THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1864.
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Internal Revenue.
The Committee on Ways and Means have
reported a - supplemental revenue bill to
Congress, by Which the duty on spirits will
be raised to sixty cents per gallon, of first
proof;-cotton to be taxed two cents per
pound ; and forty cents per gallon be added
to.the present duties payable upon all spirits
distilled from grain or other materials im
ported from foreign countries.
This is a move in the right direction.
The duty on native spirits in Great Britain
and Ireland is ten shillings, or two hundred
and forty cents per gallon, whereas even the
proposed
* increase here will tax it only sixty
centsexactly one.fourth. In England,
this impost alone yields over 00,000,000.
As alcoholic spirits cannot be considered
any thing but a luxury, and as luxuries
should be taxed in preference to necessaries,
there is no good reason why the duty upon
spirits, native and foreign, consumed in this
country, should not be considerably greater
than even what is now asked. When it
was first proposed here to tax whisky, the
respectable distillers and consumers would
willingly have paid a duty of a dollar per
gallon, and this would have raised a very
large annual revenue, besides preventing
the imposition of multitudinous taxes upon:
small articles, which, in numerous instances;"
immensely raised the retail price to-the con
sumer, and scarcely pay the cost of col
lection.
This taxation, at a pretty heavy rate, of .
luxuries, is the recognized principle of the
fiscal action of England. The annual reve
nue there amounts, to about £72,000,000,
and is chiefly raised under six heads, viz
customs, excise, stamps, land and assessed
taxes, property tax, and the post office.
The proportion of revenue accruing horn
these several sources may be estimated,
in mind numbers, as follows Customs,
£24,000,000; excise, £18,000,000; stamps,
£8,500,000 ;'• land and assessed taxes,
£3,000,000;, property tax, £10,000,000, and
post office, £3,500,000.
Let us mention, for example, all the arti
cles subject to Customs' duties in England;
these are cocoa, coffee, the cereal products,
fruit, (currantS and raisins,y hops, mahoga
ny, pepper, foreign spkits, (brandy, rum,
and gineved wager, tea, timber and wood,
tobacco and wine. There also are small'
duties on foreign books, (V. 60 per cwt.,)
playing-cards, chloroform, dice, dessert
fruits, hops, mill-boards, gold and silver
plate, hair-powder, prints and drawings,
starch, Varnish, and perfumes. With Mese
exceptions, which ate more protectionary
than profitable, ielding only £109,000 a
year,)---the thirteen tuticles above enume
rated yield a revenue of £24,000,000 over
and above the cost of collection. Under
the Other heads, the principle of taxing
only a few articles, and these chiefly luxu
ries, has been carried out. That principle
was introduced, in 1843, by the late Sir
ROBERT PERTs who at ' one fell swoop"
abolished small but vexatious duties upon
several hundred foreign products, thereby
reducing their cost, simplifying jhe collec
tion, and enabling the Government to dis
pense with a vast number of its army of tax
gatheret s.
AA soon as ever the situation of the country
- will permit, our whole fiscal system must
be examined and reformed. The duties ne
cessary to procure a national revenue will
have to be revised—to be be taken off petty
articles and augmented upon the principal
articles of luxury. In point of fact, the
natural' resources and the able industry of
this country would enable our vast popula
tion to live most comtortably, without bit
porting any luxuries from abroad. Whether
native or foreign, luxuries should be taxed.
In England, as we have seen, £24,000,000
are annuallypaid, as Customs' duty, for only
thirteen articles. We take no account of the
duties upon cocoa, coffee, cereal products,
and tea, (articles of ordinary consumption,
which ought not to be taxed,) but see what
vast amounts are realized from the duties on
luxuries consumed in Great Britain and Ire
land ; foreign spirits pay annual duties of
over £2,500,000 ; tobacco, over £5,600,000;
and wine, £1,200,000. Add to this the du
ties upon British ' spirits, . (yielding over
£10,000,000,) a year, and the excise tax on
malt and other fermented liquors, and the
leading cause why the national revenue is
not much felt and is very productive in Eng
land is readily arrived at. In fulness of
time, we, too, must have the system of taxa;
lion modified so as to fall lightest on the
poorest. At present, little -can be done to
wards this reform ; but the, proposed in
crease of the duties upon native and foreign
spirits is a step, though brilo means
stride, in the right direction. The fault is
that the tax is not as much as it should be.
The State of Fratekland.
Intelligent correspondence from this his
toric region predicts that - Eastern Tennessee
will ere long move for a separate State or
ganization, and obtain it. " This section,",
we are told, " has little in common with
the rest of the State, and nature has defined
her boundaries and distinctive character
istics too plainly to be mistaken." Certain-
East Tennessee has maintained a glori
ous kdividuality in our great struggle. In
its mountains we have had the Switzerland
of devotion and suffering. For years cut
off from all aid and sympathy; alone in the
power of the rebellion, and the victim of
the most atrocious forms of rebel oppres
sion, the people of East Tennessee seem to
have maintained their loyalty from the re
sources of their character. Famine and the
sword have not conquered them, and the
country will mark them out as a peculiar
people.
This subject brings to mind a rare and
curious piece of history. Back in 1784,
about - the close of the Revolution, the first
movement toward forming the State of East
Tennessee commenced ; or, in other words,
its ante-natal' . history begun. - A little State
called Frankland, in honor of Blll47,llatiN
Fueimaii, took a very brief and spasmodic
existence. It was famed of what is now
known as a portion of East Tennessee con
slating of the counties of Greene, Wolin.g
ton, Sullivan, Hawkins, Davidson, and per
haps one or two neighbors, and originated
in an outright act of petty rebellion. Though
East Tennessee may fairly claim to be the
most devotedly loyal section in America,
some of its earliest fathers were among the
first secessionists.
The tradition of the little State of Frank
land is- almost as amusing to our present
giant history as a patch of Lilliput would be
to Brobdignag, or, as the kingdoms of
Yvetot and Bradford are to French and
English.. literatura The King of Yvetot
levied a tax of so many mugs of beer and
wine from his handful of liege subjects.
We knpw Banear-oen's song
"Rat -tat! rat-tat
Wbot a good king Was thst..,
" Two kings- of Brentford sat upon
one throne." COWPER tells us of those
frugal wooden days of primitive story
when a king's throne was not as good
as a wooden bench. DANIEL WirnsT Eß
made some humor in Congress at the ex
pense of the poor little State of Frank
land, which paid its governors and judges
in fox skins, and its sheriffs and constables
in mink skins. Even this primitive curren
cy was very extensively counterfeited by
sewing raccoon tails to opossum skins,
opossum skins being worthless and abund
• •
ant, and raccoon skins valued by law at one
Wiling and three pence. The scarcity of
money was great, and a governor's salary was
.E2oo,and that of ajudge £lso.The taxes were
to be paid into the treasury in the circulating
= alu m .of, Frankland, viz: "Good flax
linen, ten hundred at three shillings and six
pence per yard; good clean beaver-sidns,
six shillings each ; raccoon and for-skins at
one shilling and three pence ; deer-skins, six
tshillings ; bacon' at six cents per pound ;
tallow at six pence ; good whisky at two
shillings and six pence per gallon." Frank.
land, like Brentford, had its two leaders, but
as Colonel Jorix Tereron pulled into North
Carolina,- and Colonel Jonn Semen out of
it, they were not so amicable as the two
ancient kings who sat upon one throne.
As we have said, the State of lerankland
grew out of a small revolution, which is
noteworthy as the first instance of internal
rebellion and secession in the history of the
United country. It happened that, in 1784,
North Carolina, among other acts to relieve
the General Government, offered to cede its
Western lands, which extended clear to the
Mississippi. The pipneers of the West,
who had undergone great hardships among
the savages in settling the country, con
sidered themselves neglected in many par
ticulars by the legislation of the State, and
viewed with much suspicion the act of 1784.
A Convention, of which Joere Seviren was
president, met at Jonesboro to adopt mea
sures pressing the offer of cession upon
Congress. The General Assembly of North
Carolina met at New Berne, and repealed
its former act of cession, whereupon the
Jonesboro Convention broke up in con
fusion. At a later day, of the year 1784,
JOHN SEVIER appeared on the court-house
steps, and held ,forth that the General
Assembly had granted to the people of
Western North Carolina a general court,
formed their militidsinto a brigade, made
him a brigadier, and repealed the cession
act, which seems to have been only obnox
ious in its terms. "Our 'grievances," he
said, "are redressed, and my advice is to
cease all efforts to separate from North Caro
lina." Notwithstanding these fair words,
the popular feeling was so strong that on
the same day another convention assembled,
and formed a constitution for the new Stite
of Frankland, mating Joule SEVIER Go
vernor, Lerma:fon CAnTER Speaker of the
Senate, and WILLIAM CAGE Speaker of the
House of Commons. Governor CASWELL,
of North Carolina, did as most sensible Go
vernors would do under the circumstances;'
he admonished and persuaded, but still the
" bumptious " little State of Frankland
claimed the right to erect new counties, levy
taxes, make treaties with the Indians, and
exercise all the powers of a sovereign State.
Courts were held by both governments in
the same district, Joux Tereoei heading the
party for North Carolina, and Jonas' SnytEn
the party for Frankiand. _Each party upset
the other's courts, and turned out judges
and jury. Colonel JOHN SEVIER and Colo
nel JOHN TIPTON, both officers of the War
for Independence, met each other in the
streets of Greenboro, and had - a scuffle.
Both governments imposed taxes, but
the people, pretending not to know
whom to pay, very - prudently paid neither.
At lass some of the refractory counties re
turned members-to the North Carolina As
sembly, and the brief and brittle sovereignty
of Fnuikland shivered to pieces in a mo
ment. Obstinate JOHN- SEVIER for awhile
held out. Execution was directed against
his estate, and his slaves were placed in the
custody of Colonel TIPTON. Gathering one
hundred and fifty men together, he marched
to Jonesboro, and placed a small cannon
before Tn'TON'S house, demanding an unz•
conditional surrender of all the garrison.
The annals inform us—" Tree= had barri
caded the house, and, in reply to this un
ceremonious demand, sent him word to
'Fire and be damned!" &Ewen did fire,
and very narrowly escaped doom. A
reinforcement of State militia came to
Tetsron's aid, and the little army, of
SEVIER was scattered in panic, Joins
SEVIER himself escaping, but his two sons
remaining prisoners. Terme and Sevinn
'both swore hard words of each other after
the battle. The outlaw was at length caged,
but managed to get off'. In after years,- in`l
COnsideration of his brave, hospitable, and
popular character, SEVIER was -restored to ;
favor. In MO the Western lands of North
Carolina were regularlyeeded to the Govern.
merit ; and Tennessee was born.
General Joisx SEWER, late Governor of
Frankland, became the first Governor of
Tennessee. His life is nearly; if not quite, as
wild or romantic as that of his cotemporary,
DANIEL BOONE, who founded the neighbor
ing State of Kentucky. In 1769 he emigra
ted and explored to the Holston river, near
which were the scenes of many of his con
tests with the Indians, so that a great part of
the present battle-ground of the armies in
Tennessee was first fought, won, and pro
bably named-by the adventurous backwoods
men who followed this daring pioneer.
There was one very charming incident in
the career of JOHN SEvIEB. While in
defence of Fort Wautaga, the lovely
CATHARINE SHERRILL, flying with the
fleetness of a roe from the Indians, who
were her pursuers, leapedehe palisades, and
fell into the arms of fate and Captain JDn
SEVIER, whom she afterwards married, to
becoine the mother of ten children. . It was ,
truly said of her that " she could outrun,
outjunap, walk more erect, and ride more
gracefully and skilfully than any other fe
male in all the mountains round about,
or on the Continent at, large." As a
colonel, SEVIER distinguished himself in
numerous fights with the Indians and Bri
tish, during the Revolution, andparticularly
at the battle of King's Mountain. In
1790 he was a representative in Congress ;
within ten years later he was twice unani
mously elected Governd of Tennessee ; and
in 1813 served his State in Congress, along
with Fneex - Gamene. He was called the
father of his people, and the best and bravest
man of his State. His frequent successful
missions to the Creek Indians; gained him
the title of " Treaty Maker; " and while on
a mission to the Creeks, in 1815, he died at
an encampment on the east side of the river
Tallapoosa; It will be judged from this short
biography that General JOHN Sesvrest, who
founded the State of Tennessee, was a
greater man than Colonel JOHN - SEvrEa.,
who originated the State of Franklin, or
Frankland.
Something may be learned from even this
puppet entertainment of history, which is
only rebellion on a small scale. The little
farce has points siniilar to the great tragedy.
We can see how half a dozen counties may
secede from a State, and assert themselves
sovereign, quite as properly as half.a dozen
States may secede from the country and
call themselves sovereign Governments.
However, from the curious State of Frank
land originated,the State of Tennessee, and
probably a Considerable portion of the best
people of East' Tennessee are descendants
of the men who made,doughty Jonas SEVIER
Governor when they set up a Republic for
themselves in defiance of the mother
State. This suggestion would furnish
something more in proof of the indi
vidual character of the people of that
section. Though we do not avow our
selves in favor of the proposed division,
we cannot dispute that East Tennessee has
singular claims to privilege. Should *a
new
State be formed for that heroic people, the
old but very rare name of Frankland, though
soiled s little by its first use, might be bur
nished up and put to a better one. This
name belongs to the very earliest history of
East Tennessee; and is in itself worthy of
the free, frank, and peculiar people, which
Frankland would so signally characterize.
Mu. GAItRNIT DAVIS, of Kentucky, has
inflicted upon the Senate another long
speech. This. speech, in his own defence,
is probably the most offensive that the Sena
tor from Kentucky has uttered. It is per
haps the least tolerant and the least tolera
ble of all the long speeches with which Mr.
Dews has punished the Senate of the United
States. He has certainly had his revenge,
but it is unworthy of a Senator and a pa
triot to call - Massachusetts a "pestilen t
State," and indulge in personal diatribe of
a fellow. Senator. Such a speech would
only furnish additional reason of the unfit
ness of Mr. DAVIS to speak for the loyal
people of Kentucky, and we regret it not
especially for his own sake, but for that of
the State he represents. -
BY e VOTE of 51 to 15, the Legislature of
Maryland have recognized the overwhelm
ing sentiment of the .people of that State,
and have declard their purpose to call a
convention to amend the State Constitution
so as to effect, as soon as practicable, the
abolition of Slavery. Thus, hope and pre
diction are again justified, and another step
In progress is taken towards reunion.
The lee Harvest.
The old adage which suggests the propri
ety of making hay while the sun shines
might be matched with a new aphorism im
pressing the propriety of gathering in your
ice while the frost continues. We have had
a cold spell for several days, and the result
has been a great deal of ice—so much, in
deed, that there cannot be any excuse, a few
months hence, of apprehendingaucha break
in the supply as occurred last summer, or
any thing like a continuance of the exhorbi
tent charges which have gone on Increasing,
year after year, until it beanies a moot
question with householders of moderate cir
cumstances whether it would not be prudent,
however inconvenient, to dispense with ice
altogether. A few years ago it would have
been set down as a traveller's tale if any one
said that ice, now generally used in Eng
land, was to be purchased there for one
fourth the price of ice in Philadelphia, New
York, or even in Boston. Yet so it was last
summer, when ice was about a cent per pound
in London, while, in this city, for some time,
the principal hotels had to pay four and even
five cents a pound for it, and that for a
short and fluctuating supply. Last winter
. there was not as much ice formed as was
expected, and an extra consumption arose
from the necessity of supplying the hospi
tals. This winter threatens, or promises, to
be unusually severe, and, if the ice compa
nies only use ordinary diligence, a sufficient
quantity will be housed to meet every de
mand, at a rate far below what was exacted
in 1663.
Before the war, about one million tons of
ice were annually consumed in this country,
and about half that averagd quantity was
exported. The war increased the home-de
mand. The exportation of American ice to
England, which commenced about the year
1843, one time exceeded 30,000 tons per
annuli]. It_has much `declined, owing to
the increase in the price, and England,
where the lemperature is never so low as
to produce any ice-supply worth counting
upon, now has a great trade-for the article
with Russia, Norway, and Sweden ; even
with Iceland, we believe. The total money
value of a year's ice consumption to the.
United States, before the war, was about
IP, obi), 0 00. The healers have regularly ad
vanced the price year after year. It is now
about double what it was in 1856.
It has been necessary to import the greater
part of the ice consumed in this city from
- New England, chiefly from Boston. It has
been as.certained, ; by the experience of the
trade, that only once in every five or six
years do the Schuylkill and the Delaware
yield as much ice as would meet the annual
demand, and the, contracts fOr the article
have to be made before it .can be known
whether our own production will be large
or scanty. The supply from the Delaware,
strange to say, is scanty. The yield is com
paratively greater than on the Schuylkill,
but it is not gathered in as it might be.
Cu Tuesday, a little above the dam at lair
mount, the Schuylkill, thickly frozen over,
was covered with skaters in scores and in
hundreds, and even below the dam, south of
the Wire Bridge, men could be seen rapidly
gliding from shore to shore. This cannot
happen except when there is a good deal of
that best-conditioned and solid ice which is
fit for being stored. The ice-vendors know
their own business, no doubt, much better
than we do, and, therefore, have been busy
gathering .in their gelid commodity. If so,
we ought to have abundance of ice this
year, and at a greatly reduced price.
If, in the face of the abundance of ice, the
prices be kept up—few, we suppose, will
have the impudence to think of raising them
--Science must be reasoned to to produce
the article artificially. It can be manufac
tured now, with the aid of steam power, by
Iltvaporating ether or any other similarly
volatile liquid in vacua, and again con
dewing the vapor to liquid, so as to be used
afresh. By such a machine, 20 deg. F. be
low zero (52 of cold) can easily be obtained.
Now, as water in ordinary cases freezes at
the degree of heat marked 32 on FAHREN
HEIT'S therpaometer,, the machine readily
produces lee. By its'• means ice is made
nearly under the equator, ht Peru, where
previously ice hid never been seen, and the
British Government employs these machines
in India and the Cape of Good Hope, fOrthe
use of troops in the hospitals. At Calcutta,
the machine-made ice is driving the im
ported Boston ice out of the market, and se
riously threatens the extinction of the large
and profitable ice importation frornAmerica,
established by Mr. I. TUDOR, of Boston,
over thirty years ago. In large cities, such
lice•making machines (producing ten tons a
;day, with ease,) might be worked by compa
nies, or even by private persons, at a profit,
with prices what they haie been of late
years.
What is needed, however, is an apparatus,
at once low-priced, simple, Speedy, and ef-
fective, which may be used in every house.
The French firm of °Alum et Co. showed
such a machine in the London Exhibition of
1862. It produced ice of such perfect purity
that pieces of it could be put into the drink
that is to be cooled—solid, transparent ice,
without any spangeiness. As the volatile
liquid used is only the aqueous solution of
ammonia, the cost of making it is very
slight. The machine is sold in London as
low as $2O each, for the smallest machine,
and it was estimated - that it might be sup
plied on even lower terms, if manufactured
largely. The cost of ice thus produced was
far below what we paid, in this city, last
year. We only wonder that in this coun
try, where the price of ice has laterly gone
up so greatly, some ingenious inventor has
not discovered a cheap and effective process,
for use in all ordinary dwelling-houses, by
means of which every family might be self-
supplied with ice, at a reasonable rate. If
prices keep up, after the large natural supply
of ice this winter, we shall probably have
the French machine introduced here, of
course with improvement& Mee continues
dearer than Ibread, every house will sbon
have its own ice making apparatus.
"ET TU BRUTE," said CESAR when he
was stabbed. It is too, bad that General
McCammor has not been nominated in
good faith for the Presidency, after all ; and
so the NAPOLEON of the peace party must
still remain in his political St. Helena. At
the late caucus of Conservatives in Wash
ington, Mr. "FEBRANno Wool) very inno
cently inquired whether the Conservatives
had not already nominated their cq,,ndidate,
Gen. McGDELLAIT-? -Mr. MALLORY replied,
stating that the nomination of General Mc-
CLELLAN was regarded by the recent Con
ventions as simply a suggestion, or recom
mendation, adding that the Democratic
party was ready to unite on anybody ; or,
rather 'Anybody nominated by the Democra
tic Convention. These views are endorsed
by Mr. GARRET'E DAVIS, who assumes the
conservatorship of the late Conventions, and
indeed of all dead and old-fogy issues.
The"question arises, what is the Demo
cratic party, and what is General Me-
CLELLAN. As far as the public may
judge, one is as little a - party as the
other a candidate—both are equally, hints
and suggestions. The star of General
McCLELLAN has for the moment disap
peered like a suspicion, and as unregarded
as a hint. Any other person may be nomi-.
nated—any other will be quite as good.
The case has one lonely Merit—that
it relieves General McOmmerr of the dis
agreeable duty of writings letter of accept
ance. He should not want such a nomina
tion. We feel sure that the country will
think no better of the party, which, accord
ing to the London nmes, has already ac
complished political suicide by moral cow
ardice.
WE TAXI{ lacunae in directing the attention of
The public to Paul Weber's great picture or Nona&
tory NadOrtna dell Sasso on Lego Maggiore. Messrs.
James S. Earle & Son announce its itrunedlate ex.
Whitton, for a short yeriod, at the Aoademy of Fine
Art..
AIICTION SALE OP PAPER, Hallomers.---The sale
of Messrs. Howell & Brothers' surplus !dock of
paper hangings, borders, decorations, etc., was com
menced yesterday morning, by Giilitte & Scott,
auctioneers, at No. 622 Oheshmt street. There
was a larva attendance, and the trade and dealers
largely represented, and nearly one-half the entire
stook sold, although the prices realized were not
such es were expected, and very poor considering
the recent advance in prima in this kind of goods.*
The sale will be resumed this morning, when the
balance, including the most desirable of the stook,
Will be disposed eft
THE PRESS. - -PHILADELPITTA, 111T7R,SDAY, JANUARY 14, 1864:
The Secretary of War, In answer to * revolution
of the House, reports the number of general officers
unemployed, length of time of duty, their /naffs,
and the pay of each, with the number off duty in
consequence of wounds received in the service, as
follows :
Total 2$
tatrofficera of the same, 25 ; 3 colonels, I lieutenant
colonel, and ?lieutenants.
Total monthly pay of officers and staff, $12,200.
There are B general bilkers disabled by wound/ or
disease, who are not on duty; 39 general officers on
duty, but not actually serving with troop., of Whom
IS are commanding districts and delpots, 4 are on re.
tiring and examining Boards, 1 on inspection of a
military division, I on court martial duty, 2 on the
commission for the exchange of prisoners, 2 on
duty in the War De iartment, 3 on provost mar
shal's duty and disbursing duty, 1 on reeruiting ser
vice, 2 in the quartermaster's service, and 1 on
duty with the Governor of each State.
Expedition to the Pacific.
The report of Capt. CRAWFORD, of his operations
in conducting an expedition for the protection of
emigrant. overland to the Pacific States and territo
ries, says that the settlements have extent ed Co far
up Snake rivers , on the western sloe of the Rooky
Mountains, that the journey between the Etatern
and Western settlements, is materially shortened,
and the recent establishment of military posts and
camps ieeirell but comparatively a short distance for
emigrants to travel unprotected. There was only
one instance of molestation by Indians last year.
From the personal observation :of the mines on
The tributaries of the Bolide river, Captain Onsw
roan is satisfied that they are fully equal in rich
ness to any ever discovered in California, and he
has no doubt that, by next June, there will be within
the limits of Idaho Territory a population off 10,000
souls.
The delays incident to judicial proceedings,
arising from the contesting claimants and the inter
position of foreign officials in behalf of ouch of their
countrymen au may be interested or implicated I.
appeals to the higher judicial tribunals for revision
and final judgment, arc matters which cause, in
many cameo, prolonged delay. The Strang derived
from the sales of condemned prize property, on final
decrees, are deposited in the treasury, by the officers
of the court, and are never received into the posses
&ion of the Navy Department.
The Secretary further say' that, "in a few excep
tional eases, delays have resulted from the negli
gence of the captors in not forwarding their prize
lists to the ddpOt ; but such officers have been ad
monished, and required to do their duty upon the
receipt of the deerees of the courts for final distri
bution. The prize lists have been immediately for
warded to the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, by
whom the awards and payments have been made.
It is suggested that, if the resolution is intended to
reach the delays from contested questions and simi
lar causes, the information must come froft the ju
dicial authorities, oval. erhOtn the Navy Department
has no control."
The plans of the four monster (summated war
ships under advisement in the Construction Baran
have been changed ; they will each be enlarged to
7,000 Una. As first designed they were too small to
catty their armament and machinery. The weight
of the engine and boilers alone will be two thousand
tone. The change of plan will delay the work
OA tiiL
The total cost of the monitors built and being
built, will be $22,150,000. The Tecumseh, built by
Same, at Jersey City, and the Canonicus, at Boa
ton, by LORING, will be in commission by,the Id of
February. Nine other monitors of the Tecumseh
Ware, now under construction, will speedily follow
each other into service after that date. • These are'
intended for river and harbor defense, and to break
up blockades. The Dictator and Puritan are in
tended for the sea. They will have the power to
drive them seventeen miles an hour. The Tecumseh
class will /tin twelve miles an hour. Twenty other
monitors, light draft, are building at a cast each
complete, of s46d 000, all designed for inside work—
river and harbor defense.
Rebel Gunboats in the James River.
The gunboat. and iron -clads in Richmond are k 11;
with one exception, completed, and ready for ser
vine ; and although their number and dimension'
are not sufficient to constitute a very formidable
armada, they are capable of Aping much mischief if
not closely watched. On the 15th ultimo they were
ordered to make a demonstration against the vessels
in the lower part of the James river and Rampton .
Roads, but, after proceeding as far a. a 'Vaal sta.
tlon, about three mile. below Drewtyls Blut the
Order Was countermanded. If the Union naval cont.
menders in those water, do not exercise much vigi
lance and caution, some fine night the new Merrimac
and othera will come upon them as suddenly as the
nightmare. You may depend upon it, the rebels
have not spent so much money and labor os,those
vesiels without the expectation of erecting with
them Some valuable resUltii.—Tribune.
euerat Hancock after Recruits.
General liarroocs, by many thought to be the
best soldier in the Army of the Potomac, went North
tonight upon an errand that the country will rejoice
to hear of—to arrange in the several States wherein
his corps was recruited measures to increase its
numbers by new enlistments to fifty thoueand, the
whole destined for special service. G_eneral Punic-
SIDE has authority - Iced° the same.
General Underwood...
Colonel Ilwonnwoon, of Viester.obneetts, eeverly
wounded in Tlemcen's brilliant charge on Lookocit
Mouptain, who WAN promoted to be brigadier gene
ral &for gallantry in thit aetion,lia not likely to
live more than two or three days.
Temperance Movement.
Speaner COLFAX has issued an order forbidding
the sale of liquor in the House wing of the capitol,
and his order is being strictly enforced.
Gen. Heintzelman , a Command.
General HigniTZSILMAN, by order of the President,
Is placed in command of the Northern Department,
which will be composed of the States of Michigan,
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; the headquarters to be
at C,olumbus, Ohio.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of JOHN
A. BINGHAM, of Ohio, to be Judge A4pooste, with
the rank of major, for the Department of the Sus.
quebanna ; JOHN HAY, of Illinois, to be assistant
adjutant general of volunteers, with the rank of
major; HENRY L. Moss, to be attorney of the
United States for the district of Minnesota ; Annam
HANSON, of Wisconsin, to be commissioner and
consul general of the United States to the Republic
of Liberia. .
The marshal of the District has seized property
belonging to United State. Senator .PoLk, and
SMITHSON, a Washington banker.
The State Department has received evidence sidle.
factorily refuting the absurd stories recently copied
by our press, from European correspondents in
ParP , of the appearance in that city of a Monsieur
Susaavirrn, on a political mission from the rebels;
and of a treaty having been negotiated betvieen the
rebels and the French Government. The entire tone
of the foreign news is improving, but new and grave
difficulties are likely to occur betiveen Japan and
the Western Powers.
The annual meeting of the United States Agri
cultural Society was held to-day, at the Smith.
Emden Institute. Mr. B. B. FRENCH was elected
president, with one vice president from each of the
loyal States. BENJ. Pienrair POORE, secretary;
Joe. F. Bitowu, treasurer. Executive Committee,
Dula° ITZWTON..Commissioner of Agriculturai
JOHD Jorrxe, of Delaware; FREDERICK SMYTH, Of
New Hampaldie; WARD H. DAMON, of Illinois:
W. B. TODD, of District of Columbia ; JAMES S.
GRINNELL, of Massachusetts,.and J R. DODGE, of
Ohio.
A resolution was adopted favoring an exhibition
of stock, agricultural machine., products of textile
fibres, wool, products of sorghum, native wines, etc.
Also, a resolution commending the system for the
iollection of statistics adopted by the Department of
Agriculture, and the publication of reports. The
meeting then adjourned til l the 24th of February.
The National Academy.
The National Academy of Science have concluded
their labors of the present session, and agjourneatiu
August Ist, 1864.
The Secretary of the Navy, in response to the
Howie resolution, asking the reasons for . 4days in
the distribution of prize money, replies thet the as
tion of his department in matter, of prizes is merely
ministeriaL When csetures are nude the officer in
command sends his prize to the court for adjudics•
Hon, and the veuel and cargo pass from the prize
master and naval control into the custody of the
•urt and it. officers.
CONDITION OF SOLDIERS IN THE PARK
BARRACKS.
NEW YORK, Jan. ft.—An inveatigation into the
condition of the Park Barracks showed . that RIMY
men quartered there are all in the most wretched
condition, and covered with filth and vermin. The
Mayor will urge the action relative thereto on the
Common Council.
On investigation, it is found that the responsl.
Wily for the condition of the Park parracks does
not rest with the general commanding the depart
ment, nor Wholly with the United States authori
ties. The Barracks belong to the efty, and and under
the charge of a superintendent appointed by Go.
pallor Seymour. The prisoners confined there are
under the exclusive control of the provost marshal's
depaitment, which is entirely independent of Gene
ral Dix'. orders.
The names of Bishops Bailey, Timon, and Mo-
Gloskey have been sent to Rome for the succession
to the Archbhthoprio.
BLOCKADE RUNNERS AT BERMUDA,
NBW Youk, Jag. 13.—Bermuda dates to the 28th
ult. state th at thesteamers Flora, Coquette, Ranter,
and another were waiting to run the blockade.
A schooner arrived at St. Georges on the 28th from
Wilmington, with a cargo of turpentine and tobac.
co.
The gold market closed after board at 153%.
The solleoner Oasis was totally wrecked at Rock
away on Saturday night. The crew were all towed.
She was bound from Aglrilla to New York with a
cargo of salt. She was owned in Halifax.
Accident on the Northern Central Railroad.
.BALTIMOBB, Jan. 13.—An accident oeburred yes
terday on the Northern Central Railroad, twenty
miles from this city.
Two paseenger ears became detached from the
mail train from Harrisburg, and were tun into by a
a road train. The oars were demolished. D. (/Cal
labor'. of London, Canada, was hilted, and six other
passengers were badly injured, Including Elf& R. 0.
Persona, of Clevebind,Ohlo, and Ldeutenint Colonel
Blackman, Ohio. The wounted were all- brought
here last night,
WASH:ENG-7 1 01V.
WAIIIHTINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13
Unemployed General Officers, dor.
BTsjOr generals unemployed
Brlgadlet generals •
Prizes, eSe.
The Colossal War-Ships.
The Cost of the Iron-Clads.
Nominations Confirmed.
Coilliscation.
Monsieur Supeyvllle.”
The Agricultural Society.
Tim Secretary of the Navy.,
NEW YORK.
TEE ARCHE'ISHOPRIC
XIXVIllth CONGRESS---Ist SESSION.
The Notion to Expel lion. Garrett Davis.
SPEECHES OF SENATORS DAVIS AND WILSON
WABHITSC4TON, San. tz,
SENATE.
Dfr. PODIEBOY presented a petition from the
Institute of Rewards, of New York city. •
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Mr. WILSON, of Massachusetts, reported back
from the , 'ommittee on Military Affairs the bill au.
thorizif g the appointment of an Assistant Secretary
of War.
Mr. BUOICALEW, of Pennsylvania ' offered a re
volution that five thousand copies of General Mc-
Clellan , / report•be printed for the use of the Senate.
On motion of Mr. ANTHONY. of Rhode Island, a
resolution was adopted calling on the military com
mittee of the Senate to inquire whether any alga
cies have been thrown in the way of the egress of
colored men not subject to military duty from the
District of Columbia.
Mr. GRIMES. of lowa, introduced a bill to in.
corporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company, of
the District of Columbia.
%he Sale of Gold—A Bill Against Specials-
Mr. LANE, of Kansas, introduced a bill prohibit
ing the sale of gold at a higher price than that paid
in the regular market in the city. of New York, for
United States bonds paying six per oent. in gold, ex
cept for exportation, and to pay debts. •
Bea enaetetlby th - Senate and House of Representa
tfres of the United States elf America. in UanD , V-48 avant
bled. That gold shall not be sold at a price hi (her than
thatvald at the regular market in the city of new York
for United States bonds paving six Per cent. per annum
interest in cold.. acorn. as hereinafter provide • .
Site.'2. The foregoing section of this act shall not ap
ply to those cases wherein merchants in the regular
transaotten of business may find ft necessary to pur
chase formerchandise,
exportation
for o
w foreign hteh countries
the a have
e t o
already
v ea f a o y a
or may btreaf per contract, or to the purchase of gold for
eye purpose of paying the contract , ,
as it may fall due on
the Ponds of the United States. •
SEC. 3 Iny person who shall violate any provision of
this act shall, on conviction before the United States
District Court, in the district wherein the offence was
committed. be fined in any sum not less than 81,000 nor
more than SIO,COO, with imprisonment for a period of
not less than six months; and any person who shall
lodge information with the United States District At
torney of the district in which the offence shall be com
mitted, of the violation of any provision of this act,
shall be entitled to receive one-half of the sum of the
fine imposed.
The resolution wee read twice, and referred to the
Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed.
The Motion to Expel Mr. Davis.
DTr. S. 'LIMN P.R, of Massachusetts, moved, at half
past twelve o'clock, to take up Mr. Wilson's repu.
diation of expelling Mr. Davis, %Mott wee adopted.
Mr. WILSON said — , on the 6tiii of January the
:f Senator
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c e i n o t i u u ty n i s a , l p o an d u dt z
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Senate,
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pliance with his request, ordered them to be printed.
These resolutions were placed upon our desks, and
they have been received by the Senatorm, who have
the courage to impose upon themselves a task so
calculated to tax their powers of endurance.
Having a reasonable degree of confidence in my own
powers of endurance, L entered upon the task of
readirg these resolves to the President and his Cabi
net, the majority in these Chambers, the laws of Con.
gress,the 'proclamation and ordere of the Com mender
in.Chief of our Army and Navy, and of all who were
clothed with the authority to administer to the Go
vernment. I groped through this mass of Vitupera
tive, acarusations with mingled emotions of indigna
tion and pity. In this farrago of spleen and malice,
the Chief Magistrate and hie supporters have been
arraigned and condemned.
The heroes of Gettyaburg, Vicksburg a and Port
Hudson, Chattanooga, and fields made immortal by
their endurance, and the valor of the heroes who
rescued Kentucky, who rescued even the hearth
stones of that Senator from rebel desecration, are
branded as subsidised armies, and the men who at
Port Hudson, Milliken's Bend, and Fort Wagner
fought with heroic valor are stigmatized as negro
jai/trades. After hurling his accusations at the
President and his supporters in the Cabinet, and in
the field, the Senator turns to the people of the loyal
North and calls upon them to revolt against their
. war leaders, to take the power into their own hands,
and go into a national convention to terminate the
war. Should the loyal people of the United States
act up to his declaration, should they be incited
to revolt against the President and his aonititu
tional advisers, and, taking the power in their own
hands, assemble in a national convention—a con
vention unknown to the Constitution and laws—to
. terminate the war for the preservation of the Union,
the fields of the loyal States will 'be reddened with
the blood of civil war. He asked the Senate of the
United States, with their oaths of fidelity to the
Constitution recorded, to proclaim to the &merle/in
people, of this unconstitutional, revolutionary, and
treasonable doctrine, that they ought to revolt, and
assume the powers that they have delegated, under
the Constitution of the United States, to men who
now.fill the executive, legislative, and judicial de
plitments of the Government.
In the sixteenth section he calls the bloody incur
motion of rebels a revolt, thereby showing that he
knows the meaning of this word revolt when he
urged that it was a duty upon the loyal people of
the United State,.
The - Senator must not trifle; he must remember
that this is the Senate of the United States, and
not a " barbecue" in /Kentucky. The Senator can
not fail here to comprehend the inikport and meaning
of the words that are embodied in these resolutions,
and they know that these are the words and phrases
of stateemen,`and not the idle babblings of fools.
When, by the cilium words of his ' resolutions, the
Senator from Kentucky declares that the people
North ought to revolt against their war leaders,
and take this great matter into their own hands,
he must In held to have Intended that they should
rise in ineurrection against their " war leaders,"
and abjure their allegiance to the government of
their country, for that is the
, precise import and
meaning of this word " revolt ' the connection
in which the Senator has usedit.
That the Senator from Kentucky means by
the term , g war leaders" the President and others
subordinate to him Inliuthority, and that the people
should revolt against them, is not, and cannot be,
open to debate. To make' good these charges of
perversion of the Constitution and laws andlhe
rights and liberties of the people, and to fire the
Northern heart for the revolt proposed and advised
to be a high duty, it is further declared in the reso
lutions that the President of the United States, and
the civil and military officers thereof, may com
mit treason against any State whose government is
in the performance of its duties under the Federal
, Constitution, by levying war against it, or adhering
to its enemies; giving them aid or comfort, or Leant.
leg with : n armed force the execution of its lawe,
or adhering to such armed force, giving it aid and
comfort. _
That no man, of the millions of the North; thus in
,l7lted 'by the Senator to revolt and take the powers
of the Government into their' own bands, may be
mistaken as to the II war leaders,” against whom
they are told they ought to rise in insurrection in
the 17th section it is further declared that " the
people of the loyal State" are resolved into two great
parties : the Deetzwitiveir and the Conservatives. -
The ihst, the Destructive's, consists_ of Abraham
Lincoln, his officeholders, contractors, and other
follower.. - Their real objects are to perpetuate
their party.power and to hold possession
of the Government, to continue the aggrandize.
meat of • their leaders , _ great and small, by almost
countless offices and employments, by myriads
of plundering contracts, and by putting up to sale
the largest amount of spoils that were ever offered
to market by any government on earth.. Their ob.
jest is to destroy or banish and strip of their pro
perly all the slavery people, secessionists and anti
seceasioniste, loyal and disloyal, combatants and
non.corsbatanta, and to distribute the lands of the
subjugated people, as was done by the Roman con.
4luezers, to their own countrymen ; • also to enslave
the white man by trampling under f oot the laws and
car stitutions of the United .States and of each State,
by • the power of his subsidized army, and lest it
should falter, by. hundreds of thousands of negro
janizaries, organized for that purpose by the sears)•
tary of War and the Administration."
But, says the Senator, verily. the people ought to
revolt against the President and his followers, be
cause he has thus suppressed the freedom of
elections in Delaware, Maryland,. Missouri, and
Kentucky ; because his object is backed by a sub
sidised army and hundreds of• thousands of negro
janizaries to perpetuate his party. power. If the
Senate should press these resolutions, as the Senator
from Kentucky proposes it shall do, can any man
doubt that the Senators voting for their passage
would, before God and the country, be guilty of in
citing, or attempting to incite, the people to revolt
against their duly chosen President, and the eueou-•
tine officers clothed — with authority under him?
The Senate ought not, in my judgment, to tole.
rate for a day or for an hour in this Chamber any
man who dares thus to betray the high trust of the
people.. The Senate of the United . States, in this
dark and troubird night of our history, owes it to
the country whose Constitution it has sworn to
support, to see that project! of conspireby against
the constituted authorities shall not be thrust upon
.it by its own members. In other days these Cham
bers rang with words of disunion and idyll war.
The men who uttered these Welts of meditated
treason told the people of the South, what the Sena
tor from Kentucky now tells the people of the North,
that they . ought to revolt against the Governmen t
and Peke the matter into their . own hands. Under
the lead of those rebel chiefs, whose treasonable
words once rang through these hallo of legislation,
the people of the South did revolt against the au
thority of the Government, took the power. int o
their Olen hands, and plunged. the nation into the
crimes and mirrors 'gown war. Who among us does
not now regret that the Senate of the United States
did not hurl headlong from this chamber three rebel
chiefs then, as the rebel angels were hurled from the
battlements of heaven? But these disloyal leaders
—these champions of the slavemasters, whose hearts
were sweltering with treason, never made in the
Senate - proposition so unconditional and revolu
tionary, treasonable and wicked, as is this proposi
tion of the Senator from Kentucky.
Row sublime a thing it would be in this crisis of
our country for the Senate of the United States to
rise to the height of a stern and IoY all duty, and cast
ont one who has dared to tell a loyal peoplelo re
volt and take its powers into their own hands Such
an act of avenging patriotism would tire the loyal
heart of America, silence the mutterings; of treason,
and nerve the arms of the heroes who are battling
and bleeding for the Republic.
Mr. DOOLITTLE, of Wisconsin, thought it Would
be desirable before coming to a vote to near the
Bolan from Kentucky, After that •he hoped the
resolution would be referred to a admmitted.
Mr. DAVIS, of Kentucky, said he was ready on
this or any other occasion, to ;submit to the judg
ment of the Senate. It was not for him to suggest
what course should betaken. It was a grave ques-
tion, but he was now prepared to reply to Senator
Wagon. Re asked for the reading of his resolutions
upon which the Senator had arraigned him, and the
resolutions were then read.
Mr. DAVIS said he had not anticipated this
movement. It was sprung upon the Senate to his
surprise. He had considered his resolutions well,
and they had his definite approval. The jaundiced,
narrow mind of the Senator from Massachusetts
was wholly unprepared to interpret them.' Ills heart
and his mind totally disqualified him for the task.
He entered his solemn protest against the Senator's
version, and asked all candid, sensible Senators to
consider them for themselves. He denied that he
had said that the army had been subsidized by the
President, and that the heron of our battle-fields
were maligned.
What he said was, that if the present Executive
endorses the schemes alluded to in his resolution,
these leaden, in the event of the failure to reach
their conclusions, and to succeed in their nefarious
and treasonable object, would throw themselves
back upon the armed power of the Government
against the "lords of the land." He stood up for his
resolution, and intended to abide by its fate. He
would reed the section upon which the learned,
erudite, and patriotic Senator bases his indictment.
Els resolutions only proposed to institute a plain
sr d frank investigation of the measurer of the Ad
ministration. and intended to continue such inveeti
gallon until the Senate expelled him, and if the Se•
nate should do that, he had a higher mission as an
American Senator and freeman, born under the Con
stitution which he tied imbued in his infancy and
cherished in manhood. He would go home to the
people of his lotted, native Kentucky and raise the
cry of opposition, tyranny, usurpation, and revolu
tion against the 'faithless who have charge of the
Government. We had fallen on evil times, indeed.
We have a great rebellion, second only in import
ance to that When Lucifer was thrown from Heaven.
We have in this administration of the Govern
ment—in all the departments—men who have sworn
to support and defend the Constitution, not for the
powers it confers upon them, but for the liberties it
gives the people. Recreant to their high trust, and
by the abuse of civil and militsry power, they
are trying to subvert that Constitution and the
proper liberty it secures to the eitizen ; and yet
any Man having the audacity to question the
wisdom end conetitutionslity of the policy
of the Administration is branded as disloyal.
We have had great men in the past The founders
of the Government were great. A wise man and
patriot, when he desired to learn their principles of
Government, went to the noble foundation of po
litical knowledge. Such men as the Senator from
Massachusetts only perform the base office of mix&
dying the fountain ; he ii not lit for any other work„
undoubted thi ject Mr. Webster held that it was the
unright of legislators to eean the sets of
public men ; that this right was as undoubted as the
right of breathing or walking_ the earth. It is the
last right that he would abandon. He would exer.
else it at all hazards. At an humble distance, and
in his feeble way, he Intlinded to follow the great ea:-'
pounder of the Constitution.
The Skellkii 110 M fdagesehusette (Kr, Wilson)
An Asslutaiftt Secretary of War.
The Charge ofMe.:Wilsoa.
Speech of Mr. Davis.
teems too have Installed himself as a sort of over
seer of this body, and he was astonished at the die.
' tatorial manner, in which he bustled about, ad
ministerhig rebukes in this and the other house.
He has persuaded himself that he lir "the Govern
ment," and le particularly enured himself that he
La the Sinate—at least, the largest and moat lin
portant part of it. [Laughter.y But I don't think
there is a person, in or out of the Senate;who hugs
such a delusion to his breast exempt himself.
[Laughter.]
He would read the resolution of this learned Se.
nator—this able Man, WhO distinctly understands
everything in the administration and conduct of
war matters in the fteld—to expel him. If the Se
nator had power commensurate with his purpose, it
would have been done ; but he thanked hie 'stare
there were wiser, juster, abler, and more patriotic
men in the Senate and the country than the Senator.
If there were not, God save the mark. the country
would soon go to ruin. How long did the Senator
sit under the treasonable utterance, of leaders in
the rebellion three year. ago? At that time, he
(Davis) war engaged at his avocation at home, and
he occasionally referred to the debates in the
Senate, and read the treasonable effuelons of the
band of traitors who have organized the rebellion.
He read the avowal of Toombs, that he "was a
rebel and the world never saw a better.". This, air
well as the audacious declaration of Mason, that he
owed no allegiance to the Government, and others
in their treasonable schemes, was uttered in the pre-
Bence of the just, pure, courageous, and patriotic
Senator from Inaessehueetta, who remained "as
dumb as a fist " (laughter).- There Wall a chance for
the display of the moral and physical courage of the
Senator. When be (Hr. Davis) read these deelarso
tiers his blood boiled in his veins, and had he have
been present, he dared to say, that he should not
have kept silent, like the Senator from Massa
chueette.
Now, the Senator has a majority, here backed by
hundreds of thousand, of soldiers and officers, who
hold their places at the will of the power at the
other end of the Avenue;.who when they are
ordered to do the bidding of" that power do it, or
suffer incarceration, court martial, or death. The
Senator was so all , sufficient and insufficient
(laughter] that he did not consult with a single
individual. lie wanted all the glory himself.
[Laughter.] He calls the proposition for a con
vention treason. He was told that the Senator
boasted that he was the successor of Webster. Ye
gods ! what a successor. [Laughter.] The Senator
is afraid that his propoaltion will stop the war;
there is where tha -Li shoe pinches."
He does not want the war to cease. He ( Mr.
Davis) did not want the war to be stopped till the
rebels should have submitted to the Constitution
ai d the laws of the United States. He would not
prove recreant to the Government, but would sup•
port those who are administering it, however in
competent he might deem them. The grand purpose
of the Senator was to carry on the war for the de
struction of slavery and to pervert the war power
and all other powers of the Government to tide end.
He ached the Senator if the rebels in the Southern
States were to offer to come back , with their rights
under the Constitution, save where it forfeits them
their rights for their rebellious aeons, would he
agree that they should come back?
The Senator. ie silent, but his heart answers the
question. There is no Senator but what hams that
be is more devoted to the destruction of slavery
than to the vindication of the laws in the seceded
Stales; he *mild sweep away the Constitution and
State laws to abolish slavery, in violation of him
oath as a Senater. And yet to hear hint prate of
It loyalty,” one would think there was no loyalty
in the United States besides himself.
. . .
He (Mr Davis) assumed that if a convention of all
the States were called together, and should resolve
to do away with the Government, that they had the
power and right to do it. He was opposed, of course,
to any such exercise of power as a practical thing.
He considered this compact a political partnership.
Mr. HOWARD, of Michigan, inquired if the Sena
tor held that such a convention would have the
right to abolish the present Government and costal).
-lish another,- and if so, from what source it derived
that light. Heel it arise from the Oonetitution
Mr. DAVIS said, that while he was opposed to
Such a course as an abstract proposition, the ma
jority of the States had a right to meet together in
convention, and do away with the best Government
on the earth. This _political partnership could be
cancelled by. the consent of the partners. I ask that
the people of all the States go into convention,
ar d take this civil war into their hands, and close
the bleeding wound of the nation—reconstructing it
upon the principles of compromise and liberty, upon
which Washington and his associates acted.
It wasthe Senator's intention to place him in a
state of suspension here like Dlehemiee4l's conic,
between Heaven and Earth. [Laughter.] He was
n durance, and any durance that the Senator would
establish was "vile".enough in god's name.
[Laughter ] He was for the prosecution of the war
to any honorable peace, but would prefer that it
should close by the peaceable 'Omission of those in
rebellion.
Dir. DAVIS continued at length to refer to the
course of Massachusetts in Shays rebellion,' n !he war
011812, in the Mexican war, and in her resistance of
the fugitive-slave act. He referred to a speech of
the .senator from Mrissechueetts during the Kansas
troubles, in which the North is called upon to come
forth and overthrow the slavepropagandists.
His language was stronger than mine, and yet he
has the audacity to introduce a resolution to expel
me for using language less significant, less subver.
live, than his in 1858. The pestilent State of
Massachusetts had passed a law annulling the
fugitive-slave law; she was covered all over with
treason inlBl2 He had not been in this body but a
few days before I received to anonymous letter in
relation to the Senator accusing the Senator of sell
ing a antlered:tip for one-half the profits. He did
not believe it then, nor did he now ; but the revels•
tions made in regard to plunder are so startling that
he did not know what to believe.
Mr. Wilson's Reply.
Mr. WILSON replied to the remarks of the
Senator from Kentucky. He would not, he
said, attempt to follow the Senator- in his
rambling, incoherent speech of three hours,
so full of indecency treason, and falsehood. He
explained in full his connection with his regi
ment, the 22d Massachusetts, and denied,in toto the
charge contained in the anonymoualetter mentioned
by the Senator. The sutler/hip was not given out
until after he had left the regiment. Re had spent
' sB4o' aching tlw. Tnillmi"llt ; of which he had never
asked a cent. He considered it a privilege to have
made this small contribution to his country's cause.
lie believed that the Senator's cause would be 0011-
drinned A by his owii people. Gallant and true, old
Kentucky is rising with the rest of the country in
sentiment. _
The Senator talks of the action of the Masiachu
sette Legbdature on the fugitivemslave alit. Re
loves to linger around the system of tyranny. Mas
sachusetts only desired to protect her own citizens,
and if disputes or conflict of authority arose, to have
it adjudicated in the proper tribunal. Massachu•
setts during all the questions that have arisen
within the last twenty years, has occupied• a post.
tion that will command the respect of the Christian
world.
--- The- Senator saknowledged this convention
'scheme Wail revolutionary. Re had heard Jefferson
Davis, with that clear and concise language of his
which , extorted the admiration of his enemies, sup.
port the doctrines of Calhoun. He had head the
blustering Toombs, the malignant Clay, the plaint.
ble Benjamin ; but . we would search in-vain in the
journals of the Senate for words so treasonable as
the resolutions of the Senator from Kentucky. He
knows the meaning of the word “revolt," for he
calls the rebellion of Jr fferson Davis a revolt, when
it is no more a revolt than that of Garrett Davis.
At 4.30 P. X. the Senate adjourned without ac
tion on the resolution.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. DAWES, of Massachusetts, from the Com
mittee on Elections, reported a resolution for ad
mitting William Jane to a seat as the 'delegate from
Daketah. This is not to damage the right of the
contestant. -
The resolution Ilex over.
The Forfeiture of Estate. &e.. as a Punish
ment for Treason.
Mr. WILSON, of lowa, from the Committee on
the Judiciary, reported a joint resolution to amend
the joint resolution explanatory of the act to sup
press insurrection, punish treason and rebellion,
confiscate estates, and other purposes, which was
approved July, 1862. _
It says that no punishment or proceedings under
any act shall be construed to work the forfeiture of
any estate except during the lifetime of the offender,
in accordance with section 3, article 3d, of the Con
stitution of the • United States; provided, no
other public warning or proclamation, under the act
Of .Ttily MO, 1862, la, or eheti be, required than the
proclamation of the 25th of July, 1862, which procia•
mation so made shall be received and held sufficient
in all oases now pending, or which may hereafter
arise. .
FiOn the question being taken, the proviso, or latter
part of the above, was agreed to, yeas 77, nays 54
NU. WILSON explained his object for the resolu-
tion reported by him, which was to make and con
form to a provision of the Constitution. It was not
propored to determine by legislation Whether the
forteiture shall be in fee or simply during the life
time of 'the offender. The whole question was left
to the courts.
Mr. COX, of Ohio, asked—Does the gentleman
propose-to press tide resolution to a vote without
alfordinfr an opportunity for discussiont
Mr. WILSON replied—l desire to have an action
or passage of it today.
Mr. COX, of Ohio said—You can't have it. '
Mr. WASHBITSNE, of Illinois—We shall see.
Mr. COX said this hasty action strikes at the
organic Raw.
XERNAN, of New York, argued to shOW that
the President, in approving of the °ordination Aot,
and - the explanatory resolution heretofore passed,
regarded them as in fact but one act, and therefore
signed both.
Confiscation Constitutionally Defined.
The President, in his message at that time, said
that any attempt to make treason work a complete
forfeiture of life and estate would be unconstitu
tional. It were better to leave untouched the law
as it now stood. He was for suppressing rebellion
by all the means in our power, and ho pedto see our
people living peaceably under a Un ted Govern
ment ; but it seemed to him that toward the mass of
the people in the South we should hold out induce
meats to desert the secession leaders and to come
back under the Constitution and law. One of these
encouragements should be, not to take away the
right of the children to inherit the estates forfeited
during the lifetime of the offenders.
Mr. WILSON moved to recommit the resolution
to the Judiciary . Committee, when the Rouse pro
ceeded to other frustum.
Mr; ORTH, of Indiana; made a speech On the
powernf Congress, under the Constittion, to dealare
the absolute forfeiture of the property or traitors.
lie took the position that Oongress had such power,
and fortified _ his argument!! by a review Of the law
of treason inAbgland, down to the adoption of the
Federal Constitution,and the reason and true con.
&Unction of the clam conferring this power on
Congress. •
The Penneylvais4A 13i11.
A reeolutlion was adopted, requesting the ascend
auditor to report thficharsoter of the expenses, and
whether the milita were called out by the Governor
for the defence of Pennsylvania, etc., this . informa
tion being necessary as preliminary to the action on
the pending bill, to reimburse that State for the ex
pewee incurred.
On motion GIB% STEVENS, of Pennsylvania, the
further consideration of the b il l WAS POSSpOZLEIWISLI
Tuesday.
Military Matters.
Mr. COFFROTH, of Pennsylvania, introduced a
bill companie; the provost manhole, in each Con.
greesional District, to hold their examinations at
the county seat of each of their respective districts.
The bill was referred to the Committee on Military
firth s.
On the motion of Mr. AMOS MYERS, of Penn
sylvania, the Committee on Military Affairs was in-
In rusted to inquire into the expediency of amending
the enwlment act, so as to make the term of service
one year, leaving the commutation law as it now
stands.
Mr. BALDWIN, of Massachusetts, from the
Committee on Printing, reported a resolution in
favor of printing 10 extra copies of Generals
McClellan and Grant's official reports, which was
agreed to.
Agricultural Grants.
A resolution was offered and referred, directing
an inquiry as to the expediency of extending the
time for the States and Territories to accept the
grants of land, finder the Agricultural College act.
It was also ordered to be printed.
Emancipation.
Mr. BOUTWELL, of Massachusetts from the
Judiciary Committee, reported back the ' bill to en
able the President to carry into immediate execu
tion his proolamation of January ist, andi pro
hibiting th' holding of certain persons as slaves, in
the certain State. designated.
beOII-Ciads
. .
Mr. SPAULDING, of New York. repotted baek
from the Committee on Naval Affairs a reeolntion,
'Which wee punted, yelling on the Seanlinty of the
Nat" for eartain report. showing the aerviee and
'Mammy of irometade, as exhibited in former en
gagements.
A Bureau for the Freetintest
Mr. ELIOT, of Massachusetts, from the Select
Committee on Emancipation, reporbed a bill to es.
tablish a bureau for the oOnsideretton of the affairs
of freedmen. The bill was postponed till next:
Wednesday.
Mr. STEELE, of New York, said a resolution
wavidopted several dowse ago instructing the Con:i
nmate for the District of Columbia to inquire and
report relative to. the prevalence of areall•port. That
committee 'hid bad several sittings, and hereabt.
gated the subject to a considerable extent. As a
member of the imbeonnaittoo, „
he held , that there
was nb coast= for untumal alarm s and seat the ao.
oommodatione in the hospitals are snip's.
Mr. KELLEY, of lyanla s inquired whether •
the tmall_pox la not pre largely in We city.
MI '.WeZ - PPM WA there WM MI "imosk,
for unusual alarm. Etat sordinaryeltortif hate EMU
made to take *are of the suffering fr that disease.
trite. State of the Vinton Prestderse's Message.
The House then went into 'Comtuittee of the
Whole on the state of the Union, to *Onside/ the
topics diamond in the President , ' annual message
Mr. TPAINAIe, of Kentucky , expressed Ms vie ws
on the message of the President. Althotigh he dill.
ferree from the President in come of the details of
his plan for reconstructing the Union, he wairwati
fled with the suggestion in the message that the
plan of the President did not exclude the Adoption
of any other, The great fact was admitted at lee,
that it was a political question. The Matters of
emancipation and ooniimatiorr mist De left to the
judicial tribunals. Re denied that a State would
be In rebellion, though persona the State might
be, and his effort was to endeavor to arena in re
storing the Government, for we have not to reor
ganize it. -
He, as he had declared in the resolutions recently
offered, was for putting down the rebellion and
eurreetien by force of arm.; and that insurrection
and rebellion did not work a forfeiture of the rights
of ley al persons. He was in • favor of encouraging
the loyal people to resume the functions of loyal
States. The ordinances of secession are void on
behalf of Kentueby and the Sumer States, and he
would say, with all. deference toanother gentleman,
that they are today the molt unconditional Union
men on the continent, and this he could prove.
One party would have the Union only on their the
odes of State sovereignty r they may have their
theories, if they leave us the Union and Government.
And their party would have the Union with elevery,
and another would have the Union without slavery.
But we are for the Union and the Government under
the Gonstitution.
The committee then rose.
The Duty On Paper, ite.
On the motion of Mr. NOBLE, of Ohio, the Com
mittee on Ways and Means was instructed to in.
quire into the expediency of repealing the duty on
paper.
Mr. SCHENCK, of Ohio, from the Committee on
Military Affairs, reported a bill to promote the ell•
eteney of mechanical engines.
Mr. HOLMAN, of Indiana, asked leave to offer
a piesmble to the resolution setting forth the frauds
that have been charged against the army Moen
and others furnishing supplies, and providing for
the appointment'or a select committee to examine
into the contracts made during the present war, and
the subject generally, including the question as to
whether any of the offenders have been brought fo
trial.
Objection SWAB made to the introduotion of the
proposition.
The House then adjourned.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
HARRISBURG, Jan, 13, 1864
SENATE
The Senate Woe called to order this morning at it
&Mock, by Senator JOHNSTON, in the absence of
Speaker Penney.
Attorney General's Report.
The Annual Itspcirt of the Attoinsl r reneral was
presented and read. It tete forth that the new claims
preferred by the Commonwealth during the year
amounts to $439 963.08, a which $355,035.41 have
been collected.
. -
The roll of the Senate was sailed toorder to aster
tain whether any were absentees, (it having bean
awed that if there were any such, no advantage
should be taken by either party). It was ascertained
that Mr. Clymer had paired oh' with Mr. Penney,
and Mr. Ridgway with Mr. Wallace. Thus, four
teen of each political party were present and enti
tled to vote.
Mr. TURRELL offered a resolution to print 2 000
copies of the Attorney General's Report. Lost--
yeas 14, noes 14.
A mOtion. to proceed to another ballot for Speaker
was loet—yeae 14, noes 14.
Proposed Payment of the State Debt In
Mr. LOWRY offered a resolution to pay the In
terest on the State debt, due February Ist, in notes.
He aaid that the people, through the "dead•loek" in
the .into, were likely to lose a million of dollars,
because, as the law now stands, the State Treasurer
must sell the notes, and pay the interest in gold. Re
'was opposed to this, and considered that it was no
part of our duty to send gold to those who were
building iron•clads to operate against us. There
were members sitting in the Senate who were viola
ting both law and their oaths.
Mr. CLY,MER rose to a point of order, that the
resolution (Vail not properly before the Senate, and
Pot subject to disculision, Fie should not We la
terfered if the gentleman from. Erie had not diverged
from the subject to make an invidious remark
atlecHng Senators.
The 011AIEDIAN deckled the point of order to
be well taken.
Mr. LOWRY inquired under what rules he de
cided, as the Senate had adopted no rules.
The CHAIRMAN replied, "Under the general
pailiantentary law." .
Opinion of Attorney General Knox on Cr-
ganization.
Mr. LOWRY finally continued, and offered a let
ter from Hon. John C. Knox, stating that, in his
opinion, the organization of the Senate was com
plete, and that there was no constitutional or eta,
tutary practice requiring the election of officers an
nually.
Mr. OHAMPNEYS favored the resolution to pay
interest-in notes, and endorsed the recommendation
of Governor Curtin to that effect. He stated that
many of the holders of the Pennsylvania loan had
purchased it at rates varying front sixty to ninety
onto on the dollar, and had been drawing seven and
a half per cent. Ohio and Illinole had refused to
pay in coin; so bad New York city. The Hudson
River, New York Central, and - New York Erie
railroads, and the foreign holders, who purchased
the secu rities, subject to the laws of the country,
made no complaint.
lilt. OHAMPNEYS entered into an argument to
prove that the State Constitution was never in
tended to leave the Senate without a Speaker, and
that its framers were men who never contemplated
any such result.
CLYMER asked for the precedent of any
Speaker who, until the preset session, had ever
held over and voted:
Mr. CIIARIPNEYS replied that, even if there
von 'no precedent, it did not argue that there was no
right for the Speaker to take such action.
Debate on Organization.
- - -
Mr. TUBEELL insisted that the whole responsi
bility of the present cheek to business, as wall as the
responsibility of increasing the *axes to buy gold,
must rest with the Democratic party. Ile then pro
ceeded to argue that the. Senate was thoroughly.
organized.
Mr. STEIN referred to the article in the state
Constitution, requiring the General Assembly to
meet annually on the first Tuesday of January, and
directing each House to choose its Speaker and its
own officers.
Mr. TURRELL denied that the clause imposed
the duty of electing anew Speaker each year. This
Senate was the same which had existed ever since
the Constitution was formed. .
:Mr. Turret' assailed the Democratic party as act
ing in sympathy, or at least to the advantage of the
rebellion. He declared the proposition of the' emo
°ratio members to be a "horse jockey" proposition.
[At this point there was a disturbance in the gal
lery, and the offender was immediately ejected.]
Mr. MoCANDLESS denounced the Democratic
party as having taken advantage of the patriotic ab
sence of Senator White, and as having usurped
power in the Senate against the wishes and instruc
tions of the people, who would work a fearful retri
bution. If the theory of the opposite party was
true, that there was no Speaker, and if the Go.
vernori should die there would be no Governor, an
event never contemplated by the Constitution. In
the case of Speaker Johnson, Who at the beginning
Of a kgielatiVe term was called to the Governor's
• chair, the Senate only elected a Speaker pro tom
and thug jealously guarded the right of the body
never to lose its organization. He again denounced
the Democratic part y _ is aiding the South, in fact, if
not in principle. Ili
The Opposition thought to weary and tire out the
Republican members, but they would find that the
Republicans would not be tired out, but would keep
their places until Senator White or his successor
was elected, and his successor would certainly be a
Union member, for the district gave 2,000 majority
in favor of the State and National Governments.
Was it part of the programme of the Democracy to
oppose the inauguration of the Governor and the
election of the State Tressurert The only way in
which he considered any one of the sixteen Demo
crats would ever be enabled to return to a Weigle.
tire body, was by some one of them pairing Off With
Senator White until his return. There were no
offices in the gift of the Legislature that the lobby
friends of the .Democrats could obtain.
A motion to adjourn was lost—ayes 9, noes 19.
Xi. DONOVAN said that the Senator, who had
just spoken, reminded him of the celebrated verse ;
She tossed and heaved. and heaved and tossed.
And up her rudder flung
And everrthingehe heaved and tossed.
A worser " leak she sprung. CLaughter.3
Mr. GRAHAM did not wish to impugn the mo
tives of any Senator, but the ties of party were so
strong as to lead men sometimes to look at practical
questions with prejudiced eyes. The time must
come When either Senator White would return, or
a successor would be appointed. Mr. Graham then
delivered an eulogium upon Senator White.
Mr. BUCHER, of Cumberland, wished to say in
reference to the "retribution of the people," al
ready referred to by a Senator, that it has been.but
a few years since the Republican members on the
floor of the Senate were twenty-seven in number,
and the Democrats but six. Now, the Republicans
were but sixteen. Certainly the people had spoken
against the policy of the party.
The Proposed Compromise,
Mr. TURRELL referred to the lock in the Senate
in 1.865.
lan 0.1..Y1ff ED said that the Democrats now offer
ed precisely the same compromise as was effected in
1865—viz: An equal distribution of the offices ; not
that the Democrats considered this the object of con
tention, but because they stood on principle—the
high principle that they were entitled by right to-a
proper organization of the Senate. All they want.
ed was fair-handed dealing from their peers.
The Senate refused to proceed to a second reading
of the rerolution, authorizing payment of interest on
the State debts.
Public, Entertainments.
INTELLECTUAL ENTEATAINNIENT..--0a Says:
evening, Mailame - Lizzle Bell, assisted by Now
tie S. Been, will give at Muefoal Fund Rail, A:
tertainment, consisting of recitations and so:.
from popular authors. Apart from the merit el
entertainment, it should commend itself to us;
sal favor, because of the worthy object of MO
ceeds. Madame Bell is engaged in raising fu o
the establishment of a home for orphans of va
tear., and to that end she ie displaying comma
bin zeal and perseverance. Her efforts shoa,,
seconded by the patriotic people of Philadelr
The home is to be established in Ms:State of
York. Her dramatic and poetic readings have '
received with great favor in other cities.
NEW CHRSTNUT.STREET TELEATEE,-This
13112 g Madame yestvali will appear tar the or,
as AUesonerro Maseartmt, in "The Brigand"— l
mantic drama, in two act/. by J. R. Plancho. •
has been extremely successful in both lc Gameel•:,
"The Duke's Motto,' and however much ther
probabilities of theae dramatfiatlone. may be, r
it must be admitted that Vestvali is very ega:
in both. Allesandro Massaroni used to be a fey: ,
with the elder Wallack thirty-live years ago. 'W'
Olwine and Mr. B. Eddy ham more rennet ;
Jested it. Vastest! is risen to the sacumptiot
male characters,and when she talkathrough the;
well as she wals through them, Is indeed singsli
successful. She transforms herself into a ravist ,
looping youth as Orsini in " Lucretia Borgia."' ‘.
there is no reason to doubt that, ehe will msb
into a brigand equally fascinating in a dide
way. Some of the scenes in 61 The Brigand"
very effective, and, if they are produced with
and care, cannot fall to be as beautiful as they
sensational. The itongs and choruses which ¢
sperm the drama give a liveliness and a chart ,
portions which would otherwise seem dragging
stupid. The management of the Chestnut
resources at command to produce this diSma is
best manner, SO that they cannot escape blame'
dose not in this respect SEWN' the expectatiosl
Ants Proposed the public.
Mr. BIGHAM read in place an act to extend the ;Mat Driararrn.--On Friday evening, Mr. V"
power of the mechanics' loan law to engines and ater, the popular and sweet-voiced singer, now
machinery capable of removal.
the eve of his return to Scotland, will give a coos
MYERS, of Bedford, an act for the payment at viatica Fund
of claims for the loss of horses and the distructionMa l l, His programme
mail
of property in certain counties by reason of the American, English, Scotch, and Irian Songs,
militia of iBB3 . some of Tennysonli lyrics, Whisk. Mr. D. has se
Military Mix for Relief Fund. music. He may safelk Calculation a full house.
Mr. PERbHING, an act appropriating the mill- A CONTEALIAND Musiosi. Essamorreinasf
tar several the Commonwealth to the relief fund of that is , ' the entertainment is itm;
the counies. •
Mr. ALEXANDER, of Centre, an act to &litho- the entertainers are—will be given on FridaY
rite the Comminioners of Centre county to cal. noon and evening, and on Saturday. WI
lent a tax for relief purposes. heard Sawnee, a little black Lenoir who Las s
Also, an act to authorize the Commissioners of contrahace.,,'
markable talent, imitate an -
°Neu with
Centre county to borrow $50,000 for the erection of
a jail. • success, giving bass and teruntaSeit simultalle °l '
ass. AIALERCAN, sot relative to costa in cues of producing es queer kind 0 . 1 4,3113101117. There •'
partition. - Amy that Swine Is a weenier his wail B r. "'
Mr. COCHRAN, of Erie, an set to. authorize the be audited by other maio, 1.- way ,
. 1 :11
commissioners of Erie county to pay bounties to ,
volunteers.and daneers and singers Vac nave moped /O a
Mr. HARES, an- sot relative to the exoneration rebel army. / I
of taxes ; also, an act granting the Court of Com-
T.AVNIIT•STICKIET Tfenlef RN. three .
, j 1
mon Pleas certain powers in egnity. proceedings in • -;
certain cases. ni ghts of Mr. Clarkex/cm c i a , end they ' •
Mr. BECK, an sat to Vacate. a State road in less be Well used IllfAhe public. Robert /lire'!' '
Union end Lycoming counties
• Legislation for Pllalisdelphis. which Mr. OlarkeAs ruirivaned, •
aim maims, a further minute/neat to an sot • _
incorporating the *fly or Phitadsiyads.
Mr. SCIROFILD, an AO to a Maize the Ottle Of ' glisrade at the:. Washington Pond on Monday,
Twit' erx-e•Tdr<4; OAIINIVAZ.—The skating `-
certain real estate inthe city of Philadelphia . was a itiostyfiesebie success. Several thoulanT.
Mr. SMITH, of Philadelphia.
the cit y
to extend sone. e s, minty of them in f
owl.
Fifteenth and Green streets in the city of Plink „ while torch es , f an t as ti c Hots quota tiat g o e
delphis.
areiorks, all added their to who?,
Mr. BROWN, an tel incorporate the Mew -interorii er th e seem. A. similar carnival
and Warren Transportntion Compan_y. _ nou':. - cesi for Thursday afternoon and eveniqg I '
Mr. 4 4 141 1581 ell Sat aUtbfliztlig EICRelVif 10
PrOprietors of the Union Skating Pond.—b,
_ A Personal Controversy-
A warm personal controversy sprung up between
Mr. Donovan and Mr. Dowry. The Democrats were
named as being in sympathy with the rebellion, and
Mr. Kinsey , retorted to that charge, and said it
was a harsh one to come from Senators who have
never done anything practical to support .the Ciu
vernment, except to look out for "pap: , ,
A Democratic Statement.
Final/az . . LiOrK/rfat offered a statement signed
by all t Democratic Senators , declaring among'
other t gm, that there was no precedent for the
last fifty years in a speaker having ever sworn Sena
tors into °Mace until he had first been sworn in him
self. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House met at 11 Wino& A. M.
Standing Committees.
The SPEAKER announced the standing (=nit
tees for the session.
-The following are chairmen of standing com
mittees :
Ways and Means—Mr. Bighorn, of Allegheny.
Judiciary—General Brown, of - Warren.
Judiciary Local—Mr. Cochran, of Philadelphia.
Estates—Mr. Guernsey, of Potter.
Corporations—Mr. Kerne, of Philadelphia.
Banks—Mr. Olmstead, of Potter.
City Bailroads--Mr. Smith, of Philadelphia.
,Railroads—Mr. Coleman, of Lebanon.
Divorces—Mr. Burgwin, of Venango.
Education—Mr. McClellan, of Chester.
Mr. BIGHAM offered a resolution referring cer
tain portions of the Governor's message to their ap
propriate committees.
Mr. SMITH, of Chester, moved to amend, by ap.
pointing a committee of three to aonsider what por
tions of the message should be referred to the several
committees. which amendment was agreed to.
Mr. JOSEPHS asked to be excused from serving
on the Committee on Annex and Minerals, which
was granted.
appoint five additional notary pallor
county. l 4, •
Mr...MILLER offered an act tt aka, , f,;;•4
Of Tor* street, in the city of Phtitideli,3:::
Public Buildings
mgr. SMITE, of Cheater, offered a re k ,
the Committee on Public Buildings pe at ,.s
inquire into the expediency of enlarging
or erecting new public, buildings, the r4t,
being too small 101' the use of the dp i L ,
'account of the increasing business of t he,
wealth.
On motion of Mr. REX; the re tv
amended to serer the matter toe, aeabuilk
of seven to report to the House by bit, 6 .
Mr.. ALEXANDRE, of Ohnlon, ofte4
resolution asking Congress to inereate".,
private soldiers in the army. •• , 1
Adjourned.
THE MARYLAND LEGISLAIT
Proposed Interview with the Pr 6
Concerning Negro Enlisinnkill,
Call for au Emancipation Coul,
ilerirrtrons, Jan. 13.—The Maryland bi t
terri&y passed the modified order preseerr,
Echeberger, of Frederick, as a substitute ft!
relation to negro enlistments, promising thi.,
ment of &joint committee to have an totem:
the President of the United States in ref
questions which at thin moment engage S.
tion, and so deeply concern the interezti
people of Maryland. The vote on the or.;
yeas 11, nays 2, three Senators being &bees!
Yesterday, in the House of Delegates,
nitely established the position of mentbu r
queetion of emancipation.
Mr.
Hebbs, of Allegheny, introduced a z,
and retolutiOne declaring that the true fat,
Maryland demand that the policy of em‘
should immediately be inaugurated within
dens ; that the Legiolature declarea its ink
submit to the people, at as early a day as;
ble, a call for a Constitutional Convention,
give them an opportunity to carry such p o i
effect, and rr questing the senators and hew
Urea in Congress from Maryland to use npy
ble efforts to et CUM the passage of a Pap,
green whereby all loss of. sieves shall t h 3
rated.
By a vote of 48 yeas to 22 nays the Mee v•
pended, and the resolution palmed to a •seag:
Lag..
A proposition to amend the last retoti“ ,
striking out the words loyal owners" a nd
Log MI who own awes and have not en gt
actual hostilities against the GoverrunaL.
United States, or given aid or comfort to 1 4
gaged in hostilities against the said °overt;
Was rejected by a vote of 19 yeas to 51 nay,.
The preamble and resolutions were final)? t
by a vote of 51 yeas to 15 nays; seven member;
absent, or not voting.
CAIRO.
Refugees, Deserters, and Straggi,,
CAIRO, Jan: 13.—Over . 3,500 refugees, froat
pads of the South, have paased through Caw,
July last, 3,000 of whom have received peck;
aid from the Vnited States 'Sanitary anut
$6,000 bee been tbue applied from functe
contributed by the people for the Purpose,
wishing to contribute to this noble charity,
dress N. a Shipman, V. S. Sanitary Ap,.
Cairo, Illinois.
Nearly 100 deserteri and stragglers have he
warded to their regiments to.dav, by the
marshal.
Painting of the Battle of Chattabo,
LOUISVILLE', Jan. 13 .—J Amex Walkar i or
York, the celebrated military painter, left to:
tanooga to-day to make preliminary aketc'e
painting of the Nation at Chickamauga az:
tanooga. -
Kansas Politics.
LnAvertwonmn, Kansas, JAIL. 13.--The
tore of this State was organized yesterday
election of a Speaker, Clerk of the Hoult..
Secretary of the Senate, all opposed to the p,
principies of Senator Lane, of Kansas.
' Departure of the Steamer Per•!; ,
Naw Yomr, Jan. la,—The royal rash s tea:
Persia sailed at noon today for Liverpool,r.
speoie list of $BOO,OOO.
Importation of Cotton Into French P
Waxy YOB7E, Jan. 114.—The Courier des Etc ;
nays I By en imperial decree, of December Lt
cotton le admitted free into:French porta, if icp
direct from the country where it wag proilui•
ships carrying the French flag. The duties
fore leVied will be paid On cotton imported ut
foreign nag.
The New Uric Legislature.
• ALBANY, Jan. 13.—The Aveenibly of this Sts
day passed resolutions complimentary to Or
(leant.
San Francisco.
SAN FRANcieco, Jan. 13.—The steamer Ur.
Marled to for Panama, carrying sweaty pi
germ and $760,000 in treasure for England, cad •
000 for New York.
Markets by Telegraph.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 13.—Wheat is unchanged,
is unsettled and the prices are irregular. g
sells at 8834 c. Hops—Sales at $808,25. Prot . ,
are firm. Mess Pork sells at $20.25. Lards
Bulk Meats are quoted at 7@eo.
Gold is quoted today in the market in thr
at 1523. - •
Marine Intelligence.
Nam! Yoan, Jan. 13.—Arrived tfiippaa Cast!..
New Orleans, 'Humboldt from Hamburg,
Star from New Orleans, Parana from Ron%
bark CRuckauffmn Rio Janeiro; brigs 7
Dodge from Pernambuco, Maine from Harr
S. King from St. nomms, San Suan from Th
Tiger from St.lllnrtine, and Henrietta, rim
muda.
Large Fire in Schuylkill Count),
[Correspondence of The Press.]
Anazaun, Jan. 11,1.
L. P. Garner, Esq" of this place, met with &
serious loss on last Saturday evening, by the,
ing of his large and extensive maehine•shop,i
ted at the lower extremity of Ashland. The
of tke fire in unknown. Loos variously eel._
from twonty•five to forty thousand dollars, on
was an insurance of only six thousand dollars,
THE CIIIVERSR is the new title of the a
Herald and Visitor now under the exclusive a
of Mr. S. M. Spelliny, whose ability and enter
have already greatly improved its character of
pearance. The Universe is the oftleial Organ o
diocese. We are glad that it takes strong grou
favor of the justice of the war, and consider
abolition of slavery in Maryland proof o!
loyalty of that State. Conducted on loyal ,
ciples, it will_be doubly worthy of the sum'
the intelligent Catholics of Philadelphia, at:
wish Mr. Spelissy all success. We quote thi
lowing concise and impartial argument is.
tration of its principles:
In this just view of the case, What remains k
people of the North to dot Are they to give u;
Union because the South is covered with deaolit
It is a tender argument that the South is now tie:
for its life, and therefore, that the North is nen
ly wrong in pursuing the war. But is not Pic
fighting for dB life? Did not the rebels invade h
than once with extermination for their motto? It
they not invade again if they were able with the
motto' And i 8 not the North fighting for the ich
of the treason disrupted nation? These que.t
have affirmative answers. It is a blind, dial'
sentimentalism which upholds the South in flit'
for its life, and condemns the North ,or f ighting Ie
and for f
for the integrity of the Republic. The;
must go on. The South will not desist. The
must save its cities and fields from Southern eery,:
and the life of the, Republic cannot be compro
These facts silence the appeals of manor to the
torious North, and should turn the entreaty
justice and prudence to tee South, which, will
reason, commenced the bloodshed, and which
sanguinary haired to the loyal States, keel",
sword drawn.