The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-28 00:00:00

lion I care very little, provided always that it be
put down effectually. But, sir, faith without works
is dead, and I am free to confess that my faith
sometimes fails me I mean my faith in
men, not my faith in the cause. Th Treasury
notes issued in the face of these imra: se outlays,
without a revenue from Custom-hour e, from land
sales, from any source whatever, is beginning to pall
in the market. Already have they began to sell at
six per cent, discount at the tables of the money
changers ; at the very time, too, that we here ex-
hibit the singular spectacle of fraud, and of a
struggle with the Committee of Ways and Means
itself, in an endeavour to lift up and sustain the
Government of the country. Already the sutler—
that curse of the camp—is following the paymaster,
as the shark follows the ship, buying for four dollars
every five dollars of the wages of the soldiers paid
to them in Treasury notes. I have no desire to
hasten the movements of the army or to criticise the
conduct of its leaders, but in view of the stupendous
draughts upon the Treasury, I must say that I long
for the day of striking the blow which will bring this
rebellion to an end. Sixty days longer of this state of
things will bring about a result one way or another.
It is impossible that the Treasury of the United
States can meet, and continue to meet, this state
of things sixty days longer, and an ignominious
peace must be submitted to unless we see to it
that the credit of the country is sustained, and sus-
tained, too, by the conviction going forth from this
hall to the people of the country that we will treat
as traitors not only those who are bold and manly
enough to meet us face to face in the field of strife,
but all those who clandestinely and stealthily suck
the lifeblood from us in this mighty struggle."
Mr. Baker, of New York, reviewed the financial
condition of the country, and advocated the passage
of a tax bill to realise 100 million dols. The appro-
priation for continuing the coast survey, stricken
out in committee of the whole, was restored by the
house, and the bill was finally passed. On the 14th
the house resumed the consideration of the bill to
abolish the franking privilege, and after a lengthy
discussion passed it by a vote of 107 against 42. In
committee of the whole the bill making an appro-
priation of 35,500 dole. for the exhibition of Ame-
rican products at the London World's Fair was
taken up, and a lively debate followed, from which
we extract the following :
"Mr. Julian (Republican), of Indiana, made a
speech, maintaining slavery as the basis of the in-
surrection, and that national life and liberty can be
saved only by giving liberty to all.
" Mr. Conkling (Republican), of New York, said
At the extra session a joint resolution was adopted,
authorising the President to do certain things
touching the World's Fair, and appropriating to
carry out that resolution the sum of 2,000 dols. The
bill now before the committee proposes to appropri-
ate 35,000 dole. in addition, to eventuate the pur-
pose of this resolution, End the amendment submit-
ted by Mr. Maynard forms and parcels out and de-
votes to certain specific purposes indicated the whole
or a large portion of the appropriation. Now, for
one, I am opposed to the original bill, and equally
opposed to the amendment offered by the gentleman
from Tennessee. If the question now before the
house is a motion to strike out the existing clause, I
am for the motion. I believe that, at this time, we
have matter of much more importance to do with our
money, whether it be the sum of 35,000 dollars,
or any greater or less sum, than to send any commis-
sion to a fair in England, or to pay freight to Lon-
don on any articles there to be exhibited. We have
a World's Fair now in session on this continent.
We are all on exhibition before the world, and we
are within the sight and within the hearing and un-
dergoing the examination of all Christendom. There
is a competition going on here, a grapple for the
mastery in the fine arts, and in the arts that are not
so fine, and we are destined here, if deserving of
them, without this appropriation, or any portion of
it, to receive premiums and diplomas, and to have
monuments erected to our national industry and
skill, which will stand in very conspicuous places on
the banks and shoals of time. There is a theatre
here, abundant for the display of every species of
national proficiency at this time, affording an oppor-
tunity to record, high up as any man desires to see
it recorded in the Temple of Fame and on the page
of history, American capacity. It is said that it
might seem at this time like turning a cold shoulder
to Great Britain if we were not represented at the
coming carnival of industry of all nations. I do not
think that the English Government—l do not mean
the English people—has been at this particular
time inclined to stand so very much on what I have
heard called the high pints' of good behaviour, as
she has been on some other occasions ; certainly not
so much that we are called upon to devote 35,000
dols. to purposes of urbanity, if for otherreasons we
ought not to do it. I think we have treated England
exceedingly well. If recent reports in the papers
are true, we have extended recently at least one
marked act of courtesy to the British Government
as to the transit of troops. If, therefore, we ought
notior other reasons to appropriate this money, I
think that considerations of politeness will not con-
strain us to do it. I hope that the amendment will
fail, and that every proposition will fail to give, at
this time, one cent. to send abroad from this conti-
nent, to find another theatre on which we may make
on exhibition of any arts or sciences or powers tha
we may possess.

" Mr. Lovejoy, (Republican), of Illinois—l am
very decidedly opposed to this bill. I think it is
enough for us, in all conscience, to have been hum-
bugged, and dishonoured, and disgraced by the
British nation, without now appropriating 35,000
dole. for the purpose of an American Exhibition
there.

" Mr. Kellogg, (Republican), of Illinois, inquired
if it had been through the action of the British Go-
vernment, or of our own Government, that we have
been thus dishonoured and disgraced?
" Mr. Lovejoy—l understand how it was done.
That disgrace was all that the nation could bear.
We marched up to it sweating great drops of blood.
We came to it as Christ went to the cross, saying,
If it be possible, let this cup pass from us ;' and
yet we are required to say that we did it cheerfully
—that we did it gladly—and that we now appro-
priate thankfully 35,000 dols. to fit out commis-
sioners to appear at the Court of St. James's. In-

asmuch as we have submitted to that disgrace, as
we have submitted to be thus dishonoured by Great
Britain, I think the least we can do is to acknow-
ledge it, and to stay at home till the time comes
that we can whip that nation. Then I will be will-
ing to go and appear at their World's Exhibition.
Every time I think of that surrender, the words
come instinctively to me which dEneas used when
requested by Queen Dido to rehearse the sufferings
which had befallen the Trojans during the siege
and capture of Troy—' Oh, Queen, you require me
to renew the intolerable grief of that siege by re-
acting it.' Every time the Trent affair comes up,
every time that an allusion is made to it, every time
that I have to think of it, that expression of the

tortured and agonized Trojan exile comes to my
lips—l am made to renew the horrors which I suf.

fered when the news of the surrender of Mason and

Slidell reached us. _ I acknowledge it, I literally

wept tears of vexation. I hate it, and I hate the
British Government. I here now publicly avow and

record that hate, and declare that it shall be un-
extinguishable. I mean to cherish it while I
live, and to bequeath it to my children when I
die; and if I am alive when war with England

comes. and if I can carry a musket in that war,
I will carry it. I have three sons, and I mean
to charge them, and do now charge them, that
if they shall have at that time reached the years

of manhood and strength, they shall enter into that
war. I believe there was no need for that surrender,
and I believe that the nation would rather have gone
to war with Great Britain than have suffered the
disgrace of being insulted and being thus unavenged.
I have not reached the sublimation of Christianity
—that exaltation of Christianity which allows me
to be insulted, abused, and dishonoured. I can bear
all that as a Christian, but to say that I do it cheer-
fully is more than I can bring myself to. I trust in
God that the time is not far distant when we shall
have suppressed this rebellion, and be prepared to
avenge and wipe out this insult that we have
received. We will then stir up Ireland, we will
appeal to the Chartists of England, We will go to
the old French habitans of Canada, We will join

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I trust the appropriation will be voted down. One
of our commissioners, I understand, is the individual
who writes those pleasant letters, asking us to sub-
mit to insult cheerfully—to smile at this bitter cup,
drugged with the bitterest ingredients that were
ever pressed to human lips, and not to make a face
about it. I don't believe there was any necessity for
this surrender. lam strongly inclined to believe
that we should have been all the stronger for this
difficulty with Great Britain, for it would have
made us feel the necessity of making short work
with the rebels.

" After further debate the house passed the bill
by a large majority.—Adjourned."
The bill reported by the Committee of Ways and
Means, making appropriations for the support of
the army, provides for the support of the army for
the year ending the 30th of June, 1863, as fol-
lows :----

Dols. Cts,

For expenses of recruiting, transportation
of recruits, and compensation to citizen
surgeons for medical attendance .. ..
For purchase of books of tactics and instruc-
tions for volunteers .. .. .. 50,000 00
For pay of the army .. .. .. .. 8,905,318 00
For commutation of officers' subsistence .. 1,574,186 50
For commutation of forage for officers' horses 283,414 00
For payments to discharged soldiers for
clothing not drawn
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers'
servants

180,000 00

150,000 00

71,630 00

Tor pay of volunteers under Acts of 22d and
25th of July, 1861 .. 147,283,282 00
For subsistence in kind for regulars and vo-
lunteers .. • • • • • •
For the regular supplies of the Quartermas-
ter's Department • • • •
For the incidental expenses of the Quar-
termaster's Department 16,000,000 00
For the purchase of cavalry and artillery
horses .. 3,913,680 00
For mileage or the allowance made to offi-
cers of the army for the transportation of
themselves and their baggage, when tra-
velling on duty, without troops, escorts,
or supplies .. 1,000,000 00
For hire or commutation of quarters for offi-
cers on military duty, hire of quarters for
troops, of s' orehouses for the safe keeping
of military storee, of grounds for summer
cantonments, for the construction of tem-
porary huts, hospitals, and stables, and
for repairing public buildings at estab-
lished posts • • •• ••
For heating and cooking stoves
For gunboats on the Western rivers
For contingencies of the army ..
For clothing for the army, camp, and garri-
son equipage, and for expenses of offices
and arsenals 30,630,717 9,
For the medical and hospital department
For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-
General's Department, at department
head-quarters .
For compensation of the clerk and mes-
senger in the office of the Commanding
General ..
For contingent expenses of the office of the
Commanding General .. •
For supplies, transportation, and care of
prisoners of war ..
For amount of fortifications
For the current expenses of the ordnance
service • • • 732,600 00
For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies
including horse equipments for all mount-
ed troops .. 7,380,000 00
For the manufacture of arms at the national
armoury JO
For repairs and improvements and new ma-
chinery at thenational armoury at Spring-
field, Massachusetts ..
For the purchase of gunpowder and lead
For additions to and extension of shop-
room, machinery, tools, and fixtures at
arsenals .. -

.. 58,429,170 80

.. 3,300,000 00

.. 3,500,000 00

.. 75,000 00
.. 1,000,000 00
.. 400,000 00

200,300 00
••

200,000 00

300 00

.. 1,124,576 00
• • 1,620,500 00

.. 1,800, 00 00

.. 500,000 00
100,000 00
10,000 00
10,000 00

For surveys of military defences ..
For purchase and repair of instruments ..
For printing charts of lake surveys ..
For continuing the survey of the Northern
and North-western lakes, including Lake
Superior .. .. 105,000 00
For pay of two and three years' volunteers 50,000,000 00
For payments to discharged soldiers for
lAvtlaisafs sob drorwsa. _ _ _
For subsistence in kind for two and three
years' volunteers .. 26,668,902 00
For transportation of the army and its sup-

50.000 00

plies .. .. .. .. .. .. 14,000,881 00
For the purchase of dragoon and artillery

horses •• •• •• •• •• , , 1 661 040 00
For clothing, camp and garrison equipage 12,173,546 77
For the medical and hospital department.. 1,000,000 00
For amount required to refund to the Sates
expenses, incurred on account of volun.
teers called into the field.. .. 15,000,000 00
Mr. Cameron had retired from the Secretaryship
of the Army. It is alleged that he did not agree
with the President in managing the war on sound
principles with reference to'slavery questions. Mr.
Cameron was inclined to take the Abolitionist view
of things, and advocated arming slaves. Therefore
the President had permitted him to retire, and had
placed in his stead a man who was presumed to be
sound on these questions. The new Secretary, the
Hon. E. M. Stanton, is a lawyer, and has been for
many years a resident:of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylva-
nia. He acquired in his profession a reputation
for great ability, industry, and administrative skill,
and those who are best acquainted with him unite
with those who know him by reputation only, in
according the highest praise to his personal cha-
racter, honour, and integrity. Mr. Stanton is in
politics a Democrat, of very firm principle. In ac-
cepting office under the President it is understood
that he makes no compromise of his principles.
The present necessities of the nation rise altogether
above political distinctions and party names, and,
while the President is a Republican and Mr. Stan-
ton a Democrat, both are agreed in devotion to the
Constitution and the Union, and in approving a
constitutional administration of the war. On the
slavery question it is well known that Mr. Stan-
ton's view, like those of the President, are firmly
opposed to any of the scitemes of proclaiming eman-
cipation or arming the slaves. Mr. Stanton was
Attorney-General in the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan,
at the close of the last Administration, and was
then distinguished for the firm and patriotic course
which he adopted. The appointment was said to
be highly satisfactory to General M'Clellan, and
the entrance of Mr. Stanton upon office would, per-
haps, be signalised by army movements which
would show that the Commander-in-Chief had been
no laggard in the great work.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
World alludes to other probable changes in the
Cabinet :
" The city is filled with rumours respecting the
probablb retirement of at least two other members
of the Cabinet. The Hon. Caleb B. Smith, Secretary
of the Interior, and the Hon. Montgomery Blair,
Postmaster-General, are the gentlemen indicated by
the gossip of the hotels. Mr, Smith, who enjoys
in a high degree the confidence of Mr. Lincoln,
will, it is said, assume one of the vacant seats in
the Supreme Court, while Mr. Blair will decline
any other appointment at the hands of the Presi-
dent. I'eople who profess to know say an un-
guarded letter to General Fremont, in which Gene-
ral Scott and other high officials are criticised, is at
the bottom of this matter. Mr. Holt may fill Mr.
Smith's place, and Mr. Colfax, of Indiana, Mr.
Blair's, but of course nobody knows anything about
it. The President has every confidence in Mr.
Welles, and he is not to be disturbed."
In a collision which occurred on the Bth inst., on
the Michigan Central Railroad, Judge William T.
Barron, of the Probate Court, in Chicago, met
death in a most remarkable mariner. He was among
the passengers on an accommodation train, which
was overtaken by an express train near Hyde Park,
and with the rest of the passengers in a rear car
rushed forward to get out of danger, Just as he
got on the platform of the car the collision occurred.
The force of the collision (hove the platform of the
passenger car under that of the baggage car, so that
by some means Judge Barron's body was drawn
beneath the platform of the latter, where it stuck
fast, while his head was cut smoothly off and hurled
along upon the snow. Both hands were also cut
off
just
above the wrists, one of which was found
only
after a long search. When the head was
picked up the eyes were open and every expression
of the face was as natural as when in life.
The Boston ,Journal of the 13th instant makes