i3aitg Ccitgrapl?. OU a ru.,A.TFoun THE UNION-THE CONSIITIITION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. PEOPLES' STATE COMMITTEE. The members of the People& State Central Committee will meet at the Continental hotel, in the city of Alla&lpbitt, on Thursday, May let, 1862, at three o'clock, rk. at., to determine upon the time and place for holding a State Convention to nominate candidates for Auditor General and Surveyor General, and to transact such other business as may be presented for consideration A. K. III.'CLITRE, Chairman. JOHN M. SULLIVAN, Secretaries. Gso. W. HASEMERSLY, HARRISBURG, PA. Friday Afternoon, March 28, 1882. REJECTION OF H JONES BROOKE. We learned yesterday that H. Jones Brooke, U. S. Commissary in this city, had been re jected by the United States Senate. It is not for us to attempt a conjecture of the influence which induced this rejection; because the pro ceedings of the Senate. in Executive session are all sealed to the general public. And yet we will venture to assert that whatever objection was raised to Mr. Brooke as a faithful, upright and Impartial officer, it was based on the mis representation of those who had either sought to rob the government, and were frustrated by his vigilance, or of those who feared his integ rity as they concocted plans for future attempts at fraud. It is well known in this city that Mr. Brooke has incurred the hatred of certain beef contractors, because he sternly rejected all offers which were not fully legitimate and fair, and because he also- refused to receive stock that was unfit for slaughter and scarcely able to stand on the scales to be weigbed. These contractors have been loud in their op position to Mr. Brooke, and may have doubtless abused the ears of Senators, and thus secured his rejection. Be this as it may, we are of the opinion that no more faithful, upright or im partial man has ever had control of the public business than Captain Brooke. When he leaves this city, he will•carry with him the respect of our people and the confidence of every disin terested business man in our midst. Since the above was written, we hear that the nomination of Mr. Brooke was reconsidered in the Senate, and that be was finally confirmed by the unanimous vote of the Senate. Through the same source, we are also informed that the rejection of Mr. Brooke was the result of the misrepresentations of Israel Painter, one of those honest beef contractors, who sought to brow-beat Mr. Brooke into the acceptance of such stock as he presented ; and who, when he failed, sought the rejection of Mr. Brooke as a revenge for the peat injury of preventing him from imposing on the government. The recon• sideration of the nomination of Mr. Brooke is an honor to the American Senate, and his ulti mate confirmation the latest and the best re buke which the hordes of L)emocratic plunder ers have received from that body. We congratulate Mr. Brooke on the vindication of his character from a very foul assault eman ating from a still fouler source. A DZPAIFIHNNT OF AGRIOULTURB.—There are two bills under consideration in Congress to establish a Department of Agriculture, separate from the Department of the Interior. One was introduced into the House by Mr. Lovejoy. Mr. Wright introduced another into the Senate, yesterday, quite different in its provisions. It provides for a Commissioner of Agriculture and four bureaus, viz: a Bureau of Science and Practice of Agriculture; of Natural History, connected with Agriculture; of Agricultural Chemistry ; and of Agricultural Mechanics, Manufactures, Commerce and Statistics. .The Commissioner is required to preserve agricul tural information received either by corres pondence or books, by practical and scientific experiments, by the collection of statistics, by the tests of the cultivation and acclimation of plants, and of their propagation. This great department of national industry has engaged much earnest and Intelligent at tention from Gov. Wright for many years It Is an interest which has been much neglected by the Government. By 21111 Carl which appears at the head of our editorial columns this afternoon, it will be seen that the able chairman of the People's State Central Committee, proposes to convene that body in Philadelphia, on the first of May ensuing, for the purpose of providing for the asesembling of a Convention, at which candi dates for Auditor General and Surveyor Gen eral are to be nominated. Col. M'Clure also announces that other business may be brought before the committee, and therefore asks that a full attendance of every member be had, in order that every arrangement may be made for the full organizatio n of the party and thereby the success of its candidates at the insuing State election. We trust that the members of this committee will be promptly itt attendance, and that its deliberations may tend to such an organisation as will ensure our comple e and thorough success. Ova HOLLIDAYSBURG EXCHANGES come to us tiffs week in full mourning, as a mark of respect for the memory of the gallant Colonel Murray. DEIIOCRACT AFTER GANE. We are treated to all sorts of promises by the Democratic press on the subject of Demo cratic intentions in the thick coming future.— While other people are straining their muscle in the great work of production, fully to be prepared to contribute to the support of the government in the way of taxes ; and while, also, the great mass of loyal men are engaged in various ways, each contributing their mite to the general cause, some In the camp, some in the field, some in the mine, some in the work shops, and yet all striving to be the most use ful; while this is being done, we hear of a few members of Congress meeting in conclave at private board, and over private wine, concoct log plans and devising schemes to re-organize. the Democratic party. Most sublime and pa triotic work, truly ! The principal party to this grand scheme is the shameless apostate and li beller, Vallandigham, who has been so often frowned down in Congress that he is pointed out from the galleries of the House as the most unblushing and audacious dough-face in that body. The plan is said to be at once to organ ize the Democratic party so as to sustain the war policy of General M'Clellan, making that officer the means of opposition to President Lincoln, and using the emancipation schemes of the President as arguments against his ad ministration, and as inducements for the border states to support General M'Clellan, instead of President Lincoln. The design of this plan is to demoralize the Republican party, and, if possible, create divisions in its ranks which will tend to the antagonism of the administration in a manner so 'es to leave President Lincoln completely at the mercy of the Democratic party, and, of course, in that event, leave the free again at the mercy of the slave states. From what we have learned both from pri vate correspondence and in conversation with those from Washington who understand the movements of prominent Democratic leaders in Congress, the plan is at once to rally on Gen. McClelland, and make him the h, r d and front of Democratic tactics. This is to be accom plished by opposing the policy of the President, and by such other acts as will in the estimation of these demagogues, bring the administration of Mr. Lincoln into disgrace. It is not for us to write whether Gen. McClellan is a party to these plans. If he allows his name to be used as a political battle cry by those who have been and are opposing the policy of the admin istration,witheut protest or disavowal of appro nation, he subjects himself to a suspicion from which he will some day find it hard to escape, and which at the present is unbecoming of any soldier. Whenever such men as Vallandighato or Biddle of Pennsylvania, applaud any man in Congress, the country naturally begins to in quire as to hie loyalty and devotion ; and when any officer in the army permits his name to be used as a watchword for assaults on the admin istration of Abraham Lincoln, we have a right to question his loyalty and doubt his fitness to command. Let the Democratic party organ ize if it so pleases its readers, in the loyal states as effectually as it is organized in the rebel states. Such re-organization will prove as fruitless as the rebellion which has sprung from its old organization. It can do no mis chief. But when those leaders conspire to base that organization on an attempt to antagonise the administration of Abraham Lincoln and the officers of the army, as a policy to be pur sued in crushing the rebellion, the sooner the country understands the fact the better, and the sooner the pretension and audacity of such officers are humiliated, the better, too, for the Union and the Constitution. MATTEL'S DEFINITION 01 THE WAR POWER. The subjoined passage is copied from Vattel's "Law of Nations, or Principles of the law of Nature applied to the conduct and affairs of Nations and Bovereigns;" Book 111, chapter 13. In a preceding section of the same chapter, which is referred to, the great publicist discusses the title to property captured by enemies in war when found in the possession of thicd par ties or neutrals. The following section relates to the slaves of an enemy : "Stenos 208. It has been observed (Sec. 196) that we may be obliged, if not externally, yet in conscience and by the law of equity to re store to a third party the booty we have recov ered out of the hands of an enemy who had taken it from him Is an unjust war. The ob ligation is more certain and more extensive with regard to a people whom our enemy had un justly oppressed. For people thus spoiled of their liberty never renounce the hope of recov ering it. If they have not voluntarily incorpo rated themselves with the State by which they have been subdued—if they have not freely aided her in the war against us—we certainly ought so to use our victory, as not merely to give them a new master, but to break their chains. To deliver an oppressed people is a noble fruit of victory; it is a valuable advantage gained, thus to acquire a faithful friend. The canton of Schweitz having wrested the country of Glaris from the house of Austria, restored the inhabitants to their former liberties."— Valtel, Sixth Am. Ed., 1844, p. 371. To this it is probable John Quincy Adams re ferred in his famous speech in Congress, in which he declared the "war power" to extend to the case of the emancipation of the slaves : "I lay this down as the law of nations. I say that military authority takes for the time, the place of all municipal institutions, and slavery among the rest ; and that, under that state of things, so far from its being true that the States where slavery exists have the exclusive man agement of the subject, not only the President of the United States, but the commander of the army, has power to order the universal eman cipation of slaves." "From the instant that your slaveholding States become the theatre of war, civil, servile or foreign, from that instant the war powers of Congress extend to interference with the insti tution of slavery in every way in which it can be Interfered with, from a claim of indemnity for slaves taken or destroyed, to the cession of a State burdened with slavery to a foreign power." We are advancing no opinion of our own upon any questicin, but simply presenting that of one of the most eminent authorities upon the principles of public law, and the construc tion given by one of the most eminent of Ameri can jurists, upon a question that is frequently discu.ssed. TIIE WASHDIGTON Republic of this morning says that the Navy Department is well advised in respect to the Merrimac, and is taking every possible precaution in the premises. p enn 0 113 (luta Watip teitgxaph itibag - Afternoon, Marto 28, 1862. THE 'REBELS make a principle of their part of the fight, however obnoxious their claims may be, while those who are arrayed on the side of the government are asked to fight with out an object, except to persuade the traitors that they are wrong—that they should surren der, come back into the Union and enjoy the rights and prerogatives, patronage and emol meats which heretofore made the ,lave states so powerful in all the branches of the govern ment. From the commencement of the rebel lion, there has been no mistaking the objects of those who control its forces and direct their operations. They frankly avowed in all their declaration of rights, that they fought for slavery—that they opposed free labor—that they denied the right of labor in any capacity to representation in the government, and that on the basis of a slavery influence and principle, the Union should be perpetuated or destroyed. No sane man will presume to deny that these were and are the objects of this rebellion. No intelligent man, who has observed the tenden cies of politics will deny that the slave influence was laboring to extend the Union in a direction where slave states could be organized. For this it was proposed to purchase Cuba. For this Central America was threatened. For this the energy and wealth of this government were being prepared and consolidated. When these purposes seemed to be retarded or absolutely prevented from being realized by the election of Abraham Lincoln, the slave states revolted and the slave holders rebelled. There can he nothing plainer than this statement. There can be nothing more fixed than this determination to make the interests of sla very and those who uphold it, the ruling power in this government ; capable of changing its destiny and purpose when the change will promote their own ends of aggrandisement ; ready to rebel against its authority and strike down its institutions when the action and the deed will subserve their ambition and power. If we oppose this purpose by striking at its animating influence, we invoke the opposition of the political friends of slavery in the north If we propose to end rebellion by depriving the rebellion of its support in slavery, we are ac cused of misdirecting the struggle for the Union to an abolition raid on slavery. If we offer, then, to buy this property, and thus purify the soil which the debasements and idleness of slavery have polluted, we are accused of recog nizing slavery, by offering to purchase its rights of property; thus whatever this government may do, save it is in devoting the lives of free while men and spending the money derived from free white labor, there is a party in the nerth who will oppose all action that may be directed against the right of one man to use the life and labor of another, as a means of supporting him while he is in rebellion against the government. We may fight the rebellion —we may sack towns—sacrifice thousands of loyal men—push our columns amid desolation and dismay through every revolted state—but -we must not interfere with that which has been the prime cause and is now the principal influence of the rebellion. The matter seems so preposterous, that we wonder the people have submitted so long to the imposition. When they do discover how they have been duped, and how useless it was to prolong the struggle even thus far, their perplexity will be on whom to wreek their vengeance, whether it shall fall on those who precipitated the rebel lion by their rashness, or those who prolonged its horrors by their sophestries and their false hoods ORDNANCE CAPTURED SINCE THE COIDEBEOII. RENT or THE WAR.—Since the rebellion broke out there have been captured from the Fed erals, at Manassas and elsewhere, thirty pieces of artillery. The following is a statement of the number of guns taken from the rebels : Mill Spring Intrench meats 10 Fort Henry 17 Roanoke Island 42 Elizabeth City Bowling Green • 49 Fort Donelson 65 Near Bird's Point, Mo 6 Columbus 16 Fort Clinch 14 Pea Ridge Ig New Madrid b 7 Batteries on the Potomac 10 Shipping Point Battery - 6 Evansport Battery 7 Other Potomac Batteries 10 Newbern, N. C 61 Miscellaneous 10 On vessels 6 Total The list is made up from newspaper sources. Could the facts be more accurately got at, it Is probable tbat the entire number of cannon, large and small, captured from the enemy, would bo considerably increased. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. The flour market is very dull, and it Is only in small way at *5 00 for superfine, $6 25 for extras, and $5 50®5 76 for extra family. Rye Flour is steady at $8 25, and Corn Meal at $2 75. Wheat declined 2c.; sales at 4,000 bus. red at $1 82 ; 4,000 bus. sold at $1 32 ; small lots of white at $1 384®1 43 ; 4,000 bus. Rye sold at 700. Corn is in fair request, and 6,000 bus. yellow sold at 54c., and white at 60c. Oats dull at. 84®35c. Coffee dull and prices rather weak. Sugar and Molasses un changed. Provisions steady—sales mess pork at $l3 00®13 50 ; bacon moves slowly ; green meats selling freely at 6®7c. for hams, 5®511c. for sides, and 4447 c. for shoulders ; 500 tcs. and bbls. lard sold ~t B@glic; cheese has advanced to B®Bo. 600 bus. cloverseed sold at $5 25. Whisky firmer—sales of Ohio at 23ic. Flour heavy-7,500 bbls. sold. Wheat dull. Corn firm-80,000 bus. sold ; mixed 57®59c. Pork dull—cut meats steady ; shoulders 4i ®&c.; hams 51®7c; bacon quiet; hogs nomi nal. Lard firm at 74®811c. Whisky firm at 23c. Receipts Flour, 9,661 bbls.; Wheat, 1,294 bus.; Corn, 24,248 bus. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET. NEW YORK, March 28 Money is. in . good demand ; there 1e more doing in Exchange at 12 p. c. prem. Stocks lower—lll. Cen. RR., 641 ; 111. Cen. bonds, 94i • Mich. South., 281 ; N. Y. Cen., 821 ; Reading, 41#; Mil. and Miss., 84 ; Virginia 6's, 88; Mo.,C6's 671; Tenn. 6's, 58. Gold, 11 p. c. prem. 111. war loan, 891; U. S. 6'5,11381, 93/. 403 PHILADELPHIA, March 28 NEW Yomr, March 28. Pennsylvania Legislature. REPORTED EXPRESSLY FOR THE TELEGRAPH SENATE FRIDAY, March 28, 1862. The Senate met at 11 o'clock A. R., and was called to order by Mr. Speaker HALL. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Martz. The journal of yesterday (Thursday) was partly read, when, On motion of Mr. IRISH, the further reading of the same was dispensed with. Several private bills were reported and passed, including the supplement to the city charter of Harrisburg. Mr. M'CLURE read in place a joint resolu tion relative to tonnage duties, as follows: JOLNT RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO TONNAGE DUMB. Resolved by the Senate and Haase of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our representatives requested, to favor a uniform tax upon tonnage as one of the provisions of the general tax bill. Resolved, That if Congress shall fail to impose a general tax upon tonnage, the commissioners to revise the tax law of the State be requested to consider the expediency of imposing a uni form tax upon the tonnage of the State, to be applied exclusively to the liquidation of any debt heretofore contracted, or hereafter to be contracted, for the defence of this State or the maintenance of the National Union. Such taxes to be imposed as to afford every just discrimina tion in favor of Pennsylvania trade and interests, and said commissioners to report on the same to the next Legislature by bill or otherwise. After the transaction of some unimportant business, the Senate Adjourned. HOUSE OF REPHESEN DATIVES FRIDAY, March 28, 1862. The House met at 10 o'clock, and was called to order by the SPEAKER. THE APPROPRIATION BILL Senate amendments to the Annual Appro priation bill, passed by the House, were read. (These amendments considerably reduce the amount proposed to be appropriated. The fiftieth section, providing for the payment of the expenses of the House investigating com mittee, is entirely stricken out, and a new sec tion is added, providing for the payment of the expenses of joint committees.) On motion of Mr. ARMSTRONG, the bill, with the amendments thereto, was referred back to the Committee on Ways and Means, with in structions not to report before Wednesday next, that the bill, with the Senate amendments, 'night be printed. EMOTION OF AN ACT REPEALED The second section of " An Act to reduce the rate of iktyment for advertising delinquent tax payers, and the collection of taxes in Philadel phia," passed at the preeent session, was re pealed. BILLS CO? IDERED Mr. ARMSTRONG moved that Senate bill No. 638, with all the appottionment bills now before the House, be referred to the special committee on that subject, with instructions to report to the same by Wednesday next, and that the bills so reported, be made the special order for Wednesday afternoon, immediately after the reading of the journal. Mr. CE-:SNA moved to amend as follows : That Senate bill on the subject of apportion ment be made the special order for Wednesday afternoon. Mr. ARMSTRONG accepted the amendment as a modification of his motion, provided no other bills were to be considered .before that day, to which Mr. 'CESSNA assented. The motion, thus modified, was agreed to. BILIS ACTED UPON Senate bill No. 7, an act to authorize the payment of officers of volunteers, &c.,in certain cases, was considered in committee of the whole (Mr. RHOADS in the chair,) and reported to the House as negatived. The House adopted the report of the com mittee, and the bill fell. House (bill No, 173, an act to construe the fifth section of an act, entitled "An Act to pro vide for the payment of the members and offi cers, and the contingent expenses of the extra session of the Legislature," approved May 16, 1861,was considered in committee of the whole, (Mr. SCHROCK in the chair,) and reported to the House with amendMents, which were concurred in by the House, and the bill Passed finally. House bill 176, an act to give to justices of the peace of this Commonwealth additional powers, was considered in committee of the whole, (Mr. BEEBE in the chair,) and reported to the House as negatived. The House adopted the report of the commit tee, and the bill fell. SUNBURY AND IRIS RAILROAD COMPANY House bill No. 202, entitled an act to repeal an act, approved 7th March, 1861, entitled "An Act to change the name of the Sunbury and Erie railroad, and to facilitate the completion of the same," was considered in committee of the whole, (Mr. EARLY in the chair.) The committee rose, and the chairman re ported progress? and asked leave for the com mittee to sit again. On motion of Mr. WILLIAMS, The committee was granted leave to sit again on next Wednesday. After numerous reports from the various standing committees, The House, at half-past twelve o'clock, ad journed to re-assemble at three o'clock on Mon day afternoon. From Strasburg, Va. Another Visit from the Rebel Ashby. HE IS AGAIN REPULSED. j JACKSON AT EDENBURG. I=l STRASBURG, March 28 The rebel A4iby, with four guns, appeared near Strasburg yesterday, and threw several shells into our camp, killing or wounEling one of our men. His position was such as to pre vent any attempts to cut him off, but our guns drove him away. General Banks reconnoitered all the positions within several miles of the camp, returning after dark. Jackson Is supposed to be keeping. very quiet below Edenburg Most of the people of Strasburg have been Unionists throughout the war, and are so still. An agent of the Manassas railroad, who has iswn hiding in the mountains for weeks to avoid Jackson, has returned, giving valuable aid to Gen. Banks. Many of the inhabitants have been residing for weeks in the mountains and caves. All is quiet to-day. MURDER OF A PRISON WARDEN. HARTFORD, Conn, March 28. Daniel Webster, the warden of the State Prison, at Wethersfield, was murdered by a re fractory prisoner who bad managed to secret w knife about his person, with which he corni , mitted the deed. .......„,.... 1 6 ..... 7 ; :; ' ' -/ 1: . ,-,.<7-'l.' '. ' • l p . , 5 ..... _ ~. ~. do ---7 _ From Washington. COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH THE REBEL STATES The New Legal Tender Notes. THE PRESIDENT AND LIEUT. WARDEN. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER YANKEE, I== Capture of Cannon and Shell from the Potomac Batteries. WASHINGTON, March 28 The Secretary of the Treasury has recently issued a special license for commercial inter course under the act of July last, which pro hibits thipirrents from those ports of the United States heretofore declared by the President to be in insurrection, without a written permit.— The lincenses do not extend now further than Nashville and intermediate points. Nothing shipped under them are to be disposed of to persons in arms against the United Slates, or to other furnishing them aid or comfort. It is expected that the new legal tender notes will be paid out by the treasury about the Ist of April. The Secretary of the Navy, by direction of the President, has written a letter to Lieut. Warden earnestly and deeply sympathizing with him in the injuries he sustained, and thanking him, and his command, for the heroism he displayed and the great service he rendered in the action of the 10th of March. An order has been issued for the restoration of the mail service between Boonville, Missouri, and Independence, which was suspended in De! comber last, in consequence of the secession war. This important service runs along the south side of the Missouri river through Lexington, &c. The steamer Yankee arrived at the navy yard last night from an expetlition down the Potomac. She reports that on Monday morning two boat crews of the Yankee landed at Shipping Point to remove the guns left by the rebels, but while they were so engaged a squadron of re bel caval ry,said to be the Du mph rey 's cavalry, numbering fifteen hundred, made their appear ance on the hill. Our men immediately pulled off, after securing two guns, one a nine inch Dahlgren and the other a long thirty-two pounder, both being smooth bore, which were brought up to the yard and found to be double shotted. The Yankee fell out into the stream on the appearance of the enemy and bad traind her guns, but the cavalry retired and kept out of range Tile Yankee brought up in addition to the two rebel guns, one hundred and sixty 9 inch shells, loaded; and five hundred 6 in shells, unloaded ; which were taken from the rebel batteries at Evansport. The rebels have left the saw mill untouched and there is sufficient lumber at the mill to make quarters for several thousand men. Two deserters came off from Aquia Creek a few days since who state that large numbers of rebel troops are congregating at Rappahannock where they will make a stand. Contrabands are coming daily to the flotilla. Thirty-seven arrived in one day lately from the vicitity of Dumfries and were sent over to the Maryland shore. White refugees also find their way to the flotilla from day to day. Among the latter ie Dr.. Eastman, a New York er by birth, and who resided near Dumfries for several years past. FROM ISLAND NO. 10. REBEL BATTERIES BATTERIES NOT ANSWER ING THE FIRE. ENCAMPMENTS MOVED OUT OF DANGER, The Impressed Tennesseeans Disbanding. -,..----. Sr. Lours, March 27. A special tlespatch to the Republican, dated near Island No. 10,evening of the 26th says : Only three shells were thrown by the mortars to-day, to which no response was made by the rebels. This evening Colonel Buford sent a reconnoi tering party of twenty men of the Twenty ninth Illinois, down to the Missouri shore.— They arrested three prominent residents, who report that two thousand negroes are employed on the Island and at the batteries along the shore. That sixty-five of the rebel troops, in cluding two lieutenants and forty negroes,have been killed by our shell. That the upper shore battery has been abandoned, but the others are being rapidly strengthened. That the enemy is fifteen thousand strong, and thikr encamp ment had been moved entirely out of the range of our guns. The rebels are confident of suc cess, and say that they have a good road to Trenton and other points, by which they can escape whenever they choose. They have plenty of provisions. Three rebel steamers, loaded with troops, have been watching the shore to prevent com munications from here with the residents. The total number of the enemy's transports is eleven.• Two or three balloon, ascensions have been made by Captain Steiner, but the weather has been too thick for favorable observation. One of the partly finished gunboats was fired at Memphis the other night, but extinguished before much damaged. The new Tennessee levies are disbanding, re• fusing to fight with pikes, the only weapon of fered them by the rebels. Still larger reinforcements are expected by the same route last night. Measures have been taken to intercept this means of commu nication. Bombardment of Island No. 10. REPORTS FROM REBEL PAPERS. CHICAGO, March 27 . Aspecial dispatch to the Journal, from Cairo, says that the Memphis papers of the 22d, state that only one man had been killed in the first four days' bombardment of Island No. 10, who was a citizen of Memphis. FROM FORTRESS MONROE. FORTRESS Mosul, March 27 The work on the artesian well, inside of the I fortress, has been recommenced for the season. It has now reached a depth of three hundred and eighty-five feet, the last hundred of which have been through a fine tough clay. The steamer Atlantic arrived from New York this morning en route for Port Royal. The arrival of several paymasters this morn ing has occasioned much joy to the soldiers. A flag of truce was sent out to-day, but no • news was received from the south. XXXVIIth Congress—First Session. WAPIHINGTON,- March 28 SENATE Mr. Tss EYCK presented the petition of citi zens of New Jersey against the further traffic and monopoly of public lands. Mr. WRIGHT, (lud.,) presented the petition of citizens or Indiana, in relation to the proposed tax on spirits. Mr. limo, (N. Y.,) from the committee ea pensions, reported a bill to prevent the allow ance of pensions hereafter to the widows and children of revolutionary soldiers, unless the claims are established. Mr. MoIdILL, (Me .) presented the resolution of the Legislature of the State of Mine j E , re . lation:to the recriprocity treaty. Referred. Mr. FMSENDEN, (Me.,) presented the resolu tion of the same Legislature in relation to in ternal revenue. Referred. Mr. Hutnts, (N. Y.,) presented a petition that the New York Caucasian, and other papers be allowed the same privileges iu the mails as the abolition papers. Mr. WEIGHT introduced a bill for the aboli tion of slavery in the District of Columbia. Mr. Ganas, (lowa,) moved to take up the resolution in relation to Brigadier Generals.— The resolution provides that there b. no more appointments to this office, unless as a reward for gallantry in action, &o. He said there were already a hundred and eighty Brigadier Generals appointed in the regular army, and he tnought it safe to say that the expense to the country from the appointment of Brigadier Generals alone would be a million dollar , . He thought there was no need of so many Briga diers. We had also tweaty Major Generals, He wanted it understood that he was opp o s e d to the aggrandizement of the army. We had Brigadiers enough, if each had a proper com mand, for an.army of 780,000. He wanted to know when we were going to stop appointing Brigadier Generals. Mr. Wu.soN, (Mass.) said he believed there had been one hundred and seventy fire Briga dier Generals nominated. The gentlemen should remember that we have a very large army, and have less officers In proportion than we bad in the Mexican or Revolutionary wars. The army must be well officered to make It effective. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. SEDOWICK, (N. Y.,) from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a joint resolution de claring it fit and proper that a public acknowl. edgement should be made to John Erriceson fur the enterprise, skill, energy and forecast dis played by him in constructing the iron-clad steamer Monitor, which, under gallant cud able management, came so opportunely to the relief of our fleet in Hampton Roads, and dc• fended it against the vessel of the enemy seem ingly irrmistable to any other power at our command, and that the thanks of Congress be presented to him for the great service thus rendered to the country. The resolution was adopted. Mr. VT/Liaisons, (Ill.) inquired if the chair man of the Committee on Invalid Pensions whether any action had been taken toward passing a law providing for pensions on account of deceased officers and soldiers of the I.reseat war. Mr. EDWARDS, (N. Y.,) replied that a bill for that purpose had already been reported. The House resumed the consideration of the tax bill. Mr. FISSENDER, (Me.,) said he agreed mainly with the view of toe Senator from lowa, but he thought the blame was partly with the Senate in allowing so many. There seemed to be a State pride in the matter, each State being anxious to boast of the most generals. We had a large paper presented here yesterday, contain ing a long list of recommendations from the aldermen, common council, &tn., of New York. If men could not rely on their own merits, without the aid of so much recommendation, he considered it as rather an evidence agamat them. We had now a larger army than Con gress ever intended. We had too many men now who look well on review, and will prob bly fight well if they are given a chance. We have more men than we want. The Senator from Massachusetts contends that we must have generals to command them all. The fact is, it is extravagance of the greatest kind s tddliog the country with a quarter of a million mote men than they can use. Mr. Wilms (Mass.) said he agreed with the Senator from Maine. He thought that the army contained 150,000 more men than were need. The War Department ought to imme diately sto J enlisting and also have the thou sands of men who are unfit for duty dizicharged. He thought Congress could unmake Generals as easy as it could make them. Mr. Cousins. (Vt.) opposed taking up the resolution at present, as the business was proper for consideration in executive session. It had got now so that the President does not nomi nate, but he presents the name of A. B. beciosa C. D. recommends it. The motion was disa greed to. On motion of Mr. KING, (N. 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