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/.
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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.
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JACKSON AT EDENBURG.
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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.
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COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH
THE REBEL STATES
The New Legal Tender Notes.
THE PRESIDENT AND LIEUT. WARDEN.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER YANKEE,
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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.
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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. Y.,) the bill
remitting duties on arms ordered by the States,
prior to the first of January, .1862, was taken
up and passed.
The Naval Appropriation bill was taken tip,
the question being on the amendment for the
completion of the Stevens' battery.
Mr. Fisszamint, (Me.,) offered a proviso thst
no part of the appropriation be paid untilsaid
battery shall have been completed according
to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy
as fully adequate for the purposes of its con
struction.
Mr. THOXPOON, (K. J.,) proceeded to speak is
favor of the amendment.
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