Cetegrao. Forever float that standard sheet I Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us., OUR PLATFORM" THE UNION-THE CONSTITUTION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. HARRISBURG, PA Thursday Afternoon, April 11, 1862. TEE NATIONAL FOUNDRY. All the Petitions" and memorials now before the U. S. Senate Committee on Military Affairs, on the subject of locating and erecting a National Foundry, were yesterday referred to a select committee. We can expect, therefore, to hear of the decision of this committee in the course of a very few days, and we can also as certainly expect, if the committee be aoverned by a full and fair knowledge of all the facts and advantages set forth in these petitions, that the decision will be in favor of locating the proposed National Foundry within the limits or in the vicinity of the city of Harrisburg. The advan tages of this locality are of a character at once superior in their mineral, agricultural and terri torial attractions, while our geogr iphical prox imity to the seaboard, safe distance to prevent attack from invasion, short routes, to transport material,, afforded by the different railroads cen tering at and pas•ing this point, with the water communication to all parts of the Union, go to render the city of Harrisburg the locality for the building of a National Foundry. —While this select committee of the Senate are engaged in the examination of the petitions referred to, our citizens should not be idle. The prize is worth contending for, and no labor can be too great to be contributed in order to secure the location of these works le this vicinity. THE REMITS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE, repre sented in the proprietors and editors of the Patriot, persist in their ridiculous questions, simply because they have been caught in their own trap, and nuw desire to escape the suspi cion and odium they have incurred as members of a society that administers oaths which bind men to defend and advocate slavery, even if by so doing they endanger and destroy the American Union. So far as a Loy al Union Society is concerned, of course the proprietors of the Patriot are pledged by their oaths as intrAts of the Golden Circle, to oppose all such Unions, and they are discharging their obliga tions by thus assailing loyal men, and attempt ing to create the impression that other than loyal objects are contemplated by such associa tions. Iscariot betrayed his God with a kiss. The Patriot seeks the betrayal of the Union by a defence, which couples slavery with all its hopes of national and social prosperity. Iscariot died by a halter. Time must complete the simi larity of action and ending, between the arch traitor and the Patriot. This is our answer to its insolence and impertinence. THE VALLEY SPIRIT, the organ of the Breckin ridge Democracy in Franklin county, denounces John Rowe in the most unmeasured terms, and declares that his acts as Speaker of the late House of Representatives, were characterized by unfairness, partiality and lack of judgment. The judgment of the writer in the Spirit, in this instance, is evidently so warped by prejudice and personal hatred, that his opinion becomes entirely worthless. John Rowe, on the con trary, was distinguished, in the Speaker's chair, for dignity, impartiality and 'justice. Those who think otherwise are those who oppose the war to suppress rebellion more than they really oppose John Rowe, but because he has been one of the instruments for their political humiliation, they now hate and denounce him in lieu of their cowardice openly to applaud rebellion. THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND, or rather the slaveholders of that state, are greatly incensed at the action of Congress on the subject of slavery in the District of Columbia. They al lege that if Maryland had known, at the time she seceded her portion of the territory which now forms that district, that Congress would eventually abolish slavery within its limits, such territory never would have been seceded. Quite likely. And if Congress bad been aware of the fact sixty years ago, that slavery would breed a rebellion, that institution would have been so restricted as to have abolished it in all the border states. But it is useless for Diary land to kick against the pricks. Let her sub mit to fate and justice, with a courteous grace and loyal obedience. A DESPONDENT REBEL. —A letter found at Island No. 10, addressed to the Hon. A. M. Gentry, of Texas, is thus prefaced :—"For ob vious reasons, I do not sign my name to this letter ; but you will know at once whom it is from." The reasons are rendered "obvious" by the following paragraph : "I tell you, Colonel, that there is no use in further resistence. We have neither the means nor the men to carry on the war. Our troops are utterly demoralized, heart-sick and home-sick. My regiment las not been paid a cent, and I, who:as you know, am worth in tat dinary times a hundred thousand dollars, am obliged to borrow the price of the postage upon this letter. How can men be expected to fight under such circumstances." A WASHINGTON dispatch of the New York bibs:Le, says: The rumor is general that Secre tary Stanton has resigned in consequence of a difference of opinion between him and the President touchiug the movements of the troops. VALLANDIGHA I j I • In one hundred years from this date, if it is not the case before the lapse of that period of time, the lexicography of the age s will have adopted the term Vallandigham to express, liar, coward and traitor. It implies as much as this at the present time, and we cannot uederstand how the temper of a majority of members of the national House of Representatives, brooks the insults, lies, and impertinence of t his man Vallandigham, who occupies a seat in that body, as a Representative from the state of Ohio. He seems to be constantly on the alert to insult the dignity and decorum of that body, or is ever awake for some pro position designed to libel the national adminis tration or bring reproach upon the national reputation at home and abroad. The country Is sick unto utter disgust with this wretch, and if there are any legal means by which the Hall of legislation can be relieved of his pre sence, the country would hail his expulsion from the House with more satisfaction than they would hail the death of any of his equals in the ranks of the rebel army. His recent as sault on the ex-Secretary of War, Gen. Cam eron, is a specimen of the bitterness with which he pursues men whom he deems unable to en gage and force him to account for his shameless falsifications, because he is removed from their reach. The idea of there being a defalcation in the accounts of the Secretary of War, is simply ridiculous, because no Cabinet officer can draw a warrant on the treasury for any more money than is required to pay his own salary. This Yallandigham knew when he indulged in his insinuation on the floor of the House, yesterday, but the knowledge could not deter him from offering an insult, before the country to one of our purest and most patriotic citizens. Again, we repeat that it is a wonder this traitor is tolerated on the face of the earth, or that he is permitted to mingle in the councils of the brave and the loyal. Like Cataline in the Roman Senate, Vallandigham sits in the American House of Representatives, plotting his fiendish mischief, and as circumstances affords him opportunity, concocting all sorts of hind rances to the glorious struggle for the Union. It is a wonder that some Charlotte Corday, be reft of a brother, has not pursued and destroyed this worse monster than Marat. Brutus slew a man in the capital of his coun try whose lowest characteristic would have en nobled Vallandigham. TIIE Paxawr received another death blow this morning. One by one its hopes depart, as truth and liberty advance. Its principal prop has been shivered,its main stay has been parted, by the glorious fact that Congress has declared that the District of Columbia shall henceforth be free, and now, that the President has ap proved the bill, the Patriot rakes among the ashes for a record by which he can be convicted of self abnegation. The tact that Abraham Lincoln, while a Representative in Congress, I proposed to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, provided the legal voters of the Dis trict approved the measure, is attempted to be used as an argument now, in opposition to President Lincoln signing the bill which pro poses to abolish slavery on the principle of compensation to the holders of that species of property (?). The doctrine of the Patriot is proclaimed in its own words, when it declares that the sum of human happiness consists of the number of negro slaves a man owns ; and because Congress now proposes to remove an evil which is directly and indirectly the cause of the rebellion, the Patriot objects. We can not afford to spend a million of dollars to emancipate thousands of human beings, simply because it renders a few hundred masters happy to hold the flesh and the lives of these beings under their control. This is Democratic doc trine—this is the idea of gradual emancipation so long advocated' by the Democracy ! It is genuine Democracy that one race should hold another to slavery ; a Democracy which the Patriot delights to term the sum of human hap piness and prosperity ; as it tramples the hu manity in,man into the dust, and seals his soul against all that could possibly enlighten it for salvation. The opposition of the Democratic party to emancipation in the District of Columbia, is the key to Democratic sympathy for the rebellion. It proves the determination of the northern doughface to resist any measure designed to purge the country of slavery and it proves also the fact, that the object of the Democratic leaders is to make slavery perpetual. "Popu lar sovereignty" in this instance, in the opinion of the Patriot, should have been resorbed to, and the slave-holding traitors of the Distri , . of Columbia allowed to decide for themselveli whether the capital of the American 'Union should be declared free. Of course, these are only a portion of the contemptible shifts to which the Patriot resorts to defend slavery, and thus give aid and comfort to the traitors. Were that journal to pursue any other course, its proprietors would be perjured in their oaths as members of the Knights of the Golden Circle, by whom negro slavery is held as the sum of all human happiness and the end of all political success. MILITARY BILL The following important bill passed by the Legislature, was signed by the Governor yes terday. AN ACT to provide for the adjudication and payment of certain military claims. SSOTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the adjutant general, the quartermaster general and the commissary general shall be a board, any two of whom shall form a quorum, to whom all claims contracted for the subsistence clothing, transportation or organization of one' volunteers, under orders of authorized officers of this State, shall be submitted, with power to take testimony, whose report, accompanied by the evidence, shall be returned by them to the auditor general for his approval or disapproval, whose decision shall be final and conclusive ; and the auditor general is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the state treasurer for the amount allowed in each case : Provided, That no higher price shall be allowed than nas been paid for like articles procured under contract by the State;. And provided further, That so much as may in the judgment of said board be due upon any contract made prior to the fifteenth day of May, Ann° Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, by any military officers of this State in good faith with citizens of this State, may in their discre Ipenuegivartio. Tatty ettlegrapty Qinprsbap 'Afternoon, 'Apia 17, 1862 tion, be paid on due proof of such contract, or so much as may in their judgment be the true value of the goods or merchandise so pur chased. SEC. 2. That such settlement shall embrace the claims for pay of all Pqnsylvania volun teers ; of persons acting in the capacity of officers from the time they commenced to re cruit under the authority of the State, and of privates from the date of their enrollment ; Provided, That no such claim shall be allowed to privates, unless the claimant has been actu ally sworn into the service of the State or of the United States, by one of its own officers, or Dy a regular mustering officer of the army, or By Borne civil officers duly qualified to adnlinis ter an oath ; And provided further, That no offi cer shall be entitled to the benefits or provi sions of this act until he shall file in the office of the adjutant general an affidavit, that he has not at any time received any pecuniary compensation, or promise thereof, for the pro curing of any commission, or appointment of any officer, sutler, or other appointee connected with the volunteer service, or who has trans ferred any portion of the men that he recruited or assissted in recruiting, to any other company, battalion or regiment, for a pecuniary consid eration ; And provided further, That in the set tlement of claims under the provisions of this section, said board shall allow such claims, and so much of such claims as may be present ed as in their opinion may in justice and equity be due for the services rendered. SEQ. 3. That any company or regiment hav- ing enlisted in the volunteer service, and hav ing been ordered by the military authorities of the State of Pennsylvania or of the United States, to rendezvous at any point, and having proceeded to such rendezvous, and shall there or elsewhere have been disbanded by the Gov eruor, or other proper authority, without hav ing been mustered into service, shall receive compensation for such time ; and all claims for subsistence, clothing and transportation of such company or regiment, shall be adjusted by said board ; Provided, That no claim shall be allowed under the provisions of the first three sections of this act, unless the same be presented within one year after the passage thereof. SEO. 4.. That when any volunteer, after hav ing been enrolled and joined his company, shall have become sick and shall have died, or shall have been discharged on account of such sickness, without having been regularly mus tered into service, such soldier shall be entitled to the same pay and other provisions, from the time of his enrollment to his !discharge or death, as he would have been entitled to had he been regularly mustered into service ; and in case of the death of such sol dier, his widow and minor children, if any, shall be entitled to the benefits provided in the sixteenth section of the act of fifteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun dred and sixty-one, for soldiers who may die after having been mustered into the service of the United States or of this State. SEC. 5. That any soldier enlisted in the Pennsylvania volunteers under the act of May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and six-, ty-one, entitled "An Act to create a loan and' provide for arming the State," or who were called into such service under the requisition of the president of the United States, and who has or hereafter may become insane, who has not at such time been mustered into the service of the United States, shall be sent by order of the secretary of the State to the State Lunatic asy lum, at the expense of the State ; Provided, His insanity be certified to by the surgeon of his regiment, and approved by the surgeon general of Pennsylvania. SEC. 6. That all moneys made payable by the provisions of the foregoing sections of this act, shall be paid out of the war loan autho rized by the act of the fifteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An Act to create a loan and provide for arming the State ;" and in case said funds should be insufficient to pay the same, then out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 7. That the said board named in the first section of this act shall also examine and report to the next Legislature in writing the result of such examinations, all claims of citi zens of this Commonwealth who have been en , gaged in recruiting and organizing the volun tter forces of this State for the war, by author ity in writing from the war department of the United States, or from persons thus duly au thorized, according to their designated rank or position, for the time in which they were thus actually engaged, at the rate of persons per forming similar duties in the volunteer service of this State, but only in proportion to the real services rendered ; Provided, That no claim shall be considered or reported under this see tion to any officer who has been paid by the United states for the subsistence of men recruited by him or under his authority, until he shall have satisfied the board that he has paid in full all the debts contracted by him in the name of the government, or in his own name, for the support of such men. SEC. 8. That in all counties of this State where lands or tenements were occupied by troops, the owner or owners thereof, may apply by petition, setting forth the facts, and the amount claimed, with affidavit of the claimant as to the truth of the petition, to the court of common pleas of the county in which the lands or tenements are situated, and upon such , application, the court shall appoint three disin terested appraisers, who shall, within twenty days after their appointment, having first been duly sworn or affirmed to make a just and true valuation of the alleged damages, proceed to view the premises and hear any testimony pre sented or desired by said appraisers, and shall report the sum they find to be due, if any, with all the testimony, to the said court; the said court may confirm said report, or refer it back to the same appraisers, or appoint new ap praisers as may best, in the opinion of the court, subserve the ends of justice; and upon the confirmation of such report, the amount therein stated to be due shall be certified with all the testimony by the prothonatory of said court to the board appointed by the first section of this act, to be examined and reported upon to the Legislature ; Pro vided further, That as soon as the claims named in the seventh and eighth sections of this act are properly adjusted, the above named board shall transmit to the war department at Washington, a copy of their report upon each. SEC. 9. No claim shall be paid under the provisions of this act unless the claimant shall file in writing with the State treasurer an agreement or pledge, that the sum so paid is accepted as a full release and discharge of the State and National Governments from all other or further liablity for, or on account of the subject matter of such claim. SEC. 10. That the provisions of this net, so far as applicable, shall be extended to all citizens or residents of Pennsylvania who have heretofore entered into the active service of the United States, or any other State of this Union ; Pro vided, That such persons have not been, or shall not be provided for and paid by such other State or by the United States. JOHN ROWE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. L. W. HALL, Speaker of the Senate. Approved the sixteenth day of April, Anno Doinini one thousand eight hundred and sixty two. A. G. CURTIN. MARKETS BY TELEuRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, April 17. Flour dull at $5 124 ®5 25 for superfine, $5 37®5 62 for extras, and $5 50@5 87 for family; there is a moderate demand for wheat ; 6.000 bus. red sold at $1 24@1 25, and white at $1 80®I 40 ; 7,000 bus. coin sold at 55c. afloat ; nothing doing in provisions. Whisky firmer and selling at 24(3,2*. 11 t, . A Ano FROM FORTRESS MONROE, ,_ Non-Appearance of the Merrimac SHE IS SUPPOSED TO BE INJURED News from the Southern Papers The Battle at Pittsburg Claimed as a Rebel Victory. kigiDec , c)*•oo44l:4lioAV:l4lol: TOWN, THE SURRENDER SURRENDER OF FORT PULASKI. Its Late Commander Denounced. AFFAIRS AT YORKTOWN. THE REBELS ERECTING NEW' FORTIFI- 0A710..VS ON YORK RIVER Tkeir Work Suddenly Suspended by Our Shell -s- THE BERDAN SHARPSHOOTERS SPREAD ING TERROR AMONG THEIR RANKS. ,--- Supposed Evacuation of Newport News by the Rebels. Union Troops on the Rappahannock The Attack on Forts Jackson and Phillip, Near Savannah, Commenced. FORTRESS MONROE, April 17 Calm weather is prevailing in the Roads and as everything is propitious for the reappearance of the Merrimac, it is concluded that she does not come, because she was injured by being aground when last out. A flag of truce went up this morning to de liver letters and 'dispatches. No news has transpired. Copies of the Richmond Dispatch and Norfolk Day Book were received here last evening. The Dispatch contains a telegram from Beau regard, dated Corinth, April Dtb, stating that he was strongly entrenched and prepared to de fy the federals in whatever numbers they may attack him. lie claims the battle of Pittsburg as an important rebel victory, capturing six thousand federal prisoners and thirty-six can non. The Dispatch commenting on the above thinks the total rout of Buell and Grant as certain. No mention is made of Beauregard being wounded. The same paper says, in reference to affairs in the Peninsula, that no anxiety need be felt as to the result of the forthcoming battle. The Yankees are to be driven back to the Fortress, and thoroughly vanquished by the forces under Lee, Johnson and Magruder. The Richmond Dispatch has some comments on the Merrimac,which it pays spent two days in Hampton Roads bantering the Monitor and the Yankee fleet to come out from shelter of the guns. They claim she is master of Hamp ton Roads. The exploit of the Jamestown, in seizing three vessels, is regarded as showing the terror with which the Yankees view the Merrimac, considering it not worth while to waste any more coal in fruitless efforts to entice the Moni tor to a conflict she returned to her anchorage. The belief is very general here that the Mer rimac received some injury during her recent raid, which compelled her to go back to Norfolk. She was undoubtedly aground on the second day, and may, from the heavy weight of her armament, sprung a leak. She is, however, at the Nor.olk navy yard, and there is little doubt, undergoing repairs. When moving about the upper roads on Fri day last, and exchanging shots with the Nau gatuck, she was very close to the English steamer Race, being at one time close along side. In a conversation with an English sailor yesterday, an experienced gunner, he assured me that the last time the Merrimac fired,either her gun burst or the shell exploded before it left the muzzle. He was close enough to see a great commotion on board, and the escape of smoke from her port boles. The Savannah and Ricnmond papers are very severe on Colonel Olmstead for what is regarded as the poor defence he made at Fort Pulaski._ The garrison had still three months provisions and two hundred rounds of ammunition for each gun, and it is charged that the defence was altogether inefficient. On the other hand, one of the garrison, who escaped, is represented as asserting that the federal batteries contained one gun that would put its shells through the walls of the fort at any point at which it was aimed, rendering the working of the guns al most impossible—that all the barbette guns were dismounted, and most of those bearing on the batteries in a similar condition before they surrendered. The garrison consisted of five hundred men. The rebels have been for several days build ing large fortifications on the Gloucester side or York river about two miles from Yorktown, within sight of our gunboats, but their guns were of too long a Tango to allow of the ap proach of the boats to shell the works. About one thousand men were at work on the fortifications and the mortars were not of sufficient range to check the operations. Yesterday morning, however, the gunboat Salayo arrived, having a heavy 100 pound rifled Parrott gun, and at once opened upon them with shell, which were so well aimed that they could be seen falling in their midst and explo ding with fatal effect. The rebels could be distinctly seen carrying off their killed and wounded, and in the course of two hours the work was entirely suspended, the men retiring ont of range. At every attempt to renew their work, they were driven back. Up to nightfall, the guns mounted by the enemy on the York town side of the river number not less than fifty 100-pounders, some of which are rifled, bearing directly on the bar. Our gunboats are at present about two miles below the town. There is said to be skirmishing along the whole line before Yorktown, and the Berdan sharpshooters are spreading terror among the gunners of the enemy by their unerring aim. The enemy have made several sorties with infantry in the endeavor to capture or dislodge the riflemen, but have been driven back with heavy loss. As to the arrangements for the final Beige we need only say that the work goes bravely on. There was some firing this morning by the rebel batteries to the left of Yorktown, but no damage was done. An extensive smoke was seen rising all day from Newport News leading to the belief that preparations were being wade to eyauate it. It has now ceased to be a position of impor tat,ce. The following news is taken from the Nor folk papers. RICHMOND, April 15.—Both Houses of Con gress have adopted a resolution to adjourn on Monday next, and to meet again on the third Monday in August. Reports have been re ceived here of the landing of Yankee troops at Rappahannock and in Essex county, on the Rappahannock river. RICHMOND, April 15.—Five federal gunboats went to Nobanna on the Rappahannock river on Sunday, and the next darproceeded to Rap pahannock. No troops were landed. It is sup posed to have been a reconnoisance or feint. Official information from New Orleans states that an attack on Forts Jackson and Phillip was commenced yesterday, the 14th inst. SAVANNAH, April 14 The Morning News learns that Jacksonville, Florida, was evacu ated by the federals last Tuesday. They said they were going to Tybee. The town is now in the possession of the confederates. RICHMOND, April 14.—The conscription bill was passed by Congress on the 9th. The Norfolk Day Book announces the arrival of the French frigate Gassendi, with the French minister aboard, and says there was great curi osity manifested, and many surmises on the occasion. The editor says M. Mercier has dispatches for the French council at Richmond, which is the cause of the visit. LATER WASHINGTON, April 17.—The boat which left Fort. ess Monroe at five o'clock this morning reports all quiet in that vicinity. The weather was clear and warm and excellent for the oper ations of the troops. FROM WASHINGTON. The Norfolk Bay Book Reccommends the Rebel Government to Propose a Cessa tion of liostilties. WASHINGTON, April 17 The Norfolk Day Book of the 15th says: At the present crisis when the spirit and prowess of the Confederate arms has been so signally vindicated, is it not a favorable time for the Confederate government to propose to the Gov ernment at Washington, a cessation of the the fierce and unnatural strife which has watered our soil with blood and tears and darkened the annals of our country's history. What dignity and sublimity in the proposition coming from the confederate gov ernment now bristling in readiness for the dire conflict which fanaticism and wrong has forced upon nB. Why not say to the government at Washington, we are countrymen and brothers. Come let us reason together. Let us terminate this murderous controversy, and settle our diffi culties without thirsting for each other's blood. Is not the precious blood already spilled, poured out from the hearts of brothers and country men enough ? Are not the hecatombs of fath ers, husbands and sons already made, sufficient to appease the vile demon let loose among us. From Winchester, Va. =I TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE SHE NANDOAH RIVER. Between 40 40 and 50 Privates and Severs Officers of the 75th Pennsylvania Regiment Browned. WINCHESTEII, Va., April 16 Yesterday a large boat containing a number of officers and privates of the 75th Pennsylvania regiment, was swamped at Castleman's Ferry, on the Shenandoah, and between forty and fifty men, and several of the officers- were drowued. Among the officers lost were Adjutant Teatman, Capt. A. Wilson, 3rd brigade Commissary, and Capt. Ward. I will endeavor to obtlin a full list of the names of those drowned on the arrival of the regiment at Winchester. The 75th Pennsylvania was formerly com manded by Col. Bohlen, of Philadelphia, now acting Brigadier General of the 3d brigade of Gen. Blenker's FROM FORT PICKENS REFUGEES FROM THE REBEL CAMP FORT M'RAE ABANDONED Only 500 Rebel Troops at Pensacola =9 Capture of a Rebel Fort on Santa Ewa Island. NEW Your., April 17. The steamer Philadlphia arrived at Ha vana on the 10th inst., from Fort Pickens. She brought nine refugees from the rebel camps, one of whom was a sutler in the army. The party ran away from the rebels, taking with them $lO,OOO id gold and a large amount of confederate scrip. There were only five hundred rebel soldiers at Pensacola. Fort 111! Rae had been abandoned. The fort at the eastern end of Santa Rosa Island had been taken by the United States troops. The'French Ministers' visit to Norfolk BALTIMORE, April 17. The following authentic information relative to the visit of the French Minister to Norfolk, seems to be sufficiently significant to require particular attention. On Sunday morning last, Commandant Gan tiere, of -the French war steamer Gassendi, re ceived a telegraphic dispatch from Richmond, via the government telegraph line by way of Cherrystone inlet, to repair immediately to Al exandria for the French minis 'er. She pro ceeded forthwith, and returned to . Hampton Roads, without even giving the commandant time to visit Washington, and after a brief visit to General Wool and flag otheer Goldsborough, the Gassendi got up steam and went to Norfolk, from whence the French minister was to pro ceed to Richmond. FROM GEN. BANKS' COMMAND. Capture of a Party of Ashby's Cavalry. WOODSTOCK, Va., April 16. Sixty one of hby's Cavalry, including three officers, were captured this morning and brought into Woodstock. They were at their breakfast, just at daybreak, in a church, when they were surrounded by a body of Ringgold's Cavalry, and four companies of infantry of the Forty sixth Pennsyivania volunteers, of Gen. Williams' division. They surrendered without a show of resistance. This affair occurred sev eral miles beyond Columbia Furnace, and with in eeven miles of Mount Jackson. XXXVIIth Congress—First Session; WASHINGTON, April 17 SENATE. The bill to amend the act creating a court of claims was received from the House and re ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also the House bill amendatory of the actanthorizing the increase of certificates of indebtedness. Re ferred to the Committee on Finance. A . number of petitions on the bill were re ferred. Mr. Virmr.v.y (Va.) presented a memorial for the restoration of the Harper'a Ferry Armory. Mr. Ham, (N. H.,) from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a joint resolution ap propriating $7,000 for the relief of the officers and privates of the marine battalion who lost their personal effects on the Port Royal expedi tion in November last. Passed. The bill to prescribe the qualification of elec tors in the District of Columbia by administer ing the oath of allegiance to the government, and of past loyalty at the municipal election to all persons who may be challenged on the charge of disloyalty, was taken up. Mr. Sustura, (Mass.,) inquired if an addition to the bill should not be made, giving loyal citizens who have resided here six months the right to vote. There was a disloyal community here, and he favored such an amendment. Mr. Gums, (lowa,) preferred the bill as it stood. The oath prescribed in the bill was the same ac was provided by the State of Maryland for her electors. The bill was passed. The House bill for the establishment of a Department of Agriculture was taken up, and the Senate committee's amendment agreed to. It provides for a bureau inde endent of the Interior Department, with a commissioner and assistants who are to obtain and diffuse agri cultural information. Mr. WRIGHT, (Ind.,) offered a substitute f,l . the bill providing for an agricultural, statisti cal and commercial bureau. He briefly reca pitulated the changes produced in agricultural products by the war, and instancy d that sugar cane and tobacco were being raise.' in the west since the products of the South had ceased to come North. He believed that we had less agricultural statistics of this country than of any other, and we depended too much on the States or the often inaccurate information of the local press. A bureau of statistics on agriculture would prove t be the greatest benefit to the country. The present bureau had descended to the mere distribution of seeds, two-thirds of which are useless to the people. Able scientific men were needed at the heads of these bureas. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Chaplain Stockton in hie prayer, returned thanks for the abolition of slavery in the Dis trict of Columbia, regarding it as a divine in tervention. The House resumed the consideration of the bill adversely reported on from the Committee on the Judiciary, upon the subjects of the lib. eration of the slaves of rebels and confiscation of their Oroperty. The pending motion was on tabling these sixteen tills, half of them had beds read through when the Hons., evidently indisposed to take further action to-day, then went into committee of the whole on the state of the Union on the Pacific railr,ad bill. Mr. LOVEJOY, (Ill.,) expressing his opposition, said the bill was a patchwork got up on the plan of log rolling, to suit six, eight, nine or ten railroad companies. THE SHIP YORKTOWN The shin Yorktown, which was reported in the foreign news as having been burnt by a pirate, is now lying at pier No. 19, east river, loading for London. Elia. On the 17th inst., Mr. Hexer Crstax, In the 29th year of his age. [Due notice of the time of the funeral will be given.] Ca Thursday, April 17th, at 12 it., Detitar. Jona, Second sou of J. S. and R. Z. ROYAL, aged 11 years, 5 months and 17 days. [Due relics wilt I e given of the funeral.] New abnertistntents. NOIICE TO ADVERTISERS.—AII Ad vertisements, Business Notices, Mar riages, Deaths, &c., to secure insertion in the TELEGRAPH, must invariably be accompanied with the CASH. ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER'S OETIOE, U. S. A. [ Harrisburg, Aprill7, 18G2. f PROPOSALS will be received at this office, until Thursday, May 1, 1862, for ONE HUNDRED AND TEN HOMES, SUITABLE FOR ARTILLERY, from 1571 to 17 hands high, between 6 and 9 years of age, of dark colors, free from all de fects, well broken to harness, and to weigh not less than 1,100 pounds. Every horse offered that does not conform to the specifications above, will be rejected. The Government reserves the right to reject all bids deemed unreasonable. E. C. WILSON, apll7-td. Capt. and A. Q. M. (vol.) 11. S. A ASSIGNEES' SALE SOLOMON LOUDENSLAGER of the borough of Gratz, in the (minty of Pauphia and State of Pennsylvania, has made a voluntary assignment of all his agate for the benefit or his Auditors to the un derag,ned. All persona indebted are rapes:ad to make immediate payment, and those having clams or demands against sal i Solemon Loude sohlager, will make known the same without d.lay to JACOB MILLER and JONAS LOODENSOHLAGEB, At Gratztown, Dauphin county, Puma. aprl7-dit-w6w A LARGE AND BETTER ASSORT MENT OF TREES THAN has ever been presented to the public, will be offered for sale at the market house on SATURDAY MORNING at 10 o'clock, Embracing Evergreens, Fruit, Shade and Ornamental, Vines, :brubbery, &c , &c. FAVORABLE. NO weather could be more favorable than the present for PLANTING TREES, ail kinds and sizes of which can be hal at the KEYSTONE NURSERY, Harrisburg, at prices to suit the times and within the means of the poorest citizens. [aprl6yl J. mIsIL DON'T DEFER PLANTING Cherry Trees. The season is advancing rapidly, and the time for sums-fully removing the Cherry will soon be past. Other fruit trees, such as Appl,, Pear, Peach, Plum, Shade Trees, as well as Grape Vines, Raeoberries, Currants, Gooseber ries, Strawberries, &c., miy be planted later, while EVERGREENS may be safely transplanted as late as the middle or lat ter end of May. All, however, shout.. be planted as early as possible, and there is no Nuisery where better ar ticles can be bad for the ease pros, or to better condi tion than at the IV.ystnne. [arm illy] JACOB Marl LYKENS VALLEY NUT COAL. JIIST received a full supply of Lykeias Valley Nut Coal, delivered by the patent weigh carts. For sale by JAMES M. WHBELFIt. aprl6 WANTED.—A well recommended cOl - woman to do the work o! a small War: Must be a good cook, washer and boner. Apply at 72g Chestnut street. spilt NEW Yom, Aprill7
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