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Daily Dispatch Vol. Xxviii — no.13Richmond, Va.Monday, January 16, 1865Priceone Cent Richmond Dispatch by Cowardin & Hammersley.
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Prayer by the Rev. Dr.Norwood, of the Episcopal Church.
Senate bill to regulate the pay and allowances of certain female employees of the Government was reported back from the Judiciary Committee with amendments.
The bill and amendments were ordered to be printed.
On motion, by Mr.Semmes, Senate bill to facilitate the settlement of the claims of deceased soldiers and officers, by the creation of the office of Fourth Auditor, was recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr.Walker, from the Judiciary Committee, reported back bill to secure more effectually the preservation and distribution of the effects of deceased soldiers.--Ordered to be printed.
On motion, by Mr.Semmes, the Senate resolved into secret session.
[Note.--In the Confederate Senate, on the 12th--Mr.Johnson, of Missouri, presented the credentials of the Hon.GeorgeG.Vest, appointed a Senator by the Executive of the State of Missouri to fill, until the next meeting of the Legislature of that State, the vacancy occasioned by the inability of the Legislature to elect a Senator conformably to the provisions of the Constitution of the Confederate States, owing to the occupancy of the said State of Missouri by the public enemy, which were read.
Mr.Johnson, of Missouri, having moved that the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution be administered to Mr.Vest, it was determined in the affirmative — year , 15; nays, 4 --as follows:
Whereupon, the oath prescribed by the Constitution was administered to Mr.Vest, and he took his seat in the Senate.]
House of Representatives.
The House met at , and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr.Duncan.
The Speaker announced the following committee on the message of the President relative to the arrest of Hon.HenryS.Foote: Messrs.Clarke, of Missouri; Gilmer, of North Carolina; Chilton, of Alabama; Gholson, of Virginia, and McCallum, of Tennessee.
The House passed a Senate bill amendatory of the act providing for local defence and local service.
Also, a Senate joint resolution of thanks to GeneralStandWatie, ColonelGano, and the officers and men under their commands, for gallant military service.
The House also passed a bill to provide for the payment of provost marshals and military clerks.
Also, a bill to increase the compensation of the Surgeon-General, so as to give him the pay and allowances of a colonel of cavalry.
The House then took up for consideration the exemption bill.
Several attempts were made to table the bill and recommit it to the Military Committee, but they failed.
A clause was adopted exempting all ministers of religion engaged in the discharge of their duties on the 17th of February, 1864.
Also, an amendment to exempt all mechanics and agriculturists over forty-five years of age, habitually engaged in the prosecution of their calling, who have eight white persons in their families dependent on them, and all such persons now in the army who would have been so exempted had they been at home.
Pending the consideration of the bill the House adjourned.
Virginia Legislature. [Extra session.]
Senate.
Saturday,January 14, 1865.
The Senate was called to order at . Prayer by Rev. Dr.Jeter.
Joint resolutions from the House of Delegates, instructing our representatives in Congress to urge the passage of a law appropriating money to pay for horses killed or unavoidably lost in the military service, and providing for the appointment of a joint committee to examine the accounts of the commercial agent, were read by the Clerk.
The first was laid on the table and the latter was agreed to; when, in accordance with its provisions, Messrs.Hart and Spiller were appointed said committee.
A bill was adopted by Mr.Coghill, from the Committee for Courts of Justice, providing for the protection of Confederate currency from improper depreciation by restricting the sale of exchange thereof at less than its nominal value.--Read a first time and ordered to a second reading.
House bills amending and re-enacting the eleventh section of chapter one hundred and thirty-two of the Code of Virginia, in regard to fiduciaries; also, an act entitled "an act releasing from taxation deeds required to be recorded a second time, where the county records have been destroyed by the public enemy" and Senate bill amending the second, sixth and twenty-second sections of an act passed March 7, 1862, entitled "an act to amend an act entitled an act amending the charter of the town of Danville, " were read the third time and passed.
Mr.Spitler introduced a resolution inquiring into the expediency of increasing the compensation of sheriffs and other officers for conveying insane persons from their homes to the asylum.
Secret business engrossed the rest of the session.
House of Delegates.
The House met at , and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr.Woodbridge, of the Episcopal Church.
Mr.Anderson, from the Military Committee, reported a bill to organize and enroll the home guards for local defence.
The bill, on his motion, was read the first time, and ordered to a second reading.
The Speaker submitted to the House a message from the Governor, taking ground against the action of the Legislature in exempting from military service certain members of the reserve forces upon the ground that their ages exceeded that of fifty years. The Governor insinuates in his communication that their discharge was without warrant in the Constitution.
The communication was laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Pending the discussion of the communication, the House went into secret session, upon motion of Mr.Deane, of Campbell.
When the doors were re-opened business was resumed.
Mr.Deane offered a resolution to disband the battalion of second-class militia organized for the defence of the city of Lynchburg, and to provide for the organization, in a better form, of a local force for the defence of the said city.
The resolution was agreed to.
Mr.Huntt submitted a resolution, directed to the Committee on Confederate Relations, inquiring if a more effectual mode cannot be devised to secure the speedy shipment to Confederate prisoners of war confined in Northern dungeons of packages sent them by their friends to promote their comfort and well-being.
Mr.Castleman introduced a joint resolution, addressed to our representatives in Congress, calling upon them to urge the passage of a bill to mount and equip the cavalry, and make that branch of the service more efficient.
The resolution was ordered to be laid over under the rules.
Mr.Hutchinson introduced a joint resolution to encourage the production of supplies, and recommending the repeal of all laws now upon the statute books in relation to impressments.
The resolution lies over under the rules.
The Committee on Propositions and Grievances reported adversely to the resolution of Mr.Hall, of Wetzel, in relation to the opening of
Capitol Square gates.
The bill for the relief of TuckerCarrington, of Mecklenburg, to allow him eighteen hundred dollars for a slave hung by sentence of the court, in addition to one thousand dollars already appropriated, was taken up and lost, not a constitutional majority voting in favor of the bill.
The House, after the disposition of some other business, adjourned.
Special notices.
Amusements.
Wanted.
Post Quartermaster's office,Confederate States of America,Salisbury, North Carolina,Dec. 16, 1864.
Negroes Wanted.--This Department wishes to hire, for the ensuing year,
four Blacksmiths,
two Wheelwrights,
Six Carpenters,
SeventyWood-Cutters and Laborers;
for which will be paid a liberal price.
They will be well fed and supplied with good clothing.
Those having able-bodied negro men to hire may find it to their advantage to address.
JamesM.Goodman,Captain and Post Quartermaster.de 21--1m
Wanted.
--Wanted, for the ensuing year , one thousand Slaves, to work on the Richmond and Danville railroad, and three hundred Slaves to work on the Piedmont railroad.
Apply to any agent of the roads along the line, or at the offices in Richmond and Danville.
CharlesG.Talcott,Superintendent. Examiner, Whig and Enquirer, Petersburg Express and Lynchburg Virginian copy one month. 14--1m
Wanted, a No. 1 Servant, white or colored, to cook and wash for a small family, and will have a good home.
Wanted, one of good character; none other need a apply.
Wanted for the year.
Apply to W.H.Read, of the firm of Darby, Read & Co., on
Bank street, opposite Twelfth street.
ja 14--2t
Wanted, to hire five Negro men, for the present year.
Will be free from impressment.
Apply immediately to
P.G.Cosby & Co.,Cary street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth. ja 14--3t*
Lost, Strayed and stolen.
For rent.
Dissolutions.
Richmond Dispatch.
Monday morning.........January 16, 1865.
Later from the North.
We have received Northern papers of Thursday, the 12th instant.
The peace rumors — Blair's mission — opinion of "a Union General"--a New commissioner.
The Yankee papers contain a good deal of speculation about the mission of Blair to Richmond.
A dispatch from Washington, dated on Wednesday, says:
Information from the Army of the James, received here to-night, is that FrankBlair, Sr., reached Richmond on Monday and went quietly to the Spotswood House.
Considerable discussion has been had among Democratic members here as to the reason why GeneralSingleton, a celebrated Peace Democrat from Illinois, has had permission granted him to go to Richmond.
They allege he has the promise of certain favors from Jeff.Davis, who is willing to make terms with the Democratic party.
The New York Times gets up a special peace arrangement on its own account.
It has a special telegram from Washington, with the following heading gorgeously displayed in large type. "Very Important — More Rumors about Peace — Reported Appointment of Fifteen Commissioners by the Rebel Congress — Prominent Peace Men Selected — AlexanderH.Stephens and Mr.Boyce, of South Carolina, Among Them — The Commissioners to proceed North."
Washington,Wednesday, January 11. It will be recollected that a proposition was submitted to the rebel Congress, some weeks ago, to appoint a commission of fifteen to confer with an equal number on our side upon the subject of peace.
It now appears that the rebels have adopted the proposition, and have appointed fifteen commissioners, among whom are Vice-PresidentStephens; JudgeWhite, of Georgia; Messrs.Boyce and Orr, of South Carolina; Leech and Gillmore, of North Carolina; Reeves, of Virginia; and Smith and Singleton, of Mississippi.
The same paper has a dispatch from Washington purporting to give the sentiments of "a distinguished Union general." This distinguished person cannot see peace so near, as the South, instead of preparing for that event, is going to war more fiercely than ever.
He upbraids his brethren out of the army with desiring the continuation of the war instead of the "prompt suppression of the rebellion," and urges them, as the only means of finishing it, to go in themselves instead of putting in "bounty-jumpers" as substitutes.
Those in the army are anxious for the end of the war and the subjugation of the South; but are also anxious to see the "respectable" classes at the North going into the ranks.
He has read something in the Southern papers about GeneralLee, and thus translates it:
Lee is, by far, the most popular man now before the Southern people; he has their perfect respect and confidence; they will look upon him, whom their soldiery lovingly style "UncleRobert," with an affection that will go far toward reconciling them to his extreme supremacy, no matter by what name it may be called.
In such an hypothesis we can see no reason to hope for an early peace.
It is a measure looking rather to a more energetic prosecution of a game upon which the South has staked its all, and will be played until human passion and human folly shall have been exhausted from the Southern heart.
Continually the declaration is reiterated that complete separation is the only and undying aim of the Southern people.
Every hope of foreign aid, however slight, has passed away, and they have manfully supported the bitterness of their disappointment.
Every prospect of active sympathy from Northern secessionists has faded from the horizon; yet there is but little practical evidence of despair, and, for all material purposes, the South is just as resolute at this moment as on the day she opened her guns upon Fort Sumter.
* * * * *
We earnestly submit, therefore, that, if the people desire this war to terminate, every possible effort be made to get our best citizens to fill this draft, and in the full numbers called for by the President.
There is no other sure means of success.
Moral forces are well; but the force of arms is all we have to do with now; we can rely upon no other; and, although we should be abundantly happy to believe that Lee would play the role of GeneralMonk, we can see not the slightest cause of self-congratulation in those indications of his becoming dictator.
It means war, not peace.
The Times warns its readers against cherishing any hope that Blair's mission will reveal the fact that the Confederates are about to "back down." As for the views of PresidentDavis, the writer thinks they will be the same as given to Jacques.
He will "either secure the independence of the South or perish in the attempt." It does not answer to assume that the situation of the rebel chief is already so desperate that he must be thinking of submission.
There are expedients he has not yet tried.
His organs are now boldly canvassing them.
They are of two kinds — those calculated to strengthen the rebellion at home, and those designed to make stronger friends abroad.
It is proposed to increase the domestic strength of the Confederacy by heavily recruiting its armies from the slave population.
It is proposed to increase its strength abroad by making an end of slavery, which has been in Europe the most unpopular feature of the Confederacy; by offering to enter into colonial or other subordinate relations with England or France; or, in default of this, by changing the Confederate Government into a monarchy, so that all the dynasties of Europe will feel the strongest possible inducement to side with it, in order to get clear of the popular institutions of this continent, which are gradually sapping their life.
Now, it is needless for us in the North to discuss what chances these various methods would give to the Jeff.
Davis Government.
It is enough to know that Government finds hope in them, and that it is even now making all haste to put some of them to the test.
So long as such expedients are in reserve, however extreme we may deem them, the rebel Government will not look toward submission.
It will try every desperate measure sooner than face that.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says:
We certainly would not advise any one to place any sanguine hopes of peace, or of negotiations for peace, upon the present rumor or report.
On any other condition than the Union, peace is out of the category of things possible.
The likelihood is, that all these sweet whisperings of peace will now very soon be hushed by the rude blasts of most terrible war.
The Washington correspondent of the New York World telegraphs the following on the 11th instant:
The very air has been thick and heavy with peace rumors to-day.
A fresh impetus has been given them by the development of the fact that the Democratic politician alluded to in the morning papers as having also gone to Richmond on a peace mission, by permission of the President, is no less a personage than GeneralSingleton, of Illinois.
He only preceded FrankBlair by a day or two.
Coupled with this, it is said that, in secret session of the rebel Congress, Mr.McMullen's resolutions, introduced some time since, have been agreed to, and the commissioners have been selected on the part of the Confederacy to meet at GeneralGrant's headquarters. Their names are said to be: Orr, of South Carolina; Gilmer, of North Carolina, and AlexanderH.Stephens, the rebel Vice-President.
These are the rumors.
The facts are, that FrankBlair and GeneralSingleton have separately gone on missions devoted to peace, though the former has other business.
Among the rumors prevailing here to-day was one to the effect that GeneralGrant had telegraphed that AlexanderH.Stephens had solicited a pass through his lines to visit Washington.
Butler's removal — he Dies hard — his farewell address.
Butler passed through New York on Wednesdayen route for Lowell.
According to a letter, only "a few personal friends" saw him as he passed through.
He issued a farewell address to his army, and had copies of it struck off and sent to the members of Congress at Washington.
The following is a copy:
Headquarters Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Army of the James, January8, 1865. Soldiers of the Army of the James,--
Your commander, relieved by order of the President, takes leave of you. Your conduct in the field has extorted praises from the unwilling.
You have endured the privations of camps and marches without a murmur; you have never failed to attack when ordered; you have stormed and carried works deemed impregnable by the enemy; you have shown them to be so by holding them against his fiercest assaults in attempting to retake them.
Those skilled in war have marvelled at the obstacles overcome by your valor.
Your line of works has excited the wonder of officers of other nations who have come to learn defensive warfare from the monuments of your skilled labor.
Your deeds have rendered your name illustrious.
In after times your general's proudest memory will be to say with you, "I, too, was of the Army of the James."
To share such companionship is a pleasure; to participate in such acts is honor; to have command of such an army is glory.
No one could yield it without regret, knowing your willing obedience to orders, witnessing your ready devotion of your blood in your country's cause.
I have been chary of the precious charge confided to me. I have refused to order a useless sacrifice of lives of such soldiers, and I am relieved from your command.
The wasted blood of my men does not stain my garments.
For my action, I am responsible to God and my country.
To the colored troops of the Army of the James: In this army you have been treated not as laborers but as soldiers.--You have shown yourselves worthy of the uniforms you wear.
The best officers of the Union seek to command you. Your bravery has won the admiration even of those who would be your masters.
Your patriotism, fidelity and courage have illustrated the best qualities of manhood.
With the bayonet you have unlocked the iron barred gates of prejudice, opening new fields of freedom, liberty and equality and of rights to yourselves.
Comrades of the Army of the James, I bid you farewell.BenjaminF.Butler,Major-General.
A letter from the Army of the James gives an interesting account of his departure from that command:
The order was received at Butler's headquarters about A. M. yesterday.
The only person present who did not appear to be at all surprised was the General himself.
Whether he knew that it was coming, or whether he has the faculty of viewing the most unexpected events calmly, is more than I can determine; but certainly the General was not at all disturbed.
Immediately on its reception his orders were issued clearly and decisively, and before he was ready to vacate his command at the front.
Adopting the theory that GeneralButler was removed on account of the Wilmington expedition not meeting with the expected success, only one question remained to puzzle curious military men. They could not imagine why the General had not been removed some days ago. This question, however, received a final solution when GeneralOrd was assigned to the command.
The hero of Fort Harrison was away on leave of absence, and the authorities only waited for his return to remove GeneralButler.
GeneralOrd returned yesterday, and at once proceeded to the headquarters of his command, the Twenty-fourth army corps.
He had hardly arrived before he received notification of the removal of GeneralButler and his own assignment to the command of the Army of the James.
Immediately on the promulgation of the order relieving GeneralButler and replacing him by GeneralOrd, the staff of the Army of the James assembled around the quarters of their late commander, reinforced by numerous other officers of the command.
Numerous would hardly convey and idea of the number of officers present to bid him farewell.
The General was deeply affected, and expressed his regrets at parting with an army which, under his command, had achieved so much.
But any expressions of sorrow were cut short by the rapidity of the General's arrangements.
He had received his orders to report at Lowell at the earliest moment, and before he announced that he was ready to leave.
The order directing this change instructed GeneralButler to proceed to Lowell, Massachusetts, and report from thence to the adjutant-general of the army.
Before the General started for the North.
He was accompanied by GeneralOrd, GeneralDevins, GeneralTurner, GeneralLudlow, CaptainBruce, CaptainClard, CaptainDeKay, LieutenantMerrill, Medical DirectorSuckley, MajorDavis and CaptainWheaton.--Never had an order been more promptly obeyed.
All of the above-named officers accompanied the General to Aiken's landing, where he went on board his flagboat, the RiverQueen.
GeneralButler was accompanied by CaptainsDeKay and Clark, of his personal staff, while the remaining officers turned their horses' heads homeward.
GeneralOrd also accompanied GeneralButler as far as City Point, where he stopped to see the Lieutenant-General, and returned late last night.
From GeneralHood.
A telegram from Cairo, dated the 11th, has the following intelligence about GeneralHood:
The remnant of Hood's army is reported to be fortifying at Corinth, with a view of going into winter quarters at that place.
They are also reported to be repairing the Mobile and Ohio railroad.
The late raid into Mississippi.
The Vicksburg Herald (Yankee) has a full account of GeneralGrierson's recent raid in Mississippi.
The expedition left Memphis on the 21st ultimo, three thousand strong, consisting of the Second New Jersey, Fourth Missouri, Seventh Indiana cavalry, First Mississippi mounted rifles, Third and Fourth Iowa, Tenth Missouri, Second Wisconsin, Fourth and Eleventh Illinois and Third United States colored.
At Egypt, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, a considerable force of the enemy was encountered and a sharp fight ensued, in which quite a number of the enemy were killed and wounded and five hundred prisoners taken.
The rebel Brigadier-GeneralHolcomb was among the killed.
From Egypt the command struck westward, crossing the Mississippi Central railroad below Grenada, destroying thirty mills.
Several locomotives and fifty cars were destroyed.
At Grenada they destroyed extensive cloth and shoe factories.
At Bankston the expedition brought in a few horses and mules and some contrabands.
Among the prisoners captured are one colonel, onelieutenant-colonel and twenty-five line officers, and a number of our men, who, to escape the treatment of our prisoners at Andersonville, had joined the rebel army.
Sherman at New Orleans.
The New York papers publish the following telegram.
Of the truth of Sherman being at New Orleans, we think there is considerable doubt:
Cairo,January9.--The steamerMagenta, from New Orleans, brings the announcement of the arrival of the steamship Morning Star, with GeneralThomasW.Sherman and staff.
The gunboatRattler drifted ashore in a late storm, between Vicksburg and Natchez, and was fired by a gang of guerrillas and burned to the water's edge.
A letter from Mobile to a citizen of New Orleans says that fighting was going on in that vicinity on the 31st ultimo.
The rebels were burning cotton a short distance from Natchez on the 9th ultimo.
Attack on the Yankee picket line on the South side.
A dispatch from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, on the 19th, says:
The rebels made another attack on the picket line this morning, just before daylight, and captured a few videttes on the right of the Second division of the Sixth corps.
The morning was very dark, and the attacking party approached cautiously behind an old abattis until they were almost at our line ere the pickets were aware of their coming.
The men fired their pieces and ran back toward the reserves, but the rebels were so close to them, and being dressed in our uniform, could not be distinguished from our own men, and consequently were not fired on as they otherwise would have been.
Not more than two shots were heard during the attack; and they retreated, taking nine men with them and wounding one of the Forty-ninth New York.
Their object seemed to be to obtain food and clothing, as they at once demanded the soldiers' knapsacks and blankets, few of which they got, however, as our men go on picket for twenty-four hours, and only carry one day's rations with them, taking no knapsacks or blankets.
They got a few haversacks this morning, and to-day one of them was held up by a rebel to show our troops what they had gained.
Some of our soldiers swear vengeance against the raiders, and are waiting an opportunity to pay them back with double fury.
The slavery discussion in the Federal Congress.
In the Yankee House, on Wednesday, the amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery was up. Mr.Townsend, of New York, opposed it, and during his speech had the famous "Crittenden resolutions" read by the Clerk.
Mr.Holman (Indiana) said this amendment could not be adopted without being followed by more radical measures.
If, in the judgment of our fathers, slavery was inconsistent with a republican form of government, they would have abolished it. The Democratic party were opposed to the amendment because they want the Constitution preserved as it is. He denied that because of slavery our country had become a hissing and reproach.
In consequence of slavery, on the contrary, it had grown in population and wealth, and commanded the respect of the world; nor had its destinies been unduly controlled by Southern men.--The Constitution has been the source of the nation's prosperity, and it is the only ark of our safety.
Mr.Cravens (Indiana) believed that slavery will finally die if gentlemen but address themselves to putting down the rebellion.
He believed the war would have been over before now if they had said nothing about slavery.
He thought this was not the proper time to make so radical an amendment, and he was opposed to it on the ground of policy, expediency and justice.
Mr.Bromall (Pennsylvania) contended that this question had been passed upon by the people during the late Presidential election; they had given their verdict, and he held that it must be carried out, if not by this, at least by the next Congress.
He answered the arguments which had been advanced against the amendment, and contended that the object of the Constitution, as declared in its preamble, was to preserve the liberties of the people.
Mr.Pendleton (Ohio) maintained that the right of amendment is limited to two ways; first, by the letter of the Constitution itself, and next, by the spirit, intent and scope of that instrument, and this idea underlies the foundation.
It was not an abstract question, but a question of compact.
A change could not be made subverting the Constitution and encouraging a monarchy, because republicanism is at the base of our system, and to overthrow it is not to amend, but to subvert the Constitution.
If three-fourths of the States pass such an amendment, and they find that Rhode Island should be the one dissenting State, she would have the right, and it would be her duty, to resist by force, and her cause would become sacred in the eyes of just men and sanctified by God.
Such an amendment would not be binding on moral law, and therefore is illegal and void, and it could be enforced only by those who have the power of the sword.
In further argument he maintained that it was not in the power of three-fourths of the States to determine the character of the institutions of the other fourth.
We cannot contravene the letter and spirit of the Constitution.
We cannot subvert Republicanism, and destroy liberty, and decide the status of the citizens of the States.
If this is imposed by force it will become the right to resist by force, and to array all the power which may make resistance effective.--He would stand by the Constitution through good and evil report.
He would stand by it as he understood it to the end. He loved his whole country, North and South, and it was because he loved it he would do no act to retard the restoration of peace and the reconstruction of the Union.
Mr.Jenckes (Rhode Island) said he understood the gentleman to remark that, in the future, the cause of rebellion would be traced to others than those now in arms.
He would ask the gentleman to say at whose door the sin lies, and by whom committed.
Mr.Pendleton replied that he was not surprised the gentleman was somewhat touched by what he had said.
It might be the gentleman misunderstood the exact force of his language, but there possibly might have been in the neighborhood of the gentleman, and in his own State, and in all the free States, those who would infract the Constitution.
He (Mr.Pendleton) had said let gentlemen beware how they push their doctrine, lest it would be found that the compact of confederation had first been broken elsewhere than in the South.
In conclusion, he declared that he was not influenced by any sectional or partisan feeling, but solely by a regard for the character and perpetuity of our free institutions.
Mr.Jenckes (Rhode Island) expressed his astonishment that Mr.Pendleton called this a compact of confederation, and asked, if we are not one nation, what are we?
He called upon the gentleman and all of his school to frame an indictment on the charge that had been made that Northern men had infracted the Constitution.
Message of the Governor of New Jersey--a Copperhead document.
GovernorParker, of New Jersey, sent in his message to the Legislature of that State on Wednesday.
It is not as "loyal" as it might be to the Washington Government:
The Governor thinks there would be a much better state of feeling among the eighteen hundredthousand voters of the loyal States, who expressed their dissent from the policy of the National Administration, if it was generally understood that they could oppose the policy of an administration and still be firm friends of the Government and steadfast supporters of the Union.
He thinks the mode of reconstruction by a tithe of the people in very small parts of some of the States in rebellion, and elections for President of the United States in them, an act of great injustice to the loyal States, destroying that equality of representation in the Electoral College and Congress which is the foundation of republican government.
He argues upon this point at length, and says, if we believe the war is not exhaustive in men and money, we shall not be in a frame of mind to consider the question of peace.
He proceeds to argue that the war is a national calamity, bringing innumerable evils and a crushing weight of debt.
He thinks the war ought to cease whenever the rebels lay down their arms and return to their allegiance, but that subjugation and conquest will lead to an endless war. We should not only seek to overthrow the rebel Government by force, but also to conciliate the masses over whom it exercises despotic control.
The Governor thinks that the condition of the rebel army is such as to favor peace on the basis he suggests.
Sudden and forcible emancipation would produce incalculable misery.
It should be graduated, and with the consent of the people where slavery exists, to be a blessing.
Whatever differences of opinion exist, we should be united in the determination to maintain the Union of the States.
A "first-rate Notice" from the people of Savannah.
The New York Chamber of Commerce, in discussing the application of ColonelJulian for relief for the people captured in Savannah by Sherman, used such language that even the applicant, Yankee as he was, indignantly withdrew his application from the consideration of that body.
The Philadelphia Inquirer comments upon this in language which leads us seriously to consider whether life is a boon while purchased by assuming a position in which a people may be thus spoken of:
Taking umbrage at remarks made in debate by members of the committee appointed by the Chamber of Commerce, he withdraws his application to that body, and suggests that if the Chamber desires to act independently of him, it can do so by sending its contributions to GeneralGeary.
The case seems to be this: The citizens of Savannah are too proud to beg, and yet will accept charity.
They do not wish to starve, and we are able to buy what they want, although it will be at the sacrifice of one description of needful food for others.
Perhaps ColonelAllen is somewhat "high strung" in his sentiments.
It is almost time for him to get over that, and to cease to be sensitive as to what is said about his "mission." For the sake of the needy people whom he represents it would be well for him to recollect that he is not now the representative of Southern pride but of Southern want.
The easiest way by which he can effect his purpose will be by a dignity which is free from tetchiness.
The Weed-Opdyke suit.
A New York letter, of Wednesday, says:
As everything in this world must some time or other have an end, so in, obedience to the universal law, the public have heard the last of the famous Weed-Opdyke libel suit.
It has ended like the story of Rasselas, with a conclusion in which nothing is concluded.
In other words, the jury have failed to agree, and though the plaintiff can undoubtedly have a new trial, if he so elect, yet his friends say there is no probability that he will deem it advisable to avail himself of that privilege.
The scene when the jury came into court this morning was a lively one. Mr.Weed was in court, surrounded by his friends, but not Mr.Opdyke.
It is said that, first of all, the jurors stood seven to five for substantial damages, but afterwards the proportion was nine to three.
But Weed's friends contradict that, and say three were for nominal damages and six for acquittal.
Another great naval, and Military expedition about to Start.
A letter from New York, dated the 11th instant, says:
We have some very exciting rumors in
Wall street this afternoon relative to another great naval and military expedition.
These rumors are of a very specific and circumstantial character; but though it is probable that some of our city journals, with their usual unscrupulousness, will give currency to them tomorrow morning, your correspondent refrains from giving publicity to them here.
Gold, you will perceive, has fallen several per cent, and that looks as if some body had heard "good news."
Miscellaneous.
One hundred sailors were selected at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to be sent to-Baltimore on Saturday in the steamerDe Soto.
Upon being searched, most of them were found to be dressed in citizen's clothing under their outer dress, and were armed — with the intention, probably, of making their escape upon a convenient opportunity.
Many of them are desperate characters.
They were sent into the hold of the United StatesshipVandalia, and the hatches fastened down.
GeneralGrant, on hearing that the citizens of Ohio were preparing a suitable testimonial for GeneralSherman, ordered the sum of five hundred dollars to be subscribed for him toward that object.
That ferocious she guerrilla, SueMundy, with a band, on the night of the 5th instant, killed five members of the Fifteenth Kentucky infantry, near Lebanon, Kentucky.
The guerrillas, after committing the deed, turned their attention to the destruction of the rolling stock of the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
A number of box-cars, which were stationed on the side track, were set on fire and nearly consumed.
The publication of the incomes in Chicago has begun.
The list of those whose incomes are over $3,000 is quite large.
The following are the names of those whose income exceeds $100,000: PotterPalmer, $333,485; JohnV.Farwell, $197,152; PeterSchullter, $108,731. Those whose income is over $50,000, and less than $100,000, number nine; over $40,000, and less than $50,000, three; over $30,000, and less than $40,000, sixteen; over $20,000, and less than $30,000, fifty-one; over $10,000, and less than $20,000, one hundred and thirty-one; under $10,000, and over $3,000, five hundred and ninety-one.
A correspondent of a Boston paper writes from this city that GeneralMcClellan leaves for his European tour the first week in February.
He has declined the offer of the private vessel tendered by his friends.
He leaves in the steamerChina, and will be gone a couple of years.
He is made perfectly easy in pecuniary matters.
He will make a thorough study of the military science in Europe.
A telegraph message was sent, a few days since, from City Point to Chattanooga, with but a single repetition, and that at Pittsburgh.
The distance is about two thousand miles.
The Kentucky Legislature has adopted resolutions in favor of emancipation, the consent of the owners being obtained, and compensation made.
On Tuesday, the UnionState Convention of Tennessee met in the capitol at Nashville, and organized by electing the Hon.SamuelR.Rodgers, of Knox county, president.
Messrs.Mercer, Myers and Cone were chosen vice-presidents.
The MissouriState Convention, on the 11th, passed the following ordinance by a vote of sixty to four: "Be it ordained by the people of the State of Missouri, in convention assembled, that hereafter in this State there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, and all persons held to service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free.
JamesGuthrie has been elected United States Senator from Kentucky, in place of LazarusL.Powell--GeneralRousseau came in ten votes of getting it.
WilliamPittFessenden has been elected United States Senator from Maine.
On Sunday, a scouting party from Clarksville, Tennessee, captured south of the Cumberland river the guerrilla leader, Jake Sly. Sly and four of his men were executed on the spot.
The Galt House, at Louisville, Kentucky, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday . Two guests were burnt to death.
GeneralPrice's army is reported at Buggy depot, on Red river.
Gold was quoted in New York on Wednesday at 219.
Still later from the North.
We have received copies of New York papers of Friday, the 13th.
They contain nothing of importance.
Gold was quoted at 220188.
The Times'sWashington correspondent telegraphs the return to that city, on Thursday, of F.P.Blair, which, of course, was a mistake.
Butler's removal requested by Grant.
Butler is to be summoned to Washington to testify about the Wilmington failure.
The Washington National Republican, of the 10th, says in reference to the removal of GeneralButler:
In the last edition of the Republican, yesterday, we announced that Major-GeneralButler was relieved as Com-
Richmond Dispatch.
maunder of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina.
It is perhaps proper to add that this was done at the instance, and by the particular request, of Lieutenant-GeneralGrant, the General-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States.
Successful raid by GeneralRosser--capture of Beverly and the Yankee garrison.
A telegram from Wheeling, dated on Thursday, says:
We learn the garrison at Beverly, West Virginia, were attacked on the morning of the 11th by a force of the enemy, under GeneralRosser, and the town and a large portion of the force defending it were captured.
The number of the enemy not stated.
A later dispatch confirms the above, but states that the rebels have again retreated whence they came.
From Grant's Army.
A telegram from City Point, of the 11th, says:
All remains quiet in front, although rumors begin to float about that Lee is contemplating some movement or other, but what that movement is, no outsiders can imagine.
Perhaps it is the one which is to "astonish the world." Whatever it may be, I think Lee will find Grant prepared.
A letter-writer notices the removal of the paupers from the Prince George countypoor-house to the alms-houses at the North.
There were seven women, five children and two young men--one an idiot.
Miscellaneous.
The Yankee papers are feeding the public with rumors of Union meetings held in counties in Georgia, favoring reconstruction, which they claim are prompted by GovernorBrown.
The Denver CityNews reports that ColonelKitCarson, with a few of the companies of the First New Mexican cavalry, lately ran against a band of one thousandIndiana--Kiowas and Camanches — on Red river, south of the road from Fort Union to the States, and was badly repulsed.
He had to fight his way back.
The St. Albans raiders' case, in Montreal, has again been continued thirty days, for evidence from Richmond.
A dispatch from Toronto says the case of Burly was before the court to-day.
The original document, signed by Jeff.Davis, was produced.
It authorizes the raid.
Objection was made to receiving it. The court adjourned to Thursday to consider the objection.
Forrest is reported to be concentrating a large force at Paris, Tennessee.
A great number of his men are hovering around their homes in Tennessee and Kentucky, conscripting Union men.
A telegram from Toronto on the 12th says: Burleigh was again before the court to-day.
Jeff.Davis's manifesto was objected to because it did not bear the seal of the so-called Confederate States.
A decision was reserved till Tuesday.
Vice-AdmiralFarragut visited the United States Senate chamber.
On motion of Mr.Grimes, a recess of ten minutes was taken for the purpose of social intercourse with the Admiral.
The Democratic State Convention of New Hampshire has nominated E.W.Harrington, of Manchester, for Governor.
Wisconsin, according to her Governor's message, has furnished 75,133 men to the Yankee army.
Latest from Europe.
The steamshipMoravian brings intelligence from Europe to the 30th ultimo.
We copy from the telegrams in the Yankee papers a portion of the news:
Great Britain.
The news from America of the success of GeneralsSherman and Thomas caused much satisfaction among the friends of the North, and the Confederate loan declined three per cent., while there was a slight improvement in Federal securities.
The item of news, however, which claimed most attention was the order of GeneralDix to pursue rebel raiders into Canada, if necessary.
The London Times remarks that if the American Government is so ill- advised as to send its troops across the Canadian frontier, a very serious misunderstanding between the two countries may be the consequence.
The LondonDaily News hopes that the order of GeneralDix to pursue the raiders across the Canadian frontier will be disavowed by the superior civil authorities of the Washington Government.
It says:
"The plea which could alone warrant such a course, the refusal of the Canadians to administer justice and observe the duties of allies, has, happily, no foundation in fact. "
The LondonStar condemns the hasty action of GeneralDix, and the uncalled for resolutions which were passed in the House of Representatives in reference to Canada, as tending to complicate a position already sufficiently embarrassing.
The LondonMorning Post thinks that the promptitude of the Canadian Government in ordering the re-arrest of the raiders is substantial testimony to its own good faith, and will have a re-assuring effect in Washington and New York.
The New York correspondent of the Times points out that the Federal Government gave notice in October of its intention to increase its armament on the lakes, and it will therefore be able, long before the opening of navigation on the St. Lawrence, to have as many war ships on the lakes as it can buy, construct or transport in the interim, and that the British Government, unless it should have material for ships, and arming and equipping them on the Canadian shores, will find itself, about the 15th of April, with only one vessel upon each lake to oppose the the Federal war vessels.
Austria and Italy.
Reductions of the armies are to be effected on a grand scale by Austria and Italy.
It is said the Italian reduction will be eighty-five thousand men.
India.
An official telegram, dated Calcutta, December12th, announces that the fortress of Dalimpote Bhootan was captured by the British, with the small loss of two officers and fifty men. The position was very strong.
Three officers and seven men were subsequently killed by the accidental explosion of gunpowder.
The Daily News publishes a letter from ProfessorGoldwinSmith, asserting his conviction that the sinking of the Florida was entirely accidental.
The Times publishes a letter from LordWharneliffe, in response to Mr.Seward's refusal to allow the Liverpool Bazaar Fund to be distributed to Southern prisoners.
Wharncliffe quotes Northern papers to disprove Mr.Seward's statement, that the prisoners were not suffering unusual privations.
He denies that the funds were mainly contributed by those trading with the South, saying the movement was almost entirely carried out by Southern ladies in England, and that the refusal will not practically affect the distribution of the fund.
The letter of Mr.Adams, communicating briefly Mr.Seward's refusal, is published.
In it Mr.Adams expresses regret the he has to close the correspond once.
The Times has an editorial complimentary to Messrs.Wharncliffe and Adams, and, by inference, the reverse to Mr.Seward.
The Daily News justifies Mr.Seward's course, and shows that Wharncliffe deserved rebuke.
LaFrance points to GeneralFremont as the late Mr.Dayton's successor.
The Russian ambassador had returned to Rome.
The Times contrasts the temperate language of Lincoln, in his late message, and the proclamation of GeneralDix and the resolutions offered in the Federal Senate by Mr.Chandler.
It says: "In Congress we are charged with complicity in assassination and pillage, while a military commander threatens our territories with invasion; but the chief of the Republic does justice to both Canada and England, and we gladly receive his views as those which time and reason will commend to the American people.
War between America and England would be simply the most formidable intervention in behalf of the South which Mr.Davis could desire." The Times especially recommends this point to the consideration of the Americans.
It adds: "It has been long surmised that the Confederate agents, in their various operations, have been rather allured than deterred by the prospects of international embroilment arising out of their schemes.
If, besides escaping with a cruiser and plundering a bank, they could bring a powerful enemy on the back of their foe, it would be an enormous aid to them.
Perhaps some of them, now looking to the St. Albans raid, have hopes of this kind.
It is much wiser to disappoint them than to play their game.
The Federals may assure themselves that not even the capture of Nashville nor the defeat of Sherman would gratify the South half as much as a rupture with this country, which certain Northern politicians are incessantly advising.
The London Post says that neither the English nor the Federals will allow themselves to be driven into unfriendly relations by the buccaneering exploits of a third party, whose object is sufficiently manifest.
It will no doubt be found necessary to the interest of both nations to maintain an effectual military police, both on the shores and lake, with the view of preventing a recurrence of recent depredations.
The Herald says we must take care and give them no reasonable grounds of provocation; that if the war should commence it may be their fault, not ours.
The Star believes that the feeling in the United States about the release of the St. Albans robbers would doubtless subside as soon as the course of the Canadian Government was known.
The Times's city article says the funds were rather less firm yesterday, consequent upon the demand for money at the close of the year, also in connection with the foreign and share settlement now in progress.
The American news caused some little depression in Canadian securities, although the only importance attached to the fresh example of national weakness furnished by the last New York intelligence is that the order of GeneralDix and wildness of the political press should lead some irrepressible persons to violate Canadian territory, and thus place the Washington Government against their anxious desire, in a position as disagreeable, both to the people of England and the respectable classes of the United States, as was occasioned by CommodoreWilkes and the vote of the House of Representatives in the Trent affair.
Constantinople,December 28.--A stringent press law has been promulgated.
The Porte has granted its concession to the construction of a railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem.
Berlin,December29.--Private dispatches from St. Petersburg state that PrinceGortschakoff seriously contemplates retiring from office.
BaronBreebeg is mentioned as his successor.
It is said that M.Walinew, Minister of the Interior, will have the French mission, and be succeeded by GeneralMulitin, and that AdmiralKrable, Minister of Marine, will resign and be succeeded by AdmiralGlassuaph.
Calcutta,December 13.--Shirtings are a shilling a piece higher.
Bombay,December 14.--Import prices are firm, with a tendency to advance.--Exchange on England has slightly advanced.
Very Latest Per the Moravian, ViaGreencastle. London, December30.
--The English journals continue to comment upon the Canadian difficulty, which has caused a slight depression in Canadian funds.
The papers generally discountenance the idea of the English Government being driven into unfriendly relations with the United States.
The Times shows that the rebels could desire nothing better for their cause than such a result.
Suspension was announced of three sugar refining houses in Glasgow, viz: JohnReid, Jr., & Co.; Baird & Patterson; and Baird, Nelson &Co., for about £80,000 each.
Satterthwaite's Circular says: "In consequence of the holiday season, very few transactions took place in American securities until the 28th, when, on the receipt of news of important victories, an active demand sprung up for five-twenty bonds, which rapidly rose to 443-4, closing at 441-2. Illinois and Erie show and advance of one dollar per share in the week. "
Still later from Europe. New York, January13.
--The steamerChina, from Liverpool on the 31st, has arrived.
The London Times, alluding to the present attitude of the North to Canada, says: "In the present state of Northern feeling there is too much reason to apprehended some outrage which may render a rupture inevitable.
Americans neither appreciate the strength of England nor understand the unanimity with which a war would be prosecuted if forced upon a reluctant government and nation; and the first result of that war would be the immediate and irrevocable establishment of Southern independence."
Richmond Dispatch.
Monday morning...January 16, 1865.
The war News.
The quiet of the military lines in front of Petersburg and Richmond remains unbroken.
The Army of the James last week witnessed a very touching scene — old BenjaminButler's farewell to his troops.
He was torn suddenly and ruthlessly from his beloved niggers by Lincoln, and sent into the shades of private life at Lowell, Massachusetts.
His affecting farewell address, and a full account of his leave-taking, will be found in the extracts from Northern papers published in another column.
In his address, he gives Grant a severe parting kick.
Though for the moment under a cloud, he will soon burst from his seclusion with renewed effulgence.
It will be observed, he is ordered to report by letter to the Adjutant General of the United States.
We expect next to hear from him as the Military Governor of Kentucky.
The Yankee journals mention the starting out of another great naval expedition.
It is already battering at Fort Fisher.
Since our last issue no official dispatches have been received from Wilmington, but there are reports in circulation — the source of which we have been unable to trace — that the Yankee fleet was bombarding Fort Fisher fiercely, and that two of its vessels had been sunk by the guns of the fort.
There is also a rumor that the Yankees had effected a landing at the point where Butler's troops disembarked.
A gentleman who left Staunton on Saturday , reports that it was rumored, and believed by the military authorities there, that GeneralRosser had taken Beverly, Randolph county, capturing between five and six hundred prisoners. No official intelligence confirmatory of this rumor has been received; but there is reason to give it credit, as GeneralRosser is known to be on a raid into that section of Virginia.
Mr.FrancisP.Blair, Sr., left Richmond on Saturday, on the flag-of-truce boat, for Grant's lines.
As the end, and object, and results, of his mission have furnished the theme for endless speculation and discussion, we are glad to be able to relieve public curiosity by laying before our readers some facts concerning his interview with the President.
He called upon the President on Friday . The meeting, especially upon the part of Mr.Blair, was marked by a degree of cordiality that was as refreshing as it was unexpected.
He shook the President's hand warmly, assuring him at the same time of his undiminished regard and esteem.
The first compliments over, he requested a private conference with the President, which was immediately accorded him. After a private conversation of an hour's duration, Mr.Blair took his leave, expressing himself highly gratified with the reception he had met and the results of the conference.
Some time after his departure, the president wrote him a note, stating that as he (Mr.Blair) would, perhaps, like to have in writing what he (Mr.Davis) had said to him, he had written to report that he was willing, as he had ever been, to appoint commissioners to meet commissioners of Mr.Lincoln, with a view to an adjustment of the difficulties existing between the two countries.
It is under stood that Mr.Blair told the President that he came in no official character, but simply with the knowledge and consent of Mr.Lincoln.
He expressed the opinion that Mr.Lincoln would certainly appoint commissioners to meet the commissioners appointed by our President.
The same boat that carried Mr.Blair down the James river brought back GeneralSingleton, and Illinois Peace Democrat, another unauthorized peace commissioner.
This peace commissioner business is fast becoming ridiculous.
For the benefit of whom it may concern, we will state that GeneralSingleton is at the Spotswood Hotel, where he has been called on by a number of citizens.
We should not be surprised to see old HoraceGreeley next, flying around in Richmond as a peace commissioner.
Hon.HenryS.Foote, of Tennessee, is still at Fredericksburg, the House of Representatives not having yet decided what action they will take in his case.--Persons who came down from Fredericksburg yesterday state that Mr.Foote was very indignant that he should have been arrested, and demanded to be brought to Richmond immediately; and when this was refused him, he wrote to JudgeHalyburton, petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus.
Not "Privateers."
We are requested to state that the "Olustee" and the "Shenandoah," armed vessels of the Confederate States Navy, and commanded by commissioned officers of the Confederate Navy, are not "privateers," equipped and armed on private account, but are regularly commissioned war vessels of our Government.
Married.
On the 10th instant, at St. Luke's Church, Powhatan county, Virginia, by the Rev.FrancisBaker, CaptainT.A.Brander, Confederate States Army, to Miss.
ElizabethL., oldest daughter of the Rev.LewisWalke.
At
Broad StreetMethodist Church, by the Rev.W.H.Christian, on Tuesday, January10, 1865, R.S.Pollard, Esq., of Richmond, to LouF.Minson, of York county, Virginia.
Died.
Of consumption, in the town of Manchester, on the 15th instant, Mrs.JuliaS.Wren, wife of CaptainJosephWren, late of Powhatan county, in the forty-fifth year of her age.
The friends and relatives of the family are invited to attend her funeral this day (Monday) at , from the residence of her husband, in Manchester.
Southern Sympathizers in Boston.
A new volume of Mr.EdwardA.Pollard's History of the War has been published.
In a Northern paper, which has seen a copy, we find the following extract from it relative to the author's experience in the city of Boston before being incarcerated in Fort Warren:
"I passed a week in Boston, entirely unknown and secluded, when an incident occurred that was to open up to me a new and surprising interest in the Yankee metropolis.
I was sauntering in the reading room of the hotel (Young's) one evening, when an amiable-looking gentleman came up to me, with a beaming face, and whispered, 'Are you not Mr.Pollard, from Richmond?' I was so taken aback by the plump question that I could not help answering, 'Yes.' 'I thought so,' he replied quickly, 'some detectives here know you; hush, talk low — I want you to let me bring a friend around to see you at this evening.' I signified my assent, and awaited with some interest an interview about which there appeared to be some mystery.
"At I received in my chamber the gentlemen who had so unceremoniously introduced himself to me, and who was, indeed, to prove a friend, accompanied by a gentleman, whose name was already familiar to me as one who had suffederacy in this war. There are obvious reasons why I should not mention here the names of those friends and of other sympathetic persons in Boston, afterwards found, who surprised me, not only by the warmth and delicacy of their personal kindness, but by their sentiments for my country.
"The next day it was insisted that I should be introduced to a number of persons in Boston who sympathized with the South, and some of my countrymen will be surprised to learn that to meet these persons I was carried to the Merchants' Exchange, to the offices of the leading lawyers, and to some of the largest business establishments in Boston.
I may say, that in the course of two or three days I met at least one hundred gentlemen in Boston, among its most influential classes, who expressed to me an ardent sympathy for the South in her struggle for constitutional liberty, and an earnest desire for the acknowledgment of her independence as the only possible termination of the unnatural and unhappy war.
"What I was made a private witness of in Boston was sufficient to satisfy any candid mind that the Southern Confederacy had a party in the North of devoted and intelligent friends, entitled to her consideration and gratitude.
"In short, I discovered a circle of 'secessionists' in Boston, and had been cursing the black desert of heartless crowds before my eyes, without the least thought that it contained an oasis for the despised Confederate.
I was overwhelmed with kindness by my newly-found friends, offered a testimonial dinner, which I peremptorily declined; invited to charming country places and suburban rides.--Alas, from this amicable diversion, my thoughts were to be turned into a channel of bitterness!"
Ladies' Stratagem.
The Delaware (United States) Republican says:
"A few days ago the will of the late Thomas Jamison, who resided near St. George's, was burnt under the following singular circumstances: Mr.Jamison, recently deceased, had left his large estate, about a hundred thousand dollars in value, principally to his sons; leaving his daughters, three in number, only six thousand dollars each, coupled with the strange condition that that amount should be forfeited if they married without the consent of the executor, Mr.ThomasJ.Craven.
The will was drawn by CharlesB.Lore, Esq., and witnessed by Mr.EliBiddle.
It was read after the burial of Jamison.
"A few evenings afterwards the young ladies sent for Mr.Craven, and desired to look at the will.
He went there and found a hot fire in the stove, a table opposite, with seats on the side near the stove for the ladies, and on the further side from the stove for himself.
One of the ladies stated that she wished to examine some items, and requested the will to be handed to her. Mr.Craven complied with her request, but suspecting her intention, moved to the opposite side of the table and sat alongside of her.
"She examined the will carefully, when he perceived Miss.AnnieJamison open the stove door.—He at once moved to take hold of the will, suspecting her intention, when his suspicious were allayed by her asking her sister for the poker.
Thinking she wished only to poke the fire, he felt rather ashamed of his suspicious, when he was handed Harper's Magazine to look at. This for a moment diverted his attention, when, in an instant, the will was handed to Annie, with the leaves all opened, rammed into the hot stove, Mr.Craven pushed on one side, the light put out, and the will, before he could interfere, destroyed forever.
"The will has not been recorded, but CharlesB.Lore, Esq., has a copy.
The ladies say they would not mind the small amount of money left them, but they do object to one not connected with the family having anything to say in their matrimonial engagements.
The case will be heard before the Register, and more than probable come before the court at New Castle. "
Appearance of the Battle-field of Franklin.
The Nashville correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial writes:
"I lately passed over and examined the field where was fought, November 30,one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles, for the numbers engaged, of the whole war. The carnage among the rebels must have been fearful.
All along in front of the breastworks on which they charged, for several rods deep, the graves are clustered as thick as in the most populous Potter's-field of the Old World.
As the rebels occupied the field after the fight, they had abundant leisure to bury their dead decently, hence there are none of those disgusting and revolting exhibitions that sometimes shock the beholder, but he cannot repress a feeling of unfeigned sadness at the thought that in the short space of four hours all these multitudes were slaughtered in a vain struggle to accomplish the command of a madman.
"The breastworks cross the Franklin pike a right angle, and it was right down this road and on either side of it that the rebels charged in a solid phalanx five lines deep.
Behind the works lay the Twenty-third corps, the Third division to the left, the Second division to the right.
In front of them the destruction was far more terrible than elsewhere.
They occupied a sort of salient in the works, which projected forth and met the brunt of the attack like, great rock in the edge of the sea. The country is level and perfectly open, and the balls took full effect.
Our men were crowded so densely behind the works that those in the front did nothing but fire the pieces, which were loaded by their comrades in the rear.
It needs only that one should look at the abattis of brush which lay in front of them to learn what a deadly torrent of lead filled all the air. To use the homely comparison of one who helped in that day's work, 'It looks just as though it had been run through a threshing machine,' and so it does.
A grove of small locusts just in the rear of our works wears such an appearance as it might if a visitation of hail had been followed by one of locusts, and after that each several and particular remaining shred of bark and limb picked off. The rebels buried their dead by regiments, in rows parallel to the road.
They made the graves about eighteen inches deep, and separated by a thin wall of earth.
Some regiments number as many as fifty killed outright.
The whole number of dead, according to their own confession, is about one thousand seven hundred and fifty.
The working party, detailed for the purpose, were occupied in their ghastly work five days and nights.
Each grave is marked by a little board, with the name, company and regiment carefully cut it."
CharlesScott, an old citizen of Lynchburg, Virginia, died on the 12th instant.
Telegraphic.
Sherman's Army gone back to the Savannah River. [Special dispatch to the Richmond Dispatch.]Charleston, January14.
--The enemy's forces about Hardeeville have retired back to the Savannah river.
There is some doubt whether a corps had been sent to Beaufort.
There are no indications of an advance this way.
Interesting from Savannah. [Special dispatch to the Richmond Dispatch.]Charleston, January13.
--Intelligent persons from Savannah state that the late meeting there numbered about three hundred, of whom one hundred were Jews, seventy-fiveIrish, and the remainder men of Northern birth and shaky politicians, who no more represent the people of Savannah than a dozen deserters represent Lee's army.
[Second Dispatch.] Charleston, January15.
--Two hundred and fifty refugees arrived here last night from Savannah.
The Yankees were busy removing obstructions from the river, and say they will soon move on Augusta, Branchville and Charleston.
No movement has been made as yet, though refugees think there will be soon.
Sherman and his officers threaten to reduce Charleston and South Carolina to desolation.
His rule in Savannah, for policy, continues mild.
He has written a letter to the citizens, saying the only way to have peace is to send members to the United States Congress and return to the Union and that it is ridiculous to think of any other kind of reconstruction.
The refugees brought out such servants and baggage as they desired.
Many negroes were returning to their masters.
Negroes for hire and sale.
Negroes for hire.
--We have the following Negroes for hire: Chambermaids, House Girls, Nurses, Cooks, Gardeners and small Boys.
As we have determined to close our hiring in a few days, all persons desiring servants of the above description are requested to give us a call, as we intend hiring them out regardless of prices.
Clopton & Lyne, corner of Franklin and Fifteenth streets, ja 16--2t
For hire,
several Boys and Girls, at reasonable prices for good homes.
Also, a good Blacksmith.
FrancisT.Isbell, corner of Eleventh and Bank streets. ja 14--2t
For hire.
--Boys and Girls, accustomed to farm and house work.
Also, two Shoemakers.
Apply at
E. & S.Wortham & Co's. ja 14--2t*Cook for hire.
--I have for hire a Servant Woman, who is good cook, washer and ironer.
Also, two boys, accustomed to waiting in the house.
JamesMoore,Franklin street. ja 24--2t*
For hire,
two Girls, one about fourteen and the other about sixteen years of age, accustomed to the house.
Apply to J.L.Porter, at A.E.Moore's,
Cary street.
ja 13--3t*
Gardener for sale.
--I have for sale, privately, a No. 1 Gardener and his wife, who is a No. 1 cook, washer and ironer and fair seamstress.
Also, a rough Carpenter, a good Shoemaker, and several likely House Girls; all brought from my farm, and sold for no fault.
D.McDANIEL.[ja 12--4t*]
For sale, a young Black Girl, likely and intelligent, of amiable disposition, accustomed to the house, nursing, cooking and sewing.
She will make an excellent seamstress and cook.
A fine Top Buggy, Spring Wagon and Harness.
The Girl will be for hire if not sold in a few days.
For rent, three houses, in Manchester.-- Apply to Dr.Broocks,
142 Main street.
1t*
Richmond Dispatch.
Local matters.
RichmondCircuit court,January 14th.
--The estate of ThomasJones, deceased, was, on motion of Mrs.Jones, by counsel, this day committed to the hands of H.K.Ellyson, sheriff of Richmond, for administration.
A return to the writs of habeas corpus in the case of SolomonLillinfield, claiming exemption as an undomiciled foreigner, was made to-day, and the further hearing of the case postponed to Wednesday next.
Mr.JamesLyons for affiant.
A writ of habeas corpus was granted upon petition of JosiahH.Harris, of Hanover county, who claims exemption as an overseer of the poor, and was made returnable to the 19th instant.
The process was directed to CaptainGrovers, of company E, Fifteenth Virginia regiment, in whose company petitioner now is.
Mr.Lyons concluded his argument in the case of the undomiciled foreigner, which has been before the court for some time, but was delayed in consequence of the sickness of Mr.Lyons.
The court reserved its decision until some future day. The court then adjourned until Tuesday next.
Mayor's court.
--On Saturday the following cases claimed the attention of the Mayor:
JamesE.Robertson, the young man noticed in our Saturday's issue as having been arrested on the charge of stealing two pieces of dry goods from Messrs.Chiles & Chenery, was up for a hearing.
A member of the firm testified that the accused came to the store twice that morning before committing the theft; that on his third visit he slipped the goods under his overcoat, and was in the act of leaving, when a servant in the employ of the witness called attention to his conduct; whereupon the prisoner was taken to the back part of the store and searched.
The stolen goods were found buttoned up under his overcoat.
Robertson was sent on for indictment by the Grand Jury.
Before leaving the bar, Robertson was again arraigned on the charge of stealing a piece of light cassimere goods from the store of AlfredTolleson.
OfficerJenkins testified that, while executing a search warrant in the prisoner's room, at the house of his father-in-law, he found a new ladies' cloak, made up from goods resembling that which had been stolen from Mr.Tolleson's store.
Upon inquiry, the witness ascertained that the prisoner, who has been married only three or four weeks, had made his wife a present of the cloth, and she had made it up into a cloak.
At first the accused stated that he bought the cloak pattern at auction, and that was all he had of it; but, upon searching further, another lot of the same piece was found.
Mr.Tolleson identified the goods as some which had been stolen from his store about the 31st of December last, and said that he had lost a great many articles before.
The accused was also remanded in this case for indictment, making three charges of a like character now pending against him before the Grand Jury of the Hustings Court.
Israel, slave of HenryBruin, and Jordan, slave of Georgiana Charters, were charged with stealing two quarters of fresh beef and a lot of pork, valued at two thousand five hundred dollars, the property of the Confederate States.
The beef was stolen from the meat-house on
Broad street, which was broken open by the parties who committed the robbery.
In the house of a negro woman, slave of RichardTaliaferro, a portion of the meat was afterwards found.
The evidence against the accused was of the strongest character; but, owing to the absence of other parties supposed to be involved in the transaction, the further prosecution of the matter was postponed till to-day.
Nathan, slave of MadisonMacon, charged with stealing a trunk containing a quantity of clothing, the property of CaptainT.M.Semmes, was ordered to be whipped.
A charge against JamesSmith, of assaulting and beating his wife, was dismissed, it having been shown that the disturbance was caused by Mrs.Smith, who was somewhat under the influence of liquor.
The continued case of FrankMorris, aliasFrankHerman, charged with the murder and robbery of MichaelRouke, was called up; but, from the same cause, which heretofore necessitated its postponement, the prisoner was recommitted to prison for his appearance to answer on the 23d instant.
ElizabethDawson, charged with receiving a silver watch, the property of MichaelBouke, deceased, knowing that it was stolen from Rouke on the night of his murder, was bailed to answer that offence on the 23d instant.
Police arrests.
--The following arrests were made by the civil police Saturday and yesterday:
Julia, slave of IsabellaRatcliffe, charged with stealing a breastpin; Davy, slave of HoltWilson, stealing beef from J.B.Wilde; James and Charles, slaves of JaneTiroberlake, charged with aiding in the to the Yankees of James, slave of PeterWebster, and John, slave of Dr.EdwardEpps; James, slave of PeterWebster, charged with attempting to escape to the Yankees; Jas.Melvin, a white man, charged with receiving a lot of corn, oats, shoes, clothing, &c., the property of the Confederate States, knowing them to have been stolen, and John, slave of Robt.Oliver, arrested upon suspicion of trying to go to the Yankees.
Sentence remitted.
--The sentence of three months confinement in Castle Thunder at hard labor passed upon R.D'OrsayOgden by military court-martial, a short time since, has been remitted in consequence of the precarious state of his health.
He was sent to Camp Lee on Saturday for consignment, but during the day obtained a limited leave of absence to visit the city, and was in attendance at the theatre that night.
In the opinion of Mr.Ogden's physician, he was not able to conform to the stipulations of the finding of the court martial in his case, and the authorities, therefore, thought it better that he should perform service elsewhere than remain as an inmate of the hospital.
A supposed spy.
--F.W.Robartes was arrested yesterday and committed to Castle Thunder on the charge of being a spy. The accused arrived in this city a few weeks since and claimed to be a regularly commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Army of England; but, in the absence of all papers establishing that fact, and his inability to produce any acquaintances from among the numerous English gentlemen now in this city, his statements are all doubted, and therefore his arrest upon the charge above cited.
When arrested he was endeavoring to obtain passports to go through the lines.
Running persons through the lines.
--Detectives Jones and Fitchett arrested, on Saturday , JohnMunn, of this city, upon the charge of running persons through the lines.
Munn had bargained to carry a white man through in a couple of hours, receiving in advance five hundred dollars for that purpose.
When arrested, he was about starting off with his man. He is an old offender, and is already under heavy bonds to answer a similar offence.
Returned home.
--Hon.F.P.Blair, about whose visit to this city there has been so much speculation, left for home on Saturday by the Federal flag-of-truce boat.
Upwards of fifty Federal surgeons and chaplains were also passengers on the same boat.
Aiding in the escape of Slaves.
--JohnHix, of Henrico county, charged with aiding slaves to escape to the Yankees, was committed to Castle Thunder on Saturday.
Runaways.
Runaway.--one thousand dollars reward.
--Ran away, on Friday, December30, a Negro Boy, about twenty-five years old, named HamptonJohnson.
He is about five feetsix inches in height; weighs about one hundred and thirty pounds; black; a good many of his jaw teeth are out; and inclined to be delicate.
I purchased him about three years ago from WilliamGarnett.
His wife lives on
Seventeenth street, near Austin's grocery.
He can read and write remarkably well.
He has been working in my foundry as a mechanic.
I will pay one thousand dollars reward if taken within the enemy's lines, or five hundred dollars if within our lines, and delivered to Hill, Dickinson & Co.W.B.Cook, Founder, Eighth street, near Main. ja 14--6t*Two hundred and fifty dollars reward.
--Left my residence, on the night of January6, 1865, a negro girl, named Frances.
She is about five feetsix inches high; chocolate color; well-dressed; generally wears a blue turban.
The above reward will be paid if lodged in jail, or otherwise, so I can get her.
W.H.Stevens, corner of Nineteenth and Franklin streets, or SamuelPrice & Co.,Main street. ja 10--6t
Runaway.--five hundred dollars reward.
--Left my premises, on Tuesday last, the 3d instant, Augustus, a mulatto boy. He is twenty-five years of age; about five feetnine inches high, with a wen above his right eye. The above reward will be paid if the said boy is delivered to me or confined in the city jail.
PowhatanWeisiger,No. 167 Main street, Richmond, Va.ja 10--10t*Two hundred dollars reward.
--The above reward will be paid for the apprehension and delivery to me, in Richmond, of a woman named Frances, belonging to Mr.P.H.Russell.
Said woman absconded from Mrs.Pegram's about the latter part of November, and has not been heard of since then.
She is medium-sized and of dark complexion; no marks recollected.
E.D.Eacho,Agent for P.H.Russell.ja 10--1wOne thousand dollars reward.
--Ran away, my man, named John; calls himself JohnMuse; thirty years of age; black complexion; high forehead, with a small knot on it resembling a wen; very likely; quick spoken; a carpenter by trade; he is five feeteight or nine inches high.
I will give the above reward for his delivery to R.Lumpkin's jail, Richmond, or any other jail so that I can get him. His father lives in King and Queen county, and no doubt he is making his way there.
B.J.Eddins,Manchester, Virginia. ja 6--10t*One thousand dollars reward.
--Ran away, last night, my Negro Woman,
Ann, and her two children.
Ann is of a dark brown color and about thirty-three years old; is pregnant, and has a scar or sink in one cheek.
Her daughter, named SarahBrown, about eleven year old, is darker than her mother, and very intelligent.
Her son, named Charles, eight years old, black, has a thick under lip, and is somewhat bow-legged.
The above reward will be paid for their delivery to me in Richmond, at JamesT.Butler & Co.'s, Cary street, below Pearl. ThomasBoundar.ja 5--2w*
Auction Sales.this day.
Railroads and Steamers.
Navy Department,office special service.Richmond, Va.,September19, 1864
Notice.--From and after Monday next, the 26th instant, the steamerShrapnel will leave the wharf at Rocketts for the James River Squadron daily at and , touching at all the principal landings on the river.
JohnH.Parker.Lieutenant in charge.oc 20--tsRichmond, December22, 1864.
Negroes are not Allowed to Pass the Intermediate line of Fortifications without a passport from this office.
No passport will be given a slave except on the written order of his owner; and if the handwriting of the owner be not well known at the office, or attested properly, the owner must apply for the passport in person.
This precaution is rendered necessary by the frequent appearance at the office of forged orders, and will be strictly observed.
J.H.Carrington,Provost-Marshal. de 23--1mHeadquarters Jackson Hospital,January10, 1865.
Those persons having Servants' hire due them at this Hospital to the 1st of January, 1865, are requested to call at these headquarters and collect the same from to , daily.
F.W.Hancock,Surgeon in charge.ja 11--5t*
Auction Sales.future day.
By Hill, Dickinson & Co., Auctioneers.sale of Negro man at auction.
In pursuance of a decree of the Sequestration Court in the case of the Confederate States of America against WilliamJ.Holiday, and Lucy R., his wife, alien enemies, I will sell, at the auction-house of Hill, Dickinson & Co., on Wednesday, the 18th instant, at , one valuable negro man, named Fleming.
Terms: Cash. HenryL.Brooke, Receiver of District No. 3. ja 12
Auction Sales.future day.
Real estate for sale.
Official
Treasury Department,Confederate States of America,Richmond, August8, 1864.
Certificates of Indebtedness Bearing Six Per Cent. Per Annum interest and free from Taxation. --By the fourteenth section of the act to reduce the currency, approved February17, 1864, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue the above certificates, payable two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace with the United States.
They cannot be sold, but are only to be issued to such creditors of the Government as are willing to receive the same in payment of their demands.
They must also be given at par, though free from taxation.
The attention of purchasing agents and disbursing officers of the Government is called to this class of public securities as offering peculiar advantages to those from whom the supplies of the Government are bought; and to facilitate the use of them, checks drawn by disbursing officers upon the depositaries holding these funds, and marked across the face "payable in certificates of indebtedness," will be paid in conformity therewith.
Depositaries are hereby authorized and required to comply with this regulation, and to make application to the Register for supplies of certificates as required.
[Signed] G.A.Trenholm,Secretary of Treasury.ja 2--tsTreasury Department,Confederate States of America,Richmond, Va, August26, 1864.
Regulations for Carrying into effect the act of Congress Approved June13, 1864, Authorizing Owners of Registered eight Per Cent. Bonds, issued under the Provisions of the act Approved may 16, 1861, to Exchange the same for coupon Bonds.--Parties owning registered eight per cent. bonds under the act of May16, 1861, desiring to exchange them for coupon bonds, will assign them, in the manner pointed out in the printed endorsement on the back of the certificate, to the "Confederate States of America, in exchange for coupon bonds, " and cause them to be presented to the Register of the Treasury Department, who will thereupon, in compliance with the provisions of the act of June13, 1864, issue coupon bonds for the amount specified in the registered bonds so assigned.
G.A.Trenholm,Secretary of the Treasury.ja 2--tsTreasury Department,Confederate States of America,Richmond,October12, 1864.
Non-Taxable Bonds, five hundred-Million Loan.--sale Continued.--Numerous applications having been made for bonds at the established price of one hundred and thirty-five dollars and interest, under circumstances that entitle them to favorable consideration, it has been determined to continue the sale at the above price until further notice.
Agents for the sale of these Bonds are instructed to act in accordance with this order; and the attention of disbursing-officers of the Government is particularly called to it.
G.A.Trenholm,Secretary of the Treasury.ja 2--tsTreasury Department,Confederate States of America,
Loans on the Security of the five hundred Million Six Per Cent. Non-Taxable Bonds, under the Seventh Section of the currency law.--Deposits on call will be received by the Treasurer in this city, Assistant Treasurers at Charleston and Mobile, and the Depositaries at Wilmington, Raleigh, Columbia, Augusta, Savannah and Montgomery, and certificates will be issued for the same, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent, per annum, and secured by the hypothecation of an amount of the above bonds equal to the sum of these loans.
The bonds to be set apart by the Treasurer, and the proceeds, when sold, applied exclusively to the payment of the said certificates.
The security and convenience afforded to banks and other corporations, and to the public generally, by this mode of temporary investment, and the effect of the measure, if generally adopted, in keeping the currency within moderate bounds, it is hoped will commend it to the favorable consideration of the community and secure their prompt co-operation in carrying it into effect.
G.A.Trenholm,Secretary of the Treasury.ja 2--tsTreasury Department,Confederate States of America,Richmond, July28, 1864.
Taxed Treasury Notes.--In order to promote, as far as practicable, the early liquidation by the Treasury of the Outstanding Taxed Notes, the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, and Pay Depositaries in the different States, are hereby authorized to receive the said notes, except the $100 notes, at 66⅔ per centum, on deposit, issuing for same certificates of loan, upon hypothecation of non-taxable bonds.
The said certificates to be payable on demand after the expiration of ninety days.
And all agents for the sale of the above bonds are hereby authorized to receive the taxed notes, with the exception above named, in payment of bonds, when sold, at the rate of 66 ⅔ per centum.
G.A.Trenholm,Secretary of the Treasury.ja 2--tsTreasury Department,Confederate States of America,Richmond,December1, 1864.
Seven-thirty Treasury Notes.--In pursuance of an act of Congress, approved November28, 1864, entitled "An act to authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange coupon bonds for seven-thirty treasury notes," holders of such notes are hereby notified that after the payment of the annual interest due thereon on the first day of January, 1865, upon presentation of the same, the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurers and Pay Depositaries (as designated at foot) will issue certificates therefore, which will entitle the holders to coupon bonds payable thirty years after the first day of January, 1865, bearing six per cent. interest from the said first of January, 1865, payable on the first days of January and July in each year.
The Treasurer, Assistant Treasurers and Depositaries will make weekly reports to the Register of the Treasury of such certificates issued at their offices, whereupon bonds will be sent forward in satisfaction of same.--The notes will be cancelled in the usual manner and forwarded to the First Auditor.
G.A.Trenholm,Secretary of Treasury.Treasurer at Richmond, Virginia.Assistant Treasurers at Charleston and Mobile.Depositaries at Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina,Depositaries at Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina.Depositaries at Savannah and Augusta, Georgia.Depositaries at Tallahassee, Florida, and Montgomery, Alabama.Depositaries at Columbus, Mississippi, and Houston, and Marshall, Texas.ja 2--ts