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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1864.
4*“ We can take no notice ol anonymous cominu
alcation*. Wo do cot return rqjeatsd maniuorlpt*.
Voluntary correspondence solicited from all
parts of the wfirld, and especially from our different
military and naval departments, wuen used, it will
ha paid Ton
Tire Presidential Question.
The circular signed “S. C. Pomeroy,
Chairman of the Executive National Com
mittee,” is said to he the Herald's latest
hoax or the World's latest triumph over
truth! ‘‘We arc authorized,” says the
Washington J?ej mblican, “by a distinguish-,
iij) friend of Mr. CitASK, to state that the
Secretary of the Treasury denies having
any knowledge of the ‘ Circular ’ published
in onr first edition, and signed ‘ S. C. Pome
roy, Chairman of the Executive National
Committee. ’ We doubted the genuineness
of the document when we first saw it, and
now we arc glad to be able to state that the
-whole thing is a hoax. The Copperhead
papers that appear to rejoice over it have
had a joke practised upon them.”
The authenticity of the document was
generally doubted, even by those who are
opposed to ihe re-election of Mi. Ltncout,
for its spirit and tone are far more likely to
increase than to diminish his popularity.
It is perfectly fair for the gentlemen who
prefer Mr. Chase, or Generals Butler,
Fremont, or Grant, for the Presidency, to
urge their fitness with all zeal; but it is
manifestly absurd to suppose that'the warm
est admirers of Mr. Chase, a statesman of.
distinguished ability, and a member of the
Cabinet, would attempt the superfluous task
of elevating him in public estimation, by
bitterly depreciating Mr. Lincoln. We
infer, from a leader in the New York Tri
bune, that that journal prefers to see
Mi. Chase the next President, yet,
■while it insists upon the value of the one
term principle, it honestly declares itself
satisfied with Mr. Lincoln’s Administra
tion. The truest supporters of Abraham
Lincoln arc the last men to oppose the
fullest discussion of the Presidential ques
tion. We cntirely.agree with the Tribane
in urging that, ‘ • while each has a perfect
and undoubted right to his preference, and
its free and full expression, great care muss
he used that our discussions do not become
heated and exasperating, and so divide us
into factions so alienated and embittered as
to prevent our cordial, efficient co-operation
in the great rtniggle before us.” This is
all-important; we do not hesitate to say
that it is more important than the actual
choice between the four or five prominent
men whose names are likely to be presented
to the Baltimore Convention in June. We
Should be sorry to see an attempt made to
elevate Grant by pushing down Fremont,
■or the fritnds of a Cabinet officer dispa
raging the Cliie! Magistrate of the Republic.
We have begun the greatest political cam
paign of the age, and it would be pitiful, in
deed, if onr ■first action should be a domes
tic quarrel.
The Alexandra Case.
The English Court of Exchequer having
decided not to grant a new trial in the case
of the Alexandra, the law officers of the
Crown appealed to the Court of Exchequer
Chamber. This really is a Court of Error,
and consists of eight out of the ten Judges
of tbe Courts of Queen’s Bench and Com
mon Pleas. The respective Chief Justices
of these Courts are very able men. Sir
Alexander Cocehurn, one of the soundest
as well as most brilliant of English lawyers,
was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
from November, 1850, to June, 1850, when,
on the promotion of Lord Campbell to the
Woolsack, he was appointed Chief Justice
of the Queen’s Bench. . Sir Charles
Crompton, better on the bench than at
the bar, was appointed puisne Justice
of the Queen’s Bench in 1852. Sir
Colin Blackburn was made a Jus
tice of the Queen's Bench, in 1859,
solely through the favor of Lord Chancellor
Campbell— apparently for no other reason
than that he was ‘‘a blither Scot.”. His
position, in practice on the Northern Cir
cuit, was neither high nor lucrative, and his
career on the bench has been one of plod
ding mediocrity. Sir J. Mellob, also a
puisne judge of the Queen’s Bench, has been
too recently appointed for a fair estimate of
his judicial ability to be made here. From
the Court of Common Pleas, the judges who
were to sit on the appeal are all of high
professional repute. Sir William Eule
was made a puisne Judge of the Common
Pleaß in 1845, transferred to the Queen’s
Bench in 1840, and was made Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas in 1859—with the ge
neral opinion of the whole bar that no man
was better qualified for that high office.
Sir Edward V. Williams, Sir James Shaw
Willes, and Sir John Barnard Biles,
(respectively made puisne judges of the
Common Fleas in 1847, 1855, and 18o$j,
are lawyers of great ability, learning, and
honor. Theec eight Judges were to have
decided, on *he Gih inst., on the appeal
from the refusal ot tbe Court of Exchequer
to grant a new trial in the Alexandra case.
It is said, however, that, whatever their de
cision, it wifi not be final; for all parties
Wish the law to be definitely fixed. Should
it be carried before the House of Lords, the
final decision there, according to custom, will
be made, not by the House at large, but
by the few among them who are designated
Law Lords. At present, this class consists
of Lord West bury, Chancellor of Eng
land ; of ex- Chancellors St. Leonards,
Colchester, Cranworth, and Brough
am ; of Loid Wrnleidale, who was a
judge from IS2B to 1856; and of Lord
Kingsdown, foimerly Mr. T. Pemberton
Leigh, and a well-known Chancery lawyer
of eminent learning and skill. Every Peer
is entitled to speak and vote on appeals
before the House of Loids, but, for a long
time past, such causes have been left to tbe
Law Lords. The decision ot the House of*
Lords, as the ultimate Court of Appeal, is
final.
Bow Old is W asliington 1
Some of our cotemporaries seem to have
ignored Worcester’s Unabridged, and to
have totally forgotten that Washington
•was born in 1782, and not in 1733. Wor
cester gives us the following definitions:
“ Anniversary. —A stated day, celebrated
as it returns in the course of the year.”
“Ybabbt. —Annual 5 occurring once every
year.” “Yearly” and “anniversary”
are used as synonymes. If Washington
had lived until the twenty-second of Febru
ary, 1864, he would have been one hundred
and thirty-two years old. According to
our cotemporaries, he "would have been only
one hundred and thirty-one years old. Ac
cording to them, when a child is one
year old, he has no anniversary at all.
Charles Augustus, for instance, is
bom January Ist, 1863. On January Ist,
1865, when he is two years old, his first an
niversary (still according to our cotempo
raries} will be celebrated. Still proceeding
by the same authority, all the world are
mistaken in regard to the ter-centenary
Shakspearean jubilee. The twenty-third
Of April, 1864, is the two hundred and nine
ty-ninth anniversary of Shakspeakk’s
When a young man is twenty-one years old
he celebrates his twentieth anniversary and
not his twenty-first. Celebraters of golden
■weddings-will please remember that the
forty-ninth anniversary of the marriage day,
And by no manner of means the fiftieth,
must be observed. A stand should certainly
be observed on this point. An anniversary
is “ a stated day, celebrated as it re
turns in the course of the year.” A child,
or a nation, is bom on a certain day. The
first anniversary of its birth occurs one year
after that day. Washington was born
February 22d, 1732, and, had he lived until
the present time, would have been one hun
dred and thirty-two years old. To comply
with a notion ot accuracy, the names of the
years in use are those of the completed and
nut of the current years. The Christian era
3s not yet'one hundred and sixty-five years
old, and, until it is, we shall continue to
speak of the present year sb eighteen hun
dred and sixty-fpur, although we are in our
one hundred and sixty-fifth year, just as
much as we are in the nineteenth century.
■The next anniversary of the Declaration of
Independence wifi, as wo understand it, be
the eighty-eighth anniversary of that decla
ration. Our country is not 30 very old that
it need wish to lose a year. We shall be
eighty-eight years old as a nation next 4th
of July, and President Lincoln sets his
hand and seal to this in all his proclama
tions.
Tlie Southwest.
We have at last come new* or General Smith’s
cavalry expedition, which lately roile into Misbls
eippi as a co-operative force following General Sher
man’s army. The pa-sage of the Tallahatchie was
opposed by the rebel! under Forrest and Chalmers,
bnt, deceiving them with an infantry force, General
Smith crossed at another plaee with perfect suooess,
and on the nth arrived at Pontotoo. This expedi
tion is necessarily behindhand, but, under its enter
piising commander, it will yet render greater assist
ance in harassiDg the enemy, destroying communi
cation, cutting off supplies, Sw. mobile in our pos-
BCitiOP) the rivers of Alabama open to our fleet, and
a strong mounted force ready to operate from Flori
da on Georgia, with Sherman and Grant from other
direetiote, the enemy in the Southwest will be in
volved in a fatal strategy.
General Polk must either follow Sherman to Mo.
bile, with the certain chance of being demolished if
he is encountered, or maroh to Selma to hold the
road between Sherman’s army and Johnston’s, A.
refugee who has arrived in Nashville from Montgo
mery, which place he left to escape the conscription,
repeats the story of discontent among the rebel
population, and avere that there exists throughout
Central Alabama, and he believes throughout the
South, seoret Union organizations, which will be
beard from at the proper time, and the votes raised
will be no feeble one. He represents that the utmost
consternation prevails among leading Secessionist!;
they are between aeveral fire*; they dread the ad
vance of the Union armies, being almost frantic on
ihe subject; yet they distrust the masses of the
people, and are unwilling to rely upon them.
WASHINGTON
[Special Despatches to The Prcui.]
Washington. Ds Os. Feb. 22
A Speech' by the President.
At the opening of the Patent Office Fair last night,
alter Mr. Ohittkhdbn had delivered his speech,
Major B. B. Frbkch read a pstiiotic poem, which
was loudly applauded. Loud calla then beiog made
for President L.urcoi.N, he stepped forward and said
that he appeared before the audience to apologize
for not speaking, rather than to speak. He thought
that the committee had practised a little fraud on
Mm, for they did not intimate when they came to see
him in the morning that they expected him to speak;
therefore, he had come before the audience totally
ui.ptepared to say anything. That was taking one
at a giest disadvantage after the eloquent speech of
Iffr. CHtTTia-DKt and the poem of Mr. FftHXOH.
There was great objection to his saying anything,
for necessarily, in consequence' of his position,
everything went into print. [Laughter and ap
plause, j If he made any mistakes, it might do both
himself and the nation harm. [Applause] It was
very difficult to say sensible things. [Laughter.]
He therefore hoped that the audience would excuse
him, after expressing hie desire that the charitable
citcipiisc in which they were engaged might be
abundantly successful, [Applause.]
Interference with Elections.
The report recently made by Senator SowAnj,
liom the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom
wns referred the bill to prevent officers of the army
and navy, and other persons engaged in the military
or naval service of the United States from interfering
-in State elections, has just been printed. This is pro
posed to be prevented by flue and imprisonment.
The ieport says that long anterior to the passage of
the secession ordinances there was a atoug party
in many of the Northern slave States which joined
in the thieat to break up the Union in the
event of the election of a Republican President.
That there have been all along, and still are, great
numbers of sueh persons in the several Border
States admits of no doubt. It is perfectly notorious
that when the rebellion broke out there were large
and Influential portiona of the people of Missouri,
Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware, who were open
supporters and advocates of the rebellion. It could
not be doubted that but for the presence ol the
loyal troops who hastened from the North to bold
those States to their allegiance by the iron
grip of war, that they, too, would have proved
false to the Union and the Constituting and
would to-day have been, as communities, either
in arms against the Government of the United
States or in its military occupation. That they
me still In the Union and in the enjoyment of their
rights and' high privileges under it, is due to
ihe Union bayonets and to the spotless faith an 1 !
heroic courage of the true Unionists they contain,
far less numerous than has generally been supposed.
The Committee on Military Affairs say that so far
as they have been able to ascertain, the evil which
the bill is intended to remedy is almost wholly ima
gic&ry, and the faot thatthere is so little real ground
for complaint against the military, considering the
scenes of excitement and disorder In which they
have been compelled to interfere, speaks loudly in
praise of their justice and forbearance, and is high
< videt.ee of the impropriety of passing the bill.
The New Whisky Conference Committee.
The Speaker has appointed, as the new conferees
on the part of the House on the whisky hill, Repre
sentatives WASHttDBNB, of Illinois; Kasson, of
lowa, and Dawson, of Pennsylvania. A large
number of persons from abroad are here looking
after the whisky interest. Aa soon as the vote in
the House on disagreeing to the report or the con
ference committee on that subject was announced,
they thronged the telegisph office at the Capitol,
sending messages to their respective friends.
The Quicksilver Mining- Case.
The California quicksilver cate has attracted to
the Supreme Court many interested parties. Judge
Black and Caleb Cushing are counsel for the
company. The former made a motion to-day to ex
clude the United States from the controversy on
tbe ground that the Government was not a party in
the court below, having filed no exceptions, and
having taken no appeal. The court refused to de
cide on this motion until they hear the whole case.
Mr. Carlisle, of Washington, and Williams, of
California, appear for the claimant Bbbyesa, Se
nator Rbybrdt Johnson represents the New Al
in aden Company, and seeks to withdraw his appeal.
Robbery ot a Paymaster.
Some time last night Major Malone, a paymaster
in the United States army, was robbed of $70,000,
which he had drawn from the treasury for the pur
pose of carrying to the front in order to pay certain
regiments there. It appears that after drawing the
money he took it to his home, and put it in a trunk
under his bed. During the night the trunk was
taken from his room, and this morning a servant in
the house found tbe trunk in the stable, broken
open, and an amount of postage'currency scattered
about. A number of arrests have been made, and,
atnox-g them, that of Mr. Briggs, the paymaster’s
cleik, by Detectives Dugan and Kelly, but aa yet
no money has been found. The detectives are, how
ever, actively at work endeavoiing to ferret out the
robbtrs« It is rather a suspicious looking case.
The U. S. Supreme Court.
In the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Nelson de
livered the opinion of the Supreme Court, to-day,
in the cause number one hundred and thirty-two,
Greene C. B. Bronson, et al., appellants, vs. The
Lacrosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company et
a:., it being an appeal from the Diatriot Court of the
United States for the District of Wisconsin. The
opinion reverses the decree of the District Court
with coats, and remands the cause for further pro
ceedings in conformity to the opinion of the Su
preme Coust.
The Quicksilver Mining case was taken up this
morning in the Supreme Court.
Rebel Letters."
Cspt. Bcbebtz’s detectives have lately ferreted out
several lota of rebel letters. The vigilance of this
corps has made eplstolatory communication with
rebeldom quite perilous. By their activity they have
also captured quite a quantity of eontraband goods
m several different places. We understand they
have found that a member of the Maryland Legisla
lure, who lives in Southern Maryland) has secreted
a quantity of arms, ammunition, rebel flags, &c.
Contingent Expenses of the War Depart*
The Secretary of War communicated to Congress
to-day an account of the contingent expenses of the
War Department.
Personal.
I*;. A. Soudbr & CO., of Philadelphia, offer to
charter the steamer W. B. Seward to the Govern*
ment.
Cbarlzs Knapp* of Pittsburg, continueohis offer
of eight and ten-inch Columbians to the Ordnance
Bureau.
Ail the stories that the President intends soon to
make a fresh call for troops are* believed here to be
false. Such stories have been in circulation.
Confirmations by the Senate.
The Senate, in executive session to-day, confirmed
tbe following nominations: ......
George F. Seward, New York, consul general at
Shanghae.
Franklin Chase, Maine, consul general at Tampico.
Joseph C. A. Wingate, New Hampshire, consul at
Swatow.
Henry .T, Cuniff, New Mexico, consul at Paso del
Nolle.
George P. Hansen, Illinois, consul at Elsinore.
Aaion-Young, Jr., Maine, consul at Kio Grande,
Brazil
Bichard B. Morse, consul at Curacoa,
Benj. P. Hall, Colorado Territory, consul at Val
paiaiio. ' •
Jay T. Howard, Pennsylvania, consul at Naples.
B.Tj, Hill, Michigan, consul at San Juan del Sur.
v,’. n. Slake, Indianajconsul at Manzauilla.
Joseph e. Marx, Ohio, consul at Amsterdam.
Winston J. Trowbridge, of Connecticut, consul at
Baxbadoes.
James Boutwell, consul at Dublin.
Albeit Rhodes, of Pennsylvania, consul at Jeru
salem.
Lewis N. Tappan, Jr., of Massachusetts, consul
at Batavia.
Albeit G. Riddle, consul at Matauzas.
George V. Tefft, of Maine, consul at Stockholm.
John s. Smith, of Pennsylvania, consul at Gan*
dia.
til)wien p. Hanna, of New Jertey, comul at Da
intrant.
TO KB CMXBCTOns OP INTBBNAL BEVBNDB,
Edward 1,. Penoe, Third diitrlct of Maiaachusett*.
3 ohn H-Morris, Tenth district of New York,
x.ouls Ulephane, District of Columbia.
Redrew S-Care, Second district of Virginia.
Philip D. Moore, Washington Territory.
TO 358 AS&EBSOBS Of Mtehhal BEVEKUE.
F. H. Piper, 12th district of Illinoii
Andrew Hyatt, 10th diitrlct of New" York
B steal] Banrford, 19th district of New Vn'pir
John W. Killinger, loth district of Pennsvlvania
Wm. H. Jessup, 12th district of Pennsylvania
Josiah Milliard, 3d district of Virginia.
Peter Page, lat diitrlct of Illinois.
Luke A. Taylor, 6th district of Wisconsin.
tnecßra-Arncous.
JameiWi SlMßkliai of Oaliforoi*. to be receiver
of DUbliO moneys for the district of ban Francisco.
JollD F. Swift, of California, to be register of the
Hand Office at San Francisco
Paired Assistant Surgeon Joseph W. Shiveley to
be Surgeon in the Navy, vise Surgeon W. D. Harri
son, dlimiwed.
Paired Auiftant Surgeon Henry F. Mcbherry to
be inrgeon in the navy, vise Surgeon B. E. Black,
transferred to the retired list.
Faiitd Awistant Surgeon Samuel J« Jones lo be
surgeon in the navy, rut S. A< Engle*, tranaferred
to the retired lift. „ . , . t
Paired hirktut Surgeon O, J. Coleberoe to be
surgeon lo the oavr> viee F, L- Weber, transferred
to theietircd II et,
Josiah H. Calver, of New York, to be assistant
surgeon in the navy, vice C. O. Carpenter, resigned.
Join Mel) Kioe, of Penna, vice Assistant Sur
geon C. Carter.
Samuel J. Draper, of Delaware, to be assistant
nmgeon in the navy, vice K. E. Van Uresoa, re
flipped.
Robert Willard, of Massachusetts, to be assistant
surgeon in the navy, vice E- E- PieMdn, deceased.
John W. Coles, of Pennsylvania, to be assistant
au'geon in the navy, vice A. Hutchins, resigned.
wa. H. .Tones, of Pennsylvania, to be assistant
surgeon in the navy, vice J. H. Wears, resigned.
Win, T. Kemp, of Maryland, to be assistant sur
geon in tbe navy, vice J. J. McGee, transferred to
tbe retired list.
David V. Whitney, of Illinois, to bo assistant sur
geon in the aavy r vice J. W. Shively, nominated for
promotion.
Charles H Page, of New Hampshire, to be as
sistant surgeon in tbe navy, vioe H. F, MoSherry.
nomic ated tor promotion. «•
Wm, M. Bober* of Pennsylvania, to be assistant
surgeon in the navy, vioe J, J. Gibson* nominated
for promotion.
James K.Tryon, to be assistant surgeon in the
.J. Jones, nominated for promotion.
I>avia Mack, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be assistant
surgeoD in the navy, vice W. W. Leavitt, resided.
James N. Hyde, of Connecticut, to be assistant
Burgeon in the navy, vice D. W. Ballentine, de
ceased.
James M. Flint, of New Hampshite, to be assist
ant surgeon in the navy, vice H. L. Plympton, de
ceased.
Wm. Commons, of Indiana, to be assistant Bur
geon in the navy, vice w. ft. Terry, resigned.
Charles M. Soammon, to be first lieutenant in
revenue cutter service.
My lick Snow, to be second lieutenant in revenue
cutter service. 4
John G. Mclntyre, to be third lieutenant in reve
nue- cutter service.
Wm. Walkin, to be third lieutenant in revenue
cutter service.
The following were confirmed as ohief engineers
In the nfcvy: „ , ,
First Asistant Engineers Wm. Roberts, Jackson.
Mi'Elwfll, Alexander Greer, and John H. Long.
Charles Upson, of California, to be surgeon general
of California.
Horatio N. Marsh, to be deputy postmaster at
Joliet, 111.
ADDITIONAL PAYMASTERS IS VOLUNTEER FORCES,
Dudley W. Rhodes, Ohio; Wellington Vrooman,
West Virginias C. i*. Chase, Wisconsin ; George B.
Congdon, Wisconsin ; Josiah Tilden, Illinois; Mar
shall Grover, Indiana; N- O. Sawyer, Vermont;
Henry S. Grant, Michigan ; Barnaba* B. Hammond,
Rhode Island; Georee P. Lawrence, Massachusetts;
John S. Herrick, Ohio: Josiah Miller, Kansas;
Wm. C. Lupton, Indiana; George Truesdale, New
York; James S. Thurston, New York; EdwardG.
Fahnestock, Pennsylvania ; Robert D. Clark. Penn
sylvania ; John H. Dolman. Ohio; B. T. Tennly,
Ohio; Chambers Baird, Ohio; John W. Wallace,
Pennsylvania; Selden E. Marvin, New York;
Nicholas St. John Green, Massachusetts; Oharles
K. Littlefield, New York; Ethan S. Reynolds, In
diana; Benjamin L. Martin, Indiana; Benjamin
Gregory, New Jersey f George W. Hands, Ohio ;
William H, H> Allen, New Hampshire; 13 a via
T. Dickson, Illinois *, Edward Wolcott, Massa
chusetts ; Peicr K. G. Hall, Pennsylvania; George
Putnam, California; Elias Cooper, Illioois ; Joseph
W. Moore, Pennsylvania; George B. Dudley,
New York; W. T. Davidson, New York; D. B.
Forrest, New York; M. S. Gunokle, Ohio: H H.
Hutm, Wisconsin ; K. B. Haythom, New Jersey;
M. G. Hart, New York ; Rufus Heywood, New York;
S. V. Halliday, Pennsylvania; R. M. Dee. Jr.,
Pennsylvania; S. Lountberry, Connecticut; Henry
LIDCB, Wisconsin; G. W. Hopping, Indiana; W. S.
Lamb, Indiana; Allen McKane, Pennsylvania;
Geoige Morton, Ohio; James G. McKenney, Mas
sachusetts; F. M. Northrop, Connecticut; J. H.
Nelson, Michigan; Wm. V. Porter, New York; G.
D; Rosser, Massachusetts; Walter K. Soott, Indi
ana; D. C. Smith, Minnesota; Wm. M. Smith,
Indiana; M. H. Dickerson, Pennsylvania; Nelson
H. Van yorhies, Ohio; George W. Candle, Illioois;
F. B. Dixon, Virginia; Egbert T. South, Ohio ; Guy
H. Wakins. Pennsylvania; J. D. Pulsifer, Maine;
Zachariah Voorhies. New York; George a. Hamil
ton, Illinois ; Jas. Whitehall, Pennsylvania; David
Wyman, New York; James H. Lea, Illinois; Thot.
A. Haviland, Massachusetts; John N. Scott, In
diana; George B. Hagin, Iowa; John W. King,
Ohio; Maik Hollingshead, Ohio; Wm. H. Biair,
Pennsylvania; Joseph Harris, Wisconsin; War
ren C. Emerson. Ohio: Thos. T* Saunders, Iowa;
George Cunningham, Maryland; Chas. Crawford,
Minnesota; Albert R. Shteve, Ohio; H. W. Snyder,
Pennsylvania; F. C. Tarr, Maryland; William D.
Thompson, Pennsylvania; Thomas E. Williams,
Missouri; Chas. A. Warner. Minnesota.
PAYMASTERS IN THE REGULAR ARMY.
Edward Wright, Illinois; Rodney Smith, Ken
tucky ; Additional Paymaster John P. Brua, of the
regular army.
PAYMASTERS IN THE NAVY.
Assistant Paymaster Ambrose J- Clark, do. Geo.
Cochran, do. Thos. F. Caswell, do. George A. Saw
yer.
TO SB HOSPITAL CHAPLATNB,
James Guffey, of New Jersey; Henry Stavens,
West Virginia; S. M. Beatty, Ohio; John M.
Green, Maryland: Rodney Gage, Massachusetts;
John A. Spooner, Maryland; S. P. Ives, Illinois;
James B. Crane, Pennsylvania; Thomas H. W.
Monroe, Dietiictof Columbia; Jacob Fronkel, Penn
sylvania; Peter McGrone,Pennsylvania; Elward
McGlynn, New York ; Griffeth Piven, Maryland ;
D. C. Ormeby, New York ; D. D. McKee, Indiana;
John W. Arthur, Delaware; William Smith,
Alabama: William K. Talbot,Kentucky ; Almon
Gregory, Indiana; William L. Mather, Mas
sachusetts;* William Eamshaw, Pennsylvania;
Franklin w. Oimstead, Vermont; Jos. A. Stevens,
Indiana: Thos. Willett, New York; Norman W.
Camp, New Jersey; Wm H. Paddock, Pennsylva
nia ; Chas. H. Helslcy, New Jersey ; J. A. Craw
ford, Pennsylvania; Robert Day, New York ; Wm.
J. Potter, Massachusetts; Patrick F. McCarthy,
District of Columbia; J. A. Heiden, Tennessee;
Manuel J. Gonsalves, Pennsylvania; Alex Shiras,
Pennsylvania; Philip McKim. Missouri; James
Schofield, Iowa; Cfaauncey W. Fitch, Indiana;
lllinois; D; D-Von Antwerp, North
Carolina; James H. Brown, Pennsylvania; Alfred
Nevin, Pennsylvania; Herman Ejseso, Tennessee;
Chas* Gartner, Pennsylvania - Christopher CrovVn,
Pennsylvania.
In addition to the above, tbe Senate confirmed
the nominations of shout 115 assistant quarter
masters and commissaries of subsistence.
THE WAJ* IN VIRGINIA.
A. REBEL AMBUSCADE.
Attack on the id Massachusetts Cavalry.
WASHINGTON, February 33.—Yesterday morning,
about II o’clock, as a detachment of the 3d Massa
chusetts Cavalry, under Captain J. L. Reed, who
had been out on a scouting expedition, were return
ing towaxds'Drainsville, on tho way to Vienna,
they were attacked on the Drainaville Pike, about
two miles from the latter place, by a gang of rebel
guerillas, supposed to be under the command of the
notorious Nloseby, concealed in the pines. The de
tatchment of the 2d Maßsachusets Cavalry con.
sis ted of about 150 men, while Moseby had, it is sup
posed, at least between 300 and 300.
The cavalry were fired upon from the dense pine
woods, near Drainaville, and retreated. Afterwards,
eight of our men were found dead and seven wound
ed, while it is supposed that at least fifty or seventy
five were taken prisoners. At least, so many are
missing, though, as scattering ones are coming in
from time to time, the number will doubtless he
considerably reduced. Among the prisoners is Cap
tain Manning, of! Maine. Captain J. S. Reid, the
commander of the detachment, was shot through
the lungs, and died a few moments after being
wounded. His body has been brought to this city,
and will be embalmed by Drs. Blown and Alexan
der, and thence will be sent North to his wife, who
lives In Dorchester, Maes. Moseby beat & precipi
tate retreat. Troops were at once sent in pursuit
of the guerillas, but the pursuing party had not
been heard from.
FOKTRtSS MONROE.
Fortress Monroe, Feb. 22.—The birthday anni
versary of Washington has been duly celebrated
to-day in this district of the Department by the fir
ing of a salute from the water battery, the frigate
Minnesota, and the two frigates lying in Hampton
Roads, one Englishman and one Russian. Also, a
review of troops took place inside the Fortress.
General Butler returned this morning from Point
Lookout, where be has been, ofltuiinesi for the last
two days. '
Ebenezer Paine, a citizen of Norfolk, was commit
ted to jail yesterday for attempting to run the block
ade. Michael Heely and William Kennedy, charged
with desertion, escaped from Norfolk jail on Satur.
day night. Also, Jones, a rebel prisoner of war, es
caped from Fort Norfolk.
The flag-of-tiuce steamer New York returned
thisP. M. from City Point, in charge of Miyur
Mulford.
The ice is troublesome in the James river, and
detained the New York some time.
SAIT LAKE. :
. Artemi), Ward Captured liy Indiana.
St. Louis, Feb. 22.—The Democrat's Salt Lake
City correspondence, dated the 6th inst.. Bays a
desperate band ol highwaymen-exists along the
road flora Sait Lake to the Bannock Mines, to
rob and murdering the returning miners. Some
time since the citizens of Bannock formed a vigi
lance committee, who have hung thirteen robbers,
including Henry Plummer, the captAin and sheriff
of Bannock and Stinking Water Mines; Buok Stin
son, deputy sheriff ; and George Lane, deputy
sheriff of Virginia City. Seventy.two names are still
on the list in the .hands of the vigilance committee,
who will be treated in the same manner am the
others when caught.
Artemus Ward and Dr. Kingston, his agent, were
captured by a band of Indians while on an excursion
to Salt Lake, but were released through the efforts
ot Governor Heed and Brigham Young.
Caiko, Feb, 22.—The steamer Graham, from Mem
phis, with dates of yesterday, has arrived. She
brings ninety bales of cotton for St. Louis.
Twelve barges, containing 12,000 bales of hay,
were burned at Memphis on the evening of the 20th.
The hay was valued at $200,000, and belonged to
Goff, Cochran, it Co. Another account says it had
been delivered to the Government.
The gunboat Conestoga, ten miles' below the mouth
of Bed river, recently captured four rebel officers,
two of them colonels, while attempting to cross the
river with a large rebel mail, $200,000 in New Or
leans money, thirty bales of cotton, and a number
of mules, horses, and wagon*. The property was
delivered to the quartermaster at Natchez. The
prisoners were retained on board the gunboat.
Nearly 300 rebels have been captured in the neigh
borhood of Helena, and sent to Nashville, by Gen.
Buford, during the past month.
The ateamer Olivo Branoh, from New Orleans,
with dates to the 16th, has arrived. She brings
ninety-one bales of cotton and a large lot of sugar
and molasses for St. Louis. She also hss the 2d
Illinois Cavalry, Colonel Ward, Who have r& enlist
ed as veterans.
Arrival of the Louisiana.
Nbw Yokk, Feb. 23.—The steamer Louisiana
has arrived from Liverpool. Her advices are anti
cipated.
Fire at Canton, Missouri.
St. Louis, Feb. 22.—Sixteen stores end dwellings
at Canton, Missouri, were burned on the 13th inst.
Loss $66,000; insurance about $6,000.
Fire at Freemansburg, ST. Y.
Ithaoa, Feb. 23.—A large parrot the business por
tion of Freemanaburg. New York, was burned last
night. Thirty five buildings were destroyed, in
cluding a bank, hotel, and other buildings. The loss
is not ascertained.
General Burnside at Augusta.
Portland, Feb. S3.—General Burnside went to
Augusta this morning, where he received his friends
In the Governor's room, at the State House, this
evening. He takes a special train (hr Boston to
morrow.
THE PRESB.-PHILADELPHIA; WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 24,1864.’
TBE WAR IS TIIE SOUTHWEST.
General Smith’s Cavalry at Pontotoc,
Mississippi, on the lith.
Passage of the Tallahatohle.
ADVANCE OF GRANT’S ARMY.
THE BETREAT OF LONGSTREET.
Memphis, Feb. 20.—General Smith’s cavalry ex«
peditionwas followed and harassed by Forrest's and
Chalmers' forces. A detachment ot the 19th Penn
sylvania Cavalry has arrived from the Tallahatchie
river, where they left General Smith's command
and returned with despatches. The courier reports
that the Tallahatchie river was guarded for fifteen
miles in front of Holly Springs, as Forrest expected
that the expedition would cross neat that place.
General Smith 1 * advanced brigade of infantry occu
pied the enemy from this side while he moved east
to New Albany, Mississippi, with his cavalry, where
he expected to make a crossing on the lGth, but was
delayed for twenty-four hours by the slow move
ments of Waring's brigade. The enemy was taken
completely by surprise by this movement, and Ge
neral Smith entered Pontotoc on the 17 th, where
skirmishing wag going on when the courier left.
All were in fine spirits, and confident of penetrating
tbe vitals of tbe Confederacy and ooming out safely.
Twenty-four prisoners were taken on the Tallo
ba'chie.
Cairo, Feb. 23 —Advices from Vicksburg to the
16th report nothing new from General Sherman's
expedition.
ADVANCE OF GEN. GRANT.
RINOQOLP, Go.| Feb. 23.—Gen. Palmer's forces
occupied Ringgold this afternoon. Our mounted
infantry in advance drove out a small rebel patrol
found at Colorado, two miles from here.
This town is perfectly deserted. Only seven fami
lies are left in the place, which formerly had 3,000
inhabitants.
RETREAT OFLONGSTREET—STRENGTH OF
THE REBEL ARMIES—DESERTERS AR-
RIVED.
Chattanooga, Feb.23.—Despatches repeat, with*
out confirming, Longstreet's retreat across French
Bi o&d liver. It is thought here, that, having failed
to accumulate a force sufficient for prompt, energetic
operations on our communications, he has grown
fearful of concentrations against him or Johns
ton, and ii now endeavoring to form a junc
tion with the latter, at Dalton, before 'the
spring campaign can open. The largest estimates
give him twenty thousand infantry and fifty field
pieces. Johnston is known to have at Dalton six
divisions of infantry, about thirty thousand. The
two armies concentrated will probably muster sixty
thousand men, and might prove dangerous.
Great dissatisfaction still exists, and evidences of
the demoralization of the rebels are numerous.
Provost Marshal General Parkhurst’s reports for
January and half of February will show a total of
three thousand two hundred and seventy-six desert
ers from Johnston’s army alone.
General Palmer has remained in peaceful posses
sion of Ringgold, fts., and the gap covering Chat
tanooga. The enemy may yet accept his invitation
and fight.
Humor bad it yesterday that Hardee was west of
Lafayette, Ga., trying to cross Lookout Mountain,
and make a descent to Bridgeport, but this is false.
Gen. Palmer pushed a detachment into Lafayette
today, driving the enemy out.
The enemy suppose that Grant has been concen
trating at Knoxville to drive Longstreet, thus
weakening Chattanooga, and may be foolish enough
to attack us here. Look out for active operations
before April. Adjutant John Shepherd, of the 9th
Kentucky, has been exchanged.
DEATH OF GEN. CROCKER.
Cairo, Feb. 23.— Apparently authentic informa
tion received at the headquarters of this department
state that Brigadier General Crocker, of lowa, died
at Jackson, Mississippi, of wounds received in a
ekiimish with the rebels, in the advance of Gen.
Sherman’s army.
Two thousand people attended a Union meeting at
Jonesboro, Illinois, yesterday.
The Western Freedom Convention.
Louj&villb, Feb. 22.— An adjourned meeting of
tbe Freedom Convention was held this morning id
tbe .saloon of Bier's Hall. Fending the report of the
Committee on Resolutions, the Convention was ad
dieued by Hon. .T. Caspar Butz, of Chicago. He
m&tie a radical speech as the representative of the
German ConventiOß which met at Cleveland last
fall. He Bald some of the Germans had gone over to
the Copperheads, but they had 400.000 votes left, and
should attain universal freedom throughout the
United States. He asked, where can we find a bet
ter territory for furnishing to the slaves than that
we are now conquering?
Mr. Anderson, of Ohio, said tbe spirit of John J.
Ciittenden hangs like a nightmare over Ken
tucky, and prevents her from uttering her true
principles. The Convention wai addressed by
Messrs. Dunham, Baird, Preston, and Needham, of
Kentucky; and Gen. McNeil, Mata, Kinkel. and
Piestoriouz, of Missouri.
At tbe afternoon session, the following resolu
tions were presented'by the committee, excepting
tbe seventh, which was offered by Mr. Kinkel. They
were acted upon singly, and afterwards unanimous
ly adopted:
Resolved, Ist. That tbe unity of this country, with
the present republican form of government, state
anr national, must be preserved, and the rebellion
suppressed.
2d. That slavery was the cause of the rebellion, and
that peace cacEOt be obtained until the principles of
frceeom announced in ths Declaration of Inde
pendence and tbe Federal Constitution are carried
into practice. The question whether slavery is to be
perpetuated or not is no longer exclusively a State,
but a national one. It is therefore proper that the
Constitution of tbe United States should be amend
ed so as to stcure freedom to every human being
within its jurisdiction. Such a guarantee of indi
vidual freedom is as necessary in the Constitution
ot the United States, as that of a republican form of
government to each State. a
3d. The Government has tbe constitutional right
to demand the services of every male, no matter
what may be his color or condition, whether bond
or nee, and the master cannot interpose his right
between the man and the. Government, and that we
are in favor of enlisting and enrolling all alike.
4th. That durieg a rebellion the President, in the
exercise of the war power, has full and ample au
thority to free all the slaves in the rebellious dis
tricts, and they are thereby invested Irrevocably
with all the rights of freemen, and that In the pre
sent rebellion he ought to exercise this power to its
fullest extent.
6th. That, with the effect of the President’s am
nesty proclamation before ui, we declare that, iu
our opinion, the same has been injurious to the
Union cause and its operations within the district
to which it especially applies; humiliating and un
just to loyal men by placing them upon the same
tooting with rebels, and we would urge its recall or
suspension until the rebellion is wholly orushed.
6th. That the Slave State Freedom Convention be
made a permanent organization by the formation of
an executive committee, of one member and one
alternate from each of the slave States, for the pur
pose of carrying out its principles; ana that delega
tions from each State represented in this Conven
tion appoint the members. We declare ourselves
favorable to such an amendment of the Constitu
tion of the United States as shall make the Presi
dent’s election for one term only.
A resolution was offered and lost, after consider
able discussion, providing for a national radioal
convention, to meet at St. Louis on the 101 b of May.
The vote stood 63 ayes to 64 nays, the majority pie*
ferring to act with the Republican party in their
national convention.
The proceedings of the Convention were generally
harmonious, but toward the close of the afternoon
session considerable confusion prevailed, princi
pally upon minor points, and the Convention ad
journed sine die.
The lay delegation to the Freedom Convention
called a State Convention, to meet at Louisville, on
the 9th of May, to appoint delegates to the Balti
more Convention. They appointed the following
State committee: Jaß. Speed, John Tompkins, L.
N. Dembitz, Somerville; O. A. Preston, of Coving
ton ; O. F. Be) land and Hall Cummings, of New
port ; George D. Blakey, of Russellvilie; T. D.
Culvert, B. Gieen, and D. Layton,-of Louis county.
The Kentucky Freedom Convention*
li-k, Feb. 22.—The Freedom Convention
auembkd at noon in the United State, Court room.
About one hundred delegates were present from
Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
The Convention was organized by the eleotlon of
the Hon. Wm. P. Thomason, of Kentucky, as presi
dent. Vloe Presidents—M. M. Bruen, of Tennes
see; F. W. Wolf, Aiktnta,; J. S. Nixon, Ken
tucky, and Gen. John McNeil. Secretaries—J. S.
Fouler, Tennessee; Jas. Taussig, Missouri; J. \V,
Campbell, Kentucky; Msj. J. Barnes, Arkansas.
A communication was read inviting the Conven
tion to attend en masse the laying of the corner-stone
of the Union soldiers’ monument at Cape Hill
Cemetery.
A committee of three from eaoh State represented
was appointed to draft reaolutionii viz: Arkansas—
H. H. ‘Wolff, S. T. Buroes, George G. Shumwaok.
Tennessee—Robert Farquharson, A. Weens, J. F.
Fowler; Kentucky—James Sheed, Geo. G. Blakely,
D. F. Sanford. Missouri—Col. Arnold, Knickel,
J, J. Hume.
The Convention adjourned at 3 P- M., to meet at
seven in the evening, to hear an address from Chat.
I). Drake, Esq , of Missouri, Which was brief but
elcquent. Subsequent to which, the committee ou
resolutions not having reported, the Convention
adjourned till to-morrow at ten A. M.
Senator Pomeroy’s Chase ciroolar was distributed
to the members during the evening session.
Indiana Union State Convention.
Indianapolis, Feb. 23.—The Union State Con
vention, which met to-day, lathe largest ever held
In the State of Indiana. Governor Morton will be
renolninated by acclamation. Colonel Hudson, of
Terre Haute, will probably be nominated for Lieu
tenant Governor. It ie doubtful whether the Con
vention will instruct in favor of Lincoln.
A delegation is here from Washington, working
for both him and for Secretary Chase. Several Con
gressional district canvassers have voted for in
structions in Lincoln’s favor; but seme have gone
against him. The struggle will be on those points-
The platform of the Convention will be moderate,
making the proseoution of the war and the preser
vation of the Union the great issue.
Indianapolis, Feb. 23.—The Union State Con
vention organized at 10 A, M. Gov. J. A. Wright
presided.
A resolution endorsing the Adminiatratldn, and
recommending the renominatioa of President Lin
coln for re-election, was passed unanimously.
Gov. Morton wss nominated for re-election, by
acclamation.
A full ticket will be nominated this afternoon, and
a platform adopted.
The Convention is very large, and ever; portion of
the State is fully represented.
Indianapolis, Feb. 23.—The Union Convention
nominated a full Statetlcket, with General Nathan
Kimball for Lieutenant Governor.
The resolutions adopted demand the sacrifice of
every partisan feeling to the -cause of the Union,
and the action of the Government, whether In ac
cordance with our views of oorrect polioy or not,
cannot absolve any from rendering all possible aid
to eruah the rebellion by furnishing the Government
with men and means, counsel and encouragement.
They hail with joy the indication! of returning
peace by complete aubjugation in accordance 'with
the law* and Constitution. The resolutions favor
the destzußUon of everything that stands in the
way of permanent and perpetual peace amODgit the
people of all the States, and the full aud complete
restoration of the just authority or theUfllted States
under the Constitution. The resolutions denounce
those who oppose the Government and refuse to
contribute men and money to support the Govern
mrnt.
The Convention presents the name of Andy John
son as its choice for Vice President.
A grand ratification meeting is held to night.
DISASTER REAR PORTLAND.
Total Wreck of the Steamer Bohemian.
PROBABLE LOSS OF LIFS.
Portland, Feb. 23.— The steamship Bohemian,
Captain Borland, from Liverpool, struck on Alden’s
Bock, four miles outside of Cape Elizabeth; about
9 o'clock last evening. She beat over the rook,
turned her head toward the shore, and sunk in an
hour and a half, about two miles from the shore of
Richmond's Island, having stove a hole In her en
gine compartment. Fart of the steerage passengers
a: c supposed to be lost. Her bridge is covered at
high water and the seas are breaking over.’ The
night was clear, and the cape light in full view.
The Bohemian had nineteen cabin passengers, all
of whom are supposed to be saved, and one hundred
«od ninety-nine steerage passengers. It caunot be
ascertained how many of the latter are lost. Boat
No, 2 was swamped alongside, owing to thej>eopie
crowding into it, and it came ashore on the cape
with a man and child iu it, both dead.
The people at the Ocean House, and in the Fishing
House on the cape, seat teams for the sufferers.
The following passengers are saved : Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon, A, G. Gilman, Alexander Erupy, Mr. Fill
fOW, J» G. Miller, Mr. Welch, Mr. Woodruff, Rev.
Mr, Richardson, Wm, B. Smith, Captain Welles,
Captain Stone, John Jobneon, James Hickston,
John Robertson, Purser Smith, Mr. Sellant, James
Scatchard.
Supposed to be saved, Mr. Stewart.
The crew was saved, with the oaptaln, purser,
mail-officer, stewards, ohief clerk, ohief steward, en
gineers, and others.
The mails were lost.
Thethtelligence reached the city at 1 o’clook this
morning, and a tug-boat was[sent off at once. She
has not jet returned.
Additional intelligence and the names will be sent
as soon as, received.
The Bohemian had a cargo of silks and other goods
mostly on Canadian and Provincial account, valued
at $1,C00,000. The ship was going at half speed.
[BKCOKD I>HSI»ATCH.J
All the cabin passengers are saved. Among the
steerage passengers aboard were Hannah Jackson,
and three childien, of Pittsburg; Henry Hay,of
Philadelphia; Mis. Hempsly and two children, of
Philadelphia.
[THIRD DJfSPATCJH.]
Portland, Me., Feb. 23.— Captain Borland, Of
the Bohemian, arrived by a tug*boat at 10'o'clock
this morning, and reports the ship to bfl in four
fathoms of water, off Broad Cone, and slightly
heeled off'. *
The main deck, at low water, is two feet under on
one side, and at high water it is seven feet under.
He thinks she will hold together if the weather is
fair.
The only way to get the cargo out is by divers and
tailing her into sboaler water by lifting her.
The weather is thick and foggy.
Three mail bags were saved. It is thought that
but few passengers are lost besides those who were
in the swamped boat.
Some of the firemen probably perished.
Tbe steamer Bohemian was built in 1859, and was
2.190, gross, :tons burden. On the British register
she is classed A No. 1.
From a passenger, who oame up in boat No. 5,1
learn that he was standing on deck at the time the
Accident occurred. They had passed the buoy, and
the passengers were just remarking that it wai a
pilot boat coming out, when the ship struok. The
boats were got out safely, with the exception of No.
2, which was swamped.
No. 5 took aboard all she could hold, ineluding
several who hod jumped into the water. Being
unable to find a landing place, she was rowed up the
harbor* She contained mostly cabin passengers and
some steerage passengers, whose names I did not*
learn, with the exception of a Mr. Brown.
STATEMENT OV THE SECOND OFFICER,
From James Scott, the second officer, I learn that
all the officers were on deck when the steamerstruck.
It was five minutes past eight o'clock, and the watoh
was being changed, when the ship struck on a rock
and went over.
Orders were immediately given to clear away the
boats, and soon the ship was headed for the shore,
but shortly afterwards she sunk in four fathoms of
water.
Boat No. l, under the call of the boatswain’s mate,
made'two trips to shore, saving on the first trip
abcut 80 persons, and on the second about 70,
Boat No. 2 was swamped. No. 3, under charge of
the second officer, landed about 94 persons in Broad
Cove. Boat No. 4, under the charge of the first and
third officers, landed 25 persons.
Boat No. 5, in charge of the fourth officer, brought
29 into Portland harbor. These numbers include the
officers and crew of the Bohemian.
The whole cumber of passengers was 218, and the
number of the ciew 99.
The number of saved was 298, leaving 19 to be ac
counted for.
The lamp-trimmer, Peter Hart, and engineer's
storekeeper, whose name is unknown, are supposed
to have been drowned. All the remaining officers
and crew were saved.
Captain Borland supposed himself four miles from
his real position. ‘ The haze probably misled him as
to the true position of the lights. He had been look
ing for a pilot, and burning rockets and blue lights
for half an hour, and was going at the rate of a mile
and a half an hour when the vessel struck. Half an
hour before he had got soundings in forty fathoms
of water, with soft bottom. Our citizens and city
authorities are taking measures for the relief of the
passengers as they come in. All the assistance pocr
sible was rendered by the people at. the Ocean
House and residents of that vicinity.
Portland, Feb. 23—Evening,—Nothing relative
to the passengers can yet be obtained. Many of the
saved have not yet come forward. From the re
ports of passengers I gather the following list of
lost: Eilen O’Conner, aged 23, of Portland; Pat
Furceil, aged 26, his wife, aged 25, his child, Eliza
B j and an infant, of New York; Patrick Cassidy,
aged 25 : and James Cassidy, aged 17, of Brooklyn,
New Yolk; Barbara Canovan, 4 years, of Portland;
Gilbert Manley, 3 years, John Manley, aged io, and
Richard Owen»j aged 18, all ol New York; Benja
min HaUeckeesoh, aged 23, of New York; John
Ksne, aged 32, of Boston; John Martin, aged 2, of
Boston; Honor* 'Walton, of Boston. This makes
17 in all. Mary Hoy, aged 29, of Philadelphia, is
also reported lost.
■ Twenty one have not reported, and five are saved
whose names are not on the list, probably being
misspelled, and constituting part or the above
thirty-one, thus leaving twenty-six to report. Some
may be at the Cape, too ill to come to the city, and
some may be distributed about the city, in charita
ble hands.
A force of men have been engaged this afternoon
in stripping the wreck. They recovered 33 mail
bags. The mails were all on deck, ready for do*
livery, and were washed about and overboard* The
steamer lies in the same position*
' Our citizens have raised for the sufferers $6OO, and
supplied them with all the necessary clothing. The
steamship company have fed and housed the passen
gers, and will forward them to their destinations.
The Pirate Tuscaloosa Seized by the Bri-
tish Authorities*
Boston, Feb. 23.— The bark John Gilpin, which
arrived at this poit today, brings dates from Cape
Town to December 3lst.
She reports that the rebel pirate Tuscaloosa had
been seized by the British authorities at the Gape
for violation of neutrality laws, iu landing a portion
of her captured cargo on that coast.
The Tuscaloosa put into Simon’s Bay on Decem
ber 26th, to obtain supplies and repairs. Shortly
after diopping her anchor, SirSßaldwin Walter de
spatched a boarding party, who seized the vessel
under the authority of the British Government.
The Tusesloosa was in command of Lieutenant
Lowe, who had returned to Simon’s Bay after a
three-months cruise, during which, out of nearly
one hundred vessels, she met only one United States
Ship. In the meantime she had been ordered away
from a Brazilian port, in consequence of-which her
mew were placed upon short allowance.
Alter the seizure of the vessel, Lieutenant Lowe
lodged a formal protest against the proceeding, and
went to Cape Town to consult with legal advisers.
Mr. Graham, the U. S. consul, had also lodged a
claim against the vessel in behalf of her former
owners, and it was thought that the question raised
as to the legality of her condemnation by Captain
Semmei, who claims to constitute a prize court by
authority from the rebel Government, will have to
be argued before and decided by Sir William Hodges,
in the Admiralty Court.
[The pirate Tusealoosa was formerly the bark
Conrad, of Philadelphia ]
The Cape Town Advei liner states that in making
the seizure of the Tuscaloosa, Admiral walker
acted in accordance with special instructions sent
out by the Home Government, and that the prize
will be detained until claimed by her legal owners.
The grounds of the seizure are, that the Tuscaloosa
la a vessel belonging to the Federal States of Ame
lina, and that, not having been adjudicated before a
prize court, is still an uncondemned prize, which,
having been brought into an English port in viola
tion of the neutrality laws, must accordingly be
detained.
The Federal vessel referred to as captured by the
Tuscaloosa was the Living Age, before reported.
St* Louis.
st. Louis, Feb. 22.—General Rosecrans and staff
went to Alton yesterday to inaugurate the Alton
Sanitary Fair, which opens to-night. He will also
inspeot the military prison at that place, where
tome two thousand prisoners are now confined.
Reception of George Thompson.
Boston, Feb. 23 —George Thompson, of England,
waa publicly received at the Music Hail to-night.
Governor Andrew delivered tbe welcoming speech,
to which Mr. Thompson replied.
Major General Burnside at Portland, Me.
Foutland, Me., Feb. 23—Major General Burn
aide was enthusiastically received by a tremendous
audience, auembled last night, at the City Hall.
The Alabama Near Calcutta.
Boston, Feb. 23.—A Calcutta letter of January
etb says that the British ship Pearl, at that port,
bad spoken tbe pirate Alabama, on the 3d lost.,
thlity miles south of Sand Heads.
The New York Bounty Fund.
NewY oek, Feb. 23 —Bid* lot the soldiers’ bounty
fund loan of $2,000,000.. authorized by the Super
visors, for ihe purpose of filling the quota of New
York city, have reached $3 000,100 at par to seven
per cent, premium.
Burning of a Vessel.
New Haven, Feb. 23 —The schooner William
Becnett, laden with ha; and potatoes from Madison
to Alexandria, waa burned this morning in this
harbor. The crew emaped, Loi». $14,000,
mVlilth CONGRESS—Ist SESSION*
WiaaiNUTuN. Feb. 23,1964.
6EWATB
* vn, (.resented to the B.)Date from the Vice Pre
etdent hewonlabc absent from the Benue
for ft thort lime. _ was elected President pro tern.
fn* Ze -torrcrto the Committee on
I'reedmoss find Slavery. a*>*%i*f
New PropoeJtton for a StaT>dl« n Arnty.
Mr. SUMNER presented the petition of Joel i B htoo
ton. of Arkansas, which states th«t he believes that tne
African material ietbs best material for a soldier ana
asking that Ccnaress sball establish, after the close oi
the present war. a regular army of two hnndred tnon
hi mi men. composed entirely o fnegroes, and to be omcerea
by white men. Referred to the Committee on Military
presented a petition from women of
Ohio prajing that something DO done to ameliorate “«
condition of those parsons who have been freed from
slavery by the present war. Also, petitions from citi
zens of New York in favor of placing all •oidiers oa a
similar footing. Referred to the Committee on Military
Mr SUMMER also presented petitions, signed by Jo
eiah Qalncy, Governor Andrew, and the mourners |of
both brfcnohes of the Massachusetts Legislature, aakiug
such amendments to the Constitution as may abolish
slavery, which was laid on the table
Mr MORGAN presented she memorial of the Chamber
of Commerce of the city of New York, praying for legis
lation on the part of Congress to foster and zapport the
commerce of the United States Referred to the Com
mittee on Commerce.
Reconstruction, etc
Mr. CARLILE, of Western Virginia, offered the follow
icgjaim resolution: .
si«t. That ihe inlUary power of the Government can
only be rightfully exerted against individuals in a>-tn*
opposing its buthcrity; that the prosecat on of hostilities
against the citizens or the Staes in rebellion ougot to be
purpneo cf maintaining the Constitu ionai
Union, and or the restoration of the Union upon the basis
of the OOittimtlOD, living to each the regulation or
its iwn domestic policy, and protecting each and all in
the enjoyment of the right of self government, ae recog
nized by the Constitution of the United States.
&’tc ona, That the President be reqaested to declare by
proclamation that whenever the people of any of the
States now resisting the authority of the United States
shall reorganize their State government by repudiating
the ordinances of secession adopted in their name, and
shall recognize their obligations to the Union under the
Constitution, full pardon, and amnesty to the people.of
Bucb State, assuring; the cieizens thereof that all their
lights Of person ana of property under the Constitution
shall be restored to and enjoyed, by them: excepting,
however, from smh pardon and amnesty such pen-ons
as shall be de*i*nated by the Legislatures of the States
as fit persons to be held for trial before the jadiciat tribu
nals of the Ujilted States uader the laws thereof.
Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
On motion of Mr. WILSON, of Massachusetts l the
Committee oh Military Affairs was instructed to inquire
into tie expedites of increasing the number of cadets
in the military academy to the number of foar hundred.
Rid rcquiriig the age of candidates to be not Leas than
seventeen year*; also, for raising the standard of qua
lification, ard for changing the manner of their appoint
ment so ah to provide that the examination for admission
shall be based upon tbe merits of the candidates.
On moiion of Mr. WILSON, the Senate proceeded to
the consideration of the joint resolution equalizing the
pay of United Mates soldiers.
Mr. WILfcOK presented a modification of his amend
ment lierttofore tffered. which makes it discretionary
with the President to allow negro troops a bounty pre
vious to tbep. stage of ihe aet. The amendment as modi
fied was rejected.- •
Tne OTOtIOD to Pliam Colored Troops.
Mr. DAVIS, of Kentuck7» called up the&mei dment to
disarm the colored troopa, and to provide for their en
listment as teamsters and laborers. The amendment
wa&iejected.
TEAS.
Howell,
| Kiddle,
Bacfefllew,
Cariile,
Davis.
NATS.
Harding, Morrill.
Harlan. Nesmith,
Harris. Ramsay,
Henderson, Sherman,
Howard, Sumner,
Howe, Ten Eyck,
.fob neon, Van Winkle.
Lane (Indiana) Wade,
Lane (Kansas), Willey,
Morgan, Wilson.
Chandler.
(Hark.
foltamer.
Goziness.
Dixon.
PeßKonden.
Foot.
FoKter.
Grimes,
Hale,
Ur. FESSENDEN prevented the report of the Commit*
tee of Conference on the disagteeing votes of the two
Bonees on the revenue hill.
The Senate agreed to the report of the .Committee of
Conference.
Knlistmentfe.
The Senate resumed the consideration of'the pending
question; ihe joint resolution to promote enlistment?.
Ur CLARK would like to know why black non should
not he armed and put into the service?
Ur. PAYlSsiidhehad answered that question forty
time in the Senate.
Ur. CLAEK taid this was not merely a question about
the psy mint of colored troops, but a question whether
weshalL put black men into the flelo to save our white
men It was a matter of-interest to the country that
black men should be employed, because it saved the
blood of the white men. When we put arms into the
hands of the black'man, and he uses them in the service
of our country to Its advantage he should not therefore
be etfilaved. Tbemeie fact of hi* having been in the
service should be a protection from bondage.
Ur. COLLAUER ottered an amandment, which pro
vide« tbs tall persons enlisted Into the service, under the
cell of 1563 for three hundred thousand volunteers, shall
receive the same pay and bounty.
On motion of Mr. WiLSON, the further consideration
of the subiect was postponed
On motion of Ur. BTJMNEB. the 6enate, at I 30 P. M.,
proceeded to the consideration of executive business,
and at four o'clock adjourned.
HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES
The House resumed the consideration of the hill to
establish a buieau for freeumen’s attain.
FreedLmen's Affaire—Remarks of Mr. Kelley.
Ml. KELLEY, of Pennsylvania-inspeakingoftbe past,
said B)ayeiy was.exciuded from the northwest territory;
and, from the wording of the Constitution, as a recog
nized Institution, denyiEg that it had suen an existence.
Bad the counsels of the patriots of other days prevailed,
cud the i tafcennen who succeeded them followed ills: and
humane te&bhisge. slavery would long since have been
abolish* d, and other questions than that which now dis
tracts the country would be in the course of solution by a
peaceful and prosperous people. But the Government was
entrusted to the bands of wicked demagogues, who. de
parting from justice, had involved us in rebellion It was
the part ofwiie legislators to accept the facts as they are,
and as they stand to day, and apply to them the proper
principles, and so evolve from the horrors which sur
round us asy&tem which sliail be in accordance with the
spirit of the age and of Christian civilization. This bill
was well calculated to produce these high results. Its
immediate passage was demanded from the fact that the
ancient order of things had been destroyed over a terri
tory larger ihan was that of the thirteen original States.
Hot only the Worth, but the world at large, demand the
well-directed cultivation of the lards now and soon to
be within our control. In the course of his reply to
Mr. CcxwWho charged that amalgamation was becoming
a principle at the North, be said northern wnite men
sever selected their companions from the African race,
ani > efeired to the fact that amalgamation was practiced
5.1 the South, there being more than half a million of such
kindred to the whites in that portion of the country, and
some of whom bad attended colleges at the north. The
South had sent us what we have of the stock. Slavery is
dead i let ns give it decent burial and erect a monument it
the month of the sepulchre so heavy that it cannot be
removed. Let there be appended ton the Constitution
of the United States, written therein ‘ slavery or invo
luntary servitude except for crime, shall be forever pro
hibited within the United States and the Territories there
of • ” When this la done slavery will be dead beyond re
surrection. and the. United States will be freedom’s star
of welcome to the oppressed of the world. W ill y >u. be
asked the opposition members, give your vote for the
bill as a test of your sincerity ? But slavery is not qaite
dead, but is in the act Of death, and we ma) therefore
p&bb on to the next duty. Having eradicated slavery,
letnseeeuie freedom to the people who have been the
victims of slavery. By the destruction of slavery we
will rise to a new and higher jreeiom; and out of this
insurrection will grow a re&uirection which will leal us
to a glorious immortality.
Tile Liquor Bill.
A. message was received from the Senate announcing
their concurrence in tbe leport of tbe committee of con*
fcrrence on, the disagreeing amendments to the whisky
Mr. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania, briefly - explained tbe
report of tbe committee, and moved that the Mouse con
cur in therefore, which provides that spirits distilled
and sold, or distilled ana removed for conmmplion or
salevrevious to the first of July next of first proof, shall
p*y, in addition to duties payable on-licenses, a duty of
sixty cents per gallon, and upon all liquors which may
be distilled alter the passage of this act and sold or re
moved for consumption or sa:e on and after the fl fst day
of July next, and previous to the first day of Jauuary
next, sixty-five cents per gallon; and all Uqaors which
may be distilled after the passage of this act, and sold or
removeo for consumption or sale on and after the first of
January next, sev» nty-five cents per gallon; on distilled
spirits. Imported from foreign countries previous to the
first of July next, cf first proof, forty cents additional
per gallon; on all such spirits imported from foreign
countries cn and after the first of July next and previous
to the first of January. dut3' forty-five instead of fifty
centß per gallon, and on all such spirits imported on ana
after the hist of Janaan next, fifty instead of sixty cents
per gallon. *
Mr. WASHBURN 3, of Illinois, stated some of the rea
sons which induced him 10 withhold his assent 10 the
report of the committee of conference. He believed not
only in the principle bat in the justice ana policy of
taxing the stock of liquors on hand, and he had con
sistently voted for that preposition in every stage of the
bill. Two-thirds of the House, upon fall discussion,
had shared with himfin the convictions he entertained
on that subject By imposing an additional tax on
whhky.the price of the article had been proportionately
enhanced, and the consumer had to pay the enhanced
price, and the question was whether the amount should
go into the hands of the speculator, or into the treasury,
Wiichwas DOW reeling to tottering under the present
vart and unheard-of expenditures. He scouted the idea
that there was any plighted faith of the Government to
whisky speculators that no additional tax should be
leviec, and conttnded that there was no more obliga
tion to protect the holders of liquors than there wie to
protect the con»nmer against having the price raised on
him. .... . .
The speculator b in whisky had no special claims on
Congress, but, on the other hand, Congress should re
press the pretent curse of speculation, which is the hand
maid cf venality, extravagance, and corrnption. The
House had changed front on the question in the House
bill the t&x on liquors on hand had been put In by a vote
of nearly two-thirds That alarmed the whisky deal
ers, who swarmed to Washington, and who said, let
there be light, and there wnsSlight The Senate refused
to concur la the House proposition to tax spirits on hand,
and then the Houre exhibited a wonderful change of
opinion by concurring with the Senate in strikingit out
of the Rouge bill. The bill a» it now stood not only ex
cluded all tax on liquors on hand, bnt it had lowered
the sliding scale fiked by the Senate from 70 to 65 and
from 80 to 70 tents per gallon.
As a compromise he might have agreed to tax liquor
on hand to twenty cents additional on a gallon, and
an advance Of the sliding scale to eighty cents and one
dollar; as that was not in the bill, he appealed to the
House to vote down the report* and have another com
mittee appointed, in the hope that something might be
done to secure to the Treasury a portion of the im
mente bu&i to be paid by the people, which woaid
otherwise go into the packets of speculators. He
wigrced tbe House if something of the kind were not
done in this bill, the controversy on the question had
but jufctopened, and that the question would be tried
over again in the next revenue bill, and after the re*
present ailves of the people had been Instructed by an
enlightened public sentiment He feared that the ac
tion of Congress on this subject would indicate to the
people that the interests of the combinations ofiudt
v.dua's, of monopolizers, speculators, and corpora
tions, would be comparatively exempted from.taxa
tion- while the great burden would fall on the mass9s
of the people who were Hast able to bear its wfeighc.
In conclusion, Mr. Washburne. of Illinois, moved tnat
the >eport be disagreed to and that the House ask for
anctht r committee on conference.
Mr. FEKNaNuO WOOD, of flew York, felt it to be his
duty to give the reason why, as a member of the com
mittee of conference, he had agreed to the report. He
JulJy agreed with Mr. Washbarne in all that gentle
man had «ald ih. suppirfc of the principle of his (Mr
Wood’s) amendment taxing spirits on hand, which ha
had tbe honor to offer, and which was adorned by so
large a vote. He believed it right policy to lax whisky
on hand, and regretted exceedingly that so many gen
tlemen, no doubt from proper motives, hnd changed
their position in this House The principle of tnat
amendment was ably discussed, and all the arguments
which could tie commanued were expressed for and
against it, He was ready to co-operate with the gen
ihman to eoetaia that principle and incorporate it.
which he could, in another bill; but as he understood
the power of conference committees, they are excluded
from considering points about which there are no dif
ferences, and that their jurisdiction can extend only to
those points which are in controversy, the two Boases
having finally snd previously agreed on the disputed
features ot the bill There were on the committee of
conference gentlemen whose long experience in legis
lation entitled their opinions to respect. He had no
opinion own i© the powers of such committees
It was sufficient, to say that gentlemen who had been for
sixteen years continuously in Congress were of opinion
that tber had no jurisdiction over questions about which
the two Housea were agreed, and to this opinion he had
yielded- _
Mr, of Illinois, briefly expressel his
reasons for aitfeiing irom such construction eh to the
power or conference committees, and appealed to the
Breaker as to his view of the matter.
The SWSAKhR, by unanimous consent, stated, in re-
Bponte to Mr. washburne’s Inquiry of nlm, tnat the
COBfcreace report, roled out by the Vice -President at
the last Uongieee.wae properly ruled cut,in his opinion,
be«ause, niter Bottling the diiagreements, they reported
a recommendation to ch&nite tbe original text; but of
the power on concurrence by proposing amendments to
the pending amendments, there coaid he no doubt, pro
vided that they did-not report auy amendment in the
same language and ettect as both Houses had rejected.
Mr. ELIJAH WARD, of Aew York, said that while
his colleague (Mr. Fernando Wood) had moved an
amendment that i he increased tax should apply to ail
wbltky on hand, with a view, as alleged, to reach.
t-ppcoiatois. without reference to the injury it would
inntet upon ditiiljers, legitimate traders, and consignees
Who had mad© advances oa spirits at the present rate of
taxation, be bed deemed it his duty tohis constituents to
vote against the whole bill in that objec.ionable thane,
though disposed io ffivor a liberal system of taxation in a
proper fotin. - His colleague (Mr. Wood), having uraeil
his amenoment a revenue measure necessary to sup
port the Government, had voted aiainstit wheumadein
conformity with his views. H* urged that the bill, an
reported, wsb prospective in its operation, except as m
spirits on shipboard bound to ihe united States, and iu
bonded warehouses and publiejstores. He condemned the
ipjUktice of retroactive lesiala-lon r^coaamead©d,*n..
said the earn© principle already sanctioned in regard to
domestic spit s* should ha applied to those imported. He
regarded thU coarse as essential to the coc eisteccy of
the House. At present,if a vessel arrives the day after
ihe act » passed, the Importer, who sent hie orders
&br< ad without anticipating the proposed increase mast
pay the additional tax—a species of legislation without
parallel In this country.
Be showed that hv the various acts of March 3, 1801,
August 6, 1581, and Jaiyl4.l£62. rai&eU&t Umft Kftd boon
given *o allow moat of the goods, bona fidA ordered and
shiw ed without anticipation of increased duty, to ar.iva
before the law was enforced, and urged that the proposed
law wa» an unwarrantable Interference with the ordi
nary lawß and security of commerce; that merchandize
on shipboard bound to the United States had always bean
exempted from Increased duty, or a reasonable tuna for
Us arrival had been given.
Mr. KASBON. of lowa, in refen log to the remarks of
Mr. Fernando Wood, raid the gentlemen, in urging a re
auction of tbe Bltdtnß scale, did not represent tbeonin
ioa cf lha Rons© ifHoaso voted anything. lh*y
I voted eg’iußt tha tUding tealer 8a e&ruMfcly hopai
ill accordance with tie opinions of the Boom. g ons9
Mr. NTO.YEEB O'Penni-ylvania. hoped tnar rue “OU
wanld not stultify themselves. The
tie commute* was the only one which, by the PJJ
Jismcntaiy law. they could adopt. The. Honee aaorneu
the clause for taxlna spirits on hand. The benats Biruca
it out, an din thla the House concurred. Ihe committee
were, therefore, bound to put no tax upon w
band. There was no principle in parlUraenUry law
which authorized them to depart from it In the co ** r ,f
ol his remarks, he said that men on tbe.temperance side
of this question become as intoxicated as if they natt
been drinking liquor fora month, and they become eo
giddy that they lose their reufin and forgQt th 6 par
liementary law. (Laughter.;
Be denied that the Bouse were throwing away reve
nue by agreeing tj the Senate's amendments, ft* modi
fied The Senate bMI would have prodnoed fourteen
mili’ons more, but this bill, as it now eta ads, would
nrodnceslse-and a-half million* more from year toyear.
it was time they were done with this deleterious agita
no» The gentleman from Illinoia bad been talking
abcuit speculators coming hither. but he (Mr. Steven*)
thorahtthe tsntleman (Mr. Washburns) would hold
*°? B ah o«nr nf iJBBIBWT*. None appeared before
one of whom had apl
pCTrhf,ueatfon wa^lSeS^anJ|{ o »Port was nou-con
cutredln-yeas«7, nays 86 as follows.
IEAB
Allen Jas. C,
Ancona,
Bailey,
Blow.
jCobbt
Cole.
Orareoa.
Davis (Md ),
Dawson,
Dennison.
EJdr)d*e.
EcrliPh.
Fenton.
Efeck,
Griswold,
Harrington,
BoJruAtt.
Hooper.
Ring.
Anderson.
Arnold.
Asbiey,
Baldwin (Mich).
Ba. a win (Maas).
Baxter,
Denman.
Blair <W. Va).
Bootwell,
Boyd,
Brandagee,
Biooka,
Brown'(Wia),
Chandler-
Clark, aW
Ci ey.
Coy, "
Cre&well,
Dawes.
Pf'luiCK,
I'ixon,
DriKKB.
Bcliley.
Eden*
Ed Key ton,
Eliot,
Farnesworth,
Cm motion of
ordered that a ne\
lleSsiate.
'Xiao Houfc
the btatA of th« Uni
Mr. Blov
Mr Bi.ow, of s
Fiiday, in reply l
fHfcdtd Secretary <
Saulsbary,
i Wright
bren attficfced, and also commented upon a public ad*
drefsof MoDtgrmery Blair. He said lie coaid tell the
I'otticßsfer General that if the rebellion be crashed And
the I ederal authority* restored, it would be effected by
the Abolition party, and the black rare protected In the
freedom which is nowes'ablifclied from violence,outrage,
and yrx&ng. His prayer was that we *nl«ct have the
courage and ability to act eo justly that the God of na
tions will not abandon us.
Mr McDOWELL. of Indiana, arraigned the President
and Republican party as fanatical kypocrittß, and of
having changed the declared policy of the war and
made it one for the abolition of slavery. With tbe Pro
sident'* proclamation hade, medusensiong aaddividons
at the Noith; the destrnction of freedom of speech and
the press; the suspension of the habeas corpus, and the
denial of the right of trUl hy jury; the invasion of
peaceful homes, and arbitrary arrests, and mock trial o ,
and exile; and now the dominant party had borrowed
from Europe a conscription law to compel our people to
«*»sy an , 4, b , olitl( L u wsr. Ho denied any sympathy
with the rebellion, bat said we matt accompany the
sword with the olive branch of peace, and build up a
Union sentiment to protect the bouth after oar armies
sha'l leave it,
Tbe committee rise, and the House, at half past four
o'clock, adjourned.
PBMSILVAMA LEGISLATURE.
The House assembled at 7 o'clock this evening, and
proceeded to consider tfb© resolution requiring proof of
loyalty under oath, from all persons In the southern,
counties of this State, who claim damages from the rebel
raid in 2562 Speeches were uelivertd by Mr Hover,
against the resolution, and by Mr. Alleman, in their
favor.
The discussion was continued hy these gentlemen
and ethers until a late hour.
Senate not in session to day.
Discrimination Against Philadelphia
To the Editor of The Press:
. Sir :Is it known to our merchants that the lucra
tive business now dally being opened up with reco
vered portions of the State of Tennessee is being
largely appropriated by the merchants of Cincinnati,
UDoer a.custom-house regulation which subjects all
packages for Tennessee from points east and north
of that city to stoppage, examination, and compari
son with invoice!} at a charge or Jive per ccnr, upon
the amount of invoice ?
If the same rule were applied to all goods pur
chased in Cincinnati, no objection need be made,
but the practical exaction of a tax of five per cent,
ad valorem upon every package of merchandise from
points east of Cincinnati, is a discrimination against
the trade with our Eastern cities claiming redress, and
should be made a matter of earnest representation
at Washington,
Whatever restrictions upon trade may be necessa
ry to assure the loyalty of people buying goods for
the South, and to hold ail eeliera of goods to strict
accountability for the truthfulness of their luvoioes,
ought To be and will be cheerfully submitted to while
the war shall last; but it ia due to our merchants
that nounjust discrimination shall be made against
treru, and that the business of the country may ba
suffered to resume its old channels, unhedged and
unrestricted by regulations which can serve no loyal
end more effectually by favoring one city above
another. ***
Tile Great Railroad Across the Continent—
Completion or .tne “ first JLiuk” in
California*
The 14 first link of the Great Central Railway”
has been finished in California. Sau Francisco
papers of the 17th uit. notice, with much exultation,
the ceremonies attending the opening for business,
on the previous day, oi the railroad to San Jose,
fifty miles in length, which has j st been completed
at a cost of $3,000,000, forming the first section on
the Pacific slope of the great contemplated railway
across the continent. The prospects are regarded as
extremely flattering. The Alta California says:
“The central Pacific Railroad Company are
pushing their work on from Sacramento to the
State line, and already several miles of rails are
laid. The Eutvej aon the Western Pacific Railroad,
fiom this point to Sacramento, are now about com
pleted, ana the work of actual construction will
commence with the opening or spring.”
Among those who delivered addtesses on the occa
sion referred to was the Hon. I. G. Phelps. His al
lusion to the effects of a continental railroad, and
Ihe probable future of the States on the Pacific, was
quite eloquent, as follows:
“This important work will accomplish greater
results than any other work ever undertaken since
time began, as it will work a revolution of the
world’s commerce, and change her money marts.
With one end of this road dipping into the crystal
waters of the Pacific, it will receive the wealth of
the Indies, and transporting it across the continent,
will land it on the turbulent billows of the Atlantic,
for the Old World’s consumption. The balance of
trade against the United States, and in favor of
China and the Hast Indies, is about twenty millions
of dollars per annum. This is now paid mostly
through English houses, at a cost to us of about 18
per cent, in exchanges, while the money with which
to meet this indebtetmee*, the product of this coast,
is shipped from here to England, and thence to
China, thus traversing Three fourth* of the circum
ference of the globe, and requiring more than sixty
days in its passage.
“This mighty work, once completed, would give
us regular communication with China, and place ua
in such rapid communication with the eastern side
of the continent, and Europe, as to give us the bene*
tit of the exchange now paid to England, not only
by America, but by Europe, as a very large portion.
of all the precious metals yearly added to the wealth
of the world is the produot of our own mines. San
Francisco, instead of London, would become the
world’s money market for purposes of exchange.
By this charge, to the extent it would be effected,
we would gain at least $10, 000,000 per annual—a
sum sufficient to meet one* fifth of the interest of the
national debt.
“The Great Salt Lake Basin, which we have,
until recently, believed to be an almost worthless
waste, abounding only in alkali, poisonons streams,
and BAge brush, is ascertained to be rich in precious
metals—that these apparently barren mountains
have literally crests of gold, and bases of silver,
containing more wealth than was ever possessed by
any other nation. The present condition of the
United States makes it necessary that this wealth
should be speedily developed, and we cannot - , there
fore, delay. Thirty thousand miners are already at
woik in Nevada Territory, and, within a year, thir
ty thousand more will be added to their number.
A Sword for Genbrad Grant.—A regulation
sword of the most costly style has just been finished
at theworkaof the Ames Company, in Ohicopee,
Massachusetts. The grasp and guard are orna
mented with classical designs, representing highly
finished heads of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Mi
nerva. The grasp is also inlaid with tortoise-shell,
held in place by gold studs, giving that part of the
sword a beautiful appearance. The pommel is ela
borately finished, and is encircled by a ring of dia
monds, fourteen in number, and costing $4OO, which
ate set in pure gold. Jun under the oirolet of dia
monds is a shield, with the motto 41 Sic Floret Repub
lican On the cross gxard surrounding Gen. Grant’s
monogram is the folio winginscription: “Jo Daviess
co., 111., to Major General Ulysses S. Grant, the !
hero of the Mississippi,” The scabbard is profusely
ornamented. Tbe spaoe between the upper and mid
dle bands is filled with tablets surrounded with ap
propriate devices, on which is engraved a record of
the various battles In which General Grant took
part in Mexico; then the Illinois- coat -q£.*ra», and
below, njsaipg'nearly to the tip ofihe eoabb-tt-d,
is a file, on which are recorded the battles and sieges
in the Mississippi valley, making in all twenty-se
ven battles and sieges in which General-Grant has
been esgaged. The scabbard is heavily plated with
gold, and some of tbe devices and ornaments are of
solid gold. The cost Is one thousand dollars.
The German Opera.— To night “Bar Frel*
schutz ” will be sung—an opera which never fails to
delight an intelligent audience, and generally crowds
our Academy of Music. Owing to Madame Johann.-
sen’s unfortunate illness, Agatha will be entrusted
to Madame Frederick who very charmingly in
terprets that charming role. Habelmann’s Max we
need not oompliment. This is positively tbe last
week of the German opera, and the season will
close on Friday night with “Faust.”
To-morrow night “A Night iu Grenada” will be
produced for the benefit of Carl Anschutz* and
Madame Rotter’s reappearance will do much - to
make the occasion a success. ICreutzer’a music is
very popular, very plea-ins, and in no opera 1*
Madame Eotter more satisfactory. We hopo-Mr.
Anschutz will have a grand audience.
Conoebt Hall.— The Morria Minstrels witt sing
this evening anew song, called “Erin' Farewell,”
written by Mr.: Thomas M. Coleman, and let to
musie by George Felix Benkert. With several of
the tonga of Mrs. Coleman we are familiar, ami
know their beauty and .implicit?. OI Mr. Benkert
we .hall .imply say that he stands in the very first
rank of American composers, being, In fast, ao
gifted with true genius that his full merit is not yet
known, Mr. Benkert has written music whloh Is
of permanent value, but ha. cared too little, perhaps,
for popularity. We shall be glad, however, if In the
future our song-world la to gain higher value from
the genius of a man who 1. fully able to write melo
dic. fas superior to even the best of thote which we
are now obliged to acoept as the highest fruit, of
American musical ability.
National discus.— The twenty-ninth regular
matinde will take plsee this afternoon; the last
matin de on Saturday afternoon. The Olreut will
dose on Saturday evening. The National Troupe
will perform two week, in Alexandria, two weeks
in Washington, and several week, iu Baltimore,
ptevloue to going on their regular summer tour
The first performance will be given in
oa tbe 14th of the coming mouthe
Push Widows’ Asylum Cone vwr._To-morrow
evening tbe first annual eonoert for the benefit of
the Penn Widows’ Asylum will be gtvea at the
American Mechanics’ Hall. The programme u va.
rtf Hi »d tbe oboiui u
Pomeroy*
Riee(H'Va)*
RobioßOU*
wchenclc,
Scott.
Sbanooa.
Smiths.
Stevens.
Stiles.
Siroa*d*.
Van Valkenborffn
Voorhees.
Whaley.
Wheeler*
White C A.
WiZrfer,
Wi&fleld,
Wood.FeroaariLo
Woodbridge.
Law,
Lazear,
Long*
Marvin.
McAllister,
Mcßride,
Mclsdoe,
Middleton
Miller (Pa),
Morris (0),
My ere L.
Nelson,
Noble,
O'Neill (Fenna).
O'Neill (0),
Or<b,
Patterson*
FwudieioUi
[Perry,
NATS.
Morrison.
My erw A.
Norton.
Ooell,
Parham.
Pike,
Price.
Randall (K>f,
.Rollins (N H).
ROiH.
Schofield.
SJo'tn,
fcpauidlnff,
Starr.
Stebbins.
Steele (N 7).
Tracy.
Uprton.
Wadsworth.
Ward.
Washburns (III).
Wasbbnm (Mass)
Webster.
White, Joseph W
Williams.
Wilson.
Windom.
| Grider,
Grhmell,
sHale.
Harding.
Harris (wd),
Herrick,
Hi«by.
Hubbard (Iowa),
Hubbard (Conn),
Huiburd.
Hutchins,
Johnson (Ohio>,
Julian,.
Ralbfliisch,
KasHon,
Kellogg (Mich),
Ke)l<j W (K T>.
Leblond*
Loac«
Loceyear.
Mallory.
HcCHurg.
McDowell.
Miller (NY).
Morebead,
Morris (NY). |
Jr "WASHBURNS, of Illino's, It waß
rr committee of conference be abfced of
weaiiatoCommittee of ike Whole on
lion.
vv '
in Reply to Mr. Blair.
Uiutouri, resumed his remarks from
to his colleague, Mr. B air. £d de*
LhaB6 : s trade regulations which, had
HißßjaiiiriM, Feb. 23, 1854.
HOUSE OF REPREsiE N TATI V. 28.
Trade wlin Tennessee.
Public Entertainments.
CRITTENDEN’S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. — Thl. ÜB.
rivaled institution waa never in to prosperous
condition aa at pretent. The lama number of p„
students from year to year, and tne readiness will,
which its graduates obtain lucrative situations, ay
teat the appreciation in which it is held Dy the Dun.,
nets oommuDity. Its course of Instruction la of tba
most thorough and business-like character, it,
reputation for auperior instruction extends over tba
whole countiy, and the knowledge gained here ha,
already proved a fortune to many a young maa.
Its graduates are among the moat accomplished and
successful business men, and fill m»ny of the meat
responsible positions In this and other cities.
The college ocouples three stories of the large dou.
ble building at the N. E, comer of Seventh ana
Chestnut streets, which is well lighted and fitted up
In a superior manner. It Is now in the twentieth
year of its existence. East year four hundred am
twenty six students were in attendance, and thl.
year they will exceed that number. The while
time and attention of ite principal! and teaohor. i,
devoted to the intereele of ito students, and every
year Increases its facilities and advantages for com,
municatlng eommeroial instruction of the highest
order.
There are o classes; each student is taught seps.
rately, thus receiving the full benefit of private
tuition. In the book keeping dapartment he u
practiced in opening, writiDg out, and olosing up
several seta of books, Including a variety of 10b5,..
saving forms, adapted especially for the various de
partments ot trade. He la also exercised in making
outin proper form the account currents, aooounl
sales, bills of exchange, Invoices, promissory notes,
S.O , necessary in business.
Special attention Is given to writing, Which l t
taught by T. W. Moore, who has few, If any, equals
as a penman. Commercial calculations inoluda
equations or averaging accounts,lnterest, discounts,
exchanges, &c. The time usually required to com
plete the course varies from eight to twelve weeks.
One of the advantages of this institution is that it
gives, in a short time, and ot a comparatively annaU
expense, a knowledge of business affairs, whioh
years of toll only could otherwise gain.
Students seoeived at any time. Catalogues fur
nished on application. *
Lecture dy Mrs. Cora L.Y. Hatch—Theou
rious and critical, the learned and professional, are
to have an opportunity of hearing thia temsrkable
speaker, and to test and criticise her powers l» lo* 1 ®
by discussion. It is not often that a lecturer Is wU
ling to be met in this manner, and we predict a full
house. -
Desirable Property. —ln another psrt of our
psper to-day Messrs. J. M. Gummey A Sons offer
for sale, or exchange for city property, a oountry
seat and well- improved larm of ninety acres, the lo
cality and character of which we know to be emi
nently desirable, either for a retired gentleman « a
practical farmer. We commend it to the attention
of any one of our readers wishing to purchase a first
class property of this description.
Mr. M. F. Maury, late ot the United States
Navy, and now one of the rebel agents resident and
operating in London, wrote a letter.
name in full, to the Loudon Herdld % on the 2.9 th
ult i in which he states esplioltly, anti M a fact
within hie own personal knowledge, that the
document published kb the reporter Mr,
Mallory, Confederate becretary 01 the Nsvi
to the Confederate Congress, is “spurious,-*
“a take-in,” “a hoax,” and that “no mob
do< ument haa ever been "“?red ’'by ihe
official alluded to. He aocuses “the Yankeea” of
having got up facsimile* of the Richmond papers,
and inserting therein thl. document, In order to
impote upon the world a falie and Injurious asper
eion upon the rebel cauac.
CITY ITEMS.
HEMMING, BRAIDING, AND EMBROIDERING ALL
AT one Operation. —The fact that the celebrated
Grover & Baker Sewing Machines, .01dat739 Uhest
nut .treet, perform the triple operation of aimulta
neouely hemming, braiding, and embroidering, and
each in a degree of perfection unattained by any
other machine inuee, ape aka volume* in favor of
their superiority. Among the thousands of then
sterling machine« now In operation in thl. oity
alone, we have yet to hear the flr.% complaint
brought agalnat them, while multitude! arelavish In
their praieea, and not a few have expressed to u.
their preference for them by aeaerting that they
would not be without one for five time. Ha coat,
even though they might be presented with the beat
other machine out inatead.
“ Courtship and Marriage.” —Thll will b»
the subject of the firat of the oouraeof humor
oua lecture* to be delivered at Concert Hall
by the popular wit, De Cordova, of New York,
which will be Inaugurated to-morrow (Thura
day) evening. Our eitlzeni will have a rich
treat in these lecturea, and we adviae all who
wlah to indulge in a diah of intellectual fun, served
up ID classic etyle, to procure their ticket, to-day, a.
almost enough to fill the hall have already been sold.
For particulars of the course, see advertisement la
the “Amuaement ” column.
The Sewing Machine Trade.— The agent of
the Florence Sewing Machine Company, 630 Cheat
nut street, haa given us atatiatica proving that the
ealca of this splendid Sewing Maohine alone now
amount to a larger weekly average than was real
ized two years ago by all the sewing machines com
bined. The auperior excellence of the “ Florence”
article la In a measure the secret or the enormous
sale It la now having; at any rate, no one should
purchase a machine without giving this a trial, as
it accomplishes what no other machine attempts,
and 1* sold at a price equally reasonable.
The Presidential Election, the Fourth ov
July, and the End of the War are Coming.-.
The exact time of the first two is already fixed; usq
last cannot long be delayed, being more or less un
certain. Not so, however, the fixed faot that Alter,
936 North Ninth street, sells the best and cheapest
coal. That is as unalterably certain as the laws ol
the Modes and Persians.
Bargains in Clothing.— Messrs. C. Somers 3c
Son fue Belling off their entire atook of magnificent
olothing at an immense reduction, Affording a rare
opportunity to purchasers for obtaining real bar*
gains in the matter of replenishing their wardrobes.
We advise our readers to give them a call without
delay. They are now making preparations for
spring trade on the largest scale.
Xattbbb. Flags,—Among the most interesting
feature, of the great parade on the 22d were the
flags which hsd borne the brunt in msny a hard
fight, and come out the worse for wear. Baggedness
is becoming in a battle, flag, but in respeot to wear
ing apparel tatters should be tabooed where it is
possible; and this can be best accomplished by pa
tronizing the Brown Stone Clothing Hall of Book
hill & Wilson, Nos. 603 and 60S Chestnut stseet,
above Sixth,
New Photoobaphb fob the Album, bt guts
kukst.—Mr. F. Gutekunst, No. 704 Arch street,
hss just issued, In his usual superior etyle of art,
various sized Photographs (from cards to life-size)
of Generals Hancock, Couch, Meade, Tyndale, and
Owen; also, of Miss Annie Dickinson, Hon. Ed
ward Everett, and the late William Makepeaoe
Thackeray.
Air Elegant Stock of Gentlemen's Fub
nibbing Goods, embracing everything neseseary in
that line for a man of taste to wear, will be found
at George Grant’s, 610 Chestnut street. His “Prize-
Medal” shirt, invented by J. F. Taggart, la the Shirt
of the age.
Gbkat Rbdbotion in Pbiobs.
Great Beduoiion in Prices.
Badiea’ and Misses’ Fine Cloaks.
Xjadiea’ and Misses’ Fine Cloaks*
Also,
Bioh Fun of all kinds.
liioh Furs of all kinds.
In anticipation of the close of the season, we ale
now prepared to make a large concession bom for
mer priees on all our stock.
J, w. Pboctob a Co.,
The Fails Cloak and Fur Emporium,
920 Chestnut street.
Splendid Confections. —Mr. A. I*. Vansant haa
really elevated the Gonfeotionery business into an
art*. His goods are not only the finest, richest, and
purest made, but they are the most beautiful and
tempting In every particular. Hlsohoice domestic
and foreign fiuits are also very popular.
We will walk throughlife together,
In the strength of love and hope;
Through the storm and through the sunshine,
Together we will grope
Pressing forwsrd still, and onward,
We will blithely eraek our jokes;
Whilst together we are trudging
To the store of Gbanvjllb Stokbs, at
No. 609 Chestnut street, where Is being sold the
largest, best, cheapen, and most fashionable Clothing,
civic, naval, and military, to be found in this or any
other city on the Continent.
Winteb Clothing one week longeb,
Winter Clothing one week longer,
At the reduced prices,
At the reduced prices,
e Which may possibly close out the stock,
Which may possibly close out the stock,
At Chas. Stokes a Goi’s,
AtCHAS. Stokes A Co.’s,
“ One Price,” under the Continental.
The UrimßfiAl Wbingeb.
The “Cog-wheel” Wringer. The only “Cog
wheel ” Wringer, is the only retiabl» eiolhe» Wringer.
Send for descriptive oiroular to E. E. Barnham, 27
south Sixth street. fe23-3t*
The Eab. its Diseases and,their Tbeatkbnt.
by Dr. Von Moscfczlker, one of the ablest living au
tists, Messrs. Martin A Randall, publishers, 29 South
Sixth street, announce that this great popular me
dical work Is now ready for sale. Those who suffer
from any malady of the ear, or who value hearing,
should not fall to peruse it. The publishers Mi vita
physicians and the public to oaU and examine this
valuable work. - fe22-3t
Family Co Ah.—The Hiohory and Flak coal;
*l*o Spring Mountain liehlgb, prepared with oarei
and offered at reduced prices. Offloe and sard Ninth
and Willow. [feS-awtq Kmowuis.
Dn. Von Moschziskbr, Ooull.t and Aurlat.enn
be eonaulted on Deafneaa, Eye, Ear, Throat Dlaeaaea,
and Catarrh. Office, 1037 Walnut atreet. • 1e23-.lt
Dbambss, Eye, Ear, Throat Dlaeaaea, Catarrh.
T on Mo *®h*laker, Ocullat and Anriat.
Offiah, 1087 Walnut atreet. (322-31
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IORIIB, Bunions, IKVBBTBD NAILS, EHSAP.BB^
Joimts, ud all dlieai e « of the feet, oared wltbMi
pain or lneonvenienee to the patient, by Er. Zrnh* -
tie, Surgeon OhlropodUt, 921 Oheetnut itroet, Ba&n
»o pbyiieianx and aurgeona of the eity. JasiMf
A
Gbanxx Gymkabtio Exhibition at ikeAm®*
tioan Academy of Muilq, will take place on Tus*“
day evening, March Bth. Seats oaabe seeatti&tf
Hillebrandfit lewis’ Gymnasium. c£&nor
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