arations arc being made to resist it. Public 
meetings are being held, some of which already 
repudiate the Southern Confederacy, and favor 
a return to the Union. 
The Raleigh Standard says if the civil law is to 
be trampled under foot by the suspension of the 
writ of habeas corpus, and every man from 16 to 
Til placed in the army, and the rights of .States be 
swept away, the people of the State of North Caro¬ 
lina will take their allairs into their own bands 
and proceed in Convention convened to vindi¬ 
cate their liberties and privileges. They will 
not submit to a military despotism. They will 
not submit to the destruction of their civil rights. 
What we say we know to be so. A majority of 
our people are already excited on account of the 
threatened encroachment* on their liberties by 
the Congress at Richmond, ami we warn that 
body not to kindle a flame that cannot be extin¬ 
guished. Pass these measures and the people of 
North Carolina will rise in their majesty. North 
Carolina w ill not be the slave of either of the 
Congresses of Richmond or Washington. She is 
this day as she has been from the first—the key¬ 
stone of the Confederate arch. If that stone 
should fall the arch would tumble. 
The Ililton Tlead correspondents of the 15th, 
state that a few vessels of the new expedition are 
moving out of the harbor. 
The siege of Charleston is temporarily sus¬ 
pended, except by the tire of our guns from 
Morris Island, where sufficient force is left for 
defeuse and to work the guns, and where four 
batteries are being erected for the purpose of 
reducing the city to ashes. 
A large negro force accompanies the expedi¬ 
tion, the War Department having authorized 
Gen. Gilmore to recruit all the negroes in his 
Department as troops under white officers. 
of Mississippians were in *he woods to escape 
conscription. 
The following extracts from private letters 
received in New York city are of marked 
interest: 
Pout Hudson, Jnu. 12. 
To Gen, UUman :—'The statement published in 
the piapers of December 22d, of the capture and im¬ 
prisonment in Richmond of Gen. I liman, was a 
canard. There was not a syllable of truth in it. 
Another invention has gone the rounds of the 
papers, and caused a vast, amount of unnecessary 
pain in families, viz:—That the officers of Gen. 
Ullman, who had been taken prisoners, had 
been hung by the rebels. The facts are, that 
after much effort, General Ullman received in¬ 
formation as to the fate of all the officers of his 
division which have fallen into the hands of the 
enemy, except one. Those who were taken at 
Jackson are in the Libby Prison, and those who 
were captured at Brashear City in June, are. 
and have been, at Camp Ford, a rebel depot for 
prisoners, four miles from Tyler. It is known 
that latterly their treatment has not differed 
essentially from that of other prisoners. Gen. 
Ullman constantly has prisoners in bis hands, 
and those who know him need no assurance that 
if any of his oommand shall be treated contrary 
to the usages of civilized warfare, retaliation 
wiil be Bharp and quick. 
Gen. George Cook, commanding at Baton 
Rouge, and Gen. Ullman, have sent out large 
detachments to try to cut off some 2.000 rebels, 
who are making a stand about fifteen miles east. 
The rebels are concentrating near this strong¬ 
hold and Baton Rouge. They are becoming 
quite enterprising. They push their pickets 
close to the Union line. 
The rebel General Adams has several brigades 
distributed at Woodvillc, Clinton and Jackson. 
Gen. Ullman took a number of prisoners to-day. 
Most of them profess to be sick of the war, and 
glad to be taken. They declare they never 
heard of the President's Proclamation of Am¬ 
nesty. 
Arkansas. —Col. Caldwell, of the 3d Iowa, 
brings information from Little Rock, coneern- 
sented with the supreme government, out of 
which to select 
Lt»t of Now Advertisements. 
a governor; none of them to be 
persons W'bo have taken part in the impending 
questions. Col. Rojas to be Prefect of City; 
Capistran is to be Commanding General of the 
troops which are to march against the French 
at Tampico, with Cortina as second in command. 
All the acts of Serna, including the forced loan, 
are approved by Gov. Ruiz. 
A Brownsville letter reports that Serna’s 
forced loan was made on foreigners as well as 
Mexicans, including four Americans. One of 
them, Mr. Galvin, was imprisoned for refusing 
to advance 810,000. He subsequently* paid the 
money under protest Gen. Dana was informed 
of the proceedings, and promptly notified Gov. 
Serna that such indignities to American citizens 
could not be tolerated, and it would be his best 
policy to return the funds ho had exacted. 
The three other Americans had paid their 
assessment without protest. Gen. Dana then 
took possession of the ferry boats at Browns¬ 
ville and Freeport, and had a force drawn up 
provided with two days rations, preparatory to 
business. Serna immediately repaid the mouey. 
Letters from Sr. Augustine, Florida, furnish 
intelligence of the re-occupation by Union 
troops of Jacksonville, upon the St, John’s 
river, about forty miles inland from St. Augus¬ 
tine. The event is said to have taken place on 
or about the 19th inst. 
Booth's Combined Shaker—A Sprague. 
The Culturisk—A M. Spangler. 
Farm for Sale—John S Gould. 
Stammering Cured II ( J Mews. 
The Heard, Ac—John Kuwllns. 
Fresh Garden Seed:; Cor ISM R M Watson. 
For Nurserymen A c Hanford & Bro. 
Cure of Cancers I »•« Wake .t Findley. 
Farm Wanted—Addeear Dux Ml, Rochester,N X. 
Shepherd Wanted -II Ten Kyek. 
Cranberry Plants for Sale Geo A Bates. 
Salesmen Wanted Karris Bros. 
SX'ECTAJLi NOTICES. 
The Last Resort—1>. B. Pe Land & Co. 
1 will Pay— M Gregg. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y„ JANUARY 23, 1864 
The Army in Virginia. 
The N. Y. Times contains a translation of a 
letter from a Frenchman formerly in the rebel 
army, dated Richmond, 11th inst., to friends in 
the city of New York. He reports the arrival of 
another agent of the French Emperor, named 
Lartigny. via Nassau, who has mysterious con¬ 
ferences with Jeff Davis. It is known, he says, 
that Jeff, has promised to recognize Mexico, and 
promised France all the aid of the Southern 
Confederacy if Napoleon would recognize the 
Confederate cause. All our principal men think, 
therefore, that war between France and the 
United States is near at hand. The W'riter has 
no doubt the plan of making Gen. Lee dictator 
will be the only means to counteract the strength 
of the North. Lee has expressed his willing¬ 
ness to accept it. He and J cff. are on bad terms, 
and the latter would have to retire. The latter 
is very unpopular on account of keeping Bragg 
so long in command. He has even thought 
since Bragg's dismissal of giving him the com¬ 
mand of the army of Virginia, and sending Lee 
to Dalton, but had to abandon his plan on at* 
count of the great influence against it. 
Johnston, who took command of Bragg’s de¬ 
moralized army, thought of retreating to At¬ 
lanta, but was kept at Dalton by an order from 
Richmond, that he might take’advantage of the 
probable weakening of the Northern army by 
furloughs and expiration of the term of enlist¬ 
ments. 
Jeff’s plan is to keep the army on the offen¬ 
sive, though Gen. Lee gave his opinion that 
with the miserable state of the army in regard 
to clothing and provision it was impossible to 
do so. 
The official report of Major Cole, dated Lou¬ 
don Heights, Ya,, has been received in Wash- 
the facts of the recent 
®l)c Neto0 (ttoniumscr 
— Tallow candles are selling for a dollar a piece in 
Dixie. 
— A coal field, the first of its kind, has been fotmd in 
Brazil. 
— There arc in Massachusetts 37,615 more females 
than males. 
— Another colored regiment has gone South from 
Philadelphia. 
— There are twenty-two inmates of the Boston Home 
for Aged Men. 
— Washington, since the war, has grown to be a city 
of 100,000 people. 
— Tooth brushes sell at Natchitoches, La., for $25 
in rebel currency. 
— The value of the Massachusetts State fisheries last 
year was $3,280,000. 
— The total number of department clerks at Wash¬ 
ington is about 8,000. 
— The people of Cleveland, Ohio, want a Navy Yard 
established at that port. 
— The Halifax Citizen says there are 5,200 Nova Sco¬ 
tians in the Federal army. 
— A large number of Sioux Indians perished by cold 
this winter on the prairies. 
— There are two eclipses of the sun this year—one in 
May and another in October. 
— Kamohameha IV, king of the Sandwich Islands, 
died on the 13th of November. 
— It is announced from Suez, via Paris, that the 
fresh, water canal is completed. 
— The net proceeds of the recent Sanitary Fair in 
Boston will amount to $150,000. 
— The average number of small pox cases in the Dis 
trict of Columbia is about 1,200. 
— There is extreme suffering among the refugees in 
Kansas, both White and colored. 
— The whole number of cents coined at the Philadel¬ 
phia mint last year was 51,360,000. 
— The receipts of lumber by lake at Chicago during 
the year 1363 were 898,07-1,882 feet 
— The value of buildings elected in Chicago in the 
year 1363 is estimated at $2,500,000. 
— Gen. Csiss is said to be so feeble that he cannot live 
much longer, nc is in his 81st year. 
— Two thousand three hundred and fifty negroes have 
been recruited In the State of Missouri. 
— The Cleveland and Columbus, O., Railroad gives 
$10,000 for the aid of soldiers’ families. 
— Within the last eight years railway property in 
Scotland has positively doubled in value. 
— Thu Maryland House of Delegates have declared 
in favor or emancipation by ft vote of 51 to 15. 
— Two of the Herald correspondents, prisoners in 
Richmond, have been paroled for ninety days. 
— During the last year 463,296 ucrcs of land were en¬ 
tered in Minnesota under the Homestead law. 
— An organization to aid i-ini grunts from Europe to 
come to tills country, has been formed in Boston 
— Tlit- Custom House duties at the port of San Fran¬ 
cisco amounted to $4690,000 during the year 1S83. 
— The only rebels now in West Tunuesse are a few 
roving bands in the cane-brakes near Island No. 1-1. 
— During 1868 there were 255 persons killed in the 
United States by steamboat accidents, and 26-1 by rail¬ 
roads. 
— A match machine is now in operation at Kenosha, 
Wisconsin, that turns out one thousand matches per 
minute. 
— Orders have been issued to rifle all the 24 and 32- 
poundcr guns at the Washington Arsenal on the James 
pattern. 
— All night omnibnsscs are to be established in Paris. 
It is said the number of Parisian night travelers is about 
500,000. 
— The Chinese Government has adopted a national 
flag. Heretofore they have had only local and individ¬ 
ual flags. 
— The men under “ Stonewall’’ Jackson have already 
raised $7,000 towards the monument to be raised to his 
memory. 
— The total number of deaths in Philadelphia last 
year was 35,886. The deaths from consumption num¬ 
bered 1,877. 
— Fourteen hundred shipwrecks are stated to have 
taken place In the Mediterranean during the first week 
in December. 
— The deterioration in the breed of Irish horses has 
attracted the attention of the Royal Agricultural Soci¬ 
ety or Ireland. 
— The N. Y. City Board of Education has voted to 
spend $200,000 on a tire proof library building for the 
Free Academy. 
— They arc discussing in Maine the propriety of 
establishing a State Military School, at a cost of eight 
thousand dollars. 
— The Mormons are operating largely in some por¬ 
tions of Canada. Forty-seven converts were recently 
baptized at Chatham. 
_Two circular sawmills have boon set up by the 
Yankees at Vicksburg, which are turning out large 
amounts of flue timber. 
_The funded debt of the city of Buffalo is $586,000. 
16,162 children attended the public schools last year, at 
an expense of $96,000. 
— Mining operations have been commenced in the 
mountains of Utah, which ore thought to be rich in the 
stores of precious metal 
— 'The Missouri House of Representat ives has passed 
a hill appropriating $ CO,000 for the benefit of the sick 
and wounded soldiers in Missouri. 
— The enormous sum of £300 was paid for the inser¬ 
tion of an advertisement on the bock page of the Christ¬ 
mas number of a London weekly. 
— The Detroit Free Press states that the whole num¬ 
ber of craft of all classes engaged In the commerce of 
the lakes the past season was 1,770. 
— During last year 300,942 barrels of mackerel were 
inspected In Massachusetts. The mackerel catch of 
last year was the largest since 1302. 
A letter says: 
“ Union refugees continue to crowd into SL 
Augustine. They arc chiefly of the fanning 
class. Their reports all agree as to the strin¬ 
gency of the new rebel conscription. All white 
males between the ages of fifteen and fifty-five 
are collected and driven to the nearest military 
depot, at Pilatka. These harsh measures are 
creating great dissatisfaction among the native 
population of Florida. The people living noar- 
est to St. Augustine are very anxious to secure 
Federal protection.” 
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON, 
ington. He gives 
attempts of Mosehy’s Guerrilla Cavalry to sur¬ 
prise and capture his camp, between three and 
four o’clock in the morning. They studiously 
avoided our pickets, and divided themselves into 
small bodies, which were speedily consolidated 
in sight of Major Cole’s camp. They then made 
an Impetuous charge, with a yell, on the right 
of the same. In consequence of the suddenness 
of the charge, the company could offer but a 
feeble resistance. In the meantime, Co. A, of 
the 2d Maryland Volunteers, the second in the 
line, was speedily rallied by its commanding 
officer, CapL Vernon, who contested their fur¬ 
ther advance in such a sanguinary manner as to 
form a rallying point for the remainder of the 
command, who were now thoroughly aroused to 
the danger which threatened them, and one and 
all, from the officers to the privates, enteral into 
the contest with such u determination and zest 
as led to the utter route and discomfiture of the 
enemy, and the signal failure of their base 
attempt. They experienced a loss of one cap¬ 
tain, two lieutenants and two privates. It was 
also very evident they bemoved a large portion 
of their wounded with them in their precipitated 
flight, and a detachment of the command subse¬ 
quently sent in pursuit found traces of blood all 
along tlieir line of retreat. Our loss was four 
men killed and sixteen wounded. 
Sharp musketry firing, continuing several 
minutes, was heard among the rebels over the 
Rapidan, near Ely’s Ford. It was supposed 
to be occasioned by a concerted attempt to desert. 
Department of the Gulf. 
Gen. Banks has issued a proclamation for 
a State election for Governor, Lieutenant Gov¬ 
ernor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Attorney 
General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, 
Auditor of Public Accounts, Ac., of Louisiana, 
on the 22d of February. In his order for the 
election, Gen. Banks sayg he is Billy assured 
that more than a tenth of the population desire 
the earliest possible restoration of Louisiana to 
the Union. He declares so much of the Con¬ 
stitution and Raws of the Stale as relate to 
slavery, being inconsistent with the present con¬ 
dition of public affairs, and inapplicable to any 
class of persons now existing within its limits, 
as inoperative and void. The General also aj>- 
points a Convention fbr the revision of the Con¬ 
stitution, to be held the first Monday in May 
next. Arrangements will be made for the early 
election of members of Congress. 
The town of Madisonville, La., on the north 
side of Lake Ponehatoula, has been occupied 
wi thout any resistance, and garrisoned by our 
forces. The expedition consisted of a portion 
of the 12th Maine, the 9th Connecticut, two 
battalions of convalescents of the 13th Corps, 
the 15th Massachusetts, Battery A, Battery B, 
U. S. Artillery, and a company of the 2d Lou¬ 
isiana Cavalry, all under command of Col. Kim¬ 
ball, of the 12lh Maine. 
Commander J. U. Strong, of the U. 8. steamer 
Mopongahela, reports that on the 29th Decem¬ 
ber, at request of Gen. Waahbume, he sent the 
IJ. S. steamers Granite City and Scioto up the 
Peninsula, off the entrance of Matagorda Bay, 
Texas, with Gen. Ransom and one hundred 
troops, to cut off rebel pickets. While the 
Scioto was absent on a reconnoissance at the 
mouth of Brazos river, the troops which had 
been landed were attacked by a force of eight 
hundred or one thousand rebel cavalry, but 
were defended by the Granite City, which tired 
one hundred and forty rounds before the enemy 
were driven off On the return of the Scioto, 
Lire Granite City went down to I'asa Cabelloand 
brought up the Monongahela and Penobscot, 
and fell In with the U. S. gunboat Estrella on 
her way back. On their arrival, they found 
that the cavalry had made several attacks 
during the night, but had been kept off by the 
Scioto, which anchored close in to the breakers, 
and shelled on either side of the troops. During 
the day a rebel steamer on the inside came dose 
lip and shelled our troops out of their position, 
forcing them to retreat down the beach. The 
Scioto, Granite City and Estrella, having suc¬ 
ceeded In getting the troops on board, had 
brought them back there. 
Another revolution occurred at Matamoras. 
Ruiz took charge of the city; he was to resign 
next day and name the three persons to be pre- 
i ue telegraph this (Tuesday) A. M., gives us 
tlie following items of intelligence: 
The excitement regarding Knoxville was 
totally unfounded. The demonstrations of Long- 
street were apparently intended only to recover 
the forage ground taken by Gen. Foster, and the 
latest information is that he is retreating. Our 
troops are in winter quarters. Gen. Foster an¬ 
ticipates no attack, and is able to repel any 
Longstreet can make. There are reasons to 
doufit the truth of the report that Lee has re¬ 
enforced Longstreet. No active operations in 
that vicinity need be expected for weeks. 
Gen. Vance and his brigade, which were cap¬ 
tured near Knoxville, arrived here to-night. 
Vance had captured one of our forage trains, and 
Gen. Sturges went in pursuit and captured tiie 
entire rebel force. 
Deserters say that John Morgan arrived at 
Atlanta, and will start with a brigade composed 
of the 22d Kentucky and 3d Alabama regiments, 
cavalry and mounted infantry, to cut the Chat¬ 
tanooga railroad. Morgan made a speech at the. 
Warrington Hotel, declaring that the Yankee 
army must evacuate Chattanooga. 
The rebel General Wheeler is on the eve of a 
raid. It is believed lie will turn in the direction 
of London and Knoxville. 
A body of rebel cavalry dashed into LaFay- 
ette a few days ago and conscripted 52 men, 
among whom were two 80 years old. 
On the 20th inst., a fight took place near Rus- 
Relviile. A large rebel force attacked an Ohio 
Department of the South. 
The Herald has letters dated off Wilming¬ 
ton 13th, which detail the capture or destruction 
of the blockade runners Bendigo, Rauger, and 
Hero. The Bendigo, which was run ashore, 
was set on fire and shelled, but being an iron 
vessel she was comparatively undamaged. An 
attempt was made to tow her off' by the Mont¬ 
gomery and Iron Age. The Montgomery stuck 
fast, but her powerful engines got her off The 
Iron Age also got ashore, and though two gun¬ 
boats tried their best, she could not be moved. 
Her guns were thrown overboard, and she was 
set on fire and burned. The officers and crew 
were transferred to other vessels. The Ranger 
was run ashore and set on fire by the Minnesota. 
One man was killed and one wounded in the 
boats which boarded her by the rebel soldier* 
from the shore. The Hero was destroyed in 
the same way by the Aries. The Montgomery 
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