The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-20

will show very clearly that even base
submission would rot secure to the
States Of the South the right to make
their local laws. The Yankees arc to
take ererything from us:
Mr.. Hall called up the following reso-
lntions, which had been previously re
ported by the Committee on Federal Re-
latiOns:
Whereas, the so called Confederate
States have taken up arms against the
Government Of the United States with
out any provocation, and for the avowed
purpose of asserting and maintaining
their independence, and still persist, by
armed resistance to the authority of the
United States, in endeavoring to over
throw the Government, and
Whereas, our National authorities
have declared twas their duty to decline
to accept Of any terms short of absolute
submission to the laws, and the rebel
leaders have lately declared that they
would lay down their arms on no condi-
ton short of independence and a recog-
milton of their right to destroy the ma
ton; therefore
Reso1ced. by the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the Commonwealth
Of Pennsylvania, That while peace, I'M
mediate, complete and lasting, is greatly
to be desired, and earnestly to be labored
for, we hold that no peace is practicable
or desirable that does not involve the
integrity of the Union, the entire sub
mission of the rebel authorities to the
Government, with promise Of future
obedience to it's laws and that, recognl-
ling domestic slavery as the cause OF
the rebellion, we hail with delight the
recent action of the American Congress,
by which the land may be rid of this
curse which made rebellion possible, and
the total abandonment of which will
make it's recurrence impossible.
Mr.. Wallace moved to amend by strik-
ing out all after the word Resolved
and inserting as follows
That the President Of the United
States be requested to use all honorable
and Just means to bring about a lasting
peace and the re-establishment OF fra
ternal relations among all the people by
a restoration of the Union upon the sim
pie and Just basis Of the Constitution
and laws, with every proper guarantee to
the Southern States that they shall De
protected in the full enjoyment Of then
rights and in that undisturbed control o.
their own local affairs which the Fedora
| Constitution was intended to secure tf
| them and US
The Gmeadmcnt traS lost by vote o
| Il nays to Is yeas.
The resolution was still under cOnSl
desation at the time Of adjournment.
GENERAL BUTLER's COTTON sPEcULA
| TIONS.
The Norfolk correspondent of tn
Philadelphia Press gives the following
revelations respecting General Butler
cotton operations:
Bpgadier>Gencral George +. Shcple,
has been removed by General Ord, am
Brisaa;er- General Gordon placed in hi
position. This gives great satisfaction
to the friends of civil law, to whicl
Shepley has been bitterly opposed. /
mass meeting Of citizens will be he'll
this evening to give expression to thei
opinion in relation to civil law. His EN
cellency, Governor F. II. Pierpont, wi
preside. The Governor arrived in MOI
folk on Thursday evening last, and
busy with the details necessary to
thorough organization of the civil g
vernment.
A singular circumstance connecte
with General Buffers cotton speculation
has come to light. 1t seems that tn
chief of General Shepley's staff, G. t
Johnston, resigned several months sinc
to enter, as Buffers chief agent, into tn
: business of buying cotton from the rebe
+. in North Carolina. lie remained at tn
long enough to make over two hundre
and fifty thousand dollars as his shar
which he deposited in the First Nation;
r Bank of Norfolk. A few days ago tt
p Military Commission, instituted by Il
neral Grant to investigate the procee'
ings of General Butler relative to cotto1
, cot wind of Mr.. Johnston. He hear
). that they would call upon him soon b,
= not intending to be outdone by them, |
J drew all his money from the bank ar
. decamped in the Baltimore boat. The
= telcgraphed to the authorities at Bait
r more to arrest and send him back
q Norfolk; but the shrewd Johnston d
J. not 90 on the boat farther than FOrtre
- Monroe, where he took the Washingt(
=, boat, and landed at Annapolis. No OF
knows his whereabouts, although he
anxiously waited here. The COMM
y sion has proven that Butler received tw
i fifths of all cotton brought here, /