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THUE9DAY, JUNE SO, 1864.
FORNEY'S WAR PEES'S,
. FOR TITS WEIR =DINO JULY 2, 1864.
I. -ENOTIATIIIO. —Occupation of Ringgold , Ga., by
StArmen's Army.
11. POETRY.—" Beneath the Moon," by W. 11. H.
Donnas—" To Mrs. Egglcson "—" Old Rosy," by Kane
o'Dounell—" Rolgar, the Dane," by J. A. Dorgan—
" The Return of the Birds," by 13ryant—"Palingeno
sia," by Longfellow—" My Son—My Sun "—" In Bo
ream "—" Light in Darkness," by Brace Crosier.
111. " ZENOBIA TEMPLE, Esq.." by Mrs. Lillie
Dererenx Umetend.
IV. EDITORIALS.—The Great Camps ign—The Pa
nic in Gold—Representative Recruits—The Moral Asneet
of the Fair—Tbe Church Militant—A Nittb - •nal
System—The Mlwber Democracy—Our Prtuent Duty
—Our 'Foreign ca Enlistments—Secession Jottrnallem
Abroad—Mexico.
V. LETTERS OF "OCCASIONAL."
VI. CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
VII. WAR NEWS. —Our Special Correspondence —
The War in Virginia—Arms of the Tennessee—Saccess
ynlExpedition in North Carolina—Rebel Defeat in:Ar
kansas—Official Gazettes of Secretory SW Men.
VIII. THE REBEL PRESS.—Extracts from late Rebel
Journals.
IX, CONGRESSIONAL DEBATES.—The Abolition of
Slavery—Speech of Ron. William D, Kelley, in , tho
Home of Representatives—Debate in the Senate be
tween Hon. Messrs. Ten Erik and SaulsburY•
X. GENERAL NEWS.—Public Debt of the United
States—lnc:dente of the War, &e.
XI. CITY INTELLIGENCE.—The Great Central FAIT
—The Closing Scenes—Calamity on the Delaware—Re
caption of the 71st Regiment, P.Y.—Arrivals of Wetted
ed Soldiers, Am.
- XII. LITERART.-3.llllteryßoolts—Thackeray'sPos
thummitt Story.'
XIII. RELlGlOUS.—Centenary of Methodism in Ame
rice.—Plan and Operations of the Christian Commis-
Mau, gm._
XIV. CHESS DEPART MENT.-:—Lessons for Learn.
era, No. A—Problems—Chess in Fhtladelphia,
In Drne-
eels. in Geruisur.
XV. FINAWIAT , AND COMMERCIAL.
gar Speeinalbe of the "WAR Pease" wilt be for
warded when requested. The subscription rate for sin
gle copies Is $2 per year. A deduction from these terms
Will be allowed when clubs are formed. Single copies,
put up In wrappers, ready for mailing, may be obtained
at the counter. Price five cents.
The Mae); Man ip.,Destiiky
The freedmen subject cannot cease to
have a profoundinterest to allwho earnestly
appreciate the Cause and the sacrifice of the
war ; to all who understand its deep-rooted
beating in the "whole problem of the slow
but sweeping revolution through which the
nation is passing. Emancipation has solved
the first difficulty by cutting. it as .6,-I.;EX- -
ANDER cut the Gordian knot Another rc
nntins--the problem of the "Freedn t len; l 7 ,
whin, conscientiously worked
. ou , il
Iv OSt
perhaps, solve all, in
bretinnoievi
t ril 2.
of
-
of the evils of that
°Or States. It
ti on —the reconstruetio. a. _
ti ,
l e
f,r4.ld of it., sav ry.
is not yet titne .t
1(3 .611 possesSes a life, like
ITLef'tirl:no'f feu ii
;rink - e, all the more virulent
vow"
-itis a part-of its death. We must
:.,- .
• •
ref find occasion:to try the wrongs against I
the near() at the bar public conscience,
and confirm' with overwhelming evidence
. , .
the - poPular anti-slavery judgment and
sympathy throughout the North.; for the
— slave, iii his progress to freedom, and
the nation, in its advance to peace, have
- need of it all. The sufferings of the slave
are now common stock of sacrifice and
kepi.., offerinw o with the wounds of our sol
diers. We must hear out the whole
tragedy, and suffer with all who have
, . suffered. In this vast struggle, which
has drawn into its vortex the hearts, char-
Refers, and minds of all men, without dis
. tinctiou of color or degree, sweeping off all
. '. disguises, every earnest actor of a part
must find himself more a citizen than a
::_ partisan, and more a man and philanthro
pist, perhaps, than citizen. Hearing the
story of the slave, we hear also the groans
of our captive compatriots in the prisons
of the South. How else than by striving
to understand this :subject shall we ever
• appreciate the wrongs which slavery, and
nothing - else than slavery, has wreaked
upon the North ? How else shall we nu
. derstand the duty of regenerating the
South ?"..
Side by side before us we have two pain
fully contrastive phases of slavery—one a
collection of the songs of the plantations,
and the other an official narrative of the
martyr experience of the slave. There
appears to be abundant material in the
former for the broad-natured musical
thinker, who will write the book we want
out of that interesting and tempting theme.
. But to treat it as it should be. treated,
he must understand the latter,' and ,
interpret tbe pleasures of the slave by .
his sufferings. Similarly, the states-,
man must solve his needs by his depri
vations—bis future by his past. To carry
on the work of emancipation, we need all
the humanity that can be pressed into the
service of freedom. Suggesting this, we
have the conscientious and.biteresting re
port of Col. alums MOT AVE, of New York,
one of a commission appointed by the Se,
erctary of War -to examine and report - the .
condition of the freedmen of the South.
This document will be printed for circula
tion ia'.Europe, and-As one of the fairest
, and strongest testimoill
c S a vinst slavery,
~..
lik ,. •
and i: -
• have
, • -.
in thousands of cases,
'with even harsher severity than that ap
plied in Northern communities to brutes.
Literal facts, such as the wide-spread de
gradation of concubinage in the. South;
the torture of 1419 slave after modes wor
thy of the dark u,zes ;
paddle the usual pun
the
;
ishments of the bruis• mq
knotted brills bide, b ringi/-:. out bloody
welts on the back of the victim. the iron
: collar, leg-fetters, and the stocks ; 'lle pro
. fessional and ordinary blood-homid
Ihe working, whipping, goading and fmki i
suing o death ; the capital punishment of-c
kerning at the stake—all these authentic
facts a nation, trembling for-its existence,
once refused to believe. - Yet who that will
allow us to suppose ft ss44:filioral geometry,
with the given hypotpesis Of the bare insti
tution:of slavery, cannot see how all these
evils may:be fairly4i*leed from the mon
strous Henn 'Of. 'holding their fel
low-men as pFopercy, body and soul alike
commodity, purchase, and chattel. There
was an infinite ramification of suffering
eilending rover the - whole area of the
South from the black and .bloody root
of slavery—sun suffering as to have made,
the slave race capable of bearing, must
have required that slavery should make
them, almost beasts in endurance; and,
surely, if the slaves ever suffered like brutes,
brutes never suffered so much. In some of
the plantations (especially those' on the
Missiisij)pi) a much greater social equality
existed between the races, but this did
not lessen the amount oS labor itn
poped upon the slave (from fifteen to
eighteen hours per day, and sometimes
during the whole night on the sugar plan
tations,) noilid it secure the 'integrity of
marriage either to the planter's wife or
the slave-woman's husband. One witness,
"Dr. E. C. 111'DE, an old physician who
had lived and practiced more than twenty
years among the planters of North and
South Carolina, and in the Valley of the
Mississippi, declared, on being examined,
that the slave-woman was forced to labor
from pregnancy to maternity," births taking
place between the cotton-rows, the woman
being given one hour to recover. "Many
planters on - the Mississippi do not wish
to raise negro ; children—they'd rather
they would die than- live—they do not
think it profitable." The planter's co
habitation with a slave resulted in Tear
ful punishments of the victim by the out
raged and vindictive wife. Insubordina
tion from the merest involuntary impulse
often brought down on the slave's ban
the cruelest of scourges. Whipping a
woman in child-birth was a standard prac
tice in hard work-a-day neighborhoods;
and in cvety vicinity the slave was at the
mercy of the planter's veriest whim, and
worse than even that, was a double -slave to
the hard-hearted avarice and pitiless revenge
the .overseer. 7hipping in the slave re
- by no means, a school-Boy's'
• studied art ,as't9
.
,41mit
the dread and nightmare of
hopelCSs, and pantie slave. There wcr
instruments for the purpose sufficient to
furnish a .profession—the whips of knotted
hemp cords, bull's hide twist, coach trace,
flat hand-saws, the paddle, and, besides,
whatever the master or overseer might lay
hands on in a moment of ,passion were
added to this make-up of scorpions, and
brought to bear on man or woman ex
posed in every variety of posture. This
was only an ordinary system of disci
pline, and though it left among the people
a hind of human life, "full of unheard-of
toil and dreadful anguish, it did not ap
proach by many degrees the slavery on the
South Carolina shore,"
where the specta
cle of whipping was frequently - witnessed
by the old master and overseer, and the
mistress with her sons and daughters.
Out of the escape of the slaves began
that other chapter of heart-laceratiugrhard-
ship—the swamp life. The bayous am
interminable cypress gave them sometimes
a precarious refitge from the bloodhound.
Colonies . have been known among the
almost impenetrable• jungles, thick with
cotton-wood, bramble and gray moss, in
fested With evil birds, deadly snakes,
and the big mosquito, the poor colonists
protecting themselves by smoky fires, and
living by secret foraging in conspiracy with .
the plantations. ALFICED J.Envls, whom
we knew as a prominent man in the Free
State movement, and as formerly a teacher
in New Orleans, gave the edise of a man
who lived for three years iri the top of
a large cypress tree, thus escaping be
ing hunted out by the hounds. Another
slave was caught, tied to a tree, and pe
rished of the mosguitoes. Instances of rare
heroism are narrated in this connection,
the heroes now members of the Corps d'Af
rique. In all his degradation the slave
kept his selfish intelligence for freedom.
Ile knew of Jong Bnowt.."'s execution, and
for what that sublime old man laid down
his life. Surely when such facts as these
thus show us the raw heart of the blend
ing history of the slave, no power is
left us to denounce, slavery for the wrongs
it has inflicted upon the country.
We cannot say enough of its 'outrages
upon the slave. Let it not be said in
;eiaoto y that these cases are exceptional.
The mildest . phase of slavery furnishes
loathing, and even an indifferent case has
its horror. Slavery itself is one immense
exception, wherein, the slave, whose story
we read, seems to be dathned, and where
the planter is, in spite of himself, amid
the perPlexed complexity of such a system
of doom, a practical - demon. Only by
swords and guns, and a great war, was it
possible to destroy so vast a hydra; yet it
is wonderful that any one should think the
institution of slavery has any right to be
respected, or any wrong to be avenged.
With the, premise of such a weight of
painful experience—inappreciable. to the
slave, or he could not havebendured it ; un
imaginable to ourselves, or we could not
have tolerated it so long—it is not sur
prising that the passage of the slave to
freedom should prove. a great and serious
study to enlightened men. Colonel Mc-
ITAvE, who has examined the subject both
as a soldier and a humanitarian, gives frank
and full testimony as to the industry, in
telligence, and ambition of the free colored
men. In Louisiana they have education, ,
society, and wealth, and have still at heart
the rights of their whole race. Upon the
class of free colored men in the South and
North, we think, must depend a vital por
tion of the work of leading out, by sympa
thy and help, their down-trodden race from
ignorance and barbarism to freedom—a
mission Which it is impossible to accom
plish by the white men alone, The blank
soldiers of the country- are not the least
agents in the task: That the freedmen hay /
so gladly accepted the gage of battle to/
y'
sl.
, .1 e
' ai
l`rr
:Tr
0
cure their freedom is the best .of au ries
for the race. In Louisiana many , • tared
the ranks for the avowed purpoße freeing
their families, and some died ha y because
their children were no long,e slaves. "I
know- I. shall fall;" said ' , l e black hero
.7tloorir to' his family, ' ',at, you will be
free." "Lieutenant," ' aid another, "I
want ,to send, my ci '' ( rot. to school ; my
wife 4s not a u olve( o see them ; I am in
your t service; I • •ar military clothes ; I
have been in :We battles ; I was in the
assault at Po •• Hudson ; I want my chil
dren ; they .. re my flesh and blood ;" a
speech be • r and more to the purpose than
B I , AcR
„HA wic's. There are, hundreds of
instants of such heroic manhood, but - it
wo be useless to name them, when the
/
g ;miry of the black men in their bat 4p
I
Or freedom has already become a prover
Wiy should it be at all curious that these
Nti..have hearts and courage, love for their
fa ' ' ci. end pride in their ch,ildren, am
bitto to ' when we recogniie the bare
fact ticni . - . are human beings with
,:" _.; lintyrs ? Now the slave
'''''''''. ' -7 Alis old master. After
I ( ostrate ortN o,
imploring for life in h.
have disgraced a slavetbv,
ack regiment,
.. twelve gueril
post. One of them a mastell kik
:. t would
' ging and .
his servant 808, and begged _ big-
Shall we wonder that the negro',cuhre,
forgive his master's ten-fold crline, - ant%
own ten-fold wrong ? :
The demands of the freedmen are few
and simple. That they shall not be flog
ged ; that they shall labor 9nly when they
are well treated ; that their-fa milies shall
not be separated, and that their children
shall be sent to school, comprise all. Pew
•cases of insubordination among them have
occurred, save from violation of the first
demand by a few cruel officers. Lately
Gen. BA.lcus found it necessary to devise a
.k . intation scheme for the organization,
, ,
_nment, and improvement of the
free... 6., a schemeto be tested in
its For,;,, and to be modified ae
cording to 6., ,ossity, Some portions of
this plan, a cco.'ng to the- testimony of
Colonel ItilcKkorE, .. `,r± not operated justly.
The planter is still 711 412ked to consider hi s
black workman a slafeN.come of the mas
ters Unquestionably desire k „
restOrcd ; and' a spirit of fta
between Slavery, as represent(
style master, and Liberty, as ro
the poor parvenu freedman.
plantation scheme,," the-prol
reside with the planters, and
tice arises. On many plaritatioi
is still permitted." Progress
up a social and industrial F
downfall, revolt, and ruin, il
slow, and it will be some ti;
before the" regeneration of tiu
in encouraging advanceirient,
broadly-organized and self-gr
pose. There- is but one solid
national problem—that is by tal
honest hold of its moral root,
the work by purest justice. The revoln
tion which the black man has begun for
himself will not, ye know, go backward.
TEE lowa Tr Thum, the leading German
paper of Southern lowa, repudiates the
Cleveland contrivance, and raises the ban
ner of Lt."Ncomi and Jornisow. When the
details of the marriage between the Cop
perheads and Radicals reach the Germans,
we shall find them abandoning FRamoriT
in a body. They may admire the General
for his professed devotion to freedom, but
they will not be transferred like sheep into
the shambles of treason.
T:
'rrE Democracy of Wisconsin has con
cluded to wait until " something turns up."
It has no opinions to express until the Con
vention in Chicago meets. Instead of
taking one side or the other, this Micawber
Democracy skulks around the baggage
wagons, waiting until the battle is over,
that it may plunder the dead.
Arr exchange suggests that there are
many pointi of resemblance between the
campaign of GRANT and McCLßLialf.
This is possible; but there is also one great
point of difference—Mcer.imax was -de
feated, and GRANT is victorious.
W. M. A*ERSOIt, an Ohio delegate to
Copperhead Chicago Convention, writes
1r of a Western Confederacy.
10 4 to thettraion.
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s~
o:~j
•
•
believe that the
- 4eininistry are nu
the
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cannot t,, °mks
inistration the "
interestspf t °
8 : & 1 5 1 :4 61 441 5 0 , r 0 ja 1ti 0us to the the World aria
a ßa i n n u( n is
s s TE T .L o o
L x r
who expect to hota*ce,"l PAL- Governer is det • • 6
Ministry takes place'..: . I , :izzaiio..rd la ws .
, notwsthstanding •
RUSSELL have arrived actth l o.
States of the
tier soil, and She now takes ran._
that the best thing they catt - -4 - 04m0• , : w . P. give the hand of free 71,40,,
England neutral, during thisiiii l de'ss. l ,rcl• The curse of slavery
great Republic.
]acing war. We see how intiClo,rt , :goes
against the grain of Lord RossELi 81: i C u t
stain from what Lord DERBY calls lila? aryland to a future of pros.
eternal and absurd " meddling and muct;
dling." When Lord CLANRicKAUDE as- 1'ad:ge 0 f;4 0 ,,,,,,
serted, without the slightest proof, that ro.gev
American agents were busily agitating for hopeslol4o. e 3
recruits in Ireland, Lord RusSELL, who is an argalditilio
knew the falsity of that declaration,
did not • contradict the lie, but com
plained that Mr. SEWARD did not pay
sufficient attention to the remonstrances
of Lord LYONS. Remonstrances ! about
what 2 Either there is American recruit
ing in Ireland or there is not. If there is,
why do not the Peelers (i. a., the police)
catch somebody in the act, so that he can
be tried and punished, if convicted. If
there is not, what is there for Lord LYONs
to remonstrate about? Yet Lord Russur,L,
affecting a tremendously virtuous indigna
tion, while he admits that no charge of
enlistment'has been proved, mutters com
plaints against Mr. SEIVARD for neglecting
to notice what does not exist. On Tues
day Mr. Lnicomc sent a communication to
the . Senate, wholly official in character,
stating that "no authority has been given
by the Executive of this Government, or
by any ExecUtive Penartment, to any one,
either in this country or elsewhere, to ob
tain reci:iiiie either indiefand or in Canada,
or in any foreign Country, for either the
army or navy of the United States, and,
on the contrary, that wherever applica
tions for such authority has been made, it
has been refused and absolutely withheld."
Is :this sufficient response to the rcm'bn-
Ounces of Lord LYONS ? If Lord RussELL
has any idea of fair play, he, will fairly
confess, in the House of Lords, that he was
misinfornied as to American enlistment in.
Ireland.
In October Lord PALMERSTON will .cOm
plate his eightieth year—having been near
ly half a century in office, under various
masters, and haying attained the repute
tion (such as it is) of being the greatest
political gymnast of the age. Our own idea
is that he will remain in office as long as ho
possibly can. Personally poPulari this old
gentleman will scarcely quit office - while
he can hold it. He will probably have a
general election in the coming autumn, but
is-uot likely to augment the number of his
Parliamentary allierents _by such a mea
sure. •In short, he is—played out. Lord
RusSELL is nearly as Old as Lord PAL)LER
sTort. There is only eight years between
them, and Lord RUSSELL, at 72, is not at
all likely to become Premier. Indeed, the
Whig party have agreed, it is said, that the
Earl of Clarendon shay succeed Lord
PAL BATON. He is only 64 years old, has
•- 4ain, Viceroy of Ire
and is now again
teener of the Duchy
man, not RUSSELL,
?--somebody may
Doetrinatire—a sort
made a: great bid
vaulting ambition,
Without notice
hia colleagues, Mr.
GLADSTONE declared that every man, of
full age and unsullied by . crime, should
have a vote at the election of members of
Parliament. He was right—but this decla
ration was far ahead of the convictions of
his party.. The 'Liberals claimed him as
their future leader. But Mr. GLADSTONE
soonow that he had gone too far, and has
accordingly published his committal speech,
with a pieface,ln which he endeavors td"
explain aVray what he said. He does not
believe in himself. He is, a regular Ran
dall Leslie, (Tide "My Novel,") who has
no one to believe in. him because he 'does
not belieVe his own words. •
Mr. GLADSTONE is the great champion
of Free Trade in England. His enact
ments have admitted viva ordinaire and
other descriptions of French vinegar, well
watered and colored with logwood, to
compete with English malt liquor and
spirits ; and to encourage French wines,
he has raised the duty on - English spirits
from $1 to $2.50 per gallon, whereby
illicit distillation and . smuggling have im-
mensely increased. Under his free trade
system the price of beef has gone up
.twenty per cent. and of mutton thirty per
cent.' in the last three years. Four cents
a pound rise in the price of meat is a very
serious thing in England, and the people
there feel it, . and remember what cheap
'living fir. GLADSTONE promised them un
der the new tariff. Mr. GLADSTONE has
taken off only one penny in the pound of the
Income Tax fixed by the late Sir 'ROBERT
tEL; but his financial blundering has
out witli'44le most liberal titer
.
Practicable of the OpposNp. leftders.
We
predict, and wait for the fulbilLot.
-
GRORGE W. ifonGAN„ a
whose greatest b- qhievement was his
from Cumberland i.
-o the calumet of peace.'"
We are afraid Mr. DIORGAN'S rhetoric arid
diplomacy will do him as little credit as his
generalship.
Mn. M. D. CONWAY, an eccentric gentle
man now in England, who wrote an ab
surd letter to JA3tEs M. MAISOK some
months ago, offering to make terms on the
part of the Abolitionists with the rebels, is
writing absurd 'letters against Mr. Gaunt
son. The Anti-. Slavery Standard thus dis
poses of Mr. CONWAY
"A friend, who has strong claims upon ou,r cour
tesy, asks us to print the following extract front one
oo lMrrCo y nwa h y' se lxetraevag n he Corn
nuweuaalilhly
m lt a rs s
the productions of the writer, and illustrates his
tendency to make wide and hasty inferences from
isolated and exceptional facts, without fairly weigh
ing all the circumstances belonging to the case.
The recollection of Masonrepon with the
Confederate envoy, should teach Mr. Con
way to he modest M his Judgments and sparing in
his rebukes of other Abolitionists, especially Of so
old and tried a soldier of freedom as Mr. Crarrlsort."
A CINCINNATI journal makes this perti
nent comment upon VALLLYD/GITAX and
his martyrdom :
Vallant i gham seems als to hae changd his
mind an other subject ;at
t least, v
therels ae wide
difference between htm and "his friends" concern
ing it. In his speech at Hamilton, the exile declared
that he was the "onty victim of despotic power In .
the, country:" Now, according to the way his
friends have talked for some time past, , there should
he a large number of such victims. What becomes
of the rest-of the blessed , company of martyrsi"
GEN. ROBERT TOOMBS, formerly Sepator
in Congress from Georgia, and then general
in the rebel army, is now a private in a
Georgia regiment. Roonn A. PAYOB IS a
private in a Virkinia , regitne,q,
A CITIZEN exempt from military duty
advertises to-day for three ale'-bodied men
'to.represent him in the war. We commend
this manly and public-spirited , example
which other citizens will follow. - Men will
not be slow to offer themselves.
as Prime Minister
ArsrEnsrow consent
office.
The depth of water when the accident happened
was abent ten feet.
The conductor was Med, and the fireman is also
suppmed to have shared his fate.
BALI loss, Sune fig.—With the consent of Gen.
Grant, the U. S. Christian Commission, yesterday,
sent Steam Fire Engine No. 4 of this city to City
Point for the purpose of forcing Water from the
James river to the hospitals, one mile distant from
the river. The location of the hospitals is at such a
distance from the river that great inconvenience is
experienced in obtaining , water for the use Of the
patients. There were sent with the engine several
thousand feet of hose. Dir. Wesley Shaw, assistant
engineer of the Fire Department, 4fr. Mike Dunn,
engineer, and James Hall, assistant of No. 4, ae
eompanied the engine. '
AnnusTA, June Z.—The Vnion State Convention
to-day renominated Samuel Cony for Governor, and
J. B. Brown and Abner Stetson for electors.
Resolutions endorsing the Administration and
for the vigorous prosecutfon of the war were passed.
The Oonvention was presided over by Ron. Warren
11. Vinton.
CIIAWPORD HOLE, N. H., June 29.—The Ame
rican Telegraph. Company will open an office here,
the top of Mount Washington, on July Ist.
How SLAVERY DEBAT:MEMO Ire FICTiNS.--We .
append a telling description of one of the evils of
slavery as given by a soldier of the 10/th Pennsyl
vania. Whoever can .read it, knowing that it is
only one of thousands that can be written, and still
defend and seek the preservation of the "institu
tion," is lost *as well to the diothtes of reason, as to
those of humanity. The soldier saw whereof he
writes, as well as all who were with him, and de
tails his impressions in a style of simple and touch.'
lag earnestness. After some introductory remarks
he continues :
" About four miles north of the Parnunkey river.
we were met by a delegation of Uncle Tom's hardy
black fellows, who wanted to emigrate to the Yankee
land of promise. They said they represented one
hundred and fifty slaves, the property of Mr. An
derson Scott, who owned- these cultivated fields
for miles. They wanted to get their children car
ried in our transportation wagons to White House
landing, from which place they had been assured
'Uncle Sam would take them North. Our wagons
being lull we could accom modate but few. However,
anything was preferable to being a slave ; so they
determined to come along any way. - About a mile
further we came to the mansion of this rich slave
lord, Mr. Scott, A broad avenue, lined with broad
spreading magnolias in full bloom, led up to the
house, which was the usual style of Southern plan
tation houses. On one side of his house, and in the
rear, stood a very neat and tidy little slave hut.
Everything was clean about. The little yard neatly
trimmed and swept, the door Step scrubbed to an
astonishing . degree of whiteness,- everything . , in
fact, denoting' the careful and skilful housekeeper.
"Around the door were three women and about
half a dozen children,
from the wee baby to the
young girl of 15 or 16. Two of the women were shoat
a shade lighter than the quallroon, while all the
children 'were white. The third woman was appa
iently pure white ; her eyes were blue, her hair was
,r,......wn and straight; her features were_ entirely
mean—nothing to denote a particle of negro
t her arms she had a beautiful little boy,
This. years old, with fair hair and blue eyes.
op. 'aka,
.. whatg bitterly when we rode
we triefte „,. she was a member of the family,
lees roadErwi tz . e her by assuring her pat Yen-
Ir ki
Can you imakhaon men, and not upon women.
,Were told that tem shocked we wore when we
- -.-- ! 3 '.;..7,r - -__ , ". -
I thank from my - '1 "teLl'asitA May, latii.
of Dundee for their In ,i7 i t the' workingmen
the man who earns his bre ,:t1; All honor to
of his brow ;heisto me far Q „,,,;ty.t.fijttp Sweat
king upon his throne, and I este „ s it'giatt ad
every nation and of every creed, the Q t to n f
E, too, have worked manta t o " •of
port myself and those who wore dear to T ri
well know that many a noble heartbeats am
,4
humble garment, and that. in Spite or poverty, ' .,
man's a man for a' that.” T was grieved in thistay
advent to the land of the brave and the free, at be- unable to extend my visit to Scotland—the
country of Bruce and Wallace. I will, however,
hope that this is but a pleasure deferred. I accept
and n
freaedom ugu your good wishes for the prosperity
ry
of ou my beloved country. Once shaken
from off her bosom the foreign despots that now Im
pede her progress, may she Imitate your glorious
nation in Industry, probity, and civilisation. ronce
more thank you each and all for your good opinion
or me, the which I will endeavor never to forfeit.
Yours, ac., G. GA.P.IIIAZDI.
THIC BOAT-11.ACIC AT PITTSBURG.—The approach
leg contest between Hamill and Ward on the No.
nongahela river, near Pittsburg, is exciting general
interest In' that city, aa It Ls expected to bo very
lively. Barthll, according to• the Pittsburg paper,'
is determined to win, and therefore "settle Ward's
pretensions for the future." Ward will arrive there
the day before the race, and will be shown over both
courses—above the dam and. below the brldge—by
liamill. If Ward elects above the dam he will pos
rers
little
much advantage as Hamill, course
the latter h4a
very little koowledge of that Collise.
DANGEROUS PLACE POR OLD MEX.—The Colum
bus Sfalnman of Saturday gives accounts of three
accidents to old men. In ope ease an old man, In
his market stand, was run ores , by a horse and his
ribs broken ; in another an old man "was as
saulted by a man who wished to compel the old
man to sell his hogs, and in said coercion' , broke
two of he old maros ribs. In the third case an old
man was superintending work on the Fair gr , ounds,
IDwhere two young men were committing.dopreda
~,"land beat the old man, breaking his bones; Old
a poor ohance In Columbus,
`~``~ ~' 1
TnE Striking 44,,,
the conscription dot !
Lives yesterday fur
of the feebleness ar
that body.—New
Will the TVor
this commutati(
while on this tt
many wen wer
rioters, because
this same Comm'
A Corr4Enna
few clays since
that Mr. LINC O :
mond Examiner, by a sugg ,,
denee, is engaged in the same I:
our own part we prefer the
Copperhead. He writes bettel
is more manly in his abuse.
"So anxious is STANTON to
fully good face upon the mil'
&c. " The statement is as f.
it is absurd and ungrammatic
&c.. The Copperhead ncws
thus introduces an editorial•
plains that Mr. LINCOLN is n ,
man.
General 44r/tut Site to Win
Etkr.Tamore, Juno 20.—A prominent officer of the
Christian Commission sends the following note to"
the editors of the American :
" I have just, arrived from the front this morning.
Everything-, loolLs very weil. The troops are in fine
spirits. You may be assured of this, as I have been
in personal contaet with hundreds ! , bath In the re
serve and in the rifle-pits. •
"I had •an interview with General Grant on
lliorfday: afternoon, He leconfident of the result.
lie says there can be but one result—the- defeat of
the enemy or his retreat from Petersbirg, and then
his complete overthrow.
" Extensive preparations , are in progress, and
soon the country - will the :mote loudly applaud the
military gepus and executive ability of Grant and
Meade.
"3 was surprised to find some of our Union men
despondent when I arrived here this morning. Yon
can safely assure your readers that there is no oc
casion for it."
Terrible Railroad Accident near
Montreal.
MON'TIIELL, 3 - 11110 29.—.101 emigrant train, con
slating of eleven cars, went over the Beloid Bridge
at St. Hilaire, this morning, with 354. German emi
grants on board. •
Thirty-four bodies have been recovered, and be.
tween thirty and forty persons taken out, who are
snore or less badly injured. One car has- not been
sufficiently reached to allow the dead to be taken
out.
The.engineer went down with his engine, but es
caped with slight Injuries. A &outfitl responsibili
ty appears to rest on this man for violating the
standing order to stop before going on the bridge.
Only two living persons were rescued from this
Car,
St. Hilaire is nineteen miles from Montreal
The Christian. Commission
Rinine "Union Convention.
A Mountain Telegraph Office.
NV'
11 - 1
ni
SI
~•
he
This idiot ron—the child
hie own daughter—father and grandfather to his own
.‘..hitdren
tUrne‘ *I- 2m oar G.A3III3.I.LDL—Frout the -Dundee
' L I' le.rg that General Garibaldi has ie
worlringin
renewing- reply to an address from the
departure fn.,
- :landorw
f ardeir to him ori.
.7 .
4
the'
tc,
+0
/TO r hi.S.C, .S . llllO
Le front. Our
;session of the
Prom the city,
.t the enemy's
' since Fri Atty
force has been
Hunter.
• seineartrof
)0 but finding
rebels
quickly
__ _7p practice be
tween the pickets, a man yeStorday *siring to
stretch himself 211d, not desiring to stand up, pit
his feet out p a st the edge of the works, when he was instantly struck by a ball in the ankle. Many are
wounded daily when going from the rifle-pits for
Water, and on other errands which cannot be post
poned.
tive coinci-
siness. For
itor to the
nglish and
out a deceit
ary news,"
ie in fact as
1 in form,"
aper, which
tide eau
' a gentle-
The Sanitary COT:emission are daily busy issuing
fresh vegetables to the troops, which aro very grate
fully received and will prove of great benefit to'
'Jima 29-12 M.—Quite a severe engagement took
place on Saturday between our cavalry and a forco
of the enemy, consisting of cavalry-and mounted
infantry, at the Chickahominy river. '
They had followed Sheridan from the. White
House in the expectation of being able to out off
Part of his wagon train, _which was very large, and
it was hero they made the attack. Torbett's divi
sion was detailed to protect the train, while Gregg's
was placed in position to resist an attack from the
enemy in the roads which they were known to oc
cupy;
At an early hour skirmishing commenced, and
was kept up till near noon, lichen the cavalry, which
had been dismounted, made a desperate charge on
the line, and although our men, dismounted, fought
them gallantly for a time, they were finally com
pelled to retire, suffering considerably. It was at
first thought our loss would be over 100, but your
correspondent has been inforined it will not reach
one-fourth that number.
The division fell back to their support, near the
bridge, and the command, with the entire train, got
ever without further loss.
No effort was made to follow up by the enemy,
and it is thought•thoy must have suffered heavily : or
they would have done so.
.a •
The whole command has arrived at the .Tames
river, and will cross by to-night.
Two soldiers are ou trial at headquarters, charged
with outraging a WOCI2IIn living in •the
The authorities are determined to .put a stop to
these crimes, and if the proof Is sufficient the
offender will be dealt With as the negro was a week
ago, namely, hanged.
There are now about five thousand sick and
wounded in the hospital at City Point, and they
suffer much from the heat and a lackof good water.
The members of the different societies are fast
giving out from exhaustion and fever, and many of
them have been forced to give up and return North.
HUNTER'S EXPEDITION-,THE GREATEST
. RAID-ON RECORD.
MEADOW BLUFF, Va., June 25, via Gardey, June
26.—Hunter's army reached Lexington Juno 11th;
found It occupied by infantry and artillery. After
fighting for a few hours the rebels left. We burned
the VirginittAlili tarp Institute and Governor Leteh
errs house.
Captain Elaseris scouts captured .seven canal
boats, containing six cannon, nine -thousand rounds
of ammunition, and a large amount of commissary
stores.
General Mare having cut the Clharlottesville and
Lynchburg Railroad at Amherst, we marched, by
way,of Buchanan and Liberty, to Lynchburg. At
Liberty. we tore up the road for several miles, burn
ing a bridge 700 feet long. Five miles from Lynch
burg we found the rebels in strong position, and
attacked them June 17th, driving them two miles,
when night closed in. During the night heavy re"
inforeemcnts from Richmond, under Early, arrived.
CM Saturday, after feeling the enemy's strength, it
was decided that they were too strong for us, and
by night we withdrew, having taken two cannon
and sixty prisoners. The 2d Virginia Cavalry, on
Saturday night, cut the railroad ten miles east of
Lynchburg.
At Salem a party of rebels attacked Corlin's and
Strauss' batteries in a defile, drew; off the_rtcen eat
the wheels,. and took -off one hundred 'andttv,:enty
hories. We brought off ilve cannon, leaiing seven
that were ruined, together with- seven calsaws and
- carriages that were baffled by the, exPlosiod $f the
' former. Six. men were killed and ten wounded of
the 2d Virginia Cavalry. Our whole loss, in the
entire movement is probably six hundred killed,
wounded and missing. We have one hundred pri
-soners, seven cannon and six h0ri13.5 cap
tured, and have lived almost entirely off the coun
try, and made the biggest raid on record. Among
the idlled is Adjutant Torrence, 12th Ohio.; wounded,
Col. !John A. Turley, 91st Ohio, and Lieut. C. Ro
berts, of the General's staff.—Correspondence Gin
,ciunati Gazelle.
MATTERS AT CITY POINT-DEARTH OE
• SURGEONS.
WAsarwaxon, June 20.—The KeypOrt arrived
this morning, bringing wounded soldiers and part of
the Excelsior brigade. She reports that there is an itu.
mediate need of surgeons at the front and at other
points.
She brings up malls and the 3d Excelsior New
York R egira en t-112 m en—Lieutenan t Colonel John
Leonard commanding. She also brings 15 rebel
prisoners to Fortress Monroe, and the bodies of 001.
W. W. Bates, Bth New York Artillery.; Captain S.
P. Keen, 20th Maine ; Lieut. Frank Hammond, 56th
Massachusetts ; Lieut. Joseph E. Colby, 32d Maine.
Steamer Thomas A. Morgan reached the wharf
yesterday afternoon from City Feint, with 250
wounded n3en.
Sheridan's raid has bean very destructive on
horse-flesh.
IMPORTANT FR= GEN. SHERMAN
_ . .
WASfirsOTON, June Z.—The Star says: We learn
that advisee have been received here front General
Sherman up to yesterday afternoon. The return of
missing men, ac., had, up to that time, reduced his
losses in the action of the day before yeiterday to
two thousand instead of twenty-five hundred, as he
;sported on the day of the fight; -
lie was holding all the ground and the positions
which he had_gained In the con* of the action.
Though not successful in carrying the works he as
saulted, the position and ground he gained and
holds are of no little importance to the future pro.
gress.of his operations.
LorniVILLE, June 28.—The medical director of '
General Sherman's army telegraphed to Dr. Wood,
sojourning here, that our entire loss in the recent
assault will not exceed 1,600. Colonel Watkins
was not captured at Lafayette, and,Colonel Faulk
ner,.whe was reported captured, has arrived at
Chattanooga.
SHELBY IN COMMAND IN ARKANSAS.
OAIRo, June 28.—The Memphis Review , a new
paper, of 'yesterday, says General Shelby lately
entered Arkansas from Missouri with 2,500 men, and
assumed command of all the Confederates between
the White and Mississippi rivers, and is enforcing
the conscription and devastating the country.
The Bulletin says we had only forty-eight men in
the two companies of the 12th lowa in the fight near
Big mouth of the White river a few days sines.. The
enemy's force was fifty-ilx. Among otu . r o.lties
was Captain George E. Hunter, killed.
There is nothing doing in the ]liem") \2
market.
-- rue-et.amer Belle of Memphisly
bales of cotton for St. Louis.
The weather is 'dry andr
rapidly.
DISTURBED CONDI? ,
GUERILLAS ON Tj
Sr. Louis, Tune - • •
turbed condition
'Nm& of r 13 ..ss\N
rolft ns b
4\ 43 ,4 sc, ‘ 0, 3: 6
protee
, 43 1 55,..0 1, v ,e 0 ,
are to . 3 y. s • ea.: - ..h0Z 3 ,..51 ,
gee 'al AO .° 4 , 3 5 i f N°
Poi ) / g en 'a6 (
aqui d and put -It
- venworth:papers sta e t , dUe Ntriast., a
'of General Cooper's rebel force sunk a steamer
en with Government storm, in the Arkansas
ver, twentpllve miles above Fort Smith. The
helm had a battery of three guns. Cooper, with a
large force, occupies his old position on the Arkan
sas river.
DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF.
„,, /4 .tvr Yoww, June 29.—Now Orleans papers of the
-4 . 7 „% t • c e.-tain the following:
`• :C ° ... 1• " 1 " , have
Ba withdrawn from Tunica Bend.
.t . ...,, , b0kmer
etk Sara stee,mer was emisiderably injured below
y,
were Rats_ , re- by n =opal shore-battery, but no lives
The healthrbf New o r i
General 13antiams u zans is excellent
order that all ship
ments of gold to Pre1ii,4413.-
with the Assistant tlei _alma be deposited
Treasurer to be
delivered to the consignees . r0b,,,,,
• satisfactory assurance being give
t wt o r r t not
be used in contravention of the regiirathim i
Treasury and War Departments.
tv, 24611
.tauLt only upon
.., i t i.. . the
The steamer Electric Spark, from New Yorkrax 4 .
rived at New Orleans on the Seth. Gold at New
Orleans on the 21st was quoted at 10-1 per cent. pre
mium ; cotton, $l.lO, with a light business; sugar
and molasses active; fair sugar 20;0321c ; molasses
85g900.
Fortressltionroe. •
FORTRIEO3 Mosatoz, June 28.—Deaths in Ramp.
ton Hospital :
David Johnson, 78th l'a., died „Ttine 27th.
James Wilson, 2d Pa. Cay., "416.
George Risley, 76th Pa., do.
Admitted to Hampton Hospital:
N. Baughman, 188th Pa. ; H. Early, 112th Pa.;
Joseph Lott, 97th Pa. ; Jacob Pitifor, 2d Pa. Art.;
James Grades, 68th Pa. ; T. ,Odell, 97th Pa.; J. lL
France, 188th Pa. ; George Williams, 97th Pa. ;'
F. Sherr, 48th Pa. ; W.- Allen, 97th Pa. ; 'l'
Davis, 2d Pa. Art.
lb..
wh*
Con i i
mace
1562, with whom the contracts were made on theyart of
the Government,.whose plans were adopted, what lathe
prospect of their being launched, and whether other
vessels have been, contracted for on the model of the
Chime, Stc.
BRAVDS ric THE WEST
Mr, KNTRONT of Rhode Island, from the Commit
tee on Public Printing, reported in favor of printing sho
repaid of the commisal on over which General 31cDoirell
presided, in relation to certain alleged frauds in the
Western Department.
Mr. HENDRICKS said that in thin report the name of
Colonel Slack, of the 4th Indiana, was mentioned as
having been connected with cotton Inman-lotions. Re
bad known Black for many years, and was-not aware
of any Instil in his character.
GRIMES wished other gentlemen to be vindi
cated, some of whom bad died in the military service
since the report was made. They did not know of the
breath of slander against them.
Mr. LANE, of Indiana, said several of the parties
charged with improper conduct were thousands of
miles-aliay from the commission, and knew nothing ,
Of the charges against thorn. lie canned to be read let
ters exoterating Colonel Black from what are charac
terized ae false and slanderous charges.
Xr.,.(313.1,MES moved the immediate postponement of
further prOefoidillgta gas to printing' the- report. Hie
reaEon for the. motion was that the military com
mission appointed by the War Department reported on
mere hearsay and ex paste testimony, without giving a
hearing to those implicated on loose chargee, and who
were not aware at the time there were charges against
them..
Air. Grimes' motion was agreed to.
THE RELIEF OF It'AitY ItELLOOO
Mr. POSTE ll reported the Rouse bill for the Yeller of
Mary Kellogg, whose husband was -hung as a spy in
Richmond. She is to draw a pension on. his account.
it was passed.
DOCEMENTS B.F.LATING TO lEBSICAN APPAIRS.
Mr. MINER, from the Committee ou Foreign Re
lations, to whom Was referred the message of the P. e
sident, and the accompanying documents heretofore
enumeratsd, in relation to Mexican Minim, and involx
ing the question concerning the conduct or Fra:ee. said
so fir as the committee had examined the documents
they were unable to affirm whether they were of suffi
cient importance to justify their publication as a subject
cfprinting.
AirrrioNY thought the Committee'on the Judi
ciary would be the proper reference.
Mr. WADE said these &corneas were more valuable
than two-thirds of the documents ordinarily printed.
Be could not understand why they should not be
printed. To suppress the publication would give rise
to suspicion that something was wrong when there may
not be.
COWAN raid nobody would read them If printed.
The yeople have something else to think about juit
now.
Mr. SUMNER explained, that the reaion which influ
enced the Committee on Foreign Affairs was one of
eetatonly, and the Committee on Printing was the pro
ljer ono to examine the subject.
Ir, DAVIS thought no dolma
valuable than those relative to 11;iirelK,
The Committee on Foreign Andra Was disehargei
from the eahieet, Which was referred to the aoramtctee
on Printing.
.11ziestrz OP LOST BONDS
Mr. VAN WINKLE, fronithe Finance Committee, re
ported a bill to provide for the reissue of certain. lost
bonds to Adams' Express Company.
THE. AItRAIMAS SENATORS
On motion of Mr. TRUMBULL, the resolution de
claring "lir. Fishback and Mr. Barter not entitled to
costa was taken up.
Sir. LANE, of Kansas. desired the postponement of
the resolution t liDecember next,
Mr. BALE thought the question ought to he settled
before Congress adjourned, as it was Presidential year.
If the Senate should adjourn without action upon it,
and the election should be decide d by such votes as those
of Arkansas and Louisiana, the party thus defeated
might not be Satisfied with the result, and might not be
disposed to submit to it. lie deemed the question preg
nant with civil war.
. .
Mr. TEN EYCK said that If there was a Senator more
anxioue than himself -to see these States restored to the
Unlou,ke would like to see him; but there was no doubt
that Aritansati was stilt in a state of rebellion. He
'would like to admit gentlemen of such respectability as
he claimantli, but the President, by authority of law,
bad proclaimed that State in a condirion of rebellion,
and that decree bad not been changed. He urged the
immed late esttlement of the question,
Mr. NESMITH held that Arkansas and other es-called
seceded States were as ranch in the Union as ever. Re
did not acknovvledce in any vlew the doctrine of 80083-
skin; but it was a question, under existing circum
stances, whether these gentlemen were legal representa
tives of Arkansas. One of thesetzenttemen having voted
for the ordinance of secession, he would not vote to ad
mit Wm.
- Mr: itUMBITLI. said the Jadioiary Committee had
purposelyayolded the question whether Arkansas was in
or out of the tinion,aett whether any law was necessary
to bring them into the Union was a controverted ques
tion. They ought to leave it to the future. He hoped CO
dispose of this one issue without involving a discussion
upon any other.
A MOTION TO POSTPONE
ktr.IVADH moved to postpone the Arkansas question,
and take up the House bill making Provision for thi,
whole subject of reorganization -of rebel- States. The
bill would settle the whole euntroversTin this as well
as other States.
. - -
Arr. TRUMBULL suggested that, wergilds bill passed,
ibe admission of Arkansas claimants world still be a
onestion.
Afr. LANE, of Farms, declared himself one of those
lx:1 9 believed the loyal people of any State, nOtheat
regard to numbers, cenatitnted the State, and cottld re
spate a state Government at any time„ The loyal peo,
lAe of Arkansas.had elected &Legislature, which k,ad
eluded thee Senators. He hoped the motion would
prevail. Ile would net realm war upon the people for
coming back into the U.11:033, but for going out of the
Union; and he hoped nothing would be done to- wound
the loyal sentiment of Arkansan,
Mr.iiaI.ILSBURY hoped to find a Party in Power who
would recognize the doctrine that both Arkansas and
South Carotine were stlif.in . the Union; that the oral.
names of s ecession were:nullity, not merely voidable,
but void. But these gentlemen came-here elate:tingle re
present a new State, made by the proclamation of a man
who site enthroned atthe, other end of the avenue. The -
President had made war upon the Constitution, by set
ting, up a Government unknown: to that instrument. Mo
representatives of such a State should be admitted here.
tar. DUCKALEW opposed the taking np of the bill by
Mr. Wade. which would launch this body upon a wide
ocean ordebate.
THE MOTION VOTIiD DOWN.
Arr. WADE expressed a determination that these
questions should be squarely met so far as he was con
cert ed. He would as soon desert the camp of the sol,
dier as leave this chamber with impatant duties un
finished, and would regard such desertion equally die
respectful A vote being taken, Mr. 'Wade's motion
was lost—yeast, nays 2S, Messrs. Clark, Harlan, Lane,
of Ti'‘esste. Sherman, and Wade voting '3 ea.
DISCUSSION OF THE DILL RESUMED
Mr. HOWE spoke against the exclusion of the claim
ants. bolding that by such exclusion the rights of the
people of Arkansas were abrogated and nutthied.,
lllr. TIMAII3IILL said the Point at teens was not
whether Arkansas bad a right to representation, but
whether there has been any election by the Legislature
of Arkansas.
?dr. -CARLILE argued that twelve thousand voters
could not assume to act for the people of Arkansas.. -He
concurred with the Senator from Kansas in the clod - rine
that the State Government belonged to the loyal people
of the State, but-there were thirty-fear counties unre
prereuted. He declared that the amendment of the
ConEtitntion of the Mate prat, not legally made, and
that there was nothing to prove that more than twelve
tbonEand loyal people were represented in the State
Government.
THE BILL PASSED.
The bill passed—yeas 27, nays 6, as follows
YEAS.
Anthony,
Brown
Bnckalew,
Car e.
Chandler,
Clara,
Cowar t
Dar a,
Fearenden
Foot,
Foncr,
Hale.
Harlan,
Danis, -
McDougall,
Morgan,
Powell,
NAYS.
"Howe. !Nesmith,
!Lane (Kansas), !Pomeroy.
AMENDMENT ON THE PRESTON ACT,
800 itt. e,
Rick%
On motion. of Mr. FOSTER, the bill in amendment of
the pension act of July 14, 1862, was taken up. He
rated that fifteen thousand cases would be relieved by
tb provisions of this bil l .
The committee's amendment, extending to the wives
and children of colored soldiers the benefits of this bill,
vitt out further proof than the fact that the parties have
lived together for two years, was adopted. Other
amendments were agreed to, and the bill was passed
REIMBURSEMENT Or PENNSYLVANIA 71011 REBEL
DAB3OEB.
Mr. COWAN called tip the bill to reimburse Panusyl
vania for the expense of the militia Mine rebel invasion
of last-year.
SnELLAit P./Cita:NTS TO NEW Yoll}l ACID :CENT
Mr. TF.N EYCK. offered a substitute to include a simi
lar reimbursement for New Yc rk and New Jersey, ap
propriating twelve hundred thousand dollars for that
purpose.
I =3
Jifr. FESSENDE.II, from the committee of conference
do the dimareeing amendments to the tariff bill, made
a report with recommendations..schich were not read,
bat .126 explained that ran* cotton was exempted-from
duty. On brimstone the Senattfrxecedesr ,ou spices the
Senate receded in art, most abatis - being advanced live
cents; og.salt,.eighteep and twenty-four cents.
The report was adOpted.
SALE OP 7dIIIENAL LANDS.
fr. CCINNESS, by unanimous consent. [atmlaced a
rovido for the sale of mineral-tands and emtand
t of pre-emption tlistarS.
..... r.o pi r,,
(ENT TOE Sifer4 4PANAGILS IN PENN
,..,3.-LVA2II4I. •
'of the bill to reimburse Penusyl
um Mr. SHERMAN submitted an
....-e l A tug out Pennsylvania. and making the
4 VV ..- .4,Y ing all the militia engaged in repelling
.. 0 ~if 'enneylvania: or. wbeft theyhave been
e- • A ,471dinn to the Governor of the State to which
6,
vid n u a i nd
w in ho t T u s i t va fo n r ee t d he t
h S e la j le on o re
mosey
ti o e ix:D S c:ll: e !
4 , mendment was adopted.
• • . . TEN ETCH withdrew his subttitnte.
ir PROVISION FOE THE NATIONAL MILITIA.
Mr. 'HUDSON, from the Military Committee, reported
the Nonce bill further to regulate and provide for the
national militia.
COMMITTEE OP coxrztaugas ON TES PACIFIC
RAILROAD BILL.
The President pro tem. appointed Messrs. Harlan,
Foster, and Coaness a committee of conference on the
part of the Senate on the Pacific Railroad bill, and
Messrs. Doolittle, Harris, and .Nesmith on the Northern
Pacific route bill.
LEAVE OP AIISENOE.
Leave of absence was granted to Mr. CoHamer, on ac
count of protracted illness. Also, to Mr. Grimes.
A DAT Or lIITMILIATION AND PRAYER
• On motion of Mr. 11,12. LAN, the following joint reso
lution was adopted: _
Be it resolved by the Senate and Bonne Representa
tives of the Uniftd Stale& of America, in Conorese
as
strnblcd, That rife President of the United States be re
quested to appoint a day for humiliation and prayer
by the people of the United -States. That he request
hie constitutional advisers. at the head of the Execu
tive Departments, to unite with him as the Chief
Magistrate of the nation. at "the city of Wash
ington; arid the members of Congress and all
magistrates, all civil, military, and naval officers, all
soldiers, sailors, and marines, with alt loyal and law
abiding people, to convene at their neual places of wor
ship, er wherever they may be, to comb and to repent
of their manifold sins, to implore the compassion anti
forgiveness of the Almighty that, it consistent with
Mis will, the exciting rebellion may be speedily sup
-tstvaeed, and the ntipremacyot the Constitution Radial/it
sup
'seed
ignited Staten may be established througrtiut all
toto implore Him, as the Supreme Enter of
to t 3 e s& i.Atinto destroy ns as a people, nor sudkr us
nations,
purposes; to implore . .. a
bilk by the hostility or connivance of other
the obstinate adhesion to our own'
counsels, w zpie.
3 " be in conflict with His eternal
the nation to knoiraiski,
leg that it is in aced.dtd
is will, bomb!' belle,-
to enlighten the mind of
14 *r:i n His will that onz
_place should be 'naiads , - n it,. pe o pl e
among the family of natlou ,OGare Dim to grant
to our armed defender& and the ""rnarieretes.-the people
that courage. Power of resistance and end
nary to secure that result; to- implore Hite. in
Anite goodness, to soften the hearts, enlighten e
minds, and qtlidilelt' the coascdenees of those in rebel
lion, that they may lay down their arms, and speedily
return to their allegiance to the United Stange, that
iheymaynotbeutterlydestroyed; that the efuslos of
blued may be stayed, and that unity and fraternity may
Ue restored rs , and peace establDhed throughout all oar
- borde
The Senstod.hen took a recess till seven o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
LAW AND Zi r
IDZ:MCICTIVIVE DISTRICT 07 COLVAMLA.
mr. FOSTBE Dr , tle bpl rolattair to LOW We
Arid of Columba, which irsa
'CERAENG A 8 UPPIIII.4BSD NSW&
090 d to pontrone the prior Mists to
-mutton as follows:
Mary ardor has been recteli ieened
•ncic . •••obllgtl "•wcrlaticta in
- weftper
ai74
light.
ents could be more
Ramsay,
Riddle,
San bury,
Sherman,
Sumne
Ten S ek,
T arnbull,
Wade
Wilkinson.
A. suss.'erevrg.
Mr. BROWN. of W iScOmln, from the miner]
Committee on Blections, advocated the resole%
feted by him as a sabetitute. declaring— ` "
First. The act Ei of Secessim were nuilitieV
Second. That they neithtr change the / 11 trla of the
Elates nor the relation of chimps and Government:
Third. That whenever the autteri4f the thrited
Etwes is completely restored over any e. the Staters
entitled to be reprebented it C ongress _ Tl{'
Fourth, That the only qthstion to be entertained by
this H Whether garto thememberYrom States are:
First. the authority of the United States was
completely re- establishedl in the disticts. Second
Whether it an election, hdd ac cording to the laws and
Constitution, they rimmed a majority of the votes
Mr. BROW/!, in,
s Te COl3 se of-hia remarke, Rai
conducting this w we Kati- not
of et"
4
conciliation. Redid not pose terms of peace
Davis, who would
of
them: The war sh
D
on the h_Sele of °Constituion and.
the people. Re believed the rebellion cetild in
oilout by force, and that we can meet an our nati,
Ries, provided lie shall be mo deration- an,.
my, 'in'comiectionfinth elcii I and bravery in the
ORIGINAL A.NII. E.` risTrroTE LAID ON' TER , J
Mr. DAVIS, of rsland, moved the whole..
lie on the table. arried—yea, so . nap , 47 ..
I..SrENZMINNTS T :nue nip L APPROY'
The Mouse acte on the Senate's arm
civil approPriati bill.
i t
The Senate bud ended the appror
for the Vetectio Of persOns count
notes ' by addingghat lathe courts .1
there shall be n exednaion of witue
color, nor in ci anti. n, because he.
terraced in the l Be tried,
Mr. MALL° regarded the amen,
.
and wrong,
Mr. til.E l , EN . "
said
in co me
of thel i ederal courts and excl
and the object Of the amendment war,
tire uni:orm. ,
Mr liIALLDEr remarked,. if the objace
it uniform be would propose an add:n..4
Ajmony eball kr!' taken only in the Feder
the State I am e allow ouch 1f2611010n7.
Mr. STEVENS said that would ma
the Federal courts uniform if all ti
alike on thatseb; It. but they :ma not
- Li Or 1.
.mkrked that the
.1,1,11,. 14..,1ring. tederal corms coal Jaws.— _
The N
The L.
ninth:Rt.
sieves inl
United El'
Paid seeth
trade. he re
The Core
COT,Carrell!
the cm*
~.,....... esioliands, of Americana exam
'nub — a po i ht be BO agitated that chi
be '.lti 11 ,t a ilgve fre,r 't;qr aleig.r.,t,
will en as to the nature of the anu
Only posed to so interfere with tic
au . revere. the tmoortatton and trims&
slap;
Mr a Ltorr, of
F en lucky, said if the .
fete, Id leaks any profit by conilmMag the al
there:Held do co:
,said the startle=
r
M,EL/iINE, of Meat.
New "Pith (Mr. Erookef Weald. bY Lit polio
downrotection to the tarigation and co:nal.
teresr
, Rr. BROOKS midriff therovrere free trade N
Watil vastly fmproveln all' her material toter
,MrI3LAINE replied, the ga
d mate r i a l tote; /
etraibe laws of nayiWition, in order that a
vershrint might be brOit up.
Mr. COX said the advantsge;of the coast
lin 'at contract between the h,rth a - 1d So ,
mortar las broken the contract. bat hold.; the
ton.' .
W tr. ?LAIN& sad % Western Cozfedor 3l 7
kri, COY said he never liefrii , Qrp ...,
liin. ELAINE, In the coarse o. 1 .
West:lm Cenfederacy coule not liu.
..a he be ]ricked over without an Duties to
Idr. ARNOLD, of Illinois. said the-get.
Ad by New York remerksd some Lae: ago that 41
.Ken - dead.- -Did be still think so?
erred. 'Mr..BROOKS replied he wrariso wader: tkai
trred balmer's to bury the body of slavery.
-jtufe Mr. ARNOLD asked, If slaycry was dt-id,
si_ in itinne,the gave trade?
) reh i. Ilr EROOKS replied the gentleman,like 3t
rhell"Wayflght tug a windmill.
re • Mr. allitoLD said lie wished slaver,' 17t
..` shadow. He was for removing fromthe ware:,
1 ` 4 - 1 i es receardzielif slaver?,
i it i r. BRS)OIES, heck some rereeekl ..f M.
4.4,
the latter Was gniße of- more. tre.aen •
, if the•voto were taken New York sYeiid ,
.m . of tAtlrty thousand votea for 3e'l'Dar
lav • eivesid nd comfort totherehel ,, ,aat l
what lies. ichtnon ropers.
crust the per , .. AIME - stied how would Net- Yori
" t bettel. `‘ the - - " ( out "mark Constitution a B.: the
jffect in seducing riche.- Amok. Would el:a :a.A.
8.pr...d0e would li tve a, :_,,
_''
Mr. YEQ.SENP EN, of .MA., v li!tvlanriWarited the Cot
fine 'object fur acclamation, lout ......1 ,
o( forty times to day to know whun Cu s:
jown, and now said lie woad give nieb
call any Sauter to order if Ito Wander: Li fr
ject.
said i.ei ...J.:WM.
ONS till IP.
Mr. POWELL, of Kentucky,
Cincinnati Enquire:. for twenty-five F. •
The PRESIDENT pro tern. Bald no
IttE CUSTOM II
could lie allowed on the merits of the en-s that.. the Cos
Mr. POWELL attempted to proceed, Immo. the int
called to order, when he eat down, sari" stain howl,
gretted that the Senator from filatue wit- Ira kbanthe I
Mr.IIENDRICKSS appealed from the tiot.• • It.
Mr. DENNISON, President pro tens . mom= COI
marks, and Mr. B. then withdrew his as-we th e miff )
- .- - - - - - -
Ci
mod
on to
topto
they
not
The
"tech
He
'yr&
11:6604IITIO1 r.w•-jnylraT sse
The Question was then taken, and trutyriblv nit.r,
—yeas 8, nays 25—ae follows: coracarrwa in Vr...
YEAS. e on the &tate of
IDs la, . An the civil spy
iii,ocrieks. • ..
talcDougall. ISR.THSTIMONT .
NAYS. 4
maw. had altered
Harlan,
tilt*, negro IP , ' time'
Es.rria,
axis in th e btates.
4°
Howe,. ~ - b beistimony, which
Buctalew,
Curlile,
CONVAD.
Anthony.
Chandler,
Clerk,
ConneFr,
Doolittle,
Foesenden,
Foot,
Foster,
Crimes,
Lay e i I niiana 66.
.
• •-
Lau I ii:fileTiii D ENT col:craw
~ .q/1:1
Morrill,
Wrhlch Mr.Melle
Pomeroy,
Ramsay, -
,upt ' . .
f e e l
v3lllll.onrlT. he
.. 4 , ,, . a r i t n o . o
..
.1 . 4 , I
l'lTif)/ 3 " . ..rit le intereeted, or a •
On motion of Hr. WILSON, .',.
Donee bill farther to regulate ow . AMENDMENT.
and calling ent the national for, ....
rMont, made a coat(
The
Culi°wll
amendment* en In d ent to the tat
adopted : Stria na out the sub.tg
~
Lion, which rrovnico for a bountyJ.
trilonse has done al
excluding en feta - aces from the bon. dirt=
bill will target
changing : the mode of payments of D, anon on tea.
Lalf I.n being mastered !n, nn e-fonrr y wtro ehoec, ke.
of the term of service, to three equal i L ,,,,,,,, 'of t ax,Lion
third each instead 1. striking out '. lie 1 mi 1,,, w hile Me
lows fsdl bounty to pyraons discharg- - ! .. r e d
wounds or fiekness ,- reducing from A:,6 - 0 46,1arire., a :.
the period allowed after a call for Mlle backs to that
out a draft. %foundation.
PI3U/SE3rEST FOR ENLISTING .L TAN ntLi.
Mr HENDRICKS offered an amentim r k. Ra id, as
ofiicers by dismissal, with forfeiture of
P 4 4er it was l
ti
ancee, for knowingly enlisting minor* - would rt
Years o. sgs. It wee adopted.
Mr. ROWN represented that the enero e far as
did no concur in recommending tido btO. on
trary; e minority believed it fatal. to the dile. g il d 1
the mil tia system. lc would ha a fitr more
ex..: v i a
listcl than re nolve.Ti , l : lty"4t-21 :noiotoodod,torniist black ;ttle: trtn .te
troops. How, titer, shall the depteted armie.; 1:.• '',' pi
up f Not only will it be imposed:le to draft f ••• :. mu.
(lays after a call, but mom time will kill :. • r.ed
gitured-.10 jfk Zan into the field. What is 1t....t. •
les a almae draft that will prod nre men. 'nib: w:1; ; t
duce few men and require murh money. it la a w..-.t
ma
-"tent. - shame. and a -"tent. It to for the eN:• i ,
'niftiest campaign the: ail :bola ...agar e..,,,
4 . hien of the Wet aro witting to A i n .
- tin the war as they hare
condoneaaluel „,......--'
wiling to condone exerth t
"C Dieu 'lathy midi weegight - a:v.!,
- ' to strike out the to: ed -
(entives of any of the ti.
rebellion to recruit col
under a COL
of the county)
lion, which pet
to send egeLte in,
teers, Which was
MOTION TO ..
Mr. 6UEEMAN moved to eine!,
inserting "duty of the President, ' • States,
thatthe Executive of any of the States,
that ouch recruits may he organized, artm,..
ped, according to exlisting law., and receive ii:,.
pay and pensions prescribed for other troop, .
military service of ti.e.ljnited States.
Mr. GRIMES believed with seen a bill as this was
when first introduced there could not obtair. d a
single white soldier, and but few colored ones. Ifs had
airpused the commutation clause. believing every c.tl
- owed his property, perm..nal mercies., and life if 1'
cessary Palls country. Und-r the bill a person r
buy a negro for fifty dollar., enliat bim, receive
and pocket 10.0 by• the. opgration. He cliaramen
as a wild and suicidal scheme.
Mr. TEN BYCIr favored the amendment of the
for from Ohio. Unamended lie believed
scenes would result. Re feared the battle wont
lost, aed be believed there was national pawer of
to furnish rte troops necessary to Imre the cos.
Mr. POWELL opposed any permission to e
the quotaof any State from insurrection ar
declared it unequal, iniquitous, and oxiji
A COMMITTEE ON DISAGREEING A.
On motion of Mr. SEIERMA.N, a vim.
ferencewsa appointed on the disagreeing
to the cisil appropriation bill.
Messrs. Sherman, Cowan, and Ramsay
'Mr. MeDOU(3ALL asked if it were ter
whites ulna had so accumulated that
sacrificee of whole hecatombs of noires
The people of the North were as bray ,
were ever led. If these blacks were
or battle with such an exercise of tyrant
done In the name of liberty. He oppat
of the bill as well as the amendment.
A NEW SECTION.
Mr. SHERMAN introduced the followittiftS
section:
ft And be ifforther enacted, That for
paying the bounties and enfercing the al raft provides
this act, there be levied end colieeted- , in ••ad
lion to the duties imposed by law a spechlltuty
per couture on all incomes exceeding Sari, which SI
be assessed and collected in the mode provided iu
act entitledo" An act to provide internal r.veno
support. the Government, to pay the interest on the
tie dsbt, and for other purposes," and this duty
be payable on the let day of October next:awl lb.
cretary of 'he Treasury is authorized to pre-Nribe
.rules and regclations us to tee time and maie t k r
meat as will secure the collection of t:lis
Mr. 811E.EMAN, of Ohio. said this tax was abs
necessary. it was folly to pass this bill within
Tiding means for the payment of these heavy bco
MODIFICATION OF THE AMENDMENT.
After a desultory debate, Mr. SiIERMAT ag
modify the amendment, making the special s
five instead of ten per seldom, and it was Shan
—yeas M. /lays 7, as follows:
YEAS.
Grimes,
• llale, Sherman
Harlan,
Howe, • Ten Eye
Lane (ludianh),, Wade.
Lane (Kansabb Strucon.
Morgan, Wilkin
romeroy, Willey
NAYS.
(McDougall,
rowel'
'McDougall, Radii&
Anthony.
Drown,
Chandler,
Clark,
Conneaa,
Doolittle,
Foot,
looter,
B 1) ck glow,
Davis,
Barris,
• AN ADDITIONAL AnDNDIr.
Mr. POWELL offered an ante ndtnent x
which he explefned to be too.udueeach b
114 wit 'lts own Halite. Agreed to.
Yr: THE BILL PASSES...-
The Inll4' se amended, Was L revolted . t,
and mead.
The Senate then adjourned.
BOUEE OF REPJ I 3 SEIVTATI
PRIZE ( OUILT.S..
The aprose concurred tulle Senate's am
the bitlregu!aunsrprize Prceeedings and ti
tion of prize money.
DISLOFA h CLBEF- IN TEE WAt DEPSE
Mr. COLE, of dell• rule, asked leave torah,
lotion instritF:ingth committee on the Condo(
War to inir.;re wh• elsr any disloyal clerks
War lin the Warr artment, and whether •
employed in Employ ty. and if no. who le
fur the BMW'. but el ion was made.
QUALIFICATiONS HOF. Nitesus.
ELatlt.
• rachusett,, from the
p the resolution that Mr
ozumission a, a major Fe
out of thi , ses , ion of Con
i
avin held such onntnit
7,thip Itt the Flott-e, but
nett:ix held his COIMIIitzSiO
cGrnmencernent of the se.
Mac/uglify himself from I
n 'was adopted.
XXTATIVES OF AIt&"..LFS.
Basachneetts, called np II
sr Elections, postponing It,
ntattvets elect from Arkatm
steed thither, and infruir
at the next seaston. Re
es be heard for'dfteen mini
LS .
Mr. DA.w" Es. of
on Election., call,
having re,ianed
fore the - et - rumen•
not. by reason
anallaed from 15
Blain, of MiSfOf
jor general aft
thereby decline
seat. The reap
THE RR.
Mr. Da.WES
of the Commit
aim/ of the Re
commission C.
report all the
one of the del
half of their i
Mr. COX,
poled to acts
might be sor
Mr. DA.A.T.I
the electoral
which mere
House to ob ,
Mr. BLAI
from Ohio
'tiemen free
'Lichee. out
Interest of .
Mr. Cot
ceney from
Mr. BLit
West Viral
Mr. DAV
RPOIn
The 1 1 0.'
read. Th'
mission 01
consent o:
vtived in
in the -Ai
thematic
have alit
sureat i - t oj
and;
roony, - to report.
have succteded in
to what extent they,
meant'
ticthe power to meant'
tic violence 'and until Cc
evidence submitted to theme Cot
so far suppressed ropu---nt rorm of Om
established prohitrg the existence of done
very - , and maintainiughtself agiinst domestic
such State should not be entitled to represent;
either branch of Conaresm
isftt, objected to this request,
flue tune. lie feared. too.
ert design ,
plied that no unfair attest
could be taken under his
PPesed such action as will
P
information upon which
fWest 'Virgin:a, hoped the
d withdrsw his objection
112Olib should be beard bef
e 'Hall, and nothing dont
3a vie.
such remarks were hsrot ,
Member from West Virgir
unitised the gentleman di
LP. a Stage.
resumed the door.
ZATIOISt OP P.PEuLL7O'
, as of the Comte'
thorize the
members,
• . V., and not
esent rebellioi
o visit true! 81
President to '
:may before
.at with in
the let of Jan.
Antrim to regulate
,d forever.
:0 of Wont and Meau
8 suggested the dangtsr o.
or coastwise trade, vitigt
7.7 nraer of d
;•,i, the :on
sinckndmAnt
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