Zit Vress. THURSDAY; JANUARY 28, 1864 FortNEY'S WA rt PR ESS, fraturday, isjurt istned and for sam. cat tents 11T9 extnraely interestil g. ILLUSTRATION.—Tbe Grea% Calamity in Chili; the Burring or the Epleadid Cathedral. of St.lago. The Wan conleize the folleet acecnnt of this extraordina ry digaq.ar. t•TOEY.—Miss Emma Egi.leam'e highly dramatic Eto n of " .Yeesieamd Maud," founded Tmon a mystery of Teal onsarrenes in the earl- 1; fa of the West WAR NATTERS. —The extracts from the rebel jowl which armr.ar in this number. passera ;treat his toric value and readable variety. Important intelititeana born all quartera or the South will render the ' invaluable for percent and reference The ICditorial and I.!terary cliaracter of the - present number will command interest. The accustomed de partments invaluable to farmers. merchants. and other claws. are fully sustained. .4s a compendium of in telligence the Waa._/'nes.s" will hardly fall to meet alt demands. speel_mena of the " WAX PRESS" will be forwarded when reoneeted. The aubecrintion rate for Riede C0P1913 ie liat per year. A reduction from ti ace terms will be al lowed when clubs are formed. Single copies, pat up in wrappers. ready for mailing, maY be obtained at the counter. Price See cents. Lands for the Freedmen. That the liberation of the Southern slaves is a benefit to themselves and the country we must now be satisfied, for though the - sudden breaking up of a system of labor by an army has often resulted in local misery, the general condition of the freedmen is in every way encouraging. They have made moral, intellectual, and material progress. They are learning to read, to Write, to mar ry, to respect the ten commandments, and . to support themselves. Provision has been made for the education of > over six thou sand children in Washington ; and from South Carolina, where the e.xperiment of freedom has been most fairly tried, we hear no complaints that the freedmen lack indus try, order, or self respect. But, though satisfied with the liberation of the slaves, we cannot be content with their condition. The folloning facto, which are furnished us by a trustworthy correspondent who has made a special study of, the plantation sys tem on the sea-islands -of South Carolina, will show how much is to be done. Last March all the lands in the <Port - Royal district were sold to pay the taxes due on them, and the_ larger portion was bought by the United States, and is yet to be dis poled of. It was understood, by all in terested in the grand experiment of free labor in the South, that an opportunity would be speedily afforded for the colored pt °pie to become owners of the soil. The instructions given to the commissioners sent to the district last tall contemplated this great reform, but too much, we fear, was left to individual discretion. The majority of the board, either through indifference or want of judgment, defeated the measures oeiginally intended by the Government and d.:raftuded by the people. The plans they adopted would, beyond question, enable speculators to obtain possession of the lands, title leaving the freedmen living on the soil entirely under the control of the purchasers ; for it is plain that either the freedmen would he forced to work for even wages as the pr ere ietors might choose to give, or to quit ther homes and seek emeloyment else er here. This systems mild be little more than one of social slavery, and would justify the opponents of emancipation in declaring that the slaves virtually exchange masters when they are formally declared free. No class of laborers can be truly free working upon soil they do not own ; if an agricultural population is to be independent and pro gressive, the farmer must own the farm. It is especially evident that we cannot make freemen of slaves by obliging them-to work for others and denying them the simple privilege of owning the land they till. We must not merely act generously toward these negroes, we must deal justly with our own experiment of liberation. The lands reserved by the commissioners for the freedmen, even had they been sur veyed and put in readiness, would be en tirely insufficient to accommodate the con stantly increasing number. This matter Was co clear that General SAXTON and Judge S-tuTu, one of the commissioners, recently sent an agent to Washington to obtain further instructions from the Govern eat. These were promptly given, and they limit the land that can be pre-empted by any single person to forty acres, ex cept in certain specified eases. We be lit-ve Moe neat to the Proclamation, of EmaTa.ipation, this is the 'wisest and most font measure yet adopted for tits reor goinization of Southern, labor. It will break up, to a great extent, the immense plantations formerly ruled by one man and worked for his sole profit ; it will give the land to the people who live upon it; it will give the fi Let - linen an incentive to industry, and must do more for their improvement than all the seheols that can be established. The Go vernment has adopted a plan which the people of the North thoroughly approve, anti by which all classes in the South will permanently profit ; for the principles - which these instructions embody are not reerely essential to the prOsperity of the South Catolina sea-islands, but must be the basis of a grand reform throughout all the slave territory which freedom shall reclaim. The land to be sold at public auction by the tax commissioners for ;he United S'ates, and open to pre-emption, is about 43,000 acres, exclusive of 5,000 acres re served for school funds. The freedmen urneber about 13,000, one-fifth of whom are eligible to pre-empt. Numbers of soldiers and sailors will also claim lands, and there is little doubt that the whole terri tory will be occupied by a working, inde pendent population, which will, in the words of General EAXTON, " make cotton n=ote of a king than ever." The solitary objection to the plan which promises these invaluable results must be made by the speculators in land, who have been sudden ly disappointed. It is true that the two gentlemen who form the majority of the Board of Commissioners declare the action of the Government illegal, but their opposi tion cannot change a policy which is almost universally approved. Meetings of the freed men sad their families on all the plantations, and a large mass meeting held in Beaufort, have shown with what feelings of real joy these plans are welcomed. The Govern ment has begtui\ a noble reform ; each one of us is interested in its complete and speedy success. The Alexandra. We see it stated, as from the English papers, that, on the 11th February, the Court of Exchequer in London would pro nounce its decision, whether a new trial should be granted in the case of the Alex andra, seized at Liverpool, by the British Government, for alleged violation of the Fo reign Enlistment Act. There mug be a mis take here as to date. By two acts of Par liament, passed in 1830, the Law Terms, previously moveable, according to the changes of the calendar, were declared tied. Hilary Term now legally commences on the 11th and ends on the 31st January. Easter Term, Which comes next, begins on April 15th and terminates on May 13th. It is possible that the Court could pronounce its decision in the sittings after Term—that is, in February—but it is wholly out of the question that it would appoint such a con tingent time so far in advance. It is probable that the case was brought up on the 11th January, the first day of Hi lary Term. It is difficult to judge what the Court will decide. Law, as well as justice, would ordain that the verdict be set aside, and a new trial granted, but if the Court of Exchequer so decide, by a ma jonty of its five judges, it is a virtual ad mission of the charge preferred by the Crown lawyers, that Chief Baron Por, Loci, head of that Court, who tried the case, misdirected the jury in his summing up. Sir PREDICIOCIE POLLOCK, WhO has been a good lawyer in his time, is now a crochetty gentleman more than eighty years old, who does not know how to sub mit gracefully to being in a minority. If a 'new trial be granted, the Court will thereby intimate that the Chief Baron blundered. Some judges would take that decision as a hint that it was time to retire, at an advanced age, but Porsocs sticks to station as a lhn pet clings to a rock, and so o Superfluous lags the veteran on the ettige." The Grant of I.ai i Scrip from Congress to Pennsylvania. We understand that the land scrip is now ready for sale, and that parties wishing to purchase it may do so by applying for m it to the Survey or General at Harrisburg. As the State cannot locate the scrip, but must sell it to parties who can do so, and any person purchasing may do so, this will no dcubt prove a very profitable source of in vestment ; and those wishing to invest in it would do well to do so at once. It is divided into portions of ; fine quarter of a section each, and may be located upon any vacant public lands subject to sale at private entry. TheAtate holds scrip for 780,000 acres ready for sale. Tan statement of a Southern refugee, which Mr. GEORGE H. BORER has so for cibly 'written, will be read with unusual inte rest. The terrible picture of the condition of the Union prisoners in Charleston owes nothing_to the imagination of Mr. Box n, who has probably suppressed details too re pulsive to be printed ; nor is the statement one which should excite sentimental pity. 'I he lady who, at the risk of her life, labored so constantly in the prisons of our wounded soldiers, deserves gratitude, and has nobly earned the reward she asks. This is only to be employed in the hospitals of the Uni ted States. .Mr. Boxlm has eloquently ap pealed to the loyal sympathies of Philadel phians, but the story is more eloquent than any words. The Restoration-of Arkansas. TER PRISStDIENT's rNSTRUOTIONS TO GRN. STARLIT.. E m A:NSION, WASHINGTON, Jan. 20,1864. ItTajoe General Steele: :Sundry citizen. of the State of Arkansas petition me that an election may, be held in that State, at which to elect a °Creamer ; that it be assumed at that election, and thenceforward, that the eurstito, lion and laws of the State, as before the 1 ebeilton, are in full force, except that the Conetitution is so modified as to declare that there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in the punishment of crime's, whereof the party shall have been duly • convicted; that the tleneral Assembly may make such provisions for the freed people as shall recognize and declare their permanent freedom and provide for their edu cation, and which may yet be construed as a temporary arrangement suitable to their present con dition as a laboring, landlees, and homeless class; that said election shall tre held on the 28th March, 1864, at all the lutist places of the State, or all such as voters may attend for that purpose; that the voters attending at each place at 8 o'clock in the mottling of said day may choose judges and clerk. of election for that purpose ; that all persons qua lified by said Constitution and laws, and taking the oath prescribed in, the President's procla mation of December Sth, 186.1, either before or at the election, and none others , may be voters; that each set of judges and clerks may make returns directly to you, on or before the day of next; that, in all other respects, said election may be conducted according to said modified Constitu tion and laws ; that, on receipt of said election, when 6,406 votes shall have been cast, you can re ceive said votes, and ascertain all who shall thereby appear to have been elected ; that, on the --- day of next, all persons so appearing to have been elected, who shall appear before you at Little Rock, and take the oath, to be by you severally adminis• tered, to support the Constitution of the United States, and said modified Constitution of the State of Arkansas, and be declared by you qualified and empowered, to immediately enter upon the duties of the offices to which they *hall have been respective ly elected. You will please Order an election to take place on the 28th of March, 180, and returns to he .made in illteen dat , s thereafter. A. LINOOLN. Mutiny in tbe Rebel Army. [By People's Telegraph Line .1 V,Taenthoron, Jau. 27.—The Republican of this evening publishes the following : "It is now certain that a serious emeute oocurred in the rebel camp near Stevenson. On Saturday last heavy musketry and artillery tiring was hoard, Insomuch that a message was sent forward to the cavalry pickets from headquarters to ascertain what was going on. Deserters who came in state that a regiment attempted to desert, and a serious affair occurred. “There was some Hring on Friday, and the insur rection in camp came to a crisis on Saturday. The cause of Jeff Davis is getting more and more shaky.” A southern Ref'twee. The case which I am about to introduce needs neither preface nor apology. Although an appeal to the public is at all times distasteful to a private man, I should fail in my duty towards my conscience if I hesitated to give publicity to the following statement of facts, or refused to vouch for its truth under such a claim to belief as my signature may carry with it. The common understanding in the North is that the Southern people are united against us 5 that men, women, and children regard us With a hatred which their traitorous friends are ever ready tomus tify, and at which even loyal minds do not wonder. This idea will be somewhat modified by the follow ing narrative. Even in the city of Charleston, where the first daring blow was struck against the national authority—a city which is now looked upon as the very focus of the rebellion—there exist a number of loyal people who are bold enough to perform the du ties of humanity, despite thejeers and threats of their fellow• citizens. The lady whose history forms the subject of my communication was a consistent and out-spoke.n Union woman from the time of the Seces sion Convention until the day of her departure from Charleston ; nor was she without allies, who sus tallied her with their sympathy, and put into her hands the means by which she accomplished great good toward our suffering prisoners of war. The facts which the lady relates are sustained by documentary evidence, principally letters from the prisoners themselves, which would fill a small vo lume. All these I have examined with care, and rump/red with the clear and truthful story, of the lady, ro that I have not a doubt of the seeuracy of my statement. litany of the letters are from officers of the army and navy of the United States who were known to be prisoners of war in Charleston at the time of the occurrence, and they all breathe one spiritof thankfulness towards the good angel which Providence sent to them in the midst or horrors without parallel anywhere but in the South. Some of the prisoners declare that they owe their lives entirely to her exertions, and all of them express warmth of gratitude that must arise from very deep feelings. When the first Union prisoners were ewe* to the Charleston jail the universal sentiment amongst the rebel citizens was, "Now we have some of these Yankees in our power; let us treat them according to their deserts." To the shame of the soldiers who had the prisoners in charge, they permitted them selves to be influenced by the popular clamor. The prisoners were treated with the utmost ri gor ; or rather, they were shut up in a filthy jail, and systematically neglected in eve,ry way, a state of things to which any treatment, however severe, would :have been merciful. They were stripped of their clothing, they were starved, they were almost deprived of water, they were never per. witted to pass the confines at their filthy chamber, they were abused inperson, and they were threatened with instant death on the slightest in. e,fraction of the military rules of the jail. Hearing of tbii deplorable state of affairs, the lady before mentioned obtained access to the prisoners by meaty not necessary to specify, and found their condition to be even worse than it had been described to her. She g immediately set herself to the task of allevi e.tie their suffering. She secretly collected from the Union men of Charleston thirty-five hundred dollars, to which sum she added eve hundred dol lars of her own small fortune, and with this money she from time to time pereheeed such provisions and comforts as she thought necessary for the prisoners, and privately introduced her stores during her daily visits to thejall. Nor did her kind offices end here. She and her children faithfully nursed those of the Prisoners who were suffering with wounds or with disease, and expended their own domestic luxuries in alleviating the exacting wants of the sick bed. These scenes of misery were sufficiently trying to a kind-hearted woman, but more *welted her. On the arrival at Charlatan of the prisoners from the captured steamer UMW Smith, the larlyDrepared herself with a large supply of provisions, and enter- ed the jail. The first sight that met her eyes was the body of a stalwart, athletic man lying upon the floor; perfectly naked sad apparently dead. On stooping to examine him she found that he was not dead, but is a stupor, produced by extreme suffering. She applied a large bowl of tea to his lis hen, to her astonishment, he seized it and drained it w almost at a draught. This man had not had to much as a morsel of food or a cup of water for three days. Ile Was terribly wounded upon the head, and from the wide and putrid wound she washed a double-hat& Jul of flies and maggots. Owing to her judicious nursing, this man lived to thank his benefactress. The second man she saw lying in a corner of the prison, almost naked, with his limbs drawn up and twisted together as if he were then in the aganieg of death. Observing that the lady was making to wards this sad object, the jailor said : " You need not trouble yourself about that man. The doctor says he has not five minutes of life in him." So the lady passed on to the other sufferers who might be benetited by her care. She found that they were all In mortal need of her services, but none as she afterwards discovered, to her horror, was in such need as the miserable Male Whom ehebeid just passed by, thinking his case hopeless. On visiting the prison the next day she found him still lying in the position In which she had left him, alive, and smeared over with the filth whichethe poor creature, in the frenzy of famine, had gathered from the floor and attempted to devour. This man, notwithstand ing all the lady could do for him, died at the end of another day. I know that this scene is revolting to common sensibility, but it is not given to excite sentimental pity nor pleasant tears. It is the stern, hind, terrible truth, which the men of the North should know when they come , to deal with the mire ' eremite who inhabit the doomed city wherein this tragedy was enacted. As long as the Uni ers remained lions to the lade , Wag assiduous in her attentions to them; but there came an order removing them to Columbia. Then the last tie of her affection for Charleston was broken. She prepared to quit a home which she had occupied for twenty years, and, if possible, no make het way to the North. Already she had received warnings from her friends, and no toes to quit the town from her enemies. She and her children were pursued with hoots and jeers as they pseud along the streets. They were deuouneed as they Yankees," and on one occasion some chivalric of the South took up what, in their exag gerated language, they term a rock, ,, and hurled it after the helpless woman. Gathering together her movable household goods and her scanty funds, now much reduced, with her flintily of four young chit. dren, she, at great expense, made her way to Rene mond, and was permitted to cross within our lines. For the last seven months she has resided at the North, her small stook of money and valuables gradually melting away, while she vainly mules vored to find some suitable employment for herself and her family. Her oldest son has been an invalid for many weeks, requiring her constant care to insure his recovery. The 'younger son has found a place with a jeweller, and i s contributing some what towards the support or the family. It is the lady's desire to be engaged, in IN nu m - e;apaety, at the hospital at Helton bread, or at some other South ern post, where her knowledge ofthe OillolllBl Of the climate would be of value. trust that the gentlemen who have it in their power to assist her to such a situation will communicate to me their willingness to do so. At the present time the Lady is in an almost destitute condition, and I appeal to the exhaustless generosity of my loyal fellow-citi zens to and to my address, at the Union League House, 11111 Chestnut street, such contributions as they may feel it to be their duty to make. Her ease with,peculiar, and claimsremoved from comparison the ordinary upon our generosity, that I make this general application with a lull coati deafer as to its result. In justice to the lady, I must say that it is done on my own motion, after gaining from her a very reluctant assent to the publication. If those who may read this appeal desire an inter view With the lady in question, I shall be happy to furnish her name and address to the inquirers. They will hear from her a full account of her sane deuces in Charleston, a part of whisk I hive been obliged to suppress for obvious public reasons. GEORGE' BOICEIL SANITARY 27,1861. • WA.SHIIN . GFTON. wasanioTon. D. C., J*a. Congressional Gossip. It is raid that Senator BkrAUD will be succeeded Hi Me seat in the Senate by a younger man end is Copperhead. GAItRaTT DAVIB will not be expelled, and it is doubtful whether he will be censured by the Senate. The Vote to the House last night against appropriating any more money for the Capitol extension shows that Congress is de termined to seduce the appropriations so far as to possible, momouel Confirmation by the Senate. The Senate, today, in executive session, con firmed the nomination of A. LAWRICNOE Fosumr for Commissioner of the District of Virginia, under the law for the collection of direct taxes in incur• lectionary districts Of the 'United States. Irou-Clads. - - - - Instructions have been sent to the commanding officers of the navylards at Portsmouth, N. H., and Boston, enjoining them to hurry up, as rapidly as possible, the completion of the large navy-yard iron clad. in course of construction at these places. It will be remembered that all the iroreolads now in service in the United States were built by contract ors, not one having been constructed at a navy-yard. Four of the vessels—the Pdiantonomah, Dlonadnock, TonaWanda, and Agamenticui—were ordered to be built at the four navy. yards, and one of them only is launched. It is probable that, in compliance with the wishes of the Navy Department, the others will be put afloat within a month. Information has been received, however, that the plating of the Tona wanda has commenced, which will render it possible to finish her very speedily after she is afloat. Capture of Blockade—Bunnere. Despatches received at the Navy Department state that on the night of the 2d of January the U. S. steamer Hutson captured in Bebop Sound, Georgia, the British sehooner Sylvanite, of and frool Nassau, N. P. On being discovered she attempted to escape, and paying no attention to a shell fired to bring her to, she was fired into, and sunk near the shore. She was about 60 tons register, with a cargo consisting plincipally of salt, whisky, and cordage. It wall thought the latter articles might be saved with a favorable tide. The papers found on board, together with the officers, crew, and one passenger, nine per. eons in all, were sent to Fear Admiral DARLOREN for disposal. Decisions by the Secretary of the Treasury. The following decd.:delft have been made by the Secretary of the Treasury, arising upon appeal, by importers from the decisions of collectors relating to the proper classification under the tariff not of July, 1862, of certain article, of foreign manufacture and production: Bags or American manufacture exported from the United States filled with grain, and afterwards imported empty, or exported empty and afterwards imported tilled with grain, will hereafter be admitted to enter duty free upon the production of the proof of such origin required by the law and the regulations of the department. An appeal was taken from a decision assessing duty on pig copper 'at the rate of two Gents per pound on certain regulus of copper imported from Canada, the importer claiming that under the reciprocity treaty the article was entitled to enter duty free as copper ore. The Secretary of the Treasury has overruled the decision on the ground that, under the re ciproeity treaty, the ores of metals of al/ kinds are entitled to free entry. Jute-twine, as distinguished from jutteyarn, was properly assessed at the rate of 35 per cent. ad vale. rem duty. The manufacture of jet, in cases where the orna mentation was not sufficiently material to change the character of the article, was properly assessed at 36 per cent. An importer of shingles, from. Canada, elaimed that they were not liable to duty under the reetpro. city treaty. The Secretary Bays that an inspection of the sample shows the article in question to be manufactured in part by planing, shaving, or a pro- cess of manufacture other than the rough hewing or sawing, and is not embraced in the terms of the 1 treaty; consequently it is liable to duty at the rate of 35 per eentum cc! valorem. Certain importers having appealed from the as sessment duty of 33 per centunt ad valorem on " pa tent east. steel tires," , styled " cast-steel locomotive thee in the rough," the Secretary of the Treasury has decided that the article having assumed a shape or proportion indicative of its purpose, and from which it would not be practicable in the ordinary course of manufacture to divert it, cannot be said to be steel in another form, but must be classined as a partial manufacture and subject to a duty of 35 per cent, ad va/orem. The Public Panting. The report of JOHN D. Daranne, Superintendent of the public printing, shoWs the following reannli The money expended for printing paper and bind ing, from October 1. 1862, to September 30, 1863, amounted to $1,466,000. The year preceding it cost $549,000,1110 excels being principally for blanks for the various departments. The amount of printing age binding executed during the lad year, if paid for at the prices established by the law of 1862, would have cost $878,600 more than has been expended for that purpose. The Government printing office was established in March, 1861, since which time, up to September 30, 1.863, the printing and binding have cost $654,000 lens than it would have 004 at the old prices. The report concludes as follows: " The character of the printing and binding, in material and workmanship, is superior to that furnished under any system which has preceded the present, and the experiment of the Government doing its own work, both as regards its quality and economy of its cost, may be regarded as completely sue. cessful." The Army. General Berms writes to members of Congress here that with ten thousand more troops he can clear Louisiana and Texas of rebel troops. The reinstatement of General nfoOverreur. in com mand of the lath Army Corps, it is said, will raise an issue with General Guam , . General BARNES is here from Norfolk. It is rumored that he is to have command of a corps under General .1513Atut. The Custom Frauds. In the Committee on Publics Expenditures, this pawning, Mr. DinfisON, surveyor of the port of New Yoxk, was examined in reference to the etustore, Muse frauds. The history of the discovery of the frauds was investigated. Gen. Sickles to have a Command. It is paid to•night that Gen. Annua will be eent into the field, and that the command of the de_ fencer of Waahington will be given to General Sicwram. Gen. Mcelernand. The President to-day reatored Gen. XoCrienwArro to Ma rank s and ordered him to report to Gen. Recovery of Treasury Notes. After a recent fire in lowa almost $lO,OOO in trea sury notes, which had been deposited in a safe, were found almost in a completely charred mast. These have just been received in Washington, and U. S. Treasurer General Seiramn was today personally engaged in supervising their examination, to ascer tain the precise amount. Owing to the chemical properties of the ink, subjected to the notion of the fire, the denominations were ascertained, though In the process of careful separation some of the notes fell to pieces. Death of a Consul General. Joao' RITZBENIN, consul general of Switzerland, (lied here today. He was sixtpseven years of age, and was a native of Switzerland. He had resided in Washington for thirty.two years, during eleven of which he discharged the duties of that office. Appointed. The Presidenthas appointed U. A. MannimaATll. BR 'United States marshal for Kentucky, vice Mc- Donromr, resigned. The New Pennsylvania State A...eat. Lieut. Col:Faerfors ,Tonneri, the newly appoint. ed State agent for Pennsylvania, has arrived here, and entered upon hie duties. The Proposed Government Boat Race. The Assistant Becrotary of the Navy to-day ad dressed the following letter to Megan. Of.trilarrr & Co., of New York : NAVY. DEPARTMENT, San. 27, 1804. DEAR SIR : After our conversation on Monday I met Mr. Baird, your engineer, at the Astor Rouse. as agreed upon, and he then handed me your note of the :loth inft.. naming $12,000, and $3OO per day, after two weeks , detention, as thelprice which the owners of the Kin Kiang require to cover expenses before, permitting that vessel to run against the Eutaw. I banded your note to Capt. Comstock for Mr. Blunt, with the previous understanding that those gentlemen were to make the attempt to obtain by subscription the money necessary to Pay the ex penses of the Kin Kiang. I lira informed that the amount is considered excessive, and that conside rable difficulty will be found in obtaining it. I un derstand, however, the eirountatanoes under which you are placed, and that the trial is not of your seeking, and all loyal people Will appreciate the re. mark of Mr. Oliphant, that in a national point of view his sympathies must be on the aide of the Eu taw. The Kin Kiang is almost the exact tonnage of the Eutaw, and has run sixteen knots per hour, and ./ agree with Mr. Baird that no vessel built to run outside of New York ever exceeded that rate. This extraordinary speed makes me the more anxious to have the trial, sad I trust parties will come forward and remove theism:int:try difficulty. With this hope I will take the liberty of handing this letter to the press. Yours, &a., a. V. FOX. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Review of Kilpatrick's Cavalry. HEADQUARTERS ABET OP THE POTOHAO, January 27. Pilty-three contrabands of all sizes and sexes came to the headquarters today. They l e ft their plants, tion, near Orange Court House, on IHQEMIYI lug the Rapidan near the railroad in boats. Five or six of their original number were captured by the rebels before crossing.. A A review of Kilpatrick , ' cavalry division, with field exercise, was held today. Gen. Gregg, tempt• rarity in command of the cavalry corps, and nume rous lady visitors, were la attendance. Shota are occasionally exchanged between the pie/lets on the Bayidan i but no caeualtles have lately been reported on our ado. A Court of Inquiry in Missouri. JEBBILBSON CITY, MO., Jan. 27.—General Brown has asked for a court of Inquiry to investigate the charges made by U. S. Senator Wilkinson that he (Brown) had confined forty Union soldiers for re leasing the slaves of rebels in arms, and that, by his orders, soldiers and citizens have been arrested for hurrahing for Jim Lane; and the inquiry to be ex. tended to all matters . connected with the manage. magi of affairs in the Central District of Missouri.- General Brown has issued an order directing the provost marshal to recommend three enlisted men for each company of colored men in his district. New Orleans. NRW YORK, Jan. 27.—The steamer Merrimac sr lived last night from New OrWalla, vie Key Welt, on the 22d. She left at Key West the frigate Cola redo, bound to . Portsmouth, and the Huntsville, Ties% San Jacinto, and De Soto, She brings no Nnw Tonic, Jan. 2T. —The steamer Empire City has arrived from New Orleans. She brings papers of the 18th indent, but they contain no news. Sale of Coal by Auction. Naw Yorur, Jan. 21 .—Twentrfour thousand tons of Scranton coal were sold at auction today, at $620 to ST 60 per ton, being a slight dedinelrom the pure In December. THE PRESS. - PHILADELPHIA; THURSDAY. JANUARY 28, 064-: THE BURNING OF HOSPITAL BUILDINGS INCENDIARY ATTEMPT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL MANSION. HALF THE CHARLESTON 'FORCES' AEI HEALTH OF ALEXANDER H. STEPHEN'S FORTURSS Mormon, Jan. 27.—The Petersburg Express, of January 22d, says that seven hospital bUildings at Camp Winder. near Richmond, were burned yesterday. A. large quantity of oommisSarY adores tend clothing was destroyed, The Charleston Courier, of Tuesday, says: "The bombardment of the city continue. the same as pre• viously reported. The damage has been very small in comparison to the number of shots and weight of metal fixed:, PASCAGOULA. Wits., Jan. 20.—The enemy's re veille, and also a repeated discharge of musketry on the west end of Horn Island, were heard this morn ing. TWO gunboats are In sight 011' Point Bole Island. On the 18th a fore and aft schooner Was oaptured while attempting to run the blockade, by a Federal gunboat. The same paper also sage : "An unsuccessful at tempt was made to burn the Presidential mansion at Richmond on Tuesday night lest. "Nearly half our military force is scattered% as absentee. and stragglers, over the country. If they were all returned, not another man would be needed in the field. The steamer Advance ran on the beach under the guns of Fort Caswell, while attempting to run the blockade of Wilmington, N. V. The crew are supposed to be safe. The cargo will be oared, but the ship is a total The Richmond Enquirer, of January 19th, says: "Mir. Hidell, secretary of the Vice President, re °dyed a despatch yesterday from Augusta, announc ing the sudden and serious illness of Mr. Stephens. He was attacked on Sunday morning. This attack, with the well.known state of his health during the winter, creates serious apprehensions in regard to him." RUSEOILLVILLE, Tan. 19.—A reconnoitring party of the enemy drove in our cavalry pickets, and were in turn driven back. Both pickets now occupy their original positiorm Brisk artillery firing was heard yesterday in the direction of Jonesville. It is sup. posed that the enemy have attacked General W. B. Tones. AFFAIRS ON THE RAPIDAN. Onawan COURT. Ronan, Va., Tan. i.4.—The ene my bave recently, moved their pickets to Robinson's river, advancing two miles. , Raid from Florence, Ala., on the Railroad ATHENS CAPTURED BY THE R unrix. GEN. FORREST. Re enlisting Pennsylvania Veterans. [Correspondence of The Press.] OHATtLESTON, Ye, San. 25, 1854. There bee been a great deal of excitement in Com pany C, a Pennsylvania company of the let New York Cavalry, about where they should be en. rolled. Nearly all the men of the company desire to go to New York, on account of the large bounty. Captain Stevenson, of this company, has been trying his very best to induce his men to stick to their own State; but up till to•day had only succeeded in se curing about six of them who were willing to take their chances in Pennsylvania. / On returning from tie scout, this P. DI., the Captain addressed his men before dismissing them, explaining to them the many advantages to be gained by enrolling in their own State, and hoped they would not turn their back on Pennsylvania, for the sake of a few paltry dollars, to OM the; coppe.hefies of New York from the draft. The men applauded several times during the address, and at its conclusion nearly every man sig nified his intention to stick by the old " Keystone State" to the end. The Merida of these brave men will soon have the pleasure of seeing them return to tbeir homeil to recruit their thinned ranks ' and prepare for the final struggle which will crush this foul rebellion, and rig up the old "ship of State" in finer style than ever, and put her whole crew upon the same footing as regards that greatest of bless ings, liberty. . A PENNSYLVANIAN. NASHVILLE, Jan. 26.—General Rousseau lately received information that a brigade of rebel cavalry, under :Forrest, with a battery of artillery, were about to cross the Tennessee river, at Florence, Ala., 'for the purpose of making a raid through Middle Tennessee. He made preparations to re. calve them, by strengthening his posts and scouting the country. . Tide evening, Colonel Miner, at Columbia, tele graphed that the enemy has taken Athens, and is moving on Columbia. This morning the pickers at Columbia were attaoked by a rebel squad coming from the direction of Mount Pleasant. It is thought that Forrest is moving around Co lumbia, endeavoring to destroy the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad, and obstruct the river na vigation. Election of a (Tkovernor Chino, Jan. 27.—Late advises from Little 'Lick state that Judge Clayton has been elected Provi. eional Covernor of Arkansas. The smallpox is pee. vale= in Little noels, but no deaths have been re• ported. The Arkansas river is in good navigable condition. On the 22d Wet. Pdarmaduke, Shelby, and Fagan, were reported to be advancing on Pine Blair, in three columns. Lieutenant Payst attacked Marcia. duke, but was unsuccessful. Colonel Clay had an engagement some days since, in which Fagan was repulsed. Clayton then marched against Shelby, forcing him to retreat eleven miles, but fearing flank movement, Clayton fell back a few Miles and telegraphed for reinforcements, but sent word soon afterwards that he needed no assistance. The steamer Brazil has been again fired into near ALorgan'a Bend, butno one was hurt. The Keirtuvisy Senatorship—A fiver Dig aster at Louisville., Sipe. CINCINNATI, Jan. 27.—A public reception max given to the returned veteran, voltuLteere, yeller day. A despatch from Bridgeport, Ala., says that the number of rebel desertions is unusually large. The last ballot for United States Senator in the Kentucky Legislature, yesterday, stood as fellows : Guthrie C., Bell 42, Burnham 38. Bug:killers name has been withdrawn. Special despatches from Louisville state that the steamer Henry Fitzhugh, from Nashville for Cin cinnati, was sunk on the 22d bat, at Shentown, and would be a total loss. She had on board i 23 bale' of cotton for this city. The ice gave way at Louisville yesterday, sinking five coal boats, and carrying twenty-four barges over the falls. Captain Samuel Bleak, Quartermaster, has been sentenced by a court martial at Louisville to be dis missed the service, with loam of pay and allowances due, to pay a fine of ten thousand dollars, and to suffer an imprisonment of two years. The charges against him were neglect of duty, and conduct unbe- Coming an officer, spreading fate reborts, be. The Louisville Circuit Court yesterday, in a Writ against the Adams Express Company, to recover money seized by John Morgan at Coal City, decided that the guerillas were common enemies, and that, as such, a gammon carrier Wail not responsible for goods seized by them. President. Lincoln and the Legislature— Affair of Ex. Provost Marshal Fish, *c. Berarmoun, Jan. 27.—The following is a correct copy of the resolutions offered by Mr. Jones, in the Pdaryland House of Delegates, on Friday lest, in reference to the Administration of President Din, coin, and recommending the re•eleotion of that fano. tionary : Resolved by the General Assembly of Mareancl. That the Administration of Abraham Lincoln deserves and receives the hearty approval, and will receive the cordial co-operation of !his General .assembly. Resolvsct. That this General Assembly approves the policy of the Administration in the conduct of the war. and especially on the subject of the restoration of the se ceded States; approves of the amnesty proclamation of the President. and of the conditions there laid down as wise, necealarl. 'practicable, and essential to the future safety of the country, and that this General Assembly Presidencyt the re-election of Abraham Linco:n to the of the United States i s the earnest desire of a Vaal majority of the people of Maryland. BALTficona, Jan. 27.—Mattera &revery quiet here to-day. A opecial election for a member of the sd cond branch of the city councils, from the Eleventh and Twelfth wards, is going on quietly. Hugh D. Evans 11 the Union candidate, and has no oppoet• tion. William H. Carpenter, who Was once or twice under arrest for disloyalty, is again conneeted with the editorial department of the Daily Gazette here, viewed as the Secession organ. In the Maryland Senate, yesterday, the bill making the exposure of spirituous liquors for sale without a limoe equivalent to a wale under the law, was passed. The Convention bill Was taken up and several amendments were offered, some of which were rejected, and the others not acted upon. In the House a bill was reported, providing for col Motion of the school statistics of the State, prepara." telly to providing for a general school system. The rumors about the rebels moving on Winches. ter in force are unfounded. All the railroad. are running regularly. The Colonel Fish affair con tinues to stir up considerable excitement. Iffany witnesses here will be summoned to testify in his case. A large number of them are Secessionists. The weather is mild, clear, and delightful. Another Victim of the Alabama. SAN FRANCISCO, JIM 25.—Tbe ship Contest, Cap tain Aiming'', from Yokohama, Japan, with a cargo of teas for New York, was recently bunted orrNorth Watcher's Island, in the Indian Ocean, by the pi rate Alabama. MONTREAL (C. W.), Jan. V.—The Hon. James B. Clay, of Kentucky,.emminister to Portugal, and eia member of Congress, from the Ashland district, died in this city last night. His remains will leave to night, for Kentucky, for interment. BOSTON ' Jam 27.—The snails by the Osnada will be rent . by the night train, and will be due in . PhUs• 4elphis to-morrow at 11 &Moak, Sailing of the'Seotia. Nava YORK, Jan. 27 —The steamer 2300tia Balled ibis morning, for Liverpool, taking one hundred and thirty paaaengere and $660,000 in vests. Markets by Telegraph. lisurravas, Jan - si —Flour steady. Wheat doll and swarm Uorn wire at $1 12@1 13 for whits. W talky dull and aplidpat. Ckgrta REBEL NEWS. IN BICIIMOND. SENTEES AND STRAGGLERS SICIRDIEISEING IN EAST TENNESSEE. IRE WAR IN TENNESSEE. to Nashville. ARKANSAS. THE WEST. MARYLAND. Death of *Tames B. Clay. The Canada 7 Ei Mails. FORTRESS MONROE. FORTRESS MONROE" Jam 26.—Brig. Gen:Barnes took hi, departure from Norfolk last evening. Brig. Gen. Wild is now in command at Norfolk in his place. Gen. S. H. Ledlee will leave here coon for New York with the following regiments of his brigade : 81st NOW York, 96th New York, 98th New York, and Howard's New York Battery—all veteran troops, having participated in the Peninsula oaf& paign, and also in the campaigns of North Carolina. They have all re•enlisted, and are going home on blunt furlough and to nil up their ranks. Seventeen rebel prisonera of war, recently trap. trued at Greenville and Washington, N. 0., arrived here this morning on 'steamer S. R. Spaulding. FONT MONROE, Jan. 24—SPECIAL ORDER, N 0.23. —Charles H. Graham, of Norfolk, having cortex. ponded with tile enemy clandestinely, by sending a scurrilous letter concerning the Commanding Gene ral, and then lying about it in the meet solemn man ner, by denying the authorship, which he now con resales, having been confined in the guardhouse until be could tell the truth, is discharged. He would have been punished further, if he had written upon any other subject. By command of Major General BUTLER. GENERAL ORDER. HEADatrAltilinS 18TE ARMY Ckirs, DEPT OP VIRGINIA AND NQETM CAROLINA. FORT MONSON, VS., Jan. 9.4, 1864. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 12.—Inasmuch aa the rebels of the Confederate States are sending their women and children through the lines of this De partment, and retaining by law all able.bodied male persons, it in ordered : I. That no white women or children will be per. mined to come through the lines, without apass from there headquarters, or the headquarters of the Army of North Carolina. 2. All able.bodied men will be received, detained until reported 'to these headquarters, or the head quarters of the District and Army of North Carolina, aril orders are given concerning them. 3. Nothing in this order shall be construed in con- Met with General Order No. 4e, relating to colored persons. By command of Major General B. P.Butler. R. S. DAVIS, Maj. and Ass't Adj. General. Lint of veseele panned by Guard.ship Young Rover, inward bound, Jan. 26: Steamer Haze, Captain Jenington, from Alexandria to Fortress Monroe; steamer Volunteer, Capt. Norrell from New York to Beaufort. Sailed: Steamer C , ity of Richmond, Captain Kelly ; steamer Perrin, Captain Delano ; steamer John A. Warner Captain Cone ; steamer Quinnebaug, Capt. Bedel l; schooner ritarbietread, Capt. Pease, to Baltimore; steamer New Tereey, Capt. Hoxie, to New York. Major General Peck arrived this morning from New bern, N. 0. .KANSAS. LEAvErrivoirra, Jan. 26.—The troops at Fort Gibson are reported to be on half:rations, owing to the defective supply system. The Kansas Legislative has welcomed Gen. Cur tis, by a unanimous vote, as a general of military renown and tried loyalty. The difficulty between Gen. Fremont and Samuel Hullett threatens to delay the work on the Pacific Railroad. The weather b mild, and the lye is breaking• Up. MEMPHIS. Canto, Jan. 27.—The steamer:Belle hu arrived, with Memphis dates to the 25th instant and 292 bales cotton. She also brings 460 menlisted men of the Kansas Cavalry, and about the seine number of furloughed men from various other regiments en route home. The sales of cotton In Memphis, on the 24th Inst., were at a small advance. The receipts were 72 bales. From 700 to 800 bales changed hands on the 23d. New York Politico—Meetinkorl the De. mocratie State Vonveitton. ALBANY, JAI). 27.—A meeting of the Delhi:wristlet State Convention for the election of delegates to the National Convention, has been called to meet on the 24th of February. The editors of the daily Democratic papers of this State held a Convention here to-day, and are the suede of Governor Seymour this evening. Capture of "flatted States Satlors—A Negro Hung by the Rebels. BOSTON ' Jan, 27,—Lettere received here state that a boat's crew of the United states brig Perry were captured in December, while attempting to cut out a ochooner on'the coast of South Carolina. They are now confined in Columbia, S. C., and are well treated. One of the party, a colored man, was hung as coon as he was captured. XXXVIIIM CONGRESS---Ist SESSION. 1PA138121 MONI Jai', 27, W 64. S 1111157reseitted. Mr. COERESS, of California, introduced a bill pro viding for the better organization of Indian affairs in California. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Mr. PggSRE DEN, of Maine. Introduced a bill to in crease the saltries of inspectors of customs to the extent of a sum not exceeding $1 per day. The bill was passed. Mr. LAME, of Indiana, introduced a bill providing for the safe and speedy transmission of money from soldiers to their families and friends at home. The bill details the mode of making allotments which the Pay master retains in paying off enlisted men, and remituto the allotment commission. who shall be located in the capita/ of each State, and have the par of nee/shoat pay master, with one clerk for each fiftieth regiment under his jurisdiction. lieferied to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. SHERMAN, of Ohio. presented a petition from the distillers of Cincinnati. in reference to the tax on spirits. Referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. HALE, of Few Hampshire. repotted from the "Committee on Naval Affairs the following bill: That hereafter all appointments in the volunteer naval ser vice of the United States shall be submitted to the Senate for confirmation. inthe same way end manner as ap pointments in the regular army are required to be; sad all appointments hitherto made shall cease and deter mine at the expiration of slaty days from the time of the return of the vessels in which those holding them are r. spectively employed. Bill to Promote Enlistments—Colored riec — i;iiii. _ Mr. WILSON, of Massachusetts, called up the bill to promote enlistments. Mr. CRIMP*. of lowa. moved bo amend the bill by inserting in lieu of two months' advance pay to colored recruits such bounty, not exceeding one hundred dol lars, as the President may direct in the several States. Adopted. Mr POWELL, of Kentucky, moved to strike out the third section, which sets free the mother, wife. and children of negro recruits. section ENDERNON. of Missouri, relativeso amend the by applying it only to the of slave re cruits of disloyal owners. Mr. GRIMES thought the pre: ant law accomplished this. He wished all to be made free, as he did not relleh the Idea of making men fight for no and leaving their wives and other relatives slaves. Mr. WILKINSON, of Minnesota, thought the present act was a piece of unlawful and disgraceful legislation. What was freedom worth to a soldier without is:l2 wife and children ? He was in favor of freeing all connected with those fighting our battles. Mr. HENDERSON had not been engaged in support of slavery lately. He would abolish slavery everywhere. 11Congress had power to do is—if Congress had power to pass this bill—it-had also power to abolish slavery at once in Tennessee. Kentucky, and Missouri. as an insti tution Which stands in the why of peace. Did the Sous tor mean to attest this? Mr. GRIMES had no doubt of it at all. He would cheerfully vote for a bill to this effect. Mr HENDERSON haid he was not disposed to go into a discussion of the question as to the powers of the Government during this civil war. He saw no necessity for the proposed legislation. It Wee calculated to irritate the loyal people of States which were now perfecting laws of emanc'pation. The authorities of the State could amend the statute. and get rid of the Institutien immediately. This would be one of the blessings which would flow from this war against rebellion. The Resolution to Expel Mr. Davie. The morning hoar having expired. the &MAU pato. cseded to the consideration of the resolution to expel Mr, Davis, with the amendment of Mr. Howard to make it only a vote of censure. Mr. MORRILL addressed the Senate in reply to Mr. a hue on, and characterized the instances cited by him yesterday of opposition to the Executive policy as not being parallel to this case. Nobody proposed to crash the Senator from Kentucky for criticising the Govern • ment to his heart's content. In debate he made refe rence to the fact of Mr. Davis having arraigned his com peer for disloyally, and said that Mr Davis could not stand a moment In the Senate judged by the rule he would have applied to him. He also referred to the re solution of Davis, passed before the emancipation pro clamation was leaned. which, he said, gave full power to reduce the States to subjection. Mr. DAVIS said be only meant in cases where the POO - repudiated the Government and refused to set up a Government for themselves.. Then It was the province of the military commander to establish a temporary State Government, Mr. MORItiLL said the Senator had introduced more bills for the punishment of treason and the overturning of disloyal State Governments than any other Senator on this floor, and it was absolutely too late to set up for him such a defence as was-intended by his disclaimer. These resolutions were not words spoken in debate. There WS Do question before the Senate when they were offered, He .everted to authorities as to the extent of the privileges allowed in debate, and contended that the resolutions offered by the Senator were offensive to those privileges. Mr. HALE, of New Hampshire, said that all efforts to establish a rule limiting debate had and would con tinue to fail. He looked upon this as an indirect effort. to do that which the Senate had heretofore refused to do directly. He had no sympathy with the reso lutions of Mr. Davis, but declared himself bmuamchedto to ensue d wa u more m e chi h v g u h - th h n that of expulsion. The censure was always followed by a palmation. When the freedom of speech was curtailed In this bode no man Would express %who nest opinion here unless under fear of expulsion. He felt sensitive on this subject, having come here six teen years ago with scarcely a sympathizing Senator on the floor, and if the proposed course had been adopt ed, for his honest expression of disapproval of the acts of the majority, be would have been expelled. there bad been others who bad occupied his position. The Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Sumner. had occupied a position less ebnoz ions than himself, not because there was any great difference of opinion in their views. but because he (Mr. Bale) was the older man. [Great laughter.) Be also referred to the Secretary of State, who frank ars w sentiments rity hostility at they was bold and in hisof to the policy of the Government. He would elan him "as one who was PlnicnrkEereuaded to become a Christian " [Great laugh ter.) We must forego something to the spirit of Ameri can liberty. Freedom of speech, as Webster had said, was a home grant, a dreelde right, and he would leave no richer heritage to his children. We should be re sponsible here to no power but that Which gives us the faculty .of speech. In saying this, he did not mean that the Executive or the Senate could be wantonly insulted. He had listened to the able arguments of the Senators from Michigan and Maine, but they had failed to con vince him that the Senate should censure or expel Mr, Davis. It was a declaration of the apostle of American Democracy that "Error should be left free, provided truth was left free to combat " Truth was the pro per Senatorial weapon to use against the resolutions of Mr. Davis. Freedom of debate should be maintained at all hazards. Mr. POW ELL,. of Esmtncky, said he was gratified at the language of the Senator from New Hampshire. The proposed action was calculated to strike down free speech and a free grata_ When the matter was fully sifted, it would be found there Was no occasion for the dismissal or rebuke of his colleague, unless indeed it was becomes he entertainei opinions inimical to those Of the dominant party The Senator who feared to coned the alarm of mat. administration on the part of the Go vernment was less than a rascal, and deserved no seat here. It was a patriotic duty imposed upon Senators. Mr. POWELL then procee conte n ding phy analysis of the resolutions of Hr. Davis, hat the polio therein recommended, if inaugurated, would be, of all others, the moat distasteful to the rebels. He animad verted also upon the policy shape President, that one tenth of the people should the &cure State Go vernment, as a measure subversive of the principle that raeloritiee should rule. He contended that the Static were already in the Union. ANTHONY (Ft. I. ) said thstit was the great mlsfor. tune of this Senator (Powell) in being a Democrat, to have become imbued with the pestilent theories of Calhoun and be naturally fell into association with men who in. culcated doctrines leading directly to rebellion. His colleague was brought up In a different and a better school, and yet be now desires to shake hands with men who maligned in life and.insulted in death the me. mart' of the Senator's departed leader; and yet he did rot think the Senator should be expelled, ae we were bound to accept his declaration While lie considered the resolutions improper and indecorous. he did not think they should De sufficient Cause for his expulsion. or censure, which was paramount to it. The Senator would find in his regrets, In the future, for hia acts, a enalty more than equal to his expulsion or censure here. Mi. LADE. of Indians. had known the Senator as long as be bad known himself Re was tree and brave, and he would take the interpretation of the meaning and ourpott of his iesointion in preference to that of others. Be would not vote for his eitpuleion or censure. He would not strike down free 'peach here. The party in power owed their position to free speech in the Kansas rontroversy Re did not fear free discussion. The best wsy to dispose of the resolutions was to debate them. and let the country decide upon our action. Taken to• gether. the resolutions were not of a disloyal character. Be had Peen the kenator from Kentucky. ono hundred mites feom home, with a musket on hie shoulder. drill. tog o fight his rebel neighbors. and he wag to-day an object of persecatitn at his own home for his loyalty. Be knew that his vote bare would be misrepresented at home; but he had a higher object here than to eonelll tte bt me senliment 7 . . Mr. FEMBENDEN. of Maine. announced his intention to vote against any resolntion of expulsion or censure. Be regretted that the a tempt had been made to do eith er. Penators did various things here to gain immortali• tr. Some offer petitions, some memorial% some resole• tio• P. ands me orations He did not think that the re 0/micas adrirlaa revolt ara!rust the war laadarik tau the mari "n t ru tr d easo lmi na h b e lo " . " l t f u rre po tr a w fit h e o m le._ . th w o Me ttek eu th b e jr ni t utsfe be it were offensive, the disclaimer of the Senator was enough,. He Mt band to look es the Senator's previous history to judge Aids present convictions. He believed him to be a loyal mart and considered his resolution as a very violent and intemperate stump speech against the Government. But to expel him wool be an acknow ledgment of our .inabilley to meet and'refette his argu ment. He would give tbe largest liberty to comment on the acts of this or any other administration. Without taking any action on the resolution the Senate adjourned. HOUSE OF -.IIIIPRESENTATIVBS. gislature of that State. asking for improved railrOad facilities between flew York and Washington. Kr. 8/0. of Maine. presented a resolution of thotet. Denoiency Appropriation. The House 'proceeded to the consideration of the de ficiency appropriation bill. and agreed to the amend remits re poted from the Committee of the Whole on the State of tlie Union, Inc/tiding $26,800 for the completion of the Philadelphia Post Office. The CLIME( having read the amendment providing that no money shall be expended on the Capitol exten sion, or on the Treasury Department continuation. ex cepting what is necessary to protect those buildings from in irg. of Pennsylvania, asked whether it was wise economy, just now, when the work Was nearly completed, to discharge the artists and workmen. who would be thrown upon the world. to the distress of themselves and their families? There was no more creditable wet It in any nation than the Capit ti. ft was a model of the kind: On the around of humanity, prid e. an ti e 50210117. he trusted the House would disagree to the amendment. The House refused to concur in the amendment, by a vote of 78 against ad: f- The appropriation forth. Capitol is $160,000. and for Appropriating frto,sco the Treasury extension $260, 000. - for repairs of wharves and . On motion of Mr. BIM an amendment was adopted ma chine-,hope at Key West. The bill was passed. with only four dissenting votes namely. W. S. ellen, of Illinois; Stiles, of Pennsylvania; B. Wood. of New York. and Chanter , of new York. Mr. PRNDLBTOff. of Ohio, by direction of the Com mittee of Ways and Means, offered an amendment .ap propriating $10.0t0.000 to defray the expenses of raising and equipping volunteers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio. Indiana, Her tucky, and Missouri, to repel lava elon. Ac., by gnerillas Mr. IN aSHBURNE, of Illinois, objected to the amend ment as being3out of order. A Defense of Utah. _ _ Er. RTNNEY, delegate from Utah, took occasion to re ply to that part of Mr. Wood's speech delivered yester day in re:ation to the people of Utah. The gentleman introduced himself here by offering a resolution, de. el tiring the war to be inhuman and cruel, thus express ing sympathy with the worst rebellion which the World has ever known. Had it come to this, that a man can stand up in this ball, and pronounce the war a hellish crusade for blood ? A crusade, indeed, for a man to de fend himself egainet an assassination—defend hie wife natighter3 and children from the midnight murderer. There could be but one answer to this. The people he (Mr. Kinney) represented were:all loyal. and the gen• tieman had no sympathy with loyalty. The gentleman called the Mormons profligate outcasts, and character ized them as always being disloyal He hurled back the accusation, acd pronounced it false. They never have been in rebellion egainst the United States. As for mer chief justice of Utah, he could say they have always been submissive to the laws, and loyal to the Conatitu- Hon and Government. The formidable military force sent to Utah. at an expense of $50.000 COO, while the trai tor Floyd Was Secretary of War under Buchanan, was for the purpose of inaugurating the state of affairs now existing, namely, "To tempera the way for rebellion. and to thus weaken the North." Utah has never been in rebellion, and the people there are not as the gentle man is — in sympathy with rebels. /t was said that the recent note in New York, by which the streets flowed with the blood of innocent women and children rested, to a omat extent. on the shoulders of the gentleman. When Vessels were de tained at New York welt arms for the rebels did not the gentleman telegraph the Governor- of Georgia that he regretted exceedingly he had not the power to release these ships? Were members nere to listen to the senti ments from the gentleman working treason? If he (aft. Kinney) were a member of this House, the first thing be would do would be to introduce a resolution to expel the gentleman for extressing treasonable sentiments. Mr. PERNA NDO WOOD. of New York, replied. say ing that in his speech yesterday it became necessary to refer to the practice of the Government in appointing commissioners to treat with rebels in arms against his Government. and in this connection he had adverted to the Mormon rebellion. In- doing this he had no ex pectation of exciting the ire of the delegate from. Utah. What he said was gathered from the Executive docu ments. He was exceedingly careful not to refer to what the bccpublicans called. "the foul institution of olave no ry." and what the Chica platform characterizes as "the other twin relic of > Patharlsm -namely, polygamy." He would refer the delegate to the report of the Secre tary of War made to President Buchanan, in which tt was stated that it became necessary to send an army to Utah under General Joe Johnston. and commissioners, in the pereons of Governer Powell and Maier McCulloch, •to treat with the rebels: There commissioners did proceed to Utah, and met the commissioners appointed on the other side, and amica bly adjueted the questions at issue. The gentleman had asked him whetberbe did not, when Mayor of New York, send a communication to the Governor of Georgia, re gretting that arms and ammunition bad been stopped at flew - York. lie thanked the gentleman for affording him an onPortnnity to, deny, moat enthhatioalle and Positively, that there was any foundation for this me ntion other than this, namely: Before the commence ment of the rebel Savannahplice of New York stopped the departure of the steamers, with merchandise of every character—not arms, but merchandise. The Governor of Georgia telegraphed him at the time when the communication between the South and New York was interrupted. He wished to know whether -it was by his order th lid. rchandise in transitu was stopped. He (Wood) rephat it was not, and that, under the laws of Hew York, the pollee was not responsible to the Mayor. And this was all. He did not require to de fend his loyalty. He charged any man with falsehood who impugned it. And as to the threat uf the gentle man to expel him, be would meet him here or else where, when any one had the temerity to offer a resolue tion for that purpose. Confiscation. Mr. SMITHERS, of Delaware, during the 'morning Lour expressed his views on the joint resolution amen datory of the confiscation act. He contended for the tail power to inflict punishment on traitors. Re had no such mawkish sympathy as would induce him to withhold the forfeiture of rebel estates. The permanence of the 'Union would be well served and "gattrantitd by visiting on the wick ed leaders a confiscation of their estates and political rights, while extending amnesty to the masses who have been deceived, and by bayonets driven into rebellion. This was no sudden outbreak on the part of the rebels, like the whisky or Shay's rebellion, It was not the result or gross wrongs, Bo v e deliberate in tention to overthrow a beneficent rnment. Such clpinions as those of the trentleman frem New York. Fernando Wood, would have the effect of paralyz ing the war. The rebels would not have essayed seces sion if they had not been led to believe that they could fie in peace. That gentleman, under the gu!se of peace, was the most efficient promoter of war. The Reciprocity Treaty. The HOW. went into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. and took up the wry appropriation Mr. MORRILL. of Vermont, advocated the ab•ogation of the reciprocity treaty between the United States and the "British Provinces.. He said no part of the people were contented with it as it now stood. It had proved un fortunate as a contract, and, so far it was a yeshiva yr a negative revenue measure, was unconstitutional. The advantages of the trs foundere all on One bide, and anon g its fruits were not even gratitude and re= spect on thepart of the Government and dependencies most benefited. Our self. respect requires the abroga tion of the treaty. It is time that the authority of this House was asserted and vim] tested. Secret service mo ney on both sides had brought about the consummation of the treaty. He argued at length to show that the treaty wag hostile to the interests of the West and to other sections. On general principles, and as a question of constitutional and domesticpolicy, the conclusion is irresistible that the treaty Is radically wrong and ought no longer to be tolerated. If we analyze it. fact by fact. there would not be found a prop to el:Lattan it one hour, and hence it ought to-be terminated. • e The President ' s Message, die. Mr. WM. T. ALLam, of Illinois, made a speech in re view of ti aPreeidenre annual message. charging that the President std his advisers wine guilty of whful de. caption in their objects and purposes. and had violated their pledges and the platform on which they had suc ceeded to power. He declared the Administration was unfit to conduct the war, or manage the affairs of the nation in time of peace. He avowed himself an uncon ditional Union man. and said the personal cowardice of the A bolitionists restrained them from open rebellion but their teachings were as baleful and dangerous as the mad ravings of the Southern - Secessionists. Overbur dened taxation. and the evils now upon ne, were hat pool equivalents for the equality of the negro. Mr. ARNOLD, ot Illinois, said that epeechee like the one just delivered served to prolong the tar, He re ferred to the proceedings of the Democrat's mass meet ing at Chicago, last June. at which resolutions were passed opposed to the carrying on of hostilities. If this had been carried font •we would not now have the re opening of the Mississippi or the fall of Port Hudson. The pretended friends of peace would paralyze the mili tary strength and vigor of the Administration, and would encourage the se who are now fighting against the country to persevere till the North was crushed out, The committee then rose, and at four o'clock the House Adjourned. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. HARRISBURG. January 27. 1864 8.1112A1 The Senate was called to order by Speaker PENNEY. Mining Corporation", Etc. Mr. CONNELL offered a resolution that a thousand copies of an act passed in 1863 (relative t mining, manu facturing, mechanical, and quarryin g corporations) be Published for the use of the Senate. Lost—yeas 12, nays 12. Senator White. Mr. LOWRY offered wadlution requesting Captain Brady Oibrarian) to foto the constituents of Sena tor White the documents to which the Senator wonl I have been entitled if he had not been taken prisoner by the rebels. Lost—yeas 12, nays 12. Mr. DONOVAN moved to proceed to the thirteenth ballot for Speaker. Lost—yeas 12. nays 12. Mr. Cf:/ABELL moved to proceed to ballot for clerk. Lost—yeas 12, nays D. Mr. CONNELD asked leave to read a bill in place. Re fused—reas 12. nays 12. Vote of Soldiers. Mr. JOS 22SON moved to proceed to the consideration of the amendments to the Constitution giving soldiers Power to vote. The motion was lost Yeas 12. nays 12. A communication was received from the Governor, transmitting the annual report of the State Agricultural Society, Mr. LOWRY offered a resolution as follows Resolved, That before the Senate adjourn, it will take measures to allow the soldiers to vote. Mr. LAMBEETON should vote against the resolritlon becanse'he - belived that it was offered to afford newspa per paragraphs. and for the purpose of placing the De mocratic party (who held that the Senate was not com petent to transact any hustueseyin a false position. Mr. LOWRY should vote " yes." because be believed that it was the deliberate purpose of the. Democrats to prevent the soldiers from voting. He cared not whether the resolution found its way into the newspapers or not. The resolution was lost—yeas 12, nays 12. Messrs. CRAMPRRYS and HOPKINS entered into a discussion in relation to the fidelity of the Democratic members to their oath. Mr. LAMM rON reviewed at length and endorsed the position of the Democratie members. Mr. LOWRY responded, renewing the offer of the Re • Publicans to allow the Democrats to have officers. if they (the Democrats) Would thea agree to pair off with Sena tor White. r. DONOVAN, Mr TURRILL, awl Mr. REILLY continued the dinuenion, which was terminated by ad- Journment until 11 o'clock A. N. on Thursday. The House met at 11 - o'clock A. M. • Mr. OLMSTEAD. Speaker pro tem., in the chair. Corporations Without Charters. Mr. HOPKINS offered the following resolntion,which Was adopted: Resolved. That the Auditor General be requested to report to this House the names of corporations. including telegraph and express companies. chartered by other States ay d owning Property in this State, without haying received a charter in this ntote, and not PnYlni tnaKok. the same- Mr. SMITH, of Lancaeter, front the Committee on Military Affairs. rePortea as committed a supplement to an act appropriating the military tax- of the Common. wealth to the Tolcutteer borintyfund of the several corm. ties. • Mr. McKee Declared a Member. Mr. GUERNSEY. from the majority of the special com mittee on the contested election ease of J. S. Chambers, a sitting member of the House, reercrted in favor of the contestant, Mr. McNee. 'who appeared, and was quali fied. Bills were read in Plaee, as follows : Arts and Resolution. By Mr. SIMMS. an act to increase the compensation of the Commissioner of Franklin county. By Mr. BALSBACH. a supplement to an act relative to the payment of bounties to volunteers. By Mr. SWAM, or Lancaster, one relative to judg ments in the several courts of the Commonwealth. By Mr. BARBS. a supplement to an got incorporating the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad. By Mr. WALSH. one relating to the protection of loners in the cty sup ple me n taryn.. Also. an act to an act incorporating the city of Carbondale. The same gentleman moved to proceed to.its considera tion. Agreed to. and the bill passed. By Mr. FOSTER, an act to repeal an sot giving the Receiver of Taxes five per cent on taxes paid by delin quents. and authorizing the payment of such per cent. to the city treasurer. By Mr- FOSTER, an act to repeal so much giv ing a commission of five per seat. in the city of Philadelphia. By Mr. KERNS. one incotporating the Wind Man Free Institute of Science. By' Mr. LSE, one Incorporating the Oxford Plank Road Company: running over the road known as the Milltown road, in the Twentythird ward of Philadel phia. By Mr. GRABBR, an act to repeal the act for the all. Poietment of sealers of weights and measures, eo far as the same relates to Schuylkill county. On motion of Mr. LONG. and i t proceeded to the consideration of the bill. and it passed finally—yeas H. nays 40. BY Mr. BERG WIN, an act incorporating the. Salina and Maytogin Turnpike - road Company. Also, One rela tive to the cellist stook of the Petroleum Bank. afp, Mon B read place a ,joint resolution relative to the pay of J. Ch ainbers, and reeved to proceed to its consideration. which was agreed to, and the resolution Passed. State Agricultural Society. rceesage from the Governor Wag read. transmitting the annual report of the treasurer of the State Agrlcal tural Societ_T• interest on the State Debt. Mr. BIGHAM moved that the House proceed to the consideration of the Joint resolutions relative to the la. tercet on the State debt (published on Wednesday. ) The motion to go into Committee of the Whole was agreed to—yeas '44. nays 47. After reveral unimportant :amendments, Mr RBX moved to psvillieno the litti Irani Tuesday asst. Not agreed te—yeae 47, nays 92. Mr. WE moved the- Renee adjourn. Not agreed to—yeas 49, nays 98. Th e previous question was then called by Mr. BIG- Ham, and on the question, '' Shall the matriqasstion be putt" the yeas were 47, lays 44. The motion was therefore agreed to. The question Wee then taken on the first erection, and it wg, ',deeded—yeas 47, nays 41 The boar of 1 having arrived. the Sneaker adjourned the golmrailtA to iltotzoir at it u'oteelt. Public Entertalautenta. CIITESTIVITT•OTRIMT TEMATitit.—Ms. Grover has bedlam - well. His season could hardly have begun witkimore prOffilse of pleasure and prosperity. The full Strength of Ms company is yet to be tested, but it is evident that it has member' of standard excel lence, and, is remarkably full in all departments. Its talent is various, and sufficient for the produc tion of good plays ftb. capital effect "The Vete• ran" will be repeated this evening. Though the new management of the Chestnut hos hardly had time to get into working order, it has made a hit from the first night. WALNIIT.STR,BBT TFlEAT]rs.—Niss West• ern repeats "East Lynne" to-night, and will soon play the "Elopement," when shd leaves for Call. fonaia. .ARCH•STIMIT THILLTRB.—This Si the last night but one of the " Ticket.ot Leave Man." Tomorrow evening Miss Price will take her annual bonen The " Ticket.otLeave Man" and other attractions will be presented. For the last few *croons, Miss Price has advanced steadily in her profession. She is quite young, extremely good•looking, pos sesses much ability, and works hard. We arellaPPY to endorse her claims as a beneficiaire. Wilkes , Spirit says the indisposition of Signor Brignoli is caused by excessive grief for the recent death of his favorite mare "Laura," worth $l,OOO. A GERMAN STATISTICAL WRITER remarks that the invention Of the sewing masehine hem enabled one woman to sew as much as a hundred could sew by hand a century ago, but, he continues, one wo man now demands as much clothing as a hundred did a century ago—so that the situation is not so much changed after all. VC II IC CITY. Thermometer JANUARY 27, mea. 1 JANUARY 27,1E147 - 6 A. X 12 M.... 3 P. X. 6 A. ME /11 M.. •.3 P. X. 52 56 61 36 52. .... ....58 WIND. WIND. 55W.......*W ..SW WSW. W....W by S Miss Dickinson's Lecture. The Academy of Music presented a brilliant scene lest evening, on the occasion of the delivery, by Min Anne E. Dickinson, of her great patriotic lec ture on the War. The audience comprised the wealth and fashion of the city, and crowded every available seat in the entire house. The platform was likewise filled, and even the private boxes were not without their full complement of occupants. The eminent leiturer wee received with an en thusiasm equal only to that with which our best orators are greeted from the same platform. Blue was introduced to her auditors by A. G. Cattell, EN., president of the Corn Exchange Association, in the following complimentary term : Lamas AND Gsavtaissx The distinguished lady, your own gifted townswoman, who is to address yOU. to night. needs. I am sure, no formal Introduction to you. The gushing words of passionate a *queues which well upftom her patriotic heart. hare been heard in this hall, and the presence to• night. of this large and gracefat audience, is a speaking evidence of your appreciation of her work and power, and of your sympathy with the cause she so nobly advocates—the cause of our common Country. and the Flag, :which is the emblem of its digni ty and poWer. When the pestilent theory of Secession, and the latent treason of the haughty slave power, that would crack its whips over the heads of northern freemen, oultni• mated into open rebellion, and the baricidal hand was ra sed to strike at the life of the nation, the loyal heart of the great Donk resolved that it Would stand by our time-honored flag, and maintain its supremacy, or pe rish is the attempt. etermining from the very outset with a unanimity -unbroken save by the ignoble few who would "Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee That thrift may follow fawning," that the rebellion &maid perish, and those who first took the sword should perish by tre sword. we have been driven by the inexorable logic of C 8,13,60 and effect, and the eternal principled% of truth and Justice. to the further determination that slavery, the pestilent cause of all our woes. the very root and groundwork of the rebellion, should perish with it, and the twain be en tombed together. Prominent among those who have nobly advocated this sentiment, a sentiment approved alike by reason and conscience, by patriotism and humanity, is the gifted lady who is to eddies,, you to night. Her ele anent appeals for the right, and her scathing invective against the wrong, have been heard cud rpproved by large and intelligent audiences in nearly every l o yal State of the Union; and, white thus battling for the right, the resources or these beneficent inetitatione, the Sanitary and Christian Commissions, for whose benefit she hail so often spoken, have been largely aided. she manes to. night, own c i ty of many citizens, to repeat in thie, her own city, and before 9014 her friends and neighbors, almost within the shadow of that hall wherein the nation had its birth, the eloquent address delivered recently at the National Capital, in the hail of the House of Representatives, crowded to its utmost capacity. The honored President. the Vice President, and members of i 1.1) Cabinet and '6f Congress were among her auditors. and hare the agree able duty delegated to me should end. Bat the eirentu stances of this occasion—the simple fact that it is a DAY who is to speak to ue to-night, should awaken a deeper sense of our obligation to the loyal women. of the liorth for their steadies: patriotism ie this hour tented country's peril. Tree, they have no call to the field—it is neither fitting nor needful they should be there. There are enough of just such brave boys as stare this amphitheatre to crowd into that mythical last ditch all the boasted chivalry of rebeidom. But their undying sympathy for the soldier, their ceaseless, untiring, efforts to promote hie comfort and his welfare, the ten thou, and words of love and kind ness which are daily emanating from their hands .and hearts, make up the silver lining to the dark ciond_of War that overhangs our land. They bear this great finny on their loving hearts, and follow the soldier, with their generous contributions for his comfort and their personal deeds of kindness, to the camp, the field, anti even to the prison -house. How surpassingly beau tiful are their kind and gentle ministrations to the wounded, or the sick and suffering heroes Their feet press the wards of our Government hospi tals, where many a gallant hero lies upon abed of palms and anguish, far.' Perhaps, from hones and kindred. They bind up his Wounds, lave his throbbing temp'es. anticipate his every want, and cheer him with words of kindness and sympathy. And when the flickering' Wei and filmy eye tell too plainly that the soldier's last con flict is well nigh over, they whispmr in his ear the con solatim e of our holy religion, and watch by his conch till they see /II death his eye-lids close wanly as to Et night's repose. like flower's at set of ,tin. God bless the loyal women of our country, and ma he abundantly them abundantly in this life, and still more in the life which is to comet It only remains for me to say, when this roll of honor their names written up, composed of those who have made their names forever illustrious by thew prominence in these works of love and mercy, high upon that ion nor tal scroll shall be found names known and honored, and loved, in our owngoodly city and conspicuous among these the name of her who is' to address you to-night ill forever stand. Miss Dickinson now stepped to the front of the stage and commenced her address. In deference to her own wishes, we give but a synopsis of her bril liant effort : The iodine began wish a reference to the Grecian ens tern of burning the ashes of the dead and. consigrisg. there bloodeir fallen heroes to the spot consecrated of their Thus, when the threatening arrogance of Persia was stayed on the plains of Marathon, it became the' resting-place of their patriot dead. We followed that example. and on the heights of Gettysburg lie the honored r. mains•of those who hurled back the exalting hosts of a rebellion. winch would ere long be crushed even to the shores of lire Oulf A nation's Catef united in commemorating re a of the proudest events of a war that had restored its manhood to the country, and baptized it into a hither, nobler life She never asked a 'soldier without respect. but especially the halt, limping hero usable to Wave hie Welcome for want of an arm, or with his race made beantifol by a scar, whether he remembers the terrific storm of shot and shell at Antietam or the fierce conflate under Roeserane, or rode by the side of the dashing Kilpatrick, or followed Grant to victory with eagles that never yet retreated? The ground is sacred where our patriots fall. They should be honored while living and reveredwhen dead, for they have died that the ' nation might live 1776 was the commencement of a re volution that asserted our independeuce, but 11361 was the beginning of liberty. We were lighting an oligarchy that sought to enslave 4.000.000 of its people and cur tail the rights of B.eCO, 000 more. Tais was a war of priyilege against democracy, of the slave power again. t freedom, and our moat effective werpon was liberty. It was claimed that the war was for tae Constitution and the Union, the Go rernment and the fla se e • but it was the Constitution energized by freedom; a IPrilon of consoli dated liberty ; a Government protective of the weak, and a flag that welcomed under its fords the suffering and oppressed. it was charged that the Administration was guilty of corruption and fraud, these hour here,nged • ' Let as control affairs, " say cav • and a different oraer of things would prevail " No doubt of it. We have tried them. Their standard-bearer was President when treason armed itself against the imperilled lire of the nation ; when our ships were scattered, our troops located at distant I.OllltS. our revenues squan dered. and the Government a beggar in the market at twelve per cent. The former silliest of them men wore now guiding the hosts of rebellion. While they were defenders of their faith, these were cowards The stone that was suildenls upheaved from its long reating-Place, disclosing a mass of revolting life, was emblematic of the Democratic party hurled from power: bat hieing not disagreeable things she essayed no description. The house of our Administration is open to the breeze and the sunshine, and needs no unkindly eye to point out cobwebs Which it Is ever ready to sweep away. There bad been mismanagement, but the day of shovel bri gades was over. There bad been blunders. such as the sneolntment (acecording to General Patterson) of two hundred and seven Democratic generals out of the Borst two hundred and thirty. flow could ratemanagement be avoided With such leadership? wondermen d c be e n o h : e e wh p n n git- stwne kn nwed . frNm tinder them.• But emancipation was a fact, and thoagh men prated of the barbarism of ag slaves jt was I right. if the master chooses to rebel, that thlS slave should learn the same lesson. It was with sublime faith that he, had awaited liberation and tardy Justice. We had not heeded his agony, and to-day, like the callous self-seeker, who, not heading the fire. bell. found his house in ashes, we were suffering for our indifference, and - would welcome the black hands ea ter dad for ear help. A glowing pleturo was EINEM of the heroic black. Who, bear Rodman's tart, fell a martyr in pushing the aground boat from under the murderous fire. Be was the representative of his race. While our soldiers squabbled over questions of bounty and pay in the env of Philadelphia, two hnn dred black men pushed forward to the defence of the threatened capital. Congress should see to it, that do ing a soldier's duty, the black man should have a sole disr's pay: that burdened with thats responsibilities." le should have a man's rightsloyal in a lend of trait re, he should have his share of a traitor's segues tared estate. A constitutional amendment should shield him from a tribunal Which proclaims that he **hag no rights which a white man is bound to respect, " and then no bayonets will be needed to maintain order in the South, and the tempest of fire kindled by leaving OF3II the little draft in 1787 will be dually extinguished. The South had been wiser than the North. It held the lion's share of patronage; it trampled on the. Indians, and assailed Mexico in the interest of slavery; it nought to make the Territories a nursery of thie'llant wrong, and convert the flag of freedom into she emblem of de spotism; it tempted, used. and then Jiang away some of the noblest men of the North. But ttioUgh cringin_g. slimy creatures might wriggrn their way into the halls of the representatives of the people, henceforth no great soul Would be bound to the car of this juggernaut. Let no man prate ef . compromise. Defeated by ballots, the South had appealed to bullets. Let it etand by the appeal. There was no arm of compromise long enough to stretch Over the handblood. and the mound of fallen herces. to shake with their murderers. The, suffered. that the cause might succeed. Their bodies were shattered that•the body politic might be preserved. We must continue the work dropped from their nerve less bands. And as the life of the pride of the State. the idol of the people: the noble Curling, was necessary to close the yawning gulf in Rome, so our young manhood must be hurled into the black chasm created by slavery. And as coming ages tread the spot, the cry will be, "Treq lightly, for the martyrs of ;Liberty sleep be neath." _ Thiel wag emphatically the people's war. It was guided by th e man of the people, and his heart beat resPormire to the great_pnises that thrilled the heart of the nation, and he would be Metalled in his second term. Throughout her discourse ahe was greeted, espe cially at the close, with the moat earnest applause. PEW/15'10N 808 TUB CIULDBMIT Otrit KILLED AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. —t a late meetin of the trustees and of the Northern Hom g e for Yetendleu Childmanagersren, held at the Home, corner of Twenty - third and Brown streets, for thepurpose of extending nib protection of the institution to the children of our killed and wounded soldiers and sailor% the following pre amble and resolutions were unanimously adopted, to wit: Whereas, His Excellency the Governor of the State, in his late menage to the Legislature , recommended that prevision be made by the State for the children of each of He soldiers and sailors as have &Manor may fall in the defence of our common country: And whereas, Hie Excelleney has expressed his pre ference for the plan of the Net therm Rome. as being the most satisfactory and economical of any other, for the protection appleese eht/dren elf the State, an ad vised an ation to the Legislature form e ans to pr 4 snouts the wort' ; therefore. Resolved. Mon tg omeryr J. Mitcheson. J.oha horn, and L. Bond. Ems, on the part of Lite trustees; and km. B W. Heater, Mrs. T. P. Prate% end - bliss Louisa B. Olaillorn• on the Nat of the MIRO , ' gets. be a con mittee to visit Harris ours to extend to the 04vernor the use of their additional building, raeon,tl7 erhated. for the chilnren of the killed and Wounded co& dim end sailors of the Mate, and also to petition the Leeislature for an appropriation to enable the institution to provide a home for at least flee hundred additional chtldren. Resolved. That the lot of groundRRef ug e , east of the Home, now owned by the Route et end offered to us upon reasonable terms, be at once secured, and suitable buntlines for the accomntodatlon of the. addi tional number of children proposed be erected there upon whenever the Legislature shell provide the MR= for that object. Resoluta, That our State. and we as 'Mixe of the State, owe a debt of gratitude to our heroic sol diers and Fatless, such as can stayer be repaid by any man of oars. (thlity- nine thousand of whom are already, hi their 'waves. ) and that it ie caw ballades. dray. and bound en duty of every loyal citizen and lover of our country such te of institutions, ha v erovde for tbe children of of them as shall been tendered dependent upon the public by the disability of tbeir natural, pro t4 eters : and that we have full faith that a patrkitte Le gislature will make every uroviaion celled fel ley their neer. , aisles. . Resolved, That these ,liretteedings be reltared to t committee, already eppointcd , for publication In en he oh newspapers of the city as they, la their led:punt la 7 itiMPTCOM . _ . F AL L.Wei of Simang.—About 11 O'ci o ., IL ei r or d no morning the large shears situated at lor g e orm k treet wharf, belonging to the although there were nearly a bond,' rrerria be w o ol, fell with a crash, bat no aottlie on flor4Wharf at the time. At the tin 4 vv occurred, oikmen the accident the .Men were engaged in removl4 large boiler from Abe 11. B. steamer Jams. 444 by means of these Milli sheers, which have used for that purpose for several year , . The bo had been raised to evitiNo ono foot until pr ow The men then hehl ups fs'W moments pr thous might be made to harhl it on the blocking, I A: it would be placed on a truet and heeled away. T.! boner being very long, and of an extra heavy wile: and the end of the shear, rather too close to end of the wharf, an attempt was made to h . , the boiler forward, but it got beyond the We,' age or centre gravity of the thews, wh i , caused the pin in the shackle and two h l : . . guys to break, one after the otlreri milt on h• moment the shears gave a lurch JorweA came down with a crash, there being no WAY of r„.,: venting it. They fell inward, and broke In sever,: place., rendering them entirely useless. The tr,„ will amount to over a thousena dollar! , Which "'„ nothing to compare with- the loss of any mieres had such been the case. The she - ass could not e:,„" lasted over two years more, and it is a blessing t„, , , the accident occurred when it did, or a great lose A life might have been the consequence. A similar disaster occurred at this place in t, summer of 1858, at which time there were a 1a7;.. number of women and children on the pier, enjoyi.,, a little fresh air ; suddenly the shears fell over, ib; pier was split into two pieces, and six human legs lost their lives by drowning, or being embeddi l hi the mud. There are several other large shee t erected on the Delaware front. 'Perhaps it wq , , be well to exanidhe them carefully. UNITED STATES CrIRISTUN COMMlfiatoN —The Commission held its annual meeting yeaf., l day at the Room, Wo. 11 Bank atreet. . Mr. George R. Stuart presided. The proceedings were opened With• prayer by t h , Rev. Fr. Claxton, of Rochester, N. Y. The army and navy committees Were represents; by the following•named gentlemen : Chas. Demoncl, Reg , Boston ,• Rev. Dr. Claxton Rochester; John D. 1311 1. M. D. Buffalo r John p' Crozer. Big, Philadelphia ; Mitchell S. EtZiller Erg , Washington, D. C.; , Joseph Aibree, Pittsburg; A. E. Chamberlain Esq., Ben ji Frans. land. Thomism P. Shaw, Cinc innati; T. W. )Koh, tyre, Reg, St. Louis; R. C. Walker, BM.. Deticie. Other members from different parts Of DIO OOUnkfp are expected to-day. On motion, all army chaplains present and US speakers for the anniversary were invited to as consultative members. Rev. Dr. Kirk, of Boston, Chaplain Ste Wart, of thi 102 d Pennsylvania Volunteers, and Chaplain ritk, of the Army of the Tennessee, were present s of took Beate. The annual report was presented, vrhioh ehoroa I vast amount of work done for the army an Coy durivg tbe year. The demand for ticket' for the anniversary at ts, Academy of Alm% this evening s has been uripreg t , dented. Large delegations from various parts of the eeue try continue to arrive, and in order to supply them t ha Committee of Arrangements desire that all tleketi which are not likely to be used, be returned at 040, to the Roomer the Commission, 11 Bank street. We are requested to say that a collection win M taken on the occasion, which the Commission hops Will be benegome In consideration of the .noble jest In view. REQUIEM IN 31,EMOHY OF THE LAVA ARCHBISHOP OF larsw Yong.—The late Archbishop Hughes, of New York, was at one time pastor of St. John's Church, in this city, Thirteenth, neat Chestnut street. He continued in ohsrge of Lai church until he was transferred trithe Episcopacy The old members of St. John'. hold his name on/ virtues in endearing remembranoe,'A fact whist' will evidenced yesterday by the large attendance of web stripers at a solemn mass of requiem to his memory The interior of the church ediftee gave signs of tio mourning which his death had occasioned, and the solemn funeral service re , echoed the feelings of the survivors of his late congregation, as we es thou, sands Of strangers. The-altars; pillars, and walls the church were hung with sable drapery, and is the centre aisle had been erected an elegant elate's:• quo, as if, indeed; the remains of the Archbishop were really lying in state. The mitre, crozier, mil the instal insignia of the archiepiscopal office reste.l upon the dais, and around the construction wet% placed a number of burning tapers, held in massive wooden canne.shaped repositories, neatly paintol white at the base and top, and black in the centre, The ornamentation, which was the suggestion of 0-artlandi was quite tasteful and annropria.: , , The requiem aommenced at about 10 O'Clock, Jit , Rev. Mahar) Wood celebratin g the Mass, t%sSittel by Very Rev. Dr. O'Hara, V. G., as Arobpri , pt, Fathers Cantwell and Sheridan, as Deacons 3f Honor; Fathers Walsh and feloAnaney as Deoenr,, of the Mess, and Rev. Mr. Hennessy, of the Eceleti. radical Seminary, as Master of Ceremonies. sanctuary was also crowded with clergymen Lo all the churches of the city, and many from Mop, parts of the diocese at a distance. An appropriate • sermon, eulogistic of the Archbishop, was preacho•l by Bishop Wood. NAVAL.—The dry docks at the navy yard have been hauled into the basin, in order to WPM the two-turreted monitor Tonawanda upon them. This vessel is fast advancing to a state of completion. A. single row of plates have been bolted on toe Ur. board side, and a number on the starboard. The plates are not all finished, and consequen by Vine will be some delay before she is ready for sea. These plates are an inch thick, and measure about four feet by five, five of them being fastened on, one over the other, by means of bolts an inch and a hAlf thick by two feet and upwards in length. It is estimated that the entire side armor will weigh 635,328 pouads. The deoloarmor, all of which has been prepared, is in plates ten feet long by thirty buttes wide, so three•quarters of an inch thick. The Slidell of This vessel, it is expected, will be able to roslot the heaviest shot, there being five feet of timber inshle the five inches of iron, all being firmly bolte I to. gather. The rephirs to the Ticonderoga have been completed, and she is expected to sail together Wits three or four others at the end of this week. THE WARD COMMITTEES ON BOUNTY,— A gtneral meeting of the ward oommitteee on bonoit to volunteers assembled last evening at the Merl of Trade rooms, to devise uniformity in dispensing the bounty in each ward, and to ascertain the quoit of Philadelphia. Mr. Daniel Steintneta was called to the chair. On calling over the wards it waa ascertained that the following were not represented: First, Fifth, Fourteenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty.fourth, and Twenty-HMI. A motion was agreed to that each ward allow szi, bounty of $5O. It was stated that the Provost Marshal had writ• ten to Washington to ascertain the Philadelphia quota, but that no answer had been received. A committee, conaleting of Mews. Caldwell, Sheriff'Thorepston, and W. D. Lewis, waa appoints.",to confer with the United States authorities on the subject of the Philadelphia quota, and to report it an adjourned meeting, to be held on next Wedges day night. VAccarzo Psysrciare.—The folloWilig physicians were elected on Tuesday by the vaccine Board ofHealth for the year 1864: 1s a John T. William, D.; 3d, E. C. Dougherty; 4th, William F. Petteraon ; sth, J. C. Allen ; 6th, J. O. Cooper ; 7th, R. W. Bitable ; 6th, Charles P. Turner ; 10th, H. St. Clair Ash; 11th, I, H. Conrad ; 12th, 1.. G. Nordman ; 13th, Wm. H. Gordon; 14th, Benjamin Phister, Jr.; 15th, 1.. S. , Filbert; T. W. Rowe; lath, W. M. Clarlke; 19th, J. S. Itihl ; 20th , S. M. Troth • 21st, T. Tritel t • 22d, S. P. Paneont ; 23d, John F. Lamp ; 24th, Eii• sha Crowell. The following collectors were also appointed : James Henley, John Fowler, James Pidgeon, .Iser. Kelley, William Bowen P. Seandetilae, B. 11, Housekeeper,'William Hest, Jacob Waterman, and Hiram Massey. SALES OF REAL ESTATE.—The following sales of real Mete were made yesterday at noon, at the Philadelphia Exchange, by James A. Preen/sal auctioneer Three-story stone dwelling, on the west side of the Schuylkill, below Reading Railroad Bridge $1,54 Badness stand, flve.story iron store, No. 140 790 N. Third street Three-story brick house, No. 334 Brown street, three brick houses in the rear 3,63) Store property, No. 1842 Market street, With dwelling on Barker street 8,103 Property No. 908 Marlborough street 515 Two three-story brick dwellings, S. W. corner Girard avenue and Crease street I,Bin Dwelling, No. 721 Wallace itreet .... 1440 Three.etory brick dwelling, No. 437 N. Fourth street 2,700 Ground rent of $l2O per annum 1,925 ECLECTIC MEDICAL COLLEGE.--The an t ual commeneement of the Ealectic•Medical College ook place last evening, in their building on Meth street, near Spruce —the building formerly ooss• pied by, the Pennsylvania College Of Medicine. The attendance was unusually large, numbers being unable to gain admission. The following is a list et the graduates ; Francis M. Reamer, Michigan ; Eli Garretson, Ohlo ; fIZ. F. Terry, Pennsylvania; H. F. Bosworth, Ohio ; Corydon 4J, Johnson, NW York ; D. A. Loomis, New York ; Waver, Pennsylvania Wm. Waterman, Pennsylvania John Jenny, Pennsylvania ; Geo. F. Jatinke, New Jersey ; Char. N. Lane, Michigan ; O. A. "Rob, Pennsylvaida ; J. M. Clover Pennsylvania ; H. A. Bolles. New York ; W. Wright, New Jersey; A. F. Blake.. Pennsylvania H. M. Bayard, Pens. sylvania ; J. P. Bache.to e, Indiana ; James E. Brown, Pennsylvania Made' W. Rose. 111 UP land. UNION CAUCTIS.—The Union . members of the Select and Common Council held a joint via. cue yeaterday afternoon, and made the followinl nominations : Directors of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad— Messrs. Andrew J. Catherwood, Hon; Henry D. Moore, 0. A. Walborn. North Pennsylvania Railroad—Nuns. Robert TIP for and A. C. Harmer. • The fo ll owing nominations for Trustees ot the Philadelphia Gas Works were made by the Rain members of the Select Council Mena.. Chas. Thompson Jones and Conrad S. Grove. FoREIGN EXPORTS.-7 he. packet 810 Tonawanda. Julius, molder, for Liierpool, left the foot of Wainutatteet wharf yesterday afteraooc , with a cargo consisting of 6,000 bushels red wheat, 36,666 do. white 'wheat, 74 hogsheads bark, 265 WI cotton seed, 21 barrels -flour, 8 paokages merchsto dime, and 11 passengers. Ship Ph il adelphia, Captain Poole , fog Liverpool called yocterday moraiwy,,,m sow or oaf 10 Boat, With the following freight.pet: 4000 burnt flour, 815 tierces beef, 344 borptheads sallow, 1 55 hogsheads queroitron bark, 135 casks chrome ore, 466 bags oil cake, 2,062 bushels Wheat, and 6 yaokegeg machinery. A RuziAwAy.—Yesterday morning, a borne attached to the remnant' of caarrisge came dashing down Coates skeet. towards HIM, where a train of ears was passing. He flids. a, spring t° clear the platform between the ears, bukatruck tke iron railing and was thrown back. Beim; uninjur ed. be again dashed down Ninth street. beit "l ine i i contact with a wagon, near Green, whiote oblige. him to come to a halt. He was- then sea . , HEAD Citiasnieu - -About three o'olo6 yesterday afternoon a German, namedlimac Oohed' while painting a second•story Window in poplar street, above Ninth, lost his balance, and fell to me pavement, crushing the back of hie bawl in a shook• ing manner. He wan conveyed to, st, jo n eph4 Hospital. INTERESTING LECTl323.r...rbe lecture to• night, at the Oommeretal.Oollege of Dieser,. BO' ant, Stratton, Sr. Clo.. Seventh unit Oheatnut stree% by the Rev. Charles P. itr autktoyeeing , men, sbon't the temptations of thelf mot. in the tits should not be forgotten. COLLEGE Erßlßrrom—The annual rP htbition of the Junior Oars at the Friends , CoUM Haverford, was held yeaterda&_and was wite3stad by a large number of person, The 11,16? consulted of declamations, °Mitten!, exercise& -4 and dial4gue" by the pupils, were of the moat oreOtable ahroloterz TED CM "HIB INJITRIRS.—Charies a dermaa who was caught in the Y Ui Meseta. Engel e. Won's brewery estAblietevient week, and badlY hurt, died at the Pennsylval"" nonfatal yesterday km the ease% of hirialudes DEATII OF SOLDIlilt.-- i ntO following death was reported at the Kafka' Direetortionit yeatcaday, from the United States Army. HolOt a , l l. Islington lane : James Freel,Oompawlil, lal sre" - Sylvania Rita, died January 25 Sale sa. WE WO con attention to. Por vortiserseu A t to be found In another whims, it y drening "Health," this: Moe. good opport n °o for Peraoo, wishing So go, Ws the off o °- notion bludnem. VOTJND DROWN/M-4a wan named MI: Ely tell ov erboardyenterday, at Sprumstreet amilarse droWaed. The eoroneaeld an irlue"' srs rendered a mad of aseidentaft drowned MIL --a The roofing • establishment ay RifsimMutrows, situated &Hike cornet of Vrares_ . g. 43 erks Wards, esesat on are yesterday Isettiva liwilaiat4 iges In Inutdrod *AIM
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