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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1864
Isar TILE 'ONION STATE CENTRAL OOP&
MTITEE OF PENNSYLVANIA will meet at the
Jowls; Hovel, in the city Of HARRISBURG, on
WEDNESDAY, April 61h, A. D. DON, at 8 o'clock
A full attendance is requested, as business of im.
portance L to be transacted.
WAYNE 131aVEAG 8 , Chairman.
The Outbreak in Illinois.
The war does not allow pauses, and while
the grand campaigns are preparing we are
sure to hear of a raid or an outbreak, ac
cording to custom. These indications have
their value, and fairly warn us that the
work o f the nation is not yet removed from
perplexities which nothing but an iron hand
and an iron faith can subdue. The outbreak
in Illinois shoats that the cause of Northern
treason has some vitality yet. The num
bers of the insurgents have increased with
every report, and now from one thousand
to fifteen hundred men, tolerably armed,
threaten the line of the Alton Railroad and
the towns of Charleston and Mattoon, in
Coles county, Illinois. By preconcert, no
doubt, the disaffection has extended into one
or two neighboring counties, and the plague
spot in Illinois breaks out at last in serious
disorder. Of course, the rioters will be put
down, and, if they are well taught, will
never need a lesson again. Illinois has an
able and earnest war Governor, and, per
haps, he will give us a Jacksonian ex
ample if this emeute should provoke him
far enough. What is remarkable of
This riot, and of all kindred outbreaks is,
that it originated from no oppression, and is
without cause. The malcontent spirit of
depravity, the sullen, diseased, and inap
-peasable mob spirit which has so often
played the part of brute tyranny against
Christian progress, reveals itself in thii in-
stance as in a hundred others.- Not one
of the disloyal rioters has suffered in
body or spirit the fiftieth part of
the real sacrifice which every soldier
has willingly and even enthusiastically un-
dergone for- his country. They have not
toiled for their country; they have not borne
one burden for the cause, and have even re
sisted the equal operation of just laws ; they
have done nothing for the Union willingly or
unwillingly ; yet this clam of men have
been thefirst to shriek about tyranny. They
have shot officers down in wanton murder
and sbameless cowardice ; and, in the riots
of New York, a multitude of savages, in
which the worst and the best were little else
than imbruted cowards, hung and mangled
innocent and unollending men. Mobs, as a
rule, are cowardly ; but none have been
more wicked and causeless than the few
disloyal outbreaks which have taken place
in the North. We ask a reason for
this depravity, and find it in the same ele
ment which has made the South one great
mob at riot against civilization and the
Gospel. The spirit of tyranny in the South
reaches from the governing class of the
slaveholders down to the masses. Here, if
we are threatened with a similar spirit, it
travels up from the dregs of our population,
and possesses the demagogue. This, in
fact, has been the state of our politics under
the rule of slavery, and the outbreak which
we now witness is rather an expiring syni
- tom of that giant curse under which a few
ignorant men have been besotted and poi
soned—hopelessly, we fear. There is but
one way to treat it—treat it like rebellion_
For many months past we have heard
rumors of an extended conspiracy in Illinois,
bearing the old notorious name of "Knights
of the Golden Circle," and there is some
reason to believe that the outbreak at
Charleston is only the key-note of a more
extensive scheme. The principle of such
demonstrations is cowardly, and there may
he no cause for alarm_ But it seems to be
clearly shown deo the outbreak was long
deliberated, only taking pretext from a diffi
culty with a few soldiers. Ris but just
to say that those who shoot down our
soldiers, either at the North or the South,
are nothing more or less than rebels, and
it follows that our soldiers should deal with
them. The case of Illinois is important.
Several other States have plague-spots, less
dangerous, no doubt ; but a good example of
authority will prove salutary, and perhaps
decisive.
The rebellion, even with failing strength,
has put fold' an indefatigable spirit. It has
endeavored to harass the North in every
way at all practicable, whether by threaten
ings from Canada, by piracies at Halifax,
by raids on the free borders, by conspira
cies in the West, or by burning steamboats
at St. Louis ; and no agents or means are
too base or insignificant to be used. One
rebel paper boasts that "a million of dollars
would lay in ashes New York, Boston, Phi
ladelphia, 4. nicago, Pittsburg, Washington,
and the men to do the business may be
picked up b hundreds in the streets Of
those very cities." Those who have
noted well the occurrences of the war
will know how . much of this boast is worth
consideration, and how much is worth con
tempt. But no such boast would be made
if it were nct upon the strength of just such
developments as that in Illinois. Is the
West safe from the rebels while insurrection
takes place in its borders ? If we are threat
ened with a repetition of last years' history,
we should lie prepared. At least let us
trust that one good example will be made.
Imperial Mexico.
The impression among English politi
cians appears to be, that, if the - United
States shall recognize the imperial Govern
ment of Mexico, the Emperor HitsDry
mem will certainly not do anything which
can be taken as a recognition of the South.
It is even alleged that the Emperor NAPO
LEON has strongly urged the necessity of
decided neutrality—so much so auto have
made it a sine qua non. If, so, a great dis
appointment awaits the so-called" Confede
rate States," for the Richmond newspapers
have bragged largely of the alliance the
rebels would make with Mexico, as soon as
MA X IMI LIAN commenced his rule, and of
the substantial assistance they would re
ceive from such alliance.
The reported monetary arrangement be
tween France and Mexico, which includes
The old _debt, and the whole expenses of the
- French occupation, since the winter of
1861, is understood to fix the whole sum at
470,000,-000, to be paid in fourteen annual
inetabsents, of $5,000,000 each. It is evi
dent that this arrangement will probably
absorb all the revenue, perhaps more than
all, which Mexico can spare to pay off her
debts, and will therefore postpone, for four
teen years, the liquidation of the Mexican
debt to England and to Spain NAPO-
LzoN, therefore, has made a good thing of
it, if he has obtained an agreement to have
the - French claims upon Mexico preferen
tially liquidated. MAxottraxts, in the pre
sent financial condition of Mexico, cannot,
commence his rule as Emperor without a
good round sum in the treasury. NA.po
utoN, it is declared, will obtain a sufficient
loan for him from the ROTHSCHILDS and the
Tenni:es
The Alexandra.
The appeal in the Alexandra ease, on the
part of the crown, against the verdict, un
der the confessedly improper charge to the
jury, by Chief Baron Pora.ocir, has been
fully argued before the House of Lords,
(sitting as tbe ultimate appellate tribunal of
England,) and nothing remains but judg
ment to" be giVen. The Lord. Chancellor
.(WEET.nunv) has announced that this would
be pronounced soon after the end of the Eu
ler recess. It has probably been given em
this. Every peer is at liberty to take part
in the hearing of and voting upon appeals.
But the practice is that, on these purelylegal
questions, none but such "Law Lords" as
are peers of Parliament shall act. These
are the Lord Chancellor, the ex-Chancellors
BBOUGELibt, ST. LBONARDS, CHELMSFORD,
and CARNWORTIT, and Lord WEIRDBISEY
MLR, (formerly Sir JAMES PARMB, pnisne
baron of the Courts of Exchequer,) but, as
Lord BitouorrA3l. was absent, at his seat in
the south of France, only five law-lords
could have heard the arguments. The cus
tom is for each peer to state how he shall
vote, and put his reasons. We learn from
.What we accept as good authority, that the
opinion of the English bar was that the
House of Lords, alleging that it had no ju
risdiction in the case, would not arrive at
any decision. BO much for bungling law.
Making in England.
Queen Victoria Writing a Book.
One of the numerous publications of
How.= WAmrorm—only less known, in
deed, than his Letters, "Historic Doubts
as to the existence of RICHARD III.," and
his extraordinary story, "The- Castle of
Otranto "—is his " Catalogue of Royal and
Noble Authors.?? Of this a splendid edition
was published, about eighteen years ago, by
H. Q. ROHN, of London, which is now
out of print. Some future ALLIBONE, per
haps, will continue it down to the present
time, and thereby double its quantity, for
though Royalty has not published much
since WALPOLE'S time, the Nobility have
made waste-paper, through the press, to a
considerable extent. If the London Review
is to be believed, the name of Queen VIC
TORIA will yet be added to the Royal Authors
of England.
A few weeks ago, the Cobourg Gazette,
which is the official journal of the petty
principality of Saxe-Cobourg.Gotha, of
which the late Prince ALBERT'S brother is
sovereign, announced that " Queen VIC
TORIA is engaged in writing the memoirs
of her life and times." The London Re
view, taking up this announcement, asks
" Who is to publish her Majesty's new
book I" and adds, "That her Majesty is
engaged upon a literary undertaking con
nected with the history of her reign, has
certainly been stated in various continental
journals, which, upon all matters relative
to the proceedings of royalty in this coun
try, appear to possess some secret sources
of information not open to the home jour
nals. A few days since, the Government
organ trusted that her Majesty may mus
ter courage to enter again into public life,
for the danger of long seclusion is not
slight. By slow but sure degrees the mind
becomes weaned from external objects, and
turns hi upon itself with an eagerness that
is not bracing, but exhausting.' "
Queen VICTORIA is not a mere novice with
the pen. Shortly after her husband's death,
MURRAY (son of and successor to Lord
Ilynores old publisher and friend) brought
out a volume professing to contain a c3llee
-
tio.n of the various speeches and addresses
made by Prince ALBERT. They were pas
sively received as such, though the popular
belief is that Dr. LYON PLAYFAIR had com
posed moat of them for the Prince, who had
committed the ahorter ones to memory, and
read the others. It was notorious that, on
public occasions, where the Prince had
spoken only a few sentences, the next day's
newspapers contained elaborate reports ex
tending from half a column to one or two.
To this volume was prefixed an introduc
tion, sketching the Prince's character, quite
en couleur de rose, and that this was sup
plied by the Queen herself. Indeed, there
was internal evidence that her Majesty, and
nobody else, must have given the facts;
for it contains a minute and very interest
ing account, illustrated with the letters
which passed between the Prince and the
Duke of WELLINGTON, on the subject of
the commander-in-chief of the British army.
It was the opinion of the Duke, who him- •
self held that responsible command, that
one of the Royal Family invariably should
be at the head of the army in England-as,
in the event of an attempt at revolution, the
military force would then be likely to take
sides with its recognized head. The Queen
left the decision to Prince ALBERT himself,
and the result was, the Prince declined the
proposal. Wisely, too, for though he was
a field-marshal, and also colonel-in-chief of
Rifle Brigade, and colonel of the Grenadier
Guards, he knew even less of military
matters than did Canto, who "never
set a squadron in the field." The
Prince felt, too, that he was respected
rather than loved in England, and showed
his discretion by, avoiding a position in
which, as a foreigner, he might fail to give
satisfaction to the army and to the public.
The introduction to his "Speeches and Ad
dresses," giving, all tiiese details, which
possess a sort of historical value, must have
been written by Queen VICTORIA. Very
well written it is, too—plain and direct,
though not without a certain grave dignity,
which might be expected from such a per,
son's writings, with her loss very recent,
upon such a subject.
If the London Review be correctly in
.formed, and we know that there was a
rumor, among literary people across the
water, that the first_gentlewornan in the
empire Wee one of the author's " gentle
craft," her Majesty put her thoughts into
print many years ago. It is said that the
first publication from the royal pen was
issued in 1834, when the Princess ALEX
ANDRINA VICTORIA was in her sixteenth
year. It was a small volume of poetry—a
mere pamphlet—and was only distributed
amongst the immediate members of the
Royal circle. A copy was sold at the sale
of the library of the Princess ELIZABETH
about two years since.
Queen VICTORIA'S prolonged absence
from any thing like public display, which
has given rise to considerable comment and
some blame, across the water, may be ex
plained, perhaps, by the circumstance—if
true—of her being engaged in writing me
moirs of her life and times. Snch a work
could not fail to meet with an immense sale.
It is to be hoped that it will not be so
mythical as NAPOLEON'S much-talked-of
Life of Julius Cress; which is the very
Mrs. Harris of biograpbies, and probably
has had no existence beyond its title.
The 66 Union Railroad ' 2 .Tob.
The monstrous scheme, the Union Rail
road, which is to cover twenty-four miles of
streets in Philadelphia, has passed the House
of Representatives, at Harrisburg, by 71 to
22 votes, on Wednesday. The bill was
called up by Mr. BAnnan, who seems am
bitious of being considered a railway king.
Amendments offered by Mr. COCHRAN and
Mr. COLEMAN were pooh-poohed. Out of
the seventeen Representatives sent to the
House by Philadelphia, only four voted
against the bill. These upright gentlemen
deserve to be named. They are Messrs.
WEST, Cocaarts - N, ECHOFIELD, and Mu,-
LER. It is to be hoped that the in
fluences which were brought to bear
upon a large majority of members in the
House of Representatives, may not suffice
to induce the Senate to pass a measure which
is not only unnecessary, seeing how largely
Philadelphia is gridironed with street rail
roads, but will actually be a decided nui
sance if even it be carried into execution.
If, contrary to the wish and the expectation
.of the citizens of Philadelphia, the measure
would receive the sanction of the senate,
the last, but a very strong, hope will be that
Governor CIIRTLN, who is well acquainted
with this city, will detect the jobbing
which hae created the monstrous scheme,
ail put his veto upon it. There ought to
be public meetings, in the various wards, to
get up petitions to the Senate and memorials
to the Governor against the bill.
LITTLB DICLAWARE COMING TO THE FAIR
Governor Cannon's address to the loyal citizens of
Delaware, on behalf of the Sanitary Fair, will be
found in our advertising columns this morning. He
has appointed committees for that State In this
city, and announces the general arrangements for
raising the fund to be contributed by Delaware.
Delawarinns are invited to make their donations to
the Delaware fund, wherever they may reside, and
we have no doubt that this invitation will be
heartily and liberally responded to by those who re•
side in Philadelphia. Many of our prominent and
useful citizens are natives of that State, and they
have a right to feel proud of the noble efforts of
Governor Cannon and his friends to sustain the Ga•
vernment in all its measures for the suppression of
the rebellion.
anorame THOMPSON. —By an advertisement in
our columns this morning, it will be seen that this
eloquent gentleman— a Orator of Freedom,” as he
is justly called—is to speak in the Academy of Musig
next Monday evening. Inx. Thompson's WeZellie,-
blished reputation for eloquence, his faithful ser
vices in England to this country in her time of
need, and the fact that he is a coadjutor of John
Bright and Richard Cobden in the cause of demo.
ara fi e freedom, are 011011.11ntanaes which win en•
sure Mr. Thump/Ken an enthusiastic reception from
the citizens of Philadelphia.
SALE OF CARPETING% MATTINGS, &c., This
MOR2I/24O.The attention of purchasers is requeuted
to the desirable assortment or prosier. m eaty
and stair, ingrain; venetian, list, cottage, and hemp
=pets, colt and Oanton matting., to be perempto
rily sold, by catalogue, on four months' credit, com
mencing tWa morning, at 10% o'clock precisely, by
John B, Myers E. Co., NO,. 222 and 234 Market at.
WAISIIINGICCON.
Wesmasproa, Marsh Si, 1884
General Grant in Washington.
.LLentenant Creneral aISAITT arrived in town from
the Army of the Potomac, about noon to-day, so.
companied by several members of his stair.
General Sheridan.
Lieutenant General GRANT'S appointment Of
General Snaninem to summed PLnesONTON ii /111(1
to give great nallormaion to the armp. He is a dash
ing cavalry officer.
Mr. Seward and Maximilian.
The foreign diplomats here affect to disbelieve the
story, recently no current, to the effect that Me.
Secretary SAWARD had promised to recognize the
coming Emperor XAN.DaILiAN, of Mexico, by send
ing a minister to Ids Court.
The Coemopolitan Diplomat.
Mr. War. ODEMBLL JBWETT has been notified by
the State Department bib national course is not ap
proved, and he will not be allowed communication
with the Government. Mr. JEWIITT, it is under ,
Mood, sent amemorial to Congress, claiming that Mr.
LINCOLN is constitutional President until a consti
tutional successor Is elected and qualified, and that
cannot be without a peace securing the oo.operation
of all the States in an election.
General Blair.
The announcement that General BLAIR will at
once resign Ids seat is premature. After his claim
to represent the First district in Missouri in Oon
areas indefinitely settled, and not until then, will he
take the field as commander of the 17th Army 00rOi.
The Style of Living in the Army of the
Potomac.
General GRANT does not seem to fancy the luxurl•
ous style of living prevalent in the Army of the Po
tomac. Era says he can maintain his physical in
tegrity on pork and beans, as soldiers do out West,
and believe. it can be done by them here. Caterers
to the delicate palate. of our officers are in spasms
at the report that the Lieutenant General is about
to banish their Wares from the lines.
Sutlers Ordered to Leave the Army of the
Potomac.
AR sutlers have been ordered to leave the Army of
the Potomac by the 4th day of April. This order is
tmderstood by many persons here to mean that a
forward movement will be made immediately, but
there is no ground for such a belief.
MaleHanle Omitted Despatehee.
It is stated at the War Department that Nicararr,
Lew, in his report to the Secretary of War on his
operations on the Peninsula, omitted nearly one
hundred bombastic despateher, including his great
"push them to the wall" despatch. It is not at all
roaikclp that an amended and correct edition of Ma
report will soon be published.
Mr. Lovejoy's Successor on Committee.
By common consent, the Hon. Joiner( B. Gum-
BELL, Of lowa, a clergyman, an anti•elsvery lea
turer, a shepherd, with a flock of six thousand fine•
wooled merino sheep, and the owner of a village in
which not one drop of intoxicating drink has ever
been sold, has been indicated to Speaker Cormex as
the fittest member of the House to takeDwint LOVE
JOY'S place in the Committee on Territories.
The House of Representatives and George
Thompson..
It the report of the House proceedings on Mon-
day it was stated that IS resolution, reported by
Mr. Assrmy, of Ohio, granting the use of the hall
of the House of Representatives to the Washington
Leeture association for the 6th of April, for the de.
livery of a lecture by Gummi THOMPSON, late a
member of the British Parliament, the proceeds,
after paying expenses, to be distributed among the
families of the District of Columbia soldiers, was,
on the motion of Mr. 110pLAN, of Indiana, laid on
the table. This was an error, as the resolution of
Mr. AbBLEIC was adopted by a vote of 63 to 40,
Contested Election Case.
The Election Committee of the House has decided
the contested election ease of Moliusury against
YEAMAN in favor of Mr. YEAMAN, the sitting mane
her. •
Ordered to Washington.
Captain M. J. ASCH, for some months past chief
of cavalry in the Department of the Northwest, has
been ordered to Washington to serve in the Cavalry
Bureau.
Our Force in Kansas.
It appears from an official communication of the
Secretary or War that the strength of our force in
Kansas and the Indian Territory, subject to the
orders of General ClElms, is 16.000 men.
Colonels Commanding Brigades.
The are 162 colonels now commanding brigades,
Without including those temporarily commanding in
the absence of proper brigade commanders. They
are thus distributed : In the Army of the Potomac,
33; Department of Cumberland, 26; Department of
the South, 7; of West Virginia, 11 ; of Tennessee,
23 '• of Arkansas, 12 ;of %Kansa", I; of the Gulf, ;
of Washington, 12 ; of Ohio, 14 ; of Virginia and
North Carolina, T.
The Health of Judge Taney.
The health of Chief Justice TANEY is so far reco
vered that he would have presided in court on Mon
day had the weather been pleasant. He Will , pre.
side next Monday, if the weather should prove fair.
A decision will then probably be given in the noted
Quicksilver Mining case.
Consul General Giddings.
It is stated that Consul General GIDDINGS will
leave here to-day for his post at Montreal.
Pay of Resigned Officers.
An order just issued by the War Department, de
signates the pay of officers resigning or dismissed as
follows: Officer on leave, who resigns, will be paid
to the date given to his acceptance of his resigns.
Don i officer on (Mtn_ who resigns, Will be paid to
date at which he received notice of the acceptance of
his resignation, provided he continued on duty till
that time, otherwise to the date when he was re
/ieved from duty. An officer on leave, when he is
dropped or dismissed from the military service, will
be paid lb the date, inclusive of the order dropping
or dismissing him, provided no other time be sped
fled in the orders as the date when his pay should
cease, or when he ceased to be an officer; and in
such case to date so specified. An officer on duty or
in hospital, when he is dropped or dismissed from
rainfall , service, will be paid to the date at which
the order dropping or dismissing him was received
at his post or hospital, if no other time be specified
in the order as the date when he ceased to be officer,
and, in such ease, to the date so specified. An officer
dismissed by sentence of court martial will be paid
to date when the order approving the sentence was
received at the post where the officer was, if no
other time be specified in the sentence, or in the
order promulgating it, as the termination of his ser
vice and pay.
The Scarcity of Sailors•
The Secretary of the Navy, in response to a Se
nate resolution of inquiry, says no transfer, of sea
men from the army to the navy have been effected
under the recent law of Congress, and thirty. five
vessels are now awaiting their complements of men.
Not only are these vessels awaiting crews, but the
terms of many seamen now in the service have ex
pired, and the men detained to man our ships,
though justly entitled to their discharge. Were they
not detained, many of the vessels now on blockade
duty would go out or service. This state of things
is to be deplored, and is in a great measure, if not
entirely, attributable to unfortunate legislation,
the enrolment act of last Congress having so utterly
ignored the naval service that enlistments in that
service were not permitted to be credited to those
communities from which they were drawn when the
draft came to be enforced. In addition to these
circumstances the distinction of extraordinary
bounties for al my enlistments, while not a dollar
was paid to the sailor, operated to discredit the
naval service, and held out strong inducements for
the military service.
The fact that a rigid enforcement of the law Would
bg disastrous in its effects upon the navy, was so
obvious that attempts were at once made to procure
such a modification of the draft, or the manner of
its execution, as should prevent the withdrawal of
mariners from the profession, and the inooryioration
and absorption of them in the army, thereby weak
ening and-crippling the navy. But the military au
thorities objected, as the strict letter of the law per
mitted no exemption of mariners trim the draft, no
'credit to any place for naval enlistments, nor in the
execution of the law was there any relaxation of
the enrolment, whereby the navy could be
strengthened.
Earnest appeals were made by the executives of
maritime States, many of the municipal authorities
on the subject claiming that naval recruits ought just.
ly to be credited on their quotas under the draft, but
it was not al:owed, and consequently the local intlib ,
ences became adverse to naval enlistments, and the
navy Itself- soon began to feel the effects of the
policy. Vessels which were . Intended for foreign
service, to protect
of commerce. some of which
should have sailed last autumn,. are yet without
their complements of men. A complement for our
whole force is required for the blockade.
The Secretary says there is undoubtedly a reluc
tance on the part of military officers to part with
any portion of their commands, but the true tote.
rests of the country is the paramount consideration,
and should govern in that question.
The Secretary recommends, in order to supply the
existing deficiency in the navy, that marines of not
less than two years' service should be transferred
from the army to the navy, without having any to
duction from the prize-money to which they may be.
come entitled ; that so much of the amendatory an
lolment act as withholds bounty from sailors trans•
ferred to the army be repealed. If legislation, as
he believes to be the case, has carried marines into
the military service, they should be taken out by
the most summary process and tranderred to the
navy, where their nautical education makes them
indispensable, but which education renders them no
more valuable than landsmen for the duties of a
soldier.
Important Order.
HEADQUARTIMR MIDDLE DRPARTMRNT,
STR ARMY UORPS, Bia.TIMORB, March 29, 1894
SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 79.
6. Col. WoHey, provost marshal Bth Army Corps,
is hereby directed to iisue instructions to his sub
ordinates to arrest any person instrumental in kid-
napping or enticing recruits from the limits of this
department. Those persons arrested will be held
subject to the action of the OevernOr Of the State.
By command of Maj. Gen. Wallace.
SAM.L. B..LELWRENOE,
.Aaatatant Adjutant General
Democratic Nominations in Rhode Island.
P.11091.14NOI; R. L , Marsh 31.—The Democratic
State Central Committee have announced the fol
lowing nominations for State officers; For Gover
nor, George H. Brown ; Lieutenant, Governor,
Henry Butler ; Secretary or State, Elisha R. Potter;
Attorney General, Walter S. Burgess; General
Treasurer, Henry H. Cooke.
New York Eveutug Stock Board.
NNEw ;lomat, March 31.—Stocks firm; Chicago and
Rook Island, ; Cumberland preferred, Sax ;
Illinois Central Scrip, 149„ ; Michigan Southern,
1173,1 • New York Central, 114714 ; Reading, 1567 i ;
Holic:ao niver,l623i ; Gold, 166 X.
The Raribin and Delaware Bay Railroad.
Tworrou March al.—Mr. Batmen, of Hudion,
this mornin g, introduced a bill into the Legislature
to repeal the charter of the Raritan and Delaware
lisp Railroad Oorapanr.
THE PRESS: PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 18C42
DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
Longstrcet's Whole Force Under Marching Orders
EAST TE fiNESSEE.
RETREAT OF THE REBELS FROM BULL'S OAP.
A Despatch from Parson Brownlow
Ortromwri, March 81.—A special despatch from
Chattanooga to the Gazette sapi that Generals Sher
leen4 Granger, McPherson, Sheridan, and Emir,
arrived at Ohattanooga on the 28th, and were in
council all day at General Thomas , headquarters.
.All was quiet at 'Ringgold. Generals Granger and
Sheridan Went to Knoxville on the 29th.
KNOXVILLE.
KrifixVILLII, March 28 —About sixty rebel desert•
era came into our lines during the past week, making
a total of over eleven hundred for the past three
months. They state that all of Gen. LongstreeWs
baggage has been cent back towards Richmond, and
that his whole force Is under marching orders.
Lad night a party of forty guerillas captured Mr.
B. Foster, of Blount county, and carried him off in
the direction of Marysville.
Col. Wolford left here on Saturday. He has been
summarily dismissed from the service by the Presi-
dent for expressing disloyal sentiments.
. -
11 - woxvna.m, Nara 81.—The rebels, after destroy
ing the trestle work at Bull'. GAN len back beyond
Greenville, and tore up the wagon and railroad
bridge across Pick creek, and carried off a portion of
the rails and telegraph wire.
Deserters continue to come in, and report that
large numbers are trying to make their way into the
Union linen.
Parson Brownlow te/egrapthi from Knoxville as
follows
' , General Sherman left this morning for Ohatta
nooga, after returning from the front. All is quiet
at Massey creek. Knoxville is so fortified that we
Can bold it against all Lee'l army.
" I.ongstreetfs tomes are at Water Gap, more than
100 miles east of here.
" A force of cavalry remains at Bull's Gap to pro
tect the retreat.
"I am still of the opinion that the rebels are in
tending forthwith to make a raid into Kentucky."
OUR ARMY IN ARKANSAS—rosztfoN or
THE REBEL TROOPS
FORT SMITH, Arkansas, March ao ~About ten
thousand effective troops have gone South from this
district. The whole number in the department un:.
der General Steele, now moving southward, is from
thirty to thirty-five thousand, sufficient to overpower
any rebel force opposed to them.
A scout from General Prioels rebel army reports
that General OabelPs rebel force is composed of
seven or eight regiments, and is fifteen miles this
side of Washington, Minouri. The rebel troops
were being moved toward. Camden. The rebel
General Gano has some seven thousand Texan at
Tennenoport. Generals 11Tarmiuluke and Shelby are
are at Camden. The rebels are well .applied with
clothing, and an importation of horses from Ragland
bail just reached them at Camden. A large number
of megrors were being concentrated at Camden.
Quantrell is south of the Red river.
PROCLAMATION OF GOY. EDWARDS TO
.THE OHOOTAWS.
FORT Sierra, Ark., March 30 —Gov. Edwards, of
the Choctaw Nation, baa issued a proolamation
urging the Indians of that tribe to return to their
allegiance to the Government, and repossess them-
selves of what they have lost during the past three
years, by associating themselves with the most tur
cursed foes that ever polluted their country.
CAIRO, March 80... The steamer Von Phul, twenty.
five hour' from Memphis, has arrived, with 279 bales
of Cotton for St. Louis. The Memphis Cotton market
has relapeed into inactivity, with few offers and no
inquiry ; rates unchanged ; receipts only by wagon,
and limited.
DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF.
DEFEAT OF THE REBELS AT NATCHITOCIEES.
Capture Of Four (inns and 200 Prisoners
ST. Louie, March ai.—The New Orleans Delta
of the 23d says that official information was received
this morning that a reconnoissance was made under
Gen, Mower to Natchitoches, seventsGflve miles
above /Uestandria, on the trot. The enemy were
met in some force, and a fight ensued, in which we
turned the rebels' fink, and captured four pieces of
artillery, with their caissons, and 200 prisoners,
.Evacuation or Camp Nelson.
LOUISVILLE, March 31.—The, Lexington Observer
says Camp Nelson, owing to a change of base for
supplies, has been evacuated, and the military stores
removed to Nashville. Rumors pre:Failed at Lexica.-
ton, on Tuesday, that many buildings at Camp Nel
son bad been destroyed by fire, but this assertion is
discredited.
LOUISVILLE.
LorriSViLLn, March 31.—The military authorities
here state that of the rebels Who crossed at Eddy
vine recently several have been captured and since
given themselves up under the amnesty proclama.
tion. The remainder are scattered. No further ap
prehension. are felt from the attack of Forrest , s
forces.
Two or three hundred mounted rebels have ap•
peered in 'Centricity this aide of Pound Gap. It is
supposed that they were (mewing the advance of
Lorgereet , o forces.
Our troops are ready for them in whatever nUm
bens they present themselves.
FORTRESS MONROE
POSIT Mormos,ll4larch 20.-oaptain Slicer, of
the revenue•outter Philip Allen, has raised $350 by .
subscription for the relief of the crew of the schooner
Alabama.
An easterly rain storm commenced t il, afternoon,
with high wind. '
CALIFORNIA AND THE SAND RICH ISL INDS.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 29.—Yesterday's des
patches from Oregon say that cold rains and Snow
prevailed over most of that State during the past
five days. Reports from the 'Upper Oolumbia will be
very encouraging for miners. There will be plenty
of snow on the mountains to supply water for spring
mining along the streams having mountain sources.
Sandwich Islands dates of the 121hiof March have
been received. They contain nothing important. On
the 7th Ina., a meeting wes held at Honolulu of
parties interested in the cultivation of sugar, cotton,
rice, tobacco, &e., for the purpose of Organizing a
planter's society.
OREGON, AND IDAHO.
Sax FRANCISCO, Muth ad—The steamer Golden
Gate airived last night from Panama. Oregon de.
spatchen received today contain - late nesis from
Idaho Territory, relating principally to the extra
measures made for the suppression of crime. The
Grand Jury of Boise county had returned twelve
indiatmenta for murders, sixteen for assault. with
intent to and one lor manslaughter. A vigi
lance committee, numbering 1,000 men, was making
a clean sweep of the villains infesting Beaver Head
county. They hung eleven men at Virginia City,
five at Big Hole, one at Deer Lodge, and seven at
Briar Root. The Indiana on Snake river are corn
milting great ravages. They are armed with rifles
and shotguns. The rush of emigrant' from Oregon
and California to Idaho is immense. The Dutch
ship ame/la sailed on the 28th for Hong Hong, with
saso,ooo in treasure. The late rains have been of
incalculable benefit to the agricultural and mining
interests.
The New Minletry,
MozcTsBAL, Maretl3l..—The Oeuirmllan Ministry
has been formed.
Sir E. B. Tache ii Premier Receiver General and
Minister of Militia.
Mr. Cartier, Attorney General for Canada East.
Mr. Gait, Flamm Minister.
Mr. Chapala, Commissioner of Public Works.
Mr. McGeer, Minister of Agriculture.
Mr. Langevin, Solicitor General for Canada East.
Mr. John A. McDonald, Attorney General for
Canada West.
Mr. Campbell, Crown Lana.
Mr. Foley, Postmaster General.
Mr. Simpson, Provincial Secretary;
Mr. Cockburn, Solicitor General for Canada West
The ministerial policy is stated to be the defence
of the country and the rendering effective of the
military force ; every effort to be made to maintain
and extend the reciprocity treaty; the readjustment
of the canal tolls ; the removal of the Government
to Ottawa City ; measures for the development of
the. Northwest and the improvement of the seaboard
communication,. The general policy of the Ad
ministration Is to be governed by those great con
stitutional principles which have so long guided the
mother country.
The House is to adjourn till the 3d of May,
The Illinois Rebels Dispersed.
NATTOON, 111., Elareh 21. Everything seems to
have resumed its usual quiet, and the rebels are
believed to have dispersed. The 47th Indiana Regi•
merit had left, and the 41st Illinois'Volunteer Regi.
meat will remain until the return of. Colonel Oakes
from Charleston, Illinois.
Destructive Fire at New Liberty, Ky.
thwomucem, March W.—The Enquirer has parti
culars of the burning of the entire business portion
of New Liberty, Ky. Eighteen families were ren
dered houseless by the calamity. The lon amount
ed to about $160,000.
Sr. LOUIS, March 31.—The Provost Marshal
General has ordered the seizure of Pollard's South
ern History of the War, the confederate Official
Reports, the Life of Stonewall Jackson, the Life of
Morgan, and all publications based upon rebel in
formation, and prohibited their circulation or sale
in this department.
The steamer Florence was sunk on the Missouri
river on Monday. She was valued at_ $50,000, on
which there is an insurance of $25,000. She was
laden with bacon, hemp, and grain, most of which
will be lost.
Probable Loss of the U. S. Steamer Thos.
A. Scott.
Naw Yonx, March 31.—1 t is feared that the U. S.
steamer Thomas A. Scott, from New Orleans, has
been lost off Cape Hatteras. She was towed .there
by the steamer McClellan, and let go, on the 22d, in
a gale.
The Continental, whieh arrived at Port Royal, re
ports that she fell in, on the 26th, oft' Hatteras with
large quantities of drift wood, including new furni
ture.
NRw YORR, Mareh closed thus evades
at 166. The receipts for duties at the custom - house
to-day amounted to $186,.000. including $llO.OOO in
gold certificates.
The demand for money at the close was brisk at I
per cent.
CAIRO.
KENTUCKY.
CANADA.
St. Louis.
NEW MEXICO.
DENVER CITY, March 31.—Santa Fe papers of
the 19th say that on the night of the 14th one wing
of the capitol building wu destroyed by firm Valu
able papers in very important law cases were de.
strewed.
The Gazette 'aye that letters speak encouragingly
Of the Artzoce gold mines.
Another fight was reported to have taken plaits
in Southwestern New Mexico between our troops
and the Apaches. Of the latter 46 were killed.
Major McFerrin, chief of General Carleton's
-Stain had arrived. He reports the unconditional
surrender of , the entire Navajo nation, numbering
nearly 6,000 Indians, who are being collected at Fort
Sumner. Some of them have large flocks, but a ma•
jority are destitute. To feed them Gen. Carleton
has been obliged to put his troops on half rations.
Col. Carson is to have charge of the Indians until
they are turned over to the Indian bureau.
Marine DiSlNterit.
PROvINCIETOWN, MM., March 31.—Thu ship
Staffordshire, from Kennebunk for St. John's, N.
8., which anchored in this bay for several days and
then disappeared, was today seenoff this place with
her masts an gone, probably out away. A vessel
bar gone out to her assistance.
A large • vessel was seen about four miles south
east of Chatham to-night, with her fore and main.
mast, gone, and the mizzenmast standing.
The 'Weather is very thick, with a brisk northeast
wind.
The brig Lydia. Stayer, Capt. Whitney, from Bel
fast for Alexandria, with a cargo of bricks and bay,
went ashore at the first cliff at Scituate, at 4 o'clock
this morning. The crew were 'laved. The vessel is
full of water, and her keel is gone.
The brig Nahant, ashore at Scituate, drove up last
night during the gale to near high-water mark. Her
bottom is completely out, and she will be a total
loss. Her cargo under deck will be mostly saved.
NEW YORK, March 31.—The steamer Admiral
Dupont, from Alexandria, reports on the 28th, 10
miles south of Absecum, spoke chip Wizard King,
hence for San Francisco, with lon of fore and main•
topmasts, mainmast•head, and mizen-topmaat was
steering south, and did not need any assistance.
Arrived, steamer John Rice, Port Royal; ship
Chancellor, Liverpool.
Disasters to the Fishing Fleet.
BOSTON, March St —Accounts from the fishing
fleet on George's Banks describe the severe gale of
the dad inst. About one hundred and sixty sail were
on the banks. bne schooner was dismseted and one
man lost. Several other vessels were badly damaged.
A Steamer in Distress.
New Yourc, March 31.—The steamer FultOn re•
ports falling in with a propeller in distress on Tues.
day night, which wanted assistance, but owing to
the terrible gale which was raging, was unable to
lay by her all night with safety, but did so until the
Fulton was nearly swamped. The propeller was a
large two-masted vessel, and had both engines
broken, and wished to be towed into some port.
[This ship was probably the Thomas A. SKIM]
Opening of Lake-Navigation.
Oswricio, March 31.—The bark Gibraltar ;failed
taday for Port Dalhousie, being the first vessel of
the 'mason.
Arrival of the Worth American.
PORTLAND, March 31.—The steamer North Ame
'lean arrived this afternoon.
Markets by Telegraph.
Berritrons, March al.—Flour quiet; Howard
street $6 66@6 62%. No Grain in market, owing to
the storm. Whisky dull; Ohio slo3@l.o4.'Groce
ries very firm, and• tending upwards.
Louis, March 31.—Ootton dull at 62a. for
low middling; receipts, 116 bales. Flour active,
with an upward tendency single extra, $6 26@6.50
double extra, $707.75. Wheat buoyant at sl4ou@
Lam ; prime, $1.46, to $1.48 for choice. Corn dult,
ranging from 920. to $1.03. Oats slow at 86@900.
SHIPWRECK OP A PHILADELPHIA VESSEL.—The
bark L, H. Hanead/, formerly of Philadelphia, but
now sailing under English 000rr, went ashore in the
gale on Saturday last, at 4 o'clock A..itt '
about
three miles above Fort Clark, on Hatteras banks.
She was from Nassau, and bound to Philadelphia,
loaded with sugar and honey. The master sup-
posed that the vessel was past Diamond Shoals, and
the wind blowing southwest freely. The crew were
saved. The pilot, named Gaskins, of Hatteras, was
drowned.- She has since, it is thought, broken up,
as her cargo is strewed all along the shore.—Neweern
(N. C.) Times, March 26.
XXXVIIIth CONGRESS--lst SESSION.
WARRINGTON'. March .91. 1989.
SENATE.
Mr. SHERMAN presented the memorial of the Oi:cin
nati Horticrottual Society, declaring that important and
beneficial ninths from the establishment of a Depart
ment of Agriculture had already become apparent,
taking away all apology for further timidleglelatton re
eardinre It. and therefore praying Congress to sustain it
with liberal appropriations from the public treasury.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, •
Resolutions.
On motion of Mr. POWELL, it was resolved that the
Secretory of War be directed to transmit to the Se, ate all
on ere that base been issued from hie Department, or by
generale of the army of the United Mates. math...rising
any Lawton or persons to take possession of any church
or churches, or house dedicated to the worship of Ood.
or houses or property belonging to any denomination of
Christie. sin the United States: and that he inform the
Senate how many churches, and how much property,
and what hind and description, has been talon posses
sion of, in pursuance of Sala orders. and where the same
is situated, and to what denomination of Christians the
property so taken belonged
On motion of Mr. PO WELL. It was
Resolved, 'that the Secretary of the Treasury be di
rected to transmit to the Senate the amount of money ex.
pinded. and the number of officers appointed, and sala
ries paid the same, to carry out the act of Congress en
titled. an • 'aet for collection of direct taxes In insurrec
tionary districts within the United States, and for other
Purposes. " approved June 7th. 1862; and that he inform
the Senate of the amount of money received into the
treasury from direct taxes in said insurrectionary as
islets, under the previsions of cold act, and the quantity
of lend ao:d for taxes in thee, districts
The Territory of Montana
_
The House bill to provide a temporary government for
the Territory of Montana was taken cipjon motion of
Mr. V? • Dk. the pending question being en the amend
ment of Mr. Wilkinson, to strike out the word " white"
in the fifth section. defining the qualification of voters
and eligibility to office within the territory.
The amendment was adopted
YE aS.
i Poster, Pomeroy.
iHrimes, Morgan, s ,
Hale. Morrill,
Harlan, Ramsey,
,Harris, Sumner,
ovr ard, Wade,
Howe. I Wilton.
NAYS.
Johnson.
Lane (.rid.),
.tlehmitb.
Powell,
Riddle,
t &Weber/.
Brown,
['hardier,
Clark,
Co!lamer,
Comm a,
Dixon,
I . totitiiden,
Foot.
Buckalow.
Cowan,
Cathie,
Davie,
Harding,
Bendereon.
The question being then on the final passage of the
bill. Mr. POW ELL inquired how many inhabitants were
in the proposed new Territory?
Mr. WADE repeated that there were twelve thousand
inhabitants on this side of the mountains and twelve on
the other, and that the population wee being rapidly in
creased on account of the new discoveries of gold_
Mr. 6DMnEIt would inquire what suggested the name
of the new Territory. Montana?
Mr. WADE could not answer this question.
Mr. HOWA.IB y ram enee to his Latin dictionary,
found that the wo r d referred to a mountainous country,
such as this was described to be. [Laughter ]
Mr. JOHNSON said if the object of Mr. Wilkinson's
amendment was to declare that tee Afr . can should have
equal political rights under this bill, be would suggest
that he would modify it so as to express an-h a purpose.
Mr WILED SON desired that nig amendment stead
in the form in Which had been adopted. so that neither
the word white nor black should appear in the bill.
Mr. SJMNSH considered that Congress was as Com
petent to interpret the meaning of the word' 'citizen" ars.
any other body.
Mr. JOHNSON bad a high respect for the Senator from
Massachusetts ; but notwithstanding his transcendent
abiiisies be was of the opinion. and he had the support
of many leaned judges, that the Question of the rights
of persons of African descant to ctt zenship was an open
ore. millipede so by the Constitution. He referred to the
decision in the Dred Scott case. and sale if the opinion
of the Senate was held in one hand and the decision of
the courts in the other. It was barely possible that the
weight of authority would be in the latter.
Mr LS raid the 'decision of the Mipreme Court Was
a disgrace to the land, and a libel to the law. bat not e
disgrace to the Supreme Court tLaughter.] The bill
was then pasted by a vote of 29 to S.
The Prohibition of Slavery.
Mr. SAULSBUXY addeessed the Senate on the joint
resolution to amend the Constitution to prohibit slavery.
He argued that it was the intention of the framers of the
Constitution "to protect slavery as a domestic institu
tion as it existed at the time of the formation of the
Federal compact." He denied that if this amendment
received the *emotion of three fourths of the Slates it
would affect those States which should protest against
it. The Constitution was a contract between sovereign
and equal States, to be construed just as any other con
tract's, as, according to its true meaning and purpose, and
Was not designed to regulate the title to property in the
• States, but for great common purposee,whictt could be bet.
ter odbserved by btates in the aggregate than separately.
We could not now propose there amendments to all th e
States, because tome eight or nine of them are out of the
Union, and we did not pretend to exercise control over
them. As for the border loyal States, Maryland agreed to
the policy of emancipation as a man would agree to deliver
his puree at the instance of a highwayman with a pistol
at his head. Would the Senator say that emancipation
in Louisiana and Arkansas was the act of the sovereign
People? Take away your bayonets, and not one man in
fifty would approve your amendment or react/Mae your
authority. You may succeed in Maryland. Delaware.
and Missouri in injuring those who have never injured
yOrt, but unless you can bring all the seceded States
nnderyour yoke, you will have accomplished nothing
by your proposed amendment to the Constitution; he
cause,.if the slave is need as a soldier, on recovery by
his master lets right to him remains unimpaired.
Mr. CLAIK contended that, under the Constitution,
there were some things we were prohibited from doing
—to revive the slave trade, or plea a card , ation
As the Constitution nowhere prohibited us from abo
lishing slavery, it is clear that we mar do so He
arguect that slavery cored its giant growth to the Con
dilution. though not created by it. It was planted la
it. and has bean fenced round and protested by it, so
that no power short of the amendment of the Constitu
tion, as now proposed, could root it out, so that the fear
ful destruction of our sons on so many fields could be
dispensed with.
'I he results of the present war are the growth from
the seed of slavery. warmed into life tinder the Con
stitution. He would not blame the patriotic founders
.1 this Government for their ante became' they ware
surrounded by difficulties and did as well as they,
could. Washington besought his countrymen to cher
ish and preserse the Union. but his own State was the
first to be the theatre of war for those in arms seeking
to overthrow it; and, sad to say, his own home cannot
to day be visited without the accompaniment of a
picket guard. Slavery after having abused its prero
gative under the Constitution to lush an alarming ...-
tent, now deserved to die. Slavery being the ward of
the Constitution. had endeavored to smite its guardian..
Be now was in favor of revoking the letters of guardian
ship. Be believed that. like Pharaoh, when he would
not let the people of God go, curses would come upon us
if we did not in this monition, hour abolish slavery.
Mr. DAVIS moved the following amendment an a sub
stitute: That no negro. or person whose mother or
Grand mother is or was a negro. shall be a citizen of the
United States. or be eligible to any civil or military
offlee.'or to any place of trust Of under the United
States; on which be called the yeas and nays. No quo
ruin voted, and the Senate adjourned.
t 0143 :sp an Dpail ; 014
Mr. bllatiNOXl, of Onlitornia, from the Committee on
Indian affairs, reported a Senate bill providing for the
better organization or Indian affairs in California. He
xplained that it consolloated the two Superintendenciaz
into one, provided for Belling the present reser rations.
and locating the Indiana on more appropriate reserva
tions. to each of V/ Mob is to be assigned an agent—the
General Superintendent to receive a salary °IS:3 000. Be
advocated the bill oa the ground of economy to the
Government and benefit to the Indians. The bill was
pasted.
The Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad.
The Bente then resumed the masideration r I tee bill
declaring the Raritan and Delavrare Bay Railroad and
boats to be poet and military routes.
Mr. GARYIBLD. .1 Ohio. resuming his remarkafrom
last Week, said he bad already attempted to show from
ogicial documents that the moans of communication be
tween Washington and New York are notoriously insuf
ficient for the purposes of Government,and that one line
not being eufficient to do the-business. tit refaeal for the
nee cf an additional line was in fact an ink ibition of
transit across New Jersey, and the rights of commerce
The Camden and Amboy OVIIIPaIIY was an odious mo
nopoly. and to prove this he referred to a vol.
tone published by that company, calling It the
blue book of New Jersey. and the register of
greatness and official dignity, by Which it appeared
they had taken New Jersey under their protection,
and censure or praise that btate as It aceords to their
Wishes or not. Their wealth was unpresedented sod
their charges unjust. Their tufting. merit on all the laws
Of trade wee outrageous. He wished that everybody
would read Governor Parker's proelaynation If the
Governor bad only consulted Galhonn. he would have
found hie State. rigcts doctrine much more plainly state&
end in better English. in constnelon, he expreSsed the
hope that the House would squelch out the monopoly.
The Bank Bill.
The subject waspaeeed over , and the House wept into
Commitee of Ike Whole on the national bank bill
fer. BTBVSeB. ft Pennsylvania. offered a aabititola
A r the thirtieth aeetiom, etth , a view to resti,re the a fen
rev couture interest on loony, dleconnte. &c.. the com
mates having let.terday reduced It to Fast 11113 pro
vided it 'ball not be greater than the rate established by
law in States where finch Institutions bhalt ba located.
Mr. MINIMS maid if the boa' ChoCee 10 casette
below 'even per °enfant they ocrud de It, aa,Ptel:e waos
Inothing in the law which compelled men to deal with
them. He would regard the vote on this amendment as
s test question affectlngthe par age of the bill.
Mr. BLAINE, of Maine, in reply said the banks could
i take lees than the legal rates without authority of this
bill. The successor this scheme depeaded on driving
I State banks out of existence. He proposed a comer°.
I seise. providhstr the interest shall be at the rate establish
ed by law In the State where the association is located.
not to exceed seven per cent. He spot e for one section
of country, and for twenty years the New England States
have charged elx per centam, and. there had never berm
such a plethora of money as there was toeless seeking
w in o v u e l s a tme s n a t d l o f ne stv i e z n th pe nt r c o e r n a tti eh l t e n ho w nl ax d b e e v a ar dop b r e ed for i e t
Paid, falling on mechanics and men of eeterprise.
Mr. HOLMAN. of Indiana, said the common Judgment
of the country was against a higher rate of interest than
six per (sputum. Seven per rectum was higher than was
charged elsewhere on the face of the civilized earth.
Mr. BABSON. of lowa. adverted to Mr. Stevens' sub
tateltenbteetr,
n an ow d d es t id y t ti hr a t le th i e eg l w aw iat n w o n w . proposed Th ;t r i e d
p n ro t . t
posed WAR designed to make the member , ' uniform. and
the regulation of interest was justi fi ed under the consti
tutional clans, that the inter• State commerce shall be
under the control of Congress. ecti on ' b h °
Mr. RICKY. of California. was In favor of an amend•
went that the rate of interest shall not exceed the rate
established by the law of the State In which the bank is
established, and argued that the question of interest did
net effect the uniformity of the currency.
Mr. PIKE, of Maine, said they were seeking to tax
labor, not in behalf of the Government, but for the be.
nt fit of bankin g capital.
Mr. ALLEY. of Mteeacbneette. did not believe in
tinkering the bill as it came from the able. intelligent.
careful, and wise Committee of Ways and Means, but
by way of compromise he offered an amendment, pro
viding that any State shall have the right to rodeos the
rate of interest below seven per centum, as applied to
s nv institution under this set within its limits, and pro
viding further the rate of interest so estab.ished shall
not be less than the legal rate of interest In said State .
Mr Alley's amendment, together with others, was re
jected.
bir. STEVENS appealed to the committee to take , the
Question on his substitute, and determine whether in
tenet shall be uniform or not, and not attempt to mar
the proportions of the bill, and change it from :the
purpose it was intended to accomplish.
Mr BRIGGS. of Michigan. expressed his views in
favor of interest being regulated by State law.
Mr. PIKE, of Maine, said the country could not have
a more uniform currency than greenbacks. but this bill
proposed to drive them out of circulation, by the substi
tutlon of three hundred millions of notes issued by the
banks.
Mr. COLE. of California. remarked that there was no
reason why the States should not have control of the
Wert st TLe notes odic be nude uniform by the parsons
establishing these banks.
Mr. MILLER. of New York, opposed the regulation of
interest by-the States. It should be left to Congress, in
order to have a stable and uniform system of banking.
Mr. Stevens' substitute was agreed to. in effect re
et- ring the original thirtieth section, which provides
that every association may receive, charge. or retain on
any loan or discount made, or upon any note, bill of ex
change, or other evidence of debt. interest at the rate of
seven per cent= per annum. The knowingly taking,
receiving, reserving. or charging a greater rate of in
terest, is to be held and adjudged, a forfeiture of the
entire interest. Those paying it may recover back. in
action of debt, twice the amount of interest thus paid .
The zeceon designating places of redemption was
amended so as to include St. Louis. Louisville, Chicago.
Nen Orlow s,-Gincinnati, Baltimore, Pbitadelphia. Bog- -
ton. New 'Stork, San Francisco, Detroit, Pittsburg„ Al
bany, Cleveland, Milwaukee.
Mr. BLAINE, of Maine, moved to insert Portland,
Mr.
Mr. PRANK, of New York, moved Buffalo. both of
which amendments were agreed to.
Mr. WILSON. of.lowa, moved to make New York the
only place of redemption .
Messrs LtOo rim and STEVENS opposed the motion.
Mr. BROOKS regarded this as a business like and
Practicable proposition. New York being the only mone
tary centre and the only place where a uniform ear
muff' can be obtained.
Mr ALLEY. of Massachusetts, and Mr. RANDALL,
of Pennsylvania, opposed the amendment. the latter
viewing it es an attempt to strike down the financial
interests of 'other cities, including Philadelphia. He
hoped the Eonse would sive it a quietus.
Mr. WILSON defined his amendment, showing the
financial adVaniagea to the West.
Mr. STIVEIeS moved to substitute for Mr. Wilson's
max dmeist that the beteg of each national association
snail be received by every other national association at
nee He was opposed to centralizing redemption in a
Mettle city.
Mr MORRILL. of Maine, said if Mr Stevens' amend
ment was adopted there was an end of the system, and
be hoped when the House came to vote on the amend
ment the committee have adopted they would reject the
little villages added as places of redemption.
Mr. Stevens' amendment was rejected by a vote of El
against 65.
The amendment of Mr. Wilson, making New York the
only place of redemption. was farther discussed. Mr.
Davis. of New Yerk. speaking in favor, and Mr. Moue
of Missouri. against it.
Mr. WILSON. of lowa. repeated his object was to se
cure a lower rate of exchange and uniform system of
currency
Alter fartherdebate. Mr. Wilson's amendment was re
jected. by 27 es Sinet 63.
Mr. ELDBIDGE, of Wisconsin. moved an amendment,
proposing the notes shall be redeemed in gold. He
knew this was ont of fashion. but desired coma gentle
man on their aide to. inform him when the notes were
so be red eemed. and in what article.
Mr. SBANNON. of California, would answer the gen
tleman Silas would tell him when he (Mr. Eldridge) and
his friends would cease their crocking and efforts to un
dermine the confidence co the people in their Govern
ment, thereby aiding and comforting Jeff Davis. and
farther, if the gentleman would tell the house when he
and his friends would help to close the war. ThePaclfic
coast would help materially to pay the gold.
Mr. ELDBIDGS said he and his friends would give
their aid and sympathies to the other side when those in
-rawer Wined give them the old currency of the fathers
would restore the Constitution which they had wrested
away, and when they would unite in the restoration of
the Union.
No further action wag taken on the bill_ .
. . .
The committee rose at five o'clock. and the Holum
adiourned.
.. ...
Rev. Mr. Beer:flees Lecture Last Eve
ning.
" Power, and the Law of its _Distribution."
Last evening, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered,
before a large and intelligent audience, at the ilea.
demy of Music, his new lecture on " Power, and its
Distribution." The- attendance was not quite so
large as on the two previous occasion on which he
addressed Philadelphians this lemon, but was,
nevertheless, by the number and character of the
auditory quite coMplittlentilly to the distinguished
orator. Mr. Beecher was received with much sp.
plause. he spoke as follows :
We are living in an age trunk' of great events, and
all Europe is on tip-toe of expectation. No man there
believes that any nation or alliance of nations has
reached stability. Government forbode. and prophesy
sensing changes. Is the human race in the line of de
velopment and growth_ and are these changes that are
coming or expected but so many accompanying snap
toms of this growth ? or are people sad nations, like the
sea, subjscied to periodical storms that mean nothing,
and that lift up their waves high with much noise and
confusion- and afterward leave the ocean just as it
was? Do tie alelances- among nations in Christen
dom mean enly the strife of passions and of ambi
tions, of greed and of selfishness? They are of no
more value than the raging of hungry wolves. Bat
if they are, the *coma let le bat wee , . good and evil,
and on the: whole strengthen tie good. If they
ate battles between truth and falseness that meet
with some defeats. in which the truth steadily triumphs,
then nothing can be more important then the study of
these things Is the race growing? are these swarming
and severe conflicts growing pains? Then we will
with patience bear them. Ts there any such thing as
social law ? that is, do societies form around the divine
principle and do they in all their whirls obey certain
inter for Axed lath% ? Is the world like some grand tree,
amellated in storms. and yet growing stronger with
every summer? Is the world still coming out of the
conflicts nearer to the divine idea, but spreading with
more branches, with wider roots, which take firmer
hold in the earth, thus enabling itself to sl d. battle
with and resist the storms ? It makes a good deal of
difference as to Low theta questions are answered;
if there is no destiny of nations. no principle which
may turn all events to good, why mould we trouble
ourselves about philanthropy - or religion, and such
other visionary things ? But if there tea law and line of
development, and if, under-the stormiest aspects, good
is surely there.b all our faith le ()odour trust on his go
vernment. our hope in men, we will hold on; and.
clothed withphilanthropy and armed with religion. we
Whl labor Milli to the very end to the upholding of the
racer. Let us', then, see what are the facts in this mat
ter. Every man is conscious that he is ni +de up
of a variety of different forces; that there is a differ.
ence of value attached in his own conscions
nese to his forces of which he is m, de up. Just
in order of time is the human body with its pleasures
and paine, its weariness and buoyancy. In Sound
health, anti with moderation on every side so that the
plemenre of the whete i, not sacrificed to the inordinate
treed of on s t andse parts of the ground , not to bounder
- veined. square on the and is enbject
to the laws of matter. It sins and Is sinned against. bat
after all a good body is an excellent thing, to ough I have
heard with much edification what saints have written,
and I have considered she lessons of anchorites. anti I
am unable to see what stunt could lie ein this world
without a body, or with one from which had been ex
tracted all its appetites and passions; for a body Without
appetites and passions is a stove without a fire in it, an
engine without steam. a body without appetites sad'
passions is a body or death. But every one is conscious
that God la. given him elements that are nobler even in
his own judgment. There are parts of him that are of
more authority than his physical endowments. Some
men thin k their friendships are higher than their Physi
cal strength, which is true. The husband le higher tnan
the husbandman . the father. among his Children is ewe
that he is living in a higher sphe. e than when he is at
his physical Work. Every intpiration of his labor ana
skill is in his domestic love. The physical strength of
every man bows down to the affections. There
are times when men are raised to a conscious.
nese that there is a higher element than the do
mettle affsc'hins; for one's country, a man will forsake
wife and child; for one's God, one will give up life
itself; and when a man is so fortunate air to be borne by
sacred inspiration np to that point where heroic duty
fills him with its sacred spirit, he is then sure that these
moral Bespiritnal elements are the bigt est of all in
him. Be is then more sure that he le a man. and
although he does not despise the physical qualities.
he looks down from the spiritual upon them all, and
recognizes in the epiritnal a higher rank above the
material:- This statement of the law of superior and
inferior, as recognized by men in themselves. may
be further stated as the highest, the intermediate,
and the lowest. The lowest is the physical man
working for physical results. In this class men are
subdivided again into those Who work with little in
telligence for present good. In proportion as they bring
More intelligence t r ansientr. an e skill applied, they
rego. results not and theirrank is higher; thus
Works the difference between the laborer and the en
gineer, both of whom concern s themselves with material
nastier, but one brings han dw ork . ref intelligence that is
higher than the mere This works the
difference between the artist and the artisan, both deal
ing in. material matter; but one works from a higher
stand-point than the other. All avocations and profes
sions take rank as they employ noble attributes. The
highest power in this world is the spiritual; the lowest la
the physical, the intermediate is the social. This isnot so
because men have agreed it should be so No power is
the world can reverse it. It is the divine' arrangement,
and men agree to it because it refers to something im
planted within them. Human society itself is ranked
and classed upon this principle Society classifies itself
Just as tbe indlvid.aal man. Men are not of the eaffie
power and. value. There is a difference in intenetY
in the same thing. Superiority and inferiority form the
intrinsic excellence of one man over another. It is trim,
In - a limited sense, that nip speaks right when he gays.,
standina you r himself, Who means ? hasass good
a man as' are. if 'by that hehe mach
right to live as the other, or that he is the equal in the
eyes of the Make, ; but 11 it Man Wh 3 lives in lila baser
fecultiee says to a man who lives in the superior. sack
a thing, he utters a falethood; the highest man is the
mowho has the most moral power : that is to say, first,
re of that which touches God than that which
touches his fellowman, and last, that which touches
the earth. There is a vast difference between men; not
a diffbrence by how mush he is worth in the pocket; not
by how mesh there is in the arm, or in physical strength.
It ii essentially a moral difference that separates one
man from anoteer. Society exists in gradations. There
are many men who suppose that when the day of perfect
democracy comes. eoclety will be a perfect prairie. Not
at all. We mean by democracy that there shall be no More
hind ranee to men loving that nature which God gave
them. Men arelmade differently. and have aright to be all
that they are; bat they have no particle of right to say
more than they are, it exists in the nature - of thinks.
beginning With inalviduare and multiplying Itself until
it forms classes in society. Is there anything 1 n demo.
drat, or the doctrines of equality that shall prevent the
gradations of society ? That some are on the top, some
in the middle and some at the bottom. Alter all`disguises
are thrown off men will take their places in society ate
cordis gto this inevitable law. The man who lives In
the lowest nature rank last in some Every man
Will ta v ie wsvel, and nothing up o n event it.
Thesewill throw light many questions of
government, and It is wise to go-back to the elements of
things in discussing questions of government. Kos
narchy is the legitimate and rightful government of a
People who live in their Boniest natures; you can't go
vern them in any other way. (Applause.] There can
be no other government over physical men than a phy
sical government, for the physical Ulan is susceptible of
beinggoverned no other way. It to a greakpity that
there should be ebsolute monarchies, but the Vey is not
so mach that there ahoold be monarchies, but that these
should be people who cannot get along witnout
them. The proper care for kings is the sovereign peo
ple. [Applause I Make every man's home his king.
dom. and every man's house his castle, and__yon will
make more of him a government is rulers. Monarchy
may be a bad way of but 14 is the best way
where the people are in a bad change ignorance. As
nations grow in intelligence, a of government
will inevitably take. place. This is tne necessary form
of government, adapted to the lowest natures;
but as nations grow, men act as plants Which grow
quickly in the spring Was. In communities the men
is t h ecoon
o c n t theas
these,
h k
e i n stia. g
as. theyoryessom e
hun
dredmgit
most sensitive to culture are those that come first bud-
As
f
ding forth in the spring time—men of asperation ; the best
men. In the progress of nations' the men neho develop
d es ict s a ta te na to
himt b e m
end
v
of government ,
11 l intelligence , ,
they are
a competent
tak tot t h
a t alt t,
men, or a thousand men, in a hlmgdom that,
e
o re .
vonxiant. Ton have an aristocracy. W.knt is WS
thornily ? A collection of the best •Iman. The mis•
take of aristocracy is in supposing yam, bays the beet
men when 'S on nave not. fApplaneea The beet men
sal are theta who are to be elevate s Into Mace, not by p
favoritism. bat by the fact that May. have Gol's ° cell
leg and election in therm 'they areettent
na nra ariseci.
ere te. Themais who think b t.
s es es over a tby
virtue of a ballot, but by vi rt ue , O Ordinatio n-by air
tue of the feet that "1...,” s ee
become inituantial by v i , tuit Is not; theta men
_ came ca use These In the
Kenning ai istocrscy. compared wish monarchyeseisto
crecy has this advantage it isulicates more men that ere
lit to govern. itrietocra's gra al melt-governed. it must
be I aid titbit aristocracy is the half way house. between
monarchy end democracy. Dionarchy is the koweq and
ChriStiltO democracy is the highest; areetocreey is any--
Where -between. [Applause.]] IJOMPared With dattio-
MeV, It is not the best retrocession. flompired
With rhonarshy, it is a defence and Progre&s. ant either
Norm', it , a a natter al end inevitable condition of car
te% stages Of vies:laity. Where you. here a sieve who
ere unilmmined -wb va you have you.,
tutelligance oa
the top of t othety—there, there is anitevitable ariatoers.
cy, fcr the superior forces are eaten Thesetenperter
farces ars the rulers of eoci.ey. andy on can' . help it.
1?4 litYr vim fix it Pig than^ 4h 'aid
Sherman.
Ten Eyck.
Trumbull.
Van Winkle.
THE CITY.
mile quicker to the to of the monntainlnth co e u lfl u ern y th ou r
than the bottom what leg islation
the
hinder it from leaving the bottom el _T....a_
Min first? Down in the valleys the s u n
imager in reachin and the light , of day hastens
soon away. To catch g,
the light of day while the day lasts,
you tenet be on the top of the mountain: a ,A, r./ 6 _ l _ oo _
then. to inevitable. There are all kind. or iste . cre n ere_
natural and political ones. The law of society 1..... gen L ir a:
real as the dogmas of the physical world. w
say aristocracy is good, we mean to say that a ester
man has a right to begreater than a less one. gr
The
tendency towards nature developer itself
in all the walks of life. The man that statute bast among
his fellows is the luau who Lan aristocrat in the origi
nal signification of the term. Among machinists. there
is a clads recognized as the superior glass of machinists.
Do they oppress their inferiors? No; they are superior
by their nature There are men in every nrofeesion who
are better than the rest, and we say of- them that they
stand at the head of their Profession; they couttitute
a natural aristocracy. I claim the right of that; I
say of these men that they are the national leaders and
benefactors. They are the elder brethren in the church,
and are to be looked upon with thankfulness and honer;
and wherever in any class of men one rises to tie head,
that is the place he belongs to And Se nature vindicates
herself in all trades and. callings You can't have the
most casual company that has not the cream on top
and the skim milk at the bottom. [Laughter.] Any
law of prejudice or philosophy that militates taming
these facts as one that tends towards degradation. There
is however, a political aristocracy that is °thong, created--
not by the natural order of things. but by ye ivtleges ;
this political aristocracy confers Powers and tee_
mutates, prerogatives and possessions, to which,
in the natural course wi s hings. they are not en
titled. Now. if you to know the average
character of any community you must examine neither
the top nor the bottom you must examine from the
bottom to the top. and that will tell you. Teleeetioe and
eenere of every kind tends to liberalize ani strengthen
the brains. The common people become more and more
susceptible of thinking The aristocracy that is in a
free community is very BOOK changed into a de
m ecracy, from the fact that men in the lower
natures are rising up. until the majority get there -
The first fruits of knowledge ennobles. and the
body in the State grows larger and larger, and. by and
by. aristocracy becomes a mere name Democracy is the
final fern: of self-government of man. The lower men
are. the more power must be in the hands of 'he Govern
ment. Good Government, taking in the democratic
form, distributes power into the hands of the great mass
Of men until the State is democratic, and, by the natura l
order of things, power grows lees and lees in the heels
of the Government Where there is virtuous intelli
gence—where there is Christian culture in the nation—
where men sizeable to govern themselves—there is less
and lege for the Legislature to do. Wherej settee prevails
in the community. the Legislature is robbed of the one
tunity of making Dims; and it is the point at which we
are coming to have little done by letisiative bodies; with
less need of legislation comes more wisdom in the indivi
dual man. The analogy of power in the Government will
be seen to be not a mere delusion. When you loot into
civil society. you find it broken up into professions—in
other words little aristocracies. for professions are aria
tocrseite. What are these bodiee of men who eive them
selves to the study of medicine '(hey are men who
know More On the subject of medicine thn tsi el
lows; they, therefore, bare the right to be a r is to cr at.
There is many a nurse. and many of the best of all
manes, mothers; many a plain man of homely sense
who is not ashamed now to bring up a family without
a doctor. There is many and many a person that alike
tho physician "What is this that you give me. and what
is the expected effect?' Many and many are eitting In
judgment at to the reepectirs merits of homccoPithr.
al mouthy. hydroparhy, and all the other patties; and
the greet community. growing more intelligent, aye
becoming a court and jury before " which even scientific
questions ate in their ou ts ide
practical application being
adjudged : and thus outside public sentiment is having a
most beneeciat effect upon the nature of the aristocracy
and profession of medicine - ,
So with regard to art. -There was a time-when appre
ciation of the uses and beraty of it was suppoe•ti to be
incommunicable—an acquirement of better natures
which could not be taught. But, as the papers spread
the elements of knowledge, as books anthems pabtished,
and as the sense of the community is developed, taste is
formed (for taste is but common sense applied to the ale •
relents of beauty), and the great mass of the community,
though they have not got so high as to be able to India
artists are momma up to that point. and now art Itself is
about to pass before the great tribunal of the common
people.
It is the same or law. It is complained that the c nazi
is not so exalted and reverend as it used to be. I tell
you that the national development of democracy take,
away such reverence; you cannot make common people
of intelligence believe that they have a god in their pre
sident, or an angel in their judge. They know he has
like passions with themselves' and ati the knowledge of
law increases among them. tee distance between she
people and the aristocracy of the profession decreases
and wholesomely decreases.
I must confess. too, that the same thing is true with
respect to the pulpit and the church, and that lathe high
est compliment which can be paid to the pulpit and the
church. It ie to say that the pulpit has so educated the
people that they are becoming their own priests—that
they are capable of judging of the things which pertain
to salvation. In the community, the sober common
sense of dtscrest Christian men enables them to prey to
Him that revealed God to them, thus setting the great
mass of the common people free from the necessity of
leadership. advancing them more and more to an inde
pendency of thought, and giving them
_more and more
the feeling that they have she right to fudge And the
distance between the pulpit and the people will be less
and lees. Jut as the pulpit has been faithful
in its instruction to the common people. NOW where
there is outside of the church and outside of the pulpit
the great humanity of such moral development.in which
the special officer of the Gospel may go. he will become
more of a man, and purer in sympathy. I think-that
the average decisions of the conscience of the community
on any welt understood moral topic are much wearer the
tenth than the decisions of the slags of men who are
educated to professional religion; and I world rather
take on any question of morals the common conscience
of the community than of my own brethren. In the
meat questions that have been presented for adjudication
within the last twenty-five years, the decisions of the
conscience of the laity led those of the ministry.
Deduced from these great principle. are some great
inactical truths which it behooves ns to consider. And
first. the power of a State is in the individual citizen.
Go stand by the aide of the Delaware or of the Sus
quehanna; see the volume of water rolling down
in its unobetructel course. Whence came this ?
Did it bubble up from the channel? Go back;
trace that river to its source, and find, as you pro
teed, that the river divides itself into smaller and
smaller factors; and as you trace each stream it becomes
a branch, each branch a rill. and the rill is born and
Musically bubbles up in the hill. Of all this volume of
Water, the factors are little bubbling springs- How
small and insignificant they are. Yet, without them,
there could be no river.
Now, we look upon civil society and we say that it is
all-important that its laws be maintained; that its con
stitution be insect, and its inatimuone preserved In vio
late. If this was a part of the general sacredness of go
vernment; if you we rebut as sensitive for the welfare of
every individual citizen, and for the maintaioance of the
laws and institutions and the Constitution, on account
of their beneficial relation to each citizen,- I should go
with you; but you will find in ages where the poor and
feeble are neglected and despised, where men are depriv
ed of theirj mit rights, there is a most intense superstition
in rewire to tt e Uonesitution. Fur we have heard a great
tutery on the suiject. It is as if the tellool-hone
should' be preserved and the children neglected.
Which is the best, the law. or the citizen wno is to
be benefited by the law? What are laws but God's
harness, by which men are better enabled to carry
their loads? In any State, the source of State power
is the individual citizen, and your taws might perish:
Yet. if the citizens are intact, you suffer none. Your
wealth may be destroyed; if you have the men
who predated that wealth little loss is saffsred.
Burn warehouses and ships. and leave the makers of
them untouched. and you have not lost much. It le
men that makes the State powerful. In this regard
there is nothing so sacred as manhood. The measure
of refinement in a community is the way in which
man acts towards a woman; so the measure of refine
ment in a State is the way in which are treated the
poor . and feeble—those who cannot defend themsdeee.
bhow me the State where the weak are politically
strong, and I will show you a state approaching point•
col prosperity- show me one where the poor are do wn
troad en, anu I will show yon one tending to monarchy.
Secondly. you cannot oy _etiolation or any degree of .
Philanthropy raise any class of men faster than you San
educate.them individually and in classes. We have
said that therein in society a law of gradation, based on
Om - degree of development of men's minds The true
way in which to make a man strong is to idevelop that
which exalts him—the understanding and the moral
sense. Four millions of men are, in the providence
of God, Put on our hands.
There ie a vast amount of conversation as to what we
shall ao with them Surely there never was a present
which jerusidence gave, which so perplexed the reci
pients. as this present of four millions of Africans to us.
We have been praying "Thy kingdom come." and Ohm
come with a vengeance. (Laughter. ) A portion of the
people say that tae natural state of Oxeye men is servi
tude. There is noton this round globe that inirdan being
for whom Christ dies. whose natural state is servitade•
(Appianee. ) There is another portion who say that
these men are our brethren. who are to be taken t s our
arms and household, who are to mingle blood with our
blood
Yenow-citizene, you cannot make more of a man by
lei !elation. ashy philanthropy. than le in him. If he Is
I our inferior with respect to the part developed, hots
your interior, and voting rthilanthrophically that he le ,
your equal will no: make him so. [Applause. Now.it
Is better for us to look upon these. men just as they are.
lied not deceive ourselves by mysticisms of philauthro
ply any more than the cajolereis of politics. Here are
four millions of men. belonging to a race that has
not been hared itarily educated.placed among people of a
race that has bean tame educated. They have been in a
condition in which knowledge has been systematically
withheld from them. Now, can you by a vote put time
men on an equality in society with yourselves? yon
cannot. It is not in the power of Omnipotence Himself
to do it without working a =treble; for there lea law;
and that law which makes some superior to others in
society, becanee their understanding and moral nature
lies been more developed, pertains to this people, They
ate undeveh ped, and therefore they must take the plan
that belongs to undeveloped human nature. The African
race is our inferior, and you cannot Make them any bet
ter except by system. , ic edncstion continued through
generations. Wbat must yon do, then? Take off every
resale, ion to the development of theirmanhool Hither
to, of manhood they have not had any. Give them
that: they have a right to it, Every man is Ni
tta* d to that which Ord made him, Ttiongh born
no, er theeheckles of a master, if God endowed him
with a poet's genius, he has a right to be a poet; if God
gave him an orator's tongue , he has a right to be an ora
tor. as to Fred. Douglass. [Applause. ] Man has a right
to be just what God made him Tate off bonds,
then; remove shackles, and let these men be,
if not your equals, just what they are in
their own right. Give themselves the Prover means,
in education. for development. Then let oppor
tunity be opened for them; let no prejudice
hinder them from any livelihood; let there be enough
Christianity and brotherhood in ns to say to these men:
00, and do what it is in your power to do. by your in
dustry, intelligence , and skill." When they have got
their manhood been, and developed their mind by edit
cation, let us see where they stand; if they are up hare
tt ey are np here, if they are down there they are down
there. [Laughter and applause.] It is a question of
fast, and not of theory. So far as lam concerned, lam
welling to take my chance [Applause and laughter. ]
There are a great many that are not. With my an
cestors, educated for flee hundred years, I ought
to have a start which will enable me to keep re
sPectably above them. Bat if there are any thud
VoPperheade that are afraid of this race, we will have
special legislation mace for them. [Laughter ] There
have been mei, who seemed in the agonies of mortal
fear on account of this incoming of Africans They say
wears about- to bring upon them men (who are to sur
pass them in skill and in thrift, mail they themselves
ould be downtrodden in servitude. All. I have to say
is that, when any white man shall and hinnzelf, in a
fair way. under a negro S foot, he ought to be there !
[Meantime and applause.]
Fair play! Let men have their manhood; let them
have proper Christian Instruction and education, and
then.let them take their lot and chan d e velopment nd
etend high or low. just as the normal of
their faculties puts item, high or low on the scale That
is the way they must stand among themselves. and that
is the way they must stand among us /am not in favor
Of making them beoflusethey are black, .1 superiors
nor my infection. Color has nothing to do with the mat
ter. The test is natural force. I would have them stand
Just where they ought to stand, by the operation of God's
great natural laws
In all lands the tine line of delivering men from oro-
Premien is the line of education. It may be said
compendiously that education Is einauciplitiOn. The
ho, roes of oppression often lead men to seek vie
lent means of deliverance- but. after all, the
true mode of emancipation is to make a man so big
that the lightest harness 'won't fit him The more a
finallyrows the n,ore he has to let out the strap, until
there are not any holes left. [Laughter. It le
not in the nature of things that a man who is ignorant
shall be free. Gross ignorance and Leedom are d
eo ct ed y and m anima ,i absolute io gover ß mmnt ela ntheAraare
state; and. if you propose to bring them out of bondage,
illumine that' mends; make them to, wise and strong
to he in that condition, and they will find their way out.
Take a peach- stone andeelace It in the ground in au
tumn; when the spring comes and the kindly. moisture
finds the seed, it will swell and throw Its prison-house
open, and soon there will be the gent of the Lull tree.
There is a nctinrat rcess of enutecipation befor e. that ta
to mat e a than more ora man than ne Was and
thus the public sentiment of the masses In any country
will male arbitrary government impossible. In Rag
meetla, to-day, the non-voting people control the Govan/-
on any subject vital to their interests d John
Rumen said: The English Government will al
ways go with the Diseenters consciences." and
yet the Dissenteis were the inferior class,' and
the greater number Of them Were MA Voters The
intelligent undei -clam- that did not vote. did. on many
great points of policy. control the Government Itself,
/Kuhl .tispoleon nizasself hsa declared that Governments
must be conducted according to the enlightened intelli
gence of present day. What is that but to say that
public sentiment meet control even monarchs? Wien
t
do we mean by public seetiluent? It is only.another
word fora T end° that have become intelligent and edu
cated. and begin to all the air with their power. To
day the people of Europe are stronger than their ,gover
rune and the only reason they do not rise is that the
Governments are organised and skilful, and the.peoplo
are unorganized and miskilfal. All developments of
national liberty wits. ont this development of the elements
of liberty are futile-and dun emus.
War is terrific, bat ea a means it is a good searoher
sometimes. Ido not Wick it is deal. able for a surgeon
to lake off a limo, but, If that limb will take off. the. life
otherwise. biassed be the cat. But there are stater. of
national existence In which war is a benefaction.
That whicitie true of foreign societies is true. of' mu
se-Yes. In onar midst Here are a thousand tendencies
that threaten evil in the ratan., though I trtlf,t we have
got snob a Janet of oar danger, that we eharlionerun them
and endive them. The tett of national liberty is na
tional intellecenee. and the 'means of propagating and
maintaining iteand that we have more than any people on
the globe. We are educated in soboole,andan that peri
l' atetic school.. the newspaper. From, one end of the
land to the other our political system is an element of
education. Luring the past few yearamore quo-alerts in
through the nature of government have been.discusised
Ibis country than in other steatite ea would be
discussed in a lifetime. Thus, as education, and intel
ligence has loeen the preparation for liberty in times past,
so ie it the guarantee of liberty - for th e time to come
Two things we must have is the flume; one la nn
boended f. ith in the safety of liberty elate other is a
sense of the indestructibleness of Moral education for
the necessities Cf liberty itself.
Under the Divine protection we shall Stand undivided
and undiminished in Our:- committing no wrong w ink
neighboring nations, because the very means by waist] ;
we became strong develsped the moral sense. A nation
which has the reason and .benevolenee to earrY them,
through such a strangle se this is not the nation to
injure others. and I Wrist we will not Only COtingeH tha
di predations op these, but Will lead them le the, reams
a Imo.. towcro stie millentum.
Dlr. Beecher concluded amid great applause,
.
IawNER WANtEI3.--Athalf pa/liiio.ololoCK,
cast evening, a male ehild, about . Moo mantilla old,
wee fount on the step; of a hone* pp Notth Nine:
teenth street. -Ttke 11011. one'ea %WM. the eto&
tton toast
SHOCKING ACCIDENT, -..ye
ing, a young lady was dragged b l , 11 3 L- 1 .!
and Third streets passenger rallres44N
of nearly ten yards, in con seeee rme n ytt i
catching fast
to to some obstacle on
was about alight from the cr, bac ,
outgo!' the ball before her areal aior,,,
ladyorses started hence the acme
ep t
was severely Injured.
RESCUED FROM DROWNr.vr.
named George Drown, fell Int o
'
Spruce-MI*IA wharf, lad evening, 6 4 1
from a watery grave by Offloer
harbor pollee.
PUNIC EElertiAnetit,
TEE BENEFIT OP MSS LAVELL
putatiOn of this lady as an Act ren
6i n
intelligence is thoroughly establiabiat'!
no doubt that her benefit this evezip:'
attended. She will appear to t wo r
characters—Widow Cheerk, in the ter
"7 he Soldier's Daughter," and a t N.'!.
a part of excellent pathos in a drama t;
character.
ARCH-STREET THEATRE —Mr. and ) ,
will take a benefit this evening,
number of vigorous characters. T
Qu
eludes their engagement.
CONJURATION,—M!. SinnEo4 I hew
will appear on Monday evening, a t
The "Japanese Butterfly Trick,'. y 4 , 14
Calculation.," are among the newest,
which he announce. exhibition,
A COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT MU
Saturday evening, for the benefit of lEt;
Old soldier, at Franklin Hall , N xt h
Arch. The °Meet is charitable ne t t
the 99th Regiment are reepectftlii.
attend.
Mts. Cams Rosa, a 14,6 11.kt:t0w & iv,
who has given, from time to time, mi
readings to our nubile, Will &ppm n a
terhoou at the Ohestnut steel Thcai-:
version of the delightful gory et
"Fanshon ; or, The Cricket+)
THE HAIRDRESSERS' UNION.—The
ball of this highly beneficial acenc:cti%
given at the hall of the National (h,
street, on Monday evening next. Arv,,,,
'Hone have been made for the fraternity,
will, no doubt, be a very profitable suet
CITY I E IVZ
Millinery Opening Day.
The Inclemency of the weather 'rested'.
favorable to the Interests of ehr)pi tee, ,'
kinds, more especially to those who had
• their "Spring opening"to take ph * .
day, March slat." Among the lots:, or 4
various Millinery establishments occdpio
prominent place. Moat of them had
arrangements to render their " Spring c ,„
1864 ,, their masterstroke in the w ar
to their patrons elegant, varied and &ir....
and we are glad to find that, notwithee:
weather,- their efforts to altraot the Wu",
main a success. This is particularly bar;
and we may say, leading Iffillinery 110 1 „
c ity, Messes. Wood & Gary's, NO.
Street. Passing their elegantly.ffttelev.
sent yesterday gt ithollt high noon, at e r
'change, We found their spacious salearcort;
crowded with the beauty and fashion e•
and on entering we lead presented to tse
ray of beautiful and fashionable hesd.ge t
to have satisfied the moat cultivated sp i l
taste.
For the information of our fair realer'•
state that in colors the bonnets sal ba3•
ming", for the season now opening,
more largely of the celebrated cuir, orintl.
in its various shades, than any other,
summer the indleations are that Iliac, orb
pie, will be more exclusively " the agfinr . , .
and size there are certain alterations to :T.
strikes us as in good taste. The (rank
aspiring; in other words, While they Ar E
that could be desired in that ,iirectioa,
less loftily heavenward, being more 113tteot
top, more closely-fitting at the aide, ant, ;
whole, smaller than were worn lad EOM%
• One of the first specimens that arrested; ;
tlon in Messrs. Wood & Caryls eararmic.„
an exquisite tan, or crsipcolored straw, trn
the crown with a ribbon of the same tale
ing from the ears across and around the et..
fastened at the top, so as to forma pee
the aide centre of which, being filled vi:,
'ink buds and grasses, the whole preml
rich and elegant effect, The face trifler
hat consists of a rosette of lace, filled iitz
With cuincolored flowers and grasselot
side, relieved by a small bunch of pick
cape is a plain circular. We may atati
appendage of the bonnet is rather smaller
been worn; that most of them are hatitreLr.
though many are circular and ruffled.
The next type which attracted our Ear
tan Cactus (a species of hair or ses-goo
that appeared to be a great favorite, art;
terday more eagerly sold and ordered at
Gary's than any other, The materiel II to
—more so than hair or straw—and the ;
them are
A new style of Bonnet, admirably acs;
travelling purpose', also received much '
comment. Those which we examined were
light purple or lilac silk, shirred, with ahr
The trimming was of ribbon to mated, z:
bunch loops at the top mixed with tire rl
These Bonnets are offered in a variety of c
will, we think, take the lead this season f:
termed second beat," and for traveldz?;.
The lace trimming is exceedingly testa,.
of a knot of loops of the same color as 6
fastening a bunch of tea roses and deliettt
The styles of these hats are materially vane.
the taste of purchasers. Some of them u
with a hood crown, the effect of whieL it
graceful and unique.
Prominent among the collection, we el
magnificent white English straw bone:
but exquisitely trimmed. Almost the entb
the bonnet is naked. A band of clam:Mon:.
running to a point on the edge of the tip,
a straw ornament, and bolding a full bad::
which cover the - entire crown, constitute n
mieg, with the emeption of the white lig
with a diamond of cuir silk, edged with Ito
centre of the back. The face trimmirq is of:
Drooping or hanging flowers are this seal
in vogue, in trimming.
A very pretty novelty for Summer Wie
Merited in the eolleetion, was a white crert.l
broidered in .diamonds, in black, each corde:
diamonds being fastened with a jet bead,
ming was of black real 'lace, and adorned ocK
with a bunch of morning glories and black In
a bummer hat nothing could be MOO ex:
beautiful.
We have seldom heard so much discdm•
praise lavished upon any Millinery ditplays
yesterday elicited at this popular old eitiblic
The taste and talent exhibited in the rnir
face trimmings was marvellous, and add ner.
to the fame of this firm.
But we must not conclude our notice w.t
passing allusion to a superb imitation Ir
trimmed with straw colored ribbon, to wk.
ening atedhe side a bunch of straw 0010 re
The face trimming of this bonnet is alio
novelty, eonsisting of a bunch of byseintlof
in the centre and falling over the face, oort•
entire top.
In walking hats the various styles present!:
also much admired, and indeed we have seldt_
more tuts evinced than in this department al
Oary's great exhibition yesterday. We e l
tine among theme a ruir-oolored Easlteb
Walking Hat, made very narrow in frort, , !: ,
back to a deep point, and trimmed lo front 51 1 '
loops or the came colored ribbon, fastecau .
handsome shell. This Is an exquisite sit'
misses and young ladies. The same nits : 1
sented in a variety ofdlfferent styles. Swag
are richly trimmed with scarlet and black.
and straw ornaments in various styles coutri
of the most striking features in the norto:
of the seaman, and in nothing are these rao.e
fully applied than in the walking. hate le 0
We also observed a number of hate triaiale
velvet, sprinkled with tiny shells, and faltvf.
large ones. These hats, for early spring. r
found unrivalled. But we have not MISCe ~
tinue this description. Sunioe it to say, ttots
rs thing pertaining to the millinery line. the;
here referred to yesterday fairly won addition
mks,. which the ladiec of our city will not or? :
in making their purchaces.
BuY THE if Flattener , SEWING DlA(a;s
preference to all other', beciuse it is the b9 l
mast easily managed, the best adapted for .111
of family sewing, possesses a wider range at
rating power, is more simple in construel , '
hence less liable to got out of repair, ass bo
with less labor, and hence less detriment to
and, upon the whole, cheaper than any other
ing machine in use; and, what ie more. e '
Florence) machine sold is warranted to gic t
purchaser perfect satisfaction, or the monei; ec
refunded.
partners YOU have never worn a malt of
made Clothing from the establlehment of Cu
Stokes & Co., under the Continental. If Yo u
not, the next purchase of clothing you u l li e ;,
it there, and you will to very emukfdi to W
hint, thin given.
ALL FOOL'S Day will no doubt be apro+n rc
observed by mbrohievous urchin' to the fag
of the incautious. As becomes us, as faitbbli
Nora and
t°
advisers, we recommend our re n de r ' "
eeive cautiously all notices requiring their rt e
immediately at some imaccessably distant poin
city ; to beware of Mysterious parcel' place e
ingly on sidewalks, and to make their purclofel
clothing only at the fashionable einperiuni Of .
viwe Svcs.= r N.. Coo eiveteut street,
NATTY AND STYlierr.—Greot diftleuity
rieneed by gentlemen of taste in obtainhtey':
e
loons that are properly out. To overcool
only necessary . tO give Tour orders to / I° ,' l ‘,;
Wilsop, Nor., 803 and 605 Chestnut Wee , , r
Sixth. Their,euttera are entire adept' at
gut,
and the lama may be said- of i ll the orto
have engaged, in the varicue branches of th '
menus ertablkahment.
" Tro ns,ReLns, lionuumuess, And 311 r
Comptattle' are cured sffeotually
Peatorar.b.
BLIWr n , piercing wind.,
and the 7arylag e,41
telk
ture et the season, are rapidly
Omaha, and Pulmonary Affections of
Pinson* with WealL.Lungo shoLld now be el'
careful ; and what, may eeesc. trifling
Golds ought to hay* immediatoattention. t
lessindifference which mato:, for " "c0
co I
Game" in many sues results In lailog
Conswnption. For such neglect of on e s o
thee is no extuse, as Dr. D. Jayne's 1 ;•/ d ''', e
can be readily procured, and is the etend ar ite o
for all Coughs, Colds, and Pnlinonari Waist
1115 lontesiabliehed reputation being a 00
it. enloseSr• Prepared only at No. v o ,
street.
coRN9 s BUNIONS, INVOSTRD NAIL 3,
JOINTS, and all dissent% of the feet, oured
Palo or inconvenience to the patient, by Dg
tie, Surgeon Chiropodist, 09.1 Chest:it'
Pere to PbSreligans sail surgeon. of tha V,