perpetuate the institution of slavery, but if it 
should appear that we are likely to lose both, as 
rational beings we should pause and consider 
well the direction which things are taking. 
List of New Advertisements. 
Sheep Wash Tobacco—lama F Levin. 
The Gardener's Monthly \V r, p Brincktoe. 
Valuable Beal Katate r<u Sale M An rault & IS FTobbie 
u«>t S llUwiftbu Half RosUiriitiv .Ins Hoyt&Co. 
New lllustmted ( alaloirti* (! \V Seel ye. 
Farm f-.rS:ile - .t B W.Itonl. 
Select Family School for llnvs- ,1 F WoodhrMire. 
For Salo bv Kvoi utois O Ulaekmao and W .1 llamcs. 
Pine I uuhtr Lunds lor Sal.—,1 D McCurdy. 
Open Air Grape Culture- it M Dewey. 
Farm lor Sale .1 V Webster. 
AgMiia W..nt('d-Uli«w A Clark. 
Si i d \\ Mi nt, Sir. 
A Farm 'Wanted. 
Aleuts Wauled— Bovlan A Co. 
Game Fowls Wanted. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Farm at Auction—K P Kendtg. 
W hat the Merchants say— D. IS. De Land & Co. 
Department of the Gull 
By arrivals from New Orleans we have 
intelligence from this Department up to the 23d 
ult. We condense therefrom as follows: 
A Free State Convention for the nomination 
of candidates for State officers, was to be held in 
New Orleans oil the 1st of February. The 
names now mentioned most prominently in con¬ 
nection With the Gubernatorial Chair are Judge 
Whittaker and Hon. Michael Hann. Hon. Mr. 
Durant can have the nomination if he will 
take it, 
Gen. Banks has pledged himself to the Free 
State Committee to so modify the Louisiana 
Constitution as to exclude negroes from the 
representative basis. 
The veteran troops in this Department are 
re-enlisting with great unanimity. 
A New Orleans letter says Capt Mann, com¬ 
manding a Federal gunboat, was captured at St. 
Franeisvilh* by rebel cavalry scouts, and being 
recognized as an ex-engineer on the rebel gun¬ 
boat Me Rea, was sentenced to be shot. Re¬ 
peated demands lor his release were made by 
the fleet, which the Confederates would not 
comply with. The village was destroyed by the 
fleet. 
News from Baton Rouge reports the capture, 
of a scouting party under Capt. Earl. 
The same correspondent says an attack is 
expected at Port Hudson and Baton Rouge, and 
large re-enforcements have been sent there. 
A private letter from Texas gives an account 
of the destruction (before reported) of a rebel 
iron-dad gunboat, near Port Cabello, on the 31st 
ult., by the gunboat Sciota. assisted by the U. S. 
steamship Monongahela. The letter also states 
that the rebels arc in strong force at Brazoria, 
about 15 miles inland on the Brazos river. Ten 
thousand it is said have been concentrated there. 
At the mouth, and on the coast immediately 
around the mouth, fortifications mounting 24 
guns have been erected, but with the assistance 
of the navy it is not thought much dilhculty 
will be experienced in capturing the place. 
There are no signs of a forward movement of 
our army, however, and changes may occur that 
will alter the aspect of affairs before the ad¬ 
vance begins. 
Advices from Matamoras report another n • 
lution there. Cortinas was again in p < 
Ho was placed scoot'd in uinumnd of the troops, 
and utx-ttrdiua in previousaoooonts » u to march 
against Mexico rind use his power to again make 
himself Governor. There was considerable 
fighting among the Mexicans in Matamoras on 
the 13th ult., during which G-en. Herron, com¬ 
manding our forces at Brownsville, dispatched 
the 30th Wisconsin and 94th Illinois and five 
pieces of tiro 1st Missouri battery across the 
river. All but the 30th Wisconsin bivoua’ke 
tut the bank . bnl vftis Texinn hi w» ii u 
tu the plaza, spent the night . .. go 
dencc of the American Const . L t nm 
ing was escorted to Browns\die, together v. . 
a large number of followers. Some 200 of them 
retained their arms, which they delivered up to 
the United States authorities. 
The Navy Department has received informa¬ 
tion of the following captures: 
On the 10th of January the U. S. hark Roe¬ 
buck captured the Confederate sloop Maria 
Louisa while attempting to run out of Jupiter 
Inlet, Fla. On the 11th, the Roebuck also cap¬ 
tured the English schooner Susan. At the 
same time and place the U. S. steamer Honey¬ 
suckle captured the English schooner Fly, of 
Nassau. On. the 13th, the schooner Two Sis¬ 
ters, tender to the San Jacinto, captured the 
British schooner William. 
ROCHESTER, X. Y., FEBRUARY 6, 1864, 
The Army in Virginia. 
A fight took place on the 1st inst., in New' 
Creek Valley, between an advancing column of 
the enemy’s troops and one column of ours. 
After an engagement we repulsed the enemy, 
driving him back over two miles. 
The command of Col Thorburn, which com¬ 
prised the garrison at Petersburg, Is now all safe. 
On the 31st ult.. he evacuated in consequence of 
receiving information that the enemy in largo 
force would attack at daylight in the morning. 
The enemy did attack Petersburg in the morn¬ 
ing with artillery, made regular approaches and 
charged, but found no opposing force. Col. 
Thorburn was within hearing distance with 
his retreating column. 
The following has been received at the War 
Department: 
Fortbbss Mi'NROe. Jan. 26 
To E. M. Slanion , Secretary of War: —Brig-Gen. 
Graham by mv direction went with three armed 
transports and a competent force to the Peniu- 
ou the James river 7 
®l)t News (Hottiicnscr 
The Senate, in executive session, confirmed 
the nomination of Clias. A. Dana as second As¬ 
sistant Secretary of War. 
Representative Gusson of Iowa, stated in the 
House, that the Post-Office Department is now T 
self-sustaining. 
From official data in the War Department, it 
is ascertained that the whole number of troops 
that, were enlisted for actual service for the 
month of October was 100,000. 
It is understood that the House Committee 
of Commerce will in a few days report in favor 
of the abrogation of the Canadian Reciprocity 
Treaty. 
Gen. Halleck having replied in the negative to 
Secretary Chase's inquiry as to whether there 
would be danger of supplies reaching the rebels 
if trade restrictions were removed from the 
States of Kentucky and Missouri. Mr. Chase has 
prescribed and the President has sanctioned 
regulations opening those States to unrestricted 
commercial intercourse. The same policy will 
soon be followed in Delaware and Maryland. 
— Barbers in Richmond charge $1 a shave. 
— Tom Thumb has retired on a fortune of $250,000. 
— The Lake Erie wine crop is more than 200,000 gal¬ 
lons. 
— Four comets and three planets were discovered in 
1803. 
— “Nothing to Wear ” is the most popular song in 
Dixie. 
— The production of coal oil in 1863 was 2,100,000 
barrels. 
— It is stated that the Maine State tax this year will 
be $ 700,000. 
— The city tax oi Baltimore last year amounted to 
$1,810,067 59. 
— There were 137,9S2 emigrants embarked at Liver¬ 
pool last year. 
— On the 16th of last month the King of the Belgians 
was 73 years old. 
— The total number of deaths in New York during 
1S63 was 25,196. 
— Ohio was represented by 40 regiments in the battle 
of Chiekamauga. 
— There are 700 car-loads of freight at Galena, 111., 
waiting shipment. 
— A chamber ot commerce has been organized at 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
— The official majority of Low, the Union Governor 
of California, is 19,601. 
idle at Cairo on account 
sula, and made a laudin;, _ _ 
miles below Fort Powhattan, known as the 
Brandon farm, and captured 22 of the enemy, 7 
of the signal corps, and bro’t away 99 negroes. 
They also destroyed 24,000 lbs. of pork and large 
quantities of oats and corn, and captured a sloop 
and schooner with 240 boxes of tobacco and five 
Jews preparing to run the blockade, and 
returned without the loss of a man. 
B. F. Butler. 
Gen. Butler has issued a general order relative 
to the passage of women and children for the 
seceded States through his lines, which is a fol¬ 
lows: 
Fortress Monroe, Jan. 24. 
Inasmuch as the rebels of the Confederate 
States are sending their women and children 
through this department, and retaining all able 
bodied men, it is ordered, 
1st. That no white women or children will be 
permitted to Come through the lines without a 
pass from these headquarters or the headquar¬ 
ters of the army of North Carolina. 
2. All able bodied men will be received, de¬ 
tained until reported to these headquarters or 
the headquarters of the District and Army of 
North Carolina, and orders given concerning 
them. 
3d. Nothing in this order shall be construed 
to conflict with General Order No. 46 relating to 
colored persons. 
By command of Maj.-Gcn. B. F. Butler. 
A recounoitcring force that had been sent out 
from Col. Campbell’s command, returned after 
going to Romney. There they divided inti ihn-.- 
'lumni-, one going out on the IV Inch ester road 
thirty miles, the other down the road to the 
v ieinity of WanknsviUe, and the other on the 
old Moorfield road to about. Through Mountain. 
None of these columns met with serious opposi¬ 
tion in their advance. The information they 
gained proves of high importance, and tells of 
.Mysterious movements and proceedings within 
the rebel lines, 
\\ c look h number of Co. A, of the 60th Ga. 
In.'' -II i •: • 'tv. I:ebel officer says that 
five or six Georgia and Alabama regiments have 
been divided into small squads and stationed at 
different points in the valley and mountains to 
prevent desertions. He reports that his compa¬ 
ny encountered a portion of Col. Mulligan’s 
troops and had a tight, was whipped and had to 
skedaddle. This rebel officer also reports that 
the enemy is actually pressing all men into the 
rebel service between the ages of 16 and 55. 
From his story it seem.3 that some of the North 
Carolina and some of the V irginia regiments are 
being watched with suspicion. 
An order has been issued directing that new 
hospital arrangements shall be made for the 
field, and that all the sick now in the army be 
sent to the rear. 
NEWS PAEAGEAPHS, 
A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune from St. 
Louis states that on the North Missouri Railroad 
10,000 hogs have frozen to death, and an im¬ 
mense number of cattle have frozen along the 
different railroads. 
During the year 1863 four hundred and fifty- 
two Annrfcan vessels were lost at sea. In this 
are included those captured and burned by rebel 
pirates, i'he total value of the property lost is 
$20,531,800. 
The total amount of gold brought to New 
^ ork from California during the present year, 
is estimated at $11,905,478—less than half the 
amount brought last year. For the nast nine 
— Fifty steamers are lyirt 
of the ice in the river. 
— Toad oil is becoming marketable, and is said to be 
an excellent lubricator. 
— A New York fireman, named Ingraham, is chief of 
the Dnblin Fire Brigade. 
— The Capitol extension at Washington up to this 
time has cost $6,399,909. 
— Two full regiments of loyal Texan cavalry have 
been raised at Brownsville. 
r.iirjLH t •. rti Cvocate i be building of anew tail* 
Tun Chicago Jlrftme of the 15th says that 
the preys r» day wa» probably the busiest the 
• ay ever saw in the provision market. In bulk 
and box meats alone no less than four million 
pounds changed hands besides several thousand 
packages of pork, lard, &c. 
The gas from the wells on Oil Creek, Pa., is 
now being utilized. Many of the miners use it 
for fuel, Lnrtead of coal or oiL A pipe running 
direct fro be conducting apparatus of the well 
— Henry Cook, of Pelham, Maas., lately chopped in 
8 days 19 cords of hard wood. 
— The assessed valuation of property in the State of 
Pennsylvania is $505,561,994. 
— Two thousand Maryland farm* are for sale fbr lees 
than their improvements cost. 
— Minnesota has a claim of over a million dollars 
audited for fighting the Indiana. 
— The mules at Chattanooga are all dying off Out 
of 13,'900 only about 4,000 are alive. 
.. i’' - •' i\ u Uio is Uiaky sellers 
out of the Capitol at Washington. 
— The Legislature of the State of Weet Virginia con¬ 
vened in first session on the 12th. 
— There is a libel suit In the Court of Exchequer, 
London, about a plate of bean, soup. 
— The Cincinnati Gazette has received a call from a 
subscriber of sixty-nine years’ standing. 
— It to reported that the Empress Ktigeuie has had 
her life insured in London for $ 1,000,000. 
— During the year 1868, 1,390 miles of railroad were 
added to the completed roads of the U. 8. 
— There are 96 savings banks in Massachusetts, hav¬ 
ing an aggregate of deposits of $56,583,828. 
— A large and formidable battery is to be constructed 
facing Fort Lafayette in New York harbor. 
— California is a bad State for insurance companies. 
The losses more than double the premiums. 
— The philanthropists are at loggerheads over the 
treatment of negroes on the Arlington estate. 
— A trunk containing $47,600 was found last week by 
our soldiers, secreted in a house near Knoxville. 
— The tolal amount of stock now Held by I be Govern¬ 
ment in trust for the Indian tribes is $3,1)37,892. 
— At the present depreciated rates of rebel enrrcncy, 
the soldier’s pay is but 56 cents per month in gflld. 
— Gold is so plenty as currency In Nova Scotia that 
it to driving the $4 and $4 notes out of circulation. 
— Bills authorizing soldiers to vote have been in¬ 
troduced iu both houses of the Michigan legislature. 
— Gen. Meade has been ill for some days at Phila¬ 
delphia. He is recovering and will soon resume com¬ 
mand. 
— The knitting-mills at Seneca Falls, in this State j 
are now turning out ten thousand pairs of anuy hose 
per day. 
— Fifteen dollars an honr was the prico of the use of 
a horse nud sleigh in Washington during the sleighing 
season. 
— A Richmond paper advertises a lot of brown 
paper suitable for envelopes or wrapping paper at $S0 
a ream. 
— There has never been a draft in the State of Indi¬ 
ana. Her quota under the last call is full, with men 
to spare. 
— Small pox has broken out at Harper’s Ferry, and 
Is raging with considerable violence. It was introduced 
by the contrabands. 
— The Loekpott Journal says the snow is about two 
feet deep in that vicinity, and lays nearly level on the 
surface of the ground. 
— There have been 98,97S hogs slaughtered in the vi¬ 
cinity of Louisville the past year, their total weight 
being 19,458,962 pounds. 
— The Three Rivers (Canada) Inquirer announces 
that 240 French Canadians have left that place within 
ten days for the United States. 
— The Washington Public Schools are in a prosper 
ous condition. The average number of scholars is 
8,091. 5-1 teachers are employed. 
— A number of oil wells have been Bunk at Mecca, 
Ohio, which promise to be very productive. A good 
deal of excitement exists among land owners. 
— The present is the most prolific game season evtt 
known In lowu. Every train from the West brings a 
car load of quails, pheasants and prairie chickens. 
and Col. Harrison with 6tXl rebels and two pieces 
of artillery, took advantage of their absence and 
were badly defeated. Still later advices say that 
Dodge has badly whipped Johnson at Florence. 
The Cincinnati Commercial has the following 
special: 
Gen. Palmer, with Gen. Davis’ division, moved 
from Funnel Hill, Geo., on the 28th on a re- 
tnn' issanee. The 28th Kentucky and 4th 
' t g in dre e in the. r-btl advance pickets, 
and captured a company of rebel cavalry. The 
rebels retreated from Funnel Hill during the 
night. They lost 32 killed and wounded. The 
object of the reconnoissauce was effected. 
The following has been received at the head¬ 
quarter of the Army: 
Chattanooga, Jan. 27. 
Col. Bourne, with n force of 450 men of the 
28th Kentucky mounted infantry, and the 4th 
Michigan cavalry, attacked the camp of the 
Home Guards, Col. Culbertson commanding, 
and routed them, destroying their earnp. A 
rii*- plan w i - - admirably. 
A fatal disease is prevailing at Carboudale, 
Penn. It is called the black or spotted fever, 
and with the exception of a very few cases 
has completely baffled the skill of the physicians. 
From six to eight deaths a day occur, the vic¬ 
tims dying within a few hours after being at¬ 
tacked. 
Twenty-one millions more of gold are now 
on deposit in New York, Philadelphia, and Bos¬ 
ton than on the 1st of December, I860, when the 
Southern Rebellion broke out. Our receipts of 
Gold at. New York from Europe and from Cali¬ 
fornia since the 1st of December, I860, exceed our 
shipments thence by $16,500,000. 
In the published commercial statistics of a 
small French seaport town, celebrated for its 
manufacture of counterfeit t tines, we find the 
total exports for the last year 7,700 casks. 
Shipped to New York, 6,490; San Francisco, 
500; New Orleans, 300; all other places, 110. 
New York nearly monopolizes the trade of the 
precious stuff. 
The total receipts of lumber by lake at Chi¬ 
cago during the year 1863 were 395,074,882 feet. 
These are largely in excess of the receipts of the 
year before, and do not include the receipts by 
railroad, which were considerable. The Jcrur- 
wd says the past has been the most prosperous 
lumber season ever known In the West, and the 
prices have also been higher than ever before. 
Efforts toward the reconstruction of the 
State Government are extending throughout the 
counties of Middle Tennessee, but with little 
hopes of its early return to the Union. The 
radicals, with Joe Johnston at their head, are in 
favor of calling a convention to nullify the State 
.Constitution, and frame a new one on emancipa¬ 
tion principles. The people of East Tennessee 
are reviving the old project of forming a separate 
State of that section. 
A surr was recently brought before the Su¬ 
perior Court of New York, by Mr. Mills, stage 
proprietor, against the New York and Harlem 
Railroad Company, for $20,090, for the loss of 
fifty horses by glanders, contracted from the 
sheds of the railroad company, where they bad 
placed diseased animals, adjoining the stables of 
the plaintiff. The case is a novel one, and is of 
importance to a large portion of the Community. 
A verdict wus rendered for the plaintiff lbr 
$5,000. 
The Arkansas Convention has elected Judge 
Clayton Provisional Governor. His record on 
the Union question is a good one. In the Ar¬ 
kansas Convention which adopted the Secession 
ordinance, he was the only one who voted 
against it. For this he was expelled; for this, 
in connection with liis other ([utilities, he is now 
made Governor by the Union people. Time and 
cannon have made all things right. 
and routed them, destroying tneir camp, a 
considerable number of arms were captured. 
They returned to their camp without any cas¬ 
ualties. Johnson’s brigade of Roddy’s command 
crossed the Tennessee at Bainbridge, three 
miles, and Newport Ferry six miles below Flor¬ 
ence, intending to make a junction with a brig¬ 
ade of infantry who were expected to cross the 
river at Lamb’s and Brown's ferry, and thence 
proceed to Alton.'- to capture our forces there. 
We engaged them, killing 16, wounding quite a 
number, and taking some of them prisoners, 
among them commissioned officers. Our loss is 
18 wounded. Gen. Uko. II. Thomas, 
Major-General Commanding. 
Arkansas.— Late advices from Little Rock, 
state that Judge Clayton will be elected pro¬ 
visional Governor of Arkansas. 
On the 22d ult. the rebel Generals Marma- 
dukc, Shelby and Fagan were reported as ad¬ 
vancing on Pine Bluff, with three columns of 
rebel troops. Lieut. I’ayst had attacked Mar- 
maduke, but was unsuccessful. 
Col. Clayton had an engagement some days 
previous, in which Fagan was repulsed. Col. 
Clayton then marched against Shelby, forcing 
him to retreat 11 miles, but fearing a flank move¬ 
ment, Clayton fell back 7 miles, and telegraphed 
for re-enforcements, but’sout word soon after¬ 
wards that no assistance was needed. 
Department of the South. 
A correspondent of the N. Y. Commer¬ 
cial writes from Folly Island that rumors were 
still prevalent among the troops of a meditated 
expedition toward Savannah, but nothing relia¬ 
ble concerning it was known outside of head¬ 
quarters. There was a general review, on the 
20 th ult., of all the troops on the Island. Seven 
thousand men wore in line, beside two full bat¬ 
teries. Gen. Terry is now in command at Fully 
Islaud, and occupies Gen. Gilmore’s former 
headquarters. All hopes of reaching Charles¬ 
ton 'this winter have died away among the 
troops. 
A lady who left Charleston January llth, 
gives important Information from there to the 
N. Y r . Herald. One half the city has been 
abandoned and damaged by Gen. Gilmore’s 
shells. From the Battery to Wentworth street, 
about the middle of the city, nearly all the 
houses are demolished or greatly damaged. All 
the hotels are so much injured as to be cleared, 
except the Pavillion. 
A Morris Island letter of the 21st says:—A 
big scare iu I In- fleet a few nights since was 
caused by some rebel obstructions floating out 
to sea. If our iron clads were nearer Charles¬ 
ton, neither torpedoes nor sea horses would run 
against them with impunity. The obstructions 
in the channel between Sumter and Moultrie 
are entirely gone, and the opinion of naval offi¬ 
cers is that there are no impediments to our 
fleet’s progress except those extending from 
James Island to the middle ground. 
Speaking of the growing discontent among 
the people of North Carolina, and their desire 
to hold a State Convention, the Wilmington (N. 
C.) Journal says:—“ We say—aud we say most 
sincerely—that plana evidently concocted and 
movements set on foot in North Carolina, are 
ominous of graver consequences than even the 
advance of tlie enemy.” 
The Raleigh Standard, in its appeals to slave¬ 
holders lor peace, says:—We went to war to 
protect the State sovereignty, and to defend and 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Kentucky.— Rumors prevail of prepara¬ 
tions by the rebels for an extensive invasion of 
Kentucky. The military persistently deny that 
there is any foundation for such a rumor. The 
popular idea is that the rebels have no alterna¬ 
tive, but must starve or make the attempt for 
sell-preservation. 
The Louisville Jimrnal has the following in 
regard to the affair at Scottsville: 
Capt. Gillman, of the 48th Kentucky, was 
commanding at. Scottsville with 150 men, when 
Col. Hamilton, with 500 men, attacked him. 
Alter a desperate fight, Gillman surrendered 
Scottsville, on condition that private property 
should be respected and the men paroled. 
Hamilton consented to this, but afterward fired 
the Court House, destroying the public docu¬ 
ments. Capt, Gillman then informed Hamilton 
that he no longer considered the parole of his 
men legal. Our merchants have just received 
further information, that Hamilton had robbed 
several stores. 
Tennessee. —The correspondent of the Cin¬ 
cinnati Uazelh , writing from Knoxville the 20th, 
says:—On Friday last our cavalry, uudor Gen. 
St urgis, advanced hi the direction of Bainbridge, 
40 miles from Knoxville, and on Saturday morn¬ 
ing he drew the enemy’s videttes out of that 
village. A portion of our infantry, under Gen. 
Parks, also moved up, but learning that the 
enemy were in lull force beyond Bainbridge, 
they fell back to their former position. 
On Monday morning, the enemy, seeing that 
we had drawn back our cavalry as far as possi¬ 
ble, made a desperate attack on our lines with 
Hood’s and Bushrod Johnson’s divisions, led by 
the Hampton Cavalry. Observing the desper¬ 
ate determination of the enemy, Gen. Sturgis 
ordered Col. McCook, commanding a division 
of Elliutt’s Cavalry, to charge the enemy. 
The charge turned the fortunes of the day, 
which up to this time had been decidedly 
against us. Our total loss is about 150. On 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
The statement coined from European papers, 
that Marshal Foray had an extraordinary mis¬ 
sion to Washington, and obtained here a pledge 
that the United States would not disturb the 
new Mexican monarchy, in return to promises 
from France in regard to her attitude toward 
the South, is in every shape and form without 
foundation. Marshal l’orey has not been at 
Washington, has made no communications to 
the government, and no such pledges have been 
made. 
Ilou. Wm. Whiting, Solicitor of the War 
Department, has decided that aliens who are 
subjects of a foreign government, having volun¬ 
tarily enlisted in the service of the United 
States as substitutes for drafted men, are not 
entitled to be discharged front such service on 
the ground of alienage, but may, under the law 
of nations, be held to perform their engage¬ 
ments without giving the government to which 
their allegiance is due just cause of complaint. 
