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WaShingtOn,

washington, April 10.
Gen. Sherman, late Of South Carolina,
has been in town for number Of days,
and has been waited upon by many of his
old friends. The General is naturally
somewhat sensitive respecting the criti-
cisms made in certain quarters upon his
conduct in South Carolina. He has had
an interview with the Congressional del
egation from Rhode Island, and satisfied
them perfectly that he is not responsible
for the non-reduction of Savannah. He
states positively, ! understand, thAt he
was explicitly ordered BY Gen. Mcclellan
to desist from all operations against Sa-
vannah; and this was after regular siege
train had been sent to him for that spe-
cifc purpose General Sherman g friends
feel somewhat sore upon the subject Of
his transfer, and especially because it
gives color to the idea that he was not so
efficient as he might have been. HE
must blame his proclamation for that
EDS. EVE. PosT.
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Jus,ifying the Rebellion.

Our contemporary yesterday published q
most infamous article in Justification Of
the rebels. This article, copied from the
Northwest (ohio) paper. charged the Re-
publlcans with constant series of AZ
gressions and encroachments upon the
rights of the South. The Republican
party Is held responsible for the John
Brown raid in Virginia, and Northern
Governors who declined to violate the
law BY sarrenderiDg accused persons on
insufficient and illegal papers are de-
nounced for criminal completely in shield.
ing assassins, DC. After long rigmarole
OF similar stuff, designed to shift the re.
sponsibility Of the rebellion from the
shoulders of the traitors, and to place i,
on those of the Administration and tbs
Republican party. the writer of the arti
Gle, conscious Of the reasonable tone o.
his sentiments says:
The cry Of "secessionist - and "rebe|!'I
Las no terror for US, and cannot deter u.
from vindicating the truth Of history.
iet, by resorting to such feeble and COW
ardly arguments, the Republican leader,
seek to blind the people. and escape re-
sponsibility for their many crimes. But
they will not succeed. The people vii
investigate the causes that have wrecked
public prosperity, imported the best and
most perfect system Of government ever
devised BY human wisdom. plunged the
country into the vortex of civil war and
drenched the land in fraternal blood.
Chgett,s Constitution Vas industriouslv
eirculsted yesterday 1t the Hospital, and
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THE PREsIDENTss EMANCIFA.
TION POL1OK.
What Democratic Asssnllynsn fhilk Of |,
Letter. from Han, Az Gray Of WaryeH Co.
Albany, N. Y, April IA.

Il
Albany, N. Y, April IA.
Hon. Albert Andrus:
My VERY DEAR SIR In reply your
favor, asking my position in regard TO the
resolution offered by you, in relation to
the subject matter of the proposition by
the President of the United States, grant
ing material aid for the relief of the own
ers Of slaves, would reply that in this, IS
in oil matters Of public policy, / am will
ling to give reason for the faith that is
in me, and why l sincerely favor its adop-
tion.
Judging from circumstances as they
present themselves, am ready to concur
ii the almost universal opinion that the
marked prosperity Of the Free in contrast
with the Slave States, is wholly on ac-
count of, and owing to, the difference in
their local institutions. Whilst the one
is conducive to wealth, prosperity intelll-
gence and stability, the other tends to ig-
norance. usurpation, dictation and AFRO
gance. In the one, capital is labor. and
its distribution is universal; In the 9th.
er labor is capital and controlled by the
few.
From the first organization of this Re
publican Government, the latter has been
deemed hostile to the principles and pro-
gress of our free institutions, demoralizing
in its tendencies. and by portion Of these
United States has been wisely abolished
in their onward and upward march to
greatness.
/ am fully established in my own mind
as to the primary cause of the present
troubles, and whatever may be the result
of the present struggle, it is an establish
ed principle that like causes will produce
like effects. To remove the cause, as far
as may be. without interfering with, or
depriving any one Of their local or legal
rights or privileges, by the incipient means
contemplated by the resolution under
consideration, is, in my opinion the dawn
and beginning Of better days, productive OF
good, and gradually lessening the evils
complained of; and the General Govern
ment can we'll afford to aid the attainment
Of such result. This, TO my mind, is
progressive Democracy-the true Jeffer-
sonian Democracy, to which we a. = Ma
ton ale indebted for our past prosperity,
and which must be our stand point for the
future.
Ny dear sir, am in favor Of the reso-
luton, and shall be pleased to learn that
we can unite in the same general princi-
pie. Respectfully Yours,
THOS. &. GRAY.
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EsnNncf pation In the District Of Co.
lumbia.

The President has signed the bill.
Those who importuned him not to do so
should read over the record here unveiled,
and cover their faces to hide the confusion
produced by their own consciences The
abolition of slavery here will not cause it
to be removed elsewhere. This was not
the design nor the desire of the majority
of those who voted for it. But it will be
productive of good consequences. twill
attract free white labor here. 1t will call
into use and culture our now deserted
lots and suburbs. 1t will employ our
unsurpassed wafer powers. 1t will build
factories and machine shops along our
wharves. 1t will prevent men from spec
ulating in slaves; women from rejoicing
over the birth Of slaves as so much more
money In their own pockets, and will
cleanse the community Of those sympa-
thizers with treason who have infested
this ten miles square for so many years.
l wish my Northern readers, especially
those who have allowed these objections
TO the removal Of slavery from the capital
Of their country to affect their minds,
could zee for themselves what slavery has
done in this single spot.
There has been no prosperous middle
class in Washington. Society here has
been divided, or rather separated, By the
partition between the very rich and the
very poor. Property is not held here by
mechanics who have earned their none :
and worked their way to wealth in their
own avocations, but by successful opera.
tors, Shareholders, place-,nen. aud lobby
agents. The slave traffic, though prohi-
bited BY law, has been successfully carried
on in various ways. The business of
breeding has enriched more than
one pious and praying Secsssionist, and
the youth Of both sexes have, Ia many
cases been reared to rely on the profits 81
slavery, directly and indirectly, and not
upon their own talents of labor: The
product has been naughty. overbearinc
and dictstori spirit, . contempt for I'd
industry and economy, and readiness 10
accept secession as IN escape from con-
tact with the uAdaunted and ao.ahead
masses Of the free States. II those Who
read these letters could zee these thing,
for Themselves, the scales would fall from
their eyes, and, In spite Of party feelings.
they would thank God that Washington.
u last. was purged from blot which ~
long been cancer ut the heart Of the Re-
public, and : stain upon onr country
among the nations OF the earth. Wash.
ipgton Cor. Philadslpia Press.
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FOREIGN NEWS.
NEWS nv sorry OF NEW YORK;

4
Sandy Hook April e.
| Tho new iron steamer Ovieto, built for
War purposes, left Liverpool for Paler-
mo. u is believed she goes to Bermuda
for armament, and takes the Atlantic as
Southern privateer.
The schooner Sophia ran the Charles
| ton blockade and arrived at Liverpool
with 800 bales of cotton.
Politics unimporiant. Manchester mar
ket tirlner, tending upward. Breadstuffs
steady and unchanged Provision steady
and quiet. Consols closed Tuesday $50
a 93a.
Liverpool, April 9.
Breadstufis-Flour active and steady
wheat dull and steady; corn quiet and
steady; pork quiet, tending downward;
bacon easier; lard quiet and steady tai
low dull. Al "a 45s Sd sugar steady;
coffee quiet and unchanged rice dull.
London, April g. BreadstufTs dull but
steady; sugar downward coffee firm
tea quiet but firm; rice heavy; tallow
steady, 46 @ 4tid Be- Erie shares 33A
% S84 /. q. - q "A discount
The Sumter was still at Gibraltar, and
the Tuscarora at Algerias. On the Sd
the sloop of war Kearsage, after = two
days visit to Gibraltar, left for the West.
In Parliament D'Israel made an attack
on Gladstone's financial policy and Bud
get. The latter spoke strongly in defense.
A general debate ensued, in the course of
which Bentrict attributed the distress of
the country to its incompetent, inhu-
man policy in refusing to recognize the
Confederate States.
The question of shielded sioops and
floating batteries continues 10 occupy the
attention OF the Government The ship
wrights have all been transferred from
the wooden to iron vessels in course Of
construction. A proposition was before
the Common Council of London 10 confer
the freedom Of the city in gold box on
Mr. Peabody for his magniGcence.
The crops Of England and France are
reported ~ most favorable.
Queenstown, April 10,--Governmen
has contracted for an iron cupola ship
under Capt. Coles invention, TO be ready
for sea June LIST 1868. Experiments
with gun Of large size showed the best
and hitherto considered invulnerable
forms Of iron sides were, 80 to speak, Al
most - easily penetrable By shot as il
targets had been made of timber Sir
WIN. Armstrong says that gun Of Ie
tons weight fred with charge Of fifty
pounds Of powder, viii break through the
sides Of the Warrior or the strongest ships
a6ost. A target like tho Warriors side
Was shattered into crumbs u the trial 49,
The Times says no weapon Of ofFense or
defense seems left us now 80 effective NJ
large armor clad, and very swift steam
rams,
Liverpool, April loih.-- BreadstuRs
quiet and unchanged. Provisions quiet
and steady.
London. April 10th - Consols 934 a.
ga. !. c. shares as a Az discount
Erie 33i.
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1ekoe In East -. Louis.
st. Louis, April 81

A riot occurred in East St. Louis on
Saturday night, in which three men were
injured. In consequences of high water
in the river the inhabitants stopped up .
culvert on the Ohio and Mississippi Rail
road, to prevent the town being sub
merged. The Road Master fearing the
track would be washed away, proceeded
with track hands to remove the obstruc-
tions. They we're met by crowd, who
ordered them of. The matter was re-
ferred to the Provost Marshal, who sent
over guard Of 90 men to qsell the dis
turbance and protect the Railroad men,
They found Is or hundred men assem-
bled to prevent the distractions being
ramoved. The crowd was ordered away.
but refused TO 90, and the guard advanced
Several shots were fired at them, but no
one injured. The guard then charged
bAvonets in the crowd and three men
were injured, one seriously.
Yesterday Col. Parsons and II. NJ.
Bacon, President Of the road, went over
to oxamine into the matter, and decided
to allow the obstructions to remain, -
their removal involved the destruction Of
vast amount Of properly. It i doubt
full whcther the embankment OF the road
will prevent the town being submerged, ~
the road is nearly oysrdoxed in several
places.
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The freshet in the Connecticut river &C
this point u the greatest ever known.
At nine o'clock this evening the water
had fallen fifteen inches and is still reced-
ing slowly 1t Northampton the water i
two feet higher than ever before, and Il
Hadley there is no land to be seen and
the inhabitants 50 from house to house in
boata.
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The Senate to-day confirmed the no.
animation Of 6am'l Vinton and Daniel r.
Goodlos ~ Commissioners to abolish
slavery in the District Of Columbia also
the following: F. Hints, Of Missouri,
Lieutenant il the First infantry for pal
lantry 1t Springfield and for faithful
service to Gen. Lyon John s. Fillmore,
Of Colorado, to be IN additional paymaster;
VIM. A. Warrea, Of Iowa, Asst. Quarter
Master; p. Allen, of Illinois, Commits
sary Of Subsistence Geo. F. Noyes,
Commissary Of Subsistence Lieut.. Benz.
+. Smith, Of Illinois, and Shsriden Wall
Asst General; Stephen F. Elliot, Of Ca
lifornia, to be Brigade Surgeon; Alfred
Russell, q. s. Attorney for Aichigan. -
II i stated DR.. VIM. A. Hammond, OF
Pennsylvania, has been designated for the
position Of Surgeon 0snerai Of the u. ..
army.
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BEN PRENTIss IN RIoHMoND.-The
Richmond Dispatch states tina. General
Prentiss was taken to Richmond for safe
keeping.
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Ereshcts In Canada.
ga ~

There are heavy freshets prevailing
throughout Lower Canada. Many villa
gee .re accded end there he beer ..rc.t
destruction Of property. The locks and
dams near Ottawa are in danger. Tho
Western trains have been interrupted for
the last three days. The road is washed
ont near Cornwall, but il expected to get
right to-day.
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s Judging from his bulletins and
his speeches Beauregard must be great
liar as well as hard swearer. But our
contemporary can beat his best efforts in
that line any day and not half try.
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matters IN North Carolina.


Mr.. Vincent Colyer, an agent Of the
New York Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, writes from Newbern, North Car
olina:
Many Of the white people are very poor
and ignorant, and, think, the most pit
liable objects of charity have ever seen.
As white man, / am ashamed to say
they are really more abject and degraded
than the blacks. Inever realized so much
before the dignity that the mere ability,
and willingness TO labor gives man. The
blacks having always been forced to work.
although lazy, generally ask for and go to
work while, too often, the white, having
been taught to regard work as degrading,
allows himself to sit in laziness and sink
down into utter helplessness. The con-
sequence can easily be imagined in a
time like the present, he who can and
will work is getting it to do, and with its
reward, pro 'perity and plenty; and they
who will not Cor cannot) become depend
emit. Most Of the negro women get work
at the hospitals, washing and the peddling
Of cakes, and earn support in this way.
We gave them q lift at first with few
pounds Of -four. and SO far, Immediately
on their arrival, they have been able to
find house to live in. When they ar
rive it is usually in groups of ten or TWEEN
| ty, often al from one plantation. They
have travelled, in some cases, long dis
tanees. had one poor negro of about
twenty-five who had come over sixty
miles. His feet were oil bloody, and the
first thing he could do after he had re.
ported his name for work and had Z
breakfast, was to lie down and sleep; for
two or three days he was quite sick. Al
the end of that time he went to work, and
is now doing bis best to support the Uni
ted States government with eide shobel
and dc hoe" He gave valuable informa.
ton 10 the Government.
/ have heen appointed superintendent,
Of the poor" - 8 Newborn paper, which
| send you. will show; and under thi,
heading am doing the work. The meu
are mostly employed in the trenches
building line Of sarthworks to protect
\ tuC AVWA Ou tuC WCSt Vi LauU 6lQ6s III tOe
direction Of Goldsborough. In the duties
of my new Office ! have to see to and sup,
ply the wants of the suffering population
tho townspeople- whites - well n
blacks. hare some sixty families Of the
whites, and these are NOS all thers are, q
some 60 TO the s'commissary's depot" f0s
provisions. Among the applicants 70,
aid ! have some Ave or six wives of sol
disrs in the Manassas (now Richmond
rsbel army. What do you think Of that
They were starving, and We had either t
feed them or act worse than heathens. l,
NOT tGat getting in the resr OF the ..ene.
my" when No arc in his home supporting
his wives and children? Yesterday 1 haa
m application for support from the widow
, Of ! late United States Major General, til.
wifs Of % of6cer who had served in the
Mexican war, and she was . daughter d
; Colonel ia the var Of 1919. AT ths
very aams time there vas poor escaped
slave knocking q the door Tor the vcry
sane assistance.
| INDIANA STATE DEBT.-The State deb
Of Indiana i eleven millions four huudrsd
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JEFF. DAVIS SPECIAL MEssAGx.-We
publish the special message of JEFF. Davis
to his traitor Congress. 1t is rare
specimen of the falsehood and piety cul
tivated and cherished by the pro-slavery
and treason propagating gospel Of JEFF
dom.
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REBEL NEWS.

AtipunS o 0tpPutCh.
Washington, April FL.
The Norfolk Day Book of Saturday con-
tains the following:
Knoxville, April l8.-Capt. Ashley,
commanding 300 artillery, encountered
100 Lincolnites stampeding for Kentucky
yesterday, near Jacksboro They had
hand to hand fight for two hours. and he
succeeded in killing about rs and taking
500 prisoners. Our less none killed, s5
wounded. No less than $500 Lincoln
ties left East Tennessee for Kentucky
since the Governors proclamation calling
on the military.
Probably no definite decision has yet
been arrived at by the governmen, in the
case Of the Tangier prisoners now at Bos.
ton.
Herald's Dispatch
Washington, April 81.
We learn from the Petersburg, Va, Elk
press that requisition has been made mp.
ON the slave-owners Of Prince George and
Surrey counties, for one half the negroes
between the ages of sixteen and sixty
years to repair 10 Williamsburg. where
the rebel Gen. Magruder's reserves are
posted, to work on the Notifications which
are designed to protect Yorktown in the
rear.
Wilmington. April ls.
A private letter dated April 18th, says
the enemy attacked Fl. Macon last Satur-
day and had been lighting two days.
Col. White sent out part of his men on
the beach and found three hundred Yam
KEGS. They killed fifteen of our men and
we then retreatcd to the fort Colonel
White fred canister AT the enemy killing
great numbers. The enemy have built q
battery two miles from the foot of the
beach and planted mortars and large seige
guns; eleven large ships are outside
The enemy have sent to Newbern for gun
boats to operate in the sound. The enc
my are committing every imaginable out
rage in Catawct and Onslow counties. Fl.
Macon has not yet been taken.
Augusta, April 18
The Savannah Morning News says that
skirmisb took place At Whitmarsh Island
on Wednesday, between companies Of
the 18th Georgia and Michigan regi-
ment, in which the latter were repnlsed.
An accident occurred on the Atlantic
& West Point Railroad at Queenstown, by
which about two hundred Confederate
soldiers we've killed and six slightly woun-
ded.
The Richmond Enquirer Of Friday says
the Rebel Court Of Inquiry, which has
been celebrating for some time past mp
on the ACCESSIBILITY Of releasing John NJ.
Bolts from imprisonment. adjourned on
Thursday. The result of their labors has
not yet transpired.
A refugee from Richmond says that
there are batteries it four places on the
James River, none Of which could with
stand heavy fire from mailed gunboats.
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Boston, APRIL 81.

Boston, April 81.
Tie Hoosac Tunnel bill was defeated
IN the Senate to-day by the adoption Of l
substitute.
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INDIANA STATE DEBT. The State debt
Of Indiana i eleven millions four Auudrsd
thousand dollars.
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VALLANDIaHAn.-Many Of the papers
and politicians Of the North sympathize
Is strongly with the rebels as do the aris-
tocracy of England. We may yet find
the Northern ..and British sympathizers
rendering such efficient aid to the rebel
lion as to protract the war for seven
years.
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Cairo. April "a.
Gov. Harvey's body has besn found and
i hero.
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FROM WARRINGTON.
Washington. ADrii CT

A massage reached the Senate from the
President to-day touching the arrest OF
ex-Secretary Cameron, at the instance Of
Pierce Butler. The President avows
Buffers arrest to be his act, done under
his authority, and AYERS that it was justi-
fed by State necessity.
The nomination Of Col. futile, of the
I'd Iowa, az a Brigadier General has been
determined upon.
General Rosecrans is in command of
corps, and he will soon be heard from.
The following telegram gives the rebel
account of skirmish in North Carolina,
Of which we have no news
Goldsboro, April Is.
On Monday last below Pollocksyille,
near Ruiston, skirmish took place be-
tween detachment of the I'd North Car
olina cavalry regiment, and the enemy,s
pickets. Lieut.. Col. Robinson who com
manded 10 probably prisoner. Captain
Tuner was hurt by a fall from his horse.
Five priyates we're seriously injured, and
five wounded from gun shots.
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secesh pasieaas there were told that il
.reprs1Anted the sentiments Of the North.
The object Of such articles is plain on
their face /: it is to justify the rebels in ~
King up arms against the party now in
charge of the Government and to arouse
the hostility of The Democratic party of
the North, excite their sympathy for the
rebels, and ultimately force the Govern
ment to surrender and compromise with
traitors on their own terms. The logical
import of such articles is, that the rebels
are right and the Government wrong
that the war on our part is an unrightsous
war Of aggression and encroachment on
the rights of the South land that our SOL
diers. who are fighting, shedding their
blood, and laying down their lives, are
doing SO not as patriots in the cause Of
their country, but As the tools Of fanatics
and tyrants in an unholy crusade against
the rights Of the oppressed people of the
South. According to this view, the rebels
and traitors are heroes and martyrs fight
ing for their invaded rights and threat
ened liberties, while the volunteers under
the flag Of the stars and stripes are ma
RAIDERS, enlisted in an unrighteous war
against long suffering people.
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ELEVEN ILLINOIS REGIMENTS Worn
FOR THE NEW CONSTITUTION CORES
pendent of the Chicago Times writes that
the commissioners have visited eleven Of
the Illinois regiments, and received the
votes of the soldiers on the new Constitu-
ton, and that but sixty votes have been
cast against it. At this rate, the majority
for the new Constitution, among the SOL
diers, will be very large.-[Quincy Her
add.
Now every person knows that not over
sixty persons of the entire eleven regi-
ments whose vote has been taken ever read
the new Constitution. The thing is a
transparent swindle, and the Candlebox
Calhoun swindlers will have just as large
vote amongst the volunteers as they
want. Nobody expected anything else.