SPAY MORNING, MAY Seeding matter on every page The counting sown of the POST is now In the second story of the building-, entranceon Wood or Fifth ittreots, he- log the large and eommodiote% apart ment !lately occupied by the Mercantile Agency. EMANCIPATION. Gen. Hunter, now at Port Royal, south Carolina, has begun to issue free papers to the negroes, entitled, under the Act of Congress, to their freedom, by virtue of compulsory services rendered to the rebels. This is the first act of emancipation of the general government upon the soil of South Carolina; the order is confined to those in rebellion against the Government, and not an indiscriminate edict against loyal as well as rebel slaveholders. One of these freed negroes, has arrived in New York, and many others will doubtless speedily follow. What is to become of them after they do reach the soil of freedom is a ques tion which- our Abolition' pl, ilant h +ph ists should commence considering. What pro vision are these patriots making to re ceive these newly created freemen ? We do not hear of auy. In Philadelphia and New To?;irsevertil of them have arrived, and their Condition is most lament able they are already forgotten. The Oa:retie, yesterday, alluding to the fact of the arrival of one of these South Carolina negroes in New York. gives us the following information: "In Me Union, hereafter, there will be nopriailaged classes; no imperious master, no groom( velcuse, no lordly aristocrat. no cringing ( poor white trade.' We are ap proachufg. a better era: a more glorious and more .permanent state of equality, freedom and prosperity.'' This fello* is mad; that "distracted globe" of his needs cooling applications; he requires blood-letting and moderate diet, "heside castigation and exercise de vont." It is astonishing to thinksiL 'earful mings ac. dominion a ni094)11 , 54k1-T his raring I quire over thcke.: - L 3 how these p oor staves num n e v rr , S - vided for; and sr' - i nothing b act which throws tleun loose upon ~•the coldeherities and hitter prejudices of the world' but a glorious future for us all. NO privileged classes." hereafter; imperious master;" "no groaning slave!" Pittsburgh will, doubtless. soon be call ed upon to receive some of these mann mitted:iliires, and we take this early op portunity to requert . .the Gasetle to com mence Aiirations to suppo-c In:akkiliat they will itt,,tie to sitaL . Ataise selves won't te ,..4er. Our lea novrsrowdej".. - sth white Llesti -161101n1; and, bythei o drate this rebellion is lot dole, we be as poor and rag - gsd iiel ds ,,,r3rein the painted cloth. Like , • the Lreetliii of Italy, we will he preying • arsione another, and looking out to jo;11 association of migrating gipsi es. In vitardf •this wide spread devastation, whiehilaar more likely to visit us than the Godidie!s magnificent future, we would advisa : onr. nasal-twanged neighbor to ap ply to4keeident Lincoln for some snug . little appointment to one of the lately rec _ ognized_republies of Hayti or Liberia. There he'can enjoy "the liberty, equality and fraternity" for which he sighs, and mingle his tears and salutations with this fraternity, upon the progress of liberal ideas in this Western World. If he stays here he*lsliskiik tossitare the general dig tress; Shisdi:im-that 'case, our newly made - freemenWthettar 'keep a sharp lookout. Not evelarmn.bread and cheese parings will be adlit*eineit ; they may enjoy their "liberty" to their, ,heart's content, but - - they uniupa,Axpeck to : enjoy any of the delicate and tender. slices which our co temporary may, occasionally, be able to procure. • In'-view s of this , we again sug gest an appointMent to one of the repub lics alluded to. There our neighbor can *ntitersal_eqnality and amal gamation; he can'pAt'himself at the head of a vast scheme of colonization, and transmit his Owe to an; admiring poster ity, as the stupendous founder of a mighty empire4fie Erst the - World had seen based upon the rare concomitants of "liberty, equality and fraternity.'' This is.the only manner -in whiplike-can ever realize the dream in which he-indulges, contained in the nonsehle•iiihieh ire" have copied at the beginning of theieblise%vatiOns. 'ln the meantime, brother, how fares : the war? 0173 PINANGEAL CONDITION. At thiftSriseiiitinabongress is devoting iM principal attention 'to ferieting out time who have re cielYed the largest con tracts, and moils; the most money dishon estly off the gdieliimetit since the rebellion began. 't Seise lof.thete disclosures are ologlohlllim4Ale4ibst we would direct at- Nation to Ehe following article from the New Yolli4NisifisePost, the 14:ling-Re publican paper efgkekeoluittlylooking, 'as it does, tit pe,prospectiTit.coxidition of our Nations' Treadles*: `" • "We have estimates, fronfttiebeginning, made ap t hathe :Deper,anniag,'•idtiolt; by the way, have hitherto, in every ow, prov ed to beelialdit iin itt of th e ifity.:- ;W e have j r riind ~.' all torts, .re mi l lionsth mn -1 meat is -, 'is t a d a y. now A gaffe _ • ~-, _ _ •aildonr-,eoatrikrietioll • Witeliiitiol ineafiet Oleg glik of Vu n7 .t n anon- Vision Hs it was: essistitittion as It Isl REMOVAL Mr. Moorhead Indignant. Ma. MOORHEAD.--1 would like to know why the gentleman refers to me. I rl.,not wish the gentleman from Massaphusetts, and I will not permit him or any othergeu tleman, to put me in a fuse position. I want to know why I), refers to me. Mr. DAwFs. ---r did not know the gentle man a , as ti n p,..,-, and therefore I would not say th a t,..ae was there. ma - MoortnEan.—The n why refer to me . 0 all? What reason have von to suppose that I was there? Mr. DAWES.—Because the gentleman has avowed himself at this moment, and under all the lights of the present day, an'' ardent advocate and admirer of the man 1 whose character, public and official, I' have been comtnentingupon, and I thought it was but natural he should he invited to such a feast. I hope he was not over- looked. t Laiighter.) I have only to say :hat the papers described it as being a de lightful occasion, hut I remembered, and I think the country remembered, all about the antecedents of these parties, and put the interrogatories. "why, and what tor. and what has it cost ?.. Illegal Contracts the Cause of the Heavy Taxation—Opponi tion,of the Plunderers to the Committee on Contracts. Mr. Speaker. I have a word or two to say upon the suggestion of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. STEVENS) that he would move To discharge the Committee if 'it were only iit order. The gentleman's duties in thi: House and the duties of the Committee have been of a dif ferent description. I have no disposi , Lion to criticise his performance of his.— , I know the ability with which he dis charges them. I know very well what I , encounter in attempting to reply to his at• 1 tack upon the Committee. i have only I to say that his labors and the labors of the Committee are yet to be appreciated.— When the thumb-screws of the tax bill, , which the Committee of which he is the head originated and passed through thel House from time necessities of the times, so nicely adjusted, shall begin to reach. the , bones of the poor, induitrious, intelligent men of time country and force from them.so muth of their hard earnings to replenish the Treasury of the country, beggared and de pleted as it has been during this war, then, I fancy this report of ours will come to be read; then, LlOncy, if his constituents are asintelligent as mine are—and /have no I doubt they are—they will ask him the ques lion, and he will be compelled to answer I it, "where is all this money gone?" They will want to know what was the need of putting out such lavish and unjustifiable contracts—contracts at such enormous and extravagant rates that the owners of them are willing to discount what is ''estimated at $1,800,000 on a single contract, and then save two and a half per cent. commis sion. , They will ask the question, and the Committee of which I am an humble mem- ' ber, which has struggled all this time, - while the gentleman from Pennsylvania, impelled by the necessities of the Govern- ment, has been racking his ingenuity to contrive how to reach the last farthing that can be reached to replenish the Trea sury—this Committee which has been placing their feeble efforts between the plunderers and the Treasury-4re willing to abide that time. They are willing to let this book be read by the side of the tax bill at any time,. and. more especially at that particular - time when 'the Clamps of the!tas bill shall be brought round aboutthe industryand resources of the country, and when my friend from Pennsylvania will be. turning the screw.. If the - gentleman from Pennsylvania (Hr. &evens) had made that motion, and ft e House had adopted it, as I have no doubt they would have I done that day, the Committee then would .have hailed it as a glorious deliverance' from a most - unpleased ditty, which no one mbar-of tas-of it had sought, but which no Cilittrelt himielf at liberty to shrink from. I say to hiss, thereferCthat ff lit will Make a motion to ditchagaths Committee, and will give me the liberty of asking for the yeas and nays on his motion,: that is aide:ire. I will say to him, as an hon ored' and leading member of the party to *bleb I belong, that' a credited at home with being a sincere m of that party for principle's sake, and Ism willing -to do what within me lies to see the anwitmant tion and final prevalence of those4olci ples. Having devoted myself to in the past, I awreadji-to do naoritfor '. - W- :: . I tell him that when he arks this lrespi s a i d s to discharge a committee ?DUI* el - Spleen! 4-'. 1 -' to put themselves and this House betwastt the Treasury and the plunderers. of. it, while he busiewhissoeff with making a tar bill to wrench of the hard sasmings qf army (trait extra- and Avagant to Ni mil meat !Wed is be set .)f this , d with teillkeut as - 't. be ma lt is to meet the ea itures next year for the support of so much of the army as we may still then require to keep in service, al though it is obvious that, under any cir cumstances, our permanent army must hereafter be very much larger than it has been heretofore. Nor is any provision made for the larger permanent navy that we shall hereafter keep afloat. The ordinary permanent expenses of this government, in times of peace. cannot possibly be less hereafter than 3150,000,000 per annum, independent of the interest on the public debt. With the revenue now proposed by Congress there would be a deficiency next year of the whole amount of interest on the public debt—some 570,000,000. Ofeourse, if the present state of war is to continue into next year it is plain that we shall he running behindhand at a frightful rate; at a rate that must speedily prove ruinous to the public credit, and consequently to the the national dignity and strength. The very least that Congress can do, if it would not shrink from its duty, is to provide a permanent revenue of at least $200,000,000 from internal taxation, and a tariff of cus toms to yield 576,000,000 more." The Evening Post is moderate in its basis of calculation; we have nearer seven hun dred thousand, than five hundred thousand men in the field; and consequently our in debtedness, on the first of July will be nearer twelve hundred millions, than eight hundred millions, as the Post es timates. Besides it has not taken into its calculation the iunnense losses--one-third at least of the whole—occasioned by infa mous contracts. In the meantime Congress is fining on, as it the natbin were not threatened with financini distress and embarrassment. . COMMITTEE ON CONTRAcTs.. Mr. Dawes' Speech. The reader who desires information of a peculiar character, we would advise to procure a copy of last Mondays Philadel phia inquii.,:• and read Mr. Dawes speech upon government contracts, since the re hellion he pan. The Speaker, in tixe•awr,...y of his remarks, alluded to theti f y i thin politicians front..P.—"B.Y/v/Xintment ttc Co ,t and thY.l opposed Simon ""ler°l.lße"rwards-rmis •,,,s were us .c to the the Secretary as a ~ c,,11- a g. salve _.ouueing an extensive feast upon cor.- .ession drains. At this Partin lar Gen. Moorhead, who stated that ,inneronis appoint neat was a good one 'or PennFylvaniii. liiienine a little restle,s, and t•Frid REMO a to nytidliethe Amin la the iry, he mud, and. I carat, and the to which we belong must, enterer the lion. why it is.so? The book and the I of the evidence yet unpablishell it 1w hid under a bushel. The Republlesatirairlky. gentleman must reiwember that in List rear of a Republican Adminiatea which came into power apes prefes• . of reform and retrenchment, there is itahle evidence abroad in -the land somebody has plundered the public _reentry well nigh in that eine° year as much as the entire current yearly expenses of the Governnient daring the administra tion which the people hurled from power because of its corruption. While it may be shown that this Repub lican party is not altogether responsible for plundering and profligacy, yet they cannot hold themselves guiltless before the country if they shrink from every ef fort, if they fail to sustain the hands and quicken the zeal of the men, who have put their strength and their life for the past six months to the work; even although they have made a mistake—as doubtless they have many in this late book; even although injustice to an individual maybe, as probably it has been, committed in some instance; a committee which has been de voting itself by day to this work, and rid ing by night upon the cars, finding, that while they are busy at work, that arrows are sent after them from behind to under mine the confidence of the country in them. I say that this Republican party, to which I am as devoted as my friend, cannot hold itself guiltless. I hope the gentleman will take these words kindly from one whose political life, humble and unimportant as it is, is bound up in the principles of that party. He has all to sacrifice for those principles, but he is irreconcilably hostile, here and every where,to the thieving, the stealing and the plundering that characterizes the present time. Sir, I doubt not that Alexander Cummings and those other men have lost confidence in this Committee ; and that in their opinion there is wonderful unanimity among all the public plunderers and their defenders throughout the coun try. I hope it is so. I should feel a dis trust of the Committee if I found that its course was agreeable to these men. The House and the country hold the Commit tee responsible for she truth and justice of what they say, and the country, air, holds yorramttur-and our friends responsible that we do notts4..s-latur aaatt - taudro give the idea that we encouraged and counten anced this work.w forbear. „tFoaitspke4ak plainly to it whether t er s of a friend, but qv ca3rfett t i nyiarferirce:tfuwlh.e:her they bet*, From the Nashcill, A Good Anon, lately estab ished, of A pr il . .. 3 off, we copy the follow ng: ---,,-.,