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WEDNESDAY.. 1‘1.1 . 1 7, 1862
THE LATEST WAR NEWS
From Louisville, we learn that General Dumont,
with a cavalry force, among which was Wynboop's
Pennsylvania Cavalry, attacked the force, eight
hundred in number, of the rebel Colonel Morgan,
and, after a severe Sght, routed them, taking
nearly all their horses and arms, and one hundred
and fifty ntiSontia. The rebels fled, but General
„Dumont is in t'ull pulL , ull, and 1E IC eeopeAea he
will capture the whole force. Morgan is reported
to have been killed,
On Sunday, a rebel schooner with coal was de.
,patched from Richmond to Put her cargo on
board the Mem 'woe, but the crew run her
aground : deserted her, and surrendered themselves
voluntarily to the Uaion forces at Newport News.
They give a deplorable account of affairs in Rich
mond, and state that the rebel soldiers are hope
lessly demoralized.
The news from General McClellan's army is fin
-portrait, la yens , " Teerfee of the heavy mind add
the wretched condition of the roads, our troops
have not been able to move as rapidly as they would
Ilko to do. ,Fe.0.1.11.CA dieinion has not gone yet to
West Point. General McClellan, in an official do
epatch to Secretary S:anton, states that Joe John
ston, with an army tape i icr in numbers ty 9llr 9W 11 )
is at - Williamsburg, and is determined to dispute
every inch of ground on the road to Richmond.
con Monday tneral Hancocit's division had a fisht
with the rebels, during which our troops took two
redoubts at the point of the bayonet, killing two
-4 1 onels and many privates, and capturing ono
mei slid ono haunted dna - fifty prisoners, The light
was a most brilliant one, and General 'McClellan
highly complimented General Ilancoct's conduct.
General AlcCiellan is confident and hopeful of sun.
The telegraph, for the last day or two, has been
unusually silent in regard to the movements of
General Hellcat's vrtny. Despatches from Cairo
and Chicago state that it is currently reported in
both places that our forces have taken possession
of Corinth, and a large number of prisoners were
taken, while another despatch front Pittsburg,
Lending sa3 - s that our forces are at Monterey
within sound of Ulu robot drum,
Refuge of Rebellion.
With the news of the evacuation of York
town VQ1;11(; ' § a ki,leuarhic announcement {het
BEAUREGARD is evacuating Corinth—"" sending
large bodies of soldiers South." This sudden
and not generally looked for backward moves
meat of the rebels has a peculiar significance.
The plans of the rebel managers cannot, of
course, be precisely known, though BEMIRE
GAItb'S hat Jas DAVI9 under
stands and approves of his course, leads to a
little speculative reflection touching this mys
tery. _ _
It is no secret in political circles that the
cotton lords have fur many years turned a
longing eye to the rich and salubrious table
lands of Mexico. Yerhaps there exists no
country under the sun so well adapted to ren
der slave labor agreeable. In addition to this
its etiolate and productions are just such as
may be imagined desirable and proper for an
aristocratic Arcadia. By its altitude, semi
tropic anti semi-temperate, abounding in all
those varieties of scenery which can please the
eye and delight the senses, selfish indolence,
in its wildest imaginings, could not picture to
itself' a more delghtful retreat. In his mag
nificent hacienda the cotton lord might feel
himself secure from the contaminating influ
ences of enterprise and industry, to effect a
separation from which, he and his fellows en
tered upon this, to them, disastrous war ; and
with his sable retainers he might become a
Don indeed. His isolation from the vulgar
world of men would be complete. His ambi
tion "to rule " could be utterly sated. His
propensity for political scheming could be in=
dnlged to its full bent. No wonder, then,
that these whilom masters of - ours looked upon
Mexico, and coveted her Arcadian expanses.
Suppose, then, drat this sudden and myste
rious abandonment of their strongholds by the
rebels, should in some way be connected with
that old longing for the Aztec Arcadia, and is
it not probable that Dxvis and his co-rebels,
from the first, caught a glimpse of overthrow,
and fixed upon Texas as the place of final
gathering, preparatory to a reorganization for
new alliances and exploits beyond the Rio
iGranct, ? They knew that egress from the
Atlantic and peke might be effectually
cut off. What more natural than that they
should have held the Southwest in reserve for
their exodus, when defence should be no longer
possible ?
The path which leads most directly to this
possible city of refuge is via Vicksburg.
3laking the transit of the river at that point,
the rebel generals could push on into Texas,
and prepare for a last stand. Defeated, as
they would be, they might enter into an alli
ance with the Church party in Mexico; and
essay the overthrow of the existing dynasty
in that distracted Republic. Or they might
ally themselves with di - Attu., and fall upon
the rear of the French invaders. Foreign
interference ended, the subject of a division
of the honors and responsibilities of govern
ment would have to be settled between the
allied Powers ; and who can say that JEFFER
SON DAVIE may mat yet preside over the
eheekered destinies of the Mexican Republic,
and hold his levees in the Halls of the Monte 7
zumas ? We can believe in its probability
with less effort than would have been required
to believe that be would be in the position he
LOW holds six mouths before he entered upon its
duties. Disorder attracts disorderly elements.
Nothing, we apprehend, could be more ap
propriate than the retreat of these disorga
nizem into Mexico. Nowhere else can they
so hopefully go, or more securely hide from a
world with they inu64 heartily hate. True,
it would flit the cup of sorrow for Mexico to
overflowing, and it is to be feared that the
signs which now give some faint hopes of
peace to our distracted neighbor would disap
pear forever when BEAUREGARD should cross
the Rio Grande. As well-wishers to that Re
public, we regret that there is a hue of proba
bility about these speculations. The peace of
the continent demands another issue of the
raattert but should the rebels -cross the Mis
sissippi the road to Texas is unobstructed.
THE OBJECT of the proposed union of loyal
men in this state is to secure a loyal Legisla
tulle and a loyal Congressional delegation. In
order to accomplish these essential things, the
Democratic party, as now orgarrized and Con
trolled, must cease to exist. We refer, of
course, to the organization controlled by REED,
WHARTON, BUCHANAN, L CO- With a genu
ine union of the voters who in their inmost
souls abhor those traitors and their meditated
imam), Pennsylvania will stand redeemed in
October. Such a union is not difficult if all pa
triots will but carry their hearts into the work.
Let no stumbling-blocks in the shape 'of party
names and catchwords be construe.ted. There
can be but two parties, in reality, in the field
next fall. One wilt strike for the Union by
aceumulating strength for the Administration
in the State and National Legislatures. The
other will strive to embarrass the Administra
tion in every way. If our loyal leaders prove
wise and tolerant the last-named party will be
crushed out forever. Let us have no boggling
about names, therefore.
TiE SENAT.F, accomplished a good work
yesterday—a work that the people have long
Poem aeking Pox) aid hava had a Elea to ex_
pest—in the passage of the homestead bill.
its merits and provisions have been fully de
bated in the present and previous sessions_
its passage, at the present time, shows that
our Senators, even amid the more engrossing
business of the war, are not unmindful of the
other interests of their constituency. It is a
just concession to those toiling millions of
freemen who have cast a wistful gaze to the
fresh prairies of the West, where, unfettered
by the servitude of drudging toil, they may
gain a manly livelihood, and become is a pre
mai/sent tivgrec toaul OltUeno of tho noput,-
lie. Should the legislation, of the Senate be
acquiesced in by the House, we may hope to
see our wildernesses blossoming as the rose_
• TUE proceedings of Congress, yesterday,
were of a highly important character—the
,Senate having pawed the Homestead bill - and
the House having adopted the Pacific Railroad
Tnn West Chester Repot/Wean announces that
Ron. JOHN Illorman hvs positively declined being
a candidate for re-election to Congress.
over.tbe-Water Predictions.
Political predictions, made at a distance and
by imperfectly-informed prophets, frequently
are not only but laughable_ To this
class belong the vaticinations of that tremen
dous gas-N-g, the Leyden Times, during the
t..-cly.smonth. From tho first the ct Thu_n
derer " of Printing-House Square prepared
Europe for the immediate and signal triumph
of the revolted Confederate States. One by
one its hopes of this revolt have become, in
PRIOR'S words, "Fine by degrees and beauti
fully less." The Confederate rebels have
been so beaten again and again that they
may be considered as virtually cc used up."
Everywhere the Union is becoming re-estab
llAL-(1);17;4 thy Of N4Mt , Orleans
preceded by only a few days the rebel
stampede from Yorktown.
The Times of the 18th ult• comments upon
the FL deral expectation of speedily taken New
Orleans, and facetiously says this would be
c , tie nt xt thrust of tho swordfish into the
whsle." It does not underestimate, however,
the importance of occupying that great South
c,n metropolis. In the following brief pas
rgez• we can socognlrm " the tine Italian htmcl"
of Dr. IZus - stn, who visited the place last
snminvr, and therefore writes from actual ob •
serration
" The Northern conquerors do not over-estimate
the importance of the conquest for the tidings of
which they are so impatient. New Orleans is the
COMM] (Intl metropolis of the South and the West :
it is the etni,orium of the vast tracts traversed by
the MisEit.bippi and all the great tributaries of that
most mighty of rivers. It has a greater command
of internal navigation than any city in the Old or
New 11 7 411.14.1_ 1 - 15 itA4lf, cc Lk city it is little weeth.
Built upon a flat below the level of the risen river,
it would, peihats, be to the permanent benefit of
its inhabitants it the dykes were cut and the stream
Fcrc IQ 114 W MT it; T. 9. #4l44 its atmosphere alike is fever and death, and even
among the acclimated Now Orleanists the ennui."
mortality is three times that of Boston. It is not
the city, but the position at.the point
maids an - Teo - rnternernavigation which is so
portant. The Southern papers pertinently remind
its defenders that superior cheapness of transpor
tation by water draws thither all the cotton pro
duced in Middle and Western Tennessee, Arkansas,
Faidern TC3IIP, and inimisiippi_ while the tobacao,
hemp, end cereals of the vast Western Empire find
their way thither from the same cause.' The oc
cupation of New Orleans would be a tourniquet
tightened over the great artery of the Seceded
States''
Tint, the Times adds, " Perhaps in the case
of a city where yelhiw fever and cholera hive
in et me yems destroyed one-tenth of the whole
poizulation the best revenge of an invaded
- peovlo wt•uld be to IC, the invaders take and
hold it." The Confederates, however, we are
here told, intonded to retain possession of Kew
0:1, ens, and its dtfenees are described in de
tail thus:
i• New Orleans is a hundred miles from the mouth
of the river, amcl the baulcs aro &a-ailed all the svfty
duWn. At a convenient point there are forts armed
with the heaviest guns, and commanding an artiti
cist dem stretched across the river, and which. is
calculated to delay any naval font:sunder the guns
of the forts for a sufficient time for the artillery to
sink them. These defences, so described, are sus
piciously like those which were prepared by the
Chinese to oppose the passage of the English and
French Recta up the Pelho, and which, ulthousl4
temporarily successful, were readily overcome
when the leaders had learned to respect their
enemy. But, in addition to these, there are, w o are
told, two iron-eased floating batteries, carrying heavy
armaments, and a garrison of thirtytwo thousand
nen, eager for the appearance of the invaders.
The :Slew Orleanists say they are mad with ex
citement and rage, that their hot shot are ready,
their furnaces in complete preparation, and that
the Yankees, whenever they mne, will receive a
hot reception."
Exultingly, then, does the Tunes declare
that, "if there be any truth in the loud cries
of defiance of the gouthern press the conquest
of this city is not so absolutely certain es the
Northerners think," and that even if the
Federal gunboats and steam-frigates should
successfully run the gauntlet of the Confede
rate forts and batteries, they might be beaten
by " the 32,00 men in garrison." Here we
have an anticipation of the defeat of the Fe
derals before New Orleans. But as, by this
time, English journalists are compelled largely
to discount the brag of the Confederate rebels,
the Times makes a loop-hole of escape, by
adding that these " 32,000 men in garrison
ought to he able to give a good account of
these invaders, if that garrison exists in any
other columns than those of the newspapers."
The garrison thus vaunted of, though with
some evident misgiving, did not wait to have
any settlement with the Federals. At the first
alarm of danger this brave garrison adopted
the peaceful and prudent policy of retreat.
We shall look out, expectingly, for the Times'
remarks on the fall of New Orleans.
THE New York Evening Poit has a convinc
ing article in favor of the amendment of Mr.
Eg./I.oed, of Illinois, (voted down in the
Ilouse) to the tax bill, laying a tax of' three
cents per pound upon cotton. "It is," says
the Pest, ' a tax which will be easily collect
ed ; against the justice of which no one can
bring good reasons-2; which will cause the very
class who brought on the war to pay a share
of its expenses. We are informed that a tax
of one cent per pound on the cotton crop will
produce eighteen millions of dollars; three
cents a pound would yield us fifty-four mil
lions. The cotton planters cannot complain,
because one of their first acts was to lay an ex
port
... duty, on cotton ; the tobacco planters
of the border slave States will complain if cot
ton is not taxed, when their style is to be
very heavily taxed, and when, tob, tobacco is
by no means a monopoly, as cotton is. And
the farmers of the Northwest, whose sons
have fought so bravely in this war, will
not be contented to pay taxes on almost
every product of their land, and let the great
product ,of the South go clear. The fear ex
pressed by Mr. Mom - um" that if we lay a tax
on cotton other countries will at once under
sell our planters, is groundless. How well the
planters can bear a tax of four or five cents
per pound, even if they were able to get only
ILe usual prices for the staple, will appear from
the following facts : It is established that an
average year's cotton costs the planter, to
raise, not more than six cents per pound.
Planters gild others lvho have carefully
examined this question assert that, with
good new lands at twenty dollars per acre,
and slaves, taking the run of the planta
tion, of,both sexes, between the ages of four
teen and sixty, at an average of eight hundred
dollars, if the planter can be assured of six
cents per pymnd fez- his cotton will maliv a
greater profit on this crop than is yielded by
any of the great agricultural products in any
part of the country. In a lecture on cotton,
delivered in Liverpool last September, by Mr.
BEAZLEY, a well-known cottonspinner and
member of Parliament, he stated that one of
the largest planters in Louisiana had told him
that he could grow cotton profitably at six
cents per pound ; and no well-informed South
ern 111Ati will deny that cotton sold at six cents
on the plantation is a more remunerative crop
than either sugar, rice, hemp, or corn. But
if we look at the prices which have ruled in
Liverpool for middling grades of New Orleans
cottons we shall find the average in 1854 eleven
cents, in 1855 twelve cents, in 1856 twelve and
three-quarter cents, in 1851 sixteen cents, in
1858 fourteen cents, in 1859 fourteen and a
half cents, in 1860 fourteen cents."
The Agricultural College of Pennsylvania.
A meeting of the board of trustees of the
_Varlet& High gehoel of Pennsylvania tree held in
the Executive Chamber at Harriaburg, yesterday;
the Hun. Frederick Watts, president of the board,
prerideil, The tiovernor and Secretary of the
Commonwealth, the lion. James T. Halo, A. O.
Mester, C. F. Mester, H. H. M'Allister, James
Miles, and Dr. Pugh, were present. Reports from
*lauding committees shooed that the affairs of the
institution were in a prosperous condition, and
measures were taken to secure a full statement of
the Mancini affairs of the college, together with a
history of the bitten) from its origin to the present
time, in order that, by their publication, the people
of the State may learn by what means this State
has succeeded in founding a flourishing Hurled ,
lural college, which is nearly filled to its utmost
capacity, notwithstanding the disturbed state of
the times, while all other attempts of a similar
character Love fai/cd in this country.
Among other things, a resolution of the board
approved tbe action of the executive committee in
applying to the last court of Centre county for a
change of the corporate title of the institution, the
Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania to that of
the Agnailtieral College of Pennsylvania, by
',,hick title the bones° will hereafter be desig
nated—the reason for this change being that the
latter name more properly represents the course of
studies pursued in the institution, and associates it
more intimately with agricultural institutions .of
the same grade in other countries, than does the
former title. European farm schools are all of a
very low order, whereas the course of study at
this College is more extensive than at any of the
European agricultural colleges. .
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LETTER FROM ' 1 OUGAILOIONAL •*-
WASHINGTON, May 6
Not long ago, two 'toffee called at Wheat.
land, the safe retreat of the man who assisted
treason to arm itself in the very sanctuaries of
freedom, and while there they were thrown
into conversation with the venerable ex-Presi
dent. Of course, the war was soon introduced.
In the course of conversation, the battle at
Fort Doneleen was alluded to, when Ile said :
" Ladies, you must not suppose that this vic
tory will end the war ; there will be much se
e-ere fighting yet, and should our Northern
soldiers attempt to go South as the warns
season approaches, they will be sunlit off like
rotten Aar?! Besidee, ladies ? you know that
the Southern people have long anticipated this
struggle, and have been prepared for it; they
can never be conquered." Miss —replied;
.ge Yes, Mr. 8., WE know, and so does the coun
try, that for the last four years, at least, the
Southern people have been permitted to do as
they please with the powers that controlled the
Government, and have been allowed to hare
their own way in everyll.i»g ; but, notwithstand
ing all this, it in our opinion Met they be
conquered, and made to return to the support
of the old Constitution."
I record this little incident, not so lunch to
prove that the ex-President is the same man
that placed the weapons in the hands of the
bad men which they 'have lise4 to Overthrow
the Union, nor to present another evidence of
his bitter hostility to the cause of the country,
but to remind my readers that the rebellion
against thin GorcrimiciA was long and carefully
prepared for, and that it has cost the people
thousands of precious lives and hundreds of
millions of dollars, Every vietorY over the
traitors makes this fact more clear. The pro
perty and arms taken at Yorktown.are all new
and substantial. -- Tim anus and - Leonel', and
the instruments used in the fortifications, axes,
spades, spears, &c., had been lately imported
or manufactured in the South. The cotton
goods are well made, and of excellent fabric.
The powder, of which a groat amount was
found to be destroyed, was of good quality;
and even the printed blanks, muster rolls,
officers' reports, &e., were executed in the
best manner. These facts exhibit the des
peratien of the men engaged in this bad
cause, their resources, and how they
have run the blockade. And they,
moreover, have the incalculable amount
of money and material they wore per
mitted to teal - . melee the lAA Aelnainistre
tion. The robbery in the War and Interior
Departments must have been stupendous.
They robbed the mints of New Orleans and
Dahloncga, and seized arsenals, armories,
navy yards, forts, and ships ; and with these
secured vast deposits of coin, arms ? ammuni
tion, and the instruments to manufacture arms,
&c. Their possession of the Norfolk work
shbps has enabled them to supply their army and
navy, alid their oppressivemeasures upon, the
people have poured millions into their coffers.
As we contemplate the fast-failing fortunes of
the rebellion, the extent of the preparations
so eloquently described by Mr. Buchanan is
revealed to the world. We have had no or
dinary foe to contend -with, and the wonder
increases as we eouet a er tlio splendid tri
umphs 'over this foe by the gallant defenders
of our flag.
Whether the prediction of Mr, Buchanan,
that our soldiers «will die off' like rotten
sheep" in the Southern climate, is to be ful
filled or not is one of the questions that time
alone can solve. In this cOmice , ioti 111 S Well
to consider the programme set forth in the
late order of Major General Hunter, now in
command in South Carolina and Georgia, in
regard to the emancipated slaves of the South.
The slaveholders arc arming their negroes by
thousands, and General Hunter proposes to do
likewise. In view of the approaching sickly
season this may not only be a wise but an una
voidable and imperative -measure of self-pre
eeevetion. Shall out-white troops be killed ow
ci like rotten sheep," by the diseases of the
climate, or by the hands of the negro recruits
of the Rebel Chiefs ? General Hunter, a citi
zen of New Jersey, and officer of the regular
army, and wholly disconnected from politics,
meets the trouble by proposing to drill, edu
cate, and arm the great body of contrabands
in his district ; and if they cannot fight,
to put them to work on the fortifications and
in the cotton fields. France employs the
Algerines, England the natives of India and
the blacks, - and the rebels in this country
their own slaves and the savages of the Indian
region for military purposes. Thus, not only
the customs of other nations, but the example
of the traitors on our own soil, come to
strengthen and justify the plan of General
Hunter. As to the loyalty of' the ne
gro, let us admit that it is from the con
trabands that we receive our most accurate in
formation. It was a contraband that gave tho
first notice of the evacuation of Manassas to
General McClellan—that brought news of the
flight from Yorktown—and that yesterday ex
posed the fear and dissensions in the social and
military family of Jefferson Davis. Rarely
have they deceived any of our generals. If
there is any class South that has a vital interest
in opposing the rebels, it is the negroes.
They have felt their atrocities, and must en
dure new sufferings should their masters suc
ceed. The bitter foes of the Republic in the
South are white, not black men. The negroes
are acclimated to the climate of the Cotton
States—they know the country—and they
have no alternative but to work to keep them
selves alive. The world wants cotton, and
they can plant and gather it. Our Oovcru
meet wants to save the hues of' the white
soldiers of the free States, and the negroes
may prove to be efficient substitutes. Besides,
if the rebels will not yield, lot them, as they
concentrate their army in Mississippi and Ala
bama, as they marshal their savage allies in
Arkansas and Texas, as they drive their ne
green into the front ranks to slay our brothers
and friends—let them, I say, meet the punish
ment of their treason at the hands of those
they have so lone oppressed and degraded.
OCCASWNAL.
LETTER FROM FORTRESS MONROE,
General Mcelell a Ile S Ad vance to 'Williamsburg
—ls the Town Fortified 7—Correction—Move.
en 4 frglin Wca; roint—aCrtir tVti P.v*lniction
of a Railroad Line.
[Correspondence of The Prem.]
"FUSTII.E6S AIONHOE, May 8, 1862.
It is stated kere, upon good authority, that General
McClellan hes advanced as far as WiniamOurg, It is
believed that a battle may, take place at that paint, as
the rebel papers, a short time since, intimated that Wil
liamsburg was being fortified. We await the result with
aaxivir.
General Mansfield has sent the following letter, (in
which your correspondent is somewhat interested,) to
Get eral Wool:
Ma.a6±lt. Mr.IVA, May 4 IQB9.
Major General 11 7 00 l
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The correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, stationed
at Poitieba Monroe, has circulated an unfounded and
unjuct report against the Fifth Maryland regiment sta•
limed at this post, to the offset that twenty-hen man of
that regiment had deserted to the enemy. There to nut
-a word of truth in the statement; the regiment is as
lo:,a1 as any we have, and the report should be contra
dicted in the papers at once.
J. R. IIaANSIPIELI), Brindles a/moral_
General illansfield haring thus vouched f,yr the loyalty
of the regiment, your correspondent places the tact upon
record with pleasure. He can do 00 With entire consia
ono', as the statement objected to was given merely as a
rumor, and doubts of its correctness were expressed by
himself at the time.
It is stated that a portion of the troops which ascend
ail the Yolk_ AIM. Mk Atifiday hsea ht•g;; I>•aded ak Week
Point, and destroyed a railroad bridge crossing the Pa
mir:ay river. The railroad leads from West Point almost
in a direct line to Richmond, which is not over 85 wiles
alsiartk-
Public Amusements.
The Conways played in "Still Waters" last night to a
telessble. Ileum_ They no not apatite ea inivantaßa.lll4
have not improved by their European experience. Mrs.
Conway looked sprightly and boyish in lon, bat her ex
cellences went no farther, and she gave, at best, an in
telligent reeitation of the part_ Hay vein is clear and
strong, and she has a pleasant face. Mr. Conway has
grown obese, and looks and walks awkwardly. He has a
fine voice, enunciates a little too deliberately, Perhaps,
but plays Joku .llfildmcp as no ether AAI6I. can_ The
Conways will produce the „ Peep of Day" and other
novelties during their tenure here. The stock company
of the Walnut•etreet Theatre is of an indifferent charac
ter- Mr. 'Wright, hi genorul a good actor, was oat fitted
to impersonate Hawks ley, the active character of the
piece. The furniture and properties of the establishment
could not well be worse.
Mr. Bassett, of this Sonstninr, his just been mi.-sled
to Mite Viola Crocker, a petite and pretty lady, whose
talent follows bard upon her amiability. Mrs. Barrett,
we understand, will join the Walaut-mtreet company
neat reason. A capable lady in oneential to the wElfare
of the theatre.
The Abire.e NiTilaire at the Academy of Music, to
night, will-be a good entertainment, and probably a pa
entiklf anemia_
The gepoy Rebellion will he withdrawn next week,
and all should sea the famous views of the present war,
which make up the supplement to each evening's euter•
tainmwit,
Dr. 00Houle Inunoroul exhitiltian, the chief feature of
which will be the inhalation of •" laughing gas," comes
off, to-tight, at Concert . Hall. Etas advertisement.
Mantle lowiligence
Haw Tenn, May B.—Arrived, steamer Belvidere,
from Port Royal. Below, barks Henrietta, from Rl9 ;
Trowbridge, from Barbadoee.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1862.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Rumors of Foreign Intervention
The Chargee Against ' Judge Humphrey, of
NAVAL CHANGES AND APPOINTMENTS
roma communication with mew (means.
Special Despatches to u The Press."
WASHINGTON, May 6,1862.
The Rumors about Foreign Intervention
Tim rumorn and statemonto of foreign lotorTontion to
induce the Government to cease HA efforts to pnt dorn the
rebellion, as well se those about projected arrangements'
And compromises, aro without foundation.
The TCSHICASee. Impeachment Case.
The merits of the flumphrey's impeachment Cafe,
initiated by the House of Representatives to-day, aro
briefly theta, as aneare from the mut of the Com
mittee on ills JlidlehliPr
Mr. DU3ll.llltElre was commissioned as district judge
for the three districts of the State of Tennessee, on the
26th of March, 1853, and still holds, and has not re.
tigned Lilt emanation. The teethe...ow of Doe. Douses
MAYNAILD, Mr. Terms, and Mr. LEI.I.Ir6T, all citizens
of Tennessee, shows that Id trap in:rs, in a public meet
ings hold at Nashville, in December, 1860, declared in
favor of secession, lea mused, when interrogated, to
declare that South Carolina was subject to the laws of
ilia United States. lic, about that time, published arti
cles in the t ewspapere, in which ho took strong grounds
faTor of SOCOSBIOII4
He has neglected his duties es judge ever since the
ath.ption of the ordinance of secession by the Tennessee
LegiAature, and refused to hold his court because he
considered the authority of the United A'tatee obsolete in
'Tennessee, and since that time has officiated as judge for
the rebel Confederacy, and held citizens of the United
States to anew( r before him as such rebel judge, for dis •
loyalliy to 119 tioafidoia.i.
ciiizen so charged and brought before him to forswear al
legiance to the United States by taking the oath of stile-
B kmoo to the self. styled Southern Confederacy, and upon
his saluted to do so, lie semtised el the oilisen &bond, la a
lei go sun), on condition that be would leave Tennessee,
the place of his residence, 'within forty days. Mr.
HUMPHREYS has also entertained proceedings under the
treasonable acts of Congress thereof, for the confiscation
of the property of loyal citizens of the United States, for
the use of that Confederacy, and in aid of the rebellion
now prosecuted against the United States.
The Tax Bill iu the Senate.
The Senate Committee on Finance reported about ZOO
antes &mots to the House tax bill, after having heard
the reptetentations of delegations representing the vari
ous intereats.
Among the amendments, they have stricken out the
tax on allrectified and - mixed spirits and increased that on
distilled spirits to 20 cents per gallon, to be collected at
the distilleriee, but not to operate upon toe stock on hand
PitTiella to the oilman el the act, The tax on demotic
wine Is strieken ant. That on lager beer and other malt
liquors remains undisturbed. Three per cent= is pro
posed on the gross receipts of retreads, steamboats, &c.
TLlrty instead of fifty cents a head on cattle, adding five
cents on calves. Tobacco 20 cents per pound. Cigars
from 10 to 35 cents, according to quality. The tax of 1
cent a pound on cotton is left out, and schedule a, taxing
pianos, watches, carriages, .tc , is nearly all stricken out,
Dili rftaiuie the tan on billierd-tabies and dogs.
The committee have not changed the mode of collec
tion, but have modified the section in the act of the sth
of August, raising twenty millions by taxation, and
rucking the provisien aPplical , lo to 9n4 year.
Mr. McDouo ALL, of California, of the Finance Com
mit .ee. has proposed a substitute, based on the recom
mendations of the . Borten and Philadelphia Boards of
Trade, and New York Chamber of Commerce, embra
cing the system or payment by stamps,
Lieutenant Wounnx visited both branches of Con
6rOe to-Lai a:,l With a warm PPOCpfIOI4 Teem rn9
members, who congratulated him on his convalescence.
Another Schooner Caught while Attempt
ing to Run the Blockade.
The United Stake ginabowt Afro?) captured, on rev
19th ultimo, off Charleston, the schooner Glide, while
attempting to run the blockade. She was bound to Nas
sau, and was loaded with one hundred bales of cotton and
five tieVeee of tide. The dunes add log-beak Wei% theawa
overboard during the cruise.
The Coufimition Committee.
The special committee on confiscation, to Ise chosen
from the Senate, hag net yet been named, but Senator
CI..kRIC. will be chairman.
An effort will be made to•morro 7( to consider the tax
Wit is
tt le or.aiu, it it lb yrinted 9.. {law.
Lieutenant A.I.EXANDEN MCTIOLAY has been detailed by
the Nen PePettknel4t from the L94 l :s4:attth ttad Ordered.
to the command of the U. S. steam gunboat Lebago.
Acting Second Assistant Engineer JOIIN WALKEN has
been detached from the Flag and ordered to the Port
Henry.
Acting Second destatani Triyineor M. Des snEAw has
been detached from the Fort Henry and ordered to the
Flog.
Lieutenant DAWSON, of the Rho:nix, has been ordered
to rtpert to Commodore PENDERGRASP, for ordnance
duty, at Philadelphia.
Acting Master EDwAnn W. WurrY has bean ordered
to the U. S. steamer Mount Vernon.
Naval Stations on the Lakes—National
Mr. Representative ARNOLD, Of Ilituuia, introduced a
bill into the House to-day to establish a national foundry
at Chicago. The bill proposes to appropriate one hun
dred thousand dollars for the pnrposo, providing that
city donates twenty acres of land for the site. The bill
also proposes to establish navy yards on lakes Erie and
Ontario.
POST OPTICS PEPAuTMENT, May 6, 1862.—A1l letters
for New Orleans ehould be coat to the New York poet
cite° for tranamithion by the Government steamers in
the regular malls. JOHN A. SAWN,
First Assistant Postmaster General.
Virginia Poet Office.
We are glad to announce a resumption of regular mail
facilities with Charlestown, Jefferson county, ira. The
Postmaster• General this afternoon ordered the office to
be reoptned, and JOHN HEED appointed postmaster, in
place of JOHN P. BROWN, who abandoned the offie.
On the route 3287, Princess Anne to Newtown, James
Baxsow, contractor, Postmaster-General BLAIR orders
three adehlonal weekly trips, mak log the service daily,
except Sunday. Tie it in the Hon. Mr. CRISFIRLD'S
district. The improvement of service wilt prove of im-
Mtl/150 advantage to the bllithltHe men of the vilages
around, as well as the people generally. In consequence
of the above, route 3241, Snow Hill to Newtown, is cur
tailed, tv end at LiEd:errille, eaviog eight miles, It not
being necessary for the service on this route to extend
berond.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
A REBEL SCHOONER, WITH Co AL FOR THE
MERRIMAC, RUB ASHORE.
The Crew Desert. and Deliver Themselves up
500 Federal Prisoners Expected from Richmond?
BALTIM01:11, May 6.—Tha Fortress MAnros carres
rotlent of the 4merican repots the following:
Yesterday afternoon a schooner came down the !antes
river from Richmond, and when near Newport News she
was run ashore on the south side of the river. Her sin
gular movements attracted considerable attention and
men were observed -to immediately take to their boats
and pull for Newport Itvwr,
On arriving, they announced that they had intention
ally run her ashore, for the purpose of reaching our lines,
and that she contained sixty tons of coal for the Ner-
r Several boats were immediately manned, and started
out for the purpose of endeavoring to tow her off, but
finding this to be impossible, they seta her on fire and
she Wee hurne,l to the I.VAtet , e edge Thel XAYviDuto ws.s
in eight at the time, but she did not venture to save the
vessel.
The crew were taken to headquarters and gave a de
ploestae 6.666thit of snips at Riehmond and among the
troops, who regarded all further attempts to sustain the
rebellion as sheer folly.
In accordance with a notice given by Gen. Huger to
Gen_ Wool a few days einem OaDtait. 611llward Dronstedad
et noon to-day, with the steamer New Navels, up the
James river to seat a rebel boat iu which he promised
to send down from Richmond Bye hundred Union pri
soners in exchange for those released by GI3II. Earn.
aider tip to the hour the boat starts, no tidings have
been heard from them. They are expected to arrive
to-night.
..LOlnseiuti, May G.—Captains Hulett and Molten
ney, Lieutenant, Carey, Chambers, Dial, Thomas, and
Leoneta,df the Second Ohio Regiment, with parenty
prtratee i Captain Januefer, and Adjutant 2401, wilt,
one hundred and fifteen men, of the Eighteenth Ohio;
Lieutenant Mitchell (the General's son), of Bennett's
Cavalry Captain Ewing, and two lieutenants, of the
Twenlyhfld Ohio, with nrty•three privittee, were taken
prisoners at Pulaski, Tennessee, on last Sunday, by
1,000 of Morgan's rebel cavalry, after a fight of two
beers and a kW. The prisoners were subsequently re
leased on parole, and are now at Nashville. Horgan lost
els killed and two wounded ; our lose was two killed,
three wounded, and one missing.
New 'roux, May B.—The steamer Ben De Ford, from
Port Boyal on the 21 lust., arrived of this part to,isight,
with forty-tbree cabin and eighty•two steerage pawn
gon7, and a number er retypes (rem - dammenvtile. Toe
health of the troops was excellent. The Paw-Paw bat
tery, at the junction of the Dahos and Paw-Paw rivers,
was taken by the gunboat Hale without resistance. The
ramie fed au 1111047 as she came within three hundred
yards of the battery, leaving two 32-pounders, one of
which wee loaded.
. Ag i ng bsr passengers ere Col. Ram : moot, of New
York aevontynlntli llegirueot Col. Itucklili, of
the Third Bhode Island Regiment; Lieut. Col. Ely, of
the Sixth Connececut Regiment, and other officers.
Jeff Thompson Reported to be in Western
Kentucky.
Cuicaco, May special despatch to the Journal,
from Paducah, says Jeff Thompson is in Western Kens
tuCliy, witn four thousand cavis;ry, De canto across a
company of Curtis' Nebraska Horse, yesterday, neat
Dresden, scattering them iu every direction, but without
any loss of life.
Gnat cmitcusvnt easels t. *1 eoelion of the ceutril7
in consequence of this raid.
A report is current here, at d generally believed, that
Corinth was evacuated last night, and our troops are now
In iscreracealon.
POTTSVILLE, May 8. The Hoo. George Raho, Associ
ate JaJpa of PAnylnill county. Iliad but avanini at his
residtaco la this place. Ills loan will be /meanly felt by
ei large circle of friends and relative& Judge Rahn was
one of the pion& re in. the development of the resources
of the coal regions of Pennsylvania.
Vniounded.
reiracmgtou
Unfounded.
Lieutenant Worden Convalescent
The Tax Bill
Naval Appointments
Foundry at Chicago
Letters for New Orleans.
MUM
to our Forces
A right at Maki, Tent
rrom Puri Reytai, S. G.
Death of Judge Rahn.
From General McClellan's Army.
DESPATCHES FRU GEL MeCLELLIN,
OEN. FRANKLIN'S DIVISION NOT YET GONE
TO WEST POINT
Capture and Destruction of Rebel Trans-
ports on the York River.
THE REBEL ARMY ENTRENCHED AT WILLIAMSBURG,
THEY ARE 85,000 STRONG
DALmaioca, May 6,—The special correspondent of the
American, at Fortress Monroe, says that General Mc-
Clellan's advance is beyond Williamsburg, and that our
gunboats are at Wert Point, having en thole way 64_
tared or destroyed many rebel transports.
A mod wee also cm rent of the capture of a large
number of prisoners.
A force bad been lauded at Weal Point, and destroyed
a bridge on tho Richmond and York river railroad.
Further Particulars.
The French war steamer Uassendi came down from
Yorktown at five o'clock last evening, bringing the
French Minister, and also Oa v iptain Pox, the Assistant
Secretary of War.
We learn that up to one o'clock the steamers with Gen.
Frauklin'a division had not none beyond Yorktown, but
were waiting to hear from above. One of the gunboats
which went up on Sunday morning had returned, and re
poi ted that they found the river unobstructed, and that
the Funboats had reached West Point, where a force had
been landed, and dratroyed A bridge on the road to Rich
mond.
Several rebel transports were overtaken going up the
river. Some were run ashore, those on board escaping,
rual Wen I/111110d, (Mere had DOM captured.
The latest reports say that General McClellan was with
the advance of the army, and was supposed to be before
Williamsburg, in which direction there had boon a brisk
venue...lies ell day,
Among the prisoners is the chief of engineers on Gene
ral Johnston's staff, who states that the whole rebel army
at Yorktown amounts to 80,000 men.
Ms givts a matt tUalcild:l6 itaZaint
the enemy, and sale they'will ho unable to make a stand
anywhere this side of Richmond.
The retreat commenced before daylight on Saturday
morning, mid ha doubts not that the advance wee twenty
miles distant at the time tho last gun was fired from
Yorktown.
On Satin day morning, General McClellan signalled the
five gunboats lying below Yorktown, of the fact of the
evacuation, with instructions to proceed on up the river
to West Point, and remove all obstructions in their
way.
Quite a fleet of steamers and vessels, loaded with
troops, were discovered in the distance, and a pursuit was
commenced, resulting in the capture of some of them,
%Mist others wore run ashore and fired by those on
board, who escaped to the woods.
It is said that by threo n'ttock in the afternoon the
gunboats had toachad . Weet Point, at the head of navi
gation, nearly thirty miles above Yorktown, frequently
shelling the parties of the enemy that were discovered
fising along the shore, end thinking that portion of the
nip:Mips ociny floes It - Cie ITIVYIAS iV111144 Wvai
to take the railroad to Richmond.
lunnediately in the wake of the gunboats followed a
long line of river steamers loaded with troops, carrying
IlfaLklh.tadli‘lsloti, with 15,000 to 9.0,000
These troops reached Yorktown during the afternoon,
and were stopped there to await intelligence from the
gunboats. It is proposed to laud than at Yorktown if
the renorta of the gunboats are favorable..
Despatch from General McClellan
II DQ U.l ItTE1:8, MAy 5, 1862.
To the lion. Edwin if. Stanton, Secretary of Ira,.
It is mining hard now•, and was raining must of the
night ilintforo tho roans aro Tory ban.
The bncmy is still at Williamsburg. Heavy firing is
now going on.
The member has delayed Franklin to-day. I hope to
overcome all obstacles yet, and throw a sufficient force up
York river to cut off the enemy's line of retreat.
Iforcral of our batteries are actually stuck fast in the
mud. The men have done all that could be done. No
signs of the cessation of rain.
G. B. McCLELLA.N, Major General.
31112 _
WASIIING TON, May 6.—The boat to Cherrystone Info
has arrived with despatches for the Government.
The enemy are in strong force, and entrenched near
liEd43fidliag la 411.4 pate t o ,aafias l i., of vile
troops there.
There has been some brisk fighting. in which General
Hancock'd division had taken two redoubts, and repulsed
Early's rebel brigade, by a brilliant bayonet charge. In
this engagement Gee. Hancock's forces are said to have
ki led two rebel colonel., two lieutenants, and captured
150 prisoners.
General McClellan highly compliments General Han
cock's conduct.
At the time of sending off the despatches our loss was
not known, but it is supposed to be considerable, in pro
portion to the extent of the engagement, as the fighting
well quite severe.
Despatch from General McClellan
[Received at War Department at 12.22 P. M., May 6.]
BIVOUAC IN FRONT Or WILLIAMSBURG,
May h. 10 P. M.
To the lion. Edwin .M. Stanton, Secretary of War ,
Alter arranging for the movements up the York river,
I was urgently sent for here. I find Joe Johnston in
front of me, in strong force, probably greater a good
deal than my own.
Hancock has Talton two redouble and repulsed Barty's
brigade by a real charge with the bayonet, taking one
colonel and a hundred and fifry prisoners, killing at le tit
two colonels and many privates. His conduct was bril
liant iu the extreme. Ido not know our exact loss, but
fear Hooker has lost considerably on our left. I learn
from prisonere, that they intend disputing every step to
Richmond. I shall run the risk of at least holding them
in check here, while I resume the original plan.
My entire orce is unConbtedly considerably inferior to
that of the rebels, who will fight well ; but I will do all I
can with the force at my disposal.
G. B. McCLEILAN,
Major General Commanding.
BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG.
[War Correaporalance of the Aesociated Preps.]
THE ADVANCE NEAR WILLIAMSBURG,
Monday evening, May 6, MI 5
When my despatch was sent last evening, the indica•
time were that our troops would occupy Williamsburg
without much opposition.
The first indications of the enemy's rear guard being
reinforced was the fact of their pressing on our lines
about claim o'clock in the morning, show - log a determina
tion to resist our advance. But sufficient reinforcements
had arrived during the night to enable our generals to
act either on the offensive or defensive.
About eight o'clock, the enemy opened on our troops
posted on the left, composed of Gen. Hooker's division
and other troops of Gen. Heietzelman's corps.
The action in this vicinity was very severe at times.
The loss in killed and wounded is not known, but it is
supposed to have been considerable an both elites.
The enemy was repulsed at all points.
Gen. Peet's brigade, stationed to the right of Gen.
Hooker's forces, soon after became engaged. Here the
Bring aaa very heavy far Alletit hen hattra, daring which
our troops handsomely repulsed the enemy in making a
charge. Our loss here was about 30 killed and 74
woutded.
A brilliant victory was achieved, about five o'clock in
the afternoon, by General Hancock's brigade, assisted by
Kenneth's and Wheeler's batteries. They had - been or
dered to the right to feel the strength of the enemy, and,
f Dottible, turn his left wing, Here they were met , by
General Reidy; brigade, consisting of the Fifth North
Carolina and Twenty-fourth and Thirty-Eighth Virginia
Regiments, with a tguadron of cavalry, who advanced in
lino of battle.
Orr troops, who were quickly prepared to 'receive
them, opened a heavy fire on them. but the enemy steadily
advanced to within 200 yards, when General Hancock or
dered a charge with the bayonet, which was executed
with the greatest courage. The enemy's line broke, and
they became panic stricken, and fieci. tiny loft up
wards.of eighty of their dead and forty wounded on the
field. We also took. nearly 200 prisoners. Our loss was
17 killed and about 40 wounded.
The colonel and lieutenant colonel of the Firth North
Carolina Regiment were wounded, and among the ene
my's dead left on the field were the bodies of the lieu
tenant colonel and major of the Tweaty-fourth Virginia
'Lenin/mar, together Irish several other efficera, Their
dead. were buried by our troops, and their founded
cared for.
The conduct of Gen. Hancock and his brigade on this
pcspoicat 6ao excitt -..ivertiui amiszairallext. A. ,-Laridard
of colors belonging to the rebel cavalry engaged was cap•
tured, and is now on the way to Washington.
When the news of General Hancock's success became
known, a shout went up from tens of thousands of Union
troops that made the country resound for miles around.
General Hancock remained during the night in two of
the works of the enemy.
tiensral McClellan and staff arrived on the field at five
o'clock, and immediately rode to the front, where hie
premn.ce among the troops was most joyfully hailed. He
immediately assumed command in person.
The rain has poured in torrents all day, The trona
suffer much from exposure, but none complain.
From information received from the prisoners taken
the enemy will make a decisive stand at Williamsburg,
reinforcements having been arriving all day. General
J. E. Minden is in command of them.
Jeff Pavia wee iu Richmond up to the last accounts
from there.
The enemy's works are very formidable, and extend
across the peninsula this Bide of Williamsburg.
THE LATEST.
TUESDAY MonaluO..—This is a beautiful May morning.
The operations of to.day are not yet known.
The whole army is in good spirits.
From Gen. Halleok's Army.
REPORTED OCCUPATION OF CORINTH
BY THE UNITED ST/TES FORCES.
CHICAGO, May 6.—The special Times' despatch from
Cairo says the steamer Walker reached there this morn-.
tog from Pittsburg Landing. The army has so far ad-
Yenned from Thu mar ila* nothing is but OCRs were-
MeDtS. A drenching rain was falling, which had con
tinued for twenty-tour hours without interruption.
A report was current that Gen. Pope's army occupied
cornith on Suutiny, awl eTewr
in front, are said to have been taken prisoners.
Musin ), May 6-The rain has fallen in
torrents for the past thirty hours, putting the roads in a
horrible conalklon.
Yesterday the commanding general arrived from the
camp near Pittsburg Landing, and encamped near here.
Our pickets can distinctly hear the beat of the enemy's
grucov, and NOlitotlea yr she ivcornoilv.. s vt
Marrintav, Tenn., May 6.—ln consequence of the
horrible condition of the roads the army has not moved.
The enemy are receiving large reinforcements daily.
On Sunday lAA CEneral Bragg made a eyee.6 to the
troops, assuring them that it was the intention of Gen.
Beauregard and his generale to give the Federals battle
at Ceriuth.
area! dissatisfaction means among the twelve-months
men, on account of the conscription laws. The roads are
improving fast.
A Rebl Force of 2,000 Caitured--Dis-
sati‘fiktlieli in the Rebel. Camp
CAIRO, 311t16.—The steamer Elia has arrived from
Pittsburg Lauding, which plat° she left at 9 o'clock last
night.
On !Sunday eflornone,' General Pala, 14 placing. a bat.
tery of artillery in au open field, near Tartningham, In
sight of three regiments of rebels, Succeeded in luring
them on to take the battery, when he captured the whole
f c ree of the rebels., numbering L ll ,OOO prim:mere.
. _
The prieonera and deserters report that great rlleastio
faction exists in the rebel army, both among the officers
snit re 09.
lloanregard NO made a Week to the trooee, litotes
that he would make a desperate stand, and force the Fe
dora] army to retreat. He appealed to them to stand by
him,
Orden had been bona to the United States troops to
march on Friday night, but this was prevented by the
condition or the roads, which the heavy rains here ren
dered inini amble_
Brilliant Fight at Lebanon, Tenn
NOR A'S CAVALRY TOTALLY ROUTED•
PENNSYLVANIA TROOPS ENGAGED IN THE AFFAIR
LOUISVILLE, May 6.—A despatch says that General
Dumont, with portions of Wooltord's and Smith's, and
Wyolsoon'a Penaesirania carnlryl attacked Morgan and
Wood'a cavalry, bight loihdeed in number, at Le
banon, on Monday morning, at four o'clock. The rebels
were utterly routed, a largo number elate, and one hun
dred and fifty pritocr4 4pken. NoarlY till Moir horses
and arms were captured. They lied, after fighting an
hour and a half, General Dumont being in full puranit.
He will rapture the whole force.
The prisoners will be hero this ovehitig, It wa4a bra
arlairk and boating/A with groat skill by Uonoral
Dumont. Morgan is reported killed.
Colonel Smith ie wounded in tho log
Colonel Woolford is wounded the abdomen, no
The rebels wore completely surprised and outwitted
XXXVIITII CARESS-MST SESSION.
Homestead Bill Passed by the Senate.
More Amendments Offered to the Confiscation
THE BILL REFERRED TO A SELECT COMMITTEE
Resolutions Adopted by the House to Impeach
Tvlmrtne /Hun
The Pulite Railroad and Telograph Bill Passed
by the House.
SENAT.E.
Petitions and Resolutions Presented
Mr. TIM EV(.I: (Pop.), of Now. Joroon prescnto4 a
petition asking that certain newepapara be allowod equal
ivilegea in ttn: Mailc
Mr. 611EltMAN (cop.), of Oleo, offered a resolution
that tbo Stu:let:try of War be requested to communicate
to the Eeuste copies of ell the nimbi of the °Moen in
command at the recent battle of Pittsburg' Landing.
Laid over.
Mr. KING (Rep.), (1 New York, presented a petition
fn favor of the bankrupt act.
The Homestead Bill.
The bomeatead bill was taken up. the eneetion being
ut Mt. Chitlittile amendment, which wee rejectod—yeas
11, nays 28.
The Bill Passed
Tho kilo No thou 111'2494 --- Y9ilV Inj I
TEAS.
Grime!' (Rep.)
Rale (Rep.)
Barris (Rep)
Ifoodargon (EL)
Howe (Rep.)
Kennedy (Union.)
King (line.)
Lan. (Rep.), Tad.
Lau° (Ber.l.)t Kan
McDougall (Dona.)
,Morrill (Rep.) I
NAYS.
Bayard (Dem.) !Poly-II (Dem.)
Cdride (IL) Igamlatatey (Dom )
Davis (Union) I j
Anthony (Rep.)
Browning (Pop.)
Chandler (Rep.)
Clint (ROD.)
Caliber (Rep.)
Cowan (Rep.)
Dix on (Rep.)
Doolittle (Rep.)
Fosseridoß (Falb)
Foot (En.)
Footer (Rep.) I
The W rashing,ton and G eorgetown Railroad.
The bill for the incorporation of the Washington and
Georgetown Re dread le as taken up; and discussed till
the =ruing hoar expired. '
DR. Aloynotn - (step , ), of Rhode Island, moved to
postpone the speciall order liegati eed —yeas 14, nave 23.
The Confiscation Bill.
The confiscation bill was accordingly takon np
4nwn4ntent* 041c-reit.
ISIr. WILSON (Rep.), of Massachusetts, offered an
amendment to the amendment of the Senator from Ver
mont, striking out all after the first section and substi
tuting the following:
The second section provides that the act shall not be
construed ill any way to affect the punishment of any
person for treason. The third section of the amendment
authorizes and requires the President to seize the
property cf the leading rebels, substantially the same as
Ete. Cleew.s.o's ..nveedn.et.t to the ort E tmd 1411. The
fourth section provides that whenever it may be
deemed necessary to suppress rebellion the President is
author iced to seize the personal property of other rebels
not included in she list. The fifth section provides that
when the owner of said property shall tine, so he cannot
be brought to trial, if he does not appear by a certain
day, as specified, his property shall be confiscated and his
slaves freed. The sixth section provides that the Presi
dent shall be required to make a proclamation, to which
ho shall ll a den npt Mery that' thirty MVO
alter that date tllBlll.li of nil persons who continua In re
bellion shall be free. The seventh section provides for
the voluntary colonization and emigration. The eighth
section Oyes the President power to grant an amnesty.
Mr. WILSON (Rep ), of Maseachusetts, briefly ex
piniutci bio ouboPmin,
Motion to Refer the Bill to a Special Cont.
Mr. CLARK (Rep.), of. New Hampshire, said he
thought the azueudment of the Senat)r from Mass echo
salts went a kl. Oat way fole..aed harmonizing the difference
of opinion on this subject, in the Senate. He thought if
the bills had been referred to a special committee we
might have a bill on which all could agree. He moved
that all the bills be refetred to a special oJnimittee of
Seven.
Mr. Hole Opposes the Motion
Mr. HALE (Rep ), of New Hampshire, thought that
under the Constitution we had no power to give the Pre
sident the authority to point out the crime and liberate
the slaves of any man, by a simple proclamation, He
was opposed to all those bills which look to punishment,
before conviction in a proper court_. He said the bill tf
the Senator from Illinois was reported to the Senate
on the 14th of January, 1862, and had been considered
twenty-fire days, and received the benefit of twenty
eneeehee. which, with the eunuine debut, nukes ens
hundred and seventy-three columns of the Mae news
paper. Ho did not think the evil could be remedied by
its reference to any committee
Speech of Mr. Wilsou, of Massachusetts.
Mr. 'WILSON (itep 7, of Staesselmeette, thought the
days spent in maturing such important bills were days
well spent. It the Senator from New Hampshire spent
hie time in studying the bill, instead of finding how
notch time had been spent on it, he thought he would not
to readily pronounce this amendment unconstitutional,
Ile contended that slavery was the real cause of the war,
and he believed we could punish the rebels more by
taking their slaves away than in any other way. He
held that we had the constitutional power to free the
slaves of every rebel. He thought it was a duty we
owed to the nation and to humanity, to strike down the
power of slavery, so as to secure future peace and safety.
This was an opportunity which comes to nations once in
ages, and ought not to be neglected. If Congress ne
glected to de its duty in this respect, he believed some of
the leaders of the rebellion would come hack to these
cliambets to shake their bloody halide in our faces. He
walla(' the fenator not to underrate the poweref slavery.
The Senate should not Infringe the Provisions
of the Constitution.
Mr. HALE said the Senator need not argue with him
about the moral evil of slavery, or the strength of the
slave power. Be had felt it much more than the Senator
from Massachtsetts ever did. The slave power had cent
a message from this city to the Dean cratic Convention
in his state, to roconihier hie nomination to Dougrear,
and the Democratic party but semi forced to obey the
mandate, and nominate another man. Re knew all about
the strength of the slave power. But if, iu its zeal against
slavery, the Senate had ildrieged the provi , dons of the
Constitution, it would, in the language of the Oenat9p
from-Vermont, (DU, riollamer,) make our Dee intim.
lions a failure. The early anti-slavery people adhered
strictly to the doctrine of non-interference with slavery
in the States. The Democratic and Whig parties had
been destro)ed for waist of fidelity to the Constitution,
and the Republican patty had sprung upand he didn't
want to have written on the tombstone of that party that
it split on the rock of its predecessors. If there was any
thing that the Republican party bad declared, early and
late, it KM fidelity to the Constitution, and he wanted
the Constitution still left after the rebellion was over.
Mr Harris us Favor of Reference_
Mr. BARRIS (Rep ), of New York, said he had voted
the other day against a reference of the bills to a com
mittee composed partly of the enemies of the measure,
but he thought now, after so long a discussion with such
utile mutt, that ii tlwp could no rtiortrd to a conmattuo
of its friends, a bill could be prepared that would meet
with general approbation.
A Debate Pro and Con on the Motion of
Reference.
Mr. WADE (Rep.), of Ohio, said that ho would have
no bops of an eflisient confiscation bill if it was referred
to a committee. 'The bill of the Senator from Illinois
did not go too far, and those who were impoverishing
thetneelyee lo defend the nation did not consider a bill to
take away the property or this accursed rebellion tie too
sweeping. If the bill went to a committee it would come
back a sort of milk and-water concern, shorn of all
force and strength.
Mr. SUMNER (Rep.), of Massachusetts, said he dif
fered from the gi-rim from or tro Ohio, end thought the lima
had now come for a reerence of these measures to a spe
cial committee. We had more than a dozen bills on the
table, some of them from those opposed to the measure,
but others fi om its friends. Ile believed the principle
was est.., it It <lid not go to tto committee.
Mr. CLARK ( Rep.) said that on no measure had he given
BO much careful thought as this. He did not make his mo
tion to refer with any idea of a renunciation of the prin
ciple of confiscation, but because ha wanted an efficient
65.1151,9H61, bin. At the mune !him, ha wanted it to ba
in accordance with the Constitution, and believed this
could he done.
Mr. TEN EYCK (Rep.), of New Jersey, esid that al
though he had agreed to the bill reported from the com-
Thittco, he did not fool himself bound to every letter of the
bill. He was in favor of a connecation hill, and might
say that witlicut his vote the present bill would not have
been reported from the committee. He should vote against
its reference.
M. _kIITTIOIIy (Ttsp.), of Rhode Island, said that ribil
could be speedily reported that would meet the views of
the Senate.
Mr. TRUMBULL said he should not vote for a refe
rence of the bill: but he hoped that a good till will be
passed. If it went to the committee he thought the ten
dency would be to debate tile bill down eo as to become
harmless. It saddened him beyond measure to perceive
the a ame course pursued which had led us into this war,
even at this hour, after a year of devastation and blood
Ile argued that we would now alienate the
rebels by action. At the commeneemeit a single regi•
meet at Chsegeston might have stopped the war; hat
nothing was one because we were afraid to hurt the
feelings of rabble and traitors. It was idle to talk of con
fiscating the property of the rebels through the courts.
We might as well make war through the courts. That
was the very reason why we need such a bill, because
we could not act through the courts.
Mr. FOSTER (Rep.), of Connecticut, spoke at some
length in defence of Shoo who Toted fur It reference 9f
the hilliest Friday against the charge of being optima
to confiscation and unfriendly to the measure.
The. Tax Bill, with various Amendments.
Reported.
Mr BZ6l4iit e 4 }ha Samar, Mr_ rEggENDEN. tram
the Committee on Finance, reported the tAx MU, with
amendments.
A Substitute Offered.
➢fr. DicIPOTTGALL (Pem), of California, said there
bad not been entire unanimity In the commutes on -n
-uance on the proposed amendments of the committee.
He offered a substitute for the bill as reported, embody
ing the views of the Board of Trade of Boston, and the
Chamber of Commerce if New York+ on tbe Redact of
taxation.
Extra Copies to be Printed.
Mr. SUMNER (Rep) moved that S.OOO extra sepias
of the bill and its amendments be printei. Agreed to.
Mr. fitMMONEI- (itor#l, of Rhoda Islana,silioOiet , ffigla
dissent from some of the features of the bill as reported.
The Debate on the Confiscation Bitt)Resuwed•
The consideration of the confiscation bill was then re-
Mlle&
Speech of Mr. CelittiMer.
Mr. COLLAMEB (Rep ), of Vermont, 24 some length,
defended his bill He contended that we ocard tot,
under the Constitution punish before conviction, but
2.41 tbe 00-twor to 'provide for the mmisitmawit it treason
on convict on.
Mr. Fessendest in Favor a Confiscation.
Mr. FESSENDIIN (Rep.), of Maine, said that ho had
foetid no opportunity to break on the hill, as he had
been COOStanai octlirivti dltri>•ti t l "' d mfir"u a
at nights, on the tea bill. He had been unable even to
listen to most of the debate. Yet he bad been set down
by the Penator from Illinoie aaunfriandly to the melamine,
bappermi tv vote for its reference. Ho knew
that it wee a very impartany nuntsilil`i '1414 A"''''
were various opinions entertained, even among hie own
political friends, upon it. Ha therefore voted for its re
ference without knowing who had made the motion for
its reference. He war in favor of confiscating the Dro•
perty el the reboil, end bad been eo from the beginning,
according to the Constitution and no further, and had
thought it beet to refer the subject to a committee for In
vestigation_
Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep.) disclaimed having any idea of
Ipointiag nut the Senator. Be had replied to POMO remarks
mode by a Senator, anal amid bo minuend he was not In
Laver or a Collrißettrioll 11101/1111115 from the vote he had
given. Ile was glad that the Senator was in favor of
confiscation.
At the alikoation a MP_ WI E.goll Illuta
chueetfe, Mr. Clark moilillcd his motion, so as to make
the number of the committee nine membere.
Mr. COWAN (Rep.). of Pennsylvania, denied that ho
wan an enemy ot eonthcatlon. He thought he was tho
.dry TJeLnan of nonflsoatlon.
The Motion to Refer Carried.
Mr. Clark's motion to refer was then carried
YEAS.
Anthons (fitto.) Foot (Roo.)
Brow,. (Rip ) P.sAtet , (Rey.)
Clark (Rap.) Harris (Rap.)
(Warner (Rep.) Henderson (U.)
Cowan (Rep.) HOWO (Rep )
1/aria (U.) Kennelly (U.)
Dootutio (RPp.) I McDougall (ll.)
Fatacialan (Rep )1 Morrill (Rep.)
NAYS.
Chandler (Ron.) King (Ron.)
Hixan (Ite r 4
Orioles(Pep.) (it ) Kunigid
'Halo (Rep.) Pomeroy (Rep.)
Harlan (Pep.) !Sherman
The Senate thou Went into oxecutive session; and sub
seanently akliournoit,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Th.. Spanish Itork PfOVidPIICI!•
Mr. COX), of Ohio, from gni i,:ommittoo on
Yorelei. A =.Foried fllv reiput Lill ntipmprimitig
*°,600. as on indemnity to the OW13(311 11111 oilhiora of the
Npurnisii bark Providence, which wee illegally detained
by the blockade.
11r, COLFAX (Uep.)4 Of Indiana, by unanimous mit.
FeGt of the Ifouke, introduced a hill to punish frauds on
the Gov. rnment, which provides that all persona en
gaged in furnishing supplies of any kind for any depart.
!omit of the Government, by contract or otherwise ! or
- r-rferrolmi any S ti Thertfqr, who MN{ I,e piltYoa
guilty of Fraud in any United States court, and all the ac
cessories thereto, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for
a term of not less than biX months nor morn than ten
years, and a fine nut exceeding double the amount of the
frond end mit. kid OA! of 44.0a.,.,,,,,m,ea
fA
fpure,. when • f ra11...e are di..overed, to institute a suit
against the offender. Referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.
A Resolution to Inopeach a Ti nuessee .Tudgf..
. - - -
7.dr, 1541:fOrtIARI (Piep,) ! tff Ohio, from the tionunittoo
on the Judiciary, offered a resolution that a committee of
two lie appointed to go to the Senate, and, at the bar
thereof, anti in tho mimeo( the FlOrtie of Repreaentativeg,
and of the people of the united States, impeach Went H.
iltunotirey, Jungo of the District Court of the United
States for the eaveral distriett or Tentieseen of high
crimes and tuipdemennore, and acquaint the Senate: that
the 'louse of Itt presentatives will, in due time, exhibit
the particular articles of impeachment eg tinst hint, and
make good the seine, and that the committee do demand
that the &mate shall }else order fur the appea,rance of the
said Went H. Humphrey, to answer the ea:d impeach
ment.
WASIIINGTON, nay
In rrsponse to a question fore information, the report
of the Judiciary Committee was read, in effect that the
Judge bed acted out his Secession proclivities.
Mr. MAYNARD (U.), of Tennessee, showed the
justice of the present proceedings for impeachment.
The resolution was adopted.
The California ContrateddEleelion Can*.
N'4 7, go fullo ;
I.SAWW4 (hey ), of . gassectumettth called up the
California eltction case ; the remlution repotted from the
Committee on Eiectione declaring that F. F Lowe le not
entitled to a seat as a Representative from that :item.
Kiri Nucor explained that tho brayer of the niamorialilta
111119 fOIII.IIEIIIPOIIIIEitILIUM Of the Ultlthd Stakes, as cell
as on a construction of the Constitution of the United
States, California claiming three Erpreeentative in the
present Congress, the number to which she is entitled
under the apportionment based on the last comae,
Ponworoy (Rep.)
Sherman ( Rep.)
Simmons ( Rep.)
Sumner (Ito.D-)
Pen Eyck (Rep.)
Trumbull (Rep.).
Wo.de (Rep.)
Wilkinson (Rep.)
Wilson ( It ),Mass
Wilson (II.). Mo.
Wright (Union.)
The Adveitie Reitoit oR the eterttnaitee
Bin DAWES (Rep ), of Alassachroetts, maintained
that if ralifornia, under the new apportionment, is en
tithe! to thrte Itenragantativt , s, ewe.p att,s
claim the same advantages. But there could not he a
representation under different laws, mid hence the al
verse report of the committee in this cast!.
Starke (Dem.)
Willey (Unless_)
Mr. PHELPS (Rep.), cf California, stated Rollie pf the
CirGIiIIIMMICV2 of the untie, claiming that, in the absence
of any _law determining wt en the emu's shall take effect
for the purpose et repreteatatien, the right of any State
accrue. at the very moment the number of repre.en
taliTY§ to wkich she in vntitiol in ascertained.
Tbe renviutiou ri thu coumnttoo WWI adopted.
The Pacific Railroad and Tplegraph 811 l
The Pacific Railroad and Telegraph bill was taken up.
It contains the HAWN of seventy. the persons of different
geetieng 01 the country, u ho, tomt thee With tied &Medd
sit,ners. ro be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior,
and all persons who shall or may be associated with them
and their successors, are created into a body corporate
owl politic Di tho nom, oty lc, owl titlo of tht, Union Po,
tint; Nail - road Gummy. Toe) ate empowered to lay out,
locate, construct, furnish, maintain, and enjoy a continu
ous railroad, with the appurtenances, from such point on
the 102 d Meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, to
tle western boundary of Nevada Territory. The capital
steak shall consist of one hundred thousatid kdlarba of a
thousand dollars each. The right of way is granted for
the construction of a railroad and telegraph line to the
extent of tit° hundred feet in width on each side, etc.
Also, every alternate section of land to the amount of
five alternate sections per wile on sash aide of rho road.
Drovided that all mineral landd be excepted, whenever
forty consecutive miles of the road are constructed.
The Interest the Government has in the Bill.
The rail and all other iron shall be of American inanu
fuoivlre, of ilk, be=-1 T eallty. A F ....tont ehelt Issu s
the lands as well as bonds - of one thousaud dollars each,
payable in thirty y ears after date, bearing six per contour
per nurture interest, payable semi-annually, to the
amount of sixteen of said bonds per mile for each sec
tion of forty miles ; to secure the payment of wh ch the
company shall give a lien upon the road. The Govern
ment shall at all times have the preference of the road
for the transportation of mails, troops, munitions of war,
supplies, public stores, ,tc., at fair and reasonable rates
of compensatior, not to exceed the amount paid by
private parties for the same hind of service: and all
compensation for services rendered for thellovernment
shall be applied to the payment of the bonds and the in
terest thereon, until the whole amount is folly paid. The
company may also pay the United States,wholly or in part,
iu the Name or other bonds treasury notes, or other
evidences of debt against thin United States—to be allowed
at par i arid after the road is completed, and until the
bowls and interest are paid, at least five per centitin of
the net earnings of the mid road shall be annually ap
plied to the payment thereof.
The company shall locate, within two years after the
passage of this act, the general route. In fixing the
point of connection of the main trunk with the Eastern
conutctions, it shall be Nod at the most practicable mint
for the construction of the lowa and Pllmouri branches.
The line of railroad and telegraph shall commence at the
102 d meridian of longitude, west from Greenwich, at the
termination of the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western
Railroad, and the telegraph line to connect therewith as
the act provides ; thence, running westerly ripen the meat
direct, central, and practicable route, through the terri
tories of the United States, to the western boundary of
Nevada. It eh .11 there meet and connect with the line
of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California.
The bill also tatends aid to other companies on certain
conditions.
Aldrich (Rep.)
Allen (Beni.),
Alley (Rep.)
Arnold (lief•)
Ashley (Rep.)
Beaman (Hop)
Diddle (Dern.)
Dingh SID (Rep.)
Blair (Rep.), No
Blalke(Rep )
Rlovni . (ll.), Va.
Catal.hall (IL OP.)
element 9.
Colfax (Rep.)
Col rang.
Covoile (Rep )
Outlor (Rim)
Davie (
Delapl4ine (Dem.)
Duell (Rep.)
Dunlap (U.)
Edperion (Rap.)
Elior(llep )
FAY (Rep,)
Fenton (Rep.)
Fessenden (Rep.)
Fisher (Union)
Pl 4YS.
Ancona
Bt hbitt (.Rep.) English (D.)
Bailey (Dem.) Pa. Grider (U.)
Baker (Rep.) Harding (U.)
brow= (U.).8.L Jotintan ( uem.)
Buffmton (Rep.) Kellogg (IL) 111.
Calvert (L.) Kuapp (Rep.)
Clatraberlain(R ) Law (Deat.)
Cobb, (Dem.) Lovejoy (Rep.)
CoMiliuga - rvd. A. DlOlinbvhi
' (Rep.)
Cox ( vern
Cravens (Pem.) Morrie (M 0111.)
Crietield (IL)_ Noble (Dem.)
VIIII - ensign (V (Perm),
Divers (Rep.) Pike (Rep.)
The Virginia Contested-Election Case
Mr. DANES (Rep.) called up the Virginia contested
election case, and gave the reason why the House eh mid
adopt the resolution reported by Otto Committee on 'Aloe-
Cons, tusking to be discharged from the further considera
tion of the memorial of Joseph Seger asking admission to
a eeatin the Home of Representatives from the First Con
grestional district of Virginia. During his remarks the
procerainsa were interrupted 137 the rewilas al weep; 9!
a despatch frcm Gen. McClellan
Mr. WI CB F.F.O (Union), of Heutucky, said he had
Wen pained during the forepart of this medium and almost
during the whoa of It, at whispers of combinations with
the view of distuibing the position of Gen. McClellan.
He knew him not personally, but had great confidence In
Us from the reputation he had from sources that setts
d hun t gud be now rota morn 19 oppritl to flirto
men who hare nem disposed to dna Milt and bare him
removed from hie command than to pass a compliment or
encomium upon him. He hoped he would not hear any
•moresthlepers that McClellan should be removed from
Lie command,
Mr. Segni. Admitted to SI seat.
Mr. ZiON.LL (Dem.), of Missourillioffered a resolution,
which was adopted by :-I majority, that Mr. Seger be ad
mitted to a seat in the House.
Mr. &gar was then qualified liy titian the ealii
port the Untiltution or the United buttes.
A Personal Explanation.
Mr. WASHBURNE (Rep.), of Illinois, obtaining
the consent of the House to make a personal explanation,
hTit Tar 7ViciTy# tv tha areas ...5r...4 —.a. h r
vindication of the report of the Committee on Govern
ment Contracts, and said the remarks made on that occa
sion with reference to the gentleman from New York
(Mr. Cunkling) were unparliamentary, out of order,
met Ilujuot to the 130 mt the iff eeitemae, and ha
tt rated both would forget that they were over made.
Mr. ROSCOE CONKLIN°, of New 'York, slid he
was glad the gentleman bad, on reflection, characterized
as unjt a the remarks to which the House had listened.
ailealle tulle dissent front that
(garden, Ito would cattiest himself" with tht , gtutottlopt
that if a want of diserrtion had led him (Hr. Coukling)
to do violence to the propriety of this House, or to wound
the feelings of any member, be regretted it.
The Camel
The House then took up the Nebraska coutested-elec
tiou case, on which two reports had been presented ; one
by Dlr. Dawes, from the majority of the Committee on
Niccliopp, declaring Samuel G. l
ey,Daie the elating dele
gate, mu" susße's j „,,d okes 1, , p Ells_
bees, ham the minority of the same commitieo, de
claring J. Sterling Morton, the contestant, entitled
to it.
Mr. 'DAWES daillie4 that Mr. Dailey 'NW' elected by
160 majority,
Mr. VOORHEES argued that Dailey had held his
seat for nearly a year, on the basis of an illegal and
fraudulent certitieste. This was especially the case in
regard to the great seal.
Without disposing of the . L neettory the 11013.3 ad
ourned.
A Prize Ship Re captured by her Crew
Nov yooK, 010,y 6—The ehip EmiN .01. Pierre,
which was Captured mine time since by oar blockading
fleet, and a prize crew pet on board, with orders to make
for Flifladelphia, was subsequently recaptu aid by the
rebel Captain Wilson, who, by stratagem, male prieoners
of all the prim, CC yr owl prize inviter% The Valli% or
urea at Liverpool um the Mist alt., atm captain being as-
Pitied in navigating, her by only three or four, who, with
himself, were Naomd to remain on board by our cruiser
who captured her. Lieut. Stone was placed in charge of
40 Emily .Si. Pierre by our gunboat, and was over
irower.cl Wilson 1111311 he siewarkl Alla cook, and
placed i u irons.
Arrival of Invalids from Gen. McClellan'®
Army.
RENY TURK, "any d steamer Darsie.! Webster
has arrived from Ship Point, with ISO Invalids sad sick
from Geu. McClellan'e army.
Personality Disclaimed
The. Motion Modified
=2==llll.2=
Tlie iitiost Aflort.e4
plained
Vic«•s of Mr. Phelps, of California
Explanation of its Provisions
Till Haute of The Two Lilies
The Bill Pussed—The Vole
Ile bill was passed—yeas 79, nays 49 :
YEAS.
Franchot (Rep.)
Prank (Rep,)
Gooch (Lep.)
Goodwin (Rep.)
Granger ()Cep.)
Gurley (Rep.)
Raigln (Dem.)
Hall (U.)
Rooper (Rep.)
Rotten (Rep.)
Hutchins (Rep.)
Julian ( Rep.)
Kelley (Rep.)
Kellogg (11 }Mich.
Kill(nger (Rep.)
Lensing (Rep.)
Leary DJ.
Lehman (Dem.)
Loomis (Rep.)
Maynard (U )
Menzies (10 . .-)
Moorhead (Rep.)
Morrill (Rep.)ll.lo,
Nixon (Rep.)
Noell (Dem.)
I Norton {Dem .)
UorriwV(Vilin)
Mallory (U.)
Vt
A Defence of Gen. McClellan.
FURTHER FROM EUROPE.
The Steamer Edinburgh at New Turk.
THE LONDON TIMES ON THE EXPULSION OF RUSSELL.
New Irose, May U_ The gleaner RiliAltutok &Wm"
a t this port et 6 &clock thin evening, from Queenstown
ou the 24th ult.
The London Times of the 24th nays si the &tykes from
America indicate that the recent hattin at ghllch had ao
effect in creating a hope among the leading honaell that
the termination of the war was ut Mind. The shipments
of gold acre beginning to excite apprahenaions and imr-
Wise. but ue do not hear or a decree Lem Ws.4l.losions
prohiLithug tLo export or epode."
The Times announces the termination or itt cor.
ruepondence from the Potomac. It ma; : The Pre/d
-(hut lass furinally thchltd that Mr. Ruitell shall not be
et 4.61:01L11 r tt-o f? ,-,4
Lion to accompany tiue army. The Federal Government
fears ludepfli,desit criticism. The troops wore desirous
of carry big smith them 116torian wit7nt tin) wart I svohld
believe, Mr. Russell world have time received with JOY
In the rubel t hut whip ta1L46.P.q.141..a..
that ho mould iifford them utuitil Mei-made% Ito re
turned to England."
Pow!II (Dent)
Sa&bury (Dam.)
Si mmons (
Starke ( Dem.)
•ininner . ( Rep.)
WlllO9 (r.)
Wilson 00 4 ass,
Wilson (11 M
), Mo.
American mocks were dull.
Pußinger, the defaulter, tiled on a convict ship en route
to A tiandist.
Ten Eyck (Rep.)
Tr.:n.1..1110.90
Wadu (Rep.)
Wright (U.)
Subset- lotion Alin, ore belne ?mined tor the be leAt of
the unemployed throughout the mmufactnring
The btounaers Etna and Neiu York arrived out on the
24th.
The salts of rotten tit ',Neil:tool, on the 24th, amounicd
to B,o[o hales, it eluding 3,(.00 bolos to seem( itors and
exporters. The market closed lirni at unalter quota
tions.
llteadhtuffe am itulet,' Plovialalla vary
Loxoos, April 23—Consuls closed af.',93li '294 for 11
ney and account.
Riot Among. the Pottsville Colliers. The
Military Called Out.
Porr:YILLi May o.—Tbe colliers of eevoral of the
wince in ilia vicinity ale on a ttrike, and to day united
in the cc. MtiiiE Si Jll of many onirageous and hien .bandod
actri, Ihe niltilDiflit 1111011(4 of gomo of ant' 'RUM 0011
1112 rim 4 wall 040(1 by Ihmo, &Ando&
of piny. ert y. II eckfich r's niluA a were the object of their
united violence.
The Stab- authoritiee have been called upon to furnish
frc9Pf!l , 9 PHI , il'i'nn Shp Outrun], and Toluiltour connoaloi
alo organizing born,
The Printers' National Un'on
litnv 'loss, May ti.—The Printers' National Union
La d ekei...1J..1... ~...I.lest, Wm, 4, 74 ?} 4-
gon.try tint vice president, Jameo U. Walser e.tattel
vice T I secretary - and trea
surer, and Theodore Vpgle rorrespoldiog secretary.
Ton 6tates wets repreauntud at the Convention.
Election at Atchison, Kansas
ATCJUSON, Kerning, May 6.—The municipal election
today mulled en the . EIICCOM of most of the Union end
Anti-Jay-hawker tiaut by a majatity of thirty. The
Connell Ala Union men.
The Fenner Murder Case.
DETECTION AND ARREST OF THE MURDERER
[Frcm the St. Louis Republican of the 4th instant.]
We haw 014 Si/0 sisiirlaution of recording the taps
prehension of the prime murderer in the Caw, Ignetz
Itateky, in St. Louis. The manner in which the arrest
resulted is interesting and instinctive. Same days ago
Nfft Suauu Placard/hHa in Franklin county, MU
waited upon by a roan giving his nano) as If. Telbor, and
rennin Mr g himself as engaged in buying horses fur the
Govettiment. Ile bought of her a horse at the stipu
lated price of binety.livedollars, he paying ten dollars at
once, giving his note for the halanc., and promising
the rvintelipisr, Finding tint lit Mind
to'appear, she communicated the facts to Police Chief
COTt7.IIP, of thin city, who, tercel flog that Tenter"
was nu imposter, instituted a search for him. Ile was at
oneo struck with hi, resemblance to the picture and
din , Ar.iFib,n hf 11at4.14p1 6i..1 to 4i it, L. 16.e,t.„
got to go boa to he w York i 4l
tt Mr. Tether" fairly sprang backward with surprise,
and insiantly eselnimed; That's my name; I'll a.
back." Having been thus startled into en much of con
fession, he owned that he knew filetieniund th,lia4P, an&
was the mat. when. the police of the country had long
been vainly in search of.
Ile hag merle, in. Germain. a professed statement of the
principal facts in his history, and especially of his con
nection with Fellner. The narrative carefully avoids
authine him a confession of guilt, and is, therefore, uto.
CANIAtiIY rather ilitoliereht, aid ekhlblta Some very ir
regular realm es.
F,oin %hat we can anther, he has, for some mouths
part, been engaged in Franklin and the adjoining noun
tits. la Ldisli.s
Si. Louie ocedelonally. and thou residing ter in the su
burbs. the police of the city have at thrum obtained
evidence of his presence here, hut wore linable to gain
satisfactory indications of it, much less to get upon his
track We understand that the several rewatda offered
for lilt naDturn hew amount to the Mug gala of 55,000.
[iron ADDITIONAL CITY. NEWS. SEE. YOUBTLI PADS 1
The Funeral of Major General Smith,
The war has inaugurated imme sad and solemn scones,
and Philadelphia has not been alone in the bloody visita
tion which has stricken every city yillige lu iyq limi t
We bare Dad our seasons of calamity, however, and they
have been as tett Ibis and as regretful as those of any of
our eider monicipalitiel. Alter the battle of Mtn Mar
Philadelphia was a place of groans and mourning. Hera
the lamented and gallant Liable resided, and the chiral•
roue Baker was ono of our townsmen.
Yesterday the tidings of war came close home to us
when we heard the bells tollirg the requiem of Genera!
Clintles Ferguson Smith, who died at Savannah of
wounds received fourteen years ago, having since die
tingniehed himself in thrilling scones and upon fields of
courage.
Be led the charge at Fort Donelson, sward in hand,
and received the Vandal, of ids soldiers and ceuntelmen,
lied fate allotted hire strength and years, he would have
made his name one of the first on the list of the renowned
and patriotic ; but the climate of. Tennessee and undue ao.
tivlty made his wounds break out afresh, an old fever
came upon Lim—the pestilent breath of kinxico, mere
terrible than its cannon—and he has been brought hero
to be laid away in our beautiful cemetery, among thou.
Sfirldli of the god and gifted,
The seeks lii the sonar thanthers of the State leas',
where the civic, military, and naval officers congregated,
was highly imposing in its character. All the military
functionaries wore full epaulets, chapeaux, homily
mounted sworde ) with elegant dresses and splendid SARUM,
Cousricuous among these was Major (uow General) Reit,
Andt 'son, who has grown florid in the fac., and talked to
be in excellent Lealth Lieutenant Fairfax, of Trent
nienory, loomed up besidts Commander Pehdeegast,
Commander Turner and others, Ex 'Governor P ?flock
and Governor Curtin were remarked with the rohuat
figure of General Robert Patte son. These ware pro•
vided with mount lug gloves, crape decorations for their
orde, and all the other accompaniments of death and
its cilelmation,
The - come was a significant one; for here wore, per
haps, :hree•scote of gentlemen whose names and deeds
shall be perpetuated in our history, and in the hall be
low lay ono of their associates, whom the stern decree of
death had called fresh from the Eta] of hie fame. ft sae
episode Of WO.N, ouch as nut fnthrts helve hot shell fee
half a century aed their sons may well pray never to see
again.
Olin (Rep)
Perry (Own.)
Pinips (Rep.) Cal
Price
Rice (Rop.), Mass
Riddle (Rep.)
Mq.s
Sargeant (1 ep.)
Sedgwick, (R.)
Shellabarger (R.)
Steele (D.), N.Y.
.3!ero (14,0 )
Train (Rep )
Trowbridge (It.)
Vanhorn (Rep.)
Verree (Rep.)
Wallaca (Rap.)
Walton (Rep.) Me.
Ward (Dein.) •
Washburn (II,.)
Webster (1.r.)
Wheeler (Rep.)
Whaley - (U.)
The ocffin of General Smith lay draped in the flag
belt,wl hie sword and photograph larin2 (term It
but the curious people, who had Dreamt nits the Preahell
of the dead fin; two de e, in long, contliatoth, Wee, were
not allowed to enter the hall after noon of Tuesday,
p Hoerr en taking charge of the place and the remaine,
The involuntary respect pate to the honored, al well as
the dishonored dead, woe remarked of the few that were
permitted to occupy a place in Independence II All. The
old bell, crowned with a great eagle, looked gloomily
dean from Ito pedestal of Welds and seems, and all the
pertraits of the renowned seemed eaddened as they re.
pvcrii tiaeh ;lichee mound tho wells tint nee bier woe
the object of all regard—none could escape it. As terrible
when hallowed by the patriot as the felon, not even the
streaked and spangled flag could make men forget that it
held the fibres of corruption called of old, man, hero and
common:ln
At three o'clock the Preeestileh tiled out of the YAM'
door of the State Hellas, win re the pageantry of the fu
neral wee gathered—horsemen, batteries, infantry, the
long line of carriages, and the plumed hearse with its ca
tile atetda. To chili, solemn music the ranks m wed,
Shy lan* prrrejng up tp iikti tIP PYPI
ruu e, with flags at half. mast, and amidst universal ai•
lance, the lender in one of the greatest battles of hie time
went prone, dumb, and lifeless, to his receptacle in the
moat beautiful of our cemeteries.
The following wee the order of arrangements!
Wilson (Rep.)
Windom (Rep.)
Worcester (Rep.)
Porter (likep,)
B Ida ardson ( Dem)
Robinson (Dom )
Shanks (H.)
. 6h9f1191d (ti,)
bteole (D)I J
Thomas ti,)Mme,
Thomas (U.), kid.
Trimbth (Rep.)
Vallandigham (D.)
Y9OlllV9il (Porch"
Wadaworth (U.)
Walton (Rep.) Vt.
White (R.), Ind.
Wickliffe) (U.)
Wititditiff (i)gico,)
1. the body, borne by eight policemen, to be taken
through the southern matu entrance of Independ. mow
E. { ea r e to Walnut etnet, accorn pawed by the pall-bearere,
tollostea by military and naval eflicera in two ranks, and
naebried by Cant:du Biddlele tamales. M aveillavy.
. . . .
2. liecelved with tullitary honors, appropriate to tha
rank of the deceased : The body 1111 he taken to the
ri g ht of the troops, where it will he deposited in the
bate e.
If tha ualhboarera veepr to march nor eau do se; am
far Na they tkrt.46, tam. 81l dealtltl,d tO Pida, thay Will Mi
ter their carriager, illitch will follow homedlately to their
rest.
8. The military and naval ofltcers will also march In
printgaipa lil mr 9fl9dy•snor4 vf thy rvinoin% eithtr
In colutau 'auctions or by flint nt the otTicor in charge
shall determine. It' they shall desire to accompany the
cortege to Laurel Hill, they Ival outer carriages following
in their rear whenever they desire to do so.
4. The family of the deceascd, the reverend clergy,
aid the various civil unicorn and bvdied invited
by the committees lull take the carriages provided for
chum which will be lu readiness in Ft:tb and Sixth
streets, above Walt nt street, Ur the order arranged by
the con mittee of Councils.
Wl me iha hearpr a w l carrlsgies ?or F ail-tiarera
shall bare passed Fifth street on the march, the carriages
which have been standing on Fifth strati, with the
horses' heads towards Walnut street, will file into the
Cl'lllEllll, and continue to the procession after p wing
Mt istfea.. tha efieflagss lu that steo..4 nlss with
hcrees' brads tcosuids Walnut street, vial Ale into Wal
nut strett after the others just named.
O. The entire procession will proceed out Walnut street
to Twelfth, out Twelfth to Spring G irden, thence to
llrao.d shoot, awl theildo I. 61411.141 swim, as city las
determined, when the troops will be halind and wheeled
Into line, and tile body, its attendants, and the civil pro
cession will pass in front of them, receiOng from tho
troops the proper trolitaty salute : after whirtr the troops
not rf (mired with the men will he di4eillent end will ft-
Into to their euerterm
7. The escort proper with the remains and the root of
the cortege wilt continue their march to Lame]. Hill, and
ill complete the ceremonies et the day.
The eortenth otter being formed, will mom fn the fof■
lowing !
The Officers of the Army, Navy, Marino Gerpe, and
The Governor and Officers of the :Aide of Pennsylvania.
The Mayor and Presidents of Conocils and Chairman of
Tpc. Judges of the United States Circuit and Tristrfct
The Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
The Judges of the District Court and Common Pleas or
the City IN Philadelphia.
The committeu of Arranemente.
Dimino's and Vnicors or nolsot Wagon.
Members and °dicers of Common Council.
• The Members of the Press.
Heade or Departments and other (Mars of the City
•
On arriving at /enamel UM Mu body weestalieu from atm
hearse in front of the entrance to the cemetery, end wee
carded, at the head of a column of citizens, to the plea
selected for sepulture. The procession wound to the left.
and finally pawing the chapel, halted in an oven epics
near the Dort; em line or the cemetery, and not far from
the monument erected lo the memory of those who so
nobly sacrificed themselves as nurses during the preva
lence of the yellow fever at NorfeAk. An humus, con
course cri PeoPh/ awititect the Wining of the ruin* PlP
melon, out every aveune seemed Oiled to emcee.
As the body parsed ail beads were maces, red, and a
solemnity seemed to prevail that was not noticed In the
etreet . of the city. The grave waaaituatcd on the slops
of a bill, and immediately at its bead were arranged four
to- p. Parrat4 Baum, .toed
opposite aide. After the menet burial service was read
by Rev. Dr. Ducachet, salutes were fired by the rullea
and artillery .
A little innovation wee practised in the firing, the
ne.ror.cl rovati 6495 dro I. r Ale, ciiiillll.ll. Mina 11M1/11..
what aindiar to the.explosion of a package of flivi-elikek.
era. The crowd then dispersed, and found their way he
the city.
Among the curiosities of the procession was the war.
charger of the deressal, @Quipped with !addle, holsters(
8i d all the seaniusesimeuts of active service. The eons
treat was invola.tatily drawn In every mind between
horse and horseman, rider and steed. The empty saddle
told the whole tale.
la which amoral Smith was interred' wall
the hats licraft of MP. Jehti Good of this olty. It Its
fine exemplification of funereal art, and worthy of the de.
ceased and the occasion.
THE LATINT COMALEIWIA.I.
THE CITY.
IMPOSING AND SOLEMN OBSEQUIES
VoluntePro.
irmAit.te.
The family of deceased.
The Reverend Clergy.
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