Cbc Mailp ---- - JAMES P. BARR, EDITOR AND PROPRIFETO Teruuis--DAILI, Six Dollars per year, strictly in advance. WreHl.4, Single subscrip tions, One Dollar per year. OFFICIAL PAPER OF 4HE CIT FRIDAY MORNING-v. DEC. 13 CITY ;MAT TERS_ Of for the War. As there are quite a number of men in our city and neighborhool who aro now out of employment, and have not yet join , ed the volunteer forces which are taking the most conspicuous part in the present war, we wish to urge thorn not to delay any longer but to enroll themselves in some good regiment and place themselves in the line of rapid promotion. As the 103 d regiment is now at Kittens ning, a few miles north "of our city, and is not yet full, it presents a most favorable opportunity to persons of this city. As soon as the names are enrolled pay commences and mon can now join in this city by applying to J. Adams, at the Washington Hotel, Canal Bridge, Penn street. Sergeant Adams will have men transported to the Regiment free of ex. , pense and by his attention to their wants while in this city, insures their comfort which speaks well alike for himself and the Regiment he represents. AtlilllST OF A FORGER—A 131TElt Officer Hague, of the Independent Police, arrested, on Wednesday afternoon, a man calling himself George Davenp. rt, (doubtlesi an assumed name,) who ar rived here on Saturday last, and put up at one of the principal hotels. representing himself as a Captain in the Fourth Infant ry, 13 . g. A., on a furlough. During his stay he succeeded in victirniz;ng scvoral persons for a eenslderable sum, by means of forged check=. One of these WU3 a to., torious gambler, wl o'after wirnrr g a nlm ber of Treasury notes from Davenport, cashed a forged draft fur hire. On Wed , nesday officer Hague received a despatch from Cleveland describing the "gev Cap taine" and direc'ing his arr;.st on a shames of passing forged paper in that city lie was at once taken into custody and sent to Cleveland by the next train. We shall probably hear of him again through the 'seers of that city. THE AUDITOR UrICN Mt.& I. AND THE BHo• - E.RRs.-11or. Thomas E. Cochran, the. Auditor General of this State, recently i-- sued a circular inviting the attention of therbankers and brokers to the provisions of•an net of e.sembly. enacted at the first session of lEltll, relating to brokers and private bankers. The first section of this act requires a return t.•, he made und oath, to the Auditor 13.neral. of th , re ceipts from comur, , -10n. , , discounts, tte , and requiring a tax of three per cent. upon the aggregate, to be paid into the State Treasury, for a sinking turd for the rede.4 tion of the State debt. The thir , i..eeti , 7. provides a penalty of 01113 thousand dol to be collected as taxes on bank dividends are now collected. Tlie brokers have de termined to tent the conAitutionnlity of the act. DBATE OF LIEUT. PHILLIPS.—J. W. Phillips, Fret L;e , o.onant of company L. Capt. McFarland, Coy 11.5v.•ley's regiment, died at Washington City on Wedn. sday, of ty• hoid fever Lieutenant Phillips was a young man of fine personal appearance, of excellent moral charf.cter, and hic„l - ly esteemed by all hi: , acquaintances. iie 19118 eon of J. H. Pnillipz., , who will feel the strcke most keenly. was summoned to his bedside several days ago, and on Tuesday, finding no hopo for his recovery, telegraphed to Mrs. Phillips to hasten thither. She took the first train for Washington, but ho expired before she could reach her destination. The body will be brought home f.,r interment. DEATII ON A CHILD BT P015017.-OE I Wednesday evening a little con (two years old) of Mr. of To. hoyden & Buerlele. j;:wellers, S!. Glair street, while in the chop, get ps..as: , .t of a bottle of some poiconcu rrixturii, used f..r cleaning jewelry, and mail wed its ecnterits, or a portion of them, bzfer- be was obcerved. The dose resulted fatsily in a short time, despite the (Inns of Dr Spear, who WbE called in immediately. Toe child was in• Wresting and intelligs nband the family are in much diAres ,, by reason of his sudden death. FRISONEIEW K (WM ‘iVARILEN COUNTY Gen. Birmingham. Warden of the Peni tentiary, has received live prisoners from Warren county. Two are females, sisters, 18 and 2d years of age,convicted of stealing $1,600 in gold. A third female ban been sentenced for a participation in the affair, but she has been kept at Warren for the purpose of ascertaining from her, if posEi- We, where the money is ooncealtd. The other prisoners are men, all sentenced for larceny, BUENED TO DEA.TII. —Abdtlt Ou.l cAIJO: on Sunday morning last, a small log house one mile east of Brownsville was discover ed to be on fire. It w s occuried by an old colored women, about one hundred years of age. She was in the house alone at the time, and was burned to death, the body being found afterwards almost con sumed by the fire. The house and eon. , • tents were destroyed. It is not known how the fire criginated. KILLED IN A UcAL BANK. —Jame Tate, a minor, r,sident in West Wheeling, was killed on Tuesday in a coal bank, by the caving in of the bank. He went to work, as usual, on Tuesday, and not hav ing come home in the evening his family became alarmed, and search was instituted, when he was found buried under the bank where be had bean at work. TIM 103 D itscirmkriT —This fine body of men, in command of Col. T. F Loh man, in process of organization at Kitten, ning. is not yet full. Tho equipments for the regiment are expected in a day or two, and marching orders will soon be issued. Young men wishing to join a crack regi ment will find no better or more experien ced officer in the service, regularor volun teer. The recruiting ( ffice of the regiment is at the Washington Liot4l, canal bridge. THE SEVENTH CAVALRY.—Yesterday was the day set apart I,)r Col. Wynkoop's regiment to move from Camp Cameron, but the men are t till without arms, and lack many of their equii.ments. The time for the regiment to move now entirely de. pends upon the movements of these whu furnish the • u'Lit.— IlarriNbury Patriot and , Ire (iI.LSd(ly FIELB is Bh,W:N,YILLE.—On Tuesday morning a fire tl,oke out in the gro2ary store of Mr. T. B. Murphy, in Browns ville. I 5 was discovrred before it had much headway, and extinguished before it reached the roof. Most of the stock in the store was destroyed, end the buildine considerably damaged. The tire origins. ted in the inede, but it is not known from what cause. TAXING COAL —W e call attention to the card of the County Commissioners, in another column, instructing s.ssess4.rs to tax all coal lands, whether held owner of the surface or leased to other parties. This matter has heretofore been neglected end if the instructions are carried out the revenue of the country will be materially Increased. A revival among 1 , •, , Winebrennerians is going on at thuli rcu (the old Asbury chapel) in the Si xtt. wsni. The eongre , Ration have been meeting here for some two months,Mrs. Beecher being'the pastor. THE bill at the Theatre to• night embraces the "Octoroon" and "The (louse that Jack Built." Special Meeting of Select Council— The Vacation of 'Liberty street. special meeting of the t'' , ri!“ I V ! Oki last ovenime to priety of cocci, • • tl.• Conceil. I:! • .'• ' .• • .•.enca for re moving th.• try, the Pennsvivania Railroad lrem Liberty street, East of Washington, between the line of the Fifth and Ninth Wards. Present:. Messrs Allen, Barbin, Berger, Dickson, Darman, Kincaid, McOargo, Mc- Carthy, Phillips, Qoinn, Rose, Thompson, Ward, McAuley, President-14.. Absent: Messrs. Bennett, Brown,Lutton, Morrow. —4. The minutes of the meeting of Novem ber 25th were read and approved. The ordinance was read, and on a mu Lion to concur, objection being made by Mr. Kincaid, placed on second reading. Mr. McCArthy moved to pod pone and that the ordinance be puhes'ned in the city papers for information. Mr. Thompson opposed the postpone. mont and after some discussion too motion was lost. Mr. Word presented a petition, with over thirteen hundred signatures, raying the Select Council to concur with trio AC- Lion of the Common. Remonstrances against the ordinance and the Ptailr, , adCoreper.y "ee the general issue" were t.resente.! Moes.i S. Ross and Berger, and, with the petition, placed on file. The ordinance was, by request, read a second time, when Mr. McAuley, (Mi. Allen in the chair) offered a substitute for the second feethm. providin.; that the company shall, within a year,romeve their tracks from the whole of Liberty street, and repave the street; remove the bridge over the canal or. Penn street, fill up the canal from Liberty street to the Aquoduct,grado and pave the earns., earl Pl'llll s'.re-t for 100 feet on either side et this, b, d of the canal; surrender all claim to any portion of the canal so titled up and all claims for damages from the city on accruet of its connection with the Aqueduct, and guar. antee the city against any reduction 1. , r the revenue now :''rived !rout the property to be hcquiri.i by ER .1 Company; alse to construct(ucel)r the directi, ii of Councils end the Wet •r Committee) and keep in perpetual go" repair an arched tunnel of hard torten . r dr,e4ed emir, for the city water pipes, et :east ten feet ado and night loot hieh in the clear,i•xtending from Linorty street to the present Southern line of Q,eerry str.•e, previdLd with pin•pvr openings, coy: red with meta': pieies, the city reserving the right all enter upon the street, I..lleys and sidewalks, re • ferred t , in ntd , r to repair, renew or alter tuc w,:or th.i Li S 211 F riC'l..:hie • 1111.0, Mr. MhUirthy rend the trw.^dlngs f a mr.Pting of f'ihn ;.th and Nlntli Wards GIL. :111,,PnJuily Ergned petitir, that .h Itatiroad at orninze to ..:ion the citizo:,i t' • Sev• n'.ll t. 11.1 Mr. Quinn ' w amend h.' tole by btrlii;; ..L Nhole :and —7: :11 bt.r tot ,F,,ty. ;Oei 1.)„ vetr, A \ 11. S , ps, N aYS.--.M.-P.!" - : , Allure, Barbin, Berger, M. Cargo, Thump. son, Ward, M.Au.y Prc'i —IU. A 'Vote was n... , 1 or. Mr. McAuley's .I.rn:- as iellews: McCarthy, Philiipv, McAuley, Preb't NA is —Mt,- Barbin, Berger. Bunn:;, M'Cargu, Quinn, Ward, Therupson.—rr , Mr. M An. utittrutl a SUbatill.ll.e r,r the tint s ct., , the chief feature of w•fich was that n ELroot, alley paseago or foot way shar! civ<n until the company shall purchase all prcpul ty or lute of ground abetting, on tb.,: car : sireeii and sheys.— Tors was also : .st l - ry the f Hewing vo te, ATIV.S—Moe. , ; . Morrow, ROBS, M'Cartby, 4,1t1", Pres't-5. . A BLrbin, Berger, Dur:r , M La g o, Quinn, W olipsen— Mr. M.'Car.l), (Ara. ed an re.idi.l •na. that I nr: at bridges, terrao • r ,ther musics of coma mumcati DTI .e brow . f the nil .n the bixth and 5. e niU wards mind L . b. street, upon pi...T._ to be approved I Its Stree . :C enrorttue rrnd Recordieg Regula tor, under cer.a.n penalties. by the following VO : AYES—Messrs Krticaid, M C.rthy, Ross, McAuley, Pros',-4 .A.NAYS Barbin, Berger, Dickson, Duncan, M'C..rgo, Quinn, Thompson, Ward-9. Mr. Kincaid moved to strike out all re lsting to the ‘,.7.f...ti0n of the twelve f o ot sidewalk, whicn was lost by the followrirg vote: AYES—Messrs McCarthy , McAuley, President-4 BAYS—Messrs Airen, Barbin, Berger, Dickson, Du: c, n, ..M‘rrow, McCargo. Phillips, (Zinn, mipson, Ward-11. Mr. Kineam :1 .d ..n arnerehor t.tthKl the tunnel rel.; • .renc.i...n.L.: der the d.rr - Ler • he e.LetH. tun c 1 the Water Col emi the Sap , rin• tendent of the Water Works. Lost by the foliowing, vr:te: A vEte—Messrs. Berger . , Kincaid Mc• earthy, Phillips, Itis:•, McAuley, Pres', dent-11 NAYS—MoBari. Alien, 13arbin, Dieh.son, Duncan, Morrow, .tra,Uargo, Quinn, Thempvon, Ward-9 Mr. Rose rocimd to amend by obligating the Company remove ;heir tracks from the whole of 1....0erty street within two years. ',pit by the following vote. AY.ICS—Mef.Eri , Kincaid, Morrow, Mc. Cargo, McCarthy, Phillips, Rise, McAu. ley. President-7 Nava—Messrs. Barbin, Burger, Duncan, Q nen, Thompson, Ward-8. Mr. McAuley now Dl'. the chair' to en ter the following prot-st, which was also signed by Mess:s. McCarthy and Kincaid. Believing that the erdiriance now before Councils, proposing to vtwate streets, alleys and - sidewalks, T.mi thurety surren dering to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany between five and six acres of ground within the very heart of tho city, to be an outrage upon the ettiz-ns of Pittsburgh, rihe undersigned solemnly protest against its passage. J sme= McA.uley, Jos. 11. Wm C..Mearthy, T. Kincaid. On motion of Mr. McC,r o the rules were suspended for a tut - reading and tinal passape of the r . re nce (übjeetlon having been made on second reading) by the following vote: ' Axis—Messrs. Barbin, Berger, Dickson, Duncan, Morrow, McCargo, Quinn, Thompson, d —lO. NAYS-- M.esbr::.. K:n.eoid. McCarthy, Phillips, ROSS. MCN , l'fi, Prweclont-5. The vote was now taken on the final pas. sage of the ordir arer, as fOI!C.WS: AYYS—biassrE. L'otionn, Berger, Dickson, Dance.n,M,Cargi, Quinn,Ward, Thompson- 9 Nxis—Meerr.r. 1:1 1 T - caid, M•irrovir, Mc, Carthy. McA.ulcy, Presi• dent-6. The re,ignid:or. cd NI , . 1. )B°, inc miler of Select Council trod the First Ward, who has removed from the ,ity, was read and accepted. Council then aij tirm . :l, having concur, red in the ordinance as it passed the Com. mon Council, without amendment. 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BELLERB & CO. noso Penn street, Pittsburgh. 2D EMIR LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. ast Night's News up to Two O'clock. .AfITBONT ICITIIII HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM Vie Mason and Sli dell Capture. GREAT INDIGNATION. ALL PRICIES TUE REBEL STEAMER Nxw Yona. Leo. 12.—Tho steamer House brings a copy of the London Times of the 28th ult , which contains oar accoun of a meeting held in Liverpool with refer ence to the Slidell-Mason affair. The fol• lowing placard was posted on change: "Outrage ou the British flag—Southern Commiss oners forcibly removed from a British mail steamer. A public meeting will be hold in the Cotton Sales room at 3 o'clock. in pursuance of this call the room was crowded to excess. The chair was oc cupied by dames Spence, who read the fol.' lowing resolution: Resolved, That the meeting having heard with indignation that an Amer ican Federal ship of war has forcibly taken from a British mall steamer certain passe - gars who were proceeding peaceably under the shelter of our flag from one nem. tral port to another, do earnestly call upon the g o vernment to assert the dignity ol the British flag by requiring prompt repara tion fir this outras,u Trns resolution was advocated by the who considered that he was ex• pre , sing, the fee:ing of the people when he -aid that it was the duty or the people to impress on the government the imperative necessity f vindicating the honor and dig. nity o! the British name and flag. Mr. J uo. Campbell considered thatthere was reason to doubt whether the facts oar rate,d and acted on by this meeting were in reality a broach of international law, d referred to the opinions of the law officers of the crown as being in some measure inclined to show that such a step as taken Wilt] respect to the Southern corn init.siouer. was justifiable under the exit ing international law. He urged prli , ret) of postponing the considers.. Lon of the subject till to.morrow. Mr Torr su.tained Mr. Campbell's view „A the case r man suggested, in order to most the ot.j-outra 01 Mr. Campbell, to strike out U. words, "By regMring prompt reps arktion for this oulr,g.;" and thus amends the r,so,u ton wise i awed by nearly a unanimous vete. Several merchants expressed their views atter the adjournment that the meeting and its action was premature. In reply t' the application of Captain Nelson for a warrant to search the rebel !Learner Nashville, and secevor certain property belonging to him and the owners of the Ilarvey Birch Earl Russell directed 4;8 S-eretary to reply that he cannot au thorize the magistrates to i sue such a warrant, and declined to interfere in the matter. The application had been made ..n the recommendation of Mr. Adams, the AMerleall ..Nl.lr,lBter. A letter detailing the account of the sPizur i of the traitor commissioners, states that a shell was fired at the Trent, explod ing within one hundred yards. It also states that the indignation on board the Trent was intense, and all the passengers were ready for a light if the Captain wish ed it. Also that tue Captain of the Trent supplied r.ores to the San Jacinto for the use of Slidell and Mason. The dispatches of the traitor commissioners escaped the vigilance of the officers of the San Jacinto, I and safely arrived In the La Plaea, in charge of a gentleman of the party. On arriving at Southampton, the remainder of Meters Slidell and Maion's families and suites went on board the steamer Nashville and the next day the dispatches were taken to Lund , n. No repairs had yet been commenced on the Nashville. PKANCE.—The rebel steamer • Bermuda arrived at Havre on the 24th from Savan nah, with 2. 000 bales of cotton, and was discharged on the 25t.h. The London Daily News of the 281. h, says, in regard to the seizure of Mason and Slideil: -The remote consequences of this act we shall not attempt to predict.— F,nough for the present time It is one which will make it the duty of our gov. ornment to insist on ample, complete and immediate sati,faction• Its wanton folly bids hope that Lieut. Fairfax was acting without instructions, and that the Wash ingtan Cabinet will no sooner learn what has taken place in the Bahama Channel than it will disavow the act, restore Messrs. Mason and Slidell and tender the amplest apology. Nothing short of this reparation i can DO accepted. Until these has been time to receive BOWS from Washington, we feel bound to believe that the seizure of passengers on board the Trent was an act as much in excess of duty as it was in violation of public law. No government should know better than that of the Uni• tad States, the lines which separate the rights of belligerents and neutrals respec. Lively. While we must submit to have' our mercantile vessels stopped in the high seas by b ith parties in search of contra.- band. lied Lieut. Fairfax confined him self to demanding Mr. Slidell's dispatches, and taken them off, we must have ac.inies. ced in his visit, as one of the disagreable occurrences incident to a voyage, persons stand on a different footing. In the eyes of Mr. Seward Messrs, Slidell aid Mason are rebels. To our eyes they wore simply pass sengeis and the Washington Government , may rest assured we shall no more permit it to take its rebels out of our vessels than • we should concede a similar right to Aus• trig or Russia. Incidents like these are irritating but the British people have the satisilaction of knowingi that their affairs are under firm guidance. With the Earl of Derby or the pussy Lord Malmsbury in power, we might well be concerned for the interests of peace at a time like this, but from the present government we may ex pect energy without precepitancy and pm., deuce without weakness, Their course is tolerably clear and it will be for the gov ernment of the United States to determin what shall be the future relations of the I two governments. --- - BOX Szt C Pittsbnnit. P.sait Cite*. EUROPE. 111 ASIIIIIII !WE. Proclamation; DETROIT, December 12.—Gov. Blair issued a proclamation for an extraordinary sesdon of the Legislature, to assemble on the 2d prop. The London Times on the Ma son and blidell Capture. Nuw Youx.. Dec. 12.—The London Times is mere moderare .in its 'iomments on the M.asrm and Slidell capture than the News - W hilo denying that the Fed- oral Government on its own position that the existing war is a mere rebellion, has a right to overhaul neutral ships it never theless admitA , that England herself has establlslit:d precedents which now tell against her in this matter of the Trent, bat those precedents were made under eirerimstances very different- It asserts that from th. se which omurr, England was then fighting lor existence and did in those days what she would not do now nor allow others to do. In discussing the question whether Mason and Slidell were liable to capture as belligerents or contra bands on board the Trent. The Times states It as the opiniori of very eminent jurists that this was not the question to be adjusted by the boats crew. The legal course would have been to take the ship itself into pert for adjudication. It con cludes with the expression that Englisli iron wilkdiscues the question with calm ness and appeal to the Federal States not to provoke a war by such acts. Thirty-Seventli CongreBs. WalliHnicrroN CM, Dec. 12,43.63tATX. , Blair of Mo., rising to a question of privileges, caused to be read the follow ing extract as further explanatory of the remarks which he made yesterday on Mr. Lovejoy's resolution having in view the revoi.ation of a part of Gent. Hal leek's general order relative to fugitive slaves. The resolution it has already been stated was laid on the table: Headquarters Department of the Mis. sonri—Hon. F. P. Blair Washington— My Dear Col. yours of the 4th Met., is just received. Order No. 3. wits in my mind clearly a military necessity. U authorized persons black or white, free or slaves must be kept out of our camps un lees we are willing to publish to the ene my everything we do or intend to do. It was a military and not a political order. I am ready to carry out any lawful instructions in regard to fugitives which my superior may give me to enforce any lax which Con gress may pass, but I cannot make law and will not violate it. You know my private opinion on the policy of confisca ting the slave property of rebels in arms. If Congress shall pass it you may be cee , , lain that I shall enforce it, Perhaps my policy as to the treatment of rebels and their property is as well set out in order No. 13, issued the day your letter was written, as 1 could now describe it. Yours truly, (Sgned.) H. W. HALL - sm. Mr. Lovejoy, of Ills., in explanation said that in introducing his resolution he of course did not desire to revoke an order that o.tneral Llalleck did not mean to make. lie wculd say in regard to himself and others that an attempt has been made to convey the imp cssion that he and others design to support the war not as against the rebellion, but as against s lavery. H e believed in taking away e property of reeels and emancipating their slaves as I the most efficient means of seppreesiog the rebellion. Others might differ from him as to this policy, but while be was not in favor of carrying on the war for the spa mile and ultimate purpose of liberating the slaves ho was against carrying it on for the protection of slavery. He was opposed to the army being em ployed as slave catchers and to giv,. log orders to throw back on the mas ters those who clesie to escape, whether free or slave, black or white. Consequent ly lie thought that if any order had been given to drive slaves back into the hands of the secessionists or into the hands of slaveholders, whether loyal or not, to be contrary to a sound policy in c ,rrying on the war, and suppressing the rebellion. In conclusion, he said if any soldiers went to light simply for the purpose of returning fugitive slaves he had only to remarkithst ..She Army would be stronger without them. Mr. Wilson, of Mass., offered is resolve Von that the Ins;cotor General, Quarter master and Commissary Geeeral of Sub sistence be directed to inform the Senate what articles ought to be sold by Sutlers to the volunteers, and such as best promoted to secure their efficiency. He said that it was necessary that the volunteers now in the ileld should go back without being de moralized. He had in:ormetioSa from all sources that the Sutlers' system, as it now exists, is a prolific source of demoralization and degrodation to the volunteers. 11 Mr. Harris, of New York, was glad that the subject had boon brought before the Senate. He was satisfied that this was a crying evil,. ni believed that the whole sym. tem should be abolished promptly. The resolutom was agreed to- A joint resolution was received fro n the House expressing the feelings of Con gress in relation to the gallant conduct of the late Gen. Baker. It 3forred to the Mil itary Committee A joint resolution from the House in regard to the exchange of prisoners was reterred to the same Committee. Mr. Chandler, of Mich., introduced resolution that the Militexy Committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appointing a Cummirtee of both Houses to retire improper officers from. the army. Mr, Carlisle, of Vit , opposed the resolu tion. He was afraid it was a political de vice tog et political control of the army. Mr. Doolittle, of Wis , offered as a sub• stituto„ that the Committee on Military Affatrs be directed to inquire into the ex, pediency of appointing a more efficient mode for retiring any improper or incom plete officers of the army. The substitute wae accepted and agreed O. Mr. Foote, of Vt., called up the resolu , ion to expel Waldo E Johnson. Senator from Missouri, from the Senate of the United States. After discussion, the resolution was re , ferred to the committee on the Judiciary. The bill to promote the efficiency of the navy, as reported by Mr. Grimes, of lowa, from the Naval Committee, was then taken up. Mr. Grimes explained the bill,and urged its passage at some length. The bill pro vides for retiring officers who have been on the register for forty years. It author+ lass the President to select an officer of the grade of Captain or Commander, and as sign him the command of a squadron with the rank of flag officer. On motion of Mr. Doolittle, of Mo., the time of retiring officers was made forty five instead of forty years, and the bill passed. Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, moved that so much of the President's message as reh fates to the expediency of a railroad to Western Kentucky and Tennessee be re. tarred to a select committee. Agreed to. The Senate then went into executive session, and subsequently adjourned .il' Houor..—The House then proceeded to 'the consideration of the special order, namely the various propositions involving the question of the emancipation of the persons held as slaves by the rebels. Mr. Eliot of Mass., proceeded to ex.% plain and enforce his resolution declaring that the war has , for its object :the sup. pression of the rebellion the reestablish. markt of the rightful authority of the Na• tional Constitution and laws over t he ad tire extent of. our commenconntry a wising that military orders for the eman cipation of tne slaves !be issued whenever the same shall avail to weaken. the power of the rebels in arms, or in sustaining the TIERNAN & GETTY, military power of theloyal forces. Slavery Wholesale and Retail GTOOSTS, he argued was at the root of the rebellion, and therefore is an outlaw. There was no DEPOEWBE AND MUM IN doubt that loyal men should be protected, ' because it should be understood that the WAS, WINES, I,IQ,UORS, ace., Nort men who stand for the right should be h-Bast corner of held close to oar hearts. This war had OHIO STREET AND TSB DLA.ItiOND 4 1 been called an antislavery War. It was , i oin AmariffEb r i , orrsc no such thing. Though slavery caused it and though by it Slavery may be over thrown or removed, nevertheless the obe• ject of the war is to recover the rightful authority of the government and to put down treason. Lot us, be said, do the work autlupon us, and of er that the way will be opened to us as our army advan nes The re establishment of the former order of things world be apparent, Al ready a post office has been pat two operation at Port Royal. Soon - that schco: house anethe church would fol. low, and even in the Palmetto State the banner of our common country will wave over the land.of the free. Treason will be surressed and the rebellion overcome and the rightf.il authority of the laws and Constitution maintained. In the course of his remarks, he said Simon Cameron had done more in three months to raise his name higher among men and the laws of freedom as an opposer of rebellion and treason, than during all his previous long career of public life. Towards the con clusion of his argument, he said it was a definite policy determined upon on the subject of confication, and further eonten• del that as alavery was at the root of this treason it should be eradicated. He quo, ted authorities to show that by the law of nations it was competent and right for the government to pursue the course which his resolutions indicate. Mr. Conway, of Kansas, contended that the conflict which has been prepar ing for nine months has changed its original character. From the attempt to put down insurrection it has settled' into a deliberate war. We have not en countered the enemy in any battle in which we have won an unquestionable victory. Mr. Harding, of Kentucky, obtained the floor. Mr. Netlike, of Illinois, ineffectually asks ed him to give way, as he wanted briefly to reply to the representative from Kansas, Mr. Conway, who has said that the battle of Belmont was a defeat. In justice to the brave soldiers who participated In that ac don, he wanted to hail the falsehood. Mr. Wadsworth, of Kentucky, commen ced a speech, but yielded for a motion to adjourn. Mr. Conway wished to know if Mr. Fouke intended his remark to him as per sonal. Mr. Robinson. of 111., said Mr. Fouke had left the hall. Mr. Richardson, of 111., would say that whatever his colleague, Mr. Fouke, had said on the floor of a personal character ought to be settled elsewhere. Mr. Conway remarked he did not wish to be subject to this imputation of having told a falsehood. lie thought he under stood the proprieties of this Reese as well as any other member. On motion, the House then adjourned Monday. From lii ashington. WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 13 —L - tters received at the Navy Department state that on the 6th inst , Commander Rogers left Tybee Roads before daylight with the steamers Ottowa, Seneca and Pembina, and crossed the bar at Warsaw Sound at half tide. The U, S• forces cpproached the fort on Warsaw Island within a mile, and sent Lieut Barnns to it with a flag of truce, who found it entirely deserted. The fort consisted of an enclosed octagonal work with platforms for eight guns en the water face. The guns had been removed, the platform cut and the magazine blown up. Commander Rodgers states that everything I had the appearance of being vnry recently deserted. The letter also says that from the month of Wilmington river we ob. served a battery bearing from us about N W by W one half W, and distant about three miles. It is on the river, and about three miles distant, and just above a house with a red cupola, which is one of the coast survey points of Ilizugulation, and is about ten miles from Savannah. We counted five guns apparently of larger crlibre on the face of the battery towards us. We could only see one gun upon the other face but there may have been more. We were near enough to see the men on the ram. parts; and the glistening of the bayonets. Commander Rodgers says that a battery on Little Tybee Island would be of no use whatever, although there may have been a signal gun placed there and South of the Eastern part of it, a commanding point of ' observation. The highest point reached by Comman der Rodgers was about eight miles from Warsaw, bearing about ten miles from Sa vannah and between four and five miles from Thunderbolt on one side and Mont— gomery on the other. From Missouri. ST. Josirsli, December 12. --(len. Pren tiss command was to move from Platte city to Richfield on the 11th. A rebel camp numbering three thousand is reported neer Albany. The report that Prentiss had bagged 000 rebels is not true. The woolen factory of Buell ,S 6 Co. was destroyed by fire last night. Loss is une known. SISDALI2., Mo. D. 12.—The scouting expedition composed of part of Merrill's horse and two companies of regular Cav alry returned this afternoon bringing in as prisoners four Captains, two Lieutenants and about forty men. They also, captured one mortar and alarge number of horses and wagons. The expedition went as far a. Waverly. They report 2000 rebels at Lexington. Shelby's men were seen and pursued say eral,times. The report of a fight near Waverly turns out to be false: The man who hauled down the A.meri. can flag at Lexington after Mulligan's sur , render, was arrested here as a spy. From the South. LotrisvlLLE, December 12.—The report yesterday that three Federal brigades had crossed to the south side of Green river is authoritatively denied. Ile information has been received at headquarters here that Capt. B. F. Prime, of Gen. Buell's staff, and Major Relbeft, Sehoeff's staff, had been captured by the rebels near Somerset, but apparently well Informed outsiders say it is true. Johnson, provisional Governor of Ben lucky, in his message to the Legislature, says he will gladly resien his position when MELgofiln shall escape from his virtual im prisonment at Frankfort. R. R. BULGER, ILAITIMCITtnaatOY EVERY DESCRIPTION OF FURNITURE. No. 4b Smithfield Street, PITTSBURch. A F lILL ASSORTMENT OF Pittsburgh Manufactured Furniture, Constantly on hand, which we will sell at the ldragowest for CASH. awl SDIITH Sz PITCAIRN, MERCHANT TAILORS No. 4S ST. CLAIR STREET. zINI7OrI3 - 4 _ _ ;-- POUT OF PITTSBURMV A RRI V ED. • Frank In, Benuoi, Browozvme. (+Whim!, Ola*!rOgroirdie, • Cot. Bayard, PoeEditg;EdzabetX Un • „n 2 cox, Lime Humid, Firdifil,gnileB - tille K e aon, Lontinvilla . 1. - 7 , seri. Diarongo. do John 'F. M'Cornba.leralovntai, WlttAltpipc , r4 DE2PLUTED.g Franklin, Bennet;l3rovitaintlaw , • • •:a -t Gallatin, (hark,- do - Cot. Bayard; PeetgenrEltsabedla. • ;-4 Minerva, Gordon. Wheeling. - g~The River—L at evanin + L' light inert) were ae:en Ise: water in Off and about a stand . , BES,,The Whdolitrg 114410 gits.):ls7 is the steamer J. T. itrOomb...,-Thisboattai the best csraceommodatiaWattd'irritt &aka*. )3srea ful and attentive officers. nal— Capt. ,Freric4's itteltilt#4.ihes amgo, is atuounoeit 1-,r Cincinnati antyLiiiiiiitvillet This boat is A No. 114 e , Ox7;94POOtt MI. The eiel# 3 4et:Piet* - SkePap George D. Moore,oommandirjeOeltforteAlSove rod intermediate portatmEistafitidttesed to see our old friend, Capt.-hturacioli.'asaiir nn the river. r It will be am by referiineCtff our advertising columns that the. fine steamerlaeob Poe, Capt. Stoops, leaves for Cincinnly#lo4ouls , villa on this day. PaseengeriiiildVeliippere sill bear this in mind. Our obi frienXll.ofer will be fonndin the office: fetir The fine pielfefAtisN4Pnptain shtiMan, ilywnottneed jorlit; - PAOI4 She la a gota.bnat and in *be* 40#01461 at tenure officers: For Cluclitatia*4*ll,l4WlS4Ville. SATURDAY. D.t2SDlSTakik , • j rip H E FINE . 6I EAMEB WESTMOREL i. 111). E. - Thin commander. leaves as above. For freight or insrage apply on WOW' For Cincinnati. Cairo and *t. Louis. , t tiAlUaDia, DECEMBEtt 14,16 ik:ift THE fine packet Air7ZQN.24firsi 4a: alimony, , commander,. ' leave for the s•.bovea aNUA l riritenritso7, - ",..1.-1 ate porta SLTURIYAY,I.4tIiini*,, „ ~., -,.,, , ,,4 Vor freight or pa sage apjav • Tart 146 m :cc CO deli P.m LEIM, Agent For Cincinnati and LOUISVMe SATUELDAY toe ~;;; rr HE FAVORITE A. GER steamer :BAY 01171, Z. A Inman, corornander,leaves as . ahore. For freight or passage apply an hoard or to delS LXVINGSTON &CO , Agents For Gincinnatt.Loulavilltifand St. Louis,. SATURDAY DBC RM DER 14ttrt rrHE A NO, 1 STEAIEEit 4 IL PRIMA. 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