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VHE UNION-TEE CONSITEUTION-AND
THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.
HARRISBURG, PA.
Friday Morning, anuary 10,1883,
PEOPLES' STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
A meeting of the members of the Peoples'
State Central Committee will be held at Cov
erly's Hotel, Harrisburg, on
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22d, 1862, ,
to determine the time and place for holding a
State Convention to nominate State candidates,
and to transact such other business as may be
presented. A full attendance, is requested.
ALEX. K. McCLURE, Chairman
I,lw. W. EiMMIIRSLY, . secretanes.
Jom SIILIJSAN,
Official. •
APPOINTMENTS liY TIIE GOVERNOR.
The following appointments by the Governor
of Pennsylvania, were Bent into the Senate for
confirmatim and approved yesterday.
Hon. Daniel M. Smyser, of Montgomery ;
William M'Clelland, of Franklin, and James
P. Sterrett, of Allegheny, commissioned, during
recess, as Commissioners to revise revenue
laws.
A. L. Russell, Esq., of Allegheny, appointed
Adjutant General, in room of E. M. Biddle. re
signed.
ADJUTANT GENERAL
The resignation of Adjutant General Biddle
has made It necessary immediately to appoint a
successor, and Gov. Curtin has been most for
tunate In his selection of Col. A. L. Russel, of
Pittsburg. Col. Russel has been connected
with the military operations of the common
wealth since the organization of troops, in ans
wer to the requisition of the President, com
menced. While his position did not bring him
prominently before the public, his services
were of a character to render him deservedly
popular with the soldiers, and therefore he
carries with him into his new position not only
the confalence•ef the Governor and Command
er-in-Chief, but also 've.Q. friendship and reliance
of the volunteer: , of Pennriyteg k ia. W e con _
gritnlate General Russell in the'new position
and increased honors he has so fairly won.
THE CLERKS OF THE SENATE. •
I n th e multiplicity otmatter with which our
• • Were , rowia.:l yesterday, we uniittir.
tionally omitted to w.'ke a line refer ring 40
the retiring- and incoming clones or
Messrs. Errett and Ramsdell, the chief and the
assistant clerk of the Senate, retire with a
credit and a commendation unsurpassed by any
of their predecessors, as well for the ability
with which they discharged . their official du
ties, as for the personal courtesy which distin
guished their deportment towards all having
business in that branch of the Legislature. The
chief clerk elect, George W. Ham ersly, has a
large experience in the peculiar duties of his
position, and a reputation for ability and in
tegirity in this capacity, which gives him peon
`liar advantages as an officer of the Senate. He
hair been elevated to the same position oftener
'Win any one single man in the state, a fact cf
'which he can well feel proud, as the most .
positive evidence of his faithfulness and effi
ciency. The assistant clerk of the senate, G.
S. Berry, is spoken of as a gentleman in
every respect fully capable of discharging the
duties assigned him.
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The following correspondence between the
Adjutant General, E. M. Biddle, and the Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, will be found highly
interesting and important, while the resigna
tion of Adjutant General Biddle, will be receiv
ed with regret by all who had any personal or
official intercourse with him during his control
•of this Department. Ha has proven himself
en officer of ability, and deserves much of the
honor arising from the success of the military
operations of Pennsylvania:
ADJIPTANT GMERAVS OFFICE,
Barrisburg, 21st December, 1861.
Dear Sir :—I hereby tender my resignation
as Adjutant General of this Commonwealth.
Allow me to express my regret at this severance
of our official connexion, and to• assure you
that it is dictated alone by business considera
tions.
I take the occasion, in thus parting, to con
gratulate you upon your successful iulministra
don of the State Clovernment,anit to commend
the untiring zeal and patriotic devotion which
you have manifested in the great cause of
the country.
I am, very resptetfully, your obedient ser
vane; E. K BIDDLE.
lb Bit Eneelkney ARDEEw G. CURTIN, Governor of
Penneylvenda:
PCNNBYENTANIA ESECUTIVII CHAIEBIM,
Barrisbury, Tan. 1, 1862.
Darr Sir have received your letter of the
21st ult., in which you tender your resignation
of the office of Adjutant General of Pefinsylva
ola. When you sometime since intimated to
me that your private business made it nem.
*try for you to relinquish your official position,
I Frei you to remain until the meeting of
the Legislature. I would now renew that re
firing:and in accepting your resignation, trust
fast you will not give it effect until the 9th
inst., as by that time I shall be able to present
to the Senate for confirmation the nomination
of your.successor.
The events of the past year have rendered
your office one of great labor and responsibility ;
and I am extremely gratified to say that you
have pe rformed all your duties fully and faith
fully. it is equally pleasant for rue to know
that in this official separation no interruption
has 000urred In the relations of personal friend
ship which have so long existed between us.
Yeti , respectfully your obedient servant,
A. G. CURTIN.
To Cinir. Bown. M. Rama
THE PAY OF OUR FIGHTING MEN.
One of the subjects which is now most seri
ously attracting the attention of the country,
is the manner and the means wherewith the
expenses attending our efforts to crush rebel
lion, are to be liquidated. We all feel that
those efforts, besides costing an incalcula
ble amount of human life and limb, will also
cost an immense amount of money, so immense
already, that the shrewdest men in the country
begin to doubt the capacity of the national trea
sury to respond to the drafts daily presented at
its counters, unless some system of just economy
is established, and the pay of all who are in the
service of the nation, equalized as fairly as
possible, without doing injustice E ither to the
government or those in its employ. As the
system of salary and pay now exists, it operates
with a discrimination alike injurious to the
interests of the government and disgraceful to
the majority of those who are in its service.
This Government pays as ',zilch for ornament in the
shape of those who fIU sinecures, as do any of the
aristocratic dynasties of Europe. This may sound
like exaggeration, but for its truth any man
can be satisfied who takes the trouble to
examine the register of gov ernment employees
in the departments throughout the country,
and then compare the salaries paid to these
people and others who are employed in the pur
suit of private huffiness. ;For instance, twenty
first class clerks (the lowest grade) in any of
the departments of the government, receive
more money in one month, than is required to
feed and pay a whole military company, inclu
ding only the privates. This may seem an un
fair comparison to [some men, but it is the only
light in which we can present the matter to
show the discrimination made in the employees
of the government. .The service of the clerk
is without danger—that of the soldier full of
imprisonment, persecution and death ; and. we
must arrive at one for the other cenolusion, that
either the clerk is paid too liberally, or the sol
dier receives too,small a pittance for his labor.
But the disparagement and the difference in
treatment and payof the soloier is seen in a closer
relation than• that which is borne to him by
the civilians in the pay of the government.--
In the army , this difference is too great to have
any but a deliterous effect on its organization,
and cannot fail always in holding the service in
an estimation far below that in which American
freemen fighting for the perpetuity of the
American government. deserve to be held. In
this contest, particularly, the difference is too
great, simply because the interest in free gov
ernment is equal among all who are fighting.
ils battles, and therefore the pay of all should
also be as nearly equal aspossible. Theargnment
of those who are receiving large emoluments
for oftentimes small service, is that a majority
of officers in the volunteer service have left lu
crative professions and profitable vocations to
engage in the service of the government, and
therefore they cannot afford to fight for any but
the most extravagant Salaries, with perqui
sites and pickings ai incidentals to the increase
of their pay. And yet without disparagement
of the abilities of ajarge majority of the men
ltewjholkling ';.cieiastalissineakie the:4oi.ttlittlr,
-tanks, we doubt if 'there are more thailobAn
twenty ..t„
- were earning by a profeseion or a
a,.
trade at- the' sum
equal to 'that which they .now receive fift
mending officers. • We question if such is the
case, and refer the subject to any of our read
ers, if in their knowledge they know of any such
case. Aud yet we are constantly reminded
of the sacrifices of those in command, while not
a word is vouchsafe for the benefit and glorifi
cation of- the thousands who have given .up
prosperous mechanical pursuits for the nominal
pay of food and raiment. If the leaving of a
profitable profession or business by any man in
order that he may serve his country in an hon
orable position, is an argument that he should
receive alike profitable remuneration from the
government of that country, the .rule should
be applied to all, and not merely to a favored
class. Bverreoldier, officer and private, should
be thus paid, or the pay of the officer should
be brought down to a rate nearer that which is
now doled out to ihe.private.
This sqbje,ctle one in which jthe people are
interested equally as they are in the success of
the government to wipe out all the influences
which.now entourage and-stimulate thurebel
lion in the Routh. Itis a well known fact that
the government is neither struggling for glory
or for. conquest, It is battling for authority
and existence, and while doing so it shou'd not
invoke its own impoverishment, by indulging
the ambition of a taw to the great &swage
merit and expense of the majority. Economy
among the lofty imposition ahould be practiced
before we suggest curtailmeut among those
who are bearing both the brunt and burden
of the contest, and we_ think that while Con
gressis devising ways and means to defray the
expenses of the war, it should also enact laws
equalizing the pay of all, cutting off the per
quisites of all and , saving the public treasure
by preventing those wilo claim all the glory of
battle from appropria%g all' the gold of the .
government. We honestly belive that'such a
reduction and .eqrfalization would promote not
only economy hut increase the morality of tne
army. It is a subject at least worthy
the experiinent ot• legislation, as a teat of the
patriotism of those who are so anxious for
prrTminence in.the,struggle to suppress the re
bellion. It.wili prove whether the aspiring are
fighting for the authority of the land or the
aggrandisethent of their own fortunes.. There
is a justice In it, too, which is needed to make
our future battles for liberty and independence
of that stern and rigid character which can on
ly preserve the law inviolate hereafter.
Tas Amami SENmnvKL states that Mr. Myers,
who was defeated at the last election for mem-.
ber of the Legislature, by Mr. Busby, baying
been two votes behind, has deterinided, or his
mends for him, to contest the election of the
latter, on account of illegality of vote in two
or three instances, and a petition to that effect
was filed with the Prothonotary of A.dams coun
ty, praying the Ckourt to appoint a dOmmissloner
to take testimony on the subject.: Mr:" Busby
is now in his seat hi the goy ie j And will of
course hold it until an investkation &B had.
Pennsylvania Legislature.
REPORTED EXPREBSLY FOR TILL TERM:GRAPH
THURSDAY, Jan. 9, 1862.
SENATE.
The Senate was called to order at 11 o'clock
A. Mt,
Messages were received from the Governor
announcing that he had approved and signed
the following bills, passed at the•last session of
the Legislature:
An act relative to military expenses in cer
tain counties of this Commonwealth.
Supplement for the better organization of the
Militia of this Commonwealth, approved April
12th 1861.
An act relating to judgments and execu
tions.
Joint resolution directing the appropriation
of the money presented, to the State by the So
ciety of the Cicinuati of. Pennsylvania.
Joint Resolution relative to revising the Rev
enue of the Commonwealth. •
Also, that the "Act for the equalization of
the currency of the State," passed at the last
session of the legislature, had not been filed in
the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth
and thus did not receive either his sanction or
disproval.
A memorial and several bills of a private
nature were presented and read in place, one of
which latter read by Mr. M'CLtraz, entitled
"a further supplement to an Act to incorporate
the Gettysburg railroad," was on Mr.
M'Cliraa's motion, taken up, considered and
passed finally. The remainder, of the bills and
petitions were laid on the table.
A resolution that when the Senate adjdurn it
adjourn to meet at 8 :o'clock P. M. next Monday
was offered by Mri Sattarm, and adopted.
A risolntion to print two thousand copies of
the report of the State Treasurer for the use of
the Senate was offered by Mr. CONNIII:, and
adopted, after being amended so as to embrace
the like number of the reports of the Surveyor
General, Adjutant General, Paymaster General,
Qoartermaater General, Surgeon General, and
Auditor General.
A communication was received from the Gov
ernor announcing : that during the remits of the
Senate he had commissioned,' Wm. M. Meredith,
Esq., of Philadelphia, to be Attorney General,
in the room of Samuel A. Purviance re
signed.
The Senate then went into ex ,, cutive session
and confirmed the nomination of Alexander L.
Russell, of Allegheny county, as Adjutant Gen
eral, vice Ed. M. Biddle,' resigned ; also, the
nomination of Daniel W. Snyder, of Montgom
ery county, William Nicholson, of Franklin
county, and 'James P Stewart, of Allegheny
county, as commissioners to revise thn revenue
laws of this Common wealth aisteably to au
act of last session.
The Senate then adjourned until three o'clock
next Monday afternoon.
•HOUSE OF REFRESENTA.TIVEi.
The House was called to order at 11 o'clock
A.M. ' .
A message was received from the Governor
announcing that he had approved and signer,
certain bills passed at the - last stssion of the
Legislature, the titles of which are given in
the Senate proceedings above.
The joint resolution froinAhe!Senatii.provi
'ding for the purchase of a copy of Sutherland's
and Zeigler's Manuel, and Pardon's Digeit, for
each of the members and clerks of the legisla
ture, was taken up, considered and passed,
with a proviso' to the effect that such members
and clerks as have already been supplied with
such books, should be excluded from the pro
visions of the resolution.
At 12 o'clock, m„, the Rouse proceeded to
select - a committe to trrthe of the 4( . 6 . 1 . k ,
tested election la 0....01ana, of B pi
rope, Cu., Iyhofla contested by oche .
Camera, Req.
Hbn. ALEXANDIEIL lirOutzta 11 10% 0 0 shy*
eel of the satins ..gumther. Mr, SOU .22 .) •
and Mr. OISEINA represented his own interims,
After going through the usual forms in such
cases, the following committee,' was selected:
Et. Graham, John A. Sapper, Wm. Devinq,
Joseph Caldwell, B. D. fitrang, Joseph Moore,
J. P: Rhoads, Thos. Craig, and Geo. W. Wim•
A -resolution was. adopted authorisingl
committee to meat at.. 7 o'clock this event
the law Department-Of the State Library.
At one o'clock F. xi. tho'House_.pro . msd:
select a committee to try the case of the
tested electien of Mr. Busey, of- Adams w
seat is contested, by itr.i MYEas.
. .
After going throughlhe usual forms in
cases the following committee was selec
Messrs. Hopper, Hutchnian, Hall, Behr
Whidle, Early, Henry, Smith, (Chester,)
WOlollan.
Mr. M'Cortorony, of Gettysburg, rand
A. S. M'avas, appeared as counbel for
sitting member Mr. Buser, and B. A.
TON, Esq., of Harrisburg, for the contestan
The above Committee was authorissed
immediately after the adjournment of
Rouse.
A resolution to print extra copies of the r
ernor's Message was adopted, after which'
House adjourned.until 8 o'clock next Mo
afternoon.
A Clergyman's Baggage.
The Rev. J. B. P. Wilmer, foriner Bee ; of
St. Mark's Church, in Philadelphia, has la ely
been allowed to go to the South, where
,t is
understood, his heart has long been, along with
a considerable amount of property, acquired by
marriage. He went by Fortress Monroe,wtiere,
owing to the extraordinary bulk of baggage,
it au thought proper to search his person and
his trunks.
.
'According to' the--,correspondent of a, co
temporary, maps, plane, papers, letters and
documents were: - found concealed' in ithe
lining of his clothing,; and folded up In! his
clerical white. cravat: were illustrated papers,
containing Information concerning General
Burnside's expedition. Twenty trunks,; in
which. Mr, Wilmer was taking his por . e
property to Semeste r were opened, ' 'd
ing,. 'dry, goods, groceries, stationery and
- found to contain - a large assortment of ott-
other. articles, quite sufficient to set, up a
small " store"-in a one hornet town of . the Old
Dominion. Among the'effectimamed are fifty
pairs of pantalooru3, forty-eight pairs of boots
and shoes, and five.pieces of heavy grey woolen
cloth, suggesting that the reverend gentlethan
contemplated raising and clothing a company
of soldiers. Among the baggage of this min
ister of God, were also twenty-five gross of but
tons, one hundred papers of needles, fifty; pa
pen of pins, one hnndred and fifty spoofs of
sewing silk, fifty spools of .thread and thirty
one rolls of tape.
Supplied with these and a variety of ether
articles, this servant of the Lord was going on
his way to the dominions of Jeff. Davis. Ibis
was his mode of performing his ministerierrids-;
sion ; currying boots and shoes, as well es the
gospel, to the barefoot and benighteduth
erners ; conveying spiritual ,. comfort an old
Government Java coffee, to the einners_i high
places at Richmond.
.llnfortunately- for 'we
whom he intended to convey aid - and and ' °it,
the Federal officers at Fortreas Mourne mild
not. allow these things to pass. The *red
a l l
person of the reverend gentleman was profi44.-.
by searchers, who spared no_ part of him De
priVed of. all his 'intpedimeraa that weieA ttb
selutely :rugessary for his ; personal use
•, Mr.
Wilmer was despatched to _Norfolk, pr i ow
enjoyfti.4q-PrUteeftlen,• suciXast.l4.l3, of t e fiag
an,
of . the .rebl Confederacy. - -RIG -bagg le ~r e- •
ma_ ins in the possession of ; the_ Provost, ~ • :
',,
at Fertreen gogroe. ,
BY TRIG
From oar Svening Union of Yesterday
From Washington.
Operations ,of the Senate Judi-
dairy Committee
BCCOIIIIOIBB9,IICe Down the
Discovery of a Sub-Marine Battery,
HEALTH OF GEN. M'OLELLAN.
CR/EOES 10/INST GENERAL STONE.
The Senate Judiciary committee are consid
ering the cases of Senators of suspected loyalty.
They will probably to-morrow report against
the right of the Missouri Senators—Johnson
and Folk—to a seat in that body. To day
they considered the case of Jesse D. Bright.
Re made a lengthy argument to explain bow
his signature was attached to the letters which
were addressed to rebel functionaries.
Commodore Foote telegraphs to the Navy
Department, that yesterday he made a recon
noisance from Cairo in the gunboat Fasex, Capt.
Porter accompanied by the gunboats Taylor
and Lexington, Capta. Walker and Shirk and
Col. Webster of the Engineer corps. They
went down the Mississippi to within range of
the batteries at Columbus. While reconnoiter
ing the latter, one of the submarine batteries
planted in the channel by the rebels was dis
covered, which did no harm.
Gen. McClellan was out to-day atttending to
business, but did not extend his labors to the
number of hours usual for him when well. To
night he was exhauated and retired early, de
clining to see his own staff on business.
Gen. Stone has written a letter to a Senator,
in reply to words spoken by him in debate, so
full of abuse and insult that it is highly proba
ble that his name will be stricken from the
rolls of the Army.
The charge of military mismanagement and
the improper employment of his troops, in the
return of fugitive slates, (the last made by Gov.
Andrew,) are not the only ones or the harshest
made -against Gen. Stone. It is alleged
that he holds too amicable relations with rebel
officals across the Potomac, corres
ponding with them regularly and
that he sympathises and protects traitorously
disposed citizens of Maryland living near his
camp, refusing to take forage from such. It is
alleged and is no doubt true that never until
Friday last was the national flag seen to float
over the headquarters of Gen. Stone. Its ab
sence has long been a subject of comment and
unfriendly criticism.
Interesting Southern News.
MORE IffOENDIARIE S.
The People of Norfolk Resisting the
11 ar Tax
Another Steamer Rum the
towitiodkade.
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A copy of the Notfolk Day Book of Monday
has been .received. . It oontaina the following
information :
On Sunday, a saw•mill in our navy yard was
fired bran incendiary: It was, however, ex
tinguished with biatlittle damage.
The residenge and out-houses of Fayette Mc-
Mullen, in Wythe county, Virginia, were des
troyed by fire on Wednesday morning.
Judge Hemphill, ex-Senator of the :United
States - Congress and late member of the
Confederate : Congress, died at t Richmond, on
Saturday, morning.
. Nobody will come forward to take the office
of collector of the war-tax in the Norfolk dis
trict, and H. C. Garnett, the chief collector of
the Confederate - war-tax for Virginia, in a for
m advertisement, threatens to appoint some
one from outside of the district to perform that
duty, which, in this proclamation, he admits
to be odiram-tothe people there.
There have been several fires in Charleston,
S. C., within the past few days.
On the morning of the 2d lost., the ocean
steamer Ella Warley, Capt. Swasey, ran the
blockade at Charleston, from Nassau, N. C.
She was chased and fired on by the , blockading
squadron, without any harm being done to her.
Her passengers were all English and Scotoh,
except B. T. Bisbee, late a Confederate bearer
of despatches to Europe. The authorities of
Nassau forced the United States gunboat Elam
beau.out of the harbor to coal, thus giving the
Ella Warley an opportunity to escape.
FROM FORTRRSS MONROE.
FOR'THINB MOSIROIIi Jan. 8
The steamer o:Mao:Ail:sit from New York ar
rived this afternobri, and is to' sail this evening
for Port Royal.
Judge Marvin; of the Admirality Court at
Bey Weet, takes pomp.
The French - iteamerCruet arrived in the
Roads from NeW York Afternoon.
,
The rebel - batteries at renney, Island have
been practising all day...
--The-steatabost Phoenix has sailed for Port
Royal with mails. Her small Ilise and I.)ght
draft will make Tsar useful:"' ""
The flaneocas has sailed for ,: ratteras.
No Southern papers receive to-day.
THE MARIKTS.
PHILADELPHIA MATSZPITS.
PIIIIABBLPHIA, Jan. 9.
The foreign news has had no effectcn the
flour market. There is a moderate e rt de
mand and 3000 barrels were readily (spoked
of at $5 56456 76 for extra and $6 81}
:@s6,.oo'for extra family. Small sales- or
Rye tonrat $3,75, and Pennsylvaniacorn meal
at $3 00. There is a good demand for wheat,
priceattra_orre---ceut higher-; 8,090-bushels
sold at $1 30 4;41 36 for /led, and $1 40, ®,
1 50 for white. Rye is steady at 93e. COrn is
in fair demand, and 4,000 bushels. new. Yellow
sold if.6B - ®, 69c. Oats are dull at 37 a 38c.
lio•cluingain groceries or provlsiona. Whiskey
is very much- =Battled, and is now held at 26
cents.
- ' • Nag Totur., - San. 9,
,•- • •
Flour quiet ; 2 4,006- 'tibia: sold. Wheat un
changed, Corn firm at 656iti6c. Beer otendir•
Prim _Porkunchauged.• Lard steady at 81{484e,
Mashy firm-Mid-held at 250:;•buyers demand
a. reduction.. Receipts of flour, 12,691 bbls. .
'neat, 1,128 bushels. Corn, 8,088 bushels.
Stocks are. *Ovular. :Mit money market, is
easier. , litealiag,exchange , heavy at - 144, P. 1;1,
premium. ' • -
XXXVUth Congress—First Session,
Mr. Sulam, (Mass.,) having the floor en the I
Trent affair made an eloquent speech. In allud
ing to release of Mason and Slidell, he said this
had been done at the Instance of the British
government courteously conveyed and founded
on the assumption that the original capture
of these men was an act of violence which was
an affront to the British flag are a violation 01
international law. He stated that these men
were citizens, and for many years Senators of
the United States. One was the author of the
fugitive slave bill and the other the chief au
thor of the filibustering system which has
disgraced our national name and disturbed our
national peace. Occupying places of trust and
favor in the service of their country, they con
spired against it, and at last the secret traitors
and conspirators became open rebels while on
their way to England and France to play the part
of embassadors for the purpose of arraying two
great nations against the United States, and
enlist them openly in behalf of an accursed
slave-holding rebellion. They were arrested
and removed from the English steamer Trent
by Capt. Wilkes, of the U. S. steamer San
Jacinto. If he, in this arrest, forgot for a
moment the fixed law of the Republic, and
transcended the law of nations as the United
States have always declared it, his apology.
must be found in the patriotic impulse
by which he was inspired, and the
british example which be could not forget and
which rendered them liable to be stopped.
British precedents the of repeated example of
British cruisers upheld against the of repeated
protests the United States, all vbaSicate the
meet. The act only becomes questionable
when brought to the touchstone of those
liberal principles which the American
Government has always openly avowed and
which other European governments have ac
cepted with regard to the sea.
After further argument in this connection,
Mr. STIMNIIa said in exchange 'for these prison
ers we received from Great Britain a practical
assent too long deferred to a principle early
propounded by our country and standing
forth on every page of our history. The same
voice which asks for their liberation renounces
in the same breath an odious pretentention for
whole generations— file scourge of peaceful
commerce. Great Britain, though practically
contributing to the establishment of freedom
beyonnd all other nations in her contributions
to municipal law has in maratime questions aris
ing under the law of nations imposed upon wea
ker nations, her own arbitrary will. The boast
of rule, "Britannia rules the waves," was prac
tically adopted by the British courts of admiral
ty and universal maratine rights were subject
ed to thespecial exigencies of British interests.
In the consciousness of strenth, and witu a na
vy that could not be opposed, she has put
chains upon the sea. The American commerce
was cruelly decimated by these arbitrary pre
tensions. The belligerent right of search was
employed. and the quarter deck of every British
cruiser was made a floating judgment seat, and
the impressment of American citizens from the
protection of the American flag was counted by
thousands.
Six thousand cases are recorded our De
partment of State, and Lord Castlerugh him
self admitted in the House of Commons that
three thousand five hundred men in the
British fleet claimed to be American citizens ;
that protests, argument, negotiation,correspore
demi), and even war itself were all in vain em
ployed by the United States to procure a
renunciation. Beginning in the last century
the correspondence is at last closed by the re
cent reply of Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. The
long continued occasion of cordlicst.is now hap
.By removed, an4 -- zne' pion dilligppears
.r ever to 174k0 Haiplace among the cirrilositiea
of the past.
WASIDIGTON, Jan. 9
Mr. 13tonisa fortifies his position by numer
ous extracts from American state papers. He
then says such is an authentic history
of the British pretensions and the manner
in which it was met by our Government,
and now the special argument formerly
directed by us against this preten
sion is now directed by Great Britain
againit the pretension of Capt. Wilkes to take
two rebel emissaries from a British packet ship.
He then shows that the American government
has steadily adhered to the policy that only
soldiers or officers could be stopped on board a
neutral vessel, and that our treaties withmlst of
European powers except Great Britain, contain
express stipulations that enemies to both or
either party are not to be taken out of said ships
unless they are soldiers and in actual service of
the enemies, clearly and beyond all question
according to American principles and practice.
The ship waf not liable to capture ott account of
the presence of emissaries not soldiers or of
ficers.
Warms:now, Jan: 8
Mr. Farm, (N. Y.,) introduced a bill pro
viding for the payment of interest in certain
oases on claims against the Government.
Mr. WASHBI3IINN, (i 11.,) a bill to,punish frauds
against the Government.
Mr. 111mm:ram (111.,) a bill to establish an
arsenal at Springfield, 111.
All of the above bills were appropriately re
ferred.
The House then proceeded to the considers
Lion of the bin abolishing the franking privi
lege.
Mr. COLFAX, (Ind.) in explsnation, said the
bill for this purpose has, on several occasions,
passed the Senate, but never before received
favorable action by the Post Office Committee
of the House. It was now reported unani
mously, with one exception by that commit
tee. This measure Would AIR keep open the
communication between Representatives and
their constituents; and save a million of dol
lars to the Government annually, which is an
item of some importance in times like these
when a addition tax has been put on tea, coffee
and sugar. In the course of his remarks he
contended that those who receive speeches and
documents, should pay the small amount of
postage required. In England even the Queen
has to pay her own postage and no man there
proposed that the Franking privilege should
be restored if it should be abolished. *lnathis
country it would never be restored, andithe
people would wonder that it had existed so
long. The Post Office Committee intend tO in
troduce other reforms among themone to collect
postage on the tons of printed matter which
are now carried by express companies. All he
asked was that the bill should have a fair vote.
.[See Eirst Page for Continuation of . .1474.]
THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE
Amen; N. Y. Jan. 9.
The following resolution was intiloduced in
the Assembly at noon to-day :
Resolved, That while the State of New York
is in favor of sustaining the Administration in
a vigorous prosecution of the war, and
has furnished more than her sh are of
men and money for that purpose, she is also
opposed to -seeing:United States Senators and
their Representatives in Congress westing their
precious time in advocating the abolition of
slavery, the emancipation of -the slaves or any
other unconstitutional measures. A dozen
members rose to debate the resolution, but it
was laid over under the rules.
Naw Yong. Jan. 9.
The.ainP . Anglo Saxon from , London reports
George W h eatland of Baltimore accorul officer
losteverboard inngale ow.the fith of Decem
ber..
WASHLBOTON, Jan. 9
SENATE
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house, I house, &c., and vardat t ,, ,, '
Possmion given the Nt ct A ,
Harrisburg, Jan 9. 1962 11
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FOR RENT
THE STORE ROOM, bore l l
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Sto e Room, and I.‘‘ I:I, i;
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A Two Story Brick Dw&1111,..
a floe back bwhhoz. t., .
to the earner of : , ecorl .1d W,
on the first day of am I
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21111 senieutg
BRANT'S HALL!
FOR THREE E\ ENi \ „
THURSDAY, FRIDAY at,:l SA ;1:
9th, 10th and 1 1 tL,
Also Saturday
THE WORLD RENOWNEI ) PIIAL
107ALIST7;', `,`,l
LANCA• 4 II.I:IIE R-I I. 111
Vrom Ntblot' New York, mii-i
of their charm and novi I
Hall. Haring el te,d 4111,1` , " 1.11
aid Academy of Itani,, fsro ,lyn, , .;
Used.
The Cowpauy will appear 01
ttiV r_
Introducing their
TWO HUNDIIEO L
The only Silver Bells ever tuan•l' t. •
The evening's entertonm it a. I
original MUM upon the 11 , 1's. E. , .
Duette, I;umorous and
For Further Particulars g, .21.. •
Tickets 25 oents,Childre_ 15 ctr . ,
Doors open at 13§. Commenees at
A Grand hallow will be g,ven n.... .
for the aecommodation of Faun he:::.: I
dr= &mined to the M tin& for
TeN CENT
SANFORD'S OPERA HUE
THIRD STREET BELOW 7)i.1
Great Success of the New Opera
This new and Beautiful Establi,htw:,t
for the Season, presenting
OVERTURES and
QUES.
In which Messrs. SANFoRD \
HUGHES, EDMONDS, Ilia ix El, i"
and the Great Troupe of d 1111 I
sustain parts.
MISS - JULIA SA FORD)
will appear in her popular F L--
Admission ' (no half-pricei
Orchestra Chairs,
Seats in Private Boxes,
Entire Box,
Doors open si o'clock ; coumm,‘
Win preparation the MUMMY
OPERA OF LA. 8011NAIIDC 1.,
GROTTO MUSIC HALL!
WALNUT BELOW TIED
CROWDED HOUSES NIGHTLY !
Hundreds Unable to Obtain Adiaiizs
The greatest array of Talent r.' •
in the CAPITAL of the KEI-sl, •
EVERY EVENING ! EVERY I'VENi
Composed of MALE and
each one being a STAR in their
LOOK AI THE NINES. BE ILK ii: 0 ii- i iil
Miss ROSA YOLANADT ,
the most pie:L.-it , :
Miss JULIA PRICE,
the Phila,lt•lpLin I 0 ~
Miss MILLIE MARIE,
the; ni.qcin.l:,_ H.,.. --
BILLY CHAMBERS ,
the Chitinpioli
L
OLE BUL D.
the Grea lCK MIERS
test Vitaikt ~i; z 1,.. :•• 1 , : e
MATT GEBLER,
the Prince. of C.,,,,
FULTON MYERS,
the Celebtat,:l 1%". . • l'''''
BILLY WORRELL ,
0 IFIER S
WILLIAMS 1311,
the Great N,a.io cai iir ,
In Songs, Duetts, Glees and Cherii.eF.
Prof, Strade will preside a t the Piano.
Ole Bull Dick Myers, Violia6t.
DoAdialgonsopensiZco'clo- k. -CouifenifsCitiileCOfoct:
FRED. AIMS,
THOILAS FOUNTAL.
p r oprier
orPositively no NV admitted.
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