Cjjt |prjess.
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1862.
TIIE LATEST WAR MEWS
Wo publish, this morning, further details of the
late battle at Winchester. A despatch from Gene
ral Shields states that his command, 7,000 strong,
were attached by a force of lobels, numbering
over 11,000. After a. desperate battle, the enemy
were driven from the field by our forces, which, be
sides hillirg 500 and wounding 1,000, captured
three hundred prisoners, two cannon, n largo quan
tity of arms, ammunition, Ac. Our loss was onehun
dred and fifty killed and three hundred wounded.
Our pickets are six miles beyond Strasburg, but
Jackson ia nowhere visible. A newspaper pub
lished at Strasburg states that Johnson and Jackson
had concocted a plan to surprise General Banks’
oommand. and, with a greatly superior force, try
to capture his army ; but the impatience of Jack
sou for a fight, and his subsequent marching on
Shields' division, spoiled the scheme, and brought
a disaster on thoir urins which will be felt from one
end of the Confederacy to tho other. Secretary
Stanton has issued an order, which, while congratu
lating the troops on their splendid victory, sym
pathizes with General Shields in his altiiction.
Our special correspondent connected with the
Burnside Expedition has written us a capital let
ter. descriptive of the taking of Wewbern, North
Carolina. It is somewhat late, perhaps, but its
graphic style (if we must use a threadbare adjec
tive) will amply compensate for the remisaness of
the mails.
We learn from Beaufort, N. C., via Fortress
Monroe, (and from our correspondent at the latter
point.) that the rehol steamer Nasitvil/e , variously
reported as having been captured and burnt, has in
reality succeeded in running the blockade and
escaping our cruisers. Two shots from the Cam
bridge, however, are believed to have struck her.
General Hunter, who has been ordered to take
command of the military department consisting
of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, and
Florida, left New York yesterday for the scene
of his operations. He was accompanied by tho
following members of his staff: Brigadier General
A. W. Benham, who will take the command from
which Sherman has been relieved, General S.
being assigned to General Halleck; Colonel J. W.
Shaffer. Surgeon Joseph 11. Barnes, Major Edward
Wright, Major K. M. Hough, Captain John W.
Turner, Captain Edward W. Smith, Lieutenant
Samuel W. .Stockton, Lieutenant Arthur M. Tlen
zie. and Major Charles G. Halpinc, assistant
adjutant general.
Several weeks ago, Gen. Wool, on behalf of the
Federal Government, and Gen. Cobb, on the part
of the rebels, entered into an agreoment that all
prisoners captured in battle should be exchanged.
Our Government has rigidly kept its part of the
bargain. but the rebels have broken theirs. Tho
Federal Government has, therefore, wisely deter
mined that no more prisoners now iu our hands
will be released until such time as the robots
are willing to execute their part of the contract.
By the arrival of the Canard steamer China, at
New Yotk, we have two days’ later news from
Europe. The proposed amendments of the Liberal
party in the French Legislature to the paragraphs
relative to Amer c 'n affairs, in the address to the
Emperor, had been withdrawn. The London
Ttmcs still continues to think (or to profess to
think) that there willjbe two, (instead of one) Re
publics cn the present “ site” of our country.
Congress Yesterday.
SaxAih. —At the request of ex-President Pierce,
Mr. Latham introduced a resolution calling for the
correspondence between Secretary Seward and the
cx-President relative to an organization known as
the “Knights Of the Golden Circle.” The jijint
resolution tendering aid to States emancipating their
slaves was taken up. Mr Davis’ amendment wasf
rejected, and also a new amendment proposed by
Mr. Henderson, of Missouri. The bill abolishing
Slavstv in the District of Columbia was resumod.
Mr. Sanlsbury’s amendment to distribute tho slaves
among tho Northern States was rejeoted.
Hovse — The House, in Committee of the Whole,
resumed the consideration of the tax-bill. Among
the amendments adopted was the provision that the
taxon goods, wares, merchandise, and manufac
tures, pursuant to contract, under this act, shall bo
paid by tho purchaser before the delivery thereof.
Legislature.
Senate.—The House bill reducing the capital
stock of tbe Girard Dank was pfn-sed. The general
appropriartvn bill was taken up in Committee of
the Whole.
Hovsk.—A resolution was passed providing for
the appointment of a committee to take charge of
the remains of Colonel Murray, Captain Gallagher,
LieutenantlKeems. and others of the Eighty-fourth
Pennsylvania Regiment killed in the battle at
■Winchester. A message was received from the
Governor announcing that he had signed a number
of bills—among others, the act to reduce the rate
of payment for advertising delinquent tax-payers
in this city. Mr. McMakin introduced a bill to
reorganize the Board of Controllers of this city.
The act attaching Erie and Crawford counties to
the Eastern district of the Supreme Court was
passed.
The victory at Winchester has had the ef
fect of producing a feeling of general elation
throughout the loyal States. In the midst of
onr inhibition, however, an incident which we
publish to-day caunot be overlooked, ahd ne
ver lien-after shall be forgotten. The daunt
less bravery of our troops in tho engagement
we have previously alluded to. Not less brave
or loy«l were the hand of Irish heroes, who,
pushed forward by the rebels as a breastwork,
refused to fire on our troops. The flag of their
adopted laud, though long despised and
insulted, was still dearer in their sight
than life or fortune. ‘With an impulse
of true chivalry (that should put to shame the
boasted chivalry of traitors), they dare not fire
on the emblem of the nation that had been to
them and theirs a haven and a shelter from
oppression. Its honor was still sacred, and
worthy to be cherished, though death should
he the recompense of their devotion. And so,
one-fourth of them were left to perish on the
field, and were, most probably, shot down by
rebel balls. All honor to the chivalry of Erin,
whose noble sons have been among the first to
lend our cause their aid and sympathy, and
foremost to encounter death in its defence
The Proposed Soothers Cospederaos
was to be founded on African slavery. The
pretest of its authors for the dissolution of the
Union was to increase the securities and safe
guards of that institution, It was to he f orised,
not like the American Republic, to preserve
the liberties, and"to promote the prosperity of
its citizens, but specially to enable them for
ever to enslave others, and to increase and
extend the area of territory over which they
could spread their cherished industrial sys
tem, with all its attendant horrors and evils.
The mind of every just man, no matter what
may be his respect for the rights of property,
or his anxiety to give to slaveholders all the
security they can reasonably require, can
not fail to be shocked at the bare idea,
that in this age of the world the purpose
should he unblushingly avowed, of destroy
ing the bust and freest Government ever
formed, for the sake of establishing on its
ruins one of the most despotic and tyrannical
political organizations that ever existed. Sla
very has termed an incidental feature of many
nations, our own included, but nowhere else
than in Seces3ia—no, not even in Dahomey—
has it been treated as a fundamental basis.
Almost every other imaginable tie and interest
has, at different periods, led to the association
•f individuals under one nationality, but never
before was slavery thus worshipped and dei
fied for its own sake, and thus made the cen
tral and combining power, the centrifugal
and centripetal force, of any people. Never
before was freedom construed to mean only
the unrestricted and unlimited power to en
slave others, and the chief political cud of civi-
Hzed men prdilaimed to be 10 hold other rices
in servile bondage.
Two Pennsylvania Regiments participated j Large Bale of Dry' Goods, Clothing, Stock
in the late battles between Gen. Baxks divi- , 0F GooI)Sj y —xho attention of purchasers is m
sion and Gen. Jackson s forces, one o them i to j e foreign and do
fosiuff its gallant colonel, William Cr. Muk« I .. , , . . _ , . ..
iUbiug UB gaiwiit GUU , I Uiestic dry goods, hosiery, ready-made clothing,
lit. Thus, the soldiers of our State can boast i _ v . . . . . Q „„
■ . . „ ... „ - ! large stock of dry goods, &c., embracing about 960
*f having won the battle of Dranesnlle, and i *
. .j j . .a * *L fl ! pwlwgcß and lots of staple and fancy articles, to
of having aided to "win two of the important ; * ° . *■ f J „
victories of the war-Newbern and Winches- be peremp ' or,ly so,d by "“W on a credlt of
ter. Some of them were engaged, too, in the four months ’ commencin S this morning at Id
disastrous battle of Ball’s Bluff, where treason to be continued, without intermission, ail
rendered their bravery unavailing; and they day P alt of the evening, ending with the stock,
arc at present, represented in every importajit (clothing to be sold in the afternoon,] by John B.
division of the army east ot the Mississippi i Myers A Co.,auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market
street-
Ot'R readers will have read with pain, if not
with surprise, the account of the disturbance
in Cincinnati on Monday evening on the occa
sion of a lecture by Wendell Hthllii-s. The
story of the affair, as it comes by the uncer
tain telegraph, is obscure. It seems, however,
that Mr. Phillips, in the course of his lec
ture, avowed himself a Disnnionist, and glo
ried in tlie fact that his whole life had boon
devoted to the cause of Disunion. There wgs
a largo audience of ladies and gentlemen—one
of those brilliant assemblies which tho elo
quence of Mr. Phillips always attracts—and
• on the announcement of these opinions a ttt
mult ensued. This was quelled—the lecturer
proceeded—sentiments of the same nature
were again expressed—tho tumult was re
newed, and this time became uncontrollable!
’l'he audience revolted against tho lecturer
stones and eggs were thrown —an angry, crowd
rushed at Mr. PuiLLirs with threatening
£,• —a tight ensued —ladies fainted the lec
turer was removed by liis friends—and the
angry multitude went away.
We read this with pain, but not with sur
prise. Such occurrences are always to be re
gretted. They are breaches of the peace, and
no good can come of them. Yet we are not
surprised, for in the state of public opinion
now existing over the country, the avowal of
Disunion sentiments by any public man can
only meet with tho severest condemnation.
It is the misfortune of Mr. Phillips and men
of his class, that they cannot see the practical
teachings of the hour. Their agitation, un
pleasant at all times, is unnecessary and un
pleasant now. They cannot aid the work of
emancipation, for that problem has been sub
mitted to the sword. When they avow Dis
union sentiments, and exult over our woes as
the legitimate results of their teachings, they
forget that the country is now giving its trea
sure and shedding its blood for the mainte
nance ot the Union. They forget that in the
minds of the people, there is no differ
ence betwixt a Disunioiiist of the school
of Mr. Phillips and a Disnnionist of the
school of Mr. Yancey. In this case,
however, Mr. Phillips belongs to the winning
party. Mr. Yancey followed Disunion until it
led him to the shores of England, an outlaw
and a traitor. r. Phillips follows Disunion
until he finds himself in the hands of a Cin
cinnati mob- This is the reasoning of the
people—and when they find themselves in the
midst of a Avar for the preservation of the
Union, it cannot bo wondered that they should
resent and rebuke eloquent and gifted men
like Mr. Phillips, who use their talents to de
stroy the Union.
It is unjust also to speak of Mr. Phillips as
a Republican or a friend of the Republican
party. It is not many months since he ap
plied to Mr. Lincoln the elegant epithet of the
<•" slave-hound of Illinois”—he never delivers
a lecture without calling Mr. Seward a trai
tor, an ingrate, ora minion of the slave power
—he even'distrusts Mr. SroiXEK, and although
gazetted as a statesman by the New York
Tribune, invariably takes the opportunity to
denounce that great newspaper for its short
comings. Mr. Phillips looks upon the Re
publican party with contempt—the Repub
lican party has no sympathy for Mr.'Phil
lips. It is impossible that there should
he any affinity between them. The Re
publican parfy, whatever may be thought of
many of its peculiar doctrines, is committed
to the maintenance of the Union. Its leaders,
its men in power, its organs, its followers, are
all devoted to tho preservation of tho Union.
Mr. Phillips docs not desire their friendship;
he is anxious to have no relationship with them
whatever. It is unjust to the orator to sup
pose that he is desirous of being recognized;
and it is equally unjust to the Republican party
to suppose that its members are at all in
fluenced by his example or his opinions.
Lord Russell on the Blockade.
Lord Campbell Is a bachelor peer, hitherto
undistinguished, except that he has inherited
a brace of peerages—having succeeded his
mother, Baroness Stratiieden, in May, 1800,
and his father, the late Lord Chancellor, in
June, 1801. He was for some years in the House
of Commons, a silent member. At last, he
took heart, three days after Mr. Gregory was
snuffed out by Sir Roundell Palmer, the So
licitor General, and challenged Earl Russell,
in tlie House of Lords, for having expressed
his opinion, in a letter to Lord Lyons, that
our blockade of the Southern ports was suffi
ciently operative, in fact and in law, and ought
not to be disturbed by England. He main
tained, on the authority of Mr. Eracif, British
consul at Charleston, that the blockade was
only nominal: said Bunch being an avowed
Southern sympathizer, whose word is worth
as much as Jonx M. Mason’s —and no more .
lie was followed by Lord Auinoek, grand
son of a once celebrated British lawyer, better
known as Sir James Scarlett, than by the
barony which he received when made Chief
Baron of the Exchequer. The present Lord
Abingeb, who succeeded to the title last year,
is a military officer, who distinguished himself
in the Crimea. He is new to Parliament and
made his first speech, we believe, when, fol
lowing Lord Caufeell, he expressed bis
opmton that it would be quite unpardonable to
raise the blockade under existing circumstan
ces. lie sympathized with “ the gallantry” of
the South, believed it would be impossible to
subjugate it, and thought that perhaps the
time was come when, to save bloodshed and
end the war, the independence of the so-called
Southern Confederation ought to take place.
Earl Bvbsei.l’B reply, as Blight be expected,
was an echo of Sir Round™. Palmer's speech
in the Commons, on the Gregorian motion.
His lore ship labors under the disadvantage of
expressing himself, on important subjects, in
an obscure and confused manner, as if Ms re
sponsibility overcame him, and as if lie dreaded,
on some future day, to have his words picked
out of*Hansard, and flung in his teeth. Yet,
on this occasion, his oratory was less muddy
than it generally is. He defended the Presi
dent’s right to declare a blockade, and de
clared that whatever the deficiency in the
means first employed to carry it into effect, it
has gradually risen" to bo a very effectual
blockade. Alluding to Consul Bunch’s report
of the vast number of vessels which had ran
the blockade at Charleston and 'Wilmington,
| Lord Russell expressed Ills conviction that
i there was great exaggeration in this, —a set
j ting down Mr. Bunch as a story-teller, which
! appears prophetic of the early removal of that
functionary from public employment. As to
the blockade itself. Lord Russell asked if,
notoriously, it had not prevented the usual
j supply of cotton to Europe ? He denied that
j France had ever represented to the British
Cabinet that it considered the blockade inef
fectual.
Mention is made, in a nursery-rhyme of a
certain cow, which, after yielding a large
quantity of milk, almost always upset the milk
maid and threw down the pail. Lord John
Russell ended his speech somewhat is this
manner. He gave a lesson on Emancipation,
and hoped to sec the end of the war “ within
three months, or perhaps less,” with a “ re
newal of the old feelings between North and
South,” followed by—a Constitutional Union,
as before ? Oh, not so—followed by a peaceful
seperatien into two States ! After talking for
an hour in support of the legality of the
blockade, Lord Russell, who has a knack of
running his head against a stone wall, winds np
with tiffs gratuitous opinion that, when Rebel
lion is crushed, we should allow the traitors to
secede, precisely as they purposed from the
beginning ! jYflnt a pity it is that, for the
most part, British statesmen arc intensely
ignorant of the Constitution and laws, habits
and feelings of the United States.
j By the recent capture of Decatur and Tus
; cuiubia, in Alabama, two important points on
| theMempliisand Charleston Railroad, wo have
: gained possession of the main communication
i between the Southeastern and Southwestern
: States, and liras the centre of 1 the chief rebel
! line has Ihjuji pierced* leaving the army of the
| West) flushed with its numerous victories, to
| crush tho Rebellion in the Southwest, and Mc
; CIEILAN, BUHNSIDE, and SUEKMAS to over
-1 throw the traitorous armies of the Southeast.
LETTER FROM “ OCCASIONAL.”
Washington, March 26,1862.
I was reminded this beautiful spring morn
ing, which was rendered still more exhilarating
and lovely by the good news just received
from the valley of the Virginia, showing liow
bravely our Pennsylvania troops fought under
tlie Massachusetts Major General, Banks, and
tho Irish Brigadier, Shields, of the beautiful
allusion of Daniel Webster to the old Bay
State, in his celebrated speech in reply to
Haync :
Mb. President, I shall enter no encomium upon
Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Be
hold her, and judge "for yourselves. There is her
history ; tho world knows it by heart. The past,
at least, is secure. There is Boston and Coneord,
and Lexington and Bunker Hill ; and there they
will remain forever. Tho bones of her sons, falling
in the great struggle for independence, now lie
mingled with the soil of every State from New Eng
land to Georgia, and there they will lie forever. And,
sir, where American liberty raised its first voico,
and where its youth was nurtured and sustained,
there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood,
and full of its original spirit. If discord and dis
union shall wound it; if party strife and blind
ambition shall hawk at and tear it; if folly and
madness, if uneasiness nnder salutary and necessary
restraint shall succeed in separating jt from that
Union by which alone its existence is made sure,
it will stand in the end by tho side of that cradle in
which its infancy was rooked; it will stretch forth
its arm with whatever vigor it may still retain over
the friends who gather round it, and it will fall at
last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monumonts
of its own glory, and on tho very spot of its origin.
And what brought those noble words more
directly before mo was a view of a fresh regi
ment of Massachusetts troops. The gallant
fellows who compose it were circulating over
Capitol Hill, after such a sleep as they could
catch in the cars, “ the soldier’s rest,” and
the adjoining sheds and out-houses.
It is noticeable and significant that the mo
ment a regiment is disgorged from the cars,
the first place tho soldiers look for is the
Capitol of the United States. If they get
here at night, they are up bright and
early next niorning to look at the outside of
the massive pile. If they arrive at noon, they
immediately strike for the Senate and the
House, filling the galleries of both, and look
ing with curious and surprised vision upon
the grave legislators. I have a hundred times
come upon a freshly-landed volunteer, who
had only heard of this great city through
the newspapers or gazetteers, and who,
at his own homo, was a man of consi
deration, and watched him as he stood
in a deep study before the marble and
printed effigies and illustrations of the heroes
and the events of American history. It is a
novel pleasure to them. Everything surprises
and gratifies them. They meet, at the very
threshold of their career, a thousand beautiful
incidents to stimulate them to continue in it.
Every object of a national character is but a
new impulse to tho faithful and gallant per
formance of a patriotic duty. The figure of
Washington invokes them to go on in more than
expressive attitude. He seems to talk to them
from canvas and from stone. Inspiration
breathes from the Tesolute lips of Jackson
in the rotundo—from the figure of Jeffer
son—from the form of Lafayette—from Wil
liam Penn—from Benjamin Frauklin—even
from the portrait of James K. Polk, whose
handsome but stately widow, at Nash
ville, could not omit the opportunity of
insulting tho soldiers of the Republic when
they came to rescue the grave of Jack
son from the hands of tlie despoilers of the
Union. There is something almost sublime
in the manner in which our soldiers are re
ceived in Washington, and in the manner in
which they are here prepared for the great
work before them. If it had been designed to
impress them alike with the dignity of their
own task and the hellish depth of the Southern
treason, both these objects could not have
been better effected than by impressing upon
them, immediately on their arrival in Wash
ington, by every conceivable process, the in
estimable value of the Union and the Constitu
tion, and the amazing perfidy of those who are
now working to destroy both.
To return to Massachusetts; Her sons are
worthy of all praise. Like the other sol
diers of New England, they belong to a class
which have been made the objects of the ridi
cule of the South for many years. They have
been accused of cowardice and of fanaticism •
charged with sympathy with the Abolitionists,
it was a common thing to say that they would
fail in the hour of trial. Independent enough
to refuse to resent the insults of the slave
bullies on the floor of Congress, their chivalry
was misunderstood and underrated. But, when
the hour of peril approached, they were among
the first in the field, and from, the day that
their sons were shot down in Baltimore to the
present time, when their beloved Banks is
leading on his victorious legions in Western
"Virginia, they-have never been found wanting.
Their Wood liaa been poured out on more than
one fatal field. From Great Bethel, whore
Winthrop fell, to Ball’s Bluff, from the Poto
mac to the Neuse, from the Chesapeake to
Galveston Bay, they have distinguished them
selves by a conscientious and self-sacrificing
spirit, which will make their names immortal
in the history of these sad and stirring times.
Occasional.
Changed his Note!
It has long been a proverbial remark among
Englishmen that The Times '“runswith the
hare and holds with the hound”—in other
words, that it is consistent only in following
public or instructions from men in
office. For the last twelve months, until Pal
merston and Russell finally agreed to main
tain a real neutrality in American affairs, The
Times hag been abusing us 4 libelling us* sneer
ing at us, in all varieties oflanguage. Punch ,
always echoing The Timcs> lias done the same
only more so. Latterly, however, Punch
has been comparatively civil. The last-re
ceived number containaoniy a single American
allusion, to the mild effect that, as we should
admire the Union Jack more than the Stars
and Stripes, it would be well to “leave off
fighting) make it up, and try to have a Union."
The sarcasm of Punch has actually come down
to (hist moderation.
From Fortress Monroe - Escape of the
.Nashville
Baltimore) March 20.—The Old Point boat Imi
arriv.'ch
The steamer Louisiana* from Hatteras, had arrived,
but brings no intelligence of importance.
Foktukss Monroe, March 25-—The United States
strnmer Cambridge arrived hero this morning from the
blockade at Beaufort, N. C., which she left on Sunday
evening.
The rebel steamer Nashville escaped from the harbor
on Tuesday night, 18th inst., having run the blockade. 4
The only United States vessfelsoff the place were the
Cambridge and tbc bark GemsboJc, and other sailing
The blockading veßtels had news of'the capture of
Kewbern, and were on the look-out for the
hut they were noi uumerous enough to prevent here**
Tho Gemhck first saw the NashvillCt and immediate?
ty telegraphed to the Cambridge that she was coming
out; tho latter followed her and fired a number of shots
with the hope of getting her into a fight, hut the superior
speed of the Nashville soon put her at a safe distance.
Two shots from the Cambridge are supposed to have
struck tlm NathviUei
The hark Glenn* which lias been blockaded in the
harbor of Beaufort for some time, was Bet on fire by the
rebels on Sunday, and was burning when the Cambridge
left in the evening. She was supposed to have been fitted
out us a privateer. The burning of this vessel was doubt
less prep&rutopy to the evacuation of the place.
Fort Macon hart not been blown upat the last accounts.
The bark Gtmsbolc and the steamer State of Georgia
wero left at the station by the Cambridge.
Important News from the West.
St. I*Ouir=, March 28,—The Meptibllcdn'S Cairo de
spatch rays that persons who left Memphis report that
Generals Beauregard, Polk, Cheatham, and Clark aro at
or near Corinth, Mississippi, where it is expected a great
battle will soon ft fought.
The rebels at Island No. 10 havo not burned their
traNsports and barges, as previously reported, but were
transporting their cannon and ammunition from the Is
land to t -je main land.
They communicated by signal lights with their forces
at Union City the night before last.
Funeral of Col. Murray.
Harrisburg, March 26.—The funeral of Col. William
Gray Murray, who was killed at the battle near Win
chester, will take place at Harrisburg on Friday morn
ing, the 28th inst., at 9 o’clock.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Louisville, March 26. —The Louisville and Nashville
Railroad is so far repaired that the running time between
the two cities is reduced to twelve hours.
Later from Ship Island.
New York, March 26.—The steamer Constitution has
ertived at Havana, from Ship Island, with dates to the
29th, and sailed again for Key West and Fortress Mon
roe.
It W M reported that HUiriftf flOfcl kftd P&9I&1
the Southwest Pass.
Thanks !—We have to thank Mr. Hassan, of the
Associated Press, for the Lojidon Times of March
12th. Mceivea by Hants, & day 7 fl date later
than our own London files. We have repeatedly
been obliged In this manner by Mr. Haesan.
English Pictorials.— From W. B. Zieber,
South Third street, we have advance copied of
Punch* and the Illustrated ho ml on News of the
b«b inst. Wo notice with regret that, to diminish
postage, the supplement to the latter journal is
printed on thinner paper than before.
THE PRESS—PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1862.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Proposed Resuscitation of the
THE WIRE-PULLERS IN SECRET COUNCIL-
ADDITIONAL SENATE CONFIRMATIONS.
Important Order of Secretory Stanton.
NO MORE PRISONERS TO BE EXCHANGED.
THE CONTRACT VIOLATES BY THE ENEMY.
The Fort Donelson Prisoners Desire to
Swear Allegiance'.
A REBEL STAND AT RICHMOND IMPROBABLE.
Special Despatches to “The Press.*’
The Bombardment at Island No. 10.
A despatch was received to* night from Cairo, bringing
tho latest intelligence from Island No. 10, from which it
appear? that the main works of the enemy on tlie main
land are overflowed, and, also, nearly tho whole ol tho
Mississippi valley in that vicinity.
This delays effective operations by our forces at
present.
Congratulations of the Secretary of War,
The following despatch was telegraphed to General
Suieldb to»day:
Bnir:. Gen. Shields : Your two despatches, relating
io tlie brilliant achievement of the forces under your
command, have been received.
While rejoicing at tbe success of your troop*, deep
commiseration and sympathy are felt for those who
have been victims in tbe and victorious contest
with treason and rebellion.
Tour wounds as well as your success prove that Lau
der's bravo division ih Ptill bravely led, and that wherever
its standard is displayed the rebels will be routed and
pursued.
To you, and to tlie officers and soldiers under your
coiiiHtifid, tha department return? its thanks.
Ex-President Pierce.
Mr. Sen&tp/ Latham, as you will Bee by the telegraph
proceedings of the Bronte* this morning offered-a
resolution, at tho request of ex-President Franklin
Pierce, inquiring into certain alleged newspaper changes
of disloyalty against that distinguished gentleman. The
resolution was unanimously adopted, Franklin Pierce
is too brave, generous, and unselfish to have ever allowed
Any man or party to seduce him from hia loyalty to
his flag and hiß country. Mr. li.vthaii’s remarks were
well-timed, expressive, and forcible. The resultwilfbe
a most complete vindication of ex-President Pierce,
Release of State Prisoners.
The Mowing prisoners we otty-day PH parole:
0. Allen Scaxland, Jackson Boukhman, Jambs Con
ner, John Burson. and George W. Gormly. Two
others, B. W Jenkins and F. M. Ellis, were recom
mitted for further consideration.
f it is not probable that any more of the prisoners from
Alexandria will be released, os those now in custody liavo
refused to comply with the conditions required.
The Exchange of Prisoners Stopped.
The Secretary of War issued an order yesterday, stop
ping tbe release or parole of tbe prisoners taken at Fort
DontlßOQi It is known that an agreement for tbe ex
change of prisoners was made some weeks ago, under the
direction of the Secretary of War, by General Wool, with
General Cobb, by which all of our prisoners were to be
delivered on the next day, tinder a flag of trace, at
Craucy Island. A boat was sent to receive them, but no
prisosers were brought from Norfolk. The same was
repeated for two days without success. Explanations
were demanded by Generai Wool, but none.furnished.
Pending tbit breach of faith by tho rebels, all releases or
exchanges will be refused by tbe (government.
The Fort Donelson Prisoners Want to
Swear Allegiance.
Information has been received by the Government that
the prisoners taken at Fort Donelson, Ac., generally ex
press a willingness to take.the oatli of allegiance if they
can bo liberated upon parole.
A Stand at Richmond Improbable.
Many military men are now expressing the opinion
that Ihe rebels will not make a stand at Biclimond.
Loss of Life at Sea.
The intelligence of the loss, with all on board, of
several fishing vessels of Hew England, pxcitea .melfta?
choly thoughts concerning that class of plain, simple
minded people, of whom so many fathers and sons are
annually the subjects of “ Ocean's ravage.” The cod
fisheries on the Banks are the nurseries of our brave
seamen that have drawn a wall of fire and iron around
maritime Bebeldom. New England may not have ex
ceeded her quota of volunteers, as have some other
States, but Bhe has supplied thousands upon thousands of
seamen, who, in all the days of their lives, may be said
to have “played with perils.”
Executive Session of tlie Senate.
The Senate, today, in executive session, confirmed the
nomination of Colonel Gokuen Granger, of the Second
Regiment of Michigan Cavalry, to ba a brigadier genera),
and Noah L. Jeffries to be an assistant adjutant gene
ral in the volunteer service. '
The following nominations were also confirmed :
Henry Vr*. Bbbd, of lowa, to be agent for the Indi&rxi
of the upper Missouri.
Joseph Ryxo, to be surveyor of the customs for the
district of Perth Amboy.
Jess* B. McSlath, of Ohio, to be consul of the United
Stales At Tangiersi
Edward L. Bangly, to be collector of customs for
the district of Cherrystone, in the State of Virginia.
Jonas A. Hcghston, of New York, to be marshal of
the Consular Court of the United States at Shanghae.
James L. Peoraw, of jNow Jersey, to be consul of
the United States at Guyaquii.
\Vm It. Evans, of Ohio, to be consul of the United
States at Maranharo.
Edward IX. Perkins, of Pennsylvania, consul at Santa
John Evans, of Illinois, to be Governor of the Terri
tory of Colorado.
The Miseries of Correspondents.
The correspondents of the newspapers are every.where
—on the Potomac, the Neuse, the Ohio, the Cumberland,
the Chesapeake, the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Alle
gheny, the SußLtuohaima, the Mobile, and on all the other
riverfi, lojal and disloyal, aa well as in or near our Fin
land seas,” gulfs, and oceans, with eager ears, hungry
eyes, and ravenous pons j but they dare not write. What
this small army of steul- pen drivers know would set the
woild ablaze j wliat they do not know* is not'frorth know
ings Imagine their miseries! When this congealed in
telligence melts and goes forth what a flood and freshet
we shall have ! Printers and publishers, prepare!
A Democratic Conference was held last night, con
tinuing in session until A l&t£ k£UP, Th& call was signed
by Alt, exceptingfour or five, of the members of Congress
who were elected as Democrats.
Bepreseniative Corning presided, and Representatives
pKNULETON and Shill acted as secretaries. An injunc
tion WftB placed upon all present not to revoalthe pro
ceedings. It is, however, ascertained from private con
versations to-day, that the proceedings of the confer
ence were principally confined to the consideration of
the resolutions reported from a committee of which Mr.
Vai.landigham, of Ohio, was chairman, declaring in
subttaoce that the restoration of the Union and mainte
nance of tho Constitution, require that tho organisation
and principles of the Pe®9<?rftt!C party t>f the United
States should be hilly and faithfully adhered to, audln*
vitlng all citizens without distinctions of sections ot*
party to c- operate with the democracy in supporting
the Constitution and restoring the old Union,
A committee of one Horn each State repieaented by
Democrats, either in the Senate or House, was appointed
to report at a future conference. The names of the mem
bers are not yet known. It is understood that several
members frun the Border slave States were present and
participated in the proceedings. The entire number at
the meeting was about Terty. The proceedings are re*
presented as having been harmonious.
The Public Lands in Nevada.
Frequent applications are made as to the disposal of
the public lands in Nevada j but as the land districts
have not yet been organic S 6f iUIiilS
can now* bo located. There seems to be no doubt that
those who at present occupy lands there will he secured in
their locations by future legislation.
The Recent Purchase of Transport
The House of Bepresentatives having addressed an in
quiry to the Secretary of War, he responded to-day, by
enclosing a letter from Assistant Secretary of War John
Tucker, in which the latter says that “a very large
transportation by water beii'g required by Major General
MuClellan, the quartermaster detailed Captain If, 0.
Hodges, assistant quartermaster, to this duty, aod I was
requested to assist him. All parties who had offered
suitable vessels in answer to tho advertisement for trans
ports were requested to meet us without further resort to
fho newspapers. It was made as public as possible that
the Government was In want of such transportation, and
desired to deal directly with the owners. A very Urge
number were chartered by direct negotiation with the
owners, while some made their application through
ship*biokers. A decided preference was given to tho
former. Captain Hodgbs and myself received only cur
regular compensation as assistant quartermaster aud
assistant Secretary of War respectively. No other per
sons have been acting under the authority or by the di
rection and permission of Capt. llobgbs or myself to ef
fect such charters, and consequently no compensation
has been or is to ho paid for such aorvicos, and no parson,
acting directly or indirectly for the Government, has
charged the persons from whom such vessels were char
tered any percentage on*the amount of the charter or
any other compensation.”
The YAH Wyck Investigating committee.
Tbe members of the Van Wyck Investigating Com
mittee have all returned, aud Colonel Van Wtck has
joined his regiment.
Military Affairs.
The promotions made by the Secretary of War for
g&ll&ht i&yvicee at the battles of Fort Denelson and Mill
Spring, having been confirmed by the Senato, the
commissions have been signed by the Secretary, and will
soon reach those thus honored
The official report from Pea Ridge has not yet been
received, nor list that concerning the recent action near
Winchester.
General Davies, of New York, has been assigned to
duty in General Halleck’s department.
General Hunter is on bis way to take command of his
department of the South.
The late Secretary of War, General C a heron, arrived
last evening \vlih his family, and has taken quarters at
Willards; Ho will Icortaioly lonre for UU Russian inia
sion the first or second vreek in April, and is receiving
his credenti-ls and instructions. During to-day many
have called upon him, and when he visited the Senate he
was warmly greeted. The kindness of General Cameron,
vbile he was Secretary of War* to men of all parties)
and his liberality in conferring commissions ia the
ormy upon many of those who represented the loyal
Democracy of the free States, are remembered with
gratitude. All, or nearly all, the men ho has thus dis
trogn' i »bed havo proved their fidelity to their country,
Democratic Party.
DISLOYALTY IS THE PULPIT
Washington, March 26, 1862.
Win Department. >
Washington, March 26,1802. J
Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War.
The Democratic Party.
Hon. Simon Cameron.
either l>y undaunted courage in the field, whenever they
have had a chance to show it, or by efficiency and in
tegrity in the line of their duties. It is believed that
Mr. Fritchkttb, of Pennsylvania, will be General
Cameron’s secretary of legation.
The Tax Bill
The amendments thus far roiide to tho tax bill are not
decisive, but merely the action of the Committoe of the
Whole on the state of the Union, tbe House having
finally to act upon thorn. It is believed that Congress
will, in conformity with the bill proposed by the Secre
tary of the Treasury, increase tho tux on tobacco,
whisky, end other luxuries. Tbe hasty clause taxiug
the stock of whisky now in the hands of dealers will pro
bably be teccnwdercd, as it iB deemed by many promi
nent gentlemen to be ex post factn y and hs, with this
dehae cut, lUc WU will be more accaptablc.
A Statistical Bureau.
The Secretary of the Interior has under consideration
a plan for organizing a Statistical Bureau, like that ex
isting in European countries, which annually reports the
state of every sort of production, Ac.
Pennsylvania Post Offices.
ESTABLISHMENTS.
Niles Valley, Tioga county, Fa.—Jerome B. Niles,
postmaster.
Bod. Mr. Glow’s district.—John’s Branch, Bedford
county, Ta.—Thomas M Richey, postmaster.
Hon. Mr. McPherson’s district, located between Hope
well and Bloody Run.
AITOISTMEKTS
John W, Tilnoy, postmaster, Black Bird, New Castle
county, Delaware, vice John Ferguson, resigned.
Albert G. Thomas, postmaster, WhltehaliviUe, Bucks
county, Pa., vice A. G. Hendricks, resigned.
Jacob Bixler, postmaster, Kerrßvillo, Cumberland
county, Pa., vice Charles Harvey, resigned. ■
Mrs. Mary C. French, postmaster, Middlo Spring,
Cumberland connty, Pa , vicoSamnel B. Bieh!, resigned-
David Trexler, postmaster, Shamokin Dam, Snyder
county, Pa., vice John Good, resigned.
Joseph Kemp, postmaster, JTostoria, Blair county, Pa.,
vice A.M. Myers, resigned.
Disloyalty in the Fulpit.
On Sunday, some of tho clergy here omitted to read
thanksgiving for Federal victories, although the lesson
of tho morning enjoins the purging out of ail rebels, etc.
Serious church divisions, if not defections, bid fair to
arise from the attachment which certain clergymen and
lay brethren have for treasou and traitors. Those men
are placing themselves out of the pale of citizenship.
Being alien* In heart to the country, they ought to have
only such rights as public policy dictates in such case?.
That is to say, they may hold property, hut should have
no right to vote or serve on juries, otc. The disloyal of
Border-State cities are generally of the aristocratic class
of upper tendom. Their spacious mansions, “ with all
the conveniences,” would make most excellent hospitals
for tlia soldiers of the Union armies.
The Capitol Extension.
Iheartliat General Mates is not averse to the transfer
of the change of the Capitol extension from tho War De
partment. lie considers that tlie main work is done.
DESPATCH FROM GEN. SHIELDS.
THE FIGHT NEAR WINCHESTER.
OUR LOSS, 150 KILLED AND 300 WOUNDED.
REBEL LOSS, 500 KILLED AND 1,000
WOUNDED.
March 20.—Tho following despatch
from General Shields to Senator Rico, dated Win
chester, to-day, was refd in the Senate this afternoon :
uOn the morning of the 23d, my command, 7.000 to
8,000 strong, was attacked near this place by Jackson,
with eleven regiments of infantry, the Irish battalion,
about 1500 cavalryi atd 28 pieces of artillery. After a
severe fight, the enemy were put lu complete rout, leaving
behind two pieces of cannon, four caissons, and a largo
number of small arms, bcßideß about three hundred
prisoners. Our losb is one hundred and fifty killed, end
three hundred wounded. The enemy’s los3 is five hun
dred killed and one thousand wounded.”
Winchester, March 26, F. M.—We expect to obtain
a list of the killed and wounded on both aides to-night.
Capt. A. H. Brown, of the Fourth Ohio, has been ap
pointed deputy provoßt marßhul.
A committee of citizens, in conjunction with the Mayor
and pfOYOSt marshal, have buried all the rebel dead
which have been brought to town. Eighty-five wore
buried on the battle-field, and 123 on the roadside, be
tween here and Strasburg.
Two hundred and thirty-five prisoners have been sent
to Baltimore. Others are on the way here.
A newspaper from Sirasbuig states that General John
son was to hare joined Jackson at Strasburg, but subse
quently sent him word that he could not join him till
Monday night. Their combined forces would have
amounted to from 25,000 to 30,000. The rebels were
endeavoring to keep General Banka from moving to
another point, but Jackson, being falsely informed that
our troops had nearly all left Winchester, hazarded his
fatal advance alone.
Thousands of persons are visiting the battle-ground
and bringing off mementoes of the terrible fight. Our
picketß Are six miles beyond Strasburg. Jackson
was not in sight. All the fences, trees, and ground along
the Toute show the terrible effect of our artillery on tlie
retreating enemy.
Gen. Shields’ arm has been reset. His condition is now
comfortable, and he will probably be able to resume ac
tive duties in two weeks.
IMITAfiT FROM FORTRESS HOME.
The Merrimac Repaired and
Coming Out.
PREPARATIONS TO MEET HER.
ESCAPE OF THE NASHVILLE.
TOUT MACON STILL IN POSSESSION OF THE
BEBELS.
[Special correspondence of the Baltimore American.]
Fortkbss Monhoe, March 25.—We have a clear,
bright sunshine to-day, which is quito reviving after
a siege of storm and cloud.
The Merrimac Again.
Two contrabands were picked np at daylight this
morning, in an open boat, and carried on board the
Minnesota. They were both quite intelligent, and had
been at work in the navy yard.
They state that the Menrimac , or the as she
is now called, came back to Norfolk from her conflict witn
the Monitor leaking badly, and with six feet of water in
her. As she came up in front of Norfolk six steamers
were tow ing her, and it was feared at first that sbe would
go down before extra pumps could be rigged on board of
ber to relieve her from the water. Her fires were ex
tinguished by the water shortly after hauling off from the
Monitor* which was tho reason tho smaller vessels took
her in tow.
These contrabands also positively assert not only the
death or Commodore Buchanan, who had charge of her
when she aunhtbe CKmfrrfofftfefigbßrfit the
hnt also the lieutenant, who was in command of her on
Sunday when she had the enceuuter with the Monitor,
was killed, along with seven seanon, and quite a number
were wounded- They are positive m their assertions as
to the death and burial of both Buchanan and the lieu*
tthaiit, bill whether it was Lieut. A. C. Jonea or Lieut.
Minor is not known.
They also state that the Merrimac, haTing been fully
repaired, was brought out of the dsy dock on Monday
mornms, and that her crow was. $n board, ready for
action.' Several new guns had also-been placed on board
of her, of heavier metal than those she before had. The
rebel steamers Same&totwt and I’wftfoiw they represent
to have been greatly BtrensUieneil and fully repaired,
ready to accompany the Merrimac. The flag of the
latter, with the pennant, was flying when
they left.
Th? !™??esBionhere is that it Is Lieutenant Miner, her
second officer, who is dead, and not Commodore Ap
C'atesby Jones, aa the negroes represent.
How She Will be Received
The Monitor stands out in the Roads this side of
Sewell’s Point, with steam up ready for action at any
moment. She looks as calm and serene as if nothing de
pended on her, and her gallant commander Jeffers and
officers are anxious for the moment to arrive when her
powers will be again tested. They are confident of entire
Bftfety ag if pn land, and will follow the Merrimac np on
her way to Norfolk if she should attempt 10 retreat.
As to other arrangements that have been made by the
Government to meet the iromclad monster, it would not
be proper for me to speak, but that thev are deemed
ample and sufficient no one here for a moment doubts.
The greatest confidence is felt as to the result, and a
warm time 1b anticipated.
Whilst on board the JlQnttor to-day, I bad the plea
sure of witnessing the revolving of the tower. It
moved as smoothly and rapidly as if floating in oil* aud
moving an it does on a pivot, no hard blows can derange
its movements. She is in fine condition, and ready for
action at a moment’s warning. Tho pilot-house is made
to rift from ft? deck in the form of a cone, and will
check the force of the balls, and cast them off without
damage.
Miscellaneous Matters.
Among the most interested of spectators bore to-day
was the Priuce de Joinvillo. lfe stood upon the wharf
for several hours viewing the movements of the military
and the array of shipping in the harbor.
in the Boadr, almost alongside lbs Miililw, Has the
Trench war steamer. Her commander aud officers were
spectators of tho previous great naval engagement, and
from the advanced position she has now taken, it is evi
dent that the officers on hoard are anxious to have a good
view of the anticipated coming conflict She lies a mile
and a half further up the Boadsthan any of our naval
VOBSi-IS.
The Enylißh ship Hinaldo is also- here, bat sue re
mains in the background. Neither of the combatants
having any love for her or the Government she repre
sents, a closer position might be one of danger.
The French steamer Catinet arrive i to-day and drop
ped anchor in tlio Roads.
There In a rumor here that VorJitewn,« a
hie portion of it, lias been burnt. A heavy lire was visi
ble in that direction on Sunday night, which was thought
to be something more than the burning of brush.
There was also a heavy fire to-day in the neighbor
hood of New Market bridge. It seemed to be quite ex
tensive, and heavy volumes of smoke rose for several
hours* It Wftfi hoyofid the Federal lines, and the charac
ter of the lira could not be ascertained.
Tlic “Nashville” Escaped.
The steamer Cambridge arrived here to day from the
blockado ot Beaufort, N. C« She denies the correctness
of the statement that the rebels had blown np Fort Macon
and burned the steamer tfashville- On the contrary,
6ha states that ou Thursday night last tho steamer
loaded with a valuable cargo of cotton and
naval stores* ran the blockade aud made her way out to
B6 The Gemsboclt and Cambridge constituted the blockade,
and the night being dark aud her lights extinguished,
she was fairly abreast of the Cambridge before she was
discovered. A rapid fire was opened upon her, bnt her
superior speed enabled her to eecapA, Aud riin oiik id S<JA.
On Bund*y* the Chippewa, a faster steamer, arrived to
take the place of the Cambridge , but the bird had flown
before she arrived.
After sho had escaped a brig was burned at the wharf
at Beaufort, which doubtlena agave rise t-> the rumor that
the aaskvilh had been burned. Fort ftlttuou aud Beau?
fort still remained in possession of the.rebels up to baa
day night,
A Cannonading Duel.
The Sawyer gnu at the Rip Baps made some capital
shots at Sewell’s J'oint this mottling. One of its ehoUs,
filial with a pew liquid firs, exploded in tho midst ot
their parade ground, and, it is believed, did considerable
damage. It came down immediately ahead of the flag
staff. Several oth»r shots were fired, the shots lodging
In the woods and making considerable smoke and fire.
The men were afterwards observed extinguishing the
flhHlPß* ■ : ;
Kor several days a gang of men had been observed
working on a one-gun battery facing tho Rip Raps, ana
this morning, whilst the lawyer gun waß operattug. they
succeeded in getting their gun mounted. This was the
cannon that has heretofore been able to command the
Channel from Sewell’s Point, and it was to-day brought
around the point, facing the Rip Baps. . _
After several shots had been fired at the OUS
gun was fired in return at the Rip Raps, tho ball falling
Bhort about fifty yards. It was a good line shot, but her
calibre was Dot sufficient to reach the Rip
Yours* Ac.
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ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF A CCBIOIS
DOUIfIEITT.
THE KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE.
THEIR CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.
voiitNTAtt V EMaS'ci patio k
KB. SALISBURY'S AMENDMENT BEJECTED.
W asßivaios, March 20,1862.
SENATE.
[Patent Office Report in German.
Hr. KING (Hep.), of New York, presented a memorial
asking that 6,000 copies of the reports of the Patent
Office be printed in German.
Petitions, etc.
Mr HOWK (Hup.), of Wisconsin, presented tlio peti
tion of citizens of New York asking the passage of
the bankrupt law.
Also, & petition asking for the continuance of the li
bel ty of the pi ess in this country. Interred.
Alleged Conspiracy A«ntiist the Government.
Hr. LATHABi. I havo a resolution that I shall offer,
and 1 Leg the indulgence of the Senate while I mate a
brief preliminary itatermnt, as I shall ask tor its imme
diate ccnsidciation. Tu the Uoßton Journal, of Satur
day evening, March 22,11162, appeared the following ar
ticle:
Tubasoxablk Putt IN' Mu'incAS' Tho Detroit
Tribune publishes a curious document revealing an at
tempt in that State, lust fall, to organize u league for tho
purpose of overthrowing the Federal Government. This
object is plainly avowed in a secret circular, which de
clares the purpo c of the movement to be *■ lo rise and
unite, if necessary, with the A — {army) of the S—
(South), overrun the N — (North) like a hurricane,
#wrepipff the 4 — {Administration) into eternity, or a$
least driving them into complete and unconditional suo.
mission.* The document is dated October 5, 1841, and
says tho league is doiDg a noble work in Mary
land, and among the soldiers of Fortress Monroe,
and that President P——, (President Pierce,) in
hi. passage, Ims drawn many brave arid influential men
to the league. The Tribune says the original of the
document is nowin.the State Department at Washington,
and that it It-d to the arrest aud imprisonment of several
persons in Fort Lafaj file. It was discovered that seerc-t
organizations existed in many towns in Michigan, and in
numerous places in Canada West. 1 *
J'l.w morning, I receiyed tho following letter from OS-
President Pierce:
Coscoup, N. H„ March 24,1862,
Mv Dkar Sir: I enclose a short article from the
Saturday evening edition of tho Boston Journal,
(March 22,) the snbstanceof which, it is quite probable,
you may have seen before. Having originated in Michi
gan, null been reproduced in Boston, it oau hardly be
doubted that it has already securer, a wide circulation.
'j ho subject is not new to me. It was tho occasion of
a corrtsponrienco between tho Secretary of State aud
myself as early as December last. I thought it reason
able to suppose, at the close of that correspondence, that
the matter would cease to attract notice.
This expectation act having been reoltacd, knA Dio of
fensive charge alleged to be based upon a document, the
original of which “is now in the State Department at
Washington,” having been revived and extensively pub
lished, will you do mo the lavor to introduce in tho Seuate
a resolution calling for tho correspondence to which I
have, referred I
It will strike you, I am sure, bothnpon public auil
personal grounds, that such imputations should nut lie
permitted thus to circulate unchallenged, especially when
an answer to them, at least so far as I am concerned, has
been for months upon tho files of the first Department of
the Government.
I am truly, your friend, &c.»
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
ITon. Milton S. Latham, U, 3, Senate, Washington,
D. C.
Mr. President. I shall offer the resolution iu my
hand, and I trmt the Senate will permit it* considera
tion now, for I (hern it notning more than proper, not
only to this distinguished individual, but to the coun
try, that tbe truth in relation to this charge should be
known, and If a malignant and base calumny, that it
should be branded as such:
Resolved, That the Secretary of State bo requested to
transmit to this body copies of any correspondence which
may have taken place between-lion. William H. Seward.
Secretary of State, and Hon. Franklin Pierco, es-Prosi
dent of the United States, having reference to a supposed
figaliifet the Government, ftftd Oil otli6i* pApofi
relating to tho same.
Mr. CHANDLER (Rep.), of Michigan, said he knew
there was such a letter. The writer of it was Dr. Hop
kins. There was Ruch an organization, aud it was very
wide-spread. At the commencement of the war, the
Knights of the Golden Circle thought they would be very
patriotic, and go into tbe army, and to his certain knowl
edge a largo number of the worst traitors were in tbe
"United States army, aud they are there now.
Mr. HOWARD (Hep.), of Michigan, said he knew
there was such a letter in existence, ns ho had seen it.
Do suggested that tho Senator framo his resolution so as
to include that letter.
Mr. LATHAM said he only wanted to find out whether
any man who had been a President of the United States
was engaged in such conspiracy or not- He amended
the resolution so asto include all the other papers. The
resolution was then adopted.
Aid for Emancipation.
On motion of Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep.), the joint resolu
tion offering sin to tho States in case of their euiancipar
tion of the slaveß was taken up the question beiug ou the
substitute offered by Mr. Davis for iheir colonization.
Mr. BROWNING (Bep.). of Illinois, read a despatch
from Geneial Shields concerning the light on Sunday.
Mr. McDOUGALL (D.). of California, opposed the pro
visions of tbe resolution as beyond tue power of .Con
gress, and a mply creating a cause of discussion iu Con
gress.
Mr. POWELL (D ), of Kentucky, thought the resolu
tion was simply a pill of arsenic, sugar-coated, and in
tended to inaugurate the agination of slavery iu the slave
Staten, which will tend to ihe injury of the States. He
thought that when the President sent this resolution to
Congress, he violated all bis pledges of non-interference.
Evc-h If emancipation did ta*o place, he did not be’iere
tbe Northern Senators would ever Vote il suitable £6ft
pensation. If he was a Northern man, he would not vote
to pay for the negroes.
Mr. LATHAM (Dein), of California, believed that
the mo‘ives which originated the resolntt m wero pure
and honest, for ho had seen nothing in tho Prudent to
make him believe anything else But he could not vote
for tbe abstract proposition pledging his State to pay
bucli lerpe amounts.
Mr. MORRILL (Rep ). of Maine, did not seehow any
body conlrl find anything offensive in this simple message
of the President We were in the midst of a rebellion,
of which slavery was the immediate cause, and the Presi
dent dimply asks whether or not it will be wise to con
sider some plan for the ultimate extinction of slavery in
the Sbiati-a which desire il. He did not see how this could
be offensive to any man, unices he places slavery above
the Constitution of the country and everything.
Mr. Davis 1 Amendment Rejected.
Mr. Davis’ amendment was disagreed to—yeas 4, vi/.
Messrs. Davis, Henderson, Powell, Wilson of Missouri
uays3L
A Proposed Amendment.
Mr. HENDERSON (U.), of Missouri, offered an
amendment providing that nothing contained in the reso
lution shall be construed to imply a wil‘iugnes3 on tho
part of Congress that any State shall withdraw its alle
giauce; but it is hereby declared to bo the intention of
tl e Government to prosecute the war until the Constitu
tion is restored in every State. Rejected.
On motion of Mr. HENOE RSt) N, tbo further conside
ration of the reaoluti- n was postponed till to-morrow.
Gen. Burnside ami Com* Rowan*
Mr. ANTHONY (Rep.), of Rhode Island, offered a
resolution that the thanks of Congress be given to Gen.
Burnside and lws officers and men.
Also, a resolution ot thanks to Commander S. C. Ro
wan. Referred.
Agricultural Depot,
Mr. BRIGHT (U ). of Indiana, introduced a bill to
establish an agricultural depot. Referred.
Slavery in the District*
Tho bill to abolish slavery in the District or Columbia
was taken up.
Expediency vs. Justice*
Mr. WILKINSON (Rep ), of Minnesota, said he was
willing to conform his action to the principles of justice.
The bill had been opposed on the grounds of expe
diency, but. believing &S h& did, that feltLV&tty WAA thd
great sin of this country, he could not place expe
diency in the scale againßt justice. We rofase to do
right for fear of consequences He be’ieved with the
Hero of New Orleans, that it is always safe to do
right, and he should allow no false motives of expe
diFEcir to interfere. Wnon tbe rebellion commenced we
ya re tnrrouuded here by slaveholders and traitors in
this District, who were daily plotting tho disruption of
the Government, and there was no security until the
freemen of the North came ip the rescue. This was a
slaveholder’s rebellion, and the District was under the
influence of those slaveholders. The Senator from Vir
ginia, (Mr. Willey), the other day, said he spoke as a
Border-State man, and spoke the sentiments of the loyal
men of Virginia, and begged Senators t) pause to con
sider the position they occupied How many of the
loyal men of Virginia or Maryland came to the defence
of the Capitol ? Not one.
Mr. WILLKY (17.) said that there was a good reason.
Theirs was the first territory whi;h was invaded by the
advert ary, and they had to defend ihelr wives and chil
dren. Western Virginia, with two hundred and soveutr
tliomapd population, part of whom are rebels, has now
nine thousand men in the field.
Mr. WILKINSON said that was very good; but, if
Northern men had not goue there, the Senator would not
have dated to return there.
Mr, that vag a fact, and he wißhed bore
to express the deepest obligation to the nobio men who
came to their rescud.
Mr. WILKINSON then referred to the attack on the
Massachusetts troops in Baltimore, and contended that
Baltimore was never loyal until the guns cf Fort Mc-
Henry were turned toward the city, and Maryland was
only-kept 111 the Union by the power of the Government.
The Senate* Virginia. [Mr. Willey] seemed to een-
Bure Northern Senators for their course on this bill. [Qe
lead fiom Mr. Willey’s speech.] He [Mr. Wilkinson]
grew impatient when censured by men from tbe Border
Spates, who would never have been here but for the valor
of Nor them men.
Mr. 0A1tT.11.13 {U.)saidhe was not m the habit ot cen-
Btiriiur, but be bela bis goat here by an good a tenuro as
tho Senator front Minnesota.
Mr. WILKINSON said he knew how much of the
State the Senator represented. If it was not for tho
North, there would not bavo been a foot of soil in Vir
ginia on which he could stand. .
Mr. WILLEY said there would at least have been a
gM&U potion of the soil under which her Senator* could
lie. He again expressed bis thanks to the noble men of
the North who came to their rescue.
Mr. WILKINSON said he did not donht that the Sena
tor’s feelings were correct; but, in his speech, he said we
were rendering aid aud comfort to the enemy. Ho read
an account of the massacre of the Union troops at Uuy
tudoUf, Yff ias showing the inhumanity of slavery. He
then referred'to'the speeches of Messrs. Kenuodriwm
Davis, as showing the violent hatred to the free speech
and free reuliineuts of the North, and the tending to ex
cite the people of the South against th« Nortn.
Mr. SnuUlmry’s Amendment Rejected.
The Question was then taken on Mr. S&uUbQry’s
nmeDdmenti offered yesterday, te SiilrH l *}?® si*'' ol
among the Northern Matos, Ac, wlnoli was atsagreed to
—yeas none, uaya 35—Mr. Saulstmry voting in the no
gative.
Another Amendment Offered.
Mr. POMEUO Y (Hep.), of Kansas, offered an amond
ment* that the commissioner* make a juat and equitable
settlement of the accounts between tbe waster ami hi*
so-called staves, allowing the matter ail reasonable ex*
senses for supplies and clothing to the sla7es upon disa
bility, and to allow the slave* for all their services aud
labor performed, &c. ...
The bill was then postponed, and the Senate went into
executive session. Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Vindication of tUe Government Contract Com-
niittce.
Mr. DAWKS (Hep ), of Massachusetts, roso to a
privileged question on behalf of the Government Con
tract Committee. He referred to the pauiphlot _ issued by
Altxandtr Cummlug", who charged the committed with
having altered and falsified the record aud testimony
furnished by them wilfully and perversely, for the pur
pose of creating a sensation in the House aud country.
arid convicting him of charges which the committee know
were false. Mr. Dawes examined the statements of Mr.
Cummings, and vindicated the integrity of the commit
tfljir. BTEYENS (Hop.), of Pennsylvania, brioliy ex
posed what he characterized as a fallacy of the commit
tee Their report, he said, went forth to damn a mane
reputation, founded on the falsification, whoever did it,
of Mr Cummings’ note, which, a 4 printed, makes it ap
pear that he had retained in his bauds one humireu »u*
!my liu.mmud .InlU™, «l« Ihs Bills llSOlf allOWOil tllflt
he ne. tr hiwl a dellar in his UauilH.
Resolution of Inquiry —Exposure of our
Troops.
Mr. FENTON (Jtep ), of Now York, asked, bnt failed
to obtain, leave to introduce »instmciiua ttia
Committee on tlio Conduct of tlie vjor to .oqutreiuto the
causa of tho exposure or lame hudies of onr troops, be
longinj to the army or the Potomac, consisting of roj -
incuts, brigades, etc., in w.n» 'UjtancM rf whole 41-
vi.ions, who have boon deprived of shelter for days nod
weeks, 1* consequence of having their orders to marcb
countermanded, and it.cn being »guiu mfenil U BWCU
aud again countermanded, while they were eft without
adequate food, and repwt who la responsible for tins
needless exposure Mid suffering of our troops.
The Tax-Bill
The Horse then went into Committee ef Hl ? wb °** “J
the eWe ef tl.e Union, and resumed tho consideration 01
the tax-bill.
Amendment* Adopted.
Among other amendments adopted was ft proviso, that
the tsv ou goods, wares, merchandise, awl manwfartat^ih
pursuant to contract, under this act* ahall bo paid by ihe
purchaser before tbe delivery thereof.
Several sections of the bill wore acted upon, when the
committee rose
Testing Ships and Floating Batteries.
Mr BIGS (Rep.), of Massachusetts, from tho Naval
Con.roittee, reported a joint resolution, appropriating
fifty thousand dollars, to enable the [Secretary of tl»e
Navy lo test the plans and materials for rendering shipe
and floating batteries invulnerable.
The House then adjourned.
FEMSYLVAJVIA legislature,
Harbisburo, March 20,1602,
SENATE
Tho Senate was called to order at eleven o’clock,
Prayer by Bev. Mr. Marta.
Petition.
Messrs. CONNKLL and DONOVAN presented peti
tions from Philadelphia for the passage of tho bill to
prohibit the fraudulent mm of castings.
Mr KETCH A6l presented a petition from Luzemo
coiTbty of Like Import, ami
Mr. BUUGUTifiK hvo remonatrimcea from Dobwwn
county against the passage of said bill.
Me»»rs. Cljmer, Molt. Benson, Johnson, Bound, Craw
ford, Rrmghter, Meredith, Imbrie, Penney, and Lnrnt
bcrtKon, each presented remonstrances against the pas
sage of the supplement to the Philadelphia and Delaware
Bivor Rail ioiul Company.
Reports of Committees*
Mr. FULLER (Banks), as committed, tho bill from the
House *o reduce the capital stock of the Girard Bank.
Mr. McCLURE (Railroads), aH committed, tho sup
plement to tho Catasauqna and Fogolsvillo Railroad
Company.
Mr. NinilULS(saiiie),ascommltted } tho bill rclativo
to the Tioga Railroad Company,
Mr. KETCH AM (same), as committed, tho supplement
to the North Philadelphia Plank Road Company, repeal
ing tbe several supplements granting railway privileges.
Bills Introduced
Mr. CONNELL, a supplement to tho act of 1780, in
corporating the city of Philadelphia, relative to city
6Vd!h4b£*H.
Mr. SMITIJ, of Philadelphia, a bill to incorporate tho
Armory Company of the Gray Reserves.
Mr. KETCiI.VM, a bill relativo to foreign insurance
agencies.
Bills Considered, &c*
On motion of Sir, OONfifiJdtt the bill fr9!7) tll9 H')'W
to reduce the capital stock ot the Girard Bank was taken
up and pftbsed—yeas IS, nays 7.
On motion of Mr. DONOVAN, tho bill rclativo to gas
companies was taken up on third roadiug, and after be
ing amended so as to apply only to the city of Philadol
pfaltt w<l *l>« cu'mies ef jtiwkni Nortlmmptoiii mrl Erie.
whs passed finally.
The Senate ilien proceeded in Committee of tho Whole
to tbe consideration of the general appropriation bill, ii
which some progress was made, when, at tho hoar of
one, the Senate adjourned until three o’clock this after
noon.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Senate reassembled at three o’clock.
Bills Passed*
An act incorporating tho Easton and Iron Hill Rail
rood Company was passed.
Tho general appropriation bill was passed in Com
mittee of the Whole. Among the appropriations wm
$7,G00 to the Pennsylvania Stato Insane Asylum, located
at Hariitburg.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE*
The Honeemet at 10 A. M., Hon. John Rowe, Speaker,
in the chair.
Resolutions.
Mr. BANKS read (be following:
U7<creas, since tho announcement of tho death of Col.
Wm. P. Murray, this Bouse haa received news of the
death of Captain Gallagher, and Lieut. Rooms, and other
members of the Eighty-fomthregiment] therefore,
liepotre tZ, That the committee appointed by the
House, in conjunction with a similar committee from the
Senate, to take charge of the remains of Col. W. r.
Murray, be authorizeo to receive and take to llolidays
burg tho remains of Capt. Gallagher and Lieut. Room*,
ana those of any other member of the Eighty-fourth
regiment sent to this city with the remains of Colonel
Murray* Passed,
Reports of Committees,
Mr. ARMSTRONG, with amendments, an ant relative
to the license laws of the State. Also, an act relating to
accounts agaiD9t tbe Cununonwealth.
Mr. ABBOT, tavorably, an act to abolish the Board
of BeYfunp CoinmwßtoHWH.
Mr. DUFFIELD, favorably, an act to repeal tho se
cond section of an act to reduce the rate of payment for
advertising delinquent taxpayers, and the collection of
taxes in the city of Philadelphia.
Mr. CRANE, with amendments, an act requiring the
resumption of specie payments by the banka.
Mr. DUI’FIELI). negatively, an act to reorganize
tbe Bond ol Controllers, First School District, PuansyW
vania.
Mr. BROWN, with amendments, an a:t to authorize
tbe sale of tbe Btnck of any stockholder in certain ewes.
Mr. McMANUS (favorably), an act for the opening of
Evangelist street, l’hiladeiphia.
Executive Message.
The Geverfifir informed. ihe Heuiw that he bU3 signed
the followiug acta:
An act creating two additional assessors fer the First
and Twenty-second wards of the city of Philadelphia.
A further supplement to the act incorporating the East
Pennsylvania Bailroad Company.
An act t« authorize ihe arrestof professional thieves,
burglars, Ac., in the ciiy of Philadelphia.
An act to authorize tho Auditor General and State
Tr usurer to allow credit to Thomas Birch, auctioneer,
of Philadelphia.
An act relative to Protlionotaries of the Common
wealth.
An act to authorize the extinguishment of certain
ground reiita
A supplement to an act to incorporate tho Klngsoss
ing and Tinnicum Meadow Company.
An act to incorporate the People’s Insurance Co.
An act supplemental to an act incorporating the
Schuylkill and Snsquehanna Railroad Company.
An act to extend the charter of the Mechanics’Saving,
Loan, and Building Association, located at Norristown,
in tho county of Montgomery,
An act to extend tho charter of tho Norristown Sa
vings, Loan, and Building Association, in Montgomery
county.
A further supplement to the Nowry Railroad Co.
An act to extend the charter of the Montgomery Sa
ings, Lean, and Building Association, located at NorrU
town, in MeDtgomerv county.
A further supplement to mi *c‘; to incorporate tho Qr?pn
and Coates-street Philadelphia Passenger Railway Com
pany, approved April 21,1858.
An act to reduce the rate of payments for advertising
delinquent taxpayers and the collection of taxes in the
city of PhilHrleltbiu.
An act to incorporate the Little Beaver Valley Bailroad
CompiWr .
A I urihersupplement to an act revising the charter of
the municipal corporation of the city of Reading, pissed
March 13, 1861.
An act to change the name of York street, in the city
of Philadelphia,
An act to restrain and prohibit the erection or Con
fetiueiiun of frame nr wondon buildings in certain parts
of the cily of Reading, iu the couuty of Berks.
An act to extend the charter of the Southern Mutual
Insurance Company of Lancaster couuty.
An act relating to copartners aud joint debtors.
An act supplementary to the several acts in relation to
tbe Green Ridge Improvement Company.
An ftci to incorporate tl»e goSlitP Af t\ 15 OhMfflh Of
Christ, worshipping iu Germantown, commonly called
the German Baptist.
An act to incorporate tho Jackson Hall Association.
An act to organize the Middle Coalfield Poor district.
A supplement to an act to change the name of the
Miitou Savings Bank and for oilier purposes, ap
proved Match 8,1562.
Bills Introduce?!.
M>. THOMPSON, an act to change the name of the
Good Intent Boso Company, No. 2, or rinladoiphu.
Passed.
Mr. McMAKIN, an act to reorganize the Board of
Control of the Public Schools of the First School district
Of Pemnylvaiiia.
Mr. McMiNUS, an act to refill p&ftl&lia ftf
the nets of April 7, 1845, to repeal that portion of the act
relating to the vacating of Seventeenth street from Fran
cis Btreet to Hidse rood.
Mr. GREENBANK, an act relating to official bonds
in the city of Philadelphia.
Mr. DUFFIELD, au act to incorporate tho Armory
Company of tho Gray Bcservea.
Reports oi Committees.
Mr. WINDLE, negatively, a supplement to an act en
titled as act for the bale of the Main Line of the Public
VTorVs, approved Hay 16, 1557.
Mr. DUFFIELO; favorably* a further uncplnment to
incorporate the city of Philadelphia, relating to tuaes
soro of the First ward.
Mr. CBATUAM, favorably, a fiuiher supplements
tho several acts heretofore passed, relating to the Union
Canal CYinpany. . .
Mr. BOIXEAU, negatively, an act to erect an mae
latdent school district in Middle Paxton township,
Dauphin county.
Mr. AIIBOI, favorably, an act relating to savings
Mr. STKANG, favorably, an act lo enable Robert
LintYay, or the city of Philadelphia, trustee, to sell cer
tain real ea’ate.
Mr. PEKSEIINCT, negatively, a supplement to an act
for thesnle of the main bne of the public works.
Public Bill-
All act to attach tho counting of Erie and Crawford to
the Eastern district of the Supreme Court. Passsod.
>’ Q te-57 yeas, 39 na>-s.
Atone o’clock the Hounotook a recess till 3 o’clock.
AFTERNOON SESSiONr
The House vm again called to ordtr afrfl o’eleek.
Tlie Mil providing for the election of field and company
officers for the Pennsylvania Reserve corps was post
poned
Bills Passed*
A joint resolution relutivo to the t»* bill now pondlns
la Oißettss u&a ausaed.
a supplement to the several acta for the sale ol
nnlocateil lands. • i, *
Also, an act to authorize and empower tue present
Governor to commute the penalty oi death to a specific
term of imprisonment, in certain cases.
The House then adjourn td.
From Havana and Mexico.
New York, March 26.—The steamship Columbia f
from Havana on the 22J, arrived at this port this even
ing. bringing advices from Vera Cruz to the 14th.
Tire Kuglieh tro jps-tJepartirns from Mexico had arrived
at Havana, and sailed for Bermuda on the ISthi A Urge
number of them were on the elck list. -
The Mexican barracks, situated eight miles from Ori
zaba* were blown up accidentally, and 1,300 dead bodies
had been exhumed from the ruins. , 0 ..
The French division of troops left Orizaba on the otn
for Tehuacan. „ „ , ,
A battalion of French chasseurs bad arrived, and a
bnltni on oi Spunish ok**** Ff»m Havana on tho
2»(b For Vera Uruz.
It was reported at Havana that the schooner Wide
Awake was captured while trying to run the blockade,
and that Yuncey, disguised as a sailor, was caught, and
is now a prisoner iu Fort Jefferson, at Key West.
[This is probably a repetition of the old rumor, which
n&i dissipated by later advieoi from Key West 1
Honduras dates to the 22d uli. state that the army will
uphold Castellanos. A sevoro galobad prevailed at Ha
vana. The bark Major Ifortm was lost wear Sagua on
the 14lh, but her cargo lias been saved. £he was insured
in Boston. . w ,
Tho schooner Mira, from Mayaguez for Halifax, has
been lofit at era.
No rebel vessola have reached Havana Blue* the last
dates, and only three small schooners of Secessia wero in
port.
Produce Transportation from the West.
Cincinnati. March 26.— The shipments of all kind* of
produce from ibe Weal have befeu «i© MdttAWl WitUill ttlO
past few days that neither of the tines which are now
open, viz: the two New York Hues, the
lleatral, and the Grand Trunk, or Canada, U workut up
,o OurV?eatSu roads are In a like condition, andowuers
of produce will haTO no further complain for
tbeweniof IWiMtes to ship freiahu eastward front auy
point in the West-
Sailing of the Africa-
Niw York. March 28.—Tho ah'amor Africa sailedJor
Liverpool at noun, with sevouly-three piwseiigers. She
takes S208,0fl« in specie.
Marine.
York, March 28 Arrived—ship
from Liverpool; bark Tangite, from London.
The Coast Survey and the Pe&a-
WAKE RIVER.—Some time ago tho city military au
thorities ordered a rocotiuoisaatico of the Dvbtwaro rivor
»ml adjacent parts of tho Chesapeake bay atul the
iiu«-ham>a. Tho survey was made, commencing at Dau
phin on the Sußtiuehnmm, anil concluding i*t Delaware
Oily. From lliu latter place to Pluludolphia a thorough
TeconDoisance was made by detachments of the U>ftst
Survey, tinder command 1 of Mr. Davidson, of Keostog
ton, and the roporls of the same have been for
warded to AVastamgton. Mr Davidson's party de
voted most of their attention to- those parts of tho rival’
between New Cflfllle and Ptua? Tfeff d? Vfck >f*J the
fact of lato and important changes in the chaunoi or the
river, particulaitv In the neighborhood of Pea Patch
island, and designated Reedy Point and ElainWo’ Point
ns sites for foittticatfcvM. The completeness of the sur
vey may be inferred from the fact that the party moved
Burnt) hundreds of milveiu the court?© of ir examin**
Ik.i.a. Thft river was sounded at intervals of thirty
second?* Much of thoevidenceluruUhodliy the Coast Sur
vey party was made available at the lute meeting of the
Governors and Legislatures of the Staten of N'*vr Jersey.
Delaware, and Peuiwj Irani u.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER CHINA#
Nmv Yong, MAveh 20.—ThsCuuard steamship China,
from Liverpool, arrived at this port this afternoon, with
Liverpool advices, via Southampton, to tho 16th Inst.
The steamship liohemia arrived out on thel4tb,
The Kangaroo arrived at Queenstown on tbe evening
of the 13th, and reached Liverpool on the evening of the
14th insU
2'k* proposed amendments of thg PiMl? l£
French Legislature to tho paragraphs relative to Ameri
can affairs, in the address to tho Emperor, had been
withdrawn.
On Saturday, the Paris Boursn was dull; Rentes were
quoted at UOf. 76c.
Tho proeeediutfßof the British Parliament wero of but
slight importance.
Mr. Milner Gibson, In reply to Ah Inquiry, Stated that
no information had been received by tho Government as
to tho practical increase of duties on imports with tbe
United EtattM, consequent upon such duties being mado
payable in specie.
Luring Die debate on the mail subsidies, Mr. Barter
showed Hie losses of the eyst&a, &nd Juiw>&&tdd & induc
tion of the flnbsidiog, os tno contracts fall la. lie opposed
any new contract fur America, and favored open compe
tition and Dm discontinuance of subsidies.
Mr. Reel admitted the truth of what was said, and
felatf d that as tho contracts fall In, avoir care should be
taken to redttco the suhsldits. Tho vote of .£905 1 ()Q9
sterling was agreed to.
The Morning Herald thinks it a pity that the Unito4
States docß not nmko use of the first auspicious occasion
presented by the recent succeesoH for concluding » peace.
Tho United States, it says, have It now In their power to
retire from the desperate strife with something like
honor.
The I?axbj hcivs urgnwi that by simply refilling any
sort or participation in tho slavery question) the United
States Government will practically doom slavery to ex
tinction.
The Times speculates on difficulties of a settlement,
and points out tho public debt, the tariff, tlm taxation,
and sla*e-laws« otc., as rocks ahead, wlieu it looks for a
day which is to giro two friendly Unions to the world,
The'French’ Corps Leglsiatiff continued the debate on
the aodress. The paragraph (relating to Mexico was
adopted after some opposition.
The amendment of the five liberal members to the pa
ragraph relative to America had been withdrawn, on the
ground that a part of it was rendered unnecessary by tbe
decision and declarations of the Government in favor of
neutrality.
Franco was reported to have urgently called on Spain
to at once put an end to the misiinderstaoding between
the Spanish ami French commanders at Vera Cruz.
It Is asserted that tho Greek itumrrocUou is gaining
giound. The Government had called
eancl men to complete tho army*
GREAT BRITAIN.
The parliamentary proceeding* on the 13th, in both
Houses, wore devoid of interest to American readers.
Iu the Home of Commons on tho 14tb, Sir G. Bowyer
put some Inquiries as to sundry outrages, &o.,in Italy;
io winch Lord Pnhm reon replied iliac ho knew nothing
on the subject, and .advised Sir G. Bowyer to receivo with
caution any statements from Italy a* to the supposed in
teiitlun of the Italian Government.
Mr. Layard, in reply to inquiries, said Baron Ricasoli
had given assurances that no further co elon of territory
to Fiance would be made by Italy. Religious porsi'cu*
t.ons in Spein were debated and denounced by' nureral
speakers.
On th o vote of .C9D5,000 for tho Post Office packet ser
vice, Mr. Baxter contended that the vote was susceptible
of reduction, although he admitted that most of the tines
could not have been established, aud Berne of them, with
the competition, carried on, without subsidies;
hut the present system was carried too far, and ho there
fore ut-gMI tho Government to reducuthuvoteastheedn
t. acts fell In.
There wad uow a teas of £350,000 a year, of which
£200,000 was on tho Royal mail lino to tho West Indies,
aud £70,000 on tho C'utmrd contract; hut he believed
that by an amalgamation of routes and opou competition,
the Government would ho able to savo or groully rodnee
these imlimiliCß. In Uwcanoof Diu Auunioan mails, they
ought to be landed at Irish ports, as Ihe nearest, and, in
a few years, this would be of greater service to that coun
try than a new subsidised contract; whilst iu a very
short time there would be a daily post to and from Ame
rica. He was animated with no hostile fccliigs to that
counlry, but he odYocated the discontinuance of the sys
tem of subsidies, and b« was Mir? tho result would bo u
greatdevedopmeut of tho commercial marine.
Mr. Feel said that tho vote entailed a great burden,
but a considerable portion of tho monoy wa« not a dead
lops. The strictly foreign aud colonial service was
i £820,000, but the *cean postage yielded £400,000, leav
ing a loss of from .£3f»0,000 to £4OO-000; and they must
re£o!teatthti gvt&t luuieettj whieU (U‘|u>ml6d on tho raoid
and safe transmission of postal communications. He
assured ilie committee that, ns the contracts fell in, every
caro would be taken to reduce the subsidies, and ho fully
concurred in tho views of the honorable member.
Alter some conversation the vote wan agreed to.
The Daily A'eitr, in an editorial on the slavery ques
tion, says;
i: If rUvery cohtlahHy h&W sMI, 1$ Ml©ge<! T
and ilthe slaveholders must depend on the North nr Eu
rope tor the settlement ot that soil, the North and Europe
have the fate of slavery in their own hands."
In the same article the wrltei says : *« We have al
ways belitvtd that the Confederates must succumb, as
Buicly as they were properly attacked. They have never
been properly attacked till now; nnd now they ar a giving
way at all points* 11
The London Herald then attempts to show the impos
sibility of subjugating the South, aud the deplorable ef
fects wbiclumiat follow the attempt.
The City Anicle of the London Time* hag tho follow
ing feciocg its remarks on the statu of affairs in America;
a &&rchants of New York were much confounded at
the law compelling the payment of custom* dudes in
specie*, since it must Wing new perplvxitios into ail their
transactions. They say they can never tell with what
weight the tariff will fall upon any imported goods, since
gold may be at 5 per cent, pro uiitm at the time such
go< ds are ordered, ami at If) or 2(1 before they arrive.
To the extent of that moreover, the law
virtimliy uiokes un addition to Hie numly prohibitory
rate* ot the Morrill tarilT, and must, therefore, tend still
further to hasten tho destruction of tlio trade of tlio
country aui the decay of tho tevunue. which has already
re-mlted from the commercial policy of the American de
mo* racy. An additional inducement to tho South to
avoid agaiu subjecting themselves to that policy is also
supplied."
I‘iUSCll,
The debate on tho address to tho Emperor was still
going on in tho Corps Leglslatif. Ob paragraph six* re
lating to Mexico, lit Favro opposed tbo object of the
expedition, lie could not understand why, under the
pretext of aveugiug their countrymen, the blood of
French soldiers w*b lavished to provide a throne for the
Archduke Maximilian;
51. isuinult celled to mind that the war against Mexico
originated m the insults and violence offered to French
subjects. With regard to the supposed p r oject of modify
ing tlif internal Government of tho country, M. Billaplt
said he confined himself to indicating the o \ ; oct of the
ti<7«*ty cvi:ciuuevJ Ilie Uuee l'OiVtiril.
Tlio goragraiih was thon adopted
The Monile-tir publishes the monthly return or the
Bank of France, which shows the folio wing results as
compared with the February account: Increase: U*ik
in hand, Cl millions franc*; bank notes, 41 millions;
treasury balance, 83:{ miliums; current account, IS. I ,'
millions: advances* 110# millions. decrease; BiUa
dircountrd, ?»ol >ofc due, ilLilllUllS. .
Tlie Times" Farris correspondent states that the Mini
ster of Foreign Affairs, during an interview with the
members of the diplomatic corps, assured them that there
wa9 uothing serious in tho movements or manifestations
which have lately occurred among the students iu Paris.
It Is said that tho minister has written to the same effect
to ilie French »&cma a* jorelgn porje.
The aichbiahop of Beanes had issued an address to
thecletgy of his diocese, containing a very warm de
fence of the Pope’s temporal power.
In the Corps Lecislatif on the 14th, the debate on the
address was confined to the financial question. Opposi
tion was shown to the imposition of now taxes. •
The llilicfldnipfjt Of tht. five liljoral members to the pa
ragraph on the subject of America had been with
drawn, on the ground that part of it was rendered unne
coseary b> the decisive doelaratlois of thu Government
in favor ot neutrality.
The French Minister of Foreign A flairs had addressed
& very urgent despatch to the Cabinet of Madrid, de
m&udiug that it should at ouce nut au eu<l to lbs mUun
dorstAbding which conttouod at Yera Criiifi between tho
(.ommaoders of tho Spanish And French forces.
Tbe Bourse, on tlie 14th, was «iuiel but firmer ; Rentes
closed at G9f. 85c.
It was rumored that M. Thouveuel had sent a note to
tbe now Italian Ministry demanding the cessation of the
meetings of the Provvedimeuto. At tbe same time M.
Thouvenel had transmitted to the French Ambassador at
Romo the text of the address of the Senate, and pointed
out tbe foice which it gives to the counsels which, with
so much perseverance and so little result, have been ad
dressed by the Government of the Emperor to the Holy
See.
A correspondent of the Paris Press*, represented as
well informed, assorts that by the end of the mouth the
Roman question will have made a step of a nearly decisive
character. It was in order to render a eolntlou possible
that the change of ministry at Turin took place.
The Presse remarks, that in regard to Rome Italians
are apt tu be misled by thulr hopftfi It hftWiftft t£f~
tain ill At the conferences or Uio Italian ambassador with
the French Minister for Foreign Affairs have becom*
morefreijnentßince the accession of the llatazzi ministry.
Advices from Naples state that, “on ttio evening of
the 7th, the police found in a hut on the Champ de Marx,
near the tavern called the I’ultivellOi a quantity of
bombs, arm*, and combustiblo, some Bourbon procla
mations, and a'wW-u H ; ‘S with the flMie-IU-liß. TWO
men in charge of this depot were smoking, drinking, and
playing nt cards, in the hope of averting suspicions by
their apparent unconcern.
"The reactionist clique at Rome is very active A pro
clamation has been circulated here, exhorting the Nea
politans to i ecull their King and drive out the * foreign
hurbarmr.6,’ Tins appeal to civil war U prlutel iu tbo
Fvvv'evvrb pHhtlag cfUae, fta an official stamp upon it
proves. Iho brigand chief Chiavone, now restored to
the good graces of Francis IT, who had quarreled with
him, is collecting his forces at Terracina for a fresh
raid ”
AUSTBIA.
In tti* lov cr House of the Bsichsrath the Government
had brotutl t in bills to increase the taxes on grounds*
buildings, -radel, and incomes, and to raise the amount
of the roll tax. The bank account was also introduced.
POBTUGAL,
A bill had been Introduced into the Cortes suppressing
B U religious societies and brotherhoods educating chil
dren or mu ring tliv elslh
GREECE.
At latest dates, the insurrection In Greece remained
A letter from Athons, of March 1, in the Trieste Ga,»
zetto, contains some iuloresting details ou tlie present
etnre of Crfffft • ~ , , . . ~, -
The greater part of tho rebels have token up a popltlon
nt a iiuarter of an luur's march from Jfanplia, Imril by
to the road of Argos. They hold the bridge of Aria,
the mountain ITopbet Eliaa, and a milt close to the
r °They are well supplied with all warlike reciuisltw, hare
entrenched positions, and an avenue for retreat if ileers
unfit They have Ryiuputbi/.prs nnd supporters in tuff
higher ranks of the army &hd ortliS Otorijy, and ulthonglt
this iB Pinned over, it is evident that they also fiuu ad
hcrwls and enthusiastic ones in members of those classes
of m-rally the last to abandon the cans© of the sovereign,
ft »riH-»rs yiobable that the truth with respect to this
Gro»k insurrection is but very imperfectly known.
I‘tio Paris I'm iff tue Hlli 9t»!“S 111,1 insniraotion
in Kiiiiplia has gained ground m th# neighboring pro~
viures. Aria, Pruvoaa, and Lauasa have become the
seatß of revolutionary committees, which art in open day.
The rot al euthoritke have been expelled from Tripo-
insurgent. have cut off all communication between
the Plriuus and tlio wostnrn portion ot the Poiopooeenv.
isti soldirrs kayo yet taken MV&liiage or the amuestj
‘' l The l G , ov«um“ t'liave called out 30,000 men to com
plete the lists of the regular army, which had beon re
diiced through financial esßities.
•The Ited Sea Gable was agala in working onfer
twwa SueJihjid Jahal Island, and as the steamers hod
been ordered to cull at the island, a further saying of
tlmo in the receipt of news, aimmiitiug to about thren
days, bad been eflected. . ,
A Bombay telegram of the 27th of 1 ebruary reached
Loudon ou the 13th of March, being only fourteen day*
in route, Itstatrß that tax had been »tx>.
1 shed, as uuiieuu&sary, tlio fiimucinl euulllbnum having
been restored. . . , , _
The Bombay Cotton market was unchanged. Piece
goods were more active. Irelghts hail declined os. pec
ton. Exchange unaltered.
LONDON MONEY MABKEI.— The funds, on the
14th, were firm and hisb® r — Ouusols ™ r y streng
* 3 i fAv mniifli r ; uml Ou?j CD7a for account)
The Discuuut umrhtt continued easy, although rather
morn demand had boon, apparent.
The weekly returns of the Bank of England shew an
increase in the bullion o£ X'Js!S>,22!Sntlw total bold being
Broßy * 0o. T uuote Bar silver at &a
3»id; Dollars,6b * c d; Kagle*, .
'<if American securities they say : There hat been an
Hctiro business tide week, and considerable amounts
have changed hands: but there is still someuncertainty
in our iiuotations. United states sixos BQ£», do fives
mtWi, rterinij »t H- * gf?, l .
sterling Maryland do Jit
Bcription* 70, bonds 70®75, Tenneftse© about W), New
York Central sevens W, do nixes 8», l.rlo third incrt*«
gage B<X f
by Telegraph to QueenstoW*.
March l!C-l*pIknatloni ujra minuted hi
chamber of Dupulteß concerning tha convawvtlum of
the bisboir at It mu. Monsieur Poggi replied that tha
object of the convocation was unknown* but il woatrer*
tair ly not of a reunions character. ...
laws enflichnrty armed the Government against
the bMiop».l»M*'« tludr departwre from the State, and
tendering themselves guwv of nets contrary to tuoin*
terests of the nation, ltenve o! ahsotico was formerly
nniiestod, but if ne t done now th* f>?WUrrut V¥lU.Mn*
al-H: what ccunc to ndojt.