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TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1862.
THE LATEST WAR NEWS
A despatch bra been received at the War De
partment, from Gen. Banks, announcing._ that his
army has crossed the Potonnto in safety. His men
are said to be in fine spirits, and no rebels are in
eight. • The New York Cavalry is said to have re
treated in a disgraceful manner during the fight at
Front Royal. The excitement still contirmea in
Baltimore, and a recruiting office for the let Mary
land Regiment has been opened. Gov. Andrew, of
Massachusetts, has issued a patriotic preclamation,
calling out all the militia of the State for the do
fonoe of Washington. Gov. Curtin's proclamation
appears to meet with cordial support throughout
the State, and recruiting is going on briskly.
From the Mountain Department we havo infor
mation of the surprise and capture of a large band
of the Dixie guerillas.
Congress Yesterday.
BILNATE.-A memorial was presented by the citi
zens of Southeast Missouri asking protectiirt from
guerilla bands. The . bill legalizing the acceptance
of 200,000 volunteers was reported baok to the
committee. The bill for the compensation of the
crew of the Verona was passed. Tue consideration
of the tax bill wee resumed. Several amendments
were offered.
House.---The confiscation bill was taken up, and,
after some debate, was finally passed. A bill was
offered to free the slaves of rebels. After several
amendments and substitutes it was laid over. The
bill for the relief of Robert Small and crew, who
delivered up the ateamer. Planter to Commodore
Dupont, was passed.
TUE GOVERNMENT having taken possession
of the railroad, all mail facilities with Wash
ington have been suspeLded. This will ac
count for the absence of .g‘ Occasional's" letter
from our paper of yesterday.
THE RECEPTION Of Governor CURTIN'S pro
clamation, by the people of this city, as sliotrn
in the enthusiasm and excitement of yester
day, was one of those exhibitions of patriotic
feeling which can only find a prallel in the
scenes attending the fall of Fort Sumpter.
11Thatever may have prompted the .Presi
dent's call for troops; whatever danger
may be dreaded ; whether the capital was
really menaced or not, the people.secmod to.
have caught the inspiration' ctt other days.
In all parts of the town great enthusiasm pre
vailed. Our sedate city of Philadelphia was
startled from the apathy and languor into
which the enervating days of spripg seemed
to have thrown it. Flags were unfurled from
dusty garrets And floated in the sunshine;
large capitals suddenly appeared on blank
walls, setting forth the country's peril,
and summoning : the citizens to its aid;
the drum and fire resounded .in every
highway ; clerks left their desks, laborers
threw down the spade, the business man
locked his safe and put away his ledgers ; all
repaired to convenient recruiting stations ;
our militia donned their tidy uniforms and
cleaned their muskets ; generals, colonels, and
officers of militia became very busy and very,
much excited; The bustle and preparation of
war overwhelmed everything else, and the city
seemed to be but little more than a mere camp
of instruction and preparation..
The news we have from the seat of, the re
cent defeat is more satisfactory, because more
coherent and comprehensive than that printed
in Monday's paper. The subsequent de
spatches of General Mums seem to warrant
the conjectures we yesterday expressed. The
disaster to our troops in Virginia is not so
terrible and overwhelming as was generally
believed and anticipated. We can see its
full extent and the effect it will have upon the
military Operations in Virginia and the
sentiment of the country. Of course, Upper
Virginia and the Valley of the Shenan
doah once more becomes a part of the rebel
thraldom. This is the sad feature of the ease,
and what inmost to be regretted. There can
be no permanent Union sentiments reorganized
in these recevcittered districts, so long as
there is:a dread of the rebel army returning to
punish those who may become loyal. The
Victory of Winchester delivered the Union
people of Virginia, but the defeat of B&ejcs
again enslaves them.
The country, however, is taking an impulse
from this military Mishap, and it will answer
every new demand that the Government can
make. Those who may have been timid be.
fore will find new courage—those who hesi
tated will be firm and unyielding. It is not
a question of stocks or investment, of harvests
er manufactures, of commerce or politics, but
a question of life to the State, and liberty to all.
This is .a lesson which this defe d teaches the
people, and in learning it they are giving new
evidences o' devotion and sel'-sacrifice.
While doing so, however, they are pre
pared to insist upon no policy being adopted
but that of bitter and exterminating wan They
demand the most radical and extreme me
mos. So long as we had the rebellion at the
sword's point and were leisurely driving it
down into the Gulf, it was well to talk of
mercy and magnanimity. We could then be
choice in our war weapons, and fastidious as
to the means we used for suppressing there
bellion. Then we spoke as conquerors,
and of the enemy as a conquered foe.
This is not our attitude to-day. The
country confesses that it has tried 'to
fight this war on narrow grounds; tbatit has
not sought the agencies used against it by the
rebels; that it has followed old traditions and
prejudices, and made the Constitution a mere
drag-chain ; a spike in its cannon ; tti sand
shell. It has hoped that in the hearts of the
misguided rebels this policy would produce
beneficial results ; that it would rekindle the
loyal flame, and melt its foemen into friends.
But in this effort we have failed, and in our hope
WP have been disappointed. The wild demon of
Secession will not be charmed into submission
or peace,—it cannot be slain by a toy-musket
or a sword-trinket,—it will not die at the sound
of blank cartridges. We may send it prods.
mations and peace bulletins—they come back
again us ball waddings--as heart-offerings re.
turned to us to drink our heart's blood. The
demorf is the demon still. We say prayers,
but ho will not be exorcised. We give him
milk and whey, but he will only be satisfied
with blood and death. •
This should no longer be. We must be in
earnest. We are not 'playing a drama, nor
passing through a comedy—u few embarrass
ing scenes of war, and combat with blue fire
and happiness at the end, and a general re
union bet ore the curtain. We must fight with
sharp bayonets and sword points. We must
slay, or be slain. There can be no peace until
there is triumph ; there can be no triumph
until the South is subjugated, or the North
humiliated. If any true man ever dreamt
of conquering the South by embraces, let him
read the doings of this brief May month and
open his eyes. He will see this conspiracy
full of menace and desperation, moving exult
ingly towards the capital, and threatening to
revolutionise Maryland and overrun Pennsyl
vania. lie will see that while he has been woo
ing they have been warring. The rebels teach
us the lesson we should learn. They fight us
with every means God and nature and cir
cumstance have given thorn. They have no
law that is not a law of defence and
destruction. They are not strangled by their
own laws or hampered by any legislative enact
ment. It is time that we should meet them as
they meet us. No more legislation—no more
talk—no more compromise and conciliation;
let us conquer and subjugate. Every citizen
now drilling under his musket on this hasty
summons, feels that he has a purpose, that he
has enemies to slay and a country to defend.
He feels that there should be the strongest
measure of offensive war waged upon the
• rebels, even to their extermination.
Friends in power I you who are wielding
the destinies of this Republic, and holding..
the helm of State while the old ship rides and
shifts and grates among the rocksto you
we look for a bold and speedy execution
of the people's will. We make every
sacrifice—we give you our money, our
time—our blood, our llves—thelives of our
brothers and children ; and we ask you so to
use them that this infamous conspiracy may
be forever driven from the face of the earth.
Then, may we look for peace and • liberty in
all coming lime. Then, may we feel that how
ever fearful the sacrifice and dreadful the
cost, they have brought the endless - Weis.
ings of law, order, and constitutional free-
dom.
IN NO BORDER STATE have the Secessionists
been so infamously lawless, and the loyalists
so shamefully plundered and maltreated, as in
Tennessee. The fearful atrocities to which
peaceable, inoffensive citizens of .Knoxville
and adjacent towns have been for months sub
jected, because of their obnoxious loyalty, are
known to
s every Northern man who reads a
newspaper, and have roused a burning indig
nation in the hearts of all who love their coun
try, or can feel a sympathy for suffering hu
manity. It has scarcely been two mouths
since some eight hundred Union refugees from
the eastern portion of the State departed for
Kentucky, in the hope of escaping Secession
despotism and subservience to the conscrip
tion act, which the rebel Legislature at
Memphis had just passed. The sad result
is known. They we: e pur.Sued by rebel caval
ry, and carried back to bondsge, after one
hundred of their number had been killed or
wounded. They were not criminals fleeing
from the laws. They were not fugitive slaves
escaping from their masters. But they were
honest, industrious, well.disposed citizens,
who carried with them the implements of
labor, to gain by, their exertions,, in a friendly .
State,_a livelihood for themselves and families.
Conscious that their purpose was a lawful
one, fearing no enemies but trznger and priva
tion, hoping to build for themselves new
homes where they might dwell in peace, they
had not armed themselves. They knew no
cause why they should be molested, and hence
they neither feared nor thought of molestation.
Nevertheless, they *ere pursued and shot'
down in cold blood, by a band of rebels under an
infamous Colonel Amor. This daitardly act
was not the first of its kind. Tenuessee has
been _called upon to mourn and, itness other
instances of such rebel barbarities. The
' sufferings of Parson Bnowzinow have been a
theme for sympathy and comment at every
Northern fireside, and by every Northern
press. But do we sufficiently reflect that Mr.
l3nownLow's case is not au isolated one? Do
.
we consider 'that Mr..llrtommow is as much
a representative man by virtue of his suffer,
ings and heroic endurance as by reason of his'
stern, ascetic patriotism? Have we ever
thought that Parson attownnow's narrative of
his personal experience is the mere exponent
of hundreds of unwritten narratives, whose
horrors no pen, however graphic, can ade
quately depict? If hundreds of such narra
tives have not been printed, it would be as
well for the credit of human nature in this
nineteenth civilized century that theyshould I
never See the light. In a recent letter to the
editor of THE FRESS, the Parson used this
language, speaking of the trials of Tennes
see : ,‘ In God's name I call upon President ,
Lincor.a, and upon his ' Cabinet and army '
officers, to say how long they will suffer a
loyal people, true to the Union and to the
Government, of their fathers, to suffer in this
way!"
At last we have an answer to 'this question
in a . proclamatipn by. Governor Jouxsoa, is
sued on the 9th instant from the Execu
tive chamber at Nashville. It is plain,
out-spoken, and characteristic in its tone,
and beneficial in its promise. It is a great'
step 'to' the relief of a downtrodden and
disheartened people. It bids them be of goad
cheer, for the Government is with them, and
its protecting arm shall henceforth shield them
from oppression. It gives warning of a re
taliatory policy that must and will be pursued
against the enemies of law and order. For
every Union man arrested or maltreated five
rebel outlaws shall be. made to feel the heavy
hand.: of justice, and, besides imprisonment,
shall be dealt with." as the nature of the case
may require." This is sufficiently vague to
sufficiently vague
have a terrible significance; and sufficiently
clear to show that, should the case be despe-
rate, the remedy will be equally so. The pro
clamation further decrees, in sebstance, that,
reprisal and indemnity shall be made for all
the property of Unionists taken or destroyed
by rebels. "This order," says Governor
JOHNSON, ".wily be -executed in letter and
in, spirit." This is clearly an instance
of tautology, as the signature of 4N
DREW' JOHNSON gives the proclamation an
unmistakable validity, and the best guarantee
we could have that it will be faithfully and
zealously executed. Surrounded as he is
upon every side with traitors, the success
which has marked Governor JOHNSON'S ad
ministration is something extraordinary ; and
we are led to believe that its efficacy will be
evinced in this last crusade against the East
Tennessee rebels. Unless we gleatly misap.
prebend the character and influence of
Governor JOHNSON, his manifesto ; will ef
fectually curb the lawlessness to which Parson
Bnowsmow testifies, and place such a check
upon the Secessionists that they will find it
expedient to "contract their lines." More
than this, we know that it will inspire a feeling
of hopeful confidence among the Unionists,
and impress them with the fact that the
Government is not indifferent to their sad
condition, but has always held their encourage
ment and deliverance to be its paramount
duty.
A lIILITARY WILITZE, DE Joust, we believe,
defines a base of operations to be cc the portion
of country from which the army obtains its
reinforcements and resources, from which it
starts when it takes the offensive, to which it
retreats when necessary, and by which it is
supported when it takes a position to cover
the country defensively." The Union army
advancing into the Southern territories has,
therefore, an unfailing base of operations, not
merely in a geographical and physical sense,
but likewise in a metaphysical one. It relies;
for its reinforcements and resources on—what?
on Congress, or the Secretary of War, or the
Secretary of the Navy 1 Not at all, but on
the loyal, Union-loving sentiment of the North
—we call it the sentiment, but we might, with
more propriety, term it the motive of the
.North. It is_this motive which has given our
soldiers so many victories, when their skill
and valor, in a less holy cause, would have
been of small avail; this nerves thelirms of
our legions ; this stains our battle-fields with
none but patriot-blood ; this is the secret of
the Union soldier's invincibility; this is the
chamied phylactery worn next his heart, to
incite him to the fulfilment of the law. It is
this 'loyal motive which explains the grand
uprising of the North, and justifies our war
in the eyes of the whole world; and it is this
which makes the Union indivisible even in
intestine strife and a pillar of strength that
can neither bo undermined nor overthrown.
•
We aro writing fact—the same that history
must write, that philosophy may read—and
not mere rhetoric.
.It was to this loyal mind and heart of its
people that the nation retreated when her
integrity was menaced and assailed. Her
pleading voice, crying aloud for preservation,
above the roar of cannon and the din of 'bat
tle, awoke the North from its lethargy, and
spurred it to the scene of conflict thrice-armed
with the justice of its cause. A base of ope
rations was at once established—or rather, it
bad always existed since the days , of the Revo
ution, and was merely developed adequately
to meet the exigencies which pressed upon it.
The deck of "the good ship Union, South
ward bound," was cleared for action, for the
day of compromise was past, and the hour for
action had arrived. We began offensive ope
rations, confident of the boundlessness of
our resources and energies. Tho Southern
traitors had hoped to see us split up
into factions, for therein lay their only
prospect of success. They saw their error
when too late, and plead to be "let alone."
That plea was sufficient to show us bow little
real reliance they placed in the justice and
invincibility of their cause, and how unlikely
they were to succeed in defending it, except
upon paper and in newspaper campaigns.
They lacked the one, indispensable base of
operations--a loyal and, united people—which
`accounts for the downfall of a rebellion, so
cunningly contrived, so powerfully armed,
possessing a territory almost impregnable by
nature, a seacoast guarded at all vital points
by massive fortifications, a country having ex
tensive railroad and telegraphic communica
tion, and a climate as insidious and fatal as
the rebellion itself.
“And by which it is supported, when it
.takes a position to cover the country de
fensively. 3, So far as the present war is con
cerned, we have very little occasion to cover
our country defensively. The aspect of affairs
has changed wonderfully within the past few
months. The area of treason has been cir
cumscribed, and its armies scattered by our
advances rather than by battles. In fact, but
two more battles remain to be fought, to end
the war, which France and England affect to
.believe interminable.” To ITALLECH or
IfcCtairdta must the honor fall of giving the
Confederacy its death-blow. We have nar
rowed down the fate of a formidable conspi
racy to the decision of a contest in the East
or West, and have shown in this war, as we
have shown in others, that in the time of peril,
whether we choose to assume an offensive or
defensive attitude towards our enemies, we
have a firm, unyielding base of operations on
which we may rely for our resources and our
victories.
Tnaouott the studied calumnies and misre
presentations of Southern presses and politi
cians, the uninformed masses in the South
have heretofore learned to look upon the
Northern people as barely half civilized. That
the editors and politicians who brought about
the misunderstandieg knew better, is acknow
ledg.ed on all hands. But no other teaching
suited the end they labored for. They pro
fessed a great contempt for the North and all
its belongings, and endeavored to produce a
similar emotion in the breasts of their semi
barbarous, population. They succeeded in
making the Southern masses hate the Northern
people with a blind hatred, and in nothing fur
ther ;. for such as have seen and known the
poor whites of the South, know how impossi
ble it would be to awake a more refined emo
tion in their souls. Not that the ruling classes
there have much the advantage of their dupes,
for long-continued action couuter to light and
knowledge has reduced them, as a class, to the
common level of moral incapacity.
We were about to say that the haughty and
conceited Greeks began by professing a great
contempt for the Romans. They professed to
belieyo, and taught the people, that the Ro
mans were: semi-barbarians, utterly lacking
those qualities of mind and soul which were
considered to distinguish the Greeks as, a peo
ple. Nevertheless, the Roman people were not
so much inferior to their contemners in all that
exalts nations as the conceited Greeks pro
fessed to believe them to be ; and though they
set out with a great contempt for the Roman,
they ended by passing under the Roman yoke,
and becoming a mere appendage to the Empire
of the West, in fact.
However, this severe lesson did not entirely
reduce the overweening pride of the Greek.
He held to his old profession of contempt for
his corquerors, and preserved the -outward
semblatice of his original state. Ho consider
ed himself a sort of prisoner of war, submit
ting to, physical duress, but maintaining his
assumed superiority in elegant, though some
what stilted diction.
It is not impossible that the chtvalry of,
Norfolk and Nev Orleans have selected the
ancient Greeks for their exemplar.
LETTER FROM ,* OCCASIONAL."
WAsmaGToN, May 25, 1862
Victory will again crown our banners, and
the names of Richmond and Corinth will shine
like new stars, added to those which already
glow among the laurels gathered in other and
earlier battles by land and sea. But when these
fields are conquered all is not conquered.
Much will have .to be done and undone. The
traitors, beaten in the great conflicts, will at
tempt to consolidate the fragments of their
army, or will divide into guerilla bands to ha
rass and massacre the Union men in the
South, to - attack and murder the soldiers of
the . Union, and to perpetrate other acts
of outrage and crime. One of the most
imperative duties of- the Federal Govern
ment is to protect the Union men in the
slave States. They have had and have in
conceivable sufferings to . undergo. If they
speak outfor the Union before the arrival of
our armies, they are insulted and assailed, and
if they wait the arrival of our troops, and then
utter their thoughts, their only safety con
lists in the permanent occupation of their
neighborhood by these troops ; for if,
by any reverse, the -latter are forced
to move on, the MAW?. men and women
are made the victims of rebel cruelty, as at
Jacksonvilie, -Florida, and in several of the
counties of Western Virginia. Wherever the
Federal flag is planted in the South, it should
never be withdrawn while there is a. Unionist to
protect. Until this polio , is acted upon, we
can - never have a resolute and determined
Union party in the slave States.
The remedy is an imthediate appeal to the
loyal States for men to fill up the army, so that
it may be maintained at a standard of at least
seven hundred thousand men. Such an appeal
coming from the President would be responded
to at 'once. - Our safety and oursec:laity—
our permanent triumph—consists in a series
of bold, quick, and crushing blows upon the
rebellion, wherever it shows its head. This
course cannot be avoided if we are defeated
in the coming great battles, and if n e tri
umph, such a course will prove at last to, be the
most profound statesmanship. OconsroxA.t.
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Manly Letter from Captain Hoff, United
States Navy.
U. S. FLACSRIP "LANCASTER,"
MARS ISLAND, CalifOTDia, April 20, 18132.
Joint W. FORNHY, 18Q—MY DEAR Sift: A friend
having forwarded to me from Philadelphia the handsome
nctice contained in your paper of a past date, denying
ray connection with the Confederate Navy, as published
in their Navy Libt, places me under great obligations.
Bow, or In what manner, toy name became enrolled
among a Bet of men who deserted their flag at the mo
ment when their services were mostdemanded in quelling
an Insurrection of tech Infernal design Icannot imagine,
except that it was perpetrated by those who falsely cal
culated on the gratitude which was due by ins to a Go
vernment which has fostered and extended Its confidence
since the Drat day that I entered Ito service.
It is more surprising to me, as no word or deed of mine
bad ever authorized such en unwarrantable use of my
name, especially as I have, from the earliest germ of
the contest, looked on Secession es a return to barbarism,
or desolation of the fair fields of the South, and an at
troclous attempt to destrdy a union of States under
which the South themselves had risen, within a few years
past, to a state of prosperity and wealth unknown In
history.
It was bat a Aoki time Since that the Legislature of
south Carolina burled at me her wrath for continuing to
hold my allegiance to the United States Government, but
this spiteful resolution falls harmless at my feet. lam
more than proud of holding a commission under a Con
stitution signed by their own citizens, and under a Union
whose noble "flag" I have seen floating in every por—
tion of God's gir he, extending protection t 3 the com
merce of South Carolina equal with that of other States,
sod demanding such respect from the world as any roe
tonsble people ought to have been satisfied with,
Accept again my thanks, and believe rue to be
Your obedient servant,
HENRY K. HOFF,
Captain United States Navy.
Brutal Treatment of Gen. Banks• Wound
ed and Sick by the Rebels.
iMay 26.—The following despatch hue
been received br the Governor from a reliable source.
It is but proper the people should be made acquainted
with the fade
"To Governor Curtin: I have examined a dozen
atregglere from the Maryland let and Banks' column, to
day,.and their testimony is. concurrent as to the brutal
treatment of our nick and prisoners. A number of Penn
sylvanians who were sick in Winchester are tied in the
wheat Beide. On Banks' routs of retreat mtuiy were
mercilessly butchered. I have no direct word, as yet,
from Gen. Banks' wounded."
THE PRESS.-THITADELPMA, TUESDAY. MAY 21, 1862.
LATEST NEWS FROM GEN. BANKS.
HIS ARMY ACROSS THE POTOMAC.
NO REBELS IN SIGHT.
THE FIGHT AT FRONT ROYAL
FURTHER PARTICULARS
WAR .DEPARTMENT,I
Wesintieriog, May 26.
The following is the latest received from Gen. Satins:
WILLIAMSPORT, 111 d., MAY 26.
To the Mon. Edwin M Stanton, Secretary of War
We believe that our who!e. force, trains and all, will
more in as ety. The men are in fine spirits, and creasing
in geed order. She labor of last night was fearful. The
enemy followed Wiliest night on our march, but has not
made his appearance this morning.
'the - news of your movements South has unquestiona
bly caused them to leek out for their safety. Your de
spatch was read to the troops this morning amid the
heartiest cheers. M.•P. B ANKS, •
Major General Commanding.
Particulars of the Fight at Front Royal,
Virginia. -
BALTIMORE, May 26.—Tbe following is an account of
the fight at Front Royal, by Capt. 'George Smith, of the
let Maryland Regiment, who succeeded in effecting his
escape:
About one o'clock on Friday afternoon, a negro,
mounted on horseback, came dashing into camp, crying
out the rebels are coming it, great numbers, and they
will surround you and wet you off? ,
At first the men laughed at him, stating that they .had
waited too long for them, and. they did not believe a
weird of it. As soon, however, es Colonel Kentey sow
the man, ho became satisfied of the rebels' approach.
The long roll was beaten, the men responded, spring
ing hastily to their arnte, anti forming in line by cola
patty, and very soon the rebels made their appearance.
Strange to say, not a single gun was fired by the pickets
of the regiment. It may have-been that in consequence
of a sudden tire of tke road they were surprised and
captured. Company A was ordered to deploy as skir
mishers, and support a section of Knapp's Pennsylvania
Battery, which mustered about 49 men.
In the ?noontime thdliontanant colonel of the 20th In
fantry, with a small detachment of his men, who had
been actiog os a pioneer corps, also formed and prepared -
to receive the enemy.
Our battery was soon engaged, and discharged shot and
Shell for neatly two hours, until their, ammunition had
Islamist been expended. The firing was spirited, and there
is no doubt of its efficacy.
Unable, however, to withstand such an overwhelming
force, the order was given to retire, which was done, and
the entire column indeed over the Shenandoah river, the
retreat being covered by a company of the sth New York
cavalry, about eighty strong.
Whiled passing over the bridge, the captain distinctly .
saw the easel forces '; there was a very strong columa of
cavalry—say four squadrons of eight comPanies and five
regiments of infantry.
Of this force two regiments of infantry and two of
cavalry were fording the 'stream, the water being very
The order double quick , ' was given, and the Union
troops took to the pike, whore atiother stand was made;
Colonel Keeley address:Mg tho men and telling them that
their ouly ebance 'was to stand and - fight to the last,
especially us the rebel cavalry wore last pushing on and
displaying a black flag.
Gerstein Smith states that he did not see them display
the while Rag, as was represented In_s previous account.
A second stand was trade, and many shots exchanged,
when'the New York cavalry, who were still in the roar
of the column, broke and -retreated, ridieg pell-mell
through the ranks of the infantry.
A party of the Maryland command retreated to a .
wheat field, and there made still another stand, firing
rapidly and with deliberate precision.
Pt esoutly ou came the rebel 'cavalry, cutting right and
left, and yelling terribly like Indians.
In acme instances neithetelhe dying nor wounded were
spared, and in two instances the captain saw the rebate
draw their pistols and shoot them in the head, whilst
lying on the roadside.
The captain told the men they had hatter return to the
pike, and escape as they best could. lie had net pro=
corded fad before a cavalry officer made up to him, and
demanded his sword and pistols, which he threw upon
the ground, thie rebel at the same time drawing a pistol
ln the confusion, however, he succeeded in regaining
hie pistol, and, obeerving a rebel shoot one of the let
Maryland Regiment he drew it and shot him, and atm
ceeded, with the assistance. of Limit. Camphor, in se
curing the rebel's horse and riding off.
After proceeding about two milee they tame across the
ambulance in which Colonel. Keeley lay, attended by
Servers Mitchell, of the regiment The vehicle was
mewing along the pike, and , had been repeatedly fired
luto by the rebel cavalry.
Finding teemseives drawly, pursued, theyabandoned
the horse, und leaping several - fences, took to the woods, -
where they managed to conceal themselves, and the ene
my gave up the search.
There wore but six companies of the Maryland regi
ment engaged in the light the remaining four being on
picket duty, and acting as the, provost guard at Front
Official Report of General Banks.
WARRINGTON, May 26 —The following wee - received
at the War Department at eleven o'clock to-night:"
W
WILLIAMSPORT, MaY 26-4 P. M.
To the Fresedcoil
I have the honor to report the safe arrival of my coat
.
rata at this place last evening, at teno'clock, and the
-
passage - of the fifth corps amuse theeriver to-day,`-with
comparatively bet little loss.
The lose of men hilted, wonndeel, and missing, in the .
different combats in which my command lute participated,
since the morel from Strasburg on the morning of the
24th instant, I era unable now to rennin, bat I have
groat salisfactie,n in being able to reprdseut that although"
serious it is much lug than nfightheve been anticipated
considering-the very great niewerity of - the forces - en--
gaged and the long-matured plans of the enetay, which
-aimed 'at nothing less than the entire napture of our
Ce. A detailed statement will be forivarded as soon
as poemble.
My command encountered the enemy in a constant
succession of attack.e, and iu the well-conteated engage
ments at Stress - burg, Middletown, .Newton—at a point,
also, between these places, and at Winchester. The
force of the ORRARY Wan (estimated at about 15,000 men,
with very strong artillery and cavalry supports, while
`my own force consisted of two brigades, less than 4,000
strong, ail told, 1,500 cavalry, tea Parrot guns, and six
warmth-bores.
The euleatantial preservation of the entire supply
train is a source -of gratification. It numbered about
.five hundred woven?: On a forced rears% of fifty-three
thirty-flve of which were performed la one day,
subject to constant attack in frOnt, rear, and hank, ac
cording to ire position, by the enemy in full force, not
witMdauding the panic of teamsters and the mischances
of a river .pessage of more than three hundred yards,
with slender preparations for food and ferry, notmany
more than fifty wagon's were lost. ,
A full etatement of ibis loss will be forwarded forth
with.
Very great commendation is due to Captain S. It. Mil
'abed. Assistant Quartermaster, and Captain E. G. Beek
with for the eafety of the train.
Cur troops are in good spirite and occupy both aides of
the river. N. P. BANKS,
Major General Commanding.
THE BALTIMORE EXCITEMENT
A SECESSION ORGAN SUSPENDED
THE 'UNION ERR CONTROLLING THE CITY.
BALTIMORE, Nay 26.—The excitementcontinnes with
ont nbatenwnt this morning. All who utter disloyal
sentiments are knocked down without the slightest
scruple.
Baltimore street, from Calvert to Holliday street, is
crowded this morning, and there is considerable excite
ment caused by the crowd chasing obnoxious people and
occasionally beating some of them.
A recruiting office has been opened in Baltimore street,
displaying a flag bearing the inscription Recruiting
°Mee of the First Maryland Regiment."
The people ore demanding the display of flags from all
the newspaper offices and public buildings. All have
complied except the News Sheet, the office of which hes
been closed and abandoned.
The excitement is fearful, and the prominent Seces
sionists have all disappeared from the streets. The
military, however, have taken no part in thee° move
ments- .
BALTruons, May 28, P. M.—The proprietors of the
News Sheet have reopened girds office, and displayed the
Bag of the Union.
Among those mentioned as bating been molested by
the Union men yesterday, the name of Robert McLane,
late Minister to Maim', was erronesusly given. This is
incorrect, as that gentleman was not molested in
ROT way.
B/LTIMORM, May 26—Midnight.—All Is now Quiet in
Baltimore. The vigorous exertions of the police com
misaicners have succeeded in Teetering order, and the
city wee perfectly Quiet to-night. There is also a feeling
of entire tecurity.
THE RESPONSE TO THE CALL FO
MORE TROOPS.
HARRISBURG, May 20. The proclamation of the Go
vernor heti created a tremendous excitement. Drums
are beating, and every disposition is manifested to com
ply with any demand that may he made upon the pa
triotic muses of Pennsylvania.-
Recruiting ban already commenced, and a regiatent in
protean of formation.
Another General Order by the Governor.
licamsuonc, May 26.—The following additional order
bee just been made :
BEADQUAnillits OF Tll3 PENNA. MILITIA, t
EIARRISBERG, May 28.
• GENERAL ORDIR 110. 24.
General order Xo. 23 of these headquarters, dateB this
day, being Issued under the requisition of the President
of the 'United States, no cortlAiatiding offidet of a higher
grade than captain will be accepted by ilia iittitad States,
excepting where the regiment Is atroinli ofganised, and
ail expense under IL is to be dffrayed by tits General
Government. ,
By order of A. G. Curtin, Governor and Commander=
in Chief. A. L. nusz•ELL,
Adjutant General.
The Militia to Serve for Three itionths.
ileaamono, May 28—Evening.—The following ad
diPonal order has just been issued: •
.1111ADQIIInTERs PENNSYLVANIA 'ALLEM,
HARRISBURG; May 26, 18432.
GENERAL ORDER, No. 26.—The cell for troops, by
general orders of these headquarters, Nos. 23 and 24, of
thleilate, is for three•months' militia mon, as .stat 4 in
the requisition of the President of the Unitedltates.
By order of A. G. CUIP,E.fiI,
Governor and Oomitianderfn-chter. •
A. L. Hussitm.,,Adjutant General.
The call of tbe Governor for troops te the
liveliest response from all quarters of the 'kite: Offers
'of comPantea and 'regiments era pettifog in. The Har
risburg City Zonaves, commanded by Capt. Aelinry Awl,
is full, end leaves tomorrow. Two other companies are
being rapidly recruited, and will unwell within a few
days.
THE - NEW YORK CAVALRY RETREAT.
[SECOND DESPATCH.]
All Quiet and Secure at Baltptiore
The Excitement at Harrisburg
FROM
`WASHINGTON . .
Special Despatches to 4 ( The Press."
WesmNaTox, Map 26, 1882
The Latest War News.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
WAsmscreoti, biay 26-8 o'clock P. M.
No reliable inforination or particulars of the retreat
of our forces fraud Winchester. Va.. to Williamsport,
Am, have been received at the War Department.
Despatches from Williamsport have to be sent 'o
Hagerstown by mountain messengers. From that point
they are telegraphed to tle Government. As toon as
received they will be given to the public.
No Advices from Gen. Halieck—Gen
McClellan's Operations.
No advicee have been received at the War Department
o-day from Gen. HALLEOX.
Gen. AltsCLELLart telegraphs that hie troops hare out
the 'Virginia Central Railroad M three points between
Nanover Court House and the Oldokallooliay.
Nothing else of interest had transpired.
The War in North Carolina.
From the Navy Department the following items are
gathered :
The United States steamer Shawsheen, with one com
pany of the 9th New York regiment, on the 9th inet.
proceeded up the Chowan river, North)Carolina, to Gates
county, and destroyed 590,000 worth of bacon, corn,
lard, fish, Au., belonging to the Confederate Government.
The warehouse containing it was fired. As the party
were returning to the boat they were fired upon by
thirty rebel cavalry, but succeeded in driving them Off,
killing the rebel leader.
On the night of - the 12th instant, a party under Mut.
Pillager, of the Commodore Perry, went on shore, six
miles above Elizabeth City and three miles into the
country, and recovered the Wadele Point light house
apparatus. In order to prevent information of the
movement being conveyed to some of the rebel cavalry
in the neighborhood, all the men found on the route
It ere detained until everything had been conveyed to one
of our boats. which. was done by means of rebel teams
proceed into the service. .
On the 14th, the U. S. steamers Germ and Lockwood
pursued the rebel. steamer Alice up the Domoke river,
and captured her about two miles below Williamgburg.
She had on board bacon for the rebel artily, and the
church-bells of -Plymouth, which were 'to be cast into
field pieces. At Plymouth the Commodore Perry found
the lantern from the light-boat at the mouth of the
Itoanoke river. It was concealed in the eastern house.
Visitors to West Point.
The Preeident has appointed the following.visitors to
the military academy, at West -Point,-for the annual
examination of .IS62—viz :
Rev. J. Phelps, of California; James R. Copeland, of
DeJewett); Horace G. Biddle, of Indiana; Hen James
Knox, of Illinois; Hoa. Issue P. Chriatiency, of Michi
gan ; Ewd. B. McPherson, of lifissonri; Hon. Samael
'Upton, of New Hampshire; Hon. Thomas P. Carpenter,
of New Jersey,; . Bev. Dr, Francis Wayland, of Bhods
Island; John B. Boger, of Tennessee; Philip Bartlett, of
Vermont; Dr. OrmOnd Beatty, of. Kentubky; Win. H.
B. thistle, of Virginia; Boy. Z. Van Bokketon, of Mary
lard; General Joseph Markle, of Pennsylvania, and
Charles Anderson, of Texas.
The Navy
The. following acting master's mates hare been pro
Mob d
,by the Navy . Department to, be acting masters:
Wm. T. Buck, Edmund Kimball, Wm. 11. Males, Bich.
"Hines, and WM. F. Prath.
Lientenant A. K. Hughes hag been ordered to report
to Commodore Paulding for the command of the Mo
hawk.
Captain Chauncey has been ordered to report by letter
to the Ordrauce Bureau for duty. -
John Fitch has been appointed 3d assistant and or
dered to the eteamer blaseachusette.
The War in Mexico—The French Re
sisted near Orizaba.
Semi-MEcial despatches received tl-day state, under
date of Oz izaba, May 9th, that the French trot had
advanced within three leagues of that city, where - they
encountered a force of 10,000 Mexicans, who attacked
them with success, killing 500 of the invaders.
It does DO seem, from the fact; stated in the de
ortithr-si that President 4tressz and his Cabinet - had
fled from the eityof Mexiae to Queretaro, at was re.
.cently elated in the newspapers.
Travel to Washington
The passenger trains will be run, as usual, between
Washington and Baltimore, on to-morrow, (Tuesday) ;
five traine each way. -
Popular Demonstration at Hagers
I
town Md.
A .SECESSION NEWSPAPER OFFICE DESTROYED.
BALmerone, May 26.—There was the same popular
commotion in Hagerstown, on Saturday nigat and Sun
day, as in Baltimore, daring which a Secmion news
paper-office was destroyed, and prominent Secessionists
puniehed very severely in all name( the town where
FROM FORT WRIGHT.
CAntO, May 26.--By an arrival from the fleet, we learn
that a flag of truce went down yesterday, to exchange
prisoners, the receipt for whom was signed by General
Yillipigne, commanding at Fort. Wright.
The appearances aro that the fort has - been greatly
strengthened. -
Several new batteries are to be constructed, mounting
twenty-one grans; - several of them ot heavy calibre.
The rebole are still at Fulton.
Massachusetts Again to the Rescue.
rROpLAMATION OE 00V. ANDREW.:
Bos7oa, Mar 26.—Tne following proclamation is pub
lished this morning:
By the Governor and Commander-in-Chief..
A PROCLAMATION.
Man or Mess.sonusavcs 1 . The wily and barbarous
horde of traitors so the people, to the Government, to our
country and to liberty, menace again the National
Capitol.
They hale attacked and routed General Banks, are
advancing on Harper's Ferry, and are marching on
Wa.bing,ton.
The President has called on Massachusetts to rise once
more for its rescue and defence. The whole militia will
be summoned by a general order issued from the of ice of
the adjutant general, to report on, Boston Common to
morrow.
They will march to relieve and avenge their brethren
and friends, to oppose with fiery zeal and courageous pa
triotism the hro'gress of the Le.
May God encourage their hearts and strengthen their
arose, and may He inspire the Government and all the
people. -
Gives at headquarters, in Boston, at 11 o'clock, this
(Sunday) evening, May 25, A. D. 1862.
JOHN A. ANDREW.
BoEfoN, May 26,—The 326 Regiment, Colonel Parker,
left for Washington at 7 o'clock this evening.
The old Roston, battery Artillery will leave early to
morrow morningr
' Over 3,000 troops appeared on the commons MS after•
noon, ready'fcr service, and the number will be largely
increased to-Morrow.
The War in Arkansas
TIC O►NP L►oY thtssu., snit% Blvitsvita.s, Ark,
May 21.—Quito a spirited skirmieh took place on the
19th, near Laser, on the Little Rock river, between
about 150 men of Gen. Osterhous' division and some 600
rebels, under Cols. Coleman and Hicks, in which the
latter were routed. with a lose of 150 lefton the field and
Quite a number wounded. Our loss was 15 killed and
34 wounded.
The rebels have burned all the bridges across.the
bayous Dee Arc and Cypress, and 10,000 bales of cotton
have been consumed ou the Arkansas ricer by order or
Deanregard.
Brig. General Roane, who le in commend of the rebel
forces in this State, has three regiments of Teliens at
Little Bock, and the Arkansas militia are supposed to be
gathering at some point In considerable numbers.
Our Troops Fired upon by the Women of
Winchester_
OUR SICK ROUNDED IR TIMM 0017 CR.
Bat:mums, Iday 26.—Iteports from Williamsport say
that as onr troops retreated through Winchester, the
women fired upon them with pistols from the doors anti
windows, and that the sick left in the hospitals were
moat brutally treated and some of them wounded.
The Exhuming of Bodies at Williams.
burg Prohibited.
YORKTOWN, May 21.
•
To Major Jones, Provost Marshal:
The general commanding directs me to advise you
that he has issued an order forbidding the further ex
huming of bodies by thafrionds of those killed at Wil
liamsburg. Very respectfully,
Tour servant, CHARLES E. PEAS%
Liout. and A. D. C.
From. General Fremont's Army
. .
ifiIADQOARTHRS OF THE MOUNTAIN DEPIII7)(EINT, Day
25,1862.—C010nel Latham, commeudiog the expedition
to Share Mountnim reports that he completely surprised
a large band of the "Dixie" guerillas, putting them to
flight and capturing moat of their arms, without loss on
our side. The pursuit will bo continued till the baud is
entirely broken up.
Departure of the new York Seventh
FRIT YORK, May 26.—The New York ith Regiment,
Colonel Lefferts, left at 10 o'clock to-night. There wore
about 000 men In the ranks. They were attended to the
host by thousands of thsir friends, and their march down
Broadway wee a perfect ovation. The sth Regiment left
Feat Hamilton tonight, oleo, for Weekly:too.
An intense feeling prevails here.
From California
BAN FRANCISCO, May 26,—Arrired, eldp Romance of
the Sea', from Now York. Sailed, steamor St. Louis,
for Papuan with 115
,passongere and $330,000 in trea
sure, of vihich $lOO,OOO is for Now York.
Gen. Sigel en route for Wabliington.
PITTSBURG, May 26.—Gen. Sigel passed through this
city to-clay, en ronte for the East. On hie arrival at the
d , pot, tide !tfternoon, he wee greeted entbuilastioally by
an immontie moltitai, yam induced him, by urgent calif.,
to make a abort speech ; atter which he immediately de
parted In the Philadelphia train.
The New Jersey Troops:
TRIINTO:ft May 28 —Over 836,000 was' brought WAN
city from Washington by Colonel J. Cook for the famiSel
of meruheis of the let New Jersey Cavalry, which will
be distributed throughout' tho State during tho week.
This is the largest amount sent on by any one regimen'.
The regiment le below Fred oricksbnrg.
Fire at LondOn,• . C. W.
LONDON, (C. W.), Mal 26.—k Bre here yesterday de
stroyed the stores of edam Ilaine & Co, Burrell & Co.,
and several others adjoining. .Tho lope was over 8100,-
000, which ie mostly covered by tneuraoce.'
Reported ,Capture of Corinth.
A report has been received in this city, but of which
Am telegraph has brought us no confirmation, to the
effect that a derisive battle has been fought at tlorlnth,
'in which the Federal troops have gained a brilliant
victory. The report aids that General lialleck now
bolds that place, and that twenty thousand prisoners
were taken. If such-a battle had been fought, we should
have had some telegraphic account of Y Post,
last everting.
MVIITII CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION.
BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF THE CREW OF
•THE VAEIINA PASSED.
THE TAX BILL UNDER CONSIDERATION
The Confiscation Bill Passed.
BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF ROBERT SMALL, THE NEGRO
PILOT, PASSED.
SENATE.
Memorial Presented.
Mr. HENDERSON (Delon), of dlisionri, presented
the 'neonatal of citizens of southeast Missouri, asking
protection from guerilla bands.
The Volunteer Bill.
Mr. WILSON (Bop.), of bltmeachneetta, from the
Military Committee, iapothei back the bill lestallzlng the
acceptance of two huudrod thousand additional volun
teers.
Instructions Asked.
Mr. SUMNER ()top.), of hlamschusetts, offered a re-
Folniion,that the Secretary of War be mtuentel to com
municate to the Senate copies of any instructions to any
of our generale, in purtmanco of the act of August, 1861,
setting free slavms employed against the United States by
their mentors. Also, to Inform the Senate whethgr any
nisei bed been taken to make State statutes effective
Ladd over.
Resolution for the Prosecution of the War.
Alto, a resolution that, lo the pr'osmitlon of the pea
sant war, and for the soppremion of the present wicked
rebellion, the time hue come for the Government of the
United Statue to appeal to the loyalty of the whole people
ovrrywhere, terocielly in the rebel districts, nod to in •
vite all, without distil ction of color or clays, to make
their loyalty manicest by ceasing to fight or labor for the
rebate, and also render ovary assistance in their power to
the canoe of the Constitution end Government, accord
leg to their ability, by arms or labor, or io any way;
and eincoprottctiot, and allegiance are reciprocal dutios;
it is further the duty of Um Government of the United
Slates to maintain all such lays) people in all their rights
ea men, according to Om principles of the Declaration of
Independence. Laid over.
Compensation to the Crew of the Varann.
Mr. GRIMES (Rep.), of lowa offered a Joint resift.
tion io compensate the crew of the steamer Yaruna for
their clotblng, and all other property lost in the public
service. Adopted. .
Fugitive Slaves
Mr. SUMNER introduced a Lill to relieve the National
Government from all obligations to support slavery, and
of all responsibility for it under the Constitution. The
bill providt e, that, to end the pest relations established
between the Government and the Slave Statee, first,
all acts of Congress, or parts of acts, providing for the
rendition tf persons escaping from service and labor,
ate hereby repealed. There shall be neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except tor crime, in any Territory,
forts, dock yards. arsenals, vessels on high eons, and all
planes where the National Government has supreme in
riedictlen, and all slaves now bold or attempted to be
held In these places, are declared free.
Credentials Presented.
Mr. FOSTER (Rep.), of Connecticut, nonented the
creiloatiels of Hon. Julien Dixon, re-elected as Senator
from Connecticut.
Pence Bill.
Mr. HOWE (Bm), of Wiscousin, introduced a bill to
aid in reetoriug order end to preserve the public peace
within the insurrectionary districts. Ile referred to the
enewer of the Mayor of Now Orleans to Capt. rarragat,
and of the Mayor of Norfolk to Gen. Wool, and to vari
ous lettere, showing a lack of Union feeling at the South,
and that treason stvaggers everywhere. Their army had
been recruited by dectopid old mon, unchristian minis.
tele, and malignant women. Treason strum where she
can no looser fight. and loyalty implores whet o she ought
to command The bill wee referred,
Remarks on the Course of the President.
Mr. DAVIS (U.), of Kentucky, referred to. General
Hunter's proclamation, and to the bad policy of weaken
ing Genoi al Bunks so as to leave him to ho whipped by
the rebels, and said that ho believed that "General"
Stanton took charge of the armies.
Mr. WILSON (Rep ), of MatanChnsotts, said the Pre
sident wee entirely responsible fur the orders for the ar
rest of General McDowell's program towards Rict mood,
and for the withdrawal of troops from General Banks.
It was 'done by the Prenident, with the approval of the
Secretary of War, and several generals and military
men. The President gave a written order that a certnin
number of men eltould be left tar the dotenco of Wash
ington. which should be agreed on by the c"mmandern of
the different army corps. Twenty ttousand troops were
retained by General McDowell, and men were withdraw°
from General Ranks in anticipation of jut each move
ment as Lae just taken pinta. These movements were
lected by the President, and he was entirely respon
sible.
Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep.), of Illinois, said be should
like to abk if it las not at the repeated and nrcent re-
Quest ofGen. McClellan that troop 4 had been sent to him?
Mr. WILSON said he was desirous or having these
forces, and the President sent a part of Geo. McDowell's
forces,about one-thild, under Gen. Franklin, to Gen.
McClelan. He (Wilson) thought the events of yester
day, completely vindicated the President for reserving
Gen. McDowell's force.
The tax bill was then taken up.
The Tax Bill.
The tax on telegraphic despatches wes modified so as to
be one cent a message, where the cost of the first ten
wcrds doea not exceed twenty cents; where the cost of
the first ten words exceeds twenty cents, the tax to be
three cents. 'The tax on insurance policies was modided
so as to be twenty five cents on each policy except life
insurance.
Amendment to Tax Bill Pasted.
An amendment was adopted that the act of August 5,
1861, imposing a direct tax of $2O 000,000, shall only be
held to authorize the col.ection of one tax to thatamount.
This Ilmehod the direct oonsideration of the amend
ments offered by the Committee of finance, and leaving
the bill open to further amendment.
Air. SURRMAN (Rep.), of Ohio, moved to amend so as
to reduce the tax on taro, linseed, and mustard oils from
five to two cent.. per gallon. Agreed to.
Aft. TIRNDERSON (U.), of allsKtnri, moved to strike
out twenty and insert fifteen cents en the tax on tobacco,
contending that twenty 'cents was a tax of over 100 per
cent. on the poorer qualities of tobacco.'
Adjoiirnment
Fording the coneideration of this question the Senate
adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
The Confiscation Bills.
The pause tesamel the consideration of the con
filnllttioll
Mr. ELIOT (Rep ), of klawatehnsette, in closing the
general debate, remarked that it wag a pretext, a legal
fiction, to say that these bills are designed to punish
treason. Tbey are designed for no each purpose, but to
weaken the power of the enemy' to bring about a speedy
and permanent pea.7e. They proposed to take from the
enemy the instruments of war, without which they could
not carry on the rebellion six month° longer.
Speech of Mr. Noel!,
Mr. NOELL (Dem.), of MilisOuri, wished to make a
few renwaks.
Ittr. ELIOT said that, as the yentlemao was a•member
of the [elect committee who reported the bills, he yielded
the floor.
Speech of Mr. Killinger.
But Mr. KILLINGER (Rap ), of Pennerlyania, ob
jected to further debate, inasmuch as be wee comolled
to print his remarks, and had no opportunity to deliver
them. Di bate here 'was useless, but our people at home
bad a right to understand our position on these gr.at
etestione. His speech would advocate confiscation sit a
meascre of indemnity for the past, and a military necee
lily for the future. He was against the p metre of en
abolition amendment. Let slavery take care of itself.
While be 'tood ou the Lincoln platform of compensation
and colonization, Va wee against negro legislation per
re. Be was opposed to the negroes swarming in Penn -
eylvania, and protested against, their being supported by
the Government's liberality.
Dlr NOELL obtained permission to print his remarks.
Dlr. ELIOT resumed, explaining and advocating the
bile reported train the
° committee, and examining the
pending eubatitutee.
The Vote on Mr. Conkting , s Amendment.
The Hone. filet voted on Mr. ROSCOE , Conkling's
amenduont to the third and fifth ChlUeee of the select
memittee's conthicutinn bill, relating to persons whom
properly Is to be coutltented—tbe amendment being as
Provided, That ouch persons ahall have accepted their
appointment since tho dote of the pt otenthd ordinance
of seceseion, or taken tho oath of allegiance to the w
eaned Confederate States. Thin amendment refers to
any permit acting as Governor of a State. member of a
convention or leghiature, or judge, or Who may hereafter
held any (Mice or agency under the so-called Confetti. :
rato States.
The amendment was adopted—yeas 100, nays 50.--
The Punishment of Treason
The Rouse next voted on Mr. Maynard's aubstitute,
which proposed to punish all persons, in any way aiding
or abetting the rebellion, by fine and imprisontnent, and
empowering the President, whenever, in his opinion,
the public safety may require it, to grant as amnesty
to any or all offenders within the provisions of the
act.• excepting only such as, having hold office of
honor or profit under the Government of the United
States, have at any time elm iged in the re b e lli on
_against the authorities, and, while es engaged, have
home my offices, civil, military, or naval.
Mr. Dlaynard's sobititate Rae re:Maud—Peal 0, us,.
140.
Confiscation of Rebel Property
The substitute of Mr. Morrill (Vermont) was next
voted on. It declares all the estate and property,
Manny, stocks, credits, and effects of persons acting' as
officers in any capaelti under the so-called Confederate
htatee forfeited, and to be lawful subjeo.s of seizure, and
of prize and capture wherever found, for the indemnity
of the United States against the expenses of suppressing
the present rebellion. The substitute also denationalizes
such persona forever, and incapacitates them from voting
or holding any office of profit or trust under the United
States of Americo.
Mr. Morrill's substitute was negatinal—yeds 25, nays
322.
Vote on the Confiscation Bill. .
A tote was then taken on the confiscatiou bit!
The Confiscation Bill as Passed.
• .The bill provides that all the estate, property and
moneys, stocks, credits arid effects of the person or per
sons hereinalter aunt d, are declared forfeited to the Go
vernment of the United States, and declared Isaiah sub
jects of seizure. and of prize and capture wherever found,
for the Indemnity of the United States, against the ex
penses for suppressing the present rebellion—that Is to
11,9
First. Of any person hareafter acting se an ()Mein' in
the army or navy of the rebels, now or hereafter in arms
against the Government of the United States.
Secondly. Any person hereafter acting as President,
Vice President, member of Congress, judge of any court,
cabinet of6cer, foreign minister, commissioner, or consul
of the ao•cuited Confederate States.
TAird'y. Any person acting as Governor of a State,
somber of convention or legislature, or judge of any
court of the eo• called Confederate States.
fearthly Any person who, having held an office of
honor, trait, or profit In the United States, shall here
after hold an office In the so•celled Vonfedernte States.
Fifthly. Auy person hereafter holding any .office or
agency under the so-called Confederate States, or under
any of the several Staten of said Confederacy, or laws
thereof, whether• such office or agency be National,
Stale, or municipal in its name or character.
• Biath/y. /t soy person who, having property in any
loyal State or Territory of the United State., or in the
Diettict of Columbia, shrill hereafter aeslet and giro atd
and comfort to such rebellion, the said estate, pro
party, and nf+neye stoats, credits, and effects of those
persons, arc declared lawful subjects of captors wherever
fonud ' • and the Peesideut of the United States shall
causethe same to bo seized, to the end that they cony be
confiscated and condemned to the use of the United
States ; and ell nice, transfers or conveyances shall he
null end void; end it shall be a sufficient bar to any suit
brought by such person for the poesession, and for the
,use of such property, or any of It, to allege and prose
be Is one of the persona described in this section.
11., The second section provides that if any person within
any State or Territory of the United States other than
those already specified shall not, within sixty days
after public warning and proclamation by the President,
cease to aid, countenance, and abet Both rebellion, and
return to their allegiance, their property shall in like
manner be forfeited for the use of the United States ;
all sales, trawlers, or conveyances of any such property,
alter the expiratitn of the said sixty days from the date
of the warn ng, shall be null and void.
The third section provide . ' that, to secure the Mises
mon, condi ronalion, and sale or such property, situate
Cud being in any State er Territory of the United States,
Vocetelings in rent shall be instituted in the name of
the Veiled Slates in any District tinirt or Terr,toriel
Court, of in the United States District Court for the
District of Colnmbia, within which the property may be
found, or into which the name, if movable, may be first
brought, which proceedings shall conform, an nearly as
May be, to prccoedlugs In prize entice, or to cases of for
feitures eel-ing under tbe revenue laws ; and the pro
perty so seized and condemned, whether real or personal,
shall be sold under the decree of the court having cogni
sance of the cane, and she pmceeas deposited in the
Treasury 1f the United Pbstes, for their tee and benefit.
The remainder of the eectione provide the necessary
machinery for carrying the act into effect.
Provided, That the persons, thirdly and fifthly do
ecribed, then have accepted their election or uppolut
mente to office lence the da•e of the pretended ordinance
of secession of Lucie State, or shall have taken the oath
of allegiance to the so- called Confederate elates.
The. Bill Passed
The bill wan pasted by a vote of In yeas against 63
DM e'
Aldrich (Rep.)
Alley (Rep.)
Arnold (Rep.)
Ashley (Rep.)
Babbitt (Rep.)
Baker (Rep.)
Baxter (Rep.)
Branton (Rep.)
Blair (Rep.), Mo.
Blair (Rep.) Pa.
Blake (Rep.)
Brown (U.), Vs.
Buffinton (Rep.)
Campbell (Rep.)
Chamberlain (R.)
Clerk (Rep.)
Colfax (Rep.)
Conklipg,Fred. A.
(Rop.)
Conkling, F. (R.)
Cutler (Rep.)
Davis (Rep )
Duell (Rep.)
Dunn (Rep.) •
Edam ton ( Rep.)
Edwards (Rep.)
Eliot (Rep.)
Ely (Rep.)
Fenton (Rep.)
WASIIIIIOTON, May 26
NAYS
Allen (Dem.) Dalt (II.)
Ancona (Dem.) Harding (II.)
Dailey (Deni.),Fa. Harrison (RO9-)
Biddle (Derr.) Holman (D.)
no r (11.), Va. Horton (Rep.)
Browne (II.), R.I. Johnson (Dein.)
Calvert (U.) Kerrigan (Dein.)
Clements Knapp (Rep.)
Cobb. (Derr.) Law (Dem.)
Coining (Dem.)
.. Lnxcar (Dem.)
Cox (Dem.) Leary (Union.)
Cravens (Dena.) Lehman (Dem.)
Crialidd(ll.) ' Mallory (II.)
Cifttenden (U.) Maynard (1)
Dawes (Rep.) Menxim (Di
Delano (Rep.) Nixon (Dent )
Dental:tine (Dem.) Noble (Dem.)
Diven (Rep.) Norton (Dom.)
Dunlap (IL) Nugent (Dem.)
Englieh (I).) Odell (Dom.)
Fisher (Dem.) Pike (Dem.)
Granger (Rep.) Penuleton (Dem.)
°rider (U.) ' Perry (Dem.)
Haight (Dein.) Phelps (Deni.)Mo..
Freedom to the Slaves of Rebels.
The Bowe next proceeded to the consideration of the
bill reported from the select committee to free from ser
vitude the slaves of robots engaged in or abetting the
exiaing rebellion against the Government of the United
States.
Mr. SEDGWICK (flop.), of New York, had submitted
an amendment, making it the duty °revery commanding
military or naval officer. whose military district shall
embrnce any portion of the weaned Confederate States,
to it vite all lord persons to come within his lines and be
enrolled in the service of the United States, to be em
ploy( dan may ha necessary. Loyal parsons, and minors
or married women, whose slaves she.] be tans - made free,
to be reamoably compensated for their claim to the ser
vice or labor of such slaves.
•
Mr. Blairts Amendment.
Mr. want (Dep.), of Missouri, proroeed an amend
mtn► to the above, requiring the freedom of each slaves
to be declared by the District Courts; also, making it the
duty of the conimiesioners to take charge of all persons
libernird under the provisions of this act, and nee them
for military service, or bind or ind.nture them as op
prent;ces to loyal proprietors of lend, or to mechanic•, for
a term of years, and authorizing the President to acquire
lends in Mexico. Central America, South America, or in
the Wanda of the Gulf of Mexico for colonizing them.
Dlr. Sedgewick's amendment was also rejected: by
the following vote:
Aldrlab (Rep.) Eliot (Rep.) Rice (Rep.), Mo.
Babbitt (Rep.) Feesendeu (Rep.) Riddle (Rep.) • '
linker (Dep.) Frank (Rep.) linHim (Rep.)
Beaman (ltep.) Hickman (R.) Sedevrick, (E.)
Blair (Rep.j, Pa. Ilutehins (Rep.) 3lral (Rep.)
Melte (Rep) Julian ( Rep.) Trowbrklge (R.)
1
linginton (Rep.) Lansing (Rep.) • Van Valkeribargb,
Clark (ROp.) Lovejoy (Rep.) (Rep.)
Davie (Union.) Morrill (Rep.) Me. Walton (Rep.) Vt.
Duell (Rep.); Pike (Rep.) Wilton (Rep.)
Edeerton (Rep.) 'Potter (Rep.) Windom (Rep.)
The negative cote Vies 116.
Mr. Walton's Substitute.
Mr. WALTON (Rep.), of Vermont, pro pose'd a sub
atitute for the original bill, providing punishment by
etesth for the crime of treason on conviction, awl thet all
the slaves ct the criminal, if be have any, be declared
free, or be shall be imprisoned for notifies than five years,
and filled Oct tree thattAlo,ooo, iu lieu of ducat. Persons
het:Wier inciting or aiding in .the rebskion sh,ll be
punialnd by the forfeiture of all their persocal prone:4'i
at.d he forever disqualified from holding office under the
United Suites, etc.
Mr. Walton's substitute wee rejected—yeas 29, nays
121.
Mr. ISORRILL (Rep.). of Vermont, offered an amend
ment in the nature of a subetitui u for the original bill,
pi ovlding forever free from servitude the claret of rebels
engaged in abetting the existing rebellion against the
United States. Any person so declai ed tree, if thereafter
seized or molested in any way by any, person under a
claim to such person's service or labor, shall be forthwith
discharged on a writ of habeas corpus, by any court or
judge of the United States, and the oonrtor judge acting
on the said writ shall commit for trial for kidnapping the
permit so holding the said freedman, and on conviction
of erizing or bolding the said freedman, knowing him to
have been declared free by a court of the United States,
the person so convicted shall be sentenced to be confined
in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one nor
more than five years; and any one swearing falsely in
any proceeding tinder this act shall be gnhty of perjury,
and liable, on conviction, to the penalties thereof.
substitute was rejected—yeas 16, nays
156.
Messrs. Roscoe Conklion Dunn, Frank, Goodwin,
Rillirger, Loomis, McKnight. Morrill (VC ), Nixon,
Olin, Patton, Phelps (Cal.), Porter, Stratton, Walton
(Vt.). and Worcester.
The Vote on the Select Committee's Report.
he Rouse then voted on the bill, exactly as it was re•
potted from the select committee. as follows :
The 'Emancipation Bill as Rejected.
if any per Eon or persons within the United States
shall, alter the passage of thie act, wilfully engage
in armed rebellion against the Covennts:it of the
United States. or shall wilfully aid or abet such re
bellion, or ndlnre to those engaged in such rebel
lion, giving them aid and comfort, every ouch per
son .hell thereby forfeit all claim to the cornice' or
labor of ary persons commonly known at slaves, and
all rurh slaves ere hereby declared freo and forever
ditcherged front servitude, anythlug in the laws of
the United., States or of any other State to the con
trary notwithstanding; and whenever. thereafter any
perion claiming the labor or eervice of any such dove
shall seek to enforce his claim, it shall be 'sufficient de
fence thereto that the claimant was engved in e tid re.
hellion, or aided or abetted the same, contrary to the
provisions of this act. Whenever any person claiming
to be entitled to sirvice or labor of any other pereon,
and obeli seek to enforce such deltic, he shall, in the first
ina.tutce, and before any. order shall bo made for the sur
render of the person whose service or labor is claimed,
eel oldish not only hie claim to such service or labor, but
afro that such claimant has not. in any way, aided, as
sisted, or countenanced the existing rebellion against the
Government of the United States.
The bill was rejected—nays 54, nays 75.
YEAS.
Ire/Hendon (Rep.)
Frank (Rep.)
Gooch (Rep.)
Goodwin (Rep.)
Gorky (Rep.)
Hickman (Rep.)
Hooper (Rep.)
Iluichli.s (Rep.)
Julian (Rep.)
Kelley (Rep.)
Kellogg (Rep.)
Mich. • '
Kellogg (B.), DI.
KiDinger (Rep.)
Lensing (Rep.)
Loomis (Rep.)
Lovojoy (Rep.)
McKnight (Rep.)
Iltell.teraori (Rep. )
Mitchell (Rea)
Moorhead (Rep.)
Morrill(Rep) Yt.
Noell (Dem.)
Olin (Rep.)
Patton (Rep.)
Pike (Rep.)
Pomeroy (Rep.)
Porter (Rep.)
Amendment of Mr. Sedgwlck.
Mr. Thair's amendment was rejected—yeas 52, nays 95
Mr. Sedgwick's Amendment.
Mr. Morrill's Amendment
The affirmative Tote wee es follows
YEAS.
Fenton (Rep )
Fesaendeo (Rep.)
Fnank (Rep.)
Gooch ( Rep )
Goodwin (Rep.)
Gurle• (Rep.)
Mondial (Rap.)
Hickman (Rep.)
Hooper (Rap.)
Hutchins (Rep.)
Julien (Rep.)
Kelley (Rep.)
Kellogg (R.)lll.lch.
Leming ( Rep.)
Loomis (Rep )
Lovejoy (Rep)
McKnight (Rep.)
McPherson (Rep.)
Morehead (Rep
((K.), Me.,
Morrill (Rep.), Vt.
Olin (Rep.)
Patton (Rep.)
Phelps (It.), Cal.
Pike (Rep.)
Aldrich (Rep.)
Alley (Refl.)
Arnold (Rep.)
Ashley (rep )
Babbitt (Rep.)
Baker (Rep.)
Baxter (Rep.)
Beeman (Rep.)
Blair (Rep.), Mo
Blair (Rep ), Po.
Blake (Rep.)
Boffinton (Rep.)
Campbell (Rap.)
Chamberlain (B.)
Clark (B cp.)
Colfax (Rep.)
Conkliug, Fred. A.
(Bev.)
Co:•klimeß.(ReP.)
Cutler (Rep.)
Davis (Rep.)
(Rep )
Dignion (Rep.)
Edward,, (Rep.)
Eliot (Rep.)
Ely (Rep.)
Allen (Dem.) Harding (U.) Porter (Rep.)
Ancona (Dem.) Bonito i (U.) Price,
Bailey (Dim.). Pa. Holman (Deal) Rice (Rep4„Maes.
Biddle (Dem.) Horton ( Roo.) Ilic Irtrd ( D.)
Blair (U.). Va Jobneon (Dere.) Robinson (Dem.)
Browne (D.), R I Kellogg ('R ), 111.. Rollins (U.), Mo.
Brown (U.), Va Kerrigan (Dem.) Segar (U.)
Calvert (U.) • KlUinger(Rep.) Sheffield ( U.)'
Clemente (U.) Knapp (Dem) 3uiol (Rep)
Cobb (Dem.) Law (Dem 4 Smith (Dem.)
Corning (Dim) m ) Linear (Deal.) Steele (U.) N. Y,
lox (Dem.) Leary (U.) Smile (D.). N.
thaveue (Dem.) Lehman (Drat) Stratton (Deer..
()tit field (U.) Mallory (U.) Thomas (R.),W11111
Crittenden (U.) Maynard (U.) . Thomas (U.), Lie
Dawes (Rep) Menzlea (U.) ' Train (Rep.)
Delano (Rep) Mitchell (Rep.) . Trimble (Rep.)
Divan (Rep.) Nixon (Rep.) Vallandighem (Di
Burlap (U.) Noble (Derr) Voorhees (Dem.)
Dunn ((Rep.) Noell (Dem.) Wadeworth (U.)
'English (Dern.) Norton (Dent.) Ward (Dem.)
(U ) Nneen (Dem.) . Webster (U.)
Granger (Rep) Odell (Dem.) Whale, (U.)
Gilder (U.) Pendleton (Dom.) Wietliffe (U.)
Haight (Derr.) Perry (Dem.) Wood (Dem.) .
Hull (U.) Phelps (D.), Mo. • Weodr off (Dem.)
Bill for the Relief of Robert Small Passed.
The Route passed the Senate bill for the relief of Ro
bert Small, and others, colored, cemented is delivering
a rebel vessel from the port of Charleston to our fleet.
The vote stood 121 syninet Ill—the negative votes being
blows. Calvert. Benino, Herding. Johnson, Kerrigan,
Norton, Shiel.Vallandigham, and Voorhees.
• The House then adjourned.
Four Days Later from Europe.
THE KANGAROO OFF CAFE RACE
Fv: ~ Ord -~ y ~~j; ~:~~y ~; ~:~►,~i~~ ;r+~:~:r~~vin: i w:i ~~
THE GOVERNMENT DEFEATED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS
CONSOLS 93X.
Oars B.oi, May 25.—The steamer Kangaroo, from
Liverpool 14th, via Queenstown 16th instant, passed
Cape Race at eleven o'clock last night, aid was boarded
by.tbo press news boat.
The steamship Canada, from Boston via Halifax, ar
rived out on the 11th.
The steemphip City of New York, from New York,
arrived out on the NM.
The eteaniehip Bohemian, from Portland, arrived out
on the 14th.
The 'Kangaroo bas fertreeven cabin and fire hundred
and torenti-two steerage peaeougore, She experienced
head winds throughout the vamp.
cxEAT BATT/41T, •
The news of the capture of New Orleans, received pet
Canada was the occasion of much surprise and conside
rable dibelief, but coming from Southern sources, it was
generally argued there was no room for doubt. It pro
duced no influence on the Cotton market.
be Times says it is a bard blow for the South; a great
triumph for the North; another proof that the North can
do more hat m to the Oonfederatee than tbo Goufederates
can to them, Tbe . Times asks bow it will effect England.
it Ws the American Ministers at Loudon and Paris are
told to more the GoTeniments that plans are being ma
Lured for a mitigation of the blockade, end this promise
bee been made from time to time is Perle Borne weeks
past, as we can well understand, with what success or
desire on the part of the Federal Government to fulfil it.
If the Federals possess New Orleans thkro is, of course,
an end to the blockade of that city. There is only ono
thing wanting that cotton eheuld come down. .If the
Southern planters trust it to the 'tsierals, sufficient will
doubtlers be got to relieve the manufacturers ; but if the
obstinate planters remove or destroy the stocks, or refuse
to bring them dowu, it le bard to any what one was gain
ed by the capture of Sew Orleans. The ceptu- o Is cre
ditable to the akill of .the North, and to alto an Item
in the revenge of the IrederaLt. But if the city is
now to be blockaded on the land side, by the Confede
rates. the Times thinks the geM will not be much by this
mitigation of the blockade.
In another article, the Times MVO it is in vain to deny
the importence"of the event, but if Southerners mean
what they any in their loud talking, which the Times
rather unektitne, they can never be conquered.
The Reraid declines . to believe the felt, bat admits
that, if true, it would be, a signal 'triumph for the North.
The Noratmy Poit also doubts it, and thinks, if con
firmed, it will not seriously affect the fortunes of either
pa, ty, although a eeriest, bee to the Son b. It says the
utter hoplesseees of the struggle is mere apparent at each
IMACCeflOiVii stage.
. The Daily News sere there le no good reason for
doubting the capture, and regarde it of great importance.
It highly eulogizes the consummate enill displayed by
the North in this matter.
i The newt; per tbe oth• of Now York, received jest be
fore the Kangaroo left Liverpool, of course, di.pellod all
double. The impression prevailed in Manchester teat
the event would bring forward conic cotton.
It was reported that Coant Pareigny was andloale or
dered trent Parts to London; it is anpposed on the ads-
Mon relative to the eteamer Economist, with 800 batesof
cotton and 400 bhp; rosin, which arrived at Liverpool
from cherleeten.
npecutatloos continue relative to M klercier's visit to
Richmond, but there is nothing reliable.
The Opinione Notionate asserts that it merely had
reference to French tobacco.
Parliamentary proctedirgs were unimportant.
The distress in Lancashire was debated la the HOMO
of Lords without reference to the American affair.
A deputation from the Galway line waited on Palmer
ston for a restoration of subsidy. Palmerston could give
tie decielon, but promieed the Government consideration.
The continental political Lowe I. meagre.
The Paris Bourse eras firm. Brutes 701 . . 90c.
The health of the King of Belgium continues to im
prove. "•
Prussia has sent a speoial commissioner to HMOS
Carrel, and, it is reported, backed Lim up with military ,
moven:grits.
Victor Emmanuel was enthusiastically received in
Messina.
It was reported there was a military conspiracy In St.
Petersburg in favor of Poland.
Commercial Intelligence.
[Per Kangaroo ]
Livsnroot May 14.—Cotton .— Salsa of two days B,ooe
balsa, Includilg 3 000 to 'inoculator') and exporters. The
market closed irregular, but unchanged
STATE OF TRADE —The M.ancheeter market hi
quiet, but tending upward.
Meadatuffe.—Mears Richardson. Spence A Co., Big.
land, Athya, & Co., and Wakefleid, Nash, et Co, repirt
-Flour heavy arid Adele lower. American, 244 8 , 1030 e.
WiIIIAT.-9.alte small and m icet 3d lower; Rod West
ern 9s 11dolOs 8d; red Southern 10i 10dolls • white
Wetter') lie &toile 7d; white Southern 12,ta12s
Corn is inactive, and 61 lower; mixed 27s 6d; yellow 27s
lid et 276 sd; white 30e oSla 6d.
Pnovismes.—Boef tending downward. Pork still de
clining. Bacon very dull. Lard very quiet, but steady.
Tailow Meade.
Produce.—Ashea quiet but steady. Sugar steady. got
ta° quiet. Rosin inactive; common 13s °dolts. Spirits
Turpentine-1011e email nt 6130765.
LONDON MARE eTS.—Flour still declining, and Dd
rile lower. Wheat heavy, ant leas lower. Sugar firm.
Coffee bnoyent. Rice quiet. but steady. Tallow quiet.
Littered Oil. firm at 37a &inns Bd. Spirits Tospentiae
Slum at 72e.
lilinels Central share° 47g46 discount; Erie awes
32033 e.
Consols 93% e 593%.
THE LATIAT VIA QUEENSTOWN.
LIYERPOOL. May 16.—Cotton.—Sales two days, 5,000
babe, including 1,000 to speculators and exporters.
Market it - reenter, and } ( d lower for American.
Breadetuffs dull and declining.
Provisions fiat.
Loanom, May 15.—Console for money, 03g.
'lllinois Central shares, 43k' discount; E, re, 34m333‘.
LtrEnPoot, i 5 —"be news, to-day, its unimportant.
'the bill abolishing church rates has horn defeated in
the Commons by one majerity again'[ the Government.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived from New York, March oth, Harry Bluff,
Louisa Match, Melbourne, 6th Mar; Colambue, at
Ride; New York, at Portland; W. A. Plaiemue, at
'Havre; 10th, Odetea. at Dublin; H. Georgians, War
ren Print; Baddington, American, Congrese, at Deal;
I3tb, Rosa and Queen of May, at Queenstown.
Arrived from Boston, March 14th, Anstralia, at Mel
bourne.
Arrived from Philadelphia 12th, Eleca, Queenstown.
Sailed for New York, R. E. Rollie, front Shaughee;
11th, J. A. Staedee, from Deal; 10th, D. Headley and
Sir R. Peel; 17th, Escort; 16th, Eckford, Webb, and F.
Jefferson, Liverpool.
LATEST VIA QITMENSTOWN.
Arrived from New York, Geneva at Portland, Mer
cury at Havre, Columbus at Cuxhaven, John Bell at
Liverpool.
Arrived front Philadelphia, Mary Baker at Qneesa
town.
Potter (Rep.)
Rice (Rep.) Me
Riddle.(Rep.)
Rollin* (Rep.)
IC H.
Sergeant (Rep.)
Sedgeick (Rep.)
Shanks (Rep.)
Sloan (Rep.) •
penlding ( Rep.)
Stevens (Rep.)
Stratton ( Rep.)
Trimble (Rep.)
Trowbridge ( Rep)
Vanhoro (Rep.)
Vanvalkeubargh
(Rep.)
Verree (Rep.)
Well (Rep.)
Wellace (Rep.)
Walton (Rep.) Vt.
Washburn° (R.)
Wheeler (Rep.)
Whaley (Rep.)
White (R.), In&
Wilson (Rep.)
Windom (Rep.)
Worcester (Rap.)
Rice (Itep.)itass.
Richardson (Dom)
Robinson (Dom.)
Rllins (Dorm) Ho
Sugar (U.)
Sheffield (U.)
hhiel (Dem.)
Smith (Dem.)
Steele (D.), N.Y.
Steele (1)), N. J.
Thomas (R.)Mase
Tltm (Dem.)
Md.
Train (Rep )
Vallmellelism,
(1)..t0.)
Voorhees (Dem.)
Wadsworth (U.)
Ward (Dem.)
Wehet.r (U.)
Wickliffe (U.)
Wood tlr,m.)
Woodrufr (Min.)
STILL LATER YROR EUROPE.
The Hibernian off Cape Race.
CAPE Hens, May 26.-1 be eteamor Hibernian, with
Liverpool odvices to the 16th, pasted off this pint an
Sunday morning.
The ateemer Teuton ie. arrived out on tho 16th
The political news of Great Britain was noinipertaut.
The rejection of the House of Commons of the bill
abolishing church rates was received with vociferous
cheers by the Conservatives.
A resolution declaring it to be nnjnet and inexpedient
to abolish the rates until some other provision was made
to supply their place Was carried by 17 majority amid en
tbnsiastic cheers from the Opposition able.
The Paris Bourse woe heavy and Reams lower, being
quoted at 76f.
The Italian A ssociation of Emancipation has sent the
following address to Lord Palmerston:
yae have heart with joy and gratitude the words full
of meaning which you, expressing the !,e n t nt• et the
groat Brithh nation, have uttered in the Hence of Onne
ninny', in defence of the unity of nod) , and the principle
of con intervention. You have recognized the fast of
Napoleon's occupation of Rome to be a flagrant violation
of non inter written. It is the obstacle to the unity of
Italy sod tbreatena the peace of England. It England
only preserves her efforts to make this principle re
spected, the Italians will suffice alone to obtain the de
liverance of their country. Receive our respectful salu
tations.
"'Me Central 13ouncil of the Italian Aaanniation ot
}lmmunization. GARIBALDI,
'And other members."
The lJinieterial pew; were of the opinion that Gen.
Prim would proceed to Mexico, although thr, Diurio deg
Marina had announced the contrary. 'I hey alao ex
pected that he would claim the exocation of the con
vention of Soledad.
The Mitchum de Montpenaler had been safely delivered
of a eon.
LONDON MONST Mastmor —Funds have shared a de.
premien, and Console havo farther declined.
There w•ee continued activity in the discount market.
but the beet hills are still negotiated at 234 per cont. A
rho in the bank uhemenn to 3 per cent. is considored not
unlikely.
ELivintrooL, Friday.—Cottoo.—The sales of the week
moonlit to 30,500 baler ' including 6,600 bales to specula
tors, and 7,000 bales for export The quota ions hare
declined %e) d for American, ant )0 for Surat. Thu
sales 10-cley are estimated at 3,000 bales, the market
closing 'dull unchanged. The following ate the quota
tions: New Orleate fair, 14: middlings, 12% • ..loads
fair, 133 ; middlings, 12k; Uplands, fair, 131 ; mid
dlings, 121; . Stock in port, 342,000 bales, including
/16.000 bilk: of Ammican.
Breadstuff), are flat. Provisions heavy.
LONDON.-COLIFON. P 3% 09836' ; Erie Railroad, 333 e
34; Illinois Central Railroad, 46) per coat. discouat.
Bank decrease. 1348,000.
Coax. Thursday morning.—Thu west wing of the
Quien's College bas been totally destroyed by a fire,
which la still raging.
THE CITY.
THE WAR EXCITEMENT.
THE GOVERNMENT CALL FOR MORE TROOPS.
EXCITEMENT AMONG TIIE MILITARY.
THE RESERVE BRIGADE AND HOME GUARD CALLED OUT.
The People Responding to their President
Pomeroy (Rep.)
Potter (Rep.)
Rico (Rep.) Bre.
Riddle (Rop.)
Rollie's ( R.). N. a
argeant (Rep.)
Sidgwict (app.)
Shooks (Rep.)
Slone (Rep.)
ENTHUSIASM IN ALL CLASSES
RECRUITING STATIONS REOPENED
THE DRUM AND FIFE IN OUR STREETS AGAIN
Spaulding (Rep•)
dtevena ( Rep.)
Trowbridge( Rep.)
Vxiiihern (Rep )
'kb Valkenburgh
(Rep.).
The recent reverse of the Union soldiers in Virginia
and the proclamation of the Governor of the State order.
ing the militia into the field, has caused an Intense ex
citement throughout the city. Yesterday the city ore.
sleeted an appearance similar to that which marked ;t
when the first requisition for 75,100 volunteers was ie.
sued by the President. The headquarters of the Reserve
Brigade and Home Otterd presented en unusually In
tel-mains scene. Both places were filled with officers,
who, in obedience to orders, bad drawn np carefully
prepared statements of the number of aveileble mPn un
der their respective commands—and judgiee from the
great ints rest manifested, and the large hosts of our citi
zens who are willing to shoulder the musket. wo have no
doubt that Philadelphia alert could furnish the extra
number of troops necessary for the present emergency.
The whole city has a military aspect. During the day
mere then the usual number of individuals clothed in
mllitery costumes might have been seen pushing their
way through the crowded streets. Numerous prociame
lions calling upon the various companies to assemble at
their atmories, were posted around. The local police
telegraph was put in use, and message after message of a
warlike character, was rapidly sent ever the wires.
Beery one, although confident that there was no cause
to fear, acted promptly and with a will.
The city, as usual, was filled with exaggerated rumors,
which always attend the publication of military orders.
During the greeter part of the day, the bulletin boards
around the newspaper offices were besieged by crowds of
hungry readers, who eagerly devoured each item of in
formation es it made its appearance. As upon all pre
vious occasions of this kind, the few sympathizers with
treason in our midst were in the height of their glory,
although they dared not express themselves openly. The
defeat of Banks. although considered rather had, atter
all our brilliant encceseee, did not cause as much gloom
as might be expected. The majority of the people looked
upon the mishap in its proper light, merely as a tempo
rary reversal to our army. The call for more troops
was considered as a precautionary measure in cave
' emergency. As usual, military critics were not wanting,
• and men who had scarcely over discharged a musket
were loud in saying what should and should not be done,
in order to prevent a recurrence of what had taken
place; while the more discreet urged that wo could
sot reasonably expect to have our own way at all time%
that reverses must be looked for, and that a retreat offer'
exhibited quite as good generalship es an advance. The
croakers were hard to reconcile.
Verree (Rop
Welt (Rep. )
%Voltam (Rep.)
Waitoll( tiep.),Tt
Washburne(Rep.
Wheeler (Rep.)
White (R.), lad.
Wilson (Rep.)
Window (Rep.)
Worcester (Rep.
We noticed one remarkable fact yesterday, that that
class of.perions who have been at all times violent In
their denunclatlem of the Home Guards suddenly changed,
and exprefised their admiration of the promptnesi and
energy exhibited by that body when notified that their
envie(' were actually needed.
Pursuant to a call, a nweting of the oftieersof the First
Brigade of Gray Reserves was held at twelve o'clock,
yesterday, at the 'Washington Hones, Chestnut street,
above Seventh. The attendance wee unusually large.
Colonel P. C. Bllmaker presided. Be made a speech
of MAIN length, exbortin4 three under Vs commend to
go cn to the rescue of the national capital. A great ori
el wee hupemlii4t, and the capital was in danger, In
detd, the probability WAS thOthOrpre litany hours a rebel
tinny would bo on Pennsylvania soil. Tie was willing Ld
offer his service', and lie desired to know how many men
could be obtained within thirtyeiz hours from that time.
The case was nrgtet. Whatever was to be done MIA be
done quickly. lie bad ns doubtthat every officer in the
brigade would go.
Whether the organization was to go as a brigade or as
regMents wee still to be determined, but ho promised
that he would use his influence to preserve the brigade
inb ct. Four regiments were to be tendered, to leave to
whatever point the Department awned send them, with
not less than SOO men each, within thirty-ale hours. In
this way they could best defend the southern borders of
Philadelphia.
Captain Clark wished to know how long the brigade
would be absent. Be woe wilting to make as many escri.
Sees as any one, but he wield like to be informed bow
long the brigade would be called into service.
Colonel lillinaker replied in substance, that they were
liable to be called to nerve three menthe, unless sooner
discharged. As to how soon the brigade would start, ho
would say Just as soon as it could be got ready. Ha hal
no doubt that the let-Regiment could leave to-morrow
(rneaday) night.
Captain Yeaten moved That the services of the brigade
be teedered for three months.
Colonel •Tialmaker bete rose and stated that ho had
prepared a despatch to the Governor whieh would road
as follows : Font regiments of the reserve brigade,
a usieting of not lees then five hundred men each, will be
ready in a few days to leave for any point, if the Depart
maLt will accept them as regiments. & remganization or
consoliciation would be totally impracticable. My regi.
went mill probably be ready to move tomorrow night.
On motion, the despatch reed was adopted, as oxpree•
sive et the Senile of the meeting.
The motion of Col. Yeatan was witildrawn, and the
meeting took a recess of twenty minutes to allow the of
kers of the several regitut nta to consult among them.
selvee
Upon re-aneembling. reports were made from the dif
ferent regiments, se follows:
Fast legiment, 500 men by to-night.
Second Regiment, from 400 to 500 men by Wecineadalr
night.
Third Regiment, 400 men in forty-ol,ght hours, and in
twrnt3 -four horns aster, nu additional hundred.
Fourth Regiment, 500 rueu can he furniabed; therma
jertti will be rend, to leave within tbirtyonx hours, mud
the balance to join before Saturday.
Commercial Intelligence
MEETINGS OP LOYAL CITIZENS
MEETING OF TILE RESERVE BRIGADE.