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Lycoming County.
The Democratic county convention of Ly
coming met in Williamsport on Tuesday, the
21st instant, and elected John Harvey Humes
Senatorial, and A. J. Dietrick representative
delegates to the 17th of June Democratic State
Convention, instructed to vote for and use their
331finence to procure the nomination of Mester
Clymer for Governor.
A Grand Succtaa.
We cannot yet congratulate the country on
the capture of Vicksburg, but we have never
theless achieved an important success in that
quarter. A Lieutenant and two men of one of
she regiments of Grant's army, have crossed
:he river into Mississippi and posted copies of
the President's emancipation proclamation in
several conspicuous places. That, we take it,
is something to brag about—a feat that will
greatly relieve the anxiety felt by the country
in regard to the probable result of the campaign
in the Southwest. The army and the nation
may now alike rejoice in the certainty of
speedy and glorious results. Rams horns did
the business for Jericho—the proclamation
will silence the batteries of Vicksburg and put
its rebel defenders to Right. We may expect
to hear in a few days that the rebel stronghold
las fallen, that Gen. Grant is in possession,
and that the navigation of the Mississippi is
, Dp en.
What's in the Wind?
We, who had thought ourselves proof against
amazement at any occurrence, confess that
something has happened which does astonish
us. Can anybody tell us what ails Colonel
ItlTClure ? Is he affected with a softening of
the brain? Is he clean out of his wits, stark
mad, or only "on tht rampage ?" He made a
speech to the Union League of chambersburg
on Tuesday evening last, (21st,) which we
have not seen, but of which the Valley Spirit
says !
"We cannot refrain from expressing the
opinion that his speech was a most remarkable
one to be delivered by a Republican speaker at
a Republican meeting. He commenced by ad
ministering a powerful rebuke to his partisan
friends for stigmatizing as 'traitors' all who
disagreed with them in politics. These men
had gone from our midst side by side with
Republicans, their blood was shed upon every
battle field, their dead bodies had been carried
through our street;", followed by a whole com
munity in tears and sorrow. 'These men are
not traitors,' said the Colonel, 'and you know
it.' He then spoke of the Emancipation Proc
lamation. He was not prepared to say he
would have issued it, had he been in Mr. Lin
coln's position, and he now declared that if it
stood in the way of the restoration of the
Union it ought to Tall, that the Republic May
live. The most remarkable feature of the
speech was that it did not endorse a single
measure of the administration, while the
speaker concluded with the significant declara
tion that he considered his first duty due to
his country, and would follow that duty, though
4 urly,ht lead Una into a ifframt path from that
is which he had heretofore traveled."
If such sentiments were really uttered before
"Union League by CoL M'Clure, we can only
repeat the question, "What's in the wind ?"
We so seldom hear anything sensible or pa
triotic from that quarter that surprise is natu
ral. Let us - hope that light is dawning where
we least expected to see it, and that our be
loved country, although hi great peril, will
yet be saved, the Constitution reinstated and
the Union restored.
Greeley OH State Rights.
The philosopher of the Tribune has got into
trouble with some of his brother Abolitionists
more radical and insane than himself. They
contend that slavery must be uprooted at the
sacrifice of the Constitution, State rights, per
sonal freedom, blood, treasure, the Union it
self, and whatever else may be necessary. They
any the President's proclamation meant this, if
it meant anything; that the government must
-- bb consolidated, made despotic, and the arm of
-the Executive strengthened to do the work.-
- This is too Much for , the philosopher. It was
well enough to talk about sonic time - ago, but
to .
put it in prace'tte is another thing, something
-that Greeley- never Areamed of being seriously
attempted, and- he objects. In a reply to a
`certain Mr. Oliver Johnson, he says It
=
, "I was never for ' State Rights,' of the ex
aggerated, Cathcart' stamp. I never believed
nor held that a State had any more right to
secede from or nullify the laws of the Union
than a county or township. I recognize no
State Rights as inhering in a State which has
rebelled against and is making war upon the
Union. But the new-light talk of the States,
even whil3 loyal, as mere municipalities, if
even that—the windy bosh of leather-headed
blockheads predicting a grand consolidated
nation of which the States are to be merely
provinces—must not blind you and me to the
fact that the States have hitherto been the
citadel and sanctuary of whatever freedom of
speech and action we have enjoyed—that it is
but a few years since we were urging States
to go to the very verge of their reserved
powers in passing Personal Liberty bills, and
since we were all electrified by the decision of
the Supreme Court of Wisconsin that the
Fugitive Slave Law was uneenstitutionaL Had
such a consolidated Union as is now eulogized
and anticipated—nay, proclaimed as actually
existing—been in operation here for the last
thirty years, you and I would long since have
spent years in felon's cells, under duly enact
ed National laws and the popular ruling of
National judges, for writing and printing de
monstrations that no man has a right to steal
another's labor. Should we not think well of
the bridge that has borne us thus fee safely
"Is it urged that the dark days-of National
servility to the relentless Slave Power have
passed away forever ? I hope so, but we do not
feel sure of it. We live in a city two-thirds
of whose people are to-day pro-slavery—actu
ally believe in slavery, if not exactly as just,
yet as a highly convenient and advantageous ar
rangement—for the whites. * * * * *
" Were the slaveholding rebels to lay down
their arms and return frankly and thoroughly
to loyalty to-morrow, I believe they might re
sume the government of the country at the next
Presidential election. And then I would very
mach prefer that there should be some State
rights left; and so, I think, would many of
those now blatant for extreme consolidation.
Let us keep to the safe middle path."
The Peace Question.
The New York World closes a short contro
versy with the Philadelphia Evening Journal
on the peace question in language which we
highly approve. It is forbearing, sensible, just
and comprehensive. However much the Demo
cratic party may desire peace, it is idle to make
it a platform plank, or even to discuss .it, so
long as we are powerless Co "effect it, or it can
only be attained by accepting conditions which
involve a permanent dissolution of the Union.
To such terms we are confident no Democrat
will ever listen unless, as a last alternative, to
prevent a greater calamity. To talk about
peace when it is clearly unattainable upon any
conditions which we could with honor, or as
patriots whose hearts are bound up in the
Union, accept, is not only idle, but mischievous
—its tendency being to distract, not to unite
the elements of Democracy, whose undimin
ished, undivided strength is necessary to ac
quire that political power without which we
are in no condition es a party to deeide upon
either peace or war. The Democracy unfor
tunately for the country,are not now the creator
of events—that responsibility rests upon the
shoulders of the rebel administration at Rich
mond and the Abolition administration at
Washington. All we can de is to accept, for
the time being, what they determine, opposing
to the utmost limit of constitutional right what
ever we deem unwise, unlawful, wicked or
dangerous. Together the two powers, though
nominally antagonistic, are working for the
same purpose—the overthrow of the Union and
the suppression of free institutions. This pur
pose it is the duty, as we hope it is the mission,
of the Democracy to circumvent; and this can
only be done by the attainment of political
power in the States and the nation. To this
end all our energies should be bent, for, with
out political emcees, we shall be hereafter, as
now, at the mercy of our enemies, who hold
the reins in their hands and direct the policy
of the country. The question then is, How
can we best succeed—by.reducing or multiply
ing the issues ? We are clearly of opinion
that but upon one platform alone can perfect
unanimity be attained—and that is, determined
constitutional opposition to the general policy
of the Lincoln administration, avowed hostility
to the doctrines of secession, and inflexible
fidelity--to the Union and the Constitution,
which are to be upheld at every sacrifice but
the acceptance of despotism in their stead.
Upon this simple platform it seems to us all
Democrats can stand and act harmoniously.
Can they on any other ? In opposition to the
doctrines and policy of the Abolitionists and
the Secessionists there is no disagreement
among Democrats. Are they entirely harmo
nious on the peace question, or any other that
has been, as we think, unnecessarily and im
prudently introduced ? Will any one assure
us that they are ? Until we have that assurance
we must be permitted to doubt it., and to give
our full' assent to the following calm, judicious
expressions of the World :
PEACE AND TRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.—So far
as the continuance or cessation of the war is a
practical question, its decision rests entirely
with the administration. Until important elec
tions have intervened, the Democratic party
has no power to terminate the war except by
a revolution to depose the constituted authori
ties and organize a previsional government,—
This, even if it were desirable, could be accom
plished only by force. If we were among the
staunchest advocates of peace, we should be
unable to see our way clear to its attainment
by a method which substituted intestine war
in the North for a United contest against the
South. Sa long as there is no escape from
fighting, we consider it better to fight the re
bels than to fight each other. A forcible revo
lution in the North would, beyond all question,
secure Southern independence ; nay, it would
enable the Confederate government to dictate
terms. We cannot consent to give up the
Union except to escape a worse evil ; and if we
had abandoned all hope of the Union, we could
not consent to accept whatever boundaries,
and other conditions of separation, the South
should think fit to assign us. We therefore
prefer to leave the question of peace, where
the Constitution and laws have placed it, in
the hands of the constituted authorities, and
labor to combine all the elements of opposition
to effect a tranquil revolution through the bal
lot-box. The premature agitation of the peace
question neither tends .to bring peace, nor to
consolidate the opposition. All Democrats do
not desire peace on the only conditions on which
peace is at present attainable ; but all Demo
crats, so far as we are informed, do desire to
consolidate the opposition and render it invin
cible. To this end, we find it more consistent
with our interpretation of public duty to seek
points of agreement among Democrats than to
give prominence to points of difference.
Whether the Democatic party shall next year
go into the Presidential election on a peace plat
form or a war platform, is a. question which
we will not discuss, because we cannot lift the
impenetrable curtain which hides intervening
events. We are opposed to hypothetical poli
tics. We do not wish to deal with aspects of
public questions that may never be presented.
In times so earnest as these, and when so much
depends on unforeseen vicissitudes of fortune,
(for who can deny the influence of fortune in
war ?) it seems to us important to draw a strict
line Letween the province of speculatiotrand the
domain of statesmanship. Statesmanship should
not,ludeed, be destitute of foresight; but accord
ing to our coneeption of it, it deals only with the
actual, and even although it hots formed its
opinion of the possible, it avoids committing
itself to a course of action which subsequent
events may show to be unwise.
The present aspect of the peace question, so
far as we are able to speak by authority, is
this : The Democratic party of New York, in
its State Convention last fall, passed certain
resolves which were accepted by the party as
its platform, and on which it carried the elec
tion, annihilating the Republican majority of
upward of a hundred thousand of the preceding
year. No Democrat, that we are aware of, ever
maintained that those reselves were a peace
platfoim. As the condition of the country has
not essentially changed, they stand to this day
as the authorized exposition of the views of
the New York Democracy.
While the Democratic party of New York
thus gives expression to the sentiments in
which it can unite, the not less patriotic De
mocracy of Pennsylvania, in the exercise of
an equal freedom, will o the some. There
will be no rivalry between them except to see
which State will give the heaviest Democratic
majority. When, the following year ? the States
meet in national convention, the discrepancies
(if Ally) in the party creeds of the several
States will be reconciled and harmonized, and
all will thenceforward keep step to the same
music and march in compact array to assured
victory. We are determined that no set of
ours shall be an impediment to this consum
mation, on which is staked the dearest hopes
of our torn and bleeding country.
It is implied, of tonne, that the toad to
this result lies through free speech and un
trammeled political action. If the adminis
tration should suppress discussion and inter
fere With the freedom of elections, these indis
pensable rights will he defended at all hazards.
On this subject our trumpet has given and will
give no uncertain sound. When these rights
are invaded we shall be ashamed and disap
pointed if there are any persons professing to
be peace Democrats. But so long as free vo
ting is allowed we deprecate revolution ; and,
in the hope of early redress through the bal
lot-box, we think it if better to suffer those ills
we have than fly to (them that we' know not
of."
A Methodist Episcopal Conference—What
It Did, and Row it Was Done.
As a sign of the times, ominous of evil, we
invite attention to the following condensed re
port of the winding•up.proceedings of a Metho
dist Episcopal Conference, recently held in
New York, in which Rev. Alfred Cookman,
well known in this community, acted as chair
man of the committee on the state of the nation.
He presented a preamble and ten resolutions,
setting forth—
That the rebellion was unparalleled in its
wickedness, and continued to imperil the ex
istence of the Republic ; that our nation is a
chosen instrument to extend the kingdom of
Christ; that it is the solemn duty of every
citizen to rally to the support of the Union
. cause ; that the Conference renow their TOWS
of unconditional loyalty to the United States,
enjoined alike by the Bible and the Book of
Discipline ; that in the present critical con
dition of public affairs there should be exer
cised great prudence and caution ; that those
who oppose every warlike measure under the
pretext of discriminating between the admini
stration and the gevernment, are guilty of
covert treason ; that slavery is incompatible
with Christianity and Republican institutions ;
that the Conference concur in the righteous
ness of the President's proclamation of freedom
to the blacks ; that there was reason for grati
tude for the maintenance of the public credit,
and that the members would appropriately
observe the fast-day ordered by the President.
The reading of the report was frequently
interrupted by loud applause. The resolutions
which denounced slav,ery and "treason" at the
North created a scene of almost wild enthusi
asm. The clergy rose en masse and marked
their approval of them by cheers, clapping of
hands, stamping their feet on the ground and
other modes of applause to which a council of
reverends might be supposed a stranger.
The Bishop seemed most disconcerted at the
event, and at once declared that he disapproved
of the manner in which the members indicated
their approval of the report.
Rev. Mr. Foster said he supposed the Bishop
objected to their clapping of hands.
Rev. Mr. Wood thought they should not
differ on the question. Clapping hands might
be well enough, but they could give the expres
sion of the Conference by the old fashioned
word of Methodism, "amen."
Rev. Mr. Foiter said that at the great event
of his life, Ms conversion to Jeans, he raised
his hands and clapped them for very joy.—
[Applause and cries of "Glory to God."]
Rev. J. P. Newman informed the Conference
that General Wool would have been present,
but that he had received a message from Wash
ington about a great piece of rebel rascality in
New York, and he wanted to put it down. He
knew they would be satisfied at that explana
tion, especially if General Wool should put down
at once the infamous Copperheads at the North.
[Great applause.].
The Hon. Moses F. Odell, in response to
repeated calls, avowed his affection for the
Methodist Episcopal church, and declared that
it had rendered valuable assistance to the Gov
ernment in prosecuting the war. He held that
the administration had made great progress in
suppressing the rebellion, and cited the pre
sence of Union troops in all Missouri, and parte
of Kentucky and Tennessee and Western Vir
ginia in support of his statement. [Ap
plause.]
Rev. Dr. Morn, of White Plains, said the
Conference were under great and lasting obli
gations to Mr. Odell, the true friend of Meth
odism, for his words of comfort and hope
respecting the state of the country. [Ap
plause.] During the year past his mind had
been in a constant state of anxiety about his
beloved country; and he had to contend against
a great deal where he lived—the infamous
Copperheads were as thick as blackberries, and
theywere obstinate,too. When he saw them daily
he often hoped within himself that thrashing a
man well might become one of the Christian
virtues, that he might be able constantly to dig
into such fellowp. [Laughter and applause.]
Let the Copperheads be put down at once.—
[Applause.] If he were President Lincoln,
instead of suspending the habeas corpus, he
would supend the Copperheads. [Applause.]
' Bishop Scott then rose and said he approved
of the resolutions, but he did not like the
mode of approbation adopted by the Confer
ence. Like many, he was led to thank nod
for our defeats at Bull Run and other places.
God understood them, and they would lead to
the settlement of the great question which
caused the war, forever. The Lord was telling
them not to heal the wound of the daughter
of His people slightly. He did not consider,
however, that the ministers before him should
forget their character or the proprieties of the
occasion. Let them say "Amen" till they raise
the very roof above them, but they should ever
remember they were clergymen. ['applause.]
Rev. Mr. Foster said that although he had
been a friend to the South by education and
disposition, he was in favor of the war before
a gun was fired [applause I, and proclaimed
that we should fire two guns for each of the
rebels' one. [Applause.] He was ready to give
glory to God for our defeats at the first Bull Run
and the second Bull Run, for he believed they
were still able to carry on the war; but he knew
that' if they succeeded, slavery might be saved.
The South hated the Yankees ; 'they despised,
scorned, and held them in ridicule ; and if a
Southern man should say a Yankee had no
soul, the Yankee would be afraid to say he had.'
[Applause and laughter.] He hoped the war
would continue till that hellish, devilish idea
was whipped out of the people of the Southern
States ; and to accomplish that object he did
not care if the war went on for one, two, or
tenyears. [Applause.]
Rev. Mr. Foster, recently from New Or
leans, said that while there the " ladies" in
sulted every Yankee they met in the streets,
sometimes crossing on the other side to show
their contempt. Their common cry was :
" Look out for your pockets, hero's Yankees
coming." He wanted that feeling whipped
Out of the southern people by shot and shell.
Rev. J. B. Wakely desired to inform the
Conference that the proper way to treat a Cop
perhead was to stamp their heels on him. The
speaker stamped his feet violently on the floor,
which "brought down" the house, Rev. Mr.
Fox remarking: " Brother Wakely, did you
make a hole in the floor that time?" [Laugh
ter.]
The yeas and nays were then taken on the
resolutions seriatim, and an animated scene
followed. Nearly all the members called rose
and voted in their favor; some cried "yea"
is a tone which made it sound like " nay," and
were requestioned, when they cried "yea,
with all my heart."
Two clergymen who had supported the reso
lutions in favor of the Union said they did not
'pprove of those introducing the slavery ques-
Lion. The " no," which each of them uttered,
seemed to disconcert the Conference conside
rably, and a scene of the greatest excitement
followed. The names of the clergy who thus
expressed themselves are Rev. Mr. Cattell,
presiding elder of the Rhinebeck district, and
Rev. Mr. Setleck, of West Camp, Ulster co.,
New York.
Loud cries were raised for Mr. Cattell to ex
plain himself and show his " loyalty," and
several members pressed around him. At
length he appeared near the pulpit and declined
to make a speech. Some ministers declared
he should be excused, while others exclaimed :
"Bring him up;" "Put the screws on him;"
"He's not loyal," and other kindred expres
sions.
Mr. Cattell said he had been dragged up be
fore them to explain his views, and if they
would force him to speak, he would do so. He
and all his family were from the Puritan stock,
and were born in Massachusetts, and he loved
the Union. But he would tell them that he
would not swallow their resolutions on slavery.
[Hisses.] Ten years since he was a loyal man,
when those who now questioned his loyality
were the reverse, and when they did all to 9 p
-
pose and embarrass the government. [Lclnd
hisses.] The administration was supported by
the whole North ; they were not embarrassed,
as was said in the report. [Cries of "No,
no," "false," and loud hisses.] He had a right
to his opinion, and he would so express him
self. [Cries of "No," "Sit down."] He
would support the government in every just
constitutional measure to carry on the war,
but he would never give up his right to free
speech. [Loud hisses.]
Such an exhibition of fanaticism and rowdy
ism by a clerical body, the representatives of
a church professing the doctrines of Jesus
Christ, needs no comment from us. If the
men who figured in that Conference—they can
not be called divines—truly represented the
sentiment of the church, we have no hesitation
in saying that it is anti-Christ, and should no
longer be confided in or respected by any true,
devoted believer in the risen Lord and the
Holy Scripture. We are justified in saying
that, from all that appears on the record, there
were in that large body of church representa
tives but two Christian gentlemen, Mr. Cattell
and Mr. Setleok—the rest were little better
than rowdies and blackguards—and when the
Lord gathers his jewels they need not be aston
ished if they find themselves not among them.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gov. Seymour vetoed the bill allowing sol.
diers to vote by proxy on the 24th. The bill
was passed over the veto in the Senate, but
failed in the House, and then both Houses
adopted the true plan of proposing amendments
to the Constitution, by which the objeet can be
effected.
The late rains have so swollen the Rappa
hannock as to render it entirely unfordable.
It has been supposed in some quarters that
there would be diffioulty in supplying our Ails
sissippi fleets, under Porter and Farragut, with
pro Visions, coal, &c. A Washington dispatch
of the 24th says that on this subject there need
be no apprehension. A deep and successful
game has been played by Admiral Pcrter in
that matter, and the rebel communication with
Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas is destroyed.
Another item of the same date says : It is
the intention of the President to assign to ac
tive duty in the field every military officer of
every grade who is fit for field service. The
execution of this order will remove hundreds
of officers from offioes in Washington and other
cities, whose places are to be filled with those
who have, by wounds or sickness, been ren
dered unable to perform active duty elsewhere,
but are entirely competent for office work. The
proposed order is regarded as just and hu
mane.
Advices from Newbern, N. C., to the 21st,
give us the information that Gene. Foster, Na
glee, Heckman And Potter, with their staffs,
and the Ninth New gamey Volunteers, arrived
that day. Gen. Price had a brush with the
rebels under Ransom, near Deep Gully, about
fifteen miles from Newbern, on the 20th. He
captured about thirty rebels, and lost two men
killed and a few wounded.
Mc arasEsnono' April 24.—Gen. Reynolds
reports from Liberty, Tennessee, the particu
lars of the M'Minnville affair. The main por
tion of the - mounted force, under Wilder and
Hintry, arrived at M'Minnville at 1 o'clock,
on Wednesday morning, taking the place almost
entirely by surprise.
A rebel force under Grigsby, was in front of
the town, but they were amused by Reynolds
while Wilder entered the place. Grigsby ef
fected his escape.
Col. Longworthr of the Ohio cavalry, de
stroyed the telegraph and bridges between
Morrison and Manchester, and burnt a train of
cars, a locomotive, and the spare cars. Large
quantities of meat were also destroyed at sev
eral places.
Captain Wickliffe, of the Second Kentucky
cavalry, in charge of an important part of the
expedition, became intoxicated, and was sent
in under arrest and disgraced at IWlNl.inn
ville.
General Wilder destroyed the bridges, six
hundred blankets, thirty thousand pounds of
bacon, two hogsheads of sugar, three hogsheads
of rice, eight barrels of whiskey, two hundred
bales of cotton, a large cotton factory, a large
mill and a small one; also, a camp at Charley's
creek, and subsequently one at Liberty. Three
hundred prisoners were captured, among them
Dick M'Cann, who subsequently escaped. Lt.
Colonel 'Marin, a rebel, was mortally woun
ded.
General Reynolds then moved towards Lib
erty, but Gen. Morgan.departed ,towarde Car
thage, near Alexandria.
Our scouts are picking up the rebels every
half hour; among them is Captain Reynolds.—
They also destroyed a mill at Liberty, which
had been doing good work for the rebels.
The Washington correspondent of the N. Y.
World says that Gov. Curtin has not been
offered etty important mission by the Presi
dent. He was promised a position on decli
ning the renomination for Governor, but a
change in the arrangement is alleged to have
been aince made, which insists on his accept
ing the Republican nomination. [We do not
vouch for the truth of this—but it would be
characteristic of the administration, and is
therefore probable.]
The N. V. Tribune has a letter from Fort
Gibson, Indian Territory, April 13. Colonel
Phillips had driven the rebelsfrom the fort and
taken possession. He had considerable skir
mishing during his march, in one instance cap
turing an entire rebel company. The rebels
were closely guarding all the fords on the Ar
kansas ; they had collected all the cattle near
the river on the north side, and were about
driving them oil', when Col. Phillips captured
the whole lot, and had them driven to Park
Hill.
By telegraph. Saturday afternoon:
ST. Louis, April 24.—The Rolla correspon
dent of the Democrat says that the rebel Gen.
Marmaduke has a force of 20,000 in south
west Missouri, and Price has 12,000 conscripts
at Pocahontas. [Hardly probable.] Gen. Van
dever left Rolla on Wednesday with a brigade
of cavalry, a battery of artillery and his force
of infantry. The remainder of the cavalry
and artillery of Gens. Ewing and Ormes were
to move yesterday.
NEW YORK, April 25.—The steamer North
Star arrived at this port to-day from Aspin
wall on the lith, with $250,000 treasure from
California.
WASHINGTON, April 25.—The following has
been received at the headquarters of the army:
CINCINNATI, April 23.
To Major General H. W. Hallett General-in-
Chief :
The following dispatch has just been re
ceived :
HEADQUARTERS, LOUISVILLE, April 22,1863.
—The expedition to Celina was entirey suc
cessful. Col. Graham reports, through Gen.
Hobson, that they destroyed the town, 10,000
lbs. of bacon, 1000 bushels of wheat, 10,000
bushels of corn, 100 bbls. of whisky, 100 bbls.
of flour, a considerable quantity of sugar, cof
fee, and forty boats which had been used in
transporting supplies from Burksville and other
points on the Cumberland. Rebels report loss
of ninety killed, but Col. Graham, the com
mander of the expedition, is of opinion, that
the number is greater. We had one wounded
and one missing. This result is highly credi
table to our troops; indeed it was a perfect
success. Signed Brigadier General Wright.
A. E. BURNSIDE, Maj. Gen.
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE 'POTOMAC,
April 25.—Two or three days ago a party of
our troops paid a visit to Port Royal, on the
Rappahannock, capturing fifteen or twenty
prisoners, a mail and several hones. They
also destroyed a quantity of forage and some
army wgons. The severe rain storm ceased
last night, and there is now a prospect of bet
ter weather, which will dry up the roads. The
rebel pickets inform ours that they have a new
General on their side, who treats the soldiers
with great severity. On inquiring his name,
they reply, «General Starvation, by G—d."
The Legislature of New York adjourned
sine a on Saturday morning last. [lt was
about as corrupt a body as our own Legisla
ture. The Republican State Committee bought
Callicot, elected as a Democrat, to help. them
organize the House and elect a United States
Senator, for $1,200 and the Speakership.—
He presided during hie own trial and ruled
everything tending to convict him, and every
motion offensive to himself out of order. There
was evidence enough, however, to prove the
fact that he was bought, and that the chair
man of the Republican State Committee drew
his check upon the party treasury for the
money. Other members 'were purchased at
cheaper rates, ranging frem $5OO downward
to $2O. Two of them were arrested at the
close of the session, and the preliminary ex
amination of one, Brown, of Monroe, elicited
the fact that he had received $2OO down of
$4OO agreed upon, for his support of the
Broadway railroad. So we go. Corru7tion
rules the hour, and legislation has become a
question of dollars and cents.]
The nine men arrested at Cairo for wearing
the head of Liberty as a badge were taken be
fore the commander of the post, who dis
charged them from arrest, but informed them
that, having been caught with such emblems on
their persons, they would be held responsible
for any treasonable acts which might, here
after, be committed in Cairo. [Smart fellow
that.] A gentleman who happened to appear
on the street in a pair of pantaloons made of
American Manufacture somewhat resembling
the cloth called Kentucky Jean, was quietly
told that he had better put them off, as such
or similar stuff was worn in rebeldom, and was
offensive to the loyal people of Cairo. lie had
sense and courage enough to decline the advice.
But just think of a man's loyalty being judged
by the color and texture of his clothe*
The failure of the attack upon Charleston,
it is said, has determined the ordnance bureau
of the Navy Department to orders change in
the armament of the iron,clads. The Dahl
green guns are to be removed and an entirely
new 13 inch gun, capable of using seventy
five pounds of powder to each load, is to be
substituted. By this means it is supposed . a
single shot may be relied upon to breach a fort.
The new guns are in process of construction,
and there will be no repetition of the attack
upon Charleston until they are completed.
All papers, documents, &c., used in obtain
ing pensions, are relieved from the usual stamp
duty by a special act of Congress. Tie fact
don't appear to be generally known.
By Sunday's telegraph.:
NEW YORK, April 2.5.—8 y the French steam
Corvette Bertholet, arrived to-day from Vera
Cruz on the 7th, intelligence has been received
(through the commander) that the report of
the defeat of the French army at Puebla is
unfounded. When he left Vera Cruz all was
quiet at Puebla. Radetsky was to-day con
victed of the murder of Feltner, the diamond
merchant. Two arrests have been made for
attempting to pass counterfeit hundred dollar
notes on the Bank of Waltham, Massachusetts.
The steamer Corsica sailed for Havana to-day
with $154,000 in specie. The steamer City of
Baltimore sailed for Liverpool with one hun
dred passengers and $240,000 in specie. The
steamer Bremen took one hundred and sixty
passengers and $90,000 in specie. Gen. Fre
mont, in a letter to Hallett & Co., suggests the
immediate employment on the Pacific railroad
of the large bodies of negroes freed by the
President's proclamation.
Sums, Canada West, April 25.---Van Eary's
steam mills were blown up yesterday, the
boiler having bursted. Four men were killed
and the mills destroyed.
FORTRESS Minos, April 24.—Six rebel de
serters arrived here this morning from York
town on the steamboat Thomas A. Morgan ;
also, a prisoner who was arrested at Williams
burg, charged with having acted as a guide in
conducting the rebels to our lines to, make the
attack on Fort Magruder on the 10th. The
Richmond Sentinel of April 23 contains the fol
lowing :
CHATTANOOGA, April 21.—Seven more per-
BOW have been sent south beyond the Federal
lines by Gen. Roseerans.
Twenty-four transports have landed at East
port, eight miles froth Inks, with 40,000 Yan
kees, chiefly cavalry. There is no immediate
prospect of a battle.
OKALOMA, April 20.—A squadron of Aboli
tion cavalry, estimated at 1,500, were advan
cing on Pontotoc yesterday. Our forces are
concentrating to resist them. An engagement
is certain to day, unless the enemy retiree.
It is reported from Havana that Commodore
Wilkes had been arrested and paroled for firing
into a Spanish steamer, Also, that Admiral
Milne had ordered the arrest of Wilkes for
being, with the Vanderbilt's crew, engaged in
the Peterhoff affair.
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It is believed the enemy are advancing G r,
Holly Springs from Corinth.
James G. Gibbes, of ColuMbla South Care
lina, has arrived frem abroad, bringing wi t h
him machinery for making cotton cards, and
for other purposes.
A rebel lieutenant was ordered to report
forthwith at Libby prison, Richmond, the 20th
inst., for having taken 11 Yankee officers, of
whom he was in charge, to the Linwood house,
where they got their breakfast. This 1 16 %..
style of entertaining prisoners of war, th e
Sentinel says, has been too much in vogue her e
of late.
Naw Yon; April 26.—The steamer Fulton,
from New Orleans has arrived with the follow.
ing important advises:
On the night of the 17th inst. Gen. Eftak E
had reached Vermillionville, after a hard
fight at Vermilion bayou, where the rebels had
posted batteries and infantry, but they were
driven from their position, after a hard fight,
with considerable loss on both sides.
Some 1,600 prisoners had been brought into
Franklin ; captures of whole companies being
made at a time. The rebels also destroyed te.
steamboats to prevent their falling into our
hands, and two large gunboats and the Diana
were included in the destruction. It was ex
pected that Gen. Banks would capture Opelou
sas on the 18th and occupy it.
Our fleet have reduced La Rose, an impor
tant point. The prospects are that the rebels
will be driven out of Opelousas county, or all
captured.
Our troops are in splendid condition.
A letter, dated in the field, above Iberia,
April 16th, states that Col. Kimbal, with the
63d Massachusetts regiment., entered the rebel
works at Bethel Place on the morning of the
14th, planting our flag on the parapet. Get.
Weitzel's division followed, succeeded by the
whole line. The rebels left numbers of their
dead unburied, and evidences were plenty :,f
bloody work in their ranks.
Large stores of ammunition, some Retell
rifles and other arms were captured. Our ar
my then marched through Pattersonville, skir
mishing continuously, and reached Franklin
an the nth.
The expedition of Gen. Grover had been em
inently successful, and in a battle with the
rebels at Irish Bend, the 18th Connecticut
charged the rebel line and batteries, supported,
by the 26th Maine, 25th Connecticut, 12th
Maine and 91st New York, and defeated them,
leaving a silk flag and other trophies in our
hands. The rebel force consisted of two regi
ments of Texans and three batteries, including
the famous Pelican and Sims batteries.
The whole rebel force at Bethel Place ani
Trish Bend numbered some one thousand, pc3-
ted in a highly advantageous position, under
command of Gen. Dick Taylor, a son of the
late Secretary Taylor.
Important captures of horses, mutes sr.
beef cattle to the number of over a thousani
were made.
The celebrated salt mine, or salt rook, was
captured, and the rebel works destroyed.
The rebel soldiers were not loth to be cap
tured,„and over 1600 are in our hands, ar.J
more are being taken.
An abandoned rebel iron foundry was folmi
near Iberia containing a quantity of shot and
shell.
The wounded in the late battle have near';;
all reached New Orleans, numbering 17!',
where they are quartered at the Mechanics'
Institute hospital.
All were doiug well. A large number of
rebel wounded were in the hospitals at Fran',l
- and Iberia. There is nothing new from
Key West.
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