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FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1865.
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The Fear and Trembling in Richmond.
The reign of terror has began in Rich
mond. The members of the rebel Congress
are hurrying from the city; a bare quorum
is left. General Lee has implored Ihem to
remain; the newspapers demand that force
shall be used to bring them back. Hun
dreds of men desert the rebel army every
week, and geek protection within our lines.
The rebel press, in tones of terror, affirms
that the danger is exaggerated. Governor
Brows, of Georgia, declares that Jeffer
son Davis is ruining the Confederacy,
and that the result of his policy must
be subjugation or reconstruction. Davis
anticipates his defeat, and provides for
consolation by asserting that the loss of
Richmond will not be fatal to his cause.
All the rebel leaders, as if suspicious of
defection, are entreating each other to
stand firm. When the barbarian legions
inarched on Rome, the Roman Senate,
Unable to defend the city, in dignity sat
within the Senate Chamber, and were
there found by the foe. There are.few in
Richmond who will thus tranquilly defy the
fates. “ When the last hope falls," said
Beauregard, “I will beg a passage to
Europe.” There is terror everywhere.
Flight from Savannah, from Charleston,
fl-om Wilmington, from South Carolina to
North Carolina, .from Richmond itself.
Leagues away the people in that impri
soned capital hear the steady tramp of the
veterans with Sherman.
Davis said a week ago that Sherman
must and should be stopped. Before Grant
massed his troops on the rebel right Lee
sent Hire’s corps to North Carolina.
Johnston, Sherman’s old opponent in
Georgia, and a far better strategist than
'Hood, opposes him again in the east.
Twelve thousand men from Hood, the
bulk of his army, are hurrying to
intercept his march. Concentration
against Sherman tasks all the energy of
the rebellion; and if it fails to repel him
all is over. But Grant threatens every
day to attack, and Richmond must be de
fended. To evacuate it seems as difficult as
to hold it. Thus the military policy of the
enemy is based upon a dilemma, and the
greatest success the rebels can hope for
must be purchased with as great a disaster.
Charleston, Savannah, and Wilmington
they have already given up to save Rich
mond. Richmond they may yet yield to
save the little that remains of the Con
federacy, hut the day is near when their
army must fight for existence and the
ground on which it stands; >
Silent as aTe the rebel journals of Sher
man’s movements, the panic in Richmond
is a confession of his success. It is certain
that his. forces are not divided to move on
isolated points, and that it is no part of Ms
plan to seize unprotected cities out of Ms
line of march. Augusta it is unlikely that
he has paused to take; but if part of Ms
army has captured that city it has been
simply to destroy its powder mills and
bum its stores, and thus ruin the manu
facturing centre of the rebellion. In Au
gusta alone, said Jefferson Davis
months ago, more powder was made
than the rebel armies could use. The
destruction of 'the city would be fatal to
the next campaign of Lee if he should
he fortunate enough to have another.
Yet we doubt that Sherman has paused to
provide for the future. His plan must be
to strike the rebel forces separately, and
prevent their union, and his path the bee
line to Richmond. Schofield is more
likely to assist in this work than to di
rectly join the main army. In brief,
it is probable that Sherman, with Ms four
corps moving as one army on converging
roads, is marching due north with all speed,
knowing that Grant Uses all Ms strength
to retain Lee in his position. Three times
a day, no doubt, rebel couriers arrive in
Richmond with news of Ms march through
South Carolina. Sherman has passed
through Columbia. Sherman has reached
the border. Gherman is advancing on
Charlotte. Announcements such as these
must make the cowards doubly cowardly,
the brave desperate. The best that the ene
my can hope for is that he will turn towards
Wilmington, make it a new base, and thus
briefly interrupt his northward march.
But whatever may he .Ms path, terror
treads it before Mm. Panic is his fore
runner, and wins victories for Mm in
advance. Like Roland at Roncesvalles,
“ His voio» goes forth before his sword,
And slays the souls of men with fear.”
Viscount Amberley.
There is a great complaint, in. almost
every civilized country where politics ex
cite the public mind, of the increasing
scarcity of “ rising young men.” In Eng
land, seats in the House of Commons are
obtained at a much earlier age than in other
lands, for a man may be elected before''he
attains Ms majority, although he cannot
sit, speak, and vote until he has passed the
age of twenty-one—-though Chables James
Fox and the secopd William Pitt actu
ally spoke and voted in the Commons
before they had reached the legal age.
Sometimes, when a nobleman owns a bo
rough, which he desires to keep, as he
keeps his game, as a political “ preserve,”
and has not a son old enough to enter Par
liament as one of its representatives—Peers
appointing the members whom the People
ought to elect, of their own free will I—he1 —he
puts some safe man into the House, as a
warming-pan, the contract being that when
the son and heir is old enough, his substi
tute will vacate the seat in his favor. • No
wonder, such being the case, that a ma
jority of the peers are opposed to Parlia
mentary Reform, which would give power
to the people.
Earl Russell has a son, not quite twen
ty-three years old, who wants to enter
public life, and is said to have exhibited
some talent as a writer. We read a politico
polemical article of bis in the North British.
Review, a few months ago, but failed to
comprehend It, either from our own ob
tuseness or because the young gentleman
■did not entirely understand Ms subject,
and was therefore the reverse of lucid.
He bears the courtesy title of Viscount
Amberley, and, as a cadet of a political
family, wants to enter Parliament. Bear
ing a remarkable personal likeness to Ms
father, so long known as “Lord John,”
with the difference of being yet more
diminutive and in being able to speak in
public without stuttering, he has not the
name good fortune, at starting, in being
■able to Blide into Parliament for a family,
borough. Wise in his generation, he seeks
to gain a seat by tact instead of by patron
age, and has placed Mmself before the
great constituency of Leeds, in YorkaMre,
as a candidate —'before that Leeds wMch
sent Macaulay to represent it in the first
Reformed Parliament, in 1883. It is pro
bable that he will be elected.
TTig little LordsMp starts, of course, as a
decided Liberal—just as his father started
wheu he first entered Parliament, in 1813.,
It is easy to make liberal professions when
a man is independent of any Government,
but when he obtains office he is bound and
restrained in many ways, and can rarely
carryout all of the lofty purposes with
WMch he commenced. More than half a
century ago the Lord John Russell of
that ttme was an out-and-out reformer. He
assisted in carrying the great measure of
1880, and now, Foreign Minister of Eng
land, he phrinks from the new agitation
Which, headed by John Bbmht, would
reform the Reform bill. He was earnest
*nd as honest, no doubt, fifty years ago as
his son is now, but years and office have
toned down his opinions. It is only natu
ral that they should. x
Lord AmBEBLEY told the electors of
Leeds that he, for one, was not afraid of
extending the franchise j that he had no
dread of demagogues, and that he was not
satisfied with the restricted franchise
provided by Ms father’s reform of 1833.
Moreover, he said, somewhat boldly for a
young nobleman, that, under the present
system, land and capital were represented,
but that labor was not, and that until it
was there can be no complete representa
tion of the people. What is more to the
purpose, he declared his views in a clear,
decided, and sometimes eloquertt manner.
It is likely that Leeds will adopt him at the
next general election.
This case of Lord Ambebley’s exposes
the British system of administration, under
wMch a few noble families have continu
ously ruled England ever since the revolu
tion of 1688. Father and son follow, as
officials, according to party, from the be
ginning to the end of the chapter—just as
Lord Chatham and William Pitt, Lord
Holland and Charles James Fox—vary
ing only, in or out of office, as their party
happened to be up or down. v We shall
look to see this diminutive Lord Amberley
put into office, if he enter Parliament, as a
Lord of the Treasury,or an Under Secretary,
until, as the years advance, he shall ripen
into a Cabinet Minister, like Ms father be
fore him.'
The Late Cardinal Wiseman.
- Cardinal Wiseman, one of the ablest and
most- learned prelates and princes of the
Chureh of Rome, died at London after a
lingering illness, on the 15th of February,
in the 63d year of his age. Born at Se
ville, where, as well as in Waterford,
(Ireland), Ms father waß largely engaged
in the Spanish wine trade, and with both
his parents Irish, his family was among the
titled landowners of England, and was
known as having even been noble in the
Northeast of Scotland during the reign of
Edward I. Soon after it emigrated to
England, in possession of lands in North
amptonshire, and eventually, by matrimo
nial alliances, settled in Essex, where it
remains. One of them, Auditor to Henry
VIII., was Knighted for Ms bravery at the
Battle of Spurs, and his son purchased the /
manor of Canfield from Verb, Earl of
Oxford—and Ms third son, the eldest
surviving heir, was created a Baro
net by Charles I.; The present Sir
William Saltokstall Wiseman, of Can
field Hall, Essex, is the eighth baronet.
The family have always been Catholic.
Nicholas, son of the wine-merehant of
Seville, was sent to England at. the age
of six, to be educated for the Chureh, to
which his mother had devoted Mm. He
was at a school in Waterford for two
years, and then went to the Catholic col
lege at Ushaw, near Durham, in the north
of England, where he was instructed by
the Rev. Dr. John Likgard, the his
torian. He remained there until he was
sixteen years old, (in 1818,) when he was
transferred to the English college at Rome,
just then restored by Pope Pins VII., after
it had been twenty yeta closed. He
remained there a distinguished student,
and was created a theological' doctor in
July, 1824, a few days before he had com
pleted his twenty-second year. Twelve
months later he received holy orders. At
the age of twenty-four years he was made
Vice Rector of the English college, and
was appointed Professor of Oriental Lan
guages in the Roman University, when
only twenty-five, on account of Ms success
ful study of pMlology. At the time
Leo XII., then Pope, appointed Mm to
preach a course of English sermons, one to
be delivered every Sunday, at Rome, and
to he attended by all colleges and religious
communities that spoke our language. His
latest labor was to collect some of these
sermons into a volume, which was lately
republished by Messrs. Sadlier, New
York, and noticed in The Press.
Towards the close of 1828 and of the
pontificate of Leo XII., Dr. Wiseman was
made Rector of the English College, in
place of Dr. Gbadwell, promoted to the
mitre. In that year, too, he gave to the
world Ms “Horas Syriac*;” the title-page
announces/it as a “ Tomus' Primus,” but
scholars have vainly waited for the second
volume.
During Ms RectorsMp of. the English
College at Rome, Dr. Wiseman preached
and published a series-of sermons bn the
‘‘'Doctrines and Practices of thd Catholic
Church,” and “Lectures on the Connexion
between Science and Revealed Religion.”
He visited London, to correct the proof
sheets of the latter, in 1886, and there de
livered two courses of lectures—one in the
Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,
the other at St. Mary’s, Moorfields. About
tMs time, too, in conjunction with Mr.
Quin, who projected it, and Daniel
O’Connell, who promised to contribute,
he assisted in establishing the Dublin Re
view, a quarterly publication, devoted to
Catholic interests, the first number of
which appeared in May, 1886. His various
contributions, collected into three volumes
of “Essays on Various Subjects,” were re
published in 1858. In 1840, being then
thirty-eight years old, Dr. Wiseman was
sent to England as coadjutor to Dr. Walsh,
Bishop of Wolverhampton, and also as Pre
sident of St. Mary’s College, Oscotf, in that
diocese. He was made Pro-Vicar-Apostolic
of the London District in 1848, and Vicar
Apostolic in full in 1849. His moderation
and winning manners had made him popu
lar in the Mghest society, while Ms elo
quence and authorship contributed to ad
vance the interests of Ms Church in gene
ral. In 1850 was the culminating event of
Ms career. Summoned to Rome in August
of that year, by Pope Pius IX., Dr,
Wiseman was made a Cardinal, and also
titular Archbishop of Westminster. The
consequences of the latter appointment,
which was preceded by a Papal redistri
bution of England into more numerous ec
clesiastical districts and the creation of se
veral new Catholic Bishops, agitated the
easily excited English mind, for more than
two years. The press generally, from the
thundering Times to the sarcastic Punch,
assailed the Pope, the Cardinal, and the
Catholic Church with violence and bitter
ness. Lord John Russell, then Premier,
in a letter to the Bishop of Durham, did
Mmself no’ credit by spitefully describing
the ceremonials of the Church of Rome as
“ the mummeries of superstition,” and at
tempted to put down the movement by Ms
“ Ecclesiastical Titles Bill,” passed by an
obsequious and excited legislature, but
wMch, not having any operative effect,
proved an utter failure. While the popu
lar feeling was at fever heat, Cardinal
Wiseman published “An Appeal to the
Reason and Good Feeling of the English
People on the Subject of the Catholic Hier
archy.”, It had been preceded by his fa
mous Pastoral “ given out of the Flaminian
Gate of Rome,”, dated “the seventh day of
October, in the year of our Lord 1850,”
and announcing the two great events of
the preceding month—his archiepiscopal
nomination on the '29th -and that to the
Cardinate on the 80th of September. •
From that period, exceeding fifteen years,
Cardinal Wiseman’s intellectual activity
has been great. He has delivered nume
rous lectures, not only in but in
various other cities and towns in the Uni
ted Kingdom, upon secular as well as the
ological subjects. Many of these have been;
printed, and all Ms publications have been
extremely popular. In 1858, “ Fabolia, a
Tale of the Catacombs,” published anony
mously, was attributed to Ms pen, ana he
is known, also, as the author of two or
three Sacred Dramas. In 1858 appeared,
in a large octavo volume, Ms “ Recollec
tions of the Last Four Popes and Of Rome
in their Times,” which was republished by
Mr. Fatbick Dohahob, Boston. The
Pontiffs of whom he wrote were Pius
VIL, Leo XII., Pius VIII., * and
Gbesoby XVI., but other public and
Mstorical characters were also sketched.
The notices of Cardinals Gonsalvi and
Angelo Mai are particularly good. Inde
pendent of the Mstorical value of this book,
for the accuracy of its details and the fas
cination of its style have won it admission
into the libraries of most reading men, it
really contains Cardinal Wiseman’s auto
biography from his sixteenth to his thirty
eighth year, being the whole period of Ms
residence in the Eternal City.
For many years, the distinguished aubi ec*
of this sketch had been afflicted with a pain
ful complaint, slow but certain in its mortal
results. He bore his sufferings with the
fortitude and faith of a Christian, never
permitting his temper to be disturbed by
bodily pain, and performing, almost to the
last, the many duties of Ms high station.
His death will be lamented, out of Ms own
Church, for few Catholic dignitaries had so
many friends and admirers among those
who held a different faith. At this moment,
when Ms tact, sagacity, and moderation
might have been employed to mitigate the
injurious effect on the English mind of the
Pope’s recent Encyclical letter, the death;
of Cardinal Wiseman is. a great lews to the
Catholic Church.
Cardinal Wiseman’s mother (an Irish
lady of the ancient family of Aylward’s
Town, county Kilkenny), died in 1851,
having had the gratification of seeing him
invested with the highest dignity, save
that of the tiara, in their Church. He was
tall and robust in person, and was more
than usually well-looking before he fell
into flesh and became bald. His com
plexion was ruddy, though his health had
long been indifferent. The soul of cour
tesy appeared to beam through Ms large
glassed golden spectacles. His manners
were certainly those of a Mgh-bred gentle
man, fascinating in the dignity of their
very simplicity. He was the seventh Bri
tish subject elevated to the Cardinalate
since the Reformation. As Cardinal-
Priest, he took his title from the ancient
Church of Saint Prudentia. We have not
the slightest doubt that the British press,
as with one consent, will speak in the
kindest and most regretful terms of this
departed dignitary of the Roman Church.
Pennsylvania ana (lie Cabinet.
[From the Public Ledger of yeiterday. 1
It is generally believed that the President Intends
to reconstruct his Cabinet on his inauguration in
hie seoond term. One change is already announced,
that of Mr. McCulloch for the Treasury, In place of
Mr. Fessenden, who returns to the United States
Senate. It Is argued, and very plausibly, that the
President rt quires the entire support of the Unlcn
party to carry him through successfully in the mea
sures necessary to the present emergency, and any
reconstruction of the Cabinet that does not recog
nize. Pennsylvania win be unsatisfactory to the
supporters of the Union. This view Is probably
too much tinctured with partisan feeling, and pos
sibly local pride. But there Is no question of the
loyal support that Pens sylvanla has given unre
servedly to the Union cause, and In any forecasting
of national measures for the future her aid and her
counsel will add greatly to their success. The re
sources of Pennsylvania are now an important ele
ment In the national wealth, and most be the
basis of any system of taxation which is to supply
the wants of the Government. The Influence of
snoh a State should therefore he felt In those
councils where national'measures first originate.
It Is the advantage of the country to distribute
these Important positions so as to secure the
support of each Influential State, representing
as nearly as possible the interests and feel
ings of the various sections and Industries of
the Union. Hence no one State should have two
members representing it in the Cabinet, when
other states equally important are left out. It Is
upon this principle that Cabinets are usually con
stituted, and with this end to view, Pennsylvania,
as the second State in the Union, to population, po.
Htlcal power, and the first to her mineral wealth
and manufacturing industry, has pretensions which
.cannot easily he set aside. She has never Insisted
upon her claims to this matter, and hence has not
figured very prominently for the last fifteen years
In the Presidents’ Cabinets, having had to all that
time a Secretary of War for two years only, a Poßt
master General for four, and an Attorney General
and temporary Secretary of State, to the same Indi
vidual, Judge Black. Now, both national and local
interests make It desirable that she should be re*
presented in a body which, to a considerable extent,
has the moulding of every Important measure which
controls the destinies or Influences the prosperity of
the nation.
iHAuauRATioH Day.—To-morrow, the 4th of
March, will ocenpy as distinguished a place to the
year 1865 as that day of time-honored and general
rejoicing, the Fourth of July. Not only will it be
Inauguration Day, bnt It will be a day of rejoicing
for victories as complete as glorious and grateful.
Every preparation has been made to all the promi
nent cities of the Union to oelebrate it as its. dig
nity deserves, and as gratitude to a higher Power
demands.
In New York a grand prooesslon of all-the organi
zations, civic and military, wIU take place, with the
customary accompaniments of speech-making and
banqueting, public and private, and national sa
lutes. In this city, Pittsburg, Hartford, Boston,
Portland, Bufialo, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago,
and all the other cities a similar programme is
marked out. The procession, however, to most of
them is omitted. Bnt the churches to all will be
open (forwe are aOhrlstlan people) to return thanks
to (ho Almighty for the great favors he has ex
tended to onr arms, and while prayers of gratitude
go up, may they give strength, oourage, and confi
dence to the beleaguetag army before Petersburg
and the advancing hosts of Sherman, beset with
danger. Saturday will be a day of belland oannon
musio, for thousands of bells will peal and thou
sands of oannon thunder forth the general joy over
the whole Union. It will be a day long to be re
membered. .
Rebel Bittekness.— Tha correspondents hare
said a great dealabout manifestations of Union sen
timent In the numerous cities which have come into
our possession daring the last few weeks, what
kind of Unionism existed, among such of the citi
zens as remained in Columbia after our occupation
is evidenced in their assassination of some of our
soldiers by firing on them from coverts—doors and
windows. The Richmond papers, however, endeavor
to defend their action by pleading that Columbia was
shelled by our forceß suddenly and brutally, without
demanding a surrender of the city or warning the
women and children. But at Savannah there was
no snch excuse, for, during the whole stay of Gen.
Sherman, the inhabitants met with the kindest
treatment. But as soon as he began to move away,
, to enter upon his present glorious expedition, the
rebel sympathizers were guilty of an act of treachery
which should have consigned thorn to the gallows.
Gen. Grover’s troops occupied the swamp lands
near the oity. The obstructions In the Savannah
were of such a character that large or very wide
vessels could not pass up to the olty, and consequently
the large transports had to go to Thunderbolt, and
there embark the troops, who moved overland to
that point. The rebels, seizing a favorable oppor.
tnnity, out the-sluices in the swamp levees, and
flooded the encampment of General Grover, drown
ing a number of the troops, and keeping'-the whole
corps treed or standing in water for nearly’a day.
In Charleston the only people who remained, and
who professed a love for the Union as it was, were
poor people who couldfcot escape, and depended 8n
oily tongues to curry favor and support irom their
conquerors. The only way to convince these people of
their error is to crash all their military power, show
them their ntter weakness, and through defeat and
tribulation lead them to acknowledge the right.
• How Gembkabs Okook ahu Kbplev wane
Gaftkbbb.— The Biehmond papers announce tho
arrival in that city of Major Generals Crook and
Kelley, recently captured at Cumberland, and their
incarceration in Libby Prison. The feat of their
capture was performed by a Lieutenant McNeil
and thirty men, who crossed the Potomaa In . front
of the town at a very late hour of the night, and
after capturing the only sentinel they met, and ob
taining from him the countersign, went boldly into
the town itself, making good use of their know
ledge. Most of the party were concealed outside,
while small squads went to the hotels at which our
generals were stepping. McNeil himself eom
mandedthe party who went for Crook. Ascertaining
the room In which he slept from an old colored
woman who appeared to act as night olerk, he jour
neyed up the stairs, light In hand, and knocked for
admission. A. Richmond paper, describing subse
quent events, goes on to say that, after several In
effectual responses from within, entrance was ob
talned, and the visitors were ordered to enter.
“Is this General Crook 1” asked the Lieutenant,
holding the light so as to give him fqll view'of the
General, os he drowsily looked at them from hla
bed.
41 Yes s what do yon want t” was the reply.
“I,” said the Lieutenant, “am General Rosser,”
and drawing a pistol and presenting It, added: “ I
have some very important business with you, Gene
ral Crook, and will give you precisely two minutes
to get up and put on your clothes.”
The bewildered General did not know how to re
ply, and did not dare to resist. He saw at a glance
that it would be as useless as dangerous to attempt
eEcapeby raising an alarm, so he did not Btop to
solve the mystery of so unexpected a call. He obey
ed at once, and a gentle suggestion of the propriety
of keeping qnlet being whispered In his ear, he passed
ont with his escort as mute as a mummy. On their
egress, the party persuaded the sentinel on duty to
follow them, by inducements slmllar-to those sub.
mitted to the General, and making their prisoner
mount behind them, rode back to the main body.
In the meantime a second detachment rode up
to the quarters of General Kelley, when a similar
scene occurred, and that officer waß, In due time,
under guard, as well as tho adjutant general or
General Crook.
By some means the affair was discovered soon
after they left, and a whole regiment pursued them
to BO purpose Tor fifty miles. Upon being presented
to General Early at hla headquarters m the Valley,
the prisoners were received with the homely but
no doubt acceptable greeting: “ Take seats,
gentlemen, I presume you are tired after your ride;”
and then added the hero of brilliant victories and
stunning defeats, with an Intensification of that
fine-tooth comb peculiarity of his enunciation. “I
expect some enterprising Yankee will be stealing
off with me In the same way one of these days ”
Whether the prisoners relishedlthe joke or not, our
informant failed to depose. They were doubtless in
no humor for jokes. They are now in the Libby
Prison, where, It is hoped, they will be kept until
our gallant men arrested by them as “guerillas,”
and confined in chains and dungeons on that pro-'
tence, are released.”
Examination of Surgeons.
Habwsbueo, March S.—A meeting of the State
Medical Board has been called by Joseph A. Phil
lips, Surgeon General or Pennsylvania, and will
meet at Sansom-Btreet Hall, in Philadelphia, on
Msndav next, for the purpose of examining candi
dates for appointment as assistant surgeons in Penn
sylvania regiments.
Meeting of tbe Fenian Brotherhood.
Bostob, Maroh a.— A great meeting of the friends
or Irish nationality was held last night at Faneull
Hall, under the atuploes of tbe Fenian Brotherhood,
at which speeches were made by Colonel Mahoney,
Head 'Centre of the Brotherhood of the United
State*; Captain Walsh, of Pennsylvania, and A. P.
. Senott, of'Boston. The meeting adopted resolutions
ratifying tbe proceedings and resolutions of the late
FenianCqngcess a* Cincinnati.’ Gnat enthusiasm
prevailed.
THE PEE®.—PHILADELPHIA, FI! ID AY, MARCH 3, 1865
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
HEAVY DESERTIONS FROM THE REBELS.
ABRIVAL OP ONEI DETACHMENT OP
Tl>« Deresces on tbe North of Richmond
LEE SAYS HE " WILL WHIP GRANT THIS
SUMMER."
[Special Correspondence of Tbe Press. ]
There Is literally nothing.in UlO shape of news
from the trout te berecorded to-dfty, Everything is
very dreary and monotonous, and is likely to he still
more so, for another rain storm is about setting in
this morning. The rebels still continue'to some
over sans ceremmie. Night before last two hundred
of them oame in on the left, bringing tholr arms
along. Their arrival was greeted with loud cheer
ing by our troops, and the cheering being taken up,
was borne along the whole line. The rebels, with
out exactly knowing what it meant, defiantly com
menced cheering and yelling in response. And yet,
according to ail accounts, they haven’t the' least
spark of enthusiasm or hope for their cause, and
nine-tenths of them would have gladly followed the
lew of their number who, a couple of days ago,
having been sent out to out wood, drove a team
loaded with the artlolo into our lines.
Advices or a private hut reliable character ftom
Richmond represent that not a single gun Is
mounted upon the works on the north side or the
city; and but one line of cavalry pickets, very far
apart, does guard duty on that side. Their cavalry
is completely used up from want or forage. Lee
must either be entirely deprived of the aid-of this
branch of the service, or else make another raid
into Maryland the coming summer.
In a recent conversation with some of the lead
ing citfcseßg of Richmond, General I.ae is repre
sented to have said that he “cohld whip Grant
this summer, and he intended to doit.” It hn't at
all unlikely that he did say sc, but It is unlikely
that he will do so.
Brigadier General Roger A. Pryor arrived here
yesterday afternoon .in the mail-boat fro a! Wash
ington, and will probably go np to Atkin’s Landing
by flag of tiuoa to he exchanged.
HEWS FROM THE SOUTH.
AMBM AND TROUBLE IN
MEASURES TAKEN TO CHECK SHERMAN
JOHNSTON Hr THE FIELD AGAINST HIM.
imY l ■
Message of the Governor or Georgia—An Argumtpt
against Negro Soldiers.
WAsiniraiTOKi March 2.—Tho Richmond at
quinr of Wednesday, Feb. 28, Bays editorially: l
“The air is filled with alarming rumors. Every
fear has found a voice, and every ear is opened t»
the tale ittells. Measures of precaution are com
strued to presage disaster.” |
Governor Brown is attacked editorially by the
Whig and Enquirer. The proceedings oi the rebel
Congress are unimportant.
Tho Richmond Whig of Feb, 28 says:
The Petersburg Express of Monday says that the
enemy has cot yet developed his plan of operations
on our right. The heavy and continuous rains of
the last three days have no doubt materially Inter
fered with his movements, and will probably check
his advance for several days. An engagement is
however Imminent, beiog deferred only In ctrffit:-
quence of the terrible condition of the roads and
the immediate inability to use artillery. Reliable
intelligence, however, leads to the belief that on
Friday and Saturday nights the enemy moved a
number of pieces of artillery to his left, Tho
rumbling of the trains could be distinctly heard
from points of observation not necessary now to
mention. The enemy’s cavalry and the main body
or his infantry have been moved towards Hatcher’s
Run, and at present but a feeble force confronts
our lines east of tho olty. Intelligent deserters
report that the entire Yankee lines between the
Weldon Railroad and the Appomattox river are
new defended by one corps, the Sth. We arc in
clined to believe this statement, as intelligence
through other sources convinces ub that every man
that can be spared from these lines has been moved
to our right. We but await the clearing np of the
■weather and some improvement in the condition of
the roads, to hear that the enemy has commenced a
heavy movement against our extreme right.
mJhAVKD BBPOSTS BKOH KOBTH OABOMKA.
Gen. Joseph E, Johnston again assumes the-oom
macd of the Army of Tennessee, &c.
Chaklottk, Feb. 26.—The following order is pub
lished here this morning:
Chabiottb, N. 0., Feb. 25.
In obedience to the orders of the General-in-Chief,
the undersigned has assumed the command of the
Army of Tennessee, and all the-troops in the De
partments of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
He takes this position with strong hopes, because he
will have, in council and on the held, the aid of the
high talents and skill of the general whom he suc
ceeds. _
He exhorts all absent soldiers otthe Army of Ten
nessee to rejoin their regiments, and again confront
the enemy they have so often encountered in North
ern Georgia, and always with honor.
He assures his comrades of that army who are
still with their colors that the confidence In their
discipline and valor which he hasp'ubHoly expressed
is undlmluished. . - -J, E. Johhston.
MRBTirrO nr MOBILE.
JVToisiib, Feb,' 19. —One of the largest meetings
ever assembled In Mobile was held at tlKj&heatre
last night, which was presided oveß-by ffiß Hon.
Judge Forsyth. ,
Resolutions were unanimously adopted deelerlng
an unalterable purpose to sustain the civil and mi
litary authorities to aohleyelndependenoe.; that our
battle-cry henceforth should be “yiotoryordeath;”
that there is no middle ground between treachery
and patriotism; that we still have an abiding conU
dence in onr ability to achieve our independence;
that the Government should immediately place 100,-
•00 negroes in the field; that reconstruction Is no
longer an open question; that at this tinm an order
reinstating General Joseph E. Johnston in command
of the Army of Tennessee will effect more to restore
confidence, and increase the army, and secure the
successful defence of this department, than any
other order that could issue from the War Depart
ment ; urging better discipline In the army, and
thanking it for its heroic conduct, and pledging all
for liberty, which, with the Divine assistance, is-as
sured. 1
The meeting was enthusiastic, and speeches were
made bv Judge Tucker, of Missouri, Judge Phelan,
of Mississippi, and Judge Jones and 001. Langdon,
of Mobile. B *
MBBSAGB OB OOV. EEOTO, Ok GEORGIA,
The Dispatch of the 28th contains the following
from Georgia: -
The message of Governor Brown commences with
a defence ol the State against the attacks of the
press for permitting Sherman to march unmolested
through the State. He says she was abandoned to
her fate and neglected by the Confederate authori
ties ; and while her army of able-bodied sons were
held for the delenoo of other States, and were de
nied the privilege or striking an honest blow for the
protection of their homes, Georgia was compelled to
rely only on a few old men and boys. He claims
that the golden opportunity was lost for overthrow
ing Sherman. Had he been resisted from the start,
forced to fight and exhaust his ammunition, his sur
render would have been certain. He recommends
tbe establishment of a militia- system, to be ln.no
case turned over to the Confederate Government,
but retained for home defence. He says there are
only 1,400 exempts in the State, and most of them
are over age. He recommends the passage of a
law authorizing the impressment of provisions in
the hands of persons under bond to the Confederate
Government, who refuse to sell their supplies to the
indigent families of soldiers. He complains that
the Confederate agent can lock up the eorn-crlbs
and t moke houses against the State purchasing'
agent. '
Referring to the penitentiary, he says that more
than one-half the convlois released to fight have
since deeeited. He recommends the passage of a
law prescribing the penalty of death on conviction,
of robbery, horse-stealing, or burglary. He opposes
tbe arming of slaves, believing them more valuable
as agricultural laborers than they oonld be as sol- 1
diets. They do not wish to go Into the army, and'
the principal restraint now upon them is'the fear
that If they leave the enemy will make them 1 fight.
Compel them to take up arms, qpd they will,dosort
by thousands. Whatever may be onr opinion of
their normal condition or Interests, we o.annot ex
pect them to perform deeds of heroism when fight
ing to continue the enslavement of their wives and
cmldrin.and It Is not reasonable to demand'lt of
them. Whenever we establish the faot that they
are a military people we destroy our theory that
they are unfit to be free. When we arm slaves we
abandon slavery.
He complains of the usurpation of the Confederate
Congress, m levying disproportionate taxation,.and
says much of the most objectionable legislation la
imposed upon the country by the votes of men who
acted without responsibility to the constituency ol
the army. He takes the Government to task for a
great variety of alleged abuses, such as Illegal lm
pressments, arrest of citizens without authority by
provost guards, the passport system, and the par
tiality of the Government to men of wealth, who
are given nominal positions whloh keep them out of
the army, while poor men and boys are forced Into
the ranks Ha animadverts severely on the gene
ralship of the President, and traces his military
career during the war. Onr Government- Is now a
military despotism, drifting Into anarchy, and lr the
present policy is persisted In It must terminate In
reconstruction, with or without subjugation. Gov.
Brown states that he Is utterly opposed to both, but
If he favored either, he would gtve'hls earnest sup
port to the President’s policy as the surest mode of
diminishing onr armies, exhausting onr resources,
breaking the spirit of our people, and driving them
In despair to seek refhge from worse tyranny by
placing tbemeelveß under a Government they loathe
and detest. ' .
For the cure of existing evils he recommends the
repeal of the conscription act and return to the con
stitutional mode of raising troops, by requisitions
upon States, the observance of good faith with the
soldiers by paying them promptly, the abandon
ment of Impressments and secret sessions, and no
more representation without constituency, and,
finally, taking from the President his power as
Commander-In-Chief. He calls for a Convention of
the States to amend the Constitution, and closes as
follows: 11 My destiny 1b linked with my country.
Ifwe succeed, I am a free man. ir. bythe obsti
nacy or weakness of our rulers, we fall, a common
ruin awaits us all. The night is dark; the tempest
howls; the ship Is lashed with turbulent waves;
the helmsman Is steering to the whirlpool; our re
monstrances are unheeded, and we must restrain
him, or the crew must sink together and be buried
In irretrievable ruin!” .
BUSINESS NEWS—RBBBL SYMPATHISES AND DO
-BBKTBBB TAKING THE OATH—IMPROVEMENT OV
TUB coxmtion OP whits bbvugbbs.
Cairo, March 2.—Two hundred-and fifty bales of
cotton passed hero to-day for St. Louis, and SIS
for Cincinnati.
Memphis, Feb. 28.—Gen. Roberts, commander of
tbls district, will soon leave for Springfield, Mass.,
being one of the board of examiners of small arms
to meet In that city.
General Grierson is to have command of all the
cavalry In the Department of the West.
The Bulletin publishes a list of rebel sympathizers
and dealers residing in Memphis who have'taken
the amroaty oath. They number 1,045, and amongst
the names Is that of A. J. Donelson.
Deserters continue to arrive here In large num
bers, and are of a better olass of people than hereto
fore. - ■ ,
Measures are being taken for the Improvement of
the white refugees and ireedman of this department,
and the confiscated lots in the outskirts of this city,
and the Islands In the Mississippi; will be devoted t f>
that purpose.
OAtao, Man* MoDougal’s hand of guerillas
rebboe LovdaoevUle, Ballard county, Ky., yeatec-
TWO MTJNDBED.
wlthoot Artillery.
—C. B. School.—
City Point, Va,, Feb. 28,1866.
UNIOIf MOVBMEHTB.
GEUERAI, OBJOBB, HO. 1.
IHK SOUTH WEST.
GUSBHXA OUTRAGES.
day, or >lO,OOO wortk or goods. Hopkinsville, Ky.,
was visited night before last, and several stores were
robbed. Two Union men wore shot there.
A BBAVI ACT.
OAffTtTOH Off A BBBBL TOBPKDO BOAT BT I.OTAL
TBBFBSSBAHB— THB DBSTBWOTIOK Off OO
VBBBHBHT PROPBBTY THUS BKBVBNTBO.
Chattanooga, Maroh a,—The Gazette has
lengthy details of the capture of a rebel yawl and
fourteen men at Chapman's Handing, below Kings
ton, on the Tennessee, by sevenloyal Tennesseans,
The yawl was armed with torpedoes and infernal
machines for the destruction of Government pro
perty. The party was well and regularly uniformed,
and were acting under the orders of the rebel Naval
Department. The yawl was built at Hlchmond,
and was brought to Bristol on the cars, and plaoed
In the Holston river, and thenae with muffled oars
eame to the place of its capture. Their lnatruo.
tlons were not to destroy or disturb anything
till they got below Kingston, when thoy wore to de
stroy Government transports. They hoped also to
destroy the. warehouses and rolling mills, &c-, on
the banks of the river at this plaoe. The whole en
terprise was in charge of fclontific offioers. The
rebels were much ohsgrlned at being outwitted by
half their number of oltlsens, after having run the
gauntlet of the soldiers at Knoxville, Kingston, and
other points on their ronte.
About fifty guerillas dashed Into the town of Pa
oil, on the Knoxville road, yesterday, burned the
depot and robbed the families residing there.
CANADA.
TUB ST. ALBANS RAIDERS—LEOTORB BT OKOBSB
THOMTBON.
Montreal, March 2.— Judge Smith 18 still un
well, and the raiders’ case Is again postponed.
Quebec, March 2,—George Thompson leotured
last night on the American War.
A Plrate.Dlsabled.
Boston, Maroh 2.—Private letters received heret
and dated a t Gibraltar, Feb. 7th, state that the pi.
rate Shenandoah had put Into Corunna, Spain,
disabled.. Thegunboat Saaramento left Cadiz on
Fob. .3d, to look alter her.
[Notb.— The Ollnde, alias Stonewall, has been
already reported as being at Corunna, leaky. The
above Item probably refers to her.]
■ Detention of Trains.
Louisville, Maroh I— Midnight.—The Nashville
train has net arrived, and Is six and a half hours
behind time. It IS said to be delayed by the 'debris
on the track from the train of freight oars burned
by the guerillas near Franklin yesterday.
Vessel Ashore.
Sandy Hook, N, Y., March 2.—The brig Sarah
B. Crosby Is ashore outside of the Hook, and appa
rently bilged., The passengers were taken off by
the tug-boat Jack Jewett. Wind moderate, east;
sea breaking over the vessel.
Non-Arrival of tbe Earopa.
HAL]tax, March 2—Midnight.—’There are no
signs ol the arrival of the Europe. The weather Is
dear.
WASIIX-NGKrOIV.
[Special Despatches to The Press. !
Washington, March 2,1805.
NEW MILITARY COMMISSION.
A special military commission has been appointed
to sit in this city. It is composed of the fallowing
members: Brigadier General Edwabd S. Bbagg j
Brevetßrlgadier General W. H. Pbsbosb j Colonel
F.Baplieb,BBth.Pennsylvania Volunteers; Col.
S. Mi 66th Massachusetts Volunteers;
Lieutenant Colonel O. D. Gilkobu, 20th Maine
Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel T. Allcook, 4th
New York Volunteers, and Lieutenant Colonel J.
H. Stibbb, 12th lowa Volunteers. Colonel N. P.
Obiphak, addition aid-de-camp, Is judge advo
cate. General Bunas, the president, Is one of the
ablest lawyers of the Wisconsin bar.' This Is the
first time since tho beginning of the war that he has
been on duty out of the field.
VIGILANCE ALONG THE POTOMAC.
Uncommon vigilance Is exercised along the lines
of the district of Washington, and on the south
bank of tho Potomac. New stockades are being
built, and timely preparations Inaugurated, to ten
der futile any diversion in this direction which Hy
ing columns of the enemy may attempt upon the
opening of the campaign this spring.
tßy Associated Press, ]
PROGRAMME OF THE INAUGURATION.
The committee of arrangements have published
the programme for the Presidential inauguration,
from which it appears that the President elect, the
Justices of the Supreme Court, diplomatic Corps,
heads of departments, ex-members and members
olect of Congress, Governors of States, officers of
the army and navy, and others of distinction, will
assemble in the Senate Chamber between tho hours
of io and 12. The oath will be administered to Vice
President-elect Jobhbon by Vice President Hah
uw, when the former at once will take his seat as
the presiding officer of the Senate. Those assem
bled In the Senate Chamber will then proceed to
[the platform on the central portico of the Capitol,
[where, all beingKn readiness, the oath of office will
toe aaministered to the President-elect by Chief
Justice Csasb, and the Inaugural address delivered.
Extensive arrangements have been made for the
procession to accompany the President -from the
ikeoutive Mansion to the Capitol. Thousands of
strangers have already arrived, and many .more are
on their way. The 4th of Marsh will be
lenerally observed as a holiday, and the banks and
lublio offices will be closed.
VICE PBESIDEKT JOHN SONINFORMED OP HIS
ELECTION.
/Senator TBUMfujix, and Kepresentati?os Wil-
Am and Dawbou, acting as theselaot committee of
tie two Houses or .Congress, waited upon the Hon.
Jiiimisw JOHKSOJT to-day, and Informed him ol his
sfeotion to the Vice Presidency. They reoelred
trap. him ah oral response that ho acquiesced In
&e action of the American people, and aooepted
the truat conferred upon him.
NAVAL OPERATIONS. -
i The Navy Department bah received -information
if the capture of the schooner Della, under English
|bolors, nearßayport, Florida, by the United States
steamer Mohaska. She had a cargo of pig-lead and
some oases of sabres.-
/ Acting Admiral Stbibung, commanding the
East Gulf Squadron, reports that, on the Ist of
February, an expedition left the United States bark
Midnight to destroy the saltworks on West Bay,
jFhe expedition returned on the 4th, having de
stroyed works of 13,0 m gallons boiling-power, be
sides 70 bushels of salt and 125 barrels Epsom salts.
'COMPLIMENTARY ADDRESS TO SECRETARY
!' " * FESSENDEN.
I To-day tbe chiefs of the various bureaus of the
[Treasury Department proceeded to the room of Se
cretary Fussßirornr, when Judge Nath ax Sab
sbaxt, the Commissioner! of Customs, In his own
and their behalf, delivered a brief address, expres
sive of their respect for him on the eve of his reti
ring from the Treasury Department, and expressing
ibeir cordial wishes for his health and happiness.
Secretary Fkooundbn replied: '
, Gbktibmeh :I am exceedingly thankful to you
ifor this call and for the kind expressions of regard
I have received from you through the Commls
lEloner of Customs. I can only say to you, what you
all know, that I. came here most unwil
lingly, and I shall have perhaps but a Slagle re-
Igret In leaving the Department, and that arises
irom the necessity of parting with so many gen
tlemen with whom my Intercourse has been so
exceedingly agreeable and* for wbomil have a
very friendly regard, I came here because I con
ceived It to be my duty, under the circumstances,
but encouraged and sustained! by the assurance of
support from gentlemen connected with the office.
11 have received that support from all of yon without
' a single exception, so far as I am aware. I found
Avery gentleman here disposed to aid me. lean say
to you, gentlemen, with entire frankness, that X be
lieve my having been here will prove of great bene
fit to myself, from the Information and experience I
lave acquired, and I trust It has not been'disad
vantageous to others or to the Department. I
think ft would be better for the Government and
ithe country If Congress, and.the gentlemen con
nected with the Executive branch of the Govern
ment, better understood each other. I shall go
tack to the Senate with many opinions correct
ltd and improved with regard to the conduct of
the departments, especially that whloh I have
i teen connected with. I think X shall be disposed to
render justloe to the gentlemen who, placed in situ
ations like yours, labor In season and out of season
ftr tbe public good, for what X conceive to be, in
these times, a very inadequate remuneration fpr their
services. X have no doubt the same Is true with re
gard to all the other departments ol tbe Government.
With regard to my dally intercourse with you, gen.
Uemen, I can only say that in my opinion,
however we may be placed relatively In the Depart
ment or elsewhere, no man In the country Is above
the rank of a gentleman, and every man who ho
norably and conscientiously perforins his duty is
entitled to be treated as such.
! Acting upon this belief, I have regarded the hum
blest clerk in this office, so long as he discharged his
duty honestly and faithfully,- as my equal, and enti
tied not only to my protection but to equal rights
with myself.
Gentlemen, you did not come here to make or hear'
speeches, and X will only add that I cordially receive
your Kind wishes. At my age, new friends are not
easily made, but I shall indulge tbe hope that In
leaving the Department X shall not lose the regards
of these whose friendship I have learned to value.
THE FRAUDS ON THE CUSTOMS.
The following letter has beep sent to the collector
of the port of New York by the Commissioner of
Customs: •
February 27,1865.
> Sir : X was sorry to learn a day or two ago
that some very large trunks, filled with dresses of
most costly material and other articles which had
never been worn, sent, as they should have been, to
the public warehouse for appraisement, were dl
rteted by some officer of the customs at New York,
In your absence, to be given np to the owner as
wearing apparel, in permuting wearing apparel
to he brought Into the United States from mrelgn
countries duty ftee by the owners, the law never In
tended that any amount of apparel, and that of the
most costly kind, which had never been worn, should
be admitted ftee of duty; and to allow such in un
reasonable quantities to pass the custom house free
of duty.ls a palpable violation of the spirit and
iftfnot the letter of the law- Travellers
coming from Europe or elsewhere, bringing with
them more apparel than they have immediate need
of, and which never has been used, do it either with
a view to make merchandise of ready-made cloth
ing and reaUze large profits therefrom, or to pro
vide themselves, their families, and friends with a.
stock of olothing for the future, free of those duties
to which the Government are justly entitled, and
which they would not attempt to defraud their
country of were theF either honest or truly loyal.
' Though many seem to think It perfectly right to
cheat or defraud their country, even In her utmost
need, I have not acumen enough to perceive the
distinction between swindling the Government or
country and swindling an Individual, nor oan Fun
ders land how one can hake a" false oath at the cus
tom house without committing peijnry.
I nave to askyonr attention, and request you to
call that of your subordinates, to the matter herein
presented, and to urge a more rigid enforcement of
tbe law In regard to the admission of what Is
claimed to be ordinary wearing apparel, bat which,
In many Instances, Is extraordinary.
Yety respectfully,
N. Sargent, Commissioner.
Simeon Draper, Esq., Collector, New York.
IXXYIHti CONGRESS—-Second Session.'
SENATE.
. Mr- BHFBMAN pretested the patitlon of a number of
rectifiers of soirits in relation to the duty on spirits,
which was ordered to lie on Jfee table
Mr. STittfißß presented bev«ral petitions asklogfor
the equality of all men before the la w.
Mr fcUMiRER algo presented the memorial of the
Leil&iature of West Vittinta asking aid from Congrm
to enable the* 8 ate to emancipate its slaves
Mr BOMBER riposted b«ck several petitions from
naval effioer* nthisg for an Increase of pay, and asked
that the committee be discharged
oozrßTiTtmoKAXi beoo»kitiob op a wvrrz.
Mr.'TRCMBOtL. fpom the Judioiarr Commie,
aaked to be discharged from the farther en&sUeratien of
petitions tor the recognition of God in tkefleuSUethm
of tbe united Slates Tbe eemmittee deem it uaneees
sary to mak9 the aeked- for amendment, e* the Saproaot*
Being is already recognised in t>« Constitution ia the
requirement of oaths and the prohibition of interference
With the free exercise ot religious opinions.
IBHBI/EVANT OOMM.ITKIOATIOSB,
Mr. BALK offered a resolution to return as irrelevant
a communication recently sent to the Senate itf replj to
a resolution, of inquiry* by Mr. For, Assistant becretary
of the Navy.. Objection was made, and the resolution
goes over.
SOLDIERS 1 MONUMENT AT GETTYSBURG. '
Mr. WILBOff, from tbe Committee os Military affairs,
made a rtport upon the memorial of the President sad
Secretary or tbe Board of Commiasicnete of the Soldiers’
Rational Cemetery Association, praying an appropria
tion for the erection of a monument oter the re*
mains of soldiers who fell at Gettysburg. The
report shows that tbe sum of $65,000 nas ba»u con
tributed throughout the country, and that $50,000 more
are requited because of an advance in prices or labor
and material. It warmly eommeada the patriotic effort,
with an Intimation that Congress may, at a future time,
properly be expected to contribute something. The
committee declare that a regard for economy and the
public welfare renders present action inexpedient.
BBPOBT OB A COMMITTEE 07 COK7JBRHNO3.
The tepott of the committee of conference on the dis
agreeing votes on the army appropriation bill was re
ceived and read.
Mr. TRUMBULL objected to that - provision which,
requires that no money expended under the act shall be
applied to the payment ot the Illinois Central Bail road
for the transportation or troops and army stores. Tne
yeas and nays were ea led onthe adoption of tbe report,
and it ws» decided in tbe negative—yea«, 13; nays, SO.
On motion of Mr. TBUMBULL, the Senate insisted
upon its amendment, and a farther committee of confer
ence was appointed.
arsw bbkatorb,
Mr. POWELL, of Kentucky, presented the credential*
of the Hon. James Guihrie, of Ken tact y, as Seaatore’eofc
for six year*lrcm tbe 4th of March, 1835, which were
read and ordered to he died* .
. Mr. LOffUTTLK presented the certificate of election
of Michael Hahn as Itenatoreleot from Louisiana.
Mr. DAVIS objected to the reception of the certificate:
On motion of Mr. 73UM&ULL, the whole subject was
laid on the table.
MBAHS OF KBTHJnJB,
Mr. 6HBEMAN called up the pending question, which
was to,increase the rate of postage from threeto fire
cents after the lat of July next, which was disa
gieedto.
Mr, CLABK moved as amendment making the tax on
tobacco, twisted by hand, fox chewing or smoking, and
sold tor consumption, 35 cents per pound, which was
adopted.
Mr. CLA BK moved an amendment making the tax on
smoking tobacco,.made with all the stems and refuse,
including all the scraps used, as smoking tobacco, SO
onto, and on all smoking tobacco in the leaf 40 cents
per poundswhich was adopted.
.Mi. GuWaH, of Pennsylvania, moved to strike oat
the section pioviding for the inspection of petroleum
before its removal for sale, which was agieed to.
Mr. OOWAB moved to strike out'**2 cents per gal
lon ” as a tax on crude petroleum, and insert “slper
barrel of not more than forty* five gallons, 1 ' which was
adopted.
Mr. ANTBOHY, of Bhode Island, offered an amend
ment as an additional section, that any bank organized
under a State law. and having a paid-up capital of
#76,00P, which shall apply before the first of Jan next
for authority to become a national bank, and shall com
ply with all the requirements of the law, shall have
the pTf ference overjaew organisations. Adapted
Mr. I>A vIS offered an amendment, that the fourth
part of the revenue collected under this act shall be ap
prepriatedto the payment of war claims, which was
not adopted.
Hr. CuJSJJBSS offered an amendment. that no rainbr
whose receipts are leßs than $l,OOO a year shall bare
quiredto take out a license. Adopted,
Mr. SUMBK& offered an amendment to strike out the
section of the original bill requiring foreign insurance
agent® to pay alf cense of $5O. Be explained th \t ano
ther section levied a license of $lO on all insurance
agents, and he regarded the discrimination as unfair.
fhe amendment was adopted.
Mr. BENpaBStiK effertd an amendment to add to the
section of the bill of last winter a proviso that after the
first of Julr, 1866,in addition to the duties on circulation
there shall be levied, collected, paid, from all the
banks Issuing: circulating notes, and having: a capital of
more than #£OO,COO, a duty of ore-eighth of one per
cent, each month on all rates in exees* of 80 per cent, of
the authorized capital, and from and after the Ist of
July, 1666, a tax of one-fourth of one per cant, on the
excess of 60 per cent; also to make a provision of Bectton
110, of-tbe old law, applicable io national as well as
btete banks.
The Bme*tfmeßfc w« lo?t—yeas 12, nay* 2S.
Mr. HOWE offered an amendment, limiting the ex
penpee of assessors for cierk hire to seventy cents per
hundred names assessed, which was not adop-ed.
_£he bill was then taken cut of Committee of the
whole into the Senate, and separate votes were de
manced on the Important amendment
The amendment to tax savings ban
sue was adopted by the following vol
YfiaS. *
Brown. Farris,
Chandler, . Benderson,
Cohnees, Hendricks,
Cowan. Howard,
Davis, tane (lad. >,
Doolittle, Lane (Kansas),
Grimes, Morgan,
Harlan,
' i*Am
Anikony, Coaler,
Bcckaitw, - Hale,
Cl*.ik, Johaabn.
Collamer* McDoonall,
Dixon* Morrill,
Farweil> Nye,
Foot, Biddle,
The Senate at 4. SO took & recess till 7 P, M.
EVENING SBBSIO3T.
The amendment repealing ihelfiah!
and after the abrogation ox the ree’i
year hence, was rejected by the folio'
TEAS,
Harris,
Henderson,
Hendricks, -
Lane (Indiana),
ftesmith,
Powell,
1?AY&
Johnson,
bane (Kansftfl),'-
tfc&ong&H,
Horton,
MoniU,
Nye,
Banas&y.
Brown,
fiuckalow,
Chandl&r,
Dav}#,
Doolittle*
Harlan,
Anthony,
Clark;
toimese,
Eixon.
Farwell,
Potior,
Howe,
The amendment to increase the present duty on tohac
-Ba^Sv?l g £* s * cheroots, etc , was adopted.
Hr. wijj&os offered an amendment exempting the
f® r l e * cf olfi«»s of the army from the income tax,
Which was rejected.
Mr. HSBDKiUKS offered an amendment to Increase
loiter postage to five cents, on the ground that while wa
were taxing everything, the Post office should be seif
supporting. The amendmenv was rejected—yeas 13,.
nays 20. ■ *\
Mr. Howe’s amendment, regulating the employment
oi clerks, ana the expenses for stationery in the oflicea
of aee€S%oxr, was then adopted.
The bill as amended was then passed.
I3fCRBABB OF MIHSHIPJUBK’S PAY.
Mr. GBIMES called up a bill to Increase the pay of
midshipmen in the navy, which was passsd.
VO2.T7WTBEBS TO BROBTYB SAKS TBBATMBWT AS
BKGTILARS. ‘
. Jf r - WILSOH railed up a Hnuse Joint resolution re-
Idling to the employment of office*®’ servants, with an
amendment providing thM volunteer soldiers shall re
catve the swee allowance for clothing as is allowed to
soldiers of the regular army.
AatiOfBMBKTS TO PAY DEPABTSTBJTT BH*,
Mr, SPBAGIJS dffsredau amendment to theprovisions
of a bill for the better organization of the Paj Depart
ment, which was rejected.
Mr. BBSiBEftSO# effszed an amendment to 'allow
payment to soldiers in the cavaliy teryice for horses
a \d eouipmerts furnished by themselves for army use,
which was rejected. - '
Mr. LABE offered an amendment, w Welt was adopted,
pro viola g Ith at when *»y .officer of the army at the
beau of a bureau accepts a higher rank than is allowed
bylaw for such position, be thereby forfeits his posi
tion as the bead of such, bureau, Adopted.
Mr. GKIHSS presented an amendment that no person
subject to military duty shall be exempted because of
furnishing a substitute fix the navy unless he presents
the substitute in person at some naval recruiting sta
tion Adopted.
The .hIU as'amended was then passed.
OOMHITTEB OK THIS dOWDUOT OF THE WAR.
The Sen etc agreed to the House resolution to continue
the Committee on the Conduct of 'ihe War during the
vacation.
IKDIAJf BILLS.
Several Indian bills were taken up and passed.
A PBNSION BILL.
FOSTER, of Connecticut, from the Committee on
Fissions, reported the Bouse bill la relation to pan*
eloi b, with the following provisions: That no invalid
pensioner now or hereafter in the service of the United
States shall be entitled to draw a pension for any period
of Hme.durini which he is or shall be entitled to the
lull pay or saury which, an able-bodied person, dis
charged from like duties to the Government, is allowed
bylaw.
?he second cectton grants a pen&ion to contract sur
geons, when wounded, or to their representatives, when
killed in the service, the same as if they had been mus
teifd into, theier vice.
The third section grants a pension of $2O per month to
soldiers who lose a root and one hand in military
eervieoMd in the lice of duty.
The bill was raized.
The Senate refused to strike out the section of the
Hontehili taxing Suite bank notes 10 per cent, by the
following vote:
YBAS.
Foster,
Henderson,
Hendricks,
Howe,
Johnion,
HAYS.
Harris.
Bane (Ind),
t>'anc (Kansas),
Morgan,
Morrill, -
Nesmith,
Bye,
wing a tax of >3 pe:
lowing vote:
YBAS.
Harris,
Bowe,
Lane (Kansas),
McDougall,
Morgan,
Morrill,
Iflye,
HAYS.
Brown, . Hendricks,
Bnckalew, Johnson,
Davis, hand (Indiana),
Hixon, Nesmith,
Harlan,* Powell,
Harding, Stunner,
TSB FBXB»a£AW*S BTJBBAU »HX.
Anthony,
Eqekalew.
Collauier,
Davis.
Doolittle*
Brown,
Chancier,
Clark,
COSH6EB*
FarweJJ,
Crimes, ■• •
Harlan,
The cecfif n Smp«
adopted by-tie fol
Anthony,
Chandler*
Clark,
Ccnness,
Doolittle,
Farwell,
Foster, . „
Hr. WILSCH celled op the report of the committee of
conference on the Ireedman’a Bureau bill, which was
briefly dlscußEed and postponed until to-morrow.
CONSOLIDATION OF. INDIAN TBIBBS.
The bill for the consolidation of the tribes of the In.
dlan. Territory, and the establishment o f a civil govern
ment therein, was taken up and considered and passed
—yeas 17, nays ur
THB AMBRDBD POSTAL LAWS.
The report of the committee ef conference on the bill
amendatory of the postal laws was concurred in.
SAVINGS AND TBTJBT COMPANY.
Hr. 6UMHEB called up the bill to incorporate the
Freedman’s Saying; and Trust Company* whleUwas
passed.
. The Senate at lA. H. adjourned, to meet aft bl A.«M.
on Friday,
HOUSE OF BEPRESENTATIYES.
NSW COMMITTEES.
Mr. COX. of Ohio, called up the report heretofore
made by him to amend the seventy -fourth rule so as to
add three additional standing committees, to be ap
pointed at the commencement of each. Congress, and to
consist of nine members «a*h, namely, a committee on
appropriations, to take into consideration all Execu
tive commuxicationsjand such other propositions in re
4** d to carry ing on the several departments of the Go
vernment as may be presented an d referred to them by
,The Committee of Ways and Keans being
thus divided, it is made the duty of the latter to take
Into consideration all reports of the Treasory Depart •
partment.aiid such other propositions relative to raising
revenue and providing wave and means for the support
of the Government as shall be presented or shall ©o me
in question and be referred to them by the Bouse, and
to report tneir opinion thereon by bill or otherwise. The
amendment to the rules also pjovld«sfor a standing
committee on banks and banking, and on the Pacific
Haiiroad, and defines their duties.
Mr. COX said the division of this committee into
three parts, ways and means, appropriations, bangs
and hank currency, was called, for by the increase of
labor on these subjecU since the war; whereas, before
the war, seventy millions was the usual expenditure
and appropriation. The average now is eight hundred
millions per session. By & table presented, Mr. Cox
computed the bills reported by the Committee of Ways
and Means alone, sine© the war, at $3,779,673.2*7.97:
for the army alone about 3 066,Qt 0,000; beyond this they
had charge of tariffs, revenues, loans, legal tenders,
and banking. - These subjects involved every pecuniary
investment and interest in the land. All our values*
running beyond sixteen billions, wss subject to the
enormous control of this committee If our system was
wrong, the fault Ues as well at the door of Congress as
of the treasory. Take loans, there ate no two creditors
who have thesame sort of Government promise. We
have ten-forties, five-twenties, certificates, legal ten
ders, notes with and without interest, payable with
gold and paper. .
The SFEAKfiB—The gentleman isnot in order in dis
cussing these questions of loans.
Ur. COX—I do not discuss their merits, but it is dear
we need a system; and if more labor could be given,
more eider could he evoked out of chaos These finan
cial problems are the questions of the future. Power
will depend on their solution. Those who wtil solve
them best will bo the statesmen and rulers of the 3 and.
Mr. Cox complimented the Committee of Wavs and
Mean» for their talent and industry, but overstrained
by the work, they could not do. justice to those great
questions. This measure was no reflection upon them
They did all that men could do. One-fourth of our
values in this countryis under mortgage. Debt accu
mulates. Questions oFbxiravagance and economy, re
lations of gold Md -pspur, inequalities of tax and
tai iff-al! 4 hose demand great ability; but whoso want
eth iest will also want of might, and the division of
piotweme l ®* Te *“* tt “ d strol1 * fch w *«WPIe with these
Mr. BL.AII?E. of Hslno.Baid that heretofore he had
eo amendment to the Soasttaitioß to reset} the
prohiMttoa taxing dstlea oa .exports. bat It hii been
improserl, referred to the Committee of Wajrs and
. Mt%med^a“e *° ab ' ot,> <i _ TsrytWn *’
! BIEYEHa, of PtnaaTlTaiiie, denied that the oom
, P***’absorbed anything not properly belonging to
iL BfcOßia be separate oomnsitteeß oa bauhs and
the Pacific Eallroad, but h® doubted the propriety ofee
paratisgtbe question of raising ways aud mean* from
that of appropriation o
. Mr; MORRILL, of Vermont, en+er ained a similar ob*
j ctlor, ftlthcuah p&reon&jly he was indifferent to the
subject. a lt was true the labors pftbo Committee of
ways andHe&as had very much increased, eggypailiag
fthe members to wwfc day end xtifikt.
m. OAWWBM>. rf
H oa?S
rf W-Sv/
btloDjed, nucely. to fj* o ;®*™? ?Hnrn
VLtatm. as no commutes could DfJP®?? *wrouriaßoas
without .knowledge of the probaMo tiwomo-
Mr COXeßiatbe oommUteaaoaum «0M0j*J™“0»»
another, ewh an the Committee of with
the Committee os Wart sad Means to regard tj apvre
P of New Toj*. thought aremety mWi ;
he spplied by enlarging the Cwßittie on Ways *>*•
Means, so as to subdivide the duties amonff its mem*
b Mr. FCHKKCK, of Ohio, showed the necessity of ap
propriately distributing the labors of the several stand
ing cc*n>initteM , » *»d the necessity of reform. , ,
The House adopted the amendment to the rules, til.
then proceeded to ihe consideration of
Mr. JAMES 0. ALLEH, of Illinois, offered an amend
ment Appropriating so-muoh as may be nesetsary to pay
Senators. Bepresenjatlyes, and Delegates of this Oon
crtee en addition of one- third of their present safari*®.
Mr. MORJtJLL, of Vqrmont, offered a proviso to this,
'wbieb was agreed to. that no money shall ba paid
tl* der this section until the proposed increase shall be
submitted to the constituents of the members; and re*
spectively ratified bj them. ... _
?fae House then rejected air. Allen/ITamendment as
inotiojTof Hr KASSON, of lowa, an amendment
was made to the Mil, tonfsTring poerer on the fteerwsary
of the Treasury fces*H the Pennsylvania Bank building
at public auction. but not fora l*s* sum than one hun
dred and tea thousand dollars; also, appropriating one
million dollars for the purchase cf the Merchant*’ Ex
change or New Toik for custom-house purposes. .
£Mr D AVIS, of Maryland. offered an amendment that
no peieon shall bo tried by military commission or
court martial where tbeeourts are open, excepting per~
sens actually mustered into the military service of the
-United btatee. and rebel enemies charged with being
spies; all proceedings heretofore had in such eases are
declared void, and ail persons not subject w trial by
military-commission or court martial shall bo forthwith
discharged or delivered over to the civil authorities.
, Mr WABBBBBNE, of Illinois, raised the question
1 that the amendment was not tn order.
- This point was sustained by the chairman, Kr. Pike,
but on appeal from his decision, was reversed—yeas 49,
nays 65-
Mr. KEENAN, of New York, said he trusted the
amendment would be adopted without rousing partisan
feeling. By referring to the many cases of arbitrary
.&rm.tn and trial, bethought the House owed it to con
stnutiocsl liberty and >he preservation of a republican
'government to adopt the amendment
Mr. i>AV?EB, of Massachusetts, said that, having bean
on a special committee to examine into fr&cds in con*
tracts, he had united in reporzing a hill, whieh became
ajaw, subjecting such offenders to trial by court mar
tial. It was an extreme measure, out he felt that it
was neceeary to check what seemed to be a grant evil.
Be, at the time, thought the law would be administered
with season, but he was sorry to say, from his observe
tlon. that the administration of the law had been such
during the past year as to compel aim to support the
amendment. We had lost sight of the guarantees of
the Constitution, and seem to forget that any man has a
light to trial by jury, or even to be furnished with
the knowledge of the offence with which he is chargad.
Courts martial appeared to be formed with a view to
convict, and many or the proceedings were not only a
reproach to the administration of justice, but a shame
ex-d oisyrace. He alludtd to the trial of the Messrs.
Sx&tth* of Boston, contractors for the navy, as without
a parallel is infamy sicca the da* g of Jeffries.
_ Mr. bCHEKCKj of Ohio, would have no objection If
the amencment confined courts-martial and military
commissions strictly to military offences; but he was
opposed io the latter part of the proposition, which cou
ples plrned ago* eral jail delivery. There were person*
In the Old C&pitoland elsewhere who were liable only
in the courts or the country.
Hr. STKVBfiB, of Pennsylvania, expressed his regret
that the gentleman from Maryland snoaid, at this lata
stage Of the proceedings, bring in such au important
preposition, when it was known shat all of these ar
rests and trials by military courts had been
ln . tT*?®*.,. . P“ i >e<> fcy Confess. It
might be that the coutts had committed errors, and
that oppression had fallen on persons tried; but could
they, by a simple amendment to this bill, correct all
the dtcMons ? Be submitted that, without informa
tion, they would, by the adoption of the amendment,
commit a dangerous act. and throw loose a class of pet
sons helping to destroy us.
Mr. DaViS, cf Maryland, said, in reply, that there
was no other time than now that this subject could
be more appropriately considered. When the voice of
liberty ceased to be beard it would be too late, to agitato
this question Let the bill before them perish a tnou
eane times rather than the liberty of the citizen be da
svroyedt. Gen McClellan was The first to put his name
to a paper suspending the writ of habeas corpus in
Maryland. He was glad to refer to this, because it
showed that it was not a party question—-but an Ame
rican question of public liberty. There must ba a stop
to aries.s and trials by irresponsible bodies, otherwise
there would be no law in the land, la Hew fork, Bos
ton, Baltin ore, and elsewhere men have tamed gray
under persecution, and in Baltimore a c ttizan has been
sentenced to imprisonment for forging Jeff Davis' cur-'
tesey. He did not want sharp vengeance visited on
citizens in the absence of affording them the tight ac
corded them by the Gonsiitmicn and the courts. He
scanted the tepreien atives of the peopletodaclare the
nullity of the military tribunals in the {rial of civilians.
Mr FARNSWORTH* of Illinois, said,' in reply io the
gentleman from Mainland (Mr. Davis), that of all the
acts, civil and military, of General McClellan, there
was not one thai rendered his name more popular, and
endeared him to the hearts of the people, than the
arrest of the secession members of the Maryland Legk
laiure, who werbabout to meet to involve that State in
civil war. Vigorous measures saved Maryland; and,
just previous to the inauguration, Mr. Lincoln had to
m&kt Ms way through Baltimore in disguise.
Mr. DAVIS replied: If he had been a man of heroic
mould he worn* have marched sately through.
Mr. FARMSWORTH, resuming, said that when the
gentleman’s political enemies and the enemies of the
country-took the gentleman by the hand for what he
said he ought to raise his hand to heaven and ask:
“What have I done that such men should praise?”
Mr. Farm*-worth spoke of the lousy rapscallions ia jthe
military prisons, « heu hi* time expired.
Mr. KAL BFLEISOH. Oh, let him go on in his lousy
talk
ike as hanks of la
te :
Nesmith,
Powell,
Ramsay.
Sherman,
Biewart,
Ton Syck,
Trumbull.
Sprit stte.
Stun Dor.
Van Winkle,
Willey,
Wileoa, -
Wright.
ting bounties from
pretty treaty ono
rain grots:
Biddle,
Sherman,
Vaa Winkle,
Wilkinson,
Willey,
Wrifcht!
- Mr. HARRIS, fof Maryland, replying to Mr. Farns
worth, said that the reference to him as an auworthy
member was worn thread-bare. He approved of his
colleague’s (Mr. Davis) proposhim, andjaccepied what
the ge&uem&n Item Illinois said in a Pickwickian
seme, ao fur from the members of the Maryland Le
gislature, in l&6]»iniendicg to take that ftate out of the
r-uicn. they expressly maintained t&at this must be
done through a convention.
..Mr, WILSON, oflowa, replied to Mr. Davis- saving
that that gentleman, to-day so eloquent in behalf of the
Überey onhe ettizeu, only a few days ago voted against
the bill to prohibit military interference iu elections.
Mr. SGBENCE, of»0Mo. who fwith Me. Davis had
voted against the bill to which Mr. Wilson alluded,
explained why he did to, showing that it did not pre
vent rebels from voting
The vote was then token on Mr Davis’ amendment,
viz: that no person shall be tried by court-martial or
military commission in say State or Territory where the
courts of the Ueitec states are open, except persons ai
tuaUy mustered *hd commi&Moned or appointed in the
military or naval service, or rebel enemies charged with
being spies, and allpioceedingi heretofore had contrary
to this provision shall be vacated, and all persons not
Subject to trial under military authority shall be forth
with deli vexed over to the civil authorities to be pro
ceeded against in the courts according to law, and all
acts or parts of acts Vnconeistent-with the above are
hereby repealed.
above was agreed to—yeas 75, nays 64—andthe
House, at half-past four, took a recsss till half-past se
ven o’clock.
EVENING SESSION.
THB CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL.
Sprague,
Stewart,
Snmner,
TeuEyok,
Wade,
Wilson.
The civil appropriation bill Was taken up in Com
mittee of the Whole. *
Mr BOBEBCK, of Ohio, unsuccessfully endeavored
io strike out Mr Davis’ amendment, which had bten
agreed to before the recess, and to substitute something
else.
.A million dollars was a£ded to the civil bill to supply
ufeficiUdfiß, 4
Oa motion of Hr. SCHBKGK, an ameniment was
msde that commutation for elotbin* to volunteers shall
he the same as that of soldiers !nthe regnlai «my.
Hr fiIEYEUS offered au amendment, increasing the
pay of the clerks in Gcncress and in the Executive De
partment. This was amended* on morion of Mr. JfEE*-
SOh, so as to incre&Be the compensation of memhera of
the prerent twenty-five per cant.
Mr. STEVEISS moved to strifee out the above, and
substitute "that hereafter the mileage of members
shall he ten cents a mile and $3OO a month for the time
Congress is in session. * 1
Hr. MuBEILL moved a proviso* that the increase
shall net take effect till January, 1873, and not then if
it shall he repealed before thatttme. [Laughter }
The substitute of Mr. Stevens was rejected, and the
proportion to increase the compensation of clerics and
members of Congress was lost—yeas 67, nays 59.
Mr SFAU-LDiffG moved an amendment, which was
.rejected, tbiteach surviving soldier of the war of 1812
be paid SICO per annum dnrins his natunri jife, and that
$2 000,CQu he appropriated for that purpose.
The amendment was adopted declaring illegal and
void double rations to any chief of stefL This is in
tended to take that allowance from Major General Hal
lecfe, - .
Mr. SELSOE again offered his amendment to increase
the pay of members of Congress 25 per cent
The committee rose and reported the hill, with amend
ments, to the Bouse.
Hr. &TEYE&S tgaiu offered his amendment to in
crease the pay of cfctxfea in the public departments.
The vote having been taken* but not yet announced.
Hr. MOhEIS, of Ohio, asked whether it would be In
order for Democrats who had voted to increase the pay
of BepuhHcsn employees to change their votes.
Mr. STBOUMB, of .Pennsylvania, indignantly de
clared that the remarks of Mr. Morris were an insult.
'Mr. ODELL. Here's one Democrat who doss not wish
to change his vote.
Hr. Stevens* amendment wai rejected—jeas 61,
nays 77.
The Bouse, by a vote of eighty yeas to sixty.four
nays, concurred in the first part of Hr Davis 5 amend
ment, namely: 4 * That no psrson shall be tried by
court smartiai or military commission, in any State or
Territory where the courts of the United States are
open, except persons actually mustered, or commis
sion*d, or appointed in the military or naval service of
the United States* or rebel enemies charged with being
-spies.”
The letter part of the amendment, stricken out by a
vote of seventy-three yeas to seventy* one nays, was as
follows:
McDougall,
Powell.
Ten Bvck,
Van Winkle*
Willey.
Ramsey,
Sherman*
Sprague,
Stewart,
Sumner,
Wade
All proceedings heretofore hid contrary to this sec
tion thali be vacated, and all persons not subject to trial
under this section by court martial or military commis
sion now held under sentence, snail be forthwith deliv
ered to rite civil authorities to be proceeded against by
the courts, according to law, and that all acts inconsis
tent with the above Be repealed. : *
The civil appropriation bill was passed.
THB POSTAL BILL,
cent, on sales was
Mr COLE, of California, mads a report from the com
mittee of conference on the bill relating to postal laws*
which was concurred in.
Ramsay,
Sherman,
bprague,
Stewart*
Wilkinson,
Wilson.
Ikprovides that when‘postage Is not prepaid letters
final* be returned to the dead letter office, and when the
postage is only partially paid Jhey shall he forwarded
to their destination, the balance due to be paid on deli
very.
Ten Erck,
Van Winkle.
Wads,
Willey,
Wright.
Mr. STEYENS imported back, with amendments, the
Senate bill amendatory of the act for the collection of
direct tax*- sin insurrectionary States* which was passed.
THE AMENDED INTERNAL REVKHUB SHI.
On motion cl Mr MOSEILL. the House non-eoucur
jea in all tbe Senate amendments to the amendatory
internal revenue bill* in order that they be referred to
a committee of conference ; otherwise, he said, they
could not be acted on intelligently, and besides, it was
absolutely necestary to effect a saving of time.
TBB AM3SBDKBBTS TO THB NATIONAL BASTS: LAW.
The Bouse, on motion of Mr. B.OOFS&, took up the
bill amendatory of the national banking law, so that
instead of such banks being privileged to issue notes of
equal amount to their capital,'they are to ba restricted
as follows: Onnne-half million oi capital they are au
thorized to Issue 90 percent, in notes; not exceeding
SI,COO,CCO capita*, 80 percent ; not exceeding $3,000,000*
75 percent; exceeding $3, CC9»GOO, 6 per cent, of note a
Mr, BBOOKB offered to amend by requiring the inte
rest, to be paid in specie or United States bouee, shall bo
kept in the vaults until the resumption .of specie pay
meats, and the hanks forbidden to *eli any gold thus
reserved; also, that the interest on Government stocks
held fey national banks may be paid in specie or circu
lar ing notes, at the discretion of the Secretary of the
Treasurr.
Both, of these amendments were rejected, and the bill
pasted.
commissioner on fatrntb -vuhhcatbd.
Mr. HIGBYf of California, from the select committee
to investigate the charges against the Commissioner of
P&ientafipf frauds and corruption, say in their report
that, after a full investigation, they are unanimously of
the opfnlon that those charges, made by an Individual
in a pamphlet addressed to members of this House, are
not sustained.
kreloYMsrijr on disabled boldieks.
The Senate's joint resolution, authorising the- Presi
dent to appoint a chieP of- staff for Lieatenant General
Grant, ana the Senate joint resolution, to encourage
the employment of disabled and discharged soldiers,
The ficuss* after the transaction of much miscellane
ous business, at L 46 A. M., adjourned. '
A Chapter of Railroad Accidents.
X*ast week was remarkable for the number of.rail
road casualties, having, perhaps, no parallel in the
railroad history of the country:
On the 20th ult, two freight trains collided on
the XiouUville, Mew Albany, and Chicago road,
smashing up the engines and killing one engineer,
on the 22d, a defective rail threw a train off the
track of the Ohio Central road, ana several passen
ger were ii..]ured- On the 24th, two passenger
trains on the Ehjladejphia. and Erie road collided
near Warns, killing two men and injuring seve
ral otcerß. One of the killed. Mr. Godfrey Schultz,
a well-known citizen of Buffalo, was jammed
-between two of the cars, and the cars having taken,
fire from the overturning of the stoves, Schultz.was
earned-to death. On rite same day an. express
train* on the Pennsylvania Central road, at a point
about nineteen miles west of Altoona, ran from the
track, cansing the death of two persons, and the
wounding of. a considerable number. A train on
the New. York Central road, also on the 21th: was
thrown from the track by the breaking of a. rati,
three milts west of Jordan. Six persons were In
jured, hut none killed. On the Seth a passenger
train on the Long Island road became detached
from the engine as It was approaching Lakeland,
and the first oar fell down' an embankment about
twenty ieet. Several persons were injured, bat
nobodykllled. Several minor acoidents also occurred
during the week.
The present week bide fair to exceed the last In
the number of casualtHß. . The following is there*
cord for two days:
On Monday, 27th, GeoTgo Bnoklay was killed on
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Hallway,
between Clunker Talley and Sewlekloy Station.
The deceased was walking on the track at the time.
Two o’clock the same day, the express train on the
Pennsylvania Bail road came near being thrown
over an embankment a short distance west of Gres
son, on account of a switch being left partially open.
As it was, four cars and the. engine were thrown
from the treok, but fortunately na one was Injured.
About elsht o’clock, same morning, a freight train
on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Kail
w%y ran off the track ; near Creattlne, up
setting the leer, motlTe. killing the fireman, named
Talbott, and severely Injuring the engineer. Same
evening, Alexander Banei a ae wly-imployed vreS£-
TBB 01VII. APPROPRIATION BILL.
TAXES IK INBUBSBHT STATUS,
man on too road, was Injured by tbs ciavei..
Pittsburg passenger train, near Pasture iS *
gbenyOlty, and Eas rinse died.
togcar attached to a train on the
and Erie Ballroad caught fire near
was totally destroyed.. Tile passengers
lost their baggage. On Tuesday, agth w S
train on the Pennsylvania Bailroad wm
log Lilly's station, one Of the tracts fell*
tract, throwing off throe ears, one of whiej,
fire and was totally destroyed. One of th. ss
bad Us legs horribly crashed. 8 >)
Uf« at Hew Orleans.
THIS 785310 H POSTIOU OP TBS OlTY—bh,;,
THBATBIOAtS. ,
The Washington Chronicle publishes tie
extract from a letter to the editor, dated
leans, Feb. 12: *
" What do yon think of going to a party on .
day evening, and keeping is up until the « «
hours” ob Sunday 1 - Don’t Btait, my dear hr
was not guilty of such Sabbath-bren Uinv
must tell you that sucfi. is the custom aiEo:
French residents of this free and-easy city
your bumble servant did go to a Sutoroti
ball, but twelve o’clock found him aei Mr ,
dreaming sweetly~of:'Home' and (Meadl
long once mote to see.' What a happy tir*
to contemplate, and how many bright.
ful recollections it cans to mind. Homs
heme, with what cherished feelings its
enshrined, aid how often In my wandering, t >'
this terrible struggle of life am I drawn la im
Hon back to the happy, peaceful days of yona.
my dear M., this is rhapsody. So, enough
had a delightful time, I must confess, and
forward with anticipated pleasure to ano&v
gay scene as was then and there presented
of the guests were in, masquerade coatuma
counted more than one expensive ami ma?n7' : l3lH
dress. ■ For my own part, I see nothing
masquerade ball, always providing they are V'i'lfl
ed by ladles and gentlemen, asyou andl aade-f’ l ■
these much-abused terms. We Northerner.
Euritasicai In such matters, ant* it wjcl.j a"„M
arm to let ourselves out of our
occasionally, and imitate our Europe -n <•
The French portion of this city is very heeadr HS
laid out, displaying to great advantage the u<£,. MB
which that people are proverbial. The stre-.f 1
. lined with pine trees, and the neatness of that,
strikes the eye Of a stranger on the first -“■'’BBlf
walk In tide direction amply repays one t.„ . -WS
, trouble. It Is difficult for a Northern man,,. '*
lire that he Is herb In what he has been acca»ich i
to call winter, for t dined out a few days an - ’
we had for dinner asparagus, green pets, tom'.s L
cauliflowers, and other spring luxuries mUumt*
the North in February. ”•«
Theatricals here are brisk, but I cannot sty MBS
for the performances. At the Varieties, Mrs vtiHH
Gladstone, once so popular In Philadelphia., i s . ■f*.
principal oard, and she has lost cone of her tsajßM
attractions. Why cannot some of your WasiU r ,Wfi
managers engage her! She Is far superior to
of the actresses you people at the capital or tts •' S
Hon make a great fuss over. At the St. Ctyj si
the irrepressible “Seven Sisters ” are now cst' i£f:
ing themselves. The acting is very poor, bat t:: (
compensated for by the scenery, which I mss;: J
is very pretty. Another attraction Is the cir-J
which we have every sight, and It Is dramr.,- ;
houses.
There are movements going on among thai*
ts*y and naval forces which I am not now at !!. >..
to disclose; but when the seal of secresy Is
yon will hear from
Tours, truly,
NEW TOKK CITY.
Nbw Yokk, March 2, skis
a ljettuk feom sboretaev saw abb.
A letter from Secretary Seward to the chalnt-,
and secretaries of the resent meeting of olclsiaj
. held here to express their appreciation of the Fra
debt and his Cabinet, returns thanks for the expm
slons of approval and the support of that meeij,
as evincing a firm and resolute purpose to prese.- n
the Union unbroken.
CKKDITB XOS BHtISTXD MBIT FOJtt THU BBGOU|>
His Honor Mayor Gunther. yesterday received tu
following letter from E. D. Townsend, &s?lsuy
Adjutant General, stating that, for the present, nai
enlisted within the county of New York for tt*
Tegular army will be reported for credit for this
oounty only
WAE PePAETMBITT, AjT. GUTTESAn’S OFVP’
'Wabhotstoh, February 2T, lssi" 1
C. Godfrey Gunther, Esq., Mayor of Sew York:
Sin: I have the honor to acknowledge the rase'et
of your letter of the 14th Instant, enclosing a carit
fied copy of ah ordinance of the city or Ns* t«t
“For are protection of the city of New York mi
"to facilitate the raising of the quota under Use P;>
sidest’s sail for 500,000 men.”
I have the honor to inform you that, by lot's; «
this date, Brigadier General P. St. George UcAa
Enperintendent orthe recruiting service for there,
gular army, has been diroated that, as tic
subject Involved is now before Congress, prailag
legielaticn thereon, men enlisted within the ciset;
of New York for the regular army, will, until fa:,
ther orders, be reported for credit to such essay
only, I am, sir. very respectfully.
Your obedient servant,
E. D. Towssexb,
Assistant Adjutant Genera!,
DAHOMtOUS T.UAP.
Early this morning a German, named .Ohrlsttan
Yon Lieheln, living at the comer of Courtland sal
Washington streets, leaped from a filth-story win
dow, while laboring under a fit of insanity. He fail
upon a tin-roofed awning,- which broke the fores or
his fall, and he was bnt slightly Injnred, Bis esesp#
from Instant death was remarkable.
THU It VEXING STOCK BOARI>,
10 P. M.—Stocks dull. Gold, 197J£; after mil,
m%. New York Central, 112 jf ; Bile, 71?;: Eri.
son Elver, US?;; Michigan Central, 112; Mietdsa
Southern, 66%; Pittsburg and Cleveland. 75\';
Bock Island, 9&K; Northwestern, T 4; do. pre'err.i,
Ohio and Mississippi certificates, 29,v; Use
ton Co., 35; Cumberland, 69; Mariposa, I4JI.
SHIP HBWB.
Arrived, ship Constitution, Liverpool; brigs Sy
bil, Matamorosj Hibernia, Bio; schr Albert frost,
Mayaguez.
Deceasb of a Fkebch I. apt at 106 Ykabs nr
Ads.—The Palis Journal dee Debats records th 3 de
cease at Versailles, on the 21st ult, of Madame do
Saint Quentin, aged xos years and three mantas,
having been bom at St. Ulster, October 221, i;si.
She enjoyed the full use of all her faculties up to
104 years, going out regularly every day, and
making and receiving frequent calls. She ns
always desirous that her visitors should enjoy them
selves, and would seat herself at the piano, pity
contra-dances and sing songs of the olden tlma,
She would remark to a new visitor, “Youprotu
bly have never heard a woman above 100 years old
ring and play upon the piano.” Her 100th anniver
sary was religiously celebrated, and. as she trave-ss.l
the church, leaning upon her son, himself nearly 83
years of age, and weakly, she said to Mm, “Goal
nets, how feeble you are 1 you seem like an old
manl”
“The Press” Relief Fund.
The foUowlng contribution was received at Tin
Press office up to 6 o’clock last evening:
Mary LeStmann S 8
Previously acknowledged....... 5430 71
Total
Pablle Zgtertalnments.
Thb Gkrhan OpbMx. — “ Fidello” was sung last
night with unusual and powerful effeet. It was
probably rthe mast successful production of the sea
son. Madame Jahannsen song the difficult xawis
of her part nobly, and was called before tin
curtain at the close of the second act.
Bermans made an admirable Bocco ,- Hlmmer,
Habelman,and Stelnecke|were excellent; the choral
and orchestra were almost perfect; and the oal;
unfortunate 'element of the production was H’ll?
Canlssa’s want of ability.
It Is to be regretted that Mr. Grover 3hotUd bars
announced “Oberoa” .and “The MaTriage of Fi
garo,” but we accept the unexpected performance
of “ Fidello ” asamplo compensation.
This evening ‘'Stradella” will be presented, wilt
entr’-acle plane-forte concert by Mr. Henkel. To
morrow’s matinee will be devoted to the representa
tion of 1 ‘ Bobert le Dlable,” and In the evening it is
announced that Gounod’s “Mlreille” will be glveai
complete, for the first time In America.
"Walnut-stbket Theatre.— Mr. J. S. Clarke,
the eminent comedian, Is fulfilling a successful en
gagement at this theatre. He has been performing
every evenlßg this week In a local drama entitled
.“The Streets of Philadelphia,” In which he takes
rile part of Tom Badger, who Is In the early part of
■the play a banker’s clerk, and afterwards a re
turned Californian. Mr. Clarke gives a fine im
personation of the character, which combines both
humor and pathos.
Chbstsut-btbbet Theatre.— Miss Helen Wes
tern will he the recipient of a benefit this evening,
when she will appear as Claude Metnotle ,’ls “ The
Lady of Lyons.” The comedy of “Cool as a Cu
cumber ” will also be performed.
Choral Festival. —The choir of Trinity Church,
New York, has been organized on the plan or tts
choirs of the principal Cathedrals In England.
Young persons are the leading vocalists. Toe
Trinity choir, which lately exhibited Its talent at
the Music Hall, Boston, and In Providence, intend
to repeat their Choral Festival In this city, in En
ter week, provided thoy can do so In a church wl-s
a good organ. Mr. Frederick F. Wlddows, who is
now at the Continental Hotel, is manager of tt®
enterprise here, as ho has been-ln New England
and New York, and,"no doubt, can give fuller infor
mation than we have space for or knowledge of.
Thb Germania Orchestra will perform the
following music at thepuWio rehearsal to-morrow
afternoon:
Overture— (t Tlockmill ......... Rri'Elgzr.
Song—“ Sympathy ” Kuecken.
Waltz—“ Invitation to the Dance” Wooer.
First part of SlnSmte No. l —Mozart.
Overture— 1 * A Night in Grenada .Kreutzer.
Finale—" Martha ” (. Flo to*.
Galop—" Greeting to my Love ” Michaells.
Peremptory Salk ov Carpet mos. MatttsgSi
Carpet Yarn, &0,, This Day.— The attention of
dealers Is requested to the assortment of superfine
and fine'ingrain, royal damask, VeniU&n, cottage,
list, hemp, and rag carpetings, 2 4 to 4-4 coir mat
rings, bales or carpet yam, Ac., to bo peremptorily
sold, by catalogue, on four months’ credit, com
mencing this morning, at ll o’clock precisely, by
John B. Myers & Co., auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 2M
Market street.
Fchhbss, Brinley, a Co., will hold, on Taasdsy
next, March 7th, 1865, on four months* credit, at
their store, 815 Chestnut street, a very large and
attractive special sale of Saxony-woven Dres
Goods, comprising three thousand pieces, In entirely
new spring styles, of the celet>rated.mansfacture orJ
importation of Messrs. Schmieder- Bros., New York.
Special attention is called to this sale, as the
goods o'ffered comprise a most magnificent assort
ment of colors and styles, never before offered la
thin ci any other market.
This sale cannot be repeated.
THE CITT.
proa ADDITIONAL CITY NBWS BHB POURTH PA<
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT—CBLB
SBATION BY THB COLORED UNION LEAOUK
association.
The Colored People’s TJnloa League Assoelittea
will give a grand entertainment at Concert ff*u-
Chestnut street, above Twelfth, this evening, P 1 ’.
poned on the 16thof February, on acoonnt o'. 1 ;"
weather,) in boner of the great epoch in the MiW'J
of our country—viz: theamendment to the o® ns „
tutlon of the Mnltedi,States, ratified by oar ssri?
Legislature, abolishing slavery forever. Jehu o.
Kock. Esq., rsaentiy admitted a member of the
of the supreme Court at Washington i Alfred tL.
Love, Win, Nlobolson. Eeq., RemA. iu
Phillips Brooks, WXB.JJ. Alston, and T. D.
will sddress the maetlng. A band ofmario wdl - d ul
attendance.
Tri it DRAFT.
Dr. Saunders makes the subj olned feeling and. «*;
sible appeal In behalf of the drafted men of th*
First end fieoond districts: . „.
Oommittees, policemen, drafted men, and bene*?*
lent citizens generally of the First and Second *«■
tricts, blncfy permit the undersigned to entrn’- yo*
to obtain for your provostmanhais so many roma
teere to examine on Monday and Tuesday next £»**
rimy will have na time to examine drafted owo- *■“
a few days, ills fceffeved, more aganoias wiltcj> ffll
to the relief, K. D, oAo«usas,
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