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The Union as it Wan
The Constitution its it is!
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 13
air Rena in:itter on every
" RADICAL " HOSTILITY TO
_ THE UNION.
Under-this significant caption the New
York World, a sensible and ably conducted
Republican paper, administers a becoming
rebuke to the traitorous Tribune for its
late announcement in favor of a " Union
As it ought to be. We copy the following
extract:'
"The Tribune is vigorously prosecuting
the work, which it began eight or ten years
ago, of trying to bring the Union into dis
repute and contempt. It then published
a long series of elaborate editorial articles.
dealing largely in conipitialion and statis
tics, to prove that the U Mon entaiiS a large
annual pecuniary loss on every mail. wo
man and child, in the non-slmehulding
Mates. Its present appeal is nut t,i Inca's
pockets, but to their prejudices. It yester
day. arraigned the Union, and drew up
against it a 'speciously formidable bill of
indictment. In making up its six separate
`counts,' it indulges in a license of state
ment .goal to that of the Id criminal law
r.. le, set out by charging the culprit
aci ing wider • the instigation of the
"
It is end! ely impossible that the union of
the States can ever again take place if
Greeley and his school of shameless trai
tors direct the public sentiment of the
country; and even if a. restoration were
consummated to-morrow, how long would
it last if such agitators were allowed to
pursue their accursed vocation? Military
power and coercion might, indeed, enforce
obedience in the South ; if left to them
selves, however, the people there would
again. rush into rebellion, at the earliest
opportunity, for the reason that as long as
tete paper as the Tribune control public
sentiment at the North, Southern men I
would. feel no sort of security in the
Union. •As the New York World truly
states, and as every man in the country
who has a memory knows, the Tribune
has, for the last ten years. been the per
sistent foe to the Union. While Mr. Clay
acid Mr. Webster were alive, their teach
blgs .kept such as Greeley in obscurity;
upon their death, however, the impri:;oned
minds of fanaticism were let loDse, until
the country was rocking in the throes of
dissolution. This fanaticism produced io
counterpart in the South, the consequence
of which is a natim of once contented free
men cutting each other's throats, in a quar
rel produced by a few discunteuted
(nails. Had Providence spared the lives
of the two eminent men alluded to thin
rebellion never would have been begun.
Upon their death, a thousand petty dem
agogues sprung up as leaders, each strug
gling to surpass the rest in his denuncia
tioni of the Union. Southern demagogues
took advantage of this state of affairs at
the North, and in less than five yeer,!
they succeeded in preparing their people
fOr this accursed ;:. n 3 ihri
ago the extreme SQUllern States of Geordie'
and Mississippi voted by majorities to
sustain the Uttiou. In the latter State no
less a personage than the present rebel
President, Jeff. Davis, ices beaten, in a
contest upon the Union issue, for Gover
nor of his State. These majorities have
been ewept away by the violence of the
leading : conspirators; and, if anything
further were wanted to entirslynnite the
Southern people,- it itiurnished by
the Northern ?tutors of the Tribune
school What cueouragement do Southern
U . ethnid in the extreme Abolition
publications or the malty extreme measures
proposed by the fanatics in Congress? It
is not now the simple question of the
"aggressions of slavery," and resistance
to slavery's extension. These people have
advanced, until the cry is now nut only
universal emancipation, - but universal
equality — afterwards. This equality, of
course, means all that the term imports—
the rights of citizenship in its most en
larged sense.
But many sanguine citizens tell us that the
opinions of Greeley and his class are enter
tained but by few, and can not do moth
damage. Such good natured, easy people
are mistaken. These radical opinions are
controlling the newspaper literature of the
North--Greeley himself talking through
his journal to at least half a million of
readers every week—they have control of
the majorities of both Rouses of Congress,
_which majorities are in concert with the
Trilmns, apparently, to prevent a re-union
of the States. True,we have in both branch
es of Congress aglorious little band of pat
riot* conservative men, who are gallantly
dashing back the waves of fanaticism, but
they are very few. Mark the malignity,
however, which pursues these' few. Ob
serve the insolence of Wade, and see the
malignity of Sumner, even towards the
President.- The first calls Senator Cowan
"the watch dog of slavery," because he
observes his - oath to sustain the constitution;
the second attempts to censure the Presi
dent because he im,ect to appoint an Aboli
tionist Military Governor of North Caro
lina. These extremists, and we believe
distutionists, are sustained by a very large I
portion of the itepublican press of the
country. Their vilest acts are pronounced
thoseofpairiots, and those who differ from
them are hunted down with the cry of
"sympathy with the rebels." This class
Of nisi are a thousand times more danger.
ona to the reconstruction of the Union
than ten times their number of open
rebels. The - first can be punished and
destroyed, but the subtle poison of the
other is like - contagion inhaled with every ..
breath.
Naval AppoiSmenta.
Acting Assiiataut, Surgeo9A9s. Welsh
has been ordered to the barque Fernandi
na. Henig E. ftliujes haiTheen appoint
.ed Acting Fi:st Assistant Engineer, and
ordered to tht gat:ou.a zioucnatiFgePuitgr , '
mouth, N. 11. James L. Durance line
bleu appointed Acting Assistant Engineer,
sod ordered to post for duty.
MR. BUMNER,
This pet ot' tle• Gazette ais just now se
c :ring attention from some of oar Repub
te. a cotemporaries. The N. Y. Times
It is . little singular to find Mr. Sumner
so fastidious in regard to the Constitution in
this particularinstance,while he has shown
himself so liberal and lax in every other.
He did not remonstrate against the suspen
sion of habeas corpus by the Execu LT., nor
has he hitherto denounced any of the acts
of the Administration in suppressing the re
bellion as unconstitutional, although many
of them have lacked warrant in the terms of
the Constitution much more clearly than
this. Indeed, Mr. Sumner has openly as
serted the right and power of the President
to emancipate the slaves in every Southern
State, in spite of the fact that such right
finds no warrant, whatever, in the Consii
t ion or laws of the land.
Air. Sumner's sudden scruples. however,
arc susceptible of easy explanation.—
They are solved, like everything , else
which Mr. Sumner says or does, by their
bearings on the negro question. Any act
of the President. which favors or seems to
favor abolition, lir. S. readily suffers to
pass unchallenged. But any act which
looks the other way is subjected to the
sharpest. scrutiny.
•
The Ohio State Journal remarks:
Mr. Sumner stands not much upon con
stitutional questions when pursuing his pe
culiar crotchets; yet he is the first and the
most furious to denounce the acts of oth
ers as unconstitutional when they trench
upon his specialties. He is everywhere
known .rua a most latitudinarian expounder
of the Constitution on subjects within his
particular " range ;" and why he should
now manifest uppugnance to the Presi
dent's which has worked so well
where well administered, as in Tennessee,
we cannot comprehend upon any other hy
pothesis than that it is one of his eroteX
les. —the impulsive movement of a most
impulsive mind.
DESPERATE FIGHTING
Great Slaughter.
The New York Commercial publishes
the following extract of a private letter
from an artilleryman who participated in
the late fight before Richmond. The de
scription of the rebels' steady advance in
the face of such destructive tiring reminds
us of the "old guard" under Marshal Ney,
at Waterloo:
BOTTOM'S BRIDGE, June 1.
About 11 o'clock (ou Saturday, May 31,)
the enemy sent a couple of 6-pound balls
over into our camp, and immediately com
menced the attack by driving in our pick
ets. Our division was quickly formed in
hue of battle: a strong force was sent to
support the pickets, and a rifled battery
of four guns was ordered up to the right
and opened fire. We were all ready for
anything that might come, but not for a
moment did we deem that we bad ou our
hands one of the most fiercely fought bat
tles that has taken place during the rebel
lion. The pickets soon began to fire rap
idly and came running in : while the in
tantry, posted behind a fence to support
them, blazed away into the woods. • fhe
artillery on our right opened fire and min
gted their thunder with the sharp roll of
the musketry. Soon our Napoleon guns
(three of which were posted in an unfiuish
ed redoubt. and three on the left, near a
ride pit) opened with case shot, which went
whizzing through the air, over the heads
of our own men, light into the midst of
the, cumay, and there exploding scattered
death through their ranks. On the left.
the rebels were seen coming through the
woods to flank us, and, wheeling three of
our guns so as to bear upon them, see
poured ease shot among them with niter
am pled rapidity and terrible effect.
The destruction was horrible. Ourspher
kat case shot are awful missiles, each of
them consisting of a clotted mass of seven
' ty-six musket ball:E. with a charge of pow
der in the centre, that is fired by a fuse the
same as a shell. The snsisiM first nets as
a solid shot, ploughing its way through
masses of men, unit their exploding, hurls
forward n shower of musket halls that mow
Id o vu the foe in heaps. Our battery threw
t wenty•toue of these a minute, and as we
had the exact range of every part of the
field, every shot told with frightful effect.
But the enemy were not at all daunted.
They marched steadily on, and hailed a
perfect tempest of halls upon us. Why
we, as well as our horses, were not every
one shot down, will, forever remain a mys
tery to me. We did not mind the leaden
hail, however, but kept pouring our case
shot into the dense masses of the foe, who
came on in prodigious and overwhelming
force; amid they fought splendidly, too.
Our shot tore their ranks wide open, and
shattered them asunder in a manner that
was frightful to witness; but they closed
again at once, and came on as steadily as
English veterans.
When they got within four hundred yards
we closed our case-shot and opened on
them with canister, and,Such destruction
I never elsewhere witnessed. At each
discharge great gaps were made in their
ranks—indeed, whole companies went
down before that murderous fire; but they
closed up with an order and discipline that
was awe-inspiring. They seemed to be
animated with the courage of despair,
blended with the hope of a speedy victory,
if they could by an overwhelming rush
drive us front our position.
• It was awful to see their ranks torn and
shattered by every discharge of canister
that we poured right into their faces, and
while their dead and dying lay in piles,
they closed up, and still kept advancing,
right in the face of that fire. At one time
three lines, one behind another, were
steadily advancing, and three of their flags
were brought in range of our guns, shotted
with canister.
' "Fire!" shouted the gunner, - and down
went those three flags, and a gap was
opened through those three lines as if a
thunderbolt had torn through them, and
the dead lay in swaths. But they at once
closed up and came steadily on, never wa
vering or halting, right through the woods,
over the fence, through the held, right up
to our guns, and, sweeping everything be-
fore them, captured every piece.
When we delivered our last fire,they were
within fifteen or twenty paces of us,and as
all our horses had been killed or wounded,
we could not carry off a gun. Our whole di-
vision was cut to pieces, with what loss I
do not know. 11'e fell back to a second
line of entrenchments, and there held the
enemy in check until reinforcements ar
rived, and then we kept our position till
night put nu end to the battle. This
morning the tight was renewed, and we
have driven the enemy back, and regained
possession of our camp.
Plethora of Money.
The quantity of mone,seeking invest
ment in this city is something wholly un
preeedeatel. The United States allow on
ly four per cent. in cash left on deposit,
and it is difficult to place money at three
per cent. with private parties, on call.—
The_ demand for mortgages is something
iitraoledinary, and is eo greatly in advance
of the sapply that parties are now adver•
tido
ig form'sOgages o n
. farms and country
property in * ad j o ining counties. In
transactions onNtify property the lenders
are, in many cakes, offeriny . to l o the
'commissions -sad ellieuWassallr oe '
by the - borrowirei and
before,raias: L assMpitmiiiis — fall'aftve per
• , t,'-=-Thiesbundanse of money moat:am
u a stimulus to all legitimate business, and
must promote the very desirable substitu
tion of cash for credit in business trawmc
tions.—Phila. Ledger.
THE BATTLE OF FAIR OA-RS.
Further Confederate Aeeintata.
LIST OF SOME CE THE KILLED AND NOUNED
Gen. Lee in Command.
From the Lynchburg Republican. June 2.
RICHMOND, May 81st, 11 P. m.—The
grand drama opened to-day on the Wil
liamsburg road, seven miles from Rich
mond. Gen. Hill's division attacked the
enemy, supported by those of Longstreet
and Huger. General Longstreet com
manded the whole.
The attack was made at one o'clock, and
from two until eight the fight waged inces
santly and with great violence. The ene
my was driven full two miles and their camps
taken by our men. The loss was very
heavy on both sides. The Eleventh Vir
ginia regiment went into the fight at half
past four and was in the thickest of the car
nage. Latham's battery lost nearly all of
its horses.
Prisoners report that the enemy com
menced the fight with 80,000 men, and
were reinforced rapidly.
The lighting was most desperate, the
enemy being protected by their entrench
ments and the woods.
Several hundred prisoners are reported
to have been captured.
RICHMOND, May 31-6 p. m.—There was
a violent rain and thunder storm here last
evening, continuing several hours. About
nine o'clock the city was thrown into total
darkness, the gas works becoming flooded.
A skirmish took place yesterday on the
Williamsburg road, between four compan
ies from the Twenty-fourth Virginia and
Twenty .third North Carblina regiments,
and a Federal regiment. Our loss was
tive killed, including Captain Scarboro; of
North Carolina, and five wounded. The
enemy's loss is said to have been heavy,
including a Colonel and Major.
From the Richmond Enquirer, June 4
Goneral Hill's division went into the
fight on Saturday afternoon at oneo'clock.
The engagement continued until after
dark.. It was a long and bloody one, we
driving the enemy through the woods and
swamps, and taking possession of their for
tifications and encampments. R. H. An
derson's and Kemper's Brigades (of Long
street's division) reinforced General Hill
late in the day, and contributed much to
our success.
On Sunday morning early the battle was
renewed—Rains, (of General Hill's divis
ion) Piakett and Wilcox bearing the brunt.
Huger's two Brigades, Armistead's and
Mahone's, were in the battle on Saturday
for a short time.
This statement can be confirmed by Gen
erals Rhodes, Garland, Rains, Col. Ander
son, end every other brave man. General
Hill commanded both days, and was in
front under fire the whole time. He over
looked everything and received no orders
from his superiors.
The Killed and Wounded in the
Battle.
From the Petersburg Express
The Ist Virginia regiment wag ordered
by Gen. Kemper to charge with .he'rest
of the First Brigade through the enemy's
camp, undergoing a galling fire while do
ing so, frithout being able to•fire a shot.—
Nine men fell dead in the charge. The
following field officers were killed or
wounded:
Lt. Cot. Copper', St. Paul's Louisiana
battalion, wounded.
Colonel Tennant Lonian, Jd Alabama,
Adjutant Johnston, Third Alabama,
killed.
Cufonel Champ. T. N. Davis, Sixteenth
North Carolina, killed and left on the
field.
Adjutant Moore. 161.11 North Carolina.
wounded.
From the Richmond Enquirer, Juno
The Sixteenth North Carolina Regiment
went into action immediately after march
ing, double quick time for two miles, nearly
exhausted with fatigue and oppressed with
heat. Cul. Davis behaved must gallantly.
De was wounded in the left arm 140 severe
ly as to force him to abandon his horse.
L. pun slightly recovering the shock he
started to leave the field, when he was
shut in the back part of the head, the ball
passing entirely through and coming out
between and just above the eyebrow.
Assistant Surgeon J. D. Martin, Four
teeuth Tennessee regiment, killed. Col.
Edmunds, of the Eighteenth Virginia reg
iment was wounded; his horse was shot.
Lieut. Cul. Whittet's horse was shot in
three places. Major Cabell's horse was
shot just in front of a battery. The Thir
ty-eighth has the colors of the One Hundred
and Ninth Pennsylvania regiment.
Col. D. H. Christie, of the Twenty-third
North Carolina regiment, while leading his
regiment, had his horse shot under him,
and was painfully, though not seriously,
wounded by the fall.
Lieut. Cul. R. D. Johnston received a
severe wound in the bead from a Minie
ball, and had his horse shot under him.
Maj. E. J. Christian was mortally wound
ed—shot through the body, and had his
horse shot under him. Adj. J. L. Ferry,
of the Fourth North Carolina regiment,
was wounded and afterwards died.
Three color-bearers were killed and four
wounded in the same regiment. Forty of
the wounds received in this regiment are
mortal. Lieut. Col. H. A. Carrington, of
the Eighteenth Virginia regiment, was
wounded.
General Pickett's brigade went into the
action about ten minutes after the fight
commenced on Sanday, between 7 and 8
o'clock, and remained until the last gun
had been fired.
Major N. C. Willson, of the Twenty
eighth Virginia regiment, wounded in the
face. Sergeant Major J. Harvey Phelps,
of the Twenty-eighth Virginia regiment,
had his arm shattered above and below the
elbow. Colonel Wm. Smith, of the Forty
ninth Virginia regiment, was slightly
wounded. Lieut. Cot J. C. Gibson, of the
Forty-ninth Virginia regiment, badly
wounded.
Maj. Gen. Lee in Command.
From the Petersburg Expree3. June sth.
On Tuesday Major General Robert W.
Lee was assigned to the command of the
army in front of Richmond, in conse
quence of a slight wound to Gen. John
son, and, upon assuming his impcirtant
position, issued an address to the army,
which was read at the head of the regi
ments. Its sentiments created the liveliest
enthusiasm. The address informed them in
a very few words that the army had made its
last retreat, and that henceforth every man's
watchword must be " victory or death l"
the response was cheers' from all the
regiments.
The Blookade of Charleston—
Refugeea.
The Charleston Mercury, of the 27th ult.
says:
" Reports from below state that the
blockading fleet on Monday morning ran
off a propeller which was trying to make
. his harbor. The enemy's vessels fired at
her for some time, when she stood to the
southward. On Saturday afternoon a
steamer was seen among the blockaders,
which looked like a prize. A fast vessel,
a good pilot, a certain knowledge of the
position of your vessel before the day
dawns, and not too much fear of Yankee
shells, are indispensablerequiidtes, now-a
day!, for running the blockade. - -
We regret to learn that many property
holders;in the up country districts and
towns refeasla mat houses to refuses
6ant the_seakcerli t . hot . at'the aele 'tor*
are ready to seLde.kne
treatnient - ti „t, • .dr
u mod
for in general, they can ill pay
heavyrents, much less the purchase mousy
offamik'es. the houses they need to shelter their
lINF!ORTANT FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
&MANUS ONI TINE UNION NONCEO
ON CHARLESTON.
THE GUNBOATS PREPARING TO
ENGAGE THE BATTERIES,
LANDING OF TROOPS ON JA :WES. .1011%
AND lIA TTER LS'L ANDS'
Rumored Repulse of the Union Troops
at James Island.
The Northern papers publish the follow
ing dispatches, taken from late Southern
journals:
CHARLESTON, 411 e 3. —The Federal
gunboats are moving up as it to engage
our batteries. The greatest excitement
prevails, as the gunboats are in sight at
times. Every confidence is expressed in
Gen. Gist's ability to drive the invaders
oft:"
" CHARLESTON, June 4, A. M.—The en
emy landed this morning, two thousand
strong, at James Island, opposite the city.
A battle took place. The enemy were re
pulsed and twenty men taken prisoners by
the forces of General Gist. The prisoners
will be •ant to:Sema, Alabama, immedi„:
ately. There is still heavy firing in the
direction ofJames Island, and it is rumor
ed that a hundred more Yankees have
been cut off and captured."
"CHARLESTON, Jnne 4, P. M.—General
Gist's last dispatch says:
" 'The prisoners taken this morning re
port that theenemy landed seventeen hun
dred strong on Battery Island and on John
Island. The enemy is cow in front of me
in force, and under cover of his gunboats.
An advance is imminent.' "
From the Charleston Courier, .June 2.
Attack on Fort Pemberton.
About two o'clock on Friday afternoon
one of the enemy's gunboats came into
Stono river, and took a position from
which they opened fire on Fort Pember
ton, garrisoned under the command of Ma
jor J. J. Lucas. The post is under the
command of Lt. Col. C. K. Huger. A
brisk engagement of half an hour took
place, after which the enemy retired. The
behaviour of the garrison was admirable.
From the Chat . .leston Mercury, May 31
Gen. Ripley.
In pursuance of orders, General Ripley
on Thursday morning left the scene of
his labors ever since the secession of
South Carolina, to join. the grand army of
Virginia. He was accompanied by Capt.
Leo D. Walker. chief of staff, and Capt.
Frank Itavenel, aid, with Capt. Rollins
Lowndes, Wm. Kirkland aud.lnlian NI itch
ell, volunteer aids.
Telegram to the Lynehhurg Republican. June 2.
Federal Operations in South
Carolina.
CHARLESTON. May 81.—The Courier of
this morning says the enemy, in strong
force, consisting of infantry, cavalry and
artillery, landed at Page Point on Thurs
day morning:and advanced towards Poco
taligo, within two miles of the Charleston
and Savannah railroad. Our forces at
that point, although inferior in numbers,
held the enemy in check until reinforce
ments, arrived. when the enemy retreated
to their boats. the Confederates pursuing
them.
It was thought the ungagtunent would lie
resumed last night or this morning. Two
Confederates are rephrted to have been
killed. Col. Walker's horse was shot
under him at Seeessionville.
At Pemberton the enemy's gunboats
threw a few shells, but they did no injury.
They also shelled Newtown. The engage
ment lasted three hours. doing no injury
to our side. One Federal gunboat was dis•
abled. The Mercury says the mast was
shot away.
From tho S anoah Nctr,.
The Fight at Facet&ligo
The enemy lauded front their gunboats
yesterday morning, one thousand to fifteen
hundred, strong, and suddenly advanced
towards the line of the Savannah and
Charleston Railroad. They had advanced
as far as Old Pocotalign, about a mile and
a half from the road, when they were met
by the Rutledge Mounted Riflemen. num
bering pu men, when a sharp skirmish en
sued. The riflemen, being the only troops.
held the Yankees at hay for some time,
fighting them at short range across the
old road. Just before reinforcements ar
rived the enemy made a precipitate re
treat in the direction of their gunboats,
pursued by Col. Walker, with a body of
cavalry, who clime upon the grotunt just
as the enemy retired.
The Rutledge Mounted Riflemen, who,
our informant says, hid all the first of the
fight on our side to themselves, lost one
man killed and three wounded, with one
or two taken prisoners by the Yankees,
who are reported to have three men killed.
Col. Walker, of. the cavalry, had his horse
shot under him.
The appelirance of the enemy at that
point wait sudden and unexpected, and
their retreat so precipitate that our troops
did-not have a chance to punish ther te
merity. This movement was no doubt a
feint to draw our forces from Charleston :
for if they seriously intended to get posses
sion of the road, their effort was a very
feeble one. The conduct of the Rutledge
Rifle Corps is spoken of in high terms of
praise.
From the Cherleston Mercury,
. A private dispatch from Captain W. L.
Trenhoim, of the Rutledge Mounted Rifle
men, dated last evening, says that the fight
was then over. Dr. P. C. Goddard, a pri
vate in the Mounted Riflemen, was killed.
Private G. C. Hughes was wounded and is
a prisoner in the hands of the enemy. Pri
vate C. J. Lawton was seriously and• pri
vate Robert Stewart slightly wounded. Dr.
Goddard was a practicing physician in
Monroe, Walton county, Ga.
Heenan in England
The salary which Heenan receives in
England for sparring and exhibiting his
muscle is said to be £lOO a week, which
is exactly the amount of the pay of the
President of the United States. Indeed,
so popular is he with the people of Eng
land, that even the glory of his name has
been sought in the person of his younger
brother,
at an offer of some thirty or forty
poundss week, to spar for a rival traveling
company, and whenever the American
Champion shows himself in the streets of
English cities, crowds follow and cheer
him as he goes along.
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Cara must be taken in PurchalisigOls the r e is a
counterfeit of this article. The mum prepared
by the originallarentor. Dr. Untimely. is formate by
SIMON JOHNSON.
Corner Smithfield and Fourth streets.
I:WA6SOCIATE LAW AIIDOE—
DAVID RITCHIE. at present one of the
Assoeiate Law Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas for Allegheny county, will be a candidate
before the Republieen County Convention, for
in tf
nomon for the place be now occupies.
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WASHINGTON CITY, June 12.—House :
Mr. Stevens, of Pa., reported back the tax
bill from the Committee on Ways and
Means. The Senate had made 314 amend
ments,a large number of them being of an
unimportant character. In order to facili
tate definite action,lie recommended a
general non-concurrence in all the amend
ments, and then ask for the appointment
of a Committee of Conference.
Mr. Colfax, of Ind., said he regarded a
Committee of Conference as a necessary
evil, but at the same time they ought to
reduce the disagreeing amendments to the
least possible number and then send the
latter to the conference. He suggested that
the bill would be severely criticized, and
those who vote for it will have to answer to
their constituents. He believed all the
amendments could be considered in three
or four days.
Mr. Morrill said the, Committee on Ways
and Means did not arrogate to itself the
power to overrate the sense of the House.
The proposition of his colleague (Mr. Ste
vens) was merely made for the dispatch of
business; there was a special order for to
day and to-morrow. Until this mamas
he disposed of the committee would not
know what kind of a supplemental tariff to
report.
Mr. Wickliffe, of Ky. , opposed the. course
recommended by Mr. Stevens on the
ground that the members would have no
opportunity of expressing their dissent to
offensive amendments, nor could they vote
against them without voting against the
entire bill.
Mr, Stevens' motion to non-concur with
the Senate's amendment and asking for a
Committee of Conference, was then adopt
ed—yens 80, nays 58.
The House concurred in the report of
the Committee of Conference on the disa
greeing amendments to the Indian appro
priation bill.
Mr. Loomis, of Conn., introduced a
joint resolution recommending that, in ad
dition to the 4th of July, the 14th of June
and 17th of September be &merged as
public holidays—the first to commemor
ate the Declaration of National Independ
ence, the second the adoption of our flag,
the third the formation of the Constitution.
The resoluticin was tabled.
Mr. Haight, of N. C., presented the pe
tition of 171 merchants of New York city,
asking for an extension of time allowed
for warehousing goods.
The House passed the Senate bill defin
ing the pay and emoluments of certain of
ficers of the army, with amendments, one
of which embodied Mr. Arnold's bill to
give citizenship to all volunteers who serve
and are honorably discharged, on proving
one year's residence, and another to pun
ish fraudulent. contractors by trial by
Court Martial with line and imprisonment,
and to bring all contractors under the ar
ticles of war. After debate it was deter
mined that this mode of punishment would
lie more prompt than in the civil courts,
sod it was unanimously adopted. It was,
iu etreet, the proposition heretofore intro
diced by Mr. Colfax.
The house also passed the Senate reso
lution regulating the employment of con
victs in the District of Columbia for their
improvement and benefit. The section for
the di.charge of soldiers confined therein
under sentence.of court martial. etc.. was
stricken out as the Committee on the Judi
ciary will probably report a bill especially
for t hat purpose to-morrow, and to prohib
it the incarnation of such persons in fu
ture.
:.`ENATF.-Mr. Latham called up the res
olution to admit the gentlemen claiming
to he Senators from Deseret to the floor of
the Senate. Laid over.
:llr. Davis. of Ky., ofiered a resolution
in relation to General Buckner.
The preamble sets forth that he had se
duced the State Guard of Kentucky, and
committed treason, and was under indict
ment for treason against the I:nited States
in the District Court of Kentucky: there
fore,
h'esolved, That the said Simon Bolivar
Buckner ought to he transferred to the
civil authorities of the United States, to
he tried for treason, whereof he stands
indicted.
On motion of Mr. Latham, the resolu
tion was postponed till to-morrow.
Mr. Kitson introduced a bill supplemen
tary to the act for the release of certain
dpersons held to service or labor in the
istrict of Columbia.
Mr. Hale introduced a bill to repeal
the act. to prevent and punish frauds on
the part of officers entrusted in making
contracts for the Government.
Mr. Saulsbury offered a resolution call
ing on the Secretary of State to inform the
Senate what amount of money was paid to
Maine and Massachusetts for yielding to
the Ashburton treaty, and what has been
done with the money stipulated to be paid
for certain lands taken by Great Britain,
and if the same has not been paid why not.
Adopted.
The bill for the relief of Lieutenant, now
General U. S. Grant., was taken up and
passed.
On motion of Mr. Latham, the Pacific
Railroad bill was taken up.
Mr. Latham proceeded to speak in favor
of the passage of the bill. He said the
bill before the Senate was simple in its pro
visions and has no objectionable features.
It provides for a road 2,425 miles in length
and for a loan on the credit of the govern
ment of 65,000 in bonds running 30 years,
and the grant. of a certain amount of pub
lic lands.
The amount of public lands granted was
greatly smaller in comparison than the
amount granted to other roads. If the
passage of this measure would in any way
embarrass the Government in these
tronblous times he would not in the name
of his people, ask the Government to move
one step towards the building of this road.
The State of California was loyal to the
government and would continue to
be true to the Union and be the
last State to do anything that would
have the least tendency to embarrass
the Government, but in fact the passage
of this bill can have no effect but a bene
ficial one. The bonds of the Government
will not be due for thirty years, and it has
been abundantly shown that the road must
be profitable; and really the Government
will never have to pay a cent.
The Senate proceeded to the considera
tion of the amendments of the special
committee, the first amendment being to
change the western terminus from the 102 d
degree longitude to the 100th degree.
Mr. Trumbull said he had great doubts
about such an amendment. It raised the
very serious question of the right of the
Government to build a road in the limits
of a State.
Bosros, June 12.—The schooner Filing
Dragon arrived at this port this marbling,
from New Orleans on the 22d, with four
hundred barrels of spirits of turpentine
and three hundred barrels of tar. •
The United States frigate Magus, from
Key West, has been signaled below.
limy Yon', June 12.6—The Memier Geo.
Peabody, fr om Hattersemnoss
.of the schooner Sallie' J. imov,:*w
Baltimore. She had - I
aboard.
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WA F;HINCITON June 12.—The Ra pi nes
has arrived at t ke Navy Yard from Bald
more, for her armameet. 1
Sem
ME VERY
FA :4 ; 110) 411'.1•1_0
Pittsburghers Among the
Number..
Latest From Mosaphis.
PHILADELPHIA, June 12.—The steamer
Louisiana arrived here to-day from White
House with 450 wounded soldiers. Of the
names already published the following are
among the sufferers:
T S Moore, Allegheny, company E 61st
Pa., hand and hip; H Sherpon, Pittsburgh;
co C, 63d Pa., right leg; J Gallagher,
Pittsburgh, co E, 51st Pa., arm; .T Roney,
Pittsburgh, co I, lath Pa., rheumatism;
Wm Stub, Pittsburgh, co B, 61st Pa., leg
and thigh; J Wilson , Pittsburgh, co A,
74th N. -Y., right hand; W D Humphreys,
Pittsburgh, co a, Bth Illinois cavalry, left
hand; G S Bushing, Allegheny, co I 4th,
shoulder; E Smither, do do head; A C
Howard, do do, back; John Tafley, Pitts
burgh, co I, 13th Pa., rheumatism.
hinmeats, June 12.—Quiet prevails
throughout the entire city.
The ready submission of the inhabitants
to the rule of the United States authori
ties
is surprising and gratifying. The civil
authorities continue to discharge the func
tions of their office as heretofore.
The Provost Marshal's office is throng
ed with applicants for permits to proceed
North. All persons are required to take
the oath of allegiance before this permis
sion is granted.
Jackson's rebel cavalry which has been
hovering about the city since its occupation
by our troops are said to have gone to Hol
ly Springs. As most of them are largely
interested in that city, it is not probable
that they will make any attempt to burn it.
The City Recorder was yesterday arrest
ed by the Provost Marshal for causing the
arrest of a citizen for conversing in the
street with a Union soldier.
Rebel cavalry are scouring the country
around Grand Junction, destroying all the
cattle that can be found.
Application to ship 6,000 bales of cotton
has been made.
The Memphis Argus is still outspoken
in its secession sympathy.
The Avalanche is more guarded and in
clined to stibmit•quiegy, and both papers
advise peaceable submission to the Feder
al rule.
Many stores have been reopened and re
sumed business.
Some dealers refuse Confederate money,
but receive Tennessee bank notes.
Two rebel steamers were captured yks
terday.
The markets are rather. sparsely suppli
ed with meat and vegetables.
From Gem. Negley's Brigade.
NASHVILLE. June 12.—A dispatch from
Gen. Negley to Gov. Johnson, announces
the success of his expedition to East
Tennessee. He took 80 prisoners, in
eluding a number of prominent, citizens,
a drove of cattle and a large drove of
horses intended for the rebel army. The
defeat of Gen. Adams' rebel force in
Swedens Cope was more than represented
at first. Adams • Cseaped without hat,
sword or horse.
The rebel batteries at Chattanoga were
silenced on the 7th after a heavy cannona
ding of three hours. Our forces opened
fire the next day and continued six hours
on the towr, driving the enemy out of his
works and forcing him to evacuate the city.
They burned the railroad bridges to pre
vent pursuit. The east Tennesseeans came
out in crowds along the march and cheer
ed our troops enthusiastically, A great
many applications are made at the execu
tive office for passes to Memphis.
Items hens Souther* Papers.
WasitimaroxJane 13.---Richmond
papers received'here contain extracts from
the Vicksburg Press, which testify to the
brilliant operations of our fleet in their
vicinity.
News from Vicksburg on 30th ult., pub
lished in the Richmond Examiner of the
9th inst., says: Two of the enemy's gun
boats amused themselves by throwing shot
and shell into the heart of Vicksberg.—
About one hundred and twenty-five mis
siles were thrown during that time, but
comparatively few of which appeared to
be directed at our forts. We have heard
of no casualties beyond considerably
damaging some private residences and one
or two churches. The report of Vicks7
burg papers state that Desoto Mississippi,
had been destroyed by our fleet, and adds
that but three little buildings now mark
the spot which once glorified in the title
of a city.
The same report says the Federal gun
boats shelled the town of Grand Gulf on
Monday, and their transports landed a
number of troops who pillaged and sacked
the town of everything they could lay their
Lands on.
The Richmond Examiner, of the 9th
inst., devotes its editorial columns to de
ploriag such a fact that there is found no
individual; rendered desperate and weary
of living by the wretchedness this invasion
has brought On him, as to substitute what
may be an 'ignominious suicide for a glo
rious martyrdom, intended as an incen
tive for procuring the assassination of
United States officers who have taken pos
session of rebel territory.
The paper is printed on a half sheet, and
is a striking evidence of the impoverished
condition of affairs in Richmond.
A letter from Staunton, Va., dated June
6th, published in tha same paper, states
that on Sunday Jackson met and engaged
Shields, after the recapture by.the Fede
ral' of Front Royal, taking with it eigh
teen of the Twel ft h Georgia regiment.
The rebels claim to have repulsed our
troops and taken six hundred prisoners.
They give their own loss as being small.
Telegraphic news from Augusta dated
June, reportsthat Gov. Andrew Johnson,
of Teen., was killed in Nashville by a man
named Geo. Brown, who in turn had been
killed.
The same dispatch states that General
Butler had been killed in New Orleans,
but adds that the report lacks confirmation.
Overland Mill Mouined—Coni
ltramitions,
AVAsninctros, June 12.—The Postoffice
Department has received information that
the Oierland Mail Company is now in
readiness to, and will resume its services,
suspended by the Indian'attacks.
In the Senate to-day, A. V. S. Lindsley
was confirmed as Postmaster at Nashville,
and Capt. Albion P. Honsi, Fourth Artil
lery, Brigadier Deneral of Volunteers.
The motion to reconsider the vote by
which Thos. Clowes was confirmed-Post
master of Troy, has been disposed of, and
•
the appointment is now complete.
A huge number' of workmen to-day
broke ground on Pennsylvania Avenue for
tliercommeneenreut of the eity
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Davis is stadia& &patches to O
Halle* we:lmi.
mury Notes.
rime 12.—The excitement
Int the proposed
auditional one hundred and
nroglikins' of United States notes is Tel
;here as unwarranted by the bete
-fhi case. The whole nominal circula
tion of United States notes at this time
is only one hundred and seventeen mil
lions five hundred thousand dollars. Thew.
are in the Treasury to the credit of die.:
bursing officers about thirty two a il
leaving about half a million with 'Which to
meet drafts from the
hundred Of the
hundred and seventeen , , out
fifty-aeien m il lions,. being the amount - wf:,
the demand notes are practically withdrawn
from circulation and hoarded rot Parse*: :
of customs. Of the proposed. new ,4ssne,
therefore, fifty-seven miffions replace ;
the amount thus hoarded, and about COW
millions will be withheld froinielliet:;ili
meet possible demands for tensporarEde
ppsits beyond immediate means. Thus
ninety-seven millions will make no prac
cal addition to the circulation; _ •
It is well understood that the Secretary, •
will in no event issue any part of Om new.
notes if authorized, excepting email notes
to take the place of large ones ia payment
to - the soldiers and other creditors ) prefer
ring them as long as the duties on imports ' ,
or the increase of temporary loan and the.
conversion of United (States notes already!
irsued into five and twenty parboil& yield . .
revenue enough to meet the daily expead=!,
itures. During the present week thus fat'
the income from these sources. luga more,
than met the current expenses, the conver
sion alone has supplied more than zhalf a
million dollars a day, and will probably
increase. Under these circumstances very
little use will be made of the additional
authority proposed to be given to the Sec
retary, though it is thought prudent to
guard against all possible exigencies by
giving it any expansion of the currency
which may take place, therefore it will,not
be attributable to the Treasury Department
to whatever else it may be ascribed.
• Front Washington.
WASIIINGTON, June 12.—Adjnt. Gen-
Thomas was transacting business as tonal
to day at the War Department, This is a
sufficient reply to the statement that he
has been suspended from office. It is not
known to his most intimate friends that
court of inquiry is reported at a distance,.
engaged in investigating any of his'olliaial
transactions. A gentleman of eminence
directly from Headquarters of the army of
the Potomac, expresses the opinion, loped
upon what he learned from interviews
with military.- officers ' that . the ' taking .
of Richmond by our forces is merely*
question of time.
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