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ENGRAVINGS.—PhiIIips' House, the headquar.
tore of Gen. Burnside during the battle of Frede
ricksburg, now the headquarters of Gen. Sumner;.
Winter Quarters of the Army of the Potomac.
AN ORIGINAL. STORY—GIoom and Glare.
CHOICE POETRY—A Hymn for the Dead ;
When the Great Rebellion's Over; A Dirge for
1862; The Young Widow; The Skater.
FIVE LETTERS FROM "OCCASIONAL."
[The War Preas publishes every week all the let
ters of " Occasional" that appear in the Daily Press.]
EDITORIALS—The Loss of the Monitor; Mr.
Bright on the War; Theatricals in Richmond; Some
European Matters ; A Panic in Sugar ; A "Relia
ble Statement;' Message of the Governor; Mes
sage of Governor Seymour; The National Alma
nac; A Postal Money-Order System; Consular
Pupils; Rebel Bluster; Major Rosengarten.
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE—The Murfrees
boro Fight.
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CHINA AND. JAPAN.
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
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CONGRESS
Sr.zivra.—k communication from the Secretary
of the Interior, relating to the Indians, was lahLbe
fore the Senate and referred. Mr. Hicks, of Mary
land, appeared and took the oath of office. Mr.
Trumbull reported back the House bill to grant aid
to the State of Missouri in emancipating her slaves.
The bill to consolidate the regiments now in the
field was also reported back. A resolution, instruct
ing the Committee on the Conduct of the War to
inquire as to the transportation of disloyalpersons,
either within or without our lines, was adopted.
After an executive session the Senate adjourned.
Hover:.—Mr. Stevens reported a joint resolution
to provide for the immediate payment of the army
and navy. Passed. A resolution ordering Simon
Stevens to be brought, before the bar of the House
to answer for contempt of its authority. The House
then proceeded to the consideration of Mr. Wright's
resolution on the rebellion, and finally adjourned.
THE LEGISLATUR:E
SYNATE.—The annual report of the State Li
brarian was presented. Bills were introduced re
lating to foreign attachments, the Macaulay Moun
tain Railroad Company, the Wyoming Canal Com
pany. The bill authorizing the commissioners of
Greene county to levy a special tax to pay bounties
to volunteers was committed to the Judiciary Com
mittee. The bill authorizing the Woodland Ceme
tery to sell certain real estate was passed.
HOUSE.—The reports of the commissioners to re
vise the revenue laws, and of the State librarian ,
were presented. An net was introduced to prevent
the emigration of negroes into Pennsylvania ; also,
one in reference to the sale of bank stock, and an
other relating to tavern licenses acts relative to
concert saloons, the granting of annuities by the
stockholders of the-Pennsylvania Company, and
empowering the Tenth and Eleventh Streets Rail
way Company to extend their road and sell their
depot. After . the announcement of the standing
committees the Rouse adjourned.
The Debate in the House. ,
Mr. Representative VALLANDTGIIA3I is the
*most candid as well as, one of the ablest
enemies of the Administration. He has
been consistent from the Beginning, and has
never made a speech that lies not awakened
applause in the South: In the very corn
mencement.of the war lie arrayed himself
against his country, and has continued to
denounce his • country, and every measure
that looked to its salvation, with bitterness
'and hatred. His effort in the House yester
day was one of his boldest assaults upon the
Government. It was probably inspired by
the successes, of the Democracy in many
parts of the country, and the magnanimity
of a Government which can afford in its
strength tO"'aVerlook these unkind and
unpatriotic declarations: As we understand
the position of Mr. VALLANutorrax, he
sees nothing in the war but shame and dan
ger. He looks upon the Southern people as
grossly wronged and oppressed—upon the
North as an •aggressive and avaricious des
potism, inspired by the fury of fanaticism,
and endeavoring to introduce into our cen
tury the manners and customs of New Eng
land's early colonial days. He thinks the
object of all statesmanship peace—the end
of all negotiation peace—and the duty of
citizen and public man the attainment of
peace by recognizing the Southern Confede
racy. Therefore, he hopes for the triumph
of the anti-Administration Party, and longs
for mediation, defeat, embarrassment, humi
liation, internal revolution—anything that
will directly or indirectly compel us to recog
nize the Confederacy. We can hardly realize
the audacity ; the want of. sympathy ; the
scornful disregard of the commonest senti
ments of national pride ; the sardonic en
mity with which he assails this Govern
ment. His whole tone, in the House yester
day, was extremely so ; and without any
intention of making au invidious or unkind
allusion to the Representative, we cannot
but feel that his language would have been
more becoming in a Congress of rebels than
in a,Congress of patriots.
Itiswith pride that we read the masterly re 7
ply of the Hon. HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, a
member of Congress from the State of
Pennsylvania. Of all the loyal men in the
House, he was the proper champion to meet
the able and miscrupulous member from Ohio.
Mr. WRIGHT' is a veteran Democrat, and
has been earnestly devoted to the traditions
of the party. No one has done more to
preserve • the integrity of the organization,
and no one has a greater hold upon the con
fidence of its loyal members. Twenty
years ago he presided over a Democratic
National Convention, and during those
years he has done nothing to: destroy the
confidence so gracefully bestowed. When
the war was made upon DOUGLAS for the
purpose of fiestroying the Democratic party,
he sustained DOUGLAS with energy and en
thusiasm ; and When the men who ruined
that great statesman attempted to ruin the
Union, he became an earnest and self-de
nying supporter of the Administration
in its efforts to . defend the Union. The
people of his district, without distinction
of party, sent Min to Congress. During
his membership, he has taken manyiposi
tions that we do not exactly approve ; he
has been lenient when we desired severity;
he has been conservative when we asked
boldness; but he has always been true to
the Union ; he has never, by .a word or
deed, done anything to embarrass the war,
or the war-making power. With a record
like this, and still professing his devo
tion to the Democratic organization, Mr.
WRIGHT was the proper man to reply
to Mr. VALLANDIGHAM, and his speech,
as we have it before us this morning,
is a glorious effort. In that speech he re
presents the true Democratic sentiment of
the country, and while we hardly agree that
his reference to Mr. SEY3IOUR is happy or
appropriate, we accept it in its generous and
patriotic meaning, and commend it to the
consideration of all true Democrats.
Now is the time for the true Democracy
of the*country to make a braVe and honora
ble record. Now is the time for them to
make an issue between the . false and the
true—the loyal and the disloyal—the friend
and the foeman—patriotism and treachery.
The enemies' of the country were never
bolder than at this time ; they never ex
hibited plainer or more outspoken evidences
of their desire to see the Republic over
thrown. In New -Jersey- we see a repre
sentative of the people '_proposing an ar
mistice and a cessation of hostilities. In
No York we see Mr. JAMES BROOKS and
his allies Making the same demand; ' l and
we bear Mr. Cox, of Ohio, delivering ana
themas against loyal' New England to a
shrieking crowd of local Democrats. I In
Pennsylvania Mr. PEED writes pamphlets,
mid Mr.. Huo ITES makes speeches, with the
same idCa and everywhere; wherever we
find a Democratic organization,
.we-hear, the
same doctrines sustained. , 4.ll:these . i.cleaiof
armistice and separatioir arelreaSonable As
Mr. Witron;r.so - eloquently;deeliires; , 7e;Ciin
of iy ninke Pence by the victories of ate
sword. Our destiny is in our own hands,
and, for the present, that destiny must be
determined by battle. We see no honorable
way to avoid this alternative. We must
Ailed it, and we must do it like men. He is
no friend to his country who refuses, to give
' the Administration aid in this mighty effort;
andle is no true Deinnerat who hesitates
to endorse the• glorious sentiments of Mr.
WRIGHT:
More British Neutrality.
• The English papers strongly deny that
the British Government had given.orders to
their naval officers to warn the pirate Ala
bama against assailing vessels carrying Bri
tish property.' It is contended, in Vindiaa
tion of this do-nothing policy, that the
zens of ameutral power.trade under the flag
of a belligerent entirely at their own proper
risk. Indeed, Lord MIN RUSSELL as good ,
as enunciated this dictum, when he lately
told the Liverpool merchants who petitioned
him to do something to prevent the Alaba
ma's piratical seizure and destruction of their
goods when found in . United States mer
chantmen, that the best thing they could do
would be to use not American but British
vessels to convey their property from place to
place. Still more anomalous is , the inten
tion, now openly avowed, not to interfere
with the sale of vessels; at Liverpool and
other British ports, to be eventually used as
privateers , or pirates under the Confederate
flag. It is known that there has been such
purchase_ of vessels by: the Confederates, for
the purpose of such piracy. • • When it is re
membered that, after much delay, the Bri:
tish Government, acting on the advice of its
Law Officers, *.despatched orders to LiVer
pool to prevent the departure of ""'Number
290" (now the -Alabama) from:that port—
:which-order did not arrive until the day af
ter "290" had steamed out into the Irish
Sea—one cannot but feel surprise at the de-.
termination not to issue a similar prohibition
in regard to the vessels which have liaised
into Confederate PosSession. But we never
expected that the announced neutrality of
England would be bona fide and actual:
Never too Late:
It is reported that the Pope, at the in
stance of the Emperor NAPOtEON, *ill imme
diately introduce several important reforms
into'the Government of Rome and the limit
ed territory - still under his sway. 'The Im
perial speech, usually delivered by NAr;o-
LEON, to the foreign diplomatists who. pay
him their respects at the beginning of the
year, was expected to contain some an
nouncement of this much-needed change in
the Papal administration of affairs. It is
utterly impossible; however, that the sub
jects,of the Papady, or any other persons,
can believe in any Reform at Rome which
does not commence with the ejection of
Cardinal ANTONELLI from office. This man,
Who is very able as well as very absolute, is
evidently the evil genius of Pius IX., a
kind-hearted and tolerant gentleman, whose
good intentions; it is to be feared, have
alWays been nullified by the persons in
Whom lie places ' confidence. If the Pope
were to relieve high ecclesiastics from any
share in the management of secular affairs,
his Executive would be immensely improved.
Ms Ministry consists of seven individuals,
six of whom are Cardinals. The only lay
man in the Ministry is Baron CONSTANTINI
BALDTXT; who attends to commerce, the
fine arts, and public, works. Even. the
Minister. of War is a Cardinal—actually, as
well as professionally, belonging to. the
" Church militant upon earth:" • '
LETTER FROM 66 OCCASIONAL:,
WASIiENGTON, January'l4,•lB63
It did not need Mr. Vallandigham's speech
in the House, this afternoon, to indicate that
it is 'the - settled purpose of the controlling
men in the Ijemocratic party. to compel a
Cessation of hostilities, which is, in fact, the
surest preparation for the recognition of the
rebellion, and for the separation, disloCa
tion, and sub-division of the Union.. .
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This programine; however, rejected by
the rank and file of the Dernocracy, had
been previously plainly marked out by
other and, probably, more authoritative
organs of the great Opposition party. Not
many days will elapse before the idea of
the dissolution of the Republic is formally
presented to the people of the loyal States,
under " Democratic " appeals for peace
and for an armistice. It is right, there
fore, that the people should, accustom
themselves to look this appalling question
directly - in the face. Are they ready for a
peace
.the rebels, according to the
programme of William B. Reed, Fernando
Wood, and C. C. Vallandigham? . Are 'they
so sick of fighting for their liberties that
they are willing to rush into anarchy ?
Have they shut out from their senses the fact
that the rebels, flushed with triuniph, refuse
to offer. - terms themselves, and expect the
free States to beg for peace on-bended knees,
end also that no terms will be accepted by
the rebelS which do not recognize the rebel
lion itself, and prepare the way for the di
tision the free States? Present peace on
either of the conditions named will only
be certain and perpetual war. I drop
a repetition of the : arguments as to
boundaries in the event of separation. I
drop the question whether we are to sur
render the capital of the United States, to
give up Delaware and Maryland, to yield
Kentucky, MisSouri, Tennessee, and West
ern Virginia, and to allow slavery to
dominate over the free navigation of
the Mississippi river. I prefer to come
to that which concerns us of Penn
sylvania in all our most sacred and
immediatninterests. We can best un
derstand all ideas that look to a dishono
rable peace and a bloody separation, by
understanding our own relation to these
ideas. When dissolution or separation be
comes probable, the repudiation of all
obligations, national and individual,
.be
comes certain. Public and private cre
dit is lost, because confidence between
man anti man is sacrificed. In the strife
between those who desire to adhere to . the
old Government, and those who, according
to William B. Reed, long to hurry us into
the slave Confederacy, anarchy will be the
dark and bloodiest comment upon our -M
-fatuation. It will be difficult to la whether.
the man who labors most, or he who owns
most property, will be the severest sufferer.
Of course our voters are to be asked to de
cide at the ballot-box whether they prefer
Union or separatiOn. This will be the issue,
and I do not doubt the result. Ido not
doubt the heretofore misled, cheated, and
prejudiced Democratic masses of Penn
sylyania. They will turn upon their
leaders and rend them, when they find
that their programme is a Dishonorable
Peace, a Cowardly Armistice, and a
succeeding Fatal Separation. Patriotism
is not extinct in the American heart ;
for, even as I close this letter, I hear
that the extraordinary and defiant speech of
Vallandigham called out the veteran 'Hen
drick B. Wright, of PennsYlvania, who, in
dignant at his misconstructions of the late
elections, refused to believe that, because the
people voted under certain misapprehension,
against the Administration, therefore they
voted against the Government and the war.
Col. Wright's powerful speech was a fitting
conclusion to a great day in the House.
Every patriot in the land ought to thank
Mr. Vallandigham for his frank disclOsure
of a plan which it is only necessary for the
people fully to understand to induce them
to repudiate with indignation and scorn. ;
. OccasronA.
Election of United States Senator.
[Special Da pitch to Tho PresO.J
Sr. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 14, 1863.*
ALKNixtum RAMSEY, present Governor of our
State, WRB to-day elected United States Senator.
He is a Pennsylvanian by birth,. and forme l rly
resident of Harrisburg. A man of undoubted loyalty
to his country and the Constitution, sustaining the
Government in each and every measure. to Crush
the rebellion, he will, as a Senator, be as enetisetle
in' his support of the Administration as he has jbeon
while Governor of this State.
TON.NV.ASI-AIN,!G
Spectglpespate*c§:tio 4 , The Press.”
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• 1 'WASHINGON ,January 14„1883.
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Debate in the House To—day.
The proceedings in the House were unusually in- -
teresting to-day.. Val:L.6lollAm, of Ohio, delivered
himself of a labored effort, and advocated the cause•
of the rebels with more than usual defiance. He
made his treasonable sympathies so clear that many
of those who have heretofore defended him now
roundly denounce him. JOHN A. BINGIIA4C, of
the same State, without any preparation whatever;
replied to his colleague in a Speech of•one hour and
a quarter's length. The effort was wihrthy of the
occasion and the man. It was a triumphant viudi
'cation of the justice and necessity.ot the war for the
Union, encl.& scathing denunciation of the infamy
of his colleague's position. The soldiers in the gal
leries repeatedly, during the delivery of Mr. Blyc.-
we's speech, demonstrated their concurrence with
him in opinion by applause which could, with difil
enity, be checked by the Speaker.
'Hon. Hv.ionicx B. WRIGHT, of PensYlvania, fol
lowed Mr. AnconAm. He took positive issue with
VALLANDIGHAM, And boldly enunciated sentiments
of the most patriotic character. 'His response to
the sophistries of Mr. V. was eloquent and com
plete, and the praises of Jorfx A. Bixottax •and
HENDRICK B. WRIGHT are on all loyal lips in this
city to-night. Pennsylvania may well be proud of
her Representative. He is a Democrat of the good
old times, who has not been seduced from the path
of political virtue by the treasonable example of
men who assume to be leaders of the Democratic
party. .
A Case of Base Treaelierjr.
Joint A. NEAGLEY, who has had charge 'of an
ambulance corps in the city,-has been committed to
the Old Capitol prison, by order of 001. BAKER,
Provost Marshal of, the War Department. Lest
parties blinded by partisan prejudices and disloyal
sympathies rmay produce the impression on the
minds of unsuspecting persons that this is an nu.: •
justifiable "arbitrary arrest," the-facts are stated
somewhat at length. JOHN A. lsreaoLity is the son
in-law of Joxas P. KELLETt, for - many years, and
at present a clerk in the Ordnance Department. Mr.
KILLER has a son, Jamus KILLER, who left Wash
ington and joined the rebel army.at the commence
ment of the war. Captain Caztr, a regular army
officer, and at present general transportation agent
in Colonel Rueicuir's office, is a brother-in-la* of
Isreaor.xv, and it was throughthe latter that NE G...
Lin' got his position. Young. Ker.i:in had not been,
heard from untirabout a week since, when Colonel..
BAKER ascertained that he had crossed' the lines,.
and was at Baltimore. An experienced detective'
was at once placed-on -his track. A day or two',
since TAMES entered his father's residence, and,
threw his arms about his father's neck, and feeling
ly stated that he could not leave for the South
without- seeing- him. The patriotic old Irian in-I
dignantly denounced him for his treason, disowned:
-him, and forbid him his presence. The next .day
Nranr.er wentto hia,brother-in-law, Captain CAMr,
and on the pretence of bringing a number of sick.
soldiers from Camp Baker, procured an - order to
take an- ambulance to 'that : place for the purpose.
He then' took- a Goverament ambulatide, Govern,.
ment horses,,and a Government driver, and, loaded
with medicines and other goods for the rebel army,
carried .TAIrEs Ker..L . sur. to Leonardtown, Maryland,'
where the letter crossed Hie Potomac, and is now,.
doubtless, safe in Dixie. The detectives were swift .
. on'his track,but did not arrive at Leonardtown 'in'
time to seize the goods or capture the rebel soldier
but they arrested NEAGLEY, and he has been com
'mitted to prison as above stated. A more consum
mate act of premeditated treason has rarely occur
red during this war, which has been so prolific with
Official infamy. It is due to Captain CAMP to state
that not the least blame is attached to him in this
matter, as he is entirely above suspicion.
Election for Menabei•of Congress.
. An election will be held in so much of the Seventh
Congressional district of Virginia as 'is * in undis
puted Federal possession,. to-morrow, for a. Mem
ber of the HOuse of Representatives.- It protreses
to be rather a tame affair, as there is no excitement
except among the personal friends of the respective
candidates. ANDREW WYLIE is claimed by his
friends as the' regular Administration candidate.
The Mayor of Alexandria, IVI. MolCEiliti, and Mr.
CHAUNCEY H. Sxow, steamboat agent, are also
candidates. It is doubtful whether Congress wil
admit the gentleman who may be eo fortunate as to
receive the largest number of votes to a seat as a
member of the House, as many distinguished gentle
men doubt the propriety of the policy of admitting
persons elected by an insignificant minority of the
people. If their opinions are heeded by the House
it may operate harshly in some easesi but it will
'certainly have the effect of keeping out of the
House Representatives from the Southern States
of (to use the mildest term) doubtful loyalty, who
might flock to Washington if a more liberal policy
were to receive the sanction of Congress.
The Proposed Submarine Telegraph Line.
The House Committee on Naval Affairs have, ac
cording to the resolution unanimously passed on
Monday, commenced an inquiry into the prsctica
bility 'of connecting all our naval and military sta
tions, between Fortress Monroe and New Orleans,
by submarine andtelegraph cables.
A Female Contrabandist Sent to the Old
Capitol Prison.
Mrs. ELIZA LATHAN, of Virginia, was arrested
to-day by Col. TOM, Provost Marshal General of
the defences south of the Potomac, while attempting
to pass our lines freighted with a large amount of
contraband goods. She was sent to the Old Capitol
Prison. A very interesting little daughter was
anxious to accompany her mother to prison, but it
was not permitted.
The McDowell Court of Inq-uiry.
Gen. 'Pope was • exoss-examined today, Ile de
tailed the history of his.movements and plans for his'
several army caps to pursue on the 27th, 28th; and
29th of August, and also the movements of Jackson
'and Lon gatreet's corps of the enemy, against which he
was principally contending. He showed that Jack
son's escape was the failure of the division of Gen.
King to remain holding his ground on the night of
the 28th as he had been ordered to do. He also tee
tined that though Gen. Sigel was placed under
General McDowell on the 26th, from a temporary
necessity, he was certainly not under General Mc-
Dowell's command on the 29th of August, the tem
porary necessity having expired on the afternoon of
the 28th ; that on the 29th, throughout the day, he
repeatedly gave orders direct to Gem Sigel in per
son, and sent others to'him by members of his staff,
and he could not see how Sigel could entertain the
idea that McDowell was over him on that day. He
further explained the propriety of McDowelPs course
in going down on the 28th, from the position of his
forces. to Manassas, where he (Pope) was to give
him the necessary infOrmation. He also averred
his belief that McDowell had discharged, faithfully,
his whole duty when connected with the Army of
Virginia, and deserved the unstinted thanks of the
country on that account.
Objects to. Being Sent South.
ABRAM blrEns, of Alexandria, and late of the
17th Virginia, having refused to take the oath of
allegiance, has been committed to the old Capitol.
When Infot med that he would be sent South in ex
change for a loyal soldier he become extremely anx
ious to take the oath.
Protection of Discharged Soldiers,
Numerous discharged soldiers, having recently
- been swindled and robbed of their pay, as soon as
they came in possession of it, Provost Marshal Dos-
TER has detailed an officer to attend daily at the
office of the paymaster of discharged soldiers, at the
depot, and at the Soldier's Retreat, to protect such
soldiers from the machinations of chormorants,
thieves, and sharpers. Col. POSTER has also ordered
that when any discharged soldier shall purchase
ticket to leave the city on the railroad, the company
shall not prevent him . from leaving as a passenger,
except in cases of contagious diseases.
Confirmations by the Senate.
The Senate to-day, in Executive session, con
firmed the nomination of Soso, - Rowa as postmaster
at Portsmouth, Ohio ; RICHARD S. FIELD, of New
Jersey; as judge of the District Court of the United
States for. New Jersey, vice Psuramor; DICRERSON,
deceasd; ROBERT W. TAYLOR, of Ohio, First
Comptroller of the Treasury, vice EwsuA Wrryr-
TLESEY, deceased.
Soldiers Being Paid Ott:
Several paymasters have gone to the army for the
purpose of paying off the soldiers. The Govern.
ment is doing all in its power to pay the men who
are maintaining the (honor and striving to perpetu
ate the existence of the nation.
A. Branch of the National Typographical
Union.
A large number of the printers at present em
ployed in this city held a meeting to-day, to.inaugu
rate steps preparatory a
to the formation of Print
ers' Union, as a branch' of the National Typogra
phical Union. There is no Union here now but the
old Typographical Society, which was in existence
before the National Union was established. A good
deal of feeling on the - subject is being manifested.
A mass meeting of printers will be held on Saturday
night.
Revenue Stamps.
The following are the regulations in regard to rd ,
venue stamps:
OPYICE OP INTERNAL REVENUE, Jan. 12.—Reve
nue stamps may be ordered from this office in quan
tities. to suit purchasers. Orders should cover re
mittances of treasury notes, or an original certificate
of a United States treasurer, or designated deposi
toiy, of a deposit made for the purchase of stamps.
The following commission, payable iu stamps, will
be allowed:
One, purchase of $6O or more, 2 per cent.
One purchase of $lOO or more, 3.per cent
One purchase of $5OO or more, 4 per cent.
One purchase of ;$l,OOO or more, 6 per cent.
As each stamp expresses upon its face its kind is
well as its denomination, it is desirable that every
order should refer to kinds as well as denominations.
By the third section of the act passed December 25,
1862, every instrument is valid, provided a legal
stamp or stamps, denoting a duty of the amount re
quired, shall have been duly affixed and used there
on. Proprietary stamps, however, cannot be used
upon any instrument specified in schedule B. '
Stamps of every kind and denomination can be
furnished in sufficient quantities for use in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and the States west of the Rocky
mountains.
Collectors are hereby required and directed to
commence proceeding under the law against all per
sons within said District and State who shall wilful
ly neglect to use stamps as required.
Special attention is called to.the 05th seotion of
the excise law
lie it further enacted, - That if any person or per
sons shall make, sign, or issue, or cause to be made,
signed, or issued, any instrument, document, or paper
of any kind or description whatsoever, without the
same being duly stamped for denoting the duty here
by imposed thereon, and without having thereupon
an adhesive stamp to denote said duty, such person
or personstthallineur a. penalty'of fifty dollars, and
such instrument, document, or paper, as aforesaid,
shall be deemed invalid.and of no eitect,”
Every correspondent is requested to give the
State, as well as town and county, of •his risidenen
If not otherwise ordered, stamps will be trim's/nit:
ted by mail. t -
GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, Cominissioner.
THE PRESS.-PHILA.DFP ) HIA., TTRSDAY, JANUARY 15. 1863.
The, Reaction:
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' The chilly; : riOt esrinsole4tePulne'nliich:tile.
'Vi r ocod;SeySiout. delegation to Wnqnd.
•at blinds .'of the Jeff Dal4'4""nastY, together`
'with theinaugurStion of the systematic massacre or
rnion' office . rs , is creating a *ling of exaspera
tion, feeble as yet, but certain :.t.e 4 grow"and spread
into fury, even in the hearts of. the Copperheads:.
Theyeiiake their heads;.'occasionallA with an mai
nousicOwi. The rebuff hurtic• -They consider that,
after all they have donelor their Secession friends,
they have been treated ungratefully, and as a conse
quence of the proclamation, or of any other act tole
-rated by military practice, they tire not ping to - see_
their relatives; friends, And political chfiniis'ilrlio:airii:
in the. Federal army, delibernielf, fiendiehly *L nitir.'
dered. Contemplating these' atidFainiilar 'facts and .
intimations," even a Democratic; member of Con
gress; of the malignant stripe, his been heard
recently vaguely and oracularly to hint at insurrec
tion 'as a thing which; possible exasperation may
drive him to advocate. 'Murder and mortification
are not without effect upon theni, that is certain.
German . A;gritexatural
,Fair.
The President submitfed to 'Congress to-day a
'message,' with an aceoniptuiYing note of Minister
Scur.pnen, relatiAT to the
held
Agricul
tural Exhibition, to be held with the co-operation.
,of the German Agricultural. SCeieli , at Hamburg,
commencing on the 14th of Julir'next. The Minis
ter is , anxious that the triuimpli of 'American agricul
tural genius and art, so signal .in the case of the
reaper and mower in . London, may be repeated -at
'the first National Exhibition of Germany.
He says • that the-European Governments have
agreed to remit their auties.on articles exhibited at
this fair to be reimported, and suggests that similar
aid is even more requisite for Americin exhibitors.
A'grand show of American produets is assumed to
be necessary to show the- Continental nations our
ability to compete with them in agrfoultural as wen
as Industrial implements: ';
The MilitarY !and P 90.0 ..f4liwaY
The military and postal railway . froidthis oity;ty
an air-line to "New:York,• aiProposied by the bill of
Representative Furrrorr, miltes!the capital 'stock
consist of ten millions, fiVe 'Oils of' which are to ,
be raised by 30-year bonds, 0f,41,000 . each—the first
million to be paid to the• corporation when itishall
'be shown that twoMilltoss haie been expended in
good faith ; the loan to be repaid, one million in ten
years, and the other four at intervals of five years
each ; the gauge to be uniform, - the trick double; the
highest rate for first-class passenger : o r2js cents per
Mile, and the maximum rate fox: frelghf, 5 cents . per
ton per mile.
The Judiciary Committee of the Senate have re
ported back the rdlisOuri 'entatiSipatiOn-aid bill; re
cornmending amendments to make At) the remuneration
twenty instead often millions, 146 bonds to bear but
five per cent. interest , ; the inaxifunm , allowance for
each slave $BOO, and the limit fe s i t tite satire extinc
tion of slavery July 4,lsB6—SviilOhe' c iroviso that
an act of emancipation shall be ilssed by the-Legis
lature, and the exclusion of slavyti forever there
after from the said State.
The proposition has received friirerable considera
tion from the Military and Navat Ooinmittee 'of the
House in joint meeting. .
ARMY OF TILE -POTOMAC.
No Southern Papers Unusual Health of
the TrooPs—Changes hi the Engineer Bri
gade—The Rebels Strengthening Their
Position.
HEADQUARTERS OP THE ARMY OP THE POTOMAC,
aanuary 14, um.
No Southern papers have been received to-day.
Returns received at the Medicil DirectoVs office .
show a remarkable exemptiorffrom sickness among
the troops for this season Of the year.
The following changes have recently been made in
the Engineer Brigade : Col. G. McLeod Murphy has
resigned to take command-of a gunboat,; Lieut.
Colonel Clinton C. Colgate has been appointed col -
nel, to date from the 12th of December; and Major
J. A.. Magruder, lieutenant colonel from December
12th. All are of the 15th New York.
The enemy are zealously at work to-day strength.
ening and extending their defences.
THE SOUTHERN. COAST.
Aril al from Port Royal7-The -Steamer
Hazeßeturn of a Flag of Truce—Deaths
of Union . Soldiers in-Richmond.
ForanEss Mormon, Jan. 13:•—theionship Karnak,
Captain Bragdon, from Port Royal the 10th inst.,
and bound to New York, put into Fortress Monroe
to-day for coal.
Captain Bragdon reports that yesterday at noon
he spoke the steamer Haze. Her boilers were leak
ing badly, but at two P. M. yesterday she steamed
on her route. •
. . .
There was nothing new at Port Royal. The
troops were very healthy, and all was quiet there.
General Hunter was daily expected to 'arrive. •
The steamboat Express, Captain Clark, under a
""Rag of truce," returned from City Point to-day, in
charge of Capt. John E. Mulford, 3d New. York Re
giment, having brought down two 'hundred
'hundred and fif
teen Union prisoners, all privates, and captured at
Fredericksburg and Dumfries.
Captain Mulford has furnished us the following
list of names of Union prisoners who have died in
Confederate States military prison hospital at Rich
mond since January 9, 1863: '
January 10—Privates Royal. Potter,.oo. F, 24th
Michigan; James Rutter, Co. G, 11th Pennsylva
nil; A. R. Mitchell, Co. E, 11th Pennsylvania.
January 11—Privates Eli Hilliard, Co. 0, 11th
Pennsylvania ; Frederick Cenrad, Co. F, 136th
Pennsylvania; Corporal Peter McCue, Co. 17 . 6 th
Pennsylvania.
January 12—Private Albert Ganumy, Co. K, 24th
Michigan.
U. S. hospital ship Euterpe arrived at Fortress
Monroe this forenoon.
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERL (ND
Rebel Cavalry Attack our Storeships on
the Climberland River—Capture of Sick
and Wounded Soldiers—Surrender of the
Gunboat "Shield"— Her Commander a
Prisoner.
NASHVILLE, Jan. 14.—Wheeler's rebel cavalry,
with•a battery, attacked three of our boats at liar.
peth Shoals yesterday.
The boat Ino, with two hundred sick and wounded,
was tired into, and the men captured and paroled.
The other boats, laden with commissary stores,
were burned.
Our gunboat, the Sidell, engaged the rebels, but
surrendered. Her guns were thrown overboard, and
the boat burned. Lieutenant Van Dern was taken
prisoner.
It is raining heavy, and the river is rising rapidly:
DEPARTMENT OF TILE TENNESSEE.
The Federal - Steamer Gran►pus Captured—
Roily Springs Evacuated—Rebels Reoccu
py the Place—Gen. McClernaudrs Expedi
tion at Little. Rock, Arkansas.
CAmo, Jan. 14.—The steamer Grampus, lying at
the Mouth of Wolf river, was surprised and cap
tured by thirteen rebels on Sunday night. She was
tab en five miles above Memphis and there stripped.
and burned.
• The evacuation of Holly Springs is confirmed.
It is reported at Memphis that 8,000 rebels arrived
at Lumpkins , Mills, six miles below Holly Springs,
and were repairing. the road.
The Bulletin thinks the expedition up the White
river has already reached Little Rock, having left
the mouth of the river on the sth.
•
Letter from the Commander, of the Harriet
The following has been received at the Navy De
partment. It is an extract from a private letter re
ceived from Commander WAIINRIGFIT, late of the
steamer Harriet Lane, which was captured on the
Ist instant:
• UNITED STATES STEAMED HARIVIF.T Lax;
GALVESTON, Texas, Dec. 11, 1862.
We are occupying a very disagreeable position,
lying oft' the town and holding the harbor, but with
out sufficient force to occupy the city. The Con
federates, who hold Virginia Point on the mainland,
about five miles off, have free access to the town
over the railway bridge which connects Galveston
Island with the mainland. They also hold a bat
tery guarding this end of the bridge, the water being
so shallow that we cannot get within gunshot of
either.. They are in and out all the time, which
renders it unsafe for us to go on shore, or we should
be liable to be "gobbled up" at 'any moment. So
we have to stick to our vessels, and in -bonsequence ;
feel the want of exercise on terra firma sadly.
We have constant reports that we are to be at
tacked both from the water and the shore, which
keep us continually on the alert. We have sb many
rumors that we are getting tired of hearing' them.
We would rather prefer some demonstration on the
part of the enemy to the never-endirg suspense and
anxiety on the subject. We should not care a six
pence for the whole party if we had room enough to
move about in; but we are anchored - in a sort of
natural canal where there is riot sufficient - space to
turn around. You have to be pointed fitir before
you can go either way.
-If they come at us with their light-draft boats,
which are able to go anywhere in the bay, you can
see what an advantage they will have over us. How
ever, I think we will give a good account of our
selves if they come. We understand that John Ma
gruder says, if our troops do not arrive pretty soon;
and beat him off, he will drive us out of the bay,
John will have to get up early in the morning. Still,
we shall be very glad when the troops make their
appearance, so that we can sleep in peace.
.4
The Missouri• Legislature,
•
SEriKE.RON CITY, Jan. 14.—Mr. Bennet, of St.
Louis, introduced in the House today a series of
resolutions sustaining the President's Emancipation
Proclamation.
On motion, it was referred to the Committee on
Federal Relations.
An exciting debate ensued, which lasted until the
adjournment.
Tl►e California Legislature.
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SAN FRANG,ISCO, Jan. 14 In the Legislative
caucus, at Sacramento, last night,'eight ballots were
taken for IL S. Senator. The first resulted as fol
lows: Phelps, 30; Conness, 21; Park, 17; Sergeant,
18; Brown, 7; Shatter, 3. And the last ballot as fol
lows : Phelps, 37; Conness, 23; Park, 16; Sergeant,
18: scattering, 6. -
The caucus will meet again to-night. Sargeant , s
strength and Park's weakness 'surprised all. It is
reported That the friends of Sargeant and Phelps
have agreed to combine.
The colored people are having a grand jubilee to
da, in honor of the emancipation proclamation.
Sailed, ship B. noxie, for Mazatlan.
The California' Cavalry.
BOSTON, Jan. 14.—The public reception of the
California cavalry took place to-day, notwithstand
ing the bad weather. Under a military and civic
eecort the Californians - visited Mayor Lincoln, who
addressed them eloquently.
A collation and interchange of congratulations
followed at Faneuil Hall.
_ .
Bowl°lc, Jan. I4.—Gov. Andreiv, in an address at
the reception of the California Cavalry - to-day, said
he had thia morning received assurances from Wash
ington that the tender of a whole cavalry battalion
from California had been accepted, and notice of the
fact telegraphed to San Francisco. The battalion
will be counted as apart of the contingent of Mas
sachusetts.
New Hampshire Politics.
MANCHESTER, N. H., Jan. t4.—The Democratic
Convention of the Second Congressional district to
day nominated John H. George of Concord, for
Congress.
' Arrival. of the City of Bal timore.
...,
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lcmv 'YOTtic, Saa..ls-2 o'cloek:A..lll.--,The ateaiii
,er Oily of Ballimkire arrived up - i 4 .1 - K i o'clock this
. . .• •
morning. ...
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1,211111 th CONGRESS '-41iird Session,
- I *.e.sEriro'fort, 1863.^.
,
SENATE. •
Indian Affairs.
The TICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a
communication from the Secretary.of the' Interior,
asking for an appropriation of $60,000„ $20,000 of
which to be applied to the euppert of the Utah
Indians. • • '
Also, asking for the appointment of additional
Indian agents. Referred and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Hicks' ilJredeutials.
• Mr. KENNEDY (U.), of Maryland, presented the
ofedisntials of Hon. Thomas H. Hicks, appointed
United Stites}Senat or from the State of Maryland,
teal' the vacancy occasioned by the deatifor .
Aimee - R. Pviice.
' Mr: Hicks appeared and took the oath of
office.
Missouri Emancipation.
Mr. TRUAIBULL (Rep.), of Illinois , reported
back the-House .bill to grant aid to the State of
Missouri in emancipating her slaves, with an amend
ment.
Mr. WILSONIRep.), of Massachusetts, from the
Committee on Military Affairs, reported back the
bill to consolidate the regiments now in the field.
-Also, from the same committee; a bill to appoint
three auditors and solicitors in the Quartermaster's
Department, and an increase of the clerical force in
the Quartermaster General's office. -
. , Blli Reported Back.
Mr.' tATIIADI. (D.), of California, from the Mili
tary.ooMmittee, reported back the bill for the better
organization of the,Subsistence Department.
Traistrporiatiosa of. Disloyal Persons.
Mr. .lIARLAN::(R-ki.of !lowa, offered a resolu
tion, instructing the Mihmittee on the Conduct of
the War to inquire whether vessels or other means
of, transportation have been used to convey disloyal.
women or. other disloyal persons from places under
the control of rebels to places within the Union lines,.
or from places in the loyal. States and districts to
places within the rebel lines ; and if so, what-vessels
were - thus used, under whose command and imme
diate supervision, and by what authority, and par
ticulfirly whether 'Abe steamers New York and
:Meiamora have been thus used; and if so, what
law -or public necessity required it, what num
ber of-persons Were thus transported, the occasion•
of each trip and under whose command, the amount
of property and money, whether gold or silver or
paper and effects, were transported by each person
.as the property of, the said disloyal persons, and
whether persons of African descent, either as slaves
or fre&- were.thus ,transborted to within the rebel
lines at the request of the said disloyal women ; and
if so, by what order or pretence of law such persons
.of African descent were thus conveyed within the
rebel liles, and whether any lenislation is limes
.,
wiry to correct such practices. Adopted.
WILKINSON (Rep.), of Minnesota, called
up the joint resolution to annul the treaties and
forfeit the lands and annuities of the Sioux In
dian&
Court of Claims
On; motion of Mr. DOOLITTLE (Rep.), of Wis
admits, the resolution was postponed and made a
sPecfal "order for Wednesday, the 91st inst., with the
understanding that the whole subject of reimbur
sing the State of Minnesota, &c., should then be
considered.
Siotix
On motion of Mr. SAULSBURY (Dem.), of Dela
ware, the bill for the reorganization of the Court of
Claims was taken up. •.. -
Mr. HALE (Rep.), of New Hampshire, moved to
postpone the bill indefinitely. . • •
After a discussion of considerable length the m'o•
tion was rejected—yeas 11, nays 29.
The ; bill provides for two additional judges, and
fdr an appeal to the Supreme Court where the
amount involved exceeds three thousand dollars.
Mr. GRIMES (Rep.), of. lowa, .moved to strike
out the first section; which provides for two addl.;
Ilona' judges.
The motion was rejected.
Alter an executive session the Senate adjourned.
ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Immediate Payment of our Soldiers-.
XV. STEVENS (Rep.), of Pennsylvania, reported
a joint resolution to provide for the immediate pay
merit of the army and navy. It authorizes the Se
cretary of the Treasury, if required by the exigen
cies or the public service to issue on the credit of
the United States, $50,000,000 of United States notes,
in such:form as he may deem expedient, not bearing
Interest, fayable on demand, in denominations not
less than one dollar, which notes shall be lawful and
legal tender, like similar notes heretofore authorized,
and receivable in payment of all debts, public or pri
vate, except duties on imports, and the payment of
principal and interest on the public debt. The issue
herein provided to be deducted from the amount in
any bill now pending, or which may be hereafter
passed by Congress.
Dar. STEVENS said he learned, both here and in
the Senate; that the main bill providing ways and
means for the support of the Governmentwould not
probably be passed Within two weeks. Hence this
bill was introduced. -
Mr. LOVEJOY (Rep.), of Illinois, suggested that
the bill be amended so as to provide for $100,000,000,
to which Mr. Stevens agreed.
The joint resolution was passed.
•
Contempt of the Hauge.
Mr. HOLMAN (Dcm.), of Indiana, offered.a re
solution reciting that Simon Stevens, who had been
called before the Select Committee on Government
contracts; had refused to answer the questions pro
pounded as to the terms and condition of the labor
contract for storing and delivering foreign goods in
New York, and how much was received for the
same, &c., therefore, the Sergeant-at-arms be di
rected to bring Simon Stevens before the bar of the
House, to answer for contempt of its authority.
The resolution was passed.
Military and Post Road.
Mr. FENTON (Rep.), of New York, introduced a
bill to provide for the construction of a military and
postal road between Washington and New York,
:which was referred to the select committee on the
subject.:
The Rebellion.
The HOuse proceeded to the consideration of Mr.
- Wright's resolution, declaring the rebellion delibe
rately wicked, and without reasonable cause; that
this war was inaugurated solely for the suppression
of the rebellion and restoration of the Union as it
was ; that the Union restored, the war should cease,
• and the seceding States be received back into the
Union with all the privileges and immunities to
which they were originally entitled.
Mr. VALLANDIGHAM-(Dem.)„ of Ohio briefly
alluded to the efforts at compromise during ses
sion of 1861, and at the beginning of war, and to
the scenes which followed, and also to his own posi
tion at that time, and to the failure of war. He
then maintained that reunion was not only possible,
but inevitable, unless defeated by the deliberate folly
And wickedness of the public men and the people.
He argued the question at length from history, and
cited many 'examples: He insisted that physical
causes all tended to that event; that there was no
radical difference in the white race here to prevent
, it; that all the original causes which led to Union—
common descent, con sanguinity, language, measures,
and laws of defence common interest and domestic
tranquility-=all stilt existed in' full - force, and some
of them were much stronger now: than at the first.
-Many artificial causes had sprung up since, such
as works of improvement, multiplyin,g travel and
trade, migration, and intercourse, and there were
also certain less material, but equally strong ties,
such as common• history, national reputation, and
the songs of common battle-fields. He also main
tained that the causes which led to dieunion were
not eternal and ineradicable, and tvere weaker than
those which tended to n reunion; that slavery was
not the but only the development of the cause
of sectionalism; that there is no irrepressible con
flict between slave labor and free labor—the slay
holding and non-slaveholding States; that the funda
mental idea of the Constitution is the perfect and
eternal compatibility of a union of States, part slave
and part free, and that such a Union was in fact the
strongest of all popular Governments. He contended
that nothing keeps us apart excepting hate, antrigo
nism, and revenge, and that War heats these passions
seven - tirnes hotter, and that while it lasts reunion
cannot commence. lie insisted that these prejudices
could be overcome. He explained the origin of the
jealoindes between New England and the South,
treeing them' to differenee• of manners, habits, and
social life, and a different idea of religion, me:irate,
and politics. He 'ejected the idea of excluding New
England, and insisted that there was a large non-
Puritan and conservative element in that section,
which would of itself overcome the narrow, extreme,
and fanatical Puritan element, the supremacy of
which he declared to be incompatible with the peace
of society and , of the Union. He alluded to Roger
'Williams as the founder of a New England civiliza
tion different from the Mayflower and Plymouth
Rock. He next maintained that New York,'New -
Jersey, and Pennsylvania 'could not separate from
the South nor the South from the North, and spoke
. of the geographical ties which bound them together.
The Northwest would not separate from the South.
The day which 'divided the slaveholding from the
non-slaveholdin States would decree the eternal
divorce of the West from the East. There was no
cause of controversrexcepting slavery. The agita
tion of that subject, as a political • element, must
'cease. We must return to the ohiconstitutional and
actual basis of fifty yeara ago—the three fifths rule,
the speedy and ready return of fugitive slaves—no
more agitation,
and the transit and temporary
sojourn of - masters with. their slaves in •the free
States. This was the price of the Union, and who
ever was unwilling to pay it must finally declare
for separation and disunion. - The South was in-.
terested just as much as we in reunion. He spoke
of the terms of slavery on the old basis as the way
to reunion, referring to the almost exact similarity
of the two Constitutions, Federal and Confederate,
and of the impossibility of keeping up two such Go
vernments with a natural boundary. The only diffi
culty in the way of reunion was the want of
the will to reunite, and while the war lasted that
Will would never exist. If the country were nearly
tired of the war, and thought the military experi
ment had been tried long enough, and enough blood
and treasure expended and misery inflicted on both
sides, he would then propose the following measures :
Stop fighting; make an armistice, but no formal
treaty 3 withdraw your army from the' seceded
States; reduce both armies to a fair and sufficient
peace establishnient; declare an absolute free
- trade between the North and South; buy and sell;
:agree upon a Zolverien ; recall your fleets ; break
up your blockade reduce your navy ;
restore travel
upon your railroads ; re-establish the telegraph ; re
unite your express companies ; build no more Moni
tors and iromelads, but set your friendly- Steamers
and steamships again in motion ; visit the North
and West.; visit the South ; exchange newspapers
migrate; inter-marry; let slavery alone; hold
elections at the appointed times ; let us choose a•
President in 1864, and when the gospel of pence shall
have a - ..inded again from Heaven into their hearts,.
and the gospel of Abolition hate been expelled,
let your. clergy and the churches meet again in
Christian intercourse North, and South ; let the
secret orders and voluntary associations everywhere
reunite as brethren once more. In short, give to all
the natural and all the official causes which impel
us. Jogether • their fullest sway. Let 'Time do. his
office, drying tears dispelling sorrows, mellowing
cession, and making herb and grass and tree to
grow again upon the hundred battle-fields of this
terrible war. He denied that this-was a formal re
cognition, to which, for obvious reasons, he would
not consent. It was an informal recognition,"and
so was the exchange of prisoners, flags of truce, &c.
If it confessed disunion, it was only as the surgeon,
w.`.o seta trectUreil limb and heals it, and admits
that it is bitylien, It would not do to say that the
Government would have failed to crush out the re
hellion. It had failed, anti would always fail.
Neither ought anybody to complain that no one
would be hung. Neither would there be, though the
war lasted for fifty years.
But, if nobody was to be hung, then let the wrong
doers of the Administration rejoice and be exceeding
glad. He approved of mediation as a means of sus
pending hostilities, but rejected arbitration. He
spoke also of the important lessons which the war
had • taught on both sides ; explaining the anti
slavery errors, proving the. strength of the South,,
and that slavery, instead of ,weakness, was power—
that the non-slaveholding white men of the South'
were the chief support of slavery, and there was no
danger of servile insurrection.
lie'said that the South had learned that personal
courage is a quality common to all sections, and that
in battle the men of the North, and especially of the
'West. were their equals. Twenty months -of war
had 'collected errors and taught us the wisdom of a
century, and if we would only reunite, the Union
would be stronger and more durable than ever. He
expressed his readiness to yield personal interests,
and the more material rewards of ambition, ust
now, to the future and the good of his country.
Whoever believed that War would restore the
Union ; whoever was for war was for the • abolition
of (slavery on disunion; and whoever demanded
Southern independence and final separation would
not be satisfied with whet he said ; but he had
always been for the Union, and would not now sur
render it. ' In youth he desired to live to see the
hundredth anniversary of American independence";
and as orators exult in. our growing glories and
greatness of the, still United Statea, he hoped for it
still sooner, if possible. In any event., let that day
be the day of the great restoration.' We were in the
midst of the crisis of the revolution. : If we secured
Ifnow, and began a reunion, all would be well—
if not, lie saw nothing before us but revolution and
anarchy. •
Mr. SAMUEL C. FBSSENDEN (Rep.), of Maine,
in reply to a remark - made by Mr. Vallandiglrim, in
the course of his speech said that New England
"still lives," notwithstanding the tirade of the gen
tleman from Ohio against her, and will stiltlive in
the Union and the Constitution as they are. •
Mr. BINGHAM (Rep.), of Ohio, said that:sive,
have been favored again on the other side of the
House With an npology for rebellion. This. should
never be allowed to go to the country Untihallenged,
'while rthopia - olunity was attfirdetthini to respond.
.His colleague' (Mr. •Vallaudighaut); had come here •
to-day with denunciations that this war had
been made by the Executive of the United
States. He started out with the oracular
declaration which he had heretofore made,- that
coercion would produce war—that he had abided his•
time, and that time , the great avenger, had answered_
that coercion would make' war. Now, he Var.
.13ingham) demanded that when the gentleman talked
about posterity and the truth of history he should
make up the record fairly according to the facts. A
stranger to the events of the last two years, listen
ing to the remarks of his colleague, would suppose
that blood would not have been shed and war not
have covered this land with the, shadow of its
cloud, but for the act of the President in attempting
to coerce law-abiding citizens. This is sot according
to history. • While- the care of -the State was in the
keeping of the gentleman's party war was
already organized against the Republic and
our hag dishonored . .., by. a rebel attack upon
ownit' within our aters: Yet` upon this sub
ject the gentleman chose to be silent. Long
before the inauguration of the President rebel
batteries were erected around Fort Sumpter, for no
other purpose than to reduce it by, force:
' As his colleague had raised this questiOn, he
thought he might be allowed to show he* the war
originated, and who of all others are responsible for
'its- existence.' He , charged -here to-day, while ad
judged and justified by history, that this '
rebellion
would have been powerless but for the gentleman
himself and hie party, who were perpetually crying
in the ears of the rebels, "No coercion." While the
rebels were organizing for disunion by force of arms,
and when one of the conspirators in the Cabinet was
dismantling our forts, and while another member of
the Cabinet was sending our vessels to distant seas,
in order that the navy might not, in the day of trinl,
protect our flag, the gentleman's President, on the
4th of December, 1860, sent to - Ccingreas a message,
saying that it was unconstitutional to coerce the se
ceding States, and that the sword was never given
to the representatives of the people in Congress to
declare war against rebel States. - What was the ob
ject of this coercion 1 All on one side. If the Presi
dent had not met the existing condition of affairs,
and taken action against the treasonable proceed
ings, he would have been false to his oath to pro
tect, defend, and maintain the Constitution of the
ltinited States, and ought to have been pursued with
. a resolution of impeachment: -
He repeated, that this rebellion would not have as-
Burned its presentdimenoions, but for the dereliction
of the preceding Piesident: South Carolina had passed
an ordinance of secession,but at that time stood alone,
a pitiful, contemptible State, with' a small army.
But all her traitors could have been strangled if
President Buchanan had performed his duty. How
would it have been if we had followed the example
of that Administration which expired, thank God 1-
on the 4th of March, 1861 1 It was then oonsidered
unconstitutional to suppress rebellion. In Other
words, it was assumed that there was no power in
the Government to defend itself against armed
rebellion 'and treason, It required no foresha
dowing of prophecy to see that the Government
would be dissolved by coercion on the one side
without resistance on the other. He had no doubt it
grieved his colleague - that the President in April,
1861, had dared to sound the note of alarm, and
that he had courage in obedience to his oath to pro
tea-, defend,'and maintain the Constitution'; to call
for '75,000 volunteers to defend a threatened capital
and the violated laws. The watchman placed ontlie
tower declared -to the people the existence of an
armed r ebellion. The people were asleep. But for
this the capital would have fallen without resist
ance. His colleague was of this mind still, and there
fore lie reiterated to-day " thewar ought to stop,"
yet , the only means 'by which" the Union could be
maintained under the Constitution was by the force
of arms.
The other part of his colleague's speech was intend
ed to satisfy . the people that he is for " the Consti
tution as it 18 and the Union as it was." His col
league told theniagain that he had never voted men or
money to carry on the war. Suppose all had acted
as his colleaguehad acted, what would have been the
result? No. bills would have been passed authorizing
volunteers to be enlisted to defend' the flag, and
arming, equipping, and supporting in the field 600,-
000 men. No resistance_ would have been made to
the rebels, who have multiplied graves all over this
land—a subject to which his colleague appealed
with. so much tenderness and - so much regard, by
reason of this unconstitutional war. .. •
He (Mr. Bingham) did not say that everybody
belonging. to the Democratic party was of that
mind ,• but he did say, and challenged iontradiction,
that but for the aid and comfort of his colleague
and his party to his heresy, the ruin to which he
points and which has visited so many hearthstones,
would not have occurred. His hands are not clear
of , the blood shed in this war. He (Mr. Bing
ham) could not be tolerant toward those who,
charged with standing by and protecting the coun
try and the Constitution, withdraw their support,
and leave the country to the tender mercies of its
enemies.
His colleague assumed that there would be no
difficulty if the army were disbanded. His colleague
took it for granted that secession is a constitutional
right. He (Mr. Bingham) thought that he was not
mistaken in saying that that was his colleague's
honest judgment. He believed the same gentleman.
who now talked about "the Constitution as it is
ana the Union as it was" introduced here a propo
sition to divide the country into four sections, and
thus legalize secession by consent of the State Le
gitilatures, without consulting Pennsylvania, New
York, or other States; which, on the principle ad
vanced, had no right to interfere. He did not - think
a gentleman occupying such a position Ilea right
to denounce others as opponents of the Constiitgion.
But his colleague was still for the Union, and at
the same moment for disunion.. "Disband your
armies, anti let the war cease." Not a word about
the other side—the traitors in arms. •
His colleague's official conduct corresponded with
his declaration. He had refused to vote menand
money to carry on the war. If we all follow this
course, the war would necessarily cease. The South
would then surely triumph over the Union and the
Constitution, and hence his colleague's resolution
offered as an amendment to the resolution now under
consideration contemplated a final treaty of peace.
His colleague assumed that "if" we withdraw
our armies the South will come back. By what au
thority was this declaratien made? If he had any
authority he ought to give it. . He appealed to
his colleague to furnish the information, whether by
abandoning our. army the rebels will come back
under " the Union as it was and the Constitution as
it is." The gentleman is silent upon the subject.
Mr. VALLANDIGHAM was understood to say
that he bad answered that question by what he had
already said.
Mr. B.INGHAM resuming, said he did not think
his colleague was allowed to say that by his master,
Jefferson Davis.
His colleague had also argued that we cannot get
any more men and cannot raise the necessary money
by taxation to carry on this war. He would ask
hie - colleague by what authority he made this asser
tion? He doubted the correctness of his conclusions.
He did not believe the millions of .people from the
rock-bound coast of the North to the Golden Gates
of the Pacific were yet prepared to lay their faces
in the dust, and their hands to their faces, and cry,
"Unclean ! unclean !!!
• No I They occupy the position now that they al
ways have occupied, and, he thanked God, they ever
would, because they have the faith of the Pilgrims,
at his colleague sneered. .He presented to
hli Colleague' the admonition of Washington that
"the. Constitution is sacredly obligatory upon all
until changed by the act of the entire peo
ple." This was a sufficient • response to his col
league's assertion that the people would pay no
more taxes, and would submit to the laws no longer.
In allusion to a remark- of his colleague's about
Illoses, Mr. Bingham alluded to the Jewish leader
by saying that he received the law from God, and
among the commandments was, "thou shalt not
steal." The rebels should not, therefore, steal our
country.
VALLANDIGHAM said he was willing that
his colleague should volunteer in the army.
Mr. BINGHAM responded, that if our citizens
should follow the counsel of his colleague, nobody
would volunteer. [Applause.) When your ag is dis
honored, and our sons are murdered, you set here and
refuse to volt e a dollar to'defend our institutions. You
talk about volunteering! [Applause.]
The SPEAKER reminded the galleries that such
breaches of order would not be permitted.
Mr. BINGHAM said his. colleague undertook to
speak for the great Northwest. Where did the
people living there obtain the model of their free
commonwealths but from New Englaiid,' where the
founders were cradled 1 As they followed the sun
as he walked with steps of fire to the distant West,
the very first thing they did was to initiate the
blessed institutions of New England—they made
free commonwealths. It was an ungenerous im
putation on the people of that section to say that
they will lock hands with the Secessionists for the
sake of gain. Out upon all suchlincipient treason 1
Mr. WRIGHT (Union), of Pennsylvania, said lie
differed as far as. the East is 'from the . West Trom
some of the positions held by the gentleman from
Ohio. (Mr. Yallandigham): - He(ikir:_Wright) was a
peace man, but note peace man if peace was to be
erectelon a broken and destroyed Union. He was
for peace if peace could he obtained with the rebels,
who are now striking at the heart of the Republic,
on terms honorable to the North. But while he was
a peace man he was no coward, and while he desired
peace he shirked from no responsibility.
• This resolution declared that. an honorable peace
is desirable, but no peace should be made while
armed opposition menaces the capital and threatens
the overthrow of. the Union, and while the rebels
say they, will make no terms with us, he was no
peace man. Under these circumstances he could not
preserve his own honor and that of his country.
Did the gentleman from Ohio suppose that peace
could be obtained from the rebels in arms? Nothing
would be more satisfactory to them than for us to
say that they should have the Republic for which
they are now struggling. If the doctrine of the
gentleman from Ohio had prevailed a year ago, the
members of Congress would not' now hold their
seats here; and 'the chief master of his cohorts
would possess the Capitol. The rebels first fired
their gun at the American flag. They were the
first to withdraw their States from the American
Union, and establish within their borders the reign
of .terror t raising the standard of opposition and
sendingpiratical ships, to the seas to plunder our
commerce—and were we to fold our arms and say,
" Reece ! let the war stop !" Had we not the man
'hood to raise oi.q.ivoices against it, and the courage to
protect our wives and children, and maintain our
liberties] Must we lay down. our arms? No!
While God has given us the poWer to maintain our.
.position, let us fight this thing out like. men. The
day has passed when we can compromise with trai
tors !
These rebel States have committed great wrongs.
The soil is saturated with the blood of our children.
We cannot degrade our national charactei. He
repeated. that no terms could be made with dis
unionists. ; If we., Davisave peace, we Must bring it
about ourselves. Jefferson and his co
'adjutors say theY: never: will listen: to "peke. In
this connection lie read a reAVitttion which was
unanimously passed by the ilortli CaR":ll29 14',-?:iab4 -
ture, saying that they would not listen to peace ;it
any time on any terms; and, also, the card of Go
vernor Letcher, in which the latter asserted that
there could :be no consideration of any proposition
for a reconstruction of the late Union on any - terms
or condition whatsoever.
Mr. VALLANDIGHAM, in reply.to Mr. Wright,
said the ballot box is still a powerful weapon in the
hands'of the South; and through its agency, when
passions shall have cooled and reason resumed its
sway, he expected to see a return of the 'Union sen
timent he had indicated; when the men in the Con
federate and State Governments would be super
seded by other men, just is those who have waged
war on a peculiar line of policy hive been super
seded in the North and West.
Mr. IVRIGHT could not see on , what terms or
principle of reasoning such a result was to be ex
pected.
Mr. VALLANDIGHAM replied : History and
human nature.
Mr. DAWES (Rep.), of Massachusetts, Inquired
whether he expected the rebels, at some future day,
to revolutionize by the • ballot•hox while in arms, or
must we wait for the revolutionl
VALLANDIGIII.I.II replied that the laying
down of arms must be a matter of common consent.
He would, if he had the power, reduce both armies
to a reasonable peace establishment. [Laughter on
the Republican side A He would have a reunion
through the ballot-box; and by this freeman's
weapon bring about the result. But you say this
can be done only by fighting. You have been
fighting for twenty months, and what has been the
resultl
Mr. WRIGHT, resuming, observed that what the
gentleman had just said surprised him More • than
what he had previously uttered. The idea of laying
down our arms would be a most monstrous pioposi
ton. He believed that, even if we sent a committee
of this House, or of the two houses, to 'wait upon
Jefferson Davis, the gentlemen would not be re
ceived by him. He understood that certain gentle
men of NeWJersey had made an attempt of this
kind, and that the delegation were not received by
theltichinond officials.
Mr. PERRY (Rep.), of New Jersey, said there was
not one word of truth in the report. •
-Mr. 'WRIGHT was - glad to hear it was not true.
He had a better opinion pf the State, being half a'
jelseynian himielf. • (Laughter.) • •
After further remarks he saiel—As to-the results of
the recent elections, those:in his own State were not
hostile to a vigOrous prosecution of the Year. As to
New York, he perceived that Gov. Seymour spoke of
n.y)gorous prosecution of the war. Never was a
war so bunglingly conducted -since the days of
Alexander to Napoleon. He would not discuss the
question of who is to blame. Perhaps it was wrong
to-remove -DlcOlellan, -or to do a, thousand other
things, but because blunders have'been committed,
shall we stand up and say, We will abandon the war
and surrender our lihertiest The men who; now
stand up for the war' will - lie dear to the country,
at d their names live foreverovhile the tories who
oirpose it will be as" izifaniolisitS;thif Cowboys of the
Revolution.. • ' • • • , ..•••:.,..:(f4 • - •
Mr. VA LLANDIGHAIVI. Amen !
Mi iZIGHT. 'Why, the:gentleman ought have
R straightjacket.. (Laughter.] ,
r. TALL.ANDIGTIMir. - Fend the i'ours *hi%
.•
you have been wearing for the Met twakty months.
Mr: WRIGHT. If you were to get my jacket
you would be a better Democrat than you ever were
in your life. [Laughter.]
Mr. VALLANDIGHAM. Have the kindness to
loan it to me.
'Mr. WRIGHT, resuming, said: Our men have
power and courage, and will put down the rebellion.
[Cries of
," Good.") The infernal devils at the
South are trying to destroy our Government, and
men at the North are aiding and abetting them.
Loyal men only, he said, are my brothers. "Let
the rebels alone!" Was there ever a rogue but
wanted to be let alone 1
"No rogue e'er felt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law,"
and yet.their rebel necks itch for the halter. They
are not'only' attempting to slay the North, but to
destroy the best Government ever, made by God or
man. We had better make another sacrifice of men,
than a dishonorable peace.
• In conclusion, he said we must fight to restore the
Government; we must fight for the Stars and
Stripes ; for the Constitution and the Union of our
fathers.
The House then adjourned.
EUROPE.
News from India, China, and Australia—
• The Relations between• Prance and Spain
—The Political News Unimportant.
New Yoiret, Jan. 14.—The steamer China ar
rived at noon. • It 'is again reported that the Con
federate Government has appointed an agent in
England to obtain a loan.
The Gibraltar Chronicle says that the Federal
authorities who protested against the sale of the
Sumpter, still persist in regarding her in the light of
a privateer, and the United States steamer Chip
pewa continues-to watch her from Algeciras.
The Sumpter, which is now called the Gibraltar,
recently made a trial trip to test her machinery.
The Chippewa also got in motion. The Sumpter
soon returned to her anchorage, and the Chippewa
returned to Algesiras.
The English papers contain but little of moment
in regard to American affairs.
The London, Times looks upon the rumor of Mr.
Seward's resignation as an evidence of despondency.
It thinks the Federate begin to see the hopelessness
of the struggle, but their national pride prevents
them from acknowledging the fact.
• The Times, in an editorial on the projected negro
emigration from America to the British West In
dies, regrets that political objections at present
stand in the, way. It hopes the scheme may not
suffer from these objections, but be ultimately carried
out.
Air. Caldwell, in a speech at Oxford, ardently
hoped for peace in . America. He asserted thellurity
of - British motives, and „their steadfast adherence to
neutrality. He looked upon the American contri
butions to the distressed at Lancashire as an evidence
of good will and affection.
The Princess Louis, of Hesse, is at Osborn, and
the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, at Ber
lin, had met with a carriage accident without seri
ous result.
Napoleon's diplomatic reception on New Year's
day was unimportant; merely. congratulatory and
pacific phrases were interchanged.
At a similar ceremony the King of Italy regretted
that the wishes of the nation had not been yet ac
complished, but hoped that the national cause .isrould
yet be triumphant. •
The Pope received the officers of the French army,
and expressed thanks for their continued protection.
He believed that Piedmont:would yet repent.
.The resignation - of..Goncha, as ambassador at
Paris,' had been accepted by the Spanish Govern
ment. • .
The Correspondeucia Aulografa says that the rela
tons between France and Spain are not endangered.
s.l.kr.nouniii, Nov. 25.—The gold.shipments since
the last mail have been ounces.
There was a run on the Colonial Bank, but it has
subsided. , , ,
Commercial Intelligence.
vimPoOL, Jan. 3.-Cotton-The Brokers ' circular says:
Upon the nisuinption of business on Monday there was a
very active and general demand, largely participated in
by spinners, which -resulted in sales of 20,000 bales at 54
34d gi lb rise in'all de.serintions. The most marked ad-
Vance was, however, in East India, which continues the
principal article of consumptiou. The increase in the ac
tual stock as compared with the estimates Ls about
103,000 bales, caused chiefly by the large onantity of cot
ton returned by. the trade for resale, and which was not
taken: into the weekly estimates: '
The hnmediate Mica of the increase was to cause a
pause in the buying: Some holders submitted to a de
cline of 3i@XdAi ib, which has since been recovered to
the extent of fully one-balf, prices closing about ad only
'below last Monday's rates. - The sales of Friday are esti
mated at about 5,000 bales, 2500 being on speculation and
for export. Messrs.- Clare Sr Son's Circular of Friday
calls the decline, since the stocktaking, ld.on Brazil and
Egyptian, Vgild on American, and about •3.‘d. on Surat,
'with more tone at the close. The total .stock on hand at
the end Of the year was 392,450 bales, including 70,000
TRADE AT MANCHESTER —A more cheerful tone
pervaded the market yestei day, and but for the firmness
of holders considerable business might have been done.
Very full prices were, however, demanded, and business
WM consequently checked.
BREApfiTUFYA.—There has been no . regular market,
owing to the holidays, since the departure of the City
of Baltimore, but Messrs. Richardson, Spence,. S.: Co.,
Gordon, Bruce, St Co., and Bigland, Athia, di.lth report
Wheat and Flour firm at Tuesday's quotations. Corn
qu et at 5......WAs 9d for mixed. The estimated stocks on
hand at the cad of the year were asTollows:
31st Dec. 1862. 31st Dec.lB6i
'Wheat 716A3 qrs. :11.5.206 qrs.
Pour 9 80,472 bbls. - 145,118 bbls.
Flour 13.:2:45 sacks. 56.351 sacks.
Corn 51)0 qrs. 361,035 qrs.
Puovmoxs:—Wakeileld, Neill, St Co., and ethers, report
Beefand Pork dull, with considerable arrivals. Bacon
heavy end frilly Is lower. Lard dull and again rather
lower. Tallow quiet and nominally unchanged. But
.ter--Little doing at former rates.
Plionren.—The broker's circular reports: Sugar quiet,
but steady. Coffee—no sales. Rice inactive, but prices
the same. Ashes-•--Pots 6dg:i4s. Pearls 31s 910:32.8.
Philadelphia Bark is orlgFts 6d. Linseed steady. Lin
seed Cake £9 2s 6d for American. Cod Oil rather lower.
Pretroleum quiet. Crude.£2l Us. sales of
American common at 255.
.Spirits of Turpentine quiet at
115 s.
LONDON MARKETS.-L.Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co.
report.Breadstulfs firmer, and in some instances better
prices obtained. Little or nothing doing in Sugar, Cof
ice, or Tea, the produce markets being closed for the
holidays. Tallow rather firmer; buyers of Y. C. at 445.
Bd. Spirits'of Turpentine in better demand, and rather
dearer; American Iles.; Petroleumquoted at ..C . Al@2l for
crude: Linseed Cakes very slow; New York bbls £lO
Lis. Linseed Oil advanced to 395. 9d. Sperm Oil quiet
at 4:16@.36; Cod £4B. Grove & Todd report Beef in good
demand ;.Pork quiet ; Bacon tending downward; Bark
nominally unchanged ; Rosin quiet and unchanged.
AMERICAN SECURITIES.—Baring Brothers & Co.
say there has been no change in American stocks.
•
Election of U. S. Senator in New Jersey.
Tumi.rox, N. J., Jan. 14.—Both Houses of the
Legislature met at 3 o'clock this afternoon to elect
a United States Senator.
James W. Wall, of Burlington, was elected on the
first ballot. The vote stood as follows :
James W. Wall 53
Richard S. Field 22
Wm. Cook, of Hudson 2
• Wm. A.•NeW,ell " '
United States Senators from Indiana.
Lunaisraroms, Jan. 14=The Legislature in joint
Convention to-day elected T. H. Hendricks and
David Turpee United States Senators—the latter
for the short term.
Heavy Fog in New York liarbor—lleten-
tiou of Steamers.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—There is a heavy fog pre
vailing to-night, and the steamers City of Balti
more and Teutonia, from Europe, are still below,
being detained thereby. The Sound boats left at
their usual hour, and have probably anchored in
Cow bay.
The steamers Asia, for Liverpool, and Eagle for
Havana, did not sail.
Peace. Resolutions.
The following resolutions were offered in the New
Jersey Legislature last Monday, and were made the
special order for the 22d instant. Their reading was
received with a faint acclamation:
Be it resolved by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of Aew Nerseg: First. That it is the sense of
the Legislature, and of the people of New Jersey,
that the civil war, in which the nation is unhappily
involved; ought not to be protracted one moment
longer than is necessary to test the power of the
Government, within the limits which the Consti
tution has imposed, and that so soon as the conduct
of the war requires or involves the sacrifice of
rights which the Constitution secures, it ought to
cease.
Second. That the people of New Jersey, their re
pree6ntatives here assembled, and the gallant sol
diere who, without compulsion, have rushed to arms
to maintain the Constitution, believe that the time
for honorable pacification has arrived, and that
every effort ought to be made to effect it, and avert
the consequences which must ensue from a con
tinuance of war at the expense of constitutional
freedom.
Third. That the recent proclamation of emancipa
tion; the division of a sovereign State without the
consent of its people and Legislature; the appoint
ment of Military Governors, and the attempt on the
part of the Executive to control the popular branch
of Congress by fraudulent military elections of Re
presentatives are gross violations of the Constitu
tion and merit and receive the condemnation of this
• -
Legislature. •
Fourth. That to the same category belongs the
system of arbitrary arrests—the infringement of the
freedom of the press—the executive suspension of the
writ of habeas corpus—the confiscation and seizure
of property without judicial process, and the es
tablishment of military authority beyond the lines
of the army, and all attest the evil tendency of civil
war.
Fifth. That in view of the possibility of greater
evils in the dark future before us, it is the duty of
the.Leg:islature and the Executive of the State to.
economize and cultivate its credit and resources,
maintain and improve its military organization,
and to lake all necessary and proper means to as
sert the integrity, the dignity, and sovereignty of
the State.
Sixth. That as in the heat of passion, excited by
civil war, it is impossible to approach the discussion
of measures of peace with that calmness which is
requisite, an armistice of six months should be
established between the contending States.
Seventh. That in the third month after the ar
mistice has been agreed to, one delegate should be
elected in each Congressional district in each State,
which delegi.te should on.the second Monday of the
. •
ensuing month assemble in Convention in the city
of Lexington, in the State 0-Kent...le/it, fo amtigi
such measures of amicable settlement as shall be
presented.
An'ey AND NAVY GAZETTE.—The January num
ber of this excellent publication is the best yet pub
lished. It is in the inevitable nature of things that
it must soon be published weekly. Its staff .of able
writers is large, and its selected news good. It is
the only reliable record of promotions, deaths,resig
nations, discharges, and dismissals in the army,
navy, and marines.' William R, Dyer S.• Co. are the
publishers in this city.
EPosiTivE SALE OF DRY GOODS, &E.—The atten
tion of purchasers is requested to the choice assort
ment of British, French, German, and American
dry goods, embracing `2,i3 packages and lots of staple
and fancy articles; to be peremptorily sold, by cata
logue, on four months' credit, commencing this morn.;
ing, at ten o'clock precisely, by John B. Myers &
Co., auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market street.
AUCTION NOTICE-SALE OF BOOTS AND SHOES.-
The attention of buyers is called to the large and
attractive sale of 1,000 cases boots, shoes, brogans,
&.c., to be sold by catalogue this morning, at 10
o'clock precisely, by Philip Ford & Co., autioneers,
at their store, No. 62S Market and 522 Commerce
street.
. GERMAN FORTRESSES.—The German for
tresses have been greatly strengthened during the
last two years. Six • hundred rifled cannon have
been added to the armaments, and all the former
material has.been replaced by that of modern inven
tion. 'Luxembourg has been fortified by the con
struction of a new work. At Mentz two new forti
fications upon the northwest side, towards Bingen,
have been commenced. On the side which is most
exposed the ramparts are also carried forward. The
Diet has under consideration the establishment of
an entrenched camp at RostOff. At Ulm the forts
which form the fortified camp are to be increased.
RECOVERY OF ; LOST. JEWELS.-Two years
ago a great' robbery was 'committed at the Uffizit
:Museum, in. Florence, when many vahiablejewels
were stolen. • Some Of theSe were recovered in 1861,
but the remainder were missing- until the 13th of
December last, when the remaining three hundred
and three historical jewels; rings, cameos, and other
objects of value, were discovered, through the active
ettorts of the police, buried in an obscure spot on the
banks of the Arno. •How the discovery was made is
not staled, but the fact of these articles having been
returned to the State is received with universal sa
tisfaction.
SCHOOL LAND S.—Minnesota has just disposed
of folly thousand acres of her school lands for about
one quarter of million dollars. There yet remains
two and one-half million acres to be sold. If Min
' newts makes wise 'use of these school lands she
witl r hy-and-by; possess an immense fund for the in
struction of her children.
MING% AND
TUE Iao NEI ,
Pitrian;
MARRA ?.
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The stock feverlis progr.,,ing .:I.PIIIik.
w;thkol
.
kite
. n94., •
the more alarming srmatomi. + „fl'
odar co l L' I N
again. Gold rose to 146 X, ani elossd arm 01:rsti,
closed at 142. A. nimor prevai:ed t ow:milk, ' l ,*
Secretary Chase had received an oft.r fro m t . ,: e ' , *
banks and bankers to take three liundr4;,.
seven-thirty treasury note , . and twenty.p::4l
cents, on condition that the further J .. 44
der notes be restricted to one millioa 0e.,;.(1,i•
arguing that unlimited amounts of eviieae? ti
meld debt were rapidly teadiug to „.) nr0. ;.?.. s
tion of Government securities that kon a n , 4 itea,
would be found for them. This riper. eats : .4
ness in the stock market, which cloyNi u n ... : : . • 1 t
verish, with prices somewhat down. 'Il
As Government securities decline, State a ,,,
tion bonds advance: Seven-thirties fen mr tw '' 4 ' 7 e.
the sixes three. State lilts Said rip t o 101
eat firm ; the coupons sold at 110. New Ca r i n ' na
Long Island sixes at par. Elmira struts r...);:.
c/ attel tens also 2%'. North Pen m•yiyanin7..,
rose 1, Reading sixes, 1Q33 , were in dernan,l'atilt
advance of 3,'. Fchttylkill Navigation :43,44.,1t,rat
improvement loan selling at 81.!4.1 Uniong aind , A.:
2. l'hiladelpbia and Erie sixes sold at itst. ~ 411 •4:.
Amboy sixes advanced. Clevela ad ani llahr a 4 , 4l „ 11
sold at low. Hazleton coal sold at F.d. lien.! ',:.%0n.
ferred advanced to 184, a rise of I; th e " 4, ; ‘ ,.... ,. t 0
X. Schuylkill Navigation advanced tz 1 .3 3 :
.1 .
gution rose 3.Z. Delassittre division soli at 4 , :i . 4 .'•
henna Canal at 7,li'. Lehigh Zinehrotzlit I.:,aa.v.';
of 2. Delaware Mutual Insurance, o ld ktm.
A ZI
absence New Creek coal apneamci, ali ass e l ic.'
a dollar per share.
Reading Railroad opened at 47%, sol i totli.a.v
Weak at 41. Little Schuylkill was stiff at ts e
;..
preferred rose to 27X. fell off, elosin:: at 27. ii i ”
Island was active at 26. Philadelphi a and L. 4
Lehighp en a ti l,l : l ‘ l 7tab i t6 : i±
40. Mineltill atso3‘. North Pennsylvania utt-44::
active. p.;...;
ri bl s e t n% W o r l L e. s r o o l g4 d a K I . S7X ICI . mira rose 1, the area ! "
.....
stagerdanden
railwaysAboy s a o r l e d a
lookingt 1 g .
more
Pine was active at 18, an advaneA of i;. r;it..rii 9
at
, s,
an a d vance o f ,4". ArCh Str..t at '.. 4 3 ,;."'
of . X. Seventeenth and Nineteenth at-~1 FN,14.14.
Third at 75. Green at 37,1.. Nu allfactilPrs' nnd ....
nics' Bank sold at 24; no change c ninuor..4 .l ! •l
Farmers'. and Mechanic,' at 525. Tle'
ant
..: v
much excited, after over , YID.OOO in bond., ant kb,.
„,•
changed hands at the regular hoard a all!, :7 1
amount being sold outside.
Drexel & Company quote:
United States 80nd5,1961 ............. .....
United States Certificates of IndebuNi ne „ .. . 4 - 4
United States 7 3-10 Notes
Quartermasters' Vouchers ......... ..... ^qly
Orders for Certificates of Indclnedness.....
DG01d......................................... AZ,
emand Notes ..........................
Jay Cooke & Co. quote Govern n
ment
imeur 7 :i
follows:
United States Sixes, 1691 ............
United States 7 3-10 Notes . ............ ..
...
Certificates of Indebtedness......
Quartermasters' Vouchers..
Demand Notes
Gold
..........
The West Philadelphia Passenaer Railway (1 4 ,„ .
(Market street) has declared a dividend of six
clear of taxes, payable on and after the tay ids
Peterson's Detector for January I; h. ten. *Alia v.
Lie list of forty-two new counterfeits.
ThO following statements show the conJitioa
of the Western railroad:, is stilt Improved:
The earnings of the Chicago and Rock Itlaad
for the first week 111 January were:
nal ...
1862
Increase ................................ 2.4
The earnings of the Michigan Southern Bait. ti
the first week in January were;
1662
Increase
........... 11.911
The earnings of the-Michigan Central itatread.fir
first week hi January, were :
1962
ISC3
Decrease
• AJkia
The earnings of the Galena and Chicago sh'o't
the first week in January, were: • -
18G4 •
1862 ..... ..tra
Increase
The earnings of the Illinois Central taileol.
first week in January, Were:
1562
1863
.„ ..........
.....................
Increase .
The earnings of the Milwankee snal l ralrie y 1 .7
Railroad, for the month of December. were.
3861
1862
Increase ......... anl
The New York World nay the ft)llowlez itziwt .
the amount of specie in the United States at tie 7 •
time:
Amount of specie existing in the Unitei
States at the commencement of 15ta.......
Product of California Mines from littet4poz , •
sent time ur.»l;
Other sources of supply within the tnit.4l
tates during the same period-
Amount imported from foreign connttits
dnring the same period
Amount introduced by immigrants dint's
the same period (3,600,00 immigrant:. at
s3)per head)
GrAnd total
Amount ex - ported to foreign coun
tries from 1849 to present time—WM:4)
Loss by wear and tear of coin.
consumption in the arts, and by
fire and shipment during the
same period
Amount •of specie existing in floe ruitol
States at the present time
The New York Evening Post of to-day sap .
Wall street is considerably agitated n> - Hlaybvs'.....
extraordinary rise it gold, the price tunrinni !4.
continued advance, amounting in two days to :.'op
produces un - uneasy feeling in money and stud c:t
and we notice a disposition among the large h4,-.4
cnnail their operations. Some of the oldest storki.:
are reflutingfurthcr °niers on sesarities at presets:r.
and money-lenders likewise raise their rate of Cr'
iiV , l t cent., and this, too, with lamer margin:t
usual on the leading speculative shares. This fee.;
caution of course has its effect on the stork markt.t:e
the upward tendency in price - , which has coon ;
without interruption for the past ten In , give+. plic
a becidel disposition to sell, especially fo r
This sadden rise is stitoulsted in a saeatinete. ,
the purchases of the "Betters" for delivery. When,
was placed upon the Bawd hooks for now-lent - at si
sixty days ago, the operators fur tiv fill fra
sixty days' options very freely, and theca::
filling due,
_About two weeks :duces leading Islael
at one session of the Board nearly a millionit:
"short," on thirty and sixty-day comic.,
siderable ,part of this has been bough; la:kr:
a few days.
The firmest of the railway shares arei'et-Entlit:
lea,, Pantuna, Burlington, and (Miner,
Southern. 'These more thou Mailltki2llppr:is
terday.
Among the heaviest of the'Nresternstotl.r,7?:.
du Chien, Fort Wayne and Chicago, sail:-
I-lante.
Cleveland and Pittsburg fell 2 V. cent. r
that seine of the bondholders have
prevent the declaration of a dividend. I
were at 6.5 n, against GS ye:gent:lv.
There is a further advance of 2 - e. ont.
Worcester.
Railway bonds continue in demand. Et 11
to have unlimited confidence in them. 1::e
Pittsbargs, and the Eries. and the isf•tiesof tr
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway
higher.
The Government list is again weaker
0f.1551 showing a fall of 24 ? COIL
This heaviness comes upon the taarkw simc. .
with the deparhwe of Mr. Clut:e 1:w Winlino...
has seemingly failed iu his interview with th,S3;.
hankers, to devise measures for checking the:4u .
preciation of the national credit. Seven4birce..e.!
down). cent., the 6 ? cent. certhit.ate , 5..
Money is a little more active, :11141 18(14.: :E. l .
a large moneyed establishments ;fp:m:l2: 4 7 -
ton new transactions. Old loans, at 4? W. 11.4
disturbed.' ._
Before the Board there wits ermt excitewsil
and the outside dealers ran the price up t 14:or ti
one time as much as 1.473.1e147)4 was mid stde.B. ,
it fell off to 1461_. at which mug of (helm-iv-o••-
hue been done.
Gold, since the first Board, is sellingat
Dutiable demand II(Iter. rose 2 liteUt..9l , latertn
active at 142;4 cent.
Exchange on Eat ope is very excited sad rm. r...Pt
tied. Some of the drawers are not IS the taseiv..t:
fusing to name a rate . The qUOTatioll ranee , . fromilto
1611 f cent. on London.
The Asia for Liverpool to-day takes oat
specie.
Phila. Stock Exch
(Reported b 7 S. R SLA
FIRST
10 Mineh R C&P—ch 60g
0100 Long lslaud R 6s-R0
50 Cataw 207 i
114 do Pref.- 27
100 do ' ie)J
103 do pref.• • 'l. - 01
919 d 0....... pref.ita 27%
60 do
!30 do • liref.bs 7 44
100 do ... pref.sls 27.5.
)00 do .. .. pref.. 57)1
400PennnITsC&P PIO
3500 do...•C&P 101
1100 do s:,1).101
19 Spruce & Pine R... 15
1 d 0... 3534
70 Girard Col 17...10ts 26
108 Arch-st ]l lots 2734
)5O do 27
WO Rood R 473 i
2 do-1734 1
ICO do —M
.rs. &I n t 4711
50 • do bi. &int 47%,
~ 70 du . 47%;
RV d0... - .3dys.Stint 473 , 4 ‘
100 do .. .. . . . LSO .47,2
200 do. .. C&P..14.1nr 4735
21-0 do 1)10 47.;,
150 do b3O 473
100 Schn Nay pref...hs 16
118 do 16
BETWEEN
74 N Penn R b 5
SIIO do 10) 12%
50 Catawissa 11.. pref• • 2731
10) do pref.. 273,1
50 Elmira 11 54
200 Head K lots.blo 47
SOO do 46ii;
100 SPrnee rim, IL. IS , '
SEUONI
Oity
4 Ca 11l Si Ain R 164
5 do 166
300 Elmira R • •
27 do - 2dys 34
]CO Areh-st R....... 2714'
44:00 Echo Nav 6s M.• • . 72%
3000 do
50 37th St 19th St R.... 71
I.ebigh Nar 5674
700 New Creek
35 Far 5: 3leell 8k.... 523 y
155 Penna
100 Del Mutual 1n5.... 31
260 Read 11 2dys 47
4.N
300 d 46 0 %
7.500 N Penu 6s lots 62
65 Little Selnt R..lots 46
50 Catawissa R.pref.. 27
IS do • ref.. 27;i;
:LOSING
Bid. Asked.
6s cpna 11.— 93 NS
S 7-XD blk.• • -100 K 101
American Gold —14636 1473 f
Phila 6s - .old • —1(01i 106
Do new 110 1104
_klieg co 6s R ..
Penna Bs .101 101%
Reading 13. 46% 47
Do hda '90...110 112
- .
Do bds 10...107 110
Do bds
Penna R 65 6%
Do Ist ni 65..113 114
Do 2d m 68...109 111
Morris Canal .• .. 673 6S
Do prfd 106,135 LT
Do 68 '76-107 • •
Do • 2d nag...lC4 • •
Sago Canal ... .
Do 6s
S.:hurl Nay 6 • •
63. S
Dc prfd ..... 35X 16
Do 68 72 73
Elmira o
11... .... . 34 341;
Do prd 44 45
D 78 Ist m.. 106 106 X
Do 108. ..... 65
N Penna R 1.1%;
Do 66 51%
Do 108........108 110
Phila Ger & Nor. 57,E AS
Lehigh Val R•.. 72 -
Lehigh Val bde.. ••
• ••
New York Stoc
Closing gnointi ,
Bid. Asked•
US5a74 • •
U S 5s '7l
II S 6s !Si coup.— 9•2%;
US 6s regist. ..... 99h, 93
U S 6s 15 yr coml. • • - --
U S 6s 5 yr rett- • • • • ••
Demand Notes••
Trea Notes. 6 c 9534 1 9534
Trea Notes, 7.30..11 1 0! . .i,
Gold. • • ....... 14734
Tennessee ..••••• GO . 603.1
Virginia • •
North Cai•o' i us
Missouri St 65..• 62; 63
"California 7a•• ••• • • • •
Canton Company • •
Del & Bud., ..... .• • •
Penn Coal Co.••• - •
CUMI) . and C Co. 2134 7. 4
Pacific Mail •••• • •154)1 55 I
Market unsettled.
COMItip,R 4/4
41 I A
%EA!
flag,* Sales, ism.
BE, Philadelphia ExchLlE
BOARD.
N Penn IL •
3,11 do
.311 Lehigh Serip.....ox•
160 l'S is 5 yrs option •
4 11S1 Canal , """
5 do •• •
WI 'New et•ek .........
335 Ca taw R ......
S11)6
Morris ultra
Csaiu• Chat!,slD,
5 ••••••
10 ..............
14:041 N Penn ..........
o• •.. ..........
Itooo Read 6s &•;•;:ix"
104 i Sam Sac •.;
'itYJO ao ....... .......
10,10 Pa Collik.a 4 ";
16 No rti*FOWP 1:. ....•
jail Little , iiClitte .... .
•1/ Man Lt• Meths ix • ?.
2 3: 1 1 ,1 LC I
)B I L e l : li b :I
a l l ! ,r i s Ehi ; r l:
3r .111 b1; .
.102;;;;;
44 a".•. ..........
SCO) IZea.l wort ...
Elmira II -•• •
74 do—
citr i-•••
ituAßpnu.? DS. Pin? g
10 0 SP.
q 11001 .7 S 6.‘ .........
2000 do. ........
4000 Elmira Cluatm
90 ArCit-it g•••• • •ii••;i
4000 Del Guar 1.11. .
P}.l City 6*, • ......
BOA
RD
il.
r 4a
• "r
, 7l
„ e, ":A•'I3O3OEND
laLhlighAae-" 0-
615 L I s land E..o•mc.t,:• .7. =
.
W WO O Pt m ur l a p 'l;..i .
160l'a&C P ?•• ..
.0
tot if S 7:4)T a .t.l!
tYLO Ca/II k 1U16..., a1:
10x1 Ilik. .......... . •
..
40 2tl ..t 3.1 1L.......
300 N l'enu E ..........
109 Omen A' l'Adt!''''.. ;Co
14 Sohn Nav p&t..•.•• •• 10
1000 Cl 4:
ev 3110 1 1: : :. • V
5 Comaterchal t .
0 4
3turt sLo.n st 4eh . ..
t. .4 . • i f,4
ie eve . g
0 Pltifit a ,V,:,v;
2.5 111tzleton C00t,,;..., .
100 Cam & At E- 0 °
PRICES.
CalaWisss
fR
pral.••••• ;41:
Beaver Sited R.•
3linehill R•-•••••
lierrieburi •'•
Iffilmin r „ton f• — • • '
Lehigh :N a's
IDo ehares.•••ivi s .
, 1 0 acriP••• • ,lt
Cam Arab
sDL P ne h Dit i i:ao l i
11 Do bends•—m:
Sprace-streer R-•
I Chestnut-et R- •• •
I rth-arreet R••• •
Raee-sireet a...
,Tenta-stref.:...-••
iThiwenth - s.
Wo
band= Philo ...... •.. • • •
D. •
Grooa-street li•••
de_ .
Do
000.---
Second-street ".
Do bonds •• •
Fifth-etvat it•—• • -
D o hona3•-- • •
Girard Culled ll •
Sovenreenal -At
Little Sobuyl 1.1-•
ks, Januar)
ons at 3 o'clock.
Rif
.l;
I fir r ie
Erie "Pref. ......
Hod lill- ... ••• - •
Harl son
em .
Harlem R R Pre.
Readiug R R.•••:
Blichigan
richigau
Do. Oaar . . .
....
Ce clx 2l- • • '"
!Cleve dc
.
iGale T o..
r na
edo ;" c ,
Chi & Rock r.:• •••
Torre li q liaute Co
Chi for 3r a.. g
& Pr Do C
C O
IliCea Con I'd'''.