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Friday,. April 25, 1862.
PEOPLES' STATE COMMITTEE.
The members of the Peoples' State Central
Committee will meet at the Continental Hotel
in the oily of Philadelphia, on Thursday. May
let, 1862, at throe o'clock, r. nt., to determine
upon the time and place for holding a State
Convention to nominate candidates for Audi
tor General and Surveyor General, and to
transact such other business as may be pre
sented for consideration.
A. K. M'CLURE, Chairman,
n j°"N M. SeCrelariCB
.AlO. w • ....AMMERSLY,
Tire are in receipt of a communica•
tion from Newton township, complaining in
novere.,terms of the prevalence in Newville,
of the practice of gaining for drinks, and
kindred vices. Our correspondent indidges
in some severe strictures upon the late
grand jury, and other perscms, for their ac
tion in the premises of a recent prosecution
from that plebe, which, while we are led to
believe contain too much truth,nre so objet.
tionable t on account of the personalities
therein crntained, that we must decline to
publish the letter. We hope our reasons
will prove as obvious to "Justice' as to our .
selves.
Stir The Volunteer this week, in its char
acteristic spirit of venom, makes a - covert at
tempt to injure this paper, by the announce
meht that Wm. M. Porter, Esq., has " aban
doned his connection with the Herald." A
more impudent and gratuitous falsehood can
not be imagined. While Rig true that Mr.
Porter is at present in Philadelphia at the
U. S. Hotel, it is an unmitigated falsehood
that ho has "abandoned" this paper ; for the
evidence of which fact we would recommend a
careful perusal of our correspondence from
that oity which will be regularly kept up du•
ring his stay. ''
THE RUMORED DEFALCATION. —The Demo
cratic press of the north is teeming with an
accolint of an alleged defalcation in the War
Department. Their pet traitor Vallandigham
started the howl, ail tho disunionists, even
down to the Volunteer, have caught up the
welcome sound, and are echoing it with their
usual gusto. Now, how many of them will
have the decency to publish the following nu
thoratative denial of the libel
"The'rumor or accusation that defalca
tion had been discovered in the Department
of War, during the administration of that
office by Secretary Cameron, is contradicted
by a distinguished member of Congress, who
says that he has his authority directly from
headquarters."
Gov. CURTIN. has appointed l\lajor Lemuel
Todd, of the Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer
Corps, Colonel of the Eighty-fourth Pennsyl
ktania, in the place of Col. Murray, killed at
the battle of Winchester.—Gerinanfown 751.
The flarrisburg Telegraph says
authorized to state that no appointment has
been made to fill the vacancy created in the
Eighty-fourth regiment, by the fall of the•la
mented Col. Murray. The regiment does not
now number four hundred men, having not
been up to the maximum when it left .Penn
sylvania, and having also suffered severely in
the battles in which it participated.
RETIRING SENATORS--The terms of the
lapwing State Senators expire this year.
to wit: Geo. Connel and Geo. R. Smith, of
Philadelphia; W. W. Ketcham, of Lazerne ;
G. A. Landon, of BrAdford ; L
of Blair; Isaac Benson, of Potter ; A. IC.
McClure, of Franklin , of
Beaver ; E. M, Irish, of Allegheny ; 11.
Meredith, of Indiana, and Dr. Crawford, cif
Juniata. All of these arc Republicans cx
cept the last ramed.
RHCILUITINO STOPPED.—,aiI officers enga
ged in the recruting service have been order
ed to their regiments and notice given to the
Governors of States that no new onirstments
nor new levies will be received until further
orders from the War Department.
The force now in the field is deemed amply
auffioient for the suppression of the Rebel
lion and the speedy termination of the war.
This ordor however is only intended fur the
volunteers.
•nra., The old charter of Connecticut, gran.
ted by Charles 11, end which was hidden in
the Charter Oak, at Hartford, was two hun
dred years old the 23d instant. The original
parohme4 hangs in the office of the Secretary
of State, at. Hartford. Abi centennial cele
bration is talked of. That charter furnished
the basis of government in Connecticut until
the year 1819, and relics of it are interwoven
with the present State Constitution.
THE BRECKINRIDGE DEMOCRATS and BCCCS•
sion sympathizers with the South, who still
abound throughout the North, are busily
at work in an attempt to poison the public
mind,, embarrass the Administration, and
Weaken the Union cause, preparatory to the
re-organization of their party for future po
litical contests. The plan they have adopt
ed is to circulate unfounded rumors of
frauds and speculations on the part of those
having the disbursement of the public mon
eye, as well as rumors of disagreements
between the President and the members of
his Cabinet, and to incite jealousies among
the commanding Generals. Encouraged by
partial success, they are getting bolder and
bolder every. day, and more clearly showing
their hands in the treasonable game cf crea•
ting divisions among the Unio . 4 men in the
Cabinet; in Congress and in the field. Al
most, every day we have rumors from Wash
ingtou that certain Cabinet officers have
resigned, or are about/ to be dismissed-that
tad feeling exists between certain members
of the Cabinet and certain leading officers
°Utile army—all of which have their origin
in'the machinations of the, pro-slavery lead
ere. One of their last dodges was an a,t.
teralitelliirrest - lif Gen. Ca:Moron, In Philit=
delphia, a few days ago, on a 'Civil process,
instituted by, the notorious Slave Fancier,
Pierce . Butler, on a charge of having been
illegally - incarcerated in Fort Warren at the
outset of the war, From what has trans- .
pKirifiet - evident that the conspiracy. ex•
tends throughout the North, and' is really
beconsing' more datigerous to the Union
*tie than the urrneof the open enemies of
the Republic. It is meet that real Union
men nt'albtiarties should keep a watchful
eye Upon theati eecret traitors.
.Tt is proper 'to a.dd„ iii this connexion, that
the-latest a l acciuritsfromVashington, furnish
sUlthei4a4VO,contradictiOns of any. disson-,
tionif iitt . he Cal4no •ini the field. President
Lilitioln'a - administration continuos to 'have
the support of his constitutional advisers,
rind, of : all truly loyal . meisof, paitie t4
t4oughout the , length and 'breadth - 1 of the
land:—Reading fonhiat.-
" Union for the-sake of the Union.'"
Mr. Forney wrote it letter to his Phjladel•
phla Press, a-few days since, in which he
traced the disintegration
_iknd destruction of
the'Democraireparty to the servility of its
loaders to slavery, in a very graphic andfor
manner,-concluding with this striking
.declaration', At this moment, there is not an
old democracic'-statesman, at least among the
survivors of the Jackson school, in the loyal
states, who is not the conscientious foe of the
slave oligarchy " ' And ho refers to such famil
liar names as Bancroft, Dickinson, Tod, Ken
dall and Blair, in illustration of this fact.—
lie might also have demonstrated with equal
conclusivenes that the men now attempting to
reorganize the democratic party in renewed
alliance with the slave oligarchy, are the old
parasites of the Calhoun party, with whom
the Jackson democracy have never had any
real sympathy—a fact which shows how help
less the effort must prove, unless it gains a
temporary advantage through some radical
mistake of the republicans and progressive
democrats. But the very attempt to revive
a pro-slavery party at the North will naturally
consolidate the friends of freedon in one party
- It is easy to see whore the Calhoun (temp
crats rest that hope of success. Their harp
has been a single string, and they play coa
-1
slant ly and vigorously upon that one string.
Their great and violent effort from Clay to day
is to throw upon the republican party the re
sponsibility of the ultraisms of the abolition
ists. They thus keep alive the prejudices of
the people, and attempt to make it appear
that to themselves alone can the country look
with confidence for the restoration of the
Union without any violation of the constitu•
tion or damage to state rights. The Republi
can pat:ty is made more responsible for doe-
trines and measures it has never accepted,
and is nut likely to accept. The hunker dem
ocrats judge that it is their only available
means of growth at present.
It is of the utmost consequence, if we would
not see this war end in new and more humili
ating concessions to slavery, that there should
be a real union of all loyal men against thiit
attempted pro-slavery reaction in the free
states. From this party of progress let not
the people be repelled by any false movement
of its friends. There is a substantial agree
ment in the purpose to limit the institution of
slavery, and to strip it of all political power.
BUNKER HILL
Toombs, whose appeal to the women and
children of Georgia, to burn the bonses - over
their heads whenever the Union army
enter (heir territory, will be_remembered_b:y.
our readers ifs the same bragadoein,,whe . pro - -
tnised that the victori 4ts legions Of the Rebels
should enter Boston, where he intended "to
cull the roll of his slaves in the shatieW•Of
Bunker Hill," As the mountain wouldn't go
to Mahomet, the prophet has gone, to the
moun,ain ; the Boston boys have gone to Geor
gia to t'elch the traitor to the site of Bunker
Hill, and Col. Dimmick is preparing comfort
able quarters for him at Fort Warren. "Tis
possible that he may call his roll as promised
but Gime will be another reeponse Than'that
of the slave to his master, which will salute
his ears An evil day has this war been to
the slaveholder, for which he has to thank
such miscreant Toombs.
MERE
Congressional
In the U. S. Ilouse of Represenatives on
Tuesday, .Mr. s Edwards introduced a bill malt
ing appropriations for the pay of bounties to
the heirs of volunteers, which was referred.
A resolution of inquiry respecting the mili
tary expendityres in the Department, of the
West was adnOted, as also was a resolution of
inquiry respecting the list of brigadiers, and
another directing the War Department to fur
nish printed blanks to the sick and wounded
soldiers or their relatives, to enable them to
obtain their back pay and bounty. Mr. Cox
offered a resolution of inquiry respecting the
contrabands, fugitive slaves, &c., which was
laid on the table r. Dunn offered a resolu
tion, which was referred, directing the War
Department to print 25,000 copies of the rem
ord of the army. A resolution was adopted
instructing the Committee on invalid Pensions
Lo report a bill providing pensions for disa
bled soldiers during the present war. The
Ilouse reconsidered and rejected the resolu
tion about military expenditures in the De
partment of the West. Mr. Diven, of New
York, offered a resolution. requesting the At
torney-General to commenoce stilt against Fre
mont and Beard for the recovery of a suns of
money referred to in the report of the investi
gating Committee.
In the Senate Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, of_
fered a resolution, which was laid over, call
ing on the State Department for a full report
of all the persons arrested by his order in
Kentucky, with the names of those released,
&c. Mr. Hale introduced a bill relating to
the selection of jurors in the District of Co
lumbia. The debate on the case of Gen. Stone
was resumed, and after a long debate and
seine personalities between McDougal and
Chandler, the Senate passed Mr. Wilson'A sub
stitute for the original resolution. After au
executive session the Senate adjourned.
PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES
OUT WEST.
I will be gratifying to Pennsylvanians to
ktasw that the Union gunboat Carondolet,
which recently made the gallant dlish of run
ning the blockade by the rebel batteries at
Island No. 10, on the Mississippi, getting safe
ly into her desired position under a fire of
forty shots, is manned entirely by volunteers
froth the Pennsylvania , Reserve corps, Mc•
Call's division. This quota of volunteers from
the division, for the gunboat service, was six•
l.y men, ton from each regiment, and they left
Gen. M'Call's headquarters ou the Potomac,
afterinspection of the detachmenbby the Gen
eral himself, on Monday morning, the Pith of
February. They are a fine body of men, and
nobly are they sustaining the reputation of
Pennsylvania.
JUST TESTIMONIAL TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN,
—The General Assembly of lowa, has
passed, the following resolution, which was
- approved- by Goy. Kirkwood' on the - 29th - nit.:
Resolved; That we tend to4Abraharn
coin the expression of our cordial approval
and thanks for the manner in which, amidst
unparalleled difficulties and embarrassments,
he has administered gm Government of the
United States from his inauguration to the
present time, and that, -- as we have given to
him an uhwavering support in the past, so
forthe future', retaining an abiding-confi
dence in his ability, integrity and patriotism,
we pledge to him our earnest ,ce:operation,
in all Mich measures - as,he shall deem me t a(
Bite and just,_to utterly and forever •tramsh
the rebellion of the South, and restore once
more to the-unbroken .American.U,nion the'
unquestioned'supeetuacy of the laws , and:the
onstitution.
The. BREMegvninoe Looofocos bavo
Cire'ulated a roport to the effect that tho Na
tional Tax bill, now before Congress oreated
26,006 Itiffi , o94l4, IL , is stated, however, , on
much better authority, that the number of
new officers ereateo by. the bill will, not be 3,
603 fat' the wholo Union, , •
Ending -Agitation in the Right Way.
In reading over, in the Congressional Globe
the record of the Holm debate upon the die:
triet eroanolpation-bill,-welind-striking-evi ,
dances in the remarks of Mr. Diven, of New
York, and of Mr. Dunn, of Indiana, (both
gentlemen distinguished by extremely conser
vative tendencies,) of the general acknowledg
ment of the truth, that the end of national
agitation of questions of slavery is to be found,
not in patch- work compromises, but by exer
cising on the side of freedom all the power
which Congress has, and thus leaving nothing
to be the subject matter of debate.
Mr, Diven said:—
"I wish to say to those who regard this,
[the bill to abolish slavery in the District of
Columbia,] as but the first link in the chain
that is to extend to the interference by the
General Government with shivery in the
States, that I think they are mistaken. I be
lieve they could not do more towards quiet.
-ing the-agitation-of-the-slavery-question-than
by voting for a bill like this, and by-carrying
the same principle to the extent given to Con
gress by the Constitution. The power given
to Congress will then have been spent, and
there will be no more right claimed for Con
gress on the subject."
Mr. Dunn said :
" It igia-doctrine of the Republican -party
that Congress has the right, the constitutional
power, to inhibit slavery in the Territories,'
and abolish it in the District of Columbia, I
believe that the present troubles that afflict,
the nation have come upon us because we
ceased to follow the footsteps of our fathers
with reference to slavery. They evidently
regarded slavery as inconsistent with our
theory of Government, and expected it grad
ually Jo be removed under the beneficent in
fluences of our free institutions. They en
deavored, as best they could, to found this
Government on the broad principles of man's
natural riglds. Their early policy was against
slavery. One of their first great acts was to
exclude it by ordinance from the great North
western
. Territory. They did not regard
slavery as an institution to be cherished and
strengthened, but as an evil, to be tolerated
where it wag protected by State jurisdiction.
"Sir, let us return to the policy of our fa
thers, and then we shall have peace. Let the
nation he divorced from slavery. Let slavery
cease wherever the national authority is
ex
clusive.
_Leaye it in the slave_ States to be
managed solely by those who are responsible
for its continuance there, and then we may
hope that this unhappy agitation in the public
councils of the nation will cease. And, sir, I
must say that in my judgment, in no way
could the representatives of the slave Stat vs
do a greater service to their people than by
aiding to restore the policy of this Govern.
meat to I hat established by Washington and
Adams, Jefferson and Franklin."
These are words of wisdom, and, coining
from such sources, may command art attention
at the S-iuth'whizh may result in an eventual
-acceptance of their teachings.
Lincoln, in his debate with Judge Dou
glas, in 1858, well said that, when the pub
lic mind rested in the belief" that slavery was
in the course of gradual extinction, there was
no agitation, but that when this "belief" was
shaken by aggressive movements tending to
the eternal perpetuation of slavery, agitation
became inevitable, and would continue so long
as this cause for it continued.
If slaveholders have now learnt wisdom—
even if tardily—they will rejoice rather than
complain, if Congress shall follow up the Rho
iition of slavery here, by interdicting it in all,
the Territories, organized and unorgabized,
acquired and to be aeguiretl, and shall repeal
all laws authorizing the recapture, within the
Territories, of fugitive slaves. This is the
EiIIbSiILEICO of one of the sections of the bill
organizing At izona, introduced by Gen. Ash
ley, of Ohio, and of the bill to make freedom
national, introduced by Mr. Arnold, of Illi
nois. Slaveholders have really little or nothing
to hope, in the actual condition of things, in
the way of extending their institution over
new areas, and their best chance to enjoy
whatever of it — may survive this war, is to
submit with grace to such a legal declaration
of a fact, as will take the whole subject out
of the arena of national pohlies.
This is the true wisdom, from the point of
view of th, interests of slaveholders them
selves. "Peace" for them, who, of all others,
should desire peace, connected, as they are,
with an institution most obnoxious to the ill
will of mankind, is only to be found, as Mr
Dunn, who is not their enemy, well says, in a
"return to the polley of our fathers."
Governor Curtin
Notwithstanding the hue and cry raised
against Gov. Curtin a year ago, on trumped
up charges, which a special committee of the
Legislature have since pronounced false_ in
every particular, he has proved himself to be
one of the best chief magistrates Pennsylva
nia has ever had, and just the man for the
crisis. He has exhibited a patriotism and
energy in support of the Union cause, front
the commencement of the war to the present,
worthy of all praise. His activity in the
raising of troops for the maintainance of the
integrity of the Government, has raised Penn
sylvania to the proudest position among the
loyal States, and his care for the comfort of
the troops, has been assiduous frost the start.
One of his last good deeds is the promulgation
of the following special order, which explains
itself:
Kx ECIITI TR CO A
11.titilasiiiiito, April .15, Ibtl2.
[SPECIAL oaaea. I
flaring learned that the bodies of tho Pennsylvanians
who fell at the battle of Bull's Bluff, wore not. properly
Interred, and that they aro now exposed, you will, wlth
the utmost dispatch, proceed to the battle around and
have the bodies either burled there, at Washington, or
removed Into the .sente for Lentil. -
'Lis Just to the meinory of those bravo men, and to
the feelings of their rolatiotb anti friends, that. thar
remains should have the rites of Christian
A. G. OURTIN,
Governor and Commandeoin.Ohief.
Surgeon General 5 , 311T11: • • • •
Surgeon General Smith has already loft,' to
execute this ordel•.
tka„.lnterestiug questions of inquiry in the
science of "Medicaf,Teriography" will grow out
of the experiences of the war, and will chat;
lenge the attention and. study of the Gains of
the land. The ratio of constant sickness in
the regiments varies widely
, among the troops
from the different States. The average num
ber steadily on the sick list for every thou
sand men is nearly as follows
Mon.
New York, (per thousand strong,( 66
Pennsylvania, al 67
• Massachusetts, •62
Connecticut, " , . 49
Vermont, ~, 89
Maine, - - , 1 • . 124
New Jersey. . 86
Wisconsin, •' "76
Indiana, _ " 42
Michigan,• 76
,
Illinois, 166
,
Ohio, 192
=IE2EI
TABLE or DIBT/6KlEN.—Taking Richmond to
be the cOntro, theefollowing table shows at•Ta•
glance the distance of 'different points inlrir•
ginhy from there' : • '-'
From Norfolk to Richmond, is - "( - 106'Odl
" Suffolk to'Richmond,, 85 "
" •Cape Henry to Riolunond, 150 , ft
" .Ilampton to,Riohtnond, . 96 '!
"-• -Fortress Monroe to Riohntond, OD ~"
" 8 .- Yorktown to ItiOhniond, i 0 "
Pr Williamsburg to' Richmond, 'GO "
" 'Fredericksburg
. to Richmond , ' • 65' "
" -Wazihington to Richmond,' 130' •"L
Winohester to Richmond, 150 ," '
" Gordonsville to Riohmond, .70 "
Staunton to' Richmond, 120 "
.
• Five liendred and' fifty thousand hogs
have been packed ip Chicago duripg
prennt Emmen. , ,•• ~• • • ,
Timby's Revolving Fort or Battery.
This fOtiti-acireular structure of iron or
steel of sufficient thickness to resist any pro_
may be usiiiragainst it. Its
sides are pierced for as manyguns as may
be requisite, arranged upon one, two or
more decks,in regular succession, all point.
Sing from . flie centre, anti so placed as to be
discharged each' in their turn as the struc
ture revolves. - Its dome is oval, in the top
of which is a .eircular platform upon which
the chief officer stands, and which is revolved
by him at will , . independently of the . main
structure. In ,the circle of this dome is a
narrow horizOntal aperture, through which
he looks upon - the object of attack, and with
a telescope orindex directs the guns. Each
gun being manned andloaded ns in ordina
ry forts, is discharged in the act of passing
the vertical line of' the index, and always
witl unerring certainty--.the direct: in co,m,
mend haviiig it in his power, by signal to
the gunners, to cause the guns to be eleva
ted or depressed at pleasure. 13y'each revo
lution of the fort or battery, occupying not
over one or two minutes, every gun . is 'dl6-
shaiged at the.desired point. It is revolved
by a steam engine located at any requisite
distance entirely beneath the surface, and
the magazine is also underground, if need
be, in i n opposite direction, and secure from
explosion.
It is claimetl that we have here a combi
nation of well established powers, about
which there can be no mistake, and which,
when brought into action, most, in the effect
produced, be irresistable Whereas, in the
old forts and vessels of war, not more prob
ably, than one shut in fifty hits the mark.
in this fort, with reasonitblc care, nearly if
not quite, every shut is certain to take effect.
These combined powers may be available
equally on land and sea, except that when
placed tipon 'a steamship, instehd of sixty
or one hundred guns as onshore, the battery
may consist of a much less number as a
mattb - r - Of practical • necessity m paiht of
space and weight, as we:l as of economy.
The cost of a land fort on this principle,
we are assured, will nut exceed two thirds
that of a cosemated fortification mounting
the same number or guns.
EMANCIPATION IN THIS DIS
TRICT.
We subjoin an official copy of the act of
Congress abolishing slavery in the District
of Columbia. The bill was signed by the
President 011 Wednessday, and retorted to Con
gress accompanied by a special message
from the President in the following words:
Fellow of the SrnaP
and Butt, , (' Reprc.s-entatives
The. act entitled "An act for the release
of certain persons held to service or hard
Tabor in the District of Columbia" has this
day been approved and signed.
have never doubted the constitutional
authiintv of Congress to aliolt-h slavery in
this District, and I have ever-desired to see
the national capital freed Iron the institution
in some smiSlitctury way Hence there has
never been, in my mind, any question upon
the subject except the expo !limey, arising
in view of all the circumstances. If there
he matters within and about this act which
might have taken a contse or shape more
satisfactory to my judgment, I do not:meting
to specify them luw g rwill,l that the two
principles of compensation and culmination
are both recognized and practically applied
here.
In the matter of compensation it is provi
ded that elMms En ay be presented within
ninety fru% the passage of Old' net,
"hat not theheafie7. - nird thhre is no saving
fur minors, fenfines covert, insane, ur absent
persons. I presume this , is an omission by
mere oversight, and I recommend that it be
supplied Lc an amendatory or supple Mental
act Aillt.tll AM LINCOLN.
I G, 1863
The Tax Bill
Among the provisions of the Tax bill
which has just. passel the House of Repre
sentatives, are the following:
All dividends in script or money, or sums
of money; thereafter declared to be due or
payable to stockholders of any railroad coin•
patty, as a Fart of the earning•n, profits or
gains of the said companies, shall be subject
and pay a duty of 3 per centum on the
amount of all such interest or coupons or
dividends, wherever the same shall be paid.
Duties on dividends of li:e insurance coin
parties shall not be dequed due or collected
until such dividends shall be payable by such
companies ; banks, trust companies, saving
institutions and insurance.companies are
authorized and required To deduct and
withold from all payments made to any per
son, persons or party, on account of any
dividends or sums of ['limey that may be
due and payable as aforesaid, after the first
day of May next, the said duty of 3 per cen
tom,
Foreign bills of exchange or letters of
credit, drawn in but parable out of the
United States, if drawn singly,,or if drawn
in a set of inure than one, according4o the
custom of merchants and brokers, for,u .ery
bill of each set, or drawn in any foreign
country, but payable in the United States,
where the slim made payable shall not exceed
1e , ..)00, or the equivalent thereof in any fur
eign currency in which said b.lls may be
expended—according to the standard value
fixed by the United , States—n stamp duty
of five cents.
(Zit._ anifestToP a part of - the 'cargo of
any vessel, or Custom - House clearance a
duty of twenty five cents.
On a manifest for Custom House entry or
clearance of the cargo of any ship, vessel or
steamer, if the registered- tonnage does not
exceed 300 tons, $l.
On the protest of every note bill of ex
change, acceptance, check or draft, or any
marine protest, whether protested by a notary
public or any other officer who may be au.
thorized by the law of any State •or States
to make such protests, a duty of 25 cents.
Any person who peddles jewelry is to pay
$25 for each license.
Photographers are to pay $lO for each
license when their receipts do not exceed
$5OO per annum,; when over $5OO and under
$l,OOO per annum, $l5 for each license, and
when $l,OOO per annum, $25 for each
license.
Pleasure or racingvessels, under the value
of $600,' tss; not exceeding $l,OOO, $10 ;
and for every additional • thousand dollars,
,$lO.
Qrganl and Melodeons, kept - for use or
hire, according -to value, from 50 cents to
$6.
'The duties and taxes to be assessed in
pursuance of.this act shall be alien upon
the property, subject to the duty 'of tax,
from _the time 'of its assessment antil'it • is
fully• paid. - , H ' • • • •
. There shall Un exempt from.. distraint' the
:toolvor implements of a profession t
ono cow, arms, household furniture, ,provis.
ions kept for :use, and • apparel no_cessury fort
""
Irrato's Drorm—At pm battle of Win . :
cheater; among the acts of chivalry performed
on the field was ono by privrate.Grahain, 84th'
Pennsylvania, lie carried, tho •regimental
'standard. • 'The loft hand, whiChhold it, 'lvati
shot 'olf bat before,the Star
, Spangled
ner fell to the l ground,ho grasped in the re=
maining iutudtmd held it .triamphintly. 'The
right arm - was next': disabled; but before Ott
colors foil,.he was killed by a third' ball: • Ito
was a native of the Emorald , fsle.- . -
WAR' NEWS.
The official account of the bombardment
'Fort - Pulaski itaiett That 'after thirty' hours
continuous firing a practicable breach' was
made, and preparations for-storming were
about to commence when the rebel flag was
struck. We have Captured forty-seven guns,
seven thousand shot and shell, forty thou
sand potinds of powder, three hundred and
sixty prisoners, with their small arms and
accoutrements, and a good supply of provis
ions. One of our men was killed, none
wounded.
General Banks' army steadily continues
its adrancethrough the Shenandoah valley,
and has reached and occupied the town of
New Market;
From Cairo we " have a report that Corn
modore Foote's flotilla had attacked and
- captured - Fort - Wrightovhich must be on.tho
Mississippi, though where we cannot say.
The Norfolk Day Book says that in the fight
at Yorktown the rebels had twenty-five killed
and seventy-five wounded.
There has been a very extensive fire at
Norfolk, which burned a night and a day.
Advi&s from Pensacola say that the rebels
have not evacuated the place, but seem to be
preparing to do so,
From the army at Shiloh we learn that Ge
neral Ilalleck has arrived there, assumed the
command and has his headquarters in the
centre of the army., Gen. Sherman's division
hail advanced two miles further into the inte
rior, after a smart skirmish; in which the
enemy was defeated, with a loss of fifty to
sixty killed and as many wounded.
From the field of Shiloh the official report
is that the dead have all been buried, and the
wounded provided for. There were buried
3000 of Elie Nobel dead and 1600 of ours. •The
rebel wounded number over ,7000.
Gen. 'Mitchell is now at Juka, a short dis
tance in the rear of Corinth, having hurried
the bridges across the Tennessee,nt Decatur
and Florence. At Decatur he cut the tele
graph wires and intercepted - Titne . FlSafeff6iii -
Beauregard to Davis delnanding reinforce
njj!,,!tt,4o Corinth, without which he could not
bold his position. Mitchell answeted the dis
patch and promised the reinforcements.
At Savannah, Tenn., a cavalry skirmish
took place on Wednesday. in which the rebels
were driven off, with a loss of five killed and
sixty five wounded. Sonic of the refugees
report that the rebels are fortifying at Lick
creek, half way to Corivh, strengthening
their works at t.'orinth,•anti have been rein
forced to about 100,000.
Cul. Jennison, of the 7th Kansas regiment,
has been aireuied and sent to Alton, Illinois,
for insubordination.
Gen Banks' army corps has reached Sparta,
in its march southward through the Shenan
doah valley. Owl troops drove the enemy
from lhe hill with artillery and cavalry
charges. Six thousand of Jackson's rebel
army passed through Sparta iu retreat before
his arrival. zl.,Mby's rebel cavalry seem to be
always just near enough to our advance to
skirmish and retreat.
Gen. WDowell made a dashing and success
ful advance, a portion of his army, from
lfatrentou Junction•upon Fredericksburg, on
Thursday, accomplishing a march of twenty
mile, by Ten o'clock on Friday morning
The rebels, consisting of a regiment of infan
try, one of cavalry, and a battery, intercept
ed their route, but were driven across the
Rappahannock, and our troops occupied the
suburbs of Fredericksburg, having pushed
forward in spite of the successful efforts of
the enemy to destroy the bridges, which re
tarded though it did not prevent the pursuit
of our troops. The Ira Harris cavalry played
a conspicuous part in the action, and suffered
considerably. Some hard fighting was done,
but our Wit% wasmot very heavy. The rebels,
however, at:e reported as having been pretty
badly cut tip wherever they made a stand.
Gen Fremont telegraphs to the '\Var De
partment that the rebels, 3300 strong, driven
out of western Virginia, are fortifying them
selves on the crest of the Shenandoah moun
tains.
Gen. McDowell's corps is in full occupation
of Fredericksburg.
Brigadier General Shields has been nomina
ted as a Major General for gallant services at
Muchester.
Affairs in Virginia appear to be rapidly
drawing to a focus. hanks' corps has finally
driven Jackson's rebel horde from the bhen
andoah valley, and be has crossed the moan.
'tains by way of Stanuardsville to Gordons
ville. Thus Banks hoe brilliantly accomplish.
ed rho task allo'led to hint. The rebels front
western Virginia, pursued by Gen ihilroy's
brigade, have also fled east across the moun
tains, and Milroy has no longer any enemy to
contend with.
How Lead and Brass aro Procured
iu Rebeldom.
I From the Mobile Itogltter of March 20J
Munitin, March 19, 1862
Editors ol liar Adeerliser and Register:
GEsirs: I send you, as a contribution to
the Confederacy, the lead weight which was
attached to the striking part or my clock
with the hope that every one, not only in our
city but in the whole Ccniederacy, who may
have such within their reach, will do like
wisp.
[This is a capital suggestion, and will be
apt to strike many of our readers favorably.
—Ens.]
MOBILE ; ➢larch 19, 1862
MESSRS, EDITORS: I - see a call made
through your paper for the ladies of Mobile
to-send their old brass to make cannon for
the defence of our beloved city. I therefore.
send you- my mite, hoping that small as
it is, it may be of some use. With many
prayers for the success of our beloved
cause, I remain, yours respectfully.
Besides a considerable quantity of old
brass accompanying the above, a large lot
of excellent . material was sent iu by Mrs
Mirage.
FATAL CASE OF STADDINO.—An affray took
place in Dillsburg on last Friday afternoon,
between two youths named Win. McKeever,
and Frederick Pentz, which resulted in the
death of Pentz from a stab inflicted in the
left breast, by a knife.in the hands of MoKee•
ver. At. appears that an ill feeling existed
between the two boys, antla_fight:took
between them on Friday morningwhen they
were separated by a gentleman who happened
to be near= byactliu time. In the afternoon
they agaimeame in contact, when McKeever
states that Peturragain made an attack upon
him. Ile then pulled out his pocket knife the
blade of which was two inches long, and
stabbed Pentz, who expired twenty minutes
after reoeiving the wound. " McKeever imme
diately gave himself up; anti was taken before
J.ustico Clark at Dillsburg, who committed
hint to jail.to• answer the charge of murder.
brought to -York on Saturday morn
ing by Constable Deaidiff, and lodged in the
county jail, l MOKeever is quite an intelligent
lodking yotith, and is only "about 14 years of
ago. _llia father and &other reside in Dills.
burg, wlfore, the affray teek place. . ': Pentz
was about 17 years of age, and was an ap
prentice to `the shoemaking business. IDS
funeral took, place; on- Sinday, and Was'Farge
ly attended.— York.Rrytiblican. •
, lam Thl3w . cetera rivora arc in high flood.
Colarnbusorid ' Mound dity arc submerged
Bolow t hionid CUy the Illinois Contra).- Rail
rog trunk itS,tituvieci away.
NEW CONGRESSIONAL APVOR-*
TIONMENT.
Under the Apportionment But recently passed, the
Population and: the party. divisions aro exhibited in the.
.follaivirrelable. For the Philadelphia Dietriate the
vote given le that for Clerk of Oiphan'e. Court, October,
1861. but for all the other Districts WO hove taken the
vote between COATIM end FOSTER, in October, 1.960, that
being the latest available vote:—.
FIRST DISTRICT—PHILADELPHIA.
Second Ward - Rep. Dem. •
1,4 1,075
Third Ward 0 70 70 1,160
Fourth Ward _ . . 682 1.345
Fifth Ward - . 809 1,111
Sixth Ward 672 0:.1
Eleventh Ward 783 '675
Population, 130,329
SECOND DISTRICT-All ILA DELPHIA
First Ward
Seventh Ward
Eighth Ward
Ninth Ward-
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Population, 129, 353. 7,7C3 5,709
, THIRD DISTRICT—PIIILADELPIIIA.
Twelfth iVardi SO7 99S
Thirteenth Ward 1,351 1,140
Sixteenth Ward 1,078 1.181
_Seventeenth Ward7s4 1,547
_
' "
flighteenth - Ward' - " 1,9'61 ' 836
Nineteenth Wald 1,356 1,515
Population, 125,843 7,127 7,217
FOURTH DISTRICT—PIIILADELPIIIA.
Fourteenth Ward
Fifteenth Ward
Twentieth ward
Twenty first Ward
Twenty-fourth Ward
Population, 127,8114 7,490 9,741
PI ETII DISTRICT—PRILADELPIII A.
Twenty-second Ward
Twenty third Ward
Twenly-fifth Ward
iiucks county
- Topulatlon, 119,058.
SIXTH DISTRICT
Montgomery county
Lehigh county
Population, 105,254.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Clu,ter county
Delaware county
Population, 11.1 3 656
MOUTH DISTRICT
Burks county
Population, ',.13,519
NINTH DISTRICT
Lancaster county
Population, 116,315
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Schuylkill county
Lobanon comity
ELM' ENTII DISTRICT.
Northampton county 3.:,07 5.2-19
Carbon county 1,722 1,93,
Nlnnroe county 822 2,113
like ',minty 3:14 .1:1
Way n 0 county 2,610 2,537
Popula Lion, 12.'5,140.
LSTII DISTRICT
Lu romp county
Susq uohnu oft county
Populntlon, 1 _f,.510 10,772
TIHRTEENTii nisTiticT
ti,,,trord COlllll V . ' 1; 1111 i 12.325
Wyoming county l,n 5
Sulltynn county ;51 6 .1 1',4:1
Col uml.la vounty 1. , -IS 2,T.tir,
lontour county 98:1 1,221)
Population, 10.",.0T".. ILI I
FO URA PENT!! DISTRICT.
Northurnhorland county :511 2.512
Union counts -6. 1.h.20 1.(1.)
:•11,1er c•muty 1.701 1.124
.I”llintA roomy 1,503 1,4+:3
thutilllin county 4:535 3,21,2
Population, 121,815
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Cumborland county
York rou n )
Perry county
3:11,n92
S I XITENTII DISTRICT.
Adams county 2,773 2.849
Franklin aunty 4,0.53 - 33;9
Fult , n county 824 t, 1.157
10,11, d county
:.I,lnerset county
Population,l:l2,7', l 2
SF:VENTEENTII
Cambria rounty 2,177 2,5,53
Blair couuty
Huntingdon county
Mifflin county
Population, 101,127
EIUIITEENTII DISTRICT
Tlogn county 4,
Pot tor county
Lvvoming coutlty
Ciint.oll County
Ceatro County
l'opulatiun, I [4,017
m rrE Emil DISTRICT.
Jeffo, , .ll 001111ty
Erie county
NV arr4.ll o+tinty
Mritean enuncy
Elk county
CM1111 , 1,11 eouray
Forest rolloty
Clearfield isiunty
l'opulittitln. 121.314. 12.693
TWI DISTIL] Cf.
Crsvford motility
Mirror re , unty
V•lnango county
Clarion you city
Population, 1 3:01.50
TW ENTY•FIE.ST DisTrucT.
Indlaun rounty 3,672
Westmorland i•uunly
Fayette, county
Population, 13;,352
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Allegheny umrt)
12e,:16-1
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rodlity (part):
Butler ,unty
Arm strong c,uuty
Population, 123,AnT
TIC 17-VOUIZTIL I I6FRTCT
I,:klvronce county
Ben vor county
W/.11 In;; ton enanty
Green° county
Populnl ion, 3 2.3,f357
Congressional vote of October. 1.360.
Also vote of October, 1860. G. W. C.oe got come
votes In this district which are not Included.
Correspondence Between Generale
Beauregard and Grant.
The following cOrreepondence took place
between Gen. Ileauregard and Oen. Grant:
Headquarter', Department of 21fiesislippi,
Monterey, April Bth. f
Stn:—At the close of the conflict yesterday,
my forces being exhausted by the extraordi
nary length of time during which they were
Mr - OW - wit h yours - on that-and tlreipreceding
day, and it being apparent that you had re•
ceived and were still receiving reinforcements,
I felt it my duty to withdraw my troops from
the immediate Beene of conflict.
Under these circumstances, in accordance
with the usages of war, I shall transmit this
under a flag of truce, to ask permission to
send a mounted party to the battle field of
Shiloh for the purpose of giving decent inter
ment io my dead. Certain gentlemen wishing
to avail themselves of this opportunity to re
move the remains of sons and friends, I must
request for them the privilege of accompany
ing the burial party, and in this connection I
deem it proper to say that I no asking only
what I have extended to your own countrymen
und6r similar circumstances.
Respectfully, general, your obd't. servant,
P. T. BISAIIREGARD.
GENERAL GRANT'S REPLY
I.lecttiquarters Army itt the Field,
Pittsburg, April 9th.
Gon. P. T. Beauregard, commanding
Con
federate" Army; Dept. Mississippi, Monterey,
- Tenn.--;Your dii3patch or Yesterday hi juet re
ceived. Owing to the warmth of the weather
I deemed it advisable to have"all the dead of
both parties buried immediately. Heavy do ;
tails were made for this purpose, and it is
now accomplished.
There cannot, therefore, be any necessity of
admitting within our lines 'the parties you
designed to send, on the n grounds asked. I
shall always_ be glad. to extend any courtesy
consistent with duty; dad especially so when
dictated by humanity. ti
I am, General, respecifully, your obedient
servant, ;, B. S. GRANT,
Mijor Gen. Commanding
• parlllr. KELLY, of 'Pennsylvania, stated
that he had received a petition signed by over
16,000 women, citizens of one slave and eleven,
Free States, representing that "believing
the (must; of humanity, and virtue will be ad
vatmed, and future diffct lties in the-National
Go l ieritiiiiiarelfeetualli prevented - by the ex
tinction of slavery "throughnut.our country,'
respedtfullk and earnestly petition that you
will'at au early day, adopt such nmaiures.as
in yetr wisdonalou tort) , tbknkrui)per to ad..
complish (Ws . ' • •
taltimare on Saturday last celebrated loy
ally, in fine style, the annlys,reary of tho
'dreidful scene Which — took place — in that - city
a year ago, when the troops from Massachu
setts and Pennsylvania, hurrying to the res
cue of the national capital, were attacked by
a mob and obliged to fight for their lives.
Ex-May9r Barrett, of Washitigtaiii D. C.,
has declineilto serve as one of the Enianuipa
tion Commissioners.
The navigation of the St. Lawrence is
opened. The ice in Richelieu river has also
brokedgup, sinking several steamers and do-'
ing damage to the amount of $200,000.
5,268
2,004 1,09 0
1,779 - 1,08 8
1,149 99 8
1,185 971
1,040 902
Govenor Harney, of Wisconsin, Wag
drowned at Savannah., Tenn., on Saturday,
might, While stepping from one boat to anoth
er. His body was not recovered. He had
gone to Savannah in charge of hospital
stores from Wisconsin for the wounded sol
diers.
The office of the Brooklyn White Lead
Company, -in Fulton- Street, BtoOklyn, - was
robbed on Saturday night of bonds to the
amount of from $lO,OOO to $50,000.
The New York city bank statement shows a
decrease of $342,208 in loans, and an in,
crease of $76,860 in . specie, $59,820 in cir
culation, and $1,420,277 in deposits.
7,478 002
1,848 1,728
1,702 1,810
1.107 080
1,284 1,225
Heavy freshets in Canada have flooded
many villages, and caused great destruction
of property.
1,307 870
1,234 1,104
51,1 1 3 , 2
6,383 6,1103
An unfortunale affray has occurred in an
Illinois suburb of St. Louis, in consequence
of a dispute between the people and the
railroad authorities, as to the obstruction of
a culvert to prevent the submerging of the
town. The guard charged bayonets on the
mob and wounded several.
MI
9,4J5
5.812 7,392
4,166 4,568
9,973 11,958
The Connecticut river has flooded parts of
Springfield, Hadley and Northampton, so
dint the people have to go. about these
towns in boats.
7.540
3 183 1.9110
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Dr. \V. H. Hammond has bpen nominated
fur U. S. Surgeon General. He is of Penn
sylvania.
(,SB3 10,318
13,012 7,153
FROM THE RAPPAHANNOCK
"or
ITS SUCCESSFUL PASSAGE . _ Mr ATIIE
7,3 , 1 7,067
3,m47 .2,231
ig C 1 1 .60 NE R9AN) A--13T-
WAsIIINGTON, April 23.
The stomper King Phillip arrived at the
Navy Yard this morning and reports that the
steamer Yankee went. up the Rappahannock
river to Fredericksburg yesterday, having cau
tiously passed through the sunken obstruc
tion; its the channel seven miles below that
t own.
8,955 12,722
(3,111
r
Ml,-110
Our flotilla has captured se.ven rebel schoon
ers, one of which has a valtialde cargo of dry
goods, medicines, and saltpetre. They have
also taken two small steamers. It is further
stated that the rebel pickets are occasionally
seen on the south side of the river.
Our troops still command the possession of
Fredericksburg, the residents of which are en
tirely free in their usual business pursuits.
ATTEMPTED ESCAPEOFLIEUT. TROMAS,
THE FRENCH LADY, FROM. FORT LA
FAYETTE.
MS
DE9I
Lieut. Thomas, the French lady, confined
in Fort Lafayette, for transferring the steam
er St Nicholas to the custody of the rebels at
Baltimore, last summer, escaped
,from Fort
Lafyette on Monday night. Ile had procured
number of tin cans; which he corked tightly
and tied shout his waist, when he took to the
water and swain toward Long Island shore.
lle'was discovered be the sentinel and a boat
being put in requisition lie was brought back
and cottyed to his old quarters.
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'2.464 2,:051
2,980
U,OB 11,10
3,W0 2 121
3.1 , 45 217'3
1.723 1,271)
FRANK Lcsrin's Mosrm.x.—Frank Leslie!s
for May, is on our table and presents an un
usually attractive appearance. Some of the
engravings are cxsquisite, while the fashion
plates for this month are unsufpassed. We
have a correct pictures of Gen. U. S. Grant,
the Union General who has so recently clistin
guLffied himself at Fort Donelsom, Pittsburg
landing &c. The Rebel Gen. Buckner. is
also presented, in his livery of treason. On
The whole we know of'no monthly, that is at
once so entertaining and instructive as.
Frank Leslie. Publication office, No 0 City
Hall Square, N. Y.
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1,410 6 , 5
3,015 :10 31
1,750
3,1r.0
1, tiSti 1 103
L, lil3 t
2,112 1,172
1.018 700
421 033
100 I,J.
1.733 2,040
8,513
Gonv's LADY'S Boort, for May, has been
on our table for several days, and a charming
number it is in every respect. Its leading ar -
t icle descriptive ofJerusalem in itself is worth
the price of the number, to say nothing of the
nuinerous other interesting literary pro
ductions with which its pages abound. And
then the ''May Flowers," the "Pashon Plate
for May" containing no less than seven figu
res, (he Riding Dresses, &c, &c, altogether
form a list of beam iful steel and other engrav
ings and other and illustrations vrhieli cannot'
be surpassed, if equaled, in any other period
ical.
5.277 3.179
341.1 2 794
2.981 2.192
2,191 9,2117
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'„1„1.86i 10,718
10,507 6,131
4,4143 43S
3,52.6 '2.54R
3,474 2,10 b
We would advise all our Lady friends to
subscribe for Godey without, deloy. Only $2
MB!
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We learn that Bey. JACOB FRY
pastor of the First Lutheran Church of this
place, owing to his affection of the throat, has
been released by his congregation from all
ministerial duties for several months. Flis
pulpit however will be
.regularly supplied in
the mean titne.43.ev. L A. GOTWALp of Ship•
pensbnrg, will occupy the. pulpit on next Sun
day morning and eveting.
THE GA 111 LAWS.—SpOrt9IIIOII
do well to bear in mind that it is against
the law to kill blue birds, swallows, robins,
or any other insectivorous birds at any sea
son. The penalty for violating this law is
five dollars for every offence.
KEEP A LOOK OUT FOR THEW—Ono
of the most deceptive counterfeits is the two
dollar notes on the Columbia Banlc. They
are very numerous—difficult to detect—and
the safest plan is - to decline ell notes of that
denomination. This is the advice of,the
Collate )feit Detector.
ThIPROVEAENT. — We are right glad to
see that the building committee of the Epis
copal congregation, after having finished
their beautiful church, are going still further
towards be-mtifying and improving the ap
pearance of- our -town, by-filling- up, -and
nicely sodding the square upon which their
church is built.
Those goritlenien certainly deserve great
credit for their public spirit; but wo fear,.
that unless they go still further, and enclose
the square, that vagrant cows and dogi, will
soon destroy what they have taken so much.
pains to itnii.reve.
per' J. W. SMILEY, has just • open6:l3.
an unusually largeanddesirable tielsOrtment
of Spring ;and. Summer Clothing, Boots,
Shoes,. Hats and .all' other 'articles be
longing to a
,Furnishing Establishment. Do
not: fail to give him a call as be promises, to
please you both in goods„and
,Prices. He
will let no man undersell him. "
You pan buy .i yith confidence that goods
will prove tre3ii",as good as reeointhen,ded.
You will find his now store roorn_betw'eert
Herman's Hotel and'Huyett's corner,. Qar•
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NEWS ITEMS.
STEAMER YANKEE
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