ailEeitgrapt, Ova PLATFORM THE UNION-THE CONSUL U ELON-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF TkiE LAW. PEOPLES' STATE COMMITTEE. The members of the, Peoples' State Central Committee will meet at the Continental Hotel, in the city of Philadelphia, on Thursday, May Ist, 1862, at three o'clock, P. 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 us may be presented for consideration, A. L. M'CLIIRE, Okurman Joan M. Strumarr, secregaria. Gm W. HAtiminuLT, ) HARRISBURG, PA Saturday Morning, March 29, 1882. RE/NOTION 01 H JONES BRONZE We learned yesterday that H. Jones Brooke, U. 8. Commissary in this city, bad been re jected by the United States Senate. It Is not fur 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 fur 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 weighed. 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 rejectitin. lin this as It may, we are of the opirtion that no more faithful, upright or im partial man has ever had control of the public busittesa than Captain Brooke. When he leaves thhi,city,'he will carry with him the respect of our-people and the confidence of every disin terested baldness man in our midst. Since the above was written, we bear that , . the,nomipatiou of Mr. Brooke wee reconsidered in the Senate, and that he was dually confirmed by the unanimous vote of the Senate. Through the sane source, we are also informed that the rejeCtion of Mr. Brooke was the !result of the misrepresentations of Israel Fainter, one of thole honest beef contractors, who sought to brow-beat Mr. Brooke into the acceptant:it) of such stock as he presented ; and who, when he failed, sought the rejection of Mr. Brooke as a revenglifor the great injury of preventing him froditnikeing on the government. The recut shidn'tiou of the nomination of Mr. Brooke is an honor to the American Senate, and his ulti mate coufirmation the latest and the beet re buke which the hordea of Democratic plunder ers have received from that body. We congratulate Mr. Brooke on the vindication of his character from a vary foul assault eman ating from a still fouler source. A DIPARTKINT or AGRICULTURE.—There are two tuader 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 bonen'', ifs: 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 Comdissioner is required to preserve agricul tural information received either by cones ponderice 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 tendOn4rom Gov. Wright for many years It is tuii,,biterest which has been much neglected by the Government. Bress-C.w. which appears at the head of our editolial 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 mumbling 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 attentirinbe of every member be had, in order that every arrangement may be made for the fall organisation of the party and thereby the success of its candidates at the inswing State election. We trust that the members of this committee will be promptly iu attendance, and that Its deliberations may tend to such an organlaation as will ensure our comple e and thorough success. OUR HOLLIZIAIBMIRG Exmwraze come to ne this week in folltionraing, as a mark of reaps,* for the memory of the gallant Oolonel Murray. DEJIOORACY AFTER GAME We are treated to all sorts of prom lees 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 tul ; while this is being done, we hear of a few members of Congress meeting in conclave at a private board, and over private wine, concoct ing 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, ivhis 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 N'Clellan, making that officer the meabs 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 sis 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 ♦ate correspondence and in conversation with those from Washington who understand the movements of ptominent Democratic leaders in Congress, the plan is at once to rally od Gen. McClelland, and make him the h. d and front of Democratic tactics. This is to be accom plished by opposing the policyof the President, and by such other acts as will in the estimation of these demagognes,• 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 oppcsing the policy otthe admin. istration,without 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 Vallandigham or Biddle of Pennsitvania, applaud 'ail,' man in Congress, the country naturally begins to in quire as to his 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 es 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. Bat when those leaders conspire to base ' that organization on an attempt to antagonise the administration of Abrahain 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. TATTED 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 Sovereigns:" Book 111, chapter 18. . 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 third par ties or neutrals. The following section relates to the slaves of aii enemy :' "SittmoN 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 froni him in 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-4f 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 tialintbleadvantage gained, thus to , acquire a faithful friend. The canton'of Schweita having wrested the country of Glaris from the house of Austria, restored the; inhabitants to their former liberties."— Vatlei, Sixth Am. Ed., 1844, p. 371. To this it is probable John Quincy Adams re ferred in hie famous speech in Congress, in which be 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 sap thet 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 beiugtrue that the States where slavery exists have the exclusive man agenient of the subject, not only the President of the :United States, but the commander of the Briny, 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 instautthe 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 upen any question; bat simply presenting that of one of thimost 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 quistion that is frequently discuses& _ Az niNG* :9rthtli We:Ong SO% .#4t the ITev.y Depmtlent:is.yell advised in vespaiLto themmoirstaiaiinfteiary: possible precaution in the premises. lieurteginanta (Daily etlt.grapt),AititU Tim RZBlail 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 merits which heretofore made the slave states so powerful in all the branches of the govern ment. From the commencement of the rebel lion, there has been no ndstakingtheohjects 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 organised. < 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 be 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 imblilon . 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 bay this property,tand thus purify. the soil which the debasements and idlenesa of slavery have polluted, we are accused ef recog nizing slavery. by.otlering to purchaseite rights of property; thus whatev& this government may do, save it is in•devoting the lives of free white men and spending the money derived from free white labor, there is a party in the north 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 suppirting him while he is in rebellion against the government. Ws 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 nut iaterfeie with that which has been tue 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 pezplexity will be on, whom to wreek their vengeance, whetter It shill fall on those who precipitated the re11:1 , . lion by their rashness, or those who 'prolo its; horrors by their sophestries and their false- hoods ORDNANOB CA.PTIIIM 811101 THI COKIIIIIOII - OP 1111 WAR. —Since the rebellion broke oat there have been captured from the Fed erals, at Manassas and elsewhefe, thirty pieces of artillery. The following Is a statemeat of the number of guns taken from the rebels : Mill Springlntrencbments 10 Fort Henry 17 Roanoke Island 42 Elizabeth City 5 Bowling Green . 49 Fort Donelson 66 Near Bird's Point, Mo 8 Columbus 15 .Fcirt Clinch 14 Pea Ridge 18 New Madrid 67 Batteries on the Potomac 10 Shipping Point Battery 6 E'ansport Battery--- - 7 Other Potomac *Batteries 10 Newbern, N. C , 61 Miscellaneous lO On vessels 6 Total - The list is made up from newspaper sources. Could the facts be more accurately got at, it is prObable that the ,. entire 'number of :cannon, large and small, captured friim ;the. enemy,, would be considerably bicreatied: - j ` ' MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. The flour market is very dull, and it is only , in small way at $6 00 for superfine, $5 25 . for.}extras, and $5 50@5 75 for extra family. Rye FlOur is steady at $8 26, and Porn Meal at $276. Wheat declined 2c.; sales at 4,000 bus. red at $1 82 ; 4,000 bus. sold at $1. , 32; email lots of white at El 88(41 43 ; 4,000 bus. Rye sold at 700. . .Corn is in fair request, and 6,600 bus. yellow sold at 64c.,, and white at 60d. Cate dull at 84@360. - - Coffee dull and prfees rather weak. Sugar and . Molasses un- , changed. Provisions steady—*x. mess perk at $lB 00@18 50 ; baCon - mom ' B kmy green meats selling freely at 637 c. for hams, 6661. c. for sides, and 4-ifjjgc. for' shoulders ; 604 the. and bbis.- lard sold Bs@p3K cheese has advance:l'W' 842181 c. 500 bus. cloverseed sold at $5 26. Whisky firmer—sales of Ohio at 23ic. Flour heavy-7,500 bills. Sold. Wlien. dial. Corn firm-80,000 lins.-soldi inized l s7l3os%. Pork dull—cut muats.,oeady shoulders ‘,44. @foe.; hami6l , 2i79;_ix'uva quiet; .hogs nomi nal!. Lard firm at 7+BB}c.• - Whisky firm-at 230. Receipts Flour, 9,651bb15.; Wheat, 1,294 bus.; Corn, 24,248 bus. Money is in good., denuurd ; there Jis more doing in Exchange at 12 p. c. prem. Stocks lower--111: 641; Cen. bonds 844 • Mich. South ., 281;•-N. •Cin,,b824.-;. Keeling, .411; Mil, and, Miss .;BBl ;4 1 11ginie 81131 88; Mo.A6`sEffitTlnin. Gold C. lir war tr an, B4l - tr. 6. we, 1 881, 923 PIIILIUMIPRIA, March 28. Nsw Yoaa, March,2B. NEW YORK MONEY MARK Nzw TW4 March $ in=z Alarm 29, 1862. Pennsylvania Legislature. MORT= EITILIMELY TOR THE TELEOBAPH SENATE nowt, March 28, 1882. The Senate met at 11 o'clock A. 11. and was called to order by Mr. speaker HALL. Prayer by Rev.• Mr. Marts. The journal of yesterday (Thursday) was partly read, when - On motion of Mr. HUBEI; 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'CLIIHE read in place a joint resolu tion relative to tonnage duties, as follows: JOINT astscannos SIL&TIVI TO To:omm Duna. Resolved by the Swats and Ifoine of Represatta- Siva of the Comownweath or Pennsyloratia, 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. Resoivai, 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 anti 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 thb transaction of some unimportant business, the Senate HOUSE OF REPE&SEN LATIVES. FRIDAY, March 28, 1862. The Rouse met at 10 o'clock, and was called to order by the SPEAKER. TEM APPROPRIATION BILL Senate amendments to the Annual Appro priation bill, paesed 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, might be printed. =nom or All Aar RIZZAIXD The second section of " An Act to reduce the mate of payment for advertising delinquent tax payers, and the collectiun of taxes in Philadel phia," passed at the present session, was re pealed. BILLS CIONSIDRUD Mr. ARMSTRONG moved that Senate bill No. US, with all the apportionment bille now before the Rouse, 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. GELS 2 NA 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. OESSNA'ailsented. The motion, thus modified, was agreed to. HILLS ACT= WPON Senate bill No. 7, an act to authorize the payiment of officers of volunteers, &c.,in certain cases, was consideredineommittee of the whole (Mr. Banana 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. 178, 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. Scsaocur. 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. Haas in the chair,) and reported to the House as negatived. The House adopted the 'report of the commit tee, and the bill fell. sunsuit/ AND KRIS RAILROAD COMPANY House bill No. 202, entitled an act to repeal an act; approvedltli Mandr,llB6l, 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 com mitteei 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 ball-past twelve o'clock, ad journed to re-assemble at three o'clock on Mon day afternoon. • . 403 From Strasburg, V a Another Visit from the Rebel Ashby. .__.~..- SE IS AGAIN REPULSED RECONNOISSANCE BY GEN. BANNS JAOKSON AT EDENBURG. STaassuao, March 28. The rebel Ashby, with four guns, appeared near Strasburg yesterday, and threw several shells into our camp, or woun4ing •one of our men. HIS position was such as to' pre vent any attempts to cut Min off, but our guns drove him away. General - Banks reconnoitered all the positions within several miles of the camp, returning after dark. Jackson is saplaweilto be keeping very pile below Edenburg Most of the people of Strasburg have been :anionista throughout the war, and are so still. .ran agent of the Manassas railroad, who has been hiding in the mbitntains for weeks fo avoid Jackson, has returned, giving valuable aid 'to Gen. Banks. Many of the inhabitants have been reading fOr weeks in the mountains and caves. :All is quiet to-day. • ItiITEDER OF A PRISON WABDW. HARTIORD, Conn, March 28. • el Wehsteir the warden of, } the=B,tatos n, at " In:orderd are trait* ""'" ed to secret a 'a n b person, 1t w 'eh he oom , UMW the deed. - Prom our Denim Bdltlon of Yesterday. From Washington. COXILEIRCIAI INTKELCOIJR&B WITH THE REBEL STATES. The New Legal Tender Notes THE PRESIDENT LED LIEUT. WARDEN. i i ~ ~ ~ ~ i~i I~i ~ ~ ~~~ Capture of Cannon and Shell from the Potomac Batteries. The Secretary of the Treasury has recently issued a special license for commercial inter course under the act of July last, which pro hibits shipments from thos6 ports of the United Stators 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 States, 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 be 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; cember 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 expedition down the Potomac. Adjourned 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 rebel cavalry,said to be the Domphrey's cavalry, numbering fifteen hundred, made their appear ance on the hill. Our men immediately pulled off, alter 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 The Yankee brought up in addition to the two rebel guns, one hundred and sixty 9 inch shells, lorded; 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 Aqua 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 visitity of Dumfries and were sent over to the Maryland shore. ' White refugees also fled their way to the flotilla from day to day. Among the latter is Dr. Eastman, a New York er by birth, and who resided near Dumfries for several years past. FROM ISLAND NO. 10 -*- REBEL BATTERIES NOT ANSWER ING THE FIRE. ENCHIMENTS MOVED OUT OF DANGER The Impressed Tennesseeans DbMandlng A special despatch to the Republica►, 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 °that:Aso:a being rapidly strengthened. That the-enemy is fifteen thousand strong, aid their encamp ment had been moved entirely out of the range of our eons. The rebels are confident of sue ors, 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 begn 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. A specid dispatch to the Journal, from Cairo says that the Mempl is papers of the 22d, stab; 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. The work on the artesian well, inside of the fortress,, has been recommenced for the season. It bee now reached a dap* of three hundred and ..: - A04314 leek, 'the last _hundred of whicli t have been through ttine toughola The steamer Atlantic arrived from New york . 1 1 8 morning en route for Port Borth I • The arriealyagoorerelpsymasters this morn ' haVort nincifijo.ftblhe soldiers. flag of truce wee sent dut to-day, but no news was received from the south,. WASHIROTON, March 28 Br. Louie, March 27 IMPORTS 111011 BZBEL PAZIRS Czaaaao, March 27. Foantass Kontos, Meroh 27 XXXVIIth Oongress—First Session, WASHINGTON, March 2g, IT New Y J C e IE T e p i S y e E 6;:l TE n d 9 t ; the e petition fartherof trek . zens lar e and monopoly of public lands. Mr. WRIGHT, presented the petitio n of citizens or Indiana, in relation to the pc( p oie d tax on spirits. Mr. KING, (N. Y.,) from the committee on pensions, reported a bill to prevent the allow. moo of pensions hereafter to the widow. Briti cl chi aims are established.ldren of revolutionary suldiere, unless the Mr. MORRILL, (Me ,) presented the res o l e of of the Legislature of the State of aline in en I l lation to the recriprocity treaty. Referred. - Mr. FIRISINDEN, (Me.,) presented the remo. ILion of the same Legislature in relati on IO ha ternal revenue. Referred. Mr. Hamm, (N. Y.,) presented a petition that the New York Oauessaan, an oth paper, be allowed the same privileges an the rm m a il ; m the abolition papers. Mr. Watoar introduced a bill for the aboli tion of slavery in the District of Columbia. Mr. Gams, (lowa,) moved to take Up t b, resolution in relation to Brigadier Generals.-- The resolution provides that there be no more appointments to this office, unless as a reward for gallantry in action, &c. He said there were already a hundred and eighty Brigadier Generals appointed iu the regular army. and be thought it safe to say that the expeme to the country from the appointment of Brigadier Generals alone would be a million doge-. H, thought there was no need of so warty B rig ,. diers. We had also twenty Major General;. He wanted it understood that he true opp ose d to the aggrandisement of the army. We had Brigadiers enough, if each had a roper cm. mend, for an army of 7 30,000. He wanted t o know whe Generalsn we were going to stop appointing Brigadier Mr. Wawa, (Hasa.) said he believed then bad been one hundred and seventy Bye Brin dler Generals nominated. The geatlemin should remember that we have a very large army, and have less officers in proportion thin we had in the Mexican or Revolutiew e y wa r e The army must be well officere i a, mik e i t effective. Mr. FRSSENDIZI, (Me.,) said he agreed manu f with the view of Cue Senator from lowa, hitt. , thought the blame was partly with the sebatei in allowing so many. There seemed ttt State pride in the matter, each State 't i ts anxious to boast of the most generals. iC t hat a large paper presented here yesterday. contan.. log a long list of recommendation:, hem th e aldermen, common council, &c., of New y If men could not rely on their own In-1 without the aid of so much recorumpnitt be considered it as rather an evideuel them. We had now a larat r army than c , L. greet ever intended. We had too many now who look well ou review. and will bly fight well if they are given a chano, ‘t : have more men than we want The ..:r.v.ar from Massachusetts contend- that we nand hat generals to command them all. Tne nkt is i; Is extravagance of the greatest kit,d the country with a quarter of a minim tr, , rt men than they can use. Mr. Wnsox (Mass.) said he agreed with the Senator from Maine. He thought tier tt.t army contained 160,000 more men thin ,r need. The War Department ought to leak diately sto,, enlisting and also have the 1111. sands of men who are unfit for duty ditchrzed He thought Congress could unmake G -uerdt as easy as it could make them. Mr. COLLANSE (Vt.) opposed taking up tct resolution at present, as the busit,e-s wee P' , . , •t , for consideration in executive e 3 I: Lo got now so that the President dog- but nate, but he presents the name of A 0 D. recommends IL The motion 153: greed to. On motion of Mr. KING, (N Y., ne hill remitting duties on arms ordered by the :ttirt.3, prior to the first of January, 1662 Re tat,za up and paesed, The Naval Appropriation bill ws= tee the question being on the amttroint,ht •,7 the completion of the Stevens' battery . Mr. Fitesartmut, (Me.,) offered a prof: , eta: no part of the appropriation be tail.utt•!• , l battery shall have been complete a e..: LEE: to the satisfaction of the Secretary it Sir ; aa fully adequate for the purpesei .ur, stniction. is Mr. Thoicesoir, (N. J.,) proceeded w ^, , f10 favor of the amendment. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIYE Mr. SEDOWIOK, (N. Y..) from the t_' on Naval Affairs, reported a joint rebolu:Liii daring it fit and proper that a public edgement should be made to John Erric,E. , %:: the enterprise, skill, energy and played by him In constructinz the h. steamer Monitor, which, under e,iliact 3 E I able management, came co opportuuely t relief of our fleet in Hampton HoidE., I: fended it against the vessel of the enemy ,'2ll. ingly irrerdstable to any other power command, and that the thanks or 12 presented to him for the great servi,:e rendered to the country. The reitilutieLt adopted. Mr. WAHEIBURNE, (Ill.) inquired it th-:.bi;: man of the Committee on inv.th.l r: whether any action had bfien Liken td.4 71 passing a law providing for pensions of deceased officers and soldiers of the t re,o. war. ;-- Mr. EDWARDS, (N. Y.,) replied that a that purpose had already bean r; purre d The House resumed the conEiderAtiou u+, tax bill. New 'Abertimento LIOR SALE.—A large bow window A: door. 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