Celtgrao ME PEOPLE'S CHOICE FOB PEESIDENA ABRAHAM LINCOLN. HARRISBURG, PA MONDAY EVE NLND, APRIL 25,1864. The Evening Bulletin. Perhaps Mr. Gibson Peacock imagines he has demolished all Harrisburg; but in order that he may not be mistaken as to the con dition of the newspaper press brthis locality, we beg to assure him that therCis a grease spot left of the TirAckaimr.: Whenl'we re baked him for the base ingratitUde Winch he displays to the locality where his bread was first buttered and his school books paid for, we acted in response to the men in this city who were the benefactors of his youth and the patrons of his family. And because we did this frankly, Gibson shows the true vulgarity of his nature, by assailing, with the coarsest language, the entire press of the State Capi tal. It may be, that the rural, press is not conducted with that large ability which dis tinguishes the columns of the Bulletin—an ability which exhibits itself in not being able to discriminate between the charter of a railroad to run through one of the North-eastern coun ties of the State, and that of a road to traverse an avenue in the city of Philadelphia—an ability which delights in discussing the Schleswig Holstein question, or runs mad' in fulsdnie praises of a dutch-dancer or a macaroni-eating vocalist—while at the same time its columns exhibit either the grossest ignorance or the most wilful indifference to the geography and the interests of the State; when either lay out side the corporate limits of - Philadelphia. The Bulletin charges that the newspapers of Harrisburg are dependent, for their existence,. on the patronage which they derive from the , State Government.- When Gibson Peacock made that declaration, he knew -he wag com mitting a falsehood to paper. Neither of the journals printed and published in this city, are benefitted to the amount of a shilling by a patronage of the Government, which they would not derive if the Government were le eated elsewhere. Indeed, all; work in the shape of printing, done in the city of Harrisburg, for the State is paid for at prices regulated by, bids, the -man bidding the lowest getting ` ; `the job." It.will be thus seen that the newspapers of Harrisburg depend less upon government patronage than do the journals in an other city in the Ccimmonwealth. Even'the stupen 7 dous, magnificent and wonderfully enter prising Bulletin receives more government pat ronage than all the newspapers combined in the city of Harrisburg. But journals equally learned with the Bulletin on all the great topics interesting the governments of the world, have a right to .this patronage. Of course we do not make pretentious .sifeh as charaeterize the conduptors of' the Bullehn; and yet what we do, is done• in good faith of serving an honest people, 'and not in egotism unuy -plagiarism:ll's from tb.e New York 'or London presses. Gibson Peacock has made the question of the removal of the Capital one to subserve• his hatred, of the city of his birth, and the locality in which repose the remains of his father. Is it any wonder, then, when we remind him Of 'his base ingratitude and apostacy, that ha shoild return oar` re! : bake of his faithlessness with 2 ribaldry: When he next visits Harrisburgr the .honest people who sustained him in his yiantli, will take his measur&for a fool's full suit. The Election of Delegates to the National Convention Confided to the People. The action of the Union State Central Com mittee, in confiding the election of delegatts to the Union National Convention to the peo ple, has elicited not only the approiing com ments of the press in other States, hilt we now notice that the Union men ii several. of the Western States are discussingthe ,propri ety of adopting the Seine Plan. It is argued, with great truth, that in the selection of dele gates to all conventions, by the of system,. the people, who constitute the real strength of parties, have never been fairly ; consulted. Out of the neglect thus to . consult and concede the power of, selecting, delegates to nominating conventions, to the „people, has sprung all the corruption that has ever disgraced American politic% :A. few men were in the habit of meeting in a corner, ar ranging plan% and fixing on delegaies to suit their own purposes, and then demanding that the party support them, or charging those who have independently refused with factiousness. Wearied of this corruption, the people of Pennsylvania insisted upon selecting their own delegates; and we are glad to see the ex ample set by the Union Central Committee of this State, so promptly followed by the Union men of other States. It is the only plan which can ensure as well as secure the, purity of politics. 'lt is placing the 'power to select candidates for all offices where it justly be longs, with the people. A Philadelphia Journals' Oplition of the. Philadephla Delegates-in lhe L The Legislature of Pennsylvania has been in session for sixteen weeks. In two weeks more it will adjourn. The Philadelphia dele gation will return to their homes laden with the plunder of a winter's canildign. They will be dripping with spoils. W,ecopy s the above from the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. Had the .same charges been Printed in any of the rural .-press, the fact would hiire been characterized as vulgEii. And yet Philadelphia never had a delegation in the Legislature, composed of men more de votedto the local interests of their constitu ents, who were instrumental in getting more legislation or larger - appropriations to be dia= biased in that city, tlian„the men ivtio now represent her in Harrisburg. from the; thelhanks which they get the,organs=of ourriiption at home.' Ie 'is, indeed, labor lost to struggle for a constlVenct. kuowledging such orgins. Our Congressman The family representative of Gen. Miller in the Tory Organ, devotes two columns to his defence this morning. It is natural that "the family" should feel conerned for, the General ; but the a,ttempt, to I; from the scorn »of a cortitithenci he and_ disgraced,;, prove an utter failoe. When find , V53 4 . 4 ..s a candidate • for Congress, he pledged he loyal people of this district that he would support the Government in all its efforts to Tut down the slaveholders' rebellion. How has he discharged the obligation of this pledge? Let the record answer. From the hour that he swore to support the donititiltibn as a Con gressman, Miller has suffered -himself" to be Made use of to accomplish the paricoses and ideas of Fernando WOod, until this. Congres sional district, through its representative, Miller, is now controlled by an arrant New York traitor. But thank God, the disgrace is destined.to be of short duration. , PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. REPCM= WILESSLY roz THE TELEGRAPH. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. AFTERNOON SESSION. MONDAY, April 25, 1864. Mr. ALLEMAN Offered the following:" WHEREAS, The Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry have been in active service nearly three years, have distingnished themselves in some of the hardest-fought battles of the West and ; Seitth west, 'have re 'enlisted - 40r the war, and have just reached Ilarrisburg on a thirty-day's fur lough; .therelore, Resolved, By the Senate and House of. Representatives of the Commonwealth - of Pennsylvania, that'the thanks of the nation are justly due the Oth Penna. Cavalry, and' that the people of this Commonwealth, through. their their Senators and Represehtativesin Otneral Assembly met, hereby extend their sincere thanks to the. gallant ColliVlionitis J. Jordan. and the officers.a.nd men of his command for the distinguished' service Which they !have _renderecl_their...-country, sind.they..gladlYjiltf. them a hearty welcome home. _ The resolution was urtaidinbiisly adopted. REMOVAL 9F THE,CAPITAL:• • The joint rcsolutien Providing for the re moval of the ; seat,of government being the special order was aken up... Mr. SMITH (Chester) rat3ved thatihe reSo lution be postponed and that' it be made the special order_ for this' agreed to. $ , Mr. SMITH, (Chester`) - fiqm .mittee appointed to inquire into certain frauds alleged to have been committed in the re cruiting of certain regiments, made report: ' EE-OBGANIZATION OF TICE 1.111X17,k . The bill, entitled An act for the-re-organ ization, disciplime and' ili'g,ulation.of - Ahe mi litia of the Commonwealth of .Pennsylvaini:al came up in Ord& and waa under atmeideration at the hour of kdjournmetit; The House ad journed ruitinisal-brtst, seven this-everting. 339 / eCc grap4. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF: The Battles on.4the Red Rtver A r.,,1x-it•dzosa-- - j130, - y is - Contest. T H E-R E-B Ei-S-F-IA ALL VT Rebel Loss ilep:Orto(l,4,t a. Their Killed and Wounded Left on 'the held, iliN UN lON- LOSS-1,Z500. THE FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE. The first battle took place on. , the Aro which the .Union cavalry, after skirmishing with the enemy and . driving 'them for four teen miles, until they got two miles , beyoud , Xleasant Hill, came upon twenty-fist hundred 'rebel cavalry, posted in a strong position, under General Greene. .They were dtarged upon by the Federal cavalry, and, 'Eifter a spirited •contest, driven off . the field. Our losses were about forty killed and wounded; that of the enemy about as heavy: meek =Colin Died pn the Bth, CoL Gandrura43 brigade of in fanti4y, with the cavalry, pressed forward, and finally met the religh , in , strong -force under Kirby Smith, Dick Taylor, Mouton, Green and Price, with from eighteen to twenty-two thousand, men. There was brisk skirmishing, iandlmilly the rebels came on in force, Gens. Banks and Ransom being upon the Franklin was , sent for; but:before itek3ame up the, rebel successes had• bbert. /great.- They Made desperate ,charges in 148#8, and were' desperately resisted. The both sides were frightful. Finally, - afrerWaiililin come up, the whoje YederalforcefivazGarfal back three and a half miles, but the enemy were checked, with fearful slaughter, , hy two,: brigades under Gen. Emory. •Night ended the contest The Federals were under Banks,, Ransom, Stone and Lee. '` Many guns were lost. On the rebel side it is known that Gen. Mouton was killed. THE THIRD DAVS'ESITTLE UNION VICTORY.` . By falling back ; eneral Banks had effected a junction with General •A. J. Smith; •and arrangements' were made to receive the eneim, 4 with effect. General Emory had. chargo'of its+ , first line of battle, with Generals 14iemillan, Dwight and others. Behind Emory, p6stedi . in a hollow, Were General Smith's fordeS. SkirmiShing was kept until about five o'clock in the afternoon, - when the rebels came up in their old style in' misses, ahree line§ of battle._ Our batteries oyened upon them with: terrible effect. - Thelstinefe'Ri.th .-Aziny them was gradually forced back': Thefir§cline; the rebels had been , entirely 'broken up by, Emory:s resistance, but the r9maining, pressed on. - = , Now came the, grand coup de main. The' 19th, on arriving at the top of the hill, sud=- denly filed.ol%er.the bill, encl.:passed ihrOugh , the lines of General Smith: We Must 'here. mention that Vie rebels were now in but two,: lines of battle; the first having been almost. entirely: annihilated-by-General FartoryV whir tivonained lievineliden"fctreed back into the rid line. But these, two Imat came on ei- Van& Sure,of.victory. ...' t• , - - a - ~ The first passed the knoll, and, all heedless of .0 the long, line, of cannons and crouching forms of 'as . , Jgaye. men.,,ies ever trod, mother,, earth, passed-on. - 2- The second line appeared on the drest, and thirdeathsignal was soundeff. Words cannot describii the awful effects of thy, discharge. - Seven-thousand: rifiesr aml-sec+l;. batteries of artillery loaded to the miegileWith grape and canister, were fired simultaneously end the whole centre' of;the ipliel line 44, crashed down as.e field of ripe Wheat through, I . I whioh a:tornado hid , passed4 It is estimated ithat one ,thousand men, were Inisled .. :ll:itheter, f - '', ' : ". - , ;.„ • " • v if= t . = .. ... t . . e -1^..". ~..e. , -.4 ,Pe.s.a . e iw-tic nity or frightfully mangled by this one dis charge. No time was given them to recover Ihnii good orlier, but ordered.ta charge, elld his mAilitilied rapidly forward; the boygli..Of the 19th gitabeg In. The relies fought b01W.,,,...and, digtperlitely back to the. tlinber,; on rest§hing _which : a large portitin broke and fle e ;-- fully two' thousand throW_- ing4sidirtheiriirms. In this charge Taylor's battbily*.S'Ataketi,..eifiiiere also tyo of the gun's of Nims' battery, the Parr6tt-tuntalie.u. c from us at Carrion Crow last fall, and one .r two others belonging to the- rebels, one of which was considerably shattered, besides seven *mired prisoners. A 'pursuit and desultory fight was kept up for three miles, when our men returned to the field of battle. And thus ended this fearful and bloody struggle for tue control of Western touislana. ThE Pr3riow' CHICAGO, April 23.-÷The Few; Qrleans cor respondent of the Journal, writing under date of the 15th instant, says the loss of the 4th ISAision of the 13th Armp Corps, in the bat tle of the Bth inst., as 1,125, killed, wounded and missing. The loss of the 3d DiViSiQII was 350. ' We lost ten pieces of cannon. No one at taches the least blame to,Gens. Ransom or Franklin. The movement;: which resulted in this disaster was contrarrto the advice of bbth these officers. The 'did all that officers Obeying the orders of tlfell superiors, under the circumstances, could do. In the fight on the 91t inst., our forces 'drove the rebels ten milefi, when they were `ordered to retire. 'Our loss on the 9th insh