Nujor H liileV Kowijjiialioii It is with pride and pleasure that we give place to the following noble letter from Major I Tarry White, of Indiana, Pa the Senator from the Armstrong and In . diana district, now a prisoner of war in | Richmond, and of whose absence thecop pcrheads of that body (it would be an abuse of language to call such men dem ocrats) have taken advantage, in order to put a dead lock upon all legislation in our State. This letter has been in the hawk of Judge White, of Indiana, the father i>l' the .Senator, more than two months; and we think he is very much to blame for witliolding it so long. The son under stands. much better than the father, the lofty sentiment ex pre • ed by the poet iu' this grand couplet: • i- Mure real joy Marccltq*. exilrJ, feel#, Than Cauci w illi u Senate at his heels;' for what is a State Senate to a man who cm write such ;t letter as this ? Or what lire any nan's personal interests, when brought into conflict with the great inter ests of the State and nation, and with the j cause of the I 'nioii 'HIE I.KTTV.R. Liimv Priho.n, ) ITLI IIMO.MI. \'A.. Nov. lxtio! ) Jfn). ./. P. I'ntm/. Sji'ul'o- 1/ it"' S' p nte of I'/mtistflvunia. Dear Sir : Considerations I shall brtcf- Iv state make it prudent and proper forme to tender my resignation as a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania. After the adjournment of our Legislature last spring, I rejoined my regiment and resumed my military duties in the field. I pon the advance of (ion. Leo's army. 'lll Juno last, into the Shenandoah \ alley, on his Penn sylvania campaign, tho forces with which j I was connected were ordered to \\ inches- j tor, and in the battle at that place I fell J into the hands of the enemy as a prison- | cr of war. With other Federal officers I ; was immediately sent to Richmond, and 1 since the 23d of June have remained as j a prisoner in the " Libby." No general j exchange of officers has taken place in the meantime, nor does any appear to me in early prospect. Shut out for long months from friends and the outer world, I have vet not been entirely ignorant of passing events. The recent election in our State has. I learn, altered somewhat from the last FUSION the political complexion of our Senate. My absence, it teems, gives to EACH political party lepresentcd there equal numerical strength. This will, in all prob ability embarrass organization and delay necessary legislation. 1 regret this situ ation. and am unwilling my present pei sonal misfortune should iu any way effect public interest, or interrupt lor a moment • that cordial co-operation between our State or National Government so necessary in the crisis. IT is true, some time must elapse before my presence in Harrisburg is actually required, vet 1 see no hope of release by general exchange, as the liich mond authorities will I am convinced, re tain me as long as pos ihle, be luse 1 am a Senator, and my vote important. I'udcr the circumstances, it behooves ME to do what I can to relieve the difficul ty likely to result from my continued im prisonment. I all) sure you will not doubt me when I confess it would be much more acceptable to lny tastes and feelings to spend the months of- the coming winter in active legislation iu our Senate chamber, than to languish within the gloomy walls of a Southern prison. My present situation places the less agreeable alternative in prospect,and I see hut one solution to the difficulty; other and greater interests are involved in this matter than my personal comfort and pri vate inclinations. My health, ray life are nothing to the success of those great prin ciples I was elected to represent. The good people of my district are chieflly interested in this matter, and my duty to them in the premises bus given me many an hour of anxious solicitude in this weary prison life. t cannot now in any way consult with them ; they should not, however, at this time, be-unrepresen ted. Their generous confidence was but recently given me, and t\iey will, I trust, give the approval of their voice to the step 1 now take, and select as my succes sor one who will be as faithful to their in terests and the great cause of our country as 1. at least desired to be He pleased therefore, to accept my resignation as a Senator, from the. Twenty-First Senatorial District. He kind enough to convey to my brother Senators assurances of respect and esteem. Tell them '• though east down 1 am not dismayed," though in bonds T am full of hope. • Tell them my prayer and trust is, no word or deed may go out . of the counsels of Senate, •• to weak en tho arm or make faint the heart" of those brave soldiWs of the Union who arc bearing in the field to a sure and trium phant success the greatest struggle of his tory. Accept, my donrsir. my kindest wishes for your good health and future prosperity. 1 am. yours truly, Harry White. N-ovv does the reader wish to sec an au tograph sketch oi a copperhead '! If so Tie will find it in the following paragraph with which the editor of the Pittsburgh Past introduces this same "letter. The venom of the creature runs all through it; its baseness, (•■ upon thy belly shall thou go") is seen in the lowness of its wit and style; and its meanness, in the insin untisn- that the letter was written at a la terdat»tlian November. Itisafull-length portrait), asd needs no extra touches from us. Hero it is : 11 arry W hffe —The following letter appears in the Philadelphia Press, and is said to have been written by the absent Senator, dated Jiovember no particular day. Harry must have had earlier news than the rest of us as to the result of close Senatorial districts immediatly after tho October election which determined a tic. How sclf-saerificing to immediately upon hearing the result write his resigna tion, and then attempt to escape for the purpose of taking his seat. Harry is not only smart but how resigned." A« to the date of the letter being cor rect, it is enough for us to say, that the fact of Judge White having received his son's resignation was known and published in December, and we believe in the earl ier part of it—in time to have had. a new member chosan and in his place at the meeting of the Legislature. — Pittsburgh (ia-'llc. • I Rebellion MttsiiiiHl Kehelllon. We have already, ii> a few brief intro- I ductcrv remarks, noticed the most obvious practical point of significance in that fierce ! denunciatory Address, which was found Jby 01 te of our scouts'to be circulating ainong the rfbel soldiers iu Johnson's army, now scattered over parts of Georgia. Alabama and Tennessee—tho.se in the lat ter being probably, for the most part, strag glers and deserters. Hut that most obvi ous practical point of significance, (name ly. the evidence it affords of the perfidy, selfish ambition, and barbarous tyranny of the rebel leaders being exposed at length so unmistakably, that their long misled followers—the rank and tile of the rebel armies—representing the common people, the remnants of what we should have de scribed as the Southern masses, before the destroying angels id' war, pestilence and famine, hail swept their land of its inhab itants—can no longer be kept from seeing the wretched impostors, the blood-stained 1 monsters, in the true light of their own kite sell-revelations.) is by no means ex haustive of the meaning and import of this remarkable document. -As we have already said, this evidence of the growing disaffection of the rebel soldiery towards their haughty and impe rious leaders eneiiurages every brave and true hearted man iu the North to perse vere. with renewed hope and energy, in the work of marshalling anew tho mighty army of deliverance, which must break the chains of the grinding tyranny against which even these long-deluded bondsmen arc lifting up their voices. Hut it may J and ought to do more than this—for it siig- 1 ge.-ts and encourages a deeper thought j and a higher hope, than that of mere mil- j itary triumph, of a mere victory in the field, and a speedy suppression of there- j j bolli'oii.asa consequence thereof. It points, ! i we think, to an accompanying, or coinci- | | dent, moral triumph and victory of tin- ■ 1 measurable proportions and incalculable j | fui oe —the reactionary clement whose bifid- ; marks of feudalism, and other false con structions, can resist; and therefore prom ises to all who participate in the first, or material, success over the slave-mongering conspirator against liberty, a further, and what must be a final success, because it will not merely take away the actual Form . and presence of the AfcrßSF.n tiiino, as even now has been done in a violent Way by the inevitable necessity of the war it . J tell', but also the very possibility of itsrc . , turn, by destroying tho love ot it in the j hearts of its votaries, and the ignorance t in which that love was rooted. — Pittsburgh I (iCtfU'tfa. J Lawyer's Fees in Neiv I'ork. — ] Seine of our eminent limbs of the law are j fobbing immense fees now-a-days ; the in . | comes of the most favored advocates be i ing almost fabulous in amount. I'wenty- I five thousand dollars a year used to be j considered well worth any lawyers while, 1 I and the hope of enjoying c\'en a tithe : of that sum has made many an hum ble bar-tender's mouth water. lint iu i these troublesome and litigious times the j bigger lawyers look upon twenty-five, thir i fv, or even forty thousand dollars as no gn at affair of Ml inline, and retainers ol , | one. two and three tmftsand dollars drop j into their hands with as little concern on i their part as one-tenth the sum was wont 'to pire ten or .a dozen years agone. To 1 prove that political prominence pays, I may instance tlie ease of a leading Ijcni ' j oeratic lawyer who last year received one ' 1 hundred and twenty-live thousand dollars | for conducting two suits, and also the case ! of the most notorious of our Radical Ke j publican attorneys, whose fee, in a certain celebrated Mining Company's law suit. I was one hundred thousand dollars worth ' of the Company's stock—which he " re ' I alized on".at sixty-five cents on tho dol j lar. Just think of sixty-five thousand ' I dollars as » single counsel fee 1 I ought 1 | to add that most of the prominent lawyers of New Vork are in the enjoyment of tn ' comes ranging from thirty thousand to ' seventy thousand dollars a year. Talk about the uncertainties of law ! Surely, • the only doubtful or uncertain tiling about > it—so far as lawyers are concerned—is " whether they couldn't get more if they " had tho cheek to ask it 1 Their motto would seem to be borrowed from Scott's ' M minion— •• ChAinu. Chester. Cll aruk!" Cor. Boston J*ost. lU.m.i, GKNKRALS. —The Richmond correspondent of t-lie Loudon Tekgraph writes on the 2'.tth of Decembor, some curious gossip from the rebel capital. The writer says that .Tefl'. Davis, having de fended Bragg as long as he could, was at last compelled to supercede him after the defeat at Lookout Mountain. Intheehoice of n successor, Hardee, who declined. w;is first thought of. Beauregard was not thought capable of commanding a large army, Longstreet was most valuable as a corps commander, and Joe. Johnson was n'cxt talked of. The writer affirms that he is little thought of in Richmond. It is said there that he does nothing but re treat and assign plausible reasons for his failure to achieve success, lie has had three large armies during the war. and has had no victory except at Manages. It was believed in 1862 lh.»t Richmond would have been taken by McClellan. had John son remained in command. The feelings of < lea. Johnson arc understood to be very hostile to Davis, who, on the other hand, does not rate highly the capacity of the General. He wasaverse to-assigningbim to any important command, after the la mentable experience of the Mississippi campaign last summer. On the other hand, General Lee, and many members of Con gress, have confidence in Johnston, and in deference to them Davis hss yielded his own deliberate judgment in committingto him the command in Georgia. FORT SMITH, AUK., Feb. s.—Captain Russell, General Hunter's Adjutant, was brought here to-day as a prisoner. Gen. ilunter is a son of Senator Hunter of Vir ginia, aud is commander of an Indian brigade under Cooper. It is recommend ed that Capt. Hansel! beheld us a hostage, and the delivery of Quantrell be demand ed for ihe murder of Maj. Curt is, at Bax ter's Spring, last ffcli. General Price, who superceded Holmes in the command of the Department ot Ar kansas. is btill at Longwood, west of Cam •ien. » 1 ?hf American (tithm ■P THOMAS ROBINSON, • Mlt ™ CYRUS E. ANDERSON, j*" 0110 ™- EUTt/ER PA. n i:l>M:si>A v.:i »:n. iw. i*. W. Brcdeit, Win. Vogcley, S. S. Sed wick, ('. Cochran, 15, each 820-, 800,00 ! Jacob Beiber, Harvey Colbert, J. C. Redick, J. B. M'Quixtion, (leorge Frederick, Stephen Bre den, 0, each 818, 108,00 (Ims Wiseman. CaspeT Ri". Miller & Son, F. S. Magee, I'. Brown, J. A. Sedwick, Ash Ly oii, Bickel & Shrivcr, Rcessing & Stein, Martin Beiber, J. Britton, W. S. Boyd, Stephen Gould, Bcv. Fritz, Jordan Eyth, E. Neff, \Y. Siebert, Joseph Mechling, W. M. Spear, Sand. Graham, 20, each 810, 200.001 | John J. Laurent, 9,00 (.leorge Weckbaehor. L. Bishop, 2, each 88, 10,00 Stephen Shmitt, Levis Miller, 2, each 87, }* oo George Vogelcy, 0,00 George Krugb, 5,18 A. N. M'Candjess, Tgnss Steh ley. J( . Elliott,conrad Smith.Tlio. Stelik-y, Gali»iel Kohlcr. Jol.ti Stok. Martin Reiseman. I'hil. VV'eis sirer. JacobKeclc,conrad Koessing, 11. Lint/, P. 11. Mac-key, Alex. Troutman, llen'ry KitfehrniHer, Jnw, Negley, M. Reno, J<«. Kennedy, George Weaver, 11. c. Graham, Daniel Beatty, John Cochran, Jae. Reiching, Jas Shanor, 24, each 85 120,00 Total, *1 ,*BO,OB : E*PENf»:D. 4 substitutes at S2OO, 1 do 8185 1 4 do at $175, 8700 Expenses to Pittsburg and Tele grams, 820.75 ; yad Money, 1700,2.>j Balance on Hands. 1 74,43 L. Mitchell, John M. Thompson, J. Bredin. 1. J. Cummiugs. 11..1. Klingler. It. C. MA boy, Committee. J AUMY or POTOMAC, .)»». 20. —A reb el Captain of the Sixth Virginia cavalry, came into Gen. Gregg's lints a. short time since, stating his desire to take the oath of allegiance, and that he had abandoned the rebel service, because he was con vinced I bat it was useless to bold out lung er, and that, in his opinion, further resis tance to the government of the 1 nited .States would only result in- destroying what, is now left i«i the Confederacy and desolating the entire South. lie says It is madness and folly to combat Fate, now that it is certain th<; South must yield obe dience to'the Constitution and lays of the government from wVich they attempted to secede; ami that the conclusion is very generally arrived «t, though not admitted bv all, that the'sooner tho soldiers in the Southern anuy lay down their a'rnij} the greater is their chance of again being in the enjoyment of liaeic and happiness. The numerous desertions from the reb el army enconr&ge the officers and soldiery of the Army of the Potonlac to believe that, the time is not far distant when there will be a total disruption of the Army of , Northern Virginia. No officer of intelli gence in our army supposes that the reb el army elsewhere ha* been recently rein forced from Lee's command. TheN.Y. Tribune says: The best military minds ill the country are la boring earnestly to impress npon our authorities the vital importance of se curing thorough harmony and active co-operation between the army of the Potomac and the armies under the command of Gen. Grant in the Spring campaign now opening. Properly con sidered, the two forces have but one enemy, and if, with the first weather of the Spring, tho army of the Potomac pressing down upon the enemy from the north, should act in conjunction with the army of Grant moving upon Atlanta, and against the rear of Richmond, our struggle would have reached its conclusion. NUOU'JE.-S *IX 'TIIC'II'HIOND. —.The Richmond Sentinel says: The hi-roof negroes has fallen a considerable sum since the Ist of January, and the agents are somewhat bothered toknow what tc do with them. People are getting tired of paying exorbitant ; Prices for servants, and will do with- I out them altogether before they will submit to such rates as have been de manded. The owners should be sat isfied if they can get persons to clothe and foed their negroes these times of scarcity. TllE "OLD FI.AU''.—A letter from Chat tanooga. alter speaking of the erection of » lofty flag-staff on the peak of Lookout Mountain, from which now floats' the old flag,says:"l must tell you an effecting lit - tle scene that I witnessed when we first crossed Lookout, about the 6th September. We were marching along at'route step' with our colors furled and in their black cases, when we perceived about a dozen of the fair sex in one of those everlasting Southern porticos, watching us as we pass ed. We had got nearly by, When one of the young ladies stopped out to the front and said, Boys, we want to see the old flag.' Oh, such a shout as went up, the men took step, hats without number Went into the air, and the hurrah lasted for a good hour, and the women all cried." grrT" The Memphis Bull din says that "as the stoamer Bertha was coming down the Arkansas liver, on her Inst trip, a man was observed running toward her. onshore, pursued by a party of guerrillas. The fugitive inado signs of distress,aud asked to be taken Aboard. As the boat was loaded with soldiers it was deemed safe to land, so they ran ashore and took the man ir« The guerrillas rode Tip !ttid fired their muskets at the craft, but did