iialiiZlii 4git t;!1 rtss FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1864. Atir We can take no notice of anonymous commit- Eduction& We do not return rejected manuscripts. 4:ir Voluntary correspondence is solicited from all parte of the world, and especially from our different military and naval departments. When used, It Will be pitd for. The Necessity of Emancipation. 'Mr. BALA, the correspondent of an Eng lish paper, seems to have been surprised, in his visit to the Army of the Potomac, to - find that the troops were not collectively visible. He was unable to realize the fact that thousands of men were around him, being able to see only a few hundreds at one time. The vastness of the area over which the boat was spread confounded him, and he naturally refers to the answer of the Duke of Wellington, who, -when present at a ball, and asked by a lady to de scribe Waterloo, inquired if she could describe to him the perpetual changes of the brilliant pageant around him. As it is with the soldier in battle, or the civi lian in camp, it is with us. We live in a revolution which we cannot appreciate. The littleness of the war eclipses its great ness, as the body of a dwarf can shut out the view of a distant mountain. We read -every day of the rivalries of distinguished generals, of the jealousies of politicians, of - the opinions of great thinkers, of armies, of navies, of battles, of triumph and overthrow t and few, in the whirl of this ceaseless excite ment, pause to think why the struggle into which more than thirty millions of peo ple have been drawn is the grandest struggle of -modern times. Even of those who are most profoundly impressed with the deeper elements of the tragedy, there is not one - who can truly understand them. From those who have no appreciation of the causes of the war, nothing can, of course, be expected but petty criticisms of its daily or secondary features. So we find the opponents of the people entirely occupied in criticising the blunders of the Government, and apparently .oblivious of the moral grandeur of the great battle. To them the mighty spirits of good and evil, which,have this continent - for a battle-ground, - are invisible and un- _ 'known. They live in this terrible revolu lion, and talk complacently of trifles. Bat - the destinies are strongest, and the war long since passed beyond the control of mortal power. A statesman could not have made the war—a statesman cannot stop it. Emancipation was not in the power of the Government to withhold, nor is peace a blessing now to be obtained- by the wisest and most impartial of conventions. We speak of what the Government has done, -and it has done well :,:yet it should be un derstood that the very nature of the struggle IRS forced the Government to adopt a cer tain course, and that, as the great ship flies before the storm, all that can be done is to stand firmly by the helm. Just now we are all rejoiced to hear of the emancipation of Maryland. This is, in deed, a great event, measured by ordinary standards, but, absolutely, it is but an inci dent of the war. What is it compared with the emancipation of the whole North ?----a triumph which has no parallel in history. In three years the North has been trans formed; it has become a new land ; it has enshrined in its action principles of liberty, which formerly it was almost afraid to em body in its professions ; it no longer has a Southern master, no longer answers to the snapping of the slave-whip ; it is _not the North of IS6O, hesitating, uncer tain, inconsistent ; it is in earnest ; it is tree ; it has redeemed itself, and will re dem others. The emancipation of Mary land is but a natural consequence of the free dom of the North, and now that the North is profoundly, sincerely, and enthusiastically anti-slavery nothing can prevent slavery from being destroyed in every Southern State. Slavery existed by permissidn of the Free States, and was too long protected by them. It is not strange that Maryland should emancipate her slaves, when she hes the grand example of a national deliverance and the assurance of a national sympathy. It would be strange indeed if she had re fused to embrace this golden opportunity of rebuilding her prosperity. It will be strange if even South Carolina should not be freed in the end, for the progress of liberty since 1860 has been almost a miracle, and still the work is unfinished. All honor should be given to those brave men - who told the people of Maryland their duty, and wrought so well to rid her of the curse which kept her poor and weak. But they have but hastened an event which was a necessity. No man or men can take the glory of emancipation; many of us have aided it, but none could have prevented it. It was and is inevitable. 'The terrible angel of war, whose dark wings have shadowed' the whole land, has done more for Anieri .can freedom than the beautiful angel of peace, and has not only stricken the iron shackles from the body of the slave, but re moved those heavier fetters which bound in -visibly the spirits of the free. Liberalism in Paris. In two of the districts of Paris legislative elections have been held, the list accounts inform us. In both cases the Government candidates were chosen. The new mem bers are RIPPOLVTR CARROT. and GAnsinu- PAGES. As both are notable men, we shall briefly mention a few points respecting them. BIPPOLYTR CARROT was sixty-three years -old yesterday (April 0), and is son of the emi nent member of the French Convention who was appointed Minister -of War in August, 1793, while ROBESPIERRE'S horrible Reign of Terror prevailed; who was one of the Di rectory in 1795, and who was reappointed Mi nister of War by BONAPARTE in 1798. The elder CARNoT died in 1823, and the son, who had shared his exile, then returned to Parie, where he became indoctrinated with Socialism. Foreign travel removed this - heterodoxy, and, successively elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1839, 1842, and 1846, he was a powerful member of the . Opposition, and also a journalist. After the Revolution of February, 1848, M. CARROT was made Minister of Public Instruction, and remained in this position until the following -July. Immediately sent to the Legislative Assembly by the electors of the department of the Seine, he joined the extreme republican party there. After the coup d'etat of 1851, he was one of the three republican candi dates elected to the Corps Legislatif—Gen. CATAIGNAC, for Paris, and M. HENAN, for Lyons, being the other two. Refusing to take the oath to Lours NAPOLEON, they re tired into private life. In 1857, M. CATINOT - was again elected, and again lost his seat because he declined taking the oath. • Now, perhaps, having the example of M. TRIERS and others before him, he may swear-alle giance to the Empire, and resume his place as a lawmaker. He is author of numerous works—in poetry, politics, foreign travel, polemics, biography, and history. GARNIRII-PAGXS is not yet fifty-nine years old. He took part in the Re volution of July, 1830, and soon after was elected to the Chamber of De puties. There, he sided with the Opposi tion, and displayed a talent for finance. in 1848, when the Revolution took place, he was made member of the Provisional Government by acclamation, and soon took charge of the much-deranged National Ft mances. He was equal to the occasion, 'boldly ordering the Bank of France to sus- Tend cash payments, and authorizing the issue of paper money, bearing a forced ctir culation, but limited in amount to what the nation really required—a course which, _Ausox says, "may be regarded as a model of political wisdom, and perhaps the great est boon ever bestowed by legislative wis dom on an afflicted nation." Soon after, GAWNIER-PAGES was appointed Member of - the College of France. He was elected to the National Assembly, which commenced its session on May 4th, 1848, was appointed -second on the Executive Commission which succeeded the Provisional Government, re linquishing his portfolio of Finance. Before and after the election of President, in De cember, 1848, GARNIER-PAGES voted and spoke with the moderate Democrats. Not re-elected to the Legislative Assembly, he retired into private life, and was again un buccessful, in 1857, as a candidate. These new members of the French Oppo sition are men of experience, ability, and character_ They form part of a Legislative Section small in numbers, as yet, yet strong in talent, boldness, and the ready tact which knows how to avail itself of every parlia mentary rule, in action and debate, which can annoy and obstruct Nerommon's minis ters and their-measures. LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL" WASTUNGTON, April 7, 1864 In directing attention to the occupation of Mexico by the French, and to the hopes excited among the rebels by that most ill judged and (as the end: will prove) most calamitous proceeding, I had 'no time' to speculate upon the destinies of the black race of the United States in connection with the destinies of the people of that unfor tunate republic. Many American statesmen, yet living, including some of the most in fluential of the southern leaders, have always regarded Mexico as the great field into which the increased volume of the colored popula- tion would pour, and finally settle and min gle there with the already mixed races of Spaniards and Indians. Robert J. Walker's celebrated letter urging the hnnexatioa of Texas, which was made a campaign docu ment in 1844, gave peculiar emphasis to this idea, and made pladsible what at that time was moat repugnant to many Northern minds. Some of his oweparty looked upon his prognostication as an extravagant dream ; but even at that day, while he was a Senator from Mississippi, where he was always a Union leader and opposed to Jef- ferson Davis, he was considering how to solve the dreadful problem of an increasing negro population in his own section, and unconsciously preparing himself for the noble stand he finally assumed when Repu diation and Secession took the shape of an armed and fanatical rebellion. He was for opening an - outlet from Texas into Mexico for this population, and I can never forget his prophetic words. Mere colonization is an expensive failure. The last experiment in Hayti has ended in a dismal tragedy. Sensible men must set about finding a new remedy for a great and disturbing complication. The war has fur nished one of these remedies. The negro is armed and fighting. He is proving him self to be more than a mere beast of burden, and is steadily and rapidly breaking down the prejudices that, even in free communi ties, regarded him as only fit for sla very. His courage is thus adapting him for other responsibilities, and already he begins to look beyond the Rio Grande, into the magnificent plateaus of . Mexico, where he may find a free home, and com plete social and political equality. Coloniza tion, however we may seek to deny it, has always been compulsory, and; hence, inope rative and temporary. But the negro will go to Mexico of his own free will. He has always been welcome there. In after years he will be doubly so, if he comes with arms in his hand, to help to unfetter the chains of a people bound down by a foreign pow Robert J. Walker is no longer a visio and a theorist. He may live to see colored men deciding the fate of a sister nation, helping - to develop her inex haustible mines, to build railroads, to com plete the great Tehuantepec crossing, to cultivate the soil, and open, by free labor, immense cotton fields. And who knows that Louis Napoleon may not, after all, give us Mexico, as his great uncle gave us Louisiana ? While on this suggestive theme let me di rect your attention to a short speech made in January last, in the House, by Hon. W. P. Kelley. He pointed to Central America proper as another inviting field for the en terprise and courage of the colored freedmen of the United States. The following ex tract from this speech is very interesting. Judge Kelley was opposing a proposition to withdraw our diplomatic representatives from the Central American States. He said : " But there never has been a time, for rearms so ably assigned ty the gentleman from Maryland, (Mr. Davis), as well as those given by the gentle man from Ohio, (Mr. Cox), when it was more im portant to have American influence near to or at the centre of each of the States named in the gen. Semen's amendment. Settlement has, in my judg• went, been unduly confined to the grain•growing regions of our country and the world. The time has come when commerce, manufactures, and, per • haps, higher interests than,. these, require tropical development and civilization. There is no lack of the productions of the temperate region ; no lack of skill for their production. Commerce and in dustry often suffer from overproduction of our staples, and are embarrassed for want of a market in which to exchange or dispose of the surplus; they also suffer from want of those tropical productions that enter into our commerce land manufacture., grace our tables, and make life agreeable. But the time has come when, under providential guidance, and led by providential events, we are to have a natural tropical expansion, and large bodies of our people are to go to the very States of Central Ame rice from which the gentleman would withdraw our representatives, bearing with them, if we will per• mit, our language, our laws, our thoughts, our habits, and our institutions, " The last year has given freedom to millions of a race whose ancestors came from a region near the sun. They occupy a portion of our States, in sehich they have been enslaved, and where they are despised. Make them free as we are to move at our wills; make them enlightened enough to know where interest leads them, and where nature invitee them to settle, and the black men of the Border States and of the Northern States will, as I have intimated, carry thither our language, our laws, and our life, and will in time, I trust, establish our flag and Our Government in the region once known as Central America ; for, alas ! the doctrine of State sovereignty, and the fact of secession, have extin guished the republic. He who will look at the map of America, and s tudy the climate and resources of the regioa indi cated by the gentleman who moves to strike out these States, and will also glance at the social and political life of those States, will see the induce ments to emigration which that region holds -out to those whose presence in our midst is, to say the least, not desirable to a majority of our people. Color is there a mere question of taste. It is in no degree a political or social question. Mr. Stephens, in the book to which I have referred, tells us that his Brat breakfast in Central America was taken under these circumstances : it was in British Hon. during, at Belize. He had been told by a British merchant that he would find him lodgings, and would take him to introduce him to the 'lady' under whose roof he was to find them. lie found the to be a 'mulatto woman.' . Having closed a contract with his future landlady, he accepted an invitation to breakfast with another British mer chant. Be found the merchant at one end of the table, his wife et the other; each hada British officer on the ontaide, arid each a colored gentleman on the other ; his seat was between the two colored gentlemen ; he took it. But let him speak for him• self. This Democratic representative of the United States Government, the appointee of President Van Buren, thus describes the incident and moralizes on it:• • " ' On my way back I stopped at the house of a mer chant, whom I found at what is called a second break. fact. The gentleman sat at one aide or the tab , e and his lady on the other At the bead was a British officer, and opposite hint a nub, ttot on his left was another officer. and eppc site him also a mulatto. Br chance a place e made for inh between the two colored gentlemen. Eeme of my countrymen, perhaps, would have hesi tated about taking it, bat I did not Bo:h were well dressed, well educe:ed. and polite. They Wired of their mahogany work,. of England, hunting. horses, ladies. and wine; and before I bad been an hour in Belize I learned that the great work of practical amalgamation, the subject of so much angry controversy at home. had teen going on quietly for generations: that color was considered mere matter of taste; and that some of the most respectable 'inhabitants had black Wives and turner() children. whom they educated with as much care, and made money for with as much zee', as if their skins were perfectly white.' "The incident purified our minister of some preju dice. May not the great events now occurring bless vs to the same extent'? I think that the publication of the journal of the travels of a minister in search of a past Government might do something to induce emigration to this region, so rich in its resources and so undeveloped. At any rate, at a time when Na ture and Providence are inviting a large emigration from our over labored region to those States, with which commercial intercourse could be developed with so much advantage to both parties, let us not withdraw the presence and power of our Govern ment from any one of them. Our fellow•oitizens of African descent, treed by the rebellion, will not be long in Americanizing this to them congenial region, in which complexional differences do not affect the social or political position of a man, if we have the sense and humanity to give them a fair chance for culture and enterprise." These are practical, and, therefore, valua ble truths. They open the way for states men to new thoughts and to new prepara tions for the eternal adjustment of the tre mendous issues growing out of the war. Tun Beata GUARD.—The Third Annual Report to the 'Mayor, of Brigadier General A. J. Pleason• ton, commanding the Home Guard of Philadelphia, has just appeared. It extends to 112 pages octavo, contains a good deal of personal matter, and de scribes what was done in Philadelphia last summer to provide defense, When the rebels made that in. rasion or the State which our home troops so re• markably punished by the battles and victory of Gettysburg. THU LATS EXPLORION.—We are requeated by Messrs. Merrick & Sons to state that the damage to Their buildings, caused by the late unfortunate explosion, has been exaggerated, and that they have made arrangements by which the establish ment will resume full work on or before Monday next. EQUIVALENT BOUNTIES for those of our re.enlisted veterans who lost their ward bounties by their patriotic haste have been finally voted by our Common Council yes terday, althost unanimously. This just and glatilying movement had its origin in the meetings of the ward delegates. By cher ishing, in this substantial and delicate man ner, the families of our volunteers, we show these men that their services and sacriftces are well remembered, and a soldier will fight the better for knowing that his family is cared for by his•fellow-citizens. This kind act of Philadelphia—not only kind but just —will . make many a heart tremble with joy that never palpitated with fear. A letter from the Army of the Potomac says no events of general importance had recently occurred there. Captain JOHNBON, of the 93.1 New York, has been promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 115th New York, and Lieut. BRANNON, of the same regiment, to be captain. The Provost kiarillial's Department hes been re- Organised with a view to greater elliolency, and new rules have been established for the reorganization and equipment of pioneer parties of the army. Regula tions for the Inspector General's Department have also been omeially promulgated. Can. Sellofigiee Womlnatlon. It is understood that the Senate Military Commit. tee today reported, in secret session, adversely on the nomination of Saaj. Gen. SOHOFIBLD. The Conduct of the War—Au Important Order. By direction of the President of the United States, the following changes and assignments are made in army corps commando Major General P. IL SHIIIIIDAN is assigned to the command of the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac. The 11th and 12th Army Corps are consolidated and will be called let Atmy Corps. Major General J. 110owita is assigned to command. Major General Gonnon GRANGER is relieved from the command 'of the etli Army Corps, and Major General 0. o.4fowAnrils assigned in his stead. Major General SonoPlaLo la assigned to the com mand of the 23d Army Corps. Major General Swarm Will report to Major Ger neral Sinucaren, commanding the Division of the Mississippi, and Major General STONEW will re port to Major General SOROPIBLD, commanding the Department of the Ohio, for assignment. Major General GRA:man will report by letter to the Adjutant General of the army. Captain Ron Ann Powran, United States Ord. nance Department, is announced as an aid•de•camp to Lieutenant General GRANT, With rank of lieu tenant colonel. By order of the Secretary of War. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General That portion of this order relating to the consoli dation of the 11th and 12th Corps has been amended so as to denominate this consolidation 'Rip 2015, in stead of the lit Corps. General ItioDownth is about to leave for Cali foinia, to assume command of the forces in that State. It is underatood that the President will con stitute a department of California, Oregon, and a portion of the at joining Territories, and authorize the organization of ten new volunteer regiments. The nominations of General SOHOPIELD and Ge neral Sununu for major generalships have been, fer want of favor, laid over by the Senate Military Committee. The faulty report of General hlcOnacman, eon earning his military administration : lately published, is to be corrected, for the sake of history, by the publication of all his official despatches. The omit ted despatches now lying on Secretary Srarcroa's table make a pile a foot and a half high. General BOOKER'S friends will tender him a pub lic dinner on his return from the West. Colonel EDWARD 11ToDoerr, another member of the famous .s fighting 9, rdocooir family, has been nominated for a brigadier general. By au order juat Issued from the War Department, Generale STaRR, POIXTBB, and NAOLEB have been reduced to their original positions in their regi nienta. General DIONTOOMBRY, in 2118 same order, has been dismissed from the service. Major General SEDOW/CE arrived from the Army of the Potomac, and to-day will go before the War Committee, at the request of General Means, to testify as to the battle of Gettysburg. Ger.ezal 13traustos has been in consultation with the War Department in reference to his expedition. Relief of Engine and Snipbullders. Senator HALE, Chairman of the Naval Commit tee, has row nader coneideration the nnmerou■ ap plication& for relief of the engine and shipbuilders who have contracted with the Navy Department. Carves. alone can aid them by direet appro• priatione. Five thousand applications have already been made by seamen to be transferred from the army to the navy. Applications of this kind should con tinue to be made to the Navy Department. A 'National Bank or Currency Bin. It Is stated by Senators that a NO4IOI/O1 Bank or Currency Bill will be passed by the Senate and sent to the House for its concurrence. Adjutant General Cowart, of Ohio, has issued an order to the veterans now at home to prepare to join their respective brigades on the expiration of their furloughs, without delay, Commanders of re giments are made responsible for any tardiness in the movement of regiments, and are not allowed to remain at home on any condition a day beyond the expiration of the time of their furloughs. The movement of troops to the front is on an un. exampled scale, and there is the greatest activity in hurrying them forward. Nearly all the re-enlisted regiments go back with from three to five hundred recruits. We have no military news of importance. FOnlanYre rebel command is plundering Western Kentucky and Tennessee with little hindrance. They are carrying off an immense deal of plunder. The Collins Overland Telegraph via Tlehring , s Straits. Dlr. Commis has lammed to Washington after nearly two years , absence in Russia and England. Negotiations for right of way and the construction of a telegraph across Asiatic Russia, Russian Arno. rice, and British Columbia, so as to connect Europe with America by way of Behring's Straits, having been brought to a satisfactory conclusion under favorable terms, now awaits the final action of Con gress. We understand that Mr. Commie will soon pre sent the plan to Congress in view of the co opera tion or our Government. It is due to Great Britain and Russia that their liberal grants and concessions in aid of a purely in ternational work of this nature, an enterprise fraught with incalculable advantages to the United States and the world at large, should command promptly generous aid from us. It certainly devolves upon our Government to second this great enterprise, and more especially now since Russia and Great Britain have met the question in a liberal international spirit, and cleared it of ail question as to right of way, so as to connect London and St. Petersburg with New York. There never was an enterprise presented to the considera tion of Government that plead. more eloquently than this. It is the last link in a telegraphic chain that is to bind not only Europe "and America, but Asia and Africa as well, Into one living and speak ing unity. • European Aid or the Sanitary Fair—What the Swiss are Doing. The following letter is from the U. S. Consul at Zurich, to a gentleman of this city, and shows how much interest in the war and the wellbeing of our army is felt in Europe. Mr. Fairlamb has taken a very active part in the work, and his narrative will be found interesting to our readers : Confirmations by the Senate. The Senate to-day, in executive session, confirmed the following nominations of Brigadier Generals.: Col. C. G. Hacker, 66th Ohio, from Sept. 20, 1863. Gal, John F. Pallier, NM Indiana, from January 5, 1864. Henry R. Sibley, Minnesota, from March 20,1863. Belga- PerrotiVtittl, 55th New York, from Ja nuary 6, 1864. Col. Gilliam Rammerling,.9th Ohio, from January b, 1864. Col. Cyrus Dummy, 14 lowa Cavalry, from Janu ary 5, 1864 Col. C. C. Andrewo, ad Minn., from Jan. 1,1864. Col. J. W. Fuller, 27th Ohio, from Jan. 25,1864. The Senate has also confirmed the following as Coma:drearier of bUbalatenee Joseph P. Denniston, of New York W. D. Ohm berlain, of Massachusetts; Capt. Lao. Rosenthal, Oh Pennsylvania Cavalry; and George B. Wright, of Ohio, and Algernon S. M. Morgan, of Pennsyl vania, to be military storekeepers. The following as assistant quartermasters, with the rank of captain; Lieutenant Sohn Fahy, 69th New York ; Captain 1). W. H. Day, 111th New York; Lieutenant Ed waid P. Graves, 17th New York; Jesse Willis and Alexander 131acacolanti, of New York ; Lieutenant Albert Marion, Nth MantiehUsettS ; Captain M. D. Wickersham, 79th Pennsylvania. Also, judge Advocates, with the rank of major: Captain John Mendenshall, 4th Artillery; Henry L. Burnett, of Ohio ; Captain Edward R. Pratt, Id Artillery; Captain Addison A. 'Roamer, Ist Mauve ehusetia Artillery. James H. Buxton, of Vermont, to be consul at the Island of Candia ; Nicholas L. Humphrey, of Maine, consul at the Island of Trinidad; Wm. Irvine. of Pennsylvania, consul at Amoy, and John A. Lewis, of Massachusetts, consul at Ascension. Richard H. Lee has been confirmed as postmaster at Camden, N. J., and John L. Pl.nkham postmaster at Placerville, California. • Stephen S. Harding, to be Chief Justice of the Territor y of Colorado. John F. Hogs:boom, of New York, to be appraiser of merchandise under the sot of March 3, 1851. Charles H Parsons, to be cashier of internal duties under the act of March 3, 1863. Samuel J. Davis, of lowa, to be register of the land office at Sioux City, lowa. OCCASIONAL Emamuel J. Blain, postmaster, Brynnerlite, York county, Pa , vice Michael Barr, resigned. Samuel Stouffer, postmaster, Old Line, Lancaster county, Pa., vice Jolla Zrig, Jr., reaignea.- C. M. Ewing, postmaster, Stahlatown, Westmore• land county, Pa., vice William Kooaer, resigned. James Herron, postmaster, (Mars Muff, Wash ington county, Penna., vice John Peterson, re. signed. William A. Shaeffer, poatmalter, Sterrett'. Gap, Petty county, Penns., vivo S. S. Muddlekauff, Te als ned. Newton Kimble, postmaster, Field Bend, Pike county, Penna. vice James Cameron, resigned. WASIIINGTON. WierninsTox. April 1, 1864. The Army or the Potomac. WAR Dinar, ADJITTANT GSNERA.L'S WASHINGTON, Monday . , April 4. Transfer of Soldiers to the Wavy. Military Activity in the West. Poet Office Appolutments. THE PREW-PHILA_DELPELTA, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1864: DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF. NYM ORLIANI3 ADVICES. The Constitutional Convention Election THE RED EWER EXPEDITION. Loss of the Rebel Earn Tennessee, near Mo. CAIRO, April 6 —New Orleans advice* of the 29th ult., received here, state that the rebel ram Ten• nessee was struck by a squall while lying near (}rant'* Pam near Mobile, causing her to keel over and sink. Nothing but about two feet of her smoke- stack remained visible. Her isrmement will prove a heavy Joss to the rebels. It consisted of six 100- pounders rifled Perrone, and nearly as many smaller pieces. All was well with our fleet, though they have had acme very bad weather. The election in Louisiana, on the .28111, for tele. gates to the Constitutional Convention, resulted in the complete triumph of the Free state/party. The steamer J. H. Russell, with seven hundred bilea of cotton and a quantity of cattle and hog., was consumed by fire, at night; at Plaquemine. The steamer was on her passage from Vicksburg to New Orleans, and took fire front the spark. of her torches. The mail. from Alexandrii, together with the despatches of Gen. Lea to the headquarters of the Department of the Gulf, were alao burned. A passenger on the steamer, by the name of Thomas, is missing. The boat was valued at eighty thousand dollars, and was not 'lnured. The brig Mary Felinte was wrecked near Pages Loutre, on the 24th of March. The Feininger' and crew were saved. At Alexandria, on the 27th, it WAI reported that all wee quiet, with the exception of occasional akir mi ing. The rebtl force near there is reported to be twenty thousand strong. It was supposed that their !atom tion WAS to fall back about fifty miles, and there await an attack from our forces. Our gunboats, bound for Shreveport, had succeeded in gelling over thu.ahottla. • Aland force left Alexandria on the 27th, destined for Shreveport. The force was under the command of General Smith. One hundred and fifty refugees arrived from Texas, at New Orleans?, on the 29th. The. steamship Morning Star, from New York, had arrived, With many passengers and IS 350,000 in specie. Governor Yates came up on the Atlantic. Before leaving New Orleans, the Illinois troops gave him a reception. titter reviewing the troops, his state was formally announced. Governor Yates then proceeded to address the soldiers. congratulating them on their appearance and eulogizing them for their noble conduct in the many battles they have palmed through. Other speeches were made by General Benton and Governor Hahn, of Louisiana. There was but little business doing in New Or leans. COMMERCIAL INDELLIGENCE -- - • Tne Cotton mai ket was at a standoff between 'mere aad sellers,who were anabie to agree on prices. Lo w diing was quoted at 64 cents and middling at 68 cents %' pow d. kola sea—a bocce old was telling at 68 cents and common new crop wee held at 70 cents. Sugar was at yiNO ins cuts for common to good ; .13)-4V1434 cents for fair, and 14', 7 ti8153.i for prime to choice. Advance of General dteele in Arkansas— Repulse of 11, e Rebels at Arkadelphia and Clerk swine. ST. Lows, April 7.—A special despatch to the Democrat from Fort Smith, Arkansas, says that Steele's army has driven the rebels from Arkadel• phia, and is now advancing on PrMein the direction of Camden and Washa. Several hundred rebel!' under Cabell and other commanders have come in behind our advancing forces on raiding expeditions. Clarksville, sixty-five miles above here, was at• tacked day before yesterday. The enemy were re pulsed with a loss of three killed, ten prisoners, twenty horses, and all their camp equipage, Yesterday 440 Texans, under Gen. Gene, attacked Roseville, forty-five miles south of here, and burned three hundred bales of Government cotton. Our troops afterwards drove the rebels trom the town, killing and capturing several of them. The remain der of the cotton at that place is being brought here, which will relieve the cavalry heretofore guarding it, and enable them to drive the guerillas from the country. FORTRESS MONROE FORTRESS Mormon, April s.—The steamer New York left this forenoon for City Point, under flag of truce, in charge of Major John E. Mulford, taking up about thirty women and children. The Storm - continues with great severity. The Yorktown tow•boat has not made her usual trip today. The schooner Mary Parker, from Cherrystone 31st ult., bound to New York, experienced heavy weath. er, and returned to Fortren 'itonroe last night in dietreem, having lost both anchors. The schooner Wiiliam A. Elite, from New York to Washington, put in here for assistance. She re ports : April 2d, 25 miles off Cape Henry, eneoun, bred a heavy gale ; had jib boom carried sway, and had three men washed overboard. This morning another deck hand was lost. COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO. DENV2I:2 Orry, April 15.—The municipal election took place here yeaterdap. The regular Union no minee for Mayor was elected over the Independent Union ticket. There was no Democratic ticket in the field. ' The-mining excitement is increasing, and new dls• coveries of gold are reported daily. New York capi• Wish are arriving by every coach, and it isreported that there is a large amount of new mining multi. nery coming out from the States. A great deal of property is changing hands. The New Mexican papers of the 30th ult. contain no news from Arizona. Gov. Connolly, of New Mexico, has issued a proclamation appointing April 7th as a Thankgiving Day for the close of the Indian war. The National Finances. NRIV Volum, April T.—Assistant Secretary or the Treasury Barrington authorizes the contradiction of the following statement, contained in a special de spatch to the New York World to-day, that the inte rest on the ten.forty loan will probably be raised to Rix per cent. The statement is incorrect, and there is no reason to doubt that the bonds bearing five per cent. principal and interest, payable in gold, will command all the money the Treasury will need - to borrow. The instructions to National Banks acting as loan agents were issued March 26th, and subscrip tionz are reported to the United States Treasurer up to April 6th, to the amount of $8,607 871. No doubt is entertained that the subscriptions will rapidly in crease as soon as the various agencies are authorized and in operation throughout the country. CINCINNATI, April 7.—The stern•wheel steamer Carrie Jacobs came into collision with the Pdajor Anderson, near Metropolis, and sunk.imotedlately. No lives were lost. The result in Julian , . district, in Indiana, is still in doubt, both sides claiming success. There was a strike in the Enquirer office yester day be.cause the proprietors would not comply with the demand. of the Typographical Association, and direharge the foreman. The paper made Ha appear ance this morning, notwithstanding. Union State Convention. HARRISBURG, April 7.—The State Central Com mittee met last evening at the Jones House, in this city, and after a full and free interchange of opinion it was unanimously resolved to hold a State Con• vention on Thursday, the 28th of April, in the city of Harrisburg, for the purpose of electing four Sena• tonal delegates to represent this State in the eta• tional Convention, to be held in Baltimore on the 7th day of June nest The committee was fully represented from every part of the State, and the expression of opinion Was unanimously in favor of the re-eleotion of Abraham Lincoln. The Maryland Election—A Majority for Emancipation. BALTINORA April '7.—Talbot county give. 300 and Caroline county 250 majority for the Convention and Unconditional Emancipation ticket. Worcester county ix ineeMplete, but there is no doub . t that it has gone for the Convention and Emma. cipation. Dorchester county givee 300 majority, Bent 200 majority, Queen Anne 660 majority, and Somerset 900 majerity, all against a Convention, and for the Democratic ticket. ' Rommel county bar gone for the Oonvention, but the delegation is uncertain. It le thought that one Con Bervative and two Radicals have been elected. Up to this evening the returns do not change the general result, as estimated last night. There will doubtless be a good working majority for Unoondi. tionel Emancipation. The Sioux War—The Indians to be Par- sued into British Territory. CHWAOO, April epealed dowatal/ from Si. Paul, 6th, nays Governor Delleks has given Major Hatch permission to pursue the Sioux Indian into British territory. At the municipal election in St. Paul, yeatefday, the Union candidate for mayor was elected by 300 majority. New York Finances, am. Nnw YORK, April 7.—The regulation in relation to the price of gold at the treasury is that it will be $l. 66 until the dote of bekeir..eu on the 16th of April. The subieriptions to the 10 40 loan today Were $205,400. The receipts at the custom house today were $289,000, of which $259.000 was is gold certificates. Opening , of Lane Navigation. Durntinx, N. Y., April 7.—The navigation is now open between Dunkirk and all the upper lake pert.. The ice ham entirely disappeared, except in the direction of Buffalo. The steamer Olean left early to.day for Buffalo, and the boats will commence their regular trips as coon as possible. 4 The Harlem Railroad. • ALBANY. April 7—A. bill was introduced in the Assembly to-day, authorizing the Harlem Railroad Company to increase their stock $8,000,000, and to construct a double track to Albany; also, to au thorize the bondhoWera to exchange their bonds for stock. The Fire at Buffalo—Correction. firrvves.o, April —The oil refinery, of Atwater lioWell was the only one burned yesterday. That of Wardwell & Webster was uninjured. Three per ►cns were severely burned and one died. - The loss Will not be great. The insurance on the buildings is slo.ooo. From Panama, NEW YORK, April 7.—The steamer Golden Oltg, lett Panama on the 26th >of Marsh for San Fran* Cisco. • in Louisiana. ARK&NSiS. Western News. MEMPHIS. A Habil General Hanging Robbers-Fight with Ciuerilisa Canto, April s.—Advises from Memphis to the 4th inn. have been received, but they contain no news of importance. A small propeller ' the Golden Gate, was burned by guerillas on the 2d, when sixteen milk' below Memphis. It is reported that the rebel Gen. McCrea has hung a number of the robbers and murderers who infest that neighborhood, and rob friends and foes alike. The gunboats had a fight with the guerillas at Hickman yesterday, and aiiptured a few o them. The steamer Carrie Jacobs, bound down and laden principally with Rour, collided last night with the steamer General Anderson, below Metropolis, and the Jacobs was broken into. -No /Ives were lost. The Steamer Forsyth, atter leaving this port to day, was brought back by a shot from the tort. Iler officers being charged with having contraband goods aboard, the boat was placed under guard and the captain under arrest. The third clerk was sent to the guard•houee. IiBILFILIB COTTON, StAStirllT Dinsirrue, April 4 —The market is less active, but prices are unchanged. The receipts have been light. The shipments since the last report amounted to 600 bake, and the shipments for the quarter ending March alit amounted to 37,837 bales. The steamer St. Liberty took 235 bales in here today for Cin cinnati. During the pelt sixty days the Holliday, for Cairo, shipped 5,600 - bales out of the Tennessee river for Evansville, to go East, on which the Government tax amounted to 03,000. George Thompson in Washington. Thompson , s oration in the hall of the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening, was briefly mentioned in our telegraphic columns yester. day. In opening his address, Mr. Thompson denied the accusation which had been made that he was a disunionist. In defending himself against the charge he used the following language; LADIES AND GBIiTLEMBN: Before I proceed to make those observations Willett I had intended to make, permit me to notice a cireumstanse that oc curred within these walls on Monday last. Not until a late hour last night was I aware that, during the sitting of the House of Represents tives on Monday, an honorable member rose in his place and introduced a resolution, to the following effect Whereas. George Thompson, of Eng - and. in March. 1834. declared that the dissolution of this Union should he steadily -kept 'xi view; therefore, Brsototd, That the resolution. heretofore passed.. granting the nes of this ball to the said George Thomp son on the evening of the 6th of April, is hereby re scinded On the perusal of that preamble and resolution, I felt it my duty Instantly to address a brief note to - the honorable member, the author of what I have read. Here is my note : 325 STREET, WASHINGTON, Tustin/ix EVENING, April 5, 1864, "The Hon. Jaws R. Morris: I sin just made aware, by the record of proceedings in Congress, as reported in the newspa pers of this day. date, that you.introduced yester day, in the Rouse of Representatives, a resolution affirming that "George Thompson, of England, in March, 1834, deli/area that the dissolution of the Union should be steadily kept in view." As such a declaration was never made by me, either at the time mentioned above or at any other period, I beg respectfully to request that you will, at your earliest convenience, favor me with the au thority-upon which you made so grave a statement as ground for parliamentary action. 1 have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, GEORGE THOMPSON- To that note Mr. Morris has down to this mo— ment, favored me with no re ply..[Laughter.] I am, therefore, ignorant of the grounds upon which thehonorable member brousht against me the mem mations which he uttered from his place in Perlis went. I have speculated upon the reasons that he might assign for alleging against me that I had, at any period of my life, been unfriendly to the Union of the States in this country, and I shall do all that I can to exonerate him, as a gentleman, an Ameri can citizen, and a member of the Rouse of Repre• sent/MIN a, from the suspicion of deliberately prefer ring against me a charge for which ,I know there is no real foundation. (she speaker here asked the audience to excuse him while he read a note, just put in his hands, which he believed was from Mr. Morris.) It is as I suppose. Perhaps if Mr. Morris is pre , Bent he will rather thank than biome me for calling the attention of the audience to his resolution, The note which I have just received from him is dated Washington, April 6: " Mr. George Thompson: " Your note of the sth instant is just res. ceived. In answer, permit me to say that on the 4th instant I offeredthe enclosed resolution, founded ou a letter purporting to be written by you, which you will find in the appendix to the Congressional Globe for the second session of 36th Congress, volume 44, page 106 of the appendix. " Very reapectfully, J. R. MORRIS." The letter referred to, 'Which I have no doubt I shall find in the Congressional Globe, as stated by Mr. Morris, is the same letter which is referred to in the first volume of the record of your rebellion, which I hold in my hand. And well may the Vice President of the United States, and the President of the Senate. say that this is a gigantic as tvell as a foul and wicked rebellion, for this is but one of six volumes containiug its records, and how many more are yet to come depends partially upon the persist ence in evil of those misguided men who are still in arms, partially upon your resolution and courage in its suppression, but more still upon that Divine Pro vidence who has thus far so singularly watched over you. [Rear.] In the first volume of these ponder. ous records, and on the twenty-fourth page of that portion of it which contains public documents, I read that during the delivery of a speech, Mr. Shei ard Clemens referred to an article in the Libe rator newspaper and to Mr. Garrison, and then went on to say that their retiring Confederates " ought not to forget the events of 1831, when George Thornton, the English Abolitionist, was sent to enlighten the dead conscience of the American per). pie." In this connection he cited a letter from Thompson to Murray, of Tennessee, in which was this sentence : . The dissolution of the Union is the object to be kept steadily in view." I have an answer to that, and at is, first, that I never in my life have cherished a hostile or even an unfriendly feeling to• ward the Union. [Cheers ] Second, that I never in my life addressed a letter to Mr. Murray, in Ten nessee, or , to any man in any slave State of the United States, [loud cheers,] and, third. that down to Pdareb, 1834, and afterwards, I had never written a solitary line to America. And that I may speak without reserve and absolutely, I here deliberately affil in that I challenge and defy the bitterest enemy to you arid your Union to find within the range of my speeches and writings anything that would jus tify an imputation of unfriendliness to that Union. [Cheers.] What I have said about your Union during the three years that I have been engaged unceasingly, in season and out of season, in health and out of health, (as one witness just from now present, might testify if he was called on the Mono). what I have said will be found condensed in a brief extract from a speech I made in England on the breaking out of the war, which I discovered among the papers I have with me at this moment in Washington. I observed in one of my London seeeches : 'Some leading journals have attempted to defend the right of secession from the Union, by maintain. ing tee doctrine of State sovereignty, arguing for the inherent right of a State to secede under the Constitution. Such a right would be an absurdity. The right to secede, as a revolutionary right, is tin% deniable ; but it is the people, the nation, that le to recognize that right, not toe sworn servants of the Constitution, which knows nothing of secession. No Government provides "for its own dissolution ; therefore, widle there is always a revolutionary right to secede, there can never be a Constitutional right to do so. The Constitution prescribes tile means for taking the sense of the people fir:reference to any organic change. Before the present war broke out, at the suggestion of 'Kentucky, an offer Was made the seceding States to call a national eon vention to consider the question of separation, and it would have been competent for that convention to have allowed South Carolina and her confederate States to retire from the Union, and to establish a government for themselves "This offer was deo:ined, and nothing, therefore, was left for the President but to uphold the Oonsti• tution, and enforce the laws which the seceding States had violated. In the war now waging be. tween the States of America, the North is in the right, and the South in the wrong. The South aims at the overthrow of the Government, and the uni. ver sal establishment of slavery. The sham govern. ment which the South has organized has made sla very-its vaunted corner-stone; it is a government founded avowedly on the right of enslaving an infe rior race. In the cause of the South are united all the elements of injustice, despotism, cruelty, and irreligion. On the part of the North, the war is one for national existence ; for the maintenance of government; for the preservation of the Condi. tution, devised and founded by the fathers of the Republic; for the supremacy of law, the punish. ment of treason, and the reintegration of the States. n Looking upon the war as a fact as inevitable and irrepressible ; looking at the combatants with refe rence to their antecedents, their character, and their ollicots ; looking to the results which would follow from a victory to the South, and those which would grown the success of the North ; looking, filially, to the great interests of freedom, humanity, and the civilization involved in the struggle, and its issues, the wish and prayer of the enllehtened philontrao plat must be—Gon SPEED THE NORTH I" The Fire in Boston. THE DESTRUCTION OP THE WINTREOP HOUSE AND RA/lONIC HALL-HISTORIC PAINTINGS LOST. The following are the particulars of the great fire in Boston, repotted leaterdap : About half peat twelve o'clock Wednesday morn. tog tire was Uncovered in an upper room on the northeast corner of the Winthrop House, corner of Tremont and Boylston streets. The building was very high, and partly occupied as a hotel, and partly weir as a Masonic Hall, in which the valuable archives and regalia of several lodges were de posited, none of whisk were saved. There were probably two hundred persona in the hotel at the time the fire broke out; and though the most of them were very much alarmed, others were confident that the lire would be quelled without much trouble. Those who were-alarmed made their escape from the building without saving anything, and those Who Were not, being over- confident as to eonsequeneek did not think of saving their property until it was too late. No correct estimate of the value or loss of pro perty in Masonic Ball can be made, as some por tion. of the property cannot be replaced at any cost. A large number of very valuable and almost priceless paintings were destroyed, including origi nal portrait. or Washington, General Warren, Price,the Brat Grand Master of the State, and also of all the Grand Masters from 1780 down to the present time. Records and other precious docu ments were kept in safes, and will probably be thus preserved. All the various lodges will lose to a eon• siderable extent, and some of them heavily. The COnsiStory, Lodge of Perfection, and the Chapter of Roseeroix, had new and costly regalias, which were destroyed. The regalias of the De Noisy, Boston, and St. Barnard Encampdients, were also destroyed. The painting of Gen, Warren was owned by the Massachusetts Lodge, and was very highly prized. Among the portraits destroyed was a valuable original portrait of Chief Justice Rowell, which had recently been purchased by Dr. Winslow Lewis, and. which he designed presenting to the Boston bar. It bed been in the building but a day or two. The Bos ton Journal says : "It will be gratifying to the members of the order to know that the lock of Washington's hair, with the golden urn in which it was deposited, was not in the building at the time of the tire, and la therefore safe. " The Grand Lodge of this State had a great num• ber of original Masonic documents, bearing the sig natures of eminent Masons of the previous century, and which to them were of great value. Among Mein were Charter. Cud payer. signed by Washing too, Warren. Franklin, Paul Revere, and others Three were all lost. "The inNurAnoes amount to about $BO,OOO, wind pally in Masmachtimetts oompauiea." '1 he New York Evening stock Board. NEW YORK, April 7, 11 P. 31.-I.3lusing prises— Nem York Central 142, Hudson River ' 169% Harlem 167 Michigan Central 162. g Michigan Southern 113 N, Elaleua And Chicago 1323 i iThicago and Rock Wand 1014 . _ Fort Wayne Elie Erie preferred Reading 111toola Central Scrip °Moog° and Alton.. Cumberland .. Markets by Telegrapit. ST. Louie. April 7 —The Clotton mastic/A is Erni and advancing; sales at 65@67a for middling , ti silkily middling. Flour is /1011Ve at $7OB for riounio extra. Wbest tAroyiknt at $1 46®1 60 for prime to el•tAce, and $1 66 lOr exire 01101uo. Omni ar.d 081 s sin watt:raped. City Atm Pork, $22.61 ; lugs: Lt.::ict !mine, 10. 137 ............124j.. 111) 159 X 148 99% Xl4l'lloll CONGRESS...AO SESSION, Wannrscrror. April 7..1934. SENAItr.IO - and Resolutions Mr. HALE. from the Committee on Nasal Affairs. re pori.d beck the resolution introduced by Mr. Grimes yesterday to repeal the Joint resolution f r the transfer of ate/tweet from the militkry and naval service, accom panied by a report, which was ordered to be printed. reported from thesegme committee. On the bill to amend the act relative to certain officers of the navy, with a )eport also on tie bill in relation to ttP plies, and adversely on timbal in relation to Paymas ter's clerks. with amendments. He also reported in favor if passing the bill to amend the eel to regwate the rnaadoenoof of shooksclf lce to r a admiral the nt era Porter d a ta favor o m f 3 the tion to compensate the crew cf the gunboat Da Kolb for loss. and adversely to the petition ofwarnant officers Air MOBRILL offered a resolution for printing One thousand mph's of the report of the engineers of the Watt:m.2ton aqueduct for the use of the Interior Depart ment. which was referred to the Committee on Printing. On motion of Mr. TRUMBULL, the following resoin- Hen was 9d(Atid! R , SOINEd That the Sec'elary of the Interior be direct ed to inform the Senate what amount of fees and emelu manta of everkind and character were received by the Attorney and Marshal of the United States. for the Dis trict of Columbia respectively, and by the clerks of the 'eve,...) doer's for the mid Dietriet during the rear end ing 'December list. 1861. and what amount wac allowed to each of the saidMears far deputise . clerks office. rent. and other incidental expenses during the same Patten. 40 The Ca se of Dlr. 'Yocum. Mr. DAVIS. of Kentucky, called np hie reeolntionm y. structg the Judiciar tiommittee to ingalre a: d report whether br tot Mr Yocum, late of Cairo.t, now con. fined in the Athany penitentiary. titular Beetence of court-martial. though having received a full pardon from tee Pfo,ldent. Mr. Gill SEA of lowa, suggested an amendment. as follows: " And that ithe committee report to the Senate the charier Ac.. on Which Yocum was tried Mr. DAVIS accepted the 1111/0114Mtlar, and ipplatneri the jgrta of the race, saving Yocum had had mule of the tontrabacds at Cairo, and a loyal elaveholder of Kentucky having come there and taken steps in accord ance with the fugitive- slave act, carried off nit runaway slaves. for allowing which Yocnrn was tried and com mitted to the Old Capitol here, but was subseqaently fully pardoned by the President. the day after which he was tent by the Secretary of War to the Albany real tend/tap. After ftirthdr diaCilaiiioll. the eabitet went OlTer, Indian Refugees On motion of Mr. DOOLITt•LE. all prior orders were peetported, and the bill to aid Indian refugees, sad to ratan them to their homes, ti ken tip. The buil ap propriates about *2oo,(bu for the benefit of the Indians who fled into the frontier States a year ago, from the Indian territory, on account_of the rebellions pasition taken by some ot toe tribes. Mr. Doolittle acid lc war necessary that the Indians shruld be sent home at once. in time to make crops this season. The bill was pasted. The Amendment of tits Constitution. The Senate proceeded to the consideration of the joint resolution amending the Conatimtion. Mr. DENDRICHts said he would not have been in duced to say a word, but for the cearge made by Mr. Hale yesterday. that Mr. Hachauttnoe Administration was responsibte for this war. He claimed that the De mocratic party, at that time, did all that it cooed to pre vent hoettlities. and if the Republicans had done as mach as the Democrats the confitce might have been avoided. Every Democrat voted for the compromise measures, nett every. liepnblican alainet them. Tim tienator from New amp thire tumid not deny that if a sectioned President had net bean elected these troubles would aof hays occurred. He old not consider it a delusion to indulge the hope that the De aocretic party would yet save the country. If so. the Senator hutoself induesed the same delusion as he was a Member of the Parts. The banister said tree was a day he had long waited for. and at whoee coming - he rejoiced. Wiest does the Senator see to rej toe at in the prospect around him? Was it the fact that we had alreedy had nearer 2 CO. 4000 f people in the army. and that 1 lUth of the people of the North have been called from their peaceful par snits Was it in the fact that. instead of adding to the wealth of the country, we were deatroving it? Was it in tue fact that 25). 051 of oar eons o soupy graves, and their homes are in sorrow instead of rejoicing? Or :has we could on every ads see tire maimed and wounded? Wes is in the fact that we had amassed a debt of over four thousand miLione of dollars, to which if the State, cow. ty, and town debt was coded. woad amount to the sum of SIX thousand millions more? k e supposed the nenator was gratified when he con templated the effect upon four millions of negrose Does be suppose this measure would benefit those who before ad good masters to take care of p ou tthem he Worthbor cone into contact with the free labor e the calsebitite which would ensue would be frightful. Ha denied that the history of the last year afforded any grousd for exudation and joy. If these freed persons of color were to remain amongst us it could never be en terms of equality. bat as infs. store. As the Senator from Delaware watt said. It Wee tne wink of Hod that this inferiority exists. He found 'male' , In the past history - of the Legates to jnetify the be; ierthat they would be elevated by . contact with white men. He did not consider this tne time to change oar organic law Three-fourths of tee people must agree co this by their Legislatures. Re asked the. Senators is what condition were the people of Kentucky, subject to invasion daily? of Marylanu. is which there . were no free elections? and Delaware, in which tse elections Were controlled by provost marshals. to pass calmly upon these amendments, to say nothing of the States actually in rebellion? Was not this to be a Constitutieu t.r Virginia ae well as New Hampshire? for Florida as Will Without inquiry oy whose fault the States Were in re nellion, were senators to allow drat a State could take advantage of its own fault? Faun or 3.0 fault. three•iour ths of the elates must agree to this amendment before it becomes binding. Mr. HOWARD, of Michigan. said an Opportunity was offered to all the States to vote upon thus subject, bat their open treason prevented them from doing so. Mr. t.OLLAIIIER, of Vermont, said that though the rebellions States who refuted to vote would be canine rated in the count, their refusal to vote would not operate if a three-fourths vote Was secured in favor of the measure. Mr. BRNDRICKS would have no objection to this int aware if it was adopted by each State, for he believed slavery Was the creature of local law. It was a grave question whether three-fourths of the States could lay hands on an institution of the other fourth, without their consent. all being parties in the original Com pact. lie was taught to stand by his original agreement. and he did not intend here to discuss the moral ques tion; with that he had nothing to do. The fault ha found with the Administration was that ft had seamed teeonehont this streiggle to act upon the policy that the rebellious States should not come bac/ into the Union upon the principles of our forefathers, and that no term:44A peace would be considered and that subjuga tieu atone was to be the policy. Wily Was not the Policy of the resolution adopted three years ago fol lowed, and the war waged fur tie sole purpose of re storing the COnSiltaition and the Union? Mr. HENDERSON said that, as the author of the bid.-originally introduced on this. Subject, which provides not only for the extingatehmeut of sla very. but for a differeat Wide hereafter of securing sti,endnients to the Constaition, he would have pre• faired its adoption in that form, but as a majority of the Judiciary Committee had thouget differeutly, he was prepared to yield to their judgment The loyal. owners of slaves, in the slave States, had made up their minds as to the comae to pursue on this subject, without regard to what have been their opinions heretofore. He pro ceeded to argue that slavery had been protested, an/ not warred on to the extent charged in the past b • the Northern _people, and mentioned that an amendment had once been proposed to the Constitution, prohibiting any interference with slavery, but it Wa. not supported by Southern men. At the time of his election, in EGO, the prejudice against slavery had not gone so far as to say a slave State could not be a republican State. Though the platform of the Republican party was to exe/nde at every from the territories. it did not say a State should not adopt slavery afterwards, if the people thought Proper; and it was not so much the anti-slavery prej a iLce, as it was the Corruption+, of the Buchanan Admini stration;-which waxed the Republican trionspl4. Our father: bad found slavery a difficult question in their day as we do now; and, therefore. they left it to the States; but they have materially changed now , by the invention of the cotton gin. Slave lauor had broug at laree profits to the idle few who, in their exemption from labor, began to indulge a foaling of sciporiority, and rans.el ed the Scriptures to prove toe divine Origin of slavery; and, dating I; moan:zee within Jewish theocracy, and not prohinited by Christ. placed themselves upon that ground As Se trent of the culture of cotton increased, - the con viction of the morality of slavery increased in like pro portion While the slaves produced cotton the masters discussed politics. making the whole South a debating society; amt. In the meanttme,the Northern people were engaging in manufactures, science. and schools. At the South. men talked of liberty and Democracy, white the mass of laborers were in bondage 'and. Really assert ing the doctrine of squatter sovereignty, lied from it when it failed to bring in a slave State. In the mean while the Nc rth began to feel the immorality of slavery, and to propagate the sentiment in its churches. and by other agencies, At this point the divergence between the North at d South commenced, and our political platforms became nothing but a budget of dogmas on the ambient of slavery. He held that in the position we had now come to, the anti slavery sentiment could not be removed. It was no use therefore, for men to say they wanted the South to come back, on the hssis of the old 'Union, and quoted from the itichmoud Whig to show that the Pee. Pie of the Rooth %pruned the con, ervati,m of the North What the Chaplain shall Pray for. Afr. SADLSHURY. of Delaware, submitted the fol . lotting: Resolved, That the chaplain of the Senate he respect fully rectneeted hereafter to pray and supplicate Al mighty God io our behalf, and not to lecture Him. in forming Eire. under the pretence of prajer hit. thesaid chaplain's opinion in reference to ats duty as the Al miehty, and that the said chaplain be further requested as aforesaid. nc t tinder the form of prayer to lecture the Senate in relation to the questions before the body. Mr. HO WARD objected to the resolution The Senate then went into Executive cession, and ad• j owned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DOmissal of Officers. On motion of Mr. GARFIELD. of Ohio, the Secretary of War was directed to inform the House how many com missioned officers, with their name and rank, have been disiniFseci from thei military service by ant cority of the Prebident without trial by court martial since the beain iiing of the present war, and how many Of sneh dismis sal* have been revoked. . . Mr. GARFiELD said this resolution was reported at the instance of the Military Committee. A bill had been pawed by the b cute. but reported on unfavorably in the kiennen, taking from the President the p_oyer of summary Aa a communication on this subject had been received from advocate General Holt. it seemed only Just that all the facts should be laid before the House. The resolution was adopted_ Delaware au.d"Raritarn Railroad. - The Howie resumed the consideration of the Delaware at d Raritan Bar Railroad bill. . . . . . . Mr. WOODBRILGE, of Vermont, argued in favor of the constitutionality and expediency of declaring the roads and boats of that company military and poet routes. The public shown be protected lagsinet that le -4.112Q,1 monopoly. the Camden. and Amboy Railroad, which not on3y imposes burdens on the people, but crip ples the Government in the per 'ormance of its deities his company, he said, interfered with the elections in New Jersey and designates who shall be elected. Mr. JIGGERS, of New Jersey, said the statement was false from bestnnimr to end WOODBR DOE took the disclaimer as true, ac cording to the best information of Mr. Rogers. but ha (Dr. Woodbridge) had been Informed that the Hamden and Amboy abroad Company pats its foot upon such nomination of candidates as ma, not best serve the in terests of the great monopoly. The subject then went over and the House proceeded to cOrelder the *peeled order—namely, business relating to the District of' Columbia. Local Bills. Several local Mile were pa oied. and one appropriating $2OO OM for the erection of a penit.ntlarv, jail, and hence of correction in the District of Colombia, Was die onsi.d .Panaing a motion to ]ay the bill on the table, the Howe at 4.46 adjourned. PICNNSILVANLi LEGEMTURE. HARErszrnte, April 7, 1961 SENATE. The &nate met at litts' A. M. Petitions. Mr. RIDGWAY, ftom the board of return judges in Philadelphia. for a change in the election laws. hiewlrs• RIDGWAY. WoRT13111(}T021, DUNLAP, and HODSEB OLDER. presented Petitions in favor of the Fr< nt-etreet and Kensington Railroad. State Banks - - • • Mr. CIIAMPISETS reported to committed an act hehe purpo ba nke ba f nkingunder o thelaw n o es o ha t Unifod States. Senate:mita Apportionment. Mr. COD BELL, from the committee on. State Appor tionment. reported a bill Tne new .dietriete, as pro posed by the bill. Me as follows: First District-Ist. 2d, 3d. 4th, 7tb. Bth, and 26th wards. ThiodD D sietric—t 6th, h SO O ,t h / th, t h 2 th, t h 6 t nd 7th th m w d rd M Wards. Fou - rth District-19a., 20th, 21at, 22d, Mi. 24th. and 46th wards. Bills Introduced Mr. CONNELL, incorporating the Grant Land Im provement company. Mr. STABIL incorporating the Wyoming Coal and Transportati ,n Company ; also. incorporating the fey. stuns Coal Mining COMPBAY- The consideration of an act authorizing the Governor to pay a bounty of $3OO to. Yolut leers was resumed In ccimmittee of the Whole. ft Without coming to a 'rote. the Senate postponed the matter until Tuesday next. The Fenate agreed to the resolution providing for- a final adjt unonent 011 April 213th, Adjourned- APTEENOWS SESSION. The following bills passed: local pointing the Gila Wong Company. Incorporating the . Reading and Columbia Telegriph Company. For more efficient taxation of non-resident venders of no rehandle°. Riled - re to School Controllers of First District. Mr. DICHOLS offered joint resolutions accepting offer cf Philadelphia city to erect new Capital buildings. and declaring Capital to be removed to Philadelphia afar Jab 4. 1864. Th% resoint'on la'd over. Mr CONNELL called up an act incorporating the Washington Gold Mining Company. Patieed. Mr. NICROLS called CID an act atohortzlog sale of ertain real estate In city of Philadelphia Passed. Mr .11IDOWAY called up an act incorporating the Northern honing Company. Passed. Adjoarned until evening at 7..4 o'clock. EVENING SESSION. The Senate met at i 3 o'clock. The follow Ingham were considered: sir. Cox:NELL called up ail act rettave to the niannelf . of entering jadsmintsin the city of Philadelphia—paised. Mr. WILtuN called up a supplement to in act Inefumi• rating tie Jersey Shore. Pine Creek. and Silva Mae Railroad—passed Mr. WORTHiNG'OBf.ito act relativirto the Bait Bran• divine and Way - . W. 1,114 Railroad Comps 7—passed fer, Ci . NISRLD. an ant antborkaing the State Treaanrof I:. ester: t•flt.ifa el tars On a certain mortgage— p to-or Mr. LOWRIE read in place a supplement ti an act aa• rePl'un lard grants from:he General Gaverumorit. Mr. RI DihlY called upon act relative to tie port w dims o: Plait davit!. —Padted 114 U! K. Tat' II use met at Fr keclnals b. Iff Lombard and tiouth-street italiwny w1:1 hep. • r in tho b bulbar% at.fl true( itakestt, a!) - Avug t) ate any two streets south of Locust in order to reach Fiftieth street, and repealing so mach of the Wallas law as al lows cars of other companies to nee the Lombard and South-street road. Cooper-shop Soldiers' Home. Kr. BARGES introduced en act to int° 7l.°Tata ° ' e Cooper-shvp Soldiers' Home " for the accommoda tion and residence of disab'ed soldiers and seamen honorably discharged from the United States service. Life mem bers are constituted by the payment of fifty dollars. Bills Coosioldered. Incorporating the Pailadelphia and Colorodo 0013 and Silver Mining dcmeeny. Fogged R.I. Mr COCHRAN called enact incorporating the dier'e Home of Philar elphia. Plotted. Mr. BA ROBE called n o en act incorporating the Cooper Shop St ldiera' Rome. w arch passed An act allowing the New It tric and Middle Coal Field Company to construct a iatlroa i from Mount Carmel to the (ratan item Railroad was discussed. Poised. bat afierwsrds reconsidered and postponed. Mr Ell rPtIIN nit an net ennalitlng the territory of tne Eighteenth and Nineteenth wards O(Philadelphis. C be bill, which has already passed tee &Mate, Proposes to take two Precincts from the Ntneteentte.ward, and attach thorn to the Eishteenth, the two preeinem being those fronting the river Delay ere. between Mori,. and Lehigh etreets.) The bill was indefinitely postponed, and a Mellon to reconsider was indefinitely p.mtponed. This d Cetus the bill A. jonreed.._ AFTERNOON SESSION Mr. ALEXANDER. of Centre. galled up the bill rela tive to the Lehigh Navigation company The bill alloWe the COMM. ny to become possessed of an indeilelte unmoor of acres of coal land in Carbon or other counties. It was tweed on act restive to the Now York and Middle Coalfield C-.mpony. Peered. an OCt to incorporate the Nanticocke Coal and Iron Cornrany }Mooed an act Incorporating the Philadelphia Chemical Col• lege. Pasted. an act charging the MVO from Armstrong to Alla 'hens ccunt7• Passed. Adjourned. Further from Europe Arrival of the Medan. Har..iiax, April 7 —The steamship Kedar, from Liverpool on March 28th, arrived at this PM Of o'clock this evening. Sbe brings the following additional news: Lownorr, Monday Morning, Miran Miele Queens town).—The Morning Post, in a leader on Poland and Denmark, says : We shall be glad to discover that no holy alliance waists to crush the liberties of Etc. rope, Just as we should wish to learn that the host tility of Germany to the words of Denmark is pro. rooted by sympathy With the co. patriots, and not by abhorrence to liberal views on one point or other. However, _ we leek information tejoatiry us in draw. lug the wlshed•for inferences." Berlin letters mention that Prince Ilohen Z °ltem Sistearingson left for the seat of war to endeavor to effect a reeonelication between Friderick Charles and marshal Wrangel. East Day iu Massachusetts. Bermes, April 7.—Busiztems is entirely impended, this befog a fail Patents to Pennsylvanians. The following patent/ were issued from the United States Patent Office during the week ending April 6, each bestial; that date i To John Agnew, of Bath, for Improvement In corn planters. To Reuel Blackwood, or Philadelphia, for Improve- ment in method of expanding tube. In tune sheets. To H. Everett, of Philadelphia, for design for an oil can. To George W. Griswold, of Abington, for metallic boot•, *bona, or manilas. To.O. H. Harrington, of Manchester, for improve. meat In railroad oar brakes. To Henry Jacob, of Loretto, for improvement to standards for lumber earl, To Robert H. Leekey, of McClure, for improve. meat in tracks for street railways. To Robert . ll. Leokey, of McClure, for improve. went in steam wagons. To Henry Milltngar, of Pittsburg, for improvo. went in manufacture of aiding. To T. F Rich, of Chatham Run, for improvement in wool flannel. To 0. P. Setae, of Pittsburg, for improvement in roof of railroAd omit. Mr. Gunman, the builder of a new torpedo boat, has been testing it in New York bay. He remained under the water upwards of nine hours, affixing to the bottom of 'heard sloop "Extra" two torpedoes. The percussion lock of the first torpedo, containing filly perm& of powder, was exploded, but, owing to some defective communication, the powder was not ignited. The second torpedo contained one hundred pounds of powder, with three percussion locks In attempting to fire the charge of powder, the wire connection run off the spool, and no explosion took place. The sloop was then to wed to Bush wick creek, ;there at low tide the sloop may be seen with the two torpedoes attached to her bottom. Although the sloop was not blown up, owing to defective tor pc does, this experiment has demonstrated the prac ticability of the torpedo boat, which may be naviga ted below the surface of the water, and operate either against submarine obstructions or a ship's bottom. The company for whom this boat was built, for $15,000, have accepted her, and she will probably he used in future naval operations. She is fifty feet long, is manned by twenty five men, and moves by means of a propeller turned by hand. DECIDE FOR YOURSBLVES, GRNTLSM&N.— We before us four newspapers of the date of the 24th4 all of which claim to be genuine exponents of unadulterated Democracy ; they are the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Cleveland Plain. Dealer, the Chicago Time, and Chicago Post, The Enqhirer reads the Plain Dealer out of the party; the latter declares that the fornieria already outside the pale of the party organization; the Chicago Post declares that the Times does not speak the sentiments of the Demo. cram and the Times calls the Post " Black Republi can." Gentlemen t do decide thiclittlomatter, won't you I—Nashville Union. rDrAMMOTH CAVE.—The hotel at this celebrated place is about being reopened. Coaches from Cave City make regular trips between Mammoth Cave and the railroad station at Cave City. The old guides at the Cave, who have traversed its winding Othyliuths through MAny years, are still there, The travelling, public will now al.:;ajto visit this great natural curiosity, which has been placed beyond reach for some time past by the war in Kentucky. SALE. OP FIIIINITURE, &0., THIS D.A.YOKIJ.D.-- Our male this morning, at 9 o'clock, at the auction store, comprises a large assortment of household furniture from families declining housekeeping; also, elegant walnut parlor suites in brocatelle and mo quet, 'walnut chamber suites, cottage furniture, sil ver-plated ware, Mussels, ingrain, and Venetian carpets, pianofortes, beds and mattresses, mirrors, vases, &C. WINGS, PATENT MEDICINES, &o.—Also, for ac count of a transportation company, a lot of patent medicines, wines, cigars, &o. Mos. Blum & SON, 914 Chestnut street. AUCTION NOTICE—SALE OF BOOTS AND SHOES.— The early attention of buyers is invited to the large ad attractive sale of 1,000 cases boots, shoes, bro gans, balluorali, gaiters, to be held by Peillp Ford & Co., auctioneers, this 'morning, commenciog at 10 o'clock precisely, at their store, Nos. 525 Mar ket and 522 Commerce. Public Entertainments. 15.1114 WHIT 01' MISS LAIIRA KEENZ,—This &acorn plished actress will take her farewell benefit thie evening at the Walnubstreet Theatre, and will perform the interesting part of Ogarfta, in the "Sea of Ice." This drama has been selected for the cocoa sion on account of the great favor with which it has been received by the public, and the fine opportunity it affords for Miss Keene's! acting. To-morrow night, the popular play or "East Lynne." as dramatized by the authoreis, lefts. Henry Weod, will be given, with Mies Keene as Lady leabei. The management promises to place it upon the stage in the best style, 'and with a strong cast, including the whole strength of the company. Miss EMILY SHAW brings with her from New England no ordinary reputation as an intelligent and effective reader, and has been very highly com plimented by such critics as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dr• Weiss, Professor Sears. . Her reading at the Musical Fund Hall this evening is given for the benefit of the Great Central Fair, and by invitation of many of our best-known citizens. The pro gramme selected has . great variety, including selec tions from Whittier, Dickens, Tennyson, Powell, with that fine poem, "The Second Louisiana," by George H. Boker. Dr. Holmes said that he found so little to criticise in Miss Shaw's reading that he feared he must be wanting in-the eve which detects faults, and if she but halt deserves the praise she received, she must yet be considered one of the very butt of readers. TWO GRAND soinzus, for the Central Fair, will be given by the pupils of the Fifteenth-ward Public Schools, at the Academy of Music, on the evening' of April 15th and 16th. The entertainments combine mimic and calisthenics, and will, no doubt, prove very Interesting. IG 7E. Y" ITEMS. WHEELER Sr WILSON'S HIGHEST PARISH:DI SEWING hleonnize are the best, the simplest, and the cheapest. These unequaled machines are adapt. ed to every variety of sewing for family wear, from the lightest Mikillea to the heaVielit cloths. They work equally well upon silk, linen, woolen, and Got• ton goods, with silk, cotton, or linen thread. They will seem, quilt, gather, hem, fell, cord, braid, bind, and perform every species of sewing, making a beautiful and perfect atitoh, alike on both sides of the article sewed. _ It it be inconvenient for the purchaser to visit the fpleitoome, the order may be forwardedto the office, and it will be as faithfully filled as if the selection had been made personally. Drachines are forward ed in perfect order to any part of the eountry, and full instructions sent, which will enable the most inexperienced to operate them without any trouble or difficulty. All good dressmakers, seamstresses, shirt-makers, and sewing women, use the Wheeler & Wilson in preference to sU other sewing machines. 150,000 of the Wheeler & Wilson Alachblea have been sold. Five thousand are in use in Philadel phia. It is no new experiment to be tried. Thep have been in use fifteen years, and every machine Is warranted, and kept in order one year without charge. All who apply will be taught, without oharge, to operate the Wheeler A. Wilson /Machine, whether they wish to purchase or not. Instruction given at the residence of purchasers, when desired. N. R.,The Wheeler & Wilson Agency has con stantly on hand a large assortment of Ladies , and Children , ' geady.matte Clothing, 0/oaks, Mont*. les, &o. Family sewing done to order. Opera. tols, with or without machines, furnished at short notice. Wheeler & Wilson's Salesrooms, No. 70iOhest. nut street, above Seventh. Wax figure truandour. Cut this out and preserve it for future retinues. SENSIBLE EXPERIMSNTS.—We have heard or a number of eases lately of person. taking adv,sntage of the various Sewing Mashie° proprietors of this city in their offers to word the fullest opportunity for experimenting, with a view to determining the relative merits of the respective instruments, and in every ease that has come to our knowledge the celebrated " Florence" Machine, sold fit 830 Chest nut street, has received the preference. The "Fla mice" is, Unqueatlonably, the beat sewing Machine in the world, for all kinds of family use. A DISTINCTION WITS A DIFFBRENCIC—A Quaker came before twojudges at the assizes as a witness, when he made frequent use'of the words aim and likewiBe. "Prithee, roan," cried one of the judges, "why do you vary these words so often"! nave they not both the same signification 1" "No, truly," cried the Quaker, " their meaning is very d•ifferent as for example, one of you procures his wearing sp. parel at the Brown Stone Clothing Hall of Rook hill l Wilson, Nos. eO3 and 605 Chestnut street, nix,ve Sixth. The other wears clothes also.; but he (lout not do likewise by procuring his garments at this popular establishment." Atli& No.. 1 "knocked under." WHEN It ti 12 o'clock at Charles Stokes &Co.'e onaprice Clothing Store, under the Continental, Philat!rlphis, it is Augusta, Me wa.Mtg lot . 12h. 21m. New Oileang ilia. 624:1 St Lomb . 118. Sat Fria-Mato lOU. 9,31, Canton, OMAR 81. 604. Xi&light CAII7, Glatir tr. V pother column that AD creditsVALLADltt on th e t ,"!i; draft will not be given after 16th Init. fire to receive the bounty should enllat Fe et ,1 time, at the General Recruiting Chestnut 'treat R. JAYNIVEI EXPECTOR...4w wed ib D. is starulard medicine for NT '4; Asthma, Consu lt It Bronchitis, Whop 1n Cough, 3rOup, Gough, and Voids, ititg ri , n4, ft or any Pulmonary Complaint, attest 1,4 Recent Coughs and Colds, Pleuriti c quickly and effectually cured by i t , S i r soothing and expectorant power. Asthma it always curls. It ove rtolul modic contraction Of the air vessels, t " , , thee. , Log free expectoration, at once remove, ~10 4K of breathing. Bronchitis readily yields to the E x ., m, t subdues the inflammation which txt,, 3 , 1 : t. ' , : the wind tubes, Produo" free taceu,,ert,, suppresses at once the cough and pai n. Consumplum—For this insidious and r ki , no remedy on earth has ever been fou,,, ! , I, It subdues the inflammation, relieves then pain, And removes the difficulty 01 hre„ . .T : produces an easy expeotorstion, Whet eby leg and obstructing matters are tenyne,l ftr, 4 IttIML Whooping C. ligh is promptly relleVe 1 11.1, peotorant. It shortens the duration of one•balf, and greatly mitigates Mc sulf.n4, patient. In all Pulmonary Complaints, la l'; a•,., &0., it Will be found to be prompt, 1. 1 ,e ~ and tellable. • All of Dr. Jayne & Sonti ram prepared only at No. 242 I.ll24ttout . 6 MA:t o he4l DRAPNBESB, Eye, Ear, Throat Dlkup a. 4t , tank treated by Dr Von rdeautailitlrri4ul; Alain, author or !be work just puhlittikd xar. ib Doom,. and their Trettment,, Moschziaker is the only regular pliyalcil4l.:'l; delphia who makes the above maladies hlo 1.; ty. Th e very highest city suit other referew; be examined at his Once, 1021 Walnut at C/N.lOl, BUNIONS, INVINITSD NA/LP, Ell JOINTS, and all (limonite of the fact, cured pain or inconvenience to the pelieht, by p i rie, Surgeon Chiropodist, 921 Chestnut sirsi rem to phlimiefani and anrionem of the city, ARRIVALS AT THE HOTEL Ofrard—thentnut • Win Whitney Jon .1+ well. Jr Di C Eeebee, Penne Mrs Lyons. New York A r Evans, Port Wayne W A Broth wfot O A Lesee. Few York Bliss Linda Pelper, Lane LtJßHali USA T Yenta,. U 8 A S. A Fpultind, 1 1 S A WJea,mer,USA • W J Caribou. Baltimore .1 1) al. Balt .T LiFe:mbe. IT 8 A Colon, Watt,. D C J C Lyons, New York L A'l aney , Sie,see. oaettn G C Banter. Mse..ootneetta E T Adonis. Now 'York W kielion3l). A ton. 11l Mien Month, Ithin, 0 hll).t , c oven. T)ll3n. 0 MrA Mrs Andele.)r.Canada W Howe, Dewton, lii Peery Stewart Pinkerton. Baltimore S Muselmen, Baltimore Hananlo. Pitteburg P Replier, Cbamberebnrg - H Mindte, Cr mberenurg W 4 Colton. New York Oen 0 mil 4) la AT's Mil G 8 Brown &Fon. Kai/tacky I .B.nry & la. Kentucky John N Coulton Kentucky Ylts 0 L A , ton renna L b Sraiincir, Psaneylvania 51” T P Smith, Baltimore A Van Vilenher. Ea eland J Winkle, Indiana F S'crt. toe)]. Indiana W T Morison. Pennsyi 'rani& W E Bartlett. Jr. Baltimore I: Cron. Washington 71 R Yonne. Washington .1 3 Dull il.rribban3 J V Ctfmwell, torasbunt Mrs Crocker, Washington $ 15 bw. , zer, PiMadelphia, Mire F Relly , Indiana Aluot E "locum, Wabingtow M B donee. U ♦le Sheff er, Baltimore J W Brijbent , Frenklin Dims Beasten. Delaware Jao Williams , Baltimore Jot , Filson & wf. Baltimore P R Wolford, Adams co. Pa Geo Randebona, Hartford S Fandfor. testae , H cites., Pittsburg P l.anber. Boston Mrs G D Mn,l4 Cleveland Allison White, Lock Haven Mrs H C Parsons. L Haven Col F 8 Pifer & wf. Pa Wm H Wescott. II S X Cant Spencer. New Jersey 13 Moore. Jr. & wt. Wil, Del Wilson 6 Hnnt. Burlington g McCook, Steubenville, 0 Ft Newell, Franklin, Pa Continental—Muth a 0 B Blasell, New York W W Clerk. New York 0 F Diego, Now York L Rotiaplanto, New York r. A Wilder. Boston 0 C Orne, Boat= W B Lee, Boston O M Parsons. Colutubns L T Everett, New York C W blandart, Patina W Brougb, Franklin A Gardner, New York W Reid, Dubuque F M Brooke, Media J C Jordaa, York, Pa El S Fitch. New York 14 oink, New York E L Plumb. New York H. De Zarub, N.-w oak Jas 13 Abbott, fialiSair ' B Ramble, Boston; G A Dr.)st Baltimore hev J Weaver. New York L Ba3s, Pittsburg C Enema Carlo A W oedruir, U S A Horner Franklin" N Y B Clevenr , New York W J Careenn, Baltimore G A Laurence, New York B 0 Farmer, Cleveland W Warrick & la, N J J Sentinels. Cincinnati E L is - Lannon. Cincinnati S Forts, Cincinnati E B Menges . , Boman II HDorriss, be Louis T Dortiss, St Lords 0 W Law &la, Bostsn C S Jamison, Michigan I El Id Goodrich la, Settee, W B Rotenbanm, N J T Hoopes Jr, West Cheater .11 A Wilder. Boston 0 C Oran, Boston W H Lee. Boston J Park. Jr, Pitteburg Mrs J Park, - Jr. Pittsburg , W G Park, Pittsburg 118 Priestley, Pennsylvania W E Van heed. 17 S JNTinkhatn,USN G Ai Wight, Wasbington N A Halton. Buffalo Geo C Bell. Bndalo Hon B 1 Stanley, England G 8 Taylor, U SA ?I E Reetide, Warbington Mrs E Cooke. Sandnakr. 0 lilts E Hurd, Sandusky, 0 Jelin Graham, .155 W York J C Crrcker & wire, Albany Cushman & wile, N Y J D Puro•y, geW Brunswick Kinz. New Brunswick Rev C E Lindeler wie.NY P D Per y & wits, New York to P Nevin. Boston Job. S Graham. Pottsville US Bradley. Rhode Island W Brown. Boston BT Poland. Boston Mr & Eire McDonald..Pa S Lewis, Allentolyn W H Blower. Allentown .1 AI Moe, Allentown C Stanly, Pew York .1T Daniels, Virginia B Butcher. New York Mrs J Painter. Pit tsburg Mrs B H Painter, Pittsburg n L Painter, Pittsburg G H Talman lar, 1.1 Y D H Ocoimar , Now York Hemphill. New York Weston. Portland W H Evans, Portland D F Imory. Portland Siert:haunts' hotel—k J Miller, Carliale .1.1 Moore. Dillaburg ea dia. Silver Spring k W Remick. Harrisburg J M Reed. Mary land ri Jones.. Maryland L N. Quinn. 13 8 A J Satterfield 13 Tall. 13 S A T Warner, S A Crg, II A J A McC ai onnell. US J Th,rnberrY. Bealety'S S Richardson. Baltimore J B Newton, oblo W Dunn. Lock Haven W • Simpson, Lock Haven A R Ring: Ohio Erect, Ohio T McKee. Venango co .1 Sol Winger, Penna J C Rochester. Clarion co W C Ohio - -B H Brown, Reading T L Fr, mire & la, Minn F P Strine, Milton H Melender. lowa Brcdhead. CullensbUrg J Clark, Clarion to O P Swisher. Ohio MISS C.l Swisher, PelersVg! Di " al LB.:MOM H Budfordi Arnariciul lintel—Che Win Jones. Newyork A t: Tallman, New Jersey J D Banghart, Jersey City W W Beaver. New York J Whiting, Baltimore ST McCauley. New York W J Conner, Mauch Chunk T Gallagher. New York L T Jcsiva B New York C W Er anff, Norriatown C T Nod man John Smith. 'New Jersey. Et Johnson. New Jersey H Mann, New Jerre's , B Roffman & son. N J R Bret New Haven Rupee Dillon V Mese r. C R Morgan I W Veazey. Ilfaryland ffi P Butler lease P. Butler. Maas kt 'Bretton, HS Di B 0 Briengst Clem Hartzell Robt Pe, sett D 8 Lang. Lowell Jos D_,Lawann, N,w Jr r , ev A atabtire & wf,Slkton,Md S Tree, Washington R P Smite, Germantown Nat W g Sty en 4 II S A I) It Banton, Itendln.k F. Bruner. Penne J J Gordon, Penna I. Hoffman. Babirnore R 11 Shapable. II 8 A W Nutlet,, USA 1, A Kerr York. Pa P Becker. New 3 ore; St. Loula — Visteatalut S A &agar, Baltimore Wlleon, Baltimore mm Dearborn. Baltimore rk , Baker. Baltimore .1 J. Brown, Baltimore Botirtek. New 'Stork C s Corpus , Mew York S Beecher street. T Bartroqr• 0 B Darr W 1, 1 , 13 0 M wallor P Rots .'3.0 Pins W P Mrm 0 K 11 ,,, R Hall B 8 Bltg6. 1 Fox. M Bt3arahnu 0.0 tiovuvoir . , Mrs W h HoArbA A F Keith. Hull. Mrs O .1 !int. N %V Tro , lX . :', 8.%0012.. job° itarr. ba Dr S L tra a t ti thlour. -.;1•r,, Stinrue 100,n T H rapvb J u Dugan, Baltimore SS • kora Baltimore - M bob mon Baltimore Jar Weed; Bostrat 0 Wiliam Baltimore Sea Is Barry. Baltimore g cooper. Now York J . Conklin, Now York I M R Wateor . New York G R Maxon. Boston B Mortar & wf. New York Jl' Barrie. new York I J C Heyirran, New. York keton. PUSrborg Ere El Wills, Pans ti is McConkey, Prella elms Donokee, WilltamWt W B Nankin & la, Buffalo G B norther, New York Mrs J W Frottbr New York J B Moreland, Brooklsn. ems) Willard , Tro7 13 no.rland, Troy Blount Verascm—Second street. EWalsh, Pottsville IL @rat. _ C Wilson. Tamaqua . F H fratuptos, Virstnis PJ El .1 Swift. Virststs J K Malt!. /4 Dame, rreilde J K Etsuwooo. Viretels OW " 10 F C Patkss , 11.1msschusetts JT D Fnlth. l'otttvillo Mr, a" BliaaSastbirv, reuse, tract, 11 1 P 1 ION, 101) W F 131 :10114 , y, , 104.) W W F 1 1.4 • litterj cos . C011.1,..ir. tier, Tay ass E 0 ri Haro.t rio. Jno J li.e.e 4 wi tJ N Grenk, J'on, Fit D Bi M tting '1 , 4 ,21,,Jua0 ; Waters, I W Mallon M B Ayr**, Bcn, Mrs W B Ayred Mom Cromer. •farr„, - ., Ilion A lIICAILidzt Gen W Lyon Luther Reese, 1J X athr. Dane ;A. F R111349ii, Ono Heim, ilwat Robt Blare. 11, ' in T J I ISII44 I Yi, Uht Bawl WiLilain ,, ,l! n r, Harris Mourn, Ob. r- Nemuel Henry, 1 , , H C Metric, ir! , ,u. Win Young. Ehitic - ,, - : E H E Getty. New frA 8 Lockwood. U Glerstrin &Ire i; J 01.195, PP F Jove., Pen i; 1 7 NBlack, Docent B M McGee, I , • W H (Jain', Nor, T