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The national Republican., 1862-03-28

TRANSPORTS. appears from communics
ton transmitted to the House, Wednesday. that
in the chsrtering Of transport vessels, Assist.
ant Secretary Of War Tucker, a very large
transportation by water being required by
General Mcclellan, The Quartcrmaster General
detailed Captain H. q. Hodges, assistant
tluartermastcr 10 this duty, and Mr.. Tucker
was requeated to assist him. The latter says
All parties who had offered suitable rps.e.s
in answer to your advertisement for Transports
were requested 10 meet ns without further 70
sort 10 the newspaper ltwas made ~ pubic
az possible that the Government were ~ want
Of such transportation, and desired TO deal di
recty with the owners. A very large numb, r
were chartered by direct negotiation with The
owners while some made their application
through ship brokers.
A decided preference was given 10 the iui
mer. Captain Hodges and myself ret ere ed
only our regular compensation As Assistant
Quartermas'er and AsSistaot secretary OF War,
respectively, No other persons have been
acting under the auihuriiy, or by the drec
ton or permission Of Captain Hodges or my
sell, TO effect such charters aud consequently
no compensation has been Or 10 TO be- paid for
such services, and no person acting directly
or indirectly for the Government. has charged
the persons for whom s,icb vessels WIRE char
tered, any per cenlsge On the amount ol the
charter. or any other compensation.
The national Republican., 1862-03-28
The Rev Tres.ury Notes.

rum ue N WOti0.
The fret installment. about $3.50, 900. of The
new legal tender notes will be seut 10 Washing
ton on Friday, March 2s The original con.
tract stipulated that the frat delivery should
be made on March rs, but II was aftsrwards
decided 10 cngrsve the signatures instead Of
writing them, which caused the delay OF three
days. The engraving savcs the labor Of six y
clerks, who were formerly employed 10 signng
their names 10 the issue 6f demand notes last
fall. On or before Saturday, April s, the
amount Of legal tender notes sent 10 Washing
ton Is expected 10 be .about $50 OOO, 900, and
AFTER that date the deliveries will be al the rate
OF 81 ,OOO, 900 to 1000 900 per day, increasing
10 amount a. they reach The larger denomins-
lions Of $500 and 1000. After the notes arc
received at the Treasury Department, they are
stamped on their face In that ONCE with an
elaborately engraved seal in red color (the
workmansbip OF The American Bank Note Com.
pany,) which stamp evidences that The notes
have passed through and betn issued by the
Treasury Department. The precautions taken
against counterfeit. are In advance Of anytbi z
contrived BY the art Of engraving up to this
date, and, Is specimens Of the perfection AZ
tanned by the United States 10 bank notes cD-
craving, they are entitled 10 general admira-
ton The whole $50, 900 900 Of notes will be
completed from May 1 Is.
The national Republican., 1862-03-28
the Rebellion not Treason.

An lMfORTANr JUDICIAL DECISION.
We have been informed that at the October
term, 1851, Of the United States Circult Court
Tor the District ol Kentucky, q man by the
name Of John Larimore was indicted for trca.
son, sending mules 10 he States IN rebellion
ayiinst he Government, hereby giring aid and
comfort 10 The enemy.
This case was submitted to jury, and the
defendant acquitted (of course) under insiruc
tions from the court that the term ''enemies, -
In the Constitution, meant foreign enemies,
and did not embrace those who o,oed allegiance
To this Government If this be true. that Judge
Catrou, who presides over that court, has made
such decision, then our internal blockade IL
al an end, and any man who chooses to go South
with guns, powder aud balls, or. anything
necessary 10 effect the destruction Of the Gov
arnment, can do 80 with impunity
The national Republican., 1862-03-28
OFFICERS, ATTENTION!
GUTTA PERCHA
WATER.PKOOF
ARMY GOODS .
$40 SEV,E.TTH STREET.

Many suppose India Rubber and Gutta Peroha are
tyncuymous terms, ntrcly representing India Rub
Der mapuiactured by different processes, and are
thereby led 10 believe there Il ne material difference
between the two articles In order 10 cor. Ct this
false impression, the following statement made by
Is given;
non.ConduotOrs OF electricity 1t has resemblance
ohaeusr to ILdia Rubber, il chemical and
rhai:ai properties hs sumo, does N: Tree from Vhich
taken telomg 10 tAe same family q trees, or grop on he
sdRie SOIL"
as an Improvement upon other manufactures OF india
RubIer but as ssmrhing sieiy their chdraeris.
es aud properties, and as being superior TO those mate
from any other material They are warrant d 10
stand in any climate, Tree from any unpleatant odof
will not deoompose and become soft and sticky uu.
der any circumstance, not injured by coming In
contact with oils akslles saline solutions and acids
and are made PERN NAsESTLr pliable and elastic and
rendered indestructible and unaffected by Ii, ut or
cold Those wishing otiical reports and statements
from army and naval ocers please send for circular
.ods for sale In any quantities At manufaotureIs'
prices at SO seventh stIsSt near Pspusylyana Nv.
snueIthe only place where thsss goods eah be Oh.
tanned In Washington.
mar l7-nlo Agent,
The national Republican., 1862-03-28
A iIDE FIGHT At PEA RIDGE

There is no doubt says the ST Louis Epen
ing Ne,cs, that at the battle oil Pea Ridge side
fight between the rebel Indians AMI a force Of
rebel whites took place. aud added not little
70 The diversity Of the contest For some rea-
son no. explained, either the ignorance or pro
meditated treachery Of the Indians they fired
upon large body Of Coniodcrates, and main
taiaed IT alter they had been signaled TO cease
and after the Dear approach oi their white
friends lett % lurtbcr excuse for the act The
whites, cnraged at what they first considered a
blunder and afterwards piece Of Ir"acheIy
opened upon their red friends with tplit, 4
hot fight ensueS, carried ou fvr several hour,
with serious execution 0n both I'D :: After
The battle was over, aud the enemy had ic
treated, there were found on this part OF The
Held two or three hundred killed and wound
ed-all Of whom were reLcls, Indians and
whites,
The national Republican., 1862-03-28
r~..osp.,,on In IN. D,,sr,e,.l

EAancipasion In ths Disssiot.3
The Washington corrcsp ondent Of the Inde-'
pendent thus speaks Of the Bill for the aboll.
uou Of slavery 10 the District:
The bin for the sbolitiou Of slavery In this
District, in the Senate, is ready 10 pass ct any
hour, II honorable Senators were not 20 fond
Of talking. Wiley. Of Virginia, who takes the
place Of Mason, must ventllate bis peculiar
pro. slavery ideas. Pearce, Of Maryland, npst
a, que the injustice Of The proposed measure to
show that the black and white races cannot
live peaceably and respectfully together under
the ZANE Government, that he may justify Bis
colonization scheme. Neither Of these gentle
men convinced hesrer or changed vote
There are Republicans In the Senate who are
not anti slavery in principle. They are very
much afraid Of the taint Of abolitionism, and
therefore they deliver what are called ICON
servative" speeches, and give, generally, very
good anti slavery pOtes! So long as the
act il correct, no one will severely criii
else the speech. The slaves Of this District
kno,p that they are sooo 10 become free
men. They scent the good news In the very air.
No power on earth can much leugtr defer tho
contamination ot the lighLe0us act Of emanci
patton. Legislation respecting CO on6scation and
general emancipation makes little progress
TIE members seem 10 be waiting upon evenG.
In the House the Judiciary Committee which
though Republican Is not anti slavery-has re.
ported against all the coniscation and emanci.
patton bills. Mr.. Bingham, Of Ohio, determined
not to be borne down by majority Of hi, com.
mittee without an opportunity Of vote 10 tho
House, bus succeeded In making minority re
port, and vote is TO be taken In the House
upon the subject Republicans honestly dit
on this question. Some hold that the President
alone possesses the power to interfere with sla.
very. Others believe that 10 Congress that
power is committed. | am sorry 10 say that
a number Of the Republican members of the
House give abundant evidence that they are
afraid 10 meet this great question fairly. Ken
lucky still cracks the slaveholders whip In the
faces OF Northern men, and doughfaceism lie not
entirely dead either in the Senate or House Of
Representatives
We hope Congress will pass The Bill without
any further delay. The whole country is anx'
iously waitirg for its passage. The time for
speccb.makiDg on this subject has long since
passed -uction iu Congress, is as necessary a.
action 10 the field. Enancipste the slaves
here instantly, and scenes of rejoicing will fol
low, such as this country has never yet wit
messed.
The national Republican., 1862-03-28
rHI CIIQuI-THIIR ORGAN, THE STAR
AND TIE FRAUD PRACrIcID UPON THI
COUH1IY.


Il 10 now known that the enemy commenced
The evacuation Of Centrcvile and Manassas as
early as the first day Of this month, and had
completed II by the ninth day.
March 7. acouucil Of general officers voted.
TO 4, that an advance should not be made until
the lst Of April.
On the evening Of the same 7th OF March, the
Sor came out with the following conspicuous
editorial announcement:
I'VE have every reason to believe that, in
stead Of Withdrawing troops from their army oi
the Potomac, the oligarchy are straining every
nerve to increase their numbers every where
in our front, from their lowest Potomac battery
TO Winchester, crowding thither nearly all the
new leyies they can obtain BY volunteering and
drafting. SUCH IS THE OPINION OF THE BESl
JUDGES IN OUR ARMY ON THE OTHER SIDE
OF THE RIVER"
We have printed certain words 10 capitals
In order to attract special attention to them
The reader will observe that II is not merely
ID own opinion which the Sidr proiessed to
give, but that "of The best judges in our army
on The other side Of he riuer." Nobody who un.
der. lands the relations Of men and things here
iu Washington, will doubt that the paragraph
We have quoted was dictated to tie Star, or
will have any difficulty in deciding mI.o dictated
Il. Everybody here knows that the Star is the
organ Of the clique who, il they could, would
have kept up this delusion Of a great force 81
Manassas, until our Treasury wa. broken down
under the expenses oil do nothing war, and the
old political Bourbons were restored 10 power
upon the basis Of an ignominious compromise
with the oligaIchy, forced by the distress and
exhaustion Of the country. That was the plo,
Of the men whose organ tie Star was and is
and this paragraph from its columns Of Maict
7 is specimen Of the recklessness OF the state
ments made to induce an acquiescence in III,
policy to make that plot effectual.
The paragraph we have quoted will beai
reading more than once. We know by rebe
letters OF the 9th ol March, that the evacuation
had then been going on for week. We know
too that 1t was completed on the 9th Aud ye
here, on the Tth, was an announcement by th'
organ Of the clique, that tho enemy wa
"strsining every nerve TO increase their mum
bers every where In our 'front.'" The editor {
that organ is in daily confidential Communica
ton with those who are drawing large sum
from the Treasury, to maintain a system Q
spies upon the enenys movements The NOR
It is looked at, the worse it looks.
The national Republican., 1862-03-28
The National Intsliigeacer.

This paper, true to its inveterate pro-slave-
ry instincts, had column and a half yesterday
In Its accustomed tortuous style, against the
bill 10 abolish slavery in this District.
Its main point seems to be, that there is an
implied agreement not TO do it without the
assent Of Maryland. II bases this implication
upon the assumption that Maryland would
never have made the c,ssion Of the District,
II the abolition Of slavery within II had been
anticipated. The truth is, Maryland would
not at that time have made the slightest otjec
ton, If the abolition OF slavery here bad been
made the condition upon which The cession
should have been accepted The cession was
In l7SS, and at that very time, the laws OF Mary.
land provided for the extinction Of slavery eve
rywhere within her borders, at the end OF the sec
ond generation of the negro stock imported from
Africa. Eight years later, in 1876, Gen. Wash
ington, reading on the Potomac and familiar
with public sentiment on both sides Of it, wrote
to correspondent in Scotland, that d" emanci
patton iu Maryland cannot bs long delayed
1t is an outrage upon the notorious truth Of
history, now to say that Maryland would moi
have ceded the District Of Columbia, il she had
anticipated the emancipation OF slaves within
It, Precisely the contrary Is true, that Con
gress would not have accepted the cesson, il
the obstinate adherence Of Maryland and Vir
ginia to slavery could have been iores,en. 1.
Is In that. II anywhere, that there has been a
breach Of faith TO an "implird agreement
Or If breach OF faith is too harsh an expires
sion to be used in the case, certain il is that
the reasonable expectations Of the nation, as
10 the policy Of Virginia and Maryland, aud
without which expectations this District would
never have been accepted as the scat OF the
national Government have been egregiously
disappointed.
II the InteliiyenCer cannot defeat emsncipa
tion directly in Congress, 1t begs for another
chance to do IT, by a submission to vote o
the District, with all It's possibilities oil fraud
intimidation and excitement
Andif, after all, emanci patton must come, the
Inteuigmcer begs that 1t may be yradual!' =
M. Garrett Davis, the Senator from Kentucky
has explained what he means by gradual
emancipation, viz: something that should be
come complete in one hundred years. But thai
is . degree of rapidity which must seem TO the
managers of the lntellgansr, quite inconsisten
with the diguifed progress Of affairs.
Some months ago, they explained generally
their ideas OF the rate at which social change
should be made, viz; by analogy to the period
OF times, which have intervered between th,
successive orders of animated beings upon thi
earth, as indicated in the various geological
strata. As no human arithmetic is equal 10 tn
expression of it 10 figures, it eau only be sai'
that geological science requires the same in
fnity in time, that astronomy requires in space
This may give US al idea, as accurate as tn
subjsctmatter admits OF, OF what Is meant b.
An scI Of emancipation gradual" enough TO b
regarded as sale aud judiclous by the Nationo
Lteliseneer.
The national Republican., 1862-03-28
~ The bill peudins 10 the Senate provid

~ The bill peudns in the Senate provides
lha, The compensation paid for slaves emanci
pated 10 this District, shall not exceed an auer
uJe oi three hundred dollars. II is frequently
discussed as if il fixed that sum ss the mo xl
NUN 10 be paid for any slave
In the palmy days Of slavery, the average
value Of slaves was never put higher than five
hundred dollars. Field hands were sold al
fifteen hundred dollars, but the average was
brought down by including women, the very
old, the very young the sickly, &c.
The pecuniary value Of slaves has depre
cia'ad mole than lorty per cent. since the
breaking out of this rebellion.
The national Republican., 1862-03-28

DlspATCu FROM GENERAL SHELDs.-Thr fol
lowing dispatch from General Shields TO Sen
ator Rice, dated 10Th March, at Winchester
was read In the Senate:
900 the morning ol he 23d my command
1000 or 5000 strong. was attacked near thif
place by Jackson with eleven regiments Of iu
iantry and an Irish battalion, about 1000 cav
airy and rs pieces OF artillery. After severe
fight the enemy was put in complete roni
leaving behind two pieces Of cannon, four
Caissons and large number oil small arms aud
about 800 prisoners. Our lo's IL 100 killed
800 wounded The encmy'a loss is 800 killed
and 900 wounded
The national Republican., 1862-03-28

A Coon STORY SPOILED Mr.. Davis became
very pathetic in the Senate, a lew days ago.
over The imaginary suiierings Of a lady Of this
city, for whose slaves the Government is about
to pay fair price.
On Wednesday, Mr. Davis's story was sadly
spoiled by Mr.. Wilkinson,
Nj. Wilkinson said:
This morning, a gentleman OI bigb Charau.
ter handed me a memorandum explaining who
this Mrs. Beall is. II turns out that abe s a
woman who has been rendering aid and com
fort 10 the enemy. | will read II:
Mrs. Beali AID her daughter, during the
months ot May and June, were the bitterest
kind OF secesSinnisls; they said repeatedly that
they hoped JEFF Davis and the Confederate army
| would march into The capital and drive, out
Lincoln and all his Cabinet. They exulted over
the death Of Ellsworth, and said they hoped
every Lincoln soldier would he served IN the
same manner; they hoped General Scott would
be killed or poisoned. and called him y traitor
/ 10 his native State; they boasted Of having
| written letters 10 JEFF. Davis conveying valuable
information they called the soldiers Of the
| Union army dirty, miserable trash-in short
exhausted The vocabulary Of epithets in de,
nOuncing the Union army and the present Ad.
| mipistration. They said, If the Confeda rate
army would take the city, they would throw
open their house for the Virginia chivalry;
they said they would convey information 10
the Confederates at every opportunity, and
boasted that they knew Of channels through
which they could and did send intelligence 10
the Confsdcraies; they said the South had 4
right TO secede, and the North had no right to
object; they hoped the Union army would all
be poisoned or die Of disease.
This paper was handed to me by Il very re-.
spectacle gentleman, and IL was written by a
man who boarded in The house Of this woman
this summer, q iriemi ri his. That is the an
thority To which the Senator referred for he
purpose Of proving The hardship Of this bill
The national Republican., 1862-03-28

II is reported that Mrr. Mcclellan, wife Of
Gen George B Mcclellan, intend. 10 take up
her residence In Trenton, N. j., for the Sum-
mer, and that apartments have already been
engaged for her accommodation.
CoTToy FROM EURoPE The ship Westnore.
land which IL now being discharged al Pine
Street Whaif. Philadelphia, has on board q
quantity OF cotton, shipped from Liverpool for
this market. This Ia u very rare circumstance.
A specia! from Cairo TO tho Tribune says an
arrival from Memphis reports that two hundred
Federal prisoners iu that city are made the
victims of much abuse at The hands Of their
guards. One oI them was shot for looking out
Of the windows Of their prisons.
Letters from Cairo say that Flag Officer
Foote'S mortars are heard plainly there,
although they are at leas' forty miles distant
The Norfolk Hoe Company, after carrying a
heavy stock OF negro hors ior some eight, en
months, has sold abou. $50, 900 worth 10 The
United States, TO be used upon The deserted
cotton lands about Port Royal.
No MORE SHAN SOlDlERs.-The Now York
police have been instructed 10 arrest all men
wearing the uniform Of soldiers. unless they
can show a pass OF give satisfactory account
oi themselves
Since the capture OF Nashville, Confederate
notes sell al ten cents on the dollar, apd are
considered dear at that.
A piece OF wood h,s been picked up at L,u
hay, on which was written the words: Jan II,
1862 Ship Ellen, Of Bristol, sinking. God
have mercy 0u our souls.'
The peach crop prospects, are unusually fine
In Delaware. In western New York and Penn,
sylvania, fruit Of all kinds premises better than
usual and similar accouuia re ich US from New
England and various parts Of the great West
The newspapers credit Henry Ward Beecher
with the following Hover ol rhetoric which
blossomGd In New York at o meeting OF the
| sous oi Connecticut, recently:
"Wo shall conquer the rebels not 10 our own
strength, but the Almighty Lord will lay them
| over our knee, and we will spank them In the
natural order Of proyidence!"
Six citizens OF Sangamou county, Qll,) were
arrested Friday by order Of Gen. Hslleck, and
sent to Alton 10 be placed In close condno
menl, Tor aiding the escape Of rebel prisoner
from Camp Butler.
The national Republican., 1862-03-28
nv The following p,isoners were discharged

~ The following piisoneEs were discharged
yesterday by the commission relating 10 Stale
prisoners: John +. e. Onutt, Noble b. Means
Moses r. Donaldson, and William l.. Fisher
They were discharged On taking the oath ol
allegiance.
The following named were discharged on
giving written parole to render no aid or com
fort to enemies 10 hostility 10 the Government
Of the United States; John A. Marshall, VIM
F. Moore, William J. Fleece Bushrod W. Bay.
liss, and Thomas L. Poole.
J. B. Wharton and Mathew Piaskelt wer,
recommitted for further consideration.
The national Republican., 1862-03-28
GOOD SYMPTOMS IN VIRGINIA.
The Parksrsburg (Va.) Gdietts, Of March 2

The Partsrsburg tvs) Gazette, Of March %,
ays;
There are very lew persons who DO not
look upon the proposition embraced in the
Presidents late message to Congress, propos-
ing resolution on the part of that body, es-
preesive Of willingness 10 aid 10 the removal
Of slavery, with the consent Of The States, o.
eminently wise and judicious,"
In another article, 10 the same issue, the Go
,etts says:
"Our nsighbor of the wheeling Press and
our neighborin law Of the Clarksburg 7sle-
graph, the paper owned and controlled BY Hon.
Mr.. Garlic, are still sloshing about In a raid
against abolitionism. We assert that there are
more abolitionists in West vrsinis, in proper.
tiOn to the population, than In New England. We
will 60 further: We assert that there are not
Ave hundred men In the forty counties Of West
Virginia, who do not regard slavery as the
most formidable barrier TO advancement that
the State has had TO contend with. II Ia un.
profitable, and therefore n nuisance, Ms every
man knows. The more wealthy men are, u In.
te,iigent, the more they feel the evils II impo'
ses.n
The national Republican., 1862-03-28
North l'nrOllmA.


The Newbern Progress Is the title Of spir.
tied newspaper, established at Newbern by our
soldiers. From the number for March %. we
extract The following:
NEwBERN.
Eewberu isa most lovely and beautiful city
Advantageously situated, II Ia the commercial
centre OF large section Of the country, and a
large amount OF business is done here. II h,s
a good harbor, railroad communication. and
all the modes oil transit demanded by busi,
ucss people The city Is laid out In squares.
the streets running at right angels, and abound
ing In shade trees. Newbern boasts also Of a
theatre, a magnificent Masonic Hall, churches.
academy, and all the ct ceteras OF civilization
1t certainly must in midsummer be a para
disc; even now the grass is green. peach and
plum trees in bloom, the trees preparing Ia
put on their leaiy vestments, and cheerful
aspect reigus here. Citizens and merchants
who, infected with the panic, fed on the ap.
proach Of our victorious forces, arc beginning
| To return, and order once more reigns in Wa
saw"
We have two marine railways, machine shops
rosin and turpentne stills. cotton gins, etc. IN
Vulnerable. 10 fact, Newbern is in advance o
anything we have seen 10 The South. since w
| entered Maryland. May she now continue 10y
| al, and 60 on aod prosper
SEIZURE VI PROPERTY
Captain John Hobbs, OF company |, 23d Mas
sachusetts regiment, began to stir bimseli quit
lively last Saturday morning. By the time re
veile was beaten he had seized 800 barrcI
ro.iu, 100 barrels spirits turpentinc, and :;
bales cotton.
The national Republican., 1862-03-28

A WOODEN Gun rOR OHIu.-Ar. Hopkins has
brought one OF The wooden cannon 10 this city
t,ken from the rebel Notifications, which he
designs fortifJing his establishment al CipCin-.
natl with. A lieutenant OF cavalry. who was
in the advance columns, and who rode bis horse
up over the cn,rcpcbmen's In several places,
states that The rebels had written, IN each Of
their "Quskerr," their Ga!ibre, 32-pounder,
"a FOUNDER, Iifsd, &c.