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'WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1862.
TUE order of Govtrnor CURTIN will be road
with a very general feeling of disappoint
ment. The Govoraor states, on the an
thorgy of a despatch from the Secretary of
War, that no danger nom exists at the
capital, and that he cannot, therefore, ac-
cept the services of Ihoso volunteers who
have enterrd into the ranks for a three
months campaign. The enthusiasm with
which the call for troops was first received
manifested itself in the immediate organiz t
tion of our whole militia force. The people
assembled at every recruiting station ; they
formed tt ernselves into conipsnies, battalions,
and regiments, burning with a dealt.° to meet
the enemy in the field and drive the reb3l3
from Virginia. Philadelphia alone would hsva
tent twenty thousand men into the District of
Columbia bt fore another week was over. In
<very department of life our citizens had
abandoned business avocations and sacrificed
personal interests and prospects for the pur.
pose of meeting the call of the President.
The sublimity of the scene has never been
(quailed; and had the opportunity been
olfer(d, they would have proved themselves
worthy of their country and of their State.
The sicrilices will not b) asked at their
bards. The President siys that there is no
immediate danger to the capital, and there
fore ho can have no use for the temporary
services of those who took up the sword to
defend the capital. This, in itself, is gratify
ing. While we sympathize with those of our
fellow-citizens who fled themselves disap
pointed in the desire for military service, we
are glad to know that the Government is
abun'antly able, not only to act upon the de
ft naive, but to prosecute an offensive war.
The danger we dreaded no longer exists.
Those who trembled at the idea of rebel suc
cess, snd the invasion of national territory,
may shake hands and take courage. Pre
sident LINCOLN only desires to fill up the
vacancies which a year's warfare has
produced in the army, and to make a
smell but necessary increase in our present
forces. This, then, is the real meaning of
the proclamation of the Governor on Mon
day last. 'Whila it does not give us an oppor
tunity for persoaal sacrifice in the Quid, it has
Shown that the old feeling which Fort Sump
ter's guns first awakened has not died away.
In this second uprising of the American peo
ple the grandeur and heroism of their charac
ter have been gloriously manifested. And for
the opportunity of witnessing this manifesta
tion, which will enter into the brightest page
of our history, we have to thank the prompti
tude and energy of the Governor of Penn
sylvania.
THE York (Pa.) Gazette, which is the espe
cial organ of that ardent friend of Mr. Var.-
ZAPIDICIIIAU and Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, WILLIAM
Ham WELSH, has taken a sudden fancy to
The Hon. WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON, member
of Congress, from the State of Illinois. After
having denounced Senator DOUGLAS, and every
friend of that lamented statesman since
the beginning of the anti-Lecompton strug
gle, for their devotion to truth and
their fealty to the true Democracy, the Ga
zette now extols Mr. RICHARDSON (‘ as an ar
dent Democrat, and like all Demo c rats, a good
'Union man." He takes occasion to introduce
in this connection, the editor of Ties
and asks us whether, because Mr. Monsen-
SON has signed the Democratic Address, we
will call him a Breckinridge Democrat. We
Shall reply to the Gazette by asking
its editor one or two questiohs How
long is it since that paper fell in love with
Dolmas Democracy, and extolled Dortatas
men as ardent Democrats? How many months
have p ssed since it denounced - every believer
in the tote Senator from Illinois as a traitor to
Democratic principles? How long is it since
Mr. RICHARDSON, and all who believed with
him, were c: Black publicans," and , c Abo
litionists," and cc conspirators against the De
moorage party?" Bow long is . it since Mr.
Wm!' went to Charleston for the purpose
of betraying and destroying the illustrious
friend of the member from Illinois? Times
have changed with this facile and placid
chairman of the Democratic. State Com
mittee. Ho has wooed new loves and form
ed strange friendships. When Doecitas and
RICHARDSON, and HARRIS and Beonsitrox,,,were
lighting the fight of principle, there was no
epithet too vile for them, and for the editor of
'ux PRESS, who was an humble follower of the
great cause. DOUGLAS steeps in his grave.
He went there amid the ribaldry and hatred
of such men as the editor of the York Gazette.
Mr. RICHARDSON IrIS followed his own convic
tions until he finds himself in the company
of such warm admirers of Mr. DOUGLAS as
VOORICEB, PENDLETON, BIGLER, and ANCONA.
The editor of THE PRESS followed his own
convictions, and believes that he • represents
the le inciples of the Senator from Illinois as
enunciated in the closing days of his grand
career. He &Os himself, necessarily, a friend
of the Administration, ardently attached to
the Union, an enemy to Secession, and a foe
to rebellion in every shape and form, whether
:it come from the wicked traitors now de
stroying Virginia, or their more peaceful
allies, who conspire to bring about a
disgraceful peace, by party management
and partisan intrigue. We have no fault
to find with Mr. RionaansON. He is a brave,
bold, and frank man, and if he is satisfied with
his present associations and the record he is
making, we have no desire to criticise or com
plain. We congratulate Mr. WELSH, however,
upon having found a new friend in an.old taper
my, and Mr. RICHARDSON upon being no longer
the object of the calumny and denunciation' of
the York Gazette, and the chairman of the
Breckinridge Democratic State Committee.
TEE COUNTRY will Rot be surprised at the
message of Mr. President LrncoLN, which we
publish to-day. It Is characteristic of the
man. It will be seen that he accepts the re
sponsibility of all the acts for which the House
of Representatives censured the late Secretary
of War, Grnerztl CAMERON. The President
does this in the most graceful and generous
manner. •General Gamow:el is over the
seas; be left the country silently, and, with
the exception of a brief speech at Har
risburg, there is nothing at all in reply
to the charge urged against him. But his
friends felt that he would be defended in good
time. Now that defence comes from the
President of the United States. Mr. LINCOLN
says very emphatically, that although General
CAMERON fully approved the proceedings of
the Cabinet, they were not moved or suggest
ed by himself, and that not only the Presi
dent, but all the other heads of Department
'were each equally responsible with him for
whatever error, fault, or wrong, was commit
ted in the promises. Be details these proceed:
logs very briefly, and ho shows, as we have
often endeavored to show, that every stet per
formed by the . President is necessarily for the
salvation of the country. " I believe," says
Mr. LINCOLN, ec that by this and other similar
measures taken in that crisis, some of which
were without any authority of law, the Go
vernment was saved from overthrow." This,
-see think, ends the whole matter with rote
•rence to General CAMERON and his conneo
•►ion with the Administration, and the warm
.eat friends of the late Secretary of War could
ask no more triumphant vindication of his
.course In the dangerous days of the Republic.
TnE ELECrION tor member of Congress in
ho Bucks and Lehigh district, to fill the ye
ancy occasioned by the death. of the Hon.
I Ir. COOPER, took place on Saturday last. The
ontest was very spirited. J. D. STILES was
he nominee of the Democratic party, and
10. LEAR of the Administration party. The
listrict being decidedly Democratic, and the
I °rinse Democracy having been betrayed
Tito the support of the BRECKENRIDGE midi
. ate, Mr. STILES was elected, the vote being
heavy and close. Bucks county voted for Mr.
LEAR, but the , majority tor Mr. STILES in
Lehigh overbilanced his vote and secured his.
election. •
IF A STATE he evolving its political unity,
the development of its material resources
sad the aggrandizement of its power make the
physical bases for Its future organization. If
a State's struggle be for the maintenance of a
political unity, the development of its re
sources confines its effect to the present in
hand Bed th . : end in view—the simple preser
vation of a national spirit already concretely
moulded. Or, if a State be stirred to its ut
most depths that it may reconstruct its parts,
the development of its resources ought again
to have a reference to the future, but to a fu
ture of loftier meaning, by subserving the
shaping of the now political idea.
This triple movement of rise, progress, and
reconstruction upon a higher basis, makes
the complete cycle of a national life that at
tains its best and fullest expression. But no
nation has hitherto fulfilled the plan through
Inability to carry out its third part. Greece
levelled the walls of Troy, and by this con
densation of her strength made for herself a
place and a name. She unfolded her strength
while and for the purpose of repelling DARIUS
and XERXES. But when her civilization pass
ed to the third ordeal—that of civil war—the
aim of neither faction was to reform with a
I nobler civic purpose, and therefore, the re
sources of neither bore it to a higher level.
Both bad to submit to a fresh - force, in PIM- .
air ; and when his successors, disorganized,
could not rally for a definite aim higher than
that which bad preceded them, Greece learned
in its humiliation beneath the Roman yoke at
Cynocephalae, that no culture, however glo
eon', can save a State unless it be but an in
strument towards forming some higher politi
cal unity. And Rome, too—what is Mr. GM
BON called on to record of her Her decline
and fall, not her decliue and reorganization ;
for that Republic did not learn to make
its splendid powers guide it through its civil
chaos to some level of a truer humanity.
Are we following the example or the
warning ? France found her powers raider
CLIARLENAGNE, and made them maintain her
position through the succeeding centuries.
But when the old forms had served their day,
and their flashing out by the dawn of the
eighteenth" eentury ushered in the reign of
the formless, France groped, bloaci blinded
and passion-blinded, after some Idea which
instinct hinted, but reason dal not define.
France deified Raison, but could not hu
manize it; BONAPARTE had, therefore, to be
its Ideal Man. So, England's Protectorate
ended in CHARLES II and the Gnomes.
The same question is put to us to-day, and
the light of two thousand years' political his
tory is given us to read it by, and write our
answer. We have passed through two stages
with unexampled rapidity; for the pressure
of things is greater, and each step faster,
.at every Successive age. Nature has traced
our route for us. She did not rise to the crea
tion of complex organisms till the brute mat
ter and the blind forces of the earth had been
subdued through huge slow cycles. Every
eptich was briefer, as it gave birth to higher
forms, 1111 light, the link between matter and
spirit, dashed in at a word. So the progress of
Ole . moral world, and our own so far, has been
in successively shorter times from what were—
competed to what shall be—monstrous mis
shapen animal and vegetable growths. All
things have ripened for this crisis—not only
ages and peoples, but even physical means.
Isolated from the rest of the world by two
oceans, material means livished upon us, we
are called on to meet the third great move
ment of political and moral progress, and to
complete the work- left unfulfilled by former
States.
Shall we do it? Can we do it? If not, this
page of history must be blurred by the tears
of coming ages that will be forced mournfully
to drag up to slow culmination, and as a task,
the work which we were too weak to make
a God-given privilege by happy accomplish
ment. We have made our resources give us,
and maintain for ne, a nationality. They can
now remake it, if we bend them to the forma
tion of a loftier and purer public condition.
We must recognize the dignity of eur humani
tarian mission, and, knowing the element that
has unorganized us, cast . it out. So shall the
idea of the . Republic be ?willed, the country
be remoulded on a higher moral basis, and our
subjection to any other power than our own
will, working out our noble destiny, be made
impossible.
The Word has been said—cc Let there be
light." Shall there now appear the true poli
tical man, his life and freedom breathed into
I him by Ged's own month
AT the close of 1861 and the commence
ment of 1862, Mr. DISRAELI, one of the Par
liamentary loaders of the Conservative party
in England raised a new banner, on which was
inscribed INTOLERANCE, instead of PROTEC
TION, the old watchword of the Tories. At
farmer's ordinaries and at more imposing Ag
ricultural banquets, Mr.Distrama talked loudly,
not of green crops and rotation, but of the
Church, and the necessity of upholding it. In
conservative parlance, when a man talks of
ci standing by the Church," he means its reve
num lie made no demonstration on the
point until lately, but quietly drilled his fol
lowers, and has at last led 'them to victory
ov Jr the Government and the Liberal party.
The news telegraphed as received at Caps
Race, on Sunday, by the Hibernian, is as late
as the 16th ult., and, though very briefly, in-,
forms us that on the preceding evening the
House of Commons, by a large majority, had
rejected a bill for abolishing Church Rates,
and had passed a resolution declaring it un-
Vise and unjust to abolish this . tax without
providing some means of raising the neces
sary money. This was considered as a great
triumph over the Government, for though the
proposed action'against the Church Rates was
not precisely a Ministerial project, it had the
sanction of the Ministry.
In addition to the large amount of property
held by the Church of England, in real estate
and from tithes, &c., is a tax levied on the
parishioners and ocoupiefa of land in a parish,
by a majority of their own body in vestry as
sembled. Formerly, the tithes were distri
buted in three equal portions—one for the
support of the clergy, one for the relief of the
poor, and one for the upholding and repairing
of the fabric of the church. • At first, this tax
was a voluntary offering, which gradually came
~to be exacted, as a right, under ecclesiastical
tenure. That the churches should be kept in
repair is admitted byall; but Dissenters, who
are about as numerous in England as the Low-
Church people, object to being subjected to a
double mulct—first, to build and maintain
their own places of worship, and next, to keep
in repair the sacred edifices of the • Clmrch of
England, within which they (the Dissenters)
never set foot. In some instances, where the
Dissenters outnumbered the Churchmen, it
has been voted in the Vestry that no Church
rate should be laid or levied.. It generally
causes much heart-burning, and, indeed, libe
ral Churchmen admit the injustice of requiring
Dissenters to maintain places of worship which
they never enter.
In 1834, Lord Ammar, their Chancellor
of the Exchequer, introduced a bill to abolish
Church rates, and repeated parliamentary ef
forts for the same purpose have been made
since. In the session of, 18511-60 a mea
sure to this effect, not emanating from but
strongly supported by the Palmerston Cabinet,
actually passed the House of Commons, by a
small majority, and was defeated in the Lords.
The measure which the Commons have just
now rejected also was strongly backed by
Government influence. Its defeat is less,
important than the fact, thereby disclosed,
that on a set trial of strength, between the
Ministry and
,the Opposition, fairly made in
the Parliamentary cock—pit, the Government
were in a minority of seventeen votes. In
other words, that whenever it so please them,
Danny and Dxsßaxi.ir can elect Perusasrhst
anti:RUSSELL from office. . How far their doing
so would affect this country is too grave a
quest:on to be discussed at the conclusion of
an article.
AT A. RECENT MEETING of the Lutheran
Synod, in Lancaster, after the close of their
theological business, a venerable clergyman,
with a few brief and pertinent remarks, intro
duced a resolution In favor of the Union, and
strongly supporting the patriotic Adminis
tration of President LINCOLN: This oliettad
some glowing and eloquent speeches in favor
of both, from several of the reverend gentle
men—one of whom, I am informed, in the ar
dor of his feeling's, and holding out his arm in
view of the whole audience, exclaimed: ec If
I thought I had a drop of disloyal blood in
my veins, I would, (to use the language of a
dutinguished—No !—an extinguished ox-Pre
sident of the United States,) open them, and
let it out !"
LETTER FROM OCCASIONAL."
WASHINGTON, May 27,1862.
The spontaneous response of the people to
the last call of the Government, and the elec
trical patriotism displayed since the events of
Saturday and Sunday, should not be disre
garded by the rebels and their sympathizing
friends. Something was needed to attract
public attention to these busy - traitors, and
their new movements have accomplished the
object. That hot-bed of disaffection, Balti
more oily, in which, even as the Federal
Government was saving its trade from
annihilation by reconstructing railroads, and
pouring in millions of patronage among its
people, our army and our country have been,
for months, habitually insulted, has at last re
volted against the alders and abettors of the
'Great Treason, who have plotted and revelled
in . that city. Presuming that they could
safely instruct their women in the genteel
pastime of denouncing and sneering at the
Government and its friends, and misled
by the fact that these fair champions of a bad
cause were tolerated in these exhibitions of their
feelings, some of the bolder leaders ven
tured to exult over the defeat and butchery
of the Maryland regiment and the capture of
Col. Kenly. In an instant this Union senti
nient burst forth like a tempest. The citi
zens, who had borne the taunts and threats
of the rebel aristocrats atd bullies, re
solved to take the case in their own hands,.
and they administered the 'remedy on Satur
day and Sunday in a most summary manner.
This time it was not the army of the United
States that cowed and chastised the mob and
the slave-holders and rebels of Baltimore. It
was tbo people themselves. Tho indignation
that flred the loyal States after the fall of
Sumpter, and the massacre of the Massachu
setts troops, broke out in Baltimore, and, the
cowards who have put forth their women to
insult the flag, were themselves exposed to the
scorn and anger of the people, and compelled
to fly to save their lives. •
Arid I rejoice that the same spirit is being
rekindled in the free States. There, as irrlial
timore, there are many who regard this struggle
for constitutional liberty with indifference and
hatred, and they have been busy for months
in filling the newspapers and the public mind
with misrepresentations of the objects of
the war, and with apologies for Treason. They
did not pause in these labors of love to utter
a word of encouragement to the brave men
fighting for the flag—nor-to drop a tear over
those who fell in the fight—nor to give a sign
.of joy when a Union victory was proclaimed.
Probably they will condescend to halt in
their career of ingratitude and treason when they
see the frowning front of the people, and hear
the mutterings of the gathering popular storm.
I am surprised that any nowspapar pretend
ing to be loyal, especially if published is the
city of Washington, should attempt to . check
and discourage this uprising of the people, by
denying that new perils threaten the common
cause. While.it may be true that the national
capital has not been in imminent danger since
Saturday last, it is now evident that the rebels
looked to the capture of this city as a result
of their recent demonstrations, and that
nearly-all their movements in 'Virginia have
been directed to that end. They were to be
aided by the sympathizers In Maryland, and
hundreds in this city wore undoubtedly ready
to seize the first opportunity to give them
military assistance. The best judges of the
common danger are the President and his mi
litary and civil advisers, and it is their ap
peals that the Governors of the different
States are so eloquently answering. Now
that the holy excitement that threlle.d and
swayed and consolidated the masses of the
free States, a year ago, is once more dis
played, let it not be again permitted
to languish. The war must, if possible,
be conducted with tenfold more energy than.
ever. The people stand ready to sacrifice
their fortunes and their lives to put down the
Rebtllion, and the Government will, I have no
doubt, cheerfully second their efforts, and re
spond to their exhortations. The traitors long
ago discarded all hope or desire for peace. Re
soiling to every expedient that revenge and
savage hatred, and fanatical fury can suggest,
they have become desperate. Thoir motto is
tbat of cg no quarter" to the Union army, and to
the Union men, and every manifestation of mer
cy on the part'ot the Administration is greetod
with. derision,-and-rejected with indignation.
The alternative, therefore, presented to - us is
to make immediate, extensive, and irresistible
warlike preparations—to strike the rebellion at
once, and in all of' its strongholds, and to
adopt every measure, no matter how severe or
stringent, that may bo necessary to reassert
the Federal authority. From this hour the
sword should bo drawn against the. fleas who
seek the life of the Republic, and never
sheathed until those who have (livid to make
treason successful shall have perished.
Otwarostat.
Minors, and particularly England, found it
difficult to realize the fact that New Orleans,
abandoned by the Rebels, was in the bands of
the Union army. This news reached Liver
pool by the Canada on the 11th, and, even
when confirmed by Southern letters, was re
ceived with surprise and disbelief: People
are unwilling to believe what is opposed to
their desire. Confirmed by subsequent mails,
the news is accepted as true, and variously
Commented on by the newspapers. It bad
little or . no effect on the price of cotton, be
ciiise • the brokers and manufacturers know
thati for some time at least, a supply of cotton
ikom New. Orleans is nofto be expected. The
tendency, of prices, however, is downward,
which indicates an impression that cotton
Would don become more abundant in the Eng-
lish market than it has been for a considerable
time.
The Times admits, evidently with reluctance,
that the fall of New Orleans is a heavy blow
for tlie South. Lately it contended, with a
curious logic of its own, that Northern sue
cesseBwere Southern gains, and that Southern
successes were deadly blows to the North.
According to this very original argument, the
Confederates ought to rejoice over their loss
of New Orleans, and be delighted by what has
aken place at Norfolk, Yorktown, and other
°cantles.
That the blockade would be opened by
President LINCOLN was expected by the tag
lish journals, which, however, regard each an
event as important only in relation to cotton.
In Loiion.there were strong doubti whether,
at any early period, cotton would be received
from New Orleans. A different opinion pre
vailed at Manchester, the capital of the cotton
trade.. It was finally acknowledged that the
capture of New Orleans had been effected,
/Ltd in a thoroughly masterly manner. The
real superiority of the North seems to dawn,
though slowly, on the British mind, which had
been impressed the other way by the misre
presentations of Mr. RUSSELL. Of course, since
the capture of New Orleans, the Paris and
London journals have ceased to repeat their
canard as to the interference of England and
Prince in American affairs, by recognition of
cc the so-called Southern Confederacy."
WHEN THE revelations in regard to the bar
barities inflicted by the rebels upon our
wounded prisoners, and the dead bodies of
our soldiers, were made public, the sympa
thizers with Secession, here and "elsewhere,
pronounced them too monstrous for belief,
and charged - Senator-WADE, the chairman of
the Committee on the Conduct of the Kitt,
with extravagant misstatements. They al
leged it was impossible that . the chivalry of
the South could resort to such inhumanities,
but as other proofs began to. thicken, until at
lakt there could be no successful denial of the
revolting accusation, they changed their tone;
and now we hoar them protesting that none of
these revelations should be laid before the
people lest they may stir up a still bitterer
state of teeing between the North and the
South. Thus it is that our country .is fet
tered and embarrassed by the man whose
hearts beat responsive with the treason of the
leaders of the Rebellion.
LEY EVERY TIMOR be paid to that brave
soldier and commander, General &GEL, of
Missouri. He is now in Washington, at the
snmmons of the President, and will be recog
nized by the Administration in the most hand
some manner. He is a representative man, a.
soldier who knows no fear, and has been pa
tient and faithful; a citizen who feels the inspi
ration of this cause, and believes in loyalty
as he believes in his God. He represents the
great German element which has entered so
largely into' the progress of the war' for the
Union.. His countrymen worship his name,
and have been stimulated: by his example.
It will be a high compliment to their devotion,
and a filling tribute to his bravery, to give him
an important command. He has done his.
THE PRESS. - PHILLADELIIIIA, WANESDAY. MAY 28, 1862.
work in Missouri. There is work to do in
Virginia, and his whole course on the banks
of the Mississippi gives us an assurance that
he will do nobly on the banks of the Potomac.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Despatches to 4( The Press."
WASIIINPRON, May 27, 18432.
The, Publication of Army Movements—
. General McClellan Desires the Editors
to be held Responsible.
WjatinNGToN, Nay 27.—The following despatch wag
received at the Wur Department to•night : •
To Iron. E. M. Stanton:
I find that some of the newspapers publish letters from
their cerreeyotdents with thin army giving important in
fot motion conce•niag oar morementa, position of troops,
de., in positive rielation of Yoncerders.
e it in impossible for me to ascertain, with certainty,
who them anonymone syritere aro, I beg to nuggest
that another order be published holding the editors re
eponaiblo for Ito Infraction.
G. B.- HoGLE L &If ,
Major General.
Capture of rianover COnrt Rouse by Gen.
McClellan—A Rebel Cannon Taken.
The War Department received advicee fram General
McCLELLAN, Ode evening, announcing the capture of
Uncover Court Rouse. Our hies in BIM to be emelt, but
that of tbe rebels croadderablo in killed, wounded and
pritoners. One of the euerny'i cannon was captnred.
No Tidings from Get!. lialleck or Gen.
Banks.
tvivieel from Gen. Ilm.tnon have bean received
to-day at the War Department, and nothing furaker from
Gru. BANKS. 1
The President's . Message.
The 'President has tent a manage to (Jonisreae. taping
uyon himself and thb Cabinet iAtegether the reaonal-
Witty of the moms for which tie Rouse of Representa
tives lately censured the late BecVetary of War, General
CAMERON. It is hoped by him, by all the m. nsbers
of the Cabinet, that this Enesantp will be understood by
the public at an evidence of thelr thtertnivation that ne
imaginary eivislona shall be Molten up in the aktiminia
tration.
The real and the unanimity of the Administration are
equal to what have existed here a any time. The public
well, perhaps coon enough, Sod out, from the disposition
made here, that there is not, and ins not been, tiny such
alarm concerning this city or it 4 vicinity as hes been
eltewhere imagined, and that t regiments called for
ace to bo need rroperly In view cei successful operations
by the grand armies in the field, sad to give them pierfent
efficiency.
illeSrnge from the President—Mexican
Affairs. 1
ThePreeident sent the following,to the Senate to day:
if I transmit a report from the 4 , ecretarY of State, in
answer to tho resolution of the Foliate of the 22dInstaat,
calling for further correepondenco: relative to t Mexican
affairs:"
To the President:
Tho Secretary of State, NE whom was referred the re
solution of the Senate of the ".stld iitetant, requesting the
President to transmit to that body if not incompatible
with tho public interest, "copies of,such correspondence
as may have been received by thii Government, since
that acsommtnied by the measles of April 14, 11362,.re1a-
Hog to the condition of affairs in Mtixico, and the break.
hugup of the treaty- withthe latter by the allied Powers,"
ban the honor to report that it is notdeemed expedient to
cc mply with the request at the present limo. •
lies sectfully submitted,
WILLIAM H. sEwtam.
An Important Speech on Finances.
The Bonne was deeply interested, to- day, in the able
speech made by Mr. DAwee, of Massachusetts, to
. reply
to Mr. Yoonuees, of Indiana, on tho:questlon of Govern:-
meat finances. Neatly every member was in his seat.
Mr. D. presented in graphic sentences the reliable data
regarding the etace of our finances. He demonstrated
that the public debt was far below the amount named in
the speech made the other day. Instead of the interest
on the debt being nearly ono hundred millions, It Is but
thirty millions of dollars.
Mexican Affairs.
A gentleman who hew just arrived here on official bit-
Meuse, from the city of Mexico, hsviug left there on the
. sth lest, reports that towards the latter part of last
month. the British Minister, Slr Charles Wykc, con
cluded a treaty at Puebla with Sr. Doblado, by which
ell difficulties with the Freglish were amicably settled;
and bad ft not been for the sudden action of the French,
a treaty with Spain would have been concluded also by
Sr. Doblado and General Prim. The latter person loft,
home - Ter, the choice of Mexico on 'good terms with the
Juores Government, and a minister will be sent to Ma-;
drid to arrange satisfactorily all matters in dispute.
The President of the United States, in reply to a roc:e
lution of the House of Bepresentativen, anteing,' if not
incompatible with the public interests, to be (wretched
with copies of such correspondents(' as' may have been
received entre the latenteesage relative to the condition
of affairs in Mexico, and the broakinai up of the treaty
with theAstter by the tAllied Powers, says it is not
deemed expedientto comply with the request to:they.
Gen. Banks Lost no Cannon.
Information bee been received here that Gen. BA:vira,.
in his late retreat, which was made so successfully, re
talmd all his artillery, not losing a single cannon.
Enlargement of the Erie Canal.
The Ithuse Military Committee bold a meeting to
morrow to consider the question of extending the aid of
the Govethment to the enlargement ei the New Tor/Nand
Erie Canal, so that gunboats may ascend the -Hudson,
and peas to the Northern latest
Arrival of General Sigel.
Meier General FRANZ Stone arrived in the city this
moraine(' and reported himself immediately to the War
Department. Ho will doubtless have a new command.
General alattow sm. was among the dthtinguisbee. vial
tors in the city today.
Genera! Sigel Serenaded.
General STORL wee serenaded to-night. An immonco
crowd attended, and the General made a short speech,
which was received with great enthusiasm.
Exhuming Bodies Prohibited. •
Notice is given br the War Department that the fur
ther exhumation of the bodios of the deceased soldiers, In
eases whore piblic means of transportation. would have
to he relied on, cannot be permitted, and has been pro
hibitt.d.
One or two soldiers have got to Manassas, and thence
bore on the ans. who succeeded in escaping from Front
tore!, where tho fight was bad on Friday 11W, between
the Ist Afar, land Regiment and the rebels. They seam
to be genuine refugees, std tell a straight story. At the
baffle the rebels slowed no quarter, even bayoneting
our rounded on they lay on the field, and performing
other inhuman deeds, equally barberouswith ttioss per
petrated on the bodiel of our troops buried at Bull Bun•
Proposals for Raising Sunken Vessels.
The Navy Department will receive proposals until the
]at of June for raising the sunken vessels in Hampton
Roads.
The following have been appointed acting masters'
mates, and ordered to Nesv York: henry 11. Francis,
Benj. F. Morris, John F. Lovejoy, Peter C. As3erton,
Frederick Furbish, Ches. Bostwick, George F. Benson,
Oscar Wendell, John Beam and John H. Leviseett.
The Postmaster General to-day ordered the following
mail messengers appointed :
At Wilkesbarro, Pa., David Seaman, in place of John
Eboher,
Ai Elizabethtown, PA., John G. Mellinger, in place of
William Lots:.
Eigel, Jefferson county, Pcnnsylvania. James McNeal,
postmaster. Directly on the route 2,805, Brookville to
IYurrenaville.
Jackson Bun, Warren county, Pennsyttrattia, John
Dunham, postmaster. On ronte 2,U'9, Sugar Grove to
Warren.
Lender, Warren county, Pennsylvania, S. W. Brown,
positneeter. Mao on ronto 2,769, Sugar Grove to Warren.
lbeee offices. which will fut Dish regular moil facilities,
here been establiehed on the recommendation of Mellon.
John Patton.
At Bock Bell, Kent county, Maryland, Thomas D.
Burgess is appointed postmaster, vice S. G. &inlet, re
,signod.
At WerSeldsburgh, Carroll county, Maryland, Jeshni
W. Stillman, .postmaster, vice J. B. Summon, reaigaed.
lion. E. H. Webster , s district
EPRINCVIELD, M., VI ay 27.—Tho Governor has called
for three retlments of volunteers for three months, for
immediate service, to relieve the regiments now ender
marching orders for the field.
HRADQUARTERS 01' TIM ATINT OF TOR
May 21-8.30 P. M.
Rebel Barbarities
Naval Appointments
Post Office Affairs—Pennsylvania and
Maryland.
AtßraddoeVe Field, Joeeph Welter'. _
• ESTABLISIMENTS
More' Illinois Troops
FROM HARRISBURG,
Circular from the Adjutant General to the
Major Generals.
Nertnrsznao, May 27.—Active progress is making, in
obedience to the requisition recently mule by the United
States Government, to organ:so and forward itumedintely
all the volunteer and militia force in the State. Armin
utile, the State authorities have requested the War De
paltmrat to modify thu requisition by specifying the
number of men that are wanted It is generally believed
that, in fact, a small 'part of the military force of the
State will be sufficient to meet any existing emergency.
The following circular. ha• just been made public:
lc To Major Generale commanding Division° of the Penn
syli. ante Militia:
GRNERAL : I enclose you General Orders Nos. 23,
24, and 25, of there 'headquarters. In carrying these or
ders into effect you will make known to the Volunteer
Militia in your command, and to each persons as' are
willing to form new companies with a view to service for
three months, that volunteers for the war will ba raised
in a different manlier. • .
e. Irmo t. That all regiments or companies, now organ
ized 'or that shall be organized under the requisition from
the General Government, shell report to you.
'• V tonne). Oe receiving such return you will, without
delay,'report the same to are. speoifying the officers of
the resinient. nunilier of companies, names of-captains,
and number of men, and in case of companies, the name
of the captain and number of men, the United States
not receiving any company with leas than eighty men,
rank and tile, that I may hand over the same to the
Gaited States officers in charge, who will furnish trans.
yortaticn, Ac., under the laws of the United Btatea, to
each rendezvous as may be designated, the State assum
ing no liability for any expense whatever.
4, A. L. ItIIigSEGI,
rr Assistant Adjutant General of Pennsylvania?)
Safety of the 78th New York Regiment
VIM YORK, May 27.—The following despatch has
been roceiwil by R. F. Andrews, Surveyor of the Port,
dated Harper's Ferry, May 27th.
Inarrt in the papers a contrad:ction of the report that
the 78th Regiment; New York Volunteers, has been eat
to pieces. The regiment bus not been in action, and id
in good condition.
DANIEL ULLMAN, Colonel 78th Volunteers.
A Rebel Pritrateer in the China Sea
Yogic, May 21.—A leiter from Batavia, dated
March 81. reports a . Confederate privateer eteamer,
mounted with eight rided gang, in the China sea. She
bee been spoken by an English Man•of-war.
Affairs in Baltimore.
DALmoan, May 27.—A1l is ortiot bore. A large force
of police ie Btation.ed along•Baltirsore street and other lo
calities, to prevent turbulent gatherings.
Markets by Telegraph._
CI May Z.—Floor le doll and unchanged
red wheat declined 2c, sod closed at 880,90; white un
changed; whisky has declined to 1516 ; nothing doing ill
mese pork; city packed, $10.50; balk meats dull.
Exchaage dull at %DX ; gold advanced to 3% Prom.
'OM FORTRESS MONROE.
FOR E , El Mention, blny 28.—Mr. William A. Haler
Hailed Otto military telegraph, is engaged in laying a
robmiu l nt cable amen the Bolide from SowelPa Point
to tbo 4icro between Newport News Point and Hampton
creek. A land lino will be built from the former Point to
Norfol f and also connect with the existing line between
the fo tre and Newport News.
Advises from our float at City Point, JAMCi river, re
otivedlast night, slate that no new attack had yet been
made i ?pon tho rebol fortifications below Richmond.
01'4 of the men on the gunboat Port Royal was
wounded in the thigh, on Saturday, by a rifle ehot from
the shore, whilo on the look-out in the foretop. The
ennui's CharpshoOlers make it dangerous to pass from ono
veesel to another, end their balls freuuontly strike thole
Wee.
Ail the inhabitants of Oity Point bare been forced to
020,0 to Petersburg and into the interior, by the rebels.
No despatches were received from Norfolk to. day.
Latest News from Gen. Banks.
All Quiet at Williamsport and Harper's Ferry
Wsenlanvea, May 27.—8 y despatches rocelyel at the
War Department, wo learn that affairs are quiet at
Earpor's Ferry and ite vicinity.
A menage from General Dank', dated 1 o'clock this
morning, says Captain Collis, of the Zoueves d'Afrinae,
has brought his commend into Dancock, having had but
two killed.
A later destatch from General Banks says all is quiet
at Williamsport.
The Rebels Retreating;
Matinsonn, May 2.9.—Privata accounts from Martins
burg represent that only a few rebel scouts arrired •in
town yesterday, anksbortly after retired without doing
any damage to the town.
The indications are that the rebels aro retrestiog to
'Winchester.
IMPORTANT FROM HARRISBURG.
The Call for Three-Months Volun-
teers Countermanded.
HAREI£111:110, Ploy 2T.—Tho following importantgono
ral order bas just been issued :
OlusgßAL ORDER—NO. 26.
First. The Oovornor being notified by the Secretary
of War, by a telegraphic deepstch received this after
noon, that the President will no longer require any other
troops from Pennsylvania, to be =Acted into the United
Stales service, but those who volunteer for three years,
or during the war, General orders Nos. 23, 24, and 25
of these headonarters, dated on the nth inst., calling for
three months !Wonteo_r militia are hereby countermand
ed and revoked
Second. All commanding officers who may have .is
sued their orders for the mustering into the service of the
United Etates of their respective commands, cinder the
Raid orders of the 26th inst., are hereby ordered to coun
termand the same.
. Third.. The Governor, in issuing this order, congratu
lates the people of Pennsylvania on the information re
ceived from the War Department, that the emergency
which seemed to the Government of the Coiled States so
imperatilely to demand their immediate service no longer
exists, and would also commend the patriotic zeal and
mecrity manifested in every section of the Common
weelth to et it. By order of A. G. Curtin, Governor
and Commander•in•chief. A. S. BUS 3ELL,
Adjutant General.
Battle.ot Bottom Bridge
Sergeant Maier Edmund A. Wmllagg, of the 10ith
Pennsylvania Volunteers, a native of Philadelphia, than
gives his experience at the battle of Bottom Bridge, In
which his regiment wee engaged :
IN STOUT OF I ICIINOND, May 25,1861
peen Booms& : We bad quite a battle on the 20th
instant. We marched to the bridge handsomely, driving
in the rebel pickets, and got possession of it ; but thin
had succeeded in destroying some fifty feet of it on our
approach, but we extinguished the flames ; then we filed
along the edge of the creek, deploying our skirmlthers in
front The battle soon commenced, and wo had it hot
and heavy all day until 'sunset.
The enemy appeared totter° only two guns In p,eition,
and .need folld that. Bad they used shell, with the
splendid range they succeeded In obtaining, our casual.
tins might have been numerous. /Le It was, our regiment
did not have a man killed, and but two wounded. The
shells from the battery attached to our brigade exploded
among the rebels continually, and. our skirmishers are
confident cf having placed at least a score of the enemy
• hors de combat; so, I think, be must base suffered se•
'verily. I was . fece to face with them for the first time.
Pour of them came out on the road opposite to me. I
could not reach them With my pistol, and I thought they
would tire their muskets at me; but we stood for BOOM
time looking at each other, and both standing up fair ;
then they " dropped " and crawled into the bushes,
and peeped out every now and then. I waited to give
them a chance to tight, bet they would not begin, so I
went back to the line at tbo sound of the bugle.
The Reprile of Gen. Banks—Natnes of Of
!ices Wounded—Maj. Dwight Missing.
WILLIAItSPORT, ➢id., May 25, vie. Baltimore, May 25.
—Our force during the retreat consleted of only two smell
brigades. Gordon's and. Donn.lll nnnifierina teas than
4,ooo'nton, and yet they held the rebels in chock for four
boors. ' •
The 2d Massachusetts Regiment was the only one from
that State eneegcd in the th;lit, and it behaved admirably.
()ant Cites. Mudge, of company F, and Lieut. Growl:du•
shield, of comoany G, soi:ryas wounded in the log slightly,
'were the only officers hurt. Major Wilder Dwight is
reining, but towns last seen this vide of Winchester. Dr.
Francis Lelend was tattoo prisoner whilplattonat,si.s
wmiuded.—Boston Tourmo.
RO = -0 rill 4 , ra , IP) Zr) =ittimor ni
.
The Europa off Cape Race.
Effect of the News of the Yorktown
Evacuation in Europe.
EXCITEMENT ON 'CHANGE.
RISE IN .ADIERICAN SECURITIES
CAPE Bars, May 27.—The royal mail steamship
Europa, which sailed from Liverpool on the 17th, via
Queenitown on the 17th, for Boston via Halifax, passed
this point this evening. She was boarded by the Dowd
yachtof the-Associated tress, and the follovring Sum
mary of her WiTiCee, which are two days later than here
tofore received, tree obtidned :
Tile royal mail steamship Persia arrived of Liverpool
on the 18th instank
The )3 uwafrom the 'United States of the evacuation of
Yorktown by the rebels, which wee brought by the
ateomer Persia,was received after the regular busbies's
hours on the Ith instant. It created considerable ex
citement. but the effect bad not been developed when
the Europa left Liverpool.
American securities Immediately became firmer, and
cotton showed signs or bekovioeos.
. _
EOM° of the London journals, in endeavoring to dimi
nish this victory of the army of the Potpmac, regard it
as a part of the strategy of the Confederates.
GREAT BRITAIN
the Houle of Commons, on the 10th, Mr. Layard
said the Government had received from Lord Lyons, a
copy of the Committee of the .United States Home of
Representatives on the operation of the reciprocity
treaty, and had no objection to lay it or the table.
Lord Palmerston stated that the Government were
also prepared to lay °tithe table ail the information they
powsssed respecting The occupation of Mexico and
Chloe, and the intentions of the French Oovernment on
the subject, and said that what was being done by the
British naval and military authorities mst the approba
tion of the Government. Ire believed that steps how
being taken 'Would tend to the settlement of the affairs at
• .••
The London Times, in an editorial on the war in the
United avant, says :
.tilie advantages gained in the West by the Federate
have been such as is impossible to overrate, and are in
singular contrast with the plow progress in Virginia."
Commercial Intelligence.
• [By the steamer Europa.]
' , LIVERPOOL BREADSPOFFS MAUR:RT.—Messrs.
Richardson & Spence, and other authorities, report Flour
dull, and fidetls lower; miles of American at 24s 6:1030a.
'Wheat very dull, and declined 3d since -Tuesday; rod
Western is quoted at 9s EldolOa (81, red Southern 10s 9d®
lle, white NVostern Ils white Southern 12so
12s 6d. Cora hs also dull,-and has declined 3esBd ; mixed
27(027a Bd, fellow 27e Bcles27s Bd, white 325032 s dd.
LIVER POOL PRO VIS EONS AlSEET.—lleters,
Bighted, •Atliya, & Co4and others report Beef with a
dosuward tendency. Pork quiet and easier. Bacon
heavy, end Bde2l lower. Lard declining. Tallow easier
at 420455.
TR°mtgs.—Ashes quiet.. Rosin quiet but steady at 34s
elBa 9d. Ss 'rite of Turpentine firm at 70®755. Sugar
quiet. Coffee firm. Bice dull. Cod Oil no sales. Lin
seed Olt steady at 3915030 s ad. -
LONDON MARRNTS.—Wheat boas', and lats7.o
lower. Iron dull. Sugar quiet, but steady. Rice quiet.
Coffco buoyant. Tea declined 161301. Tallow quiet.
Spirits of Turpentine excited; sales at 740 630 755.
Spirm Oil dull. Linseed 011 still advancing ; sales at
89. v. Linseed Cates declining.
LONDON 'MONEY. 51 attlf:ST.—American securities
firmer. Erie Railroad, 3331 ; Pennsylvania 58,70, (dull);
Illlooie Central Railroad, 45 per cent discount; Penn.
eylvania ss, bonds, 72m74c ; Virginia 61, 62a ; Mary
land St, 91369). •
WOMIDED SOLIMRS ON TUX WAY TO• NEW YORE.-
[Special Despatch to the Evening East )—Yoturrown,
•y. 20.—The hospital steamer Soauldins will leave
White UOII3B this morning with three hundred and
twenty-fire sick and wounded - soldiers, and a number of
physicians. She sails for new York, and will be due at
that port to-morroir. =•
CoLOY3M WOODi . OP TUB BBOOKLYI4 YOURTEE)TTR;
Ex
ellaßCED.-[dpOOtal . Despatch to the .Eoening Post
WA aItLYGTOY, May 26.—Coloual Wood, of the Brooklyn
Fourteenth, wee yestanlay exchanged, by Generals
Wool end linger, for Colonel Patten, of the Confederate
army.
A Mother Poisons her Child, and then
Commits Suicide.
A sad affair, growing out of the present war. occurred
at No. 332 Avsnue A, lieteTork city, on Sunday eve
ning. SOme months ago, it appears, a 'Frenchman,
named Jean Phillips, joined the Excelsior Brigage, anti
departed for Washington, leaving behind him a wife and
an interesting child about tire years old. On Elattardaf -
Madame Phillip° received a letter from the seat of war,
announcing the death of her husband in a recent engage
ment She was devotedly attached to the brave follow,
and so terrible wee the shock produced by the sad tidings,
that her rett• on 'wax dethroned. and she 'determined to
follow her husband even to the'grave.. Accordingly, on
Sunday ate made the necessary preparations for the die
-position of her , reaming,' when the 'curtain should fall
open the last act of the melancholy tragedy. She deter
mined to destroy the life oilier child also, and thus cona
ph to the drama by killing herself.
Haling procured s phial of laudanum, she administer
ed a portion of the pnison to ber °fleeting, and .then
swallowed the balance herself. Some bones efterwards
the unhappy woman was discovered to be in adying con
dition, with her child folded closely to her bosom. She
was immedlattly removed to Dealevite HoSpittil for medi
cal attendance, but died in an hour or so . after her ad
mission.' The child lingered will' yesterday afternoon,
-when it succumbed to the influence of the poisonous
draught, and expired about three coelcck. Coroner Col
lin investigated the affair, and upon searching the WV ots
of the suicide, be found a note which she bad writterethe
night before, giving sit the necessary directions for the
dispoeition of the bodies. She bequeathed her little
property, consisting of household furniture, Ac , to her
mother, and requested that the latter should make all the
arrangements for the funeral
. SALE of the stook of a watchmaker and jeweller
declining business, this Wednesday morning, at
ten o'clock at 61. Kirkpatrick k Brother ,
. auction
eers, 604 Chestnut street, comprising a Mae wort- -
meat of thirty-hour and eight-day clocks, gold and
silver watches, fine gold jewelry, guard, nook, and
vest chains, bracelets, fine oar-drops, anger rings,
lockets, studs, and buttons, * fall seta of ladies and
misses' jewelry, gold and silver pencil oases, gold
pens, silver•plated ware, faney goods, fixtures, ao.
10 BE TRERD.—Miesourians nay their State Con
vention, which meets on tho first Monday of Jane, will
adopt a gradual emancipation policy...
A 110.Vitill 7BEATBE.—A pirty'of players have
chartered a canal steamer, and are going to use•tt am a
theatre along the Erie Canal.
MITI{ CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION,
Resolution Relating to Military Prisoners
Adopted.
THE POST•ROUTE BELL PASSED
The Tax Bill Under consideration.
THE COLORADO DESERT BILL.
THE LAND SURVEY BILL PASSED
The Presidlnt's Message Exonerating
General Cameron.
SENATE
Military Prisoners.
Mr. GRIMES (Rep.), of Dina, offered a resolution
requesting the Secretary of War to inform the Senate
how many officers and men belonging to the regular or
volunteer forces of the United Staten are now in the
Penitentiary of tie District of Columbia, to what r,&-
moot they belong, and by what court or authority such
commitments were made. Adopted.
Post- Route Bill.
On motion of Mr. COLLAMER (Rep.), of Vermont,
the post•route bill was Lillie° up nud ppyyed.
Suspending Payments.
The resolution suspending the payments, under the
act providing for pay meats for ;he troops employed in
the Department of the West, was taken up.
Mr. lIENDEBSON Union), of Minion?), offered en
amendment, that the oommissioners provided for report
within sixty days. Adopted.
The Tax Bill.
The bill was then laid over, and the to x bill taken up
The Tax on Tobacco
The question being on Mr. Henderson's motion to re
duce the tax on tobacco, it was rejected.
The Tax on Cotton
The amendment striking out the tax of one cant per
pound on cotton, having been passod over informally, it
wee next taken up.
'Remarks of Mr. Sumner.
Mr. SUMNER (Ren.), of Mitenactinsettg, epoko in fa
vor of the amendment striking out the tax on cotton,
contending that it ebonld not be taxed more then the
grain of the Weal..
lirmarks of Mr. Chandler.
Mr. CH AXPLER (Rep ), of Michigan, thought that
cotton was abundantly able Wheat a tax, and wee in fa
vor of making the tax tiro cents inetoad of one cent.
Mr. EIMMONS (Rep.), of Rhode Island, opposed the
taxing of cotton as rninons to the manufacturers of this
country.
•Ranning Debate
Tbo amendment was further discussed by Messrs. Wil
ton, of Massachusetts, Clark, 'Davis, ressenden, An
thony, and fdoDouggl in favor of striking it out, and
bylleasts. Howe and Meg against it.
The amendment ass adopted— yeas 20, nays 16.
Modification of Tax on Auction Sales.
On motion of Mr. SIMMONS (Rep.) the tax on auc
tion Wee was modified no na to be ono per cent. on Rehm
of UK rchandisc, &c.,
and one tenth of one par cent. on
Wee of boccie, docks, &c. •
Licenses for Liquor.
Mr. WILSON (Rep.) of. Massechusette, moved to
strike out the berme to retail liquor dealers, on the
ground that the Government should not in any way li
cense liquor selling. It was sanctioning an immorality,
and we !Melt as well license gambling houste, or the
clave trade. lie did not want the. Government to put
money in the Treasury from such a coerce.
Remarks of Mr. Feoseaden.
Mr. FESSENDIN (Rep ), of Maine, said we might as
well object to tho tax on distilleries, or rectifyers, or
jugglers, or anyihing in which there is a regular trade
in the United States. The Government takes the fact
that the business will bo carried on, and cannot help it,
in the Stater, and therefore taxes it as a luxury or a vice.
The Goretument does not give a license in any place
where the State laws forbid it.
Remarks of Mr.
Mr. WILSON (Beg.), of Massachusetts, said be would
vote against thebill if such a provision was retained init.
Remarks of Mr. Ten Eyck.
Mr. TEN E YON (imp.), of Now Jame', Enid that the
additional Hamitic in his State would be an additional
pre teetion, and yet the Senator from Massachneette
would not give additional protection to the state of New
Jersey.
Remarks of Mr. Ifenderson.
Mr. ITENDERSON (II.), of Missouri, asked the Sena
tor from Mansacinmette if we should tax slaves, would he
consider that as the Government sanctioning slavery 1
Mr. WILSON eakt he would not vote to tax elates at
Blares, but if it wee propose! to tax them as Persons, be
would not object. Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Colorado Rill.
Mr. CRISFIELD (Union), of Maryland, from the
Committee on Public bands, reported and advocated a
bill granting to the State of California the tract of land
known as the Colorado Desert, for the purpose of Miro
ducing fresh water upon and covert g the NUM The bill
wee referred to the Committee of the Whole on the state
of the Union.
Survey of Lands.
Hr. POTTER (Rep.), of Wisconsin. from the Com
mittee on Lands, reported back the Sonata bill providing
that contracts for the surreys of public lands shall not be
binding stall approved by the Commissioner General of
the. Land Office; that the compensation of registers anti
receivers be each ENO per annum. with fees and commis,
stone, etc. ; the effect being to reduce the expenses of the
Surrey and side of /ands. Passed.
Message from the President.
The SPEAKER laid before the ii 01136 the following
meduage from the President:
To the Senate and House of Representatives : The in
surrection which is yet existing in the United States, and
alma et the oeerflu-ow of the Federal Constitution and
_tlie l lign,eiieactandeseinely prepared during the winter .
c
and 881, eed-e.......e4-...mmu mmeemeree,„.m...
the form of a treasonable Provlidenal Government, at
Montgomery. Alabamee'on the 18th day of February,
1861. Oa the 13th day of aprfl, 1861, the insurgents
committed the flagrant act of civil war by the bombard
meet and captor-a of Fort Sumpter, which ant off the
hope of immediate conciliation. Immediately after
wends all the reeds and avenues to this city-were
obstructed, and — Gm': capitol was put Ifite the con
dition of a digs. The mails in every direction were
Mined, and the lines of telegraph cut off by ..the
insurgents, and the military and naval forces which had,
been called out by the Government for the dtfence of
_Washington, were prevented from reaching the city by
organized and combined trensonable reeietence iu the
Slate of Maryland There was no adequate anti effec
tive organization for the public defence. Congress had
indefinitely adjourned There was no time to convene
them. It became necessary for me to choose whether,
using only the melding means, agencies, and procestee
which Congress had provided, I should let the Govern
ment fall at once into ruin ; or whether, availing myself
of the broader powers conferred by the Conatitutlon in
cases of Insurrection, I would make an effort to save it,
' with oil its blessings, for they present age and for pos.
I thereupon summoned my constitutional adviser*, the
Meads of all the Detertmetts, to meet on Sunday, the
20th day of April, 1861, at the office of the Navy Depart
ment, and then and there, with their unanimous con
entrance, I directed that an armed revenue cutter
should proceed to sea, to afford protection to the corn
morciel marine, and especially to the California treasure
ships, then on their way to this coast. I also directed
the commandant of the nary yard at Boston to purchase
or chatter, and,attn as quickly as possible, five steamships
for purposes of public defence.
I directed the tommetedent of the navy yard at Phila
delphia to purchase or charter and arm an egad number
for the some purpose. I directed the conunandant .at
Now York to purchase or charter and arm an equal num
ber. I directed Commander Gillia to purchase Cr Mir
tet and arm, and put to sett, two other vessels. Similar
directions were given to Commodore Dupont, with it view
to the opening of passages by water to and from the
capital. • •
I directed the severelofficers.to take the advice and ob
tain the aid and efficient services in the matter of hie
Excellency Edwin D. Morgan; the Governer of New
York, or, in his absence. George D. Morgan, William M.
'Feasts, R. Id. Diatchford, and Mosses 11. Grinnell, who
were, by my directions, especially empowered by the
Secretary of 'the Navy to art ter • his department
in -
that crisis In matters pertaining to the forwarding
of troop, and supplies for the public defence. On .
the same occasion, I directed that Governor Morgan, •
aed Alexander Cummings, of the city of New York,
should be authorized by the Secretary of 'War, Simon
Cameron, to make all mammary arrangements for
the teat sportation of troops and munitions of
war, in tire aie and assistance of the officers of the
army °Me United States until communication by mails
and telegraph should be completely re-established be
tween the cities of Washington and New York. No se
curity was required to be glien by them, anti either of
them was authorized to act, in case of inability to con
sult with tbo other. On the acme occasion, I authorized
and directed tbo Secretary of the Treasury to advance,
without requiring security, two millions of dollars of
public money to John A. Dix, George Ordyko, and Rich
ard M. Illetchford, of New York, to be used by them in
meeting such requiettloas as should be • directly conse
quent upon the military and naval measures necessary
for the defence and support of the Government, requiring
them only to act. without compensation, and to report
their transactions when drily called upon.
The mayoral Departments of the Government, at that
time, contained en large a number 01 disloyal persons
that it Would have been impossible to provide safely,
torough official ageuta only, for the performance of the
duties thus confided to citizens favorably known for thtir
ability, loyalty, and rrotrietism. The • inverse - orders
issued upon these occurrences were transmitted by pri
vate messengers, who pursued a, circuitous way to , the
teabotted cities, inland across the States of Pannsylvanta
and Ohio and the . Northern lakes. I believe, --- thsit' by
these and i other similar pleasures taken in that crisis,
:some of which were without any authority, of law, tbs .
Government was saved from overthrow, I. am not aware
that a dollar of the public teethe thus confided, without
authority 'of law, to unofficial persona, was either lot or
wasted, although env ehensions of such misdirecsions
occurred to MB as olections to these extiaordinary pro
ceedings, and wore necessarily overruled. I recall these
transactions now, because my attention has been directed'
to a resolution which was missed by the House of Repro
sentativeir, on the 30th of last month, which is in these
words:
44 Resolved, That Simon Cameron, late Secretary of
War, by investing Alexander Cummings with the con
trol of large sums of the public money, and authority to
purcbaeo nollitary,supplies without restrict:inn—without
requiring from him any guarantee for the faithful per
formance-of bin duties, when the services of. competent
public offleem were a:visitable, aid by. involving the Go
vernment iu a vast number of contracti'avith persons not
legitimately engaged in the business pertaining to the
subject matter of such contracts; especlally In the pur
&am of arms for future delivery, has adopted a policy
highly injurious to the public service, and deserves the
censure of the Bonze."
Congress will see that I should be wanting equally In
candor and in medico if I should leave the censure, ex
preenedin this resolution, to rest exclusively or chiefly
upon. Mr. Cameron. The same sentiment is unani
mously entertained by the Beads of the Departments
who participated in the proceedings which the Rouse . of
Representatives has censured. It is dueto tnr. Dameren
to say that, although be fully approved the proceedings,
they were not moved or anggested.hy himself, and that
hot only the President, but all- the other Beads of De;
partments were at least equally responsible with him for
whatever error, wrong, or fault. was committed. is the
prep tees - ABRAHAM JANCOLN.
Weshington. May 26,1862.. „
,• . ••
Printing the Message
Mr. M00111:1MAD (Rep.); or Penusylotiiik..moved
that 2,000 cosiest° printed.
The subject was ret erred to the Coutadites . on Print
ing •
WADBWORTII (II), of Kentucky; suggested
that there be printed extra apiece of the late Secretary's
slued), in which the latter said that he could buy °on
greet.. •
The Message Referred to the Coinmittee of
the Whole o■ the State of the Unicia.
Co motiou of bk. 110fillef (Dem.). of Indiana,
the message wee referred to the Committee of the Whole
on the state cf Abe Uuion.
The Hoagie n Committee of 'the -Whole.
'iho Bout° went' into committee on the bill to pur
chase a hutipitel in the District or Columbia, whin
• 7 Speech of Mr. Dawes.
Mr. DAWES (Rep.), of Zdessachusette, replied to
dlr. Voorhees' remarks on a former day, when the tatter
condemned in his' review what be charactutised as an
nnimund, • Woo, and ruinous aystom of humane, im
posed on the people within the l•st twelve months. after
reading 'Mr. Voorhees' array of figures as to bin assumed
public debt, atd its Increasing and alarming magnitude,
Mr. Dawes reruarlted that, from reliable data, the expen
dttnree of ail the departments of the QI>TOCOIIIOIIt, outside
of the and Navy, since the ildrnilli3trittiOn CAMS
into power, ate as follows: or the loterinr Department,
Indiana and peneions, to the 22d of filar, $8,081.800 ; eiv,l
list, foreign intercourse, and roisceneneona, $21,685,010 ;
making ,a total of nearly 825,367,000. The experidt
tures'of the War Department during that time amounted
to $374.472,000; Navy Department for the - tints
$42,055,E00, or a total of $418,227,000 The average
delly'expinditures of the .War Department have been
$1017,295, and adding the daily average of the navy,
making a daily average for bothdepa. talents of 5E1943,14T.
No repnlettiOns arc unpaid exctpting of a few thoumad.s
for illegality or disloyalty. The payments last Thursday
were only $ 364 . 017 , rot the day after, when the pay
masters came in, the expenditures were $2 000,000, but
oe haturday only $600,000. So the expenditures of the
Government up to the 22d day or May last in round
nombere were for military $.374,000,000, for the navy
$42,000,000, and ell other expenditures $26.000,000, a
total of 5441,500,ac0 from the etli of March, 1881,
till the 22d of May, when the public debt. including
$70,000,401 of old debt bequeathed by Buchanan,
amounted In the aggregate on Friday last to $481,796,-
146. Mr. Dawes ran a parallel between the expendi
toren under the former Adminintration and the present,
ebowiog, as to the civil list, that this Adminietration has
been far more honest and economical then that. In this
connection be referred to the traitorous efforts of Cobb
to destroy the credit of the Government, and conipil
merited Secretary Chase, showing that the latter has
managed affairs with consummate abinte. Not a dell +.r
has been lost to the Treasury by default or wasted in
profligacy. The result is that the credit of the Govern
ment is 'inanition both at home and abroad. In further
reply to Mr. Yoorbeee, he said for every dollar plundered
by Republicans be could show a corresponding plunder
ing by Democrats since this Atiminietration Mlle into
power, and concluded with remarks in n 4 degree com
p/inn-Mary to the loyalty of Mr. Voorhees and his party
friends.
WASETINGITOR, Hay 27
Mr. VA LLANDIGHAM (Dem.), of Ohio, replied, al
luding to Mr. Daweo' figures. and saying that the Secre
tary of the Treasury does not affix hie name to the state
ment. 'tame from Borne clerk. The ceneor , of this
Adniini.tration had authorized a teltnaphic despatch
stating that the expert...a of the Goveroniont do not ex
ceed, if they equal, a million of dollars perd ty.
Remarks of Mr. Dawes.
•
Mr. DAWES replied that the gentleman had no
authority to eay his statemeot did not bear the alßnatnre
of the Secretary of the Trcatuiry, nor vae it true that
the (Ida wee furniehed by a clerk of the Treasury De
partment
Mr. YALTA NDIG ETA It repined, that when the gen
tleman would not r ay the etatemout bore the atanettnre
of Secretary Chase, he (Vallaudigbani) had thonghtto
assume) that it did not hove that official sanction.
Be then replied to the financial part of Mr. Dawes'
speech, and said ho had the, statements of the Secreta
rule of the Treaeury and War, and the chairman or the
Committee of Ways and Moans to show expenditures
from two to five millions per day.
Mr. COLFAX (Bap.), of Indiana, m uie a tow remarks
to chow that bfr. Fallandierhain's speech NYIL4 not based
on a correct foundation. No attack on the Administra
tion, or attempt to enlarge the expondituree can shake
the credit of the people. who have determined to carry
on the war until the stars and stripes shall everywhere
wave.
Remarks of Mr. Vallandigham.
Mr. VALLANDIG HAM. reeled, that he voted to
pledge the oolitic faith to the extent of $150.000,000,
but had voted againet the tax-bill, bocenee Its details did
not silt him..
Remarks of Mr. Voorhees.
Ittr. V 0010311313 (Dem.), of Indiana, said that tho
speech to which the gentleman from Mostachtitetts
replied had but one object in view—namely: to give to
the people of the country the information to wbicb
they wei a entitled from the beet lights before him. Let
tome other man than one from Massachusetts lecture
lite. It bad not been fifty hours since Gov. Andrew, on
being called upon for troops, gave a halting evidence of
Patriotism by annexing conditions infamous to Min and
to Itamschnsetta, and to an American citizen. The
gentleman (Mr. Dawes) stood .here to pluck the mita
from his eye instead of the boom from the aye of Massa
chusetts.
Mr. DAWES said the Governor of Kentucky had re.
fnved to respond to the call for troops.
Mr. WICKLIFFE (U.), of Kentocky. Oh, let Ken
tucky alone.
Mr. VOORHEES. It was ft bad example for Massa
chusetts to follow. The Governor of Kentucky resorted
to no such infamous conditions. The gentlemso from
Massachusetts today said that the expenditures were not
a million a day, yet this same member, in a speech on the
Lath of January, remarked that it takes two millions
day to Burp art the army in the field. Nobody then cried
out deRFOD against the gentleptan. Had not the gentle
men further said, on that occasion, that sixty days would
being about a consummation, as by that time It would be
Impossible for the treasury to meet and continue to meet
this state of thinge. Where was such a statement as that
in hie (Mr. Voorhees) speech 1 He looked npnn the gen
tleman'a speech as an attempt to reconcile his Republican
friends and heal their wounds, and present them as the
puce, immaculate party of the country. Ho also refer
red, in support of his former statement, to the remarks of
Mr. Stevens, the chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Moine, who said the expenditures were three mil-
Hone a day.
Speech of Mr. Vallandixham.
Remarks of Mr. Vallandigham
Remarks of Mr. Colfax.
Remarks of Mr. Dawes
Speech of Mr. Voorhees.
Remarks of Mr. Stevens
Mr. STE.VictiS (pep.), of Pennsylvania, explained
that at that time a liet4 of one hundred and fifty •easels
was moving.
Speech of Mr. Voorhees
Mr. VOORHEES could not see how these vessels
could cost less now than at that time. As to Mr.
Data ea' remark about Dewocrato having stolen as much
wader this Administration as the Bcpubiicans. come
-from whatever party the frauds and psculations might,
be denounced the plunderers who prey ou the hard
earnings of the people John B. Floyd was indicted
here, could the same be said of Simon Cameron 1 A
large number of the Republican Representatives here
voted snidest the resolution to censure Cameron, and
but for the help of the Democrats it would cot have
pasted, "and _now the President walks in hors and
assumes Came,on ea his own piece of parsonal furniture.
The President takes upon himself all Cameron'S in my
sins. A man of one virtue and a thousand crimes. The
President Lege him to his breast. The gentleman from
Massachusetts no more denounced the President, and
was not freeman simnel' to say his soul was his own. In
conch:Wien, he censured the sidminiatration for oxtrava.
gaups. Me delendrd his position, and wanted the figura],
es produced the other day. and now to sand. The man
who charged Lim with disloyalty, or impeached his mo-
Hoes, was false in his teeth. in his throat, and in hie
heart.
Speech of Mr. Wadsworth.
IKr. WADSWORTI{ (II.), of Kentucky. referred to
the conduct of Kentucky dark g the present war: awing
that, in forty days, she sent more troops Into the field
than If aysaohusetts, although the latter has, twelve Re-
Prcsiutatives here to the former's ten. If the govern
ment of illaasachntetts is tired of the contest, and will
net freely contribute of her troops without conditions,
give Kentucky the opportunity, and, though Leto the
hour, they will affix no conditions. We have enliated
for the war, and intend to fight it ont•, and 'we never In
tend to pi mind our arum tilt the rebellion ia crueller( to
'the earth and all the Staten arc again united under the
Consttntion.
. .
- Speech
.of Mr. Dawes.
Mr. D LIVES replied to Mr. Voorhees, saying, among
other tbtnge, that he gave him the average expuditures,
but the gentleman did not see it. The President, in his
metasge, received to• day, took geed care not to take
npnn his shoulders the contract, shown to be corrupt end
fraudulent, end for which Mr: Cameron was censured by
the BOUte. • If the President entrii-ted Alexander Cum
mings with the expenditure of 82,000.000, ant sa advised.
he did right to disclaim the responsibility ,• but whou the
Preeident singled out this one not, ho left the others un
der the ceudemostery resointion of the House.
In response to Mr. Wadsworth. he said that when the
capital was menaced the freemen of lif.assachuseits wore
first and foremost with their bleed on the way hither. If
hiamachnsette had pawed when Keotneky paused, this
city would have born in the powession of the Goths and
Vandals. He ahowed the expedition with which the
Governor of Massachuretts issued hie proclamation, and
the haste with which the troops respondel to the
The letter in reply to Fceretary Stanton could not be
construed into an implication of conditions. Massachu
setts will not tire of this war. She has no blood, no trea
sure, that she will not freely offer on the altar of the
whole tomb,. Sbe will give her last man, and the last
drop of her blood before she will tire of the war of consti
tutional liberty and freedom.
The committee then rose.
Freedom to the Slaves et Rebels
Mr. POUTER (Rep ), of InMena, moved the recon
sideration of the vote by which the House, yesterday, re
jected the hilt to confiscate the slaves of rebels. remarking
that he elsberi to offer an amendment applying to the
same deems, e lone real and personal property is coufis •
crated by the confiscation bill, the principle of the libera
tion of their slaves.
Fading the motion, the Hones adjourned.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK
The Negro Brigade Idea Non Plussed—Realth
of Dr. Chapin—Effect of Departing Soldiers
upon the Theatres—Regiments under Orders .
to Move—Great Enthusiasm :along the Mi
litiamen—A Rebel Privateer in the China
Seas—Alterations of the Cooper Institute
The New Proprietor of the Knickerbocker—
. The Plating of the Steam Frigate Roanoke.
[Correspondence of The Press.]
Nile YORK, May 27, 1883.
Application was made to Mr. Superintendent Ken
nedy, last evening, by amen named Creighton, to grant
pernission to establish recruiting places for a "negro
brigade," said Creighton to be the acting brigadier
general. The superintendent refreshed Ilr. Creightoa'a
memory with some of his acts of insubordinatioa while
acting as lieutenant colonel of the Wilson Zottaves, at
Santa Rosa Islttnl, and his unwillinguess to remain in a
position where he could have been of service to the Go-
vernment.
ltlr. Kennedy did not think that be would respect the
requirements of the Union canes any better at the head
of a negro brigade than he had iu his.position at the bead
of a regiment of patriotic White men. Mr. K. not only
gave Mr. C. no encouragement, but positively objected
to Lis preeiming to take the Mad of a brigade of men
whom be believed he would as soon betray into the bands
of the enemy Rabe would take his dinner.
- ' The Bev. Dr Chapin's health continues to be auntie
factory. < lie has been conflt.ed to hie room for tour "or
live days.-
Such W(1! •the ovation to the 7th Regiment, on the oe
cation of its oeparture last night, that the places of
amusement on Broadway were very poorly attended, the
excitement on the street proving sufficiently entertain
inp to keep the people Bout the interior of the theatres.
Three regiments, the Bth, 22d, and 71st, are to leave
the city tbis evening. The Bth is commanded by Col.
Varian ; the 22d by Col. Monroe; Sad the 71st by Cot.
Martin. Vi lonisers to 811 up the ranks have been so nit
merous that hundreds have tiid to be declined. Many
young num are goin to grief because they cannot have
a bend in. The llt g h. 37th. and other tworeginzents will
leave to-morrow. •
A letter received by Ellwood Waiter Esq., secretary of
the Board of Underwriters, dated Batavia, March • 31st,
says: "There is a report here that a Confederate priva
teer, a steamer mounting eight rifled guns, has. bean
spoken In the China seas. The Information, we are in
fot med. was bre. nght to Dim:dna by 11 M. steamer 'Vul
can, which obtait ed it from H. M. steamer Pioneer,
which latter vessel had spoken the privateer"
The great hall of the Cooper Institute, where 'must of
the public meetings aro now held, is to be altered so as to
.be more advantageone to speakers and hearers. Tllll
*afros m is to be put on one side of the room, in the cen
tre, the teats to form the section of a circle in trout of it.
Title is a change which will enhance the value of the hall
very much for all ntiricese.
. The Knickerbocker Magazine has a new proprietor
in Mr. Morris Phillips, a gentleman of affable manners,
good business habits, and considerable practical experi
ence, and who will bring to Ida now sphere of activity
the adventasea resulting from twelve years' of service
antler General Morris and N. P. Willis, in_the •Hoste .
Journal establishment. The magazine will remain un
*der the editorial supervision of Charles G. Leland.
. Mew vigor has been infused into the operations at the
Brooklyn Navy lard, sad the preparation of light
di aught veesels is . rapidly progreraiag. The plating of
the Yttain frigate Roanoke, which was commenced some
eight dui' since, is still going on. The iron hi four
inches thick below water-mark, but it to supposed that
belt' sn inch Mere will be added on the aides- As she ap
pears at present. no one would recognize the -vessel ail
the fine steam frigate that almost monopolized • the 1111
:-Cliorage off the navy y era for two years. Her entire
rigging and butwm he have bean cut away, and sbt Pre
sents the appearance of a huge river barge. She will be
finished in a few weeks. .
Money is rather more active at 4a5 cent., on cell,
chiefly 4% eO5 dr cent.
There was another advance in gold to.day, making
nearly % IF cett since Saturday. Sales were made at
304 X cfslo4)(. One of the causes of this madden advance,
probably, is the increased expenditure of the Govern
ment, growing out of the recent %accede of the rebels, to
gether with the slow resumption of trade from the tiOnth
orn ports. ,
The foreign exchaege market is very firm. -First-class
bills on London are quoted at 11-1%6115, with moderate
esles.
Tbe following were the sales of Stocks at the Second
Board to-day: .
_
65000 U S 64 'Bl reg.lo33i
1e00.13 S cp...103X
1600 13 S 6x'6B reg..lolX
1500 Tr 7 3.10 p n 5.104)
• MOO Tenn Stag '9o 58
30t4 Missouri-St 6e.. 51X
18600 Amer Geld 104
75 Pacific M 8'60..112
60 d0....1,10 112
.80 do. 1111'
300 N Y (lent R.... 87
.100
50 d0..:...1:60 87 •
200 Erie Ballyry.b3o 36 .
100 (la.: tOO 86%
400 do '
300 do. ... .. 88%
300 do 35x
100 . Irie K Prefd... 83;,f
NO do '
60 Hudson B 8.b30 44' •
200 do.— ..130.44x
; • 200 Mich Oen '11.140 Off
Mrs lanoy Ilemble, on Ma evening, at Conoort Ralf,
will read the play of tl As Yrn Like It," for the benefit
of that excellent charity. the Union Temporary Home.
Mr. Roberta is playing a good engagement at Mrednut
dyed 4heatre.
Tbo complimentary benefit for Mrs. john Drew and
her three orphaned children takes Place at the Areh - eireet
Theatre on Friday evening.
Mr. Henry Miller, at hls Witter Garden, (120 and 12Z
Vine street,) has increased its attractions by engaging
Mr. Ahrend, the violoncello player, and also the well
known vocall!te Mi. Jean Louie and Mr. and Mrs. Gt.
berati. This place of anlusomont Is very respectably
condncted.
The Aseocieed Attlets will perform Donizetti's Lucia
di Lantmertneor," and the last act of "La Favorita,w
at the Academy of 'filmic, on Batunisy evening. Miss
Kellogg will appear as Lucia, with Brignoli, Bmini, and
F. Amodio, and Madame de 5t19680, from the Opera
3301H0 of Parte, will appear cc Leonora, in "Le Faro
rite," supported by Brignoti, Sedai, &c. Between the
actr, Mr. Gottschalk will play eoverel of his own compo
sitions on the piano -forte.
Ides. HIC.UnLE —Let not our readers forget Mrs. Item
tile's reading of "As You Like It" this evening, at
Goncett Hall. This play has always been a favorite with
Shekepeere scholars; in hone. perhaps, is his profound
wit dom couched in a more genial, lightseme, loving form.
It ie, moreover, historically interesting to us in that we
know with tolerable accuracy that Sbakspeare himself
eeted in the part of Adam. As no tickets will be sold
after the clock strikes eight, punctuality is requested.
CAPTAIN WILLIAMS' WHALING VOTAGH, AT Assess-
SIX BUILDINGS.—EverAxmIy must see it—everybody is
hound to see it. The boat scenes are glorious, the lec
tern thriliMg, the paintings superb. Old Salts are de
lighted with It, landsmen are enraptured with it—the best
exhibition over produced. Wherever it has been thoa
eands have flocked to Reit. It is a favorite everywhere.
Go and see it this evening; you will not regret it. Eve
ri where it draws a crowd, and everywhere it delights the
crowd. Go and see it—take your wife to see it—take
your children to see it. Got the ship is freighted with
inter net for old and young. /
Special Meeting of Select Council.
TIME HOME GUARD ORGANIZATION.
THE CITY REFUSES TO EQUIP THEM
Yesterday morning, at 11 o'cicck, a special meeting of
Select Council wan held, in accordance with the following
call:
707 WALNUT Sr., PIIILADA., May 26,1803:.
Emanue/ Rey, gig , Clerk of Select Council :
DEAR SIR : Be good enough to call a Bl),Clini meeting
of Select Council for to-morrow, (Tuesday,) at 11 o'clock
in the motning, for the purpose or conaideri uch bud
noes as may be laid before them by request of the Cotn.
mink° on the Defence and Protection of the City,
and especially businees arising under the cat! of the
•
Government of the United Stntet. end of the Stet°, for
the services of oddiUonal troops from the city of Phils
dtlphin.
Very truly, &c., TII DO. CU yttrt,
President of Select Oeuncil.
Mr. WETLIERILL, after the reading of the call. stated
that the Commlut a on Defence and Protection thought
it proper to call this tnestiug, in order that their acts
might be endorsed by Councils. At the meeting of the
committee, yesterday, it was agreed that the Home
Guards should be called out for United States service.
They thought proper to present a battery to the Govern
ment. The artillery coumenies were anxious to enlist in
the Govmnnient service. 7 o equip them and put them
in readiness required an outlay, which should, of course,
be paid. A prejudice has long existed in the public mind
against the Home Guard, and the actions of the comvit-
. .
tee have beep greatly crippled on account of this preju
dice. The City - Controller hes pm taken*
w of this preju
dice, for be refuies to countersign the arrante. The
committee have always contended that while this
rebellion existed it was important to keep up the Heine
Crowd organization. They have fouebt against tats
prijudico. The Homo Guard, in lees than thirty-six
bourn, will be ready to send off not lees than three thou.
send men. Be then offered the following resolution :
Resolved, By the Select and Com non Councils of the
city of Philadelphia, that the Controller of the city be,
and he is hereby, reeneeted and directed to countersign
all were ants which may be drawn by the Mayor of the
city, in pursuance of reso'ntions of the Committee of
Defence and Protection, meekest the appropriation here
tofore mede, to be expended by the Mayor tinder the di
rection of Raid Committee of Detente awl Protection of
the City
Mr. Fox said bcforo rottog be was desirous of knowing
how far this resolution was intended to cover. lie no
derstood-it wae intended to equip fully the Home Guard.
lle was willing to do all that loyalty and good citizenship
reqnired, but -le wished to proceed cautiously In this
abetter.
• Mr. WHIIIIITILL replied that it would be impossible to
give the details for the nlalpinent of the Home Guard.
'The United States Government e ill ilisttruo the debt and
fully aniform the orgoolzation. The Home Guard labor
under peculiar difficulties, Other military oreanizations
do not defend for their equipmout upon the city. They
are in come• measure equipped by large contributions of
the citizens of Philadelphia. The Home Cm wil t when
they appeal for uniforms, are told that they should souls ,
to the city, for thoy are under the special prohicdon ol the
city. If the Committee on Saf•ty and Defence of the
City incur the debt, they should know in advance that
the warrants will be countersigned. The committee have
certain unforeseen expenses to meet, and they shoced feel
assured that Councils sill endorse their• action, and the
Controller will sign their warrants.
Mr. Fox a ithril to know whether the Mayor thought
it advisable to call this mewing.
Mr. WETIIEII.II,I said the Mayor did not give big con
sent in so many words, but he approved of the resolution
which has been read.
➢lr. CCTI.E.it said he had had a conversation with the
_ . . . .
Mayor, , aho knew the meting was to be called, and he
nothing against it.
FOX' said, in regard to the cenversation with the
Mayor, stated by Mr. Cutler, that, or course, the
Mayor, bath's-hie own Vepultalent of d trios to attend to,
would not volunteer to say anything against the call of
tide meeting. '
Dlr. DAVIS then remarked that the Mayor had sp.
proved of the calling of the meeting.
far. Fox responded that there evidently met be some
error about thin, as he distinctly understood that the
Mayor, upon Doing conferred with, did any that there
wee no neex-eeity for calling this special meeting, in
which the epealler fully concurred. 114 ho thought the
effect of It would bermhealthful, end adding nnarct-s3ary
oxeltetnent to that already existiug to the community.
Thet tbie was, of all others, a period in which at least t)ia
authorities of Pliilathipbla should be calm, and, although
prompt to act if necessary, they should be prudent, and
exercise tbo most deliberate discretion. With respect to
the action of the Committee on Defence, It had always
Fad the most enlarged confidence and co-operation of the
Councils, at.d he did not tor an to nttrr a word or rodeo-
ton upon the members of the comm!ttee—the com-
position of Which was his mrsonal frieode—but still,
he was bound to say that he entirely differed
with them as to the propriety of the re l flOi before
the
meeting. The resolution, if passed, would declare the
approval of Councils to all the seta and dolons of this
eummittee; from its first oraaniestion until now. without
Councils having the slightest knowledge thereof, and he
never could vote tor a reeolution which committed him to
the endorsement of all their acts, no matter how extrava
gant, for all time to corns. ice had heard It said that in
this full tenlynnent of the Hnmo Guard It was contem
plated to purchase over three lthadred bones, to perfect
the battery organization, camp centring°, clothing, and.
rations. involving an outlay without limit. en fares dean
'cite knew. Now, if he thought that the 11. 6. Govern
ment had not the means to furnish these things., or could
not conveniently furnish them in time, in view of the
public neceseitioy, he won't', with all his heat t, vote to
le:n(6h them; hot he believed entirely to the contrary,
and there wee, therefore, na necessity, as far an be could
yet ate, for such an outlay. Again, these ci•lzen sol
diers, bath of the Borne Guard and Deserve Brigade,
were actuated by one common, patriotic impulse—to dg
fend the Unica and the Constitution—and, therefore,
ebteld mt et with our hearty encouragement, eo that in
the dist:flotation of the city tondo, if nece,mtry to fit out
a lardy amen from Philadelphia, be would extend equal
aid to all, making no distinctions. lie learned from the
- chairman that the ControPer bad refneed to sign certain
watranta drawn by prier of this committee. Cu! hence
the necessity for this reeolntion. Give us, in detail, the
apecific warrants which the .Controller has refused to
man, and if they appear proper, he would be among
the first to vote for instructions is the Controller to sign
them, hut be could not without such Information sweep
through a measure preventing this officer from the exer
cise of his lawful prerogative. For thews reasons 113
paused. Be did not with to be carried away by the
retrietism and impetuosity of the hour. The community
in sufficiently excited without any stimulant upon our
part. As to the matter of zeimburstng the city for a large
outlay, be desired rune authoritative officer's pledge that
it should be reimbursed, and then, whether necarsary or
no, he might be induced to sanction it. There had been
heretofore large execnees incurred among others in the
garrisoning of Forte Mifflin and Delaware by soldiers
under (weir of the city, but he had yet to atio the first
dotter of this Tutored to the treasury, and, unless under
a great emergency, he felt that Councils should not invest
any more to this manner without a certainty of repay
meet. Be thought that we should be prudent, and take
time to deliberate before acting in this hasty manner,
Mr. INGHAM perfectly agreed with the previous speaker,
that we should be cantious. The committee had ex
ercised care, and with Unto vtaw, sated for the pasene of
it a revolution. Be bed no d.ubt bet that the outlay by
the'city would be reimbursed, by the General Govern
moat
Mr. DAVIS replied to Mr. Fax at some length. He
cor.eidered that the committee had only done what they
°pondered right and proper. He'alluded to the excite
relent of teat year, when communication was cat off with
Washington. A;thst time the president of the Philadel
phia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Bailmed bad taken the
reeponsibility, had fund-bed the anthers with ration,,
and provided means for forwarding them to Washington.
If that was done then, the city should certainly do some
thing to send her men out properly equipped now. •
Dr Ilniont said ho had attended the meeting out of re
!pent to those who had called it; but be thought it en
tirety unnecessary. He would equally protect the Gray
Iteserree with the Home Guard.
At the request of Mr. CASSIY. the resolution wee again
reed..
of the resolution until the regular meeting of Gowen&
He thonglet the matter important, and should be consi
dered hy a full chamber.
Mr: Gixsooo sold he bad littened to ties remarks of
the various members, and he had come to the conclusion
that there. w.re two parties present—one for and one
againet the Govtrnmeut. He was ashamed to acknow
ledge the fact 'What is money when loyalty is required 7
Shell polithe sties. everything that ie patriotic 7 Who
now calls on us to shoulder the musket'! It l 4 the Go
vernment of the Unikd Suites. Yet WO are to be crippled
by men who say " there to no danger." Our couutry
bas called on us, and we ought to obey. Would we let
our troops go entirely +=provided for 1 IT it is necessary
for them to go at nil, set d them like warriors; if not,
disband the while organization.
Sir. Fox again wee: He said this committee have all
the powers thruncile con give them; but the Controller
and them are at issue.. These expressimm of patriotism
are well, and he was glad to see It; but will these coun
cils In the dark endorse all the committee have done or
.mey do hereafter I Ho was surprised at the remarks of
the geotlemati from the 14th (Sir. Ginned+) ), relative to
the loyalty of the numbers. tie thought we had all come
together with-,the saute patriotic teenage, and he was
poh. ed bear remarks of this kind coming front any
member :+but be might say that no other member than
tie patient= in question would dare to make any such
remark with treenail)+, and from him only it would fell
without notice...
hl7. GINSODO replied to Mr. FOX, who, he said, had
mhurderstooel him. He did not moan to impeach the
loyalty of any man in 'the chamber. 110 meant to say
that there were two parties, oue for and ono against the
resolution.
. Dr. UHLER only desired that the Homo Guard and the
Reserve Grays, should be put upon the same footing.
The I'IIII3IIIE3T (Mr. Cuyler) explained that the Gray
Reserves had been called out with the First Division,
and they had 'asked no aid from the city. The Home
Guard, wail peculiarly a Phitadelphie organization, anti
wider 'lts special care..
Dr. Titian asked that the matter be postponed, and
mode the special question fur Thursday.
Mr. LTAD was in favor of the postponement. Nothing
could be done, under any circumstances, until Thursday.
Mr. WwritIRILL was opposed to the postponement.
The Reserves are under the fostering care of the State.
The Home Guard are our own children;. let its net stran
gle them, nor put a damper on their ardor. He had con
fidence in the Picwident and the Governor, the military
authority which we look to.
Cells ware made for the previous questieu—to wit :
the postponement of the question, and the making of it
the special order for Tharadey next.
Upon taking the queetion, it was decided in the allircia
hee by a vote of 7 to 6.
Mr../. P. WIITRERILI. then presented his resignation
ea a member of the Committee on the Defence and Pro
tection of the City.
The coesleeratien of tho resignation 14884 on nantiont
postponed until the ' regular meeting of the , chamber.
Adjourned. „
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THE CITY.
Ms. DOUGHERTY said he would move the postponement
Arrnn..Tzn 'SUICIDE —Between II
and 12 o'clock on Monday night, an old Italy, aged
about t& years, attempted to drown hermit by jumping
overboard at &linen-street wharf: She. seen by
e: me custom-hone °dicers to jump overboard, and was,
after7eonie. difficulty; reacuod by them. She wel con
veyed to her residence in the neighborhood.