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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.
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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
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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
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XXXVIIth Oongress—First Session,
WASHINGTON, March 2g,
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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.
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