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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD.
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CONGRESS.
legislation late resting - to .the
Army a&d Wavy.
The following aie extracts from the
proceedings of Congress on the Kith
SENATE.
Mr. Lane (Ind.) presented the petition
of citizens ol*'Fort Wayne, Ind., asking
that ihe rebel prisoners now in northern
prisons be placed under the care and con
trol of discharged Union prisoners, and
be furnished with the same clothing and
rations furnished Union prisoners in the
South
Mr. Lane addressed the Senate on the
subject of the above memorial, advoca
ting action in accordance with its sug
gestions.
Mr. Wade interrupted Mr. Lane to oi
ler a joint resolution. that all prisoners,
both officers and soldiers, of the so-call
ed Confederacy, who are now or shall be
hereafter in the" control and keeping of
the Federal Government, shall receive
the same rations and the same amount of
clothing and be subject to the same treat
ment in every respect as Union prisonsrs,
officers and soldiers, who now are or
have been in the keeping and power of
the so-called Confederate Government,
that this treatment shall be changed for
better or for worse whenever the Presi
dent of the United States shall receive
reliable information that the treatment of
our soldiers in southern prisons is chang
ed for better or worse, and that any offi
cer in charge of rebel prisoners who shali
fail to carry out this policy shall be de
mised the service.
Mr. Lane, (Ind.) said this resolution
did not go far enough. It did not pro
vide that the rebels should be kept un
der the care of released prisoners of the
Federal Army. This was a very impor
tant part of the matter. It had been said
that retaliation would make the war
more bloody. He did not care how
bloody it was made. He hoped it would
make every southern river run with the
blood of traitors. There were 44,000
Union prisoners in the South, and double
that number of rebel prisoners in the
north. We owed it to the brave men
who had gone forth to light in a good
cause to inaugurate this system of retali
ation.
Mr. Wade said that a year ago the
Committee on the conduct of the war
took more than a hundred depositions
concerning the barbarities practiced upon
our soldiers in the South. Many men
were dying when their testimony was
taken. It was the general impression
then ffiat if the rebei barbarities were
substantiated by this investigation, the
executive authorities would inaugurate a
system of retaliation. The report was
printed, and leit no doubt that all the
stories of rebel cruelty were true. Eut
yet no action has'been taken by the ex
ecutive authorities, He was sorry to see
ftp much sympathy extended by people
SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1865.
of the North to people who inaugurated
the rebellion, while they tranquilly toler
ated these cruelties to our soldiers in the
South. He had heard that a dis
tinguished rebel was recently ar
rested while coming North, and that the
President had threatened to retaliate if a
hair of his head was hurt. If retaliation
was justifiable In this case of a rebel
how much more bo was it in the case of
cur brave soldiers!
On motion of Mr. Howard the matter
was referred to the Military Committee.
Mr. Sherman presented the petition of
the citizens of Sandusky, asking for the
establishment of a naval depot at John
son's Island, which was referred to the
Committee on Naval Affairs.
Mr. Powell offered a resolution calling
for the trial ot Brig. Gen. Payne upon
the charges preferred against him by a
military commission, for his conduct
while in command at Paducah. It was
laid over and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Chandler called up the House bill
to regulate commerce between the sev
eral States, providing that every railroad
company in the United States shall be
authorized to carry upon its road mails,
passengers, troops and Government sup
plies iu their way from any State to
auother State, and to receive compensa
tion therefor. *
Mr. Chandler said he hoped this bill
would be passed immediately. It was
very important. One of its results would
be to interfere with a great railroad mo
nopoly in New Jersey. This railroad
levied tribute upon every passenger and
every pouncl ot freight passing between
New York and Washington. If it had
the right to a small tribute it had the
right to levy a large one or to prohibit
travel altogether. This monopoly had
qeen grinding upon the people of the
i United States. It had been injurious to
; the commerce of the United States and
j ought to be broken up.
t Mr. Saulsbury said he had nothing to
! say in relation to the railroad monopoly
alluded to; but he denied the right of
; Congress to interfere with a charter
I granted.
At the request of Mr. Johnson the
! consideration of the bill was postponed
i until Wednesday.
Mr. Wilson from the Military Commit
: tee, reported the bill to authorize and
I direct an inventory of the articles in the
: arsenals of the United States, with the
following amendment as a substitute—
“ That the Secretary of War be and he
is hereby directed to, cause a strict in
; spection to be made of the Quartermas
i ter's Department as soon as practicable
alter the passage of this resolution, and
a comparison to be made between the
reports ot the officers in charge of the
Quartermaster's depots at New York,
j Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis and
I Louisville and an account to be render
i ed of the articles actually on hand.”
j The bill was ordered to be printed.
Mr. Wilson, from the Military Com
j mittee, reported the following, which
was ordered to be printed—
Rt'soleal, That the Secretary of War
be directed to inform the Senate what
number of soldiers and sailors, stating
each separately, the several States, Ter
ritories and District of Columbia have
furnished the Army and Navy under all
j the calls heretofore made, setting forth
! the number demanded and the number
j furnished undereach call.
A communication from the Secretary
!of the Interior, in reply to a resolution
calling for information as to the number
and compensation of Pension Agents
employed in the different States, was
read. The Secretary informs the Senate
that the number of Pension Agents is
not, limited by law, and.that they are ap
pointed by him.
The Senate then went into Executive
Session, and afterwards adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Stevens, from ti e Committee of
Ways and Means, reported the bill mak
ing appropriations for the Navy Depart
ment for the year ending June 30, 1890,
and a bill amendatnry of the act provid
ing Ways and Means for the support of
the Government and for other purposes.
These bills were committed to the Com
mittee of the Whole on the state of the
Union.
Mr. Oox introduced the following re
solution :
Wh-ereas, the country hails “iih manifesta.
lions of patriotic joy and congratulation the vic
tories recently achieved by our brave armies ;
and whereas the recognized object of war, at
least emoflg civilized and Christian nations is au
honorable and satisfactory peace, ami that al
though we do not know that the insurgents are
jet prepared to agree to any terms of pacifica
tion that our Government either would or f-hould
deem acceptable, yet as there can be no possible
harm resulting from ascertaining precisely what
they art ready to do, and in order to refute the
imputation that the Administration contem
plates with satisfaction a continuance of hostili
ties for their own sake, on any grpund of mere
punctilio or tor any other reason than because it
is compelled by an absorbing regard for the very
ends of its existence : and whereas an esublish
ed and rightly constituted Government, com
bating armed unit menacing Rebellion, should
strain every nerve to overcome at the earliest
moment the jesistance it encounters, and should
not merely welcome but seek satisfactory, how
ever informal assurances that its end has been
attain,ed, therefore,
lie-voiced. That now in this hour of victory,
which is the hour of magnanimity, it is eminent
ly the duly of the President, on the basis of the
present rightfully constituted Government, either
to send of receive commissioners or agents, with
a view to national pacification and tranquility,
or by some other rational means known to civil
ized and Christian nations, secure the cessation
of hostilities and the Union of the States.
After discussion the resolution was laid
on the table.
DRIXKISG.
ODK Tu ANACREON —TRA.KBI.ATKn BY AKRAMAiI OOW-
T.EY.
The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks, and gapes for drink again ;
The plants suck in the earth, and are
With constant drinking, fresh and fair;
The sea itself. (which one would think
Should have but little need of drink.)
Drinks twice ten thousand riiors up.
So filled that they o’erfiow the cup.
The busy sun f.iud one would guess
By Vs drunken, fiery face, no Dm)
Drinks up the sea, and, when he’as done.
The moon and stars drink up the sun :
They drink and dance by their own light;
They drink and revel all the night.
Nothing in nature's sober found,
Put an eternal ‘health” goes round,
bill up the bowl then, fill it high—
Fin all the glasses there : for why
Should every creature drink but I ;
Why. man of morals, tell me why ?
Matrimony.—A couple sat. beside the fire, de*
bating which should retire. The husband sport
ively had said. “Wife you should go and warm
the bed.” “j never will,” she quick replied, “1
did so once and nearly died.” “And I will not,’*
rejoined the spouse, with firmer tone and lower
ing brows ; and thus u war of words arose, con
tinuing till they nearly froze, when both grew
mute, and hoverhig nigher around the faintly
gli mmerieg fire, th»y tumbled o’er the dying
embeis, as though ague had seized their mem
bers, resolved like fauws ne’er to yield, but
force esch*other from the field. Aud thus this
once loving pair, in silence shook and shivered
there, till every spark of lire was gone, and
cocks were crowing for the dawn : when all at
one ; the husband said. “Wife, hadn’t we better
go to bed i”
ESCAPED ERGX REBEL PRISON.
Knoxviia.k, Tknn., Monday, January lfi, ISCS.
The following escaped officers and correspon
dents have reported since the <>th inst : Col.
Butler, oth Indiana Cavalry : Captains Ander
son, hd Maine, Conrad, *2f>th lowa, Meads, 11th
New York; First Lieutenants Childs, 10th
Maine, Morrissey, 12th lowa. Butcher, Oth U.
8. Cavalry : Kiiby, f'd New YT>rk Artillery ; 2’d
Lieutenants Johnson, ltd Maine; Brown, Oth
U. 8, Colored : Taylor, Ist Mary land ; Oliphant,
22d New Jersey. Also Messrs. Richardson and
Brown, correspondents of the New York Tri- ,
bune anti Davis of the Cincinnati Grzette.
lIICH 3IESi OF NEW YORK-
Some of our cotemporaries have sur
reptitiously procured partial lists of the
Special Tax of live per cent levied by
the Government on the Incomes of our
citizens for the year 18(>3, and have been'
parading these lists in their coloumns, to
the annoyance, we judge, of certain of
the assessed, who have, like Byron,
“awoke to find themselves famous.”—
The.law evidently contemplates no such*
publication, though we apprehend that it
might better have expressly authorized
it, for we think the amount of the tax
would thoreby be increased. As the lists
are now subject to public inspection and
scrutiny. we deem it best that their pub
lication should be expressly permitted
(not required), so that there shall be no*
ground for complaint, of surprise or im
pertinence.
Wo believe Mr. A. T. Stewart, the
great drvgoodsmau, returns the larges.
income for 1803 of any American. It is
not, $5,000,000, as has*been reported, but
$1,843,037, whereupon his extra income
tax is $92,181. We consider it hard for
tune for any man to have to take care of
so much property for nothing h ut his
victuals and clothes. Messrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt and William B, Astor are
doubtless our two next heaviest tax
payers, both together paying about as
much as A. T. Stewart. Their names do
not appear in the partial lists published.
Moses Taylor is probably fourth : his in
come being $573,484 ; tax, $28,074.
We wish the gentlemen named in
these lists who live in four-story brown
stone houses or board at the Fifth Ave
nue or (Clarendon Hotel on incomes of
SOOO to $1,700 each Would tell us how.
they contrive to do it. There are evi
dently secrets in their style* of h mse
keeping which we have never maste. 1.
So the eminent lawyer and tinanok
who is Gen. McClellan s next friend, and
is popularly esteemed a millionaiie, has
only, it scents, SIO,OOO a year, iittt
the $50,000 to 80,000 which hat
laid to his charge, while the lawyc
has probably the largest adr
practice, in our city charges his
so moderately that his income is
$2,514 per annum. This world 1
dently better than its reputation.-
Tribune.
TIIEMISSOrRI convent!
St. i ouis, Monday, Jan- 10, 18
the Convention to-day a resolute
passed expressing the opinion tl
amendment to the Coristitutioi nov
pending before Congress, she aid b t
adopted, and instructing the Senators
and Representatives from Missouri to.
vote lor and use their influence to pro
cure the passage of said amendment.
After adjournment the President of the
Convention announced that he had just
been informed that all the Judges of the
Supreme Court had resigned, and that two
of their places had been filled by the ap
pointments of Judge Clover,of bt. Louis,
and Judge Wagner, of Lewis county.
Two rebel cruisers are fitting out inn
England, the Viper and the Rattlesnake.
They are appropriately named, for they
will* be poison to our commerce should
they get out. The Rattlesnake is a fast
craft, as she can make seventeen miles,
an hour, so that she would be decidedly
hard to take should she succeed in get- ,
ting to sea.
Tiib new seal ol the {State of Nevada,
says the Sacramento Union, which was
authorized by tl e Constitutional Con
vention, has been received, and is full <
nine inches in circumference —too large
for any practicable use, unless to stamp
sides of leather. The design represents
the sun rising over mountains, a railroad
train, a quartz mill, a tunnel, a man
dumping ©re, and a six mule team haul
ing rock. Tin* n otto is “All for our
.Country.”
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