Mr. FARNSWORTH. The NewYork tribune. It says: "On the headwatersof the Alleirhany river lives on activo, thriftycitizen. still in early manhood, who devoteshis energiesto the preparation and sale of lumber. He rnt tsmany1000sof fine boardson nually down the rivers, and has a lumber yard at Memphis. probablynot his only one. “Hearing of trouble at Memphis he started for that city someweeks since to look after his property. but was met at Cincinnati by representations that induced him to thiuk he might not besafein the Tennesseeemporium. He telegraphedto Mom phis for a solution of his doubt and was rather surprised at receiving the ruff answer. ‘Duinn you! come onf Ilo obeved t iisrather discourteousin Vitation, reached Iemphis, and soon found his hotel surrounded by] it mobof demonsyelling for his blood. thounh they only knew of him that he camefrom the North, and was supposedto be after pity for his property. Aided by a friend he made is escapeand some how reached cincinnati, whence he telegraphedhomethat he would lollow the mes sage forthWith and Wishedto meet his friends and hElRhbOI'Sthe next evening. He did so meetthem tIold them hewas for the war for the Union.andrais battalion ofs'hnrpshooterson the spot and is now at.its head in ' irginia. Whenever t 10North shall decide to entertain propositions looking to compro muenys shall movethat ho be appointedoneof the commissionersto arrangethe terms of adjustment." General Stone, as the proof before the committee showed, was the owner of certain brick buildings in Memphis on the old navy yard ground. He had purchased these buildings, and they were under lease at the commencement of the late war. The proof shows, I think, that they were, every one of them, underlease, from which he was realizing a rental of $1, 800 peryear. Besides that, as has been stated by the gentleman t'rmn Pennsylvania, [Mr. Sco HELD, ] he owned a lumbenyard, and a large quantity of lumber there, that was taken os seasion of by the rebels, and was lost to im entirely. Now, this appropriation does not cover that at all; we do not propose to make him any compensation for anything destroyed by the rebels. But when, our own Government has taken possession of his buildings for the use of the Army, occupying them exclusively, and eventually taking them down for the ar pose of using the brick in the erection of bar racks and fortifications, thus deprivin him entirely of his property by taking it for the use of the Government, he at that time fighting to sustain that Government, it. seems to me it would be the height of injustice to refuse to pay him. There is nothing in this paragraph to pay General Stone for an properly either destroyed or used by the robe s. It is only for the value, at a very moderate estimate, of the Koperty which was taken and used by our own rmy. The Gentfrom Ohio, gMr. DELAXO] in discussing this subject yester ay, spoke of the fact that the ComClaims universally rejected all claims for property taken or destroyed in the rebel States during the rebellion, under a resolution adopted by this House. Now, while that may be so, I protest against the most manifest injustice of refusing to open the doors of Congress, even to the petition of a just claimantwho happened to have property south of Mason and Dixon's line, and who was most loyal and true to the Government. Now, if we cannot pay all let us pay what we can. It is manifestly unjust to say that because we cannot at this moment pay everybody, therefore we will not pay anybody; that because we owe so much, therefore we will repudiate the whole. It seems to me there is no debt more sacred under the sun than such debts as these. General Stone was twice Wounded in the service of his country. He came out of the war with a broken constitution, as has been stated to the House by the Gentfrom Pennsyl vania, [Mr. SCOFIELD.] Not only did he find all his property South destroyed, but his mills in Pennsylvania were burned and all his business was gone. He came back at the end of the war a broken man, not only in constitution but in fortune. And it seems to me to be man ifestly unjust for the House now to refuse to pay this little pittance for property which was taken possession of and used for the benefit of ourhArmy, the very Army he was connected wit.