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THE PEOPLE' S STATE CONVENTION.
THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA, who
desire cordially to unite in sustaining the
NATIONAL AD MINIS [RATION in its patriotic
efforts to suppress a sectional and unholy- re
1::arlion against the UNITY OF THE REPUB
LIC, and who desire to support, by every
power of the Government, one hundred thou
sand heroic brethren in arms, braving disease
and the perils of the field to preserve the Union
of our Fathers, are requested to select rhe num
ber of Delegates equal to the Legislative Re
presentation of the Slate, at such times sod in
such manner as will best respond to the spirit
of this call, to meet in STATE CONVENTION
at FI A EiRISBTTRE, on THURSDAY, the SEVEN
TEENTH DAY OF JULY next, at eleven
o'clock, on said day to nominate Candidates for
tho offices of AUDITOR GENERAL and SUR
VEYOR GENERAL, and to take such measures
as may be deemed necessary to strengthen the
jovetnment in this season of common peril to
-4 common country.
A. K. McCLURE,
Chairman People's State Committee
GEo. W. HAMEESSLY,
Secretaries
JOHN U. SuLtaveui,
HARRISBURG, PA
Monday Afternoon, May 19, 18621.
OBITUARY-BRIG. GEN. IVILLIAIif H.
'The death of William H. Kelm yesterday,
which was appropriately announced in the
MORNING TELEGRAPH - , to-day, was so sad and
sudden in its nature, that the entire city was
filled with deep and sincere mourning. The
fact of his return from his command on the
Potomac, with the announcement that he
was labeling tinder a severe attack of ty
pboi l fever, had scarcely elicited its regret
and invoked for the distinguished sufferer
the sympathy of his friends, before the crush
ing news of his death broke on the city, to
startle the order and decorum of a beautiful
Sabbath day, and fill the hearts of the people
of Harrisburg with unfeigned and sincere sor
row. In this city, during his official control
of one of the Departments of the State Govern
ment, Gen. Kelm had in ede for himself a host
of warm personal friends. The suavity of his
manners, the dignity of his intercourses, and
the frankness with which he received and re
newed the friendships of his fellow citizens,
made him a friend to be prized and a man to
be admired. In his official relation, he was
prompt, faithful and impartial ; and we believe
that in the positions of trust which were con
ferred upon him directly by the people, few
other public officers so successfully managed to
escape the fault-findings and censures of the
jealous and disappointed.
As was fairly stated in our edition of this
morning, William H. Kelm possessed rare mili
tary talents, of that native genius and character
which required only the action of active military
operations to develop in their full force and
power. The fact that this military spirit was
ever alive to the military interests of the state,
proves its strength and the sincerity of the man
who sought its display. While we were resting
in peace, unconscious of the hellish rebellion
which was even then maturing its plans for the
overthrow of the government, such men as
General Kelm were busy in preserving the mil
itary force o 1 the state from utter decay, so that
we may justly trace our effectiveness to resist
the rebellion to just such men as thus labored
for the inculcation of a military spirit. It is
unnecessary for us to repeat the services of Gen.
Kohn in the various civil and military positions
he has filled. He represented Berks county in
Congress, for the unexpired term of J. Glancy
Jones, at the time that gentleman was appointed
to a foreign mission by President Buchalter,.
At the expiration of that term, General Kelm
was elected Surveyor General of Pennsylvania.
It was while in this position that he was called
to the field by Governor Curtin, to assist in
leading the Pennsylvania troops against the
rebels. For distinguished services during the
"three months' campaign," he was made a
Brigadier General by President Lincoln, and
while in this position, he contracted the disease
which yesterday resulted so fatally.
Thus briefly are we permitted to refer to the
facts in the life of William H. Kelm. Briefly,
too, can we thus only refer to the great fact of
his loos; but the epitome of his life will be
hallowed in the psolonged recollections of the
virtues of the mall, the patriotism of the chi'.
zen, and the gallantry of the soldier,
We CosruMMED the name of Charles J.
Ingersoll, in our notice of his death, in Satur
day's issue of the TRI,vGaAPH, with that of his
son Charles Ingersoll, in connection with the
authorship of a pamphlet lately published by
the latter, breathing the foulest Sentiments of
treason and disloyalty. We deem the error
only so far wort by of notice as to state that the
eon of a man who once declared that had he
lived during the Revolutionary war, he would
have been a tury, could not be expected to
write otherwise than Charles Ingersoll has
written in the pamphlet in question. Like
father like son, was never better illustrated
than in this instance
WE um the way in which some of our gene
rals expose and punish the authors of panic
cries and crazy predictions, and who, for this,
have earned the name of "Alarmists." Nothing
is calculated to work more harm than such
practices. They are worthy only of seosation
newspapers, who pant not to do good, but to
make money, and who care little how much
mischief they work it they can profit by their
"enterprise."
IF a new military Governor has to be ap
pointed for Virginia;, as will probably have to
be the case if New Virginia is to be recognized
as an independent State, John Minor Botts is
talked of as being the man for the position.
TAR DECISION OF JUDGE SWA FIVE,
The decision of Judge Sway no, in tne recent
treason case at Cincinnati, was not correctly
transmitted by telegraph. As the report reach
ed us, we were given to understand that a person
furnishing supplies to the rebels and encoura
ging them in rebellion is not guilty of treason.
This is a mistake. James W. Chenowith,
who had furnished supplies to the rebels, was
indicted under the second part of the treason
clause of the Constitution which relates to giv
irig "aid and comfort" to the enemy, and not
under that which provides against "levying
war" against the United Statcs.
Judge Swayne decided that as this clause
was copied from the English statute without
definition, according to the universal rule the
construction given it by the English courts,
prior to its adoption by us, was adopted with it,
and that the English courts had always held
the clause applied—
"Only to those who adhere and give aid
and comfort to foreign enemies, and that it has
no application to those who commit the like
acts in respect of domestic traitors, engaged in
insurrection or rebellion against their own
government."
But while thus ordering the indictment to he
quashed, Judge Swayne want on to sly:
"The authorities which establish the con
struction contended for by the defendant's
counsel, also lay down the t•roposition that the
same facts which make a case within the
statute of adhering and giving aid and comfort
to foreign enemies, when done in resp Pct of in
surlen s and rebels, make the offender guilty of the
crime of levying war against the Government, and
liable to be punished under the other provision of the
statute for that ofense." (8 131. Coin., 62.)
It will be seen from this, that parties who
encourage and aid the rebels do not escape.—
They are held equally guilty with those in
arms against the Government. They are, in
the eye of the law, guilty of levying war on the
United States as much as though they were
shouldering a musket or commanding a regi
ment under Beauregard. There is uo differ
ence between the one who fights the govein
meat and the one who encourage him to do
so—no difference between the southerner who
shots down our soldiers and the mm at home
who justifies and excuses and so emboldens
him to do it.
. While this decision has had the effect of re
leasing- one traitor, it will have the counter in
fluence of deterring other like enemiez, in as
much as it shows that to indirectly aid, abet,
and encourage the rebellion, is to become a re
bel is reality—in fact to levy war on the goy
ernrraent.
WHIM) ENGLAND, through her aristocracy
who control the government, is plotting for a
oretext to interfere in the domestic affairs and
increase the embarrassments of this country, it
is not out of place to remind that government,
at this time, that a day of retribution is not as
distant as some of the British pimps and para
sites may imagine. From the hour of our na
tional birth, down through all the years of our
wonderful existence and progress, the British
government has either been our open foe or
secret enemy. When the minions of that
power could not cope with the American peo
ple in battle on the sea or the land, they sought
our destruction through their literature. When
they could not equal us in mechanical genius,
they stole the inventions of the American peo
ple; and when gaunt famine covered British
soil, the needed succor was asked for and given
by the people of this country. We have a
right to remember and repeat these facts in
this, the hour of British insolence and perfidy.
Every American father should train his son to
remember all this—and the nation should re
member the course and policy of the British
eovernment practised in relation to the slave
holders rebellion, at a time when the millions
of that government are about again to be
pinched with famine. Accounts of this terrible
fact reach us by every steamer from England.
Disguise it as they may, the English people
are now standing aghast at the contemplation
of unprecedently short crops, and already they
are making calculations to supply the impov
erished people of that country from the over
flowing .graneries of America. Thus, while
England was talking about raising the blockade
to procure cotton to keep employed the mobs
of Manchester, she will soon want something
more than cotton to preserve from starvation
the masses of the entire British people. In
stead of bullying as in dictation, tue British
government may yet be on its knees before the
loyal men of America for bread, and then, too,
the question may wise whether they do not
deserve bullets instead. At all events, the fu
ture for England looks very dreary on the
subject of her crops, and therefore we may look
fur a marked change in the policy of that gov
ernment towards this country.
Tin EXTRIMEB Or DEMOCRACY, (of that
modern order which has heretofore so corruptly
ruled the nation,) may be gathered from what
can be called two of the extreme common
wealths in the Union, so far as the interests and
actions of the citizens of each are concerned.—
Thus, the state of south Carolina has always
been regarded as the extreme representative of
southern Democracy. By the Constitution of
that state, no man can be elected to the Legis
lature 'who does not own ten negroes arid a cor
responding amount of land. The action of this
clause in that Constitution is to prevent the
"poor white man" from holding position ; and
it may be clearly regarded as a fair illustration
of the spirit of that southern Democracy which
is now battling to dtstroy the Union. New
Hampshire, while it was controlled by the De
mocracy which now controls South Carolina,
I illustrated the other extremes to which we now
allude. In that state, formerly, by Democratic
decree, no man, but "a Protestant could be
elected to office." These two extremes, the one
still raging, and the other now struggling for
voice and power to assist, in rebellion, are the
best illustrations we have ever had of modern
Democracy.
MAJOR GENDRAL HUNTED., forewarned by the
prediction of ex-President James Buchanan,
that "the Union soldiers would be swept off like
rotten sheep in the Southern climate during the
coming summer," is putting the slaves of
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, to the
hard work heretofore done by the white freemen
in the ranks of the American army.
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News from Southern Papers
PRE REBEL TROOPS CONDEMNED FOR OPEN
ING THE GATEWAY TO GEORGIA,
Tin Roofs and Cotton Sheds Wanted
The Rebels Compelled to take Confederate
Shinplasters.
THE SICK AT RICHMOND.
HE OCCUPATION OF PENSACOLA,
Destruction of the Navy Yard and Removal
of all Moveable Property.
The Macon, Georgia, Telegraph condemnd, in
severe language, the conduct of the rr bel troops
at Bridgeport, by which, it says, the most im
portant gateway to our State was opened to the
, nemy, and possession of all our rich mines and
deposits of coal, iron and saltpetre placed iu
imminent danger. Martial law has been pro
claimed over Uharleston and ten miles of the
surrounding country.
The Memphis Appeal says the govern' at
must have all the tie roofs or cotton sheds in
that city.
Tne Vicksburg, Miss., Citizen of the 9th says
nothing was heard of the federal fleet at Tunca
yesterday.
A large frigate, supposed to be the Brooklyn,
passed Bayou Sara at 9 o'clock, a: nt., of the Bth
going down.
The Baton Rouge, (La.,) Advocate has closed its
doors and suspended publication on account of
the approach of the United State gunboats.
Col. Rosser, commanding the military post at
&leuaphitt, publishes a special order by order of
Beauregard, requiring all banks, persons and
corporation; to take confederate money at par;
and all persons are made to distinctly under
stand that nothing in the least degree c ilea
lated to disci edit the operations of the govern
ment will be tolerated or treated as anything
but dish)) atty.
The Richmond correspondent of the Appeal
mentions, with great pain the large amount of
sick confined in the hospitals at Richmond and
the vicinity.
The Mobile Advertiser and Register contains the
following special dispatch:
PENSACOLA, May 10, 1862.
Al twelve o'clock last night the Pensacola
Navy Yard and Forts were. set on fire and de
stroyed. When the enemy discovered what
was going on, 'Art Pickens opened a furious
bombardment, and kept it up during the con
flagration, but without doing any damage to
any one at Pensacola. All the public property,
except the Caztom House, incapable of being
burned, was moved ; but all the m , )vable Con
federate property has been saved. The railroad
track leading out of the city towards Montgom
ery was torn up this morning.
Federal vessels, with a flag of truce, came up
to the city to-day, demanding the surrerider.
Mayor HAlbe refused to comply with the de
mind, and said that all the military force bad
left and he had no power to oppose. The Fed
eral officer replied that they would occupy the
city to-morrow, but that the inhabitants need
not he alarmed.
From Gen. Halleek's Army
PICKET SKIRMISHING
REBEL GUN-BJAT3 RECONNOITERING
BEAUREGARD RECALLitII TO VIRGINII
BRAGG IN COMMAND AT CORINTH
CARIIIO, May 19.
The Steamer Swan, from Pittsburg Landing
has arrived. Her news is unimportant.
Picket skirmishing has taken place lasting
nearly two days. Tne rebels were driven back,
but not until they bad succeeded in burning a
bridge, over a small stream four miles from
Corinth. Twelve of our men are reported
wounded.
Deserters continue to report a scarcity of
provisions in the rebel camp. Many of their
cattle are starving for want of forage.
Guerrillas infest the country around Hick
man, New Madrid, and other points, committing
depredations.
News from the fleet state. that several rebel
gun boats came around Craighead Point yes
terday to reconnoitre The Bunton opened
fire as soon as they came within range. The
rebel boats retired.
The gun boat Mound City has been thorough
ly repaired and goes down to-night.
Passengers by the Swan give currency to the
rumor that Bragg is in command at Corinth,
Beauregard having been called to Virginia to
reorganize the rebel army in the vicinity a
Richmond.
The Latest from Gen. Halleek—Ae
tive Skirmishing.
BEFORE CORINTII, May 17.—The latest advices
from General Curtis are that his forces are be
tween Learcy and Little Rock, Ark., and are
rapidly marching on the State Capital.
Gov. Rector has called out the militia and
the people generally, and large numbers have
applied to Gen. Curtis for protection, who desire
to come under the old flag.
Thera is a general advance along our lines
to day towards Corinth, much skirmishing and
several severe engagements.
General Sherman's division lost forty-four
kided and a considerable number wounded.
In attacking Russell's humte, which has been
occupied for s , me time past by the rebels wor•
ring our pickets, we succeeded in driving the
enemy from their position back to his works.
Our men are under arms expecting an at
tack.
brNDAY MORIVING.—Among the killed left by
the rebels was one with a . swot d, supposed to be
an officer. Our forces under General Sherman
still occupy Russell's house in skirmishing.
The Bth Missouri i 3 only about 800 yards from
the enemy's breastworks. Several rifles were
captured in the skirmish on the - right. They
were perfectly new and were marked Breeze &
Frieman, Bremen. They are much superior to
the rifles used by our sharp-shooters, having a
range of from 1,200 to 1,600 yards, while ours
ale effective at only 1,000.
in nil cases the rebels left on tha field were
shut in the head, and the wounded shot in the
neck and breast. The enemy lost left on the
field, 40 killtd and 100 wounded.
Deserters from Corinth all report the entire
absence of chloroform in the medical stores.—
There is probably none in the Confederacy.—
The weather is very warm and the roads are
dusty.
by `` Secesh."
BERNIE Comm, May 17, t
VIA LOUISVILLE, May 19.
Interesting from Port Royal
The Rebel Steam Tug Planter.
TIIE "CONTRABAND" PILOT AND CIiEW.
NTERESTING. ACCOUNT OF UER ESCAPE.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE AFFAIR.
[From the National Intelligencer.l
The steamer Atlantic, from Port Royal on
the 14th, has arrived at New York. Among
her passengers is Gm n. Gilmore, who command
ed the Union troops at the reduction of Fort
Pulaski. Be has been ill, and has obtained
leave of absence for sixty days.
The steamer Planter has arrived at Port
Royal from Charleston, having been run away
with by her contraband pilot and crew. She
brought seven heavy guns and one eight-inch
rifle gun, intended for Fort Ripley, a fortifica •
tion in the course of construction on the middle
ground of Charleston harbor.
This steamer is a new tug boat employed
about Charleston harbor, which had been seiz
ed by the Confederate government and convert
ed into a gun boat, mounting a rifled gun for
ward and a siege gun aft. She had been in the
habit of running out to sea to reconnoitre, and ,
was therefore no unusual appearance near the
forts guarding the entrance. The credit of the
plot by which she was run off is given to'.
Robert Small, her helmsman and pilot,
who communicated his purpose to the rest
of the crew, who, litre himself, were all
slaves. They left the wharf at Charleston
about daybreak on Saturday morning, and
Small, being in possession of the countersign,
had no difficulty in pas-lug the fortifications on
the river. When out of range of their guns he
displayed a white flag, and went to the United
States fleet and surrendered the vessels. She
was then sent to Commodore Dupont. Before
attempting this exploit, Snail and his compan
ions took the precaution of placing their fami
lies on hoard the Planter. These, with the
crew, numbered sixteen, all of whom arrived
safely at Port Royal.
The health of the Union army was improving.
No important movement has lately taken place
It is states that the trroclarnation of General
Hunter was received very unfavorably by nearly
all the officers at Port Royal, some of whom
had gone so far as to express heir dissatisfac
tion within the hearing of the General.
The negro regiment, now organizing at Port
Royal, is being drilled every day, and their
appearance is said to be provocative of great
mirth among the white soldiers. On Tuesday
last they were reviewed by Gen. Bunter, but
they looked more like the recruits of Falstaff
than soldiers. The regularly enlisted soldiers
are not at all pleased with this experiment,and
are not at all backward in expressing their
dislike of it. Some of the officers, it is said,
have declared their intention of resigning. It
is further stated that the Degrees, as a general
thing, are not in favor of the organization.—
Large numbers of them have fled, fearing that
if they remained near the army they would be
impressed.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE AFFAIR ES
CAPE OF THE PLANTER.
FLAG SHIP WABASH, t
Pore Royal Harbor, (S. C.) May 14, 1862
Sia :—I enclose a copy of a report from Com
mander E. G. Parrott, brought here last night
by the late rebel steamtug Planter, in charge
of an officer and crew from the Augusta. She
was the armed despatch and transportation
steamer attached to the Engineer Department
at Charleston under Brig. Gen. Ripley, whose
barge a Short time since was brought out to the
blockading fleet by several contrabands.
The bringing out this steamer, under all the
circumstances, would have done credit to any
one. At four in ttle.morning, in the absence
of the Captain, who was on shore. she left her
wharf, close to the Government office and bead
quarters, with Palmetto and Confederate flag
flying—passed the successive forts, saluting, as
usual, by blowing her steam whistle. After
getting beyond the range of the last gun she
quietly hauled down the rebel fl rgs, and hoisted
a white one. The Onward was the inside ship
of the blockading fleet in the main channel,
and was preparing to fire when her commander
made out the white flag.
The armament of the steamer is a thirty-two
pounder on pivot, and a fine thirty-two pounder
howitzer. She had beside on her decks four
other guns, one seven inch rifled, which were
to be taken the morning of the escipe to the
new fort on the middle ground. One of the
four belonged to Fort Sumter, and had been
struck in the rebel attack on that fort on the
muzzle. Robert, the intelligent slave and pilot
of the boat, who performed this bold feat so
skilfully, informed me of this fact, presuming
it would be a matter of interest to us to have
possession of this gun.
This man, Robert Small, is superior to any
who have yet come into the lines, intelligent as
many of them have been. His information has
been mo=t interesting, and portions of it of the
utmost importance.
The steamer is quite a valuable acquisition
to the squadron, by her good machinery and
very light draught. The officer in charge
brought her through St. Helena sound and by
the inland passage down Beaufort river, ar
riving here et ten last night.
On board the steamer when she left Charles
ton were eight men, five women and three
children.
I shall continue to employ Robert as a pilot
on board the Planter for the inland waters, with
which he appears to be very familiar.
I do not know whether, in the views of the
Government, the vessel will be citusidered a
prize, but if so, I respectfully submit to the
Department the claims of this man Robert and
his associates.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. F. DUPONT,
Flag Officer commanding South American
Blockading Squadron.
. U. S. STEAMER ATGUSTA,
OFF CHARLESTON, May 13, 1862.
SIB :-I have the honor to inform you that
the rebel armed steamer Planter was brought
out to us this morning from Charleston by
eight contrabands and delivered up to the
squadron. Five colored women and three chil
dren were also on board. She carries one
32• pounder and one 24-pounder howitzer, and
has also on board four large guns, which she
was engaged in transporting.
I send her to Port Royal at once, in order to
take advantage of the present good weather.—
I send Charleston papers of the 12th, and the
very intelligent contraband who was in charge
will give you the information which he has
brought off.
I have the honor to request that you will
send back, as soon as convenient, the officer
and prize crew sent on board.
I am, respectfully your obedient servant,
E. G. PARROTT,
Commander, and senior officer present.
Flag Officer S. F. DUPONT,
Commanding South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron.
FROM CHICAGO
Special Election of a Member of Congress
1:1=2:=1
Returns, official and unofficial, of the special
election for a member of Congress to succeed
Gen. Logan, give Ishal G. Rayne 82 plurality.
From Gen.M'Clellan's Army
TJIE ADVANCE WITHIN FIF
TEEN MILES OF RICHMOND.
The Rebels Driven Across the Chickahominy,
ARTILLERY FIGHT AT BOTTOM' BRIDGE.
EXPEDITION ON THE PL:IIINXEY.
The advance guard of our forces on the main
road to Richmond, by way of Bottom's Bridge,
drove the enemy across the Chickaho rainy river
at that point, yesterday morning. When our
troops arrived within half a mile of the bridge,
which is burned, they were opened upon by a
brisk fire of artillery from the opposite side of
the river. No one was iojared. This bridge is
fifteen miles from Richmond.
At this point our troops will experience
considerable difficulty in crossing, as the coun
try is low and swampy en both sides of the
river.
A reconnoisance was made yesterday by one
of the gunboats, with two companies of infan
try under Major Willard, and one section of
Ayre's battery, up the Pamunkey river, a dis
tance of twenty-five miles from here at a point
known as Russell's landing.
They found the steamer Logan, one propel
ler, and 1& schooners in flames. They were
laden moistly with corn, which was being un
loaded. 'some contrabands on shore stated
that when the rebels heard our gunboats com
ing, they commenced putting the corn on
board again, so as to insure its destruction. A
few shells soon dispersed the remaining rebels
in that locality, when the gunboats returned
to - the White House.
The roads fur the past three days have been
next to' impassable, owing to the recent heavy
rains. A division train was thirty-six hours
making its way five miles, with teams doubled
together, and with the assistance of a large
number of troops. The advance of the army
from this point must necessarily be slow. From
here it loses the benefit of the river transpor
tation, requiring all the supply trains at the
disposal of the Quartermaster's department to
furnish so vast a body of men with subsistence.
The bridge between here and the enemy has
been destroyed, and every imaginable obstruc
tion has been placed in the way of our advance.
The Richmond Depaich, of the 12th, has a
lengthy article on the evacuation of Norfolk,
and the conduct of the war generally. It says
by abandoning detached posts which are with
in reach of the enemy's fleet, and which it is
therefore impossible to defend, we are enabled to
concentrate powerful forces upon essential
points, and to baffle the enemy in every attack
of vital importance.
The same paper makes mention of a terrible
panic in Richmond, on Friday, on the approach
of our gunboats.
This being Sunday, the army of the Potomac
ceased its labors, the troops remaining in camp
enjoying a day of rest.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
Impeachment of Judge Harvey.
The trial of Judge Hardy of the sixteenth
United States District Court, ended to day
before the State Senate. He was convicted
by two thirds majority, required by the Con
stitution, of disloyalty to the Government by
uttering seditious language.
A resolution of expulsion from office passed
by a vote of twenty-one to fourteen.
The various other ehargee against him, such
as corruption in office, druukene,s &c., were
not tuetained, although in some cases the ma
jority was against him.
The charges of misconduct in the trial of
Judge Terry for killing Senator Broderick failed
by a tie vote. He was the judge before whom
Terry was acquitted.
FROM WASIIINGTON.
Com. Goldsborough in the Possession of
Two Batteries on the James River.
It is unofficially stated that Com. Goldsbo
rough has taken possession of the two bAtteries
on the James River, one of which was silenced
by the Galena on her way to Richmond.
XXXVIIth Congress—First Session
Mr. GRIMES introduced a bill for the relief of
Robert Sm.ll and others, colored, who recently
delivered the rebel steamer Planter to Com.
Dupont's squadron. The bill provides that the
steamer Planter with all her cargo and all
appurtenances, &c., be appraised by a compe
tent board of officers and one-half of the value
thereof shall go to Robert Small, and his asso
ciates who assisted him in the rescue of the
Plant-r, with the proviso that the Secretary of
the Navy may invest the same in the United
States stocks—the interest to be paid to Small
his associates, or their heirs.
The bill was taken up and passed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Bisuwant, (0.,) from the special commit
tee of the House, reported articles of impeach=
ment against West. H. Humphreys, judge of
the District Court of the United States for the
several districts of Tennessee. Seven separate
charges are made in the name of the people of
the United States, involving a gross ne
glect of official duty and violation of the
laws, by endeavoring to excite revolt and
rebellion, publishing the ordinance of the
secession of Tennessee, endeavoring to ex
cite revolt and rebellion, publishing the or
dinance of secession of Tennessee ' • endeavor
ing to absolve the people of that State from
their allegiance to the United States and com
oining with Jeff. Davis and other evil minded
persons to overthrow the authority of the
United States, and it is demanded that the said
Humphreys be put to answer for the high
crimes and misdemeanors charged against him,
and that such proceedings be taken for his ex
amination and trial as may be agreeable to law
and justice.
Mr. BINGHAM said that these articles sub
stantially embraced the statement heretofore
made to the House, and as no gentleman de
sired to discuss the propriety of adopting these
articles on his motion under the operation of
the previous question, the motion was
agreed to.
On motion of Mr. BINGHAM, a resolution was
adopted, providing for the appointment of five
managers to conduct the impeachment, and
that the Senate be made acquainted with the
action of the House, with the view of concur
rent proceedings in the premises.
The Howie then went into committee of the
whole on the state of the Union, (Ir. Wash
borne, 111., in the chair.)
The Navy appropriation bill was taken up.
Hr. HUTCHINS, (Ohio,) prefaced his remarks
by saying that he did not intend to discuss the
war nor the institution of slavery. He then
advocated the bill heretofore introduced by him
to equalize and reduce the present various and
incongruous rates of postage.
CHICAGO, M 3 3, lfi.
WHITE bus; Va., May 18.
SAN Faanasoo, May 14
WeBRINGTON, May 19
WASEIIIICATON, May 19. E
SENATE
.FROM NEW YORK.
ARRIVAL OF THE FIRE ZOUAVES
The French Army in NI exico march-
ing on the Capital.
NEW YORE, May 19.
The steamer Blackstone has arrived with the
First New York Fire Zouaves, formerly Eat
worth's regiment, to be mustered ont of ser
vice.
The French steamer Montezuma, from Vera
Cruz on the Bth inst., arrived at this port to
day. She reports that the French army was
marching on the city of MexiLo, meeting with
but little or no opposition.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKETS
Stocks are lower—Chicago and Rockland
64; Illinois Ctritral railroad 61 ; tn
southern 561 New York Central 84; Pennsyl
vania coa1861; Reading 47i; idiebourt evs
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
PHILADELPHIA, Slay 19
Breadstulds very quiet. Flour dull at $5 for
superfine, $5 25 for extra, and $5 5005 62i
for extra family. Small sal: sof rye riJur at
$3 50, and corn meal at $2 65. Whear quiet
but steady at $1 25 for red, and $1 35@i 40
for white. Rye continues to command 70 cta.
Corn in active demand, and 10,000 bush. yel
low sold at 54c. Oats are steady at 35c. for
Pennsylvania, and 36@,37c. for Delaware. Cof
fee firm with sales of Rio at 14@,21c., awl
Laguira at 2lic. Nola:sea steady at 22.®21..;
for clayed Cuba, and 27®31c. for litistov.vio
Sugar held firmly. Provisions in better d-i
-mand, and for green meats. Prices are advan
cing ; 500 bbls. whi-kv sold at 24@241c.
New 2tbvtrtisnieuts
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.-All Ad-
vertisements, Business Notices, Mar-
sieges, Deaths, .ac., to secure Insertion
in the TELEGRAPH, must invariably
be eiecompeattedwith the CASH
MATRIMONIAL
AGENTLEMAN, aged 23 of flue
appearance, reftriem,nt and t to Leace, who
be,tby, weal J, agr,eabte and latt del re> the
acquaintance of some chirminz yentae la ty ..cto 1 , pret
ty, aco , :rop ov.og and can tra y appr Tiat: a hat
and indulgent husband. Carle de Vt , etes ex.:h ,nged.
Addrecs i•z•T
myl9.dl.* Harriso.iriz o.
P'S. D. & C. A.
YOU will find by applying at the Drug.
Store= of C, w. B tu.cart, Ciro s & Co., and t - 4
M.iee, and Druggists general y tbroighou t:e cou , try
Price 25 cars bott e. 'Yty it. t'r , pare tnv
It. M. POWSR &
my 19 (14m Rocee , er. Penns.
BIRD Fountains and seed Boxes, Ca
_LP nary and 'lamp s, el f,,r gala by
NICEIOtzt k DOWM
Corner Frout and Mat ket ztreats.
myl9
FINE lot of Messina Oranges and other
Foreign eruits,Ju:E. received and sale by
NIUHOLs ,s; no 4 7 • 4.
, loruer Frout aad thrtcrt ,;treetp
myl 9
NEW Patterni o: Coal Oil Lamps, with
all the rec,nt y improvnd burne.s f sae 1,7
N 'Choi,' s aU kVA
m 19
TEE
OFFICIAL WAR MAP.
IiAZARD'S RAIL ROAD So MILITARY MAP
Of the Southern States.
FFROMtho moat authentic e; urces, and
the Ccast Sct• 'Fey, engraved m the Fi 0-st t-tfe of
Map Making. IL Kivu recur t and .•tucu ‘alutule f.e a
co icerninz all the Reitman., ghat the War D•partoz:ct
unmet' .•0 y authorized its pabiont on, and d,str.bLit••l
Oag TEILre.9 AN • CO.lsa uming tJeuersli and
Colonels al the army.
as it is Thai UNI. 1r MAP that is authrziza I as OF
i• Is the most Reliable Ana Autheut e, and f. mu
its , iir!e size-32 by 65 lushes—show; at a .lance the
Princ pal Places arid all the atrat !At Pout , .. Gen. It :-
Gel an h s acanowlear'd the ireat ;nzpotta ne of E to
his n.ov• moot •.
REAUITFULLY COLOR 7 1), PRICE qNLY ONE 00L
-1 AR, to compete with inferior ruip3. In clo i 2 Cale.
SI 60. Ds e:,ted and Nig aat on 52 50. m oun t_
v. - kb Rolle and Varnished, $2 6). Sant
Free by MA r on r-cei t of Nr
WILLIS P. HAZARD,
No. 724 Chestnut Street, rutladelphia
AR Crary Intel igent tun wants THE httif and
ONLY OFFICI a L Agnuis can DIA . (O nty rap d
i), by Ealbog this.
4gr NEWS APERS laFerCbg this aver, shall
receive a copy by Mail
TO BUTCHERS,
SEALED PROPOSALS to furnish the
Dauphin County Poor llou-e wi h -uch meat as
may be veLuted .real time , o t.ut wiii be treerred by
the Direr tors up to the 2c d DAN' OF JUNE, an.! op3ced
sod centrso rowarded of Tok: DtY, toe Scl D at( OF
JUNE, ,862,t0 the low stand beat biddor. 1h) mest
mo=t be , f good qa Wry And d threrei at th) waidi ag.
Alt prop,kas to oe bimetal to the steward of the roor
Douse. TOrIN RAYiOa,
ENDER 4 ,
PEr
Dire etOr of the Ow.
m 719 at-w•2l
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
nalfiE Auditor appointed by the Orphap's
j_ Court of Dauphie c.,enty, to d Ong Lite
creiitors the b remain at in the 11, lade IN Henry
Egoir, ariatioi-tr woe Cres, will nt , el
the parties inter* led at his date ' in the mty of Hardt
bu-g, Tu .sclay the 17th ray rttJume next at 100 .;p.etc.
A et 7 at a Moe time aid place they are no ifie t to attend
and t r , sent Ureic oitinit. H, M. GRAYDON . ,
myl9 dBt AmPtor.
NOTICE.
A NEW ono story frame kitchen £lr
sae. Ela im me Ltely at t3a c:rnnr of
Fourth awl Walact scree!), of 11. P. RJD .7ARIJEL.
myl7 O2t*
NOTICE,
lIHE account of Henry Miller, a3siz.noi)
1_ of Fleury H. liezehey, of te . ry 70 , ,n3b1p, has been
Bled In the Court of omm'n P e of D,up , ..13 county,
and wilt oe confirmed o t the 2.8 t a day of augers: next,
on teas canoe b , shown to tLe cuutrecy.
J. C. YOUNG
my17.1117&19-w2l Prot bono ,
tarr.
$l5 REWARD.
BUGGY STOLEN.
THE above reward will be given to any
Woo will gle e such in torcaat,on to the sutt
ee, iber as will lead t • the conviction of the p^rson who
stole or w - o will delver at my house the following de
scribed buggy taken from my i6sitlteliCe in Susidehannl
tow' ship upon the. night of the 11th of stay. The burry
is a square boded one, has a flower painted on each
side, sides divided into three p tune's, oil cloth covering,
cqlor bia.o4 and the silver plated dasher tender broken
off 6 or eight inches from the left hano top corner of the
dasher and at the Garner on the right hand
DAVID MUMMA,
m)l6 d 3 * Sußqueh and townghio, fiationin Co.
BEA.UTIFUL TISSUE PAPER
FOR covering Looking Glasses, Picture
Frames, oraateentiog amiao.s. trlumilug Gas Pipes
C., and cut so ay to tian,f, over strings in the shapa of
stare, points, uireLes or Pe ; teens. F.,r !al.• at
myI6SCIUS,FFER'S ROOMTORE.
NOTICE.
FOR SALE.—Tbe ovelty Iron Works
and Itacomery. TL:rats favorable to meet the
purch,cr. J.C. BUCLIM;fI:,
mysd2w Barri,burg.
WARDELL & LEV.T.NESS, Pickles and
Caumps, for ,ale at JOHN WlSr.'d. myl
BAKER'S Cocoa and Sweet Chocolate,
Ar moat JOLEN iVE•E'S, Thud and Walnut, ray 1
A:SUPERIOR lot of Dandelion and BID
Coffee, for sale at the store of JO4N WISE. my
NEw YORK, May 19