife and children than for the veriest
stranger. lie then proceeded to show that the root of
this Min philosophy was to be found in the natural want
of patriotism on the part of those who profess it. [Ladle
claimed all ouch transcendental twaddle, and confessed, on
his own part, to having a warm-hearted and demorooteet
attachment to his country, and ho Witt not ntihniond to
avow it. There might be instances in which attachment
to country could, and had been, pushed to unjustifiable
extremes, from motive's of undue ambition, in which case
a cardinal virtue wan simply mihstituted by is crime.
But lie was speaking of a love of country based upon just
grounds.
Ulm special reasons why the cltieene of this country—
by birth or adoptiot —loved their country with an almost
idolatrous devotion were next referral it,, in which those
of a more demean and theta! than:stet. Were considered
first. But. In Addition to these we loved our country,
too, because it was the seat of l iberty and law. It wee
true our Constitution Ives a human production, and to
that! extent earthly, and, of course, imperfect in ita
origin; yet he did claim that it approached nearer to
perfection than any other system of government In the
world, ancient or modern. Experience had enabled our
ffithere to correct the mistakes of other tiling, and beams
bad organized a Representative Dentocracy, uniting dig
nity in the magistrate, liberty in the citizen, with protec
tion to all, without leaking odious distinctions between
rich and poor.
Bat we loved our country, too, because it was the seat
of pure, undefiled religion; not that here everybody
was pious, or even virtuous, but because here the holy
doctrines of Christianity underlay all our political and
social blessings cod, comloPtPo !IMP 11155 in any other
country in the - world, Our laws wore band oh the
Bible, the divinity and authority of which were openly
acknowledged by' the oath of every officer and soldier
throughout our hind, from Maine to Calends.
Tu still Maher exhibit the superior advantages of our
country over every other, its varied scenety and geo
graphic peculiarities wale finely delineated. The die
cuvory of this continent by Colmnbas had opened a now
epoch in the wend's history. The') his Male plate of
Time been moved ten ctintunes forward. The rapid
settlement of America had been pre-eminently a religious
movement, since religious persecution bad been the
great cense of it, particularly of all that portion lying
north of the Potomac. The men who left their homes
abroad lied come here "fur conscience sake," and to es
cape the oppression of kingly and eeeleelastical tyrants.
The illustrious, Penn, whom the lecturer char/101MA 55
ilia Malta of lid NOW World, had he tired in fabulous
times, would, he said, have been worshipped as a God.
With principles of. Peace be had come to America, and
here in Ploiltuielpida opened the door to peaceable Men of
all sects and persuasions. Most of the other thirteen
colonies had been settled from the same motives. Here
they laid the foundation of the best human government
the world hail over seen i here they limed afterward reared
the etiperstrueture. Win, he tusked, could foil to regard
this great 119 public tee God's Priesthood of the World, set
apart like the tribe of Levi, to his special service, to in
augurate the reign of Universal Brotherhood and lead the
van in the advent of Millennial glory 1
But now, with the vividness of lightning the scene
wax changed. One section of the hoot was :Arrayed in
deadly hostility against the other. It was not the leetttr
er's purpose to portray the horrors of this war • they were
ee)f•eyident to 61 It Midi harem, he etuireeterized
as none tither than rent ilien—resietunce to the legal
authority of the nation. The South aduoitted that the
present head of the National Government, Mr. Lincoln,
was elected according to all the numirements of the Con
stitution; lint they defended their hostility on the ground
that they DO longer constitute part and parcel of that
Government; contending that in the exercise of their
reserved State rights, they have resumed the original
sovereignty delegated by them only for a season, to the
United Stales, and have &stored Into new and totally
different political combination. This false position of
State sovereignty was effectually riddled by the iron
logic of the lecturer. and anathematized as a pestilent
monster pregnant with disaster. Rights the States un
questionably possessed, but they had surely not the right
to degiatis . the nation, far lees to destroy it. Our Go
vernment was founded upon liberty, and law, end Union;
and nowhere, either in the Declaration of Independence
or in the ConatSlition, Was there to be found the re.
mutest recognition of any eeparete And distinct State
sovereignty. Without Union , fait , our whole
eel fabric would have been lik e. , a system without a cen
tral sun to hold the planets in their spheres.
Taking up the Inquiry as to where belonged the author
ship of the Secession heresy I the lecturer said the popu
lar hien that it belonged to South Garolina was not
strictly correct. In her State Goneetitissio, whleh 'adept
ell the Fetleral Constitutien, her teething statesman had
contended that it gave to the Slates toe much powere
and to the Federal Government too little. Primarily,
Soceseion originated from the Devil. [Laughter.) Du
ring the War of 1812,
a certain treasonable junto in New
England, known as the Hartford Convention, had eat
with closed doors plotting the dismemberment of the
Union. But, fortunately for theliihrl,'es, they had Awn.
dolled their designs in time to save their Inane After
lying long dormant, it had been revived again about the
year 1836, by that gifted, but dangerous and erratic
statesman, John U. Calhoun, who, by reason of his long
and eminent public services, and extraordinary powers
of mind and women, exercised so controlling an influ
ence over the people of his State that It had pasted into a
proverb, that - when John 0, Galloon)! root snuff b[l
c.roupo timognrord He was Colman,
without doubt, who had wrought tip the mind of the Cot
ton States to the conviction that their remaining in the
TJuioll Was simply with them a matter of choice. The
speaker's conviction wee, that if Calhoun bad never been
born this war would no t been.
The :tanner in which the work of Secession was under
telten was next reviewed, allowing that Instead of pro
ceeding with the decency proper to so solemn a step, they
had acted with the greatest and mom evinolnal rashness,
and in most of' the States au utter disregard of the
popular will. When the Prodigal Son bad seceded from
the parental roof, he had been content to claim only
his omen, and he did not grab that, but asked for it; hut
his Sectssion antitypes, less honorable, hail laid their
thievish Ilan& upon everything within their reach,
besides repudiating their tour hundred millions of North
ern debte.
As to the effects of their rash act, we hod theta in the
bitter Marione° of th Almelo of their ewe deluded
people, and the persecutioes which hat followed those
among them who bad been true to their allegiance—in
stance, Brownlow, Johnson, Rad others. We had thus
presented to us the tree and its fruits. Front the one we
could judge the other. 'the South had had no just cause
for rebellion. By not one single act of the Government
had she ever been wronged; hut, on th e centreryt aro
bed NM treated With partiality' rolitioal ambition; end
that in its lowest plum, had heal timir tole Motive is
their endeavors to divide the Union. Against the South,
said the lecturer, lie had never entertained any unjust or
unfavorable prepoeoessions. In another sphere of life,
fur twenty-five years, had he labored to protect her
every constitutional right; and this, too, had been the
spirit of the Lutheran (burn; min neither tlirono her
. e4-4.ePu nor way of nor ihi3Vriet MK cone
feyencee, nor in any other way, had interfered with the
rights guarantied to the South at the formation of the '
Government. But when she laid violent hands on our
political ark, then the path of duty became unmistakably
clear. .
He had said that the ruling motive of this rebellion was
disappointed political =bidet) ; lout wily should the loom
of one teo us Of the l'iveidellCY have constituted with the
South a rtegori fee beeeklhg hp the ettivertnnent t They
had still retained their ascendency in the demote and
Douse of Bepreeentativee, and the President, wits had
ever meintained the character of a pure patriot and an
incorruptible and honest man, could have done them no
Mani. But no! the excited Hotsput mof the Smith most
resist the withal' the majority, and Matt a new govern-
Meta. They would have disunion for the sate of dim
pion, anti had even said, that If a blank ~ht or sower
were laid before them, for theta to dictate their ewe
term, they would Semi, the proposal. They had been
told that their insane course would lead to civil war.
Their answer was, ], Let it come, tee are prepared 1"
The lecturer next, with a fee graphic touches, depict
td what the South had gained (I) by this insane emends,
showing that in very deed, " the way of the tranagreesor
is hard," Her peculiar domestic institution, before so
nesieely grounded, waS pow, by her own act, rocking to
its centre.
Among the most painful accompaniments of this Se
cession tragedy, too, were the systematic and unwearied
efforts made by its leaders to humble the nation at the
footstuol of foreign Powers. Even while tide new-born
bantling (the eo-called Confederacy) was still lying in
the cradle of shame, wrapped in the swtuldling oletlierer
treason its entinenee had been gout abroad for title oar-
This attempt to sail one half of our territory ter
England was enough to cause thecrionson touch of shame
to mantle every American cheek; to that seine pert limn
England, whose yoke our father's threw off as a burden
not to be endured; that same England who, in 1812, had
unpresst•d over 12,0011 of our seamen into her service; to
England, the cold, calculating assassin of thirty millions
e./ peopl e Todt ll--- f!te f9roclotto Innrihrer of Irelandeo
the cause of every war Hutt had Unlined the civilized
world for the last hundred years, and the secret insti
gator of this I The very thought of it was hellish;
The lecturer's, further remarks upon this monstrous
hypocrite of Christendom—this whited sepulchre of na
tions—were received with tremendous applause, showing
the jot:lt hatred wittyh her treachery lice evoked la the
litihttlf of our
The feet that England rarely discorere anything what.
ever pertaining to America to admire, little to praise,
and much to censors, was rather humorously dwelt open
in this connection, in which the strictures of her Dick
crises, her Trollopee, her Fiddlers, and her Russells,
were effectually ridiculed.
In conclusion, the pre•bleotial aspect of the rebellion,
and our progress in crumbing it, were referred to. The
air to-day was balmy with the mien of victory. Our
recent triumphs were recouutett. True, beside the Ge
eing of liberty the Angel of Mercy eat weeping, because
of the widowhood and orphanage heard through the
land", but it was an unspeakable blessing that the
triumph of one cause, the integrity of the Union, WA tits
elthn - Macy of theConetitotion and the laws' wore allured
to us—aye, that our Republic, In liters substantial
beauty
than ever, was again to shine forth in the galaxy
of nations Henceforth he believed our Goveruntent
would be invested with more dignity, honor, and respect
abroad than at any former period of her history; and
then, with no vain boast, it could be said, without exagge
ration, of these 'United States, that, with Cod and the
right on their side, they will be able to bid defiance to &
world In mum.
Title lecture, upon the whole, wee Otte of the most
comprein nein) and telling that the War has yet elicited,
and, long as it was, was listened to throughout with pro
found attention.
LECTURE EN Am OS THE POOR AND ,
Ottrusits. , —Eitod evening the Madethy Of Militia Wait
tilled with a tine mat fashienallle atteliallee to liettia to a.
lecture from the Moat Reverend Archbishop Renrick,cor
Baltimore, in aid of the poor and orphans. A fine band
of music was in attendance. After the performance of a.
number of patriotic aim, which were greeted with loud
and enthusiastic applause, the speaker woe introduced.
to the large audience- The suldect selected was, .< The
charity of St, 'Vincent de Paul." The reverend speaker.
after 'making a neat apology for his appear/tbs. pit An.
occasion of thin hind, Wetly narrated the early hider*
and career of et. Vincent. After hie return to Europe,.
lie turned his attentions toward alleviating the sufferings.
of the galley slaves in France He succeeded in haring
two hospitals erected, whore they wore conveyed when.
sick, and had• the word of God administered unto
He taught thing that in their own heart was the secret , of
their heartens, LBII thasd ihtoss tehiph hic4 been soomeg,
of ralAery became scenes of virtue. All who witnessed
this great change extolled the honest zeal of Vincent: the
Paid.
At this tines France was engaged in a civil waroond
St. Viiictnt eltoonsittertook to alleviate the suffering& of
the dietreseed popuiation of certain of the province*.
OIRY W. 8 0 effittelffil awl relief *Molded to all claaaeaL
IL wimmott extraurdinaryy to the lecturer, liote.litt‘httli
vidual to humble and no ohmeura as Bt. Vincent. 00.111 d
effect such. tweettandi astounding roanits. As andnateace
of charily, the speaker mentioned the manner in
which Bt. Vinemil pleaded with the great Cardinal; tlkhe
lieu, Milliner or the State, to put un end to thole:militia
ware into which Prance had been plunged by him The
Cardinal• heard htm. and apparently agreed. with whet
Wet oe,t,lt H 6111114 he elflike the faelltoai off k heart
anti own conviction.
Bt. iiinceut originated the idea of otyrantedim the
Pistore of Charity. After they were organized the num
ber inareased. Their duly was to age's out all to distreaa
mid trouble, and render them aasistance. These organi
zation", eatabliebed over a century ands a. half ego, @UM
&stet.. During the Crimean war, that sick mid wounded'
soldiers were cared to& by these Sheers. of Mari ty. Sim
io atilt to be even t loth here in the North and In the.
&Ale , 1161"01 Leg § w9rk to tWo-avora 9 l4lsl -, We awa.
to St. Vincent de liNcal all the benetitaot this good toarkw
button. It la owing to hie wort)* example that tha poor
wounded soldier,. tying on the battlpdaeld, can MP& \kith
u tried bandit mak have some, ons Mild* side glvimg hint
coneolationAnd comfort.
'I he speeder, after narrating-several other inaidante in
the life of A. Vincent d a Paul, concluded amides great
applause.
Tax stone il(Ai was sunk in Charleston
harbor because the South Careliutens were s‘t
vaseltless.
P.A.RLIAVISNTARY COURTERITS.—NnAIi an
eineatimeat ta R bill ia defeated en s t rotifttail
teem:nit:Xl it iP tikken bbt by the UM,