Vje Vrtss. THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1862. THE LATEST WAR NEWS The event that will stand ontprominently in the ',Way of the rebellion is the septum or New Or leans, for it is an unmistakable premonition that the course of the rebellion is nearly run. The pro bability, at present, seems to be that we shall only have one or two more great battles; and that these, if successful, will bring about a cessation of hostilities, and a return of the revolted States to their allegiance The rebel juurnats admit that the capture ot the Southern metropolis is the most severe reverse which they have yet sustained. Extracts frtan their columns appear in another pert of our paper. Although the news commu nicated is meagre, it sufficiently establishes that the forts on Lake Ponekartrain have been aban doned, and the rebel gunboats on the lake burned. These were the principal reliance of the city for defence, as it was expected that the chief at tack was to be made from above, and not from our gulf expedition, It further appears that Forts Jackson and Philip, the lower defences, bad not been reduced at latest accounts, but were still oc cupied by the rebels, whose speedy surrender was almost inevitable. That the city has been occupied by our troops is not yet fully ascertained. The Richmond Dicpatrh states that the demand for its .surrendte bad been made by Com. Earragut. The rebel General Lovell had returned a refusal, and withdrawn his troops to safer quarters. Several days must elapse before the official despatches of the taking of the city can reach - Washington, and the public must be patient meanwhile. When the battle of New Orleans was fought, January Bth, 1815, the news did not reach us until the 11th of Ftbruary,—and even this was deemed speed quite remarkable in those days. The intelligence was thirty-two hours in reaching Boston from Now York. The Cato:Wan Centina of February 6th said 4 , We have nothing later from New Orleans' than January 6th." Two days afterwards the same paper said I ti News of battle of Now Orleans received." By the arrival of the flag of truce boat at Fortress Monroe we have later Southern intelli gence. Nine vessels started from Charleston with the intention of running the blockade, but four of theta were captured by our fleet. If we may be lieve the Norfolk _Ail/ Battb the markets of that place contain very few edibles, and grave hints are thrown out, that the people will soon be in a starving condition. Samuel B. Todd—a brother of Mrs. Frcatient Lincoln—who had made himself in finnous even in the eyes of the rebels, by his cruel treatment of the Federal prisoners in the Tobacco Witrthme in Rie4 l 49 l uli has died from wounch received in the Shiloh battle. The; err,rozac is hi urly expected in Hampton Roads. floret nor Curtin has issued a general order that " Shiloh, April 7, 1562," shall be inscribed on the Rag of the Seventy-seventh Penn syl vania;Regiment, and "Falmouth, April 18, ISG2," be inscribed on the Iles of the First Penikylvinin avalry, in ac knowledgment of the soldierlike conduct exhibit ed by those regiments during the engagements named. The (governor, we are pleased to see, has received the gratifying intelligence from Surgeon (general Smith, near Yorktown, that the arrange ments have been perfected far the care and prompt transportation io their homes of the killed and wounded Pennsylvanians who may engage in the coming battle. The floating hospital, under charge of the surgeon general, can reach this city, via the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal, thus avoiding a rough sea•voyage. Hundreds of brave and valu able lives will thus be saved. Pennsylvania has matte greater preparations for the care and com fort of her wounded volunteers than any other State. For the sake of humanity, and the reputa tion of our Commonwealth, we rejoice to reoord this fact. Congress Yesterday. SsitA^tr..—Mr. Wade ; of Ohio l from the Cora mime on ilia Conduct of tile War. made a report concerning rebel atrocities at Manassas, which will be found in another column. The home stead bill was postponed till to-day. Mesam Wil inot,Wrigbt, Gowan, and Ilnle caproencrl then:wolves in favor of some confiscation measure, the bill coming up. Mr. Cowan's motion to refer to a special committee was lost. BOVAR.—Mr_ Eliot, of Massachusetts, submitted bills providing for confiscation and emancipation, which were referred to the select committee. The resolutions reported by the Government Contract Committee were taken up. The resolution re questing the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust certain clt.ints for 11.41 carbines, purchased by Gen. FrAmant, was passed. Also, the resolution oppos ing the condemnation of citizens upon ex parte evi dence taken by investigating committees. Also, a resolution condemning the employment of irre aparstible private parties for public dillies, and the making of private contracts for supplying the de. partments Also, a resolution disapprpving of the policy of Mr. Cameron in twitting certain contracts. The re-ablution condemning the Seeretary of the Navy for employing Mr. George D. Morgan as agent to make certain purchases was voted down. A bill was reported to establish a land district in Nevada. WE PUBLISH to day the report of the joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, made in Congress Testeratts, in reference to the barbarous treatment by the rebels, at Ma nassas, of the remains of officers and soldiers of the United states killed in battle there. Tile perusal of this report will make the fietat creep with horror. The brutal desecra tion of the dead and the Ptendish torture of the wounded it reveals, seem so unna tural and inhuman that We hesitate to believe that mich avt* could iIAYQ been committed by tot n. The rebels liave indeed made a reputation for themselves, and when, hereafter, the world wishes to illustrate the perfection of malignant hatred and devilish cruelty, in- stead of pointing to the Sepoys or savages, it will take the Secessionists for its example. Itlt%er Slow The British Adtoiratty has actually deter mined to build an Kriesmon-Coles cupola war ship, at a cost of £lBO,OOO, (equal to $900,- 000,) to bo launched next February. To tit her for sea will probably occupy two or three months more. Here, then, is an expenditure thrice as great as that upon our saucy Monitor, and twelve months, instead of three, taken to do the work. A few war.steamerp are tl ha iron -cared, at leisure. Meantime, France is hard at work in creating a great iron-clad war fleet. Beath of lbe Rev. Wm. 11. Brisbane With sincere regret we announce the death of the ReT. Wn. lex li. BRISBANE, the faith ful and ~:-.vered pastor of the Green-street Methodist Episcopal Church, in this city. His illness appeared too slight to create an appre henbion of its proving mortal ; but, on Tuesday night, it unexpectedly terminated in his de mise. Mr. BRISBANE was a gentleman of high intellect, cultivatsd by good ediicatien, and, we might add, unceasing study. In every re_ lation of private life he was respected and be loved, and his loss will be deeply Mt, not only by his familyand relatives, but by those for whom his mind was publicly engaged—namely, the Congregation over whom he presided as Pastor, and the Conference of which he was en useful member. Mt modest nature forbade his aiming at becoming prominenc, but he per formed his duty, as a Christian Teacher, with ability and zeal, and his loss will not be easily repaired nor speedily supplied. Be taught us how to live, au& price tol high For son a lemon. taught rtg how to die The Bev. Mr. BRISBANE has been removed at the early age of thirty-eight, a period of when there generally is hope lor many future years of ugefulneus. From his early death, we gain another lessor., if such were needed, of the uncertainty of human expectation. l.dii 5a CALE. ot/ D/ei 000.2, LT,Z2I (,loons, go SIERY, Ac.—The attention of purchisers is re quested to the large and fresh assortment of British, French, Berman. India, and domestic dry-goods, Moult and white cheetted rilKzr, hiti2iLrl, house• keeping linen goods, fancy articles, ac., embracing about 775 lots woollens, worsteds, litmus, cottons, and silks Also, by order of executors, milk and gingham umbrellas, and fine parasols and sun shades. To be peremptorily sold, by catalogue, on four mouths' credit, commencing this morning at 10 o'clock, and lu ha continued, without inter miskhin, all day, and part of the evening, by John B Myers Co., auctioneers, Nus. 232 and 234 Market street. LC. 11 Shinn - I stile .1 cedar aad other rails will take place at Haddonfield, New Jersey, on Saturday, the 3d of May, and not the 231, as arm nenurly adircitiord: See nOvinliAMutst , in amain column. IT APPRAus that we have given great of. fence to the Breckinridge papers throughout the State because we persist in classing them among the sympathisers with the enemies of our country ; and these preeieus public trai tors attempt to answer the charge by shield ing themselves behind the brave men now fighting in the field for the flag of the Union. There is as much dinrenee between these partisans and the soldiers as there is between the armed traitors and the loyal men in the South. It is a universal coincidence that wherever a newspaper was found advocating JOHN C. BRNClttNittnet end opposing greleftke A. DOUGLAS in 18130, that newspaper is now the most virulent in its abuse of the Adminis tration of ur. LINCOLN, and the most cautious and gentle in its denunciation of the rebellion. There is nothing like illustrating such an as sertion...ly ever-present examples. There is IIODOsoN, of the Jelfersonian, whose newspa per was the synonym of treason during the dark hours of last year, and was closed by the public authorities; SANDERSON, of the Lan caster Inlelligencer, the immediate organ of JAMES Buena:NAN, the great Public Criminal of' his age and time ; J. LAWRENCE GETZ, of the Reading Gazette, the mouthpiece of ANCONA ; ACKER 2 of the Norristown Regkter, who ad hered to BRECKINRIDGE up to the moment of his flight into the rebel army ; LATIMER, of the Clearfield Republican, the organ of WILLIAM BIGLER; lifeDowsn., of the Harrisburg Pa triot, the organ of the same weak-kneed poli tician; WELsti, of the York Gazette, the Chairman of the Breckinridge State Commit tee, and so on to the end of the chapter. There is not one of these men who does not in his heart of hearts feel that every victory over the Secessionists is a defeat of his hopes, and every defeat of the American flag his personal victory. It is true, this class of men claim to be Democrats par excellence, but did they not all claim to be true friends of the Union in 1860, when they followed the fortunes of Mr. BRECKINRIINIE in the face of the admonitions of Dot:ob./is and thousands of others that their movenieht would end lit diatiidoii and war? Did they not. adhere to this same man when he stood up in the capital of his country and glo ried in his treason, like them cowering his pro fessions with ardent arguments in favor of the Constitution he was plotting to destroy ? How they are appreciated by the soldiers in battle an intelligent correspondent of the Boston Journal, who is now with the fleet of Com modore FOOTE, explains to the readers of that paper. He says : "During the eleven months which I have passed with the armies, east, and west, I have endeavored to give not only army operations, but also an occa sional review of the opinions of soldiers and ci vilians, with a desire always to represent things truthfully ; therefore I turn from the fleet and the army to give the opinion of a Southern man now on board the fleet—a citizen of Memphis, who till recently has been in that hot bed of Secession. Ile depicts in terse language the effect of Secession upon morality, /a hie turn words ; It &mays all moral responsmility. No man who embraces Secession is to be trusted. Men with whom I have bad business dealings for years, and whom, I thought honest, do not hesitate t.) violate -Weir ranot, aaletnn pladgea WIMP that they have heemte Secessionists. It affects men and women alike, and even preachers of the gospel !' These words tally with what I have stated in former letters. It is testimony concurrent with that of such men as Gov. Joh - nada, and Emerson Etheridge. "As this gentleman has also given his opinion of a certain class of Northern men, I will quote his words. 'The worst enemies we have are those .Northern Democrats which are represented by mob papers. as the Chicago Times and the Cinctnitati Inquirer.' If be bad known the proclivities of Such papers published in New England, he could have enlarged his list. Such papers, and that class of men who hold to the principles advonated by those papers, are declared to be the worst enemies of the Union men of the South ! The Secessionists understand by intuition who are their sympathizers in the North, and the Union men also understand who are their enemies. They understand that all the talk of their Dernoeratiefrieildi latent the was being waged for Abolition purposes is fudge. Abo lition agitation in the border slave States is just commencing. Not many months hence it will be the great theme in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and - -Maryland. Compensated emancipation is a new idea to the border State men. My informant seys that at Nashville it is already a great topic of discussion. Men are taking sides. Shrewd slave holders,beein to See that it is time for them to sell out. They know that the inevitable march of events will lead, sooner or later. to emancipation, and, like sensible men, they are bound to make the most of it. 1 would not be understood as presenting simply my own speculations, hut the views of a high toned, intelligent Union merchant of Mem phis." IT Is becoming almost as difficult to re alize that we were recently elusively devoted. to the arts of peace as it once was to believe that, iu an incredibly short period, we should put one of the largest armies that was ever organized into the field. In less than a year we have not only recruited, drilled, and equipped more than half a million of men, but they have won more victories, and dis played more daring and more varied military talent, than the veteran legions of NAPOLEON in any equal space of time. henceforth, let the wisdom, power, and pa triotism of a great free people never be questioned. It they occasionally err, most nobly do they atone l'or their mistakes. The meshes of traitors were woven so closely around them, and the cant of treason against " coercion " waS an widely and artfully disseminated, that it seemed this glorious nation would inevitably be destroyed without a single manly effort be ing made for its preservation_ There were groans of despair and mutterings of indigna tion at the prospective overthrow of the Re public i but no one fully realized the giant strength of the people, and their ability and . readiness to display, 'upon their own soil, in the nineteenth century, more real heroism then ever adorned the history of Greece or Rome. President Locomt was one of the few men who sounded the depths of the popular heart. On his journey from Springfield to the capit%l he wisely deviated from the usual course of Presidents elect, by mingling freely among the masses he NV es to govern. On his journey through Indiana, Ohio, New York, New Jer sey, and Pennsylvania, he saw millions of his countr3 men, and stood face to face with tens of thousands of the gallant men who have since braved danger on many a bloody field. While he was threatened with assassination at Bald more, and found the capital overflowing with treason, his heart was, doubtless, nerved in many a trying hour by a recollection of the heaving masses of patriotic men who had greeted him in his journey through the free Stales, anti who, while they insisted upon a rigid fulfilment of his duties, were not un mindful of their own. They expec3ted him to assume all the responsibilities, and to perform all the duties of his high station, and not to merely wield power, like his predecessor, for partisan aggrandizement, and for the gratifica tion of his individual hatreds and affections. Though they little knew how much would be required of them, they were sternly re solved to do their whole duty. The mutual confidence existing between the people and their Executive was the only tie that bound the nation together. All the other ligaments were severed. No army or navy of practical use was within reach, or, in deed, in existence. The lower branch of Congress was not in session; the Senate, un. der the old organization, was rotten to the core. Bad the President faltered before the appalling difficulties that confronted him, all would have been lost. Had the people not been willing to sustain brave words by brave deeds, and to attest their love for the Union by noble action as well as by loud profea sions, the Republic would have been de stroyed. But, in the very depth of our intricate in and misfortunes, the germ of na tional preservation was formed. Treason, en couraged by the imbecility and open encour agenients of the last Adillinititfation, finally reached a culminating, point, beyond which, every man who had a drop of patriotic blood in his veins felt that forbearance would cease to be a virtue. Then our kind-hearted but firmly patriotic Chief Magistrate spoke the right word at the right time, and the re sponse was such as till] world has never witnessed. All the concentrated fire and energy of tlm nation burst forth in one vast flood of patriotism that would have /Is/Arils/I ant 5e....A.,” kortPorta - , had' ts barriers been twice as formidable. There were inevit able blunders, misfortunes, and disappoint /4MM at fird, Th 9 eager impatience that or isted ninth them unavoidable. But never were mistakes more speedily rectified, or omissions more quickly supplied. For the h‘st nis mouths, one vast series of triumphs have been accumulating, one upon the other, until the world resounds with the brilliancy of our victories, and the military critics of other countries regard with awe and astonishment the completeness and rapidity of our successes. A slumbering giant has indeed been roused; arA thick and fast, to the terror of those who goaded him to wrath, the spectacle is as strange as it is sublime and terrible. In almost every imaginable description of military achievement our forces have been fried. They have seen service in nearly all climes, and encountered hardship, exposure, and danger in nearly all their Protean shapes. The mountains of Western Virginia are almost as cold as the steppes of Russia, and the plains of Ship Island and Port Royal are almost as warm and unhealthy as the deserts of Egypt. But no matter where or how the enemy are to be attacked, our troops never fall to respond to the calls of their leaders. They bravely fight on open fields, in wild forests, against frowning batteries or massive forts. They rush forward to face death as cheerfully as they would welcome loved friends, and they triumph, be the peril what it may, in all their daring enterprises. The beasts of our grandiloquent Fourth of July orators are far more than realized by the events of these wondrous times, as our soldiers sweep on to victory after victory in the great Mississippi valley and on the Atlantic sea board. With Nashville and Now Orleans in our possession, we look forward to the cap ture of Memphis, Norfolk, Richmond, Ra leigh, Charleston, Savannah, and Mobile, as a foregone conclusion, and, through the thick clouds that have been lowering upon our country, the light of peace and a United na tion is dawning. The Union has been tried in the fire of a fierce furnace ; but the crackling flames, with all the havoc and ruin they have wrought, have demonstrated its strength, and falsified all the hopes of traitors and the pre dictions of domestic and foreign foes. LETTER PROM OCC AS N A.L." WASHINGTON, April 0 0, 1862 Truly is pod our counsellor and our com mander. In such a struggle as this—a vast em pire for our field and freedom for our inspiration and our hope—no human power could shape our ends or dissolve our d ifficulties. The Plank Movement at New Orleans is the Event of the age. To attack the salient. point of an army is one thing, but to surround and capture It whole errantry, and by ono bold blew lay a whole people powerless at your feet, another and a very different affair. In this last and most resplendent of our triumphs, I see and welcome the presence of a superintending Providence. What a contrast between the Bth of January, 1815, and the 25th of April, (the 'day doubtless of the capitulation of New Orleans,) 18G2 ! General Jackson had hardly more than a division of soldiers ; and yet he beat back and annihilated a British army that bad Won its laurels under Wellington ; mowing down their ranks as if the Angel of Devastation had come to his aid, and manuring the soil with the richest blood of England_ And why was thin Because his cause was just ; because he fought to repel a foreign invader; because he fought for the preserratton of the American Union. The navy, under Commodore Parragut and Major General Butler, attacked New Orleans in the same cause and for the same great ob ject. Many thousands more men rallied to its defence than were gathered under the standard of Jackson, forty-seven years ago. They had innumerable advantages. They had all the appliances and aids of modern science in war fare, and had announced their determination to die rather than surrender. But the city is now in the possession of our troops, and the traitor braggarts, who have so long oppressed and betrayed the people, are flying before our victorious arms. We may now safely contemplate the rapid close of .the rebellion. The effect of this in telligence upon the troops at Yorktown and in the neighborhood of Corinth will be exhilarating. It will fall upon the ears of the traitors like a warning from the skies. Our brave fellows will be fired with a new enthusiasm, and their adversaries with a new despair: The soldiers who fight under the rebel flag will henceforward be controlled by the double emotion that they are contend in against a liberal and magnanimous Govern ment, and in favor of a desperate band of ma lignant leaders. The truth is, the armed conspiracy is a mare conspiracy to help the limittmea of a very few men_ It never had the confidence of the majority of the Southern people. Secession prevailed either by force or fraud. Thousands voted for it under threats, and those who did not go to the polls were counted in its favor, and abundant evi dence has shown that in many cases whole districts were enrolled that had never thrown a ballot. Hundreds of the rebel prisoners confess that they have done wrong, and gladly take the oath of allegiance. The cause that depends upon such support cannot triumph. Its speedy and complete - overthrow is inevita ble. Simultaneous with this glorious intelligence comes the address of the Union Democrats and Republicans of New York, which I trust you will lay before the readers of The Press. It is a paper well worthy of the times, awl no man really devoted to the country can fail to approve alike its premises and conclusions. It it= the platferm not merely of a party, but of the whole people. There is not a word of it that should not be remembered and cherished. There is not a Democrat in the ilmiy who will net seeept it as his 6VAd3. The brave defenders of our flag have seen so much of the horrors of Secession that they cannot tolerate the men in, private life who have no higher ambition than that of sympathizing with it. They have experienced notonly the worst of crueltie:s, but many of them have been witnesses of horrible atrocities perpe trated upon our wounded prisoners, and even upon the bodies of those who have fallen in battle. While the Breckinridge politicians are seeking to excite the people with the cry that Mr. Lincoln's friends desire to arm the negroes of the South, the Union soldiers see the negroes marshalled by thousands in the rebel service ; and while these same politicians insist that the Constitution is being violated by the Republicans, these soldiers behold the enemies of that Constitution in the traitors' ranks ridiculing and reviling. I have yet to meetan officer or a private who is not earnestly in favor of any organization that sustains the Ailinibistration, and opposes the Breekinridge levders. Let us hope that the spirit which animates the Republicans of New York will be elonlated by the ReptiblieMlS of Pennsyl vania. I have just learned that in the district represented by Mr. Grow, the Speaker of the House, this is the almost unanimous feeling of the friends of the Adiniuistration, and I am happy to add that Senator Wilmot cordially sustains the movement. In that district the Republicans have things their own way. They require no assistance from Democrats to elect their candidates, but, recognizing the presence of thousands of Democrats in the army, they cheerfully give their concurrence to the policy that combines all the people in private life, like that which combines our gallant heroes in the battle field. Of course, the party hacks who yoted for the Disunion candidate for President in 1860 will denounce every ef fort of this character, but I look forward to the day when hundreds of the ablest men of the old Democracy will show their a;proval of this great and patriotic purpose. Let such men, bolero allowing themselves to be longer misled by the William B. Reeds and George M. Whartons, and James Buchanans, carefully peruse the address of the Union men of New Yale. In this they will Rua material Por re flection, and encouragement for action. There is no radicalism in that noble appeal. It is in- Atm:* with the firmest and most devotional` patriotism. It ignores all the past except that which should be remembered; it anticipates a hopeful future; it offertt to the )ciang men a wide aad +empties field it U % the best recollections of the glorious past; and, better than all, it buries in a common grave the ha treds and prejudices that have so long stained and marred the politics of our country. Gen. sherunwo Operations Hi Santa Carolina. Major PANOBORNR, who has been on Gen. Same an's staff at Port Royal, S. C., is now here. Ho states that it was felt by Ghent, EL null Yul. DUPONT that Se ventral' and Charleston might have been taken with great loss of life, but the military operations that bad been resolved upon held great numb. ben of the mirth hi cheek at hMb tha.a. and *emanated in the glorious exploit of capturing Fort Pulaski. Major PANGBORNS Nays that the walls are not so injured but that they may readily be made as good as tow_ The wall eoneleted of two partitions of brick, with sand bags between Two strong batteriea were planted so as to bang away at the portion of the wall near which the magazine was known to be. The pieces were aimed so as to ally off SectIVIS MPH 99019111 Vitt It IS not supposed that tho IMMO destruction could ho pro duced upon concrete or granite walls. The Eighth Maine and Forty-eighth Now York were engaged for several weeks in cutting trees in swamps, and pulling Chun by hand a mile LIP two ibrovak CLO moramtee, fo make corduroy roads. Appointment. WILLIAM ALT.VN BRYAN, EN., or Viraioia, neybow of latog Disponi. ban berm as/ el,l Fof th< Sur... -of Inspectors of the Post Office Depettmeut. THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, TIMRSDAY, MAY 1, 1862: FROM WASHINGTON. AN APPUL FOR LAST TENNESSEE. royalists Eeing Murdered and Plundered. HE IS TO BE MADE A MAJOR GENERAL TEE REBEL ATROCITIES AT MANASSAS. A New Homestead BM Introduced. Our Soldiers and Sailors to Reap the Benefit Special Despatches to The ?rem" An Appeal for East Tennessee A letter runlets] Mite front a gentleman high In an lhority in Tennessee. contains the following: "Say t., the Postmaster General that we are succeed leg 'beyond our moat sanguine expectations. As soon as the rebel army is driven beyond the limits of Tennessee, the state will stand for fhe Union by an overwhelsaing majority. I hope the Government will be Impressed with the absolute necessity of the army entering East Tennessee. They are murdering and plundering our people by thousands. Their acts of inhumanity and Isfichifitk are :without. parallel." The letter concludes it Greet God ! la there no relief for that people 7" The Post Office Department has reopened the follow int (aces in. Tennessee : Murfreesboro', Springfield, and Fratklin. The splendid tribute of Major General RALLECK to this intrepid officer, published in The Press to-day, is worth a dozen brevets. You will remember that he was mu, It complained of when fleet In command of the milt tary district composed of Kentucky and Missouri, and ho germs to have gone to the battle of Shiloh not simply to vindicate his reputation, but if necessary to sacridce his life. His whole theory of the war alone the valley of the Mississippi has been fully confirmed. tie contended that nothing effective could he done in that quarter without an army of tw•o hundred thousand men, and more than that number is now assembled under Generala iIALLECK, ' GRANT' and 1:11.T.L1.. General Shalt IN is the brother of Mon. Jona SHERMAN, Senator in Congreaa from Ohio. Gun. T. W. SHERMAN, in accordance with the recom mendation of Gen. RALLECK, has been nominated fur Major General. The secretary of the Interior is beset by some parties who want to get contracts for the Capitd csnat , uction whose antecedents are rather of the lobby character. When Gen. Menus supervised the conacructiori, be gave contracts only to persons of the highest character who were regularly engaged in business. In other words, he paid fair prices S r good work. lie disbursed a half a dozen millions of dopers for no other compensation than the pay of captain In the army. New Homestead Act—Benefit of the Army. Senator CARLILE introduced a bill to day, ass Rabat, trite fOr the homestead act, providing that all commit, tinned, non-commisaoned officers, privates, and ruu,i clans of the army. and all persons in the naval service, during the present rebellion, shall. in lieu of one hun dred dollars bounty money to which they are now enti tieo, be autberinti to enter HQ acre, of any Imam, priated Finds, which may be gobject to pre.emption, at $1.25 per acre, or 80 acres at $2 60 per acre. The Tax Bill. The tax bill will most probably not reach the Senate Ibis Couator 61 110,1, atter a brief absonee, bile returned to the sessions of the Finance Committee, but Senator PEAries still remains absent from illness The published changes made in the House hill are by no means accurate, being unauthorized by the committee, and are, therefore, calculated to mislead the public. It is evident that the Douse bill will be very much changed. Rfirlloll. stranceo continue to pour in from every conceivable in tereet, hilt eeiefislly tram the lieunrsdeelere To=day the memorial of the New York Chamber of Commerce was presented, advocating an entirely different system of taxat.on from that adopted by the House. The Confiscation Bill in the Senate. The vote in the Npnate to-day, refusing by four majo rity to refer the subject of the confiscation of rebel pro perty to a select committee, was regarded as a test vote between the friends and opponents of the measure, and a triumph for the formtr. New Post Offices. Postmaster General BLAIR, today, established a new post office at. Hanover, Howard county, aid , and ap pointed ROBEItT W. WILSON postmaster—between Ent Ridge Landing and Annapolis Junction, Also, a new office at Bear Lake, Warren county, Pa., CALEB CARR, postmaster—between Pine Valley, Pa., and Broken Straw, N. Y. The newly. restored mail service, from Waahingtou by Tails Chinch, reach Clove, and Vienna to Fairfax Court House, went into operation to day, in charge of Mr. Joni W. CLrnn, the contractor. The service 41ir99 tinir9 a with. Route from Martinsburg, Virginia, to Williamsport, Maryland, is now let to blionscr. st. MILLER, of Ha gerstown, Maryland The service is six times a week', to connect both waya with the card to and from rtatti more and Washington. Contrabands. Over thirty-six contr..bande arrived here yesterday. TLAV arts nonorally poorly clad. and have had but little to eat for some thus. Their tales of sorrow and suffering usually follow abut the same strain, and in many ii - stat.c-e are piteous in thv extreme. They report that there are itYW tqlf vcracr , gwv., between r9t9ali4 aml Ramhanunck rivers, many of them having long since departed from Eastern Yirgiuia. It is estimated that there must he nearly two thousand of these contrabands at present in Vi'aehina ton . The Emancipation Commissioners Have held their first sesaion, and have already received numerous applications from elave.owners—the very first' beirg from the largest in the city. The commisshmers have tbe tilanhe all drawn up for tile armors, and also the necessary papers to be given to the emancipated colored person, which he is to hold as legal evidence of his freedom. It ie probable that the labor of the COM tiei6ablitlfl will he unite large in a very brief time. This dietiuguisbed officer was in the Capitol this morn./ ing, conferring with the Finance Committee of the Sinate and the Committee of Ways and Means in the Dome_ 13e stated to Mr. FESSENDgIi and Mr drawls that we had seven bundr.d thousand a, live and ener getic soldiers in the field in &fence of the Union. Major General Cadwalader. General CADWALADKR ie still ia town, in fine health and spirits. awaiting orders. It is stated that there are fifty thousand of the 801.8 of Pennsylvania in the army of tne Potomac, under ItloCiaLnss, Bluilownia., ar.d . Why EiSOMICI not ihL fearless effacer be plead at the bead of a diribion compoaeit of these men - 1 Mail Messengers Apponited—Maryland and Pennsylvania. Green Spring itanive, Four /mho, ant/ liittlo fireorgo• tom a. from North Mountaiu, (B. Jr, 0. B. 8.,) W. W. F.St7I.KWEI.L. A; Agricultural College, near lll3dlondburg, T 0011,4 31_1(1111_ 111 011C11 of J. L. HOPP. At Old Town, alleAbeny county, Md., EZHICIHL KENA- I - Lk, in place of JOHN KING. At Duncanaville, Pa, JOHN XCCABIC, in place of Wx. YAI7OIIN. The heat news continues to be received from General bIoCLELL.62Ir. Although his operations are necessarily slow, tie work will be effectively done- No douot is en lel Milled on tint point. What of McDowell, Banks, and Geary They are all within supporting distance, and the stra.. fere movement of McDoweLL has se elarne-d the rebels that a large force was sent forward on Monday to repel hie advance. ile it not yet in Fredericksburg, but ex pecte to enter to.day. increasing the Adjutant qeneral's Office &saior Witten IMPatitlAik a hill to-day, adieu to the Adjutant General's ofllce, by regular promotion of the present officers, one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, and nine majors; and that the grads of captain in that office shall limonites he abolished, and all vacancies on. earring in the grade of major shall be selected from the captains in the army. - The Iron-elad. Vessels at New Orleans. Mr. J. P. ERNLIMIS told IL DISHIER at Richmond, that they had an iron-clad veesel at New Orleans which was more tormidable ttan the Merrimac But all the iron clads of New Orleans construction have turned out badly, from the fact that thore are no each capabilities at teat point tor imitaing suct compitzloconcerna am at Nor', folk. The Families of Messrs. Brownlow and The temiliee et blegarii.l4LaNAltp and BROWNLOW have arrived in this ells,. If the Administration shall not, in i4l reereet• l meet the expectations of the conn 274 On tailors srlll not be for want of volunteer advi e on thd Wile/ ftnancial, and slavery questions. Numerous lettere mitering it are , olai; carditantlY received nem all parts of the UMW States, and even from foreign lands. Commander WM. IiODCHRS TAYLOR has received pre- WlOff 0141 1 3 !rpm tl ,O Nay, Derartagi OW mo n and of the Housatonic. Bastunt. B. RATIIIHOSE, of New Ymk, ham been ap pointed acting master. DAVID DfcManua bap been appointed acting 3d as. engineer, tort ordered to the 11. B. slioatmor Con necticut. F. JOSSELYN has been app Anted actiug master, and ordered to the Washington navy yard. Jowl 0. Onnann ) acting iniiatar'a matc, hoe been pro. mated to acting 'limiter. From General Hallook'S Army. SERIOUS SKIRMISH NEAR CORINTH. OCCASIONAL. THE UNITED Slain TROOPS VICTORIOUS. CAIRO, April 30.—The steamer which has just arrived from Pittsburg Landing reports that a serious skirmish took place between the advance of the Federal army, ,00,5 and . r or , b o dy of robeio, aro muds AMA Corinth: The United States troops were victorious. No mention is made of she loam on either side. The Malted !Dalai farces took timer-Mita 115P161.4.5411. The earatonading was still heard "rhea the steamer left. FROM FORT 'WRIGHT. aET rosco Apm So •A. Special Impatcla from Cwiro to the Times says: An arrival from Tiptonvillo reports that heavy cannonading wee heard throughout Monday night end Tuesany in the direction of Fort Wright 'Duro has been no arrival from the fleet alma Monday Dem It is apprehended that the rebel fleet at the fort had been teihforced by the 8,1711 k -eta from New Orleans, aud attacked our fleet This was not unexpected, nod the erl.-1..,, from it. fleet gaysf Ammurmaeo amt. domMO dore Foote - wail fully plepared to meet tbe enemy. TRIBUTE TO BEN. W. T. SHERMAN NAVAL 'APPOINTMENTS. WASHINGTON, April 30, 1862. General WA' Sherman The Capitol Construction IN THIGINIA. Adjutant General Thomas Wbat of alcUleitan Maynard Advice to the Administration, Naval Appointments. HEAVY CANNONADING HEARD. Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. The Rebels Worse than Savages—The Atrocities they Committed upon our Dead and Wounded lit Manassas—They Torture the Wounded, Burn the Dead, and use their Skulls fur Drinking Cups, and their Bones for Drumsticks, Finger. /Opp, am—Horrible Detail of the Bru tish Cruelties Practised upon the Union Soldiers. The Juint Committee on the Conduct of the Present War made the following report to-day, in the Senate: 1 On the Bret day of April the Oen ste of the United States adopted the following resolution ; which was refer red to the Committee on the Conduct of the War: Resolved, That the Select Gemmittee on the Conduct of the War be directed to coliect.the eridieme with regard to 11w berberelle treatment by the reticle, in Mffilabialli of the re Mama or officers and soldiers of the Culled *Mee Milled in battle there; end that the said select committee aire Inquire into the tact whether the Indian Ravaged have been employed by the rebels. in their military ser vice, against the Government of the United States, and how such waileee low heen'eoedweted by said eaeeeeti In pursuance of the instructions contained in tins re solution, your committee have the honor to report that they teatuined a number of witnesses, whose testimony le herewith enbmiited. Air. Nathaniel F Parker, who was captured at Falling Waters, Vireitlia. teutilies that he woe kart in close con finement, denied extreme ' and, with a number of others, huddled up in a room ; that their food, generally scant, was always bad. and sometime,' nauseous; that the wounded had neither medical attention nor humane treatment, tied that many of these latter died from sheer neglect; that lire el the prisoners were idiot by the ,retries outride, and that he saw one man Tibbithe of the New Yolk Twenty• Eleventh Regiment, shot at, he Will lateen g Lis window, on the Bth of No cumber, and that be dim of the wound on the ffith. The perpetrator of thin foul murder was eubaequenely promoted by chip rebel Deem mut ht Dr. J. M. Homiston, surgeon of the Fourteenth New York or Brooklyn reginieut, captured at Bull Run, testi tee teat when he solicited permission to remain on the Bold and b. attend to wounded n en, some of wham were in a helpless and _ eelefili condition, and authritig fir water, he was brutally refused. They offered him nei ther water nor anything io the shape of food. He and his companions awed in the streets of Manassas, sur rounded by a threateeing and boisterous crowd and veto alters tads thrust into an old building, and lair, willivut ttuatelibuce or CC . Veriligl 4? (deep en the hire floor. It was only when faint, and without tood for twenty-four hours. that tome cola bacon was grudgingly given to them. When, at laic, they were permitted to go to the relief of our wounded, the Secession burgeon would not allow theft to perform operations, but entruettel the wounded to hie young aettietente, .° some of them with no more knowledge of what they attempted to du than an apothecary's cork." Aid fur; then, "that three inexperienced surgeons performed e pc rations upon our men in a most horrible manner; some of them were absolutely frightful." " When," he adds, b I Asked LAMM , Batty la allow Mil to ea,e,itele the leg of Corporal Prescott, of our regiment, and said that the man mind die if it were nut done, he teed m« that I should be snowed to de it." While Doctor Homiston was waiting he says a Secessionist came through the room and said f " they aro operating upon one of the Yankee's legs up stairs." .• 1 went up and fomel that they had cutoirPrescotter leg. The assistants were pulling on the flesh at each side, try tog to get flap enough to cover the bone. They had sawed off the bone without leaving any of the neat to form the flaps to cover it ,• and with all the force they could use they could noted flap enough to cover the bone. They were then obliged to caw off about an inch more of the bone, and evea then, when they came to put in the sutures (the stitchee).tkey could not approximate the edges within lees than au inch and a hell of each other; of course, as soon tie there wan any swelling, the stitch..s tote out and khe bone stuck through again. Dr. hexane tried afterwards to remedy it by per forming another operation, but Prescott had become so debilitated that he aid not survive." Corporal Pres cott wee a young man of high position, and had received a very liberal education. The same willow &gosling the offerings of the wound- ed after the battle as inconceivably horrible; with bad ford, no covericg. no water. They were lying upon the floor as thickly as they could he laid. " There was not a particle of light in the house to enable us to move an ong them." Deaf to all his appeals. they continued le refute water to theta lanktind Mtn, and he was wily enabled to procure it by rotting cups under the eaves to catch the rain that was falling, and in this way be spent the night catching the water and conveying it to the w..unded to dnitk. Ae th re was no light, he was oblige] to deal on hie hands and keens to avoid Marmit , on their wounded times: and, he adds, "it is not a wonder that beet morning w 3 found that several ha , died during the night." The young surge-one, who seemed to dehght in basking alai butchering three brave defenders of our ceuntry's flag, were not, it would seem, permitted to p- rfc ru, any operations upon the rebel wounded. •. Some of our wounded," says this witness, " were lei= lying upon the battle-field until Tuesday night and Wed needay tueruipg. When brought in, their woneds vete cenipletely alive with larvae deposited there by the thee, having laid out ti rough a I the rain Storm of Mon. day, and the hot, eullry ennehine of 'Steed sy." The dead laid epee the field unburied for five days; and this he laded men not only of hie own. the Fourteenth Regi ment, hut of other regiment.. This witness testillea that the rebel dead were carried off and interred decently. Iu answer to a question whether the Confederates them selves orate nut glee destitute of medicine, he replied, "they could not have been, to* they look all ours, even to our tangiest instruments.' He received none of the at feline', from the surgeons on the other side, . 4 which," to use his own language, "I should have shown to them had our position been reversed." The te etlieeey of Williatit P Ratklai, &SALAAM. giii 4 4.a of the Foul tevuth New York Regiment, Who was taken prisoner at &idle) 'a Church, contirms the statement of Dr Botuisluti in regard to the brutal operations on tior• poral Prescott. tie also states that after Ile himself had been rrstieYTl S5 O Aiftill)9l.4t ..bet tcswd 94e din' with bib fart on she winnow- mil, the sentry outside caned to him to take thew in. and on looking out he saw the dau b, with hie musket cocked and pointed at hint, and with drew in time to save his lite He gives evidence of the carriers. heartless, and cruel mann. r in which the sur geon., operat..l upon our men Previous to leaving for Ittehmond. and ten or ea etre days after the battle, ho saw some or the Union soldiers unburext on the field, and entirely naked. AA Bilking around were a great many women, attritive over the horrid trent. fl hi cage of Dr. Forem en. of one of the New York re giments, is mentioned by Dr. Swaim. " Whea milting into his ambulance to look after bin own w,unded he was fired upon by the rebels. When he told teem who he Sae, they raid they would take a Darting shot at him, which they did, wounding him in the leg. He Led b e e 1 , ,,,ke on. sad hie s e ers.." tos hoots and as they drove along his spurs would catch in the twit board of the ambulance. c ..usiug him to shrialt with agony." An officer rode up, and, pacing his pistol to his head, threatened to shout him if he continued to scream. This was on SlitaltlYt the day of the Utile One of the most important witnesses was Gen. James B Ricketts, well known in Wastimeten and throughout the country, lately promoted for hie daring and self sacrificing courage. After having been w. untied in the battle of Bull Ruh, he was captured, anti as he lay help. tees to his beck, a party of rebels peeling Imo cried out, '•-Knock out his brains, the d—t Yankee." He met General Beauregerd, an old acquaintance, only a year his senior at the United States Military Academy, where both were educated. He had met the rebel Bawd In the South a number of times. By this head of the retail mill, on the day atter the battle, he Wile told that his (General Bickett'e) treatment would cepend noon the tee enema extended to the rebel privateers. His first lieutenant, Ramsey, who was killed, was stripped of uteri enitle of his clethivg hut hie socks, and loft Didjetl On the Held. Ile molded that those or our wounded who died in Richmond were buried in the negro burying-ground among the uegroes, and were put into the earth in the most unfeeling mete. ner. The statement of other witneesee as to how the prisoners were treated is fully contirreed by Crenated Pickens. He himselt7while in prison, subsisted mainly neon chat he purchased with his own money, the motley brought to him by his wife. "We Led," he says. "what they called bacon coon—SOUP made of Imbed bacon, the bacon being a little r tumid —which yon seeld pct pc...early ear i awl mat for a man whose sy stem was being d• allied by a wound is no diet at all." In re ply, to a quenion whether he bad heard anything about our prisoners being shot by the rebel sentries, he anewereo ; .- lee, a number of our Mtn were shot. In One instance two were shot; one was killed, and the other wounded by a: man who rested his gun un the window-sill while he capped it." General Picket% in reference to his having been held an one ol the hostages for the privateers, states: ei I coo. sidereci it bail treatment to be selected as a hostage for a privtoeer, when I was .0 lame mat I could not Walk, and while no wounds were atilt open and unhealed. At tt it time Genital Wieder crone to see me. He hed been an officer in my regiment; I had known him for twenty cild y ears. It Man tin the 9th of November chat he came . fs sue me. Ile saw that my woonde were still unhealed; . be saw tin coI ditiOn ; but that very day he received an older to select hostae.eo for the privateers, and, notwith mending he knew my condition, tee text day, Sunday, the ltith of November, I was selected as one of the hos twee' a I Mardi" he continues, f‘ of a great many of our pri. Boyers who had been bayonetted and diet. I saw three cf them—tee that had been bayonetted. and on- of Dunn shot. Otte was named Louis Francis, of the New York Fourteenth. Helmet received fourteeu bayonet wounds— ore through hie privatee--and ate teed one wound very noteh like mine, on the knee. in commuuenee of which his leg was amputated after twelve weeks had passed ; and 1 would state here that in regard `o his case, when it was deterruitted to amputate his leg, I heard Dr. Pea chy, the rebel surgeon, remark to one of his young as eleleffilei ' 1 won't be Wee) j YOU Pen d 9 if j' and the young man am it. I saw a number in my room. many of whom beer been badly amputated The nape over the stump were drawn teo tight, and some the bones pro true ed. " A man by the name of Prese , tt (the same referred to In (ha hl.4iiitiatiP el gilP/M6h itoliii.ioo) lthin ism uhttoti twice, and was then, I think, moved to Richmond the tats were healed. lireecott dad under this treat ment. I heard a rebel doctor on the steps below my II OM say, 'that he wished he could take out the hearts of the d—ii Yankees as easily its ho could take off their 'bee' home of the Southern gentlemen treated me very i handsomely. Wade Hampton, who was opposed to my ' battery, came to see me and behaved like a generous mem)." II appears, as a part of the history of this rebellion, Boa aen. Ricketts was visited by his wife, who, having Mbt heard that be was killed in battle, afterwards that he was alive but wounded, travelled under great difficul t ties to Manassas to see her husband. He nays: "ens ' had almost to tight her way through, but succeeded finally in reaching me on the fourth day after the bottle. Treece Were eiabt persons in Mt Lewis iloute, at Mana7l,ll i to the roam where I lay. and my wile, for the weeke, dIAPI in that room, on the floor by my side, without a bed. When we got to Rictuuoud there were- six of us ID &room, among them col. w apex, who nimbler:id with us until he Waft taken to Charleston. There we were all in one Yootll - amino daur to it. It was numb as ft would be here if Mt Pletild iiikV Off the deers of this committee rot 113, and then fill the passage with wounded soldiers. 'ln the hot summer mouths the stencil from their taymeas, i...,a front the ulenelle they awed, was fearful. limn) was no privacy at all, because, there being no door, the room could not be closed. We were there as a common show. COMMA Wilcox and myself were objects of iuterest, and were gazed upon ae if we were a couple of sae i.g, e. The people would cocoa 'ln there and say all sorts of thing* to ua and about us, until I was obliged to tell them that 1 was a prisoner, and had nothing to say. On our way to Richmond, when we reached Uor doneville, waoy women crowded around the cars, aid tithed my wife if she evoked, If rho washed, how the got there, Finally, mrs, Ricketts appealed to the officer in charge, and told him that it was not the Memnon that we should be subjected to this treatment, and if it was continued etie would make it known to the authorities. General John eedi took my wifels ERPtillint and Minn at Ifshowsits, kept them, and has them yet far aught I knee. When I got to Richmond, I spoke to several gentlemen about time and so did Mrs. Iticketta The. said, of course. the carriage ae.d horses should be returned; but they never were "There is env debt," says this gallant soldier, "'that I octant Yery much IV pay, and muffing Boarded me so mun h now as the fact that me Sounds prevent me from enteriber upon active service at once." 7Le case of Louis rranalr, who was terribly wetted.] IWO liffiliftelfedi and 1 . 4 S a leg, le referriel tv by Herrera' ltd' tette; Out the merimony of Yreencia trinister to start ling. lie welt a private in the New York Fourteenth re giment. He say s: ..1 was attacked by two rebel soldiers, and wumidedin the right knee with the bayonet Ae F lay on the and they k, pt bayonetting me until f received fourteen ono. de. one then left ~,n, the ellud"-Parlealuin a , over me, when a Union soldier coming up, shot him in the breast, and he fell dead. I lay en the ground until 1G o'clock next day. I was then removed in a wagon to re build:us ; 111) Mounds examined and pat Daily dressed._ tin the MitureaY relining W# w.m.e carried lv Diti -1 "lacers, and from there to the grosses le - mph - al at Meh mond. My leg having partially mortified, I consented that it should be amputated. which venation was per- I termed be a young man. I instated that they should al ow Dr. Swath. to be present, for I wanted one liaion pa ,. ,h-re 11 I died andel. the' of,el-8,t1611_ The eetekei and the band clipped front negh et, and the hone pro truded ; and 'about two weeks after soother operation was yellowed, at which time another piece of the thigh bone RM. &awed off. Six weeks after the amputation, and he tet.. it heeled. I was removed to the tobacco factory, Two operatiotes were subsequently perfumed on Francie--ohe at Fortress Monroe and one at Brooklyn. New York—after his release from captivity. Revolting as these di.closuree are, at was when the coremittet, cattle to examine witnevere in referents to the treatment Cr our heroic dead that the ilourie.it spirit of the rebel leader, was most promi- ently exhinited. Daniel Bixhy, Jr., of Washington, testifies that he went out in company with G. A. Smart, of Cambridge, felsrlOX. chosen!), wee went to search for the body of hie brother, vb., fill at Rlackhurnte Ford in the action of the ltith Of July. They found the grave. The &dhoti were idol:M ittel as those of lila brother on account of some peculi arity in the make, tor they h .d been meets by ht- motner ; and, in order to identify them, other clothes made by her were taken, that they might compare them. •• we mend ee bead in the g ram, and no Is SR6lll5f any litd—nothing but the clothes and portieres of the flesh. Wo found the roman of throe other halloo MI touothor, The clothes were there i some 11 . 00 was left, but no bones." The witness also rambles that Mrs. Pierce But ler. who live, near the place, said that etre had open the rebels boiling portion. of the bodies of orirdead in order to obtain their bones as reqes. They could not waft for them to decay. hiss said that she had seen 4eurnstlcke made of ". Yankee shinbones," ac they coifed them. Sire. Butler abo stated that she had seen a skull that one of the New Orleans artillery had, which, he said, Ire Wee going to send home and hare mounted. and that kre tended to drink a brandy punch out of it the day he was married. Frederick fich9l4ll l of the city of Brooklyn, Now YOlllll testified that lie proceeded to the bitttle-field of Bull Blur on the fourth of tide mouth (April) to find the placer where be supposed hie brother's body was buried. Mr. Seimles, who is a man of un•tuestioned character, by his testimony fully confirms the statement,, of other wit news. lie met a free negro, 1151 11e4 Shawl or Simone, who Mated that, is wise a common thing for the rebel soldiers to exhibit the hones of the Yankees. I found," he says, it in the bush,,,, In the neighbor hood, a part of a %once° uniform, with the sleeve sticking out of the grave, and a portion of the pants.' loons. Attempting to pull it up, I saw the two ends of the grave wore situ unopened, but the initiale had hoon prised up, pulling up the extremities of the uniform at some places, the sleeves of the Oda in another, and a portion of the pantaloons. Dr. Swaim (ono of the cur_ goons, whose testimony has already been referred So) Plut.d out the frenetie* wherte the Oeeelisioniste had buried their own dead, and, on examination, it appeared that their remains had not been disturbed at oil Mr. &hob s met p tree negro.'named Hampton, who resided near the place. and when he told him the manner in which these bodies had been dug up. he said he knew it bad been done, and added that the rebels had commenced digging bodice two or three day. after they were bortwi, for the purpose, at first, of obtaining the button" °lithely uniforms, and that afterwards they disinterred them to set their bonee. lie said they ban taken rails and pushed the ends down in the centre under the middle of the bodice, and prised them up, ss The Information the tingion of n".1...vt. Pr.A— lin Lewie corroborated telly the statement of this man, Ilampton. They Said that a good many of the bodice bad been stritgs. naked on the held before they were buried, and that some were hurled naked. I went to. Mr. Lewis' I cruse and spoke to him of the manner in nsis 0h these bodies had been disinterred. lie admitted tliat it was infamous, and condemned principally the Louisiana Tigers. of General Wheat's division. He ad mitted that our wounded had been very badly treated." In confirmation of ttie testimony of Dr. Swaim acid Dr flomintom thin witness avers that Mr. Lewis mentioned a 'mother of instances of men who had been murdered by had suraical treatment. Mr. Lewis was atrial I that a pestilence wonlill break out in consequence of the dead being left unburied, and stated that he had gone and waroed the neighborhood and had ihr. di ad burirth tanning his own man to waist in doing so. '•Ein dubday Intuiting (yesterday), 1 Went out in wirch of my brother's grave We found the trench, and dug for the bodies hslow. They were eighteen inches to two feet below the surface. arid hail been hustled iu in any way. In one cud of the trench, we found. not morn than two or thr4e inehaa bein4 , the aurface, the thighbone of a man which had evidently been dug up atter the burial. At the other end of the tt ench, ee found the shinbone of a man, which had bees struck - by a musket bail and split. The bodies at the °ids Mid been pried up. tt While digging there, a party of soldiers came along and showed us a part of a shinbone, five or six inches long, whh b had the end sawed off. They said they had found it, among many other pieces, in one or the cabins the rebels had deserted. From the appearance of it, pieces bad bee sewed off to niche linger , rings, At soon as the 'peafowl noticed this, they said that the rebels had had rings made of the hones of -wur dead, and that they had It em for sale in their camps. When Dr. Swaim saw the boor, ho said it was a part of the shinbone or a man. The soldiers represented that there were lots of these honest nattered through the rend huts blush,' ~,lo:;•leas." &c. Mr. Lewis and his negroes all spoke of Gel. James Cameron's body, and knew that L. it had been stripped, anti also where it lied been buried." &Ir. Sehoi e s, i g snewer to a question of one of the committee. descrilyrd the different treatment extendt d to the Union soldiers and the rebel dead. Tim lett. r had little headboards placed at the head of their respective graves and marked ; none of tht ni had the appearance of having been disturbed. The evidence or thatdisangniebed and patriotic citi zen, Bon. William Sprague, Governor of the State of Rhode 7cland, confirms and forams same of the most re vblthiu stutementa of formtr witneseee. Idie object fu visiting the battle. field was to recover the bodies of Co lonel Slocum Mill Major Halloo, of the Rhode Island re giment. Ile took out with him several of his own men to identify the graves. On reaching the place he states that t , we commenced digging for the betties of (Una Sgteittai wed Mal& IlallnG ttl a dw.t o out to us by there man who had been io the actioo. _ . . s , While digging, some negro women - came n p and as. ell whom we were looking for, and at the same time said that • Color el Flocuo' had been dug up by the robels, by Mlle men of a Georgia regiment, hia heed out tiff. and his body taken to a ravine thirty or forty yards be low, and there burned. We stopped digging and went to the spot designated, where we found coals and ashes and btu es mingled together A lirle distance from there we found a shirt (still buttoned at the neck) l and a Manses with lar g e quantities of hair up -n it, everything indicating the burning of a body there. We returned and dug down at the spot indi cated as the grave of Major Ballou, but fon id no body there; but at the place pointed nut as the grave whets Col Slocum was butted, we found a box, which, upon dieing raised and op. ned, was found to contain the body of Col. Slocum. The soldiers who had buried the two bodies were satisfied that the grave which had been opened, the body taken out, beheaded, and burn-d, wee tl at ct Major Ballou, because it was not in the spot u here Vol.:locum was buried, but rather to the right of it. They at once said that the rebels had made a Mi./bath, and had taken the body of Maj. Baltou for that of Col. Slocum. The shirt foam] near the place where the body was burned I recognized as one belonging to Major Balton, as ] bad been very intimate with him. We gathered up the ashes containiug the psrtiou of his remains that ware l..ft. and isul !Mtn iu a coffin_ !anther with hid end the bleak. with the hair Mlt neon It. alter we had done ti is we went to that portion of the field where the battle bad first commenced, and began to dig for the remains of Captain 9os er. We brought a soldier with us co deyig nuts the piece where ho was rippled, 14 Ada 1190 wonudetl in the bailie, sod had moon from Clip window of the bonze where the Captain was interred. On opening ths'ilitch or trench. we found it filled with soldiers, all buried with their faces downward. On taking no some fear or five, we di-covered the remains of Captain row,r, thoee' of the IritU• took them, placed them in a coffin, mid brought them horns. In rept) to a question of a member of the committee, as to whether he was satiefien that they were buried in tentionnily with their laces dowfiward, Gov. Bpragne's answer was, ti Lidoubtedis ! Beyond all controversy I" and that nit wag dove ass mark of indignity." It as. ewer to another question, as to what their object could have been, especially in regard to tne body of Catena( Slocum hr replied, a Sheer brutality, and nothing else. They did it cn account of his courage and chivalry, in fotein s Lin eeeimeo t, fearlessly seed heevely, op th-ot- Ide de=frayed about one-half of that Georgia regiment., which was made up of their beet citzeus " When toe inquiry was put whether he thought these barbarities were committed by that regiment, he responded, s: By Mei Mlle ft gimeut as I was EMIL" Whit their own Brat) lime buried with marble timid and root stouesi gull MIMI! upon them, ours were buried, as 4 have statvd. in titumbes. This eminent winless emeindem his testimony as foiews: "1 have published an ord,r to my second regiment, to which these officers were attached that I shad not be sariefled with what they alma do neless toey give an account of one rebel killed for each of their ow u number " The members of your committee might content them selves by leaving this teettniony to the Senate and the People without a mid of comment; but when the enee Wes of a just and generous Government are attempting to excite the sy mpathy of diel.yal men in our own coun try, and to solicit the aid of t 'reign Governments by the grossest mists pr. scum! ions of the objects of the tear and of the connuct of the olli.-ers and so!diere of the ft w poli c , !lie, the mutt starving ovidence of Their inethetelty and ithornaroty, deserves tome notice at our hands History will be examined in vain for a parallel to this rebellion. against a good Government. Long pre pared for by ambitious num, who were made doubly confident of success by the aid and counsel of former Administrations, and by the Nita that their plane were unobserved by a magnanimous people they pre cipitated the war at a moment when the General Administration bed just been changed. under circum stances of astounding perfidy. Without a single reit sooahlo ground of cootelatot and to the face of prayed marrfestations of moderation and peace on the part of the President and his friends. they took up arms and declarsd that they would never surrender until their rebellion bad been recognized, or me institutions es- Itiblatil t our filbert hod Dftu dratroycd. Tht people of the loyal States, a; lam couvincea that they could pre• Bette their libel ties only by an appeal to the God of bat tles, rushed to the standard of the Republic in response to the call of the Met* Magistrate. Every step of this monstrous treason has been n 006,1 byviolence 1001 crame.No krammgre.dion 11413 been ter, greet and no wt oug too idler:ling for its leaders. They thereat. , ded the sanctity of the atbs they bad taken to support the Constitution; they reendiatad all their obligetions to the people of the free Stotts j they deceivrd bbd betrayed their own inilowToitizena, and crowned their armies with forced !MIMI they drove from their linnet all who would not yield to their despot ism, or filled their prisons with men who would not en list under their flag. They have now crowned the rebel nob by the perpetration of deeds scarcely known even to ellYege The investigations or your committee have esta blished this fact beyond controversy. The witnesses called before us were men of undoubted veracity and character. Some of them occupy high positions in the army- eta others high poeihous in civil lite. Dif firing iu pelitiClll fltafilMentili their Mittens rescind rtnierhable concurrence or opinion and tifjudgment. Our fellow-countrymen. heretofore sufficiently fm• pressed by the generosity dud forbearance of the Govern ment of the United States. and the barbarous character of the crusade against it, will be shocked by the otate zue.is of }twee uoiropeoehod Ond ooinkpeetoloablo ne , .see. and foreign latticing mu-t, with one accord, how ever they have hesitated heretofore, consign to lasting odium the authors of crimes which, in all their details, extern the worst raceme of the Septum of India. Inhumanity to the living has been the leading trait of the rebel leadere, but it wae reserved for your committee to diulose, se a concerted eyetent, their insults to the wounded, and their mutilation and desecration of the gallant dead. Our soldiers taken prisoners in bottorolle battle hayt been subjected to the most shameful treat. Went. All the considerations that inspire chivalric emotions and generous e.msideistion fur brave men have been as segai did. It is almost beyond belief that men fight ing in such a cause as ours, and sustained by a Govern- Mt nt alneli in the midst of violence and treaohery hag given repeated evidences of its indulgence, should have been sajected to treatment never before resortel to by one foreign nation in a conflict with another. All the courtesies of professional and civil life seem to have boa discarded. fit & +eery reveal ocdealoa, kokttd btvu e 4 ntrvile'd humane feetums, at ter the battle of Butt Ilem coolly proposed to bold Geu. Rick etts as a hostage for one of the murderous privateers, and the-rebel surgeons disdained intereourve stud Collllllll6lCll lion with our own Burgeons, taken in honorable battle. The outrages upon them lid will revive the recollections of the cruelties to which manta tithes subject I heir prison ers. They were buried In many cages naked, with their feces downwatd. They were left to decay on the open pir, their bent B earth Off as 111/0101. 1 sometimes, all the testinillhY MIMI, to be used as personal adornments, nod of e witness deliberately aeerft that the fiemi of ono of our most gallant officers one cut "if by a S , Ceerfotliet. to be turned into a drinking cup on the occasion of his mive- Tinge. Illonetions es thie revelation may Meer to bbi van' committee rave bten int/A.lllcl that daring the Wel two weeks the atoll of a Union soldier learkbeen exhibit ed in the Rice of the eergeaut-at-arms oa thy Rouse pr Itelerreentativea, which had been convortml smell' a mrpose. and which had been found on the pare rd Oyu& of the retal prisovera akert I. a recent iouflick. The Gel flowery of Governor Sprague. of Rhode Island, to mot intermitting. It confirms the worst reports against the re bel soldiers. and conclusively proves that the body of one of the bravest officers in the volunt.er servim was burned, lie deer not hesitate to add that this hyena desecration or the nouorro cerpsO wee 0000000 tne rebels believed it to be the body of Colonel Shicom, against wte no they were infuriated for having displayed so much cottage and chivalry in forcing his regiment fearlessly and bravely upon them. These disclosures, establishing. I.e.:de/dill, do. the zahairtrdit Inktiminity of tee rebel leaders, will he read with sorrow and i rod igroition by the people of the loyal States. They should inspire three people to remwed exertions to protect our country from the reatotation to power of such men. They should, and we believe they wiii. arouse the and horror of foreign nations against this unholy renellion. Let it Le curs to furnish, nevertheless. a continued cent] ant to such barbarities and crimes. Let us porde- Tyre in the good work of maintaining the authority of the Cunetitution, mid t r Terming to imitate the moue ileum practical we here been called np in to IniMatigatee Your committee beg to say. in conclusion, that they have not let been enabled to gather testimony in regard to the addluotord inquiry suggerted by the resolution of the eenefe. ehether Indian savages have beau employed lot tits ikellials It. mi haft eteelee MLitt the Uovernment of en ifeelled States, and how finch wa fare has been gemlike. d by the said savage,. but that they have taken the wiser steps to attend to this imp errant duty. B. F. WADE, Chairmen. Colonel Lee and Major Revere Exchanged. itinimie, April 30 —Colonel Lee and name Revere bare lit en exchanged, and being thus ',bored of their parole, will etert to join their regiment at Yorktown inma.ccliattiy. The North American Ott Father Point. QUXBRC, April :O.—The 'Mauler North Aoptrioan 'pimp pelltur Point at 11,3 i e'dock list might. Her ad- MA'S Virre received via usp. A French War Steamer at New York NEW YORE Audi 30.—Tht• Fit:mob war. rammer 4%- yiradeTg *hived at this pill, this evening, from flaysna, The Ssaiiish frigate Baba Candi= sailed [polity. Strainer Off Cape Race. ET. JOHNS. N. F , April 29 —A large Rican= Palmed Nue kae4 An Monday morning. bound 9 rVia- Her name la Watauga. XXXVIITH COMM-MST SESSION. VIEWS ON THE CINIEHIMITIOS HILL, Speeches *I Slemirs. Wilmot, Wright, Coo/l , and Hale. The Purchase of 6,000 Carbines by Gen. Fremont. THE GOVERNMENT TO ADJUST THE CLAIM CONVICTION UPON EX-PASTE TECTINONT, TAKEN IN COMMITTEE, CONDENSED. The House Opposed to Private Contracts for Supphes. WASIMIGTON, April 30, 3)62. SENATE. Taxation. Mr. MASIIIB (WT.), of New York, premented a me- mortal Imre the ClimbPr of Commerce of New York, in relation to the ustem of taxation. Itehel iiariparitirs al. Manassas. Mr. WADY. Olen.), of Ohio, from the Committee on the Comilla of the war, made a report in relation to the barbarous treatment of the soldiers at Matmeass. Ordered to be minted. - • Mr- 1 "/ " 7 4 .. (IL), of Itliono, moroll to print on a, eitr r. neforred to the Committee on Printing. Washington and Georgetown Railroad. Mr. MfinitlLL (R.P.), or Moine, from the Commit tee on the District of Colombia, reporter a bill to Incor porate the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Com pany. Adjutant General's Departirmirlet. • Mr WILSON (Rev.), of Illatoachusette, introduced bill for the better orgaidzation of the Adjutant Geueral's Department. Referred. Homestead Bill. On motion of Mr. WADY., the homestead 1M was taken up XI% CARLILE (IL), of Virginia, offerei a substitute or pie bill. The consideration of the bill was postponed till to-mot row. Military Hospital Mr 112.3M11.11 (Dem.), of Oregon, introduced a hill to Alfiend the act of 180., providing for a nidimry hospital for invalid Hoidiots. Arrest of Kentuckians. Mr. rowell'a resolution, Watt , ' on the Secretary of State for information uoneerniug the urroat of persons in the state of Kentucky, was taken up. Dlr. VOWELL (Dem ), of Kentucky, laid that he had been much amazed at the opposition to this reeolu.. hon. The eubetisute, offered by the Senator from Mae. sachablia (Mr. WAR 11WPRIS, an to av id getting the information ached fur. . . Be Paid the Secretary of State bad arrested these men in palpable violation of the Constitution, usnrped the powers i , ebinging to the body of the magistracy, and trampled under toot the most sacred constitutional Head of genatorfr.,rn younted to ehtelli the Secretary of State from the just in dignation of tto people. Lie wanted no shuffling off of the question. If the Secretary of State had not manli ness enough to refuse to violate the Constitution at the tacking eTVII of the President, thou he wee unworthy of confidence and a mere tool. hlr. WILSON (Rep ), of Massachusetts, said the Se nator from Kentucky was standing up hors today ar raigning the Administration for the acts it had Boon aid heaping words of opprobrium on the Secretary of State _woreti offers dva to the gamic , out to lova men of the country. Confiscation Bill The morning hour having expired, the coulise atiou bil was taken up. SP! VA! 91 Mr. Wilmot. Mr. WILMUT (Rep.), of Pennsylvania, said the bill proposed to free the slaves of the rebels and confiscate the mop rty of traitors. He was in favor of the provisions of the bill. He would give freedom to the slave of every rebel, and truetto the policy of the President to work out gradual emancipation. Be couteuded that a aver? was the true relsellimi, for it had ire cause except hawed to republican institutions, arid it wa. the duty of the Government to to cripple the power of slavery as to in• sure the future safety of the Government. The right of Lhe Pir km to self. defence is well settled by all authori ties. 8 " it was right to 09 pll Shat Wile nocoodary for eelf-cefence, lie coutended that the bill wee iu no way 011• noxious m the international law.- Nobody supposes that its passage would provoke the hostility of eel" nation. Indeed, the pa , sege of the emancipation portion of the hill would receive the plaudits ofthe - right to coivo toe pi opt rty of alien encodes is well settled i hat it was contented that when a person was both a piddle enemy and a perjured traitor, then we ino,t not touch his property. 1 his was simply absurd; the Go vernment lute the right to mimeo both the right of a belligerent and a envereign against the rebels (He qaottli at some length the derishm of Jnetice Sprague, of ?Massa. husetts.) Neither is the bill unconstitutional in regard to being a bff IL of attainder. The Constitution Funirly provides that is C 0112131011 law the cons , ouaricsa or ettniotlrr Hall not f011, , w hen Aro rebel ro. fugees to he allowed to live iu affluence in foreign coun tries irom the proceeds of their great estates hero . ? The bill has to feature of a bill of attainder, or a bill of pains and penalties. He contended that the pasiage of the hill was demanded by the strongest considerations of justice. The rebellion must be crushed out, and the leaders &Omit from the country. or punished, and their property con iterated. Speech of Mr. Wright. Mr. WItIGIiT (II.), of Indiana, said he was in favor of some confiscation bill. The rebellion tenet be crusued tiud hu centrally hoped for the towage of eurne zursaurn for tho conflecittion of the property of those en• gaged in rebellion. The Government hue forborne till forbearance had become dishonor. It wee time that tresses, cones, whither in the form of rebellion or the mate iva idii.um guise of free speech, which gloats over b4t451 01....tade whisk hvatimitt, lha Union. Ile referred to the character of the war, and said thtre wore two hinds of war. Oue he would call perfect war, which was a war between one independent nation and another. Ile would designate the otter as a mixed or civilltr Ths perfect war iR under the control of find lea s, known as +he laws of nations but the ease is very diff.-rritt with civil wer. In the present war, line of the patties btaltC a in the double relation of enemies at..d citi- ZOOS. It was a mere aggravation of crime Committed by individual citizens, whivh had grown to the climensldgp Cr a war, and the war against them ebould oe viewed as an attempt Id arrest them fur orioles. No nation has any light to interiors with us in the treatment of our own criminals. lie was tired of bearing the leaders of this rebellion called ..orettiren." They bad shocked the civilized aorta by their unparalleled barbaritint, and trio) are our mortal toes, and snould be treats I Si Buell. Ile alto conterded that, as the armies go South. tltey must be subsisted upon the rebels, and those who hal broken the p.-ace should be obliged to supp3rt thoi.e who conic to reetore it. lie would give the rebels sixty days io 1,. ; - dowo rhea arme, ancl :hose why poreiet in di, re bellion should suffer the consequences. . Speech of Mr. Cowan. COWA3T (Rep.), of Pennsylvania ' spoke at some leumili in four oi his motion to the bill to a ipncial committee, tie wee as much in favor of proceeding against the rebels as any man, but there seemed to be great differences about this measure, and he proposed to send all the different measures to a committee, so that arruothing tensible might be Nought out. All the rebels V..{1,111t 1111 10 Ct 311,71 CO /1,,,,tRa ie tioosihmiott sue way, and he thought they would du that very thing by pass' , g the lulls of attainder. There wee soother idea which steno d to be above everything in yie minds of some that is the emancipation of the staves. lf the ear nit conducted on that principle, and for that purpose, it will niche the South a unit against us, and a unit over yueli au event of territory cannot be subdued. This is a Goveinment cd the prod'o, 'nub we nines not ignore entirely a e opinions of a large portion of the reople. We are fighting to restore the Consti ii.od to do tioa .ea esiist h easeful Mid cited by the I', nAitution ourselves. Tole war must be governed by the laws of war. The old contiscat . bills oily owl tinned the war. awl made feuds forever. Hs thought that all old party differences should cease, and we should /MTV MT icy 9Pnot—tv put &nit the rePplilon Speech of Mr. Hale. II&LE ( Rep ), of New Hampshire, said that eve ry question under Heaven seemed to be discussed on this tamp). proposition. To-day the country was in a state of war, and tho property of Union men till over the South bad been seized or destroyed, and they themselves art yen our. To•da> the rebel spies were in the employ of the Government. while the Union men were driven out to mauve. He was opposed to referring this matter to a committee, because he wanted action. The people de ntal:tied action, and it the tleaate retuee to act they will lied that they are not the a:morns:tont, but that there is a people who are really the Government. It was time that we should do soutething. and our 811 Out," es seems to infect everything. We had a winter nem raign oh the Niemen, and now seem likeli to hare a totem( r cumpeign at Yorgtown. He tuouaht if there it at , any deert in the bill it die tot go fat enough. He wanted t °teething to touch the rebels in our very midst here. They lice everywhere. as way be seen in those weekly met-smile where eo• called teachers of the Gospel Mitt to read the ;doer fliChtted 17 a patriot , hotted for ttx victory of the Government. and Whore, when read, frerenna go on; of the church, turning their hawks on the alter of faith and their country. Mr. Mel (item.), of California, rebuked the levity of Hr. Dale, and epolo, at length. contend itig that the bill would tend to create war and wail. DU It. Amendment to Mr. Cowan's Motion. Nr. 'HOWARD (Rep ), of Michigan offered an amend ment to Mr. Cowan's motion of reference, with iuetruc• 1.144..4 to the aawtntttr a to being in a hill for the eonQeea tinn of the prop-rts of all th« leading ittattraeat4. gad the etuaecipallau of the slave!' of all persona who have taken up arm,. awainFt the United States. D.tvis moved to amend Mr. Howavi's amend, Meta by etrililvg Grit all Oat rulato to Notuicipatioa. liejectra . . IRAs—Messrs. Cathie, Davie, Henderson, Latham, McJrugyll. Nesmith, Powell, Saulsbury, Stark, Willey, and Wilson (Bio )-11. NAY*-27• Mr. LivIVABD then withdrew bia amendment. Amendment. Mr. DOOLITTLE (Rep.), of Wisconsin, offered an eantnciment to Mr. Cowan's resolution, that the commit tee shall report on next Monday or Tuesday. Adopted. Mr. Cowan's Artesian ite l ected. Alter tut [her discussion ! Mr. Cowau'e motion Co War was irjectia, nAg, FciptA 4 46p !Lep.) esmith (Dem. V . 9 4ier (Aep 1 nywell (Drum. Henderson (II.) Saulsbury (Dem ) Howe (Rep) Starke (Dem.) Latheun (Dem.) Willey ( McDougall (Dem.) Wilson (U.), Mo. 1. 1 1 - 914 Din g (1 p,) Garble (U , Coilnmer (Rep.) Cowell (Rep.) Davi. (Union) Doolittle (Rep.) NAYS_ King (Rep.) Lane ( Rep.), Ind. Lane (11 ) Kansas Morrill (Rap.) Pemee69 (LUIS-) Sherman /I!^^ 1 SiiiiMer ( ep.) Anthony (Rep.) Chandler (Rep.) Clark (RaP-) Dixon (Rep.) Griv.ee (f 3 p.) nAle(ilep.) Name ()pp) Ho raid (Rep.) The Eounto then adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Confisention and Emancipation. Mr ELIOT (lief.), el" BlAseettunetta, submitted titiO tainsi one to Colln.celte rebel property and vrovido for the pe) men; of the expt-nees of the wawa rebellion, and 1e other purposes; tire other to free the slaves of rebeiff egainet the Governsaemt. Ramrod to the Select C~ae t fir. ItialllFFE (U. ji of Kentucky. sated lam to Kari duce a yesolation natrairing by ',that antboritY Gem Il utter had lePil , A are ordt-r to emancipate MATH. hir. HUTCHINS, of Ohio, Mr. LOVEJOY, of Illinois, and (there. objected. Resolution' on Government Contracts, The resolutions reported by the Cotntalttee on Con tracts were taken up. Dlr. STEVENS.' motion to lay them on the table was reject. d. The Winn ins resolution of the aeries Iles rtti4 ; Resolved, That the Secretary or the Treasury he ra mp an d to adjust the claim against the Government for the five thousand Hall carbines purchased through Simon Stevens, Ifea by Gen Jot ti C. Fremont, on the QUI doy of August, 1801 and afterwards delivered at the vuttep 6 R ll ti l ff ArPv!'O', ab the fir of 9t . tools on the basis f a sale of snrh arms to the government for #l.l. each, rejectivg all other demands against the Govern ment on account of the purchase of the said arms. An unr ucceradul effort aan made to amend the reso lution, t y makiug it vim! " purclionst from blown Stevens " Mr FENTON (Ern.), or Now York, moved to amend the resolution, by adding: Provided, that nothinghereln contained shall be en construed as to exonerate the Go• vertoment ft OM the pas went of any claims arising from •i'...tifteatssnit..44 hi , ;La thor,rec admired the government. Thin wan rrjectel—) 53. against 71 . The Resolution Adopted TLs rarrhillen, as originally renOritd, Was adOldsda. rsaii 120. nays 28. Mr. Colfax's Resolution Adopted. Mr. COLFAX'S resolution was adopted—yeas 90, nays 91. It 11 as t-llowa • - Resolurd, That the come adop'i d by the Naval Ins vestignuog Committee of IEOI, of ci minuniasting to the officers of the Government copies or the evidence apps reedly to them and giving them an opportunity to mosa-examine the aitnesses against them or to refute or explain their testimony, is, in the opinion of this Houss, Veol-11,7 h stiern whorewer pra.clicallhn by the, tnee.4l - connutttroa appotuted by order of the louse of Bepreeet tativee, especially where the said committees re m ire sod collect such testimony in secret sessfor and thee it le contrary to the plail.est principles of justice to c4lidenlll any citizen upon ff pork DTI4PUN HAM egelnet hint by a committee in tvcret, nue the Baum 91 Mitch ha not if praelfeablei tier laid Won him fryttle soh) ormemittee with an opportroity to explain or nide H, before the), report L made Odic. ?fie following renolution, aa reported b 7 the vomudtteof wee adopted : Employment la Irresponsible rartlep-orTrlyate Resolved, That thirprectice of employing irreetittredhle porgies having boot/eh/A eotmer,tion with !bb Clovertenent in the performance of petite donee which may be' Per i orm ed by the regular of2cere of the Goyernment, and of purchasing by private contract supplies for Chet dilfarinst WNW, Mtn,/ 70)er9 CM and hay competition' might prole rly invited by winnower.% eid rertlawnenta Per proper p ro p c ,..i., L injIMOMI to the public *orrice, and tattle the asquoiilled diuspprobatiow of Ink) Houle. The following rosolutlon, twe subreireet by Mr, ritiL , MAN (nun.), from the mmlllllloll% wise mad! Aeseked, that Sirton. Camaro% lute Secretary of Wer. by insetting Alexander Cammings with The terse trot or ewes sums of the public money, uutherity ttr iebase water" oupprhurvnthout restriction, without rwintring trout him any guarantee for the faithful per -I.OIIIIMICO tof lilt cubes., when.the services . of competent Public °Muer, were avallatte 6 and by Involving the Go• rennin nt to o ran October of contracts with. persousnot legitimately engaged to the bnelness pettahring to the subject metier pf such contructe--eepecielly tug the ear chip& of arm for future delivery—has atlbpteee a polio/ highly iblllteatie 4o Mc public acs ice, and ab..rvio g the eenimrs of this house. ' 'lbis retro:ll7lon wee adopte34 by it , vete. etr 7.6 yeas against. 45 nay B, : Aldrich (Bea , )' Allen (Dvta.)y Aeceba ( Dem )) Bailey (llenr.ylla Baker (Rep.)/ Biddle (Dem.)) Blair (Rep.); MDI Browne (U.), Re I( Buffinton (Bep.)l Calvert (U.) Cagey. Clark (Rep ) 1332221 Cobb. (Dem.) Conklieg,Fred. A (ReP.) Corning. COX (earn Crieheld (U.,) Crittenden (U ) Cutler (Rep.) Lewes (Rep.) Delauo (Rep.) Dunlap (U,) Dunn (Rap.) Arnold (Rep.) Bal.bitt (Rep.) Boma!! (BM) Bingham ( Rep ) Blair (Rep.), Pa. Blake (Rep ) Burnham (Rep.) Campbell (Rep.) Chamberlain (.11 ) Colfax (Rep.) Conkiipp, B. (R.) Duell (Rep.) • Bdperton (Rep.) Eliot (Rep.) (Rep,) Fesekadep (RPD.) Mr. Bolroaa'a second resolution woe then read,.ne fol— lows: Resobcd, That tho Storotary of elm Navy, la +ha mi.. ploy mut of Ueorge D. Morgan, without requiting from Lim any guarantee for the faithful performance of his duties in the purchase of a large number of versolefor the public use, with a compensation dependent on the prices paid for much vessel!, receivable from•tho. oeller r instead of el:opt°, tog responsible, officers of iue o warn. mut, has adopted a talky unauthorised by law, de stiuctive of public economy and public confidence, and deserves the censure of this llou9e. The Resolution Rejected.. Thix remolution was rejected—Fowl 45 1 uage72, Tht ixUrrostivft vole, wan IlLe. ?0110 W Mei,ers. Allen, Ancona, babbitt, Bailey of Penni!flys- Ma, Beaman, Biddle, Blair of Vi:iglais, Caleort, Cle m,nts, Fr.d A. Conkling, Roscoe Cookling, Cox, Cris field, Duidap, Donn, Crider, Hanehett, Hiarding, KjWPP'? Ku!,Po, ftiollorouo, Mallory, ma, 1 : 7 .0a, Pioll7, Ziorion, Pngen, POlldlOs ton,Porter, Whit:son, Rollins of Missouri, filieelle of low Jersey, Thouiss of 'Hartland, Vallaudixhank, Voorhees, Wallace, Washburne, Webster, Wickliffe, Wilson, and Worcmter. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the state of the union on the Pacific•railtoal bill, the , bu,ine,e bring principally confined to perfecting a 'rub sti Lute which had been tatted. The COUhnlltlee roma. Mr. KELLOGG (Rep.), of fdi :Wpm], from the Com mittee on Public Lauda, reported e bill to establinh aland dihtrict in Nevada. The House then adjourned The Details of the Fall of New Orleans Ctino, April .30.—A refugee from rtfemphis reports that the teem of Humboldt was occupied by a emaiL rebel force; engaged in ihrowing no dorm/lye worke. brieg4 Merahhlg Dame of the 28th. They dobtaha but lithe matter, further than a confirmation of the fall of New Orleans. The Asaktnas grumbles that the rebel authorities suppress the details in regal d to the affair, aria rays that 'nothing 1;m; the Ore Not of the surrender is known. The same paper says ties Southern people are fast losing all confidence in their river defence'. It le gene ra•ly acheitie.l. II I ll.e ti ecieral army can he TM iongec successfully resisted. It - also intimates a lack of confi dence in the stability of the Southern Confederacy by adviping its patrons to invest whet money they have In real estate nhlic the Donlon can be made in the cur. rency now In circulation, which consists principally al rebel treasury rote.. The conscription law is being rigidly enforced. The Union men are secreting themselves or flying to avoid its o i per. lot. The same refugee also reports that merchants who are of avowed Secession proclivities are removing their goods to places of concealment and security Large , slumbers of families are moving away daily The idea of Intihihd the fault has basil abaadensd, la 66fi4ddilehell of the determined opposition of propertyholders. It is currently reported, at Memphis, that Bearwegsrd hss not over eighty thousand men at Coriatis p and no hope is entertained of his successfully resisting General Ilaileck, who was believed to have two hundred thou sand men. As our informant left Xeniale it woe reported that rebel g untoia 9eeF from 14.s+ Oi tlha bound up the ricer to join FloMoo' flbot. CAIRO, April 30.—The wear in the Ohio rose es Inch last night, sua is from eta to ten inches above the old levee. The water has been steied by the rtittlnnoo ani maim cor Sin MUM Wi/9 le Goolitully al work with large gangs of men throwing up additional embank. rheas. It ill confidently ea pectcd that in this way the danger will be averted, though a very Blight wind will evidently inundate the city. tam 'muter Is noninnuttaing !made of tI ievee, and in many p'aces is several feet deep. The principal streets are navigated by skiffs. Long trains of troght care stand on the levee, and are OCCGIPIed so dwvilingo bi Mullin no ban boon driven from their homes. FROM GEN. BANKS' COLUMN. rlAiittlanitnette, APPII 28 —General llabkd elSited We. Williams' division hen loot night, and returned to New market to-day. While here he received a despatch from Washington, announcing the Union occupation of New Orleans. The intelligence canned great joy among our army, and corresponding depression among the inhabi. tante, who have been for days past congratulating them. selves and each other that the nest news would be our defeat at Yorktown. A national salute fn honor of the event will be fired at noon to-morrow. Through &caption channels, it is learned that the Go vernor of North Carolina was arrested and imprisoned in Richmond, about two weeks ago, on account of his Untrue scullion% It wee observed today that liens Jackson had moved Lie wagon-train back some elx miles since yesterday, in dicating an intention to retire still further to the rear, or of his entertaining a dread of attack by our forces. A e plactrov o@ onvialry Wow th. ouly Total force disco vered to• day on the right aide of the Shenandoah. These, With oLe wagon, entered the village of MeGaugheystawn. where they remained till about dusk. Tin.y came by the Port iteriuhllo route: We !lava nothing deaf Matellt of the reeart of the et eupati..m of Staunton by Gen. Milroy. The river is Kull too high to attempt a passage with safety. A. dense smoke wee Nen in that direction te•dayt but the came ie unknown. If.teutisonitrun, Va., April 29 —At noon to-day, a Rationed e•alute wee fired from au entinence near tbe town in boner of the event at New °Maul, The regimental bands Rumbled at the court house square, and played t.,:::: the b ilColrubiti." The moldiere gave ntue cheers, and nd followed in the airs of the n Awl, White. ti 11410,1? and fl The Star BDanalatt Bariaari" Atter a mesa the !Ands conardidaled and marched through the principal Mx - veto, playing .4 Yankee Doodle" and "Dixie,. to the disgust of certain prominent MlMl tobta, TAs wcothcr le pica wnt. Three thousand ramie, under Qom - Edward Johnson, formerly of the United States army, are posted a few milk kk from Staunton, but in a position easily accestuble for tecape t in ease of Gen. Milroy's approach. The meet reliable 110 , 1f9 frere CFPTOP/Tik a i 9 4 1 19 atfk-a that only four briglidee are there, hot niitnbering 18,000 men, Longstreot, with hie command, has gone Sit T9ll44Wrik John&Al re4rc't he Will prohablY yoinfortta tien. JOFloon! on Blue IMO, The Bichtnohd Pxantiner, of the 22d, gam in effect t. .1. The destiny of Confederacy is trembling on the result at Yorktown. It' ire ore 511CGC/Iglll, it Will give to six mouths for currying out fllB srniu l Ipkltl6 Ut Maim and equipping a large army, and launching a fleet of Aferrimace ; but if uneuecessful, Virpigia , es tort!" Ten Eyck (Rep.) Trumbull (Rep.) Wade (Rao.) Wilkinson (Rep.) (Bas_) / 1.1 ALVA Wrigkt (Union.) FROM .uA.nrusiguNcs: HONORS TO PVINSYLVANIA REGINISIV. 144 Panliavlvasin Maplist , xt Varklaws_ HARRISBURG, April 30.—The following order has just been lend : ELM VQVA talittS OF TOR PIINF43VT.YARIAMILtrtA, Anuismws. April 30, 1883. In acknowledgment of the gallantry of the Beeentl - iiftrimoßt pf ilifautzTi Pennsylvania vc44oe?flit Colonel F. B. fttliMbangll coamoudlngj al IMO% TOEDit and of the Find Regiment of Cavalry, Penney Wants volunteere, Colonel George D. Bayard commanding, at imouth, Va., it le ordered that "Shiloh, April 7th, 1994 that he iRMPIbOII OR the Sig of the galiwittg. sevroth Regiment of lufautry, and that 4 + l e almonth, April 19th, 1862," be inscribed on the ling of the First Itraiment of Cavalry, and that till order be read at the head of DB the regillithill Of renneyfranio yoluntcvn, By order of A. G. CIIRTINI Governor and Commander-in•Ohief. A. L. Itussutt, Adjutant General. Th 9 QirMagi* MR91411 1,111 0 14 " 1 " we ' Runelh the moat gratifying intelligent& from Cane= General Smith, near Yorktown, in relation to the per. reeled arrangements for the care and prompt transporta tion of the killed and wounded Pennsylvania soldhlre -points l etti i te vo,e pun° heieltal eindhe Itla charge will accommodate over SOO patients, tica, can reach Philadelphia via the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal, than avoiding the roughneas of a sea voyage. Re eobehaka by laying that tovvylynnis le thy Pair Eta eon the Peninsula fully lin Dated for every emer. Hyper, and that these preparations Will undonhtedly..bei instrumental in saving the lives or hundreds or brave men that would otherwise be lost for want of care NA Proper .ccc......c1.1166. MEMMI Mr. Cameron•, Coalraets. YEAS. rnglish (n.) Gooch tup.) AGrider (U.), Mall (II.) taro (.Itern,l tticitarcison, ( Dom) Illbbinson (E.Dem llblline(r..)y)y.H. )bolting gr.)‘ Mlle! (Rep.) Smith Deen , l 9+a la (6.), N.Y. Steel.: (U}; ti. J. Stratton (Rep.) Thomas ( Thernas (U.), 1126... Trlti - OcE , PI). Vallauoighant(D) Verroo (Rep.) Vibbard (Uom.) Voorhees (Dem.) Waiton (Rep.), Irt. Ward pm.) Webetor (IT.) Wheeler (aim.) Wickliffe (.1). Wilson Sep.) Wood ( ( em,) Woodruff! (Main.) I, Haneliett (Rep." 'arding (U.) Harriman (Union). (Item.) Horton (Dep.) Nestigen (Dem.) illlnlklry (II.) May (Derr.) Menzies (U.) MStohell ( Rep.) hlbrrill(ltep) Vt. Morrie (Dens,) Nixon (Rep.) Noble (Dena.) Nnell.( Dem .) Norton !Dem.) Nugen ((Dem.), Odell (Dem.), Petton ( Rep.) reeMet (Dem.) Perry (Dem.) NAYS. Vranchol. (Rep.) Frank (RL:p.) 990 d win (Bop.) Llano; ohnu.) Hooper (Rep.) Witching (Rep.) JIIIIbID (•aep.) Kellogg (R )Mich. Mimi (BO 111. Liauelng'( Rep.) Lehman (Dem.) Lovejoy (Rep.) McPherson (Rep.) Moorhead (Rep.) Motel)) (Rep.)Me. Rice (Rese)4 Ito. Riddle (ittp.) Sergeant (11,0(4 Otligwicii, ono Shanks (R,) Sheffield (U.) Shellabarger (B.) Steverin (Rep ) Trimble (Rog) Trowbridge (IL) Van Valkenourgle (Rep.) Wall( Rep )t Wanner. (RAD.) White 01..)„ Zuct Mr. Morgan's Purchasrss Laud Do'partntent , In Noun.. La FROM MEMPHIS. Suppressed by the Rebels. FROM CAIRO. LATER. (ORNRRIL ORDER 14101 21]
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