Just Retribution

The following rosolutions wcro uuauimously adopted by t!io House of llepreBtmtativea on Rlóuday. Messrs. Mason and rilidell are entitled to ao botter treatment than tbc southern authorities mete out to Cols. Coreoran, Wood, and otÜcr eaptured officers. Wu hope that before this a hostage f'or the good treatmcut of Col. Willcox has been designa ted: Mr. Colñix offured t.lie following : JVhereas, Michaol Corcorau was taken prisonor at Manassas, bas, after sutforing other indignities, been eonfined by the rubel authoritiüs in the cell of a convicted feloQ ; tl.erefore, liesokcd, That the President of the United States be requested to similarly canüne James1 M. Mason, late of' Va., and now in custoiiy at Fort Warren, until Col. Coreoran Bball be treatfd as tin: United States have treated all prisoners ta!co:i by them ou the baMle licld. (Appluuse in tho galhjrie=.) The resolution was unauimously adoptad. Mr. Odell submitted the following, wbiob woi adopted : Whercas, Ooi. Alfred M. Wood. oftiu: 1-lth regiment New Yoik Statu iliütia, who was wounded umi taken prisonflr at the battle of JJull Kan, has now, by the rebel autboritiea, been ordered to conl:n 'imnt in a í'ehin's prison, and by llie samo order is to be treatod as a prisoner conviuted of au infamous erinie, therefore, liesokcd, That the President of the Uniied States bo respectfuUy requested to order John Slidell to the samo charactcr of prison and to tho saine treattfteat until Col. Wood shajj be treated as the United States liava ased prisoners taken in battle. L3g Iü the IIouso, on Tuoaday, Mr. WiokliSe, of Ky., uaid in drsousaing :i refeoliilion espeHing nis late eölleaguo, llonry O. Bnrnott: " With tbe blussing oí God I predict that by the 25tl} of December, no rcl.el foot will bc fouDd on tho oil of Kentuck'." May his pnediatian provo true. - JJurnett was expcllod.