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SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1863.
CONGRESS.
Sir ATE.—The Tice President presented a com-
Munioation from the Secretary of the Interior ask
_ ing for an appropriation for the completion of the
(Invited. The memorial of the widow of Col. E. D.
••••••• a penaion was presented. The bill to
.13akteru,.. -elands on the Southern coast was
suspend the.„, d
, arne.., m ,... ent!'as was also the
reported back with an
- bill to amend thejUdiCial system oftri
, united States.
A bill to punish , fraud against the GoverntrZ t
was introduced and referred. Resoltitions were
adopted to encourage foreign emigration; asking .
whether the authority to raise men for the defence
of BlisEouri had not been exceeded; to ascertain
the expediency of deepening and widening the Fox
and Wisconsin rivers, and to inquire into the con
struction of our Iron-clads, which latter was re
jected. The Judiciary Committee reported a bill
to enable the heads of departments to deputize sub
stitutes 'during temporary absence. The resolution to
exclude from the mails newspapers suppressed by
military authority was adopted. The bill making ap
propriations for the support of the civil service was
taken up and passed. The bill to aid Missouri in
emancipating her slaves was considered, and post
poned, as WAS the bill to consolidate the regiments
that have been ereatly reduced during the war. Re
solutions were adopted instructing the Vice President
to appoint a member of the Board of Regents for the
Smithsonian Institution, in the place of Senator
Pearce, deceased, and asking why the message of the
Governor of Utah had been suppressed. The bill to
increase the clerical force in the office of the quar
termaster General was taken up, dismissed, and
postponed, when the Senate went-into executive
session, anti subsequently adjourned over until
'Hotrsli.—After the' consideration of several bills
film the private;calentler, the House took up the
bill for the enlargement of the Mississippi andtohlo
Canal, which gave way to a motion to go into Coni T
.3oittee of the IVhole on the state of the Union, when
the timmee bill, from the Committee of Ways' and
Means; was tahen'up and discussed, for two hours,
when the committee rose, and the House adjourned
until Monday.' ' .
Our. National Finances.
• . .
`The"National Congress is now engaged
disoussinvone : of the most important
questions tha tem concern' the people.. The
derangement'Of our finances iViiS a hems
' Sary consequence of the war. The war
caine upon us like a whirlwind, and when
men began to kill one another they very
rapidly conceived feelings •of distrust and
trepidation. Stocks, property, credit, in-.
vestments, bonds, ands mortgages, every
thing that represented private faith and
.:,public security, began to tremble from the
effect_ of the universal strife. America has
leen no exception to the rule 'that governs
the world, and it is a matter of pride .
to Us . that we , do not suffer tom war
as -Fraueu ..:did T. under IslicriEn and
England under PITT. ; The great genius
of **tory CHASE, which commands
th 6 admiration of our most unreleliting
fOreign:enemies; has saved us from many
dangers, and embarrassments. But we Can=
not_ content ourselves with remaining in a
. .
position of . compaTative confidence—for our
position is only comparative. There are
• troubles. Soldiers.have not been paid, and
many an anxious Volunteer mounts guard
this- morning with a heavy heart, as he
thinks of those at hoine who may be suffer,
ing. The necessities of the Treasury are such
as to reAuire speedy relief, and that relief
must. come from Congress. The Secretary .
of the Treasuly has proposed his plan to the
:Honsk of Representatives—the House is dig- -
Posed . to amend it by another plan like that
"of Mr. SProVULDING, of New York, whoge re
cent speech on this subject has been printed.
The question seems to be whether there
shall be_ an unlimited issue of treasury
notes based upon .the general faith of the
country, and depending upon future genera
:•bons for redemption, or whether every
• ries= . shall . represent so many vallics in
the shape of property, lands, taxation, re
venue; and internal improvements.
• . •
We do not favor the plan of the House, so
"far as we are able to understand The
issue of currency by printing and sighing a
certain number of reams of treasury notes,
with arbitrary denominations, curious de
signs, and nothing more, will pay. debts
temporarily, - but, by depreciating the value
of the
. cutTencypsoon involVe the country in
I\irther troublep h and give only a transient
relief. It affordS en expedient, and does not
"give a remedy—it is a compromise, and not
a,conclusion, audit must make the whole sys
tem more deplorable in years to come than .
it is now. Capitalists dread it as a Most un-
Torturiete contingency, and the fact that
, 'such "a plan -- Was - diectissed in Congtess de
, pressed Government securities about fifteen
per cent. This the mere alarm
occasioned ; and we • can readily irhagin f e'
ivhat the effect would be had the alarm been
iealized. SO' far as any past experience
*ill sustain present reasoning ; we cannot
but see that the effect of- such an irresponsi
ble issue would be to advance the price of
...every necessity and comfort of life, and en
..courage the rash and reckless spirit of specu
lation, which is now reaching a wild and
'" fearful point. The plan of Secretary 01118 E
open to no such objection. He desires to
-make an issue of legal-tender notes bearing
a nominal interest sufficient to make it ah
object to the community to hold them, and
thereby, prevent pressure upon the market
•or inflation of values. Currency bearing
interest ceases to be an involuntary me
dium.* Men desire it as an investment—as a
convenient - 'lnettieds -of. cliange—as a repre
sentativp of prolierty, 'lt will be held by
the community, insteed.of depoSited
in the banks, because' - it :posSesses all the
virtues of a bank deposit, and will not forth
another teniptation to false trading, by
giving - a new basis for inflated bank issues,
or • swelling bank deposits to an injurious
extent.
Theft are indications that the House will
reject the counsels that Prompted an inde
tinite of non-interest-bearing legal
tender notes, and the probability is that
the Senate Committee -of Finance will
lake the more reasonable view, and do
nothing to remove the currency any far
ther from the specie standard. Every
business man anti .ca,pitalist—every man,
indeed, who feels an interest in the in
tegrity Of our currency should -oppose
the issue :'of : !my . more legal-tender notes
that do not bear interest. What . the
country., wants is a currency that will
afford speedy relief to our present de
pressed systemnf finances ; enable the Go:.
vernmeekto make settlements with soldiers,
fecAraCtors, and public creditors, and at the
lianielithe combine the advantages of lcian
tua. , ,,eurreney, granting. ..to the holders
f4o' .
_privilege' of conver.tint it into new
twenty-year six per cent- foam.- The great
advalittige - of this:system, As we intimated
before, Will be to . Make every Man his
own banker, and-remove from. the money
centres large amounts which are used, in
times like these, for speculation in gold and
stocks. Money would tighten and' become
depressed by this withdrawal, and capitalists
with liMited'inearis, instead of buying hun
dreds of thousands by the aid of banks and
. bankers, would have to curtail their opera
tions and avoid the risks of desperate specu
lation. •
. .
. _We are discussing this question of inte
rest-bearing legal-tender notes, with a view
to giving the: Government temporary relief.
It does , not , provide for the future. That
must be determined when the present neces;
sity-no longer exists. The Banking Bill of
Secretary CAASE—thd embodiment of the
_great idea that the currency shall be of a
national character—is what to us seems to
promise permanence and security in on curr
rency transactions. This system, at first
.opposed, gains friends as rapidly as its merits
become understood, even among those who
-control banking institutions. Experience
and thought will, of course, suggest changes
and, with these changes, we have no
doubt it will be accepted by the nation as a
lasting and permanent benefit.
A Card from 31r. Randall.
the Editor of The Press:
Sin.: Your editorial and, your "Harrisburg corres
pondent, in Wednesday's paper, have given a forced
construction to .the - language used by me upon the
occasion referred to. .
What I stated was not Intended to encourage per
sonal violence, but to' affirm that if any Democratic
member refused to vote for the Democratic caucus
nominee, he would meet the fate of those Democrats
who, in 18¢7, betrayed their trust, and would be, like
them, politically reckoned among the things i::)1* the
past. . .SAMUEL J. RANDALL.
PHIL KDELl'ltta, January 16,1863.
LETTERS FROM "OCCASIONAL."
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 1863.
• Undoubtedly, 'the. speech of Hon. Hon- .
Melt B. Wright, pronounced : yesterday:d4
ter uoon in the Hotise, was an..Opportnne ands,
fearless declaration of devotion tothe court) ,
try and of hAstifity;tO - Ithe.. , 4lWOus . doe
trines of thog apostles of qression
while preaching present peace, insidiously
and industriously prepare the way for per
petual war.. Oppvtune, because . it:cament
a ..nipmentwhen the mobocratic spirit;-
Rushed With its success in threatening State
Legislatures, was beginning to ShiWitSelfiri
demonstrations.: even here at the capital of
the nation ; and - fearless, because it was the
Utterance of a 'Demdcrat reply to Mr.'
Vallancligham, the foremost leader, •the ne
tite counsellor, and the untiring . advocate of
that interest which regards thiS. War as un
just, and which contemplates
. the fatal re
medy of an armistice without caring for its
bloody consequences—a Democrat, who,
heretofore bound by party tie's, and here
tofore voting, • with a few exceptions,
with his'. party; `.'leblumn in the House
at last broke loose from the chains in
which he was bound, and spoke hear
ty, healthy, honest, noble words for
the liberties of his bleecling,and beleaguered
country. It is certainly doing. no discredit
to that veteran legislator and sterling Repub
lican patriot, Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, who
was the first to reply to Mr. Vallanclig
ham's speech, and who drew tears froni
every patriotic eye.on the floor and in the
galleries—it is no discredit:to him to say that
the speech of Mr. Wright carried away the
chief honorS, and made an impression which
will not soon be forgotten. •It is true, there,
was a sad and significant side to this.
picture at the conclusion of. his spontaneous:
protest against Mr. Vallandighain. 'Hoc
2 . 3ar of alt the Democrats in - the House con,
.gratulated him after he had spoked for the .
Republic: These were' the . leaders 'of the
party ; but the - Democrats in the galleries,
who were not leaderS, and
. whoclid not, apl,
pland Mr. Vallancligham, (and among them
I noticed many in the national uniforM),
could not be reitrained•by the Speaker as
the eloquent words of Mr. Wright fell.uport
their ears. •
• What does this spectacle prove ? It proves
that we haven country, after all. That the
heart of the people is sound and whole,
and that although the Democrafg
. may be
misled, and fooled, and frightened by their
oracles, yet when the Union chord is struck,
that heart responds to it instinctively . and
instantly. The 'conclusion of Mr. Wright's
speech did not seem to be understood by the
House. Let me explain what he meant in
the following passage. He, too, has lost a
gallant son, who; after serving with distinc
tion in-the army, died of a fell disease, con
tracted in the geld. Well; therefore, might
the•father say,
'The war has cost me its trials and tribulations.
I can truly close my remarks with a quotation from
an ancient philosopher, uttered over the dead body
of his son, slain in battle :
I ahould have blushed if Cato's ho'lise had stood'
Secure and flourished in a civil war."
OCCASIONAL
WASTITEGTO!i, Jan. 16, 1863
The highly interesting report of the Com
mission, created by the act of Congress
emancipating the slaves in, the District of
Columbia, which I presume you have al
ready laid before•your readers, imposes an
important and imperative 'duty; upon both
houses of Congress. The appropriation
'compensating the loyal owners of these
slaves, which will amount to $896,700,
should at once be voted. Already. the
Secessionists hi our midst are predicting,
now that freedom hes been proclaimed
in this ten miles square; there will be
delay on the• part of the Republicans
in Congress in completing the covenant of
the act itself: It is the bounden duty of the
Administration and of all its sincere friends
'to disappoint this malignant . prophecy, and
to leave no room•for cavil' and complaint in
any cpiarter. The sum required is con
siderably less than at first estimated, and the
Cominissioners, Hons. Dan. R. Goodloe,
Horatio King, and John M. Brodhead,
serve 'great credit for the, fidelity, care,. and
economy with which they discharged their
della& and responsible obligations.. If
Congress 'makes this - appropriation imme
diately it will materially hasten emanci
pation-in ,the adjoining State of Maryland.
When the:people of that State realize that
the Government has acted fairly and honor
ably towards the recent slaveholders in this
district; they' will be glad to indemnify
themselves by' uniting - in a, general act of
emancipation before 'the great body of their
human property has taken to •its legs and
run away. The number of slaves escaping
from Maryland is known to be considerable.
Why, then, should not their masters make
a virtue of the necessitl, and adopt the only.
sensible alternative remaining to them ? The
present Congress should remember that in
less than six weeks its term' will expire.
Every motive of good - faith; sound policy,
and patriotic foresight should, therefore, in
spire the Republicans to make the appropria
tion called forhy the Emancipation Commis
sion at the earliest possible clay. . •
w.A.sia.rN - Gr TOW.
Special Despatches to ,4 The Press."
WASHINGTON, January 16, 1841.
The McDowell Court of Inquiry—Titter
. estiug Letter from the President to
Gen. McClellan.
Gen. RICKETTS was examined, testifying that the
road by which he was ordered to march by Gen. Mc-
Dow.x.u.,, on the morning of the 53th of August, was
so obstructed by wagons in his front as greatly to
impede the progress of his command.
Major General Hrroneoen. was next called. He
testified at length relative to the forces which left
for the protection of Washington when MCCLEL
LAN'S army started for the Peninsula.
In the course of his testimony, the following letter
from the President of the United States was laid
before the court:
1 1 7A9ni.NOTON, April 9th, 18672.
To Major General McClellan:
MY DEAR SUL Your despatches, complaining that
-you are not properly sustained, while they do not
offend me, pain me very much. BLENCKEIO9 divi
sion was withdrawn from you before you left here,
and you knew the pressure under which I did it,
and, as I thought, acquiesced in it—certainly not
, - without reluctance. '
After yOu left I ascertained that less than 20,000
unorganized men, without a single field battery,
were all you designed to be left for the defence of '
Washington and Manassas Junction, and a part of
these even was to go to Gen. Hooltint's old poii
tion. Gen. BANK_S' corps, once designed for Manas
sas Junction, was divided and tied.up on the line of
Winchester and Strasburg, and - eould• not leave it ,
without again exposing the Upper Potomac and the
Baltimore and Ohio road. This'presented, or would
present, when Generals MoDowEtt or SELIENER
should be gone, a great temptation to the enemy
to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack
Washington. My explicit directions that Washing
ton should, by the judgment of all the commanders
of the corps, be left entirely secure, bad been en
tirely neglected. It was precisely this that drove me
to detain MoDowar.t. I do not forget that I was
satisfied with your arrangement to leave BANKS at
Manassas Junction, but when that arrangement was
broken up, and nothing was substituted for it, of
course, I was not satisfied. I was constrained to
substitute something for it myself.
And now allow me to ask, do you really think I
should permit the line from Richmond via Manas-
Safi Junction to this city to be entirely open except
what resistance could be prevented by leis than
20,000 unorganized troops) This is a question which
the country will not allow me' to evade.
There is a curious mystery about the number of
troops now with you. I telegraphed you on the 6th,
saying that you had over 100,000 men with you. I had
just obtained from the Secretary of War a statement
taken, as he said, from your own returns, making
108,000 then with you and en route to you. You
now say you will have but 86,000 when all en route
to you shall have reached you. How can this dis
crepancy of 35,000 be accounted for
.As to General WooLls command, I understand it
is doing for you precisely what a like number of
your own would haVe to do if that comniffnd was.
away. I suppose the whole force which has gone
forward to - you is with you by this time, and, if so, I
think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow.
By delay the enemy will readily gain on you—that
is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforce..
meats than you can by reinforcements alone;
and once more, let me tell you it is Indispen
sable to you that you strike a - blow. I am
powerless to help ` this ; you will do me the justice
to remember I always opposed going down the bay
in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near
Manassas, as only shifting and not surmounting a
difficulty ;that we would find the same enemy and the
same or, equal entrenchments at either place. The
country will not fail to note—is noting now that the
present hesitation to move Upon an 'entrenched
enemy is but the story of Mattosias repeated.
I beg to assure 'you that I have never written'or
spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than
now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far
as in my most anxious judgment I conaistently, cam
• But you must act.
Yours, very truly,
A. LINCQUI'L
Our Relations w;th New Granada.
The President today sent's+ 11e.tt,ge to the House
in reply to a resolution eskinglki-Senor ftintur.r.cr
has not been recellak as'thit-411)*sentative of the
reVointionl4 Government 'of" , ‘Ni..w-Granada, and .
...what- comtniulicatiOn - had - • been iitithwith Senor
linnanzr,.the repieeentative 'of: the Confederacy Of
New Granada. . ~
The President reeites;'.7.lhe i t diplomatic relations
heretofore existing between )Lkhe United States
and New Grenada, and the rOognition in 1858 of the
Confederacy of New-Granada. 1:1 then states that
previous to March, 1861, a revoltitickukry war broke
out in New Grenada, assuming to set up a new. Go-
Vernment under the nameof the United - States of
Colembia. This war has had its "vicissitudes .but
the revolutionary organization tied hitherro been
eimplf ii siillitary E;rovisionarY rower without de;
-finitive Constitution. of Government, and. no, Go
vernment of the latter kind, has been organized its
lieu of the Government of 1858 i which has been re.:
cognized by the United States, •
The U. S. -Minister, appointed in tB6l, was in-
strutted, in view of the occupation of the capital of
New Granada by the revolutionists; and the uncer
tainty of the Civil .war then.waging, not to present
his credentials to. either. of the-governments, but to
conduct hie atfairtoinformally,..ascustcanary in such
cases, and' to . report the progress-of events; and await
the instructions - of this Government. The advices
receivedi have not beeh sufficient to determine the
President to *recognize this revolutionary govern
ment, and Gen. Ilmrtnan being here es the represen
tative of a Government' so.long recognized, he had
not received any representativeof the revolution, as
that would be an act or recognition. Official com
munications -have been had-on occasional and inci
dental questions with Gen. 1-lenttarr, as Minister of
the New Grenadian . Confederacy, but in no other
character. From these communications no defini
tive measure or proceeding has resulted, and a com
munication of them, at this time, the President does
not deem compatible with the, public interests. '
Restored to. the Service.
Surgeon &sr, Surgeon,in-Chief of Gen. Sicacu's'
brigade, who was recently dismissed froai the service
on erroneous information, has been restored, it ap
pearing from a coannunioation from Medical Direc
tor LETTurorAw, Clete, SICKLES, and other promi
nent officers, that no surgeon'iu the army has a bet
ter record.
DEPARTMENT OF THE, CUMBERLAND.
General Lougstreet Supersedes Genera}.
Bragg—The Corps of the former at Shelr
byville Conscripts . Deserting Forrest
Still Making Raids—Full Particulars of
FOrresVs Raid at fiarpeth ShoalliNegro
, Crews Strippid and Tied to Trees aftei
Receiving Thirty--nine - Idaslitris'—Rafliimisitt
. Bridges Destroyed—Terrible Storm—De-
sertion of an Entire Rebel Regiment, &c.
NASHVILLE, Jan. l6.—General Bragg has been
superseded by General Longstreet in the'command
of the rebel Army of the West,
The latter's army corps are at glielbyville. '
Forrest is still near Harpeth..-
A feet • under the alai* _Of .
gtintiMits is on the
way,
The conscripts in the rebel army are deserting and
fleeing to this city daily.
The river has risen- to ten feet on the shoals, and
•
continues to rise.
Special Despatch to The Press.
NASHVILLE, Jan. is—P. M.
Brigadier General F9RUSST, of the rebel army;
with a force of about, four thousand men and twelve
pieces of light artillery, attacked our relief and
storeships coming up the Cumberland river, and
succeeded in capturing five steamboats, laden with
valuable commissary stores, and the gunboat
Sidell. Several of the boats contained wounded
soldiers, who, in jumping from theni while burning,
were shot in the water.
The negro crews were stripped of their clothing,
tied to trees, cowhided, and left to starve on shore.
The boats were all anchored in mid-channel and
burned, after being robbed of valuables..
The officers and soldiers were stripped of clothing,
placed on shore, and paroled. •
A tremendous rain storm 'has set in, and the
river has risen over three feet in a few hours.
Several bridges on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad have been destroyed by this band of marau
dere, and mail communication cannot be resumed for
some time.
The wires between this place and Murfreesboro
have been cut by Secessionists, who pretend to be
quiet Union farmers, and I have no word from our
army to day, but it is ready for the enemy.
Nineteen deserters from various Tennessee regi
ments came into this city to-day.
An entire rebel regiment, numbering about three
hundred men, deserted and came into our outpost,
fifteen miles beyond Murfreesboro, yesterday.
Ninety thousand dollars of Confederate States,
funds were seized from brokers in this city and con
fiscated yesterday, by order of. Gen. MITCHELL.
Gen. Loco TREi-T has arrived at Shelbyville with
thirteen brigades from Lv.ti's army, and he has su
perseded Gen. - - Bruioa in command of .the rebel
army in Tennessee.
Reliable information has been received from scouts
that efforts are being made by the rebels to cutßost:-
citA:cs' army off from supplies and retreat, and
then crush it.
Gen. LerNoernr.r.r will attack us, it is said, next
week, with .his entire foree, which is -thought to
number about 45,000 men,- -- --
We shall have. stirring .times here soon. Gen.
ROSECRAICS is fully prepared for the enemy, but will
not move upon him until. certain expeditions effect,
the destruction of a railroad and tapture. FOREE-3T
and his men, or drive them off.
The Chattanooga Rebel of yesterday reports a large
fleet of. gunboats and transports-ascending the Mis
sissippi river on the 13th instant.
We have • nothing but rebel news here. and feel
gloon4, but hope the best. ..13:"d. T.
The Recent Affair. near Suffolk—General
Roger A. - Pryor's Forces Defeated—Odiciol
Despatches from Gens. Dix and Peck.
:WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The . following despatch
has been received at the Headquarters of the Army :
FORTRESS MONROE, Jan. 16, 1863. -
To Ncyor General IL W. Halleck, General-in-Chief:
The Ilichniond papers are boasting that General
Pryor repulsed our troops near Providence Church,
on the 9th.
The following despatch of the 10th, from General
Peck, gives the true version of the affair. His as
was repulsed by our mounted rifles, under
Major Wheelan.
It is due to the latter and to our troops that the
truth should be known, and if you see no objection,
I will be glad to have the despatch published.
JOHN A. DIX, Major General,
OCCASIONAL.
SurFOrx, january 10, 1863
Major Gnerai sra, Portras Monroe •
The enemy crossed the Blackwater in considerable
force, and attempted yesterday to drive in our right,
at Providence Church. Infantry, cavalry, and ar
tillery Were employed by the rebels; but they. were
repulsed by Major Wheelan, of the New York
Mounted Rifles, at dusk. •
The enemy's advance was charged and driven back,
upon his support. At intervals, during the night,
shells were thrown from the rebel batteries. -
JOAN J. PECK,
M.ajd'r General Commanding.
Fou'rnEss Masuor., Jan. 15.—The steamboat
Thomas A. Morgan, Capt. Rim, from Yorktown;
brought down two rebel prisoners, cavalrymen,
who have recently deserted from Gen. Wises army,
which is at 'White House in force.
These prisoners reportithat Wise is now asationed
with his command at the White House, and threat
ens to hang any of the Federal officers he may cap
ture who were in the expedition which - recently
made the successful raid upon the White House.
The goods they then captured were brought to For
tress Monroe to-day on the steamboat Thomas A.
Morgan.
DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTHWEST.
The Affair at Spring - field, Mo.—The Rebels
Defeated and in V`u.ll. Retreat—General
Brown Wounded by a Rebel Resident Of
Springfield—Loss of. the -- Enemy, 300:
ST. Loris, Jana 16.—A despatch ' froin General
Biown to General Curtis, dated Springfield, the
Bth inst., says the battle at that place lasted thir
teen hours. The enemy numbered 5,000 picked
mounted infantry, with two rifled guns. The expe
dition was fitted out on the Arkansas river, and
rn arched at least fifty miles in twenty-four hours, not
withstanding they had skirmishing with our scout
ing parties most of the way.
The enemy opened . tire on the town, without
giving notice to remove the sick or the women and
children in.the place. . .
Our forces consisted of detachments of the Ms
.souri State militia, lowa 'troops, enrolled Missouri
militia, and convalescents and stragglers, number
ing in all six hundred men, with two old iron
howitzers, one iron 6.pounder, mounted on wagon
wheels, and two brass 6-pounders at Fort Lyon.
r The enemy were badly whipped.
General Brown was treacherously shot, from the
the residence of a Secessionist, while he was lead
ing a charge.
A despatch from General Warren, dr4etl at Hous
ton, Texas county, on the 14th, says The enemy .
is in full retreat toward Arkansas. General Mar
maduke's force is at Hartsville, numbering between
4,000 and 5,000. The rebel loss was about 300 killed,
wounded, and taken prisoners. The guerilla Mc-
Gould was among the killed, and the notorious
guerilla, Captain Porter, badly wounded." •
DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE.
Operations of the Guerillas on the Missis
sippi River—Corinth in Danger 7 Fears
for the Safety of a Railroad,. Train, &e.
Fern' HENRY, Jan. 16.—The steamer Jas. Means,
with commissary stores for the army at Corinth, re
turned, and reports that a rebel force; numbering
2,500, are encamped in the vicinity of Savannah.
Fears are entertained that the train which left
Pittsburg Landing on Sunday, for Corinth, under an
escort of 1,600 men, will be attacked and captured by
the rebels, as their presence in that vicinity was en
tirely unexpected. They were receiving artillery:
for the purpose of blockading the river, and it is be
lieved that. no steamers will now be able to'go up
the river without the proteetiim of the gunboats.
- The rebel Forrest cuisseatlie Tennessee, in full re
..
treat, at Clifton.
BOSTON;; Jan.- 16.--Arrired-4birls Greenland,
from -B. F. Shaw, from Havana ; brig Charles,
from SE-Thorhas. • ,• _
"'NEW Y.oinc, Jan. 16f-=Arrived-Steamer Teu,tor
nia, Ikon Hamburg. 8e10w.,--7-Bohoone't 'Phanboin t
from the West /notice. _
THE. PRESS.-P,HILA.DELPIIIk SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1863.
DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA.-
Marine:
GOOD NEWILDROIi Tl SOfTHWEST.
• ..... 5 .1•: :: •
- cliOitiliVot - "ARKANsiioL•gobt . : , •
LOSS OF. TH E REBELS,
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MedVERNAND 41$P.;APKINar POE
n3k A-:**MORY
,
onistoi Jan. Ph-4%i ram. SwitzerNMl" Arrived
here nue evening from the squadron. Slier brings
news or the taking...6f Arkansisa—Vaillin:this
eas:river,:one hunchali , milagfrolrethe'fic,thi Hryrllte
land and'naval forces-umier:.lllthleztaii . d and
ci . e.Clirred'ori 7 Sittidsiir.Witkfarthe'
;guns, stares; and'ammtmition. . ' " • .
The full:particulars hire not been received.: The
rebel loaais said to have , lieen 550 killed and Wow - a&
ed, and from 5,000 to 7,006 -`prisoners. These resuMs
may be modified by fa/es:sod more authentic as
counts.
DEVIRTNENV OF THE GULF.
Rebels Advanelnig oattonaldsoraviiie-oemw,
Banks about to itlewe-Ad.mtral Farrisgribt
Despatches a Fleet to fiecapture the
" liariatet Lane ”-isterther Details of the-
Galveston AR air-AT,Reirel Gunboat Sunkr..
Resistance of Onr Sailors.
NEW ICOILK, Jan. 16.--The steamer Illinois, Willi-
New Orleans adv . ices tothe fifth of January, arrived •
at this post to-day.
The rakes were encrsaehhig upon the lines of the.
United States army in ttaneighborhood of Donaid--
sonvillst.but no danger was apprehended.
Gen. Banks had brow in command for a month,
but nose of his plans imd , aayet transpired.. It - was.
knows, however, that-homer naridle. itosi of his.
troopshad gone to Baton Rouge.
Rumors were current to the effect that a battle•
began at Vicksburg.on.the 31st, and was continued
daily, but, nothing very. definite was known:in:New-
Orinans eel° the =suit.
The affair at Galveaton on the lit inst..caused a.
general feeling oL gloom both in the army arsilittvy.
Admiral Farraguthed sent the Brooklyn; Sciota,
and half a dozen.otber of his best ships to reiagture•
the Harriet Lane at all hazards, andi if pOSsible ) ,
deitroy.the rebel gunboats in Bayou Buffalo;
Of this expeditioanothing had been heardia New
Orleans up. to the Bth inat • '
. The'following are all the details of thedalveibxi
disaster to be found in•the New Orleduifipipgier
At 2 o'clock on the Morningld the tits , lastent,
fous r lst(ggEntipats,,.lined and forblied Wi,ile'cotton
bales, emerged ' from Buffalo. bayou into Galveston
Bay, and moved directly-to attack our yeeeeil.. •
The Harriet Lane was aground, but succeeded in
getting several well-directed shots .into one of the
steamers, sinking her in a few minutes. The sharp
shooters succeeded in killing all the gunners and
Captain Wainwright. When the latter fell, the
Texans boarded the Harriet Lane and captured her,
meeting with a heroic defence from her officers' and
men. •
Lieut. Lee and nearly all of her crew were killed.
The rebels next attacked the Westfield, whiOli was
also aground. After Aneffectually attempting to get
her afloat, a consultation of the officers was called
by Captain and it was unanimously
agreed to blow her .up. Most of her officers and •
crew escaped, but ,Capt. Renshaw, Lieut Zimmer
man, Engineer Green, two quartermaster; four fire
men, and a boat's crew of five men, were blotnitp
with the vessel.. '
The gunboat Owasso had two men Idlied-and
eleven wounded. The rest of the fleet escaped: z .
The rebels turned the prows of all the vessels
shoreviard, where they were anchored at the latest
advises.
The steamer Cambria, with .two companies. of
cavalry', the horses of the 2d Vermont Battery, and
a large number of women and, children, bound to
Galveston, had a narrow escape from capture On
the 4th ; but she escaped and returned, meeting the
United States frigate Brooklyn en route to Gal
veston.
The Suspected. Steamer Princess -Royal.
BOSTON, Jam IG._ •:A letter from gslifax gives the
following description of the British sieameiPrinceis
Royal, which sailed thence on the 12th inst., for
Nassau, N. P., with a valuable cargo, principally
consisting of powder and munitions of war.
The vessel is built of Iron, schooner-riggedi,and
prorelled by screw, Making an average speed og
twelve knots. After coaling at Cunardls wharf she'
ran into the stream, and for the last , two days the
painter's brush has been transforming . her -hall,
spars, funnel, Sic.,
from black to leitd. eolbr. Her
captain professes to belong to New 1. - ofir; but, it fa
certainly his real • intention to run the bloCkade if
he can. Being short of one or two hands, he en
gaged two young men at Halifax, to who . in he'pro.
raised a handsome bounty if he should succeed in
getting into Charleston.
The Princess Royal has ten large guns in her hold,
but has no guns on deck. Her cargo is represented
to be niost valuable. She was built at Greenock, in
1861, and Is a beautiful model.
An- American Bark Overhauled by a
Britlett Gktuboat.
NEW . : YORR, , TAM 16.—Tice bark Morning Star
- r
at rived at this port today from St. Alio. She re
ports that site was fired into and overhauled by the
British gunboat Plover. .
From San• CiSICO.
SAN Fue - atrsco, San 16.;—:The steamship (olden
Age arrived fiord Panama. to=day with :the Eastern
mails.
SAN FIIENOISCO, San. 15.—The steiinier I.Golden
Age, from Panama, reporti the' United States
steamer Saranac and coalahlp Carlisle at Acapulco
on the Bt h.
-;
None of ,the French fleet. had .arrilltd there, but
— they.were_hourly expected...'
In
In the California Legislature sevenC•mote'.hallots
have been taken for United States SeicatorVithout
result. On the last ballot, Phelps received 37, Sar
. gent 34, and Carnes 24—scattering al.
All parties stick to their candidates -with. the
greatest stubbornness, and there is, as yet, no evi
dence of any intention of yielding on any.side.
SAN FnAransco, Jan. N.—Legal tenders are dull
at 66. The first turpentine of California manufac
ture was offered in the market to-day. Sales of
-1,000 boxes of Proctor & 'Candles , candles.at 1814,c
and 1,600 boxes of Thomas' at 16.qc.
From Canada—Great Snow Storm—Sodden
tOppage of the pit iv ells..
•
TORONTO, Jan. 16.—A great snow storm prevails
all over Canada West. -
.. Gieat excitement prevails at Ermiskelling in eon
sespence of the.sudden stoppage of the- oil, wells in
that region. Renewed drilling to a greater depth
has been commenced.
Misotul Legiplature.
JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 16.—Mr. Barrel's
resolution sustaining the President's emancipation
proclamation, which was offered in the House yes..
terday, together with Mr. Allen's substitute, was
to-day referred to a select committee of seven.
In the Senate a resolution was adopted requesting
the select committee on emancipation to report
what amount of money should be appropriated by
Congress to compensate for the slaves in Missouri,
provided they shall all be emancipated by act of the
Legislature. The resolution was passed with a
view to facilitate Congressional action oAthe sub•
ject.
New York Legislature..
AlmsViT ) lJan.,l6::-The AsSembly was a scene
of excitement;'occasioned by the nomination of Mr.
Calliecotti a Democrat, for Speaker, by the Republi
cans. The votiog is going op, each Democrat making
a speech as his name iitalled.
ALBANY, Jan. 16.—The House adjourned to-day
without taking a ballotfor Speaker. '
The voting was staved off by a long spelt made
by Mr. Fields (Dem.) against time.
Loss of Horses at Sea.
BOSTON, San. 16.—A.privateletter 'states that
ty horses, of the 12th Massachusetts Battery, died
_during the passage to Port Monroe, .on account of
the rough weather. •The +Agee] which conveyed the
battery was detained in Boston harbor two or three
days of pleasant weather, waiting a .clearance from
the custom house. -
Freshet in the :Lehigh and Delaware
*Riirefs.
Easiox, „Tan. 16.—Therele a freshet in the Lehigh
and Delaware rivers. . -•
No damage to the canals has yet been reported. •
BLtrow Cuum: Jan. 16.—There is, a freshet here,
the river being eight feet on the dam at aix - o'clock
this evening.
.'.
The wagon bridge leading to East "Mauch Chunk
has been washed away.
The Lehigh Valley railroad bridge below here has
been injured, and the trains will be stopped for'sevo•
ral 'days.
The water is now Over the wagon road below the
Mansion House.
•
It la reported that the Turn Hole bridge, on the
Beaver Meadow railroad, has been-washed Fcway,
but as yet the report lacks contliniatitin:
Heavy sugiv: StoA'm at CW-intiati.
CINCINNATI, Jan. l6.—Out.door business' was .
generally; suspended yesterday on account of the ,
MUM storm. The street railroads we,restopped from
running;and the trains on all the roads loading to
the city were behind time. -A number did not arrive
at all. . ' -
The roof of the barracks on Vine street fell in
'also the roof and a porticin of the gas works, and .
several other buildings, having been crushed by the
weight of the snow.- No lives have been lost so far
as is known. The storm is general throughout Ohio
and , Indiana, and the snow ranges from six inches to
two feet in depth. .
The - Storin4-BallTond 'Travel Impeded in
Xelitue.lo
LouisVlLLB.; Jani 16.-,-The railroad bridge across
the Kentucky river- at .Prankfort was swept away
by Hood last night. . There is, a large
.quantity of.
snow on the ground which should disappear...sud
denly, threatens- to ; destroy every moveable struc.
ture. The railroads everywhere are.far behind time
and nre, generally entirely .blockaded:
Harrltiburg•
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IlAnnistnnits . , lin. 16.80 th liatises of the'Legia-,
.
lature have ,adjourned over until Monday 'nest, at
eleven o'clock A: - AL The election' for StoteTreasu-.
rer will take place on Monday. ' , -
peparture of the Aiia.
NEW YORK, :Jan. 16.—The royal-mail steamship
Asia sailed frumthe Quarantine at noon, to-day,tor
The U. S. Frigate San Jacinto.
NEW Yorm, Jart.'l6.—The liniteft States defeat
frigate San Jacinto coaled at St. Kitts. on the 28th,
and sailed on a cruise. •
THE PEEN MUTUAL LIFE .lICHUHANCE Orr*:
'PANS'. We call attention to the annual statement
of this institution; that has reached its high position,
as to strength and safety, by its excellent manage
ment. The net earnings 'of the • company for :the'
year.lB62 were $102,310.18, swelling their available
assets to $1,151,7,60, showing a, very presgiesous
condition. It is needless to,point out the great
vantages of life insurance, as they are:alreadi
understand. To those who would avail themselves
Of this jullicloin mode of securing a competency to
their families in. the event cietheix depaituie, we
cheerfully recommend this institution as among the
beat in our city. •
:1411)***E'AVIENTIOil" to the advertisement else
where
."fiii "-a special partner,' with , a capital of
.430,000it0 450,000, in a manufacturing eStablish
'Went," as emanating from one:of our best-known
and most respectable merchauta.
PEREMPTORY SALES STOC'Eti, 01 1 . 01 nr° TtENTN
tail) REAL ESTATM, on Tuesdikyi,ll4t *,POnatits .
Son'a advert mea t andpxmpa4":44Buol:6o.
VYJIth CONGRESS=Third Session.
• 'tei ,
Wapiti:Win:oNi January 16, 1883.
' • SENATE.
Chapitol,lllxteiisiori.
' The VICE :PRESIDENT - presented a ecrtarnuni
cation from the Secretary of the Interior, aalk'inglor
an approPriation of ..$500,000 for the Capitol eaten
pion, and *200,000 for the new dome.
Pension.
. •
Mr. HARDING- (U.) presented the memoriaa of.
tie widow of the late Oa E. D. 13x§ser, asking for a
pt.nr ion.
Sale of Lands.
Mr. WILSON (Rep.), of blassachumAts, from them
Committee atridiittary - Affairs, reported busk - the:
bill to suspendthe side otlands on the coast of G;eor
gia, aril in and - aboutt Port ißoyal;'lvith spa amend
ment arra substitute., . . . _ - . •.- •
. •
The :Anatol:it System.
' Mr. 1-10WARD(terr.), of Michigan, frorirlre Com
mittee on the J'adicisry, reported back Is bill to
emend tf...t'act amending the judicial systenoof the
- United Statts;
Government "Prands.
• Mr. WILSON (Hew)) of Massachusetts, 21tro
duced a bill to prevent and pcmish fraud on the Go
vernment of the 'United States. Referred.
Enziarriekon. •
Mr. POSTAI?" (R@ );,of Connecticut, offere,l
resolution directing' the- Committee on -Finance- to
, inquire into t hi expediedey of making an approprib
I Ron for the purpose of encouraging emigration from
Europe to the linited.States, He said there were
now about a million of men withdrawn from the
peaceful pursuitzirothia-sountry, and there were se
great many pemonsr, in. ICuropc, industrious an(
frugal, who would tie glad' to come here; and they
would do so if they had' the means. It seemed to ,
him that, under the presenteircumstances, *is was
a-matter of national concern; Adopted.
Defence- of MI eiscrecri. •
Mr. WILSON (Rep.), of: Massachusetts, offered a
resolution directing-the Secretary of War to inform
the Senate whetherrthe limitation in the act autho
rizing the State of Missouri to raise 100300 men for
loyal defence has been exceeded, and, if so, by what
authority such excess-has been allowed. He said it
was reported that a great number of men had been
raised in excess of% theset at a great expense. The
resolution was adopted:.
River . Improvements. .
Mr. RICE (Dem.)„,of , Minnesota, offered a resolu
tion directing the Military Ctxnmittee to inquire
into and report upon- the practicability . of widening
and deepening the Fax.and - W - mconsin rivers so as to
increase their navigation. Adopted..
Yuen-Clads.
" Mr. MeDOIJOALL. (•U.), of California, offered a
lesolution instructing Ass Naval Committee to in
/quire into the efficiency of the iron-clad vessels, con
structed.and being constructed for the Government,
the power of •their machinery, and if defective, the
muses thereof.- • - -
Mr. GRIMES (Rep. of loiva; said the whole
.inatter bad been referred to aboard of competent
engineers. .
Mr. HALE (Rep 4, of New Hampshire, said the
'Naval Commiftee would not have time to make
such an inquiry.-
Afte'r further discussion, the resolution was re
jected—yeas 18, nays 28. '
Department Substitutes.
Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep.), of Illinois, from the-
Cohunittee on the Judiciary, - to whom was referred.
the message of the President, asking that authortty
be given to heads of departments to appoint persons
temporarily tit discharge the duties of Secretary-of
War, Navy, and Treasury, reported a bill for that
purpose.
Prostitution of the Mails
Mr. OARIALE (U.), of Virginia, called up the
; resolution, offered by , him yesterday, relative to the
instructions from the Post Office Departm,ont,con
cerning the transportation of certain newspapers
t tbroligh the mails. It was adopted.
Pence.
%Kr. COWAN (Rep.) Offered the petition of W. O.
;Tewett, praying for. a reconsideration, of - the post.
ponemenr. of • his ' late petition, quoting from the
speech . of Kr. Sumner,. in favor of peace, asking for
a.withdrawalof the emancipation proclamation to
reunite the North, with mediation to save the Union;
and the adoption of the peace policy of Napoleon,
Greeley, arid Valkuidigham, to prevent a revolution
sin the Worth, which would result in disunion.
On motion. of. Mr. SUMNER; the petition was
laid oix the:table.
Civil Service.
•Mr..FESSEIVDEN (Rep.) of Maine, called up the
bill making appropriations for• deficiencies in the
civil of the Government, which was passed.
Emancipation.
Mr. HENDERSON. (U.), of Missouri, called up
the bill to aid the State of Missouri in emancipating
the slaves in the said State, and proceeded to /id - -
dress the Senate. He said he should endeavor to
answer some objections which might be urged
against the measure, and do all he could to secure
its success. It was well that the details of emanci
pation were left to the Legislature of the State, for
that Legislature is truly loyal, and was elected with
a view to this special purpose . He referred to a
'speech he made litit year, in which' he urged that
the Convention of that State be recalled and instead
of putting Missouri out of the Union- they should
put slavery out of the State. Before the rebellion
. there were about 127,124 slaves in. Missouri. Many
'have been removed by their owners and many
escaped ;probably from• ten to twenty .thousand;
and it , might be assumed that' ten or fiteen thou
'sand were entitled to freedom under the confis
cation act, leaving, according to his estimate,.93,224
to be paid for. His 'object was to get rid of
slavery in the State of Missouri. There were two
.ways to do it—one by force, backed by military
power, and the other by the peaceful means of con
stitutional legislation. The first cannot be done
without ruin.to.the , State, so,that the letter was the
only practicable raethod. He 'read fl letter froni one
of the largest slaveholders in Missouri in favor of
.enaancipation,.and expressing perfect willingness
• to-sacrifice the institution for the preservation of the .
union. There were three questions arising out of
this measure : lst. Is slavery wrong? 2d. Is it an
obstacle to the preservation of the Unionl 3d. Are
the people of the non-Eslaveholding,States in any way
responsible for the evils of slaveriq . He should not
,argueithe . first question, lint leave it to the con,
science of every one. The second would be answered
in the affirmative by every - one wjio voted, or sup.:
norted-tbeenettaeation aat 4 ! - If the third queStion
could be . answered in the affirmative, then the peo
ple of the non-alaveholding'States ought cheerful:
ly to bear their .share of the burden necessary
to-get rid of the evil. He . then referred at some
length to the early introdtiotion of shivery into
the country, and quoted , from the ;debates on the
subject in the Convention which formed the Consti:
tutlon, claiming that the Northern States were par
tially responsible for the evils of slavery, and to-day,
for by their votes they opened the land to the
im
portation of these wretched beings for twenty long,
years, and the North should not now refuse to make
some sacrifice to remove them. The people of all
classes, Puritan and Huguenots, had settled in the
State of Miseouri,• and they had. made immense sa
criflcee the Union. -It was perfectly plain. to hint
that ry must be .abolished in this country,
Should - rebellion succeed, it might linger for a time,
but its doom was sealed. The emancipation of
slavery in.. Missouri would be the greatest economy
to, the Government.. , Not long since, Jeff Davis, in a
speech, expressed the lion% ef-hieing Missouri, and..
also expressed- his.solicitude and hope fot Kentucky.
Now why did he not express his desire for Ohici
or If the presence of slavery in the.' two
former States makes the chief of the rebellion pre
sume that he hits some claim on them, then the peace.
ful removal of that institution would make him re
linquish all such supposed claim. , Slavery removed
from Missouri, treason would give up all' hopes of
that State, and sullenly retire from her borders
leaving her to achieve her high destiny in.the ranks
of the free States. He argued at -length in favor
of the constitutionality ,of the measure, claiming
that there was power under the Constitution to
pass this measure almost the same as removing
the Indians from the States. It had seemed strange
to him that the North would not cease its de
nunciations of slavery for a time, that the South
might reflect, and with that reflection put shivery
away ; hut it was stranger still that the South,
with her population cramped and industry destroyed,
should still cling to this curse as the.inebriate clings
to his cups. -In these troubles'about slavery the bor
der States had sufffired the most. The people of the
free States would, not, settle there because .slavery
waithere, and'the people from slave States would
not come because they' were so near the North.
They had tried all means to be at Peace.' They had
adopted all the panaceas of 'Democracy, all the com
promises of the Whigs and all the nostrums of the
Republicans, but all in vain. We are now in a war
with this institution, mho berder.States_want4o.be
at peace, and 'Wish to adopt measures to secure a
permanent peace.' Th ere is an attempt now to'raise
up a party on the basis of the old agitation,' but that
will do no good, and such an attempt should be terms
dieted. lithe object be to restore the Union by'com
promises before the rebels are beaten and lay down
their mins, it will be of no avail, and , worse than
useless, for-the rebehrdeinand,- . peace on the basis of
their independence.
Great complaint has beer
_side of the arbitrary
arrests of this Government.lf there is any blame
it is partly the fault of Congress, and they have left
the Administration to its own• discretion, reserving_
only the privilege to complain of whatever course
.the Administration may adopt.. The loss of slavery
can do the Border States no harm, if the Government
will compensate the owners. He should say nothing
about the character of slavery. It did not beCome
him to praise it while inaugurating measures for its
abolition. As a member from a slave State and a
slaveholder, he should not -heap execrations upon
it, but -he had- not the heart to curse slave
holders simply because they were slaveholders.
He had always .firmly believed that .the institu
tion in itself was, not antagonistic to the perfect
success of the country, and there was not an irre
pressible conflict between freedom and slavery. But
we have now. a war upon us, and it slavery be the
cause, the State of Missouri offers to sacrifice it on
the altar of her country. . , •
' Consolidation of Regiments- •
On motion of Mr. WILSON, (Rep.), of Massachu
setts, the bill was - postponed, and- the bill for the
consolidation of regiments taken up. • •' -
After discussion it was also postponed.
. .
Smithsonian Institution.
Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep.), of Illinois, offered
resolution, which was adopted, that the VicePres],"
dint appoint a member - in the Board iirßegents of
the' Smithsonian Institution, to fill;the'rwancy'oc
,casdoned by the death : of SOnittar ?eaaise. --
`' •
Mr. HOWARD (Hew) offered a resolution; which
was adopted, instructing the Committee on Terri
tories to report whether the publication of the Ines
•sage of the Goreinor of Utah has been suppressed;
if so, what was the cause, and what was the message.
- Quartermaster General. '
Mr. WILSON of Massachusetts, called up the bill
to increase the clericalforce in the Quartermaster
General's Department. He offerecgto be read'a let
ter from Gen. Meigs, relating to the remarks made
in the Senate concerning his loyalty. The letter
went on to say that if the charges were made, the
authority ought to be given.
Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep.) objected to the further
reading of the letter. He wan not disposed to listen
to a lecture to the Senate.
Mr. SHERMAN (Rep.), of Ohio, hoped it would
be read. lie thought any man was entitled to be
heard when charges were made against him. •
Air. TRUMBULL denied the right of any Man to
insult the Senate. Hewes perfectly willing to listen
to •any respectful'communication; and give General
Weigel the benefit of an investigation. • •
Mr. WILSON - proposed to withdraw the
ter. He . thought it might contain some Party ex;
presaions. -
Mr. LANE (Rep.), of Kansas, said he wanted to
discuss:the bill. He did not want Gen. Meigs to fill
the-department with traitors. He had suspicions
of his loyalty.
31fr. DOOLITTLE (Rep:), of Wisconsin, asked
if the Senator had suspicions, did he think it was
the proper way "to proclaim them here 1 Should
- he not make his charges- in the proper place and
.wayl . -
'On motion of Mr. FESSENDEN, the Senate then
Weitt7into executive session, and- subsequently ad
journed until Monday.
HOUSE' OF ItEPREStx4 i'ATIVES;
The House entered upon the consideration of the
bills on the pr,iyatecalendar.
• ...101.1ie Intprovements. •
Che liousi,prOceeded to the consideration of the
billreported, last June, from . the. Committee of the
Whole on the state of the Union, with amendments,
authorizing the enlargement of the Mississippi and
Michigan_Canal for the Passage ofgunboats muni
tions of war, etc., and also the enlargement!
. of the,
Erie and Oswego. Canals for similar purposes, con
necting Lakes Erie and Ontario with the Hudsonliver. '
. , •
Mr. Ii.OLMAN. (Dein.), of Indiana, mov.eil to lay
the bill on the table. Dimmreedto-eas 42; nays 93.
• • Mr: STEVENS (Rep.); of Pennsylvania, moved
that the House go into Committee of the Whole on
the state of the 'Union' on, the bilk•Providings ways
and means for the support of the Government.
Mr. "WASHISIURICI: (Rep.), of Illinois, appealed
to him to let a equaze-yote be talten on the bill under
consideration, saying., Al provision had beer& made
for, the immediate payment uE the army, and. tutvY,
there was no prosaism necessity foga' the - passage of
the finance bill. • • , • . , , .
The SPEAKER, in lepl&-tek a queldrion, Of•bErp,..
Wasbburne, said that, if Par. Stereos' motion'
should prevail, the canal bill would rennin on the
table with otter unfinished business.
WASH4HHEEdemanded the yeas and nays , ,,
,on the Motien to-go into -committee, The motion,
was agreed to—Teas 84, nays €4.
Ways and Means FillabllCC.A4. •
'The consideration of the finance bill was then tei
Mr. ROSCOE CONICLINa Pep.), of New York,
said that originally one-half of the House were
posed to the paper promises and to making them a
legal tender for debt; and others besides himself de- •
sired to know whether the Secretary of the Treasu
ry
deers, himself able to accept theyterms_proposed
by the bill reported - by the Committee of - Ways and
Meads.. •In other words, whether the .s.ecretary can
Conduct:the businees , of his Department trader
' . Mr.•HOOPER (Het.), of MAisachusetts; rep
thatthe bill was not satisfactory to _the Secretary,...
whet believed that. some' of its provisions were' inex- ,
pedient, and WOutileacrse serious difficulties tb the
DepiVltment.
Mr. ROSCOZCONICIANGarked the direct alies
tion whether the Secretary would be able to carry
on his Irepartmest under this bill 1 • • •
• •
I'd r.• DOOPER said - it' was his opinion 'that he*
could noZ. He hod, after consultation with the Ss=
cretary, prepared an ftmerrement to the bill, which
was read, to-day,,t4l borrow nine hundred : millions,
abd to issue Vinids - ,l;ayribleaftef twentY years, with
not exceeding six per centuit interest—the interest
and principal payable' In coin or treasury. notes,
payable in three yeeinal with' taterest not exceeding
site per centum,kpayabfeln , lawful money or United
States ,legal-tinder -notes: The whole amount of
bench, treasury notes and United States notes, to
gether, not to exceed sum , of nine hundred mil
lions. It also authorises- the deposit of coin, for
which receipts are to be issued in sums:note less than
twenty • dollars,receivable. at the custom house and
for payment oiluterest on the'publie debt
" Mr. SkLEFFITILD (Dem); of RhOdelsland, after
.remarlfing-that:!St was impossible to , carry ors the
war on a specie basis, said: he-was witting tagive to
the Secretary of the Treasury all the confidence ne
cessary in transacting the stairs of hiszdepactment,
but he would not adopt the , dlioree.of any man as a
rule for Ills action. Hence, tie Was opposed to the
Secretary's banking' scheme, which would break •
down the State banks: He was , unwilling to put
such power/in- the.hands-of anyman. ,
Mr. H.UTCHINS (Rep.), of Ohio, replied • to Mr.
Gurley's remarks - of yesterday, im which he blamed
the Secretary of the Treasury fbr not selling bonds
for the payment'of soldiers ; etc: • He 'maintained
that the Secretary , was! legally correct la -•hlis coif- I
struction of the law, se.he was. restricted, to. sale '
market value, which was . what the bonds were. sell
ing for at Nei...York. ' '
Mr. HOOPER; during-the debate ' remarked that,
after inquiry , he had assertained that provision had
been made for the payment of the soldiers for the
months of September and. October; the rolls for No
vember andllecember nothaving - been sent in. • lie
alluded• to the ditfreulties-andiris paymasters in
pain g soldiers.:
M.r. DIVEN.(Itep.), or'New Yerk,artid_the regi
ment he was connected' with- came into service in
August, with the. promise' that they should be
WSW, but .up to- this , time- they had not received a
dollar. . .. • -
NOBLE. (D.) l . of Ohio, knew one regiment
of Ohio oairalry that had not been paid fora year,
and others not for six months.
Mr; VAN WYOK (Repi), of New York, said it
was.not the fault otthe paymasters, who were per
sistentaslogettinp funds; but the fault of the trea
sury-the monepnot being there. Some poor, crip
pled, and invalid• soldiers, who were thronging the
doors of the paymaster,. had fallen victims to the
Shylocks who were in waiting to fleece them.
Mr. MoPHERSON (Rep.), ofPennsylvania, asked
whether Mr. VMS Wyek was not aware that steps
had been taken by the military authorities to pre-.
vent such outrages., '
Mr.' DAWES (Rep:), of Massachusetts, wished to
know whether Mr. McPherson referred to the action
resoindlng.the order of Gen. Grant against the Jews.
Mr. HUTCHINS -(Rep.), of Ohio, resuming, said
if there was criminality anywhere, it certainly was
not with the Secretary of the . Treasury.
Without coming to a conclusion upon the bill, the
committee rose. ' .
Mr. HOLMAN referred to the fact that, the House
had directed Simon Stevens to be brought before the
bar.of the . House to answer for contempt in refusing
to answer certain questions of the Committee on
Government Contracts. He now stated that Ste-
Tens had appeared before the committee and an
swered all questions put to him. He therefore
moved that Mr. Stevens be discharged from cus
tody, on condition that he pay the' fees incurred.
Agreed to.
The House then adjourned Monday.
MAJOR GENERAL BUTLER Al ROME.
General Butler met with a cordial reception on
arriving at home in Lowell. The meeting was
presided over by Mayor Horaford. The welcoming
address was made by the Hon. John A. Goodwin, to
which General Butler replied, by giving some ac
count of what Lowell regiments had done in the
war; he then went on to speak of the cause.of the
Union, saying thatfwhoever believes in God Must
believe in ultimate victory. He had changed no
principle since he had left them, but he had learned
something. He added i- .
,"I have found that this rebellion is a rebellion
against the working classes, without distinction of
color. • The rebellion was begun and is carried on
for the purpose of creating a landed aristocracy,
which shall give to four hundred thousand the go
vernment of eight millions of whites and four mil
lions of blacks. It is for that that Jeff Davis and
his confederates have undertaken a rebellion which
they claim is to secure the rights of the people.
"It is to correct this idea that the Northern man,
with red blood blue eyes, light heir, and all tha t .
God gives to this image of himself, is not equal to
the slave-drivers, with their thin lips and pallid
. brows. It is to correct this idea L l say, that we are
engaged in this momentous struegle. That is the
question before us; and he who does not side with
us on that question says that he desires to kiss the
feet of those masters.
" I went to Louisiana desiring to do everything
to restore it as itwas ; to see if, by any possibility,
I might bring the principles, the laws, and the insti
tutions which goitern that State into harmony with
the UnionT but I found there no disposition to have
that done. I found that the aristocracy looked upon.
us as their enemieal - and I found that the working
and middling classes looked unon'us as friends.
" Within the first month "fourteen tnousand of
those who compose the bone and sinew of New Or
leans had taken the oath of allegiance, not by lip
service only, but from their •hearts ; and from that
day I found no man owning slaves who would take
the oath of allegiance except for the wrpo.se of sa
ving his property. That wag Vile rule; there were
some isnek.htvien• lute i 9 Pie
Yfitt:ii,lititi found the slaveholders false to the I/alert.
I dealt kindly with the workingmen, and I dealt
harshly with the slaveholders. [Loud applause.]
"I recognized my friends. and my enemies, and I
niade as wide a difference between the one and the
other as there was between. Dives and Lazarus.
[Applause.] I undeistand that you have sent forth
your sons and brothers; not for the purpose of mak
ing peace, but war, wherever they found enemies. I
believe that you sent•out. your sons and brothers for
the purpose of insisting thkt - She flag of the United
States should wave everywhere in sympathy with
the powers of the United States, and upon that
thesis I have acted.'
... .
"I encouraged the laboiing men. A - thousand
were employed every day by , the United States; 34,000
were fectevery nay by the United States, and over
17,000 'of these were foreigners, whose consuls as
sumed to represent them, but who did not 'represent
them truly, because the consuls represent commerce
and property, not men. •
" But thosemen had no voice in the newspapers
abroad or at borne, and the consequence was,-their
thanks and their applause were never heard, while
the complaints of the property men, who felt that
when the .were struck slavery was struck, flowed
all 'over Europe and the North; and every misre
presentation that the malice of enemies and traitors
could devise was resorted to in 'order to embarrass,
and, if posaible, defeat my plans. But there is one
thing I have a right to say—and I thank you, sir,
for adverting to it—and that is; that from the first
week when our soldiers .entered "New Orleans until
I left there; it. was as safe, as quiet, and as conve
nient to attend to one's business, by day or by night,
as ever it was in the best-governed cities of the
North—even our own. [Loud applause.]
"Be not deceived. Be not weary! Remembe,
this : that while we may feel this war is hard for us
it is the effort of desperation for them. I have
- seen the conscript law ofthe South taking the boy
of sixteen and the old man of sixty—the school
master not excepted—and force them into the ranks.
Whileit costs us effort, it costs them desperation.
While it costs us labor; it costs them life-blood.. I
wish that they might be won back without this; but
so they have. not chosen. As long as life lasts, as
long as any power remains, we must stand by the
Union, one and indiVisible. [Applause.]
"Every stream, every lake,. every river, every
mountain, that' ever • belonged -to the flag of the
United States must still remain under the 1ie... , of
the United States, cost what it will, cost what it
may. [Enthusiastic applause.r If, as you flatter
in ely observed, I shelllsseis to Itriotvz:
,'I ahafl '
to is tire' de ermindtion never
to give up, never to compromise, [renewed ap
plause,] never to, have anything but that 'flag of
ours as the symbol of our nationality. Whoever
differs from that let him go south of Mason and
Dixon's line—he has no business here. [Applause.]
"Let me repeat—because I hear there are some
who falter—come what. may, whether weal or- wo,
there is one thing which we will not lose,'and -that
is—the supremacy of this Government over every
inch of our boundary:
"1"' desire a single word on the question of eman
cipation. On that question you know, I have held
certain opinions .: These opinions have received, in
some. degree, correction. , rhave views to offer,
which, I think, Will commend themselves - to the
judgment of every one of you. '
"Is there anian here Who doubts that some time
or other, in the providence of God,
..the negro is to be
free—and that some day, the protection of the laws
will be extended over him, and that he Will become'
free? No man "doubts that, and all desire to guard
against the evils that may arise from that change,
and which cannot be made without disorganizing our
political system. It is my opinion that ail this has
been sent upon - the nation for some great object; and
it is my opinion that it will be easier at this time.to
settle this question than- to leave it to be settled
hereafter.
" Is it not evident to every mind that the day and
hour have come when all men, so far as this country
is concerned—and it is the last, refuge of slavery on
the globe—shall be in political rights free and equal,
as they were declared by the Declaration of Inds-.
pkendencel [Applause.] Let no man be concerned
ut the question of social equality. They Will be
just so far equal as God has made 'them equal, and
no more and no less. Take care lest we be found fight
ing against' God. lf Ile has not made them our equals;
they will not be our equals. But lie has made them
free. God willed them free. God will have them
free. And let His will be•done."
THE CITY. •
[FOR ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS SEE FOURTH PAGE.]
MEETING OF THE RELATIVES AND
FHLENDS OF THE ANDERSON CAVALRY.—An ad
journed meeting of the relatives and friends of the .
Anderson Cavalry, now in the field - at' Nash Ville,
•.
Tenn., was held at half past Seven o'clock last
.eve
ning, in the rooms of the 'Young Mei's Christian
Association, No. 1009 Chestnut street. Hr. Wm.H.
Maurice was in the chair, and Mr. A. B. Bolder Se
cretary.. The meetiuig opened with prayer by Mr.
Thomas T. Maion. The President then stated that
the object of the meeting was two-fold : Firstly, to
hear the report of the delegation which left the room
on Saturday week, which had just returned from
Tennessee, and which would state what it bad seen
and heard. The object was, secondly, to raise funds
for committees appointed to prOceed to Washington, . •
and, if necessary, to Tennessee, to repairany wrong,
which any members of the Anderson Troop m ay have
suffered. Any of this committee was at liberty to
make any statement which might occur to him.
• Mr.Thos. T. Masonthen stated that too many dele
gates for essential service had- been sent, and the
expense bad been enormous. Army fare was poor
and sparse enough, but it had been confessed that
the fare on the field was preferable to that in the
hotel. Convalescent soldiers were preferred as nurses.
The scarcity of food for horses was proverbial. In
regard to the provisions for man,they were not much ,
better. With respect to luxuries, a common cigar
cost fifteen cents. 'A letter was here read, dated
camp near Nashville, January sth. It stated that
the Troop, to which the writer belonged, had never
been required to do what they were recruited for.
Only 2.-M men had been willing to act, the rest 're
fused to perform services for which they had not
recruited.- The writer had seen the imprisoned ones
very lately. They were a happy and jovial set,
.and had everything in the eating line which they
desired. The writer was anxious to leave the
service of Uncle Sam, and to return to his
• home. He had been worse than deceived, and en
treated every available influence to be exerted in ob
taining his release. The regiment was entirely
breken, and, the writer thought and hoped, would''
i l nally.be disbanded. A second letter referred to the
ardor with whieb recruits had flocked. to Capt. Pal-. '
standani, and. accepted his promises ~uPon.
trust. The names of 325 prisoners were then read
by the president. Mr. F. S. Vandyke remarked that
a letter from kis son, Mr. 11. S. Vandyke, (one of
the 258 who eagaged in battle), stated that they had
always been is. advance in tie engagement, and done
essential service. " He' had accompanied a train up
from the battle, and' he ricpeeted to guar* a train
back again: It was therefore somewhat singular
that in name should.belts the list of prisoniars. •
PILL John Harkinsari thought that not a man of
the Troop but would.' have 'panted to g.o, into the
•britthr bed they been, properly officered, mut directed.
The'Ttoop was, indeed, demoralizedt, diaorganized
virs.s., perhaps, the better term. Te get Ahem ycinng
men home again was, probably, the present - duty of
' their relations arid friends. The' Rev. Mr. A.
Amley had been their true friend,- and done much for
them: - The place where they are imprisoned Is..
• a very repuisiye-looking edifice, full of tilthiand!
wretchedners,, having, been once employed 48 rjk
WOrkDine Mr. Mason stated that he, for pee,
adniited`the COnduc Of ' the Troop, in re fusing tp ifs 4
into battle. The idea of riding unfed horses, hungry
enCough . ...to, t devAur wagon tongues, was ridicUkruir
lit the eittrenteouid justified the actions of those
Who refusedloenter nto the engagement. He had
been candidly assuied that four out of every five of
their pistOltmere worthless.
The President stated that a committee of five was
now in Washington, clothed with 101 l power, pos
sessed of legal aditce,- and knoeking at the do ors of
the authorities there, determined to retrieve the
wrongs which the yeung ladsmarhave suffbred.
Mr. Maurice, vacating his seat as chairman, re.
marked that there wee st• feature in the present meet-e
leg which had marked) no previous meeting with
equal interest. He thought that if the Washington
authorities could look in-upon the detenrAned as
sembly around him, they would . net iecunison and
at once with the unanimolir feelings of thirt 11:38CM
bis—they would feel that -these lads - whoie cause
that assembly espoused ha* never acted otherwise
than in accordance with - the purest prim:Ante, Of
truest courage and patriotianr: These young men
lied been treated worse than- She convietd in Cherry'
Hill. Their only crime was that of leaving their
happylsomes and baring their - yOunglbeisoms to tha*
devastating fire and sword of-a relentless enemy.
Mr. Seal remarked that, in a Fetter received from
his son, the latter stated that . the- nutnber of killed
and wounded was 78. In his lastletter, that of the
10th, he had said that they were • living on half
rations. .
111 r, Warns stated that he had seen the atvertise
!sent asking for manilla as a body-guard to General
Buell.
Mr. Xasou remarked that a telegraph had Seen re
ceived from Washington ; that the' proceedings of
the committeewore a favorable aspect.
At thisjurteture contributions began to pour in at
the presiiient's desk froni all parts oftthe roorsk. The
first was , a live dollar note from, an lady. In the
course offlfteen minutes nearly one-Yandred dollars
were collected. The room was crowded to suffocation,
and the proceedings conducted wit2t . absorbi in
terest.
COMMTBSIOIs7 DETXGATION TO
MURFRET.BORO.—The following despatcher. , were
received latelaelt evening :
NASHVILLE, „Thn..18, - 1863.
To George N. Stuart, Chairman Christian - CoMmaaian:
E. Patterson, Co. G . , missing ; 'Joseph-D. Little,
Co. B, missing; Augustus Marker, Co-L,-safe; Or
lando Weikel, Co. o,•dead; Isadore-Weilerdead;
Sergeant .Stratton, Co. G, well; Edk'tn Stevens,t
well ; Edward Parry, well ; John C.. Fleming, Co.
B, captured; Harry Paschall, captured; Anthony
Taylor, safe ; Lieut. Allen McDowell, safe; Wm.
Tarr, Co.. E, safe; Joseph Bomlempst Co. B, safe ;
Edward Wheat, Co. 1), safe; C. K.. Hayden. Co. 13,
paroled prisoner; A. J. Carrier, safe.. The road
broken ; Cummings"cannot get off till 'Monday.
A. G-...IVIcAI_FLEY.
NASHVILLE', Jan, 16,1863.
To George H. Stuart, 13 Bank street; "
Orlando Wiler, of Cataiauqua, and Hebert Eudy,
Co. B, died in hospital. Captain Thos. M. Knees'',
18th regulars, buried on battlefield; saw-h% grave.
J. S;.OOIIIXLINGS.
FINANCIAL • AND COMMERCAL.
TEE MONEY MARKET:
PHrr.A.nri,ParA. Jactuary 16, 1363.
Now•thaitlie qiieStion of legal-tenders is. pretty .well
settled, a reaction is taking place in most of the fancy
securities and in Gold, which ouettedat.l.44l, fell to 144,
rallied and sold at 1.4,5, at witch figure lk closed. The
late speculation in the article was founded upon an ex
pected issue of legal-tenders, an'd no further rise can be
looked for, as the one hundred Millions has had its effect
—and more than belongedeto it the likarketi. The ac
tual appearance of the nates will only have the effect of
sustaining.prices, if inctsedthey- succeed in doing that.
Old demands fell to IQ and closed , at 142 with rather a
steady market. Government, securities were in: firmer
demand, and rose two per cent. Money continues easy
Without change in the rates. .
Stocks generally are lower,llie"faneies suffering espe
cially. Government sixes .rose 4 cent.; the seven
thirties 13. State fives:rose IX. City sixes were firm.
Fifth and Sixth-street Railway sevens sold at 100. Read
ing sixes ISM rose 3,1"1. Schuylkill Navigation sixes 1852
sold at 7234, a decline of g. North Pennsylvania and
Philadelphia and Erie sixes were steady. Camden and
' Amboy sixes 1853 advanced 3 4 ;.' 'Namibia Coal sold at 55;
New Creek at X ; Delaware Division at 43; Schuylkill
Navigation at 5.g, the preferred at 1534; Susquehanna
Canal sixes at 39. Reading Railroad Blares fell off. 3i ;
Cetawissa X, the preferred X. Pennsylvania fell 34•
Norristown sold at 6531; lldinehill at 53.- Little Schuyl
kill was weak.. Elmira sold at 34.51; Beaver Meadow at
66; Long Islaid 'at' 26: Passenger Railways generally
were weaker. except Green and Coates, whiola sold at IS.
Fifth and Sixth sold at iii; Arch-street at 28; Spruce and
Pine rdl7X ; Seventeenth and Nineteenth at 10%; Second
and Third at 70i. The market!closed -rather heavy—
sso,o,o in bonds and 5,200 shares changing hands.
Drexel & Company quote:
ited States Bonds,lBSl 963;
United States Certificates of Indebtedness.. 93 0:53'
United States 73-10 Notes 10131 10.114
Quarterxnastets' Vouchers ......... ....... (8 dis
Orders for Certificates of Indebtedness..... 4 @VS dis.
"Gold 45,1f@ 163.; prm
Demand Notes • 42 @Li prm
Jay Cooke & CO. quote Govornment securities. &c., as
follows:
United States Sixes, 1881.' 9530' 96`1
11rited States 7 3-10 Notes 101)4P1023"
Certificates of Indebtedness 0044 ik5.4
Quartermasters' Vouchers tritpas 93%.
Demand Notes ' 14 9 '01433
Gold
Messrs. 3l.schulze & Co., No. 16 South Third street,
quote foreign exchange for the steamer'City of Wash
ington, frOm New York as follows :
London, 80 days' sight. 160 ®163
Do. 3 days Isl3yeia33
..
..
Paris, 60 days' sight 3t42,k‘§sr-15
days Do. 3 days 3f 40 :3115.44
Antwerp, 60 days' si,,t. 3f 45 3f 46
Bremen, 60 days' sight,.__ ' 116 0117
Hamburg, 60 days`s ght . 55 ©55,
Cologne. GO days' siglft . 109 (COW
Leipsic, 60 days' sight . . 109 010912
Berlin, 60 days' sight IA IltXiX
Amsterdam; GO days' sight 60 61
'Frankfort, 60 days' sight, ,:„, „,
. . 61 *62
The following is the amount of coal shipped over the
Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad, for the
week ending Wednesday, January 14, 1563, and since
Jannary I:
Week. Previously. Total.
Tons. Tons. Tong.
ILA 5 941 5,640 11,651
1862 5.066 4,010 10,035
Increase
Decrease
. -
The following is the amount of coal transported on the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad during the week
ending Thursday, January 35, 1363:
Prom Port Carbon
" Schuylkill , Haven
16,612 06
" Auburn 1.51
" Port Clinton ' ' 4,711 11
" Ilarrisburg 23 09
Total Anthracite coal for the week...... :19,623 16
From Harrisburg, total Bituminous coal for w'k 3,160 111
Total of all kinds for the week 41,731 15
Previously this year ' 276,534
Total 318.30 S 17
To same time last year 19)196 14
The statements of the banks of the three principal ci
ties of tbe Union for the last week compare with the
previous • one and the corresponding time of 1362 as fol
lows:
Loans. 'Deposits. Specie.
New York ..... 1175,816,0101162,878,249 36,77 0 . 7 4 6
80. ton .... 77,427,1721 33,e63.750 7,751,1
Philadelphia.. 37433,757 23,018,792 4,51-1,756
,T0ta1.... ..... 0.776,94017234460,791 49,066%645
Last week 55,M7:31)=965,1fr.31
Lwit year...... 247,93L989 ;160,,5tfi,%8 39,645,600.
The :New York Evening Poet of to-day says:
Wall street is comparatively quiet to-day, feverish
ness growing out of the eXtraordinary rise in gold hav
ing quite subsided. The rvaction in- gold of 234(C03
cent. from the high points. of yesterday seems to re
lieve the anxiety of the street, and we notice a much
more comfortable feeling' among the banks and stock
bosses.
The Stock market is dull, and a trifle lower. The in
creased activity in ineney restricts opetations Aw the rise,
and EO3llOl of the' speculative stocks are ;101 rti Cept,
lower, without, however, any pressure to • ell
One of the most encouraging* features of the market
to-day is the improvement of ilie&2 B cent. in Govern
:meat stocks.
r.i,. an d oht,
caeo and roCk s 'lsTan — d7 str . Ille - dievehil7d and ill - eaa and
Illinois Central are firm at full prices. Michigan South.:
ern is also in good d emand.
Erie closes after the first board with sales at-72573X;
Hudson, 92, Harlem 315®35,4. Prairie du Chien is 45 bid.
The closing sales of Illinois Central were at 90. The
dividend jest declared is 2.f cent. The directors were
restrained from making it -IP cent. by an agreement
with the fall-paid stockholders, who would then demand
an extra dividend of 2 cent. The company will be
free to ,pay any amount in July.
The bond market is low - axle-day on nearly all descrip
tions.
There is a rise 0! 3 'f cent. in Illinois .Central. Con
struction bonds; sales at la
Of the. State stocks ..Ifissonris . advanced .;. 1 .,":; Virginias
3.1, while Californias lost S cent. of the advance of
yesterday. Ohio long loan sold at M.
Governments are: decidedly better to-day. The relief
to Le afforded by the one hundred million treasury-note
bill has induced -peculativo purchases at the low prices.
The coupons of 1661 rose 135, the coupons of 1374 2Y.
Seven-thirties are in good demand at 105510(. Certifi
cate&rose 3, cent. • .
The money market is moderately active, but the sup
ply is easy ac- 6 cent. This advance in rates brings a
large amount Of outside capital into,the street, and first
class borrowers supply themselves at 5g6 la cent.
Gold opened at 14615747, against 147355116 last even
ing, and on the call at the board dropped to 14534, with
large sales. Afterwards 1 6)1 was paid.
Gold closes at 146,1(4146X Dutiable - demand notes
are in good request at 1.4.1%14142..
Exchange on London is dull at 16035V1d3 f 1 cent. for
first-class bills.
Phila. Stock Exch
CRePorted by S. E. SiL t
. VEST
1000 U S 6s 11 94 -
3000 'do .... • . . 96
23 Norristown R.
1100 000 City 6s
I New.lots.l o6 loll
1500 do
do New.ll.o
152PennaB tots trai
EOM Reading 65;66.2dy:5.104
50 Catawissa R Pret..
40 do Prof 27
26X,
250 do.. Pref.bs Sg.
50 do .Pref
600 U 57.30 T N.blank-1013a
1000 • d0..b1ank.1.1.y.5.101.%
1000 d 0... —.blank-102
1000 do blauk.lo23‘
2000 do end am
.600.d0 end. 10034
6 Far & 3lech Bk.v. - . 5236
FOO Reading R lots 45
BET
100 do • : 2, 1§
4
500 U S 7.30 TN..blank.lo2)C
20 Penna 64
10 Huntingdon& B TR 15
20 Elmira. R Silys•34.4
SECOND
3000 U S 7.50 T N..blank.lo2
60 Arch-st
67 Points R ' 64
ZS do cash 64
100
.94
New d C reek 64X3s
" •
700 do
do
T 4O O O O
Schl Nay Impt
260 OafliVir , SB. R Pref.. 974
400 do • Yref-b.5 27X
CLOSINO PE
80. Asked.
tf ea epee 96 963-.
Er S 7-30 D b1k....101X 102
American Gold. •145 X 1461
Phil as old-ex in. 106 . - •
Do, new.ex in.llOX 111
Alleg co 66.11...:: 63 •
Beading $
6 .10234 1634
ft 45X 4.5 X
Do bdelo...in
Do bda '7O-107 119
•Do• • bda '66.-103 1.04 •
'Penns 11• '64 ' 64 3 y
Do . let rn . 66-115 1153/.
Do 2d m 68...1110 111
Morris Canal. • • . 533 g 67
Do prfd 106,134 156
Do
Do 2d mtg • ••• '; • • •
Snag. Canal ' .. • . ••
o• •
Sch D nyl Na 66 y
n 5%
'Dc prfd 14 15
Do 65 '82.... 72 7234
Elmira R . 3434 Si
Do 45- 46-
Do 78 let m. 1136 - 107
. Do • • •- 70
-N Pennsß.....:: ll% 1256
Do 9131 92
Do. lye. , ...107 110
Phil Oer 4143 r. .583 E
:Lehigh:Val X-. 72
Lehigh Val bda..llo 111
;Itw Xork.St
• ' o.losinstQuota444l
17.1555'74 .
S Ss
B. S 66. !ES 0w:4:I.::: NWT 1434
U Ss .....
saL 4 5 yr con - 11
~53.6a.5 yr reg. • • • • •••
Dwiland . Notes:• - -IM '1 , 12X
Toil Notes, 6 c
'Sae* Note6;7•9OLAN
41,3141 . 'WA 146%
Tennessee • •.• • •
Virginia ' - •
North Caro • •
Missouri at
Cantor Is' ,
Cantonuonntsw
1)61 , &Mod.: . •
- Pews Coal a.... .
% and G Co.
c 452 • 1134 X
•p 1b.,~
.1~l6;s~1~7jy
Tons. Cwt.
• . 16.95.5 'l6
. 269 Li
Circul'n.
9,551,5 M
8,373,16_,
4;150,176
.U,575.401
?2.449,966
16,906,176
nge Salem, Jan. 16.
B. Philadelphia Eachange.3
i•OARD.
SO 31ineltill R 5:1
20 Little Schl R 461(
5 do . • ..... 46
14 Elmira R 34X
MO Camden City 85....102
Arch-st - R..b5.10ts
1001) Liberties Cp 65..106
500 New Creek X
li Schl Nay
10 Schl Nay Pref 14
225 Schl Nay 6s Bi—. 723
7 Beaver Meadow... 66
27 2d 913d11 75X
1017th •kleth It. 10X
24 Spruce & Pine R... 1731
10 Lehigh Scrip 33
1000 N Perma 65 92
a:00 l'h lla & Erie 65.-106
120 American G01d....145%
1(0) Cam & Ant fis
25 Hazleton Coal 55*.
BOARDS.
400 New Creek.
100 do Ji
S Commercial Bk 50
BOARD
300 ath St 6th 71 106
S•tfth & 6th-sts R a 3,
20 R
II Green & Coates R.. SS
9) Delaware Div 43
500.11 FM 5-yrs option. 95
1000 do-- 93
4000 13 &Gs 'Bl reg 96
12000 Semi Canal o, 39.
2•50 L Island R • • —2dy. 26
eRg—REAVY.
Bid. Asked.
Cat awissa 8... • . 8 E.%
Do prill 9371 27%
Beaver Mead 8.. 66 . •
Minehill B 54-
Harrisburg • •
Wilmington
Lehigh Nav es..
Do shares... 663 ..
Do scrip
Cam & Anal) R... 164 170
Phila.& Brie 6s-106 1063‘
Sun & Brie 75....
L Island R . 2t; 25X"
Do b0ad5....100
Delaware Div..... •
Do bonds.... • • • •
E_.prnee-street It- 17X 19
Chestnnt.st R..•. 50 51
Arch-street R.... 29 24
Race:street 8.... 10 D.
Tenth-street 8... 31 33
Thirteenth-at 13 • • 26. 27
W PhDs It 60 63
Do - bonds—. -
Green-street 8... 3734
••• De , • bonds,- ••
Secand-street R... 75 76
-Do bonds.- • •
rtlth-street 8.... 52 63
Do "'bonds.:-
Girard College B 245 i 25g
Seventeenth-et It log . 71
Little Schuyl•li. , 45 '• 46
.4, January 16.
ns at 3% o'clock.' .
Bid. Asked.
i N Y Cen;Stit.....lle6l 11l
Erie COIAMOIL• • •• 73) 2 ' 7:3,
Erie Pres ' ' • 703' 3 Ifti
lltudsoießiv 933 i gig
H Ror r i n e"' R R
. • —30 N 'av
Raalinffßß ß Pf: 9 k
' N
bliciligan Can... R.i 9.5 X
Madam 500.th,.5e;. 01 , 4
Do. - Gnat • 91 .9114 ,
kanama.... ..... .193, • •
lil Central. • ...... SO • 9014
Gainsl'i# i s • • • • SI rA
&i, i . • .• SSX .89
IClev & Toledo-. •kll4 93%
Chi & Rock IA . . 811 X • 13 ,
Terre Monte Ocil. • '..- ..
Chi Bar .Ic-Q loi..- ..
.Kll&rrpae,Co746 ; ~
mCgaGolititis.: .. • , .. .
Rei tow of.
Whta::;:;:::;.:;;r...::..:i.
Weekly
.. 4 9. a.,
...
ai T! ran te cl Pl; Produce
omilarrlasket:, Ja.. A . ~ "Int
rapid, rise in gold and foreign eutrtal,enk!.,...:::::::2k,
ea ft...a. i
generally Da' , been Mere activA, p ./ 4 1 C". 44 ; '
with ftifi , rgelmsiness to note in Yhe.,:jt ::'
has declined. In Cotton there is tt j 0.,. ' ... ' -:' r'" , :e'
are looking up. Candles are end " "'L.:, .
dull and firm, there being very
In. Sager and Molmaes are lila 11-1,41;;;-f:4,..,
is a fair boiness doing. The iron „,„''• 'S I g ."
and the der sand good. Combo, pe;;".`”rits,.,....
rates. Naval stores of oil kind), ar,Z 7 It:
changed. Thne is morr doing 14: 6 4 °. %.
market is firm. Rice and Salt. a:l.l %6 'l ' l ' 4 ', ...
a nti Tobacco arefirmer. 'fool 14 4 ,.,.'1een7
Vance. In Dry Goods there* quite 4, :2 41 . .a
fag , Cottons prices continuo Cm lOW k b,. '1 , 1.4„:
Snit; Of most kinds. Woolem"..cre ai m .'" 344 1ty. ,.
There is an increaaerl deinaml thr i• , , ' ",... tt "...'. .'
men: and home use, arid prices of ti u . "-•••• :',..* ..
better,. with sales of aSout ?Airy. 4, 1 4, 1 t1:• .n . :-?.
Western family, at F. 1147.50. inctimi ' 1 .......:
at itt5.2474 . ; extras at 60.r,tysi7; (~,,,,.27.11,,ei,,:%;
9.l);'srs_perfine at $ 6 01 16 .25: line do Xr,411;2!,41.;::.t
6,000 finis extra and e.;stra &tall-, ",,,;,'": .
terms kcptprivate. The . :sales to t1i,;47.4! tii!, Z . ...
came I-am i go of prices. ami bleb 41.•,,,a.,F.-
95D V. bbl. Rye Flour it.• qui..t, and 'n ,. .4" . : •
14'hl: Corn Meal is sairce,And 1.4,a; Z 7, 44 ;t:
(54:a ad toe bbls
market at b;4.23-c. i. "”-.. •
WIIEAT--The market is :di t y 1 ..1 • -
- t ) h - 1i11ni1...•
bave.ad6.r,ed Wixte . wistm : sal, 4 7 . , :.i
Penns - vlvania and Western .rd at Itir,'...s.' •
at - 1./.15185eq , 1 bushel, the Litter fi,iti . t• •1
Rye is steady, with sales of Pi ttiay;:' l .‘• 3
:
canned busiiel. Corn is in better retrsim, ; , l;; ;‘„, •• e
nited . Ltiales of 2:5,099 MINN.. at 7.1%,C -''
t39Wheli: P lb ye' Bushel for old. nat. 4 ,,, ~ ..
busennsylvania scold at illrie•;'
Melt has !ken sold at Pal(111)e it 1ii ,4, ...:.' 17
PROVISIONS.—There is a be tterdeui. i.
priceas re well maintained. Sal,. qf 4 . , I
u no city packed Mess at $ 1.1 ... 0 fiftief.,.4 ... •
bbu
prime 5r,.,, s on private terves. 3t.:.
with sales of city packed at l61:1:31; pl _.i . t
cash. Dressed Bogs range at Inge I:I: i:
Bacon.—There is not much inquiry. 5.„;,:,;•.%
clttilinn plain and fancy eit avail...A Fh.,......
at 1 - Ceitde, and :300,000 Ms :ilitet. a n d 5 ,,,,,,. /.. ..,
ernmi nt oz private term.. It'l' d (yaw... .'
Sales of I.qiY>hbls and tcs at ff!i'en,:,., ; ; j
time, and kegs at '10?I&Ile. Cpuutry I, '.',:,
cash. Butter-There is a fair inoth. ;.
lt(a 9 2c, 7andiSolid packed:lt 1 4 , 11.:47c. .(: '
1C(11c, and'Eggsl.4@alc -
META LE..—The firtnne , t, sotA h i t b . ..
come time past still continne,, Whi ..' •
No 1 Anthracite at s.72rEe'll't., ton, e.i.• :; '.
Prices of Scotch Fig are nominal. isi,,, tf . :.
higher r hutwithout sales to an v P:s . ..‘':: '
demand for Bar and Boiler Iron. :v. ,
maintained. Lend—There is very p;;;,;.:
of Galena sold at Bkc. cash, C”y..; -4 ' '
doing, with sales at 27c "t•'• lb for y..!;.,,, ; .
BAMK.—The receipts had iit,el:.
light, and the demand ha. fallen ...; i.
SC 3 /134, V ton_at which rate lati su l k. •., . ,
is scarce. The last ,als uj 5 mia ,,,,., I
coni.___
131.EsWaX.:—There b , bat litti
at 40c. '"f
CANDI. SS.—Prices are firm f ork ,
very little demand , except for ;I • •
selling at IS 3 igi22e. lb each, th- 1. ' •
weight 'Western.
COAL. Trade is dull, the let nand ;
both for shipment a ad home c00,, t . 41. . i ..
ply the Government Prices fa
of suitable vessels, and the LW. r0t..:,. f , •
restrict operations at nichaioad •
COFFEE-There have beet; norr!ral.
very touch reduced. The del ab ,„l •
advance noted last week has
Sales of SiX) bags. inclndiaglllo •t; z 7.7 • •
31c. and La guayra at •/ 9 6% . :1:1c
COTTON meets a good tunairv, ; , t1 " •
light receipts and stock. prices ,
350 bales, chiefly Middling Upl: , nd.:
closin m. g at the latter rate, and '
•
DRUGS AND DYES.—Price; 1a .. ;
foreign chemicals are firmer, hat ri d s,
trade doing. Sales of Seca A:h :V.r.
casks Chickery at 123;c. and:mli,q
rate-terms. •
FEATHERS.—There are rely few,
sales of good Western at 5eCd...:11c ' •
EMl—There is hut little hpoir, f 2 , 1,
and the sales of Mackerel are Nuati..4:•
bbl for No. 1. iisqi 9 fur Fe
dinm, and 5:6A:1a.,;.:10 f r ht-..ge
range front 51.50 to 51.50 - -thellwer ,
FRlll'r.—The market is poorly . ,
Fr-nit ; further sales of Palerna,
*2.2.r. @la) it hex. There is a fair
scriptions of domestic, It ith '; •
(g G, Green .APplee are w..rth
Peaches conic fOrward slowly. m ,.1
Erime bright new halves
tog4c for quarters.
i.
'REIGHTS to Liverpool are smoly. •
were taken tip at :35s 1• 1 tou ; .
taken at Sa.Td t bid. To blud..a
Two barks are loading trim Pr•tr0!...15 r •
7@Sc P bbl. Small vessel,
are scarce. A schooner was tak010u,!....
Sugar and 88.75 for Molasses. .1 •
at 60c P bbl nut. We quote New to, ; „„;.
75e bbl. and 6.50 P 1011. VOW
tied. The Boston packets are sett;....; •.•:• : •
for Grain, and 90c for Coal Oil.
GINSEII is scarce, and crudt.
viand 80igiS5c. cash.
GUANO.—We hear of ne auts- ;
$74:419, cash.
11DES are dull •; a lot of 0040. •
time ; green-slaughter sell at.frolit'cTi! ei
HOPS are firm, with sate, of lir , E
Western at 200123 c P lb, as in qm . ,litr.
LUMBER.—The demand is .
and yellow pine Boards at 4.;1;.r4
Laths at $1.2:5€1 , 1.50, and Picket- V 47
MOLASSES--The market has •v
stock here being very light. : .
ht Sc on time, and 1:,0 blab: fin II :••
vole terms.
NAVAL STORES.—There is Tory • •
kind. loobbiscommonßosinsildm
2at 917e1 , 20 perbbl, as in quality. <p,•
sells in it small way at $1.57(r51ei1r.,,...
OlLS.—Fish Oils are ancliatme.l , la.l
Linseed Oil is in good request at -.it
1 bhl.• Lard Oil on private term— W. •
QC.OO5c as in quality. Petroleum roam.,
Sales of 1,500 bble at 40q50e free for ,
private terms.
PLASTER.—There is very unit
sale of soft was /nt .tia ton.
Very little offering:
at 7, 1 / 4 @5,410, cash. '
ULT.—There have been no arrivals of Litl.7:
cargoes of Turk Island sold at taii:Oc 1)1
SEED.lloverseed combines active, sad
ad" are sales of 6,ooDbnscommonaad nra
$6,50a7 bn. Timothy is gelling at fs.q :2;1"
sales of :f0 bne at the latter Henri:.
arrival, at .153 V Itu.
Sl.:GAR.—There is a firm feeling in the
moderate inquiry, with sales of 30flithes. indigur.
at 5Ua1034e, and Now Orleans at •
SPllblTh.—Brandy and Giu are beta way.
ness, and hot little selling. N. E. ltnnt
gallon. Whisky- is firmer, with
and 01110_at 420*, and •LittiSe
r6 Lrather better, with gales lila:y-7-1i
at 103141 e. and country at lOgt.lo!.fe a lb.
TO stock of inanufaernrsl is
and very light: a small sale of contain bcaf
at vi (m'9, four months.
W0(.11..-7 he demand for the tine gralsittiz: -
good and prices are looking np, with gales of
common and quarter blood at 61@6Sc, tine at
Pulled ar 5Sc r It,.
The fallowing are the receipts of Flour and Gm
this port for the past week:
Flour
Wheat
Corn
Markets •by Telegraph.
!RDA T.T.13101M, /au. 16.--Flour buoypat ; rihta
$7.50. IVhcat steady and scarce: red $I.301!
Corn active at 88@n0c; yellow 8. 1 14:63e.
steady at 47c. New Mess Fork $1574.
PHILADELPHIA BOARD OP TEAR
GEORGE.L. BIIZBY,I
E. C. BIDDLE. Comorrts OP THY lam
JNO, E. ADD •CR.E.
LETTER BAGS
ALT THE 3rEECHANTB 9 EXCHANGE, eat
Sbip Westmoreland. Decan
....
Bark American. Christian P
Brig 'Frederick Douse, Furnes •
Brig Wm H Harris, (Br) Coallleet••..... '
Brig Intended, Miller
Brig Amanda Jane, ilinedia ••••_
MARINE INTELL IGEN(
• PORT OF PHILADELPHIA, Jau.l:.l
7 20-SUS SETS
SUN RISES.-
RIGEL WATER
ARRIVED.
Bark Emerald Isle, (Br) linut , r.l;. l
with sugar, cigars, &c, to Stew:r.':
toll'A Solider & Co.
Efig Itastw, I:4=e, 44 days (nisi I's:
&c, to S S Scatterood Sr Co.
Brig Ambrose Light, 11 .iar
with nwl wises to John )lmori Sr Co.
.. .
-Brig Abby Elleu, Gilmon, 5 ..I!
trallaia to Twellis ."5: Co.
Lion. Creighton, 14 days ' •
to G W teriadon . Bro.
Schr D S Siner, May, 6 da,ye from
last to captain.
Schr Sarah Cullen, Cullen, 3 Jays T
ballast to L Audeurted &Co.
Schr Young . America. Lawrence.l dap
port, with bark to 3 L Bewley & C.
Schr Rebecca, Carey, 1 day from Lesces
to .tae L Bewley . & Co.
Schr Lucy J Warren. Warren, to::: Ales::
ballast to Crowell &
City Ice Boa.t, Schelleneer. day; trent
towed thereto ship Li7Zie Aloseg, tor San fras•!...: .
ehe anchored at 1P M yesterday. Cozumg up .7
fruit-loaded lulu, a de.eply.lam
West Indies, and Eichr Lion, (rem ,Ilatanra4.
CLEARE
Fehr Central America, Leppert D.,
Neff Odes . as.irof - - 1
& Co.
Schr Greenland, llegther, Charieemun, Isaac . 7 - .2 '
Sc
Schr Saah Cullen, Callen, F Tot% Andenritia•
r
Sally D II Bills, Rich. Boston,
SchrL
_ear, :Naylor, Alegandlia,Txler, st
Schr Active, Hardy, Washington, eve-um .
schr viiiage Queen, gawk ine• Pcu v:4ent! ' •
Schr Jaa Tilto_,n Davis. Portland- 1 E 8ar..1e7 ' •
Str II L Gaw, Iler, Baltimore.l 6 s 9 " -, Jr•
• (Correspondence of the Fhiladeiphilt -. • •
LEWES
The following vessels are a; the Breskice , 72:
..Atlantic. for Fortress Monroe: brig ilar 11 1".• - •
den, and a brig, name unknown, apparent.
trim, together with schrs 3larT
A,B Elliott, With wood. and .lames Dofoi;
cutter Dobbin has left ;or Wilmington. tm•*: .
sail of brigs and schooners left the 8re.4.r.;.• - ... :
night of thelah for their respective pert
leaving about ten or twelve sail in the bathe:.
Yours, &c, AARCiS
Itrciro:KA. 7 5.
Ship Connecticut, Spedden w. , from Lice.V%- -
was offthe Skerries :list ult.
Ship Oswego. Card, sailed from
Philadelphia.
Brig Delaware, Dose, henee.arrivea at
Brig Mazatlan, Merryman, from Pertlona. ,
phis. remained at Newport 14th bast.:•,*;
Schr Alida, Lambert, from Boston
Newport 13th inst.
Schr Robert Raike.s, from E.)ita
Phia, Sailed from Newport L'it andt.
Schrs 1.17210 Maul, Frambes. W 131::••••
hence, arrived at Port Royal Bth Mg :
Seim Spray, Price, and Northern Light, TM.
arrived at Port Royal °thins!.
Schr B RoWlett, Somers;clearea at Port C,i1:1;.
nit. for.Philadelphia..via Fernandina. r , r.r.t.•••
Schr W , F Garrison, Morris, cleaphl at •
inst for Philadelphia..
Schr Armenia, Bartlett, cleared at Pert RV: •
for Philadelphia. 1; 4.J.. 4
Schre _Marietta Tilton, Tilton, Mav Qq 4 ?° . •;, jlo- 1
S Edwards Garwood, .1 . 3) McCarthy. 1 .
8 . , Bateman, hence. arrived at Port Ropil
Schr A Cordery. Grace, hence, at Port En t . . 7:::!"
Schr Margaret Reinhart, Peterson, hAtiteol
Ist inst.
- Schr Jag S.Fleiviti, Lake, cleared at Pvrt ••
for Philadelphia.
CITY ITEllis•
SPLENDID PORT Or 31cC1.5:0-
Of the several &tacos hitherto made of
B. McCiellani the moat striking and
the testimony his friends, and members ot,-
y: 4,.;
family) T are the splendid photogr'sPhs that"*. ....."'
executed of this popular military chiefts:r. t•-••-e
the past week, by Mr. P. Gutekanst, of ti. - 0 , T 4 ..;
his galleries, Nos. '704 and 706 Arch street.
examined the samples of these pictures. In:
sizes, from the cartes de visite to the
iiir
have 'no hesitation' in saying that. to tNee .jr
wish the best portraitures of Gen. ilicCellat.to3
are preferable to any others that ha% eo ) 1 60 .
giyen,to the public. The card•contain i q
ral and his lady in the same picture is havh l r , ,..4
mense sale, it being almost impossible to ; ;,:4
then (in Mr. Gutekunitts superior 5ty304.0.4.-
his card pictures) fast enough to suppid th e
Hs is also receiving numeress orders idi PO
ths General in medium and life-size. , •
CONCERT IN _LTD o 1.--
A CIITTAII `
vite attention to a conccsi - Which tO be.e.
Tuesday evening next, Inn. 20, at Handel
Eall, for the benefit cf Christ iEvsn'S "
liF f
formed) Church. Thietwill be tbs•= 4o)2 ' l ;"
given for the same obiect, and t.spi
inay state, embraces . a.nuinber of eacepe/ I P er. I d
cm and a choice selection of *Ws. lfi-.
v/ill be given under She directiomofi
Ewing..
Nuw GOODS ieT OPSrOttli'6%--31C"...!;;
Charles . Oakford kSon, Nos 8.34 arid 836 .het
Charles
the Continental:. ROO, are e'
in 084 b: 4. 7
'l'StArng new ishlitions to, their sttck,'
various departsients—eitbeeof their owl'
ture or importation--embraoing the newest melt,
fashionable styles, of lists and Glips for eotW7i.
land You% elegiult 111ITashing. Goods for Ol t &
men, fine blilitari- trappingra for rmy' I" yt
officers, rich Furs, cetera, all of which thel,
selling at prices deojdedly lower then the seise 17,.
can be obtained for in less extensive esfebiLdlo% '
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