£ bf |) rfs $. TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1862 removal or our office. The publication office of Tub Press has been removed from its old location to No. lit Sonth Fourth street, second door from the corner of Chestnut, (east side,) where adver tisers are requested to send their favors. the latest WAR NEWS. The intelligence from Fortress Monroe is ex citing. Gen. McClellan has telegraphed to the War Department that he had thoroughly examined the rebel fortifications, and found them very formi dable, especially their water batteries. The place will have to he besieged, but its ultimate fall is certain. Gen. Wool 9ays that there are 30,000 rebels behind the entrenchments, under the com mand of Gen. Magruder. Affairs on the Mississippi, in the neighborhood of Island No. Ten, aro coming to a decisivo point. Two of our gunboats have run the rebel blockade, and arrived safely at New Madrid. A ferry-boat, also, has reached the same point by a new route around the swamps. Under cover of those Gen. Pope crossed the river, and landed on the Tennes see shore. No doubt, oro this, bo has Cut off the rebel retreat by land, and perhaps attacked their batteries. The movement thus far has been a suc cess, and we should not bo surprised to hear at any moment of the capture of the whole rebel force in that vicinity. The news from General McClellan’s army is meagre, but enough U known to warrant the belief that a desperate battle is impending. Shipping Point, and a number of other places not named in the telegraph hayo been occupied by our forces. Several skirmishes have lately taken place, in which three of our men have been killed and six wounded. All of onr men are represented to be in good spirits and eager for the coming conflict. The official despatch about the occupation of Washington, North Carolina, lias been received. The expedition consisted of two gunboats and eight hundred men from a Massachusetts regiment, but no opposition was made to their takiog of the place. Many of the inhabitants wore found to be loyal, and large numbers expressed a willingness to eaiist and fight for the Stars and Stripes. General Sickles’ command have had a skirmish at Stafford Court House, on the Lower Potomac. Six rebel prisoners and a number of horses, im portant letters, etc., wore captured by our forces. A portion of Q encral Buell’s army have reached Sholbyville, fifty-niao miles southeast of Nashville and about fifty miles from the Alabama line. The troops were enthusiastically welcomed by the in habitants. The Navy Department has received intelligence that, when the Mernmac retired from the contest with the Monitor, she had seven feet of water in her hold. One shot from the Cumberland riddled her. while one from the Moni tor entered one of her port-holes, dismounting two guns. Congress Yesterday. Senate. —Tho military committee reported a bill authorizing the transfer of the appropriation made for fortifications to the building of iron-clad gunboats. The confiscation bill was taken up. Mr. Trumbull delivered a lengthy and able speech in advocacy of the proposition. House. — Mr. White, of Indiana, offered a reso lution of inquiry as to the feasibility of proposing qnd recommending a plan for gradual tion. and the extinction of slavery in the Border States by the people and local authorities thereof; and whether such is expedient and desirable. The resolution was adopted. Definite action was then commenced upon the amendments to the tax bill. Pennsylvania Legislature. Senate.—The supplement to the act incorpora ting the Arch-street and Falrmount Passenger Rail way Company w&s, on motion, reconsidered, and rejected. An act relative to the election of our City Councils from the rural wards was passed. Horsz. —The bill for the relief of the stock holder and creditors of the Fairmount Passenger Railway was passed finally. The supplement to the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company passed finally. The stay law was under discussion at the hour of adjournment. The Foreign News. The steamer Hibernian, which arrived at Portland yesterday, brings us five days’ later news from Europe than previously received. The President’s emancipation policy was still a fruitful theme for the comments of the Eng lish journals. The Baity News rejoices over the fact of its passage by the House of Repre sentatives, while the Times continues to think that no practical use can he made of the pro position. Mr. Kvsseli. has another letter in the Times, in which he observes that the pas sage of the Federal troops over the Long Bridge was a splendid spectacle, and eulogises McClellan for forming an army out of dis orderly masses of men. The Spanish Go vernment has ordered General Prim not to ne gotiate with the Mexicans till he enters the city of Mexico. Demonstrations in faypr of Garibaldi have become quite frequent of late in different parts of Italy. The Greek insur rection is not yet quelled. The laugh vote polled at the recent elec tion in Western Virginia in favor of a gradual emancipation of slavery is a significant sign of the times. One of the principal pretexts for the commencement of the rebellion was the difficulty of extending that institution over all the Territories of the Republic. One of its most certain and lasting effects will he not only to forever prevent such extension, but to di minish the area in which it is at present tole rated. through the adverse action of the people inhabiting the northern tier of slave States. Thus, the old fable of the dog grasping at the shadow, and losing the substance, has been re enacted by the Secessionists. They have un dermined the slave interest in Missouri; they have created a strong emancipation party in Western Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland; they have destroyed for the present all the profits and surplus earnings of slave labor in all the Cotton States; and they have struck a series of terrific blows at the whole system for which they profess supremedevotion, from the effects of which it can never, in any event, fully recover. The Palmetto soldiers recently illustrated their chivalric disposition by planning an at tack of three battalions of five hundred men each, against three companies of the Fifty fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, stationed at North Edisto—the odds being ten to one. It chanced, however, that only about thirty of our brave men were surprised. They kept at bay, for more than an hour, five hundred of the enemy, and after protracting this unequal contest until five of their number were killed, and five es caped, the South Carolinians, it is supposed, captured the remaining twenty, of whom a considerable number were wounded. Received. From the author, “ A member of the Numisma tic Society of Philadelphia,” a tract, 40 pages oc tavo, entitled "An Historical Sketch of tho Paper money of Pennsylvania.” This, the first of a se ries on the issues of the Colonies and the United States, brings the record down to tho year 1800, and appears carefully and honestly executed. From S. C. Upharn, 403 Chestnut street, the Illustrated London New j of the 22d ult., and Il lustrated Hews of the World, of the same date, with memoir and portrait on steel of W. C. Macrea dy. the well-known English actor. From C. Sherman apd Svb9, the Report (15 pages 8vo) of Dr. Hayes’ Arctic Expedition, before the American Philosophical Society, in this city, on the 6th of last December. A mere summary, but high ly interesting. Prom W. B. Ziuber, South Third street, the fol lowing English Journals of the 22d ult. : Illustra ted London News and Punch. The latter, true to its new Palmerston policy, passes the United States by, "in solemn silence.” Fitz James O’Brien, late resident of New York, whose death has been announced by telegraph, was well known as a writer, both of prose and poetry. He contributed largely to the leading magazines and weekly papers. Among his more notable pub lications was the "Diamond Lons ” He accompa nied the New York Seventh Regiment on ite three months service, and afterwards obtained a position on the staff of the late General Lander. During a skirmish with the rebels he received a severe wound, and the surgeon in attendance found it ne cessary to remove bis shoulder-blade. Uufortu nately, this, in a measure, added to hia sufferings, and he was soon after seized with the lockjaw, which terminated fatally. The suitability of Hollidaysburg, Pa., as a site for the National Foundry and Armory is strongly set forth in a pamphlet which has been forwarded to us by a committee consisting of Messrs. Samuel Calvin. Hugh McNeal. Joseph Smith, James Gard ner, R, B. Jokfiston, A. McAllister, and Ravtd IVateon- Am anonymous connEsuONOENT sends us an elaborate and indignant communication in re ference to what he calls the “influx of the ne groes ” into the Northern States, and espe cially the State of Pennsylvania. We should not give the subject more than the usual at tention, hut, as he presents with much feeling a popular view of this very unpopular sub ject, it may be worth while to give him a hearing, and see what practical value his re monstrance possesses, HU arguments are as follows: If the negroes are permitted to come from the Sonth, we shall have a worthless and indolent population to burden our alms houses and swell the prison list; they will enter into competition with our free white labor, and deprive many of our labor ing men of the means of livelihood; they will degrade labor by opening to the capital ist a cheaper, less intelligent, and more sub servient laboring class; they will foster crime and discontent, and lead to an unpleasant feel iDg among our people—-find by injuring tho in terests of these working men, and disturbing our social peace and prosperity, cause riots and tumult. Ho recommends the State and muni cipal authorities to take measures for prevent ing the immigration of the negro, and sug gests that laws be enacted similar to those ex isting in Indiana, Illinois, and some other of the Western States. In default of such laws being passed, he says the people will be com pelled to take measures for their own protec tion, and unite against an imminent danger. This subject of free negroes is always an unpleasant one. If it could be avoided, we should be satisfied. In the present case, however, we think it has been unnecessarily agitated. It is impossible to anticipate any argument upon a subject which as yet pos sesses no merit. In our correspondent's com munication we are told of evils which do not exist, and asked for a remedy before there are signs of disease. Wc do not think a hun dred negroes have arrived from the South since tho beginning of tliu war. We are vury certain that none of our citizens have noticed a negro more or less on our highways. We have yet to hear of a negro applying for the place of a white laborer, er a white laborer dreading the successful rivalry of a negro. We remember an announce ment in onr local coltims in reference to those contrabands which may illus trate this proposition. It stated that a num ber of them had arrived from tho South, and were residing with people of tlieir own race aiul color. It asked, their friends to give them assistance, and printed the names of parties possessing information of their where abouts. It was a very quiet proceedisg, and, under any circumstances, would not have at tracted attention. We recall it now only to show how groundless and exaggerated are the fears of our correspondent and those who en tertain similar views. We can very easily see to what mischief a cry like that of protection to white labor may lead, We can see the evils that may How from such sentiments as those of our corre spondent, if they arc permitted to gain cur rency among the people. Many of us are disposed to charge all of our present troubles upon the negro. There are those who only find in this war another phase of the slavery agitation, and see in the thousands who have fallen only so many victims to the senti ment of syinpatliy with the African race. Wo think that treason was planted in the hearts of those who planned the rebellion, and that it would have blossomed into war whether in fluenced by slavery or not. Dot this is not the opinion of thousands like our corre spondent, who listen with a greedy ear to arguments and theories like those he has elaborated in his present communication. Such arguments and opinions may be ridi culed now, but they will have believers when taxes are_to be paid, when the lienors of vic tory are tortured by popular crimination and recrimiaation, when the policy of the war, and the peace to come, is before the people for discussion. Desperate and wicked men, who look upon this war and its consequences only as they may advance their personal aggrandizement, and give strength to their party combinations, are beginning to avail themselves of these embar rassments for the purpose of making capital in the future. Representatives at Harrisburg are discussing measures for removing the free ne groes from the State, and preventing the immi gration of negroesfrom the South. Wecanfcon ceive of no legislation more unprofitable than this. It Oiily SOrvOs Hid plirposO of thO iiiOst wicked and pernicious agitation. It educates the people to look for evils where none exist, and to dread results that can never happen. It burdens the minds of such men as our cor respondent with causeless grief, and asks them to prepare for danger when none can be ap prehended. It weakens the popular faith and disturbs the public confidence, for it builds up in our midst an element of partisan dis cord, and prevents tho people from giving to the war that hearty and enthusiastic support demanded by the Administration, and neces sary to the salvation of the country. For ourselves, assuming everything that may bo urged by onr correspondent, so far as the immigration of negroes from the South is concerned, we can see none of the dangers apprehended by those who follow his philo sophy, Lot tho negroes come from tho South, They will find homes hero, and labor to per form. They will gradually sink into the con dition of their brethren now in our midst. In the communication from Mr. William Still, printed yesterday, there is a simple and in structive statement of facts. In two days, he said, there were applications for more than had arrived, for house servants and farm hands of both sexes. “It shows,” he continues with much justice, “ that a great scarcity of laborers exists in the country.” The war has taken so many men away, that it is necessary for our farmers to avail themselves of the labor which comes so suddenly from the Southern States. As to equality with the white man, that is folly, There never can be citi zenship or amalgamation. White labor need fear no rivalry. There are certain natural laws which must forever govern the relations of the two classes, An intelligent white man who can set type or make bricks, or edit a morning newspaper, need no more dread the rivalry of the negro in his avocation, than he would dread him as a rival in wooing a pretty woman. In a white society like ours, con trolled by men with fair skins, blue eyes, aud \ Saxon features, the labor of tho white man will be protected, developed, and encouraged. If ton thousand negroes came hero to-morrow, they would rapidly become what their coun trymen before them became, and what they still remain. Inferior by reason of their vast numerical minority—their different habits and lineage—their tastes, customs, and condition, uncongenial, indolent, and obtuse—they must ever remain a distinct race, and between the two races there must ever exist insuperable barriers. Wiiite labor needs no protection. Our cor respondent may dismiss all anxiety as to its security forever front his mind. We would rather these Southern negroes remained away, but tlieir coming causes no alarm. Certainly, no law, no agitation, no tumult can prevent it. If they come as fugitives, or are driven as refugees, no law could hinder their arrival. Humanity would say treat them kindly—com mon sense would place them among others of their condition, aud permit, them to live, as we are permitting thousands of others to live. By humanity and common sense will this ques tion be decided. Tins war calls forth many examples of pa triotism. We are daily startled before in stances of self-sacrifice, which, if anticipated two short years ago, would have covered the prophet with universal ridicule. The first rush of the masses to the battle-field was, in itself, a sublime drama. The nations regarded it, alternately, with surprise, envy, or admiration. In the progress of the war new elements were disclosed to the wondering world. Haw troops bad been disciplined into soldiers. The cuts, so often abused and so easily terrified In fojfingr days, the money-class, began to display their readiness to help the common cause. The en thusiasm that fired our armies extended- to banks and capitalists, and tho hard lenders of the golden tempter became as generous in their offers as the moneyless recruit was of bravery and blood. The ladies, ever ready, never faltered. They almost achieved miracles, by their industry, zeal, and enthusiasm. Not distinct from these evidences of attachment to our country, but belonging to it, is the wil lingness to give up life and fortune on the part of those who have engaged in the most hazardous expeditions in our own waters. Their fortitude and daring recall what we have read and doubted in the wildest romances. They shrink from no peril and are ready to Identify themselves with every experiment, however theoretic and untried. They embark upon flotilla or fleet—volunteer on board of gunboat or mortar-boat —with equal readiness. Take the little crew of tho littlo Monitor, its gallant officers and men. They had only reached Ilampton Roads after a most disabling voyage, in which they were nearly being cast away, and in a few hours they started out with their un tested experiment, attacked the iron-clad monster which had been dealing devastation and death upon the noblest of our ships, and grappled with it, unknowing whether the first blow from his gauutletted hand would not hurl them into the deep. And not only unknowing, but uncaring! It is a curious comment upon this text, that shortly after the battle between the Mcrrimac and Monitor, two of tho officers of the latter were discovered dressing their hair and examining their faces in tho elegant under-water sea-saloon! Boker has immor talized the almost fabulous courage of tho men of the Cumberland. , in his last line poem; and the world knows that the Minnesota, witness to, and conscious of the fate of the Cumber land, was Steaming down to take her chances, when the Monitor appeared, changing the scene by the intervention of a new and an un announced actor. Nor is this the end. Think of old men of vast fortunes ready to venture life in these sea campaigns! But we will not anticipate what may not happen, and ought not to be printed. The best judgment is that which honors a brave deed done, not that which spoils it by an ostentatious previous pa rade. What, finally, does all this mean? We answer in a sentence : In a cause upon which tho hopes of the civilized world are concen trated, in which the only idea of Christianity is involved, and which is at once the type of Rational Freedom, Revealed Religion, and an Elevated Humanity,; the People, now slan dered for Cupidity by the old despotisms, and for cowardice by the new slave tyrants, have broken away from interests and prejudices— from theories of self and pelf—and are re solved to establish before mankind that they arc worthy of the duty and tho destinies that have been forced upon them. LETTER FROM “ OCCASIONAL.” Washington, April 7,18C2. This is the week that may newly encourage or utterly mar the Rebellion. Our columns by land and our navies by sea will soon strike other and more effective blows. Gen. Wool tells fhe Secretary of War, in a public and printed despatch, “ I do not believe the army of the Potomac will liiul many troops to con tend with.” From this, it is fair to assume that tlie rebels are now, and have been for some time, on tho move, and. that, on the ar rival of our army at Norfolk, Richmond, and other points heretofore supposed to be im pregnable, the birds will hava flown to more congenial climes. It will be a grievous, and mortifying, aud expensive disappointment if we are not able to capture the rebel forces, or if they should, uncrippled and unopposed, effect a junction with tlieir associates now concen trating against us in the valley of the Mississippi. On this point, however, I prefer to let results speak for or against those who have our military movements directly in charge. lam not dis posed even to criticise, much less to condemn, in advance of “ tho logic of events.” But be hind the bloodless occupation of Virginia and the successful flight of the rebels may lie more grave complications, and, possibly, more des perate battles, than have ever been dreamed of in our newspaper or Congressional philo sophy. Tho present week will confound many a theory, vindicate or cloud many a great name, and open a more intelligent view of the vista that points to the effectual maintenance ol the Federal authority. We shall not have long to wait, and, when the facts are before us, must award the verdict frankly and fearlessly, even if we are forced to admit that our own opinions and apprehensions wore unfounded and unjust. The occupation. of Eastern Virginia will operate magically upon various interests. Railroad communication will be opened be tween Washington and Richmond, and be tween the Northern States and Virginia. These important thoroughfares, long secured by the rebel cliiefs to the lasting and unspeak able damage of a betrayed community, will be rebuilt, repaired, and thrown open, under the auspices of the Federal Government, and held by the latter until the hour of obedience and allegiance has arrived. In Maryland the trea sonable and blood-thirsty spirit of the rebels, which struck first at the lives of the troops of the Republic, and next at the material inte rests of the State itself, has been met by the magnanimity and kindness of Mr. Lincoln and his friends; and the unwonted spectacle is presented of a people rescued from self destruction by the very Government they have madly assailed, and which many of them continue to ridicule and execrate. The same great lesson will be taught in Virginia. What a sublime and wondrous sight is this! The civilized world will gaze upon it with awe. A causeless rebellion, beginning in the foulest falsehood and crime, and progressing in battle and in bloodshed, is not only checked by the giant arm of offended Authority, but, when checked, the noblest emotions of humanity are displayed towards the con quered States, and the wounds inflicted by bad men upon their oppressed followers staunched and healed. As Davis, Toombs, Hunter, Cobb, and the rest, call upon the mountains to hide them from the vengeance which will never be withheld as against them, that which will awaken the keenest remorse in their troubled souls will be the intelligence that the Government of the United States, under the wise and liberal counsels of Presi dent Lincoln, are repairing the evils they have inflicted upon the Sonth, and bringing baolc to their duty hundreds and thousands who had been taught to believe, by these desperate authors of the war, that the present Adminis tration was pledged to overthrow all the in terests and rights of the slave States. It would be monstrous if the Southern people, thus doubly convinced, by the weakness and cowardice of the Secession chiefs and by the indulgent and forgiving policy of Mr. Lin coln, did not speedily reject and banish the one and welcome the other with gratitude and joy. It is at this point that the Northern parti san, filled with ambitious longings for place, and indignant at the exposure of his own sym pathy with the rebellion, should pause and ask himself whether a course of treatment that is working such wonders in the Seceded South will not he equally irresistible in its effects upon the adhering North and Northwest? If the high-souled generosity of Mr. Lincoln’s Ad ministration towards the deluded population of the slave States is conquering and subjuga ting all their prejudices, and covering them with the confusion always felt by a proud people when they find that their victor is not disposed to be a mere Avenger, how will it be received by the great masses of tbe free States, who, in their turn, arc sought to be arrayed against that Administration by calum nies and misrepresentations, only less infamous .than those resorted to by the traitorous Chiefs of the Rebellion ? Occasional. Earle’s Photographs.—Among the latest small photographs, (carte tie msite size,) are portraits of General and Mrs. Washington, after Stuart; of Secretary Stanton, of Young 1776, and of two groupes of ladies in our own Academy of the Fine Arts, patriotically engaged among the pictures in making Union flags for the Army. The two last are eminently pictorial, and would show well in the stereoscope. LAnGE Positive Sale of Boots and Shoes, Travelling-bags, Trunks, Ac.—The early at tention of purchasers is requested to the large as sortment of boots, shoes, brogans, travelling-bags, trunks, Ac., embracing first-class seasonable goods, of oily and Eastern manufacture • also, stock goals, to he peremptorily sold, by catalogue, on four months’ credit, commencing this morning, at 10 o'elock, by John B. Myers & Co., auctioneers. Nos. 232 and 234 Market street. Stocks and Real Estate To-Dav.—Thomas & Sons’ sale to-day comprises valuable Arch-street and other city property, desirable countrp seat, stocks, loans, Ac. See advertisement and pamphlet catalogues. Tiie Law Library of the \&te Nathan R. Potts, Esq., will bo sold, at their auction rooms, this after noon. Now arranged for examination, with cata logues. Geo. Steck's inimitable square-grand Pianos' Have you seen them ? If not, gall os Mr. GOULD, Seventh and Chestnut. Auction Sale this Tuesday morning, at tl) o’clock, of fancy goods, stationery, clocks, watches, jewelry, cutlery, eilver-plated ware, Ac., at M. Fitzpatrick A Brothers. 601 Chestnut; street. THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA. TUESDAY. APRIL 8, 1862. FROM WASHINGTON. THE NAVY DEPARTMENT INFORMED OF THE EXTENT OF HER INJURIES. FROM THE LOWER POTOMAC. The Skirmish at Stafford Court Houge* A PRESENT FOR MR. LINCOLN. Probability or the Tax Bill Passing the House To-morrow. THE REBELS CONFIDENT OF DEFEATING MTLELLAN, DESTRUCTIVE FIRE ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Special Despatches to “The Press. 1 * Representative McPherson will to-morrow present a cano to tbe President, made by John llawkbk, &u inge nious mechanic of Scranton, Pa. The cane was originally a cedar stick, with a crooked top and a number of branches. The top has been con verted into an American aagla, with life-like bill. Uuder itA throat is the national shield, with the words inscribed thereon, “ Union Forever. 11 Tho eagle grasps in bis talons Jeff Davis, by tho seat of his breeches. Below him, on each side, is a cannon—the arbiter of our na tional difficulties. On tbe other Bide is a lion in fail spring, with a rattlesnake near by. Below the lion comes a goat, in the act of leaping; and a buck and doe, at full speed, follow him. A fox is springing be tween them j and then wmei an onglei'grasping a winged serpent with human bead. The serpent of the rebellion, with live tails, human beaded, is next in order; then a gold finch; a yellow bird, with blue tail; a large turtle ; a small alligator, and an adder. Hext is an owl gratping a snake, followed by another al ligator. Then conies a Union dragoon, mounted, and in tbe act of charging on tbe enemieß of his country. By bis side is e goat, rampant. A monkey, with tail twisted around a limb, next appears, holding Jbf/ Davis '»y tho hair of his head with one claw, and grasping the Union flag-staff with the other, thus showing that, dumb brute as he is, he knows enough to'uphold the stars and stripes, and in the meanwhile punish a traitor. Uncle 6am, with eagle face and cap surmounted by stars and stripes, grapples John Bull by the horn, who in turn is pinching bis lion’s tail to excite his rage, but the Uon takes it quite coolly on his haunches. Next is a grizaly bear “squatted on bis hunkersthen a enr, a blue bird, and rabbit In full bound. On the side opposite the latter is tbe final figure, an Americau sailor, holding a innsket on one side, while he grasps tho stars and stripes in the other, and stands erect on the crushed Serpent of Rebellion. Tills cm lids rawt of tbe figures on it not only carved, but painted to the life—tb« body of the stick being black. It is the product of the leisure hours of John Hawres, an ingenious mechanic of Scranton, Pa., who is noted for his mechanical Ingeuuity. The Enemy at Richmond in Overwhelm, ing Force, and Confident. It seems, by IMchmond papers, that tbe Confederate generals have full knowledge of the designs of the Fede lal army, and are not fearful as to the result of a battle, or battles, in the neighborhood of that city. The 11 Se» cosh” hereabouts say that the force about Richmond is overwhelming, and McClellan will surely be beaten. Signed by the President. Tho President has signed the joint resolution passed by Congress authorizing him to assign generals of the same rank to command in the same department. The House Committee on Senate Bill for the Abolition ol Slavery. The Senate bill for tbe ftDobtion of slavery in tin Dis trict of Columbia reached tho House to-day, and was re ferred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 10 is understood that they will take prompt action ou the bill. The House, to-day, considered the amendments to the tax bill made in Committee of the Whole, aud agreed to many of them without material amendment. The bill will probably pass on Wednesday. Several applications having been mode to the War De partment, by loyal North Carolinians, for passes to re turn to that dtate, and by other civilians for purposes of trail?, the Secretary of War to-day refused them to all persons desiring to go South, except those who may be employed on Government business* Sufferings of the Cherokee Indians. Advices from loyal Indiana who were driven ont from the Cherokee country by the rebel whites and Indians, are of the most heart-rending character. Deep snows, severe cold, want of food, and clothing, and shelter, have brought on dire disease and death. The Government officiate *re making great efforts to concentrate the bands of fugitive Indians, and to give them proper com forts. The work, however, is difficult at this season. A vast responsibility lies upon such men as Albert Pike, who incited civil war among tho red men, and has pat them in ft position which will surely evoke terrible pun* isbuient at no distant day. Bx. Governor Berat, of New Hampshire, and the Senators and members in Congress from that State, to gether with a hundred other citizens of New Hampshire, left the city, this morning, to present a splendid stand of colors to the Second New Hampshire Regiment. Judicial District. The Senate Committee on the Judiciary reported a bill to-day attaching the counties of Hancock and Mc- Donough t) the southern judicial district of Illinois. Captain Tuhple Clark, of the Fifth Wisconsin volunteers, to be Assistant Adjutant General, with the rank of captain. Mr. McPheusok, 9? P«Bfi«ylvftßlfti introduced, to?day, into tho House, a hill relative to furloughs, which autho rizes colonels Of volunteer regiments, which have been in the actual service of the United States at least six months, to grant furloughs to the non-commissioned officers and privates of their rcspectire commands, limiting tlie num her absent at one time to three from each company; and providing that tbe President, Secretary of War, com manding general of a department, army corps, detached division, or brigade, may, by general order, prohibit tho granting of such furloughs during a period not exceed; ing thirty days from the issuing of the order, when, In his opinion, tbe exigencies of the service imperatively require it. Mr. Wilson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, in the Senate, to-day, reported back the bill introduced by Mr. Hale, authorizing the President, in whole or in part, to transfer the moneys appropriated by an aot passed February 20,1862, for the construction, preservation, and repairs of fortifications, to the construction of iron clad steam vessels-of-war. The Treasury Department has been issuing treasury notes for two or three days back, of tho denomination of “ one thousand dollars.” Of this sort four or five mil lions can be got off daily, but taking the notes on an average, two millions of dollars can be issued. An extensive fire accnrred at 5 o’clock this morning, destroying completely three large buildings, two of which were constructed with costly iron fronts, located on Penn sylvania avenue. They were respectively occupied by WILLIAM Tusker, da&la£ In guller'e goods; William Egan, dry-goods merchant, and J. B. Wilson, grocer. The adjoining stores of Cohen & Hoover, dealers in shoes, and Mr. Gregory, hardware dealer, were also badly damaged. The principal losers in their stock of goods were Hr. 'ttokkr, Hr. Egan, and Hr. Wilson. The fire extended to the rear of the buildings on Sonth Seventh street, severat of which were occupied as taverns or restaurants. Tbe origin of the fire is conjectural. The loss was very heavy, and there is but a partial inittrOitoa. Mr. Edwin Forrest appeared last evening as Hamlet before one of tbe largest houses of his engagement, and created a great sensation. Many of his readings were original, but all were effective. The desire to sea the great tragedian in his Shakspeariau parts is very great, seatsfor all of the performances having bom secured by many. Mr. Forrest will appear in “ King Lear” on Wednesday evening. The enterprise of Hr. Ford in enabling Mr. Fcures* 1a play in & neat and aainmodloUa theatre is being amply rewarded. Richmond paper* of tbe sth bare been received in Wmskington to-day, Thoy contain Mttrwts-from tho New York papers of tbe 2d inst. Nine merchant Vessels Captured at Newbern, Jf. C. It appear# frog fte pfficjal despatches rectlyijd at the Navy Sepal tment) that when onr forces reached New bern tbe, captured nine merchant with their cargoes, consisting, in the aggregate, of' about 4,000 barrels of rosin, besides tar, pitch, oil, and shingles, nine bales of cetton, etc. A statement that appears in the National Intelli gencer of this morning to the effect that Occurred yesterday at Yorktown is wholly untrue, i Major Wit. H. Pui.k, of Tennessee,,brother of tho late President Polk, and a strong Union man, had a long interview with President I,iNCOLN|tbis morning. The tax hill is up in tho House to- day for final action. Senator Gki-mes, of lowa, chairman (f the Naval Com mittee, is at Fortress Msnree. j The House has agreed to the appoininent of a com mittee of nine, who shall take into consideration tho question of emancipation in the llordef States. FBOM GEN. BANKS’ COLUMN. Wi-NCiissTER, April 7.—Officers wh* arrived herefrom Woodstock to-day report that the fcridge ;over Stoney creek was completed yesterday, and to-day our brigades, when crossing, were greeted by a lively cannonading from Ashby's battery. The enemy wai soon dispersed by our funs, and wo are now in full possesion of his late position. Ashby, in retiring, took advanfege, as usual, of every position to retard our progress. Col. Anisanel has been restored to the command of the First Virginia Cavalry. Edfnbukg, April 7.—Three guns were opened to-day by the enemy from their new position, upon pickets. The lire was responded to by Captain Huntingdon’* bat tery with rapid discharges, and our shells bp rat in their midst, scattering them suddenly. j A private of Company F, of the Thirteenth Indiana Begiment, crossed the river at this poinjt and fired, from a place of concealment, fifteen rounds,at a body of Ashbj’s cavalry. He killed two of them, j Colonel Colgrave, or tbo Twent> -Hevenjh Indiana, who war detached to guard the supply trail to Manas sas, returned this evening, having accomplished some excellent marching. The bridge across tfceShcaandoah at Cnstlement-s Ferry broke again on thpl? return r and a negro woman and tour ruuilßß were drowned. A mov storm is pre\ ailing bore. j the BSBEL STRAUB HBSB2HAC. ADVAHCE OVEB BTONEY BRIDGE. Washington, April 7,1862. Presentation to the President. The Tax Bill No Passes to North Carolina, Presentation. Confirmation. Bill Relating to Furloughs. More Iron-Clad Gunboats. Issuing Treasury Notes. Destructive Fire in Washington. Mr. Forrest. New York Papers at Richmond. miscellaneous. ADVANCE OVER BTONET BRIDGE. THE LATEST WAR INTELLIGENCE. THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN. The Enemy’s Works Examined by Gen. McClellan. THEY AHE FOtXl) VERY STRONG. AND THE APPROACHES DIFFICULT. THE REBEL FORCE 30,000. Washington, March 7—Midnight.—The following is a summary of the intelligence received by the War De partment up to 10 o’clock this (Monday) morning rela tive to the operations at Torktown and Fortress Monroe yesteiday. The enemy’s works were carefully examined by Geir. McClellan, and w?rf found to be very strong and the approaches difficult. The enemy were in force, and the water batteries at York and Gloucester said to be much increased. There was sharp firing on the right, bat no harm was flono. Onr forces were receiving supplies from Shipping Point, repairing the roads, and getting up large trains. It seemed plain that mortars and siege trains must be used before assaulting the enemy’s works. AdMlh-1 1 despatch, received at 10.50 A. M., states that Yorktown will fall, but not without a siege of taro or three (lays. Some of the outer works wore tAken. A despatch from General Wool states that Magxuder had 30,000 men at Yorktown. Another despatch to tho Secretary of War s'atea that a new rebel camp was discovered on the beach at the Bip Baps, and was shelled out by Col. Holliday. Several regiments of the enemy’s infantry were 3C9Q from tho Kip Baps dnringthe day. There were no signs of tbe Merrimac. A rebel tug was seen making a rcconnoisaance off Bewail’* Point on tbo afternoon of Sunday. On tbo afternoon cf Sunday Shipping Point Lad b«en taken. Onr gunboats bad shelled out the water-batteries. There was considerable delay caused in crossing Deep Creek at Warwick Court-House, aud resistauco was mode by the rebels, during which several casualties occurred on our tide. All the fortified places of importance before Yorktown bad been taken at every point. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed among the troops. Despatch to the Secretary of War. A fuller detail of the operations of the army is given in the following despatch: Before Toretowk—Saturday Evening. To Horn Epivix m. Staxtox, Secretary of Was • That portion of the Army of tho Potomae recently concentrated at Old Point, advanced, yesterday morn ing, in the direction of Yorktown. twenty-four miles distant. Tbe right was assigned to General Morrill’s brigade of General Forter’s division, two companies of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, and a portion of Berdan’s Sharp shooters acting as skirmishers. Nothing of interest took place until thoir arrival at Pig Bethel, twelve miles dlsliut, whore they met the outer pickets of the rebels. The troops were delayed there for two hours in recon structing a bridge, which bad been destroyed. Tlie rebels retreated before the advaucc of our skir mishers to Howard’s creek, where they had some abandoned earthworks. Four shots were fired here by the rebels from two field pieces, which were soon silenced by the Fourth Rhode Island Battery, when the rebels beat a hasty retreat, tftlviDg their pieces with them. The main body of tlie army here rested for the night, while General Morrill’s brigade advanced three miles to Cockeville and six miles from Yorktown, and there en camped* By seven o’clock this (Saturday) morning, the column was again in motion, aud at ten o’clock was in front of the eneny’s works at Yorktown. Tbe first shot fired was by the rebels, the shell passing over the heads of General Porter and staff without ex ploding. The batteries ol Griffin, the Third and Fourth Bhode Island, and the Fifth Massachusetts, were now placed in position, replying to every shot sent by the rebels. The cannonading continued, with but slight intermis sion, until dark. THE WAR ON THE MISSISSIPPI. A SUCCESSFUL MOVEMENT. GENERAL POPE CROSSES TO THE TENNESSEE SHORE. Store Cunboats Run the Gauntlet. ‘Washington, April 7.—The Secretary ot War re ceived a despatch from New Madrid to-day, which States that General Pope had jiut landed on the Tennessee shore. The whole movement had been a grand success. The General had recoived a ferry boat by the new route through tho swamps. Another gunboat had run the rebel gauntlet, and was at Gen. Pope’s disposal. From Weßtem Virginia. New York, April 7.—A despatch, dated Wheeling, to-day, says: A despatch, just received, says that the rebels are re treating before the forces of General Milroy, who has advanced from Cheat Mountain, and now holds Camp Alleghany, lately evacuated by the rebels. The latter have also fallen back from Monterey and Buntersville, and seem to be aiming for Staunton, where they will have a means of escape by railroad. From St. .Louis. St. Louis, April 7.—Tlie United States District Court was opened to-day, and the oath of allegiance was ad ministered to the judges, clerks, attorneys, and jury men. Several treason cases will probably 99199 toftro the court during the present term. Later from Havana and Mexico. Nkw York, April 7.—The steamer Roanoke, from Ha vana on the 2d iuat., arrived at this port tonight, Judge Marvin had arrived at Havana. Several small schooners bad run the blockade and ar rived at Havana with cotton. A rebel schooner, loaded with cottOD, arrived at Car denas on the 33d nit., from Apalachicola. Y*ra Cruz dates to the 23d of March had reached Ha vana. Food bad advanced 40 per cent, in that city. Tbe Spanish troops occupied Cordova, Orizaba, and Tehuan. President Juarez had imposed a forced loan on six Spanish commercial houses of $500,000 for the Treasury. The Allies had protested against this proceeding, in an ultimatum requiring the nullification of tbe loan, a ne gative answer to bo considered as a casus belli. It yob rumored that a civil war fcftd broken out in Mexico, and that Marquez had 1,800 troops at Cuerna vaca. Several of the conspirators had been banished from tho city of Masiaa. The rebel ion in Venezuela had been suppressed, and tbe rebtl chiefs captured and hilled. A fire at Mayaguez, 1\ B-, destroyed $200,000 worth, of property, aud several lives. The Spanish mail steamer from Cadiz was totally lost on February 25 on the Island of Gomera. Thtr© were eight hundred souls on bo»*d, but only one life was lost* A French steamer had returned from Matauoros with her cargo, which she would not discharge—there being not over two hundred bales of cotton there which was held at fifteen cents per pound. A British and a French war steamer had arrived in tbe Bio Grande river, the navigation ot wUak Uto be kept open at all hazards The rebel Minister Pickett had arrived at Brownsville, Texas, «n route for Mexico. The lee Blockade at St, Mil’s, N. F, St. John’s, N. F., April 7.—The coast is still com pletely jammed with ice. Many foreign vessels are close by, but find it impossible to get in, and it is understood that the crews on eomo of these are in a starving condi tion . Ab*ut flftaaa sailing vassals ava knowa to h&vs boea crushed by the ice. The screw steamer for Scotland has not yet been able to sail, owing to tbe blockade of the harbor. New York Bank Statement. Nkw York, April 7.— The bank statement for the wrek ending on Saturday shows: A decrease of loans $514,146 An increase of specie 22,580 An increase of circulation 941,328 A decrease of deposits 348,446 The Connecticut Election. RK*ELECTION OF COVBKSOH BUCKINOUAU. Hartford, Conn., April 7.—At the State election held to.day, Governor Buckingham was re-elected by a large ly increased ©ftjority over that received by him last year, which wsb 2,086 votes. Nbw Haven, April 7. —The eloction in this State to day was overwhelmingly Union- Republican. T wo-thirds of tbe Legislature are of that party, and the whole State ticket was elected by 5,000 majority. Markets by Telegraph. Cincinnati, April 7.—Flour is in moderate demand at $4.20q4 25. Whisky is in good demand at 17c. Mess Pork in good demand at $10.25, but held at $10.50, Bulk Meats are lower. Lard firm but quiet at 7&7%c. Exchange on jfew York gteady quoted ftt A pre mium. Public Amusements. The reception of Miss Charlotte Thompson* at the Thffltffi lftfrt maiog, wm »9t lew hearty and overflowing than her performance of Camille was trutbtul, earnest, and vigorous. She excelled in the finer passages and simpler opisodes of the drama. While she seemed a triflo weaker than of yore, in the more passionate and stirring partSf she atoned in a hundred lighter and softer touches that demonstrated the true artiste, and revealed a rare nicety of feeling and expression. The lari act was a thrilling impersonation. The gay grisette, wasted, wan, and poor, crawling tremulously to her miiror, to shudder at the ravages made upon her face by time, was in striking contrast to the Camille of other days, whom Belt- sacrifice had not defaced nor pride murdered Tho dying-scone was an alternation of tendernesses and terrors, and the death of the heroine was a picture beautiful ia its very ghastli ness. Tho interest of the piece was enhanced by the youth and beauty of the actress, who dressed tastefully and richly. She will repeat “Cami'le” to-night. We hope to see her, during the week, in some lighter imper sonations of the old comedies, as in Miss Iforricoiut) of ** Wires as They Were and Maids as They Are.*’ Enwix Foskest, the great tragedian, is playing a most successful engagement in Washington. Mr. McArdie ia with him ss his business manager, and by his tact, ex perience, and ability adds greatly to Mr. Forrest’s sue eras, Mr. McArdie is well known throughout tho country in connection with theatrical matters, and has made hosts of friends during his present tour. Si. Denis Hotbi. —«h Saturday last, this ??• tabliebiu.nt, lata Jones' Hotel, was opened by that well-brown and highly-popular gentleman, Jerry McKibbin. His bar—presided over by Mr. J. C. Catlin, (nephew of the great Indian traveller and artist,)—is well supplied with courteous attend ance and the best of liquors, and the cigar depart ment is in the hands of Mr. W. W. Shaw, who is determined to have no inferior article. .In a few Tyepks, Mr. MpKibbin will have his restaurant, on the European plan, and with reasonable prioea, in full play. Fire.—Yesterday afternoon an alarm of fire was caused at Manaj unk by tlio burning of the drying rooms Attached to the “ Blantyre Mills of A. Campbell A Co. The fire originated accidentally, and destroyed the building in which it ocenrred. The loss on the building is #BOO, and on the ttock of wool and cotton $4OO. both fully ir.auredj In city and foreign companies. Bevernl of the steam fire engines were sent to the spot from the city, but arrived after the firs had been extin* gutahed. IHVHTH GQKKBMIUT SESSION. THE CONFISCATION BILL. SPEECH OP BERATOB TBUMBTJLL IN ITS FAVOR. GRADUAL EMANCIPATION IN THE BORDER STATES. ITS FEJVSinir.ITV AM) KXPEDIENI'V to BE inquired INTO, HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO THE TAX BILL. Wi-SHtatTON, April:, iSSd. SENATE. Petitions Presented Ur. SUMMER (Rep ), of Massachusetts, presented a petition in favor of emancipation. Ur. WILLEY (Union)? of Virginia, presented a peti tion orthe cltizexirt of Virginia against the proposed tax on leaf tobacco. Iron-Clad Gunboats. Ur. WILSON (Rod), of Maggaehnnetts. from the SlHitary Committee, reported a bill authorizing the Pre hident to transfer the appropriation made for forti/lca tious to building iron-clad gunboats. The Confiscation Bill, The confiscation bill was taken up. Mr. TRUMBULL (Bep.), of Illinois, spoke in favor of its passage. . Ur. Trumbull said that, having made a brief explana tion of the main features of the bill under consideration) and the principles on which it was hawed, at the time it was reported to the Senate, It was not his intention to have said anything more upon it, at all events till the cloeo of the debate * but the fierceness with which It has been assailed, and the misrepresentations to which it has been subjected, unintentional of course, make it noces sary that he should reply to some of the juncture* upon it. Assuming that it was a sweeping measure for tbe cbbfipcailou of all the property In the Southern States, the bill has been denounced as unconstitutional and in expedient, with a vehemence and virulence not to have been expected, and surely but illy calculated to promote that calm, deliberate, and candid consideration, which thf Emitted importance of the subjtct should command. He quoted from the remarks of Messrs McDougall, Cowan, and Browniug, uud said, how grossly these Senators have misconceived the character of tbo bill, will be apparent on a glance at its provisions. So far from striking at all the property of each and every citizen iti tbf) fiecfflpfl Mates? it would not probably reach the property of one in of the rebels, anil iri no case would touch the property of a loyal citizen. In the first place, the bill is prospective in itß operation, and confis cate s the property ol no one for anything doue before its passage. It wnnld be in the power of every rebel in tbe lafid to bis properly f om confiscation by cruumg to war against the Government from the time of its passage. Secondly, it ouly applies to the property of such rebels as are beyond the reach of judicial pro cess. Wherever the person of the rebel can be reached, and made subject to the punishment his crimes de- RfrvPi the bill does not prapose to touch his property. In all the loyal States, including Missouri, Kentucky, and a large part of Tennessee and Virginia, the only person * whose property could be touched l»y the bill would lie those who abandoned it. and fled to other States to fight against, the Union. The bill under consideration is in no sense a bill of Ittflinder. It dfifefc ftftt propose to attaint auy one, or to a fleet any one’s person or blood. It does not name any ono on whom it is to operate, but simply provides for the forfeiture of toe property of persons guilty of certain offences, who themselves are beyond the rotten of courts, and cannot be brought to trial j the forfeiture to be eg fofeed iti the loyal Slabs through the courts, by pro ceedings in rem, and in the disloyal States, la which the courts are overborne, to be euforced, from the necessity of the case, through the military powor. Such a bill has none ot the characteristics of an attainder, which may be defined to be “ that extinction of ciril rights and capacit tits which takes place whenever a person who has com mitted treason or felony receives sentence of death for his crimes.” Bills of attainder are, moreover, directed against some pa? ticular person or persons by name, who are thereby attainted lor Home crime already committed. This bill pro Tides for tbo forfeiture of ea'ates in certain caßes as a punishment for crime hereafter to be commit ted, when the person of tne individual committing tbe ofience cannot be reached It does not attaint or con vict any ono of having committed a crime, nor o! itself confiscate the property of any’ one, and is no more like a bill of attainder than is an act imposing a flag a piu.i.-hiuput for ussault and battery, or forfeiture of goods ub a penalty for smuggling. The bill does not propose to touch the property of any one whose life has been taken, or who cau be brought to trial for his crimes, and it is. therefore, not obnoxious to the objection pointed out by Story. Another ground of objection is tbe allegation that it ia an encroachment on tbe prerogative of the President, who, it is alleged, as commauder-lu-cblof of the army and navy, already possesses tbe power of confiscation; that the extraordinary powers which the Government may wield in time of war, called war powers, belong to the President, and not to Congress, lie endeavored to show that such claims of prerogative, on the part of the. Preside in, are unwarranted by the Constitution, against the practice of the Government from its foundation. Another objection urged to the bill is, that it confiscates the property of ail absent rebels, including those who have been unwillingly forced into ihe Confederate service, ftt W(tlL Aft tfa&ifi Wh& k&Vt voiiixiiaHly entered It. A mo ment’s reflection must satisfy all that this objection is without force, for uo court or commission would ever en force a penalty Against a person who hod been compelled by force to commit the act of forfeiture. The principle of law ib too well settled to require discussion) that no man can be held responsible for acts which lie had not the power to prevent; nor is any saving danse necessary in the bill to protect the property of those forced into the reballion from forfeiture, any more than there is for such a clause to protect a man found among a band of robbers aid pirates, when he was able to show fig h%d boon forced to join them. But if the bill were obnoxious to this objection, which, in my opinion, it is tot, it would be easy to obviate the difficulty by limiting its operation to the property of such absent persons as shalt join the re bellion without restraint. Bur- it ib said tbe passage of this bill, admitting its con* gtitution&litp. would be inexpedient* that it would Bake the rebels desperate, and unite the South as one man against the Union How ao l he asked. It does not propose to touch the property of any loyal citizen, and •why* therefore, should it drive him against the Union > Are there no loyal persons in the South, or is thoir love lor the traitors? who hare driven them from their homes and robbed them of their property, so strong that, Tather than tako rebel property to help to deiray ex penses of maintaining the Government Against the re bellion, they would themselves turn traitors 1 Purely this would exhibit a weakness and compassion for enemies, and a malignity And hatred of friends, such as the world never before witnessed. Besides, not to confiscate the property of rebels is to encourage future rebellious. Wherever the rebels bear sway they have not hesitated to confiscate the property'of loyal citizens; and if now, as the authority of the Union is restored, tbs P&PS6&S Wild li&Ve robbed loyal citizens are to be pro tected in their property, whatis it but saying to the people of the country that, whenever a future insurrection arises, the sure way to protect their property will be to join in it; and what is this bHt to offer a premium for treason i To show the effects or this in individual cases, he QUOUd from a letter FOOSiWd within a few days from a gentleman in blew York, who says: « I hold a mortgage for $35,000 on a plantation sold by me in Mississippi. This plantation is not far from one belonging to Jeff Davis. My mortgage is confis cated ; myself and family are heavily embarrassed by en gagements predicated upon this mortgage. We are inuo« cent parties; Jeff Davis is guilty; and why should he be allowed to escape unharmed, after eutailing bankruptcy upon loyal individuals and desolation through a whole section I” Thin is but one case of which there arc hundreds of tboußaods all through the Sonth* But few of those eii* gaged in this rebellion will ever be made to suffer in thtir persons; and if they are to be left in ihe full pos session and enjoyment of their cotton, their lands, and their negroes, the innocent will have been made to suffer while the guilty will go unpunished. The enhanced price which the rebels will get for their sugar and cotton? at the clobo or the war, will contribute largely toward making up the losses they have incurred by tbeir rebel lion : while loyal farmers, manufacHirers, merchants, and,*indeed, all classes of loyal citizens, both North and South, will be impoverished to the f strut sf 5»1|C00,Q00,- 000. Tens of thousands of lives will be sacrificed » kun |r?do of thousands of men will be crippled for life; hun. drods of thott&Atids of others will be left oi phans on the bounty of the nation; while tho authors of all this misery will escape almost entirely unhurt, unless their property is made to pay the penalty. Is this just 1 He wag surprised that a bill of this character should meet with opposition from Senators of the Border States, whose loyal citizens tbe rebels, whenever they have had the power, have robbed, plundered, and driven from their home*. Do gentlemen regard it as conciliatory to oblige us to lay taxes upon those whose liabitatiousfhave been consumed, to reward those who have burned tuem ! upon thorn whose whole property has been stolen? to re* ward the thievet! upon those whose relatives have been slain, to compensate the murderers ! In bis judgment, justice, humanity, and mercy herself, all demand that we at once provide that the supporters oi this cruel and wicked rebellion should henceforth be made to feel its burdens. _ _ After arguing the subject at length, Mr. Trumbull con cluded by saying—l would to God that every rebel in the laud would to-morrow ground the weapons of his rebel lion, return to his allegiance, and to obedience to the laws and Constitution. In that event, this bill, if passed into a law, would have no effect either Upon his property or bis slaves; but if he will continue in rebellion against the Govezxment, to plunder and mnrder loyal citizens, I have never pledged myself as a Republican not to mete out to him the punishment his crime deserves. If this rebellion should result iu freeing the slaves of rebels, it will not bo the flpst tim? in the history of the werld that good has come out or evil i tilt |( will got bo tho act of Congress which makes them fred, »£/ Si5PO than it is the ait of Congress punishing the crime of larceny makes a man a thief. It has been said that Congress possesses no more power to pass this bill now than in a time of peace, I assent to the proposition, and insist that it would have been per fectly competent for Congress to have passed such a bill at any time. Like all criminal laws, it would remain in operative upon the Btatuto book till the offence was com mitted for Which it p ovidod the penalty, when it would come into play for the purpose of punishing offenders. It so happens, in the providence of God, that of those who own slaves are now in arms against tho Go vernment. This gives to the Government the power to destroy them, and all they possess, if necessary to sup press the rebellion; and Congress is vested by the Con stitution with the discretion of determining what means shall be used to the ohject \ Tltft only 00) but it is made the duty ol Congress to provide for suppressing the insurrection. In making this provision, ib it not wise that Congress should so act that If men will light and war against the Government, tboy shall not do so without the loss of that species of property which has been tbe impelling power to drive them into rebellion, and Iher&b? t&ke &VvSy kny motive for repeating the ex periment when this rebellion shall have been suppressed I Such an opportunity to strike a blow for freedom seldom occnrs as that now presented to the American Congress. As moßt of the owners of slaves are engaged in the re bellion, and will probably continue so for some time, the effect would be, if tols bit! were speedily enacted into a law, that they would by their own act give freedom to most of the slaves in the country, anl thus would be solved, in a great measure, through the agency of this wicked rebellion, the great question. What is to be done with African slavery !—a subject in view of which Jef ferson, in his dap, exclaimed that 11 he trembled when lie remembered that God was just.” I appeal to Senators as philanthropists, as patriots, as lovers of the Union, and of constitutional liberty, not to let pass this opportunity, which a wicked rebellion presents, of making it the means of giving freedom ,to millions of the human race, and thereby destroying to a great extent the souyc? fige] origin of tho rebellion, and tbe only thing which has ever seriously threatened the peace of the Uuion. Having, at I think, shown that the right to confiscate enemy property exists; that for this purpose the rebels may properly be treaud as enemies; that confiscation can bo effected only through an act of Congress; that the bill under coneidemtion is constitutional, aud that it is both wise and expedient to take from those who shall continue to fight against the Government, after the paeeago of this act, and whose persons are boyond the reach of puuisliment, their property and their slaves, so far as they are within cur reach, I appeal to all those who favor these views to Hand together, and lit us pass tho bill at as early a day as possible, with such modi fications and amendments as may be thought advisable, not losing Bight of (he gieat object in view It is uo time to talk of amnesties and conciliation when the habitations of loyal citizens are being plundered and their lives de strvyvd. whose hands are dripping with tbe Wood of loyal citizens, shall have grounded their arms, it will be time enough to talk of clemency; but to have our sympathies excited in their bohalf now, when fighting to overthrow the Government, ia cruelty to the loyal men who have rallied to its support. Mler £fr r Trumbull bad fiDWbttl, Mr. HARRIS (Bep.), or Hew Turk, laid he wished to offer a substitute, and make a few remarks. He moved to postpone the further consideration of tbe bill until to morrow. On motion of Mr. LANE (Rep.), of Kansas, the Senate went into executive session. On tbe reopening of tbe doors the Senate adjourned. HOURS OF REPRESENTATIVES. Gradual Emancipation. Mr. "WHITE (Rep.), of Indiana, offered a resolution providing for tha appointment of a committee of nino members of tbe House to Inquire and report, at as early a day as practicable, whether nny plan can be proposed and recommended for the gradual emancipation of all African slaves, and theextlnction of tlavery In the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, by the people and local authorities thereof, aud whether such an object is expedient and desirable; and that they further inquire and report whether the colonization of such emancipated slaves is necessarily a concomitant of their freedom, and how, and what provi sion should be made therefor. And that they also in quire li9w fpv find in vih»t way the Cn'rornuiont w ought to facilitate this object; and that they further us authorial, if in their judgment it be deemed expedient, jqulrles as to the 1 : thereon. vas passed—yea* tn% YE IS. to extend tbeir In? States, and report The resolution w Alley (Rep.) Arnold (Rep.) Ashley (Rep.) Babbitt (Rep.) Baker knxter (Rt*p.) Beaman (hep.) Bingham (Rep.) Blair (Rep.), Mo. Blake (Kep ) Un/fiiiten (8«.) Campbell (Rep.) Chamberlain (K ) Clark (Rep ) Colfax (Rep.) Conklii>g,Fred. A. Fessenden (Rep.) Oarley (Bep.) Uauchett (Bep.) jHickman (Rep.) H9?9SiHB (Rb»i) [Julian ( Fiep.) Kelley ( Rep.) Kellogg (B)Micb. Lansing (Rep.) Loomis (Hep.) IdOTfjny (Bep,) McKnight (Rep.) McPherson (Rep.) Moorhead (Bep.) Morrill (Rep.)Me. Morrill(Bep) Vt. Nixon (Bep.) dim (Bep ) Pike (Kep.) Pomeroy (Rep.) Potter (Rep.) j Rice (Rep.), Mass | Bice (Rep.), Me, NAY 6. [Grider (l'.) 1 Haight (Dam.) U&rdiug (U.) Harrison (Union) Borioo (Kep )- t Kerrigan(Dem.) Kirnpp (Bep.) :Law (Deni.) ! La/.ear (Don.) :Leary (union) Lehman (Dfm.J) | Mallory <(J.) Menzics (U.) Mitchell (Rep.) Noble (Dem.) Noell (Dem ), (Rt-p.y Davis (Hep.) Dawes (liep.) Duell (Rep.) Edgerton (Rep.) Eliot (Rep ) i'?n*pn (!kp) Allen (Dem.), Biddle (Dem.) Blair (U.). Va. Browne (U.).8 I. Brown (U ), V». Casey (Dem.) Calvert (XT.) Cobb (Dem.) Corning (Dem.) Cox (Dem.), Cravens (Dem.) Ciittoudun (U) Delano (Rep.) Delaplame (Dem.) Diven (Rep.) Dunlap (U.) Norton {Dem,} Nugen (Deui.), r (U.)» of Kentucky, netitutional and c the table ( but the naystfe. English (DBM.) Fisher (Union) Mr. MALLORY solution as uncoi moved to lay it on I greed to—yeas 52,: My. WIOKLIFI'E (t\), of Kentucky, requested that his name should be omitted in the organization of this committee, and that, as a matter of sound parliamentary practice, no member should be appointed thereon who voted for the resolution adopted in the early part of the session, wj)jph he read from the journal—namely: That neither tho Federal Government nor the people of any non-frlaveholdlng State, have th»- constitutional power to leghlate or interfere with slavery in any State of tho Union. Ha said that those persons in the North who do not subscribe to the above proposition are too insignifi- SBht In munhirto excite alarm in any portion of the R<u public, and that the increase of Buch number docs not keep pace with the aggregate population of the Union He hoped that those wlio voted for these resolutions of non-interference would decline serving on this select com mittee. [Laughter ] Mr. LoyuJOY (lie]' ), of lllfn?]0> hflpcl the gentle, man would Le permitted to read these resolutions overy day. Mr. WICKLIFFE. I have done no harm. The gen tleman voted for the non-interference resolutions. Agriculture. and the Tax Bill* Mr. VO(>RHS£§ (Dem.), of Indiana, offered, a pream ble setting forth that the tariff hill, passed during the extra session, is unjust and oppressive to the agricultu re! portion of the community, and concluding with a re solution that the Committee of Ways and Means be in structed to report a bill, at as early a day as practicable, repealing the said law and substituting therefor a system founded on the principle of yielding an adequate amount of revenue, and not on that of protecting the manufac turing interests of the country. Mr. STEVENS (Bep.) moved to lay the resolution on the table. Carried—yeas 88, nays 35. The Tax Bill. The House then proceeded to definitely act on the amendments to the tax bill heretofore reported from tho Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. Amendments Concurred lu. The following &.?6 nmbbg the amendments concnrred In by the Hous.: A Lien Constituted* The duties and taxes to be assessed in pursuance of this. act|ehall be a lien upon the property subject to the duty or tax from the time of assessment till fully paid. Nebraska’s Portion. The sum of over $10,050, appropriated heretofore for the legiulative expenses of Nebraska for the year ending June, 18C3. is to be applied as that Territory’s portion of the taxes. Tennessee* Tennessee is to hAve till the Ist of December to aseumo her portion of the tax. Distillers of Apples and Peaches* Distillers of appleß and peaches may take out a license for that business for the space of tlireo months, on the payment ot $12.55. * Property Exempt* There shall be exempt from restraint the tools or im plements of a trade or profession, one cow, anus, house hold furniture and provisions kept for use, and apparel necessary for a family. Wholesale Liquor Dealers* The license of wholesale liquor dealers to bo increased from $5O to 5100. Jewelry Pedlers* Any person who peddles jewelry shall pay $25 for each Photographers* Photographers, $lO for each license when their re ceipts do not exceed $500: when over $5OO and under $J,OO0? $l5; when orersl,ooo, $25. P&teni and Claim Agent*. Agents for procuring patents and claim agents shall pay $lO license. Showmen. Proprietors or agents of all exhibitions or shows, not enumirated, shall pay $lO. Contracts—Coal* Taxes on all articles manufactured and sohl in pursu ance of contracts bonajide made before the 30th of March, 1862, shall be paid by the purchaser thereof. On An thracite coal, a tax of 15 cents per ton, and on bitu minous fiC&l, Mife-eiglilh ol i* cent per bijahel. Tin's amendment was agreed to by a vote of 86 yeas to 39 nays. The proviso thereto, that this tax on coal Bhall not take effect till the expiration of the reciprocity treaty with Great Britain, w&b rejected—yeas 41, naya 86. Spirits, The House also concurred in the following amend ments : On spirits, rectified and mixed with other liquor, or prepared in any way to be sold as whisky, 16 cools per gallon; to be sold as brandy, rum, gin, wine, or by any other name not otherwise provided, 30 cents per gal lon on the basis of tbe first p'roof, and so in proportion foi any greater strength than first proof. On railroad iron and other iron, according to the state of manufacture, a tax of $1 to $2 per ton, and on steel fiom $4 to $lO pop ton. Distilled Liquors* The House non-concmred in the amendment that all distilled liquors now manufactured or that may be manu factured before the first of May next in the United States, shall pay the same per gobon when §old PF9Yid?4 by this net upon distilled spirits manufactured from and after that date. The amendment imposing a tax of 1 cent per pound on cotton on and after the Ist of May next, but exempting oil cotton owned and bold by anr manufacturer of cotton fabrics on and prior to that date, was concurred in—yeas 75, nays 53. Many other amendments were acted upon, and gene rally concurred in. The further consideration of the bill was then post poned till tomorrow* the Home having reached tha 74th section. Mr, BOSCOE CONKLING (Bep.), of New York, from the Committee on the Judiciary,reported a bill establish ing a uniform banking law. . Pending a motion to make this bill a special order, the House adjourned. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. Ha&risbdbq, April 7,1862. SENATE. The Senate was called to order at three o’clock. Petitions. Mr. CONNELL presented a remonstrance against the act authorising the running of tho cars upon the passen ger railways on Sunday. Mr. CL YMER presented a petition in favor of the pas sage of the act to prevent negroes from coming into the State. Reports of Committees. The following bills were reported with a negative re cohiiii&d&tioh ! An act to repeal an act for the commutation of the tonnage tax. An act for the protection of creditors of banks against fraud. A resolution relative to the Bank of Commerce was re ported favorably- Bills Introduced The following bills were introduced : A bupplement to the act to incorporate the Oso Mining Company. An act for the relief of the stockholders of the Fair* mount Passenger Railway Company. The Arch-street Supplement, Mr. BOUND, of Northumberland county, moved to reconsider the supplement to the act to incorporate the Arch-street and Fairmount Passenger Railway Com pauy, which was passed unanimously on Thursday last. The motion was agreed to. The hi)) was then uc, and voted down by the Wtontr)' hUfctierj. "iU tt,® f P m tlw Cit ? in favor of the supplement. ~ The act in reference to the Second and Third-streets PafWDger Railway Company, recently passed, provides that the corporate rights of the Arch-street company to run their cars over the former road should not be inter-, fered with. The Committee on Federal Relations submitted a re port in reference to tho defences of the Delaware river. The Sen#!? then adjourned unfit STSSiBSi EVENING SESSION. Tho Senate was again called to order at seven o’clock. A supplement to the act incorporating the Pennsyl vania Bible Society was passed. Also, an act relative to the election of members of City Councils from the rural wards of Philadelphia. The report of the Committee on Federal Relations, re ferred to in the afternoon session, was read. It states that it is not necessary for the State of Pennsylvania to take any measures for tho defence of tho Delaware river, asthe Federal Government is providing iron-clad vessels, which will be sufficient for harbor defences. The Sonata then Adjourned. HOUSE, The House met at 10 o’clock. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Moore, of Harrisburg. Bilb Introduced. Mr. CESSNA, a bill to provide for tbA#djudication and payment of certain military claims. Made the special order for this afternoon. Mr. JOSEPHS, a bill for the relief of the stockholders end creditors of the Fairmouut Passenger Railway. Taken up and passed finally, Mr. KLIME, a bill to ropeal part of an act for the government of the Montgomery County Prison.' Mr. TRACT, a bill for the reduction of salaries. Mr. SHANNON, abill relating to records remaining in the Supreme Court. Taken up and defeated.. Mr. SMITH, of Philadelphia, a bill relative to foreign insurance agencies. Bills Considered, Ac. The supplement to the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company came up, in order, on third reading. Du metion of Mr. WILDEY, an amendment was adopted which provides that before the company shall uu ary street tha eausaiit af OdunsiU shall first bs ob tained, and such consent shall be deemod given if tha Ct uncila shall not, within sixty days after notice'given by said company of the route selected, signify by ordinance their disapproval thereof. Mr. DONNELLY moved further to amend by pro viding that the compwu shall pay all damages to private property, occasioned by diminished value thereof, the amount of such damage to be assessed oy tho assessors of the wards through which tho road passes Mr. VINCENT proposed to amend the amendment by providing that the damagos shall be assessed under the generitl rnilrond law. wfelffi ' v “ a acce P i tell ' The nmenctouwt wan then negatived—yeas Co, nays 3a. The bill passed fiually—yeas 38, nays 32. The bill to incorporate the Wfcsuhickon, Roxboro 1 , aud Pl> mouth Railroad Company passed finally. The supplement to the Lackawanna and Laueaboro’ paeM finally. The joint resolution relative to tbe payment of the ba lance, if auy, of tbe State’s quota of direct tax, passed fiually. The bill to reduce the width of Fifth street, north of York. Philadelphia, pbssed fiually. Tho bill to vacate Culvert street, in the Twenty-third waul, passed finally. The supplement to the Columbia Coal and Iron Com pany wftß taken up in order, aud was under considera tion when the House adjourned. afternoon session. The House reasßeiubted At threo o'clock, Bills Pasted, The following bills were passed: An art for the adjudication of certain military claim?. An act authorizing railroad companies to relocate their tracks A supplement to the license law. The stay law was then taken up, and discussed up to the hour of adjournment. Coroner’s Case.—The coroner held ftn iuwst Kstfrt#)' ?® ft!? b ? d f ?! ft P*UP?r irfi? fill from a window at tbe almshouse, and was instantly killed. FIVE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. other riavebolding RMdie (Rep.) Boltins ( B.)» N.H. SsrgetiD t ( Rep.) Shanks (Bep.) Sboffinld (V.) Shell.bsrgßr (B.) Sherman (Rep.) Sloan (Bep.) Stereos (Rep.) Stratton (Rep.) Train (Rep.) Vanhorn (Rep.) Van Valkeuburgh Pobti.axd, April 7.—The stemmMp //t&«mian, from Liverpool on the 27th ult., via Londonderry on F r % r (be 28tb, arriygg el this port At IlOlf ffHt tbreo o’dMflfc this afternoon, with five daw* later advices than famished by the steamer Niagara, inefadhiff the weekly report of the markets. The royal mail steamer Arabia arrived at Liverpool on the 24th < The steamship City of New York arrived out on tho 27th, aert the Bteamer Horussia on the same day, Tho steamer Etna sailed for New York on the 20tb. (Rep.) Verree (Bep.) WAllace (Rep.) W&lwn (It,), He. ■W'»Uon(Bep,),Yt. Waahburoe(Rep) Wheeler (Rep) White (R.), lad, Wilson (Rep.) Windsm (Rep.) The United States gunboat Tuscarora and tfao p4rato Jftmjpter were still at Gibraltar. Tie English journals eritioiso the commencement of the campaign in Virginia, The London Daily News eulogizes Gen. HcClolitafa tactics, and is of the opinion that the crisis I# approach* lng« and, although the Confederates are retreating, they have |*4-t>UH<] a fl-MTor a great battle. The tame journal rejoices at the adoption, by tho Hou«oof Representatives, of President Lincoln’s em*B~ ripation project, considering it as an immediate step Inr favor of thn cause of lmman rights. Odel! (Dem.), Pondletjo (Dem.) Derry (Dem.) Phelps (R.) t Oal* i*rlco 7?!" Loßd “ n Tl ? e * 'An i‘» Mi*f tbit HD prMti. cat use can bo made of Mr. Lincoln's proposition itself, but regards K as important in admitting thn principle of an Accommodation between the North and the South* The Times believes that the real defence of the Con federates will he found in the vastness and desolation of their country, Mid urgiie* ttrnf jf tb,jr are really in earneat, the North must look for bvOtiCSS TiCtOflCf BOA exhausting conqnestn Richardson (D.) Sbiel (Rep.) Smith (Dem ) Steele (D.) t K.T. Steele (DA N J. Vail -tndigham ( i>.) Voorneos (Dem-) Wadsworth (U.) Ward (Dem.) \Wl*ster'(L'.) Whj|9 (P,) r Qfofo Wickliffo (U.) The London Herald thinks that a peace may possibly he conquered by one side or the other iu or around Richmond. T ho I.ondvn Times ) m I letter rioin Biumlli datad Washington, March 11, which says: The passage of the Federal Army over tho Long Bridge was a magnifi cent spectacle and most imposing display of military power.” Bushcll also says: »■ Whatever may happen to McClellan, he can newer lose the credit of having formed disorderly masses of men into »n afnfv t Rprl pf having hibtiiled into them the principles of soldier life and dis cipline.” , regarding tho re ibsurd, previo Italy motion was diaa-» Lord Palmerston-Is confmed to hhi room by an attack of the gout. tioorge Peabody's unprecedented mirniftcence has boon formally consummated in the oorruiiiondaneo now pub jhhtd in tho English journals, in wbieh he places £160,- 000 at >ht* disposal of Mr. Adams, the American Minister, Lord Stanley, ©ir Emerson Tenant, and Messrs. ttampSOW and Morgan, as trustees, for the purpose of ameliorating the condition of the poor of London. The King of the Belgians is reported to U.IH, sad t& a critical condition. The rumors of ministerial clmnges in France are au thoritatively contradicted. The Paris Bourse is Arm, Rentes are quoted at 7Qf. ITALY. There are minors of ministerial nvxUßcatltms atTn rin, aud various changes are reported, but none of then have received confirmation. A ministerial circular has been- issued maintaining the lights of Italy to rtcopoitlon q» a |> sm sorting that Rome should be tho centre of tha Government, aud af firming that a Solution of the Venetian question, ac cording to the wishes of Italy, is necessary for tlx* gene ral peace. A grand banquet was given to Garibaldi at Milan, on which occasion tho hero aud some of his companions made patriotic speeches, indicative af abppftuhißg &&?*- ments iu favor of the causo of Italy. Garibaldi left Milan on the 27th, amid the cheers of the people, fits tour through Lombardy is for tho purpose of stirring up the young men to join his-volunteer corps. Demonstrations are becoming quHe frequent in Yene tia. and numerous arrests are y&p&Pttd at AUntnk aud Venice. The Austrian Government ha* taken another step favorable to the freedom of the prttas,. Jndfmcnl has licen gtsim In tl*9 PTBSMlltloll f»T oiicDCbH againat the Amtrmii. press laws. Tpe editor Of the Wanderer has been Beuienced to eight months* im prisonment, and the editor of The I‘resn to fourteen da>B. Piince Wlndeaibgrat/. and Count Nestelrodu are dead. The Spanish Government has ordered General Prim not to negotiate with the Mexicans till the allied troops have entered the city of Mexico The United States sloop-of-war Consultation, from Portsmouth, N. 11, had arrived at Cadiz. RUSSIA. An imperial decree orders several modifications in thv censorship oi printed matter in Russia. TURKEY* Six hundred of the Turkish troops have baau sur rounded by the insurgents at Crintz*, the insurgents boTiDg previously repulsed the troops which came to their rescue, It is asserted that the Greek insurrection is cot yet over, notwithstanding tho recent successes of the Govern ment troops. Foreign Commercial Intelligence. Liverpool, March 27.—Breadstuff-!—Flour has a downward tendency ; sales at 26®*29a. .Wheat dull aud 2d lower ; red Western Is quoted at 10s Odollsfid ; red Southern, 11s Sdmlls lOd ; white Western, 12*012s 3d ; white Southern, 12a 3d® 12s Od. Corn ia still decjigjgg * busied, 28* Gi©2Ba fid } yellow, 2?*3 j white, 340365, Fnovisio.vs.—Beef is steady. Dork steady. Bacon in active demand. Lard qaiet but steady. Tallow quiet at 445a45s fid Prooicb.—Ashes are quiet but steady at 32a Pd for «'! ?§»f9F Pssrlßr Sugar Inactiro, fiodbo dull; Rice quiet. Rosin firmer at 1030133 6d. Spirits of Tur pentine inactive at 70s, LONDON MARKETS.—FIour aud Wheat have each & downward tendency, and the prises are Is lower. Sugar 1b easier. Coffee fum. Tea (common Congou) quitt but steady. Rico dull. Tallow uuieti at '4Si ftdi Linseed Oil is still advancing LONDON MONEY MARKET—Consols are quite at 93f£a93?4 for money. AMERICAN SECURITIES—IIIinois Central 43j<« 43 cent discount: Erie Ballroad 33®33j4* THE LATENT, [By Telegraph to Londonderry.! Liverpool, Friday, March 28. —Cotton—The sales for the wetk amount to 23,£00 bales, the market being doth but with firm prices. The middling qualities are \'d higher. The Bales to speculators were 4,500 bales, and to exporters I,&W bales. The sales t»*day (Friday] art estimated at 4,000 bales, including 1,000 bales on speed* lation and for export, the market closing quiet but steady at the following quotations: Fair. Middling. New Orleans. 13# 12^ Mobile! wi::;ill. ii.ii.... 13 12j^ Uplands 12 % 12^ The stock of cotton in port amounts to 400,000 boles* of which 144,000 bales are American. Breadstuffa are very dull, and the quotations nominal. Mixed Corn continues to decline, and is now quoted at 2gs&2Bs3d. Frovitdotis are quiet but steady. London, March 28.—Consols are quoted at 93#. AMERICAN STOCKS.—lllinois Central 44043 & cent, discount; Erie Railroad JW# . The returns of the Bank of Vngland, far the week, show nil increase of JE2&1,000 in bullion. LETTER FROM NEW YORK. Tbe State Prisoners Commission—C*pt. Vl gutra—Death of Robert C: Goailhua. a Now York Merchant—U. 8. Circuit Court Capi tal Cases—Court of Oyer and Terminer—A Man-of-War'a Man's Entertainment— Deaths of the Woek In Nnv York—Market** Aon A*oi [Correspondence of The Press } Nj;vs* Yobk, April 7,1862. General Dlx, Edwards Piet repout, and E. D. Webefest, Tmn ilie commission appointed to examine into the cauEe of detention (f political prisoners, arrived la this city this morning. They held a consultation with the marshal, and will proceed to Fori Lafayette to-morrow, Captain Viguers, of your city, will be liberated very soon, u it is known that there. is no tvI&MH him vrliich could convict him of treason. Bobert C. Goodhue, an eminent merchant or this city, and until recently a member of the old and well-known firm of Goodhue A Co., of No. 63 South street, died yes* terday at his residence in this city, irj Jhp forty-fifth year of his age* Mr. Goodhue's retirem.nt from tbs firm took p:ace on the first ef J anuary last on account of ill health. His illness was of a pulmonary nature, and his decease was not unexpected. He became a member of the Chamber of Commerce on June 6, 1649, sines when, up to the time ot his retirement from business, he has been a prominent member of the Chamber, Thp flags are displayed at half mast to-day as a mark of re spect to his memory. The funeral services will take place on Wednesday The capital and other cases to be tried at the present term of the United States Circuit Court, before Judge gmaHey f are as follows a , Thomas Duffy, indicted for the murder of Alexander Smith on the high seas. Samuil 11. Haynes, Prat mate of the ITigMingale, slave trade. Bradley Window, second mate of the Xi'jhtingatei same offenco, Morgan Fredericks, first mate of the Cord, earn* 0f« fence. Wm. H. Byrnes, captain of the TV. R, Kirby y same offence. Albert How, for fitting out slaver City ttf Nor/oik. Jog, S. SABtoSi titling out BluTor Cora. Eraßtns H. Booth, fitting out alleged slaver Buckeye, Zachartah Beaver, transmitting forged applications for bounty land to Peagion Office pedxo Astooga, aeaafiU with a dangerous weapon. Jaß. B. Kinslow, stealing and destroying bonds at cus tom bouse. > The Terminer opens its term td* morrow before Judge Barnard. There are a number of muider cases awaiting trial, which will be disposed of before this court. The charge to the Grand Jury will be delivered to- day. A decidedly novel entertainment will be given at the Academy of Music, on Thursday night, in the shape of a “reception” to the (Ulcers and crews of the frigate* Cumberland and Congressi which were destroyed by the fight with the Merrimac. The crews lost everything they possessed in the world on that occasion, and a num ber of our public-spirited citizens have planned this re ception for them as a means of railing funds cuougn to refnmibh llit-Jr ll kj(a. n The affair will be well gotten up. The band of the navy yard will attend, together with a company of marines, and the entire surviving crews of both vessels. The bluejackets, In the course of tht evening, wilt appear on the Btage, sing some “ sea dog” songs, give cheers in man-o’-war style. Ac. Ihe deaths last week, ill this city* numbered 430, which is an fncroase of 411 upon the wook previous. The lending diseases were iliptberite 13; infantile convul sions, 46 ; inflammation of tho bowels, 14 \ scarlet fever, 09: inflammation of the lungs, 31; consumption, 69; dropsy in the head, 22; infantile maraunus, 14. Of the whole 112 ut-rs under au* y&nr af &p. Franklin J. Ottarson, an attache of the New Fork Tribune for 10 years, retired from his connection wicb that paper last Saturday. The following were the sal board to-day: 16060 U 9 Ob ’Bl Be*., 92ft 1000 U 8 An 1 yr certs 90% 45000 U 8 0s ‘Bl Cp.... 93 10000 Tenn 0s *90...,. 05 10000 do s3O 54% SCOO do 55% 6000Miuouri Gimi 30jf 5000 d 0,530 50% 5000 do 50% 5000 i10..,,....530 50% 10000 do 50% 5000 do b3O 63% 5000 do. b3O 51% 50b6 N Caro As, ».e9O 66 “ 2000 C B A Q R 85... 97% 1250 Tol A W 3d 48 53000 Am Gold 102% 30000 do b30.102# 20 Penn Coal C 0... 82 m w 10 do 99 50 d0..99V 50 N Y Oen b S 3 100 Erie R Pref 01V 100 d0......,M0 61V 100 Hill Blrorimii Silt 100 Mich 6en a.... 55^ 50 dO. HirniM 56 75 d0,..,.,.b16 56 100 MB*NIG..b3O 47 50 PantmaR.....,,12l 60 Gal * CM 66 Uhl & ft 6&* 50 do .blO 66 V 60 do b6O 66 V 60 Mil A P dnC,... 27 100 do 27 V 50 Ok B & Q B.M& 61 THE MARKETS. A>m:s.—Tbe market is unchanged; the demand fair? sales of Pots at £M2Jf * nod Pearls at 85.60. Flock asid Mkai The demand for Western and State Flour is finite moderate, especially for the low grades; these are heavy and inactive, but trade brands ana steady and us fair request. . ..... The Bolen are 6,606 bbls at 86.15tt6.1i2V for superHne State and Western; 55.25tt5 35 for extra State; S6.4ott 5.55 for fancy do; $5.25&5.&0 for the tow grads* of West ern extra; 56.76tt5.65 for shipping brands of round hoop < xtra Ohio, and 86.9506.60 for trade brands do. (liiuadian Flour is a shade easier, the detuaud* fair at the concession; sales of 1,600 bbls at $5.26tt6.50 for extras. Southern Flour is dull and heavy, especially the low grades; the better grades are steady; sake of 750 bbla at ss.4Utt6 for mixed to good superflue Baltimore, Sec* uud 8U.10A? for extras. Rye Flour is rather firm; the demand iafalr { solas 26T bbls at 83 10®4.25. Coin Meal Is steady: sales or 350 bbls at 82.80ttL.9G for Jersey, and $3.15 for Braudywine,anA2o pnneheons. at 85.25. , . , ~ _ ruovifuossi—The Turk markutis unchnugfitl; tha flt>« maud h less active; sales of 580 bbls at $13013.f0r mesa, $12&0»13 for Western prime mess, and $lO 26* 10 &U for prime. . , ' . » _ Beef is in fair request and is firm; aalos of 20G bbls at £l2# 13 for plain ntfja and $14014.50 Cor tS lfeef hams are firm: sale* of *5 l«bis at $17.26 foe Bacon is steady, and less active; sale* of 650 boxes at 6Vc for Western long'ribbed; 7®7,Vc for do abort ribbed 1 TUc fordo short clear; and 6c for City d>. active, Uut priw* ms without chains’, sairs of 000 bbio and Cv.t went, are more active. «a 4 »ra atoady. AT MBTtAIfS. GREAT BRITAIN. FRANCE AUSTRIA GREECE les of stocks at the second
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