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VOL. S.—NO. 202.
SATURDAY, MARCH 29,1862
The Hon. J. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin,
made a speech in the Senate of the United
States on tho JOth of March, which wo have
read with great interost. Senator Doolittle
started in public life as a member of the Demo
cratic party. He was born in New York, in
which State, for many yours, ho wielded a
large influence in political circles, lie was
one of the first to perceive and to denounce
the aggressions of the slave o’igarohy, and,
in 1848, in company with David Dudley
Fields, Fueston Kino, and others, advocated
tho Wilmot Proviso in the National Democra
tic Convention at Baltimore. He removed to
Wisconsin in 1803, was chosen Judge of the
first judicial district of that State in 1853, and
was elected to the United States Senate for
six years in 1857. Entertaining the strongest
opinions on the subject of slavery, he is never
theless one of the practical statesmen of the
day, and has always advocated with great
ability the idea of colonizing the free blacks,
and those who may be made free hereafter, by
sending them into congenial climates. In the
speech under notice, he advocates with con
summate ability the bill for the abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia, and bis
own amendment thereto, which is as lollows:
“ And be it further enacted, That the sum of
5100,000, out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, shall be expended under
the direction of the President of tho United States
to aid in the colonization and settlement, wiGh their
own consent, of free people of color from said Dis
trict in the republics of Hayti and Liberia, or else
where.”
Senator Doolittle is a man not alone of
ideas but of remedies. He appreciates and
understands the disease of slavery, but at the
same time suggests a cure, lie says : -
ct 1 know it is sometimes said that the objection^
which is felt on the part of the white population tb~
living side by side, on a footing of soaial and civil
equality, with the negro race, is more prejudice.
Sir, it has its foundations deeper ; it is in tho very
instincts of our nature, which arc stronger and
oftentimes truer than reason itself, Men of wealth
and fortune, men of high-wrought education, and
men of rank and position, who are re moved above
the trials and sympathies of the great mass of labor
ing men, may reason and theorize about social and
political equality between the white and the
colored race; but I teli you as a practical fact, it
is simply an impossibility. Our very instincts
are against it. Let us look at the facts,
and neither deceive ourselves nor anybody else.
How do the people in the free States stand on this
question? In my State thero are so few colored
men that there is now no great foaling on the sub.
ject one way or the other; but suppose it should
now be proposed to distribute the whole negro
population equally among tho States, which would
bring into the State of Wisconsin about OM
hundred and twenty thousand, say seven thou
sand to Milwaukee, and from ous to two thou
sand to each of the towns of Itaoine, Madi
son, Janesville, Kenosha, Watertown, Oshkosh,
Fond du Lao, and other places, what would ba
their feelings then? What would our people,
native and foreign born, say to that? Sir, they
would probably feel and say just wbat the people
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois feci
and say op this subject, Illinois has just held a
Convention and formed a new Constitution, whioh
excludes free colored men, as did the old Consti
tution. Indiana has a similar provision, either by
constitutional requirement or by legislative enact
ment. Ohio had, until quite recently, a law by
which a free colored man was required Co give bail
for his good behavior. Nor are che people of New
England devoid of this same feeling either. By
the laws of Massachusetts, intermarriages between
these races are forbidden as criminal. Why for
bidden? Simply because natural instinct revolts fit
it as wrong. Come down to the practical question
whether, if the whole negro population of the
United States were to be set free, and to be ap
portioned and distributed among the several States,
and you would hud just as much repugnance in
New England as you now see exhibited In Illinois,
or .Indiana, or Pennsylvania. Their humanity
would rejoice at their freedom; but their instincts
would shrink back at their apportionment.”
1862.
“There are,” sajs Senator Doolittle,
“ hut three solutions to tho negro question.
One, tho solution of John C. Calhoun; one
of Joiin Buowx ; and the third midway and
equally removed from both extremes, the solu*
tion of Thomas Jefferson.”
Calhoun’s theory is to extend slavery
everywhere; to seize Cuba, and all Central
and tropical America; to push it into the
Territories. John Bkown’s solution is to set
the -whole negro race free by act of Congress,
or by arms. IVe quote again from his speech:
“This is the John Broivu solution. The first,
through Davis and Toombs, fourteen months ago,
said, ‘Down with the Constitution; give ns a now
Constitution, to carry slavery all over Moxico and
Central America as fast as we can acquire it, or we
will destroy the Goversaiest,’ The second cries,
( i>ownwith the Constitution. It ia a covenant
with hell. It gives Congress no power to abolish
slavery in tho States. Make a new Constitution.’
Sir, I will not yield to the demands of either.”
Qwtiyg ftQ» a fw-mnik of the original
draught of the Declaration of Independence
in Jefferson's own handwriting, in which he
shows that that great Democrat spoke of the
negro race a& men, and took care to print the
word in capitals, Senator Doolittle bases his
remedy of colonization at the present time
upon the following extract from Jefferson’s
works:
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book
of fate than that tbese people are to be free; nor is
it less certain that the two races, equally free, can
not live in the same Government. Nature, haijit,
and opinion have drawn indelible lines of distiuc*
tion between them. It is still in our power to direct
the process of emancipation and deportation peace*
ably, and in such slow degree as that the evil will
wear off insensibly, and their places bo, part passu,
filled up with free white laborers. If, on the con
trary, it is left to force itself on, human nature
must shudder at the prospect held up ”
_ Proceeding upon this noble philosophy, the
Senator says:
“ Mr. President, in the temperate zone, the Cau
casian race has always been dominant, and always
will be. In the torrid zone the colored rfian domi
nates, and will forever. No laws of Congress or
any other legislative power can reverse this great
law, stamped upon the earth and upon th& tSdnalitu
tion of man. Pocts-may dream otherwise; unwise
philanthropy may hope to make it otherwise; but
it cannot be done. The Creator has written it upon
the earth and.upon the race/ 9
He then goes on to point out the fields whetfe
the colored race can be successfully colonized,
and gives the address of President Geffeard,
of Ilayti, in which the colored races are thus
appealed to r
“ Hayti will soon regain her ancient splendor.
This marvelous soil that our fathers, blessed by
God, conquered for us, will soon yield to us the
wealth now hidden in its bosom. Let our black
and yellow brethren, scattered through the Antil
les, and Nortfi and South America, hasten to co
operate with us in restoring the glory of there,
public. Hayti is the common country of the black
rft99t anijestprs, fa taking possession of it,
were careful to announce in the constitution that
they published, that all thedescendants of Africans,
and of the inhabitants of the West Indies, belong
by right to the liaytian family. The idea was
gfagd and generous.
“ Listen, then, all ye negroes and mulattoes, who
in this vast continent of America, suffer from the
prejudices of caste. The republic calls you; she
invites yon to bring to her your arms and your
paints. The regenerating work that she undertakes
interests all colored people and their descendants,
no matter what their origin, or where their place of
birth.
“ Ilayti. regaining her former position, retaking
her ancient sceptre os queen of the Antilles, will
be a formal denial, and peremptory,
against those detractors* of our raoe, who contest
our desire and ability to attain a high degree of
civilization.”
Through his authorized general agent of emi
gration he offers to ikes© people great advantages.
He says:
“ I am authorized aud instructed by the Govern
ment of the Republic to offer you, individually
and by communities, a welcome, a home, and a
free homestead, In Hayti.”
* * * * * * *
“ To each family of emigrants, five carreaux”—
A carreau is about three acres.
<• To each family of emigrants five carreaux of
fresh and fertile land, capable of growing all the
fruits and staples of the tropics, will be gratuitously
given, on the sole condition that they Bhall settle
on it'and cultivate it, and declare their intention
of becoming citizens of Hayti. To unmarried
men, ou similar conditions, two <?a.£?33.iiX will bd
granted.
“Board and lodging, free of cost, will be fur
nished to the emigrants for at least eight days after
their arrival in the island.
“Ibe Government also will find remunerative
work for those of you whose means will not permit
you to begin immediately an independent cultiva
tion.
“ liQjigrfffit' are invited to settle in commu
nities.
u Sites for the erection of schools and chapels
will be donated by the State, without regard fo
the religious belief of the emigrants.
u TbQ &ai&9 and civil rights that the
laws give to liaytians are solemnly guarantied to
the emigrants.
“Thefullest religious liberty will be secured to
them. They will never be called on to support the
Roman Catholic Church.
a military service will be demanded ef them,
excepting that they shall form military companies
and drill themselves once a month.”
After stating these facts, with groat eloquence
and pQWQT the (Senator adds:
“ I have stood, and will continue to stand, for that
solution of the negro question which Jefferson, the
author of the Declaration of Independence, himself
proposes, which, while it will in the end give uni
versal liberty to universal math wiU gradually s9s
peacefully separate these two racee : rcr tho highest
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good end to the joy of both; giving to each, in their
own place, tho enjoyment of their rights, civil,
Social, political. That solution is in accordance
with that law of the Almighty by which tho black
man dominates the tropios, and always will; by
wbioh our race dominates the temperate zoue, and
will forever. It is easier to work with Him than
against Him, When we accept the solution of Jef
ferson, wbioh falls neitberinto tbe fanaticism of tbe
one nor tbe blindness of the other, we shall then see
the beginning of the end of that irrepressible con
flict, more of race than of condition, which has dis
turbed us so long. Until it be solved there can be
no permanent peace.”
lie concludes his speech as follows :
“ But, Mr. President, I may bo too sanguino ; I
may be mistaken in all this ; the war may oontinue
for months, possibly for years ; it may be fought
with the eonrage of desporation ; it may ba fought
to the bitter end with the madness of despair. The
conspirators, with their lives in thoir hands, de
clare they will never surrender while they can get
a man or a gun. This may prolong the war. That
may compel us to march large armies into and
through all the cotton States on the Gulf of Sfexi
oo. Tho tread of armies .may tread out slavery as
they go. If it docs, bo if so. Whatever stands in
tbe way of suppressing this rebellion will be tram
pled in pieces. Tho white population may Ueo
from tho lower States at their approach as they
fled at Beaufort. If negroes only remain, they
will of necessity become free, and the country,
from which all white people may have fled, become
a negro territory. Should suoh an. event occur;
should South Carolina bewue ft negro territory,
the negroes from che Northern slave States escap
ing aleo may flee to that territory, as thoir 4and of
Canaan, and thus effect a separation of the races
this side tho Gulf of Moxico. On some future map
we may see, where South Carolina now is, tbo
1 negro territory of the United States.’ This may
occur. God only knows.
“But while such a result may come, I gay most
distinctly that it is not whnt I desire to see. No,
sir! No! I will hope and labor and pray Al
mighty God it may be otherwise; (hat the frenzy
of tLal people may pfiis I Wdiild see once
more every State, even South Carolina, in its
proper sphere, loyal to tbe Constitution and the
Union. I hope, I expect to see, Union men in
every State rising to crush these conspirators and
trample them under, their feet. When the reaction
does come, when the Union men of those States
can get tho power into their hands, O, wbat a day
of vengeance for traitors then ! They will meet
the just reward of their gigantic crime. When the
war is over, and the last vestige of armed rebellion
crushed; when peace comes again, and Roprosenta*
tives of all the States take their places in Congress,
I shall hope to see the wise suggestions of the
president adopted by the people of all the States,
which, looking to gradual emancipation, and to
generous colonization, will open all the tropical
porticos of America for those men of African de
scent who are now free or may hereafter become
free, in which they may find homes for them
selves and their children forever iQ that zone of
tbe earth which God, in his good providence, has
reserved for their wee.
“ Let us take down the map of this Now World.
Let the American Hepublic r upou whose fate the
destinies of republican liberty 'now haug, rise with
the occasion and take the-high responsibility. Let
our vision be cramped with no contracted view.
Let our eyes open wide to the whole of North
America, and to all the races upon it, Caucasian,
African, and Indian. Let our legislation, wherever
we have constitutional power, be suoh that while
acting for ourselves, the dominant race hero, we
may, as a matter of high statesmanship, and of
Christian duty, do good to all the races of man
kind.”
Wo hail this speech of the Senator from
Wisconsin with singular pleasure. He is the
advocate of the President's policy, and one
of the most active and influential of the Re
publican leaders. Standing upon the Chicago
platform, ho denies the whole doctrine of in
terfering with slavery in the States except as
a punishment to rebels in arms, and insists
tliat nothing can he or shall be done that is
not in strict conformity with law. When such
men as Senator Doolittle assume tills high
and bold ground, thoro is every prospect of a
practical solution of the great trouble tiiatnow
disturbs aud divides our statesmen and our
people.
The Emancipation Scheme of the
President
A MISSOURI SENATOR ADVOCATES IT.
Great Speech of Bon. Sin Henderson.
In tho United States Senate on Thursday, Hon. Mr.
Henderson, of Missouri, delivered the following great
speech, on a resolution, now beforo Congress, extending
the Hid of tbe deueral Government —in accordance with
the plan of President Lincoln, set forth in his recent
message —tfi those States which desire to the
slavee within their border. The speech, in addition to
its rhetorical merits and its state imanlifco treatmoat or
tbe Question, claims particular attention from the fact
that its author is a Senator from a slave State, and one
whose views on political Questions, before the present re
bellion broke out, were at variance with those of tho pre
sent Administration. Mr. Ilenderejon said ;
Mr. President: I have offered that amendment to the
resolution in good faith, aud With do view whatever to
make any record for myßeif, or to attempt to get others
upon the record in order to affect them. I, perhaps,
fihtril tako a different course on this resolution from that
taken by a majority, at least, of those representing the
border slavelioldijig gtatrs. I feel disposed to cast my
vote for the resolution. But an objection has been urged
to the resolution, and Senators ought to remember that it
has been urged, with a great deal of power in the border
slavcholding States, that the design of it is to effect the
6tnaii£ipu.&>n of thd blrvab in tho bofrter ol&veholdlng
States, and then to consent to a dissolution of the Union.
I have no idea that any such thing is really contem
plated,
1 know it is not contemplated by the President; lam
satisfied tbat it is contemplated by bnt few, if any, of the
numbers on tbia iloor. I can no objection to putting
the declaration which I propose upon the record with the
resolution, particularly inasmuch as it is said in the argu
ment of the President in support of the proposition, that
he submitted it with a view to the preservation of the
Union. The institution of slavery ip the State of dfig
bourl has not been sufficient, notwithstanding it has been
det med by Senators here to be sufficient,|in a greatjmany
of (he States, (because slavery has been charges to De the
cause of all our troubles,) to withdraw the people of my
&tato from their allegiance t# the Federal Government.
There arc other interests in Missouri besides the inte
rest of slavery'; and although it Is an Institution existing
thoie, our people look upon other institutions that exist
there as of equal if not superior importance.
One of the great reasons inducing them to remain firm
and fixed to the Union, is that they will never consent to
bui lender their right to the Mississippi riYor» over every
inch ol it from the borders of Missouri to the Gulf of
Mexico; and, sir, if they loose all idea that that is to be
an object of the majority here, it will inevitably affect
them iu tho future.
Hr. President, since I have been a member of this
body* I have carefully abstained from all discussion of
the slavery question. There are several reasons inducing
me to pursue a course of silence upon the suDject. In
the first place, the diseases of the ccuntry have resulted
from slavery agitation, and, however effectual the ad
ministration of remedies in ordinary cases npon the
' thwry tint “like 9>ir?g IIK?r I grant Ire permitted to
demur to the practice in the present case. Additional
slavery agitation will do no good, but great harm. In
the second place, I have thought that the great object of
the country should be to put down this rebellion, and to
do it successfully demands the united energy of all the
frier da of union throughout the nation. In this good
peerk Congress, si Its present session at least, might find
enough to tax its wisdom and engage its thoughts.
In the third place, I represent in part a people who re
cognize'slavery as a local institution amongst them, and
I am at a loss to ace how I sb&ltebe able to advance their
interest in any manner by provoking a controversy on
slavery ethics with the majority on this floor, who seem
to have satisfied themselves tbat tho institution is wrong.
I am willing to abstain from all reflections upon their
opinions, provided they will abstain from all interference
with the subject Itself in the State, where lam satisfied
it will ho host entrusted ter tho good of all concerned*
1 might give other reasons for my course iu reference
to this subject but those named, combining, as they do,
the interests of my immediate constituents, and a sense of
patriotic duty ou my own part, are deemed sufficient. I
opposed the Introduction of the bill to abolish slavery in
the District of Columbia, not because I regarded It an
unconstitutional exercise of power, or an act of such
gross bad faith to Maryland, or the people of Maryland;
not because I was so much attached to the institution ua
to desire its continnance wherever it existed, or.because I
thought the free institutions of our country would bo
oulADscred by tho abolition of slavery in the nation’s
capital.
I did cot beliovc any of Ibese things, and yet I was
conscientiously opposed to the discussion of this measure
at the present session of Congress. My infoimation on
the subject led me to believe that the act would be ac
<>BtlAhlfi to the mi'iiera of alavog —almost, if not aulto, as
desirablo to them as to the (laves themselves. Slavery
cannot be otherwise than nominal in this District, largely
dependent on the will of the slave himself.
llic interest is a very inconsiderable one, the slave
population in 18(50 being only 8,181, whilst the whites
numbered 60,759. To show the utter worthlessness of
the institution, in a pecuniary point of view, it U only
necessary to state the fact that the free colored popula
tion at the pefiod numbered 11,107, and that whilst the
white and free colored classes have, for many years,
been rapidly on the increase; the slave population has
bt-en, and is now, rapidly on the decline.
Tho laws of labor would soon have disposed of it here,
when all those intricate questions of good faith and
constitutional law, the discussion of which to gaping
crowds, both North and South, has made and unmade
bfinatora and tioDgrcesmeDj and fidvoroors) nod iheriffti
mid constables, and town Tmsteeß, would silently bare
taaen their place among the things of the post
To me it was a matter of extreme doubt whether, at
tbia period of time, when the educatod and enlightened
white man can, with difficulty, find means of support for
himself and family, tens ehanty to the black man re*
quired that his former owner should be absolved from
the obligation to support and protect him until this rebel
lion is over. It was a matter of still greater doubt whe
ther genuine benevolence was sufficiently combined with
good policy, as to demand the immediate payment of a
million of dollars from the Treasury, for tho purpose of
effecting what was almost accomplished in the very na
ture of things, and especially whilst the necessaries of
life were being taxed to prohibition, and denied to mil
lions of suffering white men throughout the land. I
thought; too, that the discussion of the subject, in the
absence of any real, practical good at the present time,
might be misiindcretood and misconstrued by many real
trients of tlio Union. It might be urged, as it has always
been heretofore, that this is but the beginning of the end,
the first act of tbo Abolition monster, in his work of de
glruction.
Wo, of the South, have been annually frightened fcy
some imaginary plot for the overthrow of slavery in the
United States. Wo have been regularly iuformod, by a
race of politicians whose watchful and jealous regard for
our tiue. interests has been about equal to that of the
Abolitionists for the negro, that, unless they were con
tinued in power, the wholo institution would be im
mediately upset, tho owner robbed of his property, and
the negro mode equal, if not superior, to the white man.
YYe have listened to these stories, and been made alike
to fear and hato tbo most unsubstantial aud harmless
thing OQ earth. It is true that Abolition has talked
largely, in the North, of the horrors of Atrican
slavery, of which it was almost wholly ignorant,
aud'promised diseased sentimentality an elysium of
uniTurFal freedom and social delights, as broad as
tfcu nation itself; but the fruit of it? professions uo
has been able to discover, except it be found In the
miseries of the present No slave has yet
been legally emancipated through its instrumentality,
and many of us begin to bolievo that it nevor intended to
reduce it theories into practice.
However, If r after thirt) years of agitation and excite
ment on the negro question } after thousands of promises
unperformed, our Northern friends shall determine to
throw a tnb to the Abolition whale by giving freedom to.
threo thousand slaves in the District of Columbia—the
first act of the kind of which they have ever been guilty—
I ksyp 30 idea that Missouri will undertake to secede
from too UllOUl especially sine? b*?r lat? experience in
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1862.
Secession has lost to her people nearly one-third of their
elaveß, rendered the 1 emalnrier worthies* and destroyed
for them property amounting in value to more than all
their eiaves were worth in periods of prosperity preceding
the war.
Sven after the consummation of tho act, I am not sure
that the auti-elavery men can lake much credit for what
shall have becD done in tbe way of emancipation j for, if
the Senator from KaiiHafl (Mr* Pomeroy) be corrocti ft
plea of •• confession and avoidance” may bo entered to
the claim, admitting the passage of tho act, but sotting
up (be fact that the negro was already Tree.
Whether this posiliwn be true or not, tho future may
demonstrate that the present nominal slavery of tho
three thonfrod is Nt little worse, if Mil) than ttmt
boasted heaven-boro freedom which makes tbe negro a
social and political outcast in every Northern State of
the Union.
1 thought it ill-timed and unwise to open up, in Con
gress, the slavery agitation, aud I therefore odpomxl it.
Rut, if joii Northern gentlemen are determined to disre
gard my counwls on this KUbjocU 1 tiopo you will act as
pn.mptly as possible, lost, In the angry tlisttUHtuonß arising
from the moment* us question involved, the freeing of a
few hundred negroes that are already free, tbe great
Hate of Delaware may be enabled to take a peep behind
tbe cm tain, and, discovering tho tcrrlblo plot, matured
by tho Abolitionists, for tlie overthrow of Its sacred in
utilulious nml tho tltalriiclion of its vast interests in slave
property, which, at n fmr valuation, amount* to at least
two hundred th >usand dollars, may be induced to secede,
and join the Southern Confederacy, where constitutional
rights are religiously guaranteed unto all men. And, un
less j ou dispose of this subject at »u early day, it is irapos
sible to toll u hut affect may ho wrought on tho mind of my
vtry excellent friend fr m Kentucky, who bits on ton
other side of tbe chamber, aud when I call him my friend
Ime an wbat I say. He is evidently already excited oa
this subject, and no doubt will be more so as the discus
sion progresses. Excitement engendered upon this sub
j«ci. too, sb exceedingly Jungerous. It uever coela, bdt
rushes on with ii temperate baste to the destruction of its
opponents, ending frequently in the overthrow of its
own victims.
The other Senator from Kentucky, (Gov Powell,)
also my friend, who has witneesrd these things for a
graatep length cf time tliAn liia teems almost to
lihvo dcspniied of arresting tbe prevalent rage of the
day. and has concluded to submit with manly resignation
to the fate to be imposed by the dominant majority. The
Tirgii ia Senators have become Quite restive, and Mary
land looks with suspicion upon this reckless disregard of
national faith toward Hs ancient citizens.
k-The usually quiet Senate* fi*M lawa (Mi*.
becomes shock* d at the intimation from a Southern
Senator, that tho laboring whiles of tbe South may
cenutence a war of extermination against the free
blacks, and, without largely cultivating the virtue of
consi-tency, I must think at once enters upon a labored
nigunient to prove that Northern hostility to the negro
is, and should be, greater than at the South. If this be
so, the condition of the negro is really deplorable. If he
ren ains in the South, he must remain as a slave, or he
is tp danger of total e>tetminaiion; and if he goes
North, it is but to meet a fate mere torrible still, if such
can be, resulting from tbe superior prejudices, of tne
Northern people. WLi&ft-vei* elt>£ ilteS* aegiihibhbl iha?
prove, the Seuator from Wisconsin (Mr. Doolittle)
wil> claim that they establish one fact beyoud contro
versy, to wit: That the negroes, when freed, should be
colonized and placed beyond the dangers Indicated.
Mr. rreßident, another measure received the sanction
Af this body to which I was opposed; but I contented
inypelf with a silent vote. Its provisions, I presume, are
really harmless, except so far as they may fleece th*
treasury, (and just hero it is my duty to acquit its
friends of any design to do so,) but 1 was satisfied, and
am now, that it will be u-cd by the anomie* of the Union
lor the piirpcvpe of icmcnltDg Soil hern Beblluieul lute.
that compact and sol d mass of hatred and malignity
Bgain6ttlie Government which cannot be subdued before
the burdensof taxation, followed by some reverses to our
aims which must come ever aud anou. as the future of
war, will raise a clamor throughout tho laud agaiust
those who mmniam the war as a means of restoring the
Union.
I allude to the measure introduced by 'the Senator
from Connecticut, (Mr. Foster,) aud providing (< for the
occupation and cultivation of the cotton lands of the
Southern States,” and for the protection and support oi
the indigent slaves abandoned by their owners. The ap
parent object of the measure whb one of a charitable
nature, aud gave strong evidence of the Senator’s kind
nefs of lu-art. Whether the results will afford equal evi
dence of good judgment in the promisee, the future alone
will detenoiue. To preserve coubistency ou this negro.
auction ] bfeliQve in an utter impossibility; bo much go.
that I begin 16 doubt my own consistency, a confession
that men do not ordinarily make in these days. From
day to day 1 have heard it announced en this floor, by
n embers belonging to tho majority, that the negro’s men
tal capacity and habits of industry arc such as to enable
ldtr, if free, not on'y to provide for himself the neoes
earitH. but tbe comforts and conveniences of life. In
Georgia and South Carolina, where the measure was in
tended to operate, the foolish masters had fled from their
plantations*, leaving their 6pl* ndid mansions auil farms
in Ml ini,roved state of cultivation, They iff, their
slaves, and in their possession their stock and implements
of industry. \
In addition to this, the country itself is one in which
bountiful nature, supplying lie fruits in richest profusion,
almost exempts its inhabitants from the decree de
manding labor at tbe bands of men. Under these cir
cunißtanccp, it aeeiDß to me that the slave might support
himself; that our armies, marching Noi\th iu pursuit of
the fleeing whites, might suffer the slaves to fall behind
them, and proceed to the cultivation of tho lands of their
respective owners But the bill provides for the dispensa
tion of charities from tne Government coffers for the
distribution ol food* clotliingj budding* &o. It enters
upon an immense system of government farming, di
viding tbe cotton lands into plantations of from one to
two thousand acres, appoints a superintendent of each
farm at twelve hundred dollars per year, and enables him
to employ the negroes— men, women, and cbUdren—each
at fitty. cents per day* and appropriates ten dolDrs tor
each acre of land, for the purpose of procuring seeds,
farming implements, Ac. It appropriates money for
building warehouses, whilst the cities of the South are
bthig evacuated, leaving dwellings and warehouses to be
used by tho new planters. It gives a broad discretion to
the Secretary of the Treasury to use the means of the
Government unwillingly paid by a suffering people, for
the purpose of extending these Government
which will prove to be a cancer upon our-resources, that
should rather be used in giving comfort to the soldier
engaged in tbe overthrow of the rebellion.
Sir, in a>‘ ow'd there are ihoueaudsof while men,
women, and children, thrown ont of employment and
made beggars in the world by this war. They have left
their farms, tbeir property has been taken, their slaves
have gone to Kaunas, and they, the merest objects of
riwritij w?r? th? h?B«8?i?ri?9 ?f f?r??4 leytet upon
the Secessionists in other parts of the State. If the Go
vernment should desire to go into a farming business, do
lands can be farmed on the continent more fertile thau
those of Missouri, now abandoned by their owners; and
If charity be the object, no people are more deserving
thro tbw whp jißv? perilled rod l??t everything iu con
sequence of their devotion to the Union.
I feared tbe effect of such legislation upon the loyal
sufferers in the Border States,-and I am satisfied that it
will not be without Us effect upon a large class in the
Northern States, who do not believe that in the exercise
of the Government's charity, discriminations should bo
made* in favor of tho black man. But I console myself in
ti e belief that before this measure could be passed
through tho House of Represvntatives, and tbe necessary
machinery provided by tbe President and decrotary for
the operations of this season, “seed time would have
passed,” aud the country bo spared tne humiliation of an
other blunder ou the negro Question* Ifl however* it
becomes a law, I hopo tbe Senator from Connecticut will
use his influence in securing a lease of the lauds by the
Government for money, and not have them cultivated for
a share of the proceeds. The lessee will reap no profits
and tbe Government share will be but a fair proportion.
Should ho fait in this, an<l tho worthy Secretary, in
fatuated with the exploded humbug that cotton is
king.” shall undertake its culture on Government ac
count, I Btili hope that the board of curators or guar
dians may he induced ..to employ the laborers by the
and not by the day, for although this plan may re
sult in a failure of the crop, it will secure the Govern
ment againet any pa) ment, for no work will be done in
either event.
The commendable feature of the bill, Mr Preaident, is
that which makes it the special duty of the board to beg
Hid bffccch the blacks, in language however “decent
aud humane,” to betake themselves to honest labor, and
live in a manner usual with respectable people. It is to
be hoped the board will not neglect this important duty.
Another proposition was made iu the Senate,* which I
find has been used for the purpose of oxciting the public
ffiiild find reflfiigiatiPS the dying spirit of rebellteo, I
allude to the resolutions of the Senator from Massachu
setts. If Senators knew the power with which tlieso
things arc used, to tbo prejudice of tbe loyal element of [
the couutiy, they would exercise a little more caution }
in tbe introduction and discussion of these measures, j
But alr« ady some Senator, honestly believing that every !
drop of blood shed in this war has been drawn by •
slavery, that every weeping mother or wife throughout i
the North may lay her woes at the door of this accursed !
institution, ard tbat every dollar expended in the prose
cution of the war is so much demanded by the cause of
liberty in its contest with slavery, is ready to exclaim:
uh* patience is exhausted. lam tired of these admo«
nitiona from slaveholding States.” So far, Senators will
remember that I have offered no counsel. Ifoet my
own weakness in the terrible storm surrounding us. If
my views are rejected, I shall readily defer to the supe
rior wisdom of those around me. I may differ with you
as to the hr fet mode of i\i& UfilAti, Afid £6*.
petuatmg it with all its hopes and all its blessiugs, but j
thatdifference,with whatever of excitemeht and angry de- 1
bate it may engender, Bhall never impel me to lift a hand ;
against my country. If you commit errors, or outrage
public sentiment, I want no other right of revolution
than the right of the ballot-box. With the Constitution
unimpaired, we may yet appeal to the popular heart for
the approval of right and the redresa of wrong. I fear
I can discover a growing want of charity toward the
position occupied by the Border State men. If you ask
of mo tbo denunciation of slaveholders, thousands of
whom from my State are in the armies of the Union, and
who are tbis day willing to turn loose their slaves, and
lay themselves and their property as a sacrifice upon the
altar of the country, I tell you I cannot and will not do
it. If you ask of me, or of loyal Missourians, an uQij.ua
lifted condemnation of tire iuitimtous assumption mads
by Mr. Stephens, iu tbe organization of the Confederate
Government, “ That its foundations are laid, its corner
stone rests upon the great truth that the negroid not
equal to the white man, that slavery subordination to the
superior race ib his natural and normal condition, and
that this in a grout physical, philosophical, and moral
truth, upon which Government should be founded,” we
are ready to join you in its denunciation, and to war
upon the Government thus founded until its flag Bhall be
lowcred, and the flag of our fatberß shall take its
place. Thiß is enough—it is all that should bo asked.
The &*nal6rfrobi Ma§s&6UU§£H§ fikattlilMhiAMbM* tii&fc
the most efficient weapon with which loyal men fought
the battles of Union was the fixed and unalterable at
tachment of good men to tho Constitution of the country.
We urged that the act of secession was void; that no
State could withdraw without an amendment of the Con-
that such on ordinance, like any other act of
a State contravening the provisions of the Federal Con
stitution, was absolutely null and of no effect what
ever : that by such au act no right was acquired by the
Slate, bo right was abdicated or forfeited by it; that
ft State is M ft municipal corporation; without will,
without malice, wiihout U.e animus necessary to guilt or
the commission of crime, and cannot, therefore, in tbe
eye of the law, be felo-de-se. We urged upon’the people
what we regarded as tho true construction of tho Consti
tution—that the Federal laws operated upon the individual
citizen and not upon State Governments i that no act of
Bocesutn conld transfer the allowance of the citizen or
remove the obligation from the Federal Govcrnmentto pro
tect him. Wooßßurodhim, if hestood alone intheseceding
State, tho Government must protect him in person
and in property; that no Btute law could forfeit his (the
citizen's) rights! th&t 4ny Attempt to Uli-lt&lft
void act by forco would subject the offender to the pun
ishment due to the crime of treason. Shall we now go
back to our constituents, and say to them, in shame and
humiliation, “we were mistaken in the law. The State
had no right to pass the act; it conferred no right upon
anybody it is totally void 5 bnt we most Coifosa that
although you perilled your. life in the midst of mobs, by
defending your Government in defiance ef tbe act, it
having passed, you are stripped of your property.” Sir,
we cannot do this thing. Self-respect forbids it; the
true interests of the Government forbid iti the caus? of
truth) and a proper regard ter the Venoutution, in my
view, forbid it.
With these measures pending before us, the President
submits for onr consideration a proposition entirely new.
It is a resolution in tbe following language!
** }!eaolve<l r That the Untied Slates dilght to Cfl-OpO*
r&te with any State which may adopt gradual abolish
ment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to
be used by such State in IU discretion, to compensate for
the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such
change of .
The interpretations given to this measure are, of c jurse,
as various as the views of the different Individuals who
venture upon the construction. My friend from Delaware,
(Mr. Baultbury,) alive to the interests cf his State, and
fully determined that no abolition inroads shall be made
fiPTO it, concurs; in many particulars, with the view of it
taken by Wendell Fhiiiipe. He assumes it to be the de
fcign of tbe President to renew slavery agitation in the
Border States, by holding out a false promise of money
consideration for property, rendored precariotisby thecon
dition of the country—that the Constitution prohibits the
payment of Buch consideration, and tn&t none such is de
signed by the I'rUbdS the MMflUre. Th« SSBSto* (MBl
California, (Mr. MoDongall,) on the other hand, gives
tbe President credit for honesty and purity of purpose,
but refuses his support fon the ground—^ first, that it is
unconstitutional; &Dd second, that he will not commit
his State to the policy of paying money for the emanci
pation cl the olavii o? other £&>ple. Tha SinktA?
Maine (Mr. Morrill) Is astonished that any opposition
Bbouid be made to a measure so just and conservative.
It 1b impossible for me to know the secret designs of
tbe President or any other friend of the measure. I can
only judge of their intentions from the reasons assigned
b> th-rmselves
Tbe President, in his argument in favor of the resolu
tion, uses language which Is construed by some m a
threat ftgftiiiflt the imtirntioiwfln iniinntinn that it must
he destroyed by force ir not peaceably abolished. Ho
says:
“In the annual message, last Docember, I thought fit
to say that the Union must be presorvod, and, hence, all
indispi-nhable means must be employed. I H*id this, not
im.tilj’, but deliberately, War has been, and continues
to be, an iuditpeneable means to this end. A practical
reacknnwledgrmnt of the national authcrity would ren
der the war unnecessary, aud it would at ouce cease. If,
however, resistance continues, tne war must also con
tinue, and it is impossible to foresee all the incidents
wliirh may attend and all the rum which may follow
finch as may seem iiidiapniisablß or may obviously pro*
inL.e great efficiency towards ending the struggle. The
proposition now made, though an otter eniy, I hope it
may be esteemed no offence 10 ask whether the pecuniary
consideration tendered would not be of nioro value to the
States and private persona concerned than are the insti
tution »nd property in it. in the present aspect of
Mr. rrcmOrnt.T <io not coustriio this language to be a
threat, or intended to be offensive to the representation
from the Border States. 11 asserts a fact which, however
unpleasant to us, has long finee been demonstrated as
truth upon the soil of Missouri. Every mania now
ready to admit that bo did not and could not “forageo
all the incidents’ 7 which thus far have attended the war,
oi d past experience forbids that wo should bo astonishod
at any result in the future.
Wbj was this war forced upon us, anil who are its au
thors? However opposed I may bo to the radical measures
which I have indicated, aud which &6 doubt are largely
attributable to the feelings engendered by this unjustifia
ble war, jet candor compels tbe Union-men of th© Border
States lo do justice to tliu Fre.ideut, aud even to his
friends in Congress.
This terrible revolution was brought about by Mr.
. YaDoey aud his couftderatea, by inflaming Ilia Southern
•mind Against th* dangers o! abolitiou, which they knew
lobe false. They drovo the South to madness, to self,
destruction; and in the letter of Messrs. Yancey, Host,
and Mann to Lord John Russell, they have erected a
monument of iuftimy to them* conspirators. Tbuy say,
wbat all must now admit, that *• it wub frmn no fear tuat
•Jl o felnvus would bo liberated that section took pl&£«.
Tho very party in power has proposed to guaranty
slavery forever iu the Stales if the would but re
main in tbe Union. Mr. Lincoln’s message proposes no
frttdom to the slave, but announces, subjection of his
owner to the will of the Union—in other words, to tho
will of tbe North. Even after the battf? of Bqlj Run
both (tranches of Congress at Washington passed resolu
tions (hat the war is only waged in order to enforce that
(pro-slaver}) Constitution, and to uphold tho laws,
(many of them pro-slavery,) and out of tho hundred
hj d seventy-two votes in the lower House, they received
all but two, aud in the Senate all bu* ono. As tbe army
commenced its march, the csmtuafidlag ftdtieral i&iugd
uu order thntiio slaves should bo received into or allowed
to loHow tbe camp. ” Now, sir, what has been the result of
thiß unnecessary strife upon my State l Iu 1860 our slave
populat ioi . was 114,965, and although we stood as a penin
sula hi the great ocean of free soil areuna ua, I hazard the
itfemion to;da> (hat do property was more secure iQ
the nt&Tc than Have property. It was so regarded Dy
everybody. One white population at the B*me period was
upwards of one million. How is it now ? I doubt
whether there are fifty thousand Blares in the State. The
fleceesioirists charged that the brigade commandod by
the Senator from Kansas sitting near mu gmod thoir
slaves, and took them out of tho Mate, aud, in order to
retaliate, they, as I barn, have taken hundreds from
Union m.en iu the State, to be delivered over to their in
jured frnndg. In addition to this, many of the largest
slaveholders of the State, fearing the rcßUlt of the war
in tho earlier stages of tho robolliou, hurried off th ir
slates to the Smith. Others, again, waiting until they
uere surrounded by hostile armies, abandoned negroes
and everything else for the protection of themselves,
their wives and children.
The true value of real and personal property ia Mis
souri was in 1860, Aside from tho de
preciation ol value, which no man ean now estimate,
and beyond the Jobs of- slaves to which I have re
ferred, I think it safe to Bay that ten per cemum of
this vast amount ol property has been destroyed
and forever lost to tbe owners in consequence of
tbigwar—nn amount equal to the aggregate value of
ell the slaves in the State at the commencement of
hostilities. If I were to add to this tbe loss occasioned
to the people of the State by tbe mtor prostration of its
agricultural, commercial- and manufacturing interests
for tbe lust twelve months, 1 might add fifty millions
more to the gum alreudv named.
Looking, then, to my ora State, and I speak for it
alone, lam not disposed to take issue with the President
in regard to the future results of the war. I regard his
expression as a rrophecy, and not as a threat—a prophe -
cy that I feel will be realized if this war continues. That
iteball continue until the Union be restored, I liave
already expressed my wish in the amendment offered.
Whether you adopt it or not, the great West will never
be content until every mile of the Mississippi river from
Anthony's Falls to the Gulf of Mexico Bhall bu under
tie juriediction of our Government- Let the Question
,l>£ S6W. Blit th& President negatives, positively
negatives, the construction given in the following lan
guage : “ Such a proposition on tbe part of the General
Government sots up no claim or right by Federal au
thority to interfere with slavery within State limits, re
ferring, ae it does, the absolute control of the subject in
each care to tire State wad its people immedtatelr iu
forested, it i« proposed m a matter of perfectly tree
choice with them.”
In this view of the matter, sir, lam perfectly willing
tbal the proposition go before tho people of my Btate,
without at present expressing an opinion as to what
Sparse the} stmuld pursue. It is a new pledge of faith
by the representatives of the people that this vexed ques
tion shall be left with the people of each State. It comes
not in the spirit of ai roganco demanding conformity with
the views of others, but with humility, acknowledging if
slavery be an evil. It is a Bin for which we are all re
spcnsible, ttsd ter tire removal of which fre are willing te
com© with practical benevolence. It means more than
.all thiß. It intimates to the Mates that the nation would
pitter gradual to Lmcediate emancipation, and tuat the
measures now pending in Congress looking to such re
sults should be superseded by one of conciliation and
good will.
If this spirit had been more largely cultivated in days
gone by, we would not this day be forced to witness a
ruined South and a deeply depressed North. ,
Why, sir, ninety days of this war would pay lor every
Blave. at full value, in the States of Kentucky, Missouri,
Maryland, Belt-ware, aud the Hislr-icl of Golhmbia.
Nine months of the expenditures of this strife woutd
have purchased all the slaves in the States named, to
gether with those in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi,
and Louisiana, thus preserving in peace tho whole of tbe
Missisrippi to the gulf. Less than twe years of these
expenditures would have paid for every slave that treads
the coil of the nation. If Northern men had treasured
these things, and learned that kind words can accom
plish more than wrath, and if Southern men had resolved
to look upon slavery as upon other questions of moral
aud political economy, aud both had determined to ex
amine this as all other subjects, is calmness aod delibe
ration, we would have been spared tbe evils that now
oppress us.
Mr. President, I desire that the amendment I have
offered may be adopted. I want my views expressed as
I vote for this resolution. If a majority of the Senate,
h»wer«i SMI differ IVift m? nj>on that subject, I have
made up my mine to cast my vote for tbe resolution, and
to leave it with the people of my State. lam indifferent
as to the result upon myself I feel as if it is altogether
a change from what we have witnessed, for the last num
ber of years, on the floor of this and the other bouse.
Instead of that wrangling controversy; instead of those
rushing waves of tumult, of Ul-feeliug, and of auger,’that
have been engendered in the discussion of this question,
it marches up and takes hold of the slavery question as a
practical one, worthy of tho calm, cool, and deliberate
judgment of those in whom the nation has trusted Its
prosperity &&d Its future £f£&lnMS. Than, sir, I shall
cast my vote for it. I regard it as no Insult to the people
of my State ] 1 regard it a* no threat; but I regard it as
a measure that is conciliatory, and looking to the future
peace and harmony of the country, and to the early re
storation of the Union.
A National Currency.
[For The Press.]
Tho object of tho following plan is to obtain a
national currencys jot without a national hank*
Let the United States or any country issue
treasury notes of all denominations (including
small notes) receivable for all Government dues
though not made a legal tender. These notes
should bo very gradually issued, and it should be
enacted that, after a stated period, banks should
not pay out their own notes, but, from that time,
redeem in any coin or other notes as desired, and
pa, out tbo treasury notes. Xbo sub-treasuries
would redeem, furnish, and exchange the notes only
with banka, or, with individuals, only in sums over
a certain amount. Gradually, as the treasury
notes are isiued, the bank notes would be driven
out of olroulatlon; but, beifig gtSdUAI, Withettti&Uy
sudden shook to tbe banks, or their debtors, would
give them time to colleat their outstanding money
and sell their stocks, &e., and redeem their notes.
Tbis plan would prevent the evils of uncurrent mo
ney, and dispense with nete-bsehers, prevent banks
being rim down during panics, or rather prevent
panics—to a very great extent prevent counter
feiting—allow of banks having less idle capital;
and, generally,give greater facility to business ope
rations.
Bebel Correspondence with George I)
Prentice —A Very Cool Letter.
'[Fiom the Louisville Journal.]
Colonel John Morgan, the notorious marauder,
is an enthusiastic admirer of Gen. Buckner, late of
Fort Donelson, now of Fort Warren. So, as Buck
ner wrote to us from Fort Warren, Morgan, after
hi 3 late exploit in seizing the railroad oars at Gal
latin, 'Tennessee, thought he must write to us too.
There is no telling how extensive a rebel corres
pondence we shall soon get to have. We annex
Morgan’s epistolary performance, premising that
we know nothing about Itobert C. Wood, Jr.,”
wbAse name ia united with that of the more famous
land-pirate:
Gallatin, Tens., March 17, 1862.
G. D. Prentice, Esq., Louisville':
Sir: We beg to express our disappointment in
net meeting you here as we hnd anticipated, and
to assnre you that- we feel confident that better
luck’ will crewn our efforts at some future time.
We trust ;ok will not long delay your proposed
trip to Nashville, as this would put us to the in
eonvenienae of viutinc Louisville,
All well In Dixie, and send their kindest regards.
Truly, Robert C. Wool), Jr., C. S. A.
Jno. H. Morgan, Com’g Squadron.
The precious pair of bandits profess to have felt
great disappointment at not finding ns on the oars
seized by them and their cceompliaes at Gallatin.
Unquestionably they would be very glad to get us,
thin King, so doubt, that they could readily ex
change us for Buekner and his army, but we don’t
believe they had the least thought of encountering
us on the oars they captured. We have reason to
think that they took very particular pains to sa
tisfy themselves that we were not on the train be
fore they ventured to attack it- We won’t call them
cowards, but there arc some things their courage is
not equal to.
If they had wanted us to go soon to Nashville that
they might try their hands on us, they would have
left the road in a condition to be travelled, but, in
stead of that, the; tore it up for a great distance
between Qallatin and franklin. Tea, the rascals
destroy the road so that the trains can't run upon
it, and then indito a brave letter, professing a hope
that we shall immediately set ont upon it because
they are impatient and chafing to meet ua
These two wandoring robbers say that if we don't
make a speedy trip npon the road they have torn
up, they may be put to “ the inconvenience of
visiting Louisyillo. Ah, that’s a thing, if we re
member aright, that their master, General Buok<
ner, seriously contemplated a few months ago.
Indeed it was a darling project of his. He fixed
the feeding day, and had nis dinner ordered at the
Galt Houseand his male and female guests invited.
The day arrived, and the assembled guesta were
“ down in the mouth,” but the dinner wasn’t.
Morgan and Wood may soon dine with their idol,
but not in Louisville.
We are not disposed to elose without adding, that,
if Morgan and Wood will pledge to us their knightly
word (there may be hener ameng robbers as well
as among thieves) to attempt in person to take us
during our trip to Nashville, we will, as soon as the
mischief wrought by them to the railroadß shall
have been repaired, name the day when they may
expect us. What say you, rebels '•
LETTER FROM NASHVILLE.
Trade Becoming Brisk Again—The Differ
ence Between V, S. Treasury Notes and
Confederate Scrip—The Daring of the Rebel
Leader Morgan—Parson Hrownlow to go to
Beiwun the Union
Officers and Secession People.
[Special Coirespondonce or The Press ]
Nashville, March 19,18G2.
Returning confidence is becoming manifest in
Nashville. The inerciuitile thoroughfares were,
yesterday, full of animation. Nearly all of the
wholesale establishments were in operation, and
the retail and minor stores must assuredly follow
euiti The people are beginning to think that Unole
Sam is not suoh a vile old fellow as has been repre
sented, and ore anxious to display to the world evi
dences of returning reason. A portion of the peo
ple hanker after and court despotism ; but, inter
mingling with any and all congregation?, mey be
seen tho uncompromising Union man, the possessor
of wealth, station, and untold suffering, guoh call
upon Governor Johnson daily; and as they reveal
the wretchedness of the people, the terrible condi
tion of finances, the atrocious deeds committed
under the guise of Southern liberty, the fear and
dismay of the merchant, the desolation and ruin of
the meohanic, the perfidy ot I shorn G, Harris and
his associates in crime, ono is struck with astonish
ment, and almost questions the terrible fact of
Tennesseans intelligent Tennesseans—becoming
seduced with the heresies promulgated by tho de
mons of Secession,
If wo could only judge a person by the avidity
with which he seizes the treasury notes extensively
oiroulated in this locality, an opinion would be rife
that none but the most patriotic citizens were inha
bitants of Nashville. Tho bills upon tho oity banks
move at par, but country (Tennessee) notes of all do
nominations are fearfully depreciated, and Confe
derate sorip—well, I have never seen any—but a
person offered to sell some to my landlord this
morning for « fifty cents on the dollar,” whereupon
mine host threatened to call the provost guard.
Some bitter feeling is felt towards the military
authorities for not guarding the road between this
place and Louisville. Everything was progressing
in apple-pie order, when lo the rebel dragoon
Morgan dashes in at Gallatin on Sunday, captures
a train of cars, robs them of all their valuablo3, and'
starts the locomotive off, at full'stcam, in the direc
tion in whioh another train was momentarily ex
pected. Fortunately the boiler collapsed, aud the
engine was shivered to atoms. Before leaving
Gallatin, Morgan destroyed the depot, a bridge in
tko vicinity j §n£ cut the telegraph poles and wire,
and terrified the noighfeorhood for milea around.
It is reported that an Ohio paymaster aud a large
quantity of funds also fell into the hands of this
notorious freebooter. Wo have had so mails or
telegraphic news since Saturday evening, and all
Southern communication is cut off. Something
like a desert, isn’t it ? 1
In a short time, Parson Brownlow will loave
Nashville for Washington, via Cincinnati, and
probably Philadelphia. You should hear him
analyze Secession ! He is remarkably severo upon
the Confederate chaplains* most of whom he says
are drunkards.
AmoDg the most popular mots in circulation, I
send you the following:
A Secessionist, of rather an amiable turn of mind,
accosted a Federal officer and ; in a jovial
manner, interrogated him as to hiow far the Union
line extended. “To the North Pole,” replied Stars
and Stripes, u and, when £ left, there were two re
giments there waiting for arms.”
Another: When the Federal army arrived at Nash
ville, a lady remarked, with much acerbity << There
goes the Northern circus.” “ Yes,” exolaimed an
aristocratic mule-driver, “and our last perform
flnee was at Eort Donelaon.”
Again : The news of the late battle in Arkan
sas was not of the most cheering character. The
captain of a company in the Second Minnesota in
forms me that, yesterday, ho overheard two gentle
ttteh A&bversing together upon the subject, when
one of them, with a smile upon his countenance,
remarked that, "notwithstanding the loss of gene
rals sustained, we had got in the rear of the North
ern army, and were driving it South.^” ;i l»y Ju
piter!” replied the other, “I think they have got
South far enough without driving.” I guess! S.
FROM ISLAND NO. TEN AND CAI£O.
A Rebel Battery Disabled. ~
The Chicago Tribune’s correspondent writHhom
Cairo, on the 21th instant, to the following effect:
Captain Stembel, of the gunboat Cincinnati, in
a letter received by his wife, says that the nondo
script floating battery “ Pelican,” concerning
whose appearance at Island No. 10 brief mention
was made in my despatches of Friday) had been
disabled by a well-directed shot from the mor
tars.
Tbe Cairo and Felton Railroad was temporarily
disabled yesterday by the running of a locomotive
off the track west of Bird’s Point. This gave rise
to a rumor that Jeff Thompson had torn np the
track and intercepted communication with New
Madrid. Trains are running all right to day.
Four transporta arrived ou Saturday morning
from Savannah and Pittahurg. They left these
points fit 5 o’o!««h on Thursday, »sd report that
nearly all the Government transports had disem
barked the troops—two divisions at Pittsburg, one
at Savannah, and another above the latter place.
The water is very high, and in some places is fully
three miles wide, overflowing the bottoms. The
rebels Jo iiot approach the river in any consider
able numbers, but are said to number 15,000 a few
miles in the country.
It is asserted, on the authority of scouts who
have visited the works at Island No. 10, that Beau
regard is in command there, aud Gen. Bragg, the
hero of Fort Pickens, at Corinth.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
THE REBELS BUILDING FORMIDABLE GUN.
BOATS FOB THE MISSISSIPPI.
Stares Being Removed from Memphis.
PROBABLE CONTEST AT CORINTH
A resident of .Paducah, Ify., who left New Or
leans about two weeks since, has encountered a
“special” of the Chicago Times, and communi
cated to him some highly interesting news from tho
Crescent City. The following extracts are from
his loiter of tho 21th instant:
He (the fugitive) reports the utmost activity in
New Orleans in preparing for offenoe and defence.
The confidence of the citizens in Beauregard is un
bounded, and he is expected to defend the oity
when it is menaced - There is An entire Absence of
Union feeling there, and a disposition, strong and
earnest, manifested to fight, sacrifice, and suffer.
The Oileanists are confident that our armies can do
but little more damage before warm weather coin
pall their withdrawal. My informant reports they
are building ten iron-clad gunboats at New Or
leans, one of whioh is intended for sea, and the
others to operate on the Mississippi and elsewhere.
He saw the boats, and, though no seaman, he says
an unpractised eye can readily see their enormous
strength.
A boat called the Murray is the pride and pet
of the Orleanists, and the projector is confident
that she will be proof against any kind of projectile,
end that he will be able to sweep our rivers with
her, in ease and safety. She is to carry 20 guns,
and in addition to the iron plating, such as shields
the Benton, is proteoted with railroad iron; and
so ingeniously modeled, notwithstanding her large
size, that ehe preieats a sharper angle for a ball to
strike against than any of the smaller craft now in
process of building there. He is confident that
some of the boats he saw at New Orleans are now at
Island No. 10, and waiting for a good opportunity
to get at Commodore Foote, It is known that the
Secesh have now five gunboats at No. 10. These
have been seen, and the idea is prevalent among
our men there that more are near, but have not
shown themselves.
This gentleman says the Secesh are removing
their stores from Memphis, evidently expecting to
be forced to surrender to our troops. They have a
large [body of troops that are unarmed. These are
being sent to Decatur, while the effective fighting
men are being concentrated at Corinth, ia the Mis
sissippi, where they were probably attacked by our
troops Sunday.
The superintendent of the Mobile and Ohio road
had colleeted thirteen locomotives and two hundred
cars, and placed them under Gen. Polk for moving
troops to Corinth. Polk’s headquarters were in the
vicinity of La Grango, Tennessee. Beauregard was
at Jackson, Mississippi, on Tuesday week.
Narrow Esc.trn.—“ The Hero of Niagara''
gave a display of his remarkable feats at the Thea
tre Royal, Liverpool, last evoning. “Theexcite
ment of the whole display,” says the Mercury ,
“ culminated in the last item of the programme—
the artist oMrjiiHg a man on his back along the
rope; and this excitement was still further increased
by the occurrence of an aocident whioh was well
nigh being attended with very serious oonsequenoes.
To ‘ a dead certainty,’ as the saying goes, Ju. Blon
din will proceed with his • unrivalled exhibition of
skill and daring’ until he breaks his neck, and per
haps that of some one else, and that unfortunate
climax was nearly arrived at last night. The high
rope was stretched from the middle of the galieiy to
the back of tho stag*. In front of the gallery is an
iron railing, and upon this the rope rested. M.
Blondin had carried bis assistant on his back in
slings from the stage to the gallery, and was about
to return, when, the moment they had passed the
railing in question, it gave way, causing the rope
suddenly to fall about two foot, and jerking the two
men from it. They fell backwards, and might have
been injured by the fall, but, fortunately, they
alighted in the arms of some of the people, and thus
esoaped any harm. Hid the veyegers been but a
yerd or so further along the rope over the pit they
must inevitably have been dashed to the floor.
Blondin displayed admirable presence of mind. As
though nothing at all had happened, he picked him
self and bis burden up, ana, notwithstanding the
slackening of the rope by the accident, conveyed
him in safety to the opposite extremity amid the
cheers of the audience. ’'
Mr, Windiiah, ao well knownin connection with
a recent inquiry, bos been amusing some of the
Windsor folks for several days past with his freaks,
by liberally dispensing his hospitality at the various
public bouses in the shape of champagne, spirits,
over, steaks, &«,, to tubmen, wMiera, ? ais ’
TWO CENTS.
THE PULPIT.
Sermon by the Rev* Mr* McNeill*
Since the resignation, and departure for Socessia, of
the Rev. Hr. Brantley, some months age, the Tabernacle
Baptist Church, Chestnut street, above Eighteenth, has
frttn irU& pastor, It* P9?pK being supplied by cler
gymen of the various Baptist churches in the city and
vicinity. On last Sunday morning, a sermon wag
preached in that edifice in the presence of a tolerably
full congregation, by tho Hot Mr. McNeill, pastor of
the Baptist Church, Falls of Schuylkill* Mr* SoNviH Id
a very young man, speaks without notes, and soomß
much at his case In the pulpit. His discourse on Sunday
was founde 1 upon the words in Luke xvii 37:
“Wheresoever the body is, thither will tbe'oaglos bo
gathered together.”
Very many, said the preacher in opening, were the e*c
cuees employed by those who indulge in sin to justify
their conduct lint from the history of God’s people we
saw that, however his judgment may be stayed for a
time, He does in the end puuish the guilty with justice,
and even severity. God was jua'oua of liia glory, aud He
would therctofo puuteb inault. Ihe text read* he said}
had btcomo a proytib, Uy mo “ body” epuKon of, we
were to understand, primarily, decaying an mal sub
etaucee, about which the eagle, or buzzard, tribe was
accustomed to congregate in loathsome festival. This
figure of Scripture, theu, If properly understood, was
deeply significant aud of the greatest importance.
In taking up the subject, analytically, ho remarked,
first, that, as a dead body was an object of inevitable
destruction, either from external pr internal causes, or
Loth, so any naliou, when it became spiritually dead, de
generated into corruption, and would be visited with
iihul d&fati>ucl}&u. This fact bad strikingly illtistFuted
in the history of Israel. That ancient people of promise
had, through centuries of time, basked in the marvellous
bounty and providence of God. Through more than a
thousand years their wickedness had been allowed to de
velop- until its final culmination in f tbe days of our Lord's
incarnation, üben it had become bo fearfully eorruot aud
dead to a 1 true spiritual life as to call forth th» witboring
words of the Son of God, “Woe unto you, Scribes aud
Pharisees, hypocrites! tor ye are like unto whited se
pulchres, which, indeed, appear beautiful outward, but
are within full of dead mea’s bones, and of all unclean
hobs.” * * * * * “ Te ser
pents, ye generation of vipers! Hew can ye eee&pe the
damnation of bull! : ’ (literally the condemnation of Ge
henna.) And if wo considered the final Hontence of Christ,
pronounced upon Jerusalem, together with its subso
quint fulfilment before the victorious anus of the Human
legions, whose ensign was the eagle , we should see how
strikingly was the text applicaole to the doom and down
fall of That once po ffcrfal nation. “ Wherever the Dody
is, thither wifi the eagles be gathered together.”
Moßt summary and fearful had been the fate of that
city, once the glory of the whole earth. The whole land
of Judea had, in fact, been laidwosto. Ono lmadred
and eleven thousand of its people had been slain daring
the eitge, and ninety thousand of their number hwl lesa
carried away captive into other lands. The thrilling
accounts given by Josephus, and other historians, of that
nu mor able bc< ne of carnage were skilfully used in this
description—the preacher adding, that the dying shrieks
of those who perished there should “echo Cowu the cor
ridors of limy,” aud ring in tones of thunder upon the
cars if every nation under Heaven the voice of God}
that “ Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a re
jrroach to any people /” For, as like causes produced
like effects, it was a moial impossibility, to»day, for a
nation to continue prosperous and happy while under
going moral and spiritual fleGayi It wag a fearful mis*
tnke to eupposu that the oxirienco of a nation depends
upon tho amount of Sharpe’s rifles And rilled cannon
that it possesses ; it survived or perished in proportion
to tlio soundness or laxity of its allegiance to God— in
other words, in proportion as its people observed the
command, “ Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all
thy heurL, and with all thy soul, and with ull thy mind,
aud thy neighbor as thyself.” 'With this motto upon
our banners, aud with this Uviug sentiment in our
hearts, the blessings of the benign government under
which we live in this favored land would bo secured to
us forever; without tbtei wo are altogether rebels against
God, and enemies to ourselves.
The religion of Jesus, therefore, was the only true and
sure foundation of a nation’s hope and prosperity, lie
need not, in proof of this position, refer to the fall of
now buried empire?, numbering among them not only
that of Pcris&i Greece, and Rome, but oven some of the
mote modern Republics, The reason for this was, that
the fear of God, and the love of Jesus, as the only
Saviour of men, were the only principles by which the
jarring elements of a sitiftfi world like this could he suc
cessfully overcome. Without public virtuo the sta
bility of any nation wag impossible, and without
the pervading power and presence of the Christian
religion there could be no real and abiding
public virtue It was in the possession of tbe»e
elements that was found the secret of all true liber
ty, and, ho argued, as a legitimate consequence, there
fore, that for a man to be a triis lover of his country, ho
must be a true follower of Jesus, and without wishing,
unduly to meddle with political matters, which he held'
to be foreign to the legitimate functions of a Gospel
minister, he maintained, as a part of bis religion, that it
was the duty of Christians who really love the!: country,
16 fe&hifaM thin lava aI Ihibdlldt-lAa, by VAtingo&ly f&y
Christian men to fill the places of the Government. He
did not thereby mean that they should vote for members
oftbis. or that, or other sect as such, but for God-fear
ing men, of whatever persuasion, who trust iu Christ as
their only Saviour.
But th? |ext ho was discu§sjng 99)7 applied $o
nations, but also to churches, either in their individual
capacity as congregations, or ns denomluacious. The
instant that any of these bodies became uuseund iu doc
trine, lax in discipline, or loose in morale, its days were
numbered, unless it heeded the injunction of God, “ Re
pent, or I will come unto thee quickly.”, But having
devoted considerable time to the lirat head of hie
dircourse, he could not dwell, aud would only say in
conclusion, as a third application of the text, that its
lejeouwas interned also for individuals. “Whoever
you may be,” said the preacher, “ unless you are re
generated by the grace of God, you are spiritually dis
eased, auu will become a carcase in The sense of The text,
food for the worm that never dies,” to which the eagles
Mould be gathered ; i. e., where sin was imputed its pre
scribed punishment would come.
At the close of the eennon, the Rev Mr. Hansel!, of
this cily» who was in Hie pul Dili made a prayer, after
which a hymn was snog* and the benediction was
modestlj invoked (uot pronounced) by tho youthful
preacher whose sermon we have here noticed.
RELIGIOUS.
Resignation of the Rev. Charles Wadsworth,
Our readers are already aware that the Rev. Dr. Wads
worth, pastor of the Arch-street Presbyterian Church,
Arch street, above Tenth,has had a “call” (with an of
fer of eight thousand dollars salary per annum, if ac
cepted)! exieEdod to him by a church in California. The
unusual liberality displayed in tho pecuniary part of this
spiritual intimation, for our eloquent townsman to “go
over into this golden Macedonia,” to help those wiio
have undertaken the Herculean task of converting such
sinners as a land of lucre would naturally produce, from
the error of their ways, shows that the splendid pricos
giyen aud received, iu 4ho AtHerlcftd QoliteudA, &ppljr to
things spiritual as well as carnal.
But Mr. ’Wadsworth, by the chamiß of bis eloquence,
and his txcellent qualities as a man and a pastor, espe
cially among the sick and emitted of hi* eongregiitioßi
has become so deeply enshrined in the affections of the
latter that thin beck Iron) the Pacific gave them little
uneasiness. Their good pastor, for whom they had ex
pressed the wannest friendship through all the years of
hla fcaatM'fihip among them, in various kind offices, in
cluding among other graceful things the presentation in
fee Bhnple) of an eleven-thousand* dollar house,
could rot leave them; they were sure of that, for
the affection between pastor and people was mu
tual. So the congregation of the Arek-sliroet Pres
byterian Church believed, and no doubt correctly,
at least in a measure. But their surprise may
be imagined when or» last Sunday morning, before
quitting tho pulpit, Dr. W. formally teuderod hiß resigna
tion as pastor of that church. To he sure, it was dono
with great kindness and feeling, and in that presented an
agreeable contrast to the shameful scene enacted in one
of our Episcopal churches by a retiring rector a Sab oath
or two previous The people were melted to"tears at the
snd announcement, and, if the organist had struck up the
“Dead March” as the people were passing out of tho
church, it would not have been inappropriate.
On Wednesday evening of the present week a large
congregational meeting waß held to consider the Doc-
resignation, when it was decided, 2»y d t inaninious
vote, not to uccept it. Dr. Wadsworth has alsoinformed
them that he has not yet accepted the California call,
and that he has not made up his mind positively so to do,
alleging, moreovcr ? that he would ask no more salary from
lUßpreßcnt charge than ho it now receiving, which is three
thousand dollars. The congregation have, however,
already decided, we believe, to increase it two thousand
nolens volens if he remains, and from the Bocial in
fluence which are being brought to boar in the mattor*
it is not improbable that the resignation so unexpectedly
tendered will be reconsidered at en early day, to the
great satisfaction of his people as weU as to the large
circle of Dr. Wadsworth’s admirers in this city who are
not connected with his church.
Foreign Religious Items.
Tjib Ecclesiastical Commission. —The report of the
Ecclesiastical Commission for England, for the year end
ing the Ist of November, has been issued. The commis
sioners were al>le t in the course if thi JflP, ti iUtki A
number of new grants; thore are lists amounting to
£81,816, a capital which will produce a small annual ad
dition to the income of a number of Ul-endowed bonclices.
The greater portion of it, £66,961, was applied whers
private benefactions to meet It were offered. Among the
.. livings” augmented nro places with a population of
7,000 or even 8,000 and an income under £6O; a popula
tion of above 9,000 and an income considerably under
£lOO, and populations of 16,00 u and 17,000, and such
incomes as £ll7, £127, and £l6l. The total number of
benefices and districts augmented and end9wed by the
commissioners is now 1,888, which is lit more than
it was at tho cloieof tbe previous year; and the total
permanent charge npon tho “common fund,” inclu
sive of grants in respect of benefactions paid to them,
exceeds £98.000 a year. But, in addition to this, the com
missioners have, in fome gbror, annexed land and ticbo
roct charge, tho valuo of which may be estimated
at £9,300 a year, and the “common fund” is further
charged with £lB.OOO a year, payable to the governors
of Queen Anne’s Bounty, under the arrangement of
1843, for making immediate provision for additional cures.
By the act of 1860. local claims ware extended, but tho
commieiionerß find that they may, this year, appropriate
£lOO.OOO for general distribution, and, at the same time,
increase tho permanent chnTgeon the common fund to the
extent of £20,000 a year iu discharge of local claims, which
hitherto would not have been dealt with until the expira
tion Of tbe leaseß under which the property is held;
such claims will be considered in tho order in
which they have accrued by the vesting of the
estates in the commission, and only whore the
present interest of the commissioners in the estate
shall be sufficitnUo raise tbe income to the full amount
Of augmentation to which the living may be entitled un
der tbe regulations thoymaysee fit to make. Sixty
three new districts were constituted or assigned last year;
a new apportionment of episcopal patronage among the
Welsh sees was completed ; and a canonry residentiary
whs annexed to tho Archdeaconry of Rangori and another
to that or Morioneth, The official establishment ex*
pauses amounted to no less than £17,868, iu nld of which
Fartiament voted £3,750; but ttere are, besides, more
than £lB,OOO charged for legal expenses, and more than
£lO,OOO for survoyers, architects, actuaries, and other
Awge, hi of the valuation, nolo, and purchase cf
übiates. These are heavy deduction* from a fund on its
way to the small livings.
Delicious Communities in* France. —lt would ap
pear from tbe explanations given relating to the reli
gious communities to tho French Bunato that there afo
*23 establishments for men in France authorized* 42 not
authorized. 8,075 establishments for females authorized,
and that the number increases at the rate of 100 each
year. The gifts and legacies that have been received
for religious establishments, seminaries, curacies, and
parishes tavo lucotralcd In litres 1819,87j.95l ft.,
(upwards of three million pounds sterling,) which, to
. gether with the Government allowances, make a receipt
of nearly five millions by these establishments in three
months.
Tiik Catholic clergy in Irolaod number 4 archbishops,
29 bishops, 1,036 perish priests, and 1,491 curates, Ac.
Tbe Catholic population, according to the last census, is
4,490,5834aTh0 Catholic places of worship in Ireland
number 2,339. There are 84 convents, 164 nunneries,
and 117 monasteries, Ac.
A Btoppsr.—A renowned clergyman of Lincolnshire
lately preached rather a long sermon from the text,
“Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting.”
After the congregation had listened about an hour, 6ome
began to gst weary ami wont out; others r*oon followed,
srinlly to the annoyance of the min'-ater. Another per
f*:u >h§ parson stepped his sermon
THE WaJH PKKSis.
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mill (per uuinm In edvMce) M £3.o€
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Urger Olabi will be ch.rgal nt the eame rate, thoe :
80 copies will coat £24; SO copies will ooat £00; and lot
copies £l2O.
Tor * Club or Twe»t»-eh» e* ever, we win und an
litre Copy to the gettor-np of the 01 oh.
£7* Postmasters are requested to act e. Agent! fev
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and said, “ That is right, gentlemen; as fast as you ara
weighed pass out.” He continued his sermon at sons
length after that, hut no ono dtelorbod him by teasing.
Tub “Essays and Bxvutwu” Pkohbcstion.—Tb#
case of the Rev. 11. B. Wilson, one of the authors oT
“Essays and Reviews,” has been brought to a dose.
Dr. Lmibington said ho should not give judgment until
after the Judicial Committee of Privy Council bad
sivtjo jndgroout in tho omo of Harder 9. Heath, which If
fixed for hearing on tho 20th lust.
Missionaries in China.—Dr.Legg«gave an interest
ing and encouraging account of his labors in China at *
recent missionary prayor-tiu-oting at Hong. Kong. Other
missionaries, he said, had a similar, and, in many cases,
moru Btttiatactaryi tala to toll. In Amoy there ate aa&i*
five hundred or six hundred Christians; atXingpo anti
Shangho congregations equally lame; and oven at the
newly-opened port of Tinu-tein, a small but fervent body
of believers—London and China Telegraph.
Thk Rev. n. Gjiattax Guinnbss. —We are informed
that the Kev. Mr. Guinness, finding his conMilufjijj}
much impaired by liia Incessant labors for the past seven
years, has, l»y the advice of his medical physician, dis
continwed his ministerial labors for a time, and has set
ont on a tour through the Holy Laud, where he expects
to remain for at least four or five months.
Tub Rev. Julian* Young, who was recently prohibited
by til® llifbop or Kicter from propelling for roatiing ft
play of Shnkppftare’B Ip public, >9 thy sou of Juto p|j>
Young, tho celebrated tragedian.
Ox Asir- Wednesday, at St. Margaret’s Church, there
were no M. P.’s present to join in the House of Commons
service.
Departure of Jleenan for England.
On Saturday, John C. Hoenau, left in 'the City
of Washington , for England, with his brother
James. A number of his friends attended on the
pier to witneea his departure ami wish him a good
and short passage in the swift steamer. The
champion was in fine health and gallant Bpirits—a
very model ot a stalwart, active man. Although
it has been said that he does not go to England to
fight, it may be doubted whether ho will not consent
to accommodate the person who has several times
announced that his groat desire was to contend
with him. In fact, we have a very decided im
pression that the ridiculous vaunting of Mace, in
that regard, will come to & very abrupt termination,
soon after Becnan lands at Liverpool. He is a
iolilK InOFO formidable man in appearance, as well
08 in science, now, than he wus when ho went over
to moet the redoubtable Tom Sayers. Siuce then,
Heenan has thiokened and solidified, white his as
tonishing quickness and activity have been pre
served. His former antagonist, Sayers, has long
been anxious to have him go over, aud there will
be a right merry meeting between them.— Wilke?
Spirit of the Times .
To Cube Dipthema.—A gentleman, who has
administered the following remedy for diptheria*
informs us that it has always proved effectual in
affording speedy relief. Take a common tobacco
pipe, place a live coal within the bowl, drop a little
tar upon the coal, and let the patient draw smoke
into the mouth and discharge it through the nos
trils. TH& is safe and siraplo, aud should
be tried whenever occasion may require Many
valuable lives may be saved, our informant confi
dently believes, by prompt treatment as above.
Tee New Orleans Delta says thaththo Yankee*
are down upon wooden vessels. 77 New Orloim*
bad better believe they will soon be 11 down” uj oa
gunboats and mortar-boats.
Weekly Review of the Markets.
Puiladklphm, March 28,1862.
Business opens slowly, aud the transactions of tho
week have been moderate for the season, the delayed ac
tion of Congress in regard to the revenue hills now be
fore thfebi limiting eperatlohs very materially. Bark is
scarce, and meets with a good demand at fully former
rates. Breadstuff's continue inactive, and for Flour*
Wheat, Oats, as.il Rye prices ate unsettled. Cotton is
dull and neglected. Coal Is rather more active. Iron
very firm. Groceries and Provisions are jn steady de
mand. Fish and Fruit rather more active, and Narti
Stoiee, Oils, Rice, and Salt quiet. Seeds are In moderate
demand. Tallow, Teas, Tobacco, and Wool without any
alteration. Whisky is unsettled and dulh
In Dry Gcods there is more doing with both tho com
mission and job houses, especially the latter, and Cotton
Gcods generally are well held and firm, most of the o<UI
lots being closed out. Woollens are steady.
The Breadaluffs market continue* dnii, but without
much change in price or demand, and for Flour the in
quiry is limited—gales reaching only tome 6,000 bbte at
ss®s.l2j£ torjmporfine, fur extras, $5.64
©5 75 lor family, and $G®6.25 for fancy brands, inclu
ding several small lots of middlings at $4, aud to supply
the VlSbll of Hie Lozue trade at prices rangln* from
5.25 bbl for superfine, for extraa,
for extra family, and s6®7 for fancy
lots Byo Flour aLd Corn Meal aye very quiet: sales of
300 bbte of the former at $3.20®337 % bbl, and 206
bbla Pennsylvania Meal at 52.75 & bbl; 1,300 bbls
BiHidnYii'® Mesl seM mi piirnts terms.
"WHEAT, —There is sot mticli offurin?, and it is ia
good demand; tales of 80,000 bus Wcstora and Penn
ejlvania red at 132 a 124 c per bus; white ranges frost
140 to 150 c. Small sales of Pennsylvania R> e are making
a* 70a71c. Corn is in fair request: sales of 40,000 boa
yellow;uts4c| including some in s(9(? 9B PriYfittf terflUi
and white at GOc afloat. Oats are not much inquired
after; small sales of Pennsylvania at 35 a 36c per bush.
Barley is quiet but firm, at 80c tor Pennsylvania and
Western, and SBfflGOc lor New York.
PROVISIONS —The market is dull, and without any
change since our last report, Supplies fWB) Wfiflf
come in elowly, traii prices are steady j of P9Q bar
rels country and city-packed Mees Pork, in lots, at SIS
0*13.50 caeli- and short time; and prime at 89.50&10.
City-packed Mess Beef ranges from $l4 to $l5 bbl,
caeh; country Bells in lots at $l3, Dressed Hogs ar*
gcarcei Dried Beef is dull: BacoDi the receipts sail
slocks are light, but there is very little inquiry; sales of
plain aud fancy Hams at cents; old and new Sides at
s®6j£c: and Shoulders at s®s)£c cash and short time.
Of Greeu Meuts the receipts are increasing, and there te
a fair Inquiry at previous rates; sales of Hams Iu pickle
cents; da in salt at B>aiU c&htt; BhUs
cents; &ud Shoulders at 4^«4 # ceuti.
Lai d te held firmly, and the receipts are moderate;
of tierces and bbte, fair and prime quality, at B,YoB#°i
chiefly at tho latterrate; 1,000 toson private terms; 606
kegs prime Western at Oct cash nnd time; and 500 pkge
mixed country ftl cash and 60 days Butte? U
in moderate demand; gales from Bto 12c for solid-packed,
end 13®14c for roll. Eggs are lower, and selling at 12j£«
dozen.
MFTALS—Holders of Pig Iron are firm in their de
mands, and some makers are indifferent about seUihff.
Snlea of EOO tons anthracite No. 1 at $21®22 cash and six
mentbe, and So. 2 at The Watering l>eparV—
ment of the city fass advertbed for proposals for a large
amount of cast-iron pipe, to be delivered during tho rear.
No sales of Scotch Fig; 2,000 tons gray Forge
sold at $200)21 ton, six months. Blooms are held at
$OO, six months. Bar and Boiler Iron are steady.
Load.—There is very little Fig hr first kaode, «md
sales ; Bomo pmcheses of Galena have been made in New
York to come here, at 6j£c cash. Copper is dull, but
steady in price.
BARR. —The receipts of Quercitron aro very light,
Biitl it is is demand at laat iiccli’s uuot&tlona i gales of
fine ground Ist Ho. lat 533.G0 ton. Tannora Surk.
prices are nominal.
BEESWAX is rather scarce, with sale's at
ib.
CANDLES are very quiet; sperm are held at 29c. , r 4
months Aoamantine range from 16 to 16oi cash and
the usual credit,' Tallow candles unchanged.
COAL.—There has been rather more activity in tha
trade since our last notice, and we hear of large contract*
being made for Government supplies. The cargo rate*
for Schuylkill red and white ash are $2.75<a3 ton,
and Lehigh lump and broken coal at $3.25 free on boardi
The Water Department of the city has advertised Tor
propotale for 5,000 touß of coal.
COFFEE —The stock has been increased by the arri
val of an invoice of L&guayra. The market is firm, but
the demand is very limited; sales of 500 bags Bio, ia
lots, at 10* 021 c i Laguayra at 2134 ®22ci and Java it
26c, on time.
COTTON is dull and unsettled, but the i tock is reduced;
a few Email Jots of Uplands Bold at 18®28c, cash, the Ut
ter rate for Middling, including a let of St. Domingo At
22c
DRUGS AND DYES—There is but Re doing, Op}-
uxn and Iniligo are dull and lower. Sales of Soda Ash at
23jC’2.?cC, 6 mos. There Is no Logwood iu first hands*
Jamaica, if here, would command $21.60 ton.
FEATHERS continue firm, and sell more freely in A
small way. at 06®38c for prime Western.
FISH.—Tbe receipts of Mackerel have somewhat in
and atfssa ure not m firm * g&its from tha wharf
of Nos. 2 and 1 at sBalo. The store Quotations are
$10.50 for No. 1, $8.50 for No. 2, and $6.50a7 for 3s.
Codfish are bold firmly at $3.76, with limited sale*.
Pickled Herring range from $2 60 to $3.50 V bbl.
FRUlT.—There have been several arrivals of Orange*
and Lemons, Wlilcli ore wanted, at fall rates, with iftliS ol
8,000 boxes on terms kept ptlvate. In domestic there 1*
rather more doing. Green Apples are scarce at $405 V
bbl. Dried Apples are in better demand, with sales of
Western and Penna. at 4% a7c for old and new crop.
Pared Peaches are very scuce; sales pf unpared at
?Op for oU'qqaTtlW ftnfl'w'ff hAITVSi’ 9*9
worth 84 50®5 bbl.
FREIGHTS to Liverpool continue dull; flour is quoted
at2sCd; grain at B®lod, and heavy goods at 26®2Ss.
Some thirty small veseo-s were chartered with coal for
Kuy West and Ship Island at $4 io and $460 tom
Small vessels, suitable for tho Wost Indies, are scarce j
a brig to Cardenas was token at $l,lOO and a schooner
for Porlo Rico at 45c; a schooner to Pernambfico at
$1,900, and a schooner of 3,000 bbls to Barbadoea at 65a
bbl. To Boston we quote at 28c for flour, 7c for
grain, s©6c for meaanrwnent gwdsi amt s2i7£ for pig
iron. Jn coal freights, other than on account of the
Government, there is very little doing, snd vessels very
scarco.
GINSENG.—There have been no salcß of crude or
clarified to note.
GUANO is attracting more attontiom and tbe demand
i 8 more active. Peruvian Is scarce and soiling at $66.5$
060 cash; Ichsboe at £10045, and Super-phosphate oT
Lime at $35045, less tho usiul discount.
HIDES are held firmly, but in foreign there have bees
no sales. The stocks have been increased by late farri-
T&lri fri hi South AliUlltt.
HOPS are dull, with small sales at 18&20c lb.
HAY is in fair demand, and worth 70e80o the 100 lbs.
LUMBER —There is rather more demand, as the
tuild ing reason is near at hand, but prices are unchanged.
MOLASSES The market is quiet and holders firm.
Supplies are cooing forward more freely, willi 5&1&S 4f
SOOhhda Cuba.at on timo} ISO bbls NOW York
Sugar Houie Syrup at fi*2«Soc. *' _
KAVAL STOKISS.—The stocks of Rosin, Tar, and
Pitch are very light, and sales m a small way at prevlotu
ra{es t Spirits of Turpentine meets a limited inquiry,
ar.d tuyere are tioid»iig*off for the mnii of the amotion
tale; tmall sales are making at ®1.00®1.15 gallon.
OILS. —There is a steady demand for Fish Oils at pre
vious quotations. Linseed Oil is in better request, with
further sales at 85©870\ Lard OH is held firmly, and
the stock hero is light but tho demand limited \ Bales of
winter at TOaTOc, caßh and on the usual credit. The
receipts of Coal Oil continuo large, and the market is
unfettled; eales of 300a400 bbls refined at 25a35c,
chiefly at 30c.
Imports of Bperm and Whale Oil and Whalebono into
the United St&t&s fdf tlm weak ending March Si. 18G2!
Sperm, Wlialo, Wh’bons,
bbls. bbls. lbs.
1/223 1,775 29,30*
Previously reported.
From Jan. 1 to date..... 1*223 1*775 20*30#
Bowin Ume I Bet j eiir. .... 6,845 45,560 261,856
PI.ABTEB Is scarce » the lost sale of soft was at 83.25
ton.
BICK is firm but quiet, and there is not much offer
ing; email eoleß at B 7 0 and East ludla at6,y ®BJ{e
lb. - ' . . . . -
salt—Pri??!* e re Tftrro* awd tfwr? hare m fw
tber arrivals; sales of 1,100 sacks Liverpool and flue
ground on private terms.
SEEDS.—Tho demand for Cloverseed hBB fallen off,
and prices have decilLed; sales of 2,000 bushels fair and
trims at 85® 5.87 }l bushel, dosin'! at 85 25. The de«
nutnd for Timothy has fallen ; small sales at
2.25 bushel. Flaxseed is in steady demand at‘s2.lOo
2.16 bushel. Tho slock of Calcutta Linseed i 9 about
G,OOO sacks: it is worth £2.40 W' bushel.
SPIRITS' continue firm but dull, with small sales of
Brandy and Gin. N. B. H«m is utf&t&d M 3652? c.
Whisky continues unsettled; ea'os of Pennsylvania and
Ohio bbls at 24®24#c, and drudge 22®23c gallon.
SUGAR meets a steady inquiry; the receipts of new
crop are liberal* and it is in steady request, without
ehunge in prices; sales of BOOhhds low grade and goo®
Cuba at e7Xc, oh tiBU.
TALT.OW is unchanged ; sales of cßy-rendered at te*
and country at cash.
TEAS are firm, and there is not much Inquiry for either
Blacks or Greens.
TOBACCO meets a limited inquiry, and prices arc uo*»
nettled for both Leaf and Manufactured, although the
stocks of the latte? are light.
WOOL.—.There is very little doing In tho article, aud
for the low grades prices are nominal; Bales of 85,006
the full-blood and fin? at 50062 c cash, and some foreign
on terms kept private.