paik .elegrap4 11APRISBURO, PA Wednesday Evening January 11, 1864 READING HATTER WILL BR FOUND ON EVERY PAGE OF THE DAILY TEL EGRAPH. Look to the Senate Proceedings. We invite a careful examination of the Senate proceedinge of this morning. It will be seen that the Republicans of the §enate made through Mr. LOWRY ; the Senator from Erie, one of the fairest pro - positions that could have pos eibly been made, but the other side refused to accept the proposition, and hence the delay of public business. Look also at the ref neat of the same party to recognize the valuable services rendered by that soldier and patriot, Major General IT. S. Grant. Facts and actions like - these speak in thuilder tones to the people of Pennsylvania. appealing to the loyal everywhere to' be on their guard against the treason sympathizers in the North. The Dead-Lock in the Senate By this time the people of Pennsylvania have discovered the course which the majority of those who constitute the minority in the; Senate intend to pursue. Smarting under the effects of the lashing which their party rceeived at the polls last fall—feeling that they are powerless for good, and knowing that they cannot accom pliab, by fair means, the purposes which they have in view, they have de.teffnined to obstruct legislation and embarrass the Government, to the end that they may have satisfaction at the expense of the loyal men of the Commonwealth.: : The debate in the Senate, yesterday afternoon, exhibited,the rancor with which the minority Intend to oppose the will of the people. The factious spirit manifested on that occasion is the proof of the hate which those men entertain for the Government. For two years, the leaders of that minority have been pleading for the sanctity and .sovereignty of the Constitution— their harangues have teemed with appeals to the people in bshalf of law and justice—their positions have been entrenched behind what they called the clearly defined meaning of the Constitution—yet at the very first opportunity which (ens to insult and outrage every Con ethanol:Lai principle known to legislation, these same men take advantage of the position to violate a clear and a broadly expressed power of that •instrument. They exhibit their affini ,ties for treason, b taking advantage of the power afforded then by the rebels. They man ifest the disposition with which a hatred of the GoVernment has inspired them, by opposing an "organization which already exists in the Senate, Or by factiously refusing to accede there-organi zation of that body to he majority: The speeches of such men as Lamberton clearly indicate what is designeo by the position now &Seamed by the minority. Lamberton is the blatantspokepan of his party. He advertises Its programme. He speaks as if by inspiration from Richmond, and gives loyal Senators to understand that the leaders of the oppesition are the implacable foes of the Government— the bitter enemies dell administrations of that Government which do not respect the divinity of slavery and the right of rebellion. -4t is hard to divine what will be the result of the Afforts of the copperheads in the .Sen - ate. If the minority in the Senate persist in their factious opposition,We may expect in.s few days to hear them claim that Pennsylvania is without a State Government, and that the civil authority of the Commonwealth is in a condi tion of anarchy. The game of the opposition is a desperate one, and they intend to play it to the end. Of course our friends will meet them at every point, and defeat them in alt their machinations. RE-ENLISTMENTS The Bulletin says that no more acceptable tidings could have come to ns on, the advent of he new year, than•that which heralded the rei!forcement of our armies by veterans—sol diers who for months , and years, in-the valleys of Virginia, the swamps of the Carolinas, the mountains of the Southwest, and the lowlands of. Louisiana and Texas, had battled with the enemy, generally victorious, but: always gal lant and determined.' It is particularly pleas-, lug to pa ,to hear these renewals pi- pledges to fight [for the Union ani the Constitution, because we know that the noble example was offered for the accaptance of our;defenders by heroic Pennsylvanians. Oar State may have been of late backward in her new enlistments, but it *as from no lack of patriotism. It was simply, because she 'had sent to the field thousands upon 'thousands of her citizens •in 'regimental organisations properly accredited to the Commonwealth, and thousands of others, who, enlisting in adjacent States, hav,s been induced, when a draft threat ened, in the lists submitted fir dad action from their respective quotas. Within a few chys, however, more especially in this city, the dc aire to avert the odium which will always ne cessarily attend a draft, has again increased; and the columns of our journals daily contain one or more invitations to attend publicgather logs having for their object the reinforcing of our decimated regiments. ' . Inducements_ are offered to veterans to re enlist, which must be considered by there com plimentary •to their past labors in the cause, and profitable to their pockets, and these con siderations, supported by the patriotic motives `which prompt Every soldier in the 'Union army to gallant acts, cannot fail to:send back to tke service a host, which by its strength and ex perience will ensure a speedy termination of the war. While upon the one hand we do not think that any grade, rank or .profeseion should be exempt from sending its representatives to the field, we believe that ,every seldiei,Who has - participated In the hardships , and dangers of the present war. should, where it is.notlneom patible with the demandS of 'hie family, come forward at this time, and by his example incite his comrades, to whom the scenes of warlike strife are new, to deeds of valor. ADDRESS COL, N. G. TAYLOR, OF TENNESSEE, . Delivered before the Legislature of the Stale of Penn sylvania, in the House of -Representatives, January 5, 1864 —be behalf of the Suffering Pople of .East Tennessee. Ta the Gentlemen of t e senate and House ol Repre sentatives of the State of Pennsylvania;—l came to this section of country with the intention of pre seating to the Government a statement of the condition and prospects of East Tennessee, the land of my nativity, and the home of my peo ple, and urging some speedy action for her relief. I much regret to say that having visited Washington, I see little encouragement to tope for immediate adequate aid directly from Con gress, though I have not, formally, brought the case before that body. I accept the alternative therefore of appealing to the people of the United States, and to, the 1 egislatures of the several States, for that humane and christian sympathy which manifests itself in prompt material aid t the suffering. Ido not come to make a po litical speech, nor to make any arguments or appeals as a partizan, &c. Ido not come to the West and North as a beggar, though if necessary to accomplish the object I have at heart, I would crawl on my knees and beg, but to lay_facts before a patriotic and magnanimous people, and to offer them a fit opportunity for the display of that charity of soul which opens the hand of liberality to the distressed. It is true, many of our kindred of the Southern States are angry with the people of East Tennessee, and hate them with much bitterness, and have done them of late, great injury; yet,, while the knowledge of these facts is a source of great pain, they are consoled by the reflection that that enmity was in3pired by their devotion to the Consti tution, by their .obedience to the farewell ad vice of Washington, and by ,their faithful ad herence to the Union our fathers consecrated with their tears and blood, and by their per eisteet refusal to participate in the mad effort to overthrow our common Government ; a Government which had always protected its citizens, had never infringed a single right of as individual or a State, and which they felt they ought to transmit, as a most inestimable legacy, to their children. .But it is not true that East Tennessee has even been unfaithfu lo.the Southern people, In principle or in fact. We believed and declared that the interests and institutions of the South, the prosperity and happiness and rights of her people were all bound up with and in the Union, and could never be saved out of the Union. The him); table logic of history has, thus far, vindknted the uerrectness of our judgment, and demon. strated the fallacy and weakness of thins. Int tbe universal prosperity that swelled every channel of her vitality—commercial, political, Industrial and axial—within. the Wedeln. at the beginning of this war, and the annihilated commerce, the financial bankruptcy, the pare- I.szed industry, the social disorganization, the dimionibcrod families, the troken-hearted widows and orphaned children, the desolated fields and now made graves of the South, vial out the Union, attest tho unspeakable madness of those who execrate East Tennesseeane cause they would not affiliate with troaeon. Could those who made the war alone Made to taste it; bitterness and feel its woes, it had been well. Then East Tennessee would have escaped. But, alas! the concentrated' fury of the wet• has swept over her innocent bbsom —she is in ruins—and all this creel war has left her are " pride, poyerty and patriotism." Her people are thia deecendants of the pioneer heiors of 'North.Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylva- - mils, Maryland and New Jettsey, and like their illustrious ancestors, they never have learned troW to be false to the Constitution and the Union. - The forest fathers of East Tennessee, in the great War for independence, left their homes to the defence of their wives and, daughters • against the . /alian foe, While they fought under. Shelby and Campbell at king's Mountain, fdr ar infant nationality. In. the war of 1812-16 they met the foe at Taladega, Emirate°, and the Horse Shoe. and triumphed, glider Jackson, at New Orleans. When nullification threatened, *18324, to cut the Gerard!knot of the Union with the sword, and the hero of the Hermitage invoked "the Eternal" to•witness that "the Federal Union must be preserved," a united amen swelled in the hearts, and broke from the lips of her peo ple ae the voice of one man,and they were ready to maintain the Government with their lives. Her stalwart sons were mingled with the, front ranks in the Mexican war, and they shed their blood freely ' with their gallant follow citizens of 'other States, at Vera Ctuz and Cerro Gordo, at lifonterey and 'Buena Vista, at Cherubusco and Cirepultapec, and helped to swell the shout of victory, as our conquering legions marched intriumph into the Grand Plaza of Mexico. In peace and in war, in the field and in the cabi net, at the hustings and at the bar, and. In the Senate, in public assemblies ' and in private circles, in the homes of the 'rich, and in the cabins of 'the poor—everywhere, and in all time, the heart of East Tennesseeane has "kept time to the-music of the Union," and at this moment there is no more . illustrious example of sublime and heroic devo tion to patriotism than poor_crushed bleeding Eaat Tennessee. This devoon is not mere sentiment; it is a passion; more, it is a principle on fire—ever alive and burning; never consumed. It is not of yesterday; nor will it die to-morrow; for it is a heritage in the blood, transmitted from sire to -son imbibed with mothers' milk—stereotyped upon the heart, ' and rivetted in the soul. Witness the history of the past three years. In the beginning of these national troubles EaSt 'Tennessee proclaimed her adherence ta,the Union, in Mk. vote of February, 1861, by an overwhelming majority, of her people; and, in June thereafter, an, nounced, through. the ballot box, her solemn resolve to be faittdei to the Constitution and the country, and denounced the great treason by large majorities. Persuasions soft and sweet were then, with syan eloquence, insinuated into her ear, and silvery ,promises, cf exemp tion from the geld of war,. were made to her sons if thoY would only acquiesce, and let the tide roll on:'. The vote came again In Apgnst, and true to her faith and pledge -our people carried, in our section, Legislature, Congrots, Governor, everything. Then cameinsults flaunted in men's laces—threats and ants of violence to individuals--the shooting and cut ting down of Union flags, and cries of tory, Lincolnito and abolitionist. Still our people breasted the storm, and' stood fast' to their integrity. But, - bye and bye, as the war waxed fiercer, the rebel' Congress valise& e conscript law, and all men, exemPle' :excepted, atpable of bearing arms, from eighteen to thirty five years old, were enrolled and ordered to report for service.- Then thcffixodas. (already begun,) swelled to hundreds andlhousands. 'fbp young men were threading the pathlem mountains by night, and seeking covert and rest. in their deep gorges by day, searching, in Kentucky, for 'their country's flag, - resolved; under its folds alone, to fight. The Southern Congress passed a bill giving adherents to the Union forty days to leave their country, and their Chief pro claimed it; but -promptly the rebel soldiers closed and gnardod, with musket and bayonet. every known avenue of exit, and• endeavored to slay or capture every man who sought to escriFe through theitelines. • - Regiments,' companies and equads of infantry: and cavalry, were now distributtid dim the country, to hunt down and capture, or .shoot conscripts. The arms etnd ammunition - of the people nad been demanded and seized. Promi nent citizens were threatened, and in many instances, arrested at their homes, in the night season, upon ifivolouVotooles, and without charges, hurried off, without notice or prepara tion, tried, if tried at all, by a Deputy Provost Harsbal, or a military commission; ex parte, an i borne away to the loathsome military prisons of Tuscaloosa, liadisoncr Macon, Sauls bury or Richmond, to languish, fot mouths or years, in disgusting filth and loathsome ver min, in many instances to pine away and die by disease or despair. Par ties,charged with burning rallroad s bridvs, wet e summarily tried by drum heed courts mar tial,. condemned and hang; others, caught running from the conscript guards, shot in their tracks; while theirleas fortunate comrades, who were hunted down like wolves, and captured, were tied in couples to long ropes, and driven like cattle, before the hoofs of cavalry. many times over frozen roads and icy creeks and rivers, often barefooted and bleeding, to be confined in conscript camps of instruction, or tried as deserters, and hung or locked up in rebel dungeons. Thus affairs moved on, and terror shook her black banner over all our land, and to make the reign of terror still more terri ble, a legion of tawny Indians, descendants of the savages who, in other days, were wont to tom ahawk and scalp the early settlers of Watauga, Nola Chucky and liobiton, were led into our mountains and valleys, and put upon the track of the remaining young men. But to their honor be it ever remembered, that theic half civilized, goer Cherokees proved less savage than their pale-faced companions in arms. Peveral regiments of citizens had volnntcered for the rebel service, and hundreds more were coerced into it by the conscription ; and, by the month of 'August, 1863, the remaining'men Ca pable of bearing arms, up to 45 Yeam of age, were called lorDavis, and all, up to 55, were denaandsid by Governor Harris. Simultaneously with these last calls was the advance of General Burnside's army across the pumberland Moun tains towards Knoxville. lloseerans had al ready compelled Bragg to - evactrate Chattanoo ga, and had taken possession of that extremity of East Tennessee. The remnant of-our youth sprang at once from their hiding places, and rallied to the Stars and Stripes, under these glorious Union leadere, and our women and children and old men were tact sole occupants and protectors of home. - More than 20,000 (twenty thousand) East Tennes.seeamarent this hour wearing the uni form,•and bearing the arms or the United States. As Burnside, in September, advanced through Upper East Tennessee, from Knoxville, the Confederates retired before him, driving with them all tho live stock, of every kind, they could ales.) from the farmers, and, from that hour, the work of devastation moved forward with aczelerated momentum. From before Zollikoffor, ten miles above Car ter Station, Burnside fell back toward vile, the Confederates cautiously followieg.- From Bahl's Gip he turned upon them, and drove tbrm again across the Wet saga. and beyond the Virginia line. Again the Union forces retired, and again the rebels advanced, each army supplying itself from the country around. Surging forward and back, these two armies four times advanced and retrograded, widening - at each movement the desolation that marked their track. What the rebels spared the Federuls took, and what the Federate left was appropriated by ilia rebels ; and robbers, who found rallying' points, and secure hiding places in the mountains that skirt the vallies, Came in for their share of the substaice of this plundered people tied completed their rain. Thus our cribs and smoke houses, our barns and dwelliege, have been emptied and pillaged. Oar women and children have been divested of their wearing apparel, and even the webs of domestic cloth In their Jooms, destined for winter clothing, have been cut oat and carried away. > Oar tanneries have fired no better, and the limited amount •of leather', which might have shod a portion of our women and old men, has been seized, and they are left bare footed to struggle through the winter. Believe me, East Tennessee has drank thlfull cup of suffering,'and nothing seems left her but to drain its very dregs. She has sacrificed everything but loyalty and life—she has en dured everything but dishonor and death; and now destitution and famine, followed. hard by despair and death, are already trembling on the threshold of her sad homes—already enter ing-their doors, to complete the sacrifice and consummate the suffering. But through all her trials she has remained faithful ; persuasions, threats, insults, arrests, imprisonments, wounds, stripes, privation)), Punishments, chains and ()confiscations, gibbets and military murders, the clash of arms and the "terribleness of armies with banners," rind all the combined and concentrated honors of internecine war marshaled on her. battle-forn bosom, and hurling; ruin and sorrow into all her homes, have never corrupted her loyalty, nor driven her a line from her devotion to the government of our fathers. Unprotected she was by the government.she loved, interior and isolated, disarmed, before she' could or ganize, she was seized and pinioned by a power that overrode all law, and trampled constitu tional liberty under its feet. Choked down under a reign of terror black as the night of the Robesperrlan dynasty, her proud neck has felt the heel of a despotism more heartless aad crushing than the power of an autocracy, Hoe loyal people, because they could not do other wise, have submitted, for more than two dread ful years, to a bondage their inmost hearts abhorred, a bondage that fettered the soul and sealed-the lips, and all but closed the door of hope. We breathed but to live, and lived to pray "Oh Lord, how long." Thank God, the prayer of the oppressed le answered, our people are almost free, and the grand old banner - floats once moro over our mountain-girt homes. With this cursory glauca at the history of East Tennessee and her people, (which I have hastily prepared for the people of the United swee p ) before them, ;it to left for them to de termine whether that brave and patriotic pop elation shall be left to perish, in their devotion to oer,common country, and fall victims to the wasting blight of- famine, or wheithgr your active benevolence shall rescue and save them. Eeet Tennessee hes tracrieced all she had-for the country. Her harises and mules, her flocks and horde,-her "cattle upon a thousand hills' , have. been_ ffered up—her wheat and. corn are consumed. ger young men, who bare not 4 , a1 , 303 , per i s h e d i n camp and battle-field, are swelling, the 'ranks, of your vietorious armies. She has offered them all, and now her maid ens and matrons, her old men and little chil dren, her widows and orphan babes, are bound pnd on the altar ; already the sacrificial knife is uplifted and trembling in, the band of Famine. May God in his minty avert the stroke and save my_people in this their day of suffering and trial. . While the scourge of this cruel war has thus blighted East Tennessee, its footprints are scarcely visible north of Mason and Dixon's line. On the contraryok degree of prosperity, such as you Wive never before experienced, has poured wealth, unbounded into the lap of the Westeyn and iforthern people. The labor of your agricUlturists has been succeeded by the blessings of a kind Proyidence. Your mechan ics have found abundant employment at re munerative prices. Your manufacturers have enlarged and expanded their profitable opera tions. Your merchants have found their trade lucrative without a parallel,' while the Mine ral resources Of your country are developing untold riches. Whether yorpshall 'render this vat increase of individual a , blessiog or a curse to coq and , Your:children, and your country, is a pnob!ech you are l'eft to solve for yeuraelies. The terribliPtigfoitanes.and miamitles of this tumiturat And:cruel war havooperied, and offer to you a wide field for your philanthroy and christiaa benevolence. Will you enter and sow and cultivate ? Do so, and you will reap a rich harvest of blessing. When .starving Ireland was weeping over her famishing children, as they drooped and died in the relentless grasp of famine, her wail of anguish was heard across the wide waste of waters, and America wept in sympathy with Ireland. Ard while, with one hand, she lifted tip their dying heads, with the other she ministered nourishment and life to the perishing children of the Emerald Isle. Per i:tape no nobler record of national magnanithity and christian charity can be produced from the annals of the world. Bat these pceple were the subjects of England, and strangers beyond the sea. The cry of suffering now comes to the American ear and falls upon the American heart, from the famishing lips of our own people. East Tennessee, from the summits of her rock ribbed mountains, with one band beckons to her rich and powerful sisters of the West and North, and, with a bursting heart and teirful eye, points, with the other, to the desolation that hangs, like a pall of death, over her thirty thousand ruined homes in the valleys below. Will those sisters prove angels of mercy and blessing and bring hope and happiness to those homes again, or leave their former benefactions alone in history ? That your hearts, gentlemen, are ready to respond in sympathy with my suffering people, and that your liberal heeds will open to relieve their suffering with material aid, I shall not permit myself to doubt, especially when I re• member that the magnanimity of your General Assembly and of your feople has never been appealed to in vain. On the occasion of the great fire at Pittsburg. in 1845 or 1846, the lamented Cooper, then a member of your [louse of Repreeentatives, afterwards a Senator in Congress, more' recently still a Brigadier General in the United States service, in which he died, moved an appropriation of $lO,OOO for the relief of the sufferers, which was passed And on the same occasion Mr. Cooper, to quiet the scruples of all as to the question of power quoted from the journals of your State for 1824-5 as a precedent, the record of an appro priation made by. the Legislature of Pennsyl vania, In aid of citizens of Savannah, Georgia, who had recently been ruined by fire. In both those cases your Legislature has nobly taus "lrated the benevolence of a great hearted people, nor will they now be wanting in mag nanimity and active, liberal sympathy towards their mountain brethren of East Tennessee, who stand to-day a bulwark of living fire between your happy homes and the fire brand of the foe, and who are sheathing irr their own brave bosoms the sword intended alike for you. Accept, gentlemen of the General Assombly of Pennsylvania, my grateful acknowledgments for your courtesy in tendering to me the use of your magnificent Hall, and for the kind iodul gence with ,which you listened to my addresi. Penn sylva nia Legislature. ILETOIITLD EXPRESSLY PO& TUB ILULT TELiGRAPII SENATE. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6, 1864. The Senate met at 11 A. N. Speaker PENNEY in the Chair. The Journal of yesterday was read and ap proved. Mr. JOHNSON, on leave, read in place a bill, entitled "An act defining the time to submit to the people of the Commonwealth for their approval or rejection certain amendments to the Constitution." Laid on the table. Mr. CONNELL asked leave to read is place a bill, entitled "An aot to provide bounties for volunteers from Pennsylvania." • Leave' was retried by a vote of 16 to •16. LOWItY offered the following -resolu tions: - Wrtmas, The Union men in the Senate of Penniylvania were iti elear-majority- until one of their number; Major Harry White, Senator from Indiana, was captured by our common enemy; therefore, Resolved, That the patriotism of Harry White •shall not be taken advantage of to prevent the complete• orgaaiation of this body, but that the Speaker elected at the close of the session of 1863 be recognized as the duly elected Speaker of the Senate until such time as Sena tor White shall be released -from captivity or a successor be elected from his Senatorial district, at which time it would be proper for -the pre sent Speaker to resign and that a new election for Speaker be held thltn. The Sanate refused to proceed to a second reading and consideration of till resOlution by a vote of 16 to 16. Mr. CONNELT, offered the following resole tion: Resolved, That the Senate having repeatedly decided by ballot not to change the Speaker, it will now proceed with the ordinary business of the session. The Senate refused to proceed to a second reading and consideration of the resolution by a vote of 16, yeas to 16 nap. Mr. LOWRY offered the following resolu tion: • Resolved by the Senate, That the thanks of the loyal people of Pennsylvania are due and are hereby tendered to Gen. U. S Grant and the officers and soldiers serving under him, for the series of gallant services and glorious victories resulting in the liberation of the faithful Union people of East Tennessee from a military des potism more galling than ever_vras that of Great Britain. The Senate refused to read the resolution a second time by a vote of 16 yeas to 16 nays. On motion of Mr. ItEILLY, the. Senate pro ceeded to a ballot for Speaker, the vote being the-same as yesterday,.l6 for. Clymer, and 16 for Penney. Several subsequent ballots were taken with the same result. The Senate entered into a lengthy discussion ott the posture of affairs, participated. in Aty Messrs. CLYMER, WAISAOS, Tuauxu, Lowey, CuaainiXYS, Fraurutu and _McCaunr.gss, but without coming to any organization. Adjourned. 14.01:TSE OF REPiItiI3,F4ITATIVIgi - WIDNISDAY, Jan. 6, 1863. The'llowe met at 11 o'clock and was opened with prayer by l(ev. J. Walker Jackson. The House then proceeded to the election of officers when the following were chosen: Chief Clerk—A. W. Benedict - Assistant Clerk—James C. Brovv. Sergeant- at-Arras—James' , Sabers . Doorkeeper--Jainesr F. McJunkin. MesEenget—Jatnes C. Stnrdivant -Thatmaster-11 W. Stewart. On motion of Mr. SMITH, (Philadelphia,) it wee Rasoked, That the- number of officers in the several departments of the House of Represen • itativca be the same 68 last year. • - On nifbtion of Mr. ALLEMAN, it was Resolvd,•That the Speaker-of the House of Representatives invite the clergy of Harris burg to open the daily_sessions of the House with prayer. • On motion of Mr. OLMSTEAD,--it Was k Resolved, That the Speaker be authorised to increase the Members of such of the standing committees of the House as in his judgment 'fi acet fiftay seem een.necessary--in no case, however, to eld On motion of Mr. COCHRAN, (Erie )•a reso lution gas adopted requesting the qovernor to return, without his aprifeval, a hill,cntitled An act to author-4e the Const3f Qllerree &ton. of Erie coputi" to-appoint Vieweilis . to view and Jay outa road from-the east-end of Third street, inAble-boroughiof-Waterford, in the count* of Erie, to the depot of the Philadelphia and Erie railroad, passed April 10th, 1863. Mr. SMITH (of Philadelphia) read in place an act to pay the Chief Clerk, A.salataAt Ohjrks and other retiring officers of the Senate and House of Rbpnesentativea. Pfusecd finally. After tho readiciF in place of several other bile, the Howie Adjourned. TeCegraA. Important from Washington. 'WASHINGTON, Tan. 6 The Herald's correspondent with the Army of the Potomac, under date cf 6tb,saya the readers of that paper may look once more for stirring news from the Army of the Potomac I need not say what is to ba the nature of the intelli gence, and would not do to if I could. It is sufficient to add in this connection that there will be as much ot more excitement in this army dining the ensuing three or four months as in any other department. The Herald has its correspondents. Guerrillas have not ceased their annoyances. Lt-t night Lieutenant James Smith, of the gOtit New York Volunteers, Provost Marshal at Bealton, was shot at between that point and the army headquarters. One of Kilpatrick's dis patch bearers was either captured or killed be tween Stevensburg and 'Warrenton Junction: The weather to-day has been mild and plea sant, but this evening it is quite cold again. The Star says that Genpral Stoneman, who has lately been relieved from the direction of the cavalry bureau in this city, has been ordered to report to . General Grant at Knoxville for duty in the portion of his army in that vicinity. THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST 810 HO FOLDIENS TB.O EBB TO DIATU--TUB =BBL O BN. YONREBTI--GeN. ottrgesam PUTISIIENO The steamers Duke d'Argyle, from New Orleans, and Hillman, from Memphis, arrived at this port to day. The thermometer stood at 10 degrees below zero at Memphis on the morning of the Ist, and at Cairo, on the same morning, 16 degrees below. A number of persons were frozen todeath below Cairo, on New Year's eve and ten negro soldiers perished ba Island No. 10. The bodies of thieo memlans of the 52d Indiana regiment were . found on Sand Bar river, six miles above Fort Pillow. Ono of them was recognized as that of Lieut. Edward Alexander. The boats still go up the Ohio river, which is Hllcd with ficating ice ; but the Mississippi is closed above this point. No serious damage' was done to the Memphis and Charleston Railroad by Forrest, when his forces crossed it last week. General Grierson was pursuing him at the last accounts, south of Coldwater. Lee had reinforced Forrest from Okalona. The guerrilla General Richardson crossed OUT lines on the 28th nit., on his - way south. A large amount of cotton, sugar and molas ses has arrived here during the past week, moistly for Cincinnati. The steamer Dike D'Argyle brought 286 bales of cotton, 438 hhds. of sugar and 300 bbls. of molasses from New Orleans. The Hillman brought 238 bales of cotton. Generals Ord, Veitcb, Hunter, Fewler and Sherman:have been here during the past week. The latter is still here, and a' salute was fired last night in hie honor. . ST, DOMINGO. INIGRATION OF NECCIO,r&DORNIUI PROM TSB IMMO SIATIN-BUCOBBB OP TIN DOMINICAN RIMS. NSW YOlOl, Jan. 5. Turks Island papers of the 19th IMpecnber, state that the American brig Lady ofthe Lalke, and the bark Itacca were both wrecked near Turks Island. The Goveriament price of salt at Turks Island has been fixed at 8 cents per bushel. A public meeting had been held 'at George. town, Demerara, where resolutions were for warded to the Governor, favoring the emfgra don of negro laborers from the United States.' Similar meeting; were held in Trinidad and San Domingo.l . Advices to the Turks Island Standard repre sent that the Spaniards are making but little progress. The .town of Samana had been plundered by the Spaniards, and the Wesleyan mission house and chapel burned. The merchants of St. Thomas have closed all accounts with Porto Ric*, Hayti and Cuba, and wilt not transact any further business with three places except for cash. Gandaramtiwcompletely surrounded by the Dominiciane at Rani, and the Dominiciana have erected a-battery which commands the entrance to the harbor of Porto Plata. XXXV.III Congress—First Session SENAIE Wasnoorox Jan. 6. [ Mr. Johnson (Ind.) presented 41 petition from the Friends of Maryland, "Virginia and Pennsyl vania, asking- for exemption from military duty. Also, a petition from Susan W. Hatch, of Maryland, praying for compensation for the slaves owned by her, which had been taken by the military and for which-pay was disallowed on account of her husband. The petition fru referred to the Committee on Claims. Mr. Morgan (N. Y.) presented a petition from, the Society of Friends, praying for ex emption from the draft. On motion of Mi. Uthony,(ll- 1.,) the Senate proceeded to au election of the select committee . on the Pacific railroad. He recommended the following committe: Messrs - . Howard, Chand ler, Collamer, Johnson , Harlan, Trumbull, Sherman,Morgan, Conness and Brown,who were ciNted. **rill offered the following: 4leioltoi, That. the ~Secretary of War be di rected to inform the Pallid° whether the Steamer Niagara chartered by the Qsastermas ter's Department in . 1862, and - reported by a - committee of the 'Suate: to be unfit for the service, has since been purchased by the doy ernment, and if so, by whom and at what price, and whether any claim is made for the original chatter,, and if so what, and particularly what is the situation of the claim. The resoluion was adopted. HOUSE Oh' REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. Kelly (Pa) asked to be and was , excused• from eervlng as a member of- the special com mittee on the Bankruptiluvr, for the reason that his other public duties engrossed all his time. The Bpeaker announced that , the -pending business was on Mr. Brandegetee resolution offered yesterday, for the Appointment of a who; committee of nine members to inquire Into the e - 4.redieney ot constructing a railroad between Washington and New York for postal purposes. No quoinm voting, there was a oali df the House and 110 members tituswered lc' their names. ne -resolution, was adopted --yeas 65, nays 4 6 : On motion of Ifrllldegee, (Conn.,) the committee on,the Distrktof Columbia ins' in-' stractcd to call the attention of the municlpid authorities to the necessity of some mealinre being idopted 'to prevent thi'sinnad of pox in the District of Coluinblig. s ? , Mr. Farnsworth,cll.,) from the committee on Military Affairs, reported a joint resolution ex tending the bounties heretofore paid from the fifth of January to the first of March. The dour market is rather quiet-2,000 bbl. sold at $7 2607 50 for extra family and $8 12 @sB 76 for fancy, including some old stock at $6 60. No change in rye flour or corn meal . There is a steady inquiry for wheat and 6,000 bus fair and good red sold at S 1 6041 66 ; white is very dull at $1 7 9 4 1 90. Small alleE of rye at $1 40, at which figure it is wanted. Corn comes forward slowly and yellow Is In demand at $1 12®1 13. Oits dull at 86®86. Provisions are held with increased &num s. Sales of new and old mess pork at 19322 and hams in pickle at 11k. Petroleum is steady at 30®31 for crude, 44446 for refined, in bond and 64®66 for free. Whisky firm at 93(495. Nsw Yeas, Jan. 6. The flour market is heavy, and declined fire cents for State ; sales 6.000 barrels at $6 20® 6 40 for State, S 7 35(1t7 SO for Ohio, tad 5760 08 10 for Southern. Wheat dull ; 32,000 bus sold at $1 4501 48 for Chicago Spring. $1 46 101. 49 for M;lwankte club, $1 6301 67 for red Western. The corn market has a declining tendency ; sales unimportant at $1 29. Reef quiet ; pork firm ; sales new monist 522. Lard firm at 140134 c Whisky steady at 9209, cents. Receipts of flour 9,000; wheat, none ; corn 10,000 bus. BALTIMORE', Jan. 6. The flour market le dull ; superfine Howard street is quoted at $707 60. Wheat base de dining tendency. Corn very dull ; new yellow Is quoted at $1 1501 17. Whisky closed firm: Ohio sellout 75c. Ccffee dull ; Rio Is quota] at 38.10311/c. On December 10th, 1863, Ly the Ric . . J Walker Jackson, Mr. J. FRANKLIN DIAN ta) A. 0. Bursa; all of this city. Cusp, Jan. 4 On the 6th of January, _44l.vrare Hanwrd, second daughter of Rev. H. Liesman, aged years, 3 months and 26 days. The funeral will take place from the residence of her parents, on Fecond street, on Thursday afterncon, at 2 o'clock. The friends of the bereaved family are respectfully 'writ( d to attend. LOST—last evtning, between Locust Aiwa and the Bcady Rouse, by way of Front and Pine, a FUR COLLAR. The finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving it at THIS OFFICE. janfl dl to NEW BAKERY. . Broad tired, between' Second ad 'Third. HARRISBURG. THL UNDERSIGNED has openrl s new 1 BAKERY, in the Sixth ward, where he to prepared to supply BREAD AND CAKES at a reasonable rate. He will warrant satisfaction to all who will give hint a call. He will Gen his bread at the rate of FIFE CENTS PER POUND, and fall weight guaranteed. jan6 dtf JOHN ALCORN_ A BOY wanted. Enquire of M H. LEE, 69 Market street juke, dlt IXTANTED lIIKEDIATIMY—Ooe or two I' V rooms suitable for two petoons. Addres,i A. B. C., at TEM OFFICE. jan4 d3t,' wANIED—By the first of April, a HOUSE containing four or five rooms, in the central part of the city. Address X. Y. Z., at THIS OFFICE. jan4 d3t, Grand Binary and aWens' Bretz Ball, • To be given on INAUGURATION 1117 R, Monday. Evening, Jan. 18th, in Brant's Halt. ians tjlBB HENRY 0. ORTH, leather of the Piano, Melodeon and Ilona if EMIR reasonable. 15 Third street, betwe,l IL Market and Chestnut streets. jan4 3m CITA IR CANING. AltS. REBECCA SPRINGER respectfully k imj. forms the public and the trade, that eh: is fully prepared to attend to the caning of chairs, sofas, &c., in the most superior manure She has just received a large lot of new ani elegant cane, with which she will be prepare,. to fill any order. Or:Apply in FIFTH SiRkET above Markei jan4 dim* wince or THE Efomusavaa Batumi Connor, Jan. 4, 1864. - A DIVIDEND of Three per cent. oa Thecap L . nal stock of this Company was this day declared by the &aid of Directors, (free of State Taxes,) out of the profits ..of the last six months, payable at the office of the Treastuor Walnut street near Secatid. jan4 atG NEW GOODS NEW GOODS ! P IKRAPNS wanting to purchase Ch; S a tin Presents, call at Mrs. E. BRENIZFAR'S, 78 Market street, and examine her nr,le and w selected stock, consisting of a variety of DOl- China Toys, and also a splendid assortment Head Dresses, avariety o Nets, f Lad Dressles' and Children scarfs, and Tr immigs, eh she will sell at the lowest rates_ Please call and 'examine before purchesin elsewhete. " MRS. E. BBENIZER. TATE OA.PITAL HOTEL. CORNER OF THIRD AND WALNUT STs . Harrieftrg, Penn's. known hous HE undersigned having purchased this 4, e has enlarged and thoroughb renovated it. The rooms have been ro-patnte and papered, and the entire establishment ele gently re-furnished. Bang PleaseAkti9 and ell' gibly located, and provided with every' conve nience, it offers tci the public ail the comfort , o d luxuries of a first class hotel. Trusty w 3.! iging servants always in ners:tedium. A Oh bar an stocked with cbok:o l;rjaors Isere Ache: to the establisbubutt, W. G. THOltrefy J N , „dew di- — ""' praet or . REAL ESTATE AT-PRIP ATE SALE TINE several properties of t l Ae estate of WIL LIAM ALLISON, &enr a ged, b a th e c ity Gr Harrisburg, consisting of on s on Front street and Chestant street, at mit near the .-.7n ner of Front and Cheabint &reel a, a vacant loi on idelberrir street , near Third street, and 19t inns of land attbe %anti! terminus of Market itteeti are offered fot sale. For tams of eat. street ae„._the erakeraignci. Seventh and Noble streeta, znuactophi a. fie2/-dtf] TIiGhTAS COONRiN ANEWSELUM, CORN, A NEW ARRIVAL at no2o WM. DOCK, Ja., &CO Markets by Telegraph. PntL&DILMLA, Jan. 6 111 a r rii iDieb Nrm 2hrrtistmnits. tUanti New 2thontistmtute. WM. BUEHLER, Secretary and Treasuror
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