TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1864. f •WWeoMitaSenonottoeol unonjrmou* oomnm -»ic»Hoiu. We do not return rejected manuiorlpto. »-Voluntary oorreipondenoe loUolted from Ml Sn».° f worldl »“ a etpeolMly from onr dlHisrant tapaMfcr 4 MVal dep * rtm6nt *- When need, it will The Foreign Policy or the United States. The 'Secretary of State needs no better defence of his foreign policy than the recent debates in the British Parliament. His Course is doubly vindicated by the attack Upon the Palmerston Ministry and the state ment of Lord Palmerston. In the first place, the assertion of the English Tories that the Ministers truckled to the United States should at once silence those at home ■who accuse the United States of truckling to Great Britain. The grand argument against Lord Kussbli, is based upon the assumed humiliation of England, in the affair of Mr. Laird’s rebel rams, and this appears to be the sole issue upon -which the parties meet in Parliament. From this iact we may fairly assume fhat whatever the disaffected in America mp.j- say, English opinion does not regard the United Stat-s Government as deficient in resolution to state its wrongs, Or the ability tt* secure its rights. In the second place, the testimony of Lord Pal- , merston is emphatically given in favor of j the justice of our demands, and the equity and independence of our prize courts are frankly ackaowlodged by him. “It is bat due to the Government of the United States to say that they have invariably received our representations in a spirit of equity and justice.” In proof of this the case of the Trent ia cited, wherein the United States yielded for the sake of a principle, and Mr, Seward may refer to the stoppage of the rebel rams as an instance wherein the United States was ready to go to war for the EfjJte of a principle. That the Secretary of .State risked his popularity when he gave Up Mason and Slidell, and boldly declared war to be the result of English da-' parture from a fair neutrality, in the case of the Alexandra, is evidence that our fo reign policy has been uninfluenced by the fear of troubles abroad, or of miscon struction at Lome. We think we.cau chal lenge history to show a foreign-policy more impartial anti straightforward than that which Mr. Seward established in reference to Great Britain. The following extract from his note to Mr. ADAMS, Of July 11, 1863, will show with what fearlessness he declared the inventions of the Government, and the consequences of the violation of neutrality. Because the British Govern ment admitted the justice of this firm and temperate appeal it is accused of yielding to a threat. But, both in England and Ame rica, it must be honestly admitted that the Ministry simply acknowledged the justice of a claim. Mr. Seward said in his note : “If the law of Great .Britain must be left wish-jut amendment, and be construed by the Govern ment ia conformity-with Hit ruling! of the chief baron of che Bxchrquer, them there will he left ids the United State* no alternative but to protect themselves and commerce againzt armed cruisers proceeding from (Sri iOfi poriSf os ognintt (tie naval forces of a public enemy j »cd, alto, to claim and insist upon indemnities forth% injuries which such expeditions have hitherto committed or shall hereaj it r commit ngain*t fhia Governor ns and the citizen* ut the United States. To this end mts Government is now preparing a naval force with ike utmost vigor : and if the national navy itfhw.h it I 1* rapidly meaning pfcail not be suifioient for the emergency. \h cn she United States must bring into employment suvb private armed naval forces as the mercantile shall afford. British ports, domes* tic as well as coiujual, are now open, under ieetncUonz. t*i the t isitg of piratical vessels, aad not only faroteh theta coals, provisions, and ren^lrs v £?*£ rectivt; heiipiaonen when the enemies o\ the United M *Ut c.ime in to obtain such reiuf ,r°m voyages sc ws-.ch theyhaveeither burned shipj they have caj» ured, or have even manned ana arm ed them as pur tee, and seal them abroad as auxiiU riffc an the Woik ot destruction. Can it be an occa sion for eithu supra© or complaint that, if this con. dvtion of thn-g* it to remain and receive the deUbe rate fftpcUont-r n>* Bntiah Government, the navy of me unitea static tail receive instructions to pursue thei n enemies into the thus . insolation of the law of nations and Ue obhyUions of neutrality, bsarns har bors far the p\, ntcsl \ lie Picsiuentvery Oisticc jiv par c eives them*:*. n;.d 2*«z*imeht ana people ot tae United Stater—a war tolerated, »Ueoug.i not de clared ox avow to by tie Biitish Government. If. through the ntectcsry employment of ell oni* means of national deles e*», such partial war shall become a general cue between -.he two nations, the Pi-csvi-ut thinks that The :* spon*ibiUty for that painful xe?uJt will not Jail upvii tne United ScateE.” Wore or the Alexandra. There ttes an Alderman named Sir Vesian Peek, in the city of Cork, in former days, whose judicial decisions were some times made in the following words: “The way in which I shall decide this point is— I "won’t decide it at all.” The Englishlaw coutts seem following in the footsteps of Sir Yesjan, with respect to the well-known case of the Alexandra. First, that case was tried, in the Court of Exchequer, nearly nine months ago, before Chief Baron Pol lock and a London jury, a verdict against the Crown and acquitting the parties charged with infringement of the Foreign Enlistment Act being the result. Next the case before the Judges of the Court of Exchequer, sitting in haneo, in the shape of a motion, on the part of the Crown, to set aside the verdict and have a new trial. As might he expected, the Judge who tried the case, and whose charge to the Jury cer tainly influenced the verdict, being head of the Court, it was decided that a new trial should not be granted. After that, the case Came before the Exchequer Chamber four Judges of the Queen’s Bench and three of the Common Pleas, forming that Court— and there the defendants raised the point that this tribunal had no jurisdiction in the case. It turned out that this objection was correct, for the Court dismissed the appeal. The decision was made-on February the Bth. Of the eight Judgeswho were to have# sat on that occasion, and whom we described in a former notice, only one was absent. This was Sir John Barnard Bylks, of the Common Pitas, well known to the Ameri can bar through his elaborate and standard Treatise on Bills of Exchange,” and a very able Judge. The opinion that the Court of Exchequer Chamber had no juris diction to hear the appeal was sustained, and the appeal, was therefore dismissed, the Court being olio-wed to apply for ultimate judgment by the House of Lords. Out of the seven Judges, six were fox dismissing the appeal—named Lord Chief Justice Cgck bttbn, Chief Justice Bble, and Justices Williams, Crompton, Blackburn, and MellOß. The one who dissented-was Sir James Shaw Wili.es, of the Common Pleas. He thought that the appeal was competent. The appeal was dismissed, Chief Justice Cockbuen saying : 11 The result of this de cision is, Hint the House of Lords will have to determine, first, whether any appeal lies » from the judgment oi the Court of Exche quer discharging the rule; and, secondly, if an appeal does lie, whether the judgment of the Court of Exchequer was right.” An English lawyer of considerable expe rience, bow in this city, who has carefidly watched this case, has sent us some obser vations upon it, which some of our legal readers may thank us for laying before them. He writes : “You niay„be sure the Law Lords will not reverse the old finding of the jury, backed by the majority of the Judges, and nothing will help the CrOWB but an amendment of the Foreign Enlist ment Act ; which amendment Parliament will not make— to please American people, any more than they would those of France, by amending law m re Ortini. As I believe the Writ of Error h a 3 been abolished, and no Bill 0 f Exceptions was allowed by the Court of Exchequer Ido not nee ttel the Lords have any move jurisdiction than ike Court sitting in Error because there is no record on which to act or put the case in motion in the House of Lords, to which I doubt if there be any appeal." It will be entirely in the manner of the Cork Alderman, if the Alexandra case, after being thrown from post to pillar, shall final ly remain undecided—of which, if our lriend’s doubt be justified, there would seem to be some prospect. The difficulty origi nated in the Coui tof Exchequer, of the con stitution oi -which our legal friend writes thus: saw and eountteg of sticks and hotmatkLandtti aide, and equity aide, and common law ! w S“?E. to °J 'fierlfflland L?w SSUr or and pift&tnff lor county sheriffs, and write of Q’:n *rin«* and evbfana ad retpondendum. All this I linen in my esily day., when it waa a eloaed court, and ltd font herons resembled four tell old women, end were thus tieioribed by the wits of the day: Chief Baron Richards—A lawyer and a gentle* man. “ Baron Wood—A lawyer, but no gentlemans “Baron Graham—A gentleman, bat no lawyer. “B&ion Garrow—Neither a gentleman nor a lawyer. “ Many Jteara afterward#, tbeclassic Copley (Lord Jjyndimwr,) beeams Ohief Baron, and agreatehanee took place in the court. After him came B Lortf AWti- K er -.,< S^ r . / K?!?,. X?" r „ lct , f '! wbo w «* ouooeeded In I ’ r . ’. l i r *Si ? eaerick PoJl °<*. who clings to the bench at the advanced age of eighty cue.’' 5 The amendment in the Foreign Enlist ment Act, which our correspondent sug gests, and which is necessary to make the law effective, ought to be proposed by the British Government. ButN flo reference to this subject was made in the Queen's speech, at the opening of the session, nor has a word about it yet been spoken in either House of Parliament. Even if made, it cannot have an e.v posf facto operation, and therefore, if the Bouse of Lords should decline hearing the appeal in the case of the Alexandra, the verdict acquitting the defendants and surrendering the vessel up to them will then stand. However, they Will have gained this point at a vast expense, having to pay thejj- own law costs, which must be heavy, as Sir Hugh Cairns and other leading counsel were employed by them. It is a rule ia England that the Crown, when defeated in a Court of Law pays its own costs only, and not the costs of its adversary. Death of Erederlcli Brown, Esq. Our sorrow at the demise of Frederick Brown, Esq, is deeply not only by the many who personally knew his worth, but by thousands who knew him only by his reputation as a leading citizen. I hough devoting himself with untiring assi duity to an extensive business, he yet was conspicuous in everything that concerned the prosperity of the city and the general wellare. For a s long period, and up to his death, he intimately connected with the management ot some of our most valuable institutions and charities. He manifested at all times intense interest in his country, snd, in parting with intimate friends on Friday night, expressed regret that he could not live to see this wicked rebellion sup pressed. i He died, as he had lived, a Christian gentleman, and will, in this com munity,; be mourned for many years. His funeral will take place this afternoon.' The Senate to-day* in executive session, con firmed the nomination of ivinjor General Ulysses S, Grant, of volunteers, ns major general in the regular army from the 4‘h of July, 1853, to fill an Otigimd r&e&ney. The foliOWiflg-Bftmefl Officers were conßrmedes brigadier general* In the regular aimy Major General George G-, Meads, of volunteers, from July 3, 1563, vice Sumner, de ceased ; Mcjor General Ww. T. Sherman, of volun teers, from July 4,15G3, to fill an. original vaoaaoy j General James B, McFhsbson, ol volun teers, from August, 1863, vice Harney, retired ; Major General Georgs H. Thomas, of volunteers, from Oetobrr, 1863, vice Anderson, retired. Briga dier General Alfred Pleasanton and Brigadier General Gocvrneur E. Warren: have been con firmed as major generals of volunteer*, the former from June 22J, and the latter from May 3,1863. Among the large number of minor military confir mations were the following: Oayt. Hataing, with the rank of major; Eiioute, Davidson C. Moore and John S. Hoover, of Illinois Volunteers, with the rank of captain, to be aids* de-ORmpfox Major General fcogan. 41so. the foj* TrrEinmates of the Western Pennsylvania Stoer»l«, With thh Hospi-tat for the Insane, at Dixmont, near Lieut. F. Barney, usth New*York* Charles’H* i lttsnurg, have, it is said, made contribu- Groves, csth New Yoik ; Eao. b. Penn, Bth Near tions to the Sanitary Fair at Cleveland J 0Il£ ; James Johnson, sth New York; Louis Sal fifw’dolllrs 6 a Th oUnt ° f T hUndred and ” mU -’ “ *£23^*; mvy dollars. These contributions include Charles H. Hurl, 22d Massachusetts; Wllberforoa an Arkansas cabiD. hair wreath, toilet sets NeTic > 79:il P«“=»Jiv«nia; Samuel s, McHenry, picture frames, India ink sketches by » lh i>l , Dn^' lT * nia - »“« J °bn w. McAoheson, of yXuGy moee, cone, iioin, and rice baskets, Tte following e-slave acta, which it eays may be received as part of a system of slavery, and, therefore, oblige us So the judgment whiah civilization ia aaonmu. iafirg ggsiuttUfia batbariam. it iz tad enough to thinai an escaped Have bach into bondage at any tine ; it ia absurd to thrust him back at a moment when slavery ia rallying all its forces for the con flict which it has madly challenged, but the crime of such a transaction 1b not diminished by its ab surdity. A slave, with courage and address Jo escape from his master, has the qualities needed for a soldier of freedom, but the existing statute requires his arrest and his being sent to bondage. The committee re port in favor of annulling the fugitive slave laws on the ground that it would simply withdraw an irra tional support from slavery. It does nothing against slavery, but merely refuses to do anything for it. In tbis respect the present proposition differs from all preceding measures of abolition, as a refusal to help an offender on the highway differs from an attempt to take his Hie. The committee argue the fourth article of seotion 2 of the Constitution that, according to the best rules of interpretation, it cannot be considered as ap plying to fugitive slaves; since whatever may have been the intention of its authors, no suoh words were employed as described fugitive slaves, and nobody else. It is obvious this clause. oa it. face, is applicable to apprentices. It is only by going behind its primary signification, and by supplying a secondary signifloaticn, that the clause ean be con sidered applicable to fugitive slaves. These and kindred topics are amply discussed, and the com mittee say, In conclusion, <■ Unhappily, the statute must always remain in the pages of history, but every day of delay In its repeal is hurtful to the Na tional cause, and to the National name. Would you put down the rebellion! Would you uphold our Jame abroad 1 Would you Bave the Constitu tion from outrage! Would you extinguish slavery’ Above all, would you follow the Constitution, and establish justice! Then repeal thiß statute at once.” Naval Captures. The Navy Department has received information of the following captures: On the nth test, the United States steamer Queen captured the schooner Louisa, of Nassau, N F three miles north by west of the Brazos river pass! ot that civei - In-reply to the hail ol the Queen she replied-she waa from Havana, and was bound somewhere along the coast of Texas. I did not know of what her cargo con slated, but upon hoarding her she gave up to the Queen a British certificate of registry and her ship. Ping articles, remarking at the time that she sur rendered as a lawful prize to the Queen. Upon a hasty examination the cargo waa found to consirt of powder, Enfield rifles, salt, sugar and whisky. ’ On the Ist teat, a boat expedition from the U S bark lying in St. Andrew’s Sound, Georgia, com msnded by Ensign Ginnasrin, captured a sloop laden with 72 hales of upland cotton and 2 of sea island cotton. They also secured the picket, consisting of a sec geant and Six men of the 4th Georgia Cavalry and six civilians. Five were taken on board the sloop and one ashore. They also brought away the fami lies of Mr. Latbsbo and Mr. Dacgaix, consuls an d their wives and eight children. On the night of the3oth of December the U. s gunboat Kennebec, off Mobile bay, discovered a sail tunning out of Mobile bay. Chase was immediate ly given, but she was lost sight of in the darkness, but was seen again the next morning attempting to escape from the Kennebec. She was brought to by a shot and hauled down her colors. She was found to be the steamer Grey Jacket, bound from Mobile to Havana, with a cargo cf cotton, rosin, and turpentine. She had twenty three passengers, who were transferred to the Colo rndo. The Loss of the Housatonic. The Navy Department has received the following Lieut- T. J. Higginson, lately commanding the United States steamer Housatonis: . , 1 ‘ About 8.46 P. M, on the morning of the 17th. the officer of the deck, Acting Master Jj K. Obobb r, J omet bteß in toe water, about onehun- L I f the vessel, and moving towards the *PPearance ot a plank movimr on the Water, and came directly towards the Housa tenic. The time from when u was first seen until it waa olose alongside was about two minutes. 11 torpedo struck toe Housatonic forward or the mizMn-mast, on toe starboard side, in a line with pottEi®- The after pivobgun being pivoted to reS&r 1 ® U “ aWe to “ gua to •>““"pon Tx e nu 1 .? ute - af *f r,he w *» c‘°«ealongside, snnk item fim v, l ?* o6 ’ ? he Housatonic sks- “»“• "Saas." aas'ss "The above named are missies 0va .... .. , drowned,” supposed to be A Ship Canal. It Is stated that toe Government authorities a*, sign cutting a ship canal from foe Eastern branch np towards foe Capitol, to establish workshops ol cspacitypufflclent for foe increased necessities of the war, and to demolish foe old penitentiary, which Is at present used for the manufacture pi ammuni tion, &o. The Lieutenant Generalship, The bill reviving toe grade of lieutenant general was signed by the presiding officer of each House of Oongrew to (Jay, tt hw yet to foe presents to the President for hie Approval before it become* a law. Therefore, the announcement that Gen. Gbakt hat been appointed to that office la premature. Meeting-or the House Military Committee. The House Military Committee met this morning to hear the argument on the application to have the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad adopted by the Government as a military road. Mr. Bradley, of New Jersey* at the request of the delegation of that State, and.aa counsel for the . Camden and Amboy Company, addressed the com mittee against tho application. He showed that the road was chattered to go to CapB May, and not to Philadelphia, and that Congress was arhed to make it a Yoik and PhlUdol* IpM* railroad. It Was a OVeature Of New Jersey legislation, and asked to be m\de independent or that State. He contended that the Camden and Amboy charter was constitutional; that every State chartered mat as many 0 r just as few turnpikes, ca nals, and railroads na it saw fit, and its refusal to c »r er more, do matter from what cause, was never regaidfd as a regulation of commerce; that the charge that New Jersey levied a duty on passengers rom other States was false; she only taxed the ! railroad company ten cents for each passenger, and fifteen cents for each ton of freight carried over the road ; that every State, at its own discretion, adopt. ~cd its own mode of taxing ils own corporations, and that such taxation was never deemed a regula* tion of commerce; that the power of Congress should receive* liberal construction, and it was not wise at this time to excite Stale jealousy and bad blood. Heretofore Congress had never attempted to ex ercise this power without the consent of the States in which the improvements were made. It would be a stigma cast upon- New Jersey to comply with this application, Mr. Bbaolky explained the his tory of the Cumberland read, the Wheeling bridge, the Holliday’s Cave B&ilroad, and other matters re ferred to by the applicants, ThO hie State meet., and the apparent soundafiM of hit views, seemed »o produce a sensible impression. Confirmation of Generals. reb. 59 Territorial Immigration. .-? 1 Ir - Gbimbs’ bill appropriate, forty thousand 22”" Pinion of emigrants across toe plates, ten thousand of which Is to be expended upon tne JOiue between Fort Abercrombie and Fort S en -i2 2> l a,ld ten thouaand oa the route to Idaho by the Niobr&rah river. y ARRIVAL OF COLONEL STREIGHT, ABD OTHER UNION PRISONERS, THEIR FINAL EgCiVPE. Washington, Feb. 29.—The Navy Department AAB received the following report from Oomnodore Parker: U. 5, Steamer Eola, . Washington, Feb. 29, 1884. I have toe honor to inform toe Department 1 *? I i v t d £? !te la ; d »yi with 001. A. D. Straight, of the 61st Irdisna Volunteers j Major B. Ik Mo- Donald, of toe lOlsl Ohio Volunteers; Capt. W. W. Searee, of the 6lst Indiana Volunteers, and First Lieut. John Sterling, of too aoth Indiana Volun teers, who made their escape from Libby orison Richmond, on toe 9th instant, and reaohed Blacki» stone’s island, Potomac, where I found them yester day. I am, very reFpactruiiy your ob’t servant, _ i- oxhall a. Parker! _ „ _■ Lommanding Potomac Flotilla. o. ELLBa ’ Seoret «y of Navy, a letter from the Army of the Potomac says that First Lieutenant Scadamore, one of those that es caped from toe Libby Prison with Colonel Straight and party, came Into our lines last night, having been on toe way nineteen days. He had intended to proceed by foe way of Gordonsville towards foe Ohio river, thinking his chances of getting away in that direction better than by the Peninsula, as he felt certain of being captured if he had gone in toe latter direction. After travelling thirty, five miles, his knees failed him, and he was forced to lie in a mud-hole, as he terms It, for nine days, a negro taking care or him and becoming his companion when he resumed his j'ourney. At another time he had to lie concealed three days, but finally reached the Rapldan on Saturday night, which river he crotsed, pausing foe pickets within a few paces. Lieutenant Scadamoresayshe saw no troops near Richmond, nor did he find any white adult male in habitants on his route through the country. Thera were none but women, children, and negroes. He represents General Lee’s army as being pretty Strong, but no signs of activity were visible. He was captured near Rome, Georgia, and has been ten months in toe Libby Prison, ARM! OF THE POTOMAC. New Yoke, Feb. 29.—The Tribune's Washington correspondent says: V A portion of toe Army of toe Potomac moved yesterday, and was in successful advance to-day. If the Mars who presides over bold enterprises and brave fighting prospers this movement, toe heart of toe country will be gladdened, and the reproach of the Army of foe Potomac measurably taken away.” The Re-CllUstment or Western Veterans. St. Lotus, Feb. 29.—Battery K, let Mi..ourl Ar tillery, (veteran volunteers,) arrived here on Satur day, and were feasted and flagged by the veteran re[ ception committee. The 6th Missouri Infantry (re-enlisted veterans) arrived from Nashville on Saturdav nlgnt, and wifi receive the hospitalities of the city and have flags presented to them to-day. The ad lowa Battery also arrived, and a dinner will be given to them tc-moirpw. They are now quartered in the Benton barracks, and will leave for home as soon as paid off. AH re-enlisted men passing through St. Louis cn route home are oordially entertained by our citizens. About 400 men of the 7th lowa Infantry (re-enlist ed men) passed through here this morning, en route for Nashville, their furlougbs having expired. Great fire iu California. San Fbancisco, Feb. 29.—The Golden State has arrived from Panama. • The entire business portion Of Downleville, Sierra county, was burned last night. The are commenced In the centre of the town, and spread with such ra. piditythat little property was saved.. The loss is about $200,000, on which there is very little insu rance. The contents of several cellars which were believed to be fireproof were destroyed. But three large buildings remain in the business part of foe town. Both newspaper establishments were con sumed. Murders in Schuylkill County. Pottsvii.r-E, Feb 29.—We learn that Jas. Shields, Of the 48thP. Y., and John Stinson, a citizen, were murdered at Silver Creek, la this county, on Satur day night. Four Irishmen, who tie accused of the murders, have been arrested, and are now in pri son.— Bulletin. Death ot a Prominent Democrat. Boston, Feb 29 —Paul R, George, formerly navy agent in New York under Tyler's Administration, Mid a well-known Demoeratlo politician of New Hampshire, died ou Saturday. AT WASHINGTON THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA., TUESDAY, MARCH 1. 1864. TUB War Is[ EAST TEPJKESSEE. THE UNION FORCES AT MORRIS rOWN. hasty retreat of longstreet L.otriavrr.T.B, Feb. 29 —lnformation received from Cumberland Gap, and deemed of a reliable oiiarao* ter, eaya that our force* have reached iilorriutown, Tcnnectec. Major Berry, or the 11 bh Tennegßee Cavalry, who has arrived from the vicinity of Itogersvllle, reports that Bougstreet’a forces are going Eut in double* quick time on each aide of the Holsiea river* Trlfgranis from Charleston and Tallahassee, TIIE WHEREABOUTS OF LONGSTREET. CAVALRY FIGHTING IN MISSISSIPPI Fortress Monroe, Feb. 29.— The flag, of- truce boat arrived this evening, from Olty Point. Tlie .Richmond Sentinel, or the 26th, contains the following: “Charleston, Feb. 26.-146 shells have been flrfd at the City curing the past twenty. Coat hours. The enemy have erected a battery on Dixon's Island, commanding Schooner creek,” The Enquirer, of the 29 :n, says: “ Charleston, Feb. 22'.—A Yankee picket-boat containing one otheer and live men, waa oaptured last night. ‘ “"The enemy oontlDoe to shell the olty. About LOGO shells were thrown in yesterday. “ Sanderson via Tallahassee, Feb. 26 —(Jen. Finnegan’s forces Occupy Baldwin. The enemy have retreated to Jacksonville. Lieut. Col. Barron, of the 4th Georgia Regiment, was killed; Col. Clinch Is wounded. “ Starksville, Mibb., Fab. 22 —Heavy fighting all day yesterday, at Pontiac, killing 40, and cap turing over 100 of the enemy. Our loss Is not known. Col. Forrest Is killed. Colonels Barksdale and McCullough ore badly wounded. The battle doted by a charge from the enemy's oavalry, which was repulsed,” "Atlanta, Feb. 26—The Yankees have left Pontiac. We have lcat many officers -ami man. Sherman's advance hoe reached Pearlßirer-” "Dalton, Ga., Feb 26. —Enemy have disappeared from our front, retreating toward Chattanooga, with Wheeler In'pursuit. General Longstreet has withdrawn his forces to a point not prudent to men tion. The enemy have not yet crossed the Hol ston river. General Buckner is assigned to comm* n , Hood’s diyision.” “Greenville, Tem>,. p c K err T „ captured 26° of the enemy and 13 negroes, five miles east of Cumberland Hap. Two Yankee mounted regiments, supported by a division or mrantry, at to flank our left ana occupied tiio fan tbrw wile* from Dalton, on the night of the 25th. Smith’s Texas brigade drove them Out. Our loss Is 160 wounded, Including Colonel Curtis,' of the 4lst Georgia.” ‘■team, Ga, Feb. 26.-The enemy fell back two miles, and will not probably make a stand this side of Ohickamauga. All signs of a -general en gagement have failed. Gov. Brown, of Georgia, bss issued a proclamation convening the Leglcla. ture for a speoial session on the 10th of March." Fortress Monroe, Feb. 26.—Among the vessels Which have passed the guard-ship “ Young Rover,” are the following: Schooner Worth Pacific, Capt. Webb, from Philadelphia for Fort Monroe; F. Ed wards, Captain Babcock, from Fort Monroe to Philadelphia j eohooner L. A. Dannenhower for Philadelphia; schooner S. H. Sharp, from Norfolk for Philadelphia; achooner New Jersey, from Not folk foi Philadelphia, Arrival of Prisoners and Cotton—Reported Dfiath of Colonel Forieat, panto, Feb. 29.—The steamer Olty of Alton, ftom Memphis on the 26th, haa arrived, with 347 bales of OOttOfi and the prisoners captured by den. Smith. It 1* reported.that Col. Forreat, brother of General Forrest, was killed In a skirmleh with our foroea. After.tenderlDg a vote of thanks to the Hon. Horace Maynard for hia eloquent addreas, alao to Gol. P. E. Bland and Ur. James A. Butler for the able manner in which they ..upheld the cause during the meetings, the Memphis Union Convention ad journed sine die. The Memphis Union I.eague tendered Hon. Horace Maynard a supper at their hall ou the eve ning of the 26th ir st. The Memphis cotton market is changed for the better, buyers being more anxious to invest than for sometime past. Good middling 64; strict do. 62, It is snowing in Cairo to-night, TEE Will IN FLORIDA, TJbe Battle or Lake City. Pbovidekcb, K. 1., Feb. 29 —The Jonma4prints a letter fiom Lieut. Eddy, of the 3d Khode Island Battery, who participated in the late battie in Florida, The letter ia dated on board the hospital steamer Cosmopolitan, in Port Koyal harbor, Feb 22, and says: “orolng, the 18th, we left our eamps at Jaiktonvulc in light*maichmg order* with tea dais’ rations. We marched all dap, and as the roails were bad we made only sixteen miies whsn we halted for the eight. On Friday niortiiUiT, the 19th, we started early, and marching all day, made sevea .“>l/8; stopping orer night at »m“ll pu« called Barbero. On Saturday morning, the 20th at 7o clock, we started onco more for a place called Bake City, thirty six miles distant, which, if we had succeeded in occupying, we should have stopnld supphes being sent to the Western’armies of ffie enemy. We matched eighteen miles, when we met the enemy, and skirmished with them for the next Jour milts, when we iound that they were In force, and had iormea their line or battle. . The columns were at once deployed, and our ad vance waß soon sharply engiged. Hamilton’s bat teiy was ordered forward. Four pieces of the bat tery. inoiuding my section, were placed In position within a hundred and fifty yards of the rebel Hr."? under a terete fire of musketry. We went in with four Pieces, fifty horses, 82 men and four officers, Viz: C&pt&iu Hamilton, Lieut. Myrlck, Lieutenant DoOge, and my*elf. In twenty minutes we lost forty five men, forty horns, two guas and four officers, when we managed to get off with what little there was lelt. It was our misfortune to have for sunoort a negro regiment, which, by running, oanseu us to Jose our pieces. The fight lasted three hours, when, finding his small army so much cut ut>. the General ordered a retreat, -*** * ne We returned to Jacksonville, 68 miles distant, and reached there last night at 12 o’clock. We had 6,000 “* n fDgaged on our side, and lost 1,200, as near as I ®* n *®* rn i The enemy had i6,aco men opposed to uc, anil, Of Course, whipped us badly. CantT Hamil ton la wounded in his lelt arm severely, and hip. Lieut. Myiiclt is badly wounded in the left foot, and will probably lose some of hla toes. Lieut. Bodge is wounded in the left arm, but not badly. I am wounded in the right leg, about three ioohea above the ankle joint, but not badly. AU of us offi wlreture to Hilton H*eaato. e mor?ow.‘ Theb®“ry lowing us closely. Taking everything together, we have done pretty sharp work. In ninety houtß wo have marched one hundred and ten mllre, foughta battle of three hours’ duration, got badlv whilSed and what there is left of our little army is Daokaeah! to where we started from. y “ 0 “ * saln General Butler and the Jews. In reply to a letter from the editor of the Jew- Messenger, Mr. S. lease, of New York, dene ral Butler explains his resent use of the term u »TeWB:” It was meant* when used, to desten&ta n oti rtn ality, not religion, as one would five Germans, or five It&lUni. I hftVA alwavi nnS sldered the Jews a nationality, although posteuine no rountry. The closeness with which they alius together, the aldwbloh theyaflord each other of fent^rh£+ r ’ and i improper occasions, the fact that nearly all of them pursue substantially the same employment, so far as I have known them—that of traders, merchants, and bankers— the very general obedience to the prohibition against marriage with Gentiles, their faith, which looks forward to the time when they’are to he gathered together in the former land of * etve to “ how a «l®*er tt® of kindred and nation among the Hebrews, and a ?, r ®** h ? u , beloa e* *° an V other na t'ai 11 ®. 0 ? 16 H?? In Ol o«er proximity, bo that, while I disclaim all intention of any reflec ,uP.on their national religion, which was the fcundation and typical of that of the Ohrlßtian world, and holding to the doctrines of Christianity thß Saviour, no one cfnrtigml one may be reasonably permitted. In ail C thß ß fcwi , j?i a «,2 a c'“ D > *0 ® u PPOse there may be V §.°’j! b ' two °f whom certainly ate in the Confederate Cabinet, at least Jive who might attempt to earry on a contraband trade. Be cause, It may be reverently remembered that when the Saviour, aided by Omniscience; undertook to ehwise twelve confidential frienda from among that sat«?,’5 at «?,’ he got oB ® tt»t "was a thief and had a devil,” In the couree of an Interesting letter Mr. lea&M says: g|^s^ , s^v«aKss Jew Ixl tlie *®Bse that you are a Christian-, yet lam an American in nationality-. 1» * Of the Jewish element in education, society, and war, Mr..lsaacs says; literary and scientific circles, you find the iS?« Rte ?i ai *?*** aB tbe Christians,. The army, navy, and marine corps have a fair rfinrp*«nf«finn »nd*D»trio«« ,o Onp o nf^ emdi * t^ nBU1 * liea H. aUe * t,lert SCuS., S&£ rtlr'll^’re^en™ i> now home on furlough, We flelf, TOtersn orgnmziUon, u eompoeed mainly of Israel- V° u should desire to be in " Yon will not forget, when reminding me that there are two Jews in the rebel Cabinet (who is the ? ecJ ? * hat 8 pattern of aistinc tion in the church militant is a major general In Davis’ army, and that Davi. himself prof#.”“ to be A devout member of the Church. There are traitors among professors of Judaism, unfortunately* as well ? *« a « OES * Christians. A good Jew can no more he f«J r f*Jp r *P our . fl *S than an earnest believer in Ohrirtisnity can be enumerated among ‘thole who speculate on the miseries of their country.* Mr, Bcrjamin does not adhere to JuO atom—he married a v'brietian. I did not intend to be so verbose. However. Ge neral, I have but another suggestion to make. If. hereafter, any of your subordinates capture a man £An.m£ te fe a P^hSS.*?? 0 ’ p i?* ,e designate his ns calling him German, .Russian, or -trench, as the case may be, ami not a Jew. In nine cases out of ten, your prisoner is neither Jew nor Christian. Gen. Butler answers finally: »* I admit that my experience with men of the J£ W lsh J ajtn or nation has been an unfortunate one. Living in an Inland town of Massachusetts prior to the war, I had met but few, and since the war, those WhOM I have seen have been principally en gaged in the occupations which caused the capture which has occasioned this correspondence, and you 5 ourself will admit that that mode of making their acquaintance has not been a favorable one. 11 1 refer to Mr. Memminger aa the other member of the Confederate Cabinet. I have been informed that Mr. Mallory is also of the Jewish faith or na tionality. “1 acknowledge the fairness of the hit in regard to Major General Polk and 'Davis. They aw both members of the Christian Church, upon whose ser vices 1 attend. . I should be much obliged to you for the detail of facts which you have offend to famish, for, finding my impressions incorrect upon any subject, I always desire to be enlightened,** Death of a New York Merchant* New York, Feb. 29.-— Thomas TUeston, of the firm of Spoffoid A Tileston, died suddenly to-day, of' dif CMB Of the heart, aged seventy one years. fIERFL SEWS. MEMPHIS. THE WAR. A Brilliant Kxploit In Florida. HEADQUARTER** DISTRICT Fi.oafOA.J Jacksonville, Fla, Feb. n, 1584. { General Orders No. 6—The biigadier-gene ral commanding heartily oougra’ulates his command on the brilliant success which has attended all their movements thus far into Florida. Three flags, eight guns, with eaitsons, battery wagons, and forge; many wagons and horses, and much sub* faiftUUCe stores and clothing hare fallen iLto our bands, beside large amounts of cotton, turpentine, and rosin. Property valued at over one and a half millions of dollars Is the fruit of the auocess. To Colonel Guy V. Henry and his command, the battalion of Massachusetts cavalry, under Major Stevens, the 40ih Massachusetts Mounted Vo tun* teeie, and to Captain Eider, Ut Artillery, and his battery, this achievement is principally due; and the brigadier general commanding especially desires to prfllee captain George E. Marshall, Company E, 40lh MsseaenuaeUa Mounted Volunteers, and hu small command of forty-nine men, who captured and held GMiK&viHc for flity-six hours, receiving and repulsing an attack from more than double his force, and, after fulttUjng his mission successfully, leturnirg to the designated piaco or rendezvous. Tt ese deeds will be among those remembered b 7 us wit a u.e greatest pleasure and honor, and the com mand mny emulate but can hardly expect to surpass them. Byoiderof Brig. Geu. 8. SEYMOUR, Official: K M. Hail, ut Lieut., Ist Artillery, U. S. A., Asßt. Adjt. General. rOLK AND LONG STREET. The Montgomery Mail of the 12 a says Polk’s headquarters were at Newton’B Station, 80 miles east of Morton, and 60 miles east of Jackson, on the previous day. It anticipates a battle at Cuunkey river, 10 miles east of Newton’s Station, where, as tbe river was not foi dable. Folk might make The Mail says Grant h*s ntw.doued the movement on Atlanta, ana is essaying one in the direction of fhe Alabama river, moving from Huntsville in ct r-nretien with Sherunsii’a movement. If success ful, it will inflict irreparable injury on the Southern cause. The Richmond Sentinel of the 20th says: “Longatreetis moving Sou h. He Is s*id to have cap;ured a number of and large quanti ties of supplies, at Lemons, ten miles south of Knox vine.” Selma, A very important military position In Ala bama, is m Dallas county, situated on the right bank of 'he Alabama river. The population in 1861 was 3,117. The town is laid out on an-elevated plateau, which terminates abruptly in a steep blurt; forming the binii of the river. Passengers ascend &Ld leiceml fiom and to steamboats by meaas of lorg flights of steps, and merchandise is drawn up the bluff by machinery. Selma is the southern ter* IliilUlS Of the Alabama and Tennessee Railroad, and the Alabama aud Musiatippi Railroad connects it with TJniontown and Marion. In 1860 it had two iron four drier?, a carriage manufactory, two b\nk*, two public balls', thr*.e daily newspapers, six churches, aid a number of public and private ■chcole. In the winter of 1859 60 it exported nearly one hundred thousand bales of cotton. By the course of the river, Selma is eighty-qdg miles below Montgomery, the original seat 01 the Confederate Government, STERLING PRICE# There was a time (says the St. Louis Republican) when Sterling Price occupied a very eminent po sition among the public xuen of our State. None stood higher for personal Integrity, and few for those qualifications 01 mind that make individuals promt nent among the leaders of the people. It is stated, with apparent truth, that Gen. Price has obtained a sixty days’ leave of absence from the Confederate Government, to enable him to visit Texas And nl*£’ GO ? T ll ® common belief and talk in the lebel army is ihnt be will nevunoturn ?•? M 3 left Camden, Ark., about two weeks Binds* With only a small escort, and in citizen’s dress. Thirty two months’ service in the Southern armies has brought Gee. P. no reward. The hope he has enter tained of returning to JVlissouii*as a conqueror has at last been wholly abandoned. Slight have been the lecognitions he has received as » military man from The rebel Government, aud If he is dispirited and disgusted—if his confluence in the success of the rebellion has been broken—acti If sometimes he compares, with vain regret, his condition now with wkbt it might have been had he remained at home and continued to use his large powers ia behalf of the legitimate Government—who shall say that he has not bad abundant cause for such feelings and reflections? If he was ambitious, places of trust and honor were open to him here, where he had ties to make personal prominence the more gratifying to his heart. Now, he must look upon himself as an unmade man, a political wreck. Such is Sterling Price’s lesson of the rebellion. AGITATION IN NORTH CAROLINA. The Raleigh (N. o ) Standard of February 12 gives the proceedings of a number of anti* Jeff Davis meet ings recently held in that State. There seems to be a perfect furore in the interior, says the Newbern Times, for holding public meetings for the purpose of agitating the calling of a state Convention, and re monstrating against the Confederate tyranny. These meetings all breathe & spirit cf defiance towards the Davis Government, »i ,o are decidedly in earnest in asserting their State rights. A CONSCRIPTION BATTLE WITH WOMBW. [From the Simpler ($ C ) Watchman j At Browntcwn, a few days ago, an attack was made on a nest of delinquents. The deserters got wind of it and escaped to the swamp; but the at tacking party were gallantly met by a garrison of women, and after a short and sharp engagement were compelled to retire. They have often passed through showers of shot and shell unmoved, but who in thunder can stand before a perfect avalanche 0/ axes, hot water, and hotter epithets from female batteries? The party describe the scene as very ex citing, and the surrounding atmosphere as decidedly sulphurous ; and although the engagement was but of short duration, it will long be remembered. DISMISSED PROM SERVICE, Headquarters Army or the Potomac, February IS. 1864. Gbkkkai, Oeoses, No. S— l. JVUjor .T. G. Aader boh, 17th PeoEtylyariia Osvr.lry, having, in violation of exißiiog orders and the customs of war, orossed the line of pickets, delivering and receiving letters irom persons outside the. lines, is hereby dismissed the sendee of the United states, subject to the ap proval oi the President. J 11. MajorE. Reinhcld, 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry, netioned and authorized the aforesaid act Andeison, is also dismissed the service, furjeot to the approval of the President. By command 01 Major General Meade, S. F. BARSTOW, A. A. G. Tiie Mexican iu Revolt against the ffehclu Oeleaks, Feb. 20.—We have the report that olergy and their, party are In open revolt against Ihe French, and that the latter mul shot the Arch. Mthop E&bastida and Bishop Barajas. That there has teen the most serious misunderstanding between Idi e t£t°if “°£ t ceitsiD ' T* l ® «l®igy demanded that Pt°B er, F taken from them under the administration of Juarez should be restored. The **. agreed upon.with England, decided that bJff™ y -? IlenAteould not be diaturbed. 1 ]>re»umo, that Immense properties eeeahm of hi?Vh= r jS.* n SpMa •*“▼* beßn taken pos scsslon of by the Government for the same reason that these were by the Mexican authorities, and that innocaeewere churcbes or other property used for strxotly religious purposes disturbed In eitherooun- It is quite possible that this disagreement mav something like an outbreak; but «k 8 l?**? 1 ® likel s 7 fhis story j which comesthrough a hostile source, te ajaera inference from what is known, and i* probably told to excite the minds of “** *1 **#. Tamaultpas against the Frenoh, Ido not believe that the g French would, in any event, proceed to such extremities as to shootthe prelates but they might banish them, as Juarez did before. PENNSILYANIA LEGISLATURE. THE ORGANIZATION OF TnE SENATE, Mi-. Bt. Clair g-worn In. Business Begun, ana the Union Majority Legislating for the Public Benefit. SENATE. !>> £ ° r luiion wsb amended and passed—yeas 17, -J£‘ t'CO'KXKL'L m ? Yed to proceed to the consideration appoiu.ing a committee to apportion the State. Aarced to—yea* 17. nays 16, “ * SEt® Passed-yeas 17, nays 16 5 Jo,isiS°“ffl S oSr ed 0 eleQl a OWo - Clerk ana othw KIMRBY moved to amend by inserting ihe word Speaker. This amendment was lost-yeas 16. nays 17 ! J 6 rfSolatioll of Nr. Nichols was agreed to—yeas then elected the present Chief Clerk and all the subordinate officers. All the Democrats refuted to vote on the ground that nothmg was to order until a Speaker was elected^ Mr. LOWRY offered a resolution inviting the clergy of Harrisburg to open the session with prayer. The .resolution passed, the Democrats voting with the Re. publicans. Mr COSfItLL moved to sdopt joint rules of the lest session. Agreed to-17 to 16. 01 IM . Br FLEKING moved to appoint a committee t 0 con tr»fl leeord. Auread to-17 to 16 J„ ICa .i OL -. S off,red E resolution fixsai hours for u? A.ii?T? f ‘ fcrDoo ? ! eBS,OIIe - d *reed to-17 to 12 ElMaker. TAI ' K laovid to proceed to 13th ballot for a “*«n'',^l7 ! t ll5 no ' l ' ed posipolle for ‘k« Present. KINSEY moved to adjourn. Agreed to—l 9 to 14. 'uFSESS toorderal 7H O ’ clookp - M by s?® were introduced: PMtodelphfa** I*' 1 *' iacoiporatiaff th ® tTnlon League of 1,1 i x x a HoWingthe National Banks to hoi A. real estate. Also, an act chat gin. Aldermen's fees to decimal car rency. t . he Third National Bank of Philadel phia to hold certain real estate. Mr. HILL; incorporating a National Express Compa ny to all parts of the United States. - y Mr. WATSON, providing/or an election of State Trea eurer; also authorizing a Guardian of the Poor, to hold a salaried position under Councils. incorporating the Spring Garden firom Sixth and Spring Garden streets, double track, up Spring Garden to Twenty-fifth* thence to Green, thence to Twenty* third street, thence to fcpring Garden. Mr. BROWN, of Warren, Introduced an act to ore vent recruiting in the State for other Statae! which wae pfttSQd. a petitionin favor of allowingpaeeengen cars to run on Sunday wa» nreeented by Mcatra Wimley, Qnialei. and Alexander of Clarion. andScofleid. _ Een3_og*trance_against the same, by Messrs Al7 audi* ence at once large and intelligent. Every available arat appeared occupied, »Dd hundreds patiently stood in the aisles ot the parquet oircle, listening with a silence that showed the intense interest and attention of the audience, broken only by the hearty rounds cf spplauce with wbioh his more pointed re* marks were received. Thesubjeot of Ms discourse was “America’* Menage to Great Britain.” Mr. Beecher was cordially received. When the: Applause with which he was received had subsided; Mr. Beecher proceeded: I propose, this evening, to to you on the sutject announced, “ America*# Message to Great Britain.” Some one may &ak, Why send any zaes> ssgeatalH Because wo have something to say to JSi)giii:t-ra'n» There has been a good deal ftolni* on in this country in the two or three y.ara past watch it sc-ems difficult for Englishmen to understand. It possibly may help them if one living here and seeing the interior of the causes of things, ahiU pieicnt ?hem in the light in which, they appear to us citizens of America. How can nations eprsk to each other except by diplomacy! Once they could not, and yet diplomacy is not national tut governmental. Governments speak to each other, and their language ia diplomacy. Bit the Uedu is oori itig, and has come, wheu, besides the inleicouj se of Government with Government, ther a is to be a sympathy *ue is to he extended into A larger one, and the people of one nation are yet tospeaUtothe people of other nations, and when that time comes, when the griat common people of one realm and na ion speak to their kindred and kind in others, it will be cue lotg step towards the milienial day of political affcira, for the people generally are right, not at each particular moment, but in comprehensive movements mat require a term of years. Toe overage duoittionof the grti&fc ms?B 0f the people is belter than the intelligence of any Cultured olass. Bo you suppose that tie Emperor of the Breach would have taken the unhandsome advantage that hb has in his selfish policy in Mexico if he had tfaGr a pughteJinow& v before he started, what thirty Pilots 01 people thick about it, as ho will know by and by, before he h** go* through with it? tip pJaUfieJ But why, ii m&s be ask the slaveholders of the South represent the aristocratic. We work for ourselves and our £!“!?■ In the South labor works for a superior class that is nourished lu Indolence. It la not known to aty other part of this continent but in the South. These two tendencies—democratic in the North, and aristocratic in the South—might run parallel as con tiguous nations, mlghtrun parallel without conflict ing ; but as they co-operated and co-ordinated in the seme Government, they met at Washington, and Lu l’fi it was they antagonized, and the con test broke out there between two entirely dif. rent sets of Ideas, and institutions, and political economies, and in this whole conflict these two elements have shown themselves true to their cha racteristic natures. Democracy has seed like de mocisov throughout the North, and aristocracy has acted like aiistooracy throughout the South. The South has shown, lor instance, great aptitude for govemment. It has had more leaders than we have bad. It lies bad people more amenable to leadership than our people are. It has greater genius for go vernment. That ic its lor to. The North has not shown any great genius for governing. We have developed a wonderful society, a wonderful poo. pie, a wonderful power in the North. We hftvc had a profusion of power, but this conflict has not developed aDy very great men in tue North. It ia Eocielime* said wars are dangerous, because they breed great mea that pe»tsr the state. I think the Bord has'delivered ua trom any ffeeafc men; [Daughter.] It is sometimes, too, mourned over tbat there hare no great men arisen this contest; but there has something a great dear bet ter ariren—a great people. That ia bettor than a single man. Xhe-South have not developed a great people. In the whole of it a score of men of some considerable eminence have taken their places, but the South have failed just where an aristocracy Always fails—lt lacked ba«e. It ia entirely plain now that had the South possessed the indue trial elements of the North, she could not have been subdued by the North. We should SX'f.wfiHls’i iD A P English, if they had had the industrial advantages of the North. But this is only saying if the South had free labor instead of slave labor—intelligent laborers instaad of slaves— she would have been invincible. She would have Sl^fc. I * , ' l TT ble * t ut * ben ?* 6ra would have been no contest. It wag because she hart not such a society, nor tucb laborers, nor suoh economy, that a collision c&me. She would have been a democracy, not an atistocracy, then. The North has been slow, pro ductive os power, not of skill, for a long time. Da mocracy breeds societies of men strong throughout in their civil and in their organio relations, not strong in leadership. Aristocracy is the quickest s has the earliest advantages; but democracy is tenacious, enduring, and will win by staml ??* Phtterrt continuance in hard knocks. [Laeghter.] It will win in the end. The earlier peiiods of this conflict gave advantages to the South | the latter periods of this conflict show that, after all, iu the long run, Democracies have the ad vantage. They have more wind and bottom. [Laughter and applause.] The Chief Magistrates of these two great sections of country are represen tatives of the two corresponding principles. Davis was formed by aristocratic institutions. All his I“®**°/ society and of government are aristocratic, ror the South was but nominally republican! r, inj „ - a experience in public affairs, of great administrative talent, with a autcS fl, a * na flr “ with a great willpower, seif power, with nothing subtracted from it to the credit of conscience sake, [laughter] he has iust that kind of ability which is called sharp, keen. He is , ma P* H .® l * a cunning statesman. Now, bCsit Sr lr ’ er ’ ele'Oft every one admired and on! vied Mm. We granted that the best side had only a dull, honest man, and the worst side such a keen, MHlitwasorten said in the firS year, ."Let us have their President, and give them 2P[f* and we 11 whip them In three months.” But, I think, no man has heard that said within the lest J!!™', bI, £ ne H er aD d applause.] Who believes now hi Davis sagacity, in Ms statesmanship? His cunning has tubed him. Men laugh •* i h ® outooming or those very projcf“ which they admired in their conception. There was never in civil annals so gigantic a bum der ss Southern statesmen have ■ mane Their II a ve irretiievably ruined themselves by their moral and inflicted vast evil on their countrymen," andim! hSSfI?TJSVS" thelr - Stetts - “ a this is what they have to *kow for cunning statesmanship-cun ning and not wise. Mr. Lincoln is not ounnlag, bSt he is wise, and wisdom tells in thelong run [SreSt * man of the peopte. He WAS formed bv democracy into » a©- Inidat, He believed iu it with a child-like aim plicity of faith, as if ho didn’t know there was anytUng else in the world.. He came to the Presidency by one of those strange happening which meu call chance, and Chriatiauc providenoh without one single gilt which poetry and aristocracy associate with a supreme leader of a nation. Urn gajnly in form, without beauty ot features, with a manner uncultivated even to that degree that i« common to American farmers, nota poiftwasthere for romance. With natural s’hrewdne,., -wttWme experience in the administration of public affairs, not skilful, however, in discerning or selecting men and then too hind always to put down i tool whioh by mistake he had taken up, he has been for three years learning to govern, and though somewhat dull he has stuck to his lessons night Tnd dav with such diligence that now at uSS 1 ?!*> tious.* P eo P ,e - He is honest, oonsoien weffare of ß th» ’ alg ‘»te™»*edly seeking the KS ?* *“0 nation first, the party next, and of fultothßVr«s I V-.o^P pl .‘ u i ,e l H{!^*B been faith ivstrm av.f F H St truths of our American SH 1 he has shown to the world that sue tho» qualities, it requires just orderP»l«ioi»nß sacrifice in mon hnuiaL Bov^ nm , ent-common * eo, ° »“<» «om- EAppiause ] This 1. a lesson for Eu. hX,£i?“? r over - Wow > that it ia so, we would hRd our President any other. Tf he Mtil snd expSien^ Iwhb«SCh,oi”! 1 w h b«S Ch , 0 i”! “ d l«»™ed by travel' that SSd I rtSti f „ h !i? lsd ,ha‘i eonoeivable gift heart men JiSf, 2 ?® the imagination or touch the viotoV?hnt W „ 0^ ay eood gave us the tMou/h’ thl pT©S,fnn* aU “* r •£? I l6 ?!' l *’* Power, nlatiflS 1 n?v» g .* ve victory. [a.p* oiiioicnle f oVn„? re,ident hM 6een m,de the butt thoie exMted^si^ r, , Paper "’ " na of derision among court SSSS&. «“-«• .. ““d elegant masters of Lincoln wm!?S leß -!l broaa; tm 1 eoofess that Mr. Bum™ w ?? ua ®Pt t>ut a poor figure in the oourts of [Laughter.] But it is our pride, however, thim£^i«!f B f People that we have carried through knew niS 0 a S, iH Sß '?> tbe uke of which Europe never r,.?fw, oot by the skill of any extraordinary genius, man’ef thAi“ a ? from among themselves, a real this vlctovv P nf P Ploioi.ahople, homely man, and inbi.nin ly -- of liberty-loving, democracy has been c crata TOhenff the leadership of one of these demo- i h“ ep "si'ery was destroyed, it wsb well that it i fhnnio h»Te the very beat leadership, that no man i ha«'h?on ay ** waß owing to bad management. It ’ nnd nnS? “sosged admirably ; extraordinary akiil n?, d K„ out * se have been shown In the management “'’be f»n»e. If Davis could not save siavenr no -5*2? hereafter they oanoot say thS the tgrsas «.T“„raas,VsS awdsi.ari^assaftMS Democratic Presidenti, which mpresen^l^tho srHSE aristocrat and democrat. Let them wSI be* R ®hi t Jf **} to vlotoIlou », but victorious it and tha People m stronger than any leaders. n,,i l^ o . rld will yet find it out. fApplmuß.] " North words relate to the the Koto t i!\,n .i* e i; e * U v oftM ! grea * whlohis goifig on and has been going a*. For a lons time wou-W fexhau*t the §ors£ Europe bad been thoroughly poi !?£® d wi“? fake represehUtions, The South hid ehio?. Pß^K? na JS 1 paln * P°'* e “ U» .are of map chants. The North, with a kind p[ iiagiishdi? UrltaiH. data, had never thought it her whUe, in her oonicioue etrengtb, to W hervelf, and there was, therefore, » totM mis representation of the respective reaouww of tffa two countries. The South made the world believe that cotton was king. Why, there was not a stalk rf Indian coin growing In the wide fields of the West tliftt could not parry with ontton Mj kill them every time. [Laughter.] Even the corn icon product of Northern grar# wh# more powerful than cotton; so was nearly every interest of North om industry. It was prepoiteruus ; vet the South neuevedif, and the mudsills of the North, and all -Euf believed it. Then, the wonderful prosperity of the North was viewed as false—a prosperity that t v % rv ot> f F ho considers it. Ifc was charged K&?..E C J lßd mittak CU AU artificial and transient ftUntuuc for normal strength az»o sound health, and that oar prosperity was a bubble ; that it was an egregious blunder for any people to suppose Shat w»r was profitable, or could give us prosperity. No w we send back word to our ft lends that we are not deceived a bit. We know the miseries of war as well as anybody; we know the dangers, th - evils. an alterable tprfl longer. [Laughter.] The South long ago h%ve used up their surplus of wealth, and have been fating into the substance of thdrcrmitry. The suppoit of their armies requires them to kill the ox in y oke and the cow in her milk, going not to the oflfapr:ng to supply the waste of war, but hack to the producing oentre itself. So it is with respect to 1 the iSOUfil All through. They are killing the milch cow ot their property everywhere Tfci?, regarding their antagonism, is a matter Of pleasure ts; ua out when wt come to count up we must ojunt ttrcit- load as well as ours. Look at the loss' at men that has taken place. In this war. We are not ignorant 01 1 three thiTK*. .Gen-Halleek deoUresthat'in the vear ! 1663 the iotses of men in killed were ten thou sand. Now, we may suppose that the South had I more killed because there, is a definite r«n»>ion be-. I tween the number of captures 1 bei’pf iren hiiieo, n ha* been. reduced to a scale! i but suppose the South to have had no more than the | North, there were 20,000 men killed outright in the year 1663 by battle. But statistic# show" that five r ® destroyed by disease where one is killed in SJ ie then 120,000 men that in 1863 wore destioy cd. These were our best men. the voun» ! \?S?, u -S ll^V lßbo » li e uat| the very stamina of S a u, } > WBrB out olt - Ooa.iaer them i « 1 to but.. ‘- 1 8r>.cul»ilon these men represent not lets thin S3oo.ccu,ouu ca,"'**-! destroyed in the year 1363 Bn sides this, we must tilt'- into account the wounded, the enfeebled by sicknero, that ir.ye become in their several families dependent upon theif friends. We must take into aoci.unt alee, among the ev'U* Qf the war, the demoralization* that have taken fi's oB, which we cannot estimate, but which must be very great; aid in the faoeol suchf»et,it oertainTvis one oi the most terrible calamities that can haf.ii » nation. Slavery is the greatest, but this B the next. Opr British -friends must rot sun) steak \'he ‘ffhbrant or tue truth when we epenk of the prosperity of the North We measure as well as we can the orb that swings our darkened horizon, emitting flashes of lightning—war, Our experience has not made it ers terrible than the most vivid description of the philanthropist. We knew it was Dad P before; we know it more now than ever. We see its eiftot. in w»r®in® h e *i° r ° Ur br ° ,htr "’ cur children. We know worlß bad as ever described, and worse than de. not»n o i,»n ha m ! n lll * llri rlr,g ’ bcot “«e it does not dis tribute the burden of war. You could not supply b: ? Y oluntar y taxation. [Lauehter.J It is folly to supply the armies thus, it ahnuid be rquolized, but since vhlunteerin? has been the bow noble has been the spirit of a nation that could raise a million of men for three years, Htili be rS. at least ? a f *b a * number always ia the - be want of men at home. We tn ffi*. blbor. Our farmers find It less easy 1??,. S) . n ‘!i n 5 “V r factories are somewhatstralghi tbwln®b'h,®'l*?' 2 ® *“'? men cnou sh, and wnan tberph T Tbifk 5 we B ‘»t'vart young taen r,.5 re h* think sometimes we have too manry— [iapghttr]—or they are in the wrong place. If tve f!«-i.hur y i I ’ i u l 1 ‘bivb; a draft would dogond. ■ « g b;? r -3 If men and money be considered as a puce for the redemptiou of a nation, for harmony and homogenecusness in the future, all tho men we have let, and all the money we have spent, were the cheapest price a nation ever paid for i f a nation could buy lteell OUT ol its trouble*, or bujf itself into proaocri i ty, what Boaa. would be conaiaered too largro of laea “'j ““ e y,‘ o sure * perpetuity of nationsl life to a free people with such a continent as this 1 For tne first lime in our lives we are a nation, and can stand befoie any nation on the globe, and Dot be ashamed of these United States. [Apolsuse t If this aristocracy Is cast out, what it the body lor a short time did lie wallowing on the ground! I had rather a man should be weakened by having a devil cast out of him than that he should be ever so strong, yet running around the tombs. [Bvigh ter-] The North, in spite of the waste of property, has teen financially prosperous. We 5 T f. DO ‘ growing rich on tne war, but growing rloh la spile of the war. Though there i. war, there is such an enterprise, and such a people, that we are still rich. If It drtws Wood, if It draws money “ightr strosms, the reservoir Is filled by such in bt-stry it don’t draw it dry, and we are eslniss lather tbftn lOßlDg's Our money Aa2 not been spent ?r U d„«.2 le YKi E ‘ry, and it hn, therefore, stimulated P£°*perou# bec»u#e we have tkfl whole nation hard at work. It is not a speculation, bbt » real, productive work. Ws have increased P°!’b |a ‘‘o n i aEi‘b would succeed. I down*nn rebe^B ’ ®nd compelled us to come wMh onr Sfte S nffe „ and we i»p. nn™+JE^? “Bbter and applause.] The suffering If," hP°h toe Esncashire weavers, the noblest set inc«fnv ret °to' But .we are curing that by I W6a r e £» °ver bere, and they are oomtug; , Br ‘og‘bis great struggle the North has instituted “, a eredit system into a better sys ‘b* n “ has known for generations. Thera .V?? when there has been such a ilTit d SIJ? n debt bnow there has been a gzeat deal of change in. the business svstem of the crfiut^fo™ 6 superseding the immense rmerly demanded. It ma ,, b e true that mayoorae a period of stagna neve? vvni U oom?f V m °i r e or J*?* Protracted, but there some a period or bankruptey. If a man decs not owe Anything* ho cannot break. A* tn a .? f *rabove that. It will take .Ylbde io travel down to it. I sometimes tnink do do hurt if wo would {TO down a !iVi e “^ rertbe S*ound. DuringlffismSdrSSfts money j and during these great changes in ee t° material things any of our natural or SnfoibSlS? 1 "*. » bas Been said we have become ?Jy® : For the sake of maintaining the ex* terior forms of society, we have given up everythin* I Tt l ere nevet haß been a more I sound condition of the churches and religion than during the past three years. There k™ that ptculiar form of religious development caul® 1 ™” °‘™Ugioh. We have the right kind of a revival, and just where we needed rt. We never lacked for enthusiasm. There was a people who sang more hymns than wo bf fo ,ff our revival. We were singing hymns and making chains at the same time. We were SSI hymns and doing the devil’s work too, substituting a sentimentality in religion Tor eon science. We wanted a revival of the ethical principle. The conscience or the North has grown more in the last three years than in thirty vears before. [Applause.] We have oome into safe, ty, and we are beginning to adjudicate ques tion* on the basis of absolute right, and, so far from being materialized, tbis war has been a preaching gospel. You never knew a nation lifting up the oonicience od the nation that was not followed by a gieat revival of religion. We have been lifting ud the conscience, and the feelings too. The progress of the nation has been real and deep. Oar .educa tional institutions have kept straight en, and have been healthy. It is extiaordinary to read the re ports that have been made from the different States —lllinois, Ohio, New York, and others—of the oon aiiicn of the academies and common schools During this period of three years, the war ih seme States has induced a falling off of scholars, because the adult population having gene into the army, tho boys have done men’s work to the field. But everywhere the systems mrasouad. The number of school-houses are increasing from year to 3 ear, and thi ougbout the North ihe'evstom lias never been in a more healthy condition. Men say there are thiee cardinal Institutions. The first Society is epitomized) A ‘ph» and Omega; then the Church, i ba “ tohools. If these three are l ca “ happen to the State. [Ap din-VJ 0u * ll ‘ “Ot to be pasted by that c,Y,™’L?w e i War . we have not only, maintained our f,,.Y c S!i t> Y al , f a * ema and our religious institutions, out, west la more extraordinary, our people have actually grown to the appetite or their Suer senses. 1 here has waked up In the American mind a desire for something more than meat- and drink. They want, a gratification higher up than the mouth, arid blessed is the man whole appetite ia in his eves. [Laughter.] We have been growing In wants. Our artists were never so busy. Our schools of design were never so thronged. We do not say these things b&aatfolly, b U t be. cause English gentlemen nave taken great pains to predict our ruin. So wa want John Bright, that noble man [applause], to visit this country after the war. He will be received heartily, for Americans love an honest mao. Whenhe will return do address tb e laboring classes, we wish him to say that America I i> an illustration, of great and free government - that its people, whUe engaged to a great ahd desolating war, promoted religion, promoted iatemgenoeTnrX moted the firne artai they have olakumd tSato mode of business from oredit to e&aSrMd h«S£ maintained, in spits of the of war, the refinement* and amenito?Yf ,S! i?H9i? That is the exhibit whiehAmSfSKwM. fYn*ii UrB - institution*make on tbathead lnri twm the GQc««age we wiih to Mnfi to J* r xperiment of wm in a demv2nrti?SlMJ? rtt * l K “"'S® another wpeot on which * * There U tte London Time*, that the dUjnito aro** t J»n6 question in .Great Britain This' question, because land deterrm**, fi r ;t, meut Wow- there are t wo svatpM? French tsd the English. The Aw*Me*n tt Jl fcetwren them. lain not ashamed‘to attention of the world to our v*> system as compared with that which obtain * monarchic*. In Fraoce, you know, atwi 1 r If oh’fl time, property had to ba divided twftn all the heirs, and then there was a **-t ’ fi? sHoihß;. Where a family was largp, and tbp r,«3 J ' of the land Itself small, thy quota of might he rolled off in a wheelbarrow. [Ltii.. , i;i It ts utterly impotsible that tbote ; c ( i any system of jimpiovcd hueoawJrr tvoh elrcumstarces. You might ar well try > 0 4?» , : a farmer make a farm in answer-pot, under v., ;»H lard si stem. It weakens Mid enfeebles Clio rev,:? ry, although it was done lot the sake of giving th..r a better chance. Now. precisely the tem obtains in Great Britain. Land is taut,. .7; in immense masse*. There is a favoritism of lice. The old families make agreement* Vj ? themselves, by which the estate shall go down f-. Q 3 father to eon. Besides all this, the law ;>f K-.>iV ; ?} ia such that nothing can be traDtferr -; ’ ctpt at the sacrifice of wealth. The cost of «*.*>*• a proper tine w*k*n the land beyond the r,w of the poor. The common people, therefore, 0,/ own land. Now, in America, au opposite a ; ,. B d prevails. Every man can do just what hs pi,- Be can bequeath his whole farm or divide hu f v :■ BesjCesthat. nature is on our side. We hcv 1 flee. howußjouved the Rrevt body of the HS iVi eic in respect to thia giving up or their .rir ' r Tiuoe is on lhu»tr»*loa [II democratic lv. ’I 1 a maa wa “ Rccuatomeil to ..- 1 ““B gf“ childhooJ, ho alwoyn takes to H tSjto* .'I . cnsa grace. I'r.o former is M ) .; When he rs on hl« form; transport him Into » parlor, st'Jheiß»wkword,Justus awkward i., 1 men whp owns the parlorwould be if tiiuisn '.l to the pioiisb. Evesyraan in his p!»f ? j; „ ■ aid where ’(is natural : ti« griceiul. T&ke a tv'v' that do not know whether they can dtfond tl f liberties or not, and they are uneasy) hut to u,i i ! take to Interfere with the liberties of a craey is a dangerous thing .in this oouuirv ft” never had a thought but that wo were free, ini. have not the slightest doubt but we shall coatin4. be free. To sustain the Government, we are wnl' 1 (o yield something. The people say tint j f ! have not power enough take this, and tabs t atrt then is there anything else you want? a people are not jealous of their liberties, a. W,,. theuieelve* and their Government, So far hVa having lost our liberties we have emancinvc i. spirit of liberty in the minds of our people 'tv* lies never been a period when enthusiasm for m;4:' has risen to high. The love of liberty is not a -il meat, but an enthusiasm. Wo were rcnro.f"J abroad with haring waged this war witn’m> 1 eipic, is the mere interest of ambition, ahi'lw out any regard for the liberty or the nc’4' But we have been guided by a hand higher oiil-S; by a spirit that leads to liberty an.l vioiv-' I am not one of those who believe slavery u j 1! It Is said that its political power is gone. Nav ”..; so. There is a Democratic party in the North Vi would rtsurreot slavery in twenty.four ip Alas! there are enough recreant men that „ , accept this bass compromise. By a war 4 may cut the South in two, but then ,i,»i will linger some time afterward to stmg V! There is but one sure remedy against the psriiV C lion of slavery. Put the provision in the Unt,,!i: tion. [applause.] We have gone through this V. rihle war not witnout some good result. Or.se «'i ycU introduce into the Constitution that cs -i shall be held to involuntary servitude excctf/i crime, then will wo have secured perpetual V ; !'i and prospeiity. I have another message tm!;", land, and that Is to assure her that we are a nv [Applause ] We have armies and uavict lir can defy the world. But though we armies and navies, we want pease. Wj m to Great Britain and the continent iint s mean to carry civilization everywhere. Whiic ”1 will not suBbr ourselves to be trampled upon. > :; while we will keep our flag respected and terns 4 „ thß . J !0 ? un 'S people of every nation ul iv spirit of brotherly affeotion. We desire the m-4 tion of the interests of humanity and ctvithoii-( a fraternization of the nations, a uniting of mi t.j man beings in the closer bonds or amity ami etyl will, and the regeneration of the world. Ittr. Beecher relircd amid mush applause, in-d Peeu listened to with the earnest attention o' d entUe audience, I A Farewell Dinner. !•*** Fridayevening a farewell dinner waa»: to Mr. John Eueeell Young, a gentleman woo; IODg Seen Identified with the editorial manager! or The Fkess, by the gentlemen associated r him- The oecation was the departure of Mr. I f for New Orleans and Texas, on a tour of tte months, whloh may possibly be extended to B! i. and South Ameiica. The affair wa« altogeths: promplu, but none the leas genial tor being *o:; will the many frienda of Mr. Young regret O that, in giving up tor a time hit aotlve paitic:' management or this journal, he will uontiaj.: contribute to ita columns, and that, althoegi. visit to the South la not primarily a matter of is» ness, it will probably result in new gratifleata 1: the readers of Tan Panes, The dinner to Mr. Young was one of the gkau: eetof newspaper reunions. Among the iowaj: posed were; « The President of the Unite ! smei “The Guest of the Evening,” Mr. John W. F ji« “The Journalism of Philadelphia;” “T,.c lb “The Pulpit;” and “The Ladies,” who, tho: absent, were not forgotten. If we were s;l what speciality was present to yonder tho ec; ment so harmonious, we should not answer! it was because the jokes were as plentiful snow-flakes in December, or as blossoms in a r : or that the gastronomic display was stristlr accordance with Francatelli’s book of etujo'ei' or that tho eloquence resembled linked swebfsf in the respect of being long drawn out. .v of these reasons individually, but all of ts combined with those sentiments of warm pro; friendship which -were cherished for the guest -ji evening by every member of the party, rsn ' the entertainment singularly congratulatory. Yeung made a brier and modest aliusion-to Macs upon Tub Pkbbb, acknowledging that the intst of that journal-had been the sole end and aim of endeavors. He reverted to the pleasant rclitle: the past, and alluded with muoh hopeiulecu feeling to their renewal in the future. hour*, which will insist on growing late al wrong time, were no less perverse on this sion. Express trains and sea-going vessels 1 through the morning prospect, and it was ti say poc mutioneent, Not. 232 an; -' hmd I V£S2. 0 2? AMO Oaudidats.—At If® 1 dele 111 New H'* ertedhto‘«elf i aoteto«e«ii>nm , lnW.imUW tl «»“ B tntMc»r*‘ T ey WM ® I,:i * enea Of the nlnety-elx ooionrja m the No® .